skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a lawyer either, but doing a quick read on the scope, I found in first phrase:

"The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU."

And this might not apply as there is no data controller, organization or company. You data is on your computer and it replicates that data to friends and friends of friends. There is no cloud or service involved, it is from one machine to the other, I believe someone that has real knowledge of legal matters and p2p should chime in. I am also a bit lost regarding this.
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For a ctrl-f friendlier version: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonnew.htm

I'm not sure whether the old vs new is about presentation or actual content.
That's exactly what I meant by false starts and head fakes.

In fact, xulrunner was another much earlier attempt at developing an Electron-like platform, but Mozilla's heart just wasn't in it, and they didn't care about or adequately support third party developers who were trying to develop applications with it, like TomTom Home for example (which I worked on).

Xulrunner was never meant to be a platform for desktop or embedded apps the way WebKit was -- its singular purpose was to support the desktop version of Firefox.

Which is exactly how Thunderbird got into the hopeless dead-end situation it's in right now. Its best move would be to switch to Electron, which is impossible only because of the obvious political reasons.

There's no reason to expect Mozilla to ever support any other Electron-like platform any better than they did xulrunner.
Most anti-nuclear people don't appreciate that radioactivity is inversely proportional to half-life. The waste that's really dangerous isn't long-lived, and the long-lived waste isn't all that dangerous.
已知不过是无限未知中的冰山一角，未知就是已知的无限复制
Well, you turned off all the obvious always-on listening devices. In reality any phone can be listening all the time without you knowledge. As to whether they are actually listening is another question, accusations on the subject fly [1] and [2] get rebutted [3] all the time [4] but it is hard to prove or disprove either thesis.

On the subject of the usability of these 'assistants' I mostly do agree except for the possibility to use voice commands which can sometimes be useful. Fortunately that option does not need an always-on internet connection to some faraway mothership and is easy to implement in free software, e.g. [5].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/10/30/facebook-li...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41802282

[3] https://lifehacker.com/facebook-isn-t-recording-your-convers...

[4] https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=facebook+phone+li...

[5] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-m...
I have been waiting for a better layout for long, and I had already assumed the ideal layout would be determined by software. I like that there's effort being put into it.

But I don't like that one of my major complaints about qwerty while programming is not being solved: Of the times I use the top row, almost always I'm using it with shift in order to insert a symbol. That's why I have a custom qwerty layout that reverts the situation: shift+key is number, key by itself is symbol. Same with other usually-shifted keys.

I also dislike that the graphs shown are only for English. The graphs should be shown for the most popular Latin script languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, German and French (+programming, related to my previous complaint). People that write in at least two Latin-script languages far outnumber the people that only write English.

But props for the setup, looks cool and I expect great things from it!
> The business potential for this one is much greater because people who own cryptocurrencies are incentivized to use it over alternatives.

People who own cryptocurrencies are a tiny sliver of the market, so why is the business potential much greater? And if this were such a key differentiator, it seems trivial for AirBnb to nullify it by accepting cryptocurrencies without changing a thing about the way they operate.
It is weird I didn't see the Gentoo Portage and BSD Ports as the first mentions. They are basically forerunners not sure if they are actually the first.
The first advice I always give people that are trying to get into Italo is to check out Flemming Dalum's mixes: https://soundcloud.com/flemming/sets/flemming-dalum-mixes
And Fred Brooks, from _The Mythical Man-Month_: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."
Internet personality Saara turned speaking fake languages into a career with this amazing little clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw

And her pitch-perfect imitation of 14 different musical genres is equally amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw
> "how often do you give a phone number to another person to contact you? With apps like Telegram, KakaoTalk, Twitter and Facebook, those platforms are fast becoming the norm for contacting your friends and family"

The last time was two weeks ago, to schedule a telephone call with a prospective client. The time before that was about four weeks ago, when we bought some furniture and wanted it delivered.

The world isn't only "friends and family."

> "Nobody roams - it's overpriced and stupid."

Note, "The EU has ended roaming surcharges for all people who travel periodically within the EU. ... Since 15 June 2017, people pay only domestic charges." https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariff...

There's no reason that can't also happen in the US.

> "I don't even remember the last time I made a voice call."

Last Monday we called our health care provider concerning our sick child. I don't see how that can be replaced with Telegram, etc.

On Wednesday our kid's preschool called.

Yesterday I got a call from the furniture store to arrange a delivery time.
Ask HN: It's January 27. What have you done for your New Years Resolutions?
My resolution was that for every day I'm working, I need to go to the gym first in the morning. To be fair this was more like my Dec 1 resolution.

