skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not entirely P2P, you need a server for initial connectivity.

But it's probably good enough for most P2P applications (I saw someone building P2P CDNs with it !!!)
If you're going to make a comment like that, about a single moment in a video over an hour long, you could try and be kind to the reader and at least say where in the video this occurs.
What did you expect? I'm not saying that the guy is or isn't a horrible monster, but if he had ethical qualms with what Elsevier does or how it operates, he would have either changed it or left.

The same goes for everyone who works there. They have either found a way to justify that what they do is ethical and okay, or would quit. That's just human nature.
> This provides no basis for comparison because the App Store has been the only way to install apps on iOS

This has never been the case. You’ve always been able to side load apps that are either signed by an Enterprise code signing cert (used to be $300/yr), or your own developer code signing certificate ($99/yr). The former allowed for redistribution outside of the App Store.
Absolutely no aspect of Taler could be reasonably described as "government spyware".

First of all, only receivers of Taler tokens are auditable (and the reason for this is so that businesses can show they've paid their taxes correctly -- unless you are a "taxation is theft" type of person I'm sure you'll agree that if you want to have large-scale systems of doing transactions this is a requirement unless you want government intervention). Consumers are not auditable, nor is it possible for any third-party to correlate their purchases.

Comparing this to BitCoin, you would have to also argue that BitCoin is "government spyware" because it provides a public transaction record -- which is far more information about consumers' transactions than is available through Taler.

By the same token, VISA or your bank is government spyware. That's just a ludicrous argument.
I see much more necessity in 24/7 transport than in leaf blowers.
- AR: Handheld devices will make way for wearables with augmented reality displays. This will largely be led by usability advantages. Like Google Maps will see a shift towards glasses with augmented reality displays. Think navigation instructions from Google Maps overlaid on street view-like camera imagery on a wearable device.

- Robots: Robot sidekicks, like Vector: https://www.anki.com/en-us/vector, but bigger and more useful, will become common. Tbh Vector is currently at best a cute and expensive toy. With progress in AI, specifically at the intersection of language understanding, computer vision, and robotics, these robots will become easier to talk to and work with.

- Self-driving cars: Self-driving cars will be common, with some business models getting to wider deployment faster than others, for e.g. Waymo, Uber, Lyft. New set of traffic protocols will likely emerge on 100% self-driven localities (humans' traffic rules are _extremely_ inefficient for robots) for faster + safer transport.

- Space: Space tourism will start to emerge. There will emerge entire industries supporting this shift -- from ticketing aggregation services (like Kayak.com, etc. for space) to data services (equivalents of AT&T, TMobile, etc. for space) to cargo (faster earth-to-earth, earth-to-x), hotels, hospitals, etc.
According to one online source, 'jammygit', you bought several Phil Dick novels at one of those used bookstores. Maybe that's why you feel 'weird'.

I also regret the loss of so many used bookstores ... one of my favorite haunts. We can only try to visit the survivors much more often.
> Most apps are 90% table views, buttons, lists, images, nav controller transitions or modal slideups. Since Ionic gets all of these pretty much right, every Ionic app that makes heavy use of these components will look like a native app.

I took a look at this again today, using a demo I found online: http://ionic-team.github.io/ionic-conference-app/www/, which I converted to a web app by adding it to my homescreen. Please let me know if this isn't representative of the current state of Ionic development. Here's just a few of the things that seemed broken/were wrong:

* I can't scroll to the top by tapping the top of the screen.

* The appearance and behavior of the search bar is incorrect.

* The size of the segmented control in the navigation bar is incorrect.

* Scrolling the menu frequently breaks completely–as in, I can't scroll at all. This also happens in the "Filter sessions" page.

* Swiping on switches doesn't match the system behavior: I should not be able to move it until I lift my finger. The animation that changes the switches from "wide" to "circular" isn't correct either.

* I broke the scrollbar insets on the support page.

* I can scroll the navigation bar out of the viewport.

* The background color for pickers is wrong.

* The location from where a backwards swipe can begin is wrong.

* The touch target on bar buttons is too small.

* There is no vibrancy at all.

And from a stylistic point of view:

* Floating action buttons are for Android, not iOS.

* Hamburger menus that duplicate the function of the tab bar are frowned upon.

* Table view selection isn't correct–it deselects itself too quickly.

* Buttons should be render before the view loads, not after.
Any experiment concerning consciousness is likely unfalsifiable. It's a subjective phenomenon, by definition. Even if you could get approval to futz with someone's consciousness, you have to ask them what they are experiencing.
Groping is certainly an issue in Japan, but much less so than in the past. MOJ stats show around 8K cases/year in the sixties and seventies, with that dropping to ~1.5K by 1990 and ~1K in recent years. (Anecdotally it's probably dropped even more than that, as one would expect more cases went unreported in the 60s than today.)

