skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They all also have Messenger installed and use it. Because that's what everyone else uses.

And your contention is that they will continue to do so if it sprays ads in their face?
Audi launches most advanced self-driving car
Here: http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

For a less politically correct one: http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

For a personal experience: I remember that until systemd 21x (212? 213?) whatever core dump you got was cut off at around 700Mb (arbitrarily chosen by systemd developers due to journald limitations, a bug was left open without comments for 2 years, another person was essentially told that was the limit we're sorry [1], until a big customer of RH was hit by it maybe). Obviously preventing systemd from "intercepting" core dumps was (and it is still, IIRC) black magic. That made for some head scratching moments in our early RHEL7 installs.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55613, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59623, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=34c1...
Compared to slack discord is a much better service for large groups . Facebook uses them for react.
You don't have to solve the Navier Stokes equations analytical for this. You don't even have to solve them explicitly at all: I can see a grad student just getting a lot of experimental data and throwing it all at a neural net with good results.
I think I covered one major distinction well. Copy software has 0 cost, copying matter has some. This is just a re-wording and perspective change on "software patents are just math" angle.

Some people feel that since there is no copying cost, software favors the little guy more than with physical goods, so normal patent protection doesn't provide an benefit. These people claim that a big big evil corporation could start making a million of their widget per month and out compete them, but with software this cannot happen per their arguments. I think these people acknowledge that both physical and software patents get abused and are imperfect but feel that physical patents provide enough gain to offset their downsides.

I disagree with those people completely. I am unaware of ANY actual evidence that patents help.
I'm continually impressed with Discord and their technical blogs contribute to my respect for them. I use it in both my personal life (I run a small server for online friends, plus large game centric servers) and my professional life (instead of Slack). It's a delight to use, the voice chat is extremely high quality, text chat is fast and searchable, and notifications actually work. Discord has become the de facto place for many gaming communities to organize which is a big deal considering how discriminating and exacting PC gamers can be.

My only concern is their long term viability and I don't just mean money wise. I'm concerned they'll have to sacrifice the user experience to either achieve sustainability or consent to a buyout by a larger company that only wants the users and brand. I hope I'm wrong, and I bought a year of Nitro to do my part.
It's only taken us 48 years to catch up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer
I too just vouched it back (after seeing this comment so we didn't click vouch simultaneously).

If you're flagging this story, perhaps you could leave a comment here about why?

Edit: And while posting this comment it got reflagged/revouched again...
> It is clear to all that the economy is best off if the titans of our economy give their thoughts to those making policy and decision.

I don't think that's clear to all, but, in any case, the “titans of our economy” or going to do that whether or not they participate in formal executive commissions or not.
it's abandoned feature-wise and ui-wise it's inconsistent with the rest of the product offerings while they are clearly putting their time in the v6 with its cloud focus.
Really interesting how bad the only JavaScript code used on their own site is: https://www.ecma-international.org/js/loadImg.js
It's still early. I've bet on the wrong horse (stack) before, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but I know several companies that are currently adopting Elixir/Phoenix with the same level of excitement that I recall from the early days of Ruby/Rails. It may never be "Rails big", but there is definitely some momentum building.
In defence of "Person A has posted after a long time", that might be a good indicator that they've posted something important, or interesting enough to get them onto Facebook to share it. At a guess I'd probably rather see these than the usual spam from the really active people.
Anyone know if Phoenix/Elixir have something similar to Ruby's bettererror gem? I see Phoenix has a built-in error stack trace page which looks like a clone of bettererror but it doesn't have the real-time console inside of it.

Also, I wish they had a ORM like Sequel. These two are really what is holding me back from going full in on Elixir. Anyone can care to comment on this?
This sucks. I used this all the time. Does anyone know a similar, anonymous service? I want private sharing links and I don't want a username displayed on the gallery page like Google Photos.
I should say that I actually like quite a bit about GNOME. I'm even a fan of mutter and GNOME shell (especially with gtile). I just wish I could decouple it from the rest of GNOME.

I run xmonad at the moment. The learning curve is huge if you don't know Haskell. It took me ages to get it set up and working. But after I learned Haskell, it's really very nice.
Where have vouchers proven effective? If anything, we need to follow Finland's lead and ban paying for school. Segregating students by economic class has not improved education in the United States, about the only effects are 30+% unvaccinated rates in private (mainly Catholic) schools, and strong clique effects that allow so so students from said schools to do notably better than those from nearby public schools.

