skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if they all just compile down to WASM, why should anyone care?

Because some sites/people will implement a new deployment scheme that implements a new layout engine in a canvas, and use that to "prevent plagiarism" or protect data. Think an online retailer preventing price scraping, or some site that gets visions of grandeur about a more multimedia rich experience (like every photographer's website 15 years ago), or wanting to prevent ad-blockers or use dark patterns that browsers finally actively prevent.

There are business incentives for all these, in some cases if not necessarily for the end user, then for a company to trick end-users into thinking they need ("click here and for $10/mo more we'll add our patented anti-scraping/copying technology to your site!").
Yes...and Samsung...the 2008 bailout of many American car companies...Trump using 'national security' in the trade war with Canada...Germany and VW...(nobody plays fair).

Read about the Olympus scandal for how another film company hung around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_scandal
> The question for any test, even a true-false, is first a matter of "how much".

So if someone asks "Does strawberry intake affect HIV antibody tests?", the answer isn't "no"?
Not everyone in the world can afford "ethical meat" but they still need to eat nonetheless. This is one of the things I have never understood - people that are into concepts like "ethical meat" tend to be left leaning, and people on that side claim to be compassionate toward the poor. Yet it appears from your comment that if you had your way, you would use regulation to force the costs of eating up, which would dramatically affect the ability of poor people to eat.

You can’t simultaneously claim to have compassion for poor people and advocate for regulations that will make their lives more difficult and expensive than is absolutely necessary.
> Never allow all file types for upload by default, even if it is secure in your configuration

The general form - never use default-allow - should be used in most situations where set of possible inputs cannot be exhaustively enumerated. In most situations, you cannot enumerate badness[1]. Instead of trying to define valid input by specifying it's inverse, it's far simpler (and safer) to use default-deny and specify valid input directly.

[1] http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d...
Probably this one: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
Start by identifying your market (which people can you connect with easiest). Go where they go and see what problems they talk about. Take notes. See if you can solve one of their most common problems, completely, and see if your solution resonates with them. Package it up and put a price on it. Done.
(I literally wrote the book on it)
Hi There,
I'm the creator and maintainer of Redline.st
This project has stalled right now because of other commitments.
However, should there be renewed interested I would continue its development.
- James.
Tom here. Just saw this got posted on HN and wanted to say I’m happy to answer any questions about how we tackled Enterprise at GitHub (the main topic of the podcast) or anything else, really!
You have no idea what you are talking about.

First lada, for instance, was not a "soviet" car. It was a product of FIAT. Ural Motorcycle was really a BMW creation etc. etc.

Henry Ford helped build some of the first Soviet cars (starting in 1929). By 1935, the Soviets had produced 100,000 Ford-designed vehicles.

Soviets often "borrowed" western product designs and presented them as miracles of soviet industry.
The Republicans control all three branches (inc. both houses of congress) of the federal government. If they wanted to bring forward legislation that addressed this issue they've had at least two years to do so (arguably more since Obama would have happily signed a pro-price transparently bill, it is an issue he spoke on).

Where is the link to the GOP's actions rather than their empty promises?
*-star reviews on all of the major review sites are 2-dimensional. They should be 3 dimensional (0-x stars) + time. This way if clusters of 5-star reviews show up in an extremely short period of time it's a red flag. Instead of seeing a static "this product/service got x stars", we should be able to see "this product/service, within the last 1 month, received on average x stars". And then you can extrapolate, oh they received on average 2 stars before they upgraded their product, and now the product is getting 4 stars. Or something like: "this restaurant was getting on average 1.5 stars last year, but recently they're getting glowing reviews. Maybe they fired the manager?".
How much would you rather pay to access 1,300,000,000 iOS users instead?
The last days of Theranos – the financials were as overhyped as the blood tests
> Imagine how much less spam we would have if it cost 1 cent to send an email. Friction can do a lot of good.

Except the spam email problem was solved without opening the door to another place where uninformed consumers could get nickle-and-dimed? Aren't we all glad the pay-for-email push failed?
The Outlook desktop now client does it as well. I am not sure if it is exchange setting or something else.

If I scroll to the end of a folder containing mail it tells me "There are more items in this folder". I have to click for it to fetch more items.

I have years of email archived in various folders and it hides the results for every single folder behind this wall of "there are more items". Because of this I can't search through my archived email properly.

