skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also used to be free until the creator decided to make it proprietary.
Some people just hate good things.
Wisconsin company to offer microchip implants to its employees
Fortress (a dead JVM programming language by Guy Steele) had an interesting approach for special characters:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(Programmiersprache)#...
The use-cases for smart contracts seem to be quite low, so I wonder if it really is worth the investment to learn to develop smart contracts. Additionally, even the smart contracts written by the experienced ethereum developers have contained bugs, resulting to losses of tens of millions worth of ethereum. To me it sounds like it is much smarter to use some pre-existing smart contract which is used by many, instead of making your own. However if you really have a new idea for smart contract then you could learn the language.
Sad.

Just last week me and my girlfriend were blown away when we used paint on a surface with pen and pressure control.
Paint is not being removed, they are just stopping development. You can still use it.
I am an "athlete". Not a competitive one, but I do lift pretty heavy. Thanks for the recommendation.
That pretty easy. Let's say you're a government official who's in charge of a local subway. One of the stations is in need of renovation. You're opening a tender for that and got 3 participants - 2 of them are some independent companies with bids around market price of the work required. Lets say 105 and 107 thousands euro. And the third company belongs to your brother in law and he wants 500 thousand euros for his services. In perfect world such bid won't stand a chance. But, since you're the one responsible for the tender, you can change requirements for the set of documents required for participation like one day before start, making it impossible for other participants to provide documents in time and thus making them unable to participate. So your brother in law wins the tender, sub-contract work to some third party for the market price and you split the rest of the money. And even if you're will be charged with "improper use of municipal funds" you'll be fined with something around 500 euro and will keep your job.

That is what I've meant by saying "basically own" - you can do whatever you want with company and you can't be held responsible for any of your actions.

And that's not just some imaginary scheme - that shit happens on daily basis in most of Eastern Europe countries. I'm from Ukraine and we're trying to fight that shit for several years now.
Since there seems to be some Google Cloud people on HN, I wonder if Google Cloud PostgreSQL will be available in Singapore region sometimes soon?
Why is people so upset by this? Paint3D is still there and works great.

But they should open source it.
Yes. I am not sure what's the problem, sir.
I read it as it is the same person who has CS diploma.
>Add to that a shitty web browser

Never had any problems with WP browser. I really liked that address bar was at the bottom, and the quirks didn't bother me that much.
Re: collecting data. They will never do it. The cannot because the law does not allow it. A more stricter law is coming. For the suppliers of self driving components is a nightmare, they only can infer datapoints.

Tesla also cannot collect any data from cars driving in EU, but they gather enough data in US.
A posetal category has at most one arrow in each homset – i.e. it’s a poset dressed up as a category.

A definable function is one that can be defined in the programming language in question. There's a lot more to definability than Turing machines, when you consider higher types: that is, types whose domain is a function type. John Longley has written on this extensively.
Back then, it was said they earned more money per device from OEMs making Android through patents (e.g. FAT) than OEMs making Windows phones.
they still have their office powerhouse for now
For cropping, conversion, quick fixes and basic annotation there's the insanely versatile XnView. I am on Linux, and XnViewMP is the only non-OS code I run - for the sheer convenience of it.

There are any number of lightweight bitmap-editors available on the Windows platform. A thing like PhotoScape will sceenshoot, edit, crop, and whatever, all in one easy bundle.
1) Title is misleading, should have been "Most popular projects on GitHub are ...".

2) Judging from the top-5 list in the post, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the projects have been miscategorized.

Ex:

- https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 -> should have been categorized as "Application", not "Documentation".

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow -> should have been "Library", not "Tool".

- Electron, Socket.io, Moment, lodash... are "Web libraries", not "Non-web libraries"

and probably more.

I hope the reviewers catch these errors before they publish this in a research journal.
By that logic all fiat currencies and even some commodities like diamond and gold(whose usefulness from an industrial perspective doesn't match their market value) would fit the bill.
More coverage: http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.4281310

(Funding is 10M NIS per year, for two years)
As I see it, there used to be little guys and even littler guys. Now the income of the little guy is shared among all little and littler, resulting in an averaging. It's hard to judge which is worse.

If we're lucky, this will actually bubble up, and we can better share the medium and the big guys work also.
I see so following up on a cyber crime is corruption?
From the comments I get the feeling that paint is going away. But they are not removing it as far as I can tell, it is just not under active development.
Agreed, for me WM10 was the point where I decided to jump ship even though before that I was a fanboy to the bone.
Oh, I didn't realize that! Thanks for the clarification!
Ah, but all software must download the internets when starting up, it's 2017!
https://github.com/ivanilves/xiringuito/issues/42

`sshuttle` & `xiringuito` differences well explained (I hope).
Also Infineon is quite a leader of power components for electric cars.

