skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've played around with VSCode and what it can do seems impressive, but I want to do one simple thing. I want to make the background black.

Every dark theme I can find makes the background dark gray, not black. I actually looked into what it would take to make a new color theme and I simply don't understand all the steps, and definitely don't want to deal with the hassle. It very quickly goes off into the weeds of TextMate themes (huh? Why are we referencing a Mac editor? Yeah, I know it's a de facto standard, but really?), editing XML (complete with hex codes for colors) and installing something called "Yo Code". Dude, I just want to change one friggin' color!

In every native app I've ever used, I can just go into the Options and make the background black, period.

Just because it's a programmer's editor shouldn't mean you need to be a programmer to make the simplest configuration.
> I don't really know poppler.

Exactly. Web developers live in a bubble, and because they don't know much about native alternatives, they assume they don't exist.

Note: I'm a web developer and I don't know poppler.
> Fire up VS Code, go to Help > Toggle Developer Tools, and poke around for a few minutes. Imagine the amount of time it would take to build a similar experience to just this one aspect if you were doing this from scratch.

Don't do it from scratch then. You can use GtkInspector to poke around with any GTK+ application, by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I.[1]

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Inspector
In my previous job, we had some bash scripts for a lot of things. It worked pretty well among Linux and Mac users in the team, but one day we had a new developer who was a windows user … We rewritten all those scripts in JavaScript using Grunt.

Maybe nowaday it's different thanks to Windows subsystem for Linux.
I've considered buying a System 76 laptop for years, but it's really hard to find satisfied customers. I'd be concerned if the reviews were largely positive but included a few from people with bad experiences - I don't want to be one of the unlucky few. That's not the case at all. There's almost unanimous agreement that these are poor quality machines.
What Silicon Valley’s New Congressman Learned on His Trip to Coal Country
There's been various discussions around here, and often the Raspberry Pi comes up. The Raspberry Pi is a great board and everything, but this "Logic Analyzer" use case is a great example of where a Microcontroller should be used rather than a general-purpose computer.

The STM32F746G looks like a far "weaker" processor. 216MHz, only 320KB of RAM... the "Computer" specs look utterly awful compared to the Raspberry Pi Zero. Indeed, the Rasp. Pi Zero costs only $10 while the NUCLEO-F746ZG costs $25.

However, what is important in this application is not necessarily raw speed... but speed coupled with CONSISTENCY, as per diagram "B". The particular feat is this:

> It can reliably read GPIO inputs every 3th or 4th clock cycle on many devices

You will never get this level of consistency from a Raspberry Pi. Indeed, it looks like it was only achieved through careful programming + use of the DMA channels + careful work thinking about who is using RAM and who isn't (to not over-burden the on-board memory controller).

That's the world of microcontrollers in a nutshell. Its about the focus on delivering consistent performance rather than high-performance.
Your pricing is very reasonable and I've just placed your website at the top of my to-do list tomorrow morning, thanks for posting.
Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
users will start getting instructed by sites that they have to manually add a root certificate in order to use they site

Or switch browsers. Google needs to (and will) play this so it ends up being unattractive for other browser vendors not to distrust Symantec as well.
They're also planning on stripping EV status from their Certs too... that's going to be fun for a lot of banks.
Sure, but the web is a unique portability story in the history of computing. Has any other platform been an open standard that ends up being table stakes for any new entrant? Think about it, if you try to make a computer without a web browser today, you'd be laughed out of the market.
> "Ricardo's law of rent shows that indeed, even without artificial scarcities imposed by regulation, rent can go up forever as long as productivity is rising."

The rent-seeking that he established states that political regulation can artificially create a situation of scarcity thus resulting in high lands costs that benefit landowners.

Specifically, he illustrated this regarding the "Corn Laws" of Britain which were a politically induced import duty on grains of all sorts making the cost of bread more expensive for consumers. Famers could charge more for the grain they grew because of less competition but the landowners would simply charge the famers more money. Thus, the import duties raised the cost of food for consumers while indirectly directing that wealth to landowners.

The "Corn Laws" created the market inefficiency, market failure which interfered with wealth creation and David Ricardo even joined British Parliament to combat the "Corn Laws." He eventually succeeded in the repeal.

While the values might continue to increase with rising productivity, the overriding factor at least for today's environment is the "rent-seeking" and we need to reverse the local control of land which benefits wealthy landowners like President Trump over normal working people.

Rising prices are due to scarcity. The scarcity is politically induced in order to in this case benefit landowners. Reverse the scarcity, politically induced or otherwise, and prices fall.
> Who puts a power button on the side of a laptop?

