skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Any bank with sane procedures would never approve such a thing.
So like Firebase testing, but for iOS and Windows devices too?
Nuclear Industry in France in Crisis, 20 Reactors Shut Down
Didn`t know Tim Draper is such a lying scumbag,probably made a killing of Theranos. Same modus operandi as Holmes,lie,lie,lie.
Dart doesn't have the adoption yet and has a different plan when it comes to mobile ( https://github.com/flutter/flutter ).

I love Go, but it's not really a suitable language to do UI, or anything that deals with data models.

C#, however, is a perfect replacement for Java, most of the times. I would say "it's simply superior in every imaginable metric other than cross-platform implementations of the compiler/VM" but that's just my opinion.
If they view us as interchangeable cogs, why wouldn't they view the technologies we use in much the same way?

This was a big problem with healthcare.gov's launch, the CMS (government) had had success in a previous project with a particular non-relational database, and made the contractor use it, despite I'm sure essentially none of their people knowing it, and probably few if any even knowing the database's paradigm. I wonder how many "estimates" the contractor was required to supply to the government based on this....

(Although perhaps a bigger database problem initially was that it was severely underprovisioned, emphasized by how extremely specific they were about the hardware it was moved to.)
Yes we are in a mass-extinction event, but no that is not because of climate change. Rather it is because we are destroying habitats left and right through deforestation, pollution, etc. Climate change is happening at such a slow glacial pace; I haven't seen any good data to suggest that the Climate is changing fast enough to produce harm.
Do you not count SQL Server, VS Code, ASP.NET core running Linux as cooperation? They are genuinely trying here.
Why I am still using web.py in 2016 – and you should be too
The buffer thing amazes me, I know people who drive 70 MPH leaving a 5 foot buffer between the and the car in front of them. I have a close my eyes sometimes it makes me so nervous. And it's rude to comment on other people's driving...
C# offers more support for memory friendly coding and performance than Java, which could ultimately improve Android's performance.

Of course, this would only work if they switch languages, which I don't see the Android team doing willingly without upper management "help".
No need to buy them off at that point because they won't be in the way. The only reason to lobby government officials is to dismantle laws that protect others at your company's expense or to put in place laws that protect your company at others' expense.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967921
They are different pain medicines and mileage varies with the person and type of pain you have - and sometimes, your preconceived notions. (some folks have brand biases and so on).

I react well to both of them. Since ibuprofen is cheaper, I am more likely to use it. Though honestly, for my worst recurring pain, I take both ibuprofen and paracet (Tylenol), on advice from the doctor. The same seems to help my spouse with dental pain.
Speaking of the air bridge, one thing I loved about living in Berlin was the fact that its tumultuous history was so visible. One of my friends lived in the Bergmannkiez, which is right between the 'Platz der Luftbrücke' (place of the air bridge) and Tempelhof airport (now an unconventional and wonderful park).

Visitors often commented how different this area felt from its surroundings (and perhaps even from much of the city), and apparently the reason is that this area was generally spared bombings.

Just thought that was neat.
Personally they'll have to pry ReSharper from my cold, dead, hands - I've grown to rely on more advanced features like Value Origins/Destination https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/2016.2/Code_Analysi... That I couldn't possibly go back.
In order to run it as a hackintosh natively, you would need compatible hardware and drivers, which this doesn't have. A niche alternative (starting to be more documented) is to install Linux and run an OSX virtual machine. Traditionally, that gave you terrible performance, and specifically terrible graphics.

A hypervisor is a very lightweight wrapper around a virtual machine that either requires a modified virtual machine (not the case here) or hardware support in the CPU so you get to run a VM with a performance hit on the order of 3%.

The newest intel CPUs have added hardware virtualization support, so if you have a discrete GPU (like for this box), you can give the integrated graphics to the host Linux system, and dedicate the discrete GPU to the virtual machine (again, performance within a few percent of native).

All of this is to say that you can run a virtual OSX system on top of linux, and get almost native performance like running a hackintosh, but without having to have a perfect match of already supported hardware components.
Am I blind or is there no date-picker? That's the only reason I'm looking for an alternative to angular2-material.
Seven reasons why closed source is better than open source, or so it seems
BTW, "Da Vinci" was not Leonardo's surname. You may refer to him as either "Leonardo da Vinci", "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci" if there's a reason for the longer form or simply "Leonardo" when it is clear from context which Leonardo the author is referring to.
Is the C# runtime open source?
99% of academics don't even agree that AGW is happening. Maybe you should learn to be less of a hypocrite and cite your claims
One possible way out will be something like Swift port to Android made by an open source contributor to Swift. Someone with deep knowledge of C# can take a stab at C# to Android. I'd think Google have very few C# people internally.
This basically is a set of summarizations of episodes Black Mirror. You should really watch Black Mirror before you read this piece. The idea of good SciFi is that is supposed to parallel reality so that you can suspend your disbelief and all the article does is attempt to make those connections that the authors put in intentionally.
Oh please no. Not a fan of WPF.
On a slightly related note: does anyone have recommendations for embedded PC distributor/manufacturer in EU with online order system? I don't want to waste time talking to sales reps.

From time to time I need a PC to stuff inside places a regular desktop wouldn't survive too long (think factory floor).

I've ordered from IPC2U but they introduced a minimum order of 10 for their Intel NUC based systems.
It depends on what you're trying to prevent and what your risk factors are.

For patients with existing heart disease or prior strokes, the NNT is between 50 and 333 depending on the outcome you're considering. Source:

http://www.thennt.com/nnt/aspirin-for-cardiovascular-prevent...

For prevention of a first heart attack or stroke, the NNT is between 1667 and 3000 depending on the outcome. Notable is that no deaths were prevented by the therapy. Source:

http://www.thennt.com/nnt/aspirin-to-prevent-a-first-heart-a...
They've dove into routinely-circulated Internet politics new items for a while now. Personally I don't care for it. I can't tell if they know they are doing this or not, but they'll take a circulated story, and then out of every permutation of it across the Internet, they will pick the version that is just outside the realm of fact, and then "debunk" that one as "mixed" or "false."
You are using a different definition of 'minor'. I don't think something that accounts for a 30-100% improvement is minor.
Mystery over Dutch WW2 shipwrecks vanished from Java Sea bed
I've used the Mono REPL (in my distro the binary is called "csharp") with no issues for trying out code.
Google inurl:news.ycombinator.com

The algolia search is okay. It frustratingly won't remember to search comments not stories and to sort by date, not popularity. So I need to adjust those every time.
To learn more: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/mobile-center/
No, it's not a "great point", it's just the facts.
That "disruption" means killing off capital flow in Silicon Valley. People follow the money. Why would it be desirable at all to do that unless you're a racist ideologue?
> The war games you read about ...

I'm not sure how you think you know that, but that's not what I read.
From what I've read, Microsoft decided to reintroduce MSBuild as their unified build platform. This includes good ol' csproj and sln files, with a caveat that the actual contents of those files have been greatly simplified. It's still XML.
The naming has been awful with this release in particular. Having two Visual Studio (20)15s out at the same time is very confusing. Almost as bad as the Skype vs Skype for Business marketing boondoggle.
I said nothing. I was just saying that if you want to go against scientific consensus, the onus is on you to provide proof! You can't just say "I disagree with them, so they must be wrong". It doesn't work that way.

This is how science works: there's a current understanding of the world; and if you want to change that, you have to come up with the counterexamples or other scientific evidence to back up your claim. You can't just stick your head in the sand and say that since I don't believe these guys, they must be wrong.
I used to use XE when I needed to transfer money from the US to my UK accounts. I never had any problems with it, but I only ever used it to transfer money between my own accounts and never to other peoples', so my experience might not apply to your situation.
As someone who was desperately trying to use guides for Pokemon games with £4/MB internet abroad, this would have been amazing...
Yes, you can find it on github. [1]

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
> It is just as illegal to drive distracted by a satnav as it is to drive distracted by an iphone in the UK.

Correct. However it is illegal to use a phone without being distracted dangerously, whilst using a satnav without being distracted dangerously is perfectly safe.

The Driving without due care and attention is a perfect catch all for dealing with bad driving behaviour. You can be done for eating crisps as easily as using a sat nav. The specific "using a mobile phone whilst behind the wheel of a car is 6 points on your license + a fine" is completely disproportionate in terms of what behaviours it implicitly approves (such as using sat nav safely whilst not moving) and the burden of proof (requiring the user to be "unsafe").

The reality is that policemen (of whom there are simply not enough) have discretion and a bit of common sense most of the time and use the tools at their disposal to punish people for driving badly whilst using their phone. This is good. I fundamentally disagree with singling out unsafe mobile phone use in law, however.
Yeah, but turning workstations into spyware platforms is not the direction anyone outside of big data would consider anything close to the right direction. They are looking to make large inroads into server side where they have historically struggled, and are succeeding, until they control and dictate that market, too. They are patient and calculating, give it time.
The NSA's statement had a lot of weasel-words in it, and Julian Assange explicitly denied that the emails came from a Russian source.

Do most HN commenters believe that Assange is outright lying?
Online demo is just 360 photos but real VR application seems to be fully 3D (from the videos).

This would make sense as it's based on Google Earth which is 3D.

Even WebGL web version of Google Maps is already 3D since some time ago. See e.g. Colosseum here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Colosseum/@41.8950247,12.4...
Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China
Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]
project.json is still official way of configuring the projects. Dotnet cli uses that, msbuild is not there yet i think.
Empty project is done with "donnet new", and it's really small and light ...
Mobile Center includes CI, Testing, Beta Tester distribution, Crash reporting, Analytics, & back-end services.

The Testing service supports iOS and Android apps written in any language or platform.
How is this any different than what the CIA has done in the past to other countries?

Are the emails legitimate and do the American people have a right to know what's in them?
Makes me more interested in Azure, actually, on the backend...not working for MSFT.
LINQ is cool and all, but it takes a lot of code to make that cool, so I would love to see how it affects battery life.
Isn't it illegal for Federal employees to attempt in any way to influence an election? Couldn't such a thing be considered "attempting to influence" and expose them to losing their jobs or worse?

That and much of what the NSA and CIA does is classified, so they may not be able to release much of what they know without first declassifying it. From what I hear it's easy to stamp secret or top secret on something but bureaucratic hell to undo classification, giving classification kind of a roach motel effect.
> a) there hasn't been many studies. Many headlines about few studies which makes you think there are lots however...

The social sciences suffer massive publication bias. Results ranging from failure of the study to support the hypothesis to the gathered data having being politically incorrect lead to research being abandoned.
Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?
If you don't know of the people banned, read about them. They're true white supremacists. Twitter is under no obligation to be a platform for the KKK as twitter is a private company.
I see a hooker, or knife or fork...
So the answer is more racism and segregation?? If we want inclusion, why not build an exhibit that includes all races? Or why wasn't this exhibit added to the already existing one? How can these two exhibits be equal to one another if they are separate from one another?
Well I've been trying to work with MVC 5 in MonoDevelop and the integration seems to be there, but I get crashes when opening Razor markup files (*.cshtml).

So... maybe?
baseless? a current, active Russian politician (whose name and position escape me) publicly said 'we might have helped with Wikileaks'

it's far from baseless -- no matter how (correctly) suspicious one is of anything the NSA says.
That could have been completely correct... and the card was drawn for one of those 10%. To test that probability empirically, we'd have to have the election at least a couple dozen times, right?
Hi everyone,

I've been playing a lot with postgresql lately, writing custom functions, views, types, etc.

I find it cool, especially regarding performances. But one thing was annoying me: migrations.

When I wanted to edit an existing function, changing its parameters, I would have to retrieve the function in my generated structure.sql file, generate two migration files (up and down), paste the function in the down file, paste it again in the up file, copy the signature in a drop function statement, edit the function, then copy the new signature in a drop statement in the down file. This was painful.

With pgrebase, you can just write your pg codebase as pure files, and have pgrebase watch them. Any change will be instantly loaded in the database. A non watch mode can be called on deployment, after your usual migration steps, to sync your codebase.

Let me know what you think!
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Good God I love ReSharper. I've been using it since the mid 2000s. It's a wonderful tool. However, their more recent releases have introduced some pretty annoying regressions with code formatting and other features. They seem to be ignoring my hand-reported issues on YouTrack. I haven't been as impressed with ReSharper as in the past. Hopefully they can right the ship and put out better quality stuff.
Most developers use Windows, where VS Professional (under the badge of VS Community) is free. The set of developers who use Linux and OS X (and I mean, I am one) is not representative of developers of a whole.
5 Difficult Times We Seriously Pissed Off Our Customers (And What We Learned)
can you imagine the shit that would have been in trump and RNC leaks?
(Slight tangent alert)

Sadly, Glenn Greenwald's interactions with Sam Harris have severely tarnished his credibility as a champion of objectivity in my eyes. Harris has a weakness in that he's very good at putting out content that's easy to cherry-pick in an uncharitable way, and this is what Greenwald seems to do every single time.
You're really concerned about my opinions, aren't you? Hey man, if you don't think the quoted bits of my comment weren't just evidence-free appeals to the poster's claimed superior knowledge of the military capabilities of untrained civilians, you're welcome to elaborate on all those unexplained countermeasures and doctrines. Why I have to offer a 'counterpoint' to unsubstantiated claims is beyond me -- something tells me it's because you disagree with me, and that you wouldn't hold yourself to the same standard were our positions reversed. Why do I say this? Your previous interactions with me, which were disingenuous as hell.
The whole Live Unit Testing thing sounds like they copy pasted NCrunch into VS
> all indications are that it was Russia.

If the server in question had been on US soil, say in AWS US-East, would this count as an indication of a US Government sponsored attack?
You link is gated.

Also I'm not driving to anything. I'm pointing out that research, as opposed to narrative, shows that blacks are not shot by police at astronomically higher rates.
I don't have a problem working with other people on a project, I just don't need anyone near me while doing so.

Yes, it might force me to be more productive if I have 5 people around me always watching me, but I gladly sacrafice this kind of increased productivity for more freedom.

That's why I'm working remote.
Here is why investing in the Facebook's stock is such a great idea
I have almost always received payments via bank wire transfer. While it costs $20-$50 (depending on which bank, exact figures may vary). If you are billing for $5000.00, that's 1%. If $10,000, then it's 0.5%.

For smaller amounts, PayPal was painless enough. Even though their % is relatively high, for small invoices the total fee is less than a bank wire transfer.

There are no no-fee options. Transferring money costs money. The quicker you come to terms with this, the easier you will sleep. It's a cost of doing business. Raise your fees to cover the transfer cost.

For people thinking BitCoin, please keep in mind that the price is volatile and this means that what you invoice is significantly different from what you will end up with in your currency. Also, it will be tough convincing most companies to send you payments via BitCoin.
the dockerfile on dockerhub is only visible if its an automated build, done by the docker build service.

if you want the image to be auditable just write your own, its a really short and well documented installation that previous poster linked to.
it's an internet meme they took by sheer volume, just by using it a lot.

I think you have your causallity a bit mixed there. They did use it a lot, and then people started lobbing guilt by association at the rest of us that were using it. We had no option but to let Pepe go.

Pepe is a symbol of hate because it wasn't my (or anyone's) hill to die on defending the integrity of a meme from libel by social manipulators.
Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk strategy real professionals talk logistics.
There's a good summary post on Reddit on evidence for Russian infiltration or influence of Wikileaks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...

The timeline suggests that Wikileaks was about to try to dump something damaging to Russia and/or Putin (is there a difference at this point?) and then was threatened, backed off, and now may have been folded into Russian intelligence as some kind of asset.

I wouldn't be surprised. It's naive to believe that a small volunteer outfit can take on an entire world of pro intelligence agencies. The USA is not the only country that does these things, and many countries such as Russia do so with a much more "gloves off" approach than we do... especially when dealing with civilians.

In any case I now see stuff about Trump and Putin communicating prior to Trump taking office, etc., and Putin's politics certainly aligns to some extent with elements of the 'alt-right.' Of course the Bushes have their Saudi "investors" and the Clintons have their Chinese pals, so overseas enmeshment with nations of questionable allegiance to the US is not out of the ordinary in US politics. One of the consequences of empire is that an empire's national politics become everyone else's business too. DC is a world capital, and our elections are world elections.
They could have said it was a 95% chance, or that it was a 10% chance of Trump winning and been just as 'right'. The only thing that could be 'wrong' in predicting a probability like that is if they say there is no chance of something, and it happens.
Xamarin Studio didn't support .NET Core, so previously you had to use the CLI tools and an editor like VS Code. You could run ASP.NET MVC in XS (version 5, Core is effectively version 6) but this ran on Mono.

Visual Studio for Mac (aka XS vNext) does now support ASP.NET Core so there is less need for VS Code. The re-brand makes sense (it's not just for Xamarin now). However, Code runs on more platforms (Linux, ARM etc.) and is also used in the browser as part of Azure.

I wrote a better summary of the differences here: https://unop.uk/getting-started-with-c-sharp-and-cross-platf.... It's the last in a four part blog series about .NET on Mac.
It seems so:

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Java's value is not some inherent superiority of language for mobile development, it is about throwing (100s of) millions of dollars and 100s of engineers to make it work. And I think it remains true for C# also. Unless someone sinks 100s of millions on C# too it seems non-starter to me. By the way Microsoft has already tried mobile ecosystem with .net/C# that did not work out very well.
The thing I find really interesting here is that Microsoft is pulling down the walls to it's garden and building bridges instead. It will be fascinating to see how this plays out, because this is a tectonic shift in the development landscape.

Props to Satya Nadella for having the gumption to lean into this strategy. I was expecting a few token open-sourcish libraries as a giant marketing campaign, but it looks like they're really committed to the idea.
It might be, but Alive was much more than just if the tests pass or not
then what is the alt-right to its supporters?
If you are using Objective C what are the problems with Xcode?
They seem to go back and forth on that every couple of months.
I had the same thought. VR is the perfect place for such a thing. With the monster scale, the whole city can fit within the confines of a typical VR setup, and you get to destroy things without consequence. I want to take a stab at it, if and when I get the hardware necessary.
Hopefully Microsoft will also provide a proper multi platform node.js client as well as ODBC support.

I may aware of tedious, but it's missing a lot of features and I prefer officially supported code.
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