skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Morellian method is based on clues offered by trifling details rather than identities of composition and subject matter or other broad treatments that are more likely to be seized upon by students, copyists and imitators. Instead, as Carlo Ginzburg analysed the Morellian method, the art historian operates in the manner of a detective, "each discovering, from clues unnoticed by others, the author in one case of a crime, in the other of a painting". These unconscious traces— in the shorthand for rendering the folds of an ear in secondary figures of a composition, for example— are unlikely to be imitated and, once deciphered, serve as fingerprints do at the scene of the crime. The identity of the artist is expressed most reliably in the details that are least attended to. The Morellian method has its nearest roots in Morelli's own discipline of medicine, with its identification of disease through numerous symptoms, each of which may be apparently trivial in itself" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Morelli)
Thanks for coming back to me!

> You can [...] force touch the notification or click View

I was not aware that you could force touch notifications at all and I feel kinda dumb that I never tried it. But thanks for the heads up!

> That’s an interesting idea about filtering time alerts by location, but as of right now, iOS does not allow that granular of triggers.

I figured this was the case. Not a huge issue, would've just been a neat addition.
How China Leapfrogged Ahead of the United States in the Fintech Race
Ask HN: Has anyone switched from being a night owl to being a morning person?
My most productive hours are 12AM-6AM. I find myself falling into this schedule despite trying to change it multiple times.

Before I throw in the towel and accept my fate as a nocturnal creature, has anyone successfully switched from being a night owl to a being on a regular schedule or (gasp) even being a morning person?
As a long time Python programmer and even longer time Wolfram Lang/Mathematica programmer, I just look at this and think “yea, that’s exactly how I thought assignment worked When I started learning Python”

I mean what else than the assigned value would you expect an assignment to return? Naturally Python assignment is a special concept, but in Mathematica assignment is just a function. So it seems more natural in Mathematica. I wouldn’t mind this, however it does seem like Python deliberately tries to be less functional, hiding away map/apply and such elements and recommending lay comprehensions, so it might just not fit with Python as it is now.
Ask HN: Light Long Reads for Weekend Reading
Anyone read anything recently that’s about technology but isn’t heavily technical? I have enough of that Mon-Fri 9-5.

For example, this article on the complicated story of hacker Marcus Hutchins that appeared in Bruce Schneier’s CRYPTO-GRAM newsletter:
https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/marcus-hutchins-hacker.html
I think the key idea behind inbox is that you don't have more than say 5 or 10 emails in your "to do" view. I never had to scroll. I only look at the inbox view (i.e. things I need to deal with) - and that is always fewer than one screen. If I need something from the "already dealt with" screen I do a search, never a visual scan.
This might be due to the volume of emails received obviously, but that's why I was wondering. It might also depend on the usage pattern, e.g. I reply to probably fewer than 1 in 100 emails for example.

If I had more emails, or more emails I actually had to address by replies, it might be different.
I never noticed the "images" in inbox though. Are those for things like purchases or travels that it renders differently? My emails just look like subject lines, with about the same density in inbox as in classic gmail (Quick check: An inbox email on desktop is a 32px div with 6px padding, while a gmail email is a 39px table row - so quick estimate is 5px more per email for inbox)
Thank you for your comment, spot on about our British reservations. Also interesting point about cats and dogs being domesticated. I'd say to a large degree most animals farmed are in some way domesticated and wouldn't be able to survive in the wild as well as you would think. I know scrub bulls and other 'estranged' animals can thrive if the environment allows, but most pigs say wouldn't survive as well as wild boar do.
Are you familiar with Overtone[1]? I'm no musician, but as a developer I'd think building your own musical abstractions via code would be better than any visual IDE.

