skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but a lot of the clients are currently lagging behind.

^ this.

A lot of people are so mad at Slack and extolling the virtues of XMPP and IRC and fully forget that there are about zero clients for either XMPP or IRC that have the same functionality (consistent across multiple platforms) as Slack.

Yes, I'm fully aware of exactly one client for Android (Conversations) that supports mobile-friendly XEPS. And yes, I'm fully aware of IRCCloud, a closed-source, proprietary 100% web-based product on top of IRC (all the things that people seem to hate about Slack. Go figure)
You should probably ask the FBI. it’s not very well known, but they are actually legally required to give you guidance.
Sounds interesting, but it seems only those with a particular gene can properly adapt to it?
Could they turn it into a museum and planetarium? Such a beautiful building.
I won't say I hacked it, but I did improve my handwriting. It took deliberate practice over a period of months.

I'm right-handed, though, and so for English and other left-to-right languages my experience is different than yours will be. I have noticed that my boss (left-handed) writes top-to-bottom which may be a useful trick for you. She has the top of the page turned to her right and essentially writes the characters "sideways" as she goes down the line. This may help with the way you hook your hand (you wouldn't have to focus on changing your hand position, just the direction of movement as you write and how you draw the characters).
> I ended up railroaded onto a liberal arts education until I reached my community college, where I encountered people - not just professors - who knew that the magic hardware box could do other things besides send and receive email.

True story: When I was in college, a girl came to me with a question: If she put Borland C++ on her laptop, could she compile programs on it just as easily as on her desktop? I replied that I don't see why not.

Then she asked: "But isn't there a chip in my desktop that does the compiling? Does my laptop have one, too?"

This was a CS major. And an A student. At a technical university.

I feel your pain, man.

And yes, for undergrad education, community or even state college may be more suitable to your interests. A hard-learned lesson for me. The goal of Ivy League undergrad, it seems, is to mold you into a "certain kind of man". "Harvard men", for instance, look and behave a certain way, and know and say the right things. So that when the Harvard men at the helm of power see you, they recognize you as "one of their own" and "good people".

Some of us already have some idea what sort of person we are, and don't want to become anything else. The good news is, we can get all the education we need for pretty cheap, even in the USA. The bad news is, Google is looking for "Stanford men"...

(I should have replied, "Yes, it's called the CPU. And yes, every computer has one.")
NYC taxi ride data suggest cozy relationship between big banks and the Fed
Major counterproof: The Open University.

Sounds like MOOCs need to learn from educational institutions that actually have a track record in distance learning.
Mattermost is open and self hosted so if development stops it'll just continue to exist in an unchanging state. If people start communicating in another way, their Mattermost history will still be available and searchable.
How to start the online business successfully?
What would you choose if you got $2000 for opening a business related to sales on the Internet? Select 1 option:
1. Try to save as much as possible on the website development and spent most of the money on advertising.
2. Hire the best developers and believe in the success of the quality implementation of the project.
A much smaller fraction of the population earned a college degree 30-40 years ago so it was more of a differentiator.

It's still pretty clear that a (4 year) degree changes access to jobs, I guess it's less clear that it will matter for a given person.
One of the nice things in TLS 1.3 that we might never end up using in anger but is there if we want it is the request from a server for a client certificate now gets to express arbitrary constraints.

In TLS 1.2 you could only express a list of CAs whose signatures you trust (this is one of the most widely misconfigured settings in OpenSSL-based software, telling OpenSSL you _trust_ some CA to identify clients when actually you meant to say your server certificate is _signed_ by that CA)

In TLS 1.3 you can write out arbitrary constraints, although somebody will need to define any new ones in a separate ID or RFC. So this might simplify the end user experience down the road because the browser can do enough matching to just hand over the correct certificate automatically.

