skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's rarely anyone writing quality content for the sake of the content anymore.

That may be so, but let's place the blame accurately: the writer didn't submit the article to HN.
An iOS dev's experience with React Native
This argument against the inclusion of comments is a good argument in favor of the inclusion of a date data type and a binary data type.

Right now, there are a number of different ways to encode both types of data, and you see them all in the wild. And extra custom serialization and deserialization steps are always required to handle them.
I've read that too. The scanners for luggage are much better than those for the security lines. They might even use machine learning to detect things. I don't remember the source. sorry
I'd turn it into something that's like a video dating site :D
Former. PO box at a post office.
You wonder if there are code generation possibilities...
MS giveth and MS taketh away.
https://teen-quotes.com. I never found the time to promote it properly
Except the companies are for profit. The red light cameras increase rear ending accidents:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/major-chicago-st...

..because most people don't want to intentionally run red lights.

Furthermore, most cities run these as civil violations, but if you take them to court, the courts run them under criminal procedures. IANAL, but there was an excellent post someone shared on HN a few weeks back where a law professor fought one of these tickets (I can't seem to find it right now). He wasn't driving, but felt the burden of proof shouldn't reside with him, but the state.

He lost his case, had to appeal, won that case and was never given any of the bond he issued to appeal.

These tickets don't add points to your license in most states, their safety improvements are questionable, and they're pretty much a money making racket for cites and the companies that make/run the cameras.
Or, maybe, our tools should evolve with an eye on how they are actually being used. JSON/YAML/TOML/INI are all intended to store arbitrary data structures, and are all required to be written and read by algorithms. It doesn't make sense to split that world into "these are usually created/consumed only by software" and "these are for humans".
ML uses "functors" in a different sense than e.g. Haskell.
I doubt they'd use the username as the primary key, but either way, I agree the precedent is the biggest concern. They'd get inundated with name change requests if they started making exceptions for people.
Thanks for the feedback regarding the sidebar navigation! Here's the issue that we used to chat extensively about it and came to our current design here in 9.0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26200

There's lots of discussion there. We went with a design that leans on getting out of your way and recovers some screen real-estate. We do recognize the one additional click required though. And we are actively listening to feedback and will continue to iterate.

We're working hard to improve usability and navigation in general. In addition to this sidebar change, we've made many nav updates: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26348.
It's not throttling based on user-agent. It's just a bug that happens when the user-agent parser falls off a cliff when it exhausts the values that it knows about.

A bug that Microsoft won't fix, because Linux is not supported.

</charitable>
From https://www.wired.com/2013/08/outbox/

"Part of the trick was that the service could automatically weed out junk mail, and when U.S. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe got wind of this, he wasn’t happy — at least according to Baehr."

"Donahoe summoned Outbox to his office, and Baehr made his pitch, arguing that the company was just a few smart guys with $2 million in financing who wanted to spend the next few years learning about Donahoe’s customers and even sending him data about what these customers needed. Donahoe responded by saying that the customers of U.S. Postal Service were not the general public. Its customers, he said, were a few hundred bulk mailers."
This solar cell edges the practical limits of photovoltaic efficiency forward
He produces some interesting content, but, I agree: there is something about his style of delivery that is irritating. I tried to quantify it while listening to his podcast but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I asked to image a letter after it had been marked by the PO. The clerk threatened to call the inspector if I used any camera inside the building.
You are not. The USPS already images all mail for all persons[0]. Not to mention their use of license plate scanners[1] if you're picking up your mail at a post office.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...

[1]: http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting...
Throttling is the only thing I can think of. This is the New New Microsoft then, similar to the first.
I have to admit, the whole exchange is pretty funny:

> Hello, Onedrive for Business open is very slow on Linux (Chrome/Firefox) but with very fast with a "Windows" user-agent.

> Hi DL, As Office 365 for Business services(e.g. SharePoint Online, including OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online) are not supported on Linux as shown below, for the best experience, we recommend the operating system listed in the article.

> Thank you, I go back to Google Apps suite.

> 12 people found this helpful
An alternative is to cache request at the web server level so that successive requests will not be more heavy than serving static page. Caching just for a few seconds (some people call it microcaching [1]) will let your blog survive without issues.

[1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/benefits-of-microcaching-nginx/
Using Learning Milestones, the Gmail way of project development
If your car can't stop safely at an intersection, you should have had it towed in the first place, instead of endangering everyone else on the road.

The way you tell this story, those $100 were absolutely justified.
Shortly after attending a ios 4 app class I wrote a letter suggesting a table view listing all machine mail. Then sell ad space above/below rows. So if BB&B has their $5 coupon in the mailstream Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel could but a hyperlink to their ad.

