skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a small condo building with 35 units. We have two separate yellow pages companies leave nearly a pallet full of books at our place. I'm talking like 200+ pounds of paper.

Nobody in our building wants them, they go straight in our recycle bin. We have tried many times to get off of their list. I would love to know how to report them for littering or something. I hate these companies!
Right:

Surface Book - I want a laptop that I can use as a tablet once in a while.

Surface Pro - I want a tablet that I can use as a laptop once in a while.

Both- Dock it and replace your desktop.
I know about that and don't normally rely on the list of captured pieces in regular games. But, online I mostly play speed chess and play in parallel with other activities in my browser, so getting quick information about the board (or what changed between this turn and the last) is very useful.
I was really hoping for a Chronos like job scheduler for tasks.
I have to say, your sign up process (including payments) was one of the simplest/smoothest I have ever experienced.

And I especially loved the welcome email that felt so personal (I know this is an automated form letter. I specialize in CRM systems).

This is a fine example of great customer service.

I am sure the content will be as discerning.
My net worth is probably top 5% or so and I haven't even had an open savings account in 10 years. Cash on hand or it's invested in stocks, bonds and my home.
I did Donkey Friend Time and got:

- Discuss what sorts of organizations donkey Kong, Diddy, and Cranky are?

- Did Diddy Kong refuse to hand over the banana hoard after what?

- What did the more someone know about miniature donkeys before someone buys?
"For whatever reason" indeed. They must have just flipped a coin on the issue. Really, it's just bad luck at work here. /s
Round Rects Are Everywhere (1981)
> The way things are going I'm going to have to keep a WinXP IE6 VM

This is exactly what we ended up doing. Our building HVAC controller is managed by an applet that doesn't work under the latest few Java versions, and we have another appliance that requires SSL but can't speak TLS, so current browsers can't even reach it.

While we're already working on replacing the appliance, there's no realistic way we're going to replace the HVAC controller any time soon...
Self hosting a registry (https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/) on aws backed by s3 storage is fairly easy and is already available today.
It's pretty cool to see these appear on Facebook. Since Slack integrated them a few months ago, my team has found it convenient for aggregating reactions in a better way than sending everyone a notification for "cool", "lawl", "props", etc.

Zuckerberg's post feels like the most authoritative source.

Dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351954
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10353942
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352192
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10353715
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354110
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354216
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10353447
Kind of annoying that they try to push the Authy app install first, then let you authenticate without it.

Love the interface, but would even greater if they would let you short somehow.
What reinterpretation occurred in Heller? It affirmed that we have the right to own firearms and keep them in usable condition for home defense, both of which D.C. had banned.
Other articles in the blog had subtly incorrect or at least suspicious examples too. They probably work with the toy examples but may fail under real world timings.

This is an issue with multi threaded programming. Only way to test is to run stress testing, with various simulated payloads, for minutes at a time, preferably on different cpu architectures.
That's because ReInvent is going on: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

This is typically when they release stuff
I skimmed that article for evidence of your claim that free trade caused the Irish potato famine, but couldn't find any. It seems to discuss "[the assumption] that, had this event [the Irish Potato famine] not happened, Britain would not have repealed the Corn Laws at that time, and thus, would not have taken steps towards free trade in subsequent years" and concludes that "Britain would have moved towards Free Trade in 1846-1860 even if the Irish Potato Famine had not occurred".
In a (brief) defense of Docker Hub, it has gotten WAY better in just the last 6 months. UX is sufficient for the number of times you interact with the website, versus command line. Still it is very slow and this has an impact on my continuous deployment ambitions.

In a world where we routinely ship 0.x tools to production, it may feel a bit peculiar to see 2.0 as being the first 'production ready' version for Docker's suite of tools, but that very well may be the reality.
It if I can't blame my dating troubles on demographics I might have to consider that I am less desirable a mate than I like to imagine.
> Isn't one of the drivers of this something to do with it being a path to work in the US after they (non-resident) get a degree?

This applies to undergraduate degrees, too. Therefore the argument that restricts it to Ph.D degrees is moot.

Furthermore, the 'path to work' is temporary. You still need a a work visa to work once your OPT has expired.
Amazon Handmade Revives Artisanal Roots Abandoned by Etsy, Welcomes Crafters
Most NPAPI plugins are not sandboxed or auto-updated to track the plugin's latest security fixes. Adobe does have an auto-updater and sandbox for Flash. The sandbox (called Protected Mode) is only available for 32-bit Windows, so Mozilla has developed its own Flash sandbox for Win64 Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185532

Firefox sandboxes EME "plugins", called Content Decryption Modules (CDMs), and hard codes a list of trusted and signed CDM DLLs. (Currently, this list is just Adobe's Primetime CDM.)

