skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I was surprised, though most other solutions are very old and slow so I really only consider us having one or two other real competitors.

The booking and paying online is actually just a small portion of the needs most of these businesses have. In addition to appointment management we also handle keeping track of customers, customer's pets(vaccination requirements, dietary needs, etc), inventory management, employee scheduling and role management, and analytics for it all.

Our competitors seem to handle parts of these but we are looking to be an all encompassing solution while simplifying the UX. We are also targeting multiple location support for enterprise customers, with our competitors multiple locations seem to be an afterthought. On top of that our app is faster and cheaper per month, offering discounts for multiple locations and no setup costs (other than buying optional hardware).
That's a good point about taxes. I wonder how the tax structures of the future will evolve if cryptocurrencies reach full swing. It could be reasonable to expect elaborate tariff systems that skim off the channels bridging wet and dry worlds[0]. With what we have today, there is already slightly less to tax[1], and with the ideas of today, there could be even less. You can't siphon tax if it's not in the contract code.

[0] https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-code-and-dry.h...

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/03/19/irs-bitcoin-lawsuit/
That's actually a pretty dismissive comment. It may not have been your intention, but it reads like: "Oh, those poor commoners, who aren't as intelligent as us and can't see the truth that we can see! Why, they're using this terrible thing and they don't even know any better! The masses must be saved from themselves."
I wrote to the guys in the original post.
The price is not as cheap as I thought:

X62 with i5 - 780 USD
X62 with i7-5500U - 980USD

both setups no:ram/hdd/battery , new AFFS panel (1400x1050)

I will better consider buying a new Thinkpad or wait for the retro edition
> If you're so sure that it's bullshit you're free to put your money where your mouth is and short it.

Let me know when you are back to peddling Amway.
FireWall been breach at Northwest prepared for take off in minus 15 min
Five Pressing Questions for Developing an Enterprise AI Strategy
That's a needlessly pedantic interpretation of my comment. As I clearly explained with my comparison between alcohol and heroin, the point is it's a matter of degree. Less addictive substances are less likely to be banned, whereas more addictive substances are more likely to be banned. That's why tobacco isn't banned, but heroin is. I would have thought that was obvious to everyone. Apparently not.

(And yes, obviously the laws aren't entirely consistent on this. They should be, but they aren't. That's not a valid refutation of my main point.)
The kind of refactoring you need to do depends on the language, but it seems like multimethods will have their own issues. I don't have experience with this, but suppose you decide to split a multimethod into two separate operations because on second thought, they shouldn't have the same name after all? How do you fix all the callers?
I don't think the central valley of California is classified as a desert, it may be dry in the summer but it's not a desert.
You should rename the thread "Gitlab put on hold their GraphQL implementation due to Facebook patent" for better visibility.

Gitlab Senior Director of Legal Affairs said:

"If we were to allow this license, it could lead to potential future conflicts with software licensed under Apache. Also, we could be impairing the future rights of our customers. Essentially, this is not really an open source product based on the implications of the license. While there is no payment of cash, payment is in the form of giving up future rights."
If your phone can't upgrade to 11 you may very well get security updates, this has been the case in the past. I don't know what's the situation is like when you can but won't update to a new major version.
My cousin adopted a kid from near the US Mexican border.

She told me when they first brought him home (he was 5), that he could barely speak, was terrified and kept screaming "oda!".

They thought perhaps Oda was the name of his brother who was sold into slavery by his birth mother.

He was unrelenting in his crys. Finally, exhausted, my cousins husband sat down at 3am and opened a Coke to drink. The boy pointed and screamed "oda!".

He wanted Soda. They gave him some and his entire nervous system relaxed and he could goto sleep.

He was raised in a drug house, spent most of his life locked in a closet with little food and plenty of feces.. and his mother bottle fed him soda.

When they adopted him he was like a feral animal, hiding and picking food out of the trash.

