skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote parts of the the hyphenation package used in the H&J version of the L202, there where 3 versions , 202 H&j, just send it Cora 5 marked up text and it would justify, hyphenate and set it. The L 202 slave, which you had to send it xy positions for each line and wordspacing etc. And the VIP emulator slave which emulated the older VIP photosetter. There was also a very rare ELA (exotic language adaptation) version with a large 80gb CDC disk pack on the side which could do Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Korean. Finally there was the graphics version, which could set embedded pictures but it had to have precision photosetter tube with a clean bond on the faceplate otherwise you got banding.
> Maybe a mobile internet connection?

That’s kind of cheating though, isn’t it? Home internet vs mobile internet at home?

People were “doing bills” for centuries before the Internet came along. My guess is it’s totally possible!
You do realize that facebook will share user's private information with any random web browser that the user enters her credentials in, right? Is that "ridiculous"?
There is an API https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/

It could be not trivial to map those data into the new destination, especially if they don't have an API too.

This is how to programmatically create a new issue on GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/issues.html#new-issue and in Bitbucket https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
What's the biggest Clojure start-up at the moment? Is it CircleCI?

Wal-Mart is pretty big into Clojure these days, but they were already huge.
Or even better, to their contact details in your phonebook, and get an app that reminds you of them. I now get notifications for the birthdays I care about, and can disregard Facebook reminding me about some vague acquaintancies.
Show HN: I made a site to create CEO jobs
Google and Facebook have tons of private repositories hosted on GitHub. I'd imagine it would be illegal for Microsoft to look into them but Microsoft being such a huge company, this acquisition could easily make Google and Facebook nervous.
Is this peak OS? Sure, these features are somewhat useful for busy individuals, but when was the last time we saw something revolutionary in OS design?

I'm not saying everything should be changing year-after-year, but it's hard to get excited for these WWDC keynotes when it feels like they are stretching app release notes to 15 minutes of a visual demo.
Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
I have a new personal hypothesis on Elon and his companies.

Elon's companies are not necessarily better run than other companies, and in some cases are worse run. Their success and Elon's cult status as an innovator is a result not of above-average managerial competence but of a willingness to unilaterally defy the Nash equilibria of industries.

Automobiles, space flight, and energy are industries that have been stagnant for some time. Stagnation of an industry means that it's found some kind of Nash equilibrium where it's not really in anyone's short term best interest to innovate much or otherwise deviate from the norm.

Elon doesn't give a rat's you-know-what and innovates anyway. Game theoretically he defects. This results in companies that are loss-making in the short term, but if successful they will define a new Nash equilibrium where they are positioned to lead or at least to have carved out a significant chunk.

Another way of putting this is that Elon is willing to try to cross fitness valleys between local maxima.

It's a gamble of course: can you reach the next fitness peak / equilibrium point before you run out of cash? This is very hard, and is why Nash equilibria / fitness local maxima are so stubborn.
Submission note: the title is admittedly sort of click bait-y, but the content is not. I've been making my way through the book from which this is excerpted (Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind) and have been really enjoying it.

Previous discussion of the book here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17087961
I cannot agree more. Scott Guthrie was the key decision maker regards the Apache license for asp.net MVC and the whole open sourcing of .NET Core. He runs Azure and is therefore interested in the GitHub community.
Ha ha that's a great XKCD- in fact I quote it to my wife when she wants me to do something and I can't quite yet because I have to set somebody straight....
This reminds me of all those subreddits of people asking how to quit reddit :). There's been periods where I don't check HN much at all for a few months, but I notice that when I "stop checking these specific time-sinks" that really just treats a symptom and I still waste a good amount of time, just on other sites. The only real way to quit is to be intentional about what, specifically, you want to fill the regained time with. I don't have any studies handy, so this may just be conjecture rather than actual science (as if anything else exists online), but it's often easier to make a "positive habit" such as reading 20 more minutes per day than a negative habit like "don't check HN".
tough!
Mojave is the new macOS
git is decentralised. github issues & merge-requests are not.

Say you have a project hosted on github, pretend github has been purchased by a scary-company, you might imagine you could move your repository elsewhere. You can, but suddenly your issues need to be imported/migrated too.

If you had a fossil-host instead? You could migrate your repository and your issues all at once, and nobody would care.

(Disclaimer: I use github for public projects, and self-hosted gitbucket for private stuff. I don't care that github has changed ownership.)
I would like to mention https://pqr.pitt.edu, where you can play around with molecules with your fingertips and get specific data about them!

