skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is an efficient economic solution that basically ignores that we have a terrible public transit system and pervasive inequality which would result in the tolls being primarily on the backs of the poorest among us who travel the furthest to work in City centers to be paid the least.
>> One criticism of New York Times that I've read online is that they won't allow you to cancel your digital subscription through their website. They force you to call them. I'm not sure if that has changed recently, but that's a pretty questionable dark pattern.

FWIW, I have a "cancel subscription" link in my profile.
right from the weasel's mouth: https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp
Cached version https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VvTCsb...
Ask HN: Which ONE book would you gift to a friend starting as an entrepreneur?
I've got a friend starting the journey.

He's somewhat naive I think about it all.

I think he'd learn a great deal for example about some of the modern ideas about entrepreneurship.

It would be polite to gift him a book, I think. I wonder, if you could gift one book only to a staring entrepreneur, what would it be?
Open in incognito? (Not advocating bypassing, just responding to your comment.)
Isn't this heavily misleading? This still seems like the charges for continuing to use old versions of Java <= 8. The article doesn't confirm or deny that staying on the latest version remains free.
Interesting. How does it verify that you're a SF resident?
With systemd, any really tricky low-level bug is systemd's fault, because systemd tries to do everything, in the most "advanced" way. And due gnome3 dependencies it's been adopted by all major distros. Before systemd, a difficult bug was not always the fault of one newfangled opinionated and unavoidable package.

I read the first blog post about systemd when it was written, and thought it was really interesting. Then I read the second blog post and thought "eh this is getting a bit complicated". And since then of course systemd has relentlessly taken over and added much more ... so of course practically any low-level system bug, randomly distributed, has a really high chance of being in systemd. And again, it does lots of stuff that was never needed before - in this case it's un-sharing a mount namespace for extra isolation of a small trusted service, which is overkill and complicated, and this struggle to figure out what the hell happened seems particularly unnecessary.
"it's a nightmare. One wrong step can take down the entire workflow completely."

How and in what universe? I'm not merely being flip I literally don't understand how having options leads to such disasters. In most linux distros for example you have a central settings menu much like the windows control center plus many apps have a settings menu for app specific settings.

If you check a box and things no longer work the way you expect it doesn't require magic to open the menu and uncheck the box or reset the app to default settings. Its rather difficult to do any real harm. Even mucking up a system so bad it can't boot is cause for booting up from a disk to fix the problem or reinstalling in an hour if that seems too challenging.

I'm not clear on how to parse "take down an entire workflow completely" into anything meaningful. Its like someone argued for a house with a single set of furniture glued down to the floor and discussed how houses where you could put any sort of furniture down anywhere could take down your breakfast routine completely as if billions of people weren't out there organizing their own kitchens and churning out meals all over the world.
I once tried to do this as well, and got sucked into the rabbit hole of tinkering with little scripts and hacks and trying things out and never writing my first blog post before I lost motivation.

Next time I feel like I want to write a blog I'll just put it on wordpress.com or so.
Oracle will charge for support of Java 8, not for all Java versions.
I'm not going to argue here over what religions or groups specifically are or aren't cults.

But GP's definition lacked significant nuance.
I canceled mine last week exactly because of those dark patterns. They also show ads even if you have a subscription, which sounds very backward to me. I'd love to support them, but those practices don't belong in 2018.

EDIT: Oh, looks like the cancellation didn't go through and they charged me for one more month, sweet. I might just go to my bank and tell them to block the source. Or even better, I may have found a trick. You can switch your payment to Paypal, and then Paypal let's you block/cancel reccuring payment. Let's see if that works.
This is some _incredible_ clickbait. The latest JRE and JDK will continue to be free. What Oracle are charging for is continued Java 8 support.
> Oracle have announced that, “after January 2019”, Java SE 8 public updates will not be available for “business, commercial or production use” without a commercial license.

This is blogspam and FUD. Java SE 8 will be past EOL at that point. Oracle has announced no intent to charge for updates to Java SE 11, which should be the current release, at that point.
> The Googler thingy a few months ago? Let us understand what that was.

This is very recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17682348

> “Everyone’s access to documents got turned off, and is being turned on [on a] document-by-document basis,” said one source. “There’s been total radio silence from leadership, which is making a lot of people upset and scared. … Our internal meme site and Google Plus are full of talk, and people are a.n.g.r.y.”

I wouldn't know if that is true, but on HN, such stories seemed to mostly plummet off the front page, with no commentary by Googlers. It's pretty hard to know what people who can't talk freely are thinking.

Though I agree that there isn't likely to be an equivalent to Snowden's "the American people have a right to know about this so they can make decisions", that is, other than on a personal level.

