skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Can't edit the post above) But, of course, Skype issues aren't because of their UI nativeness. Their UI layer is... well, tolerable. Heck, I'd be happy if all I'd have to complain about Skype would be a crappy UI.

But I don't think UI implementation has to do anything about why we love it so much. I mean, missing calls and messages every other week, random desync between clients and all the usual rituals that every other group call starts from (you can hear them accompanied with chants "can everyone hear me?", "$name are you here?", "tell me if you see my screen" and "let me drop the call and restart").
Microsoft gives nonprofits $5,000 in credits annually towards Azure services.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/philanthropies/product-donat...
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Trying to lower the barrier to entry for all those involved in DevOps while highlighting cool ish going on in the industry.
"All the Ryzen 5 parts will support DDR4 ECC and non-ECC memory"

This is huge for the NAS market. Mainstream intel parts do not support ECC.
Here is what I don't understand: how come copyright gets expanded left and right but patent does not. Does Disney the entertainment industry have more power than the entirety of traditional industries which depend on patents to make a profit (pharmeceutical, manufacturing, electronics, etc.) combined?
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D'oh! Never mind, I thought United had acquired Delta. I got them mixed up with Continental. My point was that the United brand will never get another dollar from me.
Occam's Razor: Copyright holders prevented it from being useful
Its a nice idea in theory, but generally ive found these reserve backlogs are full of things nobody actually wants to do, they just think itd be vaguely nice if someone else did it. Its either stuff with no direct business value (refactor the flargenstock), or high-risk/low reward work
The best perf improvement for slack is to disable animated images in the Accessibility Settings... this also removes some of the fun from Slack. I have suggested to them that they should have a setting to only play gifs when they're hovered-over, but still waiting on that to be implemented...

Other tips I've ritualized, use /collapse very often when on slack, and avoid message reactions with animated gifs. Animated things are why Slack will idle at 5%+. Lots of them and you're going to idle even higher.

Don't leave slack open on a channel where people frequently use /giphy or post lots of animated emojis (#random, etc). Reactions to comments with animated gifs are the worst, because /collapse wont hide them.

In my test locally, a chat window with no animated things is idling at 0-1.5% CPU. I just added 1 animated gif reaction to a comment and it's idling at 4-6%. It's absolutely horrible. I removed that comment and then posted using /giphy, now it's idling at 2-3%. A Slack Helper task started to run at 12%. Ran /collapse and both are back down to 0-1%.

Reacted to a message with 10 animated gifs, slack is idling at 9-12%. Slack Helper is at 26.9%. Brutal. Can't /collapse to fix this, either.

- In Advanced Settings, just turned on "Disable Emoji Spritesheet" and slack is idling at 7-9%, Slack Helper at 27-30%.

- In Accessibility Settings, disabled "Allow animated images and emoji" and Slack is idling at 0-1% and Slack Helper at 0-1%.
> The idea that, in any situation that goes badly, exactly one actor must be at fault and all others blameless is distressingly common, but clearly wrong.

So remind me again why we are exclusively lynching United and not potentially other bad actors (passenger, security personnel)?
Teleport 2.0 Released: Modern SSH for clusters and teams
By L2 you mean the set of square-integrable functions, right?
Interesting, I though horizon is dead (because Rethink went down). Last news I heard was them going with LF but haven't seen much updates after that
This would be a completely impractical way of "marketing", though. Surely an author could use real words (or at least real characters like Lorem Ipsum) for that. And why would he fill a whole manuscript?
No way, I'll gladly pay more to be on a Virgin or Southwest flight. Every United flight I've ever taken was sub-par and this recent story just solidifies my opinion of the company and that I will avoid them in the future.
Those poor oligarchs!
IIRC some FTP (client-side? server-side?) implementations even "helpfully" did the DOS to Unix line ending conversion and back when ASCII was used and it involved a Windows machine.
That's a nice design. The bevel around the edge makes it look better, as does making the interconnects and edges black.

