skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's because the "pro" suffix is completely devalued nowadays, just look at the app store, "pro" usually just means "without ads" and/or "not stripped down in functionality"

We need a less trendy suffix to signify what "pro" used to, something like "modular" or "developer edition" or something, and have that also applicable to laptop/computers with no soldered RAM or SSDs etc. etc.

Make it cost more, fine, but make it available. Because in the long run every developer saying "the touch bar and low travel keyboard are not for me" or "I am not touching something with telemetry with a 10 foot pole" means less software for your platform later on.
The managed db service I like at AMZN is DynamoDB because it is a super-durable database for control plane applications that are not particularly demanding that has a low entry cost.

The managed db services at AMZN get insanely expensive fast when you are talking multi-AZ, and you have to buy capacity in much bigger
units, we are talking a difference between $5 a month and $50 a month or more.
Switch to firefox today on my office machine and was amazed to see developers tools opened instead of a page, lol.
Is this bizarre, or do a lot of systems work with xml, like rendering HTML pages or reading a legacy api? Is this that different a feature than JSX in react? I am not a scala developer but this seems not out of place for a language that powers web servers.
http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ihme_data too
The bovril name is interesting. It's a mix of Bos (ox) and a super intelligent alien race from science fiction stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril

Beef tea isn't to everyone's taste. I wonder how they'd react if given the chevril variant?

Also, Bovril is one of the only products to have the Pope in its marketing.
you didn't configure it properly
I was proposing the sale of a nonexistent product, but making clear that it doesn't (already) exist and telling properly how it will look like. Also, this product should be feasible to do in, say, less than a month.

So, it's kind of a preorder, but a cancellable (by the seller, obviously by the customer too) one.

It's a very tough sale, but precisely for that is a way of discarding business/side projects ideas in a massive way. If you can sell it before it exists, it means that there are people VERY interested in such a product, so you are on the way to success.

Disclaimer: it's very easy to speak and very difficult to put in practice, and I have never tried.
Dynamic Archived Web Services in IPFS
In places in the US where I've used buses, none of that would make much of a difference. The main reason the buses I've used sucked are because they run infrequently and make stops absurdly often.

Infrequent buses mean you need a lot of planning, transfers often take forever, and you need to plan to arrive early so you're not screwed if you're delayed. This is easy to fix, but costly.

Stopping absurdly often makes the buses extremely slow. Bus journeys can take an order of magnitude longer than the same journey would take by car, because the bus spends most of its time winding through neighborhoods and stopping every two blocks to take on or discharge passengers. Fixing this would probably require more bus routes, and also some willingness for people to walk a little farther to get to the bus stop.

On a bit of a tangent: do buses really wear the roads less than cars? Road damage is approximately proportional to the fourth power of vehicle weight, so I would expect that concentrating people in buses would make things worse, not better, compared to lots of individual cars. Not that this alone is a reason to stick with cars.
I feel bad about eating intelligent species, however if it makes you feel any better, their lifespan is only 3-5 years.
That is interesting. I agree with you on the speed of reading, but it does offer one very interesting advantage - every single label offers an indication as to the "proper" orientation of the object you're reading the label on.

I imagine that alone would be quite useful in emergency situations, or even in general loading/unloading operations.

My wife works for a shipping company, and unless it's on a pallet, it is likely to be orientated incorrectly on at least one of the legs of its journey.
>it can't be more than $10 or so for a quick consultation

It's times like this I realize just how different the rest of the world is.
Well you're in luck, because that's why traffic engineers measure vehicle-miles-traveled and private shuttles saved almost 29 million miles.

On a personal note, I don't really understand what you're saying. Congestion goes up because there are less vehicles on the road? It sounds like you're trying to play contrarian and arguing for unintended effects and trying to assert something about short trips, but I'm at a loss for how your hypothesis is supposed to work.
"An opening line that might hint the possibility..." I'm sorry, but at some point you're just expecting the worst possible outcome from a relatively banal situation. Your role in that context would be show an interest and defuse the situation, and only after that failed to have an effect should you start to be concerned that this is a toxic case.

If you approach everyone who so much as barks like they're a mad dog, you'll end up meeting a shocking number "mad dogs".
I'm stuck in there. Can you give a hint?
Thank you ))
Unfortunately this would break Content Security Policy.

Not that many people use CSP, but that's the excuse I've heard for not allowing cross-origin caching.
Yes, the F-111 would fit much better! Seems like the F-4 and F-111 occupy opposite extremes of the potential outcomes for a jack-of-all-trades aircraft.
What about using something like TCPView[1], and Process Explorer[2]? Saying that there's "no good way" is throwing in the towel a bit early.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/tcpview.asp...
[2] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexpl...
This crosses into personal attack. That's not allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else may be, so please don't do it in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038453.
Ask HN: Is anyone using BEAM for DevOps and/or control systems?
The more I learn about the primitives of BEAM/Elixir, the more excited I get about how the implementations lend themselves to DevOps and control systems. Things like location transparency, [0] hot code swapping, [1][2] (they took the video down, but it was cool to see the code update while flying in ms) reductions, preemptive scheduling, system-wide back-pressure, [3][4] and the supervision model [5] make me think we’re getting closer to the correct abstractions for proper closed-loop control systems for distributed systems, while other languages/frameworks/implementations are trying to duct tape these things on like blue/green deploys, g/unicorn, multiprocessing to get around GIL, etc.

I have some ideas on how to use Nerves as the basis for PID, then generalizing out to cover PLC, and eventually getting to more ambiguous things like distributed systems, but I'm not sure if this is the most effective/efficient path.

[0]: http://www.zohaib.me/setting-up-elixir-cluster/

[1]: http://www.unstablebuild.com/2016/03/18/hot-code-reload-in-elixir.html

[2]: http://www.erlang-embedded.com/2013/10/minimal-downtime-in-flight-drone-firmware-upgrade-in-erlang/

[3]: https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang/scheduling/real-time/preemptive/migration/2016/02/09/erlang-scheduler-details.html

[4]: http://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html

[5]: https://medium.com/@mustafaturan/visualisation-of-elixir-supervision-tree-strategies-4d4cb8123138
Advertising boycott on YouTube
Symfony 4: Monolith vs. Micro
5 Reasons to Boost Your Career with Side Projects – Brian Gilham
What specifically is your first paragraph attacking? I just read their paper and have no idea what you're going after. They present a concrete strategy for a rigorous proof, but with gaps left. They also check that the suggested strategy has the properties we expect given what they want it to do. They do not make a plausibility argument like you suggest, except in so far as that they argue that their proof strategy might plausibly work. The distinction, I think, is very significant; the end result here would be a rigorous proof.
Ex-F1 Strategist? That sounds really interesting. What did you do there?
Is this a very new phenomenon? My Vizio 4K TV from 2015 has the Amazon video app built in.
A consumer-priced EEG system would enable individuals to conduct polysomongraph testing at home to diagnose sleep disorders. Analysis of time in each sleep phase by EEG is the most accurate way of assessing quality of sleep but current polysomnograph systems are very expensive and complex to use and therefore polysomnograph testing must be administered through an overnight sleep study session at a clinic.
I appreciate the compliment! (author of crass here)

I've mentioned it before, but it's really not a great idea to use multiple minifiers. Minifier bugs can get nasty, and using multiple minifiers exponentially increases the likelihood that you'll encounter some weird or broken behavior. Make sure to test thoroughly.
Indeed. For some reason Amazon, appears to have a major axe to grind with Google only - I'd hazard it's their market dominance and the threat of the Play Store platform. Just makes it even more irritating. You can buy a Roku on Amazon too...Not a chromecast.[0]

[0]http://lifehacker.com/amazon-banning-the-chromecast-is-unbel...
Closure compiler, while trickier to use than the other options, will do dead code elimination, constant propagation, and other classic whole-program optimizations.
Get to Know Design at Uber
So, they are technically illiterate... and doubling down on stupid, but BOO! Kiddie porn!! Bravo.
That does surprise me, in a good way! My concern, aside from salary, would be job security - in London it's possible to find a new job within days... I will look into Edinburgh :)
I've seen Octopus using tools.

I'm from south-west Australia (where these dolphins were observed) and grew up swimming along the coast, scuba and snorkelling to much delight.

Once, in a little sand hole near Yanchep, I was floating around on a particularly hot day, when I thought I saw a crayfish just lolling around on the ocean floor. Diving deeper to get a closer look, I realised it was just the head of the crayfish, long-since hollowed out, albeit with a bit of flesh still onboard.

I took an even closer look, and what I thought was a bit of weed attached to it was actually a long, slender tentacle, which I followed back to a minuscule hole in the rocky sand, and therein I spotted the rest of the octopus.

Delighted, I stuck around for a while to watch.

The octopus was fishing! It held out the cray corpse just a little, out in the currents, waiting patiently for the stupid little white fish to come and try to nail a bite!

When a particularly dumb little fish got its fangs in, BAM! Out came another tentacle, fast as light, and snatched that dumb fish into the hole. All the while, the original bait tentacle continued to just lull about, swinging and swaying, getting those dumb fish even closer and closer, ever more tantalising.

