skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Web browsers (...) do support back and forward navigation, if you want to count that as "undo."

Not in practice, as this feature is universally broken by modern web developers, making it totally unreliable.

You have a good point about undo - it was universally a feature for reverting operations on edited data, not on application state itself. But then again, it was compensated by buttons having reliable tooltips, and most options available in textual menus.
Have you tried/thought about using a PoE access point?

If you're willing to overlook some GPL violations the ubiquity APs are pretty reliable/easy to setup.
City demands man get rid of newly adopted dog
Funny, I was just thinking this afternoon that I wished FireChat's code was open source, and was poking around to see if anybody else was tackling the "chat offline with your phones" problem, especially if anybody was playing with turning phones into "network repeaters" for however messages are being relayed.

Turns out it's much more sparse than I thought. A couple people playing with brutal bluetooth only solutions. I feel like there's a lot of possibility here, and it's probably good to explore now rather than when we really, really, need it :P
Can't edit original, but to answer the question regarding good sources for learning, I highly recommend The Linux Command Line . Great book: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
i was looking for an api that could do this, or something open source specifically built for this. But I guess time to get deep into technical stuff.

i understand what 2d -> 3d approximation is, but never did it myself or use lib that does it.

Thanks for the info though.
> The worst feature of unions is their tendency to protect the worst employees

"Tendency to protect the worst employees" as opposed to a tendency to protect the best, or as a logical consequence of protecting the set of all current employees?
yes, this would be nice to see... I look forward to it!
We have had the same front loader for twenty years and my girlfriend wants that door closed. We have it always closed and never had a problem with mildew. Don't use bleach very often either. Maybe mildew comes into the washer from the air and once you get it you never are without it. If you always keep it shut, the mildew never contaminates the washer. I'm also in the East Bay where humidity is not stupid high and we don't have mildewy things to wash often. That might be part of our luck.

Here is an experiment whose results I'd pay for. Who to fund it; NIH or NSF? They are always asking for the societal impact of the research to be performed.
Yes, flywheels are used for phase matching at some grid intersections. For example, http://beaconpower.com has installations that do this.

There are FERC rate schedules for this service that make it a profitable application for flywheels.
Man in storm trooper costume arrested
Why was Mitnick a hero? From what I remember about how I felt he didn't hack into systems in the traditional brute force sense. He worked his way in by social engineering. This made me think about how I could change my language, tone, mannerisms to "catch more flys with honey" if I wanted a particular result or outcome from someone.
Now it sounds more like an elitist club. Weren’t most of forums free for all?
I've heard of such systems using pressurized hydraulic fluid in delivery vehicles. Feeding the energy back into the car's kinetic energy worked like an automatic transmission's torque converter, I believe.
Not quite what I meant. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I mean places that price out culture for the tech scenes have some complicated issues with growth right now.
You would still want to leave on read caching.

You can still turn off write caching on your disks with hdparm.
$128 ticket stands for Roseville man who left car running in driveway
Those are all icons that seem intuitive because they're consistently used for that for about as long as you're alive. They're all metaphors for what office workers in 60s-80s did. If you worked in a corporate office then, you might have had a shot at guessing the meaning correctly. Otherwise, they're just as arbitrary as hamburger menus.

> Copyboard for paste.

I don't even know what on Earth is a "copyboard". Is this some arcane tool from early XX-century newspaper office?
I make six figures and work remotely in a low cost of living area that I happen to really love. My work may be fairly pointless on net, but it's interesting and challenging.
Better than forums for real-life socializing are mailing lists..
There's a saying that wage increases are absorbed by landlords.
Am I the only one who is totally confused by discourse?

Maybe it's because rhe demo instance was reset way to often or something but I've never really seen a really working discourse instance. (I think both Mozilla and Canonical (has?) run one but they weren't to active either IIRC.