Seems to be common on flip-style convertibles, because both tablet and tent configurations make keyboard-face access inconvenient.
>> "It creates a slight public subsidy for broadband"

Maybe it's me, but $3 billion is not a small amount of money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941757
Homeaglow Is a Joke @aarontcheung
Is Homeaglow even real?? This is so funny, I wanted a side job on my days off work, my fiance was totally against this and said it was a rip off. Before I jumped to conclusions I decided to try to contact them and boy that was a 8 hour wait for a response! I didn't get a text back offering to talk to someone until like 10 pm at night! So I asked to deactivate my account given that I had already given my social security number and bank account. The alerts were annoying all day, seemed to be the only text I got in from 323-210-4101 but couldn't get a clear answer about the pay becuase the video instructions didn't do me justice made by Kenneth, a Homeaglow Operations Manager. Nothing made sense and my fiance told me it sounded like a rip-off. I've also contacted the owner Aaron Cheung (linkedin.com/in/aarontch…) who was also owner of Homejoy which failed somehow and now is called Homeaglow....I see why, I just wanted a little side job on my days off, this is silly, I told them in a email that i will have my social and bank account on high alert. This is how people get you and use your information to do shady things. Too bad this really sounded good and I wanted to give it a try!
> I've been part of A/B testing on most aspects of domain security and it's arguably one of the best ROIs out there for e-commerce sites.

That's a bit hard to reconcile with the fact that Amazon.com can't be bothered to get one.
Regarding Brooks, I've read him quite a bit as well. At this point it has become a source of entertainment to me to find out with each article how he will manage to take a factual premise and reasonable arguments to arrive at a nonsequitur conservative platitude. Around 3/4 of the way through the column he consistently takes a turn from reason, apparently hoping we won't notice that his conclusion does not follow from the rest of the article. I used to do the same on my homework when I didn't understand the material.

If you aren't reading the articles to the end (not to suggest that you personally aren't) it would be easy to feel the commentators are unfairly jumping on him. But I think they have also observed the same pattern and feel that he is playing a softly-spoken rearguard for odious views and policies.
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2011/03/jordan-lloyd-bookey-k-12...

Examples of Google’s programs include:

● Google’s Computing and Programming Experience (CAPE): This four-week experience is for 8th graders to gain exposure to CS. This summer we will have around 130 students, and we hope to further expand this content to organizations and schools around the country. We are looking to test this new model with MS2 in Washington, DC this summer.

● LEAD Program for Computer Science: This is a rigorous and exciting summer residential program for underrepresented minority students in grades 9-11, held at four universities in its upcoming inaugural year..

● Trailblazer Award: This is an award (in Europe) that is given internationally for participation in national science fairs. Winners are all treated to a 2-day Trailblazer retreat with fellow winners to learn more about the possibilities of a career in CS.

● Counselors for Computing: This program trains counselors to teach their fellow guidance counselors the benefits of CS degrees. Through our partner members at NCWIT, we are hoping to scale impact through these critical influencers.

● CS4HS is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote CS and Computational Thinking in high school and middle school curriculum by hosting CS teachers at campuses worldwide to learn about leading edge practice in the field.

● Computer Science Teachers Association: We are an ongoing supporter of the CSTA and, in particular, recently hosted their CS&IT symposium for 200 CS teachers at our Mountain View campus.
You should put some on Amazon FBA for Europe. Volumes are decent and it's like super low maintenance. You can then decide where to expend your subscription based on sales rather than intuition.

I'm based in the UK and I would love to try some.
Does the term exclude all non-whites/Asians, regardless of upbringing, education, and background?
Measuring the cost of living worldwide
This is when I think that the following two minute video should be mandatory for programmers:

(Grace Hopper - Nanoseconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
hardly, obviously there is a difference between what is "legal" via a governing body and "natural law" or "right and wrong". I would agree with you that not everything that is "legal" is "right".

but in this case if I take on the risk of investing in real property, and of the risks that comes with that, then I deserve fair market rent on that property. and if over decades I accumulate multiple properties that produce in your opinion large amounts of income then I deserve that, too. and if I leave these properties to my descendents, then there's nothing inherently wrong with them owning those properties and getting that income, is there?

using your logic, you could also ask the question if people who cash out in IPOs "deserve" to become millionaires overnight.
Since we're playing this game:

1.55k nodes, 250k containersed applications[0].

Mind you, it's hard to compare these as there's no real "cloud bench". For pure benchmark porn Nomad are the undisputed champs on their 1 million case.

The Cloud Foundry scaling test was intended to show a system with fully service-configured, fully-routed apps, with varying app characteristics (memory and RPS). To further stress the system, thousands of apps crashing and are relaunched on a continuous basis.

Cloud Foundry installations with >10k containers have been ordinary for a while now; the 250k thing was to ensure we had lots of headroom and shake out chokepoints in Diego.

