skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know what progressive enhancement is, my point is that it's not worth the effort of starting from literally just html and CSS to cater for the people so unwilling to work with you that they don't even have the second most basic web tooling enabled.

And what kind of cost-benefit analysis is ever going to tell you that it's worth catering for the less than 0.5% of people who turn off JavaScript?
Does the random number generator in C64 basic start with the same seed? I know the QBasic rand function was horrid.
WhatsApp: inside the secret world of group chat
> Well, are they not saying how the iPhone X compares to previous iPhones? They said it’s the most breakable.

Yep, you're correct they did say that. I wasn't clear enough in my response to indicate what I meant. What I meant to say was, I would like to see how other iPhones rated on "standarzied" testsuite so consumers could see how much more fragile the X is than others. Even nicer would be if other manufacturers phones were rated on the same battery.

> Yes, you’ll have one in the first position, but do you expect that the most recent product would be in the first position?

Depends. I'd hope not but if they're releasing a redesigned product or a product with a new way of building the container, then it might happen. I use an Otter Box and I am pretty careful with my current iPhone but this easier break-ability would effect my purchase decision if I was going to buy a new phone right now.
I don't think you understand pensions. Pensions are assets that a company has to maintain that are invested professionally (ie diversified investments). Yes pensions have disappeared or been reduced due to fraud or gross mismanagement, but the chances of that happening to a pension are a lot lower than your chances that the average person is adequately maintaining a 401k.
Well “blocking” isn’t the same as “not ringing”, right?
The author is pretty obviously not a wordsmith intellectual. This reads like a freshman writing assignment that had a very specific length requirement.
Thanks for that information. I use unstable and a part of me always want to go for a stable version. As a Firefox user, maybe not after all.

I guess there's a price in each choice.
They should get a lesson or two from IBM
For certain types of creator, diving into old archives is just the perfect way to get some inspiration or source material. It's true, archiving transcripts of your family's dinner conversations for 10 years isn't really going to do any future movie-maker any good, but the SubGenius folks went far beyond the mundane.

Plus, even if it were purely mundane, it would still be of eventual interest to historians, who could data mine over it for cultural references and such.

I'm not entirely sure what the line is between keep or save, but it could almost assuredly be drawn way to the left of where it is now and save a lot more for future generations.
Looks good.

Currently I'm using Expo, which is rather nice, but I have to detach rather often, because of stuff like PDF annotations or binary file storage.

How does Shoutem compare to Expo?
I've used DDG since 2012 and I rarely go back to Google for text searches. The event that made me search (no pun intended) for an alternative was the key word limit in place to filter out the result. It seems that Google ranking engine doesn't promote links based on certain type of content, and that makes it difficult to use in one of my previous work environment.
You can match the spirit of it pretty closely with Perl.

perl -C -e '$|++;X:print chr(9585.5+rand());goto X'
It's a balancing act. I don't believe I need absolute 100% control of all things going on in my computer; if I did, I wouldn't be able to utilize it anyways. It's pretty telling that Intel ME has been largely invisible to even savvy users until recently.

Having competition is probably part of what's needed to ensure that there's some control. The problem is that none of the competition is currently approaching it from a user freedom standpoint. After all, most companies making processors are publicly traded and even if they weren't, need to sell a huge volume of them to break even and have decent per-unit costs. So trying to target what is unfortunately a very tiny niche of users isn't going to go well.

And for the truly paranoid, it's impossible to prove that the processor wasn't tampered with, that there isn't a ring below yours. You can really only ever get to the point of being able to reasonably doubt the existence of it, which won't satisfy everyone.

I think Intel is digging its own grave by taking the worst stances on issues of user freedom. Eventually, if Intel ME's power over the machine continues to increase, something bad is going to happen as a result of it, and it's going to erode the already fragile trust people have in them. The ME exploit was part 1 of that.

But what about companies like AMD, or the hundreds of ARM manufacturers that take a more passive route of not caring about user freedom? There's no imaginable consequence for that. And there's no real benefit of reversing course, either. I can't see a future where open computing will be anything more than an extreme niche with sub-par options.

One of the better scenarios I can think of is that computing as we know it today becomes a niche itself and a lot of the users do value privacy and security. This seems plausible the better that Chromebooks and phones and tablets get; the average user won't need a computer tower or a laptop with 16 GB of RAM. But I imagine it won't be good news for the prices we currently enjoy :)
Meh, backspace-for-back should not fire when a input element of any type (i.e. including anchors) have an active focus. Also, "forward" should restore this state but since it's in JS perhaps the aim of your complaints is misplaced and should direct to the site owner.

