skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For basic internet access to the general public you need:

- broadband

- a browser

Broadband is by ISP's and a browser is in this case by Apple.

And yeah, i don't buy Apple ( obviously). "Add to homescreen" is probably my most used functionality :p .
piio - Tcl Raspberry Pi I/O library
Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year (https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinued as a service, but that's just off of my quick 30 second glance. Stream and Lynda look like they both do pretty much the same thing, so Microsoft might be capitalizing on its own brand recognition to sell the underlying service to Microsoft shops.

I'm purely speculating, though. Is there anyone on the Stream team who can comment?
Running it on a 5c, and it is fine
"So behind on standards".

Remind me which browser engine has 100% es6 support?

Now remind me which half-baked web api exposes local network information to the JavaScript environment.

Oh right. It's HN so apple is the work of the devil and Google is basically Jesus returned.
I feel that it's fair (at least the bean argument):

Say I ran a couple of farms which grew beans and employed 250 people to work on my farms. What would happen if my main customer Carrefour, one of the biggest supermarkets in France, decided to stop selling my beans and sold only theirs (grown and packed in a foreign country)?

I could try and sell to local shops, but it's unlikely they would buy the same volume as Carrefour. Or I could try and sell to another big supermarket, but they probably already have enough beans from other suppliers.

I'd probably have to let go of a lot of people, or even shut down the business, which would mean a lot of people would be out of work, and most likely relying on the welfare system to support them. So in return for a megacorp boosting their profits slightly, the country has to pay a lot in return to support unemployed people.

(How it applies in this case to Apple I'm not really sure though :P)
It's Enterprise Youtube :-/
Ask HN: Autism, depression and shyness
Hey all.

I've been thinking recently about my personality and how it's affecting my professional opportunities. I was hoping perhaps someone here might have some advise?

So I'm on the austism spectrum. It's not severe, but bad enough that I often don't know what's funny and what isn't. I cant make small talk. And I find it generally hard to form relationships even when I try.

I also suffer from depression. I think about killing myself a lot. People hate depressed people. And I get it. I try to pretend I'm happy, but some days I can't and that pushes people away.

Being a solitary kid also caused me to develop an extreme shyness. It's better these days but I still have noticeable anxiety in social situations, and I tend to avoid them whenever I can. That makes it even harder for me to form relationships.

I was recently let go from my job and I'm certain part of that was due to me never really fitting in. And again, I understand why people wouldn't want someone like me around. I'm a terrible team player, I'm weird and unsociable, and when I do have to communicate I'm crippled by shyness.

I've spent my whole life trying and failing to start my own thing so I can get away from people. But it's never worked out, probably in part because I stuck at making the kinds of contacts I should be.

But I need to get a job soon because I'm going to be homeless in a few of weeks. I know if I apply to enough places someone will over look my awkwardness during the interview and give me job. But I'll never get promoted because I'm the weird guy in the corner. And one day the markets will change and I'l naturally be first in line to be let go.

I'm getting fed up with it honestly. I've always been bright, but that's doesn't mean much.

Is anyone in a similar position? What's the answer?

Oh, and if by any chance someone reading this happens to be looking for a depressed autistic developer, send me a message or something - I'm fully qualified for the position.
There are a lot of tomatos grown is places that are not Australia.
Good engineers will always be paid extremely well, regardless of what their domain is. Web dev is competitive at the low end of the market, but certainly not so at the high end.
She's basically in the spot Fiorina was in - the ship is slowly taking on water for Schumpeterian life cycle reasons.
So, this is a hydroponic greenhouse. It would be neat if they went one step further and made it an aquaponic greenhouse. The use of salt water means they could consider growing saltwater fish (or shrimp, or fish for caviar). The only caveat is whether it would be easy to separate the salt from the water while keeping the other nutrients (nitrogen, etc) in the water for the plants.
This appears entirely speculative. In practice, anything blockchain-related has been a huge black hole for VC money. Is there a cryptocurrency or blockchain endeavour that has actually worked out well for the investors?
Connecting the Past with the Future at Full Stack Fest – Report from Barcelona
How Hacker News Books Made It to Number One on HN. Part 1
It is disingenuous to pretend DRM is about funding content creators, it's really about corporate revenue, which is not at all the same thing. Content creators are and will continue to be treated as a cost to be minimized by these distributors.

It is also disingenuous to suggest that DRM is equivalent to paying for content. They are related, but separate issues.
The website notes that it indeed is the Wolbachia bacteria.
Many of the HTML5 technologies Apple is steering clear from make the Web more App like meaning they become a threat to their dominance with the App Store on their own platform. The longer they take to adopt them the longer they can benefit from the exclusiveness and control over iOS app ecosystem. I don't think sueing them will get them anywhere but it might be a push to get them understand that users are aware of the shortcomings.
I was waiting for this timeless - and useless - HN riposte.
More learning, less time: how to quickly gather new tools and techniques
It's in beta now so hopefully soon.
>First farm to grow vegetables in a desert using only sun and seawater

And Coconut Husks.
Avoiding Founder Liability
I'm far from one to defend Apple on most things, but is Apple doing anything intentionally malicious here?

