skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how common these use cases are, but I find touch support useful while doing some web dev stuff. For instance, in Chrome, pinch to zoom is more precise than ctrl-scroll / ctrl-+. It preserves the existing screen dimensions (ctrl-scroll / ctrl-+ makes the actual font size larger and alters dimensions).

I'm not so vision impaired that I need to do this on a day-to-day basis, but it's great for zooming in to see if I need to adjust a CSS border by 1px or something.

I haven't tested this thoroughly but I believe Chrome also supports the same set of touch events it does on Android. So if you want to make sure the mobile version of your site is touch-friendly, having a touch screen is less clunky than trying to emulate it with a mouse.
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Stuff I'm Comfortable with:

- Python [Django, Celery, Pandas, Numpy]

- Databases [PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQLite]

- Data Visualization [D3, Plotly]

- JavaScript [Vue.js, ES6, jQuery, React, Cordova]

- Open Data [OpenStreetMap contributor and activist]

- Scrapers [mostly with Python, but I'm increasingly becoming an expert in finding loopholes around captchas]

- Linux Administration

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Generalist Programmer, Data Scientist and Bicycle Activist.
7+ years of programming/data analysis/linux systems administration. I do mostly freelance work and remote work these days.

Recent work includes:

- Crawlers for opening public datasets in Brazil

- Website for searching Freedom of Information Act requests in São Paulo

- Website for public consultation on locations for semaphores for blind people.

- A website (http://cappuccino.works) on Data Analysis using Open Data (and releasing all the code used as opensource), so independent journalists in Brazil could do data-based reporting on important issues. So far, the plan is working, I've worked with several news venues in Brazil and even international NGOs, such as Transparency International.
How infuriatingly presumptious. The page has a single screenshot, a meaningless blurb, and an an "install now" button - as if I'm going to automatically download and install every single thing Facebook announces.

How about even a bare-minimum attempt at explaining what this is all about? (I mean, yes, I know how to google and figure it out, but should I have to?)
Idea: Dell could make an incredible coup by launching their own Linux.

Dell is limited by Windows not being Unix-based and not being open-source. Dell is losing thousands of sales by not having a Linux – Apple users don't switch even though everyone wants Dell laptops today. Dell has a very pro image, have sold reliable hardware and as far as I'm aware, their OEM drivers on Windows aren't compete crap (Is it Lenovo who shipped a root CA?). Dell could capture an incredible market by launching a stunning version of Linux, even if the OS doubled the price of their laptops. Heck, Dell could charge for the OS separately.

Whether they do it or not, Dell's future heavily relies on Linux' success today. I wish an independent software editor would do it, but if Dell does it, fine enough. We've finally succeed to align the incentives between open-souce and big powers at play.
Windows 10 will never compare to linux, but it really depends on what you are needing out of your operating system.
There is a reason win10 included an ubuntu bash shell into their os recently ;)
Just out of curiosity, will it be free forever and you will pay for the hosting?
Do you plan to get some revenue from it somehow?

Also, do you plan to open source the whole project?
CrunchBase debuts pro version of its database of tech startups
Announcing jsxstyle 1.0
It's also not objectively wrong. I don't think it's even particularly difficult to defend.
I tend to virtualise a lot of infrastructure and dependencies during development and testing on my local machine. With "infrastructure as code" this is becoming more common, especially with integration work.

I agree most developers won't need that amount of RAM, but having to shut down parts of the network that aren't applicable to my current work is annoying to the point I'm switching away from macOS to Linux on a 32GB Thinkpad.
In the video it looks as if they where mining for mineral. They must construct additional neurons!
You Require less CarbonDioxid Gas.
Async/await support in Firefox
Well, I could care less about most environmental regulation - I rather think it's a waste of time and resources - but I am OK with supporting certain laws that are supported by people who I respect, even though I personally could care less.

My hope would be that people would consider their utility vs. the utility of all those who also want something. I've certainly supported modest tax increases because my neighbors were passionately in favor where my own view would be to oppose it.

Is it too much to hope that people will consider broader societal interests and not just their own narrow ones?
Very impressive! I have an app on my android that follows the same basic idea (accumulate frames) but doesn't come anywhere near this.

Unfortunately the author, in a reply to a youtube comment, stated that this is work he did for Google and doesn't know if the company has any plans for this.
Oh come on. It's not so different from the server ( POSIX ), there are not a lot of tricks and there is a package manager ( homebrew ) & also there is iTerm, that replaces Terminal.app.

