skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, that taxi driver screwed over another person because of your bribe/tip? They might have needed one just as much as you or more don't you think? I think that's exactly what's wrong with tipping culture.

That's why I like how with services like Uber, it's very unlikely to get the same person who drove you previously. No pressure to have to bribe anyone to do their job.
Keanu Reeves will channel his inner 'Neo' for Cyberpunk 2077 – TechRadar
While open access seems great, and the reasoning behind it is inline with my ideals, I still have problems with "gold" OA, which seems to be what is being referred to within this article:

>Put another way: Publishers are still going to get paid. Open access just means the paychecks come at the front end.

Firstly, the fees imposed by journals are thousands of dollars, which is far too much for many researchers to pay. It would seemingly largely prevent the publication of independent research within such journals.

This was mentioned in the article:

>In fact, many academics still don’t publish in open access journals. One big reason: Some feel they’re less prestigious and lower quality, and that they push the publishing costs on the scientists.

However, the article seemingly (and contradictorily) earlier implies that Gold OA is a solution to pushing the cost onto the researchers:

>Academics are not paid for their article contributions to journals. They often have to pay fees to submit articles to journals and to publish.

However, under Gold OA this is only exacerbated, with large fees being everywhere on the publication-end. The readers don't have to pay, but now the authors do.

Additionally, this may create another pro-industry publication bias, as industry-funded studies may be more likely to have the money to publish in pay-to-publish journals, and this apparently has now been dubbed "e-publication bias" (bottom of https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/340/7753/Letters.full.pdf, also see http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1544).

Lastly, the article mentions predatory publishing, however fails to note that this phenomena is caused by Gold OA in the first place. In fact, it is sometimes specifically called "predatory open-access publishing". The idea behind predatory publishers is that Gold OA incentivizes publication (as they now get paid per-paper), leading them to seek out and accept as many papers as possible regardless of quality.

While open science certainly is in-line with my views, I'm not convinced that Gold OA is a good solution here.
> Notably, the fuel tanks used in this mission weren’t provided enough fuel to return from the Moon’s surface — an intentional limitation imposed in case the astronauts flying the test run were tempted to jump the queue and become the first people to walk on the lunar surface

I wish we lived in a universe where NASA didn't have the forsight to short fuel Apollo 10. Imagine a joyride to the lunar surface.
Yes, they most likely do have something to do with it. If Google is unable to ID you in some way (e.g. browser fingerprint, cookies, IP, etc) and determine you're a good Internet citizen, they'll assume that you could be a bot and offer challenging Captchas. It's annoying, but on the bright side it proves that your privacy add-ons are working!
How is Prolog ideal for when you'd use SQL? I can understand it if you're talking about querying a CSV file, but the advantage to SQL is that the database with all your data natively supports SQL and it can usually run pretty fast.

Btw: what would it look like to query a small sample CSV file. Like the below example if you wanted to find all cars that are made by Ford?

Brand,Model,Year,Color/n
Ford,F150,1999,Black/n
Toyota,Yaris,2013,Yellow/n
Ford,Mustang,1969,Blue/n

Edit: sorry for not knowing how to format HN properly and show the newline on each of the rows.
Lack of Water Can Perpetuate Homelessness
And? Yellow Pages did the same thing. Every ad was next to dozens of competitors.
Some endeavors carry significant risk but the rewards are also significant. The infrastructure doesn't have to be completely dismantled because one endeavor failed (however catastrophically). Why cause more pain than is necessary?
Other comments have spoken about why random screening is a bad idea. But the real problem is the tests we have just aren’t good enough. What are you hoping to diagnose with a CT scan? If you don’t smoke, the most common cancer you’ll get is breast/prostate and colon. CT scans are close to useless for detecting those cancers (If you do smoke then there is some evidence for CT screening).

Also note that image based screening has a resolution of around 5-10mm (CT and MRI closer to 5mm, nuclear medicine closer to 10mm). Once a cancer is this size, we are already talking about over 100 million cancer cells in your body. You will need surgery, and possibly chemotherapy and radiotherapy to eliminate these cells once it gets to that size.

What you actually want is prevention, not early detection.
Are electric cars more expensive to insure in 2019?
>The front page of Hacker News is pretty much a Google hate hangoutfest -- so maybe cut some slack on this one...

HN is not a newspaper. HN is an opinion-fest. NYT purports to be the "Newspaper of Record." Requiring NYT to publish corrections to factual error is utterly reasonable and has nothing to do with HN or Google in any way.

Oh, and Google are evil. There are more tech-literate people around on HN to have noticed and understood this. Google have become utterly hideous.

The NYT should publish corrections for factually incorrect reporting because it is what separates them from fraudulent pretend news sources such as Fox and CNBC which are simply garbage to be treated as lies until proven otherwise by anyone sane of any political persuasion. The NYT wants to be better than that.
The data behind studies involving the effects of things on humans is not always publicly available because making it so would violate the privacy of the subjects.