Anyone has examples of a working discourse community?
I think the internet is much better than what it was before. Discord and Telegram are just so much better than what we had when I was in high school. 4chan, reddit, Digg etc suck.
Neighbor complains, city boots young couple out of their illegal tiny house
I wonder how this relates to Slime Molds. There was a Science Friday segment on them and, if I remember correctly, they showed memory and memory transfer too.
Very impressive use of modest resources to great effect. From the article:

"BKED
(pronounced buh-ked, e as in kept) was the de-facto text editor in
Vietnam in the 80s-90s. ... BKED runs on MS-DOS and looks just like
Microsft Editor aka edit.com, except for it displays and allows the
user to input text in Vietnamese. ... it is a full-blown GUI that
runs in Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA graphics .... It draws every single
pixel in its GUI with no acceleration ... It had to do it very
quickly and economically – computers in Vietnam at the time were all
old secondhand ones imported from the US recycling centers and
such. ... it could also do quite sophisticated mathematical formulas
and chart drawing. ... the editor was used to typeset the whole
suite of national textbooks on every subject in the 90s." Several
screenshots in the article demonstrate the features.
The first Windows I used, 3.11, had a built-in tutorial explaining all the weird stuff, including helping you become comfortable with using your mouse.

I miss the days when software people cared about built-in user guides.
Internet is now TV.
The smallness and novelty of the internet made it more of a community. If you played TF2 in 2008, I would say the interests of each player is more homogenous and compatible compared to Overwatch in 2018.

I think this is one factor at play. The other is the shift from desktop to mobile, from community participation to content creation or consumption - almost mutually exclusive.

Finally, deprioritization of the identity (Reddit, Hacker News, many forums, even Medium to some extent) doesn't help either.
If your everyday language is JavaScript, use shelljs. It’s great. You’ll get portable scripts in no time. Sure it’s “slow”, in a way that likely doesn’t matter because of what you’re calling from the script.
Maryland church ordered to evict homeless or pay $12,000 fine
A few airlines will send collection agencies after whoever used the ticket to discourage ticket carding, pretty sure this scam isn't as lucrative as it used to be in mid 2000s during the card fraud heydey despite article claims.
Everybody who cooks needs a sharp knife.
Whitepaper: On the Connectivity of Mesh Networks (Range Is Everything)
For the remote chance of unbreaking a widely-used commercial product. What's with the idea that one has to always capture the profits for themselves?
I often fondly look back at my initial online gaming memories, where games like Runescape and the early Halo series offered a huge online community feel. As Runescape/Halo series developed and time went on the feelings of the games changed, and people in Runescape were more focused on efficient Exp gaining or competitive playing in Halo. I have yet to experience the same kind of online communities that were present on online gaming in 2006ish
Tesla crash may have triggered battery fire, Swiss firefighters say
Thanks for that, but I'm talking about user-initiated writing to separate, editable, plaintext, named files in the same local folder as the parent HTML/JS source. NO web interaction needed or desired, no other knowledge of or access to filesystem desired. For example, browser as IDE. Or database editor/searcher. Powered by JS.
Can anyone find a comment on how long this took? This is insane to me
Just because you paid for a software license doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with said software.

Just because I bought their software doesn't mean they get to do what they like with my data, or my systems. The only right these companies get is that they can give me their software to use.
Remember when they redesigned them to look more like each other? That was great.
East side is far more expensive, and so is office space, head tax notwithstanding. Does the over/under on that work out? My guess is no. Seattle has far better transit, still cheaper housing and office space.
Farmer faces $2.8M fine after plowing field
It's interesting to me because of Southeast Asia and Google. On the Southeast Asia angle there's a burgeoning startup scene with companies like Grab, quick economic change, expat hotspots like Chiang Mai, and the choice of Singapore for servers even though it's a tiny and dense country. For Google there's catching up to AWS, machine learning, and Google's cloud lock in with things like Firebase. I voted it up because I hope to hear opinions about some or all of these things.
Have you noticed how Nautilus regularly reaches the front page, more often than any other domain, but has disproportionately fewer comments than the articles around it?
> Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

