skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr if you have an idea that isn't very "new" then keep working on it until it is "more new"

There should be a twitter account that just summarizes rambling think pieces.
NSA Quietly Awarded a Classified $2.4B Tech Contract with More to Come
A society based on trust is a barrel of fish waiting to have stuff taken from them. Don't be a sheep. I'm not saying you need to be a militia member but you're dense if you believe that you're better off not having weapons because there will always be people that have them.
Broadly, America has traditionally supported Sunni leaning states, most notably Saudi Arabia. Russia has traditionally supported Shia Iran, and both the powers are competing for influence within the region.

In the course of the Arab Spring, the legitimacy of many ME leaders/dictators was questioned, among the most notable of these was the rule of Bashar al-Assad of Syria. A popular local outpouring of resentment against his regime was coopted and inflamed by hardline Sunni extremists, many of these being veterans of the Iraq War or younger generations of recuits. This escalated into a full civil war, which quickly turned into a proxy battle for control over Syria, which heretofore had been a Russian proxy state, with a large air base.

While the United States has been arming anti-Assad (who also are notably anti-American) forces, Russia has been targeting civilian population centers (with both conventional and chemical weapons) to first create then inflame the Syrian refugee crisis, driving political instability first throughout Turkey then the EU - both sides seeking to ratchet up the pressure on terms favorable to them.

The tl;dr is a civil war turned proxy war is creating some of the most acute human suffering present in our world today.
I found it to be a nice little reminder of 'don't worry about being original, keep digging and maybe there'll be a gem there someday'.

The simple things are good to be reminded of, on a regular basis, that's why :)
> negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them.

HN's negative criticism is that MBAs don't know how to start things, not necessarily that they can't run things.
You don't need a huge team to build WhatsApp or Instagram. Guess software is eating the world- including itself.
> Amazon managers often prefer to employ MBAs over someone from a traditional background “because they value the deep analytics and fresh perspective of an MBA hire,” she wrote.

Considering the "deep analytics" and "fresh perspective" MBA managers I worked with and saw everywhere at amazon, I'm surprised anybody who works there could say such a thing. Deep analytics means nothing more than squinting at reports that other people created and pretending to understand, while fresh perspective means to treat every problem exactly the same. It's a hive mind of people who think they are quantitatively intelligent because they know what bps means.
They aren't paying that much for the house. They're paying that much because it's located in a good area. They'll knock it down and built a brand spanking new house and sell that for a profit. This happens every day in hot real estate markets
> Well, what do you think their next step is if they refuse?

A valid point, and one we both know the answer to - I won't try to argue otherwise.

While I think their statement on the issue page was not handled very well, and I would have tried to avoid the implicit threat... Do you think they should have just left it alone without saying anything once they were made aware of it?
New foundation, or maybe he finally got a job at Twitter?: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1895942068

(The backstory is: Brian Acton was rejected from Facebook and Twitter in 2009)
I would be okay with them having an optional cloud service for syncing settings.

But the issue you talk about is where major version upgrades come in. Sublime text could cease all development tomorrow and not pay another cent towards development, should people have to continue to pay to keep using it? If new major feature are requested then that is grounds for charging and upgrade fee, otherwise I don't see why people should pay.
Unfortunately the "distributing a modified version of an open source project under that project's name" can be problematic from a trademark perspective. This has come up many times before in other projects and led Debian to not use trademarked project names for software. If you are not familiar with the discussions, just search for "IceWeasel".
Are asking prices artificially limited somehow, or do people just set the price high so they can negotiate between potential buyers?
Sure. That's called displacement mapping. Fairly ubiquitous in high-end renderers.
Postman can share configs and history with teammates too.
if anyone hasn't seen the movie "lord of war" with nic cage, i highly recommend it. it deals with these kinds of issues.
Can someone please explain to me why $80 for Sublime Text is a good price for a text editor?

