skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One that you have apparently bought right into

Well I'm glad I did then, because I truly feel at home when I stay in an Airbnb, and I don't feel at home when I'm staying in a hotel.

Of course living in a city is about more than just having a home, but it gives you that feeling, for a bit.

> "I travel a lot" adds no weight at all

Of course it adds weight. I have the actual experience of living in different cities (and different continents) and I've been staying at airbnbs and hotels enough to understand the difference. Now again, these are just my personal anecdotal experiences, but saying that it is absurd is absurd. You can't objectively think that living in someone's "home" is not more homely that staying in a hotel.
They show in the last demo usage of this technique with rolling shutter. Considering image height for most cameras is now in thousands of pixels, this somewhat overcomes Nyquist limit problem
In the absence of a central host, who is hosting the media? In the near future that's likely to include advances around AR/VR, which will significantly increase the burden on infrastructure.

Who provides a trusted system of reviews? Who hosts/controls those? What's the basis of trusting those to be legitimate users/customers? Who foots the bill for the site (or similar) that enables organized browsing of all listings, searching, information presentation, et al.? How do you force coordination on that if it's decentralized? How do you then keep that decision committee from becoming the central authority all over again? This is the libertarian anarchy problem, where you will always end up right back with some center power structure that becomes dominate.

There are a vast number of problems that Airbnb solves that you're leaving out.

There is no scenario where decentralized wins. The extreme majority of users do not care about decentralization, it is meaningless to them. They want a trusted central authority to hold responsible, complain to, sue, whatever.
The problem would be all the data you _don't give_

You act like everyone is a good citizen, you may be, I may be, but people out there will cheat if left to their own reporting
Why quitting my job was the best thing ever?
I’m interested in moving back to Linux as my main platform, so I’m curious: have they fixed the battery life problem on the usable, portable laptops? Last I looked, this was vastly better on macOS, so I stayed (although I am enjoying my Chromebook ultraportable as a cheap travel machine).
They address that in the paper. They make use of the rolling shutter common in CMOS imaging chips to effectively increase the sampling rate to well above the frame rate.
> So you want people who can't afford credit cards with nice rewards, to subsidize those who do?

Where did I say that?

> Also, you are not privy to the contracts between merchants and card processors, so how would you know?

That’s why I asked a question instead of stating something as fact. Why are you so defensive in your reply?
It kind of baffles me that today the best solution we have to the problem of navigation is still based on the concept of having satellites in the space. Is there an ELI5 answer to why we can't have a decent system of figuring out where we are on this planet without making any unstable additions to it?
HN is rock, everything else is slow
QEMU is huge, but you choose what parts to use. If you stick to the defaults, e.g. your VM has one or more virtio devices, a virtual USB3 controller and USB tablet, maybe an IDE/AHCI controller and an e1000 or rtl8139 NIC, it should be pretty okay.

Because of its use with KVM, QEMU has had its code scrutinized quite closely in the last few years. There are some device models that have a pretty bad track record, such as Cirrus VGA, but they are not the default anymore and there's no reason why you should use them.
hat's wrong with "Gentlemen"? I wrote this just to attract attention.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gentlemen
HomePod – Technical Specifications – Apple
What about version 0.91? https://www.python.org/download/releases/early/ and http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/0... .
You continue holding the same position, having not been convinced to change it.

Though I think it is even better to weigh how much of the argument rests on the fallacious premise (or step) and then evaluate the argument sans fallacy.
Ehm, I always request CVE ids. KVM has had no serious VM escape in quite some time.
I've always wondered why they aren't equipped with UV light to kill bacteria
You mean like this <https://i.imgur.com/6ZXAchD.png>? You can get the old look back via userChrome.css. Relevant styles from mine:

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I have had the same problems with IPv6 and Gmail. As I also admin G.Suite I have access to their paid support.

I did your exact follow up - politely and persistent!!

It was a dead-end. They had no idea - and worse - no escalation path to the SMTP team.
Yes. Very much still an issue. There's mountains of Python 2 code still out there and loads of software starts with Python 2 and then maybe adds Python 3 support later. Hopefully.

For example [issue #1](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1) for Tensorflow - one of the most popular Python packages out there is "add Python 3 support".

It's one of the biggest reasons not to use Python IMO. No other popular language has this issue. The other reasons I wouldn't use Python:

1. Difficult to distribute standalone programs. You end up having to bundle an interpreter which is a pain.
2. So many programs include python interpreters you end up with insane path issues, especially on windows.
3. It's still slow.
Wow, that's it?

Googling around a bit, it seems that Google's attempt to include everything under the sun into your YouTube Red subscription is to blame...

