skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pentadactyl/Vimperator will soon stop working, I believe at FireFox 57. Firefox is removing the ability to run XUL extensions, which will effectively be the end of the awesome VIM plugins for FF :(
Yes, they're upset that I dare edit the Ethereum article according to Wikipedia sourcing rules.

2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4b76i4/who_is_dav...

2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6dkc8w/why_do_we_...

I tried to be helpful https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6dkc8w/why_do_we_... but advocates are really bad at understanding that Wikipedia isn't a platform for advocacy, much as you are concerning Rupert Sheldrake advocacy.
Reminds me of when defiled corpse of Netscape ended up... at AOL.
Well it's by definition not exceptional if all comparably placed CEOs are performing the same. :) But, nitpick aside, I agree there's a flaw here, since it doesn't differentiate between the CEOs performing "to spec" or under spec. Though, when you get to have an agglomeration as big as a large multinational, there have to be serious missteps or moments of brilliance to really differentiate a bad and good CEO. Otherwise, it's hard to tease out the relationship between company performance and market share, entrenched employees, quality of invested capital, etc.
Why is that? Given the comparatively low quality of Markdown (as a language), isn't GitHub the only reason why Markdown gets pushed so much? If GitHub chose AsciiDoc instead of Markdown as their base, we would be in a better position now.
sounds like https://factoryboy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (for Python, based on a Ruby lib)

I never thought about the connection of that with Quickcheck
> Our market cap has gone from $18B to $51B

> approximately 15 percent equity stake in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

15 percent of Alibaba is about $52.5 billion. I'm not sure why we're even discussing anything else. It's like saying that my contribution to family finances is:

a) not selling my parents' house, which is now worth half a million.

b) having $1.32 in change in a little ashtray by the door.
Oh dear me!
But is it too much?

Think about the time savings. If it saves you more than 10 hours of development and maintenance time, pays for itself, even if you don't have a single customer.

How many pointless purchases do we all make each month? I buy 2-3 domains per month for ideas. 90% of them just sit there.

I have 4 droplets at digital ocean just sitting there and 1 actually being used. Its the opportunity cost of losing them.

That is why God/IRS invented write-offs. If you use it, great, if not, well at least it's pre-tax!
I'm at work so I can't check it out right now. Does it show you the job descriptions of all the jobs you have applied to?
They may have an arbitration clause, in which you agree to not litigate. 4D chess.
They would not be moving in lockstep.

Basically, companies are never actually identical so optimal moves for every company is going to be slightly different and this will compound over time. However, if each company is making the same moves then and getting the same results then none of them are making optimal choices.

Consider defense contractors may all be in the same market, but they have different contracts. Farms on the other hand are selling a commodity and are often mostly just at the whims of market forces.
Yes, and it's also about inflection points, like avoiding choosing the wrong technology that could make a project 10x less successful than it might have been. Or making the wrong build vs. buy decision. Decisions that require experience and insight, that you have to make early and will be impactful and can't be easily reversed when they turn out to be mistakes.
And perhaps a deeply cynical one.
Odd to see a statistics-focused site to emphasize plain text as opposed to formats that promote usability/reproducibility like Notebooks such as Jupyter (or R Notebooks, as discussed last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522795)

The post correctly notes that R Markdown files are plain text, but the benefits of such (version control) are not discussed by the OP.
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This is awesome - kudos to the Dart team! Dart was a pleasure to work with since the very beginning, and it is getting better with each new release. I absolutely love the recent focus on strong mode support. DDC is an important addition to the platform, hope hot reloading will follow. Also, can't wait to see what Dart 2.0 brings us!
Hmm. So, the complaints about React are "no convention over configuration", "we didn't like JSX", "event handlers require binding for `this`", and "trouble finding a correct source of truth" for articles and such.

The first two are pretty common. Some people _love_ that React lets you pick and choose the other pieces that you need for your own application, while others hate that React isn't a kitchen-sink-provided framework like Angular. (Relevant HN comment from a while back on "frameworks vs libs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969819 ). Ditto with JSX - some people love that it's almost exactly the same syntax as HTML, while others hate the idea of having anything HTML-like in their components or dislike that it does have a few minor differences from actual HTML syntax.

The event handler complaint I find a bit more odd. Admittedly, I never got too deep into "vanilla JS" or jQuery, so I haven't spent too much time writing non-React event handlers, but having to bind methods is very much an artifact of how `this` works in Javascript (especially with classes) and not specific to React.

As for a "correct source of truth", well, I have that covered :) I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.
There are plenty of methods for direct transfer already, I don't think a different IP (with its likely non-trivial setup) would make much of a difference for Dropbox.

Keep in mind that would you describe would require both computers to be on at the same time, and that often doesn't happen either.

