skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flatpak vs. Snap – Which Format Is “Better”?
Agreed. I thought the best way would be differentiate on features.

Pro should be:
- wifi+LTE
- more storage
- pen and/or cover keyboard included
- faster CPU
- multiscreen capability (connect to mouse and monitor with "desktop" interface) for truly replacing my desktop

Regular iPad should be wifi only, and not come with a pen.
the Big 4 win contracts based on necessary certifications. once it is a 100mil+ project, all kinds of certs come into play, small shops simply can't produce the paperwork.

of course, there is no correlation between certs and actually being able to deliver anything, but that does not matter. no CIO will risk their career by not giving big stuff to a non-Big4 contract.

file under herd mentality, etc.
I think there's two factors at work here. Number one, the ad buyers have a brand image they wish to control, and therefore they have an interest in ensuring that their brand is not associated with content they think would tarnish their image. Even if every ad-viewer consciously knew that the ads did not imply endorsement of the content, there are subconscious factors to consider (factors which form the basic premise of a huge percentage of corporate advertising--eg that positive subconscious associations with brand imagery is one of the purposes of advertising).

Second, this is a (needed) power play on the part of ad buyers. Google has growing control over huge swaths of online and mobile advertising. Ad buyers need to push back, questioning the value of this sort of advertising and demanding more control over where their ads are displayed. Why should they trust Google to do the job of deciding where their ads belong for them? Google has proven time and again that they trust their own AI and machine learning tools far more than they should. And the longer they wait, the worse it's going to get.
Databases too. MySQL has a 2038 bug in their UNIX_TIMESTAMP function.

select unix_timestamp('2038-01-19') returns 2147472000
select unix_timestamp('2038-01-20') returns 0
Won't help.

It's a populist request, but a majority of experts, the criminologists, are convinced that the death penalty for example is not a deterrent.

A source (one of many): http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/study-88-criminologists-do-n...
How this works if there is other evidence in the HDD, for example piracy, list of stolen goods, location of bodies he buried. How 'foregone conclusion' can be applied?
You don't have to consider different specs. Whether you buy an A8 powered iPhone SE, an A9 powered iPhone 6s, or an A10 powered iPhone 7, you get a very well performing phone that is probably going to run the latest OS for the next 3 - 5 years.

The only thing you have to consider is what size you prefer, the color, and the amount of memory.
I said the same thing when reddit changed it's mind about "free speech" - once you announce you're banning 'the bad stuff' it implies that what remains is good
Because "morality" is a uniquely human trait, and we elect politicians to enact laws (which are group morality, codified).

We pay businesses for goods and services.
> the original Unix

Not a language.

> Plan 9

Not a language.

> B (the predecessor of C)

A version of BCPL, stripped down to fit on the hardware they had. Considerably less sophisticated than Algol, which had been designed years before.

> Inferno (a successor of Plan 9)

Not a language.

> UTF-8

Not a language.

> They definitely are experts in language design.

What?
The long-term solution here might come by implementing a
Pattern Library to document components and provide simple
copy and paste snippets

Maybe you could give those snippets names, then refer to them consistently using classes to avoid the maintenance burden of updating all the copy-paste sites. Hmmm, sounds familiar. /snark

The similar proposal in a non-CSS context would be "y'know, maintaining meaningful abstractions is hard and takes lots of refactoring effort - let's just switch to using `PEEK` and `POKE` to hard-coded addresses!"
Unrelated: Are there people in the world who prefer spending 8 hours in the office vs 8 hours wherever they want (office OR home OR cafe)?
Business lobbies to prevent enforcement... Also don't forget the revolving door, your dichotomy of politicians vs business is paper thin
No, and thanks for catching that.

My understanding is that the prosecution doesn't need the decrypted data to secure a guilty verdict, but as they're entitled to it, they likely want it for secondary benefit.
You could also just zip the files and unzip when testing
He didn't invent it. It's been around about as long as people have seen this problem coming.
Why Identity Matters for Innovation Labs
Yeah but if you finish your contract on mars you get the anti-aging treatment for free.
>Slavery was most definitely intentionally allowed, no interesting interpretation necessary.

Legally yes. I was talking referencing how the founding fathers were not consistent in matching the government they created with some of their prior statements which were part of the reason they were in a position to create the government. Largely I said this to preempt the oft response that the founding father's weren't consistent with their own view of rights.
How to monetize video content using big data and advanced video analysis
It's not at all surprising that the woman would believe it was a GPS tracker if told though which makes it nearly as effective as actually having a tracker implanted in her. TV and movies love their impossibly tiny GPS trackers.
If you told the original UNIX developers that there was even the slightest chance their system might still be in use in 2038, they probably would have called in some large, friendly men in white coats to haul you away.

