skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is unfinished. To prevent a media backlash over non-final policy.
Re your last part - is that fair? It's very common that programmers have to end up maintaining code written in languages they don't like, due to the original authors moving on, lack of better jobs in their area, whatever.

People advocate against Go partly because they'd rather not have to work on Go codebases in future.
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> Nor have I ever heard anyone wish out loud that their phone was more like their Microsoft Windows computer

The one place I want microsoft to succeed is smartphones. Android spies on basically everything you do. Both android and iOS are vendor lock-in in a way we've never seen before. Compared to the current smartphone OS offerings, Windows was (and is) an incredibly open platform.
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I believe OP is trying to say that capitalism and communism pertain to who owns [the] property while free markets and socialism pertain to who/how/what gets produced.
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> if we see Microsoft making tangible changes to their behavior, and we reward that with more derision and distrust, then we aren't exactly incentivizing them - or anyone wathcing - to do more

Well, if we are speaking of incentives, then here's one ...

Don't screw with open source or open standards or your legitimate competitors by unfair competition, because many people will never forget it, so don't be surprised if 10 years later you still have a negative image that lingers, in spite of your huge marketing department that keeps paying shills.

This is much like in society really. If somebody screws me or my family, I'll probably cut all ties with that person forever. Being marginalized is a natural reaction. Why should companies have their cake and eat it too?
The title is pretty misleading. $5,000 is the price after government incentives. After some digging, I found this page with the pre-incentives price:

http://www.chinamobil.ru/eng/saic/baojun/e100/?view=props

If that's correct, then it starts at 93,900CNY which is currently a bit over $14,000.

Still quite cheap (the Smart ED, which I believe is the cheapest EV you can buy in the US at the moment, is $26,000) but not nearly as cheap as the title implies.
Chip and pin switch is the best case. Think about all your other accounts. Gas, power, water, fines, etc.

Also i don't know have ever been involved in an "it upgrade" project and what it means to have the gas pumps now do different things. I want life to not be like that, but I think you would find its a bit harder than you are imagining.
The actual list as published by the China Netcasting Services Association on 2017-06-30:

Original: http://www.cnsa.cn/2017/06/30/ARTI0Qg4cp7jtd1Z5o0RnfzM170630...

English (via Google Translate): https://goo.gl/j7ii74
Jitbit: growing a “shareware” side project into a $160k/month business
>Why is Nytimes so concerned about China while failing completely to put the spotlight on the burgeoning surveillance culture at home?

But the NYT reports on those issues all the time. You likely know about them precisely because of their articles.

>Who is going to talk about draconian surveillance, secret courts, secret orders, gag orders and government officials empowered to violate your dignity and privacy by searching your phone and personal effects. Why is Snowden still in Russia? Are we to pretend all this is not happening?

The NYT also reports on these all the time. In fact, it was the NYT that broke the story on surveillance programs like Stellar Wind in the mid-Bush era that laid the groundwork for Snowden's later revelations about the details of these programs.

This is hysterical nonsense. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about in the slightest.
I always liked Windows Phone. It was a truly unique and refreshing alternative to iOS, not the carbon copy that Android is.
alias p='git pull'

why type 8 characters 100 times a day, when you can type 1?
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That sounds a lot more like people who are trying super hard to become full-time workers.

That the situation one of my college buddies (and all his fellow contractors) endured for a couple years. They did everything the normal workers did, but since they were technically "contractors" in title, everyone treated them like second-class citizens. (Caveat: Major japanese company--but still in the USA.)

If that's not the case with yours, I'm glad they're not in the same situation. My friend eventually moved up to one of the top contracters and still couldn't get into the company proper so he had to seek employment elsewhere.
Except incidents of major crime also decreased, if you continue reading.
The problem with China is that while 'protecting' themselves from 'evil West' they keep doing to other countries (in Africa and Asia) the same things they are protecting themselves from.
Rust would use less memory than Go. (Dropbox also likes Go and used Rust over Go for the storage layer, and when asked, memory usage was their primary reason.)
I try to answer this every time the question is asked; my last attempt seemed to be satisfactory to most people so easiest to just link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070904
But the web lacks a standard layout and design tooling that all these other platforms have had for a long time.
The responsibility of proving safety can belong to the compiler or it could belong to the programmer. The compiler can do a very good job, but there are edge cases where your code can become convoluted and things aren't expressed easily. The programmer can do a good job of expressing things, but is usually not able to prove safety of large blocks.

unsafe blocks are just a compromise where the programmer only has to prove safety of small blocks of code which aren't easily expressed in the type system.
I am totally not interested in what PS4 or Xbox has to offer and will probably get one only when the prospect of porting one of my games to those consoles will be good enough to justify it (and that'll need them in some devkit form probably anyway).

On the other hand, I'm eagerly looking for more details about Ataribox. I only have a laptop(s) with Intel GPUs and I'm more and more in need of some device with stronger GPU with dedicated VRAM (mostly for testing, but occasional gaming with higher FPS would be nice too). I'm not keen on updating the laptop, as GPU is pretty much the only thing that would need to be replaced (and with Intel's worry-free open drivers stack, I actually like to have it on my main computer). I thought about building some cheap desktop just for those needs, but if Ataribox keeps on its promise of being so open, it might be just right (and cheaper) option for me.

Atari emulator would then be just a nice bonus.
Although the title looks like it would led to a listicle, it doesn't. The article is a perfectly fine column about the issue at hand.
Well anyone who has ever encountered another 12am or 12pm before, which is fairly common. I would guess 99.9%
Most people care about the price they pay, not some other number somewhat related to the price in a world with no government. The Model 3's national subsidies are going to fade out before most people get them, so $35k vs $5k is a fair number.
Fraud/spam detection algorithms have to be security by obscurity, or someone can just check if what they're doing trips the algorithm and then not do that.
Are we supposed to buy legacy/obscure devices to get it though? They lied about upgrading my 920 very blatantly.
I think judiciary gov.uk cookies usage information [1] provides good detail on their usage of GA. In addition it provides a link to a Google developed Browser plug-in to 'opt you out' [2]

[1] https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/cookies/
[2] https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
In our tests, vespamalloc has simply been faster. I don't know how in-depth the analysis has been as to why, but obviously vespamalloc is written and tuned for Vespa so that is a likely factor.
Yes, but they were largely fixed after 2015.

From the article:

> No explanation was given for the outages, but given the administration’s previous efforts to sabotage the insurance markets, it’s not paranoid to view this maintenance schedule as a plan to keep down enrollment. At a minimum, it displays an indifference to the needs of the population it is supposed to be serving.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/
Yes and no. You can build great working relationships in the office but also remotely. You can have really bad conflicts in the office but also remotely.

I think the difference is that once you got attached to some people from your work that the motivation to see and talk to them is one key driver to work for the company every day. This attachemnt might develop faster in an office environment.
As much as I hate Microsoft along with its products, I wouldn't call current
Microsoft's actions the infamous EEE strategy. That strategy was meant for
protocols and standards that had potential to threaten Microsoft's
position, not for specific software.
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I beat the crap out of a Canon Rebel XT for about 12 years before finally replacing it. Still worked fine, no issues, I just wanted better high ISO performance.
A football field and a half? A Tesla's stopping distance, like most decent modern cars, is a bit over 100ft from 60MPH.
Yes, I'm hoping something like IPFS is in our future.

Another killer feature would be the ability to never lose website versions or content(like git).

Also I hope we can finally do mesh networking(with IOT?) and remove reliance on ISPs.
I try to say when you use a good programming language with a really cool compiler which can prevent a lot of errors you can be very efficient and don't lose most of time in debugger!
Sure but at least in American politics that's really the rift in the democratic party, Liberal or Left. Meaning identity focused politics vs economic focused politics. Salon and The Hill and Mother Jones in this divide are all predominately liberal.
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I like to use '90210'
Cool. Or you can contribute as well. Make a pull request!
It failed repeatedly under one CEO, until the next CEO put it out of its misery.

Ironically, by the time it was terminated it had developed into a very valid product indeed. Shame - Apple and Android definitely need more competition from someone with actual resources (sorry to the Sailfish, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone, etc etc).
Seriously. It was so fast I was convinced it was precaching results as you type but it's not. Would love to read a write-up on this.
I don't know Novatio, but out of the others, Ouya was pretty much the only one that flopped.
Temperature logging is mandated by HACCP-related regulations. Without a centralized system one would have store clerks running around with thermometers and a clipboard. The maintenance company can do remote supervision, troubleshooting and optimization. Also, having an overview of all stores helps one pick out the ones that are wasting electricity.

Disclaimer: Our company's main product is used to collect data from refrigeration systems into one vendor-independent, Flash-free web UI. We do pretty much everything ranging from web development to reverse engineering and hardware design.
None of them have http2 multiplex load balance support yet! None of them.
https://pastebin.com/5kXwZi9C

I added one of the lines for xbox last as this actually seem to work. I have tried many versions before.
Anyway, just run this in an elevated powershell instance (after removing lines for apps you want)
Pity that HN doesn't have the stomach for certain tech stories, rather than actually moderating content.
Oh, hush. Linux is perfectly capable of providing a full desktop PC experience. It's a great idea to land hackable Linux PCs in living rooms - most people are going to get everything they need from their web browser and the kids who dig a little further are introduced to the world of open source.
WHy not LineageOS then?
Google's issues these days are management and culture, not a lack of talent. Pretty much like every other big company that recently became big.

