skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure why that's more annoying that overhearing a face to face conversation, but it definitely is

My guess (and personal experience) is that it's because the frequency response of the speakers is so tinny and thin compared to what you'd expect a regular face-to-face conversation to be, your brain keeps being distracted by it? Same with people "listening to" music by keeping headphones on their desk on full blast...
Content that is viewed is stored temporarily, yes, not random unvisited content.
It’s been awhile since I read it, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought peopleware was advocating for the same as the GP - mixed spaces that suit the individual preferences of teams/individuals.
I disagree on #4. For me at least, a page with no borders and just whitespace looks like a jumble of elements. Not that everything should have a border, but plenty of websites could go for a couple more lines.
There's lots of definitions, I think this one is probably closer to what we think of when discussing meritocracy:

an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/meritocracy
I would add women entering the workforce en bulk, essentially doubling it. Between that and globalization it would seem the supply/demand ratio significantly changed to have downward pressure on salaries.
I am tempted to agree with you, but put yourself in his shoes. Being poor is a trap that you cannot get out of by yourself, it is incredibly frustrating. Along comes his ticket out of shitsville and you expect him to just pass?
I'll list some sites below. Though the new main focus of the game is "raids". When you open the game you'll encounter gyms at various locations. 2-3 times a day a gym will have a Raid Boss (you'll know a Raid Boss when you see it, because you have to use a raid pass to fight it - you get 1 pass a day, though you can get more by using coins, which you get by taking and staying in gyms, or by paying for them). The boss will be rated from 1 to 5 stars (1 being easy - a single player can take it down; 5 being the hardest, requiring several players, though defeating a level 5 Raid will earn you the possibility of catching a legendary Pokemon).

The hardest part of the game is getting enough players to take down a high level boss, which is why people have taken to joining chats to coordinate raids. Though this may be different for highly populated areas, and it's still possible to just randomly show up at a raid and find people waiting for it to start.

* https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/

* https://rankedboost.com/pokemon-go/

* https://thesilphroad.com/

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrtyNMe3xtv3CLg5QR78HzQ/vid... - Best youtube channel I've encountered, though it's done in vlog style, so it's probably quicker to get information from the sites above.
Ask HN: What are you missing in existing email clients?
I'm wondering both about features and quality. Personally, I dislike most of the desktop clients not for a lack of features, but for a lack of quality. Too often, UIs are clunky, or IMAP syncing doesn't work well, or search is dissatisfactory.

I should not be priming you more, but just ask: What features and qualities are you missing? What would make you try another client? What are absolute must-haves in terms of features?
Because sometimes systems need a start-from-scratch rewrite to progress.
This may be an overblown response, but I can't help to give my opinion about centralisation. I think the web is decentralised, but has never been that centralised. What I'm about to say is about the Internet in a broader meaning, but applies to the web just as well.

A few actors own most of the servers (aws, google, ovh, azure), a few actors own most of the personal data (google, facebook, amazon) and a few actors own the pipes to transfer the data between users and the above service (depends on the country, but on average 3 to 4 provider per country, often the same across borders). The fact CDNs are spread geographically has no impact on the balance of centralisation, as what matter - in my opinion - isn't about geographical distribution, but about power or ownership distribution.

It's also very vertical due to the way we consume it (think asymmetrical bandwidth). We mostly depend on someone else's computer, or someone else's service, and has nothing to do with the utopic beginnings of the web when people were self-hosting their content on their machines.

An example would be streaming: we only download stuff from Netflix or Youtube, when technologies like Bittorrent or webtorrent could be leveraged to limit the reliance on one actor. Technologically these actors aren't really single points of failure as they've learned to be reliable, but it's a matter of who has control over the Internet.
Coopetition
I must point out Alipay (and the like; I’ll just mention Alipay from now on for brevity) is not built to circumvent credit cards, in that there is nothing to circumvent. There is literally no way to pay except cash before Alipay; credit card usage is impossible except for the highest end of stores. Alipay is not created to replace credit cards, but because China is unable build a wildly workable credit system at all. If you factor in the most recent advancements (NFC without signature), credit cards are definitely surperior in most aspects.

What makes people feel that <insert developed country name> is lagging behind is not really credit cards, but legacy tech surrounding it. This is inevitable since credit cards have been around for a long time. China, starting from a clean slate, might seem to be in a better state currently, but moving from credit cards to Alipay is like re-writing your Objective-C app with React Native because it used some legacy APIs and no longer compiles. The problem is teal, but the solution is totally wrong.
I tried to do that, but Apple's rules restrict it because it uses Accessibility API (other similar apps were grandfathered in as they were on the store the rule was made). I also talked with Apple asking for an exception and they said no. So I tried selling it outside the store, but it's hard to market it without spending tons of $$.
Really? Interesting. I can do that. How would be the best way to go about that on HN? I'm new here and haven't seen any posts like that. Just start a thread with some info and answer questions?
That set is actually produced by GMK, a large-ish German company [0]. There is a designer who gets a cut (I'm not sure the percentage off the top of my head), but it's almost definitely not enough to live off of.

[0] https://www.gmk-electronic-design.de/en.html
But it's tough when much of the available grants of size are restricted. Sure, you could just shut down the nonprofit due to lack of funds.

But sitting in the nonprofit's shoes, when that grant is what you need to stay alive, and is related to your mission, but doesn't reflect your priorities within that mission, you're still going to take it unless you want to lay everyone off and move on. And many nonprofits are in that position.
Making neighborhoods better and safer with protected bike lanes
It does not "casts doubt on the whole rest of the post". It is a legitimate question afterall, and the same one faced nowadays with so many files being removed from websites. He questions how could one do it in a decentralized system since copyright issues will show up as well.
design? again and again i find myself just going back to terminal applications because what designers give me is always dog shit
There will naturally be variation, but why is it inevitable that there are order-of-magnitude differences?
That is why money launderers do it right? They get a cut of the money laundered, and in this case that is 30%.

When I read the Krebs article I was struck by how similar it was to the way in which World of Warcraft Gold sellers would "launder" their gold by sending it through the auction house. In that case they would have their customers put up a specific worthless item for a high fee on the AH and then one of the gold farmer accounts would come along and buy it. As a 'legit' transaction it was hard for Blizzard to catch.

No doubt this is a pretty ancient scheme, you could use a swap meet for example to launder a lot of cash this way as well. Amazon just makes it easier. Of course it would be easier still if Amazon accepted blockchain currencies. Then you could create your own mixer without any work at all. :-) That makes me wonder if there were people selling silly things on Silk Road back in the day for large amounts of coin.
I have just noticed that at archive.org the track names are in fact the entire source definition of the track. Ha!
Agreed, the web links haven't been working for me for a while.
>Some people seem to imply that this reveals a flaw in our society, but I am having trouble seeing better alternatives. Can someone please help me understand?

A society which doesn't massively privilege the children of the wealthy? What are you having trouble with? We just reduce the influence of class and wealth.
New York City's Subway Service Runs Less Often Than It Did 10 Years Ago
How to prepare your phone for sale
I worry that Ethical software will lose out to unethical software. There is too much pressure and low-hanging fruit to do any kind of gate-keeping that won't be circumvented.

If you want to take the required measures to not circumvent the gate-keeper, that is strangling the entire sector.
Since most developed countries see this sector as the basis for future growth, so doing that seems unlikely.
Beyond that, the growth would probably move to less restrictive places.
My impression of Harris' morality from videos I've seen of him is that, like most ethicists, he's attempting to work backwards from existent ethical prescriptions to find fundamental prescriptive ethical principles. The fact that he's sourcing the ethical prescriptions from scientific method rather than religion means that the prescriptive ethical principles he arrives at are more palatable to people like me who practice science and not religion. But he's still starting from the unproven assumption that the ethical prescriptions he's started from have objective validity. As such, I don't think he's arrived at an objective prescriptive ethic any more than anyone else. I think you should practice the scientific method if you want to understand and operate in reality, but I don't think that practicing the scientific method is an ethical imperative.

That said, I haven't read the book you mentioned, so there might be something in that book which isn't in his talks which would persuade me.
I think the problem is, you can fix technical bugs after shipping. It's much, much harder to fix ethical bugs.
It's a legitimate question, especially for those familiar with other similar distributed systems. But it's easily answered and the article leaves it unanswered.
The Road to 400G Ethernet Is Paved with Bechtolsheim’s Intentions
The patent can be either used to block competition from implementing the same features so your product is unique, or licenses could be sold to use it by others. I'm convinced that the latter is happening and the Swype app just got redundant.
Apparently does everything, from hunting to sport shooting. And if you're into guns, why not also have an automatic rifle?
I can't see how having to support the network infra for 25k students' Netflix addiction is possibly a cost savings.
Unfortunately, room for growth does not guarantee ability for growth. The revolutions we see now have sprung largely from a handful of work that came to fruition ten or so years ago: a new set of tools to approximate solutions to previously intractable problems. It took thirty years for those tools to be developed, with the fortunate confluence of the development of many other technologies alongside, and it does seem like they're already reaching the limit of new things they can "solve". So while there is probably still headroom in application and capitalization, success in 'solving' any given problem in AI does not have any clear correlation to any other problem in the set of things still trivial to humans but inaccessible to artificial machines. There's no convenient hierarchy of complexity like we have for more general computation, no proof by equivalence or operational measurement of difficulty. This space is still a huge mystery, and at any given moment, we have no idea if the path we're on is going to lead anywhere other than a dead end; research of this nature is not monotonic. This pattern is not infrequent in AI.
I never suggested they be thrown in the garbage. I was just saying that dealing with an angry person is a burden.
To amplify what pcj50 said: The speed of light is a very real constraint. It's just not the constraint that people are hitting, because there are other constraints you hit first (capacitance, heating, etc).

