skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if something isn't interesting, there better be a reward that's worth my time. if it is interesting, then usually that itself is enough to stay motivated.

for example, it's really tough to tolerate all this angularjs, reactjs stuff because I've always built my web apps using jQuery, it's hard to justify being more verbose for the sake of keeping up with a trend when it is counter productive for me. Even more harder So a good reward here is money or an established project that is interesting and front end framework was a requirement.
Really nothing new with tabs on the side. As I remember IE did this on IE9? It wasn't too good so they reverted it back.
That's fair.

There are a few pros, though, one of which being that JetBrains is fully behind Android, and as a consequence, the Kotlin runtime is very small. Do you know how many methods Groovy's is?

I think you will also find out that Groovy's performance is going to be a problem on Android, but maybe it will be fast enough for you.
PBS has a 2005 historical overview of the politically/economically contested region of Uyhgur, http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/links.htm...
For centuries the cultural touchstones were all retellings of classical Greek or Roman myths, or Bible stories. Modern media's exploration of Marvel's canon or the expansion of the Star Wars mythos is no different than Shakespeare rebooting Cleopatra and updating her with analogs to contemporary politics.
If everyone is working in feature branches then you're still merging less often. Until you've merged your work into master then I'm not merging it into my feature branch. That leads to bigger merges than if everyone is committing to master all the time.

Pros or cons of each aside, advocates of feature branch based development should recognize that they are merging less often than they would if they were doing trunk based development.
Interrupts and interrupt handling in the Linux kernel, Part 8
I think the sane thing to do is assume they are going to ask for legislation to force large companies that do online communication (facebook, whatsapp, twitter, apple, etc) to keep their system potentially and practically back door capable. That is something that would be possible to implement. It is also something with a historical precedent (look into how they responded to the BBM situation after the London riots).

If we don't want that to happen then the smart thing to do would be act as if that is what they are proposing.

If they propose something even worse it isn't like it will have been wasted effort.
>1. What is the alternative for user facing open source projects? The icentives for GitHub are even more misaligned as they want to attract developers and not users. I am wondering how long it takes till they shut down their binary release feature again, once everyone puts their binary releases there.

At this point I have to wonder - why not have a paid download service for OSS builds - like 1-2$ or whatever symbolic price minimum - this will probably cover the download costs and maybe leave your project some tiny bit of cash.

At the same time provide a free build link on torrents so that your users can access it trough torrents if they don't want to pay - it doesn't cost you anything (even the bandwidth if your project is hosted on something like GH pages).

So you pay 1-2$ for convenience or go download trough torrents or if you can't use torrents and you're brave search google for mirrors.
Oh, pension fund investment dysfunction...the gift that keeps on giving. Recently it was revealed that CalPERS (the largest U.S. pension fund that manages investments for Cali. public employees), has no idea of all the fees it's paying to private equity firms to manage their money. It took an intrepid indy blogger to do this digging.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/calpers-admits-it-has...

It has now led to NYT Dealbook,the Sac Bee and the California treasurer picking up the scent.

And, by the way, this lack of fee transparency is just one of the the factors that contribute to private equity being a very overrated asset class. Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism has been sounding the alarm. If you're interested, she's one to follow.
I don't think the experience is necessary. He wants to found a company not be an excellent engineer. That means as long as he can get a prototype out, it doesn't matter if it's all spaghetti code. It's startup code and it will be shitty. He can then hopefully raise money and hire people with at least a few years experience to build things out properly (hopefully).

I've seen successful startups started by people who could barely code or taught themselves to code to build the business just like the OP is describing. Sure, the code is shitty and there's no architecture, but once you're making money, who cares? This explains the shitty code found at most startups, but if it's temporary and a way to get somewhere, I definitely see its benefits. If this was a proper system, meant to live on for years, that's different. Hopefully the OP will have enough wisdom to realize when it's time to switch between the two mindsets. Most startup CEOs don't (even if they started out like the OP because they quickly get disconnected from engineering), and that's the real problem, IMO, but by then you've already started a company and raised money.
Looks great. But really need a tab sidebar. This works really great on big monitors when you have many tabs open. Instead of stacking up in the top bar.
You would be very surprised if that didn't happen!? Seems like a long shot prediction to me.
so another browser? what makes this one different? would it be safe from drive by downloads and other exploits? do you have a team and an army of QA to make sure new patches are released on time and make sure vulnerabilities don't linger?
That's different, this is money we owe ourselves rather than money we owe foreign creditors. Printing more dollars can be used to fix a trade imbalance. When the problem is domestic, we can just pass laws to clean it up. The question is who's going to be on the losing end of a renegotiation.
No, it's two separate points. One that the $127 trillion number is almost certainly overstated. Two that whatever the number is, it's of a fundamentally different nature than state pension liability.

