skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other side China and India are both pursuing renewable energy faster than the US.

I was in Beijing last year for a layover. The pollution was so bad you couldn't see the runway from the terminal. It was so terrible you could even see it inside the terminal.

I think the pollution absolutely terrible, and it needs to be addressed.

But you know what? I'm even happier that the pollution is so blatantly terrible and visible. Why? Because if it wasn't so obvious, the populations of China and India wouldn't be demanding change, and the governments would be free to ignore the issue.

The fact that the pollution in China and India is so bad is driving these countries to improve regulations and curtail their pollution much faster than the US had to in the 20th century.

Pollution is terrible, but I'm really glad that the two most populated countries on earth are waking up and installing renewables at an unprecedented rate. It's not only improving their pollution situation, but economies of scale are making renewables cheaper for everyone.
The renting out part seems like the goal of the rule, but I agree about the deficits part.
I am well aware of the solution space just as I am aware that the one your are proposing isn't even close to being what one would consider having solid foundation.
My browser tells me it won't connect to this server: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

Qualys gives the site an A, but says of some browsers: "Server negotiated HTTP/2 with blacklisted suite" so I imagine this is the cause of the problems?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.webstack....

Edit: This was with FF48 on Linux. Restarted Firefox to get v49 and it's working now.
As Hamming describes, it was very much for me: 8th grade plane geometry feels now like an intellectual awakening. The satisfaction of proving "pons asinorum", by Euclid's method, followed by vexation at learning I had overlooked the much simpler reflexive approach.
If I were asked to write code on a white board, I would just say, "That would be like asking me to bench press in my business suit. I can do it, but the context is wrong and it won't be pleasant or productive. So, no. Let's do something else.".

If I were asked to write a bubble sort algo (I think I saw this last week on HN)...

var sortedArray = [1,3,2].sort();

Because, at the level I operate at, it's more important to know how to use your tools than to know how to make your tools.

I would also explain, "Building software is a lot like building a house. You need an architect, a foundation guy, carpenters, maybe an interior designer to make it look nice. I can be your architect, build your foundation, frame and finish, and even some basic interior design work and you want to ask me how to build a hammer?"

Then, they either respect you for saying no or the interview is over. Either way you're better off.

Of course, if you're a low level programmer, that's not the right answer.
I think the magsafe was at the bottom of the list of "bad choice of proprietary ports by Apple"
He has an interesting eye for the built environment. Nothing I'd hang, but there's an appeal in some of his work.
It's difficult for me to judge the significance of that because you report the $ increase instead of %, without a base value.
Given it's intended to be a permanent fixture in the side of your laptop, at the size of a (keyboard) key I'd say it's pretty big, yes.

Add that to the one-and-a-half key-sized optionally permanent part (unless you're going to buy one for each cable, it's fixed until you need the safety feature) and it's a huge thing sticking out of the side!

To be honest, I question the usefulness anyway - I've pulled my Macbook Air off a table (accidentally) by it's MagSafe power cable before, and trying it deliberately now it only works with vertical movement. Side-to-side or directly 'out' it just moves my laptop, even as short & and sharp as I can.

If I stepped directly on the cable it would be such a directly-out movement; if I tripped, a side-to-side one. Unless my laptop was positioned perfectly such that the MagSafe hung over the edge of the table, and I trod directly down, I can't imagine how it would have its intended effect.

I use it all the time for un/plugging deliberately, but I can live without that, and as above with this Kickstarter product without buying several I'd have to leave the whole dongle plugged in anyway, so any deliberate dis/connection would be a normal un/plug motion.
the problem with the margin is that it will skive your risk management especially if you have 4x (and more) buying power like in FX world...
By default the ribbon is hidden: http://i.imgur.com/5hxOIcb.png

I don't use Windows, but it's important to use fair comparisons.
Please don't repost comments, especially not generic ones. HN threads are supposed to be conversations, and good conversation doesn't work that way.
This. Still stuck on OS X Yosemite as the one I'm least displeased with. Actually tried to put Windows 10 on a second laptop, but Lenovo's terrible drivers for just about everything - from broken trackpad acceleration to Intel HD making my screen blink every damn second, I ended up using Fedora on that - and getting annoyed by missing Photoshop and Office.
Numbers I've seen suggest that the proportion of "foreign money" in Toronto is even lower than in Vancouver (mostly from GreaterFool.ca), so the tax may not have a large effect.
I don't see how raids would be a problem for honest landlords. You'd require people to inform the authorities when a place is empty and when it isn't. You pay taxes when it's empty more than x% per year. Authorities check randomly and you pay a fine when the place is vacant even though you said it wasn't.

I don't see the problem.

The solution with fines for vacant retail space seems very inefficient and a bit unfair, since the developer can probably do very little once they sold appartements, and has little influence on whether they are vacant or not.
Same here.