Also, because plugins are system libraries, other applications can side-load random plugins into your browser. For example, OS X installs a plugin called "Default Browser Helper" that allows Safari to snoop on your default browser choice and know when Firefox is run: https://twitter.com/dougturner/status/650575548918296580
Also, it implies a couple of engineers could slip through arbitrary code to be executed under selective conditions. That's terrifying.
> Maybe I'm just disregarding a lot of patent law, but wouldn't it be a better plan to just have all NASA patents open to anyone?

I think they're learning from university tech transfer programs. A number of universities tried the exact approach you describe. What they found is that companies weren't interested in the ideas because of the substantial risk of someone out-developing them. A risk significantly increased by a lack of exclusivity. By patenting them and offering transfer of the patent, they got much better uptake.

So this is a case of ideals trading off against reality and results.
Governments and police (from all over the world) have repeatedly asserted that police owe no specific duty of protection to any individual.[1] What is truly remarkable is that so few people have realized this. Most governments assert that they only have a duty to provide security for themselves and/or 'society'; leaving aside the fact that collective rights have a horrific history, this is purely self-preserving.[2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_group_rights

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Uni...
We've been using DataDog for a while and I hate it. I'm really excited about doing this directly at AWS.
Java works for me in Safari, though I had to jump through some hoops to disable security checks.
> Nobody was up in arms earlier about the chemistry award going to people who weren't "household names"

That's because chemistry papers can only be appreciated by a trained chemist, whereas literature is a popular art form which ought to be appreciatable by anybody. Or any educated person, if you want to dismiss the tastes of the great unwashed (it's interesting how literature is one of the few fields where it's still socially acceptable to be a snob).

Now, maybe the Nobel Prize Committee is doing us a great service by uncovering the works of these great authors whose work has never been appreciated before. But in that case, you'd expect them to become popular after their prizes, and everyone would be going "boy, I sure am glad that the Nobel Prize Committee brought Derek Walcott to my attention or else I'd never have read Omeros". But nope, most of the laureates continue to languish in relative obscurity even after they win the prizes.
> Now, in 2015, it's more of the same, following Google Chrome instead of having a vision, sticking to it, and just implementing it.

I disagree. This is 100% in line with Mozilla's vision (except arguably the Flash exception).

> They're also a source of cutting-edge and/or specialized functionality that isn't part of the browser and may never be.

That runs directly counter to Mozilla's vision for the Web as a dominant, universal platform. They're non-standard, oftentimes non-portable, and rarely provide functionality that couldn't be replicated in the browser[0].

> I mean, there's a reason plugins exist and I don't see that anything has changed to negate that.

Anecdotally, all the plugins that I can remember ever using - as far back as Shockwave during the 90s - were really just stopgaps that attempted to bridge the holes that have since been filled by HTML5 features such as audio, video, WebGL, etc.

What are the plugins that still exist that wouldn't be better implemented as web-native, and which don't make good candidates for extending the definition of what should be considered web-native?

[0] Rarely, not never. Though in the cases where they can't, it's worth thinking whether these should be added to the HTML5 standards - necessity is how we got stuff like WebAudio, after all.
Instead of moving from their old NPAPI to the newer and safer PPAPI, which would work better for e10s, they simply chose to drop plugin support entirely (except for Flash). I think that's pretty lazy of them.
Tunisia partners up with a Swiss startup to launch a crypto-based payment system
Only if each field required loading a new row, and even then batching can be used to turn this back into one query.

eg: { firstName, lastName } doesn't need to load new rows but { mother { name }, father { name } } does need to load new rows.

DataLoader (https://github.com/facebook/dataloader) is a small utility which makes batching and caching database requests straight forward.
Medium’s New API
I don't think his crime warrants jail time.

Then you would agree that the law should not have enabled the government to indict and then convict him on charges that carry years of jail time, that it should instead have led to conviction on charges that don't warrant jail time.

That is the argument about the CFAA -- that the law should be revised to rein in the government's crazy abuse of it.
Grit is something I used to like about Seattle. This was a city of lumberjacks and fishermen and dock workers.
I always found getters and setters very helpful for this case. In C++ and in Java. Doubly so in Java because the following works:

1) field is no longer important, gets replaced

2) write a getter that still gets the value of it, but delete the field itself.

--- this is where it stops for C++

3) use the "inline function" refactoring on your entire codebase

Done/done. You don't even have to rewrite the tests, in fact it might be better not to.

