skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just "internal" plumbing. We've had to stop Chrome updates in our Customer sites, from time to time, because "cloud hosted" applications were rendered unusable by updated Chrome versions. Eventually the third-parties got their acts together, but we would have had user-facing outages if we hadn't been cautious with allowing Chrome updates to deploy. I'm glad that the ability to "freeze" the Chrome version exists.
I think the cure would be worse than the disease in this case. Fake news is a fake problem, or at least not a new one. We've had the National Enquirer and similar publications in every supermarket checkout for decades.
You brake some more.

If following distance < braking distance:
Brake
...
It seemed like one of "I did it because I could" kind of projects. I've used awk to setup some complicated reformatting of text files that I needed cron but I've never even considered using it as a prototyping language. I wonder what kind of ADTs you can build using it and how viable it would be as the backend of a simpler scripting language.
The payroll system, as well as security group / mailing list systems are all completely useless in anything but IE (not even Edge).

And Kerebos does nothing for these 2FA woes sadly.
C++'s standardization committee is known for being enthusiastically pro-Microsoft. IIRC, C++'s thread support is essentially the option that Microsoft forced upon the standard, in detriment of ISO's very own pthreads library which was already an ISO standard.

IIRC, the same problem also plagues C's committee.
At no point did I suggest I ask anyone to design anything - it's a simple question with a simple solution (if they know how to program).

My opinion, of course, but a "good programmer" can think through the solution entirely in their head without hands touching keyboard. Code is the byproduct of the person's thoughts. I'm looking for people who think like programmers. If that bar is too high, I'm rather disappointed with the state of the programming community.
Ask HN: How do you organize your tasks / life?
I've decided in 2017 that I want to be more organized, and so would be interested to know what processes you use to stay organized & focused.

For me, I think the biggest issues right now are that I don't have 1 universal to-do list, and I don't have specific time set aside for planning / prioritizing all the tasks on my plate.

So, at the very minimum, I'm planning to put some time aside on Sunday each week to plan out what I'm doing and when I'm doing it, and to try and be rigid about keeping everything in one central task / project list.

What else have you found helpful? Would love to hear simple / useful processes that keep you going.
I'm increasingly convinced that redux is the wrong way to manage most state. I see the pattern get abused greatly for state that should be more localized.
"unless we slide into Japanese-style deflation"

Yeah, that was the best part. "This is going to be awful. It's going to happen. Unless, that is, the exact opposite of what I'm betting on happening actually happens".
Please explain what you mean by:
poor people today,
rich people 100 years ago,
living standards.

hard to argue with your statement, one way or another, if those aren't clearly defined.
Validating headlines may not be as good a model as it seems.

First, what problem are you trying to solve? In this case, it's "How can I find good articles even with bad headlines?" So while the approach addresses headlines, the interest is in the content. So I'm not sure the proposed solution solves the perceived problem.

Second, what are the current solutions/workarounds to the problem? In my case, at least, the solution is blanket rejection of certain sites. I assume certain sites are so full of clickbait nonsense and/or partisan propaganda that I won't read them at all. The probably works better than some software that will consistently rate The Economist as good and anything from Infowars as nonsense (or worse, think the nonsense headline and the nonsense content are sympatico, so it's fine).

Third, what is the root of the problem? And the root is largely that people like their nonsense. People consistently read bad headlines and bad stories, often preferring them over respectable mainstream news.

And finally, how do you implement this? You clearly don't want something that can be gamed by crowdsourced campaigns, or it will be gamed. So you're either somehow relying on deep learning automation, or you're relying on human editorial effort. The former is unreliable, the latter is expensive, and itself prone to both bias and rejection (consider how many people consider Snopes to be untrustworthy).

I dunno. Maybe there's a great business or social idea here. But it's going to take some deeper thinking.
Even by solving safety, erros in software will still happen. The software errors cited are much more about bad engineering, something that can't be solved by safety only.
This scheme could be economical, reliable, and (finally) a great use for airships besides overhead stadium camera angles.

The airships, themselves, could even be drones.
Libstdc++ is normally distributed with the compiler, so it will be updated as required by the standard.

Regarding the libc and other headers, modules will still fullly support include files, so that won't be an issue. You should be able to include headers and export them as modules.
The whole bit about TCP being evil and hopelessly broken made me laugh - its funny to imagine these guys as complete network beginners :)

Its also ironic that people building networked games today are making the same mistakes - and it all starts from a huge misconception of how the internet and its protocols really work.

