skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say what's going on there. Vert.x itself is quite speedy. The DB access module they use (http://vertx.io/docs/vertx-mysql-postgresql-client/java/) is still in technical preview so there may be legitimate issue with the module or something wrong being done (I only glanced quickly and didn't see anything immediately obvious). Vert.x really isn't much more than a pleasant facade over Netty so it's hard to imagine what's actually wrong.

It appears there may be an issue with the benchmark? https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/21...

Personally, I don't really care about benchmarks. Getting stuff done is more important at this stage. Eventually this may become more important but I'm not going to worry about it until it becomes and issue for us specifically.
But inches are an abstract measurement of distance. Electrons are a thing.

(Well, depending on who you ask... no one has ever seen one, and some people have claimed half-jokingly there's only one electron in the entire universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe .)
reminded about demonetization in 1991 of the 2 top bank notes of USSR - 50 and 100 rubles notes. Similar purpose - supposedly only dishonest corrupted officials, thieves and black market people had significant amount of money stored using those notes. Also USSR government claimed that a lot of those banknotes were brought into the country from outside(!) - supposedly as economic operation against USSR (sounded back then like propaganda crap, so i never even tried to research into it). USSR was already on its way out and that shock (in particular causing significant ruble inflation acceleration) to the already dying economy, was basically the last - half year later USSR de-facto disappeared :) (hi! to everybody who remembers those "exchange money" guys hanging near subway stations back then)
Network administrator/Programmer
Does a typical Network Administrator utilize programming for automation and network management? How reasonable is it to have a Network Administrator who spends time automating and programming as part of his normal duties?
After I wrote that, I found out that by my definition, this new NES is "not hardware", either. Hmm...

I guess that Nintendo has thoroughly tested it...
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IH founder here. Why do you think the title is exaggerated? He did start his business less than one year ago.

Of course, any business depends on the skillset and knowledge that its founders started to build previous to its founding, but how do you put a start date on that? To build a company, you need business skills, a network, money, programming knowledge... for that you probably need professional experience... for that you need the ability to read and write... etc. Where do you draw the line? Everything always depends on what came before it. People get this. They aren't naive enough to believe that founders are born on day 1 of their companies with no previous life experience or knowledge of the world.

I agree it's dishonest to refer to a 5-year-old business as "an overnight success" as often happens, but how exactly is it misleading to call a 1-year old-business a 1-year-old business?
I the thermal expansion problem is solved in Dubai, it also means that it can be solved on many more places. From a prototypal standpoint, it's a pretty good place.
Shouldn't this link to https://geod.itch.io/3dnes instead of this blog?
I think infrastructure level has a lot more to do with timing than fundamental tech competitiveness or societal capabilities.

China's jumping on app integration because this is the starting point for them. Question is, does everything keep getting updated, or does this just become the new legacy system that they deal with for a few decades? Japan jumped hard on vending machines and such a few decades ago, but now a cash-only ticket-dispensing vending machine in a ramen place feels pretty outdated. Felt like places were leapfrogging standalone magnetic or chip-based credit card processing straight to contactless systems. Are these super important distinctions, though? Is some sort of cashless payment system "good enough" for most purposes regardless of implementation details around the specific tech - and similarly, does one app to rule them all enable a lot of useful stuff going forward vs a big pool of apps?
That's a completely separate project, released at nearly the same time.
An interesting question. I haven't had to do any of this for my folks, but i'd probably do something like the following:

-Setup a network and computers that I can admin remotely. Probably Ubiquiti Unifi gear (great wifi APs, powerful router with DPI / firewall, where I have admin access from my Unifi Controller install. Then I could handle all network troubleshooting remotely, unless their ISP is down or hardware has physically failed (unlikely with the ubiquiti gear)

-Look at something like OpenDNS personal configured on the gateway to help protect against malicious stuff in browser

-Set up any Desktop PC to run a hypervisor, and keep the OS they use as a VM that I could access and administer remotely, and that I could quickly reset to a known-working state.

-Have them use gdrive / dropbox / onedrive to keep documents backed up and accessible across machines

-For laptop / portable, see if I could get them to use chromebooks, or I'd need to replicate the VM setup from the desktop PCs
If you have time, enjoy this talk by Herb Sutter at CppCon 2015.

CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGg

When he asks the audience how many use such type of tools regularity, he gets around 1% as result.

I see this with the other languages as well, such practices are still seen as extra costs, shuffled to the end of the projects.

Unless the customer has software development as core business, there the attitude is quite different.
Like incompressible fluids, electricity is hard to reason about because we work in a limit that does not obey local causality.

The entire system must be solved simultaneously, and there is not a well defined "input" or "output". This can be seen from the fact that when we analyze a circuit we also include the model the power source and the load.