Or it might never get used on the public Internet, oh well.
OpenAI’s Reptile Makes It Easier to Learn How to Learn
Nobody argues that. But they may very well argue that IRC doesn't everything they want it to do.
What is it about nutrition that makes people resort to ridiculous hyperbole like this? No, sugar is not like crack cocaine, and red meat is not like cigarettes.
Why not WordPress? If you choose WP.org you can also limit her role as a writer so she won't mess up with configuration.

Otherwise go for WP.com which has the new interface (even simpler IMHO) and it's free if she don't want to pay for the domain (2.33€/2.86$/month right now).

UX is so simple she won't have any problem IMHO.
Online porn age checks delayed in UK
The C236 chipset is old as hell (2015) - they're holding back on adding PCI-E lanes, because they can.

My hope is that Ryzen 2 shakes things up / Xeon 'Entry' offers a decent board.

The Xeon D chips are a total frigging racket.
Satya Nadella Interviewed by Steven Dubner
> who just plain refuse (are unable?) to even see the difference between a chat like slack (or telegram, or mattermost, or or or...)

What if they do see the difference and don't see the value in it? This is worth considering.

> where I can post images/videos inline, use proper markup etc

I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed. In IRC people post links, most of which I happily ignore at very low cost because they're not important to anything.
I would look into Electronic Muscle Simulators. Just search Amazon. There are dozens of units.
I have some of the same issues, but I'm not part of any community slacks. I run my own consulting company, and as such, I've been invited to most of my client's slacks. So I've currently got 37 Slack workspaces going. But most of the time, I'm only concerned with the specific project channel that I'm working on for a client, and I might only be active in 2-3 projects at a time. So I'd love, like OP, to be able to just have those 3 channels front and center.
Convenience: "We noticed you have the word 'attachment' in your email body, but no attached files". It's nice to have, but not something I couldn't live without, either. Example: This exact feature in Gmail.

Expanded capabilities: A vector editing program that exports to SVG. I couldn't realistically complete the task of creating complex vector images by writing raw SVG. Example: Sketch, Adobe Illustrator.

The marketing catch: Convincing people that #1 is exactly as valuable as #2.
I've used tuples in the past when a method could fail and I want the error code back or I want the thing.

e.g.

(string errorCode, Quax result) TryGetAQuax();

Oh, to have Either / Discrimated Unions in C# :(

We also can't use this at work, we are still having to target 4.5.1 :(
Beautify Your Pictures with These 5 Apps for Selfie – Onenaija Blog
Fishing Boats 'Going Dark' Raise Suspicion of Illegal Catches
As a Verizon customer:

- Devices that support Verizon's bands & CDMA are mostly only sold as Verizon branded devices. (CDMA is less important every year but I still occasionally need 3g)

- ~All Verizon phones have locked bootloaders and no official way to unlock them.

- Manufacturers don't make the easy mistakes which let you unlock their bootloaders anymore.

I will not be a Verizon customer for much longer.
I hope someone could describe some good scenario. Maybe some low level data exchanges. Database connectors, interop with dynamic languages? Interfacing with hardware drivers?
Piping some third party datasource to json where you don't care about types and number of arguments in backend?
I'm a big fan of Erlang—and believe it's a useful language to know even if the daily language is something else—but my understanding of D is that it excels in a different problem space (build efficient native code, etc.)
Title taken from NPR coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/11/592802471...
The problem with IRC is that it's technically capable of being so much more than what people think it is but it's actually a real hurdle to set up and nobody is very good at it, plus the clients are stuck in the past. The right way to use IRC is to SSH into a screen/tmux session on a remote server that's always up and running; in theory it should be fully possible to send any files (images, videos etc) over DCC and use terminal plugins to display them but no clients can handle this right. DCC is perfectly capable of this as IRC piracy has been a thing for years and those files are much larger. The trouble is that FOSS is so often made by ascetics for ascetics and so most clients won't help you with any of this and people sniff at you if you use one that does.
I'm not good with shaders; can someone explain on a high level how this works?

