skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Say goodbye to the command line" - urgh! Should command line users stay away from this app?
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Request for Experiments: Zika Virus
Because they can't. A court order can't let them fly. Nor can it compel you to build them wings. (Though you may have to buy them a can of Red Bull.)

The police were already searching you and your house so we enacted rules to try to control that. Those rules didn't enable the searching - they placed restrictions on the applicability of evidence to reduce the desire to search improperly.
First 3 lines of Twenty Sixteen are:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>

I checked back to Twenty Fourteen and didn't see the lines you referenced. Regardless, it's a silly argument, the default themes are "reference" themes, meant to show off all the features WordPress offers and of course don't represent all WP themes.
Hopefully MS keeps expanding the Xamarin platform instead of mothballing it.
Underage Hacker Is Behind Attacks Against US Government
> I like the audio feature here by the way, I can listen while working, pretty awesome.

Yeah, great idea! I might start doing this myself for my own blog.
Regarding audio, I agree and think this is an awesome way to make content more accessible/ARIA-friendly. You can't reasonably expect every page on the web to have a spoken version, but if I maintained a blog I'd be willing to narrate my posts. Screen readers can fill in the gaps elsewhere.
There just isn't a market for mediocre websites as a craft anymore - clients need social media profiles plus a squarespace, and then they're done.
That's only for award miles, but not for status-qualifying miles, at least on United (and I think also Delta). And like the original article says, people trying for status pretty much never use award miles because you don't earn status miles for those flights, so they don't really care.
A Xamarin and Microsoft Future
For displaying the results/reports generated by Beancount [1] I created fava [2], a web-based interface with charts, tree-tables and tree-maps, including reports like Balance Sheet and Income/Expenses.

It supports filters (time, tags, account and payee) and you can find a demo here: http://fava.pythonanywhere.com

[1] http://furius.ca/beancount/
[2] https://github.com/aumayr/fava
Introducing Chrome Debugging for VS Code
The scams were hardcore; yes; and no. No fake social interactions, it was actually just scammers trying to get people to order goods on the pretense they would then ship them to Buenos Aires, for example. That example, oh man, I couldn't believe how sketchy, how beyond sketchy, that website was. Or is.
This is awesome. I've experienced first hand the hassle of setting up a 401k for employees (and now appreciate why so many companies don't offer it until they're bigger). In my mind, it would be a strictly better world where all companies could offer this benefit.
Only on the Kindle With Special Offers which is priced lower than the standard Kindle. A way more upfront approach. It's literally in the title of the product that you are purchasing something with advertising on the lock screen.
Congrats Miguel, you have done a fantastic job since 2003 for alt.net world. I hope bigger things are on your plate now at MSFT.
As one does, history being written by the victors and such.
You're right, I'm still not used to Windows running on so many tablets. Also, tablet sales were also down last year so I didn't expect it to help. http://www.businessinsider.com/tablet-sales-down-in-addition...
I wonder why the FBI came out public with this request when the government does even worst secretly?
Good point. GNU tar requires using the correct option, -J, when extracting an xz-compressed tarball.

But OS X tar is bsdtar, which ignores -z and -J when extracting because it automatically recognizes compression and does the right thing. So it turns out both our suggestions happen to work on OS X.
I'm shocked that they have waited this long. They really seemed to ramp up support for Xamarin. Seemed like this was a no brainer.
I think there's a fundamental shift in the type of web-skills which are now in demand, due to a number of factors. Here's some things which come to mind:

- A "web designer" or "web developer" used to be a generalist who wrote HTML, CSS, and some jQuery. Now there's a demand for specialization: a UI/UX designer who can prototype, iterate quickly, and use real data if possible, and a UI/UX engineer who can develop large-scale apps with an eye towards security, performance, reusability, and maintainability.

- The need for the generalist web designer/developer seems supplanted by tools like Squarespace and Bootstrap, which make it easy to get acceptable results with fewer skills. It's the "commoditization of design".

- The need for specialized designers/engineers is spurred by a realization that good design can command a premium/competitive advantage (and that good design means iterating quickly and having a deep understanding of what makes fundamentally good UI and UX), and that the front-end benefits from sound engineering practices as much as the back-end, especially if you're building SPAs or large-scale apps with complex UXes.

- A lot of the design problems have been solved already. Questions such as when modals are appropriate, how to design forms effectively, what makes a good call-to-action, and how to structure IA effectively have been answered. Companies no longer need teams of people to work out answers to these questions, just one or two good leaders to evangelize the answers that are already established, and a team of UI engineers that can execute them well.
3 years ago this would be a sad news for Xamarin, today with the new Microsoft I'm glad to see this. Microsoft will not destroy Xamarin (I hope)
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And you think a 'sad face' will do the trick do you?

