skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What does 99.999% reliably actually mean?
I always thought of it as some marketing thing but apparently it maps to uptime/downtime. Anyone care to explain the math?
If that's the angle you are going to take, you should send me a message, will at the company I work for, bitaccess.co

We have a lot of experience mitigating fraud and identifying fraudulent accounts. Might be able to give you a few pointers and save you some time.
We are closely monitoring the development. Not being a Java database, we cannot run Java queries natively. Tinkerpop3 has added some hooks for non-Java, but it would still very hard to get the speed of AQL. But I hope that Tinkerpop will open up to non-Java even more.
How can moderators of this site actually allow a posted fact to be downvoted?
Personal property rights and personal freedom are critical to freedom; and anybody who argues otherwise should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Even (perhaps especially) when they're talking about the rights of those who disagree with them politically.

It's Thanksgiving, and today I give thanks that not everybody wants to shit on freedom and liberty the way you do, just because it makes campaigning simpler.

As for your silly argument about Snowden, he didn't engage in wholesale surveillance; the NSA's wholesale surveillance was public knowledge before his leak; and his leak was meant to change policy, not to attack a political opponent. As such, absolutely none of my criticisms apply to him.
As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what the NSA said. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows that it was Russia that broke into the Navy. They are saying Russia, Russia, Russia—I don't, maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?
Nicely put together. I like the examples showing the effect of different properties.
The fact that electron is easy enough to write trivial apps while at the same time powerful enough to give us VS Code is in my book SPLENDID.

If the trival app is too big for a trival app - who cares. The fact is there is now a serious contender in the cross-platform space that so far has been mainly occupied by Java. Java cross-platform is neither easy nor lightweight. And from what I have seen so far getting started with Electron looks a lot easier.
editing user comments with admin rights, is a bad precedent
8 Reasons Why You Should Choose a Software Engineer Career
Or it signifies the beginning of key-authenticated intercourse. Just saying...
From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours
Wow. That's insane. It kinda makes me think of those Snapper Shrimp that make tiny superheated bubbles by snapping their claws.
mods are non reddit employees who volunteer to run subreddits.

admins are employees who work on the platform.

mods have no power to edit the algo.
> you should probably prefer the first definition ("go around, past the edge of") instead of the fourth definition, as you've done here.

That was the third definition. The first definition was "a woman's outer garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs." /snark

> we should look more at end-user satisfaction and less at often pedantic technical analyses of solutions.

They aren't orthogonal. User satisfaction comes from a smooth experience. Regardless of how shiny something is, if it slows down the rest of the system (or is itself laggy) users will notice. I choose to run foobar instead of other music players because it's small and fast.

> are we further limiting a great web UX to those with the money to afford the latest laptops?

This is what infuriates me. People have been talking about how the "free lunch" is over [1] since 2009. About how CPUs have stopped getting faster, and how we should make the best out of the current hardware by learning to paralelize. Yet javascript is the most popular language and it's fundamentally single threaded. High quality software is not about having "a great web UX". VLC doesn't have it (great web UX). Blender doesn't have it. Intellij IDEA doesn't have it. And they're not only extremely complex and efficient softwares, they also have great UIs. Our computers are extremly powerful. The fact that someone would wonder if they're not enough to run pretty clipboard managers and fancy text editors is making me cringe.

[1] http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
Pretty sure some research will indicate that the Robotic Industries Association is a lobbyist organization and not at all an unbiased in any way.
Impressive specs, How much cost difference if 1080P screen is used ?
Not really; it's a redefinition of the word productive to mean 'doing' and so is able to argue that creativity needs space (aka be receptive).
Whoa. That is awesome. Thanks for the hard work!
HDMI works fine for me, it's really, really weird that it didn't for you.

Compiling anything on ARM is horribly slow, cross-compiling from amd64 is a much better idea.

But you don't need to compile vim, there are binary packages for ARM! http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:armv6/latest/ pkg should just work.
You aren't charging enough.
Ironically, building StealEngine has caused me to consume less. I put things on my wishlist and often never buy them.

I appreciate your sentiment.
Imagine what Leibniz would say of this.
I don't know enough about Basecamp, so I cannot comment on their product. But, that aside, your comment is not fair. You make it sound like competing with other products (even if they are better, in your opinion) is somehow malicious. Using terms like 'tick' and 'cancer' is just not appropriate.
SirCmpwn, you'll understand more about trade-offs when you finally have commercial success with one of your projects.

It's too easy to lambast Electron and "lazy developers" when you've never had business concerns trump technical ones because none of your work ever tried to run that gauntlet.

I had to chuckle to myself when I saw that your GitHub bio is:

> I make unoriginal projects with better code than
> the thing they rip off. I'm available for hire.
There's nothing to this article. No metrics. No examples. It's not even a basic article for tech or non-tech people.

Personally I'm not a fan of node. Building async systems in non-type safe languages is a recipe for disaster. NPM was a terrible packaging system, even before the left-pad disaster. If I see a cool new project written in node and try to npm install it, there's a good 60% failure rate. It's gone down a bit; maybe 30% today, but still not great.

Even Akka (Scala) doesn't have type safety in is message passing actors. I'd like to see a good async actor/architecture with type safety.
That doesn't work for those ctrl+f'ing for a specific property.

I'd probably do a full load for the text, with specifying the height for the examples inline, and then lazy-render the examples once they're visible.
Wikipedia's social network – idea
You're describing a seemingly natural human reaction. However - the CEO shouldn't be reacting like this - he needs a PR team to spin it however he wants to spin it - but he shouldnt single-handedly, with one action, literally destroy any semblance of credibility the 8th largest site in the US even has.

FB was allowing employees to simply READ any comments/posts/PMs between users and recall what a shitstorm that was... but now imagine if Zuck was personally freaking editing posts about him? (or if he had a team of ppl doing it for him and then admitting to it/bragging about it on corp comms???)

/u/spez may have truly done a really big hit to reddits future.

Can we get @DANG's opinion?
A regional Condom Drone Delivery Service.

- "Rubber up 'bruv", in the UK.

- "Rubber a brother" for the US.

Expand to CAAS (contraceptives as a service) when applying for second round, pre-ipo.
Yes, typically large buildings are cooled year round, especially when they are cubic (not sure how this effects tall, skinny skyscrapers). Usually when you see "smoke" coming from the top of a building in the dead of winter, that's from the cooling units. Much heat does come electronics, lighting, humans, but there are still heating units to have precision control as temperature will not necessarily distribute evenly.

There are, as one might guess, a lot of factors at play and no universal solutions. Certainly the pure form office buildings of the International Style are almost completely naïve to these considerations.

The biggest tragedy is the air controlled paradigm of hvac. Air is so not dense relative to water! Doesn't hold energy and very hard to push around (push a column of air up 20, 50, 100 stories? Not happening). This is directly related to the early success of the Carrier ac company.
I never said (or even hinted) that I wanted anything banned. It's very dishonest of you to pretend otherwise. (but what else would one expect from somebody who likes r/the_donald.

Jon Stewart doesn't get to make Fox News carry his show unedited (or at all); and Reddit also has no particular responsibility to provide a platform for your fascist cronies.

I explicitly support your right to have bad ideas and to spread propaganda and lies. And you can do some on Voat and Gab and a host of other places that welcome your bullshit.
Possibly for the same reason even the Canada Revenue Agency won't do it's job, fear of racism:

http://www.richmond-news.com/news/cra-ups-its-game-targeting...
You're right that the fact that US factories weren't being bombed was critical, but it's important not to underestimate the scale here. The USA was a world powerhouse before wwii, with a higher gdp than all axis countries combined. Switching to a high-throughput wartime manufacturing powerhouse was straightforward.
The key is discipline.
Visual Studio Code isn't exactly a port either -- it is kind of interesting that Microsoft now has three entirely separate projects out there with the 'Visual Studio' branding.
>but did what amounts to a prank.

