skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe this is true. Feels like confirmation bias a bit. Lots of companies or people make money on their open source software. Vue.js, Red Hat, etc. That's just the top of mind and I'm sure there are more.

It looks like lots because you count each failure as confirming your bias, but if you correlate that against over 80% of small businesses failing then it's not a valid assumption unless you have data showing they fail at a higher rate.

Don't get me wrong this is a shitty situation for sure, but it's always sad when an entrepreneur of any stripe fails.

As an aside I think it's a more valuable conversation in general to look at the business models available to someone approaching this model of development and for us to make suggestions on how he could have built a successful product in this way and succeeded. My thoughts as a total outsider on this issue are going to be more general, but since it's my suggestion to do this I'll start.

1. I believe that when someone creates software in a broad usage category then consulting and especially training must be central to any business goals if you wish for similar projects to succeed.
2. Support contracts for large orgs are also very important because companies need security whether software is free or not. Without support contracts it's likely you won't get the kind of benefactors that are required to be financially sustainable.
3. Marketplaces seem to be in vogue as are extensions. These often work well for one very simple reason; people are paying either directly or indirectly (via their marketing of their extension) to promote your product/service. Nothing says win like others promoting your stuff for you.
4. Build a currated network of developers and promote them. Talk about them to others. Helping them is helping yourself. The more people or orgs investing in your marketplace developers the more stickiness a product will have.
5. Talk about the product everywhere. Conferences. Even start a conference around your vertical. Invite your dev circle to speak at the events. If nothing else it'll boost their careers.

Anyway that's my off the back of the napkin 'just saying' for today. I hope it helps someone who's interested in following this gentleman to Foss joy and success.

:)
>I put out several long reads. It helped us to improve our SEO and led decent traffic to our blog on Medium. Overall, my posts received 150k views in 2017.

My takeaway is that it helps people find the "magical thing" in the first place, especially the people who didn't know they were looking for the magical thing.
The Secret World of Newline Characters
I respectfully disagree. Without context, revenue by itself is less than 'who cares', it can be something of a damaging number in the sense that it can lead financially illiterate people astray.
Every Year of the Roman Empire
I still love textmate and use it daily. I opened up the source a few days back wondering what it would take to add split pane editing (chocolat app’s splits would be a good template to copy), no luck as I have no idea what I was looking at. Eventually figured out it was one of the Oak display classes, but still lost. I would be willing to learn objective cpp to get split panes.
The accent of Hollywood wasn't actually the accent of California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
Yeah, this is funny, but a bad idea. You getting on somebody elses workstation, under their login - what happens if they are doing bad shit to the company? Now you have to explain why you were seen on their workstation.
Steel is like $500 per ton. I would like to see a source for the $100 extra claim.
Haha, I ran into a couple of Irish lads in a club in the weekend.

I know it sounds like a stereotype, but with a few pints down them I swear I couldn't understand a thing they said when they were talking to each other. I had to check they weren't speaking Gaelic or something.

You definitely get used to accents quickly though. After a couple of weeks of hanging out with a bunch of Scottish people, I could understand Glasgow patter like it was normal English.
A guy took control on my computer when I was 12. He opened a Matrix-stylized chat window (black background, green font color) and started to talk with me. He told me I had a trojan and than I should clean my computer. Then he restarted my computer to show me what he could do.

After this event, I learnt how to clean and tweak Windows. I started searching and comparing programs. I installed Firefox, adblock, an antivirus and a firewall, etc. I remember also asking my parents if I could open the computer to see how it works. It's also the period I started to spend a lot of time on forums. I discovered MMORPGs. Then I built my own gaming computer and made a basic website about the game I was playing.
"The recently announced tariffs are leverage to get a fair deal at the negotiating table."

The US has a trade surplus with Canada, has a higher average tariff, has been the bigger beneficiary of trade, yet Trump has announced tariffs on Canada, to an enormous backlash (and Canadians seriously rethinking their integration in the US economy).

This isn't leverage, or masterful negotiating. It's a hamfisted moron bashing around with absolutely no clue what they're negotiating. Trump withdrew from TPP (you know -- one of those trade agreements that would remove most tariffs), and quickly thereafter announced that he would sure like to join TPP...only on the "US'" terms (which is hilarious because TPP was entirely at the US' terms).

At this point I marvel that anyone seriously puts forth an argument that Trump and his crew of misfits are serious negotiators. They're clowns in a clown show. Trump's great business prowess is that he fucked over so many people -- "negotiating" by refusing to pay them after they did the agreed work -- that anyone of legitimacy refuses to have anything to do with him. It's why his personal lawyer was a real life Saul Goodman. What a farce.
Show HN : Our issue tracker went from ‘Good’ to ‘Great’
I'm in a similar camp to yours. I've used tonnes of text editors across Windows / Mac / Linux, and Notepad++ was simply the best amongst all of them.

