skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the parent, I had the same experience, the comments I believe are interesting opinions are only moderately upvoted, while silly jokes get upvoted much more. And especially I don't like when people downvote without leaving comment (contrary argument). If you agree it's obvious why, if you disagree then it's not.

I think the Slashdot system was an interesting one, it had also labels, so there was a difference between "+5 Insightful" and "+5 Funny". It also provided some feedback while downvoting. I think having moderation labels instead of plain points would help moderation.

Actually, users could then customize point cost for each of the labels, so they could see the page differently.
Overall, both conferences and business travel are very healthy. They're not declining overall.
Technical details of a Pixel remote exploit chain
>"Absolute poverty in developed countries is far lower than at any possible by in history. In fact the same could be said for absolute poverty globally. And that, is a direct result of globalization."

Actually that it's not true. Absolute poverty better global numbers are due mainly to China. A little also to India. For the rest, it could be argue that they are equal or, in some cases worst.

You could argue that China have benefited from globalization, and, in a way is true. Except that their strategy is almost the opposite of the strategy recommended by the champions of globalization (IMF, etc..)
"Destroy the web" better title;)
Its basically most of the major metro areas in North America >500 miles away from Seattle. Doesn't seem to be cutting it down much.
Oof unfortunate that Detroit missed the cut, wonder why that happened; they seemed reasonably competitive from an outsider's perspective.
After the storm is before the storm: https://skyfallattack.com/
> Emirates built their business case around the plane

Absolutely. Emirates needed this deal just as much as Airbus. At the end of the day AB has multiple other profitable lines to fall back on, especially their cash cow 32X program. For Emirates the 380 is irreplaceable, not even by the 777-10, if it was even flying yet, which it isn't.

I have no doubt EK got a good deal but Leahy isn't stupid. He was playing hardball too.

And interestingly, it has not been specified yet whether this order is for the current model or the plus..
the very best experiences i’ve had as a renter have been in these sorts of situations.

every time, my landlords became my neighbors. we exchange christmas cards, even years later.

if nothing else, this is a fundamentally more human way to live in community than, say, a hollow condo unit administered by a board and designed so that you’re basically not supposed to know who the other tenants are.
Apple Is Blocking App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations from the App Store
the details of the exploit are 5 paragraphs down from the beginning of the article...
And this is an example of why Go need Generics
The page keeps crashing on iOS about 80% of the way through, can someone post the actual list?
,I have just discovered Hacker News and need help
I'm new here obviously, and so far looking at it this site/tool looks amazing and very useful. However I'm not entirely sure how I can use it to its full potential. Is there any type of reference guide I could refer to or anyone willing to show me around? Any kind of help would be appreciated.
I wish someone made an actual light truck still. Even the little trucks are monstrous now.

My 85 Toyota would be dwarfed by a modern light truck.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/Anything...
No big surprises here, but I'm glad to see Philly is still in the running.
I think rfp asked for a stable and growing economy. Detroit is still stumbling in this respect.
Indeed. But from the picture on the site, it looks like they were about 150 feet above the average sea level. It would take quite the rogue wave to hit the drone at that altitude.

Sea spray (fine droplets of salt water) would indeed have an effect, but more over the long term than immediate problems since the motors are brushless. Brushless motors are not terribly susceptible to shorts from water, and the only other vulnerable component - the battery - would be hard to short out by sea spray alone.
Yet another site that you have to put your details before you can get a sense of what it is, what it does and whether it is worth it or not.
ChronoFlo – a calendar with an integrated timeline for easy navigation
Good point. If it's a traumatic enough incident, the time off from whatever you're doing is surely going to make a difference in whatever your new obsession is. Thinking of disability, short-term disability, early retirement, etc. If I had an extra 8 hours a day to devote back to guitar, you sure as hell would bet I'd get significantly better at it; faster.
What's that Skip? Another lefty academic trying to discredit people he doesn't like by ascribing views to them that they don't actually hold?
Snore.
I mean that the image should be saved in vector format! Not bitmap.
"Wouldn't it be better to run it as a competition or something in that case?"

Sounds like a worse idea to me. Lots of people do work and only a handful win. With their current offer, lots of people can do work and lots of people can win.

Also, the Switch is perfectly capable of using the internet, and has onboard storage. There is no technical barrier to them choosing 25 winners a month and offering them as download packs even after release.
My experience with transferring at Heathrow is that they shove everybody into one insanely crowded terminal, and then about fifteen minutes before boarding you have to rush to another terminal.

I'm sure there's some weird justification for that, but it's incredibly bad design.
Careful, 'downvote to disagree' may disagree with you! :)

I personally would like to see a public indication of the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, and maybe comments to flags. Without this or some other system of checks & balances (even just a total number of submissions & comments on the user account page), completely anonymous moderation by HN users passing by will continue running the site. (Users on mobile devices who choose not to comment because it's a pain to include links to sources may deserve some consideration.)