Dropbox would be here to stay even in an IPv6 world.
A long text explaination of how a piston engine works or a short explanation and an animated GIF.

Which is better?

I would say the second one is more effective.
PDFs seem to render poorly on ebook readers.
I give it about 3 years until Verizon unloads it onto someone else for half the price.
What if you are using another encoding that already works for you? Same as real life alphabets and such?
why would someone with 40+ years of math experience have such a hard time learning a new notation?
Artificial intelligence used to predict suicide
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The one company that hasn't totally sucked for me in this regard is AmEx. Every time I've called I've gotten a native English speaker located in the US who actually has the power to reverse charges within a matter of minutes.
Most of Yahoo!'s value was in their assets, not their operating business. The operating business was sold to Verizon. The assets were spun off as "Altaba".
What's your point?

I am not blaming other countries being irresponsible in controlling population. I was saying simply control population is not as easy a social policy to carry out.
"Oaf" would be more fitting.
the 10x engineer concept is really dehumanizing
You can point out how people are wrong and people won't have a problem with your posts. Be a jerk about it and people will. Hacker News, for its (many) faults, doesn't ascribe to the "you can be a sneering asshole but if you're Right you're Right". It's very possible to be both right and a jerk. It's incumbent upon you to avoid being a jerk or to not whine when people don't like jerks. This is basic-functioning-person stuff.
There's one or two of them, but they are hen's teeth.

My startup has a $10M run rate after three years and the best we can do is get debenture and loan offers, no actual investment.

Investors in Canada hate technology.
Anyone else notice that they gave the driver one star? I get that you don't like uber but it's hardly the drivers fault.
Reading to Newborn Babies Makes Them Smarter
At 18 feet, a trained attacker with a sharp knife can take one down before the gun is drawn and shot. With a machete, they'll just start with the gun arm. Self-defense law takes this into account.
Wait, how'd you figure out that the people complaining about manspreading are feminists? Do you often find yourself on the receiving end of sexist slurs?
What about the argument that less time spent typing (and more 'automatic' text editing) means shorter interruptions from thinking, and therefore more productive thought?
So massive overuns in time and money are due to FUD? Does the explain design flaws? Politicians are used to taking flack for infrastructure projects, that is hardly unique to nuclear. But funding the next generation of reactor is hugely expensive and risky regardless of public perceptions.
If the concern is hitting something behind your target that you're not supposed to, over-penetration would actually be pretty low on my list of concerns about a submachine gun.
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> Do what makes you happy / keeps you and your family fed.

The issue is for many people these two seem to be opposites
20+ VPNs Rated on Privacy and Security Side-By-Side
Well, except that your change in the ashtray is a positive contribution.
Well it was at least 'weeks and weeks' because I heard about this a few weeks ago and I'm a nobody :)
I think the GNU version is surprisingly readable for what it does. I have seen code that is a lot less readable than this and doesn't have the performance benefits described in the article.
Hardware:

1 wimpy Toshiba laptop with only 6BG of RAM (only used for really light stuff when I'm on the go, working from coffee shops and the like)

1 beefy Dell laptop with 32GB of RAM and an i7 processor. Used when I'm at home because it's big and heavy, but can run Eclipse, several server processes, multiple browser windows, etc, and still have RAM left over.

Software:

IDE: eclipse

Text editor: emacs

Software stack elements:

Apache ServiceMix (osgi container)

Grails (web framework)

Groovy

Camel

Java

ActiveMQ (JMS provider)

Spark

Cloud platform:

AWS - EC2, EBS, S3, SES and Route53

Javascript / front-end stuff:

jQuery

Bootstrap

Database:

Postgresql

Payments:

Stripe
How do you know that the dataset fits in L2 ?

Assuming pv uses splice(), there is one only copy in the workload: copy_from_user() from fixed source buffer to some kernel allocated page, then those pages are spliced to /dev/null.

If the pages are not "recycled" (through LRU scheme for allocation), the destination changes every time and the L2 cache is constantly trashed.
Hey, if it means AT&T stops using Yahoo!, I'll be happy.
The article never once uses the term "internet", and indeed many of these SCADA networks probably aren't connected to the internet. I've worked on a handful of them (no power utilities though), and the state of security is pretty bad.

-Physical security ranges from OK to non existent. A smile and a wave can get you lots of places. Many things that could be locked, aren't.

-I've seen many, many alarmed doors and areas where there is a large "Enter 12345 to disable alarm" taped to the alarm panel

-Default passwords are never changed on lots of equipment

-When default passwords aren't used, often times the passwords are taped or written on equipment

-Radio networks are often unsecured (authentication and encryption simply dont exist on lots of older radio equipment, a cheap SDR could let you discreetly access sensitive communications in some cases). Modern radio networks can be much better, though (this is my area of expertise).

