skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know -- photosynthesing organisms that generate primary resources?

Which resources are then indirectly consumed by OSS (at least its "free as in beer" variant), acting as a parasite in your analogy :) The money has to ultimately come from somewhere, you know, or the music stops.

What would software devs do if all the oh-so-evil proprietary software disappeared? Exchange FOSS PRs with each other, until they die of hunger?
A bowser isn't a Sun box. In the real world, browsers and computers restart occasionally. Also, opening a new tab in FF hangs everything for several seconds whereas in Chrome and Safari it's still responsive. It's like FF is doing everything on the main event queue synchronously.

Numbers. Even with a top-tier SSD and 16 GiB of fast RAM starting cold (with minimal, necessary plugins):

FF: 25s

Safari: 13s

Chrome: 8s

Without plugins, hot restart (absolutely worthless):

FF: 5s

Safari: 3s

Chrome: 2s

Using FF UX is like replacing an SSD with an HDD.

FF has a nice mission, but it doesn't matter if it's not better than the others, which includes both being usable and fast, in addition to privacy and security.

Conclusion: FF is nice in theory, but not currently usable in practice unless you enjoy wasting your time.
Having lived in LA, you do get used to the noise but I don't miss it now that I've left. There were helicopters overhead constantly, neighbors shouting at all hours, cars and sirens. Now I hear animals and the occasional train passing by. It's been a really nice change.
Chrome was never a power user browser.

The hint is the name: like falling a hairless man "Curly", Chrome had less UI chrome and festures than other browsers when released.

The awesome dev tools were simply because they dogfood well.
...and "this city" is Huntington, W. Va.
A lawyer in the US presumably because they aren't in parts of Europe, EULA's specifically have been hammered back repeatedly in Germany and other countries.
TJ Holowaychuk's rationale for switching from Node.js to Go for server code:

https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e...
I use wxWidgets for Tarrasch, a chess GUI project I've been working on for years https://www.triplehappy.com. In general I am pretty happy with it. Largely it "just works" and I can do the things I expect to be able to do in the way I expect to be able to do them.
It does. A sit-down flight simulator using this concept with VR gear would be awesome. Game developers: Take my money!
The Hunt for the First Arcade Game Easter Egg
The ideas aren't the hard part. I'm sure their designers have no shortage of ideas that would be highly popular if they were to execute them well.
I agree with you that capitalists should not become disproportionally rich from the labour of their workers. But even if they did not, you still had to work to support your life. Capitalists become rich by taking a bit from many, you would not get rich if you got your bit back. Nonetheless, especially for the poorest it would still make a huge difference even if they would not become rich in the traditional sense.
Tempe Police: Self-driving Uber vehicle involved in rollover
I agree with you, but I did think the article was still good. You can ignore the talking points in it and it stands on its own. It's possible that this was revised number of times, and the author was either more or less heavy handed on the political side. FP Magazine hates Trump, if you've read their publication, so this is no surprise. The biggest eye roll moment for me was Trump targeting "Black Lives Matter" like he would foreign terrorists.
Isn't the same origin policy per domain? I suppose it's a security benefit that students can't xss each other.
My take is this message was written by and for lawyers. As in, this is a coded message from Symantec to Google regarding the basis of damages upon which they will sue Google if Google doesn't backtrack.

The snarky comments were probably not meant as snarky, they just happen to be the basis upon which one can seek damages from a 3rd party for damaging your business or costing you customers.

I would guess that Symantec's lawyers and O-level execs are in deep discussions whether to sue regardless of Google's follow-up actions or retraction.

Not saying a lawsuit would help them, but they are laying the groundwork for it here to keep their options open. And send a message to Google's legal team.

Will be very interesting to see where this goes. Really hope for everyone's sake it doesn't go to court because it will just end up being a tax on users in the end (both Google's and Symantec's).
Gonna get worse once they ban kratom. Brace yourselves.
> ...there is some sort of meetup for all the things in a LA or NYC.

For your kind of things. In NYC, it's harder to find great snowboarding clubs, demolition derbies, Baptist churches, bass fishing, tacos, and BBQ places. I've been to a mule rodeo before. Haven't heard of something like that in LA.

Not all of those things are my bag of chips, but they're all "culture". Some "culture" either requires less population density or hasn't found a foothold in the coastal mega-cities for whatever reason.
So what can be done? I usually update my theory about the situation when I read new articles, but now I'm really at a loss. I'd love to help these people, but I can't see a fool-proof solution.

Some questions come to mind:

- Is it the role of the government to keep people safe from themselves? If so, how?

- Would harsher drug laws make things better or worse?

