skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried using Angular 1 when it came out and it seemed like too much work to learn for such a small benefit. I started learning React at the start of last year and have found it phenomenal. I am not comparing the two, let alone arguing in favour of Angular. I just thought with the swap to Material Design (and async loading data and components) in YouTube, that they were using Angular. Your opinion about YouTube using Angular (or not) has more citation and authority than mine, so I will assume in the future that YouTube does not use Angular (without certainty, of course).
I support this. Just integrate typescript into the Ecma standard, add browser support, and create a true improvement to JS.
I know about that one, but I mean one that'd be consumer driven in some way. I know the ship has sailed but I'd love to see Microsoft create an Android / iOS competitor, and maybe something open source would give them an edge in that regard. It would be best if it were somehow privacy / security focused. Microsoft has the resources to make amazing products the issue is and I've mentioned it before, the company is ever so big, with ever SO MANY PRODUCTS and projects. We know they've got quite a bit going on on the user facing front, but I can't imagine how many internal tools they've got that they rely on as well.
There’s a Lesson in Every Failure, Even When There’s Not
Killed by OPAC.

~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe
Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14
I guess that varies from person to person. My iPad Pro, for example, is my most used personal device. I prefer it over my phone whenever possible. In fact, I like phones small - it’s a pain to pull out a brick every time I want to talk.

It’s a matter of personal taste, I guess.
The developer’s twitter pic is distracting. He has a point but I have a hard time taking him seriously. That’s just me being an old man i guess.
UWP is native, you can code rich GUI in C++ without any GC involved.

Currently it only works for MS platforms (Windows incl. ARM, xbox, embedded) but they might make it cross platform in some future. Technically the API is not that complex, i.e. unlike WPF it’s not that hard to port from the current Direct3D to Vulkan or GLES or Metal.
Get Beep Sound Upon Push Button Press in Arduino
Yes, because it's so amazingly difficult to run a few SQL queries and send out an email.
I honestly don't know why advertisers care where their advertisements appear. If they all just disclaimed any control over the associations with their advertising nobody would care. Nobody associates the ads with the video content, nobody.
It will be interesting to watch this unrolling, and I'd think criminal investigation is also on the table (vs Fb employees and EU officials).
There are three related reasons for this:

1. Each EU member state has a different legal framework and so a Regulation (which has direct effect, meaning it applies as-is and does not have to be "transposed" into national law) would not be appropriate when dealing with criminal investigations;

2. The EU can only act in areas where it has been given "competence" to do so under the Treaty on the European Union and Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Member states are reluctant to give the EU broad competence to establish criminal offences or to regulate the investigation and prosecution of offences;

3. The treaties explicitly exclude almost all activities related to national security because that is a fundamental feature of being sovereign, which EU member states are and the EU is not.

Due to points 1 and 2, the EU passed the Law Enforcement Directive (2016/680/EC) which regulates processing of personal data in a law enforcement context. Being a Directive (and not a Regulation) means that each member state has latitude to adapt it to their respective legal frameworks when transposing it into national law.

Incidentally, point 3 will cause huge problems for the UK when we eventually leave the EU. The Court of Justice of the European Union - the EU's highest court - cannot take in to account laws of a member state relating to national security (insofar as they _only_ relate to national security) due to their exclusion by the treaties, but they can take in to account laws of a third country.
Hangouts is a great example of another horrible UI. The whole tie in to Chrome made it unusable for anyone non technical (where did it go? What did you want me to click? I am in the call, but you're not there... oh you're in another call? How do you hangup? I don't see the window anymore, etc.)

A standalone app would fix this, but there seems to be some strange internal agenda tying it to Chrome... Chromebooks I guess?
Ask Dave Chappelle.
What do you mean by "painfully kludgy" and "over-featured"?

I can understand the UI looking a bit spartan to users who never used an Amiga (like myself).

I'm also vaguely interested in alternative paint programs as well, particularly open source ones.

So I'm curious.
Dominant distribution channels have always come with their own arbitrary rules and randomness. It used to be the networks for video.

It's not that there's any shortage of video and other content distribution platforms. People just want the discovery and monetization associated with YouTube while not wanting to deal with everything that comes from getting in bed with the elephant.
What Google services? MicroG replaces most (if not all) Google services.
If you get a 2nd Switch for hacking purposes and never login but wipe the OS can they still really detect this? Would be cool to just have Android on a Switch honestly. I love the Switch but if I ever did any modding for mine I'd buy an entirely new Switch for that. I miss the PSP hacking scene and when the PSP was still fairly relevant so people were actively working on things for it.
I usually get to a download page and it auto prompts for downloads. I mean why are you not using an ad-blocker?
Can you run Linux on it instead?