It's going well so far. The gym has come such an expected part of my routine that I don't even think about it anymore. I'm waking up early (630am), getting tons of work done, crushing it. And I gained 2 lbs so far!

How are your New Years Resolutions going?
Paul Foot rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnh6anCwpUo

They're too loud and they don't work. Paper towels are quiet and they work (or drying your hands on your jeans)

However, the real reason these irritating dryers are popular is virtue-signalling: they're a way of announcing to everyone that you washed your hands
So, I remember when EC2 didn't have a UI at all: it was just a set of APIs and a handful of command line tools which were mostly for use as a demo. The entire concept was that you were either going to use the API directly in order to build a fleet of automatically-scaling servers or you were going to cobble some system management shell scripts together that just ran the command line tools. For some services, a UI really makes sense (like Route 53), but for EC2 a UI is only going to be usable if you want to boot like, a handful of one-off hand-configured machines... that isn't really the use case for EC2. I mean, I do do that, and to be honest I have often used the UI to do it, but the only reason is because searching for the current Ubuntu AMI is easier using the UI... otherwise, using ec2-run-instances is pretty simple, and I frankly shouldn't be doing that as those one-off hand-configured servers are the bane of my existence when it comes to later system maintainability.

It just isn't clear to me what the job of a user interface is to EC2 other than as a kind of fallback / emergency dashboard for when your software loses track of what you have running; it is essentially the Task Manager / Activity Monitor of AWS: a tool you only use when you screwed something up or have to fix something by hand. The kinds of workloads that you do with EC2 just don't map well to a UI without some kind of deep framework integration (such as "understand enough about my database server stack to determine that I've run out of connections in order to trigger an autoscaling event"; the way you'd normally do that is by building a custom CloudWatch metric with a daemon on your database server, at which point the software you wrote is probably handling that <- if what you are looking for is so specific, you usually want to be using a more dedicated/SaaS part of AWS or using a service like Heroku that is built on top of AWS).

I guess maybe the disconnect is that you seem to feel like "smaller dedicated and VPS providers" are a competitor to EC2, when in my mind the entire reason someone would use EC2 is because they need to do something you fundamentally could never do before using those existing services: automatically provision as many machines as you want, all of which become available within minutes, and where you can turn off machines you don't need and be build in by-the-hour increments. That was just fundamentally never possible before, which meant for the kinds of use cases for which EC2 was designed (workloads with high variance, whether temporary high-throughput batch jobs against data stored in S3 or services that have periodic or even unpredictable usage) they could be charging three or four times as much as their competition and you'd still use them, as to use their competitors you'd have to have five times as many servers constantly all doing nothing but burning cash.
So, re-reading this and running the numbers it looks like a classical example of an un-necessary expensive procedure (and a risky one at that), could anybody with more medical knowledge comment on this?

0.05% per year chance for a person that is 32 years old leaves 50*0.05 = 2.5% chance of rupture during the remaining life of the patient, whereas the operation itself has a 5% chance of failure.

It's reminiscent of the downside of scanning for just about everything in patients without symptoms.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201745
HTTPie is awesome, the only thing to watch out for is if you use it for large JSON responses, it can take a while to parse, process and display the response. In that case cURL is still handier, but HTTPie is the tool I generally reach for
There’s a lot of research in this area. One of the most consistent results of this research is “people don’t feel like moving their hands (off the home row, over to the arrow keys, over to the editing keys, etc) is slower, even though it is slower”. For most people, the feel is more important than the speed.

In other words, this argument topic usually doesn’t end reasonably for either side. :-)

P.S. For extra fun, look up the mouse-vs.-hotkeys discussion. My favorite example is in the research paper for Plan 9’s Acme & 8½ ui.
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It has been my experience that “data-structures” in real world situations and especially within code directly facing consumers varies a lot more compared to what any pre-implementation data design process can predict (I’d even say that the structure of a lousy data-input form on a god-forsaken website has the potential to change a lot more often compared to the intrinsic structure of the Linux kernel). Dynamic languages (like python or even php) are very good at tackling this real life situation, hence their popularity.
It's called a Mondegreen [1] in English, where a foreign language (or nonsense language in this case) is interpreted by your brain to be some meaningful sentence in your (usually) native language.

In Dutch the phenomenon is known nowadays as a "Mamma Appelsapje" (a "Mommy Apple Juice"), because the Michael Jackson song "Wanna be starting something" contains

> mama say mama sa mama coosa

Which sounds to Dutch speakers like

> mama say mama sa mamma appelsap

Another one is Chumbawamba - Tubthumping, where

> You're never gonna keep me down

Sounds like

> Jullie hebben nog niet betaald

Which means "You haven't paid yet"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Why wouldn't you be able to use it on iOS, other than perhaps someone not having implementing it yet? If its a decent keyboard it should be too long till someone does
For even more detail, https://github.com/petergeoghegan/pg_hexedit

With further blog posts https://pgeoghegan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/pghexedit-rich-hex... and http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/exploring-sp-gist-a...
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What's even worse, even the payment issue is solved and nobody is forced to go through Airbnb for that.

