skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is still using a plugin. It's just that the plugin only handles decryption and display of video content now, and is called a Content Decryption Module (CDM) rather than "Flash".

That plugin must be closed source and must be ported to any platform that uses it by whoever wrote it (I think Adobe have one, and probably Microsoft too).

In some ways this is a step back from Flash.
Amazon has five fulfillment centers in California: Moreno Valley, Riverside, Redlands, Tracy and Patterson. Here are their fulfillment centers nationally:

http://www.amazonfulfillmentcareers.com/amazon-fulfillment/l...
Judge Tells CBP That It Can Be Sued for Its FOIA Response Foot Dragging
With a few exceptions (such as your example above), the expensive packages go to the expensive houses with the expensive security systems.

I agree there is a certain amount of risk in crowd sourcing this, but I can't see the "data" being super valuable.
Ancient Greeks did not know e. However the person who first came up with it (Jacob Bernoulli?) most certainly could prove it's irrational.
nobody is asking you to read them though -- the only way you get better at writing is to write. If after writing a couple duds they get better, then the statistics will let them know that more people are reading it.

I think medium is an excellent service. the trending articles definitely needs work though
> the "Common Core" method

No such thing. Common Core doesn't specify methods, it specifies that students must attain specific things by specific times. Methods are left up to individual districts, as they have always been.
Senator Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Even Easier to Abuse
communication is about your audience as much as about the message. using phrases that have additional meaning without knowing or ignoring it is either ignorant or counter-productive or both.
I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem if we did have old-style print advertising embedded in web pages, it usually followed the same visual style as the articles.

Before the web, I used to buy computer magazines as much for the ads as for the supposed "real" content.
Amazon is a rather wealthy company, are they really cutting corners on this key part of the customer experience because of money? Because good drivers would line up if they paid properly... or just hired a real delivery company.
Apple’s A9 SoC Is Dual Sourced from Samsung and TSMC
yeah... chennai has a better startup ecosystem compared to other metros. More than that, this is where I grew up. I was able to convince few of my college friends to join me and help me get this venture started.
Because an average courier drops 180 parcels a day.

Now add customer preferences and you have a mess that can't be satisfied because everyone wants their parcel 5-7pm.
I am no fan of either party, and I consider people like Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton to be right-wingers as well, but the self-proclaimed political right does the majority of warmongering.
Noun-verbers are also really helpful for testability, not just refactoring. Using a decent mocking framework (or just rolling some custom mocks) I can test almost all my business logic through unit tests, reducing the time that tests need to execute and increasing their reliability
i meant to imply that suggestions about browsers, (following a statement like "delete chrome") often aren't practical for most people, and as a web dev I need a fairly traditional environment. So by "sane", I meant things like using ice weasel with noscript or tor-browser, or a very non-traditional small independent browser. I have reasonable privacy and security settings in place but need to be able to test websites etc.

I was asking the above because I love FF but on my macbook it was spinning the fan up and using a lot of cpu. I will try it again, but it would crash or throw the computer into spinning beachball mode; a lot.
CERM+PORTAL+OPEN+TO+BRING+IN+FALSE+JESUS+-+YouTube
Sounds like another article that basically says "Germans are the problem and no, don't even dare examine this 6th century A.D. culture that is involved."
> You can see this even in senior year of high school in the US in science. Just try to get the students to explain why they are doing an experiment (In short: "state the hypothesis").

This starts very young. Most "science for kids" on the Internet is little more than "here's a demonstration of something, and here's a sciency explanation of what's going on". Most sites don't suggest making any changes to the setup, or ask any questions about what happens if you do stuff differently.

(I'm keen to find good science content for children that does teach scientific method, so please let me know of any good sites).
A show and tell website for developers
The worlds first context free grammar is that of Panini and his description of Sanskrit around 2500 years ago.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form

> The idea of describing the structure of language using rewriting rules can be traced back to at least the work of Pāṇini (who lived sometime between the 7th and 4th century BC). His notation to describe Sanskrit word structure notation is equivalent in power to that of Backus and has many similar properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini

Comparison with modern formal systems
Pāṇini's grammar is the world's first formal system, developed well before the 19th century innovations of Gottlob Frege and the subsequent development of mathematical logic. In designing his grammar, Pāṇini used the method of "auxiliary symbols", in which new affixes are designated to mark syntactic categories and the control of grammatical derivations. This technique, rediscovered by the logician Emil Post, became a standard method in the design of computer programming languages. Sanskritists now accept that Pāṇini's linguistic apparatus is well-described as an "applied" Post system. Considerable evidence shows ancient mastery of context-sensitive grammars, and a general ability to solve many complex problems. Frits Staal has written that "Panini is the Indian Euclid."
Once Amazon is in this space, it means game over for other similar services.
War on Ads will end just like the War On Terror, War On Drugs, War on Cancer and
all other similar wars - there will be more of X, in this case Ads. To win that
war we would need to change ourselves, and that's not going to happen.
When I tell people that I have no cable, and Netflix/Amazon Prime is enough for
my entertainment needs they are quickly to point out that I can't see the newest
shows, or movies. My answer is always the same - it's entertainment - an
activity that is just a small part of my life, not something that defines it..
Yet people act like they are losing part of themselves when they can't watch
their favorite shows, or sporting events. That's why online streaming has so
much problem acquiring new shows - cable networks know that some people are just
too attached to their mindless entertainment, and will never give it up. A
similar situation can be observed with the web and ads. People just want their
fix of entertainment even if it means that they are being tracked, hacked and
used. And it's never going to change.
Show HN: Open sourcing my running app for iOS
This. There may be other reasons to dislike the email.send() formulation, but it seems like the need to support other mail APIs could be handled relatively easily within this type of OO approach through the use of default values.
I love this assumption. It's partially true; I lived in Baltimore during the time they were filming the Wire. They used to interrupt my commute home by filming in my neighborhood.
Eleven Player is a simple powerful video player for iOS.use ffmpeg
Lemon is great. I used it to develop a browser based GLSL parser[0]. I spent ages working with existing javascript parser generators and kept running into walls with syntax and performance until I settled on porting Lemon.

I ported the core parser to haxe rather than straight javascript which means it can be used to build dependancy free parsers for python, java, c++, php (and any other haxe-supported[1] language)

I've only ported the LALR portion of the parser - the data tables are still generated by the c version of lemon. Although I haven't wrapped it up in a self-contained project, if you want to do something similar have a look at the gh repo[2]. I've not documented anything, but if someone finds this and is interested in building a cross-platform parser with a similar method feel free to get in touch and I'll give you a guide on using the code. If there's enough interest I'll build it out into something self-contained and easy to use.

[0] http://haxiomic.github.io/haxe-glsl-parser/

[1] http://haxe.org/manual/introduction-what-is-haxe.html

[2] https://github.com/haxiomic/haxe-glsl-parser/tree/master/too...
Roboto and Noto should do what you want: https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html#typ...
I'm just glad nobody's complaining that this has the same name as a dead Adobe product.
I'll be very happy when this is available for live streams. But I preferred the PLS streams for audio which were seemingly disconnected a year or two ago.
Rust, among other things, prevents mutable aliasing, allows to create non-escaping pointers and provides deterministic destruction and unique ownership.

These things are essential if you don't have a GC but have a way to free memory, because the bugs they prevent would result in accessing reading or writing memory at invalid addresses.

That's not a problem with a GC, but they are still very useful because they prevent these issues that cannot be statically prevented in Java/JavaScript:

- Exceptions due to one part of the program manipulating a data structure while another is accessing it: the canonical example is someone iterating a dictionary while something else mutates it

- The program keeping a reference to mutex-protected data after unlocking the mutex

- Two threads manipulating the same object, causing races

- Something accessing a File that is closed, or in general a type in an unexpected state (this is because with a GC you can't "destroy" the previous object, but merely set it to a "closed" state that you can't statically check)

- Exceptions due to null pointers

So in general Rust is a safer language than Java, JavaScript and languages equivalent to them.
Interesting, but the title is misleading. They aren't operators, but rather mostly combinations of operators with potentially useful side effects.
Great, so now as a customer, I'm responsible for management tasks for Amazon's ersatz delivery service. Umm... no.

There's an easier solution for this problem: Use Walmart, Newegg etc.
Users realize they can fight sensory pollution - advertiser outrage ensues... The arms race rages on !
Also, in what world are people casually priming a new rolex? I see it as either:

- a stretch luxury purchase for the average person -- I'm going to expect white glove service from a high end jeweller. Or possibly a shady Craigslist deal.
- a 1%er is going to send their personal shopper to pick it out and bring it to them
Different generation consumes news differently. I am the "newspapers" generation, but I found BI useful. If it is clickbait, I just skip it. The UI/UX makes easy to skip things you don't like. Try to do that on a piece of newspaper...

With that said, I did skip a lot on BI. I go to BI because of its fast updates and maybe just a habit.
I actually think ad blockers have the moral high(er) ground, but it is weird to call it a boycott.
"I have a very standard accent" said a new colleague, as I and also new Australian and New England colleagues looked on in disbelief at these overly extrudely nasal West Coast tones. "At least Keanu Reeves sounds cool" I thought to myself.

There is no pan-English accent. There are plenty of projects to document this. Perhaps try something like Forvo: Type your word, and hear the different pronunciation via via speakers from different places in the world: http://forvo.com/languages/en/ for example the word 'English' http://forvo.com/word/english/#en
Just want to add, there is a death penalty at the federal level. Most recently, Tsarnaev being executed in a no death penalty state (massachusetts).
This is an interesting subject.

