skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Blackberry Storm (and Storm 2) made clicking in the screen the "tap" action and tapping (but not clicking) the screen the "hover"-equivalent action.

I really liked the idea (and thought the hardware was pretty good on the Storm 2), but was too unusual on too-unpopular a phone to do much of anything.
Can't speak for marijuana addiction, but I know an addict or two, and problems seem to develop most prominently if the substance is used heavily and for self-medication.
Then if we could pass a law mandating that prices be displayed inclusive of sales tax, that'd be great. One of my favorite parts about going to Europe is being able to add up prices in my head and have it match up exactly with the final total. The US system is nonsensical and shouldn't be used to justify other nonsensical policies like the continued use of the penny.
The docker approach is I think a well kept secret but I'm trying to get more people to realize it's a thing. My gcf.cr tool abstracts this away for you if you are deploying to a Google Cloud Function
No they'll survive just fine without, sloshing like evolutionary sludge into every nook and cranny that supports life as they always have.

We don't need tech to survive either, so long as we don't mind living like animals!
There will be no “backlash” against the government. China is not a typical democracy.

And do you really want a corporation to have the ability to hold a nation state hostage? What’s next? Allow us to sell our stuff without taxes, or we’ll shut shop and let you handle the outcry? Allow us to circumvent <insert a corporate
unfriendly law here> or we’ll let you have it?

For better or worse, a corporation can’t be allowed to dictate the policies of a nation state. Yes, it is sad that the Chinese don’t get the same privacy rights as citizens of other countries, but that is a problem with the law of the land, not any company.
One of the claimed reasons in the article for the longevity is Baguazhang, a modern variant of which is taught in Brazil under the name of Pakua.

Just in case you want to try it out for yourself.
If someone is a slower than average driver, they should realize that Google's estimates target average speeds (since they're aggregating data from lots of drivers), and take that into account when looking at Google's estimates.

I guess it'd be nice if Google over time determined if you're a faster or slower driver than average and adjusted accordingly.
How are protests or account deletion a threat to free speech at all? Neither is government-sponsored.

In fact, you could argue that the former is the healthy exercise of the protestors' freedom of speech, and the latter is the exercise of a corporation's freedom of speech.

"Freedom of speech" != other people helping you broadcast your message or letting it go unchallenged
It is crazy. But houses with dark roofs look better, so they sell better. And replacing a roof is very expensive, so no one is going to do that on a new house just for the heat. Further, many new construction houses are in HoA neighborhoods, and HoAs don’t like people to be unique because it “spoils” the uniform look and “decreases” property values. It’s the system working against us. The only solution would be to codify requirements in building codes.
The Lawrence Journal-World, where Django was created, is now a Wordpress site
I think he was saying about whether you should morally care about the other branches counted as meta-physics.
If you haven't seen this, I recommend watching it as it explains the nightmares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
Best current info is as follows:

There is a fiber cut somewhere between NYC and Chicago.

At the same time there is also a fiber cut between Ashburn, VA, and locations in South Carolina. The cut is somewhere in NC.

Copy and paste from Level3 notification system:

"* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 15:13:37 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event
Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well. OSP will be dispatching a fiber repair and construction crew to the site; however, until the local utility company has completed their repairs and deemed the area safe, fiber repairs cannot begin.

* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 19:21:05 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event
The OSP has contacted the personnel transporting the replacement fiber, and they advised they remain en route, and on schedule for their ETA of 20:15 GMT. The next update will be provided upon their arrival, or as new information becomes available.
Apple never got data in the original deal, either. They just proxied tiles and search requests.

That story is cool, but it's missing at least an additional plot twist that "people familiar with Google's thinking" cautiously chose not to mention. I doubt the Apple side would bring it up. Hopefully in ten years someone will write a memoir about those crazy days.

I disagree that this was a major strategic mistake for Google; they had no other realistic choice. A bit of that was informed by the experience with the built-in Maps AND Youtube apps written in Cupertino. The article talks about features and data, but there are other realities to contend with. Of course, Apple had its hands tied by earlier events and choices, too. Things were already on a collision course by the time the negotiations started.
There's a lot that's wrong with this post, which is at odds with all the available anthropology on hunter-gatherer tribes. For instance, the death by age 30 idea is completely misleading. While it's true that infant-mortality was very high, the life expectancy after childhood was very similar to modern man's. And you can't have it both ways: high infant mortality is just one of the mechanisms by which the biosphere maintains ecological equilibrium. Without it you end up with gross overpopulation, resource depletion, global environmental collapse etc. etc.

