skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As additional information has appeared recently, I add it here. Allegedly, some contributions from others have been committed in Rowe's name, and at least one contributor published his opinion of Rowe's leadership:

http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html
Oh he's a comedian, that explains why the talk was like this. Can't say I found it very amusing though.
I have been using Firebase for two months now and it is a total nightmare to me. The support is awful.

1) I don't get answers on Stackoverflow.

2) I have stopped using your slack as it's close to impossible to get any answer. It's a complete joke.

3) When I tried to google, I often end up getting the legacy documents which are deprecated

4) There are too many breaking changes between your different versions. This makes it so confusing to use angularfire/firebase and finding deprecated code examples.

5) The youtube videos feels like a huge marketing stunts and you are all busy trying to promote an ever changing/incomplete firebase. 10 month old videos are no longer valid because of breaking changes.

6) The security rules difference between firebase storage & firebase database

7) Querying being such a huge pain. There was an effort made in a 2014 blog post but obviously code is obsolete.

I know in the end. It must be the developer's fault who’s not smart enough for firebase maybe.
Since I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, I should be using Mir, which is the Ubuntu competitor to Wayland.
What ? Apple definitely sell extended warranties.
Fatigue is all in your head
If this old favourite from my Win3.x days runs, I'll be delighted: http://telcontar.net/Misc/LavaLamp/

(will try some of the suggestions in this comments thread too - thanks!)
Would really like to know this too
I agree, but doubt it will happen.

Step by step, Apple are pushing their customers towards subscription services. They did it with photos first, then music. From macOS Sierra onwards they'll be doing it with the "Documents" and "Desktop" directory.

iTunes has always acted as an advance party for Apple's next business experiments. It gets UI changes ahead of the OS. It gets "features" like this subscription funnelling ahead of the OS.
The costs of running even a p2p system need to come from somewhere and you need to attract the right people (hubs in the social graph lingo). The trick is incentivizing them. There are going to be adverts somewhere but the people and content producers could get a cut. Synereo has a better chance of succeeding than a wishful thinking p2p open source project because there is a source or funds that can power the network. It still has to come from ads though, unless people pay for it.
Intellectual yet Idiot
I've been teaching myself piano after someone gave me one.

Here's a great set of online lessons [1] (not free, costs about $20 per month if you put in your email address). The guy is really talented, and teaches non-classical stuff like pop, boogie woogie, etc. I'm super inspired by it!

I also found this [2] which does have free lessons and also looks good.

[1] https://pianowithjonny.com/

[2] https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/
An acquisition would have been much better for the employees. It's IMG's CEO who didn't want it as he enjoyed his independence...
Thanks for the advise, but don't worry, I didn't completely lost it. I just see it as a rebalancing period after maybe pushing myself too much. However, it's not really burnout and it's not really depression, it's just another part of me that simply wants to enjoy more the things that are around and stop worrying so much about the future.. Life goes on in cycles and this is just a pondering period after a more active one..
I don't think the commentor is suggesting that music is an unworthy topic to be on the top, rather that the post is insufficiently insightful to be on the top.
> I've had such jobs myself, so I sympathize with the idea.

Indeed. I am a programmer and I can sympathize too! So far all my jobs but one were of the utterly bullshit kind. That's the reason I decided to steer clear of the web world in the future - it seems to me that this part of our industry is made almost entirely out of bullshit, and is mostly about ad delivery, ad infrastructure and SaaS pseudo-products that operate on shitty business models.
nothing to report, just wondering
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Actually, I’ve done tests with an indexed postgres database of several gigabytes size and tsvector for stemming and co vs. ElasticSearch.

At least until you reach several hundred gigabytes, postgres uses less resources for the same search speed.

This video shows searching through 3 GB of IRC logs, filtering, ranking them based on similarity to the query, creation time, likelyhood that it’s the type of message the user wants, highlighting the part of the message with the matching words, and displaying all that:

https://dl.kuschku.de/videos/2016-09-16_04-03-36.mp4

Postgres is, for smaller amounts of data, more than fast enough.
In a similar vein, is there a general recommendation for locally web hosting your music yourself. Is it one of the plexy type setups?

More OT, but what about personal photos / videos? I find the whole Apple photos experience depressing. Two examples of why

- my wife and I really share a photo collection, but it's neigh on impossible for us to automatically sync all our images to one another

- this weekend I made a stop motion clip with my kids by taking photos on my phone. We tried to move the images to my computer so we could put them together / edit them but were stuck waiting for the devices to sync on some sort of black magic driven schedule.

