skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very short sighted.

While I will concede VR is still, at it's best, in to it's toddler years you should still give credit where credit is due.

The form factor and experience for the first standalone, wireless VR device is above par and raised the bar. The price point is, IMO, still too high for fast adoption but the experience is unparalleled and, dare I say, revolutionary in its space and makes me very excited to see where VR is going to _go_ (pun intended).
Chicago is the magic kingdom of all cities. The lakefront, transportation systems, forest preserves, museums, restaurants, theater, activities, and good old Midwestern common sense provide a combination of cosmopolitan and blue collar flavor.

I can't count how many people have moved here and commented that they were shocked how easygoing people were and making long-lasting friendships was easier than they'd ever imagined.

Even so, the Bears still suck. Go Pack Go!
Your examples still suggest a significantly decreased magnitude of need for those characteristics.
I'm of course a supporter of solar, and I don't want to be "that guy", but is there a strategy for handling solar power at night? In these areas that are mostly solar, how do they store the energy, or do they resort to natural gas or coal or something?
YouTube TV Goes Down During World Cup Semifinal Croatia vs. England
Our treatment of refugee children is a national disgrace
Yeah the Opera-style compressing VPN idea is definitely high up on my list. That's why I released Browsh along side text.brow.sh and html.brow.sh At the moment they only return static content just as CDN would, so there's no privacy concerns, but to make those services truly VPN-like then they'll need to allow logins, sessions, etc, which then very much raises privacy concerns. And there's just nothing Browsh can do to assuage that, other than good branding, because Browsh by definition has to read every character on page in plain text.

I've got a good feeling about text.brow.sh, it's so simple. As you say I just need to work on the consistency of what it returns.

Thanks for your thoughts!
£500k is the statutory maximum for the Data Protection Act.
Alright, then. One could argue that the costs that companies have with this still get passed along to the consumers and other workers, but I will concede it is not "funded by us".

Still does not explain why there is a distinction. Why do artists get to have companies paying them part of their social security while other freelancers still need to make this out of their own pocket? If this is a good idea for the artists, why not for other professions?
Molten salt batteries?
Interesting... daisy chaining of Patreon / Kickstarter
I'd never thought of this, thanks.
Oh really. No shit. How about that.
> The cynic in me says they counted in the first place because it helped everyone's ego (and wallet)

I don't think you're being cynical. They counted in the first place because it helped their _metrics_ – Twitter is in the business of selling advertising and made the decisions they did in service of their advertising metrics.
Smells like a loophole. Doesn't that violate the spirit of the law?
Happy to answer any questions! This was a fun project to start, and we have lots of crazy ideas how we might make this even more fun (ie Patreon people above a certain level automatically get filled out to get rewards, etc etc)
This precisely the sort of thing that Browsh can remedy!
I wonder if an "administrative complaint" is somehow different from the TSA grievance process. The number of grievances appears to be rising and is far more than 200, in the first three quarters of 2017 they had 6,700 grievances filed.[0]

There are reasons to suspect that the TSA isn't adequately following up on these grievances. I can't find any new data, but in 2013 the Government Account Office (GAO) complained that the TSA didn't really have a process in place.[1]

"TSA does not have a process for conducting reviews of misconduct cases to verify that TSA staff at airports are complying with policies and procedures for adjudicating employee misconduct."

[0]: https://www.travelersunited.org/tsaairline-security/tsa-comp...

[1]: https://consumerist.com/2013/07/30/tsa-misconduct-cases-on-t...
The true price of solar is the price to produce reliable, continuous energy. That requires something to smooth out the signal and store the energy, most probably a battery.

The solar + battery price is also going down, though not as fast as the solar only piece. But that's the metric we should be following. When that hits $30 per MWh, it'll be game over.
I disagree, RH did not in fact built it for everything; if they had, they would not need headers-inside-headers or fixed "nonsense" values. What they build is an over-engineered yet incomplete format, but also inflexible, so they had then to pile hacks upon it.
The Go's design (materials and form factor) are far from obtrusive and would not appear out of place any more than a neck pillow in the long run.

To jump to "weirdo/pervert" is quite a leap. Consuming 2D video in a headset that fits correctly (the Go is not adjustable in width) is much more relaxing and reduces eye strain in my experience.

As another commenter posted this has a lot of potential as a media consumption device (movies, moving comic books, spatial data) outside of the immersion or 3D gimmicks.
That is not true. My new 2019 Mustang EcoBoost has 310hp and 350ft/lb of torque (key for acceleration) and is considered an entry-level mid-range vehicle. As recently as the early 2000s anything past 300hp was considered a race car.

