skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes courage to aim big and risk failure, so I applaud the effort behind LightTable and Eve.

For all the effort invested to not be in vain, it is important for the community to be able to learn (generalizable) lessons from these failures. Hence the typical focus on putting out a product, even if not complete, and publishing a paper, to close out a line of research.

When I try to look for an understandable summary of lessons learned from LT/Eve, I get the feeling that the tidbits are a little scattered, and not quite in a form manifestly usable by the community. Have you solicited suggestions about how this could be improved? For starters, it would be great if there could be a centralized repository listing all the various blog posts, talks, etc during the evolution of LT/Eve and the retrospectives. If that already exists, it would be great to publicize it more, and the community could organize around that and discuss how to take it further. There's a lot of excitement about the direction LT/Eve pioneered and it would be good to harness it for the next round of attempts :-)

Also, I don't mean to imply that the LT/Eve team has not done that -- eg: thanks for open sourcing LT! I'm just thinking out loud about how to better pass on the less tangible learnings.
If you like this story you may like this podcast episode. 15 year old hacks his school and gets more than he bargained for. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/17/
> With the Time Capsule being discontinued, how does the average MacBook user make a backup?

In my case, Carbon Copy Cloner plus Time Machine backups to a local NAS.[1]

[1] https://www.qnap.com/en-us/how-to/tutorial/article/time-mach...
Great news for eBay I guess. I've found myself slowing going back to eBay. Especially for user items.
Cash-Strapped Argentines Won't Give Up Their Beloved Beef
Show HN: Tztail – View logs in the timezone you want
External USB3 1TB SSD, Carbon Copy Cloner to maintain bootable clones.

(Edit: dunno that I represent the "average" user, but this simple setup has served me well for years.)
Some issues might take a while to show up I guess.
Interesting, considering who actually owns Twitter.

(Hint: If you think it's Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone or Evan Williams you are wrong.)
Biggest deluge in decades closes ancient city of Petra, Jordan
It's funny that you mention Opus Dei, which in modern times was the name and conviction adopted by another Spanish congregation that's, on the political spectrum, on the opposite extreme to where most Jesuits are.
I really really want to like Go, but....

It's not really succeeding in the enterprise, is it? Java is still growing and growing... and it's only a little bit of double the age of Golang
What's weird is that taking in more nicotine is an argument for menthol, because fewer puffs means fewer cancer causing chemicals. That's also the argument against filters and light cigarettes.
These discussions are always closely observed by the fintech startup people.
This article takes 3 paragraphs to state that dark pixels on OLED displays draw less power.
If I hadn’t gotten mildly addicted to Twitter (with my fairly well curated list of people I’m following) I’d not have spent the ~700 bucks to start my naturalization process so that I will finally have the right to vote after 34 years living here as a permanent resident (well it’ll be 35 since naturalization takes a while).

I realized that my running joke of the last 18 years: “I can’t vote, but at least I don’t have to do jury duty” is recklessly irresponsible and I will do the research and be an informed voter in every election for the rest of my life.

[edit: admittedly this was largely inspired by indisputable things that happened a little more than 2 years ago and the following aftermath, but my twitter feed was my window to them - I do not watch cable news]
I agree with the first two prhases but the last one. How tf are people gonna fix climate changes without taxes? These thingas cost money! But I think you have a point. Juts nitpicking :P
Not spineless, just following orders. Do some research.
Its the worst with Rust
I do that! I specialize in reviewing and auditing delivered work for entrepreneurs/investors/etc, which is a slightly different perspective than code reviews for developers themselves, but depending on your project and needs I can do that too.

I also offer ongoing mentoring for independent freelancers, if that's the track your on.

