skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Lisbon, it's mixed, since the price per minute is lower (0.10€ vs 0.25€) but the price per km is higher (0.65€ vs 0.47€). Taxis have an higher base fare (3.25€ vs 1€) but on the other hand the first 2 km are free.
FYI, this references the DNSimple outage event on December 1st 2014. The point stands, but the "current" references aren't so current anymore.
I do exactly that too :-)
The analogy to the doctor makes no sense there is not even any competition going on in it. What if for some strange reason there was two doctors operating on you and they were competing to be the first to find and remove the tumor for millions of dollars. Would you trust them to have your best interest always in mind and not try to interfere with each other?
I agree that "lost users" is misleading if traffic didn't go down, so we've added the word "engagement" to the title above.
You can be rogue if you've been a famous professor for decades, by which point your ideas are stultified or just state funded intellectual masturbations... you might get lucky like k Barry sharpless and stumble on an old idea that works really well and was forgotten.
I agree with you, but in this case, the standards are necessary. Taking a job that just lands me right back in an unsustainable situation would be worse than going longer and longer with no job. Eventually, I agree it must hit a point where I'm basically barely at subsistence level and any marginal gains are better than none (even if the marginal gains come with e.g. mental health costs of dealing with intolerable employers or something). Right now the situation is urgent, but not so urgent as to merit throwing out all possibility of actually finding a healthy outcome instead of a merely desperate one.
Ok, but if you stick with dynamic linking and don't insert Qt code into your app, then you don't need a commercial license, right? Why would you insert Qt code in your app anyway? That kinda defeats the point of using a library. As for static linking, why would you opt for this over dynamic linking anyway? Dynamic linking is better since other applications can share the libraries. Static linking on a PC platform is basically a hack for poor library management.

As for Qt for Device Creation, I looked through that and didn't see why you'd need a license there, unless they're selling optional components or plug-ins which are not LGPL licensed (which appears to be the case with things like "Qt Quick 2D Renderer" and "Qt Virtual Keyboard").

I even tried out the questionnaire at www.qt.io/download: if you select "Commercial deployment" for development and then say that you're doing dynamic linking, don't have any concerns about reverse-engineering, and can comply with the LGPL, it recommends you use the open-source LGPL'ed version.
In almost cases, payroll cards are just prepaid cards that an employer has setup with a given prepaid card company for employees that don't have bank accounts, so yes.
Bias Against Novelty in Science: Cautionary Tale for Bibliometric Indicators
The performance of the native Animated class is much better than handling animations in JS - definitely give that a try if you're trying RN again.

I'm curious about touch events - what JS computations were happening on touch events, was it complex and app-specific or was it something relatively standard?
That gets into issues with needing to either support multiple individual maintainers for a single package, or require any multi-maintainer package to create an organization they'll all work under, and use the org name. And since the org name is likely to be the name of the package, you're back at square 1.

For example, on the Python Package Index five people have authorization to publish a new Django release. Creating a "Django" org namespace wouldn't help, since someone could typo the org name and hit a squatted malicious version (and that's almost certainly what it would end up being; our github org is named "django").
Military Secretive About GPS Blackout Over California
> > One suspects that, were we to engineer our own reverse time capsule today and ship it back to the citizens of 1995, they might not be all that surprised by the direction we’ve taken.

Well, yeah, though I think the changes wrought on the average persons way of life from 1995 to 2016 were in some ways greater than 1974 to 1995, the things that have changed the most aren't so much the kind of bits of kit that would go in a reverse time capsule. The ubiquity of digital communication is a huge change, and the software and services that the average person regularly consumes based on them are -- but the bits of kit that we use to access them, at least in outline, wouldn't be all that surprising in 1995.

> We had the Web then, and we have it now. We had internet communities than, and we have them now

For vastly narrower definitions of "we" in 1995 than in 2016.
Frosted Dunes on Mars
> My point is that if you make a successful product, you're going to get cloned anyway.

If you're going to get cloned either way, how will you make selling your hardware a sustainable business?

I love hardware (robotics, incidentally) but I'm so hesitant to release a hardware product because of the inevitability and futility of competing against cheaper clones. I've seen it happen again and again in the nascent world of drone racing - somebody comes up with an innovative new design and there's a clone on Banggood three weeks later. Then most people just buy the clone. I don't see how it can be sustainable.
Is it not that way in other sciences? It's funny that I just assumed all sciences did the same thing. In fact, my wife works in a museum, and I was stunned to find out that they write grants for work that isn't even started yet.
And, of course, I'm greeted by a huge image that I have to scroll all the way past in order get to the content. I'm not sure they learned their lesson.
Make sure to find a lawyer specializing in startups.It's probably best to get the most up to date equity documents the company has as well as the documents you originally signed.
CircleCI's Rob Zuber on Managing the Transition from Monolith to Microservices
Three machine learning trends
Packages often require sudo in order to install to the global interpreter - it's a security hazard otherwise. Imagine a Python package which overrides the sys module. If it didn't require sudo, anyone could install it and compromise Python for everyone else (or, for instance, compromise setuid programs).

