skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person who owns a house and rents it out is taxed both on rental income, and on the value of the house itself.

They say that copyrights are "intellectual property". Let's treat them as such in other respects, not just when it comes to protecting property rights.
Simpler https://www.staticgen.com/metabakeorg
That depends on the window manager. The application state is not really affected, it just stops updating (redrawing its area). When another window moves away, the window manager asks the "underlying" application to update that area of the screen. It's dead, so the WM keeps displaying the last thing that was there, until something else happens in that spot.

On the other hand, compositing window managers will dedicate a separate buffer to each application, where they have exclusive access. That kind of a window manager would not have to ask the application to update anything - it would just take the image from the dedicated application's buffer and update the screen with it. Since the application's buffer can't be modified by anything else, it would have the last state of the application in it. That would in turn find its way to the screen. No glitches.
Yep. Want a program to halt? Put a timer on it.

I thought the comment was both interesting and illustrative. Sure, in CS there's a ton of things still to do. But my comment wasn't about CS, it was about programming -- making things for people. The programs don't have to be provably correct or even consistent. That kind of stuff is the science part of programming which is completely different from the applied philosophy that is programming computers to make stuff people want.
> That's why Facebook chose to just fix the slow parts of hg[1], rather than fix the slow parts of git, to build a VCS which would scale with its codebase.

On the other hand, Google seems to successfully use Git in the same way.
EU wants 'full picture' on Amazon data use
What are the benefits over JSON5?
Someone I know swears by rowatinex https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1431192

I pray that I won’t ever need to consider taking it though (passed one stone last year)
Thanks for the kind words! There's some basic integration now, and we'll be adding more in the future.

Right now, Sublime Merge will pickup installed Sublime Text packages (e.g., for syntax highlighting), and will also find Sublime Text when you choose Open in Editor from within Merge (this can be customised to something else though, of course).
Just found it way too overpowering.

For a big screen ad - great - very Appley.
For an embedded video in a webpage - way too intense for me.
I’m sure you’ve heard people rant about being banned from a service when they don’t think they should have been. This is not one of those rants.

Well, that's exactly what it is, though. Nothing wrong with that.
It’s become more and more common to see op-eds sourcing selected tweets of few outraged randoms on Twitter around any significant cultural event.

Boom. Instant manufactured outrage.
I'm currently using NETSPay [1] in Singapore to do e-transactions.

It's a bit cumbersome at the moment; most shops assume I'm using NFC to pay (which I think is the default option) but my cheap Xiaomi android phone doesn't have NFC, so I have to ask them to print out or display the QR code for me to scan using the app.

Other than that, it works: once scanned, the transaction completes within seconds.

[1] https://www.nets.com.sg/consumer/products/netspay
Maybe it's just my preference, but I think a JSON/YAML replacement should focus on removing as much redundancy as possible. For example use

title: SAN Example

instead of

title = "SAN Example"

and use dictionaries by default, that is

creator

name: Sylvain Kerkour

website: https://kerkour.com

instead of

creator = {

name = "Sylvain Kerkour"

website = "https://kerkour.com"

}

or something like that more or less...
Why you should watch “The Persuaders – A documentary by Frontline”​
Do you have any plans to add a debugger GUI in sublime? Integrated git tooling and debugger is the main reason I use VS Code.
I remember something about Sublime being written in Python? Also I'm more curious about the feature set. The performance argument can be made again for Sublime vs VSCode. Doesn't matter to me because I've switched from Sublime to VSCode a long time ago.

I care about features the most, not if the app will open in 0.5s or 3s
Anonymous sources are a different thing altogether.

They are generally giving out specific facts.

Yes, of course those things are generally about manipulations of some kind, but there are protocols involved, and those 'anon facts' generally have to be true. In these situations, the news organizations credibility is on the line. The more credible the entity, the more likely they've done their checking/double checking to corroborate etc..

Many legit stories break this way.

Again, yes, it's all about narrative ... but there's generally more meat to the narrative in those cases.

Tweets by individuals who are authoritative on something are also a different thing. If an actress says 'I faced harassment from several studio execs' - then this has some credibility as a statement.

But this is altogether different from the straw-man 'people are saying' types of stories which are very common. A daily occurrence.

The 'materially useful' tweets are a small thing.
Actually it often is when allocating options by value etc. Bear in mind, I didn't say that it always is.
Looking forward to trying this out.

Sublime editor is incredibly fast.
Jon, it's impressive how you deliver incredibly performant cross-platform UIs. You really should consider talking about your development and custom widget toolkit.

Great job on Sublime Merge.
No, it is not because of Ruby. It is either about not prioritizing performance in their development process or lacking the skills to write fast software. The Gitlab team would probably write a slow application in Go too.
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But what's the benefit of taking this approach instead of the classic open propeller design or to ducted multi propeller designs?
Thanks for your explanation.

I have tried it with nodeJS, the sync feature is really great. But I can't get the debbuger to work, I am using VS Code. Can I even use the debugger?
It’s this kind of revelation which makes HN worth reading.
Oh Calrec <3. I used to do work as an audio engineer and assisted on a lot of orchestral recordings in concert halls. Among many others, we often used a calrec stereo mic and was just such a great sounding mic.
Awesome, for those of you wondering just like me - it's SIGCONT.
You say: IPFS promises nothing, nor tries to, in the way of permanent archiving.

From the IPFS web site[0]:

Humanity's history is deleted daily

...

IPFS keeps every version of your files and makes it simple to set up resilient networks for mirroring of data.

This is clearly stating that the system keeps every version of your files, and it says nothing about "pinning", or the fact that the files will, in fact, not be kept. At best the web site is misleading, at worst it is simply lying.

I don't yet know with the IPFS really is, nor what it really does, but it's statements like that on the IPFS web site that makes me distrustful of the hype.

[0] https://ipfs.io/#why
I disagree in precision, but not with your direction.

YES, these behaviors must arise in any group of thinking beings.

No, this is not like what happened before.

The Internet and social media dramatically accelerate the creation of new groups and the rate of polarization.

On the forums I am on, I have seen tiny social cracks become ongoing flame wars in the span of a few months. These are fringe opinions, with strong emotional components, become battle lines.

But worst of all, it is that the underlying issue loses all hope of ever being discussed peacefully or maturely.

A valid fringe issue, which would eventually have its day in the Sun, is now a point to test identity

These became issues, when earlier it was solved by the slower pace of conversation and discussion. Things are getting inflamed due to the medium. IT carries little nuance or context, and it amplifies the most acerbic and attention grabbing messages.

It makes things worse in a way human beings and cable companies alone could not.
There are two options here:

1. People value owning a home irrationally, the price is disconnected from fundamentals

2. People are pricing in future growth. With interest rates being low, this growth can be fairly long-term. The growth is primarily in future rent increases, but also potential interest rate decreases or irrational future growth (as in point 1).

Now, for point 2, we can actually calculate implied future growth, and then try to decide whether it is rational or not - e.g. given the market future interest rate expectations.

It would also be interesting to know who owns these houses. Did they buy them by really stretching themselves, and any downturn in the area would result in loads of forced sells, temporarily collapsing the market? Or are the owners in no danger of having to sell?
Sublime Text plugins are written in Python, but the core is C++ AFAIK.
Here's another interactive tool including the pentatonic and more https://www.fretflip.com/023177548424, also a short tutorial on pentatonics https://www.fretflip.com/minor-pentatonic
Ha, I missed the mark here. The comment I was replying to mentioned 'railways' and 'the west' so I was thinking of the American West. Older use-case, and for national/internal development. You are right that the Marshall Plan is a good equivalent example. But I think its thinking was more obvious: it's either us or the soviet, and also rebuilt economies had only one major economy to trade with. These gave the USA major leverage. I don't see it here, leverage is a lot lower.
Ticket auctions seems like a reasonable way to be fair , and ticket master supports that http://www.ticketmaster.com/ticketauctions

I guess it depends on the artist for whether the auction is allowed or not?
Very nice. Fast and responsive, unlike most of the Git clients I know. And the new preferences UI is pretty cool.

A couple questions:

* Can I add custom themes from my Sublime Text installation? How about color schemes?

* Are there plans for plugin support?

* Is there a development channel?

* Have you thought about adding tabs?

* Have you considered showing previews of binary files?
Yes, they're all people I've met at conferences, meetups, partner companies. I only label people that I've met and that knew I was taking their picture. It helps me to keep a personal connection with a much larger group of acquaintances than I could keep in my head alone.
I announced BugMuncher here (since been renamed to Saber Feedback - https://www.saberfeedback.com), not sure if it counts as a successful startup, but it's been profitably paying my wages for a couple of years :)
What's the alternative? Self-hosting? Don't get me started on this.

IMO hosting platforms are the only sane choice for blogs in 2018 and the foreseeable future.

Also cost is a factor. Hosted solutions are essentially free (in particular GitHub Pages). A dedicated EC2 machine costs 5$/month upwards.
FOD: Fear of Destruction?
How did you picture it?
How do you get website traffic on social media?
Personally, I'd be happy with just a standard way of adding comments to JSON
theres about 3 options.

1) Exit social media and save yourself. This is the best option

2) With unending patience, choose an individual and just interact with them at a human level till both sides achieve understanding ( no matter how distasteful or difficult the process ). This does not scale

3) Begin to invest in PR, think tanks, media firms, groups and so on to craft a message to sway large groups of people at one go. This scales and what most people are resorting to, and what is creating the problem in the first place.
Death by Database: a short story of how a bad schema can hurt you company
This is definitely part of the reason. Back when git was first released there was a huge amount of scepticism about whether anyone actually needed it, but lots of people used it anyway just because they wanted to use what Linus made for Linux.

I think since then many people have realised that Linus was right and that git is good, but it just wouldn't have gained so much momentum without Linux.
> There must be some response here about the likelihood of kids getting the chance to watch old TV shows, given the current state of copyright law

I'm starting to think this might be one of the drivers of current copyright laws, the biggest competitor for media companies is gradually becoming there own back catalogs. When you've got 50 years of classics to watch or rewatch you're less willing to spend money on new content.
I just read through these again, you might want to as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’d imagine because it is the easiest to explain.
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I suppose it turned into that after all. As layer after layer of the impact kept unfolding I was a bit in shock - not that such a thing is possible, but that it all hinges on Google's neglected social media platform. Ban me on G+ if you must, but stripping my identity on Gmail, Hangouts, Google Photos, OAuth2 for other sites? That's what hurts.
Same here, never jumped the wagon and for a rather introvert person like me, it seems a bit absurd concept to begin with. Extroverts must be having a blast, but who cares about them. I don't know a single person around me who is active there. As an IT guy. Maybe its more of an US thing?

I understand it in context of professionals using it as their free sales/promotion channel (Trump, Cardashians or whoever is in vogue these days). There it makes perfect sense, not that I would like to anyhow participate or care about their opinions.

I use BBC Android app to read some news when having few minutes break ie in public transport. Over last years they started to put these tweets of random folks in the articles (so no Trump tweets iframe in the article about his latest tweets, but rather some random folks expressing their opinions about Brexit, olympics or anything else). Those articles really feel much worse because of this - I go to BBC for some serious journalism, not this.

It really feels like they try not only persuade me by stating facts in the article, but appeal to my potential 'sheepish' personality trait of accepting popular opinions of others, rather than making opinions from the facts on my own. My main issue - whatever narrative you want to push as a journalist (and they often do), you just look for tweets that you like in the sea of all possible opinions. Just give me the facts, and let me do the thinking and opinion making, please
I'm curious to see how insomnia is doing as a non-traditional startup in that he didn't "grow" the company (as far as I know). It's one of the best applications we use in our day-to-day workflow.
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I'm pretty sure this is exactly Valve's planned impact. Like everybody else who builds atop another's platform, I think they're nervous that Microsoft could decimate their business on a whim.
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Hi,

I might be able to help because I wrote an analytics tool a while back that tracks these three properties and some other stuff

1. Knowing which URLs are being visited allows me to see if a particular campaign or blog site is popular

2. The referrer tells me where a user came from, this is helpful to know if I'm being linked to reddit and should allocate more CPU cores from my host to the VMs responsible for a particular service

3. The screen size allows me to know what aspect ratios and sizes I should optimize for. My general rule is that any screen shape that can fit a 640x480 VGA screen without clipping should allow my website to be fully readable and usable.

4. I also track a trimmed down user agent; "Firefox", "Chrome", "IE", "Edge", "Safari" and other. All will include "(recent)" or "(old)" to indicate version and other will include the full user agent. This allows me to track what browsers people use and if people use outdated browsers ("(old)" usually means 1 year out of date, I try to adjust it regularly to keep the interval shorter)

5. Page Load Speed and Connection. This is a number in 10ms steps and a string that's either "Mobile" or "Wired", which uses a quick and dirty heuristic to evaluate based on if a connection is determined to be throttled, slow and a few other factors. Mobile means people use my website with devices that can't or shouldn't be drawing much bandwidth, Wired means I could go nuts. This allows me to adjust the size of my webpage to fit my userbase.

6. GeoIP: This is either "NAm", "SAm", "Eur", "Asi", "Chin", "OcA", "NAf", "SAf", "Ant" or "Other". I don't need to know more than the continent my users live on, it's good enough data. I track Chinese visitors separately since it interests me.

