skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the sort of argument that an eight-year-old makes to his mother, and the mother responds, "If Jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you?"

Of course?

This is one of the stupidest question in the world; I don't understand how parents worldwide are still repeating it.

Randall Munroe explains it best: https://xkcd.com/1170/.
Also a runner -- I had slightly different problems to you:

- The GPS on the watch was terrible, often dropping out for me, and leaving out a mile here and there. Is this an Apple thing? My Garmin is way more accurate.

- I need an always-on mode. I realize it drains the battery, but I own the battery and that is my choice. I need to be able to glance down and see my pace immediately, not fiddle with my wrist flicking until it comes on.

- I'm also bummed that there's no Spotify support yet, and that it's not a true standalone LTE device. I want to ditch my phone and have a watch only.
A search for Cynopolis (City of the dog, the Greek name for the city devoted to Anubis) should get you plenty.
Honestly, I don't see why everyone hates blockchain these days. Two things are going on:

1. It's a potentially revolutionary technology (trust-less, decentralized, nearly tamper proof, etc) that hasn't yet found a killer app(s) at scale

2. We're in the middle of a gold rush with zillions of shit-coins really throwing off the signal to noise ratio

This period will pass. Blockchain tech is maturing (PoS replacing PoW, throughput increasing, formal verification, on-chain governance, etc). Most of the shit-coins will disappear (a common headline these days is exchange X delisting NN coins because they're worthless). Things will consolidate, the really valuable tech will bubble to the top.

If you follow the news, you'd know there's a lot of stuff in the works, from major corporations to governments trialing blockchain for different purposes. Now, you can take a philosophical position about blockchain and say it's worthless, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to care and its widespread adoption is beginning to look like a foregone conclusion.

> In energy for instance, much talk about the financial aspect of a blockchain-based energy solution but absolutely zero talk of how the physical grid and infrastructure would engage to support the financial activity.

http://news.trust.org/item/20180828095937-yg29h/

This is a project trialing in Bangkok. Excess electricity from private solar is sold off automatically.

> Helping it along is blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underpins bitcoin currency, which offers a transparent way to handle complex transactions between users, producers, and even traders and utilities.

> Blockchain also saves individuals the drudgery of switching between sending power and receiving it, said Martin.

I don't have any details, but it seems they've figured out how 'energy on blockchain' actually works. I have heard the project has been successful enough that city decided to tax them to the point of being unprofitable (will likely correct itself in the future, was probably just a knee jerk reaction).
>The post prompted a small group of skeptics to take a hard look at Mr. Wansink’s past scholarship

It's funny that this is basically the peer-review version of harking.
Guix does have the capacity to add 'channels', e.g. https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium , so while non-free software while never be part of the distribution itself, it could be done unofficially. Also, you can run the Nix standalone on top of GuixSD, so you could run GuixSD and then use Nix to install whatever's missing.
off topic, but does anyone know how the technology behind archive.is works and how they make money (assuming they do). it seem pretty impressive to me that it always gets the article right.
The Computer Industry is stuck in the 1950s
No, you're not. And it's an ugly button at that.
So don't? You're not even a linux contributor, are you?
Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener
I very much appreciated this comment.
When I run, I target a heart rate of 140 beats per minute, plus or minus 10 beats per minute.
Well OK, this makes me wonder: if it truly is a static site, how are they injecting all this dynamic data? Or are they just faking it by re-generating the site periodically?

edit: nvm, just found the javascript that rejiggers the DOM based on data from https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/api/stats.json
This sparked my curiosity.

Is this your github https://github.com/Livin21 ? I see this person is from Cochin, India [1]. I then see the facebook page linked to on your website [2] mentions your founder [3] who happens to be from Kochi [4] which is the same city [5].

This is quite odd, no?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/tBCmKGY

[2] https://imgur.com/a/RZgKg9Y

[3] https://imgur.com/a/fbMnrrh

[4] https://imgur.com/a/9sn4LSs

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi
FCC passes order limiting cities' review of 5G deployment
But if it re-logs you back in when you re-open the browser, it may be technically a different cookie, but it is a cookie with your real identity attached to it (as opposed to an anonymous cookie like if you started a fresh session on an older version of the browser). So practically, that has the same effect that if the cookie was never deleted.
With the risk of sounding like a tinfoil conspiracy theorist here: I don't believe that this came from him. This came from outside pressure. Not just the fact that parts of his statements where clearly written by someone else, but also the fact that this comes after years of pressure for him to step down.

What exactly do you believe that this CoC addresses by the way? I am generally unconvinced that a CoC does anything positive at all, but what is it that you believe that it does?
US companies go into China eyes wide open - they can extract a few quarters of profit from their products and services but that's it; the Chinese will then expect to do it themselves and keep all the profits to themselves.

