skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Museum model perhaps?
Testing distributed systems
While dodging this specific issue, there is a key philsophical issue in play. Should we desire a society where the police are 100% efficient at preventing unlawful activity? The knee jerk answer is obviously yes, yet it's certainly a knee jerk reaction. The most fundamental issue is that history has shown time and again that the corruption of the powers that be is not a question of if but a question of when. What happens when the powers that be become corrupted, but also perfectly efficient at carrying out their will? That is quite disconcerting and, for instance, is why the fact that society is increasingly turning into a surveillance state should be extremely unsettling. I'm far less concerned about a madman with a gun than I am about a madman with a national military and police force.

Another issue is that much progress in the past has been the product of unlawful activity. How long would slavery have lasted if abolitionists were able to have been effectively snuffed out? How would it be if the "founding fathers" instead were rotely hung, drawn, and quartered -- a practice that persisted in the English empire all the way up until 1870? Would America have been a better or worse place if every person who ever once indulged in a controlled substance or drunk before age was prosecuted? Imagine if prohibition or other morality based laws, including for instance laws against homosexuality, could have been effectively enacted. What sort of path of puritanism would that have set us on?

Of course I don't think anybody knows the answers to these questions, but I do think there is a strong argument that law enforcement does not have an inherent right to any means that would make their work more efficient. So do police have a right to obstruct all of society's freedom to operate drones for the sake of increased efficiency? I am not sure, but I do think any issue that proposes sacrificing freedom for security should be questioned.
I think a drone id is a good thing, but not to identify criminals. They’d reset the id or falsify it. It would be helpful to monitor drone airspace though, e.g. to see who’s using drones too close to restricted zones etc.
How to Deal with Negative App Reviews and Feedback
Missing: “In tunnels” :-)
maybe its a "thing" for some of us, but if you are in a queue you can feel like a prole, when somebody bypasses you to be served before you. Sure: they paid and ordered first, but the emotion in the queue is very disempowering.

breeding resentment is usually bad.

I think if the 'pick up here' was a hole in the wall outside the store, it would be more like drive-through with MacDonalds where everyone understands its a distinct queue.

The way these pre-order lines work, it can feel like you've been put into the second-class citizen box.

Queueing at Airline desks is often similar btw. I have high status, but its a walk of shame to inact it sometimes. People in economy, 100+ deep, resenting my ability to get quick service because the airline doesn't pre-empt my queue to service them, in slack times. (some do, many dont)
I'm surprised that a soldering iron cost you so much. You could probably get a soldering iron for £5 today.

Not a great one by any means, I certainly wouldn't be doing SMD soldering with it, but adequate for through hole and point to point wiring. It probably won't last as long either.

My old man has a couple of soldering irons for the 70's that still work great. You'd be paying over $100 for the same iron these days.

He also still has the same roll of solder that he had in the 80's. A kilogram of solder lasts a long time. In fact, most of his electrical tools from the 80's are in good condition and get regular use.
I sometimes wonder if, assuming we are able to simulate brains and nervous systems in software at some point in the future, if we'll be able to experiment with mapping spider or bat nervous system states to human ones to be able to investigate that experimentally. Which would be somewhat counter to Nagel's arguments.
The business model of using targeted advertising as the main source of revenue will always be at odds with protecting user data privacy, and same goes for not making users addicted to the service. These companies may say they will protect privacy and not make you addicted, but that goes against their financial interests.
> This is a pernicious stereotype and mostly wrong. Have you ever actually talked to a NIMBY? The most committed NIMBYs have lived in the same place for decades and have no plans to sell. They don't care much about property values.

I have. Among other things, they like to ramble on about the importance of neighborhood character. They're also reliably very, very vague on what they actually think that means. In my experience, it's functionally impossible to address concerns that people refuse to communicate, no matter how much sympathy, empathy, compassion, and kindness you engage them with.

I often find myself thinking "neighborhood character" is code for "freeze my world in amber" and "keep people with different skin color away".
The State of Jupyter (2017)
If your goal is to post, then SO is excellent. But if your goal is also to read, there are questions. Nobody ever tried to use Stack Overflow without Google yet. given all its bell and whistles are intended for those who want to post, there are questions yet to answer.
> None of those digitized things really are what the SID is about though

Fair enough. Although cubase64 does use SID features in an innovate way.

> For digitized sound, the SID isn't different from something like a PC beeper.