Teoretically Bosch + Infineon could team up and produce an electric car with no help from outside.
Oh yeah sorry... I read "and" instead of the comma ._.
Such calculators already exist: https://www.finder.com.au/uber-driver-income-calculator
I use ShareX for those kind of functionality - it's free and opensource
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All the stuff I didn't know I didn't know that I get to know I didn't know on HN every single day. Thank you :)
You could have said the same thing when Nokia was at its peak. Sometimes its not about the money, the top execs have to "get it" that software has to be taken seriously as well.
pixlr.com/editor

(I'm not affiliated in any way.)

"OSX paint"

Also there are free paints out there, so you actually have to ask Apple to include, not Microsoft to opensource
Usually I use Paint.NET for quick edits and Microsoft Snip[1] (not Snipping Tool) for screenshots.

[1] https://mix.office.com/snip
Because it is, you know, interesting.
Why do you think Code Complete is inadequate for learning about software design?
Few years ago, CEO of Audi and others was making fun of Tesla and today all of them jumping on same boat as Tesla did, because of FOMO. Reminds me classical quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
I hope Tesla wins, because they deserve it. There was no real innovation for ages, as auto companies only did minimum to keep their profits. Also we should not forget diesel gate scandal. They didn't want to invest into cleaner cars and rather cheated. I've personal aversion agains this industry, because of that.
Has it actually been under active development previously? It looks and feels mostly the same as the win 3.1 one (except maybe putting the actions in a ribbon UI)
Phone 8 apps aren't compatible with 10? Are you sure about that?
report anonymously!?
Symbian was one really good OS for the pre-iOS world. A basic S60 button-phone was capable of multitasking, copy-paste, profiles (which Android and iOS still lack) and could even pull off some decent graphics in games that weren't seen till years later on iPhone/Android devices. I even remember writing an app to SSH into my computer in the rather awful implementation of C++ it supported. But it transitioned to touch interfaces poorly, at least initially. The first few versions of S60v5 for the Nokia 5800 were horrid, with basic things such as drag to scroll unimplemented. It did improve considerably over time (by late 2011-2012), but by then the market had moved on.

Also, it was a great OS for tinkerers because it wasn't hard to gain access to the OS files and play around with stuff, install sis and jar files, modify signatures (alright, that's a bit shady but I was ten, give me a break) and whatnot, but I imagine the lack of a central app store until much later did the platform no good either, because apps were slightly hard to find for a general user, and carriers (where I lived) often scammed users by offering free jar apps picked from the web on their portals for absurd amount of money.
I think thechao means the stuff you get from perf where it looks a bit like the output of pstack. But I'd like a clarification too.
It continues to serve me well
You might be interested in this approach to explaining the predictions for any classifier. https://github.com/marcotcr/lime
Professor UR Rao, ex-Isro chief and renowned space scientist, passes away
If you follow your Wikipedia link and then follow the link for Green's function two times, you come to the article that points out that Green's function methods only work on linear differential equations. The multipole method you refer to is based on the Green's function and only works for linear differential equations. Einstein's equations are non-linear. Trying to quantize a non-linear theory leads to problems that no one has yet resolved. You should also note that non-linear differntial equations do not support superposition; that is, the solutions cannot be added to yield another valid solution. They are not additive. So, the method you suggest fails because it does not meet the criteria you refer to.
Thanks, but see my reply to a sibling comment -- Paint.NET falls a bit short on all counts actually.
Back in the days, I thought Nokia with its Meego OS will run away with the 3rd OS title. It was an OS that was much hyped when its still in development.

Thanks to Elop and Microsoft we never see that happening. It was killed before it was even born.

I bought the Nokia N9(the only Meego phone released) a couple of month after its launch, knowing the OS is coming to its end.
The Meego OS was a very polished and well-made OS. It was smooth, very intuitive, and simply the best touchscreen smartphone experience I've ever had. Thats was why Elop and WP infuriate me so much. It was a missed opportunity. Nokia took the easy route of getting paid by Microsoft to use its OS, and that bite them in the ass.

And so I'm glad that trash WP and Nokia failed spectacularly
I'm not sure how you mean flame graphs don't show much structure. They appear to show a lot of structure so I'm surprised by the criticism. I haven't used them as much as I would have hoped; but found them useful. Otherwise I normally see @brandangregg banging on about how good they are so could you elaborate more on your criticisms?

Thanks
Ah, yes. Actually Poland is the other bad child in EU...

