skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested, 2018 statistics show Android's share of the smartphone space as 54% in the US, 73% in Europe, and 88% globally, all above the 40% threshold.
Robot taxi rides may be free. You’ll pay with your attention
Besides the problem I outlined above, saying "no explicit consent is rape" would mean I'm accusing all my ex lovers to be rapists, which I will definitely never do.
IIRC, Google fixing its magic beer emoticon was one of the high points of a recent developer's conference.
Gates probably could have did what the Zuck did, but it doesn't look like he did it because Allen was still very rich. Anyone with a controlling interest can dilute someone anytime?
Here is the S&P report that the headlines are based upon: https://www.spratings.com/documents/20184/0/ChinasHiddenSubn...

Might as well read the source for yourself if you are interested in the issue.
Cue the angry vegans: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/vega...
Does MongoDB still suffer from data loss related issues? I checked out their website and it seems to be fairly ubiquitous in usage
Chauffeur as a service in the near future with autonomous fleets.

Through an app request a Tesla to come pick you up, take you where you need to go, then drop you off and serve someone else after. Once you're ready to head back use your app and request a Tesla or your Tesla to come pick you up again. Pay as you go or monthly subscription like ZipCar.

You could potentially own the car, and let it be a revenue source picking up others while you're not using and Tesla manages the fleet and infrastructure. Or you might not own the vehicle at all and it's a Taxi.
Jim Weirich's talks about "connascence".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vYwcfQnk8
Could you tell me what was confusing, please?

> as a professional SW dev I could not even create a project to contain her working files

I work as a product manager, and one of my aims is usability. I'm very interested in the problems you faced, in order to solve them. Could you reply, or drop me an email at david dot millington @embarcadero.com please? I am always interested in talking to users.

In the meantime, to get you going: When you start, the IDE's default blank state (the Welcome screen) has buttons to create a new project. Or, you can go to the File > New menu, and choose a Windows (VCL) or cross-platform app.

> No info tips to help figure out what all the GUI widgets do.

You are right, that may be assumed knowledge, and the names are often tied to the WinAPI progenitors of the modern day controls.

> No decent property inspection of the resulting widgets.

What is "decent" property inspection? The Object Inspector is a dockable window, shown by default when designing (default position is the bottom left of the screen.) It lists all properties and events, and is similar to Visual Studio.

> I'm solidly in favour of switching to Python.

I'm sorry to hear that. As I said, one of my roles is to improve usability and discoverability, and I'd really appreciate it if you'd share the issues you encountered. For context, I've spoken to six customers in the past fortnight about the upcoming beta release, focusing on UX, so this is something we do regularly and is a genuine offer.
Speaking of fascinating emoji stories, I'd recommend this good old favorite: an entomologist rates ant emojis http://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolog...
Conversely, no other industry places so much focus on making sure that tools for professionals are easy for beginners to use, often at the expense of features.
Yeah, some kind of disability vesting would make sense.
Bill Gates and Ban Ki-moon are recruiting to save us from catastrophic events
Why not use Signal? Better privacy guarantees and the same underlying protocol.
Hate-reading, noun:

The act of reading a piece of writing by someone you dislike for political reasons and mentally discrediting them by refuting their arguments with specious or fallacious reasoning. Primarily undertaken in the conscious pursuit of confirmation bias.
Who in the f--k needs a bagel emoji?

People who live in New York. Or Palm Springs. Or a few other cities I can think of would certainly use it more than the sushi emoticon.
(German)
https://blog.fefe.de
Right, I'm just pushing back on the idea that there's anything unconstitutional about McConnell's nomination strategy. (I also think the Senate majority is very happy about the strategy; it clearly worked!)
It's not that. The question is who cares whether the cute little bagel has cream cheese or not?
I don’t consider myself a jaded individual; but that this is #3 right now on HN’s front page bewilders and confuses me.

I feel like I could go into /new/ and find at least a couple articles more relevant and interesting than this.

The average HN’er may tolerate this post, and maybe 5-10% might actually care, but there’s a huge amount of the developer community I’ve seen that mostly just looks down on emoji as a frankly immature way to communicate. Emoji-related news is often beleaguered with comments akin to this one, and this time it’s my turn, I suppose.

This news may matter to my partner and I, to have another meme to screw with. It may matter to a perhaps younger or less tech-centric group.

But developers, hackers, and startup folks? Really?

How does the front page pick it’s content? I assume algorithmically?
Using basic context clues and inference, it's obvious she meant "IS NOT OPEN SOURCE [currently]". The license has not been approved as open source. It may be eventually, but it is not at present.
"Stolen"? (I would, I hope obviously, prefer Garland to Gorsuch.)
It's okay, it's normal. The older you get the more outraged you will be at everything. The bright side of it all is that at least you'll be dead soon.
Interesting paper on LGFVs[1] which are "Local Government Finance Vehicles."

If you squint, it looks like an interesting parallel to the lending issues that plagued Japan in the 90's and eventually brought the economy there to a standstill. The monetary equivalent of "vapor lock" in a hydraulics system.

I am the first person to admit that the complexity of bond financing in the Chinese economy really challenges me because it operates on some fundamentally different assumptions about fiscal policy and monetary policy. That said, I'm not sure how they unwind that debt without sufficient domestic demand to keep the system operating.

If they were a third world country they could just devalue the RMB by 1000:1 and then settle the debt with devalued currency, but that option isn't really available to them.

[1] "The Law of China’s Local Government Debt: Local
Government Financing Vehicles and Their Bonds", D. Clarke -- https://sci-hub.tw/10.1093/ajcl/avx036
On a serious note, here's a cool story about Apple's emoji:

https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-des...
Aswath Damodaran Musings on Market – High and Higher: The Money in Marijuana
I didn't say that Conversations from the Play Store is significantly more trustworthy in this regard than WhatsApp from the Play Store. I said that an app - such as Conversations - that you can build from source or download from F-Droid is more trustworthy than the Play Store version.

WhatsApp is a proprietary app and as such it's only available on the Play Store. Conversations is open source so you can download it from the Play Store, or from F-Droid, or compile it from source. So if you care, you can be significantly more sure that your version of Conversations "does what it says" than you can be of WhatsApp.
Wow, I've completely forgotten about ArcadeUFO. Completely fell off my radar which is strange since you guys have more legacy than institutions like WNF and, in some sense, Next Level. I even still see mentions of 8otB here and there. You had a F-Zero AX machine at one point, correct?

I definitely agree arcades make a fantastic third place. Planning trips to e.g., Arcade Infinity (RIP) or a Round 1 is one thing, but having a place outside of school and home I can routinely drop in and feel welcome even when I have no particular business to do there was why I kept going to local mall Tilt arcades (and Borders bookstores while I'm at it). Even as more machines go online in Japan[0] or scenes establish other events for their game[1], I still think they're a worthwhile addition to a community.

[0]: https://medium.com/@sasuraiger/japan-trip-2017-2018-online-f...

[1]: https://fugutabetai.com/?postid=581
Hey Tade0! As much as we love CKEditor 5 that we created, we also love our users who are still widely using CKEditor 4. Some of them invested many, many months to create custom plugins, adopt CKEditor to their systems and so on. So, being a responsible company, we will maintain this product still for several years. As a company that creates components, which are embed into other systems, we have to simply deliver stuff that others, including big enterprise customers, can rely on. I know it's a bit unusual in JavaScript world to maintain software for 8(!) or even more years, but this is what we do. Yes, we're a bit crazy.
Not in the US.

$0.25 in 1972 (Pong) = $1.48 today
$0.25 in 1978 (Space Invaders) = $0.95 today
$0.25 in 1984 = $0.60

http://cpiinflationcalculator.com

Though now cabinets are bigger and the controls are more sophisticated.
Because you care enough to make it about you and signal to the rest of us how little you ostensibly care. You found a way to feed your ego from a silly post about bagel emoji.

I know that's a hard take, but that's exactly what just happened, disgusted under a thin veil of protest. We do it all the time. ;)
To be clear, you can tell people that those things help clinical depression as well, without being sneered at. And for some people that is enough (over time, particularly as clinical depression is often a symptom of other things and not a condition on its own).

The only reason they'd sneer at you is your "just" part. There's no "just" with a mental state that can leave people unable to even will themselves out of bed for days at a time (at my worst I could at least do that, but couldn't get out of the apartment without using up most of my mental and emotional strength). There are points where medication (mind-altering drugs) can be essential for people, and for others it may be something they need forever.

Why? Because there are different causes. Mine is a consequence of anxiety, addressing that essentially eliminated my depression. For others, their anxiety is worse than mine and rather than medication for depression they need medication for anxiety, and not just coping techniques. For other people, the depression is a condition on its own, with no or no apparent causal factors. Others, it may be a consequence of physical health (lack of sunlight, exercise, poor diet) and so those precise things can eliminate or significantly reduce their experience of depression.

It's all going to be case-by-case, and so there is no "just".
> Makes life a little more interesting

[ Citation Needed ]
http://www.paulgraham.com/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
Maybe the formatting wasn't entirely clear, but "licensable smart mobile operating systems" and "app stores for the Android mobile operating system" are two different categories.

As for the latter being a thing but Apple not getting into trouble for their iOS App Store monopoly, I guess that is because Apple isn't using that "dominant position" to prop up a dominant position in another market (like Google is propping up their dominance in search engines).

Or maybe the overall consumer harm is considered to be much smaller, considering that Android has 80% smart mobile device market share in Europe (according to the EC press release), and iOS has a much smaller share.
Maybe they think it’s funny?
I think it's being sarcastically upvoted. I joined.
I wonder how many nouns will eventually get their own pictogram. How abstract can you go? Or verbs and adjectives, for that matter. After all, there's plenty of room in Unicode.
Palm is back with a phone for your phone?
Anything related to RSS, XMPP...
How Two Venezuelans View American Socialists
> I don’t consider myself a jaded individual

Time to reconsider he said jadedly.
Me neither. It reminds me of a post I saw a while ago where a Google employee was super excited to announce the redesign of their salad emoji. The only difference was that they removed the hard boiled egg from the emoji because they said it wasn't inclusive enough of vegans and vegetarians.
Why does HN have to be so serious all the time? I for one am totally OK with the occasional light-hearted piece.

> frankly immature way to communicate

And this is vaguely insulting to the vast majority of smartphone and/or internet users.
I basically hate emoji, and this is sort of why; when my ascii smilie faces started getting translated into, frankly, horribly ugly emoji that looked nothing like what I wanted to convey, it changed the meaning of what I was 'saying', and in a different way for each platform.

I recognize that this is naive; just because I 'see' an ascii smilie one way doesn't mean others interpret it the same way, but I prefer that illusion to someone else's version being forced on me.

At least in something like Slack, I know the user is getting what I'm choosing.
Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?
This will work well with all the excess parking and road capacity we have.
Congrats man, we demoed a product at NYTM the same day as you guys (QuickMVP, now pivoted away from).

Been great to see your progress!
Can anyone please do an explain like I am five on this? The article assumes lots of background which probably is fine considering their target audience.
On the other hand, writing self-righteous comments about how superior you are for seeing emojis as immature is very mature.
This is article is content-free.

Not only does it not name who apologied (apart from Zuckerberg, who definitely didn’t invent the internet). I was expecting a quote from aim Berners-Lee given the title.

Then beyond that, it talks about how the internet is polarised - before immediately calling whole sites bigoted and implying Trump was elected because of Islamophobia.
I don't know what "period-true Prolog" is. You can still run programs found in
Prolog textbooks from the 1970's in modern Prolog interpreters- just like with
Lisp.

>> Fact is both were written in Lisp, that's just sophistry.

I don't see the sophistry. If I implement Lisp in Prolog, the interpreter may be Prolog, but the programs it then evaluates are Lisp.

I don't see why unification would be an impediment in implementing any
heuristics or scheduling algorithms.
Fresh hot posts appear on the top of the front page for some time.

As post ages, it needs more upvotes to stay on the FP.

It prevents some posts to occupy top for too long.
I mean, emoji was never meant to be serious. Why would I wanna send my friend bunch of yellow faces or a tiny image of bagel if I'm being serious? Just entertainment.
How was anyone criticising the old Apple bagel when the Twitter and Microsoft ones exist?
> The problem with Uber is, that it's only really successful in North America

Uber could easily justify a $120 billion valuation by dominating American urban car transport. The big question is whether they'll be able to (a) dominate while (b) staying profitable.
LGFV (Local Government Financial Vehicle) are companies set up, fully owned,
and operated by local governments that borrow money from the banking and financial
system to engage in businesses that are fiscal in nature, like infrastructure
investment and public affairs. Local governments can't sell bonds and Central government takes most of the taxes so LGFV is the only way they can finance their projects.

Most of that $5.8 Trillion valuation is not going to vanish because they are real investments into infrastructure. Most problems come from wrong cash flow estimates, and lower than estimated returns and some nonprofitable investments. The actual potential loss or haircuts investors are facing is some percentage of that sum. Probably few $100's of billions, maybe even close to $1T.

The reason why there are defaults is because Chinese government wants to fight moral hazard problem that comes from bailing them out. The government will allow certain number of LGFVs to default to set an example (like Lehman Brothers) but if the credit squeeze starts to hurt "Chinese main street" they will step in.
Apple ‘Deeply Apologetic’ Over Account Hacks in China
It looks like the PHZ files are just ZIP files (which I really like), however they're not compressed. As a test I created a new PHZ with compression (using Info-ZIP) with the contents of an existing PHZ file. I found that the compressed PHZ seems to open fine in Polar Bookshelf.

What's the rationale for not using compression in PHZ files? Is there any reason for me not to update all my PHZ files to using compression?
One party has a historical record of both paying lip service to, and passing legislation the helps, the working class in times of economic strife.

The other party happily ushers in an era of austerity and has an attitude of "not my problem" when people lose their jobs, health insurance and homes.
That would be spectacular; I know this is obvious, but please do make sure that it actually can operate independently of the other locations and that end users have an easy way of controlling which region their data sits in.

