skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of Wikileaks but much of what the article states isn't a secret. It's clear that Google's founders for years has been trying to gain a political advantage over other corporations by being friendlier to the US govt. It makes sense since the US govt is behind the times and Google needs a friend in the US govt to make treaties that would give them an advantage over competitors in emerging markets. This is a win/win for both involved. I'm not saying this is acceptable/moral/desirable, I'm merely saying that this is how the real world of international politics works. I just wish more folks wouldn't think for a moment a corporation will stop being a corporation for the sake of it's founder's original intentions (assuming Schmidt and company were/are honest with us). At least in that clear headed acceptance of Google's agenda maybe we all can individually (and maybe collectively? I know it's quite a bit to ask.) adjust our strategies to limit their abuse of our data.
For a sense of just how long ago that was, IE6 was released before 9/11. Truly a more innocent time.
Really surprised I had to scroll this far to see Tycho! I enjoy most on your last list, I'll have to check out the ones further up.
Even then it sounds more like "lol this is ridiculous" and not "lol you're a lil incorrect"
Assume your talking downloads of an app in app store?
Of these top twenty, seven would be to write open source code and another five would be to write documentation.
Map Caps-Lock to Esc?
Title: A Brief History of University Startup Exits
Solar Fields, the group that made the music for the video game Mirror's Edge, is one of my favorite groups for programming.
Another remote first company that is sharing some knowledge:
https://teleport.org/remote/
Eating their own dog-food as company who builds products for people who move around.
The title is wrong. Could Alexander have won at Waterloo against the British?
@hellbanned user, that's a good idea and seems to solve the problem. The voting machine just producing punch cards for a separate counting machine allows for easy human inspection of votes and auditing. I think such a system would be pretty secure.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Just because current electronic voting is bad, doesn't mean it has to be.
An iMac, a Macbook/ Macbook Pro Pro, an old Mac Mini or Mac Pro... plenty of options. For what is intended (small groups/teams) should not be a problem.
Same here, I am not going to buy the 2016 model of MBP since it does not offer anything to __me__ over my current one (MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)).

Slightly off topic but new models from Apple tend have serious issues in terms of reliability. Our office has many new MB Airs and they regularly freeze up with the latest macOS and only power off & power on helps. Another disappointment is the new iPhone 7, not having audio jack, offering zero alternatives to audiofile users to listen to lossless audio on their phone (using the external DAC is a joke). I am not sure where Apple is headed nowadays but it seems it is not for me anymore. I am going to use iPhone 6s until it breaks down and move over to a different platform. If Apple does not get their shit together with MPB I will do the same as well.

http://www.recode.net/2016/9/14/12904906/apple-iphone-7-audi...
The current pace of large data leaks is alarming and unsustainable. Any other industry that would fail so badly would be completely taken over by regulations. The silicon valley is only keeping its independence because until now politicians didn't really grasp the scope of the problem. But now that data leaks involve their own email, I suspect Washington is going to start paying attention.

Yes, regulations do hurt innovation and also competition, it creates large barriers to entry (check how many new banking licenses are issued every years!). But the current state of infosec is just unacceptable. It's like if planes were falling from the sky every day.
I only see US states listed. Is it assumed on this site that cloud infrastructure only exists in the US, or is this due to regulatory constraints?
Fixed that, thanks! Now that you mention it I see it as well (It was #fafafa even) and will review the other pages as well.
Take a consultative approach-- initiate a conversation focused on outcomes.

Ask them what it is that they are trying to accomplish. Go deeper, ask what does success look like to them.

Understand that some of these Old Exec Duffers are looking to you for guidance and expertise. They need & want options.
Webpack plugin and CLI that represents bundle content as interactive treemap
> but who 'earn' those through jumping through many many regulatory hoops

They also earn it by knowing that those niches are willing to pay and normal computers can be problematic to an outright danger[1].

