skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Compared to the corporate world, that sounds incredibly low, actually.

This isn't surprising given that seniority and hierarchy in academics, as well as a general culture of conformity if one wants to advance their career is even more pronounced than in some of the worst corporate bureaucracies you can come across in the wild.

I don't have any personal experience with the UK academic system, but having experienced academic work for quite some time I have absolutely no doubt that it's true and I think you can draw a direct line between the culture present in academia and bullying without attacking the Guardian for being biased.

Stewardship, patronage, the extreme degrees of networking and personal relationships way too often place people in unbalanced dependency relationships that foster abuse of one sort or the other. It's no accident that many people have pointed to universities as one of the places were 'Girardian terror' is especially prevalent.
Why is this? They are based on TCP. Because of a send buffer being full?
I do on workflowy. Its a giant hierarchical list. Super low friction, fast, easy, and great sharing options (I sometimes share specific sub-portions to people).
The FBI has botched a number of high stakes operations using the tactics you mentioned.

Going in weapons hot is really dangerous for everyone involved and much like lawyers with law, the smartest people will seek to minimize their exposure to risk (ie. courtrooms, raids, etc.)

A better and cheaper solution in a hostage negotiation is to figure out the core motives for the hostage takers (often money [and why they need it]) and lead them to realistic expectations and a feeling of fairness.
Kids like different things. I apparently liked to be a smartass.

On the BBC Micro, tape-based games needed to be loaded into memory at 0x0E00. But the floppy disk driver (DFS) took up 0x0E00 to 0x1900, so you couldn't just copy your games from tape to disk.

My dad wrote a simple program in BBC Basic, to load a game from disk at 0x1900 and then relocate it to 0x0E00 and run it. I thought this was ingenious, but kind of slow.

The BBC Micro user guide must have been very good, because I (7) managed to learn enough 6502 assembly language to rewrite the relocator. My version took just a few seconds.

I'm not sure my relationship with my dad has ever quite recovered.
> The two rules of the gyms are basically : no machines

Machines are fine and useful. Better rule might be "don't only do machines". But even then, I'm pretty sure someone experienced could design a routine that would get them good results with nothing but machines.
Health and fitness. I see the subthread about producing income, but you can’t produce income if you’re dead, and you can’t produce as much income if you’re fat, out-of-shape, and can’t hink straight for hours at a time. Not to mention that fitness allows people over 25 to more easily expand the executive functions in the brain, which increases your ability to produce income.
They aren't wrong. What are you going to do without your ability to produce income? Eat dirt and sleep under a bridge?
Even if you disagree with that, there are many other goals in life that are aided by being physically healthy.
What was the reason to use node?
My reading of it is that it's a database you control that you can allow third-party web applications to use. So instead of the web application storing your data on their servers, they store it on yours.

From the perspective of the end user it's useful because retain control over your data, so there's no barriers to switching to a competitor, for instance.
You could write a very helpful blog post about this.
I am fully aware that cheap always trumps quality, until we get a couple of big lawsuits that finally force governments to put some regulation in place.
Use a rotary phone for a couple weeks.
I don't understand.

HTML5 is on the way to become this. You have permissions, local storage, indexedDB, and a ton of APIs. Anything else you need you can just submit it to the HTML5 working group (e.g. shared data)
There's been recent mention of the... Onyx Boox Max2, as Google refreshes my memory.

It can be used as a display via a simple HDMI connection.

I read a few articles, and I'd like to try one, but I haven't convinced myself to put down $800 .

Here's a googled link that my browser history says I've visited before:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-ma...

P.S. As I asked at the time, does anyone know the/a source for the panel? Although I guess the custom firmware and buttoned down access to same, may make getting a raw panel a non-starter.

P.P.S. Duh. OP article mentions it. Anyway... still wondering where the panel comes from.
Assuming this is a serious question, no, it's not. The goal of a hostage negotiation is to secure the safety of the hostages without capitulating to their captors. While arranging a violent solution is one way to do this, and it does sometimes happen, you'd be surprised how often people will simply surrender peacefully.
Seems like the Lenovo Yoga Book C930 would do the trick.
Also consistency is to be valued. Example: if I say to someone else over the phone to search for "X", then I usually want them to see the exact same search results as I do.
Why do you expect somebody to persuade you not to be blase about security? If enjoy playing in the street, knock yourself out.
That’s a good question. I guess the first step is, does it pass a sniff test? Are there any claims which sound too good to be true? Is there anything that it describes which seems implausible or impossible? As near as I can tell, there’s nothing impossible about what was written.
> The failure of the semantic Web is that it's repetitively being built by and for technologists

The failures of the semantic Web are pretty much the same as the failures of the Web of evil, i.e. the internet:
1. You cannot make people tell the truth.
2. You cannot always determine when someone is not telling the truth.
3. You cannot always make people do things the right way.
4. You cannot always determine when someone is not doing things the right way.

