skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Below excerpt sums up the "most visited websites" part. Notice the "s" at the end of "websites". It might be an overstatement, the author didn't back it up, unless I missed it, but it's impressive nontheless:

> 45 domain names are in active use in 19 different countries.

> 42 dedicated servers in Germany run the whole operation.

> 24,3 million PDF and PowerPoint files are hosted on all sites combined.

> These sites have at least 12.843 incoming links.

> 23 to 29 million unique monthly visitors for all the sites combined.

> Estimated 100 million page views per month.

> The sites generate a roughly estimated add revenue of $92,210 each month.

> slideplayer.com is ranked as the 6,047 and myshared.ru is ranked as 11,806 most visited site in the world. 11 other sites are also ranked in the top 100,000 list.
A PR on GitHub cannot be made without a fork to begin with.

Then what?
Tiny customizations yield a unique outcome that can become more brand affiliated.

But if they do just want to avoid licensing..and? If it's less expensive to go through the design and construction and acceptance and branding, then the typeface is probably a tad overpriced. A grotesque sans-serif is a grotesque sans-serif, not a rip off of Helvetica. It doesn't own that entire concept.

While I find this piece interesting and informative, it seems biased in what it considers a useful outcome and what it doesn't. YouTube cutting off "random" pieces, for instance, yields a playful and unique typeface.
Then again, you are doing the hacks you describe because it is not scaling up nearly instantly. The cold start delays are not only an issue when scaling from zero to one, they hit you whenever you scale the capacity up.
Eeehhh...wireless is a usual thing in the music industry, just not via Bluetooth.
There is a simple way to make it much easier. Use hosted platforms (eg PaaS) instead of self-maintained infrastructure.

Unfortunately, most enterprises are still not willing to outsource their IT platform to the real pros and thereby make it someone else’s problem to keep that infrastructure up and running. They want to build their own in-house competency. But the problem is, if you’re a true DevOps pro, why would you work for some random company in which IT is considered a cost center, rather than working for either a hosted platform provider or a (for lack of a better phrase) “independent provider of DevOps”?

IT and security managers are able to convince business executives that IT infrastructure needs to be kept in-house, even though today’s typical enterprise has no chance of actually building and maintaining a infrastructure that is 1% as good as what they could rent from a dedicated provider.
Another vote for Gandi from me for domain registrar. A lot of people don't seem to like the new web UI, but I'm satisfied with their offerings.
It's surprising that the banks can be fooled by that, once you explained it it seemed so obvious.
Another reason is support for multiple languages. Many companies in western countries may start by using a typeface that only covers Latin script.

I was doing some work with Nokia around the time they released Nokia Pure, and I can certainly say that multiple language support was, at least for us, one of the primary drivers for using it, and it made our lives a lot easier at the time.
In my experience there are two kinds of people. Those who focus on tone and delivery, and those who focus on content and consistency.

The former will remain exceedingly polite, up to and including the part where they tell you to go f yourself.

The latter are the ones you can actually depend on in a crisis, because they won't be busy playing social games to cover their own behind.

I'd argue that if someone is seen as a giant douche because they won't automatically cater to someone's sensibilities, that's a sign of a real douche, who is so used to being marketed to and "handled", that fair, reciprocal treatment is experienced as rudeness.

That is the gap between the kind of culture open source used to have, and what some want to turn it into today, and which is often incorrectly dismissed as a lack of civility.

Civility is that which allowed civilization to form, not what passes for it once others have already done the work. If that is a problem, it's because it's been manufactured into one on purpose.
Another vote from me for Hetzner as hosting provider. Solid feature set, good uptime, good support.
When you buy into Apple you are supposed to follow the trend. It has been the case since the earliest Macs. So it is not surprising that Apple followers simply do what Apple tells them to do and switch to wireless.
I don't like it but it has value. Apple products tend to work quite well when used as intended.

As for sales dropping, smartphone sales do drop. Or at least, the upgrade cycles are becoming longer. It is mostly because phones are becoming "good enough" for many years, but the removal of the headphone jack may have played a tiny part.
I use iwantmyname.com because I find their DNS configuration really simple compared to other registrars I have used. DigitalOcean for hosting, and as a business we use Cloudflare for DNS, but personally I just use the iwantmyname tools.
There are good looking open source fonts. So I don't think that's true.
What about group dating? 6-10 people having food drinks, discussions, playing games? No awkwardness associated with 1-1 dating, no need to commit or reject. No need to write up a profile or anything- just go and see how it goes, see if you make any connections with someone.
He may be bringing up the issue that it's perfectly legal to copy another font visually as long as you don't copy the font's data. (maybe something the author doesn't understand?)
That's the mystery for me too. I myself met, I think, close to 100 officials in course of working in electronics industry for 11 years, and not a single one of them strayed from the stereotype I stated above.

