jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A DOM is just a tree of nodes, each of which has a fixed set of fields based on its type. That makes it automatically doable if you throw enough collections of key-value pairs at it:

# <a href="http://example.com">hello world</a>

{
"node-type":"element",
"namespace":"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml",
"name":"a",
"attributes":[
{
"namespace":null,
"name":"href",
"value":"http://example.com"
}
],
"children":[
{
"node-type":"text",
"value":"hello world"
}
]
}
I saw the holes in the plot (and characterization, and writing, etc.) while reading it and recognized the book as the worst sort of hollywood-esque masturbatory dreck. Nevertheless, despite all its defects the book was written well-enough to get me to keep reading it avidly, and for that I'll give Dan Brown a modicum of credit. Realistically, a lot of much more well thought of writers are no better than Brown.
> “You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners”. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

He wasn't wrong.

I'm in the UK and we seem to straddle the fence between a European "rehabilitation first" and US "punishment first" approach which is irritating as what we get is broken.

Study after study have shown that treating prisoners humanely while genuinely trying to rehabilitate them has the best outcome on recidivism and yet because politician's fear the media spinning the "soft on crime" line we end up with ever more draconian mandatory sentences, over crowded prisons and a system on the edge of systemic collapse.

We should be better than this.
hmm I guess we are worried about a smart attacker, and we know those guys are really smart
What do we want? A time machine! When do we want it? It doesn't really matter..
Tbh, I'm less worried about the damage the EU intelligence agencies do than the NSA.

Outside of the UK, the EU at least pretends to be outraged. The majority of the US political class thinks its a good thing and says so publicly.
>Who cares about the info you post on Facebook? Aren't services like gmail a bigger threat?

Expand it to Google services and the answer is definitely yes. Facebook takes the data you supply it with, but it also quietly takes things like details of the sites you've visited while logged in that has a "Like" button on them, geo location from the mobile apps, etc.

Google, however, takes everything. Your search history, everyone you've contacted through gmail, your purchases that you've received receipts for through gmail, your location data from Android phones or Google apps, your phone contacts if you've them synced across Google accounts and more.

If you leave location services on, on an Android phone, you can literally view your movement history on Google. Where you've been, when you went there, etc.

I'll be forthcoming and say I mindlessly use these services and serve up the data to Google in exchange for convenience, but in terms of threats to our privacy Google is way, way ahead of Facebook.

It's very hard to decouple from Google. Facebook is easy. I've a Facebook account with minimal information about me on it that I use to keep in contact with family members as I live abroad now. I log in through incognito mode and when I'm done log out. I don't have Facebook owned apps on my phone. The amount of information I serve up to Facebook is nothing compared to what Google get from me every day.
I think for a story to be compelling there needs to be more substance than "we now accept bitcoin".
It looks to me like the "send to kindle" feature is broken unless you sign up for one of the free trial options. That fits with the email they sent out: "In order to upload new files you will need to pick one of the free 3-month trials". I suppose I can still move things around using dropbox, but it's not quite the same.
There is a principle of sovereignty here. You may not like the actions of your own country's intelligence agencies, but at least they are in principle subject to your own legal system and your own government can therefore hold them to account.

Of course we could debate the practical reality vs. the theory here, but exporting data to somewhere without the same culture and formal legal safeguards of privacy that Europe has offers no protection or accountability even in theory.
That's going to be bad news when it gets legislated away then, isn't it.
I had no idea how much water was consumed by the semiconductor industry, although I did know about the incredible energy usage and generation of toxic waste. What if the most unsustainable parts of a car are the semiconductors in the infotainment system?
Ti-89 is a great option, since you can also get the nice formatting while you're doing exams
Would that really cause a problem in determining if the text being sent is well-formed?

Having GET, POST, PUT, etc. and header names be in another language wouldn't prevent you from determining the well-formedness of the text.
The software needs to be run by the restaurants so they own the entire experience.

I think restaurants would love to pay $xxxx upfront and a small monthly or annual fee for updates.

But software developers want a slice of the revenue.

It’s greed in a low margin industry.

It’s a perfect Open Source project.
We've thought of that too. :)

There's OpenBalena for hosting your own device deployment and management server. https://www.balena.io/open/

It's self-hosted, which is a double-edged sword. You have to setup and maintain your own infrastructure, but you don't depend on a third party. For personal projects, it's probably the way to go.

Additionally, devices can be moved between servers easily. If you decide to use the cloud hosted platform in the future, or move devices from cloud hosted to self-hosted, it's easy to do.
Given how many times in the past how electronic tech production has been impacted by natural disasters, from a simple few minute power loss down to earthquakes or tsnami's.

It is somewhat worrying that with the shortfall as it is, any climate impacting event as been in the past would be way more impacting noe and with the way the climate is, such things are more likely year upon year.

