skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a difference between "Standards Compliant" and "Does not work for me". Many of the standards compliant cables might work just fine for a majority of users.

I'd assume that a USB-Type C recepticle embedded in a costly device, such as a smartphone or notebook, is more likely to be manufactured by someone who adheres to the specs, or at least strives to.
What about their in-house software that links against this software? Or is it all LGPL?
The OpenStack Schizophrenia
> "The only problem I see, which rises from my wifes experience, there is no simple Paint alternative, were you'd have very basic options (cropping, rotating and maybe some brush/text) with a decent UI to make changes to a photo/image"

How about Krita? It's more powerful than a basic Paint app but the UI looks just as intuitive.

https://krita.org/features/highlights/
Communicate with friends and family using clips from your favorite songs
https://github.com/jtarchie/pullrequest-resource
A four step approach towards securing your OpenCart shop
Android? Simple?!?
Is the crowd’s wisdom biased: A quant assessment of 3 online communities (2009)
The reddit videos are just one minute samples of the whole videos that I put myself in the video for free :)
Frogo- Activities Experiences
Shit wrong youtube vid.
Here is the correct live cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4
The kind of damages that can't possibly be compensated by any conceivable insurance payout are also not helped by some people being in jail for life, so this isn't the solution either.
Inside-out security for OpenCart
One of the relatively cryptic parts of the release notes is:

* Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from
"git update-index" to "git config".

This is a feature we worked on, it means that you can do this:

$ sudo git config --system core.untrackedCache true

And have [core] untrackedCache = true written to
/etc/gitconfig. This'll speed up "git status" and similar index
operations significantly.

I've seen "git status" times go from ~400ms to ~200ms and from ~140ms
to ~60ms simply by setting this.

It could be set via "git update-index" in previous Git versions on a
per-repo basis, but not on a system-wide basis, this makes it easier
to e.g. puppetize it.
I’m an Introvert and You Don’t Know What It Means
> you are reducing inflation

Except that FED will counter that effect because they are keeping stable inflation. People who don't save like you do will still be in exactly the same situation as they were before you decided to save.

If all of the rich people one time decided to spend their money on something that touches real economy (not just stock gambling) it would drive up inflation, possibly too fast for FED to counter it.
I think the fact that happiness is (mostly) zero sum comes from the fact that in early humanity's evolutionary environment, the ecosystem had a mostly constant (meaning over human reproductive cycle timelines) carrying capacity for humans. Innovative advances in technology or techniques or knowledge that would allow for more humans to thrive with better qualities of life were so rare that evolution did not have much opportunity to select for them. In that kind of environment, one's genes can only propagate at the expense of others'. So we're now all the decedents of the early humans who preferred being the top dog of squalor as opposed to an equal in a prosperous society.
The Bribe Factory
Protocol Buffers 3.0.0-alpha1
How would inhouse software affect GPL compliance?
You seem to be asking questions that were answered.

>Then why did you install Word?

"Its a hugely wonderful word processor"

> If you didn't want to "jump through hoops" then why not just use Google Docs

Seems like they did exactly that.
"Needless to say, that crap is uninstalled. I already chose a cloud provider, I dont need yet another on"

Until I read parent's comment, I had no idea I needed a Microsoft account to save . I have Word installed, but only ever use it as a viewer.
In my experience as a mobile app freelancer, many prospective clients(=bosses) insist on portable/JavaScript frameworks for new projects. I guess it is because native iOS/Android programmers are expensive, and a single JavaScript programmer rotating between platforms with a shared codebase is both cheaper and easier to manage than two or more native app programmers (at least in theory).
>and prefer to own my music

unless you wrote it and played it you don't 'own' any music.
I've always wondered at the real value of a person's earnings. Is earnings an end in itself ? No, it is a means to obtain the worth of money one has with himself.

Be it financial or mental satisfaction, material acquisitions, name and fame, respect and prestige.

Keeping this in mind, I don't think Mr. L.T. is any less in his possessions than a star IT billionaire. Although he would far outdo everyone else when it comes to winning respect and a name for himself. He does not need to declare his life's earnings will go to philanthropy to win people's respect. He already has it. Something for which billionaires are willing to spend their entire fortunes.
Hetzner is really awesome. They even offer a painless Arch Linux installation which works great.
Being an expert literally changes how you see things
> and what else?

Domain knowledge, or the genius to reinvent it from scratch (CAS and merkle trees for Git)
One of the things China is absolutely not interested in is cultural exchange. That brings with it the possibility of change and destabilisation.
5 Seconds to find any piece of open source code (JS)
Microsoft has IDNA, which is usually known to customers as time travel tracing and has a lot of similarities to qira. Unfortunately only Microsoft employees have access to the bits to analyze the resulting trace files you get - it'd be really nice of them to open it up.
Large companies often prefer to develop things in-house, even if there already exist good alternatives.

