skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger. If you can, I'd appreciate your shooting an email with a screenshot to woody@askwoody.com."
Not my project, but it works. No idea if source is available.
You'd be surprised. I work for a company that manages the technical side of a famiky of brace systems (one of which is a direct competitor to Invision). A lot of activity happening in places I'd least expect.
>Get Work Done Syndrome is truely a modern notion entirely absent from the laissez faire peasant farmers of yonderyear who tilled soil in return for a long glass of summer wine at the end and maybe a 20 minute long smoke of fine tobacco.

You mean, tilled soil for endless hours in the spring, fall, and parts of summer, in return for a glass of summer wine at the end, a 20 minute smoke of tobacco (shorter than a lunch break), a broken back, regular starvation, and infant mortality?
That was my schedule the past 8 or 9 years (actually it was closer to working 4 months and taking 8 months off because I'm not that high value). The problem is that I like what I do but the months I was working I enjoyed it less and the months I was off I missed working. Also it's killing for your social life when you're working nonstop. Another problem is you'll lose clients if you're not available for months at a time. My new schedule is closer to what the post describes and it works much better for me personally.
While a bit banal in this regard, it bring to mind the notion i have had that copyright was not strongly enforced previously in part because it would necessitate a cop in every home.

Now however there is at least one cop in every home, or at the very least a snitch. This thanks to internet connected computing devices.
There's no need to install any 3rd party software. Microsoft themselves provide the switch to disable upgrades to Windows 10:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351

(and you can also simply not install/uninstall KB3035583 aka GWX)
Nice, but they are solving a problem that is not all that hard. For example, I'd rather see a beautiful implementation of a concurrent garbage collector (which probably doesn't exist because it is almost impossible to achieve; a purely functional programming approach doesn't even apply here). Or how about a beautiful implementation of a web browser?
The point is that they're definition of "doing better" isn't necessarily the same as yours. Maybe their idea of a good job isn't one that pays well and allows a flexible schedule, it's one that's low stress: they show up, go through the straightforward motions that they do every day, and go home. If they're interested in something intellectually stimulating, they prefer to do it on their own time, without the risk of your entire income relying on it. That's just one example.

It's natural to want your loved ones to be successful, and it's human to assume that your notion of success is universal, but it's wise to realize that it's not.

That said, it wouldn't be at all surprising if your friends would be better off if they got a job more like yours. The goals of high income and flexible schedule are quite popular.
History of Japan (9 minutes)
I have a passing knowledge of Julia (I've written a simple Lorentz Force[0] stepper in it) is there a way to avoid GC in the middle of the calculation, ie., a performance critical loop or other?

[0] https://github.com/noobermin/jelo
This was written by Jeph Jacques, author of the webcomic Questionable Content. He did it as a favor for XKCD. I'm surprised he doesn't get credit.
Same. I recently played Zelda: A Link To the Past (on my iPhone, nonetheless, which is cool to a non-tech inclined person!), and I felt like I was a kid again. All the same emotions flooded back, just from listening to that unforgettable music and wandering through Hyrule. Re-playing that game was some of the best therapy ever. I would start the game on the bus, or at lunch, or play for a few minutes before dinner, and all worry would melt away.
Apache announces Flink v1.0
Maybe they're extrapolating from relaxed instances that they've solved? If you know that humans can play pretty much optimally on, say, 11x11, and you know how much performance drops off with each expansion of the board?
This one shows an ad in IE.
Hm, I wouldn't see the Raspberry Pi 3 as the "culmination of all their work", but as a tiny part of it. The specific hardware IMHO is the most boring part of what they do. There are tons of cheap-ish ARM dev boards now, there always were in many ways "technically" better boards, for most purposes it doesn't matter that much what the specific Raspberry Pi X looks like (I was really surprised they came out with the 3 so fast, it didn't seem necessary to me). What's interesting in my eyes is the publicity, community, and ecosystem they've managed to attract.
File details and owners with gitnoc and git-pandas
We're currently discussing Synchronization in our Operating Systems class and it just feels inadequate. This looks like a solid material to dive deeper into the topic :)
Renewable energy markets are making amazing progress, but not quickly enough
Say what you like about Rails (or Ruby for that matter), but go and look at its source. It is well laid out, the commenting is extensive and descriptive, and it follows a natural flow.

