skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That means, I continue reading, but I think about something else triggered by what's in the book. Then I switch back to the book realizing "Wait, where was I? I have no idea why I'm reading this, and now I skipped a whole page."

Solve this with a "catch": something you use to empty the distracting ideas from your head, then get back to what you're doing. The original suggestion for a catch I found in "Mind Performance Hacks" by Ron Hale-Evans was a piece of paper and a writing utensil. These days with all sorts of apps to "catch" ideas, you have plenty of options. I've become very comfortable with org-mode myself.
Why philosophy is taking its time to answer the big questions
Like others have said, You Don't Know JS is freaking amazing---really covers all of basic JavaScript up to the new and fancy stuff. Less about design paradigms and more about just becoming comfortable with the mechanics of the language, weird stuff like prototypes and dealing with all the async craziness and the terrifying `this keyword and all those other nuts and bolts on which all the "modern" practices depend.
Mine had been much better. I expected some glitches, and encountered some. So met expectations :)
Those would be useful for vascular and other medical imaging uses. Search and rescue bots as well.
Android OS boot process with focus on Zygote
Picture a tree in which the roots contain protected data and the leaves contain public data. The further you go in the direction of the roots, the more certification you need.
Basically, everybody wanted to ride the gravy train and nobody wanted to be the killjoy that pulled the brakes before it flew off of the cliff. There was a lot of money to be made and nobody thought they would be the ones left holding the bag.

The movie The Big Short explained this pretty well.
What constitutes user data?
That's the same way all free online services work. If anything, Facebook is mostly limited to its data silo. The larger scope of aggregation that general data brokers engage in is a much bigger, unsung problem.
Will You Be Out of Job If You Don’t Learn AI?
RESTful Microservices on the Google Cloud Platform
Prehistoric “sea monster” may be largest animal that ever lived
My first CD burner was around 1998. It used a parallel port and I used it with a laptop. Now that I think about it, I still had a PowerMac back then with SCSI. I don't know why I didn't get a SCSI based CD burner. Also, why didn't they have USB based burners back then?
We don't included Davy Crockett nuclear rocket in 'well-armed' or even a FIM-92 Stinger. So, it's clearly not simply a question of all military weaponry as long as it's usable by infantry.
You now have a severed finger. Where's the phone? You'll still need both items.
In our village the local bus is always full of pensioners, without it their ability to get around and hence their quality of life would be compromised.

Sadly it isn't financially viable, it's only running now because of money from a local property development. Once that runs out I doubt it will continue.

Perhaps a driverless bus would be affordable.
How is this different from the infamous http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm ?
Disagree slightly with the point about far less documentation/community/ecosystem on Vue. The Vue documentation is stunningly amazing---probably the best out-of-the-box documentation I've ever seen for a library, and that really makes it vastly easier to learn than its competitors.
Zuckerberg Gaslights Congress Before the Hearings Even Start
Oh yeah, I did see that Candy Japan post. I had forgotten. Thanks!
Maybe that's part of why those sorts of jobs pay pretty well and have such high burnout rates.
Show HN: How to become an authority content expert
The challenge for most businesses, is to get their audience’s attention and keep them engaged long enough to lead to a sale. That journey starts with creating 'authority content', a phrase that refers to content that builds your audience and business. In this article, we describe what authority content is, what it looks like, and how you can create it.

https://www.engagebay.com/blog/15-hacks-to-create-authority-...
I was puzzled about why would someone spend power cracking this, but apparently Troy was as well:

> One of the things that did surprise me a little in V1 was the effort some folks went to in order to crack the passwords. I was surprised primarily because the vast majority of those passwords were already available in the clear via the 2 combo lists I mentioned earlier anyway, so why bother? Just download the (easily discoverable) lists! The penny that later dropped was that it presented a challenge - and people like challenges!
> cannot be easily manufactured or endlessly modified in some random garage are the barrel and the chamber

To modify a front loading single shut gun you do have to modify the chamber.

Average shots in a gun fight is a very misleading statistic. Average shots in a gun fight resulting in death are vastly higher.

Edit: A lot more people die in US mass shootings than you might think. Once you start talking about saving 1,000+ lives per decade it's far from meaningless.

PS: "a revolver that can't be rapidly reloaded" clearly excludes speed loaders. Revolver chambers that open up are necessary before you can use a speed loader. I can only assume you are ignoring what I am actually saying.
I use OVH for all of my domains because you can register probably any TLD on the planet with them. It is quite cheap as well - and they offer free (minimal) hosting and email forwarders as well. DNSSec and full control of everything.
Just to iterate on your comment, while The Witness is one of my favorite games and very close in spirit to the Myst, the closet game after many many years I was able to find is Quern:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/512790/Quern__Undying_Thou...

