skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said it appears Sublime Text is dead. My point is that if you look at places where we post things other than release announcements you'll see all sorts of conversations going on that development is continuing.

Jon has never published a roadmap. If you think Sublime Text is dead because it doesn't have a public roadmap, then I'm not sure how to convince you otherwise. I mean, we did over 20 releases in 2016, with over 50k lines of syntax definitions and tests published on GitHub.

By the way, if you are a Sublime Text user, I'd love to get some feedback and bug reports on our Erlang syntax! We don't seem to have many Erlang users, but I'm sure the syntax could use some improvements.
It has nothing to do with Fox News. Wrong place to look.
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Long Lost 1938 Lincoln Zephyr Found
I mean, that's why I said:

> ... but that's kinda silly.
Huh. On my android phone it's practically unusable. Seems like it's a very large app and thus I think it's causing the phone to run out of RAM (or get very close to).
Yeah I doubt it is _that_ Deepak Chopra that you tend to think about when hearing that name ;-)
Connect any tool/toy to your computer
You're essentially pitching "4chan, except you have to pay for it, and it's explicitly designed to blackmail you for using it."
I personally use Clementine, which I think is excellent, especially how it lets you browse by album rather than just Artist like some other programs.
Non-caching proxy for removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk
I think you got that backwards. React's abstractions are transparent, as in the developer doesn't need to "see" them or be aware of them. Your existing web dev knowledge largely applies.
Most museums don't display watercolor paintings and many types of photographs or display them for short periods of time in very dark rooms. Watercolor paintings suffer greatly from light. (As to whether flash is particularly bad, that is debatable...)
What about Earth's other life?

It just gets to go extinct? Shit deal for everything else living on this planet, maybe it should go "Zoo" on us in self defense.
They charge me $0.99/month per 50GB of extra storage. I just buy one fewer candy bars per month.
Giving users a direct financial incentive to game your system would probably turn your platform into a 'low-effort but popular' content mill in short order. (Imagine what would happen if people could withdraw reddit gold to cash.)

Drawing a line for 'quality control' becomes the next obvious step, but whenever money gets involved (especially other peoples'), any decision you make trying to decide for users how and for whom your system can be used ends up making it less viable to them, even if it's in the best interests of your platform or its quality.

"X with micropayments" isn't a new concept, and it's not a funding model panacea for a reason.
Ask HN: Do you prefer strong typed of dynamic typed languages?
I once loved dynamic languages ( eg. ruby, "javascript") for being able to code fast.

But since working on constantly "evolving" software. I'm starting to have a serious preference for strongly typed ( eg. Typescript, c#, ..)

Eg. When i rename a class. I update my ( .net use case) nuget packages. Everywhere the errors are coming up where required. Change them and save them.

What is your preference and why?
Doesn't surprise me. It's an Engineering and not a software company. Somebody just writes the software, because it needs to be written. When I worked there a couple of years ago, E-Mailing source code files was a well established process. (Depending on the department though)
Camera flashes don't produce ultraviolet light, which is the damaging stuff.
Competition Is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
I remember my early days of computers (not as old as some folks here, I know) when there was an intense debate on whether a software could cause damage to some hardware.

I remember programing a small .asm that would move the head of a floppy to a farther point and it stoped working. Probably not all models would fail, but one particular brand did.

Then a intense debate followed that I was wrong. Never talked about it again.

Fast-forward, now we have news that nuclear programs had malfunctions caused by cyber-attacks. Ok, not exactly the same "software doesn't damage hardware" we talked back then, but...

I'm willing to consider that using software to make some catware cause damages to the hardware should be acceptable too :D
Simile; a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
More importantly, I hope they remember not to turn it on when they are in the room.
I agree. Not unless growth in the last 12 months was similar and still rising (ie. the growth rate was rising) or the growth rate is high than 2.5x. Yeh, it's bonkers.
What gets me is that in a world where artists often experiment with viewer interactivity, sometimes you just can't tell what in a museum you're supposed to touch and what you're not supposed to touch.

There was a huge retrospective exhibition of Yoko Ono's work at Musee d'Art Contemporain in Lyon, France in 2016. Included were a mixture of interactive/participatory elements (ladders you were meant to climb, a room filled with hammers and nails that you were supposed to contribute to by banging a nail into whatever you wanted) and other obviously not interactive elements (videos, paintings, things protected by glass).

And I remember, in the same room as the ladders you could climb and combat helmets suspended from the ceiling by ropes that were swinging around because people were walking through them, was a sheet of either canvas or paper mounted on the wall, with another piece of either canvas or paper suspended about an inch in front of it by some string, with some holes cut into the front sheet so that you could just see that there was something drawn or written on the hidden layer.

