skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No: standardisation is easily enforced by just having two server lists, one for normal/central hosting and one for custom games where any host can register. At most you might want additionally give the user the ability to blacklist servers for themselves, and that's it.

The reason for banning community servers is probably mostly for combating piracy; by eliminating the ability to run on a LAN the game must always call home to be played.
That's what `SystemLookAndFeel` is, which is not the default Look and Feel in the JRE; `MetalLookAndFeel` is, which is what people think of when they think of Java applications. (1) Most Java applications don't set the LAF, (2) most distros don't set the default LAF (in /etc/profile.d/), and (3) most users don't know to set the default LAF.

And saying all applications should set it to SystemLookAndFeel would be wrong, as they should respect the user's settings if they exist.

_JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'
Counting it as just straight up income is not correct, though, given that AirBNB is essentially the hospitality business, which is highly cyclical. The first thing people cut back on is traveling, and hotels are not afraid to race to the bottom to fill rooms.
> being born in a time of no goddamned Electron apps.

You and I would be great friends.
https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_CodeNames
Yeah, Russ Cox ranted about pattern matching libraries a decade ago, ignoring the fact that they were already doing things far more complex than formal regular expression matching. In the decade since, that hasn't changed.
I think the idea is that it does it automatically so 150% is unnecessary.
V. interesting.

Should alleviate starter pain with stack (esp. Redux)
Many public shares are diluted enough their owners don't vote.
I suspect it's that and so much more! There's a huge science aspect to it now; and every year there's new pesticides, new seed varieties, crop-rations, yield techniques, etc. Not to mention the huge complicated business and tax bureaucracy that is modern farming. I'm sure this is only a small slice which is why it would be great to see more.

What I don't have even a sense of is how much of a daily concern a lot of this is or if it's a once-a-year kind of thing, or how much of it impacts somebody who "only" farms to support his family and may only have 1-2 workers versus hundreds.
There's a _very_ big difference in quality between the iPhone earbuds and high quality earbuds/headphones, and a relatively small difference in quality between different DACs. And outboard DACs come with a lot of tradeoffs: extra hardware, battery life (or another battery to charge), cost, and so on. So there are many people who care about sound quality and invested in high quality earbuds/headphones, but rationally didn't spring for an outboard DAC. You get 98% of the quality without it.
I think you can do it over chat.
You're not allowed to use other people's trade secrets anyway

Sure you are, you're just not allowed to reveal them. That is, once they're revealed [to outsiders], they can be used by anybody. The only cause of action that I know of is to go after the revealer (as we have here), nobody who learns (and/or uses) anything from a disclosure of trade secrets has anything to worry about.
> It varies though and can be as far as 100 million km (63 million miles).

It could get worse. Since at that point, the Sun is smack in between the earth and mars, so for a few days you can't get _any_ signal through.

You'd have to bounce it off some third satellite in solar orbit (like a triangle).

See https://space.stackexchange.com/a/18972
> Sorry, I'm simply not convinced that monetizing and marketing people's attention is all that much of a social ill. There is nothing about Facebook that's in any way worse than the old ways companies used to do this.

There is one thing about facebook and social media that is different. It allows people to interact in their own manner rather than being controlled by people with influence.

Before, you pretty much had to watch or accept what a handful of companies told you. It was a top down approach. Social media has flipped it upside down.

> C'mon. I guess bombastic apocalyptic bullshit will never go out of style.

It's a media propaganda campaign funded by some of the elites. We had apocalyptic scaremongering before. But this one is very different. Some of the media would talk about the "TV aka idiot box" for a day and move on. This facebook/social media propaganda campaign has been going on for years.

Everyday for the past few months, we had a story about facebook. Every single day. That isn't "news". That's propaganda.
It's not their responsibility though. The player could take a course on their own initiative.
This is a big deal for any systems that use Open Office to convert files to PDF (or otherwise) w/o proper sandboxing :(
It doesn't even seem close to DBeaver at this point, but who knows how it will progress. DBeaver is Java-based but still runs very fast on my Mac. Definitely the best db client I've used in years.
> I used to think most DBA worked under Windows/Linux.

I guess it depends on how you define a DBA. Surely macOS is huge among web developers, and since most non-trivial web applications interface with a database, web developers have to install and maintain DBMS systems and create and interact with databases. Does that make them DBAs too? Arguably so.
Saying that the Lighting Network is the most interesting thing in crypto is like saying IPv6 on IPv4 tunneling is the most interesting thing in networking.

No no no

You know what's instead the most interesting thing for building on top of crypto? More people using crypto for various purposes, whether it's for running programs (ETH), private transactions (Monero/zcash), or name lookup (Namecoins).
This is on Windows.