There is Paypal, Moneygram, Western Union, there are direct wire transfers, in many countries you can pay by cheque, you can do a direct deposit ... And all of these work with your existing cash and credit cards and don't require knowledge how to set up a Bitcoin (or whatever-coin) wallet and how to use it and how not to get scammed.

It is literally a solution looking for a problem hoping to cash on the crypto craze (adding -coin to anything is a sure way to get funded/bought/have your stock price soar up).
Icelandic Sigur Rós do songs with vocals that sound emotive but don't actually mean anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAYb8ZyjzD0

Verified by an Icelandic friend.
> Wearable integration is limited and uninspired. Aside from bulky watches and bracelets nothing got attention.

I actually think this is a symptom of the same problem. 'Wearables' were/are an attempt at creating a next 'iPhone' - new device category to get big wows for every year. Unfortunately, the market need wasnt/isnt really there for it, apart from some fitness accessories.
It's certainly better than "no path."
Thanks, this is very informative.

So as this conversation started, your plan is to do the language thing for the visa and then try to transfer into an engineering position?
The standard text boxes on macOS don’t use readline, they use NSText*, which happens to implement similar things to the defaults for readline (because they were created by people who used Emacs a lot, and readline defaults to Emacs style). This is really only important because readline customizations won’t affect macOS text boxes — but it will affect readline programs on macOS, including bash.
> 2. There is some value to Blockchain technology, so the value is not $0.

The value of current crypto-currencies might very well be zero, even if there is some value to blockchain technology.

> 4. The global market is still tiny? The entire crypto space is $550bn in market cap. Facebook is $552bn in market cap.

Comparing market caps like that is silly. I launch my own coin pg314-coin, 1 billion exist. I sell one to my friend for $1000. The market cap is now $1 trillion, twice that of Facebook...

> You could have put $2m in the stock market in 2008-2009, and if you used leverage in a smart way, could have ended up with $75-100m.

That is true of any period in time where the stock market went up. If you have a positive return to start with you can have an arbitrary multiplier with 'leverage used in a smart way'.
Yes, those and ionizer/ozonator equipped dryers are moderately common in Asia. I still wouldn't use one, but I guess once I'm in the room it doesn't matter.
That guy has a big smile for delivering that news.

Unnerving as the first thing you see when the story comes up.

The video is more unnerving: greater than 50% drop measured, apparently still continuing, little interest in stopping the causes, significant health implications.
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Unintelligible lyrics aren't a necessary part of Italo, though; it's just that they were sometimes written by people who didn't speak English terribly well, and cared more about making something people could dance to.

Nonetheless, i have upvoted your comment, as Italo is the third best genre of music, and deserves to be more widely appreciated.
> That said, if you are an adult, maybe it is time to not rely on a third party to be between you and other economic actors. We don’t do this with information, why do we do it with financial information (who holds what wealth and owes whom how much).

We are outsourcing (in the literal and figural sense) all the time, including with information. Google, Facebook, and arguably Amazon are examples of us outsourcing information. Even there, self hosting (e.g. Mastodon allows a Facebook/Twitter alternative) has its advantages and disadvantages. People do not take disadvantages seriously until it confronts them.
But ansible playbooks are not just YAML. They’re YAML with Jinja2.
Pulsar navigation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131537

wonder if it could work on Earth too...
As I understand it the military wants to prevent the FAA from decommissioning radio NavAids and secondary radar. The FAA had counted on $100 billion from the decommissioning after the introduction of ADS-B. Jamming GPS signals forces aircraft to rely on the old systems, so it has become part of a politics game.
Have been using Dvorak for 6 years now. But only on my laptop/desktop. On the iPhone I continue using the standard Qwerty layout. I don't notice the context switch. Probably because switching to a mobile screen keyboard is an even bigger context switch, and we are already used to that. I tried using some 3rd party Dvorak keyboards on iOS but my typing was slower than with Qwerty.
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Doors that kick open are a bigger deal than whatever is there for hand drying.
2. There's value in blockchain technology, certainly, but someone who buys (any kind of) bitcoin is not buying technology. You wouldn't invest in baseball cards just because you think there's value in sport, would you?
I actually disagree. High-level knowledge without later filling in the gaps leads to cargo-cult software engineering.