Uni-Solar had a similar all-black look with their solar shingles.[1] They were once #1 in flexible solar panels. But they went bankrupt in 2012.

[1] http://www.uni-solar.com/#&panel1-1
Fuck United. Corporations pull shit like this all the time, but they don't often get caught like this.

It's OK with me if United doesn't exist tomorrow. Fuck them.
And why shouldn't he have different credentials? A password manager would make this a cakewalk.
So much FUD it's difficult to know where to start! Just a few observations:

1. Londoners are said to be more open-minded, but there's been plenty of narrow-minded sneering about Brexit supporters from Remainers

2. There is a deliberately false picture being portrayed that no immigration will be permitted after Brexit. On the contrary - it's just that the UK will be able to exercise sovereignty over its borders once again. Nothing about that means the drawbridge is being pulled up

3. No one makes the same criticisms about isolation etc. from other places that don't offer hundreds of millions of people the automatic right to move to. Canada? Australia? You never hear the same bleating about these countries skilled migrant programmes!!

4. No one could have predicted what London would have looked like in future even if we had stayed in the EU - let's not forget the EU has a good long list of serious challenges on its plate

5. 'You can't live in an island and call it your oasis' said Shirley Watkins, 83 - might just as well say the same about the detachment of Londoners from the rest of the UK!

6. Criticism of tabloid press over Brexit - let's not forget the almost unanimous media, political, business and academic consensus that supported remain, and the apocalyptic FUD saying things like the day after a leave vote an immediate recession would start, etc. etc. In that context criticism of one side hints at bias

7. '..London is struggling so much now.'. Oh please.. Not from where I'm standing. So the borders with the EU become a little firmer. As if there won't still be millions of people interested in making the UK their home. Who's to say we won't have a more interesting and diverse London with more migrants from outside the EU?
Competitor here, please don't become an "open core" company - "Open Core" = "Crippleware".

Here is my thoughts/arguments around it, dealing with the RethinkDB and Parse shut down as well: https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...

Plus, was invited to speak about it on the Changelog Podcast: https://changelog.com/podcast/236

Please stay truly open :) that way we can still compete. ;) Or else we'll be the only company that is fully Open Source (replication, auto failover, etc.)!
The Internet self publishing phenomenon informs us that there is no shortage of lunatics in the world willing to crank out pages and pages of gibberish.

This is just the old school version of someone's rambling blog or kooky Usenet postings.

Or it could be a Lorem ipsum intended to demonstrate someone's typesetting services. "I can take your manuscript and make these types of illustrations with this style of text flowing around them for this kind of general look. Oh, don't try to read the text, it's just gibberish for illustrative purposes."
Nope. I couldn't identify those, and I visited DC when I was about 14.

The Washington Monument (the big obelisk thing?), the White House, and the Pentagon -- the last as much because it's used in the news in the same way that "10 Downing Street" is, but unlike a London street, the Pentagon is a unique, distinctive structure.
There is also http://rambox.pro/ which is open source
Wow, 6k in ad revenue per month sounds a lot. How many page hits are required to get this kind of ad revenue?
To be fair, your "Python GUI apps" are a very thin wrapper around C/C++ libraries.
Well this was not directed at the article as much as the other comments in this thread, some of which I wholeheartedly agree with.
I've never seen someone describe my education so accurately, down to:

> went home to program and build side projects and was singularly focused on becoming a programmer in the game industry
Is waterfall even a thing? I feel like the software industry is constantly coming up with solutions to cultural problems that were more relevant in 1977 than 2017

Ive worked at places that werent "agile" and it wasnt the strawman experience of waterfall.. it was just people doing work. They just didnt make a big deal about squeezing everything in a two week window and avoided uncomfortable/useless planning and retrospective meetings.
That's a good idea and Google is already putting Amazon links in Google Books.