The combination of non-locality and complex boundary conditions makes it hard to apply ordinary intuition. We would like to say that the power source "does something" to the circuit but causality actually runs both ways. E.g. if we have a constant voltage source, then the circuit will determine how much current flows through the source. If we have a constant resistance load, then the load will determine how much power the circuit applies to it.
> You either look at the wrong job posts or heavily underestimate what does it take to be competent with those technologies.

I disagree, a job "requirement" may not really be one. the people who write the requirements sometimes don't understand them and what the context is to their business. someone just says, they better know python. but when you talk to them, you find out that one dude ten years ago wrote a python script that we need to continue to support. you don't need to be an expert to handle that.
I use Byobu (http://byobu.co/), which is a configuration layer over tmux. It's tmux with nicely packaged features.
Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination
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Mutating index state variables, and it's not functional (you can't pass a function to be the inner loop)
I think the revelations from the Snowden leaks were that the NSA had a mechanism for getting information from Facebook and other U.S. internet companies, in a program now known as PRISM to the public (known as FAA 702 to the Intelligence Community and Congress). According to disclosures, NSA would submit requests via FBI National Security Letters for information about foreign persons of intelligence interest.

So it would appear that only the NSA had the capability to perform these requests; AUS/CAN/UK/NZ would not have access.

More information can be found on theintercept.com, theguardian.com, and other online newspapers.
> The problem is that American business is participating in unilateral trade and technology transfer to China.

As a CxO, if you are going to meet the ever-rising quarterly growth target and all you've reached saturation in all your markets, you'll have to pander to China at some point soon. You aren't paid to worry about the long-term, the future CEO will deal with that. All you need to do is beat the street and keep the shareholders happy for the next quarter/FY.
I'm always wondering what people who want "mentoring" expect from a mentor.
I've been working on a Tmux manipulation library in Ruby as part of another project of mine, called Appear. Appear can raise any process to the front of your GUI (if your GUI is macOS), even if that process is in a disconnected Tmux session.

I'm also working on a little app that allows you to open files in Finder into console Tmux+Nvim.

Project: https://github.com/airbnb/appear

Tmux library source: https://github.com/airbnb/appear/blob/master/lib/appear/tmux...

Tmux library docs: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/appear/Appear/Tmux

Example usage:
https://github.com/airbnb/appear/blob/master/lib/appear/edit...

Nvim+Tmux file handler app: https://github.com/airbnb/appear/pull/11
1. From a sane point of view, this argument makes sense but the UAE don't have a money problem and prestige/aura of modern technology is weighted much heavier than economical reasoning. It would be a huge attraction and a big reputation boost - they could again argue that UAE is where the future is built, not the USA.

2. It is hot down there but from what I have experienced, the thermal swings are lower than on a normal Central European or American day. This means in October 35 C during the day, 30 C at night.
I wonder what kind of sit-down peer review was done to keep it closed?
The GFW is not so much motivated by protectionism but by CPC's tight grip on power and greed, to my understanding. If the CPC are adopting protectionism to cultivate their own tech industry, it is about time for them to loosen the Internet control because Chinese tech industry are very strong and established at this moment. It is unlikely for western counterparts to out-compete them in China market even on level playground. Among the top 10 most valuable Internet companies, China has four of them.
Very interesting. I love vim, and find the screen/vim mix a little unpleasant. A few years ago I looked at tmux and concluded I did't really need it because screen already did everything I needed.

On https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a3919061a8cf1a25c7150e3e0... I see you seem to be passing some info from vim to tmux right bottom bar, the utf8 the encoding. In vim, I usually show my offset in the file there.

Can you tell me more about that? The only thing I hate with gnu screen is the space wasted on the bottom bar, and the need to have commands in backticks otherwise

Would yo suggest some good resource to theme tmux?
(I use the thinkpad dedicated previous and next button, right above the left and right arrow keys to move between tabs in all tabbed applications. A pleasure to use. With shift, then change me to the previous/next desktop. With control, they move the currently focused window to the previous or next desktop, and change focus to that desktop too)
I wonder how folks respond to the following attitude

"The key word among advocates of multiculturalism became 'diversity'. Sweeping claims for the benefits of demographic and cultural diversity... have prevailed without a speck of evidence being asked for or given."
https://youtu.be/H6ImP-gJvas?t=941

I've recently been exposed to the above sort of thoughts that criticize the whole notion of diversity. I have to admit I'm still taken aback and caught off guard by it. Apparently this Sowell guy is all over on YouTube sneering at the idea of diversity in one way or another. He's a very unusual and startling figure to listen to, challenging a ton of beliefs and things I've been exposed to growing up.
Go for it! The world needs more people willing and able to take those risks.
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Works in Austria and Germany, though.

