skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can name a short (<5 mins) piece of music more beautiful, moving but also all-encompassing than Bach's "Air on a G-String" please do so; I can't. Listen to this interpretation before deciding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVSgEdT4KI . Love, loss, despair, grievance, new hope, closure - it's all in there in this single, short, compassionate-but-not-sentimental, solemn-but-not-sad, perfectly balanced, ethereal piece.
Please post a 'Show HN' if you ever do! I'd love to see the process and results and maybe even buy one! What an amazing piece of art it would be.
Your world must be quite small then if all you have are conpilers that unterstand that flag. There are perfectly workable compilers out there without this feature. And with a good build system (thus thread has mentioned a few) you do not have to care. I can show you build acripts for C++ programs that know nothing about the compiler. They work with GCC on Linux, MSVC on Windows and clang on OS X without a single change. Hiw is that not decent?
It's definitely not incompetence. Lawyers at that level know what they're doing. This is just a strategy to rattle the opposition (and the judge). It usually works unless you're prepared or in higher courts with more formality and experience in the room.
Unless they were painted with VentaBlack?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
I distinctly recall Servo presentation in 2012. It started: "web browsers are written in C++. It is bad for humanity."

Web browsers are still written in C++. It is still bad for humanity.

Emphasis on mixred reality may or may not solve that problem sooner. Sometimes the quickest way can seem roundabout. But I am skeptical.
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Major website dumpster fires
I'm booked on a cruise this coming May, and Royal Caribbean just rolled out a completely broken update to their site (to the point where you can't even access your reservations). What other companies have you seen completely trash a live website? Have you ever worked for a company that does so little testing as to allow things like this to happen? I'm curious to hear other examples of this type of thing and views of it from behind the scenes...
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can you tell me what votes were fraudulent? And what can I do to prevent it in the future? God bless @dang
The interface reminds me a lot of Dev-C++ [0]

[0]: http://bloodshed.net/
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BlackBerry sues Facebook over patent infringement: What's the big deal?
But it was “known on Earth”, and had been observed in the lab - it just hadn’t yet been observed in nature. A bit of a sensational title.
Please Undo the throttling! I live in Santa Monica and I want to go 22 MPH!
Yes, that pushes it to... let's say a year. Still impressive, IMHO.
Why would you waste investigative resources on such thing?
Unclear from the title, but this is a 100 plus years later obituary rather than something written at the time.
It's not either-or. I wouldn't replace "traditional" hosting by Lambda, but among other things it is very suitable for the following use cases:

- You have a mostly static site that needs a couple of dynamic views (eg. comment or payment processing), but the site doesn't get enough traffic to put a webserver behind it.

- You are continuously processing sub-5min tasks and don't want to have to be doing the up/down scaling yourself and you're willing to pay a premium to have the scaling be managed.

- You want an easy way to run a piece of code from various AWS triggers without having to set up webhooks in between.

- Your next employer is a buzzword vulture and you have an idea for a serverless virtual reality blockchain.
Laplace's Demon and the Singularity
Recycling used alkaline batteries to fertilizer
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If tomorrow there was a law to kill people listening to Nickelback. Would you support law enforcement killing those people, because it is the law?
I tried the oculus rift at an FB event for the first time and I was not impressed. I didn’t feel like “wow” but more like “cool, this is nice”. Perhaps I had high expectations and maybe I need to try once more. I thought the VR experience could use more “clarity” (objects appeared grainy) and faster “reflectivity” (my mental model of objects moved faster than my perception).
Right, as Musk said, we're going to need a mixture of nuclear and wind. If my calculations are correct you need about 500.000 windmills to cover electricity demand in the US. But electricity demand is only a small fraction of total energy use.

How much energy do all cars in the US use? How much do tractors working the fields? How much do factories burning their own? How much do ships transporting goods? How much do planes flying around? How much do factories in China making our goods? Or mining operations in Indonesia or Congo mining our materials?

If you look at the full picture of sustainable energy, you'll find that covering electricity use by spending a trillion dollars on a 100x100 mile wind farm is a cool idea and a step in the direction, but it's only a step. There's a whole journey ahead of us, and that's what that book teaches.
Good luck getting a fully C++14 compatible compiler with exceptions working on all UNIXes.
I think you mean idealism, not clairvoyance?

Clairvoyance generally involves some kind of prediction or guess about the future and I'm not sure that makes sense with the context you provided.
Great article. There are few things on this earth I absolutely cannot tolerate in any amount: cilantro and these insects. My first exposure to them was in Virginia around 2012. Don’t ever take a shop-vac to a huge cluster of them: you’ll just blast cilantro stink at an ungodly CFM all over your home.

