skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> increasing hard questions

Over the past, what... 30 years? - e-mail remains what it had been in the first place: a protocol for exchanging messages.

You're still sending text. You're still attaching links to your messages if you'd like to send a large file. You're still trying to keep concise in your comm.

What have evolved, exactly? Sans encryption - that's not really a "hard question". Gmail's a great spam-free platform, but it doesn't add anything revolutionary.
I watched this, and it was only half way through I realised she didn't have the music in front of her ... Impressive!
To state the obvious, not everybody has Chrome, and not everybody has or wants the newest version. That's how it should be. By implying that it's ok to assume otherwise, you're (probably unknowingly) harming the community.
10 years ago the same island had similar flooding:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/4687248/rain-continues-to...

edit: Also 26 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/12/16/f...
On sci-hub.hk I get a non-SSL connection, if I try the 'trick' of http://journal_name.springer.com.sci-hub.hk/path/to?article I get the revoked SSL certificate

Firefox 59
Indeed. I've been early rising for a long time, then I had kids and now I go to bed even earlier. Pretty much as soon as they are put down for the night I am not that far behind. Makes for some early mornings but, oh well...
The increase I spoke of was the increase in energy into the weather system from humans spewing greenhouse gasses into the amtmosphere for the last 200 years or so. How do you know the weather event in question is a random event? Are you familiar with time series and trends? Thermodynamics? Galois theory?
Afaik that's a very generational thing, people a bit older than you spend a whole lot more time outside.

My first smartphone (the first iPhone one) gave me the same liberating feeling you describe there, but it didn't take long for me to realize that mobile gaming isn't for me and while I can do most stuff I want on a smartphone, I can do it better and more efficiently on a full-blown desktop/laptop with proper peripherals, so that's where I still end up doing most of it.

In recent years my smartphone even feels more of an annoying hassle than an actual asset, except for the occasional use for navigation and regular use as mp3 player.
Yup, I've got one who will get up with me no matter how early I get up. The other two will stay in bed with my wife, no matter how late she sleeps in. The only guaranteed way to get all three up is to start pouring food into their bowls... the tell-tale clink-clink of the kibble landing in the bowls catches everyone's attention!

People elsewhere in this discussion have mentioned exercise. I've definitely found that having these guys helps force me to get out and move. Especially the sheltie; if we haven't gone for a walk for a day or two, I'll be working at home and she'll come up and jam her nose into my kidney, over and over. Motivation!
Wait, now your're saying that the value of the goods changes the sentencing guidelines but that doesn't matter? That seems weak.
Ask HN: Unfixable Instagram Login Challenge?
I have a friend who is an artist on Instagram. They recently logged in and got a single, unpassable challenge screen [1]. The button link links to their general support page with no specific actions. No forms on there have gotten any response from support and they are locked out of their account entirely, even though it's still publicly visible.

I've worked with them and tried everything I could think of with no success. I know Facebook/Instagram support is crap and it's impossible to reach any real human often, but does anyone know a good way to get this resolved? Is over social media protesting possibly the only way? Do I need to find a Facebook/Instagram engineer here?

[1] http://oi65.tinypic.com/2aetqps.jpg
I half wonder if the issue of inequality is that America may have a fatter right tail on the distribution rather than an ever-narrowing tail. Instead of only having the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc 0.001% wealthy, we have a 5-6% band of households who are millionaires[0] and that makes the wealth more visible when it’s a handful of people in your town or social circle than when it was only a handful of people in the nation.

In other words, things might be getting better for the upper middle class as compared to 150 years ago, while the lower and lower middle class remains similarly situated. (If you model their economic contributions as hours-of-labor, that’s not all that surprising an outcome.)

[0] Mere millionaire is nearly meaningless at this point IMO despite the political rhetoric against the “millionaires and billionaires”. A million bucks, half tied up in a house, provides a passive income stream of around $20K/yr. It’s the $10MM (maybe $7MM) mark where I start to think of unequal privilege being a possible concern.
This is a very myopic and short term perspective on the market. Localized inefficiencies like you are talking about certainly exist--and likely always will. Over time, the will be resolved by the market entrance of a third party offering consumers what they really want (defined as, willing to actually pay money for). Then the big players adapt or die.
I had a bit of concern about this as well when I moved off Gmail after 12 years. I did not import my mail in to my new service (ProtonMail) and can really only recall one or two times I’ve had to look at the Gmail archive in the past two years.

I think that, similar to cell phone numbers, people get very attached to these contact points and changing them creates anxiety. I happen to have changed both email address and phone number (after five years) recently and I think it makes sense to do once in a while. Otherwise these things become seemingly permenant identifiers and I have enough of those already (:
There are several online DAWs: a friend works on this one https://skytracks.io/ and a google search will turn up many others
There does not seem to be any way - none that I could find - to get IE and Firefox to connect anyway?

