skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction you start with between stack and tool-chain is fair, so let's cut out photoshop and illustrator. However, the three mentioned browsers are certainly part of the stack, and the browsers are the ones executing the cycles of anything running in the front end, which these days is a lot. Nearly all projects are literally targeting all of these disparate browsers.

To cut a long story short: when you say "What you're implying is that you're too impatient to do engineering but you're willing to be a programmer (or hacker)" - this is correct. The only way for many people to get projects off the ground is not to engineer them, but just to throw them up.

By the by, I actually in a couple of spare hours toyed with the idea of formalizing this into a project, where we would teach some valuable skill in 15 seconds. (I applied to a YC fellowship with it but wasn't selected.)

Here's my prototype - (it autoplays 15 seconds of sound, you've been warned.) http://iknowkungfu.meteor.com

I didn't write the tutorials up there now, and many of them are too long. But the idea is there: in a few seconds, you can often learn and incorporate something into your stack that you know next to nothing about.

Do this a few times and you have a complete web app serving dynamic, database-backed content - and you've still been able to focus on what you know rather than engineering.

There are 3 billion people out there who deserve to use some of the tools that are available. You, too, deserve to use some of the modern frameworks that are available. Without investing hours, days, weeks of your time into it. I know lots of technologies whose basic usage could be uploaded to someone's brain in 15 seconds of video. Git, to name one.

No, you won't understand how it works or why - but you can commit and roll back (reset), which is all anyone cares about until they start caring more. The advantage to using the git that you can learn in 15 seconds, over copying files and continuously renaming them - is - simply put, astronomical.

Many parts of the toolchain, and many layers of the stack, are quite similar. Who knows what cycles MongoDB is running? Who cares?
Nope, wrong again. You are anti-intellectual property, but that has little bearing on the facts of this story.

I believe that if you have made an agreement, you keep it and if your employer has agreements with third parties, that you honour those too. If you, or this indivudual, have moral objections to said agreements, the choices are simple, leave their employ.

Taking and using the software without permission or regard for agreements made in legally binding contracts is not an option, and it is not morally or ethically anyware close to doing the right thing. You seem to have lost sight of this because your views are politically motivated. It has nothing to do with your views of how the world should work.

Since you are so concerned with the 'the rule of law' (due process doesn't exist in UK law, we have natural justice, but that's by-the-by), the students actions were in direct contravention of established laws and policies. You seem to think that HE is above censure because 'capitalism is bad, man'. Well I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but, it's actually about ethics. This individual has none, and clearly neither do you.

QED.
Can you please elaborate or share some kind of story on why you think this would happen? Where are they leaving to, and why?
In the short term, OpenFL lets you export as flash, so you can use the existing solutions for now, and in the long term, you can build whatever else you need into your native or HTML5 solution. So as soon as these features come online in HTML5 or Native, you can just switch over without having to rewrite your codebase.

TiVo is already using Haxe/OpenFL in their set top boxes and I'm sure they've worked out some video streaming solution:

https://t.co/EbUwkJRJC6
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Some people get so butt-hurt about this. Share with your friends to see what happens.
The "flashisdead" page requires Flash, but I guess that's the joke?
We need Google to remove bundling Flash player in Chrome. Chrome for OS X has Flash built-in. Not sure about other build.
We fund schools because on the whole it all works out; if San Francisco teaches a kid who moves to New York, well, New York taught a kid that moved to Portland and Portland taught a kid that moved to a Kansas farm and Kansas taught a kid that moved to Texas, and in the end everybody wins pretty well.
Notch seems insanely out of touch and paranoid here.
My understanding was that FB growth stalled in the US./EU in 2012, slipping since. No?
True, it's really more of an Android issue, than a Spotify issue.
More local manufacturing means more local jobs.
Well, in terms of maintenance it's a little bit more work.

Sure, it has the features and reliability. But does that really justify having to maintain a completely new environment? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't; it depends.

No you may not be embedding it in your app, but it's now a part of your stack. You'll need to keep an eye on updates, etc for a completely different environment.

