skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what exactly you want.

Dropbox has a fixed set of features, most people care about some other set, and there will be some intersection and some things that are needed that are outside of Dropbox feature set, that will need to be implemented by the user anyway (like encryption, automation, etc.). There will also be some things that will go against the user's use case, and compromise it.

So compared to Dropbox, having two external hard drives and using rsync regularly will get you way faster point in time backups, faster access in case of recovery, privacy, transparent encryption (that you'll not have to care about during access to files), no worries about losing access/account takeover, one-time fixed payment for the drive that will last you probably more than 5 years, instead of subscription (where you'll pay after 1 year more than you'd pay for the drive alone), etc.

Having always connected extra internal backup drives will also give you some other options. Like if you're a heavy user of PostgreSQL, you can setup cluster replication locally with synchronous replicas on different drives, and you'll have your databases backed up. Better than dropbox in this use case, too.

OTOH, if your use case is collaboration, Dropbox may be better. But if you include encrpytion of individual files you want to collaborate on, it may be again more cumbersome. I don't know.
The one that gets me is that there isn't an easy way to get to the center of a word, you always miss then tap again but if you are too quick it thinks you want to select and bleh, it's just unpleasant, I'd happily give up the predictive word bar on Android for arrows and cut paste buttons.
Donald Miller illegally collected thousands of Native American bones, FBI says
Maybe his kids are doing well because he has a lot of time to be a great dad and coach them?

Life happens. Shit happens. Kids happen. Enjoy the ride and don't terrify yourself about money or what your life should look like. We all get 24 hours a day on the planet and from a long term perspective, almost nothing of what we do really matters. Maybe by moving boxes instead of schlepping in a lab for some deranged sociopath like Elizabeth Holmes, the guy gets to spend a couple more priceless hours with his kids? The same kids that are going to be so far ahead because of his great mind that they will take care of him once they're adults and he has his time back once full-time parenting is over..

tldr: you sound very young so ponder this tip from a very wise zen teacher I had once "your life doesn't have to look like anything."
Elon ‘Tusk’? Tesla CEO changes Twitter name, says there will be news on Thursday
we interact with hundreds if not thousands of entities every day that aren't blood and flesh humans. Government institutions, think tanks, firms, cars, vending machines, internet routers, all of which in many ways are subject to regulation and have specific laws set out for them and whatnot.

It's not surprising, because we need to manage all the things we interact with and depend on on a daily basis.

Honestly a lake is a pretty trivial and important entity because it's a basic part of human ecosystems.

It's going to get a lot more interesting when we're going to have more discussions about chatbots, fake news, and other non-human agents in similar situations.
No offense to 3b1b, the production quality is impressive and the content is effectively insightful.

However, it is ultimately a very limited linear format covering the topic only lightly.
There is a very interesting clash here where the anti-money laundering and know your customer laws require pretty substantial investigation in to customers and EU laws (GDPR, right to be forgotten) which require this sort of data to be purged or publicized.
Ethereum upgrade should have taken place in 16th January last month only to be delayed by a bug found in EIP1283.
https://medium.com/myetherwallet/constantinople-explained-th...
> That said, I think any sort of OpenCL/GPGPU solution is overkill for this problem.

For the cost/benefit ratio? I think you're absolutely right.

But I think it'd be a neat project to learn anyway :)
1. No javascript or code execution.

2. No CSS, no colors/fonts at all from sites, they should be system specified.

3. Something a bit like frames to handle updates of the browser defined content area rather than javascript.

4. Much richer tags. Enough to make a site like HN with <comment user="flukus" time="2019-02-08">foo</comment> and to have the browser render that.

5. No Video.

IME giving sites control of the display and layout is where the web went wrong.
Motorola confirms its foldable phone is coming, and it could look like a RAZR
Ford has been doing this for decades (I think I saw it mentioned in the docs for EEC IV.) It turns off fuel for a cylinder here and there intending to pump heat out of the engine (a cylinder with no fuel is an air pump.)

It doesn't really let you operate with no coolant. Might get you farther before you die if you push it.
My experience is that on Chromium you can bypass HSTS-related errors by typing something, but expired certificate gives you patronizing "you have clock set wrong, go fix it" message and no way to bypass it. (But maybe I'm just doing something wrong)

Another issue is that Chrome uses trust store from underlying OS which means that it does not support ECC certificates (ie. Cloudflare) on Windows XP. (Lets just say that there are valid reasons why one would want to use XP today and download something from web...)
I think examples rather than problem solving is the way to go. Some very advanced topics are arcane enough that they really do need hand holding.

Compare Dirac's book on general relativity with one people actually read(To learn from) and you'll see why hand-holding and diagrams are helpful
"Better" is subjective. It's better if you like it better.

Is Blue better than Green? To some: yes, to others: no
How do you do that in a distributed cluster with HA failover using Sentinel, considering that Sentinel is susceptible to partitions and drops?
quite tragic how the only thing holding back untold numbers of academy-award caliber filmmakers are configurable Windows updates
This is plain wrong.

1. Firefox worked very well, thank you and I'm no natural saint when it comes to patience with software.

2. I am frontend (and backend) developer so I should know the difference between using bleeding edge features that doesn't exist in all browsers yet, non standard quirks that developers abuse, and performance problems.
The problem isn't the importance but the practicalities - it is abundantly clear who has standing to sue on behalf of corporations and they have common interests.

Who can claim to speak for a forrest and not be mere sophists? A hunter, hiker, and a lumberjack all have different interests in a forest. Unless it is privately owned in entirety there is nobody who can claim standing unless the standards are anarchic enough that literally anyone can sock-puppet the entity.
Except when the transformer next to its central artery (aorta?) and maintenance facility gets too hot:

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180727/fire-blocks-montparnasse-tr...
Should someone dare the major task of writing a new web browser, please, make it fully XML aware, so, as to be able to use it as just another component in an XML pipeline, for rendering.

A setting to convert all HTML to XHTML. This would allow easy XPath queries while browsing, then XPath 3.1 support, XSLT 3.0 support, XML Catalogs and XQuery in the browser would be cool as well. I am aware, that this is lots of work, but it would be nice to have something, that keeps the document centric web alive, and does not play to the rumor web, that we have become.
Raspberry Pi Support for Ubuntu Mate 18.04.2 Is in Development
This is great news. Please model the Theory of Computation book after your Linear Algebra book (by including full solutions). This is an excellent resource for self-learners.

Do you have a timeline for the release of the book? Would you have any interest in writing an Abstract Algebra text?
I'm wondering if the Wayback Machine has access to it.
You can learn a lot about what a developer knows and is capable of by talking to them about the projects they worked on. Ask them detailed questions about the particular problems they dealt with on projects and how they were solved. Ask them to explain core concepts that are intrinsic to the technologies they've worked with. You can also get a feel for their personality this way.

Remember, we're talking about a screening process. Once they come onsite for the real deal you can throw all sorts of stuff at them.
Given the huge geographical spread of IE languages (in Eurasia spanning from Bangladesh to Iceland), the cross-pollination between IE and non-IE languages is even greater than the intra-IE cross-pollination, as is evident from degree to which these languages have diverged and mixed with neighboring language families like Semitic, Caucasian, Dravidian, Uralic, Turkic, Basque, etc.

IE languages do share a unique inherited relationship also, based on their common origin, but the use of the word "paneer" in India isn't due to inheritance, but rather borrowing. The inheritance is most visible in today in words like kinship terms and pronouns.
Some people also strain the result through a couple layers of cheese cloth to make it thicker.
If you're OK with dumping your own ROMs and modding them, Crystal Clear[0] already exists. It scales trainers as you collect badges, so you can tackle gyms in any order.

It works surprisingly well, even for such an old game. The fact that you can just fly anywhere as soon as you get a couple of badges means that the sidequests and caves feel less like chores and more like just stuff to do when you get bored of battling gyms. The scaling ironically reduces grind, because it means most trainers you fight will give you decent chunks of EXP, and you can always skip a trainer and come back for them later without trivializing the battle.

I walked away from it kind of wishing that Nintendo would just carbon-copy some of its design decisions for future games -- I can only imagine how much more interesting that formula would be in a game where I didn't already have the majority of the content memorized.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yvciS0eLrTdQfLGVQEBkhZwz...
This is a great help. Thanks.
I can't imagine these will last long now that they've been posted in a comment on a front page HN story.
Related, in France as well: Hyperloop TT is developing, in Toulouse, the futuristic hyperloop idea: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/hyperloop-firm-unveils-first...
Don't doubt it! However, in my experience ingredients in the UK are generally not up to snuff versus what you can get in Bangkok, especially tropical produce. If you go the full Waitrose, it's cheaper to fly to the country and eat the cuisine there.
The helium problem was because of helium working its way into the crystal structure of the resonator and affecting its springiness.
I would like to invite the quiet downvoters to the conversation.
> As a long time Firefox user I think the change in its extensions APIs is one of the greatest moves they did and I’m glad they did it.

Not me. If the new extension system didn't present a loss of important (to me) functionality, then I'd think it was a good thing.

But the loss of functionality happened, and that change is what makes the new Firefox unsuitable for me, so I stopped using it (and I never used Chrome).
Yeah I have three friends that suffered from episodes of mania. I just remember talking to a friend when Mel Gibson was in the news for going off the rails, she said it was like our other friend going off. Very disquieting since that friend had recently thrown himself in front of a train.

Take care of yourself.
Yes.

