skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm a bit critical in my comment below; Caveat being that I do appreciate David Edwards' exploration of the subject. Also, his talk is only 28 minutes. The additional material in the his book may well address what I've brought up below).

at about 9:29 :

> "The wall between the creator and the public is going away, and that it's becoming increasingly difficult to receive commercial value or to learn and not to co-create..."

I think this doesn't give enough credence the 1000 true friends / believers concept that Kevin Kelly and Seth Godin have discussed. The 1000 true friends theory is especially potent when the the absolute audience size is most of the people in the world, and only a tiny subset across that audience is patronizing the creator/artist.

Later in the video he talks more about the maker movement ..but comes back to "the lab" as a place that that can be captured and understood. I don't quite understand that..

At about 11:00:

> "kids are the ultimate pioneers"

I don't understand this - kids are certainly sponges for learning - but I don't think they're creative pioneers at all - calling kids creative pioneers is much too broad (IMHO). It seems kids are much more reactionary to the creativity that has been put in front of them; often in new mediums ...which means the creative pioneers already exist. Sure there are exceptions to the rule that are indeed kids.

Edit: re kids : in the video he shows a young child - and that is what I'm reacting to. But if you define "kids" to be people in their 20s ..well, that's different. That said, it would be interesting to have some statistics for creative pioneers who are kids (per some definition) vs others.
If it's true that there is a negative article every single day, do you take that as evidence of:

1) A bias in the media and on Hacker News against Google?

2) Evidence that Google is doing a lot of bad things?
You could write a basic HTML 5 page with an upload facility. In the backend you call your python script, sounds like was lambda might work for you as it is relatively straightforward.

You could choose a framework like ruby on rails or some js framework but they seem like overkill for what you want.
My computer was multi-tasking and had an off-line mail reader. I wasn't on-line nearly that long. (-:
Running Vim as a AWS Lambda Function
They didn't advertise that much, though. I only learned about XULRunner when I was trying out a keyboard-driven browser (Conkeror). Unlike Electron, XUL wasn't promoted.
Possibly of interest.

https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2018/04/make-l-reuteri-yogurt...

https://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/70456-lactobacillus-re...
Are there still seats for (PhD) interns?
I couldn't find anything on the careers page.
They fixed that(somewhat):

https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tutorial.html#!/stepbystep/i...
Ask HN: How do you evaluate a stock tender offer?
I have to evaluate a tender offer for private stock from a previous employer with a deadline coming up. I have some updated financial statements but have no idea if this is fair or not. On the one hand, it would be smart to diversify since it’s decent sum of money in the “SF house money” size. On the other hand, it would suck if the shares were actually worth much more and sold prematurely.
If intel does have a backdoor, would you think they were compelled to include it against their will by government, or that they willfully included it for their own use?
What I miss about VB was the ease with which I could make desktop applications.
Perl with poorly-performing regexes is beta software, as far as I'm concerned. Why OOP, junctions and all the less relevant stuff has taken priority over regexes baffles me.
Architecture of a Chair
Trying to write mods for Minecraft is what got me into programming as a teenager, this looks really cool!
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Because the runtimes aren't meant for small, high-performance app, and the language itself doesn't (or wasn't, until recently) give you the primitives necessary for writing high-performance code.
Are there still positions for summer interns?
Cannot find any intern position on your website.
automatic memory management makes certain optimizations very hard to do (you can't make cpu-cache-friendly array of structs)

javascript is very dynamic and V8 has very limited time to make its magic so the optimizations can't ever reach level of rust/c++ (but V8 can do some runtime-only optimizations)

it's very hard to predict performance of given code (and this itself is why it's the worst choice for perf-sensitive code, V8 is moving target, and what was fast yesterday might be slow tomorrow - so basically, it's not worth time and money to actually spend too much time optimizing javascript, it's much better to identify hot spots and do them in rust/c++)

It usually doesn't matter and it's more than fast enough for any kind of scripting, but it's certainly not a good fit for cpu-heavy tasks. I love javascript, to be clear.

BTW: run some node.js code with --print-opt-code so you have an idea how big amount of code is generated even for very simple things.
This is going to causes ripple effect in the industry. Leading Node is getting even more expensive, it used to have an expanding base of Smartphone using leading node for the past 5 years, sharing the cost and making them affordable. Now it is shared by a smaller number, which means we might see slow down on new node introduction. Luckily TSMC already has everything set for up to 5nm in 2020. After that, not only have we reach the end of Single Core IPC improvement, we might also have reached the end of MultiCore Count increase.
Heading to a cardiologist
Crude might be moved elsewhere to be refined. We then import gasoline and other by products? Just a guess... I don't have the numbers.
Typing on Windows Phone was a delight, for a touchscreen-based keyboard. They had their typing game on point.
Now with an Android device, I find myself switching keyboard software often.
Thanks. My point was, IIUC, economy is centered on material productivity (thus energy) because it gives us access to needs and thus more production => more chance of satisfaction. That said it occurs to me more and more that a lot of things that makes one happy are quite low on energy. Sitting on a hill watching the view. A river.. Happy neighborhoods. None of these are material constructions. Maybe society needs a tag to measure drift from happiness.
Like it or not, whoever holds the office of POTUS is extremely, extremely powerful, and Trump has massively influenced the U.S. economy.

