skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the exact same way. I find it difficult to want to specialize in a certain area. I always want to learn everything. Xyz company is using Go? I should learn Go. Abc company is using RoR? I should learn RoR. It can be a bit of a perpetual drive which may at times be mentally exhausting but I think it's good to have that and to not be complacent.

I find it overwhelming at times. But I think uniclaude said it best, you just need to jump into it and make something, build something and don't be afraid to write shit code. Afterwards you can step back and have a look at what new knowledge you've just acquired and begin to fine-tune any rough edges if it still interests you.
>> Part of the problem is that striking is sacrosanct in France.

Yea, like complaining about other country's problems is sacrosanct in the USA.

Taxi drivers in Europe have to pay exorbitant amounts of money and go thru a gauntlet to be able to make a living.

Uber, imho, steals that living away in a very real way...
That is good to know. Is there a way to check whether an app is utilizing it or not?
No, the ones who make taxi drivers pay money and run a gauntlet are the ones stealing that living away. Uber is making that process unnecessary, and that makes the people who already paid the price feel buyer's remorse.
how's that working out for you? :P
> thiefdoms

That's a pretty cool respelling of fiefdom!
Surprising to see such a contrived marketing gimmick working on so many people. Actually, maybe it's not that surprising...

For those who want to see what's behind the curtain, here's your spoiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=j0FF5geWW_E
I'm sorry but at this point, I cannot. But we're having market level salaries for Barcelona and the low salary/high prices you mention is simply not true. Barcelona and Spain in general has a better salary/cost of living ratio compared to northern Europe (Sweden specifically, since I'm from there but now living in Barcelona)
One relevant example is WebRTC.
WebRTC can be used on all platforms now (Linux, Windows, MAC, Android) except iOS because of it's Safari limitation.
Ahhhh of course! OK that makes a lot of sense. Actually, it makes is more uniform: a ref has whatever properties and methods that ref could possibly expose - be it a "built-in" component (aka a DOM element) or a custom one. Nice!
Reddit users close much of site in revolt over firing
"Because of the nature of bus journeys, cooled air will be lost from the vehicle during the frequent intervals at which it stops."

That's like saying you should never open your refridgerator door because releasing the cooled air would instantly turn the food to room temperature. It's dishonest.
Yep, I'm blind :-)
Thanks!
Ask HN: Anybody looking for an App Developer?
Is someone looking for an App Developer ?
I am a student and could offer a really good deal :)
SEC Approves Tweeting by Startups to Test Investor Interest
I don't actually think there is anything wrong with being a generalist. If you're starting your own company or you're going to be the CTO or first technical hire of a startup, general knowledge is the best kind.

You can always find specialists later. If you know a bit of everything, you can set up your solution by yourself. Maybe it won't be perfect. Maybe it will have to call someone's API that's too expensive, but later your specialist will rewrite that code, for example.
Arq can now store your encrypted backups in your own Amazon Cloud Drive account
My circumstances are not TOO different from most other people on here (if anything, my lifestyle is probably more demanding than that of most). I certainly don't have any unusual wealth that allows me to dangle my feet most of the time, or anything like that.

I do software development and IT consulting and am gradually moving away from freelancing (where I do most of the work myself) towards just orchestrating things and streaming work through my company to other freelancers.

If you need even more context - I also have a family with 3 young children and the income that I generate is about 100% of our total family income.
Small focused modules
When you speak two or more languages
I get really annoyed switching keyboards from english to spanish. I speak with my family and some friends in spanish but also to other people in English or Swedish, Wouldn't be great if ios/android would identify contacts you're writing to and set the right language? is there an app for it already?
Cheers
Oh, you're right, it's even simpler:

Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript
Kenya to require users of public Wi-Fi to register with government
Facebook infer tool
The writer makes an odd choice opting for 1333Mhz memory. I would have thought if they're already spending that much on this big of an upgrade they would have gone for at least 1600Mhz.

