skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discovered the annotations for Moby-Dick through a web search, and have been consulting their notes as I make my way through it. I find them to be rather helpful. I wish there was a simple (not involving too much work) way to get them on my kindle.

I think the problem is that people are interested more in individual texts than the platform used for giving them annotations, so it's not really sticky for the typical user.
Great interactive piece. Didn't realise there were so many things that I could get other people to do for me!
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but could this be connected to what some people call the _aura_?

Or the reason why you might dislike or like someone when you are around him/her?
Is it like like http://contentful.com/ or http://osmek.com/?
I know in Canada, for the longest time (At least since the 1940s), a large family farm was a 1/2 section - or 320 acres . But nowadays, a large family farm ranges all the way up to 4 sections (1280 acres). 8x improvement in 70 years.
Say what you will I like Angular 1. And there is a ton of resources and books all over the web to help.There is a solution to everything and it's pretty RAD

However, I'm very skeptical about Angular 2. For several reasons. First (I tested it) right now, it is way too complex and unnecessary verbose.

They wanted to support future techs like web components, observables (reactive functional programming) which are great, but it's not that easy to use.

Some people will not like the Rx approach which forces one to rethink the way one codes. There is serious mental gymnastic involved here when one has to think in terms of cold and hot streams, especially when one is used to ng1.

Of course, people who love Typescript will enjoy it,and it's true it's easier to figure out what is what with explicit types, but people who are sticking with ES5 for various reasons will hate all the boilerplate needed to get started.

And they went crazy with dependency injection,this time, this is a divisive issue among programmers and while ng1 DI was light weight, ng2 DI is going full Java which Java/C# folks will like, but i'm not so sure about the rest.

The biggest question is, how is ng2 relevant compared to React + Flux/Relay? since it tries to do the same thing but with more complexity? with that weird template syntax ([attr-read-from]="variable" , (event)="handler" ,[(read-write)]="variable", *template-directive="expression" ... )? React has JSX which is a serious advantage.

ng2 will be ready in a year at best but businesses can be tempted to just move to React in the meantime and then stick with that.

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Ya, I don't know what he is talking about either...Office has always had complete and fully functional features in every release - you never got a product which didn't have features of it's predecessor (maybe aside clipart/wordart or gimmicky stuff like that), nor partially implemented features.
Wow, all of these buildings on their own are very cool. But thinking about them in place of such iconic structures just makes me have a negative knee jerk reaction. One radical building concept that never came to fruition that I've always been super into is Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City
>which turned out to be a load of crap when Windows 10 came out

How did it turn out to be a load of crap? They changed the UI to cater to user preferences. What was missing for you?
If you want to integrate GTM with your internal source control system, they have a programmatic API that you can tie into your build process:

https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/api/v1/

And if you want to lock down what kinds tags can run on your site, they have a nice whitelisting/blacklisting system that lets you block capabilities (e.g. customScripts to block arbitrary JS):

https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/devguide?hl=en#res...
Things can work badly in absolute scale, not just compared to other products. Office 95 was full of bugs, pain to use, and almost designed for future compatibility issues. It ate you data when you weren't looking.
Hmm, we are seeing very high request latencies with DynamoDB in multiple accounts and can't even load the DynamoDB console...Anyone else?
"Japan has culture and aesthetic handled."

Really? I enjoy some culture from Japan, but I wouldn't say they've got everything sorted. Work culture, social isolation, fear of failure, suicide, rapidly declining population all appear to be issues.
This law is necessary to protect companies when they submit data when they report breaches to the government. Without it, companies aren't going to stick their necks out by letting people know they were hacked. That's what this law is about.
The Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty
Windows 7 was the turning point I remember, when Gates came back to make up for Vista and they took every piece of feedback possible.
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Very nice v1.11
As a full disclosure, I used to work on a platform for serving ads.

For one, while certain websites or apps show a clear signal that can be used (e.g. coding, hence the user can be shown ads on coding tools), many other websites or apps are not giving a signal on preferences or intent, this besides the ads inventory being an issue.

For example when you're reading political news, or when you're playing chess, what ad could you be shown that could be related to politics or chess? I can answer this - without a user profile, best case scenario is that you're shown something at random, with a disastrous conversion rate. And worst case scenario is ads being used for spreading pieces of propaganda on controversial issues and I remember for example how a certain gold mining company was attempting to manipulate with downright lies the viewers of certain YouTube videos that were criticizing their open-pit project. And because such ad spots are basically worthless, they can be bought for cheap.

