skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the new GitHub dashboard (have been using it for a while now), but the thing that's really annoying me is how on mobile browsers it has much less comment (missing the activity feed). Then, when you go to the desktop version, it turns out they have a perfectly fine responsive version of the full activity feed, too! So why not enable that in the mobile version directly?
A cross-platform note taking and static blog writing system in Golang
Do you have the Facebook Container extension activated in Firefox? It automatically opens all fb links in a new session as if you opened a new tab, so the back button won't work. You might be able to get back to the previous page by re-opening it with ctrl+shift+t.
Reminded me, the EU has the power to limit the size of member states budget deficits. But this only enforced against economically weaker states. The US federal government has no such power.

I think China in the last 15 years has taken the opposite tack, demanding regional governments run large deficits and loaning them the money. Which works because, Chinese leadership can give two shits about the books.
Aftershocks of Tonya Harding Saga: Best Thing to Happen to Figure Skating
It's a great way to stop people from contacting you. Just pop a captcha in and your form submissions will drop dramatically.

And if you're looking for a quick way to kill conversions, just add a mandatory captcha check to the checkout. Great tool!
Is a powerbank an efficient and safe UPS for a RPi? I was at some point told powerbanks are not a good solution for Pi's, but I cannot remember the reasoning.
This looks amazing, and I wish I had something similar for Postgres (which is what I use for my own projects). Kudos!
Show HN: Music Events and Festivals Worldwide Bot
C++Cast: Boost DI and SML
We are actively going towards this vision, although the closest we have now is Alexa/Google Home/etc.

FTA:

>If a computer merely knows what room it is in...

It's 2019, and this isn't a solved problem yet, although there's work being done on it.
Ever tried residential fiber optic internet? <1 ms latency. Web pages just pop on the screen — at least when the server is geographically near. It's addictive.

Compare it to cable modems with still lowish 5-10 ms latency. Pages load visibly slower. But you don't mind it or even notice, if you haven't previously gotten used with the faster option.

So I think I'll always take all of the latency improvements available. The difference can be substantial even when the starting point is already "pretty good".
You haven't explained why that would happen, nor has any of the downvoters.
Is this DB GUI day on HN? :) 3 clients on the front page is amusing.
No one asks a mechanical engineer to white board FEA or integrate by parts. Everyone just accepts that an experienced engineer will be rusty about things outside his career domain.
Indeed - it's very well done.

I think what makes it so smooth is something quite simple. Its letting the previous stream run while it buffers the new one and switches you over?
To be a good developer, you have to understand how computers work. You have to understand data structures. When you interview and you're asked to write a breadth-first search, or what the big-O complexity of accessing a hash map is, it's not because the company is going to have you writing your own custom hash maps right out of school. It's because you have to be aware of the general characteristics of the tools you're using to be able to select the right tool for the job.

Most of the students I interview fail miserably at this. They can hack together a working application by copy/pasting from examples and SO posts and making small modifications, but they have no fundamental understanding at all of what the computer is actually doing with the code they write.
Reorder Multiple Slides in a Presentation in One API Call inside Cloud Apps
What is a state government even doing with a securities regulator? Isn’t that a federal concern? Surely any publicly traded company has equity holders in multiple states, it makes no sense for them to have independent rules.
Hey, that reminds me about Keybase. It's not talked about that much anymore, as far as I can see, but it's nice how it lets you verify your identity across different sites.
>much higher radio frequencies (over 20 GHz, AKA millimeter wave or ‘mmWave’)

Can anyone comment on whether this might have any effect on us? It makes me a bit anxious to see the huge list of wifi networks available where I am -- are we absolutely certain that all those signals don't have some sort of health impact?
> Honestly the Microsoft Band being worn on the underside of the wrist was brilliant (I may be biased). It is much easier to hold up in a comfortable reading position

I used to wear a watch every day to uni. It rested on the underside of my wrist, 'cause it made more sense to me. I also used to type a lot on my laptop, which rested on a flat table surface, when I was at the uni.

Every time I needed to type more than a few symbols, I had to take the watch off. Otherwise: KGHRRR GHRR GHRRR GHR-HR-HR, across the table surface, for everyone to hear. Let alone the pressing of damn-near-solid metal onto the backside of the wrist, where all of them good veins are.

Microsoft band looks about as thick as the watch I wore. Looks like it's lighter, its exterior being made of plastic. Must have had some weight and volume, still.

Was that ever in the process of discussion when making a smart watch?
I also think the biggest issue in OSS is incentives and see two ways of handling this issue:

1) Bounties: Some mechanism for people to easily pay $100 for fixing the bug, $1000 for implementing a feature, and so on. If Github takes care of the payment part, I think it can even be used in big companies and would definitely incentivize people. Sites like bountysource.com show that the model already works, it just has to be handled by Github so adoption would definitely be higher.