Well, in a room filled with people talking and laughing and climbing ladders and pushing helmets around, I went to peek behind the curtain and lifted up the front layer to take a look at the one behind.

A custodian ran at me and told me to step away. I still don't know if I damaged it or participated in it.
Linux kernel has a built-in traffic generator, can rarely find documents on how to use them, but I heard Spirent etc is using that to test their generators in the making
You make it sound as if this version of the documentation is set in stone, forever. Can't small projects improve their documentation as they grow in popularity? E.g. do you think that Linus Torvalds' Linux documentation was always up to the highest standards of Strunk & White's prescribed English?
Why the government can't compete with Silicon Valley
> name me a non-IT professional that knows the difference, or would care that their bank has "secure"

It has the secure padlock as an image on the page! And a green check mark!
I don't think there's a right answer, but I think it might come down to budget. If you want to pay $1000 for an off-the-shelf drum machine, sequencer, or synth, modern musical hardware is pretty easy to use and you can go far. However, live-coding software is free software and open source. As for ease-of-use, I think it really depends on the person. If you have some programming experience, then a live-coding musical environment might be fairly easy. It's a different set of challenges.
Show HN: A 3D Chip8 emulator
You mean a FLAC player :^)
So you're saying with your idea Twitter, a company with 4000+ employees, can make around $10k MRR from its largest customers.
Only one user's comments are flagged, and it's a new account with no other comments.
I can't tell if you're joking.

Just in case you're not, if they went through all the trouble to get another cert for Chrome, why wouldn't they just use it for everyone?
Can Arianna Huffington Save Uber?
The thing is, iTunes - the music organizer part - is still one of the best ways to organize your music collection, make automated playlists, make them to sync. Apple bought iTunes and then developed it back when they made iPods and needed people to manage copying the music to their players easily, and there were some great design decisions made back then that are still present now.

However, they also piled tons of crap on the core functionality. Which sucks. But I haven't seen an application that is as good as iTunes for music library.

Anyway I switched to Spotify too, but the UI is frankly pretty terrible, especially on desktop.
You make very good points. I do not know if this is just me, but such articles seem to corner themselves by arguing (or supporting an argument) that:

1. We need high crop yields to feed current population
2. Pesticides are bad
3. We need crops that can give high yields organically
4. Genetic engineering might help (often implicitly acknowledged)
5. GMO is worse than bad
6. Go back to (1)

There are different honest ways to open this loop (e.g., accept GMOs), but any time I see this I assume that the goal is politics, not science and stop reading.
I'm not sure what I could've said to make my 'non-answer' to that specific question any clearer.
Thoughts on the subscription model? Given Medium's latest $5 a month news
It may sound farfetched to you, but I assure you that some people who read Hacker News regularly don't actually use Linux on a day-to-day basis.
Already, the discussion here swings toward the climate change vs. "denialist" debate. Instead of politicizing it, maybe read the article? According to those interviewed, the trend until last year was to see more ice.

> “It is tempting to say that the record low we are seeing this year is global warming finally catching up with Antarctica,” Meier said. “However, this might just be an extreme case of pushing the envelope of year-to-year variability. We’ll need to have several more years of data to be able to say there has been a significant change in the trend.”

Ironically, all those accusing others of being "denialists" are themselves failing to look at this scientifically, and resorting to the rudely unscientific tactic of name-calling.
Let's Compile like it's 1992 (2014)
Here you have (remote) job boards of all flavours! http://workintech.io/
I don't think it's too difficult to be done by one person, though I am bot surr
Banking as a utility? I love it. Credit unions are already a thing, and we have the National Credit Union Association, it's a small jump to the idea of a National Credit Union.

And we need single payer healthcare yesterday.
Only the throw away accounts like yours.
And their comment was based on a false premise (that melting sea ice causes an increase in sea levels... it does not).
Eric Vanhouten at measuredup.com
Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf
Museums that ban photography do so for copyright reasons. The radiant energy of the camera flash is minuscule compared to the energy of the other photons lighting whatever you're looking at.

Don't leave canvas paintings out in the sun.
It simply can not be done!

Apple is worth $ 750,000,000,000 and it spend last 16 years trying to build file synchronization tool.
In fact, most banned all photography.

That's almost always because of overprotective display and reproduction rights agreements, not physical protection of the works themselves.
I'm not conflating IQ with values, I'm arguing that as average IQ goes up, the percentage of the population who will recognize that certain problems of non-immediate import will inevitably become immediate, personal problems, will also go up.