He's now 9 and doing much better (they had to ween him off soda). He's relaxed and is in a loving and safe home.

But fuck sakes, I don't think most of us have any idea the horror that many people are facing on a daily basis.
Is there innovation in Block Chain? Yes.

Are crypto-currencies over inflated? Yes.

We can see the path from commodity currency, to paper, to fiat was a long and messy road history makes this clear. While in all likelihood crypto may very well supplant fiat the likelihood it'll happen in 1-2 generations is slim.

Furthermore if history is a guide the replacement of Fiat by crypto will likely happen by mistake, or in such a small way few will notice.
I wonder how long the Crown Vic will be out of production before it stops being the most popular make/model.
I worry a lot about how these megacorps will treat "collaborators" vs "non collaborators" in the coming years. Obviously you can't just outright buy everyone, but they seem to be increasingly abusive towards technologies and teams that aren't on board with their interests and ideology.

Actually I'm more worried about how Facebook and Amazon treat non compliance, but Google sure seems to be getting shadier every day.

This combined with the W3C evolving into a corrupt entity just makes me want to get out of tech completely. Maybe if I could get some awesome dev job at the EFF?
What are you reading? (2017)
Right now I'm reading:

1. The Mesh: Why the future of business is sharing - Lisa Gansky

2. Thrive, The third metric to redefining success - Arianna Huffington

3. The Distracted Mind, Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
By Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen

4. The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
msconfig has been around since at least XP.
I am out of the loop. How did Silicon Valley ruin his life?
I know it counts as a tweak, but install spectacles and never bother about the window controls again - last time I clicked one was, um, not actually sure it's been so long!
> It does sound like there's some configuration involved after all

How is "schedule a script to run @daily" or whatever schedule you want, at all match up to what you suggested is required:

>> You should not need the amount of specialized knowledge you currently need to correctly configure OCSP on HAProxy or nginx, for example.

If you're configuring a public facing server, a cronjob should not be considered "specialised knowledge".

> it should just work, by default

HAProxy and nginx do a fucking shit ton more than Caddy does. HAProxy doesn't really have a "default" you have to tell it what you want to do, specifically. This is a good thing.

> I'm not sure who "you people" are, and I never made any such claim.

>> By doing renewals automatically, Caddy's HTTPS implementation is more reliable and robust than doing it manually.

>> Failure to renew a certificate (for any number of reasons) and missing intermediate certificates are the most common issues,

You're both giving the impression that Caddy is able to automatically renew certificates, while no other software does this.

> I have yet to see you explain why this should be necessary.

Off the top of my head:

- Separation of concerns. I don't ask my mechanic to build me a car, or to drive me to the shops in it.

- Not every organisation uses LetsEncrypt certificates. Some will even use self-signed certificates.

- TCP or DNS load-balanced environments will want the exact same certificate & key on multiple servers.

- Caddy has already shown that trusting some "automagic" solution can bite you in the ass. Remember that time Caddy wouldn't even start, even though it had perfectly valid certificate material in it's cache, because LE was down?

> The web server has all the information it needs to do this.

HAProxy doesn't know the email address I'd want LetsEncrypt to use for notifications. It also shouldn't be agreeing to LE's terms on my behalf.

> This is like arguing MongoDB should continue to bind to all interfaces by default because everyone should have firewalls in place.

No, it isn't.

I'm sorry but you simply don't get the choice of arguing anything about how creating a fucking cronjob is "too hard" when Caddy doesn't even ship with a configuration to start as a service.

"I know I just had to google the shit out of how to create a systemd unit, but fuck it, it's better than writing a damned cron job for oscp staples!"
At least we use credit cards at all. I was surprised to learn recently that buying things in Japan in still a largely cash-based experience. It's lead to some weird consequences, like a ridiculously high number of vending machines per capita (1 for every 23 people).
Walmart has high taxes(profit) because it has run out of ideas. Amazon has low taxes(profit) because it reinvests almost everything it makes.

