skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's full of dark patterns and I don't like the news feed algorithm. What I mean is that it relies on a small number of font sizes, styles and colors and is heavily standardized. Like, you could render FB in a text-based BBS software without losing much.
A negative result is also considered knowledge: rejecting or disproving the null hypothesis is usually valuable. Tom Scott just did a video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJnOCdBr4s

So a bioweapon might not satisfy this criteria. Besides it probably violates other laws, and is thus still illegal.
If anything Ebola is too lethal. It tends to burn out locally before it can spread far from its originating point though if someone should immediately travel after becoming infected it could spread to a new location. But in the majority of the cases so far it has burned out before it could spread to a new village, though the largest outbreak to date claimed in excess of 10,000 lives and spread quite far.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31982078

All it will take for Ebola to be a truly massive killer is a small mutation that would reduce immediate mortality or that would increase the incubation time. Either one of those would greatly increase the number of people that a single outbreak would affect. I'd rather not have to live through that.
Placating the audiance before a potential lawsuit hits.
Don't forget that they will be creating jobs for you and me. So there is reason to be grateful.
Wasn't Zeta a BeOS?

Here in Germany we had much fuzz about it, because it was sold via TV commercials.

Somehow noone was really sure if they had an acutal BeOS licence and really access to the source, eventually it died.
For reference, this was has been presented by Mathias Payer at 32c3.

https://youtu.be/n_tpc7bvPXU?t=2643
WindowMaker for Linux has tear-off menus.
Hi everyone! I'm Eric, one of the developers behind this. Adding subtitles to videos has been a really hard problem so we wanted to make a simple web tool for it. The other tools online only let you create an srt file or just overlay subtitles. But for content on social media, it's really important to burn the captions directly into the video. So that's what this tool is for! Thanks for checking it out!
Ask HN: What is the most difficult part of your job?
Mine switches between the people and coding between different timezones, what's yours?
> I like people too but not random train passengers. They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy. I don’t want to strike up conversations with randos. They make the train dirty.

The vast majority of people who take mass transit in busy cities do not fit your description of "randos". They are clean, well mannered, and presentable.

Based on your description of "randos", it sounds like you are actually referring to homeless people using the train.

And while I agree that it is really unpleasant to have to occasionally share a train car with someone who hasn't bathed recently due to lack of housing, a better approach to that problem might be public support to help these people get housing and treatment for their afflictions, so that when they are on transit with you, they are no more or less offensive to you than anyone else.
>I also want to call your attention to someone else who is searching for a solution: Lenore Skenazy has been sounding the alarm about what happens to kids when we raise them like veal, protecting them from everything including emotional harm.

Back in my day, we had to walk ten miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways!

>Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business.

Also back in my day: a lot less bullshit PhDs.
I also believe Apple Online Store still uses parts of WebObjects.

Not the full blown EOF, WOF that iTunes uses however.
So the problem with this is if I spot you a buck at the subway because you are short, you have to remember and report this. That's what the gift exemption is for in current code. Then let's not get into Rabbi trusts and all sorts of other complexities related to when something is earned.
The idea has been commercialised for years if not decades: check out annoy-a-tron.
I'm the guy who wrote the article. I can confirm this all works well under 10 seconds, so you can read the results and click the answer.
[pdf] Stephen Diehl – Reasoning about Program Behavior Algebraically
Counter-intuitively the speedy kill is actually what makes Ebola comparatively safe, if the victims would live longer they would infect far more others though even in death there is plenty of risk in handling the bodies during burial, especially in remote locations.
Unfortunately not right now, but we are working on it. You can however change the font color! Thanks for checking it out.
Just realized the list contains facebook.com as well as mail.google.com, so perhaps a little overly broad there.
That would be if you let the bank go bankrupt but instead compensate the individual depositors up to a certain limit. That won't leave anyone in distress although it will decimate the savings for quite a few people who had a lot of them.

The main reason not to do this is because that would usually mean severe distress for many employers whose working capital would be lost and day-to-day business disrupted, possibly (especially during an economic downturn) bankrupting them; causing a ripple throughout the economy as a major bank going down takes down also many unrelated companies, their employees, their suppliers, etc, and possibly toppling the next weaker bank(s) as well.
I remember my Windows 2000 Pentium III was a joy to use (despite being an heavy Mac user), so much that I never upgraded it to Windows XP.
That is a point that can not be overstated.

You own your Bitcoins in the full meaning of the word. You fully control them, by way of your private key, but you also trust that the rules of Bitcoin won't change. The former ownership is technical but the latter is social.

There is an implicit social contract towards anyone who buys Bitcoin to be able to spend them any time in the future, under the same rules as today. That includes not having to upgrade to another ruleset with arbitrary changes.

