skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody sent me this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8za_4g5zCOM -- sure, not the same, but somewhat related. I guess there are people at the Doug Engelbart Institute who know more and better chorded keyboard offers. At one point, there was work going on to produce them again, related to the HyperScope project.
No they were not. Link? I'm in the FR industry, MSFT is a non-player.
See that looks nice and the website looks like it was made this decade.
I was making a comparison to /my cat/ as an anecdote. Not everything needs to be made a broad generalization.
Main reason why Google decided not to support DNT is because user data is valuable to them. They don't want to respect your privacy because invading user privacy is their business model. Microsoft tracks people too via analytics and you can read about it on their site so you can't say it wouldn't cost Microsoft any money. Only advertising companies would say that DNT opt-in is intended.
The later version of Privateer is the reason I'm a Clive Owen fan
This type of fear-mongering hyperbole does true harm in the fight to combat climate change. The world will not become uninhabitable. It will change in dramatic, unexpected ways, but it's not like it will become radioactive rubble. Feeding FUD about it just enables the deniers.
I‘d love to have Haxials KDX back. Spend endless nights lurking trough
MS Word 3.2 for DOS. Only word processor which could keep up with my typing speed.
It seems like a middle-class existence should still be quite trivial to provide for most Americans.

We can afford universal healthcare, but we can't afford a system of for-profit insurers, unconstrained pricing, non-negotiated drug pricing, emergency room doctors being "contractors" to some shady out of state/out of network racket etc.

We can easily afford to send a large majority of our "top" students to colleges for free, but we insist that everyone needs to go to college, no matter the academic ability. We also allow universities to use this "free money" to create degree programs with no job prospects in order to grow universities for no other reason than to make more money, at the expense of the younger generations. There is a shortage of skilled tradesmen and tradeswomen due to this, and of course the "solution" is yet another cry for more immigration.

We already have a large amount of struggling poor Americans we don't take care of, but we insist on programs that do nothing except subsidize very specific connected and powerful lobbies (tech, farming, etc.) Both republicans and democrats support this. Republicans have always supported the black hole of funding that is the farm lobby, and Democrats have recently given up the blue-collar unions to focus on immigration. I'm unclear why, but this campaign has been extraordinarily successful.

At the end of the day, all of the above causes the market to go up, until it doeesn't anymore. Any change in policy would most likely crush the market in the short-term but would potentially be a start at trying to fix endemic issues.

I guess we can't have the market go down though. That'd make the boomers mad.
I like his perspective and agree with many of his points, but his writing style needs some work.

It’s a blog post about ham radio, not a cringy thesis paper.

Short snippet:
>Next, as we seek those truths, let’s examine what an axiom is. An axiom is short hand for a kernel of truth. A poster sign. It is a spoken reduction of events and their goals that are self evident. Personal mastery and their axioms feed on one another. And the axioms contain vocabularies which allow us to understand skill and culture.

It’s far too academic and elevated for the medium (buh-boosh), and frankly it even borders on pretentious
Corporations don't work that way. GM has already weathered bring called evil by Trump and politicians with the power to cause it trouble. A little name calling from Musk would not do anything.
WE GOT OUR WHOLE SCHOOL TO SUBSCRIBE TO PEWDIEPIE
WaPo has a bit more information. It’s a temporary repair that will need more work in the spring.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/12/07/an-...
I'm schocked that I had to read this far down to find Hypercard. It is such a highly regarded piece of software, though I sadly never had the opportunity to use it myself. I can't help but wonder what it might have turned into had it been open sourced, made cross platform, and allowed to flourish.

And while I'm here, WordPerfect 4.2. That program was a high water mark in word processing for me. What I wouldn't give to hit Alt-F3 in Word to Reveal Codes [0].

[0] https://mltshp.com/p/1EL4C
"We like to live in this dream state that the most powerful countries matter. They dont. Ask the Taliban."

You mean ask a bunch of people living in the stone age, who are getting killed en masse what they think of their power relative to others?

I think you picked maybe the worst possible example: just because a group can live on rice in inhostile territory doesn't mean that the power ratio is negated.

If the Americans wanted to actually destroy the Taliban it wouldn't be that hard, it would just come at a cost nobody wants to pay.
8. Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication.
This is the first example of a Xanadu feature we don’t need. A tool for readers and writers should not get involved in the concerns of platform or content providers.

i disagree. the idea of a link tax that is becoming law in europe shows very much that this permission needs to be spelled out explicitly. it is a crucial component of an open network.
Why Should You Use a WordPress Form Builder? 10 Benefits to Consider
You know, I also got my (official) start in an xBASE language (FoxPro), and while I am obsessed with the history of inventors like Englebart and his successors, those xBASE environments had more going for them than I tend to remember.

