skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you get the Now TV app on your Fire TV?
100% on spot, the fashion driven software as Alan Kay puts it.
Now, If we do set the minimum salary at that level SV will be just fine, but what about non-NYC or SV regions, who also have tech companies (believe it or not) and yet much lower income median. We will be embracing newcomers to only come to the coast, which is hardly Trump's point here.
New O'Reilly Book: Getting Started with Varnish
Best so far is 8.7Ghz with AMD chip which is a bit old now.
But Kaby Lake is 7.3Ghz.
All using liquid nitrogen of course.
http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php#js-freq_all
KTVU Prank Goes on the Air After Asiana Flight 214 Crash
Yeah originally the news cycle had some spin on it - I clearly remember some lines about "Wow check out the heroic actions by the pilot to avoid crashing into any buildings!" and later when the cockpit recorder came out, uhhh, not so heroic. Human, an error...preventable? Up for debate but I like to think a lot of US regulated pilots would be able to handle it appropriately.
I think it's the same mindset of people who wear a seatbelt with the shoulder restraint tucked behind them: "It's uncomfortable! And besides, it only affects me!"

That's great, except that your tubby ass will become a missile if anything happens to this vehicle. Also, planes have a habit of randomly jumping around with no warning because of invisible turbulence.
Had to change some words, but it's not bad!

https://twitter.com/DeepDrumpf/status/823739367332126720
https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/0745fc96/my_next_silence_o...
The g in gvfs is not an abbreviation for GNOME. It's either gio or glib and part of that. See the picture on https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch01.html#gvfs-overvi..., it's more low level than something specific to GNOME.
For whatever reason, I think people just don't believe in this argument: that this entrepreneurial skill set is hard to find and that any country would be lucky to attract as much of it as it can.

Part of the reason is that it isn't a context free skill. The athlete analogy is effective here. You know that there are generally good athletes but you don't know which one will be LeBron. And general athletic ability doesn't translate to all sports (witness Jordan playing baseball or golf).

I wish there was a way to convince people who disagree but I really think they think this is just a cover for shipping in low paid workers.
Nicely done, but what about python, ruby and php? Haven't you found any books on these topics at all?
Naruto Season 1 Episode 13 (English Dubbed)
Loss of privilege feels like oppression, but it isn't.
But if you could learn some things from the history and use that to your advantage, why wouldn't you? Everyone would be doing so. And yet somehow it doesn't work like that, outdated things are in fact outdated and you can only take away very little from them. Things that were designed with trade offs for very expensive slow synchronous machines during the times when programmers were not bound to languages, because everyone had to develop everything from scratch, don't really make much sense today. Direct experience of the last decade is a lot more relevant with a lot more lessons to learn that were never even on the radar in the past.
> >, the good old Design Patterns book, responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted,

> This is a misunderstanding of the DP book.

It is discussing an effect of the book, not the intent.

> It would be similar to saying that the existence of TVTropes.com is responsible for terrible scripts of tv shows and movies.

Which would be entirely accurate if script writers were widely using TVTropes pages as templates and creating bad scripts from it, regardless of what TVTropes is intended to be.
Metabase is my new favourite tool: I've probably use it every day to answer some question instead of dropping into the Rails console. Things like: what percentage of orders come from Stripe vs Paypal? Or export a list of users that match this criteria. Or display the top 10 users by some metric.

It makes creating BI charts from a database easy enough that a non-developer can do it. But when the going gets tough, I can still drop down to hand-coded SQL. It was also an easy installation on Heroku.

It's not entirely perfect (combining multiple series on one chart is harder than it needs to be; can only pull data from databases not APIs) but it's been a success so far
Work grows to fill the available time. "IT" style tasks, like reading/writing documents, spreadsheets, emails, etc. don't require anything like the resources they currently use, or those they used in 2000. They use(d) those resources since there was no reason not to.

Lots of (most?) software development typically charges ahead without much regard to resource usage, until performance becomes a problem; then things are optimised until performance is no longer a problem, and the charge resumes. This results in software with performance which is just about acceptable, regardless of what resources are available. It was the case in 2000, it is the case now, and it would be the case if we had 50GHz machines.

This is the case for tasks where the main bottleneck is 'has anybody bothered to implement this yet?'; I'd say your examples of gaming and video editing are tasks where performance is a major part of the bottleneck. Arguably, Trello didn't exist in the 90s because nobody had bothered to make it yet; Skyrim didn't exist in the 90s because the machines weren't up to it.
Steve Bannon does.
I don't quite understand what you are saying. I am unaware of any such requests by other (Western) countries' governments I have travelled to in the past few years.

Are government bureaucrats thinking that they should not only have the right to view my social media accounts "from the inside", but also the risk that they may impersonate me from now on?

