skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huawei’s new MateBook X is another spin on a modern MacBook Air – The Verge
The meaning can be vastly different depending on the origin of the quote, although for general observations about life I would say you are right.
Microsoft unveils collaborative inking Whiteboard app for Windows 10 – The Verge
Google made a $5,000 whiteboard – and it’s weirdly fun – The Verge
Walmart Canada has stopped accepting Visa due to the fees.
Which makes Ireland the only English-speaking country where you don't expect stuff like this to happen?
Not to mention that no one should trust something that is made by MS that has that much control over your system after the windows 10 shitstorm with self-enabling telemetry settings and forced updates/upgrades.
Microsoft has created a Surface USB-C dongle for ‘people who love dongles’
I first found out about Ammon and Triplebyte through this YC video interview. I thought it was interesting, so I'll share:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxZDcTWdOo
I keep hearing this argument and it continues to make no sense to me. With the exception of fixed levies (like property taxes) all other taxes are proportional to income valued in USD. Multiplication is commutative, though -- if I earn 100 BTC, and say my tax rate is 30%, then I own 30 BTC in taxes, at the prevailing exchange rate -- the demand for dollars is an illusion here; regardless of the value of dollars relative to BTC, I owe 30 BTC worth of dollars; if dollars are worth a lot, then I owe few of them, if they are worth little, then I owe a lot of them. There is no function forcing value into USD.
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Look for companies that maintain a software for decades.

Agencies and fresh startups often optimize for speed, not maintainability. But there are plenty of companies that optimize for maintainability, you just have to look for them.

Mentions of code reviews, automatic tests, SOLID, DDD etc are usually good signs.
> Back then when people still knew what patches were, the whole post of the OP would have been a one liner: [x] send patches or stfu

The person who says that is either an idiot or doesn't care about the product. There's really no third option.

It's fine if you made something once that you no longer care about and want to abandon. Really! I understand that free software isn't free! Someone has to make it, and that takes time and effort and energy, and maybe you don't want to give that anymore! That's OK!

But don't for a second think that it's reasonable to give a song and dance about pretending to still care while demanding pull requests for every bug. Mark the project abandoned, and go do something else without stringing people along. Otherwise you're being a prick to your users for no reason. Non-technical users discover bugs that you didn't catch all the time. If the developer/maintainer gives half a shit, they'll listen to those users.
It isn't mobile only. I visited it using Chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) on Windows 10. Works fine.
A little late, but Pettis obliged with his latest post. It's more directly answering your question, I think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408165
Containers vs. virtual machines: A simplified answer to a complex question
One of the authors here. Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to answer them.
GPU-flingers' bash: Forget the Matrix, Neo needs his tensors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489100

Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software (ocallahan.org)
859 points by bzbarsky 118 days ago
Dockerized development environment on steroids (part 2/2)
Works for me... Sierra, tried Chromium, Chrome Canary, Safari, and Firefox. Possibly hardware-related? There was a similar complaint in another thread yesterday and it apparently had to do with WebGL not being supported with some GPUs.
It's somewhat more likely but I wouldn't say "surely" at all. There are a lot of other factors.
So individuals can't own mineral rights in the UK?
> do they eat the same thing every meal?

I can't speak for Obama or Zuck, but I've been eating the same type of breakfast (cereal+milk) consistently [1]for the last 15 or so years (at age 27). Not mainly because of decision fatigue, but because I'm the polar opposite of a morning person, and the morning routine helps my drowzy morning self to leave home on time.

[1] Except when I'm traveling, because I'm certainly not taking a box of cereal with me. :)
I used NOD32 before they actively took part in Russian war against Ukraine (on Russian side), and to the garbage dump they went.
>Going from there to the notion that disabilities are good and it's the healthy people who have the real problems is devastatingly toxic.

I see the opposite as toxic. I am very creative but because of my creativity I have trouble, sometimes, keeping focus on things I do not deeply love to think about. I get very bored very fast doing things that does not fundamentaly engage or motivate me. I know this disabilitates me but I also know that the other side of that coin, my ability to dive in to a problem and go deep, for a long time, and after some time resurface with a solution, more than compensate, which shows in my pay-check I guess but also because I am well integrated in the team. Perhaps well-integrated because I know everyone is a little ADHD/schizo/gay/rasist/and so on. We all have a little bit of everything in us. That's why I struggle hard in every team I'm in to make us a well-functioning but heterogenous team. We all need to be our best selves but more imporantly, our selves. If not at work, when?
Increased capital controls from China and increased speculation from the US. In speculative markets, rapid price increases can become self-reinforcing as they kick off press and attention which draw in even more speculators.
In 2010, before this war, the BBC produced a 5-part documentary series called "Syrian School" -doing a fly-on-the-wall in four schools in Damascus. I only saw half of it, but looking back it is heart breaking. The short answer is, day-to-day life in a Syrian school was very similar and recognisable to e.g. the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUDxznlkm6Y
No, thank you. I'll take my clothing in shades of black, grey, and blue. Everything matches everything else, and it is freaking fabulous. I'm rarely too over/under-dressed. Even in a rush, my clothes look decent. Not only that, but I find I don't need so many clothes now and definitely don't need as many shoes.

