skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with you if the cost bias were only found in her book. But the bias is literally everywhere you go, on every engineering team. It's all we ever talk about.

At the CEO level, the money-making potential of software is clearly understood, so why, at the ground level, is it the exact opposite? Every programmer is paranoid about the costs they're introducing to an organization while totally ignoring the financial upsides. Every discussion is "cost now vs. cost later."

If our only goal at work is to minimize the cost to our companies, then our managers can do that better than us: he can just fire us and cancel the project. There, cost is now zero.
It's truly amazing what a blow to the industry this will be, and apparently out of nowhere.

99/yr for a cert was too much, though, and everything very cumberstome compared to Let's Enctrypt
By the way: Firefox 57 still can't view local *.svgz
I immediately thought that from the title.

“The little boat flipped over.”

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/552a53c2-894a-4b79-bcf1-e9eadfb...
What evidence do you have that it's your general abstract thinking skills that are lacking? You'll probably improve faster at the tasks you're interested in if you just practice those tasks.
Most effective and simplest way to write readable code
Wow, very, very sad. Yet, we're programmed to cling to life.

This is however like being sentenced to death, just not knowing when the jail door will open. (yeah, I know we all will die, minus a few SV billionaires :))

Reminds me that they are problems and then they are problems in life.
The DOJ approved the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal in 2011 without requiring any major divestitures. It was a similar vertical merger involving a cable company and a content producer. It hasn't resulted in NBC Universal content being restricted to Comcast or large increases in carriage fees charged to competitors which are the major potential issues the DOJ raises. I think the DOJ is going to have a tough row to hoe in court.

The reason AT&T is purchasing Time Warner is to gain their content production capability. You don't see how forcing the sale of a major part of that would affect AT&T's reasons for even doing the merger?

The issue with forcing the spin off of Turner isn't the believe that Turner including CNN would somehow no longer exist. It is the believe that it is being to done for political purposes to allow a journalistic outlet critical of the administration to be purchased by an organization friendly to it.

This along with the FCC media ownership changes are despot 101, gain control of the media.
Genuine question — is $70 million, spread across +4 different competing companies, a lot of money, for an industry like robot makers?

Or, said another way, if the article had said the companies collectively raised $700 million, I don’t think I would’ve been surprised.

Can someone provide context?
Of course there is work to be done. The problem is usually getting someone to pay for it. You need to look at why people don't spend.

One obvious reason is when they don't have the money. Put money in the hands of people who need it and they will spend it, so the work gets done.

You mention various forms of work. Do you know they are more urgent than what people will spend their money on if given the choice? Maybe it's arrogant to assume you know better than them?
Their CI script is not adequate to deal with the standard output of a man after midnight.
Shai-Hulud
Did you check out vim-vixen? If so, what's your opinion on it?
I'm curious... how would you imagine this might break things downstream?

FWIW I love this kind of stuff and if properly documented would rather work around it than remove it, but nobody relies on my code so what do I know :).
Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States
Terrible analogy. The number of people that would even have any desire to put something illegal in taxi luggage is very low. The number of people wanting to launder money because they did something truly evil is very high.

International airlines are a better analogy; should we just let people run weapons, drugs, even children in their luggage, with no mechanism for inspection?
Another hint:

When you use CSS to style an SVG, use attribute selector instead of class to save some space.

Also, it some times makes sense to use arcs and quadratic curves instead of Bezier curves. Qaudratic curves save you one argument, and are easier to use with T path element.

Arcs are let you save on geometrically correct ellipsis fragments: to render a correct ellipsis, you need 8 quadratic curves that each need 3 arguments. With arc, you only need 8 arguments
It is a reference to a song by Smash Mouth:

https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E

(And now it'll be stuck my head for a week)
It looks like a battered ship
This is great advice. And it's great copy in itself. Most companies focus too much on what they do, and not enough on who they serve.
Explanation in this comment: https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1147#issuecommen...

On July 27, we reached out to Bountysource in response to a complaint we
received from a user. During our investigation and discussions with members of
your team, we found that your organization does not have a mechanism for
responding to removal requests from users, which is required by our Terms of
Service. Specifically, Bountysource does not "respond promptly to complaints,
removal requests, and 'do not contact' requests from GitHub or GitHub Users."
Over two months later, you have not made any changes to your platform in
response to our requests.

Therefore, we have suspended your application until you create a process for
actively responding to all personal information removal requests, including
those related to projects and issues. In order for us to remove the
suspension, we would ask to see two things:

1. Confirmation from you that you have a process in place for responding to
takedown requests about all areas of your website.

2. Inclusion of a public notice to your users stating how to request the
removal of information. That notice can be included in your documentation or
other legal notices.

