skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another interesting wrinkle to the described process. What if you miss a bit in the house? Something in the couch cushion perhaps. Uh oh!

Well, the super Orthodox Jews have a solution. Yes, you should make a good faith effort to eliminate all of the hamets in your house, but you can exploit a loophole! Hamets in your house, but not owned by you, are OK, so rabbis in these groups have a list of non-Jews willing to buy all remaining hamets in your house for $1.00 (or other small amount). They then own them and you are in the clear. There is a special term for these people, but I don't remember it.

But what if you later (after Passover) find a box of crackers you missed and you actually want them? No problem because the loophole has a loophole. The buyers don't actually pay you the $1.00, they just pay you a penny as a down payment. As part of their service, they then deliberately don't pay you any more, default on the contract, and, the day Passover, the box of crackers are actually yours again.
Sorry, English is not my first language. What would be a better way to phrase it?
OpenBSD does seem empty by comparison, but it's on purpose.

ZFS is large and complicated. http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD

DTrace would be nice to have, but I believe there are CDDL license concerns.

Jails are a way of isolating services so that they cannot do (much) damage to the system in the event they are compromised. The closest alternative in OpenBSD is probably pledge(2), which allows a program to voluntarily renounce the ability to invoke a set of syscalls. There is also chroot if all you need is filesystem virtualization.

MAC can be complicated to implement. This comment explained things very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893749

> OpenBSD doesn't support a MAC framework because they believe the best approach to security is correctness, rather than trying to achieve security by adding features which results in more complexity, making it more difficult to ensure correctness. A common mistake people make is thinking that OpenBSD's primary goal is security; their primary goal is correctness. This just happens to result in better security more often than not.

Linux compat is a similar story. OpenBSD dropped it in the 6.0 release due to complexity and security concerns.

I don't know a whole lot about CloudABI.
ya no chance of that happening any time soon
Neural Network Guesses Phone Passwords
I bought earlier versions from one such, https://www.osdisc.com/products/bsd/openbsd .
Not true. Boarding basically means haven't left the gate. If you get to your seat, sit, then they realize that your seat belt is broken, they can deny you "boarding" instead of dispatching a tech to fix the belt. You were seated on the plane, now you're not. Boarding is an overly broad term, but that's how it is written.
Do you think they are optimizing for file size? Do you think their customers really care?

(The answer to both is no.)
People definitely want to watch Uber burn as some have forever, but something seems to have shifted. I've been seeing facebook ads for Uber engineering for the last 1-2 years but recently looking at the comments on them they're 100% negative. A sampling:

"This is one of those times when steering into the skid might have been the wrong move."

"I think Uber needs to post an ad for a new President more than a Senior Software Engineer..."

"How about UberEatsDicks? Can we work on that product together? It sounds pretty good for you guys. Right up your alley."

"Facebook must hate me to suggest this post. LOL"

"Haha, no thanks. http://www.theverge.com/.../14664474/uber-sexism-allegations ."
> No justification is given for why the results for the Bay Area should be generalizable for America writ large.

Hockey. Stick.
Xenocara may not satisfy performance characteristics the way something like Wayland is. However, Xenocara is pretty awesome in (I believe) being the only X11 server to address the somewhat ugly security model of stuff running as root.
Got it. One of the differentiators of Memo is the deep Slack integration, for example with the recently launched Message Menus:
https://blog.memo.ai/10x-your-slack-apps-ux-with-message-men...

We plan to offer G Suite and GitHub sign-in soon.
Run by frats bros who are blind to their luck and lack all humility. Who treat everyone whose not their bro like trash including customers, employees, contracted workers, other tech companies, etc...

Those who loathe Uber can only wish to witness Kalanick learn humility by holding only the ashes of Uber he ignited and then burned!
I am in agreement generally that people are conflating the actions of the officers (excessive force) vs. what United is responsible for (poor business practices, lack of consideration, poor judgement). It would be interesting to know under what specific statute were they allowed to use force to remove a passenger from an airplane? Is this covered under Trespassing or part of FAA regulations that you must obey everything the crew says no matter how legitimate the command is? Where do we draw the line?
The size reported by windows is the private working set. If windows pages out data for non-use it doesn't show unless you add the commit column.
United didn't drag anyone off the plane. ORD PD did.

