skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, but I do think that saying that text size is an advanced feature is just not true.

Loads and loads of people are older than 40. Loads of people just have weaker eyesight. Apple has really good accessibility tools, and it would make a _lot_ of sense for there to be a dedicated part of the onboarding for accessibility.
Ruby is also a dynamically type, interpreted language with a GIL, that's much older than Rust. You're sacrificing a lot in terms of speed and correctness up front to get something that's easier to jump into.

Rust crates should have documentation though. Rust has great tooling around writing docs in comments and generating the documentation from those. Rust is also statically typed, which makes it easier to reason about what a function does without the docs. In fact, lifetimes give you even more information about the relationship between inputs and outputs than a normal statically typed language.
Well said. I think Richard Stallman got this just right.

I know he is specifically talking about making everyone feel welcome in FSF development communities, and, I think what he says also applies to the business of writing software, starting companies, forming community groups, etc. Our industry has some problems of un-kind and sometime illegal behavior. By encouraging people to use kind communication and be inclusive, then all reasonable people win.

If someone in your environment is disrespectful of someone it seems lighter and more likely to succeed to point out that they are being un-kind rather than breaking a rule.
Because all the better environments are not sufficiently portable.

That said, even then, I'll take Qt over Electron any day of the week.
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“Yes, we are planning a future version of Rift.”

That's not really a denial that Rift 2 was cancelled.
The EU is wealthy but has limited power projection. Only France and the UK can realistically be considered great powers, and even then not on the scale of the US, China, or Russia.
Couldn't upvote this enough. I have done significant genealogical research over the last 6 or 7 years, using primarily Ancestry and FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch, particularly for non U.S. records, offers access to an order of magnitude more resources than Ancestry, though not all of them are digitally indexed. Ancestry, with its larger budget, seems to have invested heavily in digitizing and making available a small subset of commonly used resources, resources that will enable more casual users to make quick progress. So records like the 1940 U.S. Census and state-based death certificates (usually up to 1960) are digitized, and thus made widely available to keep and draw new subscribers.
I'm a fan of R. G. Hawtrey
Great. So we are in agreement. 19th century banking was not 'like a yoyo' it depended on lots of factors and was the opposite of a yoyo in some places.

The US history of banking is really a fucking mess. Its a travesty.

This is a fun little podcast about banking history in the US:

- https://soundcloud.com/macro-musings/hughrockoff
> it's doing image recognition on all pictures somewhere

It's doing it on the device.

An On-device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection

Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is a cloud-based solution for photo and video storage. However, due to Apple’s strong commitment to user privacy, we couldn’t use iCloud servers for computer vision computations. Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account. Therefore, to bring deep learning based computer vision solutions to our customers, we had to address directly the challenges of getting deep learning algorithms running on iPhone.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection....
Uber's dealmaking chief Poetzscher resigns
Between WASM and modern graphics APIs, we might be able to actually kill DOM altogether. Something like this:

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/22/qt-for-webassembly/
Music downloads – stream songs free, discover artists/bands – Bubblegum Pop
Farmers are likely one of the few professionals who ..if they work efficiently and increase productivity..will actually make less money. Because unless they sell direct to consumer, the supply chain is long and farmers are at the very bottom of it. Case in point: wholesale lettuce is $0.35 approximately. Same romaine in Whole Foods would be $1.40-1.70. And even in farmers markets, you would find buyers creeping till the end of market so they can get closing prices because we sell perishables. Something is better than nothing, right? We pay regular wages ..but we are at the bottom of supply chain. Everyone wants cheap organic food. Somethings got to give. Usually it’s farms giving up.
It's certainly not only Chinese, although perhaps the author lumps all asians into that category. It's certainly very common in China and South East Asia.

I actually find it quite interesting. At some point, it's true, the home button was a common point of failure on iphones - and a kind of memetic "folk wisdom" idea was born that everyone should use the assistive touch button instead. This idea, which "everyone knows", persisted (and persists) long after the actual issue had been fixed. I am still seeing it today with iPhone 8 users! Hopefully the advent of FaceID finally puts it to bed.

Another good example of the genre is the "common knowledge" that you let your phone/laptop battery run down before recharging, and don't keep it constantly plugged in. Might have had some validity back in the days of NiCad - actively wrong advice in the age of LiOn. But the meme persists...
It looks like an old differential gear housing.
Keep parroting this if you want, but that ended in 2014.
I don't think many people here will agree with you but I do. I use Javascript for almost everything I do because "It just works." Assuming you are running Node 6.0+ and NPM 4+ you'll almost never run into an issue unless you are using something that needs some native packages installed.
Don't take a paycut for any reason. And options are worthless.

