skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah back to the 19th century we go. People love old school stuff, so VCs will probably fund the shit out of it :p
I seem to recall there was a Linux binary loader for OpenServer, along with the Skunkworks project ...?

Yeah. Management dropped the ball big-time in 1994. SCO could have been Red Hat really easily if they'd had even a tiny amount of vision. Instead they missed the bus, went into terminal decline, and ended up split between Borland (the good bits) and the ambulance chasers from Utah (the bad bits, who everybody remembers).
> banning competition in the first place is okay?

Yes. Anti-market behavior is the usage of monopoly (or near monopoly) to destroy competing companies after the fact with underhanded tactics and is generally agreed to be a Bad Thing.

Apple's behavior when setting up iOS could be construed as anti-market, but the fact is that market never existed. Ergo if you setup a company to make a web browser for iOS, you can't claim anti-market behavior because the policy in question predates your company. You effectively attempted to enter a market that does not exist.
Probably not Google Apps. But Angular is a Google developed framework.
My issue with these sanitizing pipelines is that they only really work for fields where the data generation is relatively stable. Meaning, whatever instrument/method used in generating the data doesn't change dramatically every year. It's extremely challenging to design a all-purpose sanitizing pipeline.

So I can imagine a pipeline developed for use with well established social media APIs or standard scientific experiments that have been in used for decades. But it is hard to imagine a pipeline that can handle amorphous emerging high throughput instruments/methods.
Is it arbitrarily complex? Maybe nested array types, but every other type can be expressed with an indirection count, and a leaf type. That said, if it can't go in a struct, it can easily go in a linked list with the same information for each level of indirection.
You can't play games in VR together with a videoconferencing system.
If anyone is interested in more of these, I'm trying to keep a list here.
https://github.com/dakaraphi/development-resources/blob/mast...
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The problem is that this approach is perfectly fine when it comes to us programmers or more technical people, but for "normal" users this approach won't work, simply because they don't know the possibilities an up-to-standards iOS Safari would bring.

There's a saying; "What you don't know can't hurt you", and that can be applied for these users - whom make up the majority of iOS device users - since they don't know what they're missing out on. While you and me on the other hand knows what we're missing out on, both as programmers and users, we at least have the chance to vote with our wallets. I do, perhaps even you do, but as you can clearly see it's still not enough to even make a dent in Apple iOS device sales.
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Because the CEO of a large bank/group has more leverage and influence than a small internet business.
> I think with traditional farming a lot of fertilizer is lost to the environment which isn't so in closed hydroponic systems.

Do you have a cite on this for further reading?
Yeah, Lisp autism is retarded and gay.
someone should also sue Apple (and Google?) for worse performance in the webview. something that run smoothly on native Safari was laggy in webview. haven't checked in a while though, not sure if this is still the case.
"I was told it was like industrial machinery - designed for those who know how to use it, efficient, dangerous if you aren't careful."

Neal Stephenson expressed this same idea very eloquently:

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
I think they just ask for Apple to let developers publish custom web browsers (not based on Apple WebKit) on the App Store, which is currently not allowed by Apple.
> ML predates Ada by about 7 years, so that's unlikely.

Ha! I didn't know that. Thanks :)
Yep - we've just been moved off EpiPen to one of the others (I forget which). Interesting is the network effect of EpiPen - many people have been trained to use them and are aware of there exact look and feel. For the new pens they are used in a similar but different way (I think the new ones are actually better/easier) but that might put some people off moving, where they do have a choice (not all doctors are being as strict with moving to the new version).
Give it a rest. Trumpeting your PC nonsense won't help you.

You understood what he meant. Communication successful, despite your protest!
Sacha Greif and the dotConferences guys (Sylvain Zimmer and Ferdinand Boas) used to run them. Maybe get in touch with them and see if they can help you get started. Also, feel free to give me a shout if you want any input / suggestions
The reason why Lisp is not mainstream is its power. It makes writing DSLs extremely easy so that everyone can write his own DSL to solve a certain problem. Such style of writing however makes Lisp code unsuitable for group working, and hence unmaintainable. It explains (imho) why there are so many unmaintained Lisp projects.

Clojure has a different problem. It is based on the JVM infrastructure which was (imho) an unfortunate decision. Access to Java features is nice but dealing with Java stack traces is not fun. Also the usual startup time of clojure apps in the range of seconds is not acceptable (Tcl/Tk apps start in a fraction of a second). AFAIK clojure is also not suitable for mobile app development. The clojure developers should have used their own VM, or they should have provided a Clojure/Lisp compiler for native compilation. LuaJit has demonstrated how incredibly fast a suitable VM can be.
There is a reason why Safari is called "the new Internet Explorer"
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1. Just as much as the 20 percent male did. This is middle management, and the ratio is roughly 50%.

