skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite magazines from years ago. One of the first magazines that I actually treated as a book, and not because of its thickness. I used to relish spending the entire month slowly going through the magazine page by page and learning so much.
BYTE's language issues were always amazing (Smalltalk, Lisp, Modula-2). I also love Byte Magazine Volume 10 Number 13 - Computer Conferencing for an interesting set of articles on ways computer conferencing might go that never happened. I wonder about bringing back some of these ideas given the current social media landscape.
NEC Vector Engine Models
Fidelity licenses software that powers the backend of a lot of the banks. That may have something to do with it.
I was spelling basic words and reading by the time I was four. So was my mom around that age, and from talking to her I wasn't exactly exceptional, many kids did back then (this was 1990 for me, in Russia, regular people didn't have computers at all).
I will go against the grain here and say that this is good. RSS is not a core function of a web browser and as such should be handled by an extension, if at all.
Nice try. The scale of your problems will require a little more coordination than a few tramps and lazy sarcasm however
I've heard of people using Linkedin like a dating site and even achieving moderate success. I guess you can't win going against love.
Market the used ones as more valuable than new.
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Liquid courage helps of course.
I looked it up and it’s actually Finland I was taking about. Michael Moore did a good piece on it: https://youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs
False dichotomy. You can most certainly choose to live life by your own values and make friends. A lot of people respect that trait in a person enough to put aside gossip.
For some people like you, theres no mental cost associated with speaking on the phone. For the rest of us, the mental barrier is huge. Imagine the amount of mental effort required to, say, pack and move your house - the dread is on the same level. Why? I don't really know. I'm very social in person.
Build it and see how it goes. Ideas are nice to have, but of little to no value until you start to implement it to see if it is actually of value.

First step is to learn how to develop android apps.

Read all of this
developmenthttps://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/

Learn about Google Maps
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk...

Learn about integrating with facebook
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/getting-started...

While you are at it make sure you have a decent android device so you can test on hardware. Once you have put the time in to test your idea (40-100hours) you should have a pretty good idea if you want to continue with it. Just because there are ideas and apps that do this does not mean you cannot build something better or more streamlined.
He was unusually kind when he got to Savannah. He burned a lot of stuff on the way though. Not sure if any of those places were of significance.

He also destroyed some stuff in SC afterwards.
I so much hope they're not going to remove it from Thunderbird, which I'm using for consuming feeds.
Indeed if you want to access RSS through your web browser it makes sense to do so through a hosted service similar to how google groups does for usenet
Why are printer drivers still a thing in 2018 in the Windows world?

I make sure the printer supports AirPrint and "it just works" with Macs, and my IOS devices -- including my ancient circa 2010 iPad that hasn't seen an update in 7 years (yeah I got a newer iPad also).
Wow - I (male; 45 y.o.) have done virtually the same (2 days/week fast, Tue and Fri, no food intake, only drinks - mostly water, sometimes coffee, rarely some orange juice; on non-fast days ate without restriction) for one year now.

The curve looks quite similar:
https://imgur.com/a/H4pKkNv

What I find interesting is your mention of a metabolic set point. Wanted to lose a bit more weight (since I still have visceral fat), but couldn't manage to do so. It seems I hit a hard barrier - any caloric deficit during fasting days was magically compensated exactly on non-fasting days; I tried to reduce caloric intake on non-fasting days, but while fasting a whole day isn't that difficult for me, restricting calories while eating seems to only work when my body has met a magical internal quota.

It seems indeed to be a set point. The small uptick beginning of June was when I skipped a fast day once. I'm a bit scared what would happen if I stopped fasting altogether now.

Would be interesting to understand more about the set point - however, some research on the net didn't yield much substantial info. It seems it exists, but how it works exactly and how it can be moved is unclear. And even if trying to move it makes sense. Maybe the set point is ideal health-wise, and is overridden on unhealthy caloric surplus diets...?
Thanks, I delayed the release to squeeze that in :)
This is how German beer and much else works. Most beer, milk and bottled water is sold in one of about ten shapes of bottle. Four kinds for milk (two sizes two colours), one for water, three for beer, some lesser used that I've forgotten right now, and IIRC the market percentage for these things is 65% at the moment.

I'm sure someone will follow up to explain how horrible the situation is and all about those other 35%, but compared to the US or India it's pretty good.
You need to get out of there, when you have found a better position.
After Georgia he went through South Carolina with the specific goal of destroying things to punish them for being the state most responsible for the rebellion.
To the memory of the submarine commanders who fired nuclear torpedoes at Zemlya
Show HN: A mobile HTML editor that sucks less than all the others
Ask HN: Elevation Data of South Sudan
Hi HN,
I am reaching out to you all on behalf of Aqua-Africa, http://aqua-africa.net, an organisation that deploys water collection solutions across South Sudan to communities that lack access to clean water.

