skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of Dash as very respected in media, and I think of Fog Creek as being as the "engineers' company", so was surprised to see him CEO of Fog Creek and Joel CEO of StackOverflow. If anything, I would've thought it'd be vice versa? It's a testament to what a game-changer StackOverflow is in terms of information-design-for-humans that it could be capably headed by someone like Dash as much as Spolsky.

But if Fog Creek Software is tasked with coming up with more products and software-as-services, I would've thought that Spolsky would be more fit for that, even if StackOverflow is the biggest piece of the pie? (I admit to knowing little of how executive structures work though)
I liked ThingieQuery! But I understand.

Still an amazing little product!
To your last paragraph, bravo!
I get that, but the problem is we all accepted the system into our lives before it was ready and now the key players have, by their own design, no incentive to improve. Who do we submit bugs to in this scenario?
That's a long hard fall for Tony Fadell, from the pinnacle of autocratic Googliness to doing promo videos for dodgy coding schools.
No word about the ability to connect to 2x 5K monitors at full 60hz (no other notebook can do this).

Or 4x 4K @60Hz again: (no other notebook can do this).
Thanks for your purchase!:) I'm really glad you like it.

One thing to note - since the db engine is running in the same process as Excel it can interact with it. There are some nice things it can do because of this, for instance, SQL-based conditional formatting (e.g. there's a SetFontColor function), calling VBA functions from SQL and a bunch more.

There are also some other quite cool functions, e.g. replacex and regex_split, levdist, eval and others. The QuickQueries dialog has some built-in queries to check out if you're interested in what these can do.

As for permanent licenses, I understand the concern. If I do end up going offering permanent licenses for professional licenses, I'll either upgrade the existing licenses or offer a paid upgrade to the permanent license to cover any price difference.
Thanks for the heads-up. Wow, that's really ratty of them.
I worked at Redfin building tools for real estate agents and my ex was at Expedia doing tools for call center employees. Most of them don't even know about multiple tabs. We are in our little bubble about tech competency.
I have zero use for a touchbar. I dont have a vendetta against apple, if they come out with a machine that is usefull to me I'll happily buy it, but this current attempt is just a macbook air + a gimmick, when what I wanted was a useful work laptop.
It didn't really strike me as an end-run but more like his interest was in solving the self driving car problem and when faced with solving the regulatory problem he said "no thanks" and walked away.
I can: Blizzard for example.
But I would never live in Paris in my life
I wonder to what extent Google can shift calculations around in time to take advantage of fluctuations in power generation. Serving cat videos might be something you do all the time but indexing the web and training Go AIs doesn't have to be a continuous process.
DNS crypt? The google came up with several possibilities.
White House Silence Seems to Confirm $4B CS for All K-12 Initiative Is No More
What Makes an Industrial 3D Printer?
The idea that kids or young people are better with computers is not actually true. Yes they can use apps, some of them can install them, but for the most part they are clueless when it comes to actually fixing a problem with a computer.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
The conclusions here (avoiding long-lived per-identity keys and having the option to easily rotate and re-validate per-device keys) are very much what we've aimed for in the end-to-end crypto for Matrix.org (https://matrix.org/blog/2016/11/21/matrixs-olm-end-to-end-en...).

Rather than using a silo like Signal or WhatsApp, it is possible to get the flexibility of an open federated network built on an open standard, whilst still having the lighter weight approach of trust common to E2E messaging apps like WhatsApp. Or at least that's the hope :)
The biggest issue I see with the new MBP is that the iPhone 7 (released only a couple months prior) is essentially incompatible out of the box. The connectors are incompatible, and the headphones are not interchangeable without a dongle.

Apple used to go to great lengths to make their devices work great together, so it boggles the mind that the iPhone and Mac teams didn't coordinate the switch to USB-C.

The article even links to another post which makes it seem like Google's Nexus works better with the MBP than the iPhone - https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-...
What about when you want to hover over a key to tap it repeatedly, like F8 and F9 for stepping through debugging? Similar to hovering over the tuner seek buttons on a touch screen car radio, I don't know how people do that without looking and without a physical button to rest on.
I'm surprised no one has called him a SJW yet.
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That's at 40 hours per week, though. I suspect most people interested in this service could get a lot of headaches dealt with at ~10 hours, which raises the possibility of a PA taking on four clients and making median salary.

That's not going to get your grocery shopping done, but 10 hours/week seems like it would comfortably cover many people's paperwork/bureaucracy hassles.
I wish we had an easy way to ask the moderators if this is political for purposes of the weeklong political detox.
Some of the conclusions are wonky, but the line of reasoning is not that far off, and the facts he references correspond reasonably with discoveries in the field of evolutionary psychology.

