skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a lot less necessary than it was because browser compatibility has improved. Last time I did a mobile web app I seriously considered removing it because it was heavyweight and I was only using a few functions. I didn't, due to time constraints, but I could have.
Ransomware hits Australian businesses using Windows remote tool
This article makes some very broad statements without any examples to back them up. Much like this comment.
Killing him would have a greater chilling effect.
It's a really long and uninteresting post for the tl;dr "port 25 is not being blocked by the firewall".

Although he should've tried using some bad keywords, but that seems to be beyond his level of research.
I was trying to point out the nuance between an integrated multiethnic society and a multicultural one involving multiple parallel societies where to a certain extent a minorities own laws take precedence. Going back to the article, I think minorities have an easier time coming to terms with fractured identities in America as at least one can be American-whatever, unlike in Europe in my own experience where you're simply "not from here".

> "nor is there institutional prejudice to keep them down"

It's pretty well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiziganism
Hell, even using an email address that's not a popular webmail host tends to throw people off. Mine is me@justinlardinois.com; I can't tell you how many times I've confused call center operators with it. I even had one think I meant justinlardinois@me.com.
An Intro to iOS 10 Differential Privacy for App Discovery in Search
After reading your comment multiple times, I have no idea what you said.
Metro Boston is a fantastic region with which to illustrate the flawless order of the highway system's numbering!
Thank you, that's a helpful explanation!
Naïve question. The richest people in the world, who are billionaires from pretty much just stock. How do they convert that to real money to buy things?

Do they just simply wait until the stock is at a high point, and sell a lot? Maybe move that money to other investments?
But you're clicking on a link, not downloading and installing an application.
Nano-scale Canadian flag sets world record in lead-up to nation’s 150th birthday
> SEH and Steensgards

What's that?
The article you posted does not seem to contradict what I said, but rather support it.

> The Project X method required courier distribution of noise tracks on phonograph records. Because the noise had to be as long as the speech it masked and each track could only be used once–it was the audio equivalent of a Vernam cipher or a one-time pad–the system was exceedingly cumbersome.
How Vocabulary Influences Emotion
Ask HN: Of Introverts, the Open Office, and ADHD
I am one of those people who detests the open office. I find them noisy and distracting. Even with headphones on I am distracted by the movement around me and the feeling the I am in a fishbowl being looked at from outside. I've read a lot of articles and rants about the open office posted on HN.

I've recently been reading about ADHD and I', starting to wonder if my difficulties may have more to do with ADHD than being an introvert.I don't know if I have ADHD. I'm 40. I wasn't diagnosed with it as a kid but I don't know if people knew much about it then. I do remember constantly daydreaming, loosing things and forgetting to do my homework as a child.

Can anyone relate to this? Does anyone have any insight on this? I apologize for the incoherent nature of this post.
Hey man, don't knock getting high and watching TV. I'm sure there are plenty of successful HN readers that enjoy doing just that with some of their free time. :)
Enterprise sales is a menagerie of sharks. Some are Makos, some are threshers, but the best are Tiger and Great White. We were planning a forklift upgrade of our enterprise backup system; a relatively boring exercise. The team responsible for coming up with a recommendation evaluated the four major candidates, made a proposal, and quickly watched the most expensive and least suitable candidate dominate their rivals. The other team stood no chance. The team tried to influence the purchase with the decisionmakers, but it fell on deaf ears. The tech wasn't very impressive, but the sales team made Alec Baldwin in GlenGarry, Glen Ross look like an amateur.
There would be trouble even with magical free energy.

Before the oil shocks in the seventies, oil production and use was more than doubling every decade. [1] If that kind of energy growth resumed unabated, then in about 200 years we'd be producing about as much power as the Earth receives from the sun. We'd cook in our own waste heat, no CO2 required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry#/media/File...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535355 and marked it off-topic.
I've been 'forced to upgrade' in the past by issues in dependencies that won't be fixed, with other dependencies not updated yet. It's a sticky wicket.

That said, breaking changes every six months seems to be commonplace in major open source packages. My initial reaction was 'OMG, now they want to repeat the Angular 2 debacle every 6 months?!?', which doesn't seem to be the case.
The merchant is still liable for chargebacks/fraud. So between future revenue, plus legal action if needed, Stripe can recover the money one way or another.
Android Studio 2.2 – 10 new features to boost app development
To update an app for the latest ubuntu, the worst case scenario is that you have to recompile.
Think of a Venn diagram, with one circle being "correct statements of fact" and another circle being "racist comments". The two circles intersect, that is all, and my claim is that "I am making a statement of fact" is not sufficient to claim "I am doing nothing morally wrong".
Suburbs full of cul-de-sacs are terrible places to grow up for children after the age of about 6. They’re invariably designed to be incredibly pedestrian-hostile, and usually also bicycle-hostile, so if you don’t drive a car, you either need to have your parents drive you everywhere, or you need to have every possible destination within a couple blocks.