Note: I helped develop PQR.
I'm reminded of this beautiful quote from Chris Fuchs, regarding his advisor, the great John Archibald Wheeler:

> [Wheeler] would say things like, “In the end, the only law is that there is no law.” There’s no ultimate law of physics. All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics. He’d say, there’s no law of physics that hasn't been transcended. I saw this, and I remembered my joke about how the laws of physics must be wrong, and I was immensely attracted to this idea that maybe ultimately there actually are no laws of physics. What there is in place of laws, I didn't know. But if the laws weren't 100 percent trustworthy, maybe there was a back door to the stars.
Hey HN!

Justin from MintMonger here. Over the past few months, I’ve worked to build a site that creates CEO jobs for folks.

I’m trying to connect people looking to run a business with investors seeking to buy businesses. I find small and medium sized businesses for sale and allow aspiring CEOs to submit their application for investors to review. My hope is that if investors like the candidate and the teaser, they can perform due diligence together and if everything checks out, investors will buy the company and install the applicant as CEO.

Launching this MVP has been something of a journey for me, and I know that it’s not even on square one yet. I’m working hard to continue to improve the experience and I would love any feedback at all that you could provide!
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A quick Googling says they are Summer class of 2015.
Apple’s MacOS Mojave Adds Dark Mode and Desktop Stacks at WWDC 2018
For me this sounds so radical it's hard to imagine. I'm sure at least half of my time home (aside sleeping) is spent in some Internet related activities.
Thank you so much for the advice! It definitely changes how I'm approaching it. I would definitely be willing to own less of a stake if it meant working full time at less than my current salary.
Sure, but I was specifically talking about people who buy pickup trucks and don't use them for hauling things, which is what I assume the comment you're replying to was referring to specifically.
> The Octocat is out of the bag

Why didn't I see that coming? Brilliant.
Not OP, was just curious, apparently Monsanto is partly to blame fora Superfund site in Sauget Illinois, which falls under the area described as east St. Louis.

Source http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/four-companies-announ...
I'm more inclined to think that Spotify succeeded because it's based in Sweden
I wouldn't be worried about Atom; half of Facebook is using it; if anything were to happen, they would fork it.
This is silly. They have been providing free services for open source projects. Why should they open up their source code.
> Signed agreements do not prevent your information from being used in other ways.

Breach of contract opens you up to civil liability. Having this agreement creates disincentives that wouldn't otherwise exist.

"Prevent" doesn't mean to make something physically impossible or remove the ability to choose. Police can prevent drunken driving by announcing they will have DUI checkpoints on New Year's Eve. It doesn't make it physically impossible to drink and drive, but if people choose not to because they want to avoid the consequences, some drunk driving has been prevented.
To illustrate: I used to use Gitorious back when, because it was fully open source. Its founders couldn't keep the lights on/weren't motivated to continue working on it any more. Instead of waiting for it to shut down, GitLab acquired it and (of course) facilitated easy migration from Gitorious to GitLab if so desired.

In other words: GitLab's strategy allows it to open source as much as possible, while also actually developing and maintaining the project. At least for now, it's one of the most successful projects to do so.
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Yes, that's exactly what I mean. It's like saying "we use JSON as our file format", but worse.

> "So this program saves its data as 'S-expressions'."
> "Oh, cool. Which dialect?"
> "Uh, I don't know. It doesn't say in the README. It just says 'S-expressions'."

The answer can be CL, Scheme (lots of variations and dialects even here), the never-finished SPKI Sexps, OCaml sexps, something that the new dev on the team cooked up last Tuesday that vaguely resembles what they learned as "lisp" in college, or something else entirely.

On the other hand, if one were to say "this program uses R4RS S-expressions" (or, presumably, "CL S-expressions", but I haven't read the relevant bits of CLtL), you'd immediately be in a much nicer place than JSON can offer. Not only would you have a well-specified syntax for a reasonably broad range of data types, you'd have a useful equational theory as well. [ETA: Unless you want unicode. Doh. R6RS, maybe.] Ah, the impossible dream.
How is MS expected to make money on this?
They cannot run out of US dollars, ever.

I hoped point 2 would make it clear I think this a specious argument. A soft default (what you espouse when you say they can’t run out of dollars) is just a default by another name. If they truly can’t run out of dollars, why bother with taxes at all - just keep printing dollars? A soft default is arguably more pernicious than simply defaulting - it hurts future generations as well as the present.

The EU has a central bank, engages in QE, sets interest rates etc, and has the same problems with inequality as any other large super-state like the US has. It also redistributes funds to poorer regions. There are clear differences, but also striking parallels with the early US. The states within it have chosen to subsume their economic identity within a larger bloc, they have the same ability to print Euros as a group as the united states (and have done so).

