skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Windows NT 4.0 Workstation count? Technically, I don't run it, my work does. They still use it for a few reasons, but mostly cost: it has one job to do, which it does well enough, it's there, and a new system would need some investment.
The commons in this case isn't the land, it's the government and laws.
Makefiles are simple, but 99% of the existing Makefiles are computer-generated incomprehensible blobs. I don't want that.
Thank you! Loved it!
The preamble to the article was much more eloquent than the article itself, sadly.
> * Flash burnout. Shitty flash chips don't last forever. I've binned almost every older phone than this crop because the flash memory dies.

I have never experienced this before, what are the signs that the flash chip is going sour? Slow to load? Losing information? Is there anything you can do about it ?
Photoshop 7. It still works and it does everything I want it to do. And it's not subscription based.

I also agree with the poster who gets an old version of WinAmp. That's a program that started out fine and the just went bonkers.
My statement was in no way whatsoever a criticism of anyone else's choices.

(Also: I have a significant reason. I don't know why you would assume that I do not.)
Sure it can be done. Long, long ago, before Ant existed, I worked on a big Java project built entirely with javac and GNU make. In fact javac's built-in dependency tracking makes this significantly easier than with C.
Don't you have to list every file though? Many of my projects have hundreds of source files.
congrats on being an unempathetic ubermensch. I'm sure that's worth a lot.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. Chrome is the most populat browser, Chrome OS is highly successful in schools and Android has 2 billion active devices.
I saw the screening of the movie about his story, "Crown Heights". It's a must see.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15034304
Develop an E-Commerce Website with Laravel 5.4 – Part 2
Makes you reflect on the ephemerality of life - entire civilizations that existed for thousands of years have come and gone. A computer program that's been around for 10 years has had a good run.
"the first actually open phone will have longevity"

you mean like openmoko?
They are entitlement programs, because you're entitled to them. The problem isn't the word entitlement, it's that they think it's welfare.
I still miss Lotus Improv (I think it not on the list).
Chrome is by far the most popular browser by market share[1][2], and Android is the most prevalent OS in the entire world[3][4], so... not really sure what you're getting at here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268299/most-popular-inte...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

[4]: http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/most-popular-operating-syst...
Also, a $900 premium for business class on a Singapore Airlines trans-Pacific flight doesn't sound right either. Plus their business class has (gigantic) lie-flat seats.
This is totally incomprehensible to me.
Are you an Emacs user? My journey was Google Reader -> Newsblur -> elfeed (on Emacs). I only abandoned Newsblur because of an ongoing project to Emacsify my digital life.
If they got a good exit payout, it's probably a lot easier to cope with.
Ah, so money.

And somewhat off. My phone is two generations old, so the amortized per-month cost of the phone is rather lower. Cheap, last-gen macbook Air[1], but no Apple TV. I've bought exactly one album from iTunes, but yes, apps. You've basically caught me mid-migration away from the ecosystem. It takes a while.

[1] At this point, the only things keeping me from switching entirely to Linux are backing up the iPhone and running OmniFocus. And when I have time to noodle with it, I'm liking orgmode.
He’s working on the Google Brain team. Maybe he’s going to use Swift and needs the concurrency features? :-)
Ask HN: What’s the best online purchase and checkout experience
Especially for consumer products (clothing and hardware etc).
Webpack is an horrible monster that makes the machine-generated Makefiles look pretty.
How to Transfer WhatsApp Messages Between Android and iPhone
at this point, they should combine all agencies... and call it something like secret police
That's pretty much the opposite of reality.
There are quite a few laptops meeting those specs on Amazon right now, and some of them don't look bad [1].

1: https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_2?f...
Then that would mean no one except for Richard Stallman are open source guys
No, you can use `wildcard`
"Build systems are the bastard stepchild of every software project" -- me a years ago

I've work in embedded software for over a decade, and all projects have used Make.

I have a love-hate relationship with Make. It's powerful and effective at what it does, but its syntax is bad and it lacks good datastructures and some basic functions that are useful when your project reaches several hundred files and multiple outputs. In other words, it does not scale well.

Worth noting that JGC's Gnu Make Standard Library (GMSL) [1] appears to be a solution for some of that, though I haven't applied it to our current project yet.

Everyone ends up adding their own half-broken hacks to work around some of Make's limitations. Most commonly, extracting header file dependency from C files and integrating that into Make's dependency tree.

I've looked at alternative build systems. For blank-slate candidates, tup [2] seemed like the most interesting for doing native dependency extraction and leveraging Lua for its datastructures and functions (though I initially rejected it due the the silliness of its front page.) djb's redo [3] (implemented by apenwarr [4]) looked like another interesting concept, until you realize that punting on Make's macro syntax to the shell means the tool is only doing half the job: having a good language to specify your targets and dependency is actually most of the problem.

Oh, and while I'm around I'll reiterate my biggest gripe with Make: it has two mechanisms to keep "intermediate" files, .INTERMEDIATE and .PRECIOUS. The first does not take wildcard arguments, the second does but it also keeps any half-generated broken artifact if the build is interrupted, which is a great way to break your build. Please can someone better than me add wildcard support to .INTERMEDIATE.

[1] http://gmsl.sourceforge.net

[2] http://gittup.org/tup/
Also its creator, Mike Shal, now works at Mozilla on their build system

[3] http://cr.yp.to/redo.html

[4] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
The fastest solution is to publicly accuse a higher up of receiving kickbacks from Microsoft with no proof. I 100% guarantee you won't have the problem of working at a company where Microsoft is being forced in any longer.
Right. But I don't see where he describes those internal procedures. Basically, the post amounts to "we were upset that these guys claimed we supported them, so we canceled their account." There's a discussion about how important it is to not make decisions on a whim, but no discussion about how this decision wasn't made on a whim.
hey, I'm the author...and that was actually the point. I deemed it worthy to try to dial up the intensity of the tone to be heard, as I figured I would be ignored otherwise.

And then intended to eloquently converse in the comments.

The goal of igniting the conversation was achieved as the facebook thread got almost 300 comments.
He's talking about muslims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Hadith

The following hadith which forms a part of these Sahih Muslim hadiths has been quoted many times, and it became a part of the charter of Hamas.[79]

The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (the Boxthorn tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews. (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim)
"[W]e strongly believe that what GoDaddy, Google, and Cloudflare did here was dangerous. That’s because, even when the facts are the most vile, we must remain vigilant when platforms exercise these rights. Because Internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech, the consequences of their decisions have far-reaching impacts on speech around the world."

Well said. I'm glad EFF is not burrying their heads in the sand and hiding behind the "but they're nazis!" Excuse.
What Is Spin Torque MRAM?
I haven't found one I really like. I've been enjoying some 18 year old Buchanan. I refuse to spell it without the 'e.' Not that I have a war to win, but spellcheck prefers it and I let spellcheck make many choices for me. It's for the best, really.
Clerky continues to impress with its ability to offer cost-effective ways for founders to accomplish sophisticated corporate steps while preserving the high standards to ensure that it is all done right.

As one who has worked with founders for three decades now, I can say that it is far from easy to anticipate the range of things that can go wrong in such endeavors and even more daunting to try to build fail-safe procedures by which to scale such services so as to make them easily accessible to founders.

It might almost be taken as a measure of Clerky's remarkable progress that one can be confident, based on its brand name alone, that this is safe and friendly turf for every founder who wants to go the B Corp route. A very exciting development for founders!
Yes.

My vision isn't great, so I upgraded from my iPhone 4 to the 5 because of the larger screen, and the 5 to the 6+ due to a larger screen.

Really, the screen size has been the main driving factor in my phone purchase decisions.

My 4 & 5 have been passed down to my mother, so they're still in use. Hell, I was still using my 1st gen iPad until just over a year ago when the screen just failed.
Separating decision maker away from distracting and legacy-invested lieutenants is wise approach and a win by itself to have a focused conversation.
Adobe Photoshop CC Crack 2017 Full Version [LATEST]
This is a sensible comment.

In March 2017 Foreign Policy magazine (which is known for boring political analysis) polled a set of national security experts, and the consensus likelihood of civil war was 30% within the next 15 years.

It's got worse since then. Civil leadership of the armed forces is weakening, states are repudiating federal laws, the Republican party no longer exists as a unified block.

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/28/what-are-the-chances-of-...
As others said, there would be no need to go back to Youtube.
It actually makes me incredibly optimistic about the future of humanity to know that such people exist. It's important to fight for the rights of all - you never know when your cause or beliefs will be in the crosshairs instead of a group as obviously vile as neo-nazis.
>imposition of the heirarchical doctrine of Führerprinzip

Communists were globalist socialists, Nazis are nationalist socialist. The imposition of the Führerprinzip was pulling power away from the global political regimes supported by the communists into the German one. It's nearly irrelevant with respect to the socialist bit, it's all about the globalist vs nationalist.

>and abandoning any substantive pursuit of the platform plank for confiscation of all non-labor income

What do you think the killing of all those Jews was about? The Jews were stereotypically the wealthy bankers, the 1%ers in today's parlance. One of the first things Hitler did after taking power was run around killing all the communists. Why? Because he believed that the communists wanted to turn over power to international finance regimes (Jewish 1%ers). Obviously the murdering and the racism bits are the key factors for why we hate the Nazis. But murdering and racism aren't what determines whether something is socialist. This was definitely socialism implemented through the eye of a racist.

I'll grant you that Hitler was a hair to the right of Stalin. There was a ghost of private property ownership but the substantive powers of property ownership were held by the government, not by private owners. The government determined what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was distributed, as well as what prices could be charged and what wages would be paid. Does that sound like private property ownership or capitalism or a free market to you? It certainly doesn't sound like it to me.
The site guidelines prohibit posting titles in all caps. That and the incendiary nature of the title itself are probably going to get this thread flagged.
Human Trafficking Has No Limits
Can't we just agree that both sides share a lame-ass hateful ideology? They are both acting terrible.

Antifa beats up old people, destroys property for no goddamn reason, and hurt people with bats and bike locks. The Neo-nazis say racist shit that is largely false and they antagonize a lot of people. They both sound idiotic and act like a group of fools, can't we just say they both suck and move on to actual policy questions....
Sounds like a learning opportunity to me. It's worthwhile in the long term, as make will outlive most of us.
Sadly mobile flash doesn't support smart monitoring. There are three indicators, but your flash can randomly fail without any of them being observable:

* Sector reallocations. As flash stops writing or reading the package will reallocate data. This process is intensive and usually lags out the phone. If when moving large amounts of data into / off the flash the whole phone is freezing, it can be due to this.

* Stunted read / write speeds. As the flash degrades and more sectors go bad, your read and write performance suffer. Fragmentation gets worse as working sectors dry up. If your phone was benching ~80MB/s read or write speeds the day you got it and is down to ~20 5 years later, it is likely nearing a failure point. This is usually a gradual aging thing, but you do often see a steep slope of sudden performance crash before the whole chip becomes unusable.

* Crippled access times. The former was data rate, this is data latency. The latency should always be consistent and not age much throughout the life of the chip - the ability to access flash almost always stays near-constant over the lifetime of the chip. If this starts going, for very small data sizes, the chips controller can be dying. Which happens, because in phones a lot of corners are cut, and flash mmus are often really, really cheap.

There is also the really rare chance you find a corrupted file you cannot open that used to work, which can in extremely rare circumstances mean that your phone has ran out of unallocated sectors and is now losing capacity including written data, but that is highly unlikely - flash almost always becomes unwritable way before becoming unreadable, and your phone will fail before unreadability starts manifesting en masse.

It would be useful if we could get A. lifetime write averages for the flash chips in popular phones and B. trace such a number throughout the lifetime of the device, but we don't have those, so you are almost always flying in the dark on when your phones memory will die.
>Only if it's a king and you lay diagonally.
Try a California King
Wow this cuts like a knife. I've never been poor, but this hurts to imagine, especially with two little kids at home that rely on me. What is the best way to help this, what charities/activities?
> Can it really prevent cancer?

No.

What this is, is a test to detect cancer. The cool thing is that it should detect various cancers early (even before symptoms are showing).

The earlier cancer is detected the sooner a patient can start treatment. And the earlier treatment starts the better the odds of surviving.

And as a blood test this could end up being a standard part of an annual checkup. Especially for patients at greater risk (eg. men over N years, smokers, etc).
Here's an 800 post thread—with wiki!—on the best seat on United's three-class 772:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/1...

Yes, the frequent flyers know this stuff by heart.
If you're in the bay area and considering OIT, a friend of mine is opening a private practice offering only OIT [0], starting next Wednesday in Redwood City. She is currently a full-time clinician at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University.

Her clinic is relatively unique, in that it will be offering multi-allergen rapid desensitization. Using this procedure, a person can be desensitized to multiple allergens simultaneously, in as little as three months. She can treat milk, egg, wheat, soy, peanut, tree nut, fish, and shellfish allergies.

[0]: http://wmboit.com
Convox[1] does somewhat of what you're asking for. The simplest way to describe it is a roll your own PaaS.

[1] https://convox.com/
I'll start by echoing thenewwazoo's comment - I learnt Ruby on these challenges, and I would actually suggest the questions are better worded, more generally educational and generally laid out than most of Hacker Rank. For example, you're forced to write maintainable code, because your solution to one question ends up adapted to a later question.

I hit two different Ruby segfault conditions someone patched just so I could finish this challenge. You know you're deep in a language when that happens.

For anyone who finished Set 8: give yourself an exceptional pat on the back. I'm looking forward to revisiting this at a time when it hopefully goes more public.

Downsides: Extreme jadedness towards commercial encryption products and the people that peddle them.
You raise a very good question. We agree that DDoS is the digital equivalent of forcing someone to shut up, and that is contrary to freedom of speech. It's also true that private entities don't have any legal obligation to honor freedom of speech. Certainly you or I would not enjoy Instagram more if there was a bunch of hate speech on it.

But we can make a distinction between destinations, like Instagram, and infrastructure, like streets and public parks and libraries that allows you to access the destinations of your choice. DDoS is something that kicks people off of the very infrastructure of the Internet itself, thus denying others the choice to visit them.

The underlying problem is that core Internet infrastructure is managed by private entities. This is unlike "meatspace" where there are public spaces protected by the police / government who block the physical equivalent of DDoS (duct taping mouths / burning down printing presses). So, what does this mean as more of our communication as a society moves into the digital realm? Is it a blessing that it is more privately managed, empowering those managers to block "bad" speech? Or should we extend the same "meatspace" principles of free speech for all by requiring Internet infrastructure providers to provide unimpeded access to all?
One more quote because I think it sums things up very well:

"Protecting free speech is not something we do because we agree with all of the speech that gets protected. We do it because we believe that no one—not the government and not private commercial enterprises—should decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t."
Why is it unfair for the person in front of you to recline her seat? She paid for that seat just like you.

Now I'm not saying she shouldn't have brought it back up when you asked. I know I would have. But there's no fairness doctrine here.

It'd be unfair if you are the sole arbiter of who gets to recline their seat.
Being poor is watching your mother cry because there isn't enough money for food.

Being poor is being happy to get a single snickers candy bar for Christmas (well it was New Years for me).

Being poor is skipping school prom and class foto because you don't have money to pay for nice clothes.

Being poor is having to listen to asshole relative who gave you their old clothes or furniture how you "owe them" every family gathering.

Being poor is not going to any family gatherings to avoid asshole rich relatives who flaunt their wealth in your face.

Being poor is always being under constant stress and worry. A worry those who are not poor will never understand.
I don't read 1000/day, but I do step through 1,000 - I scan a headline/summary, hit "j" and move on for the vast majority of them. Some i'll star and come back to later, for others the first sentence of the summary is really enough to learn something about what's going on.. eg "vulnerability found in XYZ" is useful to tuck away in the back of my mind, but that's all i need.

Others are the same story reported by multiple sources; obvious from the headline.

I leave it open in a pinned tab and when i want to kill a minute or two, i'll scan through a few more posts and open a few to actually read.

The reason i like Bazqux is that it can keep up no matter how fast i hit "j". It's no prettier than Google Reader does, has few more bells/whistles, but if you really want to speed through items, save and search, it's great.

In reality, I would like something that combined Bazqux with some ML to recognize that an item is a dupe, or something i'm really not likely to be interested in and filter those thousand items down to a few hundred, but i've yet to see anything really achieve that.
How much can one reasonably expect of the system though? The young man in the article walked out of prison to a job, a co-signed apartment, and a college admission* -- and he still threw his life away. Is there no point where his failure to coexist with society is his own responsibility?

*Not that the system gave these things to him, but clearly it wouldn't have mattered if they had.
I learned that the abundance of gold and silver in Latin America prevented any kind of market-based economy evolving around here as colonies. Just slave everyone and make people extract the value from earth. Then came other natural resources with similar approach as sugar cane and coffee.

North America had none of it, so the only way it could provide value to the empire was through commerce and a market-based economy.
"Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

And yes, google play IS a fundamental part of the infrastructure of not just america but the entire world, most Android users (excluding those who use samsung modified os) download apps through google play store. Google.com is different because people have the freedom to choose another search engine. If you're an android user you don't have an alternative.
I'm running on an Acer Chromebook 15 (x86, 4GB of RAM).

For me Control-W closes the Termux window.

For me Control-Alt-N switches between sessions, which all live in the same physical window, which I cannot figure out how to open multiple of.

It seems like your suggestion is to use Termux just to run an SSH server locally and then use another, non-Android SSH client, to deal with the fact that Android apps on ChromeOS work terribly UI-wise. That's a good idea, it leads me to my next problem:

It lives in a separate IP address space from ChromeOS... I have some weird IP address inside the ARC that is not the same IP as ChromeOS... I did not try to SSH to that address from ChromeOS though, does it work ?
Is there a reason things like LDAP and SAML are Sandstorm only?
That doesn't seem to be a manufacturer issue though is it?

In case of tablets, my partner is still using her iPad 2 and Netflix has a version of their app that still runs on that.

The core software on her tablet, like the core software on my older phones that were given to family members still work fine.

Its the 3rd party apps that seem to be abandoned by software developers. That's going to happen regardless of what phone manufacturer's want.