skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What went wrong with Baxter? I remember it being so revolutionary when it came out.
Landau's problems
How Do I Crack Satellite and Cable Pay TV? [pdf]
Simply not true. Average usage life of the Macs I've bought over the last 30 years has been around 10 years. My 2007 iMac is no longer my primary Mac, but it's still in use as a server. Most of them have been sold and continued to be used by future owners after I upgraded.
But as the old saying goes, it will still need a decent editor.
I'm pretty sure they were being charitable because that's a somewhat biased interpretation of what was being discussed. It would be trivial to make NFS start exactly as it did prior to systemd. I would characterize this as fixing the problems brought forth by trying to use NFS with the new capabilities systemd offers, and the unforseen consequences of doing so without knowing/considering how everything interconnects with it.
i don't use twitter because i have no idea what my user/pass is. They should just allow authentication via FB
30 seconds... 30. sigh.

This just isn't something to be happy about.
Yes, I corrected after realizing, and having it pointed out.
I am a bit slow today. Can you explain the usage please ? Because I didn't understand how a GUI would be used.
There is another angle that we often don't consider: who the media writes for. In general, the financial press writes for investors (this is the same for the tech media), and so their alarm bells and dire predictions are for investors, not necessarily about underlying fundamentals or facts of a business for everyone else.
Washington's governing elites think we're all morons, a new study says
The British government doesn’t think you should exist
I love this advice. I think it would apply to talks and presentations too, there's often an awkward and unnecessary pre-amble.
Redux with different frameworks (and vanilla.js)
Ask HN: Where would you start to put together a naive FAQ chat bot?
enterprise does not like the rolling-release model.
I tell students that it would be good to have a "problem solving" major (such as engineering, computer science, business, or law) as well as a second major in a "problem" they care about, which could be anything from art to zoology. Then you have the ingredients for a career -- applying your problem solving methodology to a problem you know something about.

In your case, maybe you learn computer science and you apply it to some problem in art or the humanities.
Better question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12653717
California should consider itself lucky if the pine beetle has just hit in 2015 and not really that bad from the pictures. Probably 50% of the trees in Colorado are dead, 90% in some places.
I don't know about desktop computers, but in the late 80's-early 90's I worked for a peripheral company that made laboratory/light industrial I/O boards for TRS-80's, PC, etc.. Our rule of thumb was that selling price was roughly 5x Bill Of Materials cost. So a $100 relay board cost us around $20 in parts (and probably $5-10 in labor) to build.

Most of the non-parts cost was probably marketing expense.

These days I can buy a similar piece of hardware on Alibaba for $15!
It's not useful to people who use different private keys on different machines. It is useful to anyone who has a single private key that they use on multiple machines. The latter isn't really a great idea, but I bet a bunch of people do it anyway.
Sure, people are always on about Apple and what a cult it is. The phrase "like-minded people" give me the heebie-jeebies no matter what context it's used in, though.
WebAssembly: high speed at low cost for everyone (Andreas Rossberg)
Google does not do a great job at products which interact with the physical world.
Well, at this point I believe that when you use Allo in incognito mode it does end-to-end encryption. You also lose the integration with google assistant at that point.

https://support.google.com/allo/answer/6383724?hl=en

What happens in Incognito mode

You won't be able to preview your message in the Allo conversation list. You'll just see that you or the other person "sent a message."

Notifications won't display who sent the message or its content. If you want to turn off notifications entirely, go to Menu Menu and then Settings and then Notifications.
Your chats are end-to-end encrypted and can only be seen by you and the person you're chatting with. Google can't read any of your messages, so you won't see any Smart Reply or Google Assistant features.

When you receive a sticker from a sticker pack that you don’t have, Allo will download it securely from Google’s servers, but without using end-to-end encryption.
What's really interesting is that slaughterhouses are major users of H1B visas.
>loading the solution for the entire .NET Compiler Platform “Roslyn” 30 seconds with Visual Studio ‘15’ compared to 60 seconds with Visual Studio 2015

A 50% performance improvement isn't something to be happy about? How quickly should it be doing the loading of that specific set of files?
Sorry to hear this. I've been through a similar transition. 1 of 2 devs 5 years ago, growing a team to 45+ engineers today. I felt a lot of what you describe. I was somewhat aware of the split (as it was happening) between technical creativity and being the face of the team (but not actually building). I realized that building, being creative was something I didn't want to lose. I hired directors and promoted (eventually) one to VP. He and I work very closely, but the clear distinction is he runs the engineering team, and I am responsible for running the architecture group, facilitating engineering culture and leading research.

Thankfully my CEO was supportive of the split I defined, and it has allowed me to not lose my identity. But for a good 2 years there, I was struggling to find the right fit.

