skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the point of this comment that the point being made by the article is no longer relevant (i.e. 'obsoleted by the march of technical progress')? Or that you might waste a click on an article that you have read it before? Or ... ???
omg what a stupid title from wired. wired showing again that they are a sensationalist piece of internet garbage
The biggest frustration, to me, is that WPF was basically left on the vine while they pursued this WinRT stuff.
If we had to label him he would definitely be a hedonist.
Most of the legacy stuff continues working long after it's the hot new thing, though.
6/28 is a very respectable finish, though I was surprised that the top 3 finishers were just individuals, not even teams.
> The oddest turn is that of blaming the global rise in income inequality on SV, and then to lambaste SV for trying to come up with solutions to ameliorate that problem as it proceeds to its logical extreme.

The issue here is that many people feel SV's ideas of basic income will absolutely never work in the long-term. Heck, it will never work in this country period. We can't even socialize healthcare in this country, and those who collect unemployment are looked down upon.

What makes you think basic income will ever become a reality? What makes you think a major political party wouldn't call those people freeloaders and work ceaselessly to remove those benefits if they are put in place? And what makes you think those millions of people being given subsidized, substandard, meaningless lives won't rise up against a system that has basically sucked as much productivity out of them that they could before abandoning them?
"It's basically consigning the bulk of humanity to the status of "surplus flesh.""

It only does that if a recipient decides to do nothing but sit on their ass. Otherwise, it provides the opportunity to explore things that one wouldn't have the time to do if they were spending most of their day laboring to afford food and housing.

"Options 3, 4, 5, and 6 would employ quite a few people."

Would they? Or would robots be doing most of that work?

"The things I listed above (and more) are for civilizations who are not afraid to spend a little money and put people to work."

Work how?
Well, when Mozilla wanted to build Firefox for Windows Mobile, Microsoft told them no. If they removed IE/Edge, they would have no browser for the deployed windows mobile devices. :P
Yeah, I'm disappointed their articles keep popping up on HN.
Nexus 4 was the best phone I've ever owned.
>they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the problem of the lack of an initial user base.

Is anyone else surprised that "giving away free windows phones" was not a recipe for success in terms of incentivising capable app developers?

Most every app developer already owns their favorite phone because they can afford it.
St. Louis tap water tastes about the same as bottled water.

We can substitute bottled water with premium bottled water and the argument holds though.
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This reminds me of a recruiter telling me 'people don't work here for the money, they work here for the opportunity, and it's more than enough to live on' when asking for market rate salary. Big tech company, you can probably guess which.
Folks shouldn't necessarily be scared off by the use of HSMs in this model -- HSMs are an add-on that adds an additional layer of security. That said, there are still significant wins to segmenting the applications that hold keys, particularly if they are on hosts separate from your front-end or application logic hosts. This architecture still forces attackers to only have access to data within your infrastructure, which allows your detection systems to have a chance to catch people before they leave with all the data.
That used to be true, but the nation's very poor live mostly in the suburbs and rural parts of the country now. It shifted about 20 years ago. You can't go anywhere without encountering desperately poor people these days.
It's just how Hacker News works - people like older articles to be tagged by year. It's to make it easier to spot things that they may have already read, or that may be interesting but not as current.
the easier way : watch the course vids here : Berkeley CS294 Deep Reinforcement Learning Fall 2017: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFD6_40KJIznC9CDbVTjA...

harder more complete way:
read this "Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview", https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07274
progressively implementing subparts in Python and openai gym https://gym.openai.com/read-only.html
I've wondered a lot about that too. I bet (and would love to see hard research on) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as it applies to games. Like, if the game has rhythmic elements and alpha-state gameplay with EMDR-type eye movements on top... I bet you've got a therapy machine right there.
starcraftai.com ?
A review of djangoCMS but its users
You seem to be implying they were much more readily available in the United States, which seems like a stretch.
And yet somehow I don't think "fuck" in a public commit message is that big of a deal. We weren't talking about swear words destroying your career, making you a social pariah, or getting you killed. We're talking about tightasses getting a bee in their bonnets about "bad" words.
Kramer chides the group for poor behavior or passivity from time to time. He helps people with their problems. I'd dispute that he's nihilist.
SICP has continually showed up on my radar and before this post it's what I was looking at getting into again but felt this the book might have been too "meaty" and maybe was out of vogue. I think I just need to delve into it and finish it. Awhile back I did the first couple chapters and it did seem to go quite well though it's not for the faint of heart and really requires hard focus and I'm okay with that! My hesitation was that I wasn't sure if it was a solid starting point. Looks like it might be!
> "The media" is a reflection of the people

Relevance to this particular topic aside, I'd recommend looking into the corporate structure behind the "media" in the US before making that statement.
A different approach, one in which people can still work to get paid, but wages are reasonable.