I stayed and watched it all day - it apparently had a nearly-insatiable hunger, or maybe it was just really enjoying itself. To my dying days, I'll never forget that clever little cephalopod ..
Yeah it's certainly possible, in both Django and Rails. But I'd still argue that both frameworks lead you astray by default unless you consciously go against the grain to avoid it.
Will you share the results when you're done? I'd love to see the patterns!
All the twitter games were simulcast on CBS... Not sure what the point of having them on Twitter was...
>Are you sure about this? Have you seen what the Xerox Star could do in 1981

Yes, I'm quite sure. I was alive in the 80s, and I remember what things were like. I sure as hell don't remember any Xerox Stars, but I do remember lots of mainframe terminals at places like banks. I never even heard of the Star until I saw your link, similar to how I only learned about the Xerox Alto many, many years later and only saw one in the Smithsonian museum, never in actual use. Computers like that were rare research projects, not at all representative of how things were in the 80s. Macs are as close as you're going to get to today's UIs for computers which normal people had access to and were actually in any kind of widespread use, and these weren't really popular until the mid/late 80s (and even then were pretty limited as they were expensive).

You are correct about integration and how shitty web applications are though.
> my ideal fantasy world

If you haven't yet, you should read up on what Ethereum is doing.
I feel like that is there biggest weakness, they are too big. There is lots of room for advancement in this area and they are far too comfortable. There calorie counter is also critically flawed, when a user plateaus and stops losing weight they are left in the dark, also they may not lose any weight at all based on there estimate and carry on eating the incorrect number of calories for far longer than they should, this happened to me personally before I built Poundaweek. Also the amount of calories the other apps recommend is static, and only adds calories based off of very flawed estimates of calories burned from exercises. Poundaweek learns and adjusts dynamically and specifically for each individual user as well as letting you know why and what you can do to keep on track towards your goal.
ParameterOne/Drop#

We are going to send out a "one time use" Sim Card sticker to registered voters that you can stick on your regular sim card and Vote in the next election from your phone. Great for absentee ballots, disabled community, lazy people :-)
>I'm sorry for you not being able to enjoy this.

I'm not against allusions and references if they do their job i.e. being a method of art. References are good and appropriate in the Ulysses or Eco's books, but in this movie all the references are maid for one single purpose: to refer. It's the main difference between fan service and postmodernism. In a postmodern art references are used to create the new, independent piece of art. In a fan service references are used just to play on nostalgic feelings and earn some money.

>You do realize that there are more then the '95 movie and the manga do you?

Of course. All I mean is that in original movie these images are appropriate while in the new movie they are taken out of context so they lost their meaning. The original scene with the Puppet Muster did carried an ideological and aesthetic sense, while in the new movie it's just meaningless.
Rosen Introduces Bill to Restore Americans’ Internet Privacy Protections
That depends on the pricing.
A lot of systems work with a lot of things. The question is what belongs in the compiler and core language, and why it's taking up time in my compile step -- this latter question being particularly fair game in the Scala ecosystem, with its almost-legendarily slow compile times.

A tool to check that my XML is valid: great! Yes, please! Great; but that's not a language's job.

Write a tool for it and invoke it in another step in your build process. Call it a linter because that's what it is: a linter is a process that checks other documents for correctness.

Type inference for a language and XML grammar checking don't belong in the same process; they just don't. Only sadness and wasted (human, and machine alike) time can come of it.
I'll fill out your survey, but also answer here for discussion:

- A purpose and mission you can believe in

- Opportunity for personal and professional growth

- A high quality team to work along-side and be inspired by

- A diverse and inclusive atmosphere
It's been years since I've futzed around with Linux... it's a little daunting. I need to be able to exchange Word documents with clients, and I worry about formatting errors and the like showing up if I'm creating those documents in LibreOffice. Also, I do like to play the occasional video game.

Really, what I want is Windows 7 that isn't locked to last-generation hardware and that isn't coming up on EOL. It wasn't FOSS, but it worked very well for what I needed.
Thanks, and happy to hear about any applications you have in mind! Feel free to email nate@writing.ai if you'd like to discuss.
Not. They don't get high on octopus, they feast on octopus and also play with its preys.
- no mac

- vim

- no javascript

- no overtime

- no on call

- personal projects on fridays
ReactNative Becoming More Accessible in an Interview with Brent Vatne of Expo
One of the main reasons these optimizations happen is actually to make compression better. If you have a mix of px/pt/cm/mm in your stylesheet, it's more than likely that making them consistent (in their smallest possible form) makes them more uniform, making them more compressible.

I used to have a doc with actual numbers, but I've since lost it. If I dig it up, I'll link it here.
I filled it out. Good luck to you. I hope you'll share your findings.
Yes but there are guys doing this and it's pretty expensive (hobby instance is cheap but then a major jump to next level).

https://www.databaselabs.io/pricing/
I don't think the cost of the device has any bearing on the issue. If you sell me something for $1, you have just as much obligation to ensure that it is fit for the purpose you advertised as if you sold me a device for $100k.