Also, you said the startup won't provide benefits. Do you have other means of healthcare / health insurance? If not, then regardless of compensation, the lack of health benefits would be a very extreme risk to take on for yourself and your family.

If you want to pick up new technologies, inform your family that you will be parked at the kitchen table every Saturday for the next 4 months teaching yourself Python, web developemnt, containerization, whatever (what to learn is a separate discussion). Libraries, internet: learning is free! No need to take a paycut for that.
Yeah I'm really confused why working with 4GB+ datasets in the browser is a current need. Why does everything end up in web browsers these days? Is it only because developers aren't familiar with anything else?
If we reverse the roles, we notice how little information you actually provide except your own opinions.
How many hours does the author think it should take to set up an iPhone? If they want every toggle and every accessibility option presented at device setup, with enough explanation of what each one does and how to use it, it’ll take at least 2, probably more since the elderly tend to use technology slower.

You know what the author didn’t mention? That with any Apple device you can go in for a 1:1 session or a class on usage, and the people running them will walk you through everything. They’re also good at identifying people struggling to use the device in various ways and know about all the accessibility options, which in general are more plentiful and much better supported in iOS than Android.

My mother got an iPad after years of owning only android devices, went in, and not only did they walk her through it, but they let her know that a new iOS release would be coming out soon which would change a few things, and invited her back to a second session after that change if she was at all confused.
Hi! Would lasers work for Bermuda grass infestations? I am forced to till sections of my organic field to get rid of them and I would like to go no-till as far as possible.
Advertisers became some of the richest men on the planet, somehow convincing people that tracking every single mouse movement on every webpage made advertising unimaginably valuable.

Ad-men have been some of the richest men on the planet long before the word 'mouse' referred to something other than a small furry critter.
A Haven for Spare Parts Lives on in Silicon Valley (2009)
Great news! It's an awesome product. Congrats Repl.it!
I’m under the impression that the boom and bust cycles of the late 1800s were far more extreme than anything we’ve seen in our lifetime.
I see you keep creating throwaways to spread misinformation. I answered you elsewhere but here we go again: we've been bootstrapped and profitable for a while before we got funding and we still make lots of money. We grow our MRR from classroom and hacker plan more than 5% monthly: https://repl.it/pricing

Go find something better to do.
TBH, I'd be more comfortable using insecure public wifi than I would be using Tor.

Tor hides the source of your communication, and evades filtering. It does not protect the contents of your communications from eavesdropping. It's trivial to set up Tor exits to log traffic, and people do.
It's the same in that it is a set of skills that you need to spend time to learn. That's the point I was trying to make. I learned touchtyping in a couple of weeks. I guarantee someone with motivation could learn the basics of a smartphone in that time.

I agree there should be a manual. My phone (Samsung) has an almost useless pdf manual available.

But I also think that most people do not spend anywhere near the time necessary to learn how their phone works or how to use it. They wouldn't read the manual even if it was available. They don't watch the intro videos that play when you first start your phone out of the box. They expect to just get it out of the box and it to magically be completely usable for them.

There's lots of ways they could learn those things you mentioned. Libraries and community centres often have courses for beginners. There's youtube videos. There's books. There's endless websites. Nothing makes most techies special except the motivation to google the things they don't know. Most people don't even try, and just muddle along with what little they already (don't) know.
Try resubmitting using the original URL instead of the bit.ly version.
Bullshit. Straight from the CIA's NIE, page 9:

> High Confidence:

> Iraq is continuing, and in some areas is expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs contrary to UN resolution.

> Iraq could make a nuclear weapons in months to a year if it acquired sufficient weapons-grade fissile material.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/259216899/Iraq-October-2002-NIE-o...

I'm not sure where this "the IC is this blameless group that only looks like they screw up because of those pesky politicians" meme came from, but it has no basis in reality.
Show HN: Play Ogg Vorbis files containing loop metadata, in Rust
It's 2018 and iPhones can't send a high res message to the vast majority of smart phone users. It's a joke perform.
Because it effectively solves the distribution problem in a way which includes non-technical people.

If you think your solution does that, meditate on what "non-technical" means.
thing is, you perceive it as a problem. it’s not. like google dumbing down email and usenet and so on, the next growth market is the folks that want the cheap shit.
If people are not onboard with the the idea then it might be an uphill battle. There is value in TS but it will be frustrating at times, you will get resistance from other developers, and every once in awhile it will not feel worth it.

The other issue is that if people don't know what they are doing with TS, then imo it's worthless. I don't know your experience level with TS, but it is a non-trivial problem to build types such that it provides all the benefits you describe.

It is, in a lot of ways, a different language with its own set of problems to "solve."

Tread lightly, because adopting TS could be a blessing or a massive time sink for people not familiar with it.
If you are ever in Minneapolis, the Bakken Museum near Lake Calhoun is a great way to spend an afternoon. Various versions of the early devices are on display and the garden out back is beautiful. Then you can take a slow 3 mile stroll around the lake and get an ice cream in the far NE corner at a restaurant during late spring to late fall.
Wrote this for fun while learning Rust. It's intended for playing video game music, where the intro part of a song is played once followed by a looped section that repeats forever.
If you have an Android phone much of this data is also being captured there in parallel.
Ask HN: What's your favorite code practice site?
The article explicitly states they are doing to get information as to how Ancestry was so promptly serviced, and for how much.

They are trying to get some proof. That's the purpose of the lawsuit. You should try reading the articles from now on.
Mm, and it's good to know it's etymologically closer to "three months" than "third-length period".

(TIL also that "semester" means "six months". I'm an idiot, I thought it was "half-length period". Like "semi" I guess.)
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A few years ago I made a similar choice to work for a startup. It didn't work out; I learned that it's probably not worth it unless for me unless I know and am comfortable with the founders, as well as believe in the mission. Less than that brings a lot of uncertainty, compared to a stable high salary I might otherwise earn.
Absolutely correct. This is actually one of Apple's biggest flaws: failure to take credit for dozens and dozens of things that they do better than anyone else. Failure to advertise it, to market it, to inform.
Microsoft have done a pretty good job with Windows 10 when you first set it up.

By default it reads out all the prompts for setting up your PC with Cortana, so if you wish you can setup everything via voice. I haven't ever tried it, so can't comment on how well it works, but it seems like a good start...
No one is making a profit. Yet. Energy costs a lot. Even led has gone great strides. Operational costs are expensive and lettuce won’t rake it in. Marijuana growers are likely killing it but I am pretty sure they won’t be tripping over to share data. But a head of lettuce is around $1.50. A lb of marijuana is like ..what..$250 now? So.
I am sorry if I came across as hostile. My apologies.
My parents are conservative and against legalization. I disagree with them hard but have gotten a better grasp of the conservative view.

They also dislike alcohol use, especially due to drunk driving causing accidents. In the same way, they think allowing another substance to be legally consumed will increase impaired driving rates (even tho DUI is illegal).

They think alcohol being legal has made it easier for high school students to obtain it. They think the same will happen with cannabis. They don't want substances (alcohol or otherwise) near their grandkids' brains.

Alcohol has a breathalyzer test. There is no such spot test for cannabis intoxication. Which makes regulating drivers hard.
Well, with a defeatist attitude like that, you have. "Google searches"? Don't use Google search. Pay with cash for the little things - you'll still be tracked from point A to M to Z with your CC and purchase history, but maybe not on all levels in-between. Don't carry your phone around with you 24/7, and don't use GPS-enabled services (this means no Google apps if on Android). Don't drive modern cellular-enabled cars that ship with an always-on telemetry (and whatever falls under this broad scope) policy.

You just have to be willing to shoot yourself in the foot once or twice if you want to take a stance.
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I think the biggest hindrance to VR is that Apple doesn't have the equivalent to Cardboard/Daydream.
I don't know how many of you have introduced people to VR but every person I have shown VR to has enjoyed it. There is a lot of variance in the enjoyment but 1/5 really enjoys it. I think once smartphone VR gets bigger, especially when Apple does something it will funnel many more people to more expensive VR headsets.
I think #3 goes at the top.

Open an editor and start a python script, <html></html>, new Xcode project from template, etc.

Then do the minimal amount of work to make a "program". Would be great to have input from the user and output something interesting. But many programs/apps are just informational right?

So you start with the most basic program.

And you add to it.

Occasionally jump over to a huge codebase and show her how editing one line changes the program. Explain how this one just has more layers, time spent on it, more people working on it, all of the above.

Go back to your small programs.
Push until you have a real need for OOP or a framework.
Then she will be A) interested about OOP or the framework and B) actually understand the point. Imagine someone trying to shove OOP down your throat when you don't have any use for it. Inexperienced people aren't ready for that kind of abstract thinking. Maybe they can understand it but they don't understand the application of it, or worse, they will start to think everything should use it. Show the simple version first, then show how other things can make you work faster and the code cleaners (which are really some of the biggest reasons for OOP and frameworks, right? It's not as if you can't make something happen without them, they just increase productivity and code clarity).

Lastly, making something that scratches an itch of theirs or both of yours so the work is practical. There's plenty of possibilities there to avoid making tic tac toe if no-one likes tic tac toe.

