skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, I meant what we think of now as "gate". For instance, I remember going out to meet people at the gate at SFO in the 1990s. I'm not quite old enough - or perhaps didn't grow up in a small enough town? - to remember routinely walking out on the tarmac to greet a plane.
Holy hell, this was the app I was looking for for a long time! It does exactly what I want it to do and does it beautifully. Thank you! I'll be happy to pay you when you provide that option.

By the way, I'm surprised this isn't a default feature of OS'es. I always thought knowing exactly what apps are talking to the world and how much is something one would like to know about.
"Entitled" is fast becoming a shut-down-the-debate keyword, like "denier".

Leaving that aside: there's nothing inconsiderate about refusing to be exposed to a constant stream of distracting, unwanted, intrusive advertising.

Your understanding of consideration in this case is exactly inverted: it is the advertisers who are rudely acting as though they are entitled to a share of my attention. This app merely levels the playing field.
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I tried to order some Chinese food with this app, and instead attained Satori with a side of organic artisanally crafted fair trade fried pickle chips and a wonderful whole grain mustard aioli.

Aside from the lunch order faus pax, this app is probably acceptable for use at parties where folks have passed the point of plurnt.

The voice used in the app is also a bit more pleasant than that of Siri.
Thanks! I also felt like I couldn't easily see what was happening in the background and it made me feel nervous.
Who is this aimed at? Reqular people buying some Bitcoin don't care about a price difference of $1. Traders looking to do arbitrage probably already have their own bots and scripts to do that.
The OS I'm using isn't eligible for an upgrade. So that would require hardware. That's not in the budget at present.

The browser isn't a Microsoft product.
I just watched 4 guys get stuck in a dumpster and shout profanities at each other for 2 minutes. A questionable use of a billion dollars IMHO.

Maybe this means I'm old now?
If the regulations disproportionately discourage more dangerous demographics from driving, shouldn't that count as a safety improvement just as much as prohibiting them from driving altogether? Burdensome regulations are keeping a large number of dangerous drivers off the road. Shouldn't that be considered a win? (Not necessarily one that outweighs the costs, but in isolation that's a good thing, no?)
n/8 this app got my cat pregnant.
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This article has some fun graphs, but the writing is a bit sloppy.

“They are using gobs of electricity.” What? The observation (that EV car households use about 6kWh or under $1 of electricity above a normal household per night) is if anything remarkable for how low it is. Does the average owner of a new electric car drive only 16 miles per day? More likely, a large part of the daytime use is also spent charging the car. But the average daytime use is only 3kWh above normal. 9kWh only gets you 24 miles per day or about 9000 miles per year, still below the national average driven per year. If I bought an EV vehicle, I would drive it as much as possible, since it only costs 1/3 what a normal car does to operate.

The hypothesis that “EV owners may be especially likely to use more power at those times because they have bigger homes as well as bigger amenities” is plausible, but from the given data the opposite could be true instead; they may spend all their extra electricity charging their vehicle and spending less electricity on their other appliances.

Also, why mention Tesla multiple times (and in the title), when far more Nissan Leafs and Chevy Volts have been sold and are part of the data?
Well-said; thank you for the reply. Based on what you've said and what the article says and implies, I am inclined to be biased against the tribes in this matter. While there is obviously a long and tragic history that is still in play, it seems to me that if there is an agreement that is in place that allows the federal government (NOT necessarily within the Corps) primacy in determining whether remains belong to some tribe(s), then such tribes have no immediate grounds to claim the remains. I agree that the Corps comes off looking very much like they intended to use the remains as a bargaining chip.
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> I haven't downvoted you but let me explain why others have. You're making politically controversial statements and essentially accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a bigot.

I am not accusing anyone of being a bigot. However, it would be silly to assume that there are not cultural and social biases about gender that you and I grow up with and have, even if we don't realize it. That is what I am getting at: this isn't some accusation, but that statement definitely has a connotation about what it means to be a particular gender.

> This place is full of engineers. There are only two ways you can say there is no true gender. The first is to take the anti-science position that males and females have the same chromosomes with all that entails and the second is to redefine "gender" to mean something outside of what most people understand it to mean.

Gender is not your genes and there is a difference between sex and gender. The view that sex and gender have difference is not an unusual understanding of what gender means. Moreover, there is a lot of assumptions and stereotypes in culture and society about gender. Even if those assumptions are common, that does not mean they are valid or that they are not harmful.

> It's completely understandable that members of a community where making subtle distinctions are important would want to redefine relevant words to make their meaning more clear to one another.

You are implying that trans people being able to define their identity and having their identity accepted is a niche thing that isn't relevant to society as a whole when it most certainly is. Being able to have an identity and exist without facing violence and hardship is important no matter how numerically small a population is.

> But becoming indignant when other people won't adopt your Newspeak is just contributing to the political inflammation of the situation.

I think you missed the point of what Newspeak is. Correcting false assumptions and stereotypes about gender is not about limiting discussion or dialog. Further, there is no way that trans communities are even close to being in a position of political power and influence, being able to have their identity without that identity being challenged just because they exist isn't an attempt to suppress people.
Of course, but a single power plant will pump out less pollution than the equivalent millions of car engines.

By moving this source of pollution out of the cities to an unpopulated location you're saving the health of millions of people.
I've read Snow Crash yearly since I discovered the book some 14 years ago. I guess that's how I deal with the fact that Stephenson often doesn't know how to end a novel. I ached for a VR world like the Metaverse for a long time back then, but of course everything has always fallen well short of the mark. Maybe World of Warcraft came closest for me, to the degree I became immersed in Azeroth, but it was still obviously not the dream.
> I find it interesting that there's this continual
barrage of articles and thinkers taking swings at capitalism;

Why is it unusual? Crises of recession and slow comeback have made people wary of it. The future, most western and/or rich states are moving towards, seem to be one inhospitable for most humans (a caste system based on money/power).

If you see the current system being bad for you, why wouldn't you critique it? And why wouldn't you use/mention the oldest critique of it? Especially parts that have been validated.

It's a bit like saying, "Listen I'm going to talk about Parsers, but completely ignore anything written about parsers, before 2009. I'm especially going to ignore Dragon Book."
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What does this article have to do with capitalism ? When you go right down to it communism, socialism, even mercantilism are all trying to maximize productivity and consumption. I think it's probably the one thing all economic systems agree on. Hell, even natural selection agrees on that.

So is sleep an affront to them all ?
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Treating Bitcoin like an investment commodity just harms its utility as a currency. I wish they were focusing on how to make spending Bitcoin easier, rather than making tools for speculators.
Is this thing insulting or is that just me?
GlassWire isn't a replacement for an antivirus. I think the only way to see all network activity is by tapping into the wire itself. I made GlassWire to give myself an easy way to see what my computer was doing in the background but I do understand there are always going to be ways to bypass it along with any other application.
There is no "anti-capitalist bogeyman", not even really sure what such a phrase means. Certainly to ignore capitalism in a critique of present conditions is to miss the facts that capitalism is (A) A fairly recent re-organization of the material conditions of existence and not something fundamental to human nature or society and (B) A direct cause in many large-scale catastrophes unfolding in the present. You can find critiques that attempt to refute (B) and look elsewhere for the source of problems (eg. the state, lazy individuals, and so on), and many have, you can look to such writers as Ayn Rand, Tim Ferris, Michael Ellsberg, for a start. Having read Marx and the later critical theorists as well as these pro-capitalist writers I can say that the case against capitalism is fairly damning and well-supported. The case for it being much weaker and always falling back on some sort of "hand of the market" type mysticism at some point from what I have seen.
The really important thing this touches on, IMO, is that people who are "poor," are not just cash poor or asset-poor, but also time-poor, and as a result they are increasingly sleep-poor. Because a unit of a poor person's time is worth very little money, they have to sell so much of it just to pay the bills, that it encroaches upon the time they have available for sleep. Being sleep-deprived drains a person's energy, causing them to work less efficiently, which helps perpetuate the vicious cycle of poverty.
Congratulations! As someone who used to run a startup in the same space, I am very aware of the competition. Booking.com's user experience is the best in the business, and Amsterdam aint half bad! Welcome to HN ;)
I developed the need to know what's talking to the world when I used a mobile Internet connection with a limited plan (16GB/month) (long story). In such situation, one wants to account for every single megabyte being used.
Nor am I obligated to use systems and services which don't support minimal HTML interfaces. Graceful degradation is generally useful, particularly as most web spidering is still basic HTML (some now support aspects of JS as I understand). You're invisible to the world if you can't get indexed.

I've also found that the very rudimentary browsers included in cheap feature phones tend not to work particularly well with any measure of "modern" websites (though others do support these fairly well). While I don't suppose these are a large financial market, they're likely a large user market, as those phones are both cheap and exceptionally thrifty with battery life (weeks, not hours).

Given that this is graphical content, that's less a concern. But as I noted above: simply providing a fallback JPEG alt would have worked.

And noting an issue isn't the same as complaining. Actually, if you'll note, I fixed the problem, after a fashion, by providing a link to alternate and accessible content.

But thanks for your depth of understanding, empathy, and sympathy.
I think the American middle class has far more to fear from the current crop of politicians -- in both parties -- than from automation.
If sleep is a luxury, it stands to reason that Tesla owners are getting plenty.
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I don't think this is the case for everyone. With my wife and I, I'm great at expressing loves in some ways (time together, helping out, general affection) but gift giving is not one of them - I never really got excited by gifts, I never think about buying them, and I always choke when I have to go shopping for a gift. I'm not a good gift buyer.

Having said that, the few times I've gotten gifts, my wife loves it. If there's a service that helps me a) periodically remember that giving gifts is a thing that guys can do, and b) suggests a few good options, from which I can choose the most appropriate for my wife, why not?

The romance of gift giving is in that the person took deliberate effort to brighten your day. If that effort involved asking somebody else to help me out, because I want to surprise her with something I'm not good at on my own, then that is still thoughtful / loving / romantic - I'm still doing it because I'm thinking of her and wanting to show love.

I'd be interested to use this once it launches.
Honestly? No. There's a bit too much electronics in that one for my taste. I'd happily trust the one designs of which I audited, and board I soldered myself. But until I get over to doing this, I'll be stuck with just cutting data wires.

EDIT: I retract that. From what I can tell, it's just three SMT resistors on that board. So it seems fine to me.
I heard the pass rate for Google was about 0.05%, i.e. 1 in 2000. That was back in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, though, when the media reported they were in hiring freeze.

I interviewed about 20 people and made about a dozen referrals during my tenure there, though, and the only people who made it through were 2 intern conversions who had already passed the intern hiring process. I had coworkers who interviewed 100 without a hire. So the numbers are still pretty low.
Honestly, I think I'd pick up a few dozen and find a way to store them to minimize any risk of damage (e.g., moths).
What is the point you are trying to make here? That every stream on twitch may not appeal to everyone? We already know that.

To use the obvious comparison: If I turn on the television and flip to a random channel and I'm not interested, does that mean TV as a whole is worthless?
very great stuff, nicely packaged and presented. jealous it's only for windows.
You can post your graph to Facebook or Twitter if you want to (completely optional). Check out the hashtag #GlassWire on Twitter. Some people have already posted some graphs. We have no relationship with Facebook or Twitter.
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Not really a default, but under Ubuntu I always setup the system load indicator, sits in the top bar, nice little colored charts of CPU/Mem/Network/IO. After a while you notice when something unusual happens. I used nethogs to check which processes use the network but I'd like to see such a nice gui to track network usage.
They raised $15 million from Greylock and Benchmark which I guess will help keep the wolves at bay until they a). figure out how to monetize or b). get bought by Oracle/VMWare or similar
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Yep, I totally get this. Working on a book right now, and I'm about 98% certain I'll never recoup the costs or make anything more than minimum wage if I calc it out but if it helps people I'm good with that. Been running a blog for years on this premise and my bills are paid just fine. Why not?
I never made that argument that anything is good or bad because nature has selected strongly for it. That's essentially an appeal to nature. Nature strongly selected for using animals as a main land transportation mechanism for a long time, but hopefully no one would argue that therefore no one should have worked at discovering a better alternative.

Even if government is the best way to organize society at the moment, that doesn't mean it's unreasonable to look for better alternatives. But again, none of this has to do with the analogy to intelligent design I was making.
Hmm, that's not how I imagined them doing it. It seems like Facebook could log the click on their site, and then use the Page Visibility API or even just scrolling events to detect your return – all without a tracking bug on any other site.
Or what if they worked with the guys that wrote Spy Hunter to design a semi-truck that roamed the streets? You could pull right into the trailer and swap there!
This is precisely the point of the linked paper. Maximizing people who are initially attracted to the scam is NOT the best strategy for scammers, because most will likely be rejected at a later point, when it's costlier to the scammers.

The best strategy for scammers is to reject everyone but the most gullible targets as early as possible. Obvious typos would be suitable for this.
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There tends to be a few solo founders in each batch. I was one. It'll cause a bit more scrutiny, but don't let it deter you!
Thank you. We wanted to see what the reaction would be before considering a Mac version.
If you look up the primary figures involved in the shows you like, you can usually find what they're working on now. I hope that most of their independent documentary producers will just shift to different distribution platforms.

CurrentTV always struck me as the last innovative cable network in a decade when cable TV was already dead. ZDTV/TechTV/G4 before them showed that niche technical content couldn't work on cable, while it flourishes online.
Next March, when military budgets are decided, American taxpayers will get another 1.5 trillion bill, because Russia.
Wait, what? These messages are sent en masse, and they aren't really hard to write up.
I think that even more important is that this provides an explanation for the obsession with getting less sleep that seems particularly pernicious in start-up culture, but is noticeable elsewhere as well. It goes beyond merely worrying about the health consequences. It is human biology representing an affront to longer working days and increased productivity.
Yes, I've seen them -- there may still be a pair or so in my closet.

Here's a tip, kid: if you stay well back off the bleeding edge of fashion, styles are remarkably durable. Blue-jeans are little changed from the 1940s and 1950s, in basic styles, as are t-shirts, cardigans, cable-knit sweaters, flannel shirts, and a whole mess of clothing that's geared principally for comfort rather than style. And those are precisely the same looks which are renowned for being timeless.

It's the extreme cuts, fabrics, and finishes which date and age quickly.

As I said: Jobs had his signature look. Hemmingway's sweater is timeless. James Dean's leather jacket. Albert Einstein had the same suit (and no socks).

Sometimes simplifying your life in one area allows you to optimize others.

And when the entire fashion industry conspires to create clothes I literally can not wear, I owe it nothing.
The "123456" tag seems to work now.

But then the first thing you see is a tab about creating an account. The reward information has errors in the text:

"You've found an someone's stuff."

I think you should show reward information first rather than try and get new users.
I also think the whole thing needs to be more concise for the person returning the item.
Bullet list of steps that are easily actionable.

Edit: Formatting
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The idea of strongly-timed ticks reminds me of the advantages of using a clock music programming language ChucK: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
Well, there's a line. Given landlords/banks still refuse to convert moral rewards to cash, it can become prohibitively expensive to write a book. At 5 hours per page for 400 pages, you've traded your book for a year's worth of wages. If you can afford that, great; if not, you can't write a book.
Tor works in China if you use a Bridge. Their obfsproxy bridges disguise Tor traffic as other forms of traffic that aren't being blocked, while giving you all the benefits of a Tor connection.
I'm sure they're firehosing as much data as they can, including your MITM tricks and share button bugging. And probably a lot more.

And that's why I don't use facebook.
Looking at a screenshot https://skitch.com/kburke/fmkf3/1-bash-2-1 it seems like all this does is display the image in terminal and still requires user input?
The graph shows a discrepancy when downloading from other sources as well. Steam is reporting 4MB/s while GlassWire shows around ~3.3Mb/s (hard to really estimate).

Also, the Apps tab under Graphs says 250Mb for Steam. I have no idea what this value is supposed to reflect. Similarly, the Traffic tab shows a similar value (but slightly different value) for HTTP traffic which Steam is the only user of right now.
This is such a nicely made app, Thank you!!
The previous discussion on HN [two years ago] for anyone interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016
1) I would fight with government and fix bad driving and road accidents in India and China. India is the current world accident capital.

2) Build a quora like website where anonymous government employees explain about various happenings in the govt and politicans minds. Eventually, I would make it a real time corruption alert machine.
Eh. I thought MDMA was largely made in Holland and Canada. Hardly hotbeds of violence.
> Could we generally agree that language is instinctual and follows formal or formalalizable rules

No, not without some evidence.

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> First in it's immediate dismissal of any formalism inherent in natural language

That's not what Dijkstra's article is saying.

> the ease at which he dismisses the proposition without any real consideration

Dijkstra provides several paragraphs of clarification. IMHO, these do provide useful context and show the reader why he has the opinion that he does (of course, we may just disagree here -- but that's okay). What do you feel is missing?

> This subject should be under the purview of analytic philosophy and linguistics, not mathematics or computer science.

Why?

> To say differently is literally, demonstrably false.

Why? Can you demonstrate that, or point to a source that does?

> Many people in this thread are talking about the inability of plebes to express what they actually want. This is a fair point, but not a problem with language specifically.

Why not?

> Graduate of analytic philosophy

Possible appeal to authority.

> This is not up for debate

Why not?

> it's easily provable.

Then please prove it, or point to something else that does so.

> I could site dozens of linguists, Pinker immediately comes to mind offhand.

Then please do so, and please be more specific than just giving us "Pinker". The more specific you can be, the more useful the citation is. I (and presumably others here) are not familiar with his work.
Amazon really aren't on the radar round here nearly as much as they should be. As some in this thread have pointed out their strategy is to spend absolutely all income on slightly out there R&D, which in the case of things like their web services wildly over return.

Just because they aren't based in the valley and make Apple look positively liberal when it comes to secrecy and working practices doesn't mean they should be ignored. Quite honestly I think they're the single most terrifying company in the US today, an idea Bezos would take as a compliment.

The big picture is they are gunning to become the universal middle men for when people actually spend money on the net. Google only have the ad side of things together, but never really cracked getting end users to open their wallets, yet Amazon are in the position of starting in front of users, and slowly moving themselves into being the background glue between everything else, facilitating transactions between everyone while taking their cut and enforcing their rules. Terrifying, and brilliant.