I'm not flaming, I genuinely want to know. I've tried Gedit, Atom, VS Code, Notepad++ and I fail to see what Sublime offers over those to justify the price.
Facebook tests Bonfire group video chat as app and in Messenger
I think you're on to something here; usually when you see transactions that seem absurd from the outside, there is some other angle that you don't know about (like, you can rip down the existing house and build one 3x the size that you can sell for $8mm).
> One note: Jon needs to show the new adaptive theme with matching title bar for MacOS on the main page.

Wow, that's nice! Since it's not the default, if you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't even know about it.
Haeff “Memory Tube” of 1940s helped launch a new era in computing
> I would greatly appreciate it, if anyone could help me get in contact with the Wizard of Google, to help me make my case

Sorry, you need to be very famous in order to be unscroogled through the PR department's damage control.
Bonfire
What Can I Do in UX? Job Titles and Responsibilities
Texas AG accuses ‘reputation management company’ of fraudulent libel takedowns
It could, but the point I was making is that you have to make the case that they are intentionally holding the stolen currency and not just having been paid said currency for a service of some kind.
"At this point" being the key phrase here. That wasn't their goal when they came in to back Syria: the goal was to clamp down on the uprising and its armed resistance. Of course, things are more complicated now.

Oh definitely, Assad is liberal and secular, to the point where he operates countless secret torture prisons and has forcibly disappeared tens of thousands of his citizens. Use the term "lesser of evils" if you must. But relatively liberal? Absolutely not.
No, generally you report to a former engineer, even up to a VP level in most cases, in AWS its usually former engineers until you get to s-level.

edit: those people may have ALSO gotten an MBA
> They can't be phished because they aren't secrets.

And here lies the problem. Apple treats them as if they are.

"Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world" - Apple during the keynote when they introduced TouchID[1]

"Your face is now your secure password" - Apple during yesterday's keynote introducing FaceID[2]

1: https://youtu.be/X5zt1V7H88I?t=227

2: https://youtu.be/K4wEI5zhHB0?t=109
Syria is also home to a large Russian airbase and contains strategically/economically important warm water ports - Syria is a very valuable Russian ally, probably why the prospect destroying that relationship is so enticing.
The reason for the trend, of course, is that companies are staying private longer to maximize returns for early investors and VCs.
About what?

I mean, I disagree about what our (I'm French) are doing in some places, but its hardly been a secret.

The CIA and it's equivalent are not working to get those countries to a stable state, they are working to get them to a non threatening state. Big difference.
He obviously speaks for people who use ST as their editor. The grandparent expressed his opinion as one, and the parent answered as another.

People who don't have no says whatsoever in this particular subthread discussion.
When selling a house you want some ability to be selective on buyers. Some properties won't be able to be mortgaged as is under some of the special programs (VA loans require particular building codes and standards in addition to the standards required for conventional loans for example) as often the seller is buying a new property with the proceeds of sale, delays that one of these special programs might create may be costly to the seller.
Are houses ever sold in auctions in France? How long are typical houses on the market? It seems in this situation that you would start the house price high and then lower it over weeks/months until you get an offer.

In the US, sometimes houses are priced "low" intentionally and the listing agent says something like "offers will be accepted until noon Monday" to encourage over asking, all cash offers, and waiving inspections.

Sometimes, houses are also sold at auctions in the US. This is common for foreclosures and seizures, for example.
You're right, I hadn't thought of that. I still think going after a fork within minutes of its establishment for trademark infringement is in very bad faith, though.
Some iPad Pros cost $50 more today as Apple quietly ups prices
My $235,000 home is also 4-BR, 2-BA, 2000 sq ft. Its just located on the wrong coast.
When you have someone like Senator John McCain claim that "we can tell the bad guys from the good guys" while being photographed on his photo op tour of Syria with known mass murderers of civilians, you had to know these folks don't know what they're talking about.
>I'm not flaming, I genuinely want to know. I've tried Gedit, Atom, VS Code, Notepad++ and I fail to see what Sublime offers over those to justify the price.