[0] https://content.pivotal.io/blog/250k-containers-in-productio...

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, the majority donor of engineering on Cloud Foundry.
So you just assume that changing between 50 meg and 300 meg service actually should give you a 6x speed up during browsing? I think that's a very flawed assumption to make. Just because your connection is capable of a certain advertised speed doesn't mean you're getting that speed from any given server as you browse the Internet.
I think the idea is that if advertising on the web respected users, they wouldn't feel the need to block ads. This is their attempt to make advertising work in a way that helps everyone.

What's the alternative? If every web user blocked all ads, content creators couldn't get any revenue and would stop making content.
Is it really a HUGE market?

Here's some trends noted from the 2016 NCDT, which they do admit have only appeared within the past few years: "Behaviors that are slowly
growing include lighter coffee
consumption (slightly fewer drinkers and
slightly lighter cups per drinker per day),
drinking espresso-based coffee and
drinking coffee out-of-home. Behaviors
that are slowly declining include drinking
traditional coffee and drinking coffee at
home. Note that most of these shifts are
occurring over the last few years."

Some other figures based on satisfaction of brewing methods found later in the report include:

86% very satisfied/satisfied with their drip coffee maker in 2016

94% with espresso

90% with single-cup

89% with instant

88% with coffee vending

It seems to me like there is a growing trend of more conspicuous consumption, as well as already high satisfaction across the board with people's status quo brewing methods.

It also seems to me like you're trying to make an instant coffee that carries with it the sort of branding that Philz, Blue Bottle, Stumptown, Starbucks, etc. have with physical locations which have the ability to foster certain groups of people, as well as convey aesthetic or ethical sensibilities through branding within the stores. It seems to me that this kind of branding is somewhat reliant on physical locations. I just don't buy into the assumption you make that you can target the same consumer that these places can.

Like, come on, the title of the NYT review on your coffee is: "Instant Coffee You’ll Actually Want to Drink", if that is any indication as to the mismatched conceptions people already have about instant coffee. It seems like you're climbing an uphill battle, considering the fact a cup of any other regular coffee costs about 7 cents, you're trying to sell instant coffee, but 36 times more expensive, based on branding and convincing people
I signed my family up for 1Password a month ago and love it so far.

Here's the 1Password Security Design Whitepaper: https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%...
Qt is (largely; a couple of optional components are GPL) LGPLv3, so can be used commercially without getting the commercial license.
Bought 40, by the way, to give out. Will buy more if people love them.

Won't replace my whole-bean subscriptions, but will be a great way to get a good cup of coffee away from my home, and a great gift for my dad who likes instant coffee.

One suggestion: let us buy without a subscription, even if it costs 10-20 percent more. I don't want to subscribe to this service for the above reasons. :)
Yes, but everyone just derides him as a paranoid loon.

Seems like we're getting what we deserve.
I don't understand how EV vs DV factors into certificate pinning here.
LinkedIn Map Shows Where People Flee to When They Leave the Bay Area
>Her female students are without fail more industrious than their male counterparts

Do you think that is the cause or the effect of SA's policies regarding women?
Installing apps from other stores on Android is literally a checkbox away - but installing new root certs on computers is considerably harder, or impossible if your computer is locked-down (group policy, etc).
I believe the idea is that if you can reduce the costs to the major lines, it frees up more money to work on the last mile.
https://enpass.io
The findings of medical research are disseminated too slowly
I would say Keepass 2 and Keepass2Android.
How about Enpass?
Like the post says, there are plenty of others on the web about implementing interpreters or compilers for more useful languages, and, even if it's just Scheme, those tend to spend nearly all their time on the parser. I really like this series because it skips the parsing part to get to the most interesting and relevant topic: how actual language runtimes are implemented.
So, if the drug has a time-release coating (which many do) it's probably not going to work.
What'd you search for? I typed in: chrome release schedule

and this was the first link: https://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar.
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Thanks! We're actually about the middle of the road price wise, our main thing is tech: the EV process can be pretty painful, our role is to speed it it up and make it easier. We start checking against government directories in 63 countries prior to payment, use webcrypto in supported browsers to quickly generate CSRs, make instant-paste openssl / windows scripts to make an ECC or RSA keypair quickly if you prefer to make keys on your own servers, we have a LOT of country specific logic, a meta directory of 'Qualified Independent Information Sources' to handle that part of the EV requirements, we validate in realtime and a bunch of other stuff to save you time and effort - https://certsimple.com/about.