That doesn't prevent the studies from being scientifically useful. They can still publicly include summaries of the data sufficient to allow others to tell if the study was well designed, to tell if their statistical analysis was reasonable, and so on.

It also doesn't prevent others from attempting to replicate the studies using other groups of test subjects.
Paying for low-latency/low-bandwidth (e.g. game traffic, voip) data pipes is the opposite of network neutrality, but I'm kind of OK with it as long as 1) there is clarity/visibility in terms of how it operates, and 2) control isn't taken away from end users who want control.

Limiting it to low-bandwidth would discourage misuse and could enable offloading the decision of how and when to use it to the end user or application. Some users could reserve it for gaming, others for voip, others for something else. Some might try using it for netflix or web browsing but they would probably find that to be undesirable because of the low bandwidth.

You don't really need a private network for it either - there's no reason you couldn't have low-latency/low-bandwidth peering across regular ISPs.
You're missing the point.

If (a) everyone who owned a credit card actually had the means to pay for the good/service with available cash (even if not literally in their pocket) then (b) credit cards wouldn't be necessary and thus (c) good/services that typically use credit cards would be ~1-3% cheaper. In other words, the people who are getting rebates are artificially getting them b/c if credit cards didn't exist, all goods/services would be cheaper.
An interactive JS scroller game where the levels are based on music generated by a recurrent neural network model.

code: https://github.com/vibertthio/runn

blog: https://medium.com/@vibertthio/i-built-2-games-to-make-machi...
I thought he was working at a time when there was no Latex. (Of course, some people do like Plain TeX more.)
I'd like to learn more about companies like Prenuvo, is there some online community somewhere where you heard Prenuvo was the best? Or some other resource where I can learn? If so I'd appreciate a link, thanks!
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Naval destroyers could be equipped with missile eliminating laser system by 2021
I find it fascinating that we dont know how they became extinct. I had originally thought it was simply habitat destruction but that hasn't really be proven at all.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's boring, nasty, and just what we don't need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even worse Uber might have paid the cabbie another €5 to take the job.
Where exactly would an orbit “around the sun beyond the moon” be?
> There’s a lot going on here, and I’m no fan of CBP but this is pretty much a low-grade by the book contractor failure here.

Maybe government agencies shouldn't be allowed to contract out. And if they are, then they should be held ultimately responsible for their choice of contractors.
This isn’t “information that you do not like”, this is willfully spreading information that will cause actual, tangible harm to other people. The purported dangers of vaccinating your children have been debunked over and over and yet still people continue to publish material to validate their insane beliefs.

These idiots are actually getting off easy when you think about it...even Gwyneth had to pay out over false claims made about those jade eggs for your hoohoo.
I'm glad you posted this.

I was aware of the original tweet a few years ago, but didn't know the context until now.

I haven't read the referenced article so I can't comment on whether it's a valid criticism or not. But it's clearly satirical.
Gutenberg is the original source of the article PDF, which is generated from a modern text-based source, and is not a scan of the original.

I find original typography (and sometimes incidental notes and markings) interesting. Archive.org does have a source scan from the Library of Congress:

https://archive.org/details/modernbicycleits00schw/page/n7
Source? I don't really trust either of those sites, I'll read it occasionally, but usually more skeptically than other news sources.
More proof that liberals destroy everything.

Some people on here can't afford a nice steak but are more than willing to pay more and more taxes and the only skill they have is self sabotaging their own life and taking away their own freedom. These are the same people who think they are so smart and think they are so educated.

The same people will soon pay a tax for living and breathing because even that adds to global warming. They want to be poorer and live on the street.

America went from a country where EVERYONE could afford a house even if they were paid minimum wage and had a single income. Now most can't even with a 6 figure job. Nice job guys, you've destroyed the country and now you want to make things worse. All emotions, zero common sense or critical thinking skills, that's MOST Americans.
Sure, but good luck catching them.
Clarification: I have used this in rooms with no A/C, but to my knowledge it's never been in a room with temperatures above what Apple recommends as above normal range.
> You can't really blame Google for using its own tech to provide "better" results ...

Sounds like antitrust to me.
If you receive "actual contents" separately from GCM ping, you are probably being hit by Doze Mode. Doze is disabled for foreground Services, so your best bet is starting a foreground Service (via startForegroundService) _and_ taking wake lock (from within foreground Service, after your app is considered fully foreground).

Historically Android devices used to sleep by entering low-power CPU mode (sometimes complete with low-power radio and WiFi modes). In that mode all apps and kernel are heavily CPU throttled to the point when you can get network timeout because kernel TCP stack can't send packets fast enough. This is what gets disabled when you take a wake lock.

