skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Fossil whenever I can. Unfortunately, this means I have only ever used it for projects where I'm the only contributor.
Most of my income currently comes from:

1) ~45% - Two hand-selected ads on a major developer website. These were individual deals with the companies placing the ad.

2) ~5% - Ad network ads on two websites.

3) ~45% - Rental income from my house on AirBnB.

I wish I could say that these were clever projects or startups, but I haven't yet found a "traditional" software side project that makes money. I have one that's been running for a little over a year, although I haven't figured out how I want to actually charge for it. People are just using it on a free tier right now.
It came up on HN not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673229. Normally we'd bury this one
as a duplicate, but the community is clearly interested in this.
Adobe Flash Player Security Update
These are exotic platforms, therefore go for a distribution that supports them.
I read it because I thought this said it was written by a five year old... I was disappointed to find it to be informative and spot on despite being five years old. Has inspired me though to find some five year olds to exploit into writing prose on the internet.
You are aware that producing new things consumes many non-renewable resources that could be saved by a simple repair? Recycling is only a distant second when it comes to saving resources.
Docker Datacenter Best Practices and Design Considerations
Honest question: Do you think Facebook's ToS grants him exclusive rights to anything Published or Broadcast to the General Public by way of their platform?
Warnings can only save people who bother to read them. Yoda conditionals save everyone trying to run or compile the code in question. It goes both ways ;)

Re: awkwardness, it doesn't feel awkward at all to me; given that Erlang and Elixir use assignment for destructuring and pattern-matching, Yoda conditionals feel very natural to me in comparison.

For example, this is valid Elixir code:

foo = {1, 2}

bar = if {baz, 2} = foo do
525600
end

IO.inspect foo # prints {1,2}
IO.inspect bar # prints 525600
IO.inspect baz # prints 1
SQLite has had corruption bugs but they have been exceeding rare. Far more often it has been other factors that caused SQLite to become corrupt (ie it is a victim not the cause).

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Well that's not very charitable. Motivations can change you know.
Folks, can someone enlighten me on how new Argument Liveness https://golang.org/doc/go1.8#liveness works ?

I mean, so now if you are in the middle of a long function, you cannot be sure anymore if parameters passed to that function are not GC'd? Or compiler does some hinting on "ooh, this param is not used after that point in function, lets mark it as `ready for GC`?
How do you define "immense progress"? Fully attempt to me means actually sinking a significant portion of overall company budget (say, greater than 5%) into a project, marketing it, and attempting to spread it to a wide market. Or put it another way, if a venture-backed startup were pursuing one of these avenues, what would they do? Certainly they wouldn't be content with pilot projects that fizzle out and glacially slow deployment across the country. If Uber were a Google moonshot, they would still be running only black cars in SF.

Google is fantastic at highly-automated software, but really sucks at any kind of real world hardware or service.
I suppose that might work if you just a body shop rather than actually delivering something tangible.

I have had bad experiences with clients acting in bad faith destroying one of the companies I worked for
I disagree. If I buy an expensive piece of rental property in a city center as an investment, then the government comes in and forces me to lower my rent through some strong-arm, artificial means, they are stealing from me by keeping me from reaping the full, market-supported rewards of my investment, and theft is immoral.
I used to do the same thing except use a soda stream machine instead. One gets used to the taste very quickly. Now a days I just drink plain water.
Not sure where this essay is headed; it starts off by noting the increased cosmopolitanization of contemporary Eastern Europe as affected by peacetime capitalism, while pointing that the psychological stereotypes live on in fewer and fewer places that are more rural and further from the malls and thoroughfares of second-tier cities. But then it winds through a retrospective of many decades of literature defined by different circumstances of the time: a multi-ethnic hodgepodge of people living in alternating periods of peacetime and war who often dipped down to dry humour to maintain some semblance of normalcy and sanity in spite of the political, military, and economic conflicts hanging over their lives.

Perhaps more so than in any other part of the world, Eastern Europe's people have been more acutely defined by economic inequality than anywhere else: whether from the Empire days when one's ethnicity was secondary to one's status as a serf or civis or nobility until it came time to kill each other in someone else's war, or from the Eastern Bloc times when socialist governments handed down a bureaucratic and unremarkable forced egalitarianism that applied only to the masses but not the ruling class, even if it gave them affordable housing and education and healthcare and womens' and workers' rights, or today when middle-class people in Timișoara and Debrecen can buy world-class consumer goods but good jobs are few and far between, and lucrative opportunities lie in few fields, or on the other side of the continent, or in remittances.

Yes, perhaps the stereotype of Eastern Europe is dead, and its cities are more lively to the untrained eye. But plenty of problems still exist; they're just hidden beneath a veneer of disposable spending of South Korean goods to absorb people's momentary desires while being unable to cultivate lasting wealth. It's still a deeply troubled place, albeit in ways that the banlieues of France, the run-down districts of Brussels, the declining Midlands, the small towns of America can relate.
Market efficiency would pay out a certain amount of money per share and then be done with it. The trouble was caused by government interference in the form of a lawsuit that required paying an additional amount years after the transaction had supposedly been completed.

(This is not intended to be an argument for or against said government interference. I have no opinion either way and it may well be totally great. But this particular problem obviously wouldn't have happened without it.)
5-6' cubicles, when combined with some white noise, carpets, and acoustic tile ceilings, make for great isolation in a building where making offices is not practical.

Personally, I prefer an office or room with 2-3 other people at max, but I'll take cubicles over open floor plans every day.
My Road to Understand the Value of Serverless
Loom Helps Entrepreneurs Lure Freelance Developers with Equity
The "cloud" is someone else's computer. What are you actually suggesting that would have preempted this issue? The DTC's issue was one of volume, which is certainly a technological issue, but what precisely would "cloud" computing do about it?

By design it is supposed to be centralized, and it would likely be out of the question for the DTC to utilize the computing resources of a private company (especially one for which it owns all or nearly all the extant shares).
Ask HN: Why iPhone 7 Plus' back camera doesn't show IR light?
Cofounder of Airtable here, I hear you and that's on the roadmap :).
Show up in your colander and full pirate regalia, write a blog post about your experience, and submit the link to HN.
Go to any major European city. Look at all the loot in the museums. Figure it out.

Mea culpa - too snarky. But there is a lot of research in this field and way too much self congratulatory material. A look at the Opium Wars should be enough to convince that more guns goes a long way to an explanation. Also Graeber's "Debt" gives some sense of how Europe managed to construct an economy that produced a desperation for loot that was quite remarkable.
There are cheaper alternatives to basecamp people

https://freedcamp.com/
As a manager that line is always in the back of my mind when I'm trying to figure out how to help an employee do better. Turnover is not cheap, and you can be somebody's jerk boss and not even know it if you aren't careful.
Older material is more than welcome on HN. We've added 2012 to the title.
I've built a CNN before and that's not my understanding of it. The high frequency noise changes the output of the first layer on the CNN. This is what gets pooled as you go deeper into the net. Coarse graining is like getting rid of the weights you have for the first layer and replacing them with something uniform (average the smallest details together).
I firmly believe that GitHub has at least 40% role in git's success. Another 40% is Linus, and the remaining 20% is git's technical merits.
Show HN: Automatically optimize your drip email marketing campaigns using AI
Like another commenter said, the built-in Apps Script is pretty powerful as it is that it could probably handle requirements more easily and portably.

For example, I've created a simple Apps Script for a Google Spreadsheets that uses OAuth to sync the list of client accounts from QuickBooks Online allowing us to keep track of more structured notes and segmentation, which QBO is still sorely lacking. The sync allows someone to easily update the spreadsheet with any new clients not in the spreadsheet.

However, if I was going to be doing any in-depth calculations and/or a lot of data then I'd probably go the same route with using Python externally.

Forgot to mention: The only thing I'm wary of, and have seen other comments in other threads about, is using it for anything more crucial like a core Excel/Access app because of the potential future change that'll break things.
What customers want and what they need are two very different things.
That's the way I read it.

I find it hard to believe there are any circumstances under which a hundreds-of-megawatts to gigawatts core could remain hot enough to burn through hundreds or thousands of feet of earth.
Fuel tax is indirect and not related to land value.
See also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...

> Hacks at the MIT are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness

Edit: And this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

> Therefore, the hacker culture originally emerged in academia in the 1960s around the MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT AI Laboratory.

> Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program:

> What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."
Senior Developer
I have an issue in which I need to programmatically open and close connections that are already defined in the windows mobile connection manager (cell and VPN – at the same time). The version of windows that we are developing for is 6.5 mobile. The application is in vb.net. Any information, sample code, links that will help is appreciated.
There always seems to be something cool going on here. Whenever I see that orange banner pop up on my newsblur, I know it's going to be something atleast 'huh' levels of interesting.
CLM. The dividend has paid my water, fiber and half my electricity every month while I've been out of work. Pretty nice!
Would really love some help with mine: http://synclairwang.com/assets/resume.pdf

I just started looking for jobs and haven't had much luck. I bought into the craze of coding bootcamps and although I learned a lot, I feel like it isn't enough to stand out. Would appreciate any tips and thinks to change/remove/add into the resume.

And in case anyone wants to give some input on my portfolio site as well: http://synclairwang.com
There are ways around that. Cooperatives can raise cash through subordinated capital campaigns (essentially an investor-backed loan at a capped rate of return) and other methods. Even capital-intensive industries like manufacturing have big, successful worker cooperatives operating in them.

Honestly, too many people make too big a deal out of the inability for cooperatives to trade ownership for cash. And yet bootstrapping a start-up is somehow still possible, acceptable, and laudable. And I won't even get into all the perverse incentives introduced by stock ownership and the secondary market.

The tax issue, though, is the deal killer. Being double taxed by the federal government on your income is a non-starter. Until worker cooperatives get treated the same as producer and consumer cooperatives, I can't see them taking off in the US.
I think the easiest way to achieve better repairability is forcing manufacturers to pay for repairs and extending warranties to at least five years, better ten.
You have in fact virtually no chance of building a new search engine to compete with Google, and were you to try I think you'd discover that the effort would be both incredibly capital-intensive and also involve pretty staggering up-front operational expenditures as well, since the number and caliber of developers you'd need to accomplish that feat would be extremely high.

I think it'd be an interesting exercise to tease apart how much it would cost to build out a new nationwide optical network versus building a competitive search engine.
After 3 months the visually lossless image optimization tool Optimage (http://getoptimage.com) I'm developing in my free time has started to bring ~200$/month. Hoping to resolve the last performance issues and launch a server edition.
Who were the Curonians, and where have they gone to?
I don't follow. You're saying that the store didn't provide parking to help some future, possible me-with-a-car? How is that relevant?
Creating your own spinning stroke animation with morphing effect
Probably it's just me, but I could never wrap my head around git and gave up after a few attempts to get my feet wet with it.

With Mercurial and Fossil, they worked very intuitively for me.

Also, I like Fossil's tags. At work, I keep a repository of all the scripts I have written, and it really helps to associate individual commits with individual scripts.

(I mean, don't get me wrong, if you like Git, by all means, use it. But for my workflow, it is far too complex.)
That quote doesn't say that "political competition" was the best approach to innovation, nor that globalism would be worse. Merely that the proverbial ROI of competing states wasn't negative.

More importantly, it seems that the fragmentation in Europe allowed "peer pressure" to avoid descents into authoritarianism that would have limited intellectual innovation.

And that fragmentation did not fragment "the market". ("Political fragmentation existed alongside a remarkable intellectual and cultural unity.")

So: as long as globalization doesn't limit individual intellectual innovation, it might be a good think because of global unification. Competition helps drive innovation, but it doesn't have to be state competition and political division.
Making messages to nil be a no-op is certainly an "interesting" feature of Objective-C. It can make some code a lot more convenient to write, but it can also make certain bugs really difficult to track down.

After having done Swift for a while, I'm a big fan of using an option type so that "reference to object" is a different static type altogether from "reference to object, or nil."
There are often of situations where the long term benefits of automating something isn't worth the up front cost.

Throwing together a small static website with a few pages, in my experience, is one of those situations.
Sounds like texture streaming. There is a way to disable it on a per-asset basis.
One can hope :). TBH, absent Amazon Toronto paying unexpectedly well and having great work (or a Toronto real estate collapse), it sounds almost like going to work for Google in Waterloo and somehow making that work sounds like the least bad option in the GTA.
http://www.ferryschedules.co

As someone who commutes via ferry, I got sick of checking the official schedule of my ferry because it's not mobile friendly and was slow. Then I noticed more of the official schedule sites are typically in pdf, slow, not optimized for mobile devices or all of the above. So I've been slowly putting some of the schedules on this site over the past week. While not fully passive, the schedules will only have to be updated a couple of times per year since they change fairly infrequently.

It is just monetized via Google Adsense right now, but already paid for itself with a couple of ad clicks and when all said and done it should be some decent beer money every month.

Next steps are to learn how to automate the monitoring of the official schedule sites, so I can automate the updating of my site to match the official schedules. That would make it more passive.
If that works for you, then I'm envious. But I can't operate like that, as an employee or a human. I prefer to give a 100% earnest effort and fail personally, rather than give less and "safely" watch everything fail around me.

It's an attitude that comes with risk, but not without personal reward. If I'd held back in my publishing career, then I'd still be an editor somewhere, just waiting to get laid off anyway. Instead I'm here on HN. I get to be in the vanguard of what comes next. I have direction and forward momentum in my endeavors. IMO ultimately that's a far more rewarding and valuable place to be, and worth the trouble.
Same here, after the Slashdot and Digg debacle, I joined HN.

A lot of very smart people here. I always get excited to read the first comment and its always something insightful.
Mysterious Sentences
https://www.amazon.com/AWK-Programming-Language-Alfred-Aho/d... has you build a database from scratch
Most non-renewable resources are for energy generation; I think economics (i.e. price information) will solve this problem. The biggest challenge is ensuring that externalities are priced in correctly, and in ways that aren't politically corrupt or, too stickily protectionist for industries.
I did. Again I feel the need to reiterate that my point was Ubuntu isn't the only multi-platform distro (despite the GP's claim). The rest of my post was exampling that point.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not with snark on top. It degrades the level of discussion below what we're hoping for here.

I'm sure you can make your substantive point informatively if you want to. If you don't want to (or don't have time), posting nothing is also an option.
You'd kill an awful lot of content on here, then. Every funding announcement, every technical article written by a developer under the banner of a company is content marketing.
Why We Choose Profit?

Becau$e ... money i$ a terrible thing to waste!

But seriously, before I've even read the article you can tell that the author may feel (or told to feel) bad from making a profit.

I would say that being profitable is not a bad thing at all. Someone (or somebody) created a tool, or a service that helps people out. There's a demand for such service. People are willing to spend money on it. There's no problem there.

It take effort to innovate (and to run things that help people out). The best way to keep the quality of things high is to... make money to pay for people and things to make your service the best it can be.

Nothing wrong with that.
or just
box$ . ~/.bash_profile

But I prefer zsh/prezto. I spend far too much time on the command line, so I want it to look pretty and tab-complete all the things.
Sure, but then you can also argue that if the market were more efficient, the government would not have had to resolve an unfair transaction.

Seems like a rabbit hole of a debate.
Windows 6.5
I have an issue in which I need to programmatically open and close connections that are already defined in the windows mobile connection manager (cell and VPN – at the same time). The version of windows that we are developing for is 6.5 mobile. The application is in vb.net. Any information, sample code, links that will help is appreciated.
Thanks. Adding it to other great Rust courses and tutorials at Hackr.io: https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-rust
Steam does delta compression automatically and for most changes shouldn't be an issue.

UE4 has an append mode to add extra content in separate .pak, but if you are using Steam to distribute it doesn't save you anything. I believe it understands pak files enough to decompress, delta encode, then recompress.
I have felt this way in reverse. Before and during college I worked in supermarkets and clothes shops. Those jobs were fine but some places I really hated going to work everyday and some places I felt really good about. Same exact work but how people treat each other matters a great deal. When I learned what it was like to work somewhere and feel pretty good going in, it was huge for me. I'm loyal to my current job at a nonprofit because even though the pay is not the highest, everybody cares about the work and helps each other. That is good for me.
I'm using it for a number of personal projects and a couple of projects with a small number of collaborators.

Advantages: The entire repository is a single file (SQLite database), which makes some things easy (backup, putting it on a USB drive, mailing it to another person) and has support for tickets and a wiki built-in. It is simple, but feature-complete for the use cases it is intended for.

Disadvantages: The command line interface is lacking in some regards (which can be fixed through addon tools, but isn't for everybody). In particular, there's a huge feature gap between `fossil ui` and `fossil timeline` for viewing history. Like Git (and unlike Mercurial and Bzr), you're forced to deal with commit hashes rather than numerical version numbers (which can be an annoyance when using annotate/blame, for example). Third-party contribution via `fossil bundle` is too limited IMO; you really want all contributors to have direct access to the repository to be productive.
> Error establishing a database connection

Another reason why static website generators are great.

Anyone got a mirror?
Many, perhaps most, Christians (especially Biblical literalists) would also point out that Acts (particularly 15:22-29) explicitly states that requirements and penalties of the Jewish law, but for a short list of enumerated exceptions, do not apply to non-Jews (particularly, non-Jewish Christians), only Jews (whether or not they are actually Christians), whether or not they also view the penalty in an "enlightened" way where it does apply.
This begs the question: why didn't nobody else succeed in looting the Europeans.

It's not like the other Empires around the world were Gandhian paradises of peaceful coexistence. They were waging war on each other, looting, and going on slavery raids just like Europeans. Go and look at Aztect ruins in Mesoamerica sometimes and marvel the the monuments where the prists were sacrificing humans.

Yet, despite the experience with war and violence, they (almost) never managed to beat Europeans, and certainly never colonised Europe (after the Muslims were thrown out of Europe ... Well ... depending whom you ask, the (descendants of the) Ottoman Empire are still colonising parts of Europe today ... Just ponder why Constantinople is no longer called Constantinople).

Why? What did Europe have they didn't?