Is there any general solution out there for families who want to share their content (local music collection and photos / videos taken) seamlessly?
Could they drop the iPhone sync app completely? These days the iPhone should be able to do all the syncing it needs directly against the internet.
This study (looking at the "Entrepreneurship & Opportunity" column) for 2015 shows Sweden at #1 and the US at #11:
http://www.prosperity.com/#!/ranking
Technically there is no reason why you couldn't create a raw image from the jpeg, difficult not impossible.

Then the only benefit is the creator has got proof of the creation date, the pirate couldn't prove they created the content before that date.
> Are you going to be calling for an weekly hour cap to prevent it?

Yes - if only because I believe most people can't operate well for more than ~28 hours/week. I don't want to be diagnosed by a doctor who has to work more than that. I wouldn't want my case argued by a lawyer who has to work more than that. I wouldn't want my food prepared by a cook who has to work more than that. Etc.

Laws and caps are how we got to 40 hours/week (35 in France). Let's keep them going.
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> you could just have easily have achieved the same result by just using plain Socket.io or a similar library

Is this an easier problem than I think it is? Is there a well known path for scaling socket connections and synchronizing data across clients?

I suspect most cases where devs talk about a messaging problem, it's really a data synchronization problem. I'm starting to suspect the sweet spot for Firebase in a large application is as a cache and communication mechanism rather than the primary datastore. Is that along the lines of what you're seeing?

Firebase has a few subtleties, but its API footprint is small for a datastore. How much sympathy do we need to have for people that use a tool without reading the docs first?

"free them from having to manage a backend" For a certain class of mobile apps it does. If we want the marketing material to apply to every customer, what PaaS or SaaS company will be left standing?
Where are all of these co-ops then? If people in in-demand fields struggle to find places with good work life balance, it seems that owners don't find it beneficial to themselves to adopt such a model or more would have done so, no? Almost a chicken and egg problem.
The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that HN allow this kind of use ?
This has been around for a while. The product is great for beginners but yet doesn't get the attention it deserves. May be Mozilla should market more.
Why not ReactOS?
How does it deal with languages with significant whitespace? Can it format Python without breaking it?
Dutch retailer 123inkt was mostly responsible for finding this time bomb, so yes, definitely.
Taleb investment advice: put almost all of your savings in super stable investments, like treasuries. Use the rest to bet on unicorn startups, or highly leveraged options (as long as those options have a limited downside and an unlimited upside!). I'm not quite sure how to apply this to one's career.
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VPSes are a commodity: if your provider turns out to be crap or puts up prices, you can just switch to another provider. Services like Firebase are not; switching requires rewriting your application. This makes them more attractive for the company selling them but a bigger risk for their customers.
Blocking Javascript really does make some sites more pleasant to visit. It's nice Chrome makes it so easy these days.
Give London residents a choice between 400 pounds a month off their rent+reducing shop/restaurant prices and avoiding high rises changing the "aesthetic" and I'll guarantee the outcome of that poll.

This is not driven in any sense by democracy. Quite the opposite.
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On OSX I quit and just use preview. I'm not even kidding.
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If this analysis is correct, then it means that the Russians actually fear a future Clinton administration. I can't think of a better endorsement for Clinton's campaign: "Putin fears her!".
Why? Are people only allowed to have multiple screens after passing some OSX geek initiation rite?
Please. Don't try to defend Photos.app, it's an abysmal piece of junk. It breaks UI metaphors. Saving its library to your pictures directory? Sure. But it's a royal pain if I don't want to store those pictures on a Mac. Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right?

I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft.
Open cubic player might have OSX support (OSX has OSS right?)

Is it a mess? Yes, but it's not really bloated.
How can one add other public repositories not hosted on github (for instance from the Eclipse foundation)?
Density or exclusion
I think it's possibly that the journalists don't actually know the sector beyond the big "flashy" names, like ARM or Sinclair.
Also, do you know any SSG which allow me to have a really complete home page like http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ , where I can clearly display separated category with last articles by category, and with a thumbnail automatically attached to the post ?

Sort of a "magazine theme" or a "newspaper theme" for a SSG.
No fearing. Accepting the fact, that her policy will be a aggressive one and preparing accordingly.
That is a great video, it was nice to see all the versions. I had forgotten about Christmas Lemmings.

Thanks for posting it!
Apparently baseball learned to some degree from hockey. I remember reading in Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer that the first man the Dodgers hired to stay on top of statistics had done that job for an NHL team.
Next feature to add, or deriving business to create: add an indexer/comparison service that checks the JPEGs and to see how similar any two given pictures are, and if one derived copy sells anything, the creator of the original picture gets notified.
With vehicles when one's learnt you can copy the memory to the others. Humans less so.
The best way to predict the future is to create it
> Do the hardest thing earliest in the day, when you are fresh.