Fair point. Except they are a small consulting company.
I would like to emphasize that. Building something that some people find useful is satisfying and motivational.
A dreaded Love Story
Paris attacks: Hollande drops plans to strip nationality
It says fast, so no React, please.
I'm still using 0.9.7 on my Mac. I've deliberately broken its self-updating so I can keep it. If they ever do anything that stops this client from working they lose me as a customer. This is one of the last versions that have the old interface. The new all-black version is hideous and I hate using it. There's a massive thread on their forums full of people that hate it. I can't believe, with the amount of funding they have, that they can't spare the dev hours to build a few themes: light, dark, and somewhere in between.
Yes, I had assumed such things in the past, too... ;-).

But of course you are right in general: A smartphone, notebook or tablet manufactured will likely be built to stricter standards than a random cable from a random Amazon seller. Nevertheless, "works with a good notebook" is generally not a replacement for a proper acceptance test. -- Typically it will be in favor of the marginally failing component, as standards always employ some safety margins, and properly built hardware will be forgiving for "slightly broken" cables. Such a cable may as well, and rightfully, fail with any number of other perfectly standards compliant computers.
That is actually quite an interesting service. If the price was a bit lower than the €5,99 a month listed now (say, €3,99 a month) I would consider simply getting a year-round subscription if the content is good. It would form a nice supplement to Netflix.

It is a bit disappointing to read this in their FAQ though:

IN HOW MANY COUNTRIES CAN I WATCH FILMS ON MUBI?

You can stream and download movies in over 200 countries around the world. Every country has its own unique line-up, as the rights to show even a single film are often divided by different distributors and territories, making it very difficult to show the same movies in every country at once. This in turn allows us to tailor each country's selection for the local audience.

This is of course unavoidable due to the global licensing mess for media with regional exclusive deals, but it is irksome nonetheless. I don't like this bit about tailoring the selection for my country though — with art-house films one of the most interesting things is discovering films made in countries that normally wouldn't reach you. The serendipity is what makes it appealing to browse art-house films. If a service 'tailors the selection' to my country, what does that even mean?
Why Apache Arrow is the future of opensource Columnar in-memory analytics
I work at discord. The app is still react native. We use component kit for chat messages view though. But this was because early react native when we built it couldn't do what we wanted to. May switch to full RN soon.
Indeed - how does Win 10 do on eliminating cruft, like old update files and such now, MS Windows used to be terrible at it but I've barely any experience of Win 10 beyond installs and some basic troubleshooting.

I regular user would use something like Muon software center which manages it all and pops up update prompts when necessary in a similar way to Google's Play store on Android.
Ymmv but I sync my notes files via Dropbox across several computers. I wrote a simple elisp function that runs on startup and opens my "todo.org" file. The only unsolved piece of the puzzle here for me is mobile: I haven't found a good way to view/edit org files on iOS.
Beardswipe a new way to unlock your phone
as my parents found out, its easier and better to buy from ebay. sadly it can be safer too
> and claim that it's already fixed in the next version of the OS

And look like a lying fool when details eventually come out and reveal that it's a hardware security flaw, not something that can be patched by OS.
What percentage of there customer base would make a purchase like the ones you're describing; that is, consumers that would by OEM products I the value and option of doing so was obvious and easy. Honestly don't see this as a threat to Amazon, though would agree it's potential a threat to your view of the world. For example, take another large consumer electronics retailer like Walmart. Does Walmart's in store or online offering solve your issues?
Cheers. Re: the Self-Agency stuff, I agree completely. I've personally selected the psychological viewing platform that "I create the whole of my own reality". [1]

The key word is "whole" - with this perspective, I am 100% responsible for everything that happens in my world. I get cut off in traffic - I created that; a song comes on the radio - I created that song.

Now, intellectually, it's complete BS. My brain will never accept that extreme level of self-agency. And I don't pretend I do an amazing job of living it all day every day.

But from a happiness perspective? (Hence referring to it as a 'viewing platform' - one perspective on the world.) It's incredible. Fundamentally liberating because I don't live in a world of blame, excuses, regret, other people letting me down. Something incredible happens - I take full responsibility. Something terrible happens - I take full responsibility.

Perhaps a little too 'out there' for most, but I'm happier than I was before and I believe that self-agency filter I choose for everything is the reason.

[1] See http://www.openup.com.au
And yep - I found them through my father. Man that guy knows everyone!
Would anyone be able to give insight on why this would be useful? Im curious, sure, but I'm at a loss to think of a use case.
They are possibly distributing a derivative work without releasing the source code, if it GPL licensed.
How open-source can go wrong
People that want to pontificate, seem promotable and do less real work love by inviting everyone, every hour/day/week/month with standing meetings, while said folks trying to do more real work should take time out to hear themselves blather on abstractly about work someone else may be (maybe you) get voluntold into doing.

