skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit disappointingly (not meant as a complaint against the authors, it's fun to see them squeeze it into the small space nevertheless) the mechanism used to make the "polyglot" part work is very simple:

The C64 doesn't care at all what it loads. It just treats the first two bytes as an address to load the data into (not used unless you explicitly request it with an extra flag when loading). So it loads the whole file, excluding the first two bytes but including the html/js, straight into memory.

The browser, on the other hand, accepts pretty much any junk prior to the body tag and ignores it.

So this is just one of those cases where two formats can pretty much just be concatenated.

It'd be fun to use the same mechanism to have the two programs e.g. share data tables.
Why are there so few non-liberals in social psychology? A closer look
UK's HMRC have neither the skill, the resources, nor the political inclination to do something like that.

The EU still has a huge issue with VATMOSS. The idiot bureaucrat in the EU responsible for the mess has been moving over to an exemption for small businesses - which he thinks should be around £5k, and not the £100k which would be more sensible.

I've heard stories of tax inspectors telling small businesses just to ignore VATMOSS.

Bottom line - considering that Amazon gets away with paying so little tax in the UK, I'll be surprised if this is more than PR effort.
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." -Leonardo da Vinci

Anyway, I find it silly to continue with xsd2proto if the time and effort don't actually seem worth the opportunity cost anymore.
Who overwhelmingly don't want to become Spanish.
An argument to be made is that it's security record is due strictly to its popularity. Given the choice between the 1000 pound gorilla that everyone uses and has double digit CVEs released every year, and the unknown that nobody uses, I'm going to pick the first one simply because the second one likely has just as many holes - there's just not enough people trying to attack it.
> As stated, it would justify "pay what you feel like" for every other good, to some extent.

That's true, except in the United States, in the case of delivery people and servers there is an extremely robust societal norm to tip. Such a norm doesn't exist for most other transactions.
While that may be true on the level of individuals it's still breaking down at a societal level. Class mobility is in rapid decline.
I gave an example above of categories being useful for a very mundane purpose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529150

Most categories that arise in practice aren't “just” categories - they have interesting extra structure. For instance, platonic Hask, the category of Haskell types and total functions, is bi-Cartesian-closed. The categories that arise when modeling databases are typically not closed (from a programmer's POV, this means that functions aren't first-class objects - you can't store them in tables), but they have finite coproducts (UNION ALL) and products (SELECT ... FROM multiple, tables). SQL-style aggregate functions are nothing but commutative monoid objects in these categories. etc.
Thanks for the correction! I just came across tested.com a few months ago, and probably wouldn't have found it without the 'big names'.
PuTTY 0.66 fixes security vulnerability
Looking at the source it seems like it is a concatenation of a binary file (presumably the C64 binary) and some HTML, which hides the binary content through CSS. The HTML is probably in the data part of the C64 binary.

Interesting, but nowhere near as amazing as if you e.g. made a file that somehow both was a valid C64 binary and valid browser-interpretable (HTML/JS/whatever) file.
"that's one of the only two books I've actually read before deciding literature is boring/waste of time"

man i feel so sorry for you. its amazing how sweeping ignorance is so easily transformed into arrogance.
It's reductionist to say Americans are "proud" of this. Maybe some loud faction is. A lot of educated Americans (anecdotally I'd say the majority) envy Europe and think there is a lot wrong with our work-driven culture.
Yes you can:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/03/new-study-finds-an...

“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”

“If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years - I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses,” said Zwally.
200 vulns in 11 years? That doesn't sound awful in perspective. I bet you use software every single day that has significantly more.
I don't know how much and a quick Google (and DuckDuckGo) didn't give me any results, but since you mention it. The arctic ice also partly covers land, not only of Greenland I think. Do you maybe know how much that amounts to?

And slightly related it's not pure ice. It contains all sorts of things. Again, not sure how much that is, but curious to learn if anyone has any numbers and maybe even is able to put them into relation.
Seed 'extensions' are becoming the new normal in fundraising
Also interesting was the mention of the Clipper key escrow debacle, and how this theme has recently popped up again.
I've never used it professionally, but dotCMS is a Java- and Elasticsearch-based CMS that has very impressive multisite features [1]. From what I can tell, a lot of its capabilities stem from a design that treats absolutely everything (data, content, static assets, "themes") as a node in a virtual filesystem, or rather a filesystem-per-site, so everyday filesystem operations cover a lot of use cases. I believe you can even manipulate your site(s) via WebDAV to some extent, e.g. to develop a theme in your IDE of choice while saving directly to the site or, more realistically, saving to a private staging copy of the site that lives on the same server, which you can then copy into production from within the dotCMS admin.

I gave some consideration recently to adopting dotCMS for client work to replace an in-house PHP CMS, but although Java-the-language isn't particularly intimidating and dotCMS itself looks fairly self-contained and straightforward to deploy -- Elasticsearch is embedded rather than requiring separate setup, for example -- it's still tied up in the Java ecosystem (OSGi, maven, XML configuration) so there's a lot to get used to for someone approaching it from outside that realm.

[1] http://dotcms.com/#anchor1
Other server side software doesn't get nearly the same number of attacks. At least according to my server logs. Plus, other server side software doesn't let button clickers get into trouble as easily.
Unfortunately Soylent does not market it as such. If they did, I'd be inclined to agree with you. However, on Soylent's website you can find the following:

"Soylent is a food product (classified as a food, not a supplement, by the FDA) designed for use as a staple meal by all adults." -https://www.soylent.com/about/

"Soylent is designed as a simple staple food, and people incorporate it into their lives to varying degrees. Some people use it almost exclusively, while others use it 2-3 times per week.
There is no right or wrong amount of Soylent to eat - the whole idea is to find a balance that works for you." -https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201273045-How-do-I...

"Our goal at Soylent is to engineer nutritionally-complete food products that are optimized for modern consumers' lifestyles and budgets. Above all, we want to make healthy nutrition easily attainable." -https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203709619-Soylent-...

So by using terms or phrases such as 'complete', 'almost exclusively', and 'staple', and going so far as to remark that it is classified by the FDA as a 'food' and not a 'supplement', Soylent is explicitly marketing their product as a primary or complete food and nutrition source.

Their words. Not mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food
Not sure, but I just emailed the creator.
Snow doesn't fall in warm places.
30 seconds for the Slack app, that's crazy. I use the webapp, but as far as I know the desktop app is just a package for the webapp.
For anyone wondering if that ellipses is at all misleading, here's the full quote:

"We make these choices, bit by bit. I stopped ordering from Sprig back in the spring, because (a) I don’t like that future and (b) they sent me a truly sub-par chicken sandwich."

FWIW, I found the article to be really well written.
Matt Mullenweg's post on this is interesting [1].

"The big opportunity is still the 57% of websites that don’t use any identifiable CMS yet, and that’s where I think there is still a ton of growth for us (and I’m also rooting for all the other open source CMSes)."

I wonder what currently runs the remaining 57%.

[1] http://ma.tt/2015/11/seventy-five-to-go/
I don't think it needs to be the case that 100% of Americans do something, in order to discuss it as an American phenomenon
No - because the local curry house won't accept my order for a different local curry house, or the local pizza place, or the local kebab shop, or the chippy, ...
Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch
Big Startup Events Feel More Like “Startup Zoos”
Part of their motivation was scale: how do you house 10x as many people? Or 50x? As countries were rapidly urbanizing, it looked clear that the traditional European city center design couldn't handle the population influx, leading to a proliferation of ramshackle slums, lengthy commutes from the suburbs, etc. The modernist housing-block was one proposed solution, to provide housing at large scale while still letting light in, having high standards of cleanliness, etc.

What actually happened in most places was the long-commute option, though. A European city center like Stockholm looks nice and quaint as a historical piece, but as a livable city it doesn't work very well, because it doesn't have sufficient living space for most of Stockholm's population. Instead, most Stockholmers live in modernist housing blocks out in the suburbs, and commute in. So you still have the modernist housing blocks, they're just placed in a more out of the way location. Is that better or worse? Better for the scenic Stockholm city center, but probably worse for livability.
IMF GFSR says cheap money has led to bubbles and debt
Serious question: what's so crazy about having worked 268 hours in a month? That's only about 50% more time spent working than a standard 40-hour workweek, i.e., about 10 hours per day during the week (220 hours worked over 22 days, Mon–Fri) plus another 6 hours per day over the weekend (48 hours over 8 days, Sat/Sun).
I always pronounced the G softly as in 'magic' so it took a while for the criticism to register. Gonna be honest, I like magit with a hard G, maggots 'n all.
Those are awesome.
I hope I don't ever have to go to court. It's like a mashup of Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Stephen Colbert.

Upvoted for that one line alone. Brilliant.
Yeah, the sound quality is much better than I would expect...
Already looks like he's well into burn out territory. Those numbers have him spending more than a full normal work week per month on "procrastination".

It looks to me that he's having an enormous amount of trouble focusing on work, and trying to compensate by working crazy hours. That's the vicious cycle of burnout -- eroded focus leads to more hours to get things done leads to further collapse in the ability to focus on anything.
Let's not relitigate the use of the word "denier" here. If we can never again use any word that's ever been used in the same phrase as the word Holocaust, what does that benefit us?
Well one important financial reason is that the more hours you work, the less money you make per hour, unless you have a huge equity stake. So your effective wage actually decreases if you spend more time at work.

Other reasons are work/life balance, enjoying time to relax, spending time with friends or family, mental health reasons, and things like that.
Designated food.
Let's be clear: mainstream client change deniers are not "scientific skeptics." They are resistant to implement policies that upset the their monetary interests. If we examine the intersection between people who be deny evolution and people who deny anthropogenic climate change, this becomes clear. There is room for skepticism regarding the details and appropriate responses to climate change. There is no room for wholesale denial.
Not to mention the gut is a muscle, and muscles need exercise. Eating liquid food is probably not good in the long run for your digestive system and probably causes other problems that will be evident 5-10 years down the line or more. People were not meant to eat liquid supplement.
"In practice, I heard someone say that the biggest improvement in people’s privacy has been use of Gmail"

Technologically that might be true, but since Google is a third party they're required to provide their data to the government so practically, the technological considerations like SSL are absolutely meaningless.
This is great but I had to go to http://brienne.org/lettersindex/ and then click the boxes icon at the bottom right to see the content.
"Warm" is relative. -40 degree air can probably hold more water than -50 degree air. Warm air over water can evaporate more of the water, which can be carried to cold places.

Also, as a comment (iirc) on the Ars Technica take on thus story pointed out, the error bars on the study are so huge that it's unreasonable to conclude the ice is thickening without more accurate data.
Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation
Thanks for the clarification, I somehow misread.
I am surprised you do not find crazy to spend 10h/day + 12 in the weekend at work. It is normal for you or in your zone/country? Here in EU it would be considered madness (and legally in some states you couldn't even do it)
I must admit ignorance here. I've installed WP a couple of times but never went live with it or did anything past poking around.

Here's my hangup: I can't understand why one would start with a blogging platform, pound at it with various plugins and transform it into, say, a product/ecommerce website. It feels like starting with a shovel when you need a pick (or some other more applicable analogy).

That's the part I don't quite understand. Carrying all of that baggage to build something diametrically opposite what the original stated function of the software may have been.

On the funny end of the scale, I've seen five page static websites with a landing page, a few info pages and a form done with WP. Unbelievable. Are developers that lazy today that they throw WP at everything? Or is it easier at that level to charge X to do a WP site rather than charging the same for straight-up PHP/HTML/JS?
He's probably talking about the following:

If you torrent for example a copyrighted mp3 and you are not leeching, you are actively uploading the file and sharing it with others.

And a lot of lawyers are now actively tracking peer-to-peer networks/torrents to see who is sharing the file. They then send out a "Abmahnung" and charge the user a few hundred euros.
There are few things at play. First there is mounting evidence that working more than 40 hours makes you less productive [1]. So you're not helping and probably hurting things working beyond that. Second, there is a very real revulsion at working on the weekends, especially if there no time shift like working Tues-Sat. Combined this type of effort doesn't scale, which leads to point three. Third, management has a tendency to death march permanently. Since everything requires so many hours, no one has time to stop, reflect and improve processes to reduce that type of effort.

Taken together, many people with a problem solving mind see those involved as wallowing in their own failure. A natural response to such behavior is revulsion.

1 - http://lifehacker.com/working-over-40-hours-a-week-makes-you...
I wonder if the rise of networks such as snapchat that lack the permanence of Facebook can work to counteract some of negative effects mentioned here.
Having worked 70 hour weeks myself, and having worked with Americans doing 70 hours weeks in startups:

Outside of very short intervals, I've yet to meet a single person (myself included) in mentally demanding jobs who actually increase their productivity more than very marginally (in terms of work accomplished in a week) this way. I'm sure exceptions exists, but in 20 years in development and operations work I've yet to meet them.

In fact, I've had to order people to go home and sleep because they measurably increased the defect rates for our code enough to become a net drain.

In other words: I don't just see it as crazy, I see it as inefficient and a quick way to burn out without accomplishing much.

While there may be culture differences involved, the reason I think this is an issue at all is a combination of lack of capturing and reviewing metrics of productivity coupled with a lot of people being delusional about their own work capacity (see the lack of metrics bit) and others being forced to keep up or look lazy in comparison.

