skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No-nonsense" is one thing, but I would caution that there's likely an optimal amount of "nonsense", and it's probably nonzero.

Specifically, I've found through my own user testing that certain "fancy animations" are important to helping users build a correct mental model of the current workflow—taking them away makes the user take longer to learn the application. For example, the window-minimization animation on macOS: it shows you where to find the window you just minimized, by showing you the window "going into" the Dock rather than just disappearing. Or, for another example, disclosure indicators (triangle buttons), where in most modern app frameworks the results sort of "unfold" into place below the indicator, rather than just appearing. Having the results just flash into place, especially if it causes the document (and thus the scrollbar) to change size, tends to disorient the user.

Having as little useless decoration is commendable, but I'd advocate for user testing on mockup versions of the software that contain some minimal animation, vs. those that don't. (Don't trust the user's opinions on which is better; just watch which version they get used to faster. Basically, do the same thing that game developers do when testing interaction mechanics: find the optimal "communication path" between the user and the software.)
Networking. Playing with friends and trying new activities.
Old news.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/firefox-features-go...
The original white iPhone took way, way longer to bring to market than they originally predicted. At one point people were speculating that it might never happen. The problem was in getting the various plastic and glass pieces to look fully white and the same tone.

Steve Jobs announced that Facetime would be open source and never happened, apparently because he didn't check with any engineers or lawyers before making the announcement.
I think VRBO/HA actually has higher revenue IIRC
The author is correct, it is price before product. But the product needs to be functional for there to be a price.

The author says that customers weren't willing to pay for a fancy racing transmission. That's correct, people will ultimately choose the cheaper option if they aren't getting any utility out of the racing transmission.

But you can't go all the way to the other side and put in an unreliable transmission like for example Jaguar did in the X-Type. Those cars sold well at first, but now their resale is basically non-existent because the transmission goes poof about 3x faster than a Toyota's.
> Pretty funny- there are a number of mines where electric dump trucks actually produce energy on net! Anywhere you go down in elevation as you come out of the mine area, the extra weight as you're loaded can power the trip back up.

This is pretty wild, but makes perfect sense.
All of DDG's bangs already exist. I can just think up what the bang probably looks like and lo-and-behold: it works. Try !mdn, !tvtropes, !deb, !wayback...
> In the US it is normal for people to see initial results and perhaps rush in to vote, or stay home if their candidate is leading.

Is it? I was under the impression that most everyone had adopted a voluntary policy of not reporting exit polls prior to closing, at least since 1980, so that's just shy of 40 years of not doing as you describe. I've certainly been ignorant of results until polls close. I recall estimations of "turnout by party" and "what issues motivated you" prior to closing, but not how people ended up voting.

> It certainly doesn't have anything to do with entertainment.

How do you think the OP meant about the "normally fun nail biting" experience that is electronic voting "ruined" by ending "in a single minute"?
So... like GEOS. But, with more awesome?
Even the Times, Post, etc., rely heavily on pre-packaged news (Manufacturing Consent, if a bit dated, gets into this.) And yes, the wire service reporters are journalists, but those reports are extremely barebones. It's the newspapers that try to add color and context, and often completely butcher that task.
The trust funds for decommissioning are separate from the Nuclear Waste Fund.
In practice CoCs are never enforced symmetrically. Activists pushing for them will regularly attack "cis het men" and create a toxic environment without consequence.
This "should last as long as possible" was already assumed... and frankly kind of insulting after buying apple products for many years. And we do expect to be able to repair... I took my iPhone 6 to apple because the battery was done. They "tested" it and said it was fine. I paid a third party to replace it since apple would not. Phone was fixed... couple weeks later apple admitted there were battery problems and were handing out cheap replacements.
For Pai, it's only legal when it serves his monopolistic masters. When it serves the people, it must be illegal. The only thing it poses a risk to, is monopoly abuse by Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon and the like. Which is exactly the point.

And Pai lost all power to preempt anything, when he himself removed FCC from overseeing ISPs and pushed that to FTC.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006593 and marked it off-topic.
It's quite interesting how much the Trump administration is copying from the Reagan administration (admittedly, I was not alive during the Regan times so my info is coming from textbooks). The Trump administration is doing is essentially its own form of Trump Reaganomics mixed with his own Starve the beast playbook [1]. Though I feel like this new strategy is more to protect the self interests of the few around President Trump rather than to cut down the big government.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
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Americans refuse to buy station wagons. Rest in peace CTS-V wagon. You were far too good for this world.
Where do abuse reports usually end up?

