skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first version of my vision for trying to build a better platform for buying and selling between strangers. It would be great to get feedback on whether or not you would use the product in it's current form. And if you would, what other features would you want? I am eventually trying to replace Craigslist outright but for now want to try and piggyback off of it to get initial users. Thanks for any feedback.
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UnnyWorld – A mobile League Of Legends clone:
[...]
While cloning popular games might not be prestigious, bringing the League Of Legends experience to mobile could be quite lucrative.
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Doesn't sound like the best advertising...
What Patrick says is technically true. But before granting the "extraordinary remedy" of an injunction, U.S. courts would apply the traditional four-factor test, which includes assessing:

+ the balance of hardships between allowing the conduct in question to continue vs. issuing the injunction;

+ whether the damage being caused by the conduct in question could be satisfactorily remedied by a payment of money as opposed to a mandate or a prohibition; and

+ (importantly) the public interest.

See, e.g., the Supreme Court's discussion of the four-factor test in eBay v. MercExchange, 547 U.S. 388 (2006), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=481934433895457...
Another link to fortune.com where I can't view content because I have adblock installed. Next.
"npm" is two things in this picture: the server and centralized service, and the software tool on everyone's build/dev machines.

There's a difference between trusting a server to do something, and having the software you're using check that the server hasn't changed its behaviors in ways that may... fuck with the continuity of your zen.

If someone can decide to do a special thing that happens to break all promises, and my side of the tooling doesn't let me know, much less let me confirm acceptance of the changes, then my side of the tooling is seriously deficient.

And in a situation where this tooling then starts executing new code from a new author on my host as my user without any authentication except "trust the server"... the same behavior describes $script_kiddie_virus_of_the_week! "download code from C&C server; run it, thanks:D" What's the difference between this and outright RCE exploit? "good intentions"?

I'd rather have something more than "good intentions" controlling what code ends up running on my computer, thanks.
This is my biggest fear when I use my production Redis
Aside from that mobile already has a very popular MOBA, Vain Glory.
I completely agree with the author of the article. Apple is the real-world incarnation of the economic premise of Huxley's "A Brave New World". This was just the mask dropping for a second to pander to the faithful.

I'd like to add, as someone who works at K12 public high school, that I've seen the reality of the article played out. My building is 100% free lunch, most are extremely poor, and yet there is a sizable number with new iphones. Why? Because they don't want to look poor or be thought of as such.

In American society poverty is associated with failure on many levels. We have our caste system as much as India, only ours is economic, and enforced ruthlessly with endless class warfare - largely in one direction.
> I believe from all I have read about Picasso
> None of the artists I buy are producing art just for the money and copyright plays no role

You seem to be presuming to know the motivations of every artist to have existed based on your personal experience. Is it so inconceivable to you that there may be someone who, let's say, is considering writing a book, wouldn't at all be motivated by how much money he could earn in return for the investment of his time? And take into account the fact that he could potentially sell the rights for considerably more, the longer copyright guarantees exclusive rights to the owner?
The superior attitude of Apple execs is nothing new. Even right at the start of the company that's a culture Jobs started with, looking down on all its competitors.

What's rather sad is the laughing audience, to me, who left their brains at the door and laugh and applause when they are told to. Just like in 1984's iconic Apple ad, by the way. The loop is complete.
Care to elaborate on this topic a little bit more?
I updated the hash and the salt in the same query. They weren't salted against the user id or anything like that, just a second column for the salt, which is... common practice.
There’s already apt-get over Freenet: http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:USK@oRy7ltZLJM-w-kcOBdiZS1pAA8...
Negative points: a) Not Open Source.

Still, tried signing up on the free account to see if it's any good, as there's some old PostgreSQL training things in Flash that would be useful updated...

b) Account sign-up doesn't work. Typing in email address, then clicking the "CREATE" button... goes forever. The little circle thing just spins and spins. Waited several minutes, then gave up.

Oh well. :(
> In one they say that Dropbox is investing multiple millions in a key piece of infrastructure written in Rust. One month later they say that the project is written in go with some Rust and it will "stay that way".

Their overall infrastructure is in Go and they're fine with that, they've (re)written specific components in Rust for memory savings (and CPU though less so), they have ~60kLOC of rust in production according to jamwt comments on reddit.
I think you have a really skewed picture of what most people use computers for.

The iPad isn't meant to replace a laptop for people like you, which is why Apple is still selling the mbp.
More ancient viruses lurk in our DNA than we thought
thanks. indeed autotranslation currently only works for small data. fixing it with shared memory and hdf5 is on the agenda for later this year: https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook/wiki/Roadmap

I would really like to hear what usability and convenience advantages RStudio has for you...
As I mention above, it's not so much the administrators fault as it is the VP of engineering. There was clearly no disaster recovery plan which is unacceptable.
It's always nice to dodge a bullet, and doubly nice to know where, when and how that bullet was dodged.
>...they can even modify already-released packages.

