skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory Infocom Cabinet link:

https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
"React seems to solve Facebook's problems (or mine for that matter)"

"Vue.js seems to solve Gitlab's problems (or mine for that matter)"

etc.

Throwing big names around amounts to pretty much nothing.
> Many people underestimate how useful Perl DBI, JDBC, ODBC, Python DB-API, ADO.NET

JDBC, ODBC, ADO.NET are not part of the language spec; they are separate specifications. Your initial argument was that the language spec ("the standard") is "stuck in time".

And on the other hand, database access is not really an issue on CL.

> Yet using threading as an example, since it is left for each implementation, it means one cannot guarantee portable semantics across implementations.

There does not exist a single, one-size-fits-all, valid-for-all-use-cases approach to concurrent programming.
It sounds like robot population started slowly replacing human population -- the former is on the rise, while growth of the latter is slowing down. Year 2017 may be recognized as the tipping point for this process in textbooks. Textbooks for robots, of course.
Yup exactly what I did :D
Because the oil industry was already having these built. It was probably just easier and cheaper to buy one "off the shelf" so to speak rather than have a custom ship designed for this purpose.

Drilling platforms are large and not designed to regularly circumnavigate the oceans. They float but they're shitty boats.
"Department of redundancy departmemt"

https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redund...:
My initial thoughts were they weren't focusing on a single aspect that local businesses need. Seems like a broad set of features. My opinion is to start small and build from one or two solid features that your customers love.
> A method for discussing ideas.

... when done on a level playing field. That's not what usually happens when people want to deal with "an opinionated colleague, manager or even a relative" (as the OP suggests).
You can tow a ship a lot faster than you can move a drilling platform. But, basically this is a drilling platform. Going horizontal vastly reduces drag, but it's not really designed to be used as a ship.
How did you guys scale your B2C startup?
Hey guys, just wanted to gather information and real time cases while scaling a b2c business across geographies.
> Unless some fantastic new battery is invented very soon, there literally isn't enough lithium on earth to support the electric car market and lithium ion batteries are soon going to become prohibitively expensive.

And unless the power networks from a lot of countries are not modernized. Not sure about the States, but over-here in Eastern Europe we get power-cuts from time to time during summer months because everybody has their AC turned on (they usually don't last long, but it happens). If half of the 1 million cars that are now driving on the streets in my city were to be electric then I'm pretty sure that the local power network will just give up spectacularly.
This reminded me of how I spent multiple nights re-rolling my party on my Mac port for Wizardry I. I eventually hit a point total that allowed me to start one character as a ninja, which apparently must have been a bug because that was supposed to be impossible.

My cheesiness knew no bounds however. At some point I acquired a shuriken, which would increase your total HP by 1 every time you equipped it. I did the righteous thing and spent a few more nights unequipping and equipping it, which left me with some outrageously high HP.

Feeling that even this munchkin level insanity wasn't enough I fiddled around with the save game and figured out how to clone my character. Finally my party had a front line of 3 ninjas with unassailably high HP totals. Finally, Werdna was mine.
That's a valid model if there are very few readers. The number of paying visitors is probably monotonically increasing with the amount of content. Maybe medium has created a model about the critical mass of paying readers to sustain the ecosystem.
Interface: typeface designed for user interfaces, with excellent ligibility
so can I fork your product and sell it and split the fees?

or if I check in a rewrite of a paragraph and you approve the check in do I get a cut your future sales?
True, but in this case it's a sugar coating without any cake below it.
BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain
PredictEasy – My Little Venture for Dummies
Even if you partake in illegal activity, I do not see why they would want to terminate your account.

If I engage in illegal activity, I fully expect the police to come arrest me, and to be judged later by a fair trial. Having the electricity company or the mail service to terminate my services is terrifyingly dystopian.
Yes, learn from people where they are right as well - +1 to that. It might be that they're none of the horrible things people claim and are just victims of unfortunate name calling or mud slinging.
What do you think will happen to crypto currency during a recession? The next recession will be our first since Bitcoin was created. My prediction is you see a spike up early, as people get desperate for a profitable trade, then they all plummet as people flee for safety.
ive tried lots of note taking apps and ended up blogging my tech notes
Yeah, my Nexus 7 runs well, except for the five minutes after connecting to Wifi.

If you have yours rooted, the Disable Service app can help reduce the problem. I have a bunch disabled with no (visible?) ill effects.
Hi everyone,
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Been working away on the MVP for most of the last month, so it's awesome to be able to keep working on it has got the "launch" out of the way. I've been lucky to have some great friends trying it out for weeks now and helping me shape it, so this doesn't feel like a huge event, just another step in iterating to keep improving the product.

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>its high torque, available over a magnificently wide band of motor speeds

A broad torque curve isn't really useful since aircraft engines are already optimized for sustained operation at cruising speed and the range of speeds you can operate at is limited by the propeller and physics. There's no need to have a ton of torque at 1800rpm and at 6000rpm

>At 20 kilograms (45 pounds), the motor can be held in two hands, and it measures only 10 centimeters deep and 30 cm in diameter

And what's the horsepower rating and duty cycle rating on this motor? Power density is not an area where electric motors have a large advantage over ICE unless you're trying to build a cylindrical package. The article talks about doing away with durability requirements that impede a lightweight design.

>with no power-sapping transmission

Most small aircraft are direct drive.

Electric power certainly has advantages but this article may as well be a marketing brochure full of fluff.
It's a shame the API's aren't better for this situation, pinging a static asset to determine network status is not good for battery life on smartphones if it's going to occur for any length of time.
>The degree to which globular wheels would complicate such a design is such that it would leave you being passed by your competitors right out of the gate

We don't know that. We just know that we're not familiar with them. If anything, globular wheels could make some kind of automated steering easier.

And of course, it's obviously not like Apple only tried that design: they tried globular wheels, fat wheels, thinner wheels, wooden wheels, and what have you to see what works better -- like they did when they designed the iPhone, etc.

https://www.cultofmac.com/181782/every-iphone-prototype-appl...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188624/apple-prototype-i...
Most commercially produced white LEDs are a phosphor over a blue or occasionally violet LED. The alternative is to mix the light from red, green and blue LEDs, which produces a very peaky spectrum that distorts colors badly.

Regardless of efficiency, the phosphor approach is more popular because it produces white light that's tolerable to use. Even phosphor spectra have peaks and valleys though, and evening them out usually reduces efficiency. The most common representation of this is color rendering index (CRI), which measures color accuracy. I think that's usually the right tradeoff, as a little less light with a broad spectrum is usually more effective illumination, but the market is driven by the mighty lumen-per-watt.
If you are an alcoholic, would not having 24 beers in your fridge lower your willpower? I think it is the reverse, just like this. Not in house = fight won, so you have more willpower left for when you DO need to fight a fight (say, friend offers a beer after work).

Self control takes willpower. Willpower is a finite resource (you can find studies on it. This is why after a hard day of work you are more likely to say screw it and eat an extra cookie). You just saved having to use a little bit of willpower each day. Which means you will have MORE willpower to spend on other things, not less.
I believe HN reported the return of the incandescent light bulb over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771001 which I believe is based on this Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v11/n4/full/nnano.2015.3... What's old is new again...
From what I've heard, the problem isn't finding customers, the problem is breeding and raising bugs at scale. I think if you solve the scale problem, you will be successful.
1990s HTML in production
I've heard about shrinking budgets for so long if the statements were true I'd expect all the budgets to be $0 by now.
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX spacesuit
There are hundreds of thousands of people using Ionic so we're certainly not throwing in the towel. One of the goals when creating Ionic was to build re-useable components that could be used by anyone. At the time (2013), this wasn't really feasible, so we went all in on Angular. Now that Web Component adoption in browsers is pretty solid, it has enabled us to fulfill the original vision of enabling developers using any web-based toolset to build incredible apps.

We're all in on web tech. We think it's the smarter choice long term.
As I remember from more than a decade ago, the selling point of DBUS was that they were not trying to design a high performance message bus with sophisticated work mechanisms in spirit of Corba and Bonobo, but a small, flexible, and utilitarian one.

Things like implicit message buffering were deliberate design decisions.
It's all about the "little things". It's basically Sublime, except some core features like git integration (brought by gitguttter plugin in sublime), debugger gui, integrated terminals are baked in and "just work the way you'd expect" with the default settings.

Then there's the fact that the settings are either self-documenting or well documented online, so much easier to customize without spending time learning how to do it: just start editing the settings (btw, Sublime "stole" the 2-pane default/user settings ui idea from vsc) and figure out what does what as you go.

And then there's the fact that plugins seem to "just work" and "out of the box". With Sublime plugins I often had the "ok, I installed it, AND the other 3 things it needs to do it's job too, now how do I freaking use this poc?!" often followed by the keybindings being "wtf, this conflicts with everything else, no I have to think what my custom ones to be" etc. The whole "don't make me think", "don't waste my time" and "just works out of the box as expected" philosophy, adopted by most plugins too, and coupled with being just fast enough.

