skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for the comparison, salesforce's revenue is ~$13B. At current profit rate, ( including that of tableau ), they can generate $15B in about 30 year, may be 20 year given growth and inflation. I run a small business, I don't think I would be able to generate equivalent of deal, nor my banker/investor allowed such a investment, no matter what growth would look like.

Ultimately my take is, small business usually take growth from someone else most of the time ( i.e. new restaurant steal customer from another old customer ), instead of generating brand new growth, while bigger business are actually creating - or - consolidating whole industry for growth in a society-positive way in the long run. ( like uber ).

Still somewhere I would wish I can replicate such method of growth for small businesses.
Or maybe the begin of an even bigger wealth creation period. "And why did i not invest earlier?"
Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Now living in Sweden which has what seem like very sophisticated e-health systems by comparison (at least on the user-facing side), I wonder why the UK couldn't have purchased and adapted an existing system that worked elsewhere.
New project: bluetooth beacon gateway on any hardware
The technology industry is rife with bottlenecks
Visualizations of monopolies in different healthcare product categories
As a former Vim addict of over 12 years: to those who would like to try to move to Emacs, and Spacemacs doesn't cut it, try Doom!

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

It is a much thinner configuration, and you will learn Emacs instead of layers and Spacemacs conventions.

It only took me about a week of deliberate use to adapt my work flow and get used to it, and it has been my primary editor for nearly a year now.
I've also heard Goethe pronounced "gir-tuh". I don't know how correct that is, but it's certainly not intuitive.
"Exercise only in the morning" is terrible advice. I cannot wake up one second earlier than I must in order to get to work on time. If I followed that advice, I would never exercise. The best advice is to find time to exercise every day, no matter what time that may be.
according to a study to be released on Monday by the News
Media Alliance.

...which represents more than 2,000 newspapers across the
country, including The New York Times.

Clearly tech companies have won in the past couple decades where content producers have lost, but the claims levied article are disingenuous to the point that this should really be in the Op-Ed section.
You can do this with the header:

Content-Disposition: attachment

That's the correct way to do it. What's actually happening is that the wrong content type is being returned:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

This is the lazy way to do it.
He walks the walk and talks the talk. People may think he’s backwards or annoying but he’s consistently maintained his philosophy that software should be free. The fact that he has to use absurd measures to consume what everyone else does is a statement about the limitations of free software not a statement about his workflow preferences.
Signal has sworn by GCM the entire time they've been running on Android, it took a lot of whining from the community to get them to allow anything else.
It'd better be! :-D

Lesson no 1: don't use shared web hosting.

Though looks more like Dreamhost removed a site that was hogging down a whole server thanks to HN.
Managed Back Office Support in Hotels Is Essential Today
This reminds me of Paul Harrell’s “High Tech” fleece bullet stop. It’s just some folded up fleece blankets. He uses it in his ammo reviews.

See, for example, https://youtu.be/hVfStJS5XQw around the 4:40 mark.
> A lot of open-source licenses are compatible, such as the MIT or BSD license

And, it should be noted, the LGPL license, which exists for exactly this purpose!
I have a late 2013 MBP as a second work machine, which was upgraded to SSD + 16GB of RAM, and it runs like a champ. Admittedly, the upgrade was quite delicate, and the WiFi stopped working afterwards.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine built a beefy PC running macOS for his main work computer (i9, 64GB RAM, etc., for about half the price of a Mac Pro). It's completely built of generic, modular parts (other than the proprietary OS), with ability to extend and repair. Apparently, Apple is listening but money speaks louder than user freedoms.
Organic Farming Has a Plastic Problem
From the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190324154559/http://alwaysowny...

> You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs. There were sub-groups and communities. The weirdos found each other. The non-weirdos found each other. It wasn't perfect. But it was distributed. It was ours.

> It was yours.