I also can relate to the implied personal narrative, of the once nice guy sucker, who in utter disgust with the results that he got from it, transforms into the asshole like a butterfly from the cryssalis ;-)

I'm a little older, and have had a large number of relationships and flings, and whilst this guy sounds a bit embittered, his approach is not a bad starting place, and certainly much better for you than the present beta bitch climate of social justice where feelings are more important than facts.

Maybe the guys being critical of the article should consider listing the parts they most strongly disagree with.

Then again, this topic is a bit off from what HN is intended for...
A functional WoT should be no more difficult to use than managing your Facebook friends or contacts on your phone. Neither of those are difficult tasks, and are achieved by normal users every day.
Is being chosen by Joel Spolsky not enough of an endorsement for you?
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Is that offline? I also only run linux, and it looks like that only runs on windows. But thanks for the suggest.
Thanks, that's great idea. Will check it out.
No, contempt is when you remove a ubiquitous audio jack and replace it with a de-facto proprietary connector that requires an extra adapter to do the same thing it did before. And then have the cheek to call this "brave" and good for the customer.

Or when you release a machine with one USB port to be shared with charging and peripherals.

Or (opinion alert) when you take progressive steps to lock down your system more and more and more at the expense of power users.

Run whatever the user wants -> Run signed code only with an override -> Run signed only with an override that reverts back after a period of time -> (exercise for the reader)

Or (2x opinion alert) when you compromise on battery life and muscle memory (and hence usability) for a misfeature that adds questionable value that nobody actually wanted in the first place.

Apple's all about pleasing their customers perhaps, but at some point, their customer stopped being me and started being someone else. And this is sad, because OS X is the only nix-like out there that gives anything resembling the faintest hint of a shit about design and UX.

The author of the article put it well: The relentless and opportunistic penny-pinching is intentional though, and leaves a sour taste.
It varies considerably with the installation location.

Modern panels in decent locations are under 4 years.

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
Thanks, your comment made me smile:)
Who plugs their phone into their mac anymore?
I bought a Dell Chromebook 13 with an i5 processor and I upgraded the SSD. In the end, I might have been better off getting a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, but I am somewhat smitten with this pretty amazing little machine. I am worried about flashing the BIOS and bricking it, but that seems to be the only way, apart from constantly charging it, to avoid loss of data.
> The value of "sizeof (char)" in C is 1.

For those who might not be aware, this does not mean that a char is always 8 bits.
Of course there had to be one. :)
I remember my doctor had one of these and I would always inspect it while in his office.
I sympathize with the GP...The first thing I think when I think of you is your blog post about what it was like to be verified on Twitter :)

http://anildash.com/2013/03/what-its-like-being-verified-on-...

Though now I see the timestamp for that post is 2013 and I definitely knew of your work before then.
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| The only downside I've noticed so far is a lack of theming support.

you can probably write a simple pre-processing script using node (or python, ruby, go, etc) to do this, it wouldn't be that hard. But I agree that it should just be part of the library.
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Yeah, it looks like four now they're only doing joint official extensions. Basically you gotta work with someone at Microsoft to have your extension added to the store. Otherwise you can create a regular chrome extension and side load it, and it works like 75% of the time.
Haven't used the service personally (though I have received a couple things from them), but the Cards Against Humanity people run a fulfillment company: https://www.blackbox.cool/
Well I may be ignorant also, but as far as I can tell lme4/lmer doesnt have ANY options to specify the variance-covariance matrix while SPSS does. Also, when the number of within subject levels are few, I often find that using the classic repeated measures approach, but estimating using ML/REML (to handle random missing data) on a specified (or unstructured) covariance-variance matrix to be more powerful and/or more likely to converge while accounting for important dependences than mixed models using random effects...SPSS does this kind of analysis easily, but I havent found any equivalent packave in R.
The last thing that happened before I gave up (around 2010) was purchasing a laptop with entirely open source drivers (ie, low end hardware I wouldn't have otherwise purchased), and compositing still didn't work on an external monitor.

You'll probably say that's fixed now. I'm sure it is. I'm also sure it's been replaced by something else - I recall someone on HN saying one of Dell Linux laptops (ie, which are actually sold with Ubuntu) still has driver issues.

I switched to OS X for few years and now use a Surface Book mainly for shell reasons.
Also, it was mentioned in this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...

And the Hacker News thread of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103215 [A New Physics Theory of Life (2014)]
IIRC, they did not store user's keys. What they wanted was for Lavabit to turn over their SSL key, which would have compromised security for the entire service, rather than just targeting Snowden specifically.