The only appropriate response to such a post - which by the way is questionable to write in the first place - is to reply with actual words in a private context.

If people are posting their cancer news on Facebook, followed by reaction icons, shares, likes and notifications... I'm glad I'm not on Facebook.
Does "getting the GPU to work" mean you can give your Windows VM exclusive rights to the ports on the back of that graphics card as well? That would be amazing.

I'd love to, say, run a Hackintosh setup with Windows 10 in a VM that could fully utilize it's own GPU + external ports -- this way I could use a modern VR setup (Oculus or Vive) without having to use Windows full time!
I did what they do on my own and i am from Europe.

1. Find delaware agent, https://corp.delaware.gov/agents/agts.shtml

2. Get your agent for 50$ a year instead of 150$ that Stripe will give you.

3. Get bank account in reputable big bank instead of what Stripe propose.

4. Profit.
Yeah but you get the benefit of paying a discounted price for a Kindle with "special offers"
Congrats to Nat and Miguel! This seems to make a ton of sense, and unlike other acquisitions by big corps this seems like a great move for both Xamarin and their customers.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11161782
Dunno why people are surprised that (straight) women are interested in boyfriends as well. Plus or minus a percentage or two, there are as many single women as single men, and they face many similar family/societal pressures to be involved with someone (if not more due to the eventual biological timebomb). Partners are not commodities, and it's way better for women to be single than to have the wrong partner.
I thought they would have done this 2 years ago. It seems that every Build, Xamarin was there in a big, big way.
Going to the source suggests it's the estimated cost of the entire rollout from 2010-2021

That's an entire rollout which entails designing, building and operating a payments system in parallel with several different existing systems it replaces, all the extra non-dev staff needed to keep things running and identify who gets which payment entitlements when, and all the additional administrative costs, which presumably involves an awful lot of explaining to the public how their benefit entitlements have changed. Actual software development probably accounts for a relatively small proportion of that. The status quo admin costs £3.5bn per annum, so an extra billion a year actually isn't as big a deal as it sounds.

If we can simplify all that down to a "bloated Java app" then we can certainly dismiss Facebook as a PHP web forum and suggest that its running costs don't compare particularly favourably, even if it does serve an awful lot of ads.

Judging by the reports of delays and admin cockups, if anything the UK government has probably underspent.
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There are two articles about AMP on the front page right now, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167428. Which is better?
LinkedIn has been focusing on too many far-flung 'features' without a plan for tying them together into a seamless experience. The current cluttered site is the outcome of such disjointed thinking. They want people to come to the site and 'engage,' but then they also encourage alot of low-quality content on the site, along with sprinkles of irrelevant ads on top.

At the end of the day, the CEO is responsible for this mess. He's never at a loss for encouraging buzzwords, but maybe it's time for a change and someone with new vision.
Hence why I followed up with:

"what about writing some machine-learning software that detects vulnerabilities as part of the build/release cycle"
There's a problem with this, however: we live in mostly democratic societies (and the non-democratic societies like China are even more carbon-polluting). So you can't just ignore the idiots and still fix the problem; you have to get them to agree there's a problem so they'll vote in people who will do something about it.

And, as you point out, these people can't be convinced with facts.

So, the real solution is to just ignore the idiots and start preparing for a future that resembles Mad Max. Or be like Musk and work really hard on establishing a colony on Mars before you're too old to make the journey there.
Wow! Congratulations Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza (of Ximian fame). I remember reading this blogpost like it was yesterday: http://nat.org/blog/2011/05/xamarin/
"but writing safe, reliable C borders on the impossible"
I wouldn't go that far.. Just get a set of best practices and follow them. Write unit tests for every function. One of the best things about C is its extremely unit-testable.

I followed up with the vulnerability-detection software to address any difficulties in security bugs. That would provide the benefits of C with a line of defense to correct vulnerabilities.

