skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe you guys are using Plex for nothing but family vacation videos and publicly licensed content; but, no way in hell I would use 3rd party storage for my plex setup.

On the otherhand, that's a kickass storage setup though.
https://status.github.com/graphs/past_day
Glad to see more diverse people are interested.
no worries, we are all learning :)
There are times when I think the source code of the Unix "file" command should be a required part of languages’ standard libraries. I have never seen anything do a better job of describing contents accurately.

It’s really silly to see applications have trouble understanding data. Even on macOS, where "file" is installed, the graphical interface sometimes fails to open/preview something that the command-line "file" describes perfectly (i.e. if it’s really text, just show me the text).
Who's to say that it should fall back to CSV instead of giving an error? What if it was actually a malformed SYLK file where further headers were mangled in transmission?

I do think it should be giving back a more descriptive error though, possibly one informing the user that it thinks it is a SYLK file and giving them the option to interpret it differently.
I wonder how prevalent Pascal is in 2016. I've been meaning to write some on a classic Mac OS system I have laying around (just for shits and giggles).
Hey exolymph, hope all is well.

DeedLion allows you to volunteer your skills to neighbors and have the proceeds benefit a cause important to you. So, for the resume example, you could offer to review a resume in return for the buyer sending $50 to a charity fighting Zika.

How it works -> When you volunteer a service, you set the price and a charity to receive the proceeds. DeedLion works to connect you with buyers (in this case, people who need a resume review) and you can accept or deny their purchase requests. Once accepted, you complete the resume review and the proceeds go to the charity you selected (in this case, $50 to a charity fighting Zika).
TypeScript nullable types
Excuse my obvious ignorance, but how is the GC written in Go? The GC in Go is not optional, right? Does the GC use GC? Turtles all the way down?
you wonder how much of that is exchange moving to the cloud. Then, existing sql server and sharepoint deployements.
The challenge is when people start to try and predict the next cycle and what it will look like. Yes, you can get the broad brush-strokes right, but details are usually very wrong and timing is way off.
Kubernetes, docker swarm mode, mesos/marathon and ecs are all in the same space.
Portal is a slightly dumbed down version of Narbacular Drop (ND), with lots and lots of polish. In ND, it was possible to create portals through portals, which drastically increased the complexity of certain solutions.
More like "anyone can see this data if you don't log out"
> I'm quite happy with demanding some social responsibility on big real estate developers - like fund a homeless shelter for 20 residents for the duration that the shopping centre is open.

While perhaps a decent idea in the abstract, this can quickly become a problem when such things become regular and unpredictable demands. For instance, a community group in Chicago recently chased away a proposed museum by demanding an extra 5% gross receipts tax. In addition to any normal taxes that might apply.

It can lead to really absurd situations. Another example is housing in SF, where some community groups routinely protest against large developments that are 40% subsidized housing on the basis that they're not 100% subsidized housing. Therefore, the logic runs, they should be stopped and a parking lot preserved.

I suppose I'm saying it's easy to get carried away on what "some social responsibility" means. And that unreliability and unpredictability are major problems for businesses.
You don't need to start a new line for every sentence man. It makes things hard to read.
Codeship founder here, would love to get more feedback. What's your use case / team size? What price would be right?
Have you any good resources for recommendation?
Why is this better than what already exists?
English is pretty far from continental western germanic (German, Dutch, ...).

Continental western germanic is actually a good example of a group where the distinction between dialect and language is not clear. There's a dialect continuum in the area [1], so you often can't draw clear cut lines what belongs to one language and one to another.

- With Low German the question is wether it is an own language or just a dialect of German.

- With the three frisian varieties the question is wether they are different languages or just different dialects of Frisian.

- Luxemburgish can be considered just a dialect, like the German dialects spoken just behind the border that are essentially the same, or an own language.

- Dutch belongs to a dialect group that also spans over wide parts of Germany and Luxembourg [2]

- And there are many more things to think about like Afrikaans or Yiddish

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum#Continental_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconian_languages
30k signatures within a day on whitehouse petition to charge Hillary
Safari on iPad als has weird issues, first text is shown unstyled, then a flash, then styled text is shown. However, on scroll a blank page is presented.
> where the first question anyone in my "target audience" will ask is "why didn't this get published in a real journal, whats wrong with it?"

