skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Space is pretty inhospitable

Is it? Predation, old age (wear and tear), disease (pollution) are the primary reasons that what we consider "living things" die. Space has very limited vectors of death for something like the tardigrade. To some bug dessicated hibernating in a rock, it's not too bad.
SciHub and LibGen seems like very different things. They're both extremely useful. However, surely the ethical situation is very different? For SciHub I see little ethical problem: the authors of scientific papers never expect royalties and will almost universally welcome free access to their publications. No-one's going to shed tears on behalf of scientific publishing companies; they had their time, in the era of type-writers, but nowadays we can create our own PDFs, thanks very much.

LibGen on the other hand I'm fascinated by. Most people I meet have absolutely no idea that a vast proportion of all commercially-produced (more or less technical) books are available for convenient free download. And while I would love for that human knowledge to be freely available to everyone on the planet, we do have to concede that many of those books were written by authors on the understanding that it was a commercial project and they would receive income for it.

Do people generally agree with the above distinction? I feel that this thread (and perhaps the French government / courts) should be making it more clearly.
Baltimore resident who commutes by train here. There's actually a line that goes to DC right by inner harbor- the Camden Line as opposed to Penn Line at Penn station.

As a consequence trains from Baltimore run a bit more often then once an hour - though I don't take Camden Line (It's for losers) so I don't know what the overlap is exactly.
It acts as a defense in both directions, too, since the manager’s boss will want the manager to stick to objectives that fit with the manager’s boss’ OKRs.
Yes. And by closing the loophole while staying viral, it makes it unlikely that anyone would ever use AGPL code.

For example, if you use an AGPL CMS to power your website, you now need to open source the entire thing.

So, I'm not saying that it is necessary to have a stronger copyleft license, I am saying that the existing copyleft license was successful because people were able to often ignore it.

A lot of energy has been spent discussing the reach of GPL's virality, and its loopholes. When it comes to copyleft, the Mozilla Public License 2.0 has a much saner approach by avoiding virality all together. Share changes to the code you received, keep the rest.
As a way to judge end user software budgets, commercial software that costs more than a few hundred dollars is considered “expensive”. That would pay for less than a day of work by a software developer to make modifications to software. The only economical way to support end users is to amortize that cost over many end users, by hiring developers into a central development organization.

Sure, for the far right of the bell curve, the “end users” who are owners of medium-sized businesses, it becomes viable. But I’m talking about the end users who buy Microsoft Office Home Edition.
I would support your exxon in your thought experiment, and I'm a "friend" of AOC.
Really have to love how the HN hivemind can simultaneously defend wholesale intellectual property theft (genlib, piratebay, et al) and claim that copyright law is too strict while getting morally bent out of shape over someone aggregating and curating otherwise low-value instagram posts in order to eat takeout for free.

The lack of moral consistency is astounding.
>after finding an error in their methodology.

If that's the reason this seems like a non event, as far as some of the typical gender related internet spats goes.
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Berkeley Lab’s Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division has an opening for a Software Developer. The Software Developer will be part of a team that drives the Materials Project (https://materialsproject.org/) in new and exciting directions as the number and diversity of our simulations grow. You will occupy an important role in a small team composed of both computer scientists and materials scientists, a team which will continue to grow and evolve as our fast-paced project pushes new boundaries.

Job posting: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/materials-software-developer-1700
Thinkpad Carbon X1 6th gen or (7th?) - this is the mac replacement (great hardware) that runs Linux perfectly.
In some sense everything is always a trade off. But some things cost more than they're worth.
Would be interested!

Shoot me link if you get one started. :)
I met the author at a conference about 6 months ago. Very nice guy. Verilator is a really good way to test your designs if your building something non trivial.
Too little, too late. Surpassed by Ansible (and AWX) a long time ago. Chef was nice in 2014 to get rid of puppet...
It's called panspermia, for the curious.
After the first crash, I heard a lot of people predicting it would lead to 100% pilot awareness of the defect and its symptoms. The second crash proved that assumption wasn't true :(
Wow, the quality of AP news writing has plummetted.

> Like many other places, Singapore has grounded Boeing 787 Max aircraft following two fatal crashes of Max 8 planes, in Indonesia in October and in Ethiopia last month.

That'd be 737 MAX, of course.
I dropped so much cash on compuserve as a kid... ugh the pain and realization when my folks figured out what it was..
Do you need them in the same file? I'll do plaintext notes and have the relevant pic or other file have the same file name (or filename_fig2.png, etc.) as the plain text to keep things together.
Google Labs.
I asked for a license agreement to use the Castlabs fork of Electron, which supports Widevine. https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases
Anecdotal, n=1: Our son's autism diagnosis got him placement in a special pre-school focused on special developmental needs, and has gotten him special placement all through his public school career to date, with small classes and lots of extra support.
Note that I did say ">1km". The total distance for those 200 days was 672km including one (1) marathon, six (6) halfs, seven (7) 10kms, etc.

