skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of an odd idea to keep the form behaving like it used to. Essentially it means you're keeping multiple versions of the same form around. This implies that you're ok developing workarounds for deprecated browser functionality

Assuming that this is a hard requirement, I think you need to save the configs to a database table and the business rules to another table. It should be a simple join our two to get the config and the business rules for any user's form
Ah, cool! Thanks :)
>It's quite possible that the password is for the purpose of logging into the physical desktop computer itself, but still... You've reduced the point of a password if you've stuck it on the very device which needs the password.

1. Given the adage "physical access is root access", there's not much point _not_ writing it on the device.

2. It may be that they are using logins to emulate views (e.g. the system only supports one saved view per user), and that is the login for the view for that particular screen. It might even be a completely read-only account.
Be present for them. Just having a friend present in my life literally stopped me from ending it. In my case I remembered the feeling I had when a girlfriend had tried to kill herself a few days after a date with me. I didn't want to cause that pain to my friend. This gave me enough pause to get rid of my means of suicide and go get help. Be open with your friend, but don't pry. If they don't want to talk about something trying to force them to may only cause them to push you away. If you've had any issues (physical, mental) that you haven't discussed with them, considering opening up to them about it one day. If they know that you trust them with your issues, it may help them to talk more openly to you about theirs. This isn't 100%, it doesn't work for everyone, but finally having a close friend I felt I could confide in helped me turn myself around.

I hope things work out for both of you. And please understand, whatever decision your friend makes is theirs. You can only help them so much.
Important to note that this uses the public-read ACL by default.
Why the Patent office continues to award patents of "apply computer to otherwise not patentable ideas" is beyond me. In my last job we constantly fought people who claimed that using a computer to do something with travel required them to be massively paid off.
Introduction to Elasticsearch scripting
It would be nice if it worked with the open source alternative also, Wallabag.

https://www.wallabag.org/
I would be bit careful. GPS is military technology and commercial versions must have limitations, to be non-usable in rockets (max speed, max altitude...).
There are no popular open source clients. Hopefully TrueCraft will become one.
this one is boring.
> It's not that bad.

As someone used to the trackpoint on an X201, yes, it is practically unusable.
This is a very cool project. Turned out nice!
I came here by following your tweet - now I really want this to happen. :)
It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.
Well, one might say one of the goals of such a company is to get big enough to be able to pay, er influence, Congress to fuck it up for everybody else and leave you free to move forward.
Hello HN !

Thanks to the nice comments here. Very appreciated!

To add a bit to the discussion: we made 3 games so far, 2 versions of our algebra game and one about geometry (Euclidian geometry proof really).

We also co-organized Algebra Challenges with our research partner the University of Washington. As an example, one of those events, in Norway last year, gathered 36k students from ages 7 to 16. They solved almost 8 million equations in under a week.

We are not just app makers, we are more focused on providing tools and social innovations.

We would like to do coding one day, but first things first! Our next games are targeting younger kids and number sense.

Feel free to ask questions, or take contact!

Jerome, head-nerd @ WWTK :)
Yeah, seems a bit slashvertisy. I expected to see Michael Geist or one or two former information/privacy commissioners, e.g., Ann Cavoukian.

These are primarily consultants and lawyers whose day-to-day job is selling privacy advice. Nothing wrong with that, of course, just something folks ought to know.
I had an early one, and loved it. It's been slowly forgotten about over time, but the scroll wheel interface was an amazing innovation. Even years later I'd see people with MP3 players with up and down buttons struggle to scroll through a large list, whereas the scroll wheel made it comfortable, fast, and easy to control.
Facts don't work on some people because their ego doesn't let them to admit they were wrong.

It shakes your belief systems, specially if you built your character around some facts like these and they stuck with you for the better part of your life. You have to consider that core beliefs like this influenced many decisions in life.

People actually thinking about that they were perhaps wrong is more painful that blindly refusing to accept the fact.

*disclaimer : I'm not a professional, but am interested in human psychology from a self growth perspective.
Oh yeah, my only point is offlining/intermittent connectivity and the radio features are kind of at odds with one another... but that's not unique to Google in any way.
The lies perpetrated by the state and media are so shameless that normal people don't suspect they are lies at all. After they find out, they feel ashamed for being duped. Nobody likes feeling stupid, so they pretend or prefer to believe that the government is still right.
Welcome to the Onion's Redesigned Online Experience
With the hoped roll out of more electric cars charging them will place an undue load on the grid, if it isn't orchestrated.
Tesla plan to be able to control when they discharge to the grid, so this could go some way to reduce stresses on the electric grid when more people want to recharge it.
Just a thought.
How we made Gruveo's WebRTC backend scalable
Friday Q&A 2015-05-01: Fuzzing with afl-fuzz
Better Asynchronous JavaScript
Forget the USA.

