skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you could ever bring yourself to vote for Hillary then I would argue you are not Republican. Regardless of how you feel about Trump, there is very little in Hillary's platform that a conservative republican would agree with.

I totally get choosing your conscious in a binary choice, but don't pretend like voting for Clinton will somehow be better for the Republican party. You aren't really a republican if you think that way. (Which is totally fine)
As I read somewhere years if not decades ago, "opiates are only a problem when you can't get them or they're too strong."
Git's author felt the alternative (gratis) systems were lacking. Noms's author, on the contrary, praises Git but doesn't build on it. He chooses to implement the same technology himself, and from the docs it's not clear to me why that is.
I didn't mean 'open' or 'close'. I meant 'less restrictive' or 'more restrictive'. Win32 is less restrictive, and UWP is more restrictive.

> The idea that encouraging user level apps to use UWP because it is safer does not inherently mean some draconian lockdown is coming.

All market places (google play, steam, apple app store) has restrictions. I haven't made app for any one of them, but I am certain there are policies people disagree with, and policies that has lead an app to be removed from the store or some app not getting past the the screening process.

On Win32 you don't have that. You can build something, post it anywhere, anybody can download and run it without any hiccup. This fluidity has made PC where it is today.

Also there are trust issues. Sweeney said, "The risk here is that, if Microsoft convinces everybody to use UWP, then they phase out Win32 apps. If they can succeed in doing that then it’s a small leap to forcing all apps and games to be distributed through the Windows Store."

> If Microsoft is going to lock the platform down, they're going to lock the platform down. There's nothing you can do about it.

Yes there is. In fact that's why this thread exists. MS has added UWP feature because Epic games won't do it. Steam has also released SteamOS.

It's more users that MS wants. Security comes later. And as long as the developers are taking a stand against restrictive UWP, MS will leave UWP behind. And hopefully next time they will take a different route.

Least restrictive nature is the hallmark of PC. I can't stress it enough.
Oh cool! It looks like the first link is from 2014. Do they discuss their progress somewhere online? I'd love to see what they've done recently.
Err no not in my experience - I used to be member of a well lnow tech coop in the UK. They way you structure it is your a member of the coop that owns the company who employes you .

Of course Mondragon in spain is different you have to Ante up
>Functional style is basically not done with OOP.

Check out Smalltalk, it's actually more derived from Lisp than from Simula.

>The actor model (i.e. what Erlang does)?

Smalltalk matches the actor model. A lot of people compare Erlang and Smalltalk, actually.
One advantage of the NHS serious medical conditions wont bankrupt you.
Are you claiming that Musk does engineering work for SpaceX?
I did not know about that HTML5 video speed controller, thank you for sharing that.

> Curious, what speed do you normally use? 2x? more than 2x?

It varies greatly depending on how fast the person talks normally, the difficulty/newness of the subject matter, and the way they phrase their sentences (useless filler words, or densely meaningful?)

There are some videos where the person talks fast enough (on a topic new to me, without filler words) for me to listen comfortably at 1.0.

At the other extreme if they talk exceptionally slowly, use lots of filler words, and the topic is easy or something I'm familiar with I may push it past 3.0. Also, if I'm reviewing videos I've already studied.

With foreign languages I may slow it down to 0.7 or so.

> Do you know other people who like to watch technical videos at 1.5x and 2x, or are we the exception?

I just assumed everyone does this at some point in time, unless it hadn't occurred to them.

I mean, we all skim books that we've already studied, don't we? Refreshing our memory and looking for things we need to revisit (at normal reading speed)? Wouldn't everyone also want to 'skim' the videos they've already watched instead of re-watching at normal speed?
And everybody using the fork still has to pay Epic according to the UE4 license, it doesn't matter for Epic which version they use: they get their 5% profit share either way.

If Microsoft were to discourage Win32 apps Epic would have to adapt UE4, but the MS fork can't really make that harder.
We can't effectively legislate thought yet, although that hasn't stopped legislatures from trying and lawyers from making loads of money arguing over intent. It's incredibly difficult, inefficient and expensive to determine whether an asked question led to a discriminatory decision, so asking is prohibited instead.
The "Drug-induced deaths" plot from the link is very telling.
I haven't found uBlock origin to consume much memory when looking at about:memory (Show memory reports). Perhaps another add-on is chewing up your memory. I often have 20+ tabs open. If I have 20 or more tabs with Chrome open, and I add up the memory for all the per-tab processes Chrome spawns, Chrome eats up way too much memory. Chrome is great as long as you don't have many open tabs. Firefox is great for those of us that just can't close our tabs.
The problem with the Google information is their rig is full-custom everything: silicon, firmware, and interface. It can't possibly influence your buying decisions.
.NET Framework 4.6.2
If someone was suffering from pain and couldn't even buy Ibuprofen due to an oppressive government and shitty societal view, one might not be surprised if they steal to get life-changing medicine.