In Firefox, I think you can only by disabling the check (Preferences → Advanced → Certificates → Query OCSP ...). You probably don't want to keep that disabled, though.
Many times. First, you need to force yourself to get out of bed at your target time. Do this for a couple days, have some coffee, find a routine. Eventually your body will adjust the its internal clock to make you feel tired earlier. It is also important, I have found, to ensure that you get dressed and groomed and ready soon after waking in the morning (even if you're not planning to leave the house) as this helps promote productivity. For some people this is easier than others, but it is certainly possible for all. Baby steps, my friend.
I interviewed at a company called Chip Scan which is a startup that aims to detect backdoors in chip designs. I didn't end up accepting, but it did sound like an interesting job.
Just slowly go to bed earlier every day. Set your alarm for your go-to-bed time. Read a book if you can't sleep, but not on a bright-screened device.

I used to be such a nighthawk that I'd be waking up daily at 7 pm. Getting old naturally fixes that too.
Apple did not create the retina display. They purchased the displays.

Still true today they buy them.
I used to think I am biologically wired to be a nightowl but i am a morning person now.

I got a cat that wakes me up every morning at 6:30 am. I used to hate it but now i don't mind it :D.
Yes, I’d forward emails until you can get everyone trained over to using your new email address. I’ve done that in the past with mostly inactive emails that I got through professional or academic associations. Presumably Gmail still makes auto-forwarding reasonably easy.
MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS originating from a comet has the scientific community
On the problematic nights, try melatonin pills. It's over-the-counter, seems side-effect free as far as I can tell, and will put you out within an hour.
It used to be that you had to use Chrome's dev tools to inspect a password field and change it to a text field to see someone's password. These days not even that is required as the password is plainly visible as a element attribute called data-initial-value.
Would a committee evaluate each counterpoint to decide whether it was genuine before counting the downvote?
Now done several Google WiFi implementations and not had a single problem.

I am both my family and our street network admin. A condition now is for them to replace with Google WiFi as makes my life so easy.

Suspect you have an issue somewhere besides the GW. They are about as rock solid as you can get.

What is really cool if you admin multiple networks the app makes it super easy.
I always thought V8 got its name from being a "fast and powerful engine"
Every time I come home from Europe. I'm joking, but I'm not joking too. I live in New York City. Last year I got into a long stretch where I would fall asleep at 4 AM and wake up at noon. Then I spent a week at the Web Summit:

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/some-photos-from-the-...

When I came home, it seemed normal to wake up at 5 AM. And I stuck with that pattern for several months, before I started to shift to a later schedule again.
Disagreed. There are quirks, but it’s otherwise good and light years ahead from Linux or even Windows 8+.
I don't see it. Money moves the real world each time it changes hands (except for in purely financial transactions), so why would only the two tax paying and the getting-interest-from-government-debt steps have a real world impact? The cycle of money is far larger than that. It's certainly possible I'm overlooking some larger aggregate effect because I'm not taking a far enough step back.

I also don't think it is all so clear because I assume the distribution of entities holding gov. debt is not the same as " the top 0.1% vs the rest" (I found https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33... but let's continue...). Don't banks, insurances and pension funds also hold a lot of it? Furthermore, we cannot simply look at who owns those entities, the funds they get directly and indirectly from holding government bonds don't go directly to the owners after all but are used in their business. So I don't think that one sentence helps all that much because no, I don't think it's that simple.
You could also just watch the videos on youtube for the 2017 version of this class.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FW7Lu3i5JvHM8ljYj-z...
Chrome's already moving in this direction. Bypassing a HSTS error means you have to type "thisisunsafe", and they change the keyword sometimes (it used to be "badidea").
I can second to waking up with the sun part and even more. I have been waking up like that for over 4 years now, started after I have realized my brain is capable of even waking up 3 minutes before my alarm rings, almost consistently. Without an alarm to rely on, it ticks even better, and even without the sun I can wake up the time I want.

I think everybody can do this, with just a little courage, and perhaps less caffeine. It doesn't hurt if you set an alarm to a time that is absolute latest you should be getting out of bed, requiring you to take a cab in a rush without shower or anything alike, and then even being 5 minutes late to your appointment. That assumes you commute via some slower/cheaper means. This is what I do when there is something really important and I never had to take a cab.

It is all about trust in yourself, and getting rid of kind assurances (grace alarms) and self-restrictions helps.
Pig brain kept alive for 36 hours after death
>So now the problem with unions is that they are locked into the old framework, the old system.

Wait, there is a new system? This needs some context.
Can you please drop me a message at sergei at basharov.net? I feel like your current position seems similar to what I'd like to achieve eventually.