Imagine what these decreased battery prices are going to do for solar power in LEDCs.
It probably warrants it by now. As I understand it, access to the automated script and account has been sent through though before dang took on his role: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
>*"What toxic materials are you referring to? I'm not aware of anything that stands out, especially compared to coal mining, or tar sands production"

Water usage, along with the carbon emissions from the large diesel vehicles that are actually digging the stuff up.
Releasing CRäKN: Live Blogging a Custom Software Project
I have a small blog on a home server. Basic HTML and static content and I don't care who views it. I can't get a static IP address.

Some things about this decisions doesn't seem thought out.
-who regulates the companies selling certificates? ($5 for a cert seems shady), are cert companies fronts for others entities?
-does this really prevent malware?
-will self signed certificates get a bit more respect?
-how does this stop Lenovo from adding preinstalled malware that circumvents security certificates?
So what's your economically sensical alternative?
"Against school policy" is legal basis. "We suddenly decided we don't want the likes of you" is not. I'm not saying this case must have been the latter.
I don't think you can be considered to be 'covering your ass' on a situation that you are not liable for. Please explain that to me.
Tax incentives, lower cost of living, and pro business local governments are driving larger companies to relocate headquarters or major research ops to Texas en-mass.
For Doctor Who fans, there's always this one from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game
I imagine that when you have generations of people that have been told all their lives by authority that "this" is bad, it's rather difficult to change a mindset to "this" isn't so bad now and we wish to raise revenues with it.

If a fiscal conservative isn't complaining about the cost of the drug war at this point, I would conclude they aren't a fiscal conservative.
> 8. Buy a song. Last year, it would have been "Respect" by Aretha Franklin. This year, maybe it's "Ain't too Proud to Beg."

Why buy one song when you can buy all of them?
Everyone has known what this announcement was going to be for a month.
While I assume there was an official Cray operating system for the Cray-1, in those days it was not unusual for the buyer of such a system to write their own OS, particularly in the DOE/DOD/NSA which is who bought most of them.
If you need to summon the mods, you can write to hn@ycombinator.com . They usually see most of the threads, but it's impossible to real all of them all the time. So the reply to the email is faster.
Yes, we probably are condemned. For the same reason that mathematicians are condemned to know how to add and subtract, even though one could achieve the same results using a more general method.

Monospace is just simpler. We use it in consoles, and they aren't going away or being revolutionized. And if you want to write a new text editor, you will probably end up supporting monospace behavior before proportional simply because it is such a simple and flexible algorithm.

And in the end, the only reason to use proportional font is for style and a marginal increase in readability.

So it's not a matter of laziness, but of efficiency and design fundamentals.
Also GNU Social:

https://gnu.io/

https://gnu.org/software/social/
So if I get upset and kill myself because a women rejected me, it's her fault?
It's not that specific. You could even negotiate a downgrade with a TLS server to use SSL. The first 3 versions of the protocol were named SSL and the later ones were named TLS but they're not really different.
It did post last month, but late (by US time), and it skipped the who-is-hiring thread because the fill-in was already heavily used by that time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Notice it posts three things every month. In April, it posted two as to not create confusion.

It's ability to skip one of the three posts seems pretty human to me.
Converting a Mercurial Repository to Git on Windows
I think that was perhaps the best William and Mary could do without commenting on that particular student's case at all, or revealing any personal information, which they wouldn't be allowed to do.
Biggest Exploit Database in the World
Huh - so, I'd wager that Minetest is the most popular open source thing that's KIND OF like a Minecraft client, but your point is that it's not ACTUALLY a Minecraft client, right?
Wouldn't it make sense for small companies to commit their patents to a mutual "patent fund" that would protect them in case they are sued?, are there legal reasons why this has not been done?

An ideal version of this mechanism would work like this: once you commit a patent to the fund you can not use it offensively in the future (to avoid worsening the problem), but you'll be protected by the "patent fund" when someone sues you. The sum of the patents of lots of small companies could quickly be enough to deter most suers that are not patent trolls.

Disclaimer: I'm not american so my knowledge of the patent system is quite superficial, perhaps a similar mechanism already exists?
As a former homeschooler, "socialization" problems can exist, but can also easily be overcome. The x-factor is parental involvement.

For example, in elementary school, I would go to local public school for art and phys-ed classes in addition to coursework at home. I knew most of the kids at school, but I would spend half as much time sitting at a desk, leaving the afternoons to explore/learn whatever I wanted.