So, you are correct. The true creed of each hard-core technologist is: "Everything would work great if only everyone always did everything my way."
TL;DR Google blocked blockchain and ICO Ads, a huge chunk of which were scams, and the author works in that industry, feels wronged, and this is somehow just as bad as Chinese censorship.

I’m pretty sure there are ripped off people who were scammed and blame Google for allowing the ads in the first place.
Sort of.

90% of the web apps that are useful to me would be equally useful as native local apps with local data. As a native MacOS or iOS program they would be hugely faster, without latency, and just as useful out of signal area (still common enough that it happens daily for me).

That would leave me to choose which I wanted to sync either internally or via something like dropbox.

Most of the innovations in the browser that enable apps also promote and enable tracking, auto start videos, and JS loaded ads, and use of the browser as surrogate OS. Mostly I find this a serious misstep. I don't miss bad design and sites that were cut up bits of image etc.
How much cocaine can you dissolve in gasoline-based/like solvents to smuggle and then reconstitute? How much cash can you smuggle in the middle of a fuel tanker?

How easily/efficiently can oil companies launder money?

Why is no one addressing the seemingly obvious truth that the entire world is nothing but a complex corrupt criminal system of lies? Or am I just far too cynical?
They can always do whatever they want to your Uber account, because TOS’ are jokes. The rest they can only do to your CC company, they can’t ding your credit report or anything of the sort. I don’t know where you’re getting that idea.
Always be selling. You'll know when customers start paying or don't.

The big thing to watch out for is becoming a custom development shop for your first, or largest, client's. Because they helped "make" you, you'll feel loyalty towards them. They can certainly help solidify you product, but make sure what you build can be used by all clients.
Behind the overlay gets past it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/l...
Release notes:
https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/releases/tag/v6.0.0-rc....
Yes, long term it will be as you say. The only thing administration cares about is passing rate. None of them care to measure whether or not those who pass know the material. So....I pass more people than I want to.
The legal crime and illegal crime markets are in (or close to) equilibrium; why switch if the former is about as easy as the latter?
You were using a rotary phone 20 years ago?
The default tooling isn't great. Tools like CrowdAnki [0] and Anki Deck Manager [1] make it possible to manage decks in plain text. It's also helpful for collaborative deck development. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find many examples of decks managed this way online, but there is a relatively high quality geography deck worth looking at [2].

[0] https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki

[1] https://github.com/OnkelTem/anki-dm

[2] https://github.com/axelboc/anki-ultimate-geography
This may be hint regarding how to authenticate:

https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server#testing-solid-loc...

> In order to really get a feel for the Solid platform, and to test out solid, you will need the following:

> 1. A WebID profile and browser certificate from one of the Solid-compliant identity providers, such as solid.community.

EDIT: Seems if you run `solid init` and accept the defaults, it will configure a local WebID provider that you can register to on first use.
Because running legal business is a lot harder than running illegal one. With legal business there are laws/regulations and there is competition. When you run drug business and competitor show up you just take a gun and eliminate your competitor (simplifying here of course). Another thing is that you will get respect from a lot people in certain circles and a lot will fear you if you've built successful crime organization. It's a lot harder to get that running pharma business. Why do you think people like Escobar didn't just retire having hundreds millions of dollars? Sometimes its not all about the money in the end game. They do invest in legal businesses to launder money most of the time.

Being on top of large criminal organization is intoxicating just like having power is.
Sure, but the entire world is/can-be affected by the actions of the US as a whole.
Gentlemen, it’s time we talk about Brett Kavanaugh
- touch typing - this is a no-brainer

- english at C2 level - the current lingua franca. You really want to be able to accurately express yourself

- vi/vim. Available everywhere.

- UNIX networking

- shell and shell programming. Turns you into a power user

- at least one programming language and its important frameworks

- regular expressions. Super useful everywhere. Learn why they are slow/fast as well.