Linux on the other hand does not have mature desktop environment, Safari, Sketch, Photoshop and a lot of other really good software that comes built-in with OS X.

As a matter of fact I've never seen a tool that works only on Linux ( except probably some low-level kernel-dependent tools like iptables & others ) and does not compile on OS X.
It looks like this if I remember? http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/apple/traceroute-terminal-a...

So the contrast is to bright, there is no tabs either from what I remember, The font itself looks bad, is not anti-aliased and also everything is way too small by default. It looks like some kind of 80's monitor that got somehow transformed into an app.

Actually, to find this image I just typed "osx terminal.app" on Google and the first two results where already to replace it with another alternative so I don't think it's really popular.
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Sorry. I didn't realize Tumblr was leaking over into YComb. Carry on.
So... 2001
Webcam spying without turning on the LED
My 2015 rMBP is currently using 14.23GB of RAM with an additional 14.56GB swap file.

Almost all of it is Chrome on macOS. This is without VMs, video editing, etc. Just standard development tools.

Sure, I may have some untrusted code hijacking my threads, but I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy a MBP with 32GB of RAM.
We were in Vienna recently and wanted to find a good café to eat dessert. So of course I pulled out my phone and started searching for reviews. My wife just walked over to a fat policeman and asked him for a recommendation. Her technique seems to work pretty well.
my 'Background muzik 4 werk' playlist on Spotify. i do ux not programming, but it's still excellent imho.

https://open.spotify.com/user/121178959/playlist/310BbsmKb79...
I appreciate that someone else made this comment. I've always just listened to music I want to listen to. Any attempt to use "focus" music or whatever is just annoying. I know people don't like the cynicism but honestly this stuff is pseudo-science at best.
Sometimes the "powers-that-be" interfere and promote submissions judiciously.
I plan to charge a small monthly (possibly yearly) fee to cover hosting, yes.

If there's demand for the front-end being open sourced, then yes. I suspect that the people who'd be willing to host the front-end would have an easier time just editing the Jekyll template YAML directly though, which is already open source: https://github.com/academicbio/academic-minima
> Dell should be making sure Ubuntu works

But why? Imagine a sea change such that 30% of new desktop Dell machines are used under Linux by 2020. How would that benefit Dell? They appear to have passed on (or mostly passed on) the savings of not buying a Windows license to their customers in the past. Hardware manufacturers making Linux drivers work flawlessly is to be lauded and hoped for, but the current desktop Linux market isn't high enough for it to be anything other than a pet project or PR exercise: spending the cash to make drivers work perfectly on Linux doesn't seem likely to do much to improve sales or lower costs, costs money, and for many drivers would even help competitors to the extent that they use the same components.
This kinda happened in 2007... hence Words With Friends, FarmVille, etc. In retrospect it seems bizarre that random developers were able to publish updates with our own icons to the main Newsfeed.
Interesting note about Teamspeak (I've only used it for gaming). My current batch of students (~18-20 year olds) seem to swear by Discord. The main reason being that it is more convenient to manage "servers" (If I understand correctly these are all hosted by Discord - but are "equivalent" logically to TS servers - access control, rooms etc). But they are easier to manage and shift between on the client side (I've only briefly looked at the chat app).

My personal intuition would be to try Mumble (as it's open source) - but if TS works, that's great.

https://discordapp.com/

https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Running_Murmur
I don't have a statistical survey, but I have anecdotal evidence of paid services going away, increasing in price dramatically, or remaining the same. Same with free services.

I can't honestly say that the paid-for services I use are more likely to remain available than my non-paid services.

The key factor appears to be a viable business model, but that's impossible to evaluate from the outside (and sometimes from the inside).
Sorry, I don’t. ReadKit on OS X is decent (and is the only native Mac app that I could find that actually integrates the Pinboard API) but I don’t know of anything else on other platforms.

I’ll have to start looking for this, soon, however. I’m seriously considering switching. Another service that seems to have no native clients on Windows or Linux is Feedbin.

It used to be that one could find tons of native apps for Windows for pretty much anything. Now there’re hardly any for popular services. I’m not sure if this is because of Microsoft’s seemingly schizophrenia approach to their office APIs (is it MFC? Win32? WinForms? XAML? UWP? Something else?) and their lack of focus or just the iPhone and mobile computing’s “halo” effect.
> No one tries to remove Lenovo

Cerainly they do. Black electrical tape is an effective logo-hider for laptops and cameras.