> Now? The original dream of the web is dying. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube entice us to give them our creative work. They control what gets amplified and what gets monetized. A few conference rooms in Silicon Valley dictate our online culture.

> It's time to take it back. Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms. Be in charge of the relationship with your audience. Deliver value and then ask for money. Avoid unnecessary middlemen.

> Always. Own. Your platform.

The pages says it was created by Sean Blanda. On his personal site http://seanblanda.com/, it says he's the Director of Editorial for InVision and founder of Pilcrow House.

He's got an active Twitter account -- last post was within a day -- so I guess he's comfortable not owning his platform.
You cannot however use anyone else's GPL code while doing this, because those library authors didn't give you permission to relicense their code. It closes off the entire Play Store to the GPL. This is the same thing that caused the FSF to declare Apple's iTunes store as incompatible with the GPL. Curiously, I think the iTunes TOS clause that disallowed copyleft has since been removed, but I haven't heard anyone more qualified than I offer an opinion on whether you can now publish GPL iOS apps.
Right but those require a lot more equipment. Deadlifts and squats all day if you know how to do them safely.
I store them in the comments area in KeePass, both the crap question and my silly answers.
They shifted study participants sleep time from 2:30AM to midnight. They're still night owls.
The Google captcha enrages me. Why should I train their stupid AI?
No suggestions but the design and utility is beautiful.
> Signal uses E2E encryption, so your attack vector doesn't work.

End-to-end encryption is just that. That Firebase library is running on the client phone (aka, an end), if Google put code into the library allowing it to download updates it would also be running in Signal's context which would allow it to trivially dump and exfiltrate messages, memory, etc from the Signal process.

Now, we have no reason to believe such a mechanism is used here to my knowledge, but if they really wanted to, it would defeat end-to-end encryption.
Apple's walled garden's the only place a pro-consumer, pro-privacy stick has been successfully used against the broader software industry. The only alternative to achieve similar levels of privacy and safety are a combination of hyper-vigilance and just not doing very much. I'd hate to see that little walled city of sanity breached until the worst behavior of the various software snoops (Google, Amazon, Facebook, but also credit card companies and others) has been legislated out of existence, assuming that ever happens.
It's possible that the prevalence of screens is driving a significant number of people into the same sleeping patterns as natural night owls.
FWIW: It's trivially true on Android, at least in the world they posit.

The FSF does not consider GPLv2 to be Apache 2.0 compatible, telegram-FOSS is GPLv2, and Android/AOSP is Apache v2.

Additionally, their own codebase contains a bunch of Apache v2 licensed stuff, like exoplayer2, recyclerview, libtgvoip, fastdateparser, ABSL, etc.

They do not appear to be even giving attribution as required (or at least i can't find it)

They are in no worse a position than they were yesterday:

>ag -Ri apache

will produce tons of matches like this one:

TMessagesProj/jni/libtgvoip/webrtc_dsp/absl/strings/internal/m emutil.cc

3:// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
7:// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Bank Transactions: Pathway to the Single Tax Ideal [pdf]
Isn't that fully open source project?
Author here, if anyone has any questions.

I've been using it for over a year with Ubuntu.

Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes
It's a principle thing? No, it's a train wreck. It's a sure-fire recipe for cutting the installed base of Firefox in half overnight.

Using your example and estimate, the 90% of people who use default settings will install Firefox and then immediately conclude it's broken because it can't search the internet. So they'll just switch back to Chrome and never try Firefox again.

Remember, these are the "default settings" people. They're not going to change the default settings. And with the OP's prescription for "no predefined search engines," there won't be a "Google" setting anyway even if they did try.

Train wreck.
One of the few negative things I can say about Day of the Tentacle is that it’s more fun than it is truly innovative; it doesn’t break any new formal or thematic ground

So, friggin what. I dearly wish more game designers (and not a few critics) would remember that a lot of these games are meant to be fun. I don't want some message or insight or innovation all the time. I often want to sit down and spend some time having fun and unwinding. Its not a negative, its like the comfort of an old book that I've decided to reread.

