skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same situation I had moving to ireland. Cant have account without proof of address, can’t have proof of address (an utility paid in your name) without renting and very hard to find a rental unit without a letter from the bank.

Eventually the employer strongarmed the bank to open an account for me.
Steve Blank has probably done the best job yet of conveying the historical and intergenerational connections between Silicon Valley and the military:

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

The video and slide set do a great job of covering it comprehensively.

I had a chance to learn directly from Steve and his Hacking 4 Defense team.

BIG changes since WWII when military R&D was nearly all R&D.

Today, most R&D is commercial with a lot of duel use potential for Defense(hence the desired ties).

It’s quite interesting that military/commercial R&D proportional parity was achieved the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War paused.

Here’s an article I wrote that borrows a bit from Steve Blank’s presentation and blog posts.

https://www.cove.org.au/trenchline/article-the-v-twin-effect...

The military is utterly dependent on commercial off the shelf technology modified to suit its needs.

How the tables have turned in R&D.
Sometimes I do read the comments without reading the op, but then I won't comment, unless it's something unrelated (like this very comment, for example, even thought in this case I did read the OP).

But yes, there's plenty of "Didn't read the article, but...".
Eh, it says he's getting $720 per month? Won't last long on that...
I'd never heard of Tuleap before, but it looks gorgeous. It seems to be an open source version of Atlassian's offerings. Integrated tracking, codereview, CI, version control etc.
I suppose it might appear that way to a biased individual
Also, the trailer for the TV drama "Kidding", with Jim Carrey playing a character somewhat inspired by Mr. Rogers, was released yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzwU7dbmAyY
Hi HN,

Imagine that you guys want to write documentation for your project by writing Markdown in Readme.md, to be published on GitHub later.

I'm an Android Dev, and I use a plugin to preview my Readme in Android Studio. And sometimes, I use other online Markdown editor, by doing live editing there. Problem solved, at least for now.

What I've found so far is that those solutions give me different style. And the problem usually arises after that. Sometimes, after updating the Readme.md file and push it to GitHub, there are some parts that are not suitable. Something like, H1 is too bigger for this section, or link is not shown well there, etc.

Devpen is an online tool to solve that problem.
Although it's a bit harder to find at the moment than it should be, the early content on Indie Hackers still exists and we're still conducting interviews at the same pace as in the past: https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews
10 जून, अधिक मास की चमत्कारी एकादसी, छोटा सा उपाय माँ लक्ष्मी देंगी पैसा
Enough space to actually have some good UX, tool tips etc. This is adding features to the touch pad instead of replacing function keys and losing physical key response.
Ah no sorry, I meant to insinuate my Medium feed is a list of useless 'inspirational' articles without real value.
Whatever happened with their Brownsville TX facility? They put in some antennas, brought in a crane, and put in some solar panels, but not much more than that.
I wonder if, if someone released a study showing that using rainbow colours in your marketing emails increases your perceived humanness by 40%, we'd see a phase where all marketing emails come in bright rainbow colours and I could create a simple filter rule to get rid of them.
https://tuleap.net/plugins/git/tuleap/tuleap/stable?p=tuleap...
To be fair, in this case the original comment is linked to, so one just needs to click the link to have a text version of the screenshot.
Factorio's Save implementation is one of the worst I've ever seen.

If you start a completely new game, the default name for a save game is the previous game you were playing. This means that you can very easily overwrite hundreds of hours of gametime by dabbling in multiplayer or a test map.

I reported this but it got closed by some jerk moderator as "working as intended" - looks like it got forgotten: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=46646

It's still the behavior in the game.
> I sometimes use Pages and Keynote, both of which have nice UX, but the niceties don't strike me as particularly OS-integrated.

Well, what are the niceties you see? I'd generally say that Pages and Keynote's integration with macOS is one of their strengths.
NSDb is a streaming-oriented time-series DB optimized for the serving layer
Are software engineers no longer people? His example was perfectly fine, given what you asked for.
I agree 100% with Berkeley Breathed when he wrote:

Mister Rogers: Welcome to my neighborhood, boys and girls!

Did you enjoy meeting Senator Kravitz today? I did. He told us about something called "inflation," didn't he? Can YOU say "inflation?"

Opus: Inphlabph.

Mister Rogers: Good! Can you say "Mister Rogers should be paid more dough?"

Opus: Mister Rogers should -

Mister Rogers: Can you put it on a postcard?

https://78.media.tumblr.com/dad9d0c81aab7c572572e6151483dd8c...