To most its not a good deal. To US companies, that are driven by quarterly targets then it is very much a case of sacrificing the future for the present. And if they stay out of China then the odds are that hackers will either steal the info anyway or another western competitor will play ball.

There's just no way to stop this happening as I see it. The best non-US companies can do is negotiate an equity stake in their local partners and hope the government doesn't pass laws to take it away.
I am not mad. I am thankful. And yes I am a ignorant engineer who cares more about features than legal crap. The only thing I am 100% sure is that I am not alone.
I went to the Toyota factory in Japan and they talked about how they got started by importing Chrysler vehicles from the United States, taking them apart, and basically copying them to make the first Toyota cars.

But over the years they started developing in-house knowledge, and their own innovations.

Now Toyota is known for making reliable cars that are affordable. Is the world better off with Toyota making cars? I think so. But is Chrysler worse off? I also think so. So it’s a tough one. But at the same time I like the philosophy of software startups regarding ideas: sure, take these ideas for free, it’s all in the execution.
Custom keyboard with Raspberry Pi Zero should be able to deliver that.
You just wrecked my mind
I wonder if there is an API that you could access to get that? I'd like that feature too.
> Oracle seriously needs to be fought in court about this and their other actions.

The problem is, to win in court (not just go to court), you need actual grounds. What would be the grounds for suing Oracle in court?

For hiding the terms of the license? They didn't; the new terms have been as plain as any terms are in software licenses.

For changing the terms of the license? But Oracle was never obligated to supply new software on the old terms (unless the old license or some other contract obligated them to, but I don't think that's the case).

For changing the license terms on Java 8? But they had no obligation to continue to supply Java 8 under the old terms. (If you have an old copy of Java 8, the old license continues to apply, unless the old license specifies that Oracle gets to change it. Even if the old license does say that, it's not grounds for a lawsuit.)

So, specifically, on what grounds could you realistically sue Oracle?

Note well: I'm not an apologist for Oracle's behavior. I just don't think there's actual grounds for a lawsuit here.
First I don't want to be logged in in my browser at all.

OK but I expect that most Chrome users feel different about that. Most are probably happy that this UI change makes things less confusing.

Second, and probably more important, software is about trust. [...] And what google did is to shatter that trust by sneaking that change discretely.

Why did the UI change shatter trust for you? It doesn't enable syncing so I don't see what the big deal is. With syncing out of the equation, I can imagine that you don't like being logged in in the browser for aesthetic reasons or something, but to have one's trust shattered?
Stop This Is a Browser Feature Intended for Developers
https://www.guidingtech.com/1048/restore-save-tabs-google-ch...
Former Google Scientist Tells Senate to Act Over Company’s China Censorship Plan
Just realise that the 'money game' is rigged, the deck is stacked and the house will win no matter what you do. That leaves but one way to 'win' this game and that is by not playing it. Yes, you need money but you do not need limitless amounts of it. You most certainly don't _need_ many of the products peddled by 'the rich' so that part of the game is easily avoided - just don't buy 'm. Use your money to become more independent of future money by buying land in an area which can support you and your family, either by producing stuff yourself or by buying it from people close-by - thereby avoiding giving money to 'the rich'. Don't buy into dependency through all sorts of long-term contracts, loans, credit cards, needless insurances and other such things. Given that you probably live in the USA I assume you need a car, what you do not need is the latest and greatest and certainly not a new one every other year. The same goes for all those electronic doodads which try to lure you into spending more and more of your waking hours staring at their mesmerising animations, all the while doing their best to serve their true masters. Home speakers which always listen to every conversation in your house was used as a dire prediction of times to come in novels like 1984, now it is supposed to the 'the thing to have for smart people'. Well, I'll just flick that light switch myself, thank you Alexa and Google and Siri. Mobile tracking beacons which communicate with billboards to show you tailored advertising, it might sound like something out of The Diamond Age but it happens right here, right now. To get rid of intrusive nonsense like that you need to take a good, deep look at that mobile device in your pocket and ask yourself how much of the software running on it is serving you, how much of it serves someone else. I could go on but I guess the gist of what I'm saying is clear: put your money where your mouth and thoughts are. That way you do not need to resort to such means as you suggest, you do not need to implement the next 'utopia' which is doomed to fail - viz. Venezuela for the last example of where such ideas lead.
And also given how IP is abused these days much more than it was in the past, which weakens moral arguments in its favour.
Avoiding big fines isn't throwing a fit.
Well, yeah, run-time cost, I meant. Originally this was nil (unless you had a register-specified shift) on the 'classic' 3-stage pipeline in the original ARM (1/2/3/6/7). As the pipeline got deeper this was more problematic, as you say, and higher frequencies make the silicon implementation awkward too. But even in A64, the barrel shifter is available on the second register operand of the non-arithmetic data processing operations.
'The Startup of You' by Reid Hoffman is another great book.
There are extensions for Chrome and Firefox that do exactly that.

https://www.one-tab.com/
In the same manner that in a conventional ECG, 10 electrodes are used while this only requires you to put your finger on the crown. The data is less accurate but apparently good enough to detect 98% of AFib cases.
> So instead of playing the game, he just presses what he sees on the screen. It would take a lot of work but would arguably be a lot easier than actually accomplishing the real run.