Add to that the fact that memory was very much not cheap at the time. Memory for the PDP-7 (the first computer to run UNIX) cost $12,000-20,000 for 4kB of memory. In 1965 dollars. In 2017 terms, that means that wasting four bytes had an amortized cost of three hundred to six hundred dollars. And that's for each instance of the type in memory.
Care to share your statistics? Not saying you're wrong, but since 9/11, I can't think of a single terrorist incident on an entirely domestic US flight, whereas I can think of several attempts/successes on international flights.
Everybody knows this quote, but nobody knows where it's from
The differences between the Pro and non-Pro 9.7" iPads are _way_ too inconspicuous for that argument to hold water.

In fact, the only product apple sells that seems to follow that line of reasoning is the Apple Watch.
Any relation to the mass transit system in Atlanta?
Vampires can't enter a house uninvited.
So you're just going to pick and choose as it suits you, and then act baffled when people point out the hypocrisy in that course?

Oh.
At least in the software case it pretty much is that easy.

It's incredibly straight forward, no special user interface or IO, just basic UI and basic math, just a bit on the tedious side to get all the forms together and up to date.
Direct flights are generally more expensive. So having one or two stops, more or less on your way, makes perfect sense.
Yes. Taxes are complex enough in many situations that it incentivizes paying someone to take that complexity load. The simplest and most sure way to do this is to simplify taxes, but assuming the IRS will be able to to just do it all correctly for you seems naive to me. Depending on your tax situation, there's lots of information the IRS doesn't have (such as almost all deductions you might try). Having the IRS auto-fill forms for you seems like it's putting effort in the wrong place. If they can auto-fill forms for you, your taxes are probably pretty simple, but even then the forms may be complex enough that checking them may require most people use a tax preparer/checker of some sort. The real gains are from simplifying the taxes themselves, not just automating the form entry in the already simple cases. Making taxes simpler reduced the incentives for using a tax preparer, which is the right way to go about this.
That will again require a Twitter handle or Email.

It's the same with me. If I am using a really early stage app and actually helping with testing it the last thing I would want to do is to pretty much sign up for it with my email unless I desperately need that app.
The entire point of my post was to say yes, that all the other/all system calls do work with kernel structs internally ones the system call passes into kernel land. Again, please do not forget a system call is a controlled exposure to kernel code -- it is not a library.

Every function call works the same way as epoll works ounces the fd is translated into a actual kernel structure. Conflating the fd with the file is where all assumptions go wrong. The fd is the means you tell epoll what file you want to be notified on events about. A file is NOT closed until there are no more references. This is simply how linux works. To change that would be non trivial and break years of software.

Let's explore your idea a bit more. If you were to want to know when a "fd" was closed, what would you be using that for? You really want to know when a file was closed right? If so, any code that you execute after you get the close on the fd would be wrong and cause even more surprising results. This is because the file is not actually closed. It is open. Whoever has the remaining handles can modify it while you think the file is closed -- that is a bug.
As someone who does their own taxes, aren't you in favor of the IRS pre-filling your forms with the information they already know?
Defining the Web platform in the context of 3D API
In fairness, if you asked your grandma what the flagship Ford or Chevrolet car was, she wouldn't know, either.
Yeah, when you're being drugged, raped, beaten, starved, threatened with death, moved around... threats like "we put a tracking chip in you, we can find you anywhere, anytime," must be absolutely terrifying. Especially since I'm guessing the average victim of human trafficking isn't an electrical engineer.
I wasn't trying to move the goalposts. I was asked where that right was defined, and so I cited law.
Set Up Nagios to Monitor Your Infrastructure
The only time I build from source (ports) on FreeBSD is because the package maintainer picked "crappy"[1] options. On OpenBSD, I can generally find the flavor of port that has the options I want. If I cannot I resort to ports.

1) for my definition of crappy, not compiling PostgreSQL support is the most common for me
Have you tried https://www.15five.com/? They offer a full suite of integrated tools; continuous employee feedback, OKRs, pulse surveys, and peer recognition...
I somewhat disagree that it's a big part or even really should be a part of the solution, I'm really not sure that these notebooks are the right approach to making reproducible research. The conclusion there doesn't seem supported by their findings, to me.

I think they solve a different use case well, and forcing them into a workflow they weren't designed for may just result in both less useful workbooks and a poor experience.

Edit - To expand a little, jupyter notebooks are nice to mix code and descriptions, and in essence force people to release a certain amount of their code. But other than that they actually provide fewer of the guarantees that you want from things for reproducibility. And since the goals for reproducibility generally force more restrictions on how you work, I can see there being more issues for trying to match these different ways of working.

I don't see how there are any features which are useful for the goal of making things reproducible, and as such why people keep bringing them up as a solution.

The main steps would seem to be

1. Make sure the results used are not generated on "my machine" but on a specified base run somewhere else. Just like we don't take the unit test results I run locally as gospel.

