skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a German somewhat familiar with German board game companies these two articles (polygon and board game geek) were really confusing because they focus on some stuff that happened only in the last years and it's mostly about games I didn't in any way associate with the name Mayfair I had neevr heard of.

So if I got this half way correctly, the actual news is that really "Mayfair Games" (which is only a publisher, not a creator?) is shutting down, but the articles solely focus on licensed board games that originated somewhere else.

Timeline according to wikipedia:

1981 Mayfair Games founded

1995 Franck-Kosmos publishes Settlers of Catan in Europe

1996 Mayfair Games publishes Settlers of Catan in NA

1997 Mayfair Games shuts down

1997 new company: Ironwind, Inc

2001 succeeded by Mayfair Games, Inc (again)

2013 Mayfair Games publishes the games by Lookout Games in NA

2018 Mayfair Games(Inc?) is bought by Asmodee (French company, or maybe their NA branch?)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_Games

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmod%C3%A9e_%C3%89ditions

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Games
Does Graal support tail call optimization? It has been announced for hotspot +10 years ago but still not implemented as today.

edit: https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/tail-calls-in-the-vm
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Discovered new language in Southeast Asia without words to denote ownership
It's simply a way to brandish your nerd cred.
I love the way that the the author, skirts totally over Javascript, and yet the threads here are full of mild skirmishing.

The closing paragraph is the nicest part of the article, mentioning the benefits of legibility.

I never disliked the mechanics of html table based layouts, col and row spans, what wasn't so nice was the attribute soup. That made reading the outlines of the html hard.

Back in the day we had tools like Dreamweaver, that had a visual design mode. It was quirky so people resorted to programming html in text editors. What's a real shame is that there wasn't a tool that matured to the point, where you could do a little of both.

The most interesting part about a website for me, is usually the content, and the rest is pretty much guff. The nicest thing about simple authoring is that it allows the on-boarding of everyone. Not just arty or programming types. This is why Facebook in part took off. Because it made publishing easy. Weeks, months and even years of development just to get to the point of publishing is rather wasteful. Many sites could simply use a template product.

Review the end result. Many web sites still just look not much more than, erm, web sites. And many don't work, or even convey or make the information that you simply want to consume easy to find and digest.

Loads of technology is thrown at problem, where a simple site map and text based content will suffice. And if a business isn't reactive to customer requests, or doesn't update relevant content - then a site becomes quite superfluous or even a liability.
> proposal-2-final-new-FINAL-draft-02-2018.docx isn't exactly sane data-sharing

It is, when you can freely move it onto a USB drive, or attach to an e-mail, an IM message, or transmit over countless other systems that have no relation with Microsoft Office.

> You can create walled gardens both on the desktop and the web. That's a question of ethics not technology.

Yes, but that's pretty much a tautology. Technology is all about making stuff easier, and web is pretty enabling when it comes to walled gardens and other unethical conduct.

Ultimately, the web is what killed end-user open source. A web application is an ultimate anathema to both open source and free software - you don't get to run the program as you like, you can't inspect it in any way (even if it's "open sourced", you can't verify if this is what really runs on third-party server), you can't distribute it, you can't modify it, and to top it off, you no longer own the data you work on with said software.
you know how I know you're just being edgy and not actually a sociopath? sociopath don't feel guilt/shame about their sociopathy and therefore don't broadcast it in search of validation - your original comment was bait intended to draw someone into this debate wherein you could validate yourself. my guess? your distraught over your recent break up (whose cause you've reductively concluded was "sociopathy but actually was probably just some mixture of arrogance and selfishness) and you're narcissistic enough to participate in this charade rather than introspect on.
Russian nuclear weapons engineers caught ­­­­mining Bitcoins with supercomputer
How long has it been since you have taken a real vacation??
And for non-functional languages?

Not everybody wants to spend next 5 years learning thinking bottom-up, mastering category theory, monads and all that for such a task like writing a silly webpage you wouldn't rather be doing.

[rant] Frankly, I am not sure why is functional paradigm considered a savior and better approach for inherently non-concurrent web frontend technology. I program in Haskell/Scala but pushing functional programming everywhere is IMO just insanity and everybody is silent about many warts and weirdness of purely functional programming. [/rant]
>This contains good advices but also very doubtful ones. such as "use Whatsap", like something proprietary that is not decentralized?

How is this "doubtful" advice? Whatsapp and Signal are literally the state of the art of encrypted messaging apps. There simply are no better options. What would you recommend instead?

>And use Apple devices/Chromebooks (where everything you do works/syncs in the cloud) as your primary device, you must be kidding..

So what would you tell people to use instead? This is advice for "journalists" not "unemployed people".

Google and Apple only have the best security teams in the world, why do you believe their services to be insecure?

>The only good security device would be "don't even own a smartphone" if you care about security at all.

What if you are a person who is actually trying to do something with their life?

>What a bad advice, since the code added by Google on top of Chromium can't be audited at all.

Why is that? Have you audited Chromium? Since when can't binary blobs be audited? What is the realistic worst case scenario here?
> I have a very hard time coming up with a worse programming language than XSLT

What a straw-man argument. He clearly says "[t]he XML/XSLT approach", which is not advocating that XSLT is the best thing ever, but that we ought to consider that the people who developed XSLT had a similar problem to solve, thought hard about it, and came up with that. Many years later, it isn't out of this world that we could come up with a better solution. Arguably now there's more interest in such a solution than ever. For example, there are companies who have made generating PDFs for reports or bills their business model, because it's hard to do reliably with standard web tech. ePUB too? That would be all kinds of awesome.

So let's not dismiss XSLT and simply go back to the dysfunctional way it's currently being done. That said, of course XML et al are clunky, old and too enterprise-y - by trying to cover every use-case ever or having big corporations pushing their use-cases during the spec design this tends to happen. This seems to be a problem with the W3C in general, but they have to get their money somehow, and standards that nobody will use don't help either. Somehow we still ended up with JSON for the data serialisation use-case, which is pretty good. So there's hope. (The irony of JSON being at least inspired by Javascript does not escape me.)
LL Bean is in the news because they have stopped the lifetime return policy to due to abuse. It shot up in recent years from people returning well-worn items, 2nd hand purchases or "rentals." They now only accept returns going back one year with a receipt and if it was due to a defect or the incorrect size.
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/02/09/business/ll-bean-dropp...
I suspect that there is a difference in risk between various specific spots in Switzerland and American at large.

I’d never drink untreated water in Michigan. Michigan was a giant swamp. Near the top of a summit in Switzerland with no livestock nearby? Sure.
Wire's open source chat app's restrictions on Allow Origin
It's all extraordinarily creepy because you expect your home to be the safe haven of privacy, but considering how ubiquitous smartphones are and how much of our lives already happens digitally, you could somewhat cynically argue that the privacy loss is comparatively small (because you have very little to begin with nowadays).

But if smart utilities take off, maybe some privacy label for consumers would be nice. Maybe in the future it's a selling point if when device is dumb as opposed to smart and connected. I also somewhat dislike the conclusion of the article that smart homes for everybody are inevitable or necessary. The utility, at least right now, of smart devices seems to be limited, so you don't have even to be a crazy hermit to boycott a smart home.
I think JS is fine.

The root of the "problem" is that the web is an unusual platform. It actually punishes bloat, in a way other platforms don't. A native app can use a hundred libraries and a gigabyte of download size to do something trivial, but on the web that won't fly. That means web developers must learn that code reuse is a tradeoff instead of seeing it as a pure positive. That's a good thing in my book. Either take the heat and replace your 10 dependencies with 1000 custom-written lines, which is usually easy in JS, or get out of the kitchen.
It’s unfiltered fresh spring water yes, but these are still human-built fountains with a known source where the water quality is measured in regular intervals. It’s not a random stream in the woods.

Switzerand is much smaller, so we have people checking on these regularly.

I always drink from these fountains, they’re all safe except the very few that have a “not potable” sign.

I wouldn’t drink from a random stream of water in the woods.
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Blame Alexa. https://xkcd.com/1807/
I bought a bottle of olive oil recently in a supermarket, and paid with Euros. I expect the American imperialists to bomb the shop soon.

(just kidding)
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I do wonder how much of the problem is that most of the tools and libraries comes out of organisations like Facebook and Google who have completely different constraints to the majority of us.