If you like Myst, give it a try, you want be disappointed.
Every Android User Should Know These Hidden Secret Codes
Ask HN: What is a 'full stack' website?
Hi i was browsing a separate ASK HN question and saw someone mention a full stack website, and i've heard of full stack devs but never a 'full stack website'

is there a single composition of the components of a full stack website? Or does it vary?

Ask thread that mentions a full stack website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800510
Oh hi there :)
Sesame Street turns to Kickstarter to fund autism book
I'm not sure how Mario "stole" from Donkey Kong if both games were made by Nintendo...
I just tried installing MYST and RIVEN on my Win10 PC.

They worked just fine. There is no need for a kickstarter to 'bring these games to Windows 10" because they already work on Windows 10.

Can you say money grab on nostalgia?
Please don't use HN for ideological flamewar. It's off topic here.
Thanks. Our blog is located at https://blog.bitplatter.com.

We are co-locating some of our infrastructure. The backend that does the data processing is running in a rack on our own hardware. The user facing portions are hosted in GCE.
On Safari the only option to proceed requires installing the DoD certificate.
Southern New Hampshire University experiments handing out degrees via blockchain
I'm at a similar crossroads right now albeit with different numbers. I actually work for a mobile gaming company, making a solid salary and get to work fully remote. The job is no longer fulfilling and I feel like I need to try going on my own at least once. Perhaps forming a support group for individuals making this transition would be helpful :P

Have you thought about looking for a cofounder to share some of this risk with you? However, I hear that's not an easy task either.
It's still going because that's the way people talk. You can actually "steal" an idea, even though it's not physically possible to remove the original from the person's mind. You can steal a kiss. You can steal second. Words mean what people use them to mean, and it's a perfectly acceptable use of the word "steal" to mean something like "adopted use of an artifact for the purpose of deriving a benefit rightfully belonging to its creator".

I'm personally surprised the "copyright infringement isn't theft" meme is still going strong.
> Imagine an AR like Myst.

I suggested to one of the Niantic developers (Ingress, Pokemon Go) that they could make interesting "historical fiction tours" that people would likely pay for. Basically have the customer travel around a city to important places and solve a "mystery" associated with some historical event. You could use some of the Ingress mechanics where you would "pick up" a clue at a location that was a playable video file. That would lead you to the next clue. You could "uncover" secret locations by locating yourself relative to landmarks and entering a sequence, etc.
Yeah actually if you could take out a dozen AWS data centers most of the internet would be out.
If drinking beer only had a negative effect on society based on how much beer we collectively drank and you drank beer only when you paid someone else to drink that much less beer, then the analogy would fit and yes, you would indeed not be contributing on net to the drinking problem such as it were.
By violating the copyright of the content you are stealing the creators money. I'm surprised the meme that copyright violation is "different" than stealing is still a meme. Yes, copyright violation is not "stealing", but the majority of the time the end result is "stealing" money from the content creators.
SQRL's biggest advantage over other proposals for a password replacement was that it didn't need buy-in from browser vendors to work.

At this point though it seems pretty likely that the Web Authentication Standard has successfully overcome that barrier. It's already partially implemented in multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox) and backed by a W3C Candidate Recommendation. In the face of that, I don't believe SQRL can compete.
Interestingly, this sort of planned suburb seems to end up a lot like what we used to get organically.

Boston's inner suburbs are full of this sort of stuff - walkable stores, small business and light industry, 2-5 story buildings for housing. And it all feels a lot like the old quarters of many European cities.

Part of the change is building materials and cars, I suppose - what was obvious in 1850 now has to be planned to outcompete highrises and cars-first layouts. But an awful lot of it is just not outlawing what people already do if you let them; Boston's livable old suburbs are basically all illegal today.

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
I appreciate the sentiment, but trust me: if there's a "solution" out there, I've tried it (Yes, I have in fact heard of melatonin! No, it doesn't help, thank you.)

My chronic insomnia is "primary" meaning it persists in the absence of other factors. I'm not depressed. I get enough sun exposure. I take my supplements. I have a comfy mattress. I practice good sleep hygiene. I use blue light filters and don't use my phone/computer before bed. I exercise every day. I eat well and not before bed. I don't have breathing issues. Nothing helps. It's just the hand I was dealt genetically.

Furthermore, exercising to the point of exhaustion is reckless and I've injured myself over the years doing exactly that because I don't get enough sleep for my body to recover properly.

I can run and stay aerobically fit and I played high level soccer for many years when I was younger without too much issue, but activities like weightlifting are a struggle for me. Benchlifting when you're sleep deprived is pointless so I have to fill in on my off days.
Every single regulation starts from an "untenable place", almost by definition. What happens in every industry is "abuse" -> "collective realization that there's a problem" -> "close the hole that allowed the abuse to happen". Self-regulation is only a solution if the industry at large addresses the concerns early and acts in good faith. That did not and is currently not happening with SV and data privacy.

