skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What in earth is some glorified chat room software going to do with enough money to have an impact on a small country's economy? It's insane.

Not when you consider who they are going to be competing with. Microsoft and Google will make their products essentially free as part of their Office Suites.
Support for Multibit is Ending
The same is true in the USA, the district attorney can and often does prosecute crimes on behalf of the state without any victim "pressing charges".
I'm not sure if I understand. Are you saying that Ruby is more mature than Java and C#?
How is this different from using a container/vm image which has chrome pre-installed and on request launch it in headless mode, accessing the instance via chrome-launcher and manipulating the browser with chrome-remote-interface?

You can then use the vm/container as a function to match AWS lambda.

Is it the that the api is more-user friendly or selenium w3c complaint?

Genuinely curious, don't know much about this project.
That's certainly true, and pacing can play a huge role in longer races. But, that also assumes that top runners are willing to out-sprint their competitors somewhere approaching the finish-line (not necessarily a full-on sprint, but even the last 5k of a marathon). We see this regularly in cycling, where aerodynamics and drafting play a huge role (and races are frequently 5+ hours). I'm not sure the same holds true for running, where even the longest race (marathon) is 3 hours and the draft is much less of a concern.
> especially that they are supposedly not attached to their own genetic code (being willing to "edit" it anyway)

There's a difference between editing and replacing. Imagine my father gives me his watch (which he got from his father, etc.). The watch is fine, but the belt has wear damages and the glass could use cleaning. Doing those repairs doesn't mean the watch loses sentimental value for me, and is markedly different from just getting a new watch.
Traditionally, as a man, you're not supposed to get annoyed by this stuff until you have a baby daughter.
> Nobody really takes it as an ad for God.

Are you sure?

Seems like the right-wing evangelicals of the US definitely do.
If the products are actual counterfeits (which are illegal) it's the job of the law to block them from being sold. If it's just "we don't like comparable products near ours ..." then I don't see why that's Amazons responsibility either.
Wolfram Language 11.1
WeWork Raised $500M from SoftBank to Scale in China
I don't understand the benchmark completely (there seem to be some web server or "network programming framework" mingled with web frameworks? wut?), by the way I'm sure that pure speed is not Spring best virtue, and it's not Java's either, unless you take care at pre-warming the JIT and you've got enough RAM (and I suppose that, even then, Spring would be slower than other, 'shallower' frameworks).

Spring makes it easy and fast to develop web applications, AND evolve them in time. A lot of things are ready out of the box, but you can easily customize many, many parts of your application when and if you actually need it, substituting what the framework would do for what YOU actually need. I haven't found anything like that, yet, in other web frameworks (admittedly: there's tons out there, so I probably tried 1% of them).
Despite the exceptions and workarounds, the defaults matter for the user experience and social dynamics of an online forum.

Even on Hacker News, the various moderation features and things like being able to edit your post after publishing make a difference to how the community works. It's not only what you can get away with but also what people feel like they have a right to do.

An interesting proof of concept might be to try to create a forum like Hacker News, but using distributed software.
The Silicon Valley avant-garde have turned to LSD to increase their productivity
eh..

>"The atoms that built the solar system, the planets, and even our own bodies may have come from another galaxy perhaps as far away as one light-year—nearly 6 trillion miles."

Must be a typo.
Appocalypse now (Apple/iOS11)
Triathlons, off-road running races, obstacle races (tough mudder, etc), and other races that aren't plain running.

Local to me, there are also a few extreme distance races (longer than marathon), usually on hiking trails.
Bills of Attainder were against humans. Limited liability corporations exist by consent of the state and the state has no obligation to grant them new charters or continued use of their existing one.

Facebook could continue operating as a partnership - that would be much harder to stop - but they might not want to given the liability implications.
BigData and ML Example and Model Weekly Roundup – July 27, 2017
Archiving blockchain level of trust in an off-the-shelf database
Vue supports JSX: https://github.com/vuejs/babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx
Imperfect information and lack of tools/knowledge to perform adequate analysis, and perhaps selfish motivations might have caused Thalidomide to be given to pregnant women, but the scientific process did not.

Unless you can pinpoint all the causal factors of a relationship, there is no other option I have heard of other than the scientific process, i.e. testing, calculating, re-testing, calculating, retesting...etc that could provide us with knowledge about the relationship between cause and effect. And obviously, it will be wrong sometimes, hence the need to re-test, but there is no better option.

If anything, we need more actual scientific process, meaning using our newfound computing capabilities to open up data so that all experiments can be vetted for accuracy and differing populations tested, etc.
And it's only from 5.971 m high... why people use decimals to indicate 3 orders of magnitude I will never understand... either that or they got the wrong SI unit.
> Kahan added that he is considering legal action against Amazon.com for “knowingly encouraging a breach of our policy.”

