skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High-end real estate agents are a possible source of custom. Similarly, commercial property developers would benefit if they can add augmentations to your VR environments (move a wall, add lighting etc).
I agree absolutely that this is exceedingly annoying. That said, it's popular among the people who control design decisions so it's here to stay, for now.

So do we use a javascript solution that also performs like crap, or accept that this is a common use case and provide a standard way to do it?
Although the parent didn't allude to it in his reply, the network effects that the npmjs registry provides is huge and is its killer feature. In my experience, there's usually multiple, specific modules for anything you're trying to do. Case in point, I'm developing a music curation service and there are no less than 5 recently updated modules for downloading from youtube and scores of them for converting playlists from one service to another.
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I agree. "Polis" is the root of both "politics" and "policy" [0]. The modern definition of policy extends to groups both larger or smaller than cities. I don't know which claim is under dispute.

[0] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=policy&allowed_in_f...
Try to determine which skills will be most important for getting your business off the ground,

For example take 10 developers, even if they are all great they will have different strong points. Some devs will have a strong product design/UX intuition, others will be strong at building platforms/performance/scaling.

Also assess non-tech skills. Can they be effective with marketing, writing, speaking, negotiations?

The point is picking the right strengths for your mission, and the right strengths to complement your own skills is a big deal.
perfect chance to pitch my spiel.

- beds may be satellite dishes (google coil array ,or video @ youtube aman apeman)
- vaccines are little ufos and cause nut cancer, breast cancer, and vagina cancer and retardation (check the graphs. retardation and deformity increases upupup, chrons and adhd up up up, cancer up, paralysis/spinal/mental illnesses all up hugely, article posted here with graphs before but deleted (hn))
- chemtrails may be skynet, most likely for missle defense, worse a soft-kill (net being a thing you cannot escape from that surrounds you)
- aliens exist, and there are hundreds of pictures (youtube reptilian thailand real, hex county reptilian, oregon forest creature, son doong cave reptilian, lee county reptilian)
- mercury (vaccines) is known toxic since 500bc (dartmouth.edu) and probably causes autism and retardation. heavy metal poisoned kids often had eppilipsy and autism, heavy metal toxicity being linked as the cause of epilipsy, mercury, a heavy metal, is probably causing the autism too, [brain axxons are electric conductors so is mercury]

my data has been removed from top forums, (cooperatively? multiple subreddits) reddit, hackernews, and other message boards. nobody wants to read this, maybe they cant cuz the spy is already in their head or bed. hackernews deleted my data on mercury, vaccines, and various posts about TLS exploits, because they were uncomfortable, at least, to hear.

they didnt listen to kevin mitnick when he said the same things snowden said in 1993.

in my day to day im a fullstack programmer, who also dabbles with activism, curing cancer, small business entrepreneurship and open source. i've been attacked verbally and insulted just for mentioning vaccines [are little ufos and cause testicular cancer]. i've been silenced on all major forums [hn/reddit/4chan] for talking about aliens and mercury poisoning of all things

you see padiwan, things are not always as they appear.
John Markoff covered tech for the NYT for 28 years, now his time is over
Modern aircraft have engineering tolerances that are absolutely absurd: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g2428/7-airplane-wing...

The shake and wobble in wings is by design. If they didn't flex they'd shatter.
I mean sure this is one of the larger players, but there are lots of large players.

If you owe the bank 1 million, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank 1 trillion, you own the bank (the metaphor works great when you compare the US to China).

Even with his revenue stream gone, Google will still be fine with YouTube being a platform they control. It would take several content creators of his influence to make a dent.

(I honestly never heard of him until today. 50 million subscribers? Cool story bro).

YouTube is a walled garden and a double edge sword. It's very difficult to get that kind of audience without using their platform just due to their market share.
Windows games are generally not made in dotnet, and games which are made in dotnet (mostly Unity) are actually run on Mono. AMD's Mesa RadeonSI(free) driver frequently outpaces their fglrx(proprietary) driver on recent hardware. NVIDIA and AMD distribute good quality proprietary drivers for Linux, but given the pace the Linux kernel takes, and the benefits of integrating with the native interfaces of the kernel, AMD has decided to write good quality open source drivers as well as their proprietary ones. NVIDIA blocks community open source efforts by delaying the release of firmware images vital to enabling basic features of their GPUs. SteamOS is shipping fglrx for now, and fglrx doesn't currently rely on the DC kernel code. Most SteamMachines seem to be NVIDIA-based for now, and while it's inconvenient to ship their proprietary driver, it is in no danger of failing to work.

Read an article or something.
That was PPC-on-amd64 emulation. I don't know much about hardware-assisted virtualization, but I guess that was easier than x86-on-ARM64?
> I loved that Lego was even units so you could end up having two things half way across your universe pretty much line up perfectly, or require just a few adjustments.