Always a good read: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
> without excessive verbosity

If no-one (including you, unless you dream in bash) is ever going to modify or extend the script, OK. Otherwise python's readability/maintainability trumps excessive verbosity every time.
This is the most important question I ask in every interview. The goal isn't to get someone to piss and moan about every little thing, it's to see if they can identify any downsides to the tech they use. IME >80% of candidates have never even thought about it, treat every tool/dependency as free, and whatever tech they happen to use was written by the second coming of tech Jesus and contains no faults.
Forums are pseudonymous. You could be yourself, or express a part of your identity, without it following around the rest of you on the internet. They're also more homogenous and focused in terms of their users than a big social network with their giant node graph.
> To me this obviously looks like sticky notes you can add in books or on files to categorize content, a.k.a. quite literally tags.

Others have already pointed out that this is not the origin of the tag association. I'd also add that pointy-ended "recto-triangles" aren't really the archetype of a sticky note (a yellow Post-it is), and for a lot of people, there's a good chance they never ever seen a fancy one like that, unless they spend way too much time exploring office supplies stores.
> In spite of all the bitching about California, more people come in than go out.

The truth is the direct opposite[0]:

> California continues to see more folks moving elsewhere in the nation rather than relocating here

> Last year, California had 142,932 more residents exit to live in other states than arrive

> California’s net outmigration has been ongoing for two-decades-plus.

[0]: https://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/16/census-142932-more-peo...
I did a talk on this a while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3k0sGKrjQ&t=457s

'Take bash seriously'
What is the "substantial difference"?
It's not really that difficult, if you're aiming for usefulness, and not creating a work of art.
I suggest reddit, there are enough weird ones hiding here or there
These teens were selling water on the National Mall. Then they got handcuffed
This is ran behind PowerDNS, which handles the compression prior to handing off to this code, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Holy shit that video is like the final form of the final boss of Mystery Meat Navigation.
Their sensors are competitive, if not state of the art - a sentiment you can repeat about almost every other aspect of raw performance: AF, EVF quality, speed, etc. Their real appeal isn't in the specs but in the way everything hangs together in a cohesive, opinionated, attractive, omakase whole.

Despite the name ("X-Pro2") I don't think Fujifilm are actually targeting "real" pros with this range. They're not workhorse cameras and even the X-Pro makes obvious concessions to functionality in favour of aesthetics. But they are not toys! I'm having trouble thinking of who their market actually is off the top of my head. A certain kind of enthusiast. People who seriously care about both form and function. The kind of person who would never use a factory camera strap (i'm thinking Artist & Artisan). I don't know, maybe I'm projecting :P

I know exactly what you mean about high ISO (i have an a7sii) and you're right that any of the X-series would be a poor choice - that's not really their bag. It's the camera you'd take backstage, though, and that wouldn't be confiscated by security...
Governments turn tables by suing people who request public records
I've often wondered what happened to those hours spent trawling for interesting stuff on the web. I spend more time than is probably healthy on YouTube now, but that's just a second TV via iPad while the wife watches shows on Netflix. I think that it was the newness of the experience back then. Nascent technology is always more fun, as are novel experiences. Now, the net permeates our lives. We work on it, we play on it, we order things for our lives on it, we book our entertainment on it, and we carry it around in our pockets. You're no longer part of a community of people learning things and sharing newness. You're part of a collective engine of "doing things" that everyone is plugged into 24/7, where broadcast is fully enabled and the simple joy of just figuring what you're doing and where you're going on the Internet is gone.

