skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can this be integrated into a Xamarin app? Is there anything similar for Xamarin?
HTTP Pipelining should not be the base for a performance benchmark. It's an unrealistic scenario.

To make the benchmark a bit fair, add a graphic of memory usage, pipelining might have a huge impact on resources usage in the server side.
Part of me wonders if this is just some experienced game dev working on a boring porting project that decided to have a little fun and see how he could cause issues with emulation, not some large sanctioned measure to defeat emulation software. Might explain why this effort went into such a seemingly unlikely game.
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Former node dev, currently Clojure here.

Npm has more abundance of good packages. They are typically better documented and easier to get started with, sadly :(.

JVM has some really great stuff - things which are lightyears ahead of what is there in NPM. Much of which started as university projects, as Java is popular at schools.

I wish JVM developers took a hint from others and started making very easy and fun documentation, but have no high hopes.
This sounds incredibly kludgey and at odds with Apple's de-investment in macOS. (As in "reduced investment", not "divestment".) Adding massive complexity to eke out another hour or two of battery life seems like a poor choice when there are so many things to be fixed in the OS.
That isn't 100% correct, you can write CLR plugins that control that behaviour.
This 100%. I've crossed out sections like this without issue before. A contract is a negotiation, not a rubber stamp.

Some companies these days will allow you to list things which you work on (open source, second job, etc) which you can have excluded. This works fine for me as well.
You could make above minimum wage if there was actually a quantity of good HITs to choose to work.

Someone somewhere must've written a guide about sourcing SEO articles from MTurk because I used to write 150 word article summaries (more for fun than anything, liked to try to go as fast as possible, they provide link, you summarize, even if the source article is less than 150 words, so its more like rephrasing) for between $0.25-$0.50/summary. There was usually only about 30 summaries on any given day which makes me think it was involved as a part of a guide or someone's startup maybe because the requesters were almost always different.

Somedays there would be several hundred. I made over $15 in an hour on a few occasions, but it wouldn't be a consistent source of income.
For some reason, it really sounds like you have an axe to grind with Mr. Buffet or maybe with captialism in general.
From my perspective, the problem with finance today is the tendency to think short term. The endless pursuit for profit next quarter. This is not the method Buffet uses... I find it refreshing to hear someone like him suggest that a longer term view is needed.
Sure, he isn't changing the world directly by running a massive software company but he contributes in the way he can and that's all you can really ask of anyone.
There already are ARM chips in the new MBPRs, for example - the touchbar and touch ID with its secure enclave runs on ARM. I could easily foresee them putting in more powerful ARM chips and offloading some tasks to them.
It's not hip, but Dojo has similar markup.
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Ask HN: Worth switching from PHP to Java?
I have around 8 years experience in PHP, and am not happy with how much I earn. From cursory research it seems Java devs can get much more. Is it worth retraining in Java, or would the time it takes to get to a reasonably high level outweigh the salary benefits? Or am I wrong about the salary benefits?
Daily examples of what a front-end developer does every day. (5 yrs experience)
Apple should just buy AMD. It would only cost them about 15 Billion or so and they would get an x86 license. If they really want to control their own destiny this would be the way to go.
> engineers with the low-level experience probably are way harder to find than for ARM

Eh, the instruction set doesn't matter that much for modern CPU designers (within reason). Apple's in house expertise came (in part) from their acquisition of P.A. Semi and their PowerPC engineers; Apple it seems immediately redirected them to working on ARM designs. And the Transmeta guys proved that a third party can put out an interesting x86 chip if you can get access to the licenses.
Is apple divesting its mac offering? Sounds like FUD.
I stumbled upon this vulnerability during a white hat phishing test. The success rate was very high when I used the alternate G domains even among hard core IT folks. People have a tendency to overlook the difference. At that point I faced an ethical dilemma: should I just forget about this or maybe publish something? Neither options seemed right. Finally decided to get all the unreserved domain names for the fortune 500. Had to set a limit somewhere... To my surprise 102 of the vulnerable 103 fortune 500 was still available. Now I own these domains... If these companies want them, I am happy to transfer them over. If they do not care, I just let them expire. For my company - we set the spam filters according, changed our web proxies, and also own the alternate domains. I also submitted a bug report with a major software vendor, because their solution further amplified the problem. They are working on a fix...
What could Cargo do for you that you miss from Maven?
The article would be 42% better without the silly images.
Yeah dude that talk was awesome.
I believe gitlab used slony, not the native replication. I'm not well versed in postgres, but that's what I gleaned from reading their event log.
Well, if you create a lot of additional objects on startup then it will take some time. JVM startup is still fast. http://blog.ndk.io/jvm-slow-startup.html
PowerShell is the recommended shell language. But I don't think it is considered a first-class .net language because Visual Studio does not have built-in support for it.
Theres plenty!
Googling 'after effects shape animation' returned all of these:
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/The-Ultimate-Guide...