The same can be said of the PostgreSQL source.
weird, I just opened IE up and got it immediately:

https://imgur.com/o69rzTG
If you mean applications, Adobe Illustrator

If you mean code, Smalltalk or LISP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252523
The flocking to Silicon Valley for the dream of success reminds me of the flocking to Hollywood that has gone on for 100 years. They are similar in that the odds of success are tiny but the rewards are great.
Video: The Chrysler Forward Look for 1959
DevOps: What, Why, and How – A Free Online Course
I don't think there's usually a plan to "retrogress" on product quality, though. It just sort of works out that way.
Arthur Whitney's one-page interpreter: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
Why would you say that I'm stating productivity is "infinitely" scalable? Is a billion "infinitely" more than a million?

I'm saying if you want to accomplish something great and groundbreaking, it's better to work 24 hours a day at it than three hours a day, and, yes, you can stop after a year or two. You literally have as much life left, but you can accomplish a huge amount more, by concentrating the work rather than spreading it out. I don't know why this is, it just is.

But you know what's even easier than working three hours a day? Working zero hours and signing up for unemployment benefits. You certainly won't suffer from exhaustion or burnout.

You can choose smallness, but just be aware that you are doing so. That's what choosing to work three hours a day means. I don't think I'm saying something even a tiny bit controversial and I am utterly perplexed at the votes I received on it.

If you want to do something big, then concentrate your work on it, don't spread it out over a longer time period. You literally are not able to achieve as much in the exact same number of hours, if the hours are spread out over a longer time period.

I can't believe anyone finds this even the slightest bit controversial or finds any objection to what I've written.
First entirely automated food store launches in Sweden
...an exponentially growing population.

Which population is that? Certainly not humans.
Nice, but you forgot the standard "We take XXXX very seriously" Mad-Lib PR statement. Where, in this case, XXXX is "the rights of the homeless".
It sounds nice in theory but ABP charges an outrageous 30% and allows anyone who pays, regardless of the quality or performance of their ads.

You can look at their whitelist and find all sorts of intrusive and shady ad networks in there. This kind of funding model is bound to incentivize ABP into taking the wrong actions and working with bad actors.
I just run ServerBear tests and results for the VPS (VC1) are here. http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/03/13/sd7vRARnHCYhDa5S
Wow, I could not agree more.

One more-recent case that really stands out is Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2. This game had much simpler graphics than later RTS games, so the focus was mostly on gameplay. IMHO, this was the best RTS ever created[1], and the reason for this was that it was sort of at the peak of perfection for its level of graphical and spatial limitations.

1. I know Star Craft was epic as well, and Generals from the remaining remnants of Westwood combined with EA was great also. And... Dune. Red Alert, for me, was the sort of Vivaldi[1.1] culmination that built on all these past successes, just before the age of "Moar Triangles!" reached RTS.

1.1 (I heard you liked footnotes) Vivaldi, the Baroque composer, built upon the style of Corelli and others before him, even copied some aspects of their musical styles, but this is what made his music so great.
You remind me of my 10th grade English teacher :)
I spent about 3 hours this week doing tech support for my mom over the phone because of Windows 10's aggressive upgrading behaviour.

I told her to keep her the best way to keep safe security wise is to make sure the os/browser is up to date, and because Windows 10 keeps asking to upgrade, she went ahead and did so. After upgrading to Windows 10, all network access (wired and wifi) stopped working completely. The worst part of this is that if you can't get internet, you can't even download new drivers to try and debug the problem. We tried a few things, and eventually just did a system restore back to Windows 8, but unfortunately, the system restore didn't work completely and there was more mucking around to try and get the computer into a bootable state. Then, last night, she said the heard the fan making a lot of noise, and looked down to see that Windows had gone ahead and started installing Windows 10 again. Fortunately, wired network access works now, but wifi is still broken. Hopefully Windows will push an update that fixes the wifi access.
Artistry and engineering. It always fun to read how people managed to use every corner of these chips.

Also, limitations means the spirit of the game emerges stronger.
I don't really get the article's point on bitcoin and AML/CTF. The legislation works by requiring financial institutions to bind real-world identities to accounts, at the point of registration. Many bitcoin exchanges comply with this in the same way banks do: they do the required ID check if you want to set up an account (or when you want to transact in non-trivial volumes).

Most of the reporting under AML/CTF laws is automated, as there are a bunch of 'automatically report' rules like:

- Any transaction over $10,000

- Any transfer involving a foreign bank account, regardless of the amount

The manual reports are much rarer, and rely more on things like bank teller judgment. Essentially they'll report 'structured' transactions that seem designed to avoid triggering the 'automatic reporting' rules (e.g. someone depositing $9,999 5 days in a row).

