skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There’s only one way to find a good product idea: observe real people, and recognize the real struggles they face."

Recognizing real struggles is where most of our products fail, and its the tough part. As you said, we get better at it as we hangout more with them.
Another gem from you today!
The closed source JDK has quite a few components that aren't the same as the OpenJDK.

For example OpenJDK 9 will get a new Java 2D render, due to the differences between the two that were in use http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/265
My overclocked 1st gen i5 is about half the speed of a brand new mid range processor. It's almost 7 years old and I still have no need to replace it.

I've considered getting a new PC for SATA 600 and USB 3.0 more than I care that I could have a new machine that's only twice as fast.
Hack Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes
Oh dear God please no
Because as we know, high-schoolers are really good at labour-market analysis.
Maybe for startups, on the enterprise space I am yet to see any customer move away from Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and similar.
Wrong. Extensive automated careful testing and quality control can be built into continuous deployment pipelines. (Quality assurance for defect prevention has nothing to do with continuous deployment one way or the other. Many people in the software industry confuse QA with QC.)
Still cannot be compiled with C++ (-Wc++-compat)
We fixed those issues by ourselves.
You need to win all the small elections you can, from senator down to county dogcatcher, and not just win-but-lose the big one. Think of it as promoting internally.
I'm curious if they have stats on how many personal attacks lead to a warning or ban against the target of the personal attack.
If I said I read it twice, then yes, I did read it. Twice. Sibling post mentioned "It reads like the kind of spam" to which you agreed "I can see that."

> Look at my comment history and let me know if you still think I'm a spam bot.

I didn't say you were a bot. I asked how the spam got here, because I also checked your comment history beforehand.
Just echoing what someone else already wrote: Your english is great and you have a great attitude, and you are ambitious and still young. Do not worry that you are wasting your life. It seems like you are passionate about coding, so you are in it for the long term. You should try to get a better job of course. If that means going out of the country to do it then take the chance while you're young. I don't think you need a masters degree to do that, although that may be what you want to do anyway. Best of luck to you.
They are.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting...
do you want users to pipe news from public fb pages like cnn and nytimes? or feeds from private individuals/friends?

that permission only applies to the latter.
Ah, so the "Federal Circuit" is another court at the same level as the other circuit courts that doesn't have a number associated with it. The choice of abbreviation is confusing to say the least.
For years, I thought that I'd get a million dollar idea in a flash of inspiration.

But after observing successful founders, the commonality is they were all focused on making people's lives better.
"Shortly" we had that topic here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441913
But most of the stuff is not alive anymore...

But there are some interesting new ones:

https://github.com/cantino/huginn

https://trigger-happy.eu/infos

not sure if this is alive: https://sourceforge.net/projects/semanticwebpipe

Do you know some other (open source) event and agent system tools?
(there are tons of commercial hosted IFTTT clones, they are not interesting...)
Full decision, if anyone's interested:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/68g4zq28aqiaqor/IMG_1374.PDF?dl=0
And there's already a handful of userstyles to fix this already: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/github?as=1&sort=create...

My favourite of that bunch makes the navbar just slightly lighter instead of switching back to the old style: https://userstyles.org/styles/138757/better-dark-github-nav
I think the answer is, it depends. In the circles where I vend stuff, if you don't have one, people look at you as a grade-A idiot. Like you showed up to a meeting without pants/a skirt on.

Heck, even when I go to startup meetups, everyone asks for a card (medium-sized Pacific Northwest city).

If they're going out of style, they're still fashionable here.
I think the dark bar is great. Makes the design a lot more clear. I finally understand it:

1) Black Bar: General Github stuff

2) White Stuff: Repository Specific Content

Now, if they could only put the link to the releases section in a place where you can find it, that would make the page perfect.
I wish people would just roll with design changes. It's jarring? You'll get used to it. They'll improve it. Just roll with it. Let them experiment with their UI. These are pros. They brought you Bootstrap. And GitHub until now. Plus it's really not that meaningful. The UI is just a means to an end. You'll get used to it. It's what humans do best.
Sensitivity training
In my current experience with states-side academia: draw a line between the most math/theoretical departments through physics and end up at the engineering departments. The tendency to use TeX/LaTeX follows that line from a relatively high probability to zero on arrival to engineering. In European academia it stays reasonable high throughout.
> Oracle is such a shit company

Oracle is a parasite, milking the innovations of years ago through customer lock-in and aggressive litigation.

They are a black hole in the tech ecosystem, extracting hundreds of billions of value for themselves, profiting from open source while contributing very little back to the community.