Also, boarding is any time up until gate departure.
I await the data leak with bated breath.
The best example of this is Bloomberg. The first 20 terminals went to Merrill Lynch (https://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/the-bloomberg-terminal). In fintech, I think both the regulatory hurdle you mention, in addition to solving semi-custom workflows can be a prerequisite for developing a useful product. Take Addepar for example. They have to integrate into the Bloomberg's of the world before they are useful. And, while specifically, a Bloomberg integration could be meaningless for the next customer who uses Capital IQ, neither are likely one-off integrations. Spending time customizing/connecting to other smaller/startup fintech services probably is likely disastrous.
IRC (and Slack) are not real-time. Why do people think this?
Barely related, but Facebook seems like a TERRIBLE place to advertise for hiring.
Well, considering how it would be implemented, I doubt "any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store" was the real reason. It sounds more like, "any app indistinguishable from a virus has no place in any app store, anywhere."

>> Google, conversely, has welcomed Space to its mobile marketplace, the Google Play store, Brown says. This is a signal that the search giant is ready to "give people a little more control about how they want their minds to work," he says.

No, it's a signal that Google doesn't care enough about what goes in their app store to review entries before publishing them.

Honestly, I don't care what sort of apps you make. People really should have a choice about what apps they can install. App stores create a barrier to entry for app developers that stifle creativity and expression.

But I also think it's important to tell the truth about why things are happening. This article is a PR campaign. Who even heard of Space before this?
HN consists of mostly humans. Unfortunately, even the smartest and most unbiased ones amongst us aren't entirely immune to sensationalism, so some of us might have voted for reasons other than hate.

Human nature!

.edit: down-vote city for calling HNers human? Or what? Just curious. Don't really care about the points.

.edit²: removed a bit of the blanket from that statement. Pardon the initial poor wording!
> I think one might actually be able to build a business by building a Slack that runs on top of IRC, and releasing client apps that actually significantly reduce the flexibility that a standard IRC client gives you. If you can get the on boarding flow to invite -> download -> log in -> start chatting with the people you want to chat with, you could crush slack (assuming you had the marketing budget to compete with theirs).

Someone did, it's called IRCCloud.

That's the entire problem I've been talking about above: Anything you can imagine regarding IRC already exists. The only issue is that you don't know about it yet, and have to find it. And without marketing, or any lists of what is good and not, this is hard.
The CEO backtracked on that today after seeing the stock plunge: http://newsroom.united.com/news-releases?item=124755
Miles per Gallon reimagined
The fade-in, as I understand it, waits until the page has loaded to actually start downloading the image. This means that the image download will not be competing for connections and bandwidth with HTML/CSS/JS files that are required for first paint.

Whether this makes a significant difference is probably highly dependent on the page and the user's connection, and I have no idea without profiling. But it's at least plausible that it would help some users on slow connections.

Of course, it could just be that devs are A/B testing time until the "load" event fires, in which case they've just found a way to cheat the metric.
He apologized today calling it "truly horrific".
From the 60 minutes article:

>Ramsay Brown and his garage start-up Dopamine Labs made a habit-breaking app as well. It’s called “Space” and it creates a 12-second delay -- what Brown calls a “moment of Zen” before any social media app launches. In January, he tried to convince Apple to sell it in their App Store.

Somehow I don't think that was why his app was rejected.
You don't throw out the basket for one bad egg.
This is a completely irrational thing to say (and is speaking for others) when you really have no idea what the facts of the matter are one way or the other.
> Your solution to memory leaks is using a lower-level language? I should probably stop reading there..

Lower level than sandboxing into a js VM? yes. Writing everything in assembly, or in an unmanaged language? no. Adding unnecessary complexity to a program increases possibilities of bugs, which in this case, will be outside of your control. And this is a perfect example of unnecessary complexity.

> How do you make SSL connections? How do you parse JSON api's? How do you play audio, integrate with platform features (menu bars, dock dropping etc)? How do you create P2P WebRTC connections that capture camera and mic inputs? Let me guess, you have libraries for that.

Simple libraries that intend on doing the job and getting out of your way, yes. I wasn't aware you needed to embed a web browser to parse a json string, or to establish an SSL connection? There is a large difference between what a library is, and what electron aims to be... There will always be system apis that you will have to interface with, these are apples and oranges.

> People keep bringing this up because they're insecure about their role as programmers in a world where creating useful functionality is becoming easier and more accessable. People keep bringing this up because they don't comprehend what business requirements actually are and the cost of rolling your own technology and battle testing it.

Thank you for reminding me what the phrase "argumentum ad-hominem" means.

> I promise you. We're not all stupid. That's all I'm asking of people to consider before they start solving all the world's problems.

