skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use rss2email with cron to send posts of my family's blog by email to people for whom straight RSS is not convenient.

This is especially nice for my grandmother, who has an iPad. I found no RSS reader there that is easy to use enough, free and ad-free.

I just wanted something I can just give a RSS link to and it fetches this link and shows content. And nothing else. This does not seem to exist.

My grandmother knows how to read and write emails. Blog posts are rendered properly using rss2email in her mailbox. And she knows how to click in the email to go to the blog and comments at times.
This is actually even simpler and more optimal than a dedicated RSS App. One unique easy way to get news from the family using the tablet.

And the blog is easier than Facebook (I guess - never used it). There is just our content in the pages and that’s it. No irrelevant stuff around and no notifications.

If you are looking for ways to keep in touch with a group of people in which somebody is not really into computers, this may be one nice solution.

So, thanks to the authors of rss2email.
> it's hard for exhaustive search beat index lookup.

kdb isn't using any indexes for this query.
'''Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver. In stark contrast, when you get a phone call, it’s almost always a convenient time for the caller and a bad time for the recipient, who I refer to as the “victim” because I insist on accuracy. My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.'''

-- Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert comic strip
http://blog.dilbert.com/2010/09/03/phone/
Sure, but why should you treat it if it is not a disorder?

I think it is more a design issue with phones (than it is a phobia like for spiders).

Or rather: It is more a situation like if phones also happens to spew out huge spiders all over you in addition to letting you communicate remotely, and people get phobia as a result.

Why should I accept being woken up in the middle of the night for spam? Is this good design?, should I be "treated" to accept it?

Why should I be available 24/7 all the time for work? (design for PTSD?, more treatment yay...)

How come I can't use a secure medium to communicate to banks, or other services. (completely insane way to communicate securely)

The real insanity here: Forcing all people to use ancient remote voice communication and pretending it is even remotely secure. It might have been good enough way back, probably the only option, not so much in the current age of spam and digital communication.
> A particular advantage to intuition comes with the famous e=mc^2. Since c is 1, and 1^2 is 1, e=m. Energy and mass are completely equivalent.

Yes but that is still true (E=m) if c<>1, since c is a constant. It's just a question of scale, isn't it?
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Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
I wasn't familiar with that CPU so I just returned from an RCA 1802 rabbit hole.[1]

Fascinating CPU with some neat 1970s applications (like spacecraft and the ELFs). Oh, and a member of the Radiation-Hardened Microprocessors club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802
The "internal sense" is that they are both derived from kanji:

Hiragana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana...

Katakana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Katakana...

Kanji isn't that hard if you are realistic about how large of a task it is. Japanese children spend 10 years learning kanji at school and that is their native language.
In practical terms, the problem with learning songwriting, vs learning Go, is that the number of board positions in Go is finite whereas the number of songs that can be written is infinite.

With Go, then, the task of an AI player (like AlphaGo) is to search a finite space for those board states that allow it to win.

With songwriting- the task is not even clearly defined. Obviously, you're trying to generate songs people will want to listen to, so you have to search an infinite space for a set of songs that satisfy some criteria of "listenability", but what criteria are these? Popular songs range over wildly different music styles, from Black Metal to Medieval folk revivalist music through RnB and Arabic belly dancing music. What examples will we train our AI songwriter on? All music, ever? Specific kinds of music? Specific songs as exemplars of specific styles?

Or in other words, what exactly will our AI songwriter be trying to learn? It'd be looking into an infinite haystack filled with almost identical needles for a particular needle it's never even seen well enough to recognise.
I like it :P
Income inequality can be seen as a sign of a healthy capitalist society.

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
> can probably see single photons

Photons don't exist in the first place. Science has moved on and modern models don't assume the existence of actual particles. It's only electromagnetic waves.
Wouldn't have been better if he just gaved money to upgrade a city?
Yeah, a lot of bureaucracy but look to other "planned" smart cities! Millions of wasted moneys in some ghost towns, not to mention the ecological effects it has.
I'm disappointed in Bill Gates.
I though he was better than this.
Sure if it's a just a little town it might work and get some profit out of it but i though he was more of a philanthropist, now at his age.
1. seems like someone is really screwing up with an API like this.