In the United States, forcing someone to write code is compelled speech, which is a violation of the First Amendment. I'm not aware of laws in France, but in any case, this seems like a completely wrong approach to solving this problem.

The real problem here is Apple's proprietary platform.
The point is that feature compatibility is not everything. Apple may say that they develop webkit in a more power saving/secure/better manner than other browsers and this is the reason they lag on html5 features.
It's obvious you are not a web developer using HTML5/CSS3/ES6. iOS has became the new Internet Explorer hands down, and now it's the first platform I test on to check for compatibility issues (as it's the one that normally gives those issues).
I don't know. I'm in this still somewhat hot new thing called mobile and now I'm supposed to understand how to debug C-code and all that "old bullshit". It even drops me into a view sometimes that's straight from my C64 assembler cartridge full of labeled MOV, LDA calls and all that stuff. I really wish I dug a bit deeper then than writing adventures in BASIC back then!

I don't think knowing how a computer actually works will ever go out of fashion. Now there's Falcon framework for PHP for example, full of speedy functions written in C by smart people that actually knew what was happening beyond the stuff they typed into their .php files.
If anyone is interested in coming along to future events, sign up at http://www.meetup.com/hnlondon . Hope to have the next one on in late November.
Remember when Apple was bashing Adobe for Flash and how they were about standards? (I'm going to get downvoted for this)

Anyways you were a fool for believing it.
There's a bug with JavaScript strings containing &quot; in Chrome 54.0.2840.41 beta. It works after upgrading to 54.0.2840.50.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=640923

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=639541
Exactly what it says, which is providing a platform for companies to share videos for a variety of purposes. This was a topic of conversation at one of the companies I worked for, which is a large payroll service provider. The company has a series of offices distributed in many locations around the nation, and whenever a new training or motivational video was release, there was always a question of where to host it. Hosting it in the company's datacenter wouldn't work, as that would consume a lot of bandwidth, and building out a local CDN can be expensive if you don't want to rely on someone else.

Stream is basically providing an internal Youtube, a place where you can upload videos, control who access to them, and let Stream take care of routing, etc.
Ask HN: Would you appear as witness against Apple?
Remember how Microsoft had to pay billions for bundling their IE with Windows and hindering competition?
The current situation with Apple and its App store seems much worse. Are you fed up with being bullied by the review team? Has Apple abused its market power to hinder you deploying your application to iOS devices? Do you just miss alternative 'free' markets on your device?
Carpet bombings of Laos, helping Nixon interfere with negotiations in Paris to end the war, looking the other way while Pakistan massacred people in Bangladesh, supporting Pinochet, etc.
My interview experience with Google a couple years ago was godawful and horribly mismanaged. Just reinforced my conviction to never work for a large company.
5S here. Possibly a bit snappier but this is subjective. Battery the same as 9.
This could be debated, atomic components within a framework built for a purpose can still be responsive.

Responsive or adaptive should be choice made at the start of projects and then ideally followed through till the end.

We choose responsive and made atomic components so it can work, but... it has to be in the thought process from design to implementation, the same can be said about adaptive.

Source: Our UI is complex, large, responsive and serves 3 million users and won awards.
It's important to understand that this arrest is happening in concert with a major operation to disrupt sex trafficking rings outside of Backpage specifically.

http://www.startribune.com/feds-to-announce-bust-of-global-s...

Neither article mentions specific coordination, but considering the arrests happened on the same day, I'm imagining that there must have been some coordination in the investigations.
That has nothing to do with how much total data you use in a month.

It doesnt matter if i download 1 TB or 100TB, it only matters if im trying to use all my bandwidth at the same time as everyone else.

Did you even look it up yourself?
In the same vein: you don't HAVE to pay taxes, you're CHOOSING to.
s/defmarco/defmacro/
The application is sandboxed but Apple does not really want to let third parties to put native compilers on their platform. I wonder if they could allow third party rendering engines but still force people to use Nitro (or how is their javascript engine called nowadays).
Trump Supporters: A Taxonomy
Mars is really cold. At the equator the thin atmosphere can heat up reasonably at noon, but it still hits minus 100f at night even at the equator.
Abusing MS Word to Enable Traceability During Requirements Engineering
To be fair, since the referendum didn't pass, Santos' legacy is also pretty up in the air
You are implicitly asserting that a "good implementation" is technically possible, but that is not at all clear.
Lynda provides a place for authors to upload training videos that can be accessed through a subscription. They are then paid royalties every time someone accesses the video. (At least, that's how Pluralsight works).