Fulfillment is not all about the money and what you can buy with it. It's about feeling that your'e serving some purpose, and there's value to what you do.
Most likely, yes, but that doesn't make it any less impressive
It’s a criminal complaint. Also, “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” parses as a “any scheme or artifice to defraud” or the obtaining of money or property. The three part test is intent, a “wire” (i.e. Internet) communication and that “or” test. He intentionally logged into her Internet accounts, and sent emails from them, while fraudulently claiming to be her.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice nor advice of any kind. Do not commit wire fraud.
The characters in both Friends and Cheers cared about other characters. Neither had the "no hugging, no learning" rule. The Friends characters were self-absorbed, but they weren't nihilists.
We already have error monitoring tools, do we still need log analysis tools?
We already have error monitoring tools, do we still need log analysis tools?
Until you hit a bug. The one that killed us was we had to deploy a registry fix to 2000 workstations at hundreds of companies because they broke ClickOnce in IE9 and later. It still isn't fixed today. We still have to eat the administrative cost. Over time, that's a shit ton of cash leaked out on a mistake the vendor has made.
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A possible interpretation is that Gitlab chooses to not pay for top-tier distributed systems talent and will thus never reach the service quality they want.

Everything comes at a price.
> And anyways, dire imprecations of fire and brimstone if we don't do things your way is so 1700s.

You think if the majority of people in this country continue to experience a declining quality of life, there won't be riots in the streets?

This method of shifting blame from economic issues to social issues won't work forever.

edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain why? Am I wrong in some way?
Show HN: Opshell – Mac/Windows app for working with AWS instances via SSH
I'm not sure leaving out sort and dist keys is actually being fair to Redshift here.

I get the argument that you're avoiding any "special tuning", but these are basic features that the docs and most guides will tell you are not really optional. In my mind it's more like leaving out the primary key declaration on a table in Postgres or MySQL.
Agreed about GTA, but not about Super Mario. At the very least you'll need to kill Bowser to finish the game.
That's true, but that's part of the joke: only the weirdest, most uncomfortable of the 4 characters is allowed any humanity.
Most apps make a pittance.
> They could have written an Android-on-Windows compatibility layer

MS had Android emulation[0] in the works for Windows Mobile 10 but then decided to cancel it citing it was "unnecessary".

[0]https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-officially-cancels-...
What I really want is a windows desktop version of the google translate app so I can understand all the Chinese PUBG players who are playing on the NA servers(For some reason I can't really wrap my head around the Chinese say their own servers are unplayable do to latency). It's supper frustrating join a 4 play squad game on the NA servers and discover you can't understand any of your teammates in a game where communication is fundamental.
Testing kernels
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I'd be very interested in an objective comparison between AirPods and every other true wireless earbud that existed at the time. I have no doubt the AirPods would win on nearly any measure.
One definitely doesn’t replace the other. We use Loggly for log analysis as well as our error monitoring tools and it definitely adds distinct value. The traceability and reusability are great, and it lowers overhead as well.

https://www.loggly.com/blog/does-error-monitoring-spell-the-...
That didn’t stop Amazon though it’s arguable that they have more to offer a consumer from a walled garden approach (Prime Video, Music, Kindle books...).
But that's what is talked about in Star Trek DS9. Except we have the similar name, but very different meaning... Sanctuary Districts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Sp...

Effectively, the governments at the time (USA), figured it was cheaper to ghettoize poor, sick, and others whom cannot support themselves. Wall them off, and keep them out of society. Out of sight, out of mind.

This literally is the thoughts of the Right-Wing. Ive seen that justification here, on HN. Why bother with the poor? They have no money! Better to keep them 'away', as 'We' are better. Of course, right now we have White-Nationalists beating on their drums. But the real war here is against the poor. Black people are.. disdained by the Conservative elite because they are primarily low income (by way of discrimination, but thats aside the point!). Ideally, all poor trash should be taken out, white, black, asian, native - you name it. No money = no livelihood = no choice = no living.

EDIT: Seriously? -1's? Am I wrong? I would love to see the conservative plans to boost people from poverty, medical maladies, and systemic discrimination. So far, what I see are attacks on any programs trying to assist with poverty, medical, and discrimination. And these attacks are done by the "ruling party", Republicans, with their base plans being as such.

