skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...if paywalled then at least you know some people at least tried to read the article because they comment about the paywall.

Everyone else a) paid their way (as if), b) got a free pass as they don't generally read articles, c) used that new trick for bypassing the article that only people who read articles know about or d) just blurted their opinion without reading the article.

I know there have been changes on the internet lately and there is only so much that one can 'stalk' in someone's browser, but is it possible to have a comment system where you can only comment if the article is in the browser history, with that page having been visited at least three minutes before the comment is submitted?

If I go shopping online then I jump straight to the reviews and decide to buy on that basis. the 'shoddy' product description sometimes doesn't get a glance over. On HN I find some articles are the same, the real insights are in the comments so paywalled does not deter, the real insights will be in the comments.
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SPHINX: A Password Store That Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself
I myself have some interest in the software side of this. I see the robot is remote controlled - but I think a large degree of autonomy would be required for a 50Km trip.

The current self driving technology relies on a trunk full of Nvidia cards sucking data in from a few dozen cameras, lidars or radars all working to create a coherent world view, the whole system drawing hundreds of watts of power.

I wonder if it's possible to capture 90% of the performance of that system with simple hardware that can fit such minimal hardware and other applications where failure is an option and has limited consequences.

A thing I'm thinking about lately are lightweight, electric self driving bikes (or more exactly, trikes) running on existing, dedicated bike infrastructure, augmented with some embedded instrumentation. As long as the speed does not exceed 15Km/h and they are guaranteed to never run a red light or run over any object crossing the path, they could be as safe as a human driven bikes.
> Like with 1803 being forced to come up with security questions when creating the local account on a PC you're about to domain join.

Security Questions are a really bad anti feature that nonetheless is really persistent. I don't need 5 more random alphanumeric Passwords in case I forget that other random alphanumeric password I can barely remember. In most places online where they are used the rip open huge security holes should you actually set reasonable a answer to "Whats my Pet called?".
i'm not a microsoft employee, but i'm downvoting you because you're being a jerk.
I'm pretty sure it's block/column selection instead of line selection.

Why they made that design decision, we will never know. Maybe a dev was working with a lot of hex output? (even so, he should be slapped retroactively, unless he's Raymond Chen, cause Raymond Chen is amazing so we'll forgive his transgressions)
I like watching the cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics when Trump does something that American's generally would be behind (if any other president had done it). You start with your conclusion, that Trump is Hitler, and then contort your way back to the facts. I'm not American, so watching it without skin in the game is both hilarious and bizarre. And it keeps getting more so.
Mintty + tmux. It's how I survive Windows.
Also: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
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A competitor that has less than 15% of the market on smartphones, 0% of the market on search and under 5% of the market on browsers.

The business model is not illegal but it is if abused to leverage market position against the competition.

Apple doesn't have a large market nor do they leverage their market position to force potential competition out of said market.
That bit you've quoted is only half the story. I've written both terminal emulators as well as ported my own UNIX shell to Windows and never resorted to those kind of tricks. However the stuff I've focused on isn't interactive commands (ie just normal POSIX-like file streams). The moment you envoke "del" or other command that prompts "Are you sure you want to delete" (or whatever) then for some odd reason Windows just jumps over that STDIN read request and ploughs through the rest of the program.

I can't say if this is a bug in my shell specifically or a wider problem that has lead to the work around you described, but it's literally the only problem left in my Windows port and I'm definitely not smarter than average nor have I spent any excessive time working in Windows so I cannot see how I might have solved problems that other shells are still grappling with given the limited time I've spent on the Windows specific portion of the code.

As for the bug itself, I get this is a pretty major bug which severally hampers the usability of the shell but I think given enough time (and a new development machine to test it one since I now longer have access to a Windows laptop after changing jobs) I could get this bug solved too. Hopefully without resorting to the kludge you described, but who knows.
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Low density settlements have real trouble financing all the infrastructure they need from the taxes they get. I agree that a lot can be done with proper zoning to reduce the need for a car, but good public transit needs a certain density.
why would you expect prices for an online service to be different in Poland compared to Germany or Africa?

The cost to Google is the same, no matter where the user is.

What you're asking is basicaly that people from Germany to subsidise the cost for Poland by paying more, right?
Asians are minorities. Also, Asian subcultures are extremely diverse - East Asian, South East Asian, South Asian, etc. You don't need every single minority involved to be called diverse.
> Huh, Mac is not a PC?