I'm personally all about privacy and the security of my data, being downright paranoid. But privacy is one thing, blocking ads is another. If you don't like ads, then don't use those services or websites. That's how you end up rewarding alternatives and personally I rewarded many alternatives that way. Even if you want to punish bad actors, you still give them the eyeballs, you still distribute those links to your friends, etc. The concept of voting with your wallet is basically broken.

And contrary to the music and film industry that has pushed for DRM, this time people that block ads don't have the proper moral ground to stand on and also the industry is not going to go down without a fight. Consider that you can't block ads in mobile apps without having root privileges. This will turn out to be a whack-a-mole game and it won't last for long. Just wait until these websites will start to serve ads from their own domain, with ads being indistinguishable from the surrounding content ... oh wait, this is already happening ;-)

Worst of all is that you end up hurting other people - from publishers, many of whom are already on the verge of bankruptcy, to people that will suffer the consequences even if they don't use ad-blockers, as the history of video gaming can teach us. Do you enjoy the DRM laden pay-to-win gaming industry that others have created for you? As personally I'm thankful that I've outgrown video games.
Thailand Required to Sacrifice Plant and Seed Sovereignty for Trade Agreement
to be honest, an potential employer who expects this isn't one I would recommend to anyone. If they expect you to put them before family they are not worth working for. Seen it too many times, once you become a doormat you always will be one.
A large number of AWS services actually use other AWS services under the hood. Lambda is actually running code on EC2 stored on S3. API Gateway is actually CloudFront on the front end. Apparently most services use DynamoDB for metadata. I'm pretty sure CloudWatch logs are stored on S3. They really interconnect a lot of services. You could argue that it's good (dog fooding, better monitoring) or bad (too many dependencies) but at least they're putting confidence in their own products.
I can load the console, but it's very, very slow. And creating a new table takes forever, then spews error text over the interface in a way that makes it clear they never intended for an error to be displayed this way.
Personally I'd ask anyone who asked me to do this to also complete a project over the weekend. Just to see how committed they would be to his employees problems.
Many languages have tons of words for the same thing if you include dialects.
SELinux at Lockheed: A New Multi-Level Security Initiative
this skit is very apropos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
This just seems like the Hurd of digital currencies.
Down for me, but is it just me or is Google's cache kinda broken? When I click the cache link I get a blank page, and then "waiting for wp.sigmod.org..." at the bottom, which hangs forever. I guess it hits the live site if it doesn't have it in the cache?
"A Cassandra compatible NoSQL column store, at 1MM transactions/sec per server."

Personal pet-peeve of mine. Using "TPS" or "Transactions/sec" to measure something that is in no way transactional. Maybe ops/sec, reads/sec, updates/sec, or something...
The privacy changes, the license changes, the authentication changes, the cloud lock in, the general unreliability of it, the fucked up updates, the poor GPO support, the enterprise updates and LTS picture, the ad-supported default apps, the fudged upgrade process. I could go on all day about what a gigantic turd it is, but hey shiny shiny!

On the subject of the UI, it does precisely nothing that anyone wants or asked for. People wanted a stable, reliable desktop operating system but the just marched forward with pushing "modern apps" which are all incoherent, buggy, slow, suffer major usability problems with both touch and mouse and are brow beating this into people at every available opportunity as the next best thing.

So basically everything.
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You can get the text-only cached version here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WpRJJJ-...

The normal cached version still tries to download images and whatnot from the original server.
Also check out https://data.nasa.gov/data?category=&search=&type=datasets (linked to from open.nasa.gov) which all have consistent APIs -- so you can write code once and re-use it as opposed to having to write a new API wrapper for each disparate data set

Disclosure: I work for the company that helps run data.nasa.gov
> Earlier this year, Elliott called on Citrix to sell some units, cut costs and buy back shares to make up for six years of underperformance. In addition to the GoTo business, Elliott has called for Citrix to explore the sale of NetScaler, which helps speed up Web-based applications.

So, make up for "underperformance" by selling the things that make money?
Apparently you've not lived or worked in the Tenderloin or deep SOMA.

In a 2 year period I saw/experienced:

- defecation, urination, and masturbation in broad daylight on the sidewalk

- heroin injection

- a half full 26er of vodka fly out of a window and hit me at my feet

- packs of men with assless chaps and various states of undress and arousal in line at a Subway (it was the Folsom street fair week) , one holding his slave by the collar while ordering a BLT

- half naked people stumbling out of minivans with crackpipes

- two incidents of modest riots / bonfires in the middle of Market street (the Giants won)

- various gunshot murders (one being a sawed off shotgun assassination attempt at the Gas station off Harrison and ...5th?) that I thankfully missed but glimpsed the aftermath of

It's like parallel universe Disneyland. None of this really affected me - more bemusing than anything, but it can be shocking to those unaware.
What We Learned from Automating Our Own Release Process
makes sense

I wonder if this whole "front-end" blocking will just push things to the back-end.

