skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python development environments that can used for cloud deployment of apps
What an eloquent explanation. 100% agreed.
That is pretty awesome. When I'm talking about performance and stability, I'm just saying we're still seeing a lot of low hanging fruit being taken care of. For example, Liz is still beast-moding away each week at enhancing the performance of lists, sets, & bags by 100-1000x in some cases. At some point, nearly all of those kinds of fixes should be already fixed. At some point in the future, it'll start getting used over Python I think.
You might. Take you, everyone else who might over the next 10 years, then increase by two orders of magnitude and you are still a tiny drop in the bucket that can't possibly compete. Network effects mean there probably won't be another mobile OS any more than there will be another desktop OS to gain traction. There are the two leaders and everyone else is permanently relegated to <1%.

BTW: I keep seeing people talk about this hybrid concept but I have yet to see a UI toolkit that trivially scales up and down between phone/desktop. It mostly seems to involve a lot of compromises and a lot of extra work.
The problem is that not all business networks are "traditional". Some might be pulling OS install media from a torrent (a lot of FOSS operating systems are distributed this way). Some might even be mirroring/seeding said media.
> He even deleted his bug report about that segfault he keeps mentioning when comparing PyO3 to rust-cpython.

That is just sleazy :/.
very cool - I'd never even given this concept a second thought. I'd like to graph these and see how they overlap - would be cool to implement networks via something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolite

I'd also be curious to see how this would look if you could include manmade structures like towers or skyscrapers
I'm 45, no kids, by choice. It's not because of my career, it's just because of the life I choose to live. I would simply not live a single day of my life the same if I had children. I do live every single day of my life as I choose (and like).

If you have kids, you don't have that choice anymore. You can adjust your needs, your expectations to the presence of kids... but it's a different story, isn't it?

For me, it's all about freedom. YMMV
To further corroborate, I'm working in hotel software at the moment and these sites drive a _ton_ of traffic. 10-15% commissions on every booking they process.

booking.com is such a piece of shit in so many ways: strip-mall aesthetics, horrible data quality (firsthand knowledge here), huge commissions for hotels, and yet, it's a fantastic business.

Probably a good lesson or two here.
Worth noting this seems more detailed than the previous stories.

$100k per month to run Snopes, my goodness - they're not going to run for long on handouts.
You are absolutely right.
But we need to remember - our motivation is to get a solution without most of TCP mechanisms to suit cases where it is not required.
SCTP - is more of an alternative to TCP and implements mechanisms that are not required by our motivation.
DCCP - is more close to what we want as it solves security concern: congestion collapse.

And you are right - we do not want reinvent the wheel.
Related: 'Unexpected mutations after CRISPR–Cas9 editing in vivo' http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v14/n6/full/nmeth.4293.h...
> retaining monopoly pricing power in industries with very few barriers to entry.

Few barriers to entry, really?? Sorry, but this sounds a bit like an inexperienced developer saying "Hey, I could build most of Facebook's functionality in 2 weeks." Booking.com is THE largest spender of advertising on Google. They have giant teams that A/B test the living shite out of every pixel on their screens, and huge teams of data scientists squeezing out every last bit of optimization on their site. It's a huge barrier to entry. This answer from Quora's CEO explains it well: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-important-internet-compa...
Ask HN: What are some container tools you would want to be developed?
Containers have become more than mainstream. What tool/functionality do you think is missing when using containers ?
That's the point: They don't have to!

If you have protocols and software that lets someone run a social OS on their personal hardware and connected to the global network, then the walls have been broken. Any 3rd party can integrate or offer hosting.

You could also take the rabbit hole of battery improvements leading to running this on mobile devices or sending data through a distributed p2p network instead of personal HW. None of those are orthogonal to the proposal.
If a manufacturer makes and sells a gun that keeps going off in people's holsters and shooting people in the foot, the answer is not to say "it's the user's fault for not using it properly. I've shot myself in the foot hundreds of times and I don't blame the manufacturer".

Or something. That analogy sounded better in my head than written down. The point is that IMO the blame lies squarely with the C language: it's a language that's used in a lot of complex parsing code and provides pretty much nothing to help with this, and if anything actually puts roadblocks in the way.
Addressed by the article
That's why I built https://wakatime.com, which is a plugin in your text editor that automatically tracks what you worked on.
Ask HN: Where do you find high-quality premium app icons?
I know there's the custom option, but I'm curious what kind of vendors are good for app icons.
Judge Orders Apple to Pay $506M to Patent Troll Company WARF
Ethereum smart contracts in a nutshell
And yet another time we learn why it is better to use Lineage OS. Five year old Samsung S3:

Android: Version 7.1.2
Security Patch Level: 5th July 2017
The leading Android smartphone producer Samsung had on at least two of their flagship phones a world RW device that allowed full access to the entire system memory including the entirety of the kernel, deliberately:

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027894

They needed it to get the camera working. This is not an exaggeration, the people they have writing software for their phones will take every shortcut they can find or imagine to deliver another bullet point on the feature list. Security be damned.
That's Skyscanner, acquired last year by "leading Chinese online travel agent Ctrip"?
This is from Marx, who wrote The Communist Manifesto, among other things. I won't try to summarize, other than to say Marx treats this ("late capitalism") as a developed state of capitalism, sort of a mathematical limit/end state, where certain things are taken to be inevitable.
All-right, I have to ask; what is the correlation you see between that movie and these events?
I haven't looked at the raw data, but the graph makes it looks like there are p-values less than zero. Would you happen to know why?
Video of the card (not mine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYFNAza64PI
The jit won't port to current wasm, so it would be slow.
Great point. It's easy to judge twitter here, and by many different data points FB has been an exceptionally well run company, but engineers are a lot more expensive now than they were in 2010. I imagine Twitter has to pay interns today what Facebook was paying experienced engineers in 2010 (100% serious).
I've yet to see any meaningful "collective wisdom" on whether to be a parent. Since you seem not to see the value, it is probably best for you not to do it--the payoff is likely not something your quantification would measure, but the cost would be.

The value isn't quantified in economic terms, because you can't quantify love.

It might help me hit some achievement milestone if I had no kids, perhaps, but that would feel shallow. Maybe I'd have built something that made a nice bullet point on a director's resume, but no one will be singing songs of my heroic deeds in the halls of Valhalla.

For me, kids are great because I have lots of love and affection to share. I've never had such unreserved un-self-conscious love as I get from my children. When I walk in the door after a long day, I get a rock star greeting--three little people cheering my name. I'm never lonely anymore. I have lots of great memories. I get tons of cuddles. I get to pass on things I've learned. Providing a good upbringing feels meaningful.

Staying competitive on an hours basis is hard, but would not be hard if my spouse was a stay-at-home mom, which would be feasible. Staying competitive on a knowledge-basis is not hard.
Margins on flights are slim.

Hotel bookings are the real meat.
This is very interesting! I just replied to another commentator mentioning issues apple had with 10.10.1 - 10.10.4 when they updated some aspect of the network stack. both the macOS and iOS issues were apparently caused by the same change. More info here: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/26/apple-discoveryd-replac...
I shot myself in the foot yet I don't blame the manufacturer for not putting a safety on the gun since I'm the one that bought it with full knowledge of the caveats
I think its the difference between committing to one large choice over the long term vs. the flexibility to have many small choices over time.
His point was that we know it happens because we exist, it's that we don't know how it happened.
So I think I've been pretty clear that I've been taking about what peteretep originally said versus what you think he originally said. E.g. "I'm accusing you of accusing peteretep of..."

And I think you've been pretty explicitly talking about what he originally said. E.g. "His position was that..."

But now you seem to be denying that you said anything about what he originally said, or you seem to think that what you said about what he said isn't relevant, or... I don't know. Your comment does not make sense to me. All I can think is that you seem to be mixing meta-levels.

Anyway, I'm not exactly proud of how easily I get sucked into crap like this, so I'm going to try to tap out after this comment.
then why putting an input area in the middle of the page with inviting prompt "search google or type url"? simple act of entering search terms and pressing Enter button -
instead turns into a mental game of "if it is a brand new search, then search terms will appear in url bar no matter where i type them; when search results come, my search terms will be copied to the input box on the page and later can be edited there". sorry, this is just plain stupid. sounds like an executive design, no normal developer would come up with this crap.
This is a common misconception based on Priceline's history. The vast, vast majority of Priceline's value is Booking.com, which does hotel bookings. The margins on flight bookings are razor thin and probably only add value by enabling travelers to add hotels to their flights.
"It" won't. Bugs in DHCP / your router/modem/telco's software will.
Why is an .edu email address required?
Reading the article, I am reminded of the story of the famous Swedish ship, the Vasa [0], which sank in the XVII century because, ultimately, no one wanted to say no to the king: when the engineers saw there was a massive problem ahead ("your boat don't float"), the management didn't dare tell the King, leading to catastrophe[1].

It's a good lesson, I hope we learn it someday.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

[1] : I'll admit it is a fantastic chance for historians and tourists alike: The wreck, pulled from the waters perfectly preserved, is a must-see in Stockholm
Looks nice, but I think I can get most of it using recompose, which I've been using extensively lately.
This is, I’ve found, a good way to start a dialogue with people about chemophobia.

