skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another factor is the changed support system.

Story is that once upon a time you could sail a ship into Mariahamn in Åland and be able to hire someone for any position from cabin boy to captain. You can't now - those skills are much more diffuse.

Same thing with steam engines. Used to be you could find a boilermaker locally, because the demand was so high. Or farriers, or wheelwrights, or any of a large number of skills related to horse transport.

Even things like home milk delivery and cloth diaper services are harder to get now than in the 1950s, because improvements in pasteurization and disposable diapers have changed the economics.

If you want a new boiler, or want to hire a sailmaker for canvas, or decide you want to keep your own horse&carriage, you'll find it's harder to do so it now than 100 years ago. Not because we've "sorta lost" those skills but because the support infrastructure has dwindled.

For example, the ship the Götheborg is a replica of an 18th-century Swedish East Indiaman. It uses linen sails instead of hemp, as the original would have, because 1) growing hemp was banned in Sweden in the 1970s, and 2) the Hungarian weaving company they were going to use for the hemp sails went out of business in 2000. The linen sails, btw, were made in the UK.

Of course, 200 years ago it would have been much easier to order hemp sails for an East Indiaman.
I haven’t found anything specific about future changes. I just found out that this is part of the same effort.
Well, this driver behavior will exist in all platforms and won't be in any platform's interest to solve it. Be it Uber, Lyft, Ola, Grab etc.
Ask HN: Any services to help manage freelancing process?
I am working on a startup idea, to help freelancers be “more professional”. A saas platform which streamlines and create a process for freelancers, making clearly defined process from collecting client details, client-NDA, requirement collection, proposal, managing the process, delivery and payments.

Say I create a personal website for you with a "start project with me" flow for your clients which will get their details, sign NDA, a form to collect requirements that end with a call scheduling(calender stuffs) to discuss the project. This will help you all the initial stuffs clear before talking to them and you don’t have to do anything. Would you be interested in paying $10/month for such a service?
Oracle Copyrights etc.
GraphQL adoption has been really held back by the lack of Amiga support, so this is the final... wait.
I'm not even sure if films/tv portray hacking more innacurately than they do the average job they portray such as police, lawyers, doctors, etc.
Future of Security in Healthcare
Morning and evening rush hours are still going to be a thing.

If autonomous vehicles reduce the per-vehicle impact of rush hours, I expect that we'll just start seeing more cars participating in rush hours via induced demand. (People will not avoid them as much; people will switch from public transport to private autonomous transport; people will be more willing to live farther from work for cheaper housing/more land/whatever.)
None of the podcasts I listen to are sponsored by Truecar, yet, that's the only one I've used out of all the sponsors listed.
It might be a lark, or a very high performance phone. :'))
If anyone is silly enough to alias to exa, then their scripts will fail. A replacement doesn't have to be a drop in. Server admins who alias it will pay the price, so they won't do it.
For the same reason they can't accurately portray anyone else - most of the time activity in nearly any profession is boring.
"Enhance!"
Oops! Thanks for the correction.

I watched the series on YouTube.
I don't think it has to do with care, it is more that the ones without get all the marketing these days.

People really seem to ignore the power of marketing.

Lets not forget that for a long while every Android device in USA was a "droid" because Verizon was running ads after ads about their reskinned Motorolas. Even people outside of USA applied the theme to their Motorola phones to get the droid experience.

And these days everything is Galaxy because Samsung have for years been going toe to toe with Apple on ads spending.

And speaking of Apple. For a number of years every commercial break seemed to have one of their "see how easy it is" ads that basically was a step by step guide for launching maps, emails or messaging. So by the time joe consumer would touch an iPhone they had by rote memorization internalized those steps. So much for "ease of use".
i'm only halfway through the second season. i'm not in a particular hurry.
Seconded - Tons of GraphQL + Apollo Client tutorials out there but not much on the server. I've been using Graph.cool which does the work for me but if I have to make a server it'll be a lot harder.
Good! Lectures are terrible for students. It's fun and pretty easy to give a lecture though, which is why they persist.

This is a great example of a "flipped classroom", which is gaining traction across American higher-ed. A lot of research went into developing the SCALE-UP paradigm, which is a great place to start if you're curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCALE-UP
And thus we can't have useful things...
This is a super disingenuous article from the Verge. It's based on a highly biased "report" by the Repair Association trade group led by iFixit, whose business is impacted by this approach. They are now attempting to make an environmental argument. Pay close attention and you'll note that their premise, that user-repairable devices are better for the environment, is entirely unsupported.

