skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Tens of millions of people watch broadcast and cable shows. The average household still watches almost eight hours per day of TV, and I don’t think that includes Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, etc:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...
Three (oh crap, closer to four) decades ago our high school minicomputer (DG Nova 2) handled all the grade reporting, class and athletics schedules, and alumni development mailings — all programmed and operated by a few students, in BASIC no less. It was a rare and invaluable experience to be essentially a trusted professional at that age.
> “You can trust this product. If it ever breaks, AnthonyMouse on Hacker News will reimburse you the full purchase price.”

> Would you be ok with that?

When I'm in the insurance business and the party making that claim is paying me insurance premiums under the same terms that I'm already insuring existing things with a commensurate level of risk? That is how insurance works.

If you have renter's insurance and you buy a new television on credit, telling the creditor that you have renter's insurance before you tell the insurance company that you have a new television is not some kind of fraud. If the insurer then suddenly threatens to cancel your insurance if you try to add the television, you have to go back to the creditor, but why would you have reasonably expected them to do that?
Make Money by doiing Referrals, The-Referral.com,is by invitation only
Boeing Company Opens New Chinese Factory Amid U.S.-Chinese Trade War
> Could we have done more conversion rate optimization to our AMP install? Probably yes. There are ways to add CTAs, newsletter signups, etc

If I'm reading this correctly they switched from regular pages with CTAs to AMP pages without CTAs. Seemingly this test was designed to fail.
Despite confirmation bias, teaching media literacy works
I did it with Sciter as a UI layer of Node.js (I am an author of Sciter)

Sciter.Node.js takes 30 Mb or RAM in minimal configuration.
It adds 4mb (sciter.dll/so) to original Node.js distribution.

It runs all windows in single UI thread - main thread of Node.js so there is no need for marshalling between multiple processes as in Electron case.

In fact sciter.dll is a "node.js" by its own - it contains script VM and libuv - the same as Node.js itself uses.

I am considering the option to make strip down version of sciter for Node.js. That version will not have any scripting but will rather use JavaScript and libuv from Node.js.
So you are basically saying everything is crap?
Run an Amiga emulator on it, never shut down! And because it's cheap, run that three times, and have an emulated gameboy sound the alarm if one of the three stops responding, or delivers a different answer than the other two.

Getting it all into a software state that can easily be transferred to "something that runs Linux and this emulator that requires next to nothing" certainly seems sensible at any rate.
All of the above is spot on.

Except: “How could it be anything else...” - my wife is french and one thing that constantly surprises her is how little we get from our government for the taxes we pay. It is possible to make government more efficient, and not resort to the private sector (which has other problems).
HTTP 1.1 support would help those of us working in AWS with ELBs
Variety of videos in such reasonable price...great collection of footages.
IANAL, but lets try to figure this out.

The wikipedia article of the Berne Convention says this, regarding what is required to be protected by copyright

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#The_minimum_s...

The first one:

you can’t put the book on the same bookshelf as that of my rival

seems part of

the right to communicate to the public the performance of such works,

so it seems an author can forbid a shop to do this. I assume the performance of the work is the reading of the book here.

This would imply a user may put the books on the same shelf at home, unless that user takes a picture of it and put that picture on the Internet for everyone to see. This would be insane, but in my experience a strict reading of copyright law gets insane quickly, so in practice you'll need to convince a judge of the merit of the case.

The second one:

you can’t read the book while flying a particular airline

seems to be a right of the reader that can't be blocked . Unless you start to read it aloud for everyone of the plane. Translating, etc... is a protected right, so a copyright holder might forbid reading the book on a plane if you are doing the reading as preparation for a translation etc...

And that's only the Berne convention. Isn't copyright nice.
Data driven development in urbanism and architecture
I am highly interested in exploring mentioned topic of research and usage of data in urbanism and architecture – with high probability to start a side project together with other partners. I have tangible concepts for design – looking for collaborators of business and tech. I studied arch and I know the field (not a super-pro, still); otherwise, I am experience design lead atm for a big digital transformation corp (working for several clients). Just to know each other well. DM me if interested: inevrela@gmail.com
(In Providence they're not only concerned about AC.) More to the point, most of these volumes would extend all the way to the roof, which is the primary heat transfer boundary in a large squat building like this. It's unlikely that these areas see the draft-proofing that inhabited areas do. We now know that uncontrolled movement of air through boundaries is the largest source of HVAC inefficiency. Has a building inspector ever actually entered these areas? Without energy input, any enclosed volume will tend to converge to the outdoor temperature. Human comfort will require that energy input.
Last time I checked the url bar still works
no, you can't assert how fast the cache gets updated

it becomes indeterminate to the user, and when the harvester decides it
It’s a two-way dependency. You are taking about the game responding to the human, but I’m talking about the human responding to the game. Both need to happen, they are entangled, which is why you fundamentally can’t separate them and treat them as an abstract function of time, nor can you re-order the events (which may be necessary for pure functional interaction).