The fact that FB can't give a straight answer, and it has to be dragged out with revelations of increasing scale, is a big part of why public sentiment favors more external regulation.
Agreed, it's a lot of different sources of information. Color perception and reproduction are deep subjects and many of the results/assumptions are in turn subjective (e.g. dependent on the person). However, this is a lot better than most of the simple presentations I've seen on-line.

One of the noticeable gaps in the article was a discussion of white-point or color temperature even though it starts to discuss illumination. It's critical to realize that our perception of color is influenced by the surroundings and relative to what we accept as white. That's part of why when you're out in the snow with rose glasses on things start to look normal, until you take them off... also why people argue about the blue-black or gold-white dress.
I do not agree. You assume that things don’t change. The past 100 years doesn’t matter at all because the past 80 years are starkly different than the last 20 years. It’s not only the local housing bubble that one needs to be concerned about, it’s the stock market, specifically tech, bubble in general that should give rise to concern. While your city is culturally diverse, it is economically homogeneous. Sure, a stock market correction or downturn hurts the whole country, it specifically impacts those who overpaid for assets. If you can’t pay the mortgage for the next couple years, does it really matter that it will undoubtedly bounce back in 5-10 years? Never buy an assessment that is overpriced. Housing in the Bay Area is obviously and unarguably overpriced because supply is artificially suppressed.
Funny seeing our neighborhood dancing dude mentioned on HN (assuming you’re talking about the guy that posts up across from Easy Street)! When he started showing up I was really happy to see just a little bit of life and eccentric expression being brought back out on the street.
Seattle was my hometown and still is my home. I’m probably one of the complainers many people are complaining about on this forum. That said, I have made friends with a bunch of new folks who moved from Cali within the last several years. Really great, wonderful people and I have nothing against them. Nevertheless, at this point it’s far from the city I grew up in, fell in love with, and now miss (even though I still live here)
As the cost of living rises, the culture changes.
Dockly: Docker Console UI/Dashboard for Managing/inspecting Containers/Images
Bootstrap uses flexbox under the hood. Ideally you should understand both (in the same way you should understand JS before using jQuery).

Bootstrap just gives you a lot of battle-tested components out of the box (like modals for example), it's not a replacement for CSS.
Jeff Bezos was 29 when he decided to quit his full time job and 30 when he founded Amazon. Close enough?
My properties are about 1800 miles away :P
Tangentially, some car manufacturers have done prototypes of this as well. Look up the Porsche GT3R Hybrid or the Volvo S60 prototype for an example... Unfortunately it appears that for one reason or another no one has decided to move forward with these into actual consumer cars.
I'm not familiar with "cyclic organic structures". The article says they're hard for chemists to make and perhaps biology makes it easier -- but why are they useful in the first place?
They are also available for Android (via Noodlecake Studios)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake...
I lived in Vegas at the time. I saw it for the obvious problem that it was. I told everyone in the area that the bust was going to happen, but everyone was blinded by the money they were making. The shock people had was both amusing and disturbing at the same time.

Funny somewhat related story; just as the downslide started in that market we made an offer on a house 50k below asking. The owner, an investor, laughed at us. After the bust, we had already moved away at that point, we saw the house finally sold for something like 100k to 150k less than our low-ball offer.

Another somewhat related funny story; went to an open house and told the realtor I was worried over falling house values before deciding to buy. We were told house values don't fall. Didn't bother to point out to her that the for sale sign out front had a "reduced" sticker on it.

I have more, but I don't won't to be a bore.
In the past the solution was a drooped nose[1]. For this, it'll be augmented reality.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droop-nose
I suggest reading the book as well.
Do you have a link to provide context?
Given how few natural things glow under UV light I would venture to say that those chemicals are not particularly common or more useful than others in general.
Yeah, BiggerPockets is a great resource for real estate investing. As with many businesses, it's all about finding the right people and building relationships.

Feel free to message me if you'd like to chat more.
Url changed from https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/10/fido-w3c-web-authenticat..., which points to this.
Very interesting, it answered quite a few questions I had not dared to ask.
And they are not backups unless DD is somehow involved.
I doubt you would feel that way if I responded to someone condoning fascism.
It's an april fool.

See https://inti.io/oilsjtanalytica
> Overall net positive environmental impact over the generations I guess would be a better way of stating it.

Multiple generations just multiplies the negative impact- it doesn't reverse it. At some point (which we may discover sooner rather than later) humanity's impact will be beyond repair.
Agreed. Scorpions also glow under UV light and scientists don't seem to have come up with definite theory explaining why this may be. Maybe these are just random occurrences of proteins that glow under UV, but have other properties beneficial to the animal in question.
Besides this video review being hilarious, it's also troubling.

Apple is a large enough and experienced enough company that fails like these are ridiculous to explain away.