[1] http://overtone.github.io/
This is not so much a ux problem as an "marketeers gonna marketeer" problem. It happened before with blog comments, it happens now with "social" media, it'll happen with whatever comes next. If it's remotely exploitable for personal gain, there's going to be people exploiting it.
Slightly random suggestion here but anyway - why not shut things down, give most of the money back then go travel (SE Asia digital nomad stuff) and keep hacking on the app to see if you can come up with some better version?
You just said you make 100k in an earlier comment. One meal a day?
This guy is probably getting name-your-price offers. And good for him. He has been a key player in the turnarounds of many endeavors (AMD with K7/8 — the only time AMD significantly outperformed Intel and likely lead them to the Israeli team behind the core arch) and being part on the A4/A5 chips at Apple. Wow. Whoever has him on payroll has a huge leg up.
Cow growth hormone does not work on humans. And even if it did, it gets destroyed by acid in the stomach. That’s why bodybuilders inject HGH instead of taking it orally.
Spotify premium for free?
Hello world,

I would like to use Spotify premium for free, like I do before.

For several years, I used to change the id of my phone to relaunch the 7-day Spotify premium trial. However since a few months, this method does not work anymore. Spotify has probably patched this flaw.

I can not find what blocks the 7 day trial, despite creating a new account and change id. Does Spotify check the phone number? The serial number? Our files? ...

What makes the application more than before?

Thx for your help
Most computers have an Embedded Controller (with integrated flash) that does a lot of motherboard/system specific stuff like power management, flashing leds and even scanning the keyboard matrix on laptops.
Tough mate, all the best!
Have you seen Orb Composer?

https://www.orb-composer.com

I don’t think it’s outstandingly great, but it suggests a lot of people are going to be moving into this space.

The problem is automated composition is incredibly unpopular with pop writers - they’d rather use samples anyway - and academic composers would rather do their own thing the hard way.

Most people are very concrete thinkers. IMO the number of people who can handle the kind of musical abstractions you’re talking about is tiny.
And since over 60% of the users have this it is a bad descision to use all kinds of trackers.
Pension Fund Entitlements Are the Second Largest Element of US Household Wealth
Hardware tampering is't performed on a mass scale. It's always a targeted attack.

What the author actually forgot to do was to add some honey into the honeypot. I.e. become an attractive target.
I can't disagree with your position more, I'm afraid. If the choice is between allowing access for all or access none, I think we need to swallow the bitter pill and, accepting that some will suffer, choose the latter.

Out of curiosity, would you support a liberalization of drugs if we were able to operate a system of selective prohibition, where alcoholics and drug addicts could have access revoked?
It might not be a good idea, but I don't think it's fair to call it a "scam". I don't think Satoshi created it with the anticipation that it would fail.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox observed in many-particle system
This erosion of responsibility over time is some sort of back force from a wave of generational disillusionment.

We don't want to go back to doing email like our parents did (except we do) so its time to use the cool new shit. Ah, Big Vendor with cool new shit, is cool with the kids. In slips the mickey, and the rest is devolutionary disco.

We really do need to return to using email properly. All these social networks were already there; we just forgot how to build them ourselves, and a return to using email for ones contacts, strictly, can be an immensely rewarding experience, or at least a lot of anecdotal evidence seems to support this theory.

Simply learning how to send and use email, the bcc:, the cc:, the x-headers:, etc. If we'd put a bit of effort into this, we'd have a fallback replacement for the behemoth maw, threatening to swallow us all in its dark abyss.
I understand why you use NoScript but I think in this time Javascript can be used as requirement and it isn't very realistic to complain about it.

Using NoScript means you accept that some sites won't work.
iPhone X is the special needs kid that everyone is tired of.
> [2] https://youtu.be/2X_hOY6tEvM

Wow. Out of this world.

I don't know much of classical music, but browsing around I also found some of the Two Part Inventions you mention. Listened to a couple of them, played by two different pianists, and wasn't overly impressed. Then found her playing them, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFKbmBPaeus, thanks youtube, and I was blown away.
Is there supposed to be a close button on the yellowish popup? It's not on screen on my iphone se.
Ask HN: Picking up web development as a back end developer
I've been a backend/systems developer for a long time now. Plenty of C++ with template magic, J2EE, implementing REST APIs in Spring with complex integration to external components. I'm definitely not a novice programmer.

