skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very reasonable to think its chinese.
Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
Probably. Jamie will determine the UI for it, but it'll probably be as simple as turning it on for the domain. Validating the certificate requires either an addition to DNS or to the web root directory; so the domain will need to have a valid glue record, but otherwise Virtualmin will be able to do all the work.

And, it does look like Jamie will be implementing a client for it within Webmin, so we won't need to add the ACME Python client and its dependencies to make it spin. A nice side effect of that is that Webmin alone will also be able to use Let's Encrypt, instead of a self-signed certificate for Webmin itself (of course, people who have purchased certs can use those for Webmin, but if you have dozens or hundreds of Webmin systems, it'd be silly to figure out certs for all of them; even a wild card cert would be a nuisance to deal with).
Many people said they succumbed to the low hanging services fruits. It surely isn't the flagship it was. But IBM is old, and still large, they saw many eras, I wouldn't be surprised if they turn it around once again.
24/192 lossless is a digital Veblen good; some people will pay more for it (and/or the HW to play it & store it), and almost all of them will enjoy it more, if only because it costs more. Whether it actually sounds better is somewhat tangential.
I can agree with that, if the higher standards produced better teachers and discouraged the dregs from that career path.
In the case of VISA, they have to be very careful when it comes to anti-trust issues. It already cost them six billion dollars last time around.

The last thing VISA wants to do, is take over the entire payment system. That's why they're not really attempting to compete with Square or PayPal. They could trivially buy someone like Square.

VISA's golden goose is exactly where they're sitting today: no serious anti-trust burden, massive margins, low overhead brand-based business model. The minute they start trying to own everything, the goose gets shot. Today they do $5.4b in profit on just $12.7b in sales - what can a very modest business like Square offer them on top of their massive 42% net income margins to offset the anti-trust scrutiny they'd be taking on? Absolutely nothing.

If VISA tries to take over the payment processor space, Discover and Mastercard will immediately go in for the kill on anti-trust.
That doesn't sound right. An unsecured loan is simply that.
I have always wanted one of these foxes, but alas being in Australia would make it impossible.
> To me the biggest question is what, exactly, Square does? Years ago they were the company that made it easy for people to accept credit card payments who otherwise wouldn't want to / be able to (mom & pop stores, farmers' markets, etc).

tldr: Long Shopify, short Square.
I assume then that you work for no pay, give away everything you create, and make no errors at all.
Here's another question: why is the architecture in San Francisco so awful? I would take cruddy brick over hideous paneling any day.
Monitoring Applications with StatsD
So you're even more pretentious and shallow than it originally seemed. You make up terms where widely accepted terms are already used (because the appropriation of Latin phrases makes one sound much smarter that those silly PhDs) and dismiss the essentially the entire field because there are some (in your view) ignorant troglodytes who don't dovetail with your obviously more informed world view. Your argument is so compelling that you don't even feel the need to support it with facts.

Bravo...you must be a joy at parties.
Garry is the real deal.
Show HN: Create a pptx from command line with python and yaml
Border radius trick
Forgive me for asking, but how does this differ in capability from, say, a WebView application that offers a) a text field, b) a button that eval()s the text, and c) stores that text such that it can be invoked again on app load?
Indeed, that definitely helped (I didn't read TFA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer has other interesting examples, including the case of a surgeon who caught his patient's cancer after getting injured during the surgery.
The lawsuit that could change Uber forever has a trial date
Of course they also tend to fail for the same reason as gravity slowly pulls them off the lathe.
Thanks for posting the video link. I haven't looked at that in a while so I watched it again and shared it with a few friends.
Flutter is build on top of the mojo. This exposes IPC interfaces to the devices. There are Java, Dart, C++, and I believe also go bindings for this. Not sure if this is in a usable state - but worth a look.

https://github.com/domokit/mojo/tree/master/mojo/go
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/mojo-...
Taking inflation into account offsets the fact that dollars in 1986 didn't have the same value as dollars today. That allows you to compare, roughly, how rich different people are in different years.

So you can compare the 100th richest person in the US in 1986 to the 100th richest person in the US today in terms of what they could buy. But the interesting thing, which is how this whole sub-thread started, is asking whether or not the rich are getting much richer even beyond economic growth. So the 100th richest person in the US is richer today than the 100th richest person from 1986, but overall, on average, people in the US are richer today than folks were in 1986, so that direct comparison tells you little.

So how do you account for that? The easiest way is to just compare to GDP, but you need to account for the population difference, so you can just use per capita GDP. Basically you're asking: how much is this amount of wealth relative to the average single person slice of the "economic pie" in a given year.