Interesting point: what if you work for someone in the US and want to collaborate on a report?

Or you work in the US but need to access / change a report while visiting a client in a country where it's not enabled...

Pretty lame.
> ensuring stable, cutting edge support for the 3D graphics systems I need for my work.

So how is Vulkan support on Windows these days?
If the thing is built underground thermal swings wont matter.

Furthermore, there is definitely a large market for people that want to get between AD and Dubai in as short as possible a time. Sure, high speed rail would be great but people would be willing to pay extra to shave off 12 minutes.
Personally, I've shamelessly plugged a few FOSS projects of mine on HN (to varying degrees of success.) It happens very rarely, over the course of years, and when I randomly stumble across something interesting. Although I only read stuff on HN once or twice a day typically, I "check" HN several times a day, scanning the frontpage in seconds to see if there's anything that interests me. If it's something relevant to a project I'm working on, and people seem interested, I might plug my project.

I've thought of setting up an alert for "opportunities to post a shameless plug" but decided against it (mostly because it seems against the spirit of HN.)
> They wouldn't be holding all their cash in a garage somewhere like Walter White :)

True but someone will get money in return. He will be the sucker.

> I think Indians are among one of the highest taxed citizens in the world if you count direct+indirect taxes vs social welfare offered by the state.

True only for salaried class. Business men and self employed virtually walk away paying negligible taxes. I have friends who pay negligible taxes as compared to I, yet they maintain a lifestyle well beyond what I can dream to afford and I am payed decently even by UK standards.
I distinctly remember that getting 'Strider' for Sega Genesis as a birthday present had to count as the entire gift from my parents because of its $80 price tag. And that's in 1990 dollars!

I'd argue that today's games are both less expensive and contain a wider array of content. Just look at all the stuff you get with something like GTA 5.
I had to unlearn a shitload of made up crap that I was told. I also had to invent a lot of shit. Then I was able to get a glimpse into reality.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12899926 and marked it off-topic.
Only so much. Things like rent and medical insurance are impossible to avoid, and rent is highly dependent on your location, which is tied to your job. You could get cheaper rent by moving to rural Wyoming, but you're not going to find a tech job there. If you can work remotely, however, or you have your own work-at-home business, this does give you the freedom to seek out lower CoL locations. But medical insurance is still a big factor, esp. when you have a family.

I'd say that these days, housing is easily the #1 cost for most Americans, and in terms of the fraction of a person's income, it's really ballooned from 20 years ago.
Trade deficit does not suggest anything. Whenever China tries to buy some technology, the US is so protective and at the same time buy all the clothes and low profit stuff. That is how you get the trade deficit. So it is pretty much that EU and US just keep Chinese work like slave forever. By the way, it is really just American tech companies. not a single european company's name pop up in my mind.
The unfairness of the US presidential election system
I agree with you. I like that I can rip off terminal tabs and move them around. Also move them to different virtual desktops. I tend to have a virtual desktop for each project I work on keeping things spatially separate that way. One piece of functionality missing form this setup is the "pre configured scripted dev environments" but i've used this tool

https://github.com/achiu/consular

to achieve that behavior
And depending on when your brother-in-law made the statement, he stood just as much of a chance or greater of being right than you did. COBOL will always be around (those 80 billion lines of code don't maintain themselves), but microprocessor and PCs could have broken any number of ways. Granted, a good knowledge of C and Unix will go a long way and be applicable to whatever ends up "winning", but it was no guarantee to the exact language and OS that would keep one employed.
It is not so easy to legally immigrate to the US. It is long and involved process, and then you're usually more or less stuck with the company that sponsored you, at least for a while.
I'm honestly not seeing an relation there.

The problem is that both follow a very non-uniform pattern and so it's hard to even define what a "correlation" would look like.
Basically what this means is that you will compile all your code using a C++ compiler, but because C++ is backwards compatible with C, they just call it "C/C++".

A lot of developers still write in a C-esque fashion because that's what they were taught in school or just haven't learned a new way of doing things. Developers still use the C standard library for file IO instead of C++ fstream. Developers use new and delete with raw pointers and manage the memory themselves instead of using a vector. I was recently on a project where all the code was written in an old C style- variables declared at the top of each function, raw pointers everywhere, usage of C strings, etc. Memory leaks and segfaults were abundant. Uninitialized and unused variables a'plenty. And they were using a C++ compiler.
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yes it is scaphold.io and there was the first GraphQL summit last week in San Francisco and they were mentioning all the companies changing over and hiring for graphql skills.
Yes, they do accept USD at the airports. I've even seen a restaurant at a local airport where they refused to accept INR.
While (relatively)lots of attention has been given to Saturn Bomberman, Bomberman 5 is a grossly underrated game especially in the battle mode. Emulation let us look at an entirely undiscovered world of games that never left the Japanese market.

