skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop the "Awesome" and "Thanks" replies, they're getting you down-votes.

HN is a bit different to reddit, replies should advance discussions or ask questions at least vaguely on topic. Saying you're adding it to your Chrome read me later will be down voted by other users.

If you like something, just upvote it, no need to say you like it.
Yes, bc. Obviously it's been a while since I used it!
Tons of people leave banks because of old website designs. Old websites typically don't support newer technologies on the backend because they're entirely outdated. Just because something worked when it was developed doesn't it mean it stands the test of time and, if customers can't access new features, they won't use that bank.
I like the volatility :/ I made a couple hundred bucks of lint money yesterday playing the dip. Paid for my dogs' food for the month and a nice night out with my wife and her mother. Even though I have some skin in crypto, at this point I personally don't really care whether it keeps going up or crashes since I've already made back what I put in. But gaming volatility is a nice way to pass the evening...
Most of the money you pay into your cable company goes to the broadcasters and not the cable company. Thats why cable companies have so many strange fee's. Thats about the only way they can make profits.
-Not saying its right, or that I support their model. Nor do I agree with how much profits they are garnering off people with no choice in most places.
Well, if you work for a financial services company, even if you work in a back office sort of environment like IT -- hell, even if you're a secretary or a network engineer -- you're disallowed from having private brokerage accounts that aren't monitored by the firm.

I've worked in several investment firms and banks, and in all cases I had to use a special employee trading account, often at higher cost btw. What happens on such systems are brownouts / blackouts of transactions for certain stocks. It happened to me more than once in the past that, even if I already have a position, I was barred from even selling the security since it was on one of the several lists that they keep. Some of these lists are private, and they won't tell you when it's coming off the list. That's probably part of the protection against insider knowledge, too.

Like another commenter said, these coin outlets have a lot more to re-live in terms of wheels that have been invented long ago. Someone talked about currency itself, and Roman experiments, but similar lessons will need to be learned with regards to insider trading, exchanges, securities markets and so forth.
Nope, sorry. The backing LCD will be out of focus. The whole AR thing is a lot of technology that sounds simple, but ends up being really really hard in practice.
Well, the dinner metaphor breaks down here. It's almost certain that the access to the EU workforce and trade markets have benefited the UK much more than the pocket change it pays into the EU; but it's hard to put an exact number on those things.
How about "usefully benefits"? where "usefully" is defined as improved quality of life, and/or most able to apply that to improving the economy.
Xi Jinping never practiced as a chemical engineer, however, being an anointed princeling destined for officialdom (and of course, he had to delay his education because of the CR). Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin are better examples, actually having worked as engineers for a number of years before becoming politicians.
and how does your jab advance that?
They're actually represented just about right if the screenshot collection goal is to show changes throughout time. There's screenshots of Windows 2.1, 3.0 and NT 4.0. Windows from 95 to 2000 kept the exact same look. There's absolutely no point in having a screenshot of each iteration in between. There's just not enough visual and conceptual UI change to really make it worth it having shots of 95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000. A shot of any of these will speak for the entire timeframe.

Compare this shot of Windows 2000 to the one of NT4 they feature on their page :

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/win2000ad...

See any major change? right.

Windows XP is missing but in a way it might not count as retro enough because it has lived and been with us for far, far longer than most OS usually do.
No, it's you who has said something wrong. You're talking as if this device has no "aesthetics". As if skilled industrial designers didn't produce a design. The way you're talking raises doubts about your qualifications. But I'm going to put that aside for now.

Plenty of people thought the Walkman was futuristic because they were blown away by what it could do in that package. Maybe some of the more insecure people didn't start using them until it became sufficiently safe to be seen with one. But we're very lucky that in mankind there will be those one or two people who don't care what you think because you obviously can't see what they can see.
Didn't know about loc or this thing, thanks for bringing it up.
Note that this article was published on Nov 9th. That's old on the timescale relevant to this topic.
In my opinion, the new Magic Leap seems to do exactly what Microsoft Hololens could do two years ago. The only advantage they could have is in the UI, which MS 100% failed at, and in content availability which was really poor for MS as well.

This thing could be huge, if the first people who try it on find an abundance of interactive experiences, so much that they rave about it, and make everyone else want one. Best yet, if this all happens in public spaces.

Again, personal experience with MS lens is the basis for this, but having played with it, I am not overly optimistic here. This would be interesting.
> Mozilla is in its familiar position of only existing because Goliath gives back a small fraction of its tracking/advertising earnings in exchange for sending users its way. The exact opposite on non-moneyed interests.

I respect this position and admit that it's relevant. However, under this hypothetical, they may not need such sponsorship anymore, and they're clearly currently taking actions that will help protect users from it.

