skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've reported on the switch to the 'new Bolivar' [1], which has an official conversion to the Petro. So the Venezuelan government might well just now be switching to issuing new Bolivars, and reporting their value in Petros (I can't say why this would make any particular sense, except perhaps to make the distinction from old Bolivars clear).

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7e19a908-a48c-11e8-8ecf-a7ae1beff...
Center of the Universe
It doesn't help allowing employees to be autonomous and self-directed if they never see or get feedback from real users.

A large part of design is validating whatever tool it is that they produce with the people for whom you're building it, and do it again at every step of the process with the intermediate designs - not just as a single upfront gathering of requirements. This is not something that you get from an eat-you-own-dog-food approach.
"A 36-year-olds’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race"

Is 3 letters longer.
Care to elaborate? I haven't heard about any controversial options coming from Luckey before.
It is not an evil thing to have "google search by default" and fund this browser with the money from google. Because people don't want to pay for it. Firefox doesn't stop you from changing the default search engine easily.
On hapi Licensing – a Preview
Two questions:

Is Safari the only user of WebKit now?
Is some Blink development ported to WebKit?
Very cool list. However, I was surprised not to see lambda calculus by Alonzo Church on there. LISP seemed to be invented out of thin air!
A government backed crypto currency is essentially just a different type of digital currency. If petro is more stable than bolivar, i would think people would prefer it, as long as conversions are simple.
Sydney is a beautiful city, but still part of a rather insular and inwards looking country. House prices are obscene (but are finally dropping!), the public transport is a disgrace compared to any European city, and if you work in tech, the really good jobs have only started to appear in the last 2 or 3 years.

I left it for Berlin, and mostly don't miss it (apart from days like today where I could perhaps tolerate weather slightly warmer thatn 0º.)
Why when there's FreeRTOS and a Realtime patchset for the Linux Kernel? Not sure what else the QNX ecology covers.
Yes, sort of: You can use a GAN to do almost everything described in the article. That's really interesting in a way, because they mention several distinct steps, and all of them seem readily amendable to machine learning, including the totally-unrelated-to-coloring lip reading they did to add sound, etc.

BUT: reading the article with ML in mind already, I noticed the frequent references to their work with historians and other experts to get it right.

In other words: ML could possibly get you results that are entirely plausible, yet wrong. They mention the color of buttons on the uniforms and, even less likely to be amendable to technology, commands and other speech shouted off-screen.
Gmail and YouTube uses Chrome only features that make them slow in other browsers, compared to Chrome.
> If there are several individually wealthy family members it's probably more likely due to dilution.

While this is probably true in general, there are at least two famous exceptions from Germany.

There is the notable case of Adolf "Adi" Dassler, founder of Adidas, and his older brother Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma, who separated from their joined shoe manfucaturing business and independently built two of the largest shoe (and now sports equipment) manufacturing companies in the world. Both still headquartered in the tiny 23000 people city Herzognaurach, Germany (close to Nuremberg).

And the similar story of Karl and Theo Albrecht, founders of Aldi (Albrecht Discount), which was split in Aldi Nord (north) and Aldi Süd (south), both growing their company in billion dollar businesses and each becoming billionaires. Granted though they had slightly different styles of running their business, their success was based on the same innovative business idea and a geographic non-compete agreement.
This spiteful article is probably part of the US war campaign against Venezuela.

Leftist Debunks John Oliver's Venezuela Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fV-C1Ag5sI

A Brief History of U.S. Dirty Wars in Central America That Set the Stage for the Refugee Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJpykHbbYI

US Senator Rubio pushes for Venezuela to be placed on US state terrorism sponsors list – report
https://www.rt.com/usa/444420-us-venezuela-terror-sponsor/

‘Bolton is preparing plan for my assassination, with help from Bogota’ – Venezuela’s Maduro
https://www.rt.com/news/446316-maduro-assassination-bolton-v...

