skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nuget is frequently disparaged even in the C# community. I personally would say Maven is much cleaner, if also a bit more strict.
I understand it's probably overly simplistic but can I ask why it's distasteful? The concept is referred to as corporate personhood so I'm not sure why referring to companies as people in the relevant contexts is distasteful as opposed to simplistic.
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I used LAMP to make a SaaS app with $3700/month profit
>> Their primary product (the Oracle DB engine) is being displaced by the NoSQL and things like Postgres.

I am not sure about the NoSQL part. I see it as more and more companies providing data access to different most-definitely-SQL databases other than Oracle. Postgres even has a migration page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Oracle_to_Postgres_Conversi...
Asking people about churches in 198x USSR was probably not the wisest way to go around for a CIA spy. Better stick with libraries.
Except that WP has its own arcane laws and policies used to great effect by regulars to ensure no outside voice is given a say in truly contentious articles. e.g. If you try to get involved, you are a "single purpose account". If you contest the veracity of a source, it turns into a meta debate where you are expected to provide an alternative view that is nevertheless considered a reliable source by everyone there who thinks otherwise.

It's a trap, because it ensures the only people who direct it are the ones who also have time to get fill the site with unimportant trivia and camp out. Unsurprisingly, anything to do with the current culture war is a lost cause.
> the article said that he scraped berries and remnants of food in trash, but 4-5 years like that?

When it comes to real-world experiences, most details fail to get documented.
>They also posit that any increase in the block size will make running a full node more difficult, meaning Bitcoin will become more and more centralized and consolidated around the big mining pools that have the hardware to handle bigger block sizes.

With a bigger block size what hardware constraints begin to appear?

> This is a big problem for miners who have poured lots of money into their rigs, because now the blockchain would be little more than a settlement network. There would be far more transactions occurring off the network, meaning less money for miners.

So the motivation is strictly monetary?
vTiger CRM. The worst code I have ever seen but still used by lots of businesses.
I'm not sure that's censored, at least by Google, I think it's just bad data. The copyright at higher zooms is shown as NASA, which would have used Landsat. In the Landsat archive, there are numerous satellite images for that region, though low quality: https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/viewer.html

Seems likely nobody at Google has taken the effort to do anything about it because who uses Google Maps to look at antarctica?

To those saying it's a military installation or SIGINT thing, I very very seriously doubt it. The Antarctic Treaty explicitly forbids military activity and an installation might be blockable by Google Maps but no one country has a monopoly on imaging satellites. It'd be seen and start a diplomatic shitstorm.
Great tip, thanks!
It's quite likely that any law promulgated to compel the production of passwords or any other authentication information would include language prohibiting a provider from terminating an account for complying with the law.
If you write a function int makeHash(int) which computes a trapdoor function, and I write a function int makeHash(int) which prepares breakfast and returns a status code, then they have the same signature but different semantic meaning.
Follow the money, it's not baffling at all.
Dope. Thanks for the post!
Raymond Smullyan on Carson, 1982
I think Lua deserves to be added here:
https://www.lua.org/source/5.3/
>- Office VBA: OpenOffice is good enough for people who just make docs and spreadsheets, but some of the more savvy folk (usually in finance and engineering) use MS Office VBA as a development platform. OpenOffice just doesn't cut it for them.

I think the reality is that these people have to get over themselves. They shouldn't be developing complex programmes in Microsoft Office. End of story.
WebApps: turn web apps into secure mobile apps with this Android app
> vice after periods

Is vice Latin? It reminds me of pace (because of the "shape" of the word, haha), but I guess it means something akin to except?
The rigor of this claim is very questionable. I assume it's based on neuron == hidden unit.

In any case though my guess is that a human neuron accomplishes way more than a hidden unit in a NN so it may be fair to view that as a lower-bound.
It is so hard that a handful of opensource projects and 1x other companies solved it successfully (talking about the DB) and they bought most of the other tech instead of developing in-house. I am not sure which hard problem they are trying to solve but I am pretty sure that most of their offerings are overpriced. Oracle is here to stay as much as any other dinosaur from the past. They might be able to pivot to the cloud era (not too successfully yet) or they revenue is slowly going to decrease together with their significance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
I'm a big fan of the guy, but did any of his ideas actually catch on in a big way? They seem to mostly be techno-historical curiosities.
The thing that astounds me the most is that it's the single clearest example of a monopoly in history. There really is no better example of a monopoly in any industry ever. Microsoft had >95% of desktops running Windows, and the many various government organisations all over the world tasked with preventing and dealing with these sorts of monopolies did nothing.
Last time I looked PHPNuke was horrifying, PHPBB was just outdated, and WordPress was pretty damn good.

A lot of people assume WordPress is poorly written because it got a reputation for being insecure. But modern WordPress is pretty well written and in part due to its automatic update mechanism pretty secure.

