skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see what this can accomplish. A legislative body without the institutional will to enforce its wishes upon businesses is useless, and with the libertarian view being predominant this is nothing more than theater. It doesn’t apparently even matter that corporations — Facebook in this case — are profiting on the backs of American citizens.

But a profit was made, therefore the ruling capitalist class will excuse and justify it.
I struggle with the idea that for every programmer that finds it unethical to build weapons or surveillance software, there are others that believe it is their patriotic duty to do so (or at least enough to get those projects done).
The other article[0] linked in this one is well worth a read. I had never heard about Uyghurs or China's treatment of them before I read the reddit thread yesterday about phone spyware. It's pretty appalling and what more how the western tech community idolizes China and their tech scene while looking right past atrocities like this.

0: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
The story of the 7-11 video shot at 2:30am in 1987
What is software-defined storage?
In addition to Qt/QML, you might want to look at Xojo:
https://www.xojo.com/
How to design lean personas for your UX strategy
What has Nasa found on Mars? Space agency to make a major announcement
I think I've shown some examples that are really tough to represent in the statistics. Please read them again and reply how you think they are considered. E.g. how is it considered that cost of owning a house has increased together with the sell value, while the rent has increased without increasing the quality/value/size of the apartments?

My whole point is that adding things and then dividing by the sum of things is not a way to represent the reality that people face. You need to argue against that if you want to make a counter point. Just repeating what the person said that I responded to (after reading what he wrote) doesn't provide anything to the discussion.
The Editorial Staff of the New Yorker Has Formed a Union
I was not happy having to do TypeScript on a project thinking in your point about slowing you down which initially is completely true if you are forced to tslint it to hell. However, I've done a 180 in that TypeScript is very nice when you relax the tslinter and you sprinkle it on as you go which gives you that extra feeling of being auto-guarded when its just more practical but without getting in your way which is exactly what Ryan was saying in his Deno approach. I've saved loads of run-time errors from VSCode knowing types ahead of time for example.
> (Unfortunately, because of international publishing rights, it is available only to graduates from U.S. schools.)

Bill: Friendly challenge, you CAN fix this.
Your last point is a really interesting and undervalued one. I think "dedicated interest groups care way more than the bulk of people" is an under-appreciated factor in all kinds of negotiations; we know it happens in politics, but it ends up shaping everything from workplace benefits to product design.

As for specific benefits, healthcare is a very obvious example of why people push for benefits, and how it distorts earning charts. Per capita healthcare spending has grown much faster than inflation. A worker who forgoes healthcare for a salary hike will either fall behind immediately, or need to negotiate a present-value benefit that will quickly become an awkwardly large number. (And that's before we take into account the ability of employers to get good healthcare at a discount.)

The price of healthcare, college, housing, and childcare have skyrocketed compared to inflation. Anything an employer can offer that either covers those costs (healthcare, on-site daycare) or helps reduce them (flexible hours or a shuttle to improve commutes) is going to become steadily more valuable to employees for as long as that continues, and consequently more important to lock in now.
What's meant by the term "gadget"? Does it mean an exploit mechanism?
My searches are mostly showing information about USB device drivers.
My head can't wrap itself around:

import { test } from "https://unpkg.com/deno_testing@0.0.5/testing.ts"

There is so many issues with that I don't even no where to begin.
Yes, but all sides of the political spectrum do this and so do nation states, at an industrial scale...
That was my first thought as well, then I realise CVS is not maintained for more then a decade. I know not everyone likes Git but wouldn't SVN be a better solution.
I think the story is rather the opposite. Tolkien began work on the elvish languages (plural, yes) first, and then started creating a mythology to fit them. The Lord of the Rings later grew out of that mythology.
Tech Workers versus the Pentagon
> I knew Tor Project has been shifting away from "hidden services" for a while

I read the article after your correction, and on reading the `What are Tor onion services?` section, I thought “How nice, they’re using the new terminology to go with the new v3 service address”.

But then, just below, I saw the https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/05/image_3.p... diagram still mention “hidden service” and thought “an old image slipped thru, tho” :)

Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :)
It's a reference to this class of vulnerabilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
No, that thread is everything that is wrong with open source.
If for that money one can get only one manyear in the bay area due to the cost of living, wouldn't it make much more sense to hire 4 people for a year elsewhere?
His arguments for it seemed reasonable - would love to hear your criticisms
Its going to eventually impact the rich severely. Once no working person can afford to live in California at all they will have no 911 services, no doctors or hospitals, not even any trash pickup services because even if these are privatized they will never find employees because a salary is not enough to live here. When a rich person falls and gets a compound fracture they will have to do their best to fix it with duct tape because in another 5-10 years at this rate if you make less than 1 million a year in income you won't be able to reside in this state.
I have major issues with many of the points in the article. Stronger unions, for instance, have been shown to just send jobs overseas to human rights abuser companies. Raising the minimum wage has been shown to be regressive to the poor, and it just increases their cost of living and devalues their savings. And then there are the moral implications of a UBI funded by forced taxation.

