skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you don't know what "DLL hell" was.

>The part I find mind-boggling is that Linux users are obsessed with package mangers for the initial installations themselves, not merely updating.

Yes, because it keeps the system functional and operating and - if you use it properly - package management is a hellaciously great way to build a system.

> Do they really only ever want to install FOSS software blessed by their OS distro, and do they really think it makes sense for a system to break if they install anything unblessed? More power to them if they can live like that, but I can't.

Its your system, manage it how you like. But the default of 'safety and stability first' in a package manager is a feature, not a bug. Don't blame the tool if you don't know how to use it properly - its clear that you simply do not know how to use package management to your benefit. This doesn't mean package management is of no benefit; it means your basis of operating/administering the system is flawed. I would suggest this is due to your attitude more than anything else; its certainly not for technical reasons.
Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000
MS-DOS shipped with QBASIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic#History
You can already get from Newark Penn to the airport using NJ Transit. It isn't a terrible idea to bring the PATH there so there's a single seat ride from places that PATH services but NJ transit doesn't, but that doesn't apply to Newark.
No JCP for Java EE
Who wasn't calling it honor killings? I've read of it being called that in Italian contexts going back a century and a half.
That is sad, indeed. Amazon has the scale where they could have essentially created the social infrastructure they want.
Show HN: Pile – Document tracking for your Dropbox documents
it shouldn't matter where they invest it. investing it in the US when the optimal thing to do is to invest it elsewhere is bad overall, regardless of which entity is doing the investing. World economy is not a zero sum game.
Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own
Actually infrastructure projects like this (and including this one I believe) are usually paid for with bonds which means id the project doesn't happen, the money is never borrowed in the first place.
I frequently see people describe HN and Reddit as 'fickle' or 'hypocritical'. But the underlying pattern seems to be a nasty consequence of point-based ordering: whatever comes first does best.

There are some great breakdowns of Reddit comment karma by time after post. The direction is obvious - earlier comments score better - but the exponential falloff is still a sight to behold. Any view that isn't outrageous enough to downvote heavily can win just by arriving first, being seen most, and being upvoted by commenters trying to increase their own engagement. (HN removes 'downvote' when people reply to you. I wonder if it should discount upvotes on comments you reply to?)

It's a less-trolled system than the open queue of a messageboard, and more conversational than the obscure branching pattern of Twitter or Tumblr. But it's not much good for comprehensive, noninflammatory discussion.
I've taught middle-schoolers coding with scratch and they like it a first but quickly get tired of the interface especially for anything more than 'hello world'. Some even went as far as coding things up in pseudo-code on pencil-paper and then translating to visual/scratch. IMHO the best scratch impls let you switch to python/js without losing fidelity.
Please please pick Toronto. My immigrant future in the US is still uncertain after being here for 12 years. Would be great if Canadian tech ecosystem gets a boost so that I and countless others in my position have options
I knew this quote was going to be eventually posted and misused in defense of this. The thing with quotes is that you can pull up a quote from someone to defend any position you can think of and it's not an argument. You're still an idiot with a cardboard helmet on his head at the end of the day.
this is still so bizarre
And just yesterday, I was thinking no one here would need to explain who Mike Judge is to the general audience.

"It's got what plants crave" is a line from his movie Idiocracy. It is directly relevant the discussion at hand, but it's also a zero-effort joke that contributes nothing new.
The UN defines "absolute poverty" as:

A condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services.

The percentage of people at this level has been falling for a long time and is now less than 10% of the global population, nowhere near 3 billion.
Does anyone have any experience with developing home-brew or indie games on the Switch here? I've considered getting one, but I'm limited by the rule "never buy a system for which I can't develop my own software" .. to what extent is this true of the Switch?

I'd love to put my Lua-based programming IDE on the Switch, which turns out is a bit similar to this Fuze project .. but I'm un-certain just how much of the Switch is locked down and how much is available. Do I have to register to get full features as a developer, or something?
If you click 'Add to your site' you are presented with a registration form. Blurred out behind it you can see step 1 as 'Setup a payment'. There is no way to see what this payment is without registering, but I am pretty sure that; A: Whatever the price is, it's too high. B: Very few people are going to register just to see a price. C: This is kind of a dick move. Post your pricing upfront and center.
> ethically they aren't that different

Not the best things to compare. Builtin and culturally acquired anthropocentrism shall not be denied:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
You _reduce_ it by making it illegal. Criminals will adapt their patterns based on the incentives. If it becomes a valuable market, all you need to do is set up blinds where people send a copy of their ballot to some email address, and then the votes are printed and submitted.