But every time I start to explore web development I get lost in the mass of frameworks and opinions or I'm presented with a bunch of high SEO articles trying to tell me what HTML stands for.

Can anyone suggest where I can get started as an experienced developer? For example, stuff like setting up a NodeJS dev environment and dependency management properly.
> more advanced use of pets (like training them to steal from shops), more things to do in shops, use of altars beyond merely converting to a god

That stuff is mostly tedious and frustrating though.

> use of potions beyond merely drinking them

That one is fun, sure. But arguably a bit non-obvious.
But why didn't he capture the rook????
Reddit now use their API to track everything you do on their website
I've won lots of times in 3.4.3. It feels “easy” but formulaic once you get the hang of it, so you challenge yourself. Best conduct I ever did was just blindfolded through the whole game (from first turn to last).
Even better than one food item: there's a spell library now, so you don't need to manage books, ever
How to raise a seed round (2016)
The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods (2012)
I’m not sure it’s that simple.

When Jobs founded NeXT in 1985 there was no standard GUI layer for Unix. What you’re referring to as the “base layer” was all of Unix.

X was only started in 1984 I believe and Sun also has a competing incompatible alternative at the time too.

It wasn’t at all clear that the X Windowing System would win out as the dominant implementation.
>you don't go from relatively simple cave paintings to insanely complex languages, forms of government and far-fetched empires just by snapping a finger twice

See, thats the fascinating thing about crackpot archeology/anthropology/sociology/etc. Eventually, its just a bunch of words - an ontology - with which to describe a complex system.

The idea that the root nature of the language is expressible in human-ideal objects, and that this ontology can persist across 10's of thousands of years of human activity (mostly destructive) as a cultural artifact with a message .. yes, this is difficult to conceive. Or, is it really?

"Far-fetched empires": literally what it means to consider what such an empire, were it in existence 65,000 years ago, would have looked like. Like, literally, its a far-fetched idea to look at a piece of dirt, and then paint a deep picture of what happened to it.

Without such imagination, speculation doesn't begin, and without speculation followed up by careful inspection, the relics would still just be out there, being ignored.
Inbox looks really nice and is (to me) very simple and I kinda wished Google would have uses Inbox as a template because Inbox has also two things which makes my life really hard: 1 I can't sent emails to groups in my contacts and 2 in the Sent folder it doesn't say to whom I've sent the email but that I sent them, which I already know.

Both issues are also true for the Gmail application on Android.
The linked post is already a month old. Here is some more recent info posted less than 24 hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8fjpse/redditcom_p...
don't try octal, you have been warned!
Nope, no backups were even created when Dorsey was in charge: “Oh, and while he was in charge, there was no backup of Twitter’s database.”

From the Fortune article “Let's remember why Jack Dorsey was fired as Twitter's CEO”

http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-fired/
My personal beef with it is the huge padding everywhere. So much wasted space.
Not a chess expert by any means, but I think ca 1999 was probably a kind of sweet spot for this kind of match because the internet was sufficiently mature to allow for sufficient people to participate, but most participants would not have been able to run a grandmaster level chess engine on their home PCs. I could imagine use of chess engines would make such a "human" crows much more powerful these days?
73's M0XHT
Well, I think what you're describing is essentially good public transit. Anecdotally, I know that in Toronto some people park their car on the outskirts, and then take transit down to the core.
Sometimes the way you solve a big complex distributed global problem is a bit at a time. It’s unlikely we’re going to find one single global solution to carbon sequestration.
Startup Company (video game)
Blockchain Proof of Useful Work: Proof of Catalytic Space [pdf]
Unless your personal office is 1000+sf the property taxes on workplaces and restaurants are relatively tiny. A shop that has 1 customer per minute over 10 hour days sees 18,000 people a month who each pay for about a square inch of property tax.

