skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still waiting for GPS trackers to get small enough for cats to wear comfortably on their collars. It would be fun making an app that did interesting things with that data.

I'd be more curious to look at my cat's "fitbit" data than my own. A lot of cat owners would love to check on their cat's roaming data.

There, a little tech for you without straying too far from cats, pardon pun.
>This is a very wide net and immediately includes effectively every free software developer, and the employees of every tech company.

This doesn't seem very meaningful? I live in the US. If the Australian government goes to me and tells me to sabotage my employer, I can tell them to pound sand.
Just the other day I was in downtown Seattle and there was a protest going on - which isn't a strange occurance - and as someone who is probably even further to the left than these protesters, I couldn't help but think that while I essentially agree with everything the protesters are saying, it is a real shame that these people are so bad at communication, unification, and even garnering any real enthusiasm about them. They're bad at their jobs.
Modern resource consumption is just huge compared to any time in history, but it seems a fair number of past societies have collapsed due to resource exhaustion. The big difference is how good we are at using resources, not that we do it.
Fanny Bernadett Wellingborough – Adriving School of Motoring
See also Pomax's "A Primer on Bezier Curves":

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Discontinuing the PhoneGap Push Service
Used to be normal to let children explore and play freely around the neighbourhood as well. The good'ol days, I guess.
Your would look at vw plans. ID Neo looks a mind blowing car
If you make it illegal to buy companies, people won't start startups.
I know a lot of people who loved Windows XP, but I always hated it. Especially compared to Ubuntu, it felt like the past. Having to hunt down drivers and install them before any hardware started working was a pain, and after I tried Ubuntu and it auto-detected my wifi card and sound card, that was the end of any respect I had for Windows XP. And that's not even mentioning the number of times I had to call the phone number and read my license key to the robot to get my activation to work.

It wasn't until Vista came out before I could go back to Windows and not feel like I was taking a step backwards in time.
There is, but it does not apply to me.
Ever thought of making this work with OSC? Then you can get more resolution on the control curves.
> It is true that one can easily write unmaintainable spaghetti in Perl5.

This was something that surprised me when I first learned about Perl 5 in college. Most people in the internet would parrot it as a "write-only" language and yet I've always being capable of getting the whole picture of a code snippet posted on Perl Monks, Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc. Granted I've always steered away from golf code which obviously has its place but shouldn't be mistaken as being the "de facto way" of writing Perl 5 or Perl 6 for that matter.
This runs off of an unofficial emulator that is a monstrous hack. There are lots of gotchas, bugs and so on.

On the other hand, an official emulator is in the works and should be released at some point.
I keep regularly pointing out at work that the platform I'm building is basically dBase III+, with the form designer etc. There are improvements, of course - the networking etc. But at the core we're building a platform to let our internal users quickly build new forms and capture data that's pretty much about doing what the dBase form designer etc. did.

It's crazy to me that even the tools that are trying to capture this space today have not managed to beat the usability of that.

E.g. tools like Airtable are great as long as you're trying to do something simple, but then you hit their limits, and suddenly the step up in complexity to do what you need is too large. Whereas with tools like dBase you could start with "just" a database with the default entry, and the steps up to gradually build up to a full application were small in comparison.

It pains me a lot of the time to see people basically try to reinvent tools we had in the 80's and do it poorly because they're just not aware of the lessons of those systems.
Don't forget all 3d printers were 15k not that long ago.
Nitrous.io they had the best online IDE I have used.

They were going to put a standalone version up as open source but never did.
Without S. Boulardii, I am a neurotic mess who can't digest anything at all nor think straight after eating anything, so I'm inclined to believe this hypothesis.

I am also intrigued about what this means for criminality and how the line between illness and evil is likely to shift given the role of microorganisms in behavioral dysfunction; and more broadly, we don't like to admit it, but it seems that completely amoral factors can be the cause of moral, amoral, or immoral behavior.
> As a broader concept, a return to prevailing use of on-device processing and computation

I don't think anyone ever liked developing for the web. It solved three problems pretty well:

- Data portability: log in from anywhere, have your data at your fingertips.

- App model: no broken installations of programs into desktop environments, dependency problems, DLL hell

- No concern about the mostly broken Windows desktop: viruses, etc.

(1) is mostly a solved problem even on desktop, the web just got there first. We have everything from Dropbox to various data APIs.

(2) is largely solved in mobile app development. It's instructive to consider how: very locked-down app APIs to the operating systems (e.g. no dumping files all over the place), standard packaging formats and distribution channels (.apk, .msi), etc

(3) is also mostly solved on mobile.