It should at least be opt in (not sure where the setting is in Chrome).
Too useless for actually ignoring your phone.
So what I'm hearing is that phones are still great for social engineering. No wonder millennials hate phones.
Hah. Similar experience last year when I tried to sign up for digg reader and it said my email address was already in use O.o
I was getting the same feel from it. He uses the word fear a few times, and after I read that I couldn't help but frame the piece around social anxiety or insecurity about conversational skills. Of course, surface level it's about the annoyance and technical inefficiencies that come along with the device.

/armchair
I consider it a winner a long time ago, sold my bitcoins for it when the ratio was 0.15, accumalated some more at 0.055 and now its 0.25, I predict 1 BTC = 0.5 BCH before the end of the year
I see a SATA controller in the laptop, with 2 internal SATA ports for a CD and HD, there is also a PS/2 'mouse'.

I don't get it, are they designing a 'retro' style notebook like the old iBook? Or have the designers been sleeping under a rock for the pas 10 years?

edit: imac->ibook
I primarily use Chrome just for the reason that it has better UI than Firefox on Linux. The developer tools on Firefox is too ugly, they definitely need a more compact design.
Paul Graham is a wealthy libertarian anyway, so of course he would think that income inequality is not inherently a bad thing, I don't see how pointing to some of his essays proves anything in that regard.
The C64 font is (almost?) square, this also contributes to the nice effect.
Ask HN: Big title at a small company or a small title at a brand?
Hi all,

Im trying to design my career path in Business development after closing a startup of my own (As Head of BizDev). One of the hardest things with job searching is understanding whether it is better to have a big title (and a salary that fits it) at a small unknown company or go for a smaller title at a known brand.

I am currently interviewing for a Business Development Manager position at a company that is not so known, which has a product I don't really connect with. Nontheless, the pay is very nice and I am hoping to advance to a bizdev manager position elsewhere within a year.
The alternative is going for an account manager\junior partnerships position at a well known startup (with less pay) which has a very interesting product.

Regardless of my interest in each company, I was wondering what would be a better choice for a career in BizDev.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The 10-year proposal includes light rail in several directions. Not sure why you think it’s only 1?

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/26/nashville-un...
Maybe the thinking is that the sun down there will provide cheap energy on the long run (solar, batteries, etc).
Why, with the ability to write powerful extensions removed it is basically a second Chrome now.

I think WebExtensions were a good idea, but removing the raw access is removing what made Firefox great in the first place. Hopefully they will add an escape hatch in a future release but I'm not holding my breath. I wonder how long staying on nightly will allow "legacy" extensions.

But sure, a bit of performance is nice I guess.
How to sell your side-project/startup?
Hey guys,

A lot of times makers/founders want to sell their business, but don't really know how to do it without later regretting it. Sometimes it's because they sell it to the wrong person (someone who's just looking to resell it in a few months) and sometimes it's because they feel like they didn't sell it for a good enough price (mostly happens when they accept the first offer as soon as they hear it). There are a few marketplaces to help facilitate this process for the founders, but honestly most of them care only about making a sale, mostly because they get a cut.

I started Soochi [1] to solve this exact problem: Help founders sell their projects/startups without having them regret it later. At the risk of not stretching this post to a blog post's length, I'll just link this Medium post [2] I wrote introducing Soochi, and explaining how I see things working with Soochi.

I am really hoping Soochi succeeds at solving the issues makers/founder currently face with the current options, and would love to hear any feedback, or answer any questions that you may have about the site.

[1] https://soochi.co
[2] https://medium.com/p/soochi-d32221e4a180
High Frequency Trading is in the regular stock market and has a larger barrier to enter
>>And it's entirely irrelevant.

I explained the relevance:

>So it's okay if they offer to work for a "slave wage" as a self-employed small business owner, but if they work through a third party, then it's not okay? How it taking away an option in their interest? You're reducing the avenues through which they can sell their labour, which cannot possibly be to their advantage.

To rephrase: when DAOs are created, drivers will be able to offer their services without meeting these arbitrary employment standards, without going through a company, and just as easily as going through a company. How is making it illegal for a company to hire them under terms that don't meet employment standards in their interest, when doing so won't prevent them from working for terms that don't meet these standards, and when all it will do is reduce the avenues through which they can work for terms that don't meet the standards (translation: all it will do is reduce their market power)?

Maybe I'm still not clearly communicating my point. If it's not clear what I'm asking please let me know and I'll try to rephrase it.

Either way, could you please address my argument?

>>You're evading the question by being pedantic. Reduce "guaranteed to be lethal" to whatever threshold you prefer and it stands.

The pedantry is in you making this a point about how I worded the beginning of my argument and ignoring the bulk of my argument, and its substance, that applies to any threshold. Here it is again:

--

If there were, there are only two conditions under which someone would work them:

1. They are mentally incapable of making decisions for their own life, and thus should be placed under conservatorship where they are not free to make their own decisions.

2. The jobs is fraudulently advertised.

In either case you don't need to resort to creating mandatory minimum employment standards like minimum wage. What you're effectively endorsing is conservatorship for the entire population.

--

I really don't have the patience to deal with bad faith debating. Just know that if you win the public relations campaign through rhetoric and sophistry, but you're advancing the wrong cause, you're hurting yourself too. So there is no sense in debating disingenuously about public policy using these tactics. Western Europe and the US have seen wage growth stagnate over the last 40 years due to the kind of behaviour you're exhibiting now.

Our human society only functions at all due to the extraordinary efforts of numerous people to cooperate and honestly debate issues to reach a consensus on the right way forward.

Even a small portion of the population acting in bad faith to push their own narrow interests at the expense of society at large is enough to cause the whole thing to break down, because it's nearly impossible for society at large to arrive at a consensus on the truth about complex topics when there is a significant amount of misinformation being injected into the debate. Please be part of the solution.
Man i should get you to talk to my spam with that magic +5 robot charisma.

Unfortunately, it still won’t prevent my number from being spammed. There is no human to talk to. Any indication you are alive is a confirmation your phone number is worth calling. The only thing you can do to convince them is not answer or somehow communicate a likely disconnection from a human.
> the generator could be below the tank level

This is what anti-siphon valves are used to prevent: they are valves that open only when sufficient suction is present in the fuel line leaving the tank. Thus, when the line breaks or the pump fails, the valve will close.

> or it can be a few floors about the tank, too high to suck fuel from the tank so it has to be pushed up from below.

True, it has to be pushed up then. Alas, you can have a sequence of suction pumps. Note that otherwise you'd need to have high-pressure fuel piping, which might cause more problems than the possibility of feeding a fire indefinitely.
It appears they are also willing to follow the law.
$149 / month is a bit too high for most apps.
Yes. This is a tradeoff between a chance of catastrophic failure (fire fed by fuel from the storage tank) and "normal" failure.
I had the same thought. There is no reason a phone should cause you this much anxiety. He was powerless to act. He could have done a number of things, but instead he walked towards the tormentor and took it in full force. This is not the behavior of a healthy person.
What took me a long time -- and is still a skill I'm developing -- is to both verify and "read" the math at the same time, to see the proof and the story at the same time.

At one level, you're observing a technical construction and trying to ensure that it's (mostly) sound; but at another level, you're trying to understand the broader picture of how it fits in, what the builder was trying to accomplish or what perspective of the world they're trying to share.

Mathematics is -- like any language -- just the articulation of an experience, of an insight, of an understanding. As you get further into mathematics (and possess more technical skills of your own), it becomes more important to see "Oh, he's trying to apply the machinery of homotopy to type theories as a means of discussing equivalence" than it is to get bogged down in the technical details. Often, the details are wrong in the first draft, but in a fixable way. (This is extremely common in major proofs.)

> There is a point where one starts to see "behind" the symbols. It's a strange sensation, as if one could understand the ideas in a non-verbal way

I think at some point, you have to compile mathematics to non-verbal ideas for computational reasons -- your verbal processing skills are simply too slow and too simple compared to other systems. Your visual and motor systems are way more powerful and (in the case of motor systems) operate in high dimensions. Much like GPUs in computers, if you can find a representation of a problem that works on a specialized system, you can often get a big computational boost; in mathematics, we have to push our understanding of self and experience to the limits to find more efficient representations of ideas, so we can operate on more interesting or complex ones.

I think most mathematicians work in extremely personal, non-portable internal representations, and then use the symbols as a way to create an external representation that the other mathematicians can compile into their own internal representations.

If you see mathematics as extremely high level code meant to be compiled to equivalent internal representations on thousands of slightly different compilers, I think the language starts to make more sense -- it's meant to be a reverse compilation target for machine code that's been under revision for ~3000 years, so of course it looks a little funky.

Ed:

I will say this --

One thing I've noticed as I've gotten older is that we do a really poor job of teaching students the story of mathematics -- the human motivations, the community, the long standing projects (some have gone on for hundreds of years; some are still ongoing).

I sincerely believe that for young kids (less than, say 10), it would be better for their development to teach skills 4 days a week and simply tell them part of the story on the 5th. It would make mathematics much more relatable and understandable.
There was an article (a while ago) showing that at least one major brand of onboard sound cards has undocumented features to switch the audio-out jack port to input. Cheap headphone/earbuds function as a microphone too, so that's a thing. Only if you leave the earbuds plugged in, of course. It can't listen from an empty jack port.