Advanced software (in modern automatic transmissions for example) and material advancements have made all the difference in the advancement of combustion engines in the past 15 years and I firmly believe that technology can be pushed even further. I want to see 4 cylinder engines pushing 500hp, sounds like a pipedream now but so did 300hp when I was a kid.

If you want to see what happens when you perfect the marriage between a combustion engine and an electric motor w/ batteries, do some research on the McLaren P1.
Yep. I am a dev, and my family has one car (Honda Odyssey) out in the suburbs. The Metra is pretty incredible, and I get 1.5 hours of remote work done on it a day.
My completely made up intuitive understanding of it is that it's the same as musical pitches; there are many versions of each named pitch e.g A through G that are each an "octave" away from each other. The difference between "Middle C" and the one above it is that the frequency of the higher version is exactly double that of the lower. As a listener the two notes sound extremely similar, the higher one just feels more "energetic" or something. I imagine colors would be the same if our eyes could see more than one "octave" but we are only sensitive to approximately one "octave" of light, ~ 480Thz-750Thz.

Given that, violet appears to be between red and blue in the same way the pitch of G appears to be between the pitches F and A.
The modern day lack of trust in science (home schooling, religion and so on) doesn't have a whole lot to do with embracing the fundamentals of a powerful weapon (nuclear explosives) that deters agression, and engages a perception of righteousness prevailing over some abstract economic system.

Atom bombs and nuclear science, and the threat of their malicious use, weren't the last peg to pin proof and evidence above superstitious preferential belief.

The weirdness surrounding creationism versus evolution has more to do with the perception of birth control (and all its varieties, not just abortion which attracts the most extreme responses) and modern medicine tampering with the family structure as well as introducing crushing economic damage, while failing to protect from chronic diseases or stave off or explain other conditions like all the auto-immune and endocrine problems floating around.

There's also big companies out to push their capacity to profit from the indiscriminate toxic effluence of whatever it is certain companies might be producing. This story starts with leaded gasoline, moves on through climate change, and covers electronic waste and so much more. Companies know that an educated public can harm their bottom line, so pushing misinformation regarding trans-fats, refines sugar, pharmaceutical side effects, sewage contamination of improperly disposed medication, plastics accumulation in garbage and so on, are all swept under the carpet, and media encourages everone to think less deeply about such things.

Meanwhile flat earth conjecture is a mutant troll meme born of the internet in it's new misinforming hey-day, captivating mostly just the legit crazies.

It all plays together to the point that the polarization reflects a schism in either buying what medicine and science will sell you as you go about your daily routine or maybe not so much. This affects the companies you buy from and the stores you shop at, and thus, where wealth collects to reinforce itself.

You either trust in what medicine can teach you about yourself, or you eat fast food, and buy the cheapest comforts at the store with the lowest prices, and exert the lowest cognitive load that challenges this behavior.

The downside in all this is that neither side is totally incorrect. Modernity really does have some harm to deal, and modern medicine isn't always good for you. Just look at all the performance drugs and synthetic opiates no one will do anything about. Quite the opposite, in fact.

While the political polarity against science does produce some laughable beliefs, embracing it leads tons of people into dark realities of negative psychological misery, pushing amphetamines on kids because their grades are low, or leaving kids in depressing situations at public schools that make them absolutely miserable, and then offering pills to cope, without acknowleging that the place they're forced to go to every day, really would depress anyone. So, is it "science" or moreso the general way society leaves a bad taste in the mouths of many?
>Because my statically generated blog really needs https.

So I was reading your blog and am particularly concerned about the crypto miner present on the page. Care to explain this to me? Hint: MITM due to insecure context and the miner isn't coming from you but as a user, I'm going to blame you because it happens on your insecure blog page.

Both my personal static site and my "literally only I can use it I've disabled user registration" file host use https. I can think of no good reason not to - to which people always link me that stupid anti-https n-gate article. The same site where the owner links to a Patreon account that I cannot verify is them and not a malicious actor looking to get donations from readers of the site. They also link to a Twitter account that may or may not be them.
There's really only one solution to Twitter's problem, and anything short of it is just nonsense placating. They have to open up profile verification to all applicants. It would fix the platform overnight. You could just immediately ignore anyone who's not verified, yet it would still be optional for those who don't care.
>because they don't write the C++ frontend parser/lexer

This is a common story with a lot of MS stuff, especially in the more legacy products. There are so many open tickets about rewriting 3rd party licensed components but they usually get pushed down for business needs.
I think you're conflating the Chicago suburbs with the city of Chicago, because nothing you're saying is true.

The city isn't exactly a strip bar destination due to laws that forbid serving alcohol at establishments that permit nudity. The suburbs around it are different story.

