skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We added a new command to let you quickly move between open Windows of VS Code. Simply open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P) and type Switch Window. A dropdown will appear showing all the opened VS Code Windows..."

That doesn't seem fast.
Also, why don't they use xattrs, or the windows alternative.
I was also seeing a similar error message from downdetector.com. I can load it now though, and it's showing an uptick in reports for many sites on its front page.

Blizzard has reported an outage of their Battle.net system.

Whatever's going on it seems to be affecting a lot of different sites. I was checking out Twitter for correlation, and it seems like Comcast might be having a national outage. That could explain why people might be reporting problems with lots of services.
There is work being done on this. Both in terms of access to court opinions (which ought to be free but are often obscured via bureaucracy) and materials for people interested in learning about the law.

https://free.law/
https://github.com/freelawproject/courtlistener
https://www.courtlistener.com/

Disclaimer: While I have no affiliation with this project, I am friends and former roommates of the Free Law Project's Director.
A noteworthy one – Video quote format or image style
That depends on whether you saw the news about them holding illegal fundraisers or sending all their stories to the DNC for editorial review...
> the way Holmes is perceived publicly

...which presumably is almost entirely based on what they read or see in the media?
Ask HN: R training courses in London
Got a new analyst who I'd like to get some good training in R. He's started learning it on his own and has decent statistical / excel / spss background.

Can anyone recommend good R training providers in and around London?
Is there any other service where I can run arbitrary code and be billed in increments of 100ms or less?
Yes, but in normal bike use, it's pretty hard to hit the ground head first. When you fall, it's your legs and hands. When a car hits you, it hits your legs. The most dangerous thing for a cyclist is when a big truck turns right without noticing cyclists next to him, which can lead to cyclists being run over by the rear wheels of the truck. Helmets don't do anything for you in any of those cases.

Hitting the ground head first is something that happens when you hit a deep pothole at high speed (which happened to my brother as a kid, but is generally rare, and I've never heard of it killing anyone), or you drive downhill on a steep slope and lose control, or something like that (which is why mountain bikers do tend to wear helmets, but it's not something that happens in city traffic).

I tend to trust Dutch bike and traffic safety-related organizations, and they say that a helmet's effect is unproven in real life situations. Some recommend helmets for kids between 10 and 14. I know parents who give their younger kids helmets. I don't, because I want my son to pay attention and not trust the helmet to keep him safe.
Yes, it worked much better against the hum of the A/C units than the chatter.
I think it's unfair to judge someone on what they said when they were 19 and just starting in the world. We were all kids once.

I'm quite certain that everyone in the world has said silly things at certain stages of their life that could be used against them and would paint their cause in a horrible light - and by everyone I mean visionaries like Nelson Mandela, The Dali Lama, etc. and of course your run-of-the mill leaders and inspirational people.
Ask HN: What do you use for Log Management?
In the past few years, there has been a surge in number of log management solutions — Loggly, LogDNA, Scalyr, Sumo Logic. Which one is being used by you / your company?
Ridiculous analogy. Being rich and famous (=high status, attractive mate) is nothing like holding a gun to someone's head (=threat of violence). A fairer comparison might be "they let you do it if you look like Brad Pitt". Is that less sexual assault-y in your book?
Very cool. That's exactly what I'm talking about. It gives such a different feeling (v. video). I can also imagine some sort of Google Map integration where one can virtually walk through an area and be able to access the varied soundscapes at specific points.
Plus he told this story thousands of times so he perfected the story.
A meeting that everyone attends - as in "all hands on deck".
This is the wrong question. A better question is "would 'tough times' affect you at all?"

Never couple spending to income. That's a recipe for always feeling poor. Instead, find a baseline where you can live and make sure that it lies at such a tiny fraction of your normal income that you never need to think about thinks like "budgeting" or "saving".

So if you're fresh out of school with your first $50k/year job, make sure you can fit your entire life into $20k/year.

When you take that $120k/year job a few years later, live on $20k/year.

When you crack the $300k/year barrier with your RSUs from Google, live on $20k/year.

That is how I've always approached things, and it makes life a lot less stressful (since it removes the number one worry that everybody else has from the equation). There were several years when I was traveling and consulting where I'd only take one little $10k gig a year (or nothing at all), and there was never a question of running out of money because it naturally went out the door so slowly.

If you do what everybody else does and ramp your lifestyle up to meet your income, you're just ensuring that you'll be in trouble if things go south. But once you have a dozen years of accidentally saving (n-20) per year, you can survive for years at a time with no income at all, so bumps in the road don't feel bumpy at all.

Fix that and you'll stop needing to ask questions like this one.
Lein and Boot both support tooling plug-ins, ie. libraries that are only loaded as part of the dev environment, so it's certainly possible.
React only needs a render method, not a render method and an update method for every state transition. Without the virtual dom this would destroy performance, so it is a rather key detail in understanding React's appeal.
You can insult and belittle people without swearwords, the two are just commonly used together, not necessarily related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_copyright
Especially, I find it amazing this article considers that preserving only the bees we breed is important.

It's precisely the contrary.

The important bees are the wild ones, holding the biodiversity, pollinating non agricultural lands and being a responsive part of the ecosystem. Not the ones we are mechanizing with specialized intents, decorelated with their purpose in the natural order, unable contribute in a balanced way because we shape them for something.
School Idol Festival Hack Tool (Android/iOS)
5 reasons why you don't want to buy cheap web hosting
But, i have Verizon and i am assuming it would depend on what the servers for these sites are on... may be they are on comcast?
The NSA doesn't want them to...
Collaboration has definitely got a lot better than it was years ago; FB has probably managed it better than anywhere I've worked before. The amount of money and effort they've invested into video conferencing facilities is huge because it really is such an important factor. This is why it always baffled me that they didn't treat remote working as a first class citizen, especially given the crazy prices of real estate in the Bay Area.

I was also always hugely jealous of people in war rooms as they seemed to have the perfect balance.
Workplace.fb.com a simple Wordpress.com website
Yes and no. I think placing them together, without using video, makes for a unique experience. Check out HN user bahro's comment and the link to his project.
If you're typing or saying extra words for the same result, surely you're not being lazy.
charmap.exe
Product or Sales? Chicken or Egg?
I'm just going to go ahead and disagree. This is journalism and news in 2016. (I'm also including people's blog write-ups that they or others submit.) On tech and fundraising issues, I'd say HN and yhe niche blog posts submitted, do count for a kind of journalism.
Would love to hear your thoughts on what the best way is to approach this..
I think git-annex's metadata[1] support and metadata driven views[2] aim to solve a similar problem.

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/metadata/
[2] https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
So, for someone using only macOS/Mac OS X, how is this an improvement over the built-in file tagging?
You'd have to provide evidence that Theresa May has been planning terrorism. Using encryption itself is not illegal, only using it to prepare for or aid an act of terrorism.

Which is stupid of course. S5 is pernicious and unjust overreach, but let's criticize it on factual grounds not misleading exaggeration.

Regarding the 'being suspicious makes you a criminal' clause of the act, it's horribly worded and is in serious need to revision, but the commenter on the blog saying it can't override presumption of innocence until proven guilty is correct. This provision of the law would never get past any competent court. It's a nasty, horrible law but is hardly the end of all justice in Britain.
I dislike overcommit as well (although I have made use of it by relying on lazy allocation), but I think it is very hard to implement unix fork semantics without it: on a fork the kernel would have to reserve memory for a copy of the whole process, even though the next thing the child is most likely to do is throw it away by calling exec.

Unless all software were to be changed to use vfork or posix_spawn, I think we are stuck with it.

I would love to be able to disable overcommit on a per-process basis though.
Scotland Yard charge: teaching people to use crypto is an act of terrorism
Is there any real advantage to using, say, scrypt or Argon2 if you're going to be turning its work factor down to "PBKDF2 level" anyway? I could be wrong, but seems like diminishing returns. From a practical point of view, PBKDF2 ain't broke and is already available out of the box almost everywhere.
Note 7: Samsung stops sales of phone, warning users to 'turn it off'
Is no one paying attention to the fact that the guy is called Mr. Bigot? xD
I'm amazed that nobody has commented yet about how this is a CLI wrapper around web services which are wrappers around a CLI tool. Or is everyone here already too jaded and so used to piling endless abstractions upon abstractions that this is considered normal?

How about if people simply accepted patches via e-mail, instead of requiring those obnoxious github pull requests?
Redux is about 100 lines if you remove some development warnings. ;-)
I was building static sites in elementary school in the nineties, too. I was building correct things that worked in a business context in high school in 2005. In your haste to praise the guy for nonsense virtues of "self-reliance"--and let me be real for a sec, I've been paid in the last year to debug kernel drivers on physical hardware and architect self-bootstrapping, multi-tier, cross-datacenter systems, I could be said to be big on "self-reliance"--you missed the forest for the trees: his stuff doesn't work.

Setting up mail is easy. Setting up a web server that doesn't go down under medium load is easy. If you want to lecture others about this sort of thing, you had best come correct. Because those of us who do--and who especially those of us who are capable of using tools hosted in either our own racks or Amazon's without trouble, who are likely to have a problem with the shitty virtue-signaling in his post--will call you on it. Because the world is not so simple as to scream that "SaaS is bad!" and, sometimes, there are economics of scale worth leveraging. There is no virtue in refusing them; there are places for self-hosting and there are places for cloud systems and ascribing the rise of cloud services to "halfwitted idea-people" is a sign of a profoundly juvenile understanding of both the technologies and the economics involved.
You write "for relatives and friends", implying a measure of trust. You don't write "for strangers I didn't know." Would you have?
I'm definitely not a friend of Theranos, but: they failed to do due diligence before investing, the error is theirs. I wonder if they would sue as well if Theranos had scored big time.

