skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 1980s and early 1990s I worked in a community college computer lab with students and teachers.

I sat behind a desk and waited for the students to come to me to ask questions or ask for help. I wasn't allowed to go up to the students and ask them if they needed help.

I handed out floppy disks, and one of them logged into the Novell Network on a PC or PS/2 DOS machine. We had software on the Novell server and on floppy disks.

I debugged programs too, we had a debugger for that but when she couldn't figure something out or it was in a language she didn't know they sent the students to me to figure it out. Lady who was a debugger eventually took over the department. She taught me logical methods when I was a student there. I was let go in 1992 because I graduated (I went half-time and worked half-time there, had to be a student to keep the job).

We had women and minorities as well in the computer lab, I helped everyone equally. We didn't seem to have the issues that exists today in hacker spaces with feminists. I don't know what has changed since 1992.

What I do know is that not knowing feminism or gender studies terms can make one look like a jerk or people can take things the wrong way. For example transgender people, if you don't know to call a transgender woman as a she or her and respect that she has an identity as a woman you could get into a lot of trouble. The slightest thing you say can be taken out of context and found as offensive. For example we had a professor who told a woman that her method for solving a problem was 'bush league' and that his method was a much better one. He was talking about baseball but the woman complained he was talking about female parts and so he got into trouble for sexual harassment.
For once the consumer experience wins on the two fronts.

Or maybe the UX used to suck on the two because of a secret non-agression pact between Google and Apple ;)
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I cannot try anything before entering my CC number (and paying, no free month or anything), nor finding any detailed information about the setup (apart from 'public/private key client side JS'). But the site/server/data center security probably does matter if the JS is hosted at their site / servers.

Edit:
See link below: https://privateforms.net/embed/rNKlzL

So you get jquery, moment, bootstrap + datatimepicker, kbpgp and a few lines of glue to use kbpgp to send and XMLHttpRequest, basically:

kbpgp.KeyManager.import_from_armored_pgp({
armored: '-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n' +
/* key */
'-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----'},
function(err, keyManager) {
kbpgp.box({msg: '**form=data**', encrypt_for: keyManager},
function(err, encryptedString, encryptedBuffer) {
//send result;
}
);
});
Which seems to be like 90% of them. Good guy Google for once.
Can't this be used to poison the clipboard with bad code that once pasted in the wrong place will execute?
You can similarly configure your Google Account to sync apps and data to/from your Android devices.
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As I understood the article, they're not discouraging all full page interstitial ads, just the ones which tout the mobile app of the website itself on first screen load.
I feel the same way - and that's no judgement on the other end. If a person is capable of dealing with the high stress and feels that quality time is less important, or is able to maintain a good balance and can provide that quality time regardless of FT employment, then I think it's an excellent choice for their life. I don't think there's a one size fits all option for this sort of thing.
Thanks everyone, appreciate the info!
Just as much as the existing flash-based methods can.
No way; I bet more video is published to YouTube every week than was published in all of human history before 2000. I have no stats to back up the truth of this statement, but I would be interested in knowing if it's true or not.
AT&T has effectively banned Bitcoin nodes by closing port 8333
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As techchrunch pointed out, Google doesn't monetize iOS apps very well. Left and right hands are very much in sync.
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What is pretty about it? It looks like an engineering prototype that hasn't had designers touch it yet.
Is it? It might seem like it's good guy Google, but Google is a company with shareholders and their mission objective (despite what they claim) is to maximise profit for their shareholders. They're the most powerful advertising agency in the world and they're punishing smaller advertising models.

Don't get me wrong, I dislike advertising; I'd rather pay for content, but this strikes me as anti-competitive.
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Yeah, that was my first thought too. Clicked on it, saw the negative labels, then left. I'd never use it. Don't want to call negative attention down on myself.
Fantastic - so glad to see this. I use a browser to use facebook and twitter on my android phone. No I don't want to install an app, thanks!

Still, G's new policy allows small install the app links, which is fine because a lot of people do want the app versions of web properties.
So what about an OS vendor that "curates" a particular default browser and destroys a competing browser provider in the process? I seem to remember that happening a few years back.

It's not so much the curating that's the problem, nobody would care if Duck Duck Go did it, the problem is with the regulators that view Google to be the only curator out there.
They should send the better experience to where you are.
Web giants gang up to take on MPEG LA, HEVC Advance with royalty-free codec
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I've only ever seen anybody write "white dude" in a condescending and insulting tone, this article is no exception.

So... the author claims she doesn't like any special treatment that women sometimes get... but also doesn't want to be like a common, boring, ordinary "white dude"?
Relevant: https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/439125570115223552
I agree. When they've updated their maps it was frustrating, it still is. Old version was much much better.
So much fragmentation in all those answers.
A natural-language search engine that turns sentences into facts, and can then answer questions.
Humorously enough, my non-trivial minority of Europe is concentrated in the north and west.
Well I haven't used flash in years.