Besides US agents are involved in the media secretly and openly (CNN, Fox News,... promoting the conspiracy and lie that should justify the publically well known war e.g. Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria).

What western media company is outraged regarding the situation of journalist Julian Assange ?

The Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks https://consortiumnews.com/2018/12/01/the-guardian-politico-...

Besides: This comment might be my last comment on HN because I can not create replies because I am posting too fast according to HN.
GTK/Qt have Webkit builds that aren't KHTML I believe.

Now, if you're talking about browsers on operating systems that matter... yeah, it's pretty much the last WebKit user.
How many billionaires have made their fortunes through the web? Surely some of them care enough about preventing a monoculture to foot the bill for an independent browser development team - if not for profit, for the greater good. Consider it philanthropy.
I am pretty sure that for the amount of savings most companies can make through removing data retention, working out what data to remove is far, far more costly.
I'm generally of the same opinion, though I like being called when somebody needs something immediately rather than mucking about. I also enjoy a good call when I want to catch up quickly, not spend hours typing out what should amount to about 10 minutes' worth of spoken conversation.

But these sound like _personal_ preferences for _personal_ accounts.

In my work, and I'm sure most others, I don't have a great deal of choice of interaction methods, what I must be signed up to by email, etc.

Our own preferences are great and all, but I think that when we extrapolate those to the greater population and assume everybody is of the same mind, the blinkers to reality kick in. They're a huge problem that is endemic to the technologically-inclined because we falsely (and sometimes smugly) assume that our opinions and choices are universal.

Whether we might prefer or not prefer phone calls is irrelevant to whether or not people still do phone calls in the real world, and people have smartphones these days, so nobody should be surprised that smartphones are still used, especially in business, to place and receive phone calls.

Sure, mightn't be the top use case for a smartphone, but one would be foolish to imagine it isn't a big deal for a lot of people.
While you're right that properly understanding the full stack can help with many optimizations, my point was that there is usually plenty of low-hanging fruit that can be plucked by non-experts to significantly improve site speed.

As such, sure, it's useful to know the details, but it's usually far from necessary.

One example would be lazy-loading of images. I've worked at multiple agencies that definitely knew how to do this, but didn't, causing in the tens of megabytes of unnecessary data. Even just a small change to the templates + a jQuery plugin could have solved this one issue.

Of course, there are lots of reasons why a lot of this low-hanging fruit is left to rot, but they're not primarily to do with the developer's ability to understand all those details that you describe as necessary.
Interesting that "Big O / Complexity theory" is only considered and is not yet classified as an innovation. It's hugely important and non-obvious. Also "Hashes" are extremely important.
I don't think that Google's 'PakeRank' algorithm is that special however; it's just applied graph theory; not so different from Facebook's social graph algorithms.

Also, I don't think that 'Design Patterns' should make the list. Design patterns depend heavily on the kinds of technologies being used. It's more like philosophy than science.
Western media reports tend to grossly exaggerate Chinese tech advances especially startups, those guys never shy away from any PR opportunity even if the only thing they have is a PPT in order to rake in juicy VC and government money. Don't believe what they are saying, let them show the thing.

In this article, the author seems to have mistaken Spacety with another startup LaserFleet when it comes to "offering to provide Wi-Fi service on airplanes", the latter explicitly cliams in their job listings to "have government backing", when a Chinese company says that, you set expectations low, coz they don't aim to be financially viable and usually don't have real advanced technology, maybe not even serious, let alone their grand plans.

The main subject "Spacety", all they did so far is building some concept-proof and experimental cubesats (which seems to be their real and only business model), offers 2 types of cubesat platform to do "space experiments", again, at 100K RMB price point, sounds just like yet another company caters to government policies.

Private space industry is a hot topic right now, with Spacex succeeding, former doubters(which abouds on Chinese Quora) are forced to come up with face-saving me-too policies and projects, personally I doubt any of the existing space startups in China is viable, partly because state enterprise's inherent desire and ability to eliminate competition.

