skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Builtin gaze tracking could be very good for interaction. Hololens's closest thing to a "cursor" requires you to point your entire head at an object to select it, and it feels very, very clunky.
We're working on suitable replacements for these services. In some cases, e.g., Cloud Tasks, we're pretty close. Others will take a little longer. We'll share updates as we make more of these services available.
Wouldn't every single futuristic sci fi movie with a car in it qualify as preexisting art?
The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent
A quantum computing startup tries to live up to the hype
How to Build RESTful API for Your Mobile App?
> Question: If what makes AMP fast is the restrictions on size, JS, and CSS, and you know this and want to conform to this, why do you need to use AMP? Why not just develop your site like this anyways?

I think aside from the icon and the special treatment mentioned above, don't AMP pages get served directly from google and get preloaded on the search results page? So that's the other benefit, I guess. Whether a few less milliseconds from preloading on an already fast page really buys anything is another question.
> I struggle to see how using Dart would be at all different from how you would architect an app in Java.

It's not really an architectural difference, I'd agree (outside of isolates vs. threads): Dart is mostly about ergonomics compared to other class-based OO languages. Unification of class, interface, and mixin; method cascades for “free” fluent interfaces; the syntactic support for sync and async generators along with async/await, really transparent (binary, not just source-level like C#) getters and setters; named and factory constructors; the whole deep consideration of const-ness, etc., are all ergonomic features, not major changes in architecture / paradigm.
My point is more that years ago you could thing "I'll make a windows utility to solve this problem" and you could probably charge for it. Now there will be an open source thing that is pretty good quality that will do it for free. You can still sell your solution but that's really a marketing exercise, finding people who don't know about the free solution (or want support) but the code itself isn't worth much. The music analogy would be you might pay $10 to see a local band live if they advertised well, but there is probably a lot of hustle in that, but you might not go around paying $10 for music cds anymore. Not with spotify, youtube, etc.
Mozilla is in a tough place. They build a product for an ecosystem where invasive tracking and surveillance are required to make decent money, and they have to monetize that product or die, all while presenting themselves as a benevolent non-profit that cares about privacy and keeping the web healthy.
This new post is about the newly released GLB Director. The title should be changed.
Ramnit contributes in creating a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet
My Journey into the World of Crypto Faucets and Why I Finally Turned Off the Tap
I certainly don't think current music is garbage. But I do think innovation has slowed.

If you compare music from 1960, 1980, 2000, and now (almost 2020) you'll notice that the 60's to 80's to 00's were incredibly different. Like, they clearly come from distinct eras.

While there is still innovation, there aren't dramatic changes happening as often in the past two decades. There are many popular songs today that could have been popular in 00's and vice versa.

Some rap seems to still be innovating, but rock, pop, and a lot of electronic music seems to be stuck in a rut.
Red is only alarming because people associate it with blood. People who've never seen ATF sometimes confuse it for blood. I'm surprised none of the cops figured out it wasn't blood when it didn't congeal.
We experience this and it is pretty strange. We had a child by choice at 24. Got pregnant first try, the first month after our wedding. Both finished our levels of education on time or early. We live near our parents (in a rich coastal city) though, unlike those who move elsewhere. We're not religious, more coastal liberal.

Our "peers" tend to be in their early to mid thirties, at a similar stage of growing their family. Our age peers are either 1. Generally on a good path, living in a nice place, full time with benefits, finished a degree or 2. Having kids, have no money, didn't finish any school, live at home or in a really cheap / sketchy area.

The dichotomy is very pronounced. The people our age who are in the "success" bucket seem confused about choosing to have kids, so we hang out with people like that but who are ten years older. This is pretty weird, and we can't really form close friendships (or haven't figured out how to yet).

The people in our age bracket with kids seem to have experienced their entire 20s more or less by accident, and it is hard to find things to talk about. Mostly they seem to struggle with money, with their relationships, with their jobs and have very different priorities.
Why hacker news hate elon so much?
The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952 [pdf]
Show HN: Eminently – Headhunters: manage, track, and get paid for your referrals
If there was a good AR app for managing medium businesses, this product could catch on quickly. The businesses could increase efficiency of their workers at very reasonable price.

I can think of good applications for this technology for example in shipyard inspection, factory management, city utilities workers, police, even farming operations.
AMP is a terrible product and an abuse of market position, but the ego behind it means nobody cares what users think, and it will be touted as a success on someone's performance review no matter what.
Wow. I have read a lot of Jerry's books in the last couple years, and have taken away a tremendous amount of value.
From my limited experience, I have the impression that in Britain, the children of South Asian and West Indian immigrants have quite commonly taken on the accents of their home towns and regions.
This is quite neat! Memristors are still pretty hard to control, so the idea here is to use a few and some intelligence in controlling them. The claim that ". The work
presents a significant step towards the realization of large-scale and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing systems" seems pretty reasonable.

