skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully, we will soon be able to use a tablet running the Linux desktop stack as a "main" computer. I can't stand iDevices or Chromebooks - they feel like they're running some Fisher-Price OS. Even plain vanilla AOSP is just barely usable. (I mean, with current solutions I have to go through local VNC just to get a sensible Linux desktop and apps. That's crazy)
Until we have the ability to make iOS apps on-device, this will never be an option for a lot of folks it could be very useful for.

I also repeatedly say that I’m waiting the day when the iPad Pro actually gets some Pro software - where is Logic ‘Pro’, my daily driver that keeps me locked to MacOS as much as xCode does.

xCode and Logic Pro are the reasons I have a Mac at all.
The point is, many forms of entertainment do not require complete attention and they are extremely successful. Passive to complete attention is a spectrum, and there's many users who do not want to pay full attention.

Seeing the current failure of VR proves that the example of flying around the rings of Saturn in VR is not compelling enough vs. seeing that scene on a TV.
Stronger DNS Security Stymies Would-Be Criminals
i would go old WhatsApp way, let people use it first year for free which it's plenty of time for social networking effect to work and decide if it's worth few bucks after year or close account (though it could be abused without linking to phone number or email), but for sure ain't gonna pay upfront for deserted app, switching friends/family over takes time...

anyway already have plenty people on board Signal, waiting for years for ability to send photos (plural) which it's eliminating everything else making signal just SMS app next to default WhatsApp
"Does this mean all politicians ought to be obliged to have social media pages?"

And of course the more disturbing question: Should all citizens be obliged to have social media accounts in order to participate in democracy? This ruling is good, but it also confers that much more legitimacy on social media as being "the way you communicate with government." It has already been the case for a while that in theory you use the official channel, but in practice if you want results in some instances it's better to go to social media.

Is social media automatically the one best way to communicate in every instance? What about all the tracking, surveillance and exploitative sociopathic shit going on? Nobody minds that? To me that makes it "not the best," and in fact not even acceptable.

"The internet" and "your smartphone" are the enabling technologies here. Social media is not an inextricable part of that. Can we perhaps be better than the people who think "Facebook is the internet?"

Could Congress maybe pull their heads out of their butts, and their knives out of their opponents, and legislate this domain in a coherent way, create a regulatory framework or maybe even a shitty government-controlled social media site that embodies all our principles, so that we don't have to go through this scattershot approach? (The one that happens in the courts by default whenever there's no legislation or the law isn't clear. Somebody challenges this, we get a ruling on this; somebody challenges that; we get a ruling on that. Years later maaaybe there's an intelligible body of case law, but an incoherent mess is equally possible... and again, it takes years.)

Yes the govt. will probably spy on you just as much. But it's still the only corporation in which you can get a voting share for free.
2013 -- for others who also thought they'd heard about this in the past.
Knowing when it's a Model or a Builder(Laravel)
Sears seemed to be intentionally run into the ground so that Eddie Lampert could loot the assets:

https://prospect.org/article/how-sears-was-gutted-its-own-ce...
knocks on door Good morning, Ma'am! Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, uBlock Origin?
Save yourself $7/month – GH downgrade to free
I paid for Github so that I could have private repos. Per Github's recent pricing changes, I'm content with the free tier (which now include private repos) and canceled the $7/month charge.

I don't want or the mentioned "advanced collaboration" tools.

You might be in the same boat.
> Nobody believes in supporting Microsoft as a company.

I believe Microsoft has been doing amazing things for developers the past few years.
Most proof of work coins use unique hashing algorithms and the miners are custom-designed ASICs that are extremely efficient at that one specific algorithm. If per chance, your coin uses the same algorithm as Bitcoin [ SHA-256(SHA-256(Block Header)) ], a small portion of the much larger Bitcoin mining community could turn their miners toward the smaller coin and quickly overwhelm their network to perform a 51% attack. The Bitcoin community can perform something like 40 billion gigahashes per second, most 'shitcoins' have total mining capabilities of 0.05x that if not less. It's a quick economic calculation for any miner or group of miners to decide to attack a smaller double-SHA-256 coin, as long as the total hashing power of the smaller coin's network is small enough and the coin valuable enough.
Hiring someone is very time consuming, and requires paying another salary, benefits, etc. Also learning a new language takes time, yes a person can learn the basics of a language in a day or two, but it will be a long time before they are equally proficient with that new language.
My oldest daughter still claims PTSD from my wife's reaction one time as a ~10yo she was caught playing outside in the cul-de-sac w/o permission while we were not home -- with boys no less. The horror.