I agree with you that the mechanisms through which greater awareness and active concern for seemingly abstract problems will trickle into the global zeitgeist are things like education, culture, and social/political structures. But where do those come from, and what allows people to perceive their value and meaning? You can't teach people things that you don't understand, and they can't learn things that they can't understand. Better cultural and social structures are a result of better understanding; better understanding is more common with brains that are better able to perceive patterns and project consequences.
EVOLUTION OF CAPACITORS
Industrial rates in Germany are around €0.15/kWh

149 x 7kW = 1043kW

1043 * 0.15 = €156.45/hour
The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim
Jetpack City: The development process of a game jam project
neat, I will look into this!
Virtual Visibility in a Tangled Web
One wonders, though, about the flash units in modern digital mirrorless/SLR's. They can be quite bright, and since the cameras have UV filters on the sensor already (and many people use additional UV filters over the lens) there's a good chance minimizing UV emissions from the flash was not high on their list of priorities.
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I like both: different tools for different jobs. In his seminal 1990 paper Planning the Software Industrial Revolution [1] the immortal Brad Cox explains why both are necessary.

[1] http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/free/licence/papers/cox/C...
IIRC it was even software and the hardware (wiring etc).
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> From their perspective it probably would have felt like sinking into savagery.

This sentence is incongruous with the rest of your post. Why would you think such a thing?
What has walled garden to do with music apps?

Edit: seriously. Apple has not forbid to write music players/organizers, neither did they close access to the iTunes library files, so you can import easily if you want to do so.
McMahon said some of the tech fellows were so eager to work in Washington, they made the ultimate sacrifice: swapping their hoodies for a suit and tie.

- This won't happen anytime soon.
Watch Nio’s 1 megawatt EP9 smash the Nürburgring electric vehicle lap record
Go to the source of the data. Both NASA and NOAA provide descriptions down to the last detail on how they get their data and what adjustments they make to it and why.

Edit: In this case it's NSIDC.

https://nsidc.org/
Denpock?
Yeah, but then you require me to invite three friends first before I can try it. That's keeping me out currently.
Life on this planet has persisted through far worse. Sure, we may bring many species down with us, but life on this planet will go on.

As the late George Carlin once said: "The planet is fine. The people are fucked!"
He's been going through the history of computer games (with emphasis on 'interactive fiction' and related types of games) for quite a while. Highly recommended if you're interested in gaming history. He's also written a book about the history of Commodore and the Amiga.
Right. Apart from Flash, Java applets, and the old MS alternative. Those websites aren't accessible in practice, the technologies they're based on are dead or dying.
Kalliope: Customizable Jarvis like assistant
Kalliope is a modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.

This new release brings new features, fixes many bugs and new plugins (called neurons !).

You can check details, videos and the neuron market place on the github page : https://kalliope-project.github.io/
The target is a rasp3 on raspbian, but you can quickly test it on a Ubuntu. You just need a microphone and a speaker/heapphones.
The project is open source under the MIT licence. Find sources on github : https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope
Enjoy !
Artificial Skin with Solar Cells Could Power Prosthetics None
China is on the path to global technology dominance
"If you're interested in front-end at all"

Am I being dense? Shouldn't that be everyone reading this thread?
> That's almost always because of overprotective display and reproduction rights agreements

Duh. Of course. Why do you think I would think otherwise? It is, however a very usual practice, which is why I find photography in museums unusual enough to ask for a clarification.
Really? I wasn't aware of that problem in the system, any reference or article about that? I am just curios about the technical details why this was happening.
> Museums that ban photography do so for copyright reasons.

Of course, I wasn't implying otherwise.
I worked on the light fixtures for the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, vehicle research center. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/about-us/vrc

These lights were 72,000 watts each, with a total of around three-quarters of a million watts of lights in the crash hall. (Almost as as much power as the German sun installation.) High speed cameras need a lot of light.

I've stood in front of one of the lights in protective gear - but the heat still just goes through your body.

The first time the IIHS lights were turned on it blew a power substation 20 miles away.
The problems with iTunes extends beyond iTunes. I just want to drag and drop MP3s to my iPhone!!!
So much agreed! I've worked on a few agroforestry and biodiversity is the key. I've seen acid land full of ants transformed into a very productive forest in 5 years without any use of pesticides, GMO or NPK fertilizer. It seems more labor intensive at first but I know a farmer that literally only works 4 hours a day and can feed a family of 5 alone (a much more diverse diet which leads to more healthy too) and still sell a lot in the market. Agroforestry have much more wield per square meter than anything else because it also uses the vertical space instead of just the horizontal.
Very strange. Neither of my cats have ever paid the slightest bit of attention to the contents of any screen on any device I own. Yet I know people whose cats like to watch television, so there's some thing going on where some cats see screen images as significant and others don't. I should go looking for info on that!