I recall reading clear back in the 1970s that IBM mainframes were trying to do a dual processor setup. This wasn't multiple cores on one die, this was separate physical boxes. And they were having trouble because they wanted them to operate in sync (in the sense of presenting one image to the OS and applications), but they were more than a foot apart, and they were operating at sub-nanosecond frequencies. For them, the speed of light was definitely a constraint. Even if they got around all the electrical stuff, the speed of light still put a limit on how "in sync" those two CPUs could be.
Good idea, just added one. Thanks.
For a fun, fairly thorough look at four possible answers to this question, check out this book on Goodreads: "Four Futures: Life After Capitalism"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551901-four-futures
was a interesting analysis, nothing to do with the outcomes but.. i wish when people did work like this though, they had to prove it with more than just images and words, it should include the datasets and the code so others can re-create what was shown..
There is still no conflict though, so long as class privilege and wealth can be transformed into ability and talent.
The linked article is a little light on detail. I found this to be a much more interesting explanation of the why/how/where: https://www.techradar.com/news/why-is-jeff-bezos-building-a-...
Notice that you have two excellent start-up ideas here:

* Shared gardening start up.
* Shared space for wood-working start up (ok, these already exist).

If developed properly, both are great acquisition targets for WeWork.
Interview with NY Times about the dead end Silicon Valley has found itself in
If you play music in the office, count me out. I am a musician, if I hear music my brain will focus on that and forget coding. I can deal with talking and stuff but not music.
I got great value from CC. But you'll want to make sure it not only has proper (regional) accreditation, but also a "transfer agreement" to the local university of your choice.

This isn't 100% necessary, but it sure helps as a guideline to know what courses have value for your future program. The naming schemes at different schools can be confusing ("Am I supposed to take Technical Calculus 1 or Calculus 1 for Scientists and Engineers?") - so having the direct transfer numbers is helpful. The advisors at CC aren't always necessarily educated and may make assumptions like EE and EE Tech being the same program..

Finally, if you're going on to a BS, the AS is next to useless in my experience (besides resume fodder). It's the actual classes that transfer that are the value, and whether you finish at CC or not is not a big deal.. (though go ahead and do it if it's just like a few classes different).

CC is cheap and there's sometimes interesting courses like archaeology or whatever so have fun with that.

Cons:

It can be a little more difficult to find a top quality internship while you're a CC student. You should still try to find one though, and join clubs and whatnot.. CC won't have FSAE but they do tend to have other stuff.
Full Stack Vue with GraphQL
Why's My Code Broken? Seriously. Why?
So instead of a multi-generational meritocracy, you want everyone in the same generation to have the same resources starting out? How do we determine the best resources for each generation? How do we distribute the wealth? How do we keep parents motivated to work when their main motivation is to provide a better life for their children?
Ask HN: Any Venture Capital Funding Innovative Musical Instruments Startups?
Great question. Yes, it was quite expensive. We were able to negotiate a deal where we buy the domain over a long period of time, with a relatively low cost for the first few years, a much higher cost for the last few years, and the option to cancel. If we grow/sell/IPO, no big deal. If we die, we can stop paying. We just have to do it within 5 years or so. :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0012902/

tldr; speed traps save lives and reduce injury.
The Japanese need a full fledged military badly. It's pretty clear many youth there have not much purpose in life.
I wonder if you would be so eager if you were on the receiving side.
Not arguing for anything, was just noting that those arguments are not new, being central to Marx's theory.

Yes, we speak of robots and AI now and the rate at which jobs are destroyed has certainly surpassed the rate at which new jobs get created, but the means of production being in the hands of the few (the bourgeoisie), along with automation, these have been happening ever since the dawn of the industrial age and is what animated Karl Marx.

Read "The Communist Manifesto", it will ring a bell.

But all this has given us communism, with disastrous results. And yeah, there are always people arguing that communism wasn't "implemented right", which is what you get with any rotten theories.

