skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, don't like them (or anything fixed on screen like that), don't use them. (I use a desktop computer only) They're possibly worse (because not removable) than windows that pop up saying Subscribe? Cookies? etc which all always get a big NO from me.
You’ll find taxi drivers chilling even in shanghai if it isn’t rush hour. Not to mention airport taxi queues, even when you can barely get a taxi st the airport, drivers are waiting 2+ hours to get through it. The authorities hardly consider their time important.
>From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps.

"From now on, I refuse to consider the right tool for the job."

Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
I would have one meta event, and if you modify it, you implicitly clone it and modify that clone
I already manage most of my e-mail via filters and just my plain old Mail.app. My current plan is to go back to Thunderbird honestly for my Desktop OS needs.
Whilst this is genuinely amazing work and very exciting, I would just like to point out a few things.

The comparable tech in digital cameras is not limited to tripods and static scenes as stated, some cameras can do this hand-held.

Shifting pixels 4 times results in increased detail, however Olympus and Panasonic’s approach is to shift the sensor 8 times in half-pixel increments, resulting in dramatically increased resolution as well.

The main issue with the current implementations in digital cameras is still objects in motion, which camera makers are trying to solve in-software with mixed results.

If rumors are to be believed there are advances on the way for this tech in digital cameras, particularly in relation to shutter speed and perhaps low light, but I don’t think you’ll see this trickle down to cheaper models for a few years yet.
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I have worked with recurring events, and the answer that I've seen is generally both. You have one record which is the "template" and then populate the database out with specific instances to some arbitrary date. Every so often then run a cron to populate further and further out.
The Future of Housing Is Now: On Stackable, Modular Building Technologies
Edinburgh born and resident here, our city centre has become a tourist only zone with tartan tat shops, overpriced restaurants and during August (The Fringe) it’s pretty much impossible to move through town due to the amount of people in this small city. There aren’t really any “locals” in the centre any more as most of the flats have been bought up for AirBnB or student flats. AirBnB flats are notorious as “stag party flats” here, their landlords regularly receive complaints from the few who still live in town. The AirBnB landlords are now expanding into traditionally working class areas, as available housing stock in the centre is astronomically expensive...so it’s hard for young people without a deposit to get on the housing ladder. Our rent market is already through the roof due to the popularity of Edinburgh as a place to live now, so it has driven families out. From a city we used to describe as more like a “village” it’s become a depressingly alien place with transient residents.
"usually only a euro or two a night, so not enough to put us off in anyway, but in aggregate allowing the cities to invest in facilities that could support the tourist influx."

This is exactly the right strategy! And the "infrastructure to support more tourists" is exactly what this article lays out.
Simple Internationalization for Create React App with Ttag
I'm just sitting here waiting for all the security fiasco to stop ruining performance for ridiculous unpractical attacks. Just a matter of time, the pressure for better performance in a world where moore's law is getting stuck will eventually cause every sane person to throw these ridiculous patches out of the window.

If the choice is between unsecure but fast to secure and slow, the default should be fast. Let applications who care about side channel deal with it their way, why the fuck should everything be so slow just so that few apps which actually care about side channel will be secure?
Why is it clever to change the mantissa and exponent size? I thought the clever ones were the nervana flexpoint which seemed at least partially novel. And it's interesting Intel isn't pushing that format given nervana's asic had it.
There is no argument here other than an appeal to emotion.

Yes, it's true that no normal person would actually avoid jumping into a pool to save a drowning child, even at the cost of $5000 that could save 100 other people. That is the entire point -- human moral faculties are not based on logic, and overweight the interests of people you can see, or whom you can help in obvious, concrete ways, relative to diffuse total global happiness. But the fact that humans are wired to think in a particular way doesn't prove that it's rational or correct.
Ya, I hate this question as an interview one. I’ve solved lots of hard problems, but only the ones I haven’t solved yet stick around in my head. It’s even worse if they aren’t interested in design problems, but rather technical ones.
Netflix: Hollywood vs. the Algorithm
This is true, but it is essentially the same situation as using the CPU for processing.
I think this is just confirmation of something that's been true for a while. Stage 2 reusability went from "we're working on it" to "yeah, that's interesting, we'll take a look at it when we have time".

I think they were a little burned by the Falcon Heavy we well. It's an awesome rocket, but it'll take a while for them to even break even on its R&D, as it looks like it won't ever fly more than 2 times per year and then it'll be quickly supplanted by the BFR.

