skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Activist investors fight for power in board rooms, not in court rooms.
RSS is not dead. I have many feeds that I auto-filter and check on a daily basis. Furthermore it is enabled by default on countless wordpress blogs. RSS is not complicated from an end user's point of view. But since it gives users more control to handle their information diet nobody poured money into a marketing campaign to make it more popular with "average users".
The key to all adaptive mechanisms is that they have to not kill the bacteria as well.

The mechanism of action for hand sanitizers is to disrupt the lipid membrane - it's possible no adaptation exists to make a lipid membrane resistance to high concentrations of alcohol (or other surfactants) that also still renders it a workable membrane.

The current resistance mechanisms in the study are mostly efflux pumps, which again, may not be expressible to save a bacteria when alcohol is present at volume. Even most antibiotic resistance mechanisms are not actually a binary "Works/Doesn't Work" but rather can fight off the antibiotics at the concentration they're delivered in.
I did not consider that, thanks!

It's interesting to think that luxury brands still have such comparable margins. I guess one could say that marketing is their commodity.
When i upgraded my phone gro a nexus 5 to an S7 i was initially confused that my new (3 years newer, higher end) phone seemed sluggish compared to my old one.

It turned out that I'd enabled an option to double animation on the old phone. Enabling the same option on the new phone made everything as fast as expected.

That said, I really appteciate the (faster) animations. I wouldn't want to do a without them at all.
> For all the complaints about the decreasing quality of air-travel, almost everyone I know chooses flights based on cost and time, not service.

Almost everyone I know does the opposite, but only to a limited degree. I think it's also more nuanced than equating "quality of air travel" with "service".

I think it's true that the vast majority of people don't actually care how well they're served. Many do, however, care about physical comfort (as evidenced by willingness to pay for coach-plus type seats) and convenience.

Convenience is, arguably, closely linked with time, which you mentioned being something people are paying for. However, time is at odds with cost in at least the sense that airlines are flying jets slower to reduce fuel consumption.
Use high concentration sanitizer and you should be fine.
How do screen readers work with curses interfaces? Genuinely curious.
This feels equally true of classrooms as screens
When we visited NYC a few years ago, I thought NYC was one of the friendliest places in the USA I'd ever been. And I've been to the midwest, san francisco, the pacific NW, the southwest, and the DC area.

We took the subway and the bus, walked here and there, looked lost every now and then... people offered to help periodically, happily chatted on the subway... it was extremely impressive and we definitely would be up for living there sometime just based on how nice people were. There was a no-bs attitude which was refreshing, but they were also kind to the derpy tourists we were, in ways I'd never expect in Seattle.
All browsers have been pretty-printing XML for a while. Adding JSON was long overdue.

It might not be a core functionality of a browser, but all major browser vendors now accept that browsers are also development tools.
For rollouts like this, a small holdback experiment is typical, to assess long term trends. Or maybe your browser doesn't have hardware acceleration enabled? Or you could be in canvas mode?
Try ?force=webgl on the end of the maps url in case it's the latter.
Try shadertoy.com to see if webgl is available.
One of the core features of web browsers is web development tools. Pretty printing JSON is a extremely useful and versatile web development tool, and as such I consider it in scope.
This. While you're hospitalized is not the time to be trying to build your immune system's character.
How to “Make” a Woman
I remember the original video introducing Google Reader. "Imagine an inbox for the web", the guy said.
Oh yes, this setup works smoothly only if you use a console editor like vim or emacs IMO, some IDEs/editors let you edit remote config files but I don't like that flow.

* And if you're creating a webapp, you still want to see how it looks on a web browser.*

You know the browser is a networked application right? just like you use your local ssh client to connect to the remote ssh server, you use your local web browser to connect to your remote web server.
But you are in the same team in all the other senses, mostly that these are the people you work with in the long term. Some projects you do alone, some with Bob, others with almost everyone, but the team members want to feel like a team and have an idea of what everyone's working on.
I've gone from "hick town" and going to church to cities (and going to church).

Everything is better except for the light pollution.
Cheap food and lodging is mainly a sign of a strong US dollar though. I've been to Japan 5 years ago and while it wasn't as expensive as people told me it would be the Canadian dollar was very strong.
> If Spotify didn't exist then the interaction data with it wouldn't exist.

