skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because JavaScript doesn't give you the option of programmatically messing with the user's clipboard. The best you can do is present a selected string in a textbox for the user to press Ctrl+C
Yep, exactly. For instance the natural calling convention on the PDP-8 was that the return address was stored before the contents of the called function (i.e. in C terms it looked like "funcaddr[-1] = pc; pc = funcaddr;") I think other machines of that vintage and older were similar.

This meant you could support function calling without the need for a stack. However you can't directly support recursive (or co-recursive) functions. Nor could you ever do things like multithreading or shared libraries, although hose obviously weren't concerns at that time.

Today we think of the callstack as a fundamental part of the machine architecture, but at the time of algol-60 it was still a very contentious subject.
3 Essential Reasons Why You Must Network
And this one could not care less.

Seriously, i looked over the page and could not tell the difference for the most part. Only ones i noticed some difference was those where you had a single prominent letter doing all the work.
Also, what about Slashdot? The Jargon file? Usenet?

I've been on the Internet since the mid-90s and have purposefully avoided 4chan since I first heared of it.

At no point has it been difficult to avoid 4chan. I gather it has been very influential in the niche of image memes and I vaguely remember something about teenagers calling everybody a "fag" a few years back, but otherwise I couldn't say what the influence has been.
Presenting – A Big Crisis in Leadership Today
Yep: http://core.suckless.org/sinit
This article perpetuates the damaging (for both genders) traditional sexist notion that women really don't like sex and that men are the sex freaks.

Women like and think about sex just as much as men, but it's unfortunately still not socially acceptable to believe that. The women on Tinder treat the guys there just as much as potential "sex objects" (whatever that is supposed to mean) as the guys do with the women. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The hookup culture/Tinder may suck for the people who want serious monogamous relationships with marriage and children (although I disagree with the premise, I think Tinder makes those kinds of relationships easier to initiate too, but I digress..), but to make it seem like it's bad for women is absurd.

Women like sex and men like relationships. Women who have casual sex aren't victims, just like men in relationships aren't victims.
There are millions of flash games that my kids would not appreciate losing access to; YouTube still uses flash by default I think; iPlayer (BBC program player) and news websites still mainly [or exclusively] use flash.
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Linux/TOSZ.CPP
I don't see any problem with that. Physical security is much easier to manage than digital security.
That is something different, holes are quasiparticles [1], phenomena that show characteristics of and can be mathematically described like particles but are not particles but for example collections of particles or the absence of a particles in case of a holes. They really show particle like behaviour while virtual particles don't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
I would say you are wrong.

For a billion users, they need 1/6 of the worlds population. No way do they have that.

How many kids under 7? under 5? in the world. Don't have accounts.
How many elderly over 80? 70? don't have accounts.

What is the % of non-"developed" countries? Not 1/6

Compared to people running multiple accounts (personal / professional/ seo accounts / spam accounts), now that I have heard of.

Regardless, they still have a hell of a lot of users, but 1b real, I doubt
No, the resolution isn't upscaled. I think the issue is in LED technology (at least in cheap models), because all LED screens I worked on share it. The issue is definitely a subtle one, but my eyes definitely prefer LCD backlight.

The possibility is I got actually good LCDs and the cheapest LEDs, it's why I'm asking about experiences with non-budget modern monitors.
niche information!!!
When it comes to APIs, every now and then someone say "X is dead, Y is the future".

APIs are not a one-size-fits-all problem, and while general trends and paradigms are a nice thing to have, developers should not be restricted by whatever is the hottest buzzword today.

A nice and clean API will always be pleasant to use, and this has nothing to do with RESTful awesomeness or SOAP verbosity.
This was a nice presentation comparing security in general to how cars were built in the 1960's, when engineers made the car work great - but with little consideration for "user error" or the user experience in general. 50 years later cars are highly protected against dumb things the user might do, and he suggests that's how the security community should look at building stuff, too(while hopefully not taking another 50 years to achieve great security with great user experience as well).

http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/giant-bags-of-mostly-water....
> 2) No client-side scripts If your website cannot be viewed properly with Javascript disabled, it is broken.

Completely disagree with this one. The web has evolved into a landscape that exceeds its original intended use. It's not just about semantic documents any more - its community, interaction, and more in the most portable format we've ever seen.

The web has taken on a life of its own, beyond what it was initially designed for.
Videos in UK newspapers.

bbc iplayer on Mac and GNU/Linux
What kind of /r/iamverysmart asshatery is this? I don't posses your anecdotal evidence. Especially, when you yourself don't even bother to illustrate them.

For bonus points, you could try and prove why one would need evidence in this particular case to prove that sweeping gender generalizations are sexist?
Allow me to claim that to the electrical engineer writing this, the "Instruction Manual For The UHF Q Meter Type 280-A" linked there is really beautiful.