I keep seeing people say that, but NPM rejects it if you try to publish a version that already exists. Am I misunderstanding what the author is saying?
This is the one!
Thanks a bunch, will fund.
Haven't seen ubu before, but am already a big fan of monoskop! Great reads lay before me.
> very casual users

That would include my mother and other extended family members. I would argue that given the number of viruses they've had they would be better off with a limited device and I think that is what this was all about.

If they tech people would replace their desktop/laptop with an iPad they wouldn't make iMac/Mac Pro/MacBook.
void segfault_sigaction(int signal, siginfo_t *si, void *arg)
{
//Pretend it never happened
return;
}
Cool! Looking forward for updates!
The iPad clearly isn't for your use cases. The vast majority of people only want to browse, look at photos, read emails and occasionally write some text. For them it's a cheap ($280 for the cheapest iPad) and easy solution.
Uber announces $10,000 bug bounty program
The paper: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00...

And no, they didn't "upload knowledge", they improved learning by using SCIENCE:

Here, we tested the hypothesis that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can modulate neuronal function to improve skill learning and performance during flight simulator training of aircraft landing procedures.
With a gitlab like business model.
Doordash just got a valuation of 700m. May not be billions but it's certainly not a fail.
"the odd thing seems to me is they don't realize these devices do very different things and fulfill very different needs."

They realize it - remember Jobs' "truck vs. car" analogy - and they're betting that 90% of the population's needs are better met with a car rather than a truck.
You are right that iOS could solve pain points for some of these customers, but then THAT is how Apple should sell people on it. That's what their marketing of old was like. Insulting those people does no one any good. Most likely the people running the types of PCs you speak of do not even know any better.

I'm sure a large percent of the PC users are content also. It's not like iOS is some magic piece of software. I've been using it since iPhone 1, and it has really regressed a lot since iOS 6. My parents have trouble doing a lot of things that should be and used to be easy. I have trouble too from time to time.

As for me, I am still using a 6.5 year old, 11 inch MacBook Air. I have wanted to upgrade for a year or two now but Apple has yet to give me a compelling reason to do so.

It is unbelievable that they have not been able to produce an air with a Retina display in that time. The 12 inch MacBook is the closest they have come, but that has its own shortcomings that have kept me away (no MagSafe, single USB port, keys that barely move when you type on them). The MacBook pros are nice but even the smallest, thinnest one still weighs more than my old air.

If Apple had made an 11 inch air exactly the same body as the one I bought over six years ago and added a Retina display I would have bought it immediately.

I think if Apple expects people to upgrade every couple years then they should give people more compelling reasons to.
Virtue signalling, the article.

Apple’s based in SF. An iPad Pro is like a week’s worth of rent, and to them “work” probably means scribbling a hipster poem while sipping coffee you can’t pronounce without 5 years of language study. How is anything the guy said different from how the conferences always go. The fact that the author found it worthwhile to write about this like this is an actual problem is astounding.
I think the author's second point brings up something important:

If I've replaced every component in my desktop computer, even the case at one point, is still the same computer?
Still I have come to like it quite much.

Yes we cannot get rid of the C underpinnings, but there are enough features to write safe C++. At least when using it alone or in small teams that value safety.

I have been using it in anger on my side projects for mobile s.

Why use it in spite of my rants about safety?

Tooling.

Using C++ across Android and Windows Phone is already an extra layer of pain (thanks NDK) with first class support from the platform owners.

Using Go, Swift, Rust would increase that pain level quite higher given the actual lack of comparable tooling.

Meaning build scripts, IDE, debugging tools, packaging and APIs.

C# doesn't suffer as much from it thanks to Xamarin, but I would only use it in commercial projects.

I really would wish that one of those languages would eventually be adopted across mobile OS SDKs as C and C++ currently are.

Already had a look at Rust for Windows Phone, but COM support is not yet there to the level expected by WinRT as C++/CX allows. Assuming I was looking at the right place.
The New York Gambit
"Are you a developer? Kik has open-sourced tools and libraries to help you create great web experiences ..."

This is on their homepage. They want developer to use their Pedo enabler API.
My god what a mess. I think virus writers and hackers should specifically target anti virus suites, given how much of a security risk these pose to the user.
Heh, I guess they do just that. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the virus and anti-virus writers are one and the same people or organizations.
Because it makes a lot of sense - open the door to intruders and then tell users it's their fault, then manipulate them into buying your security product. Rinse and repeat and make millions.
Essential DevOps Terms You Need to Know
I just love PostgreSQL.It is an awesome gift in open source community.I just cant believe it is free.Seriously,if you have not tried PostgreSQL before,please find a time to check it out.
How do you scan that huge qr code?
Amen to that. Least privileges please.
The "Other" Moore's Law:

Backups always work.
Restores, not so much.
I agree. It seems like a maintainability issue. I can't imagine anyone familiar enough with DNS to contribute has experience working with Node.