They could just give you ad-free youtube. But instead, they want YTR to include their YTR-only premium content, and also they want to throw in Google Music... all of that requires decyphering copyright laws and potentially registering as a royalties collector (IANAL). Typical Google behavior, an inflexible all-or-nothing approach.
I was toying with the idea of using a different layout than QWERTY because I already remap almost all my keys with Karabiner.

However I think it's not worth it in the end because on iOS for example I wouldn't be able to use Halmak or Colmak so it's not worth the context switch.

My Karabiner layout: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macOS/apps/karabiner/Karabin...
A few years ago, I was thinking about switching to an Android phone, to try out android app development. I changed my mind when I read a serious article titles something like “which anti-virus software packages should you run on your android phone”.
Is there a chance we could get MAFF: (and MHT:) protocols as well and let our web-extension handle those (single-file archived web pages if anyone wondered)?

This would allow us to (again) associate the Firefox browser with for example .maf files and have them displayed in the browser via the extension. (I'm sure there must be thousands of archived pages out there that currently are a hassle to view - it would be great to get support for those).
HomePod arrives 9 February, available to order this Saturday – Apple (AU)
There's no reason it _has_ to be like this. I feel like it became common wisdom that you just shouldn't run a mail server too early and the cool kids all gave up working on mail servers. The author is right though about how terrifying it is that we've ceded running email to an advertising company

All the things that make running your own server hard are software problems, the protocol itself lends itself very well to running your own. We just need someone to build the [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) of mail servers. You have the right idea with your Haskell server, though I think in this day a Go project might be more successful.
Its a real pity that these populations are endangered by poachers, who are likely sourcing the fish for use in aquariums as a show piece. There is a real divide between the public who know and care about endangered species, and those who just want to be posers and have something rare and valuable to impress their friends. I truly wonder sometimes at just what sort of mechanism would be required to make this situation lesser so - the same with elephant poaching. Just how can we deal with the social issue whereby some people care about preserving the environment, and some just want to demonstrate their cool factor by having rare, 'special' things? We in the technology world have to take a bit of responsibility for this - we're constantly bending this innate desire to impress to our will in an an effort to establish market dominance and capitalistic/consumerist goals .. but on the other hand, we have the tools to reduce this factor immensely, by way of community-building and education. Could there be some sort of 'rare animal' streaming service which supplants the aquarium-/mantel-mount factor, and gives everyone access to these beautiful creations, and not just a special, elite? One wonders just how to get such a startup booted up .. without becoming the very thing it'd be designed to resist (poaching)...
Even if the involved parties are corrupt it’s a good ruling. Replace the players and that outcome is preferrable over the alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245383
This is almost a rule in Europe.

The visible part of these organizations (head, management and recommendations) are pitiful or plain outrageous (recommendations are usually years behind the reality, which contrasts with recent NIST posture).

At the same time, the regular folks are usually surprisingly good, open and forward - thinking. They either work in the dark or have propositions which never reach the top.

When I say "surprisingly", it is because that are statistically better than their counterparts in the private sector, and are payed way less.
Well why do you think we should? I don't know of any positioning principles that do not rely on measuring the distance to some known reference -- be it a star, sattelite, ground station or your place of departure.
Approximately two years too late. If it had been built up previously, in time to truly ride the the mania of the prior year, that might have generated some kind of value for the business. The bubble is already collapsing.
It's decent, but there are some major shortcomings caused by the WebExtensions API. For example if you somehow get caught in address bar, you can only leave it by pressing Enter or reaching for the mouse and clicking somewhere else. Another inconvenient feature is the time it takes for the extension to be loaded. On bloated and slow pages, I have to wait for a second or two while pressing the shortcuts to switch to another tab or anything. Basically the whole extension-driven keyboard UI locks up waiting for the page to finally load. And this is not because these extensions are slow, but because they get initialized only some time after the webpage has already begun loading.
Here in Australia I looked in to a few of these reward programs on various cards and none of them were worth the annual fee unless you were spending over $10,000 a month.
One of my friends' throw-away blog articles ended up being be be. one in a non-english search for "butt cramps". It has something like 1.2 million page views and 1000 comments.

Proctalgia fugax is apparently pretty common.
The parallels to penny stocks in the 80s are rampant.
I never checked. I severely doubt it though.
This 1983 Demo Says So Much About Apple’s Past, Present, and Future
Oxymoron of Blockchain based Cryptocurrency
Power users can hack and compile their own build. But you just want to complain on the internet.

So I don't see why the rest of us should have to endure your specific, less secure world view on software.