PS: They also do vote based on who they work for and what shops they do business with.
I've been part of several non-profits where treasurers were volunteers and got paid exactly $0 for year around activities.

Were they responsible for (your numbers) $60MM/yr?
Oklahoma High School Student Discovers That Carbon Can Form 7 Bonds
Static Instruction Scheduling for High Performance on Limited Hardware
> Google admited several times that they haven't done a clean room reverse engineering

> It is undisputed that Google copied verbatim the declaring code of the 37 Java API packages—11,500 lines of Oracle’s copyrighted code. It also copied the SSO of the Java API packages. Google then wrote its own implementing code.

The only problem with Google's implementation is the copying of the API.

---

> If Google cared so much, they could have bought Sun, but they were expecting it would just crash and burn, while the company would get away with it.

> The parties were unable to reach an agreement, in part because Google wanted device manufacturers to be able to use Oracle’s APIs in Android for free with no limits on modifying the code, which would jeopardize the “write once, run anywhere” philosophy.

> in any event that the jury must have found that Google did not act in bad faith

Google tried to get a reasonable license.

---

Even CAFC has said that if Google had not received advertising revenue from Android, their use of the APIs would have fallen under fair use. They are not a Java vendor.
Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Hardship, Drove Voters in 2016 Election
How to Pitch the Press by VentureBeat
Time machine: comments on “Incense and Peppermints” (1967) (
Part 5 of Introduction to Aspose.CAD, an API to convert and export CAD files
More context from your link:

"it used to happen more in the early years--certainly in the early 2000s when, frankly, when the dot-com concept was coming to life, one of the things we would see which was a little related to Gifting and a little related to Decommodification is, we would see camps have logos from their start-up in front of their camp."

The point is that Burning Man's community is not built around transactional experience, and that value shines strongly throughout the experience.
I find that type inference solves most of my woes of static types. At least, I've found myself reaching for Go to write quick scripts that I'd previously use Python or Node for before, especially when I need concurrency. Go doesn't have this, but for a scripting language, type inference (where possible) for function returns could be nice too.
>What the author actually forgot to do was to add some honey into the honeypot. I.e. become an attractive target.

Preicsely. All the author had to do was use his best broken English and pretend to be a member of The Shadow Brokers.

The article would have been far more exciting had it involved speculating which three letter agency compromised the laptop the most, or the finer points of writing an article while being physically hunted by a snatch and grab team.
San Francisco Is Fighting the Scooter Trend with Poop and Vandalism
That costs a sort, better to use the Kahan summation formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
Maybe the burning man people are overpayed, but being the treasurer of an organization that, as you say, deals with 35 million dollars every year sounds like a full time all year round position to me, regardless of when or how the money is made.
I have seen some bartering with illicit substances to prove one isn't a law enforcement officer

Yeah that's not a thing.
What about sorting e-mails? By size, for example?
Not just fine, it's the best desktop environment I've ever used. KDE (and most of its apps) is too "busy", too many options to tweak and configure, too many buttons and widgets all over the place. I don't care about the DE, I don't want to see the task bar, I don't want widgets and active areas on my desktop background, I want to open my IDE/browser/terminal/whatever and get to work. Gnome does this, let me launch stuff and stay out of the way.

Most of the annoyances mentioned on the review can be altered using the Tweak tool or have extensions that change the behavior anyway.

To each his own, though. I don't understand why people like the OP find it impossible to imagine that other people are fine with, or even actually love, Gnome 3.
Best video mix 5 stage from – CubeMIX channel
Racket: Beginning Student (Programming Language)
I haven’t no. It’s somewhat similar but very different actually.

I wouldn’t call it automated composition either. My thing isn’t too abstract I think.

Edit: I've looked at the sw now and I also hate it. Terrible UI, seems to be stuck in the 18th century as far as music theory goes, etc etc. and they want 700 eur for this?
There was a journalist in the UK that lives for 3 months, with his family, doing everything they could manage to reduce their carbon footprint, and they got it down by about 5%.

