skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha ha. You think SV is in recession because few friends of you are interviewing. SV has ~3% unemployment rate, continuing increase in house prices, billions of dollars in VC funding, ever expanding job market etc. I just sold my home last month in a span of one weekend. I had 400 people show up for the open house and received 15 bids. The highest one was 50K over asking, with 50% down.
I wonder if this motivates some people to store their money in offshore accounts.
I don't disagree. I'm certainly not anti-owning a home, but it's much more risky than people think it is. This is despite all the people who witnessed the 2008 crash.

I see people stretch themselves with a mortgage, dumping every dollar they have in order to make up the down payment. A single-asset investment philosophy. Why do they do it? The only answer I can imagine is that risk of their home going down in value is low. I disagree the risk is that low.
One success story: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/nasa-shows-the-world-its...
It's not just the government. It's also the:

1. Expectations of citizens

2. Love of Complexity

3. Culture of respect

Expectations of citizens

In Nigeria and Ghana for instance, people EXPECT government officials to steal. One who doesn't would be a laughing stock. (No joke)

Love of COMPLEXITY

Rural dwellers prefer politicians who speak using big words that often make no sense. Here's an example Patrick Obahiagbon. (Unfortunately, his words make sense grammatically. However there are those that throw out meaningless words.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bt-GyxiYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSddKH1ZO-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozxY6V-vx-0

City dwellers are not exempt. Big sounding agendas like vision 20/20, revolutionary council... fool the populace. Moneies are spent but the people are left the same

The Culture

Many African countries have an undue, almost irrational culture of respect for elders. For instance, there are differences in verbs and adjectives used when speaking to someone older than yourself in Yoruba language. Ghana and Nigeria frown upon the use of left hand for waving, writing, handshake, eating, even raising of hand for answering a question.

Many have active traditional rulers and kings. Elders typically should not be questioned, at least not without going the roundabout way of hinting and finally acquiescing to the the choice of the leader.

This respect for authority extends to the University - which should be a place for questioning of ideas. I've got lots of painful memories as someone who prefers practicality over tradition.

Here's a well documented example of the effect of cultural deference to authorities http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-...
That's federated, which is a different kind of decentralized than the one implied in the article. Federated systems are less centralized, but still require regular clients to trust the system they are federated with.
What a ridiculous statement. A tech hub would have happened with or without the ferderal government.

Just like it has happened for countless other industries without the need of the government to do anything.
Your friend is likely making stuff up. This is not to say that there isn't lot of corruption and nepotism that one needs to fight against in order to setup a business there, but this is the first time I hear about bank employees stealing money from private accounts. The situation down here is pretty bad, but not that bad.
The truth is that F#'s features are not that compelling to justify the move, ML syntax is too different and R# tooling is not there and never going to be.
Virtually everything the author wants exists in a technical sense, but it's not usable for the average person.

I've said this many times, pretty much whenever this topic comes up:

A thing that works is maybe 10-20% of the way to being done. The rest of the work is making it into a product non-experts can use.

UX is tedious, time consuming, and painful. It involves a lot of the kind of work most devs hate. As a result people generally have to be paid to do it.

Almost nobody does UX work for decentralized open systems because they are free. There is no economic model. You can't make a living.

Until this changes nobody is ever going to use this stuff.

IMHO this is The Problem and if you are working on decentralization without trying to solve it you are spinning your wheels.
Millennial Intent to Cut Cable Doubles
Now it has more information, but as far as I can tell you only send pings, right?

Nowadays, just icmp doesn't cut it. People want to know if their service is running, not so much if the server is running. Also, some big hosting providers (e.g. Azure) don't even reply to ping.

My suggestion is to add http/https queries. I'm not sure what do you use in the backend, but almost every language has an http library to make this easy for you.

If you'd like to have a look, one of my side projects is a monitoring site: https://datasnitch.co.uk
It's a shame the West abandoned Africa to the warlords and tribal supremacists.

Think of what Africans could've accomplished with consistent, basic decent governance from the top, over the last ~50 years. Hong Kong, anyone?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. White guilt is a staggeringly destructive impulse. It makes me sad.
Force touch is different than their prior trackpads. It's an excellent hardware innovation that uses magnets (I think) to simulate the feeling of real hardware moving, and offers very gentle presses and several stages of deeper pressure with actual tactile feedback on your fingers, and software can respond to the different pressures nicely. I highly recommend. In a few years, the other manufacturers will probably try to copy it and put on all their machines also, as it is a big boost to the hardware UI.