I guess it somehow draws lines along in low-gradient directions in dark areas, with some randomization. But I can't really tell from looking at the code.
Could you expand on your archive+ocr? I long wanted to start doing something like this, but never got to. I guess reading others' experience can be useful.
And is that an acceptable paper trail? If you break something can you show your bosses "look, Jack thumbs-upped me on Slack!"
To clarify, Dave doesn't head the hardware efforts (I doubt he wants the management headache!). Norm Jouppi was the lead of the TPU efforts. But Dave absolutely is part of it, he just doesn't have to herd the cats. :p

To the previous parent, the TPU didn't take five years - I don't know where you got that. But, in any event, I'd argue the key innovation in TPUv1 wasn't actually the design of a specific optimized processor: It was seeing the need for a year or two before anyone else in industry did!

Also - I think translation problem, what's "reticule limit"? In any event, if you're comparing what someone produced today with TPUv1, that's a bit of a weird comparison considering that the v2 is live and available in beta. :)
The author can start acting like a grown up by making enough money to fund the development or shut up. If he knew users are already paying for Slack, then obviously he can do what grown ups like Slack did to get paid users as well.
That's right. I hope we had more time to polish it, but then it's only a couple of computers. So we were happy with the time we spent and the relative result we had. I planned to kind of doing the >/dev/sda thing and a checksum to not having to download it every time, but so little time, so much to do.

For the end user - it's just some computers at the convention, a couple of computers in the lab, but I knew it felt really good to see a computer without storage pulling crazy tricks like that.
Ask HN: How to quantify improvements in human memory recall?
I have terrible memory/recall. Just awful. I've got my theories as to why, but it doesn't matter - I'm focusing on improvement. One of the areas I'd like to improve this on, is a personal knowledge databased tailored to storage (because I'm awful at memory) as well as retention through various methods of training, like spaced repetition.

With that said, what methods do you recommend to quantify memory/retention?

Obviously I'm going to be recording all of the results I have, whether I'm right/wrong, and analyze the data once it starts to build up. Yet, I fear that will be similar to mind-games, where you improve in the game itself, rather than improving intelligence/etc. I want another metric to measure my memory by.

Are there any proven methods to test the brains ability to store and recall memories? Very difficult I imagine, but I thought it would be worth asking.
Another argument for Python is The Pilot System rule from The Mythical Man-Month (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_pil...), which my experience completely supports. You need to focus on developer speed rather than execution speed or even correctness -- you will learn a lot and change your assumptions, take edge-cases into account etc. Only when you have a stable system it makes sense to start to isolate performance bottlenecks and replace them with optimised, low-level code.
95% of Plastic from 10 Rivers, Feasible to Filter?
Why You Should Never Build Apps Without Wireframes
Which is a centralized, proprietary, web-based client. All three of which HN loves to hate Slack for.
For Mac, Colloquy is quite good: http://colloquy.info

Works well, and is a native app that fits well into the general ecosystem.
In a similar vein, we pitched Microsoft Ventures on a developer tool we were building. One of their chief concerns was that we were targeting C# developers. (Why not JS? Is C# even that popular?)

This helped drill home the intuition that large companies are not a single entity, but an amalgamation of different groups and individuals each with a potentially different motivation.
Science right there.
How is it a bait and switch if Slack never advertised itself as an open platform?
"We've spent so much time fixing obscure bugs and behaviors that betray everything we've learned in the languages we used previously in our careers that it was really not worth it."

That sounds very frustrating; I'm sorry your day-to-day became consumed by such things. Would you mind providing an example of such an "obscure bug and behavior"?
IRCCloud was is its infancy when Slack came on the scene. If it had existed back then, maybe we wouldn’t have switched? I don’t know, but it’s way too late now. (I have never used it, and am just assuming the read state sync works as well as Slack, which may be a big assumption.)
Maybe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Un...
I already commented on this, but have you tried Colloquy for Mac?

http://colloquy.info
Maybe the intention of the fund was to diversify - i.e., hedge their huge exposure to the CPU market by investing into totally different things, i.e., not you!
>post images/videos inline

There are quite a few IRC clients that do this automatically, fwiw.
Replacing Redux with the New React Context API
Wholly disregarding the opinions of others solely because you dislike and/or misunderstand an unrelated decision is just poor judgement.
ASF has a CLA for every single project, and seems to be doing alright. It also seems like what you call “binding Contributor Guidelines” is basically a CLA.
Could you use the System.ValueTuple NuGet package?
Hey, I used to play ComputerCraft with the lead developer of this project.