Also, the local Archdiocese across the US need to get their shit together, its fucking disgusting that they are the leading cause of whooping cough, mumps and so on coming back in force and killing people.
Thank you, this was an interesting read.

On the tangent of arbitrary and unneeded flagging, there seems to be quite a great deal of it lately... it's not improving the site.

After I got off work, I tried to find a story that I'd noticed earlier and wanted to comment on, but it was completely gone from not just the front page but everywhere. A completely benign, tech-related story. Makes no sense:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745430
>And do we have the resources on two planets to provide everyone with everything they desire? Or ten, or a hundred?

Yes we do because human growth is not exponential and there are limitless resources in space.
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I (briefly) had to write code to run on GeoWorks GEOS. The code was written in a dialect of C with object oriented features that was compiled from .goc and .goh files to .c files in a manner similar to cfront. It was not a pleasant experience.

Edit: This was in 1997. We were writing a web browser for the Brother Geobook which was a device with late 90s PDA capabilities in the form factor of a late 90s laptop. I don't think that it was a particularly successful product.
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I'm a big proponent of local software but the problem with Apple/iPhoto is that everything is stored in a proprietary database.

I think a good compromise is smarts in the cloud vs. local copy. I do this with Google Photos / Google Drive / Synology [1]. Apple does do this to an extent with iCloud but I haven't used that to be able to comment on how well it works.

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...
This writeup make me even more convinced of Elixir becoming one of the large players when it comes to hugely scaling applications.

If there is one thing I truly love about Elixir, it is the easiness of getting started, while standing on the shoulders of a giant that is the Erlang VM. You can start by building a simple, not very demanding application with it, yet once you hit a large scale, there is plenty of battle-proven tools to save you massive headaches and costly rewrites.

Still, I feel, that using Elixir is, today, still a large bet. You need to convince your colleagues as much as your bosses / customers to take the risk. But you can rest assured it will not fail you as you need to push it to the next level.

Nothing comes for free, and at the right scale, even the Erlang VM is not a silver bullet and will require your engineering team to invest their talent, time and effort to fine tune it. Yet, once you dig deep enough into it, you'll find plenty of ways to solve your problem at a lower cost as compared to other solutions.

I see a bright future for Elixir, and a breath of fresh air for Erlang. It's such a great time to be alive!
So the most expensive Xeon Platinum processor costs $13,000 each.

Looking forward to their Diamond series starting at $50,000 per processor...
That's been going on since the invention of the telegraph.

PS: Those reporters aren't actually standing in front of the building, either.
You're not welcome to post like this on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Similarly, why do sellers pay closing costs for houses? Makes zero sense. The money is flowing from the buyer to the seller. It also inflates the price of the house since the buyer has to pay the seller to pay the closing costs. Then you have to pay mortgage interest and property tax on that inflated value.

I paid closing costs when I bought, and as my realtor said, it's like free cable. It's not a massive savings but it's free cable every month.
After reading the article, I think I can deliver an effective tl;dr: they aren't doing anything of note but claim they are but "can't talk about it."
It seems the large companies are mostly oil companies. The faster we transition to non-oil based energy, the faster we solve the problem.

The big issue is oil has a very high energy density. Its relatively cheap to extract and transfer.

If we do end up figuring out solar panels that intake C02 and water and output oil, that would be the biggest invention of our generation.

Basically we need more efficient trees at scale. May be DNA programming will come to the rescue.
Isn't it w/ and w/o?
In those cases, I usually use

Object.assign(acc, { [prop]:value })

While not sure if `[prop]` is better or worse than not creating a new interstitial object.
I often think that kid psychology is probably extremely well suited to kinetic problems. Things that involve their own natural desires, all kids want to move, jump, interact with the world. Connect their eagered mind with a way to denote the world and let them abuse math to communicate and reason their own desires.
I’m 25. I agree with other commenters that the issue is more with the font-weight than the color; I don’t have issues reading e.g. text in #666 or even #999.
Just saw the website, wow so basic!

thumbs up
This seems overstated. Civic seems interesting. EOS seems interesting. They are both longshots, but are they longer shots than your typical startup?
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Even if you believe that, the two core points of the experience stand:

> My behavior is how everyone should act in those situations: comply, survive and complain later.