Or can you not get 16000Mhz memory for a Mac Pro?
I assumed that holidays and weekends count as "vacation", in which case you are already there if you don't work on the weekends. If not, then yes it's definitely unrealistic for many.
I don't mean to call out the test as flawed, but I'm not sure something with infinite scrolling is the sort of application I would use React for. I use it a lot for Modals and Forms, but if you're only appending to the DOM and sometimes clearing it out (assuming you've functionality that 'Clears' the page once you have some images loaded) , it's a simple enough case for vanilla JS
It is a demonstration that the Reverend doesn't much care about fairness to individuals, and so would not feel qualms about insisting someone be fired because he was embarrassed.
$50B Dollar Valuation for Alibaba Affiliate Ant Financial
Try everything you can to get away from your day job and to some kind of working arrangement that gives you more free time.

With that said, while you are still at your day job, definitely count everything you do there as accomplishment. You can't hate your way out of a job (but you can sometimes love your way out of it).
I don't see why having a hobby outside of business hours needs to be approved. Be that stamp collecting or website making.
It's not much more profitable to move to subscription model. According to Billboard's new measuring mechanisms, 1500 streams = 1 album sale. By that measure, only a handful of artists have gone 'platinum' in the streaming sense.

Music is never going back to the cassette/CD golden age of sales, but streaming seems like the best way to salvage the few paying customers left.
I don't seem to be able to edit my post, but I wanted to clarify that the term 'possession' has specific meanings in Fish & Game code.

However, the law does bend for a regular citizen who finds an injured live raptor. They can take to a vet or rehab with no legal consequences.
pg is a smart man, but this argument is ridiculously stupid.

"Crime is so obviously a good thing that you can measure how corrupt cities are by how hard they try to suppress it."
Nice game, got it right after 7 yes and 7 no
It's not a matter of confidence, but the fact that climatologists understand very well how increased ocean temperatures affect air currents. What we're seeing is the consequences of greater ocean thermal mass. I would agree that the statistics are easy to calculate, but it's completely irrelevant in the fact that the physical models have predicted this behavior, and the only question now is what new, unpredicted feedback effects await us.
Uber POP has been against the law for one year now, this was bound to happen. Even if what the Taxis did is insanely wrong and should be condemned, Uber POP is illegal according to the french law and even trendy tech startups have to obey the law.

It's now up to all the actors to find a way to make this work.
Or they could migrate to Linux, or if that's a massive stretch just get LibreOffice. Sure, it has downsides, but they are already running on the smell of an oily rag, at least this way they save costs in totality, not just because they have hopped off the software upgrade treadmill.
If weather is known to be a nonlinear system then doesn't it make sense that climate would be as well? Why should we expect small changes in climate inputs to have correspondingly small changes in climate results?
Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012, some devs predicted it in 2011, Netflix announced dropping it in 2013. So there aren't many Silverlight developers caught unaware now... and Microsoft has said Silverlight will be supported for 10 years, back then.

This page is more about what Microsoft hopes Netflix and others will do to support Windows 10 than anything on Silverlight.
I'm in Switzerland. It's OK to download music and movies for personal use, as long as you don't spread them yourself.
> 'Granting permission simply confirms if you are a verified user and how many followers you have.'

Does it even make sense?
That sounds more like an added feature than a problem.
This effect may induce motion sickness in those who are sensitive to zooming and panning. Be careful to scroll slowly.

I played around with it for about a minute and started feeling a bit off, but then again I can't play FPS either without getting the same effects.
I personally don't differentiate between week-days and weekends. I often work on weekends (and probably just as often take weekdays completely off).

But generally, when I speak about vacation time in the context above, I mean it as in large continuous chunks of time during which you only unwind and regenerate (and ideally travel to some interesting place off the beaten track).
My name is John Peter and I'm the creator of this app. I built it because I needed a quick way to remember the best tips from YC's Stanford class, and to share them with first time entrepreneurs.