This Force Touch is also making its way to their iOS devices in a variation they are calling 3D Touch. Like many Apple technologies, it's one of those things that after you use it for awhile, it's really hard to go back to anything else. I guess that's what you get for premium prices, and thankfully it's worth it!
How about we do something about it today? Instead of waiting for new apartments to be built, we make better use of existing apartments:

https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/what-housing-crisis-3c0568a5d...
What US Software Companies Should Understand
An interesting tidbit:

While the size of the U.S. digital audience is essentially static (up two points year over year) the amount of time spent on political news has ballooned.

Three years ago, political news accounted for 816 million monthly minutes of usage, according to Comscore. In February, it accounted for 2.36 billion minutes — almost a tripling. February was a high-water mark, but political news hit one billion minutes in June 2015 and has grown steadily since.
>There are no compromises with this machine.

Once you get used to Retina, that is unfortunately not true anymore.
One possible wrinkle: my understanding is that most WPA workers eventually transitioned to blue-color manufacturing work in the post-war era. And so the WPA was able to be disbanded without any political fallout.

Given the decline of manufacturing jobs and the transition from blue-collar to service oriented work, wouldn't a modern WPA be more permanent? If a MWPA job is the equivalent of most low-wage service-sector jobs, what's the incentive to transition to the private sector? We would be creating a environment for MWPA "lifers" - a significant percentage of the electorate that depends on a MWPA for a living.

That's not necessarily bad. But a UBI (Universal Basic Income) would make more sense. It would be better to have a program (UBI) that doesn't have the additional overhead of vetting, training, and administrating a national-scale job training and employment program. A UBI provides more bang for each government buck.
> The next government could give one hell for being for the "other party".

Many of the inefficiencies of the US government were deliberate trade-offs made to avoid examples of this pattern that fell under the general name of the "spoils system".
I don't see any mention of what kind of code you are enabling me to convert between platforms. The majority of code in an app is relatively platform-specific. i.e. Networking code, all UI code, sensors, etc. All code except for probably models.

Are you doing purely language-based conversion or platform API conversion as well? For example, UITableView -> ListView
What are the most common current uses of QuickTime?
Net Neutrality Verdict Could Be Near
If that was the case, in my opinion, HTML based native support would be required on mobile devices; fact that it is not is beyond me.
A Charge of Bots – The Tech World as We Know It Is About to Be Rewritten
The public education system is for-profit as well, only difference is that they make their profit by collecting funds coercively, instead of advertising their service and getting paid voluntarily.

The hatred towards for-profit companies is childish. Why would you expect anyone to build games for you for free?
Professor Sir David MacKay, Physicist – Obituary
Lua, the new MUSH
> It is however likely that Malthus will intervene

Malthus isn't an inevitability. Strong institutions that balance local-responsiveness and long-term-planning could have prevented things like the Irish Potato Famine.
Steve jobs asked a lot of people like Intel CEO, HP CEO etc. He made all these successful people his mentor. And, it is well documented in his biography as well in 'Becoming Steve Jobs' book. This is how he became so good in his craft.
> This is very good news, my prediction is that this wave of supply is going to reduce the prices for a while.

My prediction is that it may flatten prices (or slow the increase), but the buildout in supply will not reduce prices... because as far as I can tell, housing costs don't fall with supply increases, only from demand drops.

(Anyone know if there's a prediction market for this?)
Ah, branding.

Passe: "Turbo", "Mega", "Fire", "Cool", "Air", "Sky".

So 15 minutes ago: "Artisanal", "Free range", "Organic".
The concept of power in vulnerability fails to distinguish two important things about being vulnerable. If a person is mentally weak they are vulnerable. If a person is strong enough to make him/herself vulnerable they are strong.

These are two different people and its all about where the person is coming from. If a person is putting themselves into a position to fail they are considered strong because they can afford to fail, the thought being that they obviously have a lot of confidence and competence in some other parts of their life.

If a person is weak or obviously trying to appear tougher than they really are, we say they are vulnerable because we know they are compensating for something.

All of this is to say that boldly putting yourself out in the world for criticism is a powerful thing to do because you are obviously secure enough to accept some criticism. The solution proposed from Manson appears to suggest that if you are vulnerable that you are powerful right now, but that isn't true.

This basically means that you need to be powerful to let yourself be vulnerable, otherwise you aren't letting yourself be vulnerable, you are being forced to be vulnerable. So the issue for weak people remains in TRP as well as in Manson's case, how do weak people become powerful?
https://www.myappconverter.com/ is a solution converting your native Objective-C apps to Android or Swift. The generated code is native which makes developers free to maintain their generated code.
Conversion is free and is done instantly after uploading iOS project source code
I have dual Thunderbolt displays at home for my MBA. Is there a proper USB-C->Thunderbolt adapter yet?
Με το κίνητρο και την φόρμα στο πάμε στοίχημα
Why did stable governmental structures evolve in the west that allow citizens in those countries to enjoy greater prosperity?

Why is it that citizens with relatively stable but more authoritarian governments, in the far and middle east for example, seem to enjoy less relative prosperity than the west? (save singapore)

What makes singapore special?

Is the greater prosperity enjoyed in the west simply a function of the characteristics of the people living in the west?

Are the types of governments found in various regions simply a reflection of the people living in those regions?

(I don't mean a one to one reflection, I don't think everyone living under a ruthless dictatorship have themselves the characteristics of a ruthless dictator, but are they simply more tolerant or accepting of this societal arrangement?)
That's true. Also the good engineers make it to the US where they make 10x what they would at home. Isn't that what anyone would do??
The Kestrel-4 sounds great. It's a shame it was canceled April 2nd.
Odd, I haven't seen more than a couple and I live and work in SF/SF Bay Area as well as still go to college, where most students who have Macs have Macbook Airs. I don't think I've ever seen the Macbook (12 inch with retina) at school actually.
They best not be suggesting that they run a RISC-V in the fpga.
What Colombia Can Teach Us About the TPP
Though, not Jew myself, I've been a to private jewish school for two years.

I want to say: all kosher food does is restrict consumer choice to products sanctioned by a small religious mafia perceiving a tax on every products they "authorize".

You could conceivably have the quality of products the author describes in products not sanctioned by religious mafiosos.

And the whole "holier than thou" some of the orthodox (of every religions) have is very tiring.
You're thinking of two-step verification [1]. I believe getting rid of the recovery key is part of the "more streamlined user experience" offered by two-factor authentication.

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204152
And yet our most reliable systems are all effectively Big Design Up Front (aka waterfall).

And, in fact, the poster child for "agile" was the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation which was a gigantic FAILURE precisely because of all the complexity which "agile" never handled.

Complexity doesn't magically go away just because you break things into smaller pieces.
> it's the only kind of organization that can reasonably address the problem.

I agree with your broad point. Which is why we should let the gov do whats necessary, and get it out of everything else because of how wildly it is inefficient. We need to get it out of:

- health care

- education

- providing pensions

Its no coincidence that the areas were there is the biggest mix of gov and private are also some of the worst industries to deal with.
I'm not trying to attack or be rude; just a little confused. Cut the downvoting bullshit, grow up, and just answer the question if you can.
>Actually, much better approach is to shut the fsck up and write something useful

No, it really isn't. What is the goal there? To prove you can use a general purpose language to write software? There's tons of software already that proves that. How many haskell projects need to exist before it has proven itself or whatever it is you are expecting from this? If I write enough haskell software, the industry will just suddenly stop using bad languages to write bad software and poof care about quality miraculously? How is the industry supposed to know I have written this haskell software if I am not allowed to talk about haskell, or writing software in haskell, or how good haskell was for writing software when I used it? And why is haskell the only language where nobody is allowed to talk about it or they are variously branded smug, arrogant, academic blowhards, etc, etc?
The hatred towards Microsoft and Apple is childish. Why would you expect anyone to build an operating system for you for free?

Oh, wait...
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Thanks for submission. Inspiring also outside 8bit and 8bitish art:

Environment was small enough that you actually could think about it.

8bit art is mentally and creatively manageable space to work in.

It is not the first time I hear this advice. If you want to be creative, work under constraints.
I read that as suggesting that the concentration of viruses in the dipping solution was intended to produce a coating comparable to someone who hadn't washed their hands much at all.
I wonder how much energy (so to speak) has been put into using a strong vacuum, either by itself or with a blower, to dry hands. Filtering that airflow wouldn't be too difficult, though obviously more expensive.
I can find no mention of a recovery key for Apple's Two Factor Authentication (which is different than Two-Factor Verification). Where does one find this?
Do you know if the quote escape is still required with C# 6 interpolation?
Well I hack on an original gameboy; I think that counts :p.
That's what the queue table is for.
I can understand discipline in the sense of having to follow a diet, but could you elaborate how exactly it improved your health?
DARPA-Funded Clojure – Probabalistic Modeling and Execution Learning
Whereas Germany's Nazi past seems overly dramatised. I'm sure many young Germans these days are sick of being constantly reminded and made to feel guilty for their forefathers sins.
Depends, Dropbox works fine as does AWS etc. It's all pay as you go with minimal up front prices which can be great. They also have clear prices and direct competitors.

