skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame if the biggest impact of Steam on Linux has been to encourage Microsoft to improve DirectX performance. I wasn't aware of Valve layoffs particularly hitting the Linux team, but it doesn't surprise me. Valve's efforts towards Linux have been quite minimal in the last year or so. Perhaps they're working on something behind the scenes, but SteamOS/Machines were effectively dead on arrival, and even Steam VR/HTC Vive still doesn't support Linux.

The "faster zombies" blog post mentioned was very big news at the time for Linux gaming, but since then, not a single OpenGL game has replicated the performance of L4D2. It's an accepted fact that games will see an FPS hit on Linux - not the end of the world, but not something that's ever going to attract gamers to switch to Linux unless they have other reasons.

Vulkan may change things, Dota 2 and Talos Principle benchmarks have been promising, and showing signs of the Windows beating (or at least matching) performance they promised 5 years ago.
How to Set Up a Drone Vulnerability Testing Lab – Medium
Thry can probably invest in housing through indirect ways.
When the houses chinese bought do not result in increased housing, thats when things are wrong.
I see Simmons as a fan with a platform. That's what I like about him, he's unabashedly a fan. I don't mind when he makes references to pop culture and other things he likes, but I mostly read/listen to him for his take on sports.

So when some other person writes on his website that "SoundCloud Comments Are the Only Good Comments", I just don't care about that. At all.
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haven't used that "su", but elevate will use the built in mechanism for privilege elevation, if you make UAC prompts silent it will simply work without bothering you.
Where is your $150/month coming from? I'm not convinced the average user is worth that much in ads per month. The numbers I've seen coming out of Facebook put it in low-single digit dollars per month per user for Facebook, and I would tend to imagine they're getting more out than many rather than less. But, honest question, if you've got a good source on that I'd love to see it.

(There's also the fact that the utility of ads is fundamentally bounded by what they can make you spend. By their nature, the amount someone is willing to spend to remove ads and the amount of money ads can possibly be making on the person are probably held more tightly than you might expect, due to the underlying third-factor of correlation with the amount of money the person in question can spend.)
Thanks! It's not lightweight -- the average script include I have right now is around 280k. I'm going to be able to reduce it in the next few months to around 150k, I believe. Once downloaded, the processing of it itself is not too intensive.
It can be done. Probably the most interesting story I know of is that of a friend of mine that now makes ~$200k/mo from viral content websites in specific verticals. Back in 2007, before I knew him, he was desperate for money and became a minor cog in what turned out to be a large real estate straw buyer conspiracy. He claims to not have not known it was illegal. Regardless, in 2013, as the statute of limitations on the case began running out and most of the people that actually ran and profited from the scheme were serving federal prison sentences, his name came up, and one of the states involved decided to press charges. He was arrested and posted bail.

He was eventually offered a plea agreement for a prison sentence of three years and more than $600,000 in restitution that he had no way of paying. Facing financial and personal ruin, he ran while on bail, hoping to buy some time to make enough money to offer restitution in leiu of prison time. This article [1] about the success of viral content websites inspired him to give the concept a shot himself, figuring he had nothing to lose. He launched a series of websites with viral content for highly specific verticals.

He now has a handful of virtual assistants in low-wage countries that rewrite/locate content and post it, but was making more than $100k/mo before he brought in a single other person. The business has generated a Facebook fan page network with more than 10 million likes, monthly income exceeding $200k, and he has turned down multi-million dollar offers to buy his company. He was also able to able to resolve his criminal case by simply handing the court a $700k cashier's check for restitution/fines and a accepting few years of informal probation without spending a day in jail - even though he ran while on bail, which courts frown upon. As Eric Schmidt likes to say, "revenue solves all known problems" [2].

So yes, it is certainly possible to run a highly successful online business by yourself, and you don't even have to be all that technically proficient. I can program circles around my friend, but he makes more than most of the brightest engineers at world class companies do - where he could never get an interview, much less a job. He did all of this starting with nothing more than PHP for Dummies, the inspration from the ViperChill article, and a serious disincentive for failure (prison, in this case).

[1] http://www.viperchill.com/100k-one-week/

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/50721935824690...
If you don't have a huge following, if you don't have a huge audience already, what kind of money are you really making with an advertising network?
US government subcontractor leaks confidential military personnel data
Ditto.. good job!
I'm not sure if this qualifies as an "online business", but I started an ISP in November '15. It's also not entirely "one-person". I am the sole founder, but I do hire part-time help on occasion if I'm swamped. It started off as a WISP and has finally grown to the point where we are beginning to deploy fiber.

The site is https://nepafiber.com

I still work full-time as a systems engineer, but the business started bringing in more money than my job does around 3 months ago. I'm only still at my job so that I can expand more rapidly; running fiber isn't cheap.
Chat is the new web browser
Pixel phones were still designed in collaboration and made by HTC. The main distinction is the branding; You will only see Pixel/Google branding, unlike Nexus. That's why Huawei passed on making the Pixel.