First, matching prerecorded input with the frame-precision required would be nearly as difficult as doing the run, if not more so. At this point, he's already trying to produce very specific inputs that require frame-precision; he's not reacting to what's on the screen and adapting on the fly.

Second, some TAS techniques are incredibly difficult for a human to replicate, and there'd be an expectation that he can replicate those tricks at least sometimes.

Third, some of the techniques for detecting this kind of cheating include carefully watching the inputs to see if they're ever just the slightest bit late or early.
You think if Oracle's legal team is after your company you get a free get out of license violation card?
Safari can save all of a window's tabs to a bookmark folder, and it supports opening a whole folder as a new window.

There's no "sync", though; if you save the tabs to a folder, then open the folder as tabs, there's no link to update the folder again. Saving the new window as tabs will create another folder.
also relevant: https://andrewgelman.com/2016/12/15/hark-hark-p-value-heaven...
There is an extension that does exactly that: https://www.gettoby.com/
The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’
>entitlement

Who does Zuck think he is, the CEO of facebook?
Funny, I think of China as one of the most extreme experiments in raising the quality of living of people by direct executive order, which you seem to imply they just aren’t doing hard enough, or don’t really care about.
China is huge and I can’t imagine how hard it is to govern.
Guile 3 is truly exciting indeed. See the latest news at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-09/msg00... .
Insulting someone because you either miss or choose not to see their point is not a good way to get people to trust your judgement.
In its most basic form, we verify that data extracted from news articles matches what has been reported. So, when we extract the data "Trump, Speech, Alabama, Immigration" from an article, then it has to match the reporting in that original source, which may have included a sentence like, "Trump gives a speech in Alabama about immigration".

To avoid the verification process being gamed we split up the data and send pieces to random people across the across the network. So, someone may be asked "Is this article about Trump?" and the next person may be asked "Which state is this sentence about?". They may not even see the whole original article.
AArch64 has a zero register too, I believe.
Bounties for the Oceans: Sustained, Verifiable Plastic Cleanups
> it is about the speed of transactability

As somebody pointed out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076542 high transaction throughput is not exactly the killer feature of modern-day blockchains.
Guess he's just going to ignore this post:

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)

https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...
Exactly. I believe Troy has another post about this topic where he discusses why he's able to justify selling the single, static banner ad at the top of his site.
> Grouping people together by some vague concept of nationality or ethnicity

It's neither nationality, nor ethnicity. I explicitly raised the question of history, and how it forms different values in the society. Why doesn't the US have the equivalent of GDPR?
Reminds me of Goolgle and Facebook comes to my country takes all the ad revenue and the country gets nothing.
Where is the ambiguity? In your example, a private company was purchased by a private individual and now they legally own it... why shouldn't they legally be allowed to do whatever they want with it?
High housing prices and the economic inequality they help feed are the great hypocrisy of the "blue states." Most predominantly Democratic or liberal states have unaffordable housing, at least in urban centers, with flagship "blue states" like New York, Massachusetts, and California being among the worst. These high prices are a direct result of anti-development zoning laws and a general mindset that opposes construction.

I think an argument can be made that Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas are actually more liberal than California because in those states a working class person can afford a place to live.
+1 for this. Reading his whole argument I was like "I don't think this applies to Safari Content Blockers"…

There's no reason to have an ad blocker be anything other than local. Sure, it should be able to pull more rules, but during operation it should just match those rules. There's no need to have it be written in a language with e.g. XHR or whatnot.
From Farm to Blockchain: Walmart Tracks Its Lettuce
Here [1] are a wide variety of other articles from the NYT covering famous events throughout history. I think you'll find that the incredible reputation they built up was indeed driven by striving to do little other than impartially report on the facts. Which, in the past, they did an excellent job of. It sounds simple, but in many ways it's perhaps the hardest thing to do. Both from a business perspective, and from a human one.

This [2] is an absolutely phenomenal article by Robert Kaiser, "The Bad News About the News." Kaiser worked at the Washington Post for more than 50 years as a reporter and editor, leaving only shortly after Bezos purchased the company. It gets into all the facets of the rise and fall of the media, and why things have changed so markedly. I don't really think I can do it justice with cliff notes, other than to give it a strong recommendation if you're really interested in the history of all of this.