Stream allows companies to produce their own videos, for HR, training, and motivational purposes, and host it. Think of it as an internal YouTube.
> Implementing the Nordic model would in some cases undo some recent advances in identifying and blocking these ugly clients and result in some workers being violently abused or even possibly killed.

Sorry to break the news to you: all clients are ugly clients, since they're all just fine with the idea that people's bodies are something to be bought and sold.
I was recently living in Amsterdam and it's so busy with tourists I left, it's madness.

One of the biggest issues for me was foreigners talking loudly in the street all most every night at all hours, pretty much all of summer and it was still happening in September.

I don't know if this has to do with AirBNB because I only lived there for about seven months, maybe it's normal, but I suspect it may have something to do with it as we lived quite far from any hotels and in a very residential street with no late night bars.

I think Airbnb is also not handling growth well, issues with people abusing it just to get extra income and breaking what AirBNB once stood for. A lot of places I've stayed in lately have great reviews but just feel like poorly run hostels packed with other travellers and very little host interaction. This is definitely going to start to annoy neighbours and travellers.

There also seems to be a strange review culture on AirBNB, where honest reviews are becoming harder to come by and I've been guilty to easily give away five stars, I think we often review individuals and not properties leaving guilt to provide feedback over honesty, but after some of my recent experiences I'm going to make more of an effort with honest reviews and feedback.
20 years ago there was exactly one multiplatform office suite, and if you think StarOffice was better than the current incarnation of Google Apps I'm not sure how to respond to that outside of laughter.
I hobby garden and also grow greens hydroponically. Greens are > 95% water weight. I think tomatoes aren't far behind.

when I first started with hydroponics I was amazed at how little fertilizer/nutrients needed to be added to the system to produce the volume I was producing.

I think with traditional farming a lot of fertilizer is lost to the environment which isn't so in closed hydroponic systems.
Apple doesn't have anywhere close to a monopoly on smartphones, so this is ridiculous.
Understood, but that doesn't necessarily detract from the possibility that this is an adaptation of the underlying tech stack.
> If it was their free choice, they wouldn't need to be paid for it,

By this argument, paid work is slavery.
Rate seems about right. Their datacenter is located near the Beauharnois power station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauharnois_Hydroelectric_Gene...

I also stumbled upon an article that said it was (at the time, in 2012) the largest data center in the world. That doesn't sound right.
Yesterday I created Hacker News Madrid Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/hnmadrid) and now its being reviewed.

Any advise on how to run it?
> "If you're not visibly busy," she signaled, "I'll assume you're not productive."

Like a boss I had that thought programming was just typing and didn't understand why I:

1) Wrote a lot on paper and whiteboard;

2) Sat back in thought a lot;

3) Spoke with my colleagues.

I became "more productive" in his eyes by hiding in the testing lab to do my thinking. I was actually testing, too, but I didn't watch the test cases closely so I'd be writing/reading/thinking for a few minutes after each one ran.
And there were offers that were even lower. I have a dedicated server from them for about 42EUR a year (yes, a year, 3.5EUR/mo). It's just an Atom box with a single 500GB HDD but still amazing.
Anybody interested to run a HN Meetup in Paris?
You're missing the question. Slavery is immoral because it's immoral to curtail the rights of people indefinitely.

Which rights does consensual sex work curtail?
There's a great quote by some bodybuilder. "Everybody wants to get big, but no one wants to lift heavy weights."

Paraphrasing this to data science: "Everybody wants to have software provide them insights from data, but no one wants to learn any math."

The top two comments here illustrate this perfectly. Anyone who is serious about learning data science will read this book and will not shy away from learning math. You can also learn about data pipelines, but that's not a substitute for what's in this book.

There are also a variety of other algorithmically focused machine learning books. They are also not a substitute for this book.
Sharding is fundamentally a performance optimisation. If you can instead use a faster database and not have to shard or at least not as much, that saves you a lot of hassle. By having a smaller system you can in practice also reduce your failure rates.
"This is partly why software componentisation as 'parts catalog' has never really taken off."

Well, that and the fact that OO turned out to not be a very good mechanism for building the parts catalog on. In the end I'd judge it as only slightly more successful than procedural programming on that front.

For instance, Haskell's "part's catalog" is somewhat smaller than other languages. But the parts do what they say they will, and generally go together pretty well once the community is done chewing on them and fixing them up. (Here I mean fundamental tools like parsers or text template systems, not merely "libraries to access this API" or "bindings to this particular library.) All those restrictions that go into Haskell are there for a reason.
Is fixing "casual piracy" even going to make a dent in their spreadsheet? I doubt it.
> Having a language-imposed concurrency model would be useless and actively harmful in a system language.

