skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Versioning is not currently built into Jigsaw, but Jigsaw provides all the building blocks necessary to support it in third-party tools.

If I need third-party tools to validate my dependency graph at compile time and at runtime to ensure "reliable configuration" then why do I need Jigsaw at all? That's the current state of affairs with Java already, Jigsaw provides no value.

> Plus the entire development was done in the open, in an open source project with an active mailing list

Ostensibly. There is a difference between having an open mailing list (where people could give feedback and get a superficial thank you before getting ignored) and a readonly repository and actual open development. Quite frankly I find it telling that in 2017 we have to stress that there was and open mailing list and readonly repository. The most important thing, the decision process, was completely intransparent and all Oracle/Sun internal.

> and frequent prototypes.

Which weren't useful because none of the frameworks, libraries and tools would support it.
Ex-NSA hacker drops macOS High Sierra zero-day hours before launch
It might be cheaper to get a mini-ITX build instead. It is larger than the NUC form-factor, but allows for much more expansion if you ever feel like it.

I just did a build, and was considering the NUC, but it was prohibitively costlier for not a lot of improvement, other than the form factor.
The UK is inching its way towards a police state step by step. Well done!
Download link is live now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id12462847...
Not sure if you're saying I'm just making things up - here are some of the first links off a quick google:

- http://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/tractor-tyres-make-sure-your-...

- https://www.agribrink.com/

- http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/field/news/croptal...

Now I'm not a soil scientist, but I am a programmer who's for the last year or so been programming models for assessing soil threat risks, including soil compaction (one of the biggest soil threats in agriculture); and work with some of the world's foremost expert scientists in this field, as well as with representatives of e.g. machine manufacturers. They all say that compaction is mostly due to increases in weight of machinery, and that proper tire pressure is the most important mitigation measure we have available. Liquid-filled tires are never mentioned in this context, it's a rarity.

You claim that 'most' tractors run liquid filled tires - I'm not sure what you're basing that on, or what locality you're talking about, but while I do not have any numbers at hand, I have never heard of this being something other than an incidental thing. For example, the Michelin site (http://agricultural.michelinman.com/us/Properly-use-your-tir...) mentions it as a possibility, but not as something that 'most' tractors would have.
This is probably off-topic for an interview with the "Director of Product Management – Revenue" but having started using Tinder I'm a little shocked at how buggy the app is for such a huge moneymaker.

I'm on iOS, so maybe Android gets all the QA... er, love.

(Also I'm pretty sure one's view of the Tinderverse is skewed to enhance the subscription, um, stickiness. Which might not be so off-topic.)
I think this article ignores some of the other tenants of Amazon's corporate strategy. While Amazon is an online shopping behemoth, they are also expanding in to AI, web hosting and Platforms as a Service, financing, robotics, logistics, and lord knows what else. I think if you want a more accurate foil to Amazon, you should look at Alibaba.
Nobody is suggesting that Uber did anything illegal, their licence to operate is being revoked.
Well the way they have ChromeOS support Android apps is by putting effectively the whole Android framework in a container.

Taking this a step further would not surprise me the least.
Blockchain Disrupting Electric Utilitie
> Craftsman used to be tools that would last you for decades, but you paid. Now it’s the same crap everyone else is selling with a different logo thrown on.

Only certain items. They certainly have fallen victim to slapping the Craftsman label on cheap plastic "things" out of desperation which has definitely impacted their reputation as of late, but for those of us who can't pay Snap-on prices for everything what remains of Sears' actual tools are still light years better than the malleable/rusty junk Lowe's, Home Depot, Amazon and Walmart sell.
With this article and these comments, I feel like I've been transported back in time 3-4 years.
It will try to keep new photos photos locally, but it doesn't seem to be downloading old pictures unless I zoom into them.
When did you turn 18? I started college in August 1999 and nobody I knew had any trouble getting a credit card. Many fraternities and sororities used credit card applications to freshmen as fundraisers. It was typically a $1000-$1500 credit limit. Some people I knew had $10k in credit card debt by the time they graduated...
The Asus VIVO PC line is physically larger, but has some models with space for a 3.5" hard drive, and is still not terribly large.
So it's a 12 month probation, not sure exactly what conditional discharge means in the UK but it sounds a lot like probation from a quick search, and a fine for what seems to amount to a contempt of court charge? Not sure why this is particularly remarkable.
I would disagree with regards to the usability of knobs. They represent the information that would otherwise be presented in a numeric text box or a slider in a much more compact space (since it's angular vs. linear displacement) and the mouse based interaction generally is the same as a slider (grab and then move vertically to change or move vertically with a modifier for fine grained movement).