One would think that this wouldn't happen simply because it is (I think) a combination of two of the most well-known logical fallacies, "argumentum ad populum" and "appeal to authority" https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

I am extremely dismayed by the fact that, in a career where (of ALL careers!) the evidence should ostensibly speak for itself, papers (and their information) are essentially pre-rejected or pre-accepted based on reputation
It's because GC is a bad idea that's had 30 years of good research thrown after it. Advancing GC is building a faster horse instead of stepping back and building a car. It's time to move on, and I'm thrilled to see modern languages (Swift, Rust) abandoning it and focusing on building more intelligent compilers.

The goal shouldn't ever be to make the world's best GC, it should be to create the world's best way to elide lifetimes so that developers don't have to think about memory management. GC shouldn't be a goal, it's a technique for solving a problem, one of many that we should explore.
Show HN: A library to work with CIDRs in Rust
Ahh, now that makes sense. I don't usually develop inside a container, so that's why I haven't had this issue before.
It also made some puzzles much simpler. Have to navigate around 20 half-walls zigzagging over a pool of lava? That was a breeze. In Portal you only get line-of-sight, meaning you had to create a pair of portals, step through, repeat. The same puzzle would have been much more challenging in Portal.
How do you monitor your APIs?
Kubernetes 1.3 tackles current and future container questions
From Zero to a Million: Building an Organization Rather Than an App
I am a former mobile software developer and now works as a QA in a company that has been recently bought by a US corporation. I live in Quebec and I would definitely recommend Montreal. If you are looking for a more urban city, you should go to Toronto - it feels like an American city.
The funny thing is that I was literally just wondering about how shells are implemented right before getting on HN. Thanks for sharing, this should prove most useful :)
I had a high school teacher who quoted Toffler a lot in class. I enjoyed his class so much I remember picking up future shock with its electric pink cover and its companion the third wave for pennies off of amazon. These books have been sitting on my bookcase for nearly fifteen years and nearly as many moves. Hadn't realized Alvin passed away last week. Maybe now I should give them a read.
You should in general just to support Python3... the more people that support it, the better for the ecosystem.
GitHub Universe is back, and we've got all the details plus early bird tickets
It always somewhat bugged me they used an actual domain for this, was there no other alternative like using a fake TLD? I'm not sure of what a router is entirely capable of doing, but if you could filter a request to "configure.tplink" or something that would make it far less likely to hijack the domain, that and the fact the domain didn't always work every time I would try it... or I couldn't remember it at times.
...That makes forcing verification possible, but that's more like saying "I'll give you a check for one dollar that's definitely real, or you can come back tomorrow for two dollars, which might be fake." Nobody carrying out a serious financial transaction would take the ladder option.
What if you rotate the camera slightly while you move? By the time you reach the end of the physical room, the camera is facing the opposite direction in virtual room and you have to turn around.
You don't need a TLD at all... They added .com to make it more approachable to users (presumably)
Indeed. I think it’s important for engineers working on any kind of end-user facing software to remember that a lot of people aren’t using cutting edge or even recent hardware. There’s lots of Core 2 Duo laptops and 3+ year old smartphones floating around in use out there and their users need to be able to use the websites and apps we make as much as the guy who buys new everything every year.

I think this is particularly easy to forget for those of us living in tech hubs where everyone is using almost-new Macbook Pros and iPhone 6Ss.
I can't speak for go specifically but in some languages you can use a manually allocated subset of the language to write the gc.
This isn't an ad play at all. It's an attempt to build features into the browser that help people find new contextually relevant web sites. Say you're on YouTube watching a video. Where are the outbound links? How do you get to other sites that are embedding or linking to the video to see what they have to say? Today you can't because YouTube wants to keep you in YouTube. But what if your browser could tell you about related sites so you could escape YouTube and find great contextually relevant content out on the Open Web? Wouldn't that be nice? Nothing to do with advertising at all.
How to Create More Content in Less Time
This is horrifying. Are they recording everything even when you aren't signed in to your Google account?

Why do I need this at all? Why do I care about what I searched for 5 years ago? Time to move off of Chrome. Does all my data with Chromium get hoovered up as well?
A tangent here. Imagine if this had been an open source effort with good version control. You (or someone else) could've gone to that time and seen all the related changes, possibly some context and other aspects about this bug. :)
Agreed. I noticed that as well since I also follow Mika McKinnon. However, now I just noticed something strange. I'm blocked by Emily Lakdawalla? Since I never speak to people on Twitter, I must follow somebody which qualifies me for a block list. I really dislike that concept.
`Could this be the killer Twilio app?`

how so ?
I'm sorry but, why should I care about this person? Is it because she reflects a growing trend or acceptance towards body modification and calls herself a transhumanist? Like, does she do anything interesting? A 3D printed model of her is... incredibly not very unique? Does she represent how diverse tech can be? Perhaps... but what's the point? "Sexy people can code too!" Yeah I realize. I'm sorry, I just don't see the point.
This is not quite bad, but it's made worse by the idea that users should have no control over the firmware they run see: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-lin...
Investor Paul Singh is currently doing a "tech tour" in an Airstream to highlight tech opportunities and innovation in smaller US cities. It looks like fun, and there are some sweet photos of meetings inside the Airstream!