How long until websites start sharing back-end tracking data between themselves?
Well he also mentions Denmark quite a few times.

You'll find that much of Europe is in some form of "socialism" by American standards. And we're doing quite well from it!
Cache page doesn't hang forever for me, had to give it about 15 seconds; seems like it's trying to contact the page for images and eventually gives up and shows you the cache. Clicking "Text-only version" made it load instantly for me (there's not anything of substance but the text anyway).
I can't believe anyone is surprised by this. Windows 10 came out of the gate completely weaponized in a way no Operating System ever was before (I was a Windows user, can't speak to the level of data-mining on the mobile OSes). So much work was put into all aspects of data-collection that it screamed class-action even to a layperson like myself.

Microsoft never states if their (unnamed, unnumbered) trusted 3rd-parties can also share data.

Microsoft does not release the names or the number of third-parties involved. They can be foreign, governmental, outsourced developers.

There is no language covering the release of this data to "non-trusted" parties.

Microsoft does not distinguish between personal and business data. This, additionally, puts businesses that are required, by law, to protect client/patient information (Law, Medicine, Finance) at further risk.

Microsoft does not distinguish between the (illegal) search/seizure and distribution of personal/business data. It does little to distinguish between adults and children. Captured data (including video) of those under 18 in legally questionable situations, redistributed to (unnamed and presumably large number of "trusted" third parties) may and should place Microsoft as distributors violating various child abuse laws.

Military and Politician data captured can (and should) be viewed as acts of espionage/treason by the US Government.

Their data-collecting scheme had immediate and obvious legal ramifications. I couldn't figure out why OUR government wasn't more responsive to this threat. It's becoming increasing clear that there has been lots of back-door collusion between the tech giants and our own government.

This bill is a testament to that.
Pebble Time Round
A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code
M-commerce is growing 300% faster than E-commerece
In my understading the author doesn´t have any problems with programmatic ads. He has a problem with tech companies using the same tech like programmatic ads, ignoring the laws and the right of users, helping goverments to bypass the laws and the right of users, camping billions abroad to avoid paying taxes but at the same time investing in important projects solving burning issues like the search for immortality or nuking other planets.
Review: Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Go ‘Tick’
E-commerce in India and its problems, and how mark8 aims to fill the gap
What's the development process like for a Rust-in-the-browser project like this? I mean, is it like; write some Rust - manually start a compile process - wait a while - view result in browser - repeat? Are there nice tools? :)

I'm used to working with raw JavaScript, ClojureScript with Figwheel, and Java/xhtml with JSF. Of the three, ClojureScript/Figwheel has given me the smoothest process so far, though I know there are tools for autoreloading raw js as well, just haven't gotten around to using them.
Office 95/97 was a time when you had to open the file in the same version it was saved in or the formatting and any embedded objects could change. This happened both ways - not just a backwards compatibility issue.
Yeah. The most common letters should prioritize clarity not ease of handwriting. As such the symbol for e seems like a pretty good choice.
Java Aerodynamics Toolkit (NASA)
Heck America is Socialist by American standards. Sure, after the Great Depression we got half a dozen Socialist institutions, but I'm not talking about that.

Every cooperative preschool; every farmers' coop; every social club in America operates on Socialist principle. In private we love Socialism; in public we resist. No idea why.
> They try to solve quite different problems, right?

Sort of. The problem React is solving is a subset of the problem Angular is solving. It's a bit more like comparing an older model sports car to a modern engine.
Its kind of like how countries with "Democratic" in the name usually aren't democracies. Or "Peoples" in the name usually means the general public are not even remotely in charge. Politically, names don't mean much.
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> "100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents."

Did you explore using Mail Merge?
Introducing Office 365 Planner
> and a machine learning-based help feature called Tell Me

Uh oh.
Turn satellite images into beautiful iPhone wallpapers
California does enforce non-compete agreements, there are just restrictions.
Um, hard to sell things that don't make money?
A Better Way to Automatically Merge Changes in Your XCode Project Files
Ask HN: Will ad blockers kill your startup?
Does your product use js tracking?

Many products using js includes are currently being blocked by ghostery, privacy badger, etc (such as mixpanel, optimizely, qualaroo, store mapper, etc)

With trackers just growing in popularity, what is your long term plan to stay relevant in this space?
Randall Rothenberg is president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau

...which from wikipedia says is: "an advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry."

His fear mongering at the end is a powerless cry into the wind.
You're forgetting that the largest content companies are also the largest advertsising companies. For example, Google spends billions every quarter advertising. This is also why they maintained a $1Bil partnership with AOL believe it or not. Yahoo, Microsoft/Bing and the list goes on. All of their ad spending is part of what they consider TAC or Traffic Acquisition Costs.
Two reasons that's a bad idea:

A lot more time is needed, e.g. "If there is no decline in the SV job market, if you're still employed by Jan 1 2016/April 1 2016...."

If they did that, it would suck a lot of oxygen out of Shred's attempt to win this battle in the court of public opinion.

All that said, I would expect YC to be putting out the word this is a very bad idea.
You have the calvinist way of coding: learning, coding, and working harder to improve. Believing that experience will help you build a greater skill. You put your faith in yourself and hard work. You aim for simple elegant code that talks less and does better. You believe more in efficient design than in code: you are a programmer, not a coder.

You have the catholic way of coding: believing in a framework like a church and venerating a bloated edifice with multiple weaknesses to support your most complex code.

Most of the angular coder I have met are just lazy coders believing in magic and tradition not wishing to see coding has a hard earned skilled acquired by craftsmanship.

Coding is not a "tradition", it is a "Beruf".

I am a protestant programmer, and I believe I will achieve better code with more hard work and learning than by venerating any bloated layers in between that will come in my profound gained understanding of programming.

[The one relying on his hard work] is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. (Luke 6:48)

PS: I do angular. I fix my colleagues' works and it always make me want to puke to dig in this insanity everytime.
You cite two examples against privacy, but not the EU (mostly) pro-privacy data protection rulings. Or accessibility requirements.

In the long term trying to preserve privacy entirely through guerilla action isn't going to work (see China), and it certainly isn't going to work for everyone, so we need to take advantage of the normal democratic channels to achieve the right changes.
I have not found one yet; I do not believe one has been posted at the moment. But, I would love to see the actual talk and the Q&A as well. Here's hoping one gets posted.
Add my pet peeve: not listing latency stats. Big Tables does millions of ops/sec but it can take 5(!) seconds to complete one. That's the stat that matters to customers.
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Title is totally misleading.

At least in everyday use here, these are the only ones I know:

- Snow (teuchters would say 'snaw')

- Sleet

- Snain (this is something inbetween sleet and rain, wetter than sleet)
Yup, works in Safari. I'll have to remember that.
Does anyone keep stats on service outages for AWS, Axure, Google, et al?
PHPStorm’s upcoming subscription based licensing model and why you’re fucked up
The same sort of license conditioning restricted "netbooks" to the absurdly low resolution of 1024x600, effectively killing them.
Underestimate - from the article, "The team can also analyze many patients at once. To do that, they fuse a unique barcode sequence to the viral DNA from each individual sample, before mixing them together and running them through VirCapSeq-VERT. After the system does its thing, the team can check the barcodes to work out which sample each virus came from. “We can do up to 21 at a time, which makes it financially viable,” says Lipkin."

So, this is the sort of thing that you would do in bulk with a bunch of samples, not on a retail one-at-a-time basis.
Yes, my point is that, as a semi-experienced interviewer, when I see somebody doing it well, it at least shows me they're smart/aware enough to understand what I'm looking for – which is not always the case, surprisingly enough.
The primary source: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015...

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10264410 )
I think you forgot to read the ending.
Then there's the "PRIVACY IS DEAD" billboards which are plastered onto city busses in NYC. No business or advertisement mentioned, just "PRIVACY IS DEAD". Almost like it was trying to wriggle into the subliminal.

I think it's been fairly obvious for the past few years that privacy is being suppressed by malicious groups who have plans for user data. There's been really no resistance, except from niche groups who are encrypting everything-- but if it's only niche, it doesn't matter.
Nice. Maybe that can be one good use case for the use of rust. Using it in place of C++ for Emscripten. I wonder what are the other languages supported.
Yeah, the Win10 dragnet has inspired me to switch to Linux moving forward. I hope that it has done the same for others.
"It looks like you're trying to write a potato. Would you like help?"
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I always feel like scope inheritance problems are overstated.

It's weird, but it's weird in the exact way that JS prototypical inheritance is weird. So it's important to learn.

Anyways the fix is simple, always initialize your variables before you use them. Either in the controller or using an ng-init.
Did I miss where this was a non-compete case? I thought the accusation was IP theft.
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supplies the kernel code under NDA to the OEMs

If this ever came to court, it would be invalidated: either they're infringing the copyright of all the kernel contributors or they're obliged by the GPL to give the source to everyone who has the binary and asks for it.
No, they in the general case cannot.