"what about writing some machine-learning software that detects vulnerabilities as part of the build/release cycle"
I'm not familiar with the names of the particular CS journals as that's not my research area, but it's relatively easy to find the type of journals you're looking for. Just search for "open access computer science" and you'll find plenty of journals with free access to articles.
There are two articles about AMP on the front page right now, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167478. Which is better?
I now have a tad bit more confidence in the app.
Most just require that you convert from LLC to C-Corp, which isn't impossible.
The making of America's cyberweapons
this is basically the common sense for any one with some proper medical training. and it's why many clinical scientists and medical practitioners (read: peers) keep questioning about Theranos from the beginning.
Unfortunately, with the case for perfectly effective altruism, the ambiguity of these type of arguments of where the "best" impact can be made usually fold back into the the idea that the donation is seeking not just advancement in the world (though this is clearly and hopefully part of it), but also to build a personal legacy and connection to things that the donor cares about - in this Stanford. We like to reinforce things we can see and things we care about. Empathy and investment exist in much narrower scopes that we would like to think. I agree with you that the $$ could be allocated perhaps more efficiently, but hey - at least he is putting it to something positive. If more and more billionares take a note out of Phil Knight's book (referring just to the donation) we will slowly make good (perhaps not ideal) progress.
The State St. is no longer valid precedent. SCOTUS went well out of its way to emphasize that the State St. decision was completely insane and wrong in Bilski v Kappos even as it struggled to come to grips with a coherent definition. Nevertheless, it's been pretty clear that SCOTUS would rule just about any software patent invalid.
> I'll assume from the downvotes that some people want to pretend that pattern-of-life data isn't valuable

I'm pretty sure it's from people who either payed for Windows and just got a free upgrade, or who directly bought Windows 10. Computers with "free" Windows obviously also have the price of Windows factored in. The closest you get to free Windows is with Dreamspark (their MINT student program), and even that costs money for the university.
As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE.

I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin's team with language/compiler design/visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop/web/mobile in the enterprise space with this acquisition.

[1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.
It's your choice to add 100 random recruiters to your network. But then, don't complain that you are being spammed by recruiters.
Good. PHP developers are being forced to meet a minimum standard of competence that the rest of the programming world met years ago. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

And I say that as a PHP developer who spent the majority of his time working through FTP and a text editor, manually dealing with dependencies, installing from ZIP files, dealing with the peculiarities of hand-rolled autoloaders and module systems. Drag them all into the harsh light of modernity.

And by "modernity" I mean "the modernity of thirty years ago," but nevertheless. Given the choice between sane dependency management in PHP and not learning the command line learn the command line.
There's a big difference between long-tail super-specific terms (that Google has increasingly been blocking due to "low search volume") and top-of-funnel generic queries, which for most are fairly low-quality comparatively.
As a still-music-hoarder, I tried Spotify Premium for a while, but decided I didn't want to pay for it - I spent about the same cost monthly in new music, but if I stopped paying, I'd still have free access to all that music with no ads, and be able to play it all on any device with or without an internet connection (e.g. the old iPod connected to my car stereo). Streaming is certainly convenient, but they make it very difficult to walk away once you commit.
What is a robot?
what does this mean for monodevelop .. i hope they maintain the linux version
A related question is: does it make sense to use this on OS X? lldb is certainly better integrated with the system, does gdb really have benefits that make up for that?
Hopefully they will make it available through dreamspark and bizspark
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167581 and marked it off-topic.
This is definitely a factor. Its never been easier to do web design with many excellent tools. Similar thing has happened in game development (i.e. unity, et.al) - technology is bringing the expertise required lower.
My build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JVsKYJ

I splurged on an M.2 PCI-E drive. 2 GB/s read!? How could I turn that down? No way I'll ever use that drive to its full potential, but I love the M.2 form factor.

Only thing I'd change is using AIO cooling for the CPU and the S340 instead of the H440 case. I had to use the H440 for the air cooler, and that was not an aesthetically pleasing choice. The H440 also has a number of obnoxious problems.
I thought this was a forgone conclusion but I guess it never actually happened yet. Congrats to the team!

Wouldn't it be cool if they gave this same treatment to ReactOS down the road? I think Microsoft has woken up to the power of open source technologies.
Except music went DRM-free by 2009. Spotify didn't launch in the US until 2011.
Ugh, that sounds absolutely horrible. I'd rather take a venous draw.
There's a lot more competition externally too, which doesn't help any. Everyone with a computer and "an eye for it" has entered the market and underbids the experienced players. Similar things are happening in Photography where everyone buys a nice DSLR and then thinks they can do weddings.

When the new freelancers realize they aren't cut out for it, they just take a job at a bigco again (filling the same role of course), and new inexperienced freelancers come up the ranks to replace them.