There are legal reasons some companies might need to keep their data within the EU, and for others having multi-region backups are a checkbox to tick off on disaster preparations. Both are things the marketing department should use.
No. She's conflating "an OSI-approved licence" with "open source". The Open Source Definition does not contain a requirement that a licence must be OSI-approved.
Same here. Does anyone have a mirror?
PlayStation Network is down – Sony engineers are working on a fix
I hope this is going to help to attract more attention to competing services. The only Google thing that I don't know of a good alternative to (at least because it already has so much valuable content uploaded) is YouTube. Monopolies are evil.
One word: "Plastics", no, actually it's "Job Security". There is an incentive in ANY profession to recommend or encourage more of your own labor. For example, a surgeon is more likely to recommend surgery to solve a problem than a non-surgeon.

This bias isn't necessarily intentional: human nature (competitive evolution) just naturally pushes us to interpret the world in a way that makes ourselves as valuable as possible.

In IT, complex solutions that we create or learn keep out competition. "Only Bob knows how to fix this monstrosity" is a common pattern.

Simplicity should be added to the employee evaluation process. This includes parsimony in both features (YAGNI) and in how the features are coded.

Further, avoid "eye candy" UI gimmicks that add complexity and fragility. End-users often love them, but they are often a longer-term maintenance headache. Beauty ain't free.
Netflix Crushes Estimates, Renewing Faith After July Letdown
Thanks! Yeah I remember! I hope all is well.
To the complainers about this story: It is interesting because a major tech company changed communication standards in response to public outcry.

How many stories are about tech companies pointlessly responding to outcry? Or making silly changes?
I wonder if it'd be possible to augment or replace the existing living spaces (and other spaces) on a rig. Maybe turn a rig into a hotel-on-the-water kind of thing.
Now physical toys are software, too.
Well, there's this thing called the OSI [1], and they have this definition that's been around for a while. From their website:

> The “open source” label was created at a strategy session held on February 3rd, 1998 in Palo Alto, California. That same month, the OSI was founded.

1: https://opensource.org/
I loved this and now I want more emoji reviews!
Beta will be out soon! You can sign up for early access at https://draftbit.com
Housing is a investment vehicle in China. From what I've read, a lot of housing is actually empty and is held strictly as an investment. That implies it is a speculation driven bubble that is going to pop when everything else goes upside down in China. Or maybe the Chinese government will achieve a "soft landing."

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
Because it’s easy to set targets and measure them while in the gym, but it’s not easy to fit that kind of exercise into the day to day.

People often live too close to work for the bike ride to really be considered exercise, or too far, where they couldn’t feasibly fit it into their day.

I get it, doing exercise for free seems like a no-brainier, but not everyone’s life and exercise needs converge neatly to make it easy.
The fallacy of improving conversion rates
Whether or not it's OSI approved or not isn't relevant, but if it doesn't meet their definition or something similar (https://opensource.org/osd) then it probably isn't what most of us would call open source.

How about I create a license called the ABA (anyone but amazon) license. If you're not Amazon/AWS/a subsidiary, it's just the MIT license. If you are, then you have no rights to use the software. Would you call that an open source license? I wouldn't. An important point (I thought) of open source was that the rules are the same for all, whether you're using it for personal projects or the biggest business on earth, whether you charge money for it or do it for free.
mostly just looks down on emoji as a frankly immature way to communicate.

When you see something popular that you don't understand, the answer is never that people are stupid/immature/etc. It's that they have incentives and impulses that you don't yet understand. Choosing to dismiss those people, instead of seeking to understand why they're doing what they're doing, means that there are motives in play you don't comprehend, which means that there are opportunities you can't take advantage of because you don't understand what's actually happening.
I'm a Ring customer. The Ring Portal is optional and opt-in.

I'm not a Ring owner, but several of my neighbors are. Two have told me that they have been pressured by police officers — in person — to join some kind of surveillance program. I'm not sure if it's this one, or something else.

I also don't know how the cops found out that they had Ring devices, but the local PD advocates for it heavily on my neighborhood's Nextdoor group.
+1. I paid around $50 USD for my Bip, and it's great for time, step/heart rate tracking, and the occasional notification.

Battery life is ~40 days for me, which is awesome.
There's an interesting chart (two paragraphs in) that basically shows how heavily-speculative NTFLX stock still is
I cannot believe that a Twitter designer was actually proud enough of that bagel emoji to claim credit for it and "walk them through" the design process.
Jira and Confluence would benefit from a better editor plugin even if it didn't have real-time collaboration...
Pain of Tooth After a Root Canal
Just so I'm 100% clear: you believe that being blind, and being unable to read social cues to such an extent that you are considered a sexual harasser for pursuing a relationship are equivalent disabilities?

"Stop being such a creep" and "stop being blind" don't really feel all that equivalent to me.