Stats: e.g. http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001178520.pdf

Side note: according to an article I read at some point, women-only train carriages have apparently not noticeably affected statistics on groping cases. (Which is not to suggest they're not worthwhile for other reasons.)
It's way easier to contribute to Google Maps, and Maps blows OSM out of the water in features, usability, and data quality.
Yes a fat table, a big proof, and some marginalia which is wonderful pure humanities.
Caramel color is the trigger for me, you may want to isolate that as well to see if it affects you negatively. Apparently caramel color is made by burning sugar (the stuff at the bottom of the barrel) and yields various byproducts.
This happened in Australia with Toyota, Ford, Holden (GM), and I think before all that, Nissan and Mitsubishi. Also in New Zealand with Mazda/Ford, (edit: Toyota in Thames) at least in my lifetime.

Subsidies have never worked. It seems in the end these companies never paid net taxes and the workers lost their jobs anyway. Subsidies are a scam.
This comment is more directed at hn commenters than the article itself.
I'm led to believe that free journals aren't successful precisely because they don't have standards. They don't have standards because they can't fund people to do basic vetting (this is not the same as peer review), or otherwise are eager to accept whatever comes their way- which are usually papers that have been rejected by the reputable journals.

Assuming there is no money driven agenda, even the reputable journals have the issue where much of the content doesn't get peer reviewed. The findings are far from concrete.

But money driven agendas definitely exist too, and without basic vetting a journal finds itself hosting bs lobbyist material with sloppy "science" finding favorable results for anti-GMO, alternative medicines, organic farming, anti-vaccine, etc. The problem also exists that these entities are effectively funding their own journals to buy "legitimacy"- and they certainly would pose a threat to any journal that doesn't have high vetting standards.

As of yet, free access journals aren't reputable or actually desirable because they don't have adequate quality control. Free access to information is a worthy and noble goal, but we can't render the information useless in the process.
I think what is missing when people think about colorization is how the the look, feel and fidelity of an image places it in our minds. It is less about the exact colors than the specific style of color palette that we have catalogued in our brains with all kinds of weird associations.

Right now we think colorization looks great when it looks like a modern, natural palette from a photo shoot or movie, but it looks schmaltzy and cheap when it mirrors some 1950s over-saturated early foray into color film. We have those placeholders in our minds and quickly deduce which is good and which is bad.

But those verdicts change over time because they are as much fashion as anything. For example, many Instagram filters emulated early film cameras but now people simply look at certain photos and dismiss them of they look too filtered.

Or a new trend I've noticed in YouTube music videos where they are made to look like old VHS camcorder home movies for some ungodly reason. Those VHS artifacts are now a style choice because we've see interesting things that have those attributes and want to capture some of that spirit.

Color is always going to be a style choice and colorization choices say as much about what we are used to seeing right now as they do about how things looked in reality back then... though they are weirdly and closely intertwined.
> Anyway, I wonder if there is any protection built-in that prevents the exchange from looking you up on linked-in and associating your salary information with your job, then selling the data.

The same exact problem exists with BitCoin or any other cryptocurrency where you need to pay an exchange money directly (through some method). Most exchanges require you provide government-issued ID (due to the laws in most countries having strict requirements about financial businesses having to know who they are trading with).

However, the really clever aspect of Taler is that the privacy is geared towards consumers and not businesses. You have to buy your tokens (as before) from an exchange that might ask for your identity, but after that the tokens can no longer be correlated -- they look completely unrelated to businesses and other users -- which means that correlation-by-credit-card is no longer feasible. In BitCoin, you can in theory correlate transactions made by a given person.
You can precisely "quarantine" the "human referree part within the framework of a formal proof. That's still a huge step forward from the status quo of reasoning and opinion being smeared together and nothing formal.
> Is this really your experience or are you stating what other devs say what their experience is?

Both.

> Because slow and laggy are no issues, especially on iOS with insane JS performance.

Not every iOS device can say this. And there are certain things that a webview just cannot do performantly, no matter how fast JavaScriptCore is.

> "Not looking right“ – I have never had a single email or review saying this.

People will not generally voice this to you, especially since they may not know what about the app looks wrong to them. But they might be put off from using it, or at least dislike it, without telling you.

> Normal people care about the tasks they can complete with your app and maybe missing features, but not small UI details.