- low level computer stuff. It helps you analyze higher level problems
Construction is still king for money laundering. $1 bulldozer rental here, $500 toilet seat there, just like a bank for deposits and withdrawals.
Funnily I'm not being blocked in Norway, which has also adopted GDPR through the EEA-agreement.
Six months later they were sent in for warranty replacement and the headphones I received from Sennheiser had a ground breaking difference in sound quality.

...or it could just be that they were originally flawed anyway or somewhat damaged in transit. It's not like manufacturers don't make minor changes to a product after starting production either --- mass production doesn't mean every product is exactly the same.
Spray-On Antennae’s for the IoT
I'm feeling old. This is really at the top of a HN thread?

Since you self-describe as "coming from Python," you maybe haven't yet really gotten that deep into the internals of computers and what kind of stuff you might wanna do that isn't well supported by higher-level languages. This is especially relevant when we get to talking about performance guarantees, wherein very little can get "guaranteed" about a garbage-collected system, by definition. So while it is a pain to deal with "low-level concepts" like in Rust, it is also well worth it depending on what kind of tech you need to make.
> If you really don't want to mess around I think swimming is the way to go.

I have been plauged by muscular/ligament issues too. I tried swimming and ended up hurting my rotator cuff, now I can't do repetitive overhead activities :\.
I don't recall anything on the internet being instantaneous 20 years ago. Surely you're misremembering?

I also don't find that new smartphones have much touch-based interface latency; but even so, that kind of latency doesn't have anything to do with the internet, nor the halcyon days of late 1998. To my recollection browsing the web in the late 90s was far more exciting but also far less useful than today.

The modern internet has a lot of inefficiency, but I don't see how you could seriously claim it's slower than what we had 20 years ago. Sometimes heavy web applications are relatively slow because they're underoptimized, but that's less of a technology failing and more of a developer failing. Most websites load spectacularly faster, and perform better, than all but completely static HTML websites from two decades ago despite having much larger byte footprints.
Not to mention that FM also allows plus addressing as well as a different style name@whatever.domain.com
As far as i understand Gogoro need to roll out their battery swap network/infra before they will sell the actual scooters as this is what their business model revolves around.
One major difference is it’s a lot easier to move around in the private sector.

If you have a bad experience at company A, you can easily start “fresh” at company B or C. References are relatively pro forma and don’t count for much. Academia, in contrast, runs on reputation. You’ll need a reference—ideally a glowing one—from your PhD advisor to land a postdoc position and fellowships. You’ll need more letters to transition to a faculty job, and even more to keep it. The contents of the letters actually matter too; none of this “she was employed in my lab for the indicated time period” malarkey. This gives a few people incredibly strong influence over your career, especially early on.
He posted a source. You are a liar.
I have the MaxCarta and Max2. I use the older model using network connectivity, and the Max2 using HDMI. It is really a decent experience... just the refresh rate is slow. I use it for writing and reading large documents. And as concluded, since it is an Android device, it is multifunctional.

It also shows that any decent Android tablet should be able to act as a portable screen as Onyx does. It would make Android tablets a whole lot more practical, without the trouble of using WiDi or Miracast

Note: the Max2 can also be used as a Wacom tablet with some software, which makes it double duty and outperforming the Wacom Bamboo Slate I have. (They share the same pens!!!)
Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error
Yeah, didn't mean old modems, more like applications. My 300 baud modem was pretty slow. But applications were always very fast compared to most new stuff.
For "qr hello hn" https://www.google.de/search?q=qr+hello+hn shows the perfect result below while DDG does not have it:

> Show HN: QR codes - my mini project | Hacker News
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378735
> Mar 28, 2011 - Hello HN! Check out and comment on one of my
mini projects: http://coderqr.com. It's a website for the QR-uninitiated crowd to quickly make QR ...
Some of us even live in Mexico. Crazy, right?
Indeed the idea is to make the adversary feel as though they’re getting a fair deal. The risk of exploiting them is that they might find out and now you’ve damaged your own reputation. Forcing the adversary to consider your perspective with empathy will allow them to recognize the unfair aspects of their deal and renegotiate for you.

It’s not that you shouldn’t exploit them (though in most cases it’s grately beneficial to both parties if you don’t), it’s that if you’re doing it right, you don’t need to in most cases.

