skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the point of posting a problem without actually describing it?

People who haven't tried can't even tell if you just screwed it up or there's actually a problem.
:) Care to elaborate?

I mean, as far as I see it, the directory is still a file, of a specific format.

How is that any different than an image file, say, of a particular format? You still need specialized programs in order to manipulate them in a meaningful way. But they're just bytes. Just like the directory is just bytes.

The difference, of course, is that allowing the user to arbitrarily manipulate a directory entry at the byte-level could lead to filesystem corruption.

I'm aware I may be missing something really obvious here. Heck, even contradicting myself :)

Educate me :)
I've seen this before but found it limited as you can only use it on pages facing away from the other pages. I have used it but do prefer the bullet journal way
as much as I applaud the effort, the next Uber or Facebook won't be a better Uber or Facebook but something totally different. I wish companies would stop trying to be better copies of existing services. Facebook had traction because it was radically different from anything that was before.

Also they have no idea how to finance and fund their growth:

>Our business model is not and will never be advertisements.

We will have a transparent revenue model based on a generic way for people to securely transact physical and digital goods and services inside the network. This will be done through an atomic digital unit of value. Although this initially reflected as a marketplace, our ambitions go way beyond that.

Apart from this, we’re also planning to help enterprise customers setting up their own internal, self-hosted and secure social networks with extra functionality such as projects, identity and access management.
A few months ago Intel pulled a stunt where they showed a 28 core 5GHz CPU, implying it was a production CPU that would ship this year. They failed to mention that it was attached to an industrial compressor to supply the necessary cooling for the overclocked CPU, and that it was a server socket (https://www.anandtech.com/show/12932/intel-confirms-some-det...).

Since then, whenever I see a headline with Intel in it, I heavily discount it until I can verify the facts. They’ve damaged my trust, and I suspect many others.
It may also be that different resources are loaded based on browser agent to track the user in different ways/display the page correctly on different browsers/polyfill javascript differences
If it made any sense to the common person, the front page shouldn't have "open source" in its description. Because your average grandma has no idea what that means.

It's an insanely hard market to chew into and thus I can say they've already lost.
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Does it federate with other services? I have not seen anything mentioning this on the website and I consider it to be crucial for me backing the idea of this service. I don't want or need yet another centralized *book.
That's truly incredible. It took several long seconds on a usually very quick internet connection. At least they made the page reflow nicely as it loads but it's still ridiculous
There's no need for this pointless one-upping. Nobody who uses touchpad will say it's more precise/faster than a mouse. And when did anyone proclaim touchpad is great for games?

I love the touchpad because it feels better and natural to me, and gestures make doing tasks like switching between desktops feel great, like I'm literally sliding papers on my desk. Lastly, not having to bring another device with me everywhere makes it a no brainer for me.
I think they are using the term 'capacity' to mean 'spare capacity'. I.e. that Amazon's entire compute usage is 80x the spare capacity, so scaling even a small amount would consume any spare capacity in AWS. Still, it seems hard to believe.
For a recent project (with modest needs), I just used a short makefile[1] and plain ES5. I found the experience refreshing as there is definitely peace of mind in depending on one less black box.

There is indeed something uncomfortable about a big node_modules directory or a magic build tool. It's almost like bathophobia, where instead of depths there is 3rd-party javascript code.

[1]: https://github.com/gvalkov/tailon-next/blob/master/frontend/...
Much better explanation by Nick Berry: http://datagenetics.com/blog/december12014/index.html
But that is not moral, is it? The company is still not beholden to a willful idea of morality, but rather sociopathically concerned with appearance. For companies where this matters little this concern for appearance is quickly shed.
On the computer I use treesheets: http://strlen.com/treesheets/

Out and about (mobile) I use a notebook and pencil.
I haven't tried Webpack 4 but can you describe what's so bad with its zero config?
The website caused my tab in Chrome on mobile to crash each time I tried to open it.
This is the wrong question to ask about a company that still has growth potential.

If there is still potential for growth, it is irrational to declare profits; by doing so you're foregoing the opportunity for bigger revenues (and gross profits) in the future and leaving the way open for a hungrier competitor.

It's a valid question to ask whether they could be profitable if they ceased all investment in growth, and I would encourage you to explore that question. They're a listed company so their financials are public.

