skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, I would consider putting the guts in a lanyard or in a pocket (connected by wire if bluetooth isn't fast/bandwidthy enough). But the projector may be too big by itself anyway. Magic Leap considered a kind of fibre-optic cable.

Another approach is to target usages where bulky headhear is already acceptable, e.g. helmets (cycling, go-pro-like extreme sports, construction hard-hats etc), googles (welders, scuba, WWI aircraft).

I think that kind of application is where smartglasses are presently maturing.

I like the ring concept though, like nintendo switch joy-cons, but even tinier.
Fantastic. This makes the following (very common) commands so much easier for me:

:diffthis
:set [no]list
:set [no]wrap

I know how to map shortcuts, but I never could bring myself to make them, because I've done that too many times in the past and end up with a mish-mash of private mappings that atrophy my vim skills in a way. Hope that makes sense.

But this plugin is super consistent internally. Great mnemonics. I don't mind coming to rely on it.

Thanks.
The previous one, Gerhard Schröder, is still alive. The one before was Helmut Kohl and we are already back to 1982!

I want to see a list of all countries sorted by the number of their former presidents that are still alive. Could be an interesting metric coupling democracy and longevity.
kiwitcms looks promising. At my work, we have a lot of manual testing, but we have also some automated tests (that we want to run during the night using a "planning" to avoid conflicting access to shared resources). Do you know a similar product that could also manage automated test ? Or is there a API so that the automated test updates kiwi tcms ?
Many kids don't like drawing. Drawing is not possible in many situations where tablet is possible. Ditto lego plus, there is not that much lego for under 5 years old.

You don't get few quiet hours of work with tablet. You might get peaceful car ride or waiting for doctor etc.
> The games that Apple promotes / features in the store are usually less obnoxious, but I'm not sure if there's a way to search for them.

It’s not great, but you could look for Apple Design Award winners, which are usually ad-free.
Well, if you're a British executive or similar well-off job, it's not like laws restrict your daily life. Between your company, the expensive hangouts, the mall shopping, and the country club, you come so little in contact with them, you might as well live in London or New York.

If you're one of the statistically poorer ethnic Chinese or Malay, hustling to make a living, working in hawker centers, peddling some ware, running some small shop, trying to make a living, etc, you're more likely to brush with various laws and restrictions.

Some cultures also dislike restrictions more, and paradoxically that's truer for Chinese culture I find, than for British. Chinese culture might be ok with strong government and even straight-out dictatorship, but they are more laid-back, cheaty, work-aroundy etc in their day to day life (consider London vs Beijing driving for a crude example, or queue lines). I guess, less "by the book" is the term I was looking for.

(And yes, these are generalizations -- they're needed to talk about the world in any other way than on a case by case basis)
Which is why I can't see how you're surprised. Seatbelts are the perfect example - in my experience, a lot of experienced drivers don't bother, or at least didn't bother in my country until the fear of getting ticketed for it started to feel real. And I'm convinced that the moment this law would disappear, a significant chunk of drivers would stop bothering with seatbelts.
You cannot explain to the "tax more" crowd that tax can only ever confiscate a part of existing economic activity. I don't know why, it's a perfectly simple and straightforward argument, but their argument is just "x pays a%, y pays b%, why doesn't everybody pay max(a, b)% ?". It's jealousy, really.

Now that's not to say there isn't merit to both sides of the argument that some level of tax is too little and some level is too much. But not in the UK. The UK is firmly in the tax too much camp, as is most/all of Europe.

If I want to pay someone to, say, be my lawyer. And the person I hire for that wants an iPad, then of every 1GPB I pay to the lawyer, 23 cents ends up as revenue for Apple (making revenue for apple is WHY that person wants to be my lawyer, in other words, it's the reason for there to be any economic activity at all in this relationship). 77 cents ends up in the governments' hands to spend (of which, I might add, the government spends about 104 cents). That's ... just not reasonable (and also why every UK company lawyer has to defend all the executives for free to keep his job, to cheat this system)
An an Indian, I'm grateful for the existence of the EU for advocating the more ethical path in regulating the ills that capitalism introduces inevitably.
By that reasoning, it's the customers paying company tax, too.

Hell, customers' are the ones paying Jeff Bezos' capital gains tax by that reasoning.
Linux just doesn’t have the polish that an iPad does. There are very few, if any, games, and it’s not really a good fit for younger children.
> I think the space is their market, in which they set the rules and may want to tip things one way or another ...

So far I'm with you.

> to prevent starvation and entire dependence on external parties.

Heh. Man I remember when I used to think like this. I remember the time fondly, oddly enough. Sadly, sorry to say, you will be cured of this.

