skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this notable? It's just public data scraped from GitHub. I wouldn't care even if they intentionally redistributed this database to everyone.

The more in-depth metrics are also things you can scrape from GitHub. If you aren't comfortable with these metrics being calculated about your public actions, then you probably shouldn't have signed up for a "social coding" site.
Heh. I made a PR to a haskell project with lots of stars (pandoc) and since that I've gotten a few mails about Haskell opportunities.

Even though a simple two character change to pandoc is my only Haskell experience...
Go with App Engine. There is a free tier and I've had projects running there for years.
Why is google and facebook trying to ensuring people, that they are not evil ? Why do people trust these companies ? Why people are so easy to be lied?
> You can only use one non-const reference to an object per scope. This solves the aliasing issue?

More accurately, if you have a mutable reference you cannot have any other references.

> Rust only supports plain C (FFI) interfaces? Is that right?

Yes, but with bindgen you have a decent C++ interface.

My contention is that the "better interface" is only slightly better, and probably not enough to justify basically creating a whole new language. Note that for your safe RustyCPP code, the regular-C++ code will be completely unsafe to use and you'll have to write some safety wrappers that encode in the guarantees you need. I've been doing this in the Rust integration in Firefox, and I'm sure that a dialect of C++ that uses Rust's rules will need to do something similar. That's where the bulk of the integration cost comes from.

> If you choose Rust, you're committed to one strategy

I mean, you can just blindly use Rc<T> or Gc<T> in Rust (Gc<T> only exists as a POC right now but we plan to get a good one up some day).

But yeah, magical pervasive GC would be hard to do in Rust.

> The question is, is it worth it?

You're arguing between choosing Rust vs CPP-with-static-analysis. I'm arguing between choosing Rust vs CPP-with-Rust-esque-static-analysis. I think the latter strongly points towards Rust, but the former has interesting tradeoffs.

> I mean doesn't Rust have a reputation of being clunky anyway?

Not ... really? It has a reputation for having a steep initial learning curve.

> it seems like the simple Rust examples I've seen so far would have a corresponding C++ implementation

Oh, this would work. But the reverse -- taking C++ code and making it work under the Rust rules -- is very hard. Not because of the aliasing rules, but because of how copy/move constructors are used in C++ (Rust's model strongly depends on initialization being necessary), the whole duck-typed-templates thing in C++, and similar things with respect to coding patterns that don't translate well.

Again, you could build a safety system on C++ that respects these patterns, but it would not be the same as taking Rust's rules and enforcing them on C++.
I'm a kiwi, and I even I don't know why we engage in smalltalk.

Upon saying that, I enjoy smalltalk. Every morning when I come into work, I'll usually talk some bullshit about the weather, or earthquakes, or something topical.

So I guess the reason we do it is because we enjoy it?
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Good, now whenever I need tech support, all I need to do is get my gripes published in a global news site and trend on Hacker News so I can get Google to respond to me...
Do these positions also require ITAR?
Why is this an app?

Why can't I use the airbnb website so that I can sit comfortably at a desk with a real mouse and keyboard and calendar?

On a PC, you can open new tabs easily to read reviews, look at maps, make itineraries, and comparison shop. This is torture on a phone, and as a result, people just don't perform as thorough a search on mobile.

Airbnb knows this because they have data on how many options we consider before making a reservation when we browse on phones vs. PCs.

With this app, they're trying to push us towards making a less informed decision by limiting our ability to research the options, which seems blatantly anti-consumer to me.
I personally felt like that created a discovery mechanism unlike any other service.

I had to listen to music outside of my knowledge base in order to enjoy the stuff that I wanted to listen to.

(although PyWhatAuto sort of changed that.)
I use Xming and it works pretty seamlessly for both local applications and X-forwarded ssh sessions
That quote comes from here:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

But I suspect they specifically wouldn't mention it because it's an implementation detail people aren't supposed to know about or look into. The problem might have been more widespread had they actually said "Don't change anything in this specific hard to find hidden/system protected folder"
I don't see why people have such a huge issue with email being in public commits. I maintain a large project (runC) and sign all of my commit with my company email -- which makes noreply.github.whatever not a viable option. Not to mention that sometimes I get useful emails rather than recruiter spam, and I got my current job from using my email in commits (my employer approached me).