(It even has a bibliography!)
I'd say it is better. The first one is very uncomfortable to read in a full-screen/maximized-window browser on a widescreen, and mine is only 1080p.

I think it's a great counterexample of the point it's trying to make. Of course is a satire, and the author probably would add a bit of design in a "real" web site.
YouTube uses flash if it thinks you have flash. Otherwise if no flash installed or plugin disabled it defaults to HTML5 (Firefox on GNU/Linux and Mac)
A Look at HP's “The Machine”
6.1 No tiny font size

Don't expect your users to surf your website with a magnifying glass, e.g. http://smittenkitchen.com/
exactly - doesn't that sound nicer for everyone?
There are two other recent announcements that didn't get much attention
on HN. The first is the announcement [1] of the creation of the new
ArchiveCorps [2], and the second is the announcement [3] of the new
digitization wiki [4].

[1] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4755

[2] http://www.archivecorps.org/

[3] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4775

[4] http://digitize.archiveteam.org/
Just wondering why people don't like this post? Anyone care to explain why I'm wrong or maybe discuss?
Show HN: ProjectTalk – Message boards for GitHub repositories
Browsing amazon without css seem to be an improvement in Firefox, as Amazon seems to do something in the background that basically chokes the render engine.
Poole or somebody close to him is good at PR. I'm kind of shocked he hasn't figured out a way to cash in.
We use Ubuntu because our cloud provider supports it and doesn't support Debian (though we could probably hassle them into doing so if we really wanted to push it).
> On the other hand, if you don't allow it, you don't lose anything. You can write the algorithm in another way, and it would be just as fast and easier to reason about.

This is where we differ, then: Some algorithms are more natural to write recursively. Sorting is a big example.
Most papers on BTrees I read are not using recursion.
For each use of unsafe in Rust code, presumably the developer sees some safety guarantee that the compiler does not understand but that he thinks will guarantee that the code is indeed safe. Can anyone shed light on what form these guarantees (that are not seen by the borrow checker) take, and whether it will be possible in future Rust versions to write such code without unsafe (either by improvements to the borrow checker or implementation of an additional safety checker)?
These will really gonna hurt very bad those abusers. I appreciate this approach.
ES6 Template Strings in Depth
Ask HN: Polymer or ReactJS?
Hi, I've been trying to decide between polymer and react.

And from one side i have react with their license+patents clause, but with good browser support and big ecosystem not following web standards.

On other end I have polymer with better license, following web standards, but it has poor browser support - I think IE9 would be good since i plan to write support software so I can't depend on userbase having up to date browsers.

And polymer demos on polymer website and even google io do some weird stuff like flash icons/checkboxes on browser tab focus (maybe this is accessibility feature? It's very consistent in how this works).

I'd really like to go with futureproof solution that would be based on standards but I'm having tough time to decide. What are your experiences using both solutions?
One should test with certain blocking enabled as well surely?
The Fibonacci sequence is also the textbook example of how badly a naive recursive implementation can perform, because the stack explodes.
Rides of glory?
That bug was fixed in all releases last july. This was the bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1443735
Is this anti competitive?
JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix
What if the user changes the font size with CSS?
Do we know that for sure?
I mean - could a sufficiently smart compiler actually create machine code which _did_ do it in-place?
Consider this before saying “don't reinvent the wheel”
I am sure these will make your country so much "safer".
If you draw the line while intersecting the dot, the latter gets trapped on the former.
The Stages of Open Source Volunteering
But that's irrelevent anyway, as Chrome wouldn't block ~tiny~ flash plugins used by the clipboard transport.
Frankly, I find it suspect that they even suggest having a root password. The only situation where this is useful is when sudo is somehow broken (e.g. a typo in /etc/sudoers). This happens rarely enough that I'm OK with a more heavyweight process (like booting Knoppix) to fix it.
I tried to glitch it but not in this scene, if you make the dot bounce very slowly and close to stop it'll get through the line.
You'll know it's here when VR Jesus appears (cf. Jesus phone [1]).

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/59933/jesus-phone
Kerf
New transaction types. Take part in Bytecoin closed beta
0.0.0.0	c.brightcove.com	# Autoplay video
0.0.0.0	player.theplatform.com	# Autoplay video
0.0.0.0	link.theplatform.com	# Autoplay video

Wow you really must not like video.
How I Gave Up on YC
Strassler has a lot of articles of this kind on his site, highly recommended. Check the articles menu on his homepage. There's a nice series on dark matter.