> he'd either be a homeless bum or in jail

How could we possibly know this?

> When has Trump ever contributed to a detailed industrial or economic strategy for the US?

Trade with China. The rollback of NAFTA. The (attempted) undermining of the ACA. Tax reform. Etc. Etc. While he is not an absolute monarch, he appoints the cabinet members who oversee the expenditure of trillions of dollars, and government spending IS government policy. If he doesn't like what they do or views them as not implementing his will, he fires them (or insists on their resignation). See Rex Tillerson (State), Jeff Sessions (Justice), Tom Price (Agriculture) and various sub-cabinet level executive branch employees for further evidence.

> the shop behind him is sold off and looted.

Evidence?
Routr is now Open Source
I lurk the Matrix room for Rocket and I have no idea where Sergio finds the time to near single handedly develop a huge web framework while helping at least a dozen people a day get into it on the IRC.
No, I just stopped reading after a while. At the beginning he says he used the free edition, which is only Strunk. Your verbal abuse only reinforces my opinion that something is amiss with the anti-Elements stance.
> at my school in the US, the residence halls vary pretty widely in price

interesting, would you mind sharing what kind of school you went to? I attended a private liberal arts school and a medium-sized state university and both charged a flat rate for housing. there was basically a lottery weighted by seniority and disciplinary record to get into the best dorms.
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Star Citizen is going to be interesting. I used to think the holy grail of gaming was going to be in-depth RPG elements with crisp and visceral first person experiences. Now it's finally happening in many games, the granularity of gameplay mechanics and detail of real world representations coupled with the need to manage RPG elements and economy and maintainence of your bank account, character loadout and vehicles and all the minute details. It's all just a bit much.

What I have found so far with SC Alpha, which has no RPG elements yet, is that by the time I run around the stores to get my character geared up, requested my ship from it's hangar, boarded and prepared it's loadout, got my destination waypointed, begun and completed the travel to my mission... I am out of time or no longer engaged in the game and I tap out.
It was actually edit.com. (-:
I am really not trying to be an alarmist but couldn't one be extradited to Australia for not complying?
If software patents had similar effectiveness to hardware patents, sure. But rather what we've observed with software patents is that they don't actually work for the kind of things that should be protected, while encouraging a myriad of Foo-but-over-a-network and linked-list-for-Bar.

But that is moot - today's high margins don't seem to be based around novel software, or even software execution, but marketing and hence public image. Google isn't worried that somebody is going to clone the additional censorship techniques they've developed for China, but about controlling the public narrative to avoid disrupting their current marketshare/mindshare.
Isn't it partially true though ? at first true maybe but given some time they start a margin chase ending up in picking plants that will look good 1 month later on shelves even though they're not the best nutrition wise.
They usually say that the piece is an opinion piece.
There's no point to you discussing science with scientists then. Because that is exactly what scientists are worried about. Why? Because it happens all the time.
Is that incorrect?

Is some science more correct than other science? All sides are the same in this case, and communication in a climate of science where P values are eeked out of questionable datasets who is truly agendaless?

Science used to carry this undeserved "objectivism" which has always been informed opinion, subject to change by newer more compelling research. So I don't understand what really changed. It's always been a post truth society.
It is far from clear that turning oil into plastic is any less damaging in the long run than burning it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/recycl...
Old school. I don't think theres enough demand out there to bring it back tbh. Even though there are still many passionate ex-users - and maybe current users. Touch screens have proven to be far superior as they serve both input and output purposes.
"As a broader concept, a return to prevailing use of on-device processing and computation."

Will probably come back with edge-computing.
It has notifications, shows texts, let’s you reject calls etc.
sometimes I have a hard time telling whether people are posting an anecdote to support an argument or just to share. my bad.
However bad the quality of the experiments, the truth is probably worse than they suggest -- in some cases.

It is also true that violent crime is on a long-term decline, and there are people everywhere looking for a way to make things better. Provide such a way and people will flock to it.
This is reminds me of the new season of BoJack Horseman
Does the “show dead” setting override the shadow ban so one can view dead comments?

