skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Optimize Mac Storage" functionality you're referring to is not enabled by default.

You can manage settings for this and other storage optimization features in About this Mac -> Storage -> Manage, and System Preferences -> iCloud -> Option... (beside iCloud Drive).
Each night someone needs to manually go and blow the candle out or turn it off.

I've developed an app and wait staff tracking system that allows restaurateurs to keep track of where the staff are going to be in the normal course of their duties and find high-efficiency ways to add tasks such as candle extinguishing. During our closed-beta, it turned out that in such restaurants, the staff had to visit each table anyway for the purposes of cleaning and restocking between diner occupations, and again at the end of service; our app ensures they get additional training and reminding to blow out the candle while they're there.

We're opening to investors next week.
Go ahead and down vote me LetsEncrypt employees. It just proves my point.
this is literally at the top of the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12541383
The value we add is not in the software we use. Far from it. RedHat does just fine too, even if you can download the distribution for free. There's room for both models.

Besides, it's far from a secret that we're standing on the shoulders of Pageflow. It's on our homepage, and we have a good relationship with them. We are overall #5 contributor to Pageflow: https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/graphs/contributors

Al-Jazeera had been using Pageflow for a long time and it's great that they continue doing so. This outcome is perfect as far as we are concerned!
That's like for the MOST expensive office space in SF though. Also that's PER YEAR, not per month.

I once rented out office space in SOMA, and it was more like $18 sqft/year. It was cheap and in a shitty place, but still SOMA.
Most startups, including funded startups, seem to pay significantly lower than established tech companies in this area. My anecdotal experience certainly fits that. The last time I was job searching the highest offer I got from a startup was $130k plus a hiring bonus and laughable equity with poor benefits, while the young company (IPO within the previous four years) I accepted an offer from came in at well over 20% more than that all-in.

I think startups undercompensate and more or less target lottery-equity chasers.
Excellent analysis. It makes me optimistic that we as a society are going to be able to work this out. We might not of course, but it's possible.
Well, if you include in your discussion that most internet traffic is now mobile, and mobile users want quick access, and Google is giving them a way to distinguish whether you site will likely be quick (AMPed) or possibly not, and it may be in their best interest to signal to users that they provide a good mobile experience, it might go smoother.
> "have to"

What happens if you don't or can't?
Whats next, a stationary car or non flying plane?
I don't want to put words in the parent commenter's mouth, but I think the implication was that they would need to make up for NOT having a stock plan.
The Simplest Fall Style Hack
When I first saw it (in the 'News' section of results) I was happy to see it. After clicking 2 or 3 of the links I quickly learned to avoid it and either go to another site or find the non-AMP link in the results below.

I really wish sites (AMP isn't the only thing to do this) would stop deciding they know how to implement scrolling better than my browser/OS does it. Here's a hint: YOU DON'T. Let the user have what they're used to. Sudden behavior changes for tenuous-at-best benefits ("It scrolls faster!") are obnoxious.
Safari 10 is safer than Chrome 54 beta regarding HTTP 0.9 attacks, DNS rebinding
I compared my iPhone 6 against a iPhone 7 yesterday. The difference in low light is noticeable even before taking a picture. That, along with the dual lens, may be enough for me to make the change.
> I might even go as far as putting on a "tin foil hat" and state that Typescript is a trick to lock you into their proprietary ecosystem of expensive tools that everyone have to buy into just to communicate with you once you are locked in.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript is uh... right there. Check the license. Visual Studio code runs Textmate snippets and has a very sublime-like extension system.

There is no vendor lock in.
The one thing I will give them is large file transfers. I hate having to deal with gmail telling me I need to upload it to drive, then warning me that it isn't shared with the recipient, etc, etc.
It's a godsend for people like me whose public transportation service doesn't have a dedicated app.
Do you find that it feels like the page is a lot "lighter"?

It seems like a flick of the thumb moves it a lot further than any other page. It's especially jarring since the search results page is just as "heavy" as any other page, then the AMP'd page feels like you're moving a feather.
Red Hat Links Java to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code – InfoWorld
It's not that easy to motivate foreign companies to invest lots of money, equipment and effort (opportunity cost vs using the same things in other oil fields) after you've recently nationalized their previous investment.

Trust is slow to build and fast to lose, they're now facing direct consequences of their earlier actions, and a reversal would likely come only after a regime change.
From what I've been told, take the employee's salary and multiply by 2 to get the actual cost to the company.
Unsinkable!
In the first release it wont have DOM access or GC
Looks like an implementation of http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ - one of my favorite web-things ever made.