In high school, I would spend mornings taking classes at home, then go to the local university and earn dual-credits (high school + college), then go to a vocational technical school for the afternoon, and then go to sports practice at the local public high school. While peers would waste hours in study hall, I was spending my time at the local bookstore reading and learning how to code.

I'm one of 4 kids, and every one of us will have graduated high school with 20+ college credits. I also fully plan on homeschooling my kids in the future.
I have been a paid practitioner of AI since the early 1980s but I have a fundamental difficulty with the creation of a "real AI" that thinks as we do.

I follow the Idealism philosophy (which is the opposite of Materialism) that posits that the fundamental property in the universe is universal mind or consciousness and our individual thoughts and ego are derived from a filtering operation: we as individuals filter out a small part of this collective unconsciousness (to use Carl Yung's term) and that is what gives us our identity while we are alive. All of modern physics would be layered on top of the underlying mind or consciousness.

If these ideas interest you, I suggest reading "Why Materialism is Baloney" by physicist and computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup.

All this said, I think "real AIs" are inevitable (even if far in the future) but I think they will seem very alien to us.
I'm against the drug war and for people's choice to decide what they want to put in their bodies. I'm also against waste, cruel treatment and general stupidity which are also reasons I oppose the drug war.

That being said, I believe drug wars can work. China and opium a century ago and modern day Singapore come to mind. The reason the drug war isn't being won in the West is because it isn't being executed properly. So why not drop the pretense?
I am using IFTTT to add rss feeds to Pocket, but this seems to be less complicated to use!
Why Microsoft Needs All the Code: To Build a Virtuous Cycle for Windows 10
Microsoft needs all the code from iOS and Android to help escape the vicious cycle it created with Windows 8.
I don't like the "warm" light from LEDs, either, which is 2700-3000K. However, now I use 4500K "natural/neutral light" LEDs. I can't describe how much nicer it is than incandescent light.

It's "sunny middle of the day" light. It's brilliant and I love it. I could never use anything else now. Just make sure it's 4500k.
I understand that http will still be supported but downgraded by both Mozilla's browser and Google search. How about distinguishing websites that are only static content, and websites that have some forms, or dynamic content.
Exactly. More relevant though is that he is also a founder of Twitter, which is what this post is about.
Compiling Objective-C Using Visual Studio 2015 [video]
Looking at the official NHS pricelist for May 2015, 100 10mg Diamorphine (Heroin) tablets cost GBP 24.09 which is a lot cheaper than street prices...

I'm guessing a GBP 80 (1/16 oz) per day habit could drop to around GBP 10-15 (not really sure about purity, but assuming adulterated to 10% would mean 0.1g street Heroin is equivalent to one of these pills, so that would be the equivalent of 10g or over 1/4 oz which would be GBP 160 probably)
The first time you black out, you know your own personal "maximum alcohol dosage". After that, scale back to find your "normal alcohol dosage" and act accordingly.
Regardless how static a site is attackers are free to inject any script code they wish in the HTML page on Http.
Show HN: A collection of professional resume templates on Google Docs
Weren't we going to use Debian Jessie?
Vs all the other pilots with mental health problems who don't kill all their passengers.

It's really weird seeing such obviously fallacious thinking on HN but it happens everytime mental illness and violence comes up.

When you want to predict if a person poses a risk of violence to other people knowing whether that person has a mental illness or not gives you very little predictive power. Knowing if that person is addicted to alcohol, or has had a previous episode of violence, gives you much more predictive power. And if you combine those, or either or both of them with mental illness you get a better predictor. But mental illness itself is not a predictor.
I've been using IFTTT to do this - Pocket isn't good at handling the volume of RSS items that Google Reader could, but neither am I. And offline reading is killer.
Thats what I originally assumed. Self-signed is not regulated and therefore was not coerced into the 2048-bit key transition.
I read this and went "oh good, it's not just me then."

I will occasionally get my copy of a git repo into a state such that the quickest thing to do is not to understand and repair what happened, but wipe the repo and clone afresh. I know this is Wrong and I should Understand it ...

And goddamn. Who thought "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working directory clean" was a good idea WHEN IT'S A DAMNABLE LIE?

I have successfully preached version control to managers before - non-geeks who nevertheless work with documents all day. "Have you ever spent three days editing the wrong version of a document?" and of course they all had. Their eyes lit up at the prospect of a way out of that. That was in 2001. Why don't we have that yet? EDIT: I don't mean the technical side of doc files - solving the blobs issue won't solve the fear issue, per this paper. That's the problem I mean.
> It's the same in the UK - addicts of one sort or another do disproportionately make up the crime figures.

Yes, the inference only goes in that direction...
I don't think it's a baseless stereotype. I'm in the same position as you, for instance, and if drugs or drug laws come up in a conversation, I'd agree with you.

But whenever I am part of a conversation like that, somebody inevitably makes it into a conspiracy fueled crusade -- like it is simply the most important political issue in the world -- and that person is most often a stoner. One who insists on being the loudest voice in the discussion.
Well, as a data point, I was homeschooled my entire life and I hated it. There has never been any doubt in my mind that I was shortchanged socially and academically. I struggle to relate to people and have no real friends. I also wasn't qualified to get into schools that I know I could have done the work at - since mercifully the tech skills I've taught myself allowed me to have a career, I've managed to work alongside grads from Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley. I would never, ever subject my own kids if I ever have any to such an experience.
When you say "why is this so difficult for some people to process", what is the "this" that you're referring to? Are you making an argument for "legalize, regulate, no rehab"? The main argument amongst supporters of legalization is whether rehabilitation should replace the war on drugs, not "should the market be regulated like cigarettes or alcohol" -- only the most diehard libertarians would argue for a free-for-all.

As for the fiscal conservative angle, surely you can see the difference between offering rehab to people who freely chose to take a drug, vs. preventing people from committing a crime, even if you don't think that it should be a crime. And fiscal conservatives who do not believe that drugs should be illegal are certainly complaining about the cost of the war on drugs.
Better for less – How UK Govt IT has changed in the past 4 years
Can you add a chat? Something like http://tagpro.gg 's chat (doesn't get in the way and disappears after a minute). I really love the game, though! :-)
I would argue it's more a vestige from Protestantism. The Catholic Church has always been fine with alcohol. There's been a lot of theological debate among Catholics about marijuana recently and and least some have concluded that as long as it's legal and done in moderation there's nothing morally objectionable. In the words of Hilaire Belloc:

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!
Create a Minesweeper Game with Native Android
Facts don't matter for people that haven't been reasoned into an opinion. Check out Peter Boghossian's approach to helping people out of dogmas.
Ask HN: Do you gamble?
If so, is it online or offline? How often do you visit a casino, and how much you spend on it?
Account for mass production and that should drop quite a lot.
> The big difference is that the map in Minecraft is constantly changing

Not quite. The map in Minecraft changes. But if you optimize the game for the "constantly changing" case, when it usually changes less than 1 block per user per 10 seconds (and even that is high), then you're going to end up with code that doesn't handle normal behavior very well.
I don't think we're ever going to get to the bottom of mental illness until people in positions of power develop empathy.

Firing someone, banning them from campus, chasing them for masses of debt, and so on and so forth are things that make people desperate. Until we can fix that, this is just going to happen again and again.

And no, that doesn't mean living in some sort of happy joy world in which everyone keeps their job forever and passes all of their exams.

It means living in a world in which failure doesn't mean complete loss of everything. A world which isn't 'get rich or die trying'.
While true, we unfortunately live in a world where you will likely be damned no matter what choice you make.
Yes please. One of the thing that annoys me about these notices is that they all recommend that we turn on 2FA, when the fucking root cause was that THEY DIDN'T.
Over-The-Air HDTV Makes Xbox One a Near-Perfect Cord Cutting Console
Ask HN: Please evaluate my web site idea
I've had an idea for a website/startup for a little while which seems fairly obvious to me, and yet I've never seen the idea put into practice. I'm curious as to whether this has already been implemented, or if my thinking is flawed in some way and it's actually a bad idea. I'd love to know what the HN crowd thinks!

The premise: even in a world where photo-sharing is everywhere (and free), people are still willing to pay real money for a professional-quality photograph of them doing something really cool (e.g. running a marathon).

For evidence of this see: http://www.marathonfoto.com/ (official photographer of the London Marathon). A single image download costs £19.95. But why should "official" event photographers have the monopoly on this? Events like marathons take place on public streets, anybody can take photos.

So I imagine a site where professional or amateur photographers can upload photos they have taken and offer them for sale. The upload process would automatically add a watermark to the preview images and display them at low resolution. Buyers can then search and browse photos and download the high-res, watermark-free version. They would pay a fixed fee per photo, which would be split between the photographer and the site.

This idea naturally lends itself to big sports events like marathons because everyone is wearing a number, so tagging and searching photos is a lot easier (hopefully it would be possible to implement OCR to do this automatically).

However there's really no reason why it couldn't be extended to other use cases (outdoor sports, festivals). Sure the tagging process would be a little more difficult, but photos could be tagged based on colour of clothes, gender, location, time of day etc to make searching possible.

To extend the idea further, you could even have a mobile app that people can install, which tracks their location and compares where they've been with the geotags and date info of images available for sale.
Peter Thiel in Conversation with Teppo Felin
Do not gamble.

No good luck here in order to do that and come out ahead.