And as for getting yelled at about bugs, that's just part of the job. It's hard not to take personally, but when you realize that CSMs get yelled at so much more about bugs than we do in engineering roles, it helps put the pain into perspective.
The importance of this article for our current times is in the last two paragraphs.
I think this is a good exercise for any programmer dealing with UI. At its core, React.js is quite simple, but seeing that such a system can be built on top of a well known platform like JavaScript is something that might not occur to everyone, even someone familiar with JavaScript.
Also, even if you do have an iCloud account, you can still separately configure whether or not iCloud Keychain is enabled. If it's not enabled, there's no keychain syncing. And IIRC, it's not enabled by default.
From my experience, I agree with this. I interviewed at Google in 2014. I prepared extensively. However, I bombed the interview. The interviewers genuinely wanted to see how I think. I am not brightest guy around and couldn't provide great insights in my solutions. I got same feedback from recruiter.

Just came here to say that from my limited experience, I concur with this comment. Google also has improved their feedback loop after the interview, which I find severely lacking in other companies with similar interviewing styles.
What you call 'needlessly verbose, meandering' are actually fact-filled details. If you are not interested in the details of the language acquisition device, (or if you knew it all already), then I can see why you would be bored.
They've been doing it for VS Code which is now my goto editor for anything not C++ or Java.
Low effort comment, but simply put: Design.
> You don't have to create an iCloud account to install security updates

How nice of it to tell you that while they are forcing you to create an account.

> Just run `software update -i -a` from the Terminal.

Looks like it is `softwareupdate -a -i`.

> Moreover, you are confusing an iCloud account and an iTunes store/app store account

What is the difference? I do not have an iTunes account. I've never even started iTunes. I have the iCloud account the software made me create in order to install updates.
I saw a comment here on HN once on a related subject that essentially said, (paraphrasing), "When wisdom is seen as a basic human need like food or shelter, the resulting world will look very different."

That all starts with education and a different view of who and what we are. We are not cogs in a machine, a product of a factory assembly line churning out efficient workers.

I often wonder where I can get started to help create that world, but honestly I have no idea.
The comments here are very good and I'm glad people care about the real story and its nuances. For too long people have been taught that Galileo dared to contradict the bible, the church threw him in prison, and that's that.
> These illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans.

Eh, this argument gets trotted out a lot, but it isn't exactly clear-cut. The economy isn't a zero-sum game.

Sure, illegal immigrants do show up and undercut some jobs. Some percentage of people will find themselves working at a lower wage, or lose their job and need to find a new one.

But plenty of other people will find their business increased, higher wages, more profit, etc. All these immigrants require services and commodities too, and have to buy them from somewhere. They need to buy groceries, get hair-cuts, purchase mattresses, buy cars. Illegal or not, they contribute to the economy too.

Planet Money did a good piece on the cuban migrations to Miami in the 80's. It was the perfect microcosm to study the phenomenon: many immigrants, contained geographical region, etc.

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/01/444912593/when-cuban-migrants-...

Money quote at the top of the episode:

SMITH: So 80,000 refugees came to Miami, and there was no effect on the economy?

CARD: You couldn't detect any strong evidence of an effect one way or the other.

SMITH: No effect, not on wages, not on unemployment rates. Card says this is
because there is not a fixed number of jobs in an economy. When a bunch of new
people come, yes, they get jobs. But they also start buying stuff, getting haircuts,
going to the grocery store, which means you need more barbers and more grocers. That
creates more jobs.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/10/2f/e1/102fe1905...

That's hilarious.
The best article I know if

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...

As mentioned by another user below. The story in that link is really a great read. However, I'm unable to tell you how accurate or complete that account is.
To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
We wrote a post about this recently[1]. It really depends on how you want to use them, but here are three things that might not be obvious about Projects on first glance:

* GH Projects exist within a repo, so you can only have Issues from a single repo on a Project.

* A Project contains a subset of issues within a repo - they need to be added manually to the project. This would make it tough to manage a whole project with a Project because you'd have to manually add any issue you created to it.

* You can't filter issues in a Project. Fundamentally a Project is not driven by a query, it's driven by manually adding issues to a Project. So slicing and dicing issues on a Project isn't possible.

I think GH Projects could be used to manage the release of an Epic (e.g. a subset of issues grouped together within a repo). But I think it'd be challenging to manage an entire project with one.

1 - http://blog.codetree.com/articles/the-important-differences-...
Yes, as the trade surplus so aptly shows. Oh, wait..
As mentioned, it was a discovery tool for podcasts that. I don't recall the timing with podcasting support in iTunes, but I recall them having problems before iTunes started supporting it: it didn't seem to ever have a business model.

That said, it was the wild west of podcasting back then, so any discovery was helpful. I remember one of the first podcasts I listened to was just Adam Curry driving around Amsterdam smoking and swearing at people.