Plus there are other factors, like approved languages. Certain companies only allow using languages X and Y. Don't even think about language Z. I had to re-write an 80loc Python script to a much larger Perl one because I just didn't grok Perl all too well at the time. It didn't matter that Python was installed on the system. All that mattered was that Perl was approved and Python was not.
That is not what OP is talking about. You cannot get different information out of the same chunk of encrypted data. That would basically make infinite compression.

What the methods you mentioned are doing, is hiding information in places which are marked as: random data no information here. But in reality there is information there. You then need to have dummy information somewhere else.
Are there any that will automatically push top article AND comments into Pocket or any other offline reader. So, it could be loaded in the morning for the discussion last night.

(I am mostly consumer, so this would help to read most popular articles with discussions already in place. And help me not miss best discussion after the fact).
And autocompanies, they've been making bank from the rising middle class.

American automakers have made good money in that market and many other companies have had exclusive special edition for Chinese market.

The one company that couldn't make bank is Tesla, I have no idea why probably market team not being able to adapt to the culture over there.
Storing it as an offset from UTC has the effect that the task will run at the wrong time 1/4 of the year.

Now, you'll probably claim that I shouldn't expect time to behave this way. But this is exactly the way everybody expect time to behave, thus, no I won't agree with you.

Anyway, yes, that still does not solve the entire problem. Time intervals are really messy.
I think what the parent meant to say was "why don't you consider doing that as your main source of income?"
One size fits all is cheaper and easier to manage for an inept government to handle. Education should emphasize experimentation. How can we expect a system to actively challenge students to think critically when the system itself was designed without any critical thought whatsoever?
I'd prefer to download a PDF of PC Mag - this is so full of nostalgia.

I couldn't understand the Swedish language here but I take it this can't be downloaded.
3D printing with glass
Hard to say.

"A JavaScript library for building user interfaces" is what React calls itself.
Notch has a bad habit of getting caught up in drama and making loud but seemingly stupid statements about a situation before all of the information is out there.

Every time a company updates their app permissions, we get this kind of permission-hysteria.

THEY WANT TO DOWNLOAD ALL OF MY PHOTOS!!!

Well, actually, they want you to be able to set a photo as the cover of a playlist, and there is no difference between "Allow user to upload 1 photo" and "Have access to all of users photo" in terms of mobile permissions.\

THEY WANT ACCESS TO MY GPS!!

Well, actually, they're rolling out a Run feature already implemented on iOS, and, as always, you can disable GPS or customize its functionality on both platforms pretty deeply.

Every permissions update we get these histrionics. Notch should have the foresight to step back and listen before jumping in with a million followers.
They basically want access to everything on your phone. are you comfortable with that?
Definitely. Nothing on the site has been updated to non-flash (yet?).
Case in point. Emacs moved from bzr to git, and they did it like that.

Official Git repo: https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs

Unofficial github mirror repo: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs
> It's almost impossible to force cultural change on a country.

A few decades ago, a majority of Americans didn't support gay marriage. Now it has majority support, and is legal in every state. This didn't happen by accident either. A lot of groups were involved in promoting gay rights and funding legal battles across the country. This isn't the first time this happened either: women's rights, civil rights, etc. Even today, organized groups are winning hearts and minds in the fight for criminal justice reform and marijuana legalization. So it's very possible to instigate cultural change (perhaps force is a strong word). It just takes a long time.
>What is written is what is valid, not what you think it should mean

I am not sure if it would be a good thing or not if this was the case, but leaving that aside laws are, in fact, liberally interpreted all the time, depending on your jurisdiction's legal tradition. This is why you can't hack the law; the interpretation of the law will change to fill in the gaps, provided that's what the justice system wants.
1) I don't use Spotify.

2) I know how permissions work on mobile devices, therefore I know exactly why they need access to all this new stuff and I know the permission can be denied if I wanted to
Another file system pursuing the lofty goals of ZFS/btrfs on linux (the other being tux3). It is a catch 22 situation for these guys. If they do not release it early there will be no users to test and report bugs, if they do release it early it is half baked. I hope the guy has a large stash in his bank. File systems take notoriously long to stabilize.
jerf, the problem is that there is nothing to keep Alabama from defecting, except for the fact that educated people like to live around places with good education systems and tend to vote in favor of education.
I wonder if we can integrate so that an algo running at Q can trade on a Stockfighter exchange
Canceled my subscription! No, you can't access my photos.
Take an antihistamine which makes me drowsy, and then I sleep. Sleepiness is often a function or two things:
(a) feeling comfortable
(b) not being too busy minded about things

In my case, sometimes I just don't feel comfortable enough. However, I think even a sugar pill would help some, because in some cases it's just a matter of deciding to stop thinking about things enough to settle down.
I think Spotify guy is right. If you give photos access to twitter, it is not much of a stretch to give it to the Music app.