C64 is way superior for playing samples compared to PC beeper. Only commonality is that it takes high amount of CPU cycles, in the linked example all of it.
Scrounging is a fine art. I had a room full of electronic gear as a child, a steady stream of computers (286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, III) and hi-fi components (amp, tuner, tape deck, turntable). My folks were poor, but Dad was a technician and new how to find stuff (garage sale, auction, school/office offloading gear, etc) and give it a quick fix up and a polish.
Wouldn't products like openvpn benefit from using this? Or am I missing something?
These days, it really seems like raising kids to deal with
capitalism involves turning them into rabid frothy-mouthed
commies who only want to tear down the state and replace it
with non-work-required utopia

What?

As a capitalist myself here's a book I really recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Beginners-Rius/dp/0375714618

I suspect you will walk away from it thinking the same thing most people do: Marx's criticisms of capitalism are absolutely vital and relevant to this day... and his solutions are even worse, and that capitalism is still probably the least terrible solution we've got. :)

But more to the point: there is no definition of socialism or communism that even remotely advocates this a "non-work-required utopia." It's all about work and workers!

(Now, in practice, socialist/communist societies wound up stratifying anyway, and elites often didn't exactly have to spend their days in a coal mine or shoveling pig shit like the commonfolk. But that's been pretty much true of every economic system under the sun since the beginning of mankind. So, even a cursory glance at history tells us that this is not a problem unique to socialism or communism.)
Cool idea, I like it.
IMO it's still primarily a body/gesture language. Oh, sure, it has some abstract symbolic representation stuff built on top of more primal human communication channels. However, when the new stuff conflicts with body language and paralinguistic signals, it typically gets disregarded.
I'm uncomfortable with the fact that Marco would frequently proclaim his support for indie development, but was also willing to outright lose money in order to undercut his competition and dominate the podcast market. (In his own words.) Yes, if you have a lot of money, you can acquire tons of customers by releasing your app for free and using a half-hearted "patronage" model. Most developers don't have that option. It might make good business sense, but doing it while saying you care about the indie scene strikes me as hypocritical. (I concede that this is perhaps a petty and uncharitable interpretation of events, but it really miffed me when it was happening.)

As for subscriptions, I simply hate that business model with a passion and will do almost anything to avoid it.
We Were Promised Mind-Blowing Personal Tech. What’s the Hold-Up?
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I downloaded it from uptodown a few weeks ago and can confirm that it runs fine without google play services. It only gives you an error message on some occasions which you can ignore. However, I don't really trust uptodown. When I asked them where they sourced their apps from I didn't get a reply. I also mailed DB and they said they publish to Google Play only. Now I've checked the apk file with various online tools but I still feel slightly uneasy about it.

I really hope that one day institutions like public transport operators and public service broadcasters publish they apps in google-free stores. I don't want to depend on the Google Playstore one day because there's no other way to purchase an electronic ticket or to use tv on demand services.
It started before then and it exists outside the US as well.
I think they are the the most visible symptoms of a disease that has been growing for the past decade or so. They were a wakeup call to a lot of non-tech people on how much power social media/big data can have.
differentiating fact from speculation is a difficult and important venture that requires vigilance throughout one's entire lifetime. It's very hard, and we all slip up because it's not really how our brains like to work.
TOTP works by having huge margins of errors (minutes worth). The original post is suggesting using time of day as seed.
I don't remember Microsoft being broken up.
Generating all the styles at once could be helpful. Nice work
Of course they will insert personalized ads. There is no doubt in my mind that the end goal is pervasive monitoring combined with targeted advertising.
Typo in the title: "conputing" should be "computing".
IIRC if you change your user agent for mobile you'll get HLS
Pharma advertising is something which has probably had significant negative effects, at least on American society.
"submit email address, receive tokenized URL in an email"

... is a known-vulnerable antipattern, because email normally exposes that token to third parties.

http://www.goironbox.com/why-email-is-not-secure/
I'm not looking for a pro-/anti- discussion. Dialectic materialism never solved a thing.

What I do want to point out though, is that teens don't work like they used to. Some think thats a good thing; others do not. Alas, only the prosperity of future generations can really provide a valid indicator ..
People outside of the US are aware of what happened, and Russia has been targeting other countries elections as well (France, Germany, etc.).
Astronomy and biology absolutely feature testable predictions. Science really can't happen without that feature. It's certainly not a myth.

If you make a prediction that by its nature cannot be tested, you really can't do anything useful with it.
Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.
By housing, we really mean land use. We inherited from our grandparents a society built around cars, and restrictive zoning that prevents society from rebuilding away from cars. Just look at the zoning maps, how much of San Francisco is limited to 40 foot height limits (35 foot if you’re building a single-family house) and 1 or 2 homes per 2500 square feet parcel.
http://sf-planning.org/zoning-maps

Without enough homes near jobs, and by not allowing homes to be built without dedicating lots of space to parking, we encourage mega-commutes.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/22/1617782...
That somehow made me think of the viagra ads as an indicator of a changing of eras.

