skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally all businesses are run on top of Excel, which, if you like, is sort of a generic app development environment.
Does the kernel in 17.04 fully support everything? Sometimes it takes a while to get support for new hardware in the kernel.
For me it's basically an RSS feed with comments. Very valuable for learning about and keeping up to date with narrow industry news/trends.

Also a good way to connect with people professionally, but less formally than LinkedIn.

The major downside is that is that a tight group or individual can get put on blast to the whole of twitter, and then just get ignorant vitriol thrown at them and that kind of ruins the whole experience. Happened to me not long ago. Not that big of a deal in the end. Just take a week off and come back and the hive will have found something else to attack. The Twitter universe has a pretty short attention span - even if it has a long memory.
That's weird. I've got a 500 GB postgres database running on a 1700X doing a couple hundred queries per second around the clock and it hasn't gone down on me yet.
For backend I'd surely use Elixir/Phoenix, that's what I've used in the last 2 years, after ~9 years of Ruby/Rails. Elixir and Phoenix are fast to bootstrap, easy to use and deploy, even for complex scenarios (background jobs, websockets, key-value store, etc). Even for quick prototypes, I find Elixir/Phoenix a lot simpler than Ruby/Rails.

For frontend, thus JS, I'd use Vuejs. I switched to it after some year with React. It's a perfect compromise between React and Angular.
I'm @codemonkeyism on Twitter https://twitter.com/codemonkeyism

and still love it.

I think it's key to always prune and trim the people you are following and keep the number low and relevant. If someone tweets several times about things I'm not interested in, I unfollow.

I unfollowed some high profile tech people because of their stream being full of politics.

"(Current count is 1000)"

This seems much too high, I follow 500 and this already looks too high for me (some trimming needed).
Sure...using forms-mode to search, add and update information in a postgres db.

I would like to find a way for everyone to use org-mode but we were running into too many merge conflicts.

I just learned about mmm-mode (https://github.com/purcell/mmm-mode) but I haven't really dug into it to see if this could be the bridge between Org-mode + forms-mode.
There is no such thing as a 1099 employee.

In my opinion, the way to proceed is to do the right thing without pretending to be doing something else. I'd also consider evaluating an HR consultant that recommends in favor of employment discrimination against a disabled individual. It's easy to rationalize not providing health insurance to someone who might need it...that does not make it the right thing. In the end, the decisions are not decisions about an individual, they are decisions about company culture and values...and perhaps the values of those who have the ability to decide.

Good luck.
Porting a historic Python2 module to Python3
Well, iirc Ryzen 5, gaming performancr got better some time after release, both due to developer optimization processes, and AMD's BIOS updates.
i5s should (and probably will be) ahead of R3, but that's more R5's ballpark.
Does building zfs.ko not involve #include ing some linux header files? Or is it all done via ABI?
Another difference is the project says it will support multiple implementations of its software, a move that's not surprising given the criticism that Bitcoin Core's software is too dominant on the bitcoin network.

What does that mean exactly? Bitcoin being open source and anybody being able to connect to the network means that anybody can fork the client if they want to, doesn't it?

After all that's exactly what this Bitcoin ABC fork is doing.
Nice. now can we please have a way of reporting phishing/malware hosted on Microsoft services (Onedrive, hosted Sharepoint, Azure, etc)? I have reported a few of these to Microsoft's CERT team and they just seem to get ignored.
Chains splitting off is a very interesting phenomenon. Just like with Ethereum Classic splitting off Ethereum, the value of the original chain can be divided into two, albeit unequal, parts. The process may even create new value - though I suppose it might just as well destroy value.

What I've also wondered about though is multiple chains combining into one. Does anyone know if this has happened before?

I believe there is a strong analogy here to how company stock can evolve, when companies are either split out as separate entities, or merged into one, respectively.
CDDL requires you to opt out of later versions. 9 files (out of 219) totaling 950 lines (out of over 190,000) in the ZoL kernel code claim to be 1.0 only. What definition of "Almost all" are you using?
I'm so glad he's sober, and it is great hearing his influence in so much music.
This is going to be a failed attempt of starting yet another altcoin. Just because this carries the "bitcoin" name doesn't make it any more special.
I built this because I saw a lot of projects using mailing list as their discussion board, and a lot of projects set up forums themselves, including a lot of famous projects like Atom, React, Vue, even GitHub itself set up a discourse as their forum.

We can't stop a user to use GitHub issues to ask questions, or discuss features, but to me, it is not a good place. So I hope I can build a discussion service for those projects to set up their forum easier when they don't want to use issues as the alternative. But the fact is, may be, just like you said, issues is 'good enough'?
I had an idea for a tiny app a while ago. It didn't have business potential and was certainly not something I would bother putting in the App Store (let alone trying to figure out how to make the equivalent in Java and submit to Play Store).