- How big of a role does purported economic opportunity have to do with drug abuse? My theory used to be that structural unemployment was the root of this epidemic; those born into the quickly receding middle class---those who relied on low-knowledge/low-skill jobs for a modest living---are hit the hardest since they did not anticipate such a shortage of low-skill jobs.

- What does religion have to do with this?

- What does culture have to do with this?

- Are members of the military more or less affected by opiod drug abuse?

- Does providing safe places to take drugs alleviate the problem, or does it make it worse?
EV means the visitor gets assurance about the organisation they're connected to, rather than the domain they're connected to.

I suggest you look at https://certsimple.com - 1/4 the price you mentioned.
This article is conflating debt bondage with slavery. This is a huge error. Some debt bondage, like what is described in the article, is abusive and harmful.

But much of it is quite beneficial to both parties. My sister was debt bonded for a while; Crossfit paid for her personal trainer certification, but she had to pay them back if she quit her job in a year. A girl I dated is getting a Masters from Columbia, but she has to continue working for the Diplomatic Corps in her country for 3 years after graduation. In fact, many valley engineers meet the definition of bonded labor: you need to give back the signing bonus if you quit in < 1 year.

Economically, bonded labor with transparent contracts is a way to allow employers to pay to improve the human capital of their workers. On HN we often lament the fact that employers don't invest in employees, and the main reason for this is that they can't recoup their costs if the employee leaves.

In India and the US there is a lot of bonded labor and it ranges across the spectrum. Quite a bit of it - particularly among professionals - is not remotely exploitative and is economically beneficial. An informed discussion should acknowledge this.
Recommending Delphi (or something compatible like FreePascal) is not going to win you my support.

Every Delphi-based app I have used has been a horrible bodge of bugs.
I use it a lot when developing - I'll have a tab open and then I'll want another tab of the same URL except for a slightly different port number or hostname. I find it faster to duplicate the tab, make the change and hit enter than to select the URL, open a new tab, paste the URL, make the change and hit enter.

I use it so much that I finally tracked down how to do it with the keyboard: Alt-D, Alt-Enter. (Shift focus to the address bar and select its contents; open a new tab with the contents of your selection).

Then I started using a computer with a Model M keyboard with no Windows key and had to remap my i3 modifier to Alt on all my computers to fix my muscle memory. Alt-D is the default shortcut for dmenu, i3's default program launcher, and i3 intercepted shortcuts before chrome. So I eventually rebound dmenu to a totally unmnemonic Alt-C... but now I've realized that Vimium allows me to duplicate tabs by typing yyP ("yy" yank contents of address bar to clipboard, "P" open new tab with current contents of clipboard).

All this to say, I love my duplicate tabs and these 6%ers who love killing tabs (but just to the right) are weirdos.
I keep reading "How Nosy Is Your Neighborhood". Now that would be an amazing service to offer. Maybe high ratio of calls to police for suspicious activity vs. actual crime?
The NGA is up there with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in lack of public exposure. The NRO launches a lot of the satellites the NGA also uses for GEOINT and spying in general. NRO launches are part of the public record, but their missions are almost never revealed, and all clandestine in nature. The launch craft and missions are frequently given ... frankly villainous names and logos ... I wish I was jesting, but take a look for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches . I don't know how else to describe a mission with a motto like "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach" with a Cthulu-entity as the figurehead - for a government agency mission no less.

People are always sort of disbelieving when I show them this sort of thing, in plain day. I can't figure out how the media has managed to never capitalize on this.
Which is interesting, seeing as Israel has sold US military tech to the chinese before.

https://www.defensetech.org/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-...
Encouraging a corrupt system to moderate its oppression of human rights as a profit center is definitely worse.
Racket seems to utilize GTK under-the-hood, which has a terrible accessibility story.
Just recently Insys, the company that makes fentanyl[3] and gave 500k to help defeat legalized marijuana on Arizona[1], got approval/classification (Schedule II) for a synthetic THC/cannabinoid, Syndros, that does have the potential for overdose[2]. So not only are they killing opioid addicted users, now they are starting this. Somehow synthetic THC is Schedule II while natural/real cannabis is Schedule I.

Fentanyl, synthetic opioid, was the cause of most of the ODs in the article, synthetics are a worse problem than the natural versions.

But police suspect the heroin here was mixed with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is many times more potent than heroin. A wave of fatal overdoses signaled fentanyl’s arrival in Huntington in early 2015, and now some stashes aren’t heroin laced with fentanyl, but “fentanyl laced with heroin,” said Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli.

[1] https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/fentanyl-maker-insys-gi...

[2] http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/03/23/synthetic-thc-drug-ins...