Even though there are some things that are annoying or in a bad shape, all in alle macOS and the ecosystem makes me more productive than Windows or Linux.

As a developer, I also notice that a lot of tools don't work well on Windows. Even things like Docker.
>I'm a professional developer, I don't want a new toy language.

First, there's nothing "toy: about Swift. It's a full featured language on par with Rust, Go, etc.

Second, whether some random web dev or embedded C dev or Java dev wants Swift or not is irrelevant to its intended audience and utility. It's not for "professional developers" in general, it's for Mac/iOS application developers, and thus, for Mac/iOS users (that benefit as a side-effect from developers having a modern/better language to implement stuff).

>I'm buying a powerful laptop, I don't want cloud storage.

So? Millions of users do want it, judging from the huge popularity of Dropbox, Google Drive, MS implementation of the same, etc.

>I want the possibility to dual boot or share drives with other operating systems, I don't need a new proprietary filesystem.

Again, irrelevant. Lots of Mac users, and tons of pundits HAVE asked for a "new proprietary filesystem" to replace HFS+ and Apple obliged.

And whether you can "dual boot" or "share drives" is orthogonal to whatever OS X has a new native filesystem. You can still format the rest of the hard disk on another fs to dual boot, and you can still share drives with other systems in NTFS, xFAT, etc.

>I don't want compressed memory, I want 32GB of RAM.

And I want a pony unicorn. But until Intel delivers boards that accept 32GB low-power RAM of the kind that goes into Apple laptops, we're not gonna get it. And Intel gives late 2017 / early 2018 as the date for those. (Existing PC laptops with 32 GB ram merely sacrifice battery life using regular high power drawing RAM -- and even those are far and few between).

(And of course compressed memory helps whether you have 16 or eventually 32GB of ram)

>In short, Apple is spending a lot of effort making features that I, as a professional developer and 20 year Mac user, don't want.

Well, as a 15 year Mac user and 20 years professional developer, I do want those things.

I don't particularly care for the touch strip though -- I'd prefer it to be OLED physical buttons giving both tactile feel AND changeable inscriptions.
"legal protections of renters" ... maybe, in other words, it means, that government makes renting extremely unfavorable and complicated. In that case, the government is responsible for empty apartments. They try to solve the problem without realising what is the source of the problem.

Or maybe we need some service for that, which would include insurance and everything, and will just pay owners the money without worrying about anything.
I don't think that's representative of the UK.

Students don't tend to have money to spare for a Mac, so they buy a cheaper Windows laptop instead.

A Macbook is 15% of a year's money, which is better spent on rent, food and beer.
> Open an email group and name it seurity@mycompany.com and add a page on your website to report security incidents to this email

You know a company takes security seriously when they have a typo in the word "security".
I do not believe in leverage, but skilled poker is indeed not gambling, if you have risk management in place
That won't work without shutting down Earth's magnetic field.
An old man threw maths facts at me – help me determine if he's crazy or genius
We can, through automation of /everything/.

When there is no more work, in the house or out, all that is left is room for enlightenment or self-destruction.
I appreciate that this is a hobby project, but comments like this one in Kernel.cs:

while (true) //Set CPU in Infinite loop DON'T REMOVE THIS ELSE I'll KILL YOU (^ . ^)

combined with things like your "How to contribute" section requiring that anyone wanting to contribute is "dedicated", are frankly going to put anyone off wanting to get involved with this. It also doesn't reflect well on your maturity as a developer.
I am currently on a Mac but I have been switching between Mac, Windows, UNIX, and BeOS since 1991. I generally find things to like in all of them.

But what Microsoft has done with mandatory updates and forced telemetry is unacceptable to me. And because of that, Windows 10 is the first version of Windows that I have not installed since the release of version 3.0.
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the metric you are evaluating. If your goal is to find the percentage of people currently unemployed because they are looking for a job but unable to get one, then it does not make sense to include students or retirees that are not currently looking for work.

Besides, I'm not sure it's accurate to claim "society must pay for students and retirees". Some students can pay for themselves (via loans) and some retirees can pay for themselves (via their own retirement savings).
While a DAW can do everything this console does (and a lot more) and you could model the signal distortion / treatment characteristics accurately so as to recreate the sound, the way you interact with it would be completely different. Which affects almost every aspect in how you use it.

Besides, this thing was used with tapes. Editing when you use tape is an entirely different thing than doing it digitally. It involves cutting, taping, scraping and edits are destructive. Not to mention that you didn't have unlimited tracks on a tape.
Haha, I did not know that!

I think engineer-types like us (meaning all of Hacker News) have a completely understandable knee-jerk reaction against anything "audiophile" that involves anything less than cold, hard numbers.