Plus, fun and funny are damn tough to get right. Its so much easier to do drama than comedy because a so-so drama is still ok, but a so-so comedy is just bad.
No, chances are you'll still want to share it on Twitter, HN, or whatever other locations you have an audience with. The benefit is that I may be reading an article about natural language processing and then after it is done, your article about NTLK pops up near the bottom with a catchy title and then I decide to go to it and read it. All this while you and I have no networking connections whatsoever, yet you gained me as a reader.
It's a pretty common (though not universal) legal precedent that sexual relations between a law enforcement official and someone they are detaining is rape, by definition.

Of course that could be argued. Much as they often do with the more commonly known form of statutory rape (the one that involves minors) people can attempt to claim that there are exceptions to this rule, and that some version of consent is possible despite the situation.

I would disagree. Presumably the writer of this article does as well.
in firefox on windows, it looks like the top banner is covering up the scrollbar buttons.

https://imgur.com/a/OZQ0eWP

seems like they set the content div to 100vh/100vw with fixed positioning and floated the header on top. hard to imagine why they would do this, it can cause a lot of things (like scrolling) to break subtly.
Right xD. I was thinking it was going to be advice to be a more effective night owl and still get the rest you need.
I host my own stuff on a vps that I rent, so I am already a big believer in "owning your platform". But I don't think this is always the wisest point.

My projects are rather small, and I plan to build a real business I might take care and actually use a managed platform just to not face hurdles in the beginning.

If the service succeeds and I can finance my time I would happily own my own platform. But stuff like databases is nice to have managed sometimes if you want to be able to go on vacation without worries.
Don't want to? If we redefine exercise as part of the day's work, then is it better advice?
The article doesn't seems to be worth to be published in NY Times. The $4.7B was computed based on how much the Google's revenues increased since 2008 when Google News was bringing in $100M per year. Oh, how accurate this study must be....
The tricky thing with the naive copy as a database backup is that it actually could work if you test it while the database isn't writing at the moment. For example when you only tested this outside production on a test server without load.

But yes, you do have to test and verify that your backup works. It might be configured entirely wrong, the cron job might not be running for some reason, you set it up with encryption years ago but lost the passphrase. There are plently of ways this can potentially fail.
SQLite: A Lesson in Low-Defect Software [pdf]
> I put together something that used FCM and it can take 15 or 20 MINUTES to get even a "high priority" message from FCM.

(from what I remember of some android documentations) Your definition of "high priority" is different from Google's one, which is also different from the end-user's definition. Google probably favors the end-user's preferences more than the developer's preferences. If the user wants all notifications asap from a particular app, the system will do a best effort to deliver, given all the other apps notifications and the current battery level.
Probably because there are high switching costs for users who are already familiar with Tableau, and vice versa.
> full of surprises, not least the intense personalization of it all!

I'm surprised you're surprised by this, considering that you have contributed much to the personalization of such matters. The personal "psychologization" of complex social dynamics is pretty much the trademark of many of your talks. If you find psychological explanations attractive, why are you surprised when others do, too?
For me going to bed at 1am or 8pm works, but if I try anything in the middle, I just stay up until 1am.
Google still lets you use your own push notification service. It will just be correctly reported as using more battery. The evil thing is not providing a GPL-compatible library for connecting to that service, but I'd be surprised if that isn't remedied.
Philly resident here, I pay no contract $79.99 for Fios gigabit.

Verizon here also offers a 100mbps option (I think it's that at least) for $39.99 I believe, so this is a bit expensive.
Looks great and very readable too. Lots of examples in the tutorials with nice formatting makes it more pleasurable (e.g. see the tutorial on regex[0]).

