skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because capitals are show off places in oppressive countries. The reality is outside. I grew up in a small city in USSR and sometimes speak to people that grew up in Moscow or Leningrad. The difference is huge... They often owned cars, had frequent access to bananas and oranges, and the stores were generally adequately stocked. Not for us and the rest of the country..
TBTF: successfully bankrupting Capita is entirely possible (see Carillion), but then the government has to take control of all the projects in the ensuing bankruptcy. The people who really lose out there are the third-tier contractors and ordinary staff.

The whole "PFI" model is unsustainable doctrinaire garbage and should be binned.
BTW, guenchi thanks for writing this code! Much appreciated.
Not quite what I'm talking about. For one, it is much closer to VB than HyperCard, and while HyperCard was great in the 90s it could be significantly improved upon today.

Also, no UNIX philosophy, that is the composability of small tools, to be seen.
Sounds like GDPR
His background is available on his CV: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/
Doesn't that go without saying since it doesn't exist for the platform?
Thanks, they look pretty interesting. Do you know what granularity the ARM tagging supports (e.g. byte level)? Would be interesting to see performance numbers - although I guess the hw is not available yet?
> The lawmakers and regulators have decided that the externality will have no significant consequences.

No, they just haven't finished yet. There's already been some new regulation, and I believe more to come, for the credit industry as a whole.

> The market hardly decides anything here; it reacts.

If Equifax's customers decided that they couldn't safely do business with it, then Equifax would cease to exist.

> My reading of the reports is that this company was roughly in line with common practices. My point is that common practices must change.

I certainly agree there, wholeheartedly. But you seem to be singling out Equifax, when it's an industry wide problem.
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That's true, but it definitely works a charm in Outlook shops — Outlook tries to get you to reply to the latest message in a number of ways.
dvi files are about as user hostile as it gets for a rendered document format, though
Quartz is mostly vector-based as well... OS X has very good support for vector graphics, it's rendering engine is basically a version of PDF-style rendering (like old NeXT used "display postscript").
Not that I disagree with the sentiment here, but there’s a pretty gigantic footnote in the article that relegates it to the bargain bin of overhyped clickbait:

”That doesn't mean Oath is actually worth only $200 million in cash — Oath said it still has about $5 billion of real assets remaining.”

Oath’s goodwill was dramatically overvalued, but the fact that it has $5 billion in real assets makes it difficult to describe the “almost worthless” label used in this article’s title as anything but clickbait.
Good point! I'll update it :)

I just threw the site together in a few minutes before publishing the post (experimenting with Gatbsy), so literally just added a max-width and changed the font styles.
> Musk “would say ‘I’ve got to fire someone today,’ and I’d say, ‘No you don’t,’ and he’d say, ‘No, no, I just do. I’ve got to fire somebody,’ ”

Musk really is the asshole abusive boss who gets a pass because of his media fame.

I urge anyone in a situation similar to the employees mentioned in the article to simply quit. Giving up your life and dignity for "the cause" isn't worth it. You aren't changing the world, just killing yourself to make some rich people richer.
A startup I worked for was acquired by AOL, all the good engineers left as soon as possible. Bureaucracy, lack of any vision, slow at everything. AOL was a media company, not a software development company.
I think, this might be true for some people in the beginning, but according to this article and other similar articles, a lot of people are leaving the company. So I'm not so sure this idealism is all that accurate.

Also, you don't need to treat your employees with that level of disrespect if you want to "push humanity forward" with them.
Pricing is a part of it, sure, but the real reason I think is that Sketch was designed from the group up to be a tool for creating digital UI. Without the clutter and legacy of Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop, it was a breath of fresh air. Also, I think it has an important advantage of feeling like a native Mac app. I always feel like I’m firing up a virtual machine when I start Adobe products.
OmniGraffle is for diagrams, general purpose vector drawing and UI design is not its forte. At best you do some prototype wireframing there.
Scrolled down the home page and have no idea what the product is. Is this a rebrand of google drive?
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You're clueless and think you can judge this matter, while you ignore the fact that millions ran from Poland, East Germany, USSR,etc, risking torture and death, and ran only in one direction. And to you "the spirit of the time" was the same on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Dropbox is ext4 only, which led me to drop Dropbox entirely. Not that I was a heavy user, but I've moved to self-hosted nextcloud which has been mostly fine.
Apologies. I can't edit it now.
I doubt it: https://www.litographs.com/collections/t-shirts/genre_shakes...?
Confirms they are not salting passwords and probably storing them in plain text. I think the app doesnt allow special charactors in passwords either.
They really should be called out over this "security".
Racket has this for C-based APIs. My mind is kind of wondering how this would ever be stable/maintainable to use for Python, but Lua seems possible but I would rather do my scripting in Racket then Lua and use the C APIs directly.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/index.html

Looking at Julia (Which has a no "boiler plate" philosophy when using C or Fortan) the function is just called.