So what I'm proposing is:

(1) awareness that these arguments are essentially Marxism and

(2) be prepared to defend them by coming up with a theory for why it could work this time.
Intel has a new Spectre/Meltdown firmware patch for you to try out
"Not original but formal" is not denigrating, IMO. Formalism is a big deal.
Google Maps has the same setting, at least on Android.
Because the cultural zeitgeist is pretty much entirely for the things stereotypically dumped on in past decades. Because STEM's importance is axiomatic in the same culture. Because the arts/humanities/SocSci outgroup is far more universally derided upon (the merits of that derision are not relevant to this discussion).
Mat from Mini Materials here - I'd love to answer any questions yall have!
> Thus, there is stronger evolutionary pressure to pay the cost of maintaining these systems.

... which implies that it is biologically possible to maintain them, which implies in turn that aging is a biological trade-off and not a physical inevitability.
C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt: Very First Results
" My wife and I work very hard so we can afford to optimize the development of our children as best we can so they can eventually do better than we did. My parents did the same. My parent's parents did the same."

yes, they all did... until they didn't and then you are stuck at the bottom because your parents or their parents failed.
I want webmail that is ruthlessly simple. I don't care about: flags, importance, message status, categories, conversations, etc. Just show me the sender, subject line and date and when I click it, the message. I wish there was more/better scripting / automation tools (ie. if contains "unsubscribe" then archive). Basically I want Gmail but faster load time and better "rules".
Happily the grad program I am in now is great for building a network of friends. Not only with the current students but the alumni as well.
Sample size doesn't impact the fact that you shouldn't draw causal conclusions from merely correlative data.
Thanks flatjaf! Try it out and let us know if you have any feedback.
They are, XDA keycap form factor is from a Chinese factory IIRC and is kinda derivative of DSA caps which comes out of Signature Plastics.

Seems to be quality issues with every XDA run so far though. Keyboard fanatics drop a good amount of money on these sets so quality is extremely important in such a small and passionate market.
Now you have a more educated populace and everyone benefits.
You can't become a state-owned business. You either are (because you have government ties in the first place), or are not (and you are doomed, sorry for that). People have no chance to succeed unless born to the right parents. Even Chinese people admit that. The problem is not how many, but who the rentier is.
I thought 42floors was just a slightly prettier Craigslist for office space to rent.
I like the idea, but aren't you worried that Grant Morrisson or DC will complain about the name?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We3
Precisely so. You can, given enough time, brute force your way to victory in any game of perfect information. This is not the case with reality, as far as we understand it so far. Thus, from a theoretical perspective, the class of problems that contains all games is strictly easier than the class of problems that exist in a less artificially constrained environment.
No doubt this innovation will occur once cheap and dirty mining practices are banned globally. Until then, any slightly more expensive and clean method has to compete with the cheap and dirty, and in the mining business, that makes you non-competitive fast.
The governing body would not just be there to arbitrate, advocate, or negotiate. They would also be there for promoting training and sharing of knowledge.
Video claiming school shooting victim is a paid actor was #1 on YouTube Trending
Perhaps leading to little pixel-sized photovoltaic cores that absorb light on one side, do a bit of computation at 400-800 THz and emit light on the other side, merging the display with the CPU. I've heard that VR goggles with 8K resolution per eye would be approaching the limit of the human eye's resolving power, which would be about 66 million cores.
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"For the cost of a single death machine, the will for war could be bought: you just use it to deliver books and medicine and food, instead of death and mayhem and misery."

We've done that for decades with North Korea, and you see the result: North Korea armed with thermonuclear weapons and delivery systems that can reach most of the world.

Human nature, and competition for resources, guarantee war for the foreseeable future. Sorry to say, a strong deterrent is the only way to preserve the peace.
> You're wilfully ignoring the substance of the comment you're replying to which makes me think you're acting in bad faith.

I'm not.

> There is an argument to be made that the US' economic system is fair.

I myself wouldn't agree that the US economic system is totally fair - there are cheaters/liars/coercion/exploitation everywhere. There are lots of things that are unfair, but choosing to work for minimum wage is not one of those things. An entrepreneur making 10000 more than someone else in the chain is also not one of those things, in my opinion.

> But your argument simply "proves too much". Your definition of "agreement", for example, includes a hostage agreeing to pay the ransom. It would also cover child labor, any form of discrimination, selling yourself into slavery, the abolishment of all labor standards including safety laws, shrink-wrap TOCs, non-compete clauses, forced arbitration for all disputes etc. etc

I'm deliberately excluding situations like this where actors are being coerced, so my examples do not include hostages, child labor, slavery, etc. Those are crimes for a reason and excluded here. See my original comment for where I omitted acts of coercion.
That clarification doesn't help. What do you want from the analysis?

Which ones have you looked and why don't they work for you?
You’re absolutely right to question the numbers. Without knowing where you’re seeing these single churn numbers, it’s important to also know the context and business model before being able to use it for comparing.