skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've bought support contracts and promptly shredded the support contact information effectively to just make a donation for software we use extensively but is free.

I understand the intention, but you should have "used" support.

You don't need to be picky and call it for every minor thing, but calling attention to the author about a problem or issue that can be improved is valuable
Almost all conclusions are drawn from a certain set of assumptions.

For example, the Affordable Care Act is in place, but costs are still rising. Some people think that this is because it's not "enough socialism". Others think it's because of "too much socialism".

You could list facts, but people are not looking for raw data, they're looking for analysis. How do you analyze this "objectively"?

Even if the content is objective in the sense of reality, many people will say it's not objective. And public opinion of "objective" sources are usually those that play to the both sides fallacy.

Going back to GGP's thing, people read what they want to read. What if you just happen to be right? Like, what if the "liberal echo bubble" is "actually" the truth? does this problem go away?

I think objectivity is hard to maintain, but objectivity + belief of objectivity in the public eye is probably impossible.
This is by LG
This article doesn't seem to mention that it's in the "wrong" place. (How is that defined anyway?) The HU article linked in another comment does seem to hint at that a little.
NoScript still reports back to Google.

JavaScript is just a means to offload the server workload onto your desktop. If people didn't use javascript, you'd see the need for more data centres, which isn't good for some businesses and helps explains why the internet is slow in some parts of the world.

Still considering how much the US spends on military toys, you'd have thought those warmongers could get more peace by keeping everyone entertained & busy with a good internet connection.
Great video, one mistake I spotted: he did include the number 1 among the prime numbers.
Correlation strongly suggests the culprit is camera-phones.
Except that they often do have to fab up prototypes, at the least, and the better ones have enough familiarity with the realities of the blue-collar Joe or Jane that's going to have to use and maintain the piece of equipment that the engineer designs.
I tried to set the proxy setting but it still does not work?
Ask HN: Did PM earn more or less than Programmers
I was a programmer for 15 years of my life. In my previous job, I did management for 2 years.
On that time, I saw how I could add more value as a Project Manager by ensuring that all the people are aligned and that the focus is the correct one, than as a developer.
My expectations where that as a PM, salaries will be higher, as the impact and responsability is higher. But what I am finding right now is the opposite, where I could earn more as a Developer.

Is that the case everywhere, or is just a perception issue?
That fee is not money you put in for nothing, you put in for the services you get.

The question is if the UK has paid its fair share, adjusted for population and GDP, for the services it got.
Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8
That's a pro not a con. If everyone was guaranteed food/shelter etc there'd be an epidemic of people who did nothing with their lives - there already are a lot of people who do nothing while working a shitty job.

Basic needs are motivation for doing things, but problematic too - they can also be demotivating.

The problem is that mobility & opportunity is costlier than food & shelter & small luxuries. As such, if you give people enough resources to do something with their life, they can just use it for basic needs & sls and do nothing else; why risk a comfy, if depressing, lifestyle on opportunity?

It's a difficult problem, how to ensure people always have opportunities available, while 'punishing' lack of ambition. Maybe the nuance here is the government becoming more aware of the impact of psychological factors, but this hasn't turned out well in the past...
I'm not sure why mITX was chosen - in my experience it's almost always more expensive and leaves no room for additional GPU expansion (Or network adapters/whatever card you might need) in the future. You can get 1151 mATX motherboards for more like $60-70 on Amazon instead of the $125 they paid.

Also, paying $125 for 16GB of ram but not spending the extra $20 to have your CPU be able to overclock? I'm not sure where OP is building but I can find that much RAM for $20 less than they paid, and overclocking isn't really that difficult or unreliable these days.
Judging from past experiences here on HN and other programming echo chambers, I'd wager that Elixir is currently at the beginning of its hype cycle (somewhere between 'technology trigger' and 'peak of inflated expectations' if you go by Gartner). So I'm almost certain that you will eventually see "Why Elixir was bad for us..." posts upvoted on here or in other places.
I use Atom in Windows and have constant issues with search and replace via selection and large file support. And while these issues are known, I've yet to see a fix.
It's not worth if you're making less than 300eur per year.

For any reasonable company (even a single founder one), 300eur is nothing
Which also paradoxically means it's easier to turn up at a quiet time and steal the alcohol (even if you're underage!) than to buy it legitimately.
Well then let's do some comparison shopping.

90% of the people living in the EU earn less than $30,000 per year. The EU's median household income is comparable to the US poverty line for median household income. The EU's GDP per capita is 60% lower than the US; they have 750 million people, with a total GDP 10% lower than the US.

Or take Sweden for comparison, it's below all but 12 US states when it comes to median individual income. The median US income is about 45% higher than the UK median. The number of countries on earth with a higher median income than the US, you can list on one hand.