If you happen to have an employee that is a bit "rough" with their notebook and is a Windows user, a Panasonic Toughbook is a great buy. They are built like tanks and Panasonic knows their users.

Also, if you have a dust or grain dust[2] environment, you most definitely should buy medical computers. We have a carpentry area that needs computers and the sealed medical computers are perfect. I use http://www.cybernetman.com because I like the reps.

1) having a sealed computer that you can wipe down with Lysol is an amazing benefit for a hospital setting.

2) do not f around with normal computers in a grain dust environment unless you like fires and explosions. You want to take precautions to get proper clean airflow or use sealed computers.
I was expecting some crazy cowboy hacks but this was surprisingly useful. The author actually explains why he is doing things instead of just dropping some scripts on the reader.
I once flew from Hawaii to the middle of Russia, booked last moment due to an emergency.

5 different flights to get there, 4 to return.

45 hours to get there, 36 hours to get back.

Crying babies next to me on 3 of the flights.

Worst flying experience ever.
How to choose a digital agency
Wow, great link. This is just what I've been looking for. One does wonder how much of it is expectation effect. I mean if I didn't know the Benny Hill tune and it was labelled "focus" would it still work?
"I Sublime, I Sublime, I Sublime"

NB I have tried it, didn't appear to work :-(
It still does. It just gets more and more hidden with each release. But it's still there.
The article is talking about the storage speed, not computing speed
I really enjoy the selection at Calm Radio [1], especially the instrumental and classical channels.

You can also mix in backgrounds and "Atmosphere" (white noise) to create the perfect ambiance.

[1]: https://calmradio.com/en/
Essentially. It's not quite right because it doesn't cut off immediately at 200,000, but rather phases out, and it's 200,000 per manufacturer. On the other hand, no manufacturer has even come close to that point, and only Tesla looks like they'll reach it any time soon.
The disclosure came from Google. Of course there's a bias if they spent time coming up with a mitigation within their software. They aren't responsible for other browsers, so why would they research fixes within those browsers? That assumption is just plain idiotic.

They are under NO responsibility to research each and every possible fix. Hell, they technically didn't even have to come up with a mitigation for Chrome.
Would it be possible to show which answers influenced your results?
I get the impression that he feels very strongly about the cloud, cloud, cloud.
you'd think they should be benchmarking loading of 1Gb files.
> foregoing the verified nature of seL4

If anything, seL4 is the fastest L4 out there, proving that they can be fast and proven at the same time.

So, why would anyone want to do that?
It might cost less to fly to the USA and buy one here.
Well, segmentation or not it's certainly worth making the Pro light and portable if they can achieve that without compromising its power too much. They seem to believe they can, or at least get close enough (I mean perhaps a larger/heavier Pro could have run to 32GB while maintaining acceptable battery life).

Whether it would be better to make a cheaper Air than the cheapest new model is a separate question. I'll just say that Apple has always gone the premium route (and the limited-range-of-models route) and there are advantages and disadvantages to that.
Very clever...not sure its something that I would use in production...but definitely fun.
5 Reasons to Love Being Over 50
A clean windows install wouldn't make any difference. Lenovo installed their malware in the BIOS and set it to automatically make sure it was present, and reinstall itself if necessary, on every reboot.
You're wrong? Muscle memory is not that hard to retrain. I had to do it when I first started using a Mac, on which most of the non-qwerty keys (and some of the qwerty ones too) are in a different location to the standard IBM layout.
I think part of the recent sentiment towards Apple is due to the expectations game. If it had been a different company, like Asus, to introduce a very thin, very lightweight computer with excellent graphics and a touch strip, I think a lot of people would be thinking, "wow! Asus is really innovating! what a useful little machine!". But because it is Apple, the expectations go far beyond that of any other company, so the probability of disappointment is very high.
Am I hearing a volunteer to migrate the project?
This is clickbait. The entire article talks about how fast the SSD is and nothing else.
Why does their need to be an authority? If somebody posts a bad list or curates against your interests, you could leave a comment or suggest a better list.
All of the stuff he praises about Elementary is just vanilla GNOME. I mean, he can't even recognize that Rhythmbox has looked the same for over 3 years now.
I don't know who John Cleese was talking about but the great comic actor Ronnie Barker (of The Two Ronnies, for you Americans) was like that. Always playing a Cockney barrow boy, Welsh housewife, upper class patrician, so when you heard him on a chat show actually being "himself" it seemed very weird. He was a notoriously private person so those masks might have been part of that. It worked for him anyway, and he must have made at least as many people laugh as did Cleese.
Asus zenbook works without any problems with Ubuntu 16.04 for me.
> But this compromises the property that actually makes capabilities so much better: unrestricted delegation leads to the principle of least authority via fine-grained permissions. The fact that capabilities can be passed arbitrarily leads you naturally to defining fine-grained authorizations so that eventual abuse can be minimized, detected, and revoked.

