skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a user of S3Stat once. I emailed in about a problem about 4 years ago. Still no reply. I'm not upset at all as it was dirt cheap. But support is not a priority.
i'm getting tired of these ignorant hypocrites. an internal highest level browser language that requires the same toolchains and understanding as developing lowest level systems software IS SPECIFICALLY THE ENTIRE POINT.

what is a javascript "config file"? but, please... don't be "too information", moron.

you're all idiots.
As someone who learned Unity well enough to do game jams, then tried to switch to Unreal Engine 4 and failed to get traction for a year, I absolutely agree.

I was choosing UE4 for technical reasons and completely ignoring my comfort with the system. I was completely unable to get motivated and it absolutely brought my mood down for that year.

Then I recently picked Unity back up (and had to learn a year or more of what I'd missed, including the new UI stuff) and it feels so much better. I'm getting things made and my mood has improved quite a bit.

I haven't completely given up on UE4, but I'm no longer trying to shoe-horn it into my development. I'll wait until it really is the right tool for the job this time.
I had thought it was clear that I was referring to this discussion, i.e. that the drop in complaints was due to the use of body cameras, but it was not proven why.

Was that not obvious? If not, my bad.
No HTTPS? :(
Citroën concept car loaded with amazing tech – Paris Motor Show 2016
For some reason, this is the fifth posting of this site in the past two days, and the only one to make it to the front page.
LLCs are one of the greatest inventions
i found myself biased in favor protecting pedestrians, even pedestrians who crossed against a red light.

i think that's closer to how i drive than, say, reducing the value of a pedestrian who is crossing the street illegally. and i think i drive that way because at some point the statement "pedestrians always have the right of way" was drilled into my brain.
The picture on the top sums it up.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I'd recommend learning them well enough to know their strengths, and then telling the interviewer that's what you did.

If you have any experience in other front end frameworks, that'll usually be enough to get you through that part of the interview anyhow.
"Once again, you are confusing a floating currency with a company using a blockchain technique for more transparent and safe book keeping of their gold inventory."

You're purposely ignoring basic economic principles required to understand the gist of my comment. Spend some time doing day trading in the metals market and you'll see how a blockchain isn't going to help with keeping gold inventory straight when the prices are tied up. This is gold settlement, not simple inventory tracking, so this is a much more complex issue than you're trying to make it out to be.
At some point, there just won't be any additional people left to travel. The hard question: Are we at that point? If not, when will it occur?

Also, is the existence of this effect justification enough to stop us from changing anything?
Here in Cambridge the city is making a concerted effort to get rid of surface parking lots. Most new construction is putting parking underground, so actually useful structures can go over the space. Cambridge is a very small city with good access to public transit, walkable, and fairly bike-friendly. There's no need at all to waste valuable acreage on car storage.
Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?
We're talking physical goods, right? I don't see why you would ever use 3D secure for digital "stuff".
JavaScript devs have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to tools/frameworks. It is overwhelming yes, but this anecdotal ranting is counterproductive. JQuery still works excellently, and so does ReactJS if you have the patience and time to learn it. One just needs discretion when distinguishing the tools of the avant-guard from the tools of the pragmatic workhorses.
As a really crazy thought, is it be possible that networks of Dyson Spheres throughout the universe would explain the lower level of visible matter vs the gravity we observe? That is, Dyson Spheres obfuscating their contained stars as an explanation for dark matter?

Similarly, the heat would still escape from them. Could that explain the CMB?

(I expect that I'm way off the mark, but if nothing else it could make for an interesting premise for some sci-fi.)
Car sharing really doesn't make sense without self-driving cars – at that point, it'll actually start saving space, because you no longer need the parking space to be in the middle of cities, but rather can just build a few huge carparks in the countryside.
>I have no trouble at all "keeping up" with the "insanity" that is front-end development. If you're confused learning new things, it means you're learning.

This naive view though assumes that all learning and all stuff to learn is created equal and is all good.

That is, that the IT industry can't possibly produce junk for people to learn ("busywork", programming fads, over engineered platforms, oversold technologies, etc).

People who have been through the J2EE-hell of mid-noughties, which even its creators condemned and abandoned several years later, but which at the time was touted as "THE WAY" to build enterprise software, and you just had to "man up" and learn it, respectfully disagree.
If the car sharing is sufficiently cheap, camping guy might leave his car at home and just use it for camping, freeing up parking in the city.
I am glad it is available in your specific country in the EU :-)
Sorry, I'm confused: what do you mean by "migrated a 5 year old codebase from Rails to React"? What are you using as your backend?
You do realize that one can rent cars?
I made three planes in Singapore but it keeps saying I've made zero.
I agree. How am I supposed to know if a TLD belongs to a company?
What does our camping friend do? Rent a giant car for the few times that (s)he needs it.
MasterCard launches its ‘selfie pay’ biometric authentication app in Europe
Very sad. RIP Pieter.

