skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article talks about how hydrogen was originally planned as the lifting gas, and that those plans were scrapped due to the FAA requiring non-flammable lifting gasses.

Given that Brin was apparently ready to try it with hydrogen, perhaps the risks of using hydrogen as a lifting gas are overrated? Given the scarcity / non-renewable nature of helium, the greater lifting potential of hydrogen, and advances in engineering, I wonder if these FAA regulations are in need of a rethink?

Also, even if the risks of hydrogen explosions are unmitigatable, I can still imagine unmanned cargo applications for hydrogen airships that could mitigate a lot of risk.
The packaging system is only a part of puzzle. I can control what happens with my Linux laptop, but it's much harder when 10+ devices around you are constantly updating. There's also the thrust issue - we all want exploit patches to be applied automatically while feature changes are different thing altogether (remember when Sony pushed update to PS3 that disabled OtherOS support).

Maybe a good legal solution would be to allow automatic updates, but only if user is informed about changes and she can downgrade/revert at any time. Also, the stuff that Microsoft does with Win 8/10 upgrading should be punishable.
Mouse scroll wheel acceleration for Xorg
My biggest concern about this is that, despite their assurances on the website for this specific product, Facebook is well known for collecting information about you in any way possible and then selling that information. Just for example, Facebook on Android will collect all the names and contact info from your contacts list and then create a shadow profile for your friends that don't have an account on Facebook. That's just one example, and there are others. The only way I might consider using this product is if it were FOSS and I could host the product on my own equipment.
Apple's Jony Ive Appointed Chancellor of Royal College of Art
FWIW, I'm exactly the opposite. I dev on firefox, only bother with chrome at the last minute (although I'll check it's responsive mode a little earlier) and get somebody else to check safari.
There's very little persistent storage involved with what MMO's and many other kinds of game servers do. Unlike web apps and many business apps, they are definitely not data bound.

I am aware that much of Eve Onlike is written in Python. But they are very premium: $15/mo. Would they be able to support their infrastructure for say $3 from 1 out of every 10 users once every 3 months?

I'm also aware that Facebook was originally written in PHP. Their business model is different, but they are also world leaders in PHP performance and compiling. There's a reason they invested so much in the performance.
I really want to meet the person that thinks a $35k car is going to be better than a $100k car...
There's a lot of space between "wouldn't possibly do that this way" and "is it plausible that they've done it that way?"
"Tekhnika" is the correct transliteration.
Tim Ferris: Four Hour Workweek .
Eliminate, Automate, Delegate...

It can give you ideas on how to delegate more.

Secondly figure out how to retain developers. If it causes you stress and hiring is real expense then you should invest in fixing it.
Make developer work environment as good as possible and maybe pay slightly above market pay.Your job is to fix the environment to reduce turn over to compensate the boring product with other factors they value.
In a court of law, rules of evidentiary procudure apply such that one side is not unfairly disadvantaged, or advantaged, by unequal law or process.

No, not always perfectly, but that's the ideal.

An outside, increasingly hostile, power, apparently having the inner-sanctum secrets on two major political parties, but choosing, selectively, to leak the goods on only one, is not evenly informing "the public" (or anyone else) on the true scope of issues at play.

One element of which is in fact that foreign adversary's exceptionally un-equal thumb on the scale. Though there's considerably more than that.

Your responses strike me as ill considered, at best, deliberately so at worst.

A good test is to see how you'd apply the rules or criteria were the situation reversed: the DNC colluding with, say, Russia or China, to hack the GOP, and to disclose damaging information in the immediate run-up to the election.
Twilight Imperium, a board game with meal breaks (2016)
IMO Mozilla had started allienating core users the moment Firefox reached 1.0 and became Mozilla's flagship product. The browser component of Mozilla Suite had useful features that were simply dropped from Firefox. (Also around this time Mozilla started the Mozilla(R) Firefox(TM) nonsense which led to Debian's Iceweasel and such. I remember that there was some kind of legal issue with having Firefox logo on cake and banner for FF 1.0 release party in Prague, which fortunately got ignored)

For me, firefox became completely unusable few months ago when somebody decided that pulseaudio is the way to go and nothing else should be supported.
Does that mean you could send someone a link, or take them to a webpage with a link, to file://killing string and if they click it, their system grinds to a halt? Can you DoS a Windows box by trigging an antivirus to try and look for that string? Does it impact Server?
The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (2016)
I'd say Visual Studio Code is not only not an IDE, it's also lighter weight than Atom, though obviously both are Electron. VS Code lacks even basic project management, having less tooling than even Sublime for project layout/folder structure - there's no equivalent for .sublime-project or .sublime-workspace.