Maybe you can use a sting to trick people into selling their votes to an election official, but that's small potatoes if you can't catch the buyers doing it in bulk. Or you engage in large-scale attempts to invalidate votes by submitting fake ballots to cancel out ones you don't like.

You say it's a terrible reason, but preventing voter fraud is the only reason that voting is complicated. This sort of voter fraud (vote buying and vote bullying) hasn't been an issue for a long time because we've evolved the system of voting to make it more structurally difficult, rather than just legally difficult.
I'd love Amazon to come to Boston, although admittedly it would not help our existing transportation and housing problems. Maybe Bezos could strong arm the state into actually fixing the T XD
> they have the users

As you pointed out, this is a very fickle (price sensitive) group. Anecdata-ly, I can point to many who prioritize Lyft based entirely on personal price comparison history.
Bitcoin's fluctuations are too much for even ransomware cybercriminals
Working 7 days a week – an experiment
Doesn't work if the page is prevented from using XSS content. Error looks like: "(unknown) Refused to load the script 'https://hi.kickassapp.com/kickass.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net .google-analytics.com .virtualearth.net .google.com 127.0.0.1:* .spotilocal.com: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net fbcdn-static-b-a.akamaihd.net *.atlassolutions.com blob: data: 'self'"."
I'd argue that Lua is far, far more accessible than Basic. It really depends on the environment in which you stick it, though. Take a look at antirez' LOAD81 for example:

http://github.com/antirez/load81.git
If you’ve followed the Kalanick story till now, there’s nothing new in this article. However, it’s interesting to see it all put together.

Anyone know what it’s like inside Uber today?
Single Page Applications? Bah Humbug!

https://wildermuth.com/2014/9/1/Single_Page_Applications_Bah...!
The review comments on Amazon tell you everything you need to know.
The first ones off the production run aren't as fuel-efficient as the later ones. I read somewhere the first few A380s are several tons heavier than further down the line.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, North America (America and Canada at least) is a world class economic dynamo.
They would finance it through debt and equity, do it post IPO etc. There could be a merger instead of an acquisition. Currently if they cut their R&D by a bit and raise prices by 10% their more than healthy enough.
Design / typesetting here is fantastic
It’s those destinations that have the draw and therefore infrastructure (accessible direct-flight airports, conference locations, cheap hotels) that make conference prices viable.
I don't think this will ever be worth it for users that need a reliable ride at any time (e.g. families). These new subscription services are great if you want to drive a new car all the time and experience different models. But if you want to use the car whenever you want with no hassle and without cleaning it after/before every use, ownership (or leasing) is still the way to go.
Pointing out that it makes sense to calculate the actual dollar amount of the per-mile cost. I haven't done 2-hour round trips, but I've done 1.5-hour and was surprised how inconsequential the markup turned out to be.

This was several years ago and in Canada, so conclusions may differ.
Hawaii emergency agency password disclosed in photo
Producers should the make a rate-limited API - and even charge for it
Scratch is frequently used to teach kids, but my (middle-school-aged) students found actual code in Python and JavaScript to be easier. There was a couple hours of frustration around some syntax things (python especially if you can believe it!) but once they had a good mental model they were much much faster with text than with visuals.

Perhaps Scratch is good for the first couple days of learning, but I think the ceiling hits pretty fast especially if the kids are really understanding the principles.
The C-Series? The largest C-Series, the CS300, is comparable in size to Airbus's smallest model, the A319neo (okay, I think theoretically the A318 is still available, but it's not had a single order in years).

This is about wide-body twins taking over from where quad jets (and a few trijets) have traditionally ruled.
Google’s Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters
> Corporations don’t have any power without government, which is why a limited government limits corporate power.

That's a fairly naive view. Corporations have lots of power, potentially unlimited power, without government. A limited government has a limited ability to protect the people and limit corporate power. We need a strong democratic government, because in the end people are what matters.
Haha, good one. I have an Android device since last year (a dumb phone before then), so I am guilty of that one. I try to restrict use as much as possible (I have no Google account). I'll maybe try to install a Lineage OS on it, if that's possible (but afaik that's still Android so there's that).

Privacy wise, I am not sure if an IDevice would be such a bad decision. But afaik they're phoning home still and I have to trust them...
From the press release PDF: "And just in case you run out, you can create your own or even purchase additional game packs directly from the Nintendo e-shop."

It also says it retails at 30 USD. I think it's a legit app for the Switch.
Correct, it's a very stripped down version of Linux.
New Open Source Project: How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams
If the SYN queue is more than half full, the kernel (used to?) adapts the number of SYN/ACK retransmissions to mitigate the load. Interestingly, this opens a side channel that can be determined remotely, and used to measure packet filtering world-wide. See Section 2.1 in: https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Ensafi2015a.pdf
German manufacturers already own uber rivals. The reason not more car companies have them is because it doesn't make sense financially and there's no lock-in. You can get an app up and running within a few months and users will be happy to switch if it's cheaper and/or more convenient.
Do any of those cities have good international flight options? I live in Montreal, the the options are very limited compared to Toronto.

I expect Montreal would be completely ruled out because of the language laws, incidentally. Fine for a branch office, unacceptable for a second HQ.

So, I'm not sure you're right about Toronto being a token candidate.
I'm not anti-scraping or anything but I'd pretty much never choose it over an API for stability.
Lots of people actually don't like Las Vegas as a conference location but it has the air links, the conference space, and the hotels.
Something about this just makes my stomach sick... A massive corporation is pitting governments against each other for its own gain, often to no benefit of the local population.

I'm scared to see the numbers of "incentives" that local politicians try and hand out to Amazon. There's little evidence that the public money used/lost will ever be recouped. One of the worst cases of this happening so far is the Foxconn deal in Wisconsin that will cost taxpayers around $4.5B [1], and I feel that numbers for Amazon will dwarf those Foxconn numbers.

The US is far removed from the days of trust busting [2], and keeping massive corporations (monopolies and oligopolies) and their market distorting effects in check, for the long-term benefit of the entire economy and the people. There seems to be a lot of similarities between now and the late 1800s and early 1900s. We live in a strange time. I get the feeling there will be a strong resurgence of antitrust cases and similar progressive policies. I'm curious to see where the near future takes us.

1: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/mem...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Rooseve...
I haven't checked in on it recently, but last I did inquire, they were being very selective with developers that they approved for development on the platform. I think they decided to go with a highly selective quality over quantity approach unlike what they did on the Wii U which was pretty easy for just about anyone to get a development kit for.
I've been dabbling recently, and as I've said before I'm quite put off by the limitations of Ethereum. As it stands now, it's main use case appears to be the development of new cryptocoins, perhaps voting applications..? And yet, every now and then you come across a nugget of true insight when working with the Ethereum protocol, for instance the gas payments to nodes to run code effectively should stop DDoS attacks since it would require vast sums of money to disrupt the network. It remains to be seen how valid this idea is in practice, but you could look at ideas like that and say, "Yeah, that seems like a step forward."

Anyways, if Ethereum really will become Web 3.0, then comparatively speaking I'd say we're not even in the 56k modem era yet.
This would maybe make sense if there was a competitive market, but, how can you have a competitive market for running water in a single city?
> Corporations don’t have any power without government, which is why a limited government limits corporate power.

They have as much power as they have resources to enforce, which is a lot more than you have, meaning they have a lot more - and in practice all - power.

> If government is the source of protection for your rights, they can only take that protection away. Leaving you your rights and now full burden of protecting them.

A governing body is a collective agreement over what rights and freedoms its members deem fit. If you have none, as you said, you have the full burden of protecting them. Someone else (in the case of n-1 of all people) will always have more resources to protect (or impose on others) their freedoms/rights.

You either end up losing your rights/freedoms, or you establish a coalition with other nearby people, but you won't call it a government, because for some reason that word is bad.
Apple, Google Reroute Employee Buses After Series of Alleged Attacks
For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame
Do any of those cities have good international flight options? I live in Montreal, the the options are very limited compared to Toronto.

I expect Montreal would be completely ruled out because of the language laws, incidentally. Fine for a branch office, unacceptable for a second HQ.

So, I'm not sure you're right about Toronto being a token candidate. I believe it's the best candidate in Canada.

But, moving to Canada is a big choice. So big you'd really want to consider only the top candidate.
Turnout is incredibly unimportant.

http://scorevoting.net/RelImport.html
Apache Software Foundation receives donation valued at $1M
> Assuming that most of the cost of taxi and rideshare service comes down to paying the driver

From the data I have seen from the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission, this is not a good assumption.

> I'm expecting that fully self-driving cars will allow the price of such things to drop precipitously. I expect that it will easily be enough of a price drop to make taxis the cheaper option for many people.

While self-driving capability will definitely make taxi service cheaper (even if I think you overestimate the size of the drop), cost is not the only driver. I would not switch entirely to such a service because I want the convenience of having a vehicle available as soon as I want or need it, and the ability to leave things in the vehicle for extended periods or just in case I need them. The rest of my family would have similar issues.

> It may also change the practicalities in ways that drastically alter the nature of the service. With no driver to worry about keeping happy, it might be perfectly fine to leave taxis just parked way out in the middle of nowhere, waiting maybe hours or even a day or two for the next ride. That makes using taxis to do things like go on a camping trip, or haul yourself out to your parents' house back on the farm, something that makes sense.

I don't see how this is any different than a car rental service now, other than removing the pick-up and drop-off portions. So I still don't see how self-driving capability fundamentally changes anything.
In 2017, far-right Slovak politician Marian Kotleba was criminally charged for donating 1,488 euro to a charity.
In a post Spectre+Meltdown world, it's funny to see many propositions using Risc Architectures that will turn TIS-100-like programming from a curious mechanic of a game into potentially real life programming best practice.
Do any of those cities have good international flight options? I live in Montreal, the the options are very limited compared to Toronto.

I expect Montreal would be completely ruled out because of the language laws, incidentally. Fine for a branch office, unacceptable for a second HQ.

So, I'm not sure you're right about Toronto being a token candidate. I believe it's the best candidate in Canada.

But, moving to Canada is a big choice. So big you'd really want to consider only the top 1-2 candidates.

I do wonder what kept Vancouver off the list though.
Toronto might be the token Canadian city, but it's also the strongest contender Canada has to offer, by far. I would not rule them out.

> I don't blame them, in this era of Trump hyper-nationalism there'd be a huge blow-back for choosing a Canadian city.

Ironically, one reason a Canadian city would offer such big advantages - immigration - is also the main reason for the Trump hyper-nationalism. That tension is interesting. I don't know to what extent politics plays into this but teaching American politicians a lesson about whether they really want to continue playing to the cheap seats on immigration might be a plus for Amazon.
If you're keeping up with current events, some of the latest SV trends are "cuddle puddles" while taking ecstasy, which yeah, stretches the bounds of propriety and then some.
FANG = Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google? (Just based on https://www.acronymfinder.com/FANG.html - I hadn't heard that one before)
They can always move for work just like most people already do if they end up working for Amazon now in Seattle. There's also likely going to a serious spike in living costs within any reasonable commute around the headquarters, so the net impact on the statistically poorer African Americans population in these cities would be pretty unlikely to be a positive one.
This is exactly why the US was set up with a balance of powers between the separate branches of government. The judiciary/legislative can hold the executive to account, etc.
If a person has with the same entry level education and experience but is forced to get lower pay and worse work environment, then that is discrimination regardless if it has higher potential to reach a high paying job several years later in life.

Discrimination is antithesis to liberty. The right for he or she to become what they seek out to be without the restrictions of gender roles. Young men should not be forced to do poor work for no pay in hopes to get a chance for high paying job later, and young women should not be forced to do nice and high paying jobs only to be blocked later in life for top positions.

If there is one gender discrimination that need to be destroyed it is the view society has on young poor men and old women, contrasted to the view of young attractive women and old rich men. The work market would look very different if people, both women and men, were not restricted to gender roles.
Balancing Product and Technology
If you haven't seen this yet, this gambling site has Atlanta, GA / Boston, MA / Austin, TX as the top three choices for HQ2.

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&ev_type_id=2271...
> There is a difference between a state and a corporation: one of those is a monopoly by definition.

There is another difference: one of those grants voting (and other) rights to all its members.
I think using some sort of construct that topicallizes the object is a good middle ground between the two.

For example this Perl 6 code:

with turtle { # store in topic variable $_ (if it's defined)

.rotate(90); # implicit method call on $_
.pen_down();
.forward(5);

}
They just got progress last month on homebrew: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch
Microsoft's Future Computed, a Book about AI
From the original article, you put a proxy in front of Chrome headless and inject the deletion code into the HTML of each page before any JS loaded by the page.
I think one could easily start a website that was for men only-- a widower support system, say-- and no one would complain.

I think you could argue that Leap is somewhat similar to that. It's a support network for a group of people who face a particular challenge and need a safe place to talk.
A little more power and a lot more battery for the BMW i8’s mid-life refresh
CaaS – Kuberiter
Show HN: Jails: confining the omnipotent root (vintage)
Introducing HuffPost Opinion and HuffPost Personal – HuffPost
I make sure goals are achievable in a small amount of time, if not I break them down further.

Eg, 'move from payments to subscription' is a big goal, a smaller one might be 'understand Stripe's subscription API' and 'modify UI for subscriptions'.

I also look at different facets of the problem. UX vs backend vs devops concerns so my works remains diverse and interesting (I'm assuming you're full stack here).
For those outside of SA, dam in this context means reservoir.