Such an environment is stifling of children’s independence and community interaction.
The first language I learned was BASIC at the age of 12 (in the 90s). We didn't have a PC at home, so I just learned it by reading a book. That was the main reason my family was convinced to buy a PC after all.

After that, I kept coding because I really liked solving puzzles and building things. To me, libraries and APIs were like pieces of LEGO that you could use to create your own contraption. Probably the most exciting coding moment was when I figured out how to use interrupt 33h to add mouse functionality to my games!
The point is that the outcomes of actual trials are weighted towards too much punishment as a result of having the plea bargain system. We're disincentivizing people to actually have their day in court.

How about the existence of "setting an example" sentences, which would absolutely happen to Snowden?
"You wrote that people would have to choose between having no police and firemen, and having low housing prices.
"

That was write after writing "This is the same as the cities having trouble attracting police/firemen/etc because they can't pay enough."

So, first, yes, i did essentially write about "fewer", and you are just ignoring that part.

I also can't possibly see how one would assume i was being literal in the sentence you quoted in light of that (reading your other comments on hacker news, you don't seem to do that elsewhere)

Since that doesn't make a lot of sense, i'm just going to assume you simply have no evidence, and instead of saying "you know what, you might be right, maybe i should reevaluate", you've chosen to just instead be super pedantic.

That's kind of sad.
I was hoping you actually had any data to back up your counter-argument, because i'd really like to see the other side of this.
I think the intended usage for this spreadsheet is more along the lines of "derived," as in where does X derive their current wealth from, or "What current holdings qualify the person for this list." Otherwise this table would involve an order of magnitude more research and editorializing. For example, Elon Musk has "Tesla" listed as his source even though as we know his initial wealth came from Paypal. At least, that is the usage that seems to best fit with what's in the spreadsheet.
Extending on this... Are universities the best place to get a CS education these days?
Show HN: Ng-Elm – Write Angular 2 Components in Elm
Lego Mindstorms at 11 or 12.
The truth is supposed to be a perfect defense against charges of slander or libel.
> The lower the density, the safer, and the better for children. Everything is more pleasant, less noise, less wasted time, room for kids to play, less conflict with neighbors.

Maybe "better" for very small children. Once they start wanting some form of independence, early into their teens, kids hate the suburbs. There's little to do and most of their friends or any activities they want to engage in are far enough away that they require a parent's involvement to cart them around everywhere.

Technically, yeah, kids can play outside in their cul-de-sacs but whenever I drive through suburbia to visit my parents, I don't actually see it happening. Miles and miles of empty lawns, devoid of actual people.

> There's more driving, but I don't care, everything else is so much better it's worth it.

"Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children of every age from 2 to 14 years old (based on 2001 figures, which are the latest mortality data currently available from the National Center for Health Statistics)."[1]

That "more driving" you don't care about is killing children at a greater rate than any other cause.

> And don't forget that even with the driving, everything takes less time.

Based on my own experience (which may not mirror your own), that is comically untrue. The nearest grocery store to me is a 3 minute walk away. There are dozens of restaurants within a five block radius. The nearest park is one block away. Work is a 15 minute streetcar ride or bicycle ride away. Museums, nightlife, movie theaters, etc., are all about the same distance — 15 minutes by car or streetcar. Friends too are similarly close by.

You'd have to drive pretty fast to beat this.

> ...you are really designing for the people inside the cars, and they will be much happier.

You're right — studies show that people in the suburbs are happier.[2] That said, there are huge costs that suburbs impose to others that are currently being heavily subsidized.[3] Without these subsidies, I suspect we'd have an even greater migration from the suburbs into the cities than we're experiencing today.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
[2]: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/08/overall-americans-in...
[3]: http://grist.org/cities/starving-the-cities-to-feed-the-subu...
I do think you're right. I thought they were saying that culs-de-sac screwed up transportation networks, but now I don't know why.

Sorry! Consider that to be strenuous agreement instead, OP.
Apple Lighning EarPods volume bug to be fixed in update
Try using justin@justinlardinois.com

It might be a bit redundant, but it's the pattern I use and I don't ever really have any problems, other than incredulous looks or comments about owning a domain name.
I think yes probably both.
These individuals can easily call up banks and get a loan on their worth.

