skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. There used to be a virtual machines hype, too. I remember it. A plateau of productivity did happen (look at the market cap of VMWare), but VMs have not exactly become the standard way to run an application on a computer.

Since containers existed, VMs and containers both added features from the other. For VMs, mostly lower resource overhead (admin tools were pretty nice even before containers). For containers, mostly better isolation. So if anybody mentions blah blah containers, just substitute "VMs" and check if it still sounds cool.
You are living in the past tbh. There are tools which make augment the language and it is literally taking over the world now!
You are right on the money. Exaggerated face expressions, yelling, fake drama, multiple 'live' takes, scripted 'spontaneous' videos. Its pretty much a reality tv show for young boys.
This is true except for the case of extended validation certificates.
These should be actually validated as sanctioned by the registering entity and the entity should also be verified.
> This trend happened when the 'open plan' needed a next level of hell.

I seem to remember Dilbert explaining this as a way to ensure employees felt more like company-owned sacks of potatoes than actual humans. Hot-desking really does seem like one of the most dehumanizing office designs I can think of.

I know the supposed benefits of open offices, but I'm not even sure what hot-desking claims to achieve? Except in call centers I guess, where it's explicitly "to speed up firing people".
>It feels like Google is using me as a mechanical turk to solve their autonomous car rubbish

That explains why the majority of ReCaptchas I get are along the lines of "Click the squares that contain a street sign" or "Click the squares that contain a bicycle."
This app is the manifestation of the social norms that already exist, not a catalyst for new norms.
I am missing bottom bar since I stopped using Windows Phone :(
I always thought it was "4 metres squared" means 4x4 and "4 square metres" means 2x2. Unless 4m^2 doesn't mean "4 metres squared", which would really be confusing me ...
Sadly no, I tried finding it everywhere but no luck, should have taken a backup of our emails before deleting our domain mail boxes.
Ashley and I ran a workshop at BoosterConf a monthish ago using this tooling, a bunch of people used it to publish demo packages. This is effectively a release announcement, so we don’t have anything super real yet that I know of. There’s some stuff in the works though.

(You can see those here: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=hello-wasm)
Weird, wasn't it "hot" a few years ago? Or is it still gaining momentum tracking compared to then?
You are thinking of the Red/Green/Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson.
What makes you say so? JavaScript in itself is not a bad language at all, and many programmers genuinely like it.
There are a lot of things making the wealth gap worse, dating apps catering to the wealthy is a symptom, not a cause.
At PARC everyone has their own office.
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Well, at least now I don't feel like such a moron. It's good to know someone else had the same issue I did!
This is an ad for the elite dating sites. It's on bloomberg, for Christ sake. Their target market is elites.
The Gartner Hype Cycle ... is overhyped.

Few technologies follow it to any significant degree:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-...
Can't believe Jeremey Levine passed on the dream investments time and again.
The first human on Mars should be a woman – we deserve stardust too
I can’t help but think that this is really grasping for straws. Sure technically the headline may be correct...but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to date someone in the same socioeconomic class as you. On top of that, the amount that this contributes to the actual gap is probably minuscule relative to the other big contributors that are more systemic and policy-oriented rather than cultural.
What’s the binary size like?

One interesting thing about wasm is the difference between libraries and apps; Rust’s small binary size here can make it useful for this infrastructure work, but for languages that need to bring along the runtime, it’s much more complex. This is one reason why we’re pursuing stuff like wasm-pack.

I’m glad to see more and more languages compiling to wasm though! Exciting times.
> It's now mostly "YC stamp of approval" that increases your brand and access to good investors on demo day.

I have experience with small business, although not with YC. Those benefits are MASSIVE and should not be underestimated.
OP here. You can learn about what makes up a Zulip server here:

https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/architecture...

(and get a lot more detail if you browse around the rest of our 120K words of developer documentation).

I have a great deal of Debian packaging experience (I used to maintain over 100 Debian packages for MIT's Debathena project, mostly powered by the config-package-dev project that I'm a co-author of; and then later 20+ in Debian itself as part of getting Sagemath into Debian; and I maintain the handful of Zulip dependencies that we ship versions of in our Ubuntu PPA), and so I have a pretty good sense of what does and doesn't work well with the Debian (and RHEL) style packaging models.

I'd love to support native packages for every platform, but it's a huge amount of work (especially on the maintenance side, since one needs to do QA for each platform's upgrade process) that comes out of the time we can spend on making Zulip a better product. And the result is likely to be less good error-handling; I'd rather have an installation/upgrade process that just works (and if it can't because of some problem beyond our control, like the server not having enough RAM or disk, gives a clear error message that explains the problem to the user) but is limited to one platform (which anyone can easily get; virtualization is 20 years old at this point!), than support lots of platforms but be constantly fixing little issues with the other ones.