I would go as far as to say that in 2018, software should be native-first. And indeed it is, in mobile. The major shift is desktop->mobile. Mobile development has much more in common with native desktop development than web development. The reason desktop isn't likely to come back is because it's a niche market. Everyone has a phone but if you aren't in tech circles, it's surprising to see how many people barely use computers at all, especially those who don't work in offices, older folks, and the less well-off. A mobile device does about 99% of what they need -- most people aren't "creators", they don't author websites, write code, edit videos, design buildings, etc.
Speaking of railroad simulation games, Sid Meier's Railroads! is still one of my favorite games of all time, even though it doesn't work on any system with more than 2GB of RAM. Everything about that game was perfect. Nothing has matched it since.
You're getting down votes but this isn't a feeling. This has been confirmed.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-sl...

This is an extreme example but it just shows they're not that worried about performance of older models. I don't think its sinister or anything. Its just not a priority.
I believe the entire use case you present was already acknowledged in the comment you are replying to, I. e. the “easy interface” to “exclude certain routes”.
I have a feeling that he would like to buy the buildings but get rid of any of the unions that might be working there now. It's not great that all of the protections for employees are being thrown out and seen as too costly.
huh, don't know for others but for me it doesn't have one hundredth of what I bought
Jesus you're bad with money
I would prefer a mobile hotspot with 24+ hours battery life, and a couple of different tablets: 1 small 4.5 / 5" and 1 that's around 8" / 10". That way I would just use the device i feel for using be it a smaller one or a bigger one. Basically make us all portable hotspots that future smart clothing and devices can connect to.
Repair shop owner here...that throttling is typically caused by an older battery. Putting a new battery in the phone revives its performance.

One of the tests I run when a customer brings an older iPhone in is to open the camera. We had a customer with an iPhone 6 where the camera would take 20-30 seconds to open. After we replaced her battery, it opened in a second or two.
It's an Australian law, so it can only affect people under Australian jurisdiction -- I didn't think that needed to be said. There are significant numbers of free software developers in Australia (I'm one of them).

The point is that all software engineers (in Australia) being able to be co-opted as saboteurs is a fairly "meaningful" problem and should be a concern to everyone...
My advice is the PS4VR "Battlezone" game is more of a re-imagining of "Arctic Fox" than a faithful remake of battlezone.

Luckily I really enjoyed both games the first time around.

I find it hilarious that the main difference in experience over 30 years apart is the resolution is a bit higher and the game is un-necessarily over complicated.

Un-necessary overcomplication "because its possible" is a likely outcome of every suggestion in this entire discussion, unfortunately. "Lets do a cool new CP/M" turns into "Windows 11", unfortunately.
I never used Google Reader, but iGoogle was my homepage for more than 5 years before it was ripped from me. I still miss it.
> it’s fascinating how quickly our culture has forgotten what used to be completely normal.

It also used to be completely normal to destroy aggressive dogs, especially ones with a history of biting people. Now we "rescue" and "rehabilitate" those dogs.

In light of that, it's good that we've forgotten how to let dogs roam the neighborhood unleashed.
I completely agree and I used to work at Microsoft.

Microsoft lost because they didn't have the users or the apps. It's an instructive story of how an inferior product can win. I'm not saying that happens all the time or that it's inevitable, but I think it's safe to say that's sort of what happened here.
I made a commitment 2013 to only buy repairable phones. 5 years later my fairphone finally died (tbh, I had been wanting that for quite some time) and Motorola's vow to provide official parts for its phones made me go with them. The reason to buy the latest and greatest has never been smaller.
We're in no position to accuse cats of being an invasive species.
Well we're definitely being suppressed by you it would seem!
> 3. It was probably the first computer game outside the racing/flight simulator/FPS genres that emphasised a first-person perspective.

Disagree with this one. First-person dungeon crawlers, maze games, illustrated text adventures, gun games (different than FPSes IMO), and more had been around for well over a decade by the time Myst came out.

I broadly agree with the rest, though.
did you see the exciting new PalmOS 4.1 m515 emulator?
I'm especially looking forward to an emscripten build of it, for iPhones!

https://github.com/meepingsnesroms/Mu
I was replying to your own claims, but I dont think it actually is ridiculous to worry if novel food products could "wipe out the human population". Its just an unnecessarily extreme phrase for catastrophe, but it is possible. Disease can wipe out a population and novel material exposures can cause novel diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Food safety should not be presumed on theoretical basis, only a long history of consumption can reliably evidence it.
Case Study of 1
I don't disagree about "no-go" areas, but since the comment to which you replied didn't mention those, and your own comment set off a sprawl of off-topic comments, I wish you hadn't written this here.
Kubernetes for Developers
Why We Need to Forgive Kevin Hart
With all the comments regarding the resurrection of Windows Phone, I really want to know the developer experience that came with developing WP apps. I haven't had a chance to work on it, but was there any way something like flutter or react-native could have saved the ecosystem.
So what? It's not hurting you.
All good advice, except you're not at all unique.