> I don’t have de-escalation training. I’m the one being held at gunpoint. I’m the one thinking my life could end if he panics. Yet, I’m the one who must remain calm. The legal system is asking untrained civilians to de-escalate panicky cops.
I hope it's only being flagged because it's not directly related to technology. Any other reason would make me quite sad.
I've worked with a fund that didn't invest a bean, returned everything less expenses to investors.

This was at the nadir of the .com crash...
First Muslim Same Sex Wedding Takes Place in the UK
Are you referring to the 2.5" HDDs with native USB connectors? I've never come across an external 3.5" HDD like that.
More Predictable Bullshit. – Wil Wheaton – Medium
> Except people can be generally shitty to you for most of your life regardless of your race or gender or any other label

There is even more to it: people can be just randomly shitty to you and use your gender to carry out the shittiness simply because you react to it. Female programmer: you'll never be a real programmer, male programmer: you'll never be a real man. The thing that matters is your personal insecurity, not the attacker's bias against any gender.

Add the fact that some people are really allergic to others complaining about being oppressed for no discernible reason and you are on a straight way to some very unpleasant life experience.
>there is no other side that believes black lives DON'T matter.

Very debatable.

>Cops get away with murdering white people too.

Source? What are the relative numbers?

>But Black Lives Matter's finger-pointing at innocents is making more racists.
>You aren't helping.

The old 'they made me racist' defense.
It won't work because ISP are slowly but steadily turning home internet connections to one way flows. It starts with data caps and ends with IPv4 exhaustion and every single account behind Carrier NAT.

The type of internet where anyone could host and interact freely with other parts of the internet are already past. People just haven't realized it. It'll be Internet TV.
Lets try this in a different context - is this truthful change still acceptable?

Seems to me you're all irked by facts? Sure, plenty of Jewish people aren't prospering. Irrelevant. A disproportionate amount of them are succeeding in the "algorithmic economy." I don't see why this is so taboo to point out.

If race or gender doesn't matter, why do 25% of Harvard places go to Jews? [1] I personally doubt 25% of people in the "algorithmic economy" are Jewish. But I'd love to be corrected about this.

[1] http://www.hillel.org/about/news-views/news-views---blog/new...
He acknowledges that in his comment

> The story and its interest doesn't hinge on this (in)accuracy ...
I know that the JVM is a modern marvel of software engineering, so I'm always surprised when my Erlang apps consume less than 10MB of RAM, start up nearly instantaneously, respond to HTTP requests in less than 10ms and run forever, while my Java apps take 2 minutes to start up, have several hundred millisecond HTTP response latency and horde memory. Granted, it's more an issue with Spring than with Java, and Parallel Universe's Quasar is basically OTP for Java, so I know logically that Java is basically a superset of Erlang at this point, but perhaps there's an element of "less is more" going on here.

Also, we're looking for Erlang folks with payments experience.

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Just use IEx.pry if you want a debug console.
I really like that... I've tended to use Object.assign in a reducer, but this works too, and is a little cleaner imho
Home laptops aren't just used at desks. People use them in the bed, or other places in the house where they have an expectation of privacy.

They may have my data if I'm compromised, that doesn't mean I want them to have embarrassing video or audio of me as well.
Curious about your thoughts on Ecto: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto. Seems to be the most popular solution for database access.
>I cannot believe the advertisers are dummy enough to be the ones writing this article

If it were any other industry aside from PR/advertising I would give them enough credit not to do something like this, but in this case, I could totally see them doing something this stupid.
Why? I just don't find myself doing too much JSON manual editing. A few config files and such. Occasional editing of a server response or call for testing.

I'm basing this on the assumption that the desire for trailing commas is making editing easier and reducing noise in diffs.

Just curious if there are niches where people are spending a lot of time manually editing JSON or if the use case is something else entirely.

I love them in code, despite initial resistance.
They do discuss the adjusted data a few paragraphs down:

"This difference in reporting, they found, accounted for around 40 percent of the U.S.’s relatively high rate compared to Austria and Finland, a result supported by the CDC report—when analysts excluded babies born before 24 weeks, the number of U.S. deaths dropped to 4.2 per 1,000 live births.

...

When the researchers broke the statistics down by age, they discovered that neonatal deaths were actually less frequent in the U.S. than in Austria and Finland."
Mind and persons are complex, they can shift entirely. I've seen a girl that sucked at math she had to take lessons in HS. In college she flipped around and got a Master in Math.

On my side I was good at math but crashed in college, so much I avoided it, it's the reason I went into programming. Until 2 or 3 years ago I clicked again, I started to see through abstract math and now I'm back to math/phys because it's beautiful again.