Really? I would have assumed that letting anyone send capabilities to anyone without going through the kernel was a highway towards privilege escalation.

Do you have documentation on this topic? I'm pretty interested – in particular since I'm hoping to contribute to this fork.
Why Are So Many Baby Boomers Getting Divorced?
Title pun intended?
I run Ubuntu 16.04.1 (no Windows partition) on an Asus X555 (8GB RAM, 120GB SSD). Works extremely smooth. I've also used the same setup on a Transformer series notebook and have had no issues at all. It's honestly been my best notebook experience - having used Acer & Lenovo before (not that those notebooks were bad)
I would think AirBnB has a pretty big network effect, in the same way as e.g. eBay.
Your first glance may have missed that the first sentence of the RFC says it includes modeling for "Remote Procedure Calls" and "notifications for network management protocols." Your first glance may have also missed that the RFC is nearly 200 pages.

Given those details, would you re-evaluate your guess?
I don't think it is a placebo effect for me, because there were times when it was less effective, based on the track that it started with - or when I would hear a specific set of tracks too many times and begin to recognize the patterns too closely.

At a point mid-summer, the effectiveness wore down for a while - I even asked Aaron (one of the founders, but also available via their little support window in the corner) about adding new tracks to Focus, which I'm sure others had also requested, because they added a bunch of new tracks and it became even more effective than before. They also seem to have removed some of the tracks that weren't very effective.
I just talked to Ticki and he said he would support that.

As a personal note: is it really the right place to support encryption? I seem to remember that APFS's encryption had a pretty bad reputation in terms of actual security.
I wish there was a community input based Spotify playlist - since I generally use that for all of my music needs across devices.

I do realize many people have different tastes, but most of the time people can find a happy medium.

Here is the closest playlist I can find to that curated by a single person: https://open.spotify.com/user/johanbrook/playlist/2mtlhuFVOF...
TFS will be mountable on any OS with FUSE - Linux, BSD, illumos, and OS X
Driving on the sidewalk may be easier in China, but selling a self-driving add-on won't be.
Ask HN: Remote US employees = tax nightmare?
I own a 10 year old "startup" based in Canada, with a team of 21 employees spread out across Canada, the US and Europe.

Just recently, a big accounting firm did a review of our finances. They informed me that because we have US employees, the IRS "may" consider us to have physical offices in each state where they work. It also applies to contractors that worked on a single project for us for 183 days or more. The issue is, that now means having to collect and pay sales and income taxes in that state.

The "may" part is important, because each state has very different rules to what they consider having a "nexus" in their state. They also have different and complex rules as to what is taxable when it comes to software.

Did you know that SAAS apps aren't taxable in Michigan, if "no code is transferred to the customer", but if an "incidental" amount is transferred, it is? (as determined by the Department of Treasury)... I know this now.

The big accounting firm could not even say with certainty if some states will or will not be considered taxable, because the laws are so vague. They were quite adamant however that this is an important liability that needs to be addressed.