This article is a great internal view of how Republicans support white supremacy values. https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...
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How is Rust a nihilist?
Microsoft got a chance to steal market shares and established themselves as an alternative to iOS and Android when they introduced Lumia 950 and 950XL. I really think the device were great. However, they made the fatal mistake on this, the price point.

They priced the 950/950XL same as iPhone and Android flagship phones. Yes, I do understand the 950 and 950 XL have flagship hardware, however, you do not priced it as your phone is in high demand.

If they priced the phones at 300, it would sell a lot more. Developers do not want to develop for an OS with no users.

Not only the hardware price was bad. The fees to developer was also bad. If I recalled correctly, they also want to takes the same amount of fee as Apple and Google. If I was Microsoft, I would not charge developer any fees for 3 years just to get them on board.
Same common sense logic
blizzard have a github account with a couple of py libs for sc2 and other games.

https://github.com/blizzard
You're still missing:

- Palm/HP webOS

- Intel Moblin

- Samsung Bada
Please don't underline links with such extreme colouring and please don't make links bold. That makes them stand out more than they should. I opened the link and just saw buzzwords. I immediately closed the tab again.
It’s standard for unexplicit continuation of a thought...
It sounds like you're taking the show way more seriously than you should. Perhaps you just shouldn't watch it if it causes you that much anguish? The show does, on occasion, make subtle points about society as a whole. For example, S3E7. Sometimes you just need to read between the lines.
> It kind of combines all the worst ideas from liberalism over the past 50 years (postmodernism, identity politics)

Not to be pedantic, but those are _illiberal_ ideas. You're conflating liberals and the left, which was mostly fine when they were in a coalition for a while. But if you're talking about identity politics et al, you're very specifically describing things that are almost definitionally illiberal.
>tptacek's reputation

Could you explain? I never really understood him as an individual & he's been... well, harsh at times to me & others.
SV is a symptom of the same problem; a system that allows wealth to concentrate and companies to become monopolies.
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UWP is getting new features all the time, it's the way forward for Windows apps and will stay for many years to come. Even all the default Windows 10 apps and stuff like settings UI are UWP.

OneCore is an internal Windows refactor that won't affect users nor developers.
>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.

If I don't have to work, sign me up.
Why Corporate Tax Rates Won't Create Jobs
The issue is that while Android itself is "technically" open source, it's a walled garden platform. Microsoft's own apps won't work without proprietary Google software. (Both Skype and Outlook won't launch without Google Location Services enabled, I haven't tried the launcher or the new Edge.)

They can't include Google's proprietary software in their fork, since part of the agreement for distributing that software includes a clause where you agree not to fork Android.

Even if Microsoft created their own location service for Android, changed their own apps, and made their own app store, they'd have to convince other app developers to support it, since Google has spent the last few years convincing everyone to build their apps on proprietary libraries and services. Essentially, they end up in the same boat as Windows Phone: Having a platform without apps, and not a strong incentive for developers to modify their apps to support it.
I'm on the other side I guess, but with the same conclusion.

I can tell from the design that I will never wear those ear buds. There is no way to create a decent seal in the ear using just hard plastic, so the sound will suffer for music, and that's the main reason I buy earbuds.

I'm not a snob about music stuff, but for around 100 USD I get a decent pair of earbuds that create a proper seal and gives me good music quality. I'd love the features, but I'm not going to sacrifice the main reason I use in-ear headphones in the first place - the ability to relatively cheaply have good quality sound.
This. But wait, in order to further harmonize "cloud first mobile first experiences" they may be deeply pleased to announce one more important transition from UWP to OneCore.
That is sickeningly hilarious.
That's what a universal basic income does. It lets the person whose labor is only worth $3/hour take a $3/hour job and still not starve to death.
It's perfectly fair to point out how things actually look in practice. It's upvoted because it presents another (probably more realistic) picture instead of the marketing spiel that DB wants you to believe.

Why do you not think that employees should be allowed to discuss how their workplace looks in reality?
> with homeless people everyday who are dying on the streets in front of them like those who live in SF, LA, and NYC do

You see very few homeless people on street or in trains, and zero tents, in NYC. Its kind of strange -- NYC has a larger homeless population than SF no matter how you slice it (total count, per capita, per square foot) but the issue seems way worse in the major California cities.

I have friends who visit Oakland from NYC and are amazed at the Mad Max quality of the Bay Area.
Tldr: Your ORM might generate heavyweight queries.

Edit: in this example, case insensitive uniqueness validation in Activerecord
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The Evil within the Comparison Functions - https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0509/

Annotation. Perhaps, readers remember my article titled "Last line effect". It describes a pattern I've once noticed: in most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks. Now I want to tell you about a new interesting observation. It turns out that programmers tend to make mistakes in functions comparing two objects. This statement looks implausible; however, I'll show you a great number of examples of errors that may be shocking to a reader. So, here is a new research, it will be quite amusing and scary.
What hardware was Google selling before?
How Do Americans Feel About the NFL Protests? It Depends on How You Ask
Just want to say: Just because you hand your project over to a foundation doesn't mean it automatically allows full time development.

We've moved our open source bits to the eclipse foundation recently..and surprise! We're still the primary developers.
Granted, this was recently, but apache projects can also go to the apache attic where they go to "retire".

Generally, you still need some sort of revenue stream in there to sustain/subsidize a "community".

A lot of apache projects have a company behind them driving development.
Also the Seinfeld characters are funny people. They say funny things. The Friends characters are mostly put into funny situations (though Phoebe has a good line from time to time).
On-premise installs tend to be very different from cloud managed warehouses and not really comparable.

The 1 billion taxi rides benchmark by Mark Litwintschik is pretty comprehensive though: http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
The Chicago School is the subset of economics roughly equivalent to what you think about when I say "supply-side, trickle-down, Republicans, poor people need to get off the couch".

They were showing how these ideas were misunderstood not just by their opponents, but also by their fans.

That part of the political spectrum has added, for example, Ayn Rand's philosophy ("greed is good"), and arrived at a rather nihilistic place where no concept, idea, institution, or emotion that isn't exclusively a "market" is denied to even exist. That's how you get people saying "taxation is theft".
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Mimblewimble used properly gets nearly the same benefits that you have in Monero (essentially non interactive coinjoin) but with scaling guarantees better than bitcoin. If it was possible to ring signatures like Monero has without the scaling difficulties, I guarantee you bitcoin developers would be working on it. Friends don’t let friends invest alt coins.
Awesome!
will you put a executable at GitHub like the others?
Thank you very much!
we were somewhere around a race condition, at the edge of frustration, when the drugs began to take hold...
Heh. I was an intern there when this happened. In fact I think I was in the float in front of this one. To be honest this was blown out of proportion a bit. It was an internal celebration of release, and each team picked a theme. Most in good fun. In retrospect the funeral themed-one... yeah... didn't age well, and was perhaps in bad taste (I can't recall which team this was). It was just a bunch of overworked PMs, devs, and testers having some fun and blowing off steam.
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Any example of better approaches in R?
Adobe XD is a fully featured professional UWP creative app, distributed outside the store

http://www.adobe.com/products/experience-design.html
They need it for the same reason Apple needs Safari. And why the European Union needs their GPS competitor Galileo. It's dangerous to put all your trust into a tool controlled by a competitor, even if they are playing nice with you at the moment.
And what happens when we inevitably converge on a price point where BI only buys you a concrete block and government cheese?
Google Play Store isn't open, control of that is key.

It doesn't matter if the platform it's running on is "Microsoft Android" or something else - Google still controls the store
They'd fuck that up too.
Birth of a White Supremacist
Exactly why ORMs are a bad idea. I've always wondered whether ORMs help or harm. I feel like the one reason to use it is if you have a development team that isn't capable of writing SQL which in itself is bad.
Consistent Hashing,a must know concept for System Design Interviews
> How about Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? (granted it's a book, but it has been adapted for TV and cinema and Marvin is, in my opinion at least, the best character in those particular adaptations).

Nitpick. HHGTG was first a radio show, then a novel, then a TV series. Some think the TV series is actually closer to the radio show than the books…
I stopped reading when the author suggests that people are falling out of love with silicon valley because most companies hire mostly white males. What a terrible racist/sexist thing to say.
Really happy for GitLab. They are definitely more than just another Github clone.

As I don't need to maintain an installation myself I don't mind it having some issues. From the end user perspective it's doing its job.
Mobile traffic to Wikipedia now free in Afghanistan
I think you underestimate how much this whole Russian fake news during and after the election has angered many Americans (at least outside of the ~30% of hard-core Trump supporters).

Facebook was already on a lot of people's shit list because they know they're the product, they know their privacy isn't respected, and yet they can't keep in touch with their friends without it. This direct attack on our democracy mounted via Facebook and other social media, while they performed no meaningful monitoring or self-policing of their own network, has made the situation all the worse.

So blame all of this on "old media" to your detriment. Bitter complaints about Facebook and other social media pervade far beyond the media.
But other companies pay higher. So if their primary motive is income, why do they work there?