Edit: the "inspiration" for this is the same thing as Altered Qualia, Roger Johansson's post about genetic image evolution https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu...
Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class
You ask how is it novel? Looking at the patent application, the "novel" part is that "conventional bags formed of [recycled] paper are made with 50% or less post-consumer content", but claim one covers "a bag container formed of white paper with at least 60% post-consumer content". Supposedly they had to do non-obvious things (the other claims) to make a 60% bag strong enough. Also they have a drooping, thick handle of 8-stitch knitted paper to avoid a "rough, unfinished feel".

On the one hand, it looks like Apple put a lot of work into this bag design and doesn't want it ripped off. On the other hand, it looks like a collection of reinforcements and features that are probably pretty obvious. (Although I don't have "ordinary skill in the art" of bag making, so who am I to say.)
How Hibernate Almost Ruined My Career
The biggest thing is that we can't run software with unencrypted PHI on physical hardware that is simultaneously running other people's code. In practical terms this means that we have to pay AWS some $ to get dedicated instances and also we can't use ELBs in the standard (easy) way. There are some other things as well.
This was listed as a key feature of this release in the beta notes up until yesterday.

Did they just remove it from the notes, or from the release?
It would be so nice if there was a knob to disable whatever JavaScript API (or part thereof) enables this yet keep everything else.

Of course, it would have to work seamlessly without breaking anything, so it might be asking a little much.
<i>Some people are too stupid to follow directions</i>

Just have the chatbot tell the cookbot what to do.
Literally speaking, "NoSQL" as much for databases as "NoHTTP" means for application protocols. It says literally nothing other than it's not something else.

It could be key-value database or it could be a graph database. It could have a schema or it could be schemaless. It could support one index or it could support multiple. It could have a permissions system or it could be single-user. It could have a server process or it could be embedded.

The author is thinking of the MongoDB and CouchDB variety.
Conceptually, any such application is just an internet-connected filesystem driver with (presumably) a local cache in front. So there's no technical reason it couldn't be pluggable, just Apple being Apple as usual.
Mostly this is a question of transportation. You can't put heavy crude in a pipeline or on a tanker until it's been diluted with lighter hydrocarbons like condensate.
> just to ignore it and move on?

No. That's what courts are for.

This notion that you (in the general sense) should publicly shame businesses and people over private concerns is absurd.
That's average price according to http://fortune.com/2016/01/11/san-francisco-office-rent/
Here's a Linux/L4/QNX comparison.[1]

My favorite table:

Kernel Source Lines of Code (SLOC)

OKL4 13.8k
QNX Neutrino v6.3.2 23k
Linux Kernel 2.6.0 5.2M
Windows XP Kernel size unknown but totals at approx 40M
Windows Vista Kernel size unknown but totals at approx 50M

Modern microkernels are so small that they can be thoroughly debugged, or formally verified.

[1] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/JamieLennox/QNXvL4?ac...
For reference my devices with skype installed are my personal phone with win 10, my development phone with ios, and win 10 / osx laptops. I also have a (5.1) android for development, but no skype on there.
It doesn't work that way for all the remote jobs and contracts I've worked.
I don't remember the last time I went to news.google.com, I see it on news results suggested at the top of the page after I do a normal Google search.

As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if Google was adjusting scrolling settings on iOS (using CSS or JS or something) to make it 'feel' more like Android, since that seems to be their MO recently: make everything feel like Android, not the native platform. Same way they apply material design to all their iOS apps instead of doing things the iOS way.

I hate it. All you did is make your software feel wrong and thus broken.

I know all the "It's more consistent if you switch between platforms" stuff. Switching between OS X and Windows never bothered me, and I don't use other platforms much so that benefit doesn't apply to me. I only get the downsides.
Venezuela is a failed state at this point. I'm more than happy to personally take them as an example of why spending big on social programs doesn't produce long-lasting social benefits. I understand many people will find a point of disagreement here.

This is especially true when corruption is rife. In countries with high corruption, it seems the very best thing to do is to limit as much as possible how much money flows from the top, which is another way of saying limit federal government spending.
We're not embarrassed, and the_duke's comment is spot on. It's not a secret we're built on Pageflow and I am the #5 overall contributor to it. We exist thanks to Pageflow and will do everything to promote it. We've referred many leads to pageflow.io. There's plenty of room for both models to happily exist!
Exygy is hiring a Front-end Developer
Everyone sees their own ideological nemeses in the HN user base, which is both a sign that things are working well, and a reason for us all to avoid ideologically-charged political discussions as much as we can. I promise, the "anti-US left" sees HN as stuffed to the gills full of US apologists as well.
I don't own a Mac, but I'm curious if Safari 10 is finally good enough to run one of my hobby projects, and if not I'd like to debug it because it seems the feature support is finally here (specifically, IndexedDB).

Are there any better options than coercing one of my friends with a Mac into upgrading and letting me borrow their laptop? If not, will I have to get them to upgrade the whole OS like it's old school Internet Explorer, or is it standalone?
The problem is it takes more than just implementing the "kernel" (as in low-level access aka HAL) work under L4. You need to apply that compartmentalization all the way through the stack, and even subdivide applications into smaller chunks of responsibility.