But let's first and foremost understand that we don't know what either of this "was" or "is", because that involves a whole lot of people, most of whom we haven't heard of, much less candidly. The factuality of that is worth more than speculation and generalization. It does say something in and of itself, something that is not good, but it's still not a canvas onto which we can just draw things, because they cannot or won't protest and nothing can be verified.

> Compare your Googlers with Edward Snowden.

The average Googler is a fiction. There are only the actual people.
After all those years of endlessly arguing back and forth about which programming language is the best, the poor Java evangelists have had the blocks knocked out from underneath them, because now you can instantly counter any number of technical pro-Java arguments and win the argument in one word, by simply be saying the name "Oracle", and sadly shaking your head in pity.
Thaty's about it, and it might not even have too big an impact on the next sale, since those would have different maturity and won't be equivalent.
The long waited death of Java is finally here
Would like to see how this compares to d3. D3 is incredibly powerful but also very difficult to learn and teach. Whenever I write code in it, I feel like I'm the last person to ever understand that code.

If they can position themselves as a common-person d3, they would have themselves a huge win. The fact that they say typescript right in the title (yet, another technology you have to learn to get started), is not terribly inspiring.
OK, but from what I can tell this isn't a fee for using java in a commercial setting, it's a fee for access to continued support/patching of Java 8.

Java 9 is out. Java 10 is out. I can see why oracle might want to cut down their support costs and retire their older versions more quickly.

However this will blow up in their faces if a lot of software gets exploited due to unpatched vulnerabilities.
Note: this applies to new updates to Java 8, as a result of the upcoming Java 11 taking over as the LTS version. Oracle is not charging for Java in general.

As a result the headline and article come across as a bit FUDdy to me.
Japanese is no example. Actually you can refer to Wikipedia and you'll find Japanese and Chinese are totally different languages. Japanese "leveraged" some Chinese characters while building the writing system. There's really not a "next step" here.

As a Chinese, I've never had difficulty learning to recognize characters when I was a kid. Also they are not random stroke combinations, there's always logic inside and you get that easily after your Chinese reach a certain level. Just like when you see hydro- in Eng, you know it has something with water. Chinese may be difficult as a second language but I cannot find data to support it also difficult as a first language from personal experience. I began to read novels before 10yo anyway.
Germany is better unless you use a crappy bank. HBCI is a 20 years old API supported by most major banks.
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Long term for related grasses like sorghum I'd say yes but crops like cotton or potatoes I'm more doubtful. Other grasses such as rice or wheat I'm just not sure because they're so different.
And after seeing how bullshit their unsubscribe flow is, I don't think I'll be joining back any time soon. As much as I want to support their work, these dark patterns are despicable.
Thanks for sharing. The complexities of the human brain will never cease to amaze me. There should be a way, in all this neuronal maze, to escape those compulsions, but I bet it's really well hidden.
Poor journalism.

1. It's about EOL SE 8

2. "software running Java SE 8" - the article needs to be clear about Oracle Java, and Open JDK and others like Azul
What is a "named user plus"?
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Yup I subscribed, but unsubscribed after a couple weeks after I saw that. Pretty scummy way to handle un-subscriptions.
Topology and climate of both regions differs markedly. The significant population centres in both regions developed along their respective major river systems. Most especially the Nile, and Tigris-Euphrates.
That headline’s sensationalist and misleading. They’re going to charge for continued JDK 8 updates.

JDK (and JRE) 11 will be the latest version by then. Only companies which need or want to stay on the previous version will have to pay.
I don’t see anything wrong with charging commercial users for support of an old product.

I’m no fan of Oracle of their sales practices but the title is very misleading by omission
What type of usage does Java 8 vs 9+ have in the real enterprise world? Isn't that still a significant amount of companies and applications?
"Ideas I disagree with are wrong and should be silenced!" is about as timeless and universal a position as any in human history.

It's not a good one, though.
Their total print circulation is 2.1 million. [1] I always discount digital head counts since they can be grossly inflated with complete plausible deniability. And even when done well, it's probably accurate to do things like count somebody clicking on a single clickbait headline and then immediately leaving as a 'monthly reader' which creates a sort of dissonance between what we think of as monthly reader and what it actually means.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_by_circulat...
This is a tired argument. SCSS was supposed to take over CSS... still waiting. For a hot minute, CoffeeScript was supposed to take over javascript. In the end, CoffeeScript didn't have a chance, but at the time many thought it did.

Typescript may be different and may be better, but there is a lot of rightly justified hesitation to adopting it.
Make no mistake. Manufacturing something is just as complex if not more complex than design. When you know how to manufacture a car, you probably know how to design one as well.

You can literally be taught how to design a car in CAD. It can be done on your computer with a mouse. But to fabricate a car takes a life time of knowledge from multitudes of disciplines.

