skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love how they use the terminology "neural lace" from the Culture novels by Iain Banks. But I guess it goes in line with naming the Spacex drone ships after space ships in the same series =)
It would appear so. Still amusing.
Qebot Launches White Label Version of Its Business Platform
My fiancees parents live out in a tiny country town with an awful phone line an internet connection. They can't really make landline calls, they frequently can't load a lot of websites, youtube is usually right out, but somehow they can always watch Netflix.
>Masala is a popular indian dish here in the US...

Huh? Masala just means the dish uses a bunch of spices (ie masala chai is just tea with cardamom, maybe pepper and cinnamon and other things depending on whose making).

I'm pretty sure regarding film its used to say a "standard movie" or even "boring", thats been "spiced" to taste better, with spices being a set of tropes that most people like.
As a language, JS is what it is - therefore you can use or ignore parts of it, target it from a transpiler, etc. It's Node, its de-facto execution environment on the server side, that's the travesty - a hardly-glorified version of the browser's execution environment. Sure, a well-designed Node app. is better than your average long-running, thread-holding CGI script from 1998, but there have been servers for ages that can do async thread sharing/pooling like Node (and with proper language support, if you want it) but don't force you into this model if your task happens to require true task parallelism rather simple asynchrony, which require hacks that range from just ugly to truly horrid.
what is the diffference between runc and rkt? they both implement OCI right?
And here's that Semiaccurate article: http://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/19/intel-officially-introduc...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971728
>Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers

Can you explain how ipsec differs from openvpn ? All the major vpn providers seem to use openvpn right now.
A pipe that runs to a waterless urinal doesn't actually waste any water.
Have a look at the D lang forums - which is written in D - statically rendered with very little JS and loads at _light speed_ to see why a forum shouldn't be a SPA.
https://forum.dlang.org/
Though it's possible that you're correct on this specific issue, you've offered absolutely no support for your argument.

Consider the possibility that the strong streak of instinctive union bashing that you see in typical professional class culture in the U.S. is very much the creation of decades of aggressive PR effort by those who consider unions threatening.
Yeah I'm much the same. If I've got one monitor, give me 32" with as many pixels as you can get. Two monitors, give me 2x24"; Three monitors, 1x24" central, 2x22" side panels.

I use a tiling window manager. If I have a single monitor I'll split it evenly, but I'll need as much space as I can - whilst using virtual desktops to avoid clutter.

If I have two monitors I'll tend to use full screen apps rather than split, but may occasionally split open a terminal or small chat window. By small I mean, a narrow vertical tile rather than a wide horizontal.

If I have three monitors, the extra width of large monitors starts to get annoying with how far around you have to look to see the farthest extent to left or right. It's easier to have smaller monitors (although still as high definition as you can get) and run them with full screen applications.

The big problem though with the large monitors is that you have to do too much window management. On a 22" screen a horizontally designed app at fullscreen is great. At 32" you start feeling like you wasted a ton of space off to the right. So you use your tiling WM to do a vertical split. At that point the horizontally designed app at 3840×2160 is now a vertical oriented app at 1920x2160, which is not at all what you want, so you adjust the tiling to make the 2nd frame smaller. But if the 2nd frame should also be horizontal, you have to move it to a different monitor... Thus ending up doing a load of annoying window management when your WM is supposed to do it for you.

So really, big monitors are just a tad annoying unless it's the only monitor.
Musk's goal for SpaceX is to help move humanity to other planets like Mars. In fact, he actually wants to die on Mars:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/tech/2013/03/elon-musk-die-ma...
Show HN: A DB for the rest of your life
The Liebherr you reference is a dismantling crane, so obvious difference in usage there, and spiders/mini crawler are mobile cranes.

The Skypicker is bolted to the floor of the building, and when the next level is ready to go in, it hauls itself up to the height of the next floor through a hole, which is then finished around the crane, which is once again bolted to the floor. The last 30 seconds of the video on this page show how it relocates: http://vertikalsolutions.net/products/
So everyone should suffer, because you enjoy it?
You can use Revive from Apple Configurator to possibly fix them.
But Apple deliberately slows down old hardware with iOS updates! Planned obeselescence!
“With the heightened interest and conversation on Facebook around the 2016 elections, we have been exploring ways to support a suite of features that add more structure to how Americans learn about candidates at both the national and local level,” said Samidh Chakrabarti, a product manager for civic engagement at Facebook.

source: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/296307-facebook-starts-...

Hard pass on facebook 'adding structure to how Americans learn about candidates' thank you very much.
It's not just the prep, even though that material probably took a couple of years to develop in its entirety. When they sell a special like that to Netflix they know that anyone who's even slightly interested in their work is going to watch it and so they have to retire every bit of that material. It's still a great payout, but he can't really ever use a significant amount of that routine again.
To all the commenters pointing out the people that talk about LaTeX, you are getting a part of the criticism wrong. It's not: "Why this when we already have LaTeX?", but a "Why this when LaTeX does it better?".

I wouldn't mind for an easier way to introduce mathematics, but just from the example given, I can see right away that the typography in AsciiMath is not good.

Just look at the space (or lack of it) around the inner parenthesis for instance.
I'd love to see this process get hacked - What's the CEO of {your_favorite_ISP} been perusing on the web? Sounds like a good opportunity for a crowdfund.
A lot of the 9000 latency you're speaking about is traversing the PCI bus. The Dimms should be lower latency.
I'm curious! Mind sharing your five lines of code if they are simple and don't contain anything special?
Maybe a UX issue because it allows people to, easily without proper warning, create a link for sharing like Dropbox, but unlike Dropbox it not only makes everything indexable, they even do it themselves and provide a search engine for the docs.
Same here.

- Servers? Node.js
- Web apps? Browsers
- Cross-platform desktop apps? Electron
- Cross-platform mobile apps? React-Native

Will it deliver the best possible solutions (performance, size, etc.)? Probably not.

Will it deliver economically acceptable solutions? I think so.

Most of my customers don't even care which language I use, they just want their app idea implemented somehow. And many react positively when I say JavaScript, because they know a bunch of people developing in it, so when I get hit by a meteor, they don't have to find one of those rare Qt C++ gurus.
So what version of upstream Clang is Xcode 8.0 based on?
The [Black Mirror][1] (British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker) has a few episodes dealing with AI and brain-machine interfaces.

It is very interesting to watch some of the emotional and social implications this kind of technology will bring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror
We're easier to socially engineer, but so far humans are monstrously hard to hack; we're as likely to break unpredictably or not at all, as be broken.
I was mainly thinking about soybeans, not humans eating grass. 75% of soy bean production goes to animal feed, and more than 50% of US, and 40% of worldwide, grain production goes to animals instead of directly to humans, where it's inefficiently converted to energy humans consume. All this because people like the taste of meat and because of tradition.

Other resources, such as fossil fuels and water, are used at a much higher rate when raising animals than when producing crops. Grain-fed beef production uses 100 000 liters of water per kilogram of food produced, broiler chicken 3500 liters per kilogram, and soybeans 2000 liters per kilogram. Water is a precious resource in many places of the world.

This is the way the world works today, but you don't argue for animal products over vegetables, you argue for grass-feed animals instead of crop-fed. You should vote with your wallet and only buy grass-fed meat, both when you cook at home, when you buy an animal-based snack, or when you go to a restaurant. I think that many meals would have to be vegetarian, because a purely grass-fed meat, dairy, and egg diet would be hard to uphold.
I can't wait for macOS GUI backend!
You don't need to learn everything on there. Also, while some company may use/follow x (especially CSS methodologies), from what I've seen it's usually a poor attempt making it a lot easier to pick up.
Elon Musk's "bold" ventures are the only things that excite me. Meaning, whenever I hear of a supposed "big idea" that's right around the corner (cough, cough - Magic Leap), I basically dismiss it. Except when it has to do with Elon Musk.

He is the first to admit that his plans will probably fail, but he actually has an incredible track record over 10+ years.
related talk cyphar gave at linux.conf.au 2017 on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6EcUyamu94
No, there’s a very serious chicken-and-egg problem. The gamut of RGB displays (televisions, projectors, computer and smartphone displays, etc.) has some parts which are very wide and other parts which are very limited. All content produced in the past 20 years expects to be displayed on such displays. If you increase the intensity of the existing “RGB” (orangish-red R, yellowish-green G, purplish-blue B) primaries, you get a display with a substantially similar gamut to existing displays, but with an ability to make certain colors marginally more intense. This is easy for content authors to target using existing workflows, and even potentially possible to adapt existing content for without too much disruption.

If you invent a new type of display with a radically different color gamut, and then take existing content and amp up the intensity on hue/value regions with a newly wider gamut, you throw off all of the content creators intentions for color relationships. Total non-starter.

What you can do is show old content about the same as it was on past displays, but then there’s not really any advantage to going with the new technology, which is typically going to be more difficult and expensive to produce. A new display needs new content in order to work differently from past displays.

(Believe me: I have spent years studying human vision and color reproduction technologies. I’m not just making this up.)

If you’re curious about the topic of gamut mapping in general, I recommend this 300-page book, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047003032... The gamut mapping algorithms used in most common software systems (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) are actually quite poor.
Oh, oops, hadn’t realised what you meant. Presumably seeing as it’s not a company though a .info would be more appropriate though?
Almost Paradise: The Remote Worker’s Guide to Lonely Island Survival
Android Security 2016 Year in Review [pdf]
> Mooney was told his crane didn’t have to go through the long approval process required for newly designed large cranes and that it could be approved as a mobile crane.