And what is to stop me changing the passwords minutes after handing them over and having my passport stamped?
That part of the Ars article is restating a claim made in the Daily Mail article. Also, Lamar has been making the claim for awhile [1] that he has whistleblowers in the NOAA, which is where the link comes from.

[1] - http://www.npr.org/2015/12/07/458476435/is-this-congressmans...
It was abrupt and it came from Trump. Those are the main reasons it's causing such a stir.
That's very interesting. I haven't read Design Patterns. I have read A Pattern Language, and the Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander, and Patterns of Software by Richard Gabriel. It's been my understanding that Design Patterns had only a couple of dozen patterns (which turn up again and again in Java code) and prescribed their use generally, but if they're only examples of patterns, and programmers are encouraged to invent their own (which I do anyway), it might be worth a read.
In Firefox, the link doesn't display even after clicking 'list publicly'.

Weirdly though, I can open the context menu and click 'search for ...', and sure enough the resulting search tab contains the full link.
If you are a skilled worker then you should probably think twice about it.
What about this is useful? There is no breakdown of whether the mentions were upvoted or downvoted, no mention of whether they solved the problem (or were even relevant to the question), no review of the books so that readers can make an informed decision, etc. This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon.
I don't think that's fair. The patterns already existed, they just created a taxonomy and added editorial. I think it's one of my favorite programming books.

Everybody independently created singletons and factories and builders, we just all called them different things.
How a Pacemaker Led Police to Accuse Someone with Arson
The Future of Labor
> and those dollars in the economy are concentrated in hands of the very wealthy on the backs of immigrants.

You're very obviously wrong. The employees of Tesla and its suppliers will extract the extreme majority of all financial value from the existence of Tesla. If Tesla survives for 20 years, that tally will be in the multiple hundreds of billions. Elon Musk will end up owning a single digit percentage of that value creation. The same is true about nearly all successful corporations. Of all the financial value created by Google over its existence, Larry & Sergey (and the early Google investors, most of whom liquidated not long after the IPO) will end up having owned a tiny sliver of it.

Uber's drivers will extract the extreme majority of all financial value created by Uber. Over a 20 year span, that number will dwarf what Kalanick and Uber's investors extract. Further, Uber riders will derive a similarly extreme financial value over what Kalanick does, through convenience / time saved etc.

Good luck naming a company that isn't true for.
> For me the type and generics system are the best I've ever used and I wish I had access to them in Java.

Then you should spend some time with OCaml and Haskell. :)
Rust absolutely does want to market to the web services crowd. They said as much during their year-end conference. The whole push with futures is partly because of that. This year you'll see a lot more development in the web arena. I realise this messaging is probably what you've heard already, but I believe when futures are integrated into the backend frameworks you'll see some really competitive offerings.
Kodi itself is just the new name for XBMC (XBox Media Center). It's an open source media centre project, and they are in no way affiliated with any of this.

"fully loaded kodi boxes" are just set top boxes pre-loaded with kodi and a number of plugin that make it convenient to access pirate streams or download content in a style reminiscent of popcorn time. Since These guys are basically just bundling Kodi and some plugins on cheap hardware, they make a quick buck selling that. The torrents and streams are just there anyway, so it's not a cost they need to concern themselves with.
Do 100% of "box office receipts" go to the production company? Or is a portion of that overhead for the theater showing the movie?

Also I think you're really missing something important, which the entertainment industry is also ignoring... "all you can eat" is not the only way to do it, there is a market for "a la carte" as well. My wife has been trying to find a way to pay to stream 3 or 4 TV channels only, she specifically does not want to pay for ESPN or other trash television we won't watch. It would be even better if we could find it without ads. Of course such a model is probably unthinkable for content producers that want to bundle their losers in with their winners in order to boost their value.
As I remember the conclusions of this experiment were two-fold:

* Employees are happier, more productive and less stressed
* The cost of staff increased due to sustained wages for less worm
Iran is a huge bed for talent. As the article mentioned, 2 of the 3 people who created Google's Ad Services came from Iran, which came under the recent EO.

But in general it is the rise of anti-immigration sentiment, and the instability with respect to immigration.

There's the case of green cards for Indians and the Chinese. Under the current system, Indians and Chinese workers who start the process of getting a green card today must wait at least 13 years to get it. The prospect of working under a temporary visa for the best years of your life, always under the shadow of a change in administration or policy that uproots you and sends you back to your place of birth is likely to deter a lot of people, and might tempt them to move to Europe or Canada instead.

This is a lose-lose situation because these people don't get to work at the cutting edge of tech, and also the companies that desperately need bright minds lose out on them because they sensibly decided not to risk the US's broken immigration system.