[0]: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlretut.html
> they pay taxes simply because they have resources that society needs

That is called theft, is not a view of any kind, and the prevention of which is literally the reason "society" was formed in the first place
No link to the "study" itself so we can review its methodology. No critical inquiry at all from the NYT. It's treated as truth immediately despite the absurdity on its face.
https://godarch.com/

It integrates directly with Grub for easy booting.
Can Every Recursion be Converted into Iteration?
I like this. One worry I have with paying individuals is that it becomes predatory for poorer people. If you struggle come back-to-school season, it might be tempting to let companies vacuum up your data for a quick buck.

Sundar Pichai touched on this recently, criticizing Apple for making privacy a "luxury good" (of course, Google doesn't give you privacy at any price). We should make companies value our privacy in the first place, not commoditize it.
We've reverted the title to the original, which the guidelines ask us to use.
When gnome 3 came out I had to find something else to use, so I chose one of those "light weight tiling window managers" since if I was going to be setting up something custom anyway I might as well do some research on it.

I've ~yelled at~ talked to a bunch of gnome developers trying to figure out exactly what's going on. I think that they're making the weird UI decisions in the name of "inclusiveness". They believe that simpler apps, and a standard unified ecosystem, makes things easier for marginalized groups to adopt free-software. All their weird technical decisions ultimately seem to be justified by making things easier for marginalized groups.
Cynicism can grow or destroy software organizations
Doesn't Linode have its own backup which lets you restore onto another Linode VPS? It'd be nice to use provider-agnostic tools, but this seems like the most pragmatic option. I'm guessing other VPS providers offer something similar.
I don't own HN, should I not post here?

Seriously, is the recommendation that everyone who posts content own the platform? That's impossible to have a shared location for content.
How to Make a Twitter Bot in Python with Tweepy
It's also a piece of crap tbh.
PrestoDB Aria: Making table scan more efficient
How does this change that?
Or you could be my organization and make your 6-figure salary data scientists create Tableau dashboards all day.
I face a known risk from cancer and an unknown risk from MRI dyes. What's worse?
NIH combined with the optics of paying 'foreign' developers.

Which is silly given who actually owns large parts of British infrastructure but... We have a confluence of shitty corrupt middle managers masquerading as politicians and a terrible press.

I honestly have come to the conclusion that the UK is pretty fucked in the mid to long term.
I don't have citations, but have read data that supports the idea that exercising in the evening results in higher cortisol levels, and thus lower levels of melatonin in the evenings.
from some angles (directly north or south) it looks like a vape rig to me.
When you start to get enough sleep, it's normal to become biphasic. That is, wake up in the night and go back to sleep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep
Hotstar blames security vulnerability on Safari
In a dockerized single-VPS environment, where should cronjobs live? Should they be part of the main Docker container that had the app code, or a separate container that only has all cronjobs, or simply on the host?
That's a low bar. Pretty sure we can aim higher than that.
Here's subscribers over time to /r/hackintosh [1] - about 600% growth over the last 5 years. Also, the 2014 Mac Mini removed the ability to upgrade RAM [2], but now it's back with the 2018 Mini.

[1] https://subredditstats.com/r/hackintosh

[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/2836399/new-mac-mini-restri...
Company pay taxes because societies a.k.a. countries say so. Taxes are not a business dealing in kind of you give this, they give you that. Countries do not need a rationale for taxes as long as they stay consistent in their law. Basically, France could charge a tax on Alaskian fish.

The only problem is usually: why the hack the Alaskian company should pay. But for our global companies the situation is different: when they want to charge someone in France for services, then France has a way to collect :).
But the blog post is not a release announcement. It’s a discussion of the security fixes and what led to the comparatively high number of security fixes.
"Scientists studied 21 "extreme night owls" who were going to bed, on average, at 02:30 and not waking until after 10:00. "

I guess that makes me an extremely extreme night owl then.
Obviously better private, if possible, but a couple of counter points.