Only if you do uncertified repairs on it :^)
Are those still used for new projects?
That's a ridiculous claim.
What are "third party libs which are not installed using pip"? I install all my libs with pip.
Because if you don't use Linux you are automatically some lazy hipster?
> Turing completeness is a nice thing to have, after all.

It is, and plain old non-procedural SQL has it.
That's hair-splitting nonsense. Drone victims are very often neither combatants nor suspected combatants but rather local warlords/politicians. In many cases the US forces do not try at all to determine whether the victims are combatants (i.e., whether they are holding a gun in their hands, for instance).

As the article lays out the assassinations are made based on death lists compiled by US intelligence agencies. They can put whoever they like on these lists, in this case they put a US citizen on it, for example. That's the paradigmatic example of political assassinations, and e.g. on a par with what the US did when they supported death squads in Chile, except that in Chile the death squads were mostly comprised of non-US citizens whereas drone strikes are conducted by US citizens.
Pretty good, but check this out: https://2gis.ru/moscow

Buildings are actually 3d at closer zoom levels.

You can click on a building to see the list of all businesses in that building.

Bus routes can be shown when clicking on a route number.

The best part, it works completely offline as a phone/desktop app.
You should watch an amazing movie called "Doctor Strangelove". (: The whole point of those weapons is to show them off to achieve a balance of power.
Sort of unrelated, but I feel like Microsoft's behavior lately has been kind of fishy. I don't understand all the self-promotion, and I don't see it nearly as much for other tech companies.

Is repeating 'intelligent cloud' over and over again helpful in getting customers? Or is this all just a big stock pump?
How the threat of online competition from Amazon is driving up deal prices
Man with autism is arrested for allegedly scamming AWS
Show HN: Chinese zhuyin input with devanagari
देवनागरी 注音輸入法

android keyboard to input traditional chinese with devanagari characters instead of zhuyin

screenshot
https://mobile.twitter.com/raj29472/status/10201880226948218...

dl debug apk from 139.59.33.58/201807201315.html
https site is self signed

app doesnt do frequencies yet so input is much slower than you get with current keyboards but still good for learning

based on https://github.com/reymondkao/android-zhuyin-ime
mmmmmm Java.......
>> but people always gloss over the fact that we really don't know much at all about how the human brain generates its results.

If you look carefully, you'll see that interpretability is an issue in domains
with either safety or liability requirements. Sometimes both are required-
like in medicine where a doctor must be able both to make decisions that do
not endanger their patient and justify those decisions if something goes
wrong.

In such domains, all technology tends to have very high reliability stnadards, in the sense that it is made so that it's possible to make predictions about its behaviour under various assumptions.
With neural nets, the black-box nature translates to a lack of
predictability, which is unacceptable.

Btw, in the same kind of domains, human introspection seldom comes into play.
Human actors are normally trained professionals who can explain their actions
with minimal recourse to introspection. For instance, a doctor will tell you
"I administered 50cc of Chloraxine because it has been shown to be beneficial
in cases where the patient suffers from third-degree burns etc etc", not "I
felt ambitious and bold and decided to give the patient some Chloraxine".
> I guess this means you lost.

How, exactly? And what is that you're saying signifies that I have "lost"?

That yet another random HN poster (@guelo in this case) intentionally mischaracterized hard facts - the fact that all of the people indicted were Russian citizens, and that Russia does not extradite its citizens - as "unsubstantiated conspiracy theory propaganda" hardly surprises me, but it in no way makes me "lose". Such is the nature of HN these days, and it saddens me to see this place devolve into this.

Many of the people here dismiss or ignore cold, hard facts when those facts are not favorable to their side in almost every comment thread on HN. @Guelo is the offender this time, but there are countless others. Facts cannot be argued with, and so in this case, he simply dismissed them because he didn't like those facts. It's wrong that people choose to do this, and that is the crux of the message on my profile page that you quoted, but they do it all the time and I will point it out whenever I see it.

Your comment is even more bizarre to me. You essentially said "You got schooled!" when someone said that the facts I presented were unsubstantiated propaganda, even though they are simply undeniable facts. He presented no argument to support his comment, such as proof of some sort of new extradition treaty that would allow for Russian spies in Russia to be extradited to the US. That would certainly make me "lose" this argument, and I would be happy to concede at that point. Short of that, I can't see that I have "lost" anything based on his comment. You essentially jumped a on a bandwagon where there was no wagon - but rather just a band, making meaningless noises.
Friend of mine used Lulu for self-publishing his Lisp book. Nathan Barry has a good ebook on writing your own ebook called Authority.
Then look at the number of people in urbanized areas

> An urbanized area consists of densely developed territory that contains 50,000 or more people.