It's quite well planned having burned down earlier.

And generally imports recent college grads.
Happy to help :-)
Just got two of them in today. I love this type of shirt.
You can dry wood faster. Lots of woodworkers build little makeshift kilns by stickering the wood inside an enclosure with a fan and, optionally, using the sun or an electric heater. Temperature control, sticker spacing, and proper stacking is key so it takes lots of experience if you don't want to lose too much wood to warping, checking, etc.

And 13% moisture is relatively high. Kiln-dried hardwood for furniture is sold at about 8-10% moisture. Dried construction lumber is usually sold at about 19% moisture--just below the point which inhibits mold growth.[1] Heck, some of the construction-grade lumber at a big box store might already be at 13% just from sitting around for months inside the store. (Though they stack them poorly and this is one reason why the pieces are often so warped.)

I assume that they keep the pieces around for so long simply because they can. If your time horizon is decades, then you lose nothing by simply stacking the wood (without much stickering) and letting it sit. That doesn't take much effort, just patience. And considering how expensive and rare such long, defect-free pieces are, why risk losing pieces? I have no doubt they could dry the pieces faster, but they have better ways to spend their time. Their only immediate responsibility is to keep the years-long pipeline of wood filled.

[1] On the East Coast with a more humid climate, homebuilders purchase pre-dried lumber for framing. On the West Coast with a much dryer climate, builders traditionally buy wet wood for framing and the wood usually dries to <= 19% by the time they begin finishing the interior. (Wood primarily shrinks tangentially and radially, not longitudinally, so drying framing in place isn't usually an issue. See http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/dimensional-shrin...)
Since there is no global government every citizen on Earth votes for, the premise of this argument is unfounded.
You're making me miss my hometown. Everything there is just amazing, I love the city and the people in it. The people are so kind and the transportation is stellar, and you can listen to Fred & Angi on your way to work.
We've built oil pipelines, why not "electricity pipelines" made of refrigerated, super conducting cable?
> What no one could have predicted, however, is that a trial would eventually take place after Esther’s death in which her daughters, Eva and Ruth, would claim that no one needs to inventory the materials and that the value of the manuscripts should be determined by their weight – quite literally, by what they weigh. As one of the attorneys representing Hoffe’s estate explained: ‘If we get an agreement, the material will be offered for sale as a single entity, in one package. It will be sold by weight … They’ll say: “There’s a kilogram of papers here, the highest bidder will be able to approach and see what’s there.” The National Library [of Israel] can get in line and make an offer, too.’

That's a very strange auction strategy. You would think that a proper cataloguing would increase the amount you would earn, and it could be done by a hired gun for cheap (since Kafka experts would clamor for access). From a game theory perspective, refusal to disclose contents should, by the 'unraveling' argument, drastically lower the value of the papers to rational bidders since it is a strong indication that the contents are worth a lot less than prospective bidders previously estimated before the refusal (since if the contents were as valuable or more valuable, the owners would have incentive to reveal to ensure the price or raise it; absence of evidence is evidence of absence).

One possibility is that they are counting on bidders being irrational and desperate, in which case refusing to disclose keeps valuations irrationally high and exploits the winner's curse; possibly the strategy here is to make the Israeli National Library overpay because it is committed by ethnonationalism to pay whatever price necessary, and revealing the contents risks either public criticism of the National Library overpaying or scaring away other bidders as they learn the papers are boring & losing leverage over the National Library.
Don't worry, the government is hard at work putting a stop to affordability: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-re....
I remember hearing from Bill Nye about an idea to pump water to lift up pillars during the day to store potential energy, then release those pillars overnight. I wonder if that's being implemented anywhere.
DNS? It works for SSH fingerprints. Random example: https://matoski.com/article/sshfp-dns-records/
But the UIs for that is actively discouraging people from doing so.
Open Sourcing Award Winning React Native AR App – Figment AR
Not to mention Wikidata, which is already Wikipedia for structured data.
So the RFC comes true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292883
9 AM to 5 AM? ;-)
That's a fine distinction, but what word would you use to describe something that's a product of Hawaii but not ethically Polynesian? Like Hawaiian pineapples, or loco moco? On the islands you could just call it "local" but on the mainland that wouldn't make any sense.
I live near Montreal, while the street orientations are in a grid pattern, since there is a 45 degree orientation for most of them, "North" is by convention in fact NW.

It gets even more confusing on the NE part of the city, where Montreal's "East" is closer to true North and Montreal's North is closer to true West.
But isn't the population of Chicago (like the rest of the US) getting older? Aren't the demographics shifting against the political popularity of cutting pension payments?
Are you sure someone is not just streaming watching Netflix on your data plan? ... Honestly, I've seen Excel spread sheets load 10x more data than that! :D
I imagine it would look similar to the examples from his follow-up post on other cities from around the world, such as Rome or Paris, where distribution becomes fairly even: http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-worl...
According to your source (Wikipedia), Chicago has around 78 buildings over 550 feet. Pittsburgh has 19 and Atlanta has 16.

So the article is right and Chicago is still in a league of its own in that regard.
Those property taxes may well be driving affordability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Kinda like WikiData? [0]

[0]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
Thanks for trying it out. How do you mean forms aren't working in Firefox but work fine in the terminal?

What made you think about using Nginx as a proxy?

You can already install Firefox extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45
That's definitely an opinion which a lot of people would disagree with.
For the record, citizens have been arrested and tried for assault on a federal employee for passing gas in the presence of TSA, and for having an erection during a pat-down/groping after refusing the millimeter-wave body scan. (of course no weapons or contraband were present.)

Yes, you read that correctly -- a felony charge. it's as absurd as it sounds.
I appreciate that it's under a /nerds path:)
To Explain or to Predict? (2010) [pdf]
That Chicago number will be over 80 by the end of the year.
Yes there's a documentary on Netflix about modern islands... There are few places where it's already done successfully
https://www.wired.com/story/sanfrancisco-smaller-firetrucks/
I'm surprised that YC funded this. The ICO/off-brand cryptocurrency/smart contract fad is kind of over, as yesterday's post on failed ICOs pointed out.

In the "dApp" world, the top five by market cap are:[1]

- EOS, a competitor to Etherium. It's a platform for more dApps.

- VeChain Thor, which pivoted from a RFID tracking system for cargo to a "mobile wallet".

- Tron - "The platform is still in its infancy as is expected to reach the “Eternity” by 2023. In its final stage, the platform will allow content creators to directly monetize their content by creating their own token over the TRX blockchain."

- Omise - this is a "white label solution for mobile payments". It doesn't really use "dApps", it just used a token sale to raise money.

- Icon - a blockchain to integrate other blockchains.

None of these actually do anything.

If this is so great, is YC itself buying ICO tokens? Didn't think so.

[1] https://www.newgenapps.com/blog/top-ethereum-dapps-tokens-re...
Study: Indians “Most Stressed Workers in the World”
Sadly, it's not a feature yet, but it's planned: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/85
(1) Ideal: Big batteries

(2) Pragmatic: Use on-demand power sources at night: fossil, nuclear, etc.

Just as big as the storage issue, though, is distribution.

Available solar power in the American Northwest is laughable compared to the American Southwest.
Sometimes companies throw stuff against the wall to see what sticks, sometimes they try a variation of something that was either successful in the past or it actually failed and they want another go, and sometimes the product is just what the market needs on the short term. And sometimes companies are just out of ideas and change for the sake of change, faking "new".

For example something like the SE or 5C took relatively little development to make but filled in a gap in the small-ish phone segment. They can't really go anywhere with people demanding larger and larger screens but if they came at the right time they don't really need to evolve. They do the job and exit the stage.

With any relatively new or dynamic market there's a need to experiment and then to fine tune. Especially true with smart watches that didn't really find a comfy home with most consumers.
What happened to all the solar tariffs folks were stressing about?
I didn’t say I had problems in NYC. I just said US taxes can be as high or higher than European taxes.

Yes, if you make $100k you are better off in Texas. There are way more jobs that pay $100k (not to mention $400k) in NYC than in Texas though. I’m not sure what the apples are or what we’re comparing; if it’s tax rates than the US isn’t as low as people believe.
Why can't existing energy infrastructure handle the gaps? Does it take too long to boot up a natural gas plant just for the night?

Would still make a huge dent to energy needs and the existing infrastructure already in place.
Yeah it's a pretty widely used term. ReactDOM has a hydrate() method[0] used to display something on the frontend that has already been rendered by the backend.

[0]: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom.html#hydrate
I guess trying to look at the positive side of this, it proves that most of "startup hacks" you read about on HN are BS. None of that really matters, or ever has.
That isn't what proprietary means, though. Every criticism you level at this file format _can also be levelled at the others_. There's no way around that at this stage. The only way mozilla could not have caused that problem is to not have built anything like this.
Adding a captcha seems nice but will hardly prevent fake comments.

I doubt there is any online comment system that could prevent people’s names from being misused really. It’s not like we have a national ID card with private crypto keys issued to every citizen or something.

How are you supposed to verify someone’s identity online without going through a laborious and expensive process (e.g. an in person interview, or requiring upload of a state or military ID number that is then used to send a postcard to the address on file asking for verification) that would then be criticized as discouraging public comment?