The US publishing industry is $28B. technical/educational books are 50% of that, And Google could only get 10% for that market(many other channels), and let's say they'll get 10% affiliate fee. that equals 28B * 0.5 * 0.1 * 0.1 = $140 million/year , for what they do currently.

Books are quite expensive, so adding visual links to the main search engine, would say double that - $280 million/yr. Not much for Google.

But on the negative side, adding visual links will distract people from surfing to sites filled with ads,clicking search ads, etc - so maybe it will cost Google money. Maybe a lot of money. That could be the logic behind why Google Forums, clearly a valuable service, was dumped[1].

So Google probably needs a more serious way to monetize it to justify the effort.
> Do you have any evidence to suggest the phenomenon of consciousness is (or is not) isolated to the brain? (Existence of human spirits, natural spirits, that sort)

You're not going to get material evidence. Anyone who can is probably looking for money or other goods. They're usually a good sign to stay away from.

The proof I talk of, is personal. I look at it more like one would look at a Zero Knowledge proof: there's no such thing as 100% confidence, but (2^64-1)/(2^64) is pretty damn close to 100%. Same idea.

> Particularly with the Chaos mages, there is an indication of an extra fundamental force to reality- much like electricity would have seemed in the 1600s. Do you think this is the case? Or do you think there is some other interaction between the mind and the 4 normal fundamental forces?

I would accept this to be fact if we can find proof of this new force. But as for now, I'm operating under the fact that we know of 4 fundamental forces. I'm assuming that most magic and auras are actually specifically under EM, and not Weak/Strong/Gravity.

Although, some divinations I've done does seem to indicate that there might be another force, but not as a "force".. But more of interdimensional interference. If one accepts the Multiple Worlds Interpretation, there are a near-infinite amount of dimensions nearby. If they could interfere with each other, we could see effects percolate from seemingly nothing. My divinations also indicate that a likely area where we will first see this effect is with the EM_Drive. If this is shown to be proven correct, this is the first case of a reactionless drive--- The key here is a new phenomenon to investigate. Possibly leading to a new force.

> What theories do you have with regard to the prime mechanism of action in magic?

Hard to say. I'm doing the equivalent of firing bowling balls into a kilogram of solid gold, and trying to interpret its atomic structure...
The "magic" of the Fourier transform and DFT is entirely contained in this proof, IMO. I think a lot of people find the Fourier transform extra-amazing because it is their first encounter with basis change and infinite dimensional vector spaces.

The FFT is still magic though :)
No, my point is people will use anything that allow them to do what they want the easiest way possible, not matter the cost and cleaness.

The point is the web is the most active platform.

The point is doing things right is not winning.

The reason you are missing the point is that you think it's only a technical problem.

It is not. It's technical + cultural + societal + historical + economical.

> It's hilariously easy to build an app in Qt Creator.

You fail to put yourself in a web dev shoes:

- they are the majority on the most popular plateform

- they don't have the time to lear a hole new tech or API. You don't realize the ton of stuff you need to learn to do half of what you can do with HTML + CSS + JS with QT. It's huge.

- then you have to learn all the edge cases for packaging, distributing, updating and maintaining this software. On multiple OS.

- then if you need a tutorial or a doc to help you, how does it compare to the web stack ?

- then if you need to have new people added to the team ?

- then if you need a custom widget ? reuse something that has been done ?

- then the licence ? The versions conflicts ?

And if only QT was much easier than the web stack. But as a Python dev, I did PyQT dev. And Web dev. And the ratio power/easiness/flexibility is not on QT side at all, it's a mess of a badly documented powerhouse with abstractions everywhere. You want to get the value of a cell in a table as a date ? Unwrap 3 layers of composed classes, each of them with their own API.

Then of course you will end up creating a client/server architecture (with threads, multiprocessing or else) for your app eventually to deal with background tasks, an MVC layer on top of QT's, and then some DB for persistance. And use their markup to generate the UI in a declarative way.

So basically all what constitute a web app.