Austerity was a political choice, imposed by the troika, it is not the only possible solution. Just to take one example, the EU could have engaged in more QE (or another variant of money printing), in order to fund Greece debt, but it was not judged politically expedient in Germany to do so.
Anybody else think that StackOverflow would be Microsoft's next purchase?

A profitable, developer focussed business built using Microsoft stack.

I don't know how much sense it makes for Microsoft to be making money through selling job ads, but if they're gonna take over all the tools that developers use then SO and the SE network seems a good fit.
> I've read 12% somewhere

In the article. Musk stated 12% last August.
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Disclaimer: I'm a core maintainer of Meteor.

One thing that makes this release tricky is that the differential modern/legacy bundling system sounds so much like something that any modern JS application must be doing already, but no! I've yet to come across any framework besides Meteor that makes differential bundling possible, let alone easy.

I'm happy to answer any questions, and I'd love especially to hear about any similar systems that you've used, heard of, or even just imagined. If you're involved with another full-stack web framework, we should chat about how you might implement a system like this that works for your developers.

Everyone in the JavaScript community should be able to use native ECMAScript features directly, without the layers of compilation, and without sacrificing support for older browsers. That's the future we've all been hoping for, so I hope we can share our best ideas across frameworks and between the various JS sub-communities.
Is trading Bitcoin for long term worth it?
1) Cars are indeed safer, for their occupants. For the poor chumps not in a car you're increasingly likely to be killed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589453431...
> They shine better [...] and nobody can tell the difference.

I don't know much about gems, but this seems contradictory.
Is it unfair that I keep thinking of the SCO–Linux dispute at the moment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes#Mic...
Almost everything? Aside from keeping an updated resume I've never had a single job come from it, nor anyone I know. As far as networking it's useless too. It's just recruiter spam and people you never met adding you to their network. They also did the whole MITM attack on your e-mail's contacts a few years back.

None of that is Microsoft's fault though, it's been useless for a while.
Windows specific.
So the real value add is when you have multiple speakers? Any suggestions on a reliable service that can handle a single speaker?
I don't see the logic here. Ghost's mission is to stay independent and afloat, and GitHub/Gitlab's to make the most money they can. These are indeed different and oftentimes opposing mission statements. The fact they all make software is co-incidental.

My thesis stands - as a for-profit entity intent on maximizing profits and net-worth, empirically open source hasn't provided a vehicle to achieve those goals. At best, it allows a company to stay afloat, but it doesn't in any way guarantee maximizing net worth and profit of a company.

So, every-time you pith open-source as a viable alternative, you're confusing the mission statement. It isn't to stay afloat, it is to maximize wealth
That's a fair concern, and one they now will now have to adequately address in order to keep users content.

But unless you are AWS or Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft isn't competing with you. They may have similar products/services out there at some level, but these days, if it's not driving a lot of Azure adoption/retention then it's not something Microsoft is really going to compete against. That even goes for Windows. Microsoft is putting increasing amounts of money into the Linux ecosystem these days as well.
You are right, looks like the author did not even try to make any enquiries...
The phrase is still valid, but it is unclear that it applies to the current company. Companies do not have minds and are not people. They do have inertia, but if you change enough of the people then it's fundamentally a different company. MS is certainly different than it was 20 or 10 years ago.
unethical science does not deserve to be wrapped in its journalistic language in an effort to detach it from the harm it caused, it deserves to be called out for what it actually is, in this case intentional psychological manipulation of people's moods without their knowledge or consent.

One does not grasp the true harm caused by unethical experiments by reading only the documented (published or non-published) scientific results. Two extreme examples which I am by no means comparing to that of Facebook, but rather as canonical examples of unethical science, include the Tuskegee experiments and Nazi experimentation. Reading only the published results of these experiments does not convey the horrific harm that actually occurred. The same principle applies to referring towards Facebook's scientific data as an argument that these experiements were not unethical. The scientific results only serve to shroud and conceal the actual activity which occurred in the production of these results.

(edited for clarity)
Why shouldn't this be built on top of git?
I realized the same. My antidote was to remove the whole feed with uBlock Origin. Now Facebook is events and fallback messaging platform for me.
I believe what you are describing is a lot of cost with no more benefit for the generally-unlikely scenario of "dead satellite might be recoverable" than what they're doing now: porting software forward on-the-fly. The issue is too rare to have always-running process for at nonzero cost.