In any case, I don't see how this is XFCE's problem. Just change the wallpaper.
Ready Player One in real life? Hunting eggs.
>“Statistics were never about serving the public. They were — and still are — for the purposes of serving the government bureaucracy”

That statement has a familiar smell here in America.
Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition
Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
You reminded me of this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3604278.stm
https://github.com/baidu-research/ba-dls-deepspeech is 404
Uber manager tells female engineer "sexism is systemic in tech"
They're trying record the record of US and friends actions against civilians in Syria and Iraq. And are in trouble ATM, because of massive increase in allegations in the last two months. Up to 1000 civilians were allegedly killed by US and friends just in March, up from hundreds a month previously.

So if you care for some accountability for this, this would help.

https://airwars.org/civilian-casualty-claims/
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More details on this context - the sharp scribe is wielded deftly so that they can write freely in the dried palm leaves. The sharp scribe is called "ezhuthaani" (where zhu is a special L sound) which literally means writing nail. The dried palm leaves are commonly referred as "olai suvadi" which literally means dry leaf book.

PS: The word Tamil itself should be pronounced "Tamizh" where zh is a special "La" sound, unique to Tamil language.
Distributing the News – UUCP to UUNET (2015) [pdf]
Depends on how you use it. As far as I know, my local police service, train company etc aren't on 4chan
I think they go to their respective embassy and they go through the steps to get a replacement done.

See https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/emergencies/lo...
+1 - I remember that one, but reddit seems more likely to get a joke of this nature.
Well my wife believes that reusing the same password with variations is more secure then a password manager. Most average users distrust a manager and won't use it.
>Honest question: Why is Mainstream Media not covering this like it should be doing? Heck, this should be the breaking news every single day!!

Perhaps it is because of the influence of the largest industry in the world in terms of revenue: the petroleum industry. Money talks, or rather in this case, money hushes.

Where do you think the primary source of climate change denial propaganda comes from?
I think the line's a lot more blurry than you make it out to be.

Not only are Electron apps often visually and functionally indistinguishable from "native" applications on their respective platforms, but there are also varying degrees of integration with the underlying platform you can have within Electron apps.

For example, Electron supports including native modules which have to be compiled for a specific platform. How many of those would an Electron app have to use before it's considered "native"? Or what about an app like Spotify, which only uses a web view for certain components of the UI and everything else is written in C/C++? Does merely using an interpreted language like JS or Python anywhere in your app mean it's no longer native?

Also, keep in mind that this blog post was written for Postman's users, it's not a technical write up. Postman's users may be more technical than most, but they still shouldn't have to know or care what underlying technology was used to build Postman's desktop apps. From their perspective calling them "native" apps is perfectly accurate, as they behave as native apps in every respect.
Another project: https://kalliope-project.github.io/

This one is multilangue and customizable.
Great point about time. At work we've adapted github.com/WatchBeam/clock and it's helped a lot.

Thanks for blogging about your work on juju! Despite Go already being five years old, many of the patterns around building large applications are only emerging now.
When do you use strong vs dynamic then? I also prefer the right tools for the job. But on long term i seriously prefer strong typed languages.

If i skim through the article, i see he says they can co-exists. But i don't see concrete examples.

Edit:
When i look at spreaserve ;), that's definatly a use case for dynamic typed. But that doesn't mean i prefer it in most cases.
There's a team of scientists in the arctic who have an unconventional but (possibly) effective idea to reduce/slow the release of permafrost methane. The Zimov's have a Kickstarter up now - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-p...
I think you mean something like 'stylus'. A scribe is a person.
Is it possible to get mp3s onto an iPhone SE without using iTunes? Either Windows or Linux is fine.
I was in Manchester Museum recently, looking at samples of Mars and Moon rocks etc., and in classic British wry humour, there was an all caps sign exhorting us to "PLEASE TOUCH".

Problem solved :)
> I don't see how this is XFCE's problem. Just change the wallpaper.

While any user who notices they're affected by the issue can fix it on their own, this is only likely to happen after damage has already been inflicted. XFCE can help people preemptively by changing the default to something less likely to attract cats.
>when there was an intense debate on whether a software could cause damage to some hardware.

A more recent debate (TL;DR: yes, software can cause damage to hardware): https://superuser.com/questions/313850/
Music streaming at current prices thus far really hasn't proven to be that sustainable, and the available libraries are always in flux as negotiations fail. I think it's perfectly worthwhile to invest effort into lasting music delivery systems that are entirely under your control while still retaining the streaming capability that we're all so used to now.
Just use Google Play music and upload your music to them. You get 50,000 songs. Plus if you just listen to your music its free.
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>But now I learned with the minimal dataset I have (<5K samples), linear regression, SVM, or decision tress is the way to go.

Decision Trees are prone to overfitting and especially susceptible for small datasets. Random Forest is
a good substitute that's become standard practice.