Just because you can smash buttons randomly doesn’t prove anything, that’s not normally how people play games. Normally, they see what’s happening and respond in order to succeed.
This is a good time to consider what a ridiculous concept "borders" are, especially within the EU. What makes land and people on one side of an arbitrary line so different from land and people on the other side of it?

Borders are necessary because of power-hungry politicians: without borders, entire levels of governments would become unnecessary. This is why we hear so much about "patriotism" these days.
Piecing Together the Story of an Oregon Serial Killer
The conventional perspective seems misleading, then. Saying you can bring a drug to market for a price that doesn't include the costs of failure in finding out how to make the drug in the first place completely distorts the matter, IMO.

Maybe I'm not getting what you think the benefits of not counting research costs across the board are.
Disagree. The article validates a lot of thought we have been putting in our own company. Not everything has to be open sourced to have value.
I'd say 90%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
That's why no one watches TV!
> I see Bret Victor more as a historian where he finds old ideas and re-introduces them to people who haven’t seen them before.

Just yesterday I revisited his Future of Programming talk. Splendid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
> these places become susceptible to pot hunters

For those (like me) who are unfamiliar with the term[1]:

> (archaeology) A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pothunter
Deep Painterly Harmonization: Adding custom objects to paintings with harmony
More concisely: sets of numbers are equivalent if there exists a bijection between them.

EDIT: Oh, the sample chapter actually mentions this exact point in a footnote. I guess I can still be clever by saying, "Sets of numbers are equivalent if they're isomorphic." :)
A Simplified IoT Economy – It's Time to Tangle
Hypothesis: lots of different micronutrient deficiencies (as well as factors unrelated to nutrition) can cause or exacerbate depression.

For a lot of people, supplementing with a specific vitamin/mineral will help. For many others it will have minimal to no effect.
Ask HN: What are some growth hacking tips for a SaaS-based products?
We're building an all-in-one recruitment tool for startups to build their great teams, "Recooty".

It is a SaaS-based tool with a job board for website's career page, we've got a good response from ProductHunt, Betalist & BetaPage but we but I'd love to know how to make it reach to a wider audience.

To know more about the product, please visit here: https://recooty.com/

Looking forward to your valuable tips to make this product help every startup in simplifying their recruitment process.
4400 years ago and we are rightfully in awe. What a way to leave a history.

Will my Geocities page be there 4400 years from now ? ;)
Inheritance and define_method – how to make them work together
I'm happy to hear that as a self-funded SaaS founder (https://partsbox.io/). This is exactly what I'm trying to tell my customers (some of which would rather see a large VC-funded operation): if you consider the probable exit paths for a VC-funded startup, very few are good for customers.
> What makes land and people on one side of an arbitrary line so different from land and people on the other side of it?

Cultures? People on one both sides of the border generally have different culture and hierarchies of values. Thanks to borders, every nation gets to organize their piece of earth as they see fit (at least in democracies).
Here's the reality. The Taboola news carousals at the bottom of most slow loading actual news sites are filled with total junk. One page per image websites, super slow, adblock goes crazy. I've literally NEVER had a good experience with these "Stories you may like"

Google does something with a news carousel that loads fast and the content isn't crap. I get why publishers running things like taboola think it's terrible, but as a user interested in reading some quick news without going blind, I like it.

Hacker news is the exception in terms of a quick loading / clean website.

I was a google reader user heavily - so I like the more stripped down view of things even if it's "terrible".

One other note about this study. This company's goal is not to educate but to sign up users. At least for myself, Folks who want / like a stripped down experience may just be less interested in being marketed to.
So you prefer when pages take >10s to load, have interstitial ads covering the content, and have ads that load in while you scroll, causing the content to jump around on you?