I could easily have made it in HTML and JS except it required access to the camera which Mobile Safari doesn't (well didn't, I think maybe it has changed now) allow. So I ended up doing nothing.

Now, that's obviously just an anecdote and the world is at worst one useless app down but I think it makes for a good example as to why arguing against these improvements is silly: it's not in order to make websites more app-like, it's to allow things that would otherwise not exist. Yes, we should all write everything natively if we could, but sometimes that will just mean that things won't be developed at all.
Much of what is written here is reasonable, but there seems to be places where the argument is overstated - for example, this statement is repeatedly used as a justification for the claim that the so-called Basic Property must be simple:

"That leads us to expect that the faculty of language emerged along with modern humans or not long after, a very brief moment in evolutionary time. It follows, then, that the Basic Property should indeed be very simple."

This argument does not take into account the possibility (a very strong one, IMHO, FWIW) that the facility for language is an emergent property of the human brain, in which case language may have become possible as a result of one or more factors crossing a threshold, in a manner analogous to how a smoothly varying physical property can lead to discontinuous phase changes in matter. While there might have been one last change that took us across that threshold, it does not follow that language would be explained by that last step. In fact, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the final step was not directly related to language: for example, that an improvement in nutrition alone had the side-effect that properties already present became powerful enough for language to emerge.

I feel that Chomsky is arguing for the necessity of some basic properties, while seemingly suggesting that the reasonableness of these arguments extends to the proposition that these properties alone will provide a full explanation of language, once the details have been worked out.
Wouldn't you at least consider this a useful use case: Purchase a flight online on a website, but then get a push notification if there is a flight change? Why should we force a user to download an app to support that use case.
He happened to be some kind a Robin Hood, taking it from the rich (who could afford buying his software as opposed to pirating it) and giving it to the poor.
What conventions did Michaelangelo's David violate?
Even if web browsers were on the same page across all platforms and did everything front end dev's dreamed of, 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. In a world where web apps dominate and are the overwhelming majority, why should OS vendors even bother with furthering innovation on the OS level? Nothing would be taking advantage of it. They'd do just as well to boot straight into a generic grey browser environment and call it a day!

As for the web being the de facto solution for light tasks, I'm not sure I agree there either, at least with the web's present resource consumption problems. There's no reason, for instance, for a word processor that barely matches modern WordPad or Word 95 in terms of features to be as heavy as it is (Google Docs).

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.
This is exactly how i feel about flask and prior to flask turbogears. Stick with what you know until it doesn't solve the problems in satisfactory way.
> Sometimes old stubborn cranks can really get in the way of progress.

I didn't see anyone getting in the way of progress. Someone said "I think the developers should make X for me," and other people replied "no they shouldn't." They could have said "yes, they should" and still nothing of substance would be done.
You can't get pixel-perfect (including android) between all devices, but to the extent that a manufacturer enables a "better" experience, it gets much closer and more consistent behaviour compared to native apps:

https://webkit.org/blog/3709/using-the-system-font-in-web-co...

...and even if you get pixel-perfect between android and ios, you sacrifice "cultural-correctness" (ie: floating buttons v. top bar v. bottom bar, etc.).

Writing two pixel+cultural perfect apps on two platforms, keeping them in sync, making sure they're not buggy, attempting to share code, attempting to keep them both secure is incredibly expensive. If you don't believe me then do it yourself.

Making a PWA which gets 90% of the way there, and integrates as well as possible with the system (ie: fonts, location, notifications, accelerometer, etc.) is generally _less_ expensive than doing a single native app well, and has the chance to get you 90% of the way there on desktop and your "alternate" mobile platform.

PWA can be incredibly powerful (along w/ manifest.json-style support as android has), and I'm waiting for the day apple catches up to android on this one.
I knew I saw him somewhere before.

http://mailchi.mp/mit/how-ocw-transformed-a-learners-life

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514686
Yes, the money laundering part should not be prosecutable as long as you weren't involved in any crime. The very concept that not telling the government about everything you do financially is somehow a crime is simply abhorrent.
That is a very bold claim. As a counterexample, I bet that some of them are more likely to beat the market than me if I started investing.
From the article
" Anyone who joins Prime shops in retail stores 10 percent less, and that number will keep accelerating as Amazon adds more inventory.”

Id love to know the analysis on this.

