skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather not see (offline) games in the browser, or any other online-based method, personally. I want to have control over the games' data files so i can copy them to my external hard disk, be able to run them in 10 years without hoping some server is still online and their owner gives a damn about stuff they made 10 years ago (most stop giving said damn within a couple of years, let alone 10), etc.

Let's not forget that the cloud is really someone else's computer and relying on said cloud means relying on someone else for your stuff.

And let's learn a little about all the thousands of Flash games that are in the process of being lost forever with the their hosting sites now shutting down.
HTTPS with a Custom Domain on GitHub Pages
I don't think you appreciate just how crazy Silicon Valley, and by extension, most of the rest of California, is. You don't really get an option to not participate in the craziness if you live there. Your only real choice if you want financial sanity is to not live there. Naturally, it's difficult to work in a SF-SV-based startup if you don't live there.

So we're not talking about responsibility anymore, you're moralizing on people's life choices. There's no way to responsibly live in SV without being already rich.
5 keys to create a killer CLI in Go
Like Amazon? Or Uber? Or many others?
Email is the way to go.

I only wrote this because I was shocked too. I genuinely did not expect this behavior, and I've been using Google Photos a lot in the past year.
From a headcount and revenue perspective, it's true.
It's quite simple. Disney and other companies have enough power to influence the law. If you change the law to something more reasonable they will just change it back.

It is extreme in the sense that current copyright extremely favours major companies. Going the opposite way extremely disfavours major companies with IP that spans centuries.

You have to find a compromise so that both companies and everyone else is happy with.

The compromise is simple. Allow copyright extensions indefinitively on an individual basis in exchange for a fee. If mickeymouse is profitable to disney then let them have it. They will get it at any cost anyway and destroy a lot of things in the process. Sacrificing perpetually profitable IP is a small cost in exchange for all the works that are no longer profitable which is probably more than 99% of all works.
The Vietnam (American) war is a very good analogy - it was never a formal war and fought under the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution [1] to explicitly avoid the declaration of war. If the US had declared war on North Vietnam I suspect the outcome would have been different even without the use of nuclear weapons - either the US would not have fought in the first place (the most likely) or if they did they would have fought a total war like in WWII.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution
Live-debugging an Elixir memory leak
This seems to happen to a lot of things.

In my city (random Spanish mid-sized city, around 250K population) there is often debate about building a light rail or tram public transport line. But it is always dismissed by the administration for being too expensive, pharaonic, disproportionate for a city of this size, etc.

Doing some research on the history of the city, I discovered that not only there were several tram lines in the early 20th century, but there was even a tram line that went all the way to a nearby town of population around 15K, 22 km away. If anyone proposed a tram line like that today, I think they would be dismissed as being kidding for proposing such extravagant spending.

This, in a context where Spain is a much richer country than it was back then. I often wonder what went wrong.
> And, I mean, maybe your example isn't really the best example you could have given. Name a layout quote-unquote more practical than QWERTY that should have caught on but didn't. Dvorak? No faster. Colmac? Nah. Any, y'know, studied benefits? None I can find, at least not with a P-value worth mentioning.

Do you believe that all keyboard layouts are of indistinguishable practicality? That seems to be the inescapable conclusion of your claim.
Service Discovery with CRDTs
Myself and my family pretty much never get sick either. But we have a massive sweet tooth. Lots of ice cream and baked goods and candy.
That regex is short by a few kilobytes [1]!

[1] http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.ComponentModel....
Here are some more questions:

How much business value is this test adding? That is, if this test failed and we ignored it, how much would the business suffer?

Is the code easy to test? That is, does the design have lots of self-contained components with well-described input/outputs & conditions/assumptions? Do the docs clearly communicate that?

Will the test still work if we change the implementation? How much work to update/remove the tests if the behaviour has to change to follow new business requirements?
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The Limits of Amazon
It's spelled withdrawal.
On the flip side of that coin, as a user, it also makes hard to control your own software - you are not in control of the version you are using, not in control of the features the program has and above all not in control of the availability of that program as whoever owns the server you are accessing it from can revoke that access at any point for whatever arbitrary (but of course always mentioned in the Terms and Conditions that nobody reads) reasons.

I'd be aware of promoting anything that takes control away from the user. The web is fine for sharing knowledge and communication (and pictures of cats) but let's not put everything in it or we'll certainly regret for giving away the power to control our software.
Sorry, for sounding this stupid. Does this imply you can now do web programming with C++ instead of Javascript.
>> Do we really want for-profit corporations working to create demand for heroin and meth?