2. How is the gender ratio of the broader industry relevant here? If everyone discriminates, is it okay to discriminate? Maybe these women were just better at their jobs than the male candidates.

Anecdotally, the average woman I've worked with is far more competent than the average man I've worked with. Are you willing to deny fundamental but politically-incorrect gender differences in your social justice crusade?
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That is a fundamentally broken design. There is literally no excuse for a simple messenger app to suck up a gigabyte daily. How do you expect people to adopt this when they have broadband and wireless plans with data caps?
The size may be due to the map projection.

I like the front passing through the middle of the US just west of Chicago. Wind direction changes abruptly along that one.
Avoiding DRM is easy. Avoid corporate-sponsored browsers.

Writing programs that download files is not beyond the capabilities of average programmers. And internet users have ample access to open file formats and source code to read and write them.

Who controls media formats? Who controls media players? "Browser"? What is that?

A program to "browse" hypertext has evolved into something with far more functionality than is actually required for digesting media. As this complexity grows the notion of the "browser" will continue to be used to the greater advantage of corporations engaged in commerce, not users.

Proprietary browsers, or ones that are too complex for ordinary programmers to compile from source, can be the equivalent of proprietary media formats and proprietary media players, in effect.

The greatest opportunity to avoid DRM is in choice, not steering committees. Choice, as in, choice of what software to use. And that includes "browsers".

Think outside the browser. Thank you.
It's the Chrome version of the apple store also restricted in its html5 features?
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Closer to 2%.
I have been at meetups all around the world (Belgium, Madrid, SF, Barcelona, London)... and HN London is easily one of the highest quality ones I've been to. If you're in/around London and wanna meet some interesting people (e.g. I've seen pc there once), make sure you go there.
I never said to not read the book or learn the maths. They are obviously important. I apologize if I sounded dismissive. But I've met people in my field that are great at the maths (which should be a given), but can't execute the analysis because they can't do simple "janitorial" tasks. Perhaps this is a problem more prevalent in academia. I think there should be equal attention paid to both aspects of the job.
That almost sounds exactly like the Java argument from the late 90s

clean syntax
standard libraries
write once, run anyone
I'm reminded of a story Hugh Daniel told me about Xenix.

Hugh and John Gilmore visited Microsoft around the time of Sun 1, to see if there was anything they could learn / exchange. The Microsoft guys asked excitedly how they made SunOS so fast on the limited hardware.

Hugh and John looked at each other, shrugged, and said "Caching?".

The response was "Oh no, we tried that. It didn't work."

Hugh and John concluded there was nothing to learn here.
"Government"
If you mean the Android store, then no. You can for example find the "real" Firefox on the Google Play store. (The one on the Apple store is a Safari skin which has the problems the article points out)
Apple can make those arguments all they want but then they should allow third party browsers on iOS and let users have a choice. I don't buy the argument that browser engines somehow pose a unique security risk and have to be completely banned from the platform.
When you have an hard fact like: In one year the administration when from 20% female to 80% female.

You can come up with all the legal mumbo jumbo you want and with your handsomely paid lawyers you can even win the lawsuit, but it's obvious they where guilty of sexual discrimination, you don't need a court ruling to understand that.
Afaik All 'browsers' in the app store have to be just a skin on top of Safari. Apple has rules against independent rendering code.
"Disinterested" in this context refers to self-interest, such as a financial interest in the outcome, as opposed to an interest in the truth. The language used by the author in the interview seemed exaggerated, and aimed at taking advantage of the prevailing anti-government populism, rather than shedding any real light on it.

We have a republican form of government here in the US, rather than a direct democracy. Of course subject-matter experts in government are going to say that they shouldn't rely on the judgment of the public at large. That's a far cry from calling them morons.
> "Get paid. Go home and do what you enjoy. This is all a huge joke anyway."

Would look great on your employer's (if you have any) "Our team testimonials" page :)
This is depressing :/ I'm hoping RethinkDB will have an afterlife.
I was really against getting updates about where I usually travel or other notifications that are constantly tracking me. But after a while I really like some of the tracking and notifications. Now I love when google reminds me to leave for a appointment and gives me directions, it really saves.

I do hate being tracked, but I have slowly started to like the connivence of it. Having all my information on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, and everything else privacy has really gone down. If my Nexus 5x can save me time, I will sacrifice some privacy.
From ordinary users, nobody cares about the web platform on mobile.

Native apps are faster, with better integration to platform APIs and features, lighter on battery, and consistent (even if a large part of an app is just a webview in a native app shell).

And for developers, they can actually be monetized and attract paying users, unlike mobile browser-based apps.

