skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that that's a great environment! Compared to the alternatives at any rate.
I thought there was a significant gap between our views, but I think you and I are of very similar viewpoints. Thanks for teasing something more detailed out of me, so I do not feel like so much of a troll.
"If you are trying to make a web application, just stop. Build a native application. It's nicer for everyone." <-- On which platforms? Windows + iOS + Android + OS X + ...? Or, I could just make it a web application. Not a hard choice. This point was ill-considered.
> The desktop is a nice add-on, but it's not Canonical's focus nor should it be.

Given that one of Canonical's main projects is it's own desktop system that works the same on desktop and mobile, that statement just simply isn't true.
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From the article you linked: "Back in March, WeChat banned Uber, a significant channel for how Uber communicates with customers."

The most that WeChat could do is (i) stop Uber from sending messages/promotions to people subscribed to Uber's WeChat account, and (ii) stop uber.com URLs from being displayed in the built-in browser.

Neither of these would affect customers' ability to (i) download the Uber app, (ii) book Uber rides.
What makes it a "hacked" Raspberry Pi? Or is everything with a few cables soldered to it "hacked"?
Somehow all the annoyances, abuse and clutter mentioned in the manifesto have won after the mobile app/javascript framework duo dominated to influence the newest web apps.

Maybe we should build a new "sub-web" for hackers with a unique safe browser with no plugins, ajax, javascript, css-animations, html5-* with only non obstrusive sound, video, image and form support.
There are planty sites which dont work without JS. Guess what I do when I see an empty page..
Hey mods!

The "decenturl.com" domain forwards to amazon, where "davihigg" is getting a referral.

I would suggest a replacement link, but there are only 12 google hits ("Behind the Ivy Curtain" Upadhyay) for it and none of them are any good.
Is this just a copy of another exploit? https://github.com/Dominic12/MacPoison/issues/1
> With regards to visual design, the fact is that any individual has a far better idea of what constitutes comfortable-to-read text for them than a designer could. A designer either designing for his or her own tastes or trying to find some best-of-all-worlds design will ultimately fail to satisfy the vast majority of visitors to the sit

> Designers, it may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone loves your work.

Computer scientist, it may come as a surprise to you, but there are competent people outside of your field of expertise. You're not a genius, and everyone else isn't stupid.

If a designer (or whoever decides) chooses to have custom fonts, client-side scripting or custom style sheets, it's because he weighted the downsides of said choice and still opted for it. If he did not, or he is not aware of the downsides, then it's a matter of incompetence, not web design. So, your pseudo-manifesto should be anti-incompetence, not anti-web-design.

Being "anti-web-design" only tells us that a) you know nothing about design (you don't have the smallest idea regarding methodology or even simply what a designer actually does); and b) it's no more than a rant - all your valid points (which are a few) are obscured by the arrogant and oblivious attitude.
Forgive me but can anyone summarize how to actually play this game?
I'm german and I see the "no mixed collar marriages" idea everywhere. It's rare enough to see low-status academic (engineer, teacher) husband / high status academic (law, medicine) wife, even though it certainly happens. The opposite direction is certainly perfectly normal.

The perceived push for stability from the make partner is probably strongly related to traditional gender roles (at least here in Germany, a crazy stronghold of the housewife idea), which make the female partner correctly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously fear that she could lose her career in the process, while the male partner would at most risk money and a few years.
Only getting an empty page with a 'WIP' watermark. The wmutils project on GitHub seems to give some more information - it looks like a nice project! https://github.com/wmutils/core.
It looks like your access control is table level. Have you considered what it will take to provide row/column level controls?

Also, the report builder looks like it doesn't allow you to set up complex reports (range queries). Can you add an abstract WHERE clause constructor? That would let you do things like collect all orders in the last week that were over 20 dollars, late on their delivery, or fulfilled by the new guy. You might want to look at BI tools like Pentaho or Microstrategy to see if you can build something similar on the analysis end.

Finally, do you offer change tracking and backups? No one wants to lose a LOB database because someone ragequit.
Didn't read the article, but aren't the "holes" as encountered in semiconductor physics also virtual particles? Or is this a new concept?
Is there an init system which doesn't suck?
http://i.imgur.com/z9bWcxm.jpg

;)
Draw lines in order to bounce a dot to square. Simple "physics" game, quite fun actually.
To get to the next level draw lines to bounce the ball into the square.
> Nearly everything that you identify today as 'internet culture' originated on 4Chan

That’s an… uh… bold claim.
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Food is the key. People forget this so easily, but for most of our evolution we did not have access to "3-squares a day". Hunger is a remarkable tool for manipulating alertness and wakefulness.