This seems like a very weak argument.

For context, Kahan was referring to Amazon's offer to purchase retailers' Birkenstock products. Birkenstock do not sell to Amazon and forbid any of their stockists from supplying resellers.
Side-note: In the changed file, the first line is “$OpenBSD: bsd.own.mk,v 1.186 2017/07/26 19:44:42 robert Exp $”. Does anyone know if this line is updated by CVS or some other tool?
I don't think you go to prison for smoking pot. The only way I can imagine you end up in prison is if police catch you with some massive amount of weed which means you are a big time dealer / manufacturer.

A student with few grams of pot on him/her will not go to prison for sure.
How sure can you be anyway that vetted and authorised people won't do evil with the data they are entrusted? That's what this has me wondering.
I think Slack is that kind of product that would never happen outside of the SF. A well know founder with an access to the capital, marketing machinery machinery and critical mass of early adopters.
I like Slack and I use it but it's just because others also do. Otherwise I don't find it as amazing shift for the quality of my life or work.
That's fair, but the XML is probably non-essential, and I believe there are already open source converters for most disk image formats. There's some risk, but I don't think it's very much.
Patching a Linux Kernel Module
Don't act like torture isn't happening in the us. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray
The subsidy turns lost tax revenue (taxes == slavery) into jobs for US citizens. Please explain how this is a bad thing?
Meetup has some traction but it charges the organiser directly.
I find it amusing thay the first time i could not read a wapo article free from HN was now: about a negative Amazon article.

So... Wsj.. Wapo and nyt (paywall me)
Sounds nice, but I don't want children, I want myself to be improved.
Readily available on Amazon.de, from Amazon itself and from third party shoe sellers. Just saying. Quite a bit cheaper than in the US, too (sample size = 1).
People choose CLANG mainly because of its license. But GCC still produces faster binaries.
Informed democracy is not a waste of your brain cycles, but it doesn't require so much of your attention. Voting happens once every few years. You don't need to constantly inform yourself of what the government is doing regularly. When the time comes to vote, spend some time thinking about it and make a choice.
The big problem is it attracts hookers/pimps/drug dealers, and a lesser problem is that it attracts price conscious customers, but that's fine since if you are opening up that channel for customers, then you need their business. But it's not worth it if you're also getting the aforementioned problem parties.

It would be unreasonable for a hotel to hate you just for asking for a negotiated rate, but hotels (and any business) will hate you for being annoying, especially when they bring up stupid reasons like "well I paid $x in nowhere, kansas"....
Do you have an English version of this? https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=uk&tl=en&u=http%3A...

This is borderline off-topic, and not in English, so it will be ignored or flagged. An English version would have a small chance of surviving.
You probably know this but ctrl-d avoids the delay and the noises.
4 external variables that will amazingly improve your SEO
This is definitely true. But in addition to this, it is insane that it appears that none of the big browsers has begun implementing encrypted storage via touch and so forth.

One of the main arguments i see in my organisation to create apps for our ventures is the fact that it will enable touch login. I recon it should be rather simple to duplicate / wrap the localStorage API to do this?
Runaway climate change in the Arctic
So what? What prevents you from reading this thread with the "I'm white but I suffer racism too" lens?
As a developer who currently works with Rails, there's a deeply cynical part of me that says, "Good for Rails, then! I guess the trendy ones are leaving because Ruby and Rails have finally achieved some level of sanity."

Ruby itself seems to have settled into a groove. I don't see it ever getting too much faster, which is fine with me. I mean obviously I want moar speed but as a glue language, I think it's fast enough for what it is. GC has been pretty nice since 2.2 or so; we basically don't worry about it in our big monolith app at this point.

Rails is... kind of wacky, still, but again, decently mature... mature-ish. Mature enough. At least compared to the insane Lovecraftian existential dread-inducing abyss that is the Javascript ecosystem.

(I realize the article's about Java, not JS, but let's face it. JS is siphoning people away from RoR, not Java. Java devs have always been in demand; that's just something boot camps have ignored because it's popular but not trendy)
Deep pocketed competitors entering the space would be another answer.
My master plan is coming to fruition. Become Rails dev, Rails goes out of fashion, market myself as Rails expert, profit. Ah who am I kidding, I dont have the energy to market myself as anything.
Another anecdote from personal experience. Smoking pot decreased my cognitive abilities quite dramatically (not only while intoxicated but for days/weeks after).

I am certain it is detrimental to your intellectual abilities at least temporarily. It would definitely lower your grades and I think it is also detrimental to any job where you do mental labour (e.g. software engineering).
And this might be one reason why the US went after this guy - the BTC-e exchange was extremely popular for laundering criminal money. A google research talk showed over 95% of bitcoin ransoms were cashed out via BTC-e.