Not to excuse Google - but there's little incentive for a company to maintain devices past a certain point when there's no financial or regulatory requirement to do so.

I'm not sure Windows 7 being supported for a decade was intentional, but we'll see what pans out with Windows 10's incremental model.
The CSS inspector in most browsers these days has a "computed" section which lists every property and where it comes from, in order of precedence.
I didn't even know they sold tablets.
I've always wondered why the Nvidia Shield was the only tablet that figured this simple thing out, or if they bought rights to a patent to allow for this or something. Every damn tablet I know has the speakers on the bottom / back. Why...
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ok, seriously, is "using git push to do a deploy" a thing?
WTF?
> Even if said foreign companies have EU customers, what can the EU do about it? If I were a foreign company, I would completely ignore GDPR requests. Like > /dev/null, not even bother reading them.

EU regulators could domesticate their judgments in the jurisdictions where these companies are based. It's entirely possible to do this in most states in the US, for example.

Failing that, they could target assets held in the EU or take action whenever corporate officers travel to the EU.
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FYI, there are no lawsuits with GDPR: You file a complaint with the relevant data protection agency and they then decide whether to pursue this. Should they do that, the company can dispute the claim and only then elgal proceedings would follow (agency v company, no potential award for person filing complaint)
I'm considering the Essential Phone for my next phone and just putting Lineage OS or something on it. Not sure of another phone that I can get for that price range (under $500) that is unlocked and not bloatware filled. Definitely going to be reading a number of articles like these. Though I might try not installing the Google* apps on it period.
Dotmesh: Capture, organize and share application states using git-like CLI
>Does Facebook have EU offices?

Yes, they are based in Ireland.
> This idea that those vendors ought to be required to delete records seems backwards

GDPR doesn't introduce a requirement to delete data upon request.
There is android without google. My device uses 0 google services.
> What Google services? MicroG replaces most (if not all) Google services.

RTM. From the article:

"If you read the purpose of microG you’ll understand it mainly serves as a proxy, something that still communicates with Google servers. The fact is, there is no way around that. The whole Android ecosystem is dependent of Google, either because of Google Play services or Play Store"

(Emphasis added that Google is still required with microG)
Aren't photographs used to visually remember its subjects in the first place?

~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe
So the author claims that the JS ecosystem is excellent and HTML&CSS are broken? Yet it is my never-ending experience with the web that a website’s usability is inversely proportional to the extent it uses fancy JS frameworks.
Regarding the first downside you listed, would you say all the performance pitfalls are covered in the project’s documentation, elsewhere online, or did you become aware of them through trial and error?
Congrats on the funding ;)
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> is less suitable for cross-platform work

I have hands-on experience with Unity3D and .NET Core 2. Both are cross-platform and worked relatively well. I’ve built MacOS, iOS, Android software with Unity, and Linux software with .NET Core.

I’ve heard Xamarin is also good for mobiles but haven’t personally used it.
This is exactly what I mean. Europe has functioning government that can't be fathomed on the other side of the Atlantic.
I would dare to say that good education at an affordable price would exist in a society that doesn't use tax money to fund it. It definitely depends on population density though.

There are towns and counties in the US that have absolutely no services whatsoever, and no crime occurs there. This is because they are not densely populated at all. Sure there are no jobs and nothing fun to do at night, but they are quiet and peaceful, and property taxes are quite literally $200 a year or less. Think of the desert of Arizona or New Mexico.

Then you have your mid-tier towns and counties that have taxes of maybe $1,000 - $3,000 a year, theres some crime, some jobs, overall not a bad place to live for the price still. Think of South Carolina, Vermont, etc.

And then you have your ridiculously overpriced, dense suburbs and cities. Long Island and New Jersey come to mind, where taxes on nearly any kind of house are $10,000 and up. It's not necessarily easy to find a good job to pay the mortgage, and you're paying those taxes whether you have kids in school or not.

I'll take South Carolina or Arizona, please. My gf and I just simply don't want kids and aren't afraid to live without services.
You do realise that the European Parliament is directly-elected, right?
> CSS has poor defaults, but you can't break backwards compatibility on the web.

That is why we should create something new that does not have this legacy baggage: The W3C tried this with XHTML 2.0

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XHTML&oldid=83709...

and it seems to have been much more elegant than HTML5:

> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1994793

> https://web.archive.org/web/20100611220044/http://immike.net...
Yep. At this point I’m burned out on google products and moving on. No way would I commit more data to google for something they’ll abandon when the person who used this project as their resume builder moves on to the next job.
I think any language or technology you're not familiar with is frustrating and difficult to use.