The most common recommendation I've heard for jet lag is to stop eating 12 hours before breakfast in your destination's time zone. I've found this strategy works for more than just jet lag though. If I'm up against a deadline and need to put in a couple extra hours or pull an all-nighter, I'll skip two or three meals. For the first 30-60 min after "normal" meal time you have to deal with the hunger pangs, but then your body will switch into hunter-gatherer mode and you'd be surprised how long you can maintain alertness.

Obviously this isn't a tool you can use frequently (and it's vital to remain hydrated, especially if you're accustomed to drinking when you eat), but in a pinch it's surprisingly effective.
How much liability does a company open itself up to if they make their medical devices hackable? It's a travesty that these people had to rely on an unpatched vulnerability to make a device that would save people's lives.
Level3 suffering major outages; effects are felt worldwide
Even more so given that Ubuntu started as a desktop Linux distro.
> Combining characters pop up in the most interesting places, often where and when you least expect them! ٩(•̃̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶

The good news is Unicode 8 will make them way more frequent! (alternate emoji skin colors are specified via combining characters) much as Unicode 6 made astral characters way more "in your face" (by standardising emoji in the SMP)
Faris claims “Originality is a nonsensical concept invented by romantic poets in the 18th century” and that every idea is simply a new combination of preexisting ideas...interested to know what others think about this.
Ubuntu 14.04 was one of the last distros to use upstart, which is pretty close to dead.

As .service files become normal in the RHEL & Fedora/Debian world, and 14.04 LTS long life cycle runs, upstart is going to look increasingly out of date.
"I am skeptical Uber can generate any revenues whatsoever in this market."

Uber has _already_ generated non-zero revenues in China. I know because I have paid them money myself.

You are right that services like didi dache are head-on competitors.

You are wrong about calling a preferred driver. Sure, I do this when I want to pre-book an out-of-town journey or trip to the great wall.

But, if I want a car in 5 minutes, from a random part of town, there's no way I can achieve that reliably by calling a guy, even he has a 1st degree connection who happens to be 5 minutes away from my current location.
I think you're misinformed: the real source of all internet culture is and was ebaumsworld.com.

Seriously, though, internet culture is more than just /b/. The Something Awful forums (where 4chan was born, after all), Fark and YTMND contributed a lot. More recently, sites like Reddit, Instagram, Vine and Twitter have become much more relevant than any 4chan board.
I don't know in which Europe you live but "mixed-collar" isn't any more common here.
Firstly the "mixed-collar" marriages in the article refer to educated vs uneducated individuals, lower classes especially in the US are much less likely to achieve college or higher education, in Europe with few exceptions (cough UK cough) it's not an issue.

But in Europe it's going to be just the same the chances of some one with say graduate or doctoral degree being in a long term relationship some one without a similar degree is fairly low.

People meet at school at in work, they usually have social interactions with their peers, and most importantly educated people prefer to date other educated people because they are more likely to share interests, world views, and could hold a conversation with each other.

And as far as true "collar" difference goes than you need only too look at old money families all those "new age aristocrats" while they might "sleep around with the help" they usually don't mix with others especially in countries where familial history is very important like the UK.
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

Unsure is it better, should check on more devices/systems/browsers.
Both of them are educated and it's hard to claim that engineering is a lower status than law for example.
In the US "lower classes" won't have any higher education or a community/city college degree at best it is completely different due to the cost of education.
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Sure. I just prefer selinux (along with most of the MAC using world), so this is a negative for me.
Note: This is a parody account. The person / character in this is not real
Of course the web is full of crap design – there's a very low barrier to entry. That's a good thing. There's also some great design. And a lot of in-between stuff (otherwise decent sites compromised by too many ads/scripts). It serves whoever pays for it and makes it. Don't use it if you find it 'abusive'. This guy needs to get over himself.
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Screenshots of dashboard issues: http://imgur.com/yzaoduu,89pEqZw

Screenshot of install screen showing template was 'borrowed' from elsewhere: http://imgur.com/bxRXPyM

Also, the currency icon issues in the database? Appears to be an encoding issue.

Could you at least put in the README that there's a config file that should maybe be looked at before install?
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How can we improve bitzep?
Askr here. I brought it up because, well, it makes it easier to move the comment with the code.
I do this frequently and it really works - I started to do it when I was working night shifts. For me it is 14 hours before breakfast, thought.

