skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> despite of course not having any frame of reference for those feelings

the question hinges on whether they need a frame of reference for those feelings. You seem to be implying that it's obvious that they do. Why?

Perhaps it is like the feeling that you're hungry, that it's some sort of innate reporting that doesn't require an external frame of reference. Or like the feeling that you're attracted to either males or females, or both. That seems to be just there, coming from inside.

Personally, I don't know the answer. I don't know if there's any relevant research, but on the face of it at least, it's not obvious that it should be one way or the other.
Ask HN: Kuwait visa on arrival for GCC Resident
I have a computer programmer visa in dubai and my passport is pakistani normal passport can i get on arrival visa for Kuwait or i need to get visa before i fly
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595907

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014573

Enjoy.
Agree. I would like open source + hosted version. Really simple hosted version for a couple of $ so you can have it on personal/project pages. There is of course disqus today, but never liked their ads, and of course its lock in.
It shouldn’t be hard for Apple to “prove” that there are benefits, outside of maxing profit, to having a sealed battery.
Show HN: Convert any existing web application into native ios and android apps
Darktable does deletion. If you press "delete" instead of "remove", files are deleted from the file system as well as the library.
Interesting paper, but they're very open about their limitations of just running this on Finnish data. From the conclusion:

We plan to extend our current analysis in several directions. A first extension is to replicate our analysis for other countries

There are many things unique to Finland, which makes this hard to generalize.

Also - they mention the interaction between father's income and child's IQ as a misallocation of resources. Is the implication that the parent is misallocating resources, or that Finnish society is misallocating resources by not funding the potential innovators who don't have wealthy dads?
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I care about government surveillance and am not really into IoT in general, but I have an Echo. I imagine some may have a difficult time reconciling those two things, but they are not in conflict for me.
probably going to sound stupid but what part of this was functional?
On the "slowdown with old battery" issue, does an old iPhone speed up when it's connected to a charger.

P.S. Just asking out of curiosity, in case someone has an old device and wants to run benchmarks.
Conjugate gradient (And other krylov subspace iterations) are basically a generalization of power iterations where you consider the whole set of {b, Ab, A^2b...} rather than just the one.
There are already terminals and cat implementations that can display 24-bit images just fine in the terminal, by using special escape codes that each encode a pixel. No changes to the IO model needed.

https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel/blob/master/README.rst
I agree, they're not a full programming language, they lack the aspects you describe. But they are a simple introduction to programming, work on a lot of levels, and can engage a broad range of students.

I would disagree with one thing. Writing HTML/CSS most certainly is an intellectual challenge, especially for beginners, and does engage parts of the programmer's brain.
>I would guess that Maglor survived, found his Silmaril, lost his Silmaril again, and that Pulp Fiction is an account of him getting it back.

And now I want to rewatch and reread everything again!
Should that also include trolling on HN?
Are you checking the cellular bands, or just your local 802.{3,11}? SoC exist with builtin LTE/CDMA/etc.

edit:

Also, voice compresses really well if you don't care about the quality. With a codec that uses <10 kbit/s (e.g. GSM-HR, AMR), the storage requirements are at most 2.4 MB/hour. A simple gate filter that cuts out quiet periods should cut the storage requirements down to only a few MB/week. A typical flash chip used to store the firmware could easily store years worth of typical household speech in the non-firmware space.
What do you hate about terminals?

Escape sequences. The current system is basically a giant bag of baggage we inherited from ye olden days. If implemented today I'd guess it would make much more sense to let a terminal application determine the actual key combination pressed (such as C-Tab, for example). I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be very easy to change, though (at least while keeping compatibility).

Edit: To clarify: I'm referring mainly to the fact that certain key combinations are not mapped at all, while other ones are synonyms for special keys, i.e.: ^[ is Escape,^I is Tab etc.

cf.: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/terminalcodes
Because I’m close to them. Maybe 100 is a slight overestimate. But, it isn’t all that many, is it? There are 30 people just within 0.5 miles that I visit regularly.

Edit: I was totally wrong. I did an informal survey, and several people said they did have them. I just never saw them use them. Just seeing what I want to see ...
It's pretty obvious why they don't want to have a discussion with her. She's an activist that isn't objective. The title is more hyperbole from her -- anyone who doesn't like her personally is a mysoginist. Likewise, the River incident, which in Rivers own account is her having sex with her boyfriend in front of his friends, while very drunk, becomes a "brutal gang rape." Not negotiating with someone like this is just common sense.
Top 8 Stupid Things People Spent Time on in 2017
Did you try the middle mouse button click on the Darktable sliders? That's a great feature which gives you much more control over the sliders.
Ask HN: What's a software pain-point for you personally or professionally?
I love making web software as a hobby but I'm fairly short on ideas. My interest is definitely in the business/productivity SAAS side of things so I thought I would ask; what's a software tool or app you wish existed to make your personal or professional life easier?
2010 - 2017 Founder, Software Developer at Re1ser Consulting

- Built projects including a, b, c

- Mastered technology stacks d, e, f

- Sourced and managed accounts with clients including g, h, j

2013, Software Developer (contract), Acme Tech

[insert normal experience description here]

You can flip the order of specific contracts vs summary if you prefer.
If they could please make it so that you can search on <any> subtitle languages, it would really help when the in-laws visit.
I probably should not point to any more, then. (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/289871/5132
To me, this is like saying social engineering isn't a security problem.

