skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ahh through transports/gateways you run - so you have a facebook account and just registering that.

I got excited for a moment thinking there was some unlisted way of messaging someone on facebook via XMPP.

What's the transport you're running for fb and hangouts?
If nothing else, I would say that chromebooks are a spiritual descendant of the OLPC. Inexpensive laptops with simple software marketed heavily towards education.
I haven't used windows in years, but when I did, downloading all of the nirsoft tools was on my new box checklist. I can't go to the site to see what has been added though, my company proxy has it blocked.
So you are against things like paid time off, 40-hour work week, weekends off, workplace safety/health standards, ect.?
My god, did that happen to every trolley line? Makes me want them back all the more.
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Developed solely for the IOS appstore for a year in IOS Swift, my app (http://lucid.fyi - shameless plug):

Hated developing for IOS because came from web background and everything is restricted and you need payments to do anything. I'm also a sole developer and so every step that requires money I hate because I don't have a lot of money.
That's not the problem with Marxism.
I don't think it is a problem that can be changed with different politics or labour unions.

The main problem is the extreme unbalance in the world. Highly develepoed robotic societys meet hungry, poor masses who cam only offer their physical labour. Mst of them in countrys far away, bu also a lot in the industrilized states.

Demand and supply. The demand for unskilled labour goes down, yet the supply of it goes up.

Most politic "solutions" only work by favoring the current residents and walling yourself in. So some better conditions for those in the country. I doubt that this is a longterm solution, when we want to live in an open global world.

So the solution I see is rather ... educating the unskilled masses, instead of fighting for better conditions for the unskilled.
Call off the demo, just bite that bullet. Also, get help from your manager or maybe better, another senior developer but preferably one with twenty years of experience.
Medicare drug prices are negotiated by the private companies that administer most of the drug coverage.

There is a clause in the law establishing Part D that says the government can't interfere with those negotiations, but this is different than the prices not being negotiated at all.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheet...

Medicaid prices aren't negotiated, but the government dictates that they get near the lowest prices the manufacturer sells the drug for.
Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics
Old-n-busted companies pay through the nose for old-n-busted services. Film at 11.
No discussion of fixed point math?
Depends, are we talking about JFK, EWR, or LGA?

I've looked into this some - but if someone is better versed in the history of this stuff, please jump in.

For LGA, there have been attempts for years to extend the N train north from its current terminus in Astoria, to LGA. This is the most economical way to connect the airport to the mass transit system (there is currently no train whatsoever, the only way to LGA via public transit involves a bus).

Most proposals for this line extension called for the N train to become elevated on its approach to the airport, and the neighborhood has loudly opposed any of the nuisances that come with living next to an elevated train. This political pressure has been impossible to overcome, while tunneling has not been considered feasible or affordable.

On top of this, the state government which runs the NYC subway is reluctant to endorse this plan also, since connecting LGA to the NYC subway doesn't serve the (very important) suburban electorate. The state government has consistently pushed instead for the airport to be connected to a nearby suburban commuter rail station instead (Mets-Willets Pt on the LIRR). The political calculations behind this are pretty obvious, despite this option being far less connected to the greater transit network and promising far less ridership, and also perpetuates the need for a "monorail" transfer, like JFK and EWR.

The history of the transit situation for JFK and EWR are also interesting (and like most things NYC-infrastructure related, extensively documented), but this post is running pretty long. Happy to go into it if people are interested, but the tl;dr is: funding instability, financial downturns, squabbling fiefdoms, jurisdictional battles between NJ/NY, and the ever-present NIMBYism.
Are there any other decent archiver programs for Windows? Explorer has had built in unzip functionality for a while but it's ridiculously slower than 7-Zip.
I wanted to see how it deals with decimal percentages so I opened the dev console and... Dinero isn't loaded on the page. That's the one thing I love about libs like decimal.js and moment.js - you can open the console and try it right in the documentation.
> A good engineer retained can often deliver 2X to 10X the value of a new hire. The company treats them them [sic] accordingly.

The turnover rate is generally less than 2 years.
See Congo crisis after the Belgians left
They can offer a more convenient payment method.

Apple pay and Samsung pay have contact free payments, and it's also more secure than signatures.

But as new payment infrastructure is expensive they will just move if they have to. Perhaps too slow, as their competitor are gnawing at their profit margins.
I once heard a joke about a team in an unnamed bank that was interfacing with the mainframe using the latest and greatest JavaScript framework of the time. Once they were full speed in production, bug reports started to pop up. They tried solving them one by one until some brave soul reminded them that JavaScript has only one way to represent numbers and it happens that the JavaScript way is totally unfit for monetary calculations.