Has anyone else run into this before? It would seem that it applies to any startup that hires remote staff in the US.
I have also been loving Brain.fm—no other "focus music" I have tried has worked so well.

If anyone here tries it and likes it, there is actually a pretty good discount on various subscription types that expires in a few hours: https://shop.theawesomer.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscri...

The discounts are not actually as steep as the site claims (for example, lifetime is normally $150, not $200), but they are still quite good.
Because I shouldn't have to do work just so the machine is usable. If I bought a PC, I would buy it from Microsoft, as they don't sell them with all the crap.
OP, please hit the "past" link for this.
Why not use a desktop?
'[T]his "server" thing' has existed for years, this is just the latest update. It's hardly meant for enterprise environments, that hasn't been the target for some time. As others have pointed out, the target audience is small businesses with a fair number of Apple computers to manage. It makes that task relatively easy. If this is what "going off the rails" is, then they went off the rails more than a decade ago (when they discontinued their Xserve line but persisted with the server software).
I wonder if it's possible to craft a mail to be infinite-bounced like this. There have to be servers that are appropriately (mis-)configured of course. But that would let you have a lot more than just one name, and a lot more information about each person. An epitaph of sorts.
Radio It's still in there but disabled, just enable it
well its an odd article that hails that SSD speed but practically dismisses that advantage at the end of the article by saying most won't notice.

So who would? Gamers? Graphic Artists? Those doing heavy video manipulation? What other applications do a lot of disk intensive work?

For me the let down is that Apple cheaped out by going with a near useless touch strip instead of doing the screen where many windows laptops went to already and more are going to. Its good they push storage so strongly, I only hope the next iMac iteration is a worthwhile upgrade.
Is it able to self-host?
It's not just the expectations, Apple's price tags demand innovation. If they're not doing anything special you can get much cheaper hardware.
I agree about the HiDPI issues and userland software that is not packaged.

I find the best Virtual Desktop (Workspaces) implementation to be that of i3wm. I can spin up as many as I want, on the fly, using a keycombo and even ask apps to open up on a specific workspace.
Not true. The FD 1.2 betas have been available as usb images for months [0].

[0] http://up.lod.bz/FDI
Offensive can also mean something inducing disgust, as in "an offensive odor." That's actually the older usage for it. I've been reading some older novels lately and saw "offensive" used in that way a lot.
Thanks! :)

How easy was the installation? Any crazy stunts to get it all working?
After years of visiting this website to listen to good remixes while I write code I feared the day when someone would link it to HN because I knew before hand that it would make it inaccessible. Go damn it people! Y U Do Dis ಠ_ಠ
Add llvm-objdump support for wasm file format
The one issue I've heard about in several reviews of the XPS 13 is "coil whine" -- a small electrical buzzing sound coming from under the keyboard. Has that been an issue for you?
Do you mean Lorem Ipsum? - http://www.lipsum.com/

In MS Word you can generate is by typing the following and pressing enter

=lorem()

you can put # of paragraphs into the method to add that many e.g =lorem(5)

you can also use =rand() to put in some random help stuff text
Use GNOME and Dash To Dock. Unity sucks big time, is slow, very heavy and doesn't offer much more from GNOME.
and starting in just the second paragraph:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
Equally mysteriously in the definition games, optical scanned paper ballots are never considered the same as electronic voting, although its possibly the only unhackable cheap system out there, and its just as fast, if not faster.

Also frankly more people are familiar with the UI of "#2 pencil and piece of paper" than any electronic UI I can think of or imagine, which is somewhat damning for cultural reasons on this site resulting in it being double plus ungood badthink to imply anything could be superior to contemporary trends in web and phone app UIs.
That is a fair point, although my experience was that the IDE didn't matter much. Most of my fellow students didn't learn build systems regardless of whether they worked in the popular IDE at the time or just a text editor.

