skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the exact opposite reaction. $9? That's a steal. Many pieces of software are needlessly bloated in price. If I'm going to use it once for a few hours, $40 doesn't seem worth it. On the other hand, if it saves me an hour, $9 is totally worth it - it's less than I'd have had to pay a minimum wage person to do it for me.

On the other hand, I'd love to see more people respect the shareware model. Give most or all features for free, encourage people to drop $5-10 in a hat to pay you back. I'm a firm believer in patreon and PayPal tip jars, though I know that they don't work at present for what I believe are cultural reasons. People (rightly) don't trust free, assume that there's some ulterior motive.
It's also worth noting that Smashing Magazine is not just articles (and comments), but also a full E-commerce, job board, event page, ticket checkout and introduced a new membership section with subscriptions.

Obviously all of that can still be done with a static front-end today (and with one front-end instead of 4 different ones), but that's actually what's newsworthy and it's hardly what anyone would traditionally think of as a "static website" :)
After riding a MTB I found the Boris bikes slow and unsteady and hard to control
The grass is greener..

Its worth repeating, this is a marathon not a sprint
Ah, that first road! I had forgotten all about that feeling :-)! I can still vividly remember the tick-tick-ti-ti-ti-tick-tiiick noise of the trains.

I was probably a bit too young to understand all the complexities but have such happy memories of it too. Happy that you had the same experience :-)!
It's a matter of economics already.

There are safer, better alternatives for almost everything we do. But economy dictates that we end up with a compromise. Rust would be just another compromise, slightly different stage, no huge difference and potentially a huge cost.

Silver bullets in software development do not exist, rust is no exception to this and the irrational hyping of rust as being a silver bullet actually has the opposite effect.

If rust is that much better at all aspects of software development (and not just in preventing one class of bugs) then it will find mainstream adoption. But you don't get that effect by ramming it down other people's throats, you get that effect by showing it in practice. And this is where rust - at least so far - is underwhelming.

Also, and this is another point of irritation with me, the rust community makes it seem as if theirs is the only language that will avoid this kind of bug, which is far from true, there are other platforms / languages with far wider adoption that have these traits as well.
It has very high usage in DC. That said, I think it's possible tourists paying the daily rate are subsidizing the system.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/6/9263307/bike-share-traffic
Oh, good joke, just wanted to make sure everyone got the double entendre (I assume everyone here knows Structured Query Language, but San Carlos is a fairly small airport, isn't it)
The Aerospace Engineer Sending a Piece of Ghana to Space
The late Gnome Shell is very similar, both in look and in RAM usage (1GB+).
> China rarely interferes with the internal affairs of foreign governments.

I've been paying pretty good attention to the news the last 3 decades or so and I'm going to have to disagree with you there. They're not as bad as some but they are definitely players.
The replication crisis is happening throughout science, including neuroscience, genetics, and oncology, to name a few:

http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v18/n2/abs/nrn.2016.167.ht...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009....
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tens...

In fact, some analyses suggest replication might be worse in the neurosciences than in psychology. The neurosciences are plagued by many of the same conceptual ambiguities in psychology, but with even smaller, expensive studies that are underpowered with more incentives to avoid sunk cost problems.

The most accurate summary is that replicability problems affect the biomedical sciences the most in general (empirically speaking, psychology tends to be classified as a biomedical science, in topic analysis studies and so forth). Follow the money. You have lots of competition for limited resources, lots of money on the line, and soft or absent tenure protections.

The link you provide amounts to nothing more than ignorant intellectual bigotry and killing the messenger.

It's ironically sad, in fact, because psychologists and behavioral scientists are the ones exposing the replication crisis and doing the most to try to address the problem.

The type of rhetoric in the linked essay amounts to a whitewashing of replicability problems in other areas, by denying the problem exists and is only true of "lesser sciences." The sort of defensive response represented by the linked essay allows scientists in other areas to avoid accountability and the threatening implications it has for other fields.

Levels of analysis problems happen in all sorts of intellectual endeavors. Arguing that psychology will give way to the neurosciences is akin to arguing that nothing in the computer sciences is a legitimate topic of study unless it involves bare metal issues.

Having said that, I also distrust this paper.
Please don't post uncivil comments to HN, and please stop making reams of throwaway accounts.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13901270 and marked it off-topic.
It's clear upon clicking the link or viewing your HN profile, but in the interests of transparency, it might be useful to note that the link is to your own article and website.
WikiLeaks will disclose CIA exploits to tech companies under specific conditions
Ten Commandments for C Programmers by Henry Spencer (1987)
Data science in multi channel debt collection
Does syntax standardization have to necessarily equate to implantation standardization?
There was an excellent talk at ReactConf 2017 about "React Native in the 'Brown Field' ", by Leland Richardson of AirBNB. Definitely worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWitQoPgs8w&list=PLb0IAmt7-G... . Also a few other RN-related talks elsewhere in the conference playlist as well.
Oh hey, I know that mission. A family member of mine is making the rad-detector for it.
Red team is going very hard right now
The book is interesting, but the level of detail he goes into in some of his speculation is completely unjustified. It's kind of ridiculous.