For the most part, the Electron UIs use a ton more RAM and are much laggier. They do not tend to handle large files well. However, in exchange for that, they offer rich features. Plugins are way better - since obviously they have HTML/CSS at their disposal.

Also, VS Code's community is very active - same for Atom - and it leads to quite high quality plugins. The plugin for Go, for example, is quite great. I've been hoping for first-class Go support in Sublime just so I'd have a direct comparison, but in comparison to the VS Code plugins for Go, Sublime feels outright clunky and hard to configure.

I'd say give it a shot. If you can get past the fact that it's undoutably slower, and some of the semantics are different, it's really nice having full code intelligence and rich plugins.
Yes, 320km/h is a rare sight. Happens though, a Veyron once blew past me while i was going 180 in the center lane at night. It felt like I was standing still.
You're right about those jobs being physically wearing and not secure. My brother works at Target and lost 100 pounds over the course of a year. He wasn't trying to lose weight, it just happened because he was on his feet all day running around and because of other physical demands of the job. He does not seem stress free and it is not a job he likes, nor does it pay well. I would definitely never want his job.
I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.
From my experience, atoms are indeed rarely needed on the backend, where you have a DB to store the app state, but you can't do pretty much anything without them in cljs / Reagent.
That's kinda really insulting to a lot of really talented spies that risked their lives in the States :)
I see this sentiment all the time, in every programming language - x feature is for library authors, but it is bad for application devs because we cannot understand it. It's a terrible notion.

Royal you and we below, not specifically hellofunk or op.

You use the libraries, so your application uses the feature already. You should understand one layer of code beneath yours. You should have an interface layer between your code and the library. By not doing either ( because libraries use magical features ) you are coding yourself into a corner with a feature you don't understand.

The libraries use it so that their code can be more general and well-specified. The libraries are used by thousnands more developers than your code. Your code probably could also be easier to maintain if it was more general and well-specified. Imagine if thousands of people could reuse your authentication interface at your company! Think of the money you will save.

All it takes is time to learn a feature you must partially understand because you are using the library built ON that feature.

EITHER learn the feature, or use libraries that only use features you understand. If you can't use the language without the feature, you can't use the language without understanding the feature. If you allow libraries that use the feature in your app code, you should allow app code that uses the same feature.
Cool idea. Could see this being useful with something like Evernote. It's got a great note capture feature as well but doesn't covert to text you can't edit.
There is a name for this syndrome where a future shinier product kills your current product sales. Can someone help me with name?
> _borrowed_ (wink, wink) from Germans.

You can't be serious assuming Germany under fuhrer went close to satellites :) .
This is untrue. Are you seriously attempting to use a colloquial joke as some sort of evidence?

While Germans are a bit more conscious of driving in the left lane when not passing, what you are saying neither makes sense, nor is it applicable, especially in any amount of traffic.

It also totally discounts the vast amount of road construction and maintenance that Germans continually do on their roadways (infrastructure maintenance is a big deal). The construction alone, especially in Hessen/Rhineland Pfalz vastly impacts travel times in ways going 40kmph faster could never attempt to approach.
My vote is then for beige or black, so the BSD acronim still stands :)
> I was very glad to know just how corrupt the DNC and the Democratic party were before I voted in November.

Unfortunately, you weren't given the opportunity to find out how corrupt the RNC and the Republican party were before you voted in November. But that's okay, half the picture being blocked from view I'm sure is just like seeing the whole picture, right?
Lighter, smaller cars are actually safer.

An independent review of the impact of California's CARB emissions regulations found that if you totally ignored the health and climate change benefits, the regulations were still a net benefit just because they encouraged lighter cars, which lead to less death and injury on the roads.

Possibly you're thinking, but if my car was bigger than everyone elses, then I'd kill them, instead of them killing me. But unfortunately, everyone else is thinking the same thing. A classic case for regulation leading to improved outcomes for everyone.
I will use this to plug my favorite books on all things which involve energy "Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" by David MacKay. In one of the appendices he works out that the energy efficiency of airship transport is on the order of 10 times more efficient (wrt energy per weight and distance transported) than conventional airplane. He also points out why there are theoretical limits to how efficient a plane can ever be.

The efficiency of the airship turns out to be on the same order as train transport, really quite remarkable!

http://withouthotair.com/cC/page_280.shtml
I switched from Sublime to Vim n 2015.
For my old linux PC, sublime was not so light... So imagine these new electron based editors...

Nowadays I'm using Neovim very comfortably.

https://github.com/gumieri/dotfiles
Interesting. I thought yarn and ied were created because this didn't work with npm.

-- edit --

Seems that npm shrikwrap -> npm i -> npm shrikwrap is not guaranteed to produce the same output.
Status.im Announces $25,000 Global Blockchain Hackathon
I think it's interesting that George Washington, in his Farewell Address[0], warned of political parties being an enemy of the government, and could provide a route to foreign governments and interests to have influence on our government. That linked section provides almost an exact description of what seems to be going on in the US currently. I would like to see the RNC and DNC dismantled by the people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell...
Another thing here- you are having exit interviews right? You aren't just letting people walk out the door in a huff? If people are genuinely unhappy and are leaving because of it there's an obvious signal here that you can get some feedback about. Does the pay suck? Is the work unrewarding for them as individuals? Are you not letting them share good ideas and not just shooting them down?
Not having something in the 'forefront' of one's mind isn't equivalent to "not caring".

You should also keep in mind that you're (implicitly) asking people to do more work – which is fine, but there are real costs and people aren't bad because they haven't already borne them.
In theory, yes, precisely.
It will have an impact on resource-exporting countries though.
Yes I just confirmed this in a Win7 VM by opening an html file with an img src set that way. It seemed to take a moment for the box to crash so perhaps if you close the window soon enough it might not happen.
That was pretty much it. Guys at the end were evasive, lazy and not capable and the project was dragging on. Best to give them an .exe with no dependencies, get them to click on it and verify the tunnels that way.
This is the definition of whataboutism. It wasn't okay when Russia did it, and it wasn't okay when Obama did it. Saying Obama did it doesn't make something okay?
NYC sports tech startup Krossover acquired by Blue Star Sports
According to the sales faq[1], a license is valid for version 3. A future upgrade to version 4 will require a payment.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq
I think society values good intention way too much. This man fought his entire life for what amounts to Marxism with robots. His intentions may have been good, his heart in the right place, but his ideas were bad, and if implemented, they would be disastrous.

If we judge him by his intentions, he was a good man. If we judge him by what he wished upon the world, he was a horrible human being. Though we should keep good intentions in mind, I strongly believe that we should also judge the outcome of what people are proposing.
Introducing Tizen 4.0 at Tizen Developer Conference 2017
I'd be more than willing to hear your technical thoughts as to why the features I mentioned are not "100% proven better" than the status quo. From my point of view, having measured this stuff over and over again for years, it's undeniable that they result in wins. The remaining bugs are features at the margins and will not affect the overall results. You seem confident, so I'm sure you have specific technical reasons, right?

> Servo is a nice goal and a technological feat but its a big business risk for Mozilla without clear return of value.

Doing nothing is an even bigger risk.

I don't understand why "you shouldn't even try to improve" is such a popular sentiment on HN, of all places. What possible benefit can complacency bring? Why advocate it?
I think it's called the Osborne effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Thanks!

Agreed re: Evernote. I actually really like that feature, because it makes handwritten notes searchable but found the same problem you identified with the lack of transcription.

My hope is we can integrate with players like Evernote / OneNote who already do a great job at centralizing notes.
Doesn't std::shared_pointer help with the copy constructor issue?
I think not necessarily in better place. The idea of 1000s of Javascript/electron developers hacking on a text editor, does not seem very useful to me. Atom/VScode already exists and extremely popular and rapidly released.

Some editors which are released slowly and liked by few is ok. I am using Sublime 3 in beta for very long time. Sometimes it gives popup to upgrade which I do then. Else it is fine, doing the job at hand without latest and greatest feature which I am not using.
I submitted this to some subreddits and a couple of people made some quite similar questions that I'd like to see a video for in case OP here is the author or in case the author sees this.

>What would happen if I put something other than a clear mockup as input? Replications?

>What happens if you try to scan console output [1] or this mess [2]?

1: http://i.imgur.com/LJqJUnF.png

2: http://i.imgur.com/OMbZsgd.png
How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
The government is a bit trigger happy with bans of things that are associated with high profile disasters, at least in my opinion. Shame getting laws removed is so difficult, especially for something as niche as gasses for airships.
It's likely that I missed it, but I can't find anywhere that talks about how many packages deviate from Debian. I love what they are offering but I also want to make sure that the ease of use I get with Debian continues with Devuan.

Can we assume that any packages that are not Gnome related from the Debian repos are in the Devuan repos?
> That resulted in a lot of problems when I got back (they had no idea how to do my job).

There's your problem right there. You need to start training someone to do your job so that you can go away without having things fall apart. You need to do this regardless of whether or not you want to walk away because you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Your main goal as a founder should always be to insure that the company can get along without any one particular person, including you. If you don't know how to make that happen, hire someone who does.

P.S. I've been a principal in half a dozen startups, so I've seen it all. If you want to talk you will find a link to my contact info in my profile.
No you couldn't?? That's now how the American presidency works at all. We don't even have access to Trump's tax returns or other basic financial information and he isn't legally obligated to release them.
Nice! Maybe I won't need to implement this myself then.

Now if only someone would release designs for an affordable, reliable, non-destructive robot to do the physical data collection... My backlog of notes is way to big to stand around snapping cell phone photos at all of it manually.
We may (or may not) have a helium shortage[1] and it requires surprising effort to ignite the hydrogen in an airship[2].

Perhaps we should reconsider if our hydrogen ban is warranted for autonomous or remotely piloted airships. Note, the article makes no mention how this airship is piloted, but its primary use is to supply humanitarian relief missions.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/dire-helium-shortage-vastly-in...
[2]https://youtu.be/wzW4258oIyg?t=46m56s
1) Yes, well over 90% of Package Control users are running Sublime Text 3. We haven't brought it out of beta yet because there were still a number of rough edges and improvements we wanted to make before then. Jon mentioned in the last beta blog post (https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-bui...) that this dev cycle is leading up to the 3.0 launch. And no, we don't have day jobs. Sublime Text is my day job. :-)

2) In terms of the expense, the only people who will be required to pay an upgrade fee are users who purchased a license before the Sublime Text 3 beta was announced. So effectively users who have been using ST2 (or ST3) for more than four years will be paying. Everyone who has purchased since the ST3 beta announcement have an ST3 license already (http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/upgrades).
I was thinking the same thing. Helium is scarce, don't fill balloons with this precious resource. The future thanks you.
Jesus Christ, do you guys live life or do you just watch other people do it.

Let me lay it out for you. Founder gets busy, wife is understanding that his libido is down. Wife understands that sex (which releases oxytocin - pair bonding chemical) + connection could help founder. Wife gives founder incentive to reconnect. Founder is re-energized as a result.

This is what a supportive wife could do.
With 2 in the trunk, rear facing.
Thanks for the comment! We had the same use case when we decided to build it.

It's currently not perfect but handles a surprising amount of bizarre handwriting styles (cursive / messy notes). Looking forward to hearing your thoughts as we onboard to the beta,
The Key to Grand Theft Auto 5’s Success
Do you need links or proofs if I tell you the sky is blue ?
OCR has been around for decades. This approach is only interesting if it improves OCR via NN. Would love to learn more about this process (the improvement, not the training...).
I generally like Chrome dev tools better, but Firefox (and Firebug, RIP) has some unique tricks, in practice I use both at times. But I agree a lot of people take your approach of Chrome as default, Firefox/other for testing, and that's part of the problem. (If you haven't heard of Selenium+SauceLabs, they can help with your automated testing of multiple browsers.)

I still use Firefox as default, both for developing and for general web browsing. It and my set of extensions fit my preferences too nicely and have no equivalent in Chrome. I use Chrome at work primarily for Google Hangouts / Meet, the occasional debug session, or just to have another session. (Trying to get into Chrome's Profiles feature too.) At home I just use Chromium from time to time, mostly because my computer is starting to age and I notice the performance difference for certain things.
> if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with?

Certainly more than if ST were to be abandoned. In fact the main reason why VSCode and Atom exist is probably Sublime being closed source.
Why not switch to developing in Firefox, like, now? As long as the debug tools are usable, why throw out the baby with the bath water for getting a tiny bit more a tiny bit sooner? Let's have some love for our future selves..
> Beautiful is better than ugly.

This one is the most apparent. Almost every example in the C++ v. Python in the article above the C++ version is notably uglier. Just look at Lambda expressions:

Python

def adder(amount):
return lambda x: x + amount

C++

auto adder(int amount) {
return [=](int x){ return x + amount; };
}

I'm assuming [=] is used to represent Lambda here? That seems like a strange syntactic choice to me.

Edit: turns out there are various forms of Lambda (of course there wouldn't just be one in C++), for ex:

[a, &b], [this], [=], [&], []

Depending on how the variables are captured. Capturing that additional complexity in a tight space is the cause of the ugliness here.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda
Most of the time when I do npm install it's for stuff I know I will need. If you want to check something out you can always just --no-save it.
That's the one, thanks :)