However, integrating some highly customized software from a 3rd party is generally a terrable idea. See any school using blackboard. Remember you pay for the work and are on the hook if the company drops the product, raises prices, changes the TOS etc.

At least with public API's your likely to find a replacement or have a good starting point to roll your own.
> What makes singapore special?

Competent mostly benevolent ~dictatorship for ~50 years? :)
"It is indeed true that traditional, non-organic means of farming likely requires the use of more (non-organic-certified) herbicides and pesticides, of which some may be more toxic than glyphosate."

Idk about "far less dangerous". I didn't make that claim. Im only showing that indeed gmo's use less poison, a point that we both seem to accept, but I hear the "far less dangerous" claim used by the anti-gmo crowd after stating the falsehood that gmo's require more herbicides and pesticides over and over again. I would even say that that seems to be the central claim of the anti-gmo movement. In fact, I see people saying that all up and down this thread... so.. go argue with them, lol.
> Putin doesn't want to buy our software.. and you call our society fucked?

You completely misunderstood OP's argument, IMHO.

A dispute between Obama and Putin over a peninsula where your company has maybe 1.5 users suddenly results in you being locked out of a market with millions of potential users. And the conclusion is that when selling abroad, you need to be aware that vagaries of international politics can drastically affect your business, and that an American software company will be seen - by policymakers in both countries - as a tool of American foreign policy.
Monetizr. Searching for first active sellers to monetize social media photos
> I echo the opinions of others in this thread who have suggested that the individual rights of citizens are better protected when power is decentralized to the states,

I'm sure alabama and the like would do a great job protecting rights if given free reign.
I hope there's a big gathering in front of the courthouse when this goes to trial. With singing.
That must be one fancy-pants cannon if it takes three years to write the software to drive it. How is that even possible?
I believe you are confused because Apple previously offered "Two-Step Verification", and this is "Two-Factor Authentication".

I myself am finding it difficult to find a clearly written explanation of the difference.

EDIT: What I have discovered:

It's now a 6 digit code (previously 4); and gives you more location based information with a map showing where the login is occurring from.

You can also now "reject" the request, which will then open a prompt to ask if you'd like to change your password.

Another new "feature" is that in order to support older devices that do not have Two-Factor Authentication built in, you can generate a verification code from a trusted device, and append that code to the end of your password.
Thank god for archives: https://archive.is/5WGiY
Improve Your Self-Improvement
So, what's the solution here? Other than some 'hand wavey' call to action for devs to work together?

I am the author of a handful of OSS libs, one of which is very popular. Of the 500k+ downloads; not including repo clones, package manager installs, etc I can count the number of contributors other than myself on one hand.

Considering the relatively recent migration over from Google Code the number of stars it has is under 100. From the users I've interacted with, I would be shocked to find that even a small fraction of them understand how it works.

From the 4 contributors, except for one useful bugfix (that introduced another bug), their impact has been mostly insignificant.

At one point, one impatient dev requesting a fix forked and atrempted to assume ownership of the project. But that dev disappeared soon after and just left more work for me to clean up after.

So, do tell. Aside from marketing the hell out of it on blogs and referencing it on SO by answering relevant questions, where do I go to find other passionate OSS devs to help support my project.

It's easy to find contributors on projects that require only general knowledge, such as building a website or creating collections of links.

For anything that requires even a little specialized knowledge, it's difficult borderlining on impossible to find help.

I don't need contributors with specialized knowledge. I need contributors who can provide more working examples, better documentation, and can improve the tests.
Paramount are just pissed that one guy with $40k made a better film than they could make with $150M.
Article is about mainstream commercial use of VR, not non-commercial use that would cost way more than an average consumer would ever be able to afford.
Well... The article is a little dis-engenuous about the shared folder stuff. If a user selected to share the folders with anyone that has the link and also allows write into the folder publicly from anyone, then that's by design. Obscurity on the url part isn't necessarily required, and it may even be a feature to allow easy dumping.. This is on the end user to make sure they aren't auto-downloading public data that has been dumped there.. I can see why this may not be ideal from a security standpoint, and allowing data mining/unauthenticated file drops may not be a great way to handle it, but I don't think the article actually gives the full details. Unless I'm completely wrong, and there is no options in OneDrive for sharing permissions (public, select group, etc) then yes it's a security vulnerability.
Lodash/fp