Also, at 39, my opinion on on the state of the Internet is irrelevant. Damn kids. Back in our day, things were much better ;)

Edited to mention MUDs. I can't seem to find many these days. Still a thing?
lol...thanks for this
Scuttlebutt is a gossip protocol, so you are essentially connected to content through friends of friends. I started by downloading Patchwork, one of SSB's clients, and going to local hackerspaces and following whomever was on the network. After that I could branch out and find other people that seemed interesting. After awhile you're pretty much connected to the whole ecosystem and you have to start pruning connections to keep the content at sane levels.

Dat and IPFS is similar in that you get Beaker Browser and then slowly start building up a community of people you know that create content for it.
HN is quite different from forums because of the temporal nature of the content, the voting, and the threaded comments. Forums can foster very long running discussions, HN isn't really meant for that.

Also, there are all the components of user profiles/messaging/signatures/etc that HN completely omits (which is totally fine, but something forums are known for that HN probably will never have).
May I ask why is this considered research worthy a scientific article?
Serious question, not trying to downplay anyone’s work, but it’s just weird to read on springer something that looks and reads like a magazine feature
most, but one of the best ("most influential on internet culture", maybe?) had a 10$ entry fee
Chaffetz Thinks Congressmen Should Get $30,000 Extra for Housing
Getting started and troubleshooting DNS over TLS
Didn't read the article - but I have an opinion. Surprise!

I work in Infosec, and I believe filtering of web access are absolutely critical to any tech company, so much so I that I consider the lack of basic cyber security as [users can't go to malware.ru or run executables with their normal account] to be incompetent and certainly against industry regulations.

Your work computer is not yours to browse reddit on, unless the company assumes the risk of doing so.

Now, some things like behavioral analytics, emotion detection, micromanaging time and whatnot, that's spooky, costs outweigh benefits, and so on.
another mesh standard.

Bluetooth 1.0 in 2002 with support from the Palm Pilot, to give you a sense of how long ago that was technologically, already had this dream and implemented a Personal Area Network using 'scatternet'.

Probably the single largest blow to the dream of meshed devices everywhere, imho, was Apple's decision to limit the iPhone's (2007) bluetooth support to headset-only when bluetooth was capable of so much more. Admittedly there was probably substantial pressure from the carriers who were scared of the idea of phones communicating with out being mediated/dependent on cell tower infrasructure, but its one thing I cannot forgive apple for. The other phone vendors fell into line.

Android 4.0 (2011) implemented Wifi peer-to-peer, which the Wifi Alliance called "Wifi Direct" that would allow for Personal Area Networks using existing wifi hardware.

[1] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct

Now that bluetooth has returned to its roots with Bluetooth Low Energy, maybe we have another chance at flash-mob mobile gaming - everyone on the same bus can join in to a chatroom or a roleplaying game for the duration of the ride.
That explains the focus on detergents and not temperature?

I was baffled she hardly even mentioned the temperature setting, here it is well known that you should run your washer with at least 60C if you want to kill germs.
I think to kick things off it will be best to allow anyone to sign up and potentially lock it down in the future if things get out of hand. Usually forums have features like limiting new thread creation to users with enough karma/comments, so that can help a bit in keeping quality up.
I don't know. That alpha male stuff is mostly bull. And It isn't like all people who are assholes and have people look up to them are actually good or "alpha" in any way. And why do some people look at people like this and say, "fuck that guy?"
Free for a heavily selected group of people with internet access and specialist knowledge of how to find stuff. So: elitist in a sense of resources weighted by interest.
Mark Williams Company's Coherent is available as well: http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
We Built an AR Portal to Instagram; Introducing InstaGallery
No - as the immediate prior post correctly stated, stored energy increases linearly with m (flywheel mass) and as the square of rotation rate (omega^2) So a flywheel having 0.1m rotor mass spinning at 10omega stores 10 times as much energy as a flywheel of 1.0m spinning at 1omega. 10% of the mass, 1000% of the stored energy of the heavier, slower rotor.