Doze Mode throttles individual apps by moving them into low-priority cgroup. In effect Linux kernel hardly ever schedules your process anymore. Doze Mode is not disabled by wake locks, only by starting a foreground Service.

Both Doze Mode and low-power CPU mode can coexist, leading to effectively 110% loss of CPU time by your process.
Thanks. Url changed from https://github.com/GITenberg/The-Modern-Bicycle-and-Its-Acce..., which does an automatic download.
The point of design patterns is not just to solve particular problems, but to solve larger problems by putting together solutions to smaller problems in a coherent way. Category theory is just the right language for talking about putting things together, even if the individual pieces you want to put together are less sophisticated than, say, a cartesian closed category or a universal property.

So I disagree, I think the title is right. If you don't go as far as category then you've stopped short of the biggest pay-off.
How to set up SSH access to a server over the Tor network [video]
I think it is strange.

LISP people hated Common LISP circa 1990 for various reasons. Most users were still stuck on 16-bit micros on which LISP was tough to fit, and Common LISP didn't make it any easier.

LISP people look back at Common LISP with nostalgia now since it was so much better than Blub languages like Java, Python, Haskell, Go, Rust, ...
That is pretty cool!

I would like to see a video of it working but it seems like a very handy thing for quadriplegics.
They went all out with a snazzy video for terminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
Where do you look for remote positions?
The difference is now one is heavily investing their business in the billboard business to ultimately be placed behind the billboard.

>There's no conflict of business interests.

This is big time a conflict, look no further than the antitrust investigations. Google is known to use their market position (data) to launch businesses in high dollar keyword industries and have their product rise to the top organically and upbid keyword on market incumbents forcing them to pay up or lose position to google products.

To say google doesn’t pay for search placement is a play with words, they take payment for ads that take the shape and form of results and appear above organic results (I’ll call it true #1), organic search results are not paid for...with the exception google sets the rules, and their is heavy buyin/investment from the company’s to obtain #1 organic placement, not to mention the seo rules generally reward and promote use of other google services/buyin.
I got same thing in Chrome too, so I guess its related trackers, not just for firefox lol.
> Why would banks want to trust ...

It might be that the 3-way monopoly lobbied (bribed lawmakers) into legislating their business model as what is required.
I'm American and it's very much reviled, and very inadequate.
I believe Intuit has been looking at alternative credit scoring though don't recall where I read that.
I would love to see Prolog implemented in hardware like the Lisp machines.
There was a great relationship between Charles Schulz, and NASA, which showed up in some odd places. There's an award, the Silver Snoopy, that is presented by astronauts to non-management employees that have significantly contributed to human space flight.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/sfa/aac/silver-snoopy-...
We don't really end up building many apps, so you're probably better off finding a closer match to your interests/skills. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
In no way did the yellow pages create a dynamic bidding war with competitors for ads next to your listing when people went to find your number.
http://archive.is/00oTN
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
> what motivates making PCBs at home?

Nowadays, The final result is always going to be manufactured by a PCB house. The primary motivation is (still) hobbyists' home experiments, but I guess it's not too uncommon for rapid prototyping and verification in the workplace, especially for RF stuff below 1 GHz. Often, you find yourself prototyping a component, and you've never used or designed around it before. To begin with, you need to give your design a try and see whether it works or not.

* The process needs to be fast, you want to see the feedback immediately, even waiting for 48-hours (many PCB houses offer this option) is a waste of time.

* It's highly possible that your design contains one or more logical and layout problems, you need the ability to do multiple iterations in a weekend.

* More and more state-of-art components are surface-mount, it's simply impossible to prototype many things without using a PCB. RF is another interesting example, a double-sided PCB is simply irreplaceable for even the most simple RF circuits. Above 1 GHz, it becomes tricky and it's better use a factory-made PCB.
Think liability insurance, by the same companies who charge you healthcare. We are spreading the cost of irresponsible folks across society then bailing out the companies who make those choices.
This is generally my experience as well. I have been a night owl at times, stuck in a loop where I would live during the night and sleep all day. Then I broke it, and became a morning person when that schedule became more convenient(like for work). I also tried polyphasic sleep schedules, where I would sleep multiple times. I've found my body doesn't work well that way though, I prefer to sleep just one time and get all the sleep I need for the rest of the day/night.

I definitely prefer the night time for things that involve creativity though. For me, the ideas just flow better at night for some reason.
What do you mean FOSS apps can’t use a proprietary library?

The library’s license says that it cannot be used by AGPL software?

Because if not, the FOSS authors can just make builds for Android with it.
Oh wow, I assumed it was just my combination of ublock origin + privacy badger + accelereyes + privacy-first settings in FF (block all 3rd party cookies, containers, resist fingerprinting, etc.) that caused many hits.

I'm not sure whether I'm glad to find out it's (also? only?) because they hate Firefox.
Too many variables to isolate there. It might've had surprisingly little to do with work. He might've just been feeling the cumulative effects of driving his crappy commute home to his too-big house, car-payment, mortgage-payment, spoiled-rotten kids and wife, lawn that needs mowing and gutters that need cleaning. For a lot of people college will be the last time they're not laboring under the full burden of all that stuff.
watch tv / eat cookies
Scenarios for Using Arpanet (1971)
OSX really did look good back in 2002.

It still stands out, even among all the current screenshots.
> Quote from the article: “There should never have been the ability to download a database like this off of government servers.”

I love when I read quotes like this that are so obviously written by non-tech people that have no idea what they're talking about.

As we at HN all know, if it exists digitally, it can - and will - be downloaded. End of story.
> Any tax that Person A supports but Person B is paying is a predatory tax.

Why should Person A, who earns 100% of their income through honest labor that benefits society, suffer the same pain of tax as Person B, who got it by the luck of coming through the right birth canal? Or because they own land that was made more valuable because of the government's investment and protection?
If you expect better of the New York Times, you haven't been paying attention for the past few years.
Louis Rossmann testified in this case as an expert witness a few days ago. You can watch his testimony[0] in this case on his youtube channel.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyo4XbmK1_Q
I actually watched a video on CNBC's YouTube recently about the lottery and one thing they mentioned is that they've made the odds of winning worse to let bigger jackpots build up, so they're actually going in the opposite direction of what you'd like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYxYSgg6JEI&t=4m30s
Real estate is a real pain in the ass for small startups; it eats up like several man-months of companies that have no people dedicated to stuff like this. I do think wework is bullshit, but thinking back to the process of moving a company your point makes sense. And in earlyish-stave companies the CEO / bigwigs are most involved with moving and corporations' decisions are no more economically rational than those of the people in charge.
Gutenberg's site has NO this book in PDF form![0]

Please, return main link to GITenberg's PDF![1]

Also inside GITenberg's PDF of this book (on 2 page) listed hyperlinks to related pages on Gutenberg's site.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58444/58444-h/58444-h.htm

[1] https://github.com/GITenberg/The-Modern-Bicycle-and-Its-Acce...
I noticed snappiness on perldoc.pl as well. Fantastic!
> I'm all for protecting dogs and other animals from cruelty, etc, but elevating their rights to that of a person? Come on.

We really are mimicking the fall of the Roman Empire. Next step: animals can vote. If they have the same rights as humans, then why not? After that comes being able to vote them into congress. I know people who think voting for a Beagle would be a better alternative than their local congressman.
They're zebra crossings, but I suppose you know that by now.

The captchas are completely non-localised as far as I can tell; as others have pointed out the 'store-fronts' tend to be non-American.
I was thinking the same thing. The technology and science that could come out of a mission like that would be great! We’d be the First Nation to retrieve something far away from earth that belonged to us. A stepping stone for future mishaps on other planets.
This is similar to comics and webcomics. It turns out that if you have your own website, you don't have to satisfy the censors in order to post anything.

Sometimes editors have good reasons not to let cartoonists put anything they like in the funny pages or the political cartoons, but the end result is usually very sterile. There's a lot of things you can say in that medium (e.g. the work of Bill Watterson or Gary Larson), but also a lot of things you can't.

That's a problem especially for political cartoons, because they usually poke fun at specific people, but you can't poke fun at just anyone because readers might get mad. The idea that there's an Overton window for people it's socially acceptable to ridicule should make us at least a little bit uncomfortable. Sometimes it'll be the emperor with no clothes and that's fine, but we might want to include the guy that sold him an invisible robe (but they own the newspaper too), and to exclude the kid who told everyone the emperor wasn't decently attired.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We already do that. Aren't there some towns in some states that have a dog as their mayor or some shit? It's pretty amusing to me.
There’s an inherent conflict in “I am an activist with a specific cause (or causes) I advocate for” and “adher[ing] to the principles of journalism”. It will produce journalism that is not at all neutral (ignoring for a moment if such journalism is possible), but tainted, even unknowingly, but the views of the journalists themselves. It might not even manifest in the story itself, but in the stories they choose to cover.
Actually, big accounting firms and tax automation companies spend a lot of money lobbying congress to keep the tax code complicated. It would save everyone a lot of time and money if the IRS would just tell us what we owe - they already know the answer, it's not like they just blindly accept whatever we say.
Yet the opposite result was published as research when screens were CRT with green or orange screens.

I think dark text on a light background looks better in my Kobo. It is a device that looks great on a sunny day.

But I prefer light text on a dark background in Sublime Text when reading on the laptop screen. Different technologies, different light profiles.

Maybe what you want and need is an e-ink laptop screen.