There’s always exceptions, but the concept of approaching any deal with a core principle of exploiting the other party is a flawed strategy.
'let me duck that for you'

Sounds right.
No disagreement here.
Watch out for your wrists though. Most ppl have weak wrists and end up hurting themsleves with bodyweight excerises.
Use lynx in your terminal emulator...

There is a vibrant international community of people still on gopher, and a lot of us run our own servers. Check out gopher://gopherproject.org

There you'll find a getting started file, and other useful things such as a curated site listing (think DMOZ for gopher) called the Gopher Lawn.
Cool Polymer Paint Saves on Air Conditioning
I feel like I've been looking into this every 6 months since the mid 2000's and there's still little progress. I would be thrilled if someone made a 20" - 27"screen with a simple HDMI connection; I don't care about the refresh rate.
Content is editable when it's allowed to be edited. We have "guestbooks", "chats", boards, commentaries, forums, even wiki-sites long time ago, so this issue is solved, "Solid" doesn't sound revolutionary in this scope.
Which is often, especially in China, the same product made by the factory as extra production runs, but sold out the back door at night.

Straight up theft on not only IP, but all the management admin costs to manage production, and the marketing efforts to build the brand.

From every single account of people I've encountered who have worked in/with China, this and every other sort of ripoff is absolutely expected and par for the course unless you take serious countermeasures (e.g., make all critical components in another economy, ship over to China only the goods that just need final process and assembly). It's just how they do business.

And obviously, now, they have significant hordes scanning Amazon for products selling well, which they'll promptly counterfeit. And Amazon's happy to help them undercut you.
A rotary phone was at least instant physical feedback...
> which has precise criteria to decide which publications are more desirable than others.

The issue is that we don't know these criteria.
Is Brave browser not recommended for a reason?
Steve Jobs on Education
That was milonga, one of the three primary sub-dances of tango, though the technique overlaps almost entirely. Here is the most common style, actually called tango (words are heavily overloaded in tango): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiT4OS6MKVQ

For completeness, here is the 3rd main type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSugQxwpEA

Worth mentioning it is entirely improvised.
Chopsticks.Cash API Gives Bitcoin Cash Devs Options to Survive Contentious-Fork
SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check'
This is super-annoying for legitimate, infrequent correspondents. Somebody asks me to email them something, and I need to take the time to notice and read the automated response, click to access an unknown website, and then try to solve the captcha, which sometimes requires multiple attempts. You asked for my recipe, don't hassle me when I'm trying to help you.
Wow. Amazing advice. I was feeling shitty and nervous now and tried a bit of forced smiling. Changed my mood for sure.
Not OP, but here is one that I liked: The Holistic Orchard Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way By Michael Phillips. It covers a variety of topics and different types of fruit trees and berries.
Same.

I use https://www.startpage.com/ as fallback when duckduckgo fails, because it gives the same results as Google.
You can use searchstring !sp in Duckduckgo, to switch to Startpage.
I don't see anything related to reflectivity vs. backlight illumination. Most of the discussion is around the wavelength of light (blue) and its effects.
I was once told a story by a professor at my undergrad about a new sessional instructor that just arrived at the school. Apparently a couple of years before, this sessional instructor was one of the top PHD students the country. He was going to grad school at one of the most prestigious universities, and his supervisors were the leading authors in their field. He published regularly since undergrad, and was teaching a couple of classes. One day, he found out that his supervisors were faking their results. These results were crucial to a couple massive papers for his supervisors. So he blew the whistle on his supervisors, and the papers got redacted. There were a couple of disciplinary measures for his supervisors, but within a few months they were back at work. This sessional instructor, however, was now blacklisted in his field. His advisors were editors for the top journals, and they had many connections to other researchers. I don't think he ever managed to finish his PHD, but they hired him as a sessional instructor for a couple classes at my school anyway. I think he now sells cars on the side to pay his bills.
The end of HIV transmission in the U.S is nigh
I just had an idea to use KVM and PCIe passthrough to piggy back windows driver support for Vulkan into a PCIe device running in Haiku so Haiku could use the latest graphics cards w/o having to write their own video drivers. Bonus points for implementing mmap across to guest OSes. There should be a generic hardware description for a Vulkan based paravirt PCIe graphics card. Then the backend of the pvirt GPU could either pass it through to the driver, send it over the network or re-translate it on the fly to AVX, WebGL, etc.

Because the first question that popped into my head was, "How do they enable modern GPU support?"
Fitter, healthier, and more productive. A pig in a cage, on antibiotics.