skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can actually Get Stuff Done, which at the end of the day is what really counts

It's harder for me to "get stuff done" when then "stuff" is bullshit. There are times when what's being asked for is wrong (stealing code/images/whatever), or a wrong solution to the problem. "Right/Wrong" can be subjective, so I shy away from making those snap judgements until I know more about why something is being asked for, but after a while, you tend to develop a 6th sense for crazy.

A 23 year old in their first job will (generally) just plug away at whatever's given them. Older folks generally won't deal as well with bullshit work.
I use stars as a metric in deciding which unfamiliar library seems to be real. It's right up where with number of downloads, and most recent commits. Not a perfect system. Just a sniff test.
Yes, that's a question. We can safely assume that it's buggy, though, since most/all prior kernel versions have had bugs of one sort or another. That assumption doesn't depend on the question you raise.

Given that it's buggy and that linux is widely used, we can also safely assume that someone will try to exploit the bugs, which makes it sensible to limit the likely possible consequences of bug. Or put differently, to minimise the risk that a bug is a vulnerability.
Terrifying that you can get that kind of volume without amplification.
i fear that we have arrived at the endpoint described by a CIA director named william casey: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

it's a possibility now. the avenues for revolt are waning as their control over the public mind solidifies.
... and then, after a while, started crying.
At last, a legitimate reason to use a green-bean HN handle.
It's hard for Apple Inc. to care about anything else when 70% of revenue and 90% of profits comes from their flagship product, the iPhone.
You also forgot the YouTube kids app, which provides no way to filter it more granular than the expected age target so if you downloaded it to let your kids watch a certain show it doesn't matter they'll be on unboxing videos, hacked pirate content, and weird homemade animations in no time.
HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer,government inefficiencies, and works on all devices including screen-readers and morse code machines.
Since he doesn't summarize the test above, let me.
The jpeg.io result is bigger than the other two and noticeably worse quality. The problems were with the sharp lines.

Perhaps jpeg.io specializes in photo-realistic pictures rather than graphics and logos.
This is a direct avenue for advertisers to control what content is actually available on YouTube. If you want to make money on YouTube you need to make content that advertisers like first and foremost or you get to make no money at all. It's exactly the control they had during the television era. Smells like weak reason as a guise to gain control over the content presented on the site entirely.
I think he means that he can't say "no" to the new terms anymore. But you are right. But you're right, if the parent doesn't like whatsapp it should just uninstall it.
My Windows system currently has 21 copies of zlib1.dll on it, each shipped by a different program. While I have no doubt that Windows programmers have heard of DLLs, they clearly haven't grasped the idea of shared libraries.
If you were having cardiac surgery, would you prefer your surgeon to be a year out of med school having done the operation oh 3 or 4 times, or the proverbial graybeard who has done it a thousand times?

If you were wrongly convicted and awaiting a death sentence, would you pick a 22 year old attorney fresh from law school to defend you?

If you have a field full of tomatoes that needs picking, do you save a few dollars an hour hiring the young guy at minimum wage who is healthy, has no family, and will easily work beyond maximum hours without reporting it, or do you hire the older tomato picker who needs a higher salary because of his kids and can't work more than 7.5 hours a day because of his bad back?

So are we law and medicine or are we tomato pickers? I had always thought of engineering as the former but sadly the more articles I see on how "culture fit" discrimination works, maybe we've commoditized the industry into a low wage manual labor job.
I came from an MVC background, where we created hybrids putting Angular or Knockout in the views. But lately I've been doing light-weight Angular solutions now with Webpack talking to Web API. Anyways, Angular 2 is more of a fair comparison to React, since your building components in both of them. The biggest difference between them seems to be that Angular puts js into the html, and React puts html into the js. So it really just depends on which development experience you'd prefer. The Angular team has a lot of sibling projects like Angular Material that I like using, but I'd like to experience more with React.
Google has both .dev and .prod.
I would also note that the Photoshop export has very visible artifacting, and the tinypng compression killed the gradient. For the minimal size trade-off, the jpeg.io compression takes the W.
They also used XHP; that kind of naming makes reading "...XSS holes..." kind of awkward :)
Illustrated History of macOS
There's also http://www.cloudera.com/training.html

You can run Linux in a virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMware etc) where you wouldn't have to deal with wifi drivers because it uses the existing network connection from the host operating system.
Apple to create new London HQ at Battersea Power Station
Elm's type systems is really constrained compared to PureScript's. It's great for people coming from JavaScript, but not so much for those coming from Haskell.

Also, you still need FFI in Elm. elm-lang/virtual-dom is basically just a wrapper around the native virtual-dom library. Also, afaik there's nothing like react native for virtual-dom.
"No ground in reality" according to you. History is full of the success and failures of people trying to achieve such pie in the sky ideals. While past success is not a true indication of future success, Musk has a history of delivering.

Your argument comes across as "There are unsolved problems, and it's expensive, so don't try". Attitudes like that don't drive human progress. Society was not built on "it's hard, so don't try". I'm kind of surprised that this attitude has to be argued against on Hacker News, of all places.
Probably when you accidentally scanned a document to PDF. Or when you received a document in PDF from some nasty man.
Tencent Pledges RMB 1B for Content Creators on Its QQ Social Platform
That was your take away from the comparison? Wow ... I fail to see how the jpeg.io is worse than the other two examples.
I am working in a global company (>200K) with people in all timezone. Sure we are connected at the top by the same executives but at the bottom of hierarchy we are mostly working in silos, while we are facing the same issues regarding regulations, suppliers, technologies.

So even if it is superficial it is a way to reach out and connect with people facing the same challenges. I don't expect someone from another business to solve my issues but at least I can get some input/ideas/feedback.

This is still a rather poor way to connect, but I don't see any better solution at this scale. Much better than a mail @all-company "is anyone else working on X?"
Actually, it was a simile, not a metaphor.
Reaper is amazing. I only recently found out it's made by ex nullsoft people.

It works well for me under wine.
I spend more time with my cofounder than with my wife. I cannot imagine co-founding with anyone I havent known closely for 1yr+, ideally much longer. This is especially for non-technical co-founders who would provide value after i've put in the work to technically de-risk the company. I dont think this is about gauging technical skills, it is about gauging long-term aspirations, motivations, behavior under pressure, and response to ethically challenging situations. You can ask about these in a simple interview, but people can easily be dishonest.
Has anyone gotten it to accept a webp image as input? It threw 'Error while processing this file' for the ~10 files I attempted with. They were all created with cwebp and the photo preset.

I was, of course, quite curious if it could improve upon file size, as that was the main reason I was using webp in the first place.
Why is it hypocritical to cut a deal with certain important clients? Even Stallman recommends selling license exceptions to GPL'd code.

Generally speaking, any startup on this site will give preferential treatment to a $50,000/month customer than to a $5/month customer.

Even your bank will treat you differently if you want to open an account with a deposit of $2 million than if you want to deposit $25.

I don't think "hypocritical" is the right word, since Youtube isn't making a moral judgment. They'd take any money they could if their partners would let them.
Why would Apple really care about the "Pro" market?

It's tiny in comparison to the consumer market.

And the revenue for Macbooks is on par with iPad, and less than a third of the iPhone. They have not been a priority for Apple for many years now.
And I find this to be even more astonishing as OL3 uses Googles Closure compiler who's very advantage should have been better JS minification (not only minimizing/uglifying but actually removing JS parts that are not needed).
Yes, the plan itself doesn't deserve a lot of praise, but knowing Elon, it will likely happen eventually (though usually later than when he says it will :)
It debunks the mistaken popular belief that JS is somehow a significantly worse language.

Also, I can't help but wonder how this: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ is somehow better compared to npm...
OS X is still marginally better than the alternatives, but it's becoming increasingly flaky, and Apple's hardware support is a year or two short of a mass exodus to other platforms.

Win 10 is abhorrent in so many it's impossible to list them all. But it's increasingly usable and mostly stable. Some pro users can live with the horror. Others can't.

Linux is still a hobbyist, experimenter, and IT infrastructure OS. It's good at all the above, and it's being used for some creative pro applications. But it's not a straightforward option for anyone who just wants to get on with paid professional creative work.

It would be interesting if one of the main audio sequencers appeared on Linux. Bitwig is already there. But if (say) Ableton Live switched, it would start a mass stampede away from macOS.

Unfortunately Linux fragmentation makes that unlikely.

So - no, we do not currently have a rock solid no-nonsense OS for professional use, and it's looking less and likely that we'll have one any time soon.

This is ridiculous in 2016. But here we are.
The most important book I've ever read.

Thanks to having read that book before I started my startup, that startup has now become two thriving companies in a highly challenging market, and I've figured out some methods of overcoming major personal challenges, that could turn out to be hugely valuable to many other people, once I'm ready share them.

I'm still working through my own dip, but had I not read that book I'd have quit very early on and would likely be living a pretty mundane existence.

It's a short book, but an invaluable one.
Sleepless nights with MongoDB WiredTiger
And for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
Yes, it can, although I can't say how usable those bindings are.

[0] https://github.com/arthur-xavier/purescript-react-native

[1] https://github.com/hoodunit/purescript-react-native
I completely agree with you. The frustration I feel, in the case of SpaceX, is that I am perceiving most of the criticism to be "It's hard, so don't try". That's not helpful or constructive.
Acquired #21: inside the M&A press w Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman
> Many MBP models with NVIDIA graphics end up needing yearly motherboard replacements, which Apple is providing through a special replacement program. (My previous MacBook Pro has had this done three times.)

