skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is impressive, I'm going to start using this. I know that the wish list must be long, but I'd really like to see things that i CANT do in other editors, such as PS;

(1) PS (the version i have anyhow) does not support PNG8 with 8bit alpha. This annoys me a LOT because i have to use another program to generate these from PNG24 for all my web work. why doesn't PS support this format?? PP to have this please!

(2) Sometimes i want to quickly add some markup to an image. arrows, callouts, etc. This is a PITA with PS because it's just TOO complicated. A "simple editing" page would be cool.

(3) I do a lot of work with APNG (animated PNG) now, which appear to work in most browsers. most editors won't touch APNG. PP will load and generates each frame as a layer. would be nice to see the frame boxes and edit/move them, then recombine. would save a TON of work with APNG authoring.

(4) edit JPG/PNG metadata please.

blue sky stuff: i "waste" a lot of time in PS extracting items from images. I know this is HARD, but any help here would be a massive boost and worthy of payment. same goes for "unblurring" as alternative to sharpening. i know this is technically impossible, but it might be possible to help fix camera shake a LITTLE BIT, knowing it's shake and not just random blur, etc.

my 2c, but good luck with it!
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IMO, never invest in hopes of paying off debts.

The problem is that crypto is volatile. Today I'm looking at ETH going up 32% a week. But next week it could be down 80%. Then it could go up again 184%.

In hindsight, it looks smart to invest in it. But when your $484 becomes $350, then $210, then $90.. you are going to be under a lot of emotional distress. You'll be kicking yourself, wishing you put it into your debt, or some other crypto. It could go on to $1500 later, but only if you could hold on long enough.

What's worse is that most cryptocurrencies will actually fail. If you go for a high risk one, there's a good chance your investment will go to $0.

The key to investing well is faith. But you need a lot, lot more faith if you really need the money and need it fast.

And making your investment decision based on some 5 minute comment on an internet forum is not going to give you a lot of faith.
According to: https://www.rmv.se/aktuellt/det-visar-tre-manader-av-medicin...

I don't speak Swedish, so I had to translate it (the site I found the link from[0] after Googling seems like it has an axe to grind).
They indicate that, of ~2400 refugees where the National Medical Board rendered an opinion, some ~2000 were estimated to be eighteen years of age or older, with ~400 estimated to be under eighteen years of age (so ~5/6).

This may be different from the patterns in general because these are cases where the board was asked for and subsequently rendered an opinion.
It might be that (contra the headlines) this sort of misrepresentation is relatively rare, and the rate for the subset of the population where no questions were raised is substantially lower.

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0. https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/07/15/sweden-chi...
The Open Internet is important enough to demand legislative action. It should not be left to flip-flop depending on which party controls the Presidency and thus the third vote on the FCC.
How could one have detected this kind of attack even faster?

Periodically calling the endpoint and validating the certificate used is the right one?
> suggest that large cities would have been spared direct strikes

That's an Australian assessment of what they expected the Soviets to do in the 1980s.

The actual behaviour largely depends on the specific war-plan and epoch.

Actual Soviet documents from the 1950s show the Soviets planned to 'troll' the West by nuking a few non-Central-Front cities, such as Darwin or Perth, and assessing the response. Would the USA or NATO reply in kind, or back down?

> generally, both the Soviets and Americans avoided population centers as well as (IIRC) decapitation strikes

Not at all. Have a read at these US targets from one of the 1950s SIOPs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/1950s-us-nucl...

While many are industrial facilities, government buildings and the like, one for each city is simply designated “Population.”

In later years the targetting turned more towards counterforce ( military targets ) as the CEP of missiles crept down into the hundreds of metres. But before the mid-1980s that simply wasn't feasible
Ask HN: How will ISP's enable network priority post NN?
I can't imagine it will be by IPv4 address. That seems too hard for cloud based solutions to jump on board and pay extra. If it is an IP header, couldn't one simply install an OS plugin that adds that header to every packet? If it is an HTTP header, couldn't one simply install a webserver plugin that adds that header to every request? Is it HTTP/S only and done via domain name inspection with transparent proxies? In which case couldn't we run the web on another port? Will it be a standard approach across all ISP's, or will each ISP do something different?
>The Day After

Ronald Reagan was only convinced nuclear war was bad after watching this TV movie starring Steve Guttenberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...