In 1986 that figure was roughly forty thousand "pie slices" for the 100th richest person, today that figure is ninety thousand "pie slices".
The actual case against basic income: it reduces work effort drastically (13%) in the experiment where this was measured. For comparison, the great recession reduced work effort by about 5% (near as I can tell, based on looking at the delta in unemployment rate).

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~erw/197/forget-cea%20(2).pdf

We'd like to pretend everyone is a self-motivated software engineer who will create value for the world for personal fulfillment. The data shows this belief is false.
I mean, parasites get to sit around in the host and have a free lunch. You don't cure malaria by yelling at a bunch of Plasmodium falciparum about how they should be ashamed of themselves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753625
I think the fact that robots can't own property will be a major component of future economies.
Awesome OS X Bash Profile
The European Commission is preparing a frontal attack on the hyperlink
That's definitely not true at all. Entrepreneurs typically take a small fraction of the pie they started.

Show me how much of the pie Bill Gates has kept from the total value Microsoft has created over nearly 40 years, including for public investors, the software industry, hardware industry, all global productivity gains related to Microsoft software, Microsoft employees, and so on (including all salaries paid out over 40 years by Microsoft).

Now let's do the same math for Elon Musk, Larry Page, Steve Jobs / Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and so on.

Don't forget to quantify the benefits to consumers, including quality of life gains. What's Google's search engine worth to consumers? How much time does it save them? What kind of quality of life boost - even if small in per capita terms - has it provided to over a billion people?
I would look at https://squareup.com/appointments as an example of where they can go.

Basically, small business services of all kinds are on the table. Their job is to make it easy to run a small businesses. The first product was the little reader you put in your iPhone. It's been expanded since then, but the market is essentially "everything that small business owners struggle with".
I was in PT for 2 years. I had to function during that period.

I was given hydrocodone, which dulled things and made me nauseous. The stronger stuff worked better, but left me exhausted.

It was easier to deal with pain.

I have no idea about marijuana. It's illegal to study it, so there are few facts available. Personally, I've seen a few people get hooked on opiates without any intention of abuse. All my pothead friends from college seem to have suffered no ill effect.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

- Source unclear, attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville and Elmer T. Peterson
Those are roughly 40% and 55% increases. How is that not exciting?

And inflation adjusted home prices have only gone up a few % nationally. Sure, there are areas people want to live and pay a premium for, but that has always been true. Those places have just moved from rural areas to the cities.

As for education, we're in a bubble, it's to be expected. Stop the government from giving easy access loans to kids who don't know any better, stop forcing kids into college, stop college-focused hiring practices, and that will go away overnight.
Funny you say that given JavaScript's immense popularity. JS is by far the most popular and easy to learn language out there and has a large, inclusive community. There are little reasons to knock JS these days, especially with the upcoming language extensions and powerful tools like Babel.

React Native in my eyes has done a fantastic job of demonstrating highly performant JS driven applications that are accessible to tons of developers. An added bonus is the luxury of bundling in millions of existing NPM modules along with existing native modules. Facebook in my eyes is doing better at solving the code portability problem than Google, they are extremely focused, whereas Google, they want us to build things in a million different ways. Which direction do we go? Web components? Angular + Typescript? Dart + Flutter? Or maybe some new development far on the horizon that is the new way?
Funny, this post is trending at 66K views on Feedly and yet has no comments and just two points.
Looking for an entry-level engineer to write web crawling, data mining software primarily using Python. Some understanding of HTTP protocol, APIs, xml/xpath, and scripting languages in general would be useful. Message me if interested.

An interest in economics would be helpful, too. Email me at zeeshan.jp@gmail.com if interested.
sarcasm != satire

I agree with you, but it's still possible that the part about pristine grammar was sarcastic without the entire article being satirical.
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification!
We're facing much more competition globally now. Sure, it's a small loss for us, but it's a huge gain for the world. Things had to equalize, we couldn't ride off WW2 forever.