It seems pretty obvious that, if your aim is to accumulate capital, regulatory capture is a pretty damn efficient strategy as compared to marketing or product development. It's also efficient for the government official, who gets to sell access to regulation processes (an otherwise difficult-to-sell service!) at market rates.

(Not that libertarian-style "OK, let's get rid of governments!" approaches are a good solution here. In that case, the optimal strategy becomes force, which in effect establishes a government of sorts.)
Ask HN: Pushbullet dev seems to be stopped. What replacements are out there?
Pushbullet made it soooo easy by integrating the sharing feature in the context menu. Unfortunately I see no progress on their side, and adding a new friend is now broken.

I need a dead simple link sharing between a mobile app and a browser. It would be even better if I could push a link or note from one device to a friend's phone.
Dispose of them? Neither the article nor the report it's based on, say anything at all about arresting people, they are pretty much only shutting down YouTube and Facebook accounts.

The same has been happening in the US and plenty of other non-Communist countries, over here we just prefer calling it "War against terror" or "You broke the ToS!".
I have a Google Assistant. I use it for timers, playing music (on my Chromecast), and playing the news. That's about it. I can't find another use case where it seems like the best tool for the job.
The future is just not evenly distributed, try Europe.
I thought Intel were getting out Atom chips. I'll be looking to upgrade my C2758 NAS at some point - maybe there's some hope after all.
You absolutely nailed it. I think it has to do with human psychology. Anything similar to spectacle is easily connected to being watched (literally) while even the amount of (useful) data collected by an always on microphone could relativity high. Maybe for a privacy advocate, the only possible way to bring awareness as equivalent as is to make people understand and believe that it sits and is always listening during day and night (unlike the glass which is on only when worn)
Labdoor for supermarket foods? Gotta keep them honest, as an app combine it with price comparisons (where possible I know those DBs are hard).
No it works perfectly well. It worked brilliantly with Siri and had done for years before. People talking about it in the same room is an inconvenience to overcome.

It's possible that Google copied Baidu, which used "Ni hao baidu" [0] is the only thing I can think of.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-projects/lec... (see the video transcript)
I think this is right. ~$30 for a nifty piece of technology makes a great no-brainer gift. It's in the ballpark price range of secret santas and gift exchanges.

Throw in that it was mentioned in all the black friday deal discussions and it was marketed to anyone visiting amazon.com for holiday shopping... well, they were going to push units regardless.
While plain `cat` does not work, using escape sequences and providing support in the terminal emulator allows already to display images inline. See the iTerm2 implementation here: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

Making plain `cat` work too should not be too big of a problem with some small support from the running shell. iTerm2 also knows when a command is starting to run/exits, parsing the output it retrieved from STDOUT in between by matching it against some magic numbers and displaying the content accordingly is not too difficult.
This article has been here recently although I can't find it
Why would you pay for something that is already free ?
Note that you would still need to pay a decent return to shareholders in order to maximize these other things, just like currently you need (usually) to sell goods, pay a salary and pay your taxes to maximize the shareholder value.

No, you would still need to grow to a large company with lots of revenue, but if the metric to optimize is salaries paid, then paying shareholders anything at all is in direct conflict with paying salaries to workers. The problem here is designing set of incentives that would encourage appropriate results, and the difficulty is that not all incentives work equally well, or even at all.
That sounds about right--plus the price point as others have mentioned; it's the price of a halfway decent sweater. It's the sort of thing that, for most people, will be appreciated if they don't have one and they can often use another if they do.
I've grown to like the plain C version. It has a very modular interface (doesn't require the sorted items to implements a certain protocol, i.e. "operator<"), and doesn't compile new code for each new type. (Often code size is the most important).

I think the worst case I measured is a factor of 2 in std::sort vs qsort on bare integers. On larger types it will be less. That's acceptable to me. Sorting is seldom the bottleneck (it's only important to do sort in many situations).
Seconded. Disqus is bloated beyond repair. Open source + hosted is a fantastic model for consumers and entrepreneurs, and the hosted money would be enough to get rid of advertisements.
Patterns as in design patterns, not patterns as in pattern matching
I upgrade my iphone every 2 years, and put in a sell order with a mobile phone recycler just before the keynote for the new phone starts, that gives me the best price (it goes down super quick once people see the keynote and decide to upgrade), and I get more than the upgrade on a new 2 year contract will cost ... win win.
DAZN is making moves in Canada + a handful of other locations
> People buy these products because they're useful

My dad takes weeks or months to learn how to use any new GUI. He's used automated phone systems for his whole life, though, and a voice-driven interface would be much easier for him.

It seems like HNers find it hard to believe that people like my dad exist, for some reason.
Maybe the attitude to run the battery low before charging it comes from NiCd batteries which have the so called memory effect [1].

Could education be the answer? I've never bought an iPhone, do they include a few paragraphs about proper battery care?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
SHA-2017 had a really cool badge: https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Projects:Badge. 2.9" e-paper display, ESP32, 1000mAh LiPo battery and firmware with an online "app store" supporting apps written in micropython.

Sadly, there were only a handful available after the event (for about €30). I'm hoping someone continues with the design, because I can think of quite a few applications, but I'm worried about breaking it.
This is not correct. Here are some common scenarios:

1. A CSS feature is in most cases specified before any of the browsers implement it.

2. Often, a HTML feature is specified (i.e., added to the HTML Standard) at the time development on it starts in a browser. This is because most browser vendors want to make sure that what they implement is in the spec, and they have people who actively work on the spec for that reason.

3. Nowadays, when a web API is proposed by a browser vendor, they write the proposal down somewhere (usually on GitHub). Sometimes it’s a formal spec, other times it’s just an “explainer.” There are probably plenty of web platform features that only have such an informal specification, but that’s fine for smaller features, I think.

In any case, there is always a discussion and some written document. Browsers no longer implement web platform features behind closed doors (although Apple still, in a few cases, starts the discussion a few months before shipping the feature, but that’s more an exception than a rule).
Take a look at
https://github.com/gka/schnack
https://posativ.org/isso/
https://github.com/adtac/commento
:)
Are you sure that's not just what the game is supposed to look like?
The timers seem good, also music.

Light seems to slow instead of just hitting a button
It is difficult to build a TUI. Just to draw several progress bars might take a whole day to implement.
> To do anything at all on an Apple //e, you had to type.

No, with an Apple IIe Mouse Card, you could use e.g. MousePaint:

“If there is one comment to make about MousePaint, it’s that for a graphically intensive Apple II application, even on a 64K Apple IIe (which ran at 1 MHz), the user interface was surprisingly responsive. The mouse was remarkably smooth, and scrolling around the pixel canvas was seemingly effortless. Menus also appeared instantaneously, with no noticable drawing lag.”

https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/Apple2userinterfaces
> Why would their competitiveness in biotech be a worry?

They claim rights to territory held by over a dozen separate neighbors and have invaded more than one since 1980. There's a strong argument to be made that China pulling ahead in a military technology will spark WW3, or at the very least the invasion of Taiwan—an advanced democratic nation with a population on par with Australia's.
Sling TV?
Are there any assistants that aren't connected to the web? Or at least aren't by default. Here are some things I'd love to be able to do that don't need the web.

Set a timer
Set a reminder for something in X minutes
Take a voice note
Create lists (maybe could be pushed to phone via bluetooth)
Maybe some home auto stuff

I imagine most of this stuff could be shared to my phone via bluetooth if I needed it on the go (like a shopping list).
Not to get too into the weeds here but I've found that the sheriff is generally more responsive to the public and less abusive than police forces as the sheriff is a constitutional officer who must stand election, and therefore cannot wantonly abuse the public without consequence as police departments tend to do.
> paying shareholders anything at all is in direct conflict with paying salaries to workers

Paying workers anything at all is in direct conflict with generating shareholder value.

Key is "long term". If you want to maximize long term salaries, you must pay a decent return to equity.
You could even call it Madoff Securities LLC.
Maybe cause you rushed through your classes.
Suppose you wanted to stand a large stone on end?

How would you do it?

Just get a stout log and a bunch of men and pry up one end of the stone and shovel dirt and debris under it.

Then pry it up again and repeat.

It would take a long time but eventually you could get it standing.
Get password of the wifi you're connected, and your current ip address
Do. One key click, turns into one letter, into one word, to one sentence, to one paragraph, to one page, to one set, to one book.
The good ones subscribe to Modern Portfolio Theory and don’t tell you stock market returns are much higher than 6%. The bad ones try to sell high fee advisory with a marketing ploy of getting you “alpha” (outsized returns). It’s just a way to take 1-2% of your capital for doing nothing.
Have you played a musical instrument? It is very physically demanding if you are challenging yourself.
Not affiliated with them in any way. And the pricing is higher than Netflix.

http://www.flosports.tv/
How? Ads will still be served from 3rd-party domains which will be blocked, WebAssembly does not change anything to that.
Quite possibly the best thing that I have read in 2017.
https://www.fubo.tv/welcome
coconutBattery.app (for the Mac) will show you the battery health of connected iOS devices.