I meet plenty of software developers, scientists and engineers in Copenhagen who don't speak Danish. (I'm one of them.) Those living in Malmö have an easier time, so they're more likely to speak Swedish.

...written while waiting for the Øresund train from Nørreport. Malmö has the better concert tonight :)
FLATLINE: How the Amiga Languished
As a whole, Rust developers see 1.0 as a stability commitment and to my knowledge, everybody (well, not Rouille) wants to be async and depend on Futures 1.0. I believe Futures 0.3 is most of the way to where the Futures team wants 1.0 to be and the initial roadmap was trying for 1.0 in 2018 so my uninformed guess is that we'll see Futures 1.0 in the first half of 2019. I expect the whole Rust network server ecosystem to shift around over the coming months as Futures and async/await come online in the next few months.
Probably depends on the kind of work you do. When I did my masters in Interaction Design in Malmö, I was offered a job before I even graduated, and I still don't speak Swedish.

And many of the people I studied with (international students) stayed, and I'm not even sure how many of them actually have picked up Swedish yet.
I would resurrect Microsoft Streets and Trips. I have never used it, but my father still does, and swears it is better than any online mapping software. Part of the reason I would like to resurrect it is that then I would no longer have to figure out how to install his ancient CD copy of it on whatever netbook he buys every 2-3 years.
Mailbox.

The cross platform email client bought and abandoned by Dropbox. To date, I have not found a cross platform (or really any single platform) app that's as fast as Mailbox. I don't know how they did it, but everything felt truly instant. All of my devices would simultaneously ring when an email arrived. Archiving/deleting/snoozing emails instantly synced across all platforms (including the web Gmail client).

The aesthetics of Mailbox remains unmatched by any email client available today.
The Truth About Kids and Technology: Tech’s Effect on Children’s Minds
I’ve enjoyed the company of cats most of my life, and have had a few that really enjoyed being outside with me:

One loved to perch on my shoulder and go everywhere with me.

Another (not strictly mine, he came with a long-term relationship) would bring his harness to me for walks.

My current loves to look out the windows, but will not go outside on her own. Instead, she has a backpack that she loves to travel in, and is extremely happy to go for “walks”. She’s been the delight of the local pub, and gets jealous if I leave without her.

I am still wary to leave cats on their own outside, mostly due to health of them and the local wildlife population, but am happy to facilitate outside interaction.
There are phrases and collocations in the OED.
- Amapi 3D

- trueSpace
> the residence halls vary pretty widely in price, and so the factor that really decides where you live is how much you can afford

What affect does that have on the social environment? Are there status differences based on residence hall, for example? Is it racially segregated like many cities are (partly as a result of economic segregation)?

It's interesting to compare your school to many U.S. cities, which are trying to reduce economic segregation[0] - your school seems to codify it. Why not at least mix larger and smaller rooms in the same dorms?

[0] See this article on a major policy shift in Minneapolis, for example:

https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family...
I hope you are referring to Thucy...

OldManCoyote
Yes, progress is tracked here: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19
warrant canaries, but for individuals
The plan was always to get on stable[1]. Sergio just wasn't willing to compromise on the API to make it happen sooner and I appreciate that since it's a motivation to stabilize the things Rocket depends on. The release notes being discussed here mention that Rocket should be on stable with the next major (Rocket) release.

[1] https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19

edit: specify Rocket release, not Rust release
I believe the mention of Rolls-Royce, in association with “avoid area” may (legitimately) create the impression that this is a feature for pearl-clutching snobs afraid of “dark people” coming for their women and other belongings.

It’s perfectly okay to consider this and still say the feature’s benefits are overwhelming. But the rabiat outburst of denying even the possibility is an indictment of the posters more than the suggestion that triggered them.
>I don't think "pet" is the right word

Pet is exactly the right word. The word you seem to be thinking of is wild animal, which is distinct from a pet. A pet is an animal kept by humans for human comfort and entertainment, not an animal living naturally in its native habitat.

It's fine if you disagree with pet ownership, but making sure an animal only does what its human owners want it (be that staying indoors or roaming free) to do is the definition of owning a pet.
> You don't have any purchases
In my case, because it's too easy to speak English all the time.

By policy and practicality, we speak English at work, including at lunchtime. My group of friends includes several people who aren't learning sufficient Danish (e.g. only here for a PhD and that takes all their spare energy).

That means I don't hear much Danish, and don't have so much opportunity to practise. The language is unusually difficult to pronounce, so although my reading/writing improves, I'm rarely understood if I speak.

But you did say "years" — after years, most people do speak some Danish. The motivation is different depending on having a Danish partner, children, a well-paid technical job, security of residence (e.g. being from the EU vs elsewhere), and future career plans.
Orion Platinum (a virtual synthesis studio app Richard Hoffman designed and released as Synapse Audio, who only make VST plugins these days.)