I can't speak for anyone else but I don't believe anyone who finds electron appealing is stupid. I am sure these people are more than capable programmers, and electron is a very appealing way for a web-based product to be able to quickly produce and distribute a desktop client. Most just desire for people to understand that most large-scale projects will dig their own graves in the promises of cross platform support and a fast production cycle, which has been a growing trend in software development for quite a few years now.
When is the best time to post to HN?
Remind Is Hiring Engineers, Head of Marketing, Community (in SF) and Sales (Atl)
He shouldn't have apologised (the immature belligerent dude on the plane should). However, he has apologised now, bowing to the relentless social media pressure, which appears to come mostly from people that don't know much about aviation law, airline operation, or anything related to this incident, from what I can see.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-airlines-ceo-apol...
> I've heard that airplane fuel is becoming prohibitively expensive

Why not verify what you've heard? Kerosene prices have actually fallen dramatically from just a few years ago.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...
Sounds like I have some more to figure out :) I haven't touched alpha blending on the GBA at all yet, but that sounds excellent.

I'm especially interested to see what the performance cost of blending is on the GBA, given how expensive it is on present day phones.
This is a repost. I'm guessing due to the blowup of the electron post.

There is no right answer. A huge fat bloated website can be successful (see BuzzFeed for the general population), or a lightweight text based informational website can be successful (see hacker news for you guys).

Same thing for the electron debate. A bloated web app ported to desktop could just be as successful as a native app and vice versa.

The problem is that it just sucks. The choices we have to make suck and everything sucks right now.

Development is now "pop." This is why websites are fat and web development is going to the desktop.
I'm guessing the real reason is that this app is apparently interrupting the function of other apps. Can't blame Apple for wanting to prevent that.
>They usually say at least three hours study for each hour of class, I used that as my guide

That would put me at 18hrs of studying a day :/

Due to years of posting nonsense online, English is easy for me (top of the class). Not looking forward to my 2 science requirements though as thats where I struggle to concentrate.
I'd love to do something else (maybe even for say 5 years, just go get my appetite for tech back), but almost everything outside tech is overcrowded and pays way less, which means working way more years before reaching retirement.
Dead links etc.
How does that even work on a system level? iOS apps can't really influence the execution of another...
Yes, and I strongly support their effort to do so.
Could you give me an example of a theoretical activity that would qualify to you as altruism but would not be dismissible as "they get far more returns from it in PR"?
Why not normal username+password authentication?
From forum discussion:

" Its
development was prompted by the Common Lisp and Scheme tutorials that
contrast syntactic macros with C preprocessor macros, and wanting to
see whether syntactic macros could work in a lower-level language. " -Tom Harrison [1]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/dale-lang/h73oNq5U6MQ/...
Those are helpful, but I think in addition to isolated screenshots I'd want to see full screen snaps of what the app looks like. This is to help me visualize it in context of my existing work environment/flow on the desktop.

It seems like there is a lot of interplay between participants too and I'd like to see how that works.

Just some cents on my initial reaction to seeing the product. Kudos though!
What about Lyft, Didi Chuxing, etc. etc.?
>I doubt "any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store" was the real reason. It sounds more like, "any app indistinguishable from a virus has no place in any app store, anywhere."

I don't disagree that the latter sounds like a more sensible reason to reject the app, but the former is apparently a direct quote from the Apple rep.
Don't forget the $200K+ they don't have to spend (or borrow) for each child they want to put through college.
Under Section 12(g), they probably should have had to report this information anyway, even without going public. However, it seems they've found an "innovative" way to skirt that part of the law: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/2016/01/uber-a...
As long as Kalanick is still there, it can burn.
Nothing more fascinating than a slow train wreck.

Of course, maybe there's a lot of interest because of seemingly irrationality of management in handling this situation?
DJI Drone Launch Event Confirmed for 23rd April
The post tried to make the point that historically, Jewish men helped out around the house. It was an unreasonable reach. This comment was a succinct rebuttal of that point of view.

But of course you can't judge everyone's knee-jerk reaction, so I'll remove it if you still feel hurt.
The invigorating fervor of social justice
use precompiled headers?
Good sentiment, but just want to highlight that one ought to be against sexual harassment even when one doesn't have a sister or wife or daughter, just as one ought to be against racism or sexual discrimination even if one doesn't have people of other races or sexual orientations in the immediate family.
What I gathered from the article is that it replaces the icons on your homescreen with its own icons. So you get several Space app icons on your home screen, each one individually configured to launch a different app, but only first after recording that your user engagement is so high that you are indeed willing to put up with a 12 second pause before reading the latest tweets and status updates.
Programming sucked before HTTP+JSON became the lingua franca of machine communication. Being able to use any programming language with modern HTTP-based protocols is a real luxury.

Before, you could only use a programming language if had a production-ready implementation of the protocol you wanted to speak. Otherwise you would spend the next weeks or months tediously writing one.

