skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I see that people for some reason think that this is the only future of our apps.
- Standalone apps are not going anywhere.
- The original 1Password extension, which is working with standalone app is there too and in active development.

1Password X is one more thing, additional possibility. Not a replacement.
yeah, because the article didn't either
Just to add on to this now that I see that Agliebits staff are in this thread.

I'm not against paying for major version updates. Think of it as a tradeoff between time to market vs. revenue. I'm fine with Teams getting features first (other than security fixes) and paying more infrequently than subscription. It's certainly a business model that previously sustained Agilebits and plenty of other software providers. I get that the HN crowd may not make up a large majority of users at this point but I would think there are still many people that would be happy to spread use of 1Password via word of mouth if you deign to do so.
I would like to personally apologize. No offense was ever intended. Looking into what the industry was doing was not a determining factor when we decided to move to the DCO. I personally can appreciate the amount of work it takes to make changes to licensing terms. It is a difficult task to try to create terms that will please your users. As I am sure you have experienced, you will never be able to please everyone, there will always be nay-sayers and opponents. However, if you have any interest in moving to DCO, I would be happy to talk to anyone interested in talking about our analysis and process.
It seems your comment is characterizing the OP as a complaint mostly in search of sympathy. That doesn’t strike me to be the purpose of the post at all.

The OP is using him or herself as an example of a real behavior in response to real economic incentives, no matter how unsympathetic you find their circumstance. The fact that this situation discourages moves that most other markets encourage is a worthwhile point to bring up. Among other things, it reduces supply which has a profound effect on new buyers.

Incentives influence actions much more than personal criticism does. The OP’s relatively fortunate outcome does not mean that they don’t have something relevant to share. In contrast, targeting them with pejorative shaming is totally unhelpful.
This is stupid. While my boss has vested interest in my data, I am the only one that can benefit or change because of it.
Sorry, you're right :)
Amazing! Love it :)
It seems to be working pretty well for China, and certain people within North Korea.
how would a government pay to secure their blockchain? how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin? One of the reason of URSS going down was the huge administrative costs of spying / investigating, keeping up the oppression on its citizens.
If System76 would support straight Debian stable, I'd be a customer for life. I actively dislike Ubuntu, and think that supporting Debian will result in 'free' Ubuntu support, while not being noticeably more expensive to begin with.
Angular 4 for Ionic 3. A little bit of VueJS on the side and hoping to start working on my Cantonese again.
And that last bit, figuring out what the old software is doing, can be a bitch and a half. You don't have to just replicate the spec or documentation (if it is accurate or even exists at all), you have to replicate the classic behavior perfectly, down the the last bug. 'Cause if you don't, you risk finding out just how much more expensive the manufacturing system is than than the computer controlling it.
Surely you understand the value of a JavaScript runtime in every browser?
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits makers of 1Password

We've already announced that 1Password 7 for Mac and 1Password 7 for Windows will continue to offer standalone licensing.

Just a heads up that we're not removing the option for users like yourself that want to continue to use standalone vaults and the licensing to go with it.

That said, if you haven't, I would recommend and least trying our 1Password.com service. It was built and designed from the ground up to work for 1Password. It's an incredibly great experience. If you try it and aren't interested after the trial I'd love to hear your feedback on why. No credit card is necessary to try it.

Kyle

AgileBits
> How many people have been deterred from writing Java because of eclipse configuration?

And yet, this hypothetical person wants to write an Electron app to run on desktops?

I don't get this argument. If you are good enough to understand how to write and deploy an Electron app, you should certainly be able to understand Eclipse.

Note: I'm not advocating for Java here...
I think this is a non issue for most visitors and sites. I can see this being a problem for photography sites and enthusiasts, however, for the average Joe like myself, our eyes have not been trained enough to "look" for the imperfections the author is describing.
Azure (esp. function, queues, tables), git-flow & friends (to try and optimise our processes), brushing up on ASP.NET and Selenium.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough.

What I meant to say was that "eight megabytes" sounds silly today. Who cares if an app uses 8MB today? The extrapolation is that it will be the same for Atom or other editors (I'd argue that it already is).

I created my first programs with a computer which had exactly 28815 bytes free when it booted up (out of a possible 64k). If you plugged in a floppy drive, the free memory dropped further.

So, I do understand resource constraints.

Btw,
Earth would keep contact with colony A which would be slightly different. Colony A would keep contact with colony B which would be slightly more different. It would only take a few tens of hoops to get to something different enough that would classify as alien. At interstellar distances, this is a definite possibility. Isaac Asimov's empire, foundation and robot series have some fascinating (hypothetical) examples of this.
Amazon and Whole Foods unveil new price cuts for Prime members
I would expect more than 10% and its not just the valley that is paying that. Most other major cities are hitting that (although usually not quite as much as the valley).

