skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really impressed by how the joycons and the switch itself “just work”. I have never had any syncing issues. You can play the console with the controllers attached to the switch or with the controllers wirelessly and you can change at anytime you are playing the game. I’ve never had any issues with syncing and changing playing style. Attaching/detaching the controllers never takes more than a couple seconds even in the middle of a game.
I wonder, isn't bitcoin much more power-hungry than other forms of currency?
There's a lot that's not covered in a parametric search listing. In your link, picking a core doesn't tell you how good the peripherals are. (Digikey's parametric search [1] does give you a lot more information about what peripherals are available where Mouser doesn't even mention it). Clock frequency doesn't tell you how many cycles the instructions take. And none of that tells me anything about power consumption or performance in a typical application, or especially about the usability of the toolchains.

If answering "it depends on what you need to do" requires a lot of domain expertise to evaluate, there's definitely a place for summaries like this!

[1]: https://www.digikey.com/products/en/integrated-circuits-ics/...
Also comcast.

>tracert news.ycombinator.com
....
Tracing route to news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net [104.20.43.44]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

8 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms be-10563-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.82.158]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * 161 ms 149 ms 104.20.43.44
"config option" can't be the right answer.

It's simply not realistic the 1000th time it's offered as the obvious solution.
Not least because it's fungible, presumably. There's no difference between the money that the thief gave the shopkeeper and the money he gave someone else or kept for himself.
Not really. You'd have to go through the same motions. Either way it'd end up looking like later versions of MACRO-11 which treated PDP-11 assembly as a full language to be compiled for other architectures rather than just an assembler.
I think there's a lot of fun to be had with electronics when you don't use a microcontroller. Breadboarding, analog components, maybe some digital logic circuitry... And if you use a microcontroller, either not putting a linux distro on it or getting one that is incapable of running linux... For finding structured sources, you can do pretty well by just picking a college, finding their computer engineering program, some classes that look interesting, and see what books they require then buy them or see if a library has them. https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fundamentals-10th-Thomas-Floy... or https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Electronics-Practical-Approac... are fairly good for instance but there are many others and some more appropriate for whatever your real study goals are.

It's really important to have a specific goal in mind regardless of whether you prefer to learn how to solve it with structured or unstructured materials, and to have an initial idea of what level of detail you want to go in order to accomplish the goal. The lower level you want to learn the less up-to-date your resources have to be, our understanding of electricity hasn't fundamentally changed since Maxwell's equations. :) Something like "I want to turn on a smart light of this type when there is motion in this area, and turn it off after 5 minutes" is a nice goal. And you can accomplish it at many different levels of hackery, and learn very deeply if you want about each component of your solution (for instance there's the entire field of RF if you want to know how the antenna works).
Ask HN: What does a blockchain give you that a database doesn't?
I'm always told that one of the main benefits of a blockchain is that it enforces trust, or something to that extent. But enforcing trust in databases is not an open problem. Databases successfully store data. Therefore blockchains seem like a 'solution' to a problem that doesn't exist.
Yes. Chalktalk was the main inspiration for that project.
Also Comcast in denver
>Usenet and even mailing lists offer many advantages over web forums.

It's interesting you didn't list any disadvantages of Usenet. NNTP protocol doesn't have identity authentication. Therefore, you get spam and forged headers. This isn't any fault of NNTP; it was built for a different era.
From a content standpoint and not a technical one, USENET was at its peak, before 1990s, when it was primarily universities and governments. The smallness of the tech community and the inherent collegial atmosphere didn't exploit the vulnerabilities in NNTP. I'll agree with others that it all rapidly declined after AOL opened it up to the masses. To regain the "reading pleasure" I got from USENET in the 1980s, I have to use Reddit/HN/Stackoverflow.

You listed the following technical advantages:

>- Store, read, search content offline

>- Access information redundantly (no SPOF)

>- Integrate viewing and composing with local tools

I'll group those 3 bullet points together since they are related to each other. I agree that those technical advantages are true for USENET. Your comment spurred me to revisit my USENET usage history and attempt to articulate why it's no longer relevant to how I use the web.

I participated in USENET from ~1988 to 2006 -- so about 18 years worth activity. The last years of downloading and reading messages was a tedious chore. With Usenet messages having no voting system, I had to slog through a sea of bad replies to get to the good comments. It was a horrible waste of limited reading time.

Once I got hooked into Reddit in 2006, reading crowdsourced comments became more of a pleasure again. Yes, I 100% agree that voting leads to "groupthink" and "hivemind". But even with those problems, catching up on 500 unread messages ranked by votes instead of 500 messages in pure chronological order is easier. I already suffered through unvoted messages for 18 years. I don't want to go back to that. Experiencing Reddit made me realize that the "terrible voting system" is the unofficial way we combat the "Eternal September"[1]. (Also, the Google search engine was better than anything else because it weighed the "unoffical votes" of links in the PageRank algorithm.)

Forum voting is like that saying about Capitalism -- "it's the worst forum system, except for all the others".

Usenet was like doing homework. Reddit is like a quick dopamine rush.

It's good that both Reddit and Usenet can coexist. A subreddit like "reddit.com/r/cpp/"[2] can coexist with USENET "comp.lang.c++"[3]. Although I have almost 2 decades of training to compose offline messages for "comp.lang.c++", I have no urge to do so. The technical advantages for Usenet you listed doesn't offset its flaws in content. These days, I just go to the C++ subreddit to get my daily fix on what's new because the content is better presented for limited reading time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.c++
In my opinion you are on the right track with the project holding a Documentation folder and the markdown files. Keep it all together or you will have yet another place to maintain.

I would suggest adding the use of Doxygen to your projects. It supports Markdown files as well as Markdown syntax in your code comments. You might find that a lot of what you are documenting in the separate .md files could be a notes or remarks section of your method class comments. This will remove the separation of technical documentation vs. help/FAQ comments by doing all of the documentation in the code. You can then add Doxygen to your build, so that building the project refreshes the documentation. Doxygen can be configured to produce a online html version that can be deployed to an internal web server for quick reference. It can also build .pdf, rich text documents, and unix man
pages.

Then if you use Continuous integration/deployment, when you deploy to test, UAT, then eventually production you deploy the official documentation that was generated.

The challenge with all documentation, is, Actually doing it. So it should be part of your SDLC documentation and process. the project/task/request is not done until documentation updated. Make it a checklist item that needs to be reviewed in code reviews. Doing the technical and help/FAQ all in code comments makes that easy.

cheers!
5 Best Practices to Prevent Insider Threat
It boggles me that we still are faced with aggregated statistics to deny there is opioid crisis going on. If nothing else, alcohol and tobacco are also prone to addiction and should be curbed as well.
> If a website doesn't opt in their users will migrate to another one that offers the same content with a better user experience

Can't you see how this logic also applies in Chrome's case: everybody would switch to another browser that does passive listeners by default because it's a better user experience.

What's bothering me is that people like you think they are entitled to not maintain your active web apps on browsers that you didn't even help to develop. It's not about you, it's about the users.
You need to see it in the context. All cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and they routinely go up and down 10%. You simply can't compare the volatility to the stock market where similar numbers would make blood flow on the streets. Here it's almost business as usual.
You didnt play the Pit, or Trade Wars?

you missed out then on BBSs
Twitter moments has a formula to stop fake news
Here are the 11 startups that will pitch at Seedstars Nairobi 2017
One cause (some say a or the major cause) of the agricultural revolution was a desire to make alcohol more efficiently. Can we count all the people who are alive because the agricultural revolution on the side of alcohol?
It's nice to see rikai-chan mentioned, it was such a sweet app. Even though I'm not in your target group (not learning Japanese), this looks pretty cool. Keep up the good work!
Also the Illuminati.
In this case, the browser is the agent of those advertising to the user. It's not protecting your interests, it's protecting Google's interests.

If it was protecting your interests, it would be a toggleable setting that defaults to normalized behavior.
As as the fee goes down, spam of the tangle goes up. Wow man, this is hard problem. Thanks for your words & study. Hope they can get it figured out. Do you think Lightning will have it down pat?
Surprisingly does not make me less hungry at all.

Anyway, seems you exchange the Twitter & Instagram link on the bottom. Also i first thought its about new speak and got excited, but well :) Nice idea anyway.
You click an interesting link, read it, click the back button, then click the next unvisited link. Where's the pain and how would tabs make it less?
Also the preceding sentences make it seem like quarks were discovered at the LHC (lol,no.)
that is one way things could go.

the other is that when over-leveraged people who are living way beyond their means see their stock portfolios collapse they are all going to try to liquidate their crypto at the same time and so crypto will collapse the same as stocks.
Thats actually impressive
It seems Firefox supports a non-standard fourth parameter, so that won't work either.

addEventListener is possibly the worst organically grown API I've seen in a long time. If anything, its sordid history should be a lesson to the Chrome dev team that fucking around with proprietary extensions (which this most definitely is) just leads to future technical debt and pain for everyone. Why do they never learn?
Ten years? That Vince Foster bullshit started back in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Vince_Foster
Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems?
I believe others are having problems too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637299

Update: The issue seems to be around 50% packet loss.

I called Business Support and the person was unaware of the issue, so please also call in to report the issue so Comcast starts to realize how much of a problem this is.

I had the support person ping facebook.com from my modem which showed packet loss. I asked them to send me to the next tier of support which they did. (This ends up being a ticket where someone will call me back.)

The issue started for me around 12:50pm Eastern time.

Update 2:10pm eastern: There's another thread on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637607 (update: 2:26pm the other thread was removed from the home page)

Update: I contacted Comcast Network Operations Center. They confirmed they're aware of the issue and working on fixing it, but didn't provide any more details.

Update 2:30pm eastern: The issue appears to be resolved.
from his video description "I will be moving videos over time to other sites and to here". I think this content duplication/redundancy (with likely vimeo and I'm not sure what else) is going to be the future of things to come. I wonder what sort of legal challenges may come to the fore if such battles ensue.
I happen to live near a research university and while I'm not a student nobody seems to object to me wandering in and using the libraries there from time to time. But for most people the cost of accessing a journal article for casual interest is prohibitive, and not everyone has the funds or time to attend a university. The point of the web is to make knowledge available to everyone.

Be realistic, it costs more to read a single article on Nature or Science than it does to buy a book on the topic. That's bullshit.
Bitcoin's bubble will pop and reform, but it's unlikely to completely burst into oblivion.
I thought it was a web app that supports equality, a woman's right to choose, and reasonable gun control regulations.
The only reason Qualcomm is cheap enough for Broadcom to purchase is because of Qualcomm's disastrous SD810 chips that ruined many flagship devices in 2015. And that's all because they had to rush to the 64-bit market to chase Apple.
So really, Apple is the cause of this (j/k)
Comcast user in SE Michigan here, can't reach certain websites (reddit, cnn, basecamp)
That's pretty funny, at least if their criticism was that Sci-Hub shouldn't exist.
Paradise Papers: Apple's secret tax bolthole revealed
Interesting. Given it's Intel and AMD, I hope it will work seamlessly on Linux, unlike the Optimus horror.
Shannon Entropy and Information Gain explained through fun probability games
It is definitely down.
> And I'm pretty sure SPA is also not a criteria for PWAs, it's just a suggestion.

Fair enough, you could certainly use Service Worker API for an app with multiple pages. What I was trying to capture with the term SPA is more "web app", although I suppose you could even use Service Worker API with a simple static site.
Ask HN: How does FB advertise a niche game I'm playing to my friends?
I'm currently playing some niche game and I've talked about it with one of my friends recently (not on Facebook, but Discord). The game has a web site, which I will frequent with my machine. It requires registration, but I use a different email for it than my Facebook account. For the record, I also rarely use Facebook (~1/month type of situation).

My friend now showed me a picture of an ad on Facebook for the same game. This doesn't feel coincidental as the game is very niche and is fairly old/stable. How did Facebook do this? Can the game just go on Facebook and buy ads for people who are friends with the game's players? If so, how would Facebook know that I'm a player? Browser fingerprinting despite adblock/socialblock? IP tracking?

This feels super creepy. I'm aware of some of the best practices for ensuring privacy on the internet, but the measures tend to become a trade off between privacy and convenience, which the latter tend to win. Are there some more basics things I can do to protect myself from this type of problems beyond just having Ublock Origin with social blocklists, logging out of Facebook/using Firefox container tabs, and potentially VPN?
A big problem with Youtube's three-strikes approach is that it's the same for all channels, big or small. It doesn't matter how much good content you've produced or how long you've been making it, if you get 3 strikes in a short period, your account is deleted, same as any channel.

So channels that produce a lot of content or upload videos quickly have to be more careful about what they upload. There's no credit for good behaviour or allowance for the extra risk channels take if they post lots of videos, potentially getting a strike with each one.

But little old me only uploads one or two videos a year. So I can afford to have every video copyright striked and I'll suffer no consequences since they expire in 6 months.

It seems unfair.
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Fair enough, the currency has questionable potential. However, the article seems to imply that bfx lists some questionable currencies, and I feel that that characterization is misleading.
Or you know, just use Firefox. The only problem right now being that you need to install Dev Edition to get a decent experience (i.e. version 57).
You're refusing to use Chrome because it gives the middle finger to websites that want to disable your password manager? Are you making this decision as a user or a website owner?
It is pretty abnormal for the US, but not unheard of.

The problem is, that mostly the only ones impacted are the people who were committing copyright infringement and they are a very small minority of the total population, poorly funded, and not a viable voting bloc.

It is going to be a tough battle. However, we have alternative means to reach the site.
Do you need a decentralised way to ensure consensus among nodes? If not, blockchain is overkill for you!
Booze addicts do steal stuff and are as bad for society as opiate addicts
And Comcast in Minneapolis.
> or well-documented ADC / DAC.