Guess that's why it targets Lua.
Analysis of Incident Overpressure Data Using Python
SQS/SNS + Elastic Beanstalk for queue workers should do the trick?
Ask HN: What are the platforms to sell libraries to developers?
I want to know if there is a marketplace where a developer can sell libraries and code snippets.
Or license their projects?
PerfectPitch Winner and $400K from Marc Benioff and Ashton Kutcher’s SOUND
See also this follow-up article on the various types of file references available in macOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16568103
I would use FastMail's web interface full time if I could but I have different accounts on different providers and if I want to use them with a single UI, I have to use a regular desktop client.

Can you please convert your web interface into a generic mail user agent which works with all imap and smtp servers? This would be a much nicer solution than redirecting or fetching mails into a single account and imho your web interface feels snappier than MailMate on macOS and eMClient on Windows.
it stops being an assumption once the termination actually happens
>what's "reticule limit"?

The maximum area a stepper can expose at the time. Effectively the limit of how big you can make a single microchip.
Here's a related theory: People who consume a significant amount of fat tend to become overweight/obese because they also overconsume carbohydrates (and protein), which spikes blood insulin and causes the dietary fat to be stored as adipose tissue. People with a lot of adipose tissue have higher levels of cholesterol, a hormone manufactured by the body to manage its fat stores (among many other things).

So in this scenario, is it eating saturated dietary fat which causes unhealthy levels of cholesterol in the blood?

Or is it because the person's diet has caused them to become overweight/obese and therefore the body's cholesterol levels have increased as a result?

In my own experience, I lost 20% of my body weight (57 lbs) by eating a high fat low-carb diet, supplemented by intermittent fasting. I was on statins (cholesterol medication) and an ARB (for hypertension), and was able to stop taking these meds 18 months after losing the weight.

There are lots of reasons to avoid saturated oils/fat. I think it's misleading and overly simplistic to say or imply that dietary fat leads to high cholesterol.

https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...
I know this isn't exactly what you're saying (the timing with the mass shooting is, well, a shot in the foot), but it kind of reads like "Oculus has the wrong politics".

To be clear: I'm not saying you are consciously condemning Oculus for having the wrong politics, but maybe the right politics/wrong politics angle is coloring your view of the business world. Which it shouldn't.
Here's a list of Ryzen motherboards that people have tried and succeeded in using ECC with: http://www.overclock.net/forum/11-amd-motherboards/1629642-r...

Additionally, you can check the QVL for each motherboard, and then test it by hand.
You can :) (Especially with the pattern matching feature)
https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
Switching from Gulp to Webpack
World Wide Web’s 29th Birthday – Open Letter from Sir Tim Berners-Lee
> It can be tasty when you consider fruit. When you consider everything else, it's misery.

I used to think that, but now I'm living with a hard-vegetarian/soft-vegan and I've discovered that it's not exactly true, even though my tastes didn't really change and I still dislike most of the vegetables.
I think Textual looks cleaner and is more functional than Textual - probably because the Textual team picks and chooses what Mac app design cues to use.
I would like to put you in touch with a few very interesting/influential people in Italy. Please drop me an email (my HN username @ gmail).
It is incredibly surprising.