Interesting you can vouch for comments at ~4k karma and I cannot at ~31k.
You can still find VB6 jobs. Overwhelmingly successful platform that continues to drive Windows market share. Binary compatibility sucked but COM was ultimately worth it.
> Sitting on a hill watching the view. A river.. Happy neighborhoods. None of these are material constructions

Yet they're tightly mingled with GDP. Sitting on a hill is not relaxing if your family is starving. Neighbourhoods aren't happy if institutional instability and political violence is afoot. GDP isn't a material measure. It's a measure of production, which is closely tied to the subjective measure of value. (For example, digital goods.)

Production doesn't equal happiness. But it certainly helps make it attainable.
Fully-fledged DnD session in Minecraft anyone?
Surprised to see so much longing for Microsoft products on here!
Attracting tech talent to the Heartland starts with a better startup culture
Great hook! I'm needing the opposite: non-devs. A more general purpose platform for recruiting teams would be great. I imagine I'm not alone there.
In the early 2000's there many people, who'd want to develop with XUL (especially Intranet solutions were often done this way by people, who wanted an alternative to Microsoft technologies). Several people started creating IDEs or addons for Eclipse. Mozilla Inc. never showed any interest (or support) in this. There never has been an official schema or DTD for XUL, for example.

I don't know the reasons, Mozilla Inc. hated their own (technical) identity so much, back then, all the rage was promotion of Firefox on the web (Firefox coffe mugs, Firefox BBQ parties, community videos, etc., cheap, superficial themeing (Personas)). So, they dealt with identity on the social level. The CEO, back then, was a female lawyer.

It was very clear, that Mozilla Inc. didn't want XUL to become more important.

If we compare the addons, that existed for Firefox with those, that exist now for the Chrome/Firefox type of extension API, they were hugely superior. Now it seems, that half of those apps in the app stores are being used by the marketing teams of some companies, to place their logo somewhere, so people can see it.
It will be interesting to see what message Google goes for to try to convince ChromiumEdge users to switch over.

A features-based approach seems iffy. They can't push speed or site compatibility anymore, assuming MS doesn't completely mishandle the build. Even tiny Vivaldi seems to remain coupled closely enough to Chromium releases that it will be hard to say "theirs is so out of date and missing the latest and greatest."

If they try to deliberately hobble ChromiumEdge, it seems like it wouldn't look good to regulators. "We didn't test Gapps on Gecko, oops, it breaks" is one thing, but it's hard to keep a straight face saying "it mysteriously works in our version of Chromium and not Microsoft's"

Many of the differences they'd likely differentiate on (the sticky Google login, telemetry) are not features for the consumer, they're the features that benefit Google and justify the cost of developing a browser.
I agree it is an exciting phone, but what are the privacy gains versus an android phone with lineageOS and f-droid foss apps? AFAIK it's just the baseband code. Convincing regular users that opensourcing the baseband will solve any problems seems pretty DOA when you have the very visible google play services tracking issue and no on cares.
It's interesting to see Tumblr described in many articles/forums as primarily for pornography. Tumblr has been the biggest user acquisition channel (and a free one, at that) for my startup, which has nothing to do with pornography.

We've gained tens of thousands of users in a few days from a single user post, and several user posts have accumulated 50,000+ notes. This is all thanks to the strong accessibility groups around ADHD and dyslexia that exist on Tumblr.

I've spent (wasted) time and money on FB ads, and I wish that I could have advertised on Tumblr. Unfortunately, every time I tried, they only wanted big brands with $25k minimum spend.
We aren't talking of back doors here.

With an email provider you don't need a back door to get somebody's emails.
Yeah especially since that term is used to describe the Trump campaign and fake news in one go.

More truthful analysis would reveal science was never objective and just a collection of best guesses by all the scientists that contribute to the body of work. Truth was never an easy to define concept so the fact we only now realize that is almost scarier.
The human body is complex but it has a lot of global variables. All a virus needs to do is twiddle these global variables and sometimes it will have a beneficial effect for propagation. Any part of the body can chuck any molecule into the blood stream and have it transported round the body. Virus evolutionary processes can ‘engineer’ for things to cross the blood brain barrier just like pharmaceutical researchers. Even if you can’t get into the brain, you can still drastically alter behaviour by messing around with the rest of the body.
Funny how the word "disgruntled" always appears in attempts to negate unpleasant statements. Must be in some common algorithm...

Ad hominem is not really a good strategy for this these days. While we need to be cautious about veracity of any statement, using "disgruntled" is disqualifying anyone who uses it.
The "movement" is the bubbles of magnetic state moving along the track under the influence of an external magnetic field, not the track itself moving. So yes, it is both at once.
Oh this is actually really cool, especially because the lightweight nature of JS and the way this is designed means plugin experiences are more plug-and-play when you join a modded server, rather than having to have a plugin pre-installed or having a download time when joining the server.
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Definitely not in the case of the US. For other developed, liberal democracies, it'd be similarly very unlikely. It'd be equivalent to allowing China (or Turkey, etc) to extradite a citizen over speech that offends said foreign government.