From my own experience, a few months ago, on Linux mpv was still the better choice (more performant, better image quality, some more polished/reliable features like subtitles) as long as you don't mind the minimal UI (or use a front-end).
How was it negative for Google?
Aren't you proving cbhl's point? When she can't put together a logical case and has to rely on "this person has kids please don't send them to prison for this crime they obviously committed," she's going to be trying to keep off the most logical and articulate people at any costs.
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/the-what-a...

I'm sure someone has worked on it. Might be interesting if Twitter had a opt in way to try some of their UI experiments.
My house doesn't scarf up acres of land in the middle of a city, for $14/year.

This is a colossal subsidy.
This is blatant erasure. Bitcoin was perfectly fine as a currency for most of its existence, and for a long time captured almost all crypto volume
So social obligation precedes debt and money. That's interesting.

I think classical economics starts with barter because its psychology and anthropology is one of humans being basically autonomous creatures who at some point voluntarily come together to engage in social relations.

However, what the science actually shows is that human beings have always been members of complex societies, and human psychology includes many social motives and mechanisms.
Oh yeah, that makes more sense!

I'm from Mexico. A good example to look at is Carmen Aristegui. She's an award winning journalist, most recently named one of the world's greatest leaders by Forbes, but she's been shunned from most traditional media outlets. After she reported on a corruption scandal involving the president she was fired from the broadcaster she worked for, and has since relied on web/social media to keep doing her job.

Meanwhile Televisa (biggest TV network in Mexico) reports memes [1], random crazy people [2], and is known to be very politically biased [3]. No award-winning journalists on TV.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1XceNu-LE (this girl's XV birthday became a big meme in Mexico)

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObV9XDBLRUk

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisa#Criticisms_and_contro...
Does anyone know what the threat model is for LibreOffice?

For Microsoft Office, VBA Macros are allowed to execute arbitrary code. I assume it's the same for LibreOffice Basic. For files without macros (like this exploit) what are the boundaries that should be enforced? It looks like Excel supports reading data from named files by design.[1] Is it ever safe to open a partially-trusted file in LibreOffice?

Edit: Some quick testing reveals that external links do work in LibreOffice Calc. If you answer "Yes" to "This file contains links to other files. Should they be updated?" on startup, it can read any file (and presumably use WEBSERVICE to upload the contents via query string).

1. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-an-external-...
It's great to see alternative personal development like this proposed. Hopefully governments and doctors will find a safe way to do further research.
I can buy replacement earbuds at my corner bodega for $1.50. Yeah they're awful but they work, they have no problems pairing, they require no batteries, they're 100% compatible, and so on. 40x is a big difference.
Which is mainly because Yehuda Katz (Rust core member) works at Skylight.
Reddit discussion with paper authors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7vkvg5/r_i...

Learns a policy. Transfer learning using "v-trace". Improves on A3C.
Backdoors.
I watch the full pbs newshour video on youtube everyday — it’s a good general overview of daily happenings, if I want details for anything I can look up texts
The QT licencing is confusing because different components have different licences. However Qt is used successfully in commercial projects by sticking to the LGPL licenced components:

https://www1.qt.io/licensing-comparison/
Too long, how about "Scientist report psychoactive drugs leading to long term positive effects".
I can't tell you how weird this sounds to me. When I moved to the US, I paid one year of Prime and then stopped, because that was the year they raised the price from $80 a year to $100. Since then, I have been using the free shipping option (5-8 business day) for the vast majority of my orders and I have consistently received my orders before their initial estimate. The only reason why I paid for Prime that one year was because of Amazon Instant Video, but I got disappointed by lack of Spanish subtitles and the lackluster content selection.
Before this gets inundated with people making comments about Googler data scientists making $400k, these are folks with PhDs in math or statistics, very accomplished academic literature, leaders in their fields. These are not people messing around with Haskell on the weekends and leaving an insurance firm's IT department to go to Google.
What a bunch of goofs.

Edit: downvotes, really folks? You don't see the parent's typo?
It appears to be an Electron app…
RTLDR: get off your face on mushies. It's like wow man.
This goes both ways. Articles aren't always 100% trustworthy either, and in that case a commenter might just as well offer a valid counterpoint or correction(s).

As with anything, be reasonable. If you're really interested, then use whatever content is available to educate yourself, be it comments, the article itself, or independent research.
Good for Uber? They lost Lewandowski and their founder. Plus have to pay $250m. Plus lots of things exposed at Uber. How is this a positive?
Agreed. IINA is really good. Best Mac player I have seen so far.
I suspect you’ve been downvoted because iPhones have been demonstrated to be water resistant decently past their official rating, and through context it appears that you were referring to their resistance being a lie.
Maria Prymachenko’s fantastic world of flowers and animals
> I'm astounded that they support those architectures

I work on PG, and I'm regularly astounded too...