Good luck
You can access web APIs and access DOM in wasm today (from your comment you seem to be unware of that?). I just wrote a tiny web app in Rust with wasm-bindgen, and it’s pretty good already. With wasm-bindgen interfacing is pretty manual at the moment — you need to declare the APIs you need in Rust by hand, but an app without dependencies that modify the DOM generates a wasm file that’s only a few KB. My app pulls in quite a few libs and ended up with a ~700KB wasm build — a bit larger than satisfactory, but definitely in the tolerable range.
My favorite is [1]. The downstream errors that type generates are "fun."

"Slightly obtuse" is an understatement when dealing with `Pick` and the errors the complimenting mapped types generate. Once you throw in React and higher order components, you can get errors that are literally several console pages long - although that's usually just tsc "tracing" the error through the complex types.

[1] https://github.com/piotrwitek/utility-types/blob/532fe5cfcc5...
> I'm very bullish on Rust becoming the language of choice in the 2020s for everything from operating systems, web services, desktop applications, and more. It's that good.

I don't mean to burst your bubble here. But people need to feel productive quickly with a language, otherwise they'll drop it and move to something else which makes them feel that way.

Looking at this thread there are plenty of examples of "I love Rust, but..." or "It's a great language once you get past...". My favorite: "There's an awesome web framework but you have to use Rust-nightly..."

Javascript is thought of as a terrible language by language snobs, and yet it has a huge following. Haskell, on the other hand, is much beloved, and doesn't. Don't get me wrong, it's got its share of love, but hasn't seen the explosive growth that python or java has.

The lesson from the early 2000's is that C++ may be a superior language to Java (I used to think that way), however people were so much more productive with Java. They didn't have to worry about memory management, segfaults, crazy C++ semantics, etc. Companies were more willing to throw hardware at a problem to reduce risk/time in development. And that is still true today.
How Many Space Stations Does This Planet Need?
Sadly they closed over the summer.
The Apple and Amazon statements were bulletproof, and would very likely guarantee them shareholder lawsuits if they were in fact falsified. Additionally, the SEC would likely investigate if this did happen (since it would be fraud with harmed investors looking for blood)
1. We've been arond longer than most in this space (since 2011)

2. We've been profitable and bootstrapping for a long time. We have paying users like Facebook, Google, and Stripe, Hackreactor, HCT (biggest college in the UAE) and so many more: https://repl.it/pricing

3. We're probably like 5-10x Koding users base.

4. You keep creating accounts to spread misinformation. Go find something better to do.
Such a great point about diversity: they're not. Apple products allow you to live the life a 24 year old silicon valley hipster. Granted Apple is making a _ton_ of money off this target audience however, so it's hard to criticize their approach
Like logging you into Chrome when you log into GMail.

This one hit me hard. And that was after I knew about it. I logged into Gmail on Chrome on my personal computer, without realizing I had been logged into Chrome itself, which then ended up mixing my personal browsing history with my work account, something I’ve tried very hard to avoid.
I'm generally dismayed at the state of UX in general, and mobile UX in particular, these days.

It feels like we have regressed a lot from where we were in the "golden age of the desktop". I mean, we actually had standards for things - remember CUA? And UX was designed in a way that made it so that once you learn a few basic tricks (like double click and drag and drop), they would work everywhere, and they would do so consistently. Consistency, in general, was key to the UX of that era. Some things might not have been as easy to access as they are today, but all things could be found where you expected them. Even the menu hierarchy was largely standardized.

Now, even if you stick to one particular platform, it often changes the concepts radically within 4-5 years; and many of those aren't even consistently applied. Worse yet, instead of fixing the mess, the UX designers just keep piling more and more stuff, like Apple's "3D touch".
Cool stuff! It's also interesting to see the price increasing gradually over time.
My preferred solution is to just start taxing sales of new gasoline and diesel powered cars based on expected lifetime CO2 emissions. Then use the revenue to subsidize retiring older cars and replacing them with new/used EV's.

You can combine that with restrictions on where gasoline and diesel cars can drive like some cities in Europe are doing.
I grew with IOS, loved 6 through 9, even 10 but with exceptions. I highly dislike the current version though
No evidence that this alleged attack was highly-targeted, but it is pretty much SOP now, since the history of Stuxnet [1] publicly revealed the strategy. I was initially impressed the Bloomberg's story, but the longer this drags on with no independent proof, and given the one of the author's previous infosec reporting gaffe with no follow through, I've dismissed the story's veracity to a low probability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#History
Anyone who thinks corruption in the USA (or Western Europe) is the same as a third world country hasn't really lived in a third world country. It's literally a whole new level - right from getting a driver's license to being forced to sell your home because local goon wants to build something on your land to entire judiciary blatantly ruling in favor of the one who pays the most to politicians running the county in spite of multiple stints in prison....I can go on and on.

There is a reason why the masses are clamoring to get to EU or USA, immigration hurdles notwithstanding. And clean governance without much hassle to your daily life is a big part of it.