For as much as we like to think of ourselves "clever", networking is one area where intuition usually leads to terrible implementations :)
Omega-3 supplements can prevent childhood asthma
Amazon patent reveals its drone-deploying flying warehouse plan
borg backup.[1]

It's a remote backup tool that solved all the problems. It's basically duplicity[2] but without the unfortunate design fault of having to re-upload all your data every few months.

Our[3] customers love it and we see new deployments of it (even among existing customers) every single day.

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[3] http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
For 13 years, Texas has been secretly, illegally denying kids special education
It seems like many movies these days get released with two versions when the theater run is complete; one version that matches what was shown in theaters, and one Director's Cut. The latter often includes scenes that were cut to get a specific rating, but it also often changes things that caused bad reviews. Superman v Batman is a good example; the theatrical release got bad reviews for being confusing, and the Directors Cut includes a lot of backstory scenes which help the movie make more sense. (Can't help the overall plot holes though.)
Wrong. The average of all lives is getting better. I think people feel disgruntled because life in the upper end is not improving. Its all good and nice that humanity is dragging its tail forward, but that kinda happens by default, all the time, even without effort. Somehow people feel that the head is not moving forward fast enough , though. We want our flying cars!
I respect amazon's audaciousness with this idea but I think it might be better to stick to the ground as the drone needs to go somewhere once its done and to go up is probably not optimal.
Same with gamedev. Ask anyone who is into it how many ideas for games they have (heck just tell someone you make games and they'll likely tell you an idea they had for a game they want to see made). Figuring out which one could be a success in terms of fun, popularity, or finances, is the question. Which is why rapid prototyping of core mechanics to "find the fun" is so critical.
Just wondering. Your first comment on this thread claimed the warrant was looking for child porn which was immediately corrected in the reply suggesting you only have a passing acquaintance to the case.

Now in this reply you seem to know much more about the case so why make the false accusation about child porn in the first comment?
José Valim and Chris McCord, for their HUGE work on Elixir and Phoenix!
this is really interesting, do you have a source?
Are you saying that he didn't know what he was talking about? Because in 1999, the internet was terrible for games. Most people were still on dialup!
How Amazon innovates in ways that Google and Apple can't
while its technically not a timeout, it is stopping the network traffic

the TCP packets require an ACK ever n packets, as defined by the FREQ field. If the ACK isn't received, no further packets are send.
Okay, so the grunt work of entertainment (manually creating models, rigs, applying textures, shaders, etc) might eventually be reduced (although the current trend is the opposite, despite better and better software), but the creative aspects of entertainment (not just coming up with something 'different', but making it a meaningful difference) will be damn difficult to replicate in a consistent and repeatable way by computers for a long time to come.

Creative work also benefits from multiple people (up to a point) with multiple unique experiences of living life working together, as well. We aren't even trying to do that with computers right now, so I think their creative output would be more limited in scope (again, for awhile, not necessarily forever).

Computers may be able to do variations on an established formula, though, and there's a lot of formulaic dreck out there.
I'very always been a software guy but recently I've been getting into hardware recently, particularly with the raspberry pi. I built a barbell tilt sensor using berryIMU and raspberry pi to track my squat technique and analyze it.

For the coming year I'm going to learn more in the IoT space, particularly getting devices to talk to each other and using machine learning on the firehose of data.
Street-Legal ebikes are underpowered
As far as I can tell, Vue doesn't actually do much differently than the hundreds of Javascript view libraries that have come before it, like Backbone views. It seems just to be gaining popularity as a "react"-ionary pendulum swing from React boilerplate. I don't have anything against Vue but I don't see specific benefits over other similar libraries.
Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge
I'm a tech lead for a small group of developers and sysadmins. I often find that even though they are experts in their own domain, I am able to help them to resolve problems in specific areas for which I have little or no knowledge. I find it surprising that they have not arrived upon the solution themselves.

I describe it as being trapped by knowledge. Those that I am helping appear to have passed some magical threshold of knowledge, beyond which they stop asking "stupid" questions, and instead rely only upon what they know. That's where I step in. I ask those stupid questions, or I do a quick Google search, and more often than not I find a solution very quickly. Maybe my team experience the same thing with me, and I just don't recognise it. Or maybe I'm just the sort of person who doesn't mind asking those stupid questions.