Maybe I'm wrong...
OONI Explorer: Censorship and Other Network Anomalies Around the World
The cheapest iPad Pro (the device that Schiller mentioned to replace PCs) costs 600$. You can get a fairly good windows laptop for that amount of money. So yes, either Phil Schiller was mocking people that don't buy into their "revolutionary" upgrade cycle, or he was mocking poor people. Both indeed seem off-putting to me.
I think the open source approach is probably the most likely at this point. To become a meaningful disruptor in the space, you need a product that does something much better (or at least start of with parity features but free). If you can scale, an open source project with the same features and reliability would be a starting point. Slack also has great customer acquisition/retention metrics so this new product would have to work hard to convince a lot of people to learn a new product for it to be worth it.
For me I tend to earn between 120k and 240k USD / year, but I only ever work part time on that job, I used to just spend about 3 months of the year on it, but during those 3 months I would do 100 hour weeks. I'd spend the rest the time traveling for fun. If I was working full time constantly it would be double or triple that by now I think. Right now the sales are slumping a little, but that's because I'm neglecting that work a bit while I pursue my side passion a little more (which will hopefully become profitable later).
They threaten to take it to court and that would cost much more. You'll also have to deal with a lot of bureaucratic crap along the way that has very short deadlines and can cause a lot of trouble if you don't meet them, so they kindly allow you to pay to make it all go away...
They could have initially said that we are encountering a database issue requiring a database restore.

Once the system has been fully restored they can provide more details as to the "database issue"
Nitpick: OTOH usually means "on the other hand". I'm guessing you mean "off the top of my head", but that's not an usage I can find anywhere else.
Easy... Apple builds the functionality into iOS and OS X, so you never look for an alternative.
In the last year we've seen Apple produce a pencil and a watch, whats next a paperclip? I found the comment condescending and yet not at all surprising. Seriously F them.
A morphing metal for soft robots and other machines
I completely agree with the developer here, I also think npm crossed the line by republishing the module.
Pentagon investigating ULA over former executive’s SpaceX remarks
Yep. I interned at my high school over the summer back in the late 90's and (aside from ghosting pcs or helping with Windows login stuff) also managed the tapes for our main server. The underling in the it shop, one afternoon, was showing me something and to prove a point about RAID, pulled one of the drives from the servers raid array, then plugged it in again. It was magic!

Fast forward a month. I do the same thing when talking to someone. The next day, the sever is offline. I either pulled the wrong drive, the array was degraded, or some actual failure occurred overnight. I'll never know.

I did, however, learn that day about how veritas backups work, and to always know wtf I'm doing before showing off. :-)
I guess that's a feature. Underlines on the web usually denominate a link, so offering underlines for non-links would just confuse readers needlessly.

(inb4 "But my use-case is different." Yes it is, but I'm talking about the web in general.)
It's pretty hectic at the office, but TIME will be available shortly!

update: here it is: https://blendle.com/issue/time/bnl-time-20160321
But now they've got Liam the robot http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-unveils-liam-iphone-recycling...
they make it sound like individual sovereignty is a bad thing and not one of the most worthy things we have in europe
Good point. It's a bad example. In hindsight, what I was trying to get at in the third idea was slightly different to the other two. The first two are methods to capture some of the value they generate. But it's a risky proposition IMHO; when capturing value some of it will be destroyed (kind of like how taxation causes dead-weight loss). There's a possibility that the value proposition hits zero or goes negative, at which point Twitter is dead.

The third, less risky, option would be to capture data in adjacent markets (probably via start-up acquisition). If they capture adjacent data that, when combined with existing holdings, the value they can offer to the 'money' side of their platform (e.g. advertisers, developers) increases more than linearly.

At which point it's safer to 'tax' the money side of their market. Personally, I'd go for advertisers first: unlike developers, advertisers don't increase platform value for the other side of their market (users).
This is great! As somebody who's worked with Extending Visual Studio before, it's always great to have some more code samples to dig through. Outside of simple scenarios, I usually have to decompile the VS dlls to figure out what's going on.
It sounds like if the data is in a sane format, simply plugging it into xgboost would give something useable. If the data was available on their site I would have done that right now (assuming clean data, it would probably take <30 min). This wouldn't yield the best possible predictions, but would be much, much better than nothing.
I would rather say that (La)TeX is a turing-complete programming language that includes an extensive typesetting library. :)
Believe me, you do not want to quit your banking job for a tech unicorn
Same with H, J, K, L in VI because of the ADM 3A's escape sequences emitted when using that terminal's arrow keys.
I guess it depends on the interpretation of Phil Schiller's statement.