The viagra ads were a product of a time when the goal was to immediately and directly sell things. Now the era has shifted to one where the goal is to sell your information to people that want to sell you things (or otherwise use that information to further their ends). So instead of spamming you with viagra ads you're spammed with requests to divulge information at every turn you make. Register for this, register for that, give us your email address, let us access your location, let us send you an SMS (aka let us have your phone number), login with your facebook account, talk about yourself, and so much more.

Think I preferred viagra spam.
Thanks, you're 100% correct and when I recently explained my history to startups out here they have the exact same reaction.

I've been jumping from small pond to small pond until now.

This large company's project is outsourced to over 30+ people where none of the devs have even touched React and come from an Enterprise Java background. It's 6+ months and late, when really the product would take a team of about 8 to do in 4 months. I come in and suddenly I'm tech lead managing and mentoring others.

I understand even this post feels like I'm unappreciative but it wasn't until two months ago that I had a teammate I could feel happy working with rather than me mentoring them.

I don't consider myself great or a genius, but this pain of knowing you can only teach yourself so much has bothered me since my first job.

Hence, how does one find a mentor?
Thanks! Finding the right way and levels to present granularity was definitely a challenge for us developing this product.
It’s not a knee jerk yes for the simple fact the police are not the lawmakers. If you have issues of corruption of the powers that be then the lawmakers/elected officials are your real problem. Are you making a case for a less efficient society based on hypotheticals?

> The most fundamental issue is that history has shown time and again that the corruption of the powers that be is not a question of if but a question of when.

History has also shown it goes the other way as well.
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If history is any guide, regulation will strengthen the incumbents. This would prevent people from moving to decentralized platforms like Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/

There is a threat worse than the power of Google or Facebook. It's the threat of the surveillance state. Just look at how China is implementing a ranking system for its citizens. Regulation that strengthens the incumbents will pave the way for it, since it will concentrate everybody's data into a few regulated data brokers.
Firefox Focus elsewhere I think? I really like the concept, I've made it the default browser for opening links and switch to Firefox mostly just when something doesn't render properly (scripts blocked perhaps?)
Customers Can Tell When Companies Dont Listen
This year's Nobel Prize for Literature is in jeopardy over a sex scandal
Debugging iOS apps on device remotely over the network
This! Treat every warning as a failure, ideally in your CI system so people can't forget, and this problem (ignoring warnings..) goes away.

You will have a better, more reliable, and safer codebase once you clean up the legacy mess and turn this on..
The built-in file system libraries for many languages are total footguns. Using strings as paths is a great example. I’ve had a few recent bugs around case sensitive vs case insensitive file systems because a lot of code assumes that when pathA != pathB then it must be dealing with two different resources. Not to mention the classic “doesn’t work on windows” problem: newPath = pathA + “/“ + pathB
Ask HN: How much info do you want to know about the people behind a product?
I've seen SaaS services where there is no address, no employee names, even the twitter account gives no indication of location.

How much info do you expect to see about the people behind a project when you download a commercial or open source project/product?

Which of the following would you prefer or expect to see? (indicate whether you expect this for commercial or open source or both)

- At least one or more person names behind the project or programme

- Profile or mini biography of one or more people

- Country location

- Address

- mini biography of the project or company

Anything else?
> One such multiparty off-chain contract is the channel factories presented by Burchert et al. as a scalable way to fund any number of payment channels on top of a single on-chain transaction and to rebalance or reallocate them dynamically without ever touching the blockchain.

Is this their solution to "the routing problem" of Lightning?

> Before we can implement eltoo, we need a minor change to Bitcoin: the introduction of the SIGHASH_NOINPUT flag for signatures.

Some argue it's "not bitcoin" to create a blockchain without signatures since the original whitepaper described a "Bitcoin" as a chain of digital signatures.
I'm curious why you think that, since I don't see any mass-scale incentive pointing in that direction.
Assuming everyone has access to the logs.
Show HN: Visualizing delta copying using a block change heatmap
They got lucky. Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the company broken up. The Bush Administration is plausibly the only reason Microsoft remained one company.

June 7th, 2000:

"A federal judge today ordered Microsoft Corp. split into two companies, prescribing the biggest corporate breakup since AT&T while harshly rebuking the software giant for stifling computer-age competition. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000607/aponl...