I can confirm anecdotally that this occurred with a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010). Despite claims that Apple hardware is reliable and holds its value, I'll never buy one of their personal computers again.
Perhaps then the issue is that all developers see a path to management as the only way to progress their career and in actual fact there is only a minority of developers who love their job enough to want to do it for their entire career?
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Unveiling Algolia’s WordPress search plugin: Blog search at the speed of thought
> networking gear

As someone unfamiliar with that domain, this just raises more questions for me. Is there some secondary layer of code-signing/validation that happens? Is the image host always within the local network and the connection assumed trustworthy?
As a programmer in my 60s, my (rather obvious) advice is to save and invest throughout your career so you have financial flexibility as you get older. I still very much enjoy working but when I have unbooked time I really enjoy that also.

It also helps to have great hobbies. I enjoy writing (I am finishing up a Haskell book, and I have a partially written book on cognitive science that will get finished some day), I take many online classes, read a lot, hang out with friends and family, hiking, kayaking, etc.

As we get older we do slow down. I don't charge very much money anymore as a consultant and I am careful to only take work appropriate to my skills. Now when I write, I do so at a slower pace.

There is a natural order in life and I accept that.
I watched the movie Steve Jobs on HBO.

If any of it true, I came away with these thoughts:

1. Steve wanted a closed system.

2. He cared too much about form. He was not a coder. He was not a hacker. It was Woz. Steve was the business guy.

3. I think the world would be better off if Woz was offered, and took the CEO position after Jobs demise. We might have some really great, open source computers.

4. I don't think I will buy another new Apple product. I will buy used until someone takes their place, because there's so much used stock on Ebay, and CL.

5. But then again, their products are beloved by so many people. I have a relative who bought a new Imac. A $2970 Imac-- that's still in the box. it's been a two months. I asked why he hasn't set it up. He blamed it on me. "You haven't had the time lately, so i am still using my old barely working Imac."

6. That's some pretty spectacular Marketing--Product likability. It will be some time until the average user realizes Apple might be slipping. The average user knows noting about the benefits of an open source computer.
I was expecting IPv4 to be around forever, for similar reasons that COBOL and the still emulated 8254 PC beep are: there's too much critical infrastructure using it.
Linux kernel is not a real time kernel as far as I know?
I really wish people would stop using chroma sub-sampling in lieu of compression. It barely made sense when transmitting analog signals, and it definitely doesn't make sense now.
Thiel's company quietly being sued by the Labor Department?
I'm thinking about things like operation of the Sabatier reactor, refueling operations, inspection and cleaning of the engines prior to re-launch from Mars? There's an awful lot more to a round-trip mission that just automated launch and landing.
Look closely around the red and yellow rectangles and just about and edge meeting the blue and you will see. Open all 3 and tab one to the next and you will notice the big difference.
I would have thought that 20 years ago the crown was still held by SGI.
For me stars is a way to decide how much to scrutinize a package before using it.
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Serial Key Generator 2017
> McMaster is a miserable lying asshole who did enormous harm, but promoting gay rights (however incompetently) is not "US imperialist foreign policy."

I think using fake stories to push various agendas is wrong. Policy makers should make decisions on real data otherwise you end-up with nasty stuff(i.e. civil war).

I think the Iraq war(and perhaps other wars) was started using a fake story too. It may worth it to start a war if the crazy guy has weapons of mass destruction but it's not the case anymore if you just want to push your culture and interests into a foreign country. At least the plan should be different(i.e. full colonisation instead of just knocking the current regime). It's all about responsibility and honesty or the lack of them.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11834348 for an interesting contrast.
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Adware Campaign Borrows Obfuscation Techniques from Operation Aurora Attack
In 2015, Paul Buchheit and Dan Gackle used Hacker News and YC portfolio companies such as Quora in an all-out war against a private individual, Michael O. Church.

In a normal company, run by adults, this abuse of the company name to settle a personal grudge would lead to their being fired in disgrace.

Why didn't this happen? It seems especially strange that these people were retained, given how disliked Buchheit and Gackle are even in the YC community. What did they have to offer (or threaten) in order to keep their jobs?
Left field suggestion: The Honor Series. Start with "On Basilisk Station".
What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
The jpeg.io version is a different image, though - it's got what look like drop shadows.
it's rather about dreaming beyond our current situation rather than trying to just get over this day to get to tomorrow and repeat.

as for physics - we don't have even standard unifying theory that would work in all situations, so there is some room to grow our knowledge. we observe a lot of powerful and strange stuff happening in cosmos, but these are natural things - matter seems to be doing couple of variations of same cycle - group by gravity till planet/star is born, exist for some time, explode/die slowly/collapse/go exotic. who can say what will happen when we literally take matter, energy and spacetime into our hands?

