skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't win a prize for backing a winner. Though I feel that there are some of the 1% that put big money in the race and expect a prize.
Interesting, but tangently related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Klark_Graham
Taking risks has no meaning if there are no downside consequences.
This ONE thing to find passion
What do you mean by "deterministic debugging"? Rr and GDB aren't in Java, and neither are the most common IDEs for GDB.
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If you wind up becoming Picasso or Eddie Van Halen or Meryl Streep, it's great advice. But if you're one of the many talented but marginally employed artists, musicians, or actors, it's not so great. The truth is that there are a lot of very talented people out there who have been seized with a passion that in most cases just does not pay out. Blessed are they whose passion is accounting.
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Yeah, I can agree with that. I think it's a matter of interpretation. While they latch on to big-government things, the language is a phrasing of hostility, and the governing is borderline sabotage and hostage-taking. The shutdown crises suck.
Could we please ban MIT news and instead link to the actual articles. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7394/abs/nature11...

The reporting on MIT news is usually pretty vague and it lacks short overviews.
Fair enough. How's this: If the UI of a desktop application does not match the standard appearance and interface of the rest of the operating system, a bad UX is almost a certainty, in my experience.
Don't worry, Proxy is still on the way, and that will still give us a tremendous ability to write terrible, unintelligible code.
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In this case, a short "there shouldn't be a voicemail on there" would definitely have helped us without explicitly pointing in the correct direction. However, I really liked that there weren't staff in the room with us. I think it would have lessened the immersion and experience if while we were working out the problem, there was someone sitting in the corner who knew the answer and was holding a stopwatch. But then ideally they would have an audio feed from within the room, instead of just video.
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I follow a simple rule online: If a site's content doesn't load for me, then the site probably isn't worth visiting.

My Firefox profile uses uMatrix, NoScript (scripts globally allowed), HTTPS Everywhere, and a good hosts file.

Kills 99.9% of germs.
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He is not missing it, he is addressing when it does not fit the situation and points out that this is one of those moments.

There's a sweetspot with weighing planning and doing.
State of the Art in microservice stacks on the JVM
Agreed. In many instances, I have sat at a light, unable to move forward because the street ahead is full, for a full three light periods.

It would necessarily have been better to have my light be red the entire time and allow the perpendicular street to have more flow. Instead, even though absolutely no cars were moving, the light happily stayed green for 30 seconds each period.

Not only do the lights not react to the actual flow of traffic, but the dumb-timers they are on are poorly timed. One would expect, in a well-designed system, each light should turn green in a sequence defined by the speed limit and the distance between lights, so that in a main artery, large batches of cars can progress forward several blocks at a time each period, increasing throughput.

Instead, even when I drive in the middle of the night along 3rd (a main north-south street downtown), going exactly the speed limit, I hit red and green lights more or less at random. I'll sit at a red one and watch the next light turn green, and by the time my light turns green and I get there, the next is already red.
The author works in the games industry, specifically for a company that builds game engines and gaming middleware. Seems to be very knowledgable in his field.
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The Supreme Court also held that "Separate but Equal" was perfectly fine. They don't get things right all the time.

And the argument is that money isn't speech.
The green Android robot logo kind of sucks, and I bet there's an internal campaign amongst some marketing/branding goons to try and kill it off in the name of beauty and elegance.
Remember that this thread was sparked by otterly's comment: [0]

> The documentation for systemd and its utilities is second to none.

What little I've seen of systemd's user/sysadmin documentation leads me to believe that it is okay. I also understand that documentation is often the least interesting part of any project, and often sorely neglected.

However. Everyone I've heard of that tests out the Systemd Cabal's claim that

"Systemd is not monolithic! Systemd is fully documented and modular, so any sufficiently skilled programmer can replace any and all parts of it with their own implementation."

by attempting to make a compatible reimplementation has failed at their task [1] and reported that the internals documentation is woefully insufficient.

When you're writing software for general consumption, good user documentation is a requirement. After all, if noone can figure out how to use your system, "noone" will use it.

When you also claim that you go out of your way to provide enough documentation to allow others to understand the relevant parts of your internals, and be able to write compatible, independent implementations of your software, the quality of the documentation about your internals is now in scope for evaluation and criticism.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485095

[1] I am very aware that this task is made harder by the fact that it is large and thankless. :)
I see the a headline “It wasn't that hard”, Then immediately below a picture with the caption "Sutton holds a drone he used to analyze potential radio location"...
Thanks mindcrime, I'll have a look at that book!
So would a retention holster.
I'm generally willing to take statements from Google at face value; they've done unpopular things (killing Reader, etc.), but in my experience haven't been deceptive about them.