Now I live in Michigan and have, anecdotally, watched their population skyrocket here. Last year my strategy was simple but worked well because I was diligent about doing it many times a day for a week or two until they were mostly all dead around my home.

I’d put on nitrile mechanics gloves and fill a 2 liter soda bottle with dawn dish detergent and hot water. Shake it up to get some bubbles going. Then I’d wander my home with the bottle collecting the bugs. They’d usually die instantly after getting stuck in the foam. You’d watch them eventually sink to the bottom. I’d either grab one off my home with my left hand (gloved!) or by gently squeezing the bottle, holding it near a bug, and releasing, it would almost suck those clumsy little bastards in with a gentle vacuum.

Put the cap on and let them surely die for a few days. Then pour it out in the corner of the yard and try again.

If I see one I won’t rest until they are all dead.
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If the thing about the dods tracking capabilities was true there would not be satellites that are lost and found decades later by amateurs
You can make the constructor private :)
> “We can think of it not as sleep-depriving people, but as modifying or enlarging the period of the sleep–wake cycle from 24 to 48 hours,” says Benedetti. “People go to bed every two nights, but when they go to bed, they can sleep for as long as they want.”

That reminds me of the sleep experiments performed by Michel Siffre [1] in the 60‘s & 70‘s who studied the experience of time underground without time cues. He found that without time cues, several people including himself adjusted to a 48-hour rather than a 24-hour cycle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Siffre

[2] www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer.php
I'm not sure if you're playing with words here, but asking questions like these is the most natural way to discover more about physics itself. Of course studying Jupyter is not as fundamental as studying particle physics or string theory, but it's an emergent physics that nobody has fully explored yet.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16527007
Android are planning to launch “Android P”
Android are planning to launch "Android P" on summer 2018. But not declared name. Anyone guess "P" means what?
it can have many other nasty side effects too, such as weakening your immune system. Which can in turn cause rising levels of inflammaton which is really undesirable w.r.t. the original objective. So if your physical constitution is not perfect, better don't do this.
https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/09/how-I-use-a-computer...

Nice presentation!
Ask HN: Know any resources on how the human brain works when reading code?
I'm planning a presentation that I'd hold at a couple of conferences. I'd like to give people some insight into the cognitive science behind comprehending code, and how concepts such as working memory should affect code design to reduce cognitive load.

Thing is, I have no business talking about psychology, so I'm now looking for resources, blog posts, anything, that would help me research this topic. Such as these ones:

- https://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted

- https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0260

Any suggestions?
With fusion we could power systems dedicated to pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere.
For the property prices there is good documentary about it[0].

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/
High level TL;DR:

A new JavaScript spec is proposing adding a flatten() method to Arrays. An old JavaScript library that some websites use however also uses a flatten() method on arrays, and browsers supporting the new spec would cause those old websites to break.
> What they weren't doing was what we asked them to do. They'd put a token effort into that, do it wrong, and then call it done.

I'm not sure I would call that "talent", and based on that performance, I certainly wouldn't want their "improvements" on our systems.
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You would think so. But I have made plenty of corrections on documents supposedly prepared by our $800 an hour lawyer.
What about deep learning ? Did anyone try this ? Camera + Tensorflow + big dataset of photos ?
I run the same setup. Probably don't get any traffic because I don't write blog posts anymore. My monthly costs are around $ 0.70.
Mobike rides have the first 2 hours of each trip free. If you stay on longer you need to pay. However, you can just switch bikes after 2 hours to avoid the fee.

That hasn't been my experience with Mobike. When I had a paid membership, I got 2 hours cumulative for free over a month. Didn't matter how many different bikes I used, it was cumulative. Once that was up, then I'd be charged additional fees.

I wonder how much money Mobike makes from people who forget to lock their bikes. I've given them something like ~$50 so far because I keep forgetting to lock my bike and then don't notice until later after someone has been riding my rented bike for free for a number of hours. Once I realize what happened, I notify them, and then they lock down my account and won't unlock it until I pay up the racked up fees.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720614

I've tried a little bit of streaming my coding on Twitch. I had no viewers during that time, and I was worried quite a lot to hide sensitive things - mainly about making sure password, api keys, IP addresses, etc were hidden.

I considered looking into the OBS or display driver code to automatically blur either previously configured things "please blur this rectangle out" "please ensure this string is always blurred", "never show this file", "please blur email and password input boxes" - in theory could one of these be possible on Linux?
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> For the most part, being a U.K. prosecutor isn’t even a career. Instead, barristers, as trial lawyers are known, both prosecute and defend clients, depending on the case.