[3] https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fa...
Show HN: My first published React component, pagination-component
I think it'd be far more accurate to describe the New Testament's attitude toward slavery (and debts in general, but that fact is de-emphasized) would be to say that

1) they must end. It is absolutely forbidden for any Christian to own slaves or excessive debts, or to help slavery practices in any way.

2) it is, however, not for Christians to violently take other's property away. Not even slaves. A Christian should campaign for slave owners and creditors to release their charges, maybe even convince them to convert, but violently or legally freeing slaves away is forbidden.

3) Using money to achieve slaves' or debtors freedom is a specifically named virtue.

So it's a "let it die" attitude. End slavery with minimal disruption.

During the middle ages, traders from Southern Europe would often trade with muslims, and as a "good works" effort for their bosses/companies, they'd go to the slave markets of whatever city they were in and buy some slaves. They would be offered a free ride to Europe (and be paid for cleaning the deck or cooking on the way, to get some starter cash) and allowed to settle in Europe. If they didn't speak the language they'd take them to a monastery where they could often stay to learn. This worked, while islam requires slavery and slave trade (halal/wajib), it recognizes that freeing slaves is a good deed. Therefore they'd often sell slaves to be freed at a discount. The freed slaves could, but generally didn't, stay where they were, because muslims would simply capture them again (there's many such things in trade ports in Northern Africa. For instance, these muslim cities would often organize a yearly slave sports event. If the slaves won, they'd often get their freedom for that. However, more often than not, the owners of losing slaves would kill any slave that actually took his freedom).
> Point taken that you like small town culture, though.

I don't especially. I appreciate it. And I appreciate urban culture. I just find the "everyone knows cities are better" meme is really inaccurate.

It's weirdly dismissive of other cultures as well, which is weird considering how much urban centers want to value diversity. People will read 30 page New Yorker pieces about Botswana or listen to an hour or pan flute music before way before they'll take time to acknowledge that there's culture in Tennessee that's worthwhile, even if it's not their cup of tea (which should be obvious because Nashville, but not everyone's as well-heeled as they think they are).
Presumably said countries wouldn't buy said sophisticated weapon systems if there were any indications that backdoors were added.

It sounds technically feasible, but the cost of getting caught would be huge. Besides, who needs backdoors when your software has vulnerabilities?
This is a big change. I guess they now decided that compatibility with external systems is a more important goal than end-user-friendliness.

It’s a reasonable decision to come to (especially for iOS where end-users don’t ever really interact with the filesystem directly), but it will cause quite a bit of churn in the short term.
I really don't understand this article's high tendency to slip in tangents that have little to do - long sentences enclosed by brackets, or worse, hyphens which made side stories hard to distinguish from main story. Those things have so little to do with the actual subject of review and serve little purpose. Perhaps they're there to show off the author's knowledge on the subject matter?

Perhaps I'm too used to engineering style writing which just cuts to the chase. Is it common for book reviews to include those bloats?
I heard the talk as a sort of deprogramming of university graduates (or dropouts) from the cult of careerism. For years they've had it beaten into them that they have to "be competitive" in order to "succeed" -- when in the real world the outsized rewards go instead to those who succeed while hardly competing at all.
Because, as a Zen master would point out, there is no message.
I think

1. We need more radical ideas like distributing heroin.

2. I'm not by any means convinced that distributing heroin will actually solve the problem. Clearly, nothing we've done so far has worked. Perhaps this will work.

3. There is some good sentiment behind the drug war. Still, there are a lot of evil pharmaceutical companies which have no good intentions.

4. Pharma firms inherently gravitate towards evil because more money lies there. Perhaps there are a few truly evil execs at these companies, but I think the sith-like aura comes from the sum of many only slightly evil actions. If we remove the money, we remove the problem. But how?
The part that runs in AWS could just as easily run on bare metal. Stack Overflow does it, Backblaze does it, Github does it; I'm so disappointed in this tired trite that your a special snowflake running in AWS.
Suppose I were to write "slavery is economically beneficial, ...a bunch of evidence goes here...". Do you believe an intellectual discussion would result?

I'd gamble at 3:1 odds that I'd be downvoted and called racist. Just look what happened to Yarvin for merely comparing slavery to government (a more longwinded version of this: http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/no... ).
This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen so far.

I would be quite happy if you added some collaboration controls (give read access without giving write access) because I could use this for a lot of our training.

I just put together a websocket demo for anyone who wants some live documentation on how to integrate actioncable-js with their non-actioncable enabled application for client-side updates ->

https://codewich.com/#v1,,,bVHLTuMwFGWNxD9YHiQSiTriMSwKqdTpA...
I'm not in the market for a Mac Pro, but I keep thinking that something like this is the future for high-end computers—a capable base system with the ability expand virtually infinitely by attaching another Thunderbolt 3 component.
But is the drug war more efficient than legalizing the majority of drugs?