As long as the compilers are new enough, the burden isn't too high though. Previously it prevented us from using atomics for some concurrency optimized things, but now we've an atomics implementation that, at compile time, falls back to a spinlock backed atomics implementation. Slightly complicated by the fact that we don't even have a hard dep on a spinlock implementation, falling back to semaphores :)

Ah. Fun.

But seriously, the thing that hurts more is that we only require a C89 compiler :/
As much as I personally think cryptocurrencies will have a difficult time achieving currency status - this is pretty much what happened during the American Revolution. Congress issued bonds to pay soldiers and for goods for the Continental Army. Those who accepted the bonds as payment were, in a sense, betting that they would be worth something in the future.
From the release notes:
>Fix sample INSTR() functions used to help transition from Oracle(r) PL/SQL to PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL to correctly match Oracle functional behavior

TIL PL/pgSQL exists so I googled it. In the page for porting from Oracle PL/SQL:

>Instead of packages, use schemas to organize your functions into groups.

Does anyone know if there are plans to introduce packages in Postgres? Doesn't putting function in different schemas mean you have to grant select/update permissions to the schemas that talk to other schemas?

*edit:formatting
Am OP of comment, I believe the reasoning is that the quality of MOOCs varies wildly and there is often no way to confirm that a student actually completed the content or how well they did? Another reason could be that the sheer number of MOOCs that a student might take would just add noise to your resume?

I'm not sure that's accurate, but I've had many people tell me to avoid putting anything about MOOCs on a resume.
Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly
I'd be more likely to share this with my team if they didn't have a recruiting pitch in there. I have a (probably irrational) fear of people abandoning the team for some new shiny thing. Just a thought. It's a great writeup otherwise!
Why is every comment containing humor downvoted on Hackernews? (Mine has no humor, mind you!)
As a lover of Android, this is very depressing. Google actually started with a lead in smart watches and now they are way behind. Smart watches are here to stay. It's a great example of how Apple stays behind a product and Google is completely fickle.
The political angle is more interesting to me, since the Lightning Network is developed by Blockstream, whose investors include:

Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures and Real Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Crypto Currency Partners, Future\Perfect Ventures, Danny Hillis, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Max Levchin, Mosaic Ventures, Ray Ozzie, Ribbit Capital, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Horizons Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, and Digital Garage.

Think again, if you REALLY still think Bitcoin (core) is "decentralized".

(For the record, I don't think Bcash is either).
>>> import requests

>>> data = requests.get('https://www.cryptocompare.com/api/data/coinlist/')

>>> data = data.json()

>>> len(data['Data'].keys())

2148
FYI: Most of your footer links are not working & point to https://tableplus.io/#
Hence my remark,

> Apparently not many bother to learn how to take advantage of Swing APIs.
"4chan, like life, is what you make of it."

4chan is what I make of it.

But it's also what the rest of society makes of it.

That's why we're in deep shit.
You can definitely raise children for more responsibility or away from it. If a lot of top sportmen can't manage finance, that would suggest that there is something about the system that raises them (they spend more time on sport then anything else) that is that way.

Which would suggest that responsible parent won't put children into such system.
Battery cases are generally a better solution to this problem for the vast majority of people.

Most people use cases anyway, and space is at a premium on the inside of the phone. Not so much on the outside. Plus, battery cases can be used without shutting down and turning the phone back on.
For some reason, my packages are rarely delivered by AMZL (although it does happen). But, I too have stopped my amazon-first habit... I noticed a couple shipments that I bought on amazon were actually drop shipped from walmart.com and target.com by the third party seller. Sure enough, I looked up the products on those sites and they were 15-20% cheaper.

It takes a little more time now, but I do a quick google price search before buying anything on amazon. Sometimes, if it's only a small difference, then it's worth the frictionless experience of buying through amazon, but as I create accounts on more and more sites, the frictional difference is becoming marginal.
Reminds me of 'The Elves are leaving Middle Earth':

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Uber value is based on adopting SDC. Otherwise the business does not work long term.
I'm not colorblind and I use colorblind mode just because I think it looks better!
My last Feria del Libro was over 12 years ago and it was great! I got American Psycho, a Nightcrawler comic book, and thriller novel (now or never by elizabeth adler). Perhaps this was due to my ignorance as a young Cuban and not being able to learn about what was going on in the literary world outside the country.
The Cuban Government censors many things, in my opinion, I wanted to know what specific works the author thinks should be available.
The comparison includes both.
You don't know soros but you think your mind has been hijacked by 4chan, the_donald, etc?