React might suit Facebook but it probably isn't a good solution for someone who's application only gets a few hundred hits a day.
If every tech device over 12 years old I have stopped working tomorrow, I would be in a heap of trouble.

That's the thing with streaming devices: they are dependent on external support for basic functionality, and manufacturers can arbitrarily decide (or be forced) to cut that support arbitrarily.

Plus the CR200 still works and they don’t have plans to brick it

You can't be serious.
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It kind of is, given they put a link to it in their subreddit's sidebar.

The key problem is that IOTA's incompetence is pervasive. e.g. https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1...
*USB booted
Android messages may let you text from the web
That's like saying group XY of people is bad because you got mugged by one person of that group one time.

While I understand that a problem like this is unnerving, it isn't the rule.
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Will Cinnamon be fast and responsive on an old laptop with a 2nd-gen Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB of RAM? And how is the support for NVidia GPUs?
The days of the CSS Zen Garden. For me, the good old times.

http://www.csszengarden.com/
Here's another idea: TCP over vibration. Put one phone on top of the other, the bottom one in vibration mode, the other using its accelerometer to receive.
You’re confusing open source with free software. You definitely can have open source code that you can’t use (legally). Taking the code off GitHub and using it without Apple’s permission would be theft.

Open Source only means the code is available to be seen by the general public. Free Software means you have specific rights, like the right to view, modify, and distribute the code.

A possible license could be APSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Public_Source_License
In the finest blockchain tradition, this posits a convoluted solution that doesn't work, to a problem that nobody actually has.
Happy to hear that! We (forestry.io) would love any feedback you might have.
Your kind words of encouragement are most appreciated

I'm not a journo. More importantly the browser I was using didn't have a working spell check. This all compounds the obvious, which is; I can't spell for shit, and my proof reading is also notably weak.
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It depends were you're backpacking. I'd drink from a mountain stream in the Alps but would you drink from the Seine? But I admit that you have a point: people need to use common sense.
Just because JS' _this_ doesn't behave like in other languages doesn't make it bad, I mean it's behaviour is well defined.

JavaScript is more dynamic than most languages and yes this may be hard to grasp for the average developer, especially when they come from languages that are considered "more mature".
I use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterward you can chose where to host it. You can use Github Pages [2] for free or pay for a service like DigitalOcean (starting with 5€ a month which scales well) [3]. I wrote a technical cheatsheet [4] on how to setup your own website with these ingredients. You can find a more elaborate way on how to host multiple static websites on Digital Ocean over here [5].

- [0] https://gohugo.io/

- [1] http://themes.gohugo.io/

- [2] https://pages.github.com/

- [3] https://www.digitalocean.com/

- [4] https://www.robinwieruch.de/own-website-in-five-days/

- [5] https://www.robinwieruch.de/deploy-applications-digital-ocea...
Yeah, that's almost exactly what I'm after.
Video, at minute 5, "Where do I get it":

JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295

"The project will merge Graal core into the JDK, and deliver it in Linux/x64 builds."

OpenJDK is not the JDK one downloads from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9....

Also there are many Graals so to say, the research being done at Oracle labs, the rewriting of the JVM replacing C++ with Java (Metropolis) and the piecewise integration into the official JDK.

So I don't find it strange to have some kind of Oracle-level coordination.

Yes I do agree it is annoying, but from my humble point of view it is a situation that when everything has moved into the OpenJDK, with AOT compilation supported across all three major desktop OSes, the situation will be sorted out in the meantime.

And we are only speaking of Oracle here, there a few other dozen vendors that most likely will never have something like Graal on their JVMs.
Previous HN discussion on THP:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795337
I work on my own as well and I learnt a long time ago the less dependencies I have in my code the easier my life is.
What I think could really do good is some browser-supported protocol specifically made for identifying devices on a LAN.

E.g., imagine some UPnP-style broadcast where a device announces a public key, human-readable name and some type/capability information.
Browsers listen for broadcasts and show users a notification once they discover an unseen device. Once confirmed, they can identify the device by its public key and also use it to establish encrypted connections.

You could also define out-of-band methods to share the key, e.g. via an on-device wifi hotspot, NFC, a USB plug or a QR code printed on the device.

Mozilla's Web-of-Things spec seems to show at least a willingness to work on this. Though right now they seem to re-solve exactly all the already solved problems and tackle none of the unsolved.

...or you could simply treat HTTP in local networks as a secure origin and be done with it.
The questions typically are (1) Can you find an instrument that lets you bet on the mispricing (2) do you have the wherewithal to stay solvent for the arbitrary period of time it takes for the market to correct.

Individual investors typically cannot access the right instruments (typically weirdly structured long term options). Typical institutional money managers cannot because their measurement typically penalizes continuous money loss. Lots of them however may have spotted the opportunity.
That could be nice to setup/connect devices that don't have buttons and a display. E.g. connecting a printer to a tablet, sending wifi passwords to the printer. (At least, as long as nobody else is listening).
The government in China is great at manufacturing these sorts of astroturf campaigns. What else would you expect from a fascist regime?
They aren't shutting down a service, they are updating a product. Specifically, they are releasing a new version of the speakers firmware that removes support for the protocol used by CR100.

All you wrote regarding Android is true, and that's why as I said I support the FSF and Free Software in general, all I'm saying is that you can't take that community for granted. Maybe someone would appear to re-add support for the CR100 to the new firmware - or maybe nobody would.
> Technology is all about making stuff easier, and web is pretty enabling when it comes to walled gardens and other unethical conduct.

The web enabled us to reason about walled gardens in the first place. Before the advent of the web there was no talk about walled gardens simply because everything was a walled garden.

> Ultimately, the web is what killed end-user open source

That implies that end user open source had really lived before. For end users open source while not exactly irrelevant never has played a huge role. One reason for that perhaps is that there doesn't seem to be a long-term viable business model for open source desktop applications.

> A web application is an ultimate anathema to both open source and free software - you don't get to run the program as you like, you can't inspect it in any way

That's the case for pretty much any client-server application. The Affero GPL for example tries to remedy this but again that's more a question of business model rather than technology.
I feel this comment is very generalizing. I’m not so sure if Americans are “risk-averse”. There needs to be a balance between risk and reward. I live in a part of Europe, where ticks are widespread. Of course you could go into the woods with short pants in summer time, but I don’t. Oh, BTW: American tourists do...

Regarding the specific risk, this was discussed here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16320964
There might be reasons why it’s safer in Europe than the US.

One example is locally the entire underground water supply west of Ann Arbor, MI was polluted by Gelman Chemicals illegally dumping over decades. Now that’s not a river, but there are many similar stories about rivers being heavily polluted in the US. I don’t know but it’s possible these kinda of situations are much more rare in Europe.

It’s also possible those Europeans are acting recklessly and cases of protean infection are much higher than in the US due to our propensity to filter.

My point is this anecdote alone is not good enough to draw a conclusion from.
We do have a tendency to make things as complex as we can, which if you are smart is too complex for the majority.
It depends what you mean by 'stay away'. If you mean in the form of interfering by skewing the commercial incentives, yes ok, but we're nowhere near the point where current space technology development can survive without government support. I don't mean in the form of subsidies, those can be retired, but in the form of investment and contracts for commercial services. SpaceX launch manifest would collapse without NASA contracts and in fact the company wouldn't exist in anything like it's current form without them. The military contracts they're getting are very valuable too.

There has been talk recently, in military and security circles, that reusable rocket technology could give the US a decade or more lead over their rivals, in terms of technology and space infrastructure. It's possible the military and security contracts SpaceX are starting to get are part of a deliberate effort to funnel funds into this new technology. You could view that as interference, but equally you could view it as a well funded client supporting a supplier, much in the way Apple funnels funds into suppliers to bootstrap new technology for their products.
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Interesting.. I was thinking about that but what if he argues his time is worth money also. As part of that argument, partner then wishes to clock his hours and get paid back also. Does that put us back to square one.

I often come across, what I would often describe as an arrogance (for want of a better term) as some people that originated the idea. They often think they are the brains and the engineer is the brawn..
By chance I ended up at the Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffets company, more like mega-conglomerate) website today.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com

If that site is good enough for one of the worlds most valuable corporations, maybe we're just massively over-doing the entire web?

Side note, I laughed really hard when I saw that they had a god damn ad hard-coded on the page hahaha. That's how you end up one of the richest investors of all time, waste nothing.
> We need hackers. They are the immune system.

Powerful metaphor for the unenlightened.