I really believe that both things are important, especially since small UI details might sometimes be things that are important to them. Take accessibility support, for example, or inclusion of keyboard shortcuts.

> And furthermore: even small details that aren’t perfectly polished aren’t necessarily a deal breaker. But of course, it depends whether or not your app is exchangeable and lots of competitors offer a similar experience or not (where polish maybe matters more).

This is true, obviously, but in my experience, at least on iOS, polish is very important. Apollo, the Reddit app, is a good example: it's has found a niche where people use it over competitors because it's more polished (it's not enough for me, but I'm especially picky.)
Holy shit! I guess in the age of trumpism nothing is a surprise anymore. Well, we have the brightest here on HN, how about someone make a go at a competitive solution?
My beef is that Microsoft created an update always culture (a good thing), but they are now “extending” the practice in ways that don’t reflect a customers best interest.

The future, which is subscription models with limited time away from activation servers, breaks your needs fundamentally.
It has been standardized as RFC 8478 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8478) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Parameters (https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parame...) with name: zstd
Note that they analyzed only version 1607. Before Microsoft started publishing Telemetry documentation and before GDPR. Also akadns.net or microsft.com does not appear in a current (1809) diagtrack.dll.
The inventor was trivially wrong, though. This was all born out of looking at a complex system, failing to understand it, declaring you've got a better idea, then learning over the course of a decade why the current system exists and that in fact you did not have a better idea.

(1) Trust is not a problem, it's a huge optimization. The sheer power consumption of cryptocurrencies is hard, demonstrable proof that trust is an efficiency.

(2) Debasing money (aka inflation) is a feature. It's a regular haircut for unproductive capital, and is, as designed, completely irrelevant to people who invest their capital. Even in most people's biggest investment, their own homes.

(3) Banks are trusted and regulated. Exchanges are totally unrelated fly-by-night banks set up because being your own bank sucks. This is not an improvement.

(4) Fractional reserve lending is fine because the FDIC guarantees the funds in the event of a run. This is a further efficiency, allowing the economy to move faster with freer access to capital.

(5) Identity thieves draining your account at a traditional bank has recourse. As we've seen in crypto, that's where this is a real risk - you've got nobody to hold accountable.

(6) Micropayments aren't something people want as it turns out.
A direct script tag loads synchronously. This technique does not. In modern browser you can just do <script async>.
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> Technically, this can be implemented already. However, for successful adoption, a standard interface has to be defined.

This is literally the opposite of how the web works. The web is based on the Extensible Web Manifesto[0], where first we come to a consensus and see widespread adoption, and then we make a standard that reflects that consensus.

> We have a fantastic and highly secure execution environment from a host perspective. But from the guest perspective, that very same environment looks like MS-DOS, where memory is a giant playground with no rules.

Well, yeah. Add me to the list of people who are just kind of confused about why fixing C's problems is the responsibility of the browser, and why people thought that it was ever a priority for WASM. WASM is a VM-like isolation chamber for low-level code. It's not designed to make your code safe, it's designed to protect the host environment from unsafe code.

I've seen multiple people make the argument that manually laying out memory in WASM is a design flaw rather than one of the biggest points of the entire implementation. Manually laying out memory with close to zero restrictions or paradigms or safeguards is the thing that makes WASM good.

I feel like I missed something, I don't know where people got this idea that WASM was trying to be a higher level tool. It's an extremely low-level language-agnostic compile target for both safe and unsafe languages, and languages that care about safety should add their own safeguards as they see fit.

[0]: https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto
Surely part of this process is to sue the courts to cover your legal fees and time?
The Data Big Tech Companies Have on You (Or, at Least, What They Admit To)
I bitched about it at the time, but the bailouts worked. They saved jobs for ten years, stabilized economies in free fall, and made the governments involved a profit. Ten years of employment is nothing to sneeze at. Plenty of baby boomers hit retirement in that time.

Frankly I'm glad GM is moving out now while the recession still hasn't hit.
>let me know when [...] I can reliably install it on any hardware and expect it to work without issue.

Consider yourself told, then. Linux works OOTB on pretty much all hardware, often better than Windows since it ships with all of the necessary drivers.