If you ask someone “Which do you think is safer: artificial vanilla or vanilla extract?” they’ll often prefer the “natural” one. But vanilla extract contains exactly the same chemical (vanillin) in addition to hundreds of other compounds, many of which are known to be irritants, hepatotoxins, and carcinogens—in high enough doses.

Of course, it’s much harder to break people of the misconception that the provenance of a chemical (synthetic or natural) matters. There seems to be some kind of innate protective disgust reaction at work. For instance, I’ve had conversations with people who say they wouldn’t be able to bring themselves to drink a glass of water if they knew it was purified from sewage. By the same token, they will drink some water that’s been imbued with some healing power by a homeopath.
Since Android Auto runs on phones now, and it can be set to launch automatically when it connects to your car's bluetooth, I jerry-rigged a phone cradle that sits in front of my car's infotainment screen and mainly use that.
Literally handing over power to the conservative block is hardly on the table.
As one (probably unlikely) alternative the whole government might be dissolved, but that would pass the task of forming a new one back to the parliament.

Some domestic commentary on the options (poorly) translated by Google:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Kind of addressed in the article. I'd still like to see more data before calling the issue "addressed".

(Then again, this is a lay-press article, so I don't entirely expect a lot of detail)
Almost correct. It's the overall cost equation that is important, not just labor though.

"U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s, and that’s a very big deal"

http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/fracking-manufacturing-costs/

"These days, China's labor costs are only 4% cheaper than those in the U.S. when productivity is factored in, according to Oxford Economics. "

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/17/news/economy/china-cheap-lab...
When you work 12 to 15 hours a day, make a pretty good salary overall, and still have nothing to show for it other than, "I managed to rent a closet in SF"... yeah, the midwest is a FANTASTIC option.

It is hugely ironic that so many Silicon Valley companies are building solutions to enable exactly what they don't do - work from anywhere.

The Bay Area is a cool place to live. There is a lot to do there and a ton of resources. Seattle has it's merits too. Portland is experiencing the same flock of "hotness". After a while, the grind becomes greater than the "cool" and you soon realize that you're 12 hour day plus 2 hour traffic commute leaves you no time or energy to enjoy the city you live in anyway.
Short term pain for the longer term goal of not having a few conglomerates dominating the tech sector.

Worth it.
>I need to at least mention that, well, this project is probably a bomb and you should be really careful with it. I, at least, wouldn't want to be the next DAO dev (e.g. project takes off quickly, unseen exploit exists, I lose some 10's of millions of other people's money) at mostly a personal (I'd feel guilty) and career trajectory level.

>The Parity multi-sig bug occurred in a solidity shop that was founded by the father of the language itself. It got past a serious audit and had the best eng process known (for solidity) enforced. The odds that your code -- currently unaudited correct? -- doesn't have an exploit are, while impossible to accurately calculate, quite remote.

I think this is very inaccurate. There have been devastating bugs in Ethereum, namely the bug in the DAO and the one in the Parity multisig contract. But there are numerous smart contracts that have not been found to be vulnerable. You cannot extrapolate what happened to two contracts to the entire ecosystem. It's inaccurate to claim that the probability that the loan contract he's working on will not have critical bugs once it's live is "remote", and a red herring to point out that it is unlikely to be bug free now, when it is still in development.
> In non-instant world, maybe 60% of the time I'll end up finding what I want to click on as I continue to scan the page, then stop typing and click on that

My problem is I look at keywords from the results and want to use them to refine my search, and as soon as I type the first letter of my refinement, I lose access to the words I need.

And as you say, results on half words have never helped anyone, and there are already suggestions for what these half words might expand to.
So you claim that in five years Tesla will abandon their Nevada Gigafactory and build a new one in another state. Doesn't check out.
> it seems to be a serious competitive disadvantage to have children if you're in tech

Children are generally competitive disadvantages for all adults with careers, not just for those in tech.

But competitive advantages are not why people have children.
The driver 'optimizations' in GPUs tend to boil down to hand written replacements for unoptimal/broken shaders and API call sequences on a per application basis.

I expect a network card to not 'interpret' my traffic in a similar way.
last clarifications, sorry.

Some manifold has a goodness function defined on it, described by a (totally ordered?) relation provided by the observing scientist.

The goodness function is assumed to be (continuous/differentiable/continuously differentiable?) with respect to some metric, and the computer picks a random coordinate within some small distance of the last coordinate in the metric, and then asks the human to order them?