I wasn't home, and my wife swears she doesn't remember the incident, though younger sibling has offered corroborating evidence.
My Surface Pro 3 never BSOD'd, it just frequently crashed the display driver. The screen would go unresponsive for 5-10 seconds, then it would redraw and pop up a little notification in the lower right saying the driver had crashed. The keyboard was also unpleasant to use, and the touchpad stopped clicking after a couple months.
I think you might be right. It's weird, I often felt closer to people that I played MMORPGs with or fandom folk on AIM than coworkers on VC, even though in many cases I never even knew what the former looked like. A lot of that was the sense of shared experience; while my whole experience was a chat bubble at the time, so was their whole experience.
> private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account.

Small but important correction, Github is letting up to 3 contributors use these free private repos.

"For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free."
Show HN: Profanity-check – A fast Python profanity detection library using a SVM
Anecdote: My instagram ads also consist of uncommonly thin, scantily clad women, and I'm male, and do not do yoga (though I am considering it.) I don't think it has as much to do with your gender as it does with instagram doubling down on "sex sells".
Surprised Microsoft didn't shame unpaid users directly and offer premium merge options yet.
Well, it has 28k retweets, 72k likes, and a hundreds of 1-on-1 engagements and Q&A. More than I've seen in pretty much any Disqus comment section.

Doesn't seem like the best tweet to die on to make your point. The results surely answer all of your questions.

It's a weird format, but I encourage you to at least try and appreciate it instead of dismissing it. I'll try: It's kind of like what a blog post might look when annotated on genius.com: each point can spawn its own discussion and people can engage the author on any subtopic right there alongside the content.

Another benefit of the anti-narrative format is that it has an immediate quickstart. One second you're reading the opening tweet about how "bullshit our brains are", and the next you've learned something interesting. You might not have even clicked into a longer-form format about how the eyes work, there's just no commitment.
I think we need a new infrastructure for this on the internet. At least some place to say where content is stored, and where to do pull requests against.

EDIT: GIT+Blockchain+Blogs for the future (patent pending)
For the graphics and sound files?
Yet another reason why Proof of Stake is destined to outcompete Proof of Work. ;)
> It's why my wife and I spent hours working on our son's application to the gifted program

Wow. My parents never bothered with any of that. I did all the college applications myself, my parents never even reviewed them. (went Ivy league)
Depends on what you want to do, I think. The pros of the BEAM likely outweigh the cons of Elixir's dynamic types for distributed messaging systems, e.g., Discord. Otherwise, F# and the SAFE stack probably can serve other backend needs more safely with better library support from .NET. Elixir does seem more trendy than F#, which has lagged somewhat due to second-class support from Microsoft and lingering dislike for .NET -- hopefully things will improve as .NET Core matures.
It's an incredible escape mechanism. You can escape your shitty little apartment and be immersed in a place where you have a ton of power at the tip of your hands with 0 limit on your creativity. And if you are not a creative type you can pay 0.99$ to get a virtual pet dragon and hangout with your friends and play a bunch of crazy stuff.

I'm not even sure we need HW to improve, it's just a matter of creating the correct virtual world (which is what FB is working on I'm sure).
In many cases I found that this doesn’t seem to work. For example, reddit.com will only load the mobile version.
I think you're being sarcastic, but it actually has according to their revenue. They've hit their targets except for the weakened China market due to increased trade wars and volatility there. Because the economy is exploding due to the tax cuts, and the increased amount of disposable income, the price increases of Apple product hasn't seemed to affect them adversely.
Check out this photograph taken by the photographer that totally didn't occur more than 10 years ago.

https://imgur.com/gallery/boUed

Totally not a thint.
VR is a bit of a contrarian tech. It’s a tool for focus. It shuts down the noise. Some described it as the headphones for the eyes. I find a good session of Google Earth VR very refreshing and meditative. Fully focused on enjoy wonderful places around the globe without interruptions and leaving the appartment.
Citation needed. My contention is that VR makes far too many severe trade-offs based around human instinct (trust, fear, anxiety, security) for people to swallow en masse. What's your contention that VR is a de facto part of the future?
I've never had a BSOD on my Surface Pro 3 but I have had lots of issues where the rear upper right side of the case gets too warm to comfortably hold like a tablet.
I misread - Windows indeed should't run on the IPMI :-)
That’s not what they referred to. That’s still loading the built in version of WebKit. On Android for example I can download Firefox and Chrome and they run on their own rendering engines.
Can't tritium be bred in the reactor walls from lithium?
If you find it interesting, the founder / inventor recently was a guest on the Omega Tau science & engineering podcast: http://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/

They go into much greater detail than the website.
I canceled my subscription, $7 for a UI to a git server. It was kind of lazy tax on individuals.