(Anecdotally, your 15km a week is only going to get you 428km in 200 days.)
Yes, while I think it's interesting, I don't think it's fully accurate. Thanks for the good points. I agree with you especially on consequentialism vs dentology; I've been wondering if I shouldn't write another version of this blog post that's a bit more heavy on the philosophy and jargon...
the real problem is this code never got peer reviewed.
I left my full-time job to start my own business. I work more than I used to but I also make more than I used to. Part of the upside is that I do hope to retire earlier than most, but I do miss having a more 9-5 day.
I think you're greatly underestimating how much more cumbersome torrenting is even compared to a plugin, especially for "normal" users who are not necessarily tech-savvy.
Early intervention with behaviour modification therapy, especially in early school life where social interaction skills really matter.

In adult life, it can lead to better psychological therapy. Managing anxiety in ASD is different to neurotypical people, for example.
Still, the point stands. Gay people are autistic, which explains a lot. We need to round them up and medicate them.
Not entirely. If the ship is sinking (no future development) it's highly likely things like warranties, support, maintenance, etc -- are also sun setting or degrading in quality -- in a sense that most of the brightest and keen individuals in those departments have routed or been reassigned, leaving lack lustre or not as motivated people behind.

I kind of speak from both sides of this, I had some audio hardware I bought but one day they went radio silent (404 site so presumably belly up), so future support was dead along with all their support drivers. Another was an internship I did at a hardware company where there was just maintenance patches being applied to the product, and it was depressing.
Is there another unstable airliner in operation? Even if it's OK, at the very least flying one (with or without software controls) would seem to me to require a certification by the pilots, which, as I understand, is precisely what Boeing tried to avoid.
The UX pattern that should be observed is preflighting -- ask the user if they want notifications from within the webpage (if appropriate, obviously) and let them know it'll prompt a browser dialog. If they say yes, you're good to go. It's an extra step that significantly improves both conversion and experience, often used in mobile.
That's true, but this is actually normal behavior in the instagram world since it doesn't have the concept of share/retweet. So you screenshot or use some app (ie regram) that re-posts someone's content and credits the original user.
sounds like your talking about an ad-blocker
Netflix doesn’t make most of their content. They just have exclusive license to show it. The studio that makes it still demands DRM.

In the rare case of content that is actually made by Netflix, it’s easier to just put DRM on it, because otherwise every system dedicated to encoding and playback would have to have a code branch that was special for non-DRM content. It would be a maintenance nightmare. It’s a lot easier to push all content through the same pipelines.
How the product looks is a very superficial criterion.

As developers we understand the value of the ecosystem and we want to invest in products that last longer that one or two years.

Also I own Apple and Thinkpad laptops that are between 1 and 7 years old and all of them are still working fine. Laptops last longer than smartphones so you want to ensure the platform will be supported for the next 10 years.

Can you honestly say that Google will support Chrome OS for the next 10 years? Personally I doubt it.
I replaced Evernote with Turtl and never looked back. https://turtlapp.com/
Ask HN: What will you use instead of Google Inbox?
What exactly from other small team have:

- dead simple cross compiling

- multi platforms / arch ( there are many for Go: https://gist.github.com/asukakenji/f15ba7e588ac42795f421b48b... )

- no dependencies

- fast compilation

- good performance

- good debugging

- rock solid and production ready

I don't know any compiler from smaller team that matches the Go one, it's one of the reason why people use Go, compiling things is fast and easy, from my raspbery pi I can compile a win10 64bits exec with 0 problems 0 tools to install. ( ex: GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build . )
>Though the nose-pusher system's entire existence is due to the aerodynamic design of the entire MAX...which seems to be driven by the other 2 legs of the stool (i.e. budget and time).

Sorry, but this isn't a credible comment.

Modern engines run bigger slower fans to reduce fuel consumption and noise. Bigger engines don't fit under the wing.

The engine fitment issue has been around since the 737 went from JT8D -> CFM56, hence the punched in the jaw look of most current non MAX 737s.

New generation, bigger engines, same form factor.
Sure they could've redesigned the half of the plane but then it's not really a 737.
Their history killing successful products makes everyone wary of using any new Google products:
https://killedbygoogle.com
I've yet to see a note app that didn't just serve up the same functionality of plaintext files and calendar events in a bloated, proprietary, and pricey package.
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Yeah, I was trying to think of the most awful thing that superficially seems like a substitute good for Game of Thrones :)
Just switched from inbox to gmail today after the notifications stopped working

There are ads inside gmail that look just like emails, which I keep accidentally opening.