The sale price only affects my willingness to sue you and the amount of damages I might be able to collect in the judgment.

Regulation of the industry just means that more interested third parties may become involved in our dispute.

If you sell me an Internet-connected garage-door opener that includes a smartphone app as the remote operating device, you are responsible for ensuring that the app meets the consumer expectations previously set by radio-frequency garage-door opener remote-activation devices.

My expectation there is that the only time such a device should fail to function is when the battery inside it is dead, or if the door itself is prevented from moving. And I also expect that my remote device will not open a neighbor's door, nor that any device used by my neighbors will open my door.

So when I press the virtual button on my phone, and my door does not move, because the button crashes to the OS display manager, that is a critical--but still fixable--technical failure for your IoT door-opener company. Subsequently banning your complaining customer from using the device he already bought is an existence-threatening customer service failure.

With incidents like these, it shouldn't be too difficult to get clueless consumers to realize that connecting things to the Internet is a solution in search of a problem. Your fridge doesn't need to write Tweets, and your garage door in Denver doesn't need to be opened from Budapest. Sometimes, standing up from your couch, walking to a physical switch, and flipping it is the best solution. And when it is not, blowing the right pattern into your quadriplegic's control straw should activate a radio signal received by your self-hosted home automation server that does not need to consult the Internet in any way before turning your lights on.

In case of complete insanity, where you have actually connected your garage door opener to the Internet, and the manufacturer banned your device from using the central server, why the hell would your device then be useless, if both the phone and the opener can be connected to the same LAN over wifi? Why has the manufacturer made a reliable Internet connection a mandatory requirement for opening a door that is likely less than 10m from the end of your nose? A wifi antenna can broadcast a short-range radio signal even better than a dumb opener remote can, so why is that not an expected mode of operation?
Like every cross site cacheing scheme this could be abused for tracking purposes.
- Money
I don't know. It can go both ways. You seem to assume that Microsoft cleaned up their act for the better, but for all we know it could be the opposite. You don't automatically become good (or less evil) by ageing.
no solution for each question unless you get it right.
I remember when police departments said they wouldn't put weapons on their drones, when they were first trying to obtain them, to quell the outrage.

I guess that only lasted a few years. The problem is it's likely that these drones are going to end-up killing a lot of innocents, too, when they become "mainstream" in police departments, and when the police want to use them because they are "so cool" and it gives them more of that warrior cop feeling. That's only going to make the relationship between the public and the police much worse, and it won't be just black people angry at them.
I'm with you, I can't stand the thought of eating them. They're just too darn smart, and seem really aware of you. I've swum all over the world, and any time I get a chance, I'll easily change my plans just to hang and watch a cephalopod in the wild. Thing is, too many times I've felt the situation reversed - that I'm swimming along, and the octopus are watching me, hanging out, trying to learn what this strange creature is up to in their ocean.
I've spoken w/ them; it's a very interesting product!
That's under "professional growth". The idea that you advance in your career.
The ungrateful refugee
Wake me up when Quake has CTF mode with grappling hook. Or maybe someone knows another game that has a CTF mode with grappling hook.
CSS is a far bigger spec than anyone knows. Did you know that you can put dots and spaces in your CSS classnames? Bonus points if you can figure out how to escape characters in CSS identifiers ;)
May be on a tangent and a shameless plug, but I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042150 this morning.

Underlock is a small Ruby library that helps with Encrypting/Decrypting of files and other data.
"Civilised people don’t ask for resumes when answering calls from the edge of a grave. It shouldn’t matter what I did after I cleaned myself off and threw away the last of my asylum-seeking clothes. My accomplishments should belong only to me. There should be no question of earning my place, of showing that I was a good bet. My family and I were once humans in danger, and we knocked on the doors of every embassy we came across: the UK, America, Australia, Italy. America answered [but] what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. It is your duty to answer us, even if we don’t give you sugary success stories."

An excellent read.
> Scala has the most utterly bizarre priorities.

This is from 2011, and in any case represents knowledge of Scala as it is, not Scala's priorities. In 2012, Odersky, discussing Scala's​ priorities going forward, pointed to XML literals as a language feature to ax for Scala 3, moving XML handling to libraries.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/scala-language/PV4...
Hate to wreck your childhood, but Time Traveler used a CRT combined with a concave mirror to create the 3D effect. No holograms involved at all.

https://www.google.com/patents/US4776118
JIRA Notifications via Slack
Most webpack loaders put them in the <head>
Yeah, not gonna lie. I've tried most of the free DAWs and they all have stability issues. Random crashes or audio glitches.