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/create-shape-ve...

https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-fun-and-d...

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Mograph-Techni...
I find it silly that a devout Christian can be sued into bankruptcy because he or she doesn't want make a wedding cake with two grooms on it.

I find it silly that a devout Christian can be sued into bankruptcy because he or she doesn't want to photograph a wedding ceremony with two brides.

The law has no regard for silly.

Moreover, you're missing the point. I picked people for my example because we all understand how repugnant those people would find it to be forced to take part in certain actions.

I get it, religious people are a convenient target of scorn and ridicule but the government shouldn't be in the business of coercing people to provide non-essential services to others.

So, a black ER doctor should have to provide assistance to the KKK member who was just shot and a Jewish pharmacist should have to fill the prescription for the neo-nazi's cancer medication.

Those are life and death issues, so they're not the same as someone getting their feelings hurt because someone else didn't want to associate with them.
I completely agree with your frustration, but even inside the a "sane block" the are cases where you'll need the existing behavior, and backwards compatibility... Ugh.

Almost easier to make completely new keywords that allow you to designate where a special-scope begins and a "this"-like keyword that behaves a little differently.
«Do you think VB.Net is in any way more accessible than C#?»

Having been a teacher's assistant on courses the answer is very clearly and emphatically: Yes.

It's easy to discount the accessibility of a syntax when you are already at the top of the learning curve, but the Algol family will always be tougher to teach/learn than the BASIC family. Punctuation is harder than you think. (Aside: partly why I think JavaScript is actually the easiest to teach in the Algol-inspired family for the benefit of having optional semicolons alone.)

«Or that any of those is less accessible than VB6?»

That's not an anecdote I have first hand experience with. I think there are a lot of cranky VB6 developers that sneer that VB.NET is worse and so much harder than VB6, but my gut tells me that that may be more the relative learning curve/gap in moving from VB6 to VB14. I don't think it is anywhere near as representative of the accessibility of learning VB14 as a first language. (I also think the more important question is the accessibility of moving from Office VBA to VB14, as it still seems for a lot of disciplines Office VBA is the most important first step towards programming.)

«The untrained masses have a way into getting hooked on tools that are harder but offer no benefit compared to many other stuff available around.»

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. I don't think VB.NET is any "harder" than C# and while VB.NET might not offer "more benefit" than C# (assuming you discount syntax/accessibility entirely as a benefit), it certainly is no worse than C# as a tool for a person to use.
Not fixed. Just tested in 5.3.
Does something?

Have you not seen the past 11 days? Complete corruption and insane plans.
This seems in large part to reflect their expansion in to battery and solar technology following the aquision of SolarCity. However, I wonder when products such as SolarRoof and Powerwall 2 will be become available. When I read/viewed the promotional material for those products I got the impression that they would be "hitting the shelves" early 2017. Perhaps I was mistaken.

The Powerwall 2 order page[1] used to read "Installations begin in January 2017." I just checked back and it now reads "February 2017." On March 1, will it change to "March 2017?"

I am a very serious potential customer (dad needs help ordering a power backup solution for his medical devices) and sent a detailed email asking for more information. I didn't want to put down a deposit without more details about whether the products are available, if my area is suitable, and when installation would start ("January - no, February - no, March - actually, check back this summer" wouldn't be acceptable for my use case). I didn't hear back for a few weeks.

I just followed up again. Hopefully they respond this time, but I would imagine that I am probably going to go with another battery backup solution (or a gas-based generator solution) at this point.

[1]https://www.tesla.com/powerwall
The ASR-33 even had [ \ ] ^ _ available only via shift + K L M N O. This is called a bit-paired keyboard.
Can you just imagine how long the battery would last on an arm based macbook? Days?!
Shape animation is the term I was looking for! Thanks.
Malta sells their citizenship for €2,000,000. Since Malta is in the EU, that gives the right to live and work anywhere in the EU.

That's essentially like South Carolina selling US citizenship to boost its budget.
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Babble babble babble.

Can babby be more constructive?
Wow, apparently this other John von Neumann [0] achieved a certain fame in the racing world, and was a Ferrari distributor in California in the 50s.

[0]: http://www.september8th.com/news_neumann1.htm
I would be more sympathetic to Zenimax if they had shown any interest at all in VR. Remember Carmack left the company because he couldn't get any traction on VR, even after demoing goddamn DooM on it.

To show you just how much Zenimax cares, go and try to buy DooM VR for any platform.
That seems extremely interesting! So if you could pull this off, this would be like, we'd see some kind of AE animation mid View transition?
Seems fair to me as well. There's already postings dismissing any IP settlement as "unfair" here but that's fairly unrealistic in the real world. If IP can't be defended then that chills investor confidence. Why should I invest in company x if employees can leave with all the IP and go start company y?

