skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point, but for a UML diagram that describes things in levels of detail where those kinds of points can be addressed you could probably throw together a work proof of concept in real running code.

I'm not against diagrams or discussion of design, far from it, I just think that UML is a terrible notation - it makes people think they are working with blueprints rather than sketches.
I see these all as type errors enabled by having a single unified string type for all things.

Something as simple as forcing mysql_query to accept only literal strings, forbidding dynamically constructed strings, would change it from an API so unsafe by design that PHP deprecated it - and then removed it - into something relatively safe.
Let’s Chart: stop those lying line charts
Two different URLs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37880723

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37880723
> It doesn't benefit them if they don't use the protocol.

There's no benefit from using the protocol if it gives up security for convenience like the others.

> Obviously. This is why it's a bad thing that nontechs will probably go in that direction, if they use Tox at all.

My point exactly.
>proceed carefully and at every step feel what is around you, as if you were walking on complete darkness.

this would be a fitting translation of the german word "herantasten", which has nothing to do with groping btw
Prisoners are wards of the state.

It is the duty of the state to care for its wards. If a prisoner has mental health problems the state must provide proper health care.

It is unconscionable to just lock up people with mental health problems and leave them to suffer. It is not justice to make people sick or to let them suffer from their sickness.
Everything that everyone ever told me had to be implemented in an XML flavor, I have implemented in JSON without trouble. This includes iOS and Android views and manifests, HTML (I choose jade/pug/haml), JSX (pug/hyperscript), AJAX (always gets parsed into native JS object). It's never been a problem for my career, and if enforced with strict formatting and whitespace, causes less errors due to closing tag, encoding, or nesting issues.

Plus, JSON is really close to YAML/coffeescript/Ruby/python/pug so I can write even less keystrokes and compile to JSON. I'd be really interested to see your interface implemented without the braces and brackets. I bet that would make it extremely approachable to non-programmers.
The original paper [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05631
It auto redirects if the URL is identical. I think they will call it a dupe if it is the same content, different URL, or essentially the same story, even if it is a different write up.

/Not an HN mod and I do not play one on TV
It sounds like you're using a different definition of "dongle" than most people?
Regarding the if/else binding. Check this issue: https://github.com/aurelia/templating-resources/issues/171

And this gist: https://gist.run/?id=f75346c4eecaa934164839316c3f0175

This is actually a pain point even on the team, so your post got some conversation re-started.
> If you want to do some math on Windows at a single keypress, you need to turn on Cortana which only became availble in Windows 10.

When I've wanted to do some quick calculations on a Windows PC at a single keypress, I've pressed the calculator button on my keyboard and a calculator has come up. And this has been true since the turn of the century (for me personally; for Windows for several years longer than that).
I work in cleantech, and it always seems weird how much fatalism I see in the comments sections of climate change threads on HN. Why are we so hopeless? Don't be! Be the entrepreneurs you say you are, because there's so much money to be made here! My favorite joke about climate change: "They say humans won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"

Here's my list of why we'll fix climate change:

1. Wall Street is now on our side. Clean energy technologies are now mature and cheaper without subsidy than fossil alternatives[1], so the clean energy sector is starting to be viewed by the financial sector more like construction rather than a tech R&D.

2. Insurance and Real Estate are now on our side. The effects of climate change are expected to have a $44 trillion economic downside[2], and that loss is starting to creep into the depreciation terms and insuring everything from crops to real estate.

3. Cleantech now has more jobs. Clean energy now employs more workers (including blue collar local workers) than the coal industry and the upstream oil industry[3]. Also, the advanced energy sector (cleantech + energy efficiency + smartgrid) is now at $1.4 trillion, which is bigger than many other industries like airlines and fashion, and will soon pass the entire media industry[4].

4. Developing countries are now pivoting hard away from fossil fuels. China has pledged to peak emissions by 2030, but it may be as early as 2027[5]. Also, Africa is expected to leapfrog fossil-based generation and go straight to renewables (much like how skipped landlines and went straight to wireless)[6].

Given these allies, who do think is going to win in a policy fight? As powerful as Exxon and BP are, they don't hold a candle to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sacs, China, etc.

So if you were wondering when the turning point for humanity to start taking action, now is that time. Rest assured, you won't have to do anything if you don't want. The people making the money will do it for you.

It's really weird to see the HN community (and tech startups in general) totally not want in on any of that action. Now that the hardware tech is here, cleantech is now basically a scaling exercise, which means efficiency, which means software. There are literally trillions of dollars to be made in cleantech software, yet every time there's a post on climate change on HN it's all doom and gloom.

Come on! We have to replace 87% of our global energy sources in less than 30 years[7]. That's faster growth than the Internet, and it's time for tech startups to cash in on it.

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/media/2390/lazards-levelized-cost-of-...

[2]: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/18/cost-of-not-acting-on-climate...

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-25/clean-ene...

[4]: http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2016/03/advanced-energy...

[5]: https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-pledge-puts-china-on-cou...

[6]: http://news.trust.org/item/20161018065317-ct50s

[7]: http://www.pvsolarreport.com/the-next-internet/
Same story throughout family and friends who went to gifted class. I think gifted people seem to have extreme outcomes: more drug addicts, more suicide, more success, more power. Developmental orchids compared to the staggering ruggedness of the developmental dandelions out there who keep on trucking no matter what.
I did a few research about voting methods and the best seems to be the Schulze method [1]. After reading its process I just saw that it is in fact widely used in Open Source projects!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#cite_note-Frenc...
What's the significance of 45 percent? Why didn't they go all the way to 50%?

Does any area offer free public transportation on election days? Recently in Atlanta, public transportation was free on certain holidays to promote mass transit...haven't heard about election day.
Apple is now officially a dongle company that happens to make computers
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Unnecssesary complexity. A VM would've sufficed for what you described.
Obama is the 44th US president. I think 45 because Hillary or Donald will become the 45th.
Good point. The influence of social media really can't be understated, trolling is really easy today. Especially if you build upon other material or facts that support your claim (I guess that's what happened here)
> The other is that nobody, if they can help it, uses ApEx.

Oh oh. I worked for more than two years with a team that continued to expand their investment in Oracle and Apex.

When everything you know is Oracle, everything looks like a task for Oracle ;-)
Mr. Narrator, did someone say that fear is or was rational?

Aside from that, not going to france in such a case would be an additional perceived risk not an alternative one.
If you have evidence that it's not the case, especially for the majority, in other words, you have enough evidence to accuse thousands of people of crime, why are you not in touch with the police yet?
>Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, started out at Oracle. Larry Ellison was his mentor.

Mark Benioff worked at Apple also. He is very open about admitting Steve Jobs as his mentor. Although, nothing wrong in having two mentors.
It is strange that neither Google nor Amazon can find this book:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Algorithms+Jeff+Erickson+sit...
Slack is going to be a crazy $30/person/month when the enterprise version launches next year !

Currently it costs $12.50 per enterprise user per month.

https://paypal.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams
Being able to game the system is a significant problem with online polls. I haven't looked into the issue deeply, but I think one of the strengths polling methods where the polling agency contacts people rather than the reverse is that it gives them a stronger guarantee that they're not being gamed. (Similar to you being less likely to be scammed by you calling your credit card company than picking up a call from someone claiming to be your credit card company.)

How about self-selection? Current polling reaches out to people, including those that may not otherwise participate in a poll. You'll be reaching only people who have the app installed, which will likely not completely represent the actual population.

Also off the top of my head: generally you'll want to tie polling to some geographic location. How do you verify this?

You might want to look into online voting systems, which, not without their own problems, try to address the security/anonymity/validity concerns.

I'm sure there's lots of information out there on how to do polling well. I'd probably start by looking at fivethirtyeight.com and their analysis of polls, if nothing else, to start becoming familiar with the space.

Good luck! Sounds like an interesting problem to tackle, and one that's worthwhile.
I think the armed forces community should consider Chelsea Manning as an interaction between a vulnerable psychology and stressful circumstances. I hope the armed forces recognizes that by employing such a large fraction of the population, that vulnerable soldiers are part of the deal.

Bradley Manning was also placed under needless pressure to pass as a heterosexual because disclosure would mean discharge without college tuition benefits, along with cultural risk in a highly masculine environment.

Despite recognizing that then Bradley Manning was experiencing visible distress and alarming behavior, Manning nevertheless continued in his position because he was providing valuable analysis that, according to his commanding officer, was saving lives. This put both Bradley Manning and potentially national or military interests at risk. And the risk struck and Bradley Manning paid a ruinous price.

The armed forces has palpable shortcomings in comprehending or managing the full breadth of human diversity and potential which passes through their doors, and the consequence is that some Americans men and women go to hell for the sake of bad management and policy. The nation should seek to restore Chelsea Manning as an individual who belongs in the fabric of our people.
I always find it amusing when people point their fingers at democracy over the failings of capitalism.
Oh, I understand that; I just think that in the interest of clarity they should have added a bit more explicit context. Now it looks odd.
Too bad. Imagine the paradise your country could be if you just kept a huge nuclear weapon stockpile for deterrence and defence and got rid of everything else. $600 billion a year that could go toward raising the standard of living for Americans and funding health and science. Sure some other parts of the world will go to shit, but that's not your problem and everybody else hates it when you get involved anyway.