Cool Edit Pro (win-only audio editor with some interesting effects and processes.)
To explain: Assuming causality is a cognitive bias. Assuming causality in other people’s outcomes can be .. another kind of bias. Dogma comes in when only certain assumptions are permissible.

I don’t mean to drag the discussion through all this, I was just asking a question (above) and answering yours (here)
> Of course, someone will then create an escrow service that gives you the opportunity to dispute the transaction, in return for a small transaction fee. Maybe they’ll even offer to let you buy things in Bitcoin and pay them back later in cash, and charge you interest. I bet they could add in a rewards program...

...and you're back at square one ?

No: from a monolithic, impenetrable system you get an environment which favors competition. That's a win.
A Preview of Your Chinese Future
I think the closest complete project to that we'll see for a long time is MISTer, which uses an Altera FPGA board w/2 ARM cores.
This is a somewhat interesting discussion about reviving Xanadu if you ignore the silly attempt at shoehorning blockchain into an application that doesn't need it.

A decade ago, I also tried and failed to create a compelling transclusion based system: http://www.bookvoid.com

I'm not sure why transclusion isn't popular. I think partly, it's because you get 90% of the benefits from using existing hyperlink based systems, partly because having visible URLs at the top of pages identifying a unique source of trust is necessary and mixing content from different sources into a single page would be too confusing and introduce too many security issues, and partly because it is too much of an effort for typical readers to navigate a hierarchical and intertwined structures of information.

While I may like to explore information by uncollapsing fragments and hyperlinked documents to reveal a level of details and collection of sources that I choose myself, a lot of people seem to prefer to be shepherded through linear top to bottom narrative tailored to their level of proficiency and purpose. This explains the popularity of video sources like Khan academy.

Reference websites such as wikipedia would be prime candidates for the use of transclusion and Xanadu like layouts and I suppose they use some of it already. For example, last time a used wikipedia's mobile app, it collapsed sections and allow them to be opened inline. But for some reason I can't pinpoint, more genuine Xanadu like integrations fail to catch on.
I think what you describe has more to do with the population in general than the artificial limits of the various mediums.

In BBS and early Internet days (pre-95 or so), people who were using computers were highly intelligent. Certainly above average.

These days, everyone and their dog is on the Internet. The masses have moved in and thus the medium shifted to accommodate them, by dumbing itself down to the lowest common denominator. With the shift away from a knowledge repository to advertising and consumerism ("the spectacle") the SnR has dropped significantly.

In cybernetic terms, during the early years of the Internet, the space acted upon you, by programming you. Thus, if you lacked knowledge, you had to put in the time and educate yourself in order to explore and learn to use this new space efficiently. Cyberspace forced you to get better.

These days, the opposite happens. The masses act upon the space and dictate its evolution, downwards.

Looking back, I can't help but mourn what could have been but I also feel enormously lucky to have lived through it all.
Working on bringing this (os5) back on modern cheap microcontrollers. For fun. So far, I have it booting on an STM429 Dev board. I post occasional updates in /r/palm

(I'm the guy who was palmpowerups)
Seconding this request; the idea of domesticated cats behaving like this is kinda mind blowing, I've never seen that kind of ordered social behavior.
Those required the presence of a version of Basic in ROM (I guess to keep the size of the executable down, not primarily as a license-checking scheme), so they didn’t run on all hardware.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Disk_BASIC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Advanced_BASIC)
Laws eventually get abused.

I think it’s very likely that this law will eventually lead to everything everybody is worrying about.
If you have any legal citation, I'd like to read more.
Do you think that will just magically happen on its own?

The party that may win the next election already supports the bill. They claim they would update it with a few inconsequential changes, to make it look like they're "fixing it". But that's about it.
The old Byline iOS app
The Angel Problem
Turbo C++ 3 is still popular in parts of the world. There is a steady trail of people on the various C++ forums asking why modern code they copy and paste fails to compile on Turbo C++, and why code that works on Turbo C++ fails so miserably when fed to a compiler less than twenty years old.
Have you read his quotes? This guy really does not shy from calling for blood. That's pure Nazi shit. "empty accusations" is quite dishonest as he literally calls for death of _thousands_ of his fellow citizens.
I remember being, at age 13 or so, in the library of the college my parents taught at, a year or three after Myst came out, and finding a book that was exactly the same (general) style as the linking books.

I have no idea what it actually contained at this late date, only that it was infinitely disappointing that it was not a linking panel. (Probably some sort of dry research.)
Thanks for the intro to QGIS.
The "travel time by transport type" on the diagram is rather misleading.

The journey time by train from city centre to city centre is around 35-40 minutes, but that's compared to a journey time by car of 10 minutes — just the time to cross the tunnel+bridge.

The equivalent car journey is around an hour, assuming no traffic.
It's usually done when part of a litter, they don't want to
break brothers and sisters apart (though it's usually done 2 by 2 or more)