These numbers are even more dramatically out of line, if you're talking about white households (which supposedly form the core of the populist anger). The median white household earns $75,000 and has a median net worth of $145,000 - an income number drastically higher than Sweden, Finland, UK, Germany, France, etc.

So remind me again how income numbers in the US are driving the populist anger.
Arch Linux pulls the plug on 32-bit
Not clearly socialist to me, But why do the rich and powerful need to give up wealth?
> I wonder who gets paid for that: the telco, LG, or Google?

Almost certainly the OEM (LG) or the telco. I have seen a lot of bundle/notification/ad deals from both types of entities, but never from Google.
I think this is plausible if they've been increasing performance a lot in the recent years. With a rocket engine, up to level, you can get that mostly by just increasing pump speed.
Pypy and Wine both have good models.

With pypy, funding goes towards particular projects (e.g. STM).

This may not be suitable for all projects or developers (libjpeg turbo being an example - he wants the freedom to be research lead and work on what he likes).

If anyone, then the FSF should be looking into this problem, study all the models used, which are successful and provide some sort of template model for people to use.

Licensing may be an issue, can you do the Sidekiq or Wine model when your code is GPL ?
Selling software via a proprietary license to an enterprise can be bad for open source because it means that the enterprise doesn't need to obey the terms of the GPL. They are free to modify and adapt the code without contributing the changes back to the community, which kind of ruuing the point of the GPL in the first place.

This method also only works if the copyright if fully owned by a single person or entity, with all code contributors signing a contributor licensing agreement to give away their copyrights to a single entity. This is problematic because now there is the possibility that this single entity gets bought out by an evil corporation (say, Oracle), which can choose to continue developing the project without releasing the modifications under an open source license.
Have you looked at China's trade balance ? China is the cause of the worldwide austerity measures (not 100%, but 90%). So I guarantee you it is affecting you personally, even in San Francisco.
What is the size per page one should not overstep?

I mean, yes as small as possible. But are there some size-budgets?

For 3G, 2G etc.
Which languages do you consider great? (just curious to know where you are coming from)
Scott Alexander has some examples of that in his post:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418

For example:

> Why are even some affluent parts of the world running out of fresh water? Because if they weren’t, they’d keep watering their lawns until they were.
A webpage page with a list of projects that take funding, their licenses and how successful the funding is would be a great start.
I knew it had happened but didn't know the scale. Apparently Laos was 'the biggest bombing in history', but they kept it secret at the time. 580,344 bombing missions. Guess that's what you get for being a non violent Buddhist country. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37286520
I think they were referring to the "GPL for non-profit" part of the comment. You either don' release it as GPL at all or you release it as GPL for everyone, which means that for-profit companies can use the software free of charge (as long as they obey the terms of the license).
A very limited and explicit list of what can cause account/content restrictions/deletions. We have to know what behaviors/content can trigger this, otherwise it's just groping around in the dark, which is an awful way to run a business.
The reason for the acidity is quite simple: we believe non-free software like Matlab to be unethical. You should not be restricted by a license manager, there should not be any restrictions on who you can share your software with (Matlab's license says you can only share Matlab's own source code with other Matlab users), you should have complete access to the source code (Matlab hides a lot of juicy secrets in its hidden source code, such as the exact algorithm of its backslash operator, or virtually everything interesting in its image processing package). You deserve better than this. You deserve free software.

This is why Octave is part of GNU, and why it's GPLed.

As for Scilab, they don't have quite the same aim as Octave. They don't aim to implement the same language so you can take your Matlab scripts away from Matlab, without change. They have a compatibility layer that does it partly, but there is still a need for implementing the same language. Imagine if the only way to run Javascript or Python was to sign away your rights to some company.

Freemat is a bit more comparable in aim to Octave, but it has a smaller contributor pool.
So, he shouldn't do something he enjoys doing for free, because someone else somewhere might eventually want to make money off the same thing? That doesn't sound right.
It's easy to look down copying and forget that copying someone who is ahead is usually the fastest way to learn.

Japanese started the same way. They started with cheap sup-par copies and trinkets. Gradually their quality improved.
Oh! And I was wondering whether someone has invited me and I haven't noticed, or if you don't need invitations anymore. Thanks
He did speak for himself. "We can help people everywhere" is his literal words. He said outright he don't think migration needs to be stopped.

So stop pretending he meant anything else.
According to the article:

> To be a true Giffen good, the good's price must be the only thing that changes to produce a change in quantity demanded. A Giffen good should not be confused with products bought as status symbols or for conspicuous consumption (Veblen goods)

Veblen goods = Goods for which demand rises with price because they are status symbols
Giffen = Goods for which demand rises with price - Veblen Goods

However there are no examples there that hold, to me this signifies that the only goods for which the law of demand does not apply are status symbols.
Free startup idea: Patreon for Open Source

* Users signs up to OSPatreon, downloads OSPatreon app that creates ospatreon directory in $HOME/.local/share/ or other operating system appropriate location, then creates a cronjob (or whatever) to rerun after one month

* Open Source projects that want in add a snippet of code that, when the application closes, writes the amount of time the application ran to $HOME/.local/share/ospatreon/

* At the end of the month the OSPatreon window pops up, shows the user a list of ospatreon projects the user has used, sorted by decreasing total time, lets user select how much to donate and the share each application gets (default: proportional to time the app was used)

* You collect money from the user, pocket some percentage, distribute the rest to OS projects.

Startup name: Fosstreon.
What was the throughput (per server) after the Go rewrite? I'd imagine an async rewrite would be a lot more efficent than the 15-30 req/s that the Rails version was getting.

How often (if ever) did you experience data loss due to the MongoDB write concern = 1?
Common-sense (WAGging) says that IRL, we don't use a full 360-degree view, either. Maybe in a warzone, where it's a survival trait, but most days, we focus on what's in front of us.

We also use subconscious cues to let us know important things are happening outside of our FOV and forces us to change it. Has VR reached the point where it can make those cues possible?
I think you have some confusion about indicated airspeed - it's used because it provides pilots with predictable information about how the plane will react, it's not indicative of the actual speed of the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicated_airspeed

They were truly at 0.9 mach, had they increased speed by 11% they would have broken the sound barrier, well before the indicated air speed would have read a >mach 1 number.
Me too. Came here to find this, wasn't disappointed.
> Since most cars are kept for 20 years, that is a good deal.

One thing to factor in though is the rate of deterioration of the battery pack over a 20 year period and other issues unique to electrics vs the maintenance requirements unique to an ICE vehicle.

It would be really interesting to see the breakdowns on those numbers.
Agree thats actually how most people become great musicians, by learning what others do and build on that. In fact i cant think of an single area which isn't only getting better by copying other stuff and then moving past that.

One could say the evolutionary process is based on this principle.

Copy. Paste. Improve. Repeat.
It sounds like it's written in PHP, so dependency isn't likely to go away, but it specifically says it should work fine with a server other than apache.

As for your specific issues, I find it hard to follow your complaint when it comes to docs. Both php and apache httpd projects have extensive, easy to follow documentation.
Not to mention that reducing the cost of batteries may lead to new classes of devices suddenly making sense as battery-powered (instead of corded or gasoline-powered), leading to increased demand for batteries.
The presenter does explicitly call out the problem with 2D presentation.
Yes, I'm in exactly that situation (making industry specific windows desktop software) so I'm very interested in hearing about the specific issues here.

Obviously any developer can screw up and do thigs like "if !winVersion.StartsWith(...)" and there is not much microsoft can do about that, apart from naming windows 9 windows 10...

But even broken and buggy API's tend to be maintained by microsoft just because they can't test all the software floating around that depends on it. So it's usually very very hard to accidentally make a program run on Windows version N but not on Windows Version N+1
This article is mostly from a service job viewpoint, but I regularly have the same thought about factory type jobs. More and more I see things being sold as "hand-made" and I nearly always think to myself that that's a negative attribute. Why would I want something more expensive and less consitently made?

I recently watched a TV show in which someone toured a factory that made crisps (potato chips). At one point they were frying in a fryer roughly the size of a childs paddling pool. Someone with a rake (I believe it was a standard garden rake) stood beside it and occasionally stirred. They stated this was what let them put "hand made" on their packaging.
Write Your Own Compiler
Unbuilt LA
Doesn't this just outline the terrible dependence these workers had on their jobs? No compensation of duty of care exists from employers; any number of things could have caused the workers to lose their jobs, they were always at risk even when not struggling.

as an analogy: Crack addicts going through withdrawal don't conclude from their pain that the drugs were a good thing. OP wasn't suggesting workers should suddenly have their jobs taken away, but that the whole situation is bad. Changing the situation, and how to do it, is an entirely different topic.
Well Apple already "has it", because iMessage is selling iDevices, which brings in more $ then a subscription.
Interesting point. In my experience buy vs rent depends on the company size.

Which bare metal providers can you recommend? How much control do you have over your network?
Perhaps coders should fall under the gray-collar classification.

We don't do heavy lifting (or laundry).

Maybe wrinkled-collar?

(I'm so going to get downvoted for this, I know.)
Flyway 4.1.0 released
One of them has a license.
There is flinux from wishstudio on Github for a fully-in-userspace layer that works in Windows 7, it's unmaintained now though
Simulating the World (in emoji)
I would pay good money to Evernote if they had a "backup all my data multiple times, removing all possibilities of losing anything". I would gladly pay for Premium if that was an option.
Agreed.

The only reason that you see these deals being made is because the Chinese government is interested in Africa's natural resources [1], Chinese companies are competitive in construction (not really rocket science, plus slave labour certainly provides a financial advantage [2] [3]) and government officials stand to personally make money, as nothing gets done in Africa if you don't "properly compensate" the right government officials [4] [5] (european companies know this too, but bribery is sligthly more constrained by their governments).

The end product is usually low quality, with roads cracking open as soon as rain pours, but the goal was not to provide infrastructure in the first place, so no one is remotely concerned about any benefits nor about the impact on local communities, public safety, wildlife or the environment. Guess what happens to anyone that tries to protest on behalf of these issues. [6]

These deals are rarely rosy for the general population, who will still lack water, sanitation, food, jobs and education. Even the few that managed to survive outside of city centers will see their basic livelyhood (cattle, farming) disrupted by these "developments".

PS: I've worked in Angola, Kenya and Nigeria.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/china-in-africa-the-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/201...

[3] https://jamhuri-news.com/how-china-contractors-drove-kenyan-...

[4] https://qz.com/513090/in-south-africa-corruption-is-a-public...

[5] http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000175560/eacc-arres...

[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-protest-idUSKCN0X70...
You may be able to get https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux working actually
In technology focused companies and tech startups, a lot of the time top developers will earn more.
Status: Investigating

https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus
I think the GP means 'controls by individual states'
Note that the UK is perfectly allowed to implement additional regulations on top of what the EU provides. If the issue was too little regulation, as in your example with the bees, the British Government could provide what additional regulation it needs to.
First line in the post: "Atom 1.14 has shipped today with improved large file performance, a 64-bit Windows installation, improved MRU tab traversal, and more."
Whenever I encounter those I just say, 'operator' over and over (though I suspect saying anything it doesn't recognize works work too) until I get a person.
13 months of server-side header bidding in production: report from the trenches
I thought 'fake news' was just comedy?
The Computer History Museum would probably be interested in that too, as well as anything your dad has to say about it! http://www.computerhistory.org
best blog ever and most be one of the longest running, spent a couple of very long nights reading the archives way back to the start in 2003 - crazy!
2170 - 21 mm by 70 mm dimensions https://qz.com/879121/teslas-tsla-cheaper-more-powerful-2170...
> I recently help but couldn't feel confused why 'fake news' is a new concept to people; why is everyone going on about it when (as you say) we've been subject to propaganda for as long as we can remember?

See "Yellow Journalism" for the late 1890s as an example. This country has literally been dealing with "fake news" since the invention of the printing press.
Most 'blue collar' jobs are probably about 1000% more complex than 'white-collar' workers realize.

This discussion is about social class more than it is about practicalities.

There is a divide between the ownership class and the worker class, just as there has always been. The owners always find ways to justify their unfounded belief in their superiority because that is necessary to rationalize the unequal distribution of profits and unfair burden of work.

The 'coders' are the intelligent and capable hard workers. The owners, managers, 'entrepreneurs' are the ones that happen to have enough money to avoid doing real work.

This article is largely just another caste justification.
On some online learning sites there are interactive knowledge graph mapping prerequisites such as:

https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

https://www.expii.com/map/0
True but there's no perfect solution to such ridiculous state surveillance. Other than getting off social media.
I don't know much about HW development but recently I wanted to play around with making a smart quadcopter to play with ML - so I'm looking in to what would be required on the hardware side.

Devboards I see online with a high powered ARM board are in 150-200$ range for the devboard without camera/sensors and with stuff I don't need (network ports, display ports, etc).

Then I look at my 150$ Chinese smartphone (Xaomi RedMi Note 3 Pro) - it has Snapdragon 652 - Quad Core 64 bit CPU, OpenCL 2 capable GPU, 3GB ram, 16 GB storage, 13MP and 5MP cameras attached, gyro on board and 4G/WiFi/GPS, 4kMAh battery. The specs alone are better then the best devboard I found.

So I'm thinking if I can get it to boot without screen I could throw away the case and the screen, hook up GPIO trough USB for 10$ and get a better dev board than I would for 200$ with all the sensors and IO and a battery on top ?

I wonder how much it would cost me if I could just buy the parts on these markets and not have to disassemble a complete phone.
A nitpick, but you would sign with the private key, and verify with the public key.
"applications were often inconsistent" - I've heared this about parse before. Always thought this is due to using MongoDB. If you use the same database how can you enforce more consistency?
Will be interesting if a part of the community "forks" arch like they did for 16bit back then. However lowarch is apparently also dead by now: http://www.lowarch.org/

I still have that installed on a i386 machine, but not booted since years.
GitLab.com down
Also their status page https://status.gitlab.com/ seems to be down?