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RJTechTour

https://twitter.com/paulsingh
Post-trade settlement is a very manual and time consuming process, a new solution built on a distributed ledger has the potential to drastically cut costs and reduce settlement time.
The US savings rate is still historically low and on a downwards trend. The savings rate is definitely lower than the optimal capital/labour ratio, but economists disagree on how much.
10M Android Devices Infected by ‘HummingBad’ Malware, Researchers Say
Ask HN: Best approach to setup a minimal mvp with newsletter and blog
The app does not need to remember any info about the user. I would prefer python, specifically django as I am quite familiar with it. Yet, setting up a newsletter without username and password but email verification seems to be a convoluted process in django.

All newsletter implementations for django require the user to be registered with the core auth module. Since it is a simple newsletter, I do not want to trouble to users to enter usernames, full names and passwords. Just the email followed by email confirmation. Does an alternative exist for this?

Is there a good starter kit for django with the essentials integrated?

Is there anything else you can recommend for this usecase? I would like it to be simple and straightforward as this is just a starter website to validate an idea.

Or is wordpress my only hope?
modern pascal is actually pretty good. it's very unfortunate that it isn't considered sexy. i learned programming on turbo pascal and used to think that pascal isn't a serious language. years later, after seeing that it's not dead and dropping prejudices against it i can see that it lost pretty much only because of its perceived uncoolness.
> Any syntax errors or JavaScript errors generate a visible error message for the user telling them the site is broken.

This would make users not use the browser that implemented it.

> When something goes wrong, the site gets a HTTP PUT request with an error report, so sites can tell this happened.

If I bother to implement a handler just to get error reports from browsers, I surely took first the easier step to open my website in such a browser to check how it looks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_SW19c1BfhTHRXWFJ1RUtvaDQ...
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Why do you think it's dead? Most recent update is 3 days ago.
blogspam, dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015755
You have never commented out a section of code that was the only place an import was used for debugging?
Expensive Hepatitis C drug pushes people to make their own medicines
My mother (southern Brazilian of German descent - white, blonde, blue eyes) recently went to Natal, RN, and was harassed a lot by the locals (with sexist slurs and aggressive approaches) because they though she was from abroad and couldn't understand them. Cops constantly recommended her and her friend (same looks) to leave the areas were they were (they were going after historic sites, buildings, churches, etc.) and to stay only withing the proximity of beaches, were it was safer.

Another problem with the Brazilian tourism industry is the amateurish way everything is conducted. Guides don't have good knowledge of English, don't carry insurance (e.g. when taking people on boats), and their equipment (e.g. life vests) is often outdated and in bad need for maintenance. A lot of nature tours are much riskier than most people realize, and if something goes wrong, there's not exactly a good plan in place to take them to safety/medical help.

Safety is a concern everywhere. There is no large Brazilian city, except perhaps Florianopolis and Sao Paulo (surprisingly), where the murder rate is not sky high. Contrary to America, where areas with high murder rates tend to have such rates due to gang-related crime isolated in bad neighborhoods, violent crime is widespread in Brazil and people aren't safe anywhere except maybe in very touristy areas like beach fronts.

Brazil has some extremely beautiful places to visit, but I don't think going there is worth the risk. America has equally or even more beautiful places and the people in charge have much better training (e.g. National Parks and their Park Rangers).
Nice ts
I was just musing with my girlfriend about the logical progression of immersion technology, especially as it applies to games.

Right now, we're still trying to perfect the visual part of VR. In 5 to 10 years we may get to the point where graphics are no longer indistinguishable from reality as we know it.

Research into providing the sensation of touch has begun already and in, say 25 years as a safe estimate, we may be able to perfect that as well. Games where you can comprehend the texture and weight of every object, wince from every blow you receive, and even feel a cool wind or gusts of heat all over your skin.

In about 50 years we will have the senses of smell and taste covered as well, and by 100 years from now VR may become impossible to tell apart from reality.

But.. people will still KNOW that it's fake, because they will remember being out here in reality.