Where do you think most user-removed parts end up? In landfill. Whereas devices traded in to Apple can be recycled properly. Apple even has a custom-designed robot to disassemble iPhones to achieve maximum recyclability.[1]

They also offer zero support for the claim that Apple's approach shortens the lifetime of devices. Apple offers a battery replacement program![2] You can extend your iPhone's life! And they recycle the old battery properly. iFixit just doesn't like that they can't sell you the kits to do it yourself.

Apple's obvious motive, which this sensational article fails to dispute, is to make their devices smaller, watertight, and generally better. That is why they pack and glue the interiors with custom parts and seals.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc

[2] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
To me the benefit of AR is not just overlaying virtual objects on the physical world but specifically highlighting real objects in your field of view. Granted, this does just come down to placing a virtual object on the physical world. I can give a specific example that is perhaps of not so great financial advantage, but I think this kind of thing will be useful - using AR to give you directions to build IKEA furniture. You are sitting in front of a pile of materials and the AR will tell you to put _this_ bolt (highlighted) in _this_ hole in _this_ piece of wood. You would not have directions on a piece of paper but rather using the actual objects.
> Since they ran out of books to show I've perceived a very sharp decline in quality, and they've fallen back on cliffhangers, twists, sex and violence to keep the audience riveted.

When was that not Game of Thrones MO?
I'm here looking for a technical co-founder to help get a product to MVP. If you're in to gaming, live-streaming, or algorithms, hit me up!
Why watch a show in HD, legally, for $15 a month when I could get 3 latte mochiattos with shots of vanilla, then watch a crappy 360p pirate stream of a show I'm a "diehard" fan of?
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How on earth does this work?!
Depends on the state! I don't know about NJ but in CA there is some coverage for you depending how far the office moves..
Because I occasionally don't respect the restraints that tend to exist in democratic societies when it comes to entrenched regulation & interests vs innovation (or really anything new or different), which frequently dramatically slow down progress (see: zoning law abuse, or the FDA's countless abuses or otherwise slow & meandering approach (what I call backwards), or the present US healthcare system (vast entrenched interests, fear of change, etc)). That is, it's my opinion that that restraint is what always must be pushed back against to generate any positive change in any culture or society at any point in history. Failure to push in this regard, guarantees stagnation.

The vast majority - in my opinion - overwhelmingly tend toward being either aggressively anti-change, or they're at best very cautious about it. That has been demonstrated non-stop throughout history with practically every step forward in technology for example. It may even be a beneficial evolutionary attribute for the survival of humanity. I don't belong to the dislikes change group, my personality type is to push. That's the honest answer.

Am I biased because of my own world-view or personality type? No doubt to one extent or another. I'm not advocating for chaos or anarchy though; rather, I'm advocating for constantly testing assumed or entrenched notions/boundaries, as a means to find out if there is new progress to be found there. My opinion is that there's almost always progress to be found in challenging such, with some areas blatantly worth focusing on more than others (due to favorable upside vs downside risk ratio). If you ask permission first every time you attempt to find progress at the edge of what a society presently finds comfortable, you're not likely to get very far.
It's a bit of a change from most mainstream languages, but still way easier than Haskell though.
There are quite a few videos on YouTube showing people doing different things with Vampire accelerators, just search for "Vampire Amiga". So far the most technically impressive is probably the video player (technically impressive considering the hardware it's running on). Also, whilst the A1200 had a decent range of accelerators released for it, it wasn't the same for the A500 and A600.

My personal favourite demo is this Cannnonball video. Cannonball is basically an open-source engine for Outrun. Aside from needing to create an Amiga version of the soundtrack, the game runs fairly smoothly without modifications:

http://youtu.be/NWLztVtxJuU

For comparison, this is the original Amiga port:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGxxYm4z5I

The best Outrun-style games for the Amiga before now was probably the Lotus series:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoVoCc04GA
Martin Shkreli Is Found Guilty of Fraud
I would rather ship glibc (8MB) or musl (.5MB) than the JVM (100s of MBs?), but it's not necessary given that nearly every target already has a libc. Also, Go programs don't depend on libc, and C and Rust can probably statically link against some libc in a pinch.
Douglas Adams changed HHGTG for each medium. Whether from boredom, appropriateness, craft... I dunno. But I do know that I love each retelling on its own merits.
Everything you described is just standard engineering practice. I've always found it funny how software developers call themselves "engineers" while working nothing like them.

So true. But when you have a culture and an industry where 2 years ia a long tenure at a company and a long lifecycle for the latest faddish "framework" or whatever, it's impossible. I'd love to stay somewhere 10+ years and work on a single significant application the whole time. But it seems to be impossible to find such a gig. Experience is generally undervalued throughout our entire industry.
For the scenario about things that meet on a weekly basis, in your opinion would you download an app per business or prefer to have one app power it all? For example, a farmer's market app, a trivia nights app, a board game app, etc.
And 99designs
WebAssembly.
I'm just now holding a 1996 Intel Pentium 150 MHz CPU (A80502150) with a ceramic encasement and gold-plated pins. I think it will survive for a very long time.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium/Intel-Pentium%20150%20...
OT: The Supreme Court in the UK has a YouTube channel [1] where videos of judgements are posted (usually very soon after they take place). I'd be interested to know if the SCOTUS has a similar service. I can't find it on YouTube but maybe they can be accessed elsewhere?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/UKSupremeCourt

Edit:

Thanks to the below commenters.
That's not "human nature", that's the nature of sick people who were mistreated in some form (most of them considered benign by too many) as children or later (which is at least a better simplification than most rationalizations I hear most of the time). That that now engulfs the planet so much it is considered "human nature" kind of proves the point that we're fucked.

Look at a baby who is acknowledged and treated well, and doesn't happen to have a problem to cry about atm. That's "human nature" to me. Now skip forward to kids, that's human potential. Now skip forward to youths, and you see people with all sorts of sticks up their butts; skip to adults, you see and smell death. Yes, I'm generalizing, but I also see what I see. Something usually goes wrong very quickly, but it still goes wrong, and people call all sorts of things personalities or cultures (or even "human nature") because they're not able or willing to ask what is really going on.
It would be standard practice in a waterfall development methodology which big corporations still use to this day.
Consumer rights, perhaps not but property rights may well have been stronger.
Comcast forcing business customers from Hosted Exchange to O365
Imagine a scenario if Facebook decides to censor content based on their political stance. That potentially impacts 2B people. The worst case impact of Chinese censoring 1.4B. Again, I am comparing worst cases, I know.

And as we know Facebook was actively doing exactly that.

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-supp...
So you can't use offer codes and promo codes on fm/am? Pretty sure I've heard people use those. Is my definition of "direct response" not correct?
Avoid distraction
The beauty of working underwater is that you can get things like this to neutral buoyancy. Most of the effort that we experience when moving an object above water is force exerted against gravity (vertical, compared to horizontal effort).
>It's not much of a barrier.

This would be missing the point. There is a barrier in place. It hasn't been justified by anybody for technical reasons, so it exists only for the sake of being a barrier to repair. Is that acceptable behaviour from a company?
Golf clubs. Softball/baseball equipment. Gym bag. Change of shoes. Umbrella.

The original list was mostly shareable items, but there's a lot of non-shareable items in my trunk at the moment.
The War on WikiLeaks and Assange
So far it's basically a listing of scam sites trying to masquerade myetherwallet.com. It's like 20 pages deep for just for that. I was thinking it would be something more akin to:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03779.pdf
I don't have a coffee maker, but I just tried this with my Philips Hue lights and it was able to get the right state even after I turned the lights off manually through the Hue app.
There was a famous clip of a Bollywood movie where the hacking scene includes the Windows Media Player user interface: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HyDXEik3mH8
Sure. WebGL is a sandboxed subset of OpenGL ES 2.0, and WebGL 2 is similarly a derivative of OpenGL ES 3.0.

While both of those APIs offer nearly full programmability, they do so with an API structure that retains a ton of legacy cruft from the days of fixed-function pipelines. Neither are low-level graphics APIs; many assumptions are made. This makes doing general purpose compute tasks on WebGL extremely hacky at best.

