skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any tips on how to handle site layouts that depend on the js that is asynchronously loaded via the async attribute? Seems like this can cause a flash of unstyled/unmodified html while that js is loaded and executed.
The impression I get is that SF is a place to work, not a place to live. You go there, become deeply involved in tech, learn from your surroundings and level up your skills, and then move on. There are no women to distract you, immigrant-hostile natives to chase you back to campus, and campuses that provide a perfect environment for you to focus on tech.

It's certainly not an environment that everyone would like - neither is USMC bootcamp, a PhD program or an MMA gym. Why should that be illegal?

To quote Marge Simpson (regarding watching MMA): "Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it."
Random ASCII letters decoded as base64 are unlikely to result in only ASCII letters. And if you generated random letters to start, there's no reason to base64 encode it.
People always write about the winners in all fields. Movie stars, sports players, etc. Little is written about those who aren't successful.

What is your concern? More people will choose a PhD in math or physics instead of getting an MBA? Some poor fool in high school will be misled into studying more math and physics?
It does not encourage it.
It also sometimes lead to funny stuff like someone broadcasting sad music if we are losing or epic music if we are winning ahah.

Although the mute system is still a must have.
Plus eleventy. I wanted to read it but couldn't after a couple of paragraphs. It forced me to look into how I can adjust fonts to my liking, which isn't something you want as an author.
So annoyed, much confusion
Mike Bostock's D3 can do some interesting visualizations based on satellite.js

http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/6c149c08fc9cde682635
Hey, even Peaches is wearing a Camelia suit on stage!

https://twitter.com/MarguerinLDN/status/651675808122060800
NotationMe
The font stack is "Comic Sans MS",cursive,sans-serif so if you don't have Comic Sans, your browser picks a font described as "cursive" and then falls back to the default sans font.
Not incompetent.

Rather, the "police can do no wrong" mentality is to engrained within their ranks (and those policing them) that standards of behaviour have drastically been lowered.

Just the term "suicide by cop" is insidious and hilarious: victim blaming at it's finest. On the flip side, how bad has the situation gotten to where citizens know cops to be so trigger happy that they count on them as assisted suicide.

When LEOs say they put their lives on the lines everyday, I believe them. BUT, they have a big hand in escalating situations to that point. The perceived threat of any harm to a LEO can be used as justification for killing someone. WTF? Hand-wavy accountability combined with the power to take away a life. This is why LEOs need to have body cams.
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> The label didn't start being used until the latter half of the 1900s

Yes, I am referring to the group(s) that applied that label to themselves, not to herbalists as a whole, but to groups that elevated wishful thinking and superstition to "facts". They always had cures for aids, cancer or you-name-it, based on "nobody of the natives who used the plant ever had it" (reality: were never diagnosed because they never saw a doctor).

I am talking about the groups that give every scientific mind the creeps and that harmed traditional medicine by putting it into the esoteric corner. But as I said, even these groups added some value - if only by collecting hints at useful plants and their applications that can serve as a starting point for further (actual) research.

My personal low was a Swiss "healer" who attributed the pain-killing effect of cloves to their shape - the discussion turned really nasty when I pointed her at Eugenol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenol).

The personal highlight was the Moroccan herbalist in Fez, who knew the limits of what he can do, knew the pharmacology (to some degree) behind his plants and always could explain why they did things the way they did (and it's not "because tradition"...)
> “All the big pharmas have lawsuits,” the analyst concluded, sipping an espresso. “It’s just not a big deal.”

A list of the $13B in fines paid by pharma companies just in 2009 to 2014: http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma
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Don't read that one email, read the whole exchange.

Also, one rule Torvalds holds kernel development to is "do not break user space". If a kernel patch exposes an API, the behavior of said API is fixed from that point onwards.

If a subsequent patch change the behavior, thus causing something in user space to error out, said patch is broken.

All this should be known to the person Torvalds is talking to, having doing this for some time. Yet when the issue is pointed out, he tries to pass the blame to user space.
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Even if that's the case, don't blame Tu Youyou for getting the credit. In every interview I've seen with her over the last few years she insists on this being a team effort, and almost appears to prefer staying unknown and unrecognised (one interview even suggests it may be an result from the culture instilled in her during the Mao years, where being a known intellectual wasn't exactly a benefit).
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And if players start turning to auto-matching voice services (Curse Voice and Razer Connect did this at one stage), they'll go and threaten bans for all.
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Research on partial evaluation (PE) was fashionable in the 1990s, but largely fizzled out. I was told that was because they could never really get the results to run fast. I'm trying to understand why. Clearly meta-tracing and PE have a lot of overlap. Truffle is based on some variant of dynamic PE if I understand what they do correctly. Most of the 1990s work in PE was more about static PE I think. The paper [1] touches on some of these issues, but I have not studied it closely yet.