No offense, but you comment sounds like something a fan of soros would write.

Considering you mentioned the_donald, you're comment reeks of agenda.
Cool! I can't wait to see data centers that are pulsating with RGB light in a seizure inducing "Linus Tech Tips - THE MOST INSANE RGB DATA CENTER EVER" kind of way. With all the lights there for "security reasons"
People have been using bitcoin for various purposes for a while now, it's nothing new.

Lightning is seeming like a viable options as it grows ever larger, additionally most of the new development in privacy is happening in Bitcoin. Very cool stuff.
“You can’t just buy Vantablack and paint it on. SNS has to be involved with the application process of the highly flammable liquid, which has to be applied in a sprayed method overseen by the company. The building was coated ..by a team of British and Korean painters that had to be trained by SNS directly”

Quite the process for a shade of paint. This also assumes the building exterior will maintain showroom status. Any dirt or weathering and poof! it looks like normal black.
Very interesting.

However, one thing that I fail to see addressed here is reason for the incarceration gap. The way I see it, it can be partially because black kids are prosecuted more (the "white privilege" argument) and partially perhaps because, for whatever reason, rich black kids just commit crimes more often.
Figure Skating Olympics 2018 Live Reddit
> Coffee roasting is a skill, skill WF employees do not have and are unlikely to have in future

...

Well then
People failing to understand the limitations of the blockchain is indeed interesting. However I think more people would be interested in how we will overcome such limitations.
Not for any useful definition of net neutrality; IP addresses are still visible for ISPs to discriminate on.
What? Nothing is implied. No one is starting over. Money changes hands and everyone saves face.
One way is working on one of the many internet (re-)decentralization projects, since that is one of their key goals.
Lightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projects are open source and have outside contributors.
It seems that we, the people that read about athletes and celebrities losing their money while we commute to work feel the best course of action is less control. Arguably similar, people in technology who hunt equity at the expense of future financial stability. We consider their competence at managing money in the but not the latter.
FerrariChat. Subscription area is a brain trust of car guys. Been on there for like fifteen years. Immeasurably valuable.
How does that answer the question? Doesn't UPS provide services in right-to-work states as well? And vice-versa for Amazon?
Oh, I see, it'd be hard to go up to Aarhus from there. You'd be travelling in several other directions first.
The Lounge: Modern self-hosted web IRC client
> Hm, most of the people I know who live in the "coastal elite" cities did not grow up in those same cities; they grew up in places like Ohio.

Yes, and generally speaking, if they liked Ohio, they would've stayed there, because you can still make a very nice living as a coder in middle America. That means they're going to be even more upset about Ohioans closing in, because they'll feel like the culture they left behind is sneaking back up on them.
Where this analogy falls apart is when it becomes slower and more expensive to use the lower layers than the higher ones.
Show HN: Ask Alexa to help you relax
And LN is nothing new- it just allows people to transact ...cheaper and faster. Okay that's cool, but that's not a new goal; That's the original goal of Bitcoin

As for adding new functionalities into Bitcoin, the creator of Ethereum originally wanted to build Smart Contract on Bitcoin but was rebuffed by Bitcoin developers. Ditto for Zcash. Bitcoin developers don't have a good track record of incorporating new functionalities into the Bitcoin protocol...
I suspect it's an effort to keep the signal to noise ratio high. In reference to April Fool's gags on HN, 'dang commented a while back:

> "A word about humorlessness, since it's bound to come up. People who complain about HN's humorlessness have a point, but not because we're against humor. We like laughing as much as anyone. It's because empirically, a culture of humor means a flood of lame humor, and HN's goal is to optimize for signal/noise ratio. As with any optimization, there are inevitably tradeoffs."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793
You obviously haven't played with IPv6 tunnels in a restrictive environment - like if your ISP doesn't let you host websites.

Being able to go to tunnelbroker and get a /48 that you can allocate to all your gizmos and VM at home is magical -- especially when your ISP doesn't want to support IPv6

I gave my weather station its own IPv6 website, with fixed AAAA records, and some dyn dns magic to update tunnelbroker.net whenever my ISP changed my IPv4.
Show HN: Ask Alexa to help you sleep
To be clear about the chronology here, wycats made the decision to go with Rust, then did a lot of work in Rust, then became a core team member. He chose Rust because of his needs in Skylight, not because he was already invested in Rust.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html

> Yehuda Katz will be known to many in the Rust community for his work on the initial design and implementation of the Cargo project. He is also a co-founder of Tilde, which has been using Rust commercially in their Skylight product for quite some time