For this reason it was important that the block size increase was made opt-in, and that any hard forking fundamental changes that are required in the future are trivial or have pretty much unanimous support.
You see, it's not easy to sell.
Only been to San Fran once briefly.

But my impression of Bart during that time was:

-infrequent

-loud: this one surprised me, the noise of the wheel screeches were another level of audible compared to the public transport I was used to.

- poverty: SanFran poverty and destitution was just on another level, and a significant amount of that seemed located around some of the stations.

- network coverage:so tiny and doesn't cover much.

That being said, my impression talking to the locals was that commuting in/out of SanFran by car had become a nightmare as well :/
Hello? We're talking about a drug that already exists. I'm fine with the manufacture-only part of it being done by a publicly owned entity.
WordPress 4.9... no longer allows you to edit any code through their editor. You have to edit it through FTP. This change screwed my site up badly to the point where I had it so customized, I basically spent a weekend just finding a theme, only uploading bits and pieces of the database at a time, just to get it working again.

I was about ready to switch to Medium.com to let them handle my website... but the did away with custom domains. But it is pretty much now.. I cannot customize anything on WordPress anymore the way I am used to.. and everything has to be done with plugins. I don't mind a few plugins, but there were just some plugins that were unnecessary and I could just write the script myself to handle certain things.

So... I am still using WordPress, this move was done basically to protect people from themselves. But I feel it should have been optional.. don't force me to be unable to edit certain files, especially in the WordPress editor itself. I certainly miss the freedom of being able to write scripts and do as I please with my WordPress install. That is why I'm not on WordPress.com and opted for my own website. Not saying I can't still do some of it, but going forward with WordPress updates.. nothing can guarantee that my scripts will work from version to version.
Legislators tend to not write the laws anymore. They just take the copy the lobby groups have prepared in advance and submit it as a bill. Congressmen don't even bother to read the laws they vote for.
> As of supervisor, ... it doesn't matter.

General sentiment I see on the internet for people asking for assistance. Normally followed with "why don't you write a systemd service for it?"
Ah, so they are being "robbed of advertising dollars" because they assume that password stealers would otherwise be legitimate subscribers? Ha. In the meantime, a non-subscriber viewing something isn't technically taking anyone's money and this type of weasel-wording keeps public opinion against them.

Also, they would be wise to get advertising dollars per viewer as TV streams are often legally multiplexed in a household. This had traditionally been the case in the pre-digital world w/ Nielsen ratings.
Hey, Cognetta here :).

I also cropped the screenshot before running OCR, but I can still imagine HQ changing its UI frequently to thwart OCR attempts.
tbh I think parent is trying to change the subject away from the topic of the article.
Python fileless import
You can try to prettify/beautify (something like http://jsbeautifier.org/), but the output can still be hard to read. If you're looking to learn how to build a particular feature that's closed-source, I'd recommend trying to build something similar yourself using tutorials or an open-source analog.
Wasn't he building a centralized battery power grid in both Australia and Puorto Rico? Or did I miss something?
A company can't pay an invoice that has formal flaws (missing tax id; missing date; missing a running serial number) without risking serious book keeping problems and not being able to get reimbursed for VAT paid.

Not a single company could pay such an invoice.

(Germany, but pretty sure this applies in most of Europe)
This is the guy who wrote the post!

Wow, so funny we had the same approaches.
> People expect updates once they've purchased an app for a few bucks.

... and the App Store model does not allow a developer to e.g. maintain three different branches of a product (oldstable, stable, beta), with purchases tied to the branch. This makes a "classic" release flow like 1.0 is released, then 1.1 is released, then 1.2, then 2.0 (with new features, whatever), and then a patch 1.3, impossible.

Unfortunately, this "only ever have a single released/maintained version" approach (that was famously pioneered by Apple in iOS itself!) has caught the entire industry - there is no way to avoid e.g. a major update because it brings a royally fucked up UI, lost/rearranged features or whatever without risking security issues.

This is really really bad for enterprise customers where things like "UI overhauls" can lead to a massive, expensive training for all the users or at the very least an increased amount of helpdesk tickets.
You don't need to own a top search listing for this. Google Trends shows the popularity of any search term in real time. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-H&q=Se...
It’s weird that Linux won as a platform on mobile and it was partially due to Apple making it so that phone carriers had less influence on phones so the carriers needed something to claw it back with .
Implementing Malloc: Students and Systems Programming [pdf]
I've suspected that iOS-only had been the plan for a while and I am pretty sad about it to be honest. I'm sure the user experience will be great but I'm a professional and I want a relatively unrestricted OS with a decent UI and good hardware. I suspect I'll have to compromise on at least one of those eventually. It makes sense for Apple but it will be the end of an era.
Wells Fargo, Fifth Third unveil minimum wage hikes after tax bill passage
Be's use of C++ (at the kernel/library API/ABI level) would have doomed it in the long term IMHO. There have been several incompatible C++ ABI bumps since then, all of which would have broken compatibility. See the current Be clones which still have to use an ancient version of GCC to not break compatibility with existing software.