It was pretty awesome.
I always thought the "read more" was to track how many people read the article for analytics and ad purposes.
Moley is trying to make a robot chef and release it in 2018 [0]. Personally, I think it will bomb because the AI isn't there yet. When a grip on a tool or bowl fails the whole thing fails. Robotic arms aren't "set and forget" when dealing with even the simplest failure modes. That said -- successful robots like this are why the potential market for robot arms is huge. The current market for robot arms is very small. The gap between the two is an AI problem.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDprrrEdomM
Framing anti-illegal immigration as "anti-immigrant" and "anti-mexican" is classic Democrat double-speak.

The idea of not wanting new citizens to enter the work force when our current citizens cannot find work is labeled as xenophobic.

Any ideas on why this double-speak is being promoted is labeled as a conspiracy theory.
Ah, the Pocket Computer. I had one of those in early 90's when I was a student pilot. I programmed it to do flight calculations and learned valuable lessons in UX. Trying to operate those tiny keys and read the display while trying to fly a hot, noisy, vibrating Cessna 152 was an exercise in frustration.
I've been advocating this for a while, business logic should not be tied to a specific framework. It can be brought into any framework with a super thin, easy to write/read wrapper.

But UI level stuff, probably should be done in your framework. So Business logic drives state, which your framework translates into DOM.
As a passionate user since 2008, that feature made Twitter much better. Once you follow 1,000+ people keeping up is impossible. The new tweet-bumping (self-reply) and algorithmic features make Twitter a much more pleasant place.

It now feels much less overrun by marketers. Real interesting discussion is once more possible. Just like the old days.
I feel like that's more of a "political" statement, something that seems to be common among religious leadership even today. Whenever science proves something to contradict a holy text with enough certainty that the religious org can't ignore or refute, they save face by claiming that the evidence in the holy text was merely misunderstood, misinterpreted, or mistranslated. It's understandable, if intellectually dishonest.
To spy on users, Yahoo modified tools that were supposed to protect them
Question: Do you like being a game developer or do you like the idea of being a game developer?
I'd love to see some evidence to back your claims regarding mobile platforms.

To satisfy LGPL, your users need to be able to swap Qt versions. For desktop platforms, that's trivial to do: Use dynamic linking and your users will be able to fiddle with the shared library files to their heart's content.

However, for IOS or Android, the moment the user changes the contents of your package, your signature is void and the vanilla platforms don't let the user install modified versions of your binary. For IOS, there are additional hurdles like the requirement to statically link or the licence incompatiblility when interfacing with IOS which to me boils down to this: If you are distributing a non-free app built with Qt Open Source via Google's Play Store or Apple's App Store, you are in violation of the terms of Qt's license.

The fact that the Qt company tries to play nice with the industry doesn't make it any less so.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm just tired of watching this subject being discussed with nothing more than handwavy arguments, winks and smileys.
I think portraying it as a fight to the death is more interesting. This is why any new phone is "an iPhone killer" rather than a phone attempting to get some market share.
5.7 dropped LGPLv2.1 as an option.

LGPLv3 includes the "anti-TiVoization" clauses which require that any device including the software must include an offer for not only the covered source code, but "Installation Information" allowing the end-user to replace the firmware on the device.
Giving out this info is not something that a car company (or really any companies) want to provide.

It's unfortunate that a large car company doesn't want to buy a commercial license, but maybe they'll be forced into that once 5.6 becomes too old.
Oh man, this sounds like a plot device in a horror movie.
Trust HN to find a way to make animal suffering all about their career prospects...
It's the same anti-tvoization stuff as GPL3. Companies were giving out the source code, but used locked down hardware or proprietary toolchains so the source code was useless. What LGPL3 specifies over LGPL2 is that the source code needs to actually be usable. The spirit of that rule rather makes sense to me.

Of course, part of the reason why The Qt Company likes LGPL3 is that other companies are going to look at the requirements to use and distribute open toolchains for their supported platforms and just buy a commercial license instead.
What about people who eat high fruit and blame diabetes on fat intake? Can someone elaborate? These two individuals are crushing more than 30 fruits a day with high glycemic loads

http://www.mangomannutrition.com/

http://mindfuldiabetic.com/coaching/
And that's why: 1) you train a lot before doing any of those alone 2) they change very slowly and every change is carefully evaluated (aviation/surgery) 3) aviation do have a lot of aids that are not memorized (SID/STAR, ATC information exchange, checklists, etc)
Messenger counts because I prefer to do my chatting on desktop on their website (preference to use keyboard sized for humans not chipmunks). Also you have to somehow fill the time between 9 and 5.
And the necessary next question: how fast did ideas travel at the time given technical, linguistic and cultural borders. I'd love to know the first mention of Galileo's (or Copernicus') ideas in Moscow, Terran, Mumbai, Mexico City, Beijing etc
Good god, this website design. 1980x1200 monitor and not even the entire first line of the headline is visible on the screen.
No. The church thinkers actually believed what was in the Bible: Augustine, Saint Basil, St. Thomas Aquinas.

