skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a fun exercise...

Past: 1906 San Francisco earthquake, WW1, stock market crash of 1929, Pearl Harbor, German invasion of the Soviet Union in WW2, successful Trinity atom bomb test, Sino-Soviet split, legalization of abortion & the birth control pill, assassination of JFK, Rosa Parks, invention of the microprocessor, breakup of the Soviet Union, invention of the WWW, September 11.

Future: nuclear winter, breakup of the United States, Russian invasion of Eastern Europe, a paradigm-changing physics or cosmology discovery, hyperinflation in the developed world, discovery of an advanced civilization beneath the surface of Mars, the ability to reverse aging, development of strong AI and resulting rise of an AI consciousness, political instability in the Middle East that leads to the detonation of a nuke in Jerusalem.
There was another maintainer between rms and John Wiegly: Stefan Monnier.
Some supporting references:

The adulterants and bulking agents cover a wide range of substances.

At the cleaner end you have caffeine (reduces vapour point of heroin), Chloroquine (looks a bit like heroin), and paracetamol.

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2009/June/afghanist...

At the dirtier / dangerous end you have lead (possibly a contaminant from "cooking" vessels, causes serious harm when injected)

http://www.cph.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cut-a-guide...

The illegal nature of the drugs means there are risks of bacterial / fungal contamination - anthrax, botulism, etc from the drug, but also from household products used to increase the potency. For example, if a heroin user goes to a clinic they'll be provided with clean vitamin C. If they're at home they may use lemon juice.

> In Glasgow 23 heroin users were diagnosed with Candida endophthalmitis (intraocular fungal infection), bio-typing analysis indicated that the lemon juice used to prepare heroin injections was the source of contamination (Shankland & Richardson, 1988). In Spain, contaminated lemon juice was also suspected as the cause of an outbreak of Candida albicans amongst injecting heroin users (Miro et al., 1987).

Probably most relevant:

> As discussed previously, the evidence detailed above suggests that adulterants are added to heroin typically either to (1) dilute the product with benign substances making it less pure and increasing profits, or (2) to enhance the heroin (i.e. to make it more efficient when smoked) (Huizer, 1987). The evidence does not concur with the mythology of the addition of gravel, brick dust, household cleaning products or poisons by unscrupulous drug dealers.
If I were trying to drive adoption of a connector that has objectively better performance characteristics (high current draw for fast charging), I too wouldn't provide a legacy cable that doesn't exhibit those benefits.

I know the criteria for selecting my next laptop and monitor will involve USBC.
Having been burned repeatedly by the primary problem you mention, I lean more towards the second case simply because security depends on the application involved and how it's used.

An insecure app may have mitigations available that don't reduce its usefulness. A broken app is just broken and useless.
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"I may be wrong, but I don't think there's anything intrinsically better about Go vs Java from a GC perspective."

Go has a lot more things that can be value types than Java at the moment, which can help for some use cases, and doesn't do squat for others. I'd say it's easier to use Go in a way that lets you avoid the GC entirely, but only easier, not "easy", and when you are forced on to the GC Java will of course have the advantage, at least if you have enough RAM.

It's more nuanced than "Java is always better"... which is to some extent precisely why Java is last I knew looking at adding value types, which would tip this discussion firmly back in Java's camp from a technical point of view, probably. (At least once it matured.) I'm not sure what the current status of that discussion is; all the discussions I can dig up in Google are still saying it may go in to Java 9. Anyone with a more up-to-date link, please let me know.
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In the late 1980s, Microsoft's version of Unix, Xenix, was installed on more machines than any other version of Unix.

Radio Shack sold Tandy HD machines running Xenix to business customers. In fact, Radio Shack stores themselves used a POS system running Xenix, up until the mid 1990s at least.

Microsoft sold Xenix to SCO in 1987.
"The SERPs are clean these days."

Here's an alternate take on that
http://www.johnon.com/1075/bullish-on-seo-rankbrain-vs-seobr...
This seems potentially amazing and capable of replacing Google News and Reddit, although it might a while to achieve that.

How is it ranking stories?

It might be worth considering trying to optimize placement based on number of clicks and the time passing until the user goes back to using Idina (this is slightly privacy-intrusive, but unfortunately browsers allow this if JavaScript is enabled by listening for mouse move events etc., so might as well take advantage of it).

The website could use thumbnail images for the articles, and more colors and more contrast on the pages (have titles and clickable things stand out more).

It seems that most of the top articles should have a Reddit thread, but only very few have links to Reddit; also could link to HN.

The popular/followed/customized UI seems quite confusing. It might make sense to autofollow all defaults, and make "followed" the default and the current popular be "explore other topics". Also, the default should probably be customized, with the non-customized version being offered in another tab.

Might want a "since last visit" time range (which obviously needs to be intelligent and ignore things like refreshes, maybe make it "since last visit on day XX time YY" so the user knows right away if it makes sense).

Should consider removing the "star rating" from customization, which is very hard/impossible to assign (is this worth 2 or 3 stars? how do I decide that?), and instead let users customize by ordering articles (up/down arrows + drag&drop), which is natural and easy.

Maybe consider copying Google News' click-to-expand mechanism.
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hmm no. Coffee script can use any external js library without the need of complicated "bindings". Coffee script is mostly Javascript with a different syntax. Opal has totally different semantics.
What do you mean by database driven web apps? Could you please elaborate more on this part?
I expect the "low paying" offers are a signal of a bad project. It's likely that your customer will never be satisfied with what you deliver. Even if they are, it likely won't achieve their expectations.
So of course the conclusion is that the people of Florida care deeply about education because there are so many school teachers.

It's strange that data this useless is published/publicized, it's almost a honey pot for idle, unscientific speculation.
Works for me, but this is a much better article, among other things pointing out the items will be sold in 60 days if not claimed, has a copy of the notice, pictures and comments of the areas's "top cop", etc.: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/...
Is the Dropbox client fully open source yet? I won't use a spying tool that hires international spies to be on the board if they continue to be closed-source and intent on spying. Their new SDKs seem to be open source - why not their main client product?
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Hmm... I wonder if they peruse storage devices while they're at it?
Perhaps it was flagged by members of the user base? I swear like a sailor, but I try to keep it down to a dull roar online. Yet, I found the amount and kind of swearing in the article off-putting. And while I agree with the general premise wrt encouraging people to consider shooting for small and mid-sized businesses, I don't really agree with or much like his approach to arguing for that.

Perhaps others feel more strongly than I do that this isn't really a solid article.
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Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1....

I'm sure they have the best intentions, but you just can't do this.
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Y'all,

As of this writing...

A WSJ Bitcoin post from today has 373 points, 207 comments, was posted 10 hours ago, and is on the homepage.

This other post "Reconsider" from today has 558 points, 117 comments, was posted 5 hours ago, and is __not__ on the homepage (anymore).

Source: http://imgur.com/a/vNGLm

Question for all: what determines lifespan of a post on HN homepage?
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> Tolerance isn’t about loving everyone. It’s precisely the opposite. It’s accepting that are others out there who disgust or repel us, whom we don’t approve of or don’t agree with, but we accept their right to be that way, as long as they stay within the law.

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And which tribunal struck it down?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive :

> On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive invalid in response to a case brought by Digital Rights Ireland against the Irish authorities and others.

If the Snooper's Charter makes it through, the ECJ is the only hope to strike it down and keep it down, considering how Labour is hardly free of authoritarian tendencies. That's the truth, as uncomfortable as it might be for eurosceptics.
Fix the demographics and STEM interest in elementary and pre-K, then we might get a more diverse tech field. Until people start looking at the start of the problem, fixes at the end are limited.
Another one of those problems every company seems to try to solve on their own. :P
Cut: a guide to the adulterants in illicit drugs [pdf](2013)
East Rock resident, saw this in the paper. Apparently it's legal as part of their "community caretaker" function, with some previous discussion on r/Connecticut https://www.reddit.com/r/Connecticut/comments/3r7tl5/new_hav...

One thing being ignored by a lot of the conversation that the police are at least going to be running plates and trying to call people, but I still don't love the idea.

Also have to wonder if once they open your car, can the police can just say "It smelled like weed" and search all your stuff?
> Browsers are not the internet police.

Browser vendors have already inserted themselves into this role by selectively blocking Flash, messing around with how certificates are presented by the browser to imply certain things ("green lock == safe") when no such implication can be made, blocking and/or allowing ad blockers, etc.

Maybe you're too young to remember when everyone had to update their Flash installations every week because that product was improperly sandboxed, so you think that the issue was purely battery related. Blocking and restricting flash is as much about security as battery, more-so in my opinion.

But OK, let's compromise -- rather than preventing connections to Wordpress sites, maybe they could draw a big red line through a picture of the Wordpress logo, and then perhaps warn the user that this site is or soon will be serving malware.
Actually this post explains why he's doing that:
https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/LH4PPgVrKVN

It kind of makes sense: he worked on products that use USB-C (Pixel laptops), but if the market is littered with bad cables USB-C will have a bad image which will be bad for the products he worked on.

So what he's doing is in the interest in his employer, and for the benefit of the products he worked on. He's not doing completely unrelated stuff, like reviewing routers while claiming "I work for Google so I know how shit works!"

Additionally he's preventing Pixel owners (Google customers) from buying bad cables on Amazon then blaming Google because the laptop doesn't charge. So it really looks like he's doing his job.
Agreed. It seems like this particular idea could have been abandoned, without aborting the entire endeavor (or quitting the company). The words "feasibility study" come to mind...

As an aside, I ran the names Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Morgan Freeman, Ben Carson, and Charlie Rangel against one the tools the author mentioned [1] and also got no correct answers.

1. http://www.textmap.com/ethnicity/
"Sealioning a bit"?

Did you really just accuse me of bad faith for asking you for the most basic of discussion content? Asking someone to prove their stance is a negative, ever?

Is this a thing you'd accuse someone of in a face to face conversation?

Which, by the way, you did not do, which is why I asked for "concrete". A concrete example would be "This particular behavior in this particular community happened before the CoC was implemented, here's an example or two (link), the CoC addressed it in this way (link), and the negatve impacts you're worried about didn't manifest".