Likewise, if you didn't exist, then the interaction data wouldn't exist either. I agree that the ownership is more complex in this case and is hard to attribute solely to one party. One party provides a system where interactions can take place, another party provides the interactions. Who owns the interactions? Clearly both parties are required for them to exist.
Firefox' handling of RSS feeds as live bookmarks was one of its killer features back in the day, at least to me. But it must have hit a nerve with others, too, because I remember that Microsoft put something RSS-related into IE7; I never used IE7, though, so I cannot vouch for that.

Of course, there are alternatives, but still - the live bookmarks are really cool and extremely convenient to use. It's a shame they are going to be excised. At least that gives me an incentive to pick up the RSS aggregator I wrote a couple of years back and polish it a little.
Scare off burglars with this ridiculous Alexa skill
Would you call the worldwide systemic crisis in waste stream management precipitated by China tightening regulation as an instance of For a sufficiently small externality, "ignore it" is a perfectly valid option because personally I wouldn't.
I now know that I suffer from electronic components tsundoku.

I buy various elements on AliExpress (RF emitters or detectors, nodemcu, wifi dongles,...) with the hope of using them ond day.

So far I used maybe 10% of what I accumulated and decided to stop buyi... oh look, a new wifi switch I could reflash!
Starbucks drops major hint at plans to accept Bitcoin
Please don't spam Wikipedia.

This is literally the definition of spam. You're creating work for Wikipedia volunteer editors for the purpose of promoting your company.
Could we have an AI that reads these articles so I don't have to
/s
No, surprisingly it's not much more expensive to render than Mercator.
It's a crime that Scrum is allowed to call itself "Agile". Look at the Agile Manifesto again, then look at Scrum. Almost complete opposties.
Phenome.js – Ultimate cross-framework component compiler
Are you suggesting that the user should track their interactions themselves if they want to own a copy?
The other day I raised my hand to high five a stranger in a dance event and she didn’t notice and passed the other way. I remarked how I haven’t felt something like that in awhile. Imagine if you had to watch everyone left swipe you in tinder or reject your resume personally.
For the French speaking dating pool

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It's more complicated than that. Among other things, it led to the open sourcing of Ceres: http://ceres-solver.org/users.html (a few clues on that page)

You definitely can't use Street View data alone for objects not at ground level. Actually, sometimes there is no Street View data for a place, at all. E.g. check the planes on the runways at airports like SFO, AUS and JFK. Incidentally, the varying quality at different airports is also a hint of how easy it is to fly over each of them at the ideal altitude(s) and how often one can get the necessary permits to refresh imagery.
Look, there is a congestion tax for people too, only we implement it as "rent".

Guess what, you live in a large, crappy place in the worst parts of the Bronx, you pay less than the guy who lives in the tiny apartment in the luxury building in Manhattan. The small apartment likely even uses, less water, less power, less heat, and fewer city services like police and fire.

But so what?

You know why we do it that way? Because it only makes sense to do it that way.

Sorry, but of course it should be based on price. All things of this sort are.
Mac Minis are basically reshaped laptop motherboards in a special case, apple doesn't need to buy a totally custom CPU for it. Whatever AMD or Intel makes that has appropriate TDP for use in an ASUS notebook will also work for a new mac mini.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681734
To be pedantic, there are three shapes of glass bottles for mineral water. A green one for medium sparkling, white for classic sparkling and a fancy one for the hipster water.
Outside of specific venues, no one I encounter has similar interests. Really disincentivizes me to talk to them.

To counter that, I try to keep up with the local sports, as a base for small talk.
CycleStreets, a free-to-use national cycle journey planner for the UK
> Excited to see that finally someone has written an imperative language in a functional runtime.

Aren't there zillions of languages implemented on top of Lisp dialects?

CL-USER 13 > (CLPYTHON.APP.REPL:REPL)
Welcome to CLPython, an implementation of Python in Common Lisp.
Running on: LispWorks 7.1.1
REPL shortcuts: `:q' = quit, `:h' = help.

;; Consider customizing variable *CLPYTHON-MODULE-SEARCH-PATHS*
;; to be a list of paths that are tried when locating a module in order to import it
;; (in addition to the current directory and `sys.path'). Typically it should at least
;; contain the path to the Python 2.x standard libraries, as those are not
;; distributed with CLPython.
>>> for i in range(4): print i
...
0
1
2
3
>>> 3 + 14
17
New Version of Windows 10 Your Phone App Allows Photo Transfer from Android
Ask HN: Anyone been recruited by VC firms to work for their portfolio companies?
Like the title says, I'm used to getting "recruiter spam" email, but I've never gotten one from a respected VC firm until today.

I am interested in a new position and wouldn't traditionally think of going through a VC firm.