There has to be some kind of miscommunication going on here. By what definition is his crane mobile? Because it's easier to disassemble and load on to a truck than a tower crane? While the DoB's classifications for cranes seems arbitrary, I can't say I blame them for not considering it mobile.
"Neural lace," indeed. No such thing as too many Iain M. Banks references for Mr. Musk, eh?
It makes me sad that people on the Internet always try to find some justification for Apple's decisions.

It is nonsense that there's some special requirement for this. Apple decided to do this because they could.

I used Flux to dim my display on my non-jailbroken iOS8 iPad 2, and quite enjoyed it for reading in bed.

Then, Apple held my iPad hostage[1], and forced me to update to iOS9 if I wanted to unlock it. And I could no longer use Flux, and nightshift is disabled for the iPad 2. There is no technical reason why I couldn't change the color temperature on my iPad 2. I did it for months. Apple just wanted to coerce customers into buying new hardware.

This is no different from Apple having a whitelist for TRIM support of SSDs in earlier versions of macOS. People were under the impression that there was some good technical reason for this. But actually, it could be enabled with a simple perl oneliner:

> sudo perl -pi -e 's|(^\x00{1,20})[^\x00]{9}(\x00{1,20}\x54)|$1\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00$2|sg' /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

It is only a matter of time until there is a oneliner to enable nightshift for all display devices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11986523

[2] https://gist.github.com/clarencesong/3768688
Generalist audience maybe is vanishing but I can see more and more domain niches attracting interest for relevant content like a widespread academia, this being open courses legacy imho. Sure, many blogs would not survive a peer review, but there are more manners to publishing than academic papers only: industrial papers, letters to the community, tutorials, reviews of literature, industry news and conferences, etc. So the point is: find your industry for applications, grow a reputation and you will attract a like-minded audience.
I highly agree, and have strongly voiced "keeping things simple" with:

1. HTML4 (no special/new tags) Edit: CSS, of course (unfortunately, CSS is a pain to learn though, so get a lot of experience/experimenting)

2. Pure ES5 JavaScript (don't waste time with build-steps/compiling JS, that defeats the point/purpose - or if you want to, learn a language like ClojureScript or Elm/Haskell)

3. jQuery to manipulate the DOM (skip frameworks and stick to libraries, this will force you to actually understand JS rather than being a copy-paster. Once you have this down, build your own personalized framework to abstract things away, only then should you try experimenting with Angular/React, etc. others)

4. Notepad++ or Sublime (avoid using any terminal tools, including NodeJS, until you are comfortable with having a browser and an editor open side by side, and refreshing when making changes. Keep it simple: just files!)

5. NodeJS or PHP, GitHub for Desktop (learn basic command line use, but if something takes you more than 20 minutes to figure out, seek out a community/forum/help that is friendly and encouraging to newbs. Don't waste time on channels that make fun of you for not knowing command line.)

6. Heroku (for deploying, and having your page live to show your mom what you built)

I wrote a beginner's tutorial for the first 3 items, it takes between 5 minutes to 30 minutes for people who have only played with a little bit of HTML. It teaches you how to build a ToDo app: http://gun.js.org/think.html , let me know if there is anything I can do to improve it.
Microsoft clearly made this to be a Scribd alternative. O365 defaults to private sharing everywhere. To quote from the article, "Office 365 and Azure Tenant administrators must 'opt-in' to enable users with organizational accounts to use the service".

On https://docs.com/docscom the description of the service is "Docs.com by Microsoft is an Internet site for publishing Office documents that anyone can find, browse, and share". The only way this could be clearer is if the word 'anyone' was changed to 'anyone in the world'.

Finally, (for some license types) O365 offers precisely the kind of DLP capabilities that would let users use such a service while blocking the sharing of SSN's etc.

For business accounts, not only has someone actively turned on this capability, they have then failed to communicate its purpose to users. The users themselves have then failed to understand what they were doing.

I'm sorry, but while I can sympathise with people this is clearly not MS' problem.

For the record, my current employer (a university) has not enabled this function.
>right-wing sources
ISIS on youtube: 5.2 million
ISIL on youtube: 0.6 million
If a company couldn't "collectively bargain", it wouldn't even exist. Companies are not collections of individuals bargaining for themselves.
Bizarrely, humans weren't used for computation in the Matrix. They were batteries...somehow.
runc is lower level. Docker uses runc under the hood to run each individual container, and rkt is somewhere in the middle as far as features go

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/02/i-just-want-to-run-a-containe...
@minimaxir OP here. I don't really understand why / how this is vote manipulation, and I also wouldn't care either. I'm not a regular HN user. Wouldn't be the same to just reply to the thread by just sharing the thread link?. Just thought that sharing the image would generate a nice impact.
GIPHY meets SOUNDTRACK
Built this GIPHY/MUSIC mashup several weeks ago with a bunch of support from all the artists that are on there. Anywho, if you want to take a break from all the trumpanzees vs. libtards madness that's surrounding today's headlines and this site tickles your fancy and/or provides some sort of entertaining escapism, I'd greatly appreciate the casual upvote =)
Imho, Swift Compiler crashes are the single most worrying things for the swift language future, because it casts shadows over the unit tests, and thus make people doubt the reliability of the whole project.
Isn't that the "risk" part of private investment like this?