It works fine in Ada.

Edit: Why am I downvoted for this? A language-defined concurrency model is indispensable for having safe and deadlock-free concurrency in the language (rather than in arbitrary utility libraries). That's why concurrency was explicitly included into Ada and into the additional Ravenscar profile. The rationale for this has always convinced me and it also works fine in Ada, so anybody care to elaborate what's wrong with it?
Some kind of throttle would be a good idea, in that case. A gigabyte a day is unacceptable for some of us.
Here you go: http://www.meetup.com/hnlondon/

Next one is likely to be at the end of November.
Ping me on dmitri@hnlondon.com. Happy to share my experience and ideas with you
Isn't it obvious?

If they supported things like PWAs and other mobile web initiatives, people could build applications that run seamlessly on their phone, look like native apps etc, and they wouldn't go through their highly lucrative app store.

As phones get more and more powerful and things come along and mature like webgl etc, the reliance on native apps drops more and more. As does Apple's control.

Maybe I should get back under my tinfoil hat, idk, but that is my guess as to where their reluctance comes from.
It's not necessarily wrong, and quite justifiable, at the individual level.

It creates significant inequities when everyone does it at scale.

Leaving aside all questions of legality and punishment (the only reason you care about punishment is if something goes wrong), what is the right way to solve this? How, in an ideal world, do we fix the significant inequity that many people today happen to have homogeneous networks, and hiring from your network means that you perpetuate any homogeneity, while also saying it's totally okay and encouraged to found a startup with a close friend instead of with someone who passes an exam?

And how do we get from here to there?
I worked as a tech author on the release notes for the last shipped release of Xenix, SCO Xenix 2.3.4, in late 1991.

The Microsoft legacy lingered in SCO's codebase for a long time -- the MS C compiler was standard right through Open Server (disclaimer: I left in 1995 and happily never had to use that festering dungheap ever again, much less write and maintain chunks of the docset for it).
How so? I've had servers with OVH and Online.net for about 10 years, and only had to look at the billing forms when I moved countries.
>Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS

Because you don't know how the law works?
A standards body is not a suicide pact. If the standard in insecure, Apple should absolutely refuse to implement it.
The plants will survive for more than 1 season but as practical matter they would be culled at the end of their productive period.

The stems and such are mostly water and a little bit of carbon, I guess other sources of nitrogen would have an excellent ROI (a modest amount of fertilizer vs high capital and labor costs).
How fast is nothing at all?
If a user wants to use a different browser because of $reasons and is happy with it draining the battery, the user should be allowed to. There is no technical reason for not allowing other browsers to work on iOS, it's purely a ToS/market/profits issue.
This is neat. I'm writing a very badly constructed toy application to get used to Rust, and some of the differences have been interesting to note.

In this case, when I first encountered Rust's enums the first thing that came to mind is the fact that C and C++ both offer the ability to support tagged-unions, but certainly not as a first-class entity and definitely with a lot more cruft, with or without safety checks.

For me the jury is still out on where the best "fit" for Rust is. I really appreciate the enforced safety of Rust for higher-level systems applications programming. I'm not convinced yet it won't just get in the way pointlessly for much lower level programming (especially embedded). Perhaps that's just my relative novice understanding of Rust, though.
Revenue growth isn't the only important metric here.

They created two million new accounts, letting them go to the market and tout demand for their banking services.
Yes, exactly my thoughts as well. Good thing you said it first :).
Wow, book from Avrim Blum. Definitely worth reading.
That would be because Microsoft sold the rights to Xenix to SCO -- at that time about two hackers and their hot tub in downtown Santa Cruz -- in return for 30% of the shares in the (then private) company. That was in the mid-to-late 80s (before my time there).
I agree that Apple's management of their platform is the underlying problem, but there's no compelled speech here.

Writing code to provide better HTML5 support is only one of the ways Apple could satisfy this complaint. Lifting the developer agreement / Apple App Store restrictions that prevent third-party developers from writing browsers with better HTML5 support is another.
What exactly are you calling BS on? Nothing I said conflicts with your comments at all. It's not like progress can only happen once...
NY to Test Facial Recognition Cameras at ‘Crossing Points’
Right, but physical movement within a material without loss due to friction implies some kind of mechanical superconductor.. I mean, that's a pretty cool concept.
Going from less than 20 percent female to more than 80 percent female is being exactly as discriminatory, though. You should have been offended all along, right?
Finding decent speakers is harder than finding decent sponsors. Expect to spend most of your time chasing down speakers.

Start small. HN London started in someones apartment in London with 10-15 people turning up and grew from there to an average of 400 people attending.

Try to avoid talks that end up being a product pitch.
I don't think hydroponics is a completely closed cycle, so there still has to be a source of nitrogen/ammonia

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

which is ultimately very energy intensive

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