The proof is in the pudding. China is well known for replicating and ripping off patented designs in seconds because design is trivial once you know how to fabricate something.

The only reason why China can't produce an nvidia GPU is because they don't have the knowledge to fabricate it.
Does anyone use these : "Java SE Advanced Desktop", "Java SE Advanced", "Java SE Suite" ?

I'd never heard of them until this announcement. The jdk, everything we develop and run on, is unaffected ?
Great response, thanks very much. That's interesting how it's also been linked to cardiac arrhythmia! I'm unable to order a Laser Egg from (no Australian distributors), so would need to source an alternative - unless I go for a freight forwarder.
Any idea how much NYTimes gets for this deal?
Ask HN: Daily stand-ups – how do you make them work?
We're a team of about 10 people, doing daily stand-ups, where we provide updates on what we are doing, blockers, problems, etc. basically in line with the Scrum concept of stand-ups. However, at the end of the day I don't see so much value coming out of the meetings for us. If you find them valuable, how do you guys make it work?
I'll take the rare systemd bug over the buggy hell that most sysv init scripts were.

In fact, I run both distros with and without systemd and broken init scripts are a constant headache, while I've yet to encounter a single issue caused by systemd.
Indeed, in Europe I've never seen a vehicle stopped for fare checks. Some places don't allow ticket purchases from the driver either, while others do but it's frowned upon for slowing down everyone else.
I have seen in this thread people comparing prepared food to raw food. And, of course, raw food is cheaper. You need to compare apples to apples. Prepared healthy food is way more expensive than junk food.

Healthy diet costs three times that of junk food https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11149644/Healthy-diet-costs...

I hope that his answers your question and we can talk about the rest of the points. :)
> The higher levels of Catholic hierarchy looks like a medieval institution because it is a medieval institution.

Well, it's got pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval elements.

> There is definitely set dogma

Depending on who you believe (yes, there are actually doctrinal disputes over which doctrinal pronouncements are in fact dogmatic, though there are a handful of cases which are dogmatic and not in dispute as to that) there is between very little and extremely little definitively set dogma, though.
I would also like to recommend https://app.nytimes.com/ , which is a different approach to the same content.
A lot. For all practical purposes, it very hard to get projects to move to big version numbers in large enterprises.

Its not as simple as just recompiling code. Something like the entire ecosystem has to move, you will have plenty of compatibility problems, code breakage and catch-22 situations.

This is not good news for Java.

Also a lot of 'Architects' will be forced to think if they will be made to pay for Java later. Hence should they use something else to build their latest projects?
And do the logging. My only gripe is that it logs in a binary format requiring special tools to read the logs. Otherwise systemd is a marvel.
What a shame. Just when I got my hopes up.
The Today's Paper link is also a good way to scrape for data analysis (the API isn't great), such as this piece I did looking at their coverage over a decade:

The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we die

https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html
Memantine (5-10 mg) + selank.

Add a multivitamin, D + K, and chelated/TRAACS magnesium supplement. Like AOR Ortho-Core (or Life Extension Two-per-day if too expensive), Life Extension D + K, and Doctor's Best High Absorption Magnesium.

Can also add Doctor's Best DHA 500 and Doctor's Best Real Krill.

Nutrient tests like NutrEval catch many deficiencies. And a comprehensive hormone panel (include thyroid panel). And genetic testing.
And what a turnaround for the CLR. People used to say, "Sure, C# is a better Java, but Microsoft and closed-source etc..." Or, "Sure F# looks cool, pity about..."

Microsoft's reputation isn't what Sun's was, but it's miles better than it was under Ballmer and light-years ahead of Oracle's. Looks like the bulk of .NET code is released under permissive licenses, too (?)

I don't know how much "hacker goodwill" buys you when you make old-people tech, but Java has definitely lost ground to its main competitor. Maybe their recent uptick in language development velocity will help things.
I'm curious what beliefs you have in mind that you notice are typically not thought about. (Not that I think they don't exist, I'm just curious what specifically you have in mind).

The LDS church has an interesting tiered conception of doctrine, wherein some things that have been taught by LDS prophets are not in fact official doctrine. People tend to ignore the "space doctrine" most of the time too.
I think they just meant simpler. Are these molecules ever completely planar?
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Well, one way out is behavioral therapy.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a form of anxiety disorder. You are afraid of something (sickness, death, loosing control) - then you get obsessive about it and then you do some compulsive action to mentally ease that thought/anxiety.

But now you have "learned" to behave in a certain way to feel better. And you are weighting the triggering thought as more important by giving that much attention to it. This is resulting in a self-enforcing feedback loop in the end.