(Of course getters and setters are somewhat verbose in most cases. Object pascal has the perfect solution though)
Yes I want this too! You can pay them for CW log retention but not for metrics retention. Seems like an obvious step.
Stumptown acquired by Pete's Coffee and Tea
It might be interesting to have an interface builder that output code, instead of XML.
Many a yellow page has sacrificed itself to keep me warm in the winter.
What you seem to say in a somewhat roundabout way is that there's badness in the world that isn't poverty, or directly caused by poverty. Which is correct and totally uncontroversial.
DJI Osmo
Amazon Launches AWS IoT
Because it's a popularity contest. Not much to do with the actual state of literature or the quality of the chosen person. They've basically admitted this many times.

They also have an intense love of European lit.
PEBCAK ... Nevermind
Not one as such. But calguns.net has one for classifying a rifle as an assault weapon (or not) under California law. It's equally complicated (pdf warning):

http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf
Yeah, I'm not all that concerned with making friends with people that are hostile about my profession. That's so petty.

>partly because the countless new techbros with no respect for Seattle culture who spend 11hrs/day at work and don't have time to develop a personality romping around town give it a real bad reputation

What does that even mean? I hear this all the time and I honestly have no idea how to "respect Seattle Culture". I'm nice to people and I enjoy everything Seattle has to offer. If you want a pat on the back for living in Seattle longer, sorry. I don't care.

I'd also point out that this hasn't been my experience at all. Everyone here has been very nice, welcoming, and helpful. I feel like Seattle natives really sell themselves short. It has been a great experience.
Contrasting Enterprise Node.js Frameworks: Hapi, Kraken, Sails, and LoopBack
AWS Re:Invent 2015 – Netflix and AWS (real use case)
GraphQL is designed for exactly this use case
Amazon payback program (chrome)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the point was that savings accounts are not worth it, leading many people to say their saving accounts are barren, not that they don't have savings saved up.

Personally I'd fall into that category, I put all my money in checking since the interest is so poor in savings accounts I'd rather see that money go to some retirement fund or investment than see it get so little return in interest and restrict how much money I can take out of the account at any given time.
$3 per dashboard per month (first 3 free) seems exorbitant. They're already charging for storing and viewing metrics, I would have expected dashboards to be free.
"But you have no right to complain about this gentrification when you are operating newly built apartment complexes, charging a premium to tech workers. And then go on to say you have Amazon prime. Screw you, Owen."

Are you saying that it's the people that are opening the apartment complexes that are complaining? Cause otherwise I'd imagine the average resident of the neighborhood isn't running apartment complexes.
You're exactly the kind of person this article is pointing out, because your ability to be wiped away by the market is a precarious position to be in.
I've always wondered how something like this plays out legally: Can the engineers be somehow held accountable for writing something they were forced / asked to by their managers?
I've been through this use-case, AWS re:Invent 2015 – Netflix and AWS http://cloudacademy.com/blog/aws-reinvent-netflix/
We do not demand you get a jury verdict before using lethal force on someone threatening lethal force, there's no "alleged" from my viewpoint if someone is pointing a gun at me.

Which, I should point out, isn't punishment. Which 15155 never said we could do, he only talked about what you can do in felonious acts, defend yourself, and about a value system that puts criminals above the law-abiding.
I think if I ever have a kid I'll let him open a "bank of Dad" account which pays a decent interest rate just to get him into the habit of investing.
> I'm not sure that there is a "high ground" for complicated issues like this.

Well... yes, there is? In a situation where the facts are reasonably clear, such as this one, the "high ground" would be the one that's most in alignment with those facts.

Global poverty is both complicated, and isn't as bad as it used to be. There's no need to pick one or the other.
HN has an edited title. The original one at the Smithsonian qualifies it as "First Man-made Objects".
Thinking About Function Signatures in Elixir
To be clear, people are not upset at the _actual_ or _likely_ sentence, they are upset at the _potential_ sentence.

When reporters say "Keys faces," they are talking about the potential sentence I face (as put forth by the Department of Justice in its own press releases), and when people are critical of it, they are taking the position that the potential sentence is absurd.

Aside from the fact that I didn't do it (despite what prosecutors were able to convince a jury), this case has opened my eyes to the antiquated and draconian computer laws of which we are all governed under in the United States. Any reasonable person would agree that the punishments simply don't fit the alleged offenses, and the law is in desperate need of reform. Any offside discussion about potential versus actual sentences takes away from the very serious, very important discussion about reform.
I wonder how many of those people are paying off mortgage with what would be their savings.
Fault in driverless car accidents: Volvo will take full liability for it's cars
No, what's the joke?
The "right to remain silent" that is in the Miranda warning, laymen explanation or not, is in effect when you are under arrest and face police questioning. That is the situation that I'm referring to and your example is a completely different context.