It's better than Gedit in every way, it's way faster and more lightweight than Atom and VS Code, and it has a far better plugin ecosystem and functionality than Notepad++.

I'd pay triple the price.
I think they should have waited more than a few minutes to start hassling the fork about it.
It doesn't seem practical to avoid the need for an expert when buying unique, hand-built items that cost multiple times the buyer's annual salary. Not everything needs to be condensed down to a one-click buying experience.
Ask HN: Perfect Preparation for Product Manager (Intern) Role?
I already read "Cracking the coding interview" and "Cracking the PM interview."
How else did you prepare to land your current PM (internship) role at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, UBER, Dropbox, Airbnb?
Woo! Now everyone's house is listed for $100M!
I haven't used Sublime much but I get the impression I'm far faster in Emacs than work colleagues etc. are in Sublime or the latest flavour of IDE. That is after at least a decade and a half of learning and configuring Emacs to my preferences though.

At least part of that efficiency (apart from Emacs being awesome) is that I've been able to keep getting better at using my editor rather than having to change tools every so often as less configurable editors get overtaken by ones with new features.

Emacs is pretty deep (I keep discovering new things) and configurable in the extreme. I think it's very likely that it will last for decades yet - any killer innovation that another editor comes up with is likely to be quickly copied into Emacs.
Sometimes I wonder why there isn't a model, where its Author put up after Number of Copies sold, it will be open sourced.

Of Coz it wont be a small amount. It could be 25,000 copies. But then lot of companies, whom may like Sublime, could spend and join the race.
I disregard wage inflation in this scenario because we are comparing inflationary and deflationary currencies. In either case if the change in your wages doesn't stay above the change in value of the currency you're stuffed.

i.e. it's not a property of the money.
"I'll pay you back when the grid comes up" lol
> Is it the whole GIMP vs Photoshop non-debate?

I think it is not.
I would say Blender is at professional level.

It is not like GIMP or Inkscape that I can hardly call them professional.

Many Blender users coming from other 3D sofware often said that Blender UI is weird and stop them from using it further. I guess it is a matter of habit.
This is a dupe of a previous submission by the same submitter, with an alternatie title (for the HN submission, by using the subtitle of the source instead of the title.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15214826
How can this be compatible with the Apache License?
What is this upside gain opportunity you speak of?

From my limited understanding - WhatsApp merely made free (or extremely cheap) texting possible, bypassing cellular providers who charged an arm and a leg for text messages. That's their contribution. Is there something else? What's this new paradigm of software development?
Emacs? I'd either implement my own version / maintain my own fork or stop using computers.
They worked great and I stayed with jEdit long past when it was reasonable to do so because of that and so many other amazing features.
Can any active users comment on the package ecosystem. Active? Running into any problems?
I don't see why the post was flagged without comment.

That said, this:

> The app mentioned isn't available to anyone, but could only be used if you were endorsed by 2 members of the US-based cleric Fethullah organization.

Seems flat out wrong? Bylock isn't available in the Norwegian Google play store (or indeed anywhere now - it's been unpublished?), but appears to have been generally available?:

https://www.appbrain.com/app/bylock%3A-secure-chat-talk/net....

https://bylock-secure-chat-talk.droidinformer.org/de/

Note the top comment (troll):

> COUP PLOTTER wrote

> Should have just used Orbot any old xmpp chat client. Now we're all jail. See you next time :D

> 13. Oktober 2016
How can 3.1a even be included? It's against the terms to discover the source code, that they themselves link to on the page you download from?
no they aren't limited anyhow, and if I would be selling my flat there this is definitely a tactic to do
You can, with a modicum of effort, learn the market as well or better than a real estate agent. You're only interested in a small slice of the houses that are on the market (at least in the Bay Area, supply is very low here). It's worth going to open houses, looking at asking prices, and then following up on what happened to that property. Spend at least 6 months getting to know the market for the neighborhoods and type of home you're interested in before you shop seriously. And keep in mind that you may be disappointed more than once along the way.

Finally, the "asking" price is not a contract. When my wife and I bought our house, there was a competitive offer that included "lifetime" seating at a popular restaurant near us. We had both offered slightly over asking, and this was 2009, so not exactly a "hot" market. Your solution would basically ask sellers to treat their house like a commodity, which might make sense in a spec home or developer deal, but really makes zero sense for two parties who are each making what is likely the single largest financial transaction of their life.
Many have, you just won't find it on ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTimes, WaPo, etc...
I also do the admin/admin thing and basic SQL injection attempts habitually and they work with a high double-digit percentage. Of course, I'm not a pentester, so I imagine the situation is much worse outside of companies that pay for security audits.

In my web development work, I inherit a lot of websites, services and sprawling architectures developed by small consultancies. Virtually every single time, the passwords are basic and often the same across all clients. I understand that it lowers their support burden, but this is a disaster waiting to happen.

If there's a lawyer's, dentist's or other small business website out there developed from scratch (not Wordpress, etc), it seems you're almost guaranteed a basic, guessable login.
Yeah, I did leave that bit out, because that's an implementation detail that I believe they have since resolved. It was a massive mistake, but one that could have been avoided and has since been patched.

#1 and #2 are foundational to providing Javascript on the server. You could do without #2, but because of #1 it means you'll have a harder time attracting and maintaining a userbase if you don't do it that way.

This leaves you vulnerable in the long run IMO.
>relatively liberal (relative to an alternative)

We're talking about the al-Assad ruling family? The same family whose literal policy is to raze towns that shelter any opposition, and are currently literally gassing their own citizens?
Here's a much better demo of browser-based face detection and face tracking and other cool stuff:

https://tastenkunst.github.io/brfv4_javascript_examples/
It does not matter if the binary restrictions and EULA are attached to those.
Southwestern Pennsylvania, really, really close to the WV border.

> That's also where it changes from we'uns and you'uns to y'all.

In that area of Pennsylvania, as far up as Pittsburgh and maybe even beyond, it's yinz instead of you'uns or y'all.
But it runs on every platform with a webasm-enabled browser without installing or recompiling anything. It seems like a lot more potential users for a lot less work than targeting every hardware platform.
Excessive attention to detail in our day to day lives may be pedentary but if you're a professor of Viking studies writing a public article I don't think it's the right word for it
I've been saying this for years. "The CIA created ISIS. Not just funded, but created the situation where such organizations could come up."

I constantly get criticized for this. "No, of course America isn't funding ISIS. We're fighting them." I then talk about The Bay of Pigs, the 1973 Coupe in Chile, Iranian Contras, The School of the Americas ... a criminal rap sheet that shows a pattern of sociopathhy by the US government -- and Syria fits that pattern: arm ISIS, bomb Assad and then bomb ISIS too .. we're creating and fighting all the wars.

I'm not surprised, but the majority of Americas would be .. if this appeared on CNN, NPR or a major media outlet. Otherwise it's "fake news."

When sales for 1984 went up after the Trump election, I was greatly disheartened. It meant the current administration had commandeered the minds of people to think that now was the age of Orwell, when in reality, we've been in 1984 long before I was born and long before my parents were born.
It's highly likely that OP simply stumbled upon it, or someone recommended it, and now he learned it and is used to it and knows how productive it can be.

Thing is, same is true for any other good IDE, of which there are plenty.

Personally, it always blows my mind that people don't use VIM :) if they actually spent 5-20hours learning VIM correctly they would not touch these inferior pretty looking UIs
Correct, but they're very bad experiences compared to the native clients. Skype for instance (last I tried) didn't support screen sharing. Web Spotify won't let you listen to high quality audio or listen to local tracks. Office Web won't open or properly format large documents. Evernote's web UI (granted, as of 2014) was borderline unusable.
Ah... not saying that I'd turn to it immediately, but people are made of meat. If we're headed for a Morlocks vs. Eloi type of world, I know what side I'll be on. I promise not to devour anyone with a skill needed to reconstitute civilization. ...Maybe just take one buttock, and let them live, like the old woman in Candide.