Elevation data is a great way for us to prepare and optimise our solutions.

I have been researching various open data possibilities and have found it difficult to find such data for sub-Saharan Africa.

There was an effort to release a global dataset of 30 meter resolution DEM, digital elevation model, back in 2014 and we are willing to work with what is available, but I thought to reach out to this community in the hopes that someone may know a better source than I: be it public, private, or academic; with better coverage, resolution, or access.

In addition to existing sources I am also interested in discussing means of collecting this data. Be it tools or companies that specialise in collection or training. We send teams onsite frequently and we would be elated to give back by providing the best possible data for this underrepresented region.

Due to the lack of available data we are very flexible and are willing to work with any filetypes, schemas, DEMs, and standards. Also, I am interested in LiDAR data sets as well as it seems these can be converted to actionable DEM.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!
It's sad that Mozilla's excuse when responding to the Pocket integration was that Pocket wouldn't affect Firefox if you you use it. Now why don't they say the same for RSS? The "new tab" page is a glorified Pocket ads right now.
Japan has the third largest GDP in the world, and the first two are continent sized superpowers; I'd be surprised if they didn't have global influence.
My first guess would be that it has "too many parameters/knobs". I guess that could implicitly mean it's hard to use/easy to mess up if you don't know what each parameter means and what different values have.
Human pathogens are also other animal pathogens.

E. coli, Shigella, Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Salmonella can all very happily live in the wilderness, infect multiple species, and can be carried by other campers and their pets.

Combine that with poor refrigeration of food, generally less hand-washing overall (due to the absence of plumbing) and the potentially more serious consequences of those infections (dehydration due to a GI pathogen is a much bigger deal two days from anywhere in the Colorado Rockies than it is curled up on your couch), it's definitely a thing.

https://www.avma.org/public/Health/Pages/Outdoor-Enthusiasts...

https://www.cdc.gov/family/camping/index.htm
The core function of a web browser shouldn't be to pretty print JSON either, yet they recently added that feature in core.

I understand getting rid of XUL legacy cruft, but removing the RSS renderer/reader entirely with no plan other than "extensions will fix it" just leaves a bad taste.
The only downside: losing your appetite for sushi outside of Japan :(
Good for them! This will make an excellent case study.
The rollercoaster is real and I somehow haven't expected it even after diligently reading HN for years. I'm afraid that if I have to go back to normal work it won't feel like life anymore and will be terribly boring
My team is about 8 people, but we work on about 15 projects, some with about 3 FTE, some take up a few hours per week of one person on average. It happens that someone works on a project on his own for months at a time. There is some shared tech between them, but also a lot of specific stuff.

I thought that was the kind of situation he meant, where people zone out because they don't work on that project, but who knows.

You shouldn't assume too much about the environment other people work in.
You are right.

Which is why they don't allow you to withdraw the profits until all contracts are settled:

> When a close-order is executed and filled, the corresponding futures position is then closed. The unrealized profits and losses will therefore, become realized. It can be used as margin of the contract, but cannot be withdrawn until the contracts are settled.
Is there a good guide or tool out there for implementing/managing SSH CAs?

I don’t really play in this space, but I have some business partners who were struggling with it.
Reading your comment, comes to mind that the case of Japan demonstrate that bond markets are not so essential after all and that "creation" of money doesn't necessarily generate inflation.
Correct. At high zooms, the trig required in the spherical math becomes inaccurate, so we fade back to simple web mercator.
You could have a key rotation process where you use the old key to install the new key and delete the old key. But it seems sketchy because if you don't rotate in time the old key expires and you're locked out. I think in practice you'll always end up with a super-duper secret, rarely used, long term key. Or have some other backdoor like root password, LDAP/Kerberos, ADFS, etc.
That title can make a good pitch for AR/VR.
What does "accessible" mean?

Screen readers sure work better on text than on GUI elements, for one.
These are perhaps the best laid out articles I've ever seen (example: https://quicksilver.primer.ai/Adrian_J._Luckman/). Not only is the typography stunning, but there's no friction between the reader and the information.
RSS always made more sense to me in a mail client than a browser. Live bookmarks were useless to me.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to combine Racket and Rust?
I am wondering whether it is a good idea to program in Racket, and use extensions in Rust.

What I am specially interested in are programs which both use very computing-intensive integer and floating point arithmetic (for example, backtracking algorithms, signal processing, and numerical optimization), and interactive / exploratory programming with easy visualization.