Of course, the rotor has to be able to handle increased circumferential and radial stresses resulting from increased omega. Carbon fiber (like T1000 grade) has extremely high tensile strength (lets you spin a carbon fiber rotor very fast) but low density. T1000 rotors store more energy at lower mass than steel (or any other metal) because of the proportionality to omega^2 and their high tensile strength.

But for commercial storage, it's really about the $/kWhr/mass in terms of the overall rotor economics. By that metric, it's hard to beat a composite rotor with E-glass as the major fiber. It's cheaper than carbon fiber by easily 100X and has about 30% to 50% of CF tensile strength. It's a bit denser than CF, but its cost metric is why most modern large energy storage flywheels use glass/CF hybrid composites and magnetic bearings (for high speed and zero wear).

In the old days, they made flywheels out of solid steel, then switched to piano wire (higher tensile strength). Then fiberglass, aramids and carbon fiber happened.
I'm a big fan of the book and got a similar feeling from watching Indie Game: The Movie. Good documentary about a few small indie game studios that makes you feel like you can start something amazing.

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M
By "excessive verbosity" I do mean poor readability and poor maintainability. If you're invoking 5 commands and most of your Python code is wiring up the commands to each other right, just write 5 lines of shell, don't make me pull up the subprocess docs to see if your 30 lines of Python are doing the same thing and how to make a small change without risking pipes deadlocking.

Python is readable and maintainable when it's doing the things Python is suited towards doing. Running lots of external processes is not one of those. This is not a complaint or an insult to Python as a language (which I use regularly!), it is just a statement that different languages have different strengths and you should use the right tool for the job.

If you know of a good Python library that handles things like shell pipelines, <(...), and automatic creation of process groups (so that signal handling does the right thing), I'd be extremely interested, because I would like to use Python for these use cases. But it's currently the wrong thing for maintainable code for this one use case, and there is a very good language that handles this use case very well and is extremely stable and widely deployed.
I didn't know that, thanks.
Yes, I assume GP is referring to these sorts of wifi mesh devices:

- http://www.netgear.com/orbi/

- https://eero.com/

- https://www.linksys.com/us/velop/

- https://www.engeniustech.com/whole-home-mesh-wifi.html

- https://store.plumewifi.com/

- https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/Lyra/

- https://store.google.com/product/google_wifi

- https://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5700_Deco-M5...

Thread is neat, but you can't connect your laptop to Netflix with it. EasyMesh is clearly for standardizing those:

>Wi-Fi EasyMesh™ delivers a standards-based approach to deploying adaptable networks comprised of multiple access points from different vendors, extending uniform Wi-Fi coverage and enhancing performance throughout a larger service area than is possible with a single access point. Wi-Fi EasyMesh allows users and service providers to select interoperable devices across different brands to ensure fast, wide, and reliable Wi-Fi coverage.
I suppose it's possible for both sides to feel like or think that they're 'fucking up', or 'down', for that matter.
Yes, but there were only a few people around and they were tech savvy and often entrepreneural especially in tech forums... Now when a forum gets any sort of uptake, it is jumped on by marketers and other spammers. So elitist, I guess but it was automatically back then I guess.
You can use O_SYNC. This will make the wear on your flash bigger so use with caution on cheapo flash, like SD cards.
While the article mentions Pattern Matching, it seems to be something for the distant future. I was referring changes of Java 11, which seems to me the focus of the article.
The thing I was talking about was that around the time of Twitter's IPO (I don't remember the exact timeline) Twitter announced changes and limitations to 3rd party clients, including a 100k user maximum via a hard token limit[0].

Investors didn't say "knife the indies" but they certainly said "monetize, monetize, monetize" and Twitter decided the way to "monetize" was to force users into channels that had ads.

Sure, nobody ever told Twitter to go after Tweetbot, but it's not like anybody on the board said "wait a minute..." when this was the direction they announced in 2012. I'm lamenting the tail end of a strategy that started 6 years ago.

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/falcon-pro-costs-132-161680...