The two solutions here are user-local packages (pip --user, for example) and virtual environments.
Good question. What's the alternative for delivering software to a consumer market? Many people have Android phones.
You can enable HTTPS for custom domains using this approach: https://blog.jeaye.com/2016/03/01/github-pages-https/

Just be sure to delete your CNAME file, based on a recent Github behavior change.
No One Wants to Be Apple
It's a process where the objective isn't a job, but to get to know people and "make your own luck".

Personally, I find it really swarmy, but the purpose is legit -- talk to people that you don't have to talk to because you work or go to school with them.

For some people, doing the Silicon Valley coffee thing is a meaningful thing. It may not be for you. Maybe talking to an ex-coworker, reaching out to wish someone Happy Birthday on the phone, or something similar makes more sense to you.

I got my first consulting gig because a farmer I worked for as a middle schooler sent a vendor my way when I was in college. I'd drop by and say hello a couple of times a year when I was in the neighborhood. Humans are social creatures!
> But then, does this mean anyone can ask for the source of closed-source software that use GPL code, like the ones below? (I just dug two random examples).

If their software is a derivative work of someone else's code then they can't distribute their software without a license from the copyright holder of that code. In the case of the GPL, that licenses them only to distribute their code under the GPL. If they are distributing their software other than under the GPL, then that is copyright infringement (in the same way as if they had made a derived work of some non-GPL code and distributed that), they lose their license, and any holder of a copyright on the code that their software was a derivative work of could sue them for copyright infringement. (In theory they sue for damages; in practice the copyright holder of GPLed code they made a derivative of will usually settle for compliance and an agreement to have their future releases audited).

What constitutes a derivative work is a question for the courts. It's generally accepted that any program that uses a library is a derivative work of that library, and a program that invokes another program at arms length or via a standard interface is probably not a derivative work of that program. The exact boundary is unclear; there's a case to be made that a program that is tightly coupled to another program and invokes it via piped commands might still be a derivative work even though it's not shared objects.

The LGPL is an entirely different license from the GPL.
Yep. And the fact that the CI system is donated by JetBrains is also known and allowed. No "standards" were bent nor broken. The poster simply does not know what they are talking about, making their sample size not 1 but actually 0.

It would actually be useful if some of the criticisms against the ASF were actually factual, so we could improve the ASF. But instead, they are simply fabrications or distortions.
I haven't needed that type of reference since
I read that in the mid 90's. And now with simply doing a search don't really need to buy books at all.
Make something as simple as it needs to be, but no simpler. Most designers I see these days seem to forget that last bit.

People are copying the pointless "elegant simplicity" signalling of the new Apple Macbook. I think this is probably one of the best filters you can find, if you are perceptive enough to be able to use it: See whether or not someone prioritizes signalling over actual functionality/semantic content/logic. Observe how often this happens. Compare the effort that goes into signalling versus more substantive observation and analysis.

If someone isn't self aware of their signalling, and hasn't differentiated that concept from actual value/competence, quietly disengage.
> If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999.

JS is older than that, and early uses of it were notorious for not having graceful fallbacks, so, no, I think that description is not at all unlike 1999.
Its a very plain layout, mostly a big document area where there is text.

At the top of the window below the window title are the menu items:
Document, Navigation, Speech, Window and Help

Below those are open document tabs going horizontally - they can be very verbose like the entire title of the book with author

below that is the big document area there is also a vertical scrollbar to the right of the document.

Below the document is a vertical slider control spanning the width with the name "Document position"

And below that there is apparently a status-bar (like on web browsers, going across horizontally,) and seems to be divided in half for messages either on the left or right. currently blank.
Upcoming Medical Technology Course in NYC
Hi everyone,

Hope all's well with you. I'm thrilled to announce that I will be teaching the first MedTech (medical technology) program in New York City at Byte Academy fullstack Python coding bootcamp. Students will learn how to apply Python full-stack development to the medical technology field. Individuals of all skill levels can enroll in classes that will begin this summer. See the full syllabus here. http://bit.ly/22hzIYN

Additionally, for those that enroll from my network, I am very pleased to offer a $2,000 Women In Tech scholarships to all women and $500 to all men. Just write my name in the “how did you hear about us?” section of your application.