So what's the next step for achieving maximum immersion?

Voluntarily wiping out your memory of the real world before you log into that next-gen VRMMORPG. Eventually you have people being born into a world without a clue and having to be cared for by and learn from others until they can orient themselves, and all sorts of theories about what happens when they "die."
Criticism of "The China Study" pretty much ends my confidence in it:
https://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fa...
Another fun thing you can do is create a shell that only runs with the '-c' command line flag. If this is set as the default shell for a user, then you can use ssh as a simplistic rpc transport.
It's just a profile piece. It's not hard journalism nor is it trying to be. It's just a little picture of the life of a mildly interesting person. If you like, great. If you don't, you don't have to read it.
That's just the date on someone's excited post to a mailing list, at having discovered http://foundation.freepascal.org.

I don't see any explicit dates in that site's content. Oh, except that the projects have dates on them. Both current and past projects are tagged 2016. Busy beavers! Mid 2016, and already three 2016-dated items are "past projects".
The section under "People move from bits to atoms without realizing the change in underlying fundamentals" is important. He writes (condensed):

"Many tech investors are shifting from investing in bits-driven business (software) into atoms driven businesses (anything you need to manufacture). ... investors are applying tech multiples expectations to these radically different types of businesses. This is unlikely to end well. ...

"If you are merely using software but the business fundamentals have not shifted - than the startup ... will not merit tech multiples. A software-enabled, network connected, crowd funded, smart toaster is, when all is said and done, still just a toaster."*

Birchbox. Soylent. Maybe Uber. You can think of others.

(Uber may be a bubble. They've raised and spent a huge amount of money underselling competitors. It's rumored that only in SF is Uber profitable.)

(Amazon succeeded because they figured out how to do online retail really well. Remember "one click ordering"? (The key to that is not the one-click ordering. It's that the user can easily cancel for a short period after ordering. That makes one-click ordering safe for the user. Most retailers still don't get this.) Then they developed new distribution technology. Amazon has 30,000 Kiva robots and their order pick time is down to 15 minutes at some distribution centers. They're now in the same business Webvan had 15 years ago, but their costs are low enough that it works.)
Very cool. Are there similar documents available for any other games that we would be familiar with?

I imagine it could be a pretty interesting exercise to read over a handful of these from different teams.
I am still looking for Software Eng. positions startups are fine.
My wife is a medical doctor who's willing to work but needs a certification. We look for an urban setting. Costal climate would be is what we aiming for, but really that depends on the tech scene.

I guess my biggest issue would be is to get a visa for entire family. Not sure how it is in Canada yet... USA has been a hell in that sense.
> I was using private windows for searches for years but had no idea about unique browser ID

Fine to switch, but the GP is wrong. This is not a thing that exists.
I had no idea London was an economic disaster. Any links?
I wish they chose a better name than "Free Pascal". It makes it sound like a lower-quality version.

After that recent Object Pascal guide was on HN [1] I've been meaning to try the language out. It looks like it might be a nice alternative to using Ruby on some small side projects where I need a quick OO language to work with.

I've grown attached to static types so it looks like it might be a good option.
My only concern is whether the tooling has been modernized or not.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027008
Voice-chat used for gaming has had unmute on speech for more than a decade. That solves the problem of background humming, while getting all the voice tgrough.
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I mean... realistically, what is the point of using a service because of a canary if you didn't think about what your plan would be if the canary disappeared?
Or that you have to drop $1,405.00 [0] to get a 'professional' environment.

[0] https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/delp...
Language fans can all say that about their favorite languages from the past. ;-)

lisp, prolog, smalltalk, forth, fortran, even ada.

The challenge for programming languages today is not so much the syntax/language constructs but the ecosystem, libraries, community & support.

See php, it has all that and is very successful.

p/s. I write PHP code and believe pascal is a better language.
That's not entirely true, what about when you bring someone in and say "here's my mysql server that I haven't upgraded in years, analyze the data in it"
I reckon the automation field is the way to go rather than actual dev. or you just decided to switch gears?
In Kevin Kellys new book, The Inevitable [1], he talks about the trends and long-term forces that push and pull the actual implementations and delivery mechanisms of new technology.

I'd suggest that understanding the themes narrow down the search area for the Next Big Thing.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable
Thanks, I've heard good things about Ottawa will defo look into tech there.
I use encfs on top of all of that, which means there's no possible way for Amazon to see my files.
Github let's you host static pages for free. Mega gives you 50GB free storage. Amazon EC2 has a nano option that costs very little.