What bothers me is that this move didn't seem as well planned and prepared for than previous changes, not a good sign. github has a certain flow, hope MS doesn't destroy that.
Regarding the maps,nice visualizations,but it's clear that the author doesn't have a background in earth sciences or cartography. Not sure about the ultimate value of this.
You generally don’t get, or expect to get, every last file in a medical record. That said, a discharge summary is just that - a summary. For a cancer to be found inoperable, the record would usually include multiple imaging studies, pathology studies, reports analyzing the above, a specialist consult note, a primary internist note addressing the specialist consult note, etc. A lot would have to be missing for there to be no hint of this. Normal medical records tend to have a lot of redundance around cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
Isn't this the reason precompiled headers are a thing?
ah yes now I did!
Fusion power is 24x7 (unlike solar) and can provide base load. Fuel transportation costs are minimal as there is enough D2 in pretty much any source of water (even rainwater) to provide all the deuterium you need. You need a bit of lithium to make tritium but on the order of a few hundred kilograms, not tonnes. So a water truck and maybe a dump truck can transport the raw material you need for power generation to a local power plant.

That means no oil or gas pipeline, no train loads of coal. Just a couple of easy to acquire vehicles on a trip that they do, perhaps every couple of YEARs.

And this power plant isn't your typical 10MW peaker plant that runs on Natural gas, no a fusion plant of the type being discussed in the article and elsewhere are multi-gigawatt plants. So imagine the entire energy budget for California provided by a dozen power plants[1] that are fueled up once a year by a couple of trucks.

So it is easier on infrastructure because you can distribute plants around, it makes the fuel issue a non-problem since there is so much energy available to the process.

So think about the externalities that eliminates. No coal fumes, no CO2 generation, no tank cars of oil or coal, no pipelines for natural gas, no risk of contamination, and no long term waste that escapes the plant.

Those advantages are especially powerful in a country like Japan which imports fossil fuels for their energy production, or Somalia which is economically constrained by an inability to protect pipelines that might otherwise operate a fossil fuel power plant. Or Israel which is using power to desalinate water.

Having the ability to generate the entire economy's domestic requirement for energy with a fuel that is both locally accessible and easily transported, means that you stabilize geo-political issues like the Russian gas pipelines going into the European Union[2].

The availability of energy, in quantity, reliably, also jump starts investment in manufacturing, refining, and other energy intensive endeavors.

[1] https://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-russian-natural-gas-w...
Even that may not be true as the DNC leaks primarily focussed on the campaign to favor Clinton over Sanders.

An anti-Clinton stance rather than pro-Trump would be more likely.
Yeah, I wired it up, because I knew at least I could run it at 10baseT if I had to, and then I might as well try it at the fastest I could, and it worked ok at 1G, so that's what I used. :)
They said both: "no view as desktop, and no alternatives to Webkit"

It has view as desktop, it doesn't have alternatives to webkit.
https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

Here's the explaination.
I think it's a price-minimizing move, not a quality-maximizing one.

unless it's about the topping selection
At it's core, WeWork's business model seems solid and every time I've been in one, it's been at least close to full. If the main driver of the losses is the initial investment in acquiring and remodeling the real estate, then they're in fine shape - they could always pull an Amazon and stop expanding for a quarter to show just how profitable they could be. I'd think that's the most likely scenario but, if not, I can't imagine why anyone would throw good money after bad.
Hmmm ... I'm thinking the opposite. Outdoors, the sky, lakes — they're going to be the escape.

We're practically living in a VR world where we have not only ubiquitous black mirrors everywhere but displays in our cars, restaurants, work, schools, homes, refrigerators. Stop for a second and think about it and it's as though, in our urban existence, we already have a headset on. In a manner of speaking.
Or they could just hop amongst 50 $smallCoins, destroying each, before jumping back into BTC/ETH. Thereby destroying all $smallCoins and driving users into $bigCoin
Relentless really is a good word to describe it. It is just endlessly time consuming raising kids. I don't even feel like I am doing anything special, just making sure they do their homework, are entertained and safe. By the time their bedtime rolls around I am exhausted. Yet the thought of doing less does not even occur to me as I would see that as short changing my kids whom I care greatly for. I don't do it as some sort of fear of my kids not succeeding in a world with limited resources, I just see it as the natural duty of a parent to do everything I can to ensure my kids get the attention they need.

Just a personal note, I found it irritating that the author felt the need to write “Intensive parenting is a way for especially affluent white mothers to make sure their children are maintaining their advantaged position in society.” I am pretty sure the mothers just want their kids to have the best lives they can, as do all parents regardless of the color of their skin. I don't think they approach it from the view that they are participants in some great racial struggle. Of course they want their kids to do as well or better than them, all parents do, or should. Seemed like a pointless, finger wagging thing to say.
Is this not simply a reflection of which companies are willing to pay, or sponsor, Instagram with the most money? Or is this a concerted effort by Instagram, or society in general, to only accept ads of this nature? Should Instagram require a diverse set of advertisers/sponsors? Even it means that they will generate less revenue?
Google does go crazy with its chat applications
Well, I think this is a pleasant surprise. I have many public github projects (code for various books I have written and a bunch of small open source projects). I have paid for a pro plan for many years because I like to keep very rough code experiments private, and maybe make them public if they ever get sufficiently mature.