Satellites don't really "go" anywhere, generally, when their orbit is known (along short timescales). If porting takes a few days or a month, they'll still know where the target is when ground control is ready to talk to it (especially since they can track it without needing to forward-port the control software).
More than you'd expect, as they've open sourced and contributed to a number of open source projects based on their development of Github.com
About time... as a parent, I’m very thrilled to see this get implemented.
The blue banner area at the top of GH pages tells me to click on a blog posting to learn more. So I do. And then I get to a microsoft page that has as its banner area an information box telling me that merely browsing this site means that I agree to the use of cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Really, GH? Do you really want to direct your users to a page with that warning? Were you doing the same thing to me already, without warning? And will GH be doing similar harvesting of information?

And what about gitlab ...? Maybe they want my money more than GH does...
personally, I really like the performance of 'skype for business' but maybe I am in the minority there.

all of the tools and integration with outlook is pretty smooth...
Not quite, the OS is getting faster for older devices. Once the last remaining optimizations are done that will be pretty much it.
So how does this work with my internal active directory running DNS? I assume firefox is clever enough to at least note the DHCP domain. I still don't like the idea this could mess with my private name resolution.

Also will the end goal be to have a new DHCP option so I can point my clients to my internal DOH server?

One of the nice things about this is I can make lookups authenticate. I hope the extend the update protocol into the HTTP context so we have a simple API for updating zones rather than nsupdate.
Show HN: World Cup Prediction Game Built ERC 721 – Cryptocup
Guys,

I built a World Cup prediction game Dapp with ERC 721 tokens.
Each token holds the entire predictions (64 matches)
Each time a World Cup match finishes, your token might earn points if your prediction was correct.

Tokens with more points, will get the reward from the Smart Contract (which operates as a prize pool)

During the World Cup, a secondary exchange will open to trade tokens.

Available on Main net and current price at 0.11 ETH
Since this is the newest big thread, it can take the front-page slot for now. The big previous discussions are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
Mods, can you change this to the original source article?

https://blog.secondmeasure.com/2018/06/04/tesla-faces-accele...
> The NSA is not god, they can't break 2048-bit TLS encryption no matter how many computers they have.

2048 bit TLS encryption? You mean 2048 bit RSA encryption? Also what source do you have that says the NSA can not crack a 2048 bit RSA key? Last I checked that info was non public and there is no definitive, credible source saying whether they can or can not crack 2048 RSA keys.
That might make sense for one person basically reading a script. (Which, with a few exceptions, aren't a very good format.)

But most podcasts are interviews/conversations. You're not going to get most podcast guests to write out full responses in advance.

I do usually review topics and some potential questions for a few minutes with my guest before we get started and do editing if a question or answer goes off the rails or there's an error. I also do some light editing to cut down on umms, you knows, etc. But a lot of casual podcasts created as sidelines wouldn't make sense if they were going to take a week to put together.
I do have phases where I add HN to my /etc/hosts file, but randomly I come across useful insights on hacker news, so I haven't quite taken the step of quitting completely. But if I see an interesting article during a period where I should be working, I've taken to using pinboard's "read later" function and then binging articles all at once when I get to the point where I feel as though I'm not going to produce any more good work for the day. I'm sure pocket, papaly, raindrop.io and other bookmarking services probably have similar functions, though I haven't used them myself.

If the cold turkey route would be better for your use case, you can try the blocking techniques from this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15309393
Apple blurb, June 2003
Precisely.

And I should mention, I don't actually blame anyone for this - capturing some profit before the market reacts is exactly what promotes competition, and as a startup they're taking a nontrivial risk that would be much larger if they simultaneously tried to run at cost. Still, I won't be interested until prices drop a lot further.
> even for minimum wage workers(who dont really exist).

Minimum wage workers don't exist?
They've delayed bigger features in iOS 12 because iOS 11 was such a buggy mess, according to [1].

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/30/apple-to-focus-on-ios-p...
> Yes, if you don't adhere to the license's terms when copying code, it is stealing.

Is it? Or is it copyright infringement?
In security many things are "potential" threats. Just being unlikely doesn't mean that the threat doesn't exists. For example, a guy found a potential threat in rails[1], and rails developers dismissed his findings as unlikely exploitable. Then the guy go and hacked GitHub to prove that the issue was real[2][3] and that even the best rails developers were vulnerable.

[1] https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228

[2] https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/hacke...
The emphasis I've seen on "still be able to code in your choice of language," leads me to think there will be some caveat to doing so. E.g. they'll put the windows ad spyware into peoples' code repositories like sourceforge or something else...
How do you distinguish between unethical science and A/B testing, or even just 'We changed our product, then didn't like the results, and changed it back?'
WSL has horrible horrible IO performance. It's really not going anywhere until they fix it, and the fix won't be easy
Including Linux, which originally used the proprietary BitKeeper VCS system before Torvalds wrote git.
No ...
I can't believe something like this is happening ...