This is really not accurate. You can certainly have a career as a solicitor that specialises in prosecutions, the Crown Prosecution Service employs vast numbers of them. You can also have a career as a criminal defence solicitor. The barristers are there to present the case in court.
There was good discussion around a study that showed recommended amounts of Vitamin D were much too low. Many people have reported benefits of taking supplements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918
This is the IDE that I learned how to program with. So many fond memories. I like how the site is still up!
Product: Simple iOS app to save, share, and discuss things you enjoy (articles, movies, music, etc.) with your real friends, and escape the bullshit of traditional social media.

Hurdles (in addition to a highly competitive market): (1) We are struggling to get users to share items using our app instead of text/SMS; (2) Sharing items with non-users is not an appealing experience; (3) We need to make UI and functionality improvements.

Help: We think building an iMessage app would encourage users to connect with our platform through their regular texting habit. We’d like to get feedback from the Hacker News community on whether building this or any other feature will allow our app to be commercially viable, or if we should scrap the project.

Gratefully,
Brad, Brandon, and Caleb
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I'm pretty sure the ancient Chinese could see the colors of at least some of the planets. You don't need a telescope to tell that one celestial object looks redder than another, especially if you have good eyesight and no light pollution.

Venus is indeed golden; Jupiter is red-brown like some type of wood; Saturn looks like it's covered in sand (土 can mean dirt as well as rock, and there's a lot of yellow dirt in China); Mars is unmistakably red; and Mercury looks plain white so why not assign it to the only remaining element. Four correct guesses out of five = probably not a coincidence.
From a marketing perspective it sounds a bit like an Ubuntu product or version, like "Debian Wheezy". Confusing name choice IMHO.
Cheap nuclear fusion energy would be a great human achievement. I do wonder about its effects on society though. Any reading containing well reasoned speculation on that? Here's what I can think of myself.

* A cheaper, cleaner energy source might outcompete fossil fuel. Less air polution, yay!

* Cheaper energy would significantly increase energy consumption. Think Jevons paradox[0]. The effect of that increased heat production on global warming can't be good...

* Globally stabilising geopolitical effect. Less dependence on geographically confined scarce energy resources like Middle Eastern/Siberian/Venezuelan oil, Sahara sun, ... thanks to a globally available basic resource.

Any other obvious effects I'm missing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Could you please tell me more about the other Tor vulnerabilities?
Came here to say the same thing. Anytime an energy discussion comes up, I try to help dispell this myth that wind and solar will solve all our problems, especially in the global context of rising energy needs. If you care about the enviroment and our future on this planet, it behooves you to look into nuclear research and get uptodate. I would love to see us solve the clean energy problem fully this century, and the key factor is going to be nuclear.
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Do you remember the list of other skills?

I think it's kind of like teaching someone how to ride a bike. No amount of theory and coaching will help until the connections form in their brain.

Smarter everyday has an interesting video[1] on this phenomenon where he showed that it takes considerable effort to learn to ride a "backward" bike and once you do, you will forget how to ride a normal one and need to relearn it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
Who committed fraud, specifically? This always comes up and, while I agree that maybe things possibly weren't investigated enough, I don't think there are any clear examples of people who committed fraud and got away with it.

A lot of people being stupid does not equal fraud.
Do small claims cases create precedent?
Renewables are ecological disaster in slow motion. Renewables do not provide baseline energy. Renewables do not produce anywhere amount of energy fusion can produce. Fusion is the cleanest energy source. Fusion allows to cheaply reverse any chemical process that is reversible using huge amounts of energy. I.e. fusion makes electric cars obsolete - just produce high-energy-density whatever chemical fuel you can imagine. Fusion revolutionizes agriculture - you can produce fertilizers very very cheaply. Fusion makes desalinization cheap and affordable for anyone.

Fusion is civilizational game changer.
Another important aspect of using AOI is that you don't need to make the s3 bucket public. This matters even if the website is fully public. It has to do with a simple governance rule. No public s3 buckets should be allowed.

That if monitored and enforced would stop many data breaches. With some public bucketd enforcement will be difficult
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Literally millions of individual cases would be much better. It would overwhelm them and those suing would likely get way more money. Class actions never amount to much for anybody except the attorneys.
You can write finally yourself like this: https://github.com/jhasse/jngl/blob/master/src/jngl/Finally....
Everyone here has some great suggestions but as far as I can see no one has mentioned the Michel Thomas courses. I have found his way of teaching quite smart especially if you speak English. I mostly listened to his course and practiced a bit with Duolingo(didn't find it that helpful but it was ok) before going to Spain, and I have to say Michel helped me a lot in recognising structures and phrases. If you combine it with learning some vocabulary it'd be really good.