One has to wonder if in the Steve Jobs era if this app and this type of publicity would get the app pulled and people held accountable.
I'm confused, if the fluoresce as shown doesn't that mean they look brighter in light visible to us? is it such a stretch to believe the birds can't see that?
More geared toward people who don't know how to write to hosts files.
That would be an incredibly expensive loophole just for a claim. Also, at least in the States, I believe you have to actually feed the energy into the local grid in order to qualify for REC, not just merely produce it.
The only good outcome will be for this to backfire spectacularly with privacy protections that limit ISPs just as much as the tech companies.

The ISPs are already playing a dangerous game. Unlike their buddies at the FCC, congress is elected, and with enough popular pressure (and midterms coming up), they can be persuaded to do the right thing.
I'm self taught and went through Triplebyte. They make you take a small quiz and technical screen anonymously, and then they pair you up with around 8 startups (mostly YC).

Here's my referral link, should you want to use it (we each get $1500): https://triplebyte.com/iv/YY8SRsU/cp.

If you need any help, my email is `<my username>cs@gmail.com`.
You can just keep your socks on to protect your login toeprint when not in use.
Well they never managed to shutdown torrent or tor, so decentralized is still alive and kicking.

But yeah, we are likely to see a lot of people using the "blockchain" label for marketing reason, not using the tech for any of it's benefits.

But that's silly even from a technical point of view: if you don't need decentralization and transparency, then a blockchain is a very poor alternative to a blackbox built on postgress.
Climate Change: It Was the Sun All Along – So Say the Bulgarians
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In my opinion, prototypal inheritance does not belong in the same league of importance as closures, async programming, promises in the "modern JavaScript" ecosystem. In fact, I'd replace it with generators.
That's a good point but at least Google won't be able to disable your gmail account and lock you out of all the accounts and media you had tied to it.
Hard to know if this was done on purpose, or if the third party replacement parts are actually substandard/not-to-spec and therefore naturally not QA'd at Apple.... at least until a technical root cause is found?
Unfortunately, until Apple incorporates this into Safari, it's not going to be usable. We'll have to wait and see what Apple announces at WWDC to see if this is useful. FaceID+Password would be an excellent companion to this.
It's the traditional approach...
>Wouldn't autonomous buses be a threat to bus drivers?

Yes and no, if - as seemingly is the case for the projects in Japan - the driverless buses replace NOT any existing bus but extend services (to elder people) by makig more buses affordable.

Most probably if/when the technology will actually be viable (even if limited to "simpler" lower traffic routes) there will be a race by all extra-urban bus companies to get them (and fire their drivers).
> What if the leaders at Apple are actually good people and they’re honest when they say they want te leave the Earth a better place?

There's a concept called first mover disadvantage where for example a well intentioned CEO can push for a positive action by the company like reducing pollution, improving worker welfare. These nearly always incur a cost and push down shareholder value in the short term.

Furthermore if your competitors aren't making the same moves they're gaining in the short term over you.

A CEO like that is not going to last very long and most CEOs don't have the kind of power to tell shareholders to settle down.

That's what makes Apple's approach here pretty unique. Now if they'd only refresh their Mac lineup a little more often that'd be something...
Morning-person: attempted happiness via daily dancing
This exact scenario happened to me in Seattle. But I took a corporate job instead of move.
The submitter used the HTML doc title, which is usually fine, but sure, we've changed the article title.
One option: compete on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

E.g. you probably have some prior job experience, job experience that someone straight out of school doesn't have. That job experience likely taught you some valuable skills, which you should highlight - skills you need as a programmer go far beyond Javascript or datastructures.
"Even something ridiculously weak like a SHA-1 hash isn't going to be cracked if the password is 16 characters long and completely random."

Uh, yea, about that - that's how we cracked 4chan Tripcodes. 16-character SHA-1 is dead in just a few seconds with a GPU and that was, what, a decade ago?
Cascade is the worst possible word to use for someone coming from a CSS background. From the very beginning of CSS history, cascading was tied to a notion of specificity - if you have a rule for h1 it overrides what was in the html rule. https://css-tricks.com/look-back-history-css/

But whatever Firebase is doing, it’s the opposite of specificity - it’s closer to “search top down until we find something truthy then stop.” https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security/

This is simpler and more efficient to implement and run at scale. But imagine if styling worked like that - you could never have colored overlays, or anything we take for granted.

When over-eager marketing speak encourages insecurity, it’s a significant ethical breach.
In 1998, most machines barely had USB 1.0 support, much less USB 1.1 support. While USB 1.1 supported up to 15 Mbit/s "full speed", most systems at that time were still only average the 1.5 Mbit/s "low speed", which is just enough to burn a CD at 1X (and I certainly remember how slow 1X seemed; I was quite proud of the 16X burner I had at one point in HS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_and_DVD_writing_speed