I have a couple of questions I hope you could shed some light on. Thanks!
That's definitely the case for me. Digging in my pocket, pulling out my phone, searching around for the app while trying to continue to ignore SMS notifications that I'd ignored during our conversation, then getting an error that the app can't connect to the Internet (because the conference Wifi is terrible)... that is so much more of a hassle than reaching into my pocket and exchanging business cards.

For a big event, sorting through the cards after the fact is a little bit of a hassle, but I get to do that on my own time, not when there's a (often rushed) social encounter going on.
The last thing you want is to buy your own hardware. You use the cloud as you then actually use what you need.

Google creating their own silicon which is far cheaper for them to run gets you 1/2 the cost of using Nvidia. Seems like an easy decision.

Help me? Seems like you are trying to hurt me? Just curious what drives it? Does not seem rational but driven my some emotion?
Climate change (and general science) denial is largely a US thing, although it exists elsewhere, but it is largely confined to far right fringes. The US is the main nation where it is a partisan issue see http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/18/what-the-wor...
Well it becomes important when your .PST file is about to hit the 2GB limit and you need to find large attachments to delete.

https://www.lifewire.com/outlook-pst-files-size-limit-117334...

(NB: I’m being facetious, and agree with you - this, 15ish years ago, is really the last time I remember needing to sort by size)
No reason to have them just sit and passively watch, let them do something outside, like tending to the school garden.

That way they do something valuable and vent whatever is frustrating them through the physical exercise.
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

This link gives you the navigation panel on the left. Makes it a bit easier to peruse.
I think my first question would be "why do you want to switch to being a morning person?" I suspect there is a deeper underlying objective, and becoming a morning person may or may not be the best path to success.

That said, I made the switch from night owl to morning person. Like many lifestyle changes, I think the biggest part is establishing the habit, after which it becomes your standard existence. Create a regular pattern.

Take a moment to understand what behaviors keep you up at night and change the time you engage in those habits. I used to drink coffee even in the evenings, now I don't have caffeine after noon. Eliminating screens, both because of the engagement and the light, can help. I haven't used it, but many people I know swear by melatonin for correcting sleep schedules when traveling, and it may help you through an adjustment period.

Regular exercise, in addition to being a generally good thing for you, can also help ensure your body wants rest at the end of the day. There were some great tips in the replies, camping / backpacking does tend to force the issue of being a morning person. I also don't use an alarm clock for a few reasons, but I think alarm clocks enable staying-up too late... you're less inclined to worry about when you get to sleep if you know something will wake you up.

Finally, I sometimes have a problem getting to sleep when too many thoughts are racing through my head. I find listening to podcasts is a huge help, but it has to be a topic that is interesting enough for me to ignore everything I was thinking, but not so interesting that I am engaged enough to stay awake.
> I can understand why someone who bought it because it was made by someone famous would be angry. But a museum?

> state-owned French art museum
Headline should be "The drug cartels are wreaking havoc in Mexico". They would be trying to extract rent from any industry, the industry just happens to be avocados.
Why do projects written in Go always advertise they are written in Go?
The issue with this approach is that quite frankly - email by itself should be just like our water supply.

Better water exists, but it's not much better than the usual one. You can use water for many things, but it doesn't matter whose supply you're using.

E-mail must be kept that way: there's nothing to invent in terms of email itself. You can only invent on top of it. It's just like HTTP: HTTP/2 exists, but it doesn't change the idea of HTTP, it only evolves it.
> I just wish they'd take more of the best parts of Nethack and make Crawl even more fun.

Not that it's your (or anyone's) responsibility to do this, but quick reminder that both Crawl and Nethack are completely Open Source. So if anyone ever wanted to do a downstream fork that was pure Crawl + a few Nethack features... they could.

Just want to maybe stick the idea in someone's head.
5 Skills to Hone for Seeing Future Trends in Business
So part of the point of tamper evident seals is that they are difficult to duplicate. The bags themselves should be readily verifiable, eg with a serial number for basic verification at least. The sort of seals used for nuclear treaty enforcement actually most commonly use little fibers that are randomly mixed in with plastic and their pattern is photographed, making them extremely difficult to duplicate.
As a person of South Asian decent, I can validate how few people

I attribute it to a first and second generation community - if you already have a community to call your own, you are less likely to search for others. I’m alternative enough to be interested; and don’t identify with that cultural background much.

Often I’m alone in alternative subcultures - gaming, the burn, the poly scene, etc.
I also switched to be a morning person since february after 10 years. I used to work till 2am, and sometimes till 5am and felt very high and productive in the past.

