skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, since Apple also won't let anyone else supply a real browser to run on its devices, there's also no meaningful competition to force them to do better. Maybe monopoly/anti-competition regulations should be adapted so the same principles apply to platforms in this sort of controlling position.

Apple only controls 12% of the smartphone market[1]. This is like asking that Porsche be regulated for not offering a color you want and they have a monopoly on selling Porsches.

[1] https://qz.com/826672/android-goog-just-hit-a-record-88-mark...
> Everyone else wants native apps back, even if they don't know it. Case and point: the hatred for all the apps moving to Electron and the ridiculous amount of resources they consume.

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.

> Most people don't know what Electron is, but they can tell you how much they hate the new Skype.

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 …
The article is from 2008 so maybe a (2008) should be added.

Like many of you who commented I used the nirsoft tools without knowing they were created by one man. Kind of impressive there was a time when you only found niersoft tools when searching for password recovery tools
Original tweet where I found this: https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/984875244623196160 . It's new enough that I can't vouch for the implementation, but I still had to submit this based on how cool the website is. :P
> I noticed that when a couple of years ago I bought power leveling and got a maxed level character in less than 6 hours.

You can get a character to max level very quickly if you already have access to a few max level characters.

There's no reason to pay for a shady power leveling service either; you can buy a level 80 boost directly from ANet. Max level boosts are a pretty standard MMO thing these days.
Anybody know how well these handle water? I imagine a situation after/during heavy rain with giant puddles of water. A car in the lane next to me hits a puddle at high speed throwing a lot of water in the air in front of my car. Does the car slam on its breaks?
We can have both. Amazon isn't going to implode if they pay some extra pennies for reasonable working conditions.
Show HN: Redux-saga-thunk = redux-saga plus redux-thunk
Ask HN: What makes a software engineer unhireable?
Engineers on my team were briefly talking about what makes a software engineer "unhireable". Not things like felonies or legal things, but more in terms of what experience they have / don't have and what they were doing before.

Is there anything in your mind that would stop you from hiring a software engineer? What are red flags to you? Again, about the skillset or experience(s), not any legal issues.
I think the definitive and most authoritative review of the Russian grammatical cases was done by Zaliznyak: http://inslav.ru/images/stories/pdf/2002_Zalizniak_RIS_i_sta..., in Russian, pages 36-55. Fascinating reading.
Same here, there are a bunch that make managing a Windows box for development so much easier. Essentially they provide a GUI to whatever mix of registry and binary files that control something normally configured by a text file on other OSes.
My screen keeps on coming back on rather than turning off. Got any leads on that?
Yeah, Windows 10 search is garbage. Sometimes it even wont find anything at all. Sometimes, searching for control panel items you may find not so helpful results.
I this case it went from a link I would click and then perhaps choose to D/L the PDF, to a link I won't knowingly click since it's a direct PDF link. So, while I understand the reasoning, I disagree with it's application in this instance.
It's on 93 about two thirds of the way to Golden.
In this article, I read that you not only need a registered company to publish iOS app, you also need it to be registered with third party (DnB) provider? Is it true? You can't publish on Apple store without having DnB-approved company?
You wouldn't ship the books, you would buy them locally. Most developing countries have local manufacture of books, or at least small scale traders who will import the books and resell locally. This would also boost the local economy a bit.

For reference, I buy my niece some nice books for $1 each. These last the who year and are available everywhere.
We are experiencing exactly the same issues with 0.7.8 under RHEL 7.5. So far no known remedy.
Though why were they in development? This article says an early one was developed in 1698, to pump water from a coal mine:

http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/steam.engines.html

Why was there a coal mine? Why not use wood or charcoal? Why didn't the Romans go down this path? They invented a toy steam engine.

These things have many causes. Obviously watson's invention was a big inflection point.

But, as for the question "were liberal markets necessary?" my suspicion is yes. But, I don't actually know. I think the answer begins before James Watt.
That is the theory. Hold a iPhone and and android and run the same web-browser apps and look for yourself.

I have tested several demos by ionic, framework7, etc... is amazing how slow are androids...
John Perry Barlow with an OLPC XO-1 Children's Computer.

https://imgur.com/a/ogE9y
Parts of the DC Metro were built with cut and cover. We moved to the Maryland suburbs of DC during construction, and it was a nightmare. There were no accurate maps of DC. Maps would show a street as one way East, but Metro construction had changed it to one way West! It was so bad, my father, who loved maps, completely gave up on driving in DC, ever. I can understand the economic argument for cut and cover, but the up front cost in inconvenience is high.
> You can see these elevated lines crossing Northern Brooklyn in this map from 1949: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...

Using a Perl script to wrap a (non-animated) GIF of an old map. So much history in that one link.
Are you serious? Fast breeders failed everywhere, they were extremely dangerous, and they didn't solved anything. Phenix and SuperPhenix in France have been pathetic failures, with frequent incidents on very dangerous (lithium cooled) installations.
I had an OLPC and lived with somebody who worked on the OLPC project at the time.

One of the more bizarre twists of the project was that, I think in part because of the well intentioned but incredibly naive liberal utopianism of the project, to use an existing computing paradigm (windows, mouse pointers, etc) would be a form of colonialism.

Therefore, to avoid being colonial oppressors, these educational laptops required a completely new desktop environment and computer interaction paradigm. Obviously, since the colonial computing environment uses lots of rectangles, everything in this decolonized paradigm would be circles. Lots and lots of circles. Obviously, this put the project massively behind schedule, and it was beaten to the punch by the flood of super cheap Asus "netbook" computers - which all ran Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Edition.

I finally became disillusioned after going to an incredibly cringey talk with Nicholas Negropente, where his answer about why do African children need laptops rather than vaccines was that we should imagine the beauty of a family in a hut gathered round the an OLPC reading Wikipedia together, or some such drivel. He was really out of his depth, and I think probably only got the project because of his brother's connections.

Still, I loved the OLPC. Cool toy, great screen. Once the Intel clones and the RPi came out, it became completely irrelevant though.
Even if you are familiar with his utilities, note that there are many new ones, as of April 2018:

https://blog.nirsoft.net/2018/04/04/result-of-nirsoft-easter...

Also note the comment of "newusertoday" here.
>not eating and drinking enough is damaging to your long-term health and well-being, while pissing in a bottle damages your pride.

You're forgetting the end game here where employees simply consume less water in order to have less bathroom breaks.

Constant dehydration is quite damaging to ones longterm health.
Here's a Reddit & HN like discussion system (I'm developing it) that mitigates? (solves?) the problem with Reddit & HN that [only the one you reply to see your comment]:

https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-...

Because: 1) when you post a comment, the topic bumps to the top of the topic list. Like a normal forum. 2) inside the topic, people quickly find the recent comments, via the sidebar (as shown in the video "Finding new comments").

(B.t.w. agree that Reddit & HN feel ephemeral. I remember maybe 2 usernames here at HN, and 2 at Reddit, although having spent a lot more time here, than what I've done at Discoure's forum — nevertheless I remember many more people over at Discourse.)
If you sell toasters then yes
It can be anything, really. Look at the reviews for items. Sometimes you'll notice an item has great, 5-star reviews and about 10% are terrible 1-star reviews. If you read through those 1-star reviews you might notice that sometimes there's a trend of the reviewer discovering they received a fake.

How widespread is the problem in reality? I have no idea. But given that I can simply shop elsewhere, get a similar experience, and feel more certain that I'm not receiving a counterfeit, I'll do just that.

I'm a consumer, not an analyst. If I think that I might receive a counterfeit from Amazon I'll just shop elsewhere, I have bigger things to worry about.
My point indeed. They believe that, but it does not somehow make them immune to education.
Google will help preserve endangered historical sites in virtual reality
At least the whole walk is covered. Count your blessing.
How would you distinguish between MS personnel and scammers calling your house to have you install malware?
> If you’re refusing to hire men this would be illegal.

Technically that's true, but in a practical sense I doubt it would be actionable if you weren't too blatant about it.
Ask HN: Is Kubernetes too complex for most use cases?
I understand why people choose K8S as a platform but is the trade off worth it considering how much complexity it introduces? There so many moving parts that could cause things to go wrong and be very difficult to troubleshoot.

At this stage I am still leaning towards plain old VMs in the cloud + something like Consul for service discovery. Maybe I am being overly cautious or missing a fundamental piece of the picture?
> Newark: take the bus to Newark station and take PATH train to lower Manhattan

From Manhattan, it's an NJT to the Newark airport stop from where the cutest little monorail [1] takes you to the airport.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_Newark
The Californians Are Coming!
Examples of Companies Outsourcing Software Development to Ukraine
IMO, it's a complicated enough issue that typical citizen action would probably not be helpful. What we should have is other full investigations by qualified neutral third parties at regular intervals rather than the CDPHE's 'mission accomplished, everything's fine' review we had most recently.

I wouldn't want people who don't really know how to account for normal environmental background radiation muddying the waters and providing a counter argument of "well, the only people complaining weren't qualified to make that judgement".
A freeware legend!
This drives me nuts. I wouldn't even mind all of this stuff going on in the background (since it ostensibly improves stability in the long run) but for God's sake Microsoft, keep it in the background! More and more over the years cats background tasks related to updates and security are hogging my cpu or saturating my disk or internet I/O while I'm in the middle of using my computer. I'm away from my computer most of the day, but no, go ahead and run all that stuff during the three hours I want to use it, certainly don't respect the preferences I set saying that exactly that time isn't okay.
Storybook may change your life as a front-end developer, don't miss that chance
Looks really smart!