Of course there are tonnes of holes in AML/CTF, even for conventional financial systems. For instance, if you want to transfer your money to a tax haven, you first route the money through some non-suspicious country. Even if that country has a data sharing agreement with the US, it's much harder for investigators to follow the trail. It's hard enough to get two bureaucrats from different departments to co-operate/co-ordinate. It's orders of magnitude harder to achieve this across borders.

My point is this: yes bitcoin allows you to use a tumbling service, or coin join, or whatever to sever the link between your transactions and your identity. But this is also easy enough to do with conventional financial systems. I don't think bitcoin has some special property here that presents any kind of new problem for AML/CTF.

Perhaps the more relevant issue, which has nothing to do with bitcoin, is that there are fairly trivial ways to avoid detection via AML/CTF laws, regardless of your chosen medium of exchange. So the laws tend only to catch the less sophisticated money launders/tax cheats.

Bitcoin doesn't pose any new questions, but the existing ones are still worth answering: is the additional regulatory impost on financial institutions worth the compliance gains from AML/CTF reporting? If the answer is 'no', then perhaps we should just do away with them entirely.
nice.
I actually built something very similar a while ago. although I only supported lists, queue and stacks...
https://github.com/mellowcandle/liblist
"Nice, but they are solving a problem that is not all that hard."

Apparently it was hard if it took that long to get a great, clean, FOSS solution to the problem.
> Making money on the App Store is really tough, and people don’t care how many hours I spend on my apps. They only care if it is useful or not. This is a completely result oriented world, but personally, I like it.

I would guess that, if the OP had a competitor, then the OP would be easily forced out of the market if that competitor worked 4 hours a day :)
uBlock Origin blocks nothing but what YOU tell it to. The problem isn't uBlock.
Many of the issues you mention are solved by carefully defining the scope and what is included for the price. You typically don't productize a service until you have done a number of similar projects on a hourly basis and truly understand what the "typical" customer needs and what it takes for you to deliver it.

You can also win more work because some clients aren't comfortable with the undefined nature of hourly work, and prefer to pay a fixed price for a service so they can budget accordingly and not get any surprises at the end of the month...
I've found an agreeable middle ground, which is to keep syntax highlighting on but to use a monochrome theme, where different types of tokens (like you mention) are distinguished by contrast instead of color. However, I don't personally favor pure blacks or whites (just ask any master printer).

I do make exceptions. For example, I color my cursor, as well as highlight matching parens if the cursor is on one of the pair (changing just the foreground color of the paren, not inverting it). The only color I use is red.

I don't make any objective claims that this is better, my aim is to make something "done well and tasteful", as you say.
Reyk Floeter's paper explains more about the implementation of the userland side, vmd(8), including its privsep design and the use of pledge(2):

http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Reyk.pdf

OpenBSD's vmm(4) isn't related to FreeBSD bhyve, but Mike and Reyk were invited to talk about it in Tokyo. :-)
The Escape Velocity of Thought
This app is crazy! Never seen anything like it before. 360s videos on your phone with no camera? Boooonkers
On the artistry side there is more : 20 years ago (ouch) you still had mainstream games that were built without too much of marketing pressure. I remember an interview of a Warcraft 2 team member who was saying that they were simply trying to make the best game for themselves. So sure there is nostalgia, but when comparing mainstream the difference is not just technical. Same as in music, the (edit: artistic) quality is now in the indie, and thanks to great tools it's a better time than ever for creativity, at the expense that it's harder to live from it.
Discord isn't encrypted (Only client-to-server) and it's not open source at all.

It's too bad though - as you say - it is very nice for collaboration and teams (It's geared exclusively towards gamers).
Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers (NYC)
I should add: Bonus points for making your passphrase "On advice of counsel, I respectfully assert my fifth amendment right to remain silent and decline to answer." And that "dot" on the end is important :-)

Also, trap biometrics: Use a fingerprint or two as a duress code. Have an retina scanner, but only some of the participants should use it. Use that sensor for some folks, another one for others. "Sure, you can have my fingerprints! Hmmm... it was working last week, why does it say '30 day lockout' now?"
Not all games from the past hold up today, there was a lot of poor gameplay and unoriginal games from back in the day too. For example, the 80s had tons of shoot-em-ups, the early 90s had a deluge of 2D platformers, etc...