[1] - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/samp...

[2] - http://csweb.brookings.edu/content/research/essays/2014/bad-...
What do they run HPUX on? HP has been out of the PA RISC Unix workstation for years. Do they still make mainframes?
As a U.S. citizen myself, I was under the impression that accelerating wealth inequality was the no-longer-so-tacit woof and weave of our culture.
when i said

>you could do the same with ublock

that was in response to

>This should just be dnsmasq, for which source code is readily available and inspectable. You can (and should) compile it yourself if you don’t trust someone else’s binary.
ResearchKit
>To some degree, sure. But they really should be capable of a straight failover (forced, if necessary) to geographically separate components.

AFAIK the failure at ATL had nothing to do with the ability for the IT network to failover. It was because the power at the airport was off, and therefor the airport was unable to fly planes. And when the world's largest airport goes dark, it causes ripples in delays across the entire country because of misplaced planes/staff/passengers. And you can't just "failover" hundreds of planes and thousands of passengers to a different geographic location.

We're really talking about two completely different types of failure here, and the other comment is right in that it's weird to compare the ATL fire to last night's failure.
US govt use of AI shoddy and failing citizens because no one knows how it works
> Opinions can be mild, like, ‘I’d rather work with associates directly,’ or strong: ‘Unions are lying, cheating rats.’ The law protects both!

Mmm, indeed it does.
No, I'm talking about official certifications and export controls. Cars are not certified as weapons. Space debris removal satellites are. I heard that even if your satellite is capable of just taking a picture of another satellite -- expect problems with military during pre-launch approval paperwork with FCC, and also during satellite operations (e.g. every single image from any satellite is classified by default, and must pass a de-classification process).

EDIT: googled relevant documentation: US Munitions List: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt22.1.121#se22.1...

> *(2) Autonomously detect and track moving ground, airborne, missile, or space objects other than celestial bodies, in real-time using imaging, infrared, radar, or laser systems;

and maybe other points around it are also applicable.
I know of them through their work on the Skripal poisoners' passports (uncovering evidence that they're GRU agents).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45656004
Reducing stormwater run-off with biochar addition to highway greening
That seems unrealistic, though. People who buy cars based strictly on practicality just get something newer when their old one starts to be a hassle. They're not going to be too interested in buying something else older just to send a message to the manufacturer.

Another case where the masses just don't really care that much and those of us who do get to pay the price. And ... while I say that, I admit I haven't disabled the OnStar on my Camaro. Buddy of mine with exactly the same car did but he's a bit more paranoid than I am, and the monthly "how shitty of a driver are you" message from OnStar creeped him out. Whereas it just made me want to try harder to make the score lower (it's like golf, yes?? ;-)). Now, if they start sending the data to my insurance company, then I'm yanking out the LTE immediately.
Until the headline reads "Vivaldi source code released", the browser is irrelevant. They really need to get their act together on this point, there's no excuse for a closed source web browser in 2018.
I would bet at least 60% of population works for something more evil than FB. Yes they are evil but not in a sense lets start a war and kill few 100K innocent people because we need to run pipelines evil.
Curious why the oldest application of the blockchain - money - isn't in your list. Actually, I find it mysterious that Revolut and PayPal are more popular when Bitcoin and ethereum are freely accessible
Ask HN: Have you used a live Blockchain application yet?
What was it and how was your experience?
It would be a world of simplicity if I logged into the browser with my google account, a little picture of myself showed in the top right corner of the browser chrome (instead of in various places in different apps), and that identity is what was used for per-app Google auth.

I should also mention, there's another place it gets used - in Chrome extensions. That should use the same identity.

Google login then becomes one reasonable choice for "log into the internet". Right now it's too fractured to be a coherent identity.
Haha, I’m not playing that game because I’m lawsuit averse but I’m not surprised people are successful at it. This JDK includes telemetry so it just got a lot more dangerous to play but otherwise I’d guess license violations are pervasive at small shops.
I've always thought someone should use guile to add support for elisp plugins to vim & neovim using their rpc interfaces. Then maybe if something like that existed the org-mode authors could be convinced to cleanly separate out the emacs-specific code, and we could have org-mode on vim using the same codebase as emacs.

I have no idea how viable that is, but it would be pretty sweet. Too much for me to take on right now, but the idea has been rattling around my brain for a few years.
USDJPY: Bullish, Closes in on the 113.16 Resistance Zone
Low-Tech Game Systems (2003)
Well, if you ship Java software, it has to run on a JVM. You often ship the JVM you want with the software, or else help the customer get the JVM installed. If you install or help them install Oracle's JVM, you may still have a problem.
Intranets Suck: The Future of Internal Knowledge