One thing I'd like is a way to share the final link where I see the projection and ideas
> Metra which spreads into northern Indiana

You're thinking of the South Shore Line [0], which is entirely independent of Metra [1] and the RTA.

> and Southern Wisconsin

Metra has just one stop on one line in Wisconsin (Kenosha on the Union Pacific North line).

[0]: http://www.mysouthshoreline.com/

[1]: https://metrarail.com/maps-schedules/system-map
Agreed. What I would like to know is how to ban cheaters without using these methods?

Because I would much rather play a cheat-free game and have well-intentioned programs scan for foul-play than the opposite.
This doesn't look like a bug tracker, this looks more like a forum overrun by an angry mob.

https://i.imgur.com/mUkcQh5.png
Checkout my Pong Clone if you want to get a taste of ReasonML
You have to characterize the control behavior to model whether the system will dampen its response or create a sustained or amplifying feedback loop as all the agents interact. These traffic jams are essentially standing waves propagating between agents.

You don't erase the standing wave by having everybody maintain a fixed following distance or mimicking the speed of their leader. You need to predict future changes and allow the space to contract to help smooth out the transient disruptions and slowly rebound without over-shooting. You want each following car to react less than the previous and have a weaker deceleration/acceleration curve.

Unfortunately, I have noticed increasingly absurd feedback loops in long distance routes here in CA. As a user of conventional cruise control, I can't help but notice how frequently I now have to intervene to adjust speeds in relatively light traffic conditions. On long drives like LA-SF via I-5, these yo-yo drivers are my new nemesis. I don't know if it is due to their use of adaptive cruise controls or a more basic loss of attention or self-awareness. For example, I see packs of cars with speeds oscillating between 55-80 MPH when conditions should easily allow a steady cruise at 75 MPH.
The Web We Lost (2012)
Warehouse employees at Amazon are a stop-gap measure, and will only exist as long as they're more efficient than robots on a given task.
If the splash is large enough to cause visibility issues, I'd say it must slam the brakes.
Thanks for the writeup, great summary of all most all Bootcamps fundamental problems.

> The problem with the bootcamp gold rush is and has always been the business model. You have a few major variables:

> 1. How much can a person pay you?

> 2. How many people can you fit in a classroom?

>3. How long can the classes be while still maintaining a profit margin?

> Every single bootcamp recognizes that this is not a great way to train engineers. 12 weeks simply isn't enough.

> The main thing we wanted was incentives aligned with our students; so we started from, "What if we didn't get paid unless students get a job?" That forced us to change everything else. I actually thought it might not be possible for a while.

> I don't consider Lambda School to be a code bootcamp. We're six or seven months long full-time, which is 2.5x the length of a code bootcamp, plus a month of pre-course work

> All of that combined lets us open up a promise, which is what really matters for students at the end of the day -

attend for free until you get hired.
That kind of makes sense though. Most public transit is subsidized. Why subsidize people who aren't necessarily paying taxes in the area?
> The AirTrain from JFK costs $5, more than it costs to go from anywhere to anywhere else in all of NYC on the subway

I'm okay with this. If I'm going to the airport, I'm identifying myself as a New Yorker (or visitor) with the means to travel by air. It doesn't make sense to use a minimum wage worker in the Bronx's taxes to subsidize my vacations.

Broadly, however, I agree that our lack of downtown-to-airport express rail lines is embarrassing.
Thanks for the response. I guess my main point of contention was assuming that the GP commenter was saying that it's 100% an individual blame problem, when that's belied by "Amazon needs to do better too".

> Blame is a ridiculous concept when talking about large-scale social dynamics, and effectively shuts down the search for any systemic adjustment that would constitute a fix.

I agree with you. Frankly, I rarely find the concept of blame to be all that useful for improving matters. For an example from the other side of the politically-coded spectrum, terms like "victim-blaming" are most often used as thought-terminating clichés, selectively applied to avoid having to justify one's point. For example, telling women not to dress provocatively when going out and telling tourists to keep their passport close to them and watch their bags are both just as "victim-blaming" as the other, but only one of these is given that label. (FWIW, the reason I disagree with the former and agree with the latter is that being able to dress as one pleases is a lot more core to my conception of fsirly fundamental rights than being able to avoid paying attention to one's belongings).
I don't think we can, companies like Amazon can't stop thinking about costs, it's in their DNA, it's what they live and breath.

Distribution is all about margins, if you can't keep costs low then you are toast, they are always utterly miserable places to work.
If you were the ambitious sort wanting a leadership position, would you want to join a company that boasted about being family-run?
As a native Detroiter one of the saddest things to me was that the city never got a subway. I don't believe you can have a truly world class city without a subway.