It never used to work with way. I think it changed when my organisation migrated to Office 365.
Wow, I don’t think it’s that hard to find things to spend money on beyond entertainment and status symbols. There’s comfort, food, travel, cooks, maids, education, research, business ideas, children, health...
Facebook reportedly shopping for a cybersecurity company
I’m a consultant but maybe a different kind. I go in and create a product or the core technology and then move on.

It’s kind of like being an “explorer” vs. a “settler”; big kudos to those who clear the land and creating a farm from nothing, I’d just rather be exploring.
The bidet’s revival
Consider making apps for something else; shockingly alternative mobile platforms exist. You aren't entitled to put things on their App Store, you know.
Remember reason windows phone «died» was because they didnt have enough apps. Apps are value for iphone buyers.

To answer yout question: 5-10%
I'm astonished Microsoft doesn't have automated tests for something as mundane as testing their built-in zip archive extraction functionality.
It's weird to me you would treat this state of affairs as a static and universally-holding position. I think it's obvious (with several current examples coming to mind) that investors and business partners can be branded as "toxic" in a way that overwhelmingly devalues any money they could actually offer. In the same way the police will take a stolen watch from you after you buy it -- without much recourse on your part! -- you and your company can definitely be torpedoed by taking bad money if public opinion shifts that sharply.

These are the risks of working at the national and global scale; they have to be there, otherwise the rewards couldn't (sustainably) be so great. Even ignoring the moral arguments, the fact that anybody is making them changes the game theory perspective as well. The only way to truly stay on top is to make sure most people want you there.
How is it powered?
Apple accused of being Apple.
> Their western counterparts were "well fed" and "lazy" in comparison. There was no need to be inventive and creative at every step of the process.

That doesn't seem entirely fair. The western counterparts could never have sold this car, any more than the Soviet engineers could have sold the Chevy. They weren't being fat and lazy, they were just designing for their target market.
Sure, now we use personal opinions to decide product direction. Sounds great! Why not just flip coins while we're at it? users love that.
No, you aren’t. I can see two patterns here: first, you do not throw enough sh*t on the wall you choose (market research, content, lots of content, package) and as a consequence, second, you are unable to dig deep enough to make something stick (sales).
I buy about $20,000 worth of Apple gear annually, and I have noticed they are beginning not to honor AppleCare events.
Thanks!

How would you ship/deploy GitHub Enterprise (or FI) if you made the decision today, with all the new deployment tools available and new kinds of environments in use?

Also, what kinds of trials/freemium did you find necessary to offer for Enterprise? Did everyone already know they needed it and trust that it worked because of GitHub.com? How much custom work and pricing/negotiation did you tolerate?
There are just 2 OSes in the mobile market. One is a cesspool, so that leaves me with AppStore
Well clearly there is a reason for the lower prices.
I agree with a lot of this, but I think if we are talking updates as upgrades, the industry and consumers forced their hands with fast update cycles with meaningful feature adds. Not excusing what is happening here, they allowed it to be released, but I do think they were forced into the current position rather than took it on their own.
It's not clear from the article whether this was just an old long-standing bug that has now gotten attention, or if they really broke a basic piece of functionality that has been around since at least XP if not earlier. I'm not surprised either way, but unfortunately I'm leaning toward the latter.

I don't think I'm the only one when I say I want Microsoft to quit messing around with Windows --- just fix the severe security bugs as they're found, and stop rewriting things needlessly. Then again, they're probably doing the latter as an excuse to insert telemetry and ads...
>raises the question of whether HIV+ individuals will be more likely to attempt to donate in order to "prove they're safe".

What? This sounds like completely made up scaremongering. Why wouldn't they just get their viral load tested?
Hey Tom, thanks for being here!

How did you decide to build an onprem github? I would imagine most of your devs are used to small, quick iterations and testing/seeing things live quickly. This is different from onprem where you need managed releases, baked migrations, and slower iteration speeds. So, was this a difficult decision, and once you did it, what were the key things you had to figure out?

I havent listened to the podcast yet but i will tonight!
Just to put this in perspective, credit card fees are around 2.5%.

So, you think Apple should collect 2.5-7.5%!(after covering CC fees) to confer the infrastructure required to run the app store (people, servers, office, etc)?
> There is only one real reason for not launching that ship -- Larry Wall has taken that sailed ship long ago and will not come back (admit his mistake).

To my understanding, he's admitted his mistake. That doesn't mean that after this much time, going back is the best solution. There are major positives and negatives to all options, so at this point people are just letting it stay as it is rather than force it into something that could be even worse. People have had well over a decades to come to terms with the naming, and coming out with Perl 7 (or taking the name Perl 6 back) aren't really going to help with anyone that's already confused.