This is my first Xcode project, and I'd like to add a sharing feature next. I'd love your feedback on the design and your thoughts on how this can be useful to you
This market share/mind share / profit share rhetoric changes nothing for the sizeable portion of Apple's iOS users. Last I checked there are half a billion of them - they have no choice but to use Safari.
Usenet died because the ISPs no longer offer newsgroup access. Back in the dialup days, services like this were standard, and they made the internet truly awesome.

Once high speed (DSL, cable) took over they axed all Usenet servers. Unless you had Hampster continuously scouring for insecure and open servers, you had to pay for a SuperNews account.

That's how Usenet died.
> As the GP said, any CTO or dev lead worth their salt would hire a dev with good fundamentals in the 'wrong' language over one with poor fundamentals in the right one.

For sure. You can learn a new language in a few months, but not how to think like a programmer.

However, there could be an argument to be made for holding out for someone who is a good programmer AND knows the right language. Especially if it was a future leadership position. In the busy world of a startup, I may not have 3 months for you to learn Ruby / whatever language of the day.
What do we learn here? I don't see a big lesson here, this benchmark is comparing it to vanilla JS, there is a reason frameworks do exist.

I know this is obvious, but I'll say it anyway benchmark is a bit pointless against hypothetical alternative, it should be benchmarked against frameworks trying to solve same problem like WebComponents (Polymer), Angular or other frameworks.
Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won't support Silverlight
Given that Chrome has profiling built right in, shouldn't it be basically no effort to conclusively find out where time is being spent?
As someone who has to maintain a RabbitMQ cluster.. I cannot wait to be able to use this reliabily.
In the Caribbean, slaves were used in the sugar trade. Apparently also in Brazil based on Wikipedia:

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

Slave labor was the driving force behind the growth of the sugar economy in Brazil, and sugar was the primary export of the colony from 1600–1650.

Sugar was principally used to produce molasses, and from that, rum:

In colonial times, sugar formed one side of the triangle trade of New World raw materials, along with European manufactured goods, and African slaves. Sugar (often in the form of molasses) was shipped from the Caribbean to Europe or New England, where it was distilled into rum. The profits from the sale of sugar were then used to purchase manufactured goods, which were then shipped to West Africa, where they were bartered for slaves. The slaves were then brought back to the Caribbean to be sold to sugar planters. The profits from the sale of the slaves were then used to buy more sugar, which was shipped to Europe.

Another major use of slave labour was in cotton and tobacco production. Also of mining, in Brazil.

In the Caribbean:

Due to overwork and tropical diseases, the death rates for Caribbean slaves were greater than birth rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#British_and...

Another statistic I've seen: life expectancy of British soldiers in West Africa during the 18th and 19th century was about six months.

Government servants fared no better. During one seven-month period Sierra Leone went through 4 acting governors; two died in office and another, mindful of his predecessors fates, left the colony when he fell ill. On another occasion, a governor returning from a trip found his administration had no lawyer, no chief justice, no secretary, no chaplain, and only one schoolmaster....

The story was similar elsewhere in Britain’s West African outposts. In 1824 half the 600 soldiers garrisoned in the Gold Coast died within a few months, and the House of Commons was told in 1826, that of 1,567 troops sent out in the previous two years, 905 had died.

Europeans died mainly from malaria and yellow fever - or from the “cures” which were nearly as dangerous as the ailments.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kenanderson/histemp/whitemansgrav...

Yellow fever also reached the US:

Yellow fever has been a source of several devastating epidemics.[107] Cities as far north as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston were hit with epidemics. In 1793, one of the largest yellow fever epidemics in U.S. history killed as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia—roughly 10% of the population. About half of the residents had fled the city, including President George Washington.[108] In colonial times, West Africa became known as "the white man's grave" because of malaria and yellow fever.[109]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#Yellow_fever

Scientific paper, paywalled:

The End of the "White Man's Grave"? Nineteenth-Century Mortality in West Africa
Philip D. Curtin
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Vol. 21, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 63-88
http://www.jstor.org/stable/204918?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...

(Compiled for comment elsewhere.)
This is nonsense. Taxi services are regulated for good reason. Many cities and countries have well-regulated transparent taxi industries.

Uber often seems to seek to bypass that regulation because, eh, disruption. I would expect any city to do something when faced with a private corporation attempting to flout their laws for profit. Doing so is in no way correlated with any measure of how corrupt that city is.
Nice trick, aesthetically, but horrible for anything else.
Drawing stutters on both FF 39 and Chrome on an i5 system. Breaks the scroll wheel (I had to use page up/down or the scroll bar). Basically impossible to navigate accurately to anything.

A gimmick, of the same kind I hate flash for.
Safari is the problem. Even allowing choices doesn't matter

(see the whole IE issue for how competition dies in face of convenient defaults)

Its a problem because as opposed to the article view (who cares about a subset of advanced features) it also botches standard common and useful stuff, like positioning fixed element having a css transform differently to every other browser or misrepresenting the actual viewport dimension or having unreliable orientation change events.
You have to spend far more time keeping a Linux machine running, especially when something breaks - I have yet to experience otherwise. A Business that seriously run linux usually run one of the paid version anyway.
Cool site for freelancers, nice design and easy to use. I honestly can't think of anything I'd change.
That's exactly what you were missing guys!
> I've seen lots of great HTML5 games and the field has improved remarkably in the past 4 years.

HTML5 has come a long way, but I'm talking specifically about non-trivial games. For that, it's quite difficult to use it in a "we are going to make money with this!" way. I have seen some success with people writing their whole game from scratch to work within the very limited scope of HTML5, but most of the time those games are still pretty simple. Even so, I will concede that maybe this statement is geared more towards people trying to do cross platform stuff.

> ASM.js – it does run in Chrome

ASM.js runs in Chrome but it's not accelerated like it is in Firefox, that's what I mean. I was not speaking literally.

> http://beta.unity3d.com/jonas/AngryBots/ for example looks great and runs well.

That's a demo. It does not demonstrate the problems that real developers with real games and real codebases are having with webGL. For example, it does't do any network communication with a server.

And, this game is tiny. They have 14.5 mb of assets and 4 mb of javascript.

Our game (it's a Slot Machine so it's not like it's super complex) has 23 mb of data and 16 mb of javascript. This is much more realistic. You can't do a whole lot with only 4 mb of javascript.
Look up "Imposter syndrome". Most of us have it.
You can download it directly from the BBC using get_iplayer

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
> This kind of sloppy UI from a company that does logistics (which is supposedly quite a precise thing) is utterly unacceptable.

Big corp's UX approach is almost always buzzword-driven, not customer-driven. :)
There's an entire subreddit dedicated to denigrating Yishan Wong as well. Name some of the concrete things Ellen Pao has done at Reddit to be the cause of all of this, or any of this.
I am very familiar with RLS, but not schemas. Could you provide an example of how you would use schemas? If not too much trouble, could you also use my salesperson example from my other comments?
The EU is actively trying to do this: http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/
Wow, I didn't know twitch admins were volunteers. Scratch most of what I said then.
That does make sense, but I suspect most people do differentiate between weekends and vacation/holidays which explains why some comments are reacting to your suggestion when it's actually quite sensible.
Great post, definitely giving this a try.
9 out of 10 desktop computers still run Windows. 12% of those still run XP. There's still no 3rd option on the desktop; Linux has failed.

So, rather than fix a real problem, people start complaining about something a lot smaller: "18% of the world's phones run in a walled garden with a relatively modern browser."
Wunderline. Wunderlist for the Command Line
I have always been very surprised on how MS could get sued on bundling IE with Windows, without the same happening to Apple on IOS.
The dunes as they are today are very much man made actually. The natural dunes are low and constantly shifting inland. People were tired of sand blowing over their fields and villages, and started planting trees and marram grass on them to fix them in place. The dunes have grown very tall in some places as a result, some over 50 meters above sea level, by far the highest natural features in the coastal provinces.