For those curious, I make a slide deck about the concept of memristors back when I interned with one of the profs on this paper: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13h7D-QlO4JsES-BUgHgd...
Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
Google creates an environment where you "need to use AMP" because they prioritize search results for properties that have AMP varietals - placing them in the "carousel" on top of search results. You can build a very performant static site, with terrific SEO and social share meta tags, etc. - but without AMP - and still be positioned below another property who's "regular" site is slow and full of cruft but has an AMP varietal.
The booming business of luxury chicken diapers
You don't think Clinton was playing the same game as Nixon in '94? He already had one group of voters in the bag; he was reaching out to another group so he wouldn't get Dukakissed in '96. If he had known he'd be facing a lump like Dole, he might not have bothered...
I used to ride on the crypto hype train. Made quite a bit of money from btc. However, it is too risky of an investment. Most people that push crypto sound like pyramid scheme people.

At a party dude was telling everyone to invest in btc because it is the future, and it was $14k at the time. I explained that it is very risky and volatile and dude would just ignore whatever I was saying, even though I mined many cryptos, bought btc for 1 penny and had a better understanding of tech than him. 3-4 months later crypto was back to $6k and he never mentions it again with me around lol.

The point is many crypto businesses screwed people over (MtGox). Many people lost fortunes from private wallets due to malware, forgetting pw.

If I pay with a credit card I have level of protection. When I put my money in a bank the money is insured. Crypto is simply too risky as a way of storing money and trading.
Show HN: Reactive, visual app development for the Excel crowd
I've been using duckduckgo exclusively for a year now on all my devices and I'm loving it.

The whole point of a search engine is to give you what you're looking for, and ddg delivers. If I ever need to Google something, I'll use !g query. You can make it look really nice also by changing it from the Default theme to Basic.
> There's a reason JS has spread so far

The large number of people who had to know it because of its status as the only reliably-available cross-browser web client language, and the focus engines got because of its web client role, mostly.
Daniel,

It's hard to justify $100 for 100 searches when hunter.io gives you 100 for free.

Also, I can't really get it to work...
Thanks I'll check it out. First glance looks promising.
This is pretty common for Objective-C, I believe.
Very cool and congrats on the launch. I see your demo is on android, are you doing anything with iOS / CoreML? I put up a similar project for OTA updates on iOS using CoreML to hot swap out device side models https://github.com/rkirkendall/MLEdgeDeploy
Why are Laserlike's ad targeting algorithms better than Facebook? The alternative to Facebook is not a smaller younger Facebook, it's open protocols.

If you want to send all your browser history into a black box and get recomendations on what to read use Chrome.
Eminently is the first platform for headhunters and businessmen that helps you manage your job and business referrals, track it, and get paid when a deal is made. In fact, you surely have introduced people for job or business opportunities, but how often were you kept informed, paid, or rewarded for it? Also, Eminently records digital proofs on a BitcoinCash blockchain to value your contribution to the network in the future. Check it out while it's hot!
Trilobites: Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive?
I think they meant "high-quality cherry-switched keyboard," referring to the quality of the keyboard, not the switches.

Regardless, Cherry switches are absolutely high quality - they are manufactured out of premium materials to tight specifications.

You may not prefer their feel for your purposes, but as others have said, that's a different story.
You'll be happy to know that I've been using DDG for a couple of years now and have no idea what this thread is about.
I'm trying to do similar thing - but I rather group boring stuff and do it in between, but that doesn't seem to be working very well for me. Maybe I should do it in similar fashion to what you do, will check that :D
I always avoid AMP pages but we are a tiny minority. Most people I know like AMP pages because they are fast.
> Before, if someone signed you, you were pretty much guaranteed some form of success

Well, an advance and a good time, but most ended up not recouping [1].

[1] https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
A serious % of btc is near pure cult. So much time and energy wasted for the prospect of quicksilver it's insane.
Exercise.

You don't have to run marathons.
Start with 30 min walks every morning. (Outside helps).
Work your way up to moderate exercise that gets your heart rate up.

It's amazing the difference it will make.
You said "no one else makes" them...
The speed of animations is not important.

The latency they produce is.

If you had a 10ms animation that blocks UI, that would be annoying.

If you had a 10 second animation that doesn't block UI, that would probably be fine.

Even if an animation feels like it blocks UI, that is a problem.
Q: Did Google create - and promote from their dominant position - AMP for anyone but their own interests?