[1] http://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla15-marr-ducasse-meta-t...
Spot on. That said...I think that it might be reasonable to include monetary value as a consideration in determining federal funding support; e.g., federally subsidized loan packages could consider expected earnings and ability to repay as part of determining how much to lend.
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Appcache may not be the best approach for new work. It is deprecated and not recommended for future use.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_...
Stephen King's practical advice for tech writers
A senior developer making a rookie mistake, and trying to pass the blame to someone else.
It looks like the majority are mental health drugs, that's really scary.
:( I always feel a small loss when people like this pass on. And I wonder just what made them so vital? How does that potent spark breed and manifest into action and recognition. What makes them so secure?

Very interesting and valued woman. She will be missed.
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This is relevant to the discussion:

- http://udidahan.com/2007/12/29/wcf-everywhere-not-on-my-watc... (MS SOA technology)

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-mar/...

- Also this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25501098/difference-betwe...

- http://service-architecture.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/microserv...
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>I have not played much KSP, is there anything as realistic as orbiter?

No, it's the most realistic game about spaceflight, but it's not a simulator.
Maybe, just maybe, someday basho will open the source for RiakTS, like what they did for RiakCS (Riak S2).
Well, I certainly hope so :)
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I love reading these stories. Hat tip to the faceless white hat
you know what'd be a good PR move? Uber helping private cab drivers such as those in the stories out by buying out the medallions and letting them drive under Uber. Win win.
It's definitely a simulator, just not primarily an in-cockpit simulator.
In my experience, appcache only improves second loading time. You need all of these other techniques to improve first loading time. 2nd time is much, much less important to optimize, because returning users have already gotten through the annoyance filter, know what they are in for, has at least subconsciously accepted the necessity of the load time they experienced the first time. It's nice they won't have to experience it a second time, but if first-time loading is very long, your second-time users are going to be much fewer.

I had written quite a bit here on the sorts of things that I do to make very short time-to-first-view sites, but basically the techniques all fall in place if you setup Google Analytics and use their Page Speed Suggestions. You should be able to get to 95% on mobile, 98% on desktop (I lose points on some 3rd party scripts I've included for order processing, so I can't get around it.). It will be a bit difficult your first time, but after that you will know what all the tricks are and future sites you will just make "right" the first time.
tl;dr you know you're eating 100 different flavors of ice cream but they still all taste like vanilla
All this fancy architecture doesn't change the fact that....I CALLED TOP FIRST!
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It is really weird to be honest, I wouldn't say the other replies on this comment at the moment cover it so thought I would try and add something.

On one had you're right those are genuine issues, there's little motivation to do anything really. I guess it is a spectrum but I still feel that if someone asks me to do something that I'm being a nice person if I do it, I guess others might be devoid of that. So if invited to do something I normally go, but I only originate plans if I feel I'm doing it for others e.g. if someone is visiting I'll setup a dinner for us all. At the end of a week when I've been busy I cab be annoyed at how much of my life is spent doing things for others, but I do know that's because I don't do anything at all for myself.

I'm married and I wouldn't say I am because it's something expected of me. I think I want to be healthy mentally later in life and I know I can put the work in to give my wife a happy life, also that I didn't hide the way I am from her. If I didn't do these things it would be equivalent to just kind of giving up and I guess I haven't done that so I do these kind of things for future me who I want to be in a good place. I do love, I don't think it's quite the feeling love is to others but love/loss are recognisable.

I work to succeed and for financial security basically, I can't fathom a job I "enjoy" but in my mind besides paying bills it's like a game and I win if I'm successful. A good way to think about it is when a big project finishes it's a bit weird for me because I don't really get happiness or pleasure or a sense of achievement from it, it's kind of like a vaccum. The day a system goes live is no different from day 1 on the project. Within the vaccum I just get hyper-critical of my performance I think my brain is thinking it's important to improve for next time and just immediately focusses on what it needs to do to make that happen.

I do watch films/games, although not that much, but I like being distracted and having something to do. I watch twitch and sport where I do find it easy to support teams. I would never be upset after a result in sport or anything, I don't get nervous before or excited after a win but I like the pattern, which players are good/bad, analysing tactics, following the story etc.