Contact info and and website in profile.
reddit is worse. I say i liek guns, boom, dowvotes
So... the logical conclusion is you would instead have a spare phone at home.
Apple publicly said they aren't going to release sales numbers going forward (take a guess why).
To retain revenue they just need to get more out of each sale - and that's ensuring somebody who comes in for an upgrade pays more than last time, sticks a few more accessories in the pack, and clicks to bump up the iCloud size
(or maybe you think they've decided they've got enough, screw the shareholders and are about to start 'giving back' to their users)
> If you need them to "look good", well that's art, not science.

I'm not so much interested in "look good" but in "look pleasing or harmonious together" and I think that's a question science might have an answer to.

It's no coincidence that the palette generators borrow musical jargon.
In music the definitions of minor second and perfect octave are completely uncontroversial. That these two intervals have different musical qualities, we call them dissonance and consonance, is uncontroversial too.
Sure, some cultures use dissonant intervals heavily in their music but they still recognize the different qualities. Most importantly there has been a ton of research in this field.

Contrast this with the state of the art in color science:
When it comes to color harmony there is not even a single universal definition of opposite or complementary. Look at the Wikipedia article about that topic [1]. It mixes up three completely separate topics:

1. Colors that when mixed together give a neutral hue

2. Colors that are opposite of each other on some wheel

3. Colors that supposedly have a certain effect, like contrast or harmony, when perceived next to each other

Color wheels are a dime a dozen. There is no shortage of claims that this and that color go well together but there doesn't seem to be any serious research.

I wonder if that is just my impression because it's not my field, or if maybe color science really is just not developed enough to tackle these kind of questions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors
Hi loceng. I am glad you got better from severe hypercausis. I was thinking no cure for it.. i mean maybe we cannot call it cure but lets say treatment.. can you please tell me what type of sten cells you got and how much better you are now?do you have middle ear problems now and any sensitivity? Can you love totally normal? Thanks
Kudos. The most interesting thing in smartphones for my needs since the Nokia N900, not counting the SailfishOS efforts. I'll buy one if it works "a la Maemo" (Debian derivative).
> Just recently I wondered if there is any scientific basis behind these approaches.

No, not really. It’s mostly 17th–19th century pseudoscience, propagated by generations of uncritical art teachers. (Note: not all art teachers; some are amazing.)

Complementary colors (which mix to neutral when you e.g. paint two sides of a top with them and spin it) are a thing though.
Unless the entity you're transacting with is also interested in operating in a completely cash-based economy, they will need to deposit your cash with a private bank and enter into the electronic money market. They will then worry about the source of your money by profiling you in case the risk accrues to them. Stores already do this if you pay for something with a large amount of cash and stand out as a target. That's my point that society is already essentially cashless. You're only talking about the margins of exchanges on the last hop that may be conducted in cash. Within one hop of conventional transactions it's almost certainly electronic. So I'm not sure that's a real distinction.
Wondering how come no one mentioned Mattermost.
I wouldn't be surprised if Louis was an APPLE engineer. Great channel. Cool way to get to know how a New Yorker thinks.
Well, America has xtreme gun conrol laws, so the rest of the wolrd thinks you aree extreme, which elads to downvotes. BTW, mass shooting are EVERY WEEK IN THE USA. Swisterland has guns and yet they have feweer. Its the culture and lack of traiining.
Raptor codes are powerful, but one has to be careful with them, as they are heavily patent encumbered by Qualcomm according to Wikipedia[1]:

"Raptor codes are heavily covered with patents in various jurisdictions. For the specific instances specified in RFCs, statements by patent owners may or may not provide some leeway, depending among other things on whether the device carrying the implementation also implements a "wide-area wireless" specification."