We don't really want them working to create demand for any pharmaceuticals, tobacco or alcohol either. Which is why in a lot of places advertising of such is banned to a greater or lesser extent.

>> ibuprofen+paracetamol is just as effective

Eh, not really.
But would be much more rewarding, because we know that this other "moon" has living creatures that are practically unknown to us.
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Yes one of the great ironies of the “war on drugs” is about its only “success" is to cause real wars in poor countries.
Exactly. The inadvertent aliasing can produce situations like this: https://play.golang.org/p/XUtyQ6ShYaz , or more plausibly: https://play.golang.org/p/Xx8lZWVWgIu
That's a pipe dream. It's never going to happen.
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Nothing. Integration tests are your hypothesis/experiment. Unit tests are your lab setup.
only QtQuick thiugh, Qt Widgets aren't really optimized for GL
I don't think so, not when my native game needs 50GB of install space. There is no way I'm waiting for that progress bar to download in a webassembly version game. This is one area where native will always have an advantage. The network is no match for the local bus.
Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did
I had a quick scan of your comment history for examples and the only one I could see that was grey and not simply opinionated was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849233 , in which you've completely missed why people want lifetime management in Rust.
Robust Client-Side JavaScript
But you can't try a couple of drugs and then dissect the humans to see how the plaque in their brain looks like. Genetically engineering humans to develop Alzheimer more quickly is also generally frowned upon.
the whole of qt and kde compiled to javascript and ran as an electron app... i can't even
There was a good post about many gotchas that was on HN a little while ago. Just to share :

http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
He means he simply wants hardworking and smart slaves whose only mission in life is to achieve his goals and increase his wealth
Indian phone vendors to release $30 Android Oreo Go smartphones this month on
I miss the ability to set your own scores so you could set Funny to score -1. Or ""Insightful"".
Does it work in landscape mode? I had some odd issues with landscape mode where the keyboard seemed to be in portrait mode instead, overlaying my other app (WhatsApp in this case).
I don't think it'll go that way, i remember when web workers first came out i wrote a simple raytracer with some GI and optionally used web workers if available for multiple threads. It worked fine until some browser updates later that limited the amount of web workers pages could use (or the amount of time each worker got, i don't remember, it has been a few years) making the web worker version have pretty much the same speed as the regular version.
We forecast radiation just radiation data as the base for all power forecasting (conversion from solar radiation -> PV power done on the fly)

Solar radiation forecasting incorporates a few models for 1-7 days, and for now casting (0-4 hours) is based on NWP wind forecasting combined with our own cloud tracking, ML and blending with NWP models from 4-24 hours.

Some of the above might be slightly off as I’m not a meteorologist or study solar radiation modelling. Luckily Solcast founders are and we are also partnered with a project at the Australian National University working with some extremely bright people to get the science right.

If you want to get further into the details, feel free to email Nick Engerer or James Luffman (contacts on our website) about the science, or post on our community forums (forums.solcast.com.au).
Great art & concept. Tech feedback wise: I'm getting an odd ~2 second delay whenever I click something which is making it bit difficult since it's a point and click adventure - might simply be the server that's mildly overloaded; you could put it behind cloudflare?
Yes in theory.

In practice, if code uses a Queen object, you put costly indirections in front of the Bitboard and thus already lost performance.
Pepper's Cone: An Inexpensive Do-It-Yourself 3D Display
From https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt?hl...

"An optional Unicode BOM (byte order mark) at the beginning of the robots.txt file is ignored."

At least they document it.
Yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est
Two methods: the vomit comet [1], and shot towers [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
Yeah, exactly. To put it another way: get your business logic components to return data structures (a list of DB actions or an updated dict), and your core controller to turn those data structures into DB calls. Then your tests simply say: here’s a certain environment, what action do you think should be performed?

If you think this sounds like mocking, you’re right (it is like mocking, it isn’t mocking). It has the bonus of making it easier to inspect the logic & expose it to the user ("hey I’m about to do these things, does that sound ok to you?").
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I've been one of those people. Sending money home to parents who were barely holding on to their home, and with health conditions that insurance terminated coverage for, combined with rent getting jacked up, a $4000 emergency room bill I couldn't even pay, and my own health issues creating a vicious cycle of lower productivity, more stress, worse health.

This isn't even an uncommon occurrence. I had coworkers (at one of the big 5) who were making pretty decent money who were still in the hole for similar reasons.

Have some compassion man, jeez.
I really want to see asteroid mining prioritized, as well as a space station capable of permanent human habitation (either partial or full gravity). A space station is also preferable to another planet for our next big space endeavor IMO because it is easier to get materials to and from it (no extra gravity well to deal with). Also, I feel like a lot of people think "ah, everything has to be done differently because space is a zero-G environment", but I bet it would be easier to adapt a lot of traditional technologies, engineering processes, and biological elements in a rotating station. Once we have the ability to do fabrication and construction in space, everything becomes much cheaper. Lastly, if researchers need to experiment in zero-G, we could construct zero-G modules adjacent to the center of the ring for experimentation.

The primary blocker for a rotating station as far as I know has been the mass requirement. If you have a structure above a certain rotational speed with a radius that is too small, the occupants are likely to become nauseous. From the research I've seen, the minimum size for a viable rotating station would be about 600 tons[1]. Moving that amount of mass into orbit would have been extremely expensive, but Falcon Heavy could launch it for under $1.5B, and the BFR for even less.

[1]: http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/GlobusRotationPaper.pdf (page 22)
Do you find it’s easier to write code with that than rely on autovec?
Still 1920x1080 :(
Come to Jerusalem if you want to see the effects of that. There are lots of stray cats that leave bigger messes than rats and fight bigger animals (pets) than rats. If you want to think of releasing dogs to to catch the cat, then look at Moscow. If you then want to release a goat, then you should read "The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly"
Ignorance of IP laws would help the developing economy, while hurting the developed economy. Copying is cheap, original invention is expensive, and developed countries have more to lose.

In a somewhat relevant WTO dispute between US and China,

"The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a coalition of U.S. entertainment and software industry groups, has claimed piracy in China costs them more than $3.7 billion in lost sales." [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-wto/china-u-s-t...
This might sound overly simplistic but I believe we need to do more to incentivise the best talent in the world to work on socially conscious projects. I found Wendy Kopp's episode on the How I Built This podcast particularly insightful on this topic: http://pca.st/episode/68275e4c-8d1d-4a86-be7c-e45b1eb7c738
Plus the java installer would sneak in some junkware/toolbars in the process
I can recommend the Cricut Explore Air for this. The software is janky but the machine works great for cutting out vinyl, paper, etc. Also takes pens which means I can do my own generative plotting (once I buy some pens / an adaptor.)
What's in it for the manufacturers? The wafer-thin margins on this means that companies will have to figure out other forms of business model innovation, such as selling user data.
Funny example in regards of a card-deck. How would you have unique keys for the 3 jokers in the deck ?
Just did that before the holidays, the only thing to add there is probably the firmware. I'm curious what other recommendations there are, but I found TMK (https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard) to be pretty nice.
Flash Player had something like 97% penetration, so for all intents and purposes it was something that you could always consider as being "there" - and users didn't mind having to install it.

I think a lot of techies underestimate people's willingness to install stuff on their PCs, especially when that stuff is needed to do tasks they really want and are a couple of clicks away.
Virtual Police Hero City Crime
Welcome in the Virtual Police Hero City Crime action simulation, where your role as an honest police man of the vice city. Unlike the other police chase games, here you have to arrest the criminals, thief from the grand city and send them to the city jail.
Amazon Mistakenly Sends AWS Budget Emails Forecasting Free Tier Overages
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Don't see a timestamp on your link, but i suspect this one is more correct:

https://metacpan.org/source/RJBS/Email-Valid-1.202/lib/Email...
Ask HN: Digital Humanists here? Your current research/favourite papers?
With my graduation imminent, I'm trying to pick a study area and a topic for my masters, and Digital Humanities seem to be an interesting area where I can combine my knowledge of programming and my scholarly aspirations in the field of humanities. Not really knowing much about the field (I've recently known about it), I've been collecting reading for the past couple of weeks to be read after my final exams this week, and I thought maybe I could get some information from people with actual field experience here in HN. I'd appreciate anything from personal experience/views to pointers to actual research output in the field. Thanks in advance!

(BTW research papers might be in Italian, French and Turkish too, which are languages other than English I can read.)
I went through a long period of feeling lost. The two things I found really helped me.

Buy a musical instrument and learn to play it, don't have to be amazing at it just make sounds and have fun. I can get sit for hours playing along to records. I now buy a new instrument every couple of years. Last year was year of the clarinet, this year is year of the zither. You can get lots of second hand instruments on ebay for the price of a playstation game, look after them and they will last a lifetime or more.

Read books. Any books. Find a local library and its free! (I use my old university library). I find I get absorbed into topics and these seem to direct my work. You think about something and then you start to see it more and more, you meet people who are also interested in those things and decided to work together, you find community you can contribute to.
My 2018 Resolutions
Anyone have a friendly hint of how I can off my dear brother? I can't find any plants to water...And what kind of plant survives behind a painting w/out light!?
I am not sure if all physicans have adequate training on psychoatic drugs, but giving SSRI to a patient with both bipolar and personality disorder can have very negative effects. So if a non-psychiatrist prescribing antidepressant to someone without adequate psychatric evaluation (and evaluation can be off too), you can end up making the patient ill.