In Illinois, Gov. Rauner's modest attempt to reform the pension situation in the state was shot down by the Illinois Supreme Court because the state has a constitutional amendment guaranteeing pension benefits. Under Fleming the federal government can reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits if necessary. It'll be politically divisive, but it'll be possible. You won't have the situation you have in Illinois where the courts are telling the electorate they can't make certain reforms.
It's roughly put, but I sometimes wonder how people who appear to be doing really dumb things _did_ make it to adulthood....
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
- C.S. Lewis

People who go on about others not growing up perhaps need to look at themselves. Positioning themselves as better because they're 'adults' because everyone else is acting like 'children', they may find they never actually left high school and are trying desperatly to be the cool kids.
The situation for Go and Java isn't comparable.

Java has expanded into the big data space in recent years and underpins Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra etc where they are dealing with heap sizes up to 1TB. The previous GC algorithms are fine for smaller heaps (<32GB) but they needed something for bigger ones hence the introduction of G1GC.

Go is very much just trying to get their foundation GC perfected.
What do you think about this?
What do you guys think about this app?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numpix/id1009829312
An AutoIt UDF to help you upload images using Imgur API
You're pointing at 2 different things. Uploading Wordpress vs developing custom themes.

Uploading Wordpress, using standard themes and installing plugins isn't development, it's admin.

On the other hand, building custom themes or writing custom plugins is web development.
but those that are working in low level programming often don't know what DNS, FTP or SQL is

That's a very baffling statement that doesn't reflect any of my experiences (I don't think you realize just how big FTP is/was). How are you defining "low-level programmer" here?
> This is going to crush the elderly.

Who will be labled as "takers," when all they did was what was agreed.
> Awkward how?

This seems to be what everyone has taken away from my post. It's awkward to have a wire connected from my ears to the pocket I keep my phone in, generally far away. I want to take my phone out and look at it without a wire being in the way or an audio player running on the home screen.

I can take a earphone out if I want to talk on the phone, or quickly view a youtube video. Without finagling with the audio player.

I can plug my phone in anywhere I want to in the room while going to sleep with my ipod in my ears.

It's just awkward to me, ok. The same way it was awkward when people started trying to use their ipod as a watch. So they think having a wire jutting all the way down their arm isn't awkward, and I do.
Not open source, so it needs to be asked, what's their business model?
That's the whole point: employee agreements do not suppress free speech. It's legal nonsense to claim that they do.
Or, say, Google and Facebook?

http://paulhammant.com/2014/01/08/googles-vs-facebooks-trunk...
I think Vimperator/Pentadactyl with Panorama (aka Firefox's Tab Group) might fit this requirement.

Currently I have two Panorama groups, general and work. I can use Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P to switch between each tabs in the group, and can navigate to other Panorama group with Ctrl-Space. All of these are also accessible via Vimperator command b where it will list all buffers and I can filter or navigate to it by tab number of tab name.[1]

A dedicated browser that does this out of the box would be nice, though.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/svKZh23.png

Edit: Or even Firefox with Panorama alone, since I think Firefox now jumps to tab when you search in the navigation bar.
The one idiot they technically elected (or at least allow to control the wheel).

Ultimately, it's the people's right and responsibility, not one man.
I also had a pre-unibody core duo. Mine was a 17 inch, though. Guess mine had all its thermal paste in the right place. :) It got hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not hot enough to burn.
Yeah, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that firefighters are a bunch of scaredy cats who need to accept a little risk in their jobs.
Alan Moore pops up every so often just to bum everybody out. Superheroes are a fun, stupid and occasionally brilliant genre. They're the Westerns of the 21st century.

Lighten up Al.
Great distinction that is often overlooked. Could you / anyone elaborate on the key skills required in building a company? (aside from the oft-mentioned virtues of hard work, focus, and perseverance)
A Practical Introduction to IoT Using Arduino, Node.js and Plotly
The description of the article following the title is flawed. It reads Only a handful of wild animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans. The reason, scientists say, is found in their genes.

