skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this comment really so unhelpful that it merits -1 points?
Why is everyone trying to erase history all of a sudden? Because somebody felt bad?
Market conditions have made transportation safer. Two way rating systems, accessible GPS, drivers #, drivers picture, driers location, arrival time etc.
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> Dropbox is struggling

Article clarifies

> Dropbox’s revenue grew more than 50 percent last year.

Storage isn't a network-externality heavy business as, say, social networking or, hell, desktop software. Your use of SpiderOak doesn't alter my utility function between SpiderOak/Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. Unless, of course, storage starts building the application layer in, as Google is wont to do...

At any rate, it's a big potential market still.
I'm curious what kinds of additional features you'd be interested in here. In these comments so far I've heard code review, access control and online IDE. Would any of those be useful? What else would be useful?

Chris Sells
PM, Google Cloud Platform
> Although, does the python rule "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." contradict this one ?

Nope, that's a design guideline, it's not taking choice away. A rule like "Python is the only language you'd ever need" would contradict it.
They're only relevant for Simula-like class-based OO. Message passing OO is actually a good and criminally underrated paradigm.
Maybe they added a bunch of headroom because storage is cheap and they want to make sure you don't run into problems with caches, swapping, DLC, etc.
Since the beginnings of capitalism, duh.
I think you'll find your answer to the Rob Pike question by using The 'Go' Programming Language
NHS to test blood made in a laboratory
Also another reason to have notes with different dimensions. The 5 euro note is tiny... nobody is gonna mistake that for a 50.
Many (most) people, including many highly respected scientists and engineers, are fully capable of displaying incredible judgment in their discipline yet awful judgment in other aspects of their lives. Should we put an asterisk on papers published by researchers in the middle of messy divorces?
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Ask HN: Does the programming language actually matter?
As much as I would love to use Haskell professionally, I always wondered if teams/projects using Haskell don't also struggle with all the sociology involved in developing software ..

Sure, being able to use Applicative reduces lots of code duplication, brings in better clarity and all .. but what if the product owner still remains a jerk without a vision?

In all the teams I have been so far, I can honestly say that the _language_ itself was never _the_ problem. It was always a combination of communication, skill or product vision.

The only thing I can imagine is that by choosing Haskell you tend to get better skilled developers - so only communication and product vision remain that could ruin your project/product.

Any thoughts?
But it is interesting and of consequence. Especially as it highlights how truth ever becomes the slave of fashion. If it it is demonstrably true that race and IQ is linked then stating that as a fact does not make one a racist.
Actually, Netflix in the US is largely like that for me as well. I never get on expecting to find a specific movie I want to watch. However, I believe Netflix's original content (House of Cards, Daredevil, Chef's Table, Orange is the New Black, and Print the Legend to name a few) are high quality content, meaning that when Netflix has to get its hand dirty, it shoots for quality unlike many cable television providers. I think this may be what the parent comment is referring to.
Not to mention you can certainly get feature parity with systemd while still being Unix philosophy-robust. See the nosh service manager.
You checked this on all of them? That's some dedication, for sure.
Many fansubbers didn't know where to draw the line, or didn't have very good editors, so sometimes you got the situation where there were so many TL notes they were stacking on top of each other.

Others have noted the most egregious TL notes ("Keikaku means plan" and so on) but there are some other bad examples, including "This is a reference to..." (not even everyone in Japan is going to get references either) and even a few explaining what the English words they used meant.

There are many fewer these days, thankfully.

>jokes that rely on wordplay such as puns and malapropisms

While many disagree, I like translations that attempt to localise these. You can never get literal accuracy this way, but you can make a fun, entertaining and engrossing script. You might say it's not the job of the fansubbers to write the script, but it is their job to translate the one they have, and the best translations in my view are ones that take intended audience into account.

I watch anime comedies to laugh, not to read an explanation of what the joke is and why it's funny.
BOOM

(Let it go @mapt)
Further, I suspect the main reason there's any concern at all about recommending ESR's writings due to his politics is because he bothers to write a lot about his political views in the first place, presenting something to potentially disagree with.

Many programmers / writers / programmer-writers may well have equally strong political views in one direction or another, with which others may strongly agree or disagree, but they just don't say much about them in public.
Just to clarify, here's the headline (my emphasis):

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"
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Worth recalling what DHH had to say about Wasabi in 2006:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/2006_09.html

Scroll down to the part "Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky" from September 01 (permalink 404s)
Generators and channels using js-csp is much more readable in my opinion.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this
Very interesting reasoning! What is the implication of your theory for the (almost entirely ad supported) Internet?
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This is all true. But on the other hand, this is all knowledge accessible to any college graduate who majored in a STEM field. Any army or other large organization should have at least one or two such people on hand.
The North has finally won the war!
Except that people who own the licenses are going to lobby against that (and probably with greater effect considering they're able to afford the licenses in the first place) since that would be a huge loss in equity for them.

It's the same with liquor licenses in Boston (maybe all of Mass., but I'm not sure about that). There's a limited number of them, but they can be resold, usually fetching more than a million dollars. This is a huge startup cost for new restauranteurs, but they have held their value, such that when you decide (or are forced) to sell or close the business, you can recoup that initial investment. Issuing more licenses or trying to reduce the cost of them in other ways would just destroy that value for the owners, most of which have taken out loans against them that would still need to be repaid.
I wouldn't be surprised if skin colour made a difference to IQ. But I wouldn't be surprised for social and political reasons, not genetic ones.

It's actually not possible to make a genetic argument, because genetically there are no non-trivial markers that robustly correlate with "black" or "white."

http://web.mit.edu/racescience/in_media/what_dna_says_about_...

Suggesting otherwise is simple ignorant bigotry.
In the future, ISP's will look like this -100Mbps Wireless Internet for $60
When I go swimming I put a $20 note in my board shorts wrapped around my id with an elastic band. I don't really take anything else with my so leaving my wallet buried in the sand on its own isn't a great idea.

Cotton money gets all soggy and you can't really use it without drying it out. Plastic money is great for this... wipe it off and buy an ice cream.
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To be clear, this is the current limit in beta and it's per repo, so if you have multiple cloud projects, you get multiple repos. We're thinking about adding support for multiple repos per project in the future. Would that be useful?

Also, and we're planning on upping the limit once we reach GA. What do you think a reasonable limit should be for a git repo? Our goal is to strike the right balance between usefulness and abuse.

Chris Sells
PM, Google Cloud Platform
Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com.

Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!
Please don't hyperbolize. Removing the Confederate flags from public places like government buildings and refusing to sell merchandise with the flag is not erasing history.

And I'd call the regular terrorizing and murder of black people under this flag far more than "someone felt bad".

Apple simply took a way-to-heavy-handed approach here.
Apple can do what they want.
Free speech and all.

That said, this is silly.

Apple should respect their developers and let them use historical symbols used by the opposing sides.
This is off-topic, but how is it that this is the top story on HN right now with zero discussion (assuming that by the time I click "add comment" I am the first to comment).

Is it dumb to assume that it's normal for upvotes and comments to increase at a similar rate?
I'm not pro gun but many countries like Canada have pretty high gun ownership yet have low gun violence numbers. I think there is more to the problem then just disallowing private gun ownership would solve. It's a band aid fix in my view.
Possibly this is just Apple pushing the burden of proof onto the developers? They could have had their app reviewers go through every app one by one and try to understand the context, or they can do this and force the developers that care to justify the use of the flag.

Pretty stupid, anyway.
The Gang of Four book recommends "composition over extension" which fits neatly into the UNIX philosophy of building things by composed of smaller independent programs.

The main issue that most of the common programming languages in use notably Java and C++ have very poor support for composition thus forcing developers to have to extend things.
This was not displayed for me, smart ass. They have the CSS so that it doesn't work very well at all resolutions. No matter what I tried I couldn't see the bottom edge of the modal.
It's quite ironic that Apple is setting a precedent for the intolerance of any symbol of slavery while they are knowingly supporting manufacturing which utilizes child labor, which is often forced labor. The epitome of hypocrisy which hopefully leads Apple to change.
I would agree that a lot of english dubs are bad, but I consider Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex, not Arise) to be the two exceptions. The casting decisions were very well made.
Working in an at-will employment state, I find the difference between this kind of contracting, and FTE, to be equivalent.

* You can quit/terminate your contract at any point (though some have penalties)
* Your employer can fire/terminate your contract at any point for almost any reason.
* If there's no work, you're out of a job.
* Salary and benefits packages - contracts tend to balance toward salary
and FTE toward benefits, but almost everyone provides *something*.
* FTE coworkers and contractors intermingle - everyone's human, everyone eats lunch.
The problem with drug sniffing dogs is that these dogs can detect drugs, however it is difficult to prove that they haven't also been trained to alert on other signals (or are specifically trained to do so).

Unfortunately until someone invents a handheld device which can "smell" as well as a dog's nose, I don't see this changing.
I saw the same when I worked at a defense contractor. These workers did the exact same things as regular employees, and the only thing different about them was a company name on their badge and their names being in all-caps on the roster. (Or maybe if you spotted them making a photocopy of their custom time sheets.)

It's a reminder to me of how far the accepted practice diverges from the law as written, in which this exact arrangement isn't supposed to happen. (Just like racial/destination discrimination and underinsurance and abuse of contractor status aren't supposed to happen with regulated taxicabs.)

Wrt benefits though, I've worked in such a role myself (after moving to the Bay) and the contracting company covers them.
That, unfortunately, is what's horrible about the article -- the author never makes clear whether this is an objective or subjective comparison. Is the image too poor, or too "good"?
Sounds very, very similar to Raytheon, albeit for somewhat different reasons. I rarely saw actual bad developers. I also rarely saw really stellar developers. We had a good number of talented engineers (in all disciplines), but most were underutilized for political reasons.

As you said, it was all about the final deliverables to the customer. All about the product. Our situation was more complicated, though, given our customers. The US federal government customers exert significant, and IMO technologically unjustified, control over development programs. "Customer satisfaction" often meant doing things in a way that we knew made no sense, but where the customer refused to listen to reason and insisted that they knew best.

What sucks is that I love the domains that Raytheon, MS, and similar companies operate in. Something about those domains drives all the companies in them to be like this, though. It's really frustrating.
I .. empathize with Taxis anyway, even though it's hard to justify violence of that kind (beatings, fires). They do suck a lot more than they should, like many many old businesses[1]. Don't forget the burden of being a legitimate business too, it's risky and costly.

How would you feel if all of a sudden anybody can play in your field for free while you paid 100K, and have to comply to a lot of legislations for the same rights.

[1] reminds me of Air France, it's easy to think RyanAir is better, but in reality AirFrance offer you a lot more. I believe Uber falls under the same issues, sure they're cheap, but they don't give any insurances. They did benefit from a nice technological mastery that made the service interface far better than the old system.
Post Snowden I'm looking to move away from cloud services and not entangle myself further.
French cabbies angry at Uber block Paris airports and stations
Philosophically a good point, but in reality, that is a bad analogy. Your local gas station won't cut you off if you drive for Uber. The guy who built your house won't tear it down if you rent it out. But your ISP can, and will, disconnect you.

There is a significant difference between freely using something you own. vs changing how you use a service that you do not own, and have signed contracts specifying terms of use.
Those aren't market conditions, they're technological advances.
Writing a good comment takes effort. Interesting posts are upvoted just so that they can be part of a discussion even if you are not the one starting the discussion. I do this all the time. If I feel that I can add to the discussion, I will write up a comment later.
Well, gee, I don't know if I have anything else to add to this discussion after reading that.
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I still don't understand why they don't stream their channels online. It's fairly cheap to do so, they'd get more viewers (and more accurate data about their viewers), and the only real restriction it would remove is the ability to filter viewers by location, but this can be solved by mailing out postcards or something during registration.

I tried using a usb ota tuner a few years ago, but it was painful. Driver issues, reception issues (in the middle of recordings a lot of times), etc. It really wasn't worth the time.
An alternative to blocking all ads would be blocking based on risk. We could have open blacklists or JSON content-blocking rules for different ad/content categories, including business models. Blocking extensions could optionally notify sites of tagged categories which are whitelisted.
It's always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it's at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky's numerous blog posts on the topic) made such a colossal error as writing their own language, and that it took them a decade to realize this mistake.

I also find this kind of phrasing weird:

> The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek.