Nucleons and quarks represent internal degrees of freedom (DoFs) inside the nucleus resp. proton that can receive momentum-energy from a scattering electron. This is measured as a loss of the sum of the kinetic energies of the electron and its target.

At low energies, the transfer to internal DoFs is negligible, so the scattering is elastic. At higher energies the transfer is relatively large, so the scattering is inelastic.

At sufficiently high energy, the nucleus disintegrates into components and new particles, and in the target's centre-of-momentum frame the sum of all their kinetic energies matches the change of the electron's. But at even higher energy there is again an apparent loss of kinetic energy, so there must be further internal DoFs within the components. Those are in the proton.

The higher energy scatterings are "deep".

As one does deep inelastic scattering, the proton's internal DoFs absorb electron momentum-energy. At sufficiently high energy levels the proton disintegrates into many new particles.

There are also differences in the scattering angle -- the amount by which the scattered electron is deflected from its beam path. Scattering angles are low in elastic scattering, and high in inelastic scattering. This gives further information about the internal DoFs.

For more see Mott scattering, deep inelastic scattering, and the parton model.
Google still pushes Chrome very aggressively. Gmail shows a popover advertising Chrome when I log in. It also puts Chrome ads in security alerts about new logins (!!).

https://imgur.com/a/eAOCL3J
I'm making an effort to stay on Firefo, but frankly the experience on mobile is IMO not as good as Chrome in term of navigation. I miss the pull to refresh, the inability to hide the URL bar when using a PWA (could be some websites that aren't fully compliant though..)
I like the personhood issue.

If a corporation can be a person for purposes of law, then why shouldn't the resources it wants to exploit be a person for purposes of law as well?
Not every application- I don’t see those buttons when dialing a phone number, or when watching a video or playing a game.
Applies to manuals too.
Just use Opera or Brave right?

Aren't those browsers just chromium reskinned and customized
> Forests don't need people, people need forests.

Citation needed, your orders of magnitude are probably off.

If we literally burned every tree that probably would be catastrophic, but most large corporate entities have created more net good than a given forest or lake.

We rely on corporations for food and comfort, we rely on forests for ... maybe oxygen? But from a rationalist perspective, the ideal would be to identify how much forest cover is required and then convert the rest of the land to productive use.

People don't choose to live in forests and visit cities. They choose to live in cities and visit forests. Cities are literally 100% corporate supported, from the infrastructure under the ground to to the tops of the skyscrapers. As far as I'm concerned, people who don't live in cities are disadvantaged by their lack of access to corporate support.
I remember seeing a federated meetup.com alternative in the brief time I used Mastodon. I can't find it anymore though.
> If there's one thing microsoft knows how to do well, it's build developer tools.

I think that's a debatable assertion.
Newspaper for the most part "just works", and when it doesn't it doesn't do much except provide you with the source so you can munge it and try again. (It also seems to work well for non-English languages, though I've only tried it against Spanish.)

Boilerpipe provides a lot more knobs and things to tweak the output. There are a lot more extractors than the basics that Newspaper provides.

Newspaper will give you the basics. Article content, titles, some metadata.

Boilerpipe let's you make a turn-key solution for particular sets of sites, which can be more or less helpful depending on where you want to use it.

Lastly... Newspaper isn't the fastest thing in the world. It does tend to have high accuracy for article extraction, but it tends to be slow.
What does a great software engineer look like?
The author mentions the similarity between the name InOui and "ennui" (boredom), but seem to ignore that "inouï" is an actual word that means unprecedented/incredible/unheard-of.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inou%C3%AF
> Objects, geographic features, even animals, don't have rights of their own.

Humans don't either, in the most basic sense. The universe really isn't concerned with our well being. We can argue that our government offer us rights, but the natural world is about to test the validity of that right soon.

We have the option of giving rights to natural objects and spaces, and arguably we have done so with the national Park system. I think we can, and should, do better than this. What form that takes I am uncertain of, but I am hopeful.
> a coffee cup does not toggle between being a wave and a particle

Neither does an electron, for that matter.

Particles such as electrons, protons, etc, are quantum objects. They're not waves. They're not particles. They are quantum objects - which means they have some wave-like properties, and some particle-like properties, but really are something else altogether.
That's nice. If your recruiter called me I would pass unless I happened to be unemployed. And even if I were unemployed, I'd tell your recruiter that I'm interested but I'd prioritize all of the other companies I'm talking to that don't have a homework assignment. If I failed their code challenges, only then would I do your homework assignment. Most developers I know would do the same exact thing. You have to realize that you are NOT the only company the candidate is talking to. In fact, the candidate doesn't even know if they want to work for you. Their recruiter pitched a bunch of companies to them. Your company was one of those. They were like "okay, sure send me over there." Seriously, unless you're a famous company like Google, the candidate never even heard of you. You are one of many places they agreed to let a recruiter send your resume to. Your job is to sell them on why they want to work there, not give them a fucking homework assignment.
What would make the military adaptable or not to conscript service?
Reminds of Heinrich Böll's wonderful anecdote concerning the lowering of productivity. [1,2]
I would recommend anyone reading this comment to check it out. It's an entertaining and enlightening short story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbei...

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/media/_migrated/content_upload...
So do electrons and nuclei.
I know I'm completely missing the point, but how does knowing which plane is upsetting your cat help with the situation? Are you going to report them to the FAA or something?

P.S. Coming up with examples for things in computer science that aren't absurd is hard. I had to think of an example when I was explaining junction tables for many-to-many relationships to someone the other day. After a minute or so of thinking, I just fell back on that old standard of books and authors.
That's cool, but I think that most people here agree that mice are a pretty terrible method of interfacing with a computer. Every time you use a mouse, you have to re-orient your self to the state of the mouse (its current location and its use within a given application). That is why we spend so much time optimizing applications for use with a fixed controller (a keyboard).

A touch screen is a bit better than a mouse for lots of stuff and it preserves the discoverability of a mouse-based UI. Unfortunately it retains the drawbacks of a mouse based ui. Worse is that there is no fixed controller on a smartphone that might allow faster interaction w/ apps. This is where I think we are getting in trouble. In a traditional computer setup, you interact with the mouse when you are learning new software, and eventually transition to using a keyboard more and more. With touch based stuff, it seems like when an app is first released it has a simple, discoverable UI. But over time, as people become comfortable w/ the app, its UI becomes less approachable to suit the needs of more expert users and new users are left behind (snapchat for example).

In my opinion a touch screen is fine for consumptive devices where many different UI elements are required and input is light. Creative devices should have a fixed controller like a keyboard, joystick, etc.
I feel like I am the only person around me who maintains (changes oil, rebuilt carb etc.) equipment and people seem to treat lawnmowers the worst. I swear I think people throw them away because they're out of fuel sometimes.
Couldn't you have done the same?
Reg “raganwald” Braithwaite here.

If you want to organize an HN meetup in Toronto, I can make space available at the PagerDuty offices, whether it’s for six, or a hundred and six.

Most people call me “reg,” and my work email domain is pagerduty.com.
Tovala (YC W16) Looking for Android Dev in SF
Sure, but I mean, exposing almost raw GPU calls to the open web is… nuts. There must be a less powerful, safer subset.
p.s. If you get things rolling, let me know early and I’ll tweet about it. Not sure how many Torontonians follow me, but it wouldn’t hurt to get the word out...
I think that's a very dangerous pivot though. True, there is a lot of money to be made in financial engineering, financing, et al.

I also think that's where companies go to die long term, even if it is a huge profit center short term. It means you are no longer looking forward to innovation and are now just looking to grease the wheels as much as possible.
I'm also working on an education related project. With projects like this....the truth is, it is mostly a labor of love or passion for the subject that drives you. There isn't much money to be made (even to just support yourself) in creating free courseware. If you want to make money you are better off just working for a traditional university.

You can even see it for yourself. This guy started this project 3 years ago. Fast forward to today we can see that his youtube channel has 500 subscribers and most of his videos have around 1k views...this is after 2-3 years of each video being uploaded. Basically, no one is using this site. It is no surprise that we see so many of these education type projects being half built. The developers eventually toss in the towel.

Personally I think we need a combination of both to really change education though - open educational resources and the associated tools to learn the subject better. Preferably free but also low cost might work or supported by donations.

Right now the big publishers pretty much control the entire market. They own the content and they create the tools. Then they spoon feed it to university faculty (by making tools to basically "drag and drop" the content for teachers) and the student/taxpayers ends up footing the bill for it.
Heh, that just shows how wide chasms can be. I find Chrome's UX to be horrible (and unfixable), and it's why I never adopted it.

Firefox's has been horrible for a long time, but at least (until they dropped the old extension system) it was possible to fix it.
These are hardcoded in the apps. If they disable a key, they would need to release a new version of the app (ok), and all users would need to update (infeasible).
Boeing's Autonomous Fighter Jet Could Arrive Next Year
Your reply could be more civil.

Many scientists warn that we are probably in one of the great extinction events. It's happened before, and past success is no guarantee of future success. I might add that our ancestors didn't have an abundance of nukes either.

I know a lot of what the Earth has seen. Huge glaciers, global hypoxia, mass extinctions, cataclysmic events...

your response ignores fact that there never has been 4.5 billion Homo sapiens sapiens living all at once before. What a coincidence that I should be here to see it!
It's very hard for me to consider Chrome as a "most secure" browser. But I suppose it depends on what you do and don't consider security threats.