And actually, most of the time, that knee-jerk reaction is correct. Snake-oil audio cables, "high-def audio" for end users, etc etc etc... there is so much that should be repeatedly and forcefully rejected.
"macOS Finder": you are talking about that software that rename folders when you press the enter key? :p
Thanks for recommendations. Are your clients consumers or businesses though?
> We are really surprised how bad OVH does in this benchmark, they claim to have local RAID 10 storage, so it could be that they are throttling, since we can't imagine that there are that many "noisy neighbors" in two locations, but we can't say that for sure.

Your numbers match the numbers on vpsbenchmarks.com [1], so it probably is as bad as your test suggests.

[1] https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/trials/ovh_performance_trial_1...
Someone on Reddit reported the same, I am not really sure what causes it, since it looks good on my end (server), maybe an issue with Firefox itself?
Off-topic. What's up with Frankfurt? 3 of 5 cloud companies compared here have Frankfurt listed as their European data center location.
lowdown:

> The fields that were labelled as “least precise” were psychology and evolution. Also on this end of the scale were economics, climate science, and—wait for it—astrophysics. On the other end, forensics was perceived as the field with the highest level of precision, followed by aerospace engineering.

> They also note that classing medical research, seismology, and nuclear engineering at roughly similar levels of precision is giving a bit too much credit to seismology and medical research.
> A known effect of attacking (without confronting the core of the problem), or suppressing, or dismissing parties expressing certain beliefs or engaging in particular behaviors is that the opposing party reaffirms their actions or beliefs. Two-way intelligent and earnest discussion makes both sides amenable to the reasonable positions of the other.

The downvotes are here not because people disagree with you, but because the comment doesn't confront the core of the problem and doesn't contribute to the discussion in a productive way. It can be hard not to take downvotes personally and get defensive, but the comment in question is not defensible.
Not something exclusive to Paris http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/james-regan-profession...

And if you leave someone in your apartment/house at least sign a contract.
Another reason why I'm glad python is winning (and a fun read):

http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/
Oldest evidence of life on earth
> On the other hand, those "squishy sciences" have nothing as squishy as string theory

I would classify string theory as it stands as impressionistic mathematics.
Show HN: Panhandlr, data-driven 25 best panhandling intersections in Austin
Strings are one of the most difficult things to get right in any standard library. You can be like C and offer barebones support, but many developers will make mistakes. You can be like Java and offer much more complete support, but you can never quite satisfy everyone's use case and people complain. I personally would never have even thought to include functions like `kebabCased`, this is a very interesting take on a string library. Overall, good stuff.
IOS more secure than android? Joke ready. IOS is closed source. You can not tell whether Apple, the CIA, or the NSA are spying on you.
I have a security review for a news room coming up, and I plan on sharing this blog post with them. Thanks for writing it Matt! I'm definitely behind all of the points you made.

If anything, I worry that non-technical users will still not understand that desktop programs can do anything you can do with your computer even after reading your post. I'm not sure the description is "in your face" enough to translate for the intended audience. In their minds, "reading files" may be better expressed as "copy of every email I've ever sent" or "operate my webcam and grab nudes of me."
Ask HN: Do freelance app developers still do well?
I built apps for clients for a while during uni , roughly 2013-14. I was doing alright apart from the regular requests to build apps when the client didn't really have any money. I knew quite a few other freelancers back then. How is the situation now? Can solo freelancers still make money?
For web things, I would recommend the combination of dagre (https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre), which will calculate node and edge positions, and d3.js (https://d3js.org/), which you can use to layout your nodes as an SVG.

I did some work on something a little bit similar for an EU research project, which you are welcome to take a look at. It's probably not directly applicable, but it may give you some thoughts about what does and doesn't work as a UI: https://github.com/cse-bristol/process-model/ https://tools.smartsteep.eu/process-model/?name=actionplanni...
Technical analysis is a bit of a voodoo for me as well, but quantitative analysis works indeed, you just need to spend the time and work on it (as with any other skill in life)
View the top 25 intersections for panhandling in Austin, Texas. Data collected from city of Austin site:

https://data.austintexas.gov/Government/Traffic-Count-Study-...

It's supposed to be half parody half useful.

https://github.com/amend/panhandlr
Location of DE-CIX, primary european internet exchange (according to themselves the one with the largest throughput worldwide, but AFAIK that's disputed)
The thing I'll miss the most about OS X is Miller columns in Finder.
Definitely. I think Berlin as well, the housing there seems remarkably affordable relative to incomes.
Windows 8 was ridiculous, and one of the things that gave MS a big wake up call. Its now a different company. Windows 10 is leaps better in about every way than 8 (not without its own issues, of course). Disclosure: I am a MS MVP. MS will listen to me in almost every area I care about.
I bet people with disabilities who go there will appreciate the ADA compliance, too.
To be safe see this site. It has everything you need. Https://www.privacytools.io/
Yeah, you have a point with the separation between client and server process. I guess the client must crash nearly every time. Still... I can't help feeling that there is something to improve in the syntax, to make it clear the context those functions run in.
> because testing quantum physics hypotheses involves multi-billion dollar investments in particle colliders

You're conflating particle physics (which does need "multi-billion dollar investments") with quantum physics which sometimes only needs well designed table top experiments.
I haven't read the story but there is a lot of misconception in this familiar story. As it is the same in most developed countries once someone moved into a flat it becomes their dwelling. This is independent of rent. If I let a friend stay with me and not pay rent while they get their life together i can't kick them out.