I deliver to amazon addicts and prime-ers. Although, yes, they order often (5-6 days a week) the volume of items by count is tiny compared to a shopping cart at a store.
TL; DR: HTML is edited like plaintext, even though it eventually forms a very structured tree-like DOM. Why not write it in a format that enforces that DOM structure in the first place?
:) For me, I really got a lot of value out of railscasts.com. I watched all of them like people watch their favorite TV shows. Helped me see the world through rails developer eyes.
I'm going to use Elixir and PostgreSQL for my next project, which is an algorithmic trading platform. The two main reasons is I want to learn more Elixir (I've done a few libraries and some other work with it but not a lot) and also the OTP's supervisors will keep things up and running even during a crash. This will be nothing more than an OTP application so no front end available. I may end up making a front end so I can track everything visually and if I do I would probably learn Angular 4, or maybe go back to Elm.
In a few decades, we will add cryptocurrencies adepts and their many mining cults to this list.
1) It's not perfect immunity but rather resistance, and it's when they are heterozygous.

2) Heterozygous still carry the gene and can pass it on (you're likely to just exclude homozygous people)

3) Sickle-cell disease has a lot of downsides... Yes, it's a disease.

There is little to zero downside in preventing births of homozygous affected people.
This strikes me as your regular U.S. citizen who has been fed with American Media. As someone who is living in the "region" and was affected by the chain of events that happened since the starting of the Tunisian revolution let me tell you that you are quite misinformed about what happened in reality.

Gaddafi was not toppled because he was going to kill civilians. In fact, it is the other way around. Gaddafi has been killing his opposing politicians for decades. This happened with the best knowledge of his US, EU friends at the time and at really a ridiculous and holocaustic level.

The time the US intervened was when he was going to "truly" protect his country or power from real armed extremists.

If you think the US intervene for the sake of "humans" then you are gullible to your media. The US has been actively intervening in the middle east which resulted in countless (hundreds of thousands) of people and children dying directly from US fire.

There are thousands of people dying from hunger every day. The cost to feed them is certainly much less than the cost of wars the US has engaged. But the US will not help these "black" guys despite having the food, infrastructure and money.

The US only intervenes in countries where there are strategic resources; or to help its allies ( israel / south korea ).
I know, that's why I brought it up! Imagine if the user-facing app ecosystem of the future had to be built on top of that platform.
OK: today you have met one. I have notifications turned on in desktop Safari for Facebook, Twitter, Slack, a handful of news sites that I like to keep up on, and probably some other stuff I am not remembering right now; and no: the idea of installing a native application for any of these services sickens me for numerous reasons (everything from concrete reasons of security and convenience to philosophical objections related to wanting to maintain an open, searchable, and hyperlinkable web).
I guess his point was that it's not obviously "better".
Yeah, probably a typo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day
> If you own an apple, but aren't allowed to eat it, gift it, etc. do you really own it?

The only right left is to not let someone else have it I guess ?
With that much money, you could literally shovel cash into the furnace every day, and probably never run out.
WebKit Now Has Full WebAssembly Implementation
Nice tool. I like the simplicity in code and interface.

We did implement real-time collaborative editing for Teamemo (https://teamemo.com) and the real challenge was to support rich text editing.

Are there plans to support rich text?
Maybe. I think the idea is that it's preferable to have wasted a lot of effort on coming up with irrelevant abstractions addressing a nonexistent problem, than to be surprised by something weird and poorly-understood presenting novel and not-clearly-bounded risk and not have effective tools at hand to address it.

I won't claim to know what the right amount of effort directed toward this is though, nor do I really think AI safety research has a >epsilon chance of accomplishing its goal if it turns out to be relevant at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reminder:

You can monitor https://www.btcforkmonitor.info to see when the forks take place.

(The site was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14809259)
> If Amazon starts acting like a monopoly

Haven't they already? Their breadth is insane
Rails never had that kind of relationship w/ Ember. Katz was both a Rails and Ember core dev, as well other Ember core devs had links to the Rails world so they are philosophically similar in a way...

But it really is a one-way relationship. Rails itself now has webpack included as of 5.1+ and its implementation has integrations for React, Vue, Angular, and even Elm - but no Ember. I don't think the Rails core team is opposed to Ember insofar as they're just embracing what appear to be the most common or upcoming SPA frameworks/libs. Ember just never really broke out.
Another retrospective look at Sonic's design (2014):

http://redlettermedia.com/pre-rec-sonic-the-most-overrated-g...
They've tried bitcoin classic, bitcoin unlimited, bitcoin ABC, bitcoin cash... It's the same small group that jumps to each one.
Unless you invested in the S&P 500 :)
Web - Flask / Postgresql / Vuejs (i can't stand complicated js build chains when 99% of the work i do is sever rendered with only small parts needs js).

Standard Small Business apps - python / pyside

Automations and sysadmin - python

Fun/Learning - everything. I am constantly playing with java, c#, go, whatever made me feel tingly most recently but i rarely move from learning/fun to using it in production as the above stacks just work and i am very proficient in them. Something to be said about getting a problem solved fast and easy.
Yes, but you'll "only" control those assets, not the oil that supposedly made you the richest man on Earth.
to be fair the adblock broke their frontend app
That's what the press release says. But his promises have yet to catch up with his income.
Loans imply some type of obligation to repay.

I was thinking more a raffle tickets. You pay X money and have some odds of getting something you want. But, they have no obligation to compensate you if they fail. Further, the negative expected value of raffle tickets support some cause, in the case of these reorders that's R&D of some cool product.
keep up the failure twitter! i love it.

every time they make a serious mistake and alienate users, the federated timeline on my private mastodon server is flooded with new people. quite beautiful actually. fun to see how people show up ready to fight only to find that there are a lot more ways to interact with people, if you can believe it. fights break out. people show up to try to cool the situation down. some people decide to stick around. lovely.

https://joinmastodon.org

https://cybre.space

https://ephemeral.glitch.social

https://sunshinegardens.org
That is true, but not really useful. There are only a few planets that we can inhabit. Not enough energy (sunlight) reaches Saturn to make it a useful planet even if you can stand the gravity.

In short if we want to expand beyond at best 3 planets we need a new solar system. That means we need humans able to make the several thousand year journey in a generation ship to a different star.

I suppose we could also take an earth sized chunk out of Saturn and put it into earth orbit. A generation ship to a different star seems more feasible to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

It's crazy how Thomas has more than double the karma of the next highest person.
Why is that greater fool theory?
I think you're probably following too many people. 1k is workable but it requires a lot of investment to make sure you're consistently only following quality posters. Also, as you suggest, even many high-quality posters also tend to sometimes churn out bursts of low-quality content. With 1k accounts subscribed to, that's a lot of opportunity for low-quality bursts.
5 years of professional experience is usually seen as equal to having a degree. You learn a lot in 5 years as software engineer.

You can of course get a degree in CS later in your career (you can work on a degree remotely while having a job).

There are also online courses you can take.

And you can also create some respected open source project or library in data science field which will be a solid proof of your competence in the area.
The fact that more people aren't terrified of this worries me. Hitler may have been wrong with his "aryan superman" view but what happens when there is science backing it up? Not really looking forward to a genetically-enforced caste system.
What is advantageous in keeping anything that is guaranteed to need life long treatment to simply stay alive and is genetically accurately identified in our gene pool (eg cystic fibrosis, not mild myopia) ? Technology for this is already available (and even parental testing could already help diminishing incidence) yet I doubt it's common.
Whether or not recursion is the secret sauce, it seems undeniable that human language is qualitatively very different than communication between other animals. It is apparent simply from the uses to which we put it, even without considering how it works.
where ever there are suspected hackers, there is the security industry attempting to monetise access to you and your data for a 1000 times more than a hacker can possibly ever get for it.
My personal anecdote has been very positive. I've been running a stable 1800X on an X370-Pro overclocked to 4GHz as my desktop since the end of April. Running Fedora 25 with latest updates (currently on a 4.11.10-200.fc25.x86_64), although it's been stable from the beginning. I use Docker heavily for development as well as various retro game emulators (for n64, psx, dosbox) and VirtualBox. No stability issues.
When did this change?
I get your point and do have a strong preference towards native apps too.

But there are other important factors to consider. I was working on a B2B app where users could see graphs and maps of a construction site in real time. The users were extremely happy how fast we could implement and release change requests and bug fixes. It was an ionic app. As far as I know, performance or lack of OS integration was never a problem. At the end of the day it's about choosing the right tool for the task.
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My theory: Hardware and hardware tooling has tangible capital costs. Most people are acutely aware of what they've spent on hardware, so discarding it can be quite painful. Estimating is hard and many devs are terrible at accounting for their time. A rewrite is often underestimated (people always seem to forget about testing--they especially seem to forget how much time they spent manually testing to get to a working state) so the costs of writing software aren't as visible. In my experience, good, seasoned devs feel just as bad about discarding software as they do hardware.

Edit because I posted while running out the door and probably could have explained better:
Elsewhere in this thread, dmckeon linked to Spolsky's article on why rewrites are bad. This does a better job than I did of explaining the hidden costs of a software rewrite. In my experience, these costs are rarely tallied up and written down such that they're as visible as, for example, the $50K one spent on creating an injection molding tool, or the millions spent in NRE and component purchases to get an assembly line running. Or even the few thousands spent on a prototype PCBA. In hardware, these capital cost numbers are always in your face. So, even though hardware devs are as bad as software devs in estimating time and accounting for testing, the capital costs provide a built-in, visible incentive to avoid unnecessarily discarding work.