2. Ok, for a three word combo with I think >40000^3 =64 billion possibles, so to have a 50% chance of cracking a password you need 32 billion goes, with a human speed api you're talking 5 seconds per go (mean, and probably you'd get caught on this rate) so 1 million bots (and I think the bank would be suspicious if it saw 1 million different IP's trying one account- would need 32 * 5000 seconds.. 2 days to get one account. Doesn't feel remotely feasible!
Wait, it gets better. You're watching movie with someone. That someone is getting a call. Pause that movie. See you in 30 minutes.

Phones don't even have a polite way to decline conversation, a button labeled "Call me 1 hour later" or similar.
I've had really good luck with following the instructions here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici... . I've registered for do not call, and opted out for pre-screened offers of credit permanently. I only recently learned about https://dmachoice.thedma.org/register.php for physically mailed spam, and I'm getting around to it.

I know it's all YMMV, but the number of spam phone calls that I receive has dropped to zero (not exaggerating here). There used to be one annoying travel/timeshare caller, but I reported them to the FTC two or three times, and that took care of it. I personally believe that it's fairly easy because of the time and date information that your phone's dialer/phone app records, but it could be easier with a bespoke FTC "donotcall" app. I'd rather involve the FTC in this sort of thing because it is part of their mandate, and benefits that they bring get propagated to all phone users (Android/iPhone/Windows Phone/feature phones/landlines).
What they still use PS/2?
Cryptocurrency correlations over time (building a decorrelated portfolio)
His math is way off, but the point still stands. The additional lag due to distance is noticeable above 5.000 km or so. Maybe it's good enough - but in VR, it might be jarring.
Funny you mention that. I saw a sticker that said "MongoDB: Snapchat for databases:"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWhO2jIUYAAbuiK.png
There is a difference between disliking something, and having an adrenaline-driven fight or flight fear response to something.

OP doesn't just dislike phones that ring in the middle of the night. OP dislikes phones all day every day, and dislikes them to the extent that he has a physical reaction to them.

Also, I'm not saying that OP must get treatment. I've given OP a strategy to continue to avoid using phones if they want to do so: OP can using UK law to force companies to make "reasonable adjustments". OP can say they have a phone phobia, but OP may face resistance if he says that so he could say he has a hearing impairment. Companies should have things in place to make reasonable adjustments for people with hearing impairment.
Why not both. To me this seems like the gov found a mutually beneficial opportunity and acted upon it. I'm not absolving the gov of all wrongdoing, but in this case I feel the issues were more in the execution rather than the concept or intentions.
Google study shows how your account is most likely to be hijacked
You can't go beyond the state laws anyway, so I don't think that would help much.
In the past I had a neutral attitude towards telephones. Until one day I realized I receive quite too many and started checking - how many of them are really useful to me. How often someone calls to give me something, and how often they want something from me. It turned out almost in 100% cases the calls were from people who wanted something from me. And of course they wanted a synchronous reply I couldn't or sometimes didn't want to give. So I decided to block all calls instead of one number (from my second half - in this case it doesn't matter if she wants to give or take, I'm still fine with all her calls).

And you know what? Most friends quickly learned to respect it. They know they can always communicate to me via e-mail and I'll happily call them back or meet or whatever is needed. I use my phone mainly as a minicomputer with an additional function of communicating with the person I choose. And for these rare cases when I actually need to wait for an important phone call (this happens once a year maybe) I use an old throwaway phone with a prepaid SIM card. I only switch it on for as long as it's needed.
So you don't think he's aware of previous attempts?)
Is this because developers have their locale set to their language, so it looks good for them, and they're forgetting to define the language of the text?