IMO this is only a serious issue if you believe that Mozilla's survival is predicated upon the continued flow of search sponsorship dollars. While their budgets may change and they may come out the end looking much different, I don't think that Mozilla or a spiritual successor serving substantially the same purpose (like OpenSolaris -> illumos) will cease to exist, no matter what Google et al do to them.

>What's to gain for microsoft by switching to firefox ?

Apple and Microsoft's interest would be defensive, blocking Google's dominance over the browser platform. They'd be interested in this because Google is currently a serious threat to both companies' major lines of business.

At present, with a fragmented competitive landscape, it's unlikely anyone will be able to stand up to Chrome. And however good or bad we believe Google or Chrome are, it's never good to lack a peer that can keep the company accountable (that is, monopolies are bad).

> Chance are this is not happening either.

I agree completely, I don't think this is a likely scenario. I just think it's an interesting and positive one.
Great, I’m fine with that. While we’re at it can taxpayers stop paying for stadiums?
Depends in some countries gold is absolutely a medium of exchange and I can convert say 10 mill in gold etf's to $ or £ in a few seconds
I think your comment illustrates why they should stick to games, but I'm not quite sure how to say it. It has something to do with less pressure, or reducing the requirements or feature creep.

It also has to do with enterprise products suck.
And since no insurance provider enjoys compensating millions of people, it would be very likely they would fiercely fight those responsible for the leak.
Brexit is bad for the UK in the short term, but if the EU continues to destabilize and collapse, they could do far better.

EU sells the single market at the cost of sovereignty, UK decided to go shop around.
Spotify design and ui is so hopelessly bad that I switched to Google play. I want a music player not an integrated whatever social piece of crap that sometimes, if I am lucky, plays music.
Third party ad networks are one of the biggest vectors for exploit kits and malware on the Internet. That alone is a good enough reason to block any and all adverts, IMO.
Details. So for starters, the EU currently regulates a lot of what may be sold as food, regulations that just no longer apply if UK leaves. So they have to go through all the EU regulations first just to determine which are necessary to keep safe food in British supermarkets.

Then you get the international problems directly connected to that, what can you import into Britain and at which tariffs. Plus, how do you cooperate between air traffic control across the channel and across the Irish sea. (While we are at it, is British Airways allowed to fly over France, without EU law?)

And that is just the things Britain has to figure out on their own. Ireland, France and the rest of the EU have interest in British tariffs and if Britain sets tariffs unilaterally they will respond in kind, a situation sometimes known as trade war.

So yes, in principle Britain could just state a position on terms of trade, a hard Brexit, but that would mean that the EU responds in kind. Neither the EU nor Britain wants to do that, but the thing is the EU is something like 10 times as big as Britain and so the EU can very comfortably wait for Britain, because Brexit only affects something less than 10% of the EU trade, not over half of all trade as for Britain.
Similar to the other "vassal states" such as Norway and Switzerland.

I'm not sure that the debate here is very sensible or measured.

I think that Brexit is a tragedy, and dearly hope it doesn't actually happen. That is my opinion. But it seems difficult if not impossible to have a reasoned argument about any aspect of it; people are entrenched in their corners.
> Normally, in this time period, that is, from P64 onward, we'd be evaluating the landing site and starting LPD activity. However, the concern here was not with the landing area we were going into, but rather whether we could continue at all. Consequently, our attention was directed toward clearing the program alarms, keeping the machine flying, and assuring ourselves that control was adequate to continue without requiring an abort. Most of our attention was directed inside the cockpit during this time period and in my view this would account for our inability to study the landing site and final landing location during final descent[14].

> Nevertheless, Armstrong had time to notice that the LPD indicated "we were landing just short of a large rocky crater with very large rocks covering a high percentage of the surface"[15]....

This guy is pretty good!
Buy shares in NFL and NBA teams and earn winning “dividends”
> If by "multi-winner" you mean multimember districts, that's still very susceptible to gerrymandering.

No, it's not. With any proportional system (including STV), the more members per district, the less distortion is theoretically possible through differences in how district lines are drawn.
Those are valid points, especially your point about fidelity, current tech is good enough for gaming and apparently not good enough for work (or we haven't figured out how to use it right). So they can sell it for that right now.

But this and other comments are vastly underestimating the resources that people would be willing to exchange to make their work better. For what I described, a "reasonable" price point could easily be around $10,000. Apple is selling their new iMac at a starting price of $5,000 and there is nothing particularly revolutionary about it, it's an upgrade of what is already available. When you are spending all day using it, and it is the tool you use to make your money, it is worth a lot.
It was a stupid risk, they said as much. Why are you insisting on self-flagellation?

They are the victims here (assuming they are telling the truth).