This is just ridiculous why would I use an email provider that does this. What are they going to do next? Start adding ads to my email signature?
New State-of-the-Art in Logo Detection Using YOLOv3 and Darknet
What a shame that someone with some talent is doing something so sketchy and selfish with it.
Right on. I think it's probably as much of what's going on with open source as ideology (including beliefs about 'fairness') though. (Or maybe I'm just a Marxist who thinks material conditions usually are primary to ideology :) ).

There were ways people made a living while producing libre/open source for the last 30ish years, that also produced quality, useful, sustainable software.

I think those ways have broken down, and no longer do that. I could get into the details of what I think those ways were and why they have broken down (I tried to in an HN comment on one of the posts on ElasticSearch, the comment replies did not express consensus with me :) But it includes that the software we want now is 'more expensive' to produce, as well as increased 'rationality' from employers of developers). But regardless of the details, I think things like the ElasticSearch thing (there are many more examples; the whole variety of "open core" software) suggest it's probably happening.

I think that's probably more fundamental to the splits around open source than ideological predilections or beliefs about "fairness", in that any solutions or succesful evolutions of "how open source-ish is done" will have to take account of them, not just ideological predilections. Will have to provide an ecology/economy where people can make a living while producing quality useful sustainable "open source-ish" one way or another. I see no clear solutions regardless.
plusnet and EE are turds. Total turds. The worst of all of them to be honest apart from possibly Talk Talk.
Interestingly, Amazon prime didn't give me HD video on Ubuntu chrome, but worked and gave me 1080p if I changed the user agent to a recent windows one, in chrome.

Still can't get 4k anywhere.
I'm pretty sure there are options, none of which are efficient, but here they are:

1. Firefox consumes the Widevine as a plugin, and the way to load that may be a straightforward one, through an interface.

2. Support a different DRM scheme that has an open interface and is popular

3. Disassemble Widevine or talk to hackers who've understood it. Clean room disassembly is legal in many parts of the world.

4. Don't drop this project, but put up a placeholder and evangelise better DRM standards. Pretty sure that if it involves crypto and it's not open source, it is an attractive target with an exploit in the works. That's what it is going to lead to, and by then you'd already have a working implementation.
Doesn’t Aladdin seduce jasmine by wishing he was a magical prince with a cool flying carpet and then heroically saving her from an evil sorcerer?
I use Evernote, and like it. (Mostly for to-do stuff, in a way I can tweak it in a way I like + sync with phone.)

For the other alternate solution is text notes (in Markdown), which I use a lot (when I don't need to sync stuff + want to enjoy distraction-free environment without Internet).

The only real annoyance of Evernote is that each time I click on an external link, it asks if I really want to leave Evernote (anxious attachment?).
The 1920x1080 non-touchscreen version T480s screen has a somewhat bad color reproduction. If you compare side by side with some of the older T4xs's, the colors a notably less vibrant. Not that one needs the most vibrant colors for coding and editing text. It's still usable, just a bit worse than you'd expect for its class.
Interesting to see this both in the "Public Domain Review" and here on HN. Lee was writing in the aftermath of the outbreak of WWI and upset with how the international culture she knew growing up in Europe during the mid 19th century was destroyed by the rise of nationalism. Perhaps fortunately, she didn't live to see WWII, which would have depressed her even more. Now that we seem to be entering into another period of nationalism, Lee's work is sadly relevant again.
If you can choose the airline you know what fleet the plane comes from. If you search on the flight number on e.g Flightradar24 you can see what model they used on the flight for several recent flights.

But in the end I suppose the reality is that even an un-fixed MAX-8 is orders of magnitude safer than your car ride to the airport. So before picking aircraft models, ensure you ride the train to the airport and not a taxi...
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> Having to fall back to a flash player was never ideal.

Flash had/has to die!
Teaching machines to reason about what they see
Seeking perfect wholes is more religious than identifying specific areas where practical interventions can be made.

Free Software works to protect the freedom of individuals to use software that they own. It doesn't work as a magic way of making VCs money by companies giving server-side code away for free. The former is a politics, the latter is not even a religion. But sift through all the anecdotes and repeating of old Microsoft slurs against Free Software and it is clear that it is losing that religion that is behind the current debates.
Long journey to Mars in hard vacuum and under UV radiation makes it very unlikely, but bacteria spores are very resilient to harsh conditions. I think it is still theoretically possible. There are a few papers on this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11539977/
There was also a "Moore's law" of aviation. We got from the Wright Flyer to the first jet fighter, the Me 262, in just under 40 years--1903 to 1942.
Wait but what about what he is doing is unethical? Isn't he promising restaurants a promotion on the instagram page in exchange for a free meal? And aren't the restaurants getting promoted on the page and giving him a free meal? What's morally grey about it?
Those were my initial thoughts, Google misunderstanding how Metastream works. It only sends playback information, no streaming of video/audio content. Each user needs to be logged into their own session on each web service.
If you define “end user” as “institution with enough profit to hire a developer”, then yes, it’s a tautology that they can hire a developer. But that’s a minuscule fraction of end users. The person who buys Quickbooks off the shelf at Office Max isn’t hiring any developers.
> Windows 95 had better window navigation than MacOS Mojave.

it is crazy how bad windows management is on Mac. Every Mac users that I know have installed some softwares (like spectacle) to help with this. Some people must make a lot of money selling software that solve these issues.