Perl 5 and Perl 6 are still both advancing on their own paths, it's not like either one was actually stopped because of this.
I’m not the OP but I would probably enlist other individuals at a tech lead level from other teams for a design review. Remove yourself from the decision.
You might be surprised. Jeff Bezos has a similar system in place, and it seems to be holding up to Amazon scale. Something slipping through the cracks is a failure of process, and failures of process are exactly what a CEO wants to be paying attention to. While I imagine the "actually gets read by Bezos" claim is just PR, these sorts of emails actually do get read by people who have power and influence, and the interesting ones do actually end up in front of Bezos long enough for him to forward them to someone he suspects is responsible.

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/amazon-founder-ceo-jeff...
What are you switching to in the future for desktop/laptop?
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Love the accessibility features even though I don't need them. Yet.
Is it just me or is that status message wonky? Failing over something to restore access?
Superpermutations
I don't really think most people think like that (or even necessarily initially have the information to be able to). To me, it seems like most language adoption is driven by fads, what people are hiring for, and random interesting projects.

Have you ever actually been interested in a language and looked to see whether it was able to have a major version number bump or not prior to deciding whether or not to pursue it?
How do you think they keep it from being a cesspool? You think it might have to do with the people they hire to manage it? People they pay with the fees they collect?

It also shows that not being a cesspool isn't necessarily ready. They deserve to be compensated for that effort.
yeah, like kia having the skid cover the oil pan. Or subaru requiring that you remove a front wheel well panel to change a headlight.
> Devil's advocate here, Rossman cites that only a pin needed to be bent back in the case of the flickering display. Apple has to provide a warranty on their service, therefore they want the solution that is least likely to break again. Bending the pin may not be good until the lifespan of the device, it may break off next time the machine is dropped or put down a little hard.

I think you missed that point. He talks about replacing the cable, which is the 100% fix, and still cheap. The problem is looking at the "this got wet/humid" indicator and deciding that the only valid step is replacing entire boards unrelated to the problem.
Each culture has its own design goal. Watch Jay Leno talk about French Citroen DS. I loved that an American guy could step outside the mainstream and see how something weird could actually feel good.

Still sad that globalization made 'myopic more' the goal.
Then that’s what you’re paying for.
Wow, thanks! I’ve kept up with your project and greatful for the work.

Out of curiosity, have you seen anything in Dialyzer for dealing with typing GenServer messages and handlers? I haven’t figured out a way to spec message handlers as dialyzer seems to only check that you have any `handle_cast` implemented and adding a behavior doesn’t compose. Given the key role GenServer plays in OTP, it’s a big lack IMHO. I’ve wondered if the new named guards in Elixir could help with it somehow.
Next: "We are restoring tape backups from some of our storage systems"
Enjoy hosting your source code with Microsoft.
> So if one of the big VCs or tech companies won't take their money, another will and in a diversified portfolio that's good enough.

Right, except that we're talking about smaller companies rather than larger ones, so it's even worse because there are more of them.

Restricting who can own a large publicly traded company which is a part of the major index funds would be... impractical.

Which actually brings up another point. Even if you're selective in who you sell a stake to, what happens when they sell their stake to someone else? Or they themselves get bought out or merge with someone?
I’ve looked into it. No end in sight.
It’s a shame this has the same name as a high performance Python web framework as well. https://falconframework.org/
I’ve never found a site where it worked. It’s one of the most annoying experiences on the web. Especially when you need to navigate to another page just to get access to the footer for getting to “contact” or similar.
So it sounds like, from a dispassionate "it's just business" viewpoint, they've priced it perfectly.
Are you being serious?

I almost agree with your sentiment however the prerequisite is that the group size is around 20 people. Earth has grown beyond where that is feasible and TCP/IP ain't gonna change shit. If you think about everyone on Earth in a connected graph the number of possible relationships in the world is 7 billion factorial. You're ever fully connecting that graph ever. And it will never be stable.

It's kind of stunning if you look at the majority of Africa and the Middle East and parts of South American those conquerer types are alive and well and steamrolling the network all day long.
Do you really think "people, servers, office" cost that much?
Deleted my previous comment as it didn't directly address your question. I don't know all the history behind it, but in terms of "can", I'm assuming that no, parties were unable to effectively hold a closed primary in a way that was well-run and accessible. And a poorly run primary vote defeats the purpose of having any primary in the first place. Using the state infrastructure and schedule makes the voting process much easier for the average voter, without being a burden to the state political parties.