But that's not what the article says - well, not directly or explicitly. Yes, I am being pedantic, and yes, I agree that this is likely the case. But as the article points out later on, Identifying the precise genetic footprint involved in tameness, however, is proving extremely tricky science... domestication is driven not by a single gene but a suite of genetic changes.

It's an interesting project, to be sure. Might it identify a complex of genes necessary (but not sufficient) to domestication? Maybe.

Or maybe not.
Reading David Foster Wallace in the Digital Age
Ha! This is really cool. A few interesting things on mine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110716015547/http://news.ycomb...

"Code.Google.com now supports git"

Google code got the axe earlier this year.

"Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups"

The rumours turned out to be true.

"Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge"

They're everywhere now!

"Italy and the euro: On the edge"

Good guess, but turns out Greece is a bigger problem.
Let's say I received a SIGHUP and I need to reload my configuration after I dropped my right for reading /etc/ and all the syscall for provisioning my resources.

How screwed am I?
Facebook (et al) already hand over user data to UK and other authorities. There is no need for any MITM certificate and even if there was, these companies would just do it since it makes it easier for them to say to authorities they already have the key to read it without involving Facebook - instant plausible deniability for Facebook to say we don't hand over info to authorities and full access for Governments everywhere.
Already discussed and still on the first page.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9909429
If the helicopter strikes the drone, or vice versa, it could cause the helicopter to crash. Think of it like a bird strike, which are also a problem for aircraft.
You are right, or course, in terms of semantic politeness. The OP is, however, referring to the difference between say a ruby developer versus someone who just writes html and css. If both are within the category of web developers, what are some names to distinguish the two?
I think he's dead on about the relative proportion of violence/murder versus rape in popular media, particularly the US. Part of it might be the puritanical history of the US. Why is it more acceptable (gauged by PG-13 rating systems) to show killing and violence than even show a breast or two people making love? You'd almost think the latter was a crime instead of the former. The general squeamishness of media on these issues completely distorts the real-world statistics of murder versus domestic violence and rape. So calling Moore out on it is more a statement of current US norms and is very different than other cultures like Japan.
I've been hit by falling shot dozens of times. Still alive. Eye injury is a risk. You need eye protection, in the form of goggles or ballistic glasses.
Looking at a program statically and limiting its privileges automatically would be good (autotame?), but it misses the point that tame appears to be trying to solve. Specifically, it is often the case that programs need more privilege once at initialization time, and less privileges later. So at startup, your program needs to open some files, and open listening network sockets, etc., but once initialization is done it just needs CPU. A static analysis would see that the program opens files and listening sockets and stuff, and grant those privileges forever. If you want to capture the reduced privileges required after the one-time initialization then you need to modify the program to use something like tame (or capsicum, etc.).
This is a boring meme that needs to die in a fire. SourceForge have taken a few missteps in recent months (and received plenty of flak for it), but it's been a reliable environment for open source development going on nearly 16 years. Note despite the silliness around their download system, repositories, lists and site hosting still function as they always did.

As a result of the community backlash against SF's download wrapper, I've had to click through more "attack site warning" pages in the past month just to reach some valuable SourceForge project (of which there are many thousands) than possibly all the previous year combined, though I notice in the past few weeks, Google have silently dropped SF from their blacklist (no PR fanfare this time however).

People continually use GitHub as some bastion of how things should be done, but someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling (regardless of their existing business model), quite possibly under a different management after the founders have all left for greener pastures. It's not a question of if that will happen, but when. Maybe in 16 years time? Who knows. It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet, but if it can happen at the second most valuable company in the tech industry, it can easily happen to a smaller company like Atlassian or GH.
how is notman Montreal's hacker space?

notman is just a coworking space with an accelerator. it doesn't mean it's a hacker space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

Also historically, Foulab opened before notman
Hedge funds aren't much better, and have the added "benefit" of being completely opaque to the investor with higher fees. Part of why there's so much investment in Venture and Growth Capital by so many institutions, including pensions, is that it's one of the few places that's seeing real returns. And when that bubble bursts...
Instead of tossing your leftover greens, turn them into “meatballs”
> Similarly, if Google/Apple allow banned apps in their app store, just bring a suit against their UK tentacles.

The app doesn't have to be in their app store: on Android, it's a simple checkbox to be able to install an app from outside the app store. One can also enable developer mode and install it as if it were a self-developed app.
Awesome concept! I've never been a fan of looking up flags in another tab, and hunting down which ones are in use. Just seems like it should be an automatic process. The explainshell website is great, but it doesn't work offline. Fish's man page auto-completion is useful, but it lists all the flags, instead of the ones currently in use. If I could have this for every command out there, along with the binary's location/version at the top, I'd be a happy camper.
Yeah, but the paper-clip maximizer theory is pretty awfully flawed. It rests on the idea that a generally human-level of intelligence necessarily leads to a super-human explosion of intelligence.

This is clearly not the case.
Hahaha! Only 37% of people voted for that guy... So how we are culpable I don't know!!
So what are we going to do about it?

We've spent the last year running twitter campaigns, but the people that matter (voters, well tory voters) don't do social media.

This means that you need to write a letter. Yes a real letter, not a fucking email. Write a letter to your MP, then a local Lord.

Then you need to write to your boss, tell them that the cost of business will go through the roof (if you're able to do business. )

Then start looking at jobs abroad. Because no doubt there will be a twitter campaign, meaning that nobody actually bothers to engage in how the democratic process actually works.
Haskell may not be the wisest language to start with. It's different from almost everything out there.
As someone who can already build the app, how do I get the skills to build Uber the company?
Understanding Symlinks
C# is gonna be your best bet.
GopherCon 2015 talks slides
That is a true statement. Yet privacy is a freedom that must be held onto with white knuckles. Who is to say that tomorrow your private poems about butterflies doesn't associate you with some extremist sect and a tyrannical government wont detain you indefinitely because of it?
Moving back the retirement age is far more likely than you might think. From the cost perspective it's front loaded by age as there are a lot more 65 year olds than 95 year olds walking around. With a little warning someone can wait another year to retire, but a 95 year old has little recourse if you cut benefits.
Ask HN: Do you actually click “Get Started” on landing pages?
I've been thinking about landing pages lately, and something occurred to me about my own behaviour.

When I'm on a typical product landing page, I instinctively avoid clicking any obvious call to action item, especially something like "Get Started".

Does anyone else do this? Do you often get to a landing page and feel like you can't figure out what to do next, because the idea of clicking "get started" honestly doesn't occur to you?
I joined 8 years ago, and the topic selection is not markedly different in nature, which I find remarkable. Then again, there's a reason I'm still here and not e.g. Slashdot, which I started following even earlier.
Only tip is learn to program.

Unless you already have funding and can pay the CTO then what you're asking for gets asked millions of times a day. You have to realize it's easier to come up with an idea (I'm not going to debate the worth or potential worth of your idea because it's irrelevant here) than it is to execute it. Ideas, both good and bad, are a dime a dozen. Developers are the harder asset to find unless you're willing to pay them. Good luck in your venture though.
Firefox with extensions ?
There are just a few general things:

1. The ability to curate a clear vision for the company and its path to success;

2. The ability to take that vision and turn it into an an actionable, real-world plan, with clearly defined roles for any staff necessary to execute it; and

3. The ability to sell the company's vision to others - investors, employees and customers/users.
What happens if you replace a parachute with a rotor wing
In my opinion, learning the skills to build "Uber the company" will get you nowhere without a compelling product first, whereas if you have a compelling product you can be a complete idiot when it comes to business and still have a chance to learn and make something out of it.

By all means don't focus solely on development if your goal is to build a startup, and in particular be aware you need to attract users once you launch; but don't focus on learning the intricacies of raising money or leading a team without a product either.
That timeline would be doable, but Spring 2019 wouldn't be bad to shoot for either. Here is an alternate 3.5 year plan:

- Year 1: Learn to code full time. Later in the year, start applying for jobs as a developer.

- Year 2: Get a job as a full stack dev. Devote nights and weekends to improving your development skills as much as possible.

- Year 3: Get a cofounder, and work nights and weekends on your project.

- Year 4: Go full time, and work for 6 months to launch the product and get enough traction to do YC.

The problem is that if you don't spend any time actually working as a developer, you'll be limited to only doing very simple projects. And also, it's much more likely to work if you can find a cofounder and work with them part time for a while before going full time.

As someone else already said, you'll also need the skills required to create a good product and build a good company, both of which are entirely different.
it never made sense as to why people are required to take a pay cut with hopes some opaque group will promise them greater return in the future.

You can't expect fund managers to consistently return 7% without taking risks and having exposure to market downturns. You know who else offered a consistent market return on stocks year after year for decades? Madoff