Nexus is in purgatory. Who knows what google will do with that.
China is actually worse than the western media portrays. Yes, it isn't a dictatorship, the opposite actually: rule of law is quite messed up, there is a lot of inequality, the Maoist pratices that we were all convinced were over rear their head from time to time to remind you that china is still very "different."

Westerners would have a more negative perception of china if they read/watched more of the Chinese media. It is so crass and biased (in a way western media could ever get away with) that you can't help but think things are very messed up.

My 9 years just ended. Granted, Beijing is more of a difficult situation than southern china, I could handle living in Guilin, liuzhou, or even Nanning (well, the latter is maybe too hot).
The style of having checkboxes next to very obviously positive statements feels really disingenuous. "Urge for the freedom to travel and work anywhere" - of course that would be nice. Maybe I'm too cynical.
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Submission on referenced piece "The Real Name Fallacy" from 2 days ago (over 300 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313199
Yeah my BS meter has tripped. Most of his submissions are links to his own site and his comments here are "would anyone be interested in ____" and "let me tell you a secret" self promotional spam.
Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 75 years
I've never actually seen a Chrome book in the wild.
It is conversations like this that get me.

Spend the money on healthcare and education instead. We have enough nuclear deterrents.
We have extensive leak checking in our testing for Firefox, so hopefully the JS engine is not "very leaky".

One part of Quantum, which does not have anything to do with Rust, is to figure out how we can spend less time running unimportant JS (like maybe in a background tab), which will hopefully reduce CPU usage.
Facebook’s Safety Check, Now Automated, Turns a Firecracker into an Explosion
After years of the multicore hype, we finally can reap its benefits.
What are efficient ways to find sponsors?
Do ad networks work for anyone who isn't "famous" in some sense? Making money with advertising requires a sizable audience any way you cut it.
Call caniuse, flexbugs, quirksmode, stackoverflow and it's companion codepen on the deck, there will be some action!

creating a renderer in 90% of the work, the other 90% is documenting its bugs and quirks.
Dunno why you were downvoted. I dislike Discourse, but it's open source, and even the hosted version has a business model not based on ads.
.NET Core has a lot of things that are still in development unfortunately. Image processing is another major one that I don't think has been solved yet. I really like .NET Core from what I've done with it. Though my like for .NET in general is a bit tainted due to the pure joy of Visual Studio as an IDE.
Issa bill aims to reform H-1B immigration visa program
Are these individual or group chats? What kind of solution do you have?

I work in a small office of a big company and have a 10 hour timezone difference to my most important co-workers. We chat on the phone but I don't really enjoy it. I'm not sure video chat would help, but I might be willing to try.

But it would be slightly inconvenient because of the timezones. We might have 10-20 people from 5-10 locations around the world. This means that many participants call in from home before work in the morning or after work at night.

That said, I'm quite happy working remotely mostly from home.

I feel that travelling occasionally and meeting the people in person (and having lunch, dinner, beers together) makes it much easier to work together. There's no substitute for human contact.
> Mostly we're wandering around hither and yon, not showing any site loyalty.

I agree with your main point, but to clarify: Flattr was specifically designed for this sort of one-off usage. Clicking a Flattr button doesn't subscribe to anything, it just adds that person/site to a list on your Flattr account. At the end of the month, your money is divided evenly between those on the list, then the list is cleared.

You can set up subscriptions on Flattr, which sounds more like Patreon's model, but the default mode is for one-off drive-by donations. Flattr subscriptions are just an automated way to click a Flattr button once a month.
Mediterranean Diet May Have Lasting Effects on Brain Health
NASA sets sights on asteroid exploration: Nature News and Comment
Ditto. Its my favourite language. You can do all things with it.
> I always use plumbing as an example. You never hear about that being not diverse enough.

I suspect that people who work in tech, closely follow tech news, and spend their free time posting in tech-industey-centered forums often miss things like campaigns for diversity in skilled manual labor not because such campaigns don't exist, but because of where their attention is focussed.

http://news.sky.com/story/white-van-woman-held-back-by-sexis...
The point is that the jobs that were lost in manufacturing will never come back. Even if everything is shifted back from China/Mexico to the US, very few of the jobs will come back. The old world as many Trump supporters hope for will not return and we have to think of a way to go forward.
As a person in the 50-60 year range, I can say that learning new things is a mixed bag for me. When I was young I was like Velcro, throw information at me and it stuck. Now only the important information stays with me. I wish I could have learned that in my twenties. I would not have a head full of useless information...