Remember that Chinese guy who cliamed to actually build Nicaragua canal? His company is under stock suspension for 2 years now and no signs of resuming any time soon, that's after a daring news report questioning their glorious Cambodia telecom operation which the company claimed to have a whopping 60%+ net profit ratio and accouts for 90%+ of their revenue. Unsurprisingly, they too claim they have government backing and military ties and is "for the party and country".
Same for me, it had many killer features:
* Shared symbols
* 9-Slice scaling tool
* GIF
* Bitmap tools
* Batch scripts
This seems to be an American thing.
Back when I was fantasizing about what I'd do if I won the lottery, I looked into family offices a bit and concluded that there's basically no point as far as the investing advice goes. It's still likely a good idea for some of the ultra-wealthy for estate, tax, and philanthropic purposes, but on the investment side? The standard passive indexing approach used by middle class individuals scales in a cost-effective manner to the billions of dollars of assets. And as a bonus, you don't need to stake your fortune on a trust-based relationship. Instead, you get to base things off of institutions and audits - Vanguard isn't going to take the money you shoved into VTSAX and embezzle it through investing in their distant cousin's "company", even if it is a billion dollars.
> This article is probably part of the US war campaign against Venezuela.

What is that even supposed to mean?

Besides the tin-foily nature of the baseless assertion, not to mention the hefty dose of weasel words, has the Maduro regime forced the conversion or not?
> but every single day here she complains about how much she hates California.

I think you are wasting your time. This will not end well. I'm telling this because I speak from my experience with very similar situation.
Various browsers on iOS use WebKit because that’s the only way to ship a browser on iOS.
Completely agree. The only post-shower routine I have is to put a pea-sized amount of whatever skin lotion is available (ideally not oily, the hotel ones are usually perfect), and just apply it on my face. If I don't do it, I feel my skin stretch and get very dry.

Another thing I've been trying is after shaving, put a first layer of high quality Aloe Vera gel. Then once it starts drying out and stretch the skin (usually 60-120 seconds), then put the moisturizing lotion. Good results so far.

Why? No idea, just felt right.
A Job-Board for Startups
I wouldn't say the chance is exactly zero - if Google's monopolistic behaviour surrounding Chrome (the "install our browser!" nags on their web properties come to mind) get too egregious, they may be forced to divest via antitrust law.
Pretty mainstream conservative. John Carmack has similar views.
Makes me think about that Tintin cover: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/711FqYcc7eL...
What Is ThoughtRiver’s New ‘Thinking AI’ and What Will It Do?
There is a setting where you can ask Windows (Pro editions and up) to either 1) use another channel where feature (not security) updates are pushed latter or 2) delay feature updates by a configurable number of days.
That should be enough to ward unstable updates like the one in late 2018.

Also, backups.
If you're going to build a business around selling a hardware keyboard, finding a middle-man account manager for your primary manufacturer is just plain lazy.

The real takeaway is that these founders seemed happy to simply have an account manager "who had influence within the company", "spoke english"... A good scammer gives you what you want. If you are building hardware, you should not want to be able to outsource such an important aspect of your business.

Take for example "we sent 20 defective units back so they could study and improve xyz". It turned out they were in an unopened box. I don't get how they didn't follow up to work on why they were defective, what is being done, and the lessons learnt. Just saying "nobody speaks chinese" is just a plain lazy out.

The founders seem genuinely nice and passionate, but they have to get their heads out of their aes. They really should NOT be looking for a middle person because there is so much to learn by directly working with relevant people in a factory. It's a really bad sign for people who buy these keyboards to know that the actual manufacturing part- where quality control is done etc, is not a priority.
I believe we are on the same side in this particular ideological (no-)food-fight, but I think your criticism is off the mark.

Chavez and, to lesser extend, Maduro, were/are, under most any definition, socialists.