2) Second one is more ambitious: Although bounties are a nice way for people make money, it still cannot allow people to just focus on their OSS work, since it does not offer a revenue stream. Github should become what Youtube is to video creators. If Github were to share a percent of its revenue with OSS maintainers, that'd make a huge difference in the OSS space and in the world.

This recent tweet from the creator of ESLint captures the essence of the status-quo really well: https://twitter.com/slicknet/status/1086053326007881728
> You keep glossing over the fact that they are convincing people to vote entirely through deceit

So what? First of all, politicians routinely use deceit to reach their goals, and aren't even ashamed about it. Second, if voting is always good, why achieving it through deceit is so bad? Let's say I know you have a bad diet, and I could through deceit convince you to eat healthier and add 5 years to your lifespan. Would you think it's a bad thing and it'd be better for you to be undeceived but die 5 years earlier?

> an estimated 126 million Americans were exposed to this kind of content just on Facebook

"Exposed" is a weasel word. They are just taking entire US audience of Facebook, and saying since any of those people could have seen this content, let's imply they all did and by implication were influenced by it. But it's baloney. If you take a moment to think, how likely it is that there are 136 million voters in the US, and almost every single one of them was influenced by Facebook? Moreover, you claim that main influence of the fake news is convincing people to vote. Do you imply that absent fake news, only about 10 million people would vote? That's clearly nonsense. So if we believed your hypothesis and NYT numbers, it would be obvious that there's no noticeable influence - we don't have sudden spike of voter turnout comparable to the number of 126 million, if fact we don't have any noticeable spike at all. So either 126 million number is nonsense, or voting turnout hypothesis is nonsense - I think likely both.

And all that for a campaign with a whopping $100K budget? If that were true, why politicians spend billions on their campaigns at all? If you want some more realistic numbers, look here: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1257/jep.31.2.211 - it's in hundredth of a percent. So, about 10-20 thousand people out of hundred millions. That's the likely size of the influence of this phenomenon, and maybe even less since this assumes fake news are as effective as fine-tuned political ads (and they are usually not, if you seen Russian fake news, they're utter crap). So probably around a thousand or so is the real size.
I’m not OP, but Microsoft is one of a handful of stand out tech companies for me. They are paying a decent dividend (almost unheard of in tech) and have a very solid enterprise product lineup that has gained traction, with a huge amount of the market left. Furthermore they have a strong consumer and gaming footprint, and generally are positioned well across their entire portfolio.
I'd imagine a lot of people on HN if you're under forty have never heard of this major sports scandal . Living in Michigan I well remember it. My first reaction was why did this have to happen in Detroit?

I wasn't even aware at the time that Michelle Kwan was even there and how very close she came to being a potential witness to the crime.

If you do remember at all it's that stupid movie trying to rewrite history from a few years back that had Tonya Harding as the victim.
> Dogs are never culpable because they lack agency, but considering them to be at fault in an accident for the purposes of determining recourse isn't too far-fetched.

Yes, it is, because "at fault" means "could have chosen to do something else that would have prevented the accident". Since, as you admit, dogs lack agency, they are incapable of choosing to do something else. The human that is guiding them needs to, well, guide them.
PixelMe guys are on fire, I see them everywhere these days :-)
PixelMe reached $10k MRR in 12 months without investment, and raised $1.3m in Dec 2018.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/pixelme-raises-1-3-million...
> In the long term, the kid is supposed to be able to have family of their own

Or not. Who said everyone want to have a kid?

> I was talking about kid that is impatient, reacts to IRL setbacks with temper tantrums or yelling or accusing people or picking on them or otherwise jerk behavior.

So? that's not an illegal behavior as far as I know.

Im more open minded than you about what should be a family, I don't see long-term relationships that much important, and I believe in a society where everyone can have the life they want. If they prefer short term relationships, I don't see this as a problem, but a personality trait.
This is Lovecraftian horror at its best.
He is basically describing a large percentage of companies in the VYM ETF.
In general you can freely promise to pay someone else's bill and then not do it at all. There's no contract if you're not getting anything in return. It does make you an asshole though.
You're literally the only person I've ever seen make this claim. Why do we get so many stories of sleep deprived sailors if ships are over-crewed?
"Immediately above us towered what could have been the headquarters of a bank — forty floors of office space, wrapped in a shell of mirrored panels. In its un-maintained state however, these reflective scales were falling away in great swathes, to expose the bare concrete beneath. Not even finished yet, and already it needed a makeover."

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/welcome-to-the-worlds-lar...

"the farmers that own the land here get the cheapest materials, and make these pop up out of nowhere": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcyYyyaPz84&t=666

Follow-up video "Are new chinese buildings really falling down?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E tl;dr yes. Note at 2:30 "We saw this place being built three years ago".
They are using the same tactics than Airbnb when guests have issues with hosts and it is shameful.
Several devices,camera at the entrance, Bluetooth LE, not having to do obvious network monitoring. We have loads of good places to hide them, and I suspect they would go unnoticed for years
Maybe because a fuel factory wouldn't be immediately profitable on Earth like building rockets? On Earth there are plenty of cheaper ways to make fuel.

I do agree though that fuel is the most important thing to start making on Mars though. That and air and water.
Thanks for the link. I always prefer emacs above anything, but VS Code is not bad at all.
Yes and true. But I mean 500M in rural is 30% more than the total US population. With modern technology there are very little need for hundreds of millions people in agriculture. There are billions of funding to help farmers modernise their tools, drones and machines doing the work. ( Although that has not been working so well, turns out Machine Learning, Drones, or other tech can only do as much when your soil is pretty much in a shit state )
Negative rights also “infringe” on others freedom in the same way you describe: they limit what others can do. The “oblige others to inaction”. The trade off is they (usually) get the same protections.
The original poster was commenting on trying to obtain revenue from the open source product of their creation. You are right that sometimes things are just to help others, but its meaningless here unless we are strictly talking about the initial creation and not the continued support of it as the poster is now trying to monetize it.

Not that either is bad or good, but you're having your cake and eating it too.
NavDB version 0.4 (beta) released
https://navdb.io/2019/01/18/navdb-version-0-4-beta-released/

Changes:

1. New syntax for temporary keys with the expires keyword.

2. Performance enhancements in the NavDB server.

3. SCRAM authentication (admin user only for now).

4. New PHP 7 client.

5. Separation of reusable code into libnav (Apache 2.0 license).

6. Upgrade to Boost v1.69.0 (from v1.68.0).
This is a great tool, I use it every day
I feel that the more I learn about psychology, the more my depression and other problems seem like any other affliction that can be purposefully managed, instead of this all-encompassing black hole I can't explain. It puts things into perspective. But be wary of falling into the trap of seeing yourself reflected in the endless lists of symptoms of other illnesses - only a professional can reliably discern between normal and pathological behaviors and patterns.
One of the goals of mmWave is tactile networking with <= 1ms latency[1].

One of the main issues here is that they want to make a lot of money from 5G, that's the main reason why you're always required to have a base station involved.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7876982
>Does that mean Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Jacob Reese-Mogg, Michael Gove and their friends are not "elite"?

Well, with the possible exception of Farage, these people wanted to remain. They just wanted to posture and score political points. Which is why they all panicked when the referendum went the way it did.
It's important research. I'm not a believer in diversity for diversity's sake, but I still want my users to have the best experience they can have. Maybe a way to go is to offer multiple interfaces (though I wouldn't target genders, there's overlap; my father was just as scared of breaking something as my mother when I first introduced them to computers), so you can present your stuff in different ways to different people.

What I do wonder however: is http://gendermag.org/ appealing to "female" patterns of interaction, or is it just bad? Because I find the presentation not appealing at all, and they have put effort into research and appear to care about the topic, so I doubt they've just thrown it on the web "because we have to publish it there as well, I guess". I'm not an academic, and my interest in it is mostly practical. I'm missing both practical advice and a well structured presentation that goes beyond "well, read the paper and look up the references".
You know, Electron is perfect for these use cases:

A table view, a tree view, few buttons, some dialogs.
> Absolute idiots

Agreed. You do three things in a crisis:

1) Acknowledge the problem.

You killed someone's dog. This hits like losing family. "We're opening an investigation" is a chickenshit message.

2) CEO needs to speak.

Personal call from the top. If a dog is seriously injured or killed while on your watch, the CEO must make the call. This shows seriousness to the customer. It also ensures top brass feels the pain. That pain prevents future mistakes and is a real emotional tool for correcting cultures.

3) Over-correct.

You'll pay for cremation. You'll pay for counseling. You'll refund every Wag bill they ever incurred. If the family decides to get another dog, you'll offer to pay for their shots and food for a year and pet insurance for life.

The message must be we are sorry, this is unacceptable, and we intend on making this about as difficult for us as it is for you.

(Checklist from a video (with unfortunately and unrelated political content) by Scott Gallaway [1].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-AyvgE8Ns
You're wrong. Enforcing someone to refrain is exactly what he's talking about. You are asking someone to do something if you are asking them to refrain from speaking, as it's their liberty to speak.
Tech is no longer a differentiator in many enterprises, but most small-medium businesses are still barely utilizing what the tech world has made. For example, smooth and useful tech integration is a major differentiator in industries like hospitality, healthcare, logistics, PDR, etc. Mobile/tablet point-of-sale has exploded and enabled a wave of lifestyle entrepreneurs to accept card payment. Smartphone ubiquity has made it much easier to transact with people in your area and abroad, and to help organizations collaborate internally. Still, many people scratch the surface of these capabilities, because their existing low-tech approach has been working for them. With this comes the opportunity to differentiate with solid tech.
According to retired officers, the issue stems from training cuts.