Safari on mobile is pretty up to date as mobile technologies come. Google Chrome is hardly any better:

http://mobilehtml5.org/

So I don't really buy the conspiracy theory. People just want all kinds of desktop level HTML5 stuff on mobile browsers that they might or might not be suitable for. The most common HN response to Web 3D demos, advanced SVG/canvas etc is that people's fans started to blaze, CPU jumped to the sky...
I'm saying that yes, webrtc is part of the HTML 5 web and so should be a basic human right.

I'm not saying that it is though.
Thanks!

Please note that the presented solution is both more efficient and more "secure" (i.e. "obscure", which is all we want here). It turns sequential IDs into non-sequential IDs, in addition to converting the base for use of a larger alphabet.
If I put on my naïve glasses for a moment:

Apple has a monopoly on iOS devices. There is no competition. And if somebody would built a better or freer iOS device, Apple would use the full force of the state to stop them. So, in a very narrow fashion, Apple does use their government-granted rights to coerce you to buy it's devices, if you want an iOS one.

Of course, nowadays Android devices are more than adequate replacements for many users, so most people do have the option to buy outside of the Apple world, as you suggest.
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Yes, like I stated above Best Buy announced a similar plan a couple weeks later. I will mention though that companies like Dell and Microsoft later openly stated they were expanding their WFH policies so the anti-remote working trend was short lived.
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Calling HTML5 a basic human right erodes the concept of basic human rights. Please don't do it.
Good luck guys!! Apple is the only company now who slows down the innovation in web.
Pythonista presumably runs Python on the device and is allowed on the App Store.
Those "compromises" has caused me not to trust him/Signal. Seeing the collaboration for E2E encryption being used at Facebook and Google chat solutions as "opt-in" as a marketing tool doesn't break that distrust either.
The demand is there.

Video content is 'difficult' for smaller to medium companies to manage and deliver. Some things are best taught through video.

You may be thinking in just a sense of an office, but this could be useful for Factories or other slightly skilled labour.

Add in basic messageboard/etc from a trusted brand, who most people already subscribe to with their OS and Software.

However the 'anyone' can upload, seems like an HR disaster waiting. And I suspect will quickly be turned off to a limited few to the few that use this service.
> If Wall Street always comes first banking's primary product will be despair.

This has already come to be :)
> So yeah, fight the good fight

The best way to "fight" would be to make alternatives to Google and Facebook. You're not gonna sway the masses any other way,

Typing something into your browser's address bar (which defaults to Google's search on every platform) remains the most convenient way to find something online. For the vast majority of people, Google effectively IS the internet.
I am in a similar position (except for the depression part—I’ve been there, but I’m now over it—and I also don’t have immediate concerns over becoming homeless). What country do you live in? In my country (France), the solution to this situation is to ask for welfare/social support. With an official diagnosis, you can then get financial help and a “disabled worker” status, which really helps professionally.
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Nope. (Front end) web developer by trade. What I say I say from experience - I've never had a client ask for a feature that Safari doesn't support. However, clients do ask for things like a carousel, which Chrome doesn't support natively.

iOS is a significantly easier support target compared to Android due to how much of a stable target it is. Android is a bit of a 'which Android?' when it comes to browser support.
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When I see someone suing a company for not innovating fast enough and opening with sexist terminology[0] I just close the tab and move on.

[0] - "Anyone running html5test (http://html5test.com/) on his iPhone"
Yes, that's exactly what is going on. Apple has market power from the lock-in they've established. Apple is abusing their market power to force customers on their platform to use their browser engine (and no others). Whether or not Apple has a monopoly is beside the point. This is anti-competitive behavior and if it is having a significant impact, it should be scrutinized and regulated.
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So's all of capitalism - what is employment but the buying of somebody's body and mind? But I don't see people like you arguing towards the end of that, or the reduction of the circumstances which cause people to perform sex work - only reducing people's options within the framework we've already forced them to live in. I know people who have chosen sex work over a minimum wage job at McDonald's - apparently they think the sex work is less degrading, and it's much better paying.

Also, I assume you don't actually mean bodies, as that would imply you're similarly against non-sexual modelling, acting, etc etc, where people employ people directly for their bodies, to varying degrees.
>If it was Microsoft, the story would have been completely different today

Yes, because, for the 10000th time: Microsoft was a monopoly in the desktop market.

Apple has never been a monopoly on the phone market.
She sure put some holes in it too.
For Apple, the App Store is not 'highly lucrative'.
> Is there a notable prize for civil disobedience or similar?

Jail time, usually.
> I wouldn't treat a Vox article as evidence that something is true.

> Worth reading this tweet storm...

LOL.
Ah, Newlisp -- the Isagenix of programming languages. Sooner or later, every general-programming community will have to deal with a deployment of Newlispoids eager to convince you how great the language is and that finally, programming is fun again. As if programmers hadn't enjoyed themselves much more using "old" Lisps that embraced advanced features like lexical scoping and hygienic macros.
> everyone here

I think we have different definitions for "everyone".
sarcasm derives from the ancient greek meaning 'tearing of the flesh'. Sarcasm is intended to wound the recipient. Ironic humor is also a poke, but only tickles. I suggest a new word 'gargalism'.
The first example could have been implemented in C or C++ using a union. Wouldn't necessarily be type-safer, but the reminder of writing myConnection.connected.m_id instead of just myConnection.m_id is also a pretty good way to ensuring that you remember to check if (myConnection.m_connectionState == CONNECTED) before ever accessing myConnection.connected. That said, having compiler errors is much better. I'd love to be able to achieve this in pure C. One way might be to use opaque types with accessor functions to return a pointer to the correct part of the union according to the requested connection state, a bit like std::variant::get_if.
> We can't really boats about the industry when we have 15% women and about under 10% African-American.

Disagree. We have amazing contributions from a variety of people from Europe, South America, and Asia. It's not perfect, and it should get better, but it's nothing to be ashamed about.

It's interesting how the NBA happily celebrates black culture and black people who represent their game despite the fact that they are overrepresented relative to the general population, but the tech industry basically never celebrates the contributions from a variety of immigrants and non-whites in its own industry.
Except when WebRTC actually isnt a part of HTML5 (yet), it's only a draft specification.
That's a good question. Also kind of an interesting side note: the company behind the solar technology here is not Sundrop, but they're not mentioned at all. Which I find really curious. I may have worked for that company 4 or 5 years ago. 100 points for whoever can name them!
Wouldn't they select an essentially flood proof location?

(the economic factors that drive settlement in flood prone regions don't really apply to data centers, so I would expect it to be accounted for even by much less sophisticated operations)
> Not sure this is what OP is getting at, but CSS is getting a bit bloated and yet is still unable to fulfill many simple tasks without extra divs and/or JavaScript.

Part of my work as a front-end dev. is taking pages from CMS softwares that are already done and add styles to them without changing any line of code on the markup.

I never, ever, had any issues.

You don't need to add extra divs to do anything.

In fact, when we learned to do CSS at college, the teacher teased the bad students. He would say that they had DIVitis. The great disease of our generation. Divs would keep popping up all over them and their work.

We currently support IE9+ without any issues. We used to support IE8+ without any issues.
And gramma Liskov :)
The problem isn't so much about how apple is so behind on standards.

The problem is that they make it impossible for alternative browsers providing more up-to-date standards to exist on their platform, effectively locking away that userbase.
You probably never used "add to homescreen" before.

PS. 50% of these group of apps are web applications - https://postimg.org/image/59r83pe5f/

Why shouldn't i be an ordinary user? All of these web apps are money related ;)
Now i might be in the minority here, but I feel this is akin to telling someone that lives somewhere with a landlord that won't maintain the building to "just move".

I know it's not the same scale, and i'm not trying to compare poverty and human suffering to a web browser, but IMO there are some similarities.

Switching to an entire other OS which many believe to be less secure, that in many cases doesn't have many of the same applications, and significant changes to everything you do on your device (which for many is their ONLY device connected to the internet), for a web browser?

People won't do it, and I (as a web developer) don't think they should give up everything for a few web features. But when one party is purposely holding the ecosystem back, something should be done. They need to improve, or open up the playing field to others that will improve.

IMO forcing "operating systems" to be more inclusive would be a good thing, and could really improve not only iOS, but Android and Windows as well.

I don't know how this would look legally, i'm pretty far from a lawyer, but the discussion is at the very least worth having without hand waving any complaints away with "just buy an android"
It sounds like they believe there are more potential sales there than there are from other forms of pirates. (Whether that's true or not is anyone's guess!)
The right of a person to not have sexual access to their body be reduced to the object of purchase with the purpose to gratify a person who holds economic power over them. Purchasing sex is an abuse of power.

This isn't really an opt-out right; surely there are people who would "consent" to situations of slavery or apartheid. This doesn't mean we should make those things legal.
Yes, but people DO care about bad web browsing experiences. False correlation here.
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What feature does AliExpress on Android have that isnt supported by Safari?

Is that DHL site using Web Push Notifications for either Android or Apple platforms?
Perhaps their long-term analysis accounts for reduced infrastructure costs due to economies of scale, increased food prices due to prevalent drought, and consulting / IP royalty fees due to having pioneered such useful technology.
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Apple has a monopoly on Apple branded devices. Well, ok.
Ad revenue and tricking others into thinking that all that data is inherently valuable.

Don't forget that last part.
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