For example, your pitch certainly doesn't entice me yet you act like its necessity is self-evident. Maybe it's just time for you to find a browser that suits you instead of replying to every post that disagrees with you.
I've always had this problem where I can't quite hear the words in even the clearest and most known songs. Other people tell me how obvious the words were. So this song was a nightmare to hear for the first time. At least this time it's not my fault.
Is there any reason such a smart contract / blockchain would need to be public?
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.6
Thanks for the correction.

Pretty much is not everything, for example Cocos2d-x scripts.
Ask HN: What Security papers should I read?
I have wored in security for many years, but I want to go deeper. What papers or research would you recommend?
Better quality video from the original artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VpczwrSCc
Any chance you could link the specific paper you’re talking about? This seems like a area I’d love to explore and the older you mentioned seems like a good starting point - I looked up the author on arxiv and there seems to be a few papers you could be referring to
It depends on whether you think of it as moving the content, or moving a window over the content. When reading a piece of paper, do you move the paper upwards, or do you move your eyes downward? What does pressing the "down arrow" key do, and should moving down on a trackpad move in the same direction as the "down arrow" key?

Personally, I have a physical consideration: scrolling down in a document is more common than scrolling up, and to me moving the fingers down over the trackpad feel more comfortable than moving the fingers up, so I use normal scrolling instead of inverted scrolling.
Uninformed consent is your fault. If you sign papers without reading them, that's on you.
In addition to the control- versions, there are meta- and control+alt- versions that work the same way in greater logical units. For example, moving forward by 1 character/word/sentence-or-expression uses different modifiers for the same keybinding. In Emacs, these consistenly pervade the interface, so, for example, paragraphs in text modes are akin to blocks in or functions in programming modes (depending on if the language is block or function based). This is one reason that Emacs tends to swallow other user interfaces for dedicated Emacs users — everything is highly consistent, and you get a giant head-start on a new systems. Of course, it helps that Emacs is massively customizable, so when something doesn’t quite do what you want, it’s usually a very small bit of hacking to change that.

Historically, many of those keybindings date back to very crude remote terminals where control codes and tty modes were a real concern. For example, I’ve used systems (in the 90’s) where the delete key could freeze your remote connection. Emacs, because of it’s age and ubiquity, has grown up somewhat “around” those traps.
Cancer.

Or more likely, lawsuits about cancer.
I find that description inaccurate. Users here aren't all obsessed with finance.
Dutch pronounces <r> in the same way in some contexts (before another consonant or at the end of words) and the first time you hear it you might have a moment of confusion, thinking people are speaking English but you just can't understand it for some reason.
I'm sure I've seen hand dryers with UV lights before
I remember watching the video which you are talking about, a quick search did not return any results, I guess it has disappeared for some reason.

I am sure there might be a torrent somewhere.
Because there is no cheaper solution that's reliable.

I think when we figure out affordable global positioning without needing external infrastructure, we'll unlock a major technological milestone as a species. Right now you can do this for short periods of time with multi million dollar INS solutions which are used exclusively by the military.

My guess is the answer will be in SLAM augmented with some other sources of data. See googles project tango.
not a programmers keyboard. semicolon at the hardest to reach position
2007 was when Equifax bought The Work Number. It probably wasn't as prevalent then.
That happens to me when I hear people talking in Dutch for some reason my brain tells me they are speaking a weird version English.
We can and we have with mobile networks and wifi positioning.

That's just not accurate enough for many applications, and resolution varies a lot.
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Ah, but the libertarian anarchy solution is to wait until the dominant central power structure is your group and then declare all problems solved and fight vigorously for the status quo.
> though I don't see anything that will satisfy the vimperator users, I'm encouraged by the new mouse gesture APIs

Yep, me too. I switched to Waterfox for the time being because of how important FireGestures is to me. If full-fledged mouse gestures extensions become available in Fx again, that would be a big step towards making the new Firefox usable for me.

Since you mentioned vimperator, another major issue for me is the lack of a VimFx style extension - that one is much simpler than vimperator or pentadactyl, and has other new attempts at alternatives, but 'Saka keys' is the one that seems to come closest (and makes this less of an issue than the mouse gestures one) and that's still kinda buggy and years behind VimFx in terms of features.

I would have missed Tab groups though it's not that big of a deal to me, but I'm glad we'd have that feature again. And another minor issue in that league is the lack of a good Speed Dial extension with a decent UI and set of features (which none of the "replacements" had last time I tried them out).
It solves problems for Parisian hosts.
Have you tried sqlcl from Oracle? 20 meg download (requires java). Up down left right work. Use sql hr@ instead of sqlplus hr
@ (I am one of the developers.) . I should try it from within Emacs.
Same here, but I do it for free by using the DNS of my registrar which has an API (this is gandi.net and their new API is extremely simpke and useful).
I love the update. Dyson (of course) just threw 4 studies at them, that were conducted under unrealistic conditions, just like they accused the researcher of.