One advantage of being older is I tend to have a more seasoned perspective of what's important and whats not important in the long run.
Attitude is not the problem here, getting a job is. Few acquaintances of mine in their thirties also try to jump this developer bandwagon and it's very hard to get a junior position for them, because they are "too old" (of course, nobody says that directly). Actually, they started to get interviews only after had hidden years in their CVs (as per mine advice).
I don't worry too much. Just try to pay attention to what researchers are saying and controlling what I can with my lifestyle.

I work still and will continue to work till at least 67.

I'm a developer and development manager so I get to challenge my brain routinely at work. I consume nuts, lots of and a variety of tea, a little chocolate and some red wine to help with polyphenols [1]. Oh and Omega 3 fatty acid sources. I am actively getting my weight under control.

I play puzzles, board games and other things to stimulate my brain.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308945733_Nutrition...
Simple database benchmarking tool
Which is not really an option for your average joe.
33C3: A Backdoor (/Bug?) in WhatsApp [pdf]
Echoing the other comments, draw.io is fantastic for making state diagrams. Easy to use and lots of features!
It has no viruses because it has no userbase. Mac OSX enjoyed this same privilege until it had sufficient users to attract attention.

It's better to learn how to properly use a computer, then you can get whatever you want and use it correctly instead of leaping from one gimped platform to another.
Was*, GrooveShark shut down in 2015.
Sure , 2 main differences.

1. Bit.ly (and goo.gl) make their statistics public by default. Some people want private statistics. Our stats are always private.

2. We allow you to use your domain with our platform. You don't need an exclusive domain, you can use any domain you control. We just require a directory prefix (ex: youdomain.com/x can be a base for all Taveo links).

We have other features: conversion tracking, link routing (A/B testing, geoloc, etc.) a good API, ability to download raw data, etc) but 1. and 2. are big selling points. Bit.ly's free plan also only offers basic analytics, we have the full package.
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Nice! Had the same idea for the german market some years ago. Can you lie from this or create any revenue at all?
Likely: She's been working at the same place for most of (if not all of those 10 years) and she's just basically keeping the home-grown system running and punching out some minor features. She probably got that Senior title simply because she'd put in enough time at the company. Maybe they're on .NET 4. Maybe.

If I see a technical candidate resume that has a long stretch (5+ years) at the same company and that company isn't primarily a technical one, huge red flags go up because the previously mentioned 'Senior' candidate is who generally come out of these situations. IF I get past their resume they're going to spend a lot more time telling me how they stay up to date with the world than a candidate otherwise would.
About 80% gets rejected at the committee stage, it is the executive review after the committee that rarely rejects.
Elixir/Erlang is dynamically typed, but also compiled. At least in Elixir you can use .exs files (usually for tests or config) that are interpreted, but any .ex files are compiled.
25 Worst Customer Service Mistakes and What They Cost Your Business
I think Maddox had a pretty funny or at least "edgy but still informational" video on this.
I watched a talk from jon blow [1] where he mocks twitter & facebook for their huge number of employees. I too think that Facebook in particular seems to employ a lot of mobile engineer for a meh result.

However, he also mocks the complexity of displaying a feed.

This is not trivial at all on mobile, at least if you want to :

- display a highly customized feed of basically unlimited size where each item is slightly different

- keep it running fast, even on low end devices

It is a problem faced by all the major apps and there are a number of techniques you can use in order to improve performances but those are hard trade-off that are difficult to get right.

Making such a feed work can keep a lot of engineers occupied.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA
I've never seen a flying car. I have driven in traffic next to, in front of, and behind Google's driverless cars, though.
Interstate spending can easily be viewed as defense spending. After all it's called the "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways" and was partly inspired by Nazi Germany's Autobahn system that was instrumental for fast troop movement.
I love our house garden, which regularly provides us with daily sustenance/delight for the most of 8 - 10 months of the year (depending on yields and canning..) .. to me, it seems really strange that folks don't grow things in the city. A human being that doesn't grow something is truly missing out on a valuable experience - even if you live in an apartment, you can grow food. Its truly a quality of life booster.
Thanks for sharing! Your product looks quite useful, but it looks like perhaps English isn't your first language? The grammar is a bit awkward in several places, and some things are pluralized when they shouldn't be. It doesn't bother me, but it might turn some potential customers away.

If it would help, I'd be happy to go through the site and provide some suggestions about slight changes you could make. I'd do it for free, of course - it wouldn't take much of my time, and I'd love to help a fellow HN member be successful.
you don't need the `-X POST`, because `-d` will do a post by default :)
Correct - but the starting point here was already 'take this path', not 'go to that location on the grass'.

Come to think about it - even 'just park somewhere' is remarkably complicated. I don't quite understand why self-driving cars should need external high quality maps and can't make do with onboard cameras as human drivers do.