P.S. As much as I hate DEC64, it is a much better way to handle money. Someone please add DEC64 to JavaScript! We have Set and generator functions. Why not another way to store floating point numbers!
> The main complain people have with electron, is its heaviness. You ship a whole browser just for your tiny app. If every electron instance was using the same library & the same process (esp. the same JavaScript VM), most of the trouble would go away.

Among other things, such as lack of accessibility, a UI that looks out-of-place on the platform, and general lack of refinement.

> Most people hate UI changes, and the new skype brings a lot of it! On a technical point of view, the new Skype is quite ok, it's not like the old ones were especially good either …

I'm still running Skype 7.59 because it's not a RAM hog and looks a lot nicer than Skype 8. The new Skype is significantly worse.
This Site Tracks How Wikipedia Is Being Edited in Real-Time
One of my friends brings either an OLPC or an Alphasmart to Burning Man every year.

In one of my other comments in this thread, I mentioned that I used my olpc to animate this logo [0] and to make a patch adding a dodecahedron to the X.org utility ico [1].

[0] http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Logo#Animated_Logo

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/ico
On the average morning or evening commute, there's at least 2 - 3 lines with delays, and even a couple with "planned work". My commute tends to blow up twice a month, and I have to take a Juno/Uber/Lyft.
Why not just dedicated bus lanes to avoid the need to go underground?
Hey! You need to use the allocate method for this. It will redistribute fractional cents and return an array of Dinero objects.
There's lots of reasons that might happen. Lots of businesses are tied to peaks at specific times of the day or seasonality. And not yet sophisticated enough to build in elasticity.

Even AWS has no reasonable automated way to be elastic in a vertical way, like auto changing instance size. Some apps can't scale well horizontally.

My database servers, for example, are built for "Easter Sunday Attendence" and underutilized the rest of the time. We do better with things like app and web servers, but there are inefficiencies.
In addition to the problems related to working around utilities, subways built with cut and cover create a lot of street level noise when operating. Also, buildings vibrate every time a train runs by. Bored subways are imperceptible from above ground.
> approach #2 is pretty much equally awful with all languages

Some are far more awful than others. Python for example has no issue here at all, json types map nicely into its basic data types, while most statically typed languages make json handling terribly verbose and make it feel like it doesn't belong there. And while there usually is some contract, there are many api providers that don't provide schema, make frequent changes or explicitely expect you to deal with "some random json here" part of the data.
You really think that women as a group qualify as a reserve army?
E-readers also suck for figures and formulas which are indispensable for any comprehensive education. The most readable textbooks can only be rendered on a big high-res display, on iPad at least.

Cheap 10" tablets are definitely easier to make than cheap 10" E-readers, though.
>This does not seem to be shaping up to be a particularly big release, and there seems to be nothing particularly special about it.

>10-20% less power usage

Is this one of those "not big and professional like GNU" Linus moments?
Congratulations, it is a very tiring process
toomuchtodo pointed out we're not doing enough about a problem that exists locally.

You argued that thinking globally is more important than thinking parochially, which is fine by itself. But it's totally unrelated to what toomuchtodo is saying unless we were taking global action in lieu of local action.

So I assumed you meant that, because it's critical to your comment being relevant.

If you didn't mean that, then your argument falls apart. toomuchtodo is not arguing for being parochial, they're arguing that we should be making it a priority to fight this problem at all.
Good call, I’ll fix that
Hack Reactor and App Academy are legitimate and do their best, but a 75% hiring rate after 6 months according to CIRR is less than ideal by al accounts. I’m certain that would be closer to 100% with another few months.
I'm not sure it's possible to dig a hole in Massachusetts without it taking 10x longer and costing 10x more than planned...
Currency + JavaScript Number type = bad idea

The Number type in JavaScript is a IEEE754 floating point number. Someone explained why floating point numbers are not good to represent currency:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...

In fact, even a simple operation like equality in floating point numbers becomes harder. e.g:

Math.abs(x - y) < Number.EPSILON

I would be very careful about this since it becomes problematic for large numbers.
> Calling this spyware is rather misleading.

Does its ubiquity invalidate the term? It is software that spies on me, and its presence is, at best, less-than-explicitly communicated. That seems like spyware to me.
On a separate note, I have yet to get Siri to transcribe "Isle of Dogs" correctly. It's always "I love dogs" which is quite ok by me :).
Can Open-Source Serverless Be Simpler Than AWS Lambda?
I thought Sysinternals was acquired by Microsoft?
Thanks! We're actively doing research on the challenges of pricing for SaaS businesses. Its a way for us to understand how engaged businesses are with wanting to improve their packaging & pricing.
Yes. I'm asking a business that want to provide a native client to provide a native client.

If it can be done as a web app why not do it as a web app?