Anyone have experience with this and who can tell me a bit about it?
The single point that I disagree on:

> "Let’s dig into it by looking at the aspirational interface concept from a great movie: Minority Report. (…) I think we can all agree that the interface of this prospective future is incredible and desirable"

I guess, this single scene of a movie has distracted interface development like no other vision. However, it's just a terrible interface: Working over prolonged stretches of time, gesturing with stretched out arms, would be simply impossible, you had to memorize a complex alphabet of gestures, which made the command set of Wordstar shrink in comparison, not to speak of the visual clutter and the (perceptual) bandwith required. – Please, let's stop speaking about Minority Report in this context. (It's a nice visual effect in a movie, but nothing to aspire to in terms of real life – just as is true for most movie FX scenes.)
Well, that thing in bookmarks wasn't really that useful (if it ever was) for most of users, so I'm a bit surprised they kept support for RSS for so long. I would've not been surprised if they dropped support for it around the same time they killed e.g. Gopher-related code (Firefox 4, c. 2011).
These rants always seem to miss something important.

Not everyone thinks like you (seasoned terminal users) do. There are different kinds of intelligence. The only way to get good with a terminal is to RTFM and _play_ with it, until you're used to it and have constructed a mental model of its internal "types", their logic and composability.

Software developers are as a group highly predispositioned to construct mental models of this sort, and to learn by reading the docs. Most people aren't. Many more people are very good at building a _spatial_ model of something, and remembering how to do things by _where they are_. Animations, different screens, various OSX ui components, etc, tabs, all do this. For discovering features and learning to do new things, rather than read the manual, you explore of the environment presented to you. While working, instead of writing intermediate state to buffers somewhere (like the pushd stack) you _put_ it somewhere, and when you want to find it again you go look where you put it.

I'm personally better at this than at the software way of thinking and generally find that if things move too fast I just get stuck and have to wait for my brain to catch up. This is probably a fault but it's not going to change overnight. I'm also bad at reading manuals, or at least, I don't like to put the time in to read the manual for everything I do, and am very annoyed when an interface exposes its internal model and complexity non-uniformly, ie to do something that I can _think_ about quite simply I have to absorb and model a lot more of how it works than it feels like should be necessary. (That sentence was about git, also a favorite of these advocates. But also bash, and honestly most CLI tools.)
JSON parser is indeed a very nice feature of Firefox I wish Chrome could come up with something similar.
Being an executive at a not-for-profit organization is amazingly lucrative. Hell, being a mid-level personnel at one is pretty nice too. What you lose in salary you gain back in the form of massive bonuses.
Classical Mozilla
noted this elsewhere - but toplevel - if you are ever in downtown Seattle, feel a bit lonely (work trip?) and want to get lunch or coffee with Someone From The Internet, I am usually up for such a thing on a work day. email in profile, etc.
Not sure we're losing that much, there are many good RSS readers that provide way more features than Firefox does.
Off the top of my head: https://feedly.com, https://inoreader.com, and my own https://aktu.io (with a nice dark theme https://aktu.io?theme=dark :-))
This is roughly what I'm talking about when I bring up SSH CA short-lived credential workflows.
You assume there is a pressure to collect the data and that it has any positive effect on valuation.
This is sad. Atom is going to be one of those standards that gets uptake eventually, and Mozilla is already positioned well. It cost them nothing to keep it other than the additional maintenance complexity, while removing it upsets the admittedly small at present userbase that use the features alot (like myself). I use Live bookmarks for server status updates, commits, and a number of other things in addition to blogs.

That is easier for me than having Growl on my Mac, DBus notifications on Linux, or Windows Push Notification Service on Windows. Instead I can use one protocol, and the same app I've already installed, on each of those platforms.
As much as I love RSS (as someone that made and sold one of the first news aggregators), you're an outlier. If you asked 10 random people what RSS is, how many would have any idea what it is or how to use it?

Edit: Ok, I should reframe this. An anecdote or random sampling doesn't matter when Mozilla knows how much the feature was actually being used.
I think a simple data-display UI shouldn't be that hard to code. Every program you run has access to a terminal, which it can use to display and read text. It shouldn't be hard to extend that to displaying and reading structured data. One dream I have is to have a Desktop where each program can send an ioctl to stdout that turns it into a stripped-down browser, so it can then just dump XHTML data and have it be visualised on screen, while stdin feeds you json-serialized user input, e.g. user entered text X in input field Y, or selected file Z. It won't be useful for multimedia or anything like that, but will make building simple one-off UIs much easier.
Agile is good for managers in that it gives them a feeling of being in control.