First, Comcast/Verizon is a duopoly with two of the poorest customer satisfaction companies in the country. Ie last place [0]. They do what they want, they charge for things like rural broadband and pocket the fee but don't provide it, they (alleged?) sell your data and browsing habits, they mess with your traffic [2] ... a miserable, expensive experience all around. BTW I pay Vrz $80/mo for 150mbps only, no bundle, and it was major grief to get this.

Second, Municipal broadband is blocked here [1]. Comcast HQ in Philly is a big force.

0. http://fortune.com/2017/05/25/cable-tv-comcast-verizon/

1. https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7izns8/are_you_...
Things have reversed with the ipads. Ios 12 is faster than 11, and maybe even faster than 10. And early reports indicate that 13 is faster than 12.

Well worth updating on your machines that support them.

Dunno if the same focus has extended to new macos's, am not on the newest one.
I don't disagree with you, but I think your statement is roughly like: all ordinary composers are writing music theory, or all ordinary language users are doing linguistics.

Math is a way to add structure and understand the activity that programmers are engaged in. A lot of programming languages and computer architectures have been developed without the math in mind. There is still a lot of mathematical structure to be discovered in what an ordinary programmer does, I think. But yes, much of computer science, programming, etc feels very close to math, even compared to physics, linguistics, music theory, etc.
XFCE4 still runs like that. Personally I prefer a well configured Fluxbox
Are you saying the pervasive DRM which degrades performance, day 1 DLC practices, and sectioning up content that used to come with the $60 game I bought are not problems with the game dev industry? Yeah there are some people who want exactly what you said, but the majority just want a complete experience.

I'm perfectly fine with a 20 hour game with no DRM(or at least no denuvo) and DLC after a few weeks of the game being out. I'll pay full price for it too. What I don't pay for is a game that costs $60, has 10 hours of content that are riddled with bugs, a "beta" two weeks before release, day 1,2,3 patches because it is broken, runs at 3/4 of the fps it should because of Denuvo, and has day 1 DLC and a $30 season pass (which doesn't cover all the DLC from that season, just some), and content walled off by pre-order.
good advice to follow, but the problem is...

if you are 21 y.o. vlogger focused on barbell training and restoring old american muscle cars, this advice will sound like "dude just do more straight deadlifts and focus on hi-rep kroc rows, they will help you with development of your back" -- aka, some special gibberish speak. it takes so much knowledge to do so, it just won't happen.
I compile and run Android (AOSP) on custom devices. We're waiting to start CTS soon, to be able to run Google Services.

Without Google Services, a bare bone AOSP has more or less the same capabilities of some cheap low-end Chinese tablet that cannot run Google Apps.
I use duplicity for that personally, I backup my whole home with it (and there's so much small files like this) it works very well.
these "tweaks" boil down to "stop being a night owl." If I could wake up hours earlier and make myself go to sleep hours earlier I wouldn't be in this mess, BBC.
On the HTC Vive Pro it's a non-issue, especially if you get some supersampling added to it. Crystal clarity. Issue then becomes FPS
VLC can also connect to a remote host and play a network stream. You could probably infer delta-T through the time it takes VLC to request the next chunk of your video/audio stream.

But still, that's a long way from exposing the address of useful gadgets or other potentially sensitive information...
>Secure leaders do not need to stockpile arms

Well that can be more of a factor of what their foreign policy is / situation is and less about internal legitimacy.

Maybe better said they don't need to stockpile arms for domestic use as much if they feel secure / legitimate.
This is fantastic advice. Thank you so much for sharing!

Multiple upvotes if I could.
The author is an investor in FB and is advocating for privacy
Wow. I think that’s a very insightful perspective, but come away with a very different perspective:

Big companies play by very different rules than small ones, especially big tech companies right now, and I don’t see consolidation being (broadly) socially positive at all really.
Thank you Pulkitsh, late at night now, but I'll have us look at this tomorrow.
Employees sour on Tesla amid cost-cutting, layoffs