This wasn't always the case, by the way. It's a pretty recent development over the last few years. Since green cards are allotted by place of birth and are a fixed number for every country, it is far easier for a person from Afghanistan to become a permanent resident than for an Indian.
Also, Boeings have a traditional yoke. It seems like a lot of this trouble was caused by the fact a sidestick can easily be hit by something on the front of the chair.
Predicting and Mapping Arrest Types in San Francisco with LightGBM, R, ggplot2
I think GitHub/Gitlab (enterprise or public), do an excellent job of capturing the monorepo desires, but with lots of disparate code repositories.

That is, mono repos are great for single company wide access, easy to fork and commit against different areas, have a single system for driving all CI changes across repos.

I agree that having a single huge repo kinda sucks in Git, but it's also basically a nonstarter for companies that want all the features of git, but their repo and build is monolithic. Would you require people to first completely rebuild their software into separate Git repos before using Git? This could take years!

I've been looking at this exact problem at my work, and there is no easy answer here. I think MS probably picked the easier path forward in their case.
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> we'll see other new languages making the same choices?

We are already seeing that, .NET and Java are finally paying more attention to the AOT story on their standard toolchains.

And we also have Objective-C and Swift on iDevices.
During flight, you can set the belt a bit looser. For cases like this it's more important to keep you in your seat, than to keep you there as tight as possible, which is more important in case of a crash.
Retail banking has become a low margin, discount business. Most people don't want to pay monthly fees for accounts, and there's a ton of competition. This is a response to that.
Serial to distributed in one easy step
> Personally I think the entertainment industry is approaching the pirating issue the wrong way.

I think the big problem going forward will be peoples willingness to pay. Just look at the current landscape of OTT services and people are beginning to get annoyed over paying for so many. I personally don't think the individual OTT market will keep pushing forward the way it is because at some people will get fed up with paying for so many different services. And while you can cancel at anytime, who wants to deal with remembering to sign up and cancel every time a new show comes along? Never mind the annoyance of traversing in and out of services to watch different shows or watchlists -- this by the way is where I feel TiVO got it right by combining regular recordings with online.

My hope and likely dream scenarios is we begin to see a shift away from TV distributed over COAX and proprietary boxes, and instead consumed through services like Vue / SlingTV. These platforms advance to being more than traditional delivery mechanisms by allowing integration of OTT services to be consumed like a regular channel.
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"I think writing toy programs - conscious finger exercises - are a terrible way to learn a new language."
whoa hold on there. everyone's learning style is different. Doing "dumb simple" things first and extracting reward from it is essential to growing progress, even for advanced programmers imo.
Iranian hackers are back with the MACDOWNLOADER MAC malware
Most museums offer annual memberships that are only 2-3x the cost of a single day ticket. I used to live within walking distance of MoMA and it changed my experience of art to be able to wander up and linger on a single piece or exhibit for long periods without worrying about "doing it all" in one day.

Strongly recommend getting memberships to your local museums!
This makes me wonder if Facebook and other social media companies could engineer a solution to this problem.

Maybe have a duress password that unlocks the account and shows only the public data of the user as well as some fake messages, friends, etc.
It is a little more complicated than that though. A computer or web browser is general purpose. These boxes are sold specifically for copyright violation or whatever you want to call it (pirating, theft, etc).

Maybe if Mozilla/Google offered a version of Firefox/Chrome that came pre-configured with links to a bunch of torrent sites and bundled in extensions to download torrents, unpack archives and play media it would be similar.
Intel open source video drivers are OpenGL 4.5 certified
I like lists like this for discovering books I haven't heard of. I don't make an immediate buy decision based on appearance in a list, and will do more research. But it's a nice way to run into something you didn't run into before for some reason.

To each their own; shaming the OP on HN for adding affiliate links on their own website, on the product of their own effort, is what I'm trying to point out.
This isn't canonically true is it; if more people consume more media at $1 per go you could make back much more than you loose by charging £25 that very few people pay for new Blu ray disks.
> I don't think anyone, red or blue or purple, really wants to stop skilled immigrants from coming to America.

Lots of people, some of them quite publicly—including Steve Bannon, Trump's Chief Strategist in that latter group—do. Some because they are competition for jobs, some because of general xenophobia, some for other reasons.

Bannon has specifically criticized legal immigration generally, and the "progressive plutocrats of Silicon Valley" and the H1B program and the preponderance of Asians (calling out both South and East) in tech specifically. If you think he's only interested in curbing "less skilled" immigration, you're mistaken.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his...
> What about this is useful?

> This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon.

Something which Amazon does, because likewise 'others may find [it] useful'.
Not the person to whom you are asking, but this is my perception of Apple.