Then Microsoft and the DOJ made a deal on November 2nd 2001. Bush won the Presidency November 7th 2001. It's very likely the Clinton DOJ made a deal to ensure all of their hard work - indeed their victory - couldn't be easily reversed by the dramatically more business friendly Bush Administration if he were to win.

http://time.com/3553242/microsoft-monopoly/
It amazes me that FIGlet are still releasing for MS-DOS, Acorn, OS/2 and Amiga in 2014.
Or what if it is dark inside the room and they can not read the numbers in the drawers? Or what if there is no gravity in the room and they can not determine which drawers are at the top? Or what if the director used a script or number system none of the prisoners can read or understand? Or what if the numbers are only 100 nm tall inscribed with electron-beam lithography on small pieces of metal? Or what if there is no oxygen in the room? Or what if the room is 10,000 km long, wide, and high?
There appears to be at least two ECMAScript implementations that are compatible with the FIGlet font specification:

https://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js

https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js
I've started using hidden services a lot more recently.

They remind me of the internet I remember from 1998-2006.

I wouldn't say it's the 'old' internet, because I wasn't alive for the supposed glory days of arpanet, but it definitely has the sleazy, probably illegal, never say who I am irl vibe I remember and miss.
I still have the 12" subwoofer cabinet I built in high school almost 30 years ago. It's gone through 3 amps and a couple drivers over the years, but it's still my main subwoofer in my current home theater system. I wish I'd taken pictures of its evolution from particle board with discrete amp to nicely veneered with rounded edges and integrated amp. I don't ever think of documenting stuff like that…
AFAIK, Windows understands / as a directory separator.
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I agree that a Java desktop application can be responsive, in fact I use a couple of them from time to time that behave quite well.
Back in the day though my experience was that most of the Java software had terrible performance. In that case, I think it's correct to blame the platform for making hard to have a smooth experience "by default".
(In the same way, for example, that we can blame C for not making it easy to write safe program, even if a programmer should be able to write them properly)

> The GC can be tuned far better tha javascript!

On this I agree completely! (altough my experience with that is mostly on the server side)
Most decent stdlibs have a path.join or an path.separator you can use instead. Just that people don't bother and hardcode...
> That’s a nice thought, but obviously you would see massive price hikes at restaurants and stores, and it’s likely that consumers would patronize them less.

I dunno about the last part. I personally perceive service and food around here to be incredibly cheap (compared to rent and wages for the sort of work I do) - There is, of course a demand curve, and raising prices will somewhat lower demand for the more optional kinds of service work, but we don't really know where that demand curve goes; personally, you'd have to double prices before I changed my consumption of locally produced services other than uber much at all.

Right now, my perception is that area stores and restaurants are massively understaffed and open very limited hours, presumably because they aren't charging enough to pay enough to hire enough people.

>Tech businesses are a bad compare because the revenue per employee is typically much higher than the service industry.

That was kind of my point. right now, local services are under-priced compared to tech worker wages and compared to rent. Of course, this is going to result in dramatically lower revenue per employee than if they charged a lot more.

A lot of the tech industry is also 1 on 1 service stuff. Depending on the day, my own work is more than half 1 on 1 kind of work that "doesn't scale" - but I still get paid a lot because the people I'm helping are valuable. Same principle applies to other kinds of support staff. If you support someone more valuable... you usually get paid more.
Of course it will. It's why Walmart aggressively supports higher minimum wage laws. It's why Zuckerberg had no concerns about advocating for increased regulation, during his testimony he was overly eager to support it.

They all know they can comply and influence the rules - as they're crafted - enough to ensure they can deal with them just fine, but their smaller competitors can't or will struggle.
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The code discussed in the post is here:

https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/ (Demo site of a ECMAScript implementation of FIGlet: https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet).
GDPR vs. Street Photo [pdf]
If Capitalism doesn't fix it, Globalization/CHINDIA will fix it;
Internet of Things: Redefining the Future of Ecommerce
It was a really nice Weller one that was temperature controlled so it was worth it at the time. The other option available was a new Antex one for more money which was rubbish. The Weller was still working fine when I sold it in 2001.

I’ve got a newer Weller TCP station now that gets used for everything from 0603 SMD devices through massive capacitors. Cost around $300 (more than a Hakko) but was worth it as it’s absolutely bomb proof and a pleasure to use for extended periods.

Most of my equipment now is from the 1970s and 1980s. It’s cheap, reliable and easy to repair if it does break.
And UBports will support Librem 5, which was announced a week ago.
That is just to force users to accept their fkg rules. Sk my dk b*h Twitter!
I don't know. It seems that Police in the United States often tend to appear as a judge, jury and executioner all rolled in to one - and that's often in response to minor crimes (i.e. the fellow that was recently shot in a supermarket carpark by US police). Police officers are humans, and humans have a habit of making disastrous decisions at times.
Next PC revolution is on this