skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Troll question indeed. Pretty much every LO post anywhere has in the comments someone claiming that:

* an unspecified version of LO is incompatible

* with an unspecified document

* from an unspecified version of MS Office

* in some unspecified manner

* therefore LO is unusable.

The correct answer is: "Bug report with test document, or it didn't happen."

The other standard troll comment is "why don't they have a ribbon yet, it looks so ooooold". Which you'll see on this post too.

(and they are indeed working on this precise thing. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar )
You get treated as a second class citizen if you're editing from an IP address or a new account...

The other side of this is that I'd estimate that at least a fifth of UK MPs have been edited by someone in the MP's office or otherwise directly involved with their campaign at some point, sometimes even openly.
I guess it is a slippery slope. The next target might be children.
For scalable SQL products, I'd consider Google's Spanner to be in that boat. There is actually a class of products trying to do this under the name of NewSQL[0]. CockroachDB seems to be mimicking spanner's design principles and deliver a similar product[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL

[1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#design
It can work with MariaDB as well, though it's just a Fork of MySQL so hard to say if that counts.
Indeed, and one of the reasons is the success of ShareLaTeX means that it takes our team's whole attention to keep up with the growth of ShareLaTeX, and keep investing in feature development to keep up with demand. ShareLaTeX isn't going anywhere.
Oh neat, is that a thing now?

I ask because I hacked up something a couple years back to let me manage files in ~/.ssh/config.d, plus a Makefile that produced ~/.ssh/config from them and a set of shims for OpenSSH commands which would run make before running ssh, scp, etc., to make sure the live config stayed up to date with changes in .d files. But I haven't used that pile of shell scripts or looked at it in a while, so it's probably started to smell a bit, and it would therefore be nice if this were a thing OpenSSH itself can now do.
Looks neat, but I can't really think of a real world application for it other than some debugging of API's. It's basically polling-as-a-service. The hashtag about the real time web is a joke, right?

Please, don't turn it into some kind of SAAS, that would ruin everything. I'd be willing to pay a license fee on a stand-alone app, not a monthly fee on a tool I'd use once every few months.
> you can fool basically anyone who isn't actively watching your door 24/7

How easy is it to fool a surveillance camera pointed at your door 24/7 with an automated system trained to detect human movement watching it?
Certainly interesting. This felt out of place to me in the concrete actions you can take now: "Keep having children because a) the world needs more smart children and b) by the time they get really expensive, who knows what things will be like." Sure these are fair points but dependents do limit ones ability to make decisions 'suddenly'
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar
Is there any tool that tries to prevent fingerprinting by unifying browsers' behavior into one single promoted "common" one? Well, completely preventing is probably impossible, but at least lower the number of unique properties.

E.g. a software-only... err... shim (or how should I call it?) for canvas and audio APIs, and only allow fast native one to a trusted whitelisted parties. And an uniform list of fonts and plugins, despite of what's actually installed.

Of course, I know about NoScript. It can't be mass-used as a "just install this and you're good" strategy, thus doesn't help much - the fingerprints would still remain quite unique. Yet, if something is less obtrusive - just slow at times (and then it asks "hey, this site does something fancy with canvas, maybe allow it to speed up at the cost of your privacy?") may work.
Alternatively: "News of Telegram hack contrary to user's strongly held beliefs, #offended by suggestion of problems with Telegram."
I was travelling in Eastern Europe with a friend last summer, and we noticed the phenomenon independently. We were searching for good espresso by looking for cafes that had the industrial aesthetic- bare wooden tables, vaguely scandinavian furniture, Edison bulbs. It worked without fail; every cafe we stopped in that subscribed to the aesthetic had great coffee.

I suspect the reason for this is that the aesthetic works as a costly signalling mechanism. If you're going to start a cafe with expensive coffee machines (a high end, commercial espresso machine will be ~$20 000, with a similar cost for a grinder), you're likely to also invest in design that's trendy.

The key will be seeing how the aesthetic evolves as style changes- when industrial chic is no longer fashionable, will AirBnBs still subscribe to it? I suspect not.
According to Newt, voters don't want the truth in politics, especially because it's awkward. Voters want politicians to side with them on the basis of their feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhJWusyj4I&feature=youtu.be
No, he won't hire people who only speak Ebonics, just as he won't hire people who only speak any other regional or ethnic variant of English.

He will hire people who can write in correct standard English, which should be anyone who has an education, regardless of the variant they speak in their community or family.
Sure, some "systems thinking" falls under the woo-umbrella. But I'd hardly call the hard systems sciences New Age pseudoscience. System Dynamics, Agent-Based Modeling, etc all have methods and evaluative feedback loops in terms of measuring whether they are predictive or not. If you system dynamics model predicts a 10-year S-curve and you see 20 years of exponential growth, you probably don't have the model correct.