But even with gross incompetency of individual constituents, that party as a whole, in some absurd and bizarre way, ends up settling on more or less rational policies most of the time.
Fake news inquiry: Facebook questioned by MPs from around the world
The railroads were a great example of a interference in a market. In its early days it paid more to market to DC than to customers and might still today.

I’m going from pure memory so correct if I’m wrong, but the only cross continental railroad that didn’t immediately go bust after finish was the only one not being paid by the mile by the government.
They already have one. I think they had one on the very first iPhone even.
The guy would do the same, but he cannot even dream of that income.

Report loaded with envy have no place on my list.

Let the Russian live.
A valid GPT header either at the beginning or end of the disk. Due to how the GPT header is structured, the secondary starts with the partition table and ends with the header signature in the last 8 bytes of the disk.

So unlike with MBR disks, you can't just nuke the first few sectors and call it a day, you have to wipe the whole disk (or use a GPT-aware tool like wipefs).
I suspect most want something unique for their brand identity. But as always people don't know what they want until they see it, making it very hard to make something interesting that will go through all layers of approval.
Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy
Going by GP, if neither the primary nor backup GPTs are valid then nothing should happen.

I would still recommend having a GPT, though. There's nothing useful to be gained by avoiding it, and we've just seen what sort of failure modes can come up.
Was expecting some algorithmic analysis of the books to cluster the works to different authors and attempt to match them to other works with known authors. But thats not the case. Entertaining background about the business though.
so are you saying that for javascript the things are not looking good as well ?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...
There's no telling whether or not that's his real name.

Edit: as a commenter below pointed out, just because a person with a name lives at an address, they may not run a website that they're listed as running. After all you probably live at an address, and if I was a fraudster I could list you.
> Unless it has a physical failure, your jack socket always just works.

What does that mean? What would it mean if I said "Unless it has a physical failure, your car always just works"?

I've had lots of problems with wired headphones and jacks. More often it's the headphone that's the problem, but I've have several issues with the jacks themselves. They can get stuff jammed into them, but they can also just not work properly. I don't know why exactly, but I've had it happen.
Sure, today's CPUs execute not only in parallel but also out-of-order. But that doesn't matter since threads don't let threads die before they've done their share.

Out-of-order makes thread synchronization a little harder (when implementing lock-free algorithms for example), but that has nothing to do with exceptions.
The mdadm manpage specifically mentions to use partitions with a special partition type, not whole disks, to prevent various 3rd party software tools from messing with it.
Crystal prefers these constructs [0] `foo.map {|x| x + 1}` where the stuff between the squiggles is called a "block". I come from Ruby, so maybe Crystal got this one right, but Ruby blocks, at least, are a more limited, less general-purpose approach to lambdas (by which I mean anonymous, first-class functions + closures) [1].

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/docs/syntax_and_semantics/blocks_an...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
Mirror (March '18): https://web.archive.org/web/20180328023025/https://sijmen.ru...
No GPT is required. Problems only happen when you have partial or conflicting partition table information. If you want to not use GPT on a disk, you need to make sure to delete both copies.
About FreeBSD, I've heard that its' software is lagging behind many fast updating Linux distros but is extremely reliable, how does Debian Testing compare to something like TrueOS i.e FreeBSD-Current stuff?

P.S when I say lagging behind I don't mean the server things but rather on the developer side.
The history of mtgox is not that simple and it is somewhat difficult to say who actually was the guilty one. Maybe there was lots of incomptenece involved but I'm pretty sure that also in a situation like that it might be so difficult even think straight.

MtGox was actually developed by Jed McCaleb, and Karpeles (MagicalTux) later bought the business from Jed. At the time of the sale the exchange already had tons of issues and apparently missing 80k BTC. It was perfect timing for Jed, who later started Ripple. For Karpeles the biggest mistake was buying the business. I would consider the latter mistakes only a minor mistakes. I would guess the codebase/security/etc was quite a horrible as well, can't really blame MagicalTux for not managing to save that business.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2016/05/22/mt-gox-a-new-revelation-s...
I don't know. I'm honestly confused.

The best I can tell from the article, if it looks too directly like fraud, it's fraud

If you involve a few players and do it indirectly, it's marketing?

The danger here, which I guess needs to be explicitly-stated is that if public perception becomes a big part of the decision whether to prosecute or not, we've fallen completely into political crime territory, where the ultimate bad thing to do is look bad. That's not going to work.
> circle back around and do it the way the big boys do.

Things that never happen.
Why don't you contact them directly [0] instead of writing in some forum where no staff member will ever read it? They have a contact form on their website for technical support.

