skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my second PC in 1992 or 93; it was an Acer 486 DX2/50 with 4 meg and VESA video. IIRC, the video resolution could be run up to around 1280x1024 (I'm not sure of bit depth, probably 8 bit or maybe 15 bit), but with a 14 inch CRT monitor, Windows 3.1 was not very usable (everything was so tiny, and a bit blurry); I think I used to run at 1024x768 in 16 or 24 bit depth.

Monitors were crazy expensive, though - so was video RAM or cards with a "lot" of RAM. I didn't move up to a 19 inch monitor (Sony Trinitron) until years later, when they finally became affordable to me (around $500.00 USD) - probably around 1996 or 97. I stuck with that monitor for a long while, but eventually got an LCD monitor as a "hand-down" from my work.

A lot of my later equipment came from work cast-offs; sadly that hasn't happened as much as it used to (I have this perverse liking of cast-off hardware). Virtually all of my most recent stuff has been purchased new and assembled, though I do grab the occasional cast-off when and where possible.
Cute, but no. The blog post writer isn't doing it on a large scale, so isn't caught by their own definition. They're arguably not exploiting it, either (no return to them if you read it or not).
Then keep your mind off MY website! You are using YOUR mind and YOUR body and YOUR time and YOUR gun when you rob a bank too.
Security researcher sued for 'intention' to cause harm
Tough times in the US; too many attacks on rights and liberties at once. I feel for you.
The OP seems to be oblivious to the fact that most drivers rent or lease medallions and don't own them.
This highlights something incredibly important. There's a very stark age line in people using touch screens by default. I TA an intro CS course, and I've noticed the line creep. It's somewhere between those born in 1998 and 2002. They just all like touch screens better because that's what they are used to.

I haven't even graduated and am feeling like a greybeard when it comes to this area. I have to wonder if it's simply that we were trained to be mouse by default...
But what you are reading isn't your content - it was generated by someone else.
I believe he speaks of things like buzzfeed or other clickbait sites that are designed to keep you surfing and clicking, in chase of ever higher view counts.
Hell is a stylish shared office space
Flattr is another option: https://flattr.com
I doubt that anybody on HN is unfamiliar with the standard arguments for ad blocking. I find them persuasive, particularly the need to protect oneself from the security problems inherent in the third-party adtech system we have today.

I would, however, like to add one more. In the absence of government intervention to curb the worst aspects of the Internet's "surveillance capitalism" model, the moral imperative to ad block is even greater. If everyone ad blocked, it would devastate the economic value of our tracked data. Would my data mean anything to you if you couldn't use it to market to me? (Yes, I'm sure it would still have some value, but much, much less I believe)

Everybody should ad block as aggressively as they can.
Reproducible results is a skill set unto itself.
I don't talk like that. I would say write some.
Good for you. If I need to be happy every time I opt-out "when I hear about it" which is often "when I already used the software" and get USDs for every hour I didn't opt-out even though I'd have loved to opt-out right away, then I'd be one hell of a happy Richie Rich.

Having to go through settings in software when you install it, to get the software to work the way the average user wants it to, is annoying. An example could be removing a bitcoin miner from the software, or disabling ads in uTorrent, or disabling telemetry in Windows 10. Firefox as well, but at least they tell you about it right away, and they started doing it later. Not good, but less bad.

Why do software developers get away treating their customers like stupid sheep either wasting their time or getting their data? Ah well, at least in Europe we're getting GDPR.
The vast majority of currently-airing shows are available to view on-demand. They're just not always available in the format you want.

Generally, shows available to purchase on DVD are also available to purchase as season passes on for-pay services like iTunes, Xbox Video, Google Play Video, and Amazon Instant. Same goes for back episodes of current seasons. Hulu also has some shows(from a few networks) that are in-season but have fallen out of the cable service on-demand window.

The exception to this rule is sports (which are a whole different can of worms) and shows on "premium" cable networks (HBO, Showtime, etc.) which require you to pay a separate subscription to watch anything in-season before it's released as a box set or as a for-pay stream.
It's not as clear cut as that. Someone actually has to bring the antitrust suit. In the last few decades, the US government hasn't been doing as much of that as they used to. Once in the suit, then you have to argue about the "relevant market" to determine which other companies count as competitors. This question probably consumes more time in an antitrust case than any other. Then you have to argue about how much of that market the defendant controls.

At least in the US, I know of no legislation forbidding a dominant OS maker from preferring some browser. Microsoft was put under some rules like that after their antitrust suit, but that's very different from legislation forbidding all companies from having such preferences.

Europe is different. I've not studied their antitrust law as I have that of the US, but I believe they're more aggressive on both the enforcement and legislation sides. I think the average American would be better off if US antitrust policy were more aggressive than it is now.
The language works. It has a full toolchain. It has Erlang interoperability.

If the entire Elixir project and team disappeared tomorrow, I could still write the same software and deploy it to the same (decades-old) BEAM VM.
ya, something like mongodb, but embed-able into an application.
At rest encryption would not prevent a breach from happening per se. The data the breach reveals however, maybe less than accessible due to the encryption. The data could be accessed but not easily read. That is the hope anyhow.
I think it will depend on how it ends up being interpreted, and maybe we can work with legislators to provide more guidance there in the final Bill.

To me, if I am paying for a 50mpbs Internet access, and I am only getting 25 or 30, because the rest is devoted to "specialized services", then they are threatening the meaningful availability of the service I am paying for.

If however I am paying for 50 mbps, and getting 50-55 mbps, and my ISP is offering an over priced Voip package, I don't think it is interfering in a meaningful way (obviously this ignores latency, which is also an important factor, for simplicity of the example).
To be clear, I don't care if you use adblock. I just think your argument is awful.
For those that don't live in Seattle, tomorrow, on Winter Solstice, the sun will not rise more then 19° above the horizon.

You're not going to get much solar heating out of that... Unless you want to block your neighbor's solar heating array.
Regexes can't be used for parsing (e.g. the language of balanced parantheses)
Are you trying to say that the price of bitcoin crashed from ~$3000 to ~$300 immediately on August 1st 2017, and that coincidentally at the same time, a brand new asset appeared that had the same price that bitcoin did a few seconds earlier?

That's just absolutely absurd.
Please just fix iTunes for God's sake. Why are they wasting all this effort when their core apps like iTunes are among the worst apps in existence but are forced upon us?
Isn't crystal single threaded only? How do you make that runs fast when you're bound on a single thread or the underlying OS doesn't have async operations. And in the benchmark you linked Go is as fast as crystal and it was go 1.5 which is quiet old.
> set by the tv channel and the broader regulation.

Which is key. Television ad regulations aren't set – and enforced – by the dominant advertisement broker.
Regardless of promotion, ad blocking is inevitable on the web. Imagine if your TV could distinguish a sporting event from the ads and logos displayed on the field, and automatically hide (in real time) everything but the game you want to watch? Advertisers would lose their minds... but this is exactly how the web works and always has. The site delivers instructions for drawing its parts, and my browser can choose how/if to render that content. The business model has always been tenuous, and that's not my problem, because it's not even a problem, it's just the fact of the matter.
That still seems incomplete. How does e.g. the cable company know when I stop watching a piece of content through the ESPN app in this scenario, and so have that stream available for [other person on my account] to watch through the TBS app?

E.g., still seems like you have to have a central heartbeat if you're centralizing your stream limits.

And more directly, why can my parents watch more stuff if using multiple separate apps on their shared cable account than if they're both watching through their UVerse app?
And 3rdly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#"Gorilla_arm"
The article is about the EU, I'm not sure I've heard of medallions outside the US. It's certainly not the case in the UK.
TL;DR: Keeper (a company making password manager) is suing @dangoodin001 and @arstechnica et al for allegedly "false and misleading" statements about a security flaw: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/943533616667250694
> They have a video where they show 100 people watching the Magic Leap effects without wearing any googles.

Is that the whale in the gymnasium video? If so, then I think the people were virtual as well. It may have been an empty room.
Put it behind a pay wall if you think it has so much economic value.
The EU forced Microsoft to give Windows users a choice of browsers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu

Having IE preinstalled was not necessary; OEMs could have (and some did) preinstall other browsers. What happened was that Microsoft decided to base unrelated parts of Windows on IE so that their browser would have to be preinstalled (Windows would not function without it). There was top-level direction on that decision and it was not actually motivated by a specific technical need.
There should be a little "Send Feedback" link at the bottom right near the mileage/km scale. Same thing in the maps hamburger menu. You have to sign into a google account though.
I noticed the swap only because - at least in my residential neighborhood in a small city - OSM has sidewalk data on their maps, which Google did not.
I think you're being disingenuous. "bcash" has become a derogatory term and your use of it belies your bias. Do you also rail against Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinDark, Bitcoin Plus, eBitcoin, BitcoinZ, Bitcoin Red, Bitcoin Scrypt...? Or only the one that threatens Bitcoin's HODL culture?
Does anyone know if the source code to those SunOS graphic demos are available? I'd love to see and play with the suncube code especially. I tried to find it, but the best I found was an old tape archive file of SunOS 2.0 - and I have no idea how to easily restore that (plus, I doubt source code was included, and it was for m68k - so yeah, it might take some work to get it running again, if a VM exists).

EDIT: I did find out information about something called "TME" The Machine Emulator (http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/) which apparently can emulate various m68k systems to run SunOS on top of, so in theory, I might be able to get this tape archive installed and running.

But again, I doubt that the source code is included, which is what I'd really like to see...
The thesis of the article is that if bandwidth requirements are too high, then people will stop running full node wallets on their laptops, thus reducing the number of full nodes in the network.

In reality, you would have to be insane to store bitcoins with a C++ program permanently connected to and broadcasting your IP address to a p2p network.

Now, it may be that many bitcoin nodes are run by insane people who do exactly that, but if the foundation of Bitcoin's security is that its users have no understanding of computer security, then the whole thing is doomed to failure anyway.
I swear at that stupid Netflix policy at least once a week. It means I have to track down the app that has misbehaved (usually by losing its connection to the Chromecast) or the tablet that the kids started and abandoned but left running. You really need a mechanism to remotely stop one of the other streams.
To your "YellowBook" point, yes, looks like possibility.

And several Apple software like Safari 5 for Windows and iTunes already ship with macOS UI libraries ported to Windows. So in near future iOS apps may run on macOS and Windows - quasi true universal apps (not the UWP-crap)
IP based, so if your ISP doesn't provide a static IP it will show incorrect results.
What facts are there that they sold out? They added an optional 'show some ads' feature, only allowing those ads that followed a very strict and well-defined list of parameters. It's very much optional, and not hidden at all to turn it off.
Did I watch every single possible sports event for free on TV when I was a child? Of course not, but I do recall seeing quite a lot of it. I recall pro sport games in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey. I recall college games in football, basketball, and baseball. I even recall local high school games in football and baseball. All on broadcast TV before cable; for that matter after cable because we still got our local broadcast channels via cable with the exact same content. Did I get to watch high school football from three states over? Nope, I admit to that one. Did some people experience broadcast blackouts? Yes, but that was done to get the locals to actually buy tickets to go to the game. Was it the utopia of sports we have today? Nope, and I claimed no such thing.

As for today, if there's money in it then they'll do it. There wasn't as much money in sports at the time. There's money there now. If they wish to continue that revenue by exploring a free streaming model with commercials, then they will find a way. Many creators said "we'll never do that" in many things over the years, and then they eventually do when they decide to not turn the money away. The only constant is that things change.

In the end, if people don't want to contribute to the costs of entertainment via payment or ads, then that entertainment dies. But the model is there, has been there for years, and it's up to the content creators decide how they wish to move forward.
Agreed, and also encourage development of desktop counterparts to popular mobile apps - if you can keep the vast majority of your business logic and middle-layers (and largely just have to implement new UI), that's a huge load off of dev teams.

I'm thinking things like a FB Messenger desktop app - certainly a lot easier to implement.

And hopefully even move some players away from the ever-popular not-quite-native desktop apps (looking at you, Slack and Spotify) towards more actually-native UIs.
Because its not efficient, why reinventing the wheel ?
The medium brings new opportunities sure, but also its own challenges. For example, capturing convincing 3D representations of live people is really difficult. Even just motion capture in specially designed studios isn’t easy.

Besides 2D overlays, I suspect that most AR applications will use avatars instead of trying to digitize real people. An unrealistic or cartoonish avatar would also avoid any uncanny valleyness and quite likely would even be part of the appeal
It's bad for german power in the EU, but i don't think it's a tragedy for the EU. The UK paid more to the eu than what he got back, that's a fact, but the right to trade European currency is what made the City this powerfull (compared to Paris, Franckfurt, Zurich). I'm pretty sure the taxes on income from displaced trading centers will make up for the "loss" for EU budget.

Also, the skill loss for EU is almost nil, while UK will lose europeen skilled workers (and those contribute a lot to GPD).
Apparently Google Glass is seeing growing use in factories.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/51...
Announcing HackMentalHealth – Silicon Valley’s Mental Health Hackathon
My personal experience with the Vive is that there is only a content problem. The tech is really good, even though the screen could be better. It just feels like nobody managed to figure out yet what to do with it.
Why is the name Blockstream constantly popping up as a source of blame for BTC's issues?

That seems to be a theme in the last day or two by the BCH proponents.
Does anyone know why those chunky, slightly unattractive fonts were so common - even sometimes in the cases of a higher-res screen? A couple of the examples of what I'm talking about...

Here's Risc OS 3.10: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/risc-os-3.10.png

It's an older system with a relatively row resolution but each letter looks (to me) to be stretched vertically (or squeezed horizontally) - if you look at the elements on the windows (like the X or the border on the scroll-bars) you can see that this isn't simply a case of not having enough pixels available

This Amiga Workbench 3.5 one is another nice example: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/workbench-3.5-retina...

