skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to be the person who earns less than someone else just because they have kids and i don't.

You really don't want to be the person who took more money out of your startup than necessary either though. That's what you're arguing in favour of - a higher burn rate and consequently less time for building your business in order for things to be 'fair'.

If you're in that situation I'd recommend agreeing to track the difference and only pay it in the event of an exit, maybe with a multiple (say, double) to recognise the risk you took. That'd be better than increasing the burn rate just to make things equal.
Unless you can buy a laptop with no OS for less than I can buy a laptop with Windows, buying from Linux ecosystem is going to be essentially an act of charity.
Agree with your points, but I really thought joda-time’s documentation was decent! Cheatsheet had plenty of examples: https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/cheat-sheet.html
Intel Planning to End Legacy BiOS Support by 2020
Why not deduct federal taxes from state income?
This seems to be the simplest way to handle increased overall taxation in high-tax states under new federal tax code.
>Also, why do you believe that the corruption you experienced was because of the leader, rather than despite the leader's efforts?

because of the programs he has put in place. Role of state owned entreprises has nearly doubled up to 70% of the economy, he has consciously put these close friends in place, he has cut down on any form of opposition and dissent within the country. It is the official course of his politics. The Russian government is not even hiding this, which makes the constant apologia from people not even affected by it seem only more baffling.
A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes [video]
I came to ask a similar question, can macOS High Sierra now be installed on a AppleRAID set? (Not sure why it is called “AppleRAID”, guess that is they brand software RAID0)

Looks like not based on recent comments on
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/78908
I don't know about WebM VP9 but with H264 colors are often in the 16 - 235 range. I can spot in a webpage when it's a video and not a GIF because colors are washed out and can't be as saturated as with GIF
It could be argued this is a departure from the standard, but on the other hand allowing PUT to have side-effects might be more user-friendly than an extra POST to a special "email invitation" resource. Would you prefer to see this behavior (as long as it was documented)?
I still miss the time when I didn’t have to subscribe to Adobe Creative suite...
I searched for a while to find what she was talking about with LEGOs and it turned out that it wasn't actual LEGOs she was talking about. I kind of lost interest at that point.
I've been booting with the kernel as an EFI stub, and I love it. I can copy a new compiled kernel to the right directory, and reboot into it. No grub involved. And to edit the boot menu, or just change what I'll boot into next, is the handy efibootmgr tool.
Thanks. I didn't find that last time. Examples should really be in the actual documentation.
> What an incredibly simplistic view of the world.

I could make the same argument of your point of view as well. I work at Google precisely because I think I can make a difference here.

That means something different to different people I imagine
Yea man click his profile.
>In a sandbox even I, as the owner of the computer, can't let them out of. That's not cool.

Good software doesn't easily let you shoot yourself in the foot. It turns out if you allow it, people will do it. There exists software that does let you shoot yourself in the foot, but Firefox is designed for the mass market, not a specific niche. It's the only serious competitor to Chrome.

NPAPI is also gone. Not behind a flag, the code to support it is gone. It was broken, and so was the old extension API. It's about time for the majority of users to move on.

>In the sense that it's no longer possible to do the things one could do with a Firefox codebase.

This doesn't make any sense. You can do the same things you could do with the Firefox codebase before: download it, modify it, redistribute it. The runtime is what you're thinking of, and you were never guaranteed any abilities with regards to the runtime; you just got used to them, then they changed. This happened a few times with Firefox before, so it's not really clear how this update is much different.

>I own my computer, and my browser; Mozilla have taken away the ability for me to extend my computing environment (without reïmplementing it all myself).

Firefox is not your "computing environment." You're free to remove Firefox from your computing environment, or use an ESR release of Firefox and still get security updates with your old extensions, or use a fork of Firefox, of which there are a few to choose from.

Even so, it's depressing that every time a breaking change happens, even one like this that's 2 years in the making, the same responses happen: weird arguments about entitlement and a lot of looking toward the past.

Why not look toward the future? If you relied on an extension and now it's not possible with WebExtensions, it would help a lot of people out if bugs were filed and features were requested to bridge the gap. It's clear that there's overwhelming reasons to continue down the WebExtensions path, and whether people like it or not it's definitely going to be the only option in the browser you use in a few short years. So it's in our best interests to push for WebExtensions to meet the needs of extensions rather than make pointless arguments for decisions that were made a long time ago and have no chance of being reverted.
I may not be especially competent but I had significant difficulty installing Linux the last time tried.