I'm pretty happy with amp as an alternative to newspapers' awful websites.
SPDK follows the same pattern as DPDK (for networking) but it has much less of a practical use case in my experience. You can easily outperform mmap() etc using io_submit() interface that already exists, saturating the capabilities of fast storage hardware, and the overhead of io_submit() is nominal if you are using it well. SPDK won't meaningfully increase your I/O throughput and the API is significantly more difficult to use. I've played around with SPDK in database storage engines and I find it to be inferior for the purpose compared to io_submit() in practical implementations. The number of IOPS required to make SPDK worth considering would be indicative of a more fundamental design flaw in your storage architecture, at least for the foreseeable future.

DPDK, by contrast, can dramatically improve networking throughput and performance. While also not the most friendly API to use, it undeniably improves CPU efficiency for packet processing and without an obviously better alternative.
Basically just an idle thought after reading this: I wonder if you could do something with lensing/water droplets/telescopes/night skies. Using water droplets would seem to fit the insect/small animal theme.
B2 can't do simple things like move or copy,[1] so in my opinion it's really bad for those kinds of applications. For example, if you move a 5GB video file, you shouldn't have to delete+re-upload the entire thing just to change the path.

[1]: https://github.com/Backblaze/B2_Command_Line_Tool/issues/525
The science of “vibes” shows how everything is connected
I try to do it in big chunks to minimize context switching; so 3 months making money full-time, 9 months doing my own research.
There is a lot of unnecessary fluff in this piece.
Suggestion to the author: Focus your writing on the main points and try not to dilute them. The majority of what you have written here drops the SnR significantly and takes away from what you are trying to say. When I do this, I am left with essentially a small paragraph of useful information which can be further condensed into "You can spray gadgets".
The parent poster doesn't mention depression either. It would apply just as well to addiction or other afflictions.

And I'm sorry if you don't have people in your life that would listen to you. But I know I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gotten help from those around me. Your unfortunate experience shouldn't stop people from trying to get help they might need.
Weight Loss Is the Major Problem
No, I'm not implying they're purely anything. As most of these things go, they're a mix of both business convenience and someone pushing to fix a problem they perceive on the web. Your post took into account only one dimension of an issue.
The current issue isnt about being presented better in a different language, its just that these are basically different websites and different crowd sourced encyclopedias

I think your notification idea is good

It could look at number of sections, clusters of contributor activity, and then weigh that by character length with different weightings for each language
I think that AMP made Google's search results feel like they were essentially just Google's own pages. Because that's exactly what the user sees in his address bar, when he visits an accelerated mobile page: google.com/amp/<...>. And that encourages him to hit "Back" as soon as he is done with it, instead of checking out the newly discovered website. Because he never felt like he had discovered anything. He never felt that he had left Google.

The fact, that there are no AMP pages in Google's search results on Firefox Mobile, was the final reason for me to make the switch. I feel like I am browsing the world wide web again, not just a Google's snapshot of it.
I'm not suggesting it be a hobby, actually I'm saying you should take it more seriously than just a job. For me it's a personal mission - I don't think academia is the best avenue to pursue so I find my own money and focus on what I find important.
The article heavily implies sales leads...collected email addresses to try and convert into sales.

They sell managed wordpress hosting.

However, their site doesn't appear to have much in terms of collecting leads. No newsletters, no trial accounts, etc. They just have paid plans you can sign up for. I guess the "contact us" page could be considered a lead generator.

So, I'm as confused as you are. Lead generation would be pretty bad if you don't collect leads :)
Almost nobody uses dynamic, but they do use var
That is fraud unless your insurance explicitly covers new purchases without first being informed. That is far from a given.
But it has an only paper version, right?
This looks great, but are solutions provided? Books like this are almost worthless for me to self-study since I don’t have access to a classroom or professors and no way to check my solutions.
You said it yourself. They're not letting quality slip. There is just a paucity of quality period. But like a shark Netflix has to keep moving or die. They can't afford to wait for the best stuff. Also it turns out that Adam Sandler movies are really popular. So maybe their slip isn't as dangerous as you might think.
This time it’s without commercials, at least.

I recently watched plain old tv again (after not watching any for several years) and I can’t believe we used to put up with those! It was like I suddenly turned off my adblocker.
I don't think saying "be aware of the trust issues" is necessarily dismissing VeraCrypt. OP's point is that you need to keep that in mind when making a decision. The idea that keeping yourself secure is as simple as using a tool is a massive mistake, it's a process. With physical security, we've largely internalized this process, but digital security is something lots of people still don't understand.