There are applications out there which use angular drag/mouse information when grabbing knobs, but they are the tiny minority (and as you can guess there's all sorts of issues doing so).
Easier to write, yes, but only outside of emacs (and anything with good snippet support). Within emacs, <s TAB expands to

#+BEGIN_SRC |

#+END_SRC

with the cursor placed to specify a language.

As for readability, I don't think it's clear at all that ```...``` beats

#+BEGIN_SRC perl
...
#+END_SRC

* * *

As it turns out, I hadn't refreshed the page for hours, and someone else said pretty much the same five hours before.
Creating a Simple REST API with ExpressJS in 5min
I was going off of what was presented in the text. Guess I'm not allowed to have an opinion unless I've done extensive research.

Y'all are making me feel really welcome here.
Seems increasingly clear that you should never cross a border carrying sensitive data. Encrypt and transfer it separately.
They used the same "counter-terrorism" law to confiscate David Miranda's laptop and other possessions, as well as detain him for 9 hours.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-...

It's a shame UK doesn't have a real constitution. It would probably help prevent some of this bullshit. Maybe it's time the British people start asking for one.
Anecdotally, when I went appliance shopping 8 years ago I went to Sears not Best Buy. When I went tool shopping I preferred the lifetime guarantee of Craftsman. I wasn’t a pre-existing customer. I live within ~30 minutes of three large malls that all seem to be doing well. There is a Sears Hardware store that just closed in the last couple years.
But they are very different experiences. Amazon is the grand prize winner in the contest of looking up something you already know you want to buy, bundling it up with some shampoo you forgot to pick up at the grocery store earlier, and having all of that on your doorstep in two days.

Amazon's Achilles Heel is browsing. Their selection may feature 100,000 relevant items to my search but I seem to only find shitty versions of products, or at too high prices, regardless of how I mess with the search filter.

Target is great when you have an idea of what you might like to buy: you can try on shoes, sit on furniture, feel the bedsheets - you get the idea.

Sometimes the hassle of not getting the right size/feel of a product bought online, and having to repackage it and wait for another delivery simply isn't worth it compared to driving out to your local Suburban Mall Hell to just go and buy things like mom and dad used to do.
I've manually tried to hack together a few favicons. This seems like a way better solution if, like me, you don't have much design skill.
My kids enjoyed this: http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/
Yeah, my initial thought was some sort of automated weaving that would shape panels with more threads for the different parts of my body. With a nice amount of thought put into bias and joints. Some techwear companies are doing things kind of like this, looser knit (but the same fit) around the armpits to help ventilation on t-shirts for example.
The article makes a huge deal about the Goldwater rule but it was relaxed back in July ( https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/25/psychiatry-goldwater-rul... )
How to Overcome the “diversity barriers”
Triplebyte is running this ad on Reddit
How I stopped procrastinating, learned to code, and launched my first product
That's a "lifestyle" business, and it's very appealing. I don't want billions, I just want to work for someone else.

One curious thing is it's more selfish than a startup - after all, you're doing it for you, not for the business. You want it to be sustainable, so the ugliness of competition is relevant sooner. One pg essay likens a startup to a charity, and some, like Craigslist retain some of that quality, helping a lot of people without making as much money as they could.

Note: I'm not criticizing you for wanting this. I'd like it too, I just haven't found a way of doing it that doesn't become nasty. YMMV.
I think you meant "who still starts new projects with jQuery?", and you got a bunch of replies to "who still maintains jQuery codebases?".
So is your problem with the language or that people tend to think about what is relevant to their lives?

Are you actually concerned or was this just an attempt to show off how much superior you are?
That's what I thought myself, but then I realized pictures put into shared albums are actually copied - you can delete the original and it's still available in the shared album, at 0 cost to your iCloud storage.

It's kind of a nice feature, but at the same time it makes doing things like collecting photos from my wife for a photo book annoying.
Most of us (on HN) probably still feel relatively safe in our mostly-functioning democracies oceans away from the country, but the way that China casually blocks any service which it's not easily able control or monitor is fairly terrifying.

China's almost 1.4 billion people now. It's been removing possible channels of dissent one by one, and even recent history shows that they're not afraid to treat anyone who steps out of line with extreme prejudice.

The controlling government's been in an advantageous position for some time now in that living conditions in the country have been improving rapidly for a lot of the population (i.e. moving from rural poverty to middle-class by world standards), but you have to wonder what would happen if things tapered off. Large-scale unrest might be treated with the kind of brutality that the world hasn't seen in decades, and the country's citizens would have few safe channels through which to organize.
My Experience with Substance Designer in Web 3D – Hacker Noon
I am always disappointed at the lack of effort put into discussing what "launch early" really means. For example, let's say you're making a Word Processor[0]. Surely, putting up nothing more than a download page where people can Stripe their $10 for a copy is not sufficient. There must be a lot more to the story, because there are a lot of projects that have done just that and have gone nowhere.

It's always made to sound like you can "just launch now". But there must be some sort of apparatus in place to promote the product and take advantage of the attention given to the product. Constructing this apparatus must be a significant undertaking, or else more people would do it. So one can't "just" launch. There is still significant work to do up front, it just might not necessarily be programming of your product.

[0] Just for example. Call it, "consumer-oriented software", rather than any sort of SaaS or open-source library or any other sort of software offering.
How will Space X pay for Mars? StarLink
"Warning: This installer is attempting to replace core Windows files. Do you want to allow it to do this?"

This better but in reality most users will still have no clue what it means.
I Listened to Emotionally Vulnerable Strangers on Reddit
They can't decide to stop any more than you can decide to stop breathing or eating. They can certainly say they will stop and they can certainly try, but actually stopping on a permanent bases seems elusive.

I would say most addicts don't want to be addicts at some point, yet they are still addicts.

I'm addicted to nicotine since I was 12 and I don't want to be, yet I am. I've quit a few times for a few months, but always get triggered back into starting up again.
Ajit Pai should be fired, petition says before Senate re-confirmation vote
Prodigy was not text-only; it was mixed text and graphics, and 9600 modems were cheap and 14.4 modems were widely available in 1993.
New dime-sized YubiKey adds more mobility to authentication keys
Have you been in contact with him?
I recently put together a Threadripper PC. Overclocked to 4.0ghz (stable) using a Noctua air cooler, my machine beats both these processors in the multi-threaded CineBench 15 benchmark (3288cb vs 3281cb & 3083cb.) Single core is a bit slower (161cb vs 189cb.)

This is my first AMD system in ages and I can't say I'm disappointed, performance is great, value is better than Intel's offerings.

CineBench / UserBenchmark screenshots: https://ibb.co/mapRUQ
I wipe and clean everything before crossing a border, encrypting and storing in the cloud, or encrypt and fedex.
Holdover from the arcade days where games were competing to 'attract' players.
Don't forget the real estate shenanigans.

1. Slowly but steadily run the retail operation into the ground.

2. Sell the real estate to your own REIT, and use the proceeds to prop up the stores - but now they're on the hook for rent.

3. Continue running the stores into the ground, and when they inevitably can't make the rent, shut them down. Your REIT now holds a lot of prime real estate that can be sold or rented to others.
I've got a tiny corner to the left or right of my dock that they're free to use.
I don't think that's at all true. There are many large organisations that spend a significant amount on staffing and marketing, masquerading as charities. The state-sponsored ones are some of the worst, as they're recycling taxpayers' money to lobby the governments that pay them, with a revolving door of lucrative executive and lobbying jobs keeping it all afloat.
Would you agree or disagree that YC looks for high value potential more than just a successful start up? I'm thinking of the top post here and that's prompting my question.
Japan’s Regulators Are Putting Bitcoin Exchanges Under Heavy Surveillance
It's a monopoly for those users * innumerable_similar_niches.

Which translates into a pretty large part of the small business market that doesn't have any de facto choice.

And WINE et al. aren't a scalable solution because invariably these things depend on odd Windows quirks and/or are generally terrible from a code/standards quality perspective. And there's functionally no way to address that because the historical-Windows-in-fact API is "every odd behavior every release of Windows has had over the years."
I turned 18 about two years ago. Things might be different now because of the credit CARD act of 2009 which makes it slightly harder to take advantage of younger people (giving a $1500 card to people who have never had credit before and don't know how important it is to pay off the balance in full seems particularly evil)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009

>Consumers under the age of 21 must prove that they have an independent income or get a co-signer before applying for a credit card. The Act also prevents credit card companies from ... wooing students with T-shirts, free pizza and other free gifts at university-sponsored events
Expose (or whatever the hell it's called now) is significantly faster on my 2015 5K iMac, the animation used to lag with as little as 6 windows on my workspace, I've seen it handle around 24 now without dropping frames. The upgrade to Metal 2 for WindowServer is a pretty nice performance boost.
> We have a problem with the distribution of wealth and this is where the anger comes from.

This is a tractable problem for a society that has the capacity for reasonable public discourse. This is a completely intractable problem for a society obsessed with hot takes.
This is a much more elegant solution. Thanks.
can you provide an example link to the data.
Terrific article. My company is full of these people.
My (admittedly fuzzy) understanding is that while running a DNN is a very parallel problem, training it (back-propagation, in particular) is not and is thought to be susceptible to quantum speedup. Google's work in quantum computing is motivated by the same application.
If I'd like to stick with HFS+ for now, do I have the option to during the upgrade? I dual boot with Windows and I'm worried about something getting messed up and am not sure if there's a way to read APFS from Windows yet (I back up of course, but want to avoid potential issues)
OK so in the next release it might make human arms look more buff, teeth whiter, and faces friendlier-looking. Is this really a good thing?
This is an interesting idea to me. I'm also working on some web music-learning ideas so I thought I would check this out. I have played guitar for about 20 years but found this game to be nearly impossible. Granted, I don't know the fretboard well, I tend to be more of a chord-strummer, tab reader type.

I found that just when I was starting to succeed at hitting a note or two, the game ended. I tried using a lower tempo, but that did not seem to extend the duration of the game.

I also agree somewhat with a previous (controversial, deleted commenter) that the use of "bro" in the title of the game is off-putting. To many, the word bro may not register as negative, but when you live outside of the testosterone-fuelled brotherdom, it sticks out like an unwelcoming red flag.
Linux System Call Table
Thank you for posting this. It was very interesting to watch. I love seeing other areas of CS that I don't get to touch in my daily job.
Thanks! Yeah probably not mainstream smash hit.
>But you can spend months on a project and it fail and not make any money from it. Whether a product fails for a company you work for, you still get paid.

Totally agree. I'm saying it's better to own something (that makes the same or more money) than to work for someone.

>It has never in 20+ years taken me more than a month from the time I started looking to getting a comparable job or better.

Yes, I'm mostly the same. I had a hard time during the dot bomb because I was in a city and industry heavily affected by the circumstances at that time, but other than that, it's easy. I'm still working at the whim of the industry that is doing it's damnedest to push wages down. I also have to deal with a lot of processes (and people) that I don't like and know are counter-productive.

Also, our current employment situation probably won't last forever.
arguing with " I would say those fears are not unfounded." - so you :)

We can agree on your last sentence though: "In other words, if you are a liberal and you can't think of a single conservative position you agree with, or if you are a conservative and you can't think of a single liberal position you agree with, you are on the Koolaid." If people can't look beyond party for ANY position, we are in trouble.
> Here's the really cool part: each round trip actually generates electricity. Because the e-Dumper goes up the mountain empty and descends carrying 71 tons (65 tonnes) of rock, it captures 40kWh on the way to the cement works via regenerative braking. But climbing back up to the quarry only requires 30kWh, so every trip will feed an extra 10kWh into the local electricity grid. Not bad when you then consider that the e-Dumper will be doing that trip 20 times a day.

We finally found it... FREE ENERGY!
Well at least the interest rate was only around 30% 
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[edit] The end of the story for me:

The credit card I got from that was amazingly bad. I had a bill put in the wrong mailbox in my dorm, so didn't get it until 3 days before it was due. I called up customer service:

Me: I can mail this today, but it is unlikely to make it there by the due date, I've always paid my bills on time, can I get a 1 week extension

CS: We can do an ACH for $20 or you will pay a late fee if the check you mail is even a day late.

Me: Seriously?

CS: Yes

Me: Okay, do that and cancel my account.

CS: Okay.

It's like they didn't even want me as a customer if I was going to pay my bills every week. Not a single attempt to retain me when I canceled my account. At this point, I had a Discover card, the CS reps for which were very kind, and my bank had just gotten my debit card on the Mastercard network (previously it was only an ATM card), so I had no absolute need for their card. Had this happened a few months earlier I might not have been willing to cancel as so many places don't take Discover.
Wow, radar gesture sensing.
I found this article to be a bit more informative than the one submitted here.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/23/police-schedule-7-uk-rab...
Do think Darktable is the best bet unfortunately - donate/contribute/cross-fingers-hope-for-the-best!?
Innocent until proven guilty.Uber respected due process expecting that if the allegation are true the police would have arrested the man.
Uber is not a court, it does not and in my opinion should not have the right to play judge.
> The Silicon Valley definition of startup is "company designed to grow fast"[1].

No, that's the Paul Graham definition.
The real problem is JQuery isn't modular and it is tightly coupled with your code.
“The Met has retained Rabbani’s phone and laptop and is continuing its efforts to examine the contents.”

I'm guessing that means that it's encrypted and, since he still hasn't given them the password, they are stuck.

The fine, the cost of a laptop and phone... altogether, I can't see this stopping terrorists, just making people's lives worse.
To add to this: the Nexus 5 was released a month after the 5S. That phone got its last official update last year, I believe. It was also discontinued a full year before the 5S.

Granted, the 5S started at 4GB for 500 USD and the Nexus 5 started at 16GB for 350 USD.

Still, it's hard to support the "planned obsolescence" argument.

Edit: grammar.
That thinking is a little dated IMO, but even 6 years ago:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-driv...

(where's ssd's 'hotness' is more important than their 'craziness')
> separate tab in the photo app

Where is this? Which OS? I believe the composition optimization is not something you can turn off.

What's the difference between optimizing the landscape composition and modifying a composition of a face to make it look more friendly, or modifying a picture of arms to make them look more buff?