Although I would be curious as to the legalities as to a police officer having the ability to force an answer to a situation you are not directly involved with. A classic example is compelling testimony when you are a witness and your life has been threatened if you do give testimony. In those cases I know you have no right to be silent, you can be punished for doing so. But that's in a court of law and a cop asking you a question over the matter at the scene is an interesting variable. I suppose the cop could arrest you for obstruction of justice, but then the Miranda warning would then be in effect.
i thought this was a joke, it is not.
So you should ramp up marketing. Or it sounds like you want to improve the quality and rely on word-of-mouth.
But also probably true, regardless of this specific situation.
I'll add an /s

"I'm sure there was no pressure on individual performers to make the results look favorable for VW."
Agreed, but it's a lot easier + quicker for PhDs to obtain permanent residency as opposed to non-residents having undergraduate or Master's degree.
To be clear, federal authorities have already admitted altering chat log information in this case.
>> Isn't one of the drivers of this something to do with it being a path to work in the US after they (non-resident) get a degree?

>This applies to undergraduate degrees, too. Therefore the argument that restricts it to Ph.D degrees is moot.

You seem to have ignored his second point. Yes, it applies to undergraduate degrees, but undergraduate degrees are attractive to residents as well. An undergraduate degree is helpful for getting a good job, whereas a Ph.D doesn't doesn't do much in that regard.
It seems that the major focus of MUBI is rapid and ongoing curation. Do you guys have a defined process for how you do this so that you achieve a desired distribution of films or is it more down the the individual curators?

One other thing I wonder about curation of media in general is whether you think your customer base is willing to try new things because they trust you rather than simply trying to find something that is known to be similar to what they liked in the past? Do you think trust based recommendation system overcome the bubble effect that similarity based systems fall in to?

Thanks!
This is primarily a problem with immigration policies and bureaucracy that make it difficult to remain in the U.S. after graduation. Rather, the U.S. should be actively recruiting such high skill people and trying to handhold them through the paperwork.

I went through this process with my wife (who also holds a Ph. D. in a technical field, though non-computing), and even being married to a U.S. citizen, the process is so opaque and convoluted and petty, that only the most dedicated would-be immigrants follow through with it.
Send me an email :D, would love to hear the story.
This info is usually self-reported by the business. If they don't have someone assigned to the job of making sure Google is up to date with their hours, it often won't happen. My company (a small web host that works with mostly local businesses) has a Google specialist whose job is about 70% keeping our client's metadata up to date with Google.
> "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640 K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."
- Bill Gates, 1996

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
I probably would, because I'm not sure I see the distinction.

I'd also answer "none of your business" if asked.
There are no felony charges that don't warrant jail time.

There are, however, federal sentencing guideline ranges that could result in probation instead of a custodial sentence given: no remunerative intent, no prior convictions, &c.

I think a lot of people could agree that this is a crime that should have landed in the lower range of the guidelines (but might not, given the CFAA guideline damage scaling).

I don't think CFAA sentences should scale with damages at all, unless the prosecution can prove an intent to cause those damages (that's tricky in this case because the prosecution can put on a pretty good case demonstrating that intent).
I think that undergraduate degrees are generally viewed as the "next step" among many Americans and the ROI is generally viewed as a positive (regardless of it is or not). Also while you do need a work visa once your OPT has expired, PhDs can be used to get EB-2 or as part of EB-2 NIW or EB-1 applications which have much shorter waiting times than EB-3.
Interesting!
CppCon 2015: What's New in Visual C++ 2015 (does include C99/11 support info)
At least, well-known to .Net developers :)
This isn't a direct comparison, but after World War II it was decided clearly that soldiers are not protected by saying "my boss told me to do it" when the commit war crimes or other atrocities. This is now called the Nuremberg defense and it holds no water at all.

The same principle applies here, in a general sense - but it's sufficiently different in practice, I wonder how it would be treated too.
The article addresses this: some cities attempted laws against YP deliveries, but they were thrown out on free speech grounds.
Silverlight is still hanging around in a number of edge cases as well, or at least, I keep running into it in education.

It's going to be really hard on a lot of things when NPAPI vanishes entirely.
> everything from sex to music to art on occasion.
It's probably already used by amazon.