Think of WebGPU as Vulkan or Metal for the web. Lower level with much more work, but ultimately cleaner with superior performance and capability.
And as we know:

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
> Its not just about repair-ability, its about software support too. Apple, when compared with the android phone manufactures is probably a better choice for long term use.

Meanwhile, I can still run Linux pretty well on an old i386 machine.
Needs a (2016) on it; the article is almost a year old.

Also, per the comments, seems very YMMV.
Sadly the development i am seeing is that PCs are becoming phone-like faster than phones are becoming pc-like...
SCOTUS somewhat famously only allows audio recordings of proceedings.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/case-al...
Some shows either don't have English subtitles (or if they do, it's small, or is horribly displayed), which is a big reason why I want to pirate too.
My general definition of a technology company:

Do you make/sell Software

Do you make/sell computerized hardware

*Do you have a platform that fundamentally solves what would otherwise be a technology problem for other people, ie expose your technology so others can leverage it(via API/SDK, SaaS or other such on-boarding method).

None of this is clear cut as there are many grey areas but in general if you are creating technology for others to use and that is your core operation then you're a technology company.

Selling packaged food while using an App or Website does not make you a technology company. Blue Apron could completely outsource their technology work and I doubt it would fundamentally change the makeup of the company, you couldn't do that with a technology company.
Depending on the jellyfish, it can also makes your mouth tingle/go numb.
My understanding was LibreOffice, a better maintained project, forked to further distance itself from Oracle. When Apache accepted the OpenOffice project Oracle assigned all trademarks, etc. Are you referring to something else?

edit: See the second and third subsections under this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History. LibreOffice was the fork motivated by dissatisfaction with Oracle. OpenOffice code was donated, along with trademarks, etc. to the ASF.
Possession is nine tenths of the law.

The Black Hills (a small mountain range) were ceded to the Sioux by treaty. We were all well and good with it until gold was discovered there. Then the US government stepped in, claimed the Black Hills, and forced out the Sioux (the descendants of the survivors live on the Pine Ridge Reservation southeast of the Black Hills, a stretch of land "worthless" for agriculture or valuable natural resources).

Because power, not righteousness, is the true path to victory.
And PR flacks had yet to fully develop the art of blaming third-party contractors whose primary function is to serve as a legal cutout, leaving god to take more heat is customary than today.
Seems like there's an opportunity for a publishing platform that can pull up answers to rudimentary questions like these and include them in sidebar to breaking new like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore#History "Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers" ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills_Land_Claim - "The United States Court of Claims on June 13, 1979, in a 5-2 majority, decided that the 1877 Act that seized the Black Hills from the Sioux was a violation of the Fifth Amendment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_(1868) - "On June 30, 1980, in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians,[3] the United States Supreme Court ruled that the government had illegally taken the land. It upheld an award of $15.5 million for the market value of the land in 1877, along with 103 years worth of interest at 5 percent, for an additional $105 million. The Lakota Sioux, however, have refused to accept payment and instead continue to demand the return of the territory from the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Sioux_Nation_... - "As of 24 August 2011 the Sioux interest on their money has compounded to over 1 billion dollars".
Actually even more - they harm the image of the open source itself, providing an off product instead of pushing the progress and redirecting to LibreOffice...
I was specifically referring to the level of SVG support, which is constant across given OS versions, not per device like the fragmentation in old camera hardware abstraction layer implementations.

In that sense, the only reason there would be more fragmentation in SVG support on Android than iOS is that it can be harder to upgrade Android devices that did not come from Google.
For those who can access it, this NYT article has more detail: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/dealbook/martin-...

(Edit: I posted this comment while the WaPo article had only a few paragraphs; it's now fully fledged.)
I don't want to say too much because I don't want my friend to get in trouble (only 7 left!)....they work on the products in a major US city and aren't developers.
I created a boilerplate example that uses Hapi, Apollo Server, Knex (SQLite) & Webpack to give you an idea on how to get started. Apollo Server makes it easy for you understand how to write a GraphQL server by breaking it down into typeDefs and resolvers, that are needed to create your schema.

https://github.com/abesamiskevin/hapi-graphql
I followed this advice. Highly recommend it.
The audio of the oral arguments is posted online on the website, but the decisions are not (I think). The text of the decisions is freely available on many websites, though. As for the arguments, there are also several websites which include transcripts, and even some that sync the transcript with the audio.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2...

https://www.oyez.org/about