But before we will reach these situations, our society will change completely, probably many times. implants, prolonging life endlessly, going completely into digital existence and who knows what. why would inter-galaxy travel matter if we would exist in endless sea of some data banks?
> If you were having cardiac surgery, would you prefer your surgeon to be a year out of med school having done the operation oh 3 or 4 times, or the proverbial graybeard who has done it a thousand times?

Rationally one would care about the outcomes, and the number of times would merely make us more certain about the outcome.

Relative to the two scenarios you showed, programming is usually more like tomato picking—nobody is going to die or be injured because of a bug or failure to deliver something.
upon first glance it looks like the lines are blurry in the jpeg.io one compared to the original and other two.

If you zoom in a bit that may still be the case, but it looks like the overall image quality is much better.

The photoshop export has significant artifacts visible, while the jpeg.io compressed image has far fewer visible artifacts. The tinypng version isn't jpeg compressed but shows dithering as you would expect from a GIF file.
The USPTO would still have an obligation to process the patent applications though. So now each patent has an average of 4h20m spent on it instead of 4h40m (some are hundreds of pages of complex concepts that potentially no one in the world has seen published before).

The examiner then would be under pressure to glance over a lot of applications and just let the courts sort it out later.
The usage of "getClientRects" is not about measuring the display size.
The idea is to render some text into an empty element and then measuring the elements dimensions. The dimensions vary slightly depending on your browser, installed fonts, your OS, your machine etc...
You have the wrong metric. The metric should be the efficiency of the mechanism in implementing SSL.

Now look at things like Gerrit Pape's sslio , http://smarden.org/ipsvd/sslio.8.html . Note that the subject at hand purportedly uses several of Gerrit Pape's other tools.
The anti JavaScript ranting is tedious and redundant, however he points out that virtually no React Native code uses Flow, etc., so it's an unused solution. The point about React having hundreds of dependencies is also well taken.

While I'm at it, I find the graphs towards the end claiming, for example, that using Xamarin (or Appcelerator) is more productive than React Native, or implying Swift is barely shy of perfectly safe to stretch credulity.

Finally, Javascript's "slow" state of development is a feature as well as a weakness, just as Swift's rapid pace of development is both a weakness and a feature. React itself progresses at a breakneck pace.
Nvidia Teases Xavier – ARM for HPC
Any time it's a photographic image (rather than a drawing, diagram or rasterised vector image).
Yeah, I'm happy it got posted here because I sadly forgot about it.
Anything that requires some kind of processing like, for example facebooks own Instagram.
> it will try and redirect me to a Google search result, unless I prefix the whole thing, eg "http://doc.localhost/"

Shortcut to avoid being redirected to a search for uncommon TLDs: end with a /, no need for the http://.
They have the right plan: autonomation, leading towards automation, rather than automation from day 1.

First, reduce the work for the human. Then, continually improve it until they aren't really needed anymore.
How DJI scouts for fresh engineering talent
Why you should give Marten a look before adopting an ORM like EF
> How is this model of liability compatible with large open source codebases?

Yes, like in other fields. Obviously people are not chased out of town for as small error.

It's when people conspire together to hide big problems that liability becomes important.
The problem is that the "Pro" are the people that keeps the platform alive by developing app for them. I think that Apple is getting blinded by the strength of the iOS ecosystem that bleed on the MacOS one. They think they can get away with anything.

Or they just don't care and the iPad Pro is really the computer of the future at Apple. The huge wait since the last update of whole range of Mac hardware really start to make me feel as they have just put it on life support. With maybe one last significant update maybe this year and then let the platform slowly drown, with infrequent updates.

IMO, if they announce a cloud version of XCode that publishes compiled app in a special developer app store, that would mean the end of the Mac line.
They have a closed development ecosystem, so diminished quality there will eventually show up in their flagship iOS market.
Does PayPal get a cut of the donation?
What the heck is… Social Eating?
I think "older" programmers are more likely to stick around longer. If your looking for someone to fill space so you can brag about the hours your team is putting in and party with while you blow threw a few more of some investors millions go with the young guy. Since, the companies' going to blow up in six month anyway why worry about how long they stay in a job.
The term has probably just made it into HN (and not only) jargon :)
Natural Selection is normally the only means by which evolution occurs, but evolution itself is merely "descent with modification", which this would qualify as. We're really just jump-starting the mutation process, and once that part is done, whether those designer babies go on to have children of their own will come down to natural selection.

[1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_0...
Anything required to program the chips. Its been trata since I've worked with older chips and dunno what's required.
self driving cars.