Which isn't to say that we won't support e.g. RHEL in the future (we probably will), just that it's costly to do so, and the "Use an Ubuntu VM or container" solution works pretty well for most folks.

That said, we're open source (and an open community!) and anyone who's worked with Zulip knows that I'm very happy to provide detailed technical advice and do code review to help things like this happen.
Not quite, but new and unproven features are supposed to be hidden behind a runtime flag to prevent a hot mess like what was caused with CSS/JS vendor prefixes.

The Blink team are getting better at this, but they still really need to put their feet on the brakes a little more, and wait until there are at least two implementations ready before flipping their own switch to enable the feature for all of their users.

With two reasonably complete (and independent) implementations it's far more likely that the standard is engine-neutral, and not lacking in crucial detail. The web platform tests will also have been put to the tests to ensure that they have decent coverage. On top of that, the feature can be considered to have been vetted to ensure that it isn't really just being shoved on the web to meet Google's business needs, but rather in the interests of a broader set of people. These things can easily slip if pushed too quickly, even if others are generally supportive of the general idea of the feature.
That's an expected response for bogon IP addresses, but you have you make a good point, we should make our error responses JSON.

Please email me your IP address at jonathan at ipdata dot co and I'll help you out.
https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/releases/tag/vm-1.0.0-... this will contain EE or CE version?
Instamotor
Instamotor looks impressive. I'm working on a US version of the UK website https://motorway.co.uk - and there's a lot for me to learn about cars here. Can anyone recommend any resources for online car sale numbers in US? Ta.
How does AB testing and user profiles have anything at all to do with detecting when incoming email is spam?
I signed up for the "The League" a few months ago.

I appreciate that they added in options to be discrete, by excluding people at your employer or friends on facebook. Not that that kind of discretion was necessary, or worth the price.

As for results, well, imho they have been no better than tinder. Lots of flakes, and seemingly random matches. Funnily enough I met my current partner on OkCupid, which seems antiquated by modern dating app standards.
Burning of "real" value for something of symbolic value that often locks in value is fairly common. Designer watches and bags and 500$ shirts basically create a flame that says "look at meeeeee"

Price to extract gold and value of gold is also an interesting dynamic. Fiat tokens also seem to have value built in via trust via the burning of value to create organizational systems to reduce friction. Expensive apparel also reduces certain types of social friction.
>Anyway, there is an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple right now.

And what are the damages claimed against them? Even if they have 50% marketshare, they still have competition with a larger marketshare both domestic and worldwide. There's nothing that can be brought against them because they're not doing anything illegal or immoral.
It’s controversial because people don’t understand patents.
> There is like a bajillion people out there running Oracle Java, MySql, Virtualbox and so on. All of them Oracle products, and with permissive licenses.

All of those examples have dual commercial/copyleft licenses, none of them have permissive licenses. Moreover, the Free licenses are without explicit patent grants which may, therefore, be at risk of patent claims.
Just chiming in to say that F# is not a DSL - it's a fully-fledged programming language. Not in use nearly as much as C#/Java/etc., but it's not a special-purpose language.
Ask HN: Anybody interested in a LinkedIn job description scraper?
I’ve been working on a scraper that is now allowing me to aggregate job description data from different providers (so far, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn and RemoteOK are ready. I could add anything on demand).

I'm also working on some AI/machine learning model extracting formatted data from raw job description text to standardize the feed.

Would any recruiter or anybody else be interested in something like this?

(If you’re interested or just want to be kept updated, you can also contact me at hello@frenl.com)
Yeah and we called it process migration in the 80’s and Agents in the 90’s. Things don’t change as much as we like to think. The curtains change but the scenery doesn’t.
> Share of couples in which both partners have a college degree: now up to 15%

Wow I'm out of touch with the real world.
Other than individual-scale mining being an inefficient greenhouse heater, (or just heater in general) what are some of those dual uses you’ve seen so many times? On what scale compared to the bulk of mining activity?
What do you mean? How is it downplaying?
Am I the only one who sees the silver lining in this? I don't want to date rich people.
Did you think it'd be higher or lower?
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They are making them in batches. Whenever they get enough people on the waiting list they send out the order emails, then they manufacture the batch and ship them out. Once I was able to actually place my order I received it 3 weeks later.
Especially so since many people on existing dating applications probably filter by similar criteria anyway.
Why/How would they be damaged? Or do you consider used and damaged as the same thing?
How money does it cost to apply for a patent?. Because if the cost is negligible, then an exploit would be to flood the patent system with dumb patent application until one of them is accepted. Hell, maybe a machine learning algorithm could be trained to produce trillions of gibberish pdf files, until one of them makes sense, then you can claim the invention.
High quality glass making has a long history and it's only been the last 50-100 years that Japan has climbed up the tall ladder to become a world-class glass manufacturer.