The problem is the way permissions work. You should be able to give temporary individual permissions to each app for each service to only a portion of your storage. For example, not all photos forever, but just these photos.

The way the permissions currently work on Android is insane.

It is also insane that people are okay with sharing all of this information with facebook, twitter, verizon, google, lyft, uber, yelp and 50 other apps.
Our team is ~45% women. The women on our team are exactly that, on our team. They aren't there to "attract male talent."
For NixOS it looks like there was some work on reproducible builds, but it seems to have stalled: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/2281
If my personal experience makes any difference, when I was shopping in IKEA with my mother there were two seemingly identical ceramic bowls, one made in Turkey and the other made in China. My mom chose the one made in Turkey because she doesn't want to eat out of something made in China (she knows nothing about manufacturing in Turkey btw).

Also, I would personally never consciously buy any technology designed and built by a Chinese company because even with all of the NSA scandals in the US I still trust my information more on an Android or IOS device than a Chinese Android variant.
So this is sort of like lightweight nix in some aspects, without giving up on dynamic linking?
I find anything but a Result<T, E> ADT to be a poor solution. Errors shouldn't have language-level support (exceptions), and error codes are just a poor implementation of a result ADT - they cannot be enforced by the type system.

Result is a monad, so it doesn't require an alternative code path. It's the cleanest and safest.

"Exceptions" should always be for fatal, irrecoverable errors (array index out of bounds). I'm okay with having them, but I don't think languages should support "catch".
So, that is not installing IE6 in Win7. That's installing IE6 in WinXP that's running as a VM in Win7.
When I taught in a "disadvantaged high school" in Boston, the metric by which the school was judged was not the average student score on the state's standardized test (the MCAS), but the percentage of students achieving minimal proficiency. I think this is the same across the country.

So the pressure is to keep pulling and pulling those last few students up over the bar. There is no fundamental incentive to help the kids that can already pass, because that has zero effect on the metric by which you are judged.
Now your Raspberry Pi can water your lawn
CEO just posted an update

https://news.spotify.com/us/2015/08/21/sorry-2/
I thought HN submissions that were many years old were supposed to have the year in the title... Oh, wait, my mistake...
There are 32,768 threads in the thread-pool on a 64bit machine. How many do you need?
Yes, it takes three times as long for a jack of all trades to draw something that is a tenth as good as what a full-time artist can do in minutes.

A tenth as good isn't good enough. But on the web, for many parts of the stack, a tenth as good really is enough. Even using too many cycles by a factor of three orders of magnitude is still good enough. You just don't need to know.
Eh, how do we know what they want? We have to give over access to all our info and trust they'll only use the bits they'll say? This is a problem of the permissions systems rather than of the company - but weather Notch is over-reacting or not is kind of moot:

“With your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files. Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.”

It's hard to know what they really want and what they say they want - we need to fix the way we let apps use our data.
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I've been using Apple music since and have yet to encounter it's terrible-ness. Can you describe what you're referring to?

edit: oh wait, yeah - the "For You" tab that has all those little circles to "tell us what you like". ITunes has almost 10 years of listening data, can't they figure that out for me?
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Humans use road markings to help drive/navigate, why shouldn't a car?
> Can you elaborate on this or provide a pointer?

In my experience ext4 becomes very unhappy/slow when you have many files/folders in the same folder (I noticed this with backuppc). dir_index may have helped me with this.
> Well, actually, they want you to be able to set a photo as the cover of a playlist, and there is no difference between "Allow user to upload 1 photo" and "Have access to all of users photo" in terms of mobile permissions.

I think Notch's response is quite accurate: “But I do understand how easy it is to make up small features to require access to the entire phone so you can sell your customers.”

