skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American Airlines and Its Terrible New Seats
The Opera 12 browser, for umpteen reasons:

- UX-wise, it solved many issues browsers today are still struggling with. Vivaldi is working in a similar direction, but they've basically started from scratch again so aren't close to the point of development Opera had achieved by version 12.

- These HN posts from today's frontpage [0] [1] give some idea of why we really need Presto today. Not only would it just be good to have more competitors in the space, but also, for most of its existence Presto was ahead of its competitors in every detail (except for the one important, and very political, issue of "site compatibility", a.k.a. making badly written websites work). It also, similarly, got many UX points working at an engine level that modern browsers still get wrong, like text selection of html content and link text, responsiveness of scroll and of page links during navigation, etc.

- M2 will never be surpassed by Thunderbird, and quite possibly will never be surpassed full stop (though I really hope I'm wrong about that).

... so many other things

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626316

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622516
MS Money.
Hmm, I'm not sure that makes sense, since a lot of the deployments we're concerned about don't involve authentication (using biometrics in place of passwords), but other kinds of surveillance.
Pedantic counterpoint: Academic papers would be less likely to even attempt explaining the jargon and how it functions, so on one level it might be appreciated that they are making that attempt to make a topic more accessible. But I do agree it could be less flowery to increase clarity.
> Globalism is neo-feudalism, offshoring and massive immigration lowers the cost of labor for the rich and the result is death of the middle class and the creation of a global equilibrium for wages.

And why, pray tell, do you have a right to a high-paying-with-benefits job? Certainly, it was more likely for your parents to get such a job. Certainly, the pay and benefits were well fought for. Certainly it's better to have such a job than to have a job with less pay and benefits. But why do you feel like you have been wronged when such jobs are lost? Why do people deserve such jobs?

I think that if you delve into this line of thought, you end up either with the labor theory of value (we deserve it because we worked hard for it), or nativism (we deserve it because we were here first). The first is economically indefensible, and the second is morally indefensible.

Yes, you may (in theory) tax the rich to prop up your economically unsustainable lifestyle. Go empty the bank accounts of people like Hollywood A-listers and Wall Street financial executives and put the money into getting another couple weeks of vacation, a $10/hour raise, guaranteed six months of paternity and maternity leave, free healthcare, free daycare, and a fat pension besides. But if we're going to empty their bank accounts, then why do you deserve the cash?

Why don't college students deserve the cash? We could pay off all that student debt and bankroll free higher education for the future. Don't kids deserve to enter a bright future, unsaddled by debt? Or what about infrastructure projects? Don't we all deserve not to sit in traffic jams? Don't we all deserve Gigabit fiber Internet access to the home, bridges that won't collapse, smart energy grids that pay us for the excess energy from our houses' solar panels and batteries? Don't we deserve that?

Around the world, do you know who thinks that they deserve being well-off? Saudi princes think that they deserve their oil wealth. Russian oligarchs think that they deserve their gas wealth. Chinese politicians think that they deserve the wealth the Party has given to them. Why are you different? Why do you deserve more - because you ask for less?

The universe is a pretty unforgiving place. You only deserve what you can persuade people to give you, and most of the time you can only sustainably do that if you can make an honest, rational argument for why it should be given to you and not to somebody else. If you try to make economic arguments with emotional appeals, you may win some of the time, but the arc of the universe is going to bend towards undercutting you.

Nobody deserves to grow old in the same place they were born. Nobody deserves to have a guaranteed lifetime job with the same employer for forty years straight. And so nobody deserves to be able to say, "I have a right to stay here instead of moving far away for work."
Here's my problem with smart contract maximalism.

Suppose my ether gets "stolen". For whatever reason I am able to turn to an external legal framework -- police or a law suit.

Why wouldn't I just skip the middle bit and go straight to dumb contracts executed by smart humans, rather than smart contracts executed by dumb machines?

What exactly have I gained over the status quo if, at the end of the day, I still rely on the enforcement mechanics of the status quo?
I can’t scroll your page on mobile (iOS). It feels like the website is stuck in a tar pit.
What's the best way to keep the laser pointed just in front of the nozzle?
A generational garbage collector would not have that problem.
I could never get any Windows Phone to see my WiFi access points. Tossed both of them the second that happened.
I guess this article is just about the UK. I don’t know how it works over there, but at my school in the US, the residence halls vary pretty widely in price, and so the factor that really decides where you live is how much you can afford.

I’m also an RA, and to put this in the nicest way possible, let’s just say there doesn’t seem to be a housing agenda with the specific goal of creating diverse communities (IYKYK).

