skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had home internet in well over five years and it is absolutely fantastic. I did it while in school so I could focus on getting reading and homework done and found that I really enjoyed it. I still use a smartphone but will leave it in another room if I want to read or focus on something other than tech.
You seem to have added to c4n4rd's post the assertion that this is OK. I don't think it was intended that way. The point is not "This is ok because it lines Twitter's pockets", it is more "This is why it is happening. What else did you expect?"
GBA by Example: Drawing and Moving Backgrounds
The main problem with the T60 series is that once they decide to start overheating they're apparently impossible to convince otherwise.

I have a T60 here with a fractionally misaligned GPU heatsink. If you take a look at the motherboard (http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg) you can see that the GPU is covered by the lower-right-most portion of the heatsink - and there are literally no screws holding the heatsink down, only the force of the heatpipe. Mine's ever so slightly misaligned... and the system idles at ~72°C and easily gets to 85°C+ as a result :(

I've very carefully tried to bend the heatpipe into different positions (it's rather pliable copper and I'm afraid I'll break it) and while the heatsink is pushing down onto the GPU, it isn't pushing down squarely onto the chip perfectly.

So the system has hit its thermal limit once.

I use my much older T43 with the T60 sadly sitting to my left collecting dust on its keyboard. I'd love to use it, but apparently the thermal issues are unfixable (I asked a friend who's used ThinkPads for way longer than I have, and they promptly noped out.)
or learn to create your own bootable USB flash drive

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkInsMedia
Your CPU is slower than the $50 G4560, and current high end CPU's are about 2 - 2.5X as fast as yours.
I get the idea of Electron Apps having some hate for the performance. I mean if I have to open a large SQL file (> 250MB) and compare the performance between Atom and Sublime... well the difference will be day and night.

But there are a few differences between Flash and Electron that are not small. I mean the first thing is, Electron is open source in a open Standard, and have a fast development cycles to fix performance and security issues.

I think it's like a PHP situation. Electron is easy to use and sells itself as a cheap way to build apps, so this attracts lazy developers so we have a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean the technology is bad. But this is not a Electron problem, I mean web pages right now are heavy and slow for nor real reason. We need better fron-end developers.

I love VS Code, Hyper, and others, so maybe I'm biased, but I think Electron will be a interesting option to make desktop Apps something again.
I'm sure that KL consumes significantly less in practice, especially idle, but for what is worth they are 91W vs 95W TDP.

Anyway, the machine runs an, admittedly overkill, GTX 1070 with a TDP of 150W, so the CPU power usage is the least concern.
Then a variety of trolls and other scum showed up and started ruining people's lives.
Chinese firm halves worker costs by hiring robots 2 sort out 200k packages a day
My personal favorite from the LibreSSL section:

Massive update and normalization of manpages, conversion to mandoc format. Many pages were rewritten for clarity and accuracy.

Most of OpenSSL's documentation desperately needed attention and was full of extremely minor errors that rendered some parts unintelligible - for example, this confusing single character one that was already fixed in LibreSSL : https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a41815f05e71009d2a...
Not to mention the value to the businesses running these systems. $800k doesn't even qualify as an expense to a lot of these companies relative to what they lose if the system goes down. They probably think they're getting a deal.
There is, but the problem with that is people get drained doing boring software over and over for years. No passion, no motivation, etc. Believe it or not, most people dont care about making a ton of money. Making a good income doing something you enjoy is worth more than making 3x that income doing something that makes you feel bored and crappy all the time.
How to Lock Down Your PC. Traditional vs. Agile Method
Android platform stats: Nougat inches forwards
Weren't these mostly just a nice way to contribute to the project and get something tangible in return, or did they not sell the disks at a profit?
Qt exists and is really nice to work with. It has multiple language bindings. How is it unfeasible?
As a university project, I did something very similar, only using a malicious app. The app would monitor the device state, and record gyro data as soon as the screen was on, but the device was locked. We didn't have the time to properly implement a decent classifier, but the data collection was surprisingly effective.
I get that externalities are the key problem. That plus the present impossibility of coherent global action against a global problem.

But as much as I think the human species will win a Darwin award, there's really zero risk of "killing our planet". I mean, one could sterilize the entire surface of the Earth, and the Archaea would hardly notice. They extend kilometers below the surface.
It makes me wonder if perhaps the internet is ready for an ad-free, paid news and communication as a service site?