I'll propose two alternatives: If wages are to rise, people need to be more fluid about their job situation. How this happens could manifest itself in many ways. The most idealistic case is that people save money instead of living month to month, giving them the confidence to invest in a job search or absorb the expenses of moving to an area that pays better or has a lower cost of living. I'd entertain ideas to move to improve the possibility of people moving jobs or locations.

The second is basic money management skills. I think there's an entire class of people in the USA that could be paid several thousand a month and they would still be in debt. We overuse credit and salespeople on everything from cars to cell phones want you to talk about affording monthly payments rather than paying the lowest possible price.
I think the bigger trust problem here is trusting that BTC will continue to have value. You have to trust that a market will continue to exist, there are plenty of cryptocurrencies that are worthless. There is no actual reason bitcoin has any value aside from market consensus, and the same could have been said about tulip bulbs at one point.
I don't even agree that this is totalitarianism. Most of China does not live like this.

This is mainly colonialism. The Han Chinese state is subjugating the Uighur people and taking their now strategic land.
I don't think it necessarily matters that it's glassware, but in generally I'd always rather work with a local master who I can talk to face to face with years of experience in the industry, rather than ordering from a company in China with little input, longer wait times, and (most likely) lower quality due to less experienced workers. Of course these are two extremes, and it's possible that there are other local professionals that can bridge the cap, but the advantages of having an onsite master still seem fairly obvious
Microsoft is going to rename GVFS and wants your suggestions
Amazon X, Amazon's moonshot division
UFSM – state chart library for embedded applications
I feel the histeria is around "MS mucks up anything they buy" and not "azure hosted products are doomed to fail"
Google does not have the same history of hostility towards Open Source and the market in general. Microsoft continues to be adversarial to almost all players in most markets, so why would one expect them to be different here? Only those who have short memories and are not students of history.
I don’t normally upvote PHP projects, but when I do it’s usually Phabricator. It’s a high quality project regardless what language it’s in.
I find this positioning for Optane to be a little scary.

If you replace one storage tier with one that is unambiguously faster (say HDD with SSD) that is definitely a win.

If you add a new storage tier which is supposed to be cheaper than another tier but also slower, you can't take it for granted that real life performance is better. For Facebook which has talent on hand and a very large scale to amortized R&D efforts it is one thing. But for the rest of the market it is a very different.

The use of Optane for an HDD cache is a case in point. Although macers seem to believe that Fusion drives are good, people in the PC space have been disappointed in hybrid hard drives, to the point that I think they'll be skeptical about Optane cacheing solutions.

A big part of it is that it is by no means certain that cacheing will provide a perceptible improvement in performance. It is almost the ideology of the corporation that nine women can have a child in one month, that throughput matters, latency not so much. However, people perceive that their computer is fast or slow in terms of latency, not throughput. In particular, it is 99% or higher latency that causes your computer to "go to lunch", become unresponsive, causes you to get frustrated with.

Caches don't help with 99% requests as well as they do at the median. If the cache does anything to waste time, it could make it worse.

You could make the case that Optane has advantages over SSD as a cache medium (for one thing you can write to it a byte at a time so you don't have to deal with the overhead of an SSD which needs to write in 16 MB or larger pages) and also Intel has been barking up the "storage cache in microprocessor firmware" enough to work out the bugs even if they have discredited the concept in people's minds so far.

Still, if Intel had decided to put an "Intel Inside" stickers on computers that had Intel SSDs, they would have build up their brand because people would experience Intel being associated with performance. Instead Intel is associated in people's minds with logos, stickers, and brands that are mindless and meaningless -- and with the stagnation of the PC platform even if they don't understand the many specific own goals that Intel has committed against it.

(Just for instance, PCs have been starved for PCIe lanes ever since Intel switched to PCIe. I think the intention behind that was to kill off NVIDIA, AMD and the PC gaming industry by not giving you enough bandwidth to really use an advanced graphics card or card(s) Thanks to cryptocurrencies and AI, NVIDIA and AMD have done well or stayed alive. However, Intel lost mindshare to phones by removing a reason why you would buy a PC instead of a phone.)
I think that amount of snark is a bit uncalled for.

What you're talking about are kitchen-sink tools, and IIRC the produced output was usually a bloated swamp of tags and classes.