Your understanding of freedom is also problematic. Hunter-gatherers had enormous self-responsibility if the wanted to stay alive. They had to work HARD just to survive. Freedom in wilderness circumstances does not mean what it has come to mean in modern society. It implied enormous responsibility. Nowadays, modern man has lost all conception of freedom beyond days off from work so as to fritter away his time in hedonistic pursuits.
Actually, the notion that pot isn’t addictive is the street wisdom, or was when I was growing up. This is in contradiction to the reality.
I'm able to pass interviews very well, but when it comes down to doing senior level programming stuff, I really suck at it. I tried rewriting old.editfight.com the other week in React + Express + TypeScript and it took me 3 days just to get the basic boilerplate working. But I can tell an interviewer what big-O notation means and can write a working fizzbuzz using functional programming techniques in ESNext.

Even if I were qualified, I don't think anyone would like to take online tutoring from a sex offender, and I doubt even more that people would like to fund a felon and sex offender via Patreon. But I really do appreciate the idea.
Or it's a combination of mental addiction and the placebo effect. The ritual has become such an important part of their life, that when they remove it their anxiety causes a physical reaction based on their concept of withdrawl.
I was able to quit after like a 5+ year pretty excessive habit. There were three steps that really helped me. 1) I removed all accessories from my home. I sold/gave away all of my pipes, vapes, e-nails, etc. 2) I started taking nootropics. For me personally, l-theanine, caffeine, and a multivitamin did wonders. Even if it's placebo (which I don't think it is) it really helped mitigate the appetite and fogginess issues for me. 3) Telling my friends I'm not smoking anymore. I established that I'm not smoking. A lot of them initially tried to get me to smoke. It's something they enjoy and I used to enjoy. I had to explain how I felt. The real friends stayed and others flaked out which is totally fine with me.

I do certainly understand the psychological addiction. It takes a toll. I definitely have unhealthy vices I'd like to cut back on, but for me personally, the steps above were enough to take me from waking up in the middle of the night to rip dabs to being totally sober. If you are interested in quitting, I would honestly recommend giving the above steps a try.
Pony 0.24.0 has been released
Best current info is as follows:

There is a fiber cut somewhere between NYC and Chicago.

At the same time there is also a fiber cut between Ashburn, VA, and locations in South Carolina. The cut is somewhere in NC.

Copy and paste from Level3 notification system:

"* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 15:13:37 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well. OSP will be dispatching a fiber repair and construction crew to the site; however, until the local utility company has completed their repairs and deemed the area safe, fiber repairs cannot begin.

* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 19:21:05 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event The OSP has contacted the personnel transporting the replacement fiber, and they advised they remain en route, and on schedule for their ETA of 20:15 GMT. The next update will be provided upon their arrival, or as new information becomes available.
AFAIK Tether is always liquid because the coins are minted on-demand. There is never scarcity. No incentive to provide immediacy.
>withdrawal from opiates ... can actually kill you

Opioid withdrawal is actually not fatal at all barring potential dehydration from excessive diarrhea/vomiting.
It really ought to say "fast LIKE c" because none of the core devs actually want crystal to be used for systems programming.

All they want is ruby with static types, that runs fast. Those things will satisfy them alone.

Intelligently written C/C++/D/Zig/Rust will always knock Crystal out of the park. :(
Which speaks to the larger question, why are so many people in our society depressed?
No. Suggesting caution is not any version of a threat.
You're right about the incentive, but it's an insult to their users from a company that claims to care about UX so much. They should just be ashamed of it and try to get something better out as soon as they can.

Sorry for ranting so much about iTunes in this thread, and from some other comments maybe I don't need to use it as much as I thought I'd have to. But then again, why do I have to use third-party apps for e.g. podcast client and music player. Those are such a central appliances that they should really be served well by Apple, who even include things like iMovie and Garage Band with their OS.
I never argued for learning llvm, the comment I replied to mentioned CS grads that could not write fiz buz in ANY language. I would never suggest going 0 to 100 like that
AC isn't that energy expensive. People just think of it as a 'luxury' and assume it must use more power, or they're used to how car ACs destroy gas mileage (but running any electrical appliance off a car engine is very inefficient)

Running an AC in a warm part of the world consumes vastly less power than heating in a cold part of the world does. Moving south reduces GHG emissions, all else being equal.
Thank you! This makes perfect sense.
Also would assume ancestors go to sleep with the sun and wake up with the sun. Modern humans rarely do.
> We can choose to ignore any or all companies.

Except you can't actually do that. There's a huge list of companies you simply can not choose to ignore. That's sort of why monopoly/oligopoly is so evil, and why strong independent antitrust action is so critical for preserving freedom.