It is also great for suppressing those bright blue LEDs that feature on many devices.
Every tool it can be misused. Doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
Good write up on Dyn
Is there a good detailed write up coupled with diagrams on the Dyn Ddos attack incident or something similar ? i wish to learn more about ddos attacks. also a time line that shows the volume of ddos over the years would be great . thanks
Yes, chillstep is a great genre because it has quite consistent mood and tempo.

Here's one of the best collections: https://www.youtube.com/user/Pulse8Music
Don't you think it's a bit ridiculous that Chrome is using 28GB of your RAM?
"Dying is like drifting off into a nice, deep sleep...

...except that it is not nice; it is profoundly traumatic and painful and you will never wake up ever again."

Brilliant! :)
I remember that it looked like that, by default, 10 years ago. It can be customized very easily and comes with a few different themes out of the box, you can add your own. It has had tabs for a while.
It's an interesting article but I dislike the lead-in:

> Cities are fragile things. They can burn: Rome in 64 AD (possibly thanks to the Emperor Nero); Constantinople in 1203 (courtesy of the Fourth Crusade); Lisbon in 1755 (because of the earthquake); Moscow in 1812 (thanks to Napoleon); Hamburg in 1842; Chicago in 1871; San Francisco in 1906… But in terms of devastation, few urban conflagrations can compare with the Great Fire of London, whose 350th anniversary is being marked this year.

How about the fire-bombing of Tokyo and nearly all other major Japanese cities during WWII? The fire-bombing of Tokyo is considered the greatest urban conflagration in history with the US Strategic Bombing Survey conservatively estimating one million homes destroyed. Or the fire in Tokyo after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923? Or, contemporaneous with the event described, the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657, which destroyed 60-70% of Tokyo and is estimated to have claimed 100,000 lives. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Meireki
SEEKING WORK Remote (Based in São Paulo, Brazil)

Stuff I'm Comfortable with:

Python, Data Analysis, Databases, Data Visualization, JavaScript, Open Data, GIS, Scrapers, Linux Administration

CV: http://tiagofassoni.github.io/fancy-resume/

Email: tiago@cappuccino.works

About:
Generalist Programmer, Data Scientist and Bicycle Activist.
7+ years of programming/data analysis/linux systems administration. I do mostly freelance work and remote work these days.

Recent work includes:

- Crawlers for opening public datasets in Brazil

- Website for searching Freedom of Information Act requests in São Paulo

- Website for public consultation on locations for semaphores for blind people.

- A website (http://cappuccino.works) on Data Analysis using Open Data (and releasing all the code used as opensource), so independent journalists in Brazil could do data-based reporting on important issues. So far, the plan is working, I've worked with several news venues in Brazil and even international NGOs, such as Transparency International.
The way i see it is that we are using general purpose computers to do the job of single purpose electronics.

But a GPC will always remain a GPC, and thus they are susceptible to being re-purposed no matter the number of "safeguards" we put in place to prevent it.
It looks like one of those game pop-up ads - only full-screen. Yeah, I am going to install you crappy client to download your crappy freemium games.
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Looks like they changed the name from facebook arcade. The help in my language refers to it as arcade.
I have little experience with vertical touchscreens. Some friends cheap PCs and my tablet attached to a Bluetooth keyboard.

I discovered that I was naturally touching the buttons in dialogs and web pages and the checkboxes and radio buttons in forms. It's faster than reaching for the mouse or the trackpad. With the trablet it was the only way and it was good. No gorilla arm.

Touching links in browser can be fast too, but the target must be big enough. HN is particularly bad at that.

Basically everything that is easy to do with the touchscreen of a phone and a tablet is easy also with the screen of a laptop. But the screen must not move when you touch it.
And a root nameserver DDOS is just like a coronal mass ejection?
> However, we also live in a world where you can buy 5TB hard drive from Newegg for just $120

It's a lot more expensive to install that disk it into an ultrabook/mba.
Political Showdown: Peter Thiel vs. Google’s Eric Schmidt
I heard you guys make your interviewees write code for you, then you go ahead and use that code..
I don't think this is right. Climate change is not known for personally affecting anybody. It's more of an ineffable millenarian idea.

Rather, I would say rich celebrities are obsessed with animal rights, the death penalty, and climate change because those ideas are fashionable among rich celebrities, not because they're relevant to rich celebrities for any fundamental (i.e. would still apply if no one knew what the celebrity believed) reason.
Who would want to tarnish the Oculus brand with Facebook's "social" slot games?
Even for developers, there are often apps available for MacOS but not Linux that can be very important for specific tasks. Audio/video/photo editing apps, Office, Exchange support, etc.