You aren't surprised because you have experienced this. But any economist would look at this and say something like this:

> You claim that there are people where an investment of $400 would
> quickly (within a couple of years) give them a salary increase in
> the range of $20,000 to $50,000 per year. That is obviously untrue.
> If it WERE true, then at lease ONE person in the country would have
> spent $4,000 to seed a 10-person program which granted the $400 in
> exchange for a promise to contribute $8,000 back in a couple of
> years. A x20 replication factor would easily swamp administrative
> costs and participants who refuse to pay afterward and the program
> would still be growing exponentially.

I think the source of the fallacy is that while there ARE people for whom $400 is a difficult-to-surmount barrier beyond which no other major impediments stand between them and middle-class success, they are an impossible-to-find minority in a sea of people who are willing to ASK for $400 and those for whom $400 is a major impediment, but further impediments would prevent them from succeeding.

Alternately, we can look at the literally thousands of charities (including schools themselves) that offer merit-based and need-based scholarships, and conclude that the economist is partly right and the system DOES exist, but isn't meeting all of the need.
Existing EU data protection law since the mid 90s gives people the right to get a copy of their personal data, with big players, like Facebook, supporting it for years.

I don't know if Slack has any offices or entity in the EU, but you could try making an access request today./
I had to hard refresh but it looks good now
When Microsoft sues companies for using pirate Windows, they extort extra fines and payments and put people in jail. It doesn't seem to hurt them. FSF position is weak. If you're not fighting with claws and teethes, strong ones won't respect you, they'll continue to abuse you just to "comply" if they got caught and sued.
Go see the friend. Be present. Don't try to fix things. If asked directly, suggest seeing a mental health professional. That's the only consistently sound advice about depression most people have.

Good luck.
irssi, it really enhances the experience when you can brag about your e-peen
I hate grepping my IRC logs. I wish ZNC had a plug-in that allowed searching logs.
The article clearly highlights a few unusual (aka, weird) things:

1 - Unlike most other pitcher plant species, this one has low acid and relies on the droppings of the worm larvae

2 - This is the only place the larvae have been found to live (a small and [i imagine somewhat] threatened area)

3 - The main food source appear to be other insects born inside the plant that get caught in the web leaving. Not other insects/animals that fall inside
… and it's open-source (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/).
Yes. Although, Qualcomm is also investing in cloud and servers market and if they get successful (rather arm in general) could hit intel hard.

What are your thoughts on that?
Agreed it looks scammy, but it is a legitimate link. The user should give some context instead of just pasting a link.
Switch to LineageOS. The Moto G series is well supported up to Nougat. It will not be any slower either.
I have this memory of the first time I seen a ladies breasts. It was a lady from church who was breastfeeding at our house (it was hippy-ish Vineyard church, there was no hiding it under a blanket). I was somewhere between 3 and 4, so I wasn't that young. But it was a very personal experience, obviously.

What's interesting, to me, is how the memory changed over the years. The colors, and ..um.. shapes have distorted, enlarged, and some details have disappeared completely. It's changed so much that it's probably completely degraded, but it was such a shocking event that I can't forget the memory itself.
Ask HN: Programming book recommendations for autistic savant 7-year-old?
He likes minecraft and, I am told, reads at a college level and talks about general relativity.
They're not useless, they just have a job which is far more difficult than people give them credit for. When some kids get bad grades, people point at the teacher, even though other kids are getting good grades. Or the same teacher teaching the same curriculum for 20 years will suddenly find their whole class failing - and they point at the teacher. But the teacher never changed.
We (honeybadger.io) are open to spinning up an EU-hosted version of our service. Those who would like to signal their interest in that can contact us at support@honeybadger.io. :)
What did you come up with for "computer" ?
Handling personal data: practical guide for developers
A new fleet of all-electric ferries
Ionic CRUD Application with Cloud Firestore
Connecting data is hard. What if it wasn't?
The Ember Temperature Controlled Travel Mug Looked Better on Paper
> Intel thought we used too many CPUs?!.....

Before your firm can buy a ton of Intel CPUs and make money for Intel, it needs to be profitable. It doesn't make sense for their VC arm to give you money to buy CPUs, then fail to sell your product and go bankrupt.