0: http://event.asrock.com/tsd.asp | http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5265&title=howto...
You’re totally right about options. I was thinking more explicitly about stock itself (e.g. RSUs in the case of employees at companies that issue those instead of options, or founder's stock in my personal case).

Separate from that, things are still more fraught in Germany: whatever your US taxation situation is, I'm not aware of any situation where a valuation change in stock/options/etc you're holding will trigger a taxable event for you, as I understand to be the case with Germany. As I understand equity taxation in the US, you'll only ever be taxed when events happen that you yourself have initiated (e.g. exercising options or selling stock).
Imaginary numbers and the continuousness of the reals makes physics a lot simpler. In fact any equation written in terms of complex numbers can be written as a system of equations in terms of real numbers, but it is not done because it is easier to just live with complex numbers.
Lazy loading (and preloading) components in React 16.6
Alexa is generally a poor metric. In my experience directly comparing Google Analytics to Alexa for hundreds of sites, anything above 50k rank is not pushing meaningful traffic.
You musn't throw the baby out with the bath water! Carriers require knowledge of where you are to give you service - it is a physical limitation of cell technology. And carriers can and should be limited as to how they use that data (in my view they should not store it at all, only using it for your benefit, but I digress). But to argue that if one company has your location data, then it doesn't matter if ALL companies have your location data, well, this is clearly false.
I'd go with a). Very dumb move.
Eighties-nineties Toyota Hilux maybe, those do look like toys compared to 2018 model. Modern Hilux is just as fat as any other US truck.
Are you sure they are talking about the motherboard in the article, or other boards they use?
> The most obnoxious and common is hardcoding the boot path to be "\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.efi", ignoring what the boot entry says on that matter.

Tell us what manufacturer does that, so I can avoid ever buying from them.
> Dozens of emails / notifications, people pinging / bothering you on multiple platforms, multiple emails, etc.

Two options:

1. Stop supporting the package, mark it as deprecated, ignore/delete the spam

2. Hand over project to a stranger, endangering all of your users

One of these options is irresponsible, the other one isn't. I'm not asking anyone to do something for me, I'm asking them to not do something for the sake of sanity.

> It's stupid to blindly trust someone's code, regardless of who they are of if they are the current maintainer, that is not how you build secure software.

I agree, but both of us know that pretty much the entire Javascript ecosystem is exactly that stupid. Let me ask you: What have you personally done to vet your dependencies? Have you used Babel or any of the other popular Javascript packages that have a huge dependency tree? If you have, chances are you are effectively blindly trusting all the developers in that tree. You're not checking every single commit that goes into it.

> If you want to start some organization which vets people for maintainers go for it, but don't expect maintainers to do it, I can guarantee you that thousands of maintainers do not.

I don't expect that they do, I expect that if they fuck up that their reputation takes a hit. That would some incentive for not fucking up. Instead, there isn't even any consensus that this guy fucked up. He's taking no responsibility whatsoever.
It would be interesting to see a resource that paired up equivalent fonts in different scripts. It could take into account form ("This Arabic font uses similar shapes to Helvetica"), function ("This is the Chinese 'default' front similar to Times New Roman"), and what the font implies ("This font is used as a 'futuristic' font in Japanese similar to Eurostyle or Bank Gothic in Latin script").
The site in question (locatefamily.com) is known for scraping public information. I'm very doubtful anyone did anything wrong here, tough it is questionable data to say the least.

Morally questionable maybe, though I'm going full circle and going to say scamming is as well.

edit: The name was posted in public whois info. That basically means you handed out your data to the public anyway. Everyone on this forum would be able to acquire the location from the information he found.
OKRs and the lucrative business of creating complexity
No, they won't. They've already fined Google billions, but have they got the money? Not a chance. Any fine will be fought for at least a decade (see Oracle v Google) and will end up in limbo forever.

They could fine Google $1 trillion, wouldn't make a difference.
> You're encouraged to keep state only in top-level components

Doesn't state grow unmanageably large for complex GUIs?

> React is definitely much more functional than other/older approaches to GUIs

I'm not sure about that. Take a look, both projects are much older: https://github.com/dotnet/reactive https://reactiveui.net/
It doesn't surprise me and doesn't align with my own use.

But yeah, mobile devices are not really computers for doing things. They are screens for consuming media. It makes sense for people to use them this way.

It also makes sense for google to have trouble with them because they are all very crappy at being computers.

It's just a shame google has decided to target such a gimped platform primarily. A shame, but inevitable.
The Kings of England were nobles in France with lands over there ever since William the Conqueror. He didn't stop being Duke of Normandy just because he was also now King of England and his lands and titles stayed in the family. Many of them primarily spoke French up to the Tudors. They didn't see it as invading France, but protecting and securing their ancestral rights.
Few small companies can maintain a full OS, regardless of the open source alternatives. Yet FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SmartOS are all still living projects, and none have a Google behind them.
Zuckerberg could be humbled by a creepy bikini app
The best and free online video downloading app for Android
Lucky you. Meanwhile Microsoft has delayed the October update for the third time because of all the crap they keep breaking whenever they release it. Yesterday my boss and I had a conversation about just turning Windows Update off forever for our org because it's caused more trouble than pretty much anything we could think of as a consequence of not updating. This was brought up (again) because of several of our developers having their network cards randomly and inexplicably stop working and requiring a reboot to fix after 1809.

I will say that since Vista there has been a ton of improvement on the driver model, display system, network stack, audio stack (as you mentioned), and a few other relatively low-level pieces, but pretty much everything above that has been a continual shitshow of user-hostile bullshit and overly complex interlocking crapware.

Start Menu used to just be a menuized view of a folder structure, now it's some horrid amalgamation of junk that breaks whenever the Windows Apptore database gets corrupt, which is surprisingly often considering no one here even uses Windows Appstore apps.

Older Windows versions had their bugs, sure, but on the whole they cared a lot more about the user, about not breaking their shit and making sure their updates were actually worth applying. Microsoft has made it very clear since Windows 10 that they hate the user.
Just because you change the acronyms doesn't mean that you can completely forget about CI/CD. It's still relevant. Even more so with the newer technologies. You'll probably use different build tools and testing tools. But everything else is still the same.
GPT has a backup/recovery feature. If the disk was ever a valid GPT disk, then there'll be a copy of the partition table in the final block -- and if that wasn't cleared properly then a functioning UEFI is supposed to restore the primary table from it.

The UEFI bios may be following the spec to the letter, here. If so, the takeaway is to always use `wipefs -a`.
and yet a popular trope on HN is to encourage massive amounts of development in a region far beyond its natural carrying capacity - coastal California
Curious what the role of a business officer at WhatsApp is considering it doesn't currently have a business model.
Alibaba’s Jack Ma is a Communist Party member, China state paper reveals
WiX is a nightmare from which I am feverishly trying to awake...
The file is still available online and this is not a mistake like a misslick, this is a deliberate action. He refused to listen to me when I warned him.
Sorry if i don't understand this totally, but why is scraping for pdf and ppt/pptx files and mirroring them illegal?

If you can reach that files just scraping it means they are somehow open to public access.

No joke, i am genuinely asking.
"The idea that typefaces (rather than fonts, which are computer software) cannot be copyrighted in the United States is black letter law. 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(e). Under U.S. law, typefaces and their letter forms or glyphs are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

There is an interesting history of font copying going back to the beginning of the USA. Where the US printers wanted to use European fonts (typefaces?), but didn't want to be hampered by their copyright laws. So there was no copyright protections of fonts in the US.

IANAL but Adobe lost some court case on this recently where they tried to accuse someone of "stealing/copying" a font. But since you can't copyright the alphabet, you can only copyright the font's actual data.

In theory you could trace any font you want in a font design program, and it is now legally yours.

Which makes sense if you are a business that uses fonts (ie a software company) as a primary part of your product instead of a permanent fee to a font provider.
I wonder why Smith is such a common family name in many languages.
A New GitHub Rank Algorithm
Why not? What do you think is wrong with this list?
> For most employees that are minority shareholders, dilution is a side-effect calculation in the realm of academic trivia. Dilution is not a purposeful strategy in this situation.

No, your logic would only hold for a public company with shares priced by a liquid market.

For a startup, percent ownership of fully-diluted shares is the key metric. (Other secondary factors, e.g. liquidation preference are also relevant.)

The strike price of the options is derived from the price that the most recent lead investor paid for the last shares purchased. This is not a market price -- the underlying value of the shares is often less.

But the options are effectively worthless until they are vested and a liquidation event, usually an IPO or acquisition, occurs.
I've read the article and I still don't get the reference or the joke. Where is the "Ladie's lingerie" idiom/trope coming from?
I read through the article and I’m baffled. I couldn’t watch the news video or understand what was going on at the bottom of the post... but were news outlets and the government involved for a site that’s skimming PDFs, hosting them and then slapping on ads? This isn’t something new and if I recall correctly SlideShare did the same thing to grow to where they are today. Is it legal, I don’t know, but these types of sites are dime a dozen and nothing new..
Is this some kind of political prep piece for passing legislation in Europe against google, internet archive, and other search engines indexing public content?
Report it could degrade the good relationship I have with my CIO. Should I not confront him and convince him to remove the file ?
That has nothing to do with open source, but with your relationship with your employers.