Yes I am a developer and for products that are suited to be on the web, I write websites.
> the UX friction involved with downloading and installing native mobile apps is abysmal

Where were you ten years ago? Remember installing software on Windows?

> Whereas PWA is all about improving UX

But it doesn't improve UX.
If using Firefox, I'm very happy using "Auto Tab Discard". It does what you want.
It's a little more complicated. The first NYC subway was built by the city and operated by IRT. Part of the IRT system was then built with private financing. Most of the system was built under the "dual contracts" with IRT and BMT, where the city designed and built the systems and the IRT and BMT operated them under lease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_S....
That's a specious question - there are minimum standards for wrking conditions. What people upset at Amazon really want is to change those standards, which is a completely fair standpoint. Let's not muddy the waters by papering over 100 years of accomplishemnts of US labor...
Russian state sponsored actors targeting network infrastructure devices
Only US.
Amazon is minting millionaires like crazy. Of course people want to work there.
It makes it a pain reliever.
I lived in New York until the early '80s (I was 11 at the time), and I recall the commercial "Take the Train to the Plane". I always thought that they were part of the MTA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkL1LIUsmqc
Blog devoted to making meals from Game Of Thrones:
http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/home/game-thrones-recipes/...

Blog devoted to "revisiting rpg rations": http://cookingtheperiodway.blogspot.com/

Somewhat related, blog from the food stylist for the recent Hannibal and American God series:
http://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/
This is really amazing. We can take skin cells, turn them into stem cells, and turn those into viable eggs. The science behind the first step won the 2012 nobel prize in medicine [1]

This advance, combined with our ability to rapidly and precisely genetically engineer zygotes with CRISPR, has some incredibly amazing and some incredibly scary implications. We can already generate viable eggs from cells in mice's tails, fertilize those eggs, and edit the genomes of those zygotes precisely to produce custom genetically engineered mice (genetically engineered mice are a core tech in the biopharma research industry).

These technologies enable an unprecedented advance in the precision and throughput of this process and it seems very likely we will be able to do this in humans in 10-15 years. Factory-scale generation of zygotes and high throughput editing of those zygotes. I'd argue this topic deserves the same level of ethical scrutiny as AGI, if not more, as at least to me it seems that this tech is far closer to becoming a reality. My imagination may be getting away from me, but industrial scale human zygote editing seems like it could be the most significant (for good or evil) technological advance in our lifetime

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2...
I can attest to this in the case of the Data Science course. My wife, a non-CS PhD, was interested in changing her career track. We were referred to General Assembly (the SF location) by one of my coworkers and the curriculum looked comprehensive enough, so she signed up.

About a month into the course, to our despair, we discovered that there was almost zero conceptual training imparted (I am a data scientist by profession and can speak to this). The instructors seemed to be working there as a stopgap measure while looking for other jobs, and the students were there for standard credential-seeking. The course material meanwhile was focused on answering "How" but not "Why", which is far more important when approaching data science problems.

To fix the situation, we quickly pieced together a curriculum based on Tibshirani & Hastie's machine learning video lectures[0] and picked a few Kaggle challenges for practice. My wife went through this material over a month, and came out with enough of a mental framework to be able to tackle book-length material such as ISLR[1].

Finally, there was almost zero career support provided apart from generic advice around how networking is important and how one should try to get outside their comfort zone.

Though all's well that ends well (my wife is working as a data scientist now at a seed-stage Valley startup), in retrospect we often talk about how we shouldn't have wasted money on this course. She didn't learn anything that she couldn't have picked up on her own, not even practical skills re: data analysis with Python/R, and her student cohort was quite disinterested in making connections.

Ce la vie.

[0] http://www.dataschool.io/15-hours-of-expert-machine-learning...
[1] Introduction to Statistical Learning, http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
I mean, I think it's also not quite sound to go "oh, it's been 18 years and we haven't been converted to grey goo yet, I guess it was a false alarm, phew."

Give the robots some time!
Just reading the headline I immediately thought of Brian Jacques. I devoured (heh) those books as a kid.
I also think generalizing smartphone use as “addiction” is a misrepresentation!

I have no doubt that some people are addicted to their phones...but just as some people are addicted to Siracha sauce

The media needs to chill the fuck out and move on to the next hype cycle...or better (but unrealistic): stop the hype around anything and just go back to reporting actual news
> they just need some API features accessible to web and they'd be golden

But now you have every single website asking for permission to use the microphone and camera and accelerometer or battery sensor. Every time some sort of device hardware is exposed to web applications, it needs to be rolled back in some way or the other because someone's found a way to use for fingerprinting.
Gosh darn the cognitive dissonance!! The free market and users are completely capable of choosing quality apps, iOS/Apple needn't babysit, nay play brainwashing big-brother-evil-megacorp strangling competition/dissent, them in the process.