Oh, they're well-documented alright, over these 4000 pages of PDFs from our various portals and manuals and peripheral standards and ARM standards and SDK code and...probably a few other places. So thoroughly documented you could never finish reading it all before the chip is obsolete!
That was one of the final straws for me. I don't think anyone should trust Facebook with enough information to completely take over someone's real life identity.

FB feels authoritarian in a very Orwellian way, and it is even scarier that, much like Orwell wrote, nobody seems to care. We might not be burning books a la Bradbury, but we seem to be burning away our rights to privacy as a complicit society.
Sacked Catalonia leader turns himself into Belgian police
Same here in Washington.
Youtube are just really, really desperate to kill Youtube by any means necessary these days.
I think the author has nailed the point, spot on. A person's life is valuable, regardless of their age and morbidity (or how they came to acquire a lethal health condition). I've see so many people arguing that "because this afflicts younger people, this is the more important crisis." That's a red herring of the worst sort. Resources should be focused on the problem of the greatest magnitude, with which the most net-social-good can be created. The emotionalism surrounding the "opoid epidemic" is little more than that, emotionalism.
SEO is dead, Long live SEO
I'm on Comcast, which might explain a lot.
Haven't read the paper but I'm assuming this is the same concept (likely more digestible for the layman) in his book Our Mathematical Universe, which I highly recommend!
Yes, that is the one, thanks! Great discussion there also!
There's a papertrail on all the stolen mt gox coins. I have to believe that some attorney somewhere is working on a case to recover them from whoever has them currently.

That's almost $6 billion dollars worth of bitcoins that have tenuous ownership.
> I genuinely don't understand this hostile statement. Why do you complain that a website isn't functional in pure html in 2017?

Because sites that rely on javascript typically have terrible performance and broken UI, and add insult to injury by not doing anything that actually needed javascript in the first place.
Introduction to the Terminal for New Programmers
Disclosure: I was a developer interviewed and quoted in the piece.

These are all good questions. I'd suggest that the trickier edge cases you outlined are indeed very tough scruples as they pertain to open source (but also as they pertain to all property & copyright law).

I would say based on the experience I shared in the article with Jim that it's very likely that a very large proportion of open source contributors have _relatively simple_ situations but near-zero planning in place for the inevitable. The best someone like GitHub could hope to ask for is a death certificate and an executor of the estate being able to produce a document that assigns the rights of digital assets to some named individual. It wouldn't take very long to do (and I did it myself shortly after I had this experience following Jim's passing).

But even that is a pretty blunt, communication-intense implement. The much, much easier solution for maintainers to simply share access & knowledge as soon as a project gains any amount of significance at all with people they can trust. Platforms like GitHub & npm could introduce pretty simple "inactive account" features that allow named beneficiaries to be added as owners in the event an account goes dark, without needing to bring family & estate attorneys into all this.
> let's download his file list to see what kind of porn they like.

this was the experience at my college, anyway
Anybody have any idea of how this compares with Valhalla?

https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla

https://mapzen.com/blog/valhalla-intro/
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I'm a philosophy noob, but isn't this very similar to Berkeley-style immaterialism?
You open the game in a browser, go to facebook. Facebook registers the link you come from et voila.
If all zcash is pro-rata considered "stolen" when one is, then you could argue that zcash participants are all knowingly transferring stolen goods (since it's public knowledge that some portion of the zcash is stolen). That'd be enough to shut down the network at the interface with the state-sanctioned banking system.
What applications does decentralized consensus enable creation of, aside from cryptocurrencies, that are infeasible to make with a database?
https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email...
Ask HN: Any non-Comcast users experiencing internet issues?
Seem to be having issues connecting to certain sites on both Comcast and tethering on T-mo. Some sites like Youtube are fine though. Anyone else having issues on non-Comcast ISPs?
We already have this, the problem is more for processes. Things like "How do I create a build from my commit?". We have dedicated documentation which explains how the build system works in it's entirety as markdown files, but it's painful for a new team member to have to go through that and find out what they need.

A simple Q&A document is failing us as well due to the fact that all commits to our main branches need to go through PR which puts in a high barrier to entry for what might be a minor change. It just discourages collaboration in so many ways.
I'm getting 50% packet loss on RCN in Chicago and both of the company's support lines give a busy signal when called.
If we were talking fission, then yes, you'd already have it. Once critical mass is achieved, then you have a reaction.

But for fusion, there is no critical mass as the ingredients (from a nuclear standpoint) are inert. So it's a matter of keeping them present and around long enough that it can be weaponized.

Early hydrogen bombs had this problem as they used cryogenic fuel. There was a real challenge of keeping the fuel from boiling off and having nothing to fuse.

Of course, that problem was solved. Not to suggest the challenge to keep a quark around for longer will prove to be as simple, but give it some decades...and things will be interesting.