Again, I don’t really know how it works in the UK, but at least at my school, I’d say it’s definitely “by chance.”
At the time, the Transmeta Crusoe was the only x86 System on Chip (SoC). Every other CPU needed an extra chipset to provide a PCI bus.
MacWrite Pro. Intuitive UI, just-right feature set. Best word-processor I ever used, but sadly Word had the market sewn up before its (much delayed) release.
He means that he's looking for a politician who is a partisan of the left but who does not play partisan politics.

So, as you say, someone like Bernie Sanders who is a social democrat (and therefore who by definition is someone a large swathe of the population loathes instinctively) but who is able to communicate to both the left and the right saying, “Yes, I understand your fears but look, it’s not right and we can do better than this”

I think it's a very tough ask. Inequality is breeding division and extremism, I don't see how one magic or special person can appeal to both sides of the aisle. In a way, nearly all politicians are like Macron fiddling while Paris burns.
Over two years after Pebble shut down I am still wearing my Pebble Time Round every day and it works just as well as the day I got it. There's really good community support with Rebble.

You can still find Pebbles for sale in various places and I'd recommend getting one over any of the Android Wear watches. They're just that much better.
Yikes. Headline gore.
Try the "state of the onion" series of speeches.
Not original commenter, but I reluctantly switched to the cloud version and have found the improved credit card logic to be more than worthy of the increased price.

I'm hoping they can add support for the EU's second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) open banking APIs when they open up to third parities sometime in 2019 too!
I really hope Purism's Librem5 pans out for this very reason. A third alternative. I don't want Windows Phone, since that would not buy me much more privacy than Android with today's Microsoft, so having an open 3rd party mobile platform would be the solution here, I think.
Huawei faces catastrophe in the technology cold war
Holy crap, I've been looking for something to replace my pebble... This product can't be real... 30 day battery life?!
> oil products have energy density that batteries are barely starting to be capable of

Not even close, diesel/gasoline stores 35 MJ/l, a good battery (lithium-metal, much better than lithium-ion), 4.32 MJ/l

Now, if only we could extract 90% of that diesel stored energy.
I'd say System 7, maybe 7.5, but i think it went downhill consistently after that!
The US should ban export of all high tech related IP to China as a national security concern. The wholesale outsourcing of decades worth of our hard earned technological innovation is treasonous. China would never give us access to that kind of tech if it were developed in China.
Windows Phone above all, then Symbian and some nice closed source games such as Fallout, to port them on Linux
Choo Choo Steam Trains, for iOS (http://www.apptism.com/lifestyle/chillingo-ltd/choo-choo-ste...)

This was a brilliant train game that vanished from the Earth. We used to have the paid version on an iPad, but I think it vanished after an iOS update. My dad has the limited free version on his old iPad that he doesn't update to preserve this game.

I think it's a shame that this game disappeared (also because I paid for it), and I've considered whether I might be able to make a clone of the game.
Request nuclear release! Request nuclear release! Request nuclear release!
Thanks :)

I used 4bytes initially, but then built my own internal directory that is more precise (has parameter names, and a slightly larger database).

I plan to open-source it, along with the better 4 bytes :)

Over the weekend, we're hacking something off the data provided through the unofficial API - you can check it out here:

https://github.com/kolinko/showmewhatyougot

(python showme.py {address})

the sources are relatively easy to understand, and allow for some nice contract analysis
This will probably be unpopular opinion but I found it striking how he feels the biggest problem with Trump is how liberals react to him, not the vast numbers of ignorant crypto racists the who put him in power and continue to support him.
Nice idea! Is there any resource on how modern ad blockers detect and block ad banners?
It looks similar to the Amstrad PCW. It become the most selled CP/M machine but most people bought it as a word proccesor running only LocoScript.
Man found dead inside Manhattan's Google headquarters
Using chrome headless
The ability to avoid an area is a useful and apolitical capability. I often want my satnav to exclude driving through cities as it's more relaxing and often faster to drive around, and when there are roadworks or large scale events it is really helpful to be able to exclude them.
I'm not sure if silly is the word here or that I agree. They've found a niche, the reside comfortably in it, and judging from their blog posts: their developers are very happy doing it.

Doesn't seem silly to me if it's working for them.
Liberal vs. Conservative Party
Hey everyone. I was literally blown away by this video. I can’t believe some of the things said here yet honestly it seems to make some sense. Like why would the liberal party promote all this biased and divide when it claims its goal is to unify everyone? Maybe this dudes just retarded. What do you guys think because I’m honestly torn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdbYoaVjw
HTML, more readable: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/happy-10th-anniversary-p...
Doesn't that simply depend on how often you have to leverage human enforcement? Whether you have to do it <1% of the time vs 100% of the time would drastically change the answer to your question.