FWIW their share price is above the IPO price, so the markets seem comfortable.
Water hardness isn't measured from 0-14. Those are pH testing strips (aquaself pH Teststreifen).
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Based on the FAQ I'd say it will not be federated, at least not initially, and in the FAQ they explain why. In short, they think that's where other initiatives fall short, and they want to sidestep the issue completely, and come back to it once they're profitable.
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Could you be more explicit, and explain in what sense there has been any progress whatsoever, as opposed to just change? Are you sure you are not simply projecting your personal system of values, conditioned as it is by the era you were born into, onto the historical process?
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This is the kind of dismissal people make when there's nothing left of substance to criticize about a company. But it's an empty dismissal - see my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548438
This is literally the first time I’ve heard the rhyme as “pudding”... it’s always been “pease porridge hot,” in our family for at least five generations now.
It does not matter that the average grandma has no idea what that means. New products need early adopters, and the average grandma is not a potential early adopter, neither is the average grandpa or anyone average, really.

Any argument, including being Open Source, is good to get early adopters. Communication can change later on.

Too many products try to appeal to the general public too soon. This is not how user acquisition works.
AFAIK macbook's keyboard and touchpad has a dedicated chip to handle user interactions and is possibly part of the firmware. This explains why it works on Apple EFI level and it works smoothly even on high CPU load.
This method is used to determine the "coke capital". In 2016 the city of Antwerp in Belgium took the first place from London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38328107/london-is-no-...
Scrolling is choppy and slow on my phone. Haven't checked my laptop, though. But such screwed up scrolling means I'm not interested.
What's the monetisation model?

edit: found this

"We will have a transparent revenue model based on a generic way for people to securely transact physical and digital goods and services inside the network. This will be done through an atomic digital unit of value. Although this initially reflected as a marketplace, our ambitions go way beyond that.

Apart from this, we’re also planning to help enterprise customers setting up their own internal, self-hosted and secure social networks with extra functionality such as projects, identity and access management."
Concepts don't describe how to string together four conflicting plugins together just to get predictable caching, for example.

There's only so many hours in the day. There are better things in life than to fight a build tool.
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Isn't this just an IPO under a different name? What's the difference between a "token" and a "share"?

(Aside from the cryptocurrency hype-sauce)
... along with two pretty lame attempts by interviewees at backtracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9LjwRRO9fk (talk radio host) & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNEJrsaOJk (Sarah Palin). Great for the lulz. And then of course some hilarity with Bernie to "even" things out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiGEh7UoMYg.
Knockoff iPhones would sell like hot bread.
I've had offsite food before and onsite food. Yes onsite food comes with queues, but meet up while working + queue + eat still beats the hell out of travel + meet up while waiting + travel + queue + eat + travel.

In my experience, onsite food (free or cheap) is often 30 to 45 minutes. Offsite food starts at 45 minutes and can be occasionally up to two hours and this is mostly out of your control.

I imagine this is pretty dependent on the exact area you work in though.
I have dealt with a few relationships exactly like this, my best friend for years was like this, and I had to just give up . Some people are socially awkward, or have weird hang ups, and you should afford more lenience in those cases maybe. But I have noticed that some seem to actually get satisfaction from the power of being wanted that way. Like pleasure from 'leaving you on read'. When I was younger in my late teens early twenties this was mostly experienced with new romantic interests acting cool or trying to make themselves a rare commodity, but when that happens in a plutonic relationship I wont even bother with the person..
Quoting OP:

> the CEO is going to investors pitching the fact that we've built/are building some deep learning engine that can be applied to all problems.

> If they are proving solutions for customers, it does exist.

From the perspective of a client with a particular project, provided the client's needs are met at a reasonable price, they are happy. It does not matter if their needs are met by application of some state of the art proprietary general purpose AI tech, or by application of standard open source technology and a lot of hours of consulting/professional services work.

From the perspective of an investor, there is a huge difference between a company that has state of the art proprietary AI tech, and a company that merely offers professional services using the same tech than any competitor has access too.

The former company has a much bigger competitive advantage / "moat" and is likely a far better long term investment.

Claiming that you have proprietary tech to potential investors when you don't is fraud.

Claiming that you are planning to build such tech is perhaps not fraud if you are indeed planning to build such tech, it'd be up to the investor to evaluate how likely that endeavour is to succeed.
There's now a 3rd party precision touchpad driver that works surprisingly well for MacBooks. Unfortunately it's CPU-bound and high CPU load can cause the touchpad to be unresponsive. Setting CPU affinity to high partially mitigates the problem though

https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad
A domain name with a - dash in it. This product fails at the very first step.
Not really, a gigabyte goes a long way for email and if you get a warning with 200 MB left or something you have lots of time to act on it.

In contrast to a video recorded even by phones today a gigabyte is consumed in no time. Accidentally (without realizing how big it is or how much quota you have left) uploading a short clip is not something you put a lot of thought into.

It's not like they instantly block receipt of mail [...]

Well true, but it sucks having to rely on googles good will for that, you don't know the hard limits and they can change at any time without notice. It is still unacceptable UX.
> Facebook had traction because it was radically different from anything that was before.

How was Facebook radically different than other social media sites? In my opinion, it was almost exactly the same as the rest. They just leveraged some clever marketing.
Case in point:

> chips will support up to 3.84 TB of memory per socket ... due to combining 512 GB Optane DIMMs and 128GB DDR4 DIMMs

> ...

> in a 6 x Optane and 6 x DDR4 configuration, they will provide 3072 GB of 3D XPoint memory and 768 GB of DDR4 RAM for a total of 3.84 TB of memory

Optane DIMMs don't really have the performance characteristics of traditional DRAM. It sounds like the real capacity per socket is 12 x 128GB = 1.53 GB, which is the same capacity as the previous generation.

That being said, I'm optimistic about Optane DIMMs - it seems like an interesting performance point in between DRAM and SSDs.
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I have high end computer (i7-7700 with 32GB of empty RAM) with pretty good graphics card (GeForce GTX 1060)... and this site is lagging. I can't even scroll properly.
> The idea that adults died at 30 is absurd, but persists everywhere anyway, mostly because it flatters us in the present.

I always thought the idea persists just because people don't instinctively understand averages. (I agree with the rest of your comment though).
Something I've worked on: http://fivefilters.org/content-only/

Actually uses the original Insapaper site-specific extraction rules (they were hidden after Marco sold it I think) which can now be found here: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/ We get contributions from users of Wallabag (good open source alternative to Instapaper/Pocket).

It also uses the original Arc90 Readability code ported to PHP to figure out where the article content is without any knowledge of the site.

We sell the latest versions (AGPL licensed) but older versions go up in our public repository: https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss
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Tracking DNSSEC: See the Deployment Maps
* Playing a handheld golf game at my godfather's house

* Then he got a C64! Playing the Hobbit!

* Playing Elite on a friend's BBC

* Typing in 10 PRINT... in Dixons or Boots

* Getting a Vic 20 and writing some simple graphics and sound programs

* Granny's garden on the BBC at school although I can't believe they are still trying to sell it!

* Amiga! F18 Interceptor, Deluxe/Photon Paint, Sountracker, Amos! Yes!

* Seeing the Internet and Sun Workstations at uni in 1994, Doom, MUDs, Gopher...
Yeah, you're probably right.

Most pH strips I've used have only 1 color, I guess you need 4 to measure across the whole range.
Nice try, but you actually do need to work up from nothing.

> Day one: if A saw 13 or 14 they would know it was 20, so when A passes, that signals to B that A is between 10 and 12.

Your problem here is that if A saw 13, they would conclude that B saw 7 or 5. If A saw 14, they would conclude that B saw 4 or 6. In no case can A guess immediately.

So B can't conclude anything quite so strong from the fact that A passes on Day One.
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> I love these stories of engineering and science from the trenches.

I wish there was a website collecting all these stories and articles. They could also ask the authors for permission and offer epub/pdf downloads of these stories. That would be a nice read while traveling
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Please help understanding the puzzle.

Is it possible we see 18 statues together?
(e.g. there is 2 common statues, so I see 10 "own" + 2 "common", and friend sees 6 "own" + 2 "common"?)

So, would that count as 18 or as 20 anyways?
Here we go, another Social Network engine :) Just following the NIH syndrome, once again.

> OpenBook is OpenSource

Yeah awesome. Like many other projects. Having the OpenSource stamp is not really an advantage anymore. Building and maintaining a community around it, with strong support and integration is something way more difficult to do.

> On Openbook you will not only be able to personalise your profile, but the entire network itself! From changing the color of your homepage to adding plugins, you can make it as unique as yourself.

So basically I can customize everything. On my instance? Is it federated/decentralized (doesn't seems so)?

> We don’t track anything you do, neither monetize your information nor share it without your explicit and informed consent.

Hopefully the GDPR has already cover all those things :)

> All applications will be reviewed by us. We will make sure they: only request the needed information, have the exact location of your data available for you, at all times, delete all your information if you’d revoke the permission...

GDPR

> Some examples of the technology we'll be researching and developing:
> Cryptographically enforced data sharing policies
> End to end encryption, even on the browser
> Public key cryptography on the browser
> Post-quantum cryptography algorithms and protocols

NIH syndrom, all those things are already covered by many other projects, why not reusing that? Also, "post-quantum" cryptography, looks like a nice buzzword thrown in there.

> Migrating to Openbook will be easy-peasy, with our simple drag-and-drop system. Just download your data from your old social network1 and transfer them to Openbook. Shazam!

Good luck with that. GDPR is indeed forcing social platforms to have a Data-Portability politic. Facebook is exporting the user content in HTML flat file with no proper identifiers or easy way to reconstruct the data structure.

> ...we’re also planning to help enterprise customers setting up their own internal, self-hosted and secure social networks with extra functionality such as projects, identity and access management.

So basically they are developing another centralized Social Network engine.
Show HN: ActiveDock:Improved dock for MacOS
Are you satisfied with the features Apple Dock provides?

Me not....

I created ActiveDock because the Mac Dock does not have the ability to switch between windows, change the appearance, and conveniently group elements, and does not allow you to hide unused items.

Main Features
- Window Previews Panel - allows you to view and switch between windows, as well as resize and move your windows
- Themes
- Groups and Folder Views - for convenient grouping of items - Start button to quickly launch applications and open folders
- and much more

I want to simplify the application and plan to rewrite 70-80% of the code in order to simplify the application and make it more intuitive.

Let me know what do you think.

I will be grateful for your feedback and advice.
No. OpenJDK projects are no longer planned to target a specific release.
That's been debunked.

The low average life expectancy was not because adults died young but because child mortality (especially for children under 5) was sky-high.

There was also an article on here just yesterday about how we list ancient skeletons as "50+" instead of "75" years old because we can't distinguish ages of skeletons above 50, which also contributes to that misconception.

Long story short: a prehistoric human who made it to puberty had a pretty good chance of living to be 60-80, well past menopause.
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It was choppy on my beefy desktop on Firefox as well.
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Winton's climate change predication market
The uncooked rice you buy in the store has been dried.
Looks like there is something wrong with the site.
Javascript crashes and nothing is visible.
It's not compliant at all, but we'll have to wait for these practices to actually get punished (severely, one can only hope) before people will actually get it through their skulls that it's important to respect your users.

Regarding the JS, I have come to the same conclusion. On a large amount of news websites, I have everything blocked (CSS too) with some element hiding rules to remove the strange menus and whatnot. The content you care about on such a site is the text, with maybe one picture. Almost nothing is lost by refusing everything else.
The article was talking about 2000 years ago, not 15,0000 years ago that's a pretty big difference, not to mention that the article wasn't as much debunking things but falling into a huge selection bias fallacy by using historical figures as the basis for calculating the age who also often didn't live anywhere close to 80 years.

Pre-historic humans who made it to puberty didn't live anywhere near 60-80 years on average we have the plenty of skeletons to know that (in fact modern hunter gatherers who do benefit from some levels of outside intervention don't even get to that).

It's also important to note that unlike today or even later in history the age past puberty didn't sky rocket.

Women often died due to child birth, men died hunting dangerous game, and both often died to the elements as at the time we were still migratory and didn't live in settlements.

>Based on Early Neolithic data, total life expectancy at 15 would be 28–33 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

If you have better data by all means share it.
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Yes, the classic "Game of Life in APL" is cool because of its terseness. However, as a GoL implementation it has several limitations - it only handles a fixed size board, and it doesn't implement HashLife, which is what the more advanced GoL implementations use.

Then again, this implementation has the same limitations. However, unlike the APL code, this one works in a terminal.

To the author, I see the code has a hard-coded width/height. You can get the terminal size from ncurses. The 10x10 default is entirely too small to see interesting patterns. I made it 40x10 so I could take a better look.

I find it hard to distinguish between alive/dead. I changed it to an asterisk for alive and a space for dead. That seemed to be better.

There seems to be a bug in the code. The blinker goes between:

* *
* and * *
*

Wild thought - what about using the Braille patterns to show a higher density? They won't be evenly aligned, but it might be interesting.
Facebook is just another social media site, not really much different than Myspace was before it.
how does ES6 remove dependency of Moment? just curious.
> 14,000 years people didn’t live pass 30

Are you sure? Life expectency of ~30 doesn't mean people didn't live past that, since that's due mostly to child mortality.
I don't think that FAQ entry answers the question asked by the parent comment.

They say that they don't want to decentralize the service (as in, everyone can run their own instance), and I can understand their stand on that. However, they say nothing about federation with other similar attempts that are popping up.

Instead of "Will I be able to run my own instance?", think: Will I be able to follow an Openbook account from my Mastodon account?
I can't use onedrive due it's lack of a Linux client. There are thirdparty ones available, but upstream API changes have caused data corruptions so I don't trust it as my main driver anymore.