Yes, you can escape all companies if you live like a hermit in a prepper dungeon on your property (that you somehow purchased while 'ignoring all companies' with money you got ahold of by 'ignoring all companies'), That is technically one form of freedom. But most people define Freedom a bit more broadly than that.
C'mon, I smoke every day and still not addicted!
Super interesting point that the ball is dead for 43% of the time but the game doesn't feel dead during these periods. Its a perfect contrast to american football - both have time where the ball is technically dead. But in am football people are running on and off the field, in the huddle, standing still at the line, etc. While in soccer, during a dead ball players are still sprinting around, actively playing out strategy, etc.
I work for an ISP and have several times seen totally coincidental dual fiber cuts, in totally different places 150+ miles apart, within the same 8-12 hour period of time, not due to any malicious activity. Just bad luck and assholes crashing trucks into power lines, railroad bridges getting washed out in floods, etc.
I can tell that logically you understand what you did was wrong, but all the subtext in your writing points to you desperately trying to blame something else (society, drinking, the victims being underage) when the blame really falls squarely on you. Even though you say that you know did wrong, you don't actually sound sorry, and it's very obvious. I would believe, having read that, that you think that you're a victim. You're not. You're the predator of this story. No improvement of any kind will be met through this frame you've constructed. You need to actually accept the facts. Actually.
Originally, they couldn't license the actual data, either, because at least the road network wasn't Google's to license. It came from TeleAtlas (after Nokia had bought NavTeq), Zenrin for Japan and a few more. Things were tricky like that before the Ground Truth project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsbLEtS0uls) covered enough of the planet.

When Google launched navigation on Android, it lost money in countries not covered by Ground Truth, which I think was everywhere outside the US. That's because TeleAtlas and co. charged N times as much when the same data was used for real time directions.
If the implication here is that the intolerable asshole part is a personality problem, that doesn't seem like a fair accusation. Caffeine and sugar withdrawal cause much the same symptoms. It is hard to be nice when you have a headache and feel crappy.
What do you think about the silicon photonic approach to quantum computing?
In particular, thoughts on scalability? Photonic qubits are unique wrt decoherence, no?
Gp is being sarcastic (hence the “socialism uga buga”)
We still have the penny because Jardin Zinc Products (the manufacturer of penny blanks) lobbies the government and pays for astroturf campaigns to keep the penny.

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2007/08/15...

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/07/02/14959/saving-penn...
Whatever problems drive a person to use pot as a crutch are the source issue. Pot abuse itself (or any maladaptive behavior) is best thought of as a symptom, not a cause.
Yeah, I’ve nothing better to do than roam around fixing maps. It’s not like I have a daily job or anything. /s

It the same argument when someone talks about an issue with an open source software. The response is, “The source code is available, go fix it yourself.” It doesn’t work that way for anything but trivial issues.
The Land Of Free.
No, I don't think it is unethical. You'll disclose your identity one on one.
The immense power of vertical integration at its finest
Good read. Thanks for posting.
KaiOS is a fork of Firefox OS according to their site.
And they vote, too.
In that entire article, the only definition of 'marijuana addiction' is a single sentence, and one that requires further clarification:

> But in the public health and medical communities, it is a well-defined disorder that includes physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings and psychological dependence.

Does anyone know what the specific criteria are for diagnosis? The rest of the article seems to be quotes from various people stating without evidence "Yes, marijuana addiction is real"

I'm not saying it's not real, but nothing in this article provides any evidence that it is.
It started last night. Luckily I had two other modems and kept switching them out. Each modem would work for roughly 30 mins and then the service would go down. I gave up and went to sleep.
It's not just Japan though. In the US, apparently, 97% of federal convictions are the result of guilty pleas, and there is evidence that in many cases the plea is entered due to the defendant dealing they don't have the resources to defend themselves: https://theoutline.com/post/2066/most-criminal-cases-end-in-...
Can you use a mobile app as a conduit? Central server Alexa pushes to and polls from, mobile app similarly but has permissions for calendar to do actual work? I know it’s contrived but seems like a reasonable approach.
It's also sometimes a struggle to define when something is an addiction, and when it's healthy.

A cup of coffee a day. A couple hours of video games in the evening. Are these addictions? Where do you draw the line between healthy, and harmful? That seems fairly subjective to me. Yet, there's plenty of functional alcoholics that would say the same thing about their abuse, right?
It might be, though. I have heard this exact thing from a friend about her husband. She may divorce him over it. It is very specifically when he is out. It is worth looking into the effects of prolonged drug use (even mj) on the brain and personality.
I wonder where these people live where they don’t experience homeless people begging for their change daily.

I have absolutely no question about what to do with my extra change.