The permanence of the site adds some unique properties as well: are there any other sites that lock edits after 1 hour or prevent deletion once there is a reply (or even any that attempt to accomplish anything even close to similar, whatever the means)?
Ask for Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area to build better transportation, and that's the pick
I didn't have the resources to purchase outside books during my 2 year incarceration but it was remarkable how outdated the "jail library" books were. I read quite a bit of cosmology and physics, mostly 30 or so years old. A personal highlight was finding a Ray Kurzweil book.
Governments should be aware that to produce 1 pound of beef you need 50000 liters of fresh water, and if they are aware, stop lying to the population. But yes, I guess you could try to save 40 liters per day with your oil urinal.
What a circus.
Maybe you want to read their crowdfunding page and homepage, because not being an android phone is the point from the start, so I'm not sure why you seem surprised :)

It's not the first attempt, either. Before them, there has been (in no particular order) firefox OS, ubuntu phone (Unity was initially meant as a "responsive" environment for mobile, laptop and desktop), QT mobile and maybe others. For a long time, opensource leaders wanted to build a "true" linux mobile OS, this is just a new step on that road, and I hope this will finally be a successful one.

I'm not sure why you consider it to be an impossible challenge, the hard part in building a new OS was building its kernel and coreutils, and this has been solved for about 30 years. Now, it needs to be adapted for mobile specificity.
> Problem with online methods of learning, is it's much harder to take a day off your day job to watch YouTube, or listen to podcasts. Conferences are like a vacation from regular work, where you can focus on learning.

On the other hand: It is much easier to watch YouTube videos (or podcasts) when you get home from work than getting vacation days.
> They have a great approach to recommend inviting surprising and unexpected people. I don't work in publishing or journalism and have been twice, for example.

Fair enough.

> Same is surely true of topics presented on stages.

In my line of work (science) the topics are submitted ahead of the conference and then relevant papers/talks are submitted to each of those. As such, anyone is able to propose a topic so long as they can justify its inclusion.

> To attract a mix of industry leaders the mix of weekday / weekend days is a pragmatic choice.

I'm not sure I understand why industry leaders are more likely to attend if it's at the weekend. Surely if it's their industry, it's part of their work and so they can come during the work week.

> It's all voluntary of course!

In principle, at least. Of course, if a lot of important decisions are being make the in voluntary evening activities, then those that choose not to or can't go to the evening events are at a disadvantage. Point taken about early birds.

All that said, I can definitely see the benefit of organised social activities.

> That's because real things are happening, difficult issues are actually being resolved, voices are listened to and progress gets made.

This sounds awfully like the tag line for some startup.

> people who sit at the back or like to take time off for sightseeing

An interest in sightseeing or a quieter demeanor is not mutually exclusive of valuable contributions.
Cryptoassets security startup Ledger closes €61M Series B funding round
"How do I know when to change the Filters?

You can find out if you need to change the Oas’s Purification Filter via the Oas app, showing the overall status of your Filters."

I wonder if they're using Bluetooth or other local networking or if this really means my shower needs to connect to the Internet.
When you say 'gain more mass,' do you mean the inertia from the rotor speed? I would think the more rotors you have, the slower each can spin? Is it possible there is an efficient design we havent yet tried involving self-stabilizing bearings or ball detents?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_detent
Managed Dedicated Servers
Here's some links to full-screen calendars built using ChronoFlo Calendar:

https://www.chronoflocalendar.com/calendar/shared/2691/88266...
https://www.chronoflocalendar.com/calendar/shared/2700/88266...
https://www.chronoflocalendar.com/calendar/shared/2701/88266...
https://www.chronoflocalendar.com/calendar/shared/2702/88266...

I am the developer of this. I built this because I couldn't find any nicely designed embeddable calendars. Happy to answer questions.
Conferences will move to VR. There's no reason to invest so much time in traveling when you will be able to get 90% of the benefit in VR within 5 years.
have their lives ruined by the increased airplane noise and pollution

Oh please. Heathrow has been an airfield since the 1930s. There is no one living near there who didn’t know that, and chose to live there anyway.
The 'Underground Railroad' to Save Atheists
Facilities are part of the equation. But people have to be trained and measured and certified. Those processes have to be designed and documented. The population needed for any process varies with the task - it'd be a coincidence if it was the same for a different pipeline.

And the facility is full of jigs and benches and tools and doorways and props and a million things that are bespoke to a process too.

Making very complicated things isn't the same as making toasters.
And, since most power-generation in South Africa is from coal, desalination - it seems to me - is only aggravating the problem (climate change) over the long run.