> Wal-Mart's pretax income since 2008 has totaled $209 billion, Amazon's less than $11 billion.

Of course many unprofitable companies invest poorly, but Amazon's massive sustained growth indicates they've invested well.
Hardening Apache Struts with SELinux
WebSphere Liberty is open-sourced
We're at the peak of the Gartner's Hype Cycle for comparisons between tulip mania and bitcoin.
Justin Bieber Revamped Leaked Remake Immediately Goes Viral
The original vision for hypertext absolutely had multiple "browsers/clients" and feature parity between them was not even remotely an issue.

The idea was that you tell the server what capabilities you have, it then tells you what it wants to offer you and a negotiation ensues.

I have no idea where this concept of a "standardized hypertext client" came from! ;-)
Because it screws with the surrounding environment if you do it incorrectly? Sometimes people forget externalities are a thing!
They are certainly valid points, and the second one especially so, but the current situation can't go on.
Maybe. Though if you ban meth that's >60% pure but allow meth <60% pure, really all you're doing is drawing the line on what is allowed and what isn't in a slightly different location. The linked article seems to be arguing that all drugs should be legal, regardless of how addictive they are or are not.
> Typescript adds types (and requires programmers to keep them in mind.)

Programs without TypeScript also require programmers to keep types in mind - it's just that those in those programs there's no way for a computer to verify that the programmer got the types right, and no unified way for a person to write down the types involved at any given point in their program.
It's not $10B worth of tech or business model. It's $10M worth of tech, and $9.99B worth of minds with your foot in the door already.
> You can't tax what you can't track.

Most cryptocurrencies are actually quite trackable. Significantly more trackable than fiat currencies. There are notable exceptions like Monero and currencies specifically meant to protect privacy, but the vast majority are quite public.
>Gorsuch, for example, often bases his arguments and decisions[1] on the moral framework of Dworkin[1] and Singer[2], just to name two of the biggest modern moral philosophers, regularly.

I don't think that changing Dworkin's or Singer's mind on an issue would proceed to strongly affect Gorsuch's views. I think he'd just find another philosopher to cite, because his ultimate views are political rather than moral.
my understanding is that is absolutely not true. Apple doesn't have $90B or whatever sitting in a bank vault in Ireland. That money goes to a bank in NY, and Apple has access to it and uses it, though that money can't be used freely as money which Apple has paid US taxes on. It is still part of the economy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-apple-profits/
> > The problem is that when we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organisations that run the machines.

Ah, there we go. The writer was taking me around the real garden path, and I bounced. It's a stupendously important point, and really doesn't require most of the build up to get there.
Taxes would still get paid on capital gains when Apple's stock price goes up. As long you raise the capital gains tax to compensate for getting rid of the corporate income tax, that scenario doesn't cause any problems.
Cryptsetup: Frequently Asked Questions
Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming
Yeah, apparently I'm underpaid by half...
Not sure how it works on other OSs, but in my experience on Linux, Chromium is installed without Widevine DRM, Flash, or any proprietary stuff, and if you want that you have to install it separately.
BTC was the one and only crypto currency to exist I'd think it has some value. However when there are many crypto currencies why does BTC have any value?

Eg if ETH starts being used for most transactions, and BTC started crashing in value would anyone feel a need to keep it?
From what I can tell, this is all opensource using their publicly documented API. That is, you could implement the same support for GCP in your own auth backend product, and you could implement the same support for your own cloud platform in Vault.
So… I don't really get what you're talking about in this context.
> But they did debut alongside the iPhone X, and because of that almost nobody is excited about them...

Only thing I don't agree with on this post. Because of the price tag, and the notch -- mostly -- the X hasn't impressed me much. The 8, and 8Plus, on the other hand, are closer to what I was expecting: an iPhone with upgraded hardware, and unique features (compared to the previous versions).
As usual, failing to take into account equity and bonuses makes this less useful. Salary is <= 50% of the story for most senior roles.
The Science and Art of Mapping Animal Movements
As soon as I read this, two words came to mind:

Capital flight.