What's crazy is that it is still not built in.

Snapping windows on the sides is something that have existed for a really long time on other systems.
As others have stated, ANYONE can get this data with the money.

I used to work for a company in the mobile phone space, we had access to triangulation APIs and my ex-boss, often requested we track people who owed him money, just because we could.
The Animal-AI Olympics
Groove Music Pass and Microsoft Band stand out as good parallels, too. As does Windows 10 Mobile. The Microsoft Health service that went with Band & Mobile is shutting down soon. And they announced today that they'll no longer sell books in the Microsoft Store app.

It's getting hard to trust both companies.
Or at least follow the spirit of the DMCA process and allow users to say “no, that’s an invalid claim and I am willing to risk being sued”
They have complete access to the source to verify its function. They just don't because fuck you that's why. What are you going to do about it anyway, cry on HN and Twitter?

Mozilla is Mozilla and can mount a defense so they get a license deal.
Wait, what? That literally just happened.

I suppose Instagram is reading this thread. :p
> What are they going to do next? Start adding ads to my email signature?

That's crazy, who would ever do that?

~ sent from my iPhone [0]

[0] not really, but...
Google AI Ethics Council Is Falling Apart After a Week
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

You've heard of super-tasters? There's a genetic variation that creates a kind of fourth color receptor in some people, apparently giving them the ability to perceive colors others can't!

> One study suggested that 2–3% of the world's women might have the type of fourth cone whose sensitivity peak is between the standard red and green cones, giving, theoretically, a significant increase in color differentiation.
I think OP's point is that breaking any law undermines the principle of rule of law in general.
This is a bit of a nitpick, but most people (especially children) can see at least a bit into UV. With my contacts in, I can see down to about 400-410nm. With them out, I can see to about 390nm, because the plastic in the contacts blocks shorter wavelengths. I tested this using a spectrophotometer.

People who have had cornea-replacement surgery and opted for the UV-transparent corneas can see further into the UV.[1] A child (with young corneas that haven't yellowed at all) almost certainly can too.

[1] e.g. http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalen...
It's taking advantage of the system overall, because it's based on abusing the trust implied by the rating system.

As a user, I'm reading a positive review of a place and I'm unaware this review was posted in exchange for a free meal (in other words, bought).
@eastdakota, I have 1.1.1.1 at router level but when I installed the app it told me I wasn't using 1.1.1.1.

Is this by design or there is possibly something wrong with my router's DNS setup?
I think you miss the point. If there is one journal that specializes in your particular field, what else are you supposed to publish to? And if you aren't publishing to somewhere that your colleagues read, you aren't producing meaningful science.
Former DRDO scientist Ravi Gupta told TOI, "Such comments by the Nasa head are discriminatory and irresponsible. It's more of a propaganda. India's test was
conducted at 300km altitude and the ISS is at much higher altitude. There is a remote possibility of debris moving upwards and even if some pieces are moving upwards,
they will ultimately fall down as they will lose energy or momentum they gained during the missile-satellite collision. Second, the US is blaming us but it itself had
conducted a lot of A-Sat tests in the past which generated thousands and thousands of big size space debris, which already pose danger to all space assets of every country,
including ours. Likewise, a lot of space debris was created during the similar tests conducted by Russia and China.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/nasa-says-a-sat-te...
Indeed. And what nonsense about cohesive design. There's nothing cohesive about the design of Wolfram functions and parameters. Often, they're not even documented!

Wolfram is just a huge proprietary library. It's arguably not a language at all. And it has an appalling UI that makes it unsuited for building modern apps for others.
> ...the creators of the open source browser Chrome, ...

This assumption is a mistake the author is making. Chrome is, for all practical purposes, closed-source and proprietary. It's Chromium that is open-source. So far as I know, Chromium does not have Widevine included by default.
>And then it all was destroyed.

We still have communities like that, but you need the right connections to get in.
It doesn't. It transmits playback state, but doesn't stream any video or audio content. Each user needs to be logged into web services on their own client.
I mean, that's totally fair. All I'm saying is that, for me and with well-supported hardware, "just works with zero thought" is where Fedora's pretty much gotten. :)