The state of OpenGL will never improve: if you've followed Apple at any point over the last 25 years, it's pretty clear that they disengage very quickly from any technology that is starting to look deprecated/not the future. It works for hardware and software: first iMac with only USB and Ethernet, dropping the floppy drive, dropping CD/DVD drives, avoiding Blue-Ray entirely [1], only USB-C on last MacBook Pro, flash, etc. So my opinion is that OpenGL will never be developed further at Apple. They will probably drop all OpenGL support at some point in the next few years.

The other thing that is clear is that Apple doesn't like having their hands tied by third parties. The lack of adequate Kaby Lake processors for the launch of the last MacBook Pro, and the subsequent heat/hatred directed towards Apple because of it [2], is probably making quite a few people think that at some point they will really have to move the whole Mac line to Apple made ARM processors.

Apple started to ship a working Metal implementation to iOS developers before Vulkan was more than a draft [3]. This freedom to move at their own pace is worth a lot to Apple. Vulkan is a great piece of technology, but I don't have high hopes for it to be supported by Apple anytime soon.

[1] There were some licensing issues there, but had Apple thought the future of media consumption to be BR I'm sure they would have found a comprise. Instead they found an excuse to promote streaming / the Apple TV.

[2] Including on HN, where I would have thought the average reader to be a little bit more sophisticated on these technical matters.

[3] I don't have the exact timeline in head, so I might be wrong.

Edit: typo
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ESR is a master of just this. He's involved, just ask him :)

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6820
Reminds me that our president said that we are no so innocent. We are also killers. That he was defending Putin may not be relevant.
I wonder how many people actually read the books they were suggesting.

Like here on HN, Art of Computer Programming gets mentioned a lot. But I've not met anyone who has actually read it. And I own a copy. It's so hard of a read that I am just going to assume anyone who says they did is either lying or Donald Knuth.

I'm suspect of books as a means of information conveyance. They make great mediums for narratives, but narrative is too slow for technical writing. Similarly, I dislike videos, podcasts, and conference talks. Technical writing should be a wiki-like document where terms expand in-place. Start super high-level. Always written in clipped, imperative style. Single line per fact. Like mathematical proofs, but maybe in reverse.
One book(s) that I didn't see come up on the list was "The Art of Computer Programming". It would be interesting to see if that was because it's popularity got spread out because of multiple volumes or if people just don't mention it that much.
There was no wifi, but was WiFi turned off on your device? Facebook may scan surrounding access point to determine your location.
I have a missing limb cat. She doesn't let it slow her down, not even a little. She even somehow manages to routinely use the scratching post upright with her only front leg. She just takes everything in stride.
In 2011 I launched a side-project called hackerbooks.com (wayback machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hacker...).

It got a fair bit of traction.

Out of my memory, Amazon affiliate links only earned me something like $30, total (I had other sources of revenue via targeted ads, which earned a bit more, but not much).
I dont think any other country actually asks for the password. But countries like Thailand may ask for _some_ social media accounts. In opposite to the U.S. they dont bother you if you just keep them empty (a friend of mine got asked by U.S. immigration why he did not fill his facebook account when he had one).

My point really just that the U.S. is going crazy. And we should all be aware or even a bit afraid even if we have nothing to do with that shit in first place.
"I thought it would be really fun, but it felt kind of stressful," says Gabriel Peres, as he slots a Petri dish inside one of the 3D printers he's built for the company.

"It's a process and it takes time and when you don't have all that [much] time it kind of feels like skipping homework at school, things are always building up."

That's a perspective I hadn't considered. Maybe the 6 hour work day makes more sense for service-based work like nursing, fast food, etc.

For us techies it could actually be a nuisance (depending on how the individual works).
Did I say with one word that I find OP's work wrong? Where did you read this? Why are you so negative?

It's great what the OP did and I am really interested in his sales (and he already gave some insights, he's a great guy)
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Silicon Valley’s Technolibertarian Dream Was Invented By Timothy Leary
>Or you've probably never heard of Iran Flight 655, where in 1988 a reckless US cruiser drifted into Iranian waters and shot down an Iranian commercial airplane in Iranian airspace. 290 fatalities, including women and children. 8th deadliest disaster in aviation history, nary a peep in the US media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655. But they are the reckless terrorists to watch out for.

'Nary a peep in the US media'? Front page in the New York Times and Washington Post?

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/04/world/downing-flight-655-u...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight80...

I'm not sure what a would constitute 'a peep' for you.
I think much of this 'freedom' has come from The USA's overly elevated global position coming out of WW2.

The USA prospered economically, scientifically and socially all while Western Europe was on its knees. The EU has been, in my eyes at least an attempt at rebalancing of Western Power.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...