Most people can do just fine having a very early dinner I don't know why this method is only rarely mentioned or not mentioned at all.

I remember commenting on a similar article that boldly claimed that there is "no cure" or "no cure until now". Edit, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850557

Here is one useful BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7414437.stm
I don't think I'm an old Unix bearded guy going for nostalgia: 1) I'm not that old, 2) I don't have a beard, 3) I like modern things, but I don't like when they are inferior to old things.
Fun! What about a limit of N lines, e.g. oldest removed first (maybe color-coded by age?)?
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Xanax. It's a miracle drug at least for me. Just be cautious and don't take it when you have addictive tendencies and best to discuss with a doctor of course. I also don't drink when i take them.

I usually fly long-distance over night and time it to sleep 2x4h in the destination-timezone during the flight with a drink/walking break inbetween.
I meant scores of people during 4chan existence, not at the same time.
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I work for a large, "enterprisey" corporation. Three years ago, I had a the company's chief architect explain that we had a policy prohibiting any use of open source software because it had "too much legal risk" for a large company. (He apparently had no idea what was actually used.)

That individual is no longer with the company. This year I have heard senior executives say that EVERY piece of software we use should be open source, unless there is a good reason not to. (They are even trying to figure out how to contribute back to open source, although in my opinion they have a lot to learn.)

It is anecdotal, but from this (and other examples) I think Google may be right about this. Open source was once the kiss of death for "enterprise", but now it is (rightfully) considered an advantage.
According to [0], while Google Play seems to be usable in China, Chinese internet companies own the app store market. So that's another potential battleground maybe? Tencent and Baidu seem to be significant players there, Tencent being bigger but neither being the biggest.

[0] http://www.newzoo.com/free/rankings/top-10-android-app-store...
I find it disagreeable that you call my referral link out first before even mentioning the book. Have you even heard of network marketing? This is not news, and I happen to own a copy of this book and have recommended it to others. This is not some random submission BTW.
It's not mass suicides. It's individuals being egged on to "be an hero" and do it.
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iPhone moment?
It takes about 5min to refactor the code of existing malware to avoid detection, heck playing around with compiler settings is enough in many cases.

I've recompiled Netcat probably 200 times by now, small refactoring playing with compiler flags (compile with x64 profile, debug on, add some symbols etc..) and every time it avoids every AV out there.

I usually use Virustotal which means that it will be short lived but i can do it over and over and over again ;)
Well, activation hickup is not even close to "remote disable". It's an annoyance, sure, you have to call some support person, but it's not a 'self destruct' option.
That's just means that it works with your video card(s), but it can still crash with other/older cards.
For example on the ShaderToy website ( https://www.shadertoy.com/browse ) I can always easily find examples that crashes WebGL in Chrome (and it's just slower or hangs in Firefox). Right on that first page there are shaders that makes WebGL crash on two different computers (one with an older NVIDIA card and one with just integrated so not the fastest ones). But it crashes only the WebGL part not the whole browser, so that's not so bad. Also it could be because Chrome sees WebGL code is running slow (due to slower cards and the complex shaders) and decides it's better to kill it, just like when there is an infinite loop in Flash or JavaScript the browsers shows a dialog to stop the code.
I think it's highly possible because ads, to prevent people disable JS to block ads so there's no content.
discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096185

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287426
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It's even worst if you are not fluent in english (like I am). There is so much noise and marketing words I had to read it twice just to get the idea.
Apologies for poor word choice. I meant to indicate profits rather than EBITDA.

While you may be in the tiny-to-irrelevant minority of people in Beijing that use Uber and find it useful (probably mostly foreigners?), Beijing is not a normal Chinese city and in the scale of the Chinese market foreigners are statistically insignificant. I remain deeply skeptical "a car in five minutes" is reliably available in Beijing from Uber in many locations outside of the center of the city.
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I really like this!

I was playing around and noticed "Number" field will return an "Internal Error" upon saving if numbers are out of _undefined_ range.

(e.g. "0-99999999")
and does not care whether the range is valid or not.

- It is unclear what the meaning for "Regex" under 'Advanced' Number Form:
Is this _just_ a label, or does it provide functionality of some kind?

- Seems like "Save" in the upper right corner should assume "Done" is True in the lower left corner.

