skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this project a serious one? If it is, go for something mature and something you are familiar with even if it's "unsexy" like PHP and jQuery [1]. Learning a new technology while building your product can be fun, but it is often counterproductive. Unless your project has specific needs which only a few technologies can fulfill, it'll be just fine. Choosing something familiar allows you to focus on your project instead of your tech stack.

Don't worry too much about choosing the "wrong" language or framework. What you build matters more than how you build it. For example, many would recommend Postgres over MySQL for good reasons, yet those who use MySQL are doing just fine [2]. Their advantages are often insignificant in practice, so feel free to ignore the hype (especially here on HN)!

Angular, React, Vue are all fine choices for building SPAs. Rails is kind of out of place here (it's not a front-end framework). The hype around it has died, but Rails itself is still very much alive, and it's very mature. ClojureScript and Elm may need a bit more getting used to depending on your experience. Their communities are relatively small though, so you'll have less resources available.

[1] PHP gets a bad rap for its past, but modern PHP really isn't so bad (very Java or Ruby like, depending on the framework that you choose). jQuery is "old", but reliable. Not a good idea if you're building something highly interactive, but if you only need "a little bit of JS" then it seems like a good fit. SPAs have many advantages, but are also much more complex, so avoid building one if you don't need to.

[2] https://www.mysql.com/customers/
A thousand time this. I love Emacs, but the fact that SCROLLING MOVES THE CURSOR drives me crazy.
If Microsoft buys github I will be pulling all my repositories, deleting my account, and finding any software that I use on github and quickly cloning it and importing it to some competing server(Probably gitlab)...and I would encourage everyone else to do the same.

edit In the meanwhile I would recommend filing an issue on every single project as you would normally file issues on, asking what their migration plan in the event of a Microsoft takeover is, before, not after this happens.
I’m guessing it would absolutely never happened, but I would happily pay money for the ability to have my PS4 stream games to my Switch. Like the Vita.
As someone who's been here from nearly day one, there has been groupthink around specific tech and frameworks from nearly day one. :)

It's not a big deal. Just correct the downvotes and ignore the vocal comments.

I identify with your point of view on this topic. But the way to correct the situation isn't to write a rebuttal here. The world only notices better solutions when they exist, so creating them is step one.
> You can choose to have a family when you want.

> You don't need to share blood with your child in order for it to be a meaningful and fulfilling relationship.

> I'm from a large extended family that has overwhelmingly chosen to not breed and adopt children into our lives, when we are READY and WANT THEM, instead.

>> Fertility specialists would tend to disagree with your total disregard of reality, here.

For someone with such a high inherited IQ you sure do have poor reading comprehension.
Oh god, watching that made me lose all faith in both sides. Maybe this is why he's so obsessed with the circle ;)
But only around 20% of property stolen gets recovered (value). So the police actually take more than they recover, operating at a net negative.

And that isn't counting the wages of people working there yet...

I realize this comparison isn't fair at all - the problem appears to be that it comes to mind at all.
In scientific notation, “e” means “×10^”, not “^”. “1e100” thus means “1×10¹⁰⁰”, which is correct.
So, my comment was adding to the parent's suggested reasons that "enlightened" (i.e. not scrooge) people would want to be rich.

I pointed out that one that was overlooked (but that IHMO is the most important), is to re-invest it in making the world better.

Making the world better for the future is implied in that, and I think that's what you see in, for example, Elon Musk's efforts to make electric transportation viable and ubiquitous, along with the some of the philanthropic efforts of Gates, Buffet, etc.

Sure there are some bad actors who believe it's fine to plunder and trash the earth for short-term benefit, but the trend is in the opposite direction, and it's becoming far more commonplace, even among traditionally very destructive companies like petrochemical companies, to invest substantially in innovations and projects that reverse the damage and create benefits for the future. That's happening because more and more people are demanding it.

Don't forget also, that just as people who were inventing technologies and making medical discoveries 100 years ago were making improvements that benefit most of us living today, inventions of today will benefit future generations.

None of this is black and white; there are benefits and costs in everything, and it's important to be mindful of both as we progress and ensure things stack up positive in the end.
AWS won serverless – now all your software kinda belongs to them
The dream is to have an Emacs with a modern UI like VSCode
My dad walked through with a Leatherman accidentally, set off the metal detector.

He got let through eventually. I seem to remember someone escorting him out to let him put in in his parked car, which to my mind seems unusually accommodating but I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
I love their hardware but I will never buy it again. It's disappointing that Google won't be making tables anymore. i really liked my Nexus 7. But Samsung is junk software wise in my opinion.
Its really simple, they turned their hobby into work with impossible schedules and really bad overtime.
They're unhappy because the work they invented for themselves isn't based on their interests but for popularity and viewers interests.
They are afraid of losing audience and missing out of more exposure, because their work defines them as a person - if they start losing popularity/attention their persona was based on, it knocks them down a peg, like a celebrity in the end of their career. So they double down on their work.
This could be the best thing ever for GitLab. (see: Skype)
Chromebooks have no room for manufacturer involvement with the software. Afaik, assuming based on public references, if you want to make a Chromebook, you use Google's reference design for the motherboard, pick a compatible CPU, design your own keyboard (but use a Google approved controller instead of a normal one), design your own case and pick a display, put everything together, use Google's firmware and use Google's ChromeOS build. OS updates come automatically from Google.

Perhaps it's slightly less rigid than it seems, but I've seen several Chromebooks and they all seem exactly the same. There's not even a manufacturer logo on boot.
They're regulated no?

I'm a bit confuse here. I thought utilities are regulated what is the reasoning for them being evil?

Yeah they're natural monopolies but they also regulated. I get that Enron mess California over but they got caught. What shady things that the electric companies in California are doing?
'"personality disorders" are a class of so-called "disorders" that other people believe are bad but that the person with the "disorder" does not believe is bad'

I don't think that's accurate. A "personality disorder" doesn't necessarily involve anosognosia, nor is it limited to things that cause conflict with other people like borderline or narcissistic personality disorders.
Am I missing something? The table for that chat shows only 3 companies and Microsoft isn't among them. That doesn't mean Microsoft tablet sales are insignificant in comparison.
I think you’d be amazed how much faster a new iPad, the $300 one, is. Much like the iPhone 4 the first retina iPad was a bit slow at times because it had trouble dealing with all those pixels. The Air and Air two were each significant advances over that. Another big part of that is just how much more RAM they have these days.
Sure, MS is alive and well and may outlast every other tech giant today (except probably Amazon). But that doesn't make Ballmer a good CEO.
I also discovered while doing some whois checks that Google's domain registrar (Google Domains) is owned by a Google subsidiary called "Charleston Road Registry". http://charlestonroadregistry.com

This is the street that goes through the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.
Do you also want to lock up people who criticized the color of Trump's skin or the size of his hands? When you outlaw offending people, there's not clear boundary as to what's allowed and what's not. It creates a scary power imbalance so that people can suffer severe consequences for simply responding to an insult, or saying something innocent that's misinterpreted. If you've ever seen an insult on Twitter, those people would be criminals. All of them, not just the ones who insulted people you like. Anyone who says "cops are pigs" needs locking up too. The US has clear boundaries to what's legal to say but the UK doesn't.
It's a criminal conspiracy - you go after the leaders and the low level thugs.
I’m not sure the throttling stuff really happens on the iPad. That was a check they added to the phones because of the unexpected shutdown issues, I don’t think that’s ever been much of a problem on the iPads because of their giant batteries.

However there is a known issue where for some reason iOS can start to get extremely slow. Restoring from backup or doing a fresh install sometimes makes a device WAY faster. Not unlike Windows back in the 95 days.

We solve reports of this when people were doing battery replacements. They go into Apple, get a new battery, and their phone wasn’t any faster. Then they’d do a fresh install and everything was fine. We also saw people give it a try before the battery replacement program was announced and have the same results.

Basically, the batteries and the only reason iOS can get insanely slow. There’s obviously some kind of rail bug that can destroy performance. But a fresh install fixes it.
>> Why don't more technical people become politicians, or at least form lobbying groups or think tanks?

Technical fields pay a lot more and you control most of your destiny.

Politics pays nothing and you deal with bureaucracy.

Hmm.
Yes, Google is pretty easy to peer with. At major public IXes they will bring up their V4 and v6 sessions on their side before yours, and leave them in an enabled state, since they use a suite of automation tools to manage traffic flows to regional peers. This makes it easy to bring up the session on your side and immediately see routes and live bgp prefix exchanges going both directions without having to interact with their noc.

Given the number of peers that they have around the world, it would be very labor intensive to hand craft a bgp session config and leave it in a down state until mutual noc contact was made to bring it live.

