skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That confused me briefly - like, people use an extra sink as a bidet? Turns out that what has fallen out of fashion are the entirely separate bidet-only commodes. I've more recently only heard "bidet" in the context of something that is built in (or attached) to the regular toilet, that's what is increasing in popularity.
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Listening is an important skill. To avoid being perceived as passive or absent, "active listening" [1] can be helpful. Just remember that you are communicating via a shared medium (half-duplex) so sending should be kept to the necessary minimum ;-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening
hah don't have too strong an opinion
You're reading an encyclopedia. Isolate the bits you are interested in. But in the end it's grunt work. If you aren't prepared to see EVERY line of code executing you will never know what it intends\does. JavaScript you can get away with black box knowledge. C by definition is a thin wrapper over machine implementations. If you went to uni make notes. If you've been programming for 40 years you'll derive your own system of boxes, lines and scribbles that fits on the back of a cigarette packet.
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> On mobile? Qt really isn't pleasant or usable on mobile.

Can't confirm. We've been using QML (part of Qt) and C++ to write cross-platforms applications (Android, Windows, Mac) for many years now without any major hiccups.
That was tricky to get working well, and for a while I hobbled along with gtags... but I do have it working now. And it wasn't that complicated, I was just missing an embarrassing piece of the puzzle.

But yes, basically

(require 'csharp-mode)
(require 'omnisharp)
(setq omnisharp-expected-server-version "1.32.8")
(add-hook 'csharp-mode-hook 'omnisharp-mode t)

Then omnisharp should be able to install and start a Roslyn server on its own with the corresponding commands.

The annoying issue that at first prevented this from working was that on OS X I also needed

(require 'exec-path-from-shell)
(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)

But figuring this stuff out was only a matter of reading the omnisharp-log buffer and guessing what the errors may be caused by.
It’s a joke
It does fit easily with the (admittedly terrible) ubiquitous trend of sharing posts between social networks through screenshots.
Yes, I think I know what you mean.

I think there are genuine Christians around. You may have even met one. I also think there are people who call themselves Christians, because they attend a church that declares itself to be Christian, and publicly declare themselves for Jesus, and who may or may not even realize that what they do and what they say that they believe do not always align.

Not being Christian myself, and having no stake in what it really means to be Christian, it nevertheless seems to me that the various points made in the Sermon on the Mount should be relevant. And yet there are so many around here that stand and pray in the churches and the schools and the stadiums and the courthouses and in the town squares and on the street corners, that they may be seen by others, and heap up empty phrases, to be heard for their many words. It couldn't be clearer in the narrative that Jesus--the main protagonist of the whole religion and the illustrative model for righteous behavior and wisdom--said, "don't do this". And then people do it anyway.

A genuinely uber-Christian atmosphere would (in my non-Christian opinion) not have so many public declarations of piety blasted around everywhere. Nor would it constantly be trying to oppress minorities, and strip health care away from the poor. Nor would it be building weapons of war, or turning away the oppressed without a shred of comfort. Maybe you get a different experience when a priest reads to you from the Bible and then tells you it means something other than what it says, but when you go direct to the source material, and take the myth at face value, the hypocrisies are obvious.
I would like to announce that I am the king of America... Now lets see the actual results.
it doesn't apply in 2018? ;) anyways, the rules here are "randomly" applied... it's a bit like a "communist" country... it has a bunch of rules but they are being applied selectively.
It can be. It's useless to apologize to someone who's dead.
Can't disagree that the motion smoothing that most TVs now have really makes movies look awful.
How does an hourly minimum wage work given that Uber and Lyft drivers get paid for doing trips, not for idling in their car waiting for rides? Does this minimum wage only apply to times when I have a fare? That would mean the real hourly minimum wage is less because I wouldn't have a fare 100% of the time. If it applies when I don't have a fare too, how much idle time between fares can I have before the minimum wage stops applying? What happens if I'm driving for both Uber and Lyft, and alternate services on each ride, so my "fare density" on each service is no more than 50% of each hour?

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? These are legitimate questions. I'm not criticizing the minimum wage. I'm genuinely curious as to how it actually works.
What about a WASM powered UI kit? Wouldn't that finally fix the cross language issue?
Chinese trademarks, patents and copyrights are monopolies granted by the Chinese government (note, not the US government) to rights owners and have power only within China.
I have a friend who runs his software consultancy company out of China. It's ridiculously cheap to run a company there. Whether it's better or not, I can't really say because I don't have good tools to measure the risk, but it's definitely a lot less money than the US. Having said that, there are a lot of tax havens in the world and I'm not sure that China is the best one to set up shop in unless you are actively using Chinese resources.
The smart TVs still have a slow and clunky UI before you connect them to the internet.
The entire thing is up on https://github.com/kqr/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el . One would think modularity is not a word in my dictionary, though...
Looks like someone could use pgbouncer :)
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Format of the screenshots reminded me a lot of embedded Twitter posts - would love to see embeddable HN comments :)
Background for anyone else who has not heard about this particular Bird:

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I want to be a cog in 95% of my interactions. I only try to extract meaning from a few of my relationships.
For the second scenario, I always recommend to the people around me, if someone messages you and doesn't have a lot of the friends you know, then don't respond. That becomes challenging when the person being asked for help doesn't know your friends circle. Also, try to call them anyways before you do something. I.e. message them on WhatsApp or another chat application. It's similar to the old email scam that used to run asking for help with an email address which was changed by one word. It was not that prevalent though.

This is really a crazy thing, would love to see what others can come up with.
> How is this not just an alternative to normal Docker tools?

From my understanding, you've got Docker for defining your app's services, you've got Kubernetes for orchestrating them, you've got Terraform et al. for defining/configuring your infrastructure, and now you've got CNAB/Duffle to bring all these tools and configs together under one umbrella.

> Does it run on Linux?

From the article[1] posted above:

> By design, it is cloud agnostic. It works with everything from Azure to on-prem OpenStack, from Kubernetes to Swarm, and from Ansible to Terraform. It can execute on a workstation, a public cloud, an air-gapped network, or a constrained IoT environment.

[1] https://open.microsoft.com/2018/12/04/announcing-cnab-cloud-...
Not really, no. It's very difficult to bridge different platform UI paradigms with just a language layer.
> I feel like these don't work well because the punchline comes in the middle of the joke. Let's try rearranging some:

You just don't understand which part is the punchline. The entire standard joke is the setup, and the nihilist addition is the punchline. Your versions completely mess that up, doing exactly the thing that you complain about. :\
The study found that 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings account. Which is probably no big surprise as a savings account is a pretty horrible place to store any sizeable amount of money, with the near-zero interest rates usually offered on such accounts. At best it is a rainy day fund. $1,000 should easily cover most immediate rainy day needs. Anything more expensive generally gives you some notice to cash out other investments as necessary.
I am more refering to the css. All content is fetched without needing js. But its css hidden because ...
Do you think if MS didn't buy Github, do they dare to put their own stuffs on Github (even Enterprise, let go of OSS) ?
They very much are legal documents, and they are binding.
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Australian Police and spies gain powers to access encrypted messages
Someone hacked my Google play account
A few weeks ago I was unable to login into my google play account with the message that I'm violating the google app guidelines.

I didn't had any idea why my apps violates them, so I've asked them. Serveral times - without a reply (Well, I got some automatic replies telling me they won't tell me anything).

Yesterday I got several mails that my apps got unpublished (they weren't available publicly before because of my app account ban), and google stated that my apps/privacy pages linked on the store page contained porn material. They attached a screenshot, and... yay.... everything... full of porn.

So finally I realised someone must have been hacked my account.

What can I do to address this issue? It's seems impossible to get contact to a real human being at google who could help me with this issue. No matter which form I use or which mail that I've found I used, I'm only getting answers by mail bots.

This is frustrating, because I'm doing apps for a living and I have to support my family with the earnings. I still hope I can get the issues addressed but threads I've found on the web states that if you google account got banned you can't do anything to get it back - no matter if it was your fault or not :(
No, and glad that's the case. I don't need the extra hassle! I make simple niche stuff.

But, it doesn't really matter, some Chinese guys saw they could make few dollars by knocking off my PCB, making it cheaper, using cheaper components, and copying my code. It's not like it was a $40,000,000 product line.

I tell people it's how I know I'm not completely shit. That the Chinese thought it good enough to clone/steal. It's how I know I've made it.
Yeah, you'd think, but this survey of 1,000 players said 68.8% had spent money on in-game purchases.

Maybe they somehow managed to target just the 0.1% of players who spend money (according to you), but it seems highly unlikely that the numbers are that low.

https://lendedu.com/blog/finances-of-fortnite/
China does have a better overall business environment. You're correct when you assert that cities in the US can't compete as far as raw abilities.

But the original comment was about China's tax system, and that's all I was talking about. I was comparing only the tax systems. To say that China's TAX SYSTEM is better than that of the US is disingenuous.
This is awesome. Maybe then we can finally have a separate group / events app without getting the crappy Facebook feed and notifications. I think most people use facebook either for messenger, or for the group and event features.
China’s gene-editing doctor has reportedly gone missing
It's wrong in general case. Look at Zeit team with their OSS stuffs.
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There were rumors of a Winux project at Microsoft that put the Windows GUI on top of Xenix. I don't think it was true. But the idea of moving the OS to a Unix OS goes back to MacOSX. Microsoft could do worse than putting Windows on top of Linux.
Don't jump to conclusions (early). Remember the story of the boy and the horse: Maybe so, Maybe not. We’ll see. [1]

[1] First search result I found: http://www.drmarlo.com/?page_id=181
I'm not suggesting that its' necessarily a problem, except in cases where Google abuses their position to the negative effect of competitors.
I've had the same experience with docs, but the polar opposite with .NET Core FX and ASP.NET Core - seems any new features need to be discussed by committee, and can take several months or even years before they will then say "OK, send a PR", even for features that there is demand for.

Even for bugfixes, I've been really dissapointed in their responses - they call any change in behaviour a 'regression', and won't accept fixes, even if the behaviour they want to preserve only exists as a side effect of the bug, and nobody could possibly want in any case!

I write this as a .NET fanboi, but my negative experience of trying to contribute to Microsoft's OSS projects has been left me dissolutioned.
> as `coldtea` points out below, this is not really an issue in today's ecosystem. Branding themes are more prevelant on most apps people are using than not.

On iOS, the extent of "branding themes" end up is often limited.

> Flutter renders all of its fonts itself natively, using the same way Chrome does it. Has this been a problem?

There is no Chrome on iOS. So Flutter is different from everything else out there.

> Is this a remark on an incomplete cross platform framework (i.e., flutter needs more features) and that it hasn't reached enough popular usage, or that cross platform frameworks have this problem? If not, it feels like the alternative to not using a cross platform framework is to write everything for each platform in a platform-specific way, which might be considered much worse. What's the issue at hand here?

Flutter, and almost every other cross-platform framework, have this problem.
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It's already fucked. This could be checked much easier than looking for new flags every release and figuring out those do what they should. If they fuck it up too much, we'll know they're either malicious or incompetent, both are very good reasons to stop using their code.
Sounds like their computers are compromised.... key loggers, malware maybe??

How are the bad actors getting the 2FA code? Are the phones hacked too? Are the phones on a rogue tower? Why is someone spending time messing with old ladies? There has to be a reason why they are a target for someone to spend this much energy.. Good luck!
> The move will significantly reduce the risk of building on the Facebook platform.

What's to stop them from reversing the policy change? Once bitten, twice shy.
I didn't say the things you disagree with, but I'll address your points:

> not doing business with any non-democratic countries

That would be a pretty extreme measure; I don't think anyone, or anyone respected, is calling for it. Another drawback to disengaging completely is that you lose future leverage; it's a punishment, in a way, but once it's done then you have no more relationship with the other party. 'I'm taking my ball and going home' is very amateur diplomacy.

> The U.S. should serve as an inspirational example as it did in the past but we can't be nation builders and all-out imperialists.

The choice of the U.S. isn't all or nothing - be purely "inspirational" or be "all-out imperialists". The U.S.'s soft power - the inspiration - was very potent until Trump, and to a smaller degree GW Bush, said democracy and human rights weren't a priority. It still could be revived to a significant degree. But there are other solutions, including the following:

* Intervene in ways that are efficient and effective. The U.S. can't help every country, and many interventions are ineffective. But lots of research and experience show what works in which scenarios.

* Support international law and norms that pressure regimes in the right direction. The UN in general plays a major role. The Responsibility to Protect, for example, was developed after Rwanda's massacres in the 1990s and, generally speaking, requires each government to protect the welfare of its citizens (rather than massacre them) and says the government is illegitimate otherwise. The International Criminal Court holds political leaders legally responsible for crimes (though I don't know that the U.S. officially supports it).

* Support mechanisms that provide stability, such as the World Bank (which supports infrastructure and other needs) and the International Monetary Fund (which loans governments money to prevent bankruptcies).
>The bill specifies that such a capability cannot introduce a “systemic weakness” that could imperil all encrypted communications on the same platform - a key concern of privacy groups and the technology sector.

>In one of the most significant compromises, the bill will define what constitutes a "systemic weakness".

I'm eagerly awaiting the explanation of how they intend to break encryption without introducing systemic weakness.
No China will enforce IP laws. And a little bit later, monkeys will fly out of my butt.
Another vote for Dashlane. The password management is stellar, it even alerts you about breaches and prompts you to change compromised passwords.

I run a unique password for every site so it doesn't matter if a provider gets rumbled, and I don't reuse passwords or have to remember multiple ones.

The form autofill is pretty awful compared to Lastpass, but I can live with that.
maybe for LO and FF, but I don't think that you can present yourself as a proficient blender or eclipse user if you don't write your own plug-ins
On the other hand, plenty of well educated people seem to grow up and reach the opposite conclusion - that the only solution to some endemic problems, which keep occurring despite changes in leadership, is a radical one. Simplicity sometimes is the best solution.
> Well, did Samsung promise this notification feature in their marketing campaign?

Nope - but it's something I would expect any smartwatch to do. It's just a dark pattern and they don't GAF for any actual use-case.

> I don't think however Samsung deliberately misled

Yea this is where we disagree. It's a dark pattern to force users to use their ecosystem fully. What about my corp. Outlook, HipChat, G-suite products, etc etc!? If it shows a notification on the phone - it should show a notification on the watch like my Garmin. Period.
Yes indeed for those static pages we could make an exception. I'll see what I can do.
Why would they? I don't see any guidelines it violates, other than the loose suggestion to have your app be reasonably designed.
Then maybe someone could make a kit to turn a rented kit into a personal one.
I'm skeptical of the idea that this is an advantage.
And they're going to do it in three weeks. Amazing!

"Spy agencies and police have said that the Christmas and New Year period poses a heightened risk of terrorist attacks."

It'd be comical if there weren't serious risks of them damaging internet security in the process.
So, it's totally impossible to simply retrieve the contents of the annotations now??

What good is a "delete" button if the data is inaccessible otherwise and will just be deleted later anyway‽

Please, if anyone knows how to just download the text, I'd appreciate it. I'm one of those people who used annotations to add corrections and clarifications to educational videos…
I have used notmuch for years now and see no reason to stop. Be warned, however, that it does require you to set up some tooling outside of emacs as well.
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> my rented house

> my property

Those two things don't jive. It's your property OR you rent it. Not both.
money is one thing, but the effort put into is another, I've been doing engineering jobs, and I've put lots of efforts from education to actual job. This whole chain of efforts is just to have a life; money is necessary for a life, which a hard-earned one for me. I can say it's been difficult along my path of life personal or professional, that's why youtuber earnings shake me emotionally.
For the benefit of predatory attorneys, of course.

https://www.dailynews.com/2017/05/24/ada-lawsuit-abuse-remai...
Amazon DeepRacer is a program-your-own self-driving car
My kids have put more of their money into Fortnite stuff in 1 year than they have paid for in total for any other AAA title game. So have all of their friends.

It isn't whales, its the 10-18 yo disposable money. They get into the stage where physical toys don't hold interest, their birthday and allowance money piles up and social/peer pressure comes into play.
Well, that's how it is.

Just saw that you had few posts telling that you lived in Malaysia, and thought that you may be somebody I know.

> some Chinese guys saw they could make few dollars by knocking off my PCB, making it cheaper, using cheaper components

Why not to copy their design?
I think this is the wrong link. It just links back to here.
I mean, what's the difference between this and customizing billboard ads based on where the billboard is?

IMO the issue is not google using IP-based location info. The issue (if there really is one) is people assuming/believing the internet hides their location.
Then buy a simple laptop that isn’t one of these?
I suppose the tricky thing about advocating a balanced message in this specific topic is that nobody really knows what a good working equilibrium should be regarding these issues.

I mean, it's a contentious issue for China and the USA...

My view on the matter is that us (as global humans in a global civilization) have yet to figure out how to strike a balance in this world with an Internet.
Excellent clarification. I'll get his scarlet letter ready.
What was the HFS driver hung on?
I don't really like this comparison to peasants, they can be happy and healthy for doing what they do, but office jobs are just depressing and unhealthy in comparison.
Alas, they can still add and remove such a policy, or tuned variants thereof, at their own discretion at any time. And have done so in the past. And would be keenly motivated to do so in the future.

So them not-having-the-policy on a particular day N isn't really much comfort for those who'd like to build functionality for day N+1, when Facebook may have rewritten the rules to its own advantage again.

Will they contractually commit to a policy for a specified period of time?
(r/machinelearning) Can you tell if these faces are real or GAN-generated?
So if you have memory-mapped IO, how would you write to a specific address? In C/C++, a reinterpret cast is exactly what you need there. What would you use in Rust?
Pass is awesome. I use it in combination with a YubiKey to store the pgp key. Because every password is stored in an independent encrypted file and every decryption needs a press on the YubiKey even a stolen database and keylogger does not provide access to all passwords.