Interesting to look at for comparison

Julia ccall- https://docs.julialang.org/en/v0.6.1/manual/calling-c-and-fo...

Racket FFI - https://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/index.html
> When Yahoo was Yahoo the “Yahoo” bit (everything that wasn’t the Alibaba shares) was valued as negative dollars for a bit given that the market cap of YHOO was less than the value of the Alibaba shares.

That's not how it works.

First, when a company's price-to-book ratio (the ratio of the company's share price to its book value per share) you can't take semi-arbitrary parts of the company's book value that add up to its market cap and declare the rest to be worth negative value. The situation arises because investors value the overall package less than someone who would like to own the assets outright.

Second, static piles of money will always be discounted by the market, particularly when they are mostly illiquid (as the Alibaba stake was). If the Alibaba stake had been separated out into a publicly-traded company by itself it would have traded well below its book value, because what rational investor wants to buy into a static pile of money?
From a tech perspective what’s the reason the Windows version of this is so allusive? Are there OS hooks that are so powerful on Mac that make a parallel development for windows an insurmountable task?

Said from a windows ubuntu tech shop
> This story is a good reminder not to do this. The company will usually not return the favour, you rarely get properly rewarded for crazy hours, yet it has a major impact on your health (both mental and physical) in the long run. Not worth it.

And yet it's also a perfect example of the one time it does make sense to do so, which is when you own a decent chunk of the company that you're doing it for.

> No wonder things were going to shit. Nobody can do good work if they don't get enough rest and have too much stress.

Yeah, that kind of effort is not sustainable for more than a few months at most. Trying to push too hard just burns out your best people, even (especially?) if they're part owners.
There is a clear difference between not giving a shit about browser divercity and standards and building a specific product on top of Chrome which is, also a web browser.

Lots of companies don't give a f*ck and only do it if the market share are big enough.
I mean, microsoft's storage solution is called onedrive. That's pretty damn similar.
Also, does anything prevent them from selling your data to a middleman who then sells it to an insurance company?
What does the quantum state mean?
I'm honestly amazed to still see people call him a genius in 2018.
> One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river. "Look at the fish swimming about," said Chuang Tzu, "They are really enjoying themselves."

> "You are not a fish," replied the friend, "So you can't truly know that they are enjoying themselves."

> "You are not me," said Chuang Tzu. "So how do you know that I do not know that the fish are enjoying themselves?"
>We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.

Classic.
Figma would be impressive as a desktop app, but it’s even more impressive delivered through a browser. Just amazing engineering. I am continually amazed with how performant, reliable, and fast that browser-based graphics editor is. I forget I’m in the browser when I use it. Makes me excited for web assembly and the coming apps.
I was really bad at rearanging terms/formulars and this came up in calculus exams all the time, but not so much in linear algebra exams.
I agree with you: if something depends on the efforts of others then it is not a right. I’m not sure that I support socialized medicine.
What's definition 2?
All you are doing by making such punishing consequences is giving hackers an actual motivation for breaching public companies.

Right now if data leaks, maybe you get some emails and user data which is cool but ultimately useless beyond spam value or for identity fraud, or perhaps for hacking some other financial accounts that may be of some value, but also adds more risk.

But if you know a company could be utterly destroyed with fines, you can open up a huge short position on the company and then publicize the breach somewhere and wait for the stock to drop to zero.

Or maybe you’re a startup and want to eliminate some competitors. Pay off some hackers in bitcoin to attack and breach their servers and watch them go under.

Better to just leave things the way they are now.
> at-will employment laws

I just don't get how we just can't over turn them politically state by state in State Elections. How is this not a thing? I live in an At Will State (PA) and it pretty much sucks to have the knowledge I can be fired for any reason and sure I still can sue but I can still lose even though I am 100% in the right.
Would anyone trust them to not silently still collect personal data?

For example, even if they don't need the data now because you're paying not to see ads, they might still collect it so that they can show you "better" ads if/when you stop paying.
I wonder if there how those low numbers have changed over time. I ask from personal history.

My grandfather was away in WWII when one of my aunts was conceived. As my grandmother put it, she was lonely.

All of the adults at that time knew, but kept it a secret. None of the kids knew until that aunt was about 45 and diagnosed with a cancer ... with a genetic susceptibility passed down though the male line. My grandparents figured it was time to reveal that secret.

I therefore conjecture that the numbers in the US were higher during WWII.
So the chip-maker would have their hardware protect the permanent secret key, and use ARM's coprocessor to do the cryptographic heavy-lifting? Sounds reasonable.

Is that the first high-level crypto coprocessor then? I'm surprised it's taken this long.
> We don't need more proprietary machine learning devices in our homes. I'd appreciate this so much more, if it was open source

It doesn't seem to do anything special? You can probably run your favorite machine learning framework on the Raspberry Pi, and it will work - albeit using the ARM cores and NEON only. Now, machine learning and inference _using the Raspberry Pi's GPU part_ (which is broadly documented, unlike most GPU hardware) would be a gamechanger, if only for educational scenarios.
thank you for the links, this is amazing!
If we are going down this road, Microsoft copied HTC, who not only had a product called "One" but also ones called "One S" and "One X"

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_One_X
By "at scale", I mean building abstractions on top of commonly used html elements and making them interactive, using something like "components" in React. Then you only need to write the shopping cart or image gallery once, and users of website builders can just click a button to add it to their website.

Also, interactivity almost always gives better UX than static websites, if it's done properly by a professional website builder like Wix or Squarespace. So there's not much to hate it except maybe a few MB of extra code that you need to download.

I can't think of any good use cases for static websites in 2018, except maybe blogs in pure plaintext or old fashioned forums. Even HN has JavaScript for that little bit of interactivity (collapsing comments).
The UN recognise food and shelter as human rights, along with health. See Article 25 http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Emotional development and personal growth don't happen automatically with age. Time and effort must be devoted to it - although for most people that is not an issue because the things that allow you to grow are mostly things that we instinctively seek, like interpersonal relationships.

It's a well known fact that people who suffer from severe addictions (drugs, etc) get stuck in the emotional stage of development they were at when the issue started. It wouldn't be crazy to assume that the same effect (to a less extreme degree) will occur for people who devote all their time and effort to very specific facets of their lives.

There's also the fact that the usual social feedback and consequences that regular folk are subjected to don't necessarily apply to successful people: They might not ever be challenged by their circle of yes men, they don't depend on other people to survive so critics can be safely ignored, etc.
So any name sharing a word with someone else's name is a ripoff. OK.
Because everyone is busy, and the users probably always were busy. The thing to figure out is why they were using pinterest before but now they aren't.

That means what's changed is now it's not enough of a priority to use vs other things in their busy lives. The next interesting "why" question is not "Why are you busy?" but something like "Why isn't pinterest valuable enough for you to use, given that you are busy?"

If you want people to use your product, you need to focus on things you control (making the product more valuable to users) rather than shrug your shoulders and give up at things you can't control (the fact that your users are busy).
How does Chez Scheme compare vs. CHICKEN Scheme? For a layman, they both seem to compile to binary; Chicken via C, Chez maybe not? Which one has a bigget community?

Also, do you know of any static typing extension for Chez?
> because what rational investor wants to buy into a static pile of money

I'll happily pay you however much you let me buy of a static pile of money for under the dollar amount of the pile, as long as the difference covers transfer fees. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be the only one either.

This to say that when you state "that's not how it works", that's your analysis of the market, and you're free to rationalize how you think the market arrived at a current valuation, but other people will rationalize it differently. That's the whole reason why different investment strategies exist.
Thanks to the big tech companies and ad blockers.
Successful entrepreneur
No, because the article it is how Sketch is supposed to be something that Adobe actually needs to worry about, given the worldwide desktop market share of macOS.
The entire pitch of working for a startup staffed mostly by less experienced people is being able to transition around the wide variety of jobs easily. Getting that breadth of experience is where those situations stand out.

If you really want to hone your craft as a dev, you need a mentor. Spending more time as a dev without one is going to be a very inefficient path forward.

Also, don’t freak out too much about it. Careers are long. Especially at the beginning of them it is easy to lose sight of that.
In case this is flagged ...

There is an official "Who is hiring / freelance post?" the fist day of the month. For the latest see https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring Remember to repost this there next month.

Hiring threads outside it are not allowed, but perhaps the mods will make an exception for the FSF.