The fact a "normal" person would rob an older woman for an essential medicine should reflect more on the society than the patient.
This seems pretty cool. I just tried using jslint to lint a file, it works! https://gist.github.com/ianjosephwilson/7c6c0a2c833e92b3a82c...
Mobile Scan and Pay Technology could promote supermarket theft, study suggests
One comes after the other...
you can run software on macOS that isn't signed by apple.
> The idea that a transient celestial phenomenon that lasts around 5 minutes [...] is going to somehow stimulate a cognitive awakening is absurd

I specifically said it's the corona, not the eclipse, that's spectacular. The corona only lasts seconds, not anywhere near 5 minutes.

> and that a large number of organisms in the species will never even see

That's based on the present geographic distribution of humans. When humankind was making the transition to intelligence, they were distributed differently over the earth, over a zone more likely to produce eclipses with a corona.

> How many eclipses have you seen in your life?

Only one with the full corona. There's three naturally occurring time periods in nature: days, years, and inter-coronal intervals.
Disease assumes it's something out of your control. Nobody decides to get cancer or get depressed. Taking drugs, especially starting to, is 100% up to you.

People need to learn about the consequences of their actions, and take some responsibility, instead of blaming it on the seller. It's like blaming the knife manufacturers for the stabbing victims.
Book: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
I don't mean to break your balls, I think this is a great concept. But I think with what you were saying "don't waste your time admining servers". There are many PaaS products these days that help you with that. You can get a heroku server up and running in just a few minutes. I guess what I'm wondering is: why would I go with you instead of heroku?
Someone flagged this? LOL.
Comcast and Verizon aren't into using other people's infrastructure. They want to own the customer by owning the infrastructure to the customer.

Comcast won't even take government subsidies to build out to unserved areas.
From the article, it sounds like the same could be said about that dude as was said about The Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N., to wit, he gets with ladies but in the end they do not like him. (http://achewood.com/?date=01272003)
Heh. I switched my wife from crashplan to backblaze about 18 month ago because I was tired of the crashplan client being buggy. Backblaze has just worked.
An isolated tribe emerges from the rain forest
In all my worlds, there are no people. They have shape, structure, geometry, the physics and the backgrounds. Places, regions, cities and borders, architecture and machinery.

But there is no one. No characters or villains, no random strangers, no gods or myths. Not even faceless masses. At most there can be vehicles in the distance, or a general, indistinct feeling of inhabitation.

This might be the reason i never really wrote any stories, despite always wanting to. For all the verse, there is no one to write about.

Not sure how to fix that, other than considering a different media. VR, perhaps...
What Is the Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning?
That sounds similar to the idea the Overton window[0]. I've thought for a while that I hope I get to say what I want before they say what they're offering. The hope is that if I say a high number then we will be negotiating based on that high number rather than some unknown, possibly lower one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Super cool!

Adding social media buttons is a chore if you're not being paid much to taylor the experience.
Having it stipulated by the state means that people who have less leverage to decline to answer such questions have the power of the state behind them.
Unfortunately we have network effect monopolists who can get away with huge margins. See Google, Facebook
While it isn't yet the law everywhere in the US, it's not just celebrities whose dealers get charged with murder for supplying drugs that kill via overdose.[1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/her-fiance-gave-her-...
A City of Empty Towers
I also used the snowflake method (with exceptions). Being a software developer forces you to think that way. My approach was: paragraph, outline, story story, full novel. I also refined my research in between stages.

The novel is called The Final Six Days, about an asteroid about to destroy civilization and the strange man who is endlessly time looping in the those final days.

http://amzn.to/2atUtOC

(P.S. I'm a introverted engineer not a shameless self-promoter. I don't want to feel like I'm spamming so if you want me to check out a novel you wrote let me know.)
> FWIW Advil and other OTC painkillers (NSAIDs) cause almost as many deaths as opiates.