If you stop at the level of "everything is connected" - it can lead to all sorts of woo-ey conclusions - much like a light understanding of quantum physics can (some of which I happen to agree with, but aren't yet falsifiable) - but SD was developed at MIT by engineers...
$0.50 buys an awful lot of electricity. I would expect other costs to be a bigger deal than energy.

These drones have minutes of flight time carrying kgs of weight with Watt-hours of energy consumption:

http://www.dronesglobe.com/guide/heavy-lift-drones/

As a sanity check, Googling on drone electricity costs has other people saying pennies per delivery.
Words of wisdom here
Is the file a word doc in c:\Documents and Settings\PC OWNER\desktop? :)
For others who've never before run into that particular acronym, it glosses per [1] to "Trust On First Use/Persistence of Pseudonym".

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-March/028...
I thought that would be the likely case, but I read into it and somewhat agree with the author. He focuses on written grammar, not on speech.
Was this killed by flags? What happened?
From the article (emphasis mine):

> While trading was halted in all digital currencies, including ethereum, the exchange said losses were limited only to bitcoin. It also said U.S. dollar deposits were not impacted.

As someone standing on the crypto currency sidelines with a bag of popcorn, I feel like this movie has gone from cyber punk drama to a played out comedy where you already know all the jokes and punchlines.

Every time a company attempts any form of "hot" storage for Bitcoin this seems to happen. At this point, I'm convinced it's only a matter of "when" not "if" for anybody else doing it. People keep trying to find an intersection between security and convenience but the lines are parallel!
Well, I had the experience that only some of the new stuff I learned required to forget about old stuff I already knew.
This would make Wal-mart the biggest production Azure user in terms of actual traffic. That'd be a killer position for Microsoft to be in.
Don't forget Snowden's laws, in particular the Zero, First and Second laws:

Zero) Any US company might be in bed with government.

First) Any US company might be forced to deny involvement with the US government.

Second) Any US company can be tried in secret courts.

So, basically all US companies are potentially government branches.

This is not tongue-in-cheek.
"Stranger rules" are a net negative, in my opinion. The threat from strangers is overblown--if you want to minimize danger to your kids at the all costs, don't let them see relatives, ever.
Package delivery is one of the highest profile uses for drones, but I don't think it's a lasting one. Drones are unlikely to become cheap and efficient enough to eclipse current delivery techniques on a mass scale. Especially because traditional techniques will become much more effective as autonomous cars become feasible.

However, lots of the technology being developed (robust autonomous flight, improved endurance & range, lower costs) will speed up developments for other applications that make better use of their strengths. Even more importantly, companies like Google are finally forcing the FAA to craft realistic regulations that don't completely cripple commercial applications. The FAA's lethargic pace has already severely hampered domestic development to the degree that Google had to do most of their development in Australia.
6 months in the bank is always nice to have and probably a must by now.
What's wrong with riding in the winter? You have to make sure you have the right clothing and equipment, but that's about it.
All of the official ports of React Native are targeted at mobile or touch-first platforms. (I consider the UWP and Ubuntu ports official in that they come from Microsoft and Canonical, respectively.) Only the unofficial Mac port can truly be said to target a desktop platform.

What underlying toolkit would a Windows desktop port of React Native use, anyway? WPF? Old Win32?
I appreciate this author's "hope for sunshine but prepare for rain" philosophy as opposed so many others view that either "the sky is falling" or "the good times will last forever" narratives. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
That is my mistake, I would have assumed otherwise. Thus it must make my example invalid. I would have to think otherwise, then.

The point about janitorial services — I am sure having horrible janitors (and horrible customer support) is a true disaster. But being an average janitor is not too hard; if a place has bad janitors, then of course that should be a priority investment.
Shark – iOS ORM v2.0.8,supports referencing related objects using dot notation
I can drive out of the city, you know...
The whole discussion is about a debugger feature, or at least, the runtime groundwork required for said debugger feature. It will not result in the exception message telling you the null reference's name. It enables an attached debugger to query the runtime for additional information to determine that.
getting a connection refused error
ssh: connect to host chat2.shazow.net port 22: Connection refused
Being able to listen to a blog post is a nice hack for keeping my attention. It's actually an additional feature that adds value to a blog.
Yahoo had this ages ago. You'd pick a static prefix, but it'd be different from your primary address, and only whitelisted suffixes would be allowed through.
Ask HN: Advice for emigrating from Third World
Hello HN. I am a software developer living in a Third World country. I would like to migrate with my family to another country because the situation in our country has gotten worse over the past couple of months. I do not wish to raise our children in this environment and I don't see things improving in the foreseeable future. I also want to provide more options for our kids. Dual-citizenship and passports will open doors for them in the future.