Anyway, the responsibilities are more than what I expect of a program manager position.
If that’s your use case you might want to check out https://fennel-lang.org
It's not clear what those assets are. But absent revenue, it means Oath is basically just a bank with a mishmash of investments. Same way Yahoo's entire value is shares of Alibaba. It's extremely valuable even though it's not a viable business anymore.
> Google should help develop WebAssembly

Google is heavily involved in WebAssembly planning and implementation in Chrome/V8. They have threading enabled chrome://flags
If the developers read this, one thing I really liked about Bootstrap (v3 anyway, they've changed it for v4) is that the documentation is a few long HTML pages[0]. As a user, it makes it really easy to see what components are available and to search the documentation (I can just use Ctrl-F).

[0] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/components/
I hoped it would be that coveted product, but there is not enough clarity on that at least to me. Do they say somewhere that they do not track you at all if you take their GSuite?
Applied linear algebra is such a great idea. Linear algebra is relatively easy to understand and used everywhere. But the material is so damn boring since it's a lot of arthimetic. Even the homework problem is boring since there is no specific purpose.
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Pivot to what exactly? Suggesting that they just "pivot" is like a rich person looking at the family living out of a cardboard box under the bridge asking: "Why don't they just get more money?"

Sure both Yahoo and AOL must have talented people working there, but that's kinda useless if you don't make them work on profitable projects. Finding the profitable ideas is the hard part.
There's going to be a lot of money thrown at propaganda to convince voters that requiring employers to treat employees fairly will reduce jobs. And as soon as anyone mentions unions, it's all over. Every (right-of-centre) American knows that they're the only hardworking person in the country and the entire rest of the workforce is lazy good-for-nothings who need the constant threat of firing to achieve anything. /s
Soon the net worth of Marissa Meyer will be more than that of Yahoo.
I don't know, I think the answer is pretty obvious: use system-wide shared libraries for things that are very common, like widget toolkits, network libs, cryptography, and other system components. Otherwise it is part of the application, not the system, and should be with the application.

The reason you don't see this on Linux is because there is no such thing as a separation between 'system' and 'application' in its culture. Consequently there has never been a "base system" to target or keep compatibility with so applications have to either target a specific version of a specific distro (waste of time) or include everything above the stable kernel ABI in their product (waste of space).

It is actually a very simple problem to solve, it just isn't one that the Linux community is interested in solving simply, so instead they invent ridiculously complicated tooling like package managers and Flatpak, introducing a bunch of unnecessary limitations and yet more parts to break and ruin your day.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a lot of parallels to Jobs' Macintosh factory. He was similarly overeager with automation, and even coerced the executives to have the machines painted.

Excerpts from Walter Isaacson's biography: https://imgur.com/a/WlJ7wsD

Some videos:
http://strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/apple-foxconn-stra...
Still cheap as chips. 1TB name brand flash drives can be had for under $200.
I think it's just market demand. They have finite capacity to develop and they get more returns by investing in OSX than expanding to Windows. There's always Zeplin for sharing designs to Windows users.
> Then one day he'll announce a competition for children to win golden tickets to visit his grand factory

I feel like this is exactly the kind of quirky thing he'd do anyway, without all that negative stuff.
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That's true, but my parent commenter referred to the entire North West (which is, generally speaking, more well off in Poland) not being "real". Not just Warsaw. Ciechanów or Piła, both rather small towns, could hardly be considered show off places.

Overall the gap was more along the lines of big cities vs. province as you say; rather than geographical. In a centrally planned economy large urban centers were overprivileged in the pecking order.
Quick aside about Dan Abramov. The guy is like Superman when it comes to answering React questions and untangling tricky misconceptions. He shows up at the right time, on HN, Reddit, Medium, and random blog posts His dedication to React, the library, and the web community at large, is staggering to me. Thank you!
Linux has hundreds of DEs to suit all tastes and styles, yet it has always languished in a distant third place.

Consider the possibility that your idea of what "the common user" wants is something you made up.
That's totally untrue. Adobe have made a humongous play into cloud/enterprise with acquisitions of digital marketing companies like Omniture and Day. They are now a very entrenched enterprise software vendor with Fortune 500s and that's way outside their creative offering. Look Adobe Marketing Cloud.
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There is also a web goodlooking version, discussed previously in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034
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Global banks are the financial services wing of the drug cartels
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That was my first reaction too: it risks damaging the valuable organs that they’re going to extraordinary lengths to ‘acquire’.

The testimony came from an officer who stood guard while it happened.