skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly, the lack of a 64 bit version is a performance choice.

”For a long time now developers have been asking why Visual Studio hasn’t made to switch to 64-bit. Rather than effort or opportunity cost, the primary reason is performance.”
https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/01/VS-64-bit
Why do we have ports at all? Except 80 and 443 many ports are blocked anyways.

I'd say there is an arms race between admins and users. Step by step features get forbidden and blocked usually in the name of security. For example, NAT took away your globally visible IP address.

The next step is probably blocking domains. In a dystopian vision, Google and Facebook become the proxies for all traffic as all other domains get blocked for most users.
No. Apple has been waiting for the tax holiday because they've seen it before in precedent. The problem is that politicians like the tax holidays because it looks good on them (big capital inflows have an effect on the economy). But if the holiday was eliminated entirely and never expected, Apple would have to slowly repatriate these earnings as their chest grew too large.
I wonder if “Jim’ll Paint It” has seen this?

He’s got to be the highest profile MS Paint user in the world by now.

https://jimll.co.uk/

Edit: For those who don’t know Jim, from the website:-

“Jim'll Paint It is an ongoing collaboration between Jim and the thousands of complete strangers who send him their weird and wonderful ideas. Using Microsoft Paint, Jim has painted hundreds of suggestions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous - each free of charge.”
Lacking what exactly?

I've never had a problem finding what I need from it
Like when people said the 3DS couldn't pull off 3D without glasses...
I think there's a consensus going for breeding bees for varroa sensitive hygiene/ mite resistance, but treatment free is excessive. You don't need to let the colony die when you're concerned with selecting for genetics. Just eliminate the drones and remove the queen next season.

I mean, you can always withhold treatment until mite counts indicate a problem. Letting mite populations explode can impact other colonies(domesticated & feral) in the area as well.
Some people use onion juice mixed with some oil as nasal drops to treat running nose infections (dunno if it works actually).
doesn't seem like Ubuntu is all that behind.

Ubuntu
Meltdown: Jan 10
Spectre: Jan 11
Okay, but why limit the number of licenses?

Since these licenses are limited in number, yet sold freely, it's clearly a gatekeeping scheme.
Other uses of Onion Juice apart from cooking;
1. Onion Juice + Honey = Instant cough relief
2. Applying Onion juice on bald head helps regrowing hair. It is every effective.

[1] https://www.livestrong.com/article/287051-how-to-use-onion-a...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-had-any-success-using-onion...
This article is so masturbatory that it should be arrested for indecent exposure.
So you yourself are only discussing HTTP. What about other types of serverless event triggers? do you know how to protect against injections in SNS? or what happens when you inject malicious input into data coming from S3? So yes, app security is app security, but there are nuances and pitfalls that are serverless specific...
Now that's a profound insight :-)
That's not the naturalist[ic] fallacy, but an appeal to nature. But you're right.
It is not that useful as MS Paint. Several people use it for pixel-precise artwork, just like Deluxe Paint was used on DOS and the Amiga. However, this editor draws single OR double pixels on lines that are freehand.
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tomaha is talking about Google SWE, and is correct.
Look at this, and click "stops/details" on a few.

https://traintimes.org.uk/KGX/EDB

These are high speed trains, but Britain hasn't upgraded the tracks, so they run at less than full speed. But the door design and number of passengers is what matters for the duration of a stop at a station, and as you can see, it's around 1-3 minutes.

It's certainly a factor, but it's not like the long distance Amtrack train I once used, which stopped for 5-15 minutes at most stops.
Please don't do flamewars on Hacker News. It's just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My guess is that most of the "automatic" stuff is done using cookies and other fingerprinting techniques. In safari I hit the longer captchas far more often than in chrome, and it is quite possible that it is because of the ad blocking tech inside.
I'm guessing this is someplace that sugar cane can grow? The EROI from corn ethanol is much, much worse. Ethanol does make a lot of sense for, say, Brazil, but not much sense for the US.
Plenty of third rail in the south of England, they just stop the rail before level crossings and start it again afterwards.
Facebook is a ‘living, breathing crime scene,’ says one former tech insider
Pinta is nice though still not ultimately as great as the original :-) And it can be pain to install on some Linux distro versions (conflicting with both the Mono version in the repos (too old) and the latest Mono release (too new)) and it works quirky with XFCE. In fact I use it every day on Linux but I didn't know there is a Mac version too - already downloading it, thanks a lot!
True things are "debunked" on the internet every day.
So what does a pair of high quality women's jeans cost in Northern Europe?

I looked very hard for the article I read recently about a woman (in US) who just straight up stopped buying clothes gendered for women because they fell apart immediately. I am extremely curious whether there is a similar cost/construction problem in Europe.
HotSpot JVM garbage collection options cheat sheet (v4)
You can subscribe to curators whose recommendations will populate the main page.

One I like: 'Weird games for your pleasure' http://store.steampowered.com/curator/7099409-Weird-Games-fo...
Probably not a popular figure on HN, but legendary filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky had a good message on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeUvB-KXQZk

"I think I’d like to say only that they [young people] should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to be spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view."﻿

This is from decades ago. It's easy to suspect we live in the age of noise, but I feel it's likely the perception is exaggerated much like the notion our times are particularly turbulent - in reality the past was plenty turbulent too.
It's free but still Windows-only. I use it on Windows machines but miss it heavily on Mac and Linux. Perhaps somebody would actually port it to Mono if it was truly free.
Big fan of frozen mint/basil/etc here. Pick and freeze while fresh during the summer and use all year around.
It's a shame nobody is really using yEnc instead of base64. yEnc only has a overhead cost of about 2%, compared to 33% for base64, and would be perfect for use on webpages.
The day you try to contact Steam support, you'll know how to compete with Steam.
> These lies are unnecessary.

There's no need to be like that regardless of how wrong someone is, and it's against the site guidelines, so please don't.

Instead of swiping at someone, why not explain how they're wrong? Then we all learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is awesome! Please consider adding a license so we can self host it [2]
Github has a helpful website [1] on choosing a license, I personally like MIT but it's your choice and there are plenty of options :)

[1] https://choosealicense.com/
[2] https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/18
I wonder why they chose to build it off Gentoo versus Debian?
The trouble is that web development is such a young field and moves so fast (or at least appears to) that the whole idea of "best practices" is fallacious. In many areas, we barely have enough experience to distinguish good practices from bad ones. Even then, most of the good practices that will stand the test of time are about much more fundamental things than which framework or build tool you're using.
Is UIDAI Official Website Down?
6.
Even worsers is, that draconion punishments equalize small time criminals with big time criminals. We are in this together said the mafia boss to the pot-smoker, and in a strange way they are before the law.
How do you evade sales tax, labor overhead? 9% is a far ways off from the nominal.
They don't need to repatriate that. They have tens of billions domestically, and can use debt instruments against their overseas money. Who wouldn't lend Apple money at very low interest rates, given >$150 billion in collateral in the bank.

Apple has already been doing buybacks and dividends by using bonds.
> I imagine that in the US, this will be much the same. Or will be the moment after the first attack on a train. I don't see any long-term security gains here, the US is simply not Europe.

Even in Israel you don't have that kind of security check before boarding a train.
Never been to California, using motorcycle as main transportation is not a perfect solution there?
Being right doesn't excuse being uncivil. On the contrary, it's worse when you're right because then you're discrediting the truth.
that is not based on Debian?
The best thing about GOG is that I am actually able to find interesting games I did not knew they exist before there. Discovery on steam is atrocious.
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It doesn't. It just means Google will now pay less money to the US government when they want to spend their overseas profits in the US.
Depends on the country in question and whether there is a humanitarian crisis. Moist of these are avoidable, such as droughts and desertification of pastures, but African farmers cannot afford measures to do it and the minor change from doing direct aid will not help.
Another great use is for ear infections. During summer months after a lake session or two, if one of our kids gets a sore ear we make a compress of onion bits (usually quite juiced up) and place it over the affected ear. Quite often - within minutes many times - this just solves the ear-ache and the kids go back to the lake.
It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless
The Angry Videogame Nerd recently did a review of Lightspan Adventures, a series of edutainment games for PlayStation. I'd never heard of it -- I was in college by the time the PlayStation hit it big -- but apparently, more than one school district procured PlayStations for the express purpose of playing these games all in the name of "education".
Sure they do, this idea is yet another example of how disparate gaming culture is from FOSS.