There's also this page with various links: http://profmattstrassler.com/about/about-this-site-and-how-t...
Meh. I have encrypted /, /home and swap. I've disabled Secure Boot, and the TPM, and use legacy boot. I don't really trust my laptop manufacturer to get all this stuff right. I like to keep things simple (which is why I use syslinux instead of GRUB as a bootloader. GRUB2 is ugly as sin to configure)

On the FF extension front I'd like to add: Proxy Selector, Self-Destructing Cookies, and RefControl as recommendations.
Thanks for the screenshots; the popup issue seemed to appear on Safari/Chrome, and has been taken care off now.

We also corrected the wording on the install page (SiteCloner is another one of our products, nothing shady going on here :)) and fixed the typos in the install instructions.

Thanks again for pointing out these issues :) Ping us at support@chillyorange.com if you'd like us to you the updated version right away.
So the author proposes to replace REST with "JSON-pure APIs": Just stuff all of your data (errors, warnings, data, domain-specific stuff; he really does not propose any structure) into JSON, and then send and receive that via anything.

With this, we would lose the discoverability of a good REST API (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS ), which would be a huge price to pay.

Other than that, this reminds me a bit of:

"Hey man, this relational stuff is really hard! There must be a better way..."

"I know a better way! Let's rather just stick all of our data into these JSON objects..."
How will it affect tx privacy?
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I think the author basically a shift from clunky VR hardware to slick consumer friendly devices. I don't quite agree that that's exactly what happened with the iPhone or that there actually is something similar to the Nokia phones that are referenced in VR space but that's the idea from the article:

"""But the strongest advocates of the smartphone revolution, such as Nokia, failed to anticipate how it would play out, with the result that others now dominate the new industry. The turning-point was Apple’s iPhone. With its touchscreen and elegant apps, it set the model for the entire industry. VR has yet to have its iPhone moment. The idea is sound and the gear works, but today’s chunky headsets are unlikely to conquer the mass market."""
I do agree as well.
My favourite part was when, after reading a rant about the evils of web applications, client side scripts and plugins, I was encouraged to visit his Bandcamp to load up a web app with client side scripts and plugins.
Git Style Guide
Why did you think this was meant as an insult?
I'm a recruiter and tbh, I'm a scumbag.
It's in the interest of the U.S. to have expensive drugs be illegal, so they can use them to raise money on the black market for black ops or whatever else they won't fund publicly.
There's also Firejail http://sourceforge.net/projects/firejail/
and subuser http://subuser.org/ that are worth a look.
The author really needs to take this down before a prospective employer sees it. Posting articles that have errors in understanding is one thing, but this appears to be proud of his ignorance.
5 Engineering wonders of the world
To be fair, early 4chan also did some good through project chanology. It's almost as if when you allow people to have freedom, they end up making bad decisions. You make a good argument against democracy.
Safety Critical Products: Integrity-178B real-time OS
The YouTube HTML player removed the "watch later" list button which I used to use a lot.

So, there is a very specific example of how the YouTube Flash player was superior to the HTML5 one. At least for my use case.

[I doubt this an HTML vs Flash issue, though]
I run Ubuntu locally because it tends to work better as a vmware guest. You can get other distro's to work with the quality of ubuntu, but not without a lot more hassle.

If I get to choose I'll run arch linux, but inside vmware it's ubuntu hands down.
How Innovative Are You Willing to Be?
I'm always baffled how gossip and negative speak about others is considered good social skills while discussing something important about life, be that technical, big problems for society, or other topics that require thought is lacking in social skills.
The creator of bup (https://github.com/bup/bup/) also created wvtest (https://github.com/apenwarr/wvtest) to "unit test" any code in any combination of language on any platform. It's actually kind of cheating: all you do in your code is write lines with a specific format, and then the wvthing parses that to display stats.
>but not without a lot more hassle.

Have you tried the latest versions of Fedora? The only thing I needed to do on Fedora was install video codecs and flash, which weren't automatically installed as they are in Ubuntu.
Have you tried actually caring that they get a better job? I've definitely had a number of conversations in the 3-5 minute range, and a few at 10-15.
I don't doubt the incompetence of the DEA, but I thought the same thing - so I did some deep searching (sarcasm) and found this page: http://en.institutomanquehue.org/about.html - it looks like this is an institute devoted to, among other things, "projecting a faithful image of this region to the world".

I'd imagine that this story is being spun a bit - satellite imagery isn't the most accurate for crop identification over such large areas of land (biased source: myself, a satellite imagery analyst for 5 years), plus Latin American countries are constantly, for obvious reasons, trying to distance themselves from powers such as the US which often associated with colonialism and oppression.

TL;DR: This is a puff PR piece exaggerating the efficiency of the Bolivian Gov.
Videogame soundtracks - From background noise to cratedigger gold
Microfinance
I lend through a Micro-finance org. and am concerned about communication standards. I am hoping for some insight on what is normal in the industry, and should I be able to expect from such an organisations. I do not want to stop the practice, or the organisation I lend through. However, I think reporting and communication should be improved.