No agenda... not attending.
Not reasonably necessary... not attending.

Sounds d!ckish/selfish, but survival skills in large orgs require some gambits.
I am an emacs user, but my initial foray into org mode wasn't particularly successful. I was much happier in OneNote.

Now that I work mostly in an OSX environment where OneNote is a stripped down shell of it's Windows counterpart, I've been searching for a replacement. I think it's time to give org-mode a try once again.

I'm not big on this set of documentation though. It's great for a reference, but I would like to see something more engaging that reviewed the features and gave a brief how-to. If anyone has any links, I'd love to explore.

Also... one of the things that I liked most about onenote is a canned integration with outlook - from my meeting calendar entry I could click a button and it would start a new note with the title of the meeting, the date/time, a list of attendees, etc. Does anyone do something similar in org-mode for taking meeting notes?
Car radios
New?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508633
Can you explain more about this feature? If it is such an improvement, why would it not be enabled by default - are there any drawbacks to enabling it?
I have had a similar experience trying to buy laptop power adapters on Amazon. Always lots of well rated options and the appearance of being original parts but never quite that. I've given up recently and only buy them direct from the manufacturers.
I was an on and off subscriber to Rhapsody in the mid/late 2000's but was generally turned off by the idea of not owning my music because getting Rhapsody music onto a portable device meant having to pay more per month as well as using whatever terrible devices supported it at the time. Also, you would not get access to all of Rhapsody on the device, just whatever you chose to sync. So even though I would occasionally use Rhapsody, mostly as a radio/discovery tool, I was still buying music the old-fashioned way, either on iTunes, CDs, or pirating via Oink.

Once smart phones came around and data plans approached a level where streaming music wouldn't explode your bill, I think streaming became a no-brainer. It still took me two years of having Spotify before I realized I could throw away all my old CD's that were eating up space, but once I reached that point, the value of streaming, at least to me, was pretty clear.

Sure, there are gaps in the music, but I think for most people, those gaps don't exist. And even for the layperson replacing their CD collection, having a Spotify/Apple Music/etc. account means having access to their music on any device, anywhere they go. Duplicating that kind of access with a CD collection is difficult.
A: Because our stupid fiscal and monetary policies have been so biased toward austerity coming out of a liquidity trap recession, there isn't enough inflation to force them to invest it or see it lose value.
WTF is the NYT doing even writing an article like this for anyway?
Just an update, of course the seller backed off after realizing the mistake he has done, I will never own one.
> And don't get me started on the switch to USPS shipping.

What did they use before and why is the change bad?

(European curiosity)
You've nailed MMM's actual position. He always talks about his he enjoys doing stuff that looks like work to outside observers.
This doesn't work with a lot of packages because they depend on some newer C library that would have to upgrade pretty much all of your installation from stable, but I've just tested this now and pinning "git git-svn git-email git-man" to testing/unstable on an otherwise stable distro works.
Huh? What's the Objective-C vs. JavaScript performance myth?

Here's a link showing Objective-C beating JavaScript handily:
https://medium.com/@harrycheung/mobile-app-performance-redux...

But is this even a debate? Wouldn't you expect a compiled, manual memory managed, language to be faster than an interpreted language with garbage collection?
I tried installing linux on a Macbook air 7,1 and did not manage to get it working. Presumably there will be a distro with a better kernel one of these days that supports the hardware out of the box, but re-mastering a distribution just to get a laptop to work seemed a bit much so it's sitting un-used until that day arrives.

Other than that, many years of running linux on a very large variety of (sometimes quite exotic) hardware and very very rarely would this lead to trouble.
> He does not need to declare his life's earnings will go to philanthropy to win people's respect.

I know you don't mention him by name but Bill Gates didn't need to give billions to charity to be respected, many already did so he could've just retired, hit the speech circuit and maybe written a couple of books and leave it at that. Philanthropy did make him a less divisive figure though.
If Amazon has an online shopping entry for an new box of printer ink, and what shows up is a refilled cartridge in a white bag that your printer won't recognize and is useless, that's a class of problem relevant to 100% of their customer base, methinks.
Why some students are ditching America for medical school in Cuba
Looks pretty cool, going to test it soon.
Installing libc6 from testing is scary advice. Then you're basically halfways to running testing overall. That may have security implications (there's been several DSAs for glibc), and traditionally it's also been a source of incompatibilities.
It doesn't. At worst if you do it all the time you may need a week to a month for your brain to recover.

Perhaps paradoxically, I really enjoy programming a lot more when I smoke and tend to spontaneously work on things much more frequently high than sober. It's not always my best work, but otherwise I would probably be playing video games and I can always clean it up later.

It's also not for everyone and I have taken several year long breaks because it can give me anxiety.
Paul Le Roux stole E4M source from SecurStar...