Color? I can save that for my hair, which tends to have blue or green shades. I can save it for a bit of makeup when I wear it. I can save it for paintings and artwork and making nice-looking food.
If this were the case, then we wouldn't still have aristocrats. Inheritance tax doesn't apply at this scale. They just put it in trust, even though no one seriously pretends that they don't control the money.

E.g., the Grosvenors, who own 3% of London. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/aug/11/inheritance-ta...
Maybe start off with a The Elder Scrolls style background quiz, where people are asked things such as "Ever since childhood you've been having terrible nightmares about (a) curly braces (b) dynamic typing (c) memory management.

And then, after 20 background questions, you could know with high certainty what style of pseudo code (or even language!) a person prefers.

Yeah, I think this is a great idea.
Version 57 on Mac. "Older device or Web browser"

Edit: updated to 58, still get the message. What a joke

Edit2: Worked under FF on Mac
Which is crazy a Boston's latitude is about the same as Rome. It came as a real surprise when so realised how far south the US is compared to the UK, or in fact most of Europe. Miami is the same latitude as Luxor in Egypt.
But a bug report that says "Your program seems to have gotten slower over the past four years and I feel like it's crashing more often. Please fix it" isn't very useful. A couple of concrete examples of specific problems with some suggestions on what should have been done in those cases would have made the post much more informative.
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Tell that to the Duke of Westminster:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/aug/11/inheritance-ta...
Work schedules and team selection should take account of body clock time
Is it about self-expression now? I think if people take that to heart its great.

Not really. In software we have a de facto range of attire from jeans and t-shirts to khakis and sport shirts. We're a pretty conformist bunch. I expect the range of choices is about as broad as our parents had a generation ago, through the center has moved way way casual-ward.
When I saw the movie Idiocracy, I said this is a bit exaggerated. Well, we are heading there in acceleration.

It's astounding how little people care about the many walks of life.
How is this any different than the swipe to unlock pattern? If you go to a starbucks and sit down for 20 minutes in a higher seat, you can get the passwords to probably 2-5 phones depending on everyone's security and how crowded it is (I inadvertently memorized 3+ coworkers' unlock patterns because they're so easy to see).

If someone has physical access to the user they can probably get into most people's phones (that's just saying people aren't careful enough though).
Yes, how can they prove anything?
Churches are suspiciously absent. Aren't they the biggest landowners everywhere?
Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit), except I'm on a Mac. Is it possible they've got a bug that misidentifies Mac browsers?
This way hundreds of people can ask the same question over and over?

At least some search the issues and answer the question themselves, it's even more valid when the maintainer decided to abandon the project.
Antiviruses really cripple down your computer performance.
I avoided using antivirus just by using a firewall and avoiding opening any shared files.

If I need to open a document, I will upload it to some online office suite and read it there.

If I receive some potentially malicious email I will read the message source and verify it's legit.

I also don't use Windows anymore, but when I did, this strategy worked well for me.
Gitkraken 2.6: new and improved fuzzy finder
Except perhaps Carter. He canceled the B-1 bomber. returned the Panama canal. He campaigned against what he called "The Imperial Presidency".

Of course, he was reviled for doing so.
The Jon Stewart\Rush Limbaugh model of thinking has permeated our culture so much that pointing out issues in the most entertaining manner, can get you so much attention and influence that there is no reason to put in the effort to fix things anymore. You can even become President with no history of fixing anything these days.
I'm not saying there's anything bad about not being billion dollar plus company, I'm just wondering why they're not at that point (if by choice or otherwise).

Also, I heard they took 50 million from a VC a couple of years ago, so they probably will feel pressure to start throwing off money eventually. FWIW, I just think Reddit could be a lot bigger than it is now.
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Ethereum's Two Ethereums Explained (2016)
Not exactly like DRM (that could be disabled on your device if you hack it). It's more like the TCP protocol where everyone agreed on some protocol (of communication in the case of TCP) and is following it.
I believe "Widely deployed platform" is the issue here.

A yummy target for virus and ransomware authors is a widely used piece of software: OS, browser, crypto library, Word processor, spreadsheet, PDF reader,...

Part of the problem is that in each of these categories, a single vendor often holds over 50% market share. As soon as a bug in one of those allow a RCE, that means millions of users at risk.

It's also true even if you don't run the software directly but use a service: memes that infect social media (see: Facebook and fake news) are basically viruses too.

Species avoid extinction from viruses thanks to diversity. Software users that want to stay safe should consider using the less popular alternatives.
How about being a personal trainer? The power lifting background is certainly a USP there.

Then maybe disrupt that industry with some software once you've gained some experience!
Dense Eurotech Hive System Broadens Compute (2015)
You know, if you're using Windows you're already trusting Microsoft completely.
I imagine you don't have the pleasure on work on companies of that size.
How AWS Cloud Is Demolishing the Cult of Youth – James Governor's Monkchips
With reader view in Firefox, it's fine.
Sooner or later people will start to revolt and either go back to use semi-anonymous cash or truly anonymous payment systems like bitcoin. Google and advertising will then be in the dark.
I was lucky enough to have visited Syria in 2009. I spent 3 weeks in Damascus. My impressions at the time:

* The pepole were surprisingly westernised
* Most younger people spoke great English
* Alcohol was available, but limited because *most* people didn't drink (instead people socialised in tea halls)
* Cheap oil meant that the taxi to the burger joint cost less than the burger did
* The people were extremely friendly
* I never felt unsafe
* The city was extremely clean
* ...however, the air was polluted
* Bakdash pistachio ice-cream was AMAZINGLY good https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakdash_(ice_cream_parlor)
* The old city was beautiful and packed with history...
* One day we rented a van to see some surrounding areas. The driver was extremely friendly. He showed us around and told us about the history of the places. I still have very fond memories of that desert trip

I had never considered visiting there before that, but left thinking I'd love to come back. I guess that's no longer possible and I shudder to think that everything I saw might be destroyed and wonder if the people I met are ok. It really was an incredible place.

The signs of the Assad regime were everywhere: posters of Bashar al-Assad were everywhere and armed police on most street corners. Beyond that, it felt very normal (from a westerners perspective) and I never felt like I was in (what the US calls) a "rogue state".
They probably assumed everyone using Mac is using Safari. I have seen lots of code shared on programming forums that simply check for Mac and assume the person is using Safari.
Not all cryptocurrencies issue new tokens every day. For example, Ripple had a fixed amount from the start and no new ones will ever be issued.
That would have been really smart. However, this move was driven by the product owner, including the requirement that we must score an "A" on the SSL Test site. I had just assumed he knew what he was asking for.

The scanning of the server logs occurred to us in hindsight as well.
>decentralize
Bitcoin has central banks you just call them exchanges and wallet providers. Most cryptocurrencies depend on specific websites and central developer teams(who may decided to fork the currency blockchain at their whim).
That's one hell of an `if` you've got there.
Each new update, and that seems to be at leas every couple of months, brings new goodies. Now if they would just add a panel for bookmarked repositories, or simlar way to show all my repositories with indication of changes (the one feature SourceTree had [1], until recently, which distinguished it from pretty much all other git UIs out there) I would probaby even buy it.

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-7176
Maybe they are sniffing for OS and assume you are using Safari.
Nor in Sweden. Instead the Crown usually leases the rights to companies for a song and a dance.
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The church owns a lot, but actually divested itself of quite a lot of its property portfolio in the 80s and 90s.

Linked is some related stats: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/01/01/who-owns-england-what-... - CofE does not appear there either.
Does who advertise for products sold offline doesn't care about clicks though, only views.
A few links from Russian fotoblog:

http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-1/

http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-2/

http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-3/
I've had my MacBook Pro, US bought, fixed in India. Within the 1 year warranty period. No charge! (F1 INFO SOLUTIONS & SERVICES PVT LTD) This was not an Apple Store/Center, but an Authorised Service Center.
I am Win10, Chrom 58, same message. Yeah, what a joke.
I can't quite see the need of this now we have async/await.
What does that mean?
The point behind that quote is that they're very aware of the privacy implications and took some of their best engineers to make sure things are well implemented and secure.
The product in itself is clearly described here. It's not up to individual employees to be "trusted" with this type of data, as it must be encrypted at rest and all accesses audited etc.
Ha! I wish I could upvote this all the way to the top!
And I'd dare say, even some "Roman Celts"! The roman influence was long and strong.
Both, but for non-Americans, getting through the security theater is not guaranteed, so they have to focus on that. For Americans, their rights are clearer and they are guaranteed to get through the security theater, so they can afford to fight the normalization of this.
The Witchcraft Compiler Collection (2016) [pdf]
Only the UK is doing the same, in France civil rights still do exist. No worries. Even if they are at war right now, and abolished civil rights for a few years.
The NOD32 intrusion detection supposedly thwarted EternalBlue (Wanacry). Defender did nothing.

Because Defender didn't need to do anything on a currently patched Windows machine. Call it a draw, although this entire comparison is deeply silly.
I am sure you know this but not all dyslexics have problems with reading I had a reading age on 20 when I was 9 or 10

My problems are with writing mostly
Do you have a link to the debate you mean? I'd be interested to see it, but when I searched I found several. One theory is that while the initial experiments were p-hacked to some extent, the replications (by definition) were not. Some trustworthy sources argue that the problem is that the replications actually weren't, but I haven't looked into the specifics closely enough to know whether that's the case. That said, I thought Bem came across quite well in this interview: http://skeptiko.com/daryl-bem-responds-to-parapsychology-deb....

I think, it is little misleading to suggest that those studies surpasses the statistical standards of many fields

I didn't mean to imply that the statistical standards were good ones, rather that the standards in some fields are abysmally low. For example, there's a high profile case going on with the Cornell Food Lab, where the extremely prolific lead researcher seemed not just blissfully unaware but proud of the unseen pitfalls around him: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwa....

The statistical tests are completely misapplied, but you can't tell just by looking at publications.

I think that's true, but (in my opinion) the problem is finding papers outside the very hard sciences where they _aren't_ completely misapplied. For example, I feel there is an insurmountable issue with applying formal statistics to any sort of meta-studies, where the data is at best a convenience sample, and (almost?) all conclusions are conditional on the unknown biases of the sample. This of course doesn't mean that all (or even most) meta-analyses produce the wrong answer, but I think it does mean that they should be treated as rhetorical rather than logical arguments.
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Ask HN: How do I crawl responsibly?
I've been developing a in-process search engine for some a while. Now it's time to experiment in distributing it over many machines and also serve up a public GUI but I am wary because I have never crawled the web before.

To start with I'm just going to index as much data I can fit on an entry-level cloud machine and because I am very poor I shall be asking for donations to further the scope of the index.

Say I start with Wikipedia and The Gutenberg project and a couple of news sites. The first two will be easy, they have dumps of their data and I also don't think Wikipedia would mind at all if I put a tiny amount of preasure on their servers for the good cause of building a free, anonymous and open web search. But what about the rest of the internet? Will they mind?

People crawl and scrape the web all the time for different purposes. I'm looking for some advise so that I don't piss anyone off with my crawler. What tools/strategies do you suggest I use?

Cheers!
5 large companies that use Perl
For personal mailboxes we're running exim on a managed VPS with a dedicated IP at a small hosting company. They have very diligent customer support and appear to keep their IP allocation clean, as we've never had problems with our emails being filtered as flagged as spam. They generally handle patching and configuration when we ask them to, or assist us when we want to do it ourselves.

For volume mailing we use ESPs like Mailgun and Sendgrid. Occasional deliverability problems are a fact of life at those.
Wait, a Slovakian company participated in a Russian War against Ukraine?
"If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again".

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/02/02
No rich people pay inheritance tax on property, you are leaving in a fairytale if you believe that. They have estate planners, and estate planners use trusts.
Bitcoin is not "truly anonymous" by default. All transactions are public and can be traced back to you, unless you use non-logging bitcoin mixers for every single transaction.
If I'm in debt to somebody 10.000, he owns me. If I'm in debt 10.000.000, I own him. Huge fines for behemoths will always be negotiated.

Nevertheless, it's a strong incentive for even the biggest companies to follow the law. EU has the capability and desire to enforce huge fines to make sure data protection laws are obeyed.
I worked for IBM as contractor a few years ago and they requested that whole team of contractors should sit in IBM office with sales guys. Now as you can imagine it was hilarious class division - sales guys in suits, black boots and stuff, conducting important meetings with bankers and in the same open office 20 or so "IT guys" in t-shirts, shorts and sandals :) .
Great Britain is unusual in having had only one successful armed revolution in the past thousand years, and the resulting theocratic dictatorship was so bad it resulted in people demanding the monarchy back.

(The "glorious revolution" of 1688 contained no fighting, although it did involve foreign troops. There was a successful armed revolution in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but this was more of a decolonisation than a class-based revolution.)
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There is an ENORMOUS difference. A computer can read hundreds, if not millions of moves ahead. A human is incapable of reading more than maybe 1 or 2 moves ahead in Go and even that assumes AlphaGo is going to do what humans do, which it has proven it does not.

I mean sure, if you broaden the term to the point that they both "do stuff", then yes, they do the same thing. But saying they try to "read an analyze" sequences is pointless. Of course both do that. But how they do it differs vastly, because AlphaGo can do things no human can. It's not just the depth in which it can do it.