So I encourage people who otherwise work with Error-Correcting codes to tread lightly when considering implementing Raptor and RaptorQ codes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_code
jackal: https://github.com/ortuman/jackal
Only a minority of those projects have anything to do with containers.
Those things matter at human terminal velocity (not much mind you) but not at asteroid terminal velocity. Asteroids hit with so much speed that the kinetic energy of impact mostly overcomes the binding energy between molecules and even atoms and the impactor largely vaporizes. This is more true for comets which are looser collections of ice and rock, and more true for larger impactors.
That's "General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Smart Invert"
I've been using ReasonML for building complex ReasonReact (React.js binding for ReasonML) apps. With the strict type system, I can code for hours without constantly looking at the browser and it just works on first try. I never feel so happy with coding like that before with Javascript. I would recommend ReasonML for all Javascript developers.
Those ReasonML has some downsides that need to be addressed:
- Bucklescript constantly releases patch version that breaks stuff, or removing deprecated functions in a minor version. I believe for a crucial piece of the ecosystem like Bucklescript, it needs to have a beta channel so we can test them before official release
- Also, there should be more communications between core team and developers, I'm scared for the longevity of the ecosystem. There are no details roadmap of what's coming next or priority of the open issues. There are many important issues (to me) that could increase ReasonML like a lot but never get addressed. An example of such issue would be shipping compiled stdlib in a separate package or have a way that would allow users to integrate ReasonML to their current node.js toolchain without waiting for building the compiler on every build (which could takes more than 3 minutes on slow CI machines)

That been said, I love ReasonML and will continue to invest in its ecosystem. Shamelessly plug, I built https://sketch.sh as a quick playground for ReasonML and OCaml, check it out if you're interested in trying ReasonML
>18650 battery

I am tired of subpar battery life being a de facto industry standard
nope. just stop.
Being looked at by whom?
For me, its basically to add support for metadata in REST, by using things like JSON-LD to describe the layout of data and be competitive with what GraphQL is offering.

Of course there are a common definition for data and metadata, trying to define a common standard.

It's funny how in the end this will end into reinvent a thing like protobuf, but in JSON, much more verbose, and that can't be read by a human anyway.

GraphQL at least do all this while being human-friendly and allowing to define whats needed 'by hand' or by a machine. (But i also dont think this is a great thing to use if the communication is internal and M2M anyway, but its a great solution to serve some api to a bigger crowd of heterogeneous clients)
I'd estimate dead battery and network signal problems occur two orders of magnitude more often than people losing their wallet.

Even for rarer problems like phone software freezing up, touch sensor going awry, phone memory full but can't clean it (a bug but still), and losing network access because someone didn't pay the phone bill or it's pay-as-you-go and can't afford the top-up quantum - I think I've seen all of those more often than I've seen people lose all their cash.

And then there's the cost of replacement. If you urgently have to get a new phone to replace a broken, lost or stolen one, to pay for necessities - many people don't have enough short-term funds to cover it, nor access to credit.

Some of these can be addressed, but we've a long way to go.
To be fair, it's not just you and your Apple.
My employer pays for my phone contract - so normally every 2 years I select the shiniest thing, dripping in features.
This year.. no, just switched to a cheaper monthly contract as it felt "wasteful" upgrading just for the sake of it.
(Original Pixel XL - so not that old, but can't really thing of anything it lacks (and it has a headphone jack))
Lack of value log GC won't affect performance directly, but every write would write to the value log GC, hence increasing its size. So, a GC is needed to deal with the growing size.
> We don't pay the mental tax of always ensuring i have dollar bills on me to tip left, right, and center.

Is this something you were doing before?

If not, why did you bring it up? Who do you imagine is doing this?
From Teaching English to Working for Chinese Mafia
The hard disk was a few weeks ago and the support call just last year. Pretty sure they still do that. Also they’re pushing hard on this device longevity thing, as being an environmental as well as customer satisfaction issue. Then there’s the dramatic improvement in performance in iOS 12 for older devices.

They’re not perfect sure. The Touch Bar is a bit meh, the new style keyboards had issues, but these were misjudgements not deliberately user hostile moves. In fact they spent big developing those things.
I've been completely impressed with the Sony compact phones - I just got my second one a few months ago and I have no plans to move back to the larger form factor of current flagships
> who initiated the physical contact and got her arm bumped, a "victim".

