skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People use Facebook in the browser because Facebook is a website that happened to have a messenger bolted on.

Electron apps aren't relevant – I'm talking about the user experience, not the underlying technology. As far as the user is concerned, Slack is a standalone application.
Ah, Polish adventurers!

One of my all-time favourite threads on ADVrider.com (motorcycle touring website) is about a group of Polish bikers traveling through Afghanistan in 2009. They have stunning photos:

http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/afghanistan-ride-how-t...
SQL for Data Analysis – Tutorial for Beginners – Ep1
Actually, what you're proposing is a cognitive blind spot that is indicative of depression. I forget what the name of it is, but taking every minor setback or chance occurrence to be indicative of a fundamental, unchangeable character flaw is a symptom of depression.
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I think the idea is that people sometimes make mistakes... They leave home early and forget that alarm is still turned on, and then get home in the afternoon to find the front doors broken by angry neighbors. But yeah, if that watch could measure heartbeat... ;)
Exactly, it's something that mass usage will solve, even if the folk song will not sound just the same with "a hundred klicks, a hundred klicks, I am five hundred klicks away from home".

Other languages often say just letters "k" or "km".
اعلان وظائف جامعة الاسكندرية 2017
REST Anti-Patterns (2008)
In principle negative by one measure since you are recovering energy (embedded in the outputs, possibly to then be used as fuel) if done well.
Two parts of Inspiration
We've tracked down in all sort of ways while awake ... now are we going to be tracked also while sleeping?
We should try to figure out how to not be a data source without being paid for..
Worse that CORBA?
I'm also here to echo the trader != portfolio manager which seems to be described in this article. There's a vast difference in duties and comp between the same job title at a bank, hedge fund, or prop shop and you really cannot look at only comp and job title for comparison. I suspect some data points from hedge funds and prop shops got mixed together. A typical trader at a hedge fund is not making anywhere near the comp claimed in this post and "senior trader" at most places is like giving you a gold star because they didn't want to promote you to portfolio manager.

Additionally, 2 and 20 literally does not exist anymore for the vast majority of funds. Downward pressure on fees has been all over the news for the past several years and having the inaccurate data point as well as no mention of recent trends leads me to doubt other data points in this article.

The revenue split also makes no sense and does not account for fund size or strategy which has a huge influence on costs.
> He’s also hinted at tech’s ability to overhaul zoning rules and control housing costs, a particular interest of Alphabet’s Page.

Yeah doesn't Silicon Valley and San Francisco have some pretty stringent zoning rules against intensification?
Trump Takes Aim at Western Monuments That May Hold Oil Riches
The unpopular rise of self-checkouts
As in "character" for which CHAR and VARCHAR are abbreviations?

Disclaimer: not an English native speaker
Maybe I'm the exception, but I can't see why people, why programmers, bother investing their editing-skills in a closed-source editor and toolkit.

Sublime is closed source. When it croaks up and dies, all the skills you've built up will be wasted, and you'll have to rebuild them elsewhere.

Why not invest in something open instead? There's more options than ever before, and they're all good.

For me, VS Code seems to provide pretty decent Python IDE capabilities almost out of the box.

For those a little more deeply invested, Emacs with elpy and realgud gives me all I need: code-completion, docs, debugging, breakpoints, etc. And it's something I as a programmer can adapt to my needs and build on.

Sublime? None of that. So what's the appeal?
https://airbnb.myshopify.com/products/belo-keyring
Sorry I'm a bit slow on the uptake but what point are you making?

Are you saying it has no utility?
Xmake v2.1.4 released, support REPL
Some investors are in fact wising up and moving away from hedge funds:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/hedge-funds-suffer-207-billio...

http://thebamalliance.com/blog/hedge-funds-miss-the-mark/

The trick is that some hedge funds do produce outsize returns, and every rich customer wants to think he's going to pick the winner.

All in all, charging a percentage of AUM is a pretty neat scam they've got going for themselves.
A significant number of house fires (though certainly not a majority) are caused by things outside the control of the person living there.

Lighting strikes, faulty appliances, etc...
Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Top $800B Value
Well, understandably, battery life isn't currently where it's at to handle such a p2p network, but the idea could be useful. If it was developed accordingly, there could be many uses from it.
Carrying internet connectivity across a city could be as simple as having one singular transmitter, which would connect to at the very least, one device. This device could pass the connectivity to other devices, which could pass it on to other devices, increasing the range, albeit, slowing down the overall speed.
It would also be useful for the sharing of resources between a private WAN.
I think anyway, I'm still new to the subject.
Apple Pushes into Analyzing Your Sleep with Beddit Acquisition
I say this every time pricenomics gets upvoted - they only do content marketing. I don't understand how people don't get it.
F# support in Rider – what's there and what's coming
At one time, they were a "hedge", but the term is an anachronism today.
Promises in Node.js 8.x Core
How to Set App Featured in Google Play and App Store?
Considering how much I use the web-browser, how desperate for market share and money Opera is, and the fact that opera whatever it's called now is closed source, i would never even install it.
they should open the source already
The trouble is that "environment" can grow to encompass many highly political issues beyond the most obvious things. It lets politicians wiggle out of deciding things by setting up a scientific process.
Nice idea. With it being source is a nice basis for new devs to learn.