I mean, I personally already do (in the form of various services, such as usenet), but I'm talking about larger portions of the internet. I think maybe the exclusivity via paywall of the right service might actually draw users in.
The assertion that climate change will result in human extinction is of course not literally true. But given our current path it is not a ridiculous hyperbole. The consequences we are talking about is the inability to grow food in much of the southwest United States, Mediterranean regions and large areas of mainland China. Not to mention the collapse of a healthy ocean ecosystem, storm variability, etc... This really is an event that will alter the way of life of everyone on Earth and kill a whole bunch in the process. It is not at all ridiculous to treat this as the existential crisis it is.
I think United is paying them a ton and has become a top partner:

"We are constantly working to create industry-leading experiences for our customers. Twitter is a place where our customers engage with us 24/7 about a variety of aspects of travel. The new features that Twitter released have enabled us to create real-time engagements with customers to offer an array of services, from discovering where to go on their next trip, to answering common travel questions faster and easier. We’re excited to use these features to deliver additional experiences that connect people and unite the world through travel."

KC Geen, Director of Digital Marketing and Customer Acquisition at United Airlines

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/new-apis-to-power-the-future-o...
Development time needed to create desktop apps (for Windows, Mac and Linux) given that there's already an existing webapp:

- using Electron: 1 month

- using QT: 2 years
Ok, fair! Americans do truly excel at the sandwich and bbq. But speaking a little to my original point, bbq belongs more to the South than to any other parts of the US, though any American will recognize barbecue as something truly a part of their culture!
If you have already have a Macbook Pro, just buy an external USB 3.0 SSD drive, and install linux on that. It's cheaper and lighter than a second laptop, and will perform as well or better than a $300 laptop.

You can install Debian onto the USB SSD using the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Install_Debian

Notes:

- Don't cheap out and use a regular USB 3.0 flash drive. It must be an SSD drive. I use this 60GB one (https://world.tmall.com/item/520064055360.htm?id=52006405536...) but 120GB or more would be better.

- Ignore the instructions about rEFInd: you don't need it for this use case

- You might need to do something special to get the webcam working, but the info is on the page

- If you're using a mix of retina and non-retina screens (e.g. retina MBP with regular 1080p monitor), you should know that linux doesn't make it as easy to get working as OSX does
Worldwide the share of coal in energy production is at 40% and the United States it has dropped from 56% to 40%.

Coal still produces 40% of every KWh consumed with Nuclear making up a fair portion of the remainder.

Renewables are at 20% and (fortunately) rising sharply but for the moment fossil energy sources are by far the bulk of the energy consumed by electric vehicles.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.COAL.ZS
On the title of “git commit murder”
Yes, I'm usually not one to whine about "fragmented" project spaces and "wasted talent", but Mir is a special case because the Linux desktop is necessarily dependent on cooperation from hardware vendors. Historically, they've seen Linux as a source of confusion, and avoided wading too deep because they couldn't really make anyone happy, and because it was hard to tell if their investment would pay off or if they'd have to redo all the work when the "community" decided to shift again.

With Wayland, we had the opportunity to present a unified, modern desktop environment to them and say "Here, support this and we'll be happy". Then Mir showed up with absolutely no substantiation or value proposition and retriggered the prospect of nightmarish half-support across a fragmented ecosystem, which tires everyone out, not just vendors.

It was a great illustration that open-source and Linux haven't changed: they're still difficult to work with, and you still don't know if the engineering effort you're dedicating is going to be flushed away due to distro infighting. NVIDIA had already said they were playing a wait and see game before committing more resources to the next-gen Linux desktop, and Canonical only proved their decision right.
I think we should expect more, the same way we'd expect food producers to not poison us and truck operators to not run us over. Twitter has become a major platform for public discourse (including elections) and needs to at least have some transparency into their deletion and shadowbanning decisions.
There is no true or false, only unasking questions ;)
Yeah, looking over my timeline for yesterday, there are still tons of angry tweets about the incident. This article kind of appears to be jumping to conclusions.
This is anecdotal, but I've found that the more "agile" a place is, the more underworked I am. In most non-agile places, if im out of work its up to me to find a way to make myself useful (agency!), but in agile environments I usually am told not to take something on because "it wont fit in the sprint". I generally think agiles main benefit is bringing the low performers up to average, but at the cost of handcuffing your top performers.
Sure, but whether or not you'll actually notice any difference is very workload dependent.
I'm probably in that camp too, I thought it was just for android and iOS still (even though I consider myself to keep up to date with these types of things).

Do you know if they have anything for linux yet?
Note that you need to multiply your percentages by cpu core number.
Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal
I've noticed the same myself, and I'm a bit surprised Slack hasn't done the same trick some of the larger image hosts have and started converting gifs to videos. Those hosts did it to cut bandwidth costs, but it also helps users as a side effect.

(I continue to be amused that everyone records & shares gifs for "compatability" and "simplicity", but many of the places they're shared re-convert them into videos.)
Reverse debugging stack underflow, without stackoverflow
Nice to see the Hyper-V support in there!
The people and things going on around me are not interesting.

Selecting for proximity means wasting my life on random noise.

An $800 phone is a bargain if It lets me spend my limited time on good stuff.
Go also now supports pledge https://go.googlesource.com/sys/+/8fd966b47dbdd4faa03de0d06e...
Also:

- The iwm(4) driver now supports 802.11n MIMO (MCS 0-15).

- Enforcement of userland W^X on OCTEON Plus and later.

Is the EdgeRouter Lite an Octeon "Plus"?

- LLVM/Clang 4.0.0 (+ patches)

Looks like they shipped LLVM 4 into an actual stable release before FreeBSD! (because it's the first LLVM for them)

- New tpm(4) driver for Trusted Platform Module devices.

But that one was in FreeBSD since 2010 :P
I just noticed this morning that VSCode has started causing my MBP's fans to spin up whenever I type in it. I spent about an hour updating my MacVim setup to replace it.
If something better comes along, sure.

This is hardly new. People complained about individuals wasting their lives reading books all day too.
I see where you're coming from on this, but I think constitutional originalism and the alleged legal purity of the Supreme Court has long been compromised - as can be seen by the extent of the fighting over who gets nominated to the Supreme Court.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posadas_de_Puerto_Rico_Associa... (I don't really know US constitutional law, but this is linked on wikipedia!) - arguing that advertising can be restricted in the US under some circumstances.

(The extent of US TV censorship should also be considered here, along with the great "community standards" fight over internet censorship way back in the Clinton era)
> It kind of blows my mind that there aren't even unions yet in the gaming industry, they've been talked about for decades, but the industry hasn't done it yet.

Game industry veteran here. It's not surprising to me at all. Large dev studios don't want unions. They've been able to capitalize on an endless sea of starry eyed young devs willing to work 60+ hour weeks for months on end for half the salary they could make in other software fields until they get burned out, just so they can say they worked on the 10th sequel of a game they loved as a kid, or tell their friends 'I worked on this game you can download here!' and it doesn't look like the supply of that has gone down at all.

Meanwhile, individual software developers not in the midst of a company death march and are probably doing the Indie thing and tend to see themselves as lone wolves and thus don't make much effort to organize with their other developers.

There's associations like IGDA (International Game Developers Association), but in my interactions with them, I haven't seen them organize anything more than social activities with some veteran from the game industry to give a talk.
There are compilation benchmarks in TFA.

Edit: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-vs...
For OMV, you did something wrong. I've been using the project since its first public release. Never had any real issues.
You'd think they'd afford a Mac & windows developer.....
Actually (and I do this for a living as a management consultant) we are pushing all of our clients to an Agile operating model. There are many reasons for this, but the primary one being that consumers now expect to interact with all companies like CPGs.

Agile lends itself very well to a top-down brands-and-products hierarchy. You build the core of the products in a shared engineering group (again, just like most CPGs) then apply localized branding and product focus as needed.

And here's the thing: adopting Agile in the corporate world is less about "reacting quickly" (though that is one of the benefits, at least in comparison to the legacy methods) but really more about cost control. Agile is simply cheaper because you're not building shit that nobody wants. If you can build an Agile culture of "if it's not in the backlog that was approved by product and reviewed every couple weeks, you don't build it" you cut down on a lot of pet projects, deprecated features and duplication of effort.

Is there still duplication? Sure; but often times companies will have 5 groups build the same thing and they just choose the one that gets the most internal traction. That's actually a viable strategy when you don't know the product you need to build, but you need it to work. It also tends to help find the right "home" within the organization politically (i.e. the people who really need said functionality will build it, use it, make it popular, and then get the money to maintain it while fringe users lose funding and migrate to the shared platform).

The key thing is that the engineers aren't in control. And with good reason; engineers are paid to build products, product managers are paid to design products and brand managers are paid to build portfolios of interrelated products. You cannot run a large company without this kind of P&L discipline.
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how emotions are made
You seem to not understand the segregation in the South. If you're black, you're not going to be well-accepted if you move into an upper middle-class all-white neighborhood. Yeah, there's lots of black people in Atlanta, but they live "on the other side of the tracks", in all-black (and poor) neighborhoods. Of course, racism exists everywhere, but it's generally worse in the South. A black guy moving into a nice neighborhood in Silicon Valley isn't going to have that problem; his main problem will be feeling isolated because he's the only black guy, and all his friends, neighbors, and coworkers come from a different (sub)culture than him.
"This was inevitable. All the above-mentioned services are funded - in large part - by ads."

Unsustainable situations always seem to go on for longer than you expect, but I wonder if we're finally getting to be just a year or three out from Adpocalypse, when the ad-supported internet companies finally end up having to face head on that you can not serve two masters.

I wonder if there's going to be a market developing for services that look like current services, but actually cost money somehow. Probably a billion-dollar-level opportunity for figuring out how to charge for a Facebook or Google or Twitter a couple of bucks a month.