Behavioral therapy is a way to "unlearn" this behavior. Mostly by working against the initial anxiety. If you are unconcerned/neutral/bored of something, you cannot gain that much obsessive/compulsive momentum.
This looks neat, but I would not call it clear. In cases where I need to check many conditions and return, I would simply use a conditional switch (and also use exact error values instead of generated ones):

switch {
case transfer == nil:
return nil, ErrInvalidTransfer
case person == nil:
return nil, ErrInvalidPerson
// ...
}

This, to me, is both concise and clear.
From my understanding, this is not Haskells IO - though my time with Haskell is limited.

1. Haskell uses special notation 'do' to handle access to IO wrapped values, e.g. (contrieved example, one would not use do for such simple cases)

y = do x <- xWithIO
return x + 1

instead of

y = x + 1

2. Haskell method signatures do include IO, e.g.

doSomething :: Int -> IO Int

instead of

def doSomething(i:Int):Int

3. Because IO is usually not the only effect managaging monad, as I've said in another comment, the type signature usually uses a type alias that does alias a monad transformer stack like

type Result a = ReaderT Env ( ErrorT String ( StateT Integer Identity))

or concurrency mixed in

4. This the same as my Scala code, where I have cats FutureT monad transformers with Scalactic errors OrT Every stacks showing up all over my APIs as a type alias of 'WithErrors'.

5. 'Also, parallelism is "free" on pure code.' Not sure what's that got to do with it, but yes if you have no concurrency problems (concurrent writes to shared data) you don't need to think about concurrency and parallelism is free.

But if my understanding is wrong, I'm happy to learn something about concurrency in Haskell without it showing in code and type signatures.
Boy?

#cancelboys
the OP's post, and your post are not mutually exclusive. I think you both point out inherent flaws in the term "freedom of press" as it is currently understood in society. His point is that they are incentivied not burn bridges with large corps, and your point is they can say whatever the f* they want with zero governmental oversight.
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I'm sure some of it can be contributed to the management itself. If you hire and trust people, and then fail, you failed when hiring and trusting them. If you use a consultant, it's very easy to shift the blame without taking any yourself.

That is mostly a problem if the people above the management are the same. For a sane company with good leadership, failures are a learning experience that makes you better.
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I love all the great open source software they've supported.

https://d3js.org/

https://www.quora.com/What-JavaScript-library-does-the-New-Y...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_...

https://svelte.technology/

https://rollupjs.org/guide/en

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247571

um304 6 months ago [-]

NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.

danso 6 months ago [-]

I think Bostock had already created D3 by the time the NYT hired him: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_....

rich_harris 6 months ago [-]

In fact, the creator of Backbone and Underscore — Jeremy Ashkenas — worked on this article until he left the NYT last year (to join the creator of D3, Mike Bostock, at https://observablehq.com)
Same, I canceled easily via the web app recently when they decided to doubled down on being another partisan rag like WaPo, feeding off the outrage culture which does well on social media these days.

I see it's paid off commercially, no doubt, as it's seemed to have attracted a new wider user base as the lower quality comment sections now reflects on every political article. Including the NYT selected preferred comments which I used to find held a basic level of neutrality and civililty.

Business is business though, and it's always hard to balance scale with quality.
Big fan, he was quite an influence on me. Really sad.
Maybe apply some pressure instead of tapping? Same effect, but with less sound, so you'd need a really good mic, or something crazy like pointing a laser at the device/hand, and if that's the kind of attacks you're facing, you don't go for a device that costs 30$ xD
I love their 'The Daily' podcast. They pick one topic everyday and dive deep over 30 mins. Overall a happy NYT subscribed for last 6 months. I paid 110$ for 1 year membership and got a free Google home device. Great deal!
Sounds like this could be perfectly executed with a tailored app. Anything exists out there which gives you an audio book in L2 and the corresponding test in L1+2?
Or you could "hack" your body by eating keto-friendly foods:

https://blog.virtahealth.com/with-sustained-type-2-diabetes-...

https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/type-2-diabetes-reversal-the...
wow this is amazing! lovin the old school game tracks and also the way you built it. curious what it was like in the way of webAssembly and any performance issues you may have run in to. have heard some experiences that span a very wide love/hate spectrum.
If the NYT and Washington Post profit and win awards by covering Watergate and Russiagate, and just happen to depose Nixon and Trump in the process of reporting the truth, that's Capitalism at its finest.

https://russiagateposter.com/russiagate-poster/
Coolest piece of tech I've seen whole day! TMNT doesn't load though! Tried multiple times! :(
reminds me of wikipedia.

1) [massive funding campaign banner plea]

2) funds and visit wikipedia again

3) [massive funding campaign banner plea]

.. I don't know, use a cookie to make the banner smaller at least..
> Once people see the power they have when they act collectively

Also, once people see things under the facade, such as

> “Letting you ask that question is the voice that you have. Very few companies would allow you to do that.”