A: No. Why would you be so naive to think otherwise?
Unfortunately, many parts of the constitution, including this one, have been re-interpreted into near irrelevance by courts. Excessive bail = bail larger than that which is typically required which means that that whatever bail is typically required is by definition not excessive. A more reasonable interpretation would be any bail larger than the amount necessary to achieve the purpose that bail is supposed to serve, which experiments by places like DC have shown for many cases to be any bail larger than zero.
> Congress pushed the banks into doing them in the early 2000s to extend credit to marginalized populations!

...but didn't push banks to lever the loans 10x, securitize, sell and repeat over and over again. Fault for those days lied in a lot of places, and sub-prime mortgages aren't inherently a bad thing.
There are some policies that have lots of unintended consequences. But increased capital requirements is a pretty simple one that we understand. We knew there'd be less lending. That was kind of the point of increased capital requirements.
It is; that's my point. As mattkrause notes below, that number is for mice with human tumor xenografts. You have to harvest a human patient's tumor, blend it up, and inject it into immunocompromised mice. If you buy them from the vendor who has to buy their tumors, pay their labor, and make a profit, they're not cheap. If you have ready access to clinical tumors and cheap labor, the price drops precipitously to ~$70.

By the way, you can poke around some of the animal vendor's sites. They mostly have their pricing on their websites along with a bunch of other information. Four really big ones are Taconic, Jackson Labs, Envigo, and Charles River.
Or VRRP with the open source keepalived, which has been around for a decade+ and works wonderfully on Linux.
How I Am Productive by Peter Hurford
Thanks for the response. I think by your phrasing that this experiment is not testing revenue generation you are also saying there is no revenue relation at all, correct? (well, maybe for Laserlike, heh) Disclosure of monetization of data in any form IMO should be a requirement, so I hope that its lack of disclosure means it is not occurring.

While I agree in general that alternative web traversal techniques could be explored, I am not sure I want my browser vendor + third party doing it. I understand the places we put in our address bar may have restrictive rules, and it's why I don't enter those places into my address bar. In good faith, if this experiment is deemed successful enough to improve/continue, I would ask that the role that Laserlike plays be pluggable with an open protocol. I would also ask that if it's adopted more mainstream that it always remain opt-in.

I know that it sometimes seems unfair to ask for all these freedom-respecting things while the other guys get away with so much. But what seems like a double standard is what endears trust.
> At this time, the original App Engine-only APIs are not available in Second Generation runtimes, including Python 3.7.

This means that if you already have a significant app running on Appengine Standard, none of the built-in APIs are supported (memcache, images, search, task queues, email, etc). That's a significant blocker to anyone wanting to upgrade their existing Standard 2.7 app to 3.7.
Pocket is cross-platform whereas Firefox Sync is not. You can still install Pocket for Chrome, etc.
Reading the analysis of unintended side-effects reminds me of programming, and contemplating how my system might fail.
Twilio stock soars to all-time high after posting earlier than expected profit
Then again, that's what was said about Dropbox - Google was about to eat their lunch any day now. Yet they're still around and still growing quite a lot.
One knows oneself by one’s deeds
It doesn't discourage loans. Fast growing small companies are one of the only constituents who can justify higher interest rates. Now giant companies and individuals going on vacation get cheap credit but small businesses mostly can't get any.
Even better: You can use a Group Policy (Windows) or drop a JSON file in the right place (all platforms) and you're done. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
That, or they will make their quotas this year and this is the best way to keep the money in tesla/musk's control.
Although that is conceptually sound, how far can we go when we suggest the Internet invented dissent? The biggest social changes in modern times happened before the Internet.
I'm not sure how https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/a-dream-c... is a positive piece on veganism....

Cool idea! Best of luck working on fine tuning it.
>> why this opinion isn't worth a lot without strong evidence

> Do you really need strong evidence for something that you can quickly and easily try yourself at home? If I suggest an improvement to your bike riding technique you want a scholarly study or you'll just give it a go?

I'm not saying you lack evidence for "try timing a few things", I'm saying you lack evidence for "Goal oriented people actually tend to be better organized and get more things done"
>I'm talking about Google efforts in general at the time.

Ok, but just to be clear, at no point did Google actually try to replace JavaScript with Java.

>You can see it in GWT

Oh come on. GWT was transpilation tool with a built-in component framework. It solved a real problem for specific use-cases and was primarily adopted by enterprise developers. It was never a replacement for JavaScript.

>and you can REALLY see it in the articles and efforts of Google at the time where person after person laboriously tried to make JS _behave_ like Java

Can you provide an example of this? I have no idea what you're referring to.

>The late 90s and early aughts were a battle between those that wanted to recreate Classical OOP in JS and those that wanted JS to be what it has ended up being.