Reward mechanism - I don't think there's anything in my life like that I could google it but not sure what it means. I don't do anything to reward myself at all.
In Delaware, 1209 North Orange Street is the address of over 200,000 businesses including Silicon Valley giants like Google and Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_C...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thri...
KSP's physics simulation is much simpler than Orbiter's: it treats the "patched conics" approximation as real, i.e. a craft is only ever affected by one object's gravity at a time. This was a deliberate choice to allow efficient time-warping with large numbers of objects, but it means orbits are unrealistically stable and you can't take advantage of phenomena like Lagrange points.

On the other hand, KSP's trajectory planning UI is way, way more intuitive than anything I've seen for Orbiter, albeit not quite as automated or flexible.
This sounds really cool...Pensions ummm...
Great technical details in this post. When speeding up page loads, I usually struggle with:

> You should have only one remote JS file and one remote CSS file.

I get this in theory, but it's difficult in practice. For example, this post has 7 CSS files and 13 JavaScript files. Also, combining all resources includes assets that aren't needed (CSS rules used on other pages), and also reduces the utility of public CDNs and browser caching.
I wonder how these kinda models work. I think that over time, while the userbase / costs increases, the donations won't increase as much / decrease. Is this true?
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Wow, this actually looks leaps and bounds better than the UX horror that I find Chess.com to be.
What happened to the app Yo?
Does anyone use it anymore? Do they have any money left? Haven't heard anything
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Great read so far, read Chapter 1 not realizing there were 15! I love these long form reads where it seems like the author actually did an investigation and is taking care to report.

On topic (again only got through chapter 1) I hope that J&J, or better yet those actual PEOPLE, that were involved get punished. And not the that's the cost of doing business punished. I doubt it but one can hope.
But no! You have neatly illustrated why its vital, to you, to have privacy. For moral reasons at the very least. Pretending loss of privacy its no big deal is easy, until you face it.
Press release: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-offers-licenses-of-pa...
Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials, only in the US
i hadn't heard of this before, but i think it's a great idea and am surprised i don't see it more often.

"We were charged with increasing the happiness and productivity of the engineering team."
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SF is such a farce. Massive destruction and decomposition of society through drugs on one side, massively insane and irrational wealth and valuations and tech talent on the other.
I know about web security(SQL, XSS). Am comfortable with tools like DirBuster, sqlmap, ripping git from web, etc.
I am comfortable with networking concepts like HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP. Have knowledge about IP Spoofing, packet sniffing, syn flooding. By knowledge I mean I know the internals as well, not just how to do them using tools.
Regarding binary I can overflow a buffer by modifying return addresses, see stack using format string vulnerability, etc. But this only at a simple level. Have experienced with tools like gdb, objdump, IDA pro, etc.
The punch card graph for the Open Source engine behind Lichess that he wrote is... impressive! https://github.com/ornicar/lila/graphs/punch-card
Maybe he meant something that Peaches could make a suit of on stage: https://twitter.com/CreativeCopper1/status/65167580812206080...
Use CSS to hide the unstyled content, and then JavaScript to remove that styling and display it. This will, of course, invoke the ire of those who browse with JavaScript disabled.
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It says that service workers are the replacement but on the service workers page cautions that they are experimental technology and the spec isn't finalized[1]. If you're deploying a new application which should you use?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
There no burden of proof here, he made an argument and the argument made fails a basic logical test.

His conclusion may be true but that's beside the point, the last 4 posts are simply arguing the merits of the argument he made.

> There haven't been atrocities in Moldovan governed territories,

I think we all agree on this.

> all of which contain exactly the same minority elements as Transnistria

Hardly in the same proportions.

> Why would Moldova have to adopt ethnic cleansing in Transnistria especially, when it did not do the same thing anywhere in Moldova.

'Have to adopt' is a strange construction. You never 'have to adapt' atrocity. It's something that can happen for various reasons intentionally or unintentionally -- for example undisciplined troops might engage in atrocity when taking a city after a bloody siege. If you dont see how that might apply specifically only to Transnistrian Russian minorities because they were the only ones fighting newly armed unprofessional conscripts then I can't help you.

The broader question of Why Transnistria might not be just like the rest of Moldova is a bit like asking 'Why did the Russians have a huge war and commit terrible war crimes in Chechnya but not Tatarstan, Dagestan, etc.?'. It turns out that not everything with some similar characteristics is always the same!
Confused; won't the second user experience faster page load with appcache?
I'd imagine that never having felt an emotion is probably akin to being blind. A blind friend of mine once described it to me: "I don't 'see' blackness, like you might think. Describe to me what it's like to see something out of your elbow, it's exactly like that."
Can this be the new standard for HuffPo journalism? Or do I have to tolerate a dozen listcles and politically charged drivel before?
LOLZ @the layout thrashing gif! Nice post though, very informative.
Music is hard because there's simultaneous linear and horizontal organisation. So picking symbols and placing them can be harder than it looks.