Still 70% of the US population.
Because they keep churning out garbage. And the only "good" stuff they do make, they don't open source, or even release it on multiple platforms.

Not to mention the fact that they are extremely user hostile. Putting ads in a paid for OS? And mining private data. If their OS was free I'd at least say they had an excuse to do that.
100$ buys you a really nice Android phone.
The thing is Google Maps is not a monopoly. There are plenty of other map providers, so a price increase is not anti competitive, because you can switch to other providers.
We should treat this as what it is: a humbling reminder of just how big avogadro's number is.
I used to work from home every Tuesday. Couldn't do Weds because we had our team meeting on that day. Have to say though it really took the edge off Mondays and made the remainder of the week a breeze!
To dogpile on, among my closest friends we've have over a dozen dead Pixel phones (due to hardware issues, though one started smoking) and a half dozen dead Nexus's.

Meanwhile, I'm essentially banned from Google Wallet for sending a friend $600 with a card I'd had on the account for years, with no way of recovering it without giving Google my SSN, multiple utility bills and passport. This is far beyond what Know Your Customer regulations require, and I still was well below KYC thresholds that their competitors use (PayPal, Zelle (no apparent limits)).

Considering my bank doesn't have my SSN or passport, I am not handing that out like candy to the world's premier data mining company for a highly questionable account review. This right here is why I'm on Zelle :P
You can find just as many relationships with the Clinton's of questionable origin (China, Middle East).
Both Candidates suck, Trump's a moron, but to think that Hillary's actions didn't create a circumstance for exploitation is throwing it out the window. The Russians do not like her, to think they wouldn't put forth efforts to meddle through social media manipulation is a joke. Hell, if you think we're not doing it to other countries that's a whole other argument.
It's not, they're optional modules (drivers/media/rc).
What it actually means is that google has more money, so they can muscle their way in with cheap/free offerings that are as good or better as the competition, kill it and then hike prices.
>Do you ever install packages from Emacs? If so, you definitely want that to be at least TLS protected.

Wouldn't it make more sense to sign individual packages so that it doesn't matter if an attacker can mess with them "in flight"? That's generally how package managers work in my experience. It also means that you can let third parties create mirrors without trusting them fully. TLS doesn't really seem like the right solution for something like that.
I maintain a small hobby site that used to have two embedded Google maps. The site is absolutely tiny and would have been well within Google's free tier, and yet I happily moved away from Google Maps when they made the change.

Without warning, the two maps suddenly stopped working properly and were covered in grey boxes. Looking for a solution in the documentation, I noticed the new pricing model (the email notice only came after their final deadline) and decided to try generating new API keys. Unfortunately, Google didn't update their API console in time and I was thrown into an endless redirect loop.

When I was finally able to obtain my new keys some days later, the two embedded maps refused to load with an unspecific "no longer supported" message. Google's documentation also didn't seem to be updated with any breaking changes.

I then decided to move to OpenStreetMap, which also looks much better in my opinion.
> Actually, it is.

I'm saying almost all home-users have NAT and can communicate to remote services on most high ports.

If you're claiming otherwise, you should be able to provide some evidence to back that up.

> There are strong reasons why HTTP is highly favoured for communication protocols.

Yes. Like where they don't control the client, as in the part right after the part you quoted.

What exactly is your point?
If the main use of cars were seven state road trips I don't think people would complain about being stuck in rush hour traffic or having to drive twenty minutes to the nearest grocery store.
As I understand it Windows 3 ran in DOS, Windows 98 had DOS integrated, Windows NT had it emulated and ME was somewhere in between. It wouldn't surprise me if parts from all four have survived til today for compatibility.
Bing maps does not publish pricing info AFAIK. Last time I checked it said contact sales, no price was given.
When you are waiting for certain processes, you are in work. You are unavailable for other activities such as gardening, picking up the kids from school or meeting friends. Well strictly speaking anyway ... but even if you can wangle your way to these things you're still on the hook for work and if something comes up you have to respond. This is all billable time IMO.
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Is your shell on github?
dl site link on new line

http://139.59.33.58/201807201315.html

some more info: the app codebase is 8 years old but still worked great aside from a hardcoded path to the sqlite database folder