I don't think you can guarantee that the data will be certainly persisted forever though right?
True, if your WM doesn't suck, which rules out Windows and MacOS (ok, for the former someone wrote a tiling WM overlay in... AutoHotkey). Otherwise it's annoying hassle to keep the windows properly sized and displayed.
Generally, "x but on a blockchain" is a way to generate bad new ideas.

I've seen inchoate proposals to put voting on Bitcoin and now on blockchain for years, but nothing that is a concrete proposal, and more importantly how blockchain solves whatever the actual problem is.
How We Almost Killed Our Product, but Luckily Didn't (now: 9.5M Installs)
Kind of like a Rat King of Prince Rupert drops.
This appears to be effectively the same advert for "Aspiring Minds" as was in the article discussed about three weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156290 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156318 (9 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156547 (37 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14162713 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164104 (2 comments)
Happy to hear any feedback and suggestions
Ask HN: How to accept credit-cards for side project outside US
I have a side-project that I'm working on with the plan to monetize via subscriptions (in the range of $1-5/month). I don't have a company and am located outside of the US (in Israel - I am a US citizen, but not working from there.. not sure if it matters/how it works.)

I'm new to this business-side of things am I'm not sure where to start. Do I need to be a company? Paypal might be an option but I don't want to require my users to use paypal accounts and I've had bad experiences with them.

I'm looking for any suggestions/tips/stories that might help. Thanks!
`top`, as well as `htop`, report some global stats like total memory utilization, swap usage, load average and CPU usage. So that’s totally fine.
True for alarm radios, but for phone apps? I assume everyone takes their smartphone with them when they leave...
The core team in Oslo got laid off after the webkit switch in 2013, not sure how many remained in the other teams. But as far as I know there is nothing but sales and admin left in Norway now.
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And if another voting fails, they can make modules internal to the JDK and ship now modularized JDK and then rework and expose modules in one of the later versions.
culture advanced, I agree, but the tools are at best on-par, surely not better.

As a kid I made my first website in flash and it was good. I did not know how to program, maybe read a single book about AS2. There where no taste-less animations, just nice, smoothed and fast pagination transitions. I was especially proud to be able to decouple animation and input, so you never had to wait for the UI to finish an animation.

Now I do a lot of front-end and CSS transitions are still a hassle (especially when you need keyframes), trying to implement material design on android might be even worse (The other day I touched about 7 files for a simple pull-down menu). And all the bodymovi animations in the link drop frames in my firefox...
Does it? I have a Fitbit and have only figured out how to configure a constant-time alarm. I know it tracks my sleep, but can I set a smart alarm? I'm pretty sure it can't.
The README.md goes fast, but I have some feel for what's going on. Could I, for instance, connect a client and start logging every message in the system using a liberal matcher and a low weight?
Also, it's not obvious to me how the versions work. Can I use a transformer to "upgrade" an older message version to a newer one?
Keep in mind that property taxes go up with the value of the property in most places. But yeah, generally more stable (and lower) than rent.
I've previously heard of ternary computers as a concept, but I don't think I'd heard of any actual implementations until now. Thanks for the link.
opera is not a mess--it is the best of the browsers...i use it as default browser on my desktop...opera is easily better than chrome or firefox...has far far fewer issues and slowdowns and freezes and crashes...opera is a great browser...
The post-social media era and the evolution of social networking
Please don't mark people you don't agree with as racist.

Racism is hate due to (tl;dr) skin colour and/or ethnicity.

The comment you don't agree with quoted nationality (a totally different subject).
Microsoft knows Windows is obsolete.  a sneak peek at its replacement
Wow... the writing, the prose... wish I could put words together like that.