THIS is also the UK government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Inquiry_into_Child...

or, perhaps,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_...

The UK KNIGHTED the person who lied in court to get the government out of paying compensation for ONE VICTIM that the UK government, after being forewarned of exactly what would happen ... to which the UK government didn't react to save a buck. Resulting in a problem that could have easily killed 1 million UK citizens, majority of them children. Needless to say, the UK government did impose incredible costs on some of it's citizens, in almost all cases with very flimsy justification (one person's wife being forcibly kidnapped, without informing the guy or their families, never to be allowed to see each other again, after the government killed her. I mean, it's almost a Disney villain plot, except without the good ending)

Sorry to say, but if you think the UK government has either your or any of it's citizens' interests at heart. Or any other government. You're sorely delusional.
Thats what you get with free games. Why do you think they are free?
> it isn't hard to remember what to check

My pilot father recounted a story once where he was going through the landing checklist. He was interrupted by the controller on the radio, then continued with the checklist. He'd skipped lowering the landing gear, which is a deadly mistake (he was informed of this by the ground).

Thereafter, whenever he was interrupted while doing the checklist, he started it over.
A few slides after you say that gifs should never be used, you use a gif ;)
They can have both. A touchscreen offers really interesting experiences you can’t get on paper, and there is plenty of good educational content.
no. just no. nobody wants that. Verilog is BEYOND broken and beyond saving. No one in their sane mind would try and implement that piece of abomination called SystemVerilog either. This is the reason people are creating new HDLs all the time.
Uber is definitely changing for worse when it comes to customer experience. I've been using uber for a long time. Practically since it was available in Poland, for a long time experience was quite good, last half year something changed and cars are messier and cheaper (Uber Select in Fiat Tipo, come on), but the worst and most infuriating thing is canceling rides.
Here how it goes: very often I'm traveling for short distances away from city centers. Drivers don't see where's destination, only how far is pickup, so they pick up everything, and when pickup is far, and driving distance not so much, they either cancel (there's cancellation limit, from what one driver told me) or just riding around (they have to start driving in some time after pickup) so I'll cancel, this way they are getting money if I cancel after 2 minutes.
To put this into perspective: I had to go to some meeting, it took me 47 minutes to get a ride, 4 drivers cancelled before I got one, that btw said is riding as hobby, because he likes to talk with people. And doesn't matter if it's UberX or Uber Select, same thing happens.
Basic group dynamics in absence of sufficient moderation. Usenet went through the same process.
I've the feeling that Lua became popular mostly based on its implementation, fast, small and self-contained portable C code, and not for the merits of the language itself. Certain things are addressed in Lua 5.3, but in general Lua has several flaws:

- Before Lua 5.3 there was no integer type, this makes a lot of things harder than needed in programming, unless you just write high level code.

- Lua trivially departs from standard syntax like ==, !=, zero-based indexes, without good reasons, creating a general feeling of confusion.

- There was an odd idea about what to include by default and what was optional. The lack by default of bit operations makes the language always in need of a trivial library.

- Tables as a single data structure are not ideal for many tasks. Especially the dualism between tables that are indexed by sequential numbers and tables acting as maps. It's a lot more kind to your users to give up with the solely academical ideal of "just one data structure", and give programmers at least an ordered and a map data type, or at least come up with something better than that. Lisp attempt at doing most things with lists was much more successful and clean.

- The stack-based C API is not comfortable to use.

I could continue to be honest, for instance by default you can't type an expression in the REPL and see the value returned. However when the task at hand is to write small scripts for a larger system, the implementation of Lua offers big enough advantages to make it a worthy choice.
> Also, have we already dubbed virtual ML pornography "deep throat"?

No, that term is already established in the industry and means something else entirely.
You probably know this, but in case you don't: A lot of apps that have "In-App Purchases" will have one that unlocks the ad-free version of the same app. Instead of the publisher listing two separate versions of their app in the store, they list just the one and handle the crap-free process using IAP instead.

BUT... then there are those apps that promise to remove the ads for $1.99 or whatever, but still have an ads-for-loot scheme. That's infuriating.
>The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally, but that's where game theory is taking us.

Has it ever occurred to you that if people are willing to burn it to the ground, the "modern world" might not be quite as good for them as it is for you?

What we are seeing today are people who have long felt grievances talking to each other and discovering that they're not alone, and that the civil institutions which are supposed to address those grievances systematically do not do so.

And when people are given no other options to correct injustice, conflict is all that's left to them.