It's like chargebacks. 99.9% of my purchases I will never issue a chargeback for, so most of the time I choose to use a payment mechanism (cash, bitcoin when I can) that doesn't come with all that overhead. If I was frequently getting screwed by merchants, then my payment habits would change accordingly.
Haven't seen that before (although not tested the website on iOS much). Maybe this link helps instead:

https://github.com/CONNECT-platform/connect-platform

And the product itself is a development platform so I would highly recommend checking it out on desktop. Will checkout the issue of the website on iOS asap as well.
Inoreader looks like flipboard or Feedly.

I didn’t know about The Old Reader and I will give it a try.
If it's any consolation: Those "uninterested complaining old men" were there even in the 70s, when I got started. Hell, it's probably the same bunch of guys. :) So don't let that deter you.

Electromagnetism is indeed fascinating.
Not an expert, but if it were cheaper, some other company would appear which would buy from the US exporter and sell back to the US importer, avoiding oil going outside the country.

The oil markets are some of the biggest and most efficient in the world, so there must be a reason for this.
Liero. Fun game. Apparently the source code has been lost.
In part, I would imagine, because IIRC they were trying to do the same concept that Apple did about shipping one OS built for desktop/phones with different flags, so that would require opening a large swathe of the Windows source tree.
I'm on the path to getting my first license. I have done the studying, but now I need to find a club willing to administer the tests...if the hobby is to survive clubs really need to jump on 'new blood'. It's amazing to me that many of the regional clubs have domains pointing to dead websites, that are still registered as the correct contact by the governing body!

The old man image is going to be hard for the hobby to shake off whilst this remains true.
How to make a carbon tax popular- Give the proceeds to the people
Unfortunately, the performance of regexes has not been improved much in the past years, that is true and on the radar. Yes, it can be improved (very much indeed).

Most other subsystems of Rakudo Perl 6 have been improved significantly, some by orders of magnitude. And then there's work on the basic runtime of MoarVM and its JIT that will benefit all programs running on MoarVM.

The Perl Foundation recently approved another grant for the JIT: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/11/september-2018-grant-... about http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/10/grant-proposal-moarvm...
Right — as I remember, if you embedded an Excel object into Word, the Excel part was implemented in a DLL that loaded directly into the Word process space. This would have been so much more stable if it instead started a headless Excel server process. With DCOM, this kind of cross-process COM worked great, but that came much later. OLE 1.0 preceded COM by several years.
If you can't actually extract it (because of limitations like Carnot efficiency, etc.), does it actually count? What's the real figure for usable energy in diesel?
Best method to download online videos for Android
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Hideous. I live in a high density building and the neighbors are so loud and disrespectful. Supervisors and police do nothing about it.
Wow - well worth a watch.
404.

I think it's due to the capital S
Same. Rushed my way to Extra class license by feeding on EM fascination, enjoyed meeting some super-cool tech-oriented locals (in particular retired telecom engineers) and then slowly faded out as the less-interesting but super-talkative people droned on about cats and grocery stores and their particular equipment. I went on to start learning Morse Code and wrote a little trainer program for it so that was fun as a brain skill but the HF bands from my urban townhouse can't get past the HV cables right outside my window and I can't be bothered to go set up a tree-based antenna in a nearby park very frequently. Even when I do get on HF it's impossible to find anything but contesting it seems. I heard ragchewing happens in Morse Code but never got good enough to keep up.

The amateurradio subreddit seems like a pretty cool place to find like-minded people. Seems like cheating but you can get on there and ask people far away if they can hear you on certain frequencies, etc.

The emergency preparedness element seems cool too but that's naturally populated by some personalities too. I guess that's humanity for ya.
The 'better' title contains no information on what those housing policies are, while the original seems quite accurate - the universities explicitly tried to affect who people socialize with/befriend. Why should the BBC downplay this, just because they lack a study on whether the attempts were successful?
Acta, an "outliner", which means a hierarchical text editor:

http://a-sharp.com/acta/

I ended up writing most of my school essays in it. You could start with a high-level outline and recursively flesh it out until you had a complete document. The tree structure made it really easy to reorder sections at any scale.

There is a successor called Opal - the last version of Acta was in 1993, and the last version of Opal was no later than 2007, so it's dead too.
Qmodem

Not really, except:

I was thinking the other day that massive communities like Facebook and Reddit suffer because EVERYONE's allowed in, to an unlimited degree. Everything reverts to the newbie state and every sh*t post can define the threads.

Remember dial-up? BBSes had limited lines and you'd have to set your (non-multi-tasking) computer to redial so you could visit your BBS. Moderators, paying members would get a smidge more time, but rarely unlimited.

