skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hate this kind of "journalism". There's nothing newsworthy about this other than the fact that they exist. Obviously, these guys aren't proud of their family background since they say they don't want to discuss their family. I think it's even safe to assume that they have tried to avoid letting people know about this. Then this journalist comes around and starts asking everyone they can find what they know about these guys and telling them they're related to Hitler. They even go around asking random neighbors about this:

Gayle and Ronald Perry, who rented the small house next door in Patchogue for five years, and Kathy Jenner, who lived across the street, had no idea of the family's background.

So distasteful. These guys have done nothing wrong; heck, Hitler apparently didn't even like their dad. Just leave them alone, they're normal dudes trying to make a living.
YouTube is not trying to provide a service to you, it's trying to sell you the ad consumer, to their actual customers: advertisers. And they have it in their head that the best way to do that is to increase engagement. And the algorithms they use to try to do that analyze the habits of the most "engaged" viewers which includes a fair helping of crazy people with unlimited time on their hands and when the platform thinks it has some sort of opening to turn you into one of those folks, it tries as hard as possible to shove you in that direction. All this is just silly algorithms under the hood without enough human oversight, but that doesn't make it any less sinister.

Imagine this translated to print media, imagine YouPaper: a publisher of magazines. Going by these same engagement metric driven algorithmic based systems such a platform would rapidly spiral toward pushing tabloid content to the detriment of everything else.
That was a very well-worded argument. Now I'm even sadder that they're not releasing AirPower.
Two Straight Minutes of Google Recaptcha
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Recording of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory construction from a Chinese local
Thanks for doing the math but I don't think one product that consumes one one thousandth of the world's energy production is negligible. (How many coal power stations is that?) And a 40% increase in this consumption for a very minimal increase in 'convenience' (itself debatable) is not negligently wasteful.
Consequences of the climate as well. Because we get no frost, termites are endemic here. Pretty much every house needs to be tented every 5 years or so, and after 30-40 there may not be much foundation left. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to build to last when it's not going to last anyway.

Same thinking for earthquakes & wildfires. Over the short term, CA is paradise. Over the long term, it's temporary. That kind of thinking suffuses a lot of the CA worldview.
Doesn't really work when you're developing locally, tho. Can you imagine loading binaries from the cloud into your phone every single time?
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Oh, their keyboards met "high standards" then?
Im assuming it's very useful for people who can't use both hands.
> lol, my reply to you was too long. http://dpaste.com/3H8SRNZ

Maybe you should be more succinct then. If it's too long for the comments I'm not going to read it. A comment can be 2000 characters which is fairly generous. You can always post more than one reply.

I'm not going to open something on a pastebin like dpaste.com which will only be around for a year. If you're afraid of downvotes write something that makes sense.

Also hello there mattatobin. I know that writing style from a mile away. There's no point in me responding to you, because you never address the question and you just throw a bunch of other nonsense in there that has nothing to do with what was being talked about.
Playing either of two the minimal versions, the following moves produce a crash (yielding the "C - Nonsense in BASIC" only supposed to happen during a checkmate).

(deterministic responses from computer in []s)

1. e2e4 [e7e6]
2. e4e5 [d8h4]
3. g2g3 [h4d4]
4. c2c3 [d4e5]
5. d2d4 [CRASH]

(v 0.703)
Sure, gps geek and time-nut here.

The rollover problem is a hard one to fix, because there's no reasonable way for a GPS (at least one using LNAV (legacy) signals -- pretty much all of them, though I don't know what modern passenger jets use) to know which GPS "epoch" they're in. If you don't know what epoch you're in, you don't know what the date is.

Some GPSs solve this by recording the week number of their firmware build, and if the signals they get indicate the week number is less than that, they assume they're in the next epoch and update accordingly. Still means you run out of time, but you get a full ~19 years of life first (and then fail at some random GPS week). Some use fuses to record when an epoch has passed. Some use out of band information. Some store the current epoch in flash or battery-backed RAM. Some just never address the problem.

Thing is, though -- the only effect this has, is that it makes the GPS return the wrong date. That's it. The week rollover has no effect on navigation unless there's some significant bugs in the unit, or something external to the GPS relies on the date being output and doesn't deal well with the date suddenly going back in time. That's it.

I'd be kinda shocked if airplanes were just jam-syncing the clocks of their nav computers to the output of a GPS, and then had those nav systems be dependent on that time. But then again, I work in the tech industry, and I've seen the kinda code that goes into most products, so maybe I wouldn't be that shocked.