What was different back then was the costs involved in developing a commercial game. As the appetite for high-end graphics has increased, so too has the cost of producing games, which has led to fewer risks being taken by big game publishers. Thankfully the indie game scene is stronger than ever, and has proven to be a good outlet for game developers when experimenting with new ideas.
Maybe we'll end up with a standard certification equivalent to UL or the green padlock next to the URL. Probably about 5 years in the future.
The figures quoted for the cluster are about 25 times higher than those quoted for a single machine, so I would guess the cluster consists of 25 machines. 20 kW, or 166 amperes at 120 volts, per machine seems a bit high to me.
So...it will eventually be usable. Great, let me know when.
I know that post - that's why I wrote by WhatsApp.
I think you have an interesting argument here but I would like to raise some points as counter-arguments:

1. Your argument is premised on the fact that since you personally have been offered a credit card, and you personally have almost no credit history, that therefore credit card companies don't make money from charging interest on late-payments. That's an absurd premise.

2. I believe, based only on my subjective observations, that you are the exception in your use of credit. Many people are irresponsible in how they use credit cards and end up paying exorbitant interest to credit card companies. Mostly lower-middle class individuals who are trying to live beyond their means. In Canada the average citizen carries ~20 000$ of personal debt (excluding mortgages) and the majority of that is credit card debt.

3. I think you're ignoring the "brand" value of having market saturation for your product. For example, Coke vs Pepsi. Yes they are not exactly the same product but they're very similar and there's no doubt that Coke has reaped a huge benefit from having dominant market share. When you go to a diner and order a burger, and they ask you what you want to drink, if you want a cola you say "I'll have a Coke please". Its understood by that request that you want a cola, and would likely be okay with either a Coke or a Pepsi, but regardless you said Coke, and there's the value of market saturation. So yes the credit card companies want to get as many customers as possible to use their product in an attempt to saturate the market.

4. Credit card companies also charge merchants for using credit cards so even if the customers paid all their bills on time the credit card companies would still be making money. I don't imagine they make the majority of their money from charging merchants but it is still revenue they want in their coffers.

5. Your final point borders on a conspiracy theory.
The Go standard library. At least two things coming together: A stripped down language, that explicitly aims to be readable and experienced programmers / authors.
Feedback on the Jospehus problem
So if a journalist (together with a filmmaker and filmcrew) points a camera at you without your permission, it's 'freedom of the press', but if you point a camera at a journalist, it's classed as "aggressive", "creepy" and "disturbing":

[the guard] "then got even more aggressive. He called us “paparazzi types” and followed us around, repeatedly jamming his Android phone into our faces and recording us in order to document our identities. It was creepy and disturbing — especially because this all happened on public property."
The rationale for booting in 32bit mode is among other things that ram is fixed and small, so you don't need that extra address space anyway.
IMO it's not a big surprise that the RPi isn't great for "professional" product use. It's aimed squarely at tinkerers and beginners, and those people will have very different requirements than a professional.

I guess the RPi foundation has pushed for it to be used more professionally, but for power users who already know what they're doing or have specific product requirements, there have always been better devices out there.
Video calls are only 1:1
This HN thread is hitting on so many notes (pun intended). I have every one of Koji Kondo's songs, and Ocarina of Time was it for me also. I would listen to Koji's cello-dominated Gerudo Valley theme so many times...
With all due respect to this official microsoft solution, it's a huge pain in the complicated ass for casual users to follow. GWX Control panel is just click, click, done - something you can tell your grandma to do.
And after those four decades, I still can't figure out how to get my figures to appear where I want them.
Is there any evidence that the pepper spraying event even happened, let alone happened how that one person said it did?
Kazlib: since 1996.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/kazlib.git/tree/

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/kazlib.html

Used in e2fsck since 2002: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/e2fs...
Your Hybrid App Is Going to Kill You
And again, 90% about the parsing, and a couple of words about "code optimisation". That pitiful so called "Dragon Book" really keeps taking its toll of souls.

I'm terribly sorry to break the news for you, but no, compilers are not about parsing. Nowhere near that.
More people that don't understand that the music industry business model has changed. Not only this but the competitive environment in which the industry operates has also changed (ie music is not as valuable in the eyes of the average listener due to things like video games taking that attention space).

Plenty of great music is coming out at the moment, from exactly the type of indie labels they lament not existing anymore. It's just the successful contemporary indie labels have appropriate business models to deal with the current environment. The days of making millions selling plastic boxes are over. Time to move on.
The title is obviously also also a joke so you are probably right.