>President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war".
Ok. What about the cases when value based policies have scientifically measurable effects exactly opposite to stated also value based goals of the policy?

I.e. to reduce teen pregnancies we create policy of abstinence only sex education. You can measure that this policy causes exactly opposite effect yet value based lawmakers cling to it.

As for scientific inability to objectively define societal harm...

That's what's beautiful in science. You can define it any way you like and then measure how well policy causes the effects fulfilling the definition. You can define it as "less people addicted" or "less addicts homeless" or "less addicts without steady jobs" or "less people jailed for non violent crime" or "less violent crime". Definitions are plenty. But if you ignore any measurements by any definitions and make laws just based on your values then you are doing favor to noone.
Weird. While they're on Cloudflare Registrar now, it appears they used to be on Network Solutions.

NetSol is pretty bad in a lot of ways, but you can make it less bad with some configuration competence. I would have assumed an IT security company would have done that.
The article implies this is pretty much a worldwide problem and doesn't say what other countries are blighted, bar a strong hint at the Netherlands (also in the EU)?
The term security expert (or similar) always gives me this uncomfortable feeling. Even if they don't literally call themselves this, definitely (in the case of Fox-IT) their appearance in the media often portrays them like this to the general public.

Without getting into semantics, the general public is often left with experts' advice which makes them feel incompetent and/or scared. I guess you could blame journalism, but I don't know if you can expect them to be the whole bridge between both (that's another philosophical discussion anyway).

My beef with these 'security experts from Fox-IT say...'-pieces is they don't provide proper context. Something like technology is complex, security is complex, it is hard or impossible to know everything, to know future risks,... you get the picture. I really like it when people acknowledge they don't know everything and in this case specifically because the opposite, I think, has a very negative effect on the general public.
Nope, because that is still completely valid JSON. Sure it's kind of a shitty choice of structure, but every JSON parser on the planet will be able to read it successfully.

If you choose to layer some extra logic/rules on top of the actual parsing, that's fine - that would be entirely within the intended purpose of JSON.

Comments are FAR more likely to be used more like "preprocessor directives" to influence actual parsing rules, changing the syntax. Whereas your example conforms perfectly to the syntax, leaving parsing as-is and ensuring the logic is handled at a higher level.
In the UK you just:

Go to a polling station.
State your name and address.
They cross your name off and you get a card
Make your choices and put it in a box.

There is negligible voter fraud.
I'm thinking about building one, but with Pi Zero's and USB networking. The ClusterHAT guy wrote software to netboot the nodes off a cluster controller's SD through the USB network. With that, you don't even need an SDcard for each node.

I was thinking about also adding a LED bar with one LED for each GPU SIMD element, refreshing a couple times per second and lighting up for the units used above a certain threshold. The ARMv6 SIMD instructions don't look that encouraging.

The end result would be something that looks like a small Connection Machine.
Excel already has VBA, C add-ins, COM interop, VSTO, javascript addins, and random functionality that's only available by using functions left over from Excel 5.0 macros (before VBA). These all have different weird limitations.

What Excel absolutely does not need is for Microsoft to add another scripting language in a half-assed fashion and then get bored and stop again.
Thanks! I will keep that in mind.
and a button that says; map this image into sRGB and discard the color profile. please!!
This is a genuinely great insight. What would you say are the biggest features absent from the language right now?
>>What stops people voting multiple times or stops illegal immigrants from voting?

Let's face it. In the US the problem is getting people to vote at all -- not stopping them from voting multiple times.

But, to answer your question, when you go into a voting station you have to tell them your name. You don't get to vote anonymously, at least not in New Jersey! They look you up in the register and then you sign the register. No one there is a handwriting expert, so I assume that you could actually vote as someone else, but then that person would not be able to vote when they got to the voting station. There would be trouble.

Also, in the 99% of the voting stations not in big cities, these stations are small, local affairs. You couldn't vote multiple times because the people there would see you and notice that you had been there before. I suppose you could come back and try to vote later in the day again, but you would have to be a pretty dedicated fiend to do so.
They are presumably evaluating the benefit in ways that are wider than just teen pregnancy rates (i.e. they probably assume that other policies would cause fewer pregnancies but more teenage sex and their real goal is to reduce teenage sex).

Not that I agree with teaching abstinence to teenagers, that's daft. But I've learned over the years that simplifying an apparently rational adult's views down to a single factor "it's so obvious they must be idiots" analysis usually leads to poor analysis.
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
Let's not conflate two different things. The popular definition of bisexuality (AFAIK) is "feeling attraction to more than one gender". As an outside observer there is therefore a strong argument for putting this person in the bisexual bucket.

However, this person's identity is entirely up to them. Want to be straight man and still make out with guys occasionally? Be my guest.

Personally though, I'd still be grateful if people would tick the box for the appropriate definition when filling in surveys and official paperwork. I think bisexual people are ignored enough as it is :-)
You reminded me of Chalkdust [0]. I would love to see more publications along these lines.

[0] http://chalkdustmagazine.com
I'm the former Mendeley founder, take a look at Kopernio (http://www.Kopernio.com) to access and read PDF journal articles with one click. It's my next project I'm working on, after getting fed up with "chasing PDFs" through the internet. It's an attempt to make reading of PDF journal articles much easier, and it integrates with Google Scholar and Pubmed.

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That's speculative though isn't it? The rules could be better outside of the EU if equivalence is used (and judged from statements this week) and the EU standards would simply be the baseline.

The EU hasn't been a panacea thus far, particularly with the environment. The strongest influence they've had is with personal rights & freedoms but there have consistently been lapses when it comes to the environment. They refuse to pound down on coal in Eastern Europe/Northern Greece & overlooking Diesel-gate are just more recent ones.

The only thing that can help the environment is if green politicians get a sufficient vote in the country involved
Google Home is alright, but you definitely can't buy Chromecasts on Amazon UK. Any that you do see there are fakes, with misleadingly similar branding and design.

Which -- given that they clearly allow these obvious knock-offs -- puts paid to Amazon's initial stated reason ("avoid customer confusion") for not allowing Chromecasts on their store.
> It's the embedded folks, who tell that it is not made for this.

Really?

If so, this is just a small minority of the embedded folks.

Think of the whole "Internet of Things" security mess, combined with a large part of "Industry 4.0". That's tons of embedded devices explicitly built to be connected to the Internet.

If it were really the developers of those embedded devices who didn't want them to have Internet connection, they would never have been in charge to build those in the first place.
This app looks pretty good, but this thread got me looking into org-mode, which got me wondering if there was something similar for Atom. It turns out that there is Organized, which is pretty damn close.

In a world where there seems to be a new to do list coming out every week, I've never been able to simply replace a plaintext file. Organized gives a handy little sidebar with a todo list (simple do [TODO] blah blah) and also an agenda.

For relatively light / non-coders like me, who don't spend their day in emacs or vim, this looks to be the perfect solution.

[1] https://atom.io/packages/organized
It's not written in a Cyrillic language. It's written in English.

Nobody comes along and points out that in Spanish the "g" works differently, and it bugs them to see words with "g" in them.

It's one thing to do faux-Cyrillic and get the letters wrong. It's quite another to do something silly to a latin letter, and get complaints that it resembles a non-latin letter.
Is it really that Americans are just not racist against Australian workers , but are racist towards brown people on work visas?

Or could it be something else?

Maybe Americans don't tend to see their whole IT and Dev departments being filled with Australians, who are NOT willing to work in high COL areas on $60k year, share apartments and a car among 6 adults, and work 60 hours a week since the money they're saving won't buy them squat once home in Australia.

This is not true for Indians and others from low wage nations.

Most Americans aren't stupid. They know that businesses here use these visas to push down wages and working conditions. Considering this, I think Americans have been pretty damn friendly to most foreign workers for quite some time.

But eventually, even the most friendly of societies is going to say enough is enough.
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Ask HN: What is it like to be a crypto exchange engineer these days?
Last couple of weeks the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges seem to be gasping for air. The incredible demand is causing the exchanges (Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Bittrex,...) to be incredibly slow and unresponsive. Trade price updates are getting delayed. Withdrawals and deposits are sometimes barely working. Some of them report they're getting an average of 50k new users on a daily basis.

How are the development and support teams handling this constant stress? How to even work efficiently when everything is on fire at all times?
I sympathize, but there are two problems:

1. Events. For discovering events, there really is no good substitute to seeing where other people are going. I often get good event suggestions from Facebook through distant friends who would never invite me in real life.

2. Groups. For discussing stuff related to hobbies, people often use Facebook groups. E.g. a painting class, where people post their work, and post things like "let's visit this gallery tomorrow morning" or "there's a masterclass this weekend, who joins?".
Looks promising. How would one deal with attachments or images ? Is that possible with foldingtext?
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Well, like TFA says hopefully we won't have any new videos of above-ground nuke "tests".
The fact it looks really cool also helps with visitors / donors. Never underestimate the value of blinking lights to enhance your fund raising so you have more money to teach students.
Quantum journal is also doing a version of this:

https://quantum-journal.org/call-for-papers-good-popular-sci...
That looks really good. Already downloading to test it out.
I assure you that Europe and Australia are quite western.
Except for the US citizens who now might have a job or even a bit of wage growth after 30 years of non-stop immigration from mostly low wage countries, with the ensuing wage arbitrage used by US businesses.
You both make good points. If you make the law too strict you punish reasonable uses of the website, like scraping a few publicly available pages to help users. If you make it too lenient you permit DOS attacks.

It’s not easy to craft a law that will punish bad behaviour without blocking innovation.
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> All over Europe they have a requirement that you carry ID at all times.

This varies country by country. I would say roughly half the countries require one and the other half not (and even less require it for foreign citizens)

There is some other weirdness though. As we are in the Schengen area there is no border control and thus the police have been given the authority to look for people here illegally and thus they are allowed to ask anyone to identify themselves basically without any reason. If you can't identify yourself they can take you to the police station to verify who you are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...

And in some places (like Finland) you can vote without one if you can prove who you are in some other way (for example have a relative with you who has one and the police give out temporary free ID cards for voting). Though as the drivers license works as a valid id in Finland it usually isn't much of an issue (very few actually have the official id card thingie).

Also everyone registered to vote automatically. For early voting you can use any polling station (on the actual election day you have to use the one assigned to you)
This will effect the really high level very high skill immigrants who tend to have highly qualified partners who might well stop their partner from taking a job in the USA.

I know of one CTO who came back to UK from SV because of pressure from his wife
Is this possibly a Dropbox replacement ? do I have to host the files on my own server ?
> Is it really that Americans are just not racist against Australian workers , but are racist towards brown people on work visas?

The dogwhistle is signaling to racists exactly this: that removing the ability for spouses on H4 visas to get EAD will reduce immigration from non-white countries. So's your comment.
Did you even read the article?

> EU vote to extend the ban to all outdoor uses is expected soon.
The suggested components also include 16-port switch, monitor and XBox360 controller. I think they have added everything you might need for the full set up and maybe rounded up.
Marquez was Colombian, not Spanish.
Just because you aren't aware of the value A or the value B, that doesn't mean that A is the same as B.
Slightly off topic but 2FA was both possible and a consideration 18 years ago, just not for the majority of people.
I would very much like to hear a detailed analysis of this idea because it seems too good to be true.
> far outside what they see in school

There's so much cool mathematics out there that school kids can understand given a good enough teacher. It's really disappointing to me the crud that gets taught in school, but then i remember that a big part of this is the teachers just aren't that inspired. All it takes is one or two good teachers to really change a kids outlook on mathematics.
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Right. I listed them in the wrong order and wasn't quick enough with my edit. :)
> "please look it up"

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
> what kind of voting system doesn't require you to prove you're a citizen?

The UK, really. If you know someone's name and address, you can steal their vote pretty easily.

https://www.gov.uk/voting-in-the-uk/polling-stations

> Give your name and address to the staff inside the polling station when you arrive. You don’t have to take your poll card with you.
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Net neutrality is basically Communism. Maybe after the left apologies for bringing the world Lenin and Stalin they can start lecturing us again about their greed for free stuff from other people.
I doesn't sound crazy at all. In Australia no one shows ID, we have a voter roll. You walk up and say your name, which is found on the voter roll and you then go an vote.

The name is checked off, as it is compulsory to vote in Australia, so you get rid of all the shannigans about turnout, and actually find out what all the people want rather than a subset.
Possibly: it doesn't currently support anonymous public notes, but that would be easy to add.