Yes, we should probably power those plants from some renewable/sustainable source, but that's a different discussion for another day.
Conference talks are 90% worthless to me. Many popular conference speakers argue that the job of a talk is to introduce you to a subject. I agree with the author, that I would rather watch that online than pay to attend a conference. Being a really good speaker, is also a rare talent that most speakers (even a lot of the popular ones) don't have. Way to often, talks are created as annoying sales pitches as well.

A popular trend that is much more valuable, are the "Open Sessions" where a large room has a bunch of chairs in circles. Anyone can create a "talk" that others can join. Everyone gets in a circle & discusses ideas around a topic. I've found these much more valuable.

The "Open Sessions", random discussions in the hallways or during events, & having lunch with a bunch of strangers talking about anything & everything are the most valuable activities in my opinion.
AFAIK these attacks had nothing to do with IME or proprietary UEFI.
> First: you see this screenshot? https://askubuntu.com/q/814380 Aside from the actual package names, the bottom part is the same kind of error I got.

I actually don't, imgur is blocked where I work. But I know the error you're talking about.

> Yeah, I interpret that to mean I had broken packages. After updating. Not before.

Yeah the error reporting is bad, which is where the whole unix philosophy of small cooperating programs goes completely wrong. (Or possibly the error is correct and the package is broken - Ubuntu maintainers in particular seem to make bad packages quite often. But the package manager isn't the problem there)

> Notice it has >17k views, only 2 answers, and no accepted answer? Yeah, I guess it's not so easy to resolve.

More likely the user who asked it (3 questions, 0 answers) got bored and never "accepted".

> Even if I ignore the above and pretend nothing there is currently broken, a system that cannot be updated is, uhm, broken.

In as much as you now can't use the package manager to update all your programs? I mean I'd agree that this qualifies as "broken", but it's exactly as broken as a system that doesn't have a package manager in the first place. You could still update all the individual programs manually like you would on windows. Which is what I thought you were advocating?
Nothing new here. I think the list is really down to 17, since I don't see Amazon putting a new HQ in NYC, DC, or LA. We already knew the top 20 or so areas, probably top 15. The interesting news is that now some of these periphery cities have an opportunity to further state their case; I'm looking at you Columbus, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Miami.
In your definition, being unique is being unlike others, so you are heavily shaped by others already, trying to squeeze in to a niche not yet claimed. I don't see how being forced to be unlike others is any better than being forced to be like others: you're being forced either way.

Also, I don't think that asking for advice removes agency. You still have to think if the advice is applicable to your unique situation, how can it be modified to fit better, and which of several conflicting pieces of advice has more merit. An advice from Siri on any life situation is nigh useless without a deeper understanding of the situation, a Siri can't have it unless she lived a big chunk of your life. So, armed with whatever advice, you still remain ultimately responsible.
I agree it's a massive list to have said they've whittled it down much, but I can see some misses. St Louis isn't there, Detroit isn't there, Tampa and Orlando aren't there, Milwaukee isn't there, Phoenix isn't there, Houston isn't there, Minneapolis isn't there, Baltimore isn't there.

They put out far too big of a list of candidates, but they have apparently ruled out just as many major metro areas.
The irony, I think, is that the standards that the current web is descended from GML/SGML/HTML were created explicitly for the purposes of making documents easier to read and understand by computers. Here now we are trying to make it as difficult as possible to read those same documents by computers.
Hacking the CASIO Fx-CP400 Calculator
No Ottawa, very disappointing.
on realpolitik grounds, Indianapolis would be a fascinating choice.
Gobo and Nix do something similar, but they overengineer the hell out of it (largely because typical Linux software is written very inflexibly). What I'm talking about is so simple it requires no management at all. AppImage is the closest solution Linux has, but sadly hardly any applications are deployed that way.
ifplugd may be similar tool, or a tool to execute a variation on this tool.
Shameless self promotion. Today I rolled out my first tutorial to get you started on smart contract development.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176714
Amazon names top 20 finalists in second headquarters race
Atlanta

Austin, Tex.

Boston

Chicago

Columbus, Ohio

Dallas

Denver

Indianapolis

Los Angeles

Miami

Montgomery County, Md.

Nashville

Newark

New York

Northern Virginia

Phladelphia

Pittsburgh

Raleigh, N.C.

Toronto, Canada

Washington, D.C.
At those temperatures, its all about the high-tech outer layer. Has to keep all air, even the smallest breeze, from any part of the body that you don't want frozen in 90 seconds.