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

[Another commenter shared this trick after I voiced the same feature request. I had been using coconutBattery for a while, but didn't know it had added this feature.]
Depending on your definition of cheap, I can highly recommend the HP ProLiant Microserver - it's small (about one cubic foot), an entry level model with 16 GB RAM (without HDDs/SSDs) is about € 300-350.

I have used it as my home server for the last two years, and it has worked very well for me. Quiet, reliable. The Gen8 which runs on an Intel CPU can be equipped with a low-end Xeon, if needed, but that drives up the price accordingly.
If you know that the battery is at fault (Apple hid that) and if Apple Store will replace it (they refused it for many people because diagnostics doesn't show an issue even if phone is throttled).

Apple is also actively fighting and lobbying against any kind of legislation that makes electronics repairable and maintainable.

Read up on the issue a bit more :)
Seriously though. This is Outrageous for the kinda money we pay for Apple products!
Russia unveils plan to sell $1bn of yuan bonds
In Texas, it most definitely is profitable and businesses are dedicating billions of dollars to building wind power. Unsubsidized costs for wind in Texas are currently $32-62/MWH vs. coal at $60-143[1]. Texas is hardly an environmentalist mecca, just a place with good wind and lots of cheap, open land to build wind farms.

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2017/10/13/texas-...
I believe the Nokia 3310 was just relaunched this year that has 22 hours talk time, 31 days standby for just $52 https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/04/13/nokia-33...
I can see your point. They think that there is enough personality in Google as a thing. That certainly makes the most sense of what I've seen.

However I think they missed on how personal a thing it is to talk to someone. I think they should have viewed 'OK Google' as a personality that's like Google's little brother, that will ask Google for you if that's what you need or else will for example check in your diary for you.
Let me know how that works when the website "requires" DRM to function.
>The level of unwarranted surveillance with Google Glass and Echo Dot is pretty much the same, but because one is less visible than the other it doesn't get the same level of backlash.

This is a bug in human programming. I think it stems from far too many people not caring about potential, regardless of likelihood, and instead only caring about what happens. Similar to a gamblers fallacy in bad statistical reasoning (if it hasn't happened yet, then it won't happen), combined with a few other cognitive biases that allow a person to ignore events they don't see the direct cause and effect of.

The end result is that as long as the privacy invasion doesn't appear to be a privacy invasion, people will be okay with it. And given their past choices, they'll be more willing to be okay with the privacy invasion when it does go bad, instead blaming it on some other factor (such as one particular company caught abusing it, instead of the overall trend).

Companies are learning how to exploit this, and with technology increasing faster than social ability to handle the technology (such as why video recording and audio recording treated different legally), this is going to put a damper on the future.
I love terminal because it is universal tool. I use urxvt in X-session, or emacs-shell sometimes. I can use it over ssh. I have kernel console for times when Xorg is broken. It is great.
Great for user and for programmer too. As programmer I need not to fo any special tricks for my program was able to work with any terminal. It just works. All I need is printf, or something like. It is much simplier than any GUI toolkit use.
Moreover, I can write programs for microcontrollers and communicate with them through serial line. Terminal is universal tool.

But this fun ends quickly if I need more than just output text sequentially. I would have nothing wrong with an idea of esc-sequences, if those sequences were standartized. But esc-sequences is not the full story -- line disciplines, complex states of terminal, heaps of historical garbage. There is ncurses, it can hide a lot of complexity but not all. And I do not like ncurses, maybe due to unhided complexity.

If I had to build terminal from scratch... At first I would state one curious fact: if decades ago terminal was extremly dumb device connected to a relatively powerful computer, now the reverse is the case: terminal runs on a relatively powerful hardware while a program working with a terminal can be run on a microcontroller with 2Kb RAM. So I see no reason to allow a terminal to be a dumb-terminal. A terminal could be pretty smart now. At least it can describe his capabilities in a universal format, for client doesn't have to consult with terminfo database, trying to guess what this terminal can do and what it cannot do.

And the second is to define clear APIs. Every time I try to do something with a terminal I need to spend a couple of days reading texts just to remind myself what the hell a terminal is.
The majority of web users don’t use ad block.
Mathematician and architect Christopher Alexander promoted the idea of pattern languages in architecture, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

Later the idea was promoted in software, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
Oh this is fantastic, I'm going to deploy it when I get back home. Thanks for opensourcing it!

One question: Which sections in the kodi.cfg are necessary? I already have Kodi configured and don't want to just replace the file, or spend time changing options your skill doesn't need.
Brewing the Firmware for Raspberry PI with Elixir and Nerves