I am quite interested in using a combination of a Lisp and Rust in the long term for algorithm development. Here is why I think the combination of Racket and Rust might be a good idea:

* It seems easy to call into Rust functions from Racket.

* Both Racket and Rust favor a functional programming style, while allowing for local mutation of vector data where needed. Currently, I think this is essential to write high-performance numerical codes.

* If one accepts the toy programs in the computer language benchmarks game as evidence, Racket seems to allow for very compact and easy-to-read expression of algorithms. For complex numerical stuff, this is very important.

* By all accounts, Rust is speed-wise comparable to C. Racket is, according to my impression, usually about 5 - 10 times slower than C.

* Racket seems to have a good math and vector library and good support for plotting.

* Racket seems excellent for scripting: Quick start-up time and concise notation.

* It is possible to pack together everything which is needed to run a program in a single executable. That makes deployment easier.

* A gray area for me is how both language's concurrency paradigms would interact. Racket seems to rather avoid shared-memory concurrency. I think however that the paradigm used by Rust is easy to understand from the calling function's po\
int of view. I guess the match between Racket and Rust is much better than it would be with, for example, SBCL/Rust.

But my view might be too optimistic. Any experiences and thoughts to share? I'd love to learn more.
The study is looking in hospitals, where the volume of hand sanitization needs are much higher than the average setting. And where, interestingly, germs living in the sewer are causing problems - biofilms in plumbing can easily recontaminate sink surfaces.
> While Japan had what could be called slavery, it was never at an industrial scale.

The "but it wasn't industrial” is a vague and arbitrary line. Yes, the Western slave trade was massively horrific and incomparable. But in context the sentence is suggesting the Japanese don't have a deep understanding of being oppressors or oppressed, which doesn't withstand a glance at history. The burakumin, minority groups like the Ainu, Korean relations under Hideyoshi where they collected Korean ears and noses, or in WWII with the system of comfort women... Japan wasn't somehow immune to the forces that lead to oppression between groups.

More broadly the whole article seems premised on the fact that there's some prominent Western sci fi Frankenstein stories, like Terminator, and some notable anime about cyborgs.

But Japan has Frankenstein stories too. Some of the most famous sci fi out of Japan is about how science and technology is dehumanizing. And Western sci fi is obsessed with Frankenstein stories, at least partly as an accident of literary history, because Frankenstein itself just grabbed hold of the popular imagination in an era where Gothic horror was popular and scientific ideas were gaining traction.

Asimov has a few rants against Frankenstein stories, and most of the original I Robot stories are an attempt at an antidote. Worth actually reading if you want something different. He had to work really hard to make something different, suggesting the reason so many authors keep repeating the same stories about evil robots might be more just because they are lazy rather than tapping into something profound.
How about using macOS's Keychain to store keys?

On recent versions, need this in your ~/.ssh/config:

# for Keychain (acting as agent) to load the ssh keyfile
AddKeysToAgent yes
# For ssh to then use Keychain as an agent
UseKeychain yes
My company created something quite similar a few years ago. We also have a tool http://www.city-data.com/MeetingPlace/ that allows you to find an optimized meeting place for two or more people based on the chosen mode of transportation (car, bike, foot).
I think browsers should render any content type in a way that provides functionality for a user; for example, I think it would be great if when loading a JSON file, I could toggle between the raw data provided and a pretty-printed, syntax-highlighted, collapsable tree view of the JSON file. I think it would be great if when loading an MD file, I could toggle between the raw markdown and a rendered version. Certainly when I load an image or audio file outside a webpage, my browser decodes renders the content usefully.

Given these cases, why would XML files be any different?
This is almost identical to a drive-time site buffer in Esri Business Analyst (I’m a dev on that team). The next step is to create reports and infographics based on demographic data.

Screenshot: https://pasteboard.co/HxvXrzN.png
All of the statistics prove you wrong, so you demand that I produce a statistic that literally doesn’t exist?
Yeah the flights in particular need to be updated for this projection.
Biofilms and sporulation are enough of a benefit in hospital environments that I doubt it confers much of a fitness detriment, and there's no promise that even if it does, that that comes in the form of decreased virulence.
Sorry, I checked a few, and these are very much not ready to be published. Rampant copyright violation, for one.