But then the parking requires either a high-quality database of valid and off-limits parking locations, or the ability of the car to read the signs on parking lots and generally be able to distinguish private from public parking.
I never would've imagined an ISP being run almost entirely by one person. This is super dope - best of luck in the continual expansion of your business! :)
Concurrency is even easier with the new async/await syntax
So your complaint is that GVR doesn't want patches that would (significantly) regress performance for the majority of use cases, yes?
I think you're misattributing merge commits or pushes of repository histories where I'm not the author or something. You claim I've contributed over 2M lines of code in 2016, which... I don't think is right.
In LaTeX things can be extremely verbose in general. But for TikZ it is easy to do one note or edge per line.

Sure, mermaid looks even more compact, but at a huge price of flexibility. (Don't take me wrong - for sure it has its use-cases!)
Even if I had legal expertise, I would include a disclaimer to take it as my opinion/guess...Google's lawyers could easily come at me with 'Hey how do you know this?' That's why I said 'probably'. Read Peter Thiel's "Zero to one" also. He explains it very well.
Show HN: Nightcoders.net, a cloud IDE for ClojureScript
After allowing 23 scripts in NoScript, I still don't see anything but a mix of static and animated images. That's not typical in either number of scripts (huge) or brokenness. Attention-grabbing content but execution needs work.

The "How It Works" on second link is well-done where I can see exactly what it's supposed to do. The feature itself is nice.
> why don't they just a build a sub around say 2 ICBM shafts and call it a day

You say that like it should be trivially easy. Guess what, launching a missle from underwater to hit a target a thousand miles away is actually pretty difficult and complicated! Who'da thunk, right?
Yes, nowadays I think it is a fact of life like death, taxes etc.
Of course, but nobody is going to say "my reflexes did it". We come up with stories, lines of argumentation, etc. Even though these are "ex post" we often manage to convince ourselves...

In Homer's time the Greeks viewed the unconscious as an external (divine) force, the most famous example being Telemachus's sneeze. In a weird way this feels more intellectually honest than the thing we do.
Sounds expensive.
Oh...never knew they are making the stats public. That's a good point yes.
small software shop too. Damn straight. I have a TINY software shop in NYC. It pays the bills and food for me and my nuclear family. I can't complain. I have friends who make 2X as me , who work in a box within a bigger box on a grid. They have NO time todo JACK and SHIT. Wealth is discretionary time. You can ALWAYS make anotha dolla, but you'll NEVA make anotha min.
I have seen plenty of older people getting hired at Google so it is obviously possible.
Can you reroute to a pay service? So every time they call you they get dinged?
Fact-Checking Won’t Save Us from Fake News
If you're ok with the Google machine and spending way too much money on a computer that does basically nothing, there are these from Google[0] which have been great for me and my team.

We have a Hangout open all day in the office, displayed on a 60" TV. Anyone that's working remote can jump in whenever and it's somewhat like they're in the office. Audio is my only complaint. Sometimes it is difficult to be heard

[0]: https://chromebusinessdevices.withgoogle.com/products/1677/h...
Wouldn't it be useful to for people to acknowledge the privilege of being able to conceive of privilege, and step back so that other voices can be heard?

I am serious. There are many other ways to see humanity and the relationship between groups of people. Some may be more beneficial.
How many nuclear weapons do you really need for MAD to be effective?
$ brew update && brew cask install zazu

Works for me...

$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.1.6
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e517; last commit 2017-01-05)
Whose definition of important? :)
> Servo makes incredibly good use of the GPU.

Too good, in fact: it won't run on any laptops that I own because their GPUs don't support a sufficient level of OpenGL.

One great aspect of Firefox-with-Gecko is that you can throw it onto just about any machine with more than 512MB of RAM and it will provide bootstrap web access ( slow or otherwise ). That's going to be lost when everything is Servoised. I guess it's back to links2 at that point.
To get the prices, do you go and copy them manually or have you written some crawlers?
> if P does not point to valid memory, then dereferencing it is UB

IIRC, simply making P point to anything other than an object or 1 past the end of an array is already UB. I suspect that this is because some architectures have dedicated address registers and can take an exception when an invalid address is loaded/calculated instead of doing it when the memory access happens.
Nice concept.
AMD Vega GPU architecture uncovered
Which is quite funny when you consider many of us are using technology that is only a few years old and we are constantly told we shouldn't stop learning to have a career in programming.
Affiliates work fine for E-commerce and performance advertisers that can track conversions. They work considerably less well for cost-per-click advertisers and brand advertisers because the advertisers can't trust the publishers either; there are plenty of spammy publishers who will send fake clicks and impressions your way for $$.

This is the major reason ad networks put JS on publisher sites. You can't give a website author "complete power" any more than you can give an advertiser complete power.
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Save money by learning to cook with this cooking/recipe web app
Opening Garage Doors with a Raspberry Pi