skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something bigger at play here that even the EFF isn't touching on. (nor do I expect them to, I like how they stick to the technical facts.)

The reduction if not straight out elimination of national sovereignty is a prereq for global governance under the collectivist model. Fast track, TTIP, TISA, TTP, and other more subtle treaties that have been falsely labelled as "trade agreements" are how they supranational oligarchy can chip away at sovereignty, because the same people and groups have already corrupted the system from the inside out so pervasively that they now have the ability to get this done, and here is the key, done despite whatever backlash the public is going to release!. This was actually the purpose of fast-track, as the precursor legislation that would enable them to run TTIP/TTP up America's ass before they could stop it. (by pretending something is a trade agreement instead of a treaty and with fast track now the required two-thirds majority in the senate becomes just a simple majority requirement, among other things.)

Although I may be one of the hn resident conspiracy theorists, even this threw me for a loop because I was expecting a currency upset first, but apparently the way to undermine a nation is by corruption of it's government and business first and then death by a thousand cuts (read: laws), because afterwards the currency upset can be much more controlled.

For me, an American who has sworn an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...", I think that the country has forgotten the basic reasons for the American Revolution in the first place, and the principles upon which our country and it's constitution was founded, the Declaration of Independence, and the Declaration’s basis, Natural Law, but I digress.

The point to me is that we have allowed our supposed "allies" to send us on wild hunts for foreign enemies, while in reality the larger enemies are domestic, and they wear suits and ties and are in DC and on Wallstreet. All the branches of government are corrupted from the top down (including the fourth estate of journalism), and all the middle men are in one of three modes. 1) I'm gonna get mine and fuck you. 2) If I say anything I lose my job or worse, much worse. 3) Who cares, everything is fine, let's put our head in the sand.

There has been much debate about whether it is Eric Blair's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. I say it's being setup so that it's a brave new world, until you resist, then it's 1984 and a boot on your face. I ought to know, I was the man with the boots in Iraq.

Throw in another recession or two and a depression, world resource wars, and technological revolution on an earth with an unsustainable population level, and what we have here is a recipe for disaster.

It's ok though, I'm sure I'm just paranoid. (like I was about NSA before anyone started listening about that too.)
I'd expect to lose them.

Fire happens, floods happen, electrical faults happen, mistakes happen. I can't really expect any human or humans to be perfect.
Harm is what people dislike.

What do you mean by objective in this context and why do you think that this measure has to be objective according to your definition?
For encrypted personal files?
As I read your comment I was thinking "Huh, I've never seen those focus failures on Mac, but they happen to me on Windows at work all the time."

Then I clicked Chrome in the dock, hit Cmd-Q, and watched Safari disappear while Chrome opened a new window. Guess it's not just you.
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Can you charge while plugged in to a monitor?
> “I didn’t know any of this stuff,” says Kalanick. “I just knew it was important, and so I wanted it to be good.”

Translation: "I don't know anything about this, but I believe it is important, so I want it to be done right... and I somehow think I am the person to do that." This is why we all repair our own cars using hammers and pliers.
I was referring the pepsi one in the comment I was replying to!
At one of my previous companies, once we reached significant volume, Cybersource asked us for a material percentage of our transaction volume as a reserve, otherwise they would shut us down. I would never use them again as a processor.
You are indeed lucky. I would guess the companies you worked at were profitable?
It's Angular 1.4 at the moment - the project was started well before A2 had anything like a coherent direction for its API. Releasing an Angular 2-compatible version is one of our top priorities for the next surge of development.

That said, Xing uses Hannah Howard's module A1Atscript (https://github.com/hannahhoward/a1atscript) to add a very Angular 2-like TypeScript annotation syntax, including A2-like component architecture.

That should make Xing apps much easier to translate to Angular 2 than other Angular 1.X apps.
It has a few compiler extensions that are very useful for small embedded development, but GCC won't add (eg an "at" keyword to let you place a symbol at a specific address).

As for "why" nobody has done it, it's probably just because nobody has. The targets are mostly 8-bit devices with limited resources and SDCC is good enough. Typically the vendors have their own paid toolchains. I don't really know how well GCC would perform on those targets (although AVR8 uses GCC).
The longer term trend could potentially be hire-on-demand for other goods and services too.

Which will be neatly ironic - capitalism and market pricing destroying the basis of private ownership.
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Repeat after me coders: Sales is not evil.
Nothing here that would encourage me to switch from Stripe or Braintree. Both those companies handle all the insane edge cases, recurring payments, and refunds.
Feeding my amiibos
Now... take some advice from your own UI inspiration and don't do something as insane as adding a white 90% opacity overlay as you're scrolling and mousing over things. Extremely jarring.
Ugh. Every time I inherit code that someone has peppered with regions, I delete then. It's a bunch of extra noise if you expand all regions, and if they're collapsed it's harder to see the overall structure of the code, and some functionality (specifically undo/redo, but others also) gets gimpy when collapsed regions are involved, making it hard to see what is changing.

I find regions to be useful 1% of the time, simply pointless 10% of the time, and hiding crappy code the other 89% of the time. When I open up code and see a bunch of regions, I immediately assume that the file contains way too much unrelated functionality and that the code is poorly written. This assumption is very rarely wrong.
personally, i'd rather see it combined with something like the casetop. basically, an all-in-one monitor, keyboard, and battery charger.

http://livi-design.ca/

...but, with much better industrial design.
I thought they were trying to allay people's fears of their self-driving cars going full Skynet, but now I realize I probably misinterpreted what they meant by "the other way around": "We leave no person unturned, to create industries that serve bits and atoms."
I have thought about this and my conclusion is that we have power over those companies, the power is on your decision not to buy any products from them.

-Take for chance apple, Imagine people not buying a
single iPhone until they start paying taxes as they
should on US, you still can buy any rival brand right?
You can imagine how stock prices would fall under the
pressure of 0 iphones sold.
-Software, go with a rival, support open source.
-Get to the street and complain.
-Do not play any music from vendorx, do not go to your
artists concerts, do not play youtube music from them.

Is all about us and doing some small sacrifices, in my case the reason behind my switch totally and never go back from windows to linux was the ftdi driver "update" bricking my olimexino 328.

Edit: I have to say laws it's a very difficult area, maybe one of the easiest ways you can have of making a change could be supporting organizations like the EFF.

Edit: clarity
That's not against your lease?
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I'm looking for absolute lightweight as possible, not an opinionated framework. Most of my projects use fitgrd.com but I'm looking for alternatives, with additional features. getcrow.eu looks interesting, but it looks to be abandoned at about the same time it was released, plus it's missing crucial CSS to even make it work(but reported on GitHub). Thanks guys.
Apple need to pull a "no new features" release for the next OS X and iOS. They've done it before.
I wonder how many of the paths are shortened through fake 'catfish' accounts?
I didn't see any hoodies in the pictures.
I'd love an invite if anyone has any: arobbins@simpleblend.net
I've been on GitHub since the earliest days, and I've definitely noticed that there's something going on -- or the lack of anything going on more like it.

When was the last time a big feature that people are actually clamoring for was added to GitHub (and let's not pretend LFS fits that description)? Meanwhile you have the maintainers of the most popular projects publicly begging for changes they've been waiting years for, startups like ZenHub innovating on TOP of GitHub in the form of browser extensions, and then startups like GitLab poised to eat GitHub's lunch as soon as they figure out how to capture the social aspect.

I'm not sure what GitHub is spending the money on, but it sure as hell isn't on the core platform itself or keeping it's most active users happy.
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Love it. I would love to have this for mobile apps too.
Cybersource is the payment processor.
It's not really about the parent so much as the child. The child deserves to have parents that are present in its life.
Yes, things have dramatically improved, but there are still taboo subjects on HN. For example, try saying any of the same things about YC's own AirBnB and see how that goes over.

In fact, this very article had an early comment[1] comparing Uber's logo re-design to AirBnB's paperclip thingy[2]. That comment is now deleted. No way to tell if it was self-deleted or mod deleted, but either way it seems someone wasn't comfortable having that on here, for whatever reason.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11038131

[2] http://blog.airbnb.com/belong-anywhere
Bitcoin has major scaling problems and is very likely going to fail to deliver on your last sentence. As much as I don't want it to be true, it's more likely that banks will control the blockchain with something like R3.
OTOH, in lightning conditions it may be advantageous to move as fast as possible as a strike may result in significantly prolonged contact with wet ground.
This is why I tend to buy the idea that Monster intentionally hides satanic themes in their branding.
The smart ones have asset management systems, big databases that track what gets used where how.