Reply to me or info@byteacademy.co with any questions. I hope to see you soon!

Cheers,
Rebecca Sealfon
Scary. These prepaid debit cards are being used everywhere in lieu of traditional checks from unemployment benefits, short term disability(maternity benefits) etc.
> a lot of people paid good money

... none of which went to Apple. So that's one business model they're not particularly keen on. It might have benefited the platform at large and drive Mac sales (unlikely -- what drove sales were always the big creative suites), but it didn't directly benefit Apple in the same way as appstore sales now do.

Apple simply doesn't want big-price shrinkwrap on iOS. 75% of the market is games where whales are nickled and dimed; that's what they want: high frequency, low-price, constant, reliable revenue.
why do you need to be able to post to my twitter timeline?
Blockchain technology could help answer many of the hard questions in healthcare
>You need to have a bigger barn for cows, you need to do all the hay thing, which is very time consuming and demands a lot of extra work just for feeding said cows, you need to pay someone to take care of the cows when they go out to eat in the summer on the communal field

Depends where you are, of course. Some places you just leave your cows out eating grass for years until it's time to slaughter them, then you hire some dudes with helicopters to round 'em all up.

And a barn? For 150,000 cows?
Implying Twitter won't just hand it over to governments.
Yeah, that's what's nice about IntelliJ products. You can stop subscribing and are left with a perpetual license for the current version you are on. It provides protection for the stagnation issue you are talking about.
Google could agree to indemnify app developers for legal fees. There are certain restrictions on other people paying for your legal defense but it's commonly done subject to those restrictions.

They could also take the first app developer to get sued under the patent and pay for them to file a CBM review. Or file an IPR or PGR in their own right seeking to invalidate the patent.
I'm actually not affiliated with Kniterate, but I do work at a product design firm and we have a production 3D/Digital knitting machine from Stoll, one of the smaller units seen here: http://stoll.com/stoll-produkte/2_1

I can't speak for Kniterate, but by just looking at their machine, it doesn't seem to be large enough to do a whole shirt. If you take a look at the production machines, like Stoll's, they are much larger/wider/have more needles and are capable of doing a whole garment.

And I would agree, that first image of sweaters on their website look like regular sweaters, but still could have been made piece by piece and sewn together.
What's wrong with entrenching the existing social order?
The Anatomy of the Engaged Employee
It would be interesting to offer a curated App store with patent indemnification and malware scanning on Android. Do the whole thing, the APIs the eco-system. Without a particular vendor lock in (like amazon fire for example) you might be able to capture the Chinese OEM market which would be a lot of devices.

Very hard road to travel though.
IIRC Apple has a history of stepping in to defend app developers from trolls. So there are at least some cases where it's possible.
Just a side comment, these are starting to be called "doorslams," and you may also be interested in alternative views of your "No thanks, I don't want a raise" dismissal link at http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/
>99.999% of everyone who knows what asset forfeiture is knows it because of John Oliver.

Asset forfeiture has been controversial since it started being used much more frequently in the 1980s. I really doubt most of the people commenting on it here first heard of it on John Oliver's show.
They weren't getting hired in the first place.
Perfect, if each of those 10K hosts downloads the library 100 times you can now typo-attack the zope.event (working in python) library, which gets ~100 downloads per day, many of which are automated and so invulnerable to your attack. Your attack vector gets you, we'll say 1 new hit every 2 days at most, and likely only one a week or so (according to some math, on `requst` vs. requests)
It isn't any harder than saving the current url to a cookie and redirecting to that value afterwards.
- A visit counter with configurable styles.
Which is sending the signal to the factories that they can get away with not paying people for quite some time.
What? No visit counter?
Toyota Children's Web Site – Teaching Kids How Cars Are Made
At These 125 Companies, All or Most Employees Work Remotely
advice to anyone entering the workforce:
form an honest opinion of what your skills can fetch at market by researching salaries,
work on your negotiating skills,
have a backup plan so you are confident to walk away if you don't get the number you want,
hold out for the right deal.

The biggest difference I see (anecdotally, so I might be wrong) between women and men, particularly from women who are complaining about inequality in pay, is that women aren't confident to negotiate about money. Strong, opinionated, skilled women will get pushed over when it comes to money. In many cases they won't even realise they can negotiate.