I surely don't dispute that PLR wrote E4M....
Did a quick Google: IOL surgery is cataract repair if I understood what I read correctly. LASIK is repair for myopia. Not sure I used all the words correctly... Is there a word for myopia that includes reading distance too?
Oh yeah? Any good ones?
5 tips to become a ninja developer
PCI-DSS certified payment gateway leaking millions of full credit card details
The company that bribed the world
Because it relies on filesystem changing directory's mtime every time a file/dir is added or deleted in that directory. Not every filesystem supports that.
Disrupt or Be Disrupted
Another stupid article by Jeff Atwood
A plus or minus?
You can write a chatbot which DOES choose each letter separately and it's isomorphic to the one which does not. This was part of my complaint about the branching factor discussion from an earlier article: it's not really well-defined.

Your comment is like saying that AlphaGO doesn't choose each move separately, it considers a sequence of moves. Of course it does, but it still can output each move one at a time.
Wondering what your use case is for such a large cache that is not clustered (unless I misunderstood the code). Both in terms of single process dying = lost 10gb of data and also what single process needs a 10gb cache. I do see ability to read from disk listed.

How would you compare your cache to open source data grids that also provide off heap (infinispan, geode/gemfire, ignite) or just other general cache solutions (redis/memcache)?
Funny how people are different. It was big for me, since I stopped paying them money just because of that missing feature.

Personally, I think the less social features, the better.
Wouldn't that require active participation of existing platforms? Seems like it'd be a tough sell.
I'm a bit confused by this. I thought the entire point of making things "native" was that the app would feel like it belongs on the platform. Native interfaces have certain details that might not be immediately noticeable, but that massively improve the experience.

This... does not. The screenshots look like webapps that try hard to look native, despite actually being native.

The text in the top-left textbox in the first and second screenshots looks weird, because its baseline is too high. The box around it in the second screenshot has weird corners, etc.

Now, I'm not an OSX user, but with all the talk about OSX having the most polished interface, I highly doubt weird things like this are common.
Why Are People Using Ad Blockers?
My experience is that quality wise that OEM or "real" products offer better quality, but the risk in general doesn't negate the extra expense of buying the real thing; short-term this is, the half-life of non-real products is unpredictable and given the life spans of USB cords it's increasely worth the risk. Real issue is that complaint cables are over priced, and there no cheap way to confirm if a cord is non-complaint or for the matter if a device is complaint.
> so you 'ping-ponged' for some time and suddenly emails from your future boss became spam?

Exactly.

> If the answer is yes, is it viable to sue Gmail of lost business/job?

In my case definitely not, it is the job I currently have :) Everything worked out after I had an epiphany and checked the spam folder.
Are you comparing the price of Spotify to the price of Netflix? If so, it's not a remotely fair comparison. The percent of mainstream music Spotify doesn't have is miniscule to the amount of mainstream video Netflix lacks. Take Netflix and add in the cost of premium movie channels -- HBO, Starz, Showtime, etc. and you start approaching a modern catalog comparable to Spotify.

Your monthly fees are now approaching $100 per month. However, you're still left with three gaps -- old movies, recently released DVDs, and movies in theaters. Considering all this, plus Sean Parker's idea to start renting new releases for 24 hours costs $50 per movie, it's pretty fair to say that Spotify is significantly cheaper than the equivalent in videos.
Franz ties WhatsApp/FB Messenger/Slack/etc into one great app
SoloLearn: Learn how to code while playing
So what happens here is that first Moldbug puts forth the false premise that there are genetic / biological races. Then he says stuff like black people have a lower IQ...

According to Moldbug, there is a cluster of humanity called "black". It may not meet your requirement of perfect separation, but is merely a cluster, and biracial individuals exist who break perfect separation. So lets call it a "cluster in genotype/phenotype space" ("cluster" for short) instead of a "race" to disambiguate these concepts.

If Moldbug used the word "cluster" instead of "race", would he not be racist? (I.e., s/race/cluster/g in his post.) What if he used the word "race" but his definition agreed with the definition of your word "cluster"?

Moldbug claims this cluster has an IQ distribution which is has a lower mean than that of other clusters (e.g. whites and asians). Do you believe this claim is false? If this claim were true, would a person who believes it be a racist?

I'll also link to a slatestarcodex article on Eulering, which I think applies here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/12/does-race-exist-does-cu...
Here is the link to the documentation, it explains it better than I can without copying it verbatim:

* https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index#_untracked_cache

The underlying filesystem needs to have certain features enabled (mtime of directories) to be able to support the untracked cache. There's no guarantee that all will, so it does not enable it.

I suppose this could be enhanced to be an opportunistic feature. However, then there is some variability in what git is doing versus there being one default behavior.
The Trouble with Tor