This was so crippling that XML actually seemed like a good idea. Just imagine!
Exactly - presumably it's either a Jailbreak app or it uses undocumented APIs.
or Fable, or PureScript, or Kotlin... :)
Number of patents by country (1977-2015)
Figured as much, but I'm wondering if there's a proxy out there that could at least give us insight -- weekly app store downloads perhaps? Also not sure how available those metrics are.
The only way to accomplish that is through a jailbreak or undocumented APIs - probably only a jailbreak.

60 Minutes has been played by the creator of the app.
Paypal charges a $20 chargeback fee on disputes with a credit card company.
WhatsApp to Launch First Digital Payments Service in India
I'd guess there is too much shit storm at Uber for their PR head to handle.
It's hard to tell FTA, but from what I can gather it basically acts as a launcher for the social media app of your choice(s?). Pretty basic - you open the app, it does whatever pause mumbo jumbo it wants, then uses a URL scheme to launch twitter/FB/etc.
I like the idea a lot, since i often catch myself opening a new reddit tab right after closing another.

Anyone know of a way to accomplish this on linux?

Or maybe somehow through piehole or a similar system?
We have a product for web development in Object Pascal, Elevate Web Builder (http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web) that includes an IDE with a WYSIWYG design environment (the IDE is written in Delphi for Windows). In order to supply the design environment, we had to write an emulation layer that mimics the DOM tree and can perform the necessary drawing operations to satisfy all DOM CSS style properties. This layer is ~80% of what you would need to implement a UI toolkit in native Object Pascal using Free Pascal. The last ~20% would be dealing with surfacing the native OS input controls (single-line edit, multi-line edit, etc.), which are just stubbed out right now because the design environment doesn't require them. We've considered finishing this last bit and making the whole thing available for Free Pascal.
If your site needs good mobile support, don't use it I guess, but I have never had any issues on my low end Alcatel Pixi 4.
Given that the rest of the explanation is dishonest, there is no reason to believe that this quote is not also a lie.
you're confusing 2 things. before passover, Jews make a declaration claiming that all crumbs and other hametz not found should be like dust.

if however someone had something valuable, like a bottle of whiskey, then they sell it.
Who gives a shit. The point of writing natives apps isn't just to check it off your bucket list - natives apps can have advantages over web apps if done right. Those advantages include better performance, integration with native UI components, integration with native APIs, and integration with the file system. The only one a "native" electron app can accomplish that a web app can't is the last one. If your app doesn't require integration with the file system beyond a file selector then an electron app offers no benefit AFAIK. Companies do it purely so they can tell everyone they have a native app without having to invest the work required to get a real native app. My suggestion for the author is to find a browser they like, and then run all electron apps as web apps within the browser whenever possible.
I don't know about "wanting" anything like that, but it's a pretty sad statement about our society that Kalanick is going to walk away from this basically without any real negative consequences. The fact that he isn't already gone is terrible, in my opinion.
This seems like another example of bad stuff happening for game-theoretic reasons, so individual action won't help, the only solution is regulation. Ban tracking for a start. It's similar to banning outdoor billboard ads, which many places have done with good results.
Ok I'm all for a good app store rejection story but this sounds pretty suspect: “any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store.”

It's way more likely because there isn't a public API for changing the application icon on iOS (at least until 10.3 https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication/28...)

...and even when once there is a public API. It is certainly against app store rules to infringe on the trademarks of popular social network companies for what you use as your icon.
I just assumed "A rep from the Apple Store Review reportedly said" meant "a rep from Space told us".
I'm curious: what makes you believe that the man was "immature" and "belligerent"? Eyewitness accounts and videos seem to imply that he was not, and as more facts have come out, I'm becoming more and more convinced that what United did may was a violation of their own policies, and perhaps the law.
Space gives you a replacement icon for your time and attention sucks of choice, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or Snapchat.

OTOH the easiest way to do this would be to have the Space app help to automate creation of Safari shortcuts on the home screen (which would be called Twitter and show the correct icon), which launches a hypothetical page in Safari
like https://twitter.space.usedopamine.com which would show the pulsing animation for 12 seconds, before launching the actual Twitter.app.
Do you have any evidence that the passenger was immature or belligerent beyond the United CEO initially claiming so?

And I don't see how you can wave away the incident just by claiming the actions were justified because of aviation law or how United runs.
> A rep from the Apple Store Review reportedly said that “any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store.”

I call BS on this. Apple usually doesn't give you that precise feedback on why an app has been rejected. It seems only PR.
> The core but unspoken idea of socialism is a zero-sum world.

No, it's not.

> Marx's labor theory of value is an attempt to explain how economy works given that premise.

Even if that was true (a debate for another time) the LVT may be somewhat important in Marxism but is not central to socialism (which is much broader than Marxism.)
MAD-GANs for diverse generations