NeXT's ABI interfaces (C and ObjC) were and are much more stable.

(I'm not saying don't use C++, just don't use C++ and expect a stable binary API. You need to wrap it in a C API instead unfortunately. There's too much magic in C++ to have a stable ABI and still be able to evolve the language.)
That is not true. Initially Bitcoin crashed when blocks went over a couple of hundred kilobyes. Satoshi put in this hard cap when this inadvertent limit was fixed.
Yeah that'd be a simple change for them. I'm happy to know I wasn't alone in this. I knew for sure someone else must be doing the same thing :) How are you taking the screenshots? I made a little hotkey script, but feel I could be a bit quicker on it.
Seeing how Comey (and top collaborators) basically ignored Hillary Clinton's obvious crimes WRT security, it does seem odd.

Maybe they're buying some agents of their own, to even things out.
Why are there so many people shilling for Google with this "coalition"?
In the UK, I'd be taxed on it, and sorting that out properly would mean having to go through self-assessment. But that's not actually hard, and while I've not needed to fill in that particular bit, the extra effort it would require doesn't appear to be particularly onerous.

I suspect that if you started getting any reasonable quantity of donations that would also pique the taxman's interest.
Fonduegate and why the customer is not always right in France
One thing I did which helped results a bit is invert negative queries...So if the query had a NOT in it, remove that, and choose the option with the fewest matches. Seemed to work pretty well.
The trick is in the 'n' conversion specifier:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fpr...

"The argument shall be a pointer to an integer into which is written the number of bytes written to the output so far by this call to one of the fprintf() functions. No argument is converted."

The * parameter provides the "input", since it allows controlling the number of bytes written with its parameter, which is then written to the n parameter.
Yes! I've been thinking about this occasionally. I have decided that when I get time I will build on FreeBSD (my favorite operating system) and make a shared screen multi user graphical desktop that supports multiple keyboards and mouses at the same time, and there will be a permission system so that people are only allowed to interact or obscure the windows of others if they get their permission.
Put a week long sleep before it starts going off.
More interesting https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-H&q=Se...
Sounds more like you're trying to keep up with the bullshit avalanche from the prostitute media; you can't win that game, and your brain will turn to mush in the process.

Journalism is dead, deal with it.
+1. Super-expert COBOL experts probably get paid pretty well, but there are few of them.
There is no comparison, because you aren't comparing transit systems, you are comparing the differences in the societies' minimum standard of living.

It's very likely that the beggar in Finland has access to much better public goods (like perhaps basic housing - hence a shower, healthcare) than their American counterpart.
Don't people generally just use some sort of package manager to distribute scripts and their dependencies? I don't use Mac so maybe they're way behind the curve in this.
> It proved too complex and has since been dropped from the design. It won't be coming back.

SpaceX plans to do in-orbit refueling for its BFR, though. I may be oversimplifying, but it seems to me this is a fairly similar feat than cross-feeding. Couldn't the experience gained in this help for that?
They actually do, governments don't have the power to issue euros, only ECB does.

Every EUR the government hands you (in EU not by a check, that's stone age, but on your account) is directly, immediately covered from their reserves (usually within 'their' central bank, who also can't issue new euros) or borrowed from someone, possibly the ECB.
This thing I'd gonna be the AR Hardware version of Duke Nukem.
That's him.

IIRC he left Apple in 2015 and only after that he resumed publicly talking about mapping products.
So you won't read any more articles, just re-read this one?

:)
Yes, but a lot of the statements Keeper is upset about are the same ones the engineer reported.
Google TechTalk on the Haiku OS
If so, that would have been NeXTStep. BeOS was (mostly?) POSIX compatible, but was less of a Unix than Linux.

John Perry Barlow described it: "I have a NeXT machine -- I expect a boo or two -- that's as close to UNIX as I've been able to get, and that's kind of like UNIX with training wheels by Armani." http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565929920.do
They could literally just slap a LeapMotion on it and be one-up on Oculus and Vive for the types of interactions that would be useful in AR.

I've used the LeapMotion in VR and it's amazing. The VR headset controllers work well for their purpose, gaming - low latency, high reliability, high freedom of movement (can put it behind you etc.), and having physical buttons. But the LeapMotion tracks your fingers and feels really natural - without holding anything or placing trackers.
yes, why not? i keep it polite. they are just doing their job
I'm also working in a distributed team and working from home and I fell fantastic about that.

Surprisingly the most difficult part of my job is to stop working at the end of the day. I'm so concentrated and into solving the problems that I need to setup an alarm to tell me I should stop working. I never felt so concentrated like this in ages.
But typically not for very long.
It's probably small, but I bet there's some measurable savings in terms of employee churn. Even if you delay some of the turnover for a year because of happy employees, that's a lot of HR expense saved. I wish there was a way to find out.
Don't worry about it. You would have sold is at $100 and then regretted not holding it longer. It's a game you can't win.

You could say the same thing about not buying BTC at $1 and selling at $20,000.
"Zeta was a commercially available operating system based on the BeOS R5.1 codebase." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
You replied to wrong comment.
Steve emailed Apple employees in 06, saying:

> It turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.
More “RowList” Fun with Records in Haskell
It's the single best business decision ever made in the history of business. It brought it back from death to the most successful company in the history of the world. I still remember at the Brass Ring job fairs how the Apple booth was completely empty and no one wanted to work for Apple in fall of 1996.
There seems to be some high profile XRP Customers signed on already, BMO, UBS etc.

I'm not holding my breath as to the wide spread usage in Korea & Japanese banks (as another article states), but I'm optimistic about the technology in general. (1500 TRX/s vs BTC 7 TRX/s)
Isn't that his name?

Who are you anyways? The saint of corporate assholes? Any time anyone says anything less than positive about anyone with a pile of money, you're always first in line to defend them and shoot down the discussion.

Good luck dealing with that karma moving forward...
I am really excited with this announcement ! Hope to get my hands on one of these and experience it. With future updates, i hope the glasses will look less bulky.
Fair enough, maybe it’s not the best label. My purpose was just to discriminate between the cryptocurrencies that are trying to solve some other problem (create a worldwide supercomputer, decentralized storage, etc) from those that are more straightforward.

I certainly don’t think of any of it as a store-of-value ... more like a trip to the casino!
When I was at Cornell in the mid 2000s, one of the frats did a prank similar to this--though all it took was a roll of quarters. They loaded up the jukebox in the Ivy Room with quarters and set it to play Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" on repeat. The brilliance was that the song faded out for about 30 seconds and with all of the noise in the dining hall, it sounded like the madness had finally ended. And then it would start again...
Yeah, same thing I said over twenty years ago. Yet here I am with an assload of money in the brokerage account, and a house that has tripled in value since we bought it. AAPL at $18 was still a crap shoot, you don’t hear anyone going on about how well their pets.com stock worked out. But AAPL at $30? At $100 pre-split? There was still plenty of money to be made on AAPL above $18, and after AAPL had established that they were not going anywhere. I had some AAPL @ $17, IIRC, but most of my money made on AAPL was long after that price point. And that’s just an example, buying opportunities are everywhere, the trick is separating the AAPLs from the PETS. (sorry, I tried to find a dot.boom company that sold oranges online so as to have an appropriate comparison, but failed.)

Housing? If you’re complaining about SV, I have no help for you, that place is nuts. Everywhere else, generally, isn’t any worse than when we bought our first house 25 years ago. But once you’re in and can make the payment, the numbers just get bigger as time goes on, as your house price is going to be relative to those around you.
UK supermarket publishes antibiotic usage in supply chain
$1,000 bonus for 250k employees is $250,000,000 first of all... Secondly, they announced a $1B increase in capital expenditures for next year so that's $1.25B. That's now 54.3% which is a great "trickle down" effect.

Oh and just FYI, the average American family, married couple with 2 kids making the median American income of $60k after this tax bill will now pay $0 in taxes. Instead they will receive $70 refund. Before they'd be paying $1700 a year. So anyone that fits that demographic making less than $60k a year will get a tax refund instead of paying any federal income tax. The Bush cuts were garbage, this is a middle class tax cut.
His full name and contact info is on the website:

https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/795-s-corporation-tax-ret...

He's a small business CPA. He did some research and published it. From his professional perspective, this is no different than Show HN: Video subtitle maker.

Look, I can't stand the Mercers and the Kochs as much as the next dweeb but you actually have to establish that link.
Not enough info here to determine anything useful from the developer perspective. If I had to make an arbitrary assumption, I'd guess that this boils down to a UIKit implementation on the Mac.
Did you send back the $1,200 check that George Bush sent everyone during his administration, or are you too young to remember the impact that had on the country?
I'm not here to argue about the whether or not Obama was a good president, but your second point is incorrect. The ACA was formulated in an almost entirely bipartisan way, taking influence from many Republican plans. It was a bandage on the bleeding wound of Healthcare and one that was desperately needed.

I would say it was particularly effective, considering my family personally benefited from the removal of pre-existing condition denial. That said, it was obvious more needed to be done and gutting the ACA just means ripping open the wound once more and hoping we don't bleed out.
That sounds like a godawful nightmare.
It's part of the latest round of app bounties, so I assume it will be getting added soon.