Negotiate everything -- the price of your cell phone, your tv, your washing machine, ask your bank for better deals on your mortgage or better interest rates on your savings. Then when it comes to job salary you have some practice to fall back on. Stand your ground, use phrases like "that isn't what I was expecting, can you offer any more?" and be prepared to respectfully decline an offer that doesn't make you happy.
Google is my DNS provider and registrar. I think I'm okay.
Given the game's huge following, they should pledge to open source the code before they die so the saga can continue. :) If they don't make money from direct sales, why not open source the game now?
And iMessage on your root phone number, right?
I don't know if this is some type of cynical irony, but calling your software "blogging like it's 1999" whilst using a .io domain creates many feelings for me.
Secure, free document storage from Fidelity
Not an issue - sure. But in the middle of a heated political campaign, any distinction, any being "the first" becomes a weapon, and a quite effective one, in its impact on the masses of semi-educated, semi- (or mis-) informed people.
Facebook and Google battle latest FBI attempt to expand surveillance
I have actually done this for a classroom management app I made mostly for fun when I taught high school. At first I wanted to use the district issued ID number as the primary key for each student. Except some students came and started classes and needed attendance records before the district got around to issuing them their official numbers. So I fell back to auto-increment int as the primary key, with their "district_id" nullable, default null, but unique constrained as just another field equivalent to their first_name.
Form 990, FY 2015; Part IX, lines 1 & 3:

http://9dc3f407a257cfd3f7ea-d14ef12e680aa00597bdffb57368cf92...

~40% of programs and services go to salaries, benefits, travel, hotels, advertising, etc. The other ~60% is not broken out, but I believe goes to Heifer's Legally Separate Entities.
So they can drain your bank account... Then you'll need to hire a lawyer (after you've lost all your money) to prove you're innocent? Does ERAD give back the 7% fee? This has turned policemen into highwaymen.
I consider your pricing to be completely out of touch with reality.
I have never worked with systems-level Windows programming, so I don't know the answer to this...but, how is what you're describing better than epoll or aio in Linux or kqueues on the BSDs?

I'm guessing you're coming from the opposite position of ignorance I am (i.e. you've worked on Windows, but not Linux or other modern UNIX), though, since "setting O_NONBLOCK and buzzing in a select loop, interleaving bits of I/O with other processing" doesn't describe anything developed in many, many years. 15 years ago select was already considered ancient.
Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories
I added https for my personal blog using cloudflare
Google voice languished for years with no updates, no bug fixes (despite a lot of serious problems!)
We don't. And it doesn't.
> Is it not that way in other sciences?

I can speak to the fact that this is absolutely the case in the physical sciences.
(Useless blank page without JS enabled. Whine. Complain.)
If you're the wealthy, meat eating country, with a higher standard of living, longer lifespan and lower infant mortality, nothing, I guess.
You must mean "theoretically" because "empirically" implies that you're basing your statement on observations. Where are the numbers? :)
Route.js – AngularJS-Like Router, in Vanilla JS
The Apple Feedback Loop
Plentiful if you have the land. The relative availability and cost of land is not guaranteed.
Lazy Newb Pack comes with a laptop keybinding set that is pretty good.
Sounds like the author doesn't know how any of this DNS stuff actually works.

The registrar ultimately controls which nameservers are used to lookup your domain. If someone has access to your registrar account then they can change this so it doesn't matter if you have separate services.

Also if your registrar is accessible but your DNS provider is down, you can switch to a different DNS provider at any time, it's not something to "prepare" for like this article says.
> So even if there was an NT API fork syscall

You can do it with NtCreateProcess: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.win32.progr...

(The Win32 userland won't understand what you did, but you can still do it.)
Are you asking if the maintainer of 'requests' decides to spy on computers and phone home information?

What packages do this?
HTTPS for your GitHub Pages' custom domain
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862874 and marked it off-topic.
Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act
I highly doubt it. The interaction required by the user wouldn't suit a mobile game very well. Additionally, the game is CPU intensive and would, as is, drain the battery very quickly.

I imagine both these issues would mean a massive refactoring in order to bring it to mobile.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11864417 and marked it off-topic.
Minimal Docker NPM image with support of private repositories
Maybe, but I'm not convinced that they're anything other than some lucky coincidences.

>He said his people were forbidden from going near the craters, as that was where the fire-devil ran down from the sun and set the land ablaze, killing people and forming the giant holes.

Australian Aboriginal mythology attributes every geographical landmark to the action of some kind of spirit in the dreamtime. These rocks are three sisters who ran away from their family and were turned to stone. This river was formed by a giant snake. The vast majority of the stories are, of course, just made-up guesses, so there's a pretty uphill battle to make a convincing case that one isn't.

A crater, well, it looks like what you get when you throw a rock into the sand, so that part of the myth is an obvious guess, that it was caused by some big force acting from above.
Prospective clients, leads: Trello

Actual clients: Accounting software (Collmex in my case)