In theory if/when Uber goes public, the market can hammer his share price into submission. His choice then would be to step down and keep his money, or watch his valuation rapidly dwindle as low as the market dictates.
Facebook Hires Former Apple Engineer to Oversee Oculus VR
Go Remote Jobs is on product hunt
I blame all the "pimp yourself out" freelancer sites wherein talentless copy/paste monkeys underbid each other to offer their services for next to nothing --for devaluing this sort of work so much, that people can actually post requests like this, in all seriousness.

Mind you, at least the OP didn't stoop so low as to invite someone to do the job for free "but your work will be seen by lots of people, which will help raise your public profile" --which is what a lot of graphic artists get.
I'd say that the reason why sexual harassment is such a problem at SV unicorns is because of the SV startup culture, not despite it.

SV encourages people to move fast, be aggressive, don't be afraid to break things, ignore regulations, disrupt all the things, etc. There are substantial similarities to the way a VC-funded startup operates and the way a pick-up artist operates.

You'll notice that Susan Fowler's blog post also goes into detail about the Game of Thrones-esque culture with middle managers constantly and openly plotting to overthrow their superiors and take their jobs. A culture that encourages you to figuratively fuck your boss also encourages you to literally fuck your subordinates. It's a culture of aggression and proving your dominance.

Big traditional conservative companies on the other hand... well, they just don't have that culture. Their culture discourages people from taking risks at every level. In order to get anything done, you have to go through several layers of bureaucracy, put everything in writing, make sure your is are dotted and your ts crossed. It discourages aggressive, disruptive risk-takers from coming near the company. And without aggressive, disruptive risk-takers, you don't have nearly the amount of sexual harassment. Yes, it still happens on occasion, but it isn't nearly as systemic or as blatant as in a VC-funded startup.

So it leads to the seemingly-paradoxical situation where the best companies for women and LGBT people to work at are the kind of "conservative" companies that you can imagine Ned Flanders working at. But culturally conservative isn't the same thing as politically conservative; I've said this before, but I have a lot of politically liberal friends (most of them enthusiastic Clinton voters) who live in the suburbs, work 9-5 at traditional large corporations, and have traditional families.
It's also available in the Mac version of Pages.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726

ETA: link
Honestly I'm more excited about the ability to replace all fonts in a document - especially in keynote. You have no idea how often I get a presentation to deliver or tweak that has 7 different Arial and Helvetica-like fonts in it, because each person that wrote slides for it used a different font. Drives me batty!
this is not confined to NYC or cities.

My cousins have run a successful commercial roofing business in a Mid Western state for decades. It is common that on any public building they work on to have an OSHA inspector come out on day if not each day, to have a local sheriff be called, and even once INS. All because this family owned business is non union and has always been. the sad part, this is a business which has never had more than two dozen employees.

It isn't just them. If non union electricians are on site for isolating air conditioning systems if not building main power they too are subject to the same.

The joke is, that for much of the state they know every OSHA inspector and even the inspectors joke about it. Still they have to stop work and dance the dance. and this is only for the legal means to intimidate.

unions aren't just about protecting employees, they are big money for both those who run them and the politicians they support.
Not all unions are bad.

Unions serve a purpose in many industries but today a lot of them are antiquated echoes from the past.

Uber drivers should have a union IMO, but the ATeachers Union and Manhattan construction industry should have theirs disrupted by something more fitting for the new reality they have too much power. The construction industry literally have people holdning signal flags the entire day.

Furthermore when it comes to Manhattan lets not forget how much wiseguys control many of the cities industries.
In what way would it interfere with work?
> Start here, and expand outwards in related searches

No thank you, I'd sooner someone qualified do that.

> it is a common refrain on HN

> I don't know the precise answer ... doctor/nursing friends don't complain about it.

My point is, that this is weak subjective evidence. I do not see the same trends you do.

> it isn't an unreasonable question to pose whether or not that relative low status of programming turns off women

Isn't it? Lets establish that it is true first.

> are there no financial consequences for managers mishandling such valuable revenue generators in general

Does "so many women programmers in tech-focused companies relating consistently depressing stories of exclusion" mean that most women in tech are excluded, or that these stories bubble to the top?