I don't blame people for being taken advantage of by a conman. I might advise them not to be so trusting, but I don't go around demanding they publicly take full responsibility for being the victim of a scam.
He's doing expectation management. If he thought it would fail they wouldn't fly.
"Rendering black" is an unsolved problem technically.

There are a few approaches. One is selectively blocking incoming light at the lens, however due to the nature of light because the distance between the lens and the eye that would allow for the right per pixel degree specificity is relatively large, you would get bleeding from the other incident light and the "black" would look at best fuzzy.

The other way to do it is to create a "standing wave" so to speak on the retina, and again that requires an almost photon control level of the display.

Neither of which I am confident ML has demonstrated effectively.
Easy. A quick google and couple of clicks led me to https://github.com/adblockplus/.
> it's also a TRAGEDY for the EU.

Lol, this is something only the British press peddles.

Across Europe the overwhelming feeling, for people without UK interests, is of relief. Finally they got rid of a recalcitrant member, the main opponent to "ever closer union" projects, the leader of the free-trade gang that is now in ruins (also embodied in the attacks on Ireland and Luxembourg tax affairs, the harshness on Poland and Hungary and so on), an annoying magnet to EU money flows and institutions, one of the main conduit for tax evasion across the Union... And all this without having to concede on anything, because Brits just did it all themselves!

The net difference in contributions to the EU budget is minor, even without an agreement it would be easily absorbed. The insistence on the principle of paying for the agreed budget was just because they could. In fact, haggling on that was much shorter than on things like ECJ role and Irish border, which are not really settled yet. Nobody really cared about the money.

> This is generally not talked about

Guess why? Because it's not really the case.
It's the party of “The party of small businesses”™ not the party of small businesses. It's been a trademark in the same way McDonalds uses "Grade A"™ beef.
This one was off by a tremendous amount for me. From any user expectations POV, the NYT calculator didn’t allow as many inputs, which forced me to accept that it would be ballpark approximation at best. However, the visuals gave me a good idea of which variables (income, itemized deductions) would push me closer to seeing a decrease vs increase in my tax bill.
Yes, but if you showed up in Tax Court with a chunk of gold, you would risk being held in contempt.
Big tech finally awakened to the horror of its own inventions
There are laws that impact securities.

And it's not a leap to suggest that these cryptocurrencies are going to be treated like securities by regulatory bodies. If the SEC argues successfully (which they seem to be leaning towards) that they're securities, a slew of regulations will begin to apply.

Simply put, you don't need a law that's SPECIFIC to cryptocurrencies in 2017.
So what was the problem? No price transparency for the customers at the airport, no vetting of the drivers, and no reputation market for the drivers.

All of these are/could be/would have been solved by mandating the use of an app. The City of Amsterdam should have made an app, drivers register, that keeps track of their fares and manages supply-demand surges.

Economically it's a race to the bottom unless there's a constrained supply. Especially when [not if] self driving cars start operating as taxis.

If Amsterdam wants to treat taxis as a public good (to get reliable night transport for example), then it can regulate it as such, pay some money for drivers (or otherwise compensate them) to be available at night if natural demand is (or would be) too low.

Just out of curiosity, what were the requirements that got lifted?
Solar doesn’t work that well in northern China during the winter because there is hardly any sun. Even discounting the pollution, the area would be mostly foggy and overcast, it would be like trying to use solar in Seattle.

An apartment complex I lived in had solar hot water and I absolutely hated it, I could never take a “hot” shower during Beijing’s cold winter, just a luke warm one.
If there is another side to the story, whats taking so long to tell it?

And if they have a good explanation, why have they been blocking people on twitter for asking for it?
Magic Leap claims to be able to occlude real-world objects with their AR, not just semi-transparent "hologram" overlays. This is something I'd want to see for myself, but here's what Brian Crecente at Rolling Stone wrote about it:

> Miller wanted to show me one other neat trick. He walked to the far end of the large room and asked me to launch Gimble. The robot obediently appeared in the distance, floating next to Miller. Miller then walked into the same space as the robot and promptly disappeared. Well, mostly disappeared, I could still see his legs jutting out from the bottom of the robot.

> My first reaction was, “Of course that’s what happens.” But then I realized I was seeing a fictional thing created by Magic Leap technology completely obscure a real-world human being. My eyes were seeing two things existing in the same place and had decided that the creation, not the engineer, was the real thing and simply ignored Miller, at least that’s how Abovitz later explained it to me.

If they really have that working, it's a huge advantage over systems like HoloLens.

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
The BBC is an excellent example of doing it wrong, and giving me the choice between nothing, and piracy.
>Really it smells like a smear campaign to make a bunch of immigrants driving cars 12 hours a day the bad guys and to make the 60 billion dollar corporate titan the underdog.

The taxi industry has been running its own smear campaign for the last 50 years by offering completely terrible service in the majority of the US.

From the consumer perspective, Uber/Lyft are the only real options for reliable taxi service outside of a few really dense urban areas. The status quo before was calling a number, hoping they didn't hang up or scoff at the route, waiting 20-120 minutes, getting scammed by taking an inefficient route, and then getting lied to about the credit card machine not working. Oh, and then your only recourse being a report to a local taxi authority which is completely unreasonable if you are traveling due to the time effort involved.
Like Winrar
Me too! I really hope NASA just abandons their plans for a heavy launch system to get to the moon and mars. Use a mix of SpaceX F9 Heavy, Delta IV Heavy, and Ariane 5.
I see this is a popular wish, and I'm afraid it's frustratingly unimaginative.

Finally we have a medium that can open up entirely new ways of doing things with computers, yet so many people just wish it could replicate the old ways.

Same thing happened when the first display computers were made to emulate paper-based terminals instead of exploring what's possible on a graphical display. We still haven't fully recovered from that.

Oh the pink plane.
One of my favorite discoveries of the past few months is OpenCollective — which is basically like Patreon for open source software and other semi-informal techie projects: https://opencollective.com

They let any open source project with at least 100 stars on GitHub join under their umbrella where they will act as a host organization so that you can start collecting donations (both one-off and recurring) and paying expenses without the headache of setting up a 501(c)(3) and a formal structure. You just add a bunch of trusted admins and you can manage expenses and invoices. Open Collective holds the money for you.

They’re built on open source code themselves and I’ve found then to be very responsive to newbie questions in their open Slack channel.
I used ABP until very recently; I was skeptical of the acceptable ads program but it has not really been abused and anyone could opt out at any time. The point of ad blockers was not to actually block every ad, it was to keep the web sane and stop the trend toward increasingly intrusive advertising. ABP accomplished that goal even with the acceptable ads program.
Is that Facebook account affiliated with Y Combinator and Hacker News?
Wow thanks! That looks very similar to what I was thinking, I will check that out.
There are one and a quarter F-1 engines from a Saturn V at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in DC, with a bunch of mirrors to fake the rest of the engines: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/rocket-engine-.... Seeing that was really impressive, the entire thing must be even better :)
FH is (1) not big enough for economic Mars flights, and (2) cannot be fully reusable because it can't support a large enough upper stage.
I quite like the no-frills approach of the originally posted calculator. It's kind of refreshing.
There are specific timing issues, specific spikes. Broad-based knowledge doesn't cause super spikes of pump (and possibly dump).
It's less about what the words in the document say and more about the concept of offering technical support to your business class users.

(Obviously you want that agreement in writing, but start by just getting conversations with users who would be qualified for this. Anybof your users with 50+ employees could be good candidates.)
> "They can, but then travel and trade becomes ~illegal between the UK and pretty much everyone else"

That's bullshit. WTO trade rules would still apply if the UK left the EU without a deal, and freedom to come and go outside the EU could still remain unchanged regardless of what Brussels wants to impose.
Their explanation was their marketing was already starting, they didn't have time to resolve the bank account issues.
Do solar hot water heaters work when it isn't sunny?
I managed to brick Thinkpad X230, flashing BIOS update that came via TVSU. Now, that's an achievement :/
You dying at mid 30s instead of living until your 80s and 90s is also a natural thing. It's not desirable just because it's natural.

But putting in practical terms of "what do I have to gain?", let me say this: every species is carrying unique genetic information that we can learn and employ to our advantages. Maybe a particular species doesn't have anything we can use right now, but might have in the future. Letting it be extinct mean we lose that information forever.

Genetic information is like nature's source code. Now imagine we can't write code, we can just use what's already out there. Every time a species dies, it's source code forever lost.

Like... plants in the Amazon forest. A lot of them served as the material for medicine. We used their "source code" to fight diseases, and fix human problems. And we are losing genetic source code we never even had time to analyze yet!

There are animals that can kind of rejuvenate, and they never die of old age. Imagine being able to "steal" their code and use it to make our health better! If they go extinct, we lost that source code. Forever.

There's no going back, no un-extinction. And we can't go to other planets to analyze their animals, since we haven't found alien life yet. All we have is the life that is available, and we're getting rid ot that life fast.
The cause and effect is backwards here. Player salaries haven't driven up the cost of broadcasting. Being able to make money from broadcasts has driven up player salaries. And the biggest change was the move to cable subscriber fees for dedicated sports networks in addition to pure ad-revenue supported OTA broadcasts (with the NFL being a bit of an exception, as the infrequency of the games and the overlapping times makes its OTA broadcasts much more valuable than other leagues').

The bigger a subscriber fee you can charge as a cable channel -> the more you can bid on the rights for the local team -> the more the team receives -> the more the team can bid on players.