skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop Bridge?

Missed that one, as was under the impression that UWP and Win32 was strictly separated.

I do notice that this results in the Win32 program for all intents and purposes becoming a UWP app. Complete with the issues of installs only happening via the store...
"and I ordered some 2602B 1K X 1 static RAM chips, which DID arrive, but in dip packages with bottom painted part numbers and the WRONG NUMBER OF PINS! I understand the "proprietor" left town"

Humorously this still goes on with ebay today. There are a few trustworthy sources. The real killer is collectible chips like historic CPUs. If you want a CDP1802 for your collection you can get visually indistinguishable fakes. If you want a CDP1802 to build an operational ELF controller in 2017 or to replace a broken part in a working machine, well that's nearly impossible. Then there's the salvage and pull suppliers where the price is about a quarter normal but at least half the parts when tested will be broken.

I would estimate in excess of 99% of LM323K voltage regulators on ebay are 2N3055 transistors with the transistor labeling wiped off with solvent and polishing compound and LM323 look alike markings silk screened. That regulator is essentially unobtainable for the last couple years. Ironically if you're willing to do some ugly rewiring, there are brand new manufacture TO-220 package linear regulators that brand new shipped from the mfgr are cheaper than the ebay fake TO-3 regulators, but the rewiring and hole re-drilling is going to be ugly...
Which Chromebook do you have!?

9 hours of browser usage + wifi isn't anything to sneeze at for most laptops, not even considering Atom usage!
How is Vue different from Angular 1? It looks and feels very similar. Granted, I haven't built very large applications but I'm using it in production and I don't really see the benefit while React has a completely different take.
I don't think I was able to get realgud working when I tried.

However, I agree! I think open source has helped the industry to move forward quicker, since a lot of people get to see what the code for things that work look like.
I'm not sure I wholeheartedly agree with that. The YouTube channel "REACT" could be driving some of these numbers. There's a spike in early 2016 that made me think of it - remember the whole 'REACT' Trademark craze? The Stackoverflow Trends blog post [0] from yesterday is probably more representative.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/09/introducing-stack-over...
I once programmed an Army of Darkness / Evil Dead RPG on my TI-85. Animations and everything.
Similar situation here. It was... interesting going through high school and then college where they recommended a different calculator, and being one of the 1-3 people in class that didn't have the recommended[1] calculator. Certain operations took a bit longer, but also homework and tests were catered towards the known capabilities of the expected calculator, leading to a lot of manual and semi-manual solving of things other people zipped through with more calculator assistance.

On one hand, that gives you a pretty good understanding of what's actually going on. You're supposed to have that anyway, but it's easy to bumble through an assignment without a firm grasp of the mechanics if you have a lot of assistance. On the other hand, it led to the time and effort for some homework assignments being high enough that I chose not to complete them and focus on other homework.

1: A Casio in high school, TI in college.
The developer in the article could convert his app from Chromium to UWP and resubmit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/hwa-chr...
When contributing to OSM, it's best to not use any other maps while you work. Consider it a form of clean-room mapping, if you will. Editors like iD and JOSM already provide powerful access to approved imagery sources and GPS traces. There's no need to 'steal' information from commercial maps like Google.
Cue the comments stating that no one will use this because the name is bad.
You can create a page like this with an app
That's intriguing. Where might one be able to read more about that?
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It's cheaper than that... I bought two upgrades from Windows 10 Home to Pro on ebay for less than $30.
Same and I'm using Vue in production where the template has become a complete mess very similar to what happens in Angular 1 applications.
Fat tails, long-term autocorrelation, discontinuities in price changes, divergent variances.

Aside from missing those observable features of the data, the theory is missing much about market agents: herding and contagion, information asymmetries, slow convergence to equilibrium, non-normally distributed errors, heterogeneous strategies and objectives, interaction effects, confirmation bias.

I'm just repeating Taleb, and his mentor Mandelbrot, of course:

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Frag...

https://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Fractal-Financial...
Congratulations to the team on the relase!

Everything under "The Future" really excites me, especially the geo-partitioning features. That is something that I'm really looking forward to be using!
Comparing PVS-Studio for C# and a built-in VS2017 analyzer
Except even in those places the density of plastic is very low.

> 200,000 pieces per square kilometer in the North Atlantic garbage patch.

> 4 particles per cubic meter in the Great Pacific garbage patch.

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

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

It's a serious problem, but it's one that requires people to stop using so much plastic; to make sure they re-use plastic; and to make sure that plastics are recycled after use.

Microbeads in cosmetics and microfibres from clothing are a huge problem.
> you give us an affidavit saying that your plan meets the specified rules, and you get a permit to build the same day, and if stuff gets falsified on the affidavit we go after you after-the-fact".

My wife used to work as an engineer approving (or demanding changes) to plans for Toronto. The biggest problem is that developers will cut every-single-corner and later plead ignorance when they build the 'wrong' (cheaper) way.

Here's what would happen in the scenario you're describing: Developers would build whatever the heck they like. Then, they'd be told "You built something that doesn't meet code". The developer would say "Well, my mistake, but it's built now and do you really want to tear down this new housing development that people paid for 3 years ago?". Now you have a political situation where the people who want to move in are being told that the building has to be torn down. Politicians would get involved, and the building (not meeting code) would be allowed to stay.

This would repeat over and over again.

I completely agree that we need a straightforward set of clear, consistent rules. But the idea of pre-approval without checking what the developer plans to build, how they plan to deal with waste-water, storm-water, parking, and a long list of other requirements, that's asking for trouble.
I too spend 90% of my time on the backend (Node.js mostly). But when I do work on the front-end, I feel that I can get the same relative static comfort by using the most hardened API available to me: the DOM.

I get that its pretty verbose and historically has been far from perfect, particularly in the early-to-mid 2000s, but I really have trouble understanding this allergy new devs have to the native web platform. Its not that hard to be productive and you can do so without having a nightmarish preprocessing toolchain. And by bootstrapping yourself to these framework/library ecosystems, you usually don't get a sense of the problems they venture to solve. Everything becomes a magic black box.

As an aside: libraries have never seemed like the true pain point for new FE devs. My anecdotal observation is that the wheels fall of the wagon when it comes to application/API design.

The obvious corollary here of course is that you can easily build a very poorly designed React/Redux app. We're just trading one problem space for another, in my view.
Indeed. Learning something earlier than planned is a feature, not a bug.
RPN is one of those many short-but-steep learning curves that is oh so worth it once you get it (off the top of my head, regex is another)
There's a world of a difference between planned "distractions" (mental breaks) and random interruptions: HN even provides a handy no-procrastination timer.
Hi rixrax!

We struggled with that, but it was the only way we found to provide a fair and good service. You can check an example report on our dashboard (https://dashboard.spotter.tech). Check Psy video for example.

Thanks for your feedback!
It is in the news. That's where I found out about it.

You can find many takes on it with a quick google on Tesla's unionization suppression efforts in their Fremont factory and Tesla's battles with the United Auto Workers US union.

The German dispute is also in the news, in English and German, and can be found with a quick google as well.
I love their name, it clearly states what they want to achieve.
The problem with phones is policing cheating and goofing off.
I really like the fact that the CockroachDB team recently did a detailed Jepsen test with Aphyr. The follow up articles from both CockroachDB and Aphyr explaining the findings are very interesting to read. For those who might be interested -

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j...

https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
More like a common gripe for people who don't understand the role of government or the fungibility of money. My first political season spent in California I was shocked at how in the discourse some people used the phrase "general fund" as shorthand for political wrongdoing without any further elaboration. Ok, they pool the money, so what? If they spend the money for something else, we the people are still receiving government services in exchange for our taxes as allocated by our duely elected officials, so I see no harm, no foul.

I am sure some fake-libertarian HNer who wants the shrink government to the size of a bathtub drain will tell me I am wrong.
Two primary reasons companies go public 1) cash out and 2) raise capital. I don't think Air BNB or Uber need money currently and I suspect they don't want the additional scrutiny/headaches an IPO brings to their businesses yet.
[cockroachdb here] Yeah, we're experiencing some caching issues.
That actually is pretty fascinating. Even with the fix from above, Angular has a pretty decent lead: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F012l1vxv,v...
Why? I'm not an FB fan either, but your use of React does not benefit them in any way.
Mongols once built a large wooden platform and forced six Russian princes to lay down underneath it. The Mongol generals then held a feast on the platform, crushing the Russians to death.

Under Genghis Khan, the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This is one of the earliest accounts biological warfare.

Japan was invaded by the strong Mongol army TWICE, and both times were saved by harsh storms that crippled the Mongols. They called these storms "Kamikaze" or "Divine Winds".

Mongols would commonly use a military tactic known as "kharash." This involved the gathering of local residents or soldiers surrendered from previous battles, and then driving them forward in sieges and battles, effectively making them "alive boards" or "human shields".

People of the Mongol empire NEVER washed their clothes or themselves because they believed washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.

Mongols under the rule of Genghis Khan pulled the bowstrings of their bows back with their thumb instead of using a "Mediterranean draw" with three fingers, so to protect their thumbs, the Mongols invented a "thumb ring".

Twice as many Mongols live in China as in Mongolia
Great response. I personally agree with Point72 but avoid using them as an example. In my experience it attracts the argument that their returns are illegitimate due to illegal insider trading, which draws the focus away from others like RenTec and Soros.
Again, why shouldn't the be allowed to do that? I want to live on Harvard/MITs campus and live next to the smartest people in the world (at least some of them) and have a nice little 3 br house on a half acre. These high home prices keep me out it's not fair!!

This simply cannot work. The most desirable areas in the world are going to have high prices that exclude "normal people" period.

> Houses are for sale, of course, but suppose I passed a law requiring all new houses to be mansions. I'm talking palace of Versailles level amenities, out of reach for all but the most wealthy.

This actually happens all the time. Every time a new subdivision is built in the suburbs this is exactly what happens. Hell, even new condos being built in my small city in the downtown area do this. So unless you're going to mandate that every single development that will house human beings stratifies the cost such that each income level can afford the exact same setup and you don't allow people over that income level to purchase housing, then you will never solve this "problem".

Does it suck and is it not fair that you're not mega rich and can afford to live in Manhattan or in the hippest part of SF? No. That's just a market economy. I also can't buy a Ferrari and have to drive a Honda around. Can I afford a 1.5mm shack in SF? Sure. Why would I do that when I can afford a 1.5mm giganto-mansion on the Great Lakes?

City ordinances, national ordinances, any of those are fundamentally the same thing. You're just arguing about what's most prolific because that's in your field of vision. Why can't I buy an affordable house in Switzerland? Why are they keeping average Americans out?

Why can't I afford a 2br/3b flat in Paris next to the Louvre? Why don't they just fill that place up with skyscrapers?

etc. etc.

Maybe people want to keep their neighborhoods how they are? Maybe the charm that makes a place what it is has value, and should be protected? Why should they lose tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars in value because other people want to move next to them?
A knife can be used for good or for evil. You don't stop tools from being made just because they can be used in bad ways.
> So, why aren't they just phone apps these days?

Some are: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hp.hp15c15...

But the "magic" with the TI-84 series was not the calculator itself. It was TI's excellent marketing where (nearly) every school district, plus the SAT group, were all convinced that this particular calculator was "ok" and all others were "not ok". With the end result of a guaranteed market for TI for this calculator, without having to compete with any other manufacturers. I.e., they (TI) managed to create a 'legal' monopoly by convincing the govt. agencies to only allow this one calculator in class and during tests.
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In an alternative reality were DotNet never happened and MS evolved Win32API with COM (so basically continue the strategy of 1989-1998 until the great break with DotNet happened), yes then a new "Win64API" with modern C++ would have been great. But the Web happened, DotNet original vision failed, their pivoted vision was declared as legacy 5 days ago too, and UWP failed with no one buying their Win10phone (0.02% global market share).
There are hints, so swiping doesn't seem unintuitive. Btw, I've used tinder-like gestures for my music discovery app based on Apple Music API ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1182799885 ). I think this pattern works perfectly for binary decisions.
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> it requires much more boilerplate code to get stuff done

Depends on the language. In C# it’s straightforward. In C++ yes it could be cumbersome. But that’s a language limitation, C++ lacks async-await so some boilerplate code is required to consume asynchronous APIs.

> good luck trying to compile most existing C/C++ code on UWP

Did that more than once. The largest problem is slightly different CRT, i.e. not all CRT functions are available.

For the language however, C++/CX is merely a syntactic sugar on top of regular C++ compiler that compile your stuff into native code. You can enable/disable “Consume Windows Runtime Extensions (/ZW)” for individual C++ source files inside a single project. The linker will happily link everything together.

Also, if you don’t like C++/CX you don’t even required to use it. You can compile your C/C++ code into a UWP DLL that’s not windows runtime components, but expose C-style API instead. You’ll be able to use that in UWP apps just fine.
I dropped on an edit. I'm a rank amateur here, and admittedly trying to use HN readers' knowledge as a substitute for research I should be doing on my own.
You can use Windows 10. Like iOS and Chrome(ish), Windows 10 S looks like it's designed for non-developers.
Are you suggesting the name is a feature, not a bug?
You could probably saturate that link with a single TCP stream -- even without BBR -- by simply choosing the correct send and receive buffer sizes in your test program. (I assume you're using iperf or a similar program to perform your tests.)

BBR and other congestion-control algorithms come into play when the underlying IP network is congested. To test them, you have to have control of the congestion rate of the underlying circuit, which you might not have if you're testing this on an ordinary public IP network.
Paths in Google's Fuchsia are similar to Plan 9
I'm no legal expert, but such a tax would probably come as a new proposition anyways.
Agree this this is a good idea, although not necessarily on real hardware. There's enough both CapEx and OpEx that would be necessary for the hardware that it would mainly tend to restrict access to the course.

That said, on emulation, it's a great idea. It's easy to forget how many of the assumptions of C-like languages and Unix-like operating systems are built into the hardware, particularly when there are other ways to go about the task. There are reasons the industry has gone the way it has, but it's worth keeping those ideas around for posterity.
How well did XP starter do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Starter_Ed...
And a (short) discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/6a683b/fuchsia_the_n...
Wrong. You should always consider the potential for abuse when you make software. OP seems to be pushing a commercial angle as well - who exactly do you think is going to pay?
How about Boscoin's Modified Federated Byzantine Agreement? Does anyone know how it relates to POS? I was not able to understand it.
It's not only wealth transfer, it's potential wealth destruction.

I only had a chance to spend a day in the area as I was driving through. This sounds cliché, but it's one of those places that makes you think. The immense beauty captured my full attention and for the rest of the drive, I turned my cell phone and radio off and sat in awe in a sort of mindless medication. Places like this truly are priceless, especially for city folk like. myself overstimulated by modern society.

It's unfortunate that some people look at wilderness only for what value can be extracted out of the land. It's not only wealth transfer, it's potential net wealth destruction.

Slightly off topic, but Trump recentl made a speech where he said that no one's religious rights will ever be violated again in this country. It reminded me of the Native American people trying to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline because it crosses through their waterways and some of their sacred lands. I know it's politics and what he said was code for allowing Christian organizations to discriminate against LGBT individuals and to also exclude birth control from their health care benefits, but it must be so disheartening to hear something a President say that and know that it doesn't apply to your religion, like he doesn't even acknowledge that you exist.

It's just depressing knowing that, if we incentivized correctly, our energy issues with high density fuels could be solved forever and forms of energy that require wasteful, polluting extractive and refining techniques will no longer externalize their costs
and some more. here is a neat little article re: Hinton's network effect!

"Six degrees of separation: how U of T's Geoffrey Hinton is connected to top AI researchers around the world"
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/six-degrees-separation-how-u-t-...
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> As for messengers, what would be revolutionary is if you could actually use all these fragmented messengers in a single app.

That's what Matrix is trying to address. https://matrix.org/
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A big hurdle has been the part where jobs advertised as remote turn out to be not really remote in the initial phone interview. Having to be on-site for M days per week or N weeks per quarter, or even requiring an initial on-site training period of L weeks, still puts a geographic limit on what I can actually accept. Either a lot of people are lying about remote work, or the companies that are truly remote don't want to interview me--possibly both.

I haven't stopped applying, but my expectations have fallen pretty far since the first one I tried in 2008. That was Universal Mind, and they told me I didn't have enough experience in Adobe Flex to interview with them. I had worked with it for about 8 months at that point, which isn't bad for something released in 2004. So from my perspective, a lot of those companies seem to think that since they can hire from anywhere, they should only hire the top quintile of everyone, and my resume definitely doesn't radiate that rockstar aura.
I argue that React is only difficult because you have to unlearn a lot of bad "tricks". For me the hard part to learn was JS..

I only started JS development because React enables me to build UI software like i always have done, except now in a browser.

React is components 101 for use in browsers.
Flux is business logic 101.

Both (React/Flux) are great for devs that have no prior experience with building normal desktop applications. And ideal for devs that DO have that experience. That is where the (non-early) adoption wave is comming from imho.
Yes, this fallacy always bothers me. The Canadian Toonie trades strongly against the US dollar; using the half-Toonie as a benchmark is an arbitrary choice.
I wouldn't say discouraged, just they have to be registered. See the list of all the imports, planned or finished:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue. In a lot of places pretty much all of the data came from automated imports. People checking the map is good, but manual data entry is a pain and there aren't many doing that.

It looks though like Facebook beat me to the punch: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AI-Assisted_Road_Tracing
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I had to try and explain this to my girlfriend and her visiting sister last night. They're from Victoria and Vancouver and want us to move there.

I can barely afford to live in Toronto on my salary, never mind Vancouver and the cost of moving across the country. To my knowledge -- in spite of the higher cost of living -- Vancouver-based software professionals don't make any more than they do here.

That and most people here still equate software = computers = IT department = "Can you fix my laptop?"/"Why doesn't the projector work?"
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What advantages do I have using Cockroach compared to Postgres, Cassandra, Rethink or MongoDB? (I know that all of them are completely different, that's part of the question)