skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you feel the same way with QT?

Yes!

Qt is a nice library, and was almost certainly the right choice for an open-source application like Wireshark that had previously used the execrable GTK lib on non-X11 platforms, but Qt tries really hard to make water not wet in MANY cases.

Just look at what it takes to get a Mac Qt application to work well in full-screen mode on multiple monitors. Or handling keyboard-focus changes when a notification window pops up (especially one for iMessages). Or any number of things where the underlying platform libs on Windows, MacOS, and X11 differ significantly.

People who've only programmed web applications don't understand how weird platform GUI libraries are or how many corner-cases they have, especially when dealing with multi-window applications, keyboard focus changes, and notification & tool windows. Programming an application to this stuff is tricky - wrapping it in a cross-platform lib is nearly impossible!

Qt exactly proves the point that cross-platform libraries will NEVER give you the same high-quality experience that native applications written to the platform libs will.
For anyone wondering what "spiral staging" is: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Asparagus_staging
Maybe not right now, but I wouldn't ever underestimate Bezos.

Musk and Bezos are both people I wouldn't bet against, but they're so drastically different in their styles. Musk is flashy, but gets shit done. Bezos knows how to get shit done quietly... and suddenly he's dominated and bought everything around you.
The example of this closest to my heart has always been Pharaoh, an amazing game from 2000, which looks a huge amount better than it's spiritual successor, released in 2004, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile.

http://image.buildinggame.net/screenshot-cleopatra-game-buil...
http://cf.shacknews.com/shack_images/sshots/immortalcities/1...
I'm a little surprised they won't at least let you withdraw the Bitcoin Cash. Otherwise it seems like they're asking for a "run on the bank" with a bunch of people pulling out Bitcoin.

If BCC is even 10% as valuable as the main chain(Ethereum Classic is still at ~$15 vs. $200 for Ethereum main, it looks like), then why wouldn't people take the free money?

A "run on the bank" would be annoying for them because it would mean they have to pull a bunch of money out of cold storage. But I suppose allowing BCC withdrawals would have the same problem, and might add even more risk since there'd be temporary code involved.

I wonder if they plan to sell customers' unclaimed BCC for themselves if it later retains any significant value.

They are at least consistent: They did the same thing with Stellar earlier. Which makes sense, since there seem to be a lot of fork-like ways to get alternative cryptocurrencies if you hold Bitcoin, and it's probably less hassle to not deal with each unique situation.
Looks great. I love modern JS, and the faster everyone can move on, the better!

I didn't see any async/await stuff though, is there a reason for that? I'd imagine it would make some code much easier to follow.
Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come
I'm already regretting getting into an argument with a zealot, but to be blunt: you are simply incorrect.

People (especially the kind of people who installed alternative operating systems) could, and did, assemble their own machines without paying any "Windows tax". At all.

Yes, some manufacturers cut a bulk deal to bundle Windows with complete systems.

No, that didn't make it impossible (or even particularly difficult) to avoid the so-called "Windows tax".

BeOS didn't even run on Intel hardware at first, btw.
When I used BeOS (and I have used it, hands-on... have you?) it only ran on PPC machines. The port to Intel happened after the Return of Jobs and the decision to use NeXTSTEP (which became OS X) for new Macs. That's what killed BeOS, not the "Windows tax". The port to Intel was a late desperation move.

I'm tagging out now. I have better things to do than rehash a war that was over 25 years ago.
How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
Holy moly! Thanks - I've actually never played this - In 2009/2010 I was very engrossed in a different RTS... I'm sure you can guess which.
Reasons for Seattle:
1) take a long shower
2) wash your car
3) water your lawn
4) cheap electrical rates
5) enjoy the outdoors
6) awesome IPA's
7) pot is legal
8) great culture
9) moderate weather as global warming progresses

downside - traffic is horrible.

That is my take as a long time Seattlite.
As an American I'd much rather the US try and accumulate favour in this way than any attempts at "nation building".
I can has it :).
I don't see that self-defense is at all sociopathic. Shaming an attacker in their social network seems equivalent to screaming "HELP!" when attacked in meatspace.