Presumably they did not have the ability to turn over the emails themselves, so they wanted Lavabit to provide a vector to do a man in the middle attack.
In fact everybody who seems to be a 'computer expert' is probably comfortable at just one layer or two. Layers include

running applications
installing applications
writing applications
installing services and drivers
writing services and drivers
installing operating systems
writing code for operating systems
writing kernel code
designing hardware
designing chips
designing chip technologies
chemistry and physics
> It uses the regex and readline libraries

Given that readline is basically a line-oriented version of emacs (or vi, if you set the config), it sounds like you actually wrote a readline editor with an ed-inspired UI.
Yeah isn't that just reading comprehension?
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For Google to say that it will run entirely on renewable energy is not accurate. Thank goodness only the headline of the article says that, but the article explains that Google gets electricity from the grid--which is not 100% renewable.
What is with the needlessly complex description of tasks?

> Tasks are based on well-defined problems involving the use of only one function within a generic interface to meet one explicit criterion without any categorical or inferential reasoning, or transforming of information. Few steps are required and no sub-goal has to be generated.

It reminds me of times when I was writing articles for journals and had to find filler to reach the required arbitrary page count.
Sorry - wasn't meaning to imply that you had those options merely that some of us were daft enough to work with multiple graphical environments at the same time.

NB Subsequently OpenWindows came along and actually (AFAIR) supported client applications from all three platforms at the same time.
Hi, member of the Infinit team here.

We're very excited to be joining Docker! Their technology is great and the momentum behind them is really impressive. Feel free to ask questions, I'll be around a little this evening (based in Paris).

Their post: https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/docker-acquires-infinit/
This repo is a fork of gorhill/uBlock. Merging it upstream means merging the changes in this fork back to gorhill/uBlock so that majority of the UO community can enjoy the Safari compatibility of UO and this fork's user base can enjoy bugfixes from the gorhill/uBlock. And as users of ad blockers, we don't end up with 2 similar but slightly different softwares.

Ideally, this fork should be merged back as a PR to the original repo instead of advertising it as-is.
For Solar it obviously depends on a lot of factors (where you put them, which technology, where it is produced), but it's in the range of 0-4 years, depending on which study you look at. Common lifetime is ~20-30 years.

See e.g.
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/downloads/pdf-files/aktuell...
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
http://www.volker-quaschning.de/datserv/kev/index.php
I think there's something in the idea of putting people in roles where they balance out other people's strengths and weaknesses.

Fog Creek probably doesn't lack for smart engineering people, but might benefit from someone who has a wider view on media and society in general - as well as enterprise sales, which Spolsky calls out specifically. Tech people and engineers, on the whole, loathe enterprise sales.

Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan at HubSpot spring to mind two guys who you might not ordinarily put together but they've both got a big role, and it's the same kind of deal. Shah is an engineer and a hacker, Halligan is more of an old-school sales guy.

The reason why this is a smart move is the same reason why it is counterintuitive.
they're doing this financially, not through infrastructure building. the plan is to purchase equivalent dollar value of credits from renewable electricity suppliers. this highlights a significant issue: grid power is fungible and power sources are indistinct from the end-user's point of view.

is there some kind of auditing authority that can actually guarantee that the money spent is actually going towards electrical generation and isn't just slush-fund cash that financial holding companies play around with while nominally saying "green energy"?
Brings back memories of being into those LCD/LED watches as a kid back in the 70s/80s.
Like when I buy a new laptop from new egg, or contact Laura Poitras with a hot scoop...
Funnily, macOS uses CUPS internally, iirc.
You're not wrong, but I read that as 'thank': had it not been for Sun & Java, then maybe — just maybe — the development industry would have advanced beyond the 1960s/early 1970s.

Can you imagine if the standard language of enterprise development today were Smalltalk? Can you imagine if the standard language of the Web were Lisp (or Scheme)? Can you imagine if we'd sunk all the work into making Lisp & Smalltalk great that we instead sunk into making Java & JavaScript not so terrible that they cause spontaneous seppuku?
Thanks for the idea. I've considered it.

Unfortunately, some of my kids have a propensity for repeating what they read/hear, without consideration for our rules regarding coarse language. So it wouldn't work well in my case.

As far as it being "just a[n] rhetorical device", I think we probably have difference in values, which I don't think can be fruitfully discussed in this forum.
I don't want to be a defender of snake-oil email providers but I think a 'secure' e-mail provider hopefully does more then just GPG to other users.