Lead Sulphide, according to:
http://antonirogalski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/History...
Something something the OpenGenera "port" to Linux
+1 to codelitt's suggestion. We've been running our stack for Tenreads (http://tenreads.io) on DO since the last year now. Wouldn't say we are running a high throughput flow for our backend/web apps, but with our core pipelines, DO has been a really good choice with, to quote codelitt again, "sweet spot of cost and performance".

PS: We've been facing issues with certain regions of late, but the team is fairly responsive and helpful with getting fixes through.
citation needed.
Mark thanks. I appreciate it. Can't hire a lawyer but just wanted to see if this was somewhat common. I'll find an example and ammend it. Cheers.
I think the difference is that you can make software using just a computer, whereas for a robot you need to order a bunch of physical parts and put them together. The cost is much higher and you can't just tweak physical parts like code. If you mess up, you have to buy more stuff. Also to make truly top quality robots, you need to know how to weld and cut metal, or mold plastic.

If every kid had a warehouse in his backyard full of robot parts and tools, it might look more like the FOSS movement.
You're missing the point entirely.
Eh, I'm skeptical. :) IMO, SVG has serious ergonomic and performance issues that make it unlikely that we'll see a large-scale transition to it anytime soon. Not to mention that vector graphics are not really what you want for mobile apps: the proven framework is something like Core Animation, which CSS is much closer to than SVG.

But I don't really want to debate this here, as it's somewhat off-topic. And there are only so many ways to draw a button, SVG or not. WebRender is really good at drawing buttons. So there's a possibility that we could use the same technique, just extended, for SVG.
I'm impressed that he got through a whole article on robots, sexual interactions with them, their implications for humanity, and all the rest, without once mentioning Asimov, who arguably thought more about the implications of a robotic society than any other.

The long and the short of it is that it's somewhat inevitable that we become the robots, that the line between biology and technology blurs, that "human" ultimately means something broader than we consider today. Either that or we destroy ourselves.
This is why in most C# paradigms developers would never implement this type of state-based class model. You'd have a user class, with all the required methods that guard (at runtime) against invalid states and transition mutably as required. Most C# environments (UI, web frameworks) are not designed around functional concepts, especially immutable objects/collections.
BBC is state funded yet it competes with all the other big companies to become as technologically obsolete as possible. The story of get_iplayer is a testament to this.

I'm trying to think of companies that understand this but I can only think of GOG. Is there a similar company for films or music?
I assume the goal is to make a rectangle? Does it have to be a square?
Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence
I don't know what you get for calling it a boycott or not (can I pay with my moral high ground?), it is clearly a mass rejection of targeted advertising in all its forms and that seems to be the important part.
I don't think the package smelling like cigarette smoke qualifies as "damaged", sorry.

I hang out at coffee shops a lot and often times my bag and clothes end up smelling like coffee. Does that mean they are "damaged"? No. Especially since it's temporary (even more so in the case of the Amazon package, which is disposed of right away).
It mostly depends on whether the person doing the delivery is basically working for tips or whether they're being paid a reasonable wage. My understanding with pizza and other fast food delivery is that the drivers are basically working for tips--therefore you pay them.

In general, outside of that, I wouldn't normally pay for delivery that already has a delivery charge built in. But then, I'm sure some people are more inclined to tip a dollar or three for random personal services than I am even when the services are utterly routine (i.e. the driver didn't do something special for you).
Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice
difference: young girls / boys google %celebrity name% here again and again. you only ask %how to block ads% once.

and then again http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=how%20to%20b... -> in june 2015 "adblock" was 75% as popular as "justin biber"
How does this game work? What am I supposed to be doing? Do you mind providing a short description? I could not manage to find one.
> accepting advertising’s wheat while rejecting its chaff

What makes you believe that users see any value in ads ?
Tracking, it's been argued, is good because it allows more relevant ads to be served. I've been giving Google huge amounts of data about me and my life for almost 20 years and the ads are still terrible. I spend thousands of dollars every year at Amazon and their recommendation engine doesn't do much better.

How much more do advertisers need to know about me before ads served online are significantly more relevant than the ads I see in People magazine at the doctor's office?

At this point, I'm super skeptical about the ad business. Advertisements don't really bother me that much, but I'm becoming less comfortable with being tracked. I would love to see a study that compares the costs of tracking with the added value of tracking and see who pays those costs and who benefits from the value.
Excellent summary. What an oop language like Java really needs these days are immutable value classes.
Your point is well-taken and I agree insofar as the solution is not to build more prisons.

My point is simply that not punishing people isn't a viable solution, either. France has the same problem as the US (too many people incarcerated) and an equally bad solution (stop incarcerating altogether).
I would assume that it is about volume. PCH is not exactly what one would call small startup.
I was a little disappointed about this too. It could be that their distribution center is close to BWI, and traffic between BWI and DC is epically bad during rush hour. Many of my packages seem to come through BWI over Dulles. DC is relatively open to the on-demand economy, being one of the first cities to fully legalize Uber.
> we were never allowed to use calculators, and we did sheet after sheet after sheet of additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions, polynomial expansions, equation simplifications, etc.

Both occur. I was very averse to the calculator use in the classroom, but from what I have seen that part of the curriculum is more about learning how to use a calculator than doing math with the assistance of a calculator. Memorization of arithmetic is still very important and focused on.
Seth Godin said something along those lines, too:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/09/ad-blocking....
> One is that ad blockers will evolve to valving systems for accepting advertising’s wheat while rejecting its chaff.

Probably so. But at the moment, all we have is some ad blockers accepting money from advertisers for whitelisting their ads. This is such an obvious conflict of interest that I'm sort of shocked it even happens. I wonder if it would be workable to have some sort of centralized, disinterested group to make those determinations of wheat/chaff... instead of leaving it to the venal whims of individual blockers.
As you can see, I beleived they would be. It turns out, more have come in and you are correct, many people have ignored the "do not qualify answers or list positive qualities" thing. That being said, the answers are helpful and while they are still somewhat tactful, they do have the criticism.
I honestly question if GP is being sarcastic because this is a thing acknowledged by the US government, they wont even release some prisoners from gitmo that they acknowledge are innocent of crimes.

And dont forget CIA blacksites!

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-poland-cia-blacksi...

Bush admits to secret prisons(wikipedia sources are your friend):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5321606.stm
http://web.archive.org/web/20060906193917/http://www.cnn.com...
Bay area is Uber's home base. It is also where Uber will compete with a similar idea the first, I believe.
One of these days I'm going to have to write an essay on my experiences as and among very smart people, and my experience of burnout. Although it's the sort of subject that attracts controversy and people saying that their personal experience overrules your personal experience.

Provisional title: "I used to be a 10x programmer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee"

(also, there are multiple different types of 10x programmer who are not necessarily cross-substitutable)
C# certainly has other options to straight inheritance like explicit interfaces and extension methods.
Not sure what you mean. Does moving away from Flash mean they're becoming technologically obsolete?
I wonder why they feel the need to encrypt public television. Is it so spies cannot find out what you're watching?
> Firefox on the other hand uses more X11 calls, and it's much more responsive, close to running it locally.

I guess this is referring to XRender. XRender might well be the right approach in theory. Unfortunately, XRender is pretty much a failed experiment as far as browsers are concerned. There was a lot of noise in the Linux community demanding its use, which is why it went into Firefox. But ultimately what people want is fast vector graphics in practice, which you can only get by tightly controlling the vector graphics stack. The reality on the ground is that you can't trust the X server to do vector graphics efficiently. The X11-remoting use case is a tiny, tiny niche that unfortunately simply isn't worth optimizing for, especially with Wayland around the corner.
Blocking ads is no different from skipping commercials with DVR. If you answer my http request with 200 OK I am doing nothing unethical by discarding part of the response I'm disinterested in, just as I'm doing nothing unethical by pressing "fast forward" on my Tivo.
Use DigitalOcean ( Cheap & reliable but sometimes I feel that my speeds are capped ), But if you need high performance you should go with Dedicated server ( Online.net or OVH )

P.S I've been using Digitalocean for about 19months now. (edit)
I think folks are lost in the weeds of criticizing the specifics of the example code and not paying attention to the larger design message - that being F# provides language constructs that make it easier to avoid allowing illegal states, and the type system will help detect that during compilation.

Yes it is a contrived example, yes you can write "better" C#, but this is a short example for illustrative purposes.

I bet if somebody wrote a blog post about Djikstra's letter "GOTO considered harmful" 45+ years ago, attempting to illustrate it with more examples, it would have collected similar comments: nothing wrong with GOTO, I can use it correctly; that example of spaghetti GOTO code is poor and not idiomatic; the example code is too simple and nobody would write it that way; yes it takes discipline to use GOTO without ill effects but nobody would accidentally/maliciously subvert my GOTO hierarchy; etc. Meanwhile, the original point about structuring code using different techniques to help avoid problems (and avoid GOTO) would be lost.

It's like people are overly defensive about language features (or lack thereof) as if writing extra boilerplate and not letting the compiler help is a badge of honor.

EDIT: clarity
This is all very well for the single binary state of the example, but as the number of states increases, do you not get a combinatorial explosion in the number of types and state-transition functions?