Sample:

""" Fame is partial with her favor, and has not seen fit to bestow any upon the creators of the panel switch, the type E relay, the crossbar marker circuit. There are no biographical anecdotes we can summon to illuminate the lives of these men; the only readily available remains of their lives are the stark fossils of the machines they created.
"""
Sleep as Android is perfect and has fully configurable snooze settings.
Fixed link: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-May/0...
It sounds like working at a university in the Bay Area is what's unsustainable. Why not just let the market sort itself out? If the university can't find staff, they'll have no choice but to raise salaries or move out. No need for union pressure. You've chosen to take the low pay and high cost of living, so it must be good enough for you. Perhaps at some point you'll be pushed over your limit and move out yourself.
It's really too bad we don't use Lua in the browser...
That actually was a design consideration in the 50s, especially for infrastructure. Part of the reason that highways were more favored was that they're more resistant to attack than trains.
Hi Mike, yep - you've found one of the relevant threads.
As well as Bing, there is also aerial imagery from Mapbox. So this is another option for us, which is great.

In many ways, aerial imagery is much better for OSM than data. Trying to conflatuate 2 data sources (DG & OSM) would be a massive headache.
Future of the Smartphone Cadenza with 12GB Ram
Well there would obviously be contractual agreements put in place for something like this.
There's also RDFox[0] and VLog[1], both of which are implemented in C++.

[0] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/tools/RDFox/

[1] https://github.com/jrbn/vlog
The mean and average upsides are still better than what one would get at a typical startup.
I agree with Arcsech in that Chaos Engineering is most useful in the context of distributed systems. However, this doesn't mean that you can't learn something new from experimenting in, say, a local VM.

As a matter of fact, Netflix is running a big distributed system, so that's where they focus their testing efforts. In general, I think it's fair to talk about Chaos Engineering and systems in the general sense, distributed or not.
Well I don't think even my nearest or dearest would call me adorable, but hey :-). The module system proposal did state that the user module system was a non goal, but the design of it means that it does impact existing user module systems (OSGi, JBoss) as well as the defacto build / package system (Maven) and so several EC members felt that more interop work is required.
Given the timestamps of the two English respondents in favour of "sth", I am tempted to amend my hypothesis to say it's a European thing, and more predominant in continental Europe.
They're definitely prereqs to upper-level git wizardry
The appeal of Sublime is that you have more than 3 hours of battery life. All Electron applications are battery killers.
>On the other hand, detecting you really broke an openly-accepted law, triggering police intervention and letting the system work as it should, is trivial in the extreme.

Yes, but on the other hand, speaking of "detecting you really broke an openly-accepted law", China has 1/2 or 1/3 the prison population per citizens that the US has (which is the world leader in this regard, with 25% of the worlds prison population for just 4-5% of its general population).
The title is a little bit misleading, this is a case of an intentional covert channel (both communicating parties are controlled by the attacker, and one intentionally creates acoustic radiation that the other listens for), and not a side channel (where the attacker listens for unintentional acoustic emanations from a device they do not control, like https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/).
Designing for the user vs design for the business. These two are fairly often very different demands and balancing that can be challenging.
How Compact Code Can Become Buggy Code: Getting Caught by the Order of Eval
Powerful Branding Ideas from 2017's Smartest Companies
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the data will be there as long as there won't be localstorage data wiped up for this particular app.
You probably clicked Accept and Install. "Import bookmarks and data" is under options in the first screen of the installer and ticked by default.
That's why it's only possible to use whitelisted data sources: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery . Given the scope of this task, "find a license-compatible imagery" is a non-issue.
It's not that simple. High salaries aren't the only benefit that comes from high concentration, there's also high fluidity in the job market. And it goes both ways. In our industry, employers are picky (what's the on-site to offer conversion rate at your company?), and potential employees are picky (rightly so, in my opinion) given the huge variance in job satisfaction.
+ Yoshua Bengio in Montreal.
Show HN: Spotter – Search for copies of videos on the internet
And for the latter, you have Moom, kwm, amethyst, divvy, Better(Snap|Touch)Tool, Slate, Breeze, etc.
I think it depends on how strict the zoning is. The US has a tendency for relatively strict command economy style exclusive zoning.
See http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/201... - I think this is a decent compromise and a majority of the Maven folsk seem to agree. We're hoping to take it for a test drive this Saturday at another Hackday.

I think the JSR did over reach itself. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I think if the scope had been to just modularise Java itself and then have a separate JSR for a user space module system on top of that, it would have worked out better.
A Chinese company now manufactures stainless steel tip cases for ballpoint pens
+1 too many brilliant brains lost
> Who said anything about Python or Java? In any case Java and C++ are roughly similar.

And with Python you use heavily optimized native libraries (Numpy & co.) where it matters.
Not that a class needs to be a primitive, but that patterns like inheritance should be reusable in some way through templating or the like.

And the inability to pull down a graph as a single operation is the perfect example of sql's limitations.

Relational model is great right? Right. So why throw it out the window and give me a glorified excel spreadsheet as a result set? If I want to pull down a thing and it's related subthings in a single operation, I have to join which is wasteful in that case. This actualy hamstrings ORMs.
Person taking a photo out of an airplane: Allowed.