The Scheme hacker Shiro Kawai has, as one of his claims to fame, having written an asset management system for Squaresoft (now Square Enix) -- not for any of their games but for the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Nice job guys
NPR: This American Life did an excellent episode about patent trolls where they cover east Texas and what it is about it that makes it so lucrative to file the suit there. Here is the episode transcript: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/t...
The audio of the show can be listened to there as well. Apologies on not giving a summary. I normally would, but it has been a while since I listened to it and I don't want to misrepresent it.
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Nice job guys!
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It's not impossible. You can just text match the first X characters of that URL segment and consider it a dupe at that point. I can live with the occasional false positive.

gamedevdaily.io uses that tactic.
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Just because it doesn't have formal definitions doesn't mean it doesn't need them. As GP points out, the implication of the vagueness is that there will be a lot of legal uncertainty.
That's the part where I lost it as well. I simply had to close the video after hearing that, it made me so uncomfortable.
Economic mystery: Why is the American midwest more equal than rest of the US?
Piling on, the representation of a bit in the beginning fades in and out. That makes no sense. Reminds me of Orwell's essay on writing, how poor writing is a necessary feature of propaganda.
WOW. Unbelievable. Who the hell hires these people? They make you go through half a dozen technicals if you're going to be an engineer, but they let the homeless guy across the street run their PR department?
I'm having trouble unpacking useful information out of these rambly blog posts. It sounds like the basic complaint is that abstractions add complexity, which is more trouble when it goes wrong.

I agree that if you have a large-scale sophisticated operation you will probably want to choose local disks and handle availability your own way (and GCE provides those options). But for small-scale operations that can't justify as much engineering, abstractions like persistent disks and automatic migration will save a ton of time and avoid data loss. Ironically, Digital Ocean seems to target this smaller scale, yet they've set the wrong defaults for their target market.
No, Bernie sanders is not "against trade". He's "against" ceding elements of our sovereignty to unaccountable transnational corporations and the "trade" bodies that have sprung up to protect them.
They add a phony fragment identifier to evade dupe checks -- a pretty pathetic way to augment traffic, unless there's a legit purpose for doing this that I'm not seeing (in all cases, there is no genuine corresponding fragment ID anywhere in the page).

signalvnoise and buzzfeed also do this.
I made an interactive calculator of this a while ago, adapted from a BBC article. You can see it here (interactive equation at the bottom):

https://alexkrolick.com/rain

Note that it doesn't do oblique angles.

EDIT: I've been meaning to update this with a graph for a while -- the plot in the article really illustrates the tradeoff between wetness and velocity quite well.
One iota, possibly. The "color theory" section on page 25 is actually halfway reasonable. (I like to imagine the employee working on that part was rolling their eyes wildly at the insanity going on around them.)
I'd love to give this, and Keybase, a try if anyone has an invite they would be comfortable sharing.

tomkinsc@[google's consumer email service].com
Yup forgot about that but a good point as well.
There is a lot of truth in this article. I feel like on some occasions I gravitate to other OSs because Apple has kinda put the quality aspect on hold for their software releases.
the video was taken down. Anybody have a working link?
Has anyone managed to get this up and running? I'm running the Go client on Linux and no dice.
"the power is on your decision not to buy any products from them"

The problem is our power is diluted.
No, this was IPFs being discussed (content addressable web).
> Do you think Apple fighting a court case floods money down the street like a river?

Samsung sponsored an ice skating rink in the town right in front of the courthouse. So, yeah, basically.
There is sometimes a need for strong regulation to prevent larger participants from using their size to gain an unfair advantage in the market.

The Coasian revolution and public choice schools have since challenged this narrative quite significantly, and have had an impact on economic discourse, though not on mainstream discussion.

The job of regulation is to ensure (as much as is reasonably possible) that no one gains an unfair advantage.

George Stigler devastated that interpretation, as well.

Nevertheless, I am talking about an ideal vision that we should strive toward.

Indeed, this is an ideal discussion. Hence I can't give you a straight example of a "non-governmental regulation that doesn't ultimately derive authority from government," though in fairness this is ambiguous. It happens that the judicial branch is governmental, but the very act of informal bargaining between property owners is endogenous, non-governmental regulation. You could also argue that private certification and standards agencies are endogenous regulators.

I am currently reading a book about the so-called "Robber Barons" of the later half of the 19th century. If you want to see what truly unconstrained capitalism looks like, I suggest you read up on this period: fraud, price-fixing, market manipulations, extortion, bribery

The so-called "robber baron" era was not one of truly unconstrained capitalism at all. The "robber baron" era had the strict mercantilist and interventionist policies of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List and the American School economists in full effect. Above all, it was driven by a complex interaction of tariffs (people keep forgetting how important tariffs were in United States history), land law acts and railroad subsidies, with heavy political collusion.

After you're done with that book, I suggest you read Gabriel Kolko's Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916 to get a fuller picture. Ironically, the author was a member of the New Left.
Or, you can just go directly to the article without the reference trolling:

https://www.theinformation.com/what-happened-at-github
I have nothing to do with influx and I probably won't in the future.

There are way too many haters in HN. You venomous minority who shit on every bit of good news that isn't yours -- keep your negativity to yourself.

You fucking monkeys infected with rage.
what confused me was how they say they are not a sync service. I am still confused.
I did a quick google and it appears so. :/
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Up-vote--I'm reminded of a line from Pear Buck's The Good Earth...

>"The common people had to move, then, and they moved complaining and cursing because a rich man could do as he would and they packed their tattered possessions and went away swelling with anger and muttering that one day they would come back even as the poor do come back when the rich are too rich."<

In 1911 the Xinhai Revolution in China, which the quote alludes to, demonstrates what is possible when income disparities reach a tipping point...

Leaves me wondering what's truly possible if the "global economy" ever truly begins a move in the direction of a global stasis...
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56b3948f2e526558008...
> The app store(s) are a choice.

In that case, allow me to summarize some of the choices that went into building the Mac App Store.

- It's a web view. No local caching of layout or anything. If your network connection hiccups, instead of a reasonably rendered error message, you get this: http://i.imgur.com/5xNgwMH.png

- Text in the search box is blurry. I'm not 100% sure why, but I think someone made a choice to render it with its y-position at a half pixel increment. And then nudge it down so it comes into focus when you click on it. Because really, what sort of asshole would still be using a low DPI screen? http://i.imgur.com/gj3mqrz.png

- How many Install buttons does an update need? Eh, let's choose two. Two's a nice number. And have that "Update All" button stick around even though all updates were already installed. https://i.imgur.com/p9QoCqZ.png

- Earlier today, though it didn't lend itself to screenshots, my Xcode "Install" vs "Installing" button that couldn't decide what mode it wanted to be in and just bounced back and forth instead. Why choose one when you can be both!

- The "Check for Unfinished Downloads" menu. Do you know what happens when a download doesn't finish? Or why it's not presented in a sane way in the normal UI? Me neither. Instead of gracefully handling errors, let's choose to bury them in a secret menu that people will happen upon via StackOverflow searches when their installation keeps failing with no indication of why. https://i.imgur.com/xkgP0lc.png

A+ design work right there. Excellent choices.
Agreed. There seems to be a lot of low-hanging fruit just... hanging there still waiting.

That seems to be a common theme when startups try to grow.
To clarify, I wasn't being all "get off my lawn". The computers at my high school ran Windows 2000.
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"These 136 companies are on the verge of becoming successul (sic)"

Not a single one of them is "successul" now?
The tagline on the following page, "dimensionalize exponentially" is just about my favorite phrase of all time.
> 0.02% or whatever of PC users who are dedicated to using Linux as their desktop OS

Wikipedia: 1.5% [1]
NetMarketShare: 1.71% [2]
W3Schools: 5.6% [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
[2] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
[3] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
A hundred times yes!!!

The main value that uber drivers bring to the table is not the brain that connects the engine to the driving wheel, it is that they use (and maintain) their own damned cars to do this lame pretense of a part time gig.

For this reason alone, and regardless of the technical feasibility, there will never be an Uber fleet of self driving cars. It's like saying a multilevel marketing company is going to start selling real products and will no longer rely on "get rich quick" schemes to reach out to customers. Even if they tried, the whole pyramid would implode under their feet faster than what any corporation could possible implement the change.
Sales are indeed evil. Or at least callous and ignorant. Which looks very similar from the position of a coder.
Did the update happen? The footer on the main page still says that it was created with Sphinx.
My sentiments exactly. If they lost their db replica that would get the blood pumping but the customers would never see an actual outage.
Somewhat off-topic but entertaining questions on Rain answered by Randall Monroe:

- "What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?" [1]

- "At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield?" [2]

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/

[2] https://what-if.xkcd.com/93/
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Large organizations do it for different reasons. To use their own directory service (LDAP/AD), to more easily integrate it with their other tooling, to be in control of where their data is, to have more control over availability, to be able to add layers of security (VPN, etc.).
I use git on Windows every day and don't have any problem. I mostly use command line (the vim shell works just fine for entering commit messages), and TortoiseGit for when I want to look at history. For a difftool, I use BeyondCompare (company already had a license), which is really good.
If you have a job and the company has agreed to pay you, why don't you work for free?
People have earned a lot of money by nitpicking laws.
> If you are into statistics, and want to provide a similar example with sample size n=320 million(approximately), I'd be interested in taking a look at it...

1 to 319,000,000 and 1 googol...

But actually, you could make the argument that intelligence is likely normally distributed, so the median and the mean should be close enough to make your statement accurate.
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I like this better because on dribbble, all thumbnails and screenshots are so curated, polished, or shot in that same tilted 3d with shallow depth of field... that everything looks good.

Thumbnails here look more real.