skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia: Tap for anything under $100, no PIN, choose whether or not you want a receipt, done.
Facebook cuts React Native TTI in low-end Android devices in half
Ala-carte pricing was the dream of the cord cutters. Now they're getting to see what all of this programming really costs.
Progressive only means that you pay more on the part exceeding the previous bracket
So 98% at the higher level means 98% only on the amount exceeding the previous one.

For example if we set a taxation of 99% over 1 billion dollars, you pay 99% only the parts exceeding that limit

Assuming you earn 1 B and one dollar, you pay 99 c. more taxes, and that's it

It is a simple way to discourage accumulation of improductive wealth

Second: the bulk of state taxes income is not from salaries it's from corporate taxes, but corporation are very good at avoiding them.
I tend to share your pessimism having been exposed to the "we can fix Africa" ideology for a while. That said, the Chinese have a much better track record of going into a place and not "fixing" it so much as adding a merchant class with a working payments exchange system which converts into much more fluid money markets. My grandfather called it mercenary mercantilism but it that was just his name for markets without judgement. You want to sell water wells? great, you want to sell slaves? no problem, etc. By not tying externalized notions of proper governance to the furtherance of economic development, things moved more quickly forward.
Blog User Browser lets you discover blog users by analyzing a blog and extracting a list of users that made a comment or liked a post.
This does beat a dead horse.

Simple answer: Plugins. It'll be the same answer every time this question is asked, for me.

As someone who doesn't see using typescript in the foreseeable future, and doesn't feel impacted by performance benchmark comparisons, VSCode doesn't seem to offer me any compelling reason to switch to it and go through reconfiguring another editor.
Well, that's sure unfortunate. I care for my father in law's focus, and the iridium plugs really were good for 100k miles. In 35 years of caring for cars I have never been so frightened by the sounds and feel of unscrewing a spark plug though.

This is the one with a "permanent air filter" so they were thinking about eliminating maintenance. Boy this is going to suck when it is clogged.
The pharmaceutical industry has nothing to do with how many pharmacies will be allowed to operate. In Greece, up until recently, the government controlled how many pharmacies will open and where. Pharmacies ought to be owned by pharmacists. If say, a company wanted to open a chain of pharmacies all over the country they couldn't, unless all shareholders were pharmacists. And that's not all of the story, super markets for example weren't allowed to sell under the counter drugs like food supplements because there were exclusively handled by pharmacies.

This changed, partly, just in 2016 and it changed due to the agreements enforced by the memorandums we signed with lending parties.

The same applies to numerous professions, like notaries, taxi owners, customs agents, law firms, tour guides etc. That's what I mean by saying that the economy isn't competitive.
I feel like piracy is going to continue to be an issue until we get a spotify/tidal/apple music-type service for video content. Netflix seemed a lot closer to that several years ago, but it feels like we're moving backwards.
Promise.race() function in JavaScript
See also: https://minifree.org/

Their laptops have been gutted of the Intel Management Engine/AMD PSP, they ship with coreboot on them, and (I think) they're without binary blobs(?).
I thought Sublime Text was written in python
I thought Context was also used to partially solve the "middleware" problem in http servers. Ex. I have an authorization middleware that takes the http request parameters and returns an authorization object that is available to request handlers.

Way back when, Martini solved this problem using reflection (which was met with vitriol). Other packages solved this with their own handrolled context object (which was always a map[string]interface{}). I personally always liked how Martini handled it (you got to "keep" your types), but understandably it included way too much magic.
Citation needed when you make that kind of very broad claim about a population.
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Spin launches first city-sanctioned dockless bike sharing in Bay Area
Here's some examples from my experience.

* Server. Request handler starts expensive work. Let's say 4-5 database requests, some FS operations, rendering and sending response. Client disconnects. Running those operations will waste resources, we should stop. [1]

* Web. You can make at most 6 concurrent HTTP requests. They're precious resources. Dropping a request you no longer need will let others complete. It's nice to be able to abstract a painful ajax API behind something like a promise that doesn't lose the important ability to abort.

* React. View instance starts async fetch that eventually updates its state. User navigates to another view before it finishes. Updating the state after the component is unmounted is an error, and React will rightly complain. We should stop it.

* Server: abstracting an operation that's already cancelable behind a future. Let's say using Electron to render a website into a PDF. It's a really expensive operation, and the API is a pain to program against. You want to provide something as simple as a promise, but that doesn't lose the ability to stop it. [2]

[1] I write servers using Posterus coroutines, so all async code is automatically owned and canceled where appropriate: https://github.com/Mitranim/koa-ring

[2] This relies on futures to abstract away tricky timing management: https://github.com/Mitranim/epdf/blob/1c54481d4760a7eb730eb3...
I'm a little surprised they didn't move this content to Hulu. Disney already owns a 30% stake in Hulu, this could only make it more valuable.
Another example is for live search. As I type, each letter cancels pending search requests and starts a new one, making sure I don't show search results for a previous search term. I use this all the time.
While not exactly the same thing, this Browser based timing [1] attack is a pretty good demonstration.

[1] https://labs.tom.vg/browser-based-timing-attacks/
Some other references:

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-mak...

http://www.tristanharris.com/2016/05/how-technology-hijacks-...

https://www.ted.com/talks/tristan_harris_the_manipulative_tr...
Show HN: Extremely simple CSS font embedding
You can't know that reliably, but the recruitment process typically involves meeting the team you are being considered for, which is at least something. You do however have excellent intel on your current situation, telling you it's time to move on.

Perhaps I should re-phrase it to "most knowledgable person in the room", since there will always be a lot of new things to learn when switching jobs.
What specifically don't you agree with him on?
Yeah previously it was over $4,000 for the board and CPU, this is nearly half the price.

If they can keep this up, I could actually fork over the money for the 3rd gen.
Cards used to be more convenient in the US. But once they started putting in the chips the verification process takes ages. I can complete the whole transaction in cash in the time it takes the chip reader to get itself sorted.
Do you have a link to the free chapters?

Ok, I found them.
https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminactio...
Netflix is so cheap compared to cable, though. I wouldn't mind paying for a few streaming bundles as long as the coverage is wide enough.

I don't know if the industry will move towards consolidation like we've seen in music streaming services, but if prices stay similar to cable but I can watch whatever I want whenever I want, I'd consider that a win.

EDIT: my point doesn't refute that piracy will continue, just that more streaming services isn't too large a regression
The cash is counted by machines at banks, which I'm pretty sure almost never make an error doing so, and I'm sure it's less often than human counting error.
It's becoming the same as cable (except on demand). Instead of channel bundles, streaming bundles. The cord cutters have been duped.
Wow it's 2017 and they still haven't understood this. Nobody will pay for a Disney service, a HBO service, a Netflix Originals service, an Amazon Originals service, ..

Not because people can't afford it, Americans happily paid $120 for cable, but simply because the balkanization throws convenience out of the window and nobody wants to deal with that.
Disney is huge. Disney is going to make an insane amount of money.

The only way Disney could be happier is if they could charge every person in the room watching the film. (And remember, that was one of the hesitations they had about releasing to VHS. See also the Disney self-destructing DVD, allowing only 24 hours of use).

((Were the cassettes that needed to be returned to a factory for rewinding a Disney thing too?))
The real question is, what routes are being followed and in what conditions? Presumably Waymo et al stick to exquisitely-mapped routes with excellent road markings between well-known autonomous-friendly endpoints during good daytime weather for the vast majority of their testing. Performance in less-than-ideal conditions is a more important question. I'm curious if there's any publicly available data on the routes followed, times, conditions, etc.
The echo chamber is most of the Tech world, you should read the comments at arstechnica. Cringe doesn't cover it.

There is a healthy chance this goes very wrong for Google, I see that Breitbart has collected some engineers and is releasing interviews with them. Some of the allegations made by the interviewees are very serious if they are true, potentially laying the groundwork for Google to get attacked by the White House. e.g. search engine result manipulation against right wingers, which would have include/included Trump so...

If I were Page or Schmidt right now I'd have a pit in my stomach.
Anything that is currently on Netflix is contracted. When the contracts are up, the answer to your question depends on how negotiations go.
I feel like the title might be jumping to conclusions. From the article, emphasis mine:

> With this strategic shift, Disney will end its distribution agreement with Netflix for subscription streaming of new releases, beginning with the 2019 calendar year theatrical slate.

I don't read this as "Disney will pull content currently on Netflix from the platform", and I can't see anything else in the article that would suggest this.
This will probably mean that Canadians, once again, will be left out in the cold.
A bucket list type answer:

Don't just sit on the front page. Check out new, comment on someone's new submit. Or try digging up your favorite articles for others to check out. Maybe you'll hit the lotto(front page). Read some Ask:HN. Research something you'd normally use google for using the site search functionality. Try to build up your points to be able to get down vote functionality. Make two accounts and have an alter ego. Try using a throw away. Get into a conversation and consistently check on it/grow it so that you really feel like you're talking to others on here. Quit just lurking. Make some friends and try upvoting each others stuff(not recommended). See if you can find out the real identity of a random poster. Read someone's comment history. Find ways to make your passions relevant and post it! And of course be smart as hell so OP wants to hire you and you end up making six figures cause you cracked HN instead of noobing out on the front page forever...

In other words, HN is ridiculously dope, so discover for yourself how many ways to use it.
my 2c.
The Uber of Content Delivery Networks to Launch Token Sale
It's almost like "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
I agree that the definition of solvency is wrapped up in the value of the assets, which can be difficult to assess. That's why I said "The Fed /believed/ that the value of AIGs assets were greater than its liabilities" [emphasis added]. That being said, I think we can agree this has very little to do with fractional reserve banking as a concept. To put it simply, you can only have insolvent banks in a fractional reserve system, but a fractional reserve system doesn't necessitate insolvency by any means.

I'll agree to the second critique re: the credit in a full-reserve banking case.
Gizmodo and many other websites removed charts and references. The memo in its entirety is here

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
It all seems so backwards. Instead of having collaborative working spaces with private rooms for meetings, doesn't it make more sense to have private rooms for working and collaborative meeting spaces?
Someone more clever than me could graph out the intersection of cost, convenience and the average consumer's willingness to pirate content for digital media.

I expect moving all Disney's non-live-sports content off the world's most popular streaming platform and on to an exclusive platform with its own monthly fee is going to push a lot of consumers over that line.
I think title could be more clear. Disney bought a majority stake in bamtech aka MLB advanced media aka MLB baseball streaming arm. They also happen to stream HBO, WWE, and NHL. I wonder what will happen to those relationships.
Added above. Thanks!
I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee.

It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.)

Same with netflix.

I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film.

I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.
I'm guessing they are trying to run atom on an embedded android smartwatch OS backported to 2006 hardware? I've never found the argument compelling. My memory is there to be used by apps I use.
from the story ... "Prominent Apple podcaster and blogger John Gruber passed along rumors that some high-level Apple staffers are unsatisfied with the company’s open floor plan — which has many company engineers working at long tables with co-workers, instead of in cubicles or offices."

wow, "long tables" for lots of devs to work at, what can go wrong right? and i thought Microsoft open space had its issues, this sounds much worse.

When do people focus again?
Credit card workflow in Australia for anything under $100:

- Cashier types in the total to the EFTPOS terminal

- You get your wallet

- You remove your card

- You tap your carda gainst the contactless reader, which registers the payment in about 1 second not 5 as you describe

- Cashier asks 'would you like a receipt for that?'

- You say 'no receipt, cheers mate'

- You put your card away

- You put your wallet away

If you pay over $100, you enter a pin and it takes maybe a little longer because no one crowds around each other at the payment area so there's none of what you describe and it always works despite the humidity you apparently describe.

As we don't have a tip culture, we don't see donation/tips/etc. prompts as others describe. It's only ever whether you want a receipt, and that's a single button press and you can pre-emptively say no to that so it doesn't even slow you down. Cash definitely takes longer here.
And yet I would personally prefer cubicles to an open office plan. At least cubicles provide visual interruptions, reduce the overall noise, and provide a space for you to personalize.
There might be more foreigners in Times Square than Americans, actually.
Amazon Prime Video is even cheaper. If Amazon manages to increase content while leveraging costs because of their scale and vertical integration, it could be huge.
Does Uber's autonomous service go to such locations?
> I need something that takes three hours to configure out of the box because I'm more interested in being an uber-geek than actually getting work done."

Actually, that's what I thought when I tried using Sublime Text for a while. It took me hours of editing the JSON file to get it do look and behave like I wanted, while Atom has a very convenient GUI to change settings and install plugins and themes.

When I was finally done, I realized that the project tree view—if that's how it's called—sorts files with folders first like on Windows, and being on macOS it was too confusing for me since that was the only place throughout the OS where that happened.

To me, Atom is the solution to Eclipse's stagnation, Sublime Text's somewhat high price tag (I know we can afford it, I'm just saying), and personal preference, plus really good GitHub integration which for me is paramount.

I wouldn't define myself a uber-geek.
Pay me.
180 million people and the largest (and still growing) economy in Africa.

Nigeria seems like it could be a giant if it can only get out of its political woes. Isn't separatism/terrorism still a major issue? Does that impact daily life for the average person? My Nigerian friend never spoke of life being unsafe but that the government was corrupt wasn't really a question.
I own about 30 different currencies, all stored on paper wallets. I recommend avoiding "wealth centralization" on any one currency.
I think Atom still exists because it got here first. I doubt it would have been created, let alone achieved the traction it has, had it not been "first to the market" in this particular niche.
> Even Plex, although I'm not sure what they're getting out of it.

This should be a hint that every feature that makes a product easier to use isn't some nefarious anti-consumer plot: sometimes they're made with the intent to, uh, make the product easier to use.

> Ultimately, I suppose it's up to the consumer to resist the addiction while availing themselves of the value provided by these products, in much the same way that most of us can enjoy and appreciate beer, wine, and spirits without becoming alcoholics. But thinking about these things is making me reconsider what sort of projects I'd like to work on.

As contrarian as I come across in these threads, I don't disagree with the concept that the user doesn't bear 100% of the responsibility for an addictive environment. What I do find odd is how incredibly common the view is across HN that the user bears 0% responsibility, and that they're just a hapless, helpless victim of forces beyond their control.

There are some positive things in life that require maturity and self-control to enjoy safely: I like alcohol less than most of my friends, but I don't go around railing against drinkers and blaming alcohol dealers for being exploitative. I like other drugs a lot more, and I'm well-aware that, just like alcohol, enjoying them comes with the responsibility to be safe about them.
I'm trying to clarify the point made by another user.

And I suspect that yes, they were suggesting that giving an opinion as a hypothetical female, given that you are male, is of limited value. I think people of both genders make real-world decisions very differently to hypothetical decisions. When there are bills to be paid, and potential bias is mixed in amongst countless other factors, I can say I wouldn't ditch a career as a chemistry teacher to start producing drugs, but who knows what pressures there are influencing that decision slowly at the time, and in the years leading up.
Some very very good stuff in here. I've gotten pretty into 20s thru 50s music over the past couple of years. I usually buy compilations on LP, though, so it's a treat to find these straight off the 78s. A big portion of the stuff never even makes it to digital.

Just at a glance, I'm seeing The Light Crust Doughboys[1], basically a string band supergroup. Multiple members would go on to found famous western swing bands (Bob Wills, Milton Brown). Very proto-rock-and-roll -- listen to that electric guitar -- Elvis would cover some Western Swing numbers[2] in his early days[3].

Also seeing some older stuff, including a few recordings by the (arguable) best banjo player of all time, Vess L. Ossman[4] (from 1907). Pretty cool to listen to these march numbers and then hear them evolve into jazz/ragtime only a couple years later[5] (this is a recording by Fred Van Eps, the second best banjo player of all time, from 1914).

EDITS: seeing some other personal favorites:

Hank Penny, a favorite western swing singer of mine[6]. He usually does it hot/upbeat/fun.

Blind Blake, a guitarist who could play the fretboard like a ragtime piano[7]!

Oh, and here's the WWII-era Bob Wills I was waiting for[8]. Got that classic Leon McAuliffe pedal steel playing. No Tommy Duncan vocals, unfortunately.

Neat! An old solo Art Tatum[9]! Widely considered the best pianist of all time... And another, a whole album[10]!

Really classic early electric guitar playing on a jump blues number by T-Bone Walker[11]. I actually believe he's one of the first to use the electric guitar in blues.

Great steel guitar playing on this Gene Autry cowboy number[12].

Looks like there's a lot of Django for all you gypsy jazz fans[13]. Never heard this take on Avalon before, I dig it.

Lot more to dig through and lot of obscure stuff I'd like to give a shot, but I'm out of time for now...

1: https://archive.org/details/78_pretty-little-dear_light-crus...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGCTFWhoqQ

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bSVEA0ZAVw

4: https://archive.org/details/78_policy-king-march_vess-l.-oss...

5: https://archive.org/details/78_notoriety-rag_van-eps-trio-ka...

6: https://archive.org/details/78_get-yourself-a-red-head_hank-...

7: https://archive.org/details/78_tampa-bound_blind-blake_gbia0...

8: https://archive.org/details/78_texas-playboy-rag_wills-bob-w...

9: https://archive.org/details/78_deep-purple_art-tatum-mitchel...

10: https://archive.org/details/78_art-tatum_art-tatum-james-swi...

11: https://archive.org/details/78_t-bone-blues_les-hite-and-his...

12: https://archive.org/details/78_silver-haired-daddy-of-mine_g...

13: https://archive.org/details/78_the-quintet-of-the-hot-club-o...
I don't think A would work because the Go team has been opposed to goroutine id's, the main detractor being it would be used to create thread local storage.

I like B, but a major use case for Go is http servers, and I can see that being awkward when most frameworks don't expose the creation of the gorountine.
Bench seating, work tables and open cubicles.

Apple? Famous for not letting their developers talk to people outside the project?
That's fixed in the linked update: "Saving a file now happens asynchronously without blocking the UI, so that you can move smoothly from one task to the next."
I have heard that open office plans are justified by decreased cost. Does it make sense that they would build a 5 billion dollar office with open floor plans? I suppose given that large price tag there would be motivation to cut costs that way other than the fact that the open office plan as a fad still exists.
That guy on TV is a broker. He doesn't want to hold any gold. He wants to sell and buy at the same time and make money off of the spread.
Collusion of content ownership and distribution causes such mess. It should really be prevented by anti-trust, and if it doesn't prevent it, something is seriously broken and not working as it should.