Black bar on Hacker News, please.
Express + Passport can easily be done in less than an hour. It's super simple to setup. I've got my default template for every site I whip up. Now writing that from scratch is a completely different story. I doubt any of their current engineers could just put that together in a day.
The number of cars is irrelevant to congestion. The number on the road is important. And with car-sharing there are exactly the same number of useful car trips (people getting to work or home) plus the deadheading. Its strictly (much) worse.
Same here. ~15 planes caught, the only time I caught one that had a stamp other than mountain view, it had one of my own stamps on it :(
hjkl to stear
How would you suggest developers actually figure out what tools to use? It is next to impossible to make an informed decision without digesting a good portion of what the OP is talking about. You need to start somewhere.
This misses the point.

It's about the unit test.

jQuery is easy to develop with but difficult to unit test.

React is slow to develop with but easier to unit test.

For small projects, jQuery is better.

For large projects where the all the persons writing it tomorrow might not be here today, pick the testable one so they have a chance of future refactoring.
Insulting cancer is okay, just don't insult Microsoft on this forum.
> roads are often at peak usage, while reducing parking is only a cost-saving feature.

In many European cities, parking area could be converted into additional lanes by removing a few marker lines. Reduced demand for parking area can increase throughput too, in these cases.
Here (Belgium) it has been legal for 14 years now. Anybody who suffers (even psychological) has the right to decide between life or death. There are some rules (number of doctors, free will, unbearable suffering, ...) you need to follow.

The public support for euthanasia is also overwhelming. The only parties against are mostly the catholic church but their influence is nil as we have a clear separation of church and state.
A Look at Automatic Image Tagging Services
Actually, what people frown upon is using tables for layout. Using them to display actual tabular data is quite fine. (I mean, everything is fine at the end of the day as long as the end-user is happy, but you know what I mean...)
Review: Elecrow HDMI 5“ Display with XPT2046 Touch Controller for Raspberry Pi
That's what gives Express its appeal. Rather than a walled in environment, I can pick and choose the pieces that I need. Much more flexible if you want to move over to a different library within Express.
This would actually be pretty rad if I could narrow down the events to include only those from Github organizations that I care about.
> Would a black bar be considered?

As on top of HN? I guess somone would have to e-mail admins for that.
What I find soothing about it is when there are long pauses. It makes me wonder... what's making people take long breaks?
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/198/020/BRT...
Pieter: I don't know if you are reading Hacker News at this point or not. Most likely not. I respect your rights and understand the challenge you are faced with. We don't know each other but your work has touched me profoundly as a fellow technologist. All I have to say is I am crying at the moment. I'm crying because I feel very helpless. As a fellow human I am unable to do anything to help you. I am sorry.
> migrated a 5 year old codebase from Rails to React

This statement doesn't make sense to me, and is one of the points of the article. React is a view layer. That's it. So you wouldn't migrate from Rails to React. You'd migrate Rails to React + Relay + Webpack + etc. On top of all of that you then have to decide if you're sticking with Rails for your API or if you're switching over your entire back end as well. The decision debt is just insane, and given how often these things change, that debt never goes away.
I'm looking for a performant way to run RISC-V code in the next year or so. Any idea how sophisticated the QEMU emualtor is? For instance, is it JITing to X86, or interpreting? Is there low hanging fruit there on the CPU performance side?

On a related note, is throwing money at the FPGA vendors going to change the tradeoff, or is QEMU already winning against top-end hardware?
This is actually really helpful, thanks a lot
Would have preferred that Google had put their resources behind something like GopherJS instead of yet another C#/Java-like, feature-creep prone language.
Thought I'd seen something very similar before:

http://listen.hatnote.com/
I sent in an application last month and did an initial interview. It was my understanding that I'd be scheduled for two more interviews, at least one of them technical. Maybe I misunderstood, but in any case no one ever got back to me to say they weren't moving forward with my application.
So interestingly, hiding you star in a Dyson sphere, turns it into the loudest beacon in the galaxy, for a while.

If we wanted to be 'found' by aliens, we should do this to our sun.
According to...?
That's actually very relaxing
Or we could do it like the Japanese and just remove almost all parking lots and replace them with underground parking or parking decks that pack cars a lot more tightly.
Spacejump for iOS
This was in fact the original concept as envisioned by Dyson. He pointed out that a solid sphere would be mechanically impossible but the logical way to build such a structure would involve a "swarm of objects".
The part I find funny is considering how often the "latest great thing" changes so quickly is that it shows a decent developer can shift to another thing in the ecosystem quickly. Making the "if you aren't using Brand X, then you're behind" attitude seem kind of silly. Considering the response can easily be "give me a few hours and I'll be using Brand X". I've shifted through a dozen or so "latest thing" in my career without much trouble at all.
Ethnic profiling is bunk. It kind of works in areas like Israel, where there is literally a war on and the goal of profiling is not to determine criminality, but which side of the war you are on.