In my experience they end up with the DMCA officer for the site.
Yeah, you can. I'd expect PSD2 legislation will all-but destroy CC companies across the EU within 3 years (just for online use initially).

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements coming into force in Sept 2019 are making card payments increasingly unattractive.

Payment Initiation (via PISPs, which Stripe undoubtedly will become) will offer free, instant, seamless push-based payments where fraud is essentially impossible (and the merchant isn't liable anyway).

Imagine having Cuvva's payment button pop you out to the Monzo app, hit accept, then immediately pop back and have paid. No card networks or fees involved. Just a simple Faster Payment directly from the customer's bank account to ours.

For in-person payments, I'd imagine a similar arrangement could be facilitated via Apple Pay.

May take non-EU countries a while to follow, but they surely will eventually. The days of CC companies are numbered.
How would you describe the changes to the company news feed that made it terrible and useless?
Maritime power plants are tiny, but they typically require much more enriched uranium, which is frowned upon for civilian programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Diff...
Airbnb has a global network effect: If I booked my last two holidays on Airbnb, I am more inclined to do it also for the next one out of convenience. I'm already verified anf signed up and I know the interface etc... This requires a global network of hosts.
Any competitor has to build a global network of comparable density to be compatible.

On the other hand, Uber's network effect and synergies are mostly localized to cities. If I move to a new city and there is a competitor with lower prices, chances are I'll install their app eventually, even if it takes me a few weeks.
Thanks for this clarification. I don't see any reason we couldn't support this given that info.

We haven't intentionally opted out of this that I know of, we just didn't start Alacritty from an XCode project on macOS.
What he is doing is fundamentally unlike being a CEO of a traditional corporation, being the founder of a standard charity or similar. Because it is an open source project, a great deal of what he says is available for public consumption.

When most CEOs have a cow, a few people witness it and then they sanitize the message before releasing a PR statement of what the CEO would like to see happen. When Linus has a cow, it can end up on the front page of Hacker News with everyone talking trash about him.

As far as I know, he actually handles that piece of it remarkably well. Most people would not cope too well with such a situation. I have never heard of him then going on a screed about "assholes on Hacker News" or whatever. Instead, what I have seen is "polite" and "well behaved" people nastily referring to it as "the peanut gallery," which is incredibly insulting and dismissive. I have yet to personally see Linus do such a thing.

Given how much people here like to talk trash about him, I infer this suggests it is something he doesn't do.
I think they both have there pros and cons, however I would like to emphasize having both around. It really does make for a healthy email ecosystem which prevents larger market holders from changing the federated standard.
Somehow, this is the first time I've heard of IPFS. Seems really awesome! From a total novice standpoint, can someone help me understand:

>With IPFS, every single block of data stored in the system is addressed by a cryptographic hash of its contents, i.e., a long string of letters and numbers that is unique to that block. When you want a piece of data in IPFS, you request it by its hash. So rather than asking the network “get me the content stored at 93.184.216.34,” you ask “get me the content that has a hash value of QmXnnyufdzAWL5CqZ2RnSNgPbvCc1ALT73s6epPrRnZ1Xy.”

It seems like you must know the "URL" of the "website" you want to visit (files in IPFS) beforehand? But in the case of IPFS, there's no like, DNS service, so you can't type "www.google.com." Basically, it'd be like if to navigate the modern internet, you'd need to know the IP address of whatever site you visit? Is that true of IPFS? Is there any way around that?

It seems like a strong limitation, unless someone can make some sort of IPFS search engine that happens to hash out at QN000000000000000000000 or some really memorizable hash... which seems extremely unlikely!
No way! I went to grad school with Andy, he's a great guy, his channel is very good
In the late '90s there was a place that did something like that. That was a time of slow internet connections, with a majority still on dial-up.

They had a product for Windows computers that provided a caching, prefetching web proxy. The deal with it was that if you let it show you adds occasionally (I think it was whenever you launched your browser to your homepage or once a day if you visits to your homepage were less frequent) you could download all of the company's other Windows programs and use them free as long as your browser was configured to go through the proxy. These were programs that normally were sold on floppy or CD-ROM for $20-40 each.

The way the ad delivery worked is that the proxy would download ads, which consisted of an HTML page and some additional data. When you went to your homepage the proxy would serve up one of the ads instead, with a link inserted to take you to your real homepage.

There was a Forth-like language built into the proxy. The additional data for an add could include code written in this language, which would be run when the proxy was choosing an ad to show. The code had access to various things the proxy knew about the local system and user. It did not have any access to the internet. The code would decide how strongly the ad would like to be shown at this time.