That with current trends and for good reason to expand capacity more globally, with the time involved to do such things, we may well see over capacity headlines 5 years down the line and with that thought. If history is to be learned from, the good times are ahead, until then - we might see tech longevity support and tech repair become more of a thing.
That's reasonable, but particularly in a business context, if Photoshop is helping you make money then Adobe deserves your money as much as anyone else.

Not to mention that if you're a startup and you plan to grow into a large company or get bought by a large company (i.e. all startups) you are going to have to get your house in order at some point.
Here is the part two: http://www.uelectronics.info/2015/03/24/zx-spectrum-and-load...
Well, I'd say the established media gets away with much more than on social media, but established media is more uniform in their output so it is easier to squash dissenting voices. Also, the movie industry regularly outputs much more extreme content than has appeared on any social media.

In my opinion the real complaint is the old guard against the up and coming media, and they feel threatened and are looking for a way to bring the new media into conformity with their worldview monopoly.
Password auth over HTTP is horrible. Short of binding a public IP address to your instance, basic auth without HTTPS setup is probably the worst thing you can do.
Well it seems like it's more or less being replaced by Mopria printing, which is a platform agnostic wireless printing service and already incorporated into recent versions of Android. Not a bad thing IMO, replacing Google services with new industry standard services.
THIS is the answer --

WHO is this for? What does it do?

Are they amenable to funding/building the prototype?

THAT's the guy you're looking for.
https://peerj.com/preprints/2064v1/ - note that Nick Brown also worked on this.

e.g.

"Specifically, the mean of the 28 participants in the experimental condition, reported as 5.19, cannot be correct. Since all responses were integers between 1 and 7, the total of the response scores across all participants must also be an integer in the range 28–196. The two integers that give a result closest to the reported mean of 5.19 (which will typically have been subjected to rounding) are 145 and 146. However, 145 divided by 28 is 85714217.5, which conventional rounding returns as 5.18. Likewise, 146 divided by 28 is 42857121.5, which rounds to 5.21. That is, there is no combination of responses to the question that can give a mean of 5.19 when correctly rounded."

(that example is a fictional one but the same issue arises elsewhere)
Clickable: http://tiltview.com
A country having good economics is definitely vital to its success as well. The introduction of a market economy did wonders for China's productivity, whereas I believe that corruption has been relatively constant.
I find proposals like this often miss the political side of the equation ie wealthy donors and multinational corps simply allow the law to be passed, knowing, in fact, by spending down the line, they can get loopholes put into the law that will circumvent the system.

Now, this, by in itself, is no reason not to support the idea (which I do, for the most part, esp. the lower taxes on wages), but I feel it should be addressed up front.
This comment reads like an ai was given context from the article and told to spit out a response.
The weather in California is pretty comfortable year around which suits the homeless well. Many states are scorching hot or freezing cold some time of the year.
Not just in the US. The east coast in Australia has had more rain this year than ever before, which has resulted in catastrophic floods.

Towns such as Lismore in northern NSW have been evacuated multiple times. As a result, many people who lived there have permanently relocated.
> Real estate investors and developers ... fight affordable housing initiatives every step of the way

I don't think affordable-housing is actually considered a real "threat" to private developers in most of the nation, but suppose that it were.

Imagine that you had a business. The government says they'd like to fund a competitor.

It's not just any competitor! This new competitor will be empowered to use a ton of tax money to compete with you. This competitor will be headed by someone who is politically connected. The politically connected owner will be able to take a fat cut of this tax money, and donate it back to the political machine, to fortify their position. They can expect a cozy relationship with regulators and special approvals you can't get. If you're unlucky they will add legislation passed to support their business while hindering yours.

And, of course, their allies will insult you as villainous, greedy, and unreasonable. (Which you may be! And yet...)

Would you fight all of that, or would you embrace it?

— And if you think government projects aren't lousy with a corrupt politically-connected fat cats skimming money off the top, well, I have a delightful bridge to sell you!
It depends on the format of the text, the parser for that format, the language of the parser, and many other factors. Such a broad affirmative statement that text files are inefficient is tenuous at best.
> This is just trickle down theory, but for housing instead. What actually happens is that old housing stock is bought by investors who then tear it down and develop it into luxury housing, and often that housing is then either used as speculative assets or bought by some of the world's richest people looking to store value.

Yet this theory is how actual housing has worked in many other places. Just because institutional investors have been manipulating the market in the US for a while doesn't mean it hasn't worked in the past in other places.

Again - land value tax + some other taxes like vacancy taxes would solve this issue. You wouldn't see the weird skyscrapers in Manhattan if such things existed.

Subsidized housing is not sustainable in the US. Fix the core issues like housing supply and this is a solvable problem. Things like subsidized housing just just fuck over the middle class more.

Housing as generational wealth is something we should also avoid. Just creates another aristocracy.
Oh, you went way overboard just for the sake of your argument. Interviews at such positions have a different format. And different expectations. Heck, even the job contracts are customised at those levels. Nobody's gonna give those candidates a written technical round.

Not necessarily. If the HR is short-sighted, and that happens a lot for a lot of even famous companies, they'll say you have already saved the million and that your salary expectation is not worth it. Trust me, shit like this happens.

Theoretically yes (and they'll sure as hell contest that claim). But I've never seen anybody EVER do that except _very rarely_ for positions in Legal.
It's more a CRUD app that has many features added in the first six months, and fewer features added thereafter, and then a few months go by and a new developer takes over and has to figure out how to add yet another feature.

That model favours easy-to-google frameworks with wide ecosystems.
Not in my case. My HTC Desire was untouched by Vodafone in the Netherlands but still required rooting with unrevoked.
Were you able to leverage the YC "old boys" network? (I mean that in the positive sense, not the negative one)

That is, did having access to talented former-YC people help you get over the technical humps and hurdles? I believe one of the main pros to joining YC (apart from getting mentoring from PG et. al.) is that many of the people that went before you are on tap to help resolve things in a "pay it forward" fashion.
Did you read the story, or just this site's headline?
Depends, Wikileaks at least seems to credibly have a stack of incriminating stuff on the big banks. Who know's what else people will pass along to them now it's been shown how effectively they can capture the worlds attention.
"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."
A friend of mine worked for MSFT before, and he had to go through lots of emailing, just to get a hold of the team responsible for a component he's working on (he was probably working on a subcomponent).

It feels like a circus, to be honest.
Chromium + Flash + Linux vulnerable as well?
How does one
a) even know what version of flash is embedded in Chromium
b) other than constantly killing the flash process how does one disable flash in Chromium

Chromium v6.0.417.0
We could really use a strong startup city in Canada, but when your shining example is an incubator whose only features seem to be interrupting people who are working, I don't know that it's the best example. That might impress the Globe and Mail's readership, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't think we need to focus on getting more VCs or more incubators, what we really need is to collect all the startup-inclined geeks in one place.
Perhaps, but maybe it depends on the sector or department. I have close friends I went to school with on the SQL Server and ASP.Net teams. They seem to enjoy it.
I opened this on my iPad and it made my inner Alanis Morisette mutter the word "ironic", but then my inner Ed Byrne said there's no incongruity between expected and actual unless one expects the future to appear in the present. Then my outer wikipedia said "cosmic irony, perhaps: a disparity between human desires and the harsh realities of the outside world."
More as "we thought the last one didn't have this flaw- but we are tired of being wrong."
Not to pick a nit but as someone who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area,

San Francisco is very tech heavy but is separate from silicon valley. I put the Northern most edge of SV at the Oracle complex in Redwood Shores. But back during the bubble that was too far north for some.

Also SF seems to be gaining more traction with Web 2.0 then with the 1.0 trend so my statement may be facing a shift with companies like twitter and digg making their homes in SF proper.
That is true. I could be wrong, but I personally feel that Apple is being difficult on purpose. I do not think they want the iPad to become a business device (or be a company that produces primarily for businesses). I think they want to be recreational products company -- which works pretty well for them -- and not have to deal with similar problems that Microsoft with business issues.

I won't be at all surprised if the Android tablets have a similar look & feel to the iPad, but intended for specialized work as opposed to media consumption. I imagine the customization capability of an Android (or other OS) tablet would allow for simple, specialized devices that succeed.

I could be entirely wrong about Apple's paradigm and the resultant prospects. I disagree with many of Apple's decisions, but no one can deny their success over the past few years (though their stock is overvalued right now imho).
It isn't a binary choice. For example you pay for an individual ride to work, and while on the way the system says "would you accept another rider for a $5 discount and an extra 2 minutes in journey time?" So many variations on this theme is possible making maximum utilisation of the fleet of vehicles, and trading off pricing versus convenience (and likely luxury) all the time.

I'm looking forward to "dining cars" where you get to eat a nice meal while in transit.
If you need Cuda you don't need Apple.
I think this is a problem that will be solved by the users and not the technology. User's will adapt to curbing what they put out there (especially with everything being sold) and on the other side our opinions on what's unprofessional etc. will relax.

There's way fewer companies that would consider a keg stand as a sign of unemployability than there were 20 years ago. In fact it would probably be seen as social proof by many managers and someone they'd enjoy having around.

It'll sort itself out on the user side. Super complicated tools to manage your profile information will never reach mass adoption.
Here's the latest that I could find on why Twitter does not support PuSH: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow... None of the issues are related to licensing.
Intel - Sponsors of Tomorrow
http://www.intel.com/consumer/tomorrow/index.htm
Yeah, this reads to me like "Pepsi CEO on why we need more than Coke".
Go out on the wild and get some inspirations:

Dan Cederholm: http://simplebits.com

Spencer Fry: http://spencerfry.com

Mike Rundle: http://flyosity.com

Sam Brown: http://sam.brown.tc

Matt Mullenweg: http://ma.tt

Tim Van Damme: http://maxvoltar.com

Meagan Fisher: http://owltastic.com

Adii Pienaar: http://adiirockstar.com
Obvious or agreed-upon does not mean cannot. Google's, for instance, looks nigh-identical to what I'd have aimed for; nodes = fields, node-attributes = fields in the object on a field, node-text-content = specially-named field. It's a naive, 1-1 transformation between the two. Simple enough that I'd actually consider it the "obvious" way to do so.

IBM's, on the other hand, has a number of nonsensical statements like this:

>Because JSON is incapable of preserving any notion of a Base URI, it is unlikely that an application using the JSON serialization is capable of properly rendering markup containing relative URI paths. It is therefore important that such paths be resolved automatically during the conversion process as shown ...

Bull. Base URI is just a field, or inferred by the document's source. ie: the same as XML. Their technique is incapable of translating a Base URI, it has nothing to do with JSON. Theirs also cannot handle namespacing, while Google's is simple, and almost identical to how XML does it: namespace$field: value.
@gnosis and sparky,

text offsets are also put in comments next to the function declarations. For example:
"h_clean()	/* 0x31f0 */"
Well, we can't allow a positron-trap gap, now can we?
I feel like this is not true in regards to older material. Shows like wkrp in Cincinnati can never be made available with all of the music liceasing issues. Some classic shows like soap get censored. Some shows just go missing. Most never make it to streaming and many aren't available for purchasing.

Piracy is just as important. The reason why more don't is because it is easier to just pay and perhaps the content is not worth the effort anymore. People watch movies on fast forward now, play games on phones while watching and generally tv or movie viewing as a background activity.
I think think that's kind of a philosophical question. Wikipedia, for example, explains path tracing as integrating over incident light on a surface. You could either think of that as incident light at a point on a virtual film/sensor plane behind a lens or incident light on the first object you hit in the scene.
This is why I prefer the BSD license for everything I do. In Stallman's universe, "freedom" only exists as long as it furthers his cause. What a waste. As far as I'm concerned, if I write something and release the source, I'm more than happy with people using it for whatever they want.
Something that probably gets overlooked is that Sony is a Japanese Corporation, and that the politics between Japan and Korea are often to be considered.
I've actually only used Django, Flask, and CherryPy for Python projects, so I haven't researched that stuff.

In general, I strongly support the idea of tying together tiny libraries, rather than using a framework. It takes months to learn every line of code in an end-to-end framework, but if you're pulling in just the 2-3 libraries you need, you can understand every line of your code. That's really important for efficiency/bugfixing/maintenance.

You might want to check out Bobo: http://bobo.digicool.com/en/latest/index.html
But sometimes it's not the size of your piece that matters, but it's the size of your piece relative to others.

Examples:

- buying a law.

- legal bribes, like endowing a chair at Harvard to ensure your kid gets in

- hiring personal servants

- real estate: the average price of a house anywhere with a functioning banking system is approx 2-3x the average salary

For example, a bright Indian software developer faces the choice: do I make $40K in India or $200K in Silicon Valley?

The latter can afford a fancier car, the former can afford more servants.

Absolute wealth matters when purchasing items that can be created by spending dollars: cars, computers, food, energy, et cetera.

Relative wealth matters when purchasing items which cannot generally be created by spending dollars: land, people.
The competition between these teams is going to make both of them better. They will not only be competing on speed, but also on features. A huge win for developers.
It took Apple 2 years to correct the name of my local university in "Maps" (after I had filed 3 correction reports via Maps, each spaced a month apart).

I think a little expectations management might be in order here.
Mine are both set to Google's.
Scraping is generally easy but challenges come when you are scraping large amount of unstructured data and how well you respond to page changes pro-actively. Scrapy is very good. I couldn't find similar tool in Ruby though.
Plus the have a very low heat capacity. So although they might be 2200F, they hold very little heat.

Similar to being in a sauna. A human can stand inside a 150F sauna without getting burned (the air doesn't hold much heat and slowly transfers it to your body). But if had 150F water against your skin, you'd be burned quite quickly.
If you would prefer to self host, there's always FreeSWITCH [0]. It can act as a server for meetings. There is a webRTC client called Verto Communicator that seems to work quite well, or you can use SIP clients.

The documentation is a bit lacking, but it's actually a very capable system for unifying voice, video and chat communications – and a whole lot more.

[0] https://freeswitch.com/