skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's seems to be a known bug related to this, see https://github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-dal/issues/....
Once again, this is why I've blocked javascript for years. Browsers really need to start offering this without add-ons or extensions.
Hackers download exposed bank code on Google Rigging $32 Trillion
ISA spec is copyrighted. Instructions aren't patented directly. Instead, the best ways of implementing them are patented.
Any trainer can tell you some breeds just care more about food than others.

My German Shepherd would do anything for a piece of chicken. He would suddenly seem to understand English. My boxer couldn’t care less for treats as a motivator - positive attention was the absolute only way to mold behavior. Having had the GSD first, it took some adjustment for me to learn to train a dog that just didn’t care about food. The breeder later told me that was entirely typical of boxers.
iOS sticker packs - never did it myself (can't draw to save my life) but there was at one point good money [2] to be made in them. The full title of [1] is How I made two ridiculous iOS 10 sticker packs for Messages without any coding experience so think that fits the bill. The reddit post [3] is from 4 months ago, so perhaps there's still room to get somewhere with it.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/13/ios-10-sticker-packs-messages...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/chat-app-line-makes-over-2...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/6kyair/i_just...
I can't seem to get this installed. I followed the directions and installed Chicken Scheme with brew. It then says to run the installer.sh, but that seems to be looking for some additional files that don't exist (they are part of the source code, however). Also the URL in the README.md of the installer package has the wrong URL.

Seems like a cool idea but I'm just not invested enough to track down the issues here and get it working!
The real money in that is made by offering support, which might as well be another full time job.
Two that come to mind are Windows Vista upgrades, where many XP-capable machines were just not powerful enough to handle it. The other would be video games, which were constantly pushing the envelope. Consoles may have a lot to do with the stagnation in the latter case, however.
Yeah, there is a bigger emphasis on it in C++11 and on.
For more information on the runtime (the underpinnings of MakeCode): https://lancaster-university.github.io/microbit-docs/

We are using the approach taken with micro:bit to support other resource constrained devices, like the adafruit circuit playground: https://makecode.adafruit.com
Nifty, I hadn't seen Calliope before. I'll check it out next time I buy some experimental kit for my classes.
≥That's a very engineer-oriented approach, but it misses that the current crisis (can we call it that) is social.

I've been trying to harp on this point for a while. Any proposed changes to how our government functions and how representatives gets elected isnt going to work because it's addressing something that isn't causing the problems we're seeing. The problem IS the electorate and the choices the electorate is making under its own will.

We are here, because the electorate chose to be. And the portion of the electorate that seems perfectly willing to make uninformed or irrational choices isn't exactly small, and often only counts as a technical "minority" when compared to the over all population.

You might alleviate the problem at best, and most likely only temporarily with any proposed changes. Every change that's been proposed in these discussions always assumes that the presence and amount of rational actors is sufficient, if not the norm. That's not what we currently see.
I was born in 84, and used BBC micros at school.
The Friedman memo is a joke.
Books and courses come to mind (require some coding). Affiliate websites etc

Can't remember one now, but there are plenty of examples of startups that faked to be fully automated software but behind the scenes all was done manually.
What is the price? I can't find it.
I'm in my (early) 40's and started coding in the (late) 70's
An EU regulation for data protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...) for anyone else who was wondering.
Click on the email? Create a ticket? really? Compared to devops?
Ask HN: Share with us your experiences from projects you've been involved with
I am writing a report on project management and execution for an exam at the university.

I am looking for your experiences so that I can analyze them looking for factors that lead to the eventual success or failure of each project.

We only have 48 hours on this exam so with such limited amount of time it would be advantageous if I could have the information about the different projects structured in a similar fashion to one-another. Hence this post and my questions below.

In an attempt to garner a useful amount of responses, I offer the following: Provided that I get EIGHT OR MORE sufficiently good comments WITHIN THE NEXT 12 HOURS, I am going to pick THREE RESPONSES that are particularly useful and compensate EACH OF THOSE THREE for their time with 0.031 ETH provided that they can give me an address to send the transaction to within 48 hours. You can either include the address in your comment, or you can respond with the address when I ask you for it. If I pick a comment and ask them for an address to send to and they do not respond within 48 hours then the offer to compensate for that answer will expire and NO REPLACEMENT WILL BE SELECTED FOR IT. At the time of this writing, 0.031 ETH is equivalent to about 15 USD. I realize that to most of the HN crowd that I want to reach with this post that is a negligible amount of money but I hope it's sufficient to encourage you to write a comment.

If you do not have an Ethereum wallet yet, use https://www.myetherwallet.com/ and take VERY GOOD CARE of your password and the keystore file!

Everyone is allowed multiple separate comments if they have several projects they would like to share their experiences about -- submit a separate comment for each project.

RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR COMMENT. SPLIT THE RESPONSE IN MULTIPLE PARTS BY RESPONDING TO YOURSELF IF NECESSARY DUE TO LENGTH LIMITATIONS. INCLUDE THE QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENT WHEN YOU REPLY.

I have written a number of questions for you: https://pastebin.com/S1T9c89Z
I hav started a youtube channel to teach ethereum and solidity:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA

Contract call can be broken down into 2 categories:
state changing vs read-only.

If its a state changing contract call, it will be executed by every node on the network. In this case its considered a transaction. This transaction has to be mined in a block and cost ether. The new state will be stored on the blockchain only after the transaction has been succesfully mined.

The other kind of method call is read-only. Its free, ,is executed only by a single node, and does not alter the blockchain state.
That is more like Dennard's law [0] but that one stopped roughly 2001. You could also watch Koomey's law [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law
I agree that this can be used for ill, but there's a number of very valid reasons to use these tools:

- Heatmap views of where people hover and start to type

- capture of individual sessions to research support cases

- Better understanding of user flows through a site or web app

And all of these tools, at least the reputable ones cited in the article, allow you to mask fields or parts of the screens so that PII isn't captured, and reputable companies do that.

The other part of this is that I don't think the article captures well is that these tools aren't used for targeting of ads or personalization or "spying" in the sense of malice, but to try to better understand users, what they're trying to find on a site, and clarify pain when using applications. I also think the people that use these tools, generally speaking, are perfectly fine with blocking them, since it's meant as a diagnostic and analytic tool.
Vivaldi browser releases Sync in Snapshot build for public testing
If this article is accurate (data source looks shady and lacking statistical significance) I believe it. I think for me, the main thing that would explain the increase is that you now have to watch your kid. What I mean is, when my parents were growing up, they would just wander the streets, hang out with other kids, and generally raise themselves. But now in days (at least in US) parent supervision is required for just about everything, and parents are afraid to let kids just go and wander (for good reasons).
React VS Vue. similarities and differences
My questions for you at https://pastebin.com/S1T9c89Z

What was the purpose of the project? ...

What challenges were involved relating to organizing the project? ...

What solutions were considered in order to achieve the purpose of the project? ...

What solution was chosen? ...

What was the basis of choosing that particular solution over the other possible solutions? ...

In your opinion, was this the correct basis for picking a solution to the project? ...

Who made the decision of which solution to choose? ...

In your opinion, was this person or group of people the right person to make that decision? Why / why not? ...

What risks were known prior to the start of the project? ...

How was this risk managed? ...

How much knowledge was known to be available in-house and what kinds of people was it known that would need to be brought in from the outside? ...

What was the budget for the project in terms of monetary resources? ...

What was the planned time-frame of the project? ...

How many people were involved in the project? ...

What were the roles of the different people involved with the project? ...

To what extent were those people supposed to be involved in the project during its different phases? ...

To what extent did those people end up actually being involved in the project during its different phases? ...

Were other people brought into the project during the course of the project without having planned to bring those people in from the beginning? ...

If other people were brought into at a later stage, why did you bring these people into the project? ...

If other people were brought into at a later stage, did doing so have the desired effect? ...

What was YOUR role in the project? ...

(Optional) Who were the companies involved in the project? ...

How was the project organized in terms of time spent by different groups of people on the project? ...

How was the project managed and how did this affect the eventual outcome of the project? ...

How was the quality of the follow-up within the project? Was the follow-up relevant or irrelevant? Was there sufficient amounts, insufficient amounts or too large amounts of follow-up? ...

To what extent did the parties involved feel ownership of the project and how did this affect its outcome? ...

Was the project brought to completion? ...

If the project was canceled prior to completion, what was the reason for canceling it? ...

In EITHER completing OR canceling the project, what challenges were involved? ...

Upon EITHER completion OR cancellation, how long had the project been running? ...

Upon EITHER completion OR cancellation, how many man-hours had been spent by the different people? ...

Upon EITHER completion OR cancellation, how much money had been put into the project? ...

Give as many further details about the project as you can. The more you can say the better. Lots and lots of things: ...
Amazon FBA businesses, dropshipping, blogs but that will take a while for SEO to kick in, Amazon affiliates, and other affiliate programs but you’ll need traffic to do that.
Anatomy of an ASP.NET Identity PasswordHash
This feature has been the reason many users have held out on making the switch to Vivaldi as a daily drive. Will be interesting to see the results of the testing and how quickly the features makes it into a final stable build.
I do not have statistically significant evidence, but as another data point I have the same experience: both my home and work machines are 7-8 years old and work just fine (30" monitors, decent performance with numpy, MATLAB, compiling, perfectly fine graphics, etc.).