"Ordinary" people could use those tools to make useful things. We seem to have gone backwards from there.

What was different about those systems?

They were integrated usage environments. Batteries included. In FoxPro, you got:

- built-in database
- built-in documentation
- built-in UI for editing data
- built-in UI for editing schema
- windowed environment (even in DOS)
- oh yeah and a scripting language

This was first and foremost a usable environment immediately. "Development" was an advanced usage.

Emacs is this way. Smalltalk is this way. What they get is that programming languages are useless by themselves.

Contrast with now: the apps we build involve wiring together a database from here, a compiler from there, just figuring out how you're going to make pieces communicate and finally, you know, get something on the screen. Sure, there's an upside to composing systems a la carte. But the learning curve is far more prohibitive.

(Also, those xBASE systems just will not die. Just this morning I got an email question about a system that's been in service for 25 years now. How many of today's apps do you think will still be used (indeed, sold!) in 2043?)
Bill Buxton's chording keyboard collection: https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/type.aspx?t=Chord...
You can build this with scrapinghub.com — IIRC it’s a portia project.

Kimono was the best for this until it went through a quiet exit to Palantir.
I would love something like Apophysis 7x that is fully capable of utilizing modern hardware setups
Is there an ideological bent behind your opinion? I'm not going to assume there is, but this sounds like something a radical vegan or a PETA supporter would say.

In any event, as several other people have chimed in, ask any vet.
What is your motivation for this?

Are you asserting that buying oil from Sweden will somehow reverse Norway's independence?

Or that we should punish Sweden for having had the union with Norway?

Seems a long grudge to carry for a hundred-year-old "amicable and peaceful dissolution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_between_Sweden_and_Norwa...

Like recommending the US should not have helped England in WW 1 because of the war of 1812.
PalmOS (the original one)
>> Many researchers would be able to provide software 10x as useful as that of Google given access to the same data.

That's interesting. Can you share more about this ?

As for your pre-sass search engine idea:it's great. Very useful indeed.

But how do I get from that , to finding the bunch of separate webpages that describe how to solve my personal, niche problem( in a really good way ? Most problems are like that. Context is always different.

And yes Google is far from ideal. And SEO sucks.

But still, that problem solving capability is now available to many.
What I doubt is that this excellent research done will change the status quo on the ground in the next 10 years to come.
Timeful. An amazing iPhone todo / calendaring app that was bought by Google and shut down.
3rd Wave Data Visualization
we are fixing this shortly. it was an oversight.

Edit: fixed links should be going live in a few mins, via: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch.github.io/pull/141
Sweden is not an oil producer.
Do you know of any write ups or forum threads talking about this? I would love to read more.
Won't happen. Apps with those features get accused of being racist.

https://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-f...
Microsoft Image Composer
Numerous articles discussing the new models vastly underperforming estimates and expected sales volumes. Meanwhile, when the SE launched it sold very well. I think they’d have a similar success with an SE2 given those two factors and the age of the SE. I doubt the factors that led people to purchase the SE have changed toward the negative in that time.
The singular of (anec)data is surely (anec)datum.
Esri offers an ArcGIS for personal use program. $100/year gets you ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and a bunch of the apps.

I've never used MapPoint so I don't know how it compares - I expect the ArcGIS stuff is more powerful but less usable (for your particular needs) than a more focused solution.

Note: Esri calls isochrones (30 minute drive time) 'service areas' and you have to search for it under 'network analysis'.
> Conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas, and notes. Improv separated these concepts and used the cells only for input and output data. Formulas, macros and other objects existed outside the cells, to simplify editing and reduce errors. Improv used named ranges for all formulas, as opposed to cell addresses.

Amazing.
GethDesk v 1.0 beta for Ethereum Geth Go console client. (Feedback needed)
Hello community! Recently wrote an app which needs to get some constructive feedbacks.

GethDesk— is an open source application written in JavaScript to simplify work with Ethereum Geth Go console client and shows you data about your Geth Go node current condition without using console commands.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Put a star on Github page if you find it useful.

What problems it solves?

When I started using Ethereum Geth Go it was very inconvenient to gather data about my node status so I decided to code an app which simplifies use and data visualization from running Geth Go node.
The video in that article is great!
What if what they like is trash?
Link to app https://github.com/edmlbox/GethDesk
If you find people staying safe to be tremendously harmful to your politics it might be time to reconsider your viewpoints.
"US sanctions against Iran are not approved by UN or the EU."

It doesn't matter.

She sold US made goods to Iran, and so she broke US law.

As though she assaulted a US official or something, it's not so much EU laws that matter.