If people get lost in the details, they are not prepared to fully understand the big picture.
Hi! Where did you find a good 3-button mouse these days? Are you still living off a hoard collected from back when?
Yikes. Twisters were scary folk.

Btw, the Italian title says "give me a hammer".
I think the skull and bones will be a good symbol for millions of years, unless evolution takes a really weird turn.
"real-time modeling of the woofer mechanics" reminds me of those Philips Motional Feedback speakers [2] my parents bought in the late '70s [2]. Instead of digital "real-time modeling" they used an analog feedback loop to control and correct woofer cone movement. These were self-contained active speaker cabinets containing a 35W (later also available in 75W) amplifier and two or three speakers with the feedback mechanism controlling the woofer.

They did not have wifi or an always-on microphone, true, but the former is easily remedied (use a Raspberry Pi Zero or something similar) while the latter is more of an advantage than a disadvantage.

[1] http://www.extra.research.philips.com/hera/people/aarts/_Phi...

[2] http://hifipig.com/philips-motional-feedback-speakers/
Love the idea of keeping the cmd+ based commands on a different layer.
There's no chance the U.S. military doesn't have the ability to selectively knock GPS out nation-wide. Odds are the American government has infrastructure in place to do the same in dozens of countries worldwide. GPS would never have been made available to the consumer market without this level of absolute control having been put into place.

It's frightening to see how casually the American government takes disrupting GPS. The fact is, there is risk in performing these tests near civilian populations. It takes one pilot - or someone else who depends heavily on GPS - to make a fatal mistake. It's not physically necessary to black out GPS for training... just take away the trainees' hardware, or program the firmware/software to act in the desired way. "How do we train our troops not to rely on GPS? I guess the only way is to disrupt GPS for a thousand miles around the training site!"
More command line tips: https://talk.linuxtoy.org/cli-tips/#2
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How did you think AI works?
Fantastic, thanks for the heads up!
I was going to comment a similar statement.. But I was wandering nobody else is concerned about it?

I don't think this should be on HN. But may be I don't understand the purpose.
The comedy panel show Shooting Stars had a round where the presenter Vic Reeves would sing pop songs "in the club style", and contestants had to recognize them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prE-DUyESY

There's never been anyone quite like Reeves and Mortimer.
Cocos2d-x one of the most popular 2D engines, still uses Python 2.0 on their build scripts.
> "instead of admitting that their product adds no value to anything":
I actually think that their 'airblade' (pictured in the article) is a very innovative product. When I first used it like ~10 years ago, I remember telling myself "Wow! Finally someone figured out how to make a useful hand dryer". The old style hand-dryers just took too long to dry hands, bit too long for my patience.
Porn watchers will have to prove they are over 18 under new laws
Not so fast. Aggregating the actions of all these persons claiming to be X in a single number or report is a clear indication they are related and considered pertinent data when a person claiming to be X demands credit - but in fact they are not, and the lack of pertinence is the blame of the agregator.

Furthermore, this only affects the real X, since all impersonators can claim to be Y and get around the sloppy data gathering practices of the agencies.
Is Ted Nelson generally seen as the inventor of hypertext? Vannevar Bush's As We May Think was published in 1945, but it seems that his descriptions of what would later be called hypertext were too general for him to be seen as the 'inventor of hypertext'.
Did I miss a step in the method?

- slather hands in virus
?
- dry with one of three methods

Shouldn't step 2 be "wash carefully with warm water and soap"?
They know how much they get per customer from an advertiser. They could then simply offer a "no advert" plan at this premium (or more), like cbs all access do.

If they don't they're idiots. Remember there's plenty of competiton for entertainment nowadays.
But only for full time jobs right, screw the tens of millions of people that work hourly and are managed to be legally part time.

(What I mean is, vacation time for full time white collar jobs probably isn't the first thing we need to address in our labor laws)
No it can't be.
Have you ever tried their variation with the hand-dryer built into the sink faucet?

My experience: whatever fluids that were in the sink (soap scum/mine or other people's dirty water) flying into my face after being hit with Dyson-powered wind, me immediately jumping a foot back. Made me wonder how did they ever test this product before release.

This contraption: https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-tap-overvie...
Well, the first problem is that only a relative few sites are big enough to do direct advertising. The harder question is how to keep web content decentralized by decentralizing means to revenue, a battle we are aggressively losing.
I find this, quite peculiar. Who is pushing for this and why would they want to do this? Is this some convert way to better track people, online? What other motive could there be?
Cyberdog: Now THERE was a cool web browser, email and news client. OpenDoc FTW!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
You failed to mention that the linked issue was closed with py3k support released. In 2015.

Py2/3 is not an issue in practice.