I meant a simple tool that does one thing and one thing only.

Image maps are pretty easy, conceptually. The <map> tag is a list of <areas>, anchored to an image. An <area> is an <a> tag with "shape" and "coords" added to it. The former indicating which of the four different shapes of shapes the area is (circle, rect, poly, and default, which is the whole page minus any other hotspots that are defined), the latter being a list of nrs.

A GUI app for that would just need:

- a way to open an image

- circle, rect and poly drawing primitives to create a new area

- the ability to select drawn areas and fill in the required href and alt fields - the ability to change, reorder, copy and delete created areas

That's something barely above the metal of the underlying tags - it wouldn't add any bloat. It could even be done as a web-app, or a plug-in for your favourite code editor.

And it's not nearly as elaborate or complicated as the tools you are talking about.
This:

> 0. You just DO WHAT THE F*CK YOU WANT TO as long as you NEVER LEAVE A
TRACE TO TRACK THE AUTHOR of the original product.

may be in fact quite tricky to ensure: unless you do an (potentially expensive) audit of the code and all potential binary assets within you will never be sure.

To see how difficult it is to erase all traces: see how the state-backed hacking groups keep getting traced.

EDIT:

Why the downvotes? Yeah I know this is a joke license, but to a lawyer no license is a joke, and to use something in a corporate environment you really need to have one on board.
The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom
Hi - creator here. I've been working on a HackerNews client for a while and I think it's ready for others to play with.

Note: This is still a rough beta and there are things I'm working on:

* build size is still too big (my production build broke and I'm using the dev build).

* articles with large comments can take a while to load - this should get better but I haven't had time to address.

* the login/signup process is rough.. I'm still playing with firebase for auth (I plan to use firebase for other things..)
If you're nervous about this, you can use the site logged out.
* no idea if the server can handle the load..

* more..

I'm interested in feedback about the features currently implemented and what else people would like to see. I've got a long list of things I'm working on but it's good to hear feedback to prioritize.

Feel free to contact me at <my_name> at hackernewspro.com.

thanks!
They're not entirely separate issues. One of the big reasons for rising living standards in the rest of the world has been the offshoring of work from the US and Western Europe, which is also one of the things reducing worker bargaining power.
Interesting concept, but why you ask for a phone number?

I think you should give the app for free for lifetime, or one year if they will fill out a questionnaire after the beta.
Clinic Claims Success in Making Babies with 3 Parents' DNA
Disc Rot: A Ticking Clock for Disc Preservation
> Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all.

How do they think they'll accomplish that, short of taking over the world's governments?

Hipsters gonna hips.

It looks like they've got too much money too, despite being dependent on Google's handouts for survival.
I’m curious how extendable this is. It seems like at least some is written in C?

Is it viable to say, support hg repos or remote built
workers not running under kvm, through adapters/plug-ins?
"And then there were people adding modules. I thought to myself, this projet is done now. So wrong."

Seriously why are we as a community still entertaining those outlandish statements and attitudes? If you heard that sentence as a non-tech person, you'd swear modules is a computer virus or something, that it's so inherently bad that it's not even worth discussing.

Props to Ryan for his amazing work, but come on let's try to be civil and respectful here.
They're optimized that way for a reason.

It'll be a number of years yet for large-scale multithreading to penetrate the consumer market.

92% of users still have 2 or 4 physical CPUs, so 2-8 threads.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
There's a chinese girl in my russian class, so I asked her about it. She thought it was a great idea so people can't leave without paying their debts, and can't get further into debt.
I don't know how entertaining they are for adults, but I enjoyed reading Boy and Going Solo when I was younger.
Ask HN: Remote at a new company, what should I do during onboarding at HQ?
Remote engineer joining a new company. I’m at HQ for the first two weeks during onboarding.

Who should I make a point of meeting? What should I do to make sure I’m setting myself up for success? Anything else?
Skype had the same situation/skepticism. And MS basically engineered it to be irrelevant.

Linkedin? It maybe ok now, but to see who in the network clicks on you and more recruiters... at a prime membership of $30/mo? With the same opptys as Indeed? And with more spam and solicitations? Aside from Linkedin being on the edge of being another FB+Tinder.... Well, I think we see where it's going by year end of 2019. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets engineered into irrelevance too.

As for these new managers like Friedman: they'll will hold the FOSS torch for a year, get frustrated by internal politics and leave likely.