But for those who care, the best solution would be if GitHub didn't show emails in their webui or APIs -- you have to clone the repo to get the information. That makes it prohibitively expensive to scrape every repo on GitHub (so you'd have to narrow down what repos you're interested in).
It's great to see that getting to an open source foundation is a top priority! As a member of the CNCF's technical oversight committee (and as someone who personally loves RethinkDB), I would love to champion RethinkDB for the CNCF -- but it matters much more to me that it gets to an open source foundation than it is that it lands at the CNCF in particular. RethinkDB team: please reach out to me or to any other CNCF TOC member if we can help!
This won't clean up Washington much at all as it only involves the Trump administration appointments. IF Trump was serious about clamping down on the revolving door between Lobbyists and Congress he would have to enact this ban for Congress as well as his administration. Congress is the "swamp", not the Trump White House, correct?

Sadly I think this is nothing but smoke and mirrors, an attempt to appear to "clean up" Washington whilst at the same time doing as little as possible to actually sort out the problems at hand.
This is odd. I'm pretty sure I read this exact pair of comments in the other thread earlier today... is HN moving things around with a fresh time stamp?

EDIT: whew, I'm not going crazy yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973474
I just took the title from Fortune. Maybe they wanted a little bit of a confusing title to get people to read into the article? 0_0
"I'm getting bad reception, hold on while I put on my antenna sombrero"
It's a REST client :)
Wonder if this new app will work any better than the current garbage iOS app which is essentially unusable.

Have to resort to mobile site (which is fine), and continue to be heckled to switch to the app.
The guys a freak. He's about the only optimistic thing going on at the moment, it seems.
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You forgot the inadequate transportation system and underfunded schools.

I'm sure those chicken companies appreciate the tax break though.
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[ Link to clip from Mr. Robot: "I need to wipe everything." ]
You might try thinking about this from the other direction. I can tell you from first-hand experience that once-shocking levels of South Korean nationalism, and really, ethnic nationalism, have been calmed down to something far far friendlier and more cosmopolitan, and it very much seems that travel and exposure to other cultures (especially the West, but not only) are what has done the trick.

Now as for being a North Korean, well, you are kind of proving the point because North Koreans' number one problem is isolation from the world.

Back in the USA, what percentage of Trump voters do you imagine hold passports? Sure, correlation is different from causation, but still...

So I can respect your call to realism, but at the same time it reminds me of some old aphorism about babies and bathwater or something.

Incidentally, another baby that people seem to want to throw out when the bathwater gets dirty is international trade.
I travel a lot and I have recently started to use Google trips and it's amazing app which shows what to do for the day, when the attractions get close, what's the nearest hotel, photos, translations of basic sentences and more..

How this will be different from Google Trips? Does Airbnb has enough data to show me relevant information? Or this is about partnering with local businesses to find me a guide/get a massage?
Why would someone use this vs Rocket/BOOM? Is it compatible with cheaper FPGAs?
Looks like http://airbnbhell.com is gonna need more storage!
As a data point, I am at _exactly_ 500 right now, and cannot downvote. So perhaps you have to exceed 500?

EDIT: checking again at 507 and I now have the power to downvote. So there's our answer (plus my moderately shameless play for some upvotes worked).
Am I missing something, or is there no way to search the Experiences?
Except that you need permissions to those files to, you know, use them in the subsystem for Linux. The WSL, correctly and securely, runs under your user account.
Yup. 501. Remember. With great power comes great responsibility.
Ask HN: How to structure coaching/mentoring for best results
I've been asked to provide some coaching to a junior developer to increase their proficiency in a couple of languages (I am external to the developer's company). While we could just sit down once a fortnight and pair program solutions to tasks they are assigned at work, I'm not convinced that is always going to make the best use of the limited time we have available.

Are there any well thought out learning plans for things like this? Or any other resources that would assist?
"Basic English is enough for that" ?
I am amazed at the simplicity of the work you are referring to. Do they still pay a salary for that, or are these people supposed to work for free? Maybe they get paid through something like a Russian fiverr?
Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark (2015)
Tackling hard problem is often so much social endeavor than the effort to solve it. You have to convince everyone the solution works despite all the bias they might have.

Maybe that's why many of the major changes you see in tech, like Linux, Git, Vim or Redis started as a single person's work rather than a clever corporate product.
New Way of Transforming CO2 Is More Efficient Than What Plants Do
There's a fallacy in our history textbooks that Copernican astronomy was so obviously superior to Ptolemaic astronomy. The truth is, it wasn't.