You are basically arguing "for many people an iPad is a better computing device than a PC because there is less that can go wrong with it". Which I think is a very valid point, however it does not hinge on how old these PCs are - your argument works just as well for new PCs without properly configured backups and anti-virus protection.

If you read Phil Schiller's statement in this way - "it is sad that many people are using PCs which were better off using iPads" - then one might still disagree, but it is not offensive, especially coming from an Apple executive. :)

What the author of the article finds offensive - and which also put me off when watching the live presentation - was the suggestion that using old hardware is "sad". When you read Phil Schiller's statement as "it is sad that many people are still using five-year-old hardware" (which was my first interpretation as well) it really reads like advocacy for blind throw-away consumerism. Which also makes a mockery out of the picture Apple was trying to paint just 30 minutes earlier during the same presentation: That Apple products are built to last so that you do not have to throw them away every other year to replace them with something new because they stop receiving upgrades, their hardware fails, etc. (Which, unlike the author, my experience by the way supports - my old iPhone, old iMac and old iPad still work flawlessly, especially when I compare them to the number of Android / PC devices my friends have already rotated through in the same time period.)
"When NPM took Kik away from the developer, he [...] unpublished all of his NPM-managed modules"
Ah yes, The Gone Jackals. After finishing Full Throttle and being so smitten by that tune I resolved to find a copy of their album 'Bone to Pick'. As a 12 year old kid it took me some time to figure out where to buy it but definitely worth the time and pocket money spent!

An underrated album and still very much worth a listen.
where do you get that conclusion? There's a lot of ways the password could be literally the exact same string, yet still be salted and even peppered.
Peachpie calculates Pi faster than PHP
I have been working on the MagicShifter project (http://magicshifter.net/) and we designed the board so that the UART is available (for MIDI and other things).

If I can find a paper-ink display that I can drive somehow with a UART, I'd be quite happy to wire it up and hack up a MagicShifter app that turns it into a dumb terminal. Know of such a thing?
iPad neds to change to the point where it wouldn't be called and recognized as an iPad, or just die. That device is in technological gap right now, getting beaten by newer more modern devices that evolved from iPad form. It annoys me as hell what Apple is doing right now. For first few years I thought "Thank you God Cook is keeping it simple and well defined as it was under Jobs", but now I am afraid off repeating history. Wheel always turn, and I would be really sad to see 90s Apple before Jobs came back. I enjoy in their computers a lot, and they will always be main thing from Apple, at least to me. I bought second iPhone 5s a month ago because it simply does the job for me... While I was Apple fanboy, every consecutive year I get more and more disappointed.
I don't think a ton of high school counselors push their poorer students to apply to highly selective schools. I think the kids with wealthier parents usually end up better supported.
Seems to work ok with Ublock Origin.
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Hang out with the retrocomputing people. Also to some extent the ham radio people, at least some of them.

The business model for the $200 Wyse-60 is OMG our CNC milling machine's terminal is down and every day of production we miss on the missile contract costs us $50K, so I don't care how much it costs, ship one here by tomorrow morning, etc etc. Or you can haul away a Wyse-60 for free because the previous owner won't have to pay electronic recycling fee. That's the model I have. Its pretty nice for a dumb terminal.

Aside from plugging into a linux box and having another cheap screen for scrolling logs or whatever, I mostly use it for exotic hardware. Software terminals are generally not as compatible as hardware terminals (despite hardware terminals mostly being SBCs with exotic firmware) and if a hardware fault puts 220V on a connector and vaporizes my "free" terminal I'll be much less unhappy than if it vaporized my expensive main computer or even a rasp-pi. Also they boot very quickly, 3 seconds from flip the power to work, whereas a "modern advanced" computer takes maybe 5-10 minutes. So from a stopped condition, "I just wanna know if this PLC is alive or dead" can be answered in 6 seconds instead of 6 minutes.

Given that you can haul them away for free, depending how many dumb mistakes I make, I have roughly a lifetime supply.

Restoration of old hardware can be entertaining as a hobby in itself, I have to rip out the (inevitably leaking) dead nicads and replace them with a diode and dual AA battery holder, at least on my Wyse-60's.
The author's comments were more one how Schiller went ahead and phrased his thoughts, which gives insight on what Apple might really think about people who use PCs and just consider them as 'sad'. I might agree that you may be able to do better with upgrading your hardware and buy an Apple product, but as a PC user I'm more likely to be interested in Schiller explaining to me exactly why that would be a good idea and if it's really a good investment for me to do so (for example: by saying what you have said in a more presentable way). But just saying that that is 'sad', and have the audience face palming and applauding because they believe so too just shows how biased everyone in the audience just is. I'm likely to listen/engage if they give valid reasons to switch, not because they call people sad if they didn't use Apple.
See Chapter Nine:

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo11.pdf