If you treat investing as gambling don't sue if you lose a hundred million dollars of your customers money.
How is it that many of these websites haven't learned about HTTPS, I.e. data integrity?
[2016] 386BSD 2.0 released
I'm reading the book Good Charts (https://hbr.org/product/good-charts-the-hbr-guide-to-making-...) and it talked about (and linked) your paper. I found it quite interesting, so I submitted it here in case others did as well.
> I don't trust third-party clouds

But Dropbox "or some other cloud that acts like regular files" is a third-party cloud.

Why can't this be shipped with a server that I can host myself without running SQL Server, .Net and whatever else?

The server is just supposed to store already encrypted credentials, right? I'm pretty sure a very small PHP/sqlite backend should be able to do the trick.
It's not melodramatic. I have a Film background and it's the same there - any person who's minimally studied artificial lighting will tell you that artificial lighting is still nothing like natural lighting. This is just considering the color spectrum reproduction you get and not even going into natural health benefits.

If we can't even film with artificial lighting and get away with it, what makes people think we can live under artificial lighting conditions for the majority of our working life ? It's madness.
As someone with ADHD, that's really interesting. You describe the effect I get from amphetamines - focus and ability to ignore some distractions - your withdrawal, scatterbrained, that sounds familiar! Maybe dopamine levels are taking a little while to reset to normal and you get a day experiencing temporary ADD. At ADHD amphetamine dosages I've never noticed withdrawal effects.

So I went looking to see if it was being studied with ADHD. Despite showing effectiveness in several studies, it wasn't FDA licensed for ADHD because of "serious dermatological toxicity" {1]. That seems a bit odd.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18729534
> When you are not in The Netherlands

There are other countries beside the NL and the USA.
How to Recruit and Manage a Remote Development Team
TagSpaces aims to be a cross-platform tool, implementing such a feature will be very restrictive for the use cases supported by the application.
FWIW we are trying to avoid "virtual DOM" in the new docs. The thing you create in render() and that describes the tree has been called "a React element" for many versions by now. "Virtual DOM" was more of a marketing term and I find it misleading because it doesn't make sense with e.g. React Native, and also makes React seem like a performance trick. React is not a performance trick. That elements get compared by React DOM renderer is its implementation detail. React is abstraction for dividing UI into predictable pieces, not a performance optimization.
All you wanted to know about all-hands, besides what the heck it is.
The problem with that argument is that not everyone is OK with living a bare minimum cost of living life style. Also rewarding yourself for earning more can give you motivation to progress further.

I recommend fixing your spending at a %-age of your post tax income at a maximum. For me it is 50%, but that is on the conservative side for most people. I don't always spend 50%, but that is the max. I feel it is a good compromise between preparing for the future and rewarding yourself in the present
Much faster and less of a memory hog.
I hate to tell you, but Spanish speakers can probably understand "merde". It's fairly similar to their counterpart.
The Year Hundreds of Bombs Went Off in New York City
Ada Lovelace Day: Who she was – and why we should remember her
Involves a server listening on a port, running on infrastructure that you indirectly pay. Not in the air, on a server.

It is a very misleading term. Especially for non-tech savvy. Sounds like a scam.

It's like calling being passenger on a car "wheel-less transport", because I as passenger don't have wheels.
Never mind that the reason plants produce caffeine is that it is useful as a pesticide.
Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979)
Ah sorry, my assumption was based on the config wizard not asking for my URL. I've found how to do it in the README. Thanks!
While this editor really attracts me, (it has that Emacs-y vibe, where it integrates many external tools in nice cohesive interface) I still cannot overcome that it is still basically an electron app. Atom is just a no go, despite all the candy looks and nice little plugins, I cannot justify energy and memory usage. I heard VSCode is totally different story, but I have yet to find js developed desktop app that doesn't make me cringe! Previously I bothered, and tried many of them. Now I just don't even try, just skip. And VSCode looks sweet, really sweet! And I would like to try it if, but the way and nature of application is pushing me away. Maybe if some of you folks convince me I'm wrong I'll give it a shot. :)
I work for a European company - unfortunately owned by a US holding. We're already using it.

This, unfortunately, might get traction here as well.
Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams
>"First, it's not the number of generations that are the direct risk. A cell that does nothing will still mutate over time. It's large numbers cells that share a few risky mutations that are the problem."