That's the case for HTML:

<HTML lang="zh">

But I don't know about other instances.
XKCD - Password Strength (a.k.a. correct horse battery staple)

https://www.xkcd.com/936/
I found Irvine to be a terrible place to live, but that's mostly because of the poor design, not who owns it.
hmm.. what's happening is a bit of bitcoin weakness, a lot of hash power came in, raised difficulty and then left, 40% or so, tomorrow the difficult should adjust, the dangers of centralized mining, although these shenanigans may lead to a proof of work change.
Answer is pretty obvious - Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon...
Binary Search on Graphs
When we are able to guess, eg not have to be 100% accurate - all our sensors become super human.
In Italy, the cost of the coffee as a service is much lower than in the rest of Europe and the USA. Espressos are made much faster and more frequently, the volume is lower which means they can be drunk quicker, and Italians generally spend less time in the cafe. Not to mention that in most of Europe, Italian coffee is served, which is more expensive there than in Italy. Even so, the cost of the actual coffee is only around 10 cents for quality beans.
Yes legacy cruft which would cost money to fix. It is completely about money. Not the cost of storage but the cost of paying people to fix it.
I was born in the early 70's. It seems like a good many of the dietary recommendations I was raised on were BS. It's strange.
For an idea what kind of income you're looking at from such a business. Imagine 4 million of their nearly 200 million users, do a $5 task every day. After credit card fees of 25.05 cents per transaction [1] that would leave 24.95 cents to snapchat for every transaction. That would be around a million dollars a day in income. Not terrible. And on valentines day, they could allow users to exchange a $5 task for a $10 coupon to Olive garden. Olive garden would, presumably give them coupons like that for free. If a million users chose that exchange, that would be an additional $4.5 million in income.

[1] https://bandcamp.com/help/selling#fee
> >Except a) the federal government actually doesn’t really interfere much with governance at all

>You’re not serious are you.

The OP was certainly underestimating the influence the US federal government (and federal governments around the world) have on their constituent states, but certainly in the USA, Canada, Australia, etc., subnational and local governments have considerable power which they consistently fail to use in an innovative way. Most subnational entities simply replicate the institutions of their national or sibling polities.
To prevent dictionary attacks. Any decent password cracker will use a dictionary before trying brute force attacks.
A sign of a healthy capitalist society for some maybe, but not a healthy society in general.
Hibernate can do automatic migrations, but I think most complex deployments prefer to take direct control of the process.
> It would be good if there was some fallback mode where Firefox would render UI elements using HTML itself, without relying on UI toolkits.

This isn't quite a meaningful assertion. The way it works in Firefox is that a UI developer specifies in a xul or html document that there should be a button:

<button id="myButton" label="Click me!"/>

Then Gecko applies several CSS rules for button elements. One tells it what binding to use (https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/conte...) (a binding is an means of abstraction that packages up behavior and document structure). The other tells it what appearance to use (https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/theme...).

Note in particular the `-moz-appearance: button;`. This tells the rendering engine to figure out how big the button is, ask the OS to draw a button of that dimension, and then composite the OS button on top of the button node. I'm not an expert but a quick glance at the code points me to https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/gtk/ns..., which seems to be the main entry point for Gecko to ask for a widget to be rendered.

As you can see, Firefox does not rely on a toolkit to tell it how buttons _work_, only how they _look_. You could supply a stylesheet that overrides the -moz-appearance rules and you'll get buttons that are rendered purely by Firefox. (You might need to supply some more style rules so that they actually look like buttons.)

If you want to compile without GTK, that's a little more complicated. Firefox uses the toolkit for things like the message loop, mouse and keyboard event processing, etc. You could do all of that in straight Xlib, but who would want to? Certainly nobody has wanted to enough that they've been maintaining an Xlib port all of these years.
these barrels remind me of that fun old DOS game, Skunny. Quite fun, very nice port !
'Real Life Iron Man' Sets Record for Fastest Jetpack Flight
In support:
The fact that the 'cholesterol is bad theory' is wrong/outdated is the current state of teaching at German medical schools.
> there are far more than 256^3 viewable colors

This is trivially true: the gamut of sRGB does not cover all possible colours. See this diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB#/media/File:Cie_Chart_wit.... As examples, you can't accurately represent true (spectral) violet or darker/deeper but fully saturated yellows in sRGB.