The US is particularly aggressive about not ceding legal / constitutional sovereignty to other nations or entities.
Running this kind of article in a general-audience magazine takes a lot of guts (no pun intended) after all the trouble caused by another article about autism. That was a bogus paper in The Lancet in 1998 published by Wakefield et al. That paper, proven false, asserted a connection between Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine and autism.

But the effects of that paper linger on among conspiracy theorists. Let's hope this one doesn't have similar consequences.

Meanwhile, as a guy "on the spectrum" I'm going to try a subjective bioassay of L. reuterii. Can't hurt.
>Note that Turbo Delphi Explorer was a free version of Delphi 2006, not 6 (which was released in 2001).

Okay, I must have got that wrong. Thanks for the correction. I must have mixed up 6 and 2006, likely, since that Delphi Digital Clock v1.0 I mentioned elsewhere in this thread was written by me in 2010.

>TBH i think it made more harm than good overall since it disallowed installing custom components (which defeated a big reason for using Delphi)

Could be so. Yes, even the current Starter editions of Delphi 10.x (code named Berlin, Tokyo etc.) disallow that, IIRC. Or don't have the DB-bound controls (I forget which of the two it is, or whether both). I get your point about not being able to install custom components, which was/is one of the big plus points of Delphi, like VB before it (VBX and then OLE controls).

It hugely increases the ecosystem and potential, and was one or the main reason for the runaway success of VB (the other reason being the drag-and-drop GUI creation and ability to hook up procedures to events by clicking on an event in the event list of a control, and writing a snippet of code that reacts to the event, in the window that popped up, so I've read (I did some VB projects earlier too)).

But I do think that even the limited versions of Delphi are useful, to let beginners get entry to such a good RAD tool. Price is an issue for the full tool, I know.

Of course, I'm somewhat aware of the meanderings and corporate missteps that have troubled the product over the years, every now and then, as it transitioned from Borland to Inprise to Codegear to Embarcadero to ...

>and it was based on perhaps the buggiest and slowest versions of Delphi ever released with a convoluted setup procedure (that among others required an obsolete version of .NET).

Didn't know that stuff. (Heard about the varying bugginess of different Delphi versions over the years, though.) IIRC, I installed and used the Win32 version of Turbo Delphi Explorer, since I prefer non-managed EXEs in general, having a background in compiled languages like C and Pascal from earlier.
Doesn't this directly contradict GDPR?
Microsoft Bob.

Not because it was great, but because I think we need more exploration into alternate ways to interact with computing devices.

I've seen plenty of people - even young people - doing things wrong because their mental model of how their devices are supposed to work is inadequate or incomplete.

I've seen more than one person with hundreds and hundreds of browser tabs open on their iPads and smartphones, because they just don't seem to be able to incorporate the "tab" concept into their model of how their web browser works. And so they're constantly clicking and opening new ones without realizing they can switch back to ones that were previously open.
I would assume so. At a high level, not much different than node with express (Edit: for FaaS).
‘Nutpicking’ is now a common tactic of the media.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nutpicking
Google search is an exception in that it really needs to be a SaaS because there is no way you can run it locally. Your typical SaaS doesn't need to be one.
It’s not quite 30 days for me, more like a couple of weeks, but I have everything enabled.

It genuinely is really great, if it had an app ecosystem, slightly higher resolution and was a little smaller / more stylish it would be perfect. A FOSS OS and support for emojis would also be nice
Thanks. You are right, but I actually talked about pre-rendered, 3D (not 2D) and photo-realistic background. Pre-rendered 3D background wasn't a new thing even among adventure games (again, The 7th Guest had done that), but Myst was probably the first one --- at least among adventure games --- that really had photo-realistic pre-rendered 3D backgrounds.
Brain fog, intestinal inflammation. Sounds so very familiar.

Do you have research notes, on methodology and things tried? I'm now very curious for myself.
I was at Google during the time period when they shifted from leaks being rare to "literally every non-public thing told to the wider company got leaked". I can't say there was any particular cause, at least at the time, beyond just getting large enough that the probability of having a few assholes take advantage of management transparency goes up. Note that I'm very much not talking about leaks for perceived moral reasons, like the China search engine, pentagon contracts, etc; these make up a small fraction of the leaks, which are more around things like product and feature launches.
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Google Inbox. It's really a task management/reminder tool that just happens to pull in and bundle your new emails, too. Not sure where I'm going when the axe falls next year.