I'd like to see this app being used for something simple-ish like the Prelude in C from Bach's WTC. The usual notation shows three independent lines - two in the left hand - and I don't know if the app has enough awareness of context to make that easy.

I haven't used Sibelius or Finale for a while, but last time I looked you had to enter the lines separately. You couldn't just "write" them in one pass and make them fit together, as you can on paper.

As for handwriting - I don't think anyone really wants it. QWERTY is faster, easier to read, and more accurate.

Symbol input (math, music, etc) is different. But for basic text, I don't think there's any clear advantage to using handwriting for input.
Safari and Firefox have "reader mode" buttons built-in. Chrome has one too, but you have to enable it. For the desktop version, add --enable-dom-distiller on the command line. For the mobile version, chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode-toolbar-icon
The tragedy here goes far beyond the direct damage to the patents who were prescribed this vile stuff off-label. There's also the collateral damage to the medical establishment that supports this -- can anyone argue that the anti-vaxxers don't have a point when they're on about exactly this sort of profit-driven evil from Big Pharma?

I myself am an anti-anti-vaxxer (a pro-vaxxer?) who actually supports state-mandated vaccinations, but this puts me in the very uncomfortable position of having to defend one corner of an industry that does the kinds of things described here and a government that has failed at the most basic oversight.

So the next time you read about a measles outbreak at a theme park or you see a scientifically illiterate ghoul like Jenny McCarthy peddling her child-killing nonsense on TV, spare a thought for Johnson & Johnson, because they're feeding the anti-vaxxer paranoia and kneecapping legitimate public health efforts.
FYI, the preview that shows up when shared to Facebook is broken (just shows some CSS).
And here in Brazil, the money people had in the most popular kind of investment (carteira de poupança) was frozen for some time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Collor). If you were counting on it to pay some debt (for instance, montly payments for your house or car), you now had a problem in your hands.
> I have not played much KSP, is there anything as realistic as orbiter? From what little I've seen it tended toward comical set of pants, like comparing ChopperLifter to MS flight sim.

By default, yes, it's pretty comical. But that's where mods come in. The modding community for KSP is huge, and there's a large set of mods that aim for higher realism (for example: overhauling the atmospheric flight model to add realism; adding the need for life support; adding the need for a satellite network to enable communication with Kerbin). There's a pack of mods called Realism Overhaul that does those things and a lot more.
oh man, just open up your console and change the body{ font-family: ... } CSS :P
I have data for the Top 500 subredddits, and only those Top 500 subreddits have enough data to make a good conclusion.
Since Peaches wears a Camelia suit on stage[0], I think this logo made his job.

[0] https://twitter.com/CreativeCopper1/status/65167580812206080...
.NET GC is quite good and they introduced features in version 4.6 that allow even for fine-grained control over when collections happen and how.

Reference counting is only helpful if directly supported by the compiler, to remove inc/dec pairs. Also it is worse than GC for multi-threaded applications.

Currently I think the only alternative to GC are Substructural type systems. Even C++ guys are now looking into this. The problem is making it palatable to the average mainstream programmer.
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Don't get me wrong. I don't in any way condone people flying drones in restricted airspace. There are so many other (safe) places to fly that it makes no sense to endanger people and/or property by flying in dangerous areas.

I don't even question that these encounters are happening occasionally, because there are always reckless morons out there to ruin things like this for everyone, but I do question the credibility of this recent hysteria around drones.

Speaking of the laser pointers, I got zapped in the eye with a green laser pointer at night once while sitting in the passenger seat. I happened to be leaning over and looking down at the ground right when they were targeting us. The intensity was much greater than I would have expected a few thousand feet up. It wasn't quite blinding, but super disorienting for a few seconds. Hard to believe that anyone would think it's okay to do that.
I really want to try it out of curiosity, but as someone who doesn't actually know how to read, write, or play music I can't justify actually paying for it.
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Very helpful stuff but I did go to The Verge and look under the timeline. Scripting was a fraction of 1% of the load time. Have they disabled it because of your article or am I missing something?
...fly safe!
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Think Kit for Paper by 53 offers some diagram tools:
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Yup. The most toxic players in my experience tend to be keyboard warriors anyway.
The website exists for more than 3 years, today we are the 7th of October and the donations are already at 100% for the whole month. It's arguably sustainable enough.
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