Thing is, Konami have swallowed Hudson Soft, and then dragged it into the ocean after they've left the games market. So many classic IPs from the 80's and 90's.
Real nice UI/UX! I like the speed and the snap of the UI. The recommendations where pretty accurate!
Brilliant strategy, starting your message by insulting those whom you want advice from.
Yes. Didn't think about machines where the memory isn't composed of bytes.

The best approach is still to not expect anything.
Or Europe, in my case (mainly in Germany.. it was actually prescribed to Hitler, so long has it been around). The FDA banned it, I'm reading right now. That sucks.
Isn't that code wrong anyway? If the bundle size were 16 bytes, the shift would be well defined but still give the wrong result, 64K alignment. Not a great example of undefined behavior causing a bug.
Mir windowing system in Kodi
I wound up investing through https://www.predictit.org . Much easier than betting with a stranger.
Lessons Learned Migrating the Trade Tariff to UK Gov PaaS (Cloud Foundry)
Walgreens is suing Theranos
When i was something between 11 and 14: I was going to an eletronic store with my father to buy a cd player for me (i was looking forward to it) and my sisters where watching tv while they were already over there time budget.

I didn't want that (not sure what english word would fit here) and pulled out the cable and the plug broke. My father was annoyed/angry and i was crying because we nearly didn't drive to that electronic store.

I realized two things:
1. enviousness/distrust/jealousy is stupid
2. me being angry/crying about a situation i can't change doesn't change that situation

I got less emotional/more rational after this event.

I also think that this was one key point to become a nihilist.
One thing to consider is this NES Classic Edition appears to be an emulator. It consists of an ARM processor and some flash memory, so it's not going to get you that cycle accurate emulation any better than the current leading emulators (other than any improvements brought about by internal knowledge held by Nintendo).
*resource allocators
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Security folks do the same thing. I don't get it.
Good point. Was turnover high there? Did you manage to find a place with a better working environment?
Hey buddy. I guess it is a nice start to help people to get more into open source. At the moment there is a really high barrier to get into those open source projects, thats why i am to lazy to inform myself. Tell me about your idea and how do you kill that barrier
The glaring design flaw in the purple election map
Unless you're using Wayland on NVidia chipsets, graphics driver support is pretty damn good nowadays. I was able to install NVidia and ATI proprietary drivers during my graphical linux install of Calculate (Gentoo) linux. I'd be shocked if Ubuntu or Fedora were somehow more obtuse than this.

As for free drivers, the only one lagging behind is Nouveau for Nvidia users. AMD's free/open driver has made some serious performance improvements in the past few months, and Intel's driver (or just plain modesetting) has performance parity with their windows driver.

I remember 2008, and fighting with AMD/ATI drivers, and occasional reboots on my NVidia systems that led to X not working anymore. I've had exactly one instance of that in the past 4 years (under Arch). Can we stop spreading 2008-era misinformation in 2016?
> This "somewhere, someone is losing money!" concern trolling fallacy is one "usefully idiotic" source of our repeated bailout follies, so I'd like never to see it again.

I had trouble parsing this, is there an idiom in here that I'm not familiar with?

Thanks!
Also, the latest version of Scala doesn't work on Android since it requires Java 8.
I didn't realise you could connect spreadsheets together. Thanks for new knowledge!
hahahha i thought the same. But its nice he got my attention. It worked out
The problem isn't whether you can understand the code or not. The problem is whether or not there are undiscovered exploits in the code that would allow attackers to take advantage of Signal's relatively open permissions.

It's very hard to write bug-proof code. Restricted permissions would be a sensible countermeasure since Signal is a likely target.
around 2012 when I finally decided to start a side project to try to contribute something to the world.
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> Eugenia Loli-Queru

A name i have not thought about in a long long time, and why i stopped reading OSNews...
If you use tmux and vim, and if you run tests, then you must look at janko-m/vim-test and vim-dispatch. Runs any test seamlessly in the background.

Vim-dispatch also has the best intro video to anything ever ;)

https://vimeo.com/63116209
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What non-Jetbrains IDE supports Kotlin well? What % of its contributions come from outside the Jetbrains ecosystem?

Once Jetbrains no longer controls Kotlin's future and most Kotlin users are not Jetbrains customers, then I'd consider it truly open.
> He has even clicked through on a "You have been chosen to win an iPhone 7" link recently - he saw no harm in at least seeing what might happen.

Show him one of those videos with deep-sea fish that use a luminescent lure to eat smaller fish. The pop-up is the lure. The small fish is him. The Internet is like the deep sea, and it's full of lures like that.

One simple criterion I give non-technical people: if it's unsolicited, it's hostile. End of story. No exceptions.