Still, you'd need a lot of domain specific knowledge to pull off a successful attack.
I don't know who is right or wrong. I am a software developer and familiar with Unix/Linux. I actively try to be well informed about other topics related to this. When engineering I actively try to remain emotionally dispassionate. I understand what the argument is about and I see how in a technical sense either side could be "correct" here.

Despite all that, the level of vitriol and defensiveness you have demonstrated makes me want to agree with everyone else. I am curious what the opinions are of people less informed on this topic and more emotionally in touch. You damage your side of the argument, not with your content, but your portrayal of the content.

Some of the things you said have merit, but they are ignored and derided because they are attached to you and you are attached to vitriol and vitriol rightly gets ignored and derided. The best thing you can do for anything resembling your side of the argument is to just back down. If you don't say anything for a day or two it will all just blow over and you can try again later when people are more willing to listen. You can try approaching the conversation like an engineering problem and perhaps see that manners and politeness are to conversation as lubricant is to an engine (or perhaps high clocks speeds to software). You can have a conversation without manners, run an engine without oil or run software on low clocking parts, but it won't turn out as well as it could have.
I still find it crazy since Apple offers a monthly payment plan which includes AppleCare+ and a new phone every year. But I guess you need good credit for that the extra $35 or $45 per month for the phone.
For me, I don't qualify for a TN visa because I don't have a college degree. I could probably walk in off the street to most places in SF with my 20+ years of experience and triple my salary, but my visa eligibility leaves me here.

There's lots of people in similar situations, so it's not impossible to find 10x devs up here, just more difficult than SF.
GM isn't just doing well, or carving out a niche for themselves, they are the force to be reckoned with in the robotaxi space.

GM's magic ingredient is Kyle Vogt, YC alum and founder of Cruise. He's a guy with something to prove, and an emerging leader, up there at the calibre of Jobs, Musk, Bezos etc. Like the others Vogt has a superhuman proclivity to execute, and unlike the others he's a man of few words who prefers to stay out of the spotlight.

None of the other autonomous driving divisions are led by someone with the same drive and vision.
Yes, but there are actually some positive and negative side-effects of checking in dependencies. See “Should I check the Pods directory into source control?” at https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html for a bit of discussion on the concept.
There are scripts you can put into Pythonista for pulling files in from Dropbox and a Gist, etc, but if you are working on a multi-file, multi-module app then syncing file by file is just way too painful. The way I do it is to run an FTP server app on the phone/iPad, connect in from my Mac and manually copy the whole directory tree. You can also export and email a zip of a directory. Snapshotting like that is survivable, but proper built-in sync or Git support is the holy grail.
It's a common misconception that the Dunning-Kruger effect is just about dumb people not knowing they're dumb. In fact, it's about something we all do - overestimating our knowledge and competence in areas where we have little of both. It's worth recognizing the distinction because everyone is subject to the Dunning-Kruger effect when we're out of our depth in some area and there are a lot of "unknown unknowns".
> police aren't routinely armed

That might be because some UK police refuse to carry because the UK doesn't have laws to protect officers (those laws that the US has that are constantly protested). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/15/police-chief...

Can't say I blame them. Why would someone take on the chance of being charged with murder for carrying out their job's duties? It's not an easy problem to solve, but I think the ease of access to firearms is only going to increase, and they're going to have to get the UK police sorted with carrying.
Most people are here to learn, to build something more advanced, and/or to build something prettier. No need to condescendingly pretend like everyone else should be judged by your needs and nostalgia in a chat room.
How is it naive, exactly?

If Marissa Meyer orders everyone to work from home, then that can be attributed to her. She can take credit for that. It was her action. But if the stock price goes up $5 today, there's no way to show it was a result of ordering everyone to work from home. If you want to make the argument that Meyers actions led to 33b in market cap growth then make that argument. What did Meyer personally do that caused the growth in market cap, and how?
Imagine the lost opportunity if they don't screw it up, too, while you're at it. Although historically stock usually does drop on such momentous occasions, even if everything goes well.
Ah, your previous statement was unclear. I thought that 100% farebox recovery was a goal, but it is not.

Again, corruption covered by unlimited debt financing. It’s like the US has the worst version imaginable of all sorts of common things. Of course the LRT is not going to make back its costs if it’s not even designed to make back its costs. The best it can do is to be more efficient at getting people to their destinations than spending that amount on roads and parking garages.

Passenger rail used to be a profitable privately financed business, but they all went bankrupt because car infrastructure was massively subsidized, surface rail was missing its schedules due to congestion from cars, and operators were forbidden by law from charging enough to cover their expenses. Now, the existing public transit systems are subsidized by the government, with a few profitable routes that require a lot of unprofitable routes to make them viable; and a farebox recovery ratio of 35% is considered pretty high.

Also, I have learned not to trust Americans when they use words like “very dense.” Looking at ZipAtlas.com, the densest zip code in the Minneapolis-St Paul area has a bit less than 16,000 people per square mile. I think of San Francisco as being not very dense, and it averages over 18,000 people per square mile; over 53,000 in the densest zip code.
pdf is my prefered format of storing information, after markdown and source code, of course. It allows me to portably crystallize visual information without resorting to images which completely wipe out textual information.
In the interview, Tim Cook says nothing about working on cars. He recognizes that a new core technology is needed for autonomous systems, but doesn't say anything to imply they're working on a car.

Along with Cook recently saying humans should be involved in decision-making, there are some very interesting AI-related statements coming out of Apple these days.
A decent short introduction to Redux-Saga. I would say that the three articles linked at the end are better and go into more details.

Formidable Labs just posted a 3-part article on the basic concepts and real-world usage of Redux-Saga, at http://formidable.com/blog/category/redux-saga/ . I highly recommend those posts - they're excellent. I also have links to many other tutorials and articles on use of Redux-Saga in the "Redux Side Effects" category of my React/Redux links list, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .
And the future of operating systems is the command line.

We deserve better than this reductionist thinking. Constraints can breed innovation; but they can also just constrain.
To me, it's just an indicator of what an amazing time we live in, when almost any kind of information is just a few Google searches away (no sarcasm).

Also, I probably would never make these searches myself if this article wasn't written and appeared here.

That said, I admit Antarctic glass sponges deserve mention in the article.
So would one solution be to have (1) a $3 app that already has the features unlocked, and (2) a free version with the IAP to open up those features?
Which reminds me of my "biggest" crux these days: what should I replace Evernote with? Looking for a text-based solution, possibly open source, possibly encrypted, and possibly with sync.
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Its spirit lives on as Mozilla though
Just like with cars, people have gotten accustomed to buying on credit and have forgotten that you can save and buy for cash on the same cycle. One difference being that the "buying on credit" aspect is really well hidden from the consumer by being bundled into their monthly payment
L2 cache and copying "y" bytes have very little to do with this; I suspect if you could produce high-granularity timings it would almost all be in the syscall overhead.

See eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23599074/system-calls-ov... who benchmarked it at ~638ns per "read" call.

(Many, many years ago I was working on the Zeus web server, and we went to surprising lengths to avoid syscalls for performance.)
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Good point. I've always been deeply annoyed by this whole notion of licensing software. I get the theory behind it, but if it's a game that can be played offline, then I should be able to download and store a copy of that game for my personal use, independent of any platform.
I agree, but also it is true that the mechanical process of actually filling in an application is very tedious. If that bit can be eliminated then it is definitely worth it.

That said, I think you can apply to jobs with a single click on LinkedIn (and I assume StackOverflow?) so that has kind of been solved. Ish.
I can tell you, any dev getting $120K in Toronto is someone with decades of experience, probably working for a bank.

Top end dev pay is about $100K here, especially in the web space. Average would be $60-$75K. And that's Canadian!
Hmmm, and we built a Job Search tool that we initially intended as our internal tool to hunt for contract works. However, we end up aggregating all sorts of jobs.

I'm thinking search job with our tool - https://getbetterluck.com/ and apply with your tool.
Because compared to the cost of climate change, really is was safe this time, even after Fukushima. And a substantial fraction of the cost is due to extreme, very likely unwarranted caution, motivated by an unreasonable level of, exactly, fear.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/13/is-it-sa...
Too emotional? Emotions are thee only thing humans base decisions on, it's either pain or pleasure, which ever is stronger in the mind. And this guy didn't get punched in the face, I think you want him to fail.
A good idea but according to me competitive programming makes you fast but not a good programmer who can write good code.
Faster processors would be nice. The current gen macbook pro is appallingly slow for the price.
I see the Cruise autonomous Bolts nearly every day in SF now. It's weird how fast it went from a curiosity to just normal.
Some people are using water cooling setups to get 7 GPU's on a 7 PCI slot MB. You need to cut off the DVI that would otherwise occupy another slot, but overall it's not that time consuming and reduces your networking needs.

EX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsQmcSwGv0
I found the comment about "intelligentsia"-phobia interesting; it echos the conservatives slurring of education and "elitists"...
Apple Mac computers targeted by ransomware and spyware
Cool - I'm actually planning to spin off a version that just shows favorited comments when I have time!
> Yeah 50 caliber sniper rifles, fully auto machine guns and AR-15s look and sound scary...

The word you are looking for is "awesome"
Within this thread someone pointed out https://github.com/cgati/yes/blob/master/src/main.rs. This rust version gives me 7.81GiB/s versus GNU's 7.54GiB/s.