If you want to stop the world from burning, don't blame the people for fighting, blame the system for making it necessary.
Last weekend I gave my almost 4 yo daughter my iPhone with Cut the rope on it as I remembered it was fun... oh my... after few minutes had to turn it off and came back to painting unicorns and playing with dolls - the amount of crap they put there nowadays is ridiculous, you can't do anything, you're constantly bombarded with popups I, myself, couldn't figure out how to close, some of them you have to wait 30 seconds to close, absolute garbage, can't even explain how the game works with different shit poping up all the time. I guess you have to write a game yourself for kids today.
That’s not good enough - you’re just doing the same as everyone else. We just want to buy your apps upfront; I’ve gladly paid for many (ex Toca apps).

Having an in-game store, IAP and ads are an absolute no-go for kids under 7. I’ll delete it right off the bat.
You can draw on a tablet…
Thank YOU, explains the context: "Apple challenged the patents for validity and non-infringement, but its key contention is that Qualcomm is illegally charging smartphone makers twice for its intellectual property– once when it licenses its cellular patents and a second time when it sells modem chips used in smartphones. The legal concept is called patent exhaustion.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-f...

Otherwise would be like paying a sales tax at each transaction through the chain.
Playing devil's advocate: why not centralisation? Or - better IMHO - why federation?
> The official documentation mostly revolves around C bindings. The actual Lua language documentation is provided by another web site that looks like it has been written by an attention-deficit child.

This is such an unfair point. Lua has a single manual that covers the language, the standard library, and yes, it also covers C FFI (unsurprisingly for an extensibility / scripting language), but FFI actually comes after the language in the docs. And the manual is both very readable and very thorough where it talks about the language - it's quite easy to learn the whole thing just from it alone.
A curated or crowded sourced app directory for ad-free games is a good idea! Would be a great weekend project for someone.
The bin removal was actually prompted by a period when the IRA would put bombs into bins in train stations etc., see eg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks

So not a completely idiotic policy.
I really laud your approach and hope I can do something similar. What concerns me though is how the challenge will become magnified as children get exposed to their classmates' phones and other gadgets, etc. And you lose control of your environment. Have you thought about how you'd like to deal with the future challenges ahead?
This is the most complete list of Alan Kay's talks I found: https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay
I use Remote Desktop to work on my Windows machines from my Mac on a daily basis. Although the official client works fine, I prefer to use Jump Desktop due to its built-in SSH tunneling, and switch between my Surface (which sits underneath my secondary display) and machines on Azure with touchpad swipes.

RDP works fine at 5K+4K resolution (my iMac has a secondary display) and everything from Windows is rendered in HIDPI. I do however have the remote connections set at 16 bit for a little less latency (and the content on servers is less interesting anyway).

This works well enough for me to do everything (development, office work, etc.), and also Skype calls (with the audio left on the remote device - again, my Surface is sitting on my desk, and it has killer microphones and speakers).
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I think Japan is slightly different tho, from what I understand, they take a lot of pride in how they're presented to others. So whatever an individual does, reflects bad on the entire culture in their eyes.

Not a lot of people have this mentality.
just before I saw the paycheck of $5703 , I accept that my mom in-law had been realy taking home money part-time from there pretty old laptop. . there uncle has been doing this for only six months and a short time ago paid the morgage on there house and got a great new Saab 99 Turbo . Get the facts....

https://bit.ly/2wxK4LN
I think we're taking the same pills.

It appears that this is one of those issues that polarizes people very strongly into one of two possible options. My response to the complaints above is usually "tough luck", because I do not see it as my task to ensure that other people cannot cheat. In fact, with today's availability information, I'm certain all those that want to cheat can and will do so easily, no matter what.

This leads me to the conclusion that the fundamental problem is actually the conflation of two very different purposes which are often at odds: teaching and certification. Universities try to do both and it often ends very badly. Certification should be removed from universities and put into separate, specialized organizations.
What do you expect? App developers to work for free?

As is it's already a lottery as to whether you'll make less than minimum wage or equivalent for your time spent developing an app where you've taken a huge risk and foregone a possible $200k per annum job.

Ads are as a result of people not being willing to pay for apps. It's the consumer's fault things are the way they are.

Enjoy wallowing in your own filth.

Edit: Not directly pointed at your comment, just the general attitude here which I would have thought would have more intelligent people in it but clearly not.
There were so many good ones in the early Mac days. I loved playing Outnumbered as a kid and it probably my helped me on a path to great comfort and memory for numbers decades later.
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Out of curiosity, why do you regret it?
I don’t see anything about running this in the browser on that page. Is there a place to demo this somewhere?
This is part of what Rust does very well - playing nicely with others! Check out Helix (Ruby), Milksnake or rust-cpython (Python), Rustler (Erlang), Neon (Node.js), or cbindgen (C/C++) for tools that can automate the boilerplate.
I recall an "Aviation Disasters" episode where the cause was the pilot was interrupted during his takeoff checklist, and skipped setting the flaps to takeoff position.
Mavericks introduced compressed memory, so that may be the improvement you’re talking about.
In practice terminals have to behave in a slightly more complex fashion.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895939
You reckon you could build and run this as a service for $0.05 a user per month? Whilst perhaps scraping profit?
Care to share some of your own products, I'm keen to see how sustainable your business models are.
Android apps that contain ads are clearly labelled in the Google Play Store. The text "Contains Ads" appears right at the top of each listing by the title. There is no such standard in Apple's App Store, and this could easily be remedied by Apple if they cared.

Like others here have already stated, I'm happy to pay for apps. One-off purchase, subscriptions, whatever. I used exclusively Android since the first device (T-Mobile G1) and finally switched to iOS earlier this year, and this has been the biggest obstacle so far. I'd like to install more apps but my phone is pretty much stock since I have no way of knowing whether apps are full of ads.

I am more than a little sceptical of Tim Cook's fiery "data industrial complex" speech last week as he's still not yet ready to take that first baby step and begin warning privacy-conscious users about adware. How do you overlook this as CEO? The other security features on iOS are first-rate, why deliberately overlook adware? I don't get it.
Here is a link to another thread on HM regarding the same problem : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18276987

I definitely think that we can't do anything as developers (maybe optimizing process to consume less, but that's not obvious). And here is why :

- we used computers/servers/hard disks/etc that are made of rare-earth metals (which required a lot of energy to be extracted and are a environmental disaster (first link in google : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-ra...).
- big datacenters, in which our compagnies are involved into, require a fabulous amount of energy to work (cooling système, electricity, etc), proably more that average cities.

However, what you (and we) could do as citizen could be :
- buy from local/bio producers
- do not buy shitty products coming directly from china that will last 1 week and then will be broken for no reason.
- think twice before buying new product (not only electronic ones). do I need this new smartphone (which, by the way, his cost is half a salary or a all salary for most of the people ?) can I repear it ?
- do not buy big companies' products (coke,nutella,etc). They are destroying environement (mexican vilages have less and less water because of coca-cola, nutala are heavily using palm oil...) Those are only 2 examples.

Easy to write, not to do ...

> Sadly I'm just a Software Engineer and I feel that I cannot help as, for example, a Genetic Engineer to make those ideas become true. I'm not a genius, nor a millionaire philanthropist, neither a clever startup founder.

Most of us are in the same case.
I'm actually reading Gunter Pauli's books regarding the "Blue Economy". -> https://www.theblueeconomy.org/
There are plenty of "simple" ideas that might be "easy" to implements in our life as side-projects.
HN really needs to add a note next to the email field: “Only you and HN admins can see this.” Put any info you want publicly visible into the about field.
Do they not test if their site works on mobile? Hint: it does not
The phrases "Can be used online" and "Javascript version running Linux and Windows 2000. " link to:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

You can then click on the "Startup link" labeled "click here" for the OS and CPU architecture you want to try out.
Every time I hear the word Webassembly I always imagine that one day the browser itself will be written in/compiled to webassembly and eventually the entire operating system will be too. Isn't that the natural end game for webassembly?
'Messy' and 'dirty' are very different things.

Not returning your dishes is a different thing from littering.

If it's custom in a locale, it seems reasonable to leave your plates ... it's what we do at regular restaurants.

But not throwing rubbish in the streets - this is universally a good thing.

I sometimes see people throwing water or coke bottles out of their car here in Montreal I find it maddening that someone could be so crude.

Kids and Teachers doing a one-over, such a great idea. I believe it's probably strongly linked to creating conscientious behaviour overall.

I also believe there are strong psychological effects (i.e. 'broken windows') - if people see a slum, I think they're more likely to treat it as such, and visa-versa.
What country do you live in? I work at a climate research institute and have connections all over. I could perhaps put you in contact with a local research team.

Sadly, I'd say that a lot of current research tools are pretty shoddy when it comes to implementation. Not that they give incorrect results, more-so that there is no way to really interop systems with any ease. No standards, only a small culture of open source etc etc. Having a software engineer on speed dial to consult with when designing and implementing new frontier research tools would be of immense help in my opinion.
all versions -> https://bellard.org/jslinux/

riscv64	Linux 4.15.0 (Fedora 29) X Window -> https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=https://...
> Swifts have no direct connection to any form of currency and are not backed by anything. Swifts are only worth what other people are willing to pay for them. There is no guarantee about the strength of Swifts in relation to any other currency.

This is the opposite of selling your product (I'm not sure if a word exists for that). Which is a shame because the idea sounds really cool.