TextMate comes closest on the Mac which is why it's my primary GUI editor, but I still miss being able to do all the stuff that just came "naturally" in Notepad++.

Also, running Notepad++ in Wine just doesn't feel the same.
I hope people realize that the vast majority of children in DHS it HHS care crossed the border either as unaccompanied minors or without their families.

Even for those that come over with who they claim to be their families, the chaotic dynamics of illegal border crossings mean such claims are hard to verify. "Family members" may be human trafficking and child smugglers.

This is a very challenging situation, but until the laws are changed so that children and their legitimate family members can be held together for processing and deportation or resettlement, children will have to be separated from their families. Otherwise US law mandates illegal border crossers cannot be held at all past a few days, if they are with children. It is unacceptable for children to be get out of jail free cards for illegal migrants. We cannot encourage human trafficking to use children as such.
The New Elevation 4.2 Feature That Gives You an Edge:
JetBrains subscription model isn't too bad. If you buy month-to-month it is like any other sub model (access dies at the end of the month/subscription period) but if you buy annually you get a perpetual license for that version so it is kind of like just buying a version outright.

Of course the subscription model gives JetBrains more incentive to keep revving the version number so if you want to stay up to date with the latest and great you have to keep "buying" it every year but C'est la vie.

More info for those interested https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Solving the first FSF RYF hurdle for the Librem 5
That belongs to the domain of the content of the Makefile.

it:
@echo -n 'Number One,'

so:
@echo ' engage!'

It's also not completely alien that someone would define an "so" rule e.g. to build all shared objects :)
You think if people didn't have cars, SF Bay Area communities would build enough housing to support their job growth?
Ask HN: How to build Uber clone?
Is there any web service or programmer who can help me build Uber like web app? Please suggest.
Not directly related, but I recently enjoyed this video comparing the latest models of the USA Abrams & Russian T-90 in a tank battle smackdown.
Switzerland has a big complex web of treaties and agreements with the EU that make it almost, but not quite, a member. Neither the EU nor Switzerland are entirely happy with the situation; the EU doesn't like all the tradeoffs that need to be balanced just for Switzerland rather than in the standard EU bundle, while Switzerland doesn't like things like freedom of moment being made a condition of market access.

See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/switzerland-vo...

More than 120 treaties as of that writing, with guillotine clause - break one, break them all.
Thanks for the link! That is a fascinating project.

I was not considering the different sensor inputs that would not work on an existing game.
>There last big announcement was (surprise, surprise!) another crypto-currency thing to add to the 1600 that are already out. Like that's going to go far...

Maybe I'm wrong but I thought the last announcement as you claim wasn't anything to do with BitTorrent but instead was about Bram Cohen dipping his fingers into Crypto with Chia. Less as an action of BitTorrent but more of an action as him as an individual. He's no longer with BitTorrent according to the wikipedia page on him
A reference to my favorite mad inventor:

"Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts." -Cave Johnson

The strawman is you're the only one talking about banning self-driving test mules from the road.
This is how it works in normal software companies too. I never see the credentials for my employees.
Bluetooth? Is Wireshark is useful for troubleshooting dropped connections between mouse and host controller? So far hcidump and bluetoothd debugging aren't revealing why I keep getting dropped connections, but only on Linux. I don't have the same problem with Windows 10 and the same hardware setup. But off hand it seems like Wireshark would produce a ton of really verbose data.
The internet after Axel Voss: What's at stake in tomorrow's copyright vote
I think there's enough arguments for extended leaves already. This just seems like an added bonus to me.

At least where I live there's rules against making money when home with kid (government pay you to be home with kid).
1) utilitarianism is absolutely not the same as "reason". Its one of several ethical theories, and it isn't without its fair share of problems.

2) right now self driving cars are more deadly than human drivers by several orders of magnitude. Thats the reality.
They've trained above our farm for decades. I would be surprised if there were "just one". They typically have a two-plane echelon, with the trailing "wing" separated by a fair distance. I suspect this formation allows the wing to respond when the leader draws ground fire.
People might "want cars and want to live in the suburbs." That does not mean that my city should be torn apart with freeways to accommodate them.
Friendly at least! (:
I'd totally recommend FreeRTOS. It's a solid operating system for small systems, the ecosystem is growing again (Amazon is putting their weight behind it and there are older experienced shops out there like Future Designs), and there are a lot of EVKs out there that will run it out of the box.

Get one of the $35 NXP LPC5 boards. It's pretty nice.

https://www.amazon.com/NXP-LPC54018-based-Module-Amazon-Free...
And the problem is that Mojave start to cut some macs, like mine, and as iOS developer I can't ignore Apple.

Now, I'm in the position of get a worse (in SSD space + other things) machine for more money or get hackintosh
Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. Cash is reality.
The forget/lose/destroy passphrase isn't too hard to solve:

- 0server reset is possible through PBKDF2 & AES backup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFR8cx7jB1c)

- You can improve the design in the above video with a threshold algorithm, where you only need to get X >= Y of reset tokens correct (Y should be high enough for entropy, and X is enough for your memory to be accurate).

- Or the model I most/best prefer, is doing multi-part social-proof backup login. Aka you have 3+ friends (or services, if you don't trust your friends?) who when combined together can unlock a backup of your key.

These systems work, and I'm confident you'll see even centralized systems convert to them (we're already seeing Facebook do it) for higher security.

Martti 'Sirius' Malmi, Satoshi's 1st contributor to Bitcoin, also has joined our team to work on solving problems around this - like, if you need to trust 3 of your friends, how do you actually have a guarantee that those are* your friends' pubkey, not some imposter account, especially because consumers won't be good at copying/checking pubkeys. He's already got a bunch of code for it working: https://github.com/identifi/identifi-lib

* how the PBKDF2 & AES backup works: http://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html (couple videos in, each only 1min long)
Maven: Deploy Java Apps to Azure with Tomcat on Linux
The Google Pixelbook power button is now a 2FA token – Naked Security
China censors autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos
AT&T Tied to Supposed Startup Group Lobbying Against Net Neutrality in CA
Yes, I did. The article does a good job of explaining the downsides. As I explained, I'm moderately opposed to the tariffs, but protectionism does work in some cases and there are certainly arguments for tariffs. I would be interested in hearing them rather than seeing discussion of them stifled.
You could achieve similar results for cheaper by taking LSD. There's the added benefit that your brain actually believes it's all real instead of merely perceiving it.
Yeah, having an IPFS like system handled at the browser level (in the address bar) would solve the name resolving bit without DNS.

We could imagine something like this, the full URL is:

QmaG4FuMqEBnQNn3C8XJ5bpW8kLs7zq2ZXgHptJHbKDDVx/github/example.jpg

but could be written like so

Qx/github/example.jpg

And if there are duplicates, all duplicates are displayed in a list, with metadata (like creator, ssl info to help verify the creator...) and you select the one you want.
The very best investors could tell you what they do but then they'd have to kill you...
You keep insisting there's zero evidence of the performance of autonomous cars relative to human drivers (you're talking about drunk/texting, but I'm distilling the generalization from it). What evidence do you have that there is zero evidence? After all, we have off-road lab results from many manufacturers. We have on-road results. Some early-stage autonomous tech is already widely available and in use today, such as collision detection with auto-braking to prevent rear-end collisions. There is TONS of data. Stop pretending it doesn't exist.

Your video is an interesting example. That is not a fully autonomous vehicle, but rather an assisted one, one that expects human engagement. In the example case, it failed because of human error. Now, there's a good argument that semi-autonomous vehicles will lead to additional human error, but that's not saying what you're saying.

If you live in an icy climate (I do), and have been driving for a long time (I have), then at some point, you would remember the transition to anti-lock braking systems. Before them, we had to learn to pump brakes in certain ways on icy roads, to prevent locking. Now, just push down the pedal, and a computer does it for you - one that senses brake lock before it happens. It made winter driving much safer.

Your criticism of Tesla sensors is flawed. You're assuming that their sensors will not get better. That seems an unreasonable and unlikely conclusion. And you're ignoring my point about 360 degree sensor coverage. I'm an excellent driver, but I find myself in danger regularly because I can't see everything.

Magical thinking, oh yeah.
The meditation study in particular seems to equate self-esteem and ego- is that a valid analysis? That seems like a fundamental flaw.

Does feeling the benefit of something and affirming this on a questionnaire equate to inflated ego? Not so sure about that.
I'm not sure what you've tried to communicate. Your phrase hasn't added anything to the discussion.
There's jEdit.

It looks horrible out of the box, but it looks as good, if not better than most modern editors.

It runs on the jvm and so is sluggish to launch, but it's an extremely mature product and the plugin ecosystem is nice. Getting the latest plugins is a bit hit or miss, but it's worked great for me and my colleagues.

Font rendering is awesome and has support for ligatures etc.
Ways we make the Slack iOS app accessible
At least the ones that actually improve commensurate with the increased cost product safety or environmental impact rather than protecting the established players aren’t.
American-English translation of "do the needful".
I mean, decompiling the app is likely not hard. ILSpy is a thing, and you can even compare against a decompiled open source version.

FUD about "obscured telemetry" isn't worth much here either: They specifically have a telemetry URL in the configuration file, and they not only specify that they set it in the thread, but they instruct you on how you can verify the configuration's contents on the proprietary version. Telemetry exists in VSCode, but the code is open source, and you can inspect it to your heart's content.

Here:

Here's how it works. When you build from the vscode repository, you can configure the resulting tool by customizing the product.json file. This file controls things like the Gallery endpoints, “Send-a-Smile” endpoints, telemetry endpoints, logos, names, and more.

When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.

And:

You can look at the product.json that is installed with the Visual Studio Code product to see what we configure.

Willing to bet if the product.json is easily visible in the compiled version, you can even adjust it to work like the open source version if you'd like, by removing the telemetry URL.
Also if the security model where you work is like where I work and they wont give you the certs, but will allow you to add your own cert, Charles Proxy works a charm.

Crazy useful for sending server side errors to mobile apps to simulate failure that otherwise wouldn't be replicable on demand in a production environment.
I wouldn’t say it’s funded by the federal government, but through EI premiums paid by employees and employers.

It’s a very regressive funding model paid by a flat income and payroll “tax” on earnings between $3500 and $50000.

Last I heard, it takes in billions more than it pays out.
I'm looking forward to every update that pops up. Really inspiring!

I made a small error in my explanation for the date line: I meant to say "voronoi border with the cells just to the west" (instead of east)

By the way if you have a list of the 0 0 coordinate airports, I can do a best effort search for their correct location. Let me know,
>I'm continually shocked at how few SUVs exceed the cargo volume of our 35mpg Scion xB. I've moved furniture for a friend because his Equinox wouldn't carry it. I rented a Nissan Xterra to carry a bicycle box that fit less snugly in the Scion than it did in the Nissan. SUVs might have a use, but carrying things is not one of them.

That's like saying you don't need a fullsize truck because the methheads seem to do just find hauling scrap metal in their Dodge Caravan.

For a load with a constant amount of space usage (e.g. kids + sports stuff) having more space will make hauling that load less of a chore. If you do it regularly then the luxury of a bigger vehicle is often considered worth the cost.

I can and have hauled fridges, office desks, etc on the roof of my wagon. I always prefer to use my truck for those things unless the item can't stand getting dirty from the truck or I'm going so far that the extra fuel economy and better driving experience of the car makes it worth it. Strapping a desk to the roof of a car and not doing a crap job is a chore. Just tossing it in a truck and strapping it down takes like 30sec.

A vehicle with more space can haul more crap or haul the same crap more easily.

As an aside, I wouldn't let my kids be seen in a Volvo Wagon. I'm white trash, not some hipster. A rusted out Subaru is more my style.
I use cloudwatch events, you can configure cron/frequency and define json to send out.
Square: almost as valuable as two of the biggest US exchange companies combined
I absolutely cannot categorize a developer asking to be paid for their work as "betrayal".
Myspace in middle school. Looking at the themes and editing them turned into creating my own own one-page website. It showed me the complete control you can have with a computer.
That entire presentation is worth going through. The conclusion is great.
Yes, and the need to support the banking industry is why we can't have proper tenant protection. People don't buy because it's a good investment, they are sick of the fact that in America it's impossible to get someone to perform according to contract. If you own and the sewer line has collapsed you have it fixed. If you rent, it's an ordeal and like pulling teeth, and there is no recourse for having to live with shit for three months.
Mid 20's SE here. I've known so many colleagues past 40, and they would mop the floor with me technically. The experience of being in the industry for 20 years is gold.

The only advantage we (younger people) have is energy and fewer responsibilities (take care of kids, grandsons, medical issues). But we are still reckless and have many unknowns unknowns compared to the older folk.
Man with Implanted Public Transit Card Escapes Conviction
Seems like allowing the user to specify retry logic (if any) covers the "tricky" pieces. Let the user define the number of retries and delay between.
Look at the "last modified" dates at the bottom of the pages on that site. I'm pretty sure you're looking at the very old pre-open-source version of the site from the previous developer.
When it comes to "closed track" and other "simulation" style things, you need to be very careful when ML is involved.

I don't know if Uber/Waymo/Others have "solved" this problem, but ML systems have a tendency to "learn" the wrong thing. You could run millions of simulations (both virtual or on a closed course) with "test obstacles", but the second the car encounters one a child with red balloons in the early morning on a foggy day it might not know what to do with it because that exact scenario wasn't in any simulations.
Just because something is written in Javascript, doesn't mean it doesn't include a binary.

For example, sass-loader is/was dependent on node-sass which is a binary install. Lots of file utilities on NPM are similarly reliant on C code that may only compile on your machine correctly if you are lucky.
Free doesn't pay the bills.