But yes, I get that some people are socialized in counterproductive ways. Maybe there's a market for enforcement services to help such victims. Reputable providers would, of course, verify claims of potential clients. On the other hand, IANAL. And there might well be liability for defamation.
I've got a lot of experience with Qt, since I ported Google Earth from Windows to mac and linux, and it was Qt based back then. You have the problem of having slightly non-native feel because Qt has to code around platform differences to present a unified API. When we first released the app, we took a lot of criticism because of its non-native feel on all platforms (except for Linux, which doesn't have a native feel). So, if you want a top-quality app, you're probably breaking it apart into a platform independent core and then writing your interface separately on each platform using native API's. I wish that the cross-platform abstractions worked well enough to be indistinguishable from a native well-coded app, but we're not there yet.
Humane Society in Canada Launches “iPads for Cats” Program
Apple confirms iPod nano and iPod shuffle have been discontinued
How would you even go about stepping through a pointsfree expression though? Have Haskell/scala debuggers improved significantly in this regard?
Agreed a million times. 2D art is a big part of a lot of the living generations' gaming history and it shouldn't be discounte just for missing a D.
I think it all comes down to the developers abd how they optimize their codebase
This article provides the $1B/year figure, right after the part I quoted :-).
Her name was floated, but the quote of her excusing Kalanick was probably not a tick in her favor.
Shouldn’t the title include some qualifier like “tech company”, because there are private companies like Cargill out there that have yearly revenue above $20 billion.
Sounds like a great quote, but when exactly were businesses just about "making stuff"? Look at the Hudson Bay company back in the 1600's. That was about profit, not making stuff.

And what is this "we act as though the only purpose of a business was to enrich the people who trade it on Wall Street"? No, the purpose is to make profit for shareholders, including the average everyday Joe with a 401k or pension.
Custom Package for building Magento website from a to Z
It's been a minute for me, admittedly. Are the multiplayer servers not online anymore :(?
No surprise there.
We Want WebAssembly
These 5 Fields Will Be the First Hotbeds for Artificial Intelligence
Are there any CVEs for these? Have they been fixed?
> it'd lead to things like the cost of cache misses being assigned to instructions that have nothing to do with memory access.

But this happens all the time with perf. I often see cache misses attributed to a jump dependent on a data load.
This model doesn't work already.

I ordered some PC parts to an Amazon Locker and got my Amazon account suspended indefinitely. I can't log in to it. But they didn't block the other half of the order that didn't make any sense to get (a case).

They asked my ccard billings via fax (shrug). After struggling with my hotel's terrible computer and fax I managed to send it to them. No answer. I asked and only then they responded in a short email it was not legible. Terrible support.

Also the delivery of the case was delayed several days so I lost it but had to pay for it anyway.

They managed to make me never buy from Amazon again. My account was over 10 years old. Had problems with deliveries a year ago, too. (that was why this time I tried an Amazon Locker)
Yep. At one time a mark of being super-rich was owning a megayacht and a palatial estate.

Nowadays you haven't really arrived until you can afford to fund your own space program. :-)
It's 2017. It's about time we had a better, well designed language (ie Rust, but I'm not sure if it's well designed enough, depends on what you want it for, too). There have been many advances in language research since the 70's that could be very useful for the kind of work C is used for. Saying we should stick to C because it's well established is like saying we should stick to assembly if it was well established. Except it's not portable, but close enough.
Why not have non-voting shares that pay dividends? Then the shareholders would be buying a variable annuity that they price based on their belief in management and the company can ignore them. If you're planning to make money on share price increase, you're looking for a greater fool - someone who is willing to buy when you think it's time to sell.
A world in which a whole lot more people take cabs than buy tickets to space. :-)
Review: Arc Hub USB-C Adapter
Revenue != valuation

(but you might still be correct!)
When I see something about coins online and it isn't about cryptocurrency, I get a similar feeling.
As a composer, this title really confused me.
Agreed, withdraw-only access is the obvious Right Thing. Could be hard to implement, I guess.
I did grow up in the Soviet Union. :-)
This reminds that we need more open source games. There are old games I would love to play again, especially after the community has fixed the biggest pain points.

Why can't we have open and free games? Why not atleast after commercialization has ended? The current situation feels like stealing from mankinds heritage.
Oops, now I feel dumb for not reading the article. Thanks for the heads up!
That is the recipe from years ago. People have made it even easier nowadays.
Just because the term is confusing doesn't mean you are obligated to be confused by it.
Chicken or the egg.
I'd be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I'd consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs.

That includes those fortune 500 companies (a couple of whom had internal recruiters bail when I mentioned my current salary + the COLA number). Cutting your real estate costs by $12-15k goes a long way but it doesn't magically cover $40k+ paycuts. It is good for employers (for instance, one guy was willing to disclose "I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.") but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. (i.e. above 6 figures outside of SF/NYC)

It is anecdotal, just my experience after looking to move there.
Budget, as in expenditure per year no market value.
Uber Approaches GE CEO Jeff Immelt About Top Role
Managing Data in Golang Using Gorm – Part 2
I feel like you are missing the fact that it is ~$100 for 4 meals, not one meal.
Tried registering. Not sure I am registered or not yet. Was entering correct OTP and I remained on same screen w/o any measage or feedback. Whenever changing between apps the filled registration form will be cleaned.