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." - von Neumann
I don't know about in SF, but test programs (e.g., Mountain View, which discontinued the bikes about six months ago) may have been under-utilized for a few reasons:

1) Sparsely placed racks mean that you tend to do round trips rather than point-to-point.

2) 30 minute time limits coupled with #1 make for an implausible itinerary.

3) Racks are not near obvious mass-transit connections or useful destinations, and instead are crammed into sidewalk planning oddities which are otherwise difficult to use productively.

There have been a few times that I've walked by a rack and thought that it would make sense for a trip, but abandoned the idea after looking at the station map and my watch. These days I do about 60% of total trips by personal bicycle, 35% by car, and 5% by Caltrain + skateboard.
Alternatively, why not have a "honeypot" site that asks for feedback on why the person is pirating it?
Come on, they did a great job creating traction for what was a really novel concept. A lot of Backend as a Service offerings tend to be hosted versions of existing solutions or "it's like - but for" products - but Firebase needed to be communicated from scratch (and I'm saying as a member of https://deepstreamhub.com/ (shameless plug) trying to overcome similar challenges.)
This is both informative and interesting from other angle. If Dan Counsell, well known owner of Realmac Software, has to build hackintosh then wtf is Apple doing?
How to pick a microcontroller
In what way? IMHO window managers is something Linux excels in.

What does macOS has in its window manager that Linux lacks? (other than "no you can't maximise easily" feature...)
ElementaryOS is probably the closest experience: https://elementary.io

I don't know if the window manager is easily usable on a different Linux distribution though.
It's interesting - masks of sanity was an attempt to explain low level serial criminals who were unable to hold a life together.

Those folks have little in common with a successful but amoral ceo, or even our powertripping middle managers. For one thing they are in jail most of the time.

In life you see folks with different abilities, like the ability to make people like them, or bullshit thier way out of situations. And sometimes those people also happen to be assholes.

I'm not sure diagnosis is the right approach here. Maybe a better approach would be to tackle the problems, which seem to be the same workers rights issues government regulations have tried to tackle for a long time. But this is Silicon Valley where you too will be rich after IPO if you just forget all that right. This is Holywood, back in the bad old days, just without the unions.

The trouble with diagnosis as a moral judgement is that it detracts from thier use in describing ill people and how we should regard them. If your boss is evil because he's a sociopath, what about jack cheating on his wife during a bipolar manic phase? Neither of them can help it. And your boss is evil.

It also shows the way medical diagnosis which had a specific meaning, and applied to people we don't meet, get mapped to perfectly well people who we do. Once a child, who would have been in need of guidance a decade before, is told they are a psychopath and taken from main stream schooling, there will be little help for them.
I started to build a Hackintosh using this kind of setup but I realized that I no longer love the OS (I already own a Macbook) and that there's no reason for such a hassle.
I've found the IDEA Vim plugin to be good enough for most of my work, but the macro support isn't great. Specifically, I miss running macros on multiple lines with `:norm@q`.
Yes, are technologists so effete that they can't handle a 5lb laptop anymore? Size constraints I understand as I fly on airplanes a lot, but weight constraints can really be annoying. At least for higher end machines its okay for a lot of us to have an extra bit of weight for more features. It can be both.
Just added an update to the script. Now you can also specify the colors to use. Oddly enough the asciinema demo thumbnail is no longer rendering correctly on the github readme. Please click on the link to see the demo.
Haha that pretty much sums up the mentality
On the other hand, if you use the service twice per day, for 200 work days per year, that's 400 EUR with no membership or 248 EUR with a membership (or 400£ for London).

Yes, the first ride is expensive, but that's not their target market.

It's not affordable as a weekend get-around service, or on a whim, but that's probably a less predictable and less dependable market than commuters.
Couldn't you test by trying to take the bike back out again? If it worked it's locked in if it's not then you know it's botched? It's what i do in London with the share bicycles
I think the biggest issue in C++ is that you don't have to understand this whole mess to be productive in it. This is also perhaps its greatest strength. Where you have Rust which won't even compile a basic toy program without demonstrating a full understanding of its Ownership model.
How about VFIO using Qemu/KVM? That is the setup I have.
To get you to think a little more outside the box - do elderly need "computers" or "connected devices"? My dad tossed his laptop once he learned his iPad. Just something to think on. Specific "gestures" can change with tech - just like 20 years ago when my parents learned how to use a mouse was different. How do you get elderly people to intuitively use a device?
What kind of stuff uses 0.7-0.9V for its power supply? Is that even enough to switch a transistor?
Now you've become another one of the angry people who's angry that everyone else is so angry.
Maybe there could be room for innovation here? Signed font sets with known hashes (maybe piggyback on HTTP ETag?), so over time your browser has a cache of "well known fonts".