Thankfully it was possible but there are now significant hurdles. That's problematic. Whether it gets worse is unknown but the situation now is bad if anyone wants Linux to be freely available.
Oh, memories. We also made a lightweight channel service to take the load off of Q. I think it was a little before newserv came into production. We designed it over generous amounts of whisky in a suburb to Stockholm. It's on github (https://github.com/quakenet/lightweight).
Yes. People who care remember the prices.
Experience with customers similar to you, e.g. your competitors. There are many factors about your field, or size, etc. that the vendor may be already familiar with.
# Appears as ANNA
I wonder if the nascent web annotations protocol offers a vector for pre-emptively flagging this sort of crap.
GNU nano 2.9.0
You get upset at the use of metaphors? I thought it was fairly apt:

> That’s why her talk is about Legos. The emotions you feel when new people are coming in and taking over pieces of your job — it’s not that different from how a kid feels when they have to share their Legos. There’s a lot of natural anxiety and insecurity that the new person won’t build your Lego tower in the right way, or that they'll get to take all the fun or important Legos, or that if they take over the part of the Lego tower you were building, then there won’t be any Legos left for you.
Why would you want to
I'd say no, design patterns are about mechanism, 'I want to do X, this pattern is how I do it'. In that way they are similar to monads. Pardigms are about a perspective, a vantage point from which you structue your application.

Say dataflow programming, for which Norvig's sentence generator in PAIP is an excellent introduction, one can use a switch/case or an object with functions as values. Both accomplish the same, but in the latter I change the flow of my program by changing a value in a map.
IIRC Dell is now charging less for Linux than Windows.
What methods does Paddle pay by?
You don't have to give them your email. You can just click 'no', and read the rest. But I agree with your sentiment of not liking that style.
Presumably they don't want to wreck the ecosystem of other species. I mean you can't exactly order up an empty habitat on Amazon, though I'm sure Alexa is now working furiously on the concept in case any of the Axiolotls have money.
It's a statutory requirement in the UK that notifiable electrical [1] and gas [2] work can only be performed by certified tradespeople.

Of course violations of such laws are hard to detect, so they may get broken sometimes.

[1] http://www.electricalcompetentperson.co.uk/
[2] https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/
I'm happy as long as there is an archive. The way front end dev is going these days it seems the best hope is a json api stays alive.
Author here: yes, please use 21st century codecs whenever you can.

This is intended only for interoperability. There are sites/apps that take "GIF" too literally and don't allow uploads of efficient formats. If you need to share a GIF now you can waste bandwidth at least without ruining the quality.

I wrote this only because most encoders make GIFs look awful, as if nobody upgraded the encoders since '90s. This one uses pngquant, which takes quantization very seriously. Plus it guides pngquant to put more weight on pixels seen longer on screen, avoids creating redundant colors which can be reused from previous frames, and does dithering across frames, which "patches" previous frames as neatly as possible. Overall it gives anims with 1000-3000 colors per frame.

It's written in Rust and does decode/convert/encode in parallel, because it was fun to do.

If you want smaller GIFs, I also wrote another compressor with opposite quality/size trade-off: https://kornel.ski/lossygif (or use WebM!)
Check out the one on Node.js = Machine Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkgnSeGO_W0&list=PL0CdgOSSGl...

Fascinating what you can do with vision recognition and augmented reality on your phone.
It's worked well for the last decade.
Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
Can you elaborate on the "significant hurdles"? I've heard this before, but it never comes with any specifics - examples, error messages, forum posts, nothing. If nothing else, if there is seriously a manufacturer that is botching their implementation, please tell the community so that we can avoid them.

I've installed Linux on dozens of laptops. Here are the "significant hurdles":

1. Literally none, because mainstream distros are signed and boot under Secure Boot

2. Literally a single toggle in the BIOS to disable SecureBoot. (Enrolling user keys is more steps, but optional)

And then since most people really mean "UEFI" or other miscellaneous compatibility problems when they say SecureBoot:

3. Literally a single toggle in the BIOS to enable CSM mode for distros/install media that don't support UEFI.

4. Laptops that ship with the SSD in RAID mode (only very, very new kernels ship with support for it). I've only heard of one laptop that didn't allow it to be toggled and it was fixed within two weeks.
Cryptography and data mining/science (ML/AI) have their roots in the study of Epigraphy https://www.google.com/search?q=epigraphy Combined, they enable the process of discovery, new hypothesis generation which in turn can lead to new inventions and cures e.g. extending human lifespan which also happens to be the only way humans will make it to other habitable planets http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1736/
Biggest remaining difference I can see is that Luxon still has it's own classes while date-fns operates on bare DateTime objects (AFAIK), which allows for a different kind of API. So it's mostly a matter of personal preferences now.
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What a terrible headline, and the article isn't any better.
"Argentine military submarine with crew of 44 lost at sea" is perfectly sufficient. Writing standards have really taken a dive since news went digital, which is the opposite of the world I'd hoped for when I was evangelizing the internet back in the 90s :-(

I'm not optimistic for the poor sailors. If a modern submarine is genuinely missing it's usually because it was on some sort of covert mission when it got into difficulties.
When I engage with conspiracy communities it's usually to debunk extreme claims, so I approach most claims with skepticism, but wouldn't this:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225

Suggest that it's not fabricated?
Would love to see a similar test with CPU usage as well. I tried Quantum on OS X for a few days and had to go back to Chrome because it felt like 75% of the time opening a tab would cause my computer to take off
That's called buyers remorse. When a product or service fails to meet your expectations sometime it's just crap, not toxic.

It's amazing how much anger/vitriol a small little modal can generate.

Don't you have a back button?

Otherwise if you want the thing someone is offering in a simple quid-pro-quo take the deal or don't.

Otherwise all you a really shouting about is that you think the price is too high.
Pretty sure you get notifications each time the app charges you, like to your smart watch if you have one.

This is hugely beneficial to individual shoppers. Lining up is such a PITA. Walk in / walk out would be awesome.

They should just have a rule that kids aren't allowed to come along. I can tell you that rule alone will have a zillion mothers crying out in gratitude.
They have. It’s called “Sweden”. Works pretty well.
Are companies where technical people have sway over IT purchasing decisions worth anything to suppliers? I'd assume all the margin is in deals made between salespeople and MBA CTOs on golf courses. Look at the landing page for the server/networking division of any major player in the space - that's clearly not pitched at engineers.

Hell, this may even by why AWS is so popular: the landing page actually explains to engineers what their services even are.
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I don't want their DRM or their DRMed content. I'll gladly buy a computer for my own uses that don't have those "features".
They publish and society perishes.
Cash is somewhat ok until you buy something. It's fine to carry around say £100 in a few notes, but then you buy something and you get back £5 and £10 notes and a handful of change and now it's a big jingly mess of shrapnel. I think contactless credit cards are the best right now. You don't need to hand anything over, get anything back, or enter anything, just wave the card.
Good write-up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-49...
Look for what users have said about them, and their own published uptime/event history. Some big-name services are surprisingly unreliable.

Agree with codegeek about sandboxes. With some vendors it's hard to test your code because their sandbox doesn't look like their live service, or hard to come up with instructions in those cases where you need to ask your customers to interact with a vendor. Some vendors make our tests that integrate against them flaky because the sandbox is flaky :/

Look carefully for things that smell either like too little attention to detail or great attention to detail. For example, for a while a big payment gateway had, basically, a webhook for telling you about payments/payment failures on recurring transactions, but there was no retry mechanism, so if a connection was lost for any reason, so was your data. At the other extreme, it's a good sign if they go above and beyond in some areas, e.g. Twilio and Stripe have great documentation, their approaches to deprecation/compatibility are good, and Stripe offering the idempotency-key mechanism showed they'd spent time solving the whole not-charging-people-twice-because-of-an-inconveniently-timed-network-glitch thing.

This is probably a quirky personal preference, but I'm encouraged when vendors offer APIs for single-item and bulk operations and the bulk ops perform OK with a lot of items. We have some generally alright vendors whose APIs turn out to be painfully slow when we sync data for our largest customers back to our servers. This is a problem that would not necessarily have shown up from testing a high request rate; it's a matter of scaling well with amount of data _stored_.

Some services have "old" and "new" APIs that are not fully integrated, e.g. auth credentials needed and object IDs might differ between them. Sometimes you have to use both to get all of the functionality you want. This hasn't tended to correlate with a good developer experience. On the other hand needing to make your new API distinct is probably inevitable sometimes due to business history or other practicalities--I wouldn't make a decision just based on that.

Comprehensible pricing is a good sign, though of course that's more achievable some times than others. Something like AWS or GCP has accumulated a lot of cost/pricing details to sort through since there are a lot of types of resources they offer, and there aren't really shortcuts to get around that.
> or give us the ability to remove it from existing machines

DRM would still work by default.
To me the 3 most important things are:

- Get an American marketer. We can't really speak the language, and we really need that to talk about our product.

- Get feedback on the name we chose. There might be subtleties that we don't get.

- Clearly state your achievements, forget diminutives/modesty, don't take anything for granted. As European at least, we tend to use a language that in the US is perceived as diminishing our results.
Same. I find it so irritating to be bugged when halfway through reading an article, so I close the tab and never engage with their site again.
And exactly that ability being removed or minimized was bobcallme‘s point!
Thanks for answering! So the data is not far off. I should add "or is single and has no children" to my comment. Nothing bad about that, on the contrary, it does mean older founders with family or other obligations will need to bring/sacrifice their own nest egg.
What market though? How do you buy Linux?
Hey, sorry, don't check my responses very often, but reach out to me at pa tr ick sm yth0 1 @ gmail.com if you want to talk accessibility. I'm partially sighted so I cheated a bit when I played through the first time, but just fired up NVDA and could play fairly easily, though some things could be improved. Was happy to see you used alt text for images and some semantic markup that makes landmarks on the page, good stuff.
"Washed out" is not a fault of H.264 per se, but video decoders being awful at color management. Most common errors are lack of gamma correction for Rec 709 and assuming that less-than-HD videos are in ill-defined BT 601 color space.

There's also a lesser problem of chroma subsampling destroying fine saturated details. WebM/VP9 supports full-res chroma.
The one thing Silicon Valley loves about Trump ;)
That's pretty awesome. The demo video would have been even better if they embedded the sku/price for the item on the overlay video.
I have done the same with two fusion energy companies, almost zero chance of payback but always the slim chance for a breakthrough to save the world. Think of it as a lottery ticket for rich and middle income people. Tesla is a lottery ticket that will probably pay dividends many years down the line, and if not they have at least kickstarted a better future.
"Node.js: What's Next?" is quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVfQ8KtRptM

And "Grokking Asynchronous Work in Node.js" which talks about async_hooks API is a good follow-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xoht4J6Jjw
Actually, with all the industry support for Linux, I'd be more concerned with minix (ironically, as Intel me runs minix), free/net/openbsd, haiku, new experimental oses (like new stuff written in rust), new hypervisors (like xen, but new projects).

Of course, as long as "Linux support" means "load signed extensible, Turing-complete bootloader that can do anything" - people running another OS can continue to that, with no help from the hw in securing their fde encryption keys...
Yeah, the "why" was conspicuously missing from this article.

I looked and could not find any official reference to a home theater installation license in Connecticut. I would've expected to find it here: http://www.ct.gov/dcp/cwp/view.asp?q=461650. If the article is referring to licenses required for low voltage work, that's a license that's required in other states too (including California).

For the Louisiana florist licensing, the best I could find is that it was enacted in 1939. I couldn't find a reference to the actual law or to whatever its origins were. I found plenty of articles that were critical of it (https://gpnmag.com/news/louisiana-florists-need-license/, https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2004/scene_joyc...), that didn't seem to share a political bias. Given the age of the law and its uniqueness, it does kinda stink of protectionism.

Past articles on onerous licensing across the country (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/opinion/why-license-a-flo...), have been written by Morris M. Kleiner, who appears to be closely related to the Institute for Justice, which is a libertarian law firm that has been filing lawsuits against states over their licensing laws for years. The IJ is ultimately the source for the submitted article in The Atlantic.

So this is a political article, and although that doesn't mean it's wrong, it'd be really nice to get some more objective background information on these licenses.
On my blog, I have a page about the whole process here: https://izbicki.me/blog/my-co-discharge.html

If you want something more condensed, here's a news article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/nyregion/23objector.html?p...
Very likely no. Much like costco, I suspect.
Thank you! I've downloaded so much stuff via XDCC that wasn't available in torrent form, or even sold anywhere.
Think of it more like what we used to see was only the best writers, now we see far more writes, and hopefully their average quality has gone up - which is almost a certainty given they used to not write at all.
Ars Technica ran an article [0] yesterday that had more info and details on the sub, as well as some info about NASA's involvement (P-3 aircraft participating in the search).

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/nasa-...
Even worse is the computer-generated "related" links that are inserted inline with the article. We're talking about peoples' lives and you're trying to bait me with a headline about cocaine and hookers? This is why human editors are necessary for journalism.
The original headline is written by someone with an axe to grind, because this change does not hurt Indian IT professionals at all. Restrictions on importing low-cost labor will raise wages for workers in India. The restrictions will also raise wages in the United States for obvious reasons as well.
You can read BBC in countries that blocks it via an iframe proxy provider. Maybe that's why there is no https. But they can make http not redirect to https and still have https
Likely there is human surveillance happening as well. It's probably not all entirely automated.
When protectionism affects them, they empathize with Trump's agenda, but anyone else who supports protectionism is called names and ridiculed.

"Those damn hicks, they're so selfish and backwards, and quite possibly racist...

...ah yes but let's cut down on the foreign IT workers bringing down my own salary"
It is important to know from whom the message comes, or just who has said the same things in the past. It's a good way to get your bearings on where the ideas might lead. Ideas should not be historyless.