I hope they realize how valuable a reasonably secure, "stateless" OS like Chrome OS is for many applications. Chrome OS is far from perfection in this space (and there are a lot of easy ways to make it better, and some hard ways to make it vastly better), but it is head and shoulders above anything else for a lot of deployment models right now.

Handing me a Chromebook with reasonable assurances the "dev switch" hasn't ever been switched is one of the general purpose full-TCB devices I'd accept from someone and mostly trust. (obviously hardware hacks, or switch was thrown and reflashed and disabled/reset). It's also a cheap/awesome way to manage fleets of machines in education and corporate/kiosk/etc. environments -- you CAN achieve that with Mac OS or Windows, but it requires a lot of work.

I hope they don't kill it in the future.
Again: what about grandma? The whole point of these shitty sites is to parasitize the non-technical. Their web experience is like you taking your car to an evil garage: "There's silver flakes in your fluid. You need a new transmission."
The thing that keeps my company from switching to Slack or any of its alternatives is read notifications. Not having read notifications makes using the system a lot more painful. Any one know of a chat system (not Hangouts) that supports read notifications?
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No, the bank only see who issued the charge, when the charge occurred and possibly which charging station. Not why the charge occurred or what was charged.

For local travel, commutes, etc, you normally get a pre-charged travel card from the local public transit provider. The route and cost of each individual trip is then a transaction limited to the transit provider's internal charging system. You can also buy a single ticket directly with your bank card, but the bank will still only see when the charge occurred, how much was charged, and possibly which charging station, not where you travelled.

Obviously the travel provider's internal charging system will have detailed information about how their travel cards are used to pay for trips. Still, the cards are normally not personal, so the provider cannot know it's the person charging the card that also is the person travelling.
Spending money is necessary in order to speak to a large audience. You need money to rent space to use as meeting halls, or to buy advertising space like billboards or newspaper space, or even simply run a website. The more traffic, the more eyeballs, the more people impacted, the more it costs. Speech in the real world costs money.

The presidential election isn't won in the town square, where everyone can hear him gather to speak simultaneously. That might work for mayoral elections of small towns, but it does not work for a nation of 318 million people. And besides, who is going to pay to rent an auditorium for a town hall meeting?

The citizens deserve to hear their elected leaders and candidates speak, and it requires a considerable amount of money to reach such a large audience. (Note that donating air-time or website space or advertising for a candidate is tantamount to donating money.)

What is the serious alternative? Political candidates are limited in their ability to get their message out, based on where they can travel (no money for transportation), and the people they can speak to directly in person? How will democracy function at scale? Presidential candidates are pilgrims, traveling the country by foot? They'll have a hard time reaching a few hundred thousand people at best.

If we did not allow political contributions, and we did allow candidates to spend their own money on their campaigns, then only wealthy billionaires would become successful national politicians. Indeed, many successful politicians are extremely rich, like Mitt Romney (estimated net worth: $250 million), and candidates like Donald Trump rely largely on their wealth. Small-time candidates would have zero chance against them if contribution were not allowed, even while billionaires are spending their personal fortunes.

Now, to be a fair, a purely representational democracy could perhaps function on this basis. The people in a local area elect their local leader, who travels to the capital of a territory to mingle with other local leaders, and from them elect a higher leader, and so on, such that at each level campaigning is all word-of-mouth. But that's an idea that I think will fail in reality at the scale of the USA.
Would you rather identify with users (for whom the web is, indeed, becoming unbearable) or use the web? Unfortunately, it seems you can't do both at the same time.
Reporting back to say the print version is infinitely better than the ePub and Web versions.

Thanks again, it's a fun and easy reference work!
From part 3:

>Links

>The tech that built an empire: how Rockstar created the world of GTA 5 featuring an interview of Aaron Garbut. http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/the-tech-that-built-an-...

>GTA V NVIDIA Performance Guide with details about the different graphics settings. http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/grand-theft-auto-v-p...