I often thought if I could run for president, that would be my platform. But I'd never win. If it even looked like I could win, I'd die under mysterious circumstances. I don't think it's possible for anyone to scale back the military to that extent. There's too much money involved and vested interests will do anything to maintain the status quo.
Last I checked CoreBOS (forked from vTiger, who forked from SugarCRM a few years earlier) seemed very promising, having cleaned up a lot of old php mess.

Also Odoo, formerly openERP, is something I would like to take a closer look at. Edit: especially now that they have updated their license terms.
If wired ISP, use mobile data.

If mobile, use wired.

If they're both down for an extended period at once, then there are probably bigger things to worry about.
I don't understand the need for Docker at all. For many people, it's a a bad way to try to make a fundamentally flawed environment like Ruby or Node and make it scale sort of.
Oh, what Norton used to be. I cut my teeth on Norton Utilities once upon a time. The only way to write batch files!
Apple Weekly 2016/44 is out, Apple cuts prices on USB-C adapters
I ripped my DVD collection years ago, internal storage is so cheap it makes no sense to keep around spinning discs and drives to read them.
This is a consistent complaint about the new systems but it ignores the history of Apple's device connectors. Macs are distinguished from iOS devices by a level of complexity; Mac users should be OK if they encounter a cable or device that isn't digitally compatible, its been that way since the beginning of consumer PC's. iOS isn't and never has been about those types of considerations.
Good retort. The original article seemed clueless, the part about aufs was just wrong, the complains about the apt repo exaggerated. Running docker on Debian ancient is kind of brave, though.
And software is finished after five years, maybe in the financial industry. Currently development has such a pace, I'd say after five years it's abandoned and replaced.
I stopped hosting this site, because everyone started to try "{% for i in range(10000000000) %}{% endfor %}". Stop, please, don't do it. I have not enough time for writing code to check all jinja filters and determine heavy work, if you can do it please make a pull request to original source or my fork https://github.com/xandr2/jinja2-live-parser .
Originally I created this to help people who need fast check their ansible playbooks with jinja2 template rules. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35407822/how-can-i-test-j...
Well that's the question I'm trying to find an answer to. In such a situation, the need to communicate becomes critical to longer-term survival.
Ya'll can contribute to www.actionherojs.com whenever you want!
Care to elaborate what some of the pain points are?
I think HN used to have stronger dupe detection, but they realised that many good stories were not getting the discussion they deserved.

So now the dupe filter is weaker.

((Obviously I'm not a mod, but I'll try to find a post from dang or sctb explaining this))

EDIT: Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

> We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs. If a story hasn't had significant attention in about the last year, reposts are ok. That's been the policy for a while, but we've brought the software closer to it. It will still reject reposts for a few hours, though, to avoid stampedes. Allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page. Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it.

I think the dupe detector only ever identified identical URLs. (And you might notice some sites add some random junk at the end of the url to evade dupe filters on various sites).
Dongle was originally a thing that you plugged into a computer that allowed it to execute expensive licensed software like PRO/Engineer or Softimage.
They claim you cannot connect a new iPhone to a new MacBook Pro without a dongle. Even ignoring the fact that you probably don't have to, you can do this wirelessly. Is it really necessary to buy a dongle for your iPhone for anything realistic?
http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...
Yep, I have it. Somehow it was turned off for my account in particular at some point and there's no way I can find to get it back.
I didn't know you could charge over wireless! That's really cool!
Here's my specific use case: https://li.st/hlfcoding/instapaper-impressions-4vENbtbDKLetv...
GoPro needs additional applications to their camera besides being an action cam. How about adding home security, or baby monitor capability? Otherwise the GoPro camera will sit in the closet for 364 days of the year. What a waste.
At my university the Borders agency randomly visited lecture rooms to inspect their occupants, I suspect the reason was because they don't trust the university staff.
I've been thinking about this in the past few days, and decided to make a petition about it.

https://wh.gov/iervT

tl;dr lets develop public-domain voting systems so we can audit them.
Yeah it's definitely just a troll, looks like a whole scheme that works well because there really are many unexplained sounds and vibrations caused by e.g. heavy industry or geological events.

It's surprisingly hard to separate the fakes from the real stuff these days and the trolls exploit that to optimize the effect.
I think you could more directly make your point.

> Just visit Harvard, ride the Amtrak to DC (looking out the windows), then fly to Shanghai. Cost, about $2K. This should give you a good gut feeling for whose econ professors are on the money.

Are you suggesting the USA has more poverty than China?
If we'll use them as "self-driving taxis" more than personal cars — if you're not attached to a specific "your" car — some nice things might start happening:

(1) multi-modal mass transit/car mixing becomes more attractive.