We are considering Australia and Canada, because we have family and friends there. I want to ask for advice from anyone who's made a similar move or anyone familiar with the situation in the above countries.

some questions
- what are the dev job prospects like in the above places?
- is hiring ageism widespread (I'm in my late 30s)?
- are there any particular places you'd recommend or avoid?
- are there other countries you think we should consider?

There's lots of information out there but I want to hear your perspective.
We have a design team, and they keep improving things, but it's a fairly large surface of UI so it's taking a while.
> The vision of social relations that sustains transgenderism is the so-called postgenderism: a social, political and cultural movement whose adherents advocate a voluntary abolition of gender, rendered possible by recent scientific progress in biotechnology and reproductive technologies.

What a bizarre claim.
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If would could only find a way to tax that in order to pay off the fiscal deficits we had to accrue in order to make perpetual trade deficits less painful...
I wish I could select the text to quote on iOS but I can't.

However, there's a core premise of the article that I disagree with: it is not more acceptable to emphasize your identity as a minority. People emphasize identity as a white, as male, as part of their class every day. People are OBLIGATED to make an effort to embrace or at least accept and work with minority cultures, but are not restricted from emphasizing or being proud of their own. I certainly know a few Germans and Scandinavian Americans who have no issues celebrating their heritage non-offensively.

I think the same applies to sexuality. Cis people have no issues expressing their identity as cis daily. To draw a parallel to the black lives matter movement, the reason #AllLivesMatter is offensive is not because all lives DONT matter, but because it negates the efforts of other people to raise awareness of minority issues. Similarly, nobody is going to give you shit for being cis unless you do some thing like try to start a heterosexual pride day--that's just the norm, EVERY day is heterosexual pride day. You can be joyful of your sexuality daily and express how much you enjoy it to the world. It's called pop music!

Secondly, there was a lot of talk about a class binary. This isn't really a thing outside of dialectical materialism, to my knowledge, and the rhetoric about the 1% vs the 99%. Neither of those describe a social class structure but certain interesting economic behaviors characteristic of the times in question. A revolution is inherently binary; a class queer economic revolution isn't an idea that makes sense.

Third, the mention of the end of sexual reproduction was... Weird. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything but the end of the male sex thought experiment. Certainly not related to anything happening today.

At this point, I stopped reading. Some sources or building on other material would be helpful to see the conclusions in an incremental manner; this reads as a manic rant by a young student who reads philosophy but neglected anything about the topic in question.
If you think you are being scammed regarding a Pebble product purchased through Kickstarter, you should be contacting Pebble and Kickstarter.

It goes without saying that you should never provide credit card information of an unsecured connection.
It's hard to deny that there's a dominant Airbnb aesthetic, and that it shares many genetic traits (mid-century modern furniture) with the "hip" interior design that seems to have taken over at least the urban Western world in the last 15-20 years.

But first, even as this aesthetic is becoming passé, we should recognize its massive penetration into our commercial lives as a huge achievement (one certainly assisted by technology and a more mobile, wealthier society). The coffee shops, restaurants, and department stores that served most of our parents 30 years ago had terrible design even when they could be said to have design or style at all.

Second, I don't think most design trends emerge as sudden and radical departures from the norm, especially when it comes to commercial endeavors that can't afford to be too risky or off-putting. But when we look back at the style of the mid-2010's from 15 or 20 years from now, I doubt we'll agree that it simply stagnated. It will have evolved into something noticeably distinct—humans are creatures of fashion—though the degree of cultural and regional diversity we had before modern telecommunications and travel is probably not coming back.
I would guess they look similar, but to me Libreoffice looks a lot better and less cluttered.
Can you share the links to news sources describing companies or company officers being tried in secret courts?
Emirates plane crash: updates
About a month. The main thing is the plastic bumps on the wire wear away after a while.
The issue of bias comes into play when it comes to the implied meaning behind the statements being reviewed.

"Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case"

Statements like this are used when people are trying to criticize Clinton. They are used as evidence that she is a despicable human being, because what kind of person not only defends child rapists, but laughs about it? And I think Snopes is basically responding to the implied meaning.

Is it the job of places like Snopes to only review the literal interpretation of statements being reviewed, or is their job to provide more insight and context into the matter as a whole?
The fact of the matter is that you/they cannot afford to keep things going, and the only way the market will correct is when people refuse to sacrifice more.