The USPS culture is anything but profit centric. Without violating the sanctity of the mails there could be creative ways to leverage the combined household and individual knowledge for profit.

But then when I thought there was no hope the USPS got the Amazon deal.

Threshold mail delivery is another concept that could be interrupted by a user request (based on mail information in the stream)

But it's not a profit organization and ideas are just fun to think about.
The USPS would never offer that feature. They get directly paid [1] to deliver that spam, so providing you a 'cutoff' method directly effects their bottom line because the sender will not want to pay for items that never get delivered.

But I do agree, it would be a nice feature to have a "no junk mail" switch that could be turned on.

[1] I believe they do not charge a high enough price for the junk, but they do get paid to deliver it in any case.
Determining ROI: Digital Radio Ad Campaign vs. Traditional Radio Campaign
Tablets are less convenient than phones or laptops for all tasks. "Hybrid classes never work in practice, you have to minmax". People hoped that tablets would be a useful addition to their lives, and now that they know that they're wrong, they have stopped buying them.
If only I could drag and drop images of junk mail into a trash can icon to prevent them from being delivered, I could finally clean out my butterfly fuck swing.

http://www.theonion.com/article/butterfly-fuck-swing-filled-...
And extinguishing a metal fire is not trivial
I'm probably wrong but imo YC funding startups like Tetra fits more in the spirit of YC's original mission of seeding startups, compared to funding more 'mature' startups that seem to be either raising or really close to raising series A.
I read in a comment on Reddit (lost the link at the moment), that it doesn't appear to be nefarious. Basically, they're trying to do feature detection based on UA instead of.. actual feature detection.
It's absolutely worse as an end user, privacy issues aside. Everything loads slowly. My cursor jumps around and I'm never clicking what I intend to click. Things that should be paginated instead infini-scroll, and things that shouldn't be paginated are ("These five amazing photos will translate into 15 page impressions for us because you have to click next three times for each!")
I've attempted this, but if the car which triggered the light change clears the intersection in a particular time (say, with a right turn), the countdown completes only to go back to a "walk" signal.

Makes for some confusing signaling; but it's better than a red light for an empty crosswalk and cross street..
Ask HN: How can you know when you've handled all edge cases?
But user-agent parsing should be blazing fast, a one-liner regexp or similar, isn't it?
I'd consider selling LiberWriter - http://www.liberwriter.com - to the right person. Built with Rails, makes some money. Contact info in my profile.
Unhelpful catch-all responses that don't display a shred of effort or care are the bane of my customer support experiences. Nothing hurts my opinion of a company like being brushed off like a bug.
I'm 35, I wish I could relate. The technology is not the problem, of course.
<like WV

It used to be in Barbados
The example showing how response bodies are specified (media types, content) unfortunately is attached to a GET operation - please use a POST to demonstrate request bodies.
The thing is, my company probably doesn't want my side projects. I'm not just a programmer; I make music, photography, art, etc. If they owned that stuff, it would just wither away in a dark corner because they wouldn't have any use for it.

Now extend that same concept to programming: I make games and digital interactive art in my spare time too. Should I really be forced to give it to my company where they will promptly throw it in the garbage? Or should I be allowed to make it and share it with the world independent of my corporate life?
The red light cameras are not distributed equally. You'll find more of them in minority neighborhoods.

Look at what redlining hath wrought:

http://www.radicalcartography.net/chicagodots_race_big.jpg

http://www.photoenforced.com/chicago.html#.WNKlsxLyufc
"Entrepreneurship in Everything" is light-hearted and not as hardcore as some of these others. 3 minute videos that teach entrepreneurship by looking at music/books/films.

Chance the Rapper episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXasTsQi_8
I have no direct understanding but I have a hypothesis;

- different generated html / js depending on user agent (UA)

- bug fixes are rolled out on a UA by UA basis

- bug fixes have been rolled out for Windows and Mac
(supported)

- but not for the "generic" HTML / JS output

If this is true it will mean that anything other than the supported platforms will fall further behind as time goes by.
I work on data science. I also had an idea around youtube. Want to have a chat?
I have the same issues. Writing idiomatic F# is a battle. Things feel always a bit off. Its a nice language that needs more love from ots creators.
I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.
Maybe a mod should change the link to the justice.gov post I linked to in the parent? I don't see any articles out there that add anything substantial.
That's one of my pet peeves... There's an official phonetic letter system, why don't they train these people in call centers to use them?

My last job used radios for site communication, and everyone had to use the NATO phonetics, and was provided with a cheat sheet for learning. You'd think that would be something they could tape up in every cube in a call center...
That goes to the more general problem of fines, cities and people.

It is terrible that peoples' mistakes are used to fund a city. They really shouldn't. Furthermore anything that could reduce the fine aspect, say an advanced parking system that auto-charges you and warns you via text when you're close to your daily time limit, wouldn't make any money and would never get approved.

