skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nativescript.org/showcases

This is a showcase for NativeScript in general, but AFAIK what you can do with NS, you can do with NS+Vue.

The one thing I really like about NS is that it give you full access to native platform APIs in JavaScript.
I started writing a program that transformed J source to numpy. For just the basic verbs it was surprisingly easy. I think this is because arrays are arrays and we only have one way to think about linear algebra.
VividCortex: Go database/sql tutorial
Practicing the basics of diplomatic discussion is not about changing minds.
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We recently got a junior-dev straight out of finishing his CS degree. And he didn't know you could "extend" your desktop and show different things on each side by plugging in a monitor. When quizzed, he told me he's "always just had a laptop", and never a monitor next to it I assume. He was then equally perplexed by the resolution and corresponding font-size change that occurred on the monitor because it could now run its own native resolution rather than what the laptop screen was forcing it to mirror.

It was quite eye-opening to see that.
All of that didn't matter much in 1947. There was mmuch larger grief and much brutal events at the time.
Ask HN: We aren't getting users to create stories on our content platform – why?
We are building a product TYMLINE (https://tymline.co/)
It's a timeline based story blogging platform. Here, people create timelines to narrate stories of any kind like relationship, career, travel, hobbies etc as timelines which can be discovered basing on users interest.

We got about 10k visits with around 250 sign ups but only 10 new people have created timelines organically. Others either read a story or check the platform and drop off.

Sample timeline:
https://tymline.co/SiddharthRam/siliconvalley?ref=hn

Where are we going wrong in the product?

Any suggestions or feedback to improve the product would be helpful for us to iterate further.

TIA
Knowing both is not hard. Also if you don't change too much defaults it's not hard to downgrade to vanilla programs. My init.el is above 3000 lines, but I can easily use vanilla Emacs any time if I need to (or vi/vim/ex/ed for that matter). Same for bash, my .profile and .bashrc combined count ~300 lines, both POSIX compatible, and I'd hardly have a hard time at a foreign shell prompt. That's because I use configuration to extend, configure and personalise a program, instead of trying to recreate it.

(Edit: 300 not 900)
87% muslim country. Not a surprising move at all.
> Building real-life relationships is not easy. There are many ways to get there. A pure online play is not the answer.

I disagree. Personally I've found that real life friendships are much more fickle, many disintegrate because of distance, or time, or some other reason. On the contrary, the people whom I have made friends with through the internet, through for example, IRC or Slack. Have become much more long lasting, and quite lengthy. Even if one of us does not respond or get a response from the other for a couple of months, it does not matter. One of us eventually reconnects or bumps the conversation and we resume practically where we left off. Most of my real life friends have difficulty even responding online.

Sure, this is not a cure-all for loneliness, but such a thing does not exist in this world. At some point we shall all be lonely for some time, even the most devoted partner gets busy or has things to do. It is not the cure-all, but these 'pocket friends', like all friends, help.
A video is worth a thousand words of theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2jjgHsxEu4
https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2008/08/why-are-manhole-cove...
From the article:

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The British spies appear to have targeted Belgacom due to its role as one of Europe’s most important telecommunications hubs. Through a subsidiary company called Belgacom International Carrier Services, it maintains data links across the continent and also processes phone calls and emails passing to and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South America. But tapping into a broad range of global communications is only one possible motive. GCHQ may also have sought access to Belgacom’s networks to snoop on NATO and key European institutions, such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council. All of those organizations have large offices and thousands of employees in Belgium. And all were Belgacom customers at the time of the intrusion.
»
Totally agree. The complaints about the database nature of the project are off-base.

Also, the quality of the data sucks. The author points out the lack of standardization, but also nonsensical terms (tags) are used in the database itself (road-type classifications make no sense, for example).

I guess someone needs to write code to do a massive sweep through the dataset and attempt to correct some of these problems while generating layers.
Matches are 1 to 1, so the person you see in your inbox gets an email just like it with your info.
There's a geopolitical dimension to this question, because of one-party rule in China. If the regime were less oppressive, reactions would be different.
Yep! I need to add that feedback to the form :)

Match interval settings are in the works; in the meantime there is a ‘snooze’ feature that will pause matches for 5 days. The link is in every message.
The lack of floating point and atomics is an "interesting" choice for a Linux-capable chip. It might run Fedora[1], but would likely require kernel support for emulating floats (as the distro is compiled assuming hard floats) and of course without atomics would only be single core. The README says they plan to add atomics.