Not trying to say that CSS is the best it can be, but I see lots of developers think that CSS isn't 'real programming' or think they can just float (heh) in and out of CSS development, not spend the effort on understanding it.
Facebook puts a lot of restrictions yet ironically the abusive users aren't restricted per se.

~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe
Well, as long as it doesn't have a locked bootloader (I presume it doesn't), you should theoretically be able to get somewhere with it.

Rebuilding Android surely isn't that difficult (it's been on my todo list for some time, I've just never gotten around to it due to insufficient RAM).
So true. I looked at implementing some layout algorithms in PDF pages for a project I was working on; eventually realized I should just use the standard elements in the library I was using and forget about anything custom because otherwise I'd be making a separate product...
Yep pretty hard to beat my Lenovo Tab 2 10 for my purpose and have used tablets daily for years. M
"The consolidation of our infrastructure is dangerous."

Have we not learned our lessons yet, by boiling, basically, the entirety of the internet down to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit? (And maybe Amazon.) The trend in the US capitalistic system towards monopoly is inescapable, and harmful in so many ways.
Israeli Supreme Court Invalidates Litigation Clause in Facebook’s User Agreement
Unless I’m missing something, shutting down the forum does precisely nothing to limit GDPR liability as the main drone.io site itself has an account/login area. Whilst it’s private beta currently, unless EU access is blocked, GDPR liability will continue to apply to any personal data collected via that.

The only benefit here is that there’s one fewer system to keep track of when it comes to tracking/deleting personal data - the need to respond to subject access requests, right to be forgotten, form letters etc remains.
Proposed by the European Commission, yes, but it also had to be passed by the directly-elected European Parliament.
OneNote mostly. The iOS version isn’t as full featured as the desktop one (it’s more in line with the Windows Store version), but it’s worked well for me. That’s where all my notes were when I switched so it seemed easiest to stick with it.

The built-in Notes app from Apple has also gotten more capable in iOS 11, and there are other options that I hear good things about but haven’t tried.

https://www.imore.com/best-notetaking-handwriting-apps-apple...

Procreate and Autodesk Sketchbook are both great for more powerful digital painting / drawing, I’m personally in the Procreate camp.
I'm more interested in the quality of those jobs added.
Wonderful drawing program. It often seems as though C and SDL are our only hope.

edit: #2 link right now is another C/SDL piece of nostalgia: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE
You're absolutely right about the floor space, I had not considered 3x4m glass boxes, and I apologise that my post came across that way (pure provocation) -- perhaps I was in a sour mood. I have not worked for a significantly wealthy company in my history, and so it has never been the case that a private office has been the most cost-effective way to improve profits. To make a reasonable argument: Typically the equation is simply money-in vs money-out. If you can spend an extra 100k a year on private offices for developers and get 300k a year in chargeable services/development effort, vs spending 100k on another salesman and get an extra $1m in net profit, which would you choose? The choice here is clear and 2 monitors vs 1 monitor is a $100 cost for 1.5x efficiency, and is an absolute no-brainer. An office on the other hand is usually not the most cost-effective option, but if you have enough cash to fund all of the other more cost-effective strategies plus private offices, then it is another place in which management can increase profits.

Please follow up with your thoughts, and again, I apologise if what I wrote was inflammatory or came across that way. It was likely coming from a position of "unknown unknowns".
Are there dictionary definitions of "islet" that don't amount to "small island"?

I get that you are talking about a legal distinction, but no reason to expect such specific usage in casual conversation.
>>> Scripting with embedded Lua engine

Awesome ;) Can you call the palette shifters from the API? This could make a very powerful retro texture synth engine. Or gif creator!
Honestly this kind of makes me want to join Nextdoor just so I can find and call out anyone in my neighborhood who behaves like this.
Just some feedback on why you might be finding it hard to get people through the door:

- you say you hire guys, are you opening to hiring women or guys who don't want to just work with other guys too? (a little sarcastic, but language matters a lot)

- referring to the coding test as "easy as shit" implies that candidates would be working with people who can only pass that level of test. I realise this may have been exaggeration, but it doesn't sell the job well.

- there's no detail about what the company values, and the sort of people you want.