2. Unique and versioned identifiers for code, base system and data.

3. Archived code and data.

4. An agreed on format in the output data to say where it came from (which references the identifier(s) for the code, base system used and input data)

Your output might be a rendered notebook, but the notebook itself is entirely orthogonal to the process, as what a notebook provides is:

* A nice interface for entering the code

* A nice output format

* A neat way of mixing nicely written documentation along with the code
Didn't "what are you going to do" indicate a potential hypothetical?
This may be true but I doubt that most bootstrapped businesses need the services of a company like this one.

The scope of this article seems to be VC-backed businesses, and more specifically ones that have had more than one round of funding, but have either run out of money, or are on the obvious path to run out of money..
"But here’s the challenge: you’ve got to convince doctors and nurses that they are the ones uniquely placed to break the cycle of violence." If health care is used to fight human traffic, human traffic victims will not have any more access to health care. I do not see how this would help victims.
A new kind of doctor's office could lead to cheaper prescriptions
All hail the Paradox of Choice!
What certs are we talking about? SSL certs? PE certs? Cisco certs?
If you can't raise kids that can tolerate boredom, you're doing something wrong.
Have you heard of cats?
>They could have made it unsigned instead of signed

C actually didn't have unsigned integer types in the beginning. They were added many years later and also not at the same time. For example, the Unix V7 C compiler only had "unsigned int".
On the other other hand, getting greedy and using a 64 bit integer to count nanoseconds only moves the problem 448 years forwards. That's long enough to seem like it's perfectly safe, but short enough that it might just not be.
I've been saying that since mid-2015 we've been seeing a slow down in the startup sector overall. Last year it was clear that new startup creations isn't keeping pace with previous years and shutdowns are more common. I think 2017 will be a disastrous year for startup formation and venture investment. SXSW this year was diminished from what it was in past years and it's clear that there's a pullback across the board.
I've had the luxury of never losing a family member. All of my grandparents are still alive even. I'm actually really terrified that "I'm due" to lose a bunch of people relatively quickly.

In 2015 I had to euthanize my cat. He was the most dog-like cat I've ever met, which was amazing. The vet attempted to give me "one more weekend" by sending him home with relatively powerful pain medications so I could have two more days with him before having to say goodbye, but when I got home the pain medications were ineffective and he was in horrible pain. I walked him right back to the vet and went through the euthanasia process. It was easily the saddest I've ever been; I collapsed in the vet's office when they finally took him. They let me hold him the whole time, which, as a fiercly protective cat father, was the only thing I'd have allowed anyway.

Anyway, I'm really scared that I'll have to go through this or worse over the next few years. I don't know that I can handle it.
"It's just business" is not a reasonable ethical framework. I suspect that you know this already.
Previous discussions with interesting comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13916811 (111 points, 21 hours ago, 70 comments)

[flagged] [dead] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918712 (13 points, 16 hours ago, 7 comments)

I'll copy a comment by bobbles in the last post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918791

> - $0 taxes referring to income tax only

> - completely within NZ tax laws

> - they're paying 30% tax to Australia instead of 28% to NZ because of the AU/NZ tax agreement

> - typical clickbait headline
Trying to solve this problem with a Postgres => CouchDB & PouchDB solution currently. I got pretty excited when I saw this, only to be disappointed to find it only works with their Enterprise edition.
Not really a parallel. But perhaps it'd be easier for founders of doomed companies to accept the state of affairs if he provided them a Beetlejuice-style document - a "Handbook for the Recently Delisted", perhaps? The title needs some work, but I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
It is already over 50% in the US.
I just remember 20C = 68F as an anchor point, then it's easy to jump in 5C/9F increments.
Probably downvoted by someone who has to use sbt daily?
I worked through a couple chapters of SICP using Racket and the SICP package in DrRacket before moving on to Emacs and Geiser.

DrRacket is a great starting point if you don't want to bother with setting up Emacs and the SICP package even supports the image elements that are covered in the course.
Jor1k: OpenRISC OR1K JavaScript Emulator Running Linux with Network Support
Always Be Interviewing.
What don't you buy about it? If a tax preparer doesn't give me the return I'm expecting, you can bet I'm going somewhere else or using different software the next year.

And of course the government wants to maximize revenue - if they were given control over this they could easily do small UI tweaks that may result in significant increases in revenue.
We (almost) have this in Canada. CRA (our version of IRS) has an Auto-fill [0] option allowing the tax preparation software to import most commonly-used data after authorization. There are some good free tax preparation software, my favourites being SimpleTax (online, web-based) and StudioTax (offline, with option to file digitally or print the completed forms for paper filing). It typically takes me less than 15 minutes to file my taxes.

[0] https://help.simpletax.ca/questions/how-to-use-afr
Interesting that Emacs Lisp is way below the line and VimL is way, way, way below the line.

Is it really that people don't have questions, or maybe they have better forums for accessing help -- from emacs.stackexchange.com to emacsWiki to IRC.

Not sure if its a sign of a highly usable language, great community outside stackoverflow or frustration with lack of response from stackoverflow.
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (Springfield town motto)
This makes sense for Github (and probably for a lot of other software firms). I mean if you hire people to write code and be creative it doesn't make sense to turn around and create demotivating conditions upon their writing code and being creative...there are good constraints and bad constraints and constraints that create an inherent split between a person's best code and what they do for money is not a good constraint. For people motivated to make stuff outside of work, a separate laptop creates a physically different context for "what I care about" and "how I pay the rent".

There are probably businesses where it might make sense to have IP policies: perhaps those with huge infrastructure costs like the automotive industry. But for industries where the trend is away from patents and licensing, trying to own all the IP does not have much economic value.
I have a pixel. Before that, I had a nexus 6. Both say "Google" on them and both were purchased because they were the canonical versions of Android without any of the crapware other vendors add.
Maybe the dogs would prefer to stay alive if they had a choice.
This is fantastic and will make setting up custom domains with SSL so much easier!
"I really have trouble understanding the big 4 consulting model. It mainly seems to consist of the following"

I think that, as with enterprise software, is mostly about the management in the customer company trying to cover his/her ass.
Big four and similar are the less risky options, not for the project but for the managers.

'Yes, the project was a disaster, but I hired IBM, so, no responsibility here.'

Of course, the management of the customer and the consulting companies are normally old friends. That helps too.
What happens when I ask for you to produce the password required by this super highly technical algorithm (insert lots of jargon to make the jury's eyes glaze over) called xor which will take the given file and turn it into another file that contains something illegal? Can you prove there isn't a password? Can you prove they didn't forget the password? Should forgetting a password for an encrypted file containing unknown material be cause for a life sentence?
http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/ to compare current models. iPad Pro 9.7 has better processor, better screen, better camera, is slightly thinner and lighter and works with Apple Pencil and Keyboard accessories.

There are now just four options: big Pro, little Pro, iPad, and mini.
> Under Jobs during the early days they never sold many products at once.

Depends on how early you go. The II+ was a straightforward upgrade to the ][ that replaced it, but the IIe was sold alongside the II+ for a long time. And then it refused to disappear while they sold the IIc and then IIgs. And don't forget the not-quite-part-of-the-family Apple III!

Up through the early 80's they had a clean lineup. After that there were as many as four different variants on the Apple II in the market at a time.
Explain that to the manual "link spam" penalty we got in April ;)
Maven Setup and Installation on Linux OS
An iOS Dev’s Experience with React Native
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This won't happen to any large extent for the simple reason that in 95% of the software that people write, deciding what constitutes "correctness" (aka business requirements) is the bulk of the work. Further, those requirements change continually. Even if they could be frozen at a certain point, specifying them formally would be a massive undertaking, and the correct formal specification of those requirements would itself be a source of errors. How do you know when the formal specification means exactly what you really meant it to?

As an example, I heard a story about an ambulance dispatch system that was built using formal verification. One of the things the developers wanted to prove about the system was that after an emergency call, an ambulance would always be dispatched within a certain amount of time. This seemed like an easy requirement to formalize: "For any dispatched ambulance A, the time of dispatch minus the time of call must be less than T".

Unfortunately, after the system was deployed, it turned out that occasionally an ambulance would simply never show up in response to a call. This seemed impossible until the developers realized that the proof still held, it was simply vacuously true in this case.

The fix is obvious in hindsight: The requirement should start with "For any emergency call...". But the point is that it is possible to make mistakes in requirements, just as it is possible to make mistakes in implementation.

Formal proof is no silver bullet for software.
> stringent, professional forensic examination for remnants of markings

Don't doubt it's possible, but might be a little trickier than you suspect. My old firm, as a matter of course, installed software on our laptops that stripped all sorts of metadata from outgoing documents. It was actually really annoying since "tracked changes" in MS Word got removed too.
At scale a non profit could be advertising supported on the login page. Jumping from 1,000 users to 100 million does not have massive cost increases.

As soon as that non profit hit's critical mass the for profits are going to be stuck and thus stop lobbying for more complex rules. At which point the IRS can just automate the process for 95% of people.
While this is certainly a click-worthy title, I'm much more interested in seeing whether the relative number of startup failures is increasing, rather than looking at this in absolute terms.

2015 was a banner year for startup funding, and you would expect many of those war-chests to be running low right around now.
>I don't really know what purpose they serve.

Ego.
Has anybody managed to customize powershell for interactive usability?

I'd love to switch from zsh to posh.