They obviously have a great interest in getting traffic like YouTube videos to the residential/commercial downstream eyeball ISP end users as efficiently as possible.
https://github.com/upend/IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT
OPD changes its story on cameras
«judge's direct no-reporting order» I can’t seem to be able to find a source that confirms that order actually existed. Do you happen to have a credible one so I can verify it isn’t fake news?
> Microsoft seems like the only company that understands tablets right now. They should be more like computers, not more like phones.

Apple finally seems to be getting the hint here with the iPad Pro and the iOS 11 update. The restrictions on what Apple will approve to be published on the App Store means it certainly will not be a traditional computer replacement at this time - but I'm comfortable saying I can actually get some work done it if I had no other computer available (I'm not going to be programming on the thing of course, but I can at least get through meetings, triage email, write documentation, etc.).

> I'm hopeful Microsoft can also move to spur on this change; maybe soon the market will be ready for the return of Windows Phone.

I can only hope, as a month 1 adopter of Windows Phone 7 and having stuck with the platform through Windows Mobile 10 I'm still pretty miffed and have little hope they'll manage to make a phoenix rise from it's ashes. Hell, my entire family had Windows Phones until it was painfully obvious it was going nowhere almost 3 years ago so we started switching to iPhone's instead as the need to replace or upgrade devices rolled in.

I don't even think it's something silly like Microsoft doesn't "get" mobile, because I always thought WP was great at giving the consistent and (mostly) polished UX you'd get from an iPhone while presenting the choice of hardware the Android ecosystem allows.

Personally the only reason I was the first to jump ship was because I wanted to access our work VPN without needing my laptop, but there was no AnyConnect app available for Windows Phone. The application ecosystem was barren, and I had no problem with that myself outside the aforementioned VPN app but without even an official YouTube app it's a hard sell to many. The current Microsoft store has an increasing number of Windows 10 apps available, but so much of it is absolute garbage that even Google Play is less frustrating to search.

Microsoft knows how to build hardware, they proved that with the Surface line and did a decent job with the Microsoft-branded Lumia hardware too. They know how to develop a software platform, Windows is still king of the desktop and makes a strong showing in the enterprise server market, Visual Studio is touted by many as the best IDE (not my favorite, but it does the job fine so I guess I can see why they'd have that opinion). What they don't know how to do is develop an ecosystem, to get partners to WANT to develop for their platform instead of being FORCED to (basically any enterprise is going to have Windows Server deployed and admins on staff, Windows is the only relevant desktop in the enterprise market, .Net Core is nice enough but unless you're already a .Net shop there's not much reason to choose it over more mature ecosystems). Until they get that sorted there's no way Windows Phone will get rebooted again, it's dead.
No, forced updates are also bad. I own my computer, I built it, and I paid for Windows. Microsoft shouldn't get to decide how I run it (I can't turn off Windows Defender permanently) or when it updates (you can only delay them so long before it forces you to update). If their updates were stable it would maybe help the argument, but they routinely break my system such that I lose time that was intended to be spent on playing a game. They also conveniently reset some of my settings which always tends to favor the way Microsoft would like for me to use my computer. Or they reinstall fucking Candy Crush.

For god's sake, even Apple, the prime example of knows-better-than-you lets you never update, if that's what you really want.
Huh? Microsoft has several very successful hardware product lines: peripherals (the Microsoft ergo keyboard is the gold standard in many circles), Xbox, the surface line. Maybe they can’t generate Apple hype but they do know how to make consumer hardware.
Technology has obsoleted all four of those boxen. Democracy went from a metric to the model, which was then economically optimized out. Now the information flow runs the other direction - the modern political apparatus efficiently distributes public opinion rather than gathering it.

Our remaining hope is a newfound fifth - the personal computation box.
There were also mootools and dojo.

I was more into those two but jQuery made everything dead simple.
In some ways that makes sense. The Plus size iPhones aren’t that much smaller. And one of the biggest selling points of the mini was its price. But now you can get a full-size iPad that’s much faster for less than the mini was brand new.

Only Apple knows what’s really going on. But it’s entirely possible sales fell off a cliff once the 6+ came out.
Genetic factors may have a role to play in economic inequality
Hmm.

This comment gave me an idea: what does Trends say for RSS?

It has two results:

- For the search term: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss

- For the "computer file format": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Both charts are nearly identical.

There's a noticeable blip in March 2013 when the closure was announced, but that blip sits within a concretely downward trend.