This seems to be the new world we live in - the "gig economy" means there are a lot of gigs but a lot more competition from less-experienced players.
Influencers: Apple should not help FBI crack San Bernardino iPhone
Several trouble ticket systems support email. That is, when a message is received to an email address, it is imported into the ticketing system. From there, multiple people could handle/claim/escalate/etc the message.

It may not be ideal (and probably not free), but it is the best option that I can think of at the moment that fits your described need.
There is a lot of work. You are just looking for the wrong type.
Right.

I don't work for that one. It wasn't a tech company, it was an ISP.

I also did not get fired.
Funny :)
> On the stage, a very adept and confident speaker jokingly mentioned a web-related joke that feels decades old (which she was sarcastically referring to as being decades old) and the whole room fell about laughing; it was the first time they had heard this reference.

It's really killing me to not know what the joke being referenced is. Never before have I so desperately wanted an author to "Show, don't tell."

> We used to have to sell the benefits of being online to our clients.

I remember when it was like this. In 1999 I was trying to drum up business for a web-development startup, going business-to-business offering cheap packages to get online. I got laughed out of a lot of shops and offices before I finally couldn't take the rejection anymore.

> It didn’t seem to matter who I spoke to last year, similar stories of hiring internally rather than using external agencies/freelancers, cropped up – and thus, a significant new breed of web designer was born. Companies who would have once used small studios or freelancers to complete their projects, no longer had a need to use them and work started to dry up for people who had relied on the abundant freelance lifestyle that was once afforded to them.

I think the author is making a mistake in focusing on this one reason for freelance web development work drying up. Large companies who need dedicated constantly-updated websites moved in-house, but the reality is that it doesn't take as much skill to setup a robust website anymore. My sister is a graphics designer with zero technical skills, she makes her freelance money with one-click wordpress installs and lets the customers manage their own sites.

Then there's the next generation of kids who are simply naturals at this stuff. They don't know how to code, but there are so many WYSIWYG applications out there to build what they want, they don't need to do any coding. Even my 75-year-old mother setup and administers a wordpress blog for her students.

Our skills made us special as innovators 10-20 years ago, but many of us are no longer cutting edge. Maybe some of these freelancers should look at becoming the in-house code-monkey for one of these larger companies if they are really hard-up for work.
torvalds/linux

is utter chaos, brings chrome to a crawl :P
This is awesome, fantastic news. Congrats to the Xamarin team, they are awesome people.
I heard a piece on NPR last night about robots in hospitals that perform a similar function. Certainly along the lines of some things I have been thinking about.
This is giant news for the .NET ecosystem. It means that MS is serious about their push into Mobile and Linux, and that .NET developers aren't going to have to work with Xamarin's ever-so-slightly-behind libraries anymore. It also means that MS now produces an IDE on Linux, which is a crazy change from 10 years ago.
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It would seem that way, but high profile (or high ego) designers look down on working "in-house," as maintaining a single brand image over the course of years becomes incredibly tedious after even just a few months.

Creatives thrive on variety; imagine if you had to implement a JSON parser everyday and weren't allowed to fundamentally change your approach after the very first one you make.
One of the problems here is that the author is using his/her experience at "conferences" and stories from former "big business" employees to judge the volume of available work.

Not only is that evidence anecdotal, but also comes from a very specific/narrow audience. I'm not going to say "conference goers" are inferior or bad at their jobs, just that there's a whole lot of web designers and developers who never attend conferences and therefore aren't included in his polling. There's also a lot of us (myself included) doing a lot of web design work for small businesses too small to hire in house. Even when our clients hire someone in-house to handle the web, it results in more work for us.
Interesting that this is such a controversial comment, judging by the rapid fluctuation of the votes.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11169215
thx for your response. But tickets are just one item. What about general emails ? What about presales questions ? What about existing clients asking some question which may not be a support issue ?
I wonder if it means a transition to Visual Studio Code at some point. I doubt it would happen soon, but I feel like there's a lot more support behind that IDE than MonoDevelop.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166852.
I suspect the "this is not legal advice" disclaimer has more to do with the unauthorized practice of law. Depending on the state, it may be a crime, although I don't know that I've ever heard of anybody being convicted of it.
I like it but do you show past events? Sometimes I pass by a venue with a long lineup and I wonder who was playing there.
With this, I am hoping MS will put a lot more of effort into NativeScript.
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They both cover different aspects of AMP and there doesn't seem to be much overlap so I think both are ok.
The company I work for has been running BeeGFS for 6 years with no issues. Write and read speeds on Dell storage hardware match or exceed the NetApp appliances we use.

We do occasionally have issues where ALL storage nodes must be rebooted but other than it works great.