Maybe, maybe not. The basis on which that claim has usually been made has been discredited, but there is a dearth of good data on which to make a claim either way. [0]

[0] http://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacolo...
I'm an engineer with experience at SV tech giants + SV startups. You can shoot your resume to me I'll get back to you in a day or two: kai at randomdotnext.com
Problem being that MD5 is incredibly fast, as opposed to e.g. Bcrypt, which makes bruteforcing so much easier.
The thing I really took forever to grasp was how do-notation desugars (a la https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/do_notation ). For the longest time I understood logically/conceptually how to deal with monadic operations, but was confused on the syntax. For a while, do-notation and also applicative style were opaque mysteries until I managed to figure out what was going on under the hood.
There's also a point in cleaning up old accounts in order to protect people's privacy. These might be accounts the user has forgotten or no longer has possibility to access the account (forgotten password). Even though user can't access the account, it might be still accessible to others with malicious intents. Maybe the password was weak, maybe user used the same password in multiple services and it is not publicly available in some datadump.
Great, thanks for the references! There is a whole genre of tabletop RPGs that I had no idea existed out there. Dread seems like it might be a good fit. The story is still taking shape, but it's basically about a hard-case who finds redemption by helping a young family find safety in a collapsing world. Maybe similar in feel to "The Road" but with a more positive outcome.
You sound like you'd do well as an art director. You have a vision, but it's an aesthetic one, not a narrative one. You could work with a writer to fit narratives in there.
Dungeon World looks awesome, I'm definitely going to give that a shot. Thanks!
Hijack WhatsApp and Telegram accounts using known telecom flaw
Simply not true when the design is not trivial.

I'm giving interviews with system design, I'd say that the majority of programmers who are decent cannot actually architecture anything well enough. And it doesn't matter if they're given more time, they don't have the training/experience for it. (They'll only learn the impact of their decisions later, eventually painfully).

On the other hand, they may be able to develop it if handed and led through a proper architecture.
How to recreate your long-lost Pinterest bookmarklet
> Who is the right person to decide who "needs" to side-load?

The person who decides to explicitly opt in to allowing side-loading. Just don't allow apps, web pages, etc etc to opt-in for you to ensure the technically non-adept have a difficult time getting themselves into trouble.
N moderators would eagerly accept a narrower audience in exchange for better content

So would many of the readers & commenters. I almost never downvote because I disagree with something, but I will almost always downvote someone who's being rude, or otherwise uncivil or even sometimes, just making unfunny "jokes."

I like the community and the intent behind it. That's worth working to protect.
Patent trolls are a symptom of the disease that is our horribly broken patent system, which also serves to stifle innovation and protect the interests of large, entrenched businesses at the expense of everyone else. Unfortunately, instead of working to fix our broken patent system, we are doubling down and trying to impose it on a global basis via the TPP (often categorized as a "free trade" deal when it is in fact quite the opposite) and other misbegotten treaties.
Docker for Mac > About Docker > Acknowledgements, Cmd+F: Irmin

Not only has Irmin been around longer (with full JS support thanks to js_of_ocaml) it also has a pretty big deployment under its belt.
Messages were clearly not fancy subroutine calls in Smalltalk-72 and -74: they were a stream of tokens between the sender and the receiver. This was optimized away in Smalltalk-76 (and so -78 and -80) so that messages no longer seemed like the ones in Actor languages or Erlang.

But I don't think it is unfortunate that the name "messages" has persisted. Check out Squeak running on a 56 core Tilera chip with the RoarVM. Messages from an object to another one in the same core are indeed just fancy subroutine calls. But if the receiver is in a different core, then a message is a bunch of bytes sent from one core to the other. Even though the two messages are the same at the source level and at the bytecode level.
You'd have to poll their members, but I would suspect they are pretty happy. They are well paid, are not allowed to be worked around the clock like Silicon Valley programmers and have a known career path. For blue collar work it's about as good as it gets.

> Is it possible that there are factors outside of unionization that affect how these workers are paid?

Of course, there are tons of variables. But it's a fact that unionized workers make more than non-unionized workers in the same jobs, that unionized workers are much more likely to have health insurance, that unionized workers are much more likely to have paid vacation and sick time, etc etc.
This worked for my graphic novel:

1. Start with an interesting situation and image. Explore it for a while, ask questions about the situation and weave the answers into the story.

2. Figure out where you want it to end.

3. By now the characters will have established themselves and their desires. Figure out ways to drop situations on the characters that motivate them to go where you want them to. If they refuse then keep trying.

4. Continue until the story's finished.

5. Publish it, for whatever values of "publish" you're comfortable working for - online, self-pub, submissions to publishers/agents, whatever.

6. Take a break. If you enjoyed it then start again.

Or, in the language of the OP, switch between pants-ing and planning. Neither one will cover everything you need IMHO.

Also:

0. Read a lot. In whatever genre you want to work in, and outside of it. Read great stuff, good stuff, bad stuff. Be able to tell the difference; apply that critical eye to your own work.
wow. very good info. saved link.
We didn't need them, since websites rendered just fine without all the shit they have today.

I used a site that rendered a grid of images. Literally, that was the only user-visible function. It took 5s to render when throttled to 1GHz i5. Unthrottled i5 required 2.5s.

It is lunacy. It is an artifact of having a terrible language (JS) and a terrible layout system (HTML) mixed up into a modern "standard". Plus naive developers abstracting so far away they have no idea what's going on, and partially don't care.

Wasn't too long ago someone asked (I think unironically) why HN was so "fast". As if such a page shouldn't load basically instantly.

Can you honestly say info browsing (not apps like GDocs) overall is better than it was 10-20 years ago? Ignore the increase in content. Images load faster, sure, but that's offset by all the other junk. Twitter, for instance - it's actually sluggish on a nice ThinkPad! WTF.
I've never had a company ask for proof of income and I wouldn't work at one that did. That's an insane requirement that should have nothing to do with whether or not I'm fit for the job and they're willing to pay what I ask for someone to do the job.
Heh. :-) I'd love to just accomplish writing one, even if it's shitty. But of course would prefer a good one, at some point.

The issue for me at the moment is just carving out the time / paying the opportunity cost to go for it. Not quite ready to dive in yet, but I think about the methods once in a while.

Thanks for the reply and advice! I think it'd be sage to bear in mind if/when I start.
Compared to say being a surgeon? or a lawer some one on here mentioned that a transplant surgeon can make over $15M.
Well you could try writing poetry.
If YOU made this project and WE can test it, then you can add "Show HN" to the title. It encourages the users to provide feedback. More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Some feedback:

Perhaps you can add also a registration by email and facebbok.

I picked a random user, and the volume was too low, perhaps you can autoadjust the volume. (add a volume button?)

In that user, the initial part of the recording is a "click". Is it possible to cut the initial/final part? (Some minimal edition?)

Do you have a maximal recording time? A link to report abuse?
The annoying problem of being unable to select via Enter key the first item in the address bar that is shown while typing any text is back.

Using OldBar on FF48 on a MAC

type text into address bar - Key down to select first entry

Hit enter - nothing happens
Ah, of course.

So this means any performance increase will be coming from rewriting old code in a more efficient way, which could be done independently of e10s, right?

I mean, since the new multiple processes will not share address space, there will have to be explicit communication between processes with corresponding overhead and blocking? So a priori one would expect the new code to be slightly slower? And use more memory, since some data needs to be duplicated between processes?

What also comes to mind is that introducing e10s is like taking an OpenMP-parallel code and turning it into an MPI+OpenMP-parallel code.
I used to shy away from Seagate drives, and even though the stats here are for 3.5", it doesn't look like WD drives are more reliable than the Seagate. I was planning to get a 4TB 2.5" portable usb drive, and right now it's just Seagate that offers one without scary features. WD has one but not the Elements, just the MyPassport which includes the risky AES feature, and I don't want to accidentally lock or encrypt the disk because of that and then need a Windows tool.

Would anyone advise against getting a http://www.seagate.com/consumer/backup/expansion-portable/?s... drive?
DragonFly 4.6 Released
I'm pretty sure the only pain she was suffering from was that of not having enough drugs in her system at any given time.
yep the ragged trousered philanthropists lives on.
Wow, this might actually be good enough / full-featured enough to let me stop copying around my huge HAproxy configuration boilerplate and Ansible roles for every project I spin up. Very cool!
It's such a major liability to have sex with a girl, impregnate them, be stuck with a kid all while job prospects suck too.

I say this is a side-effect of Millennials forgoing pretty much a lot of comforts that boomers have come to enjoy, like owning a home or owning a car.

Austerity in every sense of the word.

Also, as a male millennial, I can honestly say that the climate to be promiscuous has never been less inviting.
Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival.
So why do people believe that competition is healthy? The answer is that competition is not just an
economic concept or a simple inconvenience that individuals and companies must deal with in the
marketplace. More than anything else, competition is an ideology—the ideology—that pervades our
society and distorts our thinking. We preach competition, internalize its necessity, and enact its
commandments; and as a result, we trap ourselves within it—even though the more we compete, the
less we gain. - Zero To One, The ideology of competition
Yes I am aware of this study. From memory the temperature limit was 50K which no civilisation capable of building a Dyson Sphere would let leak out. Also the study was limited to our galaxy. The final issue is that if the von Neumann probes are moving at close to the speed of light we would not be able to detect these Dyson spheres anyway.

It would be really interesting to do a survey of galaxies looking for these spherical chunks. It should be possible to just use existing data and some machine learning to scan for possible candidates. If anyone is interested in doing this with me my contact details are in my profile.
That doesn't make any sense. Having seen a fair amount of shit, I go back and forth. Should heroin be legal? It would certainly lower the price, but it would definitely create more addicts. This isn't a headache, that is theft.

Clearly, there is a difference between opportunistically taking a few pills and working your way into someones life to rob them repeatedly. This reflects on the person and while I don't know if I made up my mind, I can certainly intellectually understand why society has banned this.