Once you have that process and public notice in place, we'll be happy to
review your site and consider lifting the suspension.

Sounds like it's (hopefully) not permanent.
There are quite a range of firey things to do around the end of the year in Scotland, https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/events/fire-festivals/ Up Helly AA is definitely more touristy in recent years but in general I think this is targeted at the locals as much as the visitors. Most are middle-aged, 100 years or more, so it's likely this is a revival of something older at least in a romanticised version.
How hard is it to build a non-profit Internet infrastructure?

We can already do last mile ISPs quite easily. How about we start connecting them together?

Of course this is not a short term solution but this is what we need to accomplish in the long run. Infrastructure should not be in private hands because of reasons like this. They will never stop trying, because of the innate perverse incentives.
WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing Strategies
Sure the people are friendly in St. Paul/Minneapolis, but in my experience it is much harder to make friends outside of work. I guess that's where the saying, "Minnesota nice, they'll give you directions to anywhere but their house" comes from. I've heard this is due to people having a close knit group of friends that most likely hasn't changed much within the last 5+ years.

I've heard the opposite from friends who have moved to the West coast; they found it extremely easy to make friends outside of work because most people who live there are transplants themselves.
Is this something related to the latest Windows 10 updates or it was always the case? I mentioned this because, may be unrelated, there are some slow drawings in the UI after the October major update. I can notice this when I login and the desktop is drawn.
An XOR Trick
Straight from the comments: “Even with a $25 bounty attached to it, nothing is happening”

That is why I detest BountySource. FOSS users already have a ridiculous feeling of entitlement. Let them “sponsor” a bug fix at one-one-hundredth the going rate, and that obnoxious sense of entitlement gets dialed up to eleven.
Would be nice to see the graph in absolute terms. - How much of this is people switching from other companies to Let's Encrypt, and how much of this is more websites getting SSL?
I used to suffer from a severe temperament, so I've had to learn how to control my thoughts and emotions, and how to not give a shit, figuratively speaking. I'm very good at clearing my head and only thinking about the things I care about. When I leave work, I leave work, both physically and mentally.

Maybe that is mindfulness, I don't know. It just feels very far removed from the mysticism and mumbo-jumbo I was confronted with, which honestly just added stress, rather than mitigating it.
>>but Trump has so polluted the waters with his crusade against CNN that there's no way they'll win the court case. AT&T and Time Warner will enter in his twitter feed as evidence and courts will side with them.

You think federal judges give a rat's @ss about what Trump tweets? Plus it will be appealed and appealed.
GNU Screen is no longer fashionable these days due to tmux, but https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Nethack...
Is something technically captured by a gravity well if it just happens to hit the object at the center? I assume not.
Not (exactly) true. There are many good ideas being floated that would allow the ruling to stand, while eliminating the negative consequences. Eghttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Equality_Act_of_2017
Good.

Although I'm desperately waiting for U2F to actually work.

Anecdotally, some people see it working with GitHub, but I don't.
A 4 day work week is the answer. Ford changed the work week from 6 days to 5 days. It's time for another major corporation to set an example and make this move. Pay employees the same they make now for 5 days. For many professions, the same work can be done in 4 days, and for other menial jobs you give peole the opportunity to grow.
The value of open source software
My point is that on a network with onion routing you have nothing to block. You are mixing the two networks that's a separate issue.
What does "struggle" mean?

WaWeb is working here.
No left margin on webpages is real too, and it annoys me
Interesting site.

I immediately thought of the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_...
Nothing new about TCP/UDP socket API?
That and possibility to hide the tab bar is what I miss the most.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247628
I'm not sure it's the good way to present this (or phrase it).
It's more that their presence enlarge the number of HTTPS sites (or service) by 50% (totally thumb in the wind estimation :-D ) than "stealing" customers to other companies.

Of course there's a part of migrating certificates to Let's encrypt, but I find it more important that the HTTPS surface had grown that much.
The British politician Michael Foot was involved with nuclear disarmament, for which the headline "Foot heads arms body" was proposed [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot
Compatibility. Office doesn't even use that binary anymore, but still ships it to avoid breaking other apps that depend on it. They wouldn't risk a rewrite.
The case for reducing the size of SVG is the same as for any kind of web asset: it reduces the initial transmission time (and improves the likelihood of a cache hit) and so reduces the time taken to load the page.

I doubt if it's worthwhile squeezing the last couple of bytes of gzip compression out of an image (other than as a fun and informative exercise), but when programmatically generating SVGs it's easy to do so naïvely and in these cases you can get big savings in file size. Here's a worked example where I was able reduce a generated image to about 17% of its original size through simple fixes: http://garethrees.org/2013/08/02/svg/

Similarly, tools like Inkscape need to represent information for editing the image (such as its layer or grouping structure; or style information maintained on a per-object basis) which is not necessary for displaying it, and this can amount to a large proportion of the SVG file size.
I don't know about 'by hue' but almost all colors are not in the rainbow. The spectral locus is a line that runs around the edge of a 2D color space (technically 3D if you include luminance as well...).

7D if you are a mantis shrimp.
Without a decent atmosphere water will just boil / sublimate off and get blown away; Mars would need a magnetosphere to retain anything.
The data speaks for itself but I'm trying to perceive any latency in my Firefox (win10) and unable to. Typing seems instantaneous to me. I hate the milliseconds the start menu takes to animate though. Win7 start was instant.
They will probably start by favouring some services over others. For example, they might ban VOIP and allow you to video call only through their proprietary service.
ECB wants to end deposit protection and offer savers some of their own money
I'd like to read more on how Ford managed to change the work week from 6 days to 5 days. Would you kindly direct me to some articles/ books/ PDF's? Sincerely,
It was an outsourced component, they probably never even had access to the source code.
Show HN: Self-destructing free file sharing
China is cited by an OP. No serious options in China for contract phone.

What has become super common is for home cable provider to provide SIM with around 2G of data in order to pay monthly broadband charge. SIM recharge being easier than vanilla broadband recharge.
Subcultures are a real thing.

>I deny the notion of millions of people sharing a certain collective sense of humor.

Comedy shows appeal to more than a handful of people. Most humor only works collectively.
I agree. I’ve always felt that they could see the difference in color immediately, just not readily be able to describe it to others.
always like this for win10
Anti-security remarks by Linus Torwalds
This Free Extension Adds a Handy Voice Assistant to Google Chrome
Well, true. You can be a power user without all of those things though.

It's a shame tradeoffs are necessary, but I think it's worth highlighting that it's a tradeoff that also brings substantial advantages. For all users, including the power users.
had to run strace to figure that out :)
I am more satisfied with it that I initially imagined I would be. It might not get everything - for example, if you have too much dust or lint, in one pass. But it gets 97% and if you put it daily, it's effect is 100%. As a device it is cute and has a nice voice. It tends to "steal" USB cables and slippers, so you need to put those safe before you run it. In fact I was amazed when I realized that for the first time there is a non-living agent in my house that can steal slippers and cables. It's clearly a small step for a robot, but a large leap for me.
Sounds like another race to the bottom.
> Don’t you find it a bit funny that Windows 95 is actually snappier than Windows 10?

Comparing them on the same hardware?
Why doesn't Apple Watch offer “Always on” option? Every review mentions this
Yeah. I'm not about to delete the app I use to generate background noise when the people in my office are being too loud. Or the app in which I track my weightlifting progress. Or the app I use to digitize and archive all important letters I receive. Or any of these kinds of apps.

The difference is, these aren't time wasting apps. I couldn't waste hours in my fitness tracker or digitizing important letters.

Remove all time wasting apps. Keep functional apps. The smartphone is a great tool if used right.
There was a theory that they were working on end-to-end encryption for Skype. If true, this may be related to that. I sure hope it's true, otherwise they will not be able to say that they "can't" provide people's communications with a court order, as they're now doing in Belgium.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/93006358956574720...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/27/belgian_court_fines...

Also, the court classified them as a "telco," likely because Skype offers integration with regular phone lines. It's also why, in the U.S., the government can use CALEA to intercept Skype calls.

So if they want to keep using that excuse, they may want to offer a "secure" data-only version of Skype, too (that's the default Skype), and provide a deprecated version that's integrated with regular phone calls.

This would also make it easier for them and everyone else to move on from the convoluted WebRTC 1.0 standard to the ORTC-based WebRTC 1.1. It would've been ideal to make this change with the overhaul of Skype's design to be more easily accepted by people, but oh well, better late than never.
I use Google WiFi with a primary and guest network. Anything which doesn't get security updates goes on the guest network so negligence on the part of Lenovo, Toshiba, etc. doesn't offer an easy jumping-off point to attack the devices with data I care about.
I'm guessing at numbers from my limited experience, but a new robot development (let's say with some sophisticated features either hardware or software--not both) is probably a 20-50 person development. Salary (in normal land, not crazy west coast land) for a 2.5 year development is 6-15 million. Material cost runs 10-40% more.

So expect something like 4-10 new robot platforms coming out as a result of this. In a market where there's not a plethora of vendors, that's respectable.