Is this a known phenomenon? Has any research been done in this area? I'd be interested to know if anyone else experiences the same thing.
What about stack overflows? I heard that rust no longer protects against those for benchmark reasons.
Very disappointing. Uploading a few sketches to a blog is hardly what I'd call "releasing original design doc". Where's the rest of it? What about the story? Boss mechanics? Weapons? Enemies? Dungeons?
Something related happened to me. Some of the photos on my google photos are just completely black. It's not exactly the same because this guy's photos are "corrupted". Mine are just literally black. Not all of them, just around 20, all in the same day, all in sequence.
I agree, but people seem to feel that their code should somehow be exempt from such advice, and so sacrifice safety for performance. This leads to today's sorry state of affairs.
Most jobs involving some amount of nurturing and empathy, although you can automate some of them (eg: massage therapist). Many people will want to be heard, seen, and understood by another human being.

Edit: I wouldn't worry about most jobs being replaced any time soon. It's a tougher problem than you probably think it is.
Another issue with sql server which is very baffeling.
It is MUCH faster to use sub selects than left join if you data allows it.

That is do not:

select a.bla, b.blabla from foo a left join bar b on (a.id = b.id)

Do:

select a.bla, (select blabla from bar where id = a.id) as blabla from foo a

I have reduced a big etl query with about 20 left joins from 2 hours running time down to 7 minutes by this.

And before you ask, yes the tables have been properly indexed, it is just that left join performance in sql server is very bad in some situations.
True, but that's a relatively small part of the economy to begin with. We make most of the heavy plant in the world, so we're essentially building the factories China uses to make the plastic crap we buy.
I can't believe I excluded VS Code from my list--and I wrote the article yesterday. It really shows how much we take for granted when it comes to open source.

VS Code became my primary code/Markdown editor in 2016. It improves steadily each month [1] and already has a great extension ecosystem and community. It also spurred my switch to Markdown for all note-taking due to its powerful integrated Markdown features.

Thank you to the VS Code team and Microsoft for sponsoring the project.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates
Vehicles are a consumable, not an investment. Land is generally not, because most uses increase its value.
I see it as a sort of trade-off. Give a lengthy explanation and people often ignore the advice. Make the advice short and frightening and people listen, but might not be so sure why!
Robert Leo Hulseman, the inventor of the red Solo cup has died at 84
If I'm picking just one it would be webpack. It might not be sexy but it wrangles so much complexity out of my projects - files for disparate technologies (JS, CSS, Vue.js templates, CSV, whatever) can all declare dependencies against one another, and somehow each one gets parsed and bundled and minimized the way it needs to be. It's pretty glorious.

https://webpack.github.io/
Build your own Codepen/JSFiddle
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Or generelly any VPN in five eye states. Like "dude its isle of man, its safe" nope its UK
There's some detail, and some chilling photos here: https://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/01/16/uganda-journal-afri...
Since I'm not interested in arguing about it I'm not particularly motivated to define it clearly. But good examples are life expectancy, physical pain relief, availability of the entire sum of human knowledge through a small glass and metal rectangle that fits in your pocket, likelihood of living in a democratic country, likelihood of avoiding a violent death, etc.
Data races definitely happen in the real world and they are awful to track down, because they only happen n% of the time. All of my least favorite bug-fix experiences have been data races.
I love Python but one of the issues with python has always been deployments on a server. I know there are things like docker etc nowadays but still, it is a lot harder to deploy than say a PHP application.
PS4 reverse engineered to run Linux (runs Steam and Portal 2)
It is possible that something is disabling your WebGL support. You can check the status of your GPU support in `chrome://gpu` and, if necessary, use the "Override software rendering list" in `chrome://flags` to force it.
Definitely Matteo Centenaro[0] and Andrea Dal Ponte[1] for their incredible contributions to Tomatoes[2], and our supporters[3] who boosted our morale and made the project sustainable.

[0] https://twitter.com/bugant

[1] https://twitter.com/dalpo

[2] http://www.tomato.es

[3] https://backerpass.com/tomatoes
One of the big perks to manufacturing is that it draws the entire supply chain around it naturally. Even if the manufacturing job itself isn't as abundant, the peripheral jobs that comes with it from shipping materials, producing materials, distribution, sales agreements, logistics, building construction and maintenance...they all provide benefits.

With the manufacturing hub overseas all of that's overseas too, which is why China is more vertically integrated.

If I recall, one of the major reasons that Dell took off years ago was that they consolidated the entire supply chain for production and significantly increased profit margins.
As a last-minute disorganized person, I can say that writing things down analog style is useless. I'll just lose/forget to look at the paper.

Instead I try to fill up my phone's calendar with "to do" items which have specific alarms. Some of them are daily, others are weekly, etc.

It's hard to track my progress but at least that method allows me to get "reminded" that I wanted to put my mind to something.
I imagine he's going to sell a hell of a lot more of them due to this article than he would in the gift shop.
So like why the world "loves godaddy". If people just would do their homework...
> Its all good and nice that humanity is dragging its tail forward, but that kinda happens by default, all the time, even without effort.

No, it doesn't. This isn't some intrinsic element of humanity, positive societal change requires dedicated effort, will, and resources.

Your point about flying cars is a joke right?Flying cars would kill thousands more and be a huge liability. Maybe the problem in the developed world isn't that things aren't growing or improving, but that people don't appreciate the standard of living they have.
That is a legit concern, but if that is the case, Chrome, Win10 and the like should be completely off the table.
StealJS 1.0 Released
A lot of the internet's bulk data transfer uses UDP, torrents.
How Facebook learns about your offline life
I'd be particularly selective. The ability to do grunt work is not indicative of the ability to blossom into a full fledged dev.
Which is something I never understood. Since you are mainly wrapping OS API, why not take a higher level langage ?
That's more advanced then the question I ask typically. Though I might use something like this if I'm interviewing someone with many years of experience (10+).

As I explained above, my question is a warm up - meant to break the ice, calm nerves. But it's surprising to me how effective even a simple list traversal is at identifying weaknesses in a candidates programming ability.
Holy shit this is literally from Storks
I had a similar experience. I was developing a customer portal website for one of my company's clients. Well into the project I found out that everyone at the company, including everyone who would be doing QA, had monitors that only went up to 800x600, they were all locked down to an old version of IE (8 or 9 I think), and they had a default-blocked web proxy in place so they needed special permission to even see the test portal I had running on my server.

Happily we did convince them to get some hardware and software upgrades, so by the end of the project they were able to see their website the way most of their customers would. The proxy continues to be a nuisance; their developer can't access the cloud server where their production website is deployed; he has to rely on me to make any changes that are needed there.
That power plant was supposed to be upgraded and expanded as a part of a joint project between Lithuania and its neighbors to deliver power to Lithuania and those neighbors. Nothing came of it.
Not only that, but I have been working with some queries that contradrict this. We had some UDFs that are hyper-simple fetchers of config values from a KVP config table.

I tried optimizing them out. Nothing. Looked at the query plans - 0%. SQL server had reasonably noticed what they were and done a bang-up job handling them.

That's the infuriating thing about SQL server "advice" - it's such a black box that so many of the rules are cargo-cult stuff.
Yes, but I'm talking about housing rather than land.

Most housing suffers from use and age.

(Note where I conceded the point about some land having value due to location or such)
I wad amazed by the youtube videos with the new capabilities of drones and hardware configurations.They also plan to deliver internet by drones if networking is what you are into.
"There are talks from Google who invested heavily into modules using clang and got gains, but as far as I understand they fixed those issues only for themselves"

I thought Google fixed the C++ compile time problem by inventing Go?
If only Go was useful in building closed source products. Google must not have gotten the memo about Rust yet.
That's interesting to hear. In South Carolina we've got BMW in the Greenville area and Boeing in Charleston. The Greenville area itself virtually imploded 30 years ago with the textile industry and BMW has largely driven the recovery. Now it's one of the best places to live in the state.
Ask HN: Is it ok to wash iPhone 7 during washing my hands on daily basis?
I am a traveller, hacker and nomad. The US is still pretty much the last country id like to visit for exactly this and some other related reasons. I am not even sure that they let me in at this point
Ok, we can shorten that to fit.
AKA!!!

So, if IAM is the keys to the city for Lambda, how can I be sure I'm using IAM correctly on AWS (Since AWS documentation is not great). Any suggestions? (asking for a friend...)
For anyone interested, I asked what's going on in Reddit's /r/MusicTheory.

https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/5kwdbq/analyzi...
He was OSS and airborne. Saw several different theaters.
I should file a patent for the orbiting warehouse ... and the submarine warehouse too.
Maybe. 99% of us don't know and don't care.