As to "why" the government should feel obligated to subsidize the process -- because the government has the ostensible goal of facilitating fair and proper elections, and presumably the primary process -- which is not Constitutionally-enshrined -- is a net benefit to the general election, at least compared to selection-by-party-convention. In the future, political parties may decide that it's better to have open primaries, but that's orthogonal to the government providing the voting infrastructure and logistics.
I'm on the previous version, 1803, and the functionality in question certainly works.
They were addicted to fat film profits and couldn’t read an exponential curve.
Im sure creditcard fees are lower for companies with billions of transactions like Apple.

And yes i think my ballpark number is fair. This appstore market is a billion dollar industry. 10% of that is certainly more than enough to cover the expenses you mentioned. Believe me, if Apple had proper competition in smartphone market the fees would have been closer to my number. They are simply dodging taxes in Ireland, building t a trillion dollar fund, ripping of developers by abusing defacto monopoly, selling snake oil privacy first speeches while bending over for communist China. Fking sick and tired. I dont like regulations by gov, but with greedy no-longer innovating corporates we really need them
Julia goes the ADA way, supporting both. There's

div(x,y) # truncated division; quotient rounded towards zero
fld(x,y) # floored division; quotient rounded towards -Inf

and correspondingly

rem(x,y) # remainder; satisfies x == div(x,y)*y + rem(x,y); sign matches x
mod(x,y) # modulus; satisfies x == fld(x,y)*y + mod(x,y); sign matches y

and the convenience functions

divrem(x,y) # returns (div(x,y),rem(x,y)) ## Lotus 123 convention
fldmod(x,y)	# returns (fld(x,y),mod(x,y)) ## Excel convention

(There's also mod1 and fld1, and there's mod2pi(x) which is more precise than mod(x, 2pi).)
failing -> migrating
Sounds like an engineer knee deep in diagnosing the issue.
> It is hard to believe that an adverse mortality shock big enough to rock Pru could be absorbed by reinsurance capital.

If you have an adverse mortality rate problem big enough to shake a highly regulated industry like life insurance (there's no reason to believe mortality would be selective by insurance company), you probably have far bigger problems in your country than insurance - war, mega natural disaster, mega epidemic and the like.
Maybe there could be entire groups of secretaries dedicated to device repair/replacement.

Perhaps even brick-and-mortar locations. We'll call 'em geniuses.
If anybody could get past the HN hug of death (Slashdot effect), can they summarize this up? The title is intriguing.
Seems like your issue is with the canvas tag and not necessarily with wasm as you could just do that in JS as well.
The number refers to annual GDP which is dollars per year. Comparing assets/liabilities to annual GDP makes about as much sense as comparing distance to speed, eg: "The speed of 150 miles per second is tiny compared to the distance of 1000 miles"

I'm not a fan of dismissive & judgmental comments, but the parent HN comment is correct on the technical aspect.
Sounds like the author likes getting attention from clickbait titles. I have stopped taking it seriously. The HN thread on the second part adequately responds to this.
I'm curious what you see as "obviously completely broken" about the current primary process. Previously, party candidates were chosen via convention, which effectively left the selection process to party elites.
So this afect only apache? Anyone have any thoughts on nginx, IIS and other web servers like tomcat, websphere?
If you contract direct, you can make decent money. I have multiple clients at the same time and work 4-6 hours a day and make 40% more than when I was working 40hrs a week as an employee. I also have my own office close enough that I sometimes bike to work in the summer.
I’ve heard about it Actix. For it to compare with OTP, you’d presumably need a lot more tools for dealing with supervisor trees. For example if you customized the `try!` macro to "kill" an actix actor and let a supervisor restart it. That’d be more OTP like.
I bet there's a browser extension for that.
Bah, I'm not interested in your goalposts.

I replied to someone who falsely claimed that "Republicans who are supposedly for markets don't push for price transparency".

We all know that Democrats are the party entirely responsible for Obamacare and its lack of price transparency.

[Added for emphasis] Democrats created Obamacare without the full price transparency several people here seem to care about. Yet, you all choose to denounce Republicans -- who demonstrated in their attempt that they don't have a sufficient majority to repeal Obamacare, let alone introduce better healthcare regulation once it has been repealed.
Do credit card companies not have people, servers, and offices?