(I'm sure there are many workarounds for Linux for all of these, but I'm willing to bet they take a lot more to get working than on Mac.)

So Macs are in a sweet spot, of being both outstanding development machines, great application support, and no questions about hardware support.

Also, Mac OS absolutely has package managers for command line software.
You may be able to disable it through the data settings menu. On sprint it's

*#*#data#*#*
It's quite easy to customise. A lot of people's complaints are along the lines of "no bookmarks manager", but while not UI-friendly, ~/.ssh/config is as powerful as it gets.
> there is a package manager ( homebrew ) & also there is iTerm

Yeah sure, if you install some tooling it then becomes fine, but you need to install that.

> Linux on the other hand does not have mature desktop environment, Safari, Sketch, Photoshop and a lot of other really good software that comes built-in with OS X.

I don't use any design app personally so I can't comment on that. I also forgot to comment on Safari but I also hate Safari as a developer, I find that it lacks in the tooling part and prefer Firefox (I alternatively use Chrome also sometimes). I'm not also a fan of Safari's UI personally.

On the desktop environment part, I also forgot to add that I hate the file manager which prevents you to see the path, maybe there is a way to configure that somehow? When I use my colleagues computers, I always use the terminal instead of the file manager to browse because of this.
I like working with all sorts of different types of people, as I learn from perspectives different than my own in ways I wasn't expecting to learn, and I find that enjoyable.

I think some men reject the idea of women as competent, or more competent, as them, and tend unconsciously diminish female engineering talent, and you get meetings where the female engineer makes a proposal, and it's ignored, and then a second meeting where a male engineer makes that exact same proposal, and is lauded for the good idea.

I think if Lever is an attractive place for women, it means that the best women engineers and other employees will be more likely to be working there, rather then being devalued elsewhere. I think women that stay in tech and are successful have to be better at their job then men with equivalent roles.

That said, if I was concerned about the quality of their engineering talent, for whatever reason, I'd consider how best to judge them on that in a neutral and quantifiable sense when I interviewed there, rather then using demographics as any sort of signifier of talent.
But what if it hasn't obtained a cert for the site before (e.g. first run)?

What if the cert doesn't expire in a month -- but only, say, 7 days? 7 minutes? Where do you draw the line? Would you rather have your site go red in browsers or just not have the server start? (Remember, it wasn't started already anyway so it's not like your sites are incurring new downtime.)
> 1. It's a general attitude toward building interfaces; the reader of the code is put first. Yeah underneath things may be messy, but using those things should be nice. The onus is placed on the implementor, rather than the user. Ruby libraries will go to fairly extreme lengths to make things nice to use.

I struggle with this a little as newish ruby coder (but not new to coding). The efforts to make a 'nice' interface can interfere with keeping underlying implementations elegant/simple.

Too much focus on the happiness of a dev cranking out new code at the expense of the happiness of developers coming along afterwards trying to understand it.

Ruby is fun to create stuff with, but I kinda prefer the Python culture that tries to drum into devs the importance of readability and explicitness for other developers. As a dev you do far more poring over others code than creating brand new stuff.
And how is their battery life?
You're seriously comparing an unpleasant prison life where you still can think, read, communicate with being killed?
I meant file extension. My bad.
What actions? Voicing my displeasure at the actions of a company to which I've given as much money as I have?

Please, be specific.
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Small-scale solar power is surging ahead
From their forum: https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/70396--virus-spyware-do-not-i...
> A fetus, however, is always a fetus.

Well, I guess you could have cancer that resembled being pregnant. I seriously doubt anyone would object to killing that, though.

For a fetus that is a fetus but that still needs to be aborted, see ectopic pregnancy (when the embryo attaches outside the uterus -- this is, "untreated", generally fatal to the mother).
Why would you use the touchscreen for a full 8 hours expecially on a large desktop monitor? It's ok to use it sometimes on a laptop, where the screen is close to the hands and much lower than the shoulders. I tried and sometimes I was using the trackpad, sometimes the screen.
>Yes it does and that's not what seems to bother people about the death penalty

It does seem to bother Paul Graham as he writes "The police often arrest the wrong person. Defendants' lawyers are often incompetent."
The Wikipedia article for OLEDs mentions significant longevity problems, particularly at the blue end of the spectrum. Has Apple indicated anything about the lifetime of the touch component?
Is Facebook GameRoom the new Yahoo Games?
The title SEC seems rather misleading then.