(I also can't imagine that GPS units used in aircraft aren't directly tested for their behavior during the week rollover. It's a well known and understood problem, and even if some random GPS manufacturer drops the ball, stuff that goes into aircraft has to go through certification for a reason...)
It's worse than that. YouTube tries to maximize engagement, so it will preferentially recommend videos watched by highly engaged viewers. Guess what category of viewers are highly engaged? Indeed, conspiracists, polemecists, etc. Imagine walking into a college campus and asking the registrar for some recommendations on classes to take and them telling you to go listen to the crazy religious nut shouting from atop a milk crate, because they were so much more engaged with their material than anyone else on campus.
Robert Parry was a great investigative journalist who stuck to factual, skeptical reporting at enormous cost to his career. Joe Lauria is similar. It's true that CN republishes a lot of less reliable articles, but at their core they are a genuine dissident publication. You shouldn't dismiss them so easily.
It seems like cars should have some sort of “remote wipe” feature that is automatically triggered by the owner or insurance after a vehicle is totalled and sold/scrapped.

It’s an interesting thought to get a junk car a rich person owned for cheap and then trace the location data back to their house and other places they frequently visit. It could be useful for espionage, extortion, theft, etc.
Money is a pretty objective assessment what's a person's worth. It's an actual measurable quantity, it's meaning doesn't vary from person to person like it does other indicators of worth (i.e looks, personality, altruism etc.)
I don't understand what that's supposed to show.
Yeah, that's true... Also, it's just a nice story to read. I'm a beginner blogger and wanted to try to write something different than usual...
I've heard product managers described as "mini-CEOs" before. I don't think it's a comprehensive description, but it speaks to ownership mentality I think.
I felt the same way until I bought my wife a wireless charger as something she might think was “neat”. I wasn’t even sure if she would use it but at least it would be an option. Once I saw how nice the experience actually was I bought one for myself. It’s really nice on the bed side table. Much nicer than fiddling with a cord in the dark. It wasn’t life changing but it definitely felt better than plugging in.
To its credit, Twitter has been doing this for some time now.
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Yup. It's just... shitty. I subscribe to a lot of channels and well more than half of the videos on the recommendations list are just recent videos from my subscription feed. I recognize that they are trying to create some sort of dumbed down landing page experience, but it just sucks. I feel as though there was a period of time when it was much better, but that time has sadly long passed.
Poor Google haven't got succeeded in Social Media.

It had shut downed Orkut, Allo shutting down Google+, Hangout.
From the article the parents are claiming that the child did not have an unusually high fever, and was acting fine.

There's nothing in the article about what the child's temperature actually was when he was kidnapped by authorities. Nor is there any information about other symptoms the child may have been experiencing.

Without this information it is not appropriate for anyone to be making judgements in either direction.
Doesn’t that doesn’t mean OS X isn’t using BSD grep. That just means it’s using an outdated version of BSD grep.
> > I'm sorry for your bad experiences with the Palemoon guys. You are obviously not who this software is meant for.

> Who is it meant for if it's not meant for users? Are they intentionally trying to turn away certain people?

Only people like you, who are trying to tell them what they ought to do with their free time.

> > I don't need or want sandboxing for my extensions

> I think you'll find with all security, it's best to have the "principal of least privilege" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege at all levels of software. The reason for this is because if something happens to exploit one area of your setup, the hope is that it will be stopped somewhere else.

And people like you complain that religious people act morally superior! If only he would read what you read, then he would think like you! You must be one of these extremely religious atheists, more convinced of your own correctness than any theist...

> > I don't know why you are upset, because the vast majority of the Internet agrees with you.

> They do because I am right. I rarely say this as I do often like a good debate, however in this situation I will.

...yep! You are!

> > The Palemoon community represents a dying breed.

> Progress will do that.

Here you are, trying to tell people what they ought to do and what they ought to want and how they ought to want it. You're an actual fascist, because you want to deny freedom to others, completely convinced of your own superiority. If only you were king, then everything would be fixed!

But you project that onto others, calling them the fascists!

You're an ignorant moron, as well, because you don't even recognize that it's only due to such freedom that we even have the software and general prosperity that we enjoy.

There is only one appropriate response to a comment like yours: fuck you and your tribal regressivism. Go stone-age yourself, and leave the rest of us alone.
The things that kill smartphone batteries today are age and power cycles. It doesn’t matter if you charge from 0% to 100% in one go or from 90% to 100% ten times. Both add up to one power cycle.

To keep your battery fresh for as long as possible, always keep the phone connected to a charger. No battery cycles. It will get worse after a few years anyway.
Trouble is that there is no chicken alive capable of expressing with out a single trace of ambiguity such an intention.
Things get a little more interesting if your company, not you, either owns or leases the vehicle.
What's the methodology behind 10,000 new millionaires?

