skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, maybe if the currency is pre-mined and you're buying a token from a seller. But what about Satoshi? Did Satoshi issue a security by releasing the blockchain? I mean, all he did was write a program and released it in the wild. That fact that other people decided to give value to his tokens doesn't mean he sold securities to the general public.

I think we need to reconsider from the ground up how securities should be regulated. There's been some promising rhetoric with the Jobs act but it seems like mostly talk with the SEC dragging their feet.

I remember explaining Reg-D to a progressive friend of mine. His initial reaction was that I'm making the law up, and there's no way the government actively prevents non rich people from early stage investing. We took a bet and I won. When I told him reg-d is backed by progressives then all of a sudden he saw the value in it. Funny how that works.
Ah, nicely done.
Bitcoin actually rarely changes, which is why this is a big event. You're probably thinking of all of the shitcoins/ICOs that come out nearly every day - make no mistake, those are a cash grab.
Yes. As an inventor of CG transition technologies like DS-Lite (RFC 6333), Comcast has really led in building the technologies that were needed for transition in the past decade.

I was on 6bone too, but there's a lot of difference between ping6'ing each other over tunnels and rolling out v6 to millions of customers without them noticing.
One of the companies I used HipChat at before they switched to Slack and the only reason they ended up switching was there was a 4 week period where HipChat kept going down so one of the engineers setup a free slack room. It got used often in lieu of HipChat as it never went down.

I'd agree that they're both good, but if it's the main communication tool for your company the #1 priority is that it stays online.
I've followed people because they're influential in tech and discovered they're Antifa members that openly advocate for political violence towards anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders.
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Too late to edit now, but I feel that the criticism of PW I presented here is pretty unfair to the site - especially that I meant the post to be more of a comparison than evaluation. A better list would look like:

- has plenty of ads (vs. no ads on GitHub),

- tracks the bejeezus out of you,

- the site itself looks more like a news site than catalogue (possibly because it is also a news site about APIs),

- it's not so community driven compared to a GitHub list (OTOH, it seems much more organized),

- it's heavy (resource-wise) compared to GitHub,

- but, it has much better summaries of APIs and links to plenty of related resources for each,

- and it has much more APIs than the Github list.

So please don't be discouraged by my comments; if you're into APIs, check the PW site out and form your own opinion.
PWAs are just flat out _better_ than existing web apps. It's remarkable to me that so many people seem to be against these incredibly useful features just because the app they're using is web-based rather than native.

I think that's where we'll have to disagree in some sense.

Adding features to the web platform will of course mean that web applications have access to more features. Some of those are great – I'm really glad we have geolocation, for example.

The trade-off is that every feature added to the platform incurs cost and complexity. Trading these off is important; what is the point in web apps that do everything native apps do, but in a somewhat less good way?

There are obviously pros and cons here, and I'm not convinced that the use cases for more complexity are beneficial enough to justify it.
Text boxes in the web have had the same look & feel as native text boxes since between one and two decades ago.

When I right-click on the one I'm typing in right now, on Chrome running on a Mac, I even get an option to "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track", whatever that might be, same as with the native text boxes.
TSA will require separate screenings for electronics larger than a cell phone
How a miscalculated pivot nearly killed our company
One step closer to ditching the iTunes app on the Mac?
true, but I could have just stuck with PHP then I feel. But rails represented more than just slinging code - it represented professionalism. Doing things well. Maintainability, and above all else developer happiness.

With PHP, building an online store was possible for me. With Rails, it became obvious.

Always be willing to upgrade - but don't hastily discard something useful for something new either.
I actually really like this idea, and almost clicked away before understanding it. Maybe try describing it as "What if every Trello card had its own Google Doc?"

(I'm sure you have other features, that was just the one that excited me personally)
Looks like scribe_endpoint.php is an error logger for Facebook. I mean, if you block random bits of JS from it, it'll try to report that back up. Although, yes, backoff, come on now.
You can... You can move to a country that has the economic system you want or you can leave society all together.
> what's wrong with MySQL?

After many years of security issues and its general inability to be a good database, I refuse to install it on any of my own boxes. If I need something heavyweight, I'll use Postgres; otherwise it'll be SQLite - both of which manage to be more secure and competent than MySQL.
I keep thinking the state of being offline ~90% of the time is the way to go - my current choice in tech projects is strongly guided by this belief.

rss feeds are a great quality:size ratio, I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants - and always appreciate any good recommendations.

The best way I've found to win the ad blocking game is to get the rss feed when possible.
The average Chinese also values education and intellgence much more than the average American.