But yeah, with default settings VSC is annoying and looks bloated, but if you hide most of its UI and setup vim mode keybindings it feels like a superpowered vim :) Microsoft tends to be very good at "the little things" and at "discoverable UIs"... I still like Windows' UI most despite only occasionally using it nowadays for example: beyond the top layer of "monkey shit" (that you may need to hide/disable/reconfigure etc.) is a nicely configurable UI that caters well to power users.
I once brought in ~20 "Koosh" balls[0] (soft fluffy plastic balls) and gave everyone a few. We started off having skirmishes every few hours, until it got boring after a couple weeks. We then resorted to just throwing them at each other when deep in work, laughing when people screamed because they weren't expecting to be hit in the head. It really was a joyous time.. and magically we didn't destroy any monitors even though there was a minimum 50% chance it would hit the screen instead of your intended target. 6 months later and the balls are just sitting in the same place they were last put down, except for the random passer-by who asks what they are used for... upon which we are motivated to take up arms one more time, albeit while we are all sitting at our desks.

The next attempt was a few "airzooka" air canons[1]. Same result as above more or less, except our operation got shut down much earlier, as everyone else at the office complained that they were too loud (they really are much too loud).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball
[1]: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/60b6
At this scale it'd be hard to have a system that was as quiet as this passive stabilization. It's stable up to 30 foot seas according to the article, it's no easy feat to create a system that can stabilize seas that large for any size platform.
That's all blogging ever has been. It's been long overdue that we stop pretending it's the new home of the literati.
That's too bad. I was really hoping for Apple to spend all of their resources trying to build a car and then go out of business because IMO they ruined computing for everybody by popularizing walled gardens, anemic UIs and super limited software.
What I'm most excited to see in the event of a market downturn is how well Betterment and Wealthfront hang onto their clients.

I'm guessing that the average client of those firms hasn't really lived with a significant stock market investment during a bear market. Will these clients keep their money invested in a larger percentage than the typical ETF investor?

If so then I think that's a huge bullish signal for these new types of wealth management firms.

If not, then those companies are going to have to go out and raise money in a downturn.

If you can hold peoples money during a downturn, then I view that as a very positive investment signal, there has to be something more than the dollar, bitcoin, hedge funds, and gold that people can turn to in a downturn.
The CPython JIT/compiler is written in C. Does this mean that a Python program is then a C program?

Arc is not Racket.
The slope is down just not steep. https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/RDGDP;.jpg

Basically, we are down ~45% relative to GDP since 1980 but there are years with minor increases.
I'm curious, why build this instead of using [skatejs](https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs)?
I don't understand Leon & George though (plant delivery). The TC bio talked about finding the right plant for your space. Seems like they just sell a few plants. I can walk into any florist, garden store or even IKEA and get the same or better selection. So the value prop is delivery I guess? But does delivery large plants across the country scale?
The point is that you push more work to the browser, which has let us get a lot more load performance, much smaller bundle sizes, and much snappier apps and mobile websites (PWAs). We use React and Angular quite a bit internally at Ionic and the reality is that both produce very large code bundles and pulling those apart is proving to be a really hard technical challenge.

We're not throwing in the towel at all, rather we're embracing web standards 100% and think Ionic is and will continue to be the best way to build an app that works in the app stores, on the web as a PWA, and increasingly on desktop. Cross-platform is our main focus.
>Billionaires buy things, travel, and hire people to work for them. They don't hold onto their money forever.

Their living and partying costs are so tiny compared to their wealth, we can just as well say that they are "holding onto their money forever".

>Besides, it's their money, what right does anyone else have to it?

I don't believe in the concept of "their money" above a certain degree. After a point such gains are so much part of systemic faults and imbalances that it should be "everybody's money" but its just hoarded.

>And just because 51+% of voters think it's ok to steal someones income, doesn't make it right.

Absent a god, it's only what people think that makes something right or wrong.
It's more that you put the password on the disk in unencrypted format without telling the user. For instance, chrome stores them in sqlite databases which you can just open and select from:

http://i.imgur.com/zauv4sK.png

Your disk could be encrypted, but not everyone's will be. It's better to just localStorage as it was intended.

Plus if you introduce a bug later down the line, you might not prune older localStorage entries, meaning they will stay there for much longer than you want. AND the user may not revisit your site ever again after going offline, which doesn't give you an opportunity to prune it.
Except that in countries where stick shift dominates, you start off learning to drive a stick right away.
Thanks. Yes, I was thinking on the same lines. Don't remember whether Pascal also has this right now (more time since I used it than C), but in C, being the somewhat more flexible language that it is, IIRC you can also store a value of one type (out of the types of the sum type) in the union, and then read it back out as one of the other types. E.g. define a union with an int (say 16-bit) and a two-char (or two-byte) array, and then write into it as an int, and read it back out as two chars or two bytes. There are uses for such things, though I can't think of a good example of the top of my head. Okay, one use might be hardware interfacing, another might be conversion between big-endian and little-endian data values if you need to roll your own for some reason, I know there are libs for that).
It's amazing the number of software and APIs related to javascript that people are interested in. GraphQL, Apollo-Server, Dataloader, Knex... any advice on where I should start to get some familiarity with the javascript ecosystem?
Ask HN: What do you think would happen if the Linux kernel had a patents clause?
The patents clause being similar to Facebook tools today - React, GraphQL, Flux, ImmutableJS, etc.
it's funny you mention open collaboration and praise China in same comment, while China is slowly shutting itself from rest of the world and literally none startups from China have been successful abroad where they don't have benefit of government protectionism
No, it won't do anything on 55. Or on 56/57 Android.

Stylo can be disabled at build time, and this was the case for 55 and is still the case for android. We don't remove the associated prefs in that case (about:config doesn't have UX because it's not exactly user facing).

You can go to about:support to see if stylo is actually enabled. There's a "stylo" column. It's not there in 55, but no 55 release has stylo enabled at build time; so if you don't have that column at all, stylo isn't there.
On a related note, but different implementation (iframes), I recently learned that W3C does not believe infinite recursion should be a thing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14223628/why-does-a-self...
Exactly. Banks (or anybody) making statements like this is completely meaningless. The market will tell us when the downturn is starting.
Seems to have already shipped in Chrome. And making progress on Firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217544
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the Face of Business – Pixelstech.net
How about a citation instead of the somewhat snarky suggestion to "take a gander at the history of the federal rules"? I am not an expert here, but Wikipedia suggests that the history of grouping similar cases for efficient resolution by the courts is not actually the basis for the modern American class action--it was pushed by those who thought it would be a good vehicle for new cases that wouldn't have been viable previously (as the GP suggested):

The Advisory Committee that drafted the new Rule 23 in the mid-1960s was influenced by two major developments. First was the suggestion of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Maurice Rosenfield in 1941 that class action litigation by individual shareholders on behalf of all shareholders of a company could effectively supplement direct government regulation of securities markets and other similar markets. The second development was the rise of the civil rights movement, environmentalism and consumerism. The groups behind these movements, as well as many others in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, all turned to class actions as a means for achieving their goals.

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

Also, it's somewhat misleading to cite to the history of the class action and ignore current justifications. This is like arguing that U.S. democracy is bad because it was originally a method for a small group of wealthy landowners to control the country, while ignoring the fact that currently anyone can vote. The history of class actions in England, although interesting, does not make the GP comment incorrect. If the modern purpose is only to simplify similar cases, we already have coordination and consolidation.
Goby: Inherits from Ruby, Extended with Golang
to me, using cron to disconnect my internet every half an hour just to remind me to break the loop has been immensely helpful. And annoying. But mostly helpful.

My brain switched to offline mode has about three times better focus.

Similarly to this, I'm using my browser in full-screen mode most of the time to eliminate distractions. It was very surprising to me, how big an effect it has, to not see the tabs.
What is uncivil in this comment? I’m sorry, but I don’t see anything problematic in there, and I’d say the same to anyone’s face IRL, given the same circumstances.

There is a swearword used, but it’s not in the context in any way uncivil, as the plural "you" that it is referring to is an abstract person, a hypothetical entity – not any actually involved person. (In this case, the potential future group of people at Mozilla who might decide to override an explicit choice I made for their own convenience)
Have you thought about cutting your fee to 7% plus 3% to paypal or stripe and letting the author set a commission for affiliates. So if I offer 25% an affiliate would get 15%.
Tech Talks: Slow Growth and Yvon Chouinard
Maybe the flak thrown at you by the hospital, press, and family of someone who dies is easier to bear when you “did something” as opposed to when you “did nothing”, and doctors unconsciously gravitate towards action as a result.
7 Steps to Understanding Deep Learning
> window.addEventListener('online', () => this.checkStorage());

Every time I see this double function safety pattern a small part of my JS heart dies.
This VC Firm Doubling Down on Women Entrepreneurs? B/c It's Good for Business
If it ain't broke...but the 172[R and S] has been using a fuel-injected engine since 1996[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360
How Google Ranks Web Pages(2004) [pdf]
That sounds reasonable. I'm very surprised. Disabling remote targets, ignoring SELinux, focusing on reliability.

DBus is the one part of the modern linux desktop I would like to/have to install to get the applications I want running, even though I dislike it a lot (pulseaudio and systemd one can just not install). One example is the password remember function of steam. Having a more reasonable implementation could help with this a lot.