Some of the most important science ever done was done using German lenses by French scientists (the germans didn't have the scientists, the french didn't have the lensmakers) - 2+ meters lenses used to concentrate light to burn metal in evacuated chambers. Eventually, Germany developed its own industry and science center around glass (Jena) and became the world's leader in high quality lenses (late 1800s).

In the US, it was Corning that did this work. They did melts and cools that lasted months to make the blank for the great Caltech telescope in the 20s or 30s.

it all comes down to the frit.
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Colleges themselves are a much bigger factor. If you go to an elitist college, you are much more likely to marry someone from that elitist college, and then to have a two-high-income household. It just seems inevitable, though - people want to date other people like themselves.
m² is the symbol for "square metres", so 6 m² is e.g. a room 2m x 3m
Fair comment. The title would imply there's a 'so what?' in the article, not just a 'how'.
OP here. Thanks to all your rich comments, I have updated the post with the final conclusion:

GitHub is gradually (and silently) deploying HTTPS to custom-domains websites hosted on GitHub Pages, using DV from Let's Encrypt.
You don't have to wait 5 seconds between words. You just have to enunciate clearly enough that the divisions between words become truly unambiguous.
It is possible to achieve high typing speed on both; I did just that for a few years by switching back and forth on a regular basis. In the end the inconvenience simply wasn’t worth it and I gave up.
> causing a small amount of destruction to something that other people value.

Yea, like the environment.
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The cost of the PHY and the Ethernet interface would increase the price
Is Python becoming more statically typed then?
Great analysis of the oft-misinterpreted First Amendment.
I can't get a clear meaning of "SOA". Data and processes have been shared for many decades. Stored procedures are a common example of such before the Web era. Shoving stuff into JSON doesn't necessarily make it better, and often creates more maintenance work. Do things for a clear reason, not because it's in style.
I wonder what those "triangle crackers" were and what was so risky about them.
> It is self-evident that making something more expensive to do reduces the incentive to do it (weighed against the potential profit).

No argument - but you didn't answer my questions at all other than to say "FDA is fallible!"

I can't prove the FDA is non-evil/non-fallible. I don't have numbers to share, so I'm going off of very fallible impressions. However, those impressions are that the FDA has done a better job of keeping crappy products off the market than a free-market world.

You complain about the opposite - good products being prevented because of lack of incentives. It's impossible to measure what hasn't happened, but do we have evidence that lack of incentive cause more harm than preventing crap/toxic/poisonous products that we have a recorded history of?

We have a solution today, a solution with problems, but a solution that I'm confident is better than the original problem. What is your basis to claim that removing the solution will in fact be better than the problem?
Hey Ben! Thank you :)
It's not a bad language in itself, no - it's just a waste of resources for the end-user, and in general it's being marketed to newcomers as the language they should learn by default - leading to a tonne of unoptimized sites and terrible applications using it.

Then again, I suppose that's a fault of the type of programmers attracted to it than it is the language itself.
It does if that other person has a reasonable expectation that you intended for it to be public.

Leaving your property on the curb is a good example. If someone takes it, you would be hard pressed to get it back from a legal standpoint.

This is very similar. The government left all those documents on the curb.
1. Parent is not talking about "efficiency", but about "waste".

2. Please, provide your economic definition of "waste", which contradicts parent.
Every year in the history of the world since 200,000 BC
> I could not find the design files for Pinebook so I'm not sure what is "Open Source" about it? Schematics are not sources.

That might be what you were looking for :
https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=5734
Independent event probability. A 1% chance of something happening means that there is a 99% chance of the event not happening. 0.99^100 = 0.37. So a 37% chance of no brain eating out of 100 trials. 1 - 0.37 = 0.63, so a 63% chance of a brain being eaten out of 100 trials.
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I think they mean: wow, that's way lower than I expected. I had the same reaction, as virtually every couple I know both have college degrees.
For that reason? Yeah probably.
1 - (1 - .01)^100

We're finding the chance that the study will demonstrate brain eating. The hypothesis is that brain eating is rare: .01 chance of that. So any particular subject will probably not display brain eating: .99 chance of that. Assuming brain eating tests are independent, you can raise that quantity to the hundredth power to get the chance that all 100 subjects will not display brain eating. That would be a failure of the test, so subtract that chance from unity to get the test's chance of success.
You’ll never be a master because you are missing a lot of solutions, paradigms and techniques that are common in other languages and that you will never learn staying forever in the same language.
Also I would like to see how you can become a master in web development using C++.
You will always be castrated compared to someone else that has a much vaster experience with multiple languages and domains.
Sing it with me! We all live in a yellow journalistic submarine...

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
No but Lakeside is also affordable to upper middle class today, and likely was even more affordable back then.

Don't get me wrong no one is arguing that money doesn't affect your future of course it does but it's only one factor and a factor with a lot of diminishing returns.

I don't personally see that Bill got where he did due to some exceptional wealth both because I don't consider the Gates pre-Microsoft exceptionally wealthy by US standards and that wealth can only grant you opportunities.

Considering who his parents were in terms of their achievements I'm also not so sure we can claim that Bill Gates without Lakeside would've not have been 'Bill Gates' sure it's nearly impossible to estimate the effect of each individual moment in ones life but if we take it on a macro level I think the character of his parents influenced him considerably more than their wealth.

To make my point even clearer at some point say magically $250,000 a year I don't think wealth is a factor in your success unless you completely inherit it (e.g. inheriting a business).
At the point when you can live in a good and stable home, receive good education and discipline both at school and at home money isn't going to be the deciding factor in your success if it's your success.
I don't own one of these yet, but I just signed up for the waiting list because I a) want to support a more-open hardware than the x86/x64 duopoly we have with most laptops, and because I would like as many components in my laptop to be as open as possible.

As a developer, I want to make sure my stuff works with ARM, if for no other reason to help the ecosystem a bit.
How are you identifying Tor?
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It focuses on the lowest common denominator of programmers, and in general the community around it doesn't really care to optimize it or teach the people they attract towards good programming standards.
Yes, your parent comment introduced the topic of Trump's election, though still in the context of online tracking. Pardon my poor choice of words above.

> I have to yet to see even a single fact to back up your claim.

Here's the first result from a Google search I just did: https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us...

> If someone is going to spread disinformation and not present any facts, then I am going to post a sourced rebuttal.

I don't see any sourced rebuttal.

> instead of undermining the voters

I didn't undermine any voters. I made no claims about any voters. I commented only on the targeting, and that the targets hadn't consented to their data being accessed.

> blaming the results on some ludicrous notion of a bogeyman.

A calmer rhetoric would be more productive to discourse. Targeted advertising is not a "bogeyman". Stolen data and privacy concerns are not bogeymen. That people put up lots of private info that can be used to accurately profile them is a fact. That ads can be effective has been proven from the time ads were invented, and that targeted ads can be even more effective — especially in a political context — has also been studied and concluded lots of times. See [1] and [2].

Frankly, now that you've brought up backing of claims, I'm a bit discouraged to have to defend stuff like this against clearly biased political rhetoric.

1: http://politics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/978019022...

2: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/a...
Looks like how a lot of languages already work out of the box. E.g. whenever I create a data type in Julia I automatically have such a constructor.

Static languages such as Go and C already essentially let you do this through initialization through braces.
When I read "The Millionaire Next Door", I remember they actually found that the people who become wealthy actually tend to come from non-wealthy backgrounds. They hypothesized that later generations were more likely to have grown used to a consumption based lifestyle, and also felt freer to pursue non-lucrative but more appealing careers. For example, someone without a ton of money is more likely to go on and create a successful trucking business than get an art or history degree. They are also less likely to splurge on the new iPhone, car, etc., even after they manage to accumulate lots of wealth.
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> Most good corporate environments should be controlling what plugins they allow users to install in their browsers.

For a very odd definition of the term 'good' I suppose that's may be the case. It's certainly not been in any place I've worked in the past 20 yrs.
Ask HN: Why would LinkedIn recommend connections I removed?
I went through and cleaned out my LinkedIn contacts. Now when LinkedIn recommends connections to me, they're mostly people I removed.

This seems silly for multiple reasons. First, it's annoying to the user. Second, it's a low-yield strategy because I'm highly unlikely to re-add someone that I just removed.

Would LinkedIn be suggesting former connections on purpose? Or is this just a really not-smart recommendation engine? One would think this would be a very well-optimized algorithm, since it is core to the business.