skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been a tutorial assistant for novice first year computer scientists: the text editor is the easy environment, assuming the lab computers have all been set up correctly with the necessary tools.

The instructions given to students were to use something like gedit, and "javac" and "java". This rarely caused problems, but the students who tried to use Eclipse were more likely to get stuck operating it, or else distracted by it.
Thank goodness that the publishers are finally starting to catch on. Outbrain, Taboola, and their ilk have always been utter trash and the sooner they die the better off we'll all be.
GM has heated cloth and leatherette seats on many of its trucks. I think the decision to package heating and leather together is for marketing reasons, not because of any technology-compatibility issues. (They're both "premium" options and bundling them together makes sense if you are constructing a multi-thousand-dollar package.)
That's actually what makes it exciting. Giphy's results are so bad that you never know what you're gonna get. I'm surprised Giphy doesn't utilize something like this:

http://tarzain.com/2016-09-22/building-a-deep-learning-power...
AIUI, Microsoft collects a ton of data. Apple doesn't. Apple collects crashes and some fairly basic (very anonymized) usage data, but it also asks you up-front during installation/setup whether you want to enable this kind of reporting. But from what I keep seeing people say on the internet, it sounds like Windows is constantly reporting data home to Microsoft rather than just sending crashes/bugs and other basic info.
My latest progress report: https://www.sitepoint.com/how-i-made-2000-in-1-5-months-star...

Trying to get the word out any and every way. Having a blast doing it.

Thanks for asking!
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I want to see Linus go through this source code and tell everyone what he thinks.

That would be a real good litmus test haha.
Can anyone tell me why Intel, Cisco, Juniper, etc are part of Open Compute Project? It doesn't really make sense to me because this project is effectively designed to commoditize their business. It makes sense for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc to be in OCP because server and networking hardware is purely a cost and isn't the part of the value chain that they profit from.
I don't think you should pay attention to the prose except to be amused by it; the prose is just there to half-assedly fulfill this "anarchist hacker" role that the Shadowbrokers persona represents.
I have a naive question:
As a software developer, how can I contribute to the cause?
The betaness there is problematic :-). The whole thing still has trouble with X11 applications, for example, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on.

The nice part about OS X is (or, at least back when I last used it, was) that it's a convincing enough Unix underneath. As far as I can tell, there is no direct equivalent for e.g. launchd, the *nix-ish frontend isn't really integrated, it's more like an additional layer.

This is ok for what I guess is 99.99% of the people who use Windows and need to use the occasional Linux program/bash script/whatever. I'm in the other category :-).
They don't typically give the Nobel for theory. For example, Einstein is best known for Relativity but his Nobel is actually for his experimental work on Brownian Motion.
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My favorite T-shirt design from the conference:

"1" != 1
deal with it

Anybody who is considering adapting TypeScript should take a look at where Dart is, because the tooling is way ahead of what TS can offer. The language is not a JS-alternative anymore, rather an entire ecosystem of tooling both for development, debugging and monitoring, with a huge focus on the web (Angular2.dart) and mobile (Flutter).
HN, Reddit, Product Hunt. Why is Reddit "bad now", because someone wrote that and now it's your new world view? Reddit is stronger than ever.
Does converting microusb cables to OTG dongles by hand count as a good whipping? crack!
No, those criticisms probably fundamentally shaped Dropbox's marketing message, if not also informing them of where to take their product.

When people post negative criticism, it's because they find the topic important. They find it important enough to evaluate your product. You have to ask yourself whether or not their criticism has any grain of truth to it. And regardless of the answer, it's very important information.

If the answer is, "they don't understand what I'm trying to do," then you've failed at marketing. Your message is garbled and it needs work. There's no such thing as "if you build it, they will come." That movie was about a literal miracle. You need marketing and you need to get good at it.

If the answer is, "they don't understand how early the product is", then their criticism is probably based on a valid reason (expressed poorly) and you probably released too early or with too many features. Minimum Viable Product is about what is viable, not what meets your vision. Either your broken features are necessary and you released too early, or they are not and you need to cut them completely. Better to have no feature than a broken one that makes people bitch at you.

That only leaves, "yes, I recognize that their criticism is based on a valid reason (expressed poorly)". You can pretty much count on people being poor communicators 90% of the time. So your choice becomes to let their failings as a communicator push you into discounting what they have to say--and thereby harming your product--or ignore the packaging and focus on the message--and make a better product for it.
Do you have a source on the last part? The rav4 EV has an aggressive regen mode, it's just not the default state of the 'transmission'.
Agreed, if it was too convincing then the message might be lost by the U.S. government.
You don't make loans to people unless you have evidence that they can and will pay it back. BTCJam for example has reputation scores, and people actually say what they intend to use the money for.

The default rate on BTCJam, which was one of the first loan services is 10%, this doesn't compare well with mainstream rates however, Bitlendingclub is supposedly one third of that, which compares favourably to mainstream rates https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCLACBS
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TeaVM[1] has an experimental WebAssembly backend that does something like this. Here's the recent Reddit thread[2].

[1] http://teavm.org/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5899ln/teavm_j...
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Only one of those is making any money.
Because it is more simple to just use the prebuilt (no need to convert to css, no build tools), because browsers already cache the prebuilt? Because CDNs already have the prebuilt version. Because changing the version is about 1 character change in your own code. Because for whatever reason, some SASS stuff are not backward compatible. And most importantly none of the end users cares about it.
cough Minus -> Meow
If the goal is environmental (reduce the impact of burning gasoline), then currently a full BEV is inferior to plugin hybrid. The success criteria should not be number of BEV on the road. Rather, it should be total electric miles driven. For that goal, what is more likely to succeed in the market? A really expensive full BEV? Or a SUV, pickup truck, etc. that is only a little bit more expensive than gas version and has a 25 mile EV range?
I haven't seen that one thanks!
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Which begs the question, why aren't there more manufacturers trying to compete in that space? Apple is successful because they have no competition at the top of the market.
Yeah, pretty much this

IBM is very good at charging astronomical quantities for legacy systems (though it seems those systems, both in hardware and in software have been receiving updates - the processors in these systems look impressive)

Basically, why rewrite an older system for (1Mi/10Mi) when you can just throw money and get a brand new mainframe?
Very little information on their site about the actual architecture of the system. Very bad flag there.

I'd be interested if it was based on a post-Liedtke microkernel, but I suspect it's yet another boring monolith.
I read that you're not planning to integrate with Facebook[1], but what about other providers, if they allow you to request access to almost nothing? Perhaps, for example, allowing people to use <their-name>@github.com would prompt them with a GitHub OAuth screen and identify them. Why not?

I see, it is not a valid email. Maybe there should be a Portier fork that implemented stuff like that, though.

[1]: https://github.com/portier/portier.github.io/blob/master/Non...
Why should they have put it on the iPhone? People keep saying that, but nobody's actually given a good reason. It's not like you're going to be plugging any of your Mac peripherals into your iPhone. The only actual reason anyone seems to have is "so you can plug your iPhone into an Android charger", but that doesn't seem very compelling to me (do I even want to trust an Android charger?).
"If something is not worth selling, probably is not worth actively sharing & supporting either."

Depends on where you get your motivation and enjoyment.
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We're very interested in exploring this space. It's possible that this capability is exposed through an extension of sourcemaps [0]. Definitely curious to hear more ideas and feedback in this space.

[0]: http://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/#source-maps-int...
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There are theoretical paths to expand revenue. Any site like Giphy that can position themselves as the leader in a segment of the web like gif searching/aggregation can claim ad revenue based on current/potential user volume. In addition, Giphy could pursue things like licensing/marketing deals where companies pay to create/distribute gifs for marketing purposes. IIRC they were in talks with the NFL or some other pro sports league about something this.

So companies put together a pitch with current revenue streams, how to grow those, and R&D for new revenue streams, and how to do so while keeping expenses low. Those numbers are usually multiplied by some factor to determine a ballpark.

Exit strategies are also considered. The goal is usually either to get acquired or go public. Marketability of a company once properly positioned, current market climate, and past exits of similar companies are also often considered. For example, Google bought YouTube for $1.65B less than two years after launch while it was still pretty rough around the edges. Gifs are already often used as lightweight, embedded video alternatives on Reddit and blogs, so it's not inconceivable that Giphy tries to make a case for being worth a similar amount if they can position themselves as a new de facto media platform for light clips like YouTube is for full videos.
Look at the maintenance and reliability for Prius. The data shows this is clearly not true.
(1) Einstein's Nobel citation specifically mentions his work on the photoelectric effect, not his work on Brownian motion; (2) his work on Brownian motion was theoretical, not experimental; (3) there have been many Nobels for theoretical work --- all three of the 2016 Laureates, and both the 2013 Laureates, to pick some recent examples.
I just checked and it is insane, for a 4 minutes long song the Spotify windows app made 163.165 writes to the mercury.db-wal file.

http://imgur.com/a/rDhPS
No. I tell anyone I've run into that if you've never used SASS but you're comfortable with CSS then you'll be productive almost immediately. With a little bit of direction and reading you'll be up-to-speed within a couple of days. SASS is simply not a difficult thing to pick up.

But there's nothing holding you back from playing with it right now with Codepen or jsFiddle.
The card is available in over 130 countries, according to the website.
Nice catch, interacted elements (if scrolled) should appear on their place, but heatmap is not scrollable.

I guess this is pretty buggy, but I already mentioned that heatmap is pretty naive, and should be taken care of sometime in future.
Does anyone know how to find Investors who are willing to provide Funds in BitCoins?
I think what makes Giphy so popular is its integrations with Slack and Facebook. However, the Giphy Slack integration is really awful. Should be renamed to gif roulette or something. RightGIF Slack integration is a lot more accurate. I'm not sure what they are doing differently but the $600MM valuation for a below average search engine is understandably off-putting..
Agreed on both counts. Given the imminent Persona shutdown, and until I can move it to Portier, I've implemented it on Pastery as a stopgap: https://www.pastery.net/login/

I think it works quite well (the session lasts until you log out).
There's a little more discussion of that over on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/fkosun/. The TL;DR is that URIs just didn't work for the mass public. You had to supplement the login form with a NASCAR-esque wall of logos, which was awful for different reasons.

Thus, Portier, and Persona before it, chose to identify users by email addresses. I talk a little bit about that at 9:05 in my PyCon 2013 talk on Persona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJff23UdNAI#t=9m05
That's a bit like saying "carpenters make furniture. You should probably make money."

Our craft is programming. In order to create unique value where others haven't out of programs, you should probably be good at programming. If the unique value we would create were out of design, we'd be designers. If it were out of reports, we'd be statisticians. Know your craft and be good at it.
Apple have always run on their own schedule. They just generally don't do coordination. I wouldn't take it to indicate lack of support.
s/ I thing that / I think that /
The Latitudes I get are hunks of magnesium and aluminum, not plastic.

I don't give a shit about trackpads; I use the Trackpoints (which Macs don't have) since they're much easier and faster to use, and a separate mouse most of the time. No touchpad compares to a real mouse, just like a touchscreen keyboard will never compare to a real keyboard.

They're available with high-resolution screens, and even better, they're matte (Macs are not, they're glossy), so I can see them in different lighting situations.

Finally, I get mine at dirt-cheap prices by buying them used, because corporations buy these things in bulk and only keep them for a couple of years before liquidating them. So there's a very healthy used market with machines in excellent, near-new shape because they don't hold their resale value the way Macs do with their cultist followers (and the fact that most people have zero awareness of enterprise laptops). And since computers aren't actually improving technologically any more, a 3-year-old laptop in excellent condition is just as productive and useful as a brand-new one, but at a fraction of the cost.
It will? My gaming PC regularly restarts to install updates no matter what software I have currently running.
Apple's Mac event has Chinese fans thinking about buying a Surface
Here's how to interact with browser APIs and import/export functions via the WebAssembly JS API: http://webassembly.org/getting-started/js-api/
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Does anyone here have insight into how widely Pronovost's ideas have been implemented since the article was published?
That's probably about right, if a little too lopsided toward theory. Physics is empirical. We need hypotheses to test, but we should emphasize "test."
>I'm also 40+ and single, never married so of course I wonder what would have happened if I had asked out woman X instead of being hung up on woman Y. But then I could be divorced and a parent or something (I don't want kids).

You don't have to not want kids for this to be a big problem. Being divorced with kids is a gigantic PITA, even if you love kids. I have a female friend like this (I tried dating her but she didn't want to be anything more than "just friends"); she really has NO free time. I'm not really sure why she even bothers maintaining an OKC profile; it took me 3 months of exchanging dozens of messages to get her to meet me for a coffee date! She couldn't even stay long there because she had to get back to her parents to pick up her kid. (She wrote back after the date and said we "weren't a match"; I have no idea why and I really don't want to ask her).

Anyway, point is, if you're divorced with kids and have custody, you will have NO free time for anything, including more dating, until the kids are at least 10 years old. That's a really big commitment, and a big risk considering the divorce rates these days.

Worse yet, this woman's kid seems a little autistic and has some really odd behavioral issues. Good luck getting a decent man to want to jump into that situation...

It seems to me that maybe people should be required to take some kind of classes to help identify good relationship partners when they're young, because most of these cases seem to be the result of people picking absolutely awful partners for relationships, and then popping out a kid or two before they finally throw in the towel. This girl (well, woman, she's almost 40 now) had all kinds of horror stories to tell about her sociopathic ex that she had met in college.

Having kids is really a giant commitment and a gigantic risk. It's no wonder educated and professional people aren't bothering with it very much; by the time they get situated well enough in their careers, get their student loans paid off and get financially stable, and then get through the dating process and manage to find someone they really like and are confident they're a solid long-term partner, they're too old biologically to have kids! All the people I see having kids these days are in their early 20s, blue collar or military and not college educated, and they're usually having kids out of wedlock, and not even staying together after the kid is born. I honestly feel really sorry for kids growing up these days.
Like Twitter? Intel? Cisco? Ericsson? Microsoft?
Some reasons to believe that this time, it is different:

Humans Need Not Apply (a CGP Grey video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Standardization has happened, the market has spoken, Tesla has won.

Seriously, Ford, Nissan and whoever spent many many years in committees designing one charging standard after the other. Meanwhile, Tesla built an actual high amps charging network. The other manufacturers need to realize they have wasted 5+ years with dick in hand doing nothing.
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Interesting how I get down-modded to oblivion any time I make a post that challenges the Apple Kool-Aid. Maybe instead of "Hacker News", this place should be renamed "Hipster News" if it's just a congregation place for Apple cultists.
Utterly amazing what people are achieving with neural nets. The idea that 'style transfer' can be fit into an algorithm is slightly blowing my mind right now.

The jumping fox video does looks a bit 'off' though, I think because the animation is kept the same and so it ends up looking too realistic for that style. Still this is early days!
I believe I've responded to the right post. :) Currently, WASM (and Javascript, when JIT'ed) are lowered to Cretonne IR, which is then optimized and translated to native code by the Cretonne engine, which is then executed by Spidermonkey. What the link above is proposing is to extract Cretonne into a standalone component capable of producing object files which can be linked into other programs as expected. The Rust project would intend to use such a backend by writing a pass to translate Rust to Cretonne IR. However, the important observation is that WASM and Javascript are already being translated to Cretonne IR, which means that if the Rust developers do the work of creating a standalone backend out of Cretonne, then WASM and Javascript should be able to leverage it to produce code that's independent of the browser (though for JS you'd probably need to implement some additional external runtime support).
What work is worth it to do with 100% certainty? A lot of times these things open up new opportunities even though you might find yourself working on a bust. most times even if it's not valuable from the get go you can always use it when someone asks about your open source contributions or maybe the thing you are working on sparks an idea for another product or gives you some working knowledge of some new library or language that is useful for your next job search.
Oh please. You have to start somewhere and this is where they're starting. By comparison, Linus' first announcement was:

Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby,
won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT
clones. This has been brewing since april, and is
starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things
people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it
somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system
(due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40),
and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get
something practical within a few months, and

I'd like to know what features most people would want.
Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll
implement them :-)

Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a
multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task
switching etc), and it probably never will support
anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I
have :-(.

Good luck, guys. Post some docs to read.
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It's a shame Euro/American Truck Simulators didn't go for more accuracy :) (Probably would have been on par with X-Plane install size however.)
Yep, please flag.
Here it is: https://archive.org/details/nerdtv007
I wonder if putting a final frame advert on the gif would work well. Not to intrusive, matches a common technique for videos so familiar to users.

1k impressions for a dollar with 10% of gifs completing on 1B gifs per day would give $100k. Are those figures wildly out?

Not really a business, just advertising.
No. GC access is a feature that they may possibly add at some undisclosed point in the future. (Just like it was with asm.js via Object Types IIRC) but it's not an explicit design consideration.

No where does it say that it's intended to be a universal bytecode.
However, and I'm just thinking out loud here, we have come quite far as humanity through all of those changes. Each time fulfilling a certain core need. From mass production and steam engine / electricity to growing enough food. These issues are still present in many portions of the world but are we reaching a certain critical mass of progress? Are we running out of problems to be solved with large amounts of manual labor? These are just my own naive thoughts more than anything.
People are already sharing a lot, we need more curation. HN is great for that, but still a lot of crap emerges and awesome stuff is ignored, so people have to post multiple times and so on.

There are also a lot of paid sharing sites, which means something is very wrong.
Stronger isn't what I'm looking for. If it was, I'd be on facebook. I just want a smaller community with closer interests. More like benheck and bacmods were and less general interest. HN is all business now so it's no good either (for my hacks).
Quick phone call might be a little less stalkerish / cheaper on a risk adjusted basis.
If the demographic exists, they wouldn't know it from reading this blog post.