Just to remind you what you wrote: "But because the victim was a supporter of your favorite politician..."

I used the word you used in my response so you understood we were talking about the same person.
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials
> background-color: palette(blue, "light")

Having never used Sass, this syntax strikes me as odd.

Is there a CSS pre-processor similar to Sass but where you would instead write it as “background-color: palette.blue.light”?
Vibranium would be pretty cool.
Do you know of a Turing complete AI/ML model?
I'm a man and I still have trouble finding things that fit my chest without requiring $60.00 in tailoring everywhere else. I can't count the number of times I've found a shirt that I love and been between sizes because of my chest and shoulders.
Generally men's clothing doesn't accentuate curves etc, but there are more reasons to wear clothes than to highlight your physique.
How about to please a regulator who is also an indirect competitor, or to avoid bad tweets?
I think the key is to build the palette from a mental model of relationships. You start with a base color, and choose "adjustments" down the line to describe accent colors, etc.

The other perk about this approach is that you can then adjust the base color, and everything referencing it usually looks pretty good or only needs slightly adjusted.

I've been working on a tool for this off and on since 2015 (https://www.colorproducer.com/). The app has some really annoying issues, mainly around UI. I think the main thing I did wrong was to make it work on a per CSS selector/color property basis. Most websites will have 50+ unique selectors with color value, so it becomes a lot of work. I'm trying to address this, and have been thinking of a "mapping" step, where the user picks out what selectors are a primary color, accent color, etc., and then works solely with those groupings.

Hopefully this makes sense, I've been thinking about it a lot and may be a little too stuck in my own head/thoughts.
There was a recent successful challenge to the "foregone conclusion" bit (in Florida?)

I'd be surprised if that decision survives another level of appeals court.
Based on the commit you made, looks like there was a build breakage on a 32-bit system. We've resolved all known issues with 32-bit systems. Let us know if you encounter more.
Hey, as a Palestinian student in Siberia, you're a really cool guy. Thanks for doing this. It's painful how many people charge the equivalent of my rent for a digital product and then wonder why Russia has such a high piracy rate.
Does it have a hardware switch to turn off the mic and camera?
Mine was late 2016...
EDIT: Why is my comment being downvoted? And why can't I edit it?
I have $200 in a variety of denominations in my glove box.

I have $2 000 cash at home.

Once I’m home I can write myself a cheque, and with my passport, easily withdrawal more money at any bank (or grocery store).

Also, if a natural disaster happens (earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, Norsemen with iPhones disembark on our shores) I don’t have to rely on any network to buy something. I just pay cash, or write a cheque.

Cash is very robust. (Booze, cigarettes and gold more so, but that’s another story)
There is, of course - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Assembly .

It's non-religious rather than atheistic.
It wasn't the pressure wave from the impact that caused the extinction. It was the sun-blocking cloud of dust and debris that got thrown into the atmosphere for years afterwards, dramatically cooling the climate and killing the vegetation that forms foundation of the food chain.
What's worse is the fact that they encrypt everything by default so you can't just desolder, dump, and flash the data onto a new board.

They say it improves security, but certainly it's possible to have FDE which can be copied onto a new disk --- you're just doing a bit-exact copy of the ciphertext.
They look a lot like silk suit pants, but cut very loose, and flaring at the bottom. It's obvious that I'm not wearing normal pants. But they're not fitted tight at the top, as most women's pants are. And they cost a lot less than silk suit pants.
Single’s Day Shows How China Is the Future of Retail
It can be difficult with a full time job too, unfortunately.
Huh. That's slightly disappointing.

Do you know of any other fountain codes more powerful than the LT code described in the article, that are not particularly patent encumbered? This seems like a really interesting area, but from reading around a bit, it seems like part of the issue is that because all of the research is so recent, you end up stepping on someone or other's IP.
im Pretty sure it does
> We don’t have in Russia, or in the West, a situation where there are certain types of discourse or figures that are off limits for critical, ironic investigation.