This is the stupidest comment I have read.

"Don't worry bro, I only shot you as a prank!"

"Don't worry bro, I only slept with your wife as a prank!"

This isa CEO of an incredibly far reaching site who was personally EDITING the posts of users on his site because his ego was hurt.

This is ridiculous!!!
Literally? I demand a photo of you inside emacs
This must be based on the NexDock: http://nexdock.com/

The pictures of the laptop are exactly the same device I have sitting in my lap right now. The NexDock of course has no computer inside it: it's a keyboard, touchpad, SD reader, USB hub, and display.
This project hopes to improve ObjC's shot at immortality :)
Thats a fair comment, but my point about calling this a prank being absolute BS still stands...
>I'm fairly certain electron could easily be modified to be installed once and used as the launcher for its applications.

That's fine, we can return to this topic when it will become a mature launcher app. The thing is that today it's not in that state yet.

>Besides, almost nobody writes true native applications anymore

True native applications are not just the applications written using some native API and platform-specific low level language. Native app is the app that comfortably exists within the operating system environment, follows the UI guidelines and integrates with native UX and performance enhancing functions of the OS. For example, some universal Windows app written on C# is native on Windows.
It's a similar problem in Europe, at least in some cities. My experiences, and anecdotes from friends:

Budapest: Prices are pretty good compared to hotels at all times. There are a few "professional" hosts but most are just letting out some spare capacity. Occasional bait-and-switch.

Copenhagen: Prices are equal with hotels, so it's really a lifestyle choice. Generally convivial hosts.

London: almost entirely professional, but the prices usually beat a hotel room by a large margin.

Barcelona: absolutely ruined. Completely professional, prices as high as hotels, and literally every room/flat in the city center has a Strict refund policy (i.e. lose half your money). Many instances of bait-and-switch (show you a nice flat, not available, take a look at this s*hole instead) and trying to screw you into cancelling (and keeping your money). Also had more than one friend have "break-ins" on the last day (often too late to sort with the police before your flight home).

AirBnB really need to crack down on professional hosts. Start with disallowing more than ~3 listings per host, and really punish bait-and-switch attempts.
Be passionate about the problem space the job and code exists in.
furthermore, you have admin sanctioned sections, like /r/srs, which are designed to mock opposite views.

the admins have tried again and again to suppress a pro-inscere type of speaker who speak in mocking hyperbole and not-literally. now they have grouped into one place, with an ideology (of anti pc speak) that took over a country.

you could argue the liberal pc "polite discourse" tolerance (of everything non white) was winning on reddit. but it didnt last.

t_d is now the anti-liberalism counterculture. the majority suppressing a counterculture they dont like never goes well. the ideas spread and last, and breaking up the places they congregate can make them more sympathetic victims. admins are treading on dangerous ground, and have been for a while.
Now, invalidating all the results is extreme and a crisis of governance. I see this same as you do.

My point isn't to do that. My point is doing that is entirely warranted!

My secondary point is we should fix this. SC is currently worst case as far as trustworthy elections go. No one should have any confidence at all.

Where that is true, can we reasonably expect no corruption or manipulation has happened?

Is that still true when it's basically impossible to find out?
Traditional fake news, tabloids, was based on a different market, but it's the same premise: generating ad revenue. Eyes are dollars, if you can attract eyes then you can earn dollars, the only limits are your ethical boundaries and creativity. Yet another reason why ad supported media is an extremely problematic situation.
Clojure (Lisp) printing system explained: humans vs. machines
I think you're overlooking who, exactly, their product is built for. Most people don't want to use ten different tools. They don't want to optimize every aspect of product management--they just want the basics to work. Most people don't understand what integrations even are. I happen to think it's a fantastic product, and so do many others. If they didn't, Basecamp wouldn't have so many paying customers!