The owner is a member of the building association. She agreed to pay maintenance and renovation charges. That is an agreement between her and the association. The tenant did not make that agreement so has no say in it.

There is a process to evict someone. This owner sounds like she doesn't want or can't be bothered to follow it. It's a long heartbreaking process that involves courts and police. And due to abuse in the past the judges and police want to be sure every step is followed.
Thanks. This explains.
Like a lot of studies which simply count "jobs" this one misses the point. The combination of wages being driven down, broken unions and sky-high rents mean the real value of many jobs is worthless. Here in the UK zero-hours contracts and low pay are endemic whilst most low income earners rely on housing benefit to supplement their pay. Simply having a job does not mean having a living income.
Loading Components Dynamically in Angular 2
Do you own a disassembler? I do. Also, a decompiler, debugger, and other analysis tools. Closed source does not mean "black box."

And besides, open source doesn't mean anyone has reviewed the code. Reviewing a program for security takes work, regardless of whether it is open or closed.
Can you give a reason why Enter to open a file is ideal, other than just because it's how Windows does it?

The Windows Explorer uses Alt+Enter to show the properties of something, and in games and other apps that shortcut means Full Screen.

Also, why does Alt+F4 quit an app? What does F4 stand for? Compared to Cmd+Q to Quit or Cmd+W to close it's a lot less intuitive.

And so on and so forth.
Redux and React-Router v4: A Tale of Two Datastores
Sometimes not just "non computer people". The number of times as a computer science TA (for a non-intro class) I had to read people their compiler error messages is staggering.
You can't copy and paste an image out of Photos, either. It's really quite ridiculous.
Seems you have mistaken MyDef to this. MyDef is a meta-layer. It simply lets you customize your syntax and add meta-constructs, but you are still writing Perl, C, or whatever language you are actually writing. This project is a complete -- eventually anyway -- Perl compiler/interpreter (Perl5 replacement) in C. The goal of this project is to free Perl to the status of programming language (rather than tied to a compiler). Also, I want to demonstrate my idea of readable coding.

I am sure you can use MyDef to write perl6 or any text based language already. MyDef does not output binary, or translate from one language to another.

(Thanks for your attention, appreciate it :)
On the Shoulders of #InfoSec Giants
You would think that if you clicked a bomb first, the app would regenerate the board until it made one where the place you clicked was not a bomb.
Modularity, extensibility and price would be a few advantages.
I'm glad someone included the two leading French hosting providers in their benchmark. I have ~10 servers hosted by both OVH and Online (not Scaleway yet) and I believe they do a very correct job for a terrific price.

BTW: both have more expensive offerings if you need strongers SLAs. What I don't like with OVH's offering is that they have 3 different brands (OVH, SYS and KS) and you need 3 different accounts, control panels, and even invoicing is not consistent over the three brands (which means more work when doing my accounting every month...).
Presumably PV panels. Although a really large RTG (nuclear thermal reactor) might work too. It really depends on the amount of power we're talking about.
Yes, but you're implying "predictive" means 100% accurate. No science, no math, no language, will ever be 100% accurate. We say things have predictive power if we can, to a reasonable degree, if our results reflect our prediction. This is definitely true. And most those equations involve a pi. Pi doesn't have an end. There is ALWAYS and WILL ALWAYS be some uncertainty to our predictions. But is it that big of a deal if we can predict a planet's location down to the nm? Would you even say that it isn't predictive if we were off by 10km? No, you wouldn't. Because it is a planet and if you are looking for a planet and off by 10km you will still find the planet because the error is small. It would also be unreasonable to calculate the location of a planet down to the plank scale.

And to your mention of everything being statistical because quantum, well there's a reason Newton's methods didn't require them to be powerful (useful or predictive). Because the likelihood of quantum like events happening on a macro scale is basically zero. Sure, your hand could quantum tunnel through a wall, but would we ever expect to see it within the lifetime of the universe?

We're talking about the relativity of wrong here[1]. Physics wouldn't have become so popular if it wasn't predictive. We don't need to be 100% to be predictive nor useful. Accuracy and predictiveness are two different things.

[1] http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm