skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The minimal version doesn't even require a CPU. All you'd need is a way to tap the audio from a phone and a DTMF decoder, a couple of latches for the PIN and two 5V reed relays to activate the buttons. If you want to do it using a CPU you could probably get by with a PIC chip, a simple AD converter and the two reed relays.

A Raspberry Pi would be so overpowered it is almost comical, but then again, for the money it is still a great solution.
> Supreme Court ruling requires that unions protect all of their members from firing, even the obviously terrible ones, this has resulted in huge inefficiencies for workers AND capital alike.

This is one of the reasons I never liked unions - they protect the low performers and smooth out the pay scale regardless of performance. I believe in them now though. They are a sorely needed check between capital and labor. The concentration of capital has gotten out of control. Unions force some of the distribution back to the workers.
Writing an offline docset for Powershell documentation
Interface design is nothing like art. It must serve a purpose and be useable at least.
I'd imagine he has an impressively comprehensive team around him ensuring he doesn't need to focus on anything other than his work.

That said, working over 14 hours per day 7 days a week is implausible to me. Maybe in short bursts but I doubt he does that for any stretch of time.

The Elon Musk PR machine & cult of public enthusiasm is a massive business asset. When you're in the business of selling dreams to investors and employees pushing themselves to the limit this type of 'fact' is going to get thrown around.
I don't know how much time you've spent on family farms, but from what I've seen, I'd not describe them as "free-riders" on the land or on past generations.
The Java ecosystem isn't so much about Java the language as it is about the extensive mindshare, quality of available packages, portability and long-term viability etc. The JVM has been the go-to environment for a whole generation of developers, and even though I don't (primarily) target the JVM anymore, it's not going anywhere.

I may be in the minority here, but I think a monetarization strategy for Java maintenance (by Oracle and/or others) isn't completely unthinkable of.

For new projects, performance and other constraints permitting, I tend to use JavaScript (ES5 or even ES3) for its excellent portability, including on the JVM which has two quality JavaScript engine implementations (rhino and nashorn). A couple years ago, there were even Node.js-compatible web containers by Oracle and RedHat, though these are discontinued, unfortunately.
Why not allow queue jump payments in socialised care, to subsidise the rest of the queue?
Yea the situation in America is different - they'll charge you thousands of dollars for tissues after your hours long wait time.
Harmony was an IBM driven project
You can simulate those old 8 bitters easily enough on modern hardware and re-live that time to your hearts content.

You'll become an ace at optimization and memory conservation.
This isn't true https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/web-components.html
Another 80 per week. He just works quite long weeks.
(1) Nothing. But that doesn't stop activists from bashing Dutch farmers:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/opinie/de-vee-industrie-is-de-grot...
I know, and I wish there were more things consenting adults would not be allowed to do, even free and willing. In an ideal world, adults should not be allowed to do anything without asking permission from government first. Hopefully we'll get there someday.
From an HN link just under two weeks ago - http://build-a-co.in/

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077117)

You can build an altcoin in basically no time, on-demand using a web frontend. How hard the shell company piece is I have no idea.

It really doesn't take a lot of talent or hard work to launch a coin from your garage these days.
The sub-thread I replied to was linking to an anecdote about missile software.

But I still think not freeing is pretty lame even in short-lived tools. If one is using a no-op deallocator at least the code is designed properly and could be repurposed.
They don't ban you from spending your money. They ban companies from receiving your money. Companies that are malignant and consumers should be protected from.

This is not a new concept. The same regulations apply if you start telling your friends that you're smart and that they should let you manage their money for them.
Why does he have to agree to the ToS to use the public API?

Would it have been okay if he didn't use the API but accessed the same functionality just like you can with a web browser?
I guess that's my question.
Yep. But its very odd that so many iPhone users "facetime" and almost no one does the video chat thing on Whatsapp. Any idea why that is?
Send Yourself a Telegram When a Systemd-Unit Fails
How so? It has a lot of ties to industry already, good development, and plenty of evidence of delivering on their roadmap. That's already better than most crypto-currencies.
No, I side with the KDE fraction: Everything "just works" by default, but if you want, you can configure everything, and customize everything, and change everything. But if you don’t want to, it still "just works".

And that’s exactly what systemd does. It provides a baseline that just works, but you can always dive in and modify everything.
JavaScript scope and closures
> You can't just 180 from what you defined as your goals

Of course you can. You're working off the bizarre assumption that a party manifesto is binding in any way whatsoever.

One of the most famous instances is in 2005, when the SPD went into the election with "no sales tax increases", and CDU advocated for "2% sales tax increase". In the end, they formed a coalition, and arrived at the compromise of 3% increase.
I got "in trouble" at this one company for just doing my job. I walked onto the sales floor and asked a sales person if I can silently watch over their shoulder so I can learn about how the companies CRM was used. The sales manager felt I infringed on her team and complained to the lead programmer who in turn begrudgingly "warned" me not to do that ever again. I think I lasted like another 6 weeks there before putting in notice and leaving to a smaller company. All I wanted to do was identify ways to improve the crm, which was part of my job. But the team who made the software had no access to the team using the software
Community Management 101: All Members Are Equal
Right. Now convince me to buy the coins, that's the challenge.
The industry may develop a migration strategy immediately, but the Oracle lawsuits will stay. And very few organizations can afford a Oracle lawsuit.
> I guess it's ultimately about how web development is actually two things: web pages (posters) and web apps ("software")

This is what Progress Web Application tries[0](PWA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app), a fairly new spec, attempts to bridge the gap. Basically a normally web page will virtually be indistinguishable from a web app.
fta 'Critics of router-based network services argue, that it’s adding and never removing features, keeps driving up the cost of the routers to a point where advances of Moore’s law are not passed down to customers any longer.'

this is exactly right. for multiple reasons, network equipment manufacturers had to have their _own_ 'stickiness' in network equipment. and the canonical way to do that is via feature-bloat. fwiw, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXezfJsqso around 6:00(min) mark, and also around 10:00 (min) mark. the last one being very instructive.

james-hamilton assertion '...the network is anti-moore...' is also to the point. imho, it is a situation brought on my the vendors themselves. which ofcourse is the reason why you see, to a large extent, the big three (amazon/google/facebook) leveraging their s/w expertise to design and manage their networks way more efficient than what would have been possible otherwise.

all of these, coupled with the fact that x86 h/w is now capable enough for very high speed packet-io seems really bad for network equipment vendors.
You're killing me. I thought only vision took a hit with age :)
Maybe in the short term, longer term it is no trouble. ICOs are far from the main use case for Ethereum. Speculation is driven by the price not close to matching the price if/when the technology matures. If anything, most ICOs pull money from Ethereum, they don't make the price go up.

Being interested in tokens for their "features" not the price is very archaic. This also does not happen with stocks anymore: People hold for a few months/days/minutes, then sell, they don't sit on stock for many years like we used to.

My guess: China will allow ICOs after drafting up proper legislation and regulation. It would not benefit China's economy to blanket ban a new emerging technology. They just want to prevent crypto as a way to move money out of China, take a cut of the profit.

Another guess: Regulation will be good for established players (like Ethereum and 2016/2017 ICOs), but bad for speculators and newcomers. It will thus shoot past its intended goal of protecting investors: Those who like to gamble with money they can't afford to lose will find other get-rich-quick schemes unrelated to crypto. In Las Vegas you are actually sure to eventually lose all your money.
Many Americans simply do not see fellow Americans as people deserving of compassion, much less resources.
When you spend some time here you will find patterns about stuff totally unrelated to technology that gets both down and upvotes. For example basically anything posted about musicians will get you downvoted... hooowever, posting anything interesting about Leonard Cohen will most likely get upvoted.
They're technically competing, in the same way that dozens of small parties are technically competing. That ship has sailed. (Pun not intended.)
Or a mouse. I'm getting too old to enjoy playing the maze game with 20px nested drop-down menus or Operation with toolbars and razor-thin scrollbars.
I knew Project Treble was exciting, but this is really interesting:

>Treble promises to change everything. Malchev says that Treble standardizes Android hardware support to such a degree that generic Android builds compiled from AOSP can boot and run on every Treble device. In fact, these "raw AOSP" builds are what will be used for some of the CTS testing Google requires all Android OEMs to pass in order to license the Google apps—it's not just that they should work, they are required to work.

Ron paints a rosy future here:

>Custom ROMs shouldn't need to be painstakingly hand-crafted for individual devices anymore—a single build should be able to cover multiple Treble devices from multiple manufacturers. Imagine the next time a major new version of Android is released—on Day One of the AOSP code drop, a single build (or a small handful of builds) could cover every Treble device with an unlocked bootloader, with a "download Android 9.0 here" link on XDA or some other technical website.

If this comes to fruition, the ROM community is going to go nuts. This is enormously exciting and Oreo will turn out to be a real turning point for Android.

One thing that is interesting though is the implication that Android updates will get more iOS-y in the future. By that I mean certain features will be missing from updated phones because the HAL layer doesn't support it.
There are many cooperatives that you don't know about. For example, State Farm is a "mutual insurance" cooperative, so are many mid-western Blue Cross & Blue Shield (Anthem is private). Credit unions are cooperatives. Here's the problem: people don't choose cooperatives over non-cooperatives, and, even if they did, they do not participate in the governance of these cooperatives.

I think there is huge technology opportunity here: (a) increasing usage of cooperative services, and (b) giving consumers/producers "users" of the cooperative a real say in these organizations.
https://xkcd.com/1860/
Show HN: NppEventExec is a Notepad++ plugin written in C
I believe in freedom of association, I also believe that the market is driven by reputation, therefor bad actors (in this case scammers) cannot thrive (see how bad vendors get eliminated by the market on ebay or amazon without government help, just bad reputation).
Better to force them to save a minority of their income than start micromanaging their entire spending with laws banning this or that spending.
Plugin's author here. While NppEventExec is certainly nothing special, it allows me to optimize my workflow significantly and may do so for you as well. I use it for instance to format source files before saving them and to quickly compile small projects once a source file is saved. Regarding my choice of C, well, I love C; it's a language which has survived all tests of time and which gives me full control. Also, as a zealous Notepad++ user, I respect the loading times, the smooth performance and the small memory footprint that my fellow Notepad++ users enjoy.

My main goal has been to avoid undefined behavior and security vulnerabilities. People would deem this impossible with C for practical purposes, but I think it's just a matter of responsibility, discipline and devotion. I've done extensive error checking, taken all compiler warnings seriously and employed security recommendations like the usage of goto chains. There's of course still a lot of room for improvement and certainly numerous bugs, but one small step at a time...

I'm moving from full-stack web development to system, application, low-level or embedded programming of some mission criticality. If you have a vacancy and see potential for a good cooperation, please drop me a line, my e-mail address is on my Github. I'm based in Berlin, Germany and willing to relocate across continents.

If any discussion arises I will be available in the European afternoon to address your questions.
Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: What You Need to Know
I think so, though in some ways they are similar.

In terms of the lack of supply of older sets/models, when it comes to set a value due to scarcity - I think they are similar.

Limited runs of products with demand, and that have a aesthetic, artistic, or social status value (even though completely subjective) - have potential for this. Namely those with a high nostalgic intrinsic value.

I'm talking more about sneakers and Magic the Gathering - I don't know about beanie babies, but from what I've seen it seems way more fragile than the previous (despite the nostalgia, I think the market must be really small... MTG is still growing and has a huge player base - those have the potential to become investors, or not).
I'd agree that it is one of the smartest things they could do since they are selling their labor.
Initial action, like sharing the idea with a knowledgeable community in an appropriate moment (like here, now), to gather feedback on both usefulness to other people and viability of the proposed path of execution.
Well, they already have the "-XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures" command line switch which apparently costs money to use. They might move more stuff behind that flag?
It's not particularly surprising that a country several times larger than another pays more money for health care. Are you saying the per capita cost is higher?
With 168 hours per week that would require some rather advanced magic.
Solving an embedded mystery in ten easy steps
I often start at 7am and go until 10pm. My girlfriend makes me food and brings my caffeine. I have no time for "non work activities"though. I'll be in bed watching Netflix but really working on my laptop. Even when I have to goto the grocery store my mind is always on work. Being a remote employee, the line is blurred. If I'm out and about but all I can do is daydream about a new algorithm, I consider that working.
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/13/11606760/emergency-facility-fe...
"Colette turned out to be completely fine. A doctor ran her finger under the tap, stuck a Band-Aid on her pinky, and sent the family home.

A week later, something else showed up at home: a $629 hospital bill for the Band-Aid and its placement on Colette's finger."
It's not just ComputerWeekly. 'First new banking license issued in the UK since the 19th century' gets a lot of hits on Google. I'm pretty sure it would have been corrected if it were incorrect.
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You'd be surprised. Keep in mind it's a Dutch company, Dutch are very direct and explicit in communication.
Having lived many years in the US and Europe, wait times in Europe are shorter. This includes emergency room visits, doctor office visits, and physical therapy. Just for example if I was more than 5m late for my physical therapy in the UK, they wouldn't see me. So zero wait time for that. At the doctor I would make a phone appt ahead of time and I usually had to wait 5 or 10m. Also no insurance forms to fill out or any of that annoying extra work.
odd. It works in Firefox but 404's in Chrome
At the moment, the convincing doesn't seem to need to be very much, particularly where ICOs are involved. Copy someone else's white paper, post in a few forums with the word ICO splashed around liberally, and Bob's your uncle.

I think that's kinda why people are welcoming this move - there's a lot of trash coins and trash ICOs with no hope of anything ever coming from them, with a relatively low input of time and effort. But because they offer trade-able tokens and some of them might take off, and at least some of them might get a hype-cycle and increase in value whether there's any underlying value or not, and it's all new, shiny, crypto-magic-money...
Yeah I'm totally okay with that, a certain point society has to serve its people and not just the abstract view of growth at all costs. Consumption is good for the economy and inheritance taxes are necessary to provide equality of opportunity.
Hey there Aidenn0,

I'm no expert on C++ and I've been considering using it for several projects.

An important thing for my needs is being able to define classes in one shared object and create new subtypes of those classes in another, possibly defining overrides on virtual methods and such.

A good friend of mine has said similar things as you - that the ABI issue has not been a major obstacle for some time.

And yet, as much as I search, I still find the same-old advice: Don't use STL types in your interfaces or throw exceptions across module boundaries.

If all the compilers used for a given platform follow the same ABI, would using a separate and specific STL implementation (say, STLport) instead alleviate that particular issue?

Sorry if this question seems a bit rambley but I'd really love to find out how to use C++ in the way I've mentioned.
I agree about starting from the basics[0], because programming - as a practical art, not theoretical mathematics - is just about making computers do things. Commanding computers to do things is straightforward - everything else in programming is just managing complexity, which is, in my opinion, best taught as solutions to problems you encounter when simpler methods start to get out of hand.

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[0] - With a proper, simplified dose of hardware, basic amount of binary, maybe some assembly. Not sure about C itself, but something on that level is the right basic abstraction.
I knew you'd be working on something. I stick around because I love what you are building at GitLab.
Skeuomorphism ceases to be useful once people don't remember the physical thing you're trying to use. 3D buttons aren't actually that helpful to my generation: a lot of the buttons I've used in real life (e.g. those on my microwave) aren't 3D. On a computer the most common button-like thing is a web link and those don't (generally) use the 3D-effect. 3D is one way to hint that a particular element is clickable/tappable, but not the only one. Of course if you want a really scream-in-your-face button it should probably be 3D and a contrasting colour and larger and underlined and ... - but my feeling is that good UI doesn't mean making the call-to-action as attention-grabbing as possible, it's better to have a sense of proportion.

(thinking about it more, the most important thing - and the thing that's backed up by solid science - is to use text rather than icons for button labels. I really hope that stays, even if we go back to 3D and rounding)
You can't make a blanket characterisation of token sales like that. They're not categorically scams.
I don't compare them with the KPD. I just say they are Socialist. And they say so themselves.
I'm sure someone will correct me here, but in my experience, Pythons Async model is a cluster-fuck.

It feels very much like it was just kind of thrown in to keep up with the trends, without any thought as to whether it made sense or whether it was the most "Pythonic" way of implementing it.
Note that before you comment, realise a few things:

1. I didn't mention any specific examples because I thought they should be banned, just because they're popular examples of users or companies on social media sites.

2. As I mentioned in the article, it's very unlikely a single user is key to your site functioning/your community staying popular. Real life is not House. You are practically never required to tolerate a sociopathic jackass because he/she is so brilliant the world can't go on without them.

The fact so many community managers, admins, bosses and owners don't believe that is exactly why so many communities are terrible.
Then they can earn the farm the same way their father or grandfather did. If they can't earn it why should they have it? That's what meritocracy means.
Close to another 100!:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/

The proportion of time Musk devotes to each company is derived from a description he gave at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in June 2017. "The Boring Company is maybe 2 percent of my time, Neuralink 3-5 percent, Open AI another couple percent,” Musk said. The rest is split almost evenly between Tesla and SpaceX, he said, but “slightly more Tesla—it’s like a drama magnet."
I'm really not sure I see a difference, if you're going to start from the absolutist position that the state needs to butt out.

Either way, bans or forcing provision for retirement etc, you're taking the position that someone else does know best, and that they need protecting from their own spending behaviour. After that it's just a matter of degree.
> "Why did IE5’s HTML Components never quite catch on?"

because technology per se is just one of the variables that matter. For example, you are missing things like "timing", "marketing strategy" and a whole lot of other things. =)
I'd hope so too, but honestly they have lost a lot since 2013, and not just votes. Also actual political goals. And while the hopes for political seriousness and organisation quality are increasing, the actual implementation seems to stagnate.