>For nearly 30 years, all new surface warfare officers spent their first six months in uniform at the Surface Warfare Officer’s School in Newport, Rhode Island, learning the theory behind driving ships and leading sailors as division officers.

But that changed in 2003. The Navy decided to eliminate the “SWOS Basic” school and simply send surface fleet officers out to sea to learn on the job. The Navy did that mainly to save money, and the fleet has suffered severely for it, said retired Cmdr. Kurt Lippold.

“The Navy has cut training as a budgetary device and they have done it at the expense of our ability to operate safely at sea,” said Lippold, who commanded the destroyer Cole in 2000 when it was attacked by terrorists in Yemen.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swo...
Beyond the “hello, world” of Python’s “print” function
I think you probably won't hear much about it since, as far as I can tell, the general sentiment in previous discussions[0][1] about Tidelift here was quite critical, mostly due to their lack of transparency.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17957744

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063250
An over-crewed ship can still have an overworked crew. It’s just that much of the work isn’t really necessary.
> Since, as you admit, dogs lack agency, they are incapable of choosing to do something else

To drive this point home, a pigeon dive bombing your windshield in the middle of an intersection could be correctly caused the cause of an accident. The pigeon is a free bird. It has no custodian.

Pets, on the other hand, are always in someone's custody. Custody relationships are complex, but ultimately come down to "you're responsible for this." Anything a dog could do to harm itself or others could have been anticipated, should have been anticipated and is ultimately the custodian's fault.
> You killed someone's dog. This hits like losing family.

Spoken like someone who's never lost family.
'Sad face' emoji signs off mass job loss message at fallen tech darling
I could care less about Facebook, but it’s the only way (easy way) for me to stay in touch with old squad mates, and international friends.
Essential security practices (not advanced PT skills) should be basic software quality concerns. Full stop. "But it works" is not an excuse e.g. for doing sql queries without proper parameter binding.
I believe the proposal is to have a wall wherever it makes sense and to have other measures where they make more sense.
> Now we use online services and trust people blindly...

It's also so shockingly to create a fake profile and hire people off of reddit slavelabour to write you good reviews. And meanwhile the pet owners hiring randos off Wag to walk their dogs feel like they did their due diligence to vet these gig workers by scrolling through the reviews and selecting the highest rated person.
Check out Postico https://eggerapps.at/postico/
I drove for Uber 20-30 hours/week for 3 years. It was super super rare for someone to try and fuck with me by threatening a low rating. At first, when they did, I told them to go ahead and just give me the 1 star. It really didn't matter. A few 1 star ratings barely puts a dent into thousands of 5 star ratings. Eventually I developed the customer service skills to prevent this from happening while still saying no. If you're a good driver you have nothing to worry about.

In my city, I remember when the news came out that drivers also rate passengers. The quality of passenger behavior skyrocketed.

I think most of the bad views of Uber come from disgruntled drivers and passengers with poor people skills. I know many many drivers and passengers who are happy with the product.

Also, ever since Travis Kalanick left the quality of driver support has tanked badly. It's very difficult to get issues fixed. The level of crippling bureaucracy within Uber is clearly growing. Not sure if that's a coincidence or indicative of his leadership.
I think content producers weren't going to give netflix a free lunch forever, so they had to start producing their own original content.

I dont own netflix, but I do think it's a great idea and a smart investment by them. One thing netflix does with this disruption-wise is the way they think about content.

companies like comcast (NBC) still got their heads in broadcast television style producing content, where-as netflix takes a lot of risks, and is ok if a show has a niche following, so long as they have something in their library for everyone.

edit: its sad, if content producers thought like this in the past, we'd have more episodes of firefly.
But being Amreica, someone has to be to blame. It can't just be an unlucky accident of circumstances.
And while you are doing all that your manager is breathing down your neck to finish the damn thing and your competitor has already released a comparative feature that you are developing.

In the ideal world, companies would give developers enough time to figure out security. But in practice, most companies/businesses just want you to ship ASAP.
My understanding is that TLA+ is primarily used for model checking not correctness proofs. I've dug around for TLA+ proofs and found only simple examples.

That being said, model checking alone is really powerful and can uncover serious design flaws.
If I have the ability to predict coin tosses correct 55% of the time, that would be incredible - an almost unreal talent. And I'd be wrong 45% of the time.

For any one prediction, it's hard to say that a probability distribution is "wrong", but across many predictions, we can definitely evaluate the accuracy of a predictor and quantify whether they're useful or not.

538 has an excellent track record.