"Hey, Morgan Stanley I need 2 mil deposited in my account" - "ok"

This is also how they avoid income tax. ;) They can take in millions and it's just a loan. Then they pay it back off with stock or other asset deals.
MIT's Scratch in elementary school.
Played with QBasic when I was a kid, took a Java course, hacked on HTML/CSS/jQuery for my radio station and got a job writing code at a web shop after college.

What really got me "over the hump" was deciding one weekend that I needed to focus if I was going to be able to bring my ideas to life (www.sampl.us). I got Javascript, The Good Parts on Amazon and just hammered on the basics of the language over the course of a few weekends. I kept at it over the next few weeks, and I've come back to it in bursts ever since. Never fails to be one of the most rewarding and frustrating parts of my week.

Five years later, I'm still a pretty mediocre programmer. But now when I can have an idea, I get to watch it become real. It's a good feeling :)
Isn't it more of an opinion than an objective truth? ie, it doesn't really need a source.
The article claims cities should not be trees, but I don't think grids are better. I'm a big fan of Christopher Alexander's claim that successful cities are actually semilattices:

http://www.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexa...
They diversify into other investments. For very large holders of stock, they use a preset and scheduled sales plans to negate any color of insider trading or impropriety.

The very largest insiders have to disclose their sales publicly.

See for yourself: Zuckerberg's sales of FB.

https://biz.yahoo.com/t/15/8822.html
Probably because a hacker news comment isn't the best place for a feature request about using a proprietary library and comparing to a commercial distribution of a different language.

By the way, Julia partners with Intel as well, but on things like adding multithreading support to the language, and developing auto-parallelizing compilers (https://github.com/IntelLabs/ParallelAccelerator.jl). Improved support for building Julia with MKL and Intel's C and Fortran compilers is something that Intel would probably like to collaborate with us on as well, but not much has happened there officially yet (these are different groups within Intel).
Even my most progressive we-want-to-be-like-Silicon-Valley clients still haven't moved everything to the cloud. Legacy is hard. Many many critical apps will continue to use Oracle until they are eventually sunset in a decade. Oracle is going to have a nice long ride into said sunset.
Well, we are glad you feel safe, but the fact is that rates of violent injury is inversely related to population density. People think of it as a city problem, but in fact you are more likely to be shot, per capita, in sparsely populated areas. Violence is inversely correlated with population density.
Ti calculator age 14. C using the C programming language book. Then caml at school. Lisp, c++, Java at uni. and all that for ending up doing data science in Excel!
If you have to link to a different project, then the link I was saying is not a REPL is not a REPL, no?

Further, I'd suggest waiting for one of these projects to complete before you confidently declare that the REPL will be great. I didn't say it's impossible, I said "it's always going to be limited compared to a language that was designed to do it". I looked into what it would take to make a REPL around the Go 1.2 timeframe. There are many issues, such as the inability to query a package for what symbols it has, or the way the obvious workarounds have their own problems, brought on for instance by the fact that you can't re-export symbols in another package so the whole "just keep compiling a module incrementally" has its own issues. At this point I'm pretty confident that the best reasonably-possible Go REPL (i.e., not one that basically reimplements Go again) is going to come with a list of caveats a mile long. And if you do reimplement Go for the REPL, which a SSA interpreter basically is, you don't really have a Go REPL... you have a Go-like REPL at best.
Unexpected, mysterious x-rays found emanating from Pluto
> What are the most common ways to collect big, yearly contracts?

Yep, at least in the US, paper checks for some (still!) and wire transfer for others. You send them an invoice, and they send you an (actual, paper) check or make a wire payment to the account number you put in the invoice. Both should be pretty much free, if you have a decent bank (although some banks will charge a few dollars now for incoming domestic wire transfers).

I think for a yearly charge of $10,000+, it's probably worth the pain in the ass factor to invoice the charge, particularly given how much you'll save (about $300 if you use Stripe, more for others, assuming 10,000 charge). Most banks have banking apps now that let you cash checks using the app, so if you really get going with 10,000 checks flowing in by the batch, you can hire some one to help deposit them via app or dropping them by a bank branch. Not a bad problem to have, if it happens.

Just realize that most companies operate on 60 or 90 day terms, and some even more. You can often negotiate for 30-day terms if they really like you/your product and you're firm about it. Just be sure you factor this into your cash flow. And have a process in place for what to do if you don't receive payment by then.