I don't think this is hill climbing, and my simple reasoning for that is that I don't believe the first assertion. The expert is almost certainly behaving non-deterministically. In fact, I believe that each time the expert is presented with the "same" pair of coordinates, he is more likely to yield a different ordering.

That said, I could be reading this wrong.
"Now Mitalipov is believed to have broken new ground both in the number of embryos experimented upon and by demonstrating that it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes that cause inherited diseases."

Seems a little early for such a claim based on embryos that only developed for a few days.
Is there a way to wrap event listeners as well?
Related update: Snopes met its $500K goal in one day: http://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-met-its-500k-fundraising-...

Best of luck to them but the way they worded their fund-raising appeal without being up front about their legal challenges really rubbed me the wrong way, in terms of whether the donated money will be well-managed or even have any effect to the site's survival given its legal predicament. Didn't help that, as someone pointed out, Snopes for some reason has blocked their site from being scraped by the Internet Archive: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/889559326565646336
>to be a female

explain?
To be fair, PHP by itself is not the issue here, the issue is rather being amateurs (Mark, Ross) who started doing a fun project and ended up brokering millions of dollars without having the experience or opsec of doing so. This is what lead to their downfall.
The talk is of 'genetic enhancement' but the potential benefit seems more boring and necessary to me: removal of many new and as-yet-unidentified mutations. It is thought that these have been accumulating generation by generation since about 1800 when child mortality started to fall.
Not sure I would call MIT technology review lay press
It's different because a load balancer will send your initial HTTPS request to one application server, but when you're switching protocols (to UDP) you'll then want that traffic directed the same place. Or need some way to share session data across multiple app servers.

You could handle it with some kind of cookie/token that enables the LB to route to the right place, but that opens a whole bunch of other complicated logic too.

Whereas if the UDP application/server were able to handle it independently of HTTP(S), you wouldn't need any of that.
Is there a way to find out how much Foxconn pays in U.S. taxes right now? Or how much revenue they earn in the U.S.? If Apple has Foxconn make phones in Taiwan, and Apple then ships phones to the U.S., then Foxconn doesn't pay any taxes to the U.S. on those transactions, right? Only Apple would right? If Foxconn doesn't pay any tax to the U.S. right now (???), and they build a factory in the U.S. and don't pay any taxes in the future, then it is a wash (except for now the U.S. employees would be paying income tax, etc.). Or am I missing a piece of the puzzle? (As in, maybe Foxconn is currently paying a lot in U.S. taxes from whatever operations they have in the U.S. currently?)
At which point the freshly rebranded BookFace would continue as usual.
> They just need one viable competitor

I'm not convinced that is sufficient. Facebook at 80% isn't really any different than facebook at 99, or whatever. Google has a viable competitor in Bing, but google still dominates search to a massive degree.
Generic advice for being a landlord.

Screen your tenants. Better to be vacant for months than let a bad tenant trash the place.

Make your money when you buy. Don't overpay and rely on appreciation. The property should cash flow from day one.
This paper was incredibly sloppy and has been widely dismissed by scientists in the field.
One good option I have executed in the past it to buy a semi-detached home with 3 apt units. It is imp to work out the location, the rent the 3 units can fetch if it is an investment you may likely need 20%-25% down with good credit. This approach requires you/your partner to do a lot of work in searching the house, finding right tenants and finding a right handyman that you like.

I wish you the very best.
There's an awful lot of trolling, and moderation is not quite transparent.

But as another comment said, I don't think HN is a meant to feel like a welcome community by design. It feels more like a semi-anonymous public forum.
I couldn't agree more with the article.

Working in software development, Windows OS still is facing challenges that OSX or Linux don't have. Although, to be fair, I haven't tried the new integrated VMs that were announced at the last Build or so.

The Surface line of products keeps impressing with clear attempts at innovation and progress. It's almost like a flip of the 90s where MS is now the innovator while Apple plods along one step behind the competition.
All of those are better done using other technologies. I don't see what the benefit is of shoehorning a blockchain in there.

What's the killer app? Sorry to be annoying but I honestly don't see why an CIO would choose a blockchain over more traditional options for anything at all. I've been following Bitcoin and ETH for many years and I've been thinking about this a LOT and I just don't see it.
In the US human embryos used for research are restricted from developing for more than two weeks
If thousands of people were repeatedly making the same mistake, and frequently shooting other innocent bystanders' feet, I would definitely put some blame on the manufacturer.
Just in case someone here didn't already say this:

Do not use Kite.

It's software that was made by people who are fine uploading your code to their servers. The kind of people who should be out of business as soon as possible.