Basically, you have to put all that in the balance VS speed, memory and battery life. What do you think won ?

If we want native clean apps back in the game, we need to make it easy and convenient for the new generation of devs to provide the features the new generation of users want.

Otherwise, we have lost and we'll be dinosaurs, while people will just buy more powerful computers because "32gb of ram is not enough to display all those albums, you need to upgrade".
Isn't Google's $300 credit only valid for 2 months?
From TNW. Seems relevant:

Update 2, April 11, 11:15ET: Some readers have suggested that the allegedly deleted tweets might have initially appeared as replies to now-deleted tweets, which would explain why they are missing. However, numerous users contacted by TNW rejected this premise, claiming the missing posts were standard tweets.
I'm not sure what you mean by "compositional", but you can keep drawing after you've matched a shape and it will start suggesting matches for your new shape as well--though unfortunately it doesn't seem to auto-scale the icon you pick to the size of your original drawing, so unless they're already the size you want it's not as helpful as one might hope.
> Probably because the US hasn't had a foreign army on its soil since like...1812

Inserting the clearly implied "hostile" before "foreign army", that's still off by more than a century, since we had one in 1916, even if we only consider the CONUS and so exclude some things in WWII.
Ah I see. There are two issues here: making a configuration option hidden or accessible and making the change interface GUI or text based. I only commented on the second aspect. Depending on one's point of view making a configuration option hidden is either keeping users from shooting themselves in the foot or denying users freedom to control their own machines the way they see fit.
that's pretty funny
Why do they have to starve? Do sweatshops grow food? There's certainly no shortage of it.

What portion of the value of their labour is captured by them, and what portion of it is captured by the sweatshop owner?

How many of these starving children had families that were removed from their land by various forms of rent-seekers (Or were used as generations of sharecroppers by said rent-seekers)?
Base 10 society strikes again! This happens to me too, it's hard to think of [0-9] being only 62.5% of base 16.
I'm having a hard time thinking of a word that's less derogatory. What do you have in mind?
Yes, this is one reason titanium is used in implants. It corrodes quickly on the surface, but the thin corroded layer protects the metal underneath.
cool looking project!
> Those are not the same as desktop apps

I mean, if you're going to say Windows Forms and WPF apps are not "desktop apps" then you're going to have to do a lot more than just declare that they aren't.

> Actually it very much is: it is statically typed, it has scalar types and contiguous memory allocation that allow for much better speeds (hence the effort to add some of those things asm.js and the like for Javascript), and it even has AOT compilation.

You're just listing ways that they are different. They both run in a virtual machine that abstracts away the actual machine. You know, the metal in the phrase "close to the metal."
"evil"

Ok, well the alternative is no free version. Yeesh, people are so entitled. They're trying to give you a mostly full featured version of their software in hopes that you'll pay them someday.
Good point. I didn't think about the leverage of having an internal team holding you hostage vs and external.

And yes there is also the, how do you hire up a good dev team when you obviously don't know how to do software yourself. Eg hiring outside your competency. I know this is especially hard, and I've watched large companies who are good at hiring in general fail at it specifically in a wheel house. I think this is why aqui-hires can help.
Buying a $500 House in Detroit: bidding on the soul of my city
The social virtue of capitalist selfishness is illustrated by the most rapid drop in poverty in history:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/amazing-chart-shows-thanks...

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_...

This massive decline in misery is far more the influence of markets than bureaucracies. We should be so lucky as to be in a new age of Ayn Rand.
>If you publicly advertise your service I can probably assume your consent to speak to it.

The implied access and license is probably valid as long as you're abiding the ToS. If you're violating the ToS after agreeing to it ("agreeing" means that proper notice is given to make the ToS binding, etc.), the implied license would probably not work. If you've been specifically asked to stop, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through an IP ban), any implied license or access privileges would almost definitely be revoked at that point.

>At least in Europe, news organizations pushed this kind of argument in their campaign against adblockers and failed in front of the courts. US law may differ, of course.

Ad blockers differ because they alter the payload after receiving it under legitimate terms (though this could still probably be considered copyright infringement under the argument that the license is for viewing only, not alteration). The CFAA would not be applicable because when the adblocker comes into play, you're not accessing someone's network (which is what the the CFAA addresses).

If a site clearly disallowed AdBlock users in their ToS and adequate notice was given to users that they were to be bound by these terms, it would be "unauthorized access" to the server, which is not allowed under the CFAA.
That's a very clever trick. Titanium is a really difficult material to machine and by doing it this way they only have to do the final couple of passes rather than to start from a blank. And for a part that would turn most of the blank to chips the reduced cost in tooling (and material, contaminated Titanium scrap is worth a lot less than Titanium stock) must be enormous.
The backspace key on most keyboards has a very distinct sound. Not to mention it's positioning means timing will be noticeably different as well. Might be better off mixing in a few meaningless modifier keys (press Ctrl, Alt or Caps Lock).
This was brought up in the Stripe thread the other day. I'm sure both are on their radar.
I think open core is ok. If the community is not happy with the core that is open they can fork and add their own implementation for excluded features.
yes, I suppose Slack not existing at all is a more preferable option /s
Review: Windows 10 Creators Update
You get to keep some of the money when you stop working.
Mental Calisthenics for meditation and mental plasticity
Apache default is prefork, which was appropriate to run php app the way they were done more than a decade ago. It is utterly inappropriate nowadays.

For load balancing, events trumps every other mode, that's just the way it is.

HTTP and TCP balancing are inherently mono thread operations. There is no need for threading at all, multiple threads are actually decreasing performances).

In HTTPS and TLS mode, the encryption is the bottle neck. So you use one process per core (that process needs events).

HaProxy lets me have one process pinned down to each core of the system while network card IRQ are on a dedicated core. Apache can't do half of that.

We could get into how nginx and HaProxy parser are insanely optimized. Whereas apache is not and it cannot be because of the modules.

Of course, not everyone has to push 10g or 30k requests/s with their load balancers.
I don't see anyone getting anything remotely analogous to a lynching, and I see plenty of posts suggesting error on the part of the passenger and/or security services as well as United, so I entirely reject the premise of your question.
Most users will accept issues with their free program if the alternative is to pay. I'm pretty sure the message pane you have there is a WebKit controller so it is debatable how native this would be.
> Let's say the US uses French time zones

I know you're only using France as an example, but it's even more ridiculous when you consider that (mainland) France has one time zone (CE(S)T), which it shares with more than a dozen of other countries (central Europe + most of the western Europe + majority of Scandinavia + former Yugoslavia).
Percentage increases don't tell you the whole story.

For example suppose you have only "1" malware for your OS. Next year you have "2", a 100% growth rate.

Now suppose you have a shitty OS with 1000 malware. Next year it has 1200 malware, a 20% growth rate.

Someone without this knowledge would go about and claim the second OS is "safer", but the truth is both OS's are just experiencing an exponential growth rate, the first OS is just at the first stages of the curve.
Heads up: That fails to connect for me.
you get 3x more traffic. but do you also earn 3x as much !? or how do you know that extra traffic is not fake ?
If that's happening to you, presumably it's your fault for not winning harder?

"Objectivism" is just another name for narcissism. If you're not a winner, the narcissist's view is that you deserve whatever bad things happen to you.

Narcissism is wonderful for short-term gains, but an absolute disaster for long-term stability and growth.

Which is not a surprise because empathy is an established reality, not just in human behaviour but in animal behaviour, with straightforward evolutionary benefits.

You have to go quite a long way back down the evolutionary tree to lose empathy. If Rand and her acolytes want to live down there I suppose we can respect their choice.

But it doesn't mean it's a good choice, an intelligent decision, or one that's going to lead to better outcomes in the future.