If they win this lawsuit it will be a dark day for innovation and a big loss for shared knowledge and progress.
I thought my account had been flagged for being banned or something (for no reason?). Especially because at the time I double checked in an incognito window which still yielded a white bar.
COM can be said to be overly complicated (at least not as bad a CORBA). I think WinMD is a step in the right direction, but both COM and WinMD are userland constructs and neither particularly pervade the OS (e.g. you can't pipe COM objects)
When complaining about inadequate behavior from other Wikipedia editors, it would be very useful to point out concrete links to edits and reverts. This gives a chance to other interested parties to fix the article and contribute to the discussion.
sometimes hygienic reasons too
If you're using email to communicate with humans, you are using Gmail since your counterparty is almost always using Gmail. Gmail and their ad scanning is unavoidable in practice when using email so your only real recourse is to use a different communication protocol.

Gmail is reasonably secure in situations that actually occur frequently. No other providers are. But even Gmail is optimized for adoption and monitization over security, so it's security efforts only go so far, particularly when interacting with other email providers.
> It is fascinating how a perfectly sensible rule-of-thumb "you shouldn't use html tables for something which is not semantically a table" gradually morphed into various superstitions like "you shouldn't use html tables" or "you shouldn't use tables for layout" or even "you shouldn't use tables".

It's always bugged me to see the great lengths people will go to to avoid using an HTML table to create things like a calendar. A calendar is a table! Save yourself the effort and use <table>. It's not only easier, it's semantically correct as well.
Anything that endangers your life is "wrong"?
I hand them out frequently. Sometimes to people I already know who want my contact information. It's easier to hand someone a card versus disrupting an interesting conversation to exchange details.
well, they presumably weren't born into slavery only to be worked brutally hard then tortured and murdered by a slave owner, so i guess they're worthy of a sneer or two.
What about your current beliefs? Why not apply it to them too?
Presumably a security key. A Yubikey or something like it.
So if I hook up a 1tb harddrive to this network,how much can I earn?
We got our first big break 4 months ago by giving out a business card. You have to make a connection first before you slip the card. I think your experience is more a reflection of your selling skills than anything.
The Plague Within Us: Shlomo Sand on France and Its Intellectuals
Nice post. I actually just wrote a post myself on setting up a native Cisco IPsec VPN sever on a Raspberry Pi 3. Cisco IPsec works natively on macOS and iOS with no 3rd party software which was a requirement for me.

https://blog.elasticbyte.net/setting-up-a-native-cisco-ipsec...
I do EECS research in the aerospace industry. Every journal we ever submit to either requires or accepts Latex. I also used it regularly to write reports as an undergrad. At least in the EECS side of the engineering field, Latex is alive and well.
Interesting debate especially when considering the light bulb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_efficiency
> The shit we breath and drink and surround ourselves with...

Humans are healthier than ever. While nutrition will probably improve in the future, it's actually quite good right now.

> Human beings driving cars. The activity that for years maimed and killed millions of people, but we did it anyway while worrying about terrorist attacks.

That's because the utility of car usage is undeniably positive. Despite millions of deaths over the decades, humanity would be a lot worse off without cars to get around and transport goods.

If you just mean humans as opposed to computers, then you're probably right. I do think it would be a net negative to society if humans were forced to stop driving, however. That would just be one more way to dull the human experience and go from living to surviving.

> the notion of carrying a firearm is going to be pretty laughable, given what they'll be capable of then

Do you mean to say that they'll be too powerful in the future? I'm not sure I understand the argument; presumably, there'll be some sort of limitation on what kind of weapons people are allowed to use. The restrictions are usually pretty silly and arbitrary right now (e.g. "no barrel shroud"), but I could imagine a future where there are laws like "no carrying around a weapon capable of putting out more than 10kW averaged over a minute".
Richard Branson lives in the British Virgin Islands. Saw a video of him there. He runs his business empire from there, almost like from a hammock :)
1) I don't know if Xiamen has the same pollution problem as other cities in China.

2) More biking = less cars + exhaust on the roads.

3) Maybe the city is more progressive than others in reducing air pollution (this bike path is one example) so there is less problem with air pollution.
In March 2014, I attended a conference in Atlanta.
In the subway, some nice guy told me I had to make business cards for the conference. So I went to some kinko and asked:

- How much for 250 business cards?
- $69.
- If I provide a PDF and just ask you to print and cut, can you do it for today?
- Yes.
- How much?
- $39. Do you have the file?
- Yes.

It was a lie. I opened a new LaTeX document and typed this thing, thanks to Stack Overflow.

https://github.com/jilljenn/business-card
> libc is the C runtime library, a subset of POSIX.

> A conforming ANSI C implementation is not required to provide headers like unistd, or any kind of POSIX compatibility beyond what ISO/IEC 9899 requires.

Yes, and Android's libc provides almost all of (all of? I don't know for sure) POSIX.1.

> Either POSIX compatibility matters, or it doesn't.

POSIX IPC is a non-mandatory option in POSIX. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_... if you want to be a language lawyer.