My questions are purely rhetorical btw.
This probably depends on the browser but Safari, for example, scales inches (and centimetres) with the zoom level, so the result is probably the same. I don't like em and rem much as they do not really reflect the actual size in tangible units, but that is largely a personal preference.
> Fonts are subtle, in that most people probably do not pay much attention to which one is in use

False. Fonts make a massive difference in how people perceive a brand, and different fonts can be used for different types of content.

Imagine if every company used Comic Sans for their logo font.
http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
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Isn't part of the point here that flash ads are mostly going to migrate to HTML5 and then having click-to-run on flash won't be blocking hardly any ads?
It's seems to me that the inevitable response to back doors will be similar to what has happened following the NSA leaks - secint, sysadmins and devs will update their threat model, excluding the known defective components from the system. In trying to gain deeper access, I believe the government will only lock themselves out further.

Either that or it's a noisy ruse. Make lots of noise about how you're going to backdoor things. Have a great debate and declare it a dead idea, then do it secretly.
Is it really that bad?

Most of the web is about reading content, and this is where all points on the page shine.

I agree with basically everything on that page.

In fact, we built fully-fledged browser extensions to override website's choices in fonts, colors and whatnot (point 1).

We build extensions to kill js by default (point 2).

We increasingly disable plugins by default (point 3).

We have extensions to block advertising, including inline ones (point 4).

Frames are a thing of the past (point 5), although visual clutter still reigns in "web tabloids" (although we still patch the css via custom styles/extensions)

6) Web fonts have very often poor hinting and lower quality than the exact equivalent in the system. The difference between my locally installed Roboto font and the Woff version is insane. The worst part is that the google font loaders loads the woff version ANYWAY!

Web tablois will still chose random fonts based purely on the looks. Combined with poor hinting, this has prompted me to disable web fonts on my standard browsing profile.

Of course, nobody wants tracking, this seems quite widespread now, with browsers including the useless DNT header (point 7)

"No pagination" went even overboard with continuous loading pages, which many (including myself) hate (point 8).

What about the "facebook/linkedin" login that many websites/betas require to join, and that almost everybody hates? (point 9)

And when all you need to do is reading, you don't want over-the-top animations when you hover on this, dynamic loading that prevents pages to be saved to disk for later reading, and whatever webdesigners think "it's cool" nowdays, because in the end what matters most is the content.

The fact that we have "reader modes" in browsers now is pretty saddening. And it's all due to massive, abusive design using otherwise good browsers extensions.
"shining neons"

This sounds like an upscaling problem. If a monitor isn't being used at it's native resolution the video signal will be upscaled by the monitor ... and it'll do a bad job of it.

Turn off antialiasing and see what the text looks like. If it's still blurry, you have a software problem.
Evidence suggests subatomic particles could defy the standard model
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Marco Arment has had problems with this and resumed it quite nicely in the Overcast FAQ (scroll a bit down for the relevant part): https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
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I hope the result will not be bigger Flash ads :)
> I don't see that all with Go. Go is getting a good degree of traction, because it's a really useful language for a lot of people.

I agree that Go has the traction and community to stay around for the long haul as a niche language.

It's not a replacement for C, and never will be. I can't imagine more than 5% of developers ever using it.

Let's take Java which despite C# is still the number one language in the world to use by number of developers and just compare Go to Java. That's more than fair since the number of Java developers in the world is less than the total number of developers in the world.

Given that, here's data to back my wild claims:

Java is in ~2.7% job postings on indeed.com currently: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java&l=

Go(lang) is in ~0.0035% and the adoption curve has slowed:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=golang&l=

Similarly, in GitHut which compares language use across GitHub, you can see how the amount of Java code dwarfs the Go code currently shared: http://githut.info/

I know, I know- Go still have a great growing community, but it just hasn't taken off the way they would like you to believe. I still think it's a great language, but it isn't making the inroads we'd all believe it has based on the hype. That's not to say it isn't useful- it is, or that developers shouldn't learn it or use it- they should. But, it isn't one of the top languages nor will it be at the current rate of adoption.

> Why not, specifically?

That's a much bigger question, but the answer is: Go is not AngularJS.

What?!! You may ask. Here's what I mean:

In today's development world of every decent language and framework getting 15 minutes of fame, you have to have something really trendy and seemingly cost-saving to get you there. Go is a practical language written for speed (similar to Rust). That is not the Toyota Camry or Honda Civic of languages, that is the high speed locomotive. A different use case, and tough to market.
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Wb2/LineRep.html#l519

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Wb2/SymsAlpha.html

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/