And so, while we won't see a reusable Falcon Stage 2, we will see some kind of weird test hybrid / mini BFS build around the falcon stage 2. I imagine it's just a Stage 2 with the shape and control surfaces of BFS to test their re-entry procedures.

https://spacenews.com/spacex-to-modify-falcon-9-upper-stage-...
Evernym – Self-sovereign identity: now that it's possible, it's inevitable
A guy from the device developers and me talked with them about it. We argued that it's probably far easier and faster to fix the problems in the device code than to make some workarounds on server side.
I think the thing that it's faster and we were 2 convinced them since I tried it with the easier part already before.
On other parts we decided to not process the data.
Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 12A: Karatsuba Redux
I say cram them in. Keep them in the cities. A tourist does less damage, and spends more money, in times square than in a forest. In my area, tourists are wrecking our parks, our wild places. Dog bans (to cut back on dog walkers. Dog feet do little damage in comparison) and the closing of trails are being applied to counter the tourist wave. Im for whatever it takes that keeps them on the pavement.

Our city put up new signs in a wooded area that never had signs before. Tour companys now post material on these signs. Locals are chopping down the signs. Keep the woods dark imho.

If one more of them asks me where the twilight house is .
.. google that to see of where i speak.
Support wouldn’t change his password, so he mailed them a bomb
After taking graphics programming in college, I don't ever want to work in video games.
Years ago I wrote an emulator for the Intel 8086 processor in C++. It's deceivingly difficult because the instruction encoding is complex and the emulation of each instruction has to have a very high fidelity. In a sense, software at the CPU instruction level is a chaotic system, as each instruction can influence the system state to a critical degree, so if there is a slight deviation from the spec/hardware, a snowball effect of deviations happens that leaves the system in a completely botched state where your emulator won't boot at all. Because the deviation can happen anywhere within an execution path of millions of instructions, it's very hard to debug, too.

Eventually I got it working and I could boot DOS and play games.

The aim of my project was to create a programmable emulator that could be used for the semi-automated analysis of malware, and sell it. Eventually this didn't really go anywhere as this was a too ambitious goal to do all by myself. See here [1] for a demonstration where I load tweets from Twitter and send them to the DOS text editor by triggering a keyboard interrupt via a Python API. Fun...

Later, the Unicorn CPU emulator framework implemented my idea much more effectively by creating Python bindings to an already mature emulator (QEMU).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPZH8LAVIY

[2] https://www.unicorn-engine.org/
its not possible to do that in a viable way mainly because in many places tourists come from richer countries. An exorbitatly high deterrent-tax would paralyze the local market.
Getting a drug approved for use is an expensive proposition, but that doesn't mean that it is impossible for a nonprofit organization to step in and get the job done when the target treatment group is too small or too poor to make it worthwhile for those with a profit motive.

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, a nonprofit which grew out of Doctors Without Borders, just received approval for a pill that successfully treats African Sleeping Sickness.

>Ultimately, the drive for approval cost $63 million and involved clinical trials including 750 patients in Congo and the Central African Republic. Two million villagers were screened.

The costs were paid by seven European countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders and other donors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/health/sleeping-sickness-...
Germany: No punishment for man who stabbed someone six times over ‘handshake'
but if it's not enough to put them off, the tax doesn't work
I believe Quorum is the Ethereum variant that JP Morgan developed in-house and considered "spinning off" to the community, i.e. abandoned but on github. Not clear if JPM are still paying devs to work on it.
Reading the article has convinced me that drug patents in particular are a great idea. Isn't it wonderful that we live in a world where futuristic new treatments like this can be developed?

Yes it's true that people can't get the drug now, but at least someday it might be available.

Without patents, who would you find to work for free developing something like this?
For those who wonder what “DRM in latest Gmail” means: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/20/not-actually-confidential....
I solved some interesting technical problems this year. One was optimizing a script that took over eight hours to run, to just twelve seconds (validation code brought that back up to several minutes, but still a lot better than eight hours). Another was taking several map pins whose coordinates were based on the same physical address (just different suites/floors, and having the same exact coordinates returned from the API) and staggering them. I ended up using a spiral pattern to do the staggering.

An ongoing soft-skill problem I am learning to solve is the effective customer development.

An interesting UI/UX problem I am currently thinking about is how to allow people to draw sun/shade patterns, wind current patterns, and essentially contour lines that show elevation on their property (the last is to ultimately learn how water flows on their property, and where there are drainage problems) in a fun, minimal-effort way. If anyone has any suggestions on this, please feel free to share.