This fact is extremely under-appreciated: the Lego system works the way it does because they have attained truly astounding tolerance control in a cheap injection-molding process. I remember a couple of years ago when a small startup promised a Lego-like replacement, but themed for girls. The hype got them plenty of sales, but the poor fit of the pieces meant lots of disappointed customers.
Tinder CEO steps down to head up dating-focused fund
These are by no means the norm outside of Silicon Valley VC funded companies where they have become table stakes. Good health and dental in many cases but not the rest. And unlimited vacation, where offered is, even ignoring the more cynical interpretations mostly about eliminating liabilities especially under California law.
Web Bluetooth?! Am I the only one who just learned this was a thing?

Recently I have grow interest in progressive web apps, I wonder if there is a list of the sensors/interfaces that can now be accessed from a web browser, it will certainly be helpful
Whether you like it or not...
Ask HN: What's your container story?
I'm doing my research project on containers, their usefulness and pain points. I greatly appreciate anyone who wishes to share their container story with me :)
1. Do you use or wish to you containers in your company? If so, How many containers do you run in production?

2. What kinds of jobs are running on your container deployment (analytics?, batch processing, CI/CD)?

3. How big is your company(employees, revenue, users)? and what field is it in (mobile, AI)?

4. Do you use any orchestrators/special tools (kubernetes/docker swarm)?

5. What is the biggest challenge in using containers for you?
It's not pragmatic to allow a specific vendor to dump 100k LOC in your project that you have to maintain indefinitely so their developers have an easier time writing for both Windows and Linux.

In my opinion the existing AMDGPU code isn't exactly spectacular as it is. They barely have comments or commit messages and there's a ton of duplication. Linux has issues with keeping driver contributions up to snuff as it is, without enormous vendor-specific HALs everywhere.
Even more clear:

> Cleaning up that is not enough, abstracting kernel API like kmalloc or i2c, or similar, is a no go. If the current drm infrastructure does not suit your need then you need to work on improving it to suit your need. You can not develop a whole drm layer inside your code and expect to upstream it.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Februa...
For any other layer-7-only arm-chair mechanics who also weren't sure what a HAL[1] was, I'm here to help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software)
No way you're top 1% when normalized to location.
Money has to be lent to be saved, of course. If the money is not invested in the provider or public sector, then the wealth won't exist later to meet the deferred needs.
My naive assumption is that code reuse across platforms is a good thing, I'd love to understand why this isn't the case here or what the concrete arguments are against it.
There's always Canada which can act as a backdoor into the US via the TN visa. Although it's awesome here in Canada you probably won't want to leave.

It is tied to NAFTA though and in the current climate this may not last.
newspapers hid data and deleted emails and letters sent to them for 200 years.

congressmen have 'deleted those emails' too, and hid the proof for 200 years

vaccines are little ufos and cause testicle cancer, vagina cancer, and breast cancer.
> Your users can't be easily MITM attacked

Ha, ha. Your browser trusts your corporate/institutional/national proxy, or else.
I've gotten great service from their Play store customer help. I can't recall a single bad experience I've had with them. They've not only solved my issues but exceeded my expectations with some of them. I'd say that qualifies as "giving a fuck" about their non paying customers.
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Chap (presumably),

> But, HN, I don't know why WE aren't admitting this to ourselves or why we defend such obvious ruses.

What exactly makes Signal an obvious ruse? Many of us don't admit that evading surveillance is impossible because we work full time in commercial surveillance. This is the currently dominant business model of the technology industry. Many of us have also worked in defense / government. At the very least, the fact that we have a non-commercial FOSS alternative to data-collection-traps, which is gaining traction, is fantastic.

> Well, maybe some of you have signal stock I guess.

Signal is run by a non-profit.

You just sound like you're spreading FUD.
I can't explain this, but on the day I'm going to fly somewhere, I'm scared about it from the moment I wake up. Maybe 'extreme anxiety' would be a better word, since I'm not actually afraid that I'll die at that exact moment; just anticipating it later on.

I remain in that state during the whole trip to the airport, during check-in, while going through security screenings and sitting in the departure lounge, and while walking through that arm thing that connects to the plane, right up until the moment that I actually sit down in my seat and buckle in.

And then I'm fine.

Happens every single time. And I've no clue why I could be terrified of flying when I'm on the ground, but totally fine when I actually am flying.
I believe this link is the "concrete argument" against a unified abstraction layer in this particular instance.
Now gents, a number of you in the comments have wondered about what other alternatives are out there. You may have seen that I specifically advise against Signal, and other users have also expressed concerns about a number other applications, amongst which Wire and Telegram.

One that, to my knowledge has not been mentioned yet, but which would appear to meet some common measure of functionality versus convenience expressed here, is XMPP messaging application Conversations (https://conversations.im/).

I am not going to give it my personal recommendation because having tested it, I did not like a number of design decisions the developers have made, and I did not like their overall vision for the app. With that said, it's horses for courses.

On the end to end encryption front (all the rage these days, eh?), it appears that the Conversations devs have taken Signal's protocol and _done it right_. That means, they actually specced it (https://conversations.im/omemo/) and had it audited (https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf), along with a couple important improvements such as eliminating the requirement for a trusted server or Google Play, which greatly reduces the attack surface.

Again, I personally do not like Conversations and I'm not going to use it myself--that's a personal preference thing, but kudos to the devs for doing a professional job, especially while everyone else are busy selling snake oil.

I say, go give Conversations a try, it may be the thing you were looking for.
Check out Matrix/Riot.
Curious, will position:sticky work for a thead tag? or a tr? All the workaround for this have their faults.
"Anyone have hints on how to gracefully breach the salary topic"

My tip is: don't be graceful. It's stupid, but the subjective perception people will get when you approach the topic straight up and say "I run 250k/year, is that within your range, before we go any further?" is powerful.

The first thing that happens is that you get slotted for the higher level positions right away, will talk to more important people, and do the more interesting interview (that is often not any harder than what they ask college grads. It's just less "please write a hashmap on a whiteboard!"), so you'll get the job anyway, but make 100k more a year or whatever.

It's dumb, but it's how the industry work.
>"We need to change the education system so you spend less time when you are young learning to be hyper-specialized and more lifelong learning."

This may be desireable, but youth unemployment is high exactly because people don't have enough of the required skill & experience to compete for a job. I don't think it's plausible that we'll dial back on education in this type of winner-takes-much workforce environment.
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the other thing to note is that a lot of new APIs (and older ones which are being updated) require HTTPS - geolocation, webBT, webUSB, service workers, etc, all require HTTPS (or will, soon).
So new users don't have proper security guarantees? That seems like a somewhat serious flaw.
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If they're simply following UX recommendations blindly, they could go for this one:

"Use a progress indicator for any action that takes longer than about 1.0 second."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/progress-indicators/

You don't necessarily know in advance whether it'll take 1 second, but I think a strategy that would work is: after 1 second, if the task is not done, open a progress bar, and if the task completes immediately after that, display the completed progress bar for 500 milliseconds or something before closing it.
FLAC support seems to be merged to M-56 too:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93887
I know it's not what's happening...but if we were to close the salary gap between the rich and the poor (so poor people made more money, and rich people make less), instead of keeping the gap the same but shifted up, or widening the gap...wouldn't this happen?

So in theory, it wouldn't be that bad a thing. Now, if it's just that the gap stays the same but things are shifted down, well obviously that's bad.
Google is all set to launch “Mobile First indexing “ Rule
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Android is Linux.
too bad fetch still can't abort a request.
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In this case it's showing a 24 progress bars each for an item that takes less than 1ms.
I'm from Finlan ld but visting the US, till February and I have a feeling US will watch Belarus very closely to see if it is successful thrn will try to quietly implement a ban or interfere with Tor as best as they can. Rule 41 is a mere Apptizer. The Americans have yet to receive their Entrés. What's even more scary is the radical laws being fought for in Canada as of today.
Housing: Today's 30yo live in nicer houses, that are on the whole located in nicer places. Eg. in cities that have less pollution and more facilities than they had before.

Education: Okay, that kind of sucks. But in here Australia, as an example, costs of repayments for the education are way less than the reductions in tax rates over the last 30 years. We had a 60% marginal tax rate when I started work...

Health care: again, the amount and level of health care received today is far higher, and it seems that things are now "health care" that were something else 30 years ago... eg. my health fund has rebates for gym, massages meditation etc.

Child care: this is a little odd... have child care workers' earnings increased? Are there less kids/carer in kindergarten? Or are we just putting kids in kindergarten more, instead of leaving them with Grandma?

Finally: I would trade all of the advantages that the previous generation enjoyed for smartphones and internet. The quality of life today is, IMHO, incomparably higher that 30 years back.
Chuck, just want to say your detail and insightful comments are a tremendous asset to the community!

I do have to disagree though: MSFT has office and windows as major cash cows, maybe azure will also start turning some big profit in 2017 as well (tbd). So they can afford those r&d style projects without nearly as much risk as "Alphabet". I do agree with your assessment of goog though: the heat is turning up and I don't doubt belt tightening is their future.
> They could afford education

To be fair, they could afford it because they didn't care about it. The degree attainment rate has doubled since 1980. If the student population reverted back to those levels, price would plummet.
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>I actually have fondest memories for Meccano

What really hooked me was that they were so well suited for electrical components. Adding gears to the axle and making it turn on its own.
There was only 1 good feedback option "dump your core business and do something completely different." They ignored that.
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As far as I'm concerned, it would be great to have more sophisticated modesetting available on my new AMD hardware; but if it means a compromise in the DRI I won't stand for it. There's no sense in having a review process if a vendor can largely ignore a review and go silent for three quarters, then ask for whatever they have to be merged because they'd like it that way.
I think the idea is that the kernel maintainers can't break the code that the AMD driver relies on and in order to properly do that they need to be able to easily grok all the driver implementations, and abstraction layers make that more difficult.
Well, there is still overhead for using HTTPS, particularly for the handshake. This is unlikely to be palpable at your size, though.
Well, I just tried to get a job in my company's QA department writing unit tests. Come to find out, my company ONLY hires non-leadership/senior positions in Belarus and Bangalore. I have friends in management, they can't bypass it. Rule was set high up.

The job I interviewed for is managing teams over in those places, and I'm not entirely qualified because I haven't worked in QA. So I'm just left no where. I always thought if I worked hard and did the right things, I could get ahead. It's not true.

I don't know if I'll ever achieve my goals without moving to India to get a job, then working my way back to the USA. But it certainly might be related as to why only half of 30 year olds earn more then their parents did. I'm going to keep trying but I've worked so hard and have a great reputation at work. I've done so much on my own time.

I for one, am fairly demoralized.
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If I was to meet Zuckerberg I'd quiz him on that quote and ask him, did you A/B test that? If he did boy would he be in for a surprise ;<).
Internet explorer did the same thing with downloads; I discovered this when I had a 1GB C: drive and a 6GB D: drive and tried to download something that was too large to fit on the C: drive.
Not to mention that in buying the soda in bulk, they'd almost definitely get a better price per can than a single six-pack
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Given the hue and cry Salesforce made to try and block the acquisition from going through, I suspect an integration with Dynamics as well.
The disability program is hurting society. You can get disability for having autism.

Once they are on it, they have incentives to stay on it forever. If they make even one dollar working they lose it all, so they make extra cash under the table through committing fraud, selling drugs, etc.

No one can sue them and take it away, so they do things like go without insurance, buy things on credit with no intent to pay, titling their car in someone else's name, and hundreds of other tricks they learn in their new 'job'. By day they can do whatever they want. People who work have to pay not only to sustain them but also for the damage that they are causing directly to them.
They died in a space craft. You think the other Apollo crews were like "Whew, at least it was in training!" and brushed it off?

Going to space involves strapping yourself into a tiny capsule on top of something that's filled with explosives. There's nothing safe about it.
Unless you are famous, no one will steal your idea. The truth is it will be very difficult to get anyone to even care about your idea. Google, E-Bay were rejected many times, no one cared. The positive side to this is you can sharpen your pitch. Once you get strong positive (honest) feedback you know your story is getting stronger.

Do not pay for $1 of development until you have done lots of validation. Have you talked to experts in the industry? How many potential customers said they'd be willing to buy? Have you spec'd out an MVP? Have you had someone who's run a successful startup review your business model?

Once your ready to hire developers, you again need to plan carefully. There are 100 ways to get burned. Also it takes skill to manage their effort and know when things are going wrong.
I wonder if anyone has done the same kind of analysis on groundwater / well-water reservoirs.

I wish there was a simple way to combine different sources of map data to produce new visualizations. This is the 21st century, maps should be as easy to make as memes! Are there standard formats? Where would one even begin?
Ask HN: Geographic Dependent Pricing
Hey guys,

I'm wondering if anyone knows if this has been done already.

A simple javascript lib/function that allows you to display pricing dynamically based on the origin of the request.

An example would be if I load into the config -> {'USA' : '$2.99' , 'AU' : '$4.99'} and then when clients visit the website, if they are from Australia they will get the $4.99 displayed and if your in the US you get $2.99.

How do you guys handle this problem? or do you have a work around?
Thinking about writing a small open source library to complete this.

Thanks,
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Patches in git are generated on-the-fly. This is actually one of the critical things that made git so much better than conventional version control systems at the time -- it doesn't need to track diffs (which means it doesn't have to handle the infinite fractal of problems that spiral out of rebasing diffs). It can just compute them when it needs them.

Think of git like a snapshotting filesystem that has a VC interface added on top.
I agree 110%.
'Stop defending yourself.'
This thread being here today is rather ironically timed, given that Google announced internally today it isn't giving its employees any Christmas gift for the first time in its corporate history, presumably because of the financial impact.
I use Pinboard for my bookmarks. There's an add-on/extension for every conceivable browser or platform.