If anyone has more direct experience I'd be happy to be corrected.
Seems crazy that some kind of third party couldn't make replacement parts for these; march of dimes still raises money, so there's plenty of money available to fund a small prototyping shop to do this, or it could be a charity effort.
The bargain-basement nature of BountySource is probably also the reason why the founding team couldn't make the financials work out.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

It appears to have actually been in relation to the Crimean referendum instead of Estonian government.
I could be wrong but I thought the file system's "drivers" did the handling of file system permissions rather than the OS / kernel? Or at least this was my experience when playing around with FUSE on hobby projects.
For one, this doesn't need to be provided by the government. We have community wifi in Prague run by hobbyists and volunteers. For two, isn't the freedom of democracy (aka, the freedom of the people to have their government do what they want, such as provide community wifi) even more fundamental than net neutrality? Doesn't it make sense to fight the monopoly than to regulate it?
Finally, something simply brilliant to talk about! It's (imo) the perfect charting abstraction. Thanks for your hard work.
The cheapest way to buy IOTA
From Markdown to RCE in Atom
I've been a Firefox user since Phoenix 0.1, and a Mozilla Suite/Netscape user before that. I used Chrome for a couple of years, but went back around when FF56 was released.

FF57 is absolutely the greatest version of Firefox to date. I have yet to hear a single legitimate complaint against it that actually holds up to scrutiny.
> that [ip white list] would almost certainly become a public court document
>> Why?

If a medium sized company and was excluded, I imagine a law suite would be filed within hours. Any internet company not on the list would be in court just to survive. The first document in question would be the white ip list. That white ip list would never leave the courtroom (international headaches, federal districts courts, county courts then all the one offs: schools, .govs, .mils! -- ugh what a mess). This isn't a plan.

> They've accomplished quite a lot: getting you to pay extra for a service that was previously included.

Really? They win an extra fee of $10 on 0.5% of users? They can't do that now - just raise it now $10? Sure make it $20? I guess they can try to tell if you use a video source over a VPN - and haggle customers over video usage. Have millions of false positives. Ugh. ISPs shudder when you say "add more call centers." SO --- Hiring expensive tech fluent english customer service teams to hunt down VPNs (at $10 a pop) - sounds like a plan a board will almost certainly ditch. A call to my mother about her VPN using video traffic would take 17 phone calls and over 200 man hours. I don't think any of this is a money maker plan.

Yeah when you logically break down the parts, I don't see ISPs gaining a thing but headache. But I do see ISP losing almost all their influence to VPN services.
Software estimation in the fractal dimension
This photo is listed on that page and is the was talking about.
I would love to hear/see more details on how you set this up. It's something I'd like to do, but I'm not sure where to start (hw, sw, etc).
CNN is extremely anti-Trump
Companies that offer work-from-home options
That was new to me, thanks! Excellent example of pulling several plausible ideas into one outlandish tale.

Sure, it’s a devil’s brew, but who wouldn’t say no to a specific impulse on the order of twelve thousand?

That kind of Isp is great for interplanetory/interstellar cruising, not so much for getting off the pad. That's why ion engines aren't used to get to orbit; thrust to weight matters when starting from zero m/s.
I recently measured it with my phone's camera in slow motion mode. The system is an AMD Ryzen 1800X with AMD R9 280x GPU, KDE Plasma with KWin window manager in compositing mode. Key press to screen output latency was ~33 millseconds (90 fps recording, so increments of 11) in KWrite.
The computer feels plenty responsive with that latency, and I hate latency...

It is a full stack real world result - for comparison purposes it makes sense to measure only the software as in the article, but in reality you want to optimize everything. Especially screens can be quite bad - tens of milliseconds, up to 100 in the worst. USB lag is usually quite low - when I measured it once for low-latency serial comm it was usually < 2 ms.
Programmatic Slack Invite in JavaScript and React
I've been to a few too, and the decay has been setting in for a long time. Today, the water is very dirty, and access has been barred to the bottom.

It is a shame, really, that you chose to use HN to try to score some cheap shots which anyone would see are wrong.
There is plenty of cringey non-programmer humor.
Quite easily?
I am running Android 7.1.2. I remember in the older versions of android, when you turned off the GPS, it would have to manually sync the receiver and it would take minutes to get GPS lock. In the current version, when I turned off location services, there is no "dot" indicating your location on Google Maps, but it appears almost instantly when you turn it off. I have long suspected that Android has the "coarse location" and "GPS location" always tracking, but merely just does not give Apps the data until location services is turned on.
Or a feature that needs adding to the specification ;)
Mera dil bhi kitna pagal hai – Bollywood songs – Songs at One Stop
Why Some Real Estate Companies Are Like a Cult
> I deny the notion of millions of people sharing a certain collective sense of humor

You don't think there's any such thing as nerd culture?