When was the last time you looked at WordPress?
Really? What about that quote indicates an absence of schizophrenia to you?
Could you implement an approximate matrix multiplication in a direct analogue way? If so, I wonder why it hasn't been used for graphics cards.
When I was on contract at the Illinois EPA around 2008, there was exactly one computer that could program the dataloggers used to monitor air quality around the state. It was the slowest computer at the IEPA, and it was still too fast to reliably program our dataloggers. It took about 3 minutes to send the configuration to the datalogger (over a serial port), and running the software had roughly a 60% chance of corrupting the transfer.

The first Windows-based software I ever shipped was for programming ESC dataloggers. Last I heard, it was still in use by the IEPA Bureau of Air.
The Lightning Network is not bitcoin. The people who are fighting against block size increase are the same people pushing segwit. While there is nothing inherently wrong with segwit and the Lightning Network, they are ignoring the most important improvement to Bitcoin itself, which would be a pure block size increase.
> and it seems we both agree that "everything is a file" as a pure ideology is very worthwhile.

I don't understand that ideology - I don't believe everything can be abstracted as a file considering that ioctl() breaks that abstraction. For example, what is it to "read from /proc/{pid for Chrome}"? Would you be reading from the process' memory space? Reading from a rendered bitmap of the process' main framebuffer? Reading a human-readable text file of process metadata? If it's labelled metadata then how do you deal with UX localization? Same thing when "reading from a /dev device" which isn't a storage device, what should it mean to "read from a GPU"?
I think I will be really heartbroken if I later learn this story to be fake or made up! Simply incredible.
$99 per year is pretty tiny per user. Remember that each of these users is being paid tens of thousands of dollars per year, which means that they will be generating (roughly, on average) 2-3x that in value for a company. $99 to make someone you're paying $30k more efficient is pretty good value.
So lets push this a little farther. What type of "world-class" application? Do you want to do a mobile app, web app, desktop?

C++ is an amazing language, and I use it almost everyday. However, I develop most of my applications with JavaScript, and that includes web, mobile, and desktop applications. I am using C++ in my application with Nodejs for my more computational heavy operations.

The more specific you are, and I know you are excited and have all the wonder in world, but it will allow this community to help you. Best of luck!
Your argument begs the question. You might as well argue "The fact that you were able to write a new novel around the word 'the' that you copied from my novel seems to suggest that the word 'the' is a separate work that has meaning unto itself."
Nah, this isn't true. JS works fine now.
SegWit is a block size increase. Pretty much every developer in the bitcoin community supports SegWit.
I vaguely recall MacOS screen sharing to work even behind a router via some iCloud voodoo. Can anyone else confirm that or did I dream it (or use a router that somehow was set up correctly already)?
well, to put things into context, three years after wilson, we had a president who called for anti-lynching laws, made several public and private addresses exhorting Americans to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, and gave a commencement address at Howard University. He also very famously and forcefully put down internal party efforts to prevent a black man from running in New York state.
It depends on the details of the ruling (the court could decide to pass such a narrow judgement that it only affects Oracle). Here is an analysis of how the rulings (up until now) affect the software world: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/x-1.html
1. As opposed to a laptop.

2. Any concrete advice about crossing borders is hard to give right now. The goal in this document is just to alert people that it is not OK to travel with your work device.

3. For the audience here (think someone providing legal aid at an airport) this is too technical.

4,5,6 Great idea, thank you!

7. It's funny but the XKCD really seems to be the best thing to link.
The attacker sent the victim a PowerShell script over Skype. Not at all unusual.
The Core devs signed an agreement with these miners a year ago in Hong Kong, and the agreement was broken. Here are the consequences.

Clearly, politics won't be ignored- or Segwit would be on track for activation.
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/#block...
But SegWit is a block size increase. It allows twice as many on-chain transactions by making the blocks twice as big.

This "SegWit vs block-size increase" talk makes no sense to me.

https://segwit.org/is-segwit-a-block-size-increase-705df6a87...
The core developers have been playing political games for 2 years.

They've stopped all important changes that people are asking for, so now the shoe is on the other foot.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. The core devs will get nothing unless they compromise.
Why would you want a text-based query language if you are an idiomatic C# programmer? Every database product on that platform is queried through the standard LINQ syntax - that's why we implemented it that way.
Pretty funny to see that SEPA money transfer from Kraken to EU bank account costs just €0.09 for any amount. Arrival is guaranteed (though can be late too of course).
So the cheapness of bitcoin and high cost of modern fiat transactions are both overstated.
The Dell comes with a package to prevent the windows key working. Don't know why. A search and one command and you'll be using the the windows key properly.
But the thing is, at the end of the day Wikipedia is still the best website on the web. It's amazing. It's continually accurate, inaccuracies get fixed very quickly because just about every article is someone's pet project, etc.