Keeping comfortable is a small part of the issue.
Newark?
> since most power-generation in South Africa is from coal

It's sad and crazy that this is still not changing. SA is a very sunny country.
perfect for sites with boring content and annoying ads.
ISRO successfully launched 31 satellites carried onboard PSLV-C40
The writer tries to pretend that there is something drastically opposite from knowing that the state captured by business is different from the danger of mere statism. Well, the answer that preserves liberty is to reduce the chances of the state being captured. This begins by having a limited govt. If the madam of the bordello is out of business, there is no need for customers to line up
This morning its all fixed and the balance is correct. The double transactions were all in "pending" when I went to sleep (including overdraft transfers). I bet this isn't the first time something like this has happened due to a glitch in an overnight batch job.
I wish i could live in North America. You guys have it so exciting out there ;).

Hopefully it goes to a region that kinda needs it and can grow further.
The link should point to the (I guess) original source:

https://happyfuncorp.com/whitepapers/webthereum

Way more readable, links to github etc.,
Looking to the sun to create hydrogen fuel
What do you mean by "absolute poverty"?

While the proportion of people living in poverty may have been getting lower, the absolute number of people living in poverty has never been higher.

3 billion people live in poverty. This is the same as the total global population in 1960.

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p...
It's fairly well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crim...

But it really was just another ethnic-based organized crime group, not substantially different from the others in any way, and most definitely not "The mafia that even the mafia is afraid of that you've probably never heard of?"
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
PSLV-C40/Cartosat-2 Series Mission Liftoff and Onboard Camera View:

https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c40-cartosat-2-series-satellite...
This is a cool idea. I'm not convinced that having all the comments in a sidebar with size constraints is going to be that useful, though. It might work better with traditional chained comments but having the radial diagram floating to one side.

Also it's easy to imagine posts starting out too small to click on and getting lost in the noise. (Not that this doesn't happen in other formats.)
Show HN: Autohook v2 – tiny Git hook manager, redesigned
The chicken tax effectively killed foreign competition for light trucks and domestic automakers punted as mid-full size trucks are more profitable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Agreed, we use headless browsers for automated regression testing and adding a check on production would help ensure that testers don't goof and test in the wrong environment and test that developers don't hard code URLs that cause the environments to hop.
The Edwin and Terry Murray Collection of Role-Playing Games, 1972-2009
This is the model for O'Reilly's FooCamp which was an amazing experience early in my career. I was a nobody, lucky to score an invite, and got to sit next to tech celebs at breakfast and heard/participated conversations that were and still are well above my pay grade. Some were nichey, but even in those cases there were a few people who were REALLY passionate about game design or some emerging programming language. I made contacts that still pay-off today.

All your criticisms are fair, but we're talking about a couple weekends over the course of a year. If you're enthusiastic and ambitious (and can assemble a like group) I can't imagine a better format.
According the housing crisis, there's absolutely no buildable land left anywhere in the Greater Toronto region.
Consumables are pretty easy to dive into but often don't leave room for improvement (already been done). Restaurants are similar. Thing is, these aren't businesses to dive into. The more "free" the customer, the more competition that already exists. Remember, if its easy to eat someone else's lunch, it's easy to have your lunch eaten.
100% agree with you here.
What's the point of announcing your candidate cities? Seems like it's only there so that the two or three cities they're really considering have to throw loads of tax breaks at them.
The whole west coast seems to be ruled out, so clearly geography is coming into play.
Yes, you are right. An exploit is still viable even if it doesn't attack other parts of a system.

My point was that with a default of secure design, even small exploits added via plugins are better defended against than my alternative option, which was sendmail (i'm sure Exim wouldn't have been quite as horrible as sendmail, and Postfix wasn't quite mature yet).
I used to love https://symless.com/synergy which includes this feature (if I recall correctly)
Pretty useful at times.
If the opposing party is threatening shutdown of the government then it would seem that the government is not ruled by that single party.
9 Things Every Ad Agency Client Hates and How to Avoid Them [Infographic]
I get its terrifying complexity here - and lots of it is bespoke (and international, but outsourced parts probably helps in this case as it becomes someone else’s problem). But when e.g a car manufacturer makes 2 new models they try to keep many components similar. Planes aren’t cars but you’d think at least some systems are common to both A350 and A380.
Author here.

V1 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561404

V2 has been redesigned to be even more seamless. Feedback welcome, both on the concept and execution.
Despite the fact you can only modulate the carrier on/off, you can still also output normal music with speech etc using pulse density modulation -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16168317

Which I don't think is monophonic, but I could be wrong?
Newsgeist may be the type of event that people feel passionate about but can't really justify taking time off from their day job to attend. I agree that weekends work for something like that. However, the vast bulk of conferences that I attend are primarily people attending on the company time and dime and most would not want to go to a weekend event.

I know I wouldn't. Just for one anecdotal example, there's a yearly local event tangentially related to my work that I've attended and led Open Spaces at. But it's on a Saturday (on what is invariably the first really nice spring day of the year). I've stopped going solely for that reason.