The European commission is currently threatening to remove Poland's voting rights due to the changes to the juridical system, but it will not happen as Hungary will veto.

I think they are on their own cultural axis somehow.
Hey hackermailman, is that 24K/year or for the whole Master's Degree? Definitely going to take a look indeed!
> just look at status and salary of programmers in Germany vs US

While you do have a point you probably mean Germany vs Silicon Valley. The average developer salary in Germany isn't that much different from the average in the US as a whole.

That said, in industries where software isn't seen as the main product but merely as something that helps selling that main products programmers have a low prestige (and by extension a lower salary) but I suppose that's the same in any country. Case in point: The ridiculously low rates programmers get in the financial industry in London.
I know this might sound like a joke, but it is not: how about documenting how to actually test and debug smart contracts? Is there even a way to do so? How about fuzzying?
Because if they acknowledge it, it shows their own incompetence. It is much better to blame the issue on some "hacker" than to acknowledge that you failed. The latter might mean that you get kicked out by investors.

And multi-billion companies or governments are in the business of bending over customers and effing them. So another guy getting fked is business as usual.
It doesn't work that way. German automakers are hampered by their mindset not by money.
I wouldn't consider China to be isolationist, because China's history is full of foreign interaction.

The reason China fell back and lost the Opium Wars was not due to isolationism, but rather because for some other reason(s), they missed out on the industrial revolution. But the exact reasons(s) they missed out on the industrial revolution is a great debate, and is the quadrillion dollar question...
It's a distributed money database with stored procedures.
and the corporate. Windows will not dissapear so soon from corporate desktops.
That looks like it would be a good April Fool's Day prank.
If you aren't willing to write of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions AKA cold fusion (had to look that up) by now, when will you think it appropriate?

It is now 30 years on from Pons and Fleischman's famous mistake and we have had a tiny smattering of irreproducible results and a mass of reproducible non-results.

The point about lack of a theory is a nice way to say that there isn't any plausible explanation why researchers who produced watts of excess energy didn't die of either neutron or gamma flux. All of the supposed explanations that I have heard have been tens of orders of magnitude off of the mark.

So what kind of reasonable dismissal of LENR would you find not presumptuous?
Nothing like the cars build for berlin that were slightly too big for the narrowest part of the tunnels.
And Tesla even affords the attitude to say they don't want to claim the whole market and they're happy to let others use their ideas, because they want a world with fewer carbon. So, even if they don't win, they can claim it was their plan all along ;)
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No it's not shrinking just yet although they clearly don't see Windows as a cash cow like you are suggesting. Their moat is in having diversified but complementary business units.

Microsoft made $21bn on $90bn in revenues [1] and the stock market responded by sending the stock to an all-time high of ~$74 [2].

Microsoft is still a very healthy business and will remain so for a while.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/7/21/16008618/microsoft-all-time...

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?cid=358464
> There was not real innovation for ages, as auto companies only did minimum to keep their profits.

I wouldn't say that. ICE has improved a lot in the last 50 years and so have other elements of a car, from structural integrity to braking systems. The ICE car we have today is an amazing machine compared to the ones we drove in the 50s or 60s.

It is true that traditional car companies have not done enough to push the electric car forward but a lot of innovation has happened, and some of it will benefit electric cars directly (regenerative braking, for example).

I'm with you, though. I hope Tesla comes out of this as a powerful car company because they deserve to be an example for the rest of the industry.
That's very dependent on the specific service and on the person's situation. AirBNB, for example, can provide a very decent income for the work needed, much better than any alternative use of the property and time.
One could even argue that Jekyll is a web framework, not an application.
I actually think WP7 was genuinely fantastic. It had the beginnings of some really interesting concepts (like "hubs" rather than separate apps for every messaging network) along with a genuinely different UI. It had real potential, but MS would have had to absolutely double down on it, and they never seemed to want to.
"democracy is in pretty bad shape in Hungary right know"

I thought that Hungary has a democratically elected government. Did I miss something?
That title needs someone to clean it up. the spellig and grammar need halp.
Cool. I posted this same link two times already. No matter, it's a very interesting video but I'm quite curious how people can get their links to the front page. It seems impossible unless you rapidly gain like tens of upvotes or else it just drops from the new list and goes unnoticed.
Microsoft worked hard to get the top apps on the store, but you cant force a company to release an app for your OS. The biggest blow was google not giving them anything. No official YouTube app, no gmail, no maps etc. There were third party and even MS / Nokia apps that filled the gap just fine, but newcomers wanted to install gmail.

