skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar thought process (but luckily without spending time implementing something). I want to write a game. I thought, "None of the current languages works quite the way I want. I know! I'll write a language specifically for my game and just keep implementing the bits I need".

Then I thought, "Wait. If I do that, I'll spend 90% of my time writing a language and 10% of my time writing a game".

So I was saved. Except I still haven't even started writing the game, so I suppose it's completely moot :-D
I only ever played 2-player super bomberman on the SNES, but it was once of the most fun games I've ever played. Now I've gotta make this possible for / with my kids!
You might like RedShift instead of f.lux on Linux.
Millions of White Women are subject to prison and expensive fines
Hacking the May 2016 Philippine Elections
Not necessarily, because 1000 miles of a transmission line is a lot of metal, land, construction, and electricity losses.

Unfortunately, a power station at 100-200 miles above Earth, where sunshine is eternal, and which is relatively accessible, will not stay above the same spot, and GEO is way high (22k miles) and thus even more expensive to build at (and already pretty crowded nevertheless).
False Prognastisisms of Climate Alarm
> What I don’t understand is why people are excited about the new features of JavaScript.

They're excited because new features are useful to lots of people.
One problem with this idea is that storage keeps getting cheaper, so a plan like yours that could be a good investment for present storage costs probably wouldn't make sense in a few years, and all that capital investment you hoped would be paid off over ten or twenty years would be lost.
#engineering
In a lot of ways, publishing open source code is writing. I write flushed out README docs all the time, and that's on top of work put into writing readable apps with tests & comments. I don't write super fancy blog posts often at all.
Yea but you can't develop for iOS using Kotlin. That's a big advantage for React Native/Electron/Flutter and JS world as a whole.
Fyi... for that expression you'd want to use 'dike,' not its homophone.
I really like the idea of a tie within a margin of error.

I didn't know that Gore asked for recounts in specific counties while observers thought a state wide recount would have helped him as well. What a blunder...
In some countries what you read may be sensitive info for many people.
I’d like to extend your point about the first meeting being free. I have a long standing principle I borrowed from lawyers. The first consultation is free. I try to keep it to an hour, but I don’t hold clients to that time limit, if it takes half a day to wrap my head round a project, that’s what it takes and it’s still just one consultation and it’s free. I’m not about to charge you to find out that I’m the wrong guy for you, or that you’re the wrong place for me.

It’s always worked well. So well in fact that I’m pretty sure I’ve beaten out less expensive people by virtue of being first through the door, signing paperwork and seeing source code... because I’m “free”.

It might not work for everyone. But it’s working for me.
There is, atleast built into chrome (not sure about other browsers).

On Android:
Settings > site settings > media > autoplay > toggle blocked.

Desktop browser option too.

https://9to5google.com/2018/02/15/how-to-disable-autoplay-vi...
IMO it's just a PR ploy to prop up the price.

1. How is Tesla going to raise capital if not through the public markets? Would a PE firm lend them money at better rates (unlikely, with interest rates going up)? They could've gone to Warren Buffett for another convertible-bond deal but Musk just had to get into a pissing match with Buffett.

2. Only Musk can sell a story about how $TSLA going private is good for employees' stock options. It's the other way around; Tesla is losing employees and the only way to get them to stay is to lock them in with an inflated valuation. Ask anyone who has worked during the Dotcom bust.

3. Using an after market hours price of $380, $420/share would be a premium of 10.5%, or a market cap of about $72B. In the meantime the company is still not profitable. And that Saudi sovereign fund investment is just a hedge against oil prices, since Musk has said he will not give up his holdings nor resign if the firm were to go private. His ego wouldn't allow him to do so, either.
arent those set by your admin/team?
It’s been a bizarrely good talking point with dates who make it back to my place, too.
The green fantasy of renewables + nuclear doesn't work with the current generation of nuclear power plants. US nuclear plants either run at 100% power, or they are shutdown for refueling. That's pretty much the only way they are economical.
The overall article and conclusion is correct but the title is overly simplistic. You can use local storage just fine for the right reasons.
Don't forget Clojurescript which heavily influenced the development of React. Clojure is unique in the landscape of modern programming languages.
I wonder if Rust could become used as a standard library for other languages in the future. It seems well fitted for this role due to it's safety, relatively easy ffi, and speed next to languages with similarly large standard libraries.
This is an excellent piece. I often wonder about adversarial security issues in large scale OSS projects like Linux kernels. You don't even need to hack commit access to repo. One can intentionally wrap malicious code out in plain sight in an otherwise what would appear as benign change (thanks to undefined behaviour in C/C++). What if a black hat hacker climbs up in Linux contributors hierarchy? What if a person who is already higher up in OSS hierarchy decide to defect and plant a logic bomb? Given that Linux kernel now runs majority of our world from servers in data center to mobile phones in our pockets and hospitals to war machines, security issues like this is a huge deal.
"It's like marriage, but without the sex" - I don't recall who said it. It's true - you get a lot of the stresses similar to a marriage, but there isn't too much fun unless things are going great.
I've got one too. X5650s on ebay are about $20 for 2, 16gb of ram was $15, and you can flash it to a 2,1 easily and take it up to El Capitan.
Very exciting, I love Lisps. Here's the tutorial for anyone else looking:

https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/doc/guide.md
I'm also running it on a VM because I had spare capacity on an existing VM host, so it was essentially a no-cost addition.

Also Pi-Hole has been great. I'm reminded of how effective it is every time I load up web pages on mobile or at work, or anywhere else that doesn't filter out the large percentage of the Internet that I didn't ask to see.
Any good book recommendations that could shed light on the mechanics/economics/incentives of the power industry and how it came to be?
ĐH Tài nguyên và Môi trường Hà Nội công bố điểm chuẩn năm 2018
I guess. But then you have to ask why IED's are apparently only used in certain war zones? Many technically possible attacks seem not to happen all that often.
Without reading the parens, I first thought this was a story about how owning electric car wasn’t working out.
I'm based in Austin, am an individual contributor, and I bill out at $300 / hour (and have been for more than a year). I work anywhere from 20-25 hours per week. I'm quoting new inbound at $350-400 / hour and work has no signs of slowing down.
>Anyone remember Killdozer?

Go over to ar-15.com or some prepper forums and everyone will know exactly who you're talking about, here probably not so much. This crowd doesn't tend to idolize that kind of thing.
Amazon managed to not chase them for some time while being public.
I don't think this practice is shady in any way or manipulative like what Facebook has done in several instances. They used some techniques to raise curiosity and get some engagement. That's just Marketing 101, with the execution method being different for this target.

Also, so much fluff to get to the point? Buzzfeed, these articles could be much better reads with some editing to cut down the length, avoiding repeating points a few times and getting to the crux of the matter quickly.
The book by Barenblatt on dimensional analysis is pretty awesome too.
You probably don’t need a charging station. Teslas can charge from a wall outlet, for example.
I hit a similar roadblock for a long time, always spending time writing low level graphics utilities (which I do rather enjoy) but never getting around to writing a game.

If you find yourself in a similar situation and want to get around it I would suggest trying unity, which I was hesitant to do since:

1. It felt like giving up and cheating, and

2. I don't like how unity interfaces with the developer, since I mostly wanted to implement games without using the world editor that seems to be the focus of unity.

But I've enjoyed using it so far and would suggest giving it a shot.
When residential and small commercial customers can participate in the spot markets, this will happen.
I think there are a few issues at hand when it comes to streaming services.

1. choice paralysis. There are simply too many options provided to you. One of the reasons I like watching TV over streaming is that whatever on is on. I don't have to "choose" a specific show, just a channel that will play things I generally like.

2. We've seen most of the content we want to see. There is plenty of great stuff on Netflix, but I have watched everything I am familiar with. The Office is great, and I watch it all the time. But I have seen that entire series at least 30 times. I'll flip through Netflix for about 20 minutes just to end up putting on the Office.

3. Content wasn't good before, and it's not great now. If you go watch cable, even with HBO/Starz/Sho during the day it's just movies that have been in theaters. Later in the day they might play their shows like Shameless, GoT, etc. But a bulk of the day is just the same "new" movie on repeat for a month. Netflix has all the same movies for the most part. You watch the movie once, and you're done. Every channel has more bad shows than good ones. Netflix has plenty of great original content, and plenty of bad content. So, it's just the same thing, we just get bored of it because it's on demand and we can have that bad content whenever we want, and we burn out the good content because it's on repeat for a while.

So, I agree. I don't think content is any better or worse than what we got before streaming. Instead we just get a lot more of it, with a wide range of quality, and we can choose when and how often we watch it. So content simply doesn't last us as long as it used to.
Panasonic and Matsushita are different names for the same company. Panasonic also makes Toyota’s batteries
Contractor, paid per interview. Yes -- as far as I know, basically all of our remote interviewers are doing either contract software development or working on their own projects / startups in addition to doing interviews for us.
> What consumers want is to select and pay for what they want.

iTunes offers that to an extent. You can buy or rent individual movies. If you only rent movies occasionally then it's a cheaper option than a subscription service.
Great. What if someone parks in your spot?
Everyone would do that.
Both parties have their problems, but you are being simple minded to think there is no difference between the parties.
Thanks. I'd really like to blame autocorrect here ... yeesh
All we need for it to start winning is one great proaudio app (like Ableton) and one great provideo suite (like Adobe). Once we get some high spenders running hardware with Linux, that money will transform competition and make Macs better too.
Thanks for checking.
> No, not going to stop blaming the guilty, including the Russians.

Sure, but you're blaming the drop in the bucket.
What happens when the pilots come to depend on the vaporware and are no longer skilled enough to land in their own? Or when they run the avoidable risk of colliding with drones as opposed to a flock of geese?
And the result is Gab. A site full of people who were banned from Twitter. About half of the "popular" tab is ranting about how the Holocaust never happened, diversity is a weakness, and (((they're))) going to kill all the white people soon. The other half is about how awful Twitter is to ban people. The now-defunct Talk.Tor, and 4chan's /pol/, are the same way.

Most of the users that Twitter and Facebook deletes are actually people (or spambots, but even Gab blocks those) who ought to be deleted, so any service that's primarily filled with expats from them gets filled with slightly-oblique calls to violence and general quackery.

So when a poor user who isn't a skinhead gets banned because someone who happens to have the admin bit has a personal beef with them, they're supposed to switch to Gab? That's not an okay alternative.
Saudi Arabian group apologizes for posting image appearing to threaten Canada
The Walt Disney Company Reports Third Quarter Earnings for Fiscal 2018 [pdf]
Agreed. Computerising enterprises like this is a way to make them more efficient, but the inefficiency of paper ballot voting is a feature - it means that rigging the vote is equally inefficient.
FWIW Personally I just use the DNS RFC2136 plugin for certbot. I use bind for DNS.
I think under the hood Windows is ahead of macOS. But simple user facing stuff like NSDocument just doesn't exist. Meaning most programs don't return to their state when you reboot, which makes installing updates such a chore since your work is really cut. I had to Google to find the thrash can. Systray icons are not completely killed but very minimized, replaced by nothing. Always alerts and flags that give you a vague sense of something being wrong with your system. Never a clear idea where to find settings. It was already a mess in older versions of Windows like 7, being less crappy than Windows 8 in that sense for me is not really any kind of achievement.

I mean I can work with it, no problem. Especially if you pay me to use it. But the user exists to support the system, not the other way around.
Death threats to people whose children were murdered, so bad that they had to leave their home? Men with guns showing up at pizza parlors where people were trying to eat dinner? Does any of this ring a bell?
Ooh ooh I love building lists of dissenters! That's like crack and baseball and baseball on crack rolled into one!

Shall we get started? First: anyone that seriously advocates we the people build a list of dissenters among our own citizenry. Second: anyone that wants to gut core provisions of the Bill of Rights and US Constitution.

That's about it. We don't really need to go any further. So, ready to sign yourself up for that list? I think it is such a fantastic idea that you really can't allow this opportunity to go to waste, and well, you know, you'll go down in history! That's even better than 15 minutes of fame on TV!
It might help but like most businesses don't have phd level problems. It's mostly application of tested algos.
It's funny, in a way, this is what we all wanted. We eventually started to reject cable TV and cut cords in droves because we decided we didn't want to pay for unwanted bundled content.
One reason I am very dubious about the various alternatives to batteries that so many people are proposing is that there are lots of very smart people with lots of money behind them who are working on the storage problem, and a good alternative would be worth many tens of billions of dollars. If there was a good alternative, we would be seeing it adopted on a huge scale. My conclusion is the only workable solution is batteries, either lithium-ion or flow.
Wonder what the legality of this will be for the Win7/8 users upgraded to Win 10 without their consent?

Hopefully the EU has a very, very, strong negative opinion on this. :)
Night rates are a thing in some countries. I'm not sure it's implemented anywhere in the US, though.
Pretty much how I see it. I'm happy to pay if you make it easy for me to get what I want.

I reckon that all the streaming services should agree on a standard for distribution via their API's so that third parties can write better front ends that can connect to and search all of the services you are subscribed to.

So I would:
- Subscribe to Netflix
- Subscribe to Disney
- Install my streaming frontend of choice
- Connect both services either using an API key or PIN or SSO, etc

Now I can give them my money every month and have one interface to access all the services.

Sure, they may want to offer different features to differentiate their brand but that can be accounted for to some degree in the agreed standard.

Or something. I dunno what's going to fix this miss.
There's no way today's software can be scaled in terms of performance in the face of the "end of Moore's law", with a mere recompile. Today's software will be displaced by tomorrow's software. Of course I am talking fairly long term here. But I believe all major players are making very definite moves in this direction.

Major hardware companies have to have fairly long roadmaps, because they have so much inertia. And they have to reveal what they are up to, to their investors. I certainly don't believe these roadmaps reveal another couple of decades of die shrinks and IPC gains. They reveal a real shift of strategy, across the board. Consumers simply won't be able to afford the "CPUs" of the future.
This site is total trash, harmful lies and distortions.
Yeah the comparison between Facebook/Youtube and power companies is painfully broken. If a power company won't sell to me there's no (practical) way to power my own home where Jones can peddle his lunacy all he want on his own site or one of the hundreds of other hosting opportunities. People have to be oh so slightly more active in seeking out his content now.
> Torrents are dead, they said.

Well....guess what, they're very much alive again. As a European I don't have access to Hulu, HBO etc. The Netflix catalogue range here is still a fraction of Netflix US. I doubt we'll see Disney for years to come, if at all.

So I'm back to the torrents again, despite wanting to pay for content. Maybe I sound like an entitled brat (I'm kinda not at 51), but I have the money burning in my pocket to pay for content (one-off rentals - I'm fine with that) and the studios still just don't seem to get it.
LEDBAT – Latency Optimized Background Transport
We just finished a shiny new blogpost with the announcement. It's full of graphs, videos, Try it yourself guides and other fun stuff.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2018/07/25/ledbat/

enjoy ;)
Looks awesome, I can't wait to check it out.
Even for RO the big expenses are running the pumps and fouling of the membrane, caused by high concentration of salt due to the high pressure used. If you weren't worried about throughput they last a very long time. You could use cheap electricity to pump water to a reservoir and use gravity as the pump for cheap RO. It isn't any different from any other source of off grid storage.
Why is he being censored, do you think?

Is it just a PR issue?
I live in Austin too but here no one agrees to pay me more that $40/hour and thats why i am considering moving to Bay Area. What kind/field of work do you do sir?
Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge – a technical analysis
You might want to spell out your acronyms on first use. I'm having to guess at what you're talking about.
That the CEOs' censorship does not work perfectly does not mean it does not exist.

> Since being a Nazi is not a legally protected category they’re free to not help Nazis.

What currently is legal is obviously irrelevant when the question is what should be legal.
>I understand storing the energy in batteries is currently very expensive economically and materially

From what I understand, they recently have gotten cheap enough that they are starting to be adopted on a large scale.

And one advantage they have over many alternatives is they can respond instantly, so they can be used to deal with the momentary shifts in the supply-demand balance that all electric utilities experience on a daily basis. As a result they save a lot more money than just dealing with the daily cycle.
way to go guys... I was just beginning to think that piracy was almost irrelevant now...
Some of the more well known ones are Final Fantasy, A Link to the Past, and Pokemon.

Here is a comprehensive list of games that currently have randomizers written for them.

Full disclosure, I've written two of the Kirby randomizers ;)
I really do believe that Netflix has some hard times ahead. Disney has been slowly but surely getting all of its ducks in a row, and with the Fox buyout, it seems like it's set to setup a very compelling streaming service — to the detriment of competitors.

Disney will own 39% of the theatrical marketshare once the fox acquisition closes [1]. They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so.

The problem for Netflix is that they'll effectively be middlemen unless they start competing like their competitors do: A vertically integrated media business where they own and distribute their own content. Yes, they've been pouring billions into their library, but it looks like it could be too little too late, much of it is too low quality, imho.

[1] https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/disney-fox-deal-antit...
Did you skid from beastly leg power or from braking or cornering though...
Running a node on a phone sounds like a horrible idea. Why would this be desirable?

This is a solved problem and I never understand why people keep going back to it. Host a node or use a public node. Use a local wallet to do signing and depend on the public node for RPC calls. The vast majority of users and clients do not need to be dealing with Ethereum nodes on their own devices, they just need good key management systems.
A lot of those words are from the commenter, not sure where they pulled it from. The article says:

> Actions take advantage of machine learning to surface your app to the user at just the right time, based on your app's semantic intents and the user's context.

"Semantic intents" are basically Android intents. So yes, it's more than just what app you are in, but rather which window of the app you are in. There is also user context, which is things like what time it is or what other apps you have opened.

All this is fed to a model that basically practice, given the current context, what other intents you may need. It's nothing really out of the ordinary.

The commenter tries to imply it that it tracks every input, which is unfounded.
Agreed! The content in Australia is already pretty poor, and its been getting worse lately. Mostly dominated by Netflix's releases which wildly varies in quality.

I kind of miss having a good cable subscription where you could watch everything. The way things are moving, one has to subscribe to 3-4 services and even then might not cover all content.