If you're trying to determine criminality, ethnic profiling doesn't work. It's been proven time and again. It's amazing that we're still having this debate 70 years after the West shed eugenics.
>It's one of those bloody articles that requires a layman to read all of the attached articles

I don't see why this is a bad thing. I often do this for fun, and when I do it's never information I need to get on in my day to day life. These are extremely complex topics. If you don't want to understand them in their complete complexity, do you really want to understand them at all? What's the point of dumbing down a subject for the layman if the subject can't really be understood at that dumbness level?
How to Build a Cross-Platform Blog Using React Native and Node.js
I think the name "GitHub Audio" is confusing and probably a trademark violation. When I read "GitHub Audio", I figured it was a new service by GitHub for musicians to version control their music.
> there's so much

Then only use so much evidence as to support your claim.

Evidence of you claim is only evidence of your claim after it is verified, at which point the work has been done. before then it's potential evidence. You don't know what evidence you have until you investigate it, so again, suggesting that there's a lot is just speculation.

If the claim requires a great level detail, then it's your fault for making an overly broad claim without evidence; again, if the work has yet to be done, you can't be sure what the picture will look like - you can only assume that you are able to prove a "wonderfully detailed picture" of whatever you claim; This is a faith-based argument; you have faith in you ability to demonstrate, and in the apparent quality of evidence, before actually having done it.

A google search isn't research for many reasons (e.g. the bias in focus of a search engine, which is a tool for finding specific information, not building a representative/comprehensive summary of information on the internet; The 'mememtic survival bias' and/or 'publish bias' of what kind of information is most commonly found on the internet etc etc etc).

One relevant reason is just because a url is returned, doesn't mean it's a relevant source (and multiple urls may all have the same underlying source/s); checking those sources would be the job of whoever made the claim. Until this is done you only have a blob of data, not a verified list of sources.

If this hasn't been done, then you don't know, and are just pushing the burden of investigation on me - I'd assume if I find any invalid source among that google search, you'd just tell me to keep looking until I found a valid one? Why do I have to spend my time to support your claim? I should be send on a wild goose chase to find something that you claim to exist...
Sometimes jQuery is all you need. Sometimes you don't even need that.
Much as I like Eno (this project is more Eno-lite than Eno-like imho) the story of generative music goes back some way before his time. To explore, start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel
The AdWords team could have chosen any of a fairly large number of technologies to develop their new front end, but they chose the Dart version of Angular 2 to do so.

CircleCI chose to use ClojureScript and Om instead of using React directly. NoRedInk chose to use Elm instead of writing JavaScript directly. Others have chosen ScalaJS.

It's not popular in the startup world, but plenty of companies chose (and continue to choose) to use GWT to build their in-browser user interfaces. I worked at one of them back in 2010. I had huge doubts about the Java-to-JS compilation process. I'd mostly only seen ugly GWT apps cobboled together from the UGLY base components GWT shipped with. As it turned out, we were able to created our own good looking components quite easily. So long before Angular or React existed, we were able to create a nice an easy to understand component based web app, with business logic split out into services and wired together with dependency injection. It ended up being a sane choice that enabled us to continue developing safely and sanely as the app became larger, and it performed very well on both desktop and mobile browsers. GWT wouldn't be my first choice (or second, or third) in 2016, but it ended up being a pretty good one in 2010.

I'm not saying that choosing a compile-to-JS language that has very different semantics than JS is necessarily sane and practical. But I think that plenty of real world successes demonstrate that this choice can be simultaneously sane, practical, and successful.
Yes, our social institutions treat the poor reprehensibly, and it does present a huge problem that doesn't get addressed as often as it should.

The fact still remains, though, that our social institutions treat poor black folks much worse than poor white folks.
Rural Students Are Stuck in a Tech-Impoverished Past
I guess EV certs can help. This one just uses Let's Encrypt but GitHub have their company name in the URL bar for official sites.
I don't have time for that every time I encounter a new domain.
It’s crazy that there’s 3k+ people currently listening to events from github’s system. So much #nerd
Hah, I just posted elsewhere this exact sentiment. My first "framework" was Javascript. Every new fancy thing that comes along is just more Javascript to me.
There are feedback loops here. In NYC density is high enough that very few cars per person are needed and public transit is used by most people. In this situation a taxi may take the place of 50 cars.
Ah, bummer. Sorry to miss a mail, since I do make a point of at least answering them. If you remember what the issue was, and still want to use the service, send me a mail.