MS will likely listen to the community, but it's to exploit them into MS products, mainly Azure. And of course the community will be smaller than today. No way MS would abandon MSVS/TS--much like Oracle: too much invested and a good size community.
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So if you want to use the GLWT license, good luck with that?
Check the distance from the center to the dart?
Ask HN: Getting into the ML Field?
Recently I took a Coursera course by Andrew Ng on Machine Learning, and I have to say, I absolutely love this subject. Somehow it just clicks in my brain. I vectorized back propagation early on, even though in the course Andrew tells you not to try at first, and the speed improvement was a marvel to behold.

So, to sum up, I really love the subject and want to learn a lot more! But I also need to eat ;) and I learn way better while doing. My background is in law and finance, though I do have coding skills in Swift, JS, PHP and Python, but nothing significant. Any recommendations for getting into the ML field without official CS degree or something similar? I think I'll really love it, and would be good at it. Thanks!
When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
Now, only God knows

This looks great for hobby projects; probably better than my "IDGAF" license. (Obligatory IANAL)
This looks amazing. And the free tier is very generous as well. I wish you good luck with this project!
I will consider it using in near future.
> We use machine learning to evaluate content against our advertiser guidelines. Sometimes our systems get it wrong, which is why we’ve encouraged creators to appeal. Successful appeals ensure that our systems get better and better

There's been bad press about this for months now. People with conservative viewpoints claimed to be facing similar issues

The cost of a false positive seems extremely high. Why would they depend on ML for high influencers?
Because... it's a craft e-store, never going to have a lot of revenue; $30 per month is $30 less for buying food; also Shopify take a cut of each sale, so it's a regular double whammy and that sucks. And the owner will be a creative person, and they are usually fussy/particular/perfectionists regarding visual presentation of their artwork/brand/style/look and feel. I know, I've built online stores for artists. The attention to detail requests didn't stop. Fortunately I had total control over the store right up until payment gateway, so it was fine.

Some small businesses are looking to set up shop properly more than quickly. Anyway, these are all opinions, I'm just sharing mine.
Further Down the Trello Rabbit Hole
A system so safe, that almost all of the accidents in the last 50 years say "no serious injuries" or even "no injuries".

One driver was killed in 1968, another in 1984, someone broken a leg in 2003, and a passenger in 2004 dragged along a platform.

(The accident in 1975 was with a mainline rail train, not a metro train, I'm not sure why it's on the list.)
> the maintainer actively resisted

I hear that's exactly the reason why Gitea forked from Gogs.

In the past month, Gitea merged ~110 pull requests and got 70 new issues, and Gogs 7 and 18. Gitea also has 1500 (30%) more commits. All of this indicates to me that Gitea is further along than Gogs. Mainly based on that I went for Gitea and I like it so far, but I didn't install Gogs so I can't compare directly.
> I could see that causing some real problems

Can you be more specific? What type of problems and why? Temperature-related, waste related, hazardous substances? And why would this become a problem at-scale?
Why I admire Ryan is "I shouldn't just complain without giving a solution..." and he gave a solution, more than once. I have done this on a no-one-cares scale but it really is better to do yourself when you can. Also, Ryan has some sharp sarcastic wit which is pretty fun to watch on this talk.
"Chinese citizens signing up for the wildly popular multiplayer shooter game Counter Strike Global Offensive must register using both their national ID and Sesame Credit score, according to state media outlet CGTN, and anyone caught using cheating software like ‘Aimbots’ which ensure perfect aim will have their Sesame Credit scores deducted, potentially affecting their real-life ability to get loans."

Valve knowingly allows its cheat countermeasures to impact human lives in this way? I'd like to hear their response to this claim.
Sounds interesting.

Just a note, you have a broken image on the pricing page.
(download app button)
Similarly permissive license: http://www.wtfpl.net/
I'd want to keep my checking account in ledger and real world matching. So either use a virtual account to indicate that some money, while existing in checking, is actually allocated to something else (this is a budget, basically). You can also create asset accounts for what people owe you. Once they pay you you move it from what they owe you to your checking account. For this one, you might have a couple transactions like:

2018/06/01 Roommate owes me
Assets:Accounts Receivable 100.00 USD
Income:Roommate
2018/06/06 Roommate paid me
Assets:Checking 100.00 USD
Assets:Accounts Receivable

You can drill down another level to add who owes you the money, or perhaps tag it.

The end result is that your checking account is always accurate. Then, as maxerickson says, use virtual accounts to handle mark where the needs to go next or what it's intended for. Also examine ledger's budgeting capabilities for this.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Effective-Da...
I am not a lawyer, but many may feel more comfortable if it included something like the following about having no implied warranties:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Also, how can users "NEVER LEAVE A TRACE TO TRACK THE AUTHOR of the original product" if the author's full name and date of creation is meant to be included in the license?
> F*CK

Either you say fuck or you don't.
Is this treason yet?