More to the point, POSIX compatibility matters up to the point where it's useful. Implementing the shared memory functions by returning -1 and setting ENFILE is a perfectly compliant implementation. It's also worse than just not providing an implementation.
“I have nothing but praise for Dr. Todd and his work. Why pay a hundred dollars to some idiot who tells you that in a few days that you will be back together when all they do is take your money and you never hear from them again, manifest spell cast@gmail.com delivers and yes it takes a few weeks but Rome wasn’t built in a day. By the time you have thrown your money away on the “48 hour guarantee” people you could have spent more and had the job done properly”
I installed a YouTube dark extension and thought it was leaking to GitHub's CSS. That's how bad this design change was.
“I have nothing but praise for Dr. Todd and his work. Why pay a hundred dollars to some idiot who tells you that in a few days that you will be back together when all they do is take your money and you never hear from them again, manifestspellcast@gmail.com delivers and yes it takes a few weeks but Rome wasn’t built in a day. By the time you have thrown your money away on the “48 hour guarantee” people you could have spent more and had the job done properly”
Good luck finding those.

Even Fortran, C and C++ compilers depend on the work that a few corporations like Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft,... put working on the compilers and sending employees to ANSI meetings.
There's only one example there.
http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/code.html
If you're going to go through all the trouble of typesetting a business card in LaTeX, you really ought to use Computer Modern Roman so that folks know you typeset it in LaTeX. (Related; resumes in CMR always have +10 credibility.)
Fix? It looks a lot better that way :D
This is a page on internal Wikipedia policy, so there is no question about the accuracy here. The parent comment was pointing out that, in principle, Wikipedia policy is that contributors do not "own" content on Wikipedia in the sense of having a right to refuse edits to content that they contributed.
I have yet to find any credit card that's worth paying a fee for at all. What do (did) you get for either of those cards that's worth more than $450/year, that you can't get with a $0/year card?
Bootstrap was not made by GitHub. You're thinking of Twitter there.
Thanks Dr. Todd for helping me out with my relationship problems
One wonders how long before Yale changes its name altogether: Elihu Yale was a slave trader.
Microsoft Legal seems to agree with Google on this due to there's interaction with Wine emulation software which directly costs Microsoft revinue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software). Microsoft has not made public statements about Wine. However, the Microsoft Update software will block updates to Microsoft applications running in Wine. On 16 February 2005, Ivan Leo Puoti discovered that Microsoft had started checking the Windows Registry for the Wine configuration key and would block the Windows Update for any component.[95] As Puoti noted, "It's also the first time Microsoft acknowledges the existence of Wine."

That's about as unbiased as you can get IMO.
Deep Learning, Artificial Intuition and AGI
Well, Google started it when they tried to avoid paying Java SE license to use it in embedded devices.

For example, the guys from MicroEJ did the things the right way and don't have any issues with Oracle,

http://www.microej.com/products/device-software-development/...
Thank you for this informative postmortem and mitigation outline.

Are any organizational changes planned in response to the development friction which led to the outage? It seems to have arisen from long-standing operational issues, and an analysis of how prior attempts to address those issues got bogged down would be very interesting.
> sometimes hygienic reasons too

The idea that circumcision has substantive positive health effects has been thoroughly debunked in the presence of semi-regular washing, and the jury is out in third-world countries without sanitation. However, when you factor in the risk of infant mortality from infection or botched procedure in those same third-world countries, any (minor) health benefit that might exist disappears and goes negative.

Hygiene also doesn't seem to be an accepted excuse for clitoral hood removal, even though it's anatomically identical (mutatis mutandis) to male circumcision and presumably has similar (minor) health benefits (dryer environments are harsher on bacteria).

The one non-negligible semi-legitimate medical justification is in the case of severe phimosis, but that can almost always be treated with topical creams rather than surgery and doesn't manifest until adolescence anyway, so it's not an excuse to circumcise babies.
Why not release them when they make sense as a whole?
Soviet Subversion of the Free World (1984)
Oracle is starting to remind me a lot of SCO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversies

That hasn't worked out well for them.

IMO, successful technology companies do not correlate with the value dollarsSpentOnLitigation/overallRevenue.

I think selling ORCL and buying QQQ will be a profitable trade in the next 5 or so years.
You play DotA and you are claiming that 7.00 was the first major change? You are having a laugh. The game has made massive strides in UX, gameplay and graphics, all while also pushing a professional scene that is now running three multi-million dollar tournaments a year in a scene of nearly-constant tournaments around the game.

Also, Portal 2 was an incredibly polished, fun game.
They absolutely bought Sun just to sue. I used to know someone personally involved on the case. Oracle is a horrible company.

To be fair, Google's "don't be evil" is also a bunch of crap. They've done their fair share of shady and exploitive things.
Oh so this fatuous teleology extends back throughout all human time and history, now? All of history culminates in Filipinos being exploited by cruise lines because cave men? That's quite an interesting take on Hegel.
Well said, this is the comment of the year.
New Brain-Computer Interface Will Replace Hearing Aids
To each their own, I can see how some would like it but it's absolutely infuriating to me to be clicking away, and then suddenly see something interesting that I want to open in a new tab. So I go back, and surprise! Entirely new list of items.

"Oh, I guess my friend didn't post that, Facebook was just showing me something they reacted to".

No way of ever finding it again, unless if someone can conjure up or point me where to watch my friends reactions? The inconsistency of the newsfeed (between the above behavior, and the constant need to change the sort order to "most recent" because no matter how many times I choose that option I always find it flips back to "Top stories") is by far the most aggravating thing about using the site to me, personally.
Don't think so. I think the Firefox store has different rules and/or a different maintainer.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/revie...
I think you really need to re-calibrate your monitor.
* Production appear to be the only QA they do

This [1] is a good video on part of their QA process, and it gives an overview of how something goes from dev to production.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcVx3g3SmmY
Agile!
You weren't hellbanned, but you had violated the guidelines sufficiently to get enough downvotes to become subject to some of the same limitations. We've now banned this account for only posting uncivilly and unsubstantively.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624326 and marked it off-topic.
You're right, no one remembers Galileo or Copernicus or Mozart or Bach or Archimedes or Aristotle. Just the rulers....
Oracle is in no way correct. Putting ridiculous barriers on software MADE FOR making software is ludicrous. Google is not making money because of the APIs, they simply used them because they already existed. Copyright is in a sorry state as it is. This IP nonsense is nonsense.
> As a point of comparison, plenty of street names are changed to honor various historical figures

That sounds interesting. Which persons have had "their" streets changed in this way?
I'm not sure that's correct. The pluralization is for licenses not on-premise.

Either way "on-premises licenses" sounds weird so I'm likely to stick with "on-premise licenses" regardless. Sorry.
In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus.

The South, the South...God knows what shall become of her.
Bear in mind that was also part of his job. Profiling people they could potentially turn.
>You are reading something into this that is not there.

Whatever your thoughts on this particular decision, there absolutely is a "there" there.

No one actually cares what some sign on a building on a leafy campus says. They care a lot about which way the wind is blowing at an institution that turns out the elites of tomorrow.

The question is (in as equally-offensive terms as I can muster): will we, as a society (or our elites, from whom we'll take our cues),

- finally turn from a problematic figure of the past to one that better exemplifies our values of today,

or

- retain remembrance of what got us where we are, keeping in mind the importance of chronological charity?

If this is really not an important event, why is it posted on HN?
They reimburse me $200/year in airline expenses (I use Southwest primarily, so I just buy Southwest gift cards which get reimbursed, and use them for flights), reimburse me for global entry every few years, top tier status at Hertz, Hilton, and Starwood, free Boingo account, free access to Amex lounges in a few major airports, rental car insurance coverage, etc.

http://thepointsguy.com/2016/01/maximizing-amex-platinum-in-...

I'm old and busy; I'll pay for covenience in life, which is why I've kept the card up to this point.

EDIT: Almost forgot: I have had the need to pay for a friend to be airlifted out of a central american country due to a medical emergency, and Amex was the only card willing to auth a low five figure amount with just a phone call to pay the helicopter fee. I have yet to find another financial provider who'll do that.
(Please pardon my ignorance and lack of proper terminologies. I'm not a scientist.)

Does faster than light mean instantaneous? Is there no "speed limit" (that we know of) above the speed of light?
Valve aren't looking to make money here (well, obviously they are, but not directly from this like you are implying). $5k a game means literally nothing to them - the amount they make from sales makes that a joke.

This is a matter of competing pressures. We want indies to be able to publish as easily as possible, but customers don't want to see lots of bad games.

The easier you make it for indies, the easier you make it for people pushing out crap. This is clearly a response to people's complaints about the lowering quality of the average content in the Steam store, after their attempts at providing better game discovery methods and curation systems haven't solved the issue.
Marxist academics tend to have selective memory.
How bout a water taxi.
Crazy story. It's amazing what a state power can get individuals to do for it.
Agreed! Before when tired or not thinking I would sometimes click on "issues" in the top bar expecting it would take me to the repo issues. It's really a small change, but I could see it being a positive for less experienced users.
It's black, but not #000. It's a different and lighter shade of black.
One of the interesting things about high functioning forums (like this one) is that there's a group of people who have as part of their job function the ability to enforce civility and reduce abuse. Like any community, HN also has "power users", in WP they're the run of the mill editors, but the difference is that here dang or somebody will show up to calm down incivility and point to the guidelines. In WP those people either don't exist or they're absent in providing that function.

I contribute here, I don't to WP and this kind of active community hygiene is exactly the reason why.