Google actively fought MS on windows phone. It seems silly now that they'd see WP as a threat at all, but even 2-3 years ago they were sabotaging MSs attempts to build a youtube app. MS released a great yt app for about a week and google changed the T&CS of their API and issued a take down (or maybe even blocked the app) because MS was suddenly in violation, even though their own ios and android apps also were. IIRC it was to do with displaying ads. At the time the official google apps did not do ads. MS had to revert to essentially a shortcut to YouTube in the browser.

Aside from that most of the big players were there, but when new trendy app would launch, it would launch on android and IOS. WP users would have to wait for a critical mass of popularity in the hope that there would be a port.
> Last year, they teamed up to buy Nokia’s HERE, a digital mapping service crucial for driverless cars. Volkswagen’s Müller says he does not want to be dependent on digital services companies in the fast-growing market for self-driving technology and mobility services. “We want to be in control of our destiny,” he told Handelsblatt in June.

I can understand why they want that, but as a consumer I want a good experience. When non-software companies write software, it seems it is almost invariably inferior. I never actually enjoyed the experience of using a car stereo until I got a deck that supports CarPlay (Apple) and Android Auto (Google). These standards let you attach your phone to the stereo and let the phone run the UI. They are so much better than the software that comes on stereo decks.

Even Apple Maps, made by a good software company, is still noticeably inferior to Google Maps in my opinion. Apple has severely demoted Google Maps on its platform, presumably for the same reason as the carmakers: they don't want to be dependent on Google. So you can't use Google Maps in CarPlay, and if you click on an address in iMessage "Open in Google Maps" is not an option. For Apple I'm sure they see this as being less dependent on Google, but for me as a user it's pushing me away from their platform. I want the best maps product out there, and for me that is Google Maps. So I'm planning for my next phone to be a Google phone.

(It's almost hilarious how far Apple goes in this. If you delete the Apple Maps app from your phone, and then click an address in iMessage, "Open in Google Maps" still isn't an option. But there is an option to re-install Apple Maps. This strikes me as pretty insecure that their maps product can compete on its merits.)

EDIT: I had slightly misunderstood: HERE is an acquisition consisting of all the Navteq data. So it does have legitimately good data behind it.
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In the UK at least, the "sharing" economy is basically a way of paying employees less.

There are two types of employment, contracted employees (that is employees that are directly employed by a company) and "self employed" (where the employee creates a single person company, which the employer then contracts)

the reason why "self employed" is popular amongst the gig employers is not because its "flexible" its because its cheap.

There is a side effect that employees have less rights(no holiday pay, maternity cover, sick pay) However the simple fact is that employers pay less national insurance (social care and health tax, effectively)

The lack of holiday means 10% less wage, no sick pay means 100% efficiency, which important for cycle courier companies like uber eats, deliveroo.

Basically the sharing economy in the UK (with the exception of airBnB) is a way of undermining works rights to save money.
They are frameworks for supporting development with testing (not covered it yet) for example http://truffleframework.com/
Verizon is trying to give you the authentic experience of how your WiFi works when you're on their network.
I hate advertising, but I could see an argument for it not being zero sum if you believe that it is truly useful in disseminating information that people otherwise wouldn't get and promoting education of the consumer. Our modern advertising, which are essentially just movie shorts, probably wouldn't qualify for this.
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"When analysing accidents they're able to reconstruct what happened to a disturbing level of detail."

I'm strongly pro-privacy on ethical grounds, but is this really a complaint you want to make?

It establishes fault in accidents and provides statistically significant information to educate both the AI and the public as to what causes road accidents and how to avoid them.
Bitcoin will never be the cash replacement that people want it to be. Just the fact that it has a limited number of coins makes it a problem. Adding transaction capabilities is a problem since ultimately it destabilizes the trust for it. Every time people need to change the code they'll be a danger of a fork which destroys a little bit of a trust. The fix is to use it as a base for a token based network that can be used for transactions.
Uploading of collected data is indeed deactivated by default on Tesla's cars in the EU.
But you can opt-in by checking a box in the cars setting. You can also opt-in to share driving videos from the eight cameras sourounding the car, to help improve the selfdriving system.
That is not how R&D works. There's no direct correlation between money invested vs. results obtained. You need time and a long term vision.

They can start working today in hopes to catch up later but it won't be fast.
"To me it sounds like it is much smarter to use some pre-existing smart contract which is used by many, instead of making your own." This is exactly how the last "big hacking" had happened https://qz.com/1034321/ethereum-hack-a-coding-error-led-to-3...

But as you said writing your own is also error prone.
"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine"

So, cranks were a wellknown commodity already in the nineteenth century. Whoever would have guessed...
Guess MS really do care about devs after all
Big bang improvements are how you get systemd. Isn't incremental improvement the core of Agile and hence all-the-rage?