skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they need to block sci-hub so scientists finally wake up and do something. I mean everyone i know loves sci-hub because it feels like a real upgrade for searching the literature. A lot of ppl will be mad if it is closed down.

The science community needs to come up with some kind of intermediate measures since open access publishing is not really catching up. For example, there could be laws that prevent publishers from withholding the copyrights from the authors, so the authors can always upload their papers and their commentaries for free elsewhere (i 'm sure someone will make a nice website for that - we already have arxiv &bioarxiv). Universities can continue paying their subscriptions to the journals , but blocking the right to free access to publicly-funded works is highly unethical.
From what I can tell, it hasn't been done with Flexbox alone. To get the order right, you have to specify a fixed height for each element, making it non-responsive at best. I am wondering if grid somehow helps.

There is also of course the order property, which with some cleverness can re-order elements from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to 1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6. You'd have to get awful clever with it though to figure out how to do this right, so still might rely on JS.
I'd assume for precise play/speedruns you'd use the controller in the physically connected mode, not over Bluetooth? (with random delays potentially)
> Skylake and Kaby Lake have been horror shows for Intel Integrated GPUs driver crashes

My experience with Intel iGPUs on skylake and kaby lake is quite different. They work very well on Linux.
Agree it sounds a bit yucky, but as a counterpoint:

I've heard so many kids talk about how they want to become youtube stars. They believe that if they only had the time and support, they'd be making thousands of dollars every day by talking into a camera.

So kids may already be considering launching businesses: in spaces with high competition, oversupply and poor business plans. I suppose this is nothing new: in my generation everyone was going to be a professional musician or video game designer.

I feel like teaching kids the importance of designing for a market, seeing what you can sell and getting real customer requirements could be valuable, but probably more worthwhile for kids over 10 or so.
Our south east/east services are janky as all get out. Been ongoing all day though getting worse. RDP from ARM interrupted as well.
I'm impressed that any marketing person would bet his life on, well, anything marketing-related.
Honestly i really wish they could decouple iOS from device launches the way they have with MacOS. Do a point release, sure, but it should just be baked on a completely different schedule.

The ridiculous thing is they do this with the ipad, and they've even done it with the phones in the past for certain versions
It also doesn't work in the Firefox fork I use. But that's probably an even smaller market share.

I noticed this when Mozilla recently resigned their add-ons site and starting using CSS Grid support sniffing to determine weather to show the real site or the gimped mobile site. As it is all browsers without CSS Grid are forced to use the mobile site.

It's super annoying.
I am a Chrome user, I totally agree that the browser should fill the password for me and not accept third party cookies. And yet I don't want the fields in my intranet app to be filled with garbage.
You can search on Github wikis. You enter your query in the search bar to the right of the Github logo. I guess wink hasn't tried to in the past year (https://github.com/blog/2219-search-wiki-pages).
One quick thing you can get into is assembling electronics kits. Granted it's not programming, design, or theory, but it's an interesting alternative that'll get you started without having to catch up on theory. All you need is the kit and a few basic tools, like a soldering iron, some tweezers and pliers.

There's a person (fairly active on reddit, I believe) who put together a youtube channel reviewing such kits. Sadly he stopped posting new videos years ago (bored and moved on?) Think he's an EE or something comparable for work, but, in either case take a look at some of his offerings: https://www.youtube.com/user/SUBLOOP/videos

The video that I got started with and caught my attention was his "Active Speakers" kit, part 2. They're entertaining, his soldering is just hypnotic, and it covered some troubleshooting you'd run into with electronics.
I'm against giving addictive pharmaceuticals to children as a solution to structural problems in compulsory schooling. Consenting adults should be able to make their own choices.
I think that's a valid point but certainly not for kindergartners. Learning about business is potentially useful but needs to be balanced against the fact that most people don't want to be entrepreneurs and that you need to not learn something else in order to learn that.
In Mario Odyssey, there's a recurring challenge where you use the rumble to find the location of a hidden object. I don't know if it's just a psychological trick based on my perception of movement correlating to stronger vibration, but it genuinely feels like as I move toward the lightly rumbling controller that it not only gets more intense but actually moves under my hand, as if the vibration had moved laterally inside the controller.

This story has a developer explaining:

https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/1/15499328/tumbleseed-hd-rumb...

The gist appears to be that the HD rumble effect allows intensity and speed to be controlled separately. Traditional rumble uses a weighted motor which shakes harder and faster as current increases. I definitely have noticed rumble effects in Mario Odyssey that feel like light, rapid trembles as well as heavy chugging thuds. There's boss fights where the sensation of the rumble actually gives you an idea of how successfully your hits are landing, and it really works. However it works, it's pretty stunning.
PRIME offloading on laptops with same combination worked flawlessly for years. Its obviously work on desktop as well between GPUs with open source drivers.
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The ESEA client (counter strike anti cheat / server integration) did something similar, recently. The community was super unhappy.
Precisely my thoughts....plus HNWIs. BIG difference to dot.com bubble when stocks were peddled by major brokers.
Ask HN: Would you buy a Pomodoro/personal timer that connects to your PC/device?
Hello HN,

I am a fan and practitioner of interval work / the Pomodoro technique. I have used various programs and physical timers that help with this, but I have never seen the two work together. I'm thinking about building a timer that can connect to your computer and/or phone but wanted to see if others think this would be useful. Would you consider buying such a thing? If so what features would you want?
Estonia freezes resident ID cards due to security flaw
IBM Bluemix's technicians are by far the most rude people I've ever encountered when using an online service I actually pay for. That alone was enough to drive me away.
> Wouldn't this mean that if X is the total amount of consumed storage currently used, you still need 2.5 times X _additional_ unused storage across the swarm in which to hold the 2.5 distributed copies?

No. The first copy-equivalent is the original data.

And again, even that's only for bespoke personal data. As soon as you have a few people with a copy -- which is even the case for most "personal" files, because friends and family will have copies of your photos etc -- then you don't need any redundancy past the copies each person already has on their own device.

Moreover, cloud providers are already wasting more space than that. People have a copy of their data on their own devices, but also on the servers, and then the servers have at least one backup. That's three copy-equivalents already.

> If so do average people keep such amounts of free storage around?

Millions of people buy computers with 1+TB hard drives and then use less than 10% of the space.

And it's possible to use the free space without really depriving the owner of it, because you can set a minimum free space threshold and transfer data off the machine if it ever falls below that, so the space is only used if it would otherwise have been free space.
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Can you elaborate on Samsung and Huawei's favorable tax and public policies under which they operate? Are you saying that their tax rates rates are lower?
Note that Cook has been vocal about repatriation and has suggested that it be mandatory to all corporations, then taxed specifically for infrastructure development.
Is he still around?

https://www.recode.net/2017/3/8/14863560/uber-ai-gary-marcus...
> Not just Electron, but also when making UIs for things like industrial tools, where you control not just the browser, but the hardware it runs on.

Wow, is that becoming common these days, using web browser engines to run UIs on specialized devices? Sounds a little off in the context of industrial tools, where I'm thinking embedded systems and relatively low-performance SOCs.
In reality, quite a lot of factors prevent academics from publishing in open-access journals!
> the universe does [predict]

But it does not.
I think a lot of it is that there are folks who want to contribute to security awareness, and their skills lie with design/branding rather than with low level security concepts.

I can't speak for what the value-add is there, but I don't see any harm from it.
I'm speaking of a near-zero corporate tax rate more from a game theory perspective -- if you look at the game from the perspective of a central government, and your competitors are both the corporations and the other countries. In this case, your goal is to maximize tax revenue while minimizing "brain drain" and "legal" tax loop holes.

But regardless of what system we choose, wealth redistribution needs to be a primary goal before inequality reaches "torches and pitchforks" levels.
If we don’t want to repeat the 90’s we have to complain a lot sooner.

If your litmus test is “as bad as Microsoft” then that’s exactly what we will get.
No. This is not. Source: I know someone who worked at AMD before and this is not a remote possibility. Employees have been talking about this possibility openly inside the company. Why? Simply because the GPU is a HW black box that anybody can use (including the competitors). At least that's how I understood it.
That's fine, but all other things remaining equal, there's not as much revenue coming in. So, you need to raise capital gains tax and income tax in some proportion to retain the balance. Does that still seem easier?

Alternatively, we could cut a bunch of spending, but that turns into its own dogfight.
I know somebody who believes in chemtrails, flat earth and a lot of other stuff. There is really no way to argue with her because at the bottom of everything there is a big, powerful conspiracy.

I told her once that Alex Jones certainly has enough money to rent a jet to fly into a chemtrail and take some samples or take a ship and go straight and see what happens. But of course there tons of government conspiracies to prevent these things. In the end these people don't really want to know. They just have a deep discomfort with the current state of things.
Madoff is serving a life sentence in prison and forfeited billions. He didn't get off scot-free in any way.
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Or to make it more difficult to compete, depending on your word view...
Did you mean "Freemium"? And I think it's a very interesting idea.
I know of a nice argument against simulationism that I think applies here:

If simulated universes can be "real," then we're assuming that there's a mapping between patterns of electrons in a computer (or provable theorems, if you're brave enough), and the real universe they represent. (Say, interpreting two numbers that may be stored very far apart on the chip as the positions of two particles that are, in the universe, very close together.)

The problem that this introduces is that there are no well-motivated ways that we could decide which mappings are "real," and could be "lived in." For example, we might claim that the state of the simulation must be map-able in polynomial time to some charts and pictures that a human could interpret - but an inhabitant wouldn't care.

So, since all mappings are equally motivated as far as an inhabitant is concerned, allow me to choose one that maps this grain of sand to a universe the same as ours.

Well, there you go. Our world in a grain of sand.
Yeah, you are going to jail.

CFAA would definitely classify this as unauthorized access or exceeding the access to which you were authorized and for personal gain. The client would try to sue you for theft and breach of contract, but they would be in line behind the government for what remains of your personal savings and retirement money.
Here's where they went: http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html
The US government doesn't, as a general rule, care if the money has ever been here. If you as a private US citizen choose to live and work abroad, you are required to file US income taxes and declare all foreign income. And depending on the precise details of the foreign government's treaty situation and tax rates, you may be required to pay the normal US tax rate on some or all of that income.

I don't know that it counts as a "loophole" exactly that the system for corporations works the way it does. "Loophole" sort of implies an unintended consequence, when the reality is that the laws are written with the express purpose of making this type of tax avoidance possible.
Did anyone notice how quickly the internet turned into a Lovecraftian horror?
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>Stop moralizing the behavior of companies. They aren't humans.

That is true. Companies, however, consist of humans. Make the people making the decisions to be held responsible for those decisions.
I like the concept behind this. How may I ask would you go about getting this onto the actual system, or is it just something to throw into Project64 or similar emulator?
I'm skeptical there are only 104 non-chain Mexican restaurants in Dallas. There's basically one in every shopping center.
Given my ignorance on the subject, it was called the Opium wars, but it was more about direct trade routes and rights of sovereignty in China vs British.

It's a lot more complicated than your comment portrays. All I can assume, is that you saw Opium wars, and try to use it as some emotional plea.

Sorry, not buying it.

I would rather have the Portuguese system than the current lock everyone up one. Cause we know it doesn't work. And thats experimental data, not theoretical.
This example proves tdb's point, not yours. The SEC did its job, which was sending Madoff to jail. Its job was not to make everyone's money come back and redistribute it.
Satellites only need sufficient motion and gravity. They've orbited things that aren't quite round/spherical (asteroids and comets), and theoretically flat things too, if we can find/build one big enough.
While I totally agree that it's weird and unsettling to push kids in this direction, I remember having a blast setting up a little candy business in elementary school--my friend and I bought Starbursts, Reese's, Skittles, etc. in bulk at the grocery store with allowance money then doled it out at a markup. This was totally our idea and not something our parents had any involvement in.

I think that as long as the desire is coming from the kids and not elsewhere, it can be a fun and healthy thing, but it's definitely a fine line.
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USDS cannot hire permanent residents, but 18F can (https://18f.gsa.gov/join/).
It sounds as if these developed countries might be quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater
This reminds me of the frequent argument that "bitcoin's value is just as unfounded as the us dollar's." Sure, as long as you don't consider the US dollar's value to at all be related to aircraft carriers and ICBMs. That said, I think there's room to argue that bitcoin or a future cryptocoin could have advantages which exceed the value of those factors.
The itemization of services isn't the problem. It is the hiding of the fees that is the problem. What they are doing now is essentially a bait-and-switch.

They should (and should be legally mandated to) be upfront about what they are going to charge you for, include that information prominently when advertising tickets and make the fee information available to third-parties so that ticket shopping sites can offer an accurate comparison of what your total cost will be.
>That's really one of the saddest things I've read from the tech community in a long while. Truly beyond parody.

I think I get what WeWork is trying to teach kids. As a comparison, there's a program in Florida called "Junior Achievement"[1] which teaches entrepreneurial skills to kids K-12. That JA charity is over 40 years old so WeWork's idea is not new. I assume other states have similar kids' entrepreneurial programs under different names.

I went through JA myself. It was a 6-week after-school program. The way it worked was that volunteers (accountants, managers, executives, etc) from local corporations would come in and lead a session to help kids set up businesses. In my group, we created a thermometer company and sold them to neighbors. At the end, the volunteers helped us put together the profit-and-loss financial results. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time.

Another interesting thing is that the JA volunteers not only donated their time after school, but they also had to "recruit" the kids for the program by coming in for 10 minutes during the normal class hours and make a little pitch for kids like me to sign up for the program. It sounded interesting so I got the permission slip for my mom to sign.

The JA experience was fun and I don't think it deprived me of any childhood. I don't know enough about WeWork to know if it's better or worse. Whatever curriculum WeWork is attempting, they still have to sell the parents on letting their kids do it. Parents have to be convinced that it enriches their childrens' lives. It certainly seems from all the responses here that none of the HN parents would enroll their kids.

[1] https://jasouthflorida.org/
Yes, French and German authorities have made it known that they cannot wait for brexit to happen because it will relieve them of any need to play nice with the UK about shenanigans like these. At the same time, the Irish border problem puts the Republic of Ireland in a similar position of weakness, and they are enemy n.2 for honest tax authorities worldwide. Enemy 3 and 4 (Luxembourg and NL) have also been weakened by the disappearance of the “free trade alliance” that ran from Poland to Ireland, and when left isolated, they have been successfully bullied in the past anyway.

This is one of the very few areas where brexit might actually end up a net positive for the world at large.
Think of stuff like this: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/28/queer-kid-stuff-yout...

It got so bad YouTube had to mass demonetise all LGBT videos.
USDS hires into a few different agencies. Most of them do require an SF-86, but some others only require public trust (SF-85P).
Could just be speculation on falling prices.

1. Borrow BTC

2. Sell borrowed BTC at high price point

3. Buy BTC including interest at lower price point at any time before payback date.

4. Give back BTC including interest at payback date.

Basically just a way to short sell BTC.
Reminds me of Bubble Memory from the late 1980's. It used a magnetic field to push magnetic domains ("bubbles") along a track and eventually they'd get to a read/write zone. So, sequential access but things could be parallelized by having multiple read/write zones.

Flash memory came along and was better, so bubble memory was abandoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
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I'm sorta convinced that out of boredom, many people that are involved in creating children's content will try to push up as close to the line of putting adult innuendo in their work as they can get.

See half the jokes on SpongeBob, or this gem that I saw in a Disney coloring book at the doctor's office the other day: https://me.me/i/mickey-tosses-the-salad-dinney-while-colorin...
Sadly it is also utilizing people's unfamiliarity with cryptocurrency to execute scam schemes.

For example I recently run into a ponzi scheme that utilizes a bitcoin[1].

[1] https://bitconnect.co/
It would have been interesting to see enchiladas in this analysis. They are almost the default option in Texas, but in California (northern, at least) many restaurants don't even offer them.