If your buddy finds pleasure and can walk the path I'm not surprised he's still walking :)
I've rather enjoyed the HTC Vive, the room scale experience, breadth and depth of games available for it coalesce to make it a solid product.

I doubt I'd ever buy anything from Facebook, but then again I'm an oddball in that my FB account has been unused for many years. Last time I logged in it was a rotting cesspool of shitposts by people I had long stopped dealing with, not very enticing to go read.
This should be coming out of the investors' management fee (the 2% of the "2 and 20") but by making "the company" pay they shift the cost onto their LPs.

The best you can do is limit the legal fees in the TS.
As a wise man once said "Hang on to your butts"
The most alarming thing about this story, apart from the suspected racism, is the sheer amount of confirmation bias on display from someone who is quite prepared to shoot you.

She offered corroborating evidence from the get go, and even the 911 dispatcher confirms her story, yet the officer is too busy waving his piece around to get off his power trip.

I'd be mad too. Some element of this volatile combo of deadly weapons and unprofessional police behavior has to change. Preferably both.
Off topic, but what's the story behind base-64 encoding your email? Is that just a spam prevention measure?
I'm not a fan of YC (I find it elitist, and imo they crowd out the 99.5% of startups that get rejected), but I can't find fault with the SAFE as an instrument.

To the extent that founders suffer too much dilution while raising via a SAFE, it's more likely the case that there was something not working with the business.

Sure, if the founders could have raised a priced equity round from the get-go, they probably should have done that over a SAFE, but more likely the legal expenses would have been too onerous for that to have been an option...
By the way I know there are those treaty-trader visas that would have allowed us to open/buy a business in the US for a reasonable amount of money. But as it offers no way to a greencard, it does not make sense for us. Imagine operating a well-earning business with a couple of employees for about 20 years and then being sent back when one closes/sells it... why would I do that? At least after a defined period of time (3-5 years) a visa like this should lead to permanent residency.
I vouched it back after you. And now it's flagged again...

Weirdly it's completely gone from the front page (and all subsequent pages). I assume that's not normal for flags? It was at #4 only a moment ago, and it was flagged then...

edit: and now it's back, on page 2 this time. The invisible hand of moderation?
Pop ups are reasonable. The pop unders are what google is saying are user unfriendly.
The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite – Atlas Obscura
Hackers have been stealing credit card numbers from Trump’s hotels for months
This seems like a long-standing country-specific societal problem to me:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
You didn't research very hard.

From the Washington Post[0]:

> White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

If you look at fatal police shootings so far this year[1], the numbers are the same.

You should provide a link to the Harvard study you mentioned.

Here[2] is one from Yale which someone once touted to me, which supports your claims. But they only used data from a limited number of police departments in Houston, TX. I'm not sure why anyone would look at that and not the national numbers. In the paper, of their own methods they say, "In essence, this is equivalent to analyzing labor market discrimination on a set of firms willing to supply a researcher with their Human Resources data!".

There are many places to find this information online. It is a fact: black people are shot and killed more often by police than white people.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/1...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

[2] https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/workshop/leo/leo16_fr...
IMO: Rift has way better controllers, but head-tracking and room-scale is so much better in Vive-land. Edge for me goes to the Vive, but you can make an argument for either.
They're way too rich for that to ever actually happen. I agree, though.
It is true that you can replace your car, but, if something is stolen, you rarely get the full value back. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, getting a car stolen is a matter of life and death.

However, the real problem was pulling a gun FIRST instead of hollering across the road or from a porch. A street punk would normally run--somebody legitimate will respond.

This idiot cop is actually lucky she wasn't a true violent criminal who had a hidden lookout. Getting that close with a drawn gun if there was a hidden lookout would have gotten him shot.
developer tooling is indeed not on the same level as other languages but don't say it does not exist
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin3/1.22/debugger.html

logic that directly relates to the data being stored is much easier to express in the database (constraints), resulting in a big reduction of code which means small simple functions that almost don't need debugging.

also what people call business logic often means fetching data from the db, processing it in some way and returning it. This is what views are for, they are definitions, so there's nothing to test there, except performance maybe.
On an unrelated point, I was surprised when I saw how many citations there were in the linked document. I guess it's a law thing but it seemed like every sentence had something to back it up, even stuff like the meaning of "sorry" in the first two sentences, which I thought could be assumed.