I use to be a sys admin for a debt collection firm; a company that was based entirely of making money from peoples' mistakes. I set up terminals for employees, many who were on welfare, to collect bad checks and credit card debt from other people who were also on welfare.

These types of revenue generators, whether they're run by a state or a private interest, rarely ever benefit society.
Can we just get a solid "do not call" list for mail. Like 90% of my physical mail is junk and it's bullshit. I'm kind of on the edge of wanting to be rid of all letter delivery in its entirety.
That was sarcasm
NBN state is less than stellar, a vast majority of suburbs have no NBN at all, and a very small minority have actual fibre to the premise. Unmetered plans are becoming more common but are only "affordable" ($60-70 a month) at the lowest speed offering (12mbit). If you want unmetered at 25 or 100mbit, you're looking at 80 or 100 respectively, and that's looking at TPG and iiNet.
DeepDream for voice – Artificially intelligent impressions
CSS view, multi-target events and online comments on scenarios
The collaborative nature of my open office environment helps me to generate tons of great ideas that I'll never have the focus to implement.
Yes, this. It just makes it seem like they're hoping you'll give up and go away.
MS giveth and I'd wish they'd take it away.

I can't turn Onedrive off because I'm on Windows 10 Home edition (thanks to the forced upgrade from Win 7). I don't use it but everytime I access a share on my linux box, it pops up and want to be configured.
This is not a new thing. Decades ago when Verizon contracted with Microsoft to "upgrade" their web portal, it was no longer usable from any browser other than IE. I had been using it from Netscape on various SPARC machines and from my mobile device (PalmOS). The web page html source had no exotic platform specific language elements. It was obviously a "business decision". I wrote the VP at Verizon a letter pointing out that they had just abandoned 5% of their user base. I also switched to AT&T.
> This new offering is just leveraging that scanning process that has been in place for a very long time. The biggest difference might be that previously the image went from scan to OCR to deletion and instead now they've decided to replace "delete" with "store" to make this new offering feasible.

And with my tinfoil hat on, I'm saying it's probably driven by requests from three-letter agencies. We already know they scan the covers not just for automated processing (which as you mention wouldn't require saving the image after the OCR is complete), but to also provide it to law enforcement.

If public pressure is forcing those agencies to be more forthright with what data they're collecting and storing, it conceivable for them to push that responsibility upstream. If the USPS is going to be imaging and storing everyone's mail, there's no need for other agencies to do so. They can just access it on the fly.

Arguably, the government would save money with this approach as well as I'm sure all three major agencies would want a full copy the data set.
I'm a string in X^*, and the universe is a real number.
Searching around for a while, I came across

https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd-gpu/blob/master/algorithm/...

which shows it to be Hashcash with some mishmash of existing hash functions (SHA256,SHA512,RIPEMD) cobbled together.
Maybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?
Can you elaborate? Why wasn't it covered under copyright?
Yes, and what is a "work for hire" besides a work made under a contract saying it's a work for hire?
Sure. I use one. 10,000 Lux, 3 feet from my pillow, on a timer. Synthetic sunrise, only instantaneous, which is admittedly sub-optimal. For me, it certainly helps me get going in the morning.
It's worth noting that tying agreements are no longer per se illegal in all cases. Courts have recognized procompetitive benefits in some cases. Now it's only under certain conditions. http://www.americanbar.org/groups/young_lawyers/publications...
I don't get it. If Lexmark is so hell-bent on preventing refilling, they could just simply change the purchase to a rental. Then, if don't return the cartridge to them you don't get your deposit back. They could even spin it as some sort of "we're being really green by making sure all of our cartridges are recycled" campaign.

The same goes for all of the farm equipment manufacturers that are fighting the right-to-fix movement. Why even have that fight and look like the bad guy? Again, I just don't get it.
http://imgfave.com - YC company. 100k daily pageviews.

http://backerpass.com - Monthly funding platform for artists and creators. ~$200/month currently going to creators.

http://followfridayapp.com - Web, iOS, Android. Doesn't work currently because Instagram restricted their API. Could be rebranded into an app focused on selecting your own photos (something like 2016bestnine.com).

http://facebook.com/youtubesearchbot - Messenger bot with 25 daily active users. Yeah not a lot, but could be grown if you have another bot to cross-promote with.

Contact info in profile.
That text mentions that dB is relative, but misses how the values are defined. A simple definition could be:

- If we are talking about dB in context of amplitude 6dB more means twice as much amplitude, 6dB less (or -6dB) means half the amplitude.

- If we are talking about dB in context of power 3dB more means twice as much power, 3dB less (or -3dB) means half the power.

dB is often also used to measure attenuation instead of gain. Here a positive dB value would actually mean less output compared to reference value.