Your family loves you and based on that I can securely tell you that if you have to leave they will continue to love you. And if they truly are dependent on your support, they will follow.

Assuming you're not literally 100% broke (like $0 in the bank, $0 credit) you have the ability to travel somewhere close to make a less expensive life. Maybe Kamloops or more central like prince George?
Nice visualizations, and I thought it was helpful to see the varied information you're showing. Much better than a lot of financial sites. If you could expand your stock symbol offering, it looks like it's on the right track to becoming a helpful tool for researching stocks.
Article not behind paywall: http://nasdaq.com/article/wal-mart-in-talks-to-buy-web-retai...
You've pretty much answered your own questions!

Sounds like it is a scam link, Pebble itself seems to use https: fore everything https://www.pebble.com/

Absolutely cancel it, and re-order through the website.
If you're in SF and buy me a beer I'll tell you all about it.
Indeed. As a dad I can say having kids is by far the most financial unsound decision one can make.
If that were true, wouldn't it make more sense to sink money into funds targeting the food, real estate, and medical sectors instead of directly in real estate? After all, there is no reason that (residential) real estate prices track food and medical prices, and owning real estate outright is a horribly lumpy, illiquid, and undiversified investment.
The reference is a systematic review, not a single study; only one study in the review was run as you indicate.

Beyond that, I am not sure what you are getting at. The point of the post I posted and the original article here is that self-flossing as an augmentation to brushing does effectively nothing. What you stated corroborates that. Am I missing something?
I may have spoke too soon. Yesterday I downloaded the latest iOS Public Beta (#3), and holy moly is it awesome! Super speedy, all the animations and transitions are zippy, and runs like a champ.

Still cautiously optimistic about macOS Sierra Public Beta. The latest update did fix the login issue. We'll see how it works otherwise.
Not a huge fan of the 'have kids, the world needs smart people' this seems to pretend that his intended audience holds the key to wisdom and the only way to keep that going is for his audience to have kids.
REI knows how to close the deal:

I was shopping a while back for a new tent. Wondered if I should wait for a 20% off single item coupon event like they do a couple times a year. Googled "when is the next rei 20% coupon?". I got the expected results: probably around labor day.

Lo and behold, a couple days after this I received an email from REI with a 25% off single item offer code.

I don't know of I should be frightened or not, but I got a new tent!
If I am right, we are talking about FISA / FISC [1]. This was widely reported during the Snowden scandal, but I do not have the links.

Anyway, this is secret stuff, so by definition you won't find a lot of information out there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
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duplicate of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218211
"Longer stopping times are enough to get people off and on"

They also may be enough to annoy people so much that they will avoid this like the plague. Extreme example: if this loads and unloads like an airplane and makes a stop every few miles. Yes, maybe only 5% of passengers would get out and in at every stop, but that still would be a one minute stop every two minutes or so.

And if there are no structural issues, why do trains have so few doors nowadays? I would think stops could be a lot shorter at peak hours of trains had more doors.
There's a bug that is crashing it, alas.

https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat/issues/166

Pretty sure the bug is in the autocomplete function, if anyone wants to tackle it. I might disable it for now.
Life isn't all about money.
We've been working recently on a tool that utilizes Vizceral for visualization of traffic between services. One aim being that it should be easy/quick to setup without touching your existing application code. We'd love to hear about your use-case/setup, so if it sounds like something useful to you, then drop me a few lines - jan at pipetop.com.
Wonder if the "tip" is part of a strategy to shop the deal, like the LinkedIn post-mortem revealed. Last I heard, Jet.com was haemorrhaging cash buying more growth with massive discounts.

Looks like it would be a good exit given how much capital they've raised: $565M per crunchbase.com/organization/jet. 6x capital in means everyone should make good money.
GNU Java Training Wheels
Please don't take my random internet musings too much to heart (if you have at all).

As I've said elsewhere, I have a lot of respect for everything that you as a group have pumped out to get LO to where it is right now.

Thank you for everything you've done so far, and what you'll (hopefully) continue to do into the future.
Well, that can cut both ways. In Petrov's case it worked out well, but 'ownership' of a problem (and the associated responsibility) in smaller settings can also work to bring out the best in people.

Separation of duties is a good principle, and wherever possible you should use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_duties

But in the case of a single tech guy in a company there isn't a whole lot you can do in that direction, so it is best to clearly assign ownership and make sure that the people involved realize full well the consequences of a fuck-up.
For me, anything that produces a stack trace should use that information. IIS can be configured to do that.
This is especially true in math. Have you not heard the phrase "the proof is left as an exercise to the reader"?