To be brief, while I feel they mean well, but it seems they do not feel they are accountable, nor bound by what they say. I have some specific observations which support this opinion:
Values that my loans do not “add up”. I would expect the following:
Funds Uploaded – Donations = Loans Outstanding + Lending Credit Available +/- Currency Fluctuations..I understand, when this has been raised with people it has been put down to foreign currency fluctuations, and descrepancies should be excused.

They change Transaction History, as they wish. If they realise they have made an error, they delete post. What I think should happen is another entry to correct the balance. Make reference to the error, which enable those concerned to understand the changes in the balance from moment to moment....Entries can be made to the Transaction History , at any time. An entry might be made today, which would effect yesterday's balance. I understand that some financial institutions use a system of two dates: book and value.....

It came to light that when they increased charges to borrowers, they did not updated the website. I know of no intention or effort to compensate borrowers for being overcharged.

-BR
I wonder why the medical industry doesn't do this, combining an insulin pump and a constant glucose monitor into a single system?
This is such a big win for the temporary / contingent workforce. The reality of the industry perpetuated by companies like Manpower, Kelly Services (Aerotek), Robert Half, Randstad, Adecco, etc. is rapacious and financially harmful to most workers. All the while being unnecessarily expensive (in my analysis) for the clients those workers are sent to.

The cut that these companies take from the employees they outsource does not justify the cost they're charging the clients. 50 percent sometimes for doing nothing more than posting a craigslist ad and shoving a contract in the face of some poor, but earnest, immigrant or a down `n out tech worker.

[edit typo]
If I were the kind to actually enact this plan, I'd be the kind to forget my degree was honorary on my resume.
Gosh I can only imagine how hard this is. I work in a basement and can't even hear the tornado siren when they test it each month. It can be raining, snowing, hot as hell and I would have no idea.

Thank God I work with really good people that are fun to be around.
Sleeping on the first few dates makes a perfect spouse material.
> so this is a negative for me.

Exactly. For you. This isn't a con of the actual system.
I was kinda hoping this was a parody. Wow, is this guy really that happy with his Netscape browser that he's afraid of web apps?
> it is a big source of support for a lot of people otherwise left behind by the mainstream

do you think it's healthy to stay in an echo chamber for long periods of time?
As long as sexually liberated people don't plan to marry less-sexually liberated people after age 30-35 - it's all good.
I'm currently in the process of putting together a first version of bash-specs, a Bash testing framework which provides features found in other languages' test frameworks, like

- a DSL for describing specifications

- the ability to mock functions and commands

- detailed, human-readable output

You can find some sample-tests in the spec/ folder (bash-specs eats its own dog food by testing itself ;)).

Dokumentation is lacking and the mocking is currently broken but both will be fixed within the next days.

https://github.com/helpermethod/bash-specs/
Most Dell IPS screens are quite good, although they often suffer from a "crystal effect" from the anti-gloss coating, which some people can't stand, but that isn't related to the backlight. Could it be that maybe you have either some image optimization active that produces bad effects or are running the screens otherwise at different settings? Have you tried different brightness settings? I've seen complaints that people can see the PWM flicker on a dimmed LED backlight.

BTW, minor nitpick on terminology: All these screens are LCDs, "LED screens" are LCDs with LED backlighting, what you call "LCDs" are LCDs with CCFL backlighting.
The OP posted 45 minutes before you with a very polite and open message which describe the problem you have stated and also provided a rationale for the project AND a link to github. Why is it good form to just wade into a comment thread and give unconstructive criticism in this circumstance? Why not just quietly open a github issue?
And after that, you can start thinking about other kinds of boxes: Maybe/Optional, Either/Try, futures, infinite collections, lazy collections, I/O streams, message passing systems... all of which can be manipulated with the same set of primitives. And at some point you realize there's a name for this fancy abstraction and it starts with an "m" and ends with a "d" and Haskellers like it very much.
It's a book about how to compete in a pointless arms race between applicants and the zero-sum admissions office of Harvard? Does such activity add any value to the world? It's like a book on how to predict the stock market.
Rocket Map – Chrome extension to visualize geographic title on the page
"...it has served us well for two decades. [...] is probably one of the worst ideas ever widely adopted in web software"
You Are Doing It Wrong – Optimise Your Website Speed or Risk Losing Clients
That is a valid point. Although I think that if you are modifying CSS then you either know exactly what you are doing, or disabling it altogether and replacing it with your own stylesheet. I think that there is quite a lot of stuff that will break if you increase the font size too much.

I'll play with it a little bit more, the ems might be a better solution after all.
Compared to what period?

I look at 2011 to now and see a loss or no growth. For an asset that pays no yield. Sounds like a terrible investment.

The stock market has raised considerably since then, and likely paid dividends.