And password length only 12 max? That's serious.

Looks like the app is still in beta or alpha. Anyway good luck. Not the time to put my money there yet. It's just a feedback and I am talking about iOS app.
This reminds me of a little anecdote. My colleagues in the office all used Skype, which was particularly handy for me as I was the only person who worked remotely (about half the time).

However, I always had the habit, when in the office, to eschew Skype and go see a person directly. It had the advantage of higher fidelity communication, and about half the time I'd figure out the answer to my own question before I got there.

After a while, I started turning Skype off when I was in the office (remember there were no other remotes at this time). This actually became an annoyance to one of my colleagues as they would have to, get this, walk across the hall if they wanted to talk to me. My ill concealed amusement at their ire did not go over well.

In person, face to face: the original instant messaging.
>> Excellent news, even if the round is peculiarly undersized.

Yeah it smells like an attempt to increase their valuation, which this accomplishes. If they IPO those investors from a while back can cash out, but I wouldn't sell SpaceX at this point if I was able to own it. Unless there is some potential disaster we don't know about.
Traffic has gotten so much worse since I first came here in 2011. The good news is that Seattle is small enough that you can walk to most places just fine, and the bus and light rail systems are fantastic.
Maybe the location of the Google Home hasn't been set, via the Home app? And so it doesn't know where it is.
It's important to distill a sense of agency in children. That they can control at least some aspects of their future. In my opinion one of societies current ailes is that we underestimate the amount of agency individuals have in society.
Traffic in Network 1.0.0.0/8
There are numbers greater than zero and less than 20.
>p[A/S] <= p[B/S]

This doesn't follow. Just because mental disorders are correlated with sugar doesn't mean that most sugar eaters have mental disorders.
Isn't it ironic to release a beta for a "definitive edition" of something?
You sound like you are tossing out hypotheses without firsthand experience. Let me suggest you don't really understand the problem space. Tossing out solutions without understanding the problem tends to be counterproductive.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Immelt feels too much like a manufacturing guy. Marissa Mayer sounds like a good choice, but again I don't think she's the right fit. They need someone who understands both software, and transportation. I think they should choose David Abney, CEO of UPS, or Gary Kelly of Southwest.
As a former Baltimore resident, what exactly makes you think Baltimore fails the sniff test?

For example, Johns Hopkins University is IIRC the highest-funded research-focused university in the USA.

(Edit - adding link to support above : Johns Hopkins leads U.S. universities in research spending for 37th consecutive year :
https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/12/07/research-spending-hopkins-nsf...)
Loved that game
It also works in a country where crime is basically negligible. It's amazing how many conveniences emerge from people behaving themselves.
Do you believe in letting developers SSH into CI/Test machines?
Creating Web Application with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf
The best thing Mr. Musk can do, in my humble opinion, is to never, ever take SpaceX public.
Cheap housing and long travel times are not enviable at all.
yeah but functional operations just abstracts imperative statements.. so your pseudo code is almost like a granular expansion of the eventual implementation
A tangential thought, would the ultrasound bring discomfort to pets?
But only for packages which are delivered through AusPost. Which if you buy stuff internationally, it mostly isn't.

Also, not in a ton of locations.
Coinbase: August First, 2017 there are likely to be two versions of Bitcoin
Dear Coinbase Customer,

We wanted to provide an update on proposed changes to the Bitcoin network and what that means for bitcoin stored on Coinbase. You can read more about what a digital currency fork is https://blog.coinbase.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-fork-cba07fe73ef1.

Our first priority is the safety of customer funds. In the event of a fork, customer fiat currency (USD, EUR and GBP) and digital currencies (bitcoin, ether and litecoin) are safe.

On August 1st, 2017 there is a proposal to make changes to the bitcoin software. This proposal, known as Bitcoin Cash, is likely to create a fork in the Bitcoin network. This means that after August 1st, 2017 there are likely to be two versions of the Bitcoin blockchain and two separate digital currencies.

In the event of two separate blockchains after August 1, 2017 we will only support one version. We have no plans to support the Bitcoin Cash fork. We have made this decision because it is hard to predict how long the alternative version of bitcoin will survive and if Bitcoin Cash will have future market value.

This means if there are two separate digital currencies – bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCC) – customers with Bitcoin stored on Coinbase will only have access to the current version of bitcoin we support (BTC). Customers will not have access to, or be able to withdraw, bitcoin cash (BCC).

Customers who wish to access both bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCC) need to withdraw bitcoin stored on Coinbase before 11.59 pm PT July 31, 2017. If you do not wish to access bitcoin cash (BCC) then no action is required.