>Renderdoc which made picking into GTA V internals a breeze. https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc
Yes, technically the DC is not down... I can still ping forum.ovh.us and the webpage loads, but very slowly (as excpected).
Neither Angular 2 nor 1 uses O.o for change detection. So there are no implications for ng, realy.
To be fair, the Boston and Mass State police ground Boston to a halt in order to find those responsible. If we had collectively decided not to do so, the city could have continued operating just fine from an economic perspective.

This could still be construed as caused by those two people, but I think the distinction is worth pointing out.

As an aside, those were an intense few days to say the least.
The most commented words from the Bob Ross Twitch chat in a word cloud
Show HN: DADA, the place where visual people speak to each other through images
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> The fact of the matter is that one can just as easily be a brash and insulting bullshitter, or a friendly and polite straight-talker.

Yes it is possible to be so, however, it is not always possible to know if a friendly and polite person is a straight-talked or a bull-shitter - the advantage of Linus' personality is that there's is absolutely no question which one you're dealing with. I wouldn't recommend this as appropriate behavior when dealing with unknown people on a new project, but for a long-running project like Linux, I can't imagine most people can't unemotionally disregard Linus' language as "just the way he is" - if he was the type of person who if you were to disagree with him, he would then try to destroy your career to teach you a lesson, now then I think you'd have good reason to condemn him. I personally have no idea how he handles disagreement though. In my experience, I'll gladly take a harsh but righteous person over a polite politically-savvy self-promoting bullshit artist any day of the week....these people are a lot more common than many people think.
Ad hominems aside, personally I like the multi-line block code pastes, the inline markdown, and the ability to post images from the clipboard.

I haven't frequented IRC much since the mid to late 90's so perhaps it has those features now.
This is really nicely done. It's great to be able to import a library like this and pick and choose only the components you need without bloating the bundle. Thanks for your contribution to the community.

It feels like we're seeing the promise of Web Components with these React Libraries - truly modular components and styles in a lightweight package - but from a previously unanticipated direction. I'm happy that it has come at all.
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Now lets correlate this with "bad" TOR sites downtimes to narrow down their origins...
> For many years, nearly 100% of Google's revenue was from AdSense

Google has always gotten a very large majority of its advertising revenue from ads on its own sites, not on third party sites.
Those issues do affect a lot more people. I certainly find them a bigger hardship in my life than suicide.
The chaotic good in me has to wonder if you could take it one step further - do this every third day for a few weeks, then "claim responsibility" as some Islamic terrorist group. Get the city panicked and scrutinizing hard on anyone driving too slow, broken down on the side of the road, or in a minor accident. Get the invasiveness and paranoia high enough that everyone is forced to see the ridiculousness of it first hand, rather than blindly believing story time from the terrorists behind news desks.
The amount you can donate to a political campaign is already limited at $2700.

Your right, spending money isn't speech. However, preventing someone from buying an advertisement to display a message and they are denied because its deemed 'political' is definitely limiting someones free speech. It doesn't matter if the message is 'America Rocks', 'Shop at this new store here', or 'John McCain sucks please stop voting for him'; if your gonna limit some but not others because the message is deemed political then you no longer have free speech.
This is entirely dependent on whatever thing you're trying to build.
The people in charge do not benefit if the orchestra is great

Have you ever actually worked for an orchestra? I have. The Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony and other top orchestras take quality very seriously.

Do you think, say, Georg Solti or Daniel Barenboim were happy with "just pretty good" musicians? Their reputations (and fortunes, for top conductors are very well paid) depend on consistently outstanding performances.

And I don't know how you call it non-market. When you're income depends on millionaires donating vast sums of money, you damn well better care about quality.

It's like saying a football coach doesn't benefit if his team drafts the best players.
Bend the I and you can make an M! (a small one tho)
Now if only someone would finish SGI emulation so I can run my old programs without loud fans, dying hard drives and the equivalent of a space heater war in the room up.
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My claim is that all governments tend to grow by social means and populism. This may be slow or fast. After a point, prosperity disappears and slowly impoverishment starts.
How does he know so much about the engine internals? Reverse-engineering?
Except Linus' behaviour influences how other people behave, and their behaviour is off-putting for some devs.

Linux loses good devs because some people emulate Linus.
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I hope the author spends some time thinking about this and eventually draws a different conclusion. Relocating to a new country while simultaneously changing the intended scope of a business has serious inherent challenges. Failing to find a way to make that work out is not proof that the person simply succumbed to some kind of psychological problem rooted in a deflated ago.