skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeesh. In fairness it's a fine list, but you can be an excellent JavaScript developer and know less than one third of what's on that list. Ambitious JS lifers maybe can get to most of that, but for people who value some breadth of knowledge across tech, I'm not sure even pursuing such a list is a good idea.
We don't need to confirm your nationality. The people bringing that up had no basis for doing so.

Please use HN as intended from now on.
I personally know a man who moved to CA from the NJ (fellow HAM I met on the air) who is getting treatment for his neuropathy here in CA via Medi-Cal whereas he was homeless "back home" with no relatives to support him.

Anecdotal, but I don't question his story.
I found that on macOS, refactoring even a tiny Xcode project to use Swift added 10 MB of libraries to the resulting bundle. The OS needs to start including a stable set of Swift frameworks by default so that Swift-based programs do not require users to download much fatter binaries.
>someone's gotta get those chairs for them

This seems more like a job for an administrative assistant than a manager.
TOP-DOWN:

Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others);
It really isn't disingenuous to call it FUD. A simple Google search would've clued you in. You don't have to mean to spread FUD to spread FUD, and you should own it and stop.
This dialogue on Kerberos comes to mind, but I doubt it's what you're looking for: https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html
TypeScript is a lot better than pure ES6 since it has modifiers, accessors, abstract classes, interfaces, etc.

http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/classes.html
"Business books are basically romance novels for men. Silly fantasies, terrible writing, large type, cheap paper and one good idea per book" - Benedict Evans

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/140900879879520256
Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?
All this reminds me of good old times when I had no kids - we used to debate when to code better and how many hours of sleep someone needs (8 was the minimum apparently).

Then kids happen, and you are lucky to sleep 6 hours, everyone becomes a late night AND morning person at the same time, and write code any time of the day (and actually better, since you start valuing every minute).
Forging has benefits over casting in cost and in the properties of the finished product.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging
This is getting downvoted with no explanation, rude if you ask me;

The points are salient: I personally know a man in care who's been seemingly "kept stupid" with drugs while in an assisted living facility receiving treatment, and yes you can sleep outdoors most winter nights in CA, not comfortably but it's doable.
Maybe it's my old "moral relatavism" kicking in, but the point of view you espouse here seems to have at its core an extreme utilitarianism. As if saving the quantity of lives trumps all other concerns of existence. That's fine and all, but I choose other, less rigid ways of looking at things like to study of consciousness. On a practical level, the study of consciousness seems to promise real world benefits. on a more mystical level, it's an extension of our desire to understand the fantastic experience of being alive.

It is interesting to note how often the need for "consciousness raising" is connected to strategies for environmental preservation.

On the topic of the OP, extending to argument that other human consciousnesses exist to animals seems entirely sensible. We share so much biology and physiology with the higher animals, as well as behavior, it seems strange to exclude the experience of "self" from animal behavior.

As someone noted, the fact that animals dream strikes me as a compelling argument the the animal has a psychological construct of self.

I live with a very smart dog, and am continually fascinated by sharing my life with another being, who is non-human.

One of the things that I find interesting is noticing how my dog has its own mental construct of physical reality. She is highly attuned to things that interest her, that she has a mental construct for. So she will become quite focused on a fly, buzzing around the room. But she seems to have very little awareness of cars, paying them little to no attention. Unless the it is a stopped car with door open, then she tunes right in.

It's informative to me in trying to understand my own lived experience of reality, and how heavily filtered it is enable experiencing the constant sensory input to my brain as more than an overwhelming stream of pure sensory data, rushing in at a far greater rate than my conscious brain could ever process.
As I understand it, forged metal is stronger than cast metal, because the forging process aligns the crystallized structure of the metal into a "grain" that is parallel to the geometry of the final part.
Hi "FBSecuritySux",

I'm not a member of the Facebook security team, but I work in the industry and your comment frustrates me. I can understand criticizing companies for poor security decisions if they are legitimately bad decisions, but I don't think that's the case here...

I just tested this between two Facebook accounts, and got a URL like this: https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t35.0-12/12628848_1...

Let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that all those numbers in the URL are predictable and 100% the security relies on the "oh" and "oe" parameters. Taking a rather naive approach both of these appear to be exclusively hex strings. Therefor "oh" is 16 bytes and "oe" is 4 bytes making the total 8*(16+4) = 160 bits

In other words, assuming both parameters are truly random, an attacker would have to try (worst-case) this many combinations to view a victim's image:
2,135,987,035,920,910,082,395,021,706,169,552,114,602,704,522,356,652,769,947,041,607,822,219,725,780,640,550,022,962,086,936,576
XED author here...