I'll try to get back to you within a few months this time.
With the right car sharing app and infrastructure, if you're going to be at your destination for more than a few minutes, you can mark your car as 'available' while it's in the parking lot so you don't have to keep paying for it while it's parked. Somebody else can then use it instead of leaving it there taking up space in the parking lot. Then when you want to go home, you call a new car.
>if your cities are already gridlocked, this won't make them somehow less gridlocked

I disagree. Human drivers use roads very inefficiently: they overreact, have high latency and drive overly selfish.

Computers can drive cars closer together, can maintain higher speed with the same safety margins and without causing traffic jams by overbreaking, and they have no problems obeying traffic laws (and thus won't cause a literal gridlock).

The only reason why self-driving cars won't notably reduce road utilisation is because of induced demand
If "By far most of the solar system's mass is in the Sun itself: somewhere between 99.8 and 99.9 percent", then I can't help but wonder if there is enough matter to cover the sun's surface area to create a real Dyson sphere. Where would this matter come from? Is there enough matter in left in the 0.1% (shared by the rest of the solar system) to completely engulf the sun?
Public transit is great at reducing congestion. A single subway train can hold a thousand people. With 3 minute intervals, the capacity blows away any road network. However there are different challenges:

* Fan out from a transit stop. You need to layer on buses, bike share, and/or car share. And whatever you add needs to have ADA accessible and family friendly options. I love my Hubway key but if I have my kids with me, I have no place to put them [+].

* Building or expanding the damned thing. In particular for me, Boston is sabotaging itself by not aggressively expanding and maintaining its transit system.

* Changing American mindsets. Even in cities with relatively good transit systems, there's a mindset that it's dirty, for poor people, or too expensive compared to driving/parking. Car-sharing is a familiar concept for these people: I'm an American, I drive a car to places.

+: http://wamu.org/news/14/06/03/dc_couple_invents_kids_seat_fo...
'gulp or grunt' are these actual JavaScript libraries/frameworks? Or are you referring to human bodily noises?
Anyone remember http://www.hlcomic.com?
I agree. I program in quite a few languages, but Go is my favorite when it comes to a low-bullshit ecosystem. There are probably too many web frameworks, but the standard HTTP library seems to have the bulk of the marketshare.
There are still COBOL jobs too. Where I'm at Fortran is still pretty popular. Hell, I just wrote an internal app to communicate with a Vax!
Amazon Flex | Toronto, ON | Full-Time
Software Development Engineers (multiple openings) & Web Developer
On-Site

About us:
Amazon’s new crowd-sourced delivery platform, Amazon Flex, aims to delight customers by delivering millions of packages faster than ever before. We are expanding our platform rapidly to new geographies and products from groceries to big-screen TVs in an increasingly complex transportation network. We recently launched Prime Now that delivers orders in an hour or less. You can find out more at flex.amazon.com

Job:
One challenge within flex is to accurately track work by ingesting data from multiple sources and making sense of it, so delivery personnel can be paid accurately and quickly. We are building the entire stack, from the data store and platform to UX. The platform will not only ingest data through a well-defined interface, but will also support mechanisms to publish clean data for consumption. We will build data analytics and business intelligence to perform key data inquiries independently that will help business teams reliably answer important questions.

Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love listening to customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software solutions for the new transportation program. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own design and development of key parts of services. You will have influence on subsystem design and help build a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product.

Your work would be cross-functional involving partnering with other teams in Amazon, including operation, fulfillment, IT, and finance teams. We are looking for someone with a go-getter attitude who is ready to own a problem and passionately drive successful implementation. We want someone who is a quick learner and ready to learn and adopt the latest techniques in computer science.

Come join the team and help us make history!

The job posting will be up at jobs.amazon.com in a few days. Shoot me an email at zee@amazon.com with your resume.
What if one of the parties in that dialogue was an AI?
If you're "Me" in that chat, you have this chat record to fall back on. My mom is an Amazon Seller (got the top 25% Holiday Seller Award twice) and her experience when asking about policy matters is the SellerCentral Associates tend to shoot from the hip and give whatever they think the answer is.

So note to other sellers, ask first and save the record of the conversation, instead of relying on the something you found on Imgur. Seller Performance (the legal team) will always give you a pass for bad information from Amazon Reps when considering the death penalty. No such leniency is granted for "the other guys were doing it" or "a third party told me something that directly conflicts with the Amazon Business Services Agreement".
Isn't that code derived from GPLed code? In that case it must have a GPL license, so what are the lawyers really hung up on with copyright assignment? It's not like they can change the license due to owning the copyright, and they can't prevent anyone else using the code they've already released under that license. I guess I can see the frustration - at this point the actual ownership is kind of a minor point.