At least it supports compressed instructions. There are some actual chips about to be released without the C (compressed) extension, but Fedora and Debian are compiling everything assuming the C extension.

In Fedora news, just today we've got a bootable (but very minimal) RISC-V disk image[2] that you can run in qemu.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V

[2] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/disk-images/
Ask HN: My new startup idea: Let hackers build for you
So, my idea is to create a website where entrepreneurs or product owners will post their challenges along with constraints (product/services/requirements) and hackers will devise solutions which work within these constraints and community will vote and decide which one is best. Hackers will earn reputation and experience.

There are plenty of consultants offering special help. But many times you are not able to afford them or you don't know whether consultant really has the experience they claim under their belt. Well, with my startup idea they can easily verify by looking at hacker's history.

So, I need some feedback. What do you think about this idea? Do you've any suggestion for me?
Transient data do not belong in the database. Who's going to run around and clean all of it up, then?

Temporary flight restrictions aren't added to FAA charts (unless they're bullshit "temporary" restrictions like the one around Disneyland), nor should they be.
I've never thought about it, but a circle of the correct size has no less reason to not fall in than say a square or triangle of the appropriate size. I.e. if it's smaller than the hole, it'll most likely fall in.

My theory: They're heavy, so making it a circle at least eliminates the need to "align" it when putting it back. You can basically just drag it using a hook and it'll slot itself into place.
Copying intensifies.

Joking aside, one of my latest worries is that China will win out in the end with its EV-focused industry, which will also be self-driving vehicles for the most part. I think they're planning on doing to the western auto industry what they did to the western solar panel industry: encourage its own EV industry aggressively through subsidies and regulation, then subsidize exports, too. Western car companies in 2 decades = bankrupt.

If half of the world ends-up travelling via backdoored self-driving Chinese cars 20 years from now, I think we're screwed. And I mean that even if the Chinese government has no intention of exploiting the backdoors maliciously itself - other than the occasional assassination of Chinese dissidents/critics (say no more than a few hundred a year - they've got to keep that sort of thing in check after all) and complete surveillance of your driving habits, what you say in your car, who you're seeing in your car, and other stuff like that, of course. The backdoors in there will be more than enough for every other malicious actor out there to exploit them.
> There are other things which are also important, like destructuring of code, which a typical macro mechanism will support in some way.

Destructuring doesn't require it to be a list/s-expr. You can destruct ASTs in any language that supports pattern-matching.

> or you need to be able to feed this parser with different syntax definitions and have it runtime extensible.

That's what languages should aim to do. For example rust's procedural macros can transform a TokenStream to another TokenStream and doesn't have to satisfy Rust language parser. Although that doesn't extend to lexing.

> 'can' vs. usually done is a huge practical difference. s-expressions are not a standard input format for C compiler

I am not talking about a specific language compiler, but modern languages are heading in the right direction without using s-expr.

> Quasi-quotation is only a convenience feature - which is great, but they don't add any power to the language. Lisp can create the same effects without quasi-quotation.

Yes, but then you write your own macro-expander.

> operations on the data format can be supported in an text editor and then can be applied to both data and code

Yes, but they will not be very helpful without additional tooling.

> the code structure is not limited to what syntax a programming language parser implements or what an AST can represent

And you have lost the previous point, now your "code as data" is not so well-supported.

> the programming language implementation exposes this internal data in various stages to the user, which it then can conveniently use it. For example macros see this data and can transform it with the usual tools. Interpreters use it and can expose it to the developer. The compiler can use it as input. The pretty printer takes it as input to create textual representations.

True, but these all can be provided without s-expressions, the compiler just has to be designed properly into reusable modules.

Rest of your points just suggest that the tooling part is easier and simpler to do and understand, which ofcourse i agree with. But not all programmers prefer Lisp like syntax and most languages haven't really cared about it or see as undesired(macros bring some undesirable properties as languages like loop pop-up) flexibility.
Meh... Insurance considerations practically guarantee you are statistically safer in one of these vs. a human operated vehicle, and that advantage will only multiply as the ratio of autonomous to human operated vehicles increases.

As a resident of a first-world country, it's not really my problem if India needs to wait a few decades or modernize their urban transport infrastructure to see the benefit of this technology. I haven't seen it in person, but the reputation is that Street-level activity in those environments is deadly and chaotic, regardless of whether you are a pedestrian, cyclist, or motorist.