So if I were given SSRI to quit smoking, my mental health may get even more worse.

Disclaimer: have bipolar and personality disorder.
2018: #Blockchain
2017: #CloudNative
2016: #Kubernetes
2015: #Microservices
2014: #ApacheCamel
Yes. You can build WebAssembly bytecode from C++ and it will run in the browser like JavaScript.
Classic trams and modern light rail are different beasts.

Trams were popular worldwide back in the days where automobiles were far too expensive for most people and buses hadn't taken off yet, and since they were the only practical means of transport for medium distances, even small cities had massive ridership. They also ran right on the road, sharing space with cars, which was OK because there were a lot less cars and cars were not meaningful competition.

These days cars are affordable, and light rail has to be better than cars to be competitive, and do so well enough to entice a significant portion of the population out of their cars to be affordable. In practice this means dedicated right of way, which is far more expensive to purchase and fit out as a rail line than just laying some rails on an existing street. And of course modern safety, environmental and just plain bureaucratic regulations also inflate the prices of public works considerably compared to the good/bad old days, particularly in the US.
I played the game twice, but couldn't fully understand the story. Any hints?
Factories in general aren't known as a great workplaces. A great factory is barely 'ok place to work there'. Everyone knows that they are stuck in their salary bracket, you don't have the energy to educate yourself for a better job, competition between promotions is high and even if you become a line manager , you still have all the problems.

I worked in a factory. It's almost impossible to build a large factory with great work environment.
The statement is bad but the underlying choice not to fix it probably won't change. If they do fix this it's likely because of the PR backlash rather than because fixing compatibility with a very old API is important.
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In early 20th century:

1) Communities were more local and relevant than today. This also means travel was more local and relevant.

2) Trams didn't have as much competition with other viable, automated means of transport.
Compiler Explorer interactive online compiler
This is not an ode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode

An ode is not a tribute, it is a particular form of verse. I guess people get confused because the word sounds like "owed", or something.
I might inherit a project written in Julia. If I do, I guess I'll have to learn it ;-) I'm in a university research group that does ecological modeling, for which so far I've been using Python. But from what I hear, Julia might actually be a better fit (especially performance-wise), so I wouldn't mind being forced to learn it.
I can assure you, your behavior is not universal in that domain.
New hate speech rules in Germany could see major tech firms fined
If you have terminal cancer, it's not a big deal to get hooked on opiates as your life is basically over anyways and will not last long.
Look at the end of the corridor
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The fat in a perfect croissant
As true as that might be, I strongly believe depression as a disease/condition should only be diagnosed (and thus treated) if there is no real cause for the symptoms.

Being sad and unable to leave the bed because (your dog died | you are morbidly obese | you are going to die in 3 months) doesn't qualify as depression.
Thank you. In that case is it possible to access DOM elements within a C++ program the way we do in Javascript.
A joker does not have a suit, nor a number, so it would not fit in the example table anyway.
> Add metrics and advertising...

I assume the ads would be at the messaging system, so even if a variable contains 'iphone' the ads start to appear.

Joking aside, we need a better security system because we never know if an arbitrary compiler is not embedding a malware payload.
"This guy sounds like he has more dollars than sense."

Well, that's Dubai for you.
A 67 year old American man arrested for “Nigerian Prince” e-mail scams
I prefer /@/

https://davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-email-addresses-wi...
Major companies think the current situation isn't anywhere extreme enough. Their customers have some rights, and some courts will even let them exercise them: that's unacceptable.

There's no chance Disney will be happy with any solution which involves losing any level of control over any copyright they currently own (or will own in the future).

Although they would, I'm sure, be happy for other people to have to pay to maintain their copyright, making it easier to plagiarise poorer creators.
Yeah, found that sapling. I assumed that's what it meant...I'll keep poking.
Let me help expand your imagination: what if the code is for sshing to prod and needs a ssh-agent or a password typed in? Would you leave those cress on your CI system? Would Security be happy with that?
The JVM doesn't compete with C or C++.
That doesn't surprise me the least, there's quite a bit of evidence [0] that many smokers smoke to treat psychological issues. Which would also explain why some people have a much easier time kicking the habit while others struggle really hard just with the thought of giving up.

As somebody who's been suffering from depression his whole life, atop a few other mental issues, it's really disheartening to realize how little we seem to actually know about how the human psyche and brain work.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...