I would hope that build systems would be taught regardless of the IDE.
There is also the similar open source project: Bip.io = https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio
> They are under NO responsibility to research each and every possible fix. Hell, they technically didn't even have to come up with a mitigation for Chrome.

Then they should've waited until an official fix was out. They know one's being actively worked on. They know the primary exploit path (via Flash) was patched. To my earlier point: they should've just waited.

> That assumption is just plain idiotic.

That's not necessary. You might not see my face, but I'm still a person deserving of some amount of respect.
I don't think it's so simple. Sure, Apple makes laptops at the same places as Dell or Lenovo. But I can't imagine Apple releasing, as Dell as, multiple product lines with a glaring quality defect (coil whine). Or consistently using cheaper IPS displays with backlight bleed and PWM like Lenovo. Apple's laptops aren't defect free by any means (e.g. anti glare coating rubbing off, paint rubbing off on the black polycarbonate MacBooks), but they are sporadic and don't seem to be the result of conscious decisions to cut corners.
I thought about doing this approach but it looked like too much work (I was going to use the listen notify event support in Postgres).

Instead we just write directly to durable queues on RabbitMQ (there are some exceptions where extreme consistency and transactions are needed).

That's is we do web->queue->databases.

There are serious cons to this bus approach as well as pros like improvements in latency.

The bottle approach is nice because you can write old school CRUD style.

Maybe I can use parts of bottle to write to our rabbit bus for the parts that are CRUD because of consistency reasons.
I use Cloudflare for mine (https://www.garysieling.com/blog) - they catch 75% of the requests. For sections that are rarely hit, you'd still get 404's from downtime, and there are more valid URLs to pages on a Wordpress site than you'd think.
It's just straight up bad writing. At least we weren't told to be horrified by anything.
You are right that the ES and DB schemas shouldn't be directly tied together. That is why I have specific DB functions that output the correct format for ES and only those functions need to change if the ES or DB schemas change. It is a much simpler way to do it then to have application worry about it in my opinion.
As long as it's correctly prefixed with X- I think it should be fine.
The very first link in the article is to their website.
I have always just used the same hour long mixes on repeat. But will try this out and see. Thanks!
You can't run it on an arbitrary OS or ISA without explicitly creating a build for that specific ISA or OS.
> Can't we trust our fellow HN users to handle this discussion civilly?

Unfortunately, no we can't. That's clear empirically.
We can all come up with speculations about why it is; mine is that politics is tribalism and activates the pre-rational brain.

What's clear from years of experience is that such discussions degenerate rapidly, that the degeneration compounds—i.e. the more it happens, the worse it gets—and that allowing it to go unchecked would kill what's valuable about this site. That's why the HN guidelines' definition of "off-topic" leads with an admonition against pure politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

There are some political topics that can be substantively discussed here, but that's because they're not pure politics: the drug is cut with something else. An example from yesterday is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841178.
I found out how to pronounce sal volatile just the other day, perhaps thirty years after first reading it (crops up quite a lot in Victorian novels). Fortunately, I never once had occasion to say it out loud in the intervening time.
Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform (Visual Studio and .NET)
The actual reason is piracy.
If a Wordpress site is valuable enough to justify paying an engineer to set this up, hundreds a month are probably not a concern.
Well, there's the problem of testing the implementation on every OS.
Hillary never deleted anything after she learned of the investigation.

Her lawyers were given specific instructions and they followed them.
Corrode update: support from Mozilla, and new features
Well, if the tooling was built with John's advice in mind, it shouldn't break.

But yes, don't go against the standard to put John's name in: only put it in the header, where such things are allowed.
Life-size 3D printed human model
Holy cow, that's a confusing title. I clicked on it trying to figure out why you'd give pilots anesthesia on a transcontinental flight.

In case anyone hits the comments first and has the same confusion: it's a "pilot study" in the sense that it's the first of its kind, and "transcontinental" refers to controlling the process remotely. Basically: can your anesthesiologist be off-site and do his work over the internet instead of having to be in the operating room?