Also - if your example of 'US selling stuff to Iran' is the 'Iran contra affair' then maybe you made my point, because this was a massive scandal, and it's 30 years ago. If that's the extent of it, then it's not bad.

Also - the sales to Iran were part of a government sanctioned geostrategic initiative, much like the sanctions in the first place. I don't consider that problematic: if the US is the one making sanctions, and the US wants to adapt those sanctions for geostrategic reasons that makes sense.
* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today.

* Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program. Combining its sprite model with the necessary several years of modernization it would have enjoyed had it not been abandoned would be impressive and easy to use.

* High-performance lightweight desktop email clients. I was especially fond of one named AK-Mail in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Blisteringly fast on PCs of its era, a modern incarnation would seem incomprehensibly fast compared to today's bloated apps that have difficulty keeping up with keystrokes on 8-core 3.5 GHz monsters. Of course, back in the day, desktop apps were built in systems languages and not in JavaScript.

* As a broader concept, a return to prevailing use of on-device processing and computation. Today the too-facile argument that data must be shipped off-network to a third-party cloud in order to be processed efficiently means this happens all the time without users paying it any attention.

[1] https://twitter.com/boxnwhisker/ (scroll down to see a bunch of examples)
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 on the same stuff
It struck me as a poor ripoff of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity

https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.1/
Sim Earth
Oh man I loved FrameMaker, I used it to write my thesis after spending a couple weeks fretting over and trying various features in Word and LaTeX. FrameMaker blew both of them away in terms of ease and ability to manage styles and table of contents, bibliography, equation editing, everything that normally makes writing a book hard.

I just went and read the history, and hadn’t realized that FrameMaker used to be UNIX and Mac only. Windows support was the last platform to be added, and after that UNIX and Mac support faded out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FrameMaker#History
Oh geez. I can’t remember the name of the browser. It was portable/usb based. I think it actually came with my usb back in 2008 or 2009?

Any page you went to, it would show you the media of the page on the right hand side in a column and you could simply click and download it. It essentially kept a running tally of media elements on the right side.
I've built several printers (albeit FDM models) and am interested.
You're clearly a goat who will eat anything.
I've tried scrappinghub i think in past. Extracting a redirect sequence was not possible at that time.

Also, it didn't handle popup windows. And you couldn't select which popup window to switch to.
This news is based on one weekly oil inventory report, which fluctuates greatly because of the timing of oil tankers coming in and out of ports. Each VLCC can hold 2 million barrels of oil, so a timing mismatch can make the report swing largely. I would bet next week the US is a net importer again.

That said, the US oil production grew incredibly this year. It will be a net exporter again. In addition, the US has large refining capacity, so it gets to export oil derived products which were counted towards the net (The actual crude oil exports were still only half its imports).
Minneapolis will become the first U.S. city to end single-family home zoning
Sine when China has become one of USA's 50 states?
Hah! As one of those involved with Google+ drama, I'm thinking of how/whether this might be relevant, and am thinking "yes" to the latter.
Here's an example of doing both:

$ cat test.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

template <typename F>
auto pass_func(F func) {
return func();
}

auto return_func() {
std::string test = "Hello World!";
return [=](){ return test; };
}

int main() {
auto func = return_func();
std::cout << pass_func(func) << std::endl;
}

$ clang test.cpp -lstdc++ -std=c++14 -o test
$ ./test
"Hello World!"

What's hard about it?
A better title would be "A Summary of Responses to Freedom of Information Requests About Student Housing Policies". There is no survey (scientific or informal) of students to find how or if these policies affect the friendships that they form and keep long-term and there is no comparison to whether the intent of these policies is realized or if students tend to circumvent these social integration attempts. In fact, there is not a single piece of information in the article that was contributed by a student (Unless the VP of NUS, who is quoted once, is a student). I think the title is intended to stoke irrational fear of institutions controlling lives in unseen and potentially uncomfortable ways. If you read the news looking for reasons to justify your xenophobia and/or distrust of education, this headline is exactly what you hope to see. The only thing to fear here is lazy writing and the author's use of "freshers".
You can use Adobe DNG converter (free) or other 3rd party tools to convert new raw files to DNGs understood by Lightroom 6.
If you hear the actual interview, it's quite different. Elon says very casually and non deterministically that it may be a good idea. That too after the interviewer pressed him.
Really? I'm interested in Facebook Workplace but it seems to be just Facebook groups + Messenger. Slack appears a lot more robust than Messenger.
The big thing I liked about Winamp was the equalizer. It should be built into streaming apps. I think Spotify has one, but it's not advanced enough. It would help my car's mediocre settings and speakers, also.
We are very much trapped. The entire U.S. political system is geared towards automobile-based structure at every level of government. Coal is embedded as well. Imagine if the federal government had never subsidized the interstate system, how different our cities would look.
In my wishful thinking daydreaming I imagine a service kind of like steam for dead MMO's call it the MMO graveyard or something. Pay a monthly fee but it works for all the games on the system, maybe an integrated friends list too if it's possible. Would be really cool for history and game design reasons.