But Mozilla just re-enabled this exploit and I don't think it can be turned off.
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I live in a large city and I still don't always have wifi. I have wifi at my home, obviously, but not on my daily commute, not at most grocery stores, not when I'm out hiking in a park. During those times something like this would just be sucking up my limited lte bandwidth. Heck I'm sure most people still experience losing their cell signal when in the guts of a large building. If I really need more space an SD card seems like a much better option.
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Probably because they've been putting all of their resources into the app which they advertise so annoyingly.
Thank you. I was looking for something similar the other day. Here are other resources:

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

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

I hope folks find them helpful.
Rotten Tomatoes was serving one of those last week. Made me very mad.
I expect them to get rid of the "You know you can install the App!" ads on Gmail for iOS first.
I very much agree, but I was only using startup culture in the context of that term's use in the article. If we want to get more general than that, you are very correct that startup culture as a separate principle is not overlapping at all with hackerspaces. The use of it as a term of starting a tech company out of your garage hobby is.
Places where there are others just like them.

Gross. I get that some people get to places in their lives where they don't want to deal with diversity, but I don't want cities to turn into places like that. Retirees (those who do want to stay, and don't want to live in a retirement community) are a part of that diversity. Shipping anyone off involuntarily (or even semi-involuntarily, in the case of ridiculous housing cost swings) is completely unacceptable to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some sort of Victorian-era steam powered machine that read mixing instructions off one of those paper wheels player pianos used. Actually, that sounds like a pretty cool project; no wonder so many people make these things.
I still get occasional emails like this about a ten-year-old, straight EE version of my resume. Someone out there really wants to hire me as a facilities engineer. :P
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Do you have those statistics? I'm not trying to be unreasonable. It's just that I've tried looking for this data before, and all I found was that social mobility (in the US) has remained relatively unchanged for about 50 years, and that's probably the best it's ever been.

I think we could do better, but I'm not sure what you are saying is correct, either.
http://www.unphp.net/decode/57bb51fc5a100298aa3bba2e0724a9a7...
Google's job is to get you the information that you want as fast as possible. Said another way, it wants to get you off of its search results page as soon as it can.

This is anecdotal, but I almost always abandon pages that lead to an app interstitial, which means that I end up back on the results page. This is a pretty unambiguous signal to Google that the search result was bad. So, the remedy that they're proposing is good and obvious.
Like many interesting ideas in search, this one's been tried several times. Blekko and Bing both used Facebook friends' likes for votes, but coverage was low. Google toyed with up/down votes for a short while after Wikia Search launched, but I suspect the overwhelming majority of votes were malicious.

On the other hand, using result long-clicks as votes is quite popular, and seems to work well.
Those links appear to be about ads within apps, not on web pages.

They can often be annoying, but that's different than interstitials on top of a mobile web site, right?
There ain't no such a thing as talking people out of a free lunch. Or I don't think so, at least. Even the best of us fall for it.
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No. I never use the YouTube app on my iphone. I always play a video by doing:

Chrome app -> youtube.com (no prompt to install/switch to YouTube app, simply redirects me to m.youtube.com) -> search video -> play (which plays out of chrome and does not switch). The whole process is exactly how I'd hope/expect it to be.

I've exclusively used Youtube through the chrome app instead of the Youtube app because a few years ago I found that the search results were significantly worse/more heavily filtered through the Youtube app for some reason and never used it again.
Here's another: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539416/startup-attempts...
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It seems that MPEG-1 Layer 3 patents are mostly expired, the core patents for MPEG-2 will expire in 2016-2018, but MPEG-4 MPEGLA patents are safe till 2025-2027.
Also if the patents expire the organizations loses it's ability to collect royalties for the codec it self from what i understand so if that would've been the case there's little need to create a new codec
but MPEG4/AVC patent protection seem to remain quite strong for about another decade.

The MPEG4 licensing scheme is kinda confusing to me it seems that several organizations collect royalties individually even tho it states that MPEGLA collects them in the US, AT&T seems to do so too for their share of the patents.
My first thought as well. Every time I forget and go to that site from my phone, I die a little.
Yup it wipes out whatever important info I was saving in my clipboard without warning me what-so-ever

I guess I could put a megabytes into anyone's clipboard now when they click on any link on a website.
Sounds like a lot of marketing speak from a site that rewards a lot of review writers like myself with censorship. Once they started censoring my honest reviews, I realized the site's information was no longer useful and generally, this is proven by their rather inaccurate reviews.
We've recently experimented with making it easy for Olarkers to bring their families to the retreat, so it becomes like one big Olark Family Reunion. On the other hand it adds quite a bit to the logistical overhead, what are your thoughts HN? Bring the family?
Those are particularly annoying when im halfway through reading and they popup out of nowhere. I'm surprised it's an effective tactic at all to annoy readers (it has to be effective if they're doing it).
> One three-year study in Australia recorded cashew yields 49% higher in plots patrolled by ants compared with those protected by chemicals. Nut quality was higher too, so net income was 71% higher with ants than with chemicals.

