skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be willing to bet that the regex parser doesn't like the pluses in C++
I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well.

Right now I have separate machines for each OS, but I'd like to just use a Mac and get rid of my other machines. I've played with Virtualbox, but I haven't used Parallels or VMWare. Does this acquisition make Parallels any more or less appealing as a virtualization solution for macOS? Does anyone have any clear recommendations for doing professional work in various OSes on a Mac at this point?
You brush your teeth before eating breakfast?
Professionalism? Iran sends money to suicide bombers and you're complaining that our side lacks professionalism? UH, OK. How about not breaking the law? Does that mean anything to you?
Slack doesn't even know their users race, ethnicity, or country AFAIK, thus they can't discriminate on that basis. I think this is just a badly handled case of abiding by the US embargo law. They seem to be disabling people who created their accounts from embargoed countries, probably checking by IP, which is inexact and bound to yield false positives
Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't realize he had a means of receiving donations. I made a donation :).
The article says they are 95% less harmful than cigarettes. Yet you say you still think they are “worse for you”. Regardless of accessibility, I just can’t see that being a sensible statement. You can’t say whatever psychological harms may be occurring are worse than death - that’s insane. Fewer people are dying, they’re less harmful, period. Not ideal, sure, but we’re moving in the right direction.
Agreed. Poker is another interesting case of "partial information" game. There is some discussion of this in the links below. I suspect that AlphaZero could make a decent poker player with a non-trivial amount of tweaking.

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601157/could-alphago-bluf...

2. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-alphazeros-artificial-int...
> Tunneling technology is already a very mature field. TBC hasn't revolutionized anything with regards to tunneling tech.

Is that so? Were rockets and cars not already 'mature' fields? Do you have any basis for that statement at all?
I figured, thanks for the information. I've used the app to "play" with my own sites but never explored the Reader tab.

I think obviously, they'd need a standalone or new app that puts the focus on this feature. Split the site management app out or re-engineer to compliment the user consumption app.
At Jesus's birthplace, an app is born to ease crowds
What is so clearly wrong about trade sanctions between two countries? Do you think foreign trade is always a moral good?
> Facebook should have given Spotify the bare minimum they needed to make me an account and play me music. Anything else is gross incompetence at best.

And how did you think they were monetizing in the first place? When I read all the outrage here, it’s almost like I’m reading comments from an alternate universe where nobody knew Facebook’s business model. On top of that, I find it even more amusing that lawmakers are up in arms over this, when they were the ones who passed the Patriot Act in the first place, destroying the Bill of Rights and desecrating the Constitution.
Sorry, didn't see this until today. For low end devices they vendors usually have a free version, in this case Vivado Webpack so you probably don't need to worry about licences. It's better than it's predecessor but the tooling as a whole is way worse than even the most frustrating IDEs for CPU languages.
Am I the only one feeling deja vu, relative to Comey's statements to Congress claiming that the NSA wasn't monitoring our communications?

And given that nothing was ever done to Comey, or anybody else involved in that spying, is there any reason to expect any repercussions for Zuckerberg/FB?
I mean the phone is my clock now... so yeah I check it and go bck to sleep. It's also my alarm, if I don't check the phone it keeps making noises.
Who is talking about going back technologically, though?

Before the sponsored updates.
Before the terms of service changed.
Before data stopped being private.
Before we sold our memories.
Before we forgot our rights.
Before everything that made media
Less social and more cynical,
There was one simple idea:
Our lives are our own.
What we share and who we share it with,
Our memories, our secrets,
Our lives are our own.
That idea is important
So we’re going back to before.
And in going back to before,
We’re going forward.

from https://tent.io/ which now displays this poem instead:

> Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

The idea is still valid IMO. I don't care about "the world", that's just a word; the internet worked fine when there wasn't even 100 million people using it, so a better web doesn't have to be used by everybody, either.
Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development – Will Wilson
I wrote a list of web applications ideas at https://flaviocopes.com/sample-app-ideas/, which can be implemented using React. Not too complex to distract you from learning React, not too boring like a todo app
The small 1984 book, The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike. Still the best written tutorial of shell programming I've found.
Follow feeds that post from a variety of sources. I follow a HN rss, a couple multireddit RSS feeds, and even newsletters from nyt and la times will include stories from a variety of places.

“Discover” hardly ever means, “check out what’s interesting,” usually it’s “check out this targeted ad”
Parallels is by far the most performant. And the license is fairly cheap all things considered.

At least for now.
It's not going to magically get replaced by a better service if it disappears. The way I see it they have limited capital and no shortage of antagonist political forces. The NE corridor was often worth riding despite other options, and the train connecting portland with seattle was pleasant as well, for me.
How many cities in the U.S. would actually benefit from a Subway system? The density of most U.S. cities isn't high enough to support NYC or DC style metros. It's completely unrealistic to expect cities to invest in them when people are already spread out over mass expanses of suburbia. Face it, America was built around the car. Most of our cities developed long after the car was already a staple. Building tunnels for cars, to solve traffic, is very smart. There are many cities where there's little room to expand highways. A tunnel network that avoids a lot of the exhaust problems (due to restricting traffic to electric vehicles) would encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, would relieve traffic on main highways, and would be practical for most cities, without the maintenance costs of a Subway system.
The industry is not stagnant. Riskier and more complicated tunnels are being built all the time. The craziest ones go under water to connect land masses.
> If that bar is too high for people in tech then we have serious problems.

But Slack isn't solely used by technical people. Where I work, everyone is on slack - product people, lawyers, tech people, etc.
> if we are going truly decentralised hosting for files then something like sia, or whatever blockchain crap that incentivises users to actually store the file, would be better longterm.

If I understand you, you're describing a problem that IPFS is not intending to solve.

OP is right, IPFS is (tasked with being a) largely a supercharged, local-first CDN. The thought is that the web as it is designed is not scalable, and seamless locality of the data is important.

Personally I agree with that, it's a bit silly that we download from non-local sources constantly. However long term storage as you cite is not something that IPFS aims to be. Nor is it a problem I think inherently needs solving.

In your view, why do we need a permanent internet? What is that solving, and who is hosting it?
It's been a long time since I've heard of an acquisition that was actually positive for the aquired/their users - can anyone working on any of these groups share such a story?
Actually, thinking about this, I'd assumed the drones must be autonomous or controlled via cellular networks, to make them harder to trace or jam.

But now I'm thinking they're being controlled via more standard remote frequencies, and they're being left there while the authorities home in on them. That's the only explanation I can come up with for not having taken them out by now.
> I don't think "if you don't know the answer in 20 seconds you won't ever know it" is true.

Exactly. And being placed on the spot with someone waiting for an answer makes me more forgetful. Once the pressure is off, I immediately think of many possibilities and can more accurately evaluate their likelihood.
> maybe we can make sure that that tax cut goes primarily to CEOs

What does it mean for a tax cut to "go to" one group vs another?
A Data Driven Christmas
> But the most effective alarm clock I own is a good old-fashion quartz clock AM/FM radio.

Mine predates the recession, and I still rely on it. I have it on my dresser, such that I need to stand up and get out of bed to turn it off. Hey, while I'm up, let's start the day.
> Google Analytics is much faster, responds in a few hundreads milliseconds.

Are you referring to their reporting API, or their collection endpoint? The collection endpoint is certainly fast to respond, but the actual reporting API can be quite slow depending on what you're trying to get from it.

> What did you use dataflow for? How did you get data from end points and insert them into bigquery? Using streaming inserts?

I'm not the parent, but I've created setups like what was mentioned. It sounds like they hosted the collection endpoint on AppEngine, then used DataFlow for streaming the data into BigQuery. Potentially using a Pub/Sub topic to queue up for DataFlow, since that has native integrations with DataFlow and even has a template available to support it[1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/templates/prov...
Didn't you just describe Twitter?
It's not that I disagree but he posted on vice.com instead of his personal website. You don't make change by influencing others. You make it be being the change yourself.

I've hosted my personal website from my home computers for 20 years now and it's only become easier and more feasible as home connections became better.
Alternatively [I blog as a form of self-documenting, under the term blogumentation](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/). My audience is me. Sometimes my audience will be my colleagues, or strangers on the Internet, but it's always written for me first!
Exactly. People want to be connected, to have a kind of collection of people at their fingertips. Check what someone's been doing, send them a message. They want to share their memories and experiences. And they want the addictive qualities of Facebook... the likes, the comments, the feeds.

All of that is a social network, which is not a personal webpage.

You could create federated pages with these features using the following:

- web pages with comments and pingbacks

- wysiwyg editors

- photo albums and photo editing tools

- blogging

- direct messaging (xmpp/jabber)

Then, you could create individual social network portals that you could authorize to syndicate your federated web site. They could also host your website themselves. And each could offer unique tools, such as tools for event planning, or to help musicians promote their music (MySpace, anyone?). But the idea would hinge on multiple of these popping up at the same time, owned by different start-ups, which could be tricky.
For glorified opml export?
Show HN: Stumble Upon for podcast (iOS app)
Has anyone looked at waste heat recovery for these sorts of things? If you already have a heat engine on premises I could see industrial applications for energy efficiency.
S3 access logs alone are not sufficient to replicate this pipeline. This pixel is stateful (for the anonymous user ID) and S3 access logs don’t include arbitrary headers, in this case the cookie with the user id. Fastly would let you eliminate API gateway, Lambda, and both Kinesis steps.

API Gateway by itself is $3.50/million requests, which is 2-4x more expensive than Fastly at $0.75 - $1.60/million
> based on the premise that water levels around Wilmington would rise 2 feet by 2050.

I'm curious. I've been hearing about the expected effects of climate change for many years. At least since ~2005 or 2006. Are there any predictions of conditions in 2000, or 2020, which have panned out as predicted?
This kinda annoyed me as a kid, but I also remember the reason for it: Early morning kids shows/cartoons on TV, during the weekends, was a big factor for being up so early.

Tho with VoD dominating all entertainment, what are kids doing nowadays when waking up early at a Saturday?
Let me be more specific, what concept is the tunnel supposed to prove or prototype? If it's that he can build a tunnel that a car can drive through, then OK, it's certainly not nothing. I don't see what's wrong with a blog post pointing out how Boring has deviated from its original promise, barring any details from Boring about how they've improved upon the process when building out this tunnel. I mean, I'm not the biggest Musk fanboy, but I don't think I would've ever bet against him if the bet was, "Can Elon Musk dig a tunnel?"
You mean like newsletters? No need to reinvent the wheel.
Most people who got rich from bitcoin did not do it 'overnight' as the article states. They probably held for several years. I think the author is confusing pyramid schemes with the creation of a new asset class. Sure the next 2 years will be bumpy. People have to plan on waiting for growth in the long-term. There is a word for people who try to guess the short term: speculators.
The article mentions several corner cases that weren’t well covered by testing and caused issues later. What sort of test tooling did you use, Scalacheck?
Parallels is the best solution in my experience, but they do use a bunch of dark patterns. They used to sell ‘download insurance’ for example, and really push antivirus if you install windows. I doubt this acquisition will change that, though they do push their subscription package now.

I’ve been meaning to try alternatives, VMWare seem to be maintaining Fusion again.
>Am I missing something or is the program still on going?

Why wouldn't it? It was ALWAYS a legal program run by the Executive Branch sanctioned by Congress with oversight by the Courts and Congressional committees.
Stuff figured out = waking up on time for an exam? There are certainly things that aren't going to be figured out by college but dang, you're setting the bar madd low.
Goldman Sachs has been the central player in major financial scandals in the past, proven documented, well known.

I don't think they do anything completely cleanly, so I question the thinking for Silicon Valley Unicorns using them to head their IPOs

Greece
the 2008 crisis buyouts
1MDB

Look at the 1MDB scandal, where we are only now seeing charges coming against GS - The 1MDB and Greece scandals are very similar in the sense that GS had information regarding both situations which they knew was criminal, but chose to profit from it as opposed to prevent it. Knowing that their profiting would outweigh the consequences.

They are the antithesis of "in good faith" actors - and as such, I personally question the integrity of the companies and company founders who put their IPOs in GS' hands.

Look at FB... we know where their integrity lies.

I am reminded of the "How I built This" episode on Slack, and how it grew and the values of its founder -- which I now take with a grain of salt given that they are going with GS.
and the data brokers and adtech networks are still laughing at Zuck for being the Face and fallguy
So that thing I learned last semester is useless?
I still remember changing from MySpace to Facebook and the reasons had nothing to do with exclusivity. What happened was that my friends and I were using MySpace and one of us tried Facebook and convinced us all to try it. We stayed because there were several aspects that now sound simple but made the user experience night and day.

First, MySpace was incredibly clunky. When you posted an update the entire page refreshed. Facebook had a much sleeker interface that used Ajax so posting updates was much more seamless.

Second, I think the mid 2000s were a unique time where consumers were very willing, almost wanting to try different sites and technologies. I remember these being the days Tumblr took off as well. Now people seem to like simplicity and speed, and are content focused. At that time it was all new so people like customizing pages and having custom songs play when the pages loaded.

Finally, Facebook had integration with third party apps that made using the site more fun and gave people a built in feature to share. I remember living social not as a deal site but a Facebook app where you ranked your five top things from a bunch of categories, such as top five movies, books, etc. Users loved it.

These factors are easy to forget now where they don’t seem that big a deal but at that time these were huge differentiating factors that made Facebook more popular and I think Facebook’s early product teams probably don’t get enough credit for some of these decisions.
Page doesn't load properly in chrome, like the rendering doesn't get finished, its all blurred. Loads fine in firefox.
Furthermore, complaining about front-loading congestion shows just how little the author understands about this subject. Front-loading congestion improves the rate of flow and improving the rate of flow improves overall throughput. Metered access to freeways is but one example - it doesn't completely solve congestion issues, but it is rather effective at preventing freeway traffic from coming to a standstill.
Fran Fixes the Movies: Theatres are leaving 3D polarizers on dimming the movies
Some kind of flat monthly fee, ideally.
Elon's only succeeded with this with SpaceX, and someone else actually runs that company.

Teslas are still more expensive than other EVs, and selling them at the same costs as their competitors would, in Elon's own words, kill the company.

Boring Co and the tunnel reveal yesterday demonstrate that Elon has not done a 1st principles analysis of how inexpensive a product could be, and indeed that Elon isn't even sure what the product is.
So the next time someone attacks BGP they should divert slack traffic through Iran to get all users automatically banned? Or just think if slack accounts are compromised and a hacker logs-in through a proxy in Iran.
They also own two competing video editing products. With very similar feature sets. One of which has forums with logins going over unencrypted connections. :/
Spotlight on promising Nigerian startups
It would be interesting to know the details on the way the "link" worked.

I mean, if a common Facebook employee (very likely a first level assistance worker or maybe his/her supervisor) could actually locate (making a mistake, but that is something that can happen, unfortunately) the recordings and provide a link to them, the questions are IMHO:

1) how (exactly) are the recordings conserved? (i.e. encrypted or unencrypted, or encrypted with a sort of "master" password that anyone working for Amazon Alexa department in customer care knows)

2) how was the link shared to the (wrong in this case) customer? (i.e. was it a "generic" link that anyone could find and access, did it need an Amazon login of some kind, etc.)
Yeah the world rural population percentage has dropped steadily for the last 50 years, dropping below 50% in 2007.

The rural population has actually been growing the entire time; but as a percentage its dropped.
Didn't Cambridge Analytica shut down and re-open the same day under a new name?

A company that built its riches on the back of a spectacularly successful surveillance apparatus isn't going to go away. Especially not now that its use as a psyops tool (2016 US electon, Rohingya genocide) has been proven.

FB as a product may one day not exist, but its leaders will welcome the absence of the press spotlight so they can start working with law enforcement, military and other groups that will pay big for their knowledge.

Think Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Aren't most editors unpaid volunteers? There are paid type setters and web people, etc., but the editors who are knowledgeable in the field are not paid except for maybe top 10 journals like Science and Nature.
> What is so clearly wrong about trade sanctions between two countries?

What trade sanctions have been applied to Canada?
2018 email dev: the shift towards using a design system for email campaigns
Trump Supporter Launches $1B GoFundMe Campaign to Finance Border Wall
> application state tracked as variable(s),

Model.

> have routines to translate the current state into the the DOM

Views. Triggered by #changed notifications.

> That's the unidirectional flow that React likes,

Aka MVC.
You can follow hn and other aggregators like reddit via rss. I have it set up for hn where I only get posts that have hit 100 points, otherwise it’s a firehose.
Be fair; every startup expects to pivot the product before they're done. Elon is about the technology?
Other than Photoshop, what are the favorites these days?
I was on a road trip throughout a lot of different parts of America last month. A park ranger in Big Bend told me that a tributary creek of the Rio Grande was a hundred feet wide, when normally you can just jump over it. A lakeside highway rest area in North Carolina was flooded up to a permanently mounted bench and trash can.
I only check my phone for texts maybe once or half a time per day. Sometimes longer if I forget. It's easy since I don't carry the phone with me and it's a dumb phone that can barely even do texting.

That said, I'm usually checking my main desktop computer and IRC within a minute of waking up.
Checking the time, news, see if there's any messages you should respond to, see if there's a reminder, checking your calendar. It's not a sign of addiction to check your phone the second you wake up.
Nonsense, they may well have paid a license fee. As frequently happens now.
I think amyjess is right.

From the Restatement Second:

§ 90. Promise Reasonably Inducing Action or Forbearance

(1) A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise. The remedy granted for breach may be limited as justice requires.

If Oracle says "go ahead and use it" and then sues you for having used it, they lose. If they sue you to stop using it going forward, they win.