Not exactly a situation worth preserving from anyone's perspective...
Yep, I'm not saying it's without issues but I can see why Google wants to show users fast pages. I can relate when using a mobile: it's super frustrating when you're on the move, need a quick answer, the first link takes 20 seconds to load so you go back, you try another etc.
And what is this next JavaScript framework?
Have you tried imposm? Your process sounds magnitudes too slow.
Well no one can argue with your point that to achieve massive results in a massive scale it requires a big effort from a lot of people. So to your own point Singularity University cannot (and is not claiming) do this with a 10 week program or conferences for that matter. But they are trying to stir a conversation, a brainstorm if you will, towards problems that matter. This is not the singularity. I am talking about bringing 80 graduates together to brainstorm solutions on real problems like poverty, health, energy, education and so forth using technology. A brainstorm like that will have a lot of content which is never pursued while other ideas are. The real science is up to the founders to conduct after the program. Hardly any "real science" can be conducted in a 10 week program. So what is the problem this mission?

Then you argue almost anyone can teach there? What are you basing that on? If you look at their faculty you will find some very impressive faculty members teaching there - some of which are also students from past programmes which speaks to the fact that 1) There are some impressive students in the classes with a lot of industry specific knowledge and 2) Students will come back and teach other students because the cause matters to them and SU is a place they like to be.

The issues around fraud and sexual assaults are obviously real issues but events in the past that the university, like any other, organizations has to deal with and prevent - and which they are dealing with.

I may not agree with everything SU is doing. I have a medical background and am not a "tech person" when it comes down to it, so a lot of the conversations around making humans machines and so forth does not grab my immediate interest. But the conversations, discussions and brainstorming sessions I have participated in at SU were legit, interesting and focused on real problems. The solutions and teams that come out from there will have to put in years and years of work, sweat and tears to create impact, but that is no different from you and me and everyone else trying to launch an impactful company.

I may also not agree entirely with the direction the University is going but every organisation must make their own decisions on their direction. You nor I have the data or insights to understsand why they are changing direction, if we had we may just have come to the same conclusions. I am excited to see where it will take them in the future and hope they will hold on to their goal of creating impact that matters in the world.
Microsoft Products all the way... only way to scale.
Was this your first embedded project? Never EVER do actual work in interrupt routine, no compression, no floating point (even if its native and not emulated), no computation, no lookups, just pass the marker along and exit.
You are probably confusing e-payments with cryptocurrency usage - so, for reference: "traditional" e-payments are based on actual bank accounts and inter-bank payment platforms like SWIFT, or credit card payments.
I'm not the person you were replying to, but we had a neighbour who used strongly scented laundry products and we could often smell it half way down the street and sometimes in our own home.
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I think similar observations and arguments were made in the 80s about Japanese firms. It would be interesting to make some comparison, if only to see how things are (or could be) different this time.
My hope is that this service serves as a tool for me to effectively network in spite of my gender.

As I said elsewhere in this discussion, HN has largely failed as a networking tool for me and I can occasionally email about three people from here. I appear to be the only woman who has ever made it to the leaderboard (under a different handle). Meanwhile, in a different discussion in the last few hours, a man on the leaderboard casually commented that he has met quite a few members of HN IRL.

My understanding is he is a self made millionaire. In contrast, I am quite poor.

My inability to effectively network appears to be at least partly due to my gender and the tendency of men to interpret overtures from me as an opportunity for romance. Men who view me in such terms never become business contacts. It is an absolute dead end for me.

Then when I complain that sexism on HN is partly responsible for my intractable poverty, I am treated like a lunatic. I don't know how much more painfully obvious it could possibly be. I was homeless when I became the highest karma openly female member here and hit the leaderboard about a month after I got off the street. Yet I continue to get treated like I am just hallucinating some connection between my gender, my inability to effectively make professional connections and my lack of adequate income.

And never mind how many articles like this hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389666 No, I must just be nuts or something.
In what world does ignoring your core principles and breaking promises to users in order to spare some speculatively valuable digital assets equate to integrity?
Potholes are naturally occurring. For any particular pothole, there is a reason it took whatever shape it did.

The only real constraint operating on manholes is that they fit the opening. Unless you can produce a design document specifying the requirements for the manhole you're looking at, there isn't really a "why".
Actually, particular cryptocurrency supply is truly limited, unlike gold, which is extremely abundant in our universe.