A growing number of Chinese nationals has been using Bitcoin to siphon money out of China over the past several years.[1][2]

Not surprisingly, the Chinese government is cracking down on this innovative form of capital flight.

[1] http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1891021-how-chinese-use-bitc...

[2] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/chinese-inv...
Thank you for that link.

The summary doesn't mention 'grass-fed', only 'wagyu'; wagyu is intensively grain-fed in the last year of their life or so.

To quote from a quickly-googled article:

"What many people overlook is that farmers make Wagyu as fatty as possible by feeding their cows huge amounts of grain for the last 300-500 days of their lives. Some farmers even add wine and beer to further increase fat content. The result is that a wagyu cow’s muscle tissue is thoroughly marbled with fat. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of fat that is not good for you. The mold toxins in all that grain are bad for the cow and end up in its fat, and then in you, which would mean wagyu beef has a disproportionately high toxin load."
What is Google Analytics used for?
What a missed opportunity to gather data on all the countries they don't support yet by at least allowing you to see how you are vs the supported countries and using the data to start supporting more.
Sure, that's likely the case and its an impressive piece of software. But.. that doesn't stop it from looking dated. Then again, maybe people used to developing in assembly (ie the target users) don't mind or are used to worse looking tools (eg when I was doing microcontroller development, most tools were pretty bad and dated looking, some newer ones used eclipse/netbeans for better or worse).
Q&A with Aaron Batalion on Product, Tech, Growth in Early-Stage Consumer Startups
I thought of myself as somewhat overpaid, but the 50th percentile for my job/location/experience was $5k off from my actual salary. Now I want to check out the listings. Part of the point, perhaps?
Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, are you satisfied?
I'm interested in the opinion of React Native from companies who chose to build their mobile apps with React Native and have been doing so for at least a year. RN passes the first-week smell test really well. How has it held up for you in production? How has it held up for dev teams of ~10 or more? Pros and cons?

I run a mobile team of ~30 folks. In 2015 we experimented with RN for 3 months before deciding that it was not a good fit for us. I'm interested in stories from the alternate reality where we took the react-native path instead.

I'm NOT particularly interested in stories about single devs making prototypes for a weekend. React Native has a delightful experience for this use-case, but it does not directly transfer to being a good experience for a larger team with serious product goals.

Thanks
> That's it's entire goal: that everyone will be able to own all their own content instead of data being stuck in BookFace silos.

How is this any different to just running your own site?
Many of us analysts who are deep in the game recognize that China is simply shutting them all down to start its own cryptocurrency that (probably) has ID/government name linked to it.
This isn't new news. It was suspected/known 2 weeks ago and it tanked the price from ~4700 to ~3000, before it rebounded.
On top of all the technical details, you also have to abide by all the new AppStore policies to even get approved.
iTerm2 3.1.0 Changelog
CPython internals: Arbitrary-precision integer implementation
>Godel and Turing demonstrating the limits of some systems are actually giving philosophy of science results.

The Halting Problem doesn't really touch on phil-of-sci concerns, which are chiefly about how to do empirical reasoning correctly. You don't need to deductively solve deductively unsolvable problems to do empirical prediction and control correctly.
If you imagine a world where alcohol is illegal and replace every instance of drugs in your comment with alcohol, I think you could begin to understand how legalizing the distribution of drugs - just like alcohol - would solve a lot of problems.

How often do you hear about gun battles over alcohol?
Tulip mania was caused by the government changing futures contracts into options. The mania happened in these financial instruments, not actual tulip bulb prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Legal_changes

Many bubbles are caused by government actions. Our own housing bubble was fomented by numerous bad policies.

Bitcoin is not a creature of government but is actively opposed by many of them.
Except some chip transactions are just the same data as mag swipe so even a chip only card isn't going to prevent skimming and subsequent fraud.
I am working on building my own on-demand video delivery (hosting/transcoding/streaming) platform. I looked for an existing open source alternative but couldn't find any. Either there are proprietary options (wowza etc.) or you go with providers such as Wistia, Vimeo etc. that are great but limited when it comes to fully customizing what you want.

If I am happy enough, I will open source it :)
> Why not just simply ban cars from cities in general?

Your solution is too complicated and will not work. Why not just 'simply' build a bunch of cities on Mars and relocate?
And tulips are still being bought and sold. Bubbles tend to have a life of their own, regardless of the MacGuffin they are organized around.

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

I don't know about cryptocurrencies in general, but ICOs seem to me to be mostly foam.
> The thing is, macOS is objectively worse than Linux in certain respects

Maybe, but one of the most important aspects to me (managing multiple monitors with different DPIs), Linux is a joke.
ETH itself has never been "hacked"...
Ask HN: What are some good resources for building user communities?
But the fact that they have 3 distinct personalities also makes the show interesting, rather than many other podcasts where people just agree with each other (like the aforementioned Talk Show)
It's not yet, but this is on our short list!
Mir support for Wayland
I've been thinking the same. Are there any consumer-oriented products that lets you pick your own index?

As in: you select the stocks and their proportion and supply the money/demand money out, and stocks are then bought/sold automatically?

Say I want to follow index X, but I don't want stocks in oil or coal companies because I believe they're going to die before I need the money out. There doesn't seem to me to be an easy way to build that customized index.

I guess you need a low-fee stock broker and an algorithm that's aware of the fees for this to not end up drowning in fees.
The are many many angles to look at cryptocurrencies that make that assertion not true. For example, beyond the ICO mania, cryptocurrencies make the dream of a global Kickstarter possible. Many people from developed countries don't realize how difficult is to have something like this globally.

Another important difference is that part of the community is self sustainable and doesn't depend on external funding.
This is exactly what it is. 1.08 million liters of water, sounds like a lot, but needs to be put into context of other uses of water.

Agriculture is one of the biggest uses of water. The average US irrigated farm uses 1.6 [0] acre-feet of water per acre of land. Since 1.08 million liters is ~0.9 acre-feet of water. Coca-Cola is using 319.6 acre-feet of water a year which is equivalent water usage, in average, to an 178 acre farm. This is a very modest farm.

This wasn't Coca-Cola we were talking about, but a small 178 acre family farm. This discussion wouldn't be happening.

If you want to complain about Coca-Cola, fine. Perhaps attack it business practices or its contribution to obesity, but it is disingenuous to attack its use of water, when the amount of water used is a very small fraction of farm and industrial uses of water.

[0] - https://ageconomists.com/2015/04/20/acres-and-acre-feet-a-lo...
This argument makes no sense. "If the euro exists, why does the dollar have value?"

Edit: The above is a rhetorical question.
But where in the form do I put in the fact that I use spaces instead of tabs, to let them know that I should be making more?
"would anyone fell a need to keep it?"

BTC holders, at least.
The southern part is. Further north, it's classified as a Mediterranean climate. I'd suggest the western side is a desert as well. It's only possible to grow crops there by importing water from the northern part of the state. With out that water, it would look like dry mountains to the immediate west along I-5. It only averages a few inches of rain per year.
Prob best thing I ever coded: See Webpack build progress in your Mac Touchbar
ETH has never been hacked. In fact, it can't be hacked. What you mean to say is that DAPPs can be hacked. DAPP's can have unintended functionality that can be exploited, but that has nothing to do with ETH. It would be like going back to the mid 90s and saying, "this World Wide Web thing will never work because it keeps getting hacked." Doesn't make any sense, it illustrates your unfamiliarity with the subject.