But around 2000 I remember always carefully looking at the system requirements section of games to check which of those would work on my 2-3 year old computer and for which my machine is too old -- and find a significant rejection rate (25-50%).
Looks interesting but does it at least support keywords to trigger messages (or to enter data) or is it 100% interface-based with no text input from users? That would be a big limitation
I'd have to completely disagree there. I recently went round a new (high) school with my youngest step-son (who is 11, so year 6 in the UK).

He's not really that impressed by most computer stuff which is at a level he'd actually be able to understand/program. While he's shown some aptitude in scratch, etc., I think the problem is that everything that's exciting to him is light years away from whatever he can actually do.

However, he and his friends all spent some time on the open evening looking at the micro:bits that were on display which were set up to do various simple things - detect touches or switch presses and change LEDs, etc.

His elder sister is of the age that was supposed to get a free Micro:bit, but that didn't happen.... I think I'll have to buy one and have a play!
Hidden Cameras in AirBnBs
You are living in the Future!
Current time is 2017-11-29T13:29:46Z.

In 12 hours the current date and time will be 01:30 UTC on 2017-11-30.

In 48 hours the current date and time will be 13:30 UTC on 2017-12-01.
I wouldn't say no one. There are a number of companies that trust Bitcoin enough to use it in trade for their goods and services. For example, ProtonMail (a secure private e-mail provider) trusts Bitcoin enough to accept it in trade for its services.

So, the same thing that gives the Euro and Gold value (that people will take it trade for goods and services) is one of the components accounting for Bitcoin's valuation. The majority of Bitcoin's value at this point is likely speculation. However some percentage of the value is not derived from currency arbitrage or speculation.

Even if Bitcoin trade participating merchants do not trust the market valuation of Bitcoin enough to be willing to hold Bitcoin for very long after they accept it as part of a transaction (and therefor immediately convert it to USDs) it is still valued by the participating merchant in line with the trade. The same could be said for the value of the electronic ledger recordings created by credit cards. They are generally viewed to have around equivalent value to USDs. But, they are not a currency either.
Yea, Xcode is so annoying with this. What magical features does it use under the hood to not allow basic functionality and iOS support that seems completely unrelated to the macOS version? I have zero incentive to update macOS except Xcode telling me it needs a new version that only runs on the new one.
Long time NoScript user here, and I had to remove it today as it is completely broken and unusable. I cannot even get the preferences to open so I can export my whitelisted domains to uMatrix, which I'm testing as a replacement.

I would like to combine uBlock and uMatrix, but I'm not sure I can replicate the functionality I want. Your mention of dynamic filtering is interesting and I wonder if others are using it and can make a recommendation?

I need all JavaScript off by default (including first-party) and the ability to block both ad-serving domains and filters such as /ads/ that work across all domains. Is this possible to do entirely within uBlock Origin?
> What gets printed in them doesn’t change with how you print them

This isn't true. More specifically, if you substantially reduce the cost of printing, you also reduce the bar to competition.

Similarly, if you substantially reduce the time it takes to get from thought to publishing, in a competitive market, you'll need to get more thoughts published.

And the death of hot metal printing, followed by the rise of internet publishing, has hugely affected what is published, when and by whom.

However, this whole rosy tinted rubbish about hot metal printing is comical. It was the least efficient, most expensive, nepotistic, ineffectual closed shop industry. It held back journalism (not exactly a hot bed of activity at the time either) for years. It almost destroyed the news industry before there was a reasonable replacement.

Of course "grown men were crying". They could see the end of their short hours, high pay, minimal work jobs that had been passed down father to son.

The only reason it lasted as long as it did was that there was no effective competition. Once that changed, costs had to come down and journalists had to start writing what folk wanted to read not just what they wanted to write. Now it's a little unfortunate that what most people want to read is celebrity tat but such is life.

I'd also question just how much better journalism was versus today (although I'm on shakier ground here). There was a lot less of it, of course, and it is likely that the signal to noise has dropped appreciably. But most journalism was filler then as it is now.

Sure we remember the great scoops and uncoverings but that's because we remember them. I'm sure, in 30 years, we'll recollect Snowden more than Kanye and look back fondly too.
Also highly recommended for people who are willing to spend a little more time to control where their browser retrieves content is uMatrix[1]. Written and maintained by the most esteemed Raymond Hill who creates uBlock Origin.

If you're on Chrome, don't forget to also install uBO-Extra[2] along with uBlock Origin[2], otherwise you don't get WebSocket coverage.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra
Mine sometimes will also whimper while dreaming, but I guess that's part of the freedom too
> Have you seen any other music player that handles that kind of ambiguous "command"?