What I believe makes you want to avoid the association is that naturally, some intellectually dishonest people will turn around and use a completely different definition of the word to jump from arguing against, say, rules prohibiting forced arbitration clauses (to use an appropriately arbitrary example) directly to painting the spectre of Venezuela-style breakdown of civilisation in our future.

Personally, I believe it's more use to argue against instances of the latter folly (which really deserves its own debate-ending "...fallacy" designation). Otherwise, it's that No-True-Scotsman thing.
So true https://gfycat.com/ZigzagDamagedBarracuda
I don’t know a lot about Haskell or pure functional programming. Composing entire programs sounds really desirable though, and while imagining what that would look like I came up with this:

Suppose we had a runtime comprised of objects, and execution was represented as messages sent between objects, as in Smalltalk. Unlike Smalltalk, however, objects would never be created or destroyed.
All of our program’s logic and behavior would be represented as a pure transformation on every message between objects.
In pseudo-Haskell:

-- A message is a receiver identifying an object, like “Program”, and a selector, perhaps containing data
myProgram :: Msg -> Msg
myProgram (Program {begin}) = Window {createWindowWithName="myWindow"}
myProgram (Program {windowCreatedWithName=name}) = (Window {windowWithName=name, setTitleTo="Hello world"})
myProgram (Program {windowWithName=name, didChangeTitle=title}) = (Console {print=title})
myProgram msg = msg

Here the runtime begins execution by trying to send the message [Program begin], but myProgram([Program begin]) evaluates to [Window createWindowWithName:"myWindow"], so that is sent instead. The “Window” object, when sent [Window createWindowWithName:String], both puts a new window on the screen, and sends the message myProgram([Program windowCreatedWithName]), and so execution continues.

It would be easy to compose programs written using this paradigm, and not hard to imagine what composition of executable programs would mean. For example, to log the name of every window created to the console:

logWindowName :: Msg -> Msg
logWindowName (Program {windowCreatedWithName=name}) = Multicast {messages=[Program {windowCreatedWithName=name}), Console {print=name}]}
finalProgram = logWindowName . myProgram

(Here “Multicast” is supposed to be an object that can take several messages and, with no notion of order, send them out all at once.)

We could add yet another object representing mutable state, with messages describing changes to it and responses containing data stored there. Without using something like this to explicitly model it, I don't see any explicit sequencing of instructions as in the IO monad.

Are there obvious problems with this approach, or has anything very similar been tried?
I avoid wiping my face at all, with any products. The only thing I do is rinse it with warm water whilst in the shower and follow up with a tiny amount of whatever moisturizer is available after the shower.
Used to have acne as a kid, I don't anymore.
Removing the EMI shielding is just dumb.
bigrquery is for a completely different use; a wrapper for Google Big Query. This seems to be a cloud agnostic read and write using aws/gcp. cloudyr packages seem to be the closest.
This is from 2016, by the way. It should be in your favorite WebKit-based browser already.
Snapchat acquires Ukrainian Startup for $8M
Or rather was kicked out for links with the Alt-Right.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/oculus-pa...
Didn't notice that, thanks + fixed.
I miss most Reddit garbage now that I no longer go to the front page. I mainly stick to a few subreddits now, like r/boardgames, and the moderators actively keep that stuff out since it has nothing to do with the subject. I think I saw a little of the Pao stuff back then, but I think I saw it from other sites, like Kotaku.
+1

Some substances are psychoactive, and can be pleasurable to take. That's at the root of the demand, and can't ever really be "solved"
there's no arguing with a well-though-out argument, I guess.

did you mean to post this on 4chan?
Background A: Sam Harris is one of those people who thinks that eugenics is just an idea and there's no problem with arguing that certain ethnicities are inherently less intelligent; https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-...

