skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 1990s, people seemed to constantly talk about "Internet time." Referring to the sense that a year online, seemed like forever - especially given most people had spent very little time online, the Web was expanding at a rate essentially never seen before, there was little to compare it to historically, it all seemed to change a lot in one year. It still sometimes feels like the Internet time effect, when you refer to the brief era of Groupon's boom - it seems like it was a decade or more ago, when it was just three to four years.
I think I'm supposed to be too young to get that deeply irritated "stay off my lawn" feeling but Snapchat provides it in leaps and bounds. Lots of resentment here for Snapchat and the other useless "Hey, look ma, I'm worth a billion dollars!" unicorns lead by clueless collegiates that are always photographed wearing mom jeans and smirking into space.

I had just barely started to accept Twitter's presence in the world and now this.
> That seems to be subjective. I like the debugger in Visual Studio but I much prefer emacs and Makefiles. Even if emacs is often slow to highlight large C files.

You can use makefiles. I use leiningen, without docker.

> Otherwise, meh. Apple has the better hardware design that fits my preferences.

Specifically referring to Surface. In general, Microsoft makes pretty good hardware. But uh, Apple's hardware isn't good in anything but a relative sense. Their build quality has been on the decline for a long time.

> I'm looking forward to seeing more of this. When I can hand off calls from my iPhone and get the same level of integration you get in the Apple ecosystem the deal will be sealed.

That's not something Apple will let happen, though. We both know that. Android though? Already works via Skype. I'm not sure I like that tech stack either but... it's not like google hangouts is exactly "good."
How Can I Improve My Writing Skills?
That's not how that GPL works. To be precise, although there might be a (very small) chance that a court has found or will find that software running in user space is a derived work of the kernel, that finding would not apply to Linux's user space because Linus declared (in the 1990s) that the conditions of Linux's license do not apply to user space.

Tivo was one of the first owners of proprietary software to test this area of the law: their devices ran Linux, but they never had to publish the source code for the software on their devices that ran in user space.

The distributors of RemixOS would have to publish the source code to any changes they make to the kernel itself, but someone else in the comments says they have made none.
PureScript is another one worth a look
Are you targeting B2B or B2C companies? Of those two, B2B sounds like the obvious choice, but even then, I'm not sure there's enough value for companies to adopt this. What makes you think companies actually want this and are willing to pay money for it?
Depends, are you thirsty?
Apple not being able to sell in china is pretty much unrelated to FoxConn assembling parts for them in China.

Proof:

The iPhone was released in china in like 2012 or something, There were no riots, and FoxConn was still handling the assembly... Sooo... Pretty sure your point is moot now.
“There Are Only Two Plots”
People are earning even with free apps
No, it'll melt and quickly fall off the front page if it doesn't get more votes in an appropriate amount of time.

It's not trivial to game over time. HN has been very successfully handling attempts at gaming for years. If it didn't, the site wouldn't function at all given its traffic, it would be overwhelmed with crap 24/7.
Good ones do. I use CapitalOne360 as my primary bank exactly for this reason.
React and Redux are a great stack for making solitaire
The whole thing is pretty convoluted.

In the US, if the merchant doesn't pay, or is fraudulent then Paypal would have full liability. Same situation with Stripe.

From the perspective of a Paypal or Stripe, letting someone accepting credit cards is very similar to extending someone a loan. In the early days of Paypal, fraud almost killed them several times. I've been involved in a smaller credit card processing business and fraud almost killed us a few times.

In the current system in the US, legit merchants ends up getting beat up the most, and taking the most liability, in exchange for the convenience of accepting plastic.

If someone uses a stolen credit card to purchase goods online or in person, it's their, and they have to pay. And often lose the items sold too.

If the Paypals can't pay, then the upstream banks have to pay. Of course this would never happen, so the upstream banks never have to pay. Their risk is totally covered along the chain; so they don't really care THAT much about fraud.

Meanwhile, the end users of credit cards enjoy pretty good liability protection, and get paid in miles and cash rewards. So, they're fat and happy.

But the poor merchants..
VerbalExpressions – Regular Expressions made easy
Modern C++ Features – keyword `noexcept`
Being a 19 year old college student with many friends in high school, I can say snapchat is the most popular social network, followed by Instagram then Twitter, and lastly Facebook. If something is happening, people will snap and tweet about it, Instagram and Facebook are reserved for bigger events that are worth mentioning, snapchat and Twitter are for more day to day activities and therefore get used much more often.
How to Stop Giving a Fuck What Other People Think
This is an interesting solution that I haven't heard before. It certainly seems to solve some of the problems with current copyright, but how do you evaluate the value of a copyrighted work? Off the top of my head, taxing recent past sales of it won't work because a rights holder can just sit on a work keeping it from public domain for free (status quo), and estimating some sort of earning potential doesn't seem great either.
It depends on whether you have many small files or a small number of large files. In the former case, one file approach (HDF5) makes sense. In the latter case, you don't have a problem with i-node consumption and you gain the ability to easily access only the data you need without bringing the entire data-set into memory.

I kind of the like the approach suggested above - if you have many small files store them in a zip archive and use some library to access the data directly.
But dissolving it and sacrificing those jobs will help millions of lives well into the future. USA is familiar with this approach, why not do it? Like drop A-bomb on a city full of innocent people as justification to end the war or kill a 100 people for 1 terrorist.
Sure, except that Trump doesn't make a disclaimer before or after all his statements that he might be wrong to some degree.
Efficient?
I'm not sure if you read the original article or not, but I very clearly point out the benefit of long-range research in addition to things more directly relevant to industry. So I don't agree with the premise of your criticism.
What do programmers at Facebook do all day?
Rare earth metals are a very specific set of elements. If you are talking "nothing above lithium" that means only hydrogen helium and lithium. AKA no carbon oxygen nitrogen (or silicon).
From cluster meetings to sunsetting: how to speak development (jargon)
I thought we're talking about users here, not developers.

Steam, Mathematica, Mendeley Desktop etc. have long proven that stable API for GUI toolkit doesn't have to be an issue for users.

> For application developers there is a consistent set of APIs that are expected to exist in each version of Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Windows Phone...

This problem you're referring to isn't something inherent in or specific to Linux.

On Windows, the very same problem exists and is known as DLL hell.
Android is another Linux distribution, and you're talking about Java programs running on top of a VM on top of it. Java programs work just fine on Linux too.

I belive you're talking about Cocoa and Win32 API.

On Unix, there is POSIX and X11 which go way back. And there are many GUI toolkits (including but not limited to Qt and wxWindows) that allow you to statically ship your program, with the added bonus of being cross-platform.

API isn't an issue that can't be solved for developers either.

> On GNU/Linux one needs to bundle the libraries with the application, preferably static linked. But no one is going to do with with GNOME or KDE applications, for example.

Yes, they can and they do ship statically linked binaries. While they don't generally use Qt or GTK, both promise binary compatibility with a major version.

They don't need to make it a GNOME or KDE apps to run it under X11.

> Then there are the deviations each GNU/Linux distribution does from UNIX daemon management and paths.

Can you be more specific about the problem you're referring to? Are you talking about a particular closed-source daemon program that uses something other than /etc/init.d or systemd (which has sysv init compatibility layer)?
Well, the whole point of my post is to give some tips on how not to.
Ubuntu is great. "Hmm, I wonder if Brasero is installed. b-r-a- Oh! I hadn't even considered wearing a bra before. I shall click through and buy one right now."
> Were they really able to clone a product and get it in stores and demoed at CES between Nov. 12 2015 and today? Amazingly agile if so.

Actually, Future Motion showed the product at CES last year... so Changzhou First would have had a year to develop it.
> I spent half the day fighting updating packages with NuGet, from one machine to another, and a sudden incompatibility with Azure database exports with my local version. Sure, there are problems with every dev environment, but it just seems so much MORE of a hassle with Visual Studio on Windows, since, for all their money and effort and marketing and the fact that they own the whole stack, the pain ought to be much LESS than the alternatives.

Well I mean... I could tell you my java/maven nightmare stories as well. Dependency hell is not something anyone gets to escape, even if you're using newer hotness like NPM or Go. Oh god, Go's dependency management is a trap.

> It also doesn't help that my Fortune 150 IT department has my development machine so locked down that the Azure worker simulator literally cannot get the permissions it needs to run.

There is no escape for us, except to burn our way out.
Agenda for White House Summit with Silicon Valley
Right. I spend less than half of my income on neccessities (food, rent, etc. -- this I split with my partner) and recently I've found myself telling people that time is my most limited resource. So in the past couple of years I've been very conscious about allocating my free time.

When I quit may last job I wanted to trade the notice period with unpaid vacation, but it was no-go. :(
Your mental superpowers are caused by a rare mutation shared with 40% of all people?
Which also has pointers, yet makes use of safe strings.
I remember seeing a 1970s video from the Soviet Union about a piece of software some soviet scientists developed that could automatically retouch and restore photographs. Like at Adobe Photoshop CC level.

What impact did it have? Zero. Because some technocrat apparatchik decided it wasn't worth it developing and promoting the thing further.

One can have insane ability to create things, but it will be ultimately futile, if the things created can't sustainably reach consumers.
Indeed. I get more and more tired of the lazy stream of anti-capitalist sentiment leaking into HN as though all the worlds problems stem from capitalism.

I've spent a fair chunk of my career working in the Middle east or with Middle eastern companies and my wife is Chinese so we have strong connections over there as well. Both have highly centralised, statist systems with heavily restrictions on their economic markets. If you haven't actually been there and lived under non-capitalist systems you have absolutely no idea just how utterly corrupting and venal they can get. It's suffocating, and it's insidious tentacles work their way into every facet of life.

It's true that there is corruption in the west. Big corporations do have too much influence on politics. There are problems with the way wealth is becoming concentrated. But the issues we face pale into comparison to the problem in countries that don't have free markets. In the west we have the 1%, but in non-capitalist states it's more like the 0.1%. It's the difference between systems run according to the rule of law which have some corruption, versus systems run by corruption which have some laws. Capitalism is built on the principles of property rights and economic freedom. It turns out taking those away from people isn't a good thing after all.
Eventually we will start turning off IPv4 stacks, just like the ATM/frame layer 2 technologies have given way to carrier ethernet.
Airbnb lets you vacation in illegal West Bank settlements
> Posting a comment not aligned with the majority opinion carries a risk of at most -4 points. I assert that downvotes more often correlate with disagreement than failure to abide by the standards of discourse. Since the penalty is limited, that's okay.

A comment can have far worse consequences than the loss of a few karma points. If you say the wrong thing, your reputation and (potentially) your livelihood are at risk. That's why, for anything remotely controversial, I use pseudonymous accounts. It's simply not worth it to have my real-world reputation ruined. I can't imagine the deluge of hate that would descend upon me if some of my views were known; doubly-so for misconstrued versions of them. I can already hear the haters: "Chroma approves of torture!"[1][2], "Chroma is sexist!"[3][4], "Chroma is ageist!"[5] "Chroma hates muslims!"[6][7], "Chroma hates the Amish!"[8], "Chroma hates pilots!"[9], "Chroma wants to slaughter all lions!"[10], "Chroma thinks motorcycle riders are mentally ill!"[11] Etcetera.

That said, I agree with you on defensive writing. When expressing anything controversial, defensive writing is mostly a waste of effort. Simply holding the opinion is cause enough for others to downvote and denigrate. Unless it's something very close to your audience's views, you might as well aim for good prose and avoid hedges.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531577

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8725500

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443021

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321440

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889897

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9530853

7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879389

8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9280711

9. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417447

10. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476699

11. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569078
> The only way you can enforce a patent is by having armed law enforcement do so

Couldn't you just take them to court?
They could have been serious contender in semantic search. I remember trying to reach out to some yahoos regarding an ambitious, yet serious proposal on semantic search using ThatNeedle.com. we could have made an impact. I could not get to the right audience even for a demo or a proposal. I guess they have too many silos built on top of an ivory tower.
Nonetheless, it would be sad to see them fade away.
Apparently they are mounting a case against hoverboards... stay tuned.
What does this mean in layman terms?
How I generate 7 sales within a week using FB Ads
This is fascinating. What's the auction man at the end saying?
> I was responding to OP's statement 'nobody else is going to come in and take those customers except Chinese companies'

But you haven't refuted that statement. You merely pointed out there is a tiny amount of "western" companies operating in China, with no numbers on the ratio of foreign to local operations. Which would be the real way to refute that point.

There are foreign brands sniffing around the edges. But mostly, Chinese spend their money IN china. The car companies are a good counter example, but that's mainly because China didn't have the Car manufacturing expertise in house, I believe this is changing. McDonalds and KFC are a joke in China for every one of them you see, there will be at least 10 chinese fast food competitors with more customers. (Turns out Chinese have a preference for Chinese food - Crazy huh?)

iPhone still only hold about a 30% market share. I think that'll change too, as Huawei, and Xiaomi have become significantly more competitive and are significantly cheaper.
I think this kind of intelligent personal assistant is quite useless. Especially for people who are non-native English speaker. The voice recognition is bad and always requires internet connection. This kind of software consumes computing & storing resources.

I don't think it is a good idea for any company to integrate it in the OS.
Some roads are plated in gold, but others are broken and run down.

It's easy to have your sentiment when your road is the former and not the latter.
Tell HN: How to make the front page less boring in one easy step
See the link that says "new" at the top?

Click it and actually upvote stories that are interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

If you're disappointed with the quality of material on the front page, guess what: You can do something about it!

If more people did, a lot of great content wouldn't fade to obscurity.
People get sidetracked from actually enjoying their friends' virtual company when also given the role of curating/polishing an online presence. Not worrying about the impression your profile makes is freeing.
A warrant approach without a very narrow, extremely well defined scope, completely destroys the original point of warrants.

From the article:

> But Fieman said that the warrant “effectively authorizes an unlimited number of searches, against unidentified targets, anywhere in the world.”

That blatantly isn't a warrant. It's a new form of unlimited government surveillance and hacking. Half the comments on here are falling for the all-too-obvious: but it's for a good cause, spin. Hey, just leave your doors unlocked, and invite in the police to search every inch of your home and electronics any time they like, we'll catch far more criminals that way.
How does Wiplo compare to Trello?
Mark Cuban on high-frequency trading [video]
Top 100 Startups in India to Watch in 2016
> If prices rise then supply will meet the demand and resources will be allocated accordingly.

CS grads already easily make the most money out of all STEM graduates except maybe medicine which requires a much larger time/money investment.

Where exactly do you see the extra supply coming from if, say, CS wages went up another 50%? Who would be incentivized to study CS who isn't already sufficiently incentivized today?
> They actually have enough money to pay for goods and services that save them time.

I think you are missing the point. There isn't a magical device the upper classes buy that saves then time (maybe this is the case for poorer people, e.g. having a washing machine is quicker than washing clothes by hand), but once you earn so much, get comfortable and achieve your own level of success, you start to value things other than money.

I assume the $75k refers to somewhere where you can afford the mortgage on a nice house, a car or two, eating out a few times a week, and saving for your children's college fund, etc (i.e. all the material things society says we need). Once you are able to afford all that maybe you start to value the time you spend with your children, so spending an extra hour communiting to get $10k more isn't worth it.
AiraWear jacket massages you on the go
SLOTH Collisions Attacks Against SHA-1, MD5 in TLS, IKE, SSH
I just saw the talk by Dmitry today on Argon2 at RealWorldCrypto. I was impressed by the ideas there; in particular, the ideas in Argon2 can be extended to transform any protocol into one that includes memory-hard steps.
This re-balances the potential adversary advantage. Very neat concept.
Disagree about Tumblr.

A year ago it was still the fastest growing social platform, and it still proves to be (especially in 2015) the big source of viral internet content.
Arista just added 4 byte ASN support to BGP in EOS, in the last release in December. Just FYI.
In my previous job we were evaluating HDF5 for implementing a data-store a couple of years ago. We had some strict requirements about data corruption (e.g., if the program crashes amid a write operation in another thread, the old data must be left intact and readable), as well as multithreaded access. HDF5 supports parallelism from distinct programs, but its multithreaded story was (is?) very weak.

I ended up designing a transactional file format (a kind of log-structured file system with data versioning and garbage collection, all stored in a single file) from scratch to match our requirements. Works flawlessly with terabytes of data.
That's fair :)

Was just curious where OP saw red, navy blue, and teal on producthunt.
Speaking of slippery slopes, this "hack" probably falls under the broader meaning of the term. They probably put some kind of Flash banner on the page, and caught all the people with improperly-configured systems.
I don't think you quite understand the power of DJ Khaled.
Scaling our periodic batch pipeline for publisher analytics: Key skew in Hadoop
> The reason you start a startup is so that you can work those 15-20 hour weeks (or less)

I'm pretty sure any startup in the bay area is a counter example of your argument.
Please don't post personally abrasive comments here.
Yep. This must be why 40% of the population has a “verbal” intelligence that can’t be measured.
The Battle of Hogwarts is the previous six books in reverse order
Ask HN: How bad are the internal politics at Google?
I spoke with an admittedly small set of potential companies, both B2B and B2C. There's enough value in replacing the current way of communicating updates with customers which involves: newsletters, notifications, emails, blog posts, release notes, PDFs (B2B mainly), etc.
posted earlier today using original title, 120+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10861273
yeah but that has 2 wheels. ours only has one. definitely worthy of a new patent. /s
I can't seem to access the article, so no upvote, but if this is indeed true well... such a shame.
19 minute interview with Palmer Luckey
That's why they should just pass a law that specifically puts Mickey Mouse under copyright forever instead of general extensions for everything.
Well, we know how this will go. A number of commenters will object, pointing out how the code of conduct reserves the right to police what people say in non-project spaces, relies on secret evidence and opaque processes, and does not protect people from being harassed for their political views. Then the project maintainers will ignore them and install the code anyway.
Why They Aren't Completely Wrong When They Say East Asian Try to Look White
He's the best thing that ever happened to T-Mobile. If it wasn't for Legere, it's unlikely T-Mobile would still be in the business, let alone growing its customer base. I've been a satisfied customer for 2.5 years now.
Because it's a nonsensical point. You trade one very simple thing to worry about – password hashing algorithms, for which you can count all variations in the past ten years on one hand – with a massively complex system like OAuth (1.0? 1.0a? 2.0?), which in turn relies on TLS for transport security, for which best practices change every two or three months.

If bcrypt gets broken tomorrow, your passwords are safe until you have a data breach. If OAuth gets broken tomorrow, you're immediately at risk.
That is correct, everyone at Yahoo uses yahoo mail
Especially considering we have a sample size of one, possibly two if you count Mars as a potential place of habitability.

I would hold judgement till we explore Europa. Depending on what we find there life may or may not be common in the universe.