I want to say I heard that a law passed about not closing server based games anymore but I can't remember the details.
More of thws on hacker new's plz.

Seriously though, I love how lighthearted this is. As many folks here have said, we could use more old-school forums in our lives. And goats.
My first major phone was a windows phone and I loved it! My favorite was the tile app design. My phone's Bluetooth also had a crazy long range. I could have my phone in one area of the house and use my Bluetooth on the other side.
Sprint was so far ahead of its time. It took many years for Sprint’s “always be saving” technique to be widely adopted by other word processors.
An anticommercial search filter strikes me as increasingly needed.
Eudora
Hypercard - specifically the version that was combined with QuickTime so that it understood audio and video media too, and ran on every OS.
Blockchain (too early?)
Flight control!!! I would pay for that game again. I wish I could query apps in App Store that are from a certain year. I would go all the way back to early 2010s.
I was just talking about how it was a shame windows phone didn't catch on last night, I really think they should have doubled down on it at least as hard as they did on the original X-Box, it really felt like they gave up on it too soon.
Dude you need to capture this whole scene on a camera and upload it on YouTube. Sounds so exciting and entertaining to watch.
lets not for get the political baggage of Mozilla: I would have liked to use firefox, but I'm boycotting it because of the awful smear of Brendan Eich supported and perpetuated by contributors to mozilla. A huge number of people would have to stand up and apologize for participating in that despicable mob action before I'd go back.
I've been walking my 1.5 y/o cat on a leash since he was about six months old.

I walk him just about every morning. I can't sit down to program until he's had his time outside, or he'll meow incessantly for it.

Walking a cat is much like she describes. They don't walk at all like dogs, but rather sort of zig zagging at what is interesting at that moment. There are certain leashes that work better than others.

I see in this thread a lot of people that "tried it" and the cat didn't like it. There is a lot of build up to walking a cat outside, that starts with just having the harness around. There are guides on how to do it, but you don't just throw a leash on the cat and see how it goes, then give up.

I posted some photos [1] of my cat on his walks, including one showing him climbing a tree while on his leash. It shows a bit how much fun they can have outside.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/EdwhS52
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18621291
This seems a frequent problem. What is the most robust formula for sorting by average while boosting by frequency? Something like avg(ratings) * log(len(ratings)) ? Maybe that curve needs to be tweaked based on the use case ?

I wish sites like amazon had something like this, since sorting by average rating is completely useless if you have a long tail.
I have found the best part of taking up amateur radio as a hobby to be the book learning aspect. The world of electromagnetism is fascinating.

When I started communicating locally, my thrill was squashed by uninterested complaining old men who thought my equipment was not expensive enough.

But radio theory and engineering, that's great stuff worth learning.
Dismantle OPEC and let them sell Oil in currencies of their choice instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency
>Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible.” But the company fails to meet this standard within its own workplace. Google routinely denies TVCs access to information that is relevant to our jobs and our lives.

yes. and, sorry to go off on a tangent, but i always felt this way about Google's documentation of its own Android platform. they punted the organization of the android programming discussion to StackOverflow, and were pretty lackadaisical about improving and standardizing their own documentation.

it's like the saying "charity starts at home" or "bloom where you are planted" or just get your own f$%^&$#g house in order.
I still run Windows 7 in Parallels on my MacBook Pro.
Cons:

* Rakudo -- the only P6 compiler for now (and likely many years, maybe forever) -- has a slow startup, around 0.1 seconds or so.

* Rakudo is still a work in progress. What's done is pretty solid but, for example, no one has implemented the `-a` awk/autosplit command line option (cf https://gist.github.com/raiph/1d0cbefcb3cfe45b0b906282e6e405...) and command line usage is currently `use strict;` by default so you have to declare variables with `my`.

* Pros

P6 makes for sweet oneliners...

25 one liners being written up this month: https://perl6.online/category/advent-calendar/

9 categories last updated a year ago:
https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners

https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+oneliners
https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+one+liners
Sometimes I wonder if the cheerleaders really notice that they said exactly the opposite a few months ago. Some people seem to be wired to enthusiastically go with the flow without thinking too much about it. Maybe they really believe what they are saying?

You see the same in politics. Example: People strongly believe that deficits are destroying the country while the "other" side is in power. Then "their" side comes in, increases deficits and these people immediately forget what they thought about deficits before.

Maybe Orwell's "doublethink" in 1984 was just an observation, not fiction.