I do the opposite. I do the easiest things first, so I can concentrate on the harder problems without the easy ones being on my mind.

Also, I just don't work that well in the morning. Later in the day is best for me for my most difficult tasks.
You can save the world by gradually shifting taxes to fossil fuels, let the market sort everything else out.
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If you're using private browsing mode or "Never remember history" in Firefox settings, IndexedDB is also disabled.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982
If your users' data is hosted by some cloud provider, making regular backups (at least nightly, ideally more frequent) independently of that cloud provider is common practice.

Otherwise you can end up like Code Spaces, who lost their users' data and all their backups at the same time.
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Why not use http://www.grpc.io/?
> (e.g. add a third to a fourth and you get a... sixth)

Better:

In equal temperament, log base two: add 4/12 to 5/12 and you get 9/12.

In ratios (depending on tuning, these could be loose approximations): multiply 5/4 by 4/3 and you get 5/3.
Heh, Apple don't really make it easy anymore either. You have to choose upfront how much RAM and HDD you need, because unlike on almost every other decent manufacturer's higher end machines, you can't change them later.

But I agree. It's even worse with phones - have you seen the number of phones Samsung have? I have a nack for remembering model numbers and specs and even I find it absurdly difficult.
The whole thing reads like https://xkcd.com/793/
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, mainly because I think all the SSGs can do it. I tried Lektor recently, and I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do exactly this. It's not even hard (unless I'm missing something).

EDIT: Maybe what I'm missing is that other SSGs are very opinionated, while Lektor is not.
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To be fair, wealth from natural resource extraction should be discounted for the purposes of the current discussion. This would remove Qatar, Brunei, Kuwait, Norway, and the UAE from the top of the list.

But then again, it would also lower the US quite a bit, so I guess the comparison is difficult. Besides, "the EU" does not exist when it comes to work/leisure regulation and attitude.
I'm am a Java/Scala dev in Berlin and get contacted by 2-3 recruiters a week for positions in Berlin or Germany. More often than not, they are from London based recruiting agencies. Big and medium sized companies:

* HERE (I work there, let me know if you want a referral)

* Amazon

* SAP

* Zalando

* SoundCloud

* Fyber

I probably forgot a few others and many smaller startups hiring Scala devs.

The tech landscape is different (not a lot of fin tech, no hedge funds, no algo and high frequency trading like in London) but the opportunities are plentiful.
"C major is identical to A minor, and I don’t understand why we need both."

Cringe. If I understand nothing of some subject, I would do well to just shut my mouth about it.
I used lektor for http://portfolio.stavros.io/ and it was very easy to make what I wanted. I kind of assumed Jekyll and everything else would be like that too, are they not?
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[When I first wrote this your title was "Should I move to Finland .."]

I hate to be pessimistic, but if you do move to Finland you'll struggle enormously with the bureaucracy unless you speak Finnish.

Yes you can move. Yes you can move without a job, and you should be able to incorporate, and handle the minimal business things pretty easily.. But you'll get conflicting advice from every bank you speak to, and the process will be more grueling than you imagine.

If you're registered here, have permission to stay here, and you qualify I think the fact that you're a foreigner won't discount you from grants/funding. But again the language barrier will be pretty high.

(Source: Moved from Scotland to Finland. Love it. Not an entrepreneur, but I know a few.)
> If literally an entire industry misapplies or misunderstands your regulations, that's a failure as a regulator.

No, the issue is with the lazy, cack-handed way the cookie directive was implemented in UK law. Those obtrusive pop-ups aren't a requirement of the directive (which only requires consent, and doesn't specify how that consent is obtained), but of the UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2011. And, of course, regulation 6 is worded in just about the most confusing way possible.

OTOH, both the 2002 and 2009 directives have much clearer language, which is funny as they allow latitude to member states as to how they're implemented, and the UK chose the most awkward and intrusive method of implementing them as far as cookies go.

> I think the distinction between "tracking" and "non tracking" cookies is one that exists primarily in the heads of government officials.

No, there's a pretty solid line, but it's like the line between murder and manslaughter: intent. If you're using cookies to help autofill data the user would otherwise have to fill themselves, that's not tracking. If you're using cookies to provide some persistent state across pages (sessions, carts, &c.), that's not tracking. If you're using cookies to records a user's actions on the site, that's borderline, but as long as that data is anonymised and treated only as part of an aggregate, a solid argument can be made that's not tracking, but it might be good to inform the user anyway. Once you start targeting individual users, that's certainly tracking.
Yeah, I was confused there too why a lot of recent developments were omitted. Can mods please add "(2011)"?
I don't think it's going to compete with anything. Pretty much everyone supports(and if not they will) Wayland, so maintaining and supporting Mir will become moot.