I way to often see people having problems getting "enough" work done while being noticeable and obviously slowed down by lack of sleep, for example, only for their response to be to work longer and slow down even more.
Its a work/life balance thing. With a detailed read, op is accounting for online shopping, bill paying, buying travel tickets. If your balance is toward living at work, you're going to spend dozens of hours "doing living" while physically at work.

The "productive" and "very productive" sectors only add up to a normal 40 hr week.

Op makes op's manager look good because "butts in seats". I actually work more than op but I do online bill pay and purchase train tickets for travel and do social media mostly at home rather than at work, resulting in my boss looking bad like I'm a slacker because I only put in a little more "butts in seats" than 40 hours.
The fact they don't market themselves to the general public as a complete meal replacement just means they're a) aware that they're operating in a litigious market segment and b) not fucking arseholes who recognise that they have a duty of care to people who use their products.

It's telling that Soylent kickstarted with a bunch of bullshit medical claims, and that while they've dropped those claims they continue to make borderline dishonest claims.

Ensure is used as a total meal replacement for people with severe illness and for people being fed through a naso-gastric tube (sometimes against their will).

But if you're a doctor you probably one of the other Abbott brands, which have licencing and testing to support them.

http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/abbott-brands

EG: http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-thera...

> For interim sole-source nutrition.
Tell that to me when I'm eating to reduce stress caused by work I have to do that I can't make myself to.

Like all habits developed over millenia, just because something worked back then, doesn't mean it makes sense now. We had our cost/benefit evaluation slowly tuned to the environment that rapidly (i.e. over last few thousand of years) ceased to exist. A lot of problems we have with each other can be explained in terms of executing adaptations we had from the time where survival involved hunting, and not filling out forms.

Not saying that normal eating is obsolete - just that arguments from nature tend not to be too strong in general case.
I've tried to buy this domain a hundred times, but there's a guy who digitizes these here too, once a month: http://www.tinfoil.com
Adding a couple more articles I have come across this month on social networks and their unthought-out consequences.

We are so unprepared to deal with all this shit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/colorado-students-caugh...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/opinion/from-army-of-one-t...

More than ad-blocking its a good write up on how the attention economy is just wasting everyone's time.
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-b...
Yes, It's all just mental. I think the mistake is not to decide, but to leave it up to your subconscious mind. Err on the side of finishing and moving on rather than waiting.
This might be the one area where "think of the [grand]children" is a reasonable argument.
And there are enough users - both well-informed and not - that when a vulnerability is discovered, it's more likely to be fixed and deployed quickly.
> Things are different now. In our over-connected existence we have lost the ability to create a blank slate. When, previously, you could separate yourself from past lives and — through reflection and distance — achieve emotional growth and maturity, you are now inhibited by the confines of socially networked relationships.

This is an interesting section, and I think it holds true for a lot of people even if your initial response is "no one's forcing you to be connected".

I personally can't wait to graduate from college so I can delete my Facebook (for some reason a lot of college-related things require it). It's not a real blank slate at all, but it's better than nothing.
Nobody should be anyone's colonial master, and other empires being 'worse' doesn't make colonialism better.
In which case you're conceding security to governments anyways.
Killing KXL: how environmental activists stopped the tar sands oil pipeline
“TPP Is the Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History”
I think that this comment understands the general theme so well that it should be promoted to the front page.
Sure, but the GPs point that many Americans wouldn't do it either is part of that discussion.
In case you miss the thread here at HN that mentions you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526572
Delete your account, create one with a different email address, and enjoy the reset.

Did it a while ago on Facebook, and although I've re-added a good 75% of people on the new profile because I still like to socialise with them, having a few weeks break in between was quite pleasant.
Na again. I am rather suggesting that this is what the vast majority of HN and arstchnica.com commenters think.
Except, as has so often been pointed out, the "entire body of scientists" who reject AGW is a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the entire body of climate scientists.

And every so often it comes out that one of the high-profile deniers is on the payroll of some company that benefits from the confusion they stir up!

You could probably find an "entire body of scientists" who believe in a flat-earth theory, and they too are worth ignoring or characterizing as "deniers".
> Slack people, are you listening? Stop re-coloring your plaid and fix your startup time!

I second this....
My guess would be that a large number of dual citizens obtained their citizenship in the course of their scientific work. It speaks to the training problem we have.
Love the idea. Is this the first of its kind?
On the old version of their website you could download the raw rip, a cleaned up version, and the settings file for whatever software they used for the audio processing. You could download the original rip and the settings and adjust them to your own taste. I haven't looked to see why those other files are no longer available.