In the community of rank and file engineers at unicorns, as I understand it, most people are expecting high five figure to low six figure windfalls. Will there be millionaires among very early employees and/or the C suite, sure, but that's maybe a couple hundred people at the largest companies.
I like the idea of a remote wipe, but foresee issues if the part of the car required for remote connectivity gets broken in the crash too.

It would be nice to have a way to physically remove the data from the car if remote connectivity is down. Some kind of FRU part in the trunk where all the user specific data for the car lives.

Get in a crash and just make sure to take the "hard drive" out of the car and then you dont have to worry.
This is like arguing that the science behind vaccines is invalid because doctors can’t predict when you’re going to catch your next cold. It’s willfully obtuse and has no place on HN.
I have a tablet with a broken USB port, so I can only charge it wirelessly. For my phone, wireless charging makes it easier to top off the battery. Less friction than digging around for a cable, plugging it in, and unplugging when I'm done.
It’s not super convenient, but I do it this way: press the phone to the ball of my palm with the middle, ring and little finger and use the thumb and the index finger to pull the cable out.
The trickiest part is the positioning of the phone in the palm, because that pulling motion has a very limited range.
Constantly charging causes fewer power cycles and extends your battery life.
The latest kernel patch 3.16.0-8 for Debian Jessie can cause some kernel freezes
I dunno. All the EV manufacturers still recommend not charging to 100% daily.
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I think its a big mistake to lump this type of "tracking" in with more involved "tracking" where particular users are followed around from site to site to serve up ads based on what the user has looked at recently. These are massively different things. Maybe you are opposed to both types of tracking - I dunno. Personally, I have no issue with a website keeping track of the things that they claim to keep track of (https://simpleanalytics.io/what-we-collect). However, when tracking means that a user does a search for something like "maternity" on one site and then starts getting ads for baby diapers on another - that feels like something that I understand why someone would want to avoid.
> “Job creators, entrepreneurs, these are the people who make America great.” So there are people walking around with substantial wealth who think that they have it because they’re better.

I can think of a certain social media entrepreneur that definitely think he is some sort of genius.
Thanks for this write-up! It's very inspiring, especially to those of us who are considering writing their own technical book. Would you mind doing another post-mortem but with sales figures (total revenue, hourly rate, etc.) and marketing ideas (what worked, what didn't work, how you planned the launch)? It's cool if you want to keep this information a trade secret though. Thank you for what you've shared so far.
I wish I could delete my older content. I want to delete everything except for this year from my timeline.

Or could I use the GDPR for this?
If you are just using sort because you need to use uniq then you can replace the whole thing with an awk command that gets unique lines without sorting. I think it's faster.
I think he was trying to be sarcastic.
That thread doesn't describe any actual holes -- i.e., nothing which definitely refutes the researchers' claims -- it's just a lot of generic "I don't think science should be done this way" stone-throwing.

Which, okay, there's a conversation to be had there, but don't mistake it as weakening the importance of the find.

It's possible that the New Yorker has another Jonah Lehrer writing for them. It's possible that this author has conspired with a paleontologist to craft a total fabrication and describe mammal burrows that don't actually exist. It's possible that several other paleontologists are all participating in this fabrication, with the certain knowledge that it will destroy their careers and their reputation before very long.

Or, alternatively, this particular paleontologist happened to be in the right place at the right time, and because of some past experiences, has developed an unconventional approach to handling his discoveries. Other researchers are participating, cautiously at first, and then getting excited by what they find. And, even if the working hypothesis -- that this site is a record of the last hours of the Cretaceous period -- turns out to be false for some reason, everyone is still working in good faith on what will turn out to be a monumentally important find anyway.

It's a tough call, but I'm leaning towards the latter at the moment. Time will tell, I suppose.
In fact, in this case the algorithm is only intended for numbers with 2^4096 bits. See section 5 of the paper:

In this section we present the main integer multiplication
algorithm. We actually give a family of algorithms,
parameterised by a dimension parameter d > 2. Let n_0 :=
2^(d^12) > 2^4096, and suppose that we wish to multiply
integers with n bits. For n < n_0, we may use any convenient
base-case multiplication algorithm, such as the classical
O(n^2) algorithm.
Age, cycles and heat. Inductive charging loops are going to generate a ton of waste heat, and worse yet a good chunk of that is going to be coming from the coil inside the phone.
This reasoning is backwards. Host a service in the US and it is at least protected from arbitrary monitoring by the NSA by US law. Host it abroad and you have no such protection.
It's very non-uniform though. My 10-year-old car has 30k miles on it; at 40mpg and $3.50/gal gas, that's about $260/year on gas. That's because I lived 2 miles from work and biked in during the summer while I was at Google, and I've been working from home while I'm at my startup.