Then you had 10/20/30 minutes and the BBS would hang up on you.

It might have been a civilizing force for communities, the sort we still could use in social...
Anything you particularly don't like about the open source remakes/successors people have made?
Please keep the whole "we are being surpressed" bs out of HN.
Can you explain how it is a national security problem (I didn't understand that phrasing in the article either)? But you also might be forgetting that almost all hardware is manufactured in China (and thus they could easily reciprocate such actions).
Having represented whistleblowers, though, I can say it's difficult to find any pure cases. There's almost always something to crticize about the leaker's motive.

The evil is often an order of magnitude of difference between the leaker and the leakee. But Americans hate disloyalty, unless it's a clear crime --- and even then, we don't want to reward a snitch.

If you want a culture of transparency, you need to be comfortable rewarding some level of disloyalty or gain.
I’m also excited that Caffe got merged in because it has nearly perfect GPU-scaling via MPI, whereas tf suffers (or did, when [0] came out) with more GPUs.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.05979
EJS – Embedded JavaScript templates
I'm in the same situation and it's even more ridiculous since there are only weeks between "we want to grow to 5000 people (from several hundred)" but now they start with firing people.

I understand what they think they are doing. Replacing older people with young folks but the company has already a bad reputation for doing this in the recent decade. So...there will be no growth and the reputation will be even worse when they are done with the purge all this while those employees take away experience necessary to acquire new jobs or even direct client relations.

Mad corporate world.
I use MS Money (2004 edition) in a Windows 2K VM. Unless I write my own finance software, I don't believe I'll ever stop.
Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (2009)
Click click click - A browser-based game on online profiling.
I wonder if the authors here are just making an obscure Dr. Who "bigger on the inside" reference. Did they claim the exterior of the black hole, were it visible, would resembles a blue box?
FWIW, with a little syntactic trick, you can actually have sigillless variables in Perl 6:

my \foo = $ = 42; # bind sigilless name to a container with 42
say foo; # 42
foo = 666;
say foo; # 666

See https://opensource.com/article/18/9/using-sigils-perl-6 for more information. </plug>
> Escaping dogma is hard. From the inside, it simply looks like truth and reality. Watch out for any belief that limits the range of your thinking and exploration.

It's not just SV (obviously).
That's the thing about having such a large party though, it isn't just Establishment plus Bernie parts. There are a lot of overlapping parts consisting of many people who have legitimate interests and are willing to help.
For my research I have scripts that scrape various sites, downloading images and encoding the web page info into the JPG IPTC metadata fields. Upon opening Picasa, it automatically detects the newly scraped photos and imports them along with the IPTC data, which can then be searched. Picasa is amazing for its speed, indexing, and use of metadata. I wish Google had open-sourced it. I have no interest in loading these huge libraries of photos to the cloud. I'm wouldn't say I'm a data hoarder, but I have 4TB of images and don't want to pay Google or anyone else $x/mo. to store them. As more software moves to the cloud and requires us to also move our data to the cloud, I'm afraid options like Picasa will disappear.
They are all under the refrigerator. Guaranteed to find them, along with milk jug rings, hair ties, and other circles.
I miss MapPoint too. I used it as a component of a silly web scraper I built to plan routes for visiting yard sales many summers ago. (My wife and I were really into yard sales at the time.) It would scrape down the local newspapers' classified ads, do some processing on the text, and output an optimal route ending back at home taking into account the varied starting times for the sales. It was easy to get MapPoint to do cool stuff.
Don’t post your kid online
Have you considered OmniOutliner for this use case?
Scientific communication in a post-truth society
Regarding JA2, just in case it's new/interesting for anyone:

http://ja2v113.pbworks.com/

https://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/
That’s not really “fair”, though, the positive aspects of oil will be severely tempered by the myriad effects of global warming.
What's your point? You've made three comments, and I still can't tell what your point is. What does "not being a producer of oil by extraction" have to do with Norway's independence from Sweden?
There is a small, growing movement called the "Ban the box" movement. It's intended to change laws around employment hiring, to stop people from asking whether you have a criminal background (with some exceptions for crimes like rape or murder, usually);

specifically recognizing the difficulty returning citizens have in getting back on their feet. When the labor pool for returning citizens is so small, so constrained, and the jobs aren't that great, it's just another factor working against their reintegrating into society.

I for one think the ban the box movement is an absolutely fantastic idea, and hope it gains steam.
I wonder how easy it is to work in Denmark or Sweden (and particularly Malmö and Copenhagen) without being too proficient in the local language. Would it be possible to live in Copenhagen, say, for a couple of years and get by primarily in English, until you can learn Danish well enough? What about Malmö?
JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs