skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! The reincarnation of Xonix [0] in multi-player! You should check out Antix [1] as well!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antix_(video_game)
... at a considerable cost to taxpayers in what was essentially a large upward wealth transfer.

It might be worth it in the end, but call a spade a spade.
The simple answer is that you can make very large 3D maps with those images.

I disagree with your second assumption, though I can see where it comes from. It's not so much the specific implementation, beauty or whimsy, but rather that people will take the action of modifying their real time view consistently.
If MacOS doesn't have certain linux kernel features, neither does FreeBSD. How can Docker run on FreeBSD when FreeBSD has no cgroups? I think you misread/misinterpreted your reference.
To the extent that AirBnB increases tourism to an area, or reduces the cost of lodging, leaving a propensity for tourists to spend more locally (and have the same total cost of their stay), the local merchant community benefits.
The archive.is guy provides mirrors of rotten links to Wikipedia also, although not as the result of any official agreement with Wikipedia, just on his own initiative, which I think was nice of him.

Enclyclopedia Dramatica is generally not a reputable source of truth, being the site that it is, but while looking for some more information on archive.is mirroring of links from Wikipedia articles, I found an article on ED that I found interesting. It is heavily advocating one side of the story but at least it backs it up with some links, which is rather seldom on ED (most links on ED usually go to other pages on ED in my experience).

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Archive.is
Everything about their engine and viewer was still do bad last time I checked that I would be shocked if they could possibly pull proper VR off. I never understood why the controls completely reinvented the wheel instead of being more like what we are used to from video games.
They do security updates for previous releases.
Wacom Cintiq 27QHD 27 In. Creative Pen & Touch Display
by Wacom

$2,799.95
https://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cintiq-27QHD-Creative-Display/d...
Design focused feedback on user experience
"...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests."

Well, yeah. That's 28,108.80 a month if you're running queries on demand and don't want a delay/coordination in Amazon instance creation/destruction.

BQ may or may not be as fast, but it's truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don't have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It's silly to focus just on query speed when there's a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.
Now you're just being disingenuous.

According to Everymac, the following changes were made:

- CPU went from a i7-4578U to a i7-5557U (Haswell to Broadwell)

- memory was upgraded from 1600 DDR3L to 1866LPDDR3

- SSD was given extra lanes of PCIe

- Iris 5100 went to Iris 6100

- Force Touch - "more advanced", not cheaper

- Battery life improvements

In fact the summary is that "internally, the 13-Inch "Mid-2014" and "Early 2015" MacBook Pro models have little in common except that both have soldered memory, "blade" SSDs, and batteries that are glued in place."

Sources:

- http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pr...

- http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macb...

- http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macb...
Out of curiosity, why do you usually not like these kinds of pieces? I have enjoyed all of the IndieHackers interviews and find them pretty inspirational.
I take it you don't spend a lot of time on car forums. People complain about this kind of stuff all the time.
Are you saying I either have to pay $3 to opt out or save $3 to opt in?

Or are you saying the base price remains the same if I opt out, but I would get a $3 discount if I opt in?

I would find scenario #2 a more suitable option. Meaning I'd happily pay the standard price in exchange for opting out, but people who choose to opt in receive a small discount in exchange for their willingness to be used as marketing collateral.

Explicitly charging people to opt out just leaves a bad taste in mouth. And it just makes me thing you are going to nickel and dime me every chance you get.

To be honest, if all the standard painting prices were increased by $3 to roll in the opt out cost, I probably wouldn't care. It's the explicit charging for opting out that rubs me the wrong way and I don't think I've ever encountered it before on any other online transaction I've completed.
There was a recent discussion about (free) online training courses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12786545

P.S. Welcome to HN. Prefix your question with 'Ask HN' and it will go into https://news.ycombinator.com/ask which requires less upvotes to get attention
In "safe" languages (i.e. ones which aren't supposed to segfault/etc unless there's a compiler/interpreter/VM bug -- PHP, Java, JS, Python all fit in here) I've often heard "crash" being used to just mean an uncaught exception, or something else that brings the program crashing down.

GP says "or catch the error", so they're probably using that term in this sense.
In related news, water is wet.

Unstructured space is terrible for working and terrible for collaboration.
That's right. Customers aren't human beings.
Taking a day off from your principles seems suspect, at best. (That's not to say that there's no way to justify doing so -- but it's difficult to conceive of what that might be.)

Also, I frankly doubt that Stallman's life would be improved by kicking back with an iPad and a beer and jerking it to Internet porn. Classic rock, maybe -- but there's no contradiction between that and his approach (as long as it's DRM-free).
> The majority of AirBnB hosts are individuals just trying to make some extra money.

Perhaps that's true, but AirBnB made a point to not share the data so people could figure that out.

In addition, while the number of rental properties is probably dominated by individuals, the number of days rented is probably dominated by the professional AirBnB hosts.
Daily Deals are great for one type of business -- Dental offices! I used them a few times for to get discounts on cleaning. The incentive to bring new customers by offering steep discounts is definitely worth it for those type of vendors.
3D Touch does not seem to be gaining much traction.
> "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour".

:-)

Another reason besides security for using government servers is that the emails were supposed to be available for FOIA requests by law.

I can certainly see why someone may not want to be subject to FOIA for any kinds of mistakes, etc. but that is the law.
If Clinton didn't like the idea of FOIA so very much, she should not have become Secretary of State (or a Senator for that matter).
But companies that earns a substantial portion of the revenue from their users' illegal practices either need to actively participate in the investigation and enforcement of those laws, or expect that new laws will be created to work around them.

AirBnB didn't want to solve this problem, so NY solved it without AirBnB's help. It's a predictable outcome, and one that AirBnB was hurtling towards once they stood in the path of any other solution.
Exactly my point. There was no 'dns is slow but finally works now' moment, there was total dns blackout until attack stopped.
Here is a better analogy than the one you gave: compare a Honda Accord painted with a can of spray paint to a Honda Accord painted at the factory.
> JSON Number ARE NOT ACTUAL NUMBERS.

Well, no. They're numbers as humans think about them.

(Cue the saying about programming being a job where you hate yourself for not thinking enough like a computer)
The 12-20 demographic is mercurial, but 12-20 year olds are not.

Though really my point was this: it isn't the case that you need to continually re-grab the same users, it is the case that there are continually new users to grab.
> Let's not be too breathless

Well, you know, I wasn't. The opposite actually.
I like your answer the best, quite succinct.

Software is / has way too many intangibles, by its nature. If you try to show the customer some tangible progress every three weeks, that's all very good, but strongly highlights the "intangiblesness" (sorry made up word) of it all. Once the customer starts seeing some "real" feature take shape, then the feature requests really start pouring in, and any previous understanding of this feature before this point, becomes a dim ephemeral dream in everyone's minds. Constant moving target.
They could be wearing tops with no shoulders...
they just added back.
Sites down.
Exactly! There were very few discounts, and they were never sanctioned to begin with. Elon made it clear in that internal email that these were not allowed by Tesla's internal policy. Had nothing to do with this quarter's profitability, as reaffirmed by him in today's earnings call.
This sounds similar to The Impact Engine out of Chicago. My company was part of the first cohort back in 2012. Feel free to AMA about this space - I have learnings to unload if interested.
Fighting Bloviating BS with Radical Candor
The "Candy Store" this article refers to (and Asimov in the quote) is in my neighborhood. Hilariously I discovered this through Pokémon Go.
edge's interface looks like it was designed in an intern's spare time
Advanced Use Cases for the Repository Pattern in .NET
I loved the original Foundation series as a teen. Re-read them just a few years ago, when I'm much older. The ideas were every bit was stimulating, but the writing really was not that great. And plot holes and inconsistencies. But you know, maybe those things are not as important.

I did also like his short stories more. Same with Clarke -- I liked the short stories better.
Its no longer a candy store of course.
As per the earnings call, the profit per unit actually went up, and the discounts were never sanctioned and also not relevant to this end result.
"For me the differentiator is privacy with regard to the browser vendor and websites I visit, and for that I trust only Mozilla because of their mission and track record (and I use some add-ons)."

Are you concerned about Firefox's previous integrations with Pocket [1] and Firefox Hello [2]?

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/2PY...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668526
Ok, got it now, thanks.

Any idea why they have to list automotive leasing as a separate line item on their report? If they are selling it to a bank who is then responsible for the lease, why list it separately?
Do we need to hear about these $60 Union City hotels 7 times in this thread?
I'm curious if going public would lead to more transparency about what they do and for whom. Enron was famously opaque to its own investors until it was too late, but I would hope that public companies have greater requirements for transparency nowadays.
Reading these comments reminds me of the AirBnB ad I saw on twitter. Clicked through and sure enough, every single response was railing against AirBnB. Had a good chuckle at how AirBnB paid for an ad-hoc localized forum for people to complain about them.
The meaning of Bob Dylan's silence
Addressing Visual Studio 15’s Memory Usage
It'd be a real shame if publishers decide to opt out of the archive to reclaim "lost" pageviews.
The customers you get via things like GroupOn are not the customers you want. And the GroupOn customers crowd out your good customers.
Because every study I've seen uses and SOLELY RELIES on Monsanto supplied data and is usually run by a Monsanto agent (current employ, previous employ, or political friend of Monsanto), although there was one study from Germany that did not have a Monsanto agent and came up with "probably not carcinogenic". You do not get data on how Roundup affects a population, excepting through Monsanto's blessing.
Eh? Those are from two different (though somewhat related in history) traditions. I don't remember which meditation book, it's been a while, but it had clear terminology from the Gita. Wasn't one of the books with "Zen" in the title, FWIW.
I make about 30 bucks per months on a single ad on my jquery plugin docsite[1].

I lose about 25 bucks per months on website for artists that I built over the course of a few years in my spare time[2]

[1]http://mkoryak.github.io/floatThead/
[2]http://exhibitionnest.com
Kind of only tangentially related, but I see this sort of thing all the time.

KeyboardEvent.keyCode: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...

> Deprecated, please use KeyboardEvent.code

KeyboardEvent.code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...

> Internet Explorer: No support

> Microsoft Edge: No support

> Safari: No support
You'd have to have it mandated to everyone. Otherwise the few conscientious teams would take 10 times as long as the risky ones. And since riskiness often doesn't bear deadly fruit for months or years, the careful teams would never stand a chance in the free and ignorant market.
Well, if this is the goal, then the merchants could advertise the low-cost hotels in Union City, NJ ($60 Priceline) 15 mins from Times Square. This way the merchants benefit without the harms to NYC residents. Of course, the businessmen hotel/motel owners in Union City benefit as well. Win-win-win (NYC merchant, NYC resident, Union City merchant).
Here's a great bit by Dan Ariely (behavioral economics) that might answer your question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOhb4LwAaJk

And while I'm sharing Dan Ariely links, here's another one (but I can't tell you what it's about, just watch and wait for it):

https://vimeo.com/63062967
"males are usually the sexual aggressors" only implies that males initiate the majority of sexual encounters, and is more aggressive in initiating them.

Besides, if this hypothesis is correct and we treat both parties equally in cases where both parties claim inebriation, then we create a situation that is favorable to male sexual aggressors, because all they would have to do is claim inebriation in order to get away with sexual assault.

Are some males going to be unfairly prosecuted because of this? Yes, but the intent is to improve everyone's quality of life at the cost of a few.
Building a Tiny Compiler [video]
Before this thread turns into a vim-v-emacs-esque flame war.

I really think it's a good thing that AWS and GCP are punching each other in the cloud data warehousing market. It means that the market is maturing, and we are all benefiting from their arms race against each other.

I am of the opinion that Redshift and BigQuery are philosophically different enough that performance differences, while important, shouldn't be the deciding factor. I've written about this in a blog post awhile back, and it might be relevant for folks weighing their options

https://blog.treasuredata.com/blog/2016/06/09/redshift-bigqu...

Disclosures:

1. I don't work at either.

2. My employer, however, partners with both.
I see that copy-pasting and using Sentry's name is, but if a competitor credits you, but still offers the hosted service, would you consider it evil?

I have the impression that someone doing it would have a better image even with people loyal to Sentry: "well, these competitors here are not bad guys, just Sentry users like us, the only difference is that they are offering hosted Sentry for lower prices!".

(I'm not talking about the legal stuff, I'm completely ignoring it)
A theoretical reverse DDoS: You somehow prevent traffic from reaching their load balancer so it automatically scales their AWS instances to zero.
But see Djikstra on "GOTO statement considered harmful" (http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html). The problem is unstructured control flow, which both GOTOs and exceptions-as-control-flow give you; at least in what I was taught (early-2000s CS degree focused on C++), unstructured flow of control is only acceptable when it's a panic button to quit the program (or a major area of processing).

It sounds like the Web way of doing things doesn't have this tradition -- much like how it doesn't have static strict extensible type systems.
It was more about the GPU (dynamic switching is a b*tch, especially when coupling a discrete one in the keyboard with an integrated one in the display), and the old power management problems resurfacing again.

I really do want to get a SurfaceBook. Let's hope they've ironed out the bugs.

I just realized you were talking about the sp4, so that doesn't really apply.
There was another good post the other day that highlighted some good security blogs. The best in my opinion were http://www.schneier.com/blog/, https://threatpost.com/, http://krebsonsecurity.com/. In addition to these, joining some hacker forums to see the kind of shenanigans and tools they employ could be helpful.
FF's JS perf is just embarassing. Hopefully, when the new optimizations land (they're working on some now, IIRC) this will be improved.
> 28,108.80 a month

maybe i'm completely out of touch, but i'm really wondering who can afford this kind of stuff without $20M series A money in the bank. and i'm also wondering what they're going to do when they run out of that money and have zero database expertise in-house because they outsourced everything to amazon.
cool story but facebook and twitter aren't actually private since they have open registration.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surfac...

"I am intimately familiar with how it feels to create things on these sorts of devices and the Studio honestly feels like a generational leap forward. If you are a digital artist and you are currently working on a Cintiq you have to go to a MS store and look at the Studio. I’ve always given you my honest take on this stuff and this time is no different even though I can’t think of anything bad to say. If you draw on computers the Surface Studio is something very special."
New MacBook Pro will be coming out tomorrow.
There is also the question of whether they're talking about a direct carcinogenic effect on the personnel applying the Round Up product, versus antibiotic effect on consumers of food containing Round Up residue.
Ultimate Headphone Buying Guide
Not to mention half the office on hissing, squeaky teleconferencing headsets with multiply-delayed echoes. And the folks who graze nonstop at work.

Empty rooms are your friends. And Metallica when no rooms available, or some good construction hearing protectors, they don't kill all sounds, but deaden a fair amount.
Sounds like twitter: interesting, perhaps the future, but not a business worth investment. How can they succeed where twitter failed? The ads have ruined the app. Everyone I know who uses it agrees it performs terribly and is extremely difficult to avoid unwanted, irrelevant ads.

Again: it's twitter.
You may want to take a look at Protocol Buffers or the new Ion format by Amazon; the latter can seamlessly switch between binary and human-readable.
How can you possibly know they've made changes to the software?