Person remote controlling a camera on an airplane: Not allowed.

We shouldn't be making laws saying a human can do something but a machine cannot. That leads to humans having pointless jobs simply because laws prevent the use of automation.
Speaking as someone who has spent time optimizing programs in both languages, Rust is certainly not in the same tier as Haskell. It should be in the same tier as C or C++. If there's a program where it's not, then we consider it a bug. (And indeed, those exist. :-) But they are fixable!)
The level of polish just makes it incredibly kitchy.
> Browsing and chatting simultaneously is cumbersome and inefficient now, as you need to switch between tabs when responding to a message. We believe this needs to change.

Then:

>If you use more than one messenger, you can easily switch between them by using our shortcut key for quicker access (⌘ + ⇧ + m on macOS, CTRL + SHIFT + m on Windows and Linux).

So, why would this be any better than switching tabs? One thing about a browser, I usually have my hand on my mouse and not the keyboard.
They get round these laws by sending pilots up in cheap hobby planes like cesnas with cameras attached to the bottom.
Wow, Nexus and Anker devices? I would have been less surprised if it was some off-brand or a manufacturer known for incompatibility, but those should be fine.

Here's hoping this will all smooth out and we'll eventually have uniform quick charge technology.
>Oh please please please make a smart alarm that will make me up by only vibrating on my wrist. I want to be able to wake up early for stuff without having to wake up my wife and dogs.

I bought a Withings watch (Nokia owned, they also make scales) basically for that feature.

The main caveat is that the control app (the watch has no buttons) only supports setting 1 alert p -- and you even have to change it manually if you want a different hour the next day, can't preprogram different alerts for various weekdays.

That said, it was just $100, and Nokia is supposed to revamp the models soon-ish. I'll go for an Apple Watch next though...
Some recommended reading:

Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks (2005) [1]

The IEEE 802.11s Extended Service Set Mesh Networking Standard (2008) [2]

Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards (2006) [3]

[1] https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2005.1404606 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1404606/
[2] https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2008.4597114 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4597114/
[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0849373999/
What are the hours and the perks? That's the only question.
Missing calls while sleeping on airplane mode, though, is not really compelling...
Eh, AFAIK Flash's big problem is the implementation - it's horribly inefficient and insecure etc, but in theory someone could make their own clone of Flash and make a much better version that works well for all that stuff.
I don't think this was a defense of that as much as it was a warning/analysis of it. He did take his time getting there though. ;-)
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You're basically describing the Sears kit homes. They were quite successful; it's a real shame Sears stopped making them.
Because it takes hardly any of the real world constraints into consideration. If you're designing for the 15 artists / albums in his mockup, then yeah , this is fine. But that's not the real world case.
No offense, but it sounds like an empty sales pitch. You're trying to bring attention to the product you're building - and there's nothing wrong about it - but you're only presenting only vague promises, without even discussing what do DAWs get wrong about music in any significant detail.

In the spirit of constructive criticism, may be you could at least point to specific negative sides of existing DAWs that you're willing to eradicate?
There's probably a language skill experience aspect that the author neglects.

Tiobe puts JavaScript at #7 and Rust on #40.

Though C++ is #3 I'd have a hard time believing there's a mass of professional C++ programmers building web applications. I also wonder if there is a maturity difference between the C++ pool of talent and JavaScript pool.

Nodejs is oriented toward the web and probably more quickly accessible to new developers than C++.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
TVFs are intensely verbose to use compared to the corresponding SVF for a single column. Cross Apply will destroy your performance. I'm venting because I've watched clean, legible code get destroyed into soup of a zillion tiny joins and endless repeated boilerplate for performance improvement by this misfeature.
The west biggest mistake - thinking that you could outsource the bottom layers of the value pyramid and there won't be local layers forming on top of them.

And when china achieve scale on something with good quality - game over man, game over.
>Having tried a number of sleep tracking solutions to get this whole "wake up when your body is most ready for it" thing I'm not sure it works for me.

This feature also depends on personal health as it just checks for REM cycles and deep sleep.

People with apnea (like me) will never be "ready for it" regardless of the phase they are in. At best they'll be "a little more ready for it but still very much needing sleep".
Fast, beautiful, open source: pick two. (considering the ones you cited)
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> Another thing I've been dying for is an easier way of layering sounds, for example drum hits. Multiple midi sends feels hacky in Ableton and certainly not a first class feature.

Layering drum sounds is a typical feature in all DAWs, and in ableton, with it's instrument and drum racks, it's even easier to layer whatever you want. May be I don't understand what exactly are you trying to achieve?
> You just need to calm down.

You just said "I would shit a brick and beat a developer" upthread.