- I find engineers are usually convinced by the product, tech, money, or culture. Your product sounds good in this respect (tell us more about it!), your tech stack sounds sensible, but probably not that likely to be the deciding factor, the salary is good, but not enough for those motivated by money, and you haven't got any details about the culture.
Wow, I think that it sounds like Monsanto paid for that article. I consider myself open minded about GMO, but this article seemed really biased. I suggest skipping it. It seems to have little bits of valid complaints about a bogus study, mixed with a lot of one sided coverage.
I mean, Canvas is there. You're more than welcome to draw your own UIs in it, as plenty have done/tried before. Flipboard had a render-react-to-canvas project they used for mobile (which was completely inaccessible to any sort of assistive technologies), but I believe they abandoned it.
They could write about the facts that so few of those jobs pay livable wages and we are are nearing a point where half of those employed are freelance workers, increasingly not by choice.
Correct, pretty rubbish.
Using pseudonyms and sockpuppets will highly probably get them all locked out and suspended by social networks and internet services that have built strong countermeasures against it.

~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe
You are wrong.

The GDPR was formally proposed by the European Commission, but it then went to the European Parliament (where it was amended). If the European Parliament had voted against it then it would have never become law.
Shameless plug here but I'm also so sick of LinkedIn that I've started building an alternative for developers by myself - https://able.bio/

Still very much alpha but the idea is to have a clean UI and allow developers to write their own insightful articles for the community to read and reward the author with reputation. Like Medium but with more specific language, library, framework topics etc. Then use that to help recruiters who can't code advertise and source candidates for technical interviews. No inbox spamming free for all, they can only contact you when you've applied for a position.

I'd be interested to know what people think of this and if they have any feedback.
Marilyn and Ella: The meeting of the misfits
The real Android without Google is CopperheadOS[1], which is also ahead of Google in terms of security (not behind, like LineageOS).

[1] https://copperhead.co/
The bootloader is unlocked, thought I don't understand Android enough to do anything useful with that and the Kernel sources. :/ Wish someone would help me. I can provide a build server with 16 GB of RAM and 1 Gb network as well as lots (200 GB) of PCIe SSD space.
Ask HN: What are you working on this month? (June 2018)
IndieHackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/what-are-you-working-on-this-month-june-2018-26f383286d) and /r/startups (https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/8nr1gx/share_your_startup_june_2018/) have their "What are you working on" and people seem to love these.

I haven't found a similar post - at least for this month - so I thought it would be interesting to share what you are doing.

Please provide some details and what are your objectives for this month, while keeping it quite short.

Hopefully, many will comment and share opinions, advice, and other neat things about your company/startup/project/side-project :)
The older I get, the more I suspect that the problem isn’t our system, but Americans. Take something like the NYC subway. It’s a disaster while London’s Tube works fine. The usual excuses (not enough money) don’t work—the NYC metro has double the operating costs per passenger trip, even though the systems are very similar.

Maybe Americans just aren’t very good at government. This is not so crazy a concept. When I was in Tokyo I marveled at how people would walk several blocks to get to a cross walk. Here in DC, people jay walk like it’s going out of style. That’s when it hit me that it’s no surprise Metro is a disaster while Tokyo’s trains work great.
I'm working on PDFShift (https://pdfshift.io) an API to convert any HTML documents to PDF.

I know I'm not the first on this market, and it's not an original idea, but my decision to enter this market was after I realized many available options could do better, and that is hopefully what I'm trying to achieve.

My focus is to simplify the work of developers. I've built packages for Node, Python, and PHP that can convert any documents in just a few lines of code, without worrying about how it will be handled.

For June, my objective is to grow the service and get many users, and hopefully starting to convert them to customers.

Feel free to share your opinion on it, and if you have any advice, I'd be happy to hear them :)
Yes, but this isn't it.
> there are hundreds of different pieces of forum software that may not have that feature implemented.

"Can I have all my data?" is not new to GDPR. It has existed in previous data protection law. How did people cope before?
Libheif:  HEIF (High Efficiency Image File) Format Decoder and Encoder
What a ridiculous article.
We tall people also die sooner, require more back surgery, can't find clothes that fit, slouch to fit in. Tradeoffs. I'd be okay with being average.

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Being broad and preferring to not touch strangers, I lean away. So after a long flight, I'm generally in quite a bit of pain, more as I get older.

I've like the design proposals showing staggered seating.

Alternately, I kinda wish my culture (and myself) was okay with touching. Like soldiers packed into troop transports. Everyone's suffering the same, so they just accept it.
Absolutely. I can't imagine doing it any other way anymore. https://www.weave.works/blog/gitops-operations-by-pull-reque...

One of the major reasons Kubernetes is a thing is because all of your deployment can be declarative. Deploy-via-Git means I can destroy my entire world and bring it back in a minute or less.
Receiving insults, death threats and the likes online is just "speech of people who might think or believe differently" to you, seriously?
I can't think of many jobs you'd be turned away from for being too smart.
I git push to deploy stuff regularly..