If this is correct, I think you would likely be right. Do you have a reference?
Russia's sacred myths
Thoughts on MariaDB Server 10.3
The time it took you to write that you could already have downloaded it and given it a go. Why waste our time to convince you?
That will depend on person and dosage thought.

From persona experience i either have to go a few days without or drink my third cup (drip brewed) of the day to get anything noticeable.
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> If an internet service refuses to take down content that really violates some person's rights, a lawsuit against the internet service which generates an order directed against that service to remove the material is always an available means for a mandatory take down, that isn't in dispute.

Exactly. I would argue that any court order that requires action by a party not named in the court case (and who thus has not had an opportunity to defend themselves in court and avail themselves of the many rights afforded to defendants) should always be non-binding and advisory, with the caveat that choosing to ignore it can and likely will be used as evidence in a lawsuit directly against that party.
Huh, what? You mean a bit like you would see a lot of autistic neckbeards if you ever delve into the world of software engineering?

I can't see how looking crazy with wide open eyes and fake smiles correlates with "sales teams and marketing execs."

That's a completely gratuitous caricature.
Ask HN: Should JavaScript newcomers bypass ES5?
Hi,

I'm a CS teacher and the author of two entry-level JavaScript courses written in ES5. I'm considering the creation of a book that would include the material in these courses. A more advanced chapter would cover (among other things) higher-order functions, modules and of course ES2015. This book would target JS newcomers, not experienced folks.

I'm tempted to revamp my courses and start directly with the ES2015 syntax instead of ES5, but I see drawbacks to this approach, mainly the need for a transpiler and the sheer volume of existing ES5 code my readers won't be familiar with.

So my question is: how one should learn JavaScript in 2016, with ES5 first and ES2015 after a while, or directly with ES2015?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
How to recognize an open leader when you see one
Does linux have similar facilities yet?
Lessons:

- Apple considers Developer Program memberships "linked to the same entity" if they are paid for by the same credit card.
- If one of these accounts violates rules, all accounts of this entity are being closed.
- As always, it's difficult to get any useful information from Apple.
- Apple will listen and try to find a reasonable solution – at least if the public backlash is big enough.

In my opinion, Apple should communicate this more clearly and, upon closing an account, provide all relevant information to the membership holders as well as providing a means of appeal. Mistakes do happen.

I welcome Apple's crackdown on fradulent activity. However, as an iOS developer, stories like these are the reason why I don't want to bet my livelihood on distributing apps through the App Store. While the risk of having my app rejected or account closed for no particular reason is small, it's still there. Are developer's voices being heard, even if they don't have a blog and a twitter account? My experience with Apple's Bug Reporter says no.
Counterpoint: if you're going to run an all-hands with any kind of frequency, please ensure that virtually all the content is relevant to virtually all the attendees.

I spent many years at an (otherwise excellent) company that did quarterly all-hands meetings, which were de-facto sales events. The country manager (also the president of sales) went through the sales targets, then the sales pipeline, and then handed out awards to those involved in the biggest sales. Usually there followed some kind of presentation from engineering or marketing, with content meant to be useful to the sales staff.

For the people outside of sales there was a bit where other regional managers handed out awards, so at best there was something to look forward to and at worst it was a waste of time. But for the handful of us who also didn't report to one of those managers, the whole thing bordered on demoralizing.
Interesting. Do you also address scheduling? I.e., giving some computations priority over others? And do you address the implicit transfer of those priorities based on a dependency graph?
If both developer accounts were using the same bank account to receive Apple's payments, and that bank account was owned by the Dash developer, then I think it's entirely reasonable on Apple's part to conclude that the same developer was effectively in control of both accounts. And it would also imply that the Dash developer was effectively profiting from the fradulent activity occurring in the other account.
Ouch, I did not know that! Thanks for sharing. I will start linking this one instead.
That's really cool. Was looking at the Atreus[0] and Ergodox Ez[1] before, but this one looks even better.

[0]http://atreus.technomancy.us/
[1]https://ergodox-ez.com/
No, I'm not. But it appears that HiPPO decisions and their personal preference of Gmail over [other email software] is driving the world these days.

I'm well aware self-hosting can be hard, especially for global companies, with broad userbase, but I'm astounded how little managers and directors care about company "secrets" getting stored at providers these days.

I never thought I'm going to miss the old Microsoft, but at least those servers and services were bought and locally hosted. Sure, they may have had backdoors, but at least it was not obviously given to a company who's making their profit out of scanning contents and selling it to the highest bidder.

We don't know for sure it a paid Gmail is scannig mail or not; if a paid Dropbox is being treated the same way for, for example, "copyrighted" content the free tier is, but I would be surprised if it was completely different.
Rocking a 2 year old iPhone 6 here, which is still working fine. No desire to replace it until at least the next release cycle.