If people had unstigmatized access to heavy depressants, like heroin (as opposed to "light" marijuana), would that really have a better net than if they weren't available at all?

What comes to mind in this situation is reminiscent of dystopian neo-Tokyo in movies, where everything is grim and the people have reclused from life in their cramped cities, into daily drug escapes.

Genuinely curious as to what the end-game is for legalization of controlled substances. Perhaps there's a middle ground (a moderate position if you will) that could be more efficient?

ETA: I think it could work well if it was paired with something, say an educational program and increased mental help resources (two places in which the U.S is lacking and thus a poor place to pioneer open-drug policies) so it doesn't divulge into a free-for-all after drugs flood the market.
You don't usually have anything to offer fresh out of college. Jumping jobs more often I think has a much higher pay off, and you naturally get better at negotiating from the experience.
This article is conflating slavery with abusive human disempowerment. Some slavery, like what is described in the article, is abusive and harmful.

But much of it is quite beneficial to both parties. My cousin by marriage was a slave for a while; his master paid for his financial certification and gave him a small allowance, but he had to save up sufficient funds before he could buy his way to freedom. A girl I used to date used to be a slave, but she chose to remain with the family who owned her even after she bought her freedom, and remains an integral and happy member of the household. In fact, many successful members of our community, particularly business owners and managers, are slaves or former slaves!

Economically, slavery with proper laws and regulations is a way for families and moneyed individuals to improve the quality of their household or business, while giving an otherwise hopeless individual the chance to enter into Roman society. Here at the Tinkerers' Forum we often lament the fact that slave owners don't invest in their slaves, and the main reason for this is that they can't recoup their costs if the slave dies or escapes.

In Rome and its provinces there is a lot of slavery and it ranges across the spectrum. Quite a bit of it - particularly in the educated and enlightened centre of the Empire - is not remotely exploitative and is economically beneficial. An informed discussion should acknowledge this.
I suspect they will never allow longer validity certs because they want renewal to be automated.
Ever wondered how cancer actually ends up killing people?
Can we have TLA+ for Gryadka done by some?
It’s really hard to say. Cuneiform on clay tablets was mostly records of finished computations, with the scratch work done with some kind of physical manipulation of tokens or mentally, and most of the instruction and culture transmitted orally.

The Sumerian/Babylonian style of written records did not match, say, Euclid’s Elements. (They didn’t write books full of precise definitions and proofs. They didn’t leave behind textbooks, only problem sets and worked examples.) But note that neither did the style of the Pythagoreans necessarily, and the notion that Pythagoras or his disciples made a proof comes from written records from hundreds of years later.
However there are workers now who would love to live like truly free men who are not forced to sell their time to survive.

There are workers now who would love to have others provide for their needs, but not have to do anything in return?

How is this different from a desire to be a slaveowner?
One thing that would help is making Suboxone more freely available. It's a pretty safe drug that effectively treats the physical symptoms of heroin withdrawal, making quitting a lot more possible. For no good reason whatsoever, the FDA makes it really, really hard to get.

Here's an article by a psychiatrist about the way Suboxone is regulated now: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/02/practically-a-book-rev...
If this was an hourly position, that should be advertised and openly available to candidates. Basically a priori information.

If, on the other hand, this is salaried (unlikely) I could understand the firm feeling a bit yucked by the candidate asking this so early. That's something a candidate in most cases can research in advance.

But, again, I imagine this was an hourly position and in such case should have been advertised to candidates.
Evidently, the ability to make pinpoint-accurate posts to the front page of HN from 35,000 feet.
TypeScript is the 9th most used language on the StackOverflow survey - ahead of languages like Ruby, Swift, and Objective-C - so I wouldn't say that "not many devs" are trying it out. :)
Oh, so you mean travel insurance?
The 1050 Ti would be more than enough for my needs. I currently run a GTX 960 and I have yet to find its bottleneck among the games I play, apart from Rust which is so poorly optimized it lags even on a 1080. It's my understanding that the 1050 Ti matches or beats the 960 on nearly every metric, and does it at 75 watts compared to the 960's 120 watts.
Interesting story; great research; so much repost

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=arcade%20easter%20egg&sort=byD...
I agree heartily with your point about the state of modern (well, postmodern) ethics, but "virtually every aspect of the West" is overstating how much the original principles have been abandoned. There are certainly people in the West that never bought into postmodern thinking and would prefer natural law or imago dei to... well, the mess we have now.
This thread from 3 years (1223 days) ago discussed this topic rather thoroughly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750043
This is completely untrue. If you follow the progress of TS, you'll see they are completely committed to only adding features that will end up in JS proper. Time and time again they have refused to add features because they aren't part of Ecmascript.