"Beijing parents splurge £154,000 on street alleyway in catchment area for desirable school

It may be a dusty passageway, ridden with insects and with electric cables dangling precariously from crumbling concrete overhead, but its value outstrips top-end property in Kensington and Chelsea due to rising demand from Chinese parents battling to get their children into elite schools."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/beijing-parents-s...
Seems like a more socially acceptable form of Eugenics since society seems to value advanced science more than it does traditional mate selection based on desired physical traits.
Our genetic homogeneity implies that anatomically modern humans arose relatively recently (perhaps 200,000 years ago) and that our population size was quite small at one time (perhaps 10,000 breeding individuals).

-Another strongly supported hypothesis is that there was an near-extinction event that wiped out all but a pocket of human settlements from which we descended.
- The diversity in other species that are about as old as ours is significantly far greater than ours suggesting that it is more likely an event like an unusually strong ice-age period that could've worsened our genetic diversity.
ZeppelinOS: tools for smart contract applications
I have a lot more to do on this but figured hey let's share it since it's online.

This is a feed aggregator of about 500+ blogs that are pulled in automatically and fed through an HN/Reddit style interface.

Was a fun little thing to build with Rails. Nothing fancy, just using Turbolinks and Rails SJR for some ajax stuff.

Please submit your blog if you have one!
EX: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2000580152/neil-degrass...

I don't see any "pre-order" text there is even a big: "Make a pledge without a reward" the others also start with Pledge X and simply list rewards.
The question about FAT32 was honest; thanks for the explanation. The rest of the comment (presenting storage in a normal, non-surprising way) is separate, and still stands.
Not OP but django is huge and the dependency chain is crazy for me its just way more than i need and doesn't solve a problem that i can already solve with more light weight frameworks.

I have know django developers who were great in django but never got their heads around python beyond the framework.

Maybe things have changed since the last time i poked at it.
Probably proportion. David's right hand holding the stone is massive in comparison to his body. It draws attention to the impending conflict.
>The best product that can be made will never be made with cross-platform tooling. It will always be lacking. My proof for this? Java programs. TCL programs. Electron programs.

This is hard to argue for/against, because having one (native or cross-platform) generally precludes you from simultaneously having both (necessary for a proper comparison).

Of note: I find Slack's Electron client as good as, if not better than, many native applications that I also use in my workflow. There are also benefits I know exist (as a dev) that I don't see (as a user) like shared code that shouldn't be discounted just because the end-user can't see them -- they indirectly result in a better product for the end-user by making it easier to add new features and maintain existing code.

Also: I've never had any issues with Minecraft's cross-platform java client either. Would it be any better as separate native apps targeted at each platform?
It applies all too often to comments made around here
Ghost renders static HTML and includes relevant cache headers on it's responses so if you have a cache or CDN in front then it's pretty much indistinguishable from static HTML :)
Just from an year ago the cpu market has changed completely. The sheer amount of choice at all levels is staggering. For the mid level user the 1600 especially is a formidable offering, and the 1700 with 8 cores just ups the ante.

As a old Barton user it's really exciting to see AMD climb its way out of nearly a decade of darkness. A well deserved kudos to Lisa and the team.

When we talk about female CEOs she is rarely mentioned but here she is in probably one of the most technology intensive industries with a company that was clearly floundering and she has led AMD confidently out of the woods into a position of strength. What a performance.
Not updated since 2010 or 2012, and declining sales? I wonder if there is any possibility that these two facts were related?

The shuffle in particular seems to still have a place as a super portable player you use while jogging or biking or whatever, but was hampered in recent years by lack of support for Airpods. I get that the usage model is "just use your phone", but phones are not always a great size for this.
> Code that automatically works for MySQL & SQLite often needs special modifications for Postgres

I find this hard to fathom since SQLite is generally closer to Postgres than MySQL is to anything else:

> I wrote SQLite, and I trust Postgres to be more ANSI conformant. I used Postgres docs as reference when developing SQLite.

https://twitter.com/DRichardHipp/status/710556543159279617
For me, Office and Windows upgrades are just a useless time waster. I'd be happy with Office 2000 if it weren't for the fact that the only thing I use it for is collaboration.

As a solution, I just set up a copy of Server 2016 Essentials, set the telemetry mode to "security" (which is easier said than done -- you have to go through an active directory server!) and installed Office 2016 Home + Student on it.

The lowest price for that Office SKU is $75 on Amazon at the moment, but normal retail is about twice that. It looks like they support current office releases for about 4 years, so I figure $40/year if I stay on the upgrade train and pay full price.

Server 2016 security updates end in 2026, and it retails for $400, so another $40/yr.