I just took Microsoft/github up on their kind new deal and cancelled my pro plan at the end of the current yearly billing period.

Thanks Microsoft/github!
Back in the 90s I got a kick out of people claiming Macs don't crash. no they just routinely locked up where you literally had to pull the plug from the wall. but that doesn't count as a crash.
"Second, of course these will identify as Linux - you wouldn't run Windows in your ipmi server."

You're conflating what the IPMI itself runs with the systems affected by the attack (the article is talking about the infected servers behind IPMI being mostly Linux).
Thank you for this very understandable explanation
> I looked at F# for a bit, too, but it comes across as having too much .NET/Microsoft flavour for me.

Mind elaborating? F# seems like a decent fit from what you've said. I'm hoping the language will grow less stagnant as .NET Core matures.
Could you add what will be unique and innovative about the brand to the question? It will help with answering.
Not until the difficulty adjusts, and the attack takes less time than that to execute. And they'd have to be equally sized to actually leave the other coin vulnerable in any case, not asymmetric as in this case.
I've interviewed for a number of programmer jobs over the past 20 years; if there is one fact about them that should be engraved in stone, it is this: NO TWO EMPLOYERS USE THE SAME CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF WHETHER OR NOT TO HIRE YOU. Some employers won't use coding tests, some will, and of those that will, they'll all be different, with some the coding test will be 100% of the reason you get in or are rejected, with some it will be less, like 50% or 20% with the other percentage points going to the interview, what you say, past experience, if you connect, etc., etc.

Advice: Don't sweat the coding questions if they exist, just do the best you can, try to explain the way you think, and realize that they don't count for 100% of the hire/no-hire decision at all of the companies that give them...

Also, I like to point potential employers to Joel Spolsky's "The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing"
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

If they read it but disagree with it, I don't count it against them.

If they read it and agree with it, that's a huge positive. I might be able to overlook other flaws in their software development process and take the job...

If they don't read it, BIG RED FLAG!!! What else are they not going to listen to if/when you propose it? A job should be a two-way street with employees doing what they are told, but at the same time constantly proposing ways to improve their employers' processes! Even if employers do not accept those proposals (totally OK, they are the employer after all), they should at least have the common courtesy to READ anything reasonable, and RESPOND to those things, with the EXACT REASONS as to WHY those proposals are unacceptable!!!

If a potential employer, pre-hire, won't read a web page you send them, and won't comment on it in such a way as to provide actionable intelligence one way, or the exact reason WHY on the other... that's a BIG RED FLAG!!!

Also... for an alternative viewpoint on Mental Illness, you might wish to read "The Myth Of Mental Illness" by Dr. Thomas Szasz, M.D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" -Albert Einstein
I feel that there's a sort of wide-spread cynicism that has far overshot its mark: people routinely disparage journalism, even though the better publishers (NYT, Economist, WSJ, etc) today are in my impression far better than ever before.

They are, for example, exemplary in terms of correcting errors quickly and transparently. I rarely come across errors these days, and the ones I see corrected below articles are almost always very minor, such as spelling errors in names.

In some circles, such as HN, it also seems to be en vogue to consider all media biased and unprofessional, every politician to be corrupt, every business leader as optimising (short term) profit with no regard for other considerations, every scientific study underpowered, and every headline clickbait.

I guess gratuitous negativity is often mistaken for expertise or intelligence. But in reality, it just renders any actual effort useless: why not be corrupt/lazy/incompetent/etc, when that is the charge that will be levelled against you, no matter what you do?
And there are other projects (such as Django Rest Framework or even Django itself) where many people and companies derive significant value but either don’t have the time, knowledge, or resources to contribute directly. These projects advance by having people dedicated to maintainence. Often the only way to provide dedicated resources is through donations.

If these donations dried up then the projects would suffer. That’s not an outcome anybody really wants.

You seem to acknowledge that companies paying staff to contribute to OSS is ok. Why then is it not ok for companies to provide funding for a specialist to do the same thing?
Doubtful since the ideas behind ray tracing are very mature. Advances in real time ray tracing will take the form "x advancement in offline ray tracing from 30 years ago can now be done in real time."
But saying 12% is irrelevant to REVENUE is focusing on revenue. You can say losing the 12% is worth it, but you can’t say it’s irrelevant to revenue.