skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, genuinely novel -- really interested to see where this goes:

A primary design principle at Dynamicland is that all running code must be visible, physically printed on paper. Thus whenever a program is running, its source code is right there for anybody to see and modify. Likewise the operating system itself is implemented as pages of code, and members of the community constantly modify and improve it.

That said, the pages of code physically in Dynamicland are not in a git repository. The community organizes code spatially — laying it out on tables and walls, storing it in folders, binders, and bookshelves.

https://dynamicland.org/faq/
> The main schools of thought are that Jesus is unique to Earth

Citation needed.

The Roman Catholic Church (certainly a "main school of thought") is on record as saying it's certainly possible that Jesus visited other planets, if there is life on those planets.

The Catholic Church's astronomers, philosophers, and theologians have been on the record for more than half a century as saying that intelligent life on other planets is not heretical.

But the sort of people who learn everything they know about religion from Family Guy continue to perpetuate long-dead stereotypes on the internet.

Also, the fact that you use the phrase "the church" to describe all of Christianity shows your information level about religion is pretty low.
It's still a research project and not a production system:

"We manually analyze the error modes of our system on the custom 100-sentence test set from Appendix E of [11]. Within the audio generated from those sentences, 0 contained repeated words, 6 contained mispronunciations, 1 contained skipped words, and 23 were subjectively decided to contain unnatural prosody, such as emphasis on the wrong syllables or words, or unnatural pitch. In one case, the longest sentence, end-point prediction failed."
Yes, a global public database would be useful. And you could put it in a Merkel tree. But a blockchain as most people know it includes the nonce that allows for the POW mechanism.

If the blockchain was just the transaction ledger, great. But it’s not.
Considering that it was done on a shoestring budget, it isn't that bad.
I think David Bowie said it best -- the only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal.

http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/726892307/david-bowie-tas...
Finally! I hope they start moving forward again.

How about, once all the maintenance is done,
- Exchange support
- Native Calendar with Exchange and CalDAV support
- Native Contacts with Exchange and CardDAV support

(I'm currently using Evolution, and it mostly works. But elegant or polished it is not.)
I love the description of Dynamicland as “Hypercard in the World”[1].

[1] From the Laser Socks write-up — a great example of a game that came out of Dynamicland: http://glench.com/LaserSocks/
That won't cut it for mobile
The whole idea that Hunter-Gatherer was a superior lifestyle seems at odds with the fact that agriculture won. Everywhere people had the choice between what they were doing before and agriculture they either chose agriculture or they died out.

At the very least it seems less dangerous to concentrate your food reserves in a small area that you can defend instead of having to forage into the territory of dangerous predators regularly. Plus it reduces conflicts with neighbors when you can survive on a much smaller land area. You also have a lot more control over how many calories you will be able to extract from the land and plan accordingly, unlike HG societies that go through feast and famine cycles depending on a large number of environmental factors.
Interesting approach. I hope more browser vendors will adopt it. It comes with an additional advantage: if a website still needs to function when tracking domains are delayed a second or so, they likely will function too with said domain completely disabled (e.g. using extensions). Sounds like a win from a user perspective.
I find Japan's car buying culture very interesting. Dealership services in Japan are much more of a concierge service, where the dealer brings the car you are interested in right to your house, and buyers generally have an ongoing relationship with the sales staff and others at the dealership.
Yeah if you don't count the massive number of Middle Easterners in Detroit or Asians in Madison or the Somalians in Minneapolis or the Croatians in Kansas City or Greeks in Chicago and Detroit or the large Hispanic population in almost every city in the Midwest.

Ignoring the actual, real world diversity, yep, "both black and whites" is accurate.

Racism is well and alive here on HN, it seems.
Hardly. Even if it is big, it is just one company. A country's economic policy cannot be based on expecting perfect performance from one company. Saying it is more significant than abandoning the possibility of own monetary policy sounds like full-scale whataboutism.
For most people, yes, I'd agree. For me personally, not really. I grasp abstractions and formal stuff almost instantly, but it takes a lot of grappling with the text for me to come to terms with continental philosophy. Like, I had zero trouble with Kant's Critique, but I had to read Discipline and Punish 3 times before I felt like I "got it".

NOTE: This doesn't mean I disparage continental philosophy, just noting that the discursive/narrative mode is not intuitive for everyone.
Sure, but there are plenty of places like that in California as well. Drive a couple hours north of SF or east of Contra Costa or south of LA and you run into similar cultures. CA is the state that created Reagan, after all. San Diego might be the most conservative big city in the nation, albeit in a different type of conservatism.