Actually, regarding Stripe, and I may be wrong about this, but I don't think most companies will let you set up a recurrent yearly credit card payment of 10,000 dollars, at least not without going high up the corporate food chain. If that's the case, you'd need to break it into a monthly charge to go the Stripe option.
> doesn't talk about crime rates

While the article may have issues, I've not seen a compelling argument explaining lower suburban crime rates by their lower density instead of the huge unaddressed socioeconomic problems that in part drove suburbanization.
When I was a kid I rode a bicycle.
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There is a wide gulf between "morally wrong" and "not allowed", and there is another wide gulf between "don't make racist comments" and "don't talk about it at all".
I learned how to program on a TI-83 graphing calculator. I was bored in class and I made a simple text-based blackjack game.

Later my friends and I would use the link cable to share programs between our calculators, and I would pour over the source code and try to understand everything. There was an ASCII fighting game I loved and I added new moves and characters.

Once I learned how to "view source" a website I started doing that everywhere and figuring out how the Web worked. That, plus a Linux install disk and an old, case-less desktop got me on the road to where I am today (supporting a SaaS company as an Infrastructure Engineer).
I currently have a <lastname>.so domain for private email etc. Its working good, just a few people ask to clarify in the last 4 years of usage. However, I do worry that I could loose it as its a country TLD? For example, if someone from the country of origin would start a company for example, could they claim it? Does it depend on the country in question?
Well if the Irish traveller experience in the usa is any guide then I wouldn't be too hopeful

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/irish-traveller-t...
> Bit-rot means that X isn't as well-suited to today's environment as we'd like, but I'm sure that some things in X that are regarded as mistakes now were trumpeted as great advancements when they were introduced.

Maybe they were great at the time. If you don't have enough memory to store every pixel of your screen, only storing properties of some basic geometric shapes seems to be a nice solution. If you have plenty of memory and want to control every pixel this becomes rather useless and even a burden.
> IMHO the Node/npm ecosystem is far more stable than Angular 1&2/bower.

I can't say if it's more stable than bower, but IME it's not stable at all. My simple blog static site generator breaks every time I write a new blog post.
When I read this kind of stuff, I feel like it never makes sense to sell out if you care about your company unless you wanted to get rich all along. I just feel like the majority of companies that get bought up die a slow and painful death - and sometimes a quicker but equally painful one. It would pain me so, so much to see all the work I put into something like that go down the drain.
The Internet, Globalization, and You
I haven't thus far been interested in Julia. Unless you're into high-level math, it didn't seem to provide much value, and it did weird stuff with arrays, and wasn't Lua, which gets a free pass for being amazingly well designed in all other respects (arguably, it was well designed in that one as well, but it makes all the array math a pain).

I don't know, maybe it's great. Maybe I should reconsider. But then again, it's strongly typed, which isn't usually my sort of thing (I'm not working with a team, and my programs haven't devolved into chaos yet, so with no empirical data either way, I'll take my favorite)
Yes, each TLD is operated uniquely so it would depend on the country you're dealing with.
U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars
If by “hard-pressing”, you mean beat people down, empty their pocket, break doors to empty houses, tear away the pipes, steal your car… then yeah: you have the reason why people don’t like them a lot.
Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to me for counsel or for help. I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you feared to be in my debt.
Yes, paper checks or bank transfers (ACH in the US, or wire transfers you're international). You send an invoice, you get paid 30-90 days later.

Stripe can help you with doing ACH programmatically, if you want to offer an online payment option: https://support.stripe.com/questions/accepting-ach-payments-...

There are a few reasons transactions of this size are almost never done by credit card:

* Cost ($300 for CC, $0.25-$5 for ACH, free for checks)

* Fraud risk: Someone buys your product with a stolen card or without their boss's permission, they can reverse the charge and you have little to no recourse.

* Chargeback rate risk: You need to have less than 1% of your processing volume be reversed to accept major credit cards. With large transactions, a single reversal can put you over the limit.

* Large tickets, and annual billing, are both red flags when underwriting a business for credit card processing.

A business with very large transactions is risky to take on for the merchant account provider, so you may not be able to find one, may not get reasonable processing rates, may be subject to risk reserves that create cashflow issues, etc.

If you go bankrupt and don't fulfill your contract to 20 clients, and all 20 charge back their payment to you, it's the merchant account provider that's now lost $200K they can't recoup. They don't want that.

If you have a major outage and 10 clients charge back their payments, a processor needs $10 million in good charges to balance that $100K in bad charges from you just to stay below their mandated 1% chargeback rate by Visa/MC. That's too much to ask of many local banks and other MAPs.