This might top the list of most arrogant and out-of-touch HN comment threads I’ve seen.
Show HN: CryptoStandardizer – the one crypto API your toolset was missing
I read that the use of marijuana actually inhibits dreams, and that people who quit temporarily experience intense dreams.
I think Canada has got rid of pennies; US should also follow that lead, hopefully.
As long as there's some old fossil in the senate with fond memories of buying a salt water taffy for a penny, the penny will be with us.
This isn’t the reality for all. Not everyone remains productive like Seth Rogen when perpetually stoned.

Many people waste away their lives stoned and the problem seems to be getting worse while the quality of pot skyrockets to all time highs.
Not only that, but the fact that their is an extremely high correlation between those decrying the evils of the Devil's Tobacco and those who see nothing wrong with dosing tens of millions of people (including millions of small children) with powerful psychotropic drugs that have far more profound and less understood impacts on the human brain (especially the developing brain of a child) than marijuana.
Steam Direct sees 180 game releases per week twice as many as Greenlight did
I edited that out. Apparently most opiate related deaths during withdrawal are due to a person wanting 'one last hit', but choosing a dose that they no longer have the tolerance for.
They call it that because: marketing. In fact I don't understate it at all. It's impressive Toyota considered and accepted it comparative to their NAM counterparts who laughed it off and ended up eating QA because of it.

Musk being out of college at release if the Prius is irrelevant. The battery technology in early Prius was very bad. The delivery of the product was good, but if your inplication that the Prius fueled full EV you're off base by a significant margin. Also look at the growth of Prius from day 1. It wasn't an overnight success and many naysayers existed then about the viability, efficacy, reliability, etc. They were all proven wrong and the minimal gamble of Prius compared to a full EV including the Supercharger network pales in comparison with regard to market resistance (both consumer and competitor).

I don't think you understand continuous improvement if you equate it to being "slow". Speed has no bearing, the meat is in the process itself.

Continuous failure? Please elaborate. Failure in the product? No different than existing manufacturera and impressive track record given their time in the market. Failure to meet shareholder expectations? Sure. That's every company, and it's too bad Musk had to go public when he did. But if Tesla is a failure I'd like to see your success. Your argument devolved into pure subjective opinion rather quick.
I don't disagree that pattern recognition and intelligence are (probably?) different things.

But if they're functionality equivalent, I'm cool with that.

Heck, it might turn out that humans are already just pattern recognition machines and nothing but. I'm cool with that too.
How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia
Fiber cuts happen all, the, time. The reason users don't notice is because networks use redundant links. There's really no way to know without doing some serious investigation if it's intentional or not. But my guess would be accidental. A large network like Comcast/L3 is likely dealing with multiple cuts to fiber on a daily basis.
That is a super cute orangutan in the article.
Nuclear rockets are a dramatic improvement on chemical rockets. We've already built those. Ion engines are a dramatic improvement on chemical rockets. We are currently using those. Robert Forward also calculated that almost any conceivable mission in the solar system could be accomplished by an antimatter rocket with only a 3/5ths fuel fraction. Fusion rockets would be a somewhat watered-down version of that. (Though, nowhere near what's shown on The Expanse with Epstein Drives.)

Beamed propulsion throws out the rocket equation altogether, as do light sails.
Can anyone speak to the advice I received years ago (on move-in day at a college dorm with no AC) that two box fans--one pointed outward and one pointed inward--would be more effective than having them both aimed inward? Supposedly helps create circulation, but, I'm not sure I buy it.
Hundreds of People Charged with Health Care Fraud and Aiding the Opioid Crisis
Maybe Comcast is seeking some of that AT&T money after they were exposed for housing NSA spy tech.
I thought they did away with the €500 bill because of its popularity with criminals and its relative non-use by normal people...
Everything is bad for you if you do it enough. "All things in moderation", as the Greeks said.
San Francisco 2018 State of Homelessness
Fire crews have discussed the possibility of carrying shotguns to take them down. I don't know whether that idea has gone anywhere or got shut down for liability reasons.
Good point. Retracted.
A fair amount of the money is wasted on adverting. Mailers, TV adverts, etc. Sure it's bought in bulk but it eventually adds up. I can't imagine what they pay to acquire a new customer, or worse, get a disgruntled customer to come back.

Verizon? Same shit different name.

Even where there's competition, they don't try to compete. I presume it's mainly a ruse to avoid any further regulations, etc.
Yes, I think Apple has been slow to implement web API's into Safari for that very reason. It took them forever to get Service Workers. Also, if the browser can do it, why would people pay them 30% of the app?

I don't know about NFC but I know bluetooth and camera is not that much of an issue in mobile browsers. They are decently supported.
Here's a challenge.

Put all your stuff in a container, and put it on a shelf. Leave it there for a week, and don't use it.

Every time you think about opening the container, write it down. I bet you'll think about opening the container a LOT more than you think will.

Do you think you could make it to the end of the week? If not, you're addicted.