There's cheaper options around, but we only do EV and we're the best at it.
Getting your SaaS pricing right-Pricing for cloud call centers
My mistake, yes, 2fa
Seems like this would require these tractors to have internet connections. Otherwise it wouldn't help much to put a poison pill like this in there because you'd have no way to either activate it at an opportune time, or to not activate it if you don't want to resort to such measures at the current time.
In GDI era caret bar ( that's not cursor, sic!) was rendered as by simply inverting pixels (InvertRect() call) inplace in video frame buffer. Very cheap operation that does not require redrawing and run of any other code.

With the GPU the only viable option for rendering blinking caret is to redraw the whole window. That's why it takes so much CPU as Chrome uses mostly CPU based rasterizer.

But redrawing the whole window in GPU is not that bad if the renderer is capable of caching GPU objects while rendering.

Here is what happens in Sciter (https://sciter.com) while rendering blinking caret in screen of similar complexity (editor with syntax hihglighting):

https://sciter.com/images/sciter-caret-cpu-consumption.png

As you see it CPU consumption is near to zero.
Inspired by this blog by DHH, https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-never-sold-basecamp-by-the...
I really must be missing something. You even said it yourself:

"Nobody's worried about competent students underperforming."

I didn't say this, nor did you... so who are you replying to? Unless you assume all black students will be competent or somehow black students don't have regular instances of incompetence like their white, asian and hispanic peers?
Perhaps, but the grandparent has a point. Javascript is the hammer that's turned every kind of software development into a nail, and it simply isn't so.
Commentary / Opinions on how this compares to a KeePass+DropBox solution would be quite interesting to me.

It seems password managers please some of the people some of the time, and unnerve many of the people all of the time.
1password's Windows version does run under Wine, including the browser extension. It's been a while since I did it, but I think there was some sort of browser extension validation feature that had to be disabled. Not 100% up to the security standards of their other platforms, but it's functional.
Why does EV make a difference here? Can't you pin an intermediate or root cert from your CA of choice and avoid other CAs issuing end certs for your domain just as well?
Right yes, I know, and it's a great point. Global economics and third world access to computing & the internet are in a completely different time zone from I was talking about.

But you're right, and on the global scale, we may actually be doing the equivalent of churning butter with jets. I totally wouldn't be surprised if the sum total energy expenditure on all computers in the world was greater than on all the aircraft in the world... and we are most definitely wasting the vast majority of the energy we use on computation.

Still, in my defense, I said close to free, and compared to the cost of a 787, cpu time & memory are closer to free than jets, no matter who we're talking about, right?
What's the alternative? If every web user blocked all ads, content creators couldn't get any revenue and would stop making content.

I understand the problem. I just think that this is a stupid solution. As for content creators getting revenue, how about selling it? Like we used to do?
The IPv6 BSD network stack was developed in Japan.
There was some people from keio university working on in. (Un)surprisingly key developers from Nintendo also studied there.

Coincidence?
As a young person that grew up in the suburbs and deeply influenced by the "automobile life"; can confirm you'd have to quadruple my salary before I even considered moving back to the suburbs and sitting through a driving commute.

The false American dream of the oversized house, piles of kids, and picket fence just isn't appealing anymore to a growing population of young people. Life is too short to spend your prime someplace boring.
You kind of touch upon the question of an incrementalist approach to social change, which works within a flawed system versus a more radical approach, which says "the system is radically flawed, we must change it drastically."

"The system" here being, imho, the role advertising plays in our society.
The current state of affairs led me to believe that there's no big difference between data brokers and intelligence agencies from a citizen/sw_user perspective: they use shading techniques to extort and intercept data about people, from people, giving them to other people, for unclear and/or deplorable aims.

Terrorism and marketing are two reasons looking for a question, the reality is that who's doing this wants the power that comes with knowledge, and there's absolutely no difference between an intelligence agency and a data broker in this.
Ask HN: Hiring programmer to help teach a particular project?
I have a project I want to work on. I need to use Amazon EC2, S3, webscrape, and a couple other things. I don't mind spending money to get the work done but I would also like to learn to do it myself. I've been going through resources online and it's a bit much to learn given I also work. Is there a site I can list out what I want to do or the skill set I need and have someone instead of do it, guide me through the process? Almost like a hands on consultant who could otherwise do themselves but I would also get a teacher.
I like it. I'd give them a 10/10 if they'd offer a Linux client, too. An official API would be nice as well.
It's funny, this sentiment reminds me of this quote from Patton during WW2: 'Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics '. These engineers are so focused on the 'cool' stuff and the 'hard' stuff, the super-sonic stuff, basically the tactics of moving infantry and doing flanking maneuvers and tank charges. But the real stuff that will really get the times down is 'boring' and intellectually 'easy'. Its the flow of parking, the security line, the scheduling reroutes when a blizzard strikes, the logistics side of feeding troops and making sure extra parts get to the lines and counting the number of shells used per hour. War and business are generally very simple, have more guns/money than your enemy.