For a smaller (but worse affected) example, look at Wikipedia. The majority of their spending is on management, and "soft jobs" like "PR" and public events. They spend a tiny fraction on the one thing that matters: Hosting bandwidth and upgrading their platform where all of their content they provide comes for free. Till a few years ago they had (IIRC from last time I looked into their docs) like, only 2 or 3 full-time engineers in the entire company for a bulk of their growth until finally adding a bunch more--while adding plenty of other staff. If the majority of their money is coming from those banners, and not outsider backers, there is no excuse for them to spend so much outside their core technology. Universities spend big money outside the college (Football, and grant money)... but it GAINS far more in exchange, so that makes sense.

I would hypothesis that as a company employees more and more "assistants" and "assistants of assistants" and the proportion of administration to engineering/research staff grows, a company bogs down with people who don't really contribute as much as they debate (or do nothing at all) in the company. I've seen studies that show that same problem as one of the reasons University costs have risen so much. There's probably an existing term for it akin to the Peter Principle but I'm not aware of it.

Basically, Google is an amazing company full of amazing people. But while they're amazing in TECH, that doesn't mean they have equally amazing managers capable of stopping the stagnation and confusion that comes with large companies. Lots of their "open" ideas work well on small and medium scales, but do they scale up?

But of course lots of that is more vague than I'd prefer in a comment. So I'd like to emphasis my one real point, as the proportion of # administration to content producers grows, the efficiency of a company drops as it gets bogged down in communication issues and "the usual" office politics. Which I would also hypothesis the majority of politics come from low-end producers (possibly to feel like they're contributing?). We've all worked at companies (and often still do) where we can cite limitless examples of non-producers easily passing HR, but bogging down the content creators by distracting them.

Lots of the "leaks" about Google have happened and almost every single one has mentioned office politics, retribution, witchhunts, and blacklists. They could be false. But they seem to have those as common threads among them. ("Where there's smoke there's fire"?) It also goes in line with Google producing much less "world revolution" products and acquiring mass amounts of startups with new ideas. Kind of reminds me of the story of AOL.
He's also said that proprietary software should be illegal due to it stripping freedoms away from users.
10 of the most-funded startups to fail in 2017
It crashed every debug deployment. Xamarin on the other hand never does.
I get mojibake when looking at my personal site: http://txt.gigawatt.io/christine.website/blog/voiding-the-in...
I don't know about new but it is pretty weird
Windows already spies on you on the desktop. Is their mobile OS different in that regard?
I don't think that was at all part of why it failed. Palm stuck to their OS but theirs failed too.

I think all that ultimately mattered was that Android became the Windows of mobile phones; an operating system that each manufacturer/carrier could customize to sell the idea of value-add (with no actual value-add, I know).
> Gates Foundation sues Saama, billed $2.8M and built ‘nothing of value in return’

Please insert "which" in the title after the comma; otherwise it makes little sense.
You might be on to something here. I am in great need of multi-screening but I've never liked Google Chrome's way of doing it...
I'm gonna give it a try!
Microsoft is a large company made up of many people, and I don't find it that hard to believe that the demographics, both within and without the company, have shifted in favor of open source.
Well, something did happen to your identity - someone else associated a bunch of fraudulent purchases with it.

Whether it's your fault or not, whether banks assume all fault or not, it is still ultimately your identity (your credit score, your bank accounts, your home) which ends up troubled.

Consider for a moment the tech alternative. If someone hacks their way into my Google mail account and uses it to send out a ton of spam, who is going to suffer the consequences for it? Google, for using insecure sms messages for 2fa and not requiring 2fa for all accounts, or me when my account is closed?
Hm, I find it weird that it is forbidden to publish things that "publicize luxury life". I would dare to say that most Chinese popular TV series and movies do just that. (Be it in the ancient china period or in the present time)
No, it's just as wrong and stupid. Repeating idiocy doesn't make it less idiotic.
AAPL and FB.
> We're all technical folks here. What possible reason could there be to close the site every Sunday morning for 12 hours?

Sometimes the reason isn't always purely technical. Especially in the government, there could be bureaucratic reasons that cause really un-intuitive behavior that's pretty much unheard of in the commercial world.

They could be exercising migrating to their COOP site and when asked "how long does it take for the site to FULLY come up?" the contractor said 12 hours to be on the safe side. If you account for things like acceptance testing done by government employees, 12 hours is unfortunate but not unreasonable for the government.
You're right, the United States has been incredibly successful at reducing motor vehicle deaths [0]. Those reductions aren't fortuitous; they're the result of engineers, policymakers, and public health professionals recognizing a problem and designing novel solutions. Maybe we could apply some of that same creativity and engineering talent to the problem of firearm deaths.

[0]: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
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Interesting, i never heard it was possible. Nearly every project built by a large organisation by contract for someone else which i was ever a part of, failed, and the stuff described here sounds very familiar. Sometimes it was even more than $2.8M, while more commonly, $500K-$1M. I haven't even heard of someone being sued for that.
I wouldn't be surprised if 90210 is outrageously over represented...
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Here it is again.

>Anything against signal is propaganda and anti-privacy because of the big picture

>anything against telegram is deserved because I've been told it's bad that they rolled their own crypto

Fragmentation/competition in this space is good. If you think whatsapp is less secure than Signal despite the author of this software working on it then maybe you need to evaluate for yourself if he is indeed "a leader in the field".
Definition of Hacker: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker

1 :one that hacks

2 :a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity

a tennis hacker

3 :an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

4 :a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

RMS on Hacking and Cracking

Yet when I say I am a hacker, people often think I am making a naughty admission, presenting myself specifically as a security breaker. How did this confusion develop?

Around 1980, when the news media took notice of hackers, they fixated on one narrow aspect of real hacking: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, and took the term to mean breaking security, no more and no less. The media have since spread that definition, disregarding our attempts to correct them. As a result, most people have a mistaken idea of what we hackers actually do and what we think.

You can help correct the misunderstanding simply by making a distinction between security breaking and hacking—by using the term "cracking" for security breaking. The people who do it are "crackers" (*). Some of them may also be hackers, just as some of them may be chess players or golfers; most of them are not.

https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
I can't tell. If you remember they became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation last year too.
the tumbler-padlock analogy is broken. I know how to pick a lock mostly because the "how it works" info is open.
Socialism is about class solidarity and more equal redistribution of capital gains mostly via democratic process. Communism (or bolshevism and maoism) on the other hand is about exclusive small cadre party pretending to represent entire working class and seeking total control over society using all means including terror.

Free market is about leveling play field and equal access to marketplace for all actors big or small. Capitalism on the other hand is about maximizing control over markets and maximizing rent seeking.
Tadpole configuration (2 wheels in front) is much more stable and less prone to tipping over.
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> Linux has made huge strides in the past few years towards just works

This is precisely my point. "Just works" is great, until something doesn't "just work", then you have to untangle a pile of complex and opaque interactions, often with poor and outdated documentation, to make something work.

In the past, Windows at least had relatively straight-forward mechanisms of operation that were all well documented and, importantly, didn't ever change all that much. That's starting to change now because MS has moved to the web-developer model of making breaking changes, and not documenting them, in rolling releases. But, it still has significant advantages in all 3 of the use cases I mentioned, so it manages to be slightly better.

What both desktops need to return to, in my idiot-on-the-internet opinion, is simplicity of operation of the underlying mechanisms. The OS doesn't have to be understandable by a chimpanzee, but it should be relatively intuitive and understandable for the average person who's willing to dig in to how things work.
I’ve got a Windows Phone* and I honestly appreciated it’s UX. It wasn’t “for me”, but I still appreciated how they took a new direction than just the rampant copying back and forth like iOS and Android do. I kinda wish it had gained share, competition is a good thing, especially when the competitor is willing to step outside the box.

* - Admittedly I also have 10+ Android phones, 20+ iPhones, and 2 WebOS phones.
I'm a bit confused (honestly). Your link shows benefits, but nothing involving life and death. Or rather: if that's all, and religious reasons are not considered, circumcision is not at all a 'proportionate response'.

To be clear, my perspective is from a society where circumcision is not the norm. I'd say the norm here is not to remove parts of the body unless there's very good reason to do so. Wisdom death probably come closest. But circumcision for health reasons would be akin to removing the appendix in every newborn.

Again, I'm honestly curious. I assumed circumcision (for reasons other than religion) was a fringe position in these circles.
Despite using Functions he doesn't really understand and yada yada i think this is a good reason to have a dedicated api endpoint and not mix it with domains where the normal web access happens.
To prevent a chilling effect on in-depth analysis of policy options before they are finalised. I think this is a good thing.
Microsoft can't undo the past, and they aren't going away. Your choice boils down to a single question: do you want the Microsoft of tomorrow to be different from the Microsoft of yesterday? If so, then quit hating and start celebrating the victories.
There is, that is issue. DoB specifically which in the US is used (dumbly) as PII.
Customization vs security, probably.