The last two types of problems are for my side project, AutoMicroFarm.
I went with the latter. We limited the total number of events to something like 5 or 10 years to avoid it [edit: the max age problem]. The only real issues that came up from that approach were:

* UX was hard when people want to change individual events that are also part of a recurring event (who wins)

* daylight savings time is an issue when you store datetime in UTC (you need to shift the UTC value in Nov vs in June to have it be the same "8am every Friday" event)

* saving a change across all of a large number of events created a large, slow transaction that caused slow responses (in some cases triggering heroku timeouts)

I was lucky that we didn't need to implement inviting guests, as that wasn't needed.

There were times when I wish I'd implemented the RFC standard: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt but never got to that. (We also evaluated just building on top of Google Calendar, but I was worried about building on top of an API that we weren't paying for, and there was the issue of tying in child equipment events.)
This is a huge problem for me. Still havent quite cracked it, but iOS Screen Time is helping a bit.
Melvin Kranzberg's Six Laws of Technology
No, eventually you get Lysenkoism, where the authorities start choosing what theories are correct for some reason or other, for reasons that leave them utterly disconnected from truth. But you can start down the road without noticing the problem because the price doesn't come due right away, and if there's an active scientific community somewhere else you can use that for a connection to truth. But eventually, if you turn your back on truth, you will cease getting truth, and you will pay.

Fortunately, for, uhh, national security reasons, our own science community is toying pretty strongly with the idea of substituting politics for scientific inquiry in many or most fields as well, which will prevent Chinese science from being able to lean on Western science for that connection to reality. Yay...(?)
Seconding this. I love that they don’t harass you to download their app when you open it on your phone browser.
Stable two photon brain imaging at single-cell resolution. Biological systems can be hard in unexpected ways.
If you read the article, the drug was in fact discovered at UBC, which is a publicly funded university.

But it turns out that discovering the drug wasn't the expensive part. The expensive part was privately funded.
The company running a tight ship front-loads risk costs. The firm that doesn't is arbitraging present vs. potential future costs. The apparent lower costs are illusory.
The generalization and broadening of scope of such laws is one of the most troubling agendas/trends of the surveillance state.

From what I've observed, countries are only more and more eager to adopt intelligence gathering methodology in a collective manner (à la Five Eyes). I'll quote Atlas Shrugged for this one:

> There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of law-breakers—and then you cash in on guilt.
Would you rather have this drug exist and be patented, or never have existed at all?
They still sell Itanian, I don’t think Spectre/Meltdown affect that product line.
Check out Chicago or Montreal. The tourist tax is just massive.
Pen tests are a good way of knowing if you have messed something up, but they do not guarantee that you haven’t. A pen test is not a substitute for other good security practices.
The idea isn't to put them off, that seems like a mindlessly cynical goal. Build the infrastructure to support the larger numbers. If the infrastructure needs to discriminate against tourists, that's fine too (e.g. added trains for tourists vs. commuters), new digital methods tool can allow for this.
> It is unclear what he means by "If your system clock jumps from one time to another...". If this is talking about NTP, it's probably accurate.

I don't know what he's talking about either. Most popular NTP clients (ntpd, chrony) will try very hard to make sure this never happens by simply slowing down or speeding up time. You don't know what will break if you just gap time like that.
"But of that 100 million dollars the bulk was safety testing due to regulation."

How do you differentiate the cost of safety testing that should be done and the cost of safety testing due to regulation?
A good solution here seems to be - don't organise conferences in places which are full of tourists already. You want to meet new people and learn? Great - book a country hotel and transport from the airport, or maybe a place in some town with reasonable plane connections. You want to also see the city? You're a tourist.
> The most exciting thing, we already have the language exactly like this! What do you think it is?

Python, of course.
I didn't realize how bad the gmail interface has become until I had to help some relatives with their accounts. I use gmail with a client (claws mail, formerly sylpheed) since day one when it was invite only, and never had an issue. That's like 13 years. To me being forced to use the web interface -including the much better old one- would be a huge step backwards; there's simply no contest on what's more powerful and fast to use.
I'm 33 now. Ill come back in 20Y time. I don't believe I've encountered my hardest challenge yet
Excellent point. Everybody in this thread who thinks that the most outrageously expensive branches of medical research will continue to happen without a profit motive would do well to think about how many examples of that we have, empirically.
AutoMicroFarm
This is just the mitigations at the kernel level, to protect the kernel from applications and applications from each other. Without this applications can't even attempt to secure themselves from these issues. I think to allow applications a chance to opt into being secure from these attacks without applying the fixes system-wide you'd need a way to disable speculative memory reads per page which would nerf performance even harder for the applications that turned that option on.
JetBrains are Czech, not Russian.
I am interested, my email is in my profile if you would prefer to send the links that way.
I mean, this is "valid" if this is the software the author wants to run, I'm just surprised anyone would go to this kind of trouble to run Notepad++, which is something like my fifth-favorite text editor.
And what makes that possible is the difference in space. In Western Europe you just look like a massive knob making your life difficult squeezing through small lanes or into city parking spaces with your pointlessly oversized vehicle. But in a sprawling suburban or rural setting there are no such limits, and marketing can have its way.
The main problem with imperial units is that it isn't a system. It's a hodgepodge of pieces of different historical systems, many of which made a lot of sense in their original context, but the context has been stripped from them and they've been mashed together with completely unrelated systems. A base-12 system would actually have some advantages, but very few of the imperial units are actually defined in terms of base-12, so it doesn't qualify.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'd settle for hearing about the hardest challenge you have faced as of now.
For me I need to see examples. The abstraction almost always just confuses me. Unfortunately most (advanced) mathematics texts are very thin on examples. It wasn't always like this. Mathematics used to (hundreds of years ago) be done with all examples and no theory! That would suit me just fine. It seems that some people are better at one way or the other. The present trend is towards the abstract side.
Locals who stay at hotels? Usually these taxes are only on short term accommodations like hotels and Airbnb
Twice I've got 12 mouse traps from Amazon. Each time it's been a different vendor (not Amazon.) Literally 20 minutes ago I just checked the mailbox, and there was a padded envelope in it - my latest (third) order of mouse traps, from a third vendor. Inside the envelope? ONE mouse trap.

Sorry, anecdote and vent. But yes, we need verified vendors that actually ship you what you order.

(I'll be a good boy and pick up mouse traps from Home Depot. I've learned my lesson the hard way.)
I've been using gmail mostly via IMAP for at least a decade and didn't notice any trouble. The only unusual things that I could notice is that gmail has labels, not folders, and some folders live in [Gmail], but otherwise I didn't see any serious trouble there.
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I'm not sure I agree. What you're describing is 'business'.

A startup is a company that's focused on something innovative and effectively high growth - something a VC could invest in.

Nobody is referring to the new Taco restaurant down the street as a 'startup' even though their revenues will be more than $1 M this year.

VC only makes sense in high growth businesses with large markets. Otherwise they are just businesses.

And 'an afternoon of coding' isn't really even that either - it takes more effort just to do the proper incorporation.

So these words I think have meaning.

'Project' as the commenter described is apt ... but I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of 'word' emerged that caught all the hype and was overused.
“Fine” from a performance standpoint, or a UI one?
There is no way gm has better reliability than honda. They had dangerous problems with their cars for years. Things like steering wheels popping off while you are on the interstate. JD power is dubious; look at consumer reports.
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This doesn't seem to deter the users of TypeScript, one of the languages that made it to this top 10 ranking.
I read somewhere that the Falcon Heavy will find a new niche in direct-to-Geosynchronous launches. Currently, most launches take you to a transfer orbit, then you have to use your satellite's fuel to position yourself in synchronous orbit, a maneuver that can take months. The Falcon Heavy skips the second step and you save your satellite's fuel. Can't seem to find the article at the moment though.
Maintanance, fuel costs and other operating costs would probably still leave small enough rockets competitive (because of the rocket equation rockets get exponentially smaller as the payload gets lighter).

But I agree in your point the Falcon 9 will become obsolete once the BFR is proven to be reliable and manages a sufficient launch frequency.
I see you arguing that things went just the way they should have all over this thread.

This point in particular is completely wrong. The two doctors who made the drug do not even hold the patent and basically gave it away for free to the company trying to distribute it.

So yes, if not for the patent this drug would definitely still exist, and probably be available to people who actually freaking need it.
We live on AWS. This is frickin' brilliant, and I just sent it around the technology department.

I also love the sponsorship message:

> Hey, this is sponsored by SendCheckIt - and by "sponsored" I mean that's what I've been working on instead of updating this list.
Thanks for that, I found some later work on bitbucket. I would love to understand what held this back from success.

I suppose no-one would take it seriously now unless it used Qt.

https://bitbucket.org/cwt/boa-constructor/overview
Nice. Good step forward.
I thought that it was by the same scammer that ran ublock.org?
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