But as most seem to say and I have to agree, the best thing to do is find people and speak the language as much as possible (native speakers, tutors, other learners).
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This was really great! Thanks :-)
This is one of those situations where people remember the gist of an event, but they don't clearly remember the exact details.

I was a high school kid living in NYC at the time. I used to watch Cavett on TV all the time. Here's what I remember:

1) this was relatively big news when it happened

2) newscasts covered it. Newspapers covered it.

3) Cavett spoke about it on his show the next day (as he mentions).

4) I saw footage from that show. Did that footage air on the news on the day Rodale died, or did Cavett show some footage the next day? I don't remember, but there clearly was footage of the guy sitting in the chair just before he died.

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So, many people "saw" the event, in the sense that they pieced it all together.

Even when Cavett talks about "the look on your face", that also happened. People might not have seen his face that day, but Cavett was somber the next night when he explained the previous day's events. Many people tuned in for that and I'm not surprised they "remember" it.

All this is well understood. As Wiki claims: Memory is never a literal recount of past experiences. Rather, it is dependent on the constructive processes present at the time of encoding that are subject to potential errors and distortions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_memory
Mini-Self Contained Electric Charging Stations, that can charge 100-200 cars simultaneously.
Better recycling of material due to energy abundance.
Less Waste on Energy Transport.
Tons of light pollution.
Did I say, Much better recycling technologies ?
Training maybe. But humans are too much social animals for meetings (we already have setups with HD tvs, cameras, and high bandwidth connections and still fly to and from, almost as if being able to do so, or demand that they come to you, is a show of force and status) and presentations (never underestimate the value of the mingling that happens before, during and after a presentation) to happen remotely, unless we are talking some kind of sci-fi holographics.
I wasn't aware that let stars shine through solid objects.
> making a no-nonsense web browser

I fear that ship has long sailed.
Bach is my ninth great-grandfather for what its worth.
Nop because the load is supposed to be spread over thousands of servers... Not just one
Never heard of the underlying https://budgie-desktop.org/ before. And could not learn anything about it on its website: No screenshots, no description about the framework (Qt? GTK?).

In former days of the lightweight but "full featured" desktops, there was Xfce desktop. Then there was LXDE. Which was surprisingly faster and similiar powerful then Xfce. But then I somehow lost track ;-)
Nice idea to provide only notes from a chord! It's really motivating if you never made music before. ("Wow I can do this!")
I have been in the same situation as the OP and in my own experience this wouldn't have helped, though that is not to say your advice won't work in this situation. In my situation the issue wasn't that they hadn't been given the message in a constructive way, it was that they were incapable of receiving it, or rather their own needs and instincts meant they weren't really aware of the request. It was like noise around them. The same thing that stopped them just learning and figuring out the technical issues was the same thing that meant they couldn't be receptive to friendly constructive suggestions in that direction.

To OP if your experience is like mine the situation was only fixed by the person not working in the same area of the business. Hopefully you are able to navigate to a successful solution!
"Next thing I knew I was holding his wrist, thinking, I don’t know anything about what a wrist is supposed to feel like."
The idea that allergies somehow are caused by our sterile lifestyle is suspicious at best. It's might just be an appeal to nature - "all natural ingredients" fallacy.

I claim that an individual has never before - in the history of mankind - been exposed to so many and different microorganisms as we are now.

Comparing my daughter to my granddad, born 99 years before her, she probably meets as many "new" people per week - if not day, as he did in a whole year when growing up in a reasonably average community not far from a large city.

Me and my wife works in large organisations, and it's representatives are visiting or are visited by hundreds of people from around the world - every week, as do many - most in fact - of the other parents in her school of about 1000 students.

I have lunch in a canteen where approximately 3000 people eat every day, and we all are slopping around in the food warmers and salad bar sharing the utensils and pawing the bread with our halfheartedly washed hands.

On the way to our offices and schools we commute with thousands and thousands of people, all sniffling and coughing it seems.

The interconnectedness of it all is just - mind boggling. We are never more than 2 steps away from someone that were on the other side of the world, yesterday. Hopefully not in an Ebola zone.

A hypothetical "natural" state, where you sleep in a stack of hay with your pigs, and meet one "outsider" twice a a year doesn't seem to tax the immune system even a fraction of what we have to deal with today. Even it's a lot of microorganisms, it's yours (and the pigs) - unless some pigeons shit in your haystack/bed.