Just like any other capitalistic company, instead of admitting that their product adds no value to anything and trying to come up with something else, they go full anti-science.
Sorry, I interpreted it as a sarcastic remark to screwed over a merchant offering a lower price for cash customers.
Not many have 500+ euros to throw out for a phone.
At highway speeds and significant range yea. This gets into signal processing, when you send out a radar pulse you get a lot of junk returns. If you are slowly backing up and just want to know if a wall is there sure that works fine.

But, for more distant objects a single pulse gives ever more crap the further out it travels. If you send 2 pulses next to each other you can adjust for vector of car and ignore the repeated data to just look for stuff moving relative to the background.

This results in really 'easy' automatic cruse control that ends up hitting stopped objects on the road.

PS: Things would get a little better if cars had one of those rotating arrays you see on ships, but car radar is a solid state system.
> I've tried alternatives like Waterfox and Pale Moon, but Waterfox is incompatible with some sites

Oh, I haven't experienced that in a few months of usage. What kind of incompatibilities did you come across?

I was initially reluctant about trying Waterfox and made several backups of my then-Firefox profile, but it's been a smooth sail and an easy switch so far.
My question was actually: who's using Secure Scuttlebutt?
I'm considering applying for this as I use Thunderbird for all my email, wrote a couple of XUL applications years ago, and have an Upwork account, and the first thing I need to do is to see what the source code and build process looks like: I've built Firefox and FirefoxOS before, and it was not trivial.

Their post has nothing about that, and the Thunderbird page at Mozilla also has no "Developers", "Source code" or similar link anywhere. That should be there at least in the page footer.

Ok, so here is the Mercurial repo and build instructions:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

That link should be part of the job description.

The directory size (du -sh) is 148 MB after "hg clone", and 5.4 GB after "./client.py checkout".
Wading deeper into “The Expanse”
Classic!

Some of my personal favourite, unintelligible Italo tracks:

Sensitive - Driving: https://youtu.be/Qprd11nRO7c

Alex Valentini - Beautiful Life: https://youtu.be/-CbtAaPPLAg

Fockewulf 190 - Gitano: https://youtu.be/kto_Yi0Bec4
Quoting the link: In 1975, in an introduction to a book of Tiptree's short stories, Robert Silverberg wrote of his friend, "It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing."

That is from "Warm World and Otherwise". I have the second printing, from 1979, which is after SF learned that Tiptree is a woman.

One of the ways I learned about how views on "masculinity" and "femininity" have changed was to read Silverberg's commentary about the apparently widespread question of "is Tiptree a man or women?", and concluding there is "something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing".

Then because I have the second printing, I also saw Silverberg's followup:

> "She ... called into question the entire notion of what is "masculine" or "feminine" in fiction. I am still wrestling with that. What I have learned is that there are some women who can write about traditionally male topics more knowledgeably than most men...."

This was one of my first steps in learning that 'the entire notion of what is "masculine" or "feminine"' is not the clear binary distinction that I had been brought up with.
There are plenty of programming languages that don't use semicolons. And it's not even the hardest position to reach.
And to go one level deeper, there's the famous Biz Markie cover of "Bennie and the Jets."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_l_runP4-Q
You don't need to be solving something that the unwashed masses consider an "important problem". If you have a product, and people want to pay you for it, then that's a viable business.

FWIW, I am staying in a flat sourced through cryptocribs later this year, and looking forward to it.

If you want to pay with a debit card, you can use AirBnB. If you want to pay with Bitcoin, you can use cryptocribs.
Rolling out Internet access in rural parts of Rwanda
The conspiracy theory is that the auto glass shops "employ" the homeless to go around and break windows. One thing I found is that you just leave your doors unlocked. Don't have anything in the car at all. I know it sounds crazy and isn't applicable in every case but I'd bet it would reduce window breakages.
Wow, I'm a Hindi speaker and the effect completely fails for me on the first track. However, Buffalax' Rajinikanth does sound completely true. I'm amazed how the two of us are completely perceiving opposite things in the same songs.
> It's good to know that your broker and doctor's mail is delivered directly to your server and not Google.

That's only if your broker and doctor are not using Gmail or G Suite, otherwise your email (with them) is likely to be read by Alphabet regardless of your server setup.
Bootstrap 4 Quick Start tutorial for web development beginners
I could see getting used to its placement - rather than a oft wasted key under your right pinky (really, how many letters do you type before you finally hit a semi?), its now only a lazy index-finger stretch to where 'Y' used to be...and you get an 'i' for your pinky. I'd hardly describe it as hardest to reach!
how do you get them?