The identity of belonging to a specific platform, which games are exclusives and social events promoted for gamers and devs alike by the platform holder, are very important facets.
> The other advantage of rail is that rail is generally less affected by weather

That one does certainly depend on the amount of money the rail operator(s) invest in maintenance and upkeep, as well as how much area on the sides of the track they bought. In Germany, rail has three major issues with weather:

- during cold times, railroad switches freeze because they lack heatings and so they become stuck, and special maintenance teams have to be at standby across the country (source: was part of such a team for one season, well paid but shit that was cold)

- during storms, stuff gets blown onto the rail. Mostly dead trees, the problem is when the area next to the rails didn't get cleaned up (trees so high that they could fall into the rails are cut to a safe height or removed altogether). This can be caused either by a lack of upkeep - or because the surrounding area is not owned by the train operator

- during hot periods, the running gag in Germany is "how many trains will fuck up today?". The trains are either not properly maintained (due to a lack of funds) or simply have not been ordered with strong enough air conditioners.

tl;dr: getting rail immune from weather-related influences takes serious money. The Swiss and Japanese railroads did the proper investments and thus have next to zero weather related problems, the German railroads are seen as a cash cow ready to be milked by the politicians, consequences be damned.
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This is antisemitic bullshit. While there has been a small jewish mafia in NY they where a „regular mafia“ like the italian mafia.

Most of them were and are legit and the affinity just coming from jewish immigrants having a history in those fields living in europe. Not for money laundering what you implied. They are very well connected and help each other.
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Had you described this to me in conversation, I'd have been incredulous.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most use beefy desktops with Linux, and some laptop like a MacBook, Thinkpad, or Chromebook.

If you're working on a large project like Chrome or Gmail, anything less than 64gb of RAM and a giant SSD is a productivity hit, and most Mac desktops aren't price competitive with a beefy Linux workstation.
Thank you president Trump.
I have SSDs, and GIMP for Windows starts up slower than Eclipse (!).

In my experience the Linux version starts up faster than the Windows one.
They probably meant "free software", per the FSF definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
The officers working on the case do not decide about the govt budget. I'm not even sure if the government tracks expenses from those cases and would know how to react if the costs escalate.
I completely agree with you on knowing the math part. I am kind of emphatic about it too when doling out advice. Without that, getting good results just becomes a blind exercise in tweaking parameters. With that, you can really troubleshoot your models, and know what model(s) to try next; the path to optimality is somewhat meaningful and reasonable.
Sure--but every time I do those things in a full-size codebase, I regret it later. ;) Scala is cool. I like a lot of the people involved (especially since Tony Morris was shown the door). But trying to get something out the door that doesn't turn into a mess of code I have to sit down and chew through, slo-oo-owly, is a heck of a fight. And it's worse when other people's preferred bits-and-bobs of Scala start sneaking in (kind of like C++, in a way!).

The complexity I end up carrying in my head is way, way too high.
Union Station is or will by a direct subway ride away from a lot of dense pockets in Los Angeles (Red, Purple & Blue lines when the regional connector opens). Yes, the train will come to LAX as well, but transfer will be less convenient and likely less direct than from Union Station.
I know, it just sucks that the default platform for making apps now gives you access to ~10% of the machine's computing power.
> this editor draws single OR double pixels on lines that are freehand.

So does MS paint.
I think it was normal before and after that it improved considerably. I was unable of stop writing for 3 weeks straight after the intervention (nothing remarkable, I was 14) ,I started drawing and painting. After some months I felt the urge to create programs in my old spectrum, something I never did because I never felt the urge. I had to learn how to focus my attention in something because I left a lot of work unfinished too.
Uhm... no, I think not: to get information out of the quantum computer as output for the ”previous user” it needs to go through an explicit phase of observation, busting all the state (?), and loading up new data for the subsequent user’s computation also constitutes ’observation’ since there’s knowledge of the inner state of the quantum system outside the strict confines of the quantum system. I really don’t think you could at any moment in time get information out of a side-channel, otherwise the thing wouldn’t compute.

(Yup, of course they’re extremely simplistic in terms of inner architecture, but that’s quite beside the point, as I think we both agree.)
Which is fine I guess? If I'm going above the speed limit I have no issues staying on the left lane if I continue passing other cars. I don't have to always make space for someone 30+mph above the limit (both legally and morally).
I think more that Google will hoard less money in Europe to avoid US taxes and will be able to move more back to the US for investments there. It's the US' new isolationist policies in action.
I meant it primarily as "present fads in the web ecosystem", not "web as a fad" (I ultimately gave up on the latter; that's one hell of a tide and it ain't getting turned around).

> Now efforts are going towards making these apps smaller and faster

Yes, I'm hoping those efforts will eventually bear some fruits.
Plastic bags are perfectly fine, as long as they are sturdy and can be used multiple times. Mandate minimum thickness and price perhaps? Only fabric bags are better.

Paper bags are about as bad as single use plastic ones. They take a lot of water to produce and energy to mill. The only difference is they are more biodegradable in a landfill.

This id's similar to situation with plastic vs glass bottles. Sturdy plastic ones are better, but since three is no mandate to standardize and make them sturdy, they get recycled instead of reused. That costs a lot of energy. (Though less than recycling glass.)
HSR's right-of-way will be here for centuries. If you buy 147 brand new A380s, they'll be outdated in a decade or two.
> But I cannot help but sigh when the brush tool lags more than Paint lagged on a 233 MHz Celeron.

Probably just a vsync "issue" with either the window manager (trade-off between screen tearing and latency) or the browser.

You can use this tool : https://www.vsynctester.com/testing/mouse.html to test your browser.

Interesting read up here : https://www.vsynctester.com/manual.html
But even then, MS Paint was pretty much a copy of 1984's MacPaint, which pioneered that type of program.
Ironically, you've just provided an excellent illustration of some real good practices: find tools that are good enough to do the job, only depend on things that are built to last, and concentrate on actually doing that job. The web development world's obsession with constantly moving to the next thing that does essentially the same job as the last thing but maybe 5% better (or maybe not) is a huge productivity sink and best avoided as much as possible. Getting something shipped that's working is far more important than exactly how you made it, and it always has been. If "best practices" aren't helping with that, are they really best practices at all?
Additional lanes for buses and a law that allows autonomous buses in dedicated lanes to go 100mph. That way you're faster than car or train at lower cost.
I used the term fire loosely, it was basically a plane crash and subsequent fire, an inferno in other words not a small camp fire around the center aisle seat.
My only spin as you call it is that we can’t really know why Apple rejected the app based on the thin and twisted say-so of this one developer who is willing to promote an odd theory about it.

Any app publishing platform has to make tradeoffs for security versus openness. Some people will think they get it wrong. You are one of those people, I get it.

But there are basic points your thinking does not acknowledge despite your statement that you’ve been over this before, so I suspect it’s not useful trying to explain much more than that to you.
It's sad that these "get everyone and their dog into 'coding'" initiatives by large companies are just attempts to provide cheap workers for themselves in the future. There's so many of them, and yet there's no evidence that they help anyone other than the company's PR team in generating exposure and promoting their products.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here?

Cryptocurrency threads have become so reliably awful that I think we're going to moderate them down for a while.
Cactoos (Java OOP library) has been ported to Kotlin
People who immediately accuse others of antisemitism at any mention of Israel or the Jewish religion are not interested in any kind of intellectually honest discussion.
Can't wait to see all these over 30 Switch owners wearing cardboard helmets in front of their wives and kids while they play the newest legend of something.
> * Trains ultimately require close to 1 staff member per 4 passengers, much more than a budget airline.

Maybe in the US. In Europe, a train with 500-750 people capacity has one train driver and maybe 3-4 staff (plus on-board restaurant but that's run at a profit). No staff at smaller train stations and only minimal staff at many larger ones.

Maintenance needs staff but that's the same at airports.
> Except there are html, css, javascript. Everyone already uses a browser so nothing to set up.

You haven't seen the current JS ecosystem, have you?

Now if you opt to ignore the entire modern JS scene - all that Babel, Webpack, NPM stuff - and just write plain old JS in a text editor to execute directly, then yes. And with browser dev tools having a half-decent REPL, I'd say this is a pretty good way to introduce someone to programming. Browsers have powerful features for UI and graphics built in, so even the "hello world" programs won't be boring.

(Also: technically, there is something to set up; you won't be able to run everything through file:// because $security, so you need a minimal local HTTP server to serve your files for you.)
Gee, now vegans are the bad guys?
No other country taxes it's citizens this way. Do you think if a US citizen lives and works in Germany, they should still have to file and pay US income taxes even though they were living in Germany and earning a salary working in another country? That makes no sense to me.

If Apple pays double taxes on iPhones sold in Europe to European citizens, after Apple pays taxes to the EU, that's effectively a tax by America on citizens of the EU. The phones are made in China, shipped to Europe and sold to citizens of the EU for Euros, never having stopped on US soil, and being taxed in the EU. Why does it make sense for the US to apply a tax which effectively would amount to an increased tax on purchases by citizens of another country?
> (e.g. Preview

View > Show Markup Toolbar
> both .png and .jpg are already compressed formats, with "better than gzip" strength

FWIW, PNG and gzip both use the DEFLATE algorithm, so I wouldn't call PNG's compression "better than gzip".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE

> This has led to its widespread use, for example in gzip compressed files, PNG image files and the ZIP file format for which Katz originally designed it.
>So an app potentially flags net neutrality violations, why the fuck does Apple care

We have no idea whether they care.

You think they care just because you read someone say it on the internet.

Think about that.

That’s not a sufficient basis for knowing what was wrong with the app, nor what else was wrong with the app.