Agile is not actually for managers, in that productivity suffers a lot, less software with real value is produced.

But software productivity is notoriously hard to measure, so it is ignored.
Why the .singles TLD?
To the point of animations looking cool the first time and then quickly getting old, Ubuntu actually has a good solution for at least the window minimizing/restoring animation. The first time you minimize a window on a fresh install, the animation plays somewhat slowly. Each time the animation plays after that, it plays slightly faster, until it becomes almost but not quite instant, so you can still see where the window went, but it doesn't waste your time now that you know what to expect.
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It's not just the presence of alternatives to driving---they also directly discourage driving with narrow roads and slow speed limits.
Note that your husband doesn't actually release any insulin. So it's not about calculating appropriate insulin injections, it's about how insulin a normally-functioning body releases in response to eating food.
I'm not sure "random people" are the target market for RSS.
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I'm replying to you as someone whose children attend coder dojo twice a week, and they both have gtx 1070s despite being 7 and 9 respectively, this is relevant as evidence that I truly believe giving my children the best leg up in our society, requires them to have a a deep understanding of computers from a young age.

Face to face is better than distance. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance requires you to physically be in the same room with someone. We are creatures who can transmit a tremendous amount of information in everything from subtle facial expression to smell. All of that goes out the window over remote work.

Nature is not better, but it is important. I spent every waking moment from the time I got a computer at 19 until I turned 40 doing nothing but learning about computers, be it networking, programming, or system administration and the devops mutation that really just encapsulates a lot of what the grey beard sys admins were already doing. It consumed my life.

I've taken time off thanks to my wife and her patience, and the boot strapped company we started. Having gone camping now on state and federal lands, there is something there that we need. I realize this is anecdata but I think the reason these fallacious ideas have such appeal is a tiny kernel of truth.

Sweaty work is not more moral, but many times for me it's been more satisfying, there is a reason I have a wood and metal working shop setup. The moment when something I programmed works is absolutely euphoric, I've woken my wife more than once with a war shout of victory at 4 am. It's ephemeral though, there is always another problem nothing is ever truly done. When I walk into my shop and see the work bench I made, it fills me with deep satisfaction. A level of satisfaction I always found missing from my work no matter how elegant or satisfying the design.

Apologies for the maudlin, meandering discourse, I'm on the ++ side of the Balmer curve today.
The board that was shipping since Oct 2016 is a drive px2 custom. Basically, a pascal gp106(gtx 1060 equiv) and a denver 2+cortex a57 cpu. I think hardware 2.5 added another parker chip. Figure $400-500 max per board.
I think maybe it's security problems have something to do with Electron.

However, I agree Slack's got a lot of issues that are just bad implementation choices.
The raw horsepower of Amd's gaming gpus are actually in the same ballpark.

It comes down to relationships with game producers, and how much they want to optimize for a particular chip.

That's why Amd's gpus in preexisting premium consoles do not want for performance.
In my childhood, it was television that should be avoided. I arguably learned more about nature by watching Lorne Greene's New Wilderness than I did in my semi-rural home town. Argumentum ad antiquitatem is a real thing.

I've heard arguments like this my whole life. Not once has it turned out to be true for me. That either means I'm an anomaly or this topic is widely subjective.
Hey! Nice to see you on HN :)

Every once in a while when I want to discover a non-fiction new book, I head to your book list. Once of the best out there IMO. Your summaries are very much on point.
That's more to do with Reddit being horrible and horribly moderated than any concrete problem with RSS, though.
> My younger daughter is reading and writing simple words a full year before Kindergarten, thanks to engaging educational apps

This is going to be harsh, but I'm in the mood:

I don't think there is a strong correlation between the age at which somebody spells his first words and later academic success.

I guess if you put in the time you can teach any reasonably smart three year old a trick or two, but wouldn't they be able to learn that more quickly at the age of 6 or 7?

One of the things that helped me a lot during my studies was the ability to mentally vizualize complex topological situations. I don't think that's a skill you get from educational apps or from being able to spell your name at 8 months.
Ditto. I buy milk from Homestead Creamery. Besides being the best milk I can find in Atlanta, they clean and reuse the bottles. You pay a $2 deposit, which you get back when you bring the bottles back to the store. Presumably they then ship them back to the creamery when they get the shipments of milk in.
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Generally you fool them into spitting raw text and carefully crafted menu summaries into a socket that speaks text at high speed.