I'll probably stop once the herd gets down to a sustainable size, and I'll definitely stop after someone gets wise to my tricks and murders me. It would be the post-apocalypse world, after all.
Wars are a business for the US military industrial complex, plain and simple. The longer US is funding these wars, the more profit these people make.
There are an incredible number of Apple employees worth tens of millions of dollars that would love to not commute. The potential to rebuild a monster house on this lot next to Apple is definitely quite valuable.

Location, location, location.
Article brings up an interesting angle on Mark Zuckerberg's baby kissing tour. I just had it down, like most people I think, as a sort of warm up for a political career. But it does make a lot of sense as a defensive move, an image repair exercise. To some degree it doesn't matter what it was; the establishment will see it as that and act all the more aggressively as a result.
Interesting that you're conflating Russia and Iran unprompted, especially since Iran has done more to fight ISIS than the Gulf State 'allies' who appear to be happy to invest in both ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Congrats! Good luck. Ignore all the angry people they clearly have no idea what it's like to try and make a living off this stuff, just entitled spoiled brats.

Not to mention the salary that most developers make, paying $25-100/m for software you enjoy is not much. IMHO if you can't justify the price, then don't use it.
Continuous Integration with Docker Compose
however a home is a unique item, limited in availability. Hence it warrants allowing others to offer more for it. plus just as it is the right of buyer to haggle for the best price it does not always mean the lowest
Elementary is not GTK though. It uses EFL.
Oddly enough, they're available on GitHub now
He says giving speeches and interviews is out of his comfort zone, but he always comes across as articulate and well-spoken. More than I am for sure.

I'm glad he's doing okay though.

I believe he did the world a great favour and history will look back on what he did with kindness, even if so many do not look on it that way now.
I wonder if people do this on purpose when they really hate their client.

I know I've considered it.
The lack of Open Source is my struggle too. I really want to use it, but I want to be able to browse the code.
The plutonium decays at a fixed rate regardless of how much power the spacecraft is currently using.
you tell:
https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bubbles-and-...
I see this everyday in the Bay Area. In this case it seems to be a tech worker. Usually these are bought by some investors in China and the houses are never occupied.
The most fun games I've played are when I'm evenly matched. Being unnaturally overpowered or rolling through noobs isn't really fun.
i personally like how one of the first contact bits from caddy to a fork of it is a thinly veiled legal threat: https://github.com/WedgeServer/wedge/issues/2
I bought a license simply beacuse Sublime Text was the only editor that could open a wikipedia json data dump. I installed many editors before I more than willingly paid for Sublime.
Congratulations on the launch, and good luck finding a sustainable means of funding Caddy. It's a uniquely ergonomic webserver.

That said, the unalterable Caddy-Sponsors HTTP header feels bad, and cheapens my overall impression of Caddy as a quality product. Now, instead of paying for a license to gain access to enterprise features or support, I'm paying to remove ads. From my webserver. Which now has a custom license that I have to read, remember, and figure out how to comply with.

I give up. I'm an individual running 8 little caddy containers on a $5/mo VPS. The cognitive load simply isn't worth it, and I hope you'll reconsider. Otherwise, it's back to cobbling things together with nginx and haproxy. :(
If they keep paying for it, you should just really rise prices.

It's the market, baby.
The US and Russia are not really enemies at all; not even under the Obama administration. It's all a nice setup to keep most people distracted. Both nations depend on each other for arms and weapons sales.
mesh net, but they'll just bring the power down. maybe solar-powered with battery backup? but that gets expensive.
Can you just overprice it and let bidders fight on lower than asking? Essentially the same thing, but with different psychology. I wonder how it would play out differently.