There are roughly 2 passenger cars per person in the US, so cars are about 12% of emission, but even if you had no car you’d still need to travel somehow. You’d never get your travel footprint to zero. I am not saying don’t try or don’t bother, I’m just saying firstly we are not going to solve this with public policy action. And second, sometimes there are other valid environmental issues we can focus on in our personal behaviour.
I am yes. Would you make the same claim about eg image editing? If not, why not?
He's a board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a position also held by Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg. Additionally, he has helped develop SecureDrop and various other tools to enable the anonymous spread of information. Finally, he works for The Intercept, an organization that has a history of receiving leaked information. Seems like a plausible target to me.
SCAM ALERT. Pavel Durov Is Not Giving Away BTC and ETH
I think the eye damage is more to do with looking at something of fixed distance for long periods of time (computers, tvs, tablets, & phones).

A person living in a dense forest would still be constantly adjusting his/her focus.
Hm, there ought to be one in the top right corner.

Can you try tapping there even though you don't see it?
How many billion dollar companies have you created?
The Kit You Are Looking for – Metal Earth Star Wars X-Wing Fighter (Poe Dameron)
Should olympics be capitalized if it’s not referring to the Olympics?
I believe in UK there was some sort of regulatory u-turn on the matter, following the usual tabloid-fuelled outcry.
100k is very little. I have wasted that much several times over. It's not until you get to the double digits in millions that you're dealing with serious money.

My last idea tanked, ate all my savings and now I'm back at a job for the next 2 years or so.

Then off we go again.
He isn’t getting “promoted” — he won a hell of a lot.
And, in return, designing sites which won't load without crutches means you accept you'll lose part of your audience.

Of course it is possible to design a site in such a way that those who allow scripting get all the bells and whistles while those who don't get a server-rendered version based on the same data. It doesn't even need to be 'static' as CSS allows for quite a few bells and whistles all by itself. Add a reminder to 'switch on Javascript for the "full experience"' and everyone's happy. Well, maybe not everyone. Those who rely upon scripting to do things which the user would rather not have done might be less enthusiastic.
Hah! New rule: only non-useless projects to be funded. Uselessness to be determined by investors on application for funds.
>Given that there are people walking around living perfectly normal lives who have only a small fraction of normal brain mass,

Could you find a link perhaps? I Googled the end of what I just quoted but didn't find anything...
Dirac (Bra-Ket) Notation [pdf]
Maybe killed by one of these
https://imgur.com/a/kJtaftu

Not sure what they're called but I see them dragging huntsman spiders around.

They don't look as bad as the tarantula hawks but they sound like a helicopter.
Fortnite Randomizer
I wish modern tech wasn’t all about pushing the little mom and pop shops out of existence. But it is happening to more products than not - this isn’t an Apple creation. If anything, it’s a creation of wallstreets drive for profits at all costs.
Part 4 of Introduction to Aspose.Imaging, an API to manipulate raster images
And people claim that painting is a dead profession. Not for the enterprising forger it seems.
This is not a new threat idea. DOD has been worrying about this for years. Perhaps the implementation of the threat is new but not the idea of the threat.
Knowledge Illusions – how to confuse an AI
Telegram server got a massive power outage
Let's make it clear that Microsoft has rights on Windows, their brand and suite of products, not operating systems in general. The problem comes from when a malicious 3rd party explicitly paints Windows on the disc full of 0s and 1s to fool the consumer deliberately into believing its a genuine product. Microsoft not only loses revenue but it assumes brand liability

You did not invent a single thing you are using right now and the delusional dream world with no ip in which people like you wish to exist, a hard drive was never invented in the first place. If you want to argue some of them need to be reformed, sure, that's obvious to everyone who reads the news once in awhile, but everything else indicates you are the originally intended reason for why the electoral college exists
How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley