skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
accusing a chaumian crypto violating the satoshi vision is like ranting about windows not being POSIX enough
As a general rule, looks good and tastes good are inversely proportional to each other.
Naturalistic fallacy at work. There is no evidence that cross breeding is any safer than transgenics.
Unlike the Juicero, bottled water provides added value in that I can have access to suitable drinking water when I otherwise would be forced to drink tap water.

Before someone replies that tap water is perfectly suitable for drinking: Sure it's safe, but I have never had municipal water that didn't taste bad. Never. Maybe I'm just spoiled because I have a well that provides tasteless water.
.NET Core 2 comes very close to the full .NET Framework. Microsoft just made a full circle. Everything legacy is the hot new thing again.
yeah iphone was launched in 2007. We are in 2017 and if you want to take marketshare from your competitors then you need to be releasing your products in all major markets. Not a couple of them.

Windows phone was quite popular in Asia yet it died due to lack of devices.

My mum still rocks an HTC HD7 tho.
It is not a fair system. Thats like saying, "well, Frank bought a BMW and owns a house, so he gets to get paid more." They chose to live in an expensive city and have an expensive life style.

If a hire lived with their parents in SF, does that mean they get paid less than their coworker that rents an apartment?
Original yes, but it also launched only on AT&T in US as well and wasn't all that successful. The real uptick in popularity started with IPhone 3G (with AppStore) which was available world wide.
How to be a Salesforce Developer
Google is not "deploying Loon" and Tesla is not "rebuilding the grid" out of the kindness of their heart, the problem is everyone already sees phase two coming and doesn't like it. It's not a media problem, it's pattern recognition.
Had Microsoft's acquisition strategy been different, they could have significantly boosted WM's hopes. The lack of official apps for Whatsapp and Instagram on WP were user's biggest complaints by far. Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and Whatsapp in 2014 for a combined total of $20 billion.

In roughly the same period, Microsoft bought Skype, Minecraft and LinkedIn for a total of around $36 billion, the bulk of that accruing to LI's price. I get that MS is enterprise-focused, but those prices seem completely out of whack with what they actually got in value. Whatsapp, Google and Apple all offer built in video chat for consumers and LI's value to anyone outside of recruiting agencies is dubious.
>For example, a 1-standard-deviation increase in “likes clicked” (clicking “like” on someone else's content), “links clicked” (clicking a link to another site or article), or “status updates” (updating one's own Facebook status) was associated with a decrease of 5%–8% of a standard deviation in self-reported mental health.

>Facebook is toxic.

Or alternatively mentally ill people like Facebook.
> You can't say "white males" on HN without getting slaughtered.

I say it pretty often, and I don't get "slaughtered". The commentariat here tends to be kinda gross at times (and, tbh, the proprietors should probably do something about it, but I kinda shrug at that one now) but the votes generally bear out that the crowd, at least, is reasonable.
Algorithmic horror
It is not what we have. We have many other options beyond even the other technologies you've listed. Businesses and products are not prerequisite for interacting with friends and family.

What about simply having a conversation in person, mediated only by spoken language? What if you never moved away from your family and could stop by for dinner a few times a week?

There are many possibilities beyond just accepting the dictations of a few product managers in Silicon Valley!
Microsoft programmer built a bot that tweets anytime devs swear on GitHub
>People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t.

Respectfully, this may be a biased perspective. Are you in SV? Because there are many non-media people outside of SV who don't share your enthusiasm.

>I’ll never understand why people get so upset for rich people making bad bets and losing a bunch of money.

I think some consider it audacious and see a certain cynicism in it, especially given the context.

That is, we're living through an age of tremendous wealth/income disparity (on a relevant side-note, tech has played a not-insignificant role in that disparity). At the same time, we have massive national and global problems (climate change, rising nuclear regimes, terrorism, mass shootings, etc). Yet, all of this SV brainpower and capital is being deployed to make rich people richer off of over-priced trivialities like Juicero. The guys with the lifeboats are playing music for the people on the Titanic and charging them for the privilege.

When you really step back and look at it, it's a little nuts, really.
Do the earbuds actually do any of the translation work? I think they are just bluetooth earbuds with touch control, all the real-time translations are done in google's translation app. Google released this real-time conversation translation to the app back in 2015. I don't see anything special to the hardware itself that could justify the $160 price.
Yep, it would even interpret the designer's dummy data as a repeating template. If it couldn't figure out the mapping CDS could give hints as appropriate.

The best part is it could be compiled into a component like JSX but wouldn't prevent the page from being previewed with no programming implemented at all.

The template would basically be an HTML mockup.
Antinews – GNU Emacs Manual
I thought they found him because he was the only one on the campus network accessing TOR at the time of the bomb threat. Which really says nothing about TOR or anything else because they saw input and output, the middle might as well be a black box. And if you really don't suspect a real bomb, and know the traffic came through TOR, the first thing I would look for is which students used TOR and which students had tests that day. Pretty easy to narrow that down.
EPA to begin repealing Obama’s landmark climate rule
people in SV aren’t “suceeding” - they’re making twice as much money as everyone else in exchange for creating systems of surveillance. I’m not surprised people are salty about it.
Love Bill. He was the type.
I hate to be the person saying “correlation != causation,” so instead let’s just agree that “the people who liked more things on Facebook self-reported to be less happy” is not a very rigorous way to analyze how Facebook affects human happiness levels.
News flash : “nonGMO” crops are already genetically modified from wild plants, just through a more painstaking process of cross breeding and artificial selection over random mutations. This is already happening and would happen anyway.
Interesting, this is how most of our code ends up . But the service abstraction has been beneficial for our other applications which consume them too. I’m going to read closely about Comsumer driven approach though.
Google's translate in real time, while apple's were a copy-cat of countless other wireless headphones. I'd argue the opposite of your claim. (Apple did make them smaller than usual though, which is new I suppose).
> And the sooner people accept this, the better for everyone.

How so? Suppose everyone accepts this... then what? What do we do with this information to change things?

I don't think racist and sexist white men are the problem. They exist, of course, and are a problem but that's not what's driving Silicon Valley's diversity issue. It's (1) the bias people have for entrusting people they understand and feel understand them and (2) the compounding opportunity gap various groups have.

Further, casting the issue this way nearly precludes a solution since it attacks and alienates the people whose help you probably need to change things -- those very white men running so much of SV and so much of everything else.

I guess it feels good to rage against the system, but in doing so you end up perpetuating and strengthening it.
Verizon has a certification process, but they are effectively required by law to accept all compatible phones. Microsoft didn't even submit any of their recent phones for Verizon certification, even if they had chips which supported Verizon bands. Actually, HP is just now (like, this month) releasing a version of the Elite x3 that is Verizon-certified.

https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/get-certified

https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/device-showcase/...
I wouldn't help Microsoft for $10000000. I'm sure many others feel the same.
How do you identify a bad apple, other than browning, without taking a bite?
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any"

It must be for property or money. I am not following. When did Lin try to gain money or property using fraud? It just doesn't make sense to 'throw on wire fraud' - the charge in the US is more serious than rape or kidnapping.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343
I've used this before and it works well, but I can only kind-of recommend it.

If you are doing a presentation at some large conference where people will not be interrupting you with questions as you do your presentation, then I would recommend it. HOWEVER most of us do presentations to smaller more informal groups: coworkers, local coding meetups, etc. In those situations people are more likely to interrupt you and ask you something that would normally be doable IF you weren't running a script

So, IF you're going to use this in an interruptable situation I would strongly recommend mentioning BEFORE you start, that you are executing the commands live, but that you're using an interactive script to do it so that you don't screw anything up. Otherwise you look like a fraud when someones like "what about X" and you're all ... "well yes, but i can't do that right now because while it looks like I've been typing these commands, in reality I've been deceiving you and can't break out of this script or everything goes awry... but yes i could do that.... if i wasn't pretending i was actually typing this stuff." And yes, I'm speaking from experience, although i used different words. It's really awkward. Don't do it.
Hate to break to you, but non-SV companies are quite fond of insane EULAs too. And drivers were exploited before Uber/Lyft, as taxi companies already classified them as contractors.
19 of 20 investments fail because VCs equate success with > 1B$ valuation. Among the failed companies there are plenty that produce great and useful products but need to shut down because the VC deals forced them to grow to unsustainable size.
> Debian is extremely comprehensive

Yes, Debian is comprehensive, but it comes at a price. Red Hat/CentOS are much better at maintaining the (fewer) packages they support and providing timely patches.

Bugs in less critical Debian packages sometimes linger for years.

That being said, Debian is a great server OS and the only one except CentOS that I'd recommend to anyone.
My $0.02 your pay should not be based on how much you spend. If your co-worker chooses to buy an expensive car or live in an expensive city, then they should not get paid more than the guy that lives with his parents because he wants to save money.
It doesn’t matter. Subsequent iPhones are launched globally.

Microsoft does not launch subsequent products globally.

The surface takes many many months to reach many parts of Asia. Surface studio is only in a hand full of countries. Surface laptop is only in a handful of countries. Surface book is almost non existent.

The only thing Microsoft makes that it launches well is the Xbox.
The webview in Windows Phone was I think Internet Explorer 10 or something like that. Thus we were unable to port our Sencha Touch 1.1.1 app to Windows Phone.

Then we have tried to rewrite the app with Sencha Touch 2 but because it was time consuming my employer told me to work on other things.
But you're not competing with the iPhone of ten years ago. You're competing with the iPhone of today. It's difficult but in the end just excuses.

Windows phones were never a serious competitor. It just wasn't that important to the life and death of Microsoft and the result, from a business organizational perspective, is very much expected.
Consider that his perception might explain why those numbers are so awful. It's perfectly possible for the phones to be accessible to those kind of numbers of users and still be totally unavailable in the outlets a huge proportion of potential customers would look for them.

E.g. I live in the UK, and I can't remember ever having seen a Windows phone in the stores. I'm sure they're available, because I've seen people use them now and again. But if they were available in the stores I've been in, they were hidden away.
These are the 25 most high-tech cities in the world
This isn’t Wikipedia. Google it for yourself, and if you don’t believe me, keep on not believing.
To further your point, if Rick was an "ist" he would be an absurdist. And historically speaking absurdists like Camus have been against the concept of nihilism because usually nihilists still try to find some internal meaning in life (something that absurdists rail against). To quote Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus):

> [Nihilists] deify what crushes them and find reason to hope in what impoverishes them.
The joke on Windows Phone was always the browser. It was essentially a stripped down version of desktop IE. They never fixed it - the only Microsoft phone to ship with a usable browser (Edge) was Windows 10 Mobile, and they silently killed the whole Microsoft smartphone product line on the same day it was officially released.
Wow, I didn't even know Intel was a RAM chip maker before doing microprocessors... or that Microsoft started with BASIC. Thanks for the historical notes!
> What am I missing?

You answered your own question here:

> after all Android is open source.
Middle America is not too keen on your "basic income" solution to all the problems you are creating. It brings to mind a future of living in a 300 square foot government apartment in some hideous Brutalist concrete block of a building, eating our daily Amazon rations, knowing that's just how life is going to be, forever, no need to have dreams anymore.

There will be torches and pitchforks coming for you.
Instagram overhears my offline chats Is it possible?
Explains why most supermarket tomatoes are terrible
Kuru and CJD reside in the brain meats.

Prions are highly resistant to disinfectants, heat, ultraviolet radiation, ionizing radiation and formalin. ... Prions can be destroyed through incineration providing the incinerator can maintain a temperature of 900 F for four hours.
> they’re making twice as much money as everyone else

Sounds like succeeding to me. And not everyone creates "systems of surveillance" anyways, lots of other types of tech companies in Silicon Valley.
> Isn't that what a warranty is?

Does warranty covers broken hardware? If you step on these buds, is google going to replace them?
"So, what can you do about it?"
As much as I love the Sillicon Valley, disproportional concentration of venture capital and brain drain to a geographical location is not the healthiest thing in the world. I am a big proponent of democratization of early-stage investment for years. Now it started to happen in the cryptocurrency world. It is wild west now, but who knows how it turns out?
well all I learned from this article is not to use PureVPN.
In fact, i don't usually trust any VPN servers.
Is ICQ still a thing? I think that might be my first ever account, going into late 90s. Not sure if my first email account was before that or not.
Other people will.

But it is productive to say, "An excessively declarative style has been considered bad in programming for over thirty years."

That is reminding people this is a largely solved problem that the industry refuses to embrace because our legacy rube-goldberg contraption of software refuses to accept ever abandoning anything in favor of simplicity.

A great example: Why are both of these examples using the error prone pattern of explicit bounds iteration?
The issue many people have with antibiotics and hormones aren't always about what is made into the food. (Though, yes, there are a lot of people that worry about that.)

Issues around proper usage of antibiotics, especially now with the constant emergence of new resistant strains of bacteria is one concern, along with proper disposal and excess dosage making it into the environment. There are also animal welfare issues and concerns, I'm unfortunately not well-versed enough in ranching to know how true those are. (And as a vegetarian find growing animals for food repulsive to begin with.)

Hormones stem again from animal welfare issues.

It's unfair to just toss out all concerns over hormones and antibiotics just because some concerns aren't merited or as merited.
You may think it ran as smoothly, but it certainly didn't do as much.

Lumia 520 and Moto G were almost identical hardware (almost same CPU, same GPU, Moto G had double RAM and 720p display, Lumia only 800x480), for similar price, but the Moto G was way better device, that did stuff people wanted.
In this case, it's just oxidation, they're not rotten.

More concerning is the (now) routine injection of carbon monoxide (CO) gas into packaging of beef steaks and mince. The meat can be literally spoilt/rotting, but will appear deep red and fresh in the packaging. One sniff betrays the appearance, however.

And antibiotics is now routine in pre-shredded cheese packages to reduce mold growth.
These "_______ raises $__MM Series _ round" posts always end up like this. They are essentially rah-rah-hooray posts with little or no technical content. HN has always been down on blatant marketing and that's what these posts feel like.

I think you would have been seeing a completely different discussion if the post was "GitLab launches _______".
The thing about the MS platforms that has always been an issue is that they change the developer APIs around all the time. Every year they come out with the latest greatest way to access a database or whatever and it really isn't that much better than what they had last year, but it still requires a rewrite.
I don't understand why businesses use use private WHOIS services. Surely if you're a business you'll have public contact information? I was once tasked with trying to get in touch with a company who's domain name had expired, but with no website (read: contact page) or real email address in the WHOIS I had to give up.
You've got your correlation v causation mixed up there in interpreting those results. It's just as likely that negative well being means people take more shelter in digital interaction as opposed to the opposite (which is why the paper is careful to avoid actually suggesting causality).

Given that loneliness and isolation actually is toxic [0], for many it's not that online interactions are replacing offline interactions; they're the only interactions these people can get.

[0]http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/174569161456835...
Trump’s digital campaign director was paid $1,500 to set up his election website
I think of it as one 'understands' their pain.
Yep, it's annoying to have those limitations, but I sort of understand why. They could make their message a lot clearer though.

> I personally would have the hardest time with the 250 user limit

From the document, the text is "more than 250 PCs or users", so my understanding is that a company is limited if it has >= 250 computer users, not 250 customers. E.g. you could have a million free app users and it would be fine.

That fact that I had to preface that with "my understanding is that" means that the document is fuzzy, which is annoying, but at least further documents[2] can clarify a bit:

> - Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community, to create their own free or paid apps.
> - In non-enterprise organizations up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In
enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1M in annual revenue) no use is permitted for
employees as well as contractors beyond... [the exceptions as noted].

[2]: https://www.visualstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Visu...

So you (as an individual not as part of a company) could create a paid or mobile app and have as many users as you want and make as much as you can. If you're a company, then you need to be under 250 PCs, <= $1M, and <= 5 Visual Studio users and you're still good. Exceed those numbers and you have to pay up.
It will probably work for 7 -> 8, the upgrade tool is a recent addition. It already worked in RHEL for 6 -> 7.

That being said, for RHEL 6 -> 7 I did a clean reinstall due to the large architectural changes and it was the right decision.
The reason I asked is because it seems like you might have a lot of your identity and self-worth dependent on a moral acceptance of social media. It seems like you might be subconsciously denying the negative impact that these technologies have on both individuals and society at large.

Or not! Maybe you are fully accepting and fully aware and it is I who is missing the extra pieces to the puzzle!
Those are only successful after someone else performs the execution.
> It's a zany cartoon with witty dialog,

At least, it used to have witty dialogue. Now 95% of the conversation is:

Rick: "*Shut-uurp the f### up Morty you piece of s###"

Morty: "Y-y-y-y-y-you know Rick, not everybody likes the way things are going around here, Rick!"
> Disease gets worse

They don't get worse. The antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" are not actually super in any other way. They just have a resistance to antibiotics. In other ways, they are just normal bugs, not super.

Just like vaccinations make people immune to certain diseases, but doesn't give us any other superpowers.
This is interesting because the two companies are very similar, with Automaticc being a few steps ahead in several areas: distributed workforce, developer first, size / stage of the company.

It helps to have someone who has solved the very problems you'll be facing.
There is a problem though, GMO and agricultural research in general is oriented towards making produce survive better the transportation, have better yields, look better in the shelves so that they are sold more easily, etc. The goal is to improve the industrial processes, but there is little regard for the actual nutritional value of the food and the health implications.

I fear that with GMO we're going to go much farther and more quickly in that direction than we've been able so far using only "traditional" selective breeding. And that's already had a big impact on fruits and vegetable which have now less vitamins and minerals than varieties that used to be grown a few decades ago.
Motivating-Uncertainty Effect: Why Premium Bonds are so popular, even though
I've never heard (non-sarcastic copy-pasta) people go on about how smart the show is or the audience has to be to "get it" or anything, but I have heard this echoing reaction to those people anywhere and everywhere the show comes up recently.
> Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view

Windows is way ahead in both security and power efficiency.

About security, here’s an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410833 In Windows, clipboard access was restricted to foreground app since WP7.

About power efficiency, WP is very restrictive on what apps can do in background. See this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh2029...
Is that an exaggeration or do you mean that literally?
How the search for a 'death ray' led to radar