(If you are seriously inclined to take this on, which I would support, bear in mind that the answer to these questions, for all sorts of reasons, is never "It's just Facebook, with a subscription." Facebook, to take one example, has been deeply structured around advertising for years now. You can't take the end result and just remove advertising from it. You need to start back at the beginning and rethink the whole thing, figuring out how to get people to spend some money on it. And I can all but promise "It's Facebook, but cares about your privacy" is a dead letter too, as that has been tried. I don't know what the answers are, just some of the problems. It'll take some serious thought to solve this.)
1) Twitter is a company that owes you, and the public, nothing. The same goes for Facebook and Google. There is no law I know of that prevents them from running their platform however they like. So what if they sensor or take sides? It is their right. If you don't like it, use or build a competing service (as long as Net Neutrality exists).

2) Negative tweets about United could be considered "Fake News" in my opinion. Not because I am some "shill" for United. But because the facts are it was Chicago airport police that escalated the situation to excessive force. The United employees were not involved in that part at all whatsoever. In fact they will probably hesitate to call the authorities for help ever again.
Yielders is first Islamic FinTech firm to get full accreditation
They started as such the un-mainstream group, trying to aggregate coupon codes so you could get fair prices without getting hammered with marketing. My, how things have changed. Kudos to them for the payout, but sigh.
Why I gave my kidney to a stranger
As the author of LLVM Weekly I'd like to thank you for spreading the word. I'm glad you find it useful.
The alternatives are the hundreds of other discussion sites on the web that you're free to use at your own discretion. Twitter isn't so important that it "needs an alternative", if you don't like it, don't use it. In the same vein, if all my comments get downvoted on HN, it doesn't mean HN "needs an alternative" anymore than I am inclined to create one and the masses are inclined to use it. If they're not, that means it isn't needed.

None of that changes the fact that twitter is still free to do whatever they want with their own code and servers, and you're free to do the same with yours.
> A lot of Slack's high (background) CPU usage is caused by GIFs, in my experience.

Holy fuck, can you imagine the supercomputers that were required to display Geocities websites in the 1990s?
I didn't know about that website. Thanks.
The most important factor for startup success
> The whole point is if you use SASS properly you don't have to nest anything unless you want to.

I don't follow at all. One of the biggest selling points of Sass is being able to nest styles. If you don't need to nest styles, then Sass doesn't get you much. But once you start nesting, your CSS is coupled to your HTML. That's absurd.
Well, stupidity anyway. Do programming jobs really get 400+ applicants?
Long time javascript programmers are the loser (if they never learned more than javascript) they don't know how to programming an almost perfect program. That is the reason why they using javascript on Desktop. The average programmer learns just one fucking language but being a good programmer you need at least to learn 2+ languages. That you can see the performance issues in your stack. I started with PHP and javascript while this time I didn't care about performance and now I'm a c/golang programmer. When I started to study c and golang I just released how bad the whole javascript stuff is actually.
Because Hacker News skews heavily left, and if you point out anything that does not please them you will get brigaded. Happens routinely nowadays.
> I think the most critical factor in the success or failure of a software development project is the skill and dedication of the developers.

And yet. It is part of the agile principles.

#9 Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.

I am shocked to see how the agile principles are ignored by "Agile Coaches".

https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/12-principles-behind-...
This depends on the storage configuration & use case..

It can be a bottleneck for a NAS-

That said, depending on use case,
the extra expense of 10GbE still might not be worth the expense..
Put simply: time to market. Experienced front-end devs with a designer on hand could put together the UI inside of a day, with a workable user experience.

Hell, if you're not afraid of bloating in the codebase, you could use a large number of libraries to put together a basic, working version inside of a day or two. Stretch that to a couple of weeks (at most) and you have a prototype you can release.

The proof is in Atlassian and Microsoft chasing after Slack on this. Very few people came forward to wave the "Let's just go back to IRC" flag.

It's shiny, new, you can drag and drop gifs and files into it, and it runs pretty swiftly (ignoring all of the obvious flaws). Most, especially less technical, users would find it a charm to work with. In my experience, they do -- and above all of the competitors.

The rest of your points are rather valid. But maybe its not so much obliviousness, as eagerness and impatience, and the reality of the market being as timely and pressing as it currently is. It's a race -- just like the telephone and the radio (for my point I'm ignoring the scale of impact here).
Relevant: A friend of mine analyzed lock patterns for her thesis. Got some press: https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/new-data-uncovers-t...

The patterns are predictable, and can be further narrowed down if you now the hand they normally use.
I learnt on another HN thread that Ryzen is now working on Mac. 10.9 only at the moment, but hopefully that will change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJLxbwurK4