skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, around my house the only acceptable time to work on programming side projects is weeknights in the few hours I get after the kiddo falls asleep. I have no plans to release any of these projects, though, mostly because my current employer forbids publishing side projects, so I'm in no rush to get anything done.

Non-programming side projects are fine, though and tend to get done on the weekend! Currently my interest is metalworking but I also like to do woodworking. This stuff is ok with a kid around because she likes to help and get involved. She's 4, so she knows the names of all the tools and can bring them to me. She likes using the shop-vac too. See, this counts as family time, whereas me concentrating and staring at a screen for hours unfortunately counts as "ignoring family" time. :-/
Applying edge enhancement filters using Pillow
Theory; MS is planning on switching their next OS over to the Linux kernel. This is just like when Macs went over to x86; you start seeing the individual pieces (i.e. .NET CLR, WSL, cross-platform dev tools) come together and I think it paints a bigger picture.
From what I know, the current legal consensus is that this is not possible (despite not being explicitly mentioned, which really seems like a strange oversight, but it's seen as being obviously the intent of article 79) – the only way to get rid of it would be to replace the Grundgesetz with a new constitution. (Some argue that since the institutions that could replace it are bound by the Grundgesetz, them enacting a constitution that doesn't provide the protections of article 1-20 would not be legal, but that's further in the realm of untested theories)

And of course, changes like this would be likely to happen in political environments that don't care about these things.
Absolutely agreed. This seems to be a simple case of confusing a number of largely unrelated things just because the names given them are the same. If I were the author, I'd be embarrassed over spending so much time and proverbial ink over what is essentially a misunderstanding of concepts.
[transcript] Unscripted Founders Q&A on CockroachDB 1.0
Last year, I flew United San Francisco to Seoul on a 747. None of the seats in economy class had a monitor in the seat. But they did have Wi-Fi service for the movies.
>It’s not clear all that care improves how long or how well people live. Patients receiving aggressive medical care at the end of life don’t seem to live any longer, and some work suggests a less aggressive approach buys more time.

This one bothers me as a Canadian. As everyone knows, we have a strained socialized medical system with long waiting lists. How many resources are tied up futilely attempting to stave off the death of people who, for lack of a better term, "have no chance"? Meanwhile, it's pretty hard for us to get anticipatory or preventative care. I can count on one hand the times I've spoken to a doctor.
> No one turns an MMA match on hoping to see a beautiful display of athleticism.

I think that's a bit unfair. I don't watch MMA much, but it's interesting when I do, and I don't watch to see someone get hurt or to see a lot of blood. If I want to see that, I can go back and look at any of the first few UFCs. Just as with boxing, there's a lot of skill involved in MMA fights. Some people tune in for the technical display, some people tune in for the sport of it, some people tune in because they want to see a fight, and that might include someone getting hurt. There are many reasons to watch.
There are plenty of profitable companies providing taxi services you can order via an app
Correct, but on the other hand every EU country nowadays is full of the same business services. Kaufland, Mr. Bricolage, DM, E.on, T-Mobile, etc.

Having all those different culture / legal systems with combination of EU regulation is how the market can act as one economy.
Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Walkaway author Cory Doctorow is suing the US government
I don't really believe in the 10,000 hours number. Granted I've never read the book but it 'feels' faux.

The amount of time needed to master is more a combination of deep practice, motivation to master & the individual learning rate.

'The talent code' talks about deep practice. Deep practice is the 80 in the 80/20 principle.
> For me, it's the opposite: I don't want to be on the bleeding edge of forced windows updates

This is me 100%. Windows is way too flaky for daily work use imho. I don't want to walk into my office at 2am to get something done and see an update running.
I meant crawling wikipedia to add nodes automatically
does it fix the scrolling with WPF?
Facebook is doing some pretty interesting work in this area https://www.facebook.com/spaces
Cray sold their interconnect IP to Intel a few years ago. But yeah, Aries is impressive.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or generic comments?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317655 and marked it off-topic.
Want Drones to Fly Right? Make Them Hallucinate, MIT Prof Says
I am currently vacationing in Rome, and loving it, except for two things: tourist-oriented restaurants; and taxis. Those are seriously horrible. 16 euros for a 5 minute ride? Not a problem for out budget, but this is racket, pure and simple, and I hate being fleeced. We're hating it enough that we'll try to avoid countries without Uber in the future.
>If you are not going to allow poor people to take risks and make hard choices you are keeping them in perpetual poverty.

Only in a world where getting rich is about "taking risks" and not about being ruthless, luck, connections, and inheritance.
Why would an object classifier matter?

If my plane is about to crash, do I really care whether it's a mountain or a building?
If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).
I lose weight with a low-carb diet and intermittent fasting. I eat only between the hours of 11 AM - 7 PM.

I have lost 32 pounds, so far. I hope to lose at least 17 more.
Something I've noticed with both my own past startup failures and other startups I've known: by far the most common failure reason is "There was no reason for them to be a company in the first place."

By that I mean that either there was no customer demand for what they were building, or there were already lots of other companies that solved the problem just as well and they had no unique angle on the problem, or a key technical assumption they were relying on turned out to be false, or the market was better served by lots of little firms rather than one high-growth startup. In other words, they never found product/market fit, because there was either no market for the product or they couldn't build the product to serve the market.

The problem is that usually you can only determine this in hindsight. If everybody assumed that the only businesses that can work are those that already have a working product and customers, we'd never get any innovation. I've learned to think of "Finding a reason for the company to exist" as the primary job description for a founder, and failure means that you are doing your job but haven't completed it yet.
You can call me cheap or unthankful, but for me open source contribution is kind of a zero sum game.

I'm not willing to spend money on maintainers fixing their stuff, but I'm also not expecting anything in return. I think out of ~15? years of sporadic contributions to dozens of projects all tangible rewards I've got were a single CD from my amazon wishlist and a handful of stickers and t-shirts (the kind that are not handed out in dozens at conferences.)

If we're talking about "using open source software for business, e.g. making money" then I'd probably be most happy with an "office hours" model, e.g. paying a maintainer/core contributor X per 1-2h of their time to help me troubleshoot/get started. That's usually all I/we need, seldom it would be "give me a specialist freelancer for days or weeks".

That said, I do think it's very sad that (at least in my experience) self-marketing is everything, so for example if you don't contribute at all to project X but can show a slightly better talk proposal (with a mainstream/beginner) topic, you're invited to speak and the people who focus on code/bugs/whatever and less on being rockstar presenters get picked less for "boring internals talks" (this depends on the community of course).
This is childish. Apple's version of this works better, in real time, in FaceTime, because it's above a threshold of kiddiness.
While I agree that the title can be misleading, it is the original title of the article which I thought one was required to use.
> The principal at my kid's high school called it "Self Advocacy".

Reminds me of a book "When I Say No I feel Guilty", which suggests assertively stating what you desire to others -- even if it's "Because that's what I want and I don't have a good reason" -- as opposed to trying to struggling to frame everything in terms of "Because That's How The World Works".
Prague has Liftago [0] (from English "lift" and Czech "tágo", colloquial for taxi). It basically unites licensed taxi drivers. Payments are processes by Liftago. Works very nicely.

I don't see a reason why a licensed taxi company couldn't work as Uber on the outside. (Liftago does.)

[0] https://www.liftago.com/
Google has 12354697024785902789027345238907423 messaging apps and no one has any idea why.
> I can't help wondering to what extent you're financially

Your comments have become increasingly uncivil lately. Would you please fix that? This one, in particular, crosses a line into personal attack that's not allowed. Surely you've seen one of my bazillion comments about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR....

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317517 and marked it off-topic.
Upwork is influencing the client's decision to seek only US freelancers in some not very subtle ways, discussed in the thread. They are planting in the client's mind the need which wasn't necessarily already there (and is quite often spurious).

To ignore the psychology of the ux and it effect on the decision making process is naive.

US freelancers may be better off. Non US freelancers will certainly not be.
>What is wrong in rich people parting their wealth to help poor people while benefiting their family members ?

What's wrong is that life and health should be a right to everybody, not just to those who can buy it out.
Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows
I thought Neon was KDE.
YAML isn't a markup language, and it doesn't claim to be. The name stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language.
This configuration command prior to make worked for me on Linux:

./configure --disable-shared CC="afl-gcc"

It calls the AFL GCC compiler instead, which presumably injects instrumentation.
The guidelines say to change the title if it's clickbait:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them.

That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.
That's fine for things like victimless crimes, but less so where the activity we're considering commercializing involves inflicting an injury on one party by removing one or more of their organs. I'll cut to the chase by saying I'm a deontologist rather than a utilitarian.

In any case, it seems far more likely that some combination of medical technologies is likely to lead to lab-grown organs before the establishment of a fleshy stock exchange.
>Why do you believe that, out of curiosity?

Because the liquidity of an asset is a form of risk.

>The reason I think it isn't straightforward

I don't think it's straightforward either, but that only means individual's valuation might be way off.
Regarding compatibility.. didn't they try to break away with Windows N? Though a commercial flop, only available on ARM and locked down devices... I hd pretty high hopes in that space, higher that they'd take Server in that direction...

I'm not sure MS can really dead-end a legacy codebase so easily. They seem to be trying, but hitting resistance at every turn.
> the taxi lobby is trying to, yes.

You have to be more specific. In some places maybe that's true. Meanwhile in other places, we've had private hire services with apps long before Uber that were not faced with the same type of attacks from the taxi lobby.
Psychedelics Show Promise in Treating Depression
Yes, I get that every time I make the observation. I waste a lot of time on the Internet too, much less than in the past. i'm certainly as guilty as the next person. However, I'm trying to be more self-aware about it. Thirty years ago I thought all the Internet conversation would amount to more.

I didn't offer a solution to the problem. I simply threw it out there for others to ponder. Yeah, I know i'll get a bunch of answers that start with "you can't..."

Still, collectively we waste a lot of time, which i see as untapped potential. We're going to get self-driving cars and we'll probably just get an early start on HN.

Finally, the observation that you missed as you rushed to tell me that I was wasting time too, and it can't work because... is that we need to collectively figure out a way to capture the wasted time of millions of people.
iTunes will soon be an official Windows Store app
Vimeo is adopting tus
I use zsh with Hyper (https://hyper.is/) using "atom-dark" (https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperterm-atom-dark) theme and it's quite decent sans the hideous text background colors:

http://i.imgur.com/l4Oi2up.png
Get the Enterprise Edition and you'll get full control on what data is leaving your machine.
Personal thoughts:
Perhaps some of the people offering you unconditional kindness are doing so from a position of emotional wellbeing. They offer their kindness in the hope that you use their kindness as a model to find your own wellbeing. There is an unspoken hope, that one day you will be strong enough to be unconditionally kind to others.

It’s a pay-it-forward kind of model. And if you choose to you can absolutely “earn” (or at least repay) every bit of kindness that’s offered to you. By stepping up and also being kind to others in need.
If I were to give my own tl;dr summary of accelerationism, I would say that they treat intelligence as the "good" of utmost value. In the accelerationist vision of the world, intelligence is a feature of the universe, a sort of higher-level organizing principle, and we should strive to maximize intelligence in whatever form. Accelerationists would be perfectly content with a world of ever more intelligent self-replicating machines taking over the universe, without regard to human life or happiness. After all, Nick Land's personal motto is "Coldness be my God"

Everything else is what you get when you take "maximize intelligence" to its logical conclusion.
I remember this clearly because I had only just become literate on the dying process and the costs that simply not having those conversations incurred. It was so disheartening to see such an easy win for both reducing suffering and costs get politically derailed (ironically by a party claiming it's fiscally conservative). There are so few easy wins in medicine and this is very clearly one of them.
Hangouts is now meant to be intended for enterprise use while Allo is the consumer-focused messaging app
What's the "Visions: Cosmic and Romantic" that's referred to around 36 minutes into the video? Google doesn't turn up anything.
> I've never debugged anything looking at WinNT/Win32 error codes

I think your lack of experience explains the issue. I do it pretty damn frequently.

> so poor that useless 32 bits hex error code, component dependant, are pretty much the only (useless) thing that users are seeing

All you need to do is look up the error code in either the headers or in MSDN [1] and then read the error message. It explains what's going on and does it far better than the minimal number of errnos possible.

And no, I didn't cherry-pick anything. Like I said, I picked the first function I thought of. If you really cared enough to provide an example you could/would have, but you didn't. And this is ignoring the fact that I then told you why the listing of error codes or lack thereof was not possible in general.

And it's not like in Linux you don't need to write and run and re-write and re-run code fifty times before you know all the edge cases. I remember having one hell of a time trying to figure out how to use epoll, for example. The documentation could easily be 2-3x as long.

Regarding WINE: WINE is not software that uses the Windows API. It replicates the Windows API. Nobody ever claimed Windows's error reporting behavior is easy to replicate. We're talking about APIs, i.e. interfaces for programmers that program TO the system. An open set of error codes makes a ton of sense for all the reasons I listed. Of course an open sense means you'll have a much harder time replicating the behaviors. Windows was not designed to be easy to copy; it was designed to be easy to use. I would've thought that would be obvious.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
Table saw is going to be, by a huge margin, the most dangerous tool in most amateur woodworker shops. You need to exercise great care and respect around power tools, but the table saw requires particular care. All tools, power and non-power can be used safely, but you need to learn and internalize shop safety practices. My dad taught wood shop in school so I got a good boost by being immersed with shop safety from a very young age, but anyone can learn the right habits.

Start with hand tools while you're learning the basics. Get good eye and ear protection--don't skimp. Learn how to sand. Ease your way into power tools as you find you need them. I wouldn't start out in woodworking by filling my garage with $10K worth of power tools right off the bat.
What are the downsides of competing standards?

The TS community is far, far larger and more active than Flow, and I'm not sure eliminating Flow would make much difference. Facebook would certainly continue to use it instead of porting all their code to TypeScript.
CoreOS Fest Scholarship Opportunities
Show HN: EoMapper.com
That is one benefit of Uber (and trans-national apps like MyTaxi or Taxi.eu) compared to local taxis. My guess is you're being ripped off because you're tourists.

I remember that as a kid, my mother and grandmother would teach me to never take a taxi that's parking in front of the train station, because those are the scammers that prey on tourists. Instead one should order a taxi from a known company using a phone.
Except it originally stood for "Yet Another Markup Language"[1], and the newer name only means to separate it from HTML and other document-oriented markup languages.

[1] http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html
You're not wrong by virtue of mind maps being an applied graph, but the motivations for the edges and clustering is meant to mimic the architecture of human memory as we understand it. A proper mind map can represent abstract and disjoint relationships between concepts using these tools. We can organize data into lists and tables of content, but that's not actually how humans process it.
Xamarin Live Lets Devs Debug Native Apps Quickly
The wisdom of the herd: A new sort of hedge fund relies on crowd-sourcing
You're just inviting the "decent text editor" joke, aren't you? ;-) But yes, if all you want is text editing I'm not sure what's better than Sublime. I've hard good things about VS Code lately, though.
Vista (or was it XP) introduced a new security model that made prior apps that depended on a common install location being writable very interesting... They still kind of worked, but data's actual location was then per-user.

Other than that, most windows software runs as it has for a fairly long time now.
The information is being used to conduct asymmetric psychological warfare. The notion that it's harmless even if never outright abused where we define abuse as use for other than its intended purpose, is false.

Being subjected to constant sensory input and trickery from dozens of teams of experts on consumer psychology is bad enough when they haven't also been stalking and recording your every move.

Caveat emptor becomes an absurd position when the power imbalance is so great. Massive data collection and mining needs to be reigned in. The fact that it's not obvious people seeking to trick you by any means necessary are recording you everywhere you go does not make it OK, at all. Surveillance capitalism is way, way over the line, has been for some time, and just keeps going farther. That they're good at keeping you from realizing you're under surveillance is no defense whatsoever.
but in reality there isn't. In Athens, Greece, a 15 minute ride to the airport in 45 euros, in an old crappy cab reeking of tobacco smoke and driver not speaking English. Average salary there is 1100 euro/month. This racket is immoral and should be broken without any hesitation, no matter how loudly cab drivers complain about lost wages.
I'm not sure many people in the industry feel 'entitled' to FU money. But you don't go the Olympics without intending to try for gold.
Show HN: Search for all whatsapp, telegram and Facebook groups from here
Fluent Design System by Microsoft
Several Helpmonks updates that will help you and your team to work faster
https://youtu.be/5l_t70EG8E0

Search Youtube for tai chi to see other hilarious examples, including some guy who claimed he could stop a train.
The very fact that the government invests substantially in brute-forcing encryption means that there are enough weak implementations to make it worthwhile.

Food for thought.
Wingsuit instructor here. Can confirm.
Silicon Valley North: How America’s two tech hubs are converging
I think at least some consider the end of life as something independent/separate of "what comes next", for lack of a better phrase.
It sounded like at first you were positioning MMA as not a sport:

> Arts and sports have constraints, MMA has none right ?

and now you're using its classification as a sport to minimize the effectiveness of the response that shows it is a sport with constraints?

> Which fighting sport doesn't have spatial constraints ?

I'm having trouble tracking what point you're trying to make.
Would you care if it's a cloud or a reflection off glass?
Not that I agree, but Canada has been doing it for years: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/public-safety-and-l...
> How about Uber for drug dealers? Or Uber for prostitution?

yes and yes, prohibition is idiotic and does not work, so legalize and tax this shit
Why Robinhood Uses Airbnb's Airflow
If patents help society, then patent trolling is not always a destructive process. In fact it's how things ought to work, if you accept the premise (which I don't). And if it's sometimes a good thing, actually it's not illegitimate to hold in an otherwise unproductive company. It's just like owning a bar of gold: does nothing for anyone, but it's an asset for the owner.
That's just not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959097
That change was made in NPM3, before Yarn was publicly released.
Human pilots do get depth information by either looking, and/or by radar and other instruments.
It's very common when fuzzing. That's why you normally want to place memory limits on the target process, to avoid bringing the system down. AFL does that automatically, most other fuzzers have a config option.
If you really have 16-bit windows/dos software, these days dosemu or WINE may be better options under a VM (Not sure if ReactOS would work well enough). DosBox may work as well, depending on specific needs.
Windows 10 on ARM