Now I sleep at 23:00 and wake up at 7. Usually nap around 13 for 30mins. I feel very happy, productive and social.
What possible protection could you have in a non-master password scenario? If you’ve decided that you don’t want the user to have to enter a password, it’s game over from a perspective of trying to keep the password from being retrieved by an attacker with local execution. Even with a master password, you’re only safe until you enter it, then the attacker has that info as well.
python variables are stored in locals()(read only dict)

we have "{NAME : EXPR}" for dict

just do "(NAME : EXPR)" with parenthesis

within its scope, list comp can be

<code>results = [b for a in data if (b: f(a))]</code>

perhaps even with c++ range based for the win

<code>results = [win for (the: data) if (win: f(the))]</code>
A natural monopoly is an organisation in an industry where the minimum efficient scale is more than 50% of the industry, such that it is impossible to have lower unit costs than the natural monopolist. This has never happened, anywhere, as far as my limited research has shown me.

Norfolk Southern from a cursory look at its Wikipedia page may have a local monopoly on rail transport of coal on North Anerica’s East Coast. This will enable it to charge slightly higher than competitive prices. It will not enable it to charge profit maximising monopolist prices because other companies can build their own rail lines and coal can be transported by truck. Local monopolies are contestable. You may have no actual competition but the price you can charge is limited by the fact that if you charge enough potential competition will become actual competition.

The concept of natural monopoly does not depend on government or private companies. It depends on minimum efficient scale being more than half of a market. If even the monopoly on violence, the core characteristic of a state, is not a natural monopoly, what is?
I made the change by forcing myself to wake up and go to the gym every weekday at 8 am, and then drink/eat a breakfast afterward. My entire body shifted after a month to the point where I easily went to bed at midnight, and woke up just before my alarm in the morning. I had a good amount of energy during the work day and generally just felt good
"Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream"

"In a three-month period at the end of 1879, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric lightbulb, Karl Benz invented a workable internal-combustion engine, and a British-American inventor named David Edward Hughes transmitted a wireless signal over a few hundred meters. These were just a few of the remarkable breakthroughs that Northwestern University economist Robert J. Gordon tells us led to a “special century” between 1870 and 1970, a period of unprecedented economic growth and improvements in health and standard of living for many Americans."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601199/tech-slowdown-thre...
I managed (and currently manage) BE, FE and full-stack devs from the Philippines, Poland and India (and I sometimes work with a guy from Ukraine, but he's not part of one of my teams - more a collaborator and friend).

I found good and not-so-good technical people in all places; my main not-so-surprising observation is that mostly you get what you pay for, especially nowadays: in five years, the cost of good developers in the Philippines and Poland has gone up a lot. For India I have less experience, but from what I know the costs had gone up even earlier. I suppose that the talent from Ukraine will be almost all well employed very soon :)
Firefox makes working around HSTS even harder. But to be fair, HSTS is the domain owner explicitly declaring "do require a valid certificate here!".
It’s a sign of trouble, but I’m not sure it’s really “further” trouble, all it takes is for them to get a cert from Let’s Encrypt and call it a day. I’m surprised they weren’t using LE to begin with actually - since LE is available, why would you ever pay for another CA (excluding EV certificates)?
This is an awesome pattern. Seems like it could easily be added as a language feature to Java and C#. Add an alternative to the "virtual" keyword called "extensible", and an alternative to "override" called "extend".
While I have not, I have made an interesting realization. I used to like being a night person and hate being a morning person. My like of being a night person comes from rare nights where I feel alive working on projects and it's amazing, but rare. However, I've realized my hate of being a morning person is incorrect. It all stems from a single thing - the alarm. When I wake up from an alarm, I feel a bit blah all day. I feel way better in the weekends when I sleep in.

So my advice would be not to try to make the transition by setting your alarm super early, because then you'll feel miserable and give up. Instead, focus on going to bed as early as possible. Leave the computer at a certain point (or at least use Flux), and pick up a book and read or something else relaxing.

If you can't avoid using an alarm, you could also try changing it. One thing that's helped me in general is a light alarm - 30 minutes before the alarm, it gradually starts turning a light on. Sometimes I wake up naturally to turn it off, and I feel better than waking to a blaring noise. The light alarm also doesn't use a standard alarm noise, it uses a noise like a flock of birds to wake me up. Another thing I've tried that's helped is a CD alarm, so that the blaring noise you wake up to is at least a pleasant song of your choice instead of annoying beeping.
The distincion between creating value and hacking the economic system is interesting.

“Think of Alan Turing, whose genius provided the mathematics underlying the modern computer. Or of Einstein. Or of the discoverers of the laser (in which Charles Townes played a central role) or John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, the inventors of transistors. Or of Watson and Crick, who unraveled the mysteries of DNA, upon which rests so much of modern medicine. None of them, who made such large contributions to our well-being, are among those most rewarded by our economic system.”
:) To be fair, if I was writing any program and someone came to me with a bug like that, my first thought would be "#!@? I don't want to deal with this."
A classical method is to derive a contradiction from the converse.