There are certain things that I don't like about Basecamp, but I marvel at their ability to give people what they want. Instead of thinking, "This product is shit!" I think to myself, "Wow! This really taps into a need I didn't know existed in the world! I can learn from this to make better tools myself!"

I also really respect them because they've built a real business. They're profitable, are here to stay, and generally look out for their customers in the long run. They're not a company that treats their users like livestock waiting to be slaughtered for profit.
"Mechanical pixels" is an interesting turn of phrase. To my mind, this is no more (or less) mechanical than when molecules are moved around in the IPS LCD display you're probably reading this on.

Nitpickery aside, this is cool stuff. It will be interesting for sure to see what the first real commercialisation of graphene will be. Somehow I think that display technology is sufficiently mature that it won't be the killer app?
Because he works for AWS :D. But ditto for AWS
I wouldn't have the properties on one page.
Please explain why looking good necessarily means looking different from the native controls. Isn't consistency among apps on a given platform important?
/r/srs can covertly brigade because they are pro pc tolerance.

/r/t_d cannot brigade because they are anti-pc obscenity.

it has turned into speech policing. and trying to squash it, with half assed attempts, is making things worse.
You make it seem like not being excited equals having a negative attitude that brings everyone down. There are many shades of grey between those two.

I've worked on boring stuff that I wasn't excited about, but I didn't have a negative attitude at work. Every day I just came in, did what had to be done, went home. AFAIK my past co-workers and managers all appreciated my work.

I can empathize with what OP is saying. I've never been rejected myself for "lack of passion", but I know people who have interviewed perfectly fine candidates in terms of logic reasoning and technical aptitude and rejected them for this bullshit reason.

I don't understand this current expectation that you can't just do a good job at what you do, no, you have to be all starry eyed about it and thinking of it even in your dreams. There's more to life than work.
If a service is up 99.999% of the time, it's available for (0.99999 x 365) or 364.99635 days per year. That means that it can be down for 0.00365 days or a total of 5.256 minutes per year.

In comparison, if a service is only 99% reliable, it can be down for a total of 3.65 days per year.

The availability of your service depends on several factors, such as the availability of your servers, the availability of network connectivity, whether you have an uninterruptible power supply, etc.

Reliability is important to different people for different reasons. If Google search goes down for an hour, it's a mild inconvenience for any given user, but Google would lose a lot of revenue. If the phone system goes down for an hour, lots of people could die because they couldn't call for emergency services.
Funny question, but the answer is less powerful.

"This processor is a Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller, roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh."

"MSP430 is a 16 bit processor running at 16MHz. The Dhrystone benchmark measures 1.4 MIPS."[1]

No doom or rooting your MagSafe adapters.

[1]: http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...
A better article with more detail. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161103006949/en/eCur...
Scrolling is giving me ~20fps on my MBP...ouch.
I have a windows store js/html app which I plan to re-release on electron. It features a rich text editor and a few other features. I want to release on Linux and mac os. Should I go away and learn qt/gtk/wx? Restart the whole project in Java?

The idea that I might choose electron for ease/speed of development rather than use a leaner platform is being shit all over as a "business" decision. Not a "I don't have enough free time to learn two new languages and ui systems code three new apps" decision.
Then stop developing free software for Google. Be Firefox and/or Pale Moon exclusive. Problem solved.
Alone on Thanksgiving? Eat at My House
Dear HN,

Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do on Thursday? Feeling broke / lonely ?

If so, you should come to my house and join my family for Thanksgiving. We're making smoked Turkey and yams and stuffing and all sorts of other deliciousness. Our house is in downtown Menlo Park 5min from the Caltrain and a few blocks from Stanford University.

Truth is that no one gets anywhere in this world alone. When I was 20, it was the people who picked me up on my cycling/hitchhiking mis-adventure down the California coast and let me stay in their homes on Xmas. When I was 25, it was the New Yorkers who welcomed me into a new city and taught me how to stay safe in my job as a paramedic. When I was 29, it was the entrepreneurs & investors who introduced me to Silicon Valley and showed me how to go from Zero to 1.