And Google was a non-factor in the development of the web technologies and standards in the late 90s and early 00s (Chrome wasn't released until 2008. Ajaxy Gmail was released in 2004). Also, nobody gave a crap about JavaScript in the 90s and early 00s (Crockford's JS:The Good Parts wasn't released until 2008). Maybe you're thinking of the development of ActionScript 3.0 which had OO constructs and was supposed to be a replacement for JavaScript before (I believe) Microsoft balked and left Adobe hanging. Which is a shame because AS3 is also superior to ECMAScript 5 and world would have been better with AS3 in the browser (and don't get me wrong, AS3 is very quirky language).

But regardless, the whole "Google is trying to replace JavaScript with Java" was pure paranoia not grounded in fact.

> the issue (generally) isn't static typing but instead the cost/benefit involved

You can build in optional typing if you really want to (AS3 had that). Having said that, I cannot see what time you lose by enforcing type constraints. And dynamic languages are not faster or more productive. At best it's a no-op. At worst you're dealing with runtime errors which are 100x painful and costly than dealing with a compile-time error.

>There's a reason JS has spread so far

It's the lingua franca of the web because it's the only language supported by major browsers. That's why it spread so far, not because it is a great language. In fact, the plethora of transpilation tools should give you a clue how shitty this language is.
It's the most user-hostile thing Google has yet done, and I'm including things like Google Wave, the death of Google Reader, and things like removing "view image" from image search results. I loathe getting AMP results. It's always a struggle to get to the real site.
From the OP:

"There’s nothing that magical about it. A big part of its performance boost is simply its standards: no javascript, all inline CSS, and CSS can only measure 50KB or less. You’re going to make any page load faster with those requirements."

Gee, for my startup, that's the way I wrote my Web pages from the beginning! Microsoft's ASP.NET wrote a little, simple JavaScript for me, but for using my Web pages that JavaScript is optional.
Probably won't see much speedup with one VIP? b^)
Building a Linux Workstation in Cloud
[ie, up front]
Make a dice simulator in 5 lines of Python
i think your concern about unintended side-effects is very valid, but i disagree with your conclusion.

in most cases, we need more innovative approaches to policy development rather than defaulting to a market as the only alternative.

as an example off the top of my head: using a faster, instrumented, and iterative approach to policy design, as startups are encouraged to do. or, cultivate new methods for finding better, more effective policies quickly (like design sprints, for example).
"I think this is a good thing. Only the strongest content will push through."

Not necessarily. I think my content is good, but if few to no people hear it, much less pay me for it, I don't have much incentive to continue making it. Or if I make it, I rarely bother to release it anymore. I just make it for myself, and no one hears it but me. It's just not worth my time to go to all the trouble of editing and mixing it, releasing it, making cover art, thinking of titles, uploading it, and maybe trying to get listeners for it if almost no one will ever hear it.

I think a lot of other musicians are in the same boat. We can't afford to make music for a living, so have to do it as a hobby, and if we struggle to get listeners even the hobby might not be rewarding enough to pursue in the long run.

Lots of good content can get buried in the avalanche of trash. It might eventually get "discovered", but that's far from certain. It might not happen in the artist's lifetime or at all.

There's still a lot of room for improvement in the field of content discovery.
Yeah, I understand why they would write a clone, but "clean-room" has a specific meaning[1], and it's not clear why you would want or need that extra effort here.

Of course, I could just be misunderstanding, and they could be using "clean-room" as a synonym for "from scratch", rather than the meaning I linked to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
It's not. They're just using the term as a synonym for "rewrite". There's no documentation of any actual IP isolation in the linked article. They just want people to know it's new and not based on the existing LLVM or Linux runtimes.
> my most favored document interchange format, provided that edibility is not a prime desire.

Come on, Baader-Meinhof! I literally just seconds ago learned the term "faulty diction", and then you throw in my face an editability/edibility mixup.
https://zealpc.net/products/zilents
Personally, I dislike AMP with a vengeance - I refuse to click any AMP search result or link - so I'm glad to see people quantitatively assessing the benefits for their site (or lack thereof) and moving away from it. Now if only we could encourage web developers to still adhere to the better parts of the protocol, the mobile web might become a better place.
Embrace the Dark Side of API Gateways: Traffic Shadowing and Dark Launching
Perhaps I should revise my statement. It isn't magit itself that's slow, but rather magit is calling out to slow git commands. And while those git commands are taking up 100% of my CPU, Emacs itself is using 0% CPU and totally unresponsive.

Just a few moments ago I had to kill Emacs because magit was executing this command:

git branch --remote --contains 10a1663bf96f
A hand gesture could be your next password
Unfortunately it is not an option on some cloud providers, because you don't get true layer 2.
Works well when the labeled person writes thoughtful comments.