The "articles" appear to be a snippet of text grabbed from somewhere else, and then a list of "events" which are... also grabbed from other places?
Yes, I've seen. Even more unwieldy than OpenSSL's one, and you need whole Hashicorp's thing, too.
Only if you accept a potentially unlimited number of CSV files/sheets. Many forms of data aren't really easily normalizable to a limited number of flat tables without losing information.
React Component Lifetimes Made Simple
Despite RSS' cult status among Hacker News readers, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that RSS is already dead. It's been dead. I would even go so far as to say it was dead on arrival, because the average user was never able to make any sense of it.
GDP might best be thought of as a measure of how much economy there is to be taxed. A government can effectively raise taxes by getting more people to outsource their needs.
I am always amazed to see how ridiculously huge the african continent is. There are really huge countries over there.
The post-college life is very hard this way. A very good friend of mine did not grow up on the web, is very gregarious, and still finds that connecting with people is hard, despite whereever she goes.

Some regions are worse - the PNW is notoriously bad regarding this.

My suggestion is to find a hobby - any hobby that doesn't seem gross and is within your means and personality - and take a class, then branch out regarding social groups from there.

oh yes - to you (& any other people reading this) - if you ever stop by Seattle, I'm always open for lunch downtown during the work week - and I love meeting Strangers From The Internet. We often have more in common than randos on the street. :)
Big picture I think it's truly one of the high water marks of human achievement
> and yet generation after generation learns to function.

True, each generation learns to function, but one should also be careful not to minimize the negative generation-wide effects of technology.

The most recent and current generations have learned to function with a huge available supply of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods with the consequence that record numbers of them suffer from obesity and diseases that were previously termed "adult onset" or "old age" diseases. While they have learned to function, we shouldn't deny the huge negative consequences of what technology has allowed.

There are many other examples of this (many generations "learned to function" with an overabundance of lead). We shouldn't minimize some of the negative effects of ubiquitous 2 dimensional screens just because we are used to them.
I have a friend that always used to joke that if Spotify ever failed and got sold off to private equity, they would shift to a business model where they mine for embarrassing music and behaviors and then extort people to keep quiet about it.
> just as we finally learn which funds are worth the price a new manager takes over, and new managers have a tendency to not do as well.

This seems like a testable hypothesis. If experience pays dividends, or if novices pay a penalty, you'd expect to find this to persist over time.
The regulations frequently don't help, and because people have come to rely on them, even wind up harming the situation.

That seems to be the case in this very example. TFA kicks off with "News that the Environmental Protection Agency pressured the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to suppress a study showing PFAS chemicals to be even more dangerous than previously thought".

Also look at the water problems in Flint, MI, where governmental empire building led to a lot of health problems. It's sometimes the government's own refusal to self-regulate that causes the problems.

So it's wrong to believe that corporations are necessarily the culprits, and we can count on government to save us.

Yes, we need some regulations, especially when we're talking about tragedy-of-the-commons destruction of public resources. But don't go into it with a naive idea of "corporations evil, the government will save us".
> they represented an idea that anyone can start a website and become part of the "blogosphere"

The main barrier to entry isn't the lack of RSS, it's the fact that people don't read as much anymore. It's gotten to the point where if you submit anything text-based (as opposed to photos, video, podcasts, etc.) to a lot of subreddits the moderators flag it as spam.
I agree mostly with this, I would say it's difficult for someone of any profession to try and predict how a technology would be used.
Slack's problems have zero to do with Electron.
Are we reading the same link? And the typography is irrelevant if it's going on Wikipedia.
In India Coca Cola or any cold drink 330ml bottles cost about Rs 30, & you get Rs 2 discount/cash-back if you bring the empty one back to the shop
One of the most influential magazines from the early days of personal computing.
It has a time space difficulty curve that's more complex, but some people like that. I will stipulate scrypt is "better" if I don't have to argue about it. :)
A few German ISPs/internet companies made noise about keeping traffic locally during the Snowden leaks, some were slightly miffed when others pointed out that it would already be the case if they played ball and freely peered with everyone at the German IXPs. (Although with the biggest one of those being monitored by German intelligence agencies with whatever filtering rules the NSA gave them fairly pointless too)
That's true, but when it comes to hospitals, you want to try and minimize all bacteria. Your skin may be a very protective organ, however if you get those same bacteria in a wound, it could lead to dangerous infection.
But then you'd need people to listen to some slack channel, and be distracted continuously throughout the day. That's worse.
Probably because sexism and racism are very charged words.

It's kind like calling someone who hugs girls in greeting a casual molester.
Why are you uncomfortable with Spotify now?
For folks on Windows that would like to try it out without messing with your main profile or using a clean profile, Google Chrome Portable Beta has been updated to 69.0.3497.23 as well: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google-chrome-portabl...
It's obvious from the outside, isn't it. Hindsight is everything.

But the reality is is that Slack is an application made by a real company by real people/developers who all faced real constraints. Go build Slack for yourself, through the same history they have, and lets see what we come out with.