I had to dig a bit to locate the very tiny downward slope in July when Reader actually shut down; there's nothing noticeable there.
Fragments were way over engineered. Many people completely ignored them because you basically had to rewrite a significant portion of your app to support the type of flexibility they were supposed to give you. The lifecycle of apps is already complicated enough, and fragments added even more complexity. Like another poster mentions, completely ignoring fragments is a pretty reasonable choice.
It supports SVG placeholders. SVGs need to be converted to data URIs, like `data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg xmlns='...`, and it works the same as LQIP. You can use https://github.com/stereobooster/sqip.macro to generate those
2. Can only be updated so many times until Daddy Microsoft knows best and will forcibly shut down your computer.

3. "Users have freedom to do what they choose unless it makes more work for me"?
Aren't intersections the most dangerous spot for bikes/scooters, though? (car makes right-hand turn into bike going straight)

[Random pet peeve: when a clearly-marked bike lane ends and combines into car lane, and still, bicyclists insist on filtering up the side of the curb up to the stop line. Please, don't)
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I wonder if the symbiotic bacteria provide other benefits, such as fighting off other bacteria that would attack the plant.
We've seen a number of lawsuits posted here on HN with EU companies, either going after other EU companies, or US companies, or other EU <-> US <-> AU lawsuits. Sure a lot of it involves the bigger shops like Microsoft/Google/Facebook, etc .. but don't go saying it's not a litigious society.

Lawsuits are used in a lost of western and eastern countries to try and right wrongs. Many of them use lawsuits to troll and money grab as well. It's not unique to the US.
The 3X rule assumes a middle-man distributor. When selling direct, as Tesla is, 2X is more common.
This just isn’t true. React has been going strong for 4 years with no sign of slowing down.
It's a Faustian bargain.
Can be equally used to suppress anyone with an unpopular opinion.

Who is deciding what is edgy but still funny, vs what’s over the line?

What is valid criticism of people who happen to be part of a minority group, vs what is hateful and racist?

The only reason you are ok with this, is because all of your beliefs fall within the boundaries of acceptability set by the censors. And you want to be protected from the speech of people who might think or believe differently.
This is so incredibly tonedeaf: do you honestly think that small hobby-scale websites have a privacy policy?
I'm not a lawyer, but I do think he should have totally posted the letter, without redaction. We don't have enough context here.
It supports retina/3x. Provide big enough image and it will use it. It takes into account `devicePixelRatio`

> maybe default max width of 100% on mobile?

It is.

> optional ability to overlay an empty full size block so the image cant easily be right clicked and saved

Not sure what you mean, but as soon as image loaded it turns into good old image, so you can do right click
The surface line isn’t avaliable world wide on release. Windows phones were released in like 3 markets. Less than surface line. Xbox gets world wide releases.

Phones, people generally want what’s new. A 12-18 month old phone is not new.
Second Act for Corporate Titans: Startup Whisperers
Whoa, hang on a second. SourceForge? Acceptable with new owners? Have you tried to download anything from the site recently? They may not be bundling crapware with downloads anymore but it's still an ad-laden slow-loading pile of trash unusable website. (I don't think I'm being hyperbolic there, to be honest!)
Most email providers do offer encryption in transit and at rest email. Email sent by any modern provider is sent over TLS. As proof both Gmail and office365 are HIPAA compliant. There are also additional protections such as DKIM that can be enabled. Or as otherwise mentioned, you can encrypt your emails with an additional layer of encryption using keys that you manage so that if Google/Microsoft/etc are exploited your emails are still encrypted.
Happiness is a state of mind. What's actually necessary is a sense of purpose.

That's why people in vastly differing situations can both be happy, because it's a subjective function of how much meaning you have in your life. Having a purpose lets you battle through depressing lows and accomplish great deeds and still remain fulfilled. Otherwise it's just a chase for the next big thing, and while that can be fun for a bit, it also leaves you empty and lost.
Android tablets were awful software on great hardware. Or decent hardware. Sometimes great.

I hope that if fuchsia becomes the next Google mobile device os, that they take special care to not fragment it into a million pieces within the first few years.

Actually, I don't really care what they do after this year. I'm gonna switch to iphone+ipad mini, and Google can go fuck themselves, which they usually do anyways.
In order to reply to your questions, the mark would have to study the GDPR one way or the other to answer them.

That by itself is way too much hassle.
Well now that we Americans can murder people directly with words, we can merge the first and second amendments.