"If your project is more than a hobby, you ...."

Yes yes - if you're serious about your project, you'll willfully submit yourself to anal-probes by monopolistic mega-corporation that has inserted itself as the gatekeeper to running software on one's own legally owned hardware - which, in the history of computing, is a first.

When was the last time you let your refrigerator manufacturer tell you what items are allowed in your OWN FUCKING refrigerator? Why is different for iOS/Apple?
It’s not misleading at all to call most client-side anticheats spyware.
Yes and who it is coming from: nine fives.
No one is suggesting unifying subways and commuter rail. Note that LIRR, Metro North, and NJ Transit are all commuter rail. (FWIW commuter rail is a bad term we use here in the states - something like “regional” rail would make more sense.)
Plus there's no torrent of stories about mistreated Costco or Trader Joe's employees.
I am with a different bank now, but previously the bank above (Chase) was the only bank in Canada that offered foreign transactions without an annual fee or a 2.5% currency conversion fee.
My Father is currently on a trial in Australia which combines Immune Therapy with traditional chemo treatment. The results can only be described as a miracle. He has gone from being inoperable stage IV melanoma (with the disease first being spotted in his lung, not his skin) to showing next to no evidence of the disease.

When I read many medical studies in the media, they often sound too good to be true. In this instance it is the real deal.

I hope access to this treatment becomes readily available for the rest of the public.
International Tokyo Toy Show 東京おもちゃショー 2018 – 東京都, 日本国, 2018年7月9〜10日
Serendipitous.
>One study assessed both capitalized and out-of-pocket costs as about US$1.8 billion and $870 million, respectively.

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

These numbers certainly aren't risk-free. Even if the company has 10 billion in cash, how many potential research leads can they bring to market? Not many.
I been following 21.co since the early days, when they pivoted into Earn.com I lost trust in the whole company. Then they started spamming me about someone trying to pay me to read some message, which I never did lol.
Honestly this has been one of the shadiest investment of the a16z group, to my knowledge, as a "spectator". Not sure exactly how they went from 21.co's mission to Coinbase, I must be living in a dream-world.
I admire them for pivoting.

I didn't like their $400 CPU Bitcoin miner though.
"Most of the Walt Disney World Resort is in Orange County, Florida which has a tax rate of 6.5% while the most southern Resort hotels and venues are in Osceola County, Florida which has a 7.0% tax rate." [1]

See also: [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=taxes%20in%20disneyworld
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distri...
I don't really understand what the term "protocol" means in this context or how a protocol can provide the foundations of a social network. Can you elaborate?
The original iPhone cams out in 2007. Flash and Silverlight was still big.

As late as 2010, Apple was still getting beat up about the iPad not supporting Flash.

HTML 5 was not popular a "few years before 2007". Android users were still touting being able to (barely) use Flash as late as 2010.

It also wasn't "open jtechnologies" that caused Windows to be less relevant. Windows still commands 85-90% plus of the desktop. Mobile caused the desktop to be less relevant.
I followed the Ars guide to building a linux router from scratch and adjusted to fit my network needs:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-bui...
A new elephant hero is born and saving endangered species one story at a time
In defense of the HomePod: Amazon's smart speaker dominance won't last
I'm surprised it's not built on the decimal or bignum lib.
We don't know how much they're paying at all though. If they're paying $10 million is that too much?

The domain is worth a chunk itself.
Can the author of a dapp require a user to take an update/new version?
I think either case is weak. Parroting Leary here seems appropriate - set and setting are just as important as dosage when it comes to these substances.
I'm not convinced this Siri thing is really that revolutionary until I can invoke something on my phone by screaming "AYYYYYYY MUST BE THE SIRIIIIII"
The universe has a preference for mobility?
im really fed up with this argument. most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place. most modern apple native apps are the ones that crash the most while electron are stable as fuck.
I believe this article references the Unabomber. If it doesn't, then Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" definitely does.

It's a fascinating line of thought--though I obviously don't support the actions taken by its author.

To clarify a little further, Bill Joy in this essay refers to Kurzweil who refers to Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind." I became a technological utopian until reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo" later that year, as well as the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.

This ultimately led me on a sort of existential quest that led to the book "Waking Up in Time" by Peter Russell and then I began to have a much more spiritual orientation towards life and reality and now try to be as practical as possible while working towards a positive technological future.
> I know how to share web apps with my mom by texting her a link. Even if your native app has a share button, it's in a different place in different apps instead of just "click the address bar and hit Ctrl-C".

On macOS and iOS you iMessage her the App Store link.

> Web apps almost always work with my browser's password manager, ad blocker, and stuff. Native apps are more of a crapshoot there.

And they do this on iOS as well, as long as you use Apple's password manager and ad blocker.