Overall the tool is fairly accurate and high performance + low bandwidth (a full analytics run takes 4KB of bandwidth including the script and POST request to the server). It doesn't collect any personal data and doesn't allow accurate tracking of any individual.

If I want to track high interest users, I collate some attributes together (Ie, Screen Size, User Agent, Continent) which gets me a rough enough picture of high interest stuff for what I care. You don't need to track specific user sessions, that stuff is covered under the GDPR and not necessary.

Before anyone asks if they could have this tool; nope. It's proprietary and mine. The code I've written for it isn't hard, very minimal and fast. I wrote all this over a weekend and I use influx + grafana for the output. You can do that too.

Both mine and the product of the HN post are likely not in the scope of the GDPR since no data is collected that can specifically identify a user.
Wow this looks awesome. Maybe I can finally stop using PhpStorm for git and nothing else.
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Amir, thanks for following up. Like I said in the article, I've used RubyMotion in production in the past. We were one of the early adopters and launched at least half a dozens apps in it. We payed for all our licenses. I love the product and this was money very well spent. It allowed us to use the same language (Ruby) in a larger portion of the projects. This was particularly important when some of our clients were small startups with an existing Rails app, and it was important for them to keep the same language for the mobile app.

I just think the support for Android should have happened a lot sooner. But of course this is easier said than done.

Moving forward to React Native is part of the same approach. It's important for us to use a technology that delivers fast in multiple channels and has a great chance of still being relevant in the next 10 to 20 years. And for me, these are the strongest points on Javascript.

And you're correct, React Native is not truly native, but it does the job pretty well without major impacts on usability. RubyMotion is truly native and very well designed IMHO.

Best of luck for the future.
China’s all-seeing surveillance network
I looked into Secure Scuttlebutt community, and while I didn't muster up the courage to really participate, I kinda like that they take dogfooding seriously.

Their protocol started as a secure peer-to-peer log-store, with first application as a white-list based social-network [1]

The more interesting part is a git plugin that allows to store repositories in the distributed log as well. This is complete with a nice web-UI and some rudimentary issue management [2]

If you had right group of people, you could use this on a local-network, with no internet access, and you'd have reasonably nice environment for chatting and collaborating :-) In practice you'd want to be on the internet and connected to at least one scuttlebut pub to actually see other people, unless you really organized some sort of offline-cabin-retreat-hackathon :-)

[1] https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
[2] https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25RPKzL382v2fAia5HuDNHD5kkFdlP7bG...
Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core?
The IP necessary for the connection itself is covered under necessary data, you can process it for the purpose of a request without needing consent at all. Same applies to shopping cart cookies or anything else that is essential to running a website and isn't being used for secondary purposes like data mining.
> No plans to go open source with the backend

You say that you do not store IP addresses, but why should anybody believe it?

Modern security is based on proof, not on trust.
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Congrats! I know what I'm doing at work tomorrow :) Does it have gitflow support built in? Also just FYI the main page shows a "download for Mac" button in iOS Safari, I almost thought it was Mac-only until I went to the Download page. Maybe the front download link should autodetect the platform but also give you the option/drop-down to select another? Or at least make it obvious that it isn't the only platform. Cheers
Feedback:

- I would be nice to be able to remove the name inside the commit log. It's only me on this project and literally 50% of the lines (ever other) is my name.

- I would also like to have the option to split top/bottom like sourcetree, so that I can read the full commit message easier.

- The 'end of list' looks like a loading indicator

- 'Staging lines' only appear when I select something on the line (even one characer). It would be good if clicking in a line actually selected the whole line instead of adding a (unusable?) cursor

- The logo might want to have a shadow where the light and darker color meet. Right now it is looks kinda strange. The Sublime Text logo has shadows where two edges meet. That logo does 'fold' over itself though which this one doesn't. But anyway the color difference is strange on my eyes.
So it's basically JSON without commas and quoted keys?
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I would call it a "theoretically sound current-gen DVCS". Unfortunately, theoretically sound is no guarantee for success, quite the opposite.
https://getkirby.com/ is nice, but not open-source. https://getgrav.org/ seems similar. https://bolt.cm/ is perhaps not as sparse, but the best flat file CMS I've found (SQLite).
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When you go to a construction site, the workers are not carrying around tools from the Fisher Price My First Hammer kit.

Professional tools are unwieldy, hard to use correctly, and ridiculously efficient compared to the beginner-friendly versions.