Background B: "Sargon of Akkad" got banned from Patreon for violating their hate speech policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benjamin ; it appears that Sam Harris is quitting in support of Benjamin.
A crypto news site, talking against crypto.
I really empathize with the community interaction aspects of these comments - having spent a few months triaging everything that comes into our (admittedly less organized) repo, I can very much understand. It can be truly draining to only see the negatives and the nits and the nags and the bugs and the bothers and the badgers of a product. Heck, it makes it easy to forget about all the people who love it, those who've never once complained and silently continue about their business, able to ignore the fact that work had ever been done (and continues to be done).

But... It's swell when you meet someone and they offhandedly mention using the thing you work on, heck, even recommend it or straight up take it for granted. I know those moments probably can't sustain open source maintainers (and that leads into the second point about capturing funding), but, at least in my experience, they really help keep a more healthily balanced perspective. And that's at least a part of being able to stay happy working on such a project.

With respect to funding... As a relatively young compiler dev, I've pretty much always taken compiler software for granted. It's (almost) always been that languages have been freely available, and usually the source available, too. If I'm honest, at the price point of "free", it's almost hard to picture how compiler engineers get paid at all. Normally people sell tools, but... Programming languages are now tools freely given. And now even their advanced refactoring tools and IDE support. Strange to think about it, if I'm honest.
This would be very useful for performance testing
Maduro definitely describes himself and his policies as socialist. Socialists in other countries like Corbyn also describe him and his policies as socialist and have supported him. I think he and his policies are undeniably socialist.
Contract worker describes his experience in Google’s 2-tier employee system
what's the alternative ? venezuela paper napkins
To me biggest reason is security. multiple options gives at least some escape route if one engine screws up. Other is breaking standards, but so far this doesn't seem to be a big issue because of the open nature of blink / webkit.
[1] KTuberling (Mr. Potato Guy)

[2] TuxPaint

[3] Supertux

Screenshots:

[1] https://games.kde.org/game.php?game=ktuberling

[2] http://www.tuxpaint.org/screenshots/

[3] https://www.supertux.org/screenshots.html
Centralized crypto is no different from any kind of fiat. Obviously the website is not about fiats.
I'm not even trying to get into the "true socialism" debate, but what they are trying to refer to is dictatorial policies, not socialist policies.
Nice name for the namespace (`WTF`).
posts links to russian propaganda site
You have to give him the benefit of doubt. He's largely a kid who never has to worry about his financial future. A lot of people got carried way with the "banter" in 2016. Many changed their views over time.

If he retains the same views in 5 years, then you can rightly castigate him
What did u expect from a socialist dictatorship
...?

Honestly it's unbelievable that you think that's called news

Socialism never work!
I totally agree with you, it's not real socialism.
My suspicion is that it's documentation written by people who don't use, don't know how to use, and do not understand the product.

Fundamentally, technology is means and method, and both point to ends or goal.

Technology is the study of means. (John Stuart Mill's definition. He also gives science as "the study of causes".)

Which means that documentation should point you at what you might want to do and how the tool(s) available to you serve that end. Referencing only the internal state of the system itself (and worse, at the most trivial level, as in the example give, which is by no means unusual in the field) is ... perfectly useless.

It's actually worse than useless, because you've got to wade through so much goddamned mud soup trying to find information that's actually useful. I've long had this problem with various "documentation by the pound" publishers -- Que and "Learn Foo in 24 hours" type series -- where the books are so padded with cute comments and junk statements that you cannot find the real meat.

O'Reilly's "Nutshell" series often go too far in the other direction, but at least the information is (usually) there.

The O'Reilly UNIX Power Tools book, a cookbook of recipes and methods with specific ends and goals explicitly stated is, pound for pound, probably the most valuable reference book I've ever bought. It doesn't cover everything (though it touches on a lot of material), but it covers a vast range of useful information and best of all gives you the tools to find out more.
Upvoted, though remember, much of silent film is acted in a particular, stylized manner because of the lack of sound. But in documentary footage, people actually speak in a normal manner.
Thanks for voluntarily withdrawing this.
I am pretty sure a crypto news website is all about generating real money from nothing.