It's like the author of this article goes out of their ways to avoid saying that some people left the company, period. It also wouldn't surprise me if some of these defections were caused by Wasabi itself. As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company (yet another reason why rolling your own language as a critical part of your product is a terrible idea).
If we've won, why are we still explaining open source?
The "bad investment" is worrisome in a capitalist society. Smart investors are supposed to make wise decisions but regulation from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission determine how much capital and experience is required to become a registered investor. However, someone seeking an occupation is not a sophisticated investor. Nor would a factory worker be expected to be able to predict major changes. Yet, working and middle class folks must invest and take risks on education, certification, and career-paths lest they suffer the consequences.
Google makes a big bet on Alabama?
Regardless of what you think about the current reactions, they are not solely the result of someone feeling bad. They are the reactions to the murder of 9 innocent people by a white supremacist professing a genocidal desire. Now, whether this justifies this action or not is a different matter.
This is ridiculous. I bet they leave Nazi WWII games.
There are even investors and syndicates inserting themselves into the medallion markets now [1]. When you see even these market participants pulling out altogether, then I can easily believe the autonomous passenger vehicle is within 5-20 years of obliterating the taxi industry (though I doubt that will happen). I'm not aware of a way to short medallions, so I can't tell if that is going on. So far as I can tell, these people are still participating in the medallion market and various secondary markets, despite the recent downward tick of medallion prices. I'm guessing they and the industry in general have a lot of political pull, and are counting on that influence to wring another few decades out of conventional taxis before autonomous options mutate them into a different-looking industry.

Unless there is a really broad-based public backlash that makes it political suicide to continue licensing however, even if autonomous vehicles are ubiquitous I can't see municipalities and various institutions and agencies in general giving up the affiliated revenue stream. Even if we end up with something like Johnny Cabs [2] and no humans drive taxis any longer, I expect some form of government-imposed licensing to still exist.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/21/add-taxi-medallion-investo...

[2] http://www.empireonline.com/features/helpful-movie-robots-th...
The first book I read about Java was his. I remember enjoying his essay at the end [this particular link being an unedited version]:

http://blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html
Thanks for the correction.

So -- going back to the original point -- in fact this was Swift catching up with Obj-C, so it does pertain to Swift but is not evidence of Swift getting ahead of Obj-C.
I just purchased this from the app store. Great work!
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Suggests a way to DOS an image processing application by including a lot of circles, too
Surely a lot of that could be done with a commandline switch?

tape_robot start -tapeid=1

as the quick hacky version, and:

tape_robot --protobuf 'msg:start;tapeid:1'

(replace the 'single:quote;string:thing' with your protobuf message.), or

tape_robot --protobuf_file filename

The filename could be a fifo or socket, of course. Then use a general purpose server which runs the programs:

proto_serve tape_robot 127.0.0.1:8080

or whatever.

This (to me) is closer to the unix idea - one server program, one actual processing app. Why should my tape_robot program actually have a server embedded in it?

If in the future, I want to add authentication, I only have to add it (once) to the proto_serve program, rather than to every single application that is a 'server', for instance.

It would also allow a version which 'pre-forked' the processes, and left them waiting for the data on the socket/filehandle, or whatever.

You could do a bunch of this already using nc or similar, I suspect.
Firing people.
yes, they actually are.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Germany
You'll get good and bad developers no matter what language you program in. Your career is more dependent upon whether you can work with people who are difficult to work with or not, rather than your skill in technology X.

Technologies change; people don't. If you want to succeed, treat fixing your people problems as higher priority.

And don't fall into the trap of the "people who use technology X are better people" line of thinking.

Words from a 20 year veteran of the industry.
Calling the GCP source hosting a competitor with github is nonsense. No public access to these repos, for one, so they're completely unsuitable for general project hosting.
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These exceptions might apply to cases such as this one, whether they do is unknown and no publisher has dared to find out.

In practice all games that contain forbidden symbols get a German version in which these are replaced for example in the Wolfenstein franchise (that were not censored due to violence).
Because it's an incredibly interesting topic.

There's a delay between upvote and comment for interested readers.
That makes sense. I guess I just assumed that the pattern would be more like this:

1.) See headline
2.) If the user enjoyed the read, they click upvote
3.) (Maybe) comment

What you are suggesting is that it's more like this:

1.) See headline
2.) Click upvote
3.) Read link
4.) (Maybe) comment
Hos does your network work? Is it compleatly distributed, like Tox or does it rely on nodes?
In America, and every other signatory to the Berne Convention, creators automatically own the copyright on whatever they create. They would have to explicitly waive all of their rights before it would be un-copyrighted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#Content
It's not necessarily true that it was an error. Their customers wanted Linux support, and they avoided the greater evil of having to rewrite their code or maintain two codebases (remember - this is ~2000 and there's no .Net or Mono, and all their code is written in old [edit:] VBScript).

It's a great example of path dependency however.

BTW: Red Hat has been here too. We converted a huge app from .Net to Java by using some translation software: http://lpeer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java...
Yea, employees provide great customer service. Totally explains Time Warner Cable.
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