And: For dB values often a suffix is used, to denote to what the value is relative to. E.g. dBV is relative to 1V, dbm is relative to 1 milliwatt.
Porsche Going Against Yamaha R1 and F-16 Fighting Falcon
That sounds highly likely. Intentional throttling doesn't help Microsoft in this case. I don't think they view Linux desktops (aside from Chromebooks) as a serious threat. Why wouldn't they want more OneDrive users?
Healthcare? Hell, we just had our dental insurance dropped. Healthcare is now a $10k OOPM at rates 3x what they were 10 years ago.

The open office plan could work with tall, fabric cubicles. My place now uses short, glass & aluminum ones. Not to mention people chit chat too much. I'm an EE and have to think about complex stuff; I can't think with the chit-chat; breaks my squelch.

Fortunately I have a lab I can retreat to. Thinking about moving in there permanently.
How Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump
"And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one.

Like with pie."
>Any other hypotheses?

Other than the obviousness of the new MS being worse than the old MS? Between the major issues Windows 10 has in almost all respects but not limited to shocking privacy issues, the very poor quality of updates, and the hamfisted way Win10 was forced on some users, I suspect we'll be missing the Gates/Balmer years more and more. As someone who has to roll out 100 Win10 workstations, I can't believe the shit I have to jump through to get basic funtionality and how the defaults in terms of start menu items, included apps, privacy, gpo limitations, etc is highly business inappropriate, even with professional volume licenses.

I'm not sure what the "New Microsoft" really means, but from what I've seen its something that has only added hassle to enterprise and chased more people into the loving arms of OSX. Everyone in my social circle now has a mac after toughing out on 7 and giving up on 10. Nadella's run is starting to look like a Marissa Mayer-like run to me. A welcomed change of leadership from the tech press but one that was unable to fix historic problems and also introduced their own new set of problems.
No more fixed header and pages properly reload when I click on a link (spinning icon in the tab). Awesome! These were my major UI gripes in GitLab 8.
Most of the reported issues I've seen have been caused by browser extensions. It seems like uninstalling the extensions and just using the web app directly in a separate browser might go a long way towards avoiding these kinds of issues.
Yes, you are missing something big: the majority (by far) of development work is done on Windows or some Linux platform these days and has been for a long while. In fact, outside the Bay Area I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of developers I ever saw using a Mac. The valley and certain developer "scenes" have a huge overrepresentation of Mac users.
Upbright makes cheap PSUs, so I suspect its a fake.
What happened during my arrest at Trump's inauguration
Yeah, that's easy for you to say. Are you going to pay to put my kids through college so I can make you happy by signing up for your experiment? I didn't think so
I don't get that argument. How is a red light camera different than surveillance footage that show a murder? It's not a witness, it's evidence.
And now you've learned the cardinal rule: Never do the work before you have a contract.
yes, but that's far from attractive. i calculated it out for my family of 4 and based on my amazon spending (maybe mid to slightly above avg) 5% on amazon doesn't beat the 2% i get on all transactions. If they want to be top of wallet (and visibility into my other spending) they need to have better than 2% on the non-amazon transactions.
51, dont wont to do anything else. Working in a startup, coworkers are half my age. Having fun.
Great to hear you notice the performance improvements. We're very happy with the improvements but we still have long way to go. We want the 99% latency under 1s and right now it is 2s: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZSTZYVXlyc1FGdEk...

There are some controller timings that are red https://drive.google.com/a/gitlab.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZZV...

And the git access timings are a sea of red https://drive.google.com/a/gitlab.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZTz...

Git access will be improved now that we have Gitaly as part of this release. In GitLab 9.1 we want to move git access from the application server to the file server. That should greatly reduce the latency.
I've noticed this too but never investigated....

seriously M$, what the F?
Looks like there are still some Ballmer-era holdovers on the OneDrive team.
Find-deleted: checkrestart replacement
Why do we laugh or smile in private when we're watching something funny? Why do we say "Ow!" when we're hurt, or scream when we're startled? Why does our body posture change based on our mood, even when no one's around to watch?

Adding in an extra check that says "if (someone is watching) { ... do this signaling thing ... }" more costly than just doing it.
Considering that there are places in the world where government employees must use Linux due to regulations, and Microsoft is moving ever closer to cloud delivered services, one would think that they want to support Linux as an OS. [0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/frenc...
the benefit of the doubt

Normal corps generally don't deserve this, nevermind MS.
I can believe seafaring, astronomy, and metallurgy. But yogurt? Now you're just pulling my chain.
Wow. Based on the number of responses here, we should start a club - "56 and still doing it".

Those of us born around 1960 came of age during the earliest days of personal computing. I guess a lot of us got hooked and are still at it!