The linguistic anthropologist cited in the article is wrong about at least one thing.
I had a 2015MBP at work, upgraded it now... oh man, does the new one suck. I mean, the touchbar is such a spectacularly bad idea, I'm honestly surprised they kept it for so long. I thought my concerns were overblown, but as it turns out, they weren't - the touchbar really is that bad. I'm thinking of going back to my old computer for 3 more years, and giving this back to IT.
It was an example to show despite putting effort into an air of enlightenment... HN is just as basement dwelling and knee jerk downvote-y as Reddit. And I think I proved it.
Aether has self-governance built in. [0] See the bottom of the page on the right:

> Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well. Doing so reverts all changes by that moderator for the user, and counts for one impeachment vote.

[0] https://getaether.net/
> Unfortunately the current government, the first in many years that is actually taking some decisions to get the ship in working order

Well, the current government did its part in letting the tycoons, who took large loans, get out of the country. The currency ban was another stupid mistake (source:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/asia/modi-india-rup...) that led to chaos and people lost trust in the banking system. They don't know if they will easy access to their money in the banks with the cash withdrawal limits and ATM issues.

If people lose trust and don't deposit the money, eventually the whole system would collapse.
I paid over USD 20/pack for cigarettes while I was working in Sydney. That alone forced me to cut my intake substantially. vs the ~5.75 I spent per pack in NH.
What a fantastic talk.

I think there would be a lot of value in capturing a "History of..." type series from Rob Pike (Alongside other greats).

There is one similar to what I am referring called Web of Stories where they did this with Donald Knuth.

https://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/93
they used fake usernames as well. that shouldn't be forgotten.
Plus, I’m privileged, but I’m really not more than mildly annoyed if I loose my wallet with $50-$100.

The way I see it some person will have the opportunity to do the right thing and turn it in, or I like to imagine that a homeless will have a great a day.

The only thing that bothers me is my information in my wallet, which I will pay far more than $100 to keep safe.
what about cryptocurrencies? they're cashless too
I believe the Protestants simply lacked the institutional wealth to set up these schools. Wealthy Protestant institutions don't appear till the late 1600s. In the 1500s the Protestant factions celebrated thrift, at least relative to the Catholic faith.

Likewise with the Gregorian calendar, introduced in October 1582. The Protestants simply lacked the institutional strength to pull off so important a reform.
Actually it doesn't need to be totally reliable. It just needs to fail at a rate which ensures the cost to apple to replace + refurb is less than the repair + the cost of building a 'repairable' device.

The market demands thinner laptops with amazing battery life. The market - in general - isn't demanding a more serviceable macbook.
In at least a couple of ways, bicycles have regressed:

1) It used to be possible to shift down multiple gears quickly (e.g., when coming to a stop light). Now, many index shifting systems outside of twist shift only allow one gear shift at a time.

2) It used to be all bikes had replaceable chainrings, allowing you to replace worn rings, adjust the overall gear ratio of the bike higher or lower, or change the ratios to create a half-step shift pattern. Now, many bikes have sprockets riveted to the crank arm and derailleur systems so tightly matched to the size of the chainrings that changing chainring size is no longer feasible.
I'm not sure why you think you could get a better reputatian than Google?
You're goading me by bringing up my choice of words and saying I need help. Understand that I will not entertain it.

I can concede that terrorist attacks affect more than the direct victims, but I posit that the rest of China is less affected by the terrorist attacks than the Uighurs are by the mass incarceration of hundreds of thousands of their loved ones without a trial.

And I don't lecture, I'm debating. You're avoiding the question of whether or not incarcerating hundreds of thousands of people without a trial is human rights abuses. You're also avoiding the issue of whether or not individuals committing murder is different to governments institutionalizing human rights abuses on an industrial scale. You can keep cutting two sentences from my replies and answering them for how long you like, since you don't address the issues I will have to assume that you concede them.
What did they bring to the table for the corp?