And the scriptures were made by the people who understood very little about the world, compared to what the current science knows. Therefore the creation is described using the concepts that we today know for sure don't exist. Specifically, in the creation myth:

"And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." (Genesis 1:7)

The firmament is what people believed separated the water that rains "from above" from what we see as "heaven."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament

The Latin translation, accepted by the Church, made in 4th century AD, uses word that is cognate with English "firm." The firmament was believed to be firm, like metals, and the gods "opened" it when it rained, and then closed it back.

They didn't even know that the rain is really in the clouds.

Their "world model" involved non-moving Earth. Aristotle came later.

It's true that Aristotle wrote what he wrote, but his teachings were never a part of the Bible.

Edit: kindly see my next answer down the tree if you don't want to read the Wikipedia yourself, the highest church thinkers really supported exactly the model with the firmament, the Earth in the middle, because Bible. Also see my top post here regarding the main article.
Interesting! Do you know of an open data source for that information?
Jumping Cat
I can't help but read a line in the article like:

> The world is more prosperous than ever before and yet our societies are marked by uncertainty and unease.

Without feeling that Henry George was describing exactly this some 130 years ago with his "Progress and Poverty."[0]

His solution was market-driven, but identified the cause of poverty to be economic rent, driven largely from the private holdings of natural resources such as land-- a Land Value Tax[1] would deliver the return of these scarce and valuable resources back to the community.

It feels to me that this stream of thought should be far more visible in the 21st century, but it remains extremely fringe. The milk-and-water socialism of Bernie Sanders, etc, may help, but it really fails to fix things at a foundational level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
That doesn't matter if you can hear the the whine of a CRT you can have hearing loss in a specific frequency.

We all have hearing loss as adults just past our teens we all lose the low 20Hz end and the high 20KHz end of our hearing that's normal.

My mother said as a teenager she listened to her transistor by holding it against her left ear. Now she can't hear high sounds out of her left ear but she can hear mid range and low range sounds perfectly.

I don't think anyone is trying to be an asshole. It's strange how we as a society can't say to a person you may have hearing loss but we can say to a person your eyes are bad maybe you need glasses.
With uBlock enabled some script that removed the semi-transparent white overlay doesn't get loaded, so the article presents as faded and hard to read.

I mention this to help people figure out what's going on, and let people that see it make an informed decision whether to visit, not to start a discussion on the merits of this practice.

Please, that discussion has been done to death. People have very strong convictions, strongly held, which is not a recipe for a useful discussion.
Minimal decoupled subsystems in your rails app
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of OrientDB (http://orientdb.com), another reactive database.

It looks like the RethinkDB project will be alive if it will be maintained by the community or if it could find another sponsor. But if you are looking for an alternative take a look at OrientDB Live Query feature: http://orientdb.com/livequery/. It doesn't cover 100% what RethinkDB provides, but it's something very close. The OrientDB's license is Apache 2 (so FREE for any usage) and a commercial 24x7 support is available on request.
Thanks to all those who replied.

I initially only meant articles that are about people's experiences with eating any new dishes (that are not really new, but that they had come across for the first time).

(Like: I tried so-and-so dish at a restaurant or at a friend's place recently, and here is what it had it it, and this is how it tasted. I should have made that clear.)

Anyway, the other kinds of comments posted are also interesting.
The C64 was like that. Not Lisp but it booted right into a BASIC REPL. BASIC was the C64's operating system. I still think there is a niche for such a system today (mainly for developing rapidly changing business applications you'd nowadays use Excel for, as well as education).
There's no mention of the pine beetle in the article. He heavily implicates drought and climate change.
I didn't say they weren't facts, I was just pointing out that if you have a quote and want to know it's correct, you just google it. Don't you agree with that?
Oh yes, you're absolutely right there.

Even if it were okay, it's an absurd dependency.
Policies that are market friendly, rather than business friendly, as proposed by Luigi Zingales here:

"A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity" - http://amzn.to/2d6rUIi

I found it pretty convincing, even if I am not a libertarian.
>zero-sum game

This meme is making it's rounds these days.

>Sure, illegal immigrants do show up and undercut some jobs. Some percentage of people will find themselves working at a lower wage, or lose their job and need to find a new one.

Right? No big deal!

>But plenty of other people will find their business increased

2/2 = 1

>have to buy them from somewhere

Was money created at some point? They took or undercut a job, and are spending money that...the other employee who they undercut or took their job from would have also spent...?

I'm sorry if I'm dense...either I'm missing some fundamental pieces of your argument or there isn't much logic to it.
How Technology Affects the Art of Creating