I believe that was a Soupy Sales reference:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM

Here is Mister Rogers talking to the children in Congress, successfully asking them to send him millions of little green pieces of paper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
That's why you have wrappers in the language of your choice that will handle this for you.
Its in a non-commercial phase at the moment, it seems. However a condition like that will keep it there.
It's nice that in addition to the compulsory Google-bashing this article explicitly points out the other companies involved. Specifically, it mentions Amazon and Microsoft who did much less yet ethics-wise than Google did and yet are rarely called out in the press.

Anyone working for Amazon or Microsoft here? Is this just a skewed press coverage? Or is there any dissent going on there?
Reading “The Hollow Years” about France in the 1930’s.

As war seemed more and more likely from the mid-1930's onward, a lot was talked about the possible merger of chemical warfare and new airplane technology.

A particularly haunting line the author cites from a contemporary historian talked about how “a few dozen bombers can spread enough gas to push over all of Paris a tsunami of mustard gas 100 feet high and 50 miles wide”.

Probably not true, but interesting how they merged threats old and new.
Pretty good point, Mac OS is already using the touch pad to input signatures (you use the touch pad as paper and your finger as a pencil) which works extremely well but currently has no visual feedback, there is probably space for much more useful applications when that becomes available.
I just really has to be an OLED display though.
Kill the entire platform?
In theory it could work. I think one big problem would be the erosion of the rails, slowly drifting apart.
I also recommend this JVM anatomy https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/
There are certain things that the raw sockets API allows for that the standard CoreFoundation/Foundation API doesn't. It's pretty rare, but there are some legitimate use cases where this can be necessary.
I was on a sleeper train a few years ago that would detach cars as it went along.
Thanks for responding. OP's post actually inspired me to browse the site for content and now I'm listening to one of your recent founder interviews =)

My advice is put your interviews and podcasts back on the homepage. Attention is in short supply. Especially amongst entrepreneurs. When I see your reddit-esque homepage, it makes me feel like I'm wasting time and should get back to more productive tasks.
SOC 2 Security vs. ISO 27001 Certification
T-Mobile, Nokia Claim First Bi-Directional OTA 3GPP-Based 5G Data Session
I would argue that it is unethical and becoming illegal to a certain extent in various jurisdictions (such as EU). It is taking a similar process to the use of unsolicited email mass-marketing we now consider SPAM. In the early days, it wasn't obvious how invasive SPAM would be, but in hindsight it is very clear and now there are laws to discourage the practice.
That was more due to the shape of the windows then due to the fact that it had windows. Square holes are not a good idea in aluminum that's under tensile stress. For the same reason you end a straight cut into metal in a round hole, otherwise you'll surely end up with a stress fracture.
Adblock Plus blocks social media tracking in Chrome and Firefox
I've gotten used to using the touch bar for function keys and [esc] after only a week or so. It's fairly customizable, which surprised me. I don't think it's that bad, but then again I am not paying for it (company hardware).
In the early ‘90s era almost all Sierra games were developed in-house. The Incredible Machine is a special case because it was developed by Jeff Tunnell who had previously co-founded a game company (Dynamix) that Sierra had acquired. So when he wanted to do his own thing outside of Sierra’s multimedia-oriented production system, Sierra decided to publish his game rather than lose him.
How an “Online Call Free” Can Get You Your Heart's Desire
Previouslies: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jvm%20internals&sort=byPopular...

There's nothing really wrong with this popular write-up and its many ripoffs and copycats over the years, other than the (in hindsight) poorly chosen title. Most of this stuff is an overview of what's in the JVM spec. If you are searching around for some thing or another about the actual internal implementation details of the Oracle JVM, this article and its many clones make the search term 'JVM internals' nigh-useless.
There are thousands of developers who make the choice to write apps for only one platform. They now have a better networking library. What don't you get about that? Not everyone chooses to write cross-platform. For people who don't write cross-platform apps, why would they ever want to use sockets instead of this much easier to use API?
Trend Micro spotted a new variant of #KillDisk wiper in Latin America
Well, good question. The file format for Jupyter is not ideal for 'code craftsmanship', as pointed out by another comment. There are utilities to strip out some of the metadata from the Jupyter files, such as rendered output and run counters, but that is a trade-off to be decided by your team:

https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
The deep history of Silicon Valley is the history of WWII and unrestrained debt-based government spending on R&D. Only after that foundation was laid did the private businesses grow on that fertile ground.

"Secret History of Silicon Valley" (Computer History Museum, Mountain View)

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo

> Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

> In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today.

Since the American public (and not just the American one) considers such kinds of unrestricted government spending as a waste of resources the way left to fund basic research apart from the little bit that doesn't lead to cries of "government waste" - because let's face it, a lot of it is, that's just what happens when you do very basic research with no immediate goal in mind - is military spending. If the role of military research is considered bad I think there has to be a culture shift coming from all voters. As long as they allow such government actions as long as it's "for defense" but not for anything else (at least not even close to the scale) then stuff will get done through the military. Apparently the demand (pull factor) is there, so if the only path is spending through military channels this is what happens.

EDIT: Also see @chriselles's comment
There are non-trivial numbers of diesel-mechanical (IC to wheels via a gearbox) and diesel-hydraulic (IC to wheels via a fluid coupling) trains out there. The British class 172 Turbostar is an example of the former, most other class 1xx DMUs the latter.

Diesel electric transmission does happen on smaller multiple units sometimes, but really shines on larger and faster trains, or on electro-diesels (where you need the electric final drive anyway).
Nvidia Patents “Infinite Resolution Textures” Technology
Open an account on new digital banks.
Revolut kinda rocks
I'm loving how nobody has called out the fact that this comment pretends trains have "steering systems" and need to "concentrate steering" in locomotives.
They are making laptop more difficult to use.
And in any case very specific to one JVM implementation, while there is a plethora of them around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...
We had this on our primary school computers! Awesome stuff.
Just buy the one without the touchpad. Keyboard still sucks, but better than everything else..
Most of it is generic enough to be applicable to anything that calls itself a JVM since it's required by spec. For instance, everything bytecodes, what a class file looks like, how dynamic linking works, etc.
Google Glass and chatbots solve both something though. Onboarding new users in production and reducing customer queries
Not too helpful. Just comments from a new programmer.

I'd like to hear something like "This is how our team used Rust to do (really hard thing involving heavy concurrency and lots of state)". From someone not involved with the development of Rust.

I was recently looking at a large, non web related C++ program which needs to be made multi-thread to increase capacity. I realized that if it was in Rust, it would be much easier to break out functionality into another thread. You need to classify data as immutable, locked, or unshared to make the program multi-thread. Rust has language support for that. C++ does not.
Unrelated, but there's a whole lot of information about someone named Ernest Prabhakar there…
It seems like some kind of fallacy to insist that good done in the name of religion is never actually about religion, while evil done in the name of religion is 100% only about religion.

If nothing else, I don't know how you could even begin to prove that. It sounds like something people believe without evidence because they find it comforting, which is pretty ironic given the context.
They spent a long time stabilizing the soil there.

Some of the delay could possibly be attributed to the Amos-6 incident. Now that they've rebuilt that pad, they can continue at Boca Chica, which explains the recent activity there.

It's likely to be where the first BFR-related tests happen in the first half of 2019.
For the Java heads out there, this was done by Martin Thompson and co. The same crew that did the Disruptor queue that's used in everything now.
LOL. I'm purposely using complicated language with my kids. They many time get only gist of it but its lot of fun. For example, instead of saying "go ask you mom", I would purposely say "Have you considered proposing this question to your mom?". I'm not sure what child psychologists would say about this.
What makes you think nobody is working on macOS? I really feel that macOS got more focus than iOS this year.
>At least the Touch Bar took away features that most consumers (i.e. non professional computer users) won't miss.

Too bad it's on a computer that is called the MacBook Pro. For those not in the know, Pro stands for "Professional".
Thank you for this. I actually had never heard of this guy and my evening is richer now having read about him!
The square corners were indeed a problem, but round windows wasn't enough. The doubler was added.
Have the armed forces of the United States subjected the civilian population to inhuman treatment prohibited by international law?
Yes (unanimously).
Is the United States Government guilty of genocide against the people of Vietnam?
Yes (unanimously).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal#Conclusions_a...)
So what do you think Mister Do Bee was selling??? I was so confused as a child. Didn't he go on to develop three.js?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvdSGkN0aU

"Happy Jack says it's time for Romper Room, and time for us to say good morning to Do Bee. And welcome to Romper Room. Do Bee would like you to put on your wings. Put on big Do Bee Wings and then start flying with us all over Romper Room! Come on, flap those wings!"
Agreed, however I think there's something crucial missing in there: Also try to be consistent with the platform you're developing for.

Like GP said:

> [...] which probably arose from the fact that I began designing on the Mac, so I was conditioned to Apple's "OK on the right" standard at an early age [...]

Your users most likely will have been conditioned, too. So, don't force them to adopt a different button layout just because "you decided otherwise". If you're developing for multiple platform, it might well be worth your time to ajust those options depending on the platform the application is running on (just like it's almost always better to use a native save/load dialog for files).

And, if you're arriving at that point, you might even consider including a configuration option for those poor souls who have to use the application on another platform at work than they do privately.
Back in 2015 I ordered a Vodafone Pre-paid SIM to a friends address and that was how I got "my proof of address".
Maybe I'm a bit conservative and/or sour, but I think this is a bad idea for two reasons.

1. It will require a lot of developer effort and testing on this specific device. I regard this as a move in the bad direction: Computer interfaces should be more unified, not less.

2. You're giving the touchpad two functions which are not compatible (and the second function is not necessary: we already have a screen!). If you're happily clicking your way through stuff and some menu suddenly shows up, you will click a bunch of random stuff.
Agreed. I can fully understand Courtland's motivation to grow a community (to keep people coming back more frequently / to create engagement) and the best way to do this is putting the forum front and center, but at the moment, the community is much too immature to be valuable. Lots of people asking for feedback (often with zero replies), self-promotional articles disguised as advice from first-time side-project creators, and even if there happens to be a lively discussion once in a while, it often feels like 'the blind leading the blind'. The value (for me, at least) of IH was the amazing interviews and podcasts - Courtland consistently pushed out great content that was a joy to read/listen to. Sure, these are still available and I still visit the site at least once a week to check for new podcast episodes, but I stopped reading interviews because they're so hard to get to and it takes 3+ clicks to see which ones are new.
It makes no difference. They won't break the supply by raiding someone. Immediately someone else will take over.
Because most people are right handed and their phones are so big its easier to tap back on the right than left. (My theory, no source)
Apple notes is quite good. I replaced Evernote with it years ago and never looked back.
H G Wells wrote in 1933 that submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with some kind of chemical weapons would be a dominant factor in shaping future conflicts.

He also predicted the international post service would take over the world and enforce universal basic English as the global standard language, so... some good ones, some bad.

Still, the sub warfare bit was very prescient.
GitHub has similar terms [1], which are there to ensure that nobody can share their content through the platform and then claim that they never allowed them to copy it. Sketch.systems probably wants to provide a collaboration feature, which would need some kind of license grant.

GitHub's terms are better, though, because they clearly explain the purpose of the requirement.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#4-...
Yes I agree. From what I remember from a feedback of +1 year of Rust, Rust makes a whole point at treating panic and errors that C++ or other languages don’t do. It goes to a lot more length than what we have our there.

Maybe you will find you want here if you didn’t know this website already.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...
I went over the PDF and it went over my head. Anyone have an ELI5?
Interesting, it seems that the newer banks are better placed to implement this technology with their newer systems.
What are you self hosting?
Today, we use lots of SaaS products. But are there still products which you self host?
Yes, but in the current landscape you can punt it off to Feedbin, Feedly and other services like that since they are those who will to the bulk of the serving.
That is what I see, as well, with the GENERATING AUDIO USING NEURAL NETWORKS patent application. IANAPL, but I do work in audio software and the application, seems to me, explains a broad model of audio processing using convolutional neural networks (in the claims an input is involved, so I am guessing the title tried to select an even broader set of problems - with & without input).

I think people pointing out that Google defensively files patents may be correct and I hope that's the intention with DeepMind's work, too. I am a fan of the audio work they did with WaveNet since day 1 and was so happy the paper was out for all of us to read. Still, I was hoping I may be able to (read: "daydreaming that I might be capable to") build on it, some day.

Organizations change leadership and they switch focus, too. I believe patents slow-down (even stop) progress and they are quite hypocritical, overall (show me a patented invention that was so unique, the author/owner didn't "stand on the shoulders of" 100's of years of freely available science to derive/discover/invent it and... I will agree for that specific case).
It's true, but in practice Oracle's Hotspot is used in overwhelming majority of deployments you will get to work on.
MSVC doesn't support all of C99 anyway.
Unikernels are processes but with decent isolation. Also the abstractions are on a lower lever. If you have a process with user space networking and user space disk IO you’re one step away from a unikernel.
If Facebook isn't a community then I don't know what is. Whether we like it or not is irrelevant, but in my book it's the definition of a community. Aka, a place where people meet and interact. We could argue all day whether it is optimized to work as such, for example discussions in there are limited by the UI, but people go to FB to interact with their friends or meet new people.

And calling Zuckerberg an idiot is laughable. The guy is obviously super smart. His problem is the total lack of ethics, either because he never had them, or because it's required when you have to run a multibillion behemoth.
This is the MacBook Pro's touchbar done right :)