>to claim it can replace Win10 for the average user is a stretch

The average user can handle KDE Plasma just fine.
Are we still talking about publicly funded research that’s being pay walled?
I'll leave this quote here as my response:

> There is a most profound and beautiful question associated with the observed coupling constant, e – the amplitude for a real electron to emit or absorb a real photon. It is a simple number that has been experimentally determined to be close to 0.08542455. (My physicist friends won't recognize this number, because they like to remember it as the inverse of its square: about 137.03597 with about an uncertainty of about 2 in the last decimal place. It has been a mystery ever since it was discovered more than fifty years ago, and all good theoretical physicists put this number up on their wall and worry about it.) Immediately you would like to know where this number for a coupling comes from: is it related to pi or perhaps to the base of natural logarithms? Nobody knows. It's one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man. You might say the "hand of God" wrote that number, and "we don't know how He pushed his pencil." We know what kind of a dance to do experimentally to measure this number very accurately, but we don't know what kind of dance to do on the computer to make this number come out, without putting it in secretly! — Richard Feynman, Richard P. Feynman (1985). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-691-08388-9.

[my emphasis added]
Those aren't free, they drive up prices by a few percent and frankly fraud only matters for large transactions and/or untrusted merchants. Bitcoin is cash, not credit, and avoiding 2-3% of fees tacked on by credit card companies is more than enough reason to want internet cash for purchases where you're not concerned with fraud.
Maybe the simple mention of Stallman is what broke the attempt at surveillance. :-)
Subjective doesn't mean unfalsifiable.

If the experiment is double-blind and a statistically significant proportion of participants report subjective differences according to a survey, and the results can be replicated... then you're good to go.

Obviously there's the question of what it would mean which could be argued over... but if the effect is there, it means something.
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There is one more obvious option: make fines not monetary but time consuming. For example you acummulate points and at certain threshold you need to do some public work, attend some courses or get some of your privileges revoked .
Although, it isn't only limited to online console stores, some publishers are pretty terrible on PC too. As an example - in my region (New Zealand) Call of Duty Black Ops is still $99 on Steam, and that released in 2010...

(Activision, you there? I still want to buy it but I can't justify that price for an 8 year old game, or even the half off sale price right now...)
I really appreciate having a high-level diagram of system architecture when joining a new project. It gives me an instant feel for whats going on and even if its slightly out of date it gives context to the evolution and design decisions of the codebase since then. That said, there's nothing that beats the good ol' step debugger and diving into the code first hand. They're complementary. Without the diagram its kind of like building a mental model of a room by feeling it out in the dark.

Edit: I'm not too strict on UML exactness, as long as it gives a feel for the components, data flow, etc.
Neither of those methods permits the general public to install the app.
This is the first I've heard about this topic, but what's different about intrinsic curiosity to me is that its a record, theres some of yourself in there, you are testing your own experiences against the world from a beginning point of recalled experience in the moment, rather than I guess exploitation-exploration is throwing things at the wall? But I'd guess that still comes from a place of intrinsic curiosity even if we can't see it.
I know they’re not free, and I’m happy to pay for the service. I can name a large number of smallish purchases I would not have done online if I didn’t know that Visa would make it right should the unknown vendor stiff me.

Bitcoin is piss poor cash, given the wild exchange rate swings and the ability for it to be stolen online. It literally has no property that I desire.
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They are referring to the finding that plants utilize coherence to transport photons efficiently to reaction centers to be converted to chemical energy. A quantum trick not thought possible in biological settings.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22996054
Cool stuff! Thanks for offering to answer questions. While reading it I was wondering why the service wasn’t to offer a “tugship” capability by altering the satellite’s orbit. Would that be viable or am I missing something?

In other words, is the benefit of docking, cutting away thermal layers, and injecting new propellant into another satellite is that it enables the customer to control its own destiny for 5+ more years, versus waiting on tugships?
They're trying to role out this type of shit in Singapore now (Chinese firms providing the tech).
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By Richard Stallman’s brain likely increase the odds somewhat.
That's the point. Currently nobody can build that because Apple doesn't allow it.

And where does this Sandbox wrapper for third party app stores exist for the Android ecosystem where it is both allowed and their are five time more devices?

Many eyes" results in fewer bugs over time, not zero bugs instantaneously. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better.

Have any statistics to back that up? Is Android more secure or less buggy than iOS?
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Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.
This history is well known in China and part of the history curriculum.
Central banks and government in general. It is government which guarantees the validity of fiat currency, so if you want to undermine governmental authority then attacking the monopoly on currency issuance is an obvious place to start.

I'm just describing this rather than endorsing it btw.
I'd favor something like clustering and client-side filtering over gatekeeping. Mainstream academic research can coexist just fine with fringe theories and industry research in the same database as long as one can efficiently distinguish between them.

And keeping everything together in one (de)central database would make it possible for people, so inclined, to annotate other people's work with new references to support or debunk the work long after it was published, or to clarify ambiguous language, etc. Those annotations, too, could be subject to filtering as needed.

People could build reputations and whole careers around tying up loose ends instead of the "publish or perish" grind.