The only thing that went back to the internet in regard to ads, as far as I remember, was counts of how many times each ad was shown. (Not that it would have mattered much if more went back. As far as I know the proxy didn't really know much about you other than the physical characteristics of your computer and your internet connection. I don't think they had gotten to the point of trying to infer interests from browsing habits).

This particular approach would probably not be feasible today. They only had a handful of ads available at any one time, with the inventory changing slowly by today's standards. It did not take much resources, even for modem users, to download the entire ad inventory and keep it up to date.

Can you imagine trying to put Google's entire ad inventory on every PC, and keep it up to date, so that the client can choose the ad entirely locally?
I woukd also add that it's hardly reasonable or desirable to dump on employers the responsibility of providing wellfare assistance. If the people, collectively, don't want to provide that service through state institutions, why should they dump that responsibility on someone who thought it would be a good idea to creatr jobs in a town?
I really wish I could use FF for dev, but until they add a "resend XHR" option (vs/ their "Edit and Resend"), it's unusable. I need immediate "resend" and never, ever, edit.

Second deal-breaker with FF is the bug whereby you cannot edit/resend XHR at all with filters enabled: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432724

Without filters, the list in the "Network" panel is next to useless.
You are definitely correct, but there are some people whose price point is so far below the median market offering that theyll basically buy whatever barely functional 1991 honda they can find with 200k miles and rotted paint.

But this is a losing proposition in terms of profit, you know, trying to serve customers with this price point.
He's trying to tie everything into a ball of legal twine that will take years to sort out. All the while, the ISPs will have free reign to do whatever they want.
Wasn't that how ads were actually implemented on Firefox's homepage several years ago? IIRC, Mozilla developed it in cooperation with IAB as a solution to privacy (the ad-funded web being practically unavoidable), deployed it (maybe only in alpha or beta), and then people went ballistic over advertising in Firefox - without realizing it was a huge privacy gain - and Mozilla pulled it. Here's one article I found quickly; note that ads are based on local browser history.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-officially-kicks-off-ads-i...

And it looks like Mozilla is trying it again, though this is from a few months ago. What happened to it?

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/04/30/a-privacy...
Now imagine if all the carbon on our biosphere combines with all the oxygen in what was the ocean before it boiled away and all its hydrogen was lost to solar wind.

I'm not sure it'd be exactly like Venus (we have a magnetosphere, at least) but I am sure it'd be very bad.
Censorious centralization platform embraces censorship-resistant decentralized platform.
Assuming you mean in the computer realm, write code. Make it do things. Figure out how to debug it. Have fun.

I'm not being sarcastic. There's no particular point in trying to pick up particular skills. The specifics you pick aren't going to be marketable no matter what; what matters is the general skills you pick up and how quickly you can leverage them to learn later.

I'd recommend avoiding hyperspecialization; it's kinda easy for a 13-year-old to become something like a master expert with RPG Maker or something, but unless that's your end goal, that can kinda be a bit of a trap. (You end up with an understanding of computing too bent around local considerations and get too much time into learning hacks around them, and mistaking them for fundamentals. When Dijkstra was complaining about BASIC [1] this is the sort of thing he meant. If you spent too much time learning how to deal with the limitations of 1970s/1980s BASIC you came away with some really bent ideas of how to do good programming.)

Oh, and try to avoid putting any sort of dynamic website up on the internet if you can avoid it. Web security has gotten quite hard. If you want to build a website I recommend static site generators; you learn a lot of good stuff applicable to web development, but security is a near non-issue.

(And for the love of all you consider holy, stay away from cryptocurrency.)

[1]: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/40132515169/dijkstra-...
Oh, wow, GEOS is a name I haven't heard in a long time!

I never got the chance to use it on a real C64, but I played with it a lot under CCS64 ( http://ccs64.com/ ). I had a very slow computer at the time, too slow to run many modern games and applications, so I found a lot of interesting things to do under various emulated environments.

Edit: since we're mentioning (possibly) obscure operating systems, WingsOS ( http://wingsos.org/ ) also deserves a note :-).
The framework defined by jurisprudence here [1] is not sufficient?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Un...
Shopify is bringing Apple’s latest AR tech to their platform
Everyone relies on wire services, but it does not follow that all the major foreign stories in the Times are wire stories, and, indeed, they are not. Look at WSJ's China/Asia corruption stories. Or, locally, look at what Carreyrou did with Theranos.