We plan to temporarily suspend bitcoin buy / sells, deposits and withdrawals on August 1, 2017 as the fork is likely to cause disruption to the bitcoin network. This means your funds will be safe but you will be unable to access your bitcoin (BTC) for a short period of time.
We will keep you updated on this event through our blog, status page and Twitter.
Thank you,

Coinbase Team
Speedy.js: TypeScript subset to wasm compiler
but I think I'm missing most of the humour because I just don't know what it was like to live in a Stalinist sociopolitical climate.

I think this is a bit of a red herring - the book is funny throughout and the humour is not dependent on a deep knowledge of the sociopolitical climate (which, incidentally, was not yet quite 'Stalinist'). I first read it in my mid-teens (in Russian) and didn't catch a bunch of that stuff either - but it was funny. Just like you don't need to know an awful lot about 19th century Britain to grasp the wry tone and irony in Austen or Dickens.

Try reading the Burgin/O'Connor translation and see how it goes. It's possible it might still not work for you but an audiobook of some unknown translation is an unfortunately pessimal way to approach this particular work - you're now dealing with not one but two layers of interpretation of a difficult-to-translate book.
Atlanta has GT though, which is exploding with both startups and major players investing in on-sight "innovation-centric" locations.

That, and there's some really cool startups in stealth mode I've yet to see mentioned here, some breaking $10m in revenue and others getting funded left and right.

Atlanta is on the rise.
Yeah I agree. It would be great if parts of the kernel could be written in a safer language. I think in 10 years that will be happening in at least some widely used OS, but most likely one that only supports a small range of architectures.
> Immelt feels too much like a manufacturing guy.

Less than half of GE's revenue comes from manufacturing.
Well, at a net worth of approximately 90 billion and assuming a 5% return rate, he can sped 4.5 billion dollars every year forever on the blue origin and never lose a penny.

I don't think he's too worried
I can assure you there are plenty of engineers making north of $100k in midtown
I'm really excited for Redox.

That being said, I still think the best strategy will be to start porting different portions of the Kernels to Rust. Perhaps starting with drivers. There have been a few examples of Rust drivers for the various OSes out there.

First, the maintainers have to believe that this is better than continuing with C. That doesn't seem to be something everyone believes.
She's not a good CEO.
I don't follow cryptocurrency news much, and don't really understand the consequences of this. I do have some BTC in Coinbase, though I don't really spend it. Would you recommend I withdraw it ahead of the fork?
I seriously doubt it. This person is mentally unstable, he has a chemical imbalance in the brain, that wasn't caused by a culture that encourages a notion of male romantic conquest. Social factors can contribute to mental illness, but it has to be a lot stronger of a social factor. Either a high stress environment or trauma.
Marissa's tenure at yahoo was not successful. She was unable to turn around the company, made acquisitions that were too late, or didnt work. What about her tenure at yahoo was convincing of her ability to be a good CEO?
If anyone from Facebook is reading this and wants to help, ALLOW USERS TO HIDE PRESENCE.

As-is, any time you log into Facebook, anyone who is friends with you can see that you are active in the Messenger bar on the right-hand side (even if you have chat disabled). This gives stalkers (who, as the article explains, are sometimes best not blocked) an excuse to message you, to which a victim will feel pressured to respond. This makes Facebook a very unpleasant place to be.

I personally have written a Chrome extension to hide my presence. Facebook, please ALLOW USERS TO HIDE PRESENCE if you want to make a positive impact against stalking.
If we're going to be anecdotal, I moved to Atlanta from Boston. I now have lower expenses, a higher salary, the weather is better, cars last twice as long, and people are less abrasive. Every time I check there are more startups, more new buildings, more people, more opportunities...

Just my experience after having moved here.
i feel the same way, so using navtool i have extended my carplay to full phone mirroring, check it out @ www.navtool.com
They did allow ETC withdrawals after the fact: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/252.... I'm not sure this is a matter of difficulty to implement.
Reconsidering the scheduler's wake_wide() heuristic
I'll save you some time.

They remade the game, but it's not available yet.

You can register for the beta IF you accept the NDA.

And you need an xbox live account.

I got stuck at "need an xbox live account".
Can you afford to see those funds depleted? If so I'd keep it in there, see what happens. Ideally your portfolio is diverse enough that your little BTC corner can handle a rodeo. Risk exposure is important.
Repeat:

Well, at a net worth of approximately 90 billion and assuming a 5% return rate, he can spend 4.5 billion dollars every year forever on the blue origin and never lose a pennY.

This is play money for him when you are that rich.