One of those things that you really can't understand why they sink money into it :(
Your API is exactly what I would expect to see from such a service. Your pricing is also exactly what I would expect to see, so props.

I only need a POST endpoint that will accept a few parameters and redirect back to my success page, and I will definitely keep your service in mind for that.

Although, how do you keep everyone from sending spam from you?
Quod Libet is cross platform and runs on my Ubuntu box, Windows Surface and MacBook Pro. It is fast, has a simple interface that actually works and has been extremely stable. It also manages playlists that work in my car's USB port. I do like having my music in the cloud, and finally settled on Dropbox. I am still looking for a decent Android Dropbox music player for this setup, but for iOS, I use Eddy cloud music player/streamer. It even bookmarks my place in audio books. Sad part about Eddy is that it takes so long processing my entire music library on Dropbox and starts the whole process over when reinstalled. Also, haven't figured out how to get it to work with playlists saved to Dropbox, but I have asked for the feature.

It was Apple's changes to the music app on my iPhone that finally annoyed me enough to seek an alternative setup which baffles me, because the only reason I was convinced to ever purchase my first Apple product was an iPod and they have completely screwed it up.

I did use Google Music, but Google's insistence that the desktop doesn't exist made it useless on Windows & Mac. I tried every Google Music app I could find for either platform. They are unstable, often slow, and usually break every time there is an API change.
Except that you're not. 16.04 is an LTS release, therefore Canonical delayed the Mir integration to 16.10.
We had to abandon Cloudera (and Horton Works) Hadoop distributions because they didn't ship R support for Spark quickly enough (in 1.3 or 1.2 or whatever version that was).

We jumped from 1.5 to 1.6 because of algorithms in MLLib (although that turned out to be a bit of a disappointment).
So, is it effectively an unsolvable problem given the current situations with email and banking and so on?

As the other respondent indicated, you can lock down your domain but if the whaler registers yourbuslnessdomain.com, they'll catch someone. "Sorry, I've had some trouble with my email recently and IT haven't been able to get the authorised designation appearing, you know how they are! Anyway, I've been working on a contract with Penske for months as you probably heard and unfortunately their lawyers have accelerated the process to the first stage. I need you to organise the initial cash transfer..."
I think people with experience in the field are just annoyed with her poorly-conceived assertions at the end, e.g. "This has got to be some of the worst jargon and notation for anything, ever." rather than pedantry.
The problem with Lektor is that it looks semi-abandoned, even though it's pretty young. Last I looked, the repo has a bunch of PRs that have gone unreplied-to for months.
> I suppose it’s possible to change the sound of an entire piece of music just by changing the key signature, but does anyone actually do that?

Much more interestingly, this touches on the reason why different pieces were given keys at all by their composers (think "foo in B flat minor by Chopin").

Musical instruments have to be tuned to a particular key. This is because of the frequency ratios: the circle of fifths is a lie, (3/2)^N != 2^M for any N and M, you can't be an in-tune fourth in one key and third in another, the frequency values are slightly off.

Thus, some instruments (e.g. Piano) are tuned to be in C, and the other keys sound different played on that instrument, because the ratios are slightly different. Other instruments are in B flat (e.g. Trumpet) and the combination of them with C-tuned instruments sounds interesting. Indeed, stringed instruments are tuned to N different keys where N = number of strings!

The mathematics of music is so cool, I found the dismissive tone in the article to be quite unnecessary and irritating.

EDIT: thanks to replies informing me that I'm wrong about instrument tuning. This means I've been tuning my guitars wrong all these years!

REEDIT: but perhaps I'm right about old-school music with a key in the name? Since instruments would have been tuned with a tuning fork and then harmonics pre-20th century according to one reply.
The rent is not horrendous. New york, London and other big cities have much, much higher rent than Tokyo.

And Ramen in Tokyo is considerably more expensive than in Osaka or Kyoto.
Thank you, sir.
Wanted to eject a disk back then? Drag it onto the trash can. Not the most clever ui decision in the days when formatting floppy disks was a common task.
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Exactly! Why would you write a blog post about something with you -- admittedly! -- know nothing about, and to rant and gripe, no less! Boggles the mind.
I had the same problem with cricket bats.
I used Lektor and that's what it does, and, AFAIK, it's also what all other SSGs do (Jekyll/Hugo/Pelican/etc).
In fairness, the author said " I don’t understand why we need both", and not "We don't need both".
I'd like to second Gitlab Pages, I'm using it with Lektor for http://portfolio.stavros.io/ and it's been fantastic so far.
Great feature, but I can't help thinking about the permissions you'd have to give for that
Indeed the difference between C major and A minor is the only really interesting thing I learned out of this post.

Which is great! That's why i read HN basically.
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