With results like these, there must be some reason why this was not discovered and put to widespread use already. What are is down side? Containment? How to keep them from spreading to unwanted areas, like the farm house?
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You can say what you want about this benefiting the end user, but Google is acting as a market regulator now.
> At the cost of the compiler keeping track of the address of results as they pass through the mill.

The compiler already does this. Traditional architectures then require you to use these results to make a register mapping, which is then basically (kind-of) undone in hardware with register renaming.

The Mill (kind'a) just doesn't do these two steps.

> And hardware doesn't do it well at all

It really does, though. Compiler-aided prefetch, even if magically perfect, wouldn't even help here since the problem is in the data layout.
>the truth is a little more nuanced than a federal judge simply not believing in the precedential validity of binding precedent

Not much more nuanced. The EDTX judges have a tradition of making millions for themselves and their families through patent abuse in their courtrooms. Judges cannot be forced to apply 'binding precedent' honestly if they don't prefer to. The appeals court has the same problem.

>I thought the general rule was that (subject to certain constraints) the plaintiff has some latitude in this.

That is the general rule, but it leads to abuse in IP cases, so Congress set a different rule.

By law, IP cases must be brought where the defendant resides. (28 USC §1400) The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the patent appeals court, as is its usual practice, nullified the law in the service of growing the patent troll court in Eastern Texas.
Even worse, there are a lot of sites with outdated and insecure tapatalk plugins. We ran tapatalk for a few month and you had to patch it every other week. Maybe they fixed many of those issues by now, but it is still annoying.
Nitpick: https://privateforms.com/faq should say "All you need is internet access and a browser that supports JavaScript!" (No space between Java and Script)
> In Chrome the code the pages run in themselves can't do anything. Not true in Safari. The two are night and day different.

By "the code the pages run in themselves can't do anything" do you mean that Chrome is sandboxed and Safari isn't? That's not true. WebKit rendering happens in a "WebProcess" which uses the Mac Seatbelt framework for sandboxing. The sandbox file is WebKit2.framework/A/Resources/com.apple.WebProcess.sb.

Sure, Chromium's sandbox is more restrictive. It proxies more things out through the broker process. But the difference is a matter of degree, not a fundamental architectural difference.
Another difference I have noticed with anime is that it is much more common for second seasons to be branded as a new show, instead of as a second season to the old show. I have not seen this blead into the actual content itself (except perhaps that the storylines are potentially more independent than they could be); and this could be an artifact of the western distribution network more than the production itself.
Yes but it is fairly approachable and indeed it was written in progeammers in mind
Personally I believe this is only fair, because such websites are abusing the inner workings of Google's crawler while displaying to users something else that the crawler doesn't see. I always wondered why such tactics aren't penalized, such as websites placed behind a paywall by means of Javascript, like the Experts-Exchange of old or these websites that show slimy full page ads, sometimes with broken links. And don't get me wrong, I'm actually for paywalls and ads, I'm fine with whatever business model can keep the lights on, but then if you want web-scale traffic, it's not morally justifiable to piggyback on the open-web. If you want to sell your slimy app, then use an app store instead of tricking a web search engine.

Also, Google's search engine has never, ever, ever been objective in the signals used for ranking. Their results have been different and biased ever since the start, which is what made their search engine successful in the first place. It's a little late to complain about that.
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Tried it - it crashed for both games we tried. Then again, installing node on my box was a mess - we have some sort of proxy on apt-get that insisted on installing an old version. I probably screwed up somehow.

Edit:
https://github.com/CharlieHess/slack-poker-bot/issues/14
https://github.com/CharlieHess/slack-poker-bot/issues/22

Glad I'm not the only one.
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It is a bit of koolaid, but I believe we are closer to a meritocracy than we ever have been. Some people will always have it easier, but in software the capital cost to start a company has approached zero. What's left is time, and that is the main thing my post tried to hone in on.
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Agreed procrastination is just your brain telling you are not ready to start or that something may happen which makes the work not relevant. Procrastinating is always a very good idea. The trick is picking the right alternative tasks that are either higher value or will help you get ready. I find meditation works great. Just envisioning myself doing the task. It will often reveal the key parts my subconscious is worried about.
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Does it matter that Safari typically runs on Mac hardware? I would suspect having a sandboxed solution as well as teh ability to control the hardware, software and OS would be very secure, but it must be quite good that they have end to end control over the hardware and software and can integrate it.

Chrome runs as more of an application "anywhere that google can go TM". So they have to provide better sandboxing as they likely don't control the hardware/must make it easier to ship?

On Mac hardware, what do you think is "safer" ceterus paribus, Safari or Chrome?
The 'e' thing was hamfisted and implies they're a "hey fellow kids" company.
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