Two things can be true at the same time. Just because the public, published reason is innocuous doesn't mean there's not some MBA just waiting to get his hands on that data.
First I thought "Good thing I don't have an account", then it turned out I had one for one reason or another. Closed that straight away. Now to find out if they'll drag their heels.
I tried to uninstall Flash, but my bank (Citi) uses it for their one-time credit card # applet. And, I miss a lot of videos on the internets, but I can live without those. The bank thing, I cannot. (Yeah, I complained and was told moving away is "in the works.")
Ah, I see, so when I attempt to use a hammer as a wrench I can claim the hammer is a horrible tool.

CSS does exactly what it was designed to do and does it quite well. It only goes "bad" when people attempt to make it do things it wasn't designed to do. Blaming the tool for that is the sign of a bad craftsman.
In Boston high schools, immigrant students make up close to or exactly 100% of the valedictorians each year.
His layout seems fine to me. Out of curiosity, I shrunk the sidebar down to 20%, but found that the main difference was that it made the content's line length uncomfortably long to read.
That's not to program for D-wave. They just need software developers in-house for their tooling.
They built some thoroughly respected world class stuff in the '70s. My family legally pirated 8-track tapes in the early to middle part of that period (no $$$ to the RIAA, $$$ reserved for ASCAP but they refused the payments), and all the duplication equipment was built on TEAC reel-to-reel tape drives (with the 2 track head and electronics behind it replaced by an 8 track head). Sony made a fabulous direct drive, cast aluminum record player that I got a copy of in the mid '70s that was still working fine and worth an assessed $900 when a tornado trashed it in 2011.

Other stuff of course took longer, e.g. their '70s cars weren't too hot, I got a ride in a grad student's Toyoda Corolla in the summer of 1977, but they soon started selling well, "Datsun, we are driven", my sister bought a used one in the early '80s and it was much better although still had a ways to go (and it's hard to imagine how much brand equity Nissan threw away when they re-badged in the early-mid '80s, their out of pocket costs were well over a billion in 2015 dollars).

I guess I'm saying that to those of us paying attention in the '70s, we were willing to believe Japan would get there in things like cars, and of course it didn't hurt how well they engineered and built things like the Mitsubishi Zero WWII fighter, WWII still had a big effect on people's minds in the '70s.

Hmmm, Sony was not, at least initially, one of the anointed MITI companies, Morita (and it says something that I don't have to mention his given name) had to convince the powers that be, MITI very possibly, to get the authority for $10,000 ($90K in 2015 dollars) of foreign exchange for the rights from Bell Labs to make transistors, came out with the first model in 1955: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-55

Then sometime in the '80s? they moved a lot of production for the US market to Mexico and my family started suffering from cold solder joints. We're rather careful about buying Sony equipment nowadays and don't buy much.
I've successfully used haxe + openfl in a school project and I'm happy to say I got 100%.
There are a few issues with the project but those are due to the project being my first video game.

https://github.com/Superpat/projetFlash
Plus, people also seem to forget that Japan started its industrialisation as soon as during the 19th century. It was a super power nation-state in Asia before the war, with numerous cultural ties with Europe and USA on a peer to peer level. China is a different story.
I guess this would be the new version of that: https://home.otoy.com/render-the-metaverse-month-3-grand-pri... And this is the older-school-than-thou version, which is still going: http://www.ifcomp.org/
As a non UK/third party, i laugh at both, you keep buying that paper, and you have elected cameron… :)
CEOs of Silicon Valley's Top Firms Are Often Non-White, Immigrants, or Women
I'd love to see more new games on old platforms like this. I even think people would pay a small amount if someone could get with EmulationStation or something like that and setup and install the emulators along with games. I also really wish that getting rights to distribute abandonware were reasonably possible.

I have a retropie set up for my son. Even though he's been exposed to all sorts of fancy stuff you can get on an Android, as well as Don't Starve Together, and Minecraft and a few other games on the Steam platform, he still really loves playing some of the older console games; especially stuff from the Megaman and Sonic franchises. I've also recently found Zelda for snes, which I never played as a kid. If anyone has any other old games to recommend for children on the SNES, NES, GBA, Genesis, etc. please reply.