I (personally) think that intelligence/privacy-wise the mic on many devices is a lot more troubling than a camera. Camera is very directional and (again, personally for me) would at most result in embarrassment? While a microphone can record all conversations in a room/appartment, transmit everything with fairly negligible bandwidth, and taping over it won't do much good. You actually need to open the device and disconnect/cut a wire.
Facebook is mostly blockable on an individual basis, but Google really isn't. There are so many vectors:

- Google provides a geolocation service for applications to locate you by triangulating you relative to nearby wifi hardware. This sends data to Google about your devices wifi hardware and the ssids it detects. This isn't an in website feature, so normal content blocking doesn't help, it will be an application setting. Firefox and Safari both used to use this (Mozilla have now created a competing service).

- Google provides suspicious site screening services ("safe browsing" advisories) to many applications, including browsers.

- Google hosts most of the CT logs. I'm actually not 100% sure how the mechanism works here in detail, so this may eb a red herring, but it seems to be that browsers may periodically send a list of https sites you visited to these log servers to audit the certs for those sites

- Google provides free fast DNS which sends all of your DNS traffic to their servers. This may be set by the administrator of the network you're connecting through.

- Google analytics is used by many non-browser applications, and also in areas of the browser not covered by content blockers, e.g. Firefox's add-ons settings page.

- Many sites use Google js cdns and ajax apis for required functionality, so a content blocker will need to set whitelists to get the site to work.

- there are more such things, these are just examples

Facebook does none of the above.

Something like Decentraleyes will help with the cdns and a custom firewall, hosts file, filtering proxy or things like Little Snitch can help with some of the others but none of these are trivial.
The other poster meant USB sticks. Manning’s leaks were the reason they changed the rules.

I believe you have to use CDs instead for a lot of cases.
Yep! It runs on all of my personal gear for that exact reason. Praise Bob!
Rails is still very popular and it's also managed by a company who is very profitable and active.

I think it's in a league of its own. 10+ years of documentation and community support, a massive ecosystem, and the core framework's abstractions and features come from real world use cases (which is why they feel so easy to use).
8 Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize
how does the component library compare to nativebase?
Very passionate couple :)
Do you enjoy living there overall? My wife and I have talked about moving there sometimes. We have two boys 4 and 6 and like the idea of a close knit community, walking to parks, etc.
PHP too

php -r "TEN: print(chr(47 + 45 * rand(0,1))); goto TEN;"
Running a multibillion dollar silicon foundry costs money.

You're always welcome to design your own chips, then barter for them with pelts.

The result of this project thus far is totally underwhelming and I'd think whoever was donating to it not only didn't need that computer and could wait an indefinite amount of time for one, but is likely throwing their money away and may never get a product.
Sean Parker: Facebook exploits vulnerability in human psychology
Seems good. Is it free or how? If its not free can you add pricing page properly visible?

And also can you fix "40+ full-featured extensions" section css/jquery on hover its moving in speed I am unable to check all list.
Andy Weir is back with Artemis,  a crime drama set in a lunar city
Mushrooms are full of antioxidants that may have antiaging potential
Researcher Says Aaron Hernandez's Brain Showed Signs of Severe CTE
Fossils of Some of Our Oldest Mammal Ancestors Found
Subset of carbon nanotubes poses cancer risk similar to asbestos in mice
Has anyone used this to build anything? It looks kind of scary at a glance. The spaghetti code that would result. The debugging story, or lack there of. Why not just write html?
Funny thing is if you have been holding Bitcoin since at least Aug. None of this affects you because you got an equal amount of Bitcoin Cash and the combined value of Bitcoin Core + Bitcoin Cash has hardly budged from all time highs.

Some people said their Bitcoin Cash was "free money" and sold it instead of seeing it for what it was, a hedge against developer hubris. Those folks that sold aren't in a good place right now.
Looks very interesting, however you risk being rejected on the Apple app store because of this guideline:

“4.2.2 Other than catalogs, apps shouldn’t primarily be marketing materials, advertisements, web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links”.
Minix Inside
Pointy [1] allows you to search local shops, though it currently only covers Ireland and you have to go to the shop to purchase the item. At it's heart is a hardware device that integrates with the store's bar code scanner so inventory can be synced with an online database.

[1] https://www.pointy.com
I think this is fairly common first-year grad student emotional response. And quite frankly, it is the job of your mentor and department to ensure you receive sufficient training for an academic or research career.

Modern AI is evolving rapidly but there is a foundation upon which everyone draws upon. The Sutton and Barto book is one such foundational text.

Find a collaborator in the Math department to work with. And participate daily in stack overflow forums for math and stats, such as Cross Validated.

I can also recommend CASI by Efron and Hastie. Deep historical understanding of where we are today in probabilistic inference.

https://web.stanford.edu/%7Ehastie/CASI/
Personally I like to be available for emergencies but would prefer routine information exchange to be handled via text.
Antares launch to resupply space station halted by wayward airplane
I charge my phone using my car's battery when the power is out.