Siri does sorta; I just tested it now. I said “I hate this song,” and I got the feedback “I’ll remember you hate that song,” and a different song from another artist immediately began. “I hate this artist” immediately transitioned to a song by a different artist.

“I hate (artist name)” didn’t work, but the framework is clearly there.

This doesn’t seem like an unreasonable functionality to expect at all. It’s already mostly there. In Siri.
I know a guy who sells Hot Sauce on Amazon, he's a talented programmer but probably makes more money selling sauce!
...by eschewing individuality, being small and having the luck to have petro money. How is that “free from influence” when you’re talking about the people who invented Jante law?!
> It was a huge mistake not to ship this with a video port.

Looking at what I see happening with the Raspberry Pi, I don't agree with that assertion. It's not been very important for making cooler projects with kids, it only made coding on it easier since it didn't come with a nice remote environment and you thus could use the Linux desktop on the Pi for coding. (It also opens up use cases like "media center", but those are not very relevant for education).

Kids find going to hardware like the microbit/Pi/Arduino interesting because it is breaking out of the usual screen(+keyboard in case of a PC) environment, and you can do

> games, robotics and interaction

that's not limited to the screen. And nothing stops you to combine both, have the microbit talk to a PC/phone.
I built this site [1] that lets people find and list internet businesses that are available for sale. I didn't write a single line of code, used Carrd and Airtable to build the whole thing. Let me know if this is the type of answer you were looking for?

[1] https://soochi.co

Edit: If anyone does have a business they'd like to list, just include HN at the beginning of your story to get $10 off!
Doesn't that run the risk of making yourself accessory to someone else's credit card fraud?
Like peak oil. But there might be a (seemingly) interminable lull.

Meanwhile, I like the idea of physically massive GPUs if they can't get smaller (also doing ML, CFD etc)
>And nothing changed.

It sort of has.

We've shifted a lot of computing to the back-end where we can use more servers. We're using alternative architectures that can be built into chips that are more efficient for some workloads, e.g. ARM. We're using GPUs and now TPUs for compute-intensive tasks like machine learning that can benefit from them. It's not clear to what degree we'll be able to replace process scaling with other approaches but certainly things will change with chips unable to just get denser/faster at a predictable rate any longer.
I'd wager the number of people using Messages on macOS is really not that high. Most people are content to message using their phone.

iMessage absolutely is a lock-in for iOS, though.
The context is popularity and usage: that is, the "vanity metric" of market share. The contention was that "Apple is the old Microsoft" in the sense that it's everywhere and people struggle to name a competitor. The assertion was egregiously wrong, whether their market share is 5% or 11%, anecdotes or no. Plenty of people (the vast majority) not only can name a competitor to Apple's offerings but actually use one!
Without directly disagreeing with your post, I think there is a slight OS lock-in, in the fact that the MS alternative is a horrible piece of burning wreckage. Anybody that had to put up with the autoupdate experience in Windows 10 (oh, you were doing something important? Never mind, I'll just hog your network in random intervals for like an hour without you having a way to stop me and then I'll take 2 hours to apply the patches before the reboot), can understand that Apple was playing without serious competition for some years now.
Elasticache is the AWS Redis.
I think that sums a lot of 'progress' up to me; I've had several abortive attempts to 'get into programming' over the last 20 years or so, and all of them have floundered early on on various pre-requisites which just seemed too much to deal with. I'm now persevering with Python (which seems in some way to suffer less that others, but also because I'm sticking at it this time as I want to change career), but I can remember giving up when it seemed I had to write about 50 lines of code just to get a window up with an OK button. I'm sure the same is true many multiples over with kids, and the micro:bit seems a good solution to that.
> On the other hand I could create 21M cryptocoins on a blockchain (calling them Bitcoin2 or even just Bitcoin if it pleases). I can make them function identically, similarly or more efficiently than Bitcoin.

You can do the same thing with Facebook or Twitter, but the value is not in the code or functionality, it really is in the network of people using it.
No. They only have access to anything inputted within their site's window.

I think this article is a bit sensationalist. These sites already have access to all of your data (stored in their databases!). There's nothing additional they are gaining from this aside from how you input that data. That is much less sensitive information and I can't think of another usage aside from improving their site's UX.
That’s not a big difference for Apple. They’ve got their user base now, they don’t need developers to spread the word anymore.
UWashington Students Win Alexa Prize (to Get Voice Conversations to 20 Minutes)
Hacking suspect Lauri Love appeals against US extradition
Or a less efficient (per computation) parallel version, that scales.
If they're priced in dollars and converted into Market price Bitcoin at the checkout... then they're obviously not priced in Bitcoin.
Yup, followed by "Oh you've received other offers? We'll see if we can accelerate the process on our end".

No thanks, I'll just go with the existing offer from a company that doesn't hoist neon red flags during their interview process.