Note this wasn't some submarine patent troll out of nowhere. This was a Zenimax employee working on another company's product on their time. This was also about NDA violations and a boatload of shady dealings by Facebook who famously bought Oculus over the weekend and left no time for a proper discovery of liabilities. There's little controversial about this. Carmack and Luckey were simply wrong and Oculus should have worked things out better with Zenimax. FB needs to do better due diligence. A lot of bad players were punished today. The VR industry is too young and fragile to have these shenanigans become the norm. Signaling to investors that VR IP is protected is a good for everyone.
Actually any citizen can arrest a lawbreaker, not just a police officer, and not just while one is on duty.
Forged? How do you feel about bigfoot?

Get your bigotry off HN. You are not welcome here. Grow up.
No, a Russian agent wouldn't have leaked anything to the western press. A Russian agent would have only disclosed what he knows to his superiors. Russian agents that leak anything to the public usually end up dead pretty quickly.

The reason why he ended up in Russia from Hong Kong is that his passport was voided by US authorities and Russia ended being the only country willing to take him without sending him back to US.
From my point of view, this has a rather easy solution: Hard depend on musl.

It's small (so it can be shipped everywhere) and focused on correctness, making it a rather obvious choice for any security-oriented application.
I think the answer to this is to do more to educate the individuals who will take advantage of this policy so that the actions they take help give a voice to or amplify the voice of part-time working minorities or other marginalized groups.

In other words, I believe we should laud all attempts to build a culture of civic engagement, no matter what your political beliefs are or your personal background. The next step is to help find ways for that civic engagement to be generally helpful rather than harmful.

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It's not material because they have the cash and it will not harm future cash flow. They also don't have to pay it all, Facebook is on the hook for $300m and the rest is from Luckey and Iribe.

Facebook just announced earnings this afternoon and banked $3.568b in profit for the quarter. That's 12x they'll pay even without any insurance. They have $29.45b in the bank so this is a 1% hit at worst, so as Sandberg said: not material to their finances. On top of that, as others have said they probably have already reserved the resources.
I don't understand your point. How far along the reductio ad absurdum should we go?

You described the holdouts of the 1950s era of American culture. Suppose there was a holdout from the 1850s era of American culture. Should we give deference to their cultural preferences which include all of the following: ownership of human beings as property (only if they have dark skin, though), subjugation of women who are legally disenfranchised, and enthusiasm for genocidal military actions against indigenous people.

so...where do you draw the line? by what means do we determine by what means, and under what circumstances, people might express their cultural preferences? I think there is a difference between a "media firestorm" (emergent phenomenon) and the directed effort of an eccentric billionaire.
Lauded, sure, but just about all of his books are out of print and his work is rarely a part of the curriculum.
As another commenter mentioned, I think this is much more the programmer and less the language. Sure, the language may recommend certain approaches which carry across teams differently, but it still often comes down to the app, not the language. I implemented a rudimentary Java AOT targetting Go and the trimmed-down stdlib grew so big Go took hours compiling it (granted some of that is how I approached OOP and what not).
Totally expected, because they need to increase performance and lower battery consumption. Now the extent of taking job from main Intel's CPU and spectrum of possibilities of ARM coprocessors are yet to be seen. I can see it doing some hardware related tasks that do not interfere with actual higher stack of macOS and x86 space. But this is all pretty common. This title looks little clickbaity imho.
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I found the Pew poll regarding Russian involvement in the email hack but not one involving direct hacking of tallies. Do you have a link?

I followed the election from a variety of sources (WaPo and NYT included) and never got that impression. But I agree that it was a circus from all angles.
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It's a pity Microsoft doesn't expend energy in figuring out how to make opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL safe.
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Use real dogs?
> Zenimax would have the first mover advantage and market lead on this burgeoning market

Bullshit. Zenimax leadership wanted nothing to do with this market! First mover advantage is the opposite of how they work as a company. If it was up to them they would have had Carmack work on something less risky like the 10th installment in one of their IPs, and nothing would have happened.
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Can anyone find a copy of the NDA that was violated?
That's what you say when you can't stop your app from crashing.
In practice, what people do is they pay something like $5 a year to get added to a shared pool of developer accounts. In China they also had a really slick scam going for a long time involving pools of otherwise-unused enterprise certificates (though I haven't tracked this one recently, and so maybe they got hit even harder than the resigning services have been).

I will also point out that for many of the use cases of piracy, which involves games and other content where the user rapidly get "bored" and moves on to other content, a limit of three at a time for only seven days doesn't matter: people can pirate a few games and play them for a weekend, and then move on to pirate other games.

(If you are curious, I'm of course excited by these things and like explaining them as it further weakens the argument some people try to make that jailbreaking leads to mass piracy, something even the US Copyright Office doesn't believe; but this line of analysis makes the whole situation more obvious ;P;)