I would not expect groupon which is in chicago to be in the top 10% of salary and they are paying average over that (also, glassdoor salaries are usually low from what I have seen): https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Groupon-Software-Engineer-S...
I use AOT in dev mode.
US Government Details Procedure in Revealing Security Vulnerabilities
Nobody is talking about giving you 50k and free housing. You would likely receive much closer to 15k (federal poverty level) and free housing (if any) would likely not be in a ski town. Good luck affording food and rent in a ski town, plus enough video games to keep you busy all year on 15k.

You might quit your full time job, but you would probably find some part-time programming work you enjoyed to allow you to afford good snowboards, new video games, and trips to other ski towns.

Disclaimer: I am currently doing part-time freelance work and living in a ski town.

Plus, if you truly love programming, you would still want to work on side projects and assist with open source development that you find interesting or valuable.

Nobody disputes that there are lazy people who wouldn't work if given UBI. The questions are:

1) How many of these lazy people are there?

2) How much economic output is wasted by employers trying to filter these lazy people out of their workforce.

3) How much economic output is wasted by the systems employers have to create to force the lazy people they do hire to be productive.

4) How much economic output can we gain by giving non-lazy people a safety net that allows them to find ideal vocations for their talents and preferences.
Full internet access required. From this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15705063

Authentication and authorization is managed by a cloud service
That is bonkers. Even with turbochargers, a USB outlet of a
charger should not put out more than 5V. I tested about 10 different chargers with a multimeter in the last two weeks and each one was anywhere from 4.9V to 5.1V. The isolation in the brick must have been total junk
> again after assaulting someone.

They haven't been to court yet, they might be innocent.
Lambda Computing with Minio and Apache Kafka
Rosanna Pasino... especially the Nerdy Nummies stuff.

When she's a bit too peppy, I have to turn the volume down or off (it sounds like the worst sort of baby talk to me), but the stuff she makes is amazing.
If it completes at all!
So as a percentage of population, this is equivalent to 1.2 million Americans being killed for blood every year?
Creepypasta, battle rap, and ASMR.
> We can run our own Firefox Account servers.

Which can themselves be compromised. The old Firefox Sync protocol was immune to remote compromise, completely and totally.

> People get annoyed of being told x-y-z is not secure, while not being offered any practical solution

I agree: the problem is that there was a practical solution: just keep the old Sync protocol.

> I'm assuming Firefox has a good reason for working the way it does

The short version is that people wanted to be able to only have one device and still get at their data, and Mozilla didn't want to confuse them by separating their account passwords and their sync passwords. Never mind that combining them has results in a wholesale loss of security.
> In contrast to most of the other NLP tasks people train neural networks to do

Could you give some examples of these types of tasks (and maybe associated projects/papers) that you think are not actually useful?
Several parts of your comment resonate with me:

>> There has to be a way for website creators to sandbox content which comes from third parties.

The whole 3rd party thing came about because advertisers needed to establish both ad-distribution and trust (they rightly don't want to pay for ads unless they're actually shown etc...).

>> It's problematic that including content from elsewhere in your page (like in an iframe) would grant it "first class" behavior with equivalent privileges to one's page.

I agree, this one is on the browser devs and the standard creators. Safety by default is the way to go but then people have nifty ideas that would not be possible with limitations.

>> I know it's opening a can of worms, but why not implement a way to show untrusted content?

That's exactly what the browser is supposed to be in the first place.

>> Why can't I escape from it easily? The back button doesn't work.

Because browser devs decided there was some reason the content should be able to alter or override the design of the viewer. I can think of no legitimate (to the user) use case for this. The list of stuff like this is long and ridiculous. They keep doubling down on it too. First we had cookies, but that wasn't enough so now there's a whole client-side database...
> The trial lawyer who filed this lawsuit has a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims

Not independently verified I would imagine.

> At Tesla, we would rather pay ten times the settlement demand in legal fees and fight to the ends of the Earth than give in to extortion and allow this abuse of the legal system

Sounds high minded but actually just a practical strategy to fend off future lawsuits. Has nothing to do with fighting the good fight or defending liberty justice and all.
.... but bitcoin frequently jumps 25% a day on NON-domestic news.... how is it a better store of value?
"Structural Regular Expressions" by Rob Pike:
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

This is the foundation of the text editor 'sam', see here:
http://sam.cat-v.org

Pretty much everything in the cat-v.org rabbit hole is worth digging into IMO.
The New Tax on Stock Investors Hidden in the Senate Tax Plan
I believe this happened with Lyft Line and Uber Pool.
How would a large company (or community project) be able to recruit hundreds of programmers well versed in these languages? The problem is s/w is built on existing knowledge and in the system programming domain that is C/C++ for the most part, and that's where you'll get man-power to the extent needed to build gargantuan OSes like Windows, MacOS, Linux and so on.

