skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many people have tried and failed to do this. I'm skeptical that these guys have succeeded.

The main problem seems to be that because there is no standard C++ build system, every library uses a different one. Wrangling all those together without requiring the library authors to do anything is extremely difficult.

Hell many C++ libraries still use autotools or hand-written Makefiles. I don't really see how it is even possible to automatically download and build those projects.
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I mean, I’ve always wished I could just drop myself off and have my car go find parking (including driving farther away to where free parking is available)...
All the slaves in Qatar should just do the same. That would solve the slavery problem. And while we're at it, sex trafficking victims should just stop being trafficked. That would solve the human trafficking problem.

Or maybe people could just stop treating other people as property. Interesting that wasn't your suggested solution. Perhaps because it's not that easy?

Your comment (though said in jest - I hope) is dismissive of the very real and very dangerous consequences Saudi women face in trying to exercise their most basic of human rights. You're putting the responsibility of "escaping" on the victims. Don't you think they've thought of that? Many have risked everything to do just that.

What does your comment add to the conversation? Nothing of value.
Satya became CEO in February 2014. Since then, Microsoft's stock has significantly outperformed Google and Apple, and slightly outperformed Facebook. While it significantly underperformed each of those in the years before. So it's not just the bull market.
What's your company called? I just see * * * * * * *

I'm sorry, I'm sure you heard it a million times, but I just wanted to say I'm very impressed by the name, and it seems you provide an interesting service as well.
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> Growing an already massive company company by 3x in revenue is the important thing, which is the 'bottom line' in which missteps have to be contextualized.

Yes, he managed to creatively squeeze revenue out of existing markets. This is what he was known for.

But as far as finding new markets or growing existing markets, he failed and that's all Wall Street cares about.

> Surely MS could have done better, but I view it more as lost opportunity than failure.

Non other than Bill Gates himself refers to MS Mobile strategy as a failure: http://fortune.com/2013/02/19/today-in-tech-why-bill-gates-c...

> Remember that 80% of acquisitions fail. Google spent $3B on Nest. Apple spent $3 Billion on Beats, it remains to be seen if they'll make that up in profit

Ballmer's failure rate on major acquisitions may have been 100%. (I'm not even kidding)
I'm not really seeing software, more services including Azure and online versions of apps and even Windows as a subscription. I'm sure there's lots of consulting in there too.
I haven't found a reason to not just use Make yet when starting from green fields, including some very big projects. In fact, I have often been annoyed at some projects picking something like CMake for no reason beyond it's "more advanced," but which ends up just being an extra dependency I have to fetch and install.

If I were to pick one of the above for building large projects on linux variants, which one would you pick?
A tax is just a fee administered by a public agency.

Or correspondingly, a fee is a tax that is administered by a private entity.

In the end, they're the same thing.
It is what Google gets when somebody/something clicks on an ad in SERPs.
Phone based TOTP's are vulnerable to real-time phishing, but they still require you to sit there and enter the number on your phone. It still has to be your phone. That's not ideal, but that's substantially better than SMS where someone can take your phone number and your second factor is gone. No real-time requirement.

That makes phone based TOTP the most secure second factor that is pretty much universally accessible to lay users (i.e. not buying a dedicated second factor device, and most people have smartphones).

FIDO U2F isn't quite there yet in terms of universal support, but its design is definitely promising from a usability perspective. It's one technology I'm willing to hold my breath for.
I would say it's because light mode and dark mode are being inherited from system settings. Windows, Android, and iOS all have a concept of dark mode. The browser can pass these settings along (or allow an override).
Paddle is another option (https://paddle.com/). They charge 5%.
Taxis do park. (Hotels, airports, train stations)

Not parking means excess capacity is creating traffic jams. So to avoid paying for storage, self driving cars are going to consume energy and space in travel lanes.... cities should charge the f out this.
Fair enough, I was misinformed. However, which party was in control of the senate that failed to pass the bill? If you can take my word for it - it was Minnesota's democratic party.
The rabbit hole goes deeper than that.

You should research Wilhelm Reich[1], a student of Freud's who came up with the term "orgone", who fled to the US to escape the Nazis only to have his writings confiscated and burnt by the US government, which imprisoned him until he died.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
Killer feature of the TFA notebook IMO is the VGA input. It was actually the feature I first thought of reading the title before clicking.
A timely comment, as i was notified today that my G-Suite subscription will be increasing in cost by 20%.
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I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted. I have begun to wonder if I am the only sane man remaining. Can the others not see?
Better yet, the embedded AR displays in the glass will just flip to VR mode and give her a virtual ride without leaving the garage...
No its just what really rich people used to do in London have an employee drive their car around the block when the traffic wardens showed up.

The partners at one place I worked at in London did this.
>FB also still works fine on mobile browsers anyway.

No, they artificially prevent it from working well. If you try to read or send a private message, it forces you to go download Messenger.
Bus vs car is just a miniature version of hub-and-spoke vs direct flight. Outside of very dense cities (Seoul, Tokyo, New York, etc.), mass transit isn't a very good idea because humans care about trip latency. A lot.

That being said, there's probably still a place for busses during rush hour in a lot of places.
I think also, in a good way, it might actually cut down on forks and "splinter" projects. That is, ideally, someone would be more likely to stay and contribute if they know there is revenue to be share with them (as opposed to starting from zero).

I'm certainly in favor of new ideas and experimenting, etc. But when it comes to OSS I feel there are times when two or three rock solid products would be better than six or seven or more.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19056911 (sophos.com article)
How is that different than just... taking the bus?
Also the idea that design is something that's just "out there" totally apart from how things are used is just precious.
I skimmed the title, glanced at what passed for an article, decided that was short enough to not be an original source, saw the PDF, realized the mistake, read the PDF, went back and read the original link.

So, it probably would have cleared it up, had I decided that "Marginal Revolution" sounded like a reliable source, or if it had been a bit longer. I skimmed, and that's on me :/
good luck passing the crash tests
Maybe, but it would be entirely dependent on the good will of Facebook, and you would gave to continuously react to the whims of Facebook's engineering dept as they change their website. Neither of those are going to be acceptable in the long term.
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Tariffs worth a billion, what a joke. EU tariffs were already low for the most part. The real trade barriers that the EU imposes are its regulations that are favoring local business.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2453204/Be...
There are already narratives at hand that will make this easier: "40,000 lives a year!", etc.

That's not a concern, considering that the narrative right now is that self-driving cars are dangerous. Given the number of accidents and fatalities, the entire self-driving car industry would need to go an entire year without a single accident of any kind to even come close to claiming that they are as safe as a bad human driver.
The heavy-handed updates forcing frequent reboots are the deal-breaker for me. It seriously pisses me off to come back to my machine only discover that all those editor windows I had open gone, the IDE close, and all the open browser tabs lost, etc. Why are frequent full reboots even necessary in this day and age?!
I loved it when he read out that URL, too.
By and large almost everyone already goes by car everywhere.

"According to Census survey estimates, there were about 1.8 vehicles available per U.S. household in 2016."

If America was a public transport country, I would agree with you. But it's not.

The only exception is NYC - but even then car ownership is not exactly low. "within the five boroughs, ownership is lowest in Manhattan, with only 23% of households owning a car, followed by Brooklyn and the Bronx, with 44% and 46% respectively."
And the reason there's a long line of taxis at the airport is because the drivers wants the fare. If there was one or a few companies that owned all the cars, they would make sure there always would be close to an optimum amount of cars at the airport. Cars not in use during low demand hours are either just parked somewhere where the parking is dirt cheap or in for service.
In NZ I find universities are an awful mixture of academic uselessness, and corporate greed (their incentives are mostly according to number of students moving through, not benefit to the students or society).

I have seen they can be fun places to work though, depending on the politics of the department.
Yes, as long as you are logged in. If you log out, that possibility disappears too.
Révolution tranquille?
How to Be a Nigerian Programmer (The Cookbook)
> ... Singapore were clear pirate hubs that were harmful to any IP based economy.

That's an absurd and factually incorrect statement.
> I wasn't aware of a specific long term language experiment specifically designed to keep revisions over a long term

It doesn't even come close to ticking all of the boxes you've mentioned but perhaps the bible is the closest thing to what you've described?
> Which creates carpooling opportunities through economies of scale

Like busses and trains? Seriously. Public transit.

The issue is a geometric one. There is only a fixed road capacity. Consuming that road capacity with deadheading vehicles is the worst usage.
> Another option is to have the car drive out into the suburbs in search of free parking to abuse.

This doesn't sound like abuse, it sounds like a good idea.

The point of expensive parking is to reduce the contention for parking spaces. If the car drives a long way away to park where parking is less contested, that seems like a win.
I don't know about all roads, but I noticed there are signs of movement in the (de)congestion pricing (of downtown areas) front in the last week or so -

https://boston.curbed.com/2019/1/29/18201817/carbon-neutral-... (and related discussions - obviously this is just a report, not yet political movement)

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/01/16/andrew-...

https://la.curbed.com/2019/1/16/18185602/congestion-pricing-...
> The deletions were automated, triggered by a script that drops TDE database tables when their corresponding keys can no longer be accessed in the Key Vault, explained Microsoft in a letter reportedly sent to customers.

By what logic is this NOT a terrible idea?
UU was great. I especially loved how your skills evolved with time. In the beginning, you could barely jump over the smallest rift, but by mid-game you could almost fly from one end of a big cave to another. Trick is that it was made so subtle that it grew on you naturally. I vividly remember that on restart I casually approached a chasm and was bummed when I couldn't jump over it - like, whaaat?

Great game. UU2 was ok too.
I agree that that is the simplest solution, and I've even configured Firefox as such[1], but I kind of wish I could have ONE place to control styling of everything.

That is, I kind of wish web developers couldn't control colors and such, so people could have consistent styling in their whole system.

That's a pipe dream though. Websites tend to be hosted by people that want a brand to protect, and as adoption of computers increase people on average don't want to invest time in learning how to use and configure their systems.

Maybe I should consider seriously switching to elinks or w3m for my style-consistent browsing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19056752
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I don't see people willing to share their data (with companies like Google) as the issue. The problem I'm concerned about is that there is a decreasing amount of choice in the matter. While you ultimately have a choice in a lot of these privacy-concerning cases, it's increasingly difficult and annoying to do so. People eventually cave and Google (et al) profits greatly by pushing them to do so.

> There are many different areas which would be improved greatly from more data and would be to everyone's benefit.

I agree wholeheartedly that data can be used for some really fantastic things, but it should not come at the cost of choice/freedom nor privacy.

I'm also thinking about it in terms of opportunity cost.
Namely, companies like Google and Facebook are poisoning the waters for would-be data-based companies that would have much greater impacts on quality of life for everyone. While they help some things at the moment, I think they are ultimately hurting would-be bigger and better data driven endeavors.
Access to CBC in rural areas has actually gotten worse since the switch to digital only broadcasting a while back. My dad hasn't had cablr for years now he lost CBC shortly after that on the Sunshine Coast. Even after buying and then modifying and improving a couple digital antennas now.
> I don't really see how it is even possible to automatically download and build those projects.

so i mean what e.g. conan does is acknowledge this and require that package creators provide "recipes" that tell conan how to build the project.

buckaroo seems to take a similar approach:
https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo/wiki/Creating-a-Pack...

i will say that in my time using conan to attempt to solve for compiling an application for x86 and a few flavors of ARM, this is NOT a silver bullet.. a huge fraction of third party libraries we tried to pull in needed to have their recipes modified to build correctly.
The average car won the road has 1.1 occupants... with self driving cars there's an enormous risk this plummets dramatically, increasing traffic, slowing commutes, and making cities less livable.
My IndieWeb experience so far
The PREEMPT_RT patchset (sometimes confusingly referred to as RT-Linux) is slated to improve the kernel quite a bit wrt. "low-latency" and "responsive" workloads.
I'm the Dan Schmidt mentioned in the article. A few years back I wrote a few anecdotes about the technical side of working on Ultima Underworld:

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/20/the-dangers-of-self-modifyi...

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/21/ultima-underworld-bugs/

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/03/17/one-more-ultima-underworld-...