And now, I feel compelled to return these favors however I can.

So...if you're in San Francisco Bay Area and you need a place to call home for Thanksgiving, let me know. We saved you a seat at the table.

RSVP at http://mattmireles.com/thanksgiving2016/

Happy Thanksgiving!

-Matt

PS Yes, I do this every year. It started back in 2012 as a way to get rid of get rid of excess food and has become a bit of a family tradition.
Is there still nothing comparable on Chrome? Is it not possible for some reason?
Maybe Curmudgeon Driven Development is a thing. I was totally surprised that by the end he hadn't advocated Perl 6. Like, "This is how it should be done: Parrot in Perl 6".

I was hoping out of this kerfluffle that some one would make Python3's TypeError show which variable was the byte string and the normal string. I haven't seen any people argue for improving the error reporting. It's that kind of thing that helps beginners when they start trying to do things with their current knowledge.
Forget Brexit and Trump, post-truth was spawned by the liberal left
"One seeking a managerial position isn't necessarily asked to demonstrate and perform his skills on spot, are they?"

Yes they are (kind of), they are asked questions/problems which are used to gauge their ability to manage and do the job expected of them; in the 'best' way achievable in a interview scenario. Just like coders are asked questions to try to gauge their ability.

I'm not saying either ways are perfect, but it's not like a managerial interview is easy/non-challenging.

[Edit: Ooops saw a similar reply below, done way earlier...will keep mine here for consistency on my part]
So to be clear, no Thunderbolt display working yet?
"It gets traded sometimes" != "It's a currency"
A lot of really old recipes, say, those dating to the roman era or even only the renaissance, are very unpalatable for modern tastes.
>We all knew this could be done. On any forum.

Yeah but for how long have you been in IT/Computers/A Sysop/Sysad????

You do know that this is the mortal sin in IT -- abusing access powers to data and stealing it or fucking with it???

I had a guy ask me "Well cant you just read their email?" - ME: "Technically yes, of course, but I would be fired and thats the last thing you do in IT"
The Helicopter Speed Limit
Can you explain further how Google is possibly at fault here? Legitimately ignorant of the situation.
I read it. It's good focus practice (and I enjoy it).
Convict-spotting algorithm criticised
"Afghanistan is an impoverished least developed country, one of the world's poorest because of decades of war and lack of foreign investment. As of 2014, the nation's GDP stands at about $60.58 billion with an exchange rate of $20.31 billion, and the GDP per capita is $1,900. The country's exports totaled $2.7 billion in 2012. Its unemployment rate was reported in 2008 at about 35%. According to a 2009 report, about 42% of the population lives on less than $1 a day."

"A January 2010 report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed that bribery consumed an amount equal to 23% of the GDP of the nation."

What's wrong indeed.
India’s Cash-Canceling Experiment
Then it's more a matter of taste than laziness. I very much prefer to have them all on a single page.
The discussion about the unethical and illegal things we're asked to do
Do you consider yourself to be an empathic person, able to understand their needs? I sincerely hope not. The inability of tech-focused people like yourself to understand that the group of people really give a about the latest tools is astounding.

While there are thousands of companies who want an open, modular system, there are tens of thousands more who could care less about what an 'API' is, what an 'integration' is, or getting fancy SAAS tool A to work with fancy SAAS tool B.

These companies only care about how a tool can help them run a better business, and for that, they're going to look for a single solution that does everything they want. They absolutely will not be looking for 5 tools they can string together to make some Frankenstein 'solution'. And hat's off to them for that, the sooner they realize their business is not a special snowflake the better.
Ruboto 1.5.0 released: write full stand-alone apps for Android using Ruby
Thanks. I understand the Tinkerpop JVM stack issue. They should have a native port as well.