And usually good s/w engineering principles were not the predominant factor in the inception of these systems anyway. They were commercially motivated, and hobbyist beginnings. And once you already have a big body of code...
Nice article, especially the data, but I'm disappointed they didn't cover more of the most effective approach: Design your site not to use javascript except where really needed!

I think most sites can be broadly classified as (1) "relatively static" such as hackernews itself, news/blogs, text-based sites in general, or (2) an entire program/application running in the browser, such as a game or collaborative text editor. Most sites fall into category 1 and therefore need very little JS to do their job effectively, but they come up with 50 different things for JS to do on their webpage, then spend time and effort optimizing and minifying instead of just not doing those things (or doing them in HTML).
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password.

We recently updated 1Password 6 for iOS to work with the new Dropbox version 2 API. Going forward it should be fine until the next Dropbox API changes and presumably that will be a lot smoother than the change from version 1 to 2 that we just did... at least, I hope. We had several people put a lot of time into that transition.

I'm not sure if your comment applied directly to us, but for anyone wondering we tend to update 1Password pretty regularly. We are not at risk of ever being an app that falls on the "not continuously updated" lists I don't think. We were there on day 1 for Drag and Drop on iPad, and day 1 for Face ID. Much like we were there on day 1 for Touch ID and extensions.

1Password for Mac does not depend on Dropbox's API, it syncs directly to the Dropbox folder on the Mac. So as long as that doesn't change it has zero dependency on Dropbox itself.

Kyle

AgileBits
UPDATE: new version of Video DownloadHelper addon for Quantum Firefox was not useful for me: it requires external companion app to write files (which I don't trust and don't want to install). But I found another addon: "Flash and Video Download", which does its job quite well without any assistance from external software.
"The provision would prevent investors from minimizing taxes by choosing the specific shares that are being sold when they sell part of a position. Instead, investors would have to sell their oldest shares first."
A better solution IMO would be to set up a trust/charity that provides bail money. Using technology to solve problems is great: I just don't think this is a particularly good solution. And Government agencies are very very conservative: if you pilot a program and it fails to deliver, they will essentially no longer listen to you.
How Hinton's Capsules Work
It's okay for front-line devs to think this, but when the people in charge of salary and hiring believe it, your team ends up a crew of fresh graduates herded by a senior dev who is exclusively occupied with making sure the junior devs don't make things worse.

Why is that bad thing? I'm in that position now more or less - senior Dev (official title architect) working with mostly with inexperienced but smart junior developers and legacy developers. I'm just not expected to do too much actual coding.
Indian man declares himself ‘King’ of 800-square-mile unclaimed land
There was nothing stupid about it. It was opportunism.
This makes no sense to me.

Most candidates aren't unemployed; they're switching jobs. Leaving a job they don't like, or looking for an upgrade. Many have to be persuaded to leave their current employer.

If I were thinking about switching, I'd want a lot more commitment from my future employer than "we'll hire you and four more guys for the same position, then we'll see which one of you will last 90 days". Regardless of my confidence in being able to do the job, who wants to compete for a job for 90 days? Interviews are horrible and stressful, but this is just replacing them with what is essentially a 90 day interview for which you have you quit your current job.
Maybe I care about other causes more, and want to ask about the prospects of this technology being used together with consumer choice?
Visual Studio Code at Connect();2017
I suppose someone would write one eventually, but I don't really see the motivation to build or use libraries like SVGO for most use cases.

If you GZIP compress an SVG to SVGZ then you are going to save way more bytes, and if you have a half-decent webserver and a browser this side of 1999 it should do that automatically - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Compression_s...
What part is actually hosted here? Do they store opaque encrypted blobs and pass those around, or can they see the actual secrets too?
Calculating the Sortino Ratio
Define "early employee"? If you are in the first ten or so employees, as others have said, 0.1% is below market as an equity offering.
Seems like a space elevator is a less scattershot approach? Even on rockets the acceleration your passengers and cargo experience is pretty serious, I'd hate to be in a rail gun's bullet.
This similar study by the same authors seems a bit more reasonable.

https://iapreview.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publica...

> Despite greater total availability of energy, a feasible solution could not be identified, meaning that the yearly nutrient requirements of the U.S. population could not be met under the defined constraints. Deficiencies in vitamins (A, D, E, B12, and choline) and minerals (Ca) were the primary cause of this infeasibility. Although eliminating animals from the food production system may seem advantageous based on surface-level comparisons of system energetics, a more comprehensive analysis of the food production system highlights the unique and essential role of livestock products in the food production system. This suggests that substantial gains in environmental impact could be made by simply reducing daily intake, rather than affecting dramatic shifts in consumption pattern.

Two animal scientists had a silly hypothesis "is it a good idea to remove all farm animals", and proved the answer to be no.

Too bad they don't provide access to these studies. To me it looks like they just left it at that, and didn't investigate any further, e. g. the question of how many farm animals could be removed while still meeting all dietary requirements.
An active gitea user here, gitlab is too heavy for my person self-hosting site, at the moment, github for social coding, gitea for personal repo, tried but not jumping on gitlab and do not see a need for that.
You are right. Part of discussion starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00264.html
The GP was talking about family sharing, so yes.
P&G paying $100M for deodorant startup
It's really not that hard: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-fro...
The one time planning with a crowd is better
A million a month in Bitcoin trade might not sound like much, but Zimbabwe's total GDP is only $1.3 billion per month
Yeah, this was more a generic comment not specifically aimed at Atom. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
RCN Network Smart Contract Audit Results
every 25 years
Are you referring to me being offended - not in the least. I found it really funny and thats how it made my day.
> Give me literally any other language.

I'm torn between JS and PHP for the language I have the least fun programming in.
The current administration is not pro small business, for all their shilling about being business friendly. If the current tax bill passes as is, it'll trigger a housing crisis (mortgage deductions capped at $500K), probably increase tax for residents of states with state income taxes, and kill startups with this options thing.

It'll only benefit Trump & his big business cronies.
> If all the money is coming from the county (presumably it is)

I believe most of the money comes from outside the country, I started donating $25 a month to GiveDirectly this summer.

In the years to come technology is going to replace the need for a lot of human labor and UBI will be required to maintain a civil society.
> For example, if you sold your house for $2m, your effective tax rate on the sale would be 5%

The tax on capital gains in this case would be 20% federal, ~10% state (in California), 3.8% ACA investment tax. That's an ~34% rate, not the 20% you seem to think applies.

> the only cash you need to come up with is the down payment for the new house

Let's take the simple case where the old house was paid off, no mortgage. Are you suggesting that it's unreasonable to want to downsize and still not have a mortgage?

If you do have a significant mortgage, and are hence highly leveraged, an increase in property prices is pretty good. If your mortgage is more or less paid off, you can in fact end up in a situation where you can't buy any house at all in the same general market after selling your existing one and paying the property taxes. See a worked-out example at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15706565
Elisp would still a better much better language than python or Ruby (for emacs), especially now that lexical binding is becoming standard. Emacs people would like to move to scheme, if anything. (even RMS wishes emacs would move to scheme.)
> Facebook only turned into such a hostile entity because it got big enough to exert real political influence.

This evaluation is very shallow. Facebook has been a manipulative and unethical corporation for years, maybe forever. It's true that lots of companies start out fine and then start abusing their power once they get big. But Facebook is that and is unethical in other ways also.

By design, Facebook is about collecting deep personal info, capturing attention and then selling your attention to the highest bidder. The very design of Patreon is in opposition to this. Even if Patreon were the most unethical abuser of their power, they would then be the worst in the basically ethical market of funding creative work directly. And Patreon isn't abusing their power dramatically right now and may never get there.

Facebook is already being the worst in a fundamentally unethical market based on getting attention and selling it to advertisers.

Your points about corporations and ethics are broadly true. But that doesn't mean that there aren't better and worse. We should be skeptical of all for-profit entities, especially VC-backed and stock-based ones. But they aren't all equal. Some are worse than others and some are by-design worse.

It's basically impossible for Patreon to turn into something as horrendous as Facebook. Patreon could get pretty bad and that would still be true.
Yeah, it's hard to tell whether the apparent simplicity would make a mess in a bigger examples, but the Red examples are the most striking at a first glance.
Umm, looks like all those remote interview coding notebook companies are about to go out of business.
Correct. I think there's a caveat if the two different tabs render two different documents but on the same domain, interactions on each could be recorded by either tab.
I don't want to start the usual bitcoin scaling debate, but aren't the fees extremely high now?

Using [1] an average transaction costs about 10$, this is particularly bad in a poor country. I wonder if using a cryptocurrency is really the best option in this case.

[1]: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
It's one of the toughest usability problems in computing, I think. Replacing paper is remarkably hard. I had hopes for tablets, but input lag is too disruptive still, and they still suffer from the problem that I can't flick through pages or spread them out on a desk. I'll probably keep trying to find a solution for the rest of my life, and keep failing...
good to see newer routing projects these days.