But to answer your question, I think that the most reliable form of file encryption remains, probably uninterestingly, GPG. It's not easy and it's not perfect, lacking several advantages of block based tools like VeraCrypt, but it's well tested and publicly vetted. If you are working alone BitLocker and File Vault are both good options for solo use.
The War on Huawei
Going back to google makes sense as my intention is to read the news of the day, not cross reference. Stack behavior would drive me crazy here.
In this text, we declare: 0 is a natural number

It's nice that they got that right, on the first page!
It's actually kinda sad how that happened:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/notch-selling-minecraft-m...

> Already feeling disillusioned with his place in the studio, the recent EULA situation was the final straw. Mojang was changing its EULA to better protect its players from exploitative servers, a real problem in the Minecraft community, and the internet “exploded with hate” towards Notch for a situation he says he “had nothing to do with.”

> Which is when he tweeted:

> > Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life? Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig.

I could have totally understood Notch just wanting some FU money and/or being bored of Minecraft, but that he actually might have enjoyed working on it rather than selling to Microsoft, that sucks. Unless he's just blaming the community for something he wanted to do anyway (and I see no reason to assume that), this is something the Minecraft community did to itself.
I’ve always been annoyed by the praise this building attracts. For those unfamiliar, this is the second home of Glasgow’s transport museum, after leaving a much loved previous location when it was repurposed for the Commonwealth Games.

There is no question in my mind that this new building is impressive as an artistic architectural endeavour, but in performing its intended function as a museum it is pretty awful. The previous location was large and spacious, allowing you to get up close and examine the extensive collection of exhibits. The new location, many of the cars are now stacked vertically on an artsy wall display 4-5 stories tall. This means that for a large chunk of the collection of cars in the transport museum, all you can really see is the underside of the cars. As a kid in the old one, pressing one’s face up to the windows to peer inside was half the damn fun, this is entirely impossible in the new museum thanks to this design.

The use of space is generally questionable throughout, the number of exhibits on display at any one time significantly less. The maritime model collection has been reduced from a huge room to a bizarre conveyor belt thing that can only display a handful of the hundreds of models the old one could. Much of the displays seem compromised by a desire not to interfere with the architect’s vision for the space. The once impressive display of Glasgow’s long gone public trams is hugely reduced also.

The weird decisions even extend to the bathrooms, where the stalls have a pull door when closed, but no handle to pull them open (at least at the time of my last visit a year ago). This forced me to stab my fingers into the tiny gap between door and wall to try and pry the thing open.

I find visiting this new museum a saddening experience anytime I visit Glasgow. This museum looks great in photos and I can see how it’s striking design probably convinced the city to back it. It’s just a shame it is such a clear regression in its primary function as a museum compared to its predecessor. The old location was also directly across the road from The Kelvingrove Museum, arguably one of the finest museums in the U.K. This allowed you to explore both on foot easily back in the day, a great day out.

Perhaps most annoyingly, Glasgow City Council appears to consider this project an enormous success. It always seemed the city was much more interested in getting a shiny architectural curiosity on the banks of the Clyde than it was interested in making a great museum. In 50 years I imagine few will remember the Common Wealth Games that largely triggered this move, they will still be stuck with a much inferior museum.
I agree. Vitamin D deficiency can be tested for, and the symptoms are well know.

It's probably worth having a test for Vitamin D if you have any depressive tendencies.
I get a little uncomfortable when people talk about "engineering effort" like it's just some sort of power stream you can just repoint, because to me it belies a lack of understanding of what programmers do and the challenges they face. (I'm not accusing you personally of that, just that's what pops in mind when people talk about refocusing engineers. I always hear inexperienced project managers talk about having engineers "swarm" a problem, which is a dead giveaway that they're extremely naive). You can't just take a bunch of kernel devs and all the sudden have them work on sharepoint or web frontends or something. Not just from an experience standpoint but a lot of them wouldn't want to do it. Really "refocusing" tends to involve layoffs and rehiring.
> The same reasons that something like a Nest thermostat can save you money at home.

What are the odds that the new system will save them > $1M over its life?
"Your post took into account only one dimension of an issue"

No, pretty sure I covered both. Maybe you're thinking of one of the replies to my post?