h/t to the original devs

all additional dev was done on an android phone with termux and ed and a vps for builds and took about a week
And I guess that's the whole point, these types of accessibility issues keep being left as an afterthought rather than the standard
Why would you want a self-driving bicycle? It’s not like you can relax and read a book during the ride, and it’s not very autonomous either (unless it can stand upright without moving).
Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (2015)
Assuming that cutting work hours per position would allow for more positions. How would this achieve both less unemployment and less carbon emissions? Would you not need to choose one over the other?
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Its buried in the discussion why this might make sense to have in a kernel: being able to control the system as soon as it boots. Think keyboard, but via IR.
Sable is used by 400 teams across Amazon and handled a total of 5.623 trillion service requests,
or 63.5 million requests per second, during last year’s Prime Day, according to an internal document.

Incredible figures!
Let me know if they ever release Windows, Office or NTFS(drivers) for Linux. Only then will I admit that they have actually changed.

The rest is just a trap to get developers back on their platform.
Mine? If so... It's called "hyperbole". If not, well, yeah, claiming that anyone can be productive for 40 hours a week in a desk job for their whole lives is pretty ridiculous.
Show HN: Brutal.js 1.2 – performance updates
This is great, I've been thinking about doing something similar but not been able to make the time so it is good to see someone else doing it. There is quite a lot of information out there about tackling the logistical challenges of operating remotely esp for software development, great to hear other perspectives and industries.
> they'd be there anyway

No. That's the point.
How have you posted this question if your account is deleted?

HN has some protections to guard against unwanted behaviour from new accounts, so maybe your IP address triggered something, if you're seeing strange behaviour when you try to post/comment/vote.

But for questions like this you'll be better off to ask the moderators via email (hn@ycombinator.com) as they can actually take actions like removing account restrictions :)
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> Here is a phase 3 that succeeded and failed. Clearly it works.

That's not clearly works. Quantifying works/succeed with statistic is how you know it clearly works because it's statistically significant. Other wise your clearly work statement is just your opinion and the opinion of a drug company trying to make money.

If it fail and succeed in phase 3 then it's not clear at all if it works.
The difference is that neural nets are technologicl artifacts that we design and manufacture, unlike our own minds. We generally make sure that when we design and create such things, we know how to control them.

For example, a car breaking system that randomly failed to stop the car under conditions that were impossible to understand would be unacceptable.

When a component of a safety-critical system fails, we want to know why it fails. Not because we're curious, but because we want to avoid failure in the future. If the component is a black box that can't be reasoned about, then we can't know whether it will fail again in the future.

Also: "Ms Whatsit"? In view of the Uber accident, that is extremely insensitive.
Home Security Solutions and Alarm System Installation
How to make home security solutions according to individual needs and budget?
I have a 2-year-old in San Francisco. We walk or take transit everywhere. (I also don’t use a stroller, so the kid is either walking for himself or riding on my shoulders, or occasionally riding in a wagon to the grocery store 2 blocks away.) My wife bikes to work. We have a car but it is mostly only used for trips to Costco and road trips; we could certainly get by with occasional rentals/taxis, but the car is occasionally convenient.

At some point in the nearish future I will probably put some kind of kid seat on the back of my bike.
I see this mentality a lot and I just don't understand it.

It's an especially odd thing to say when you're all working on the same team, doing similar work: it kind of translates as "I'm so inefficient it takes me twice as many hours to do the same work as the rest of you! Go me!"
Early MSFT employees were compensated heavily with stock options. I think it's also pretty safe to say that few devs from that period are still coders, they've moved on to other roles or retired.

From Show Stopper!:

Technical preferences aside, the success of Windows was a windfall for Cutler and
colleagues. Most had received sizable stock option grants on joining Microsoft, partly to
compensate for their reduced wages. At other companies such stock grants might return
10 to 25 percent profit to a grateful employee over five to ten years. A doubling of value
would be a bonanza. But lately Microsoft's stock had soared-with no limit in sight. Demand
for Windows transformed Microsoft from the leader of the software pack into a giant
looming over the rest of the industry. The company's net profits were especially
impressive; an astonishing 25 percent of sales flowed to the bottom line. Options granted
to Cutler two years earlier, while substantial at the time, were now breathtaking. And the
stock price seemed a cinch to double over the next few years, given the company's bullish
outlook.

Even at the current stock price, Cutler's options now were worth at least several
million dollars. Havens and Perazzoli, meanwhile, were assured of clearing high six figures.
Even the team's rookie programmer, hired fresh from Princeton the summer before, would
reap a few hundred thousand dollars within three years.