Depends what you mean by a 'particular' cryptocurrency. There's certainly been no sign of a limit on bitcoin, what with all its forks. And there's no end of alternative copycat coins filling the list at coinmarketcap.com. You have to take a leap of faith to trust that miners won't change the system once all the 'limited' 21 million original bitcoins have been produced...
The SiFive chips (the microcontroller grade FE310 and closer to SoC FU540) both implement the C extension. The FE310 is RV32IMAC and the FU540 is RV64GC. Of course, you can't really hook external ram up to the FE310, and it doesn't have a TLB anyway, so no practical Linux there.
Ask HN: Did anyone here start a PhD in their late 30s or later?
I am thinking of changing my career from finance to computer science, I already have a masters in science and programming experience over 10 years. I would like to do a PhD in AI/robotics. Has anyone here gone back into study later in life? How did it work out and what happened? Any regrets?
I found this to be an extremely interesting point:

>In the short term, less smoking would lead to decreased spending because of reductions in health care spending for those who had smoked.

>In the long run, all of those people living longer would lead to increases in spending in many programs, including health care. The more people who quit smoking, the higher the deficit from health care — barely offset by the revenue from taxing cigarettes.

So yes, if our goal is to “reduce healthcare spending” letting people die younger, faster would indeed do this.

However if our goal is to “improve quality of life for people at the lowest possible cost” we most likely need to invest in preventative care.

I would like to hear more from the authors on their synthesis.
Logic is FUNdamental
> because of fairly special market conditions and lack of regulation in China.

On the contrary, China has very tight (if not most) financial regulations. E.g. oversea transaction above ￥10,000 need to be reported to central bank.

IMHO The secret factor of mobile payments boom in China is infrastructure.

Central bank completed near real time cross bank clearing system decade ago. It requires very low fee, has no tech debt like the US. For example, the ACH works by uploading files to FTP and has at least one day delay. In China, it only costs few seconds with 0 fee. Internet giants (网联, Nets Union Clearing Corporation) are in the same position as banks (银联, Unionpay)
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Florida man drove around as a cellphone-jamming vigilante for two years
The SiFive FU540 is what Fedora is targeting initially. They have actual ASICs: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/sifive-unleashed-board...
It isn't. It's just that that's her thing/theme. Look at the comment history for that account.
Mumbai attack was a terrorist attack. My response was in context of mass shooting in schools.
I think it's not a sign, just a second mover advantage. Those who came later had access to better/faster tech and didn't have to deal with the sunk cost of existing slow technology.
There are two different methods to merge pull requests in the article. When do people prefer one over the other?

Are there any good reasons why someone should try to rebase and merge (fast-forward) a pull request to avoid a merge commit? It involves more steps than the method which creates a merge commit. What benefits warrant these additional steps?
Interesting, still nothing to do with intercepting communications.
Using an acronym doesn't invalidate this HN guideline: "Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article." Also, does having an article claiming something now make that thing fact, is there no room for discussion or dialogue, or a questioning of the statistics provided, as soon as an article asserting an opinion is published? If you are going to argue against his point, why not at least point out the specifics of the article that invalidated it, or towards some other data, rather than just saying, "read the fucking article" and moving on?
How would you compare it to Photoshop and what would you say to a Photoshop digital painter to get them to switch to Krita (or at least try it out for a while)?
As stated before, we are not only asking for SCHUFA but also arvato data, see blogpost https://okfn.de/blog/2018/02/openschufa-english/#update
> I think deodorant mostly is an example of capitalism creating demand where none exists.

That’s the most foolish thing I’ve read in a long time.

When I was growing up, I was a bit stubborn regarding use of soap and deodorant: I pretty much refused to use anything but water to shower, and never used deodorant (or any other topical substance, for that matter).

That approach worked just great, until I hit puberty... Trust me, if you think nobody needs deodorant just as long as you don’t use soap (or some other such nonsense), I am the living proof of just how extremely far from the truth you are.

Of course, many people out there will never need deodorant (genetics play a large part here, according to some studies I’ve read). There may even be some microbiological technology we can find to cure body odor in alternate ways. But to assume that deodorant is a universally needless product (in favor of not using soap) is incredibly naive, or nearsighted.

I’ll save responding to your random derision of capitalism for another debate.
Given that nobody has found those use cases yet, why do so many people assume they exist?
Ask HN: First employees, were you as enthusiasts as the founder?
I wonder whether early employees are as enthusiasts as founders, do they also believe in startup idea and work tirelessly? or that kind of work ethic can only be expected from a founder? Your opinions are welcome!
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