The coastline of Zeeland is very artificial of course, much of it is reclaimed land. In the north of course there is the sea dike of Camperduin and reclaimed land, and Wieringen is no longer an island.

The Waddenzee is quite unnatural. The closing of the Zuiderzee has changed the water chemistry such that seagrass will not grow there any more, and the islands have all been fixed in place, while they would naturally migrate east.

I mock Staatsbosbeheer in their constant effort, working hard to keep the landscape from evolving and to keep it in its 'natural' state. The natural state would be a low lying brackish wetland that's regularly flooded by the sea, and the natural state would be constantly evolving.
To be fair, he was pretty clear about the reason for it:

I know that React’s performance has been compared to that of other frameworks, like Angular. What I wanted to do was my own test of it against plain old vanilla JavaScript…The docs claim that JavaScript is fast, and it’s meddling with the DOM that’s slow. So for that to be true we should be largely able to switch out React with something else and see pretty similar performance characteristics.

IOW, it's a common assumption that React has minimal overhead for DOM manipulation, and this benchmark suggests that it rapidly becomes performance constrained on relatively small DOM trees, especially on mobile.

I don't know if this is accurate or not (I suspect there's something a bit off, because the numbers don't look realistic to me) but it's worth looking at anyway!
Plenty of big projects use flat files because the techniques to get a batch processed overnight are well understood.
"Uber is so obviously a good thing (for the broken US system as well as for the US startup scene, the industry with which I line my pockets)". His statement reads like a joke to me, a parody of himself.

Uber might offer a better service to people today, but what's the long term (and the really long term) price of allowing this monopolizing corporation into your city? Do you sell out? In portuguese we say "barato sai caro", meaning cheap/easy options may turn out expensive in the long run.
How can there be a temperature reading of 0º on the 2nd of July in NW France ? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DOcnQQULMfs/VZVSXCvJdiI/AAAAAAAAQu...

What am I reading wrong ?
So this guy is saying that if other vendors were able to implement their own engine on iOS, he'd no longer have to bother ensuring the work was compatible with the massively popular default browser on iOS?

The argument doesn't stand up that Safari is holding developers back because due to it's real world levels of usage by customers you'd still be unrealistic not to support it - that is unless people are planning a 90's style 'please use Google Chrome' on Safari, nice.

Basically the guy is lazy and wants to use some latest cool bleeding edge chrome feature and is annoyed he might have to do to some other work to support Safari.

I get the feeling this guy would be far more comfortable with a Google dominated Chrome monoculture of a Web.
I’ve tried lots of the new editors out there, but my main gripe with most of them is that they’re not vi[m]…
819 points, 421 comments, 12 hours old and still this is close to the bottom of the front page. Clearly HN users are finding this interesting. I guess I don't understand the HN ranking methodology at all...
They're kind of self labeling.

https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/

https://www.whitehatsec.com/categories/events/hat.com/us-15/
I've just tried to access the site and it's failing to load half the time, and the other half it's taking over a minute to load. It's awesome you're getting traffic but I'm not sure you can say you've successfully scaled your app right at the moment.
Reddit too, given yesterday's news.
Creating laws doesn't make something moral/normative. The fact that a law exists and whether it's "good" are two different things. Breaking a "bad" law might be a crime, but I'm not convinced that it's "bad".

This is a country that is doing everything it can to create laws which increase the cost of transportation and reduce the ability to get a ride. It's a law that makes things less safe (there aren't enough taxis to properly service late night bars so people are forced to drive drunk - people die because of the law to protect a monopoly). We can look at the law and the reason for the law and ask if the price for protecting a government granted monopoly is worth the price (lives and money from increased transportation costs) paid.