This all goes in a VM running on a low wattage (already always on) box, so it will hopefully update + reboot itself when I'm not around. Time will tell.

Electricity for my physical desktops running windows was $10's per month (windows refused to stay suspended...), and my incremental hardware costs are $0, so this is a lot less expensive than it looks.

Plus, this gets rid of the vast majority of the Win 10 spyware in a supported way, and future proofs against most hardware compatibility problems.
This is very true. For example I have some family friends that would easily crack into the low end of the Forbes billionaires list but they operate their business legally in the islands south of America (sorry for vagueness, it is intended). No one has ever come knocking from Forbes and they like it that way.
Perhaps we need to re-think creating software as a career. Align it more with the creative domain than the commercial domain.
Their usability keeps going downhill. This showing me other people's favorites thing is one step too far. I know they must feel a bit putout that the community invented the retweet, but making favorites act like retweets is just dumb.

Also, the amount of data the service uses is obscene. The auto-play even if I have the preference not to is a cell plan killer.
The linux kernel headers are specifically exempt from the "linking" GPL infection.
No investor pushes for more money back when the company can get a better ROI than the investor. Apple buybacks are a result of not having any better ideas on what to do with their cash stockpile.
I keep wishing Ghost would produce static content
I think PWAs are fine. I just wouldn't encourage them to be used side-by-side with native apps (e.g., deploying them to the home screen). It creates the expectation that they should culturally fit in with native apps, and they won't.

I'm okay with them living in the browser and gaining the performance advantages, offline support and push notifications.
> why would MySQL be prioritised?

"Because it's easier to slap a system together on MySQL". Which, to be fair, it is but that's not a good thing when you're talking about data.
> Are the contents of the book the same as the legit version but it's been printed by a 3rd party?

In the case I dealt with, yes.

You can see some example here: https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/
That you'll buy it so you can sell it to the next, greater fool to come along. The bubble keeps expanding as long as people think there are "greater fools" to take it off their hands.
Thanks for an interesting reference. This seems to be an important paper and I would like to take time later and read it in more depth.
It's probably not a question of support, but rather bugs.

Processor errata, chipset errata, bugs in the Linux kernel, bugs in the compilers, and application issues. There is so much opportunity for strange behavior. It takes a long time to work it all out.

Intel has had people contributing patches for a very long time. AMD had better get a team on it, if they don't already.
Unless you are using the chips for something like compiling source code or running VMS, in which case the workloads scale almost linearly and the Zen lineup ends up looking like great value for money.
> Text boxes in the web have had the same look & feel as native text boxes since between one and two decades ago.

They would have if people weren't "improving" them with JavaScript as some sort of a rite of passage, or something.
Using the grandparent's understanding of "generic", art could be generic, yet still exceptionally good/well executed.
How to speed up your collaborative design-development workflow
But is it a safe space yet? :)

Autoblocking list bots going crazy can't hardly be a good thing for growth. Facebook with their groups concept feels like a better model than the free-for-all model Twitter uses.

And I've always felt that text-only and limiting to 140 chars is a great way to ensure there's misunderstanding between people.
I used to think that RMS was crazy for essentially wgeting every site he wanted to browse locally, but now it is making a lot of sense.

Also, could you share your list? I always love finding new sites.
I'm really excited for you guys, it looks like your implementation through AWS Lambda has struck a chord. I really can't wait to see how Chromeless maintainers & contributors give back to the open-source community by challenging existing ways to do stuffs and introduces new innovations in this space.

Yes perfectly, I believe for any one very serious about test automation or browser automation in general, they will make their own tool and bring it to market if there isn't already one that meets their needs. :)
> I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants

Definitely interested. Been thinking about making the shift but not sure where/with what to start.
My wife loves them for running. She told me to order 2 immediately before they run out of stock.
D3-area-label: A label placement library for area charts
I don't agree with this.

Web applications are fine, and have their place. I'd argue that place is not as frequently-used, heavily interactive applications; native apps exist for that, and are better in most ways.

This is the thing – some publishers insist on using their stupid application when all I want to do is browse some content. Other publishers insist I use their shitty JS-HTML-Hybrid nonsense because they are too stingy to develop proper applications. I wish we could learn to more effective use technologies in the right places.
I'm not really sure what the point is you're trying to make.

* Are you saying you don't use it because you consider it niche?

* Or are you saying you believe people don't use it because they believe it is niche?

* Or is your point that Go is niche because people consider it to be niche so it never gains critical mass?