They hopefully have a good secure authentication system (Protonmail just added SRP and 2Fa) and hopefully have correct policy for things such as DKIM, SPF.

They hopefully also keep up with security updates and stuff like that.

Doing these things seems normal to many, but the reality is that many E-Mail providers have non of those things.
Microsoft's new US-East datacenter expansion will be over a mile long.
This makes me cry. This is what's wrong with computer science in 2016.
Yes, they move the entire cohort together.
My own dystopian prediction (and extrapolating from trends) is that more and more of the population will enter the services economy:

- in zero-sum activities like advertising

- providing services for the mega-rich (there will always be demand for humans as servants, at the very least as a status signal and luxury indicator)

- a lot of work in social and medical services (there's an expected shortage of nurses and elderly caregivers)

- and cutthroat competitive non-productive activities like entertainment (which, if you want to be optimistic, would mean more finer arts and stuff, but it probably means more youtuber-style stuff).

- Edit: and other labor-intensive "luxury" products, as shown by the rise of Etsy, craft breweries, organics, etc. http://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/manual-labor-luxury-...

There will be a lot of unemployment or on-demand employment or freelancing, unless governments start regulating (I hope not, I'd rather have something like basic income than make-work).

Social services is one area where there can be growth, and create self worth, see this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037810 , and particularly this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039672

Edit: One thing I'm NOT worried about is general AI taking over ALL human activities - as Alan Perlis once quipped "A year spent in Artificial Intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

https://cs.calvin.edu/documents/intelligent_machines
It's hard to explain, as I'm not on OSX/iOS, but I'm 90% sure it's when you scroll up too fast and you can see «behind» the website.

Because of the touch events, the browser decides to not use those features, as it might affect it. Since there's no standard way to do it (like a meta tag), the browser has to decide with the events it has.
I don't like the "experiment" either, but there are _always_ unintended consequences to actions. It's not my fault they're doing a crappy "experiment."
I'm a "developer" in the sense that I have developed things but I better not leave my day job.

For me, at least, I thought the touchbar represented a HUGE boost to productivity WHEN I coupled it with BetterTouchTool. Whenever I would use atom/sublime, there were lots of handy key bindings that I could either not remember for the life of me or which were kinda annoying to press. Well, I decided to take a couple hours and dedicate that time to putting those on the touchbar with BTT. For me at least, it has been glorious. Now really handy options for code traversal are RIGHT THERE as buttons on the screen, and now I use them constantly. I understand that for real power users they would have already memorize the key bindings or would have re-mapped them, but for me this was a crucial feature to actually getting me to use them regularly.
Well, I would just do what this guy is doing and make the software available for free. This is preferable to never making the software at all. If the NHTSA manages to put a chilling effect on open AI research, that's a great example of government regulation indirectly hurting a lot more than it helps.
Visualization of Android version distribution history over last 5 years
>I am not going to let my car being driven by dynamically typed code without any tests.

How are you going to enforce that? Make Tesla show you their source?

How are you not already enforcing that? Make the existing automobile makers show their source for the plethora of computer driven systems!
> "After the book tour was over, one of Cuddy’s co-authors, who had been silent on the topic of power poses for years, unexpectedly weighed in. Dana Carney posted a 1,000-word statement on her website saying, in unambiguous language, that she no longer believed in power poses. (...) She tore into her own methodology, calling the sample size "tiny" and noting that the effects are "small and barely there in some cases."

Interesting taking some long, like waiting for a book-selling-tour end up, to then say that you don't believe anymore in what you've studied, and that you have reasons (and not just a felling) to dismiss your research.
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You have to start somewhere.

Moving manufacturing and infrastructure from "dirty" to "green" is a transition process. It's infeasible to modify the entire supply chain to be non-renewable in one shot.

The entire world's economy is incredibly intertwined. The entire manufacturing stack won't be purely renewable until the entire world is running on renewable energy.
I only install a few, handpicked, popular extensions, and even so I had this malware pop up the other day.

I don't trust the Chrome Web Store anymore. Too many horror stories and I can't see evidence of Google doing anything about cleaning up their act.
Hmmm... It's a problem. It's very much a side project (I only built it because I needed it), and building a demo that works when you aren't logged in is a bit of a nightmare as I'm sure you can imagine.

Thanks for commenting though, I have written about what it does here if you'd like to see before you sign in.

https://mystudentvoices.com/scraping-google-scholar-to-write...

You'll also need a Chrome extension, all very annoying but sadly unavoidable.
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> Any application that can be written as a simple composition of smaller components, will eventually be written as a composition of smaller components, and then custom complex logic will sneak in mutating it into a big ball of mud