And I don't mean that in a Keynesian sense. I mean that in a 'the rest of the first world was bombed to a pulp so we had no global manufacturing competition' sense.
good catch. regardless of the result of the 2nd question you need to ask B another question.
This account seems like it was created to post redbull.com stories, and the HN title doesn't match the title of the article.. however, the 15,000 frames is a core part of the article's focus and I think hackers would find this interesting.
It writes new code in the Java runtime and can therefore improve its own capabilities. It's more like a Webview app that could add features to the Webview binary itself. Webview apps cannot have self-modifying code.
India Hacks – HackerEarth – Amazing prizes, open to foreign participants too
Why no luv for the web? What about Firefox OS?
A large number of enterprises still deeply rely on them. I definitely don't see them going out of business any time soon.
You could start by implementing basic income as a direct replacement for minimum wage, so only people who are working would be eligible. Then you could slowly absorb other social services like welfare/etc. I'm not sure if that would be feasible or beneficial at all though.
David Kelly was my advisor (1976 - 80). He is one of the greatest educators I've ever encountered, in any subject.
Wouldn't this eventually balance out though? Productivity goes down, supply of goods goes down, price of goods goes up, pay for work producing such goods goes up, productivity goes up?
Building a universal ledger. To blockchain or not to blockchain
You might want to think twice if you've never smelled fox urine.
The man who made 'the world's first personal computer'
Thank you for that. Who says you can't learn anything by ranting on HN ... :-)

As for the inevitable question - if I write text.substring(1) in JavaScript - why are people not asking the same question?
Why do you think it's impossible? My understanding is that all of the foxes sold as pets are sterilized so there wouldn't be a risk of introducing a foreign species.
Throw in a few million immigrants who are a net negative on the social system for the few few years (optimistically) and we have an impending doom that just got a decade or two closer.
It's the opposite in countries with a hot climate - high ceilings make ventilation (without an AC) better.
True, but a wood frame doesn't have to imply stick-built, green and wet 2x4 construction.

Even in modern times where big timbers are scarce, you can still get straight, true, kiln-dried douglas fir in large (8x8, 8x12) sizes relatively cheaply.
I used to hate JavaScript. It is a very imperfect language, but many of its pitfalls come from widespread mediocre practices and craftsmanship, rather than the language's quirks.
I really don't know, but I do know that the OS/2 Kernel hasn't changed since IBM stopped developing for it sometime between 1996-2006.

I found this for OS/2 development tools:
http://www.altsan.org/os2/toolkits/index.html

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Main_Page

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

Apparently there is a version of GCC for OS/2 that they can use to compile source code. http://os2ports.smedley.info/

If they pay bounties for converting over libraries from GNU/Linux to OS/2 then they can start porting apps over to OS/2 as well.
An article I wrote a while back, largely about how assembly is not dead:

http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1911

That project was using a CPU costing less than twenty cents to control the power of a consumer product. Code space mattered a lot, and doing the project entirely in a high-level language would have doubled the part cost. When you're talking quantities in the tens of millions, saving ten or twenty cents on the cost of goods is a Big Deal.
I know this is a downer, but given that the article states that 18% of the population are "elite" after 10 generations, and there are 2000 elite foxes now, doesn't "strong selection pressure" imply there were around 10K-30K individuals culled in this project for not belonging to "elite"? Is this normal breeding practice? Speaking as a somewhat guilty owner of a beloved papillon-breed dog.
Growing Families That Stay Put
I read about those before. As I remember, they managed to breed the aggression out of them pretty quickly, but it's much harder to make them want the company of people, the way dogs do.
I think you'll find that many of us don't have a college degree. There's no ticket needed to play.
This sounds promising. I was born with a cataract in my right eye. I'm in my early forties now and technically, for all intends and purposes, you could say I'm blind in my right eye (kinda depends on the light intensity). Unfortunately my cataract is difficult to operate on since it's not free floating so they can't easily "scoop" it out. So, an eye-drop that dissolves this thing sounds great.

If they now could also find some eye drop that can dissolve the crap I have floating in my left eye, that would be fantastic!
I don't understand, I thought Famo.us was a startup along the lines of Meteor--both passionately committed to a vision for the future of javascript/web development, both having raised the around same amount of money ($30 million).

I'm kidding--how could that be true when Famo.us was started by essentially a non-coder who touted his jQuery skills to falsely (and naively) present as though he was a coder. Did Steve even write a line of code. A startup this technical needs a super coder at the helm. In short, it should have been obvious to us outsiders that Famo.us was about nothing more than its unsuccessfully self-referential and self-serving name, "Fame."

Like many, I bought into it though. I mean--minus the hype-style marketing that should have been a clear warning that this company is not to be trusted--they did clearly assert their vision: to kill the Native Problem for javascript developers.

The fact that Steve was more concerned about money and making one of those type of startups, rather than hunker down with a small team and get a focused job done like the Meteor team has, astounds me. It's basically an outrage. How about hire a smaller team and not send them on wild goose hunts building stuff beyond the core vision. It's typical startup nonsense where inexperienced non-technical founders want to build the world and don't grasp the importance of focusing on a true MVP. I don't care that he was--i think--the #3 guy at Powerset, or that he kinda can code. From the looks of how busy he was at all the Famo.us marketing side of things, there's no way that guy was leading an engineering team--i.e. the only way this sort of grand vision could ever be accomplished.