Suppose they've started offering Sentry-with-a-twist, how can you know they modified Sentry code? They may as well have written a separate software running in a different stack, but interfacing with Sentry and with the users and providing the twist.
So, genuinely curious, how much did the author spend to run the benchmarks on each service?
There is no such thing as "undue scrutiny" for a public policy group. There is no amount of scrutiny that is too high. If you don't want scrutiny, don't take public money or make public policy.
> You can't outsource DNS. It's one of the critical piece of networking that must be in every infrastructure.

This is simply not true. For resolvers, you can use your ISPs DNS servers or use a public resolver like Google DNS, OpenDNS, etc. For authoritative DNS there are plenty of hosted (outsourced) offerings like Route53, Dyn, Google Cloud DNS, etc.

This may not work for sufficiently complex organizations, but in my ~20 person SaaS company we have zero DNS servers and it works just fine. We use our ISP's resolvers for client lookups, and Google Cloud DNS for authoritative DNS.
> Being a larger country simply gives you the option to organise it at a larger scale.

The argument that it is merely an option assumes that you are able to rationally choose the best option from the ones available. Not the case when we're talking about government. And the larger the government, the more political power is at stake, the less rational the decision making becomes.
Dabblers and Blowhards: On Graham's “Hackers and Painters”
Good question! I went poking around and turned up this article:

http://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/3988503-gaaps-treatment-...

If I understand it correctly (probability: moderate?) then it's basically an accounting artifact. The fact that Tesla arranges the lease means they have to book the revenue differently. Somehow....
> "In general, if it's coming from another person, it's much more disturbing than when it's coming from a machine," he says

Huh. My most pet peeve in the open office floorplan was always the coworkers whose phone — not on vibrate — would start ringing. They'd look at it, decide not to answer it, and proceed to just let it ring out loud until it hits voicemail. Just… why? And attempts to educate the owner on how to silence a ringer¹ just seem to go unheeded.

One commenter I read once noted the concept of "cell phone time out" — a basket with a blanket for ringing phones with no owner to be found.

My current office boasted "great amounts of natural light"; I have exactly zero paths to natural light from my desk. (The upshot of this is that we're in a corner that largely isolates us from the noise.) While I lean towards cubes (simply for the affordance of quiet and disease prevention), do they not mean that people in them get absolutely no natural light? (Not that I am right now myself, but it crosses my mind.)

We recently lost a manweek to a cold that just ran absolutely rampant through the desks. Perhaps the sad thing is that I feel that was pretty good, and could have been much worse. (Perhaps because I seem to have dodged it myself.)

Our new office came with less conference rooms and quiet areas. Less actual useable space per person.

¹And just in case you're wondering: squeezing nearly any cell phone's power/volume buttons will silence the ringer during an incoming call. It doesn't cancel the call or voicemail it: the other end is still listening to a ringtone. You can still pick up with call with the on-screen UI if you want. (At least until it truly goes to voicemail, which happens after the normal delay.) You can even do this with the phone in the pocket pretty easily, e.g., if it rings inconveniently during an important meeting.
It'd not though because the price per GB is still pretty big.

A lot of people here are talking as if they've actually tested these hybrid drives and found them wanting. Hybrid drives have an SSD-like component so as long as your working set fits in those and is relatively predictable, the performance difference is not noticeable.
I don't think that Palantir being a public company would necessarily give the kind of insight into what they do to satisfy our curiosity. As far as I understand, Palantir could be very financially transparent while still keeping mum about who their clients are and what they are doing for them.

I think it's worth remembering that Enron was public.
Indeed you could. And sometimes you'd be right; other times you'd be dead wrong. If you could be right even half the time, you'd be rich as all get out. Which is why I would suggest: Don't make overreaching bold predictions (or become an investor).
People, who can choose where to sit, never pick a cubicle.
Yeah, this didn't debunk much of anything (to me) and the "caveats" at the end were laughably minor. I'm not sure why they listed them other than to say "but they aren't ANSI SQL compatible!" as FUD.