There were multiple efforts to create a Detroit subway starting in 1910 but each one fell short. Finally in late 1928 the subway was approved! Two stations were built but construction stopped with the great depression. Today sadly no one even knows the location of the two stations.

Here's the winner of a dream subway contest for Detroit:

http://jackson-woods.net/transit/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/...
Deletion is the only perfect code change.
> Amazon said it didn't time workers' toilet breaks...

That means they set really high targets for middle-managers and then let them get creative with the rules.

> ...and set its performance targets based on previous worker performance.

That means they cherry pick their best performing employees and set global standards based on the top n%.

> The company said it provided coaching to help people improve...

That means they write people up when they can't meet performance standards or quotas.

> ...and used "proper discretion" when it came to sick leave and absences from work.

And that means they write people up when they don't show up.

> The company also said it provided on-site occupational health and physiotherapy support...

They do that because real doctors and PCP's are way more costly to the insurance plan.

> as well as legal,...

That's when HR puts together a meeting with a lawyer who tells you quitting is stupid because of the NDA.

> ...financial,...

That's when an employee asks for a raise and HR sends them to a meeting with a financial consultant who tells them "You don't really need a raise, you need a budget!"

> ...and workplace guidance.

That's where they teach you not to drink water so you can meet your quotas.
> some higher-up in my organization pushes down some "enterprise" graphical logic builder program... where something that resembles a flowchart is created

It should be said that the people who want to put this tool in place are the least likely to use any sort of flow chart when putting out requirements. In fact I would say that the people who are most likely to buy this are also the most likely to use pantomime and postit notes to convey requirements.
I don't think x86 would be a particularly attractive target for emulation in this case - x86 hardware is readily available and testing is much easier than, say, SuperH or H8.

Intel probably has internal tools that (somewhat) precisely emulate their chips and it'd probably be very hard to persuade them to share, but they seem committed to make sure Linux runs well on their gear, so it's probably not a huge problem.

I think of this as a way to keep the supported architectures as supported as possible even when actual hardware is not readily/easily (or yet) available for testing. One day, when x86 is not as easy to come by as today, it could prove useful.

It's good to keep the software running on more than one platform, as it exposes some bugs that can easily elude us. Also, emulators offer the best possible observability for debugging. If they are cycle-accurate then, it's a dream come true.
Classifying text with TensorFlow Estimators
You act like we're putting in enormous efforts overseas to improve life, when we really aren't.
Random UO anecdote #2
For consistency, you should uninstall Steam VAC and Battle.net games. I'm pretty sure Fortnite and League of Legends also do something similar.
That was sarcasm, if I'm not mistaken. Nobody from Microsoft would call you for patching security problems.
The minimum seems to be ~19 inches which is quite a bit of rain. Around 1/2 the US averages less than that: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/climate/US%20Climate%20...
1. I didn't write a word about terraforming. There are a thousand options for sealed habitats on Mars. Sad little caves at first, enormous indoor cities later. Once the economic incentives line up it'll happen.

2. Of course it'll be highly automated, my company's building automated manufacturing with this in mind. We haven't got robots as flexible and capable as humans yet though, and I'm skeptical that we'll get them before giant economic opportunities appear in space. I think there'll be humans up there to tend the machines, or at least teleoperate them with acceptable latency for everything beyond Earth orbit.

3. Fair difference of opinion.

4. Orbit is ~400 km and ~8,000 km/h away. It's fairly likely at this point that reusable ultra-heavy lift vehicles are going to be reality. Think about what comes 2 generations after BFR/New Glenn, and the idea of putting grandma in orbit shouldn't seem so far fetched.
Right, this is close to my model too, but it's in contradiction to the GP claim that energy is the reason and economic structures are behind the point.

It's almost tautological to say that energy is behind growth, but it's also independent of economic structure, which effectively boils down to "the manner in which we convert energy to utility".
Noise cancellation is all about phase and you have no way of knowing what the revs are on the jake brake (which is essentially an engine running as a compressor so it reduces speed rather than that it adds speed).

So while it may help in isolated cases it is going to amplify the noise for the remainder.
Personal responsibility on a large scale is a systemic factor. It's like quantum and classical mechanics. A single quark has probabilistic behaviour, but a million quarks behave in an aggregate, predictable way. You can tweak personal responsibility en masse through new systemic inputs, but I don' think personal responsibility nor individual blame map well onto discussions of issues involving large groups of individuals.
Show HN: APInsta – A small API to retrieve basic IG data by JSON
In Vancouver, BC, many business did go out of business when a skytrain line was built through a few communities. It can be devastating.
I don't understand why anyone would deliberately put themselves at a serious disadvantage by using sub-par map/browser/etc technology in the hopes of somehow limiting Google's ability to gather data.
Unless you exist in a vacuum, in the long-run what you're actually doing is failing to take advantage of the data that Google's making accessible to you, at your own expense.