(2) transit can optimize for high-frequency mini/microbus formats rather than least-number-of-employed-drivers. this is less optimal from road-occupation POV but can be a win if it makes more people actually use transit?

(3) required parking space drastically decreases. Reaping the benefits will take a LONG time, but we'll be able to go back to denser cities?
I think it's really cool too. I especially love open-source projects like this that just work. I also appreciate your significant effort to make extensive and helpful documentation.

Out of curiosity, what prompted you to start building this?
Stringly-typed programming considered harmful.
In that case, why not just say that you simply don't know enough to have an informed opinion?

Up against a dishonest debater, this is exploitable to lessen your influence, even if your position is relatively stronger, against (unsubstantiated) claims of being an expert.

"ball_of_lint claims to be uninformed and doesn't have an opinion. That's okay, listen to me, I'm an expert"
Afaik every phone made in the last year has a VP9 hardware decoder.
Panics can be turned into aborts, and a lot of Rust apps do this. It is therefore poor practice, and unfriendly to your users, to publish a library that relies on unwinding. No popular library I know of relies on it.
Making a Mini Webapp with a Flask-D3-PythonAnywhere Stack
That was "On another day", probably about 10 days later.

On the day in San Francisco, I finally found a place to park in some super-rich residential area miles away from where I had started. At that point I parked, but only to rest and assess the situation. I think I then said "screw this" and went back to my hotel in South San Francisco. I probably ate cold food at the hotel, purchased from a supermarket.

On a different day in San Francisco, just a few years ago, I thought I'd try the public transportation. Silly me, that doesn't work either! I ended up walking from the bottom of the California line up to Russian Hill. Afterward, I tried to take a tram/streetcar thing. This being July 4, a day when public transportation is particularly sensible, they shut it down near the crowds who might want it. Of course! WTF SFO. I walked all the way back, then down into the subway station. I get on the train that runs south along the east side, I think the J train. This goes up to street level. It's dark and my cell phone battery is dying. Unlike the T in Boston since at least 1993, this train fails to have: a voice-over for the stops, an overhead text display for the stops, or big lighted signs at the stops. Boston had/has all that, but San Francisco has none of it even 2 decades later. Also, the train doesn't actually stop unless there is a person waiting, so you can't count stops to know where you are. It's GPS or screw you. I get off, walk too far to the "connecting" bus stop, and wait for the last bus. Oh, the sign didn't make it clear that you aren't supposed to wait at the bus shelter. The bus goes by on the other side of the street. So then walk several more miles, cut through Glenn Canyon in the dark, and finally back to the car parked at Turquoise Way.

Obviously, the car doesn't work, but neither does the public transportation. It seems I'm expected to hike up and down all those hills like it's 1849. My knees are too old for that, and my kids are too young for that.
Redbox is still cheaper and better selection than pay-per-view or any streaming service, even if artificially inconvenient. (so i can then rip the dvd from my drive > usb stick > roku 3)
Huh, you make a good point. I'd forgotten about the days of USB dongles that do nothing but act as challenge-response devices for audio software DRM. Which makes me wonder, will all those now-legacy iLok USB-A DRM dongles still work with the USB-C to USB-A cables? Or will the iLok DRM detect the cables as a man-in-the-middle cracking attempt?
Profits Eternity Scam or Legit
Could someone edit the URL to remove the referral parameters?
Hey,

Have you tried the Duolingo incubator? Your efforts could potentially reach way more people that way.

https://incubator.duolingo.com/
Is a chunk of room-temperature superconductor sitting in a Harvard lab?
You can't, but you can have iTunes backup your iPhone wirelessly.
The End of the General Purpose Operating System
> Sure, but the Windows APIs that I mentioned aren't historical. Those are all currently supported APIs.

That's not a bad thing. It means if I wrote an app 5, or 10, or 15 years ago, I can keep working on it and updating it without having to throw most of the code away and start again.
Show HN: ReactNativeJobs.io
That's why they came with a dust sleeve - to keep the dust off the disc.
5 Unconventional Benefits Your Startup Will Get from a Hackathon
That is not accurate. It does not make financial sense to use renewables versus natural gas for electricity generation. Here's the data: https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation...

Note the report has an important caveat. "The LCOE values for dispatchable and nondispatchable technologies are listed separately in the tables, because caution should be used when comparing them to one another." The reason is that wind and solar are dependent on the weather and the position of the sun. It does not matter how cheap something is if it can't keep the lights on.

Wind and solar might seem close in price to nat gas electricity generation, but in reality they need to be much cheaper because there is not such thing as an electricity grid run on wind and solar alone. There is only wind and solar + natural gas for when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.