@dbcurtis: Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.
I've always thought there are two sorts of management - keep things going style and make new stuff mode. MBA's are directed at keeping things going - fitting into middle management, warring with other MBA factions, fighting over internal politics etc. You need an MBA for this because you know the language, it's a very unique language and to get respect from the current incumbents you need to know the language. It has nothing to do with making new things (in general), these are stories they like to tell themselves, but I think in general it's not correct.

The other sort of business is making new things, here business school knowledge comes in handy but it's not a big part of the answer - you can learn this stuff on the fly. More so I think knowing too much MBA stuff can be detrimental cause it interferes with your gut feelings. If having an MBA was useful then every startup would have an MBA, like every middle manager has an MBA, qed.

So MBA's in short MBA's are in high demand because they teach you the rules of the game that all the other MBA's know. Does it have much to do with business itself? Well some of it imho

edit: you could say an MBA contains the rules of engagement. but having an MBA doesn't make you a great general, and street fighters never bother to learn the rules.
Swift needs a stable ABI before that can happen. That was planned for Swift 3, but it didn't work out. Currently it's planned for Swift 4, which will ship next fall. If Apple immediately takes the opportunity to bundle the libraries with the system, then apps targeting iOS 11 or macOS 10.13 written in Swift 4 will be able to avoid embedding the libraries.
Python is used to generate C code from tables. Also use python to build/package/test.
(This is a dupe -- it's the same article, just different HN titles chosen by submitters.)
Interesting that your site doesn't work at all without allowing third party scripts. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before, hosting the entire page on another domain.
In much of the Middle East they have specific carriages or areas (often optional tho, depending on the country) for women and children. Public transport should be available to all, at all times. But the mentally disabled could be provided a specific carriage. If the mentally ill are a burden in their current form, they should be provided MORE, not less, as a solution.
In Med school here (Australia) we are specifically cautioned against using the Heimlich manoeuvre and we're told to use the above techniques
My default RDBMS of choice has always been PostgreSQL and I'm not sure why I should choose SQL Server, even now that it's available on a non-Windows platform. I understand that there are some fancy DB things that it can do and it's optimizer can be better in some circumstances, however I like to use ORMs and don't generally interact directly with the DB. Besides, those things pale in comparison (in my mind) to the hassle in dealing with Microsoft and licensing. Using PostgreSQL is simple and doesn't involve breaking out a spreadsheet to determine how much we need to pay for it. I've seen Microsoft licensing and the companies I've been at have had to have entire departments to figure it out. No thanks.

Now, the one thing I've heard from everyone is that the SQL Server tooling is beyond belief, and I believe it. If there is one weakness in the open source RDBMS world it's tooling. With such as large and obvious gap how is it that no one has filled it yet? Will no one pay for tooling? Are there tools available but the quality is not there? Seems like a good candidate for someone to fill a niche and possible make a successful business.
I come from 10 years using macs and gave a shot a Windows 10 for a couple of weeks.

Windows 10 comes with Windows Defender which is more than enough if you are one of those rare persons with common sense.

If you only need to use Adobe software (or any other industry specific) Windows 10 is good. You can chose your own hardware, and personally I've found it to be stable and fast. No need to get an overpriced and decrepit Mac Mini.

I wouldn't use it as a general use machine though. I've found that the Windows ecosystem is plagued with old win32 XP era software.
Have you seen "Amateur Allure Jen"?
The gas station analogy is contrived: a comparable car can be filled with half a tank of liquid fuel in two or three minutes, while the Tesla website quotes the supercharger charging it to half charge in 20 minutes.

It's certainly a lot more reasonable to leave the car unattended for 20 minutes while going about one's business, especially as supercharger stations in urban and suburban areas tend to be near malls and retail districts. Nor is it much fun running back to your car within five minutes, but it's clear that this initiative is trying to encourage a behavior that's more considerate towards others waiting to charge.

It also illustrates a different trend: that Teslas, more so than any previous car, blur the line between outright ownership and a automobiles-(and associated infrastructure)-as-a-Service -- (edit: even if they don't intend to make a profit off this change).
For a good idea of what this type of program can do to a society, take a look at the native Americans. The monthly allotment received by most only perpetuates very serious social problems. I know that most who will push for these types of programs have good intentions, but the outcome will probably prove to do more harm than good, generally speaking.
He said existence is analogous, not "is". It's a matter of feeling by the person. While their every move isn't dictated - because it's impossible to enforce at such a scale - the parallels to slavery are there.

>> Bureaucracy has one big advantage, it subjugates everybody, powerful or weak alike to the same rules.

I'm fairly confident some small party at the top runs the show and everyone else is a subject. Every non-democratic government boils down to being an oligarchy, and those at the very top usually have the most freedom.
ugh- how is Angular so popular?
I think what's being suggested here is that these products provide no utility (or even negative utility in the case of antibiotic-resistance-generating antibacterial soaps) and so you're being tricked into buying them for no valid reason.

There may be some products you actually do consume for no good reason, but note that even if a product serves no real purpose, it can still have value to you, even if just by making you feel good about owning or using it.

You could say that all of fashion is a "scam", because cheap, plain-looking clothes can protect you from the elements just as well as expensive, extravagant clothes. But nevertheless the latter can serve a purpose, such as (for example) social signaling that can enhance your reproductive success -- so it has evolutionary utility. Same with fancy cars, more or less.
Free market dogma usually does hold up.

Communism and Socialism is such a perniciously appealing idea: 'just let the government control everything and everything will be fair - take stuff from rich people and give it to the poor!'.

Young people have a really have a hard time with the paradox:

It's easy to understand an authoritative, centralized system that controls everything and 'maximizes efficiency'.

It's hard to understand how independent agents, working in a loosely collaborative 'free market' can actually provide much better efficiency in most scenarios.

Most nations had to go through some heavy duty socialism to realize that it doesn't work very well - and it will be ongoing: teachers and professors aren't a fan, and they push socialist ideals for the 20 years or so of your education, and it all seems cozy from inside an academic setting.

It's usually not until people have responsibility, i.e. children or management, or a small business (even consulting) do people start to clue in.

Yes - there are some hardcore people - like those at the Chicago school etc. who think that basically there should almost be 'no government' but they are not that common. Even Republicans usually expand government. Since the dawn of the USA... government has really never receded - it's only grown it's share of the economy - so the 'driving voice' that's needed is that of 'free markets with decent regulation', I think. And moral and benevolent leadership. Anyhow. I write too much :)
Yeah there's definitely nothing else to explain why Native American nations are doing so poorly.

Edit: This was too snarky but also the parent comment is such a bold claim with no evidence justifying it. Counterclaim: Canada and the US have done plenty to destroy the fabric of native societies since their inception. As an example, the residential school system of Canada[1] which ended in 1996. History is so forgettable isn't it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
Learn programming, not just frameworks. Frameworks will come and go, but the core programming concepts (good design, algorithms, cleanliness, simplicity, data structures, architecture) will tend to stay relevant longer. Learn the principles of Reactive Programming, not just RXJs, learn the philosophy of Redux, not just its syntax. You won't be able to keep up with it otherwise. Source: a guy who was an actionscript guru 15 years ago.
I don’t necessarily mind paying the cost once but since I tend to refactor applications into multiple utility applications (separation of concerns, crash stability, security, etc.) this means each sub-bundle pays the cost too. At the moment I have not found an obvious way to avoid this, aside from somehow hacking all of them to symbolically-link to the same copy of the Swift libraries or something. Therefore, instead, I stick with Objective-C.
You can remove all those live tiles from the start menu. Cortana and those Office installers can be disabled easily. With a simple registry hack you can even remove OneDrive from the file explorer.

It would be better if you didn't have to do those things, but it's not that bad.
If the Supercharger stations are on private property, it seems like Tesla could legally activate self-driving "Summon" functionality to move fully-charged Teslas to nearby parking spaces. The only real challenge would be safely unplugging the cable without damage to the car, which is relatively trivial compared to the self-driving technology they've already built.
>Wikipedia claims that itis the best-selling, non-Walt Disney VHS film ever. But according to a 1998 press release from Blockbuster, the film “Titanic” broke records in video home sales, surpassing several Disney filns as well as “Jerry Maguire.”

Why print a wikipedia claim you know is incorrect? Also, two errors in one paragraph (itis, films)
XED author here...

That's one goal certainly. Not claiming it is perfect. I have been working on it a long time and many cycles have been run on it between Pin, Intel SDE and some internal simulators that boot OSes, etc.
Well, with paid db management tools like Navicat, and open source BI tools like say, Pentaho (both just examples) you can get roughly on parity with SQL Server's tooling for something like Postgres.

Microsoft has just been polishing the integrated set of tools with SQL Server for a long time, especially with GUI tools that make the job of administering SQL Server more accessible for a different class of user (e.g. the ones who don't compile their own kernels and spend all day in a shell).
There are still parts of the internet developed in the 2000's which use Flash. Even the magic of HTML5 will not allow those sites to easily make the transition for free.

As long as there is Flash in this world, Flash will need to be supported to fix the inevitable security vulnerabilities.
There is no such thing as "self-deportation" in the statistics. There are just "removals" and "returns". All the DHS tells is that one is through force (presumably a court decision) and another is not. If someone is turned at the border without a court decision, is it a "self-deportaiton", "removal" or "return"? My guess it's a "return" in these stats.
Tesla has a video of an automated "snake" cable on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMM0lRfX6YI
"even today we're finding that--as in the Tonkin Gulf incident--very equivocal, limited evidence as to who did what and why and what happened is being used right now by hawks to encourage us to engage in hostilities again." -- Dan Ellsberg [0]

This is history, so I tend not to get too worked up about it. What I will say is we only know, what we are told and the truth is getting pretty slippery. That quote above was by Daniel Ellsberg who was the ^Snowden^/^Assange^ of his time. An insider who saw the nonsense behind the LBJ/McNamara explanations of Vietnam and released the Pentagon Papers.

Read the post below and if you have questions about this, ask Dan himself ~ https://twitter.com/DanielEllsberg

[0] "Why the Gulf of Tonkin Matters 50 Years Later (1/2)" ~ http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=...
I should follow your advice. I'm too addicted to Reddit.
http://abstrusegoose.com/380
This comment reads like a HipsterHacker tweet
How about https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools ?
With docker and Swift Playgroundbooks [1] app for iPad (+ AirDrop) I can write proof-of-concept Swift Code completely without Xcode.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Xc...
anyone know how to sign up for participation in the pilot and/or the eventual wider rollout?
Because everyone thinks they are the good guy.
I don't know about the native americans... but I agree than UBI just doesn't seem to make sense.

What has always been more appealing to me than UBI is just the idea of sustainable living... i.e. people own their own houses and there is no property tax and they have very cheap renewable energy sources and maybe cheap robots to grow food. making really cheap stuff to survive just seems like a better long term plan to deal with technology than giving money away. that just devalues money causes inflation.. makes prices higher. seems to me.
Why not universal basic housing. universal basic internet. universal basic food. universal basic computer. Make it illegal to sell them on the open market.

Anything except universal basic income. You want cigarettes / alcohol? do some work on the internet. Amazon mechanical turk.
It looks like Tesla decided to take action on this issue because of a Tweet to Elon. Pretty cool.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/807787096727425024
You could just read Adobe's blog posts on this. Not hard to find: https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-an...
They aren't showing the regional true (U-6) unemployment rates, just the cooked number that excludes "discouraged workers". Even the Data Tools on bls.gov don't provide access to the regional rates that I can find (corrections welcome).

Why this distinction is important: the gap between the U-3 and U-6 rates has grown by roughly 200-250% during the Obama administration[0]. That smells like cooked numbers.

[0] http://unemploymentdata.com/current-u6-unemployment-rate/
I think flavor in general is very contextual. I routinely enjoy funky, fermented, strong-tasting foods that in a blind tasting with novice participants could probably be mistaken for garbage. As long as I have "culinary permission" to enjoy a food, it's unlikely that I'll find it disguisting, almost regardless of what the ingredients are!
What Sequential Games, Tychonoff Theorem and Double-Negation Shift Have in Common
There are a surprising amount of applications built on Flash and still running. I'd rather they open the source or donate the source to the community than simply abandon it. The web ecosystem potentially could have ended up drastically different if that was done back when Flash was ubiquitous. Who knows, canvas and svg might not have had as much enthusiasm.
Ambitious JS lifers lol
Yeah long story on how I ended up here. I was using http://teachable.com, but then I decided it would be easier to use jekyll since it's good for code highlighting. I already had the homepage built in leadpages, so I used their snippet to include it on the page.

I don't like it, but I haven't had time to rewrite the page.
Use a one-time pad (and distribute "securely") for anything you want to encrypt as best as possible. Consider everything else in the open already, or at some not too far off time in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057816
The tarball has a doc/ folder with API documentation, and a test/ folder with examples using it. Not quite as nice as having it up on the web, though.
Aside from web games where Flash is still king for older titles, Adobe AIR is a Flash platform that's still used widely in older projects.

By now, I'd say most new development in Flash has completely stopped, but it will take another decade before Flash becomes completely irrelevant.
Ask HN: Why are so many predominant Austrian websites left-aligned*?
*Not in the political sense

Examples:

www.oebb.at

www.wetter.at

www.immmo.at

www.vienna.at

www.willhaben.at
The quality of information on this this thread is unbelievable, it makes me feel stupid. Are all these commenters crypto experts or do some devs just have such in-depth knowledge of the subject. Heyzeus.
There is a good amount of existing Flash content on the web. Adobe has de-emphasized the production of new Flash content several years ago, and pivoted its products (and customers) towards HTML5.

Killing Flash outright would do next to no good to Adobe. Google (and on their heels, Mozilla) are well on their way in making accessing existing Flash content more and more difficult [1], which probably appeals to people who think Flash needs to be banished, but most likely frustrates people who want continued to access to that content.

But that being said, in all likelihood, Adobe will eventually stop issuing even security fixes to Flash Player, especially once Chrome and other browsers have put that content behind click-to-plays, warnings, etc., or if Chrome and Microsoft stop their bundling of updates.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129691#12131403