Yeah there are a few things - like some political articles - that you should be careful with, but everything has citations. You can see the historical edits, you can see the talk page, it's all very transparent.

Whether it's fun and nice to contribute to is irrelevant to me. To me it's a fantastic source of information. And so whatever they're doing, they must be doing right.
I don't give apps notification privs.
Writen by David Frum, neocon and speechwriter for George W. Bush. Not someone who's interested in peace but someone who is a proven warmonger.
SegWit allows twice as many transactions as soon as miners and users update their software. How is that not a capacity increase?

https://segwit.org/is-segwit-a-block-size-increase-705df6a87...
Changing titles to avoid offending people is exactly the wrong thing to do.
This was one of my first thoughts too. I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I almost never use Twitter. Would a border person believe me? Would I seem sketchy? Should I create a new Facebook account and post something banal every few weeks just so I can travel with peace of mind? That does seem insane.

I can only assume this threat of asking visitors to grant government agencies complete and unfettered access to their online accounts was conceived by people who don't know how the internet works. There are just so many logistical problems with it at so many levels that it's hard to imagine it ever working in practice.
The comment you linked to refers to blocks that were specifically made to be big using non-standard scripts that are larger than usual.

For the current mix of transactions happening on the bitcoin network, SegWit will give us an effective block size of 2.1MB (or 2.1x transactions compared to today), and a bit more over time as people start using more advanced scripts.
It's an encyclopaedia. A reference. It's not intended that anyone can open any random page and understand all of it.
The part you're missing is that Bitcoin is totally fine if it never changed from how it is today. Anonymity will come via Tumblebit. Lightning network can already work even without segwit.

Segwit never getting activated may even be a good thing. It will show everyone that Bitcoin has crystalized and can never be changed via petty human emotion. This was always Bitcoin's true selling point and we may be about to demonstrate it.

So yes, politics can and will be ignored.
My thought too :-P could be a redis though with a rest API
SegWit is supported by over 100 businesses and projects, and pretty much by ~everyone in the technical bitcoin community. It definitely is what the market is asking for.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/
Yes, there were aircraft-launched ICBMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_ballistic_missile
The Biographies of Living Persons policy is rather strict, because of the potential for libel lawsuits. The Wikipedia foundation can barely afford to keep Wikipedia running as it is, let alone deal with hundreds of libel lawsuits.
Yes I agree with Oracle's database technology being amazing. It was born in an era when disk space was expensive and the only data storing mechanism that most developers know was transactional ACID SQL stores. However we are living in an era when disk is cheap, data volumes grew way beyond a single node capacity and we have a handful of different approaches when it comes to store data on disk. We also have much better understanding on tradeoffs in this world (CAP, etc.).

I have moved a bunch of companies from MySQL/Oracle to scalable key-value stores having much better operational characteristics than the SQL ones. Was it hard? Hell yes, we had to educate developers about not having transactions, network partitions, order of operations and a bunch of things that solutions like OracleDB hides from you. Was it worth it? Absolutely, we had 99.99% yearly uptime while the previous SQL based solution was somewhere in the 90.00 - 95.00 range. Did we save money? Absolutely, the licensing cost and the fact that we do not need beefy boxes around payed off. Is this relevant to the subject as Oracle is in trouble or not? I am not sure. If the most of money coming from the government and fortune 100 than probably not.

I am in the same boat like other here on HN, I prefer to build systems myself that I understand 100%, and trying to avoid using technology like Oracle as much as I can based on the experience with support and the pricing. Again, I mostly work with startups and companies where the budget cannot be blown on SQL licenses.
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Amazing comment by the employee. Shows clearly the cost of spreadsheet management; everyone in business could learn from reading this. Saved for my own future use.
I was thinking more along the lines of "I'm looking for a shop near X."
What they did to Mike Hearn was a disgrace.
I've been ignoring Facebook for the last three weeks, not even intentionally. If I've missed much, I sure can't tell. I still keep in touch with people I care about. And I've gotten a few "look at my phone" highlights in person anyway. I think I'd feel like I missed out more by not visiting HN, tbh.
I was sure you're talking about the chinese miners as I started reading your comment...

The ones who oppose a block-size increase today are the miners and the anti-Core crowd. The rest of the bitcoin community, including its technical and business community, are pushing for an increase to 2MB blocks in the form of SegWit.

And I think the "hostile comments" referred to by the OP are the non-stop personal attacks and toxicity that is happening on r/btc.
I'm mostly discussing NYC since the subjects of this article have joined the fight against Airbnb but I think this is true in smaller markets as well.