Not on astronomical grounds, but on philosophical ones. His observations (mountains on the moon, phases of Venus, sun spots, moons of Jupiter) led Galileo to the conviction that the celestial bodies were made from the same materials as terrestial ones. Remember, aether wasn't just the stuff that filled the space between the celestial bodies, it's also what those bodies were supposedly made of, allowing them the rapid daily motion you have to posit if earth is not supposed to rotate. One of the arguments formerly brought forth against terrestial motion gets thereby neatly turned on its head.

The problem was that while personally I find this line of reasoning rather convincing, it's not a smoking gun, which led Galileo on his quest for more direct observational evidence, eg his (incorrect) theory of the tides.
I was a What.cd member years ago (early college) and had two issues: 1) disk space, 2) connectivity/laptop

It was hard to maintain content long enough to seed if you want to consume content but don't have much disk space. And with just a laptop it can be hard to keep an internet connection to seed.

Eventually it became more effort than it was worth and I just used the top charts to find the music elsewhere. tbh I haven't since found a better source for high quality music recommendations.
Yeah, it takes like a week tops to go from knowing nothing about private trackers to knowing what all the majors ones are. What.cd has been extremely well-known for a long time now. The exclusivity was less about actually being hidden and more about avoiding being the low-hanging fruit. What's been known to every government and anti-piracy initiative practically since its inception. It was just a matter of getting around to doing something about it.
As long as we keep seeing modems on the same silicon as our application processors, attempting to secure a device against even a relatively incompetent state actor is mostly pointless.
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Man produces CO2.

Global warming.

Man produces CO2-eating organism.

Global cooling.

Snowball Earth? [1]

Wasn't there a campy French-Korean movie about this with Captain America in it? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer
I just found out that GitHub actually publicly publishes everything I've done on their site. That's a bit creepy. https://api.github.com/users/cyphar/events
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A whole bunch of states turned on a few hundred thousand votes. It's hard to sell that as a structural advantage. The Republicans have probably paid more attention to the dynamics of it.

I agree that it is not healthy that ~10-12 states have higher importance in the presidential election, but it would be rather similar in a straight popular election.

An intermediate step would be to increase the size of the House of Representatives.
meanwhile we still have to deal with a SIM and the baseband is a whole other clusterfuck entirely...

Can the users actually get the keys to their own stuff?
In my experience I've been on both sides at times. Sometimes the news is telling me things I don't like to hear or I think are biased. I realize the media is incentivized and opinionated and I live with that. I don't plug my ears. I also don't see it as some sort of conspiracy.

In this day and age every person at their computer have a microphone and a keyboard and potentially an audience. For good or bad. You can have any discussion you like.

Reminds me of this interview with Julian Assange a few days before the elections (in "mainstream media") where he said the "powers, bankers etc." would never let Trump win so Trump would lose. I'd like to hear his comments on that not happening. But maybe he can be forgiven for being paranoid since people are actually after him for real.
I'm in upstate ny.

Small packages of chicken breast are typically $7/lb. Large packages at a wholesale club are $3/lb for Perdue, $2/lb for the mystery brand. Whole Foods is much higher.

We have a supermarket oligopoly that keeps prices high, I noticed supermarket prices in a few NYC stores were in line with warehouse clubs at home.
"The value of the £ has been the official opposition since Brexit."

I wonder if you realize that a declining value of the pound is likely to be positive for the British economy ? It's not certain, but very likely ...

In fact, it might even be considered a feature of BREXIT.
People can already plant trees but don't. I don't worry about methods so much as humanity fucking itself over out of apathy.
I've read a few comments claiming that they went to What.CD for the "out of print" or "rare" releases that are not available anywhere legally. Does anyone have a clue why that is? Are copyright holders so apathetic that they won't upload older songs/albums to iTunes/YouTube? I'm co-founder of a startup in the copyright space so that is especially intriguing to me.
I hope that 2 years from now we have a site with a catalog worthy of the name "What.CD successor" as well as better technology. As many users know, some of the site's core software was aging, and efforts to create a replacement had stalled.