You'd think, on HN, that Carreyrou would just be the immediate nut-hand game-ending argument about the "Gell-Mann (Crichton) amnesia effect", but, no, we all seem to have forgotten about Theranos and the WSJ.
Maybe there are regional effects at play, but in almost every country I’ve lived or worked in there are a substantial number of independent iPhone repair stores, usually with cliched names like iRepair or similar, and many of them seem to be doing a roaring trade. If people weren’t using them I can’t imagine these stores would be continuing to exist in such numbers either.

Outside many European Apple stores they even often pay someone to stand and hold a sign advertising cheaper iPhone repairs available around the corner etc.

Anecdotally, a large number of my friends and family have all used these, usually for cracked screens or batteries, and often in preference to an Apple store on the (sometimes incorrect) assumption it will be cheaper than “taking it to Apple” to get fixed.
There's a mash of entities involved, including numerous contractors, the Department of Energy, etc. Bettis Atomic Power Labs for example has been run since 2008 by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp., under the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Westinghouse previously ran it for 50 years until 1998.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/missions/powering-navy
>haven't done much in terms of changing what I'm actually eating.

Sure about that? Pretty unlikely you’ll lose weight if you’re consuming the same calories
This is not bad. Need to think about it...
edit: Consider it is scanned after voting has closed instead, during counting. Does that change the characteristics of this system with respect to trust etc?
Approximate translation of the "print storage" paragraph: "Fetching characters to print via DMA consumed the entire memory bandwidth of the mainframe, so printing caused all computation to stop; unless you leased the 132-word 'print storage' hardware option for an extra $3000 per month (in 2018 dollars)." This add-on looks to be about the size of a largish suitcase. One word in this context was 12 bits, so a grand total of 1584 bits, plus lots of control circuitry.
We're working on something similar to this @ my company. Feel free to ping me directly, I'm happy to elaborate.
Sure they are now, but in the mid 90s? Porsche legitimately took a risk with the Cayenne when they started development.

The Rav4 was the first CUV (unibody SUV) and it only came out in '94. The fact that a sports car maker was right there with Toyota is kinda amazing.
Perhaps it's "Price Before Product" for B2C. B2B products and services seem to have a no limit for price. Just when I think a business wouldn't possibly pay that much, they do. I just saw a consulting firm charge $40k for a damn workshop. Nobody batted an eye.
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This game is pretty bland. What's the point?
I strongly recommend FastMail over ProtonMail. ProtonMail doesn't support SMTP or IMAP (standard protocols that are a basic requirement of an email service) without using paid, proprietary software which only supports some platforms and is a major pain to use. They also require a proprietary app to read email on your phone. ProtonMail also makes questionable tradeoffs in the name of questionable security gains.
While there are no fairy tale solutions . Vertical integration gives lot more control which can give gain competitive advantage if done correctly either by doing it cheaper or adding features your competiton cannot

In your ancedote the buying company seems to be benefit with increased sales for a non competitive product. Ofcourse they are doing at the expense of the eroding target , but they are deriving value not the way you see it perhaps or the best possible one but value nonetheless.
Check out the white paper at https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-..., section 3.7. There is a name system called IPNS.
Except that they helpfully leave unsecured network ports all over literally every ship and building so that R2 units can plug in and do whatever they want. We can ignore that part for a “right amount of connection” example.
It's fine for this project, like others, to have a turn on HN every now and then, but could you drop the promotional voting and commenting? It's happened several times and we usually ban accounts that do this.
Interpersonal skills and things that can't easily be automated, I also second networking, playing with friends, and trying new activities. Play and socializing are essential parts of human development
We had so many scammers using this provider that we require a SMS verification if they use this email address for account creation. Sad. :(
James Bond is a fictionalized account. There was never any pretext of it attempting to be accurate.
> people didn't care

> there just really isn't market for privacy-focused advertising

My impression was that people just didn't understand it and Mozilla's communication about it was poor. That doesn't mean that there's not a market.
I can't help but think Square ceded the online space to Stripe despite that probably 50% or more of Square's merchants process online with another vendor.
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And yet no comment about Comcast or Time Warner or Verizon? Spare me!!!

What a politically charged statement. Should we also demand that United Health Care be broken up?
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Since I started college and really knew what breadboards were I always believed they were only every used in schools or else for prototyping, anything in production/commercial used etched silicon, that assumption was killed today.

It now makes sense why it cost $20,000/month (today's $) to use this computer, if you had to manually build each board, the cost for that alone is astronomical...

I think I owe my ECE 101 professor an apology.