Call me skeptical but I find it hard to believe that the guy behind "Inside Airbnb" is without outside help from entrenched interests opposing Airbnb. His website is obviously well made and his data is accurate but the cynic in me believes that the hotel lobby is helping him or funding him one way or another.

The lobby is funding political candidates in New York State from both political parties and they're creating ridiculous anti-airbnb ad spots like "Save the Moguls". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yHRy7Hn2qg

The hospitality industry has long held a stronghold in NYC due to short supply and strong demand growth. Now, hotels are popping up everywhere, especially in neighborhoods where Airbnb dominates, such as Brooklyn. The number of hotel rooms in NYC was 70k in 2010 and has now risen to 100-110k. 85% of which are in Manhattan. During the 9-10 month long peak season, hotel rooms go for $300-400/night. Airbnb rooms are around half the price of a hotel room.

Another group widely cited as anti-Airbnb are the "fair housing" activists. Their complaint is that Airbnb is driving rents up and pushing residents out of the city. The reality is that if Airbnb is affecting the rental market, the net effect is no more than $30-40 per month (rough calc: assuming 10k apartments are taken off the market in NYC as per "Inside Airbnb", with an non-stabilized rental supply of 900k units and avg rent 3k/unit). The housing activists are doing next to nothing about that fact that virtually all new residential real estate in Manhattan and Brooklyn is aimed at the luxury market. A substantial portion of said market is being bought up by foreign nationals looking to park their money. "Fair housing" activists sounds like a false flag.

Paris & NYC are Airbnb's two biggest markets. Airbnb is fighting trench warfare- the good news is that in many ways, they've already won the hearts and wallets of their guests and hosts. The boutique hospitality market is already looking for ways to mimic the feel of Airbnb rooms and attempting to emulate "belonging" for travelers who are sick of generic looking hotel rooms.

The reality of course is somewhere in between the two points of view. In my opinion, the lower price point Airbnb hosts provide tourists is expanding demand to other economic levels and freeing up tourists' spending capital for local businesses while in-country.

At the end of the day, even though the battle is not over, this is certainly a win for the tech industry. Showing the world that technology can solve problems that previously required strong regulations. More "sharing economy" companies will continue chipping away at stagnant industries for generations to come.
> Of course they do, the actual change has always been done by engineers and scientists

That is demonstrably false. Caesar brought lasting change around him, just like Napoleon did. Alexander the Great, though his empire crumbled after his death, brought Hellenic culture to many areas in the world. And I would like to know how the work of "scientists and engineers" triggered the Arab spring.
The Force is strong with this one
The question of whether buying or renting is better financially depends on lots of different things. The price to rent ratio is one of those things. I'm not sure what you mean by "pricing affects both equally", but it certainly is not true that the price to rent ratio in a location is fixed over time or that it is the same in different locations or cities at the same time. In areas with high price to rent ratios it is often better to rent. In areas with low price to rent ratios it is often better to buy. A basic definition can be found here:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-to-rent-ratio.asp?...
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The Modern Entertainment Industry Is a Nirvana for Consumers
To be fare it's pretty rubbish on Windows as well, in particular if you have different resolutions on each screen. I have to reboot at least twice to get everything working.
To be fair it's pretty rubbish on Windows as well, in particular if you have different resolutions on each screen. I have to reboot at least twice to get everything working.
Well you know what they say: reality has a left-wing bias.

The truth is that the "progressive" mindset is right. Wikipedia isn't biased, you are. Wikipedia has no end of articles about all the horrible things that Mao and Stalin have done, or about the many general strikes in Britain and all the economic damage they caused. They also don't hesitate to be accurate about things like climate change or the horrible effects of electroshock therapy on gays and transgenders.
I don't know the details but i've read sth similar regarding Calibre.
It's mostly a question of mobile support: IRC (over TLS or otherwise) requires a continuous connection, where matrix and signal are designed to support polling a push notification endpoint.

Out of curiosity: what makes you say Matrix is over-engineered?
They are also long-lived ( on the scale of decades and centuries ) and have reasonably static names.
and it's totally fine it's not #000 - total black doesn't happen in nature so it shouldn't be used in design - personally, I always use for example #111 ;)
No, it isn't biased. You are. Lots of people claim Wikipedia is biased towards right-wing viewpoints, lots of people claim that Wikipedia is biased towards left-wing viewpoints.

It's like the old saying "both parties claim that BBC is biased, that's how you know it isn't."
I'm not an idiomatic C# programmer, but having a text-based language is really useful in all sorts of situations:

* Interactive REPL (think psql)

* Use outside of C#, e.g. small bash scripts for automation of small tasks such as deleting old records in a cron job

* Copy/paste a into Slack, Github issues etc. without having to drag along any dependent code or worrying that it's not a complete query

Query builders are nice, but eventually they have to compile down to something "neutral" and portable.