Once the US have this guy in custody, they can then get their hands on the server transaction records, and chase down the criminals who extorted money from people and companies in the US.
Sentimentally, too bad. Spitefully, good.

I learned of the framework early-ish and following it introduced me to good concepts that I would not have pursued - my undergrad program was ASP.NET forms based.

However, as much as I enjoyed developing with the framework I only got my foot in the door somewhere I got paid for it once. Honestly, that is my favorite project I've done to date (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/maps - mapping portion only).

So I wish I would've gotten to do more with it, but screw all those Rails shops that would not hire me - and have probably moved on 3 times framework-wise since then anyways. :)
Feel-goodery truthiness like emancipation of the slaves, women's suffrage, civil rights and the welfare state?
For the Washington Post and New York Times a new incognito session solves that problem.
I can see why apple is hesitant to do this. But there is definitely a middle ground.

Require the same developer registration process as they currently do for iOS apps. Then require some apple provided javascript to provide access to these needed functions. App review as before.

At that point they can do interesting things: charge per 1000 installs, enforce the use of apple pay. They can operate a business model that is slightly different, but the same at its core - tax developers for access to their user base/platform.
Ghost 1.0.0 – React, redux and redis?
I remember seeing a paper that in any market where the top 4 players have more than 60% of the market, they'll naturally behave in a cartel-like way in terms of pricing etc.. So it's not ideal. But still, two players seems much better than one in terms of, if nothing else, limiting quite how much customers are soaked for.
Why not setup popular messenger Telegram on Raspberry Pi? So here is the way
How much of the actual users are just bots?
Ask HN: No product forum for Google Analytics?
I usually can find a product forum under Google Groups for each product, but there does not seem to be one for Google Analytics. I found this a little odd? Is there an official one and is it in another place?
There is a (somewhat) transparent process! (see [1]) I can't see no design process or vision in there, however, it's just a ton of extra features.

It seems that between chaotic feature addition and backward compatibility requirements JS becomes a new C++.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/
40 year old, here. I mainly use snap to play with filters with my young kids. I'd never use it for communication because the UX is horrendous. A while ago, there was an odd corporate push to try to use snap internally (was there some marketing push?). And, all of my co-workers spent lots of time brainstorming how to even use snap effectively.

The swarms of 13 years olds that roam through my house only ever seem to use their mobile for Instagram, snap, and youtube. However, more recently I've noticed that the boys have been walking around with bluetooth headsets on as they have a large group chat going on in the background. Not sure what app they're using.
That kind of misses the point of the article though.

> Having phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops all seamlessly working together is something that I now insist on.

Yes, this is the problem Microsoft needs to focus on. 'A great cell phone running Windows' solves a problem for Microsoft. It's a self-centric view. Microsoft could make everything run seamlessly if they focused on that, instead of Windows on everything and walled gardens.
Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them
Thanks for your input, 4 minute-old account!
I'm not aware for basketball, but e.g. the Boat Race has only two teams, and is very much competitive.
That's a CVS keyword, it's updated when the file is checked out or after it's committed. 1.186 is the most recent version of that file.
Growth hackers marketing/great and easy understanding
Bullshit. Every other bank and (non-crypto) exchange in existence requires some form of KYC, and they will want to know the source of larger funds.

And isn't this an admission that Monero is of no real legal use? Otherwise, why would you care about cashing it out at an exchange? You could spend it on goods and services instead.
It really depends on what exactly you are doing. If you are churning out business-y apps pretty regularly Rails gems are really useful.

Otherwise, there's nothing there other stacks don't have. Scaffolding generation, validation, command line tools, good templating, routing, routing for apis, ORMs, etc, that stuff is built into almost any framework these days and if it isn't it is because you are using a microframework by choice. You have dozens of frameworks across various languages that approach the functionality of Rails.

Django is certainly very comparable, and a good Django dev can pump out apps as quickly as a Rails dev. Stacks in other languages are doing things Rails is incapable of and they have borrowed all of the benefits (because Rails does a lot of things right).
Quick typo:

>The CIA made me them do it.
I have used mailgun without any issues. The free tier is nice and I was not forced to have a paid plan when I got started.
Possibly because they're not (natively?) English-speaking Europeans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Digit_grouping
Are you truly believing that it was Donald Trump and he was initially named "Richard Craig Smith" in 1984 and later changed his name, or are you simply making a political point?
"The Idiot" - was one of the most interesting books I've read.
Similar question here: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1990...
Be careful, some people like the FSF and Debian won't like it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035

https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil

Personally, I applaud it and I would live with these consequences, but be aware of these consequences.
It's not a discrete scale, ceteris paribus every single kg will make you slower and increase injury risk. It's continuous.
Ask HN: Heads up when patenting software product?
I have a software product I want to patent. Any of you have any advice you could give me?
No. However, there's nothing preventing you from taking the BSD license and adding a fourth clause:

4. This software cannot be used for military purposes under this license. You must negotiate for a license from the original author, AUTHOR NAME.
It depends on the idea, lead quality and market. Organic search to conversion of 3-4% is awesome, super targeted leads maybe 10%. Of course numbers generally are higher for things like newsletter sign ups etc vs handing over cash.

I'll admit I haven't read your link but if you were doing business validation and 1 in 5 people were saying yes and the market is large enough then those are good numbers. If your market is super small in the world then I'd say no. Of course there are a few exceptions to that rule.
Check the licens for JSLint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSLint#License
You can't discriminate against any fields of endeavor[0] if you wish for your software to be under any OSI approved open source license.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
It's still the only decent free-at-point-of-use way to do event organization. That connects up with: it's easy to publish which events you're going to, without interrupting people to tell them. And it's nicely integrated with individual-to-individual messaging, and photo-sharing afterwards.
Some projects have added a "no military use" clause to the GPL [1] to do this.

https://www.linux.com/news/open-source-project-adds-no-milit...
Their snapchat replica has less intrusive ads, perhaps because they subsidize it with the rest of their business.
NYC Spotify employee here. Spotify has a very honest, open, and autonomous culture. Spotify is comprised of many Missions which are defined by a business purpose like ads, user engagement, or analytics. Within a Mission you will have one or more Tribes. Each Tribe is loosely associated with the Mission goal and addresses a portion of the overall Mission. A Squad is a delivery team/product team. Squads are accountable for building great products. They are given autonomy to make the right decisions for the direction of their product. Squads function as "mini-startups", if you will. A grouping of many Squads is called a Tribe. A Mission will have one or more Tribes. It's a tad confusing and I'm sure I've gotten some of definitions wrong, but you get the general gist.

As for the people culture, Spotify values the growth of employees. We focus heavily on personal growth over product delivery. We believe if we build good people they will build good products. I was doubtful before joining Spotify that they would fulfill everything I was told (about the culture) during the interview process but everything has held true.

For better descriptions of Spotify check out the engineering culture video:
https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-cult...

I would encourage you to apply. Spotify is a great place to work.
Twitter didn't add any new users last quarter, and the stock is diving
I think push notifications and offline support are the real killer features that Apple currently doesn't support.

It's kind of funny as a web developer because for the longest time Apple seemed to be the one pushing the mobile web forward but now that web apps are reaching for feature parity with native, Apple's initial momentum seems to be ancient history.

It seems Apple still thinks of the mobile web as a content delivery platform rather than an application platform. Their proprietary additions (mostly CSS) largely focused on making things prettier, their rationale for opting out of standard features (e.g. autoplay) often only work under the assumption that the only use for those features would be in the context of traditional content pages.

You want an app? Develop for our walled garden we tightly control to offer our users the best possible experience. If you want it on the web, stick to creating content our users can consume in Mobile Safari, our app for reading websites.
Some old software had BSD license with clause 'do not use for evil'. It was useless for corporate use. 'Evil' has different meaning for each individual and is impossible to define.
Guide: How to check a new laptop for issues
Yubikeys tend to wear out your USB ports after a bit I found, at least on my X201 and the X61 that preceded it.
Couldn't you ad another clause to any license?
I have the same problem, but I want to exclude its use in the domains of advertisement and user tracking, as well as military.
Four hundred years from now, if humans even still exist and we're still under a scarcity based economy, those billions of dollars will likely not be worth much.
I guess this refers specifically to the following bullets:

* Vectorized RAIDZ - Hardware optimized RAIDZ which reduces CPU usage.
Supported SIMD instructions: sse2, ssse3, avx2, avx512f, and avx512bw,
neon, neonx2

* Vectorized checksums - Hardware optimized Fletcher-4 checksums which
reduce CPU usage. Supported SIMD instructions: sse2, ssse3, avx2,
avx512f, neon

* GZIP compression offloading - Hardware optimized GZIP compression
offloading with QAT accelerator.

All use vector and/or SIMD instructions on the CPU, thoughh QuickAssist (QAT above) is available on dedicated add-in card also.
If you do find or use such a license, it's definitely not open source. According to the OSI, the only authority on what constitutes open source, open source license must not discriminate against fields of endeavour:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

See the open source definition: https://opensource.org/osd

I would encourage you to use a normal open source license, like MIT, and to not worry about trying to control who uses the software for what.
Does the job though.

Nope.

It will result in very uneven utilization which leads to poor performance. Not recommended. Is also extremely wasteful. The whole point of the sought feature is to minimize waste and cost. So no, I'd strongly disagree that it does the job.