> Lastly: https://i.imgur.com/epXYhJd.png If you cover up the top half of the image, the bottom looks gray. But the strawberries look red.

To me, the strawberries look red, the plate is a desaturated cyan, and the meringue is a very desaturated yellow, whether I cover the top half of the image or not.
It seems there is currently more hashpower behind BCH than BTC. [1] Because of the current price surge mining bch became way more profitable, but this will change with the next adjustment.

If more hashpower sticks with BCH, I would consider it to be the winner.

[1] https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate
White Georgia Teacher Threatens to Shoot Black Student in Head for Laughing
> If you know English, the loanwords become immediately accesible.

That's a common misconception (on the level of "katakana is for loan words"):

I switched my televi off and rode my autobike from my mansion to the cleaning to pick up my Y shirt because my car's front glass broke. On the way home I stopped at the conveni.

Televi: TV
Autobike: motorcycle
Mansion: apartment
Cleaning: dry cleaning
Front glass: windshield
Conveni: Conveni-ence store

> Chinese loanwords are more garbled, with different methods of assigning them random chinese characters.

This was standard in Japanese too (ateji). It is more common now to just make a loanword, but if someone doesn't learn them they may be confused about why Japanese abbreviate America as "rice".

米 US from 亜米利加 A ME RI KA (亜 is for Asia)
eg 米軍 (US military) or 米ドル (US dollar)
Ask HN: What is your journey?
Took out some time to reflect on my professional journey, posted here..

https://twitter.com/kashaziz/status/929650731761758209

Do share yours.
I didn't intend it to come across like that. C++ is how you have to do aggressive type specialisations and optimisations in the absence of a JITC. Java's JITC is able to do many of the same things at runtime as C++ does at compile time, but it's less predictable.
This study was funded by big Pharma and Nestle... I’d be hard pressed to trust it.
Isn't it more like they're building a new section of a city?
> They should also be ok with having that suggestion rejected

I agree at one condition: explain them why their suggestions are not appropriate (out of context, lack of resources, not a priority etc...).

That way you simply teach them more about the team/company business and will help them to step up their decisional skills.
I'm not sure this is bad for Uber. Having competition can be helpful politically. It reduces claims of monopolization and makes laws that help "ride sharing" services less likely to be perceived as a favor to a single company.
With the landscape constantly changing you could argue if we take too much weight on senior perception. For example: "Those 10GB of data would take up too much space, it's BIG DATA, we can't afford that!" ... Junior: We could use my laptop, it has 2 TB.
Unicode's got a full supplement of sub- and superscript numbers now.

E² = m²c⁴ + p²c²

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
Yeah, I'm curious whether land use/transportation model will be urbanist or more the suburban sprawl typical of the region.

America is flooded with the latter (particularly for younger cities), not many with the former.
Ask HN: Do LinkedIn's post analytics de-anonymize startup founders?
LinkedIn offers a way for individuals to see analytics about their posts [1]. For example, I can see that a recent post I made was seen by former colleagues who are still at my prior company, as well as classmates from UCLA.

On its face, this is not troublesome. Both orgs are very large and I am friends with many people from both. So these analytics do nor uncloak anyone in particular.

But I'm a startup founder at a very small startup. Does LinkedIn show that "1 person from BeeLine Reader" viewed a post? If so, this is as good as saying "Nick Lum viewed this post", which seems quite troublesome. I surf LinkedIn in ghost mode because I prefer to be anonymous there — especially now that LinkedIn aggressively blocks browsers that are not logged in.

It is possible that LinkedIn doesn't display stats for companies with fewer than X employees, but even if they had an exception for this, it would still not be sufficient. Imagine a 25-person company with whom you have only one connection. If they show that "1 person from Company Z" viewed your post, you pretty much know who this is.

1: https://imgur.com/a/yheAy
You should file a bug! I only started doing so a few weeks ago, and the devs have been pretty responsive.
See, as an urbanist, I still think this could be cool if they included a rail link to downtown Phoenix in the design. But that's, uh, probably not realistic, which means freeways, which means the town itself will probably just use the typical suburban sprawl model typical of Phoenix and its suburbs.
I'm pretty sure the "point" is "I drank the koolaid. Turns out I have diabetes and can't have that much sugar but fuck it insulin injections work so pass the koolaid bro"
The author seems to not understand how people work; we all make mistakes.
Bitcoin Cash to the Mars!
Mining pool operators are in a position to manipulate the markets.

Given the extremely low liquidity of all the exchanges (large holders often move their funds off-line), the markets rates are trivially manipulated. This in turn manipulates miner incentives.

Social media is a shit show of shills and propaganda from all angles. So really only time will tell.
Cholesterol increasing effect in coffee is not coming from dietary cholesterol.

It comes from cafestol and kahweol. They seem to affect cholesterol regulation in the body.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.nutr.17.1.3...
Why? The hashpower is based on profitability which is based on price. You might as well be saying if the price is high enough it will be the winner.
Just because something is and has been standard for a long time, it doesn't make it good UX.
For images, yes. Don't think that you can zoom the text.
At least I've not seen it yet.
(Android App)
or just any blade as "ha": https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/刃物
I'm hoping to hear more about the notorious "Cult performer arrested in rail tunnel" / "Poop & Pee Dog Copyright Violation" incident...

I'm sure it was just a big misunderstanding, and there are two sides to the story.

http://accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.nl/2012/02/his-name-i...

The Baltimore Sun's Ann Lolordo reported, "As they entered the tunnel which leads into Camden Station, police heard a loud banging sound, like cymbals crashing. Then, police said, they saw a dead animal hanging from the ceiling and a man standing in the dark tunnel, his naked body covered with 'a glowing paint.'"

https://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/poop-pee-dog-...

... I was naked except for my shoes & socks & I had white squiggly lines painted on me. I danced & gyrated wildly & beat the dogs & the thunder sheet with a club. The dogs were on fire & exuded what one might call a “foul” smell. I had been entrusted with the sacred head of Arnold Palmer by a representative of the Bloody Head Launcher’s Society which I had set on fire & which I was also beating about the tunnel ...
BTC is back, trying to get momentum by posting this article is already over. BCH down 20% in the last hour. BTC up 5%

Nice try though
I've known about Slack before, but this is my first run-in with Discordia. The Three Core Principles sound saner than any other religion or movement core teachings. They are aligned with scientific perspective ("Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful") and with Buddhism teachings of 'seeing things for what they are'.

Too bad about all the mythology nonsense and childish absurdism.
SpaCy 2.0 Released- Natural Language Processing with Python
What happens when two extensions try to place a widget in the same location? Chaos. Not that the status quo is any better.

Interestingly, Firefox's sidebar API only allows a single sidebar to be shown.
I've also observed this general expectation, but what do you mean "cause violence"? Do you mean it's less likely for the cab driver to get mugged if a guy rides in front or something similar?
Oh guuuuumby?
> I unplugged my landline phone. I have only plugged it back in once, and briefly, when debugging my internet connection, to check whether the line had a dial tone.

That's generally the only thing landline phones are good for anymore. When I lived in the UK I was with the nerdiest ISP there (AAISP) and they offer a "broadband only" landline, that carries your DSL and a basic diagnostic service including a dialtone (mostly to prevent wayward OpenReach engineers from misdiagnosing your copper pair as "unused"), but no real phone calls. Suited me fine.
Uber Flying Cars Could Be Tested as Soon as 2020 in LA