Frontend improvements are probably inevitable, but I don't see a move to something more decentralized as likely. As far as I'm aware, there's no precedent or clear plan for a large moderated filesharing site on Tor or I2P. This is the time when people are willing to try something new, and it just doesn't exist. That's probably okay, the private tracker model is flawed but hardly broken: WCD lasted for 9 years, apparently hosted in a commercial data center within arm's reach of US authorities.
It's not a backdoor because there is nothing bypassing the security of your iPhone.

All the data supplied comes from Apple's records, not your phone. If your phone was destroyed one day, and law enforcement requested this information the next, Apple would have no issue supplying it. They're not going to simply "not keep" records of your iTunes transactions and account details, for example.

Your complaints regarding the inability to use their product in a meaningful manner without letting Apple collect this data have merit.
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> Understanding why they voted for Trump might make politics more sane.

How? This is the part where most of these conversations break down. Those on the left can't possibly fathom that those on the right don't consider being racist, sexist or homophobic to be a capital offense. The number of people who believe exactly as I suggested they do are far more than you're comfortable admitting, even in a hypothetical. And that's before we even get into the shifting definitions of those words since their introduction into American politics.

> But is that really BLM's motto these days?

Google "BLM kill all whites". I'd provide specific links, but HN doesn't really accommodate that very well.

> Then you can't do anything but oppose BLM

That's not the tactic most of the left are taking, though. They're still supporting BLM, even though they're inciting violence and calling for the death of white babies. Same with Antifa, who have attacked peaceful demonstrations.

You seem like a reasonable person, but the people you're aligning yourself with are not, by your own definition.
Does it make you feel any better though? Do you prefer to be continuously disappointed over things you have no control on?

Others don't give a damn, and they're happier because of it.

Bad things will happen to you personally eventually (assuming they haven't yet). I have enough of that to deal with already, why would I want more?
What were your motivations for this? It seems like the opposite experience of what I use Airbnb for. If people were after hand holding tourism it's unlikely they'd be using airbnb. Does this signal a shift in strategy away from what made us all start using airbnb in the first instance?
Although we do track time in the same way, I think our focus is very different.

There are more platforms in the pipeline beyond just Git projects coming.

I think the major differentiator is our product is more business focused, and designed to measure overall project health and team productivity where WT seems to be more about individual measurement.
Some games run slower on PS Pro than PS4
Nice, is that the free version of xming?

I had ~3 seconds of typing delay and a lot of visual graphical tearing on an i5 with an SSD and plenty of RAM (with SSH compression enabled) when I tried to use it on a locally running vmware VM under Windows 8 but I can't test it on 10.

Is it purely instant on 10, to the point where you would feel happy typing / looking at it all day?
The founder team of a default-alive company is in an immensely better bargaining position, and VC naturally prefer the kinds of deals people only sign in distress. It's hard to put the squeeze on people, when they can just decide to take the investment next year instead.
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He has explicitly and repeatedly said it's a Chinese hoax...

And he wants to dismantle the Paris Agreement.
You can run bash.exe with command line options to start specific Linux applications. I setup the Windows VSCode to run use Bash as it's terminal and the build actions to trigger Linux programs.

I've run a few small GUI applications and the performance was pretty much native-level. I use VcXsrv as my X server. I've read that some people run entire Linux tiled window managers through WSL without complaint.
Go read out a hello world in C++, pressing ; is much faster and more accurate for me than verbalizing "Semicolon". What about variable names? You have to spell out the word each time to get camel case. u-s-e-r-Capitol C-o-u-n-t and that's if it works perfectly.

Python, you have to say return space space space space every damn line. Return space space space space space space space space while inside a function. It would nearly drive a man to switch to tabs.

Navigation, "go 2 characters to the right" isn't pleasant.

To top it all of picture the fun you can have in vim using speech to text. Dear lord.

Now imagine an open office full of people all doing this at the same time. That my friend, is hell.
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2TB/month is a lot. Home data caps tend to be more 10 - 40GB and I've got 4GB data on my phone which is fine for most stuff except video. I doubt the service will be very cheap - sat services are usually more than cellphone data.
If the authoritarian nature of the government allows better enforcement, why are they so terrible at enforcing existing rules?
There is a noticeable lack of any logical operations - I suppose this doesn't have an ALU, but an AU. It sounds like a possible exercise for the students to implement a compiler that can handle the other operators in C; it is Turing-complete after all. ;-)
yesterday's comments:

SpaceX FCC Application for over 4000 Internet Satellites https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973223