In any case, it's not niche. Period. It's being used lots by both start ups and more established businesses alike. I'm not saying it has the kind of penetration that Java or Python does, but Go is still definitely "mainstream" (for want a better description) these days.
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You would want that, but that choice may not be possible. There are some known genes where you choose between social skills or memory. You cannot have both as it is the same gene.
Multiple chains that have diverged in the past can never join together. Unless you want to double the amount of total coins in the network. Its technically possible if two different chains wanted to merge they could decide on which block they will merge at, but there is the huge issue of agreeing on an exchange rate between the both old coins to the new coins.
That's fine, just don't complain about it then.
Yep, this is exactly the vision we have for GitLab, for more information see https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/29/whats-next-for-gitlab-ci...
VHDL and Rust. Probably a bit of Verilog too if I need a core someone has written in that...

Rust because I want to learn it, VHDL because I know it reasonably well and need more practice. Also I've got a nice little FPGA dev board, I should get some more use out of the thing. (Digilent Nexys4 DDR).
It's better in that it required no configuration. But from a UI perspective it feels inferior. For example, native clients can just show you a list of all your messages, but GMail still paginates like a late-90s PHP site.
Apple Watch is the new portable music player.
The Slack client is a mind boggling exercise in excess. It often requires 500MB+ RAM when I am connected to two different Slack "networks" and it's an IRC client!? Honestly with so much money and theoretical engineering talent what went wrong here?
Why not just use SMS instead? It's timely, and it works even if the target device is in an overcrowded airport and can't get mobile data.
> It is impossible for Oracle to release a version of the license that is GPL compatible without completely removing all of these third party components they do not hold the copyright to.

I don't think this can be accurate. Ownership of ZFS-related code is not tied to being the license steward - Oracle could theoretically pass off license steward duties to a third party without passing ZFS copyrights or obligations to the same third party. That third party could then change the terms of the CDDL without having any obligations towards those third parties.

In any case, it doesn't make sense - the CDDL is more permissive than GPL 2.0 other than its patent clause, and (as far as this discussion is concerned) the only relevant party covered by 6.2 is Oracle.

So, uh, citation strongly needed.
No you can't the compounding interest would be one the money actually in the bank at each point in time not what it is nominally worth adjusting for changes in purchasing power. For example if I deposited money today and earned 5% interest what happens to the values of that money due to inflation doesn't matter (baring some intervention).
Same here. Anxiety + ADHD + depression made college extremely difficult for me. It wasn't until I began smoking regularly after college that I began to gain perspective and control over my life and surrounding environment. Had I started a little sooner college could have been a much more positive experience for me. Agreed that only certain strains have a positive impact, still trying to figure out what works for me but it's difficult when local options are so limited...
China’s Next Target: U.S. Microchip Hegemony
I can't wait for Jai to be released, both figuratively and literally. It's most likely going to be another year or two. In the meantime, I'm going to use Nim for some experiments in desktop application GUI development.
>web apps are still not going to be as good as native for the fact that they do nothing to leverage what makes any particular platform good, and worse, will be developed around the least capable platform's feature set

We already see this (and solve for this) on desktop and platforms with a lot of variance in capability like Android. Just because people out there run 2.3 Android doesn't mean my 7.1 apps are going to be any less quality, even if they still work on the least-capable platform's featureset.

The obvious solution to this is to exclude or disable features from devices that can't handle them, which is also possible and encouraged on the web (with some decent precision through identification and fingerprinting provided by a myriad of things like service workers). Your banking site probably works in IE8 (barely), but that doesn't mean your up-to-date Chrome/Safari/whatever is going to be a worse experience.

>If web apps were being approached from the angle of resource consciousness and taking advantage of platform strengths, I might have a different opinion, but that's not what anybody developing web apps wants.

Web apps are focused on optimizing _different_ resources than native apps, that's all. Google Drive, for example, offers me an experience with no local installation cost in storage, virtually unlimited storage space for files, ancillary services like backups/authentication/sharing/etc handled for "free", native-like responsiveness while working offline, a low barrier-to-entry (unlike downloading/installing an app), a smoother experience across multiple devices, etc etc. These are all qualities that a web experience does better, and I think these are all qualities that people (myself included) value over the separate benefits of traditional native apps.
BillG has been giving away something like $2B a year for the past 15 years. He's not really holding onto the title very much.
Blasphemy! Lord Raiden is the only true electric god!
I said "in this price range". Who is using the lowest-end chips? It's not coders or creators. It's not gamers. It's people browsing the web. The responsiveness is the biggest performance metric in that case, and is directly related to straight-line performance.
It's extremely common for businesses dealing with money to only accept customers from only the jurisdictions they have compliance with.
Other than the size aspect they don't really replicate the UX experience of a tiny device with dedicated media buttons. Specialized devices used for specialized purposes will always perform better than general devices.