The font seems really chunky to me and the environment clearly supports "better" (very subjective, I know)

I missed this era by a few years - maybe someone can shed some light on whether the window systems themselves were impressive enough on their own, or perhaps people found them more familiar (like they stuck around after moving from command-line to GUI)?

I get that I'm coming from an age where we have extremely high dpi screens and font anti-aliasing etc, but I've also worked with 5x7 and even 3x7 fonts (see http://blog.mclemon.io/arduino-5x8-iso-8859-2-font and http://blog.mclemon.io/hacking-a-tiny-new-font-for-the-ssd13...) and the systems above looked like they could support better than this.
> The hashtags on their twitter description almost seem like satire.

Yeah. Screaming in ALL CAPS too.

> #DIGITALBUSINESSDEVELOPMENT #MULTIMEDIAPRODUCTION #CROWDFUNDING #CONSULTING #DETROIT #ENGAGEMENT #NEWYORK #CHICAGO

And their twitter background. Hipster all the way.
I wish I had a need for this right now. I used 1.7 to write my thesis and loved it.
I'm not on this list so something is clearly wrong.
The EU doesn't _need_ the UK, but the UK very much needs the EU and it'll have to abide by the same regulations they would as members if they want to trade with anyone who currently trades with the EU anyway. You'll be getting the same regulations without any of the benefits of membership.
I think it would be worth it if they were not already looking working on BFR.

Falcon Heavy can fly for a couple of years now and it can handle current demands.

They will open up to next level capability with a next level vehicle.
Well suited? Zip?

I’ve tested some hacks to get a file below email server file size limitations. Unzipping an excel file, then tarballing it into a .tar.xz archive can cut the size by 30%, say. The only issue is that the receiver might not know what on earth to do with it!
Well, it lets me know I have to remind my users that attempting to download porn on the company network is NOT ok. I only wish I could put the title of the video in the all-company email. Even the title is NSFW. But it would scare whoever did it.
Scale isn't truly relevant.. a tiny ad network is less bad than a large one? And I'd argue him checking the number of views on his post and chasing higher numbers is exploiting my attention.
Coffee shop? I can't imagine there are very many people willing to wear that in public. That may say something bad about those people, but I believe it to be true.
This is probably going to be focused on lower performance apps but for those talking about video editors it may be important to point out that though the iPad is insanely powerful, it's not as strong at doing long term high performance tasks. Not like a laptop anyways.
Ikea has beautiful perfect renders. This Magic Leap render is pretty horrendous.
Is the author (Justin O'Beirne) really Apple's Head of Cartography?

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/justin-o-beirne
IIRC one data breach method back in the old days was "employee leaves backup tape someplace". Encryption-at-rest does a good job in that scenario.

Beyond that, seems like most of the physical-access compromises still involve at least some interaction with the software - so they would (in principle) leave traces and/or be detected by IDS. Walking up to a server and physically removing a hot-swap drive doesn't, so encryption at rest ensures that that attack won't work.
Ask HN: Slow ML Library Compilation Time
Did anyone notice that it is extremely slow to compile Tensorflow from source? It takes multiple tens of minutes for me to compile from source on a decently configured server machine and virtually forever on my Macbook Pro. Results are similar/on the same order of magnitude for Caffe2. Is it just me or is it the same for everyone else? Is there any ways around it?
No I think the Palm Pilot did that.
I was addressing the 4 issues raised by the parent, none of which were price fluctuation.
Firefox Is Now on Amazon Fire TV
Makes me think of the littering ads from the 70s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful). It focused on how littering was bad, but was led by many of the companies producing the stuff that was the litter. That is instead of them attempting to reduce the production of waste the ethical blame was moved people using their product.

It's not a perfect comparison because litter still is bad and I don't think ads always have to be. However it is similar in that we generally believe the production of ads is the default therefore blocking ads is unethical. As opposed to giving users alternate methods of funding your work. (Feels like these are popping up more so maybe ad blockers are making a small difference.)
Ok, then please read the article. People are discussing this tech as if it works like an Oculus or Hololens, but it doesn't.
They had months to form a response. Instead they cut off communication.
I’d differentiate between trying to deliver value vs trying to extract value. Additionally, I’d differentiate between delivering information (like this article) and direct attempts at appealing to the “reptilian brain” and trying to bypass rational analysis. The latter, in each case, gets on shakier ethical ground, in my opinion.
Yea I had uber driver tell me he cleared 100k maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Back then uber only took a 15% i think. They also paid crazy incentives to lure drives. Like earn 1-2k for x amount of rides in a certain period. Now that they have a sufficient amount of drivers they drastically cut the incentives. Google the protests in India by their drivers after incentive pay was cut. I think most drivers were making more from incentives than fares.