Things like Source Sans Pro are not unusual.
Kind of feel that replication study gets abused as a kind of "psychology is unreliable" argument.

Instead, I think it makes a lot more sense to view it as an upper bound on the average reliability of our own personal beliefs about human behaviour.

I mean, most of our day to day cognating about other people is fraught with unfalsifiable claims, dubious reasoning, and horrendous sample sizes.

Takeaway: Be extra skeptical about psychology research claims and triply so about your own beliefs regarding people, including yourself.
Amsterdam is 5,448 miles from SF.

Portland is 635 miles from SF

Amsterdam is 8.57 times further away than Portland

In my personal estimate, Amsterdam's bike friendliness is about 6 times that of Portland.

Therefore, it still makes more sense on a bang-for-buck basis, for an SF resident to check out Portland vs Amsterdam.
Windows 10 is free. Or rather you can download it, install it and simply opt not to enter a license key, legally and with Microsoft's blessing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/272201/all-th...
No, he was not really ever a reporter there, just an intern briefly, who overstated his involvement on his resume.
Conflict of interest alert!

I have a few problem with this article:

1 - Spin.pm a provider of a competing solution is using this article to argue their solution to bike sharing is far more economical than the one offered by the bay area cities.

2 - However, in doing so they fail to show us any data into the true cost of their solution.

3 - Part of their cost saving comes from not having to build the infrastructure. But the article doesn't talk about how their system and technology works. And what about the cost of theft (even to salvage parts).

4 - All those aside, the article and its conclusion are not that congruent:
A - Could it be it's harder to bike in SF for average people than in areas that are mostly flat like DC or NYC?
B - Could it be, most people who bike in the city already own a bike or need something better to handle the hills?

5 - Lastly, how is their solution going to improve ride sharing numbers in the city? Their article shows correlation between number of stations/sq mile. and number of ride share (at least for NYC). It's very unclear to me, how will their solution be better. Are they arguing because they have no stations, it's unlimited number of biking station.

This article remind me a bit politician budget tactic. "Tax payers are paying $5k/bike that no one is using!"

edit: changed politically slanted line and typo.
A contract.
The trick is to ignore OS updates after the initial setup, until you absolutely need a newer version or at least 6 months have passed and you can reserve a day for troubleshooting.

Of course, it helps if you have a macbook pro in addition to your desktop; you can check out the new stuff on the genuine apple machine, and maybe get away with postponing updates on your desktop even more.
May I ask you what kind of work they shine at?

Right now I have 2 machines on my desktop, one with SATA SSD (sams 850pro) and another with PCIe SSD (sams 950pro). I see big difference in benchmarks, but do not feel any difference in my day-to-day work. Boot time is shorter on PCIe one, but I reboot these machines maybe once a couple of months.
I live in Santa Monica... don't get me started on the (SoBi-powered) bike share here (launched about 16 months ago)!

Too late, I'm started: first, I signed up for a year for $99, which included 2 hours free per day and you could lock the bikes up anywhere at no charge.

One month in, they changed it to only one hour free, without grandfathering in people like me that had paid for a year up front. That was annoying but not a huge deal.

The main problem was a few months later when they decided to charge $2 if you leave a bike outside a hub (you get a $1 credit if you return an out of hub bike to a hub.)

That seemingly small change has DRASTICALLY changed the service for the worse. I averaged 4 rides a day with the bike before this change, now I maybe do 2 a week. Even though $2 really should be inconsequential to me, it's so hard to swallow! So then you're like "I should really return it to a station." But even though there are a fair number, they always add about a five minute round-trip walk to and from your final destination. That's usually enough for me to decide to just drive.

It's super frustrating too because the city is losing $54,000/mo on the service anyway! So why nickel and dime the users into not using the bikes? I assume their real goal is not to make a profit, but to promote bike riding. I've contacted them multiple times to no avail.

It also doesn't make sense: why not at least make it $2 back when you return a bike? Same net effect to the system! The worst is if you take a bike out of a hub and leave it out of a hub... you think maybe you'd get charged nothing? Or perhaps $1? ($1 credit minus $2 fee) nope! You are still charged the full $2. Which means if you ever ride by a hub with a bike you gout outside a hub you really should stop, lock it, unlock it, and continue your ride! Sigh.

Finally, I had this (amazing) idea that since they already have people driving all around SM with cars filled with bikes rearranging them, why not add an uber-like "deliver me a bike now" feature? They could even charge extra for that. How cool would it be to have a city bike share where the bikes not only aren't in hubs but aren't even locked up on the street... they're all being constantly trucked around the city waiting for calls!