The messed up part is that what they finally released at the end seemed to be on point with what we need. The interface is on point. It's a great start at least. Had they been more focused they could have arrived their earlier. And then they could have stuck to their guns and stuck it out until their framework got an actual following. But they never got a following, and therefore (combined with his needs for Fame and Money) Steve felt the need to pivot. Had they had any semblance of a following/userbase, this wouldn't have happened. Seen this happen so many times. You know, get that fire burning under your initial small group of passionate customers like kindling, like Paul Graham always says. They certainly had the perfect marketing pitch to do it.

All they had to do was take the vision to the bitter end like I hope Infamous.io or SamsaraJS does. For a while, as an outsider, I just figured they were suffering because the technology wasn't in fact possible. I.e. they couldn't truly get the performance needed for production apps. That they fell apart for any other reason is scandalous.

I wish the best to anyone picking up their codebase. We still need this stuff!

SMH.
A parable on problem solving [pdf]
An example of why I like to own my things.

Also this this the weev?
Gnumpy: an easy way to use GPU boards in Python (2010) [pdf]
Mainframes have traditionally used MIPS in their benchmarks.
Ha, I've been amused/annoyed by this as well. I think a lot of times maybe people are going for something like "Full Disclosure: ...", and other times it would make more sense just to make it an ordinary sentence.
The dramatic increase in the cost of labour compared to the cost of bricks and mortar has been a major driver in the elimination of detail on houses and buildings.
Now we engineer things to snap together. Wires and pipes etc all suffer from this problem as well.
We can actually make better brick work, with longer lasting mortar - as long as we want to pay for these details
Skynet is alive!
It is pretty common for beer to be available 24 hours a day. But it's pretty rare for people to make use of it.
> I apologize.

Apology accepted.

> I still want to push back on the idea that people raised in conservative Christian families are necessarily authoritarian

You'd have even better luck if you pushed back against something I actually said. I never said that Christian families are necessarily authoritarian (though there are clearly strong traditions of authoritarianism in many branches of Christianity). What I said was that traditional Christian values have been corrupted by cynical business interests for material gain. And again, this seems to me to be self-evidently true. Look up "prosperity gospel" for example.
That's inaccurate. It's actually caused by an increase in median wages and number of people employed. Wage growth is affected by money supply growth.
Web Assembly is on the horizon so we will see. In the meantime, how do you explain meteoritic the rise of JS? Why do devs choose to use tools like Babel over Emscripten? Why is it that companies like Netflix, PayPal and LinkedIn, etc all utilize and embrace NodeJS? Why is Facebook so interested in using JS for future apps rather than native languages? Your theory is very short sighted and based in fantasy
UK tenements had few or no windows due to the perverse tax formula.
Colorado requires a 15:1 ratio for dogs:humans in group play style dog care facilities.
I mean, it's only "necessary" because it would be a catalyst for the proletariat revolution. The Russians and the Maoists generalized on the idea and showed that it's more an issue of getting the disenfranchised organized - whether they be factory wage slaves or farmers that don't own the land they work
You mean PYThon
Python: Six, ABC and functools.wraps
gamification of altruism

Has a dirty feeling to it, but I don't see why it can't work =)
Working harder as a public school teacher isn't going to result in more pay. There are probably a ton of teachers who started out as "good" teachers and then slowly learned it wasn't worth the effort.
We at GitLab love the open core business model too, it is a hard balance but it can lead to having the money to make the open source project much better.
It doesn't matter who runs the school. However if the school identifies itself as a minority institution it doesn't have to comply with RTE guidelines as per the constitution bench of Supreme court. Here's an excerpt from a newspaper report.

However, the constitution bench exempted minority
schools, both aided and unaided, from the purview
of the Act. It said minority schools could not be
put under legal obligation to provide free and
compulsory elementary education to children
who were not members of the minority community
which had established the school. It said,
"In our view, if the Act is made applicable
to minority schools, aided or unaided, the right
of the minorities under Article 30(1) of the
Constitution will be abrogated. Therefore,
the (provision of the) 2009 Act, which made it
applicable to minority schools is unconstitutional."
[1]

So it's more about minority rights, than about religious discrimination which your post seemed to suggest. Quite mischievously too if I might add.

And so far as schools being shut for not complying with some "arbitrary clause", it is actually more about private schools refusing to fulfil 25% reservation for children from socially backward communities. You also left that out.

Jai Hind!

[1] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/25-pc-re...