A lot of FANG employees pay nothing for transportation because they take the shuttle and don't have a car.
“Over time, these harmonics add up and they become really powerful signals in the air,” explains William Lumpkins, VP of Engineering at O & S Services. “And that can be difficult—that can stop someone’s pacemaker if it’s too high of a level. Or it could short circuit someone’s hearing aid.”

"Over time, these harmonics add up?" Huh?
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Don't write a wrapper when using a Java lib. Just use it directly. Now the next person coming in just has to use it, no need to understand the wrapper and extend it. Interop is a first class feature specifically for that reason.

For the rest, I can only say that I don't understand the sentiment. It's true what you say about lots of Clojure libs, they were one off projects from someone and work has stopped on them. But I am able to move fast and ship with Clojure. For me, I can actually move faster with it. That's one of my main reasons for liking it so much.

There's a Java lib for everything complex. And there's a quality Clojure lib for everything common. I've never not found what I needed. And in general, I don't need as many things because the core libs are so full featured.

I'm not trying to deny your experience. It just makes me curious how my experience can be so different and almost opposite. That's why I've concluded that it's just not for everyone. It seems you are either a FPer or you aren't. And you are either a Lisper or you aren't. And with Clojure, you have to be both a Lisper and a FPer.
I've had my wireless charger for 4 months now and never once experienced this. You put it down and it makes a slight vibration to tell you its charging. Sometimes if I've had a few beers I don't hear the noise and I have to pick it up and drop it down again.

This is still way easier than digging out the cable from between my bed and my nightstand and fiddling with it 'till it gets in exactly the right spot. Now I use my phone in bed and don't worry at all until I go to sleep and then it just works.
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Pings to 1984.is:

From Palo Alto : round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 183.514/184.035/184.898/0.466 ms

From Amsterdam : round-trip min/avg/max = 36/37/39 ms

From London : round-trip min/avg/max = 48/48/50 ms

Obviously this can vary quite a bit depending on what peering you have at your disposal.

For reference, from Palo Alto to London:
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 156.236/156.921/158.271/0.834 ms

For latency, I would choose NY/NJ or similar if you really want one location to serve both EU and US; Though this isn't ideal, it does lower the latency to West Coast US quite a bit.

From San Jose to Newark :
min/avg/max/stddev = 73.462/73.547/73.660/0.078 ms

From London to Newark :
min/avg/max/stddev = 72.836/74.323/75.600/1.200 ms
The financial overhead to start any sort of platform for communication on the internet would be immense. The internet would turn into nothing but static sites and tightly thought policed elite clubs. Every manner of moderation currently performed would be overdone 10-fold to protect the platform administrators from legal liability.

The closest analogy would be digital speakeasies; not for inebriating beverages, but rather just the ability to communicate.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. This will kill any innovation by small businesses on the internet. Nobody will take the risks. New platforms akin to Snapchat or whatever will be looked at as riskier endeavors before they're even able to get off the ground.
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This is a Free and Open Source React Native Mobile App I built for fun, I used the Reddit API to display inspirational quotes from /quotes subreddit in a modern layout.

The iOS version is still under development.If you have any suggestion or you want to contribute please let me know.

Get it on Google Play > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usfslk.plindol

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gah. You're right, I'm wrong. Dumb.
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So your app that you’re advertising is just email without notifications? I fail to see the relevance to the discussion. You can turn off notifications to sms or instant message services too.
"We have analyzed the domains of Fortune 500 companies, to gain insight into their domain preferences. As data were gathered, some interesting facts also got revealed. For example, 14 out of the first 100 registered domains are being used as the official websites of certain Fortune 500 companies today.

494 out of the Fortune 500 companies, which roughly represent 99%, use domains with .com extensions. We see on an interesting side-note that all three companies that use .net extensions operate in the health industry. The extensions that appear only once on the list are .org, .xyz and .technology. An investment consultancy organization TIAA has preferred to use tiaa.org. 22nd on the list and Google’s parent company Alphabet’s name goes well with its domain, abc.xyz. 374th on the list, DXC Technology similarly complements its name by using dxc.technology domain."

https://blog.dofo.com/fortune-500-domain-names/
Who is buying $19 Apple branded charging cables? I guess if consumers want to lean into every minor expense it's hardly fair to blame the company for taking their money... Clearly they were eager to give it to someone in a hurry.
Was it the lack of response that made them an ex-friend?
What I don't follow is how other multi-charging mats do exactly this. According to the article, by their estimation it was powerful harmonic EM interference that did AirPower in. If AirPower were only powering 3 coils at a time like other multi-charging mats why did it run into this problem when others had not