Hey spin... do that!
No, that post refers to the lifetime of temporaries held by local reference variables. My question is about temporaries created to pass reference parameters to a function. Is the lifetime of that temporary the BODY of the function? The full expression that calls the function? The enclosing scope of that full expression? (for the record, VS2017 does the latter)
Sorry to hear that your experience with imgix wasn't great. Performance, quality and correctness are obviously super important and non-negotiable aspects of our service. While we have always heavily focused on these areas, we're going to double down for the short term.

We do have some interesting solutions in the lab for more elaborate compositing amongst other things. Part of the challenge there is to stand up a new API interface, since the URL API gets pretty cumbersome for coordinates and tons of composites. We have some interesting ideas there, but it needs to bake a little while longer.

It's also a challenge to get that new stuff out while focusing heavily on our core areas, but we have to do both. You'll start to see more exciting new things ship from us over the next few months.

If you have a solution that works for you, that's great and best of luck. If you do ever feel the urge to check in on what imgix is up to, we would welcome it. Feel free to reach out to me directly any time (e-mail in profile) and I'll work with you to get what you need.
Vegan Eating Isn't as Sustainable as You Think
One day I want the Adobe suite to run on linux (natively) then I can leave OS X just like Windows. Local Media editing is the last reason for windows/os x to exist.

Everything else (games, calculations, social networks, model rendering) is better served by a web or mobile app backed by a server running linux.
New filesystem APFS supports snapshots, so you can use them without VM, I guess. It's already in production on iOS and probably will be released with the next macOS version.
Catering to the majority (of its niche, which is non-Windows, easy to use, all-in-one, curated experience, upmarket PCs) and not to even further niches?
Funny that you bring up Gangnam Style, since modern South Korea (the Seoul metro region in particular) is the closest thing to how William Gibson imagined Chiba City in Neuromancer, right down to the unregulated black clinics (though specializing in cosmetic surgery instead of cybernetic implants/enhancements. I'm sure SK's population will be among the first to adopt them en masse once they're available).
Since they get over $5,000 per bike, from the company's perspective it's working in every city.

Since they are paying over $5,000 per bike, from the taxpayers perspective it looks like it's failing in every city, including DC.
Ask HN: Where can I find raw global temperature data?
I looked here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets, but I'm seeing this red banner: "Our Quality Controlled Climatological Data (QCLCD/ULCD) system is currently unavailable. We apologize for this inconvenience."
You can't mention Seattle without mentioning the helmet law though. [1][2]

Portland, a few hours away, has similar (though not identical) conditions and no helmet law and seems to be doing well.[3]

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/will...
[2] http://www.citylab.com/commute/2017/01/seattle-bike-share-pr...
[3]http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/01/18/biketown...
The terminal web browser w3m can display actual images pixel for pixel in the terminal. Ranger, a terminal file browser, leverages this to do image previews in the term. It's quite cool!

More details, including other methods, are described here:

https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/image-previews
There's a beep, an LED blip, and once it's docked you cannot remove it from the rack. There's lots of things wrong with the system, but returning bikes is pretty darn low on the list.
> Any thoughts how we can achieve that?

It says how in the manifesto. Schools & universities do the job of indoctrination:

'Society suppresses us. Yes, it suppresses freedom of thought. With its cruel education programs in schools and universities. They drill into children their view of things and any attempt to express a different opinion is denied and punished.'.

> Now, as an adult member of society, I'm acutely aware how much I depend on the established systems for my security and well-being

The System in its current form is one configuration. If you benefit from the current system, you're likely inclined to the status quo. A pig in a cage on antibiotics.
I think things have improved in the Hackintosh community. I built one a few months ago and was up and running in a day.

Small issues since, but there's always a solution + guide within 15 minutes of searching (and it's usually just flipping a flag in Clover).

When an update comes out, I just wait a week or so to make sure there are no issues and then update (no issues at all so far with that).

Having a ridiculously powerful computer running macOS at a great price has been such a joy.

If I'm talking to someone who is the kind of person that builds computers and is comfortable with a bit of command-line & config, I always recommend them to look into a hackintosh because a lot of the uncertainty has been removed thanks to the great community around it.
Doesn't necessarily matter. Usually the easiest path to resolving the next change request will be taken, i.e. patching on to the existing crappy thing from the 90s. The only thing that can change it is someone shouting. I suspect most software (not the glitzy things on HN) are driven by shouting. Shouting Driven Development. If the customer doesn't care enough about UI to raise their voice, then UI won't be prioritized.
Problem is, you can either spend the same and do more, or spend less and do the same, if you have support for a newer generation of cards. Not to mention that if you're into silent computers (not being able to hear the fans when gaming because of the game noise doesn't qualify as silent in my book) newer nvidia cards are much better.