The Midwest might be generally more conservative, but tech companies are going to started in cities like Columbus, not the rural area.
I think businesses even prefer to lease with a support contract because its easier to account for the steady cost. But as an individual, I absolutley loath leasing.
WOW, I used to use Thunderbird until around 2010 when I moved to more modern clients, it's so sad to see that they're still stuck in 2010 in terms of design.
Right, as I said above, doesn't give you any sense of what other engineers are the company are like. Nothing wrong with algorithmic coding interviews, but it should be coupled with human interaction.
My own personal vainglorious idea about the opportunity missed with the web is much more radical yet.

Semantic markup (remember, TBL originally designed HTML this way) failed already once for a reason. Markup language was a bad choice to begin with.

Instead of an SGML-derived markup, we should have had a set of primitive s-expressions that were supported in a standard allowing people to extend the behavior of browsers by implementing renderers based on any kind of s-expression. Wanna extend your browser? Just implement a renderer. Wanna distribute a renderer? Fine; the interface of renderers are part of the standard. You can distribute the renderer along with your page.

There would never have been JS to begin with: that gets handled right out of the box with s-expressions.
My husband is currently holding an H1B visa, and we are planning to start our green card application process, wondering how long does it usually take?

Also, I'm holding an H4 visa, hoping to work in the States legally, so on which stage of green card applying process, I could start my I765 Form application, and how long does it usually take?
Your page is hitting http://localhost:8545/ .
And in fact they cited Pai in the article to support their position..
Bell, Cineplex, Rogers and Shaw are trying to end net neutrality in Canada
"The only ideas I'm afraid of letting people say are the ones that I think may be true and that I don't like."
- Sam Altman
The endless amount of content versus the lack of time for it has made me incredibly selective about entertainment. It has to be extremely good, super easy to access and have an insane low price. Streaming services do not qualify... yet.
hm they’re fine if that monopoly is verizon
I would dare say the majority of unsolved problems are solvable by an individual with a unique perspective and set of skills. Having those people find those problems seems like a case of serendipity more often than not.
You can do EWS very well through a plugin called ExQuilla. You have to pay some small fee for a license, but you can try it for free. Otherwise, you can go through DavMail, but it's more of a hassle.
Have you found any viable alternatives to Kong?
Hi Peter,

Graduating STEM master's student going into tech firm.

You mentioned in another comment how the H1B lottery leads to ~30% chance of getting selected each year. Do you have an estimate for candidates with advanced degrees (master's, specifically)?

Also, there seem to be a lot of potential changes to the whole OPT -> H1B -> ... path. Some comments, like this one [1] from an immigration attorney, suggest the STEM extension might disappear (so fewer shots at the lottery), but also suggest petitions for highly paid workers might be given priority. Do you feel positive about the chances of highly paid workers to obtain H1Bs in the coming years?

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/potential-changes-high-skille...
Some Already Do, But Eating Cactus May Become Mainstream Under Global Pressures.

Not perfect, but it took me 10 seconds, and of course, is less inviting to clicks.
They don’t use a Merkel tree. Where did you get that information from?
If you told me in 1990 that we'd have the TSA invading our privacy at airports, I would have laughed at you.

I guess I don't see this plan as any different.
Before I moved to Minnesota (from Europe)I was very skeptical about this. But my first trip to BWCA and North Shore, changed all that. Crystal clear lakes, beautiful forests and prairies changed me for ever. If you are into bicycling, Minnesota has one of the most robust biking trail systems.

Minnesota seems to be almost Scandinavian in some aspects and I do find it absolutely beautiful.
I’m with you that Cash has the benefits of anonymity and no fees. However, it’s also inconvenient, specially when you are traveling. Digital transactions are also faster. — On a side note, that’s why I’m, besides all the hype, a strong believer of cryptocurrencies.
Yes! Elon!
Thanks for the reply.

Personally I've travelled to the US many times over the last 9 years from the UK (I don't want to move there, but have been happy to travel), but have done so less frequently since Trump was elected. No particular reason, it just feels a bit "dirty".
This piece is clearly written by someone, who as no glue about the grid. (or wants to make a buzz out of nothing special)

Battery power is always faster then generator power. That is the reason why every data center has battery backup for immediate reaction and generator power for the longtime backup. Normally, the battery size is designed that the minimum time is at least twice as long as to start the generator.

Exactly that has happened with the grid. It is also not related to some contracting. Because the whole grid is connected. So the battery will always kick in, it does not matter where it is located.

Actually synchronizing the grid is tough task. A friend and colleague from my University started in this business after he made his Master Thesis tens of years ago.

By monitoring the frequency of the grid you know if there is too much energy produced (too less load, frequency to high) or vice versa. Everybody basically can do this from home. There are some maker projects and personal projects who do that.
I remember visiting clients somewhere south of Reno in some office park in the spring time. They had an awesome conference room with windows which overlooked some hills. It was this amazing verdant green color.
White is a broad category, yet I don't see the outcry there.
>hampered by half the range of an I.C.E.

Not always the case. There's plenty of petrol powered cars that have horrible range. Thing with electric cars is they'd be plugged in when parked (ie overnight). ~300 miles on electric might not sound like much, but do normal people drive 300 miles every day? nope. If their car is fully charged every morning they should never run out of battery power. Long trips, yeah it's a problem that'll need to be fixed but really not all that different from being stranded in the middle of no where miles from the nearest station. Likely roadside assistance will have portable chargers or just simply tow you to the nearest charger.
The Model S is heavy because of the battery.

Finish, comfort handling and in many other ways it’s much lower than the high end series 3/5 yet alone 7.

BMW just like Benz has a big overlap between its series.

The model S is an amazing car but it’s handling is subpar mostly due to its weight and it’s furnishing is a joke compared to even entry level luxury sedans.
Not racism- geographical chauvinism, or elitism. It's distressing such beliefs emanating from HN even as we get bombarded with stories of SV's bubble culture. And I say that as a Bay Area native.
There's another explanation, that they have the capacity to drive price of entry up. That they have enough money saved that they can undercut their competitors and snuff them out before they can gain any market share. So this is true whether they are efficient or not.

However I'd argue the damning blow is that centralization makes efficient but fragile structures. Its why everyone hates a monolithic codebase.
Wow, yeah, I'd say you dodged a bullet then! That's pretty dystopian.
Neutrino: Releasing v8
I'm going to write in good faith, I hope to be read as such.

Firstly, you have not responded at all to my comment on your comment. A sensible and worthwhile discussion may come out of addressing those observations.

Secondly, crimes are in the eye of the judge, but as the accused perpetrator holding my own council, referring to your role in Google and your legal training was a kind of awe. I am a game theorist (the bridge between my applied mathematics and macroeconomics careers) and so I am well aware of the importance of signalling and posturing. I fully expect that a lawyer, schooled and practiced in the manner of approaching a debate, is equally attuned to how what is said and what is not said. The game theorist in me saw something closely resembling strategic pre-positioning, and entirely without second aims, I called it out for what it looked like. That is not character assassination (in my eyes) but just a tiny bit of critical reading of your prose.

If you really want your employer to be left out of this, you can signal that to us all by removing any references to Google on your (already impressive) profile. Or perhaps leave the reference to Google but also ad something to the effect of “leave my employer out of this".

Anyway, returning to the main argument: I doubt any internet behemoth can afford to pull out of the EU and lose access to 740 million affluent consumers because they'd instantly lose revenue that would ruin their bottom line while also giving local European companies a neo terra nullis to develop their products experimenting on their captive audience until they are ready to take the fight back to the behemoths’ home turf.

The internet blue-chips hate being excluded from anywhere because whenever they are excluded from somewhere their revenue drops and some new competitor starts to simmer.
Reminds me of the million dollar homepage of 10 years ago: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
>30k physical servers. 512GB to 1TB ram each.

You running an AWS data center?
Professional orchestras can play the standards without a conductor and effectively often do in those cases where the conductor is borderline incompetent. I've sung Beethoven 9 for example. The "conductor" (one of the several hundred assistants of Karajan...) bought a good orchestra from prague. He did the whole piece in ones. Nobody watched him. The orchestra members know this piece well and played without him.

Often you'll find conductors where you can't read anything: "Now where's the 1? Well, last bar he did it with his wrist, now he's doing it with the tip of the stick, o wait,now he's swimming (unclear speed) again. Ok, now he's changing his frame of conducting (the area in which a conductor does his movement). Wait, what? Now he's giving the one behind his back. How am I supposed to ... Screw him. I'll just listen to the music and start a little early (you hear the orchestra with delay, as you often only get the reflection from the audience's walls).

Edit: We use the rehearsals to get to know a new conductor and to decide when to actively not look at him and get our marks from someplace else. Often you'll get so confused that it's better to "just do it, it'll be ok."

Also I have seen musicians in the orchestra conducting their colleagues in difficult parts where the "masterchief" wasn't any good. We do the same on stage in those cases.
HTC Vive Standalone VR headset is demonstrated
>If you are profitable... you can raise venture capital in the Midwest

This is the number one biggest difference between Midwest startups and SV startups. Even Basecamp said it, Midwest startups have to prove their profitability on day one before any VC will pay any serious attention. Whereas in SV, you can get money with just a team and a Powerpoint presentation.

Wonder why there are no unicorns from the Midwest? Because if unicorns made money their valuation would be significantly lower. They're only unicorns because no one knows how much they're worth, and everyone knows exactly how much Midwest startups are worth on day one.
You’re never going to know “everything” about anything.

Being a hacker is knowing when something is good enough. Your time is limited, so pick the right battles.

Pick up some backend stuff and just do it. You will learn in time. Seek inspiration from people greater than you. Be inspired, it will drive you to action.
It's not fully compatible. Of course it didn't take off. You want the default application to be free software.
Show HN: W84it mindful consumption tool
https://w84.it is a budgeting tool for non-essential purchases based on the principal of delayed gratification. The goal is to help users keep a budget and avoid impulse purchases. By default users can only buy something when they have waited long enough to earn the allowance to get it but there is an option to allow for a negative balance.

I made this over the past few weekends. I know that the login screen and frontend need a lot of work but I would appreciate any and all feedback.

To give you an idea of what it looks like this is my current list:

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About cookies, maybe on some sites some developers decided not to setup a useless cookies because of that law so it could have a small impact.
This response by the battery is really interesting. And it is certainly helping the Australian grid.

However, it is worth noting that the Australian grid, South Australia's in particular, is so woefully mismanaged that almost anything goes. South Australia is in the running for the most expensive electricity in the world [1].

As far as I've been able to tell, we aren't building coal or nuclear because there are outrageous political risks (opposition party & green lobby policy will probably make them uneconomic in the next decade); we aren't building anything else because because the economic option is coal. I think there is some sort of fracking ban that seems to have caused a gas shortage - I don't really understand that.

Long story short; Australia has looming electricity generation problems due to government policy and this battery is helping, but it is not fixing them.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/curious-adelaide-the-p...
It's been taken down. Turns out that MS wasn't impressed:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/19/16797358/microsoft-googl...
Not sure what you're implying -- Adidas is German and both Adidas and Columbia pre-date Nike.
This is probably true, but you may see it another way: the fact that FB isn't french makes it possible for french to get proper legislation, because it makes our government free of all economical or job pressure.

Also, I don't agree with the protectionism part. We (unfortunately) don't even have the beginning of a french competitor to facebook or whatsapp, even in the whole Europe. So asking whatsapp to comply can not possibly be seen as a way to favor the local brands. In that sense, it's completely different from what China is doing in the field.

Edit: ironicaly, the fact that FB doesn't pay any tax in France also makes our government 100% free of all pressure :D
From chicago, cactus is super commonplace streetfood in tacos, same all over the US. Dumb article
It’s bitcoin-neutral, that’s the whole point of the hedge.
I am talking in general, based in talks from Martin Thompson and other guys working on the field.
His Black Ghosts are in a 150-gallon tank. They'll be quite happy.
> OMEMO: Should be enabled by default.

Yes, I completely agree. I couldn't understand why it isn't default either.

As for the other points, they're all true but like you say yourself they are no show stopper especially since most people have at least one friend or family member who can assist them. People who don't understand technology have resorted to those who do for decades. Getting an e-mail adress and configuring an e-mail program was no more complicated 10-20 years ago. It's a matter of minutes to set everything up.

The adoption problem isn't one of technology but mindset. If there were a heavy marketing department behind Conversations it wouldn't be a market leader but the market share would increase significantly.
Just as an aside, milk in the US is a living example of n% fat.
Sounds like it's free for him because he was going to keep fish anyway. The fish aren't a means to an end in his case; instead, the vegetables are a bonus.
Unpopular opinion: information should not be the property of anybody. You don't own your data, you own what it is stored on.

Copyright, Patents, and other IP law is invalid application of property rights and nobody should be able to say how anybody uses data they possess with the exception of preemptive contractual agreements.
"Taxation is theft" is spread by Libertarians based on the principle that any forced / coerced taking away of your property without having legally signed a contract to do so is theft.

It's certainly not an abuse of language, it's a fact if you don't assume ex ante that the state can do what others are forbidden.

The reasons you describe here are mixing up an "others are stupid" attitude with legitimate and consistent views of the world. It's sad to see these views derided and the child commenters applaud.

Ever heard of Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises or Milton Friedman? Well, guess they are stupid as well.

Let me know if you want to read something about it before deriding not-your-opinion next time.
What is your rationalization for saying Lightning is not promising? I think that, given the state of the ecosystem, spreading opinion around as fact is not healthy.