What you typically get is a neat subdivision of all the HAL bits, but everyone stops once they're plugging in applications. This is partly because there's normally a large amount of shared/legacy code which needs importing, and partly because people don't recognize the benefits of partitioning an app.

It's not all bad - at least you can be reasonably confident that one compromised app, or part of the HAL, can't be trivially used to compromise the rest of the system. But, as you say elsewhere here, if there's just one thing you're doing, then all that effort didn't really improve things.
news.google.com used to work fine, but some time ago they broken scrolling on mobile firefox and it is completly unusable.
No, anything that does standard controls will support PiP and as indicated in the notes for HTML5 players that have their own controls (like Youtube) then it's possible to do it through JS (if Youtube decides to).

I'm sure some browser plugin can be created to add the controls to Youtube or all the other major HTML5 players.
I think AMP makes it easier to tell the client that.

"Sorry, we can't add X because it will hurt your search engine rankings"
Try searching for "The Western Star". It's a newspaper that's been AMPd.
It seems like a change of leadership would be necessary to restore trust. When you consider this, the corruption actually makes sense.

The country's leaders probably know that it's just a matter of time before they are removed from power and are trying to make use that time they have left to enrich themselves personally.
MacOS Sierra Is Now Available
Well, you could open source it and see where the tides take it.

And if you're serious about "taking on a completely new idea", perhaps we should be talking.
But google already does that
Well, let's start with immobile and impaired users, of which are millions...

Then, let's check all those media pundits lamenting for the lack of something like Cortana on the Mac...
> If your primary source of non-renewable generation is big steam turbines with a painfully slow ramp-rate (e.g. coal generation) then you're going to have a bad time.

Which is why most coal in the US is being displaced by combined cycle natural gas turbines; ~10-30 minute ramp, depending on load demand.

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/a-users-guide-to-natural-gas...
Why can't they just ask other more friendly countries (Russia, Norway, maybe China) for the expertise in exchange for oil? Should be an easy solution, or am I missing something in my oversimplification?

(And, please, don't blame it on communism/socialism; people have interests and I believe so do people in Venezuela - including those working in the government.)
Pitons permanently damage the rock and aren't used anymore in North America except in special circumstances: big wall aid climbing where nothing else will work or alpine climbing where the crack may be full of ice or dirt.

In Europe, pitons may still be used in some limestone areas that don't take modern gear very well.
Lol. Downvoting me doesn't change the fact that GWB and other prominent Republicans are choosing to vote for HRC over Trump. You can hit that down arrow all you want, facts are facts and I'm sorry they bother you so.
When people use Venezuela to criticize socialism, they always compare it to the most powerful, developed capitalist countries of the world. Look how poor and dysfunctional the failed state of Venezuela is compared to a capitalist country like the United States!

When you compare Venezuela to those of its neighbors who are completely submitted to international capital and empire, capitalism doesn't seem so glamorous either.
At least when you follow the link you end up at the "real" URL. With this it doesn't appear that you do.
"Beginning in version 47, Firefox desktop also supports the Google Widevine CDM"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Quantum teleportation enters the real world
> Quite a lot of websites don't have clients that pay for design - in many cases (especially SaaS), the person wholy responsible for the look&feel target is your colleague the designer, sitting in the office next to yours.

Call them boss, call them stakeholder, call them prospects, call them whatever you want, point is, progressive enhancement requires actual hard work, it's not the default state of things when you move beyond the "research paper" format of having a bunch of paragraphs of text interspersed with section titles on a completely static page.
You wonder how long Maduro will hang in there. With him gone they could return to somewhat sane economic policies.
Sure. You can make your regular site not a piece of crap. AMP is really just a straitjacket for web publishers. You can make your own straitjacket.
It's called "Arctic Henge" (according to the article) and although the artist died a little under a year ago, apparently some people are working with the government to complete it.

This quote stood out, about the artist: " As Thoroddsen told us, “What has never happened before can always happen again.” "
A good Engineer earning $140k as a base salary in SF shouldn't be a surprise (if it is, you're quite out of touch with the market) and then you have to add in the other costs companies have to budget for (benefits, stock, expenses, etc) plus it's clearly an average over the employees (so will include some that make much more and some that make less).

Honestly if it's surprise/shock it's _still_ a bit strange.
This page doesn't discuss start of school. I know some parents try really hard to have a September, not August, baby, because of the start of school.
I think $2.91M is a modest (if not lean) budget for the important work they're doing.

How many websites now have HTTPS because of LetsEncrypt? How much would they have needed to pay for certificates from an incumbent CA?
Probably didn't give it enough time. It kills Safari on my iPad too. I submitted a Radar.

Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib	0x00007fffd0a0ec8a __psynch_cvwait + 10

1 libsystem_pthread.dylib	0x00007fffd0af797a _pthread_cond_wait + 712

2 libc++.1.dylib	0x00007fffcf48558d std::__1::condition_variable::wait(std::__1::unique_lock<std::__1::mutex>&) + 47

3 com.apple.JavaScriptCore	0x00007fffbe6ef7de WTF::ParkingLot::parkConditionallyImpl(void const*, WTF::ScopedLambda<bool ()> const&, WTF::ScopedLambda<void ()> const&, std::__1::chrono::time_point<std::__1::chrono::steady_clock, std::__1::chrono::duration<long long, std::__1::ratio<1l, 1000000000l> > >) + 2494
It's a poorly understood subject on a topic that almost all people consider important.

Given that it is a poorly understood subject, it is then a highly moralized one, and moralized topics are popular.
Very cool looking results! In case somebody is interested in a C implementation, I wrote one some time ago: https://github.com/antirez/shapeme
His question is valid. You need to mix heavy oil with light oil in order to ship it internationally. Most countries don't have plants that can directly refine heavy crude oil. So in a sense, you do need oil to make oil.
Venezuela has huge amounts of heavy oil. But much less light oil. And what they have is now nowhere near enough (thanks to mismanagement and corruption) to keep up with their supply of heavy oil.
Wind is already cheaper than fossil fuels unsubsidized; solar will get there in the next 12-18 months (without storage).
Pretty sure it's not going to be standalone.
Where are the female sound engineers?
Is this true: "The NSA has been sitting on a zero day exploit to remotely grab VPN keys from Cisco firewalls for FOURTEEN years." [0]

0. https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/777834235273027584
Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
CloudFlare offers web encryption up the wazoo
>UI complexity: Apple keeps moving the goalposts on its UI focus, and it shows: The new interface is WAAY more complex.

What would be a concrete example?

(And is that example major and/or indicative of lots of changes towards difficulty, or just a random example, among other things that got easier and some that got harder?)

>EC did some interesting unix things, which broke some stuff IIRC.

Well, even Linux might break some UNIX stuff ocassionally (systemd anyone?). But is there anything specific and important in EC or Sierra regarding that?

>The new FS will be nice, but it's not there now.

A developer version is included with Sierra, but yes, it's no there fully formed and default.
Stripe.com redesign
Pretty cool! I think if you can introduce some bias towards smoother primitives like ellipse or circle, it may look better.
Yeah, but what about the other states that spend on social programs and ended up successful?

This is like throwing out a carton of eggs because one of them broke.
No one I've ever known makes that in support roles. Consultants can get that easily though.
To play devil's advocate; I honestly don't see that many bugfixes in new OS releases that weren't introduced by the major release.

I think a lot of people might be much happier if they just stuck to what was installed when they bought it. You don't have to worry about performance degradations, things in the UI moving around, new bugs, etc. People complain about their phones becoming so slow and unusable they feel "forced" to upgrade. If they stuck with the version of software installed when they got it, it would perpetually perform the same. In the old days Windows was an exception to this. As you used it, it would get slower, required routine maintenance and seemed to benefit from the occasional re-install. Phone calls, e-mail, audio playback, twitter, basic browsing, and the fitness app you might use doesn't really need the latest version.

Like you mentioned, you miss out on modern security updates. The other big thing (you also mentioned) is buying a new shiny device and finding out you need a newer OS to support it.

I tend to update everything, but I'm also willing to take the time to read and debug so I know what's happening inside and out. I don't blame people for not wanting to spend that energy or deal with the hassle.
"An example of this might be the Navier–Stokes equation - we don't fully understand it"

We don't fully understand the flow of fluids, whether or not the NS equation is a good model for them. That the theory of elementary particles is more "fundamental" than the theory of turbulence is one point of view, not unreasonable. But another way to look at it is: the science of fluid flows has its own fundamentals, that are true whether or not a particular fluid is made of particles.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/the-never-ending-conu...
Apple does not make this clear on their Sierra micro-site, and acts as if it either enables by default, or asks you with their typical confusing dialogs to enable it when low on space (which most users would get confused and click enable).
Very nice! Now I want a render farm so I can use this for 4K video. :-)
I understand the traditionalists hesitation (and fear). But it seems to me this is actually a good thing from the Buddhist perspective; it's increasing contact in an age of more secularism.

Customers like Mr. Kai in the article seem just as likely to simply not use a priest at all, rather than figure out how to negotiate with the local temple that they have no roots in, if the "on-demand" service was not available.
No, migrating files off your local HDD in Desktop and Documents to the iCloud.
No 3.5mm port :(
The second part of it is why they can't use cloud HSM products offered by various companies. If you're functioning as a CA, you absolutely want restricted physical access to your root keys, which you can't guarantee otherwise.
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