Just saying "Python and Pycon" doesn't even begin to provide enough context. The only Pycon example I can think of off the top of my head is the height of incivility: getting people fired for jokes.
> The EPA has declared that 50mSv/year is perfectly safe exposure for nuclear, and any other, workers.

So when a government agency declares a radiation dose safe, the measurement is immediately to be trusted, yet when it declares them unsafe and creates exclusion zones it is "overcautious"?
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Honest question. This is the sentence you're referring to:

> We will continue to coordinate with other browser vendors to evaluate the impact of this timeline based on telemetry and current projections for feasibility of SHA-1 collisions

How does "supplier" vs "vendor" impede your understanding there?
I was scrolling through the comments thinking "No one else here noticed his rave review for the Orange Box Soundtrack?"
This something I did and so far has been working pretty well for me.

Look for companies that have contracts with others for short amount of times. The more they send you on jobs, the more website you work on, and the richer your portfolio becomes.

Once you have a good chunk, it is much easier to get consulting work. Sometimes companies I have worked for a month or two contact me directly for more work and a higher rate.

The more items you have on your portfolio, the more people will accept your rates.
They only break down if you assume i'm saying there is no problem. ;)
My undertanding was that the Customer Master Key was stored in an HSM, but your customer-generated keys were not. I might be wrong about that. So if true, AWS employees would not have access to your root key material, but the definitely the intermediary key material. It's a cost trade-off
This is good to know. I just bought my first Anker charger a month ago to be able to start my car if needed and to charge my phone. It came with really nice cables which really pleased me and I've been able to test the charger on a strangers truck that happened to be parked next to me in a parking lot. It did great btw. I just happened to stumble onto it on Amazon and thought I'd give them a shot.
Generally I would agree, but what if your cynicism limits you from taking that one high risk opportunity that could make a serious impact on your financial future? I mean we're all start up junkies here (for the most part) would that not be considered a high risk activity that would be avoided by any serious cynic?

I would also make the argument that the majority of the population (myself included) would not benefit from participating in economic activities requiring cynicism. I think financial literacy for most people is a 'learn it yourself' affair that most people choose not to do, and therefore they should avoid the financial world like the plague.

Be as naive as you want in the cushy world of low risk, low yield, investments. Happier lifestyle I'd wager.
It is worth pointing out just how pissed off Google engineers were publicly when they felt Bing was copying their search results.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
There are also many factors that have no bearing on a given matter. Bringing up local statistics in this instance can be interpreted as deliberate equivocation, which could explain some of the strong reactions to your comment.
Just keep in mind that all these products are mass produced and are subject to imperfections. Really, the only thing that matters is how good their customer support is and Anker is probably better than most but they still have a long way to go.

I say this because I had one of their USB power ports that my children use to charge their iPads (2x 4th gen) that overheated and burnt up[1]. I completed the contact form on their website and used keywords like "fire" but it took my tweet to get their attention. Even after that, their response was fairly slow. After many weeks and me even shipping the defective product back, they only offered to refund me the cost of the unit, send a replacement power port, Anker brand lightning cables (to replace Apple genuine ones - and those broke), and send me an older generation battery pack. In the end, I did not pursue the replacements because I no longer had faith in their products or brand.

After all of this, I will no longer be purchasing or recommending Anker products.

[1] https://twitter.com/mathewpeterson/status/603337986495807489
That seemed pretty clear to me: a web app where the primary function is to let the user interact with (e.g. search in) a database. What else could it mean?
There's a few things.

1) Upvotes keep a post on the front page longer.

2) Flags move a post off the front page quicker.

3) "Flame detection" moves a post off the front page quicker

There's probably other stuff there too, such as dupe-detection, vote ring detection, etc.
For every transaction? I'd end up ignoring them and then miss the fraudulent ones anyway.
Being in the EU is of debatable value (I think it's overall a good thing but I understand that there is some bad). Being in the UN is basically a requirement for being a country in the modern world.
This witch hunt from someone who never contributed to Opal has nothing to do with web development and maintainers responded him/her the right way. And frankly the brigading from people who never ever used github and aren't developers was so obvious the whole thing was a farce.
I wouldn't recommend the Erlang VM for anything that needs to itself be running at the highest performance levels. The VM is not very fast when it comes to computation. It's a great VM for what it does, and absolutely should be considered for many other such tasks, but probably not a great choice for a database.

To some extent, but a lesser extent, the same could be said for Go: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-... (It's a bit weird reading that page, because it's broken into two graphs, but they appear to be about the same thing.)

If I were thinking "trendy language to write my next database in" personally I'd favor Rust by a country mile. This is exactly where you'd like all that stuff Rust provides just for correctness' sake, and this is the sort of task where you may even be able to outrun C++ if Rust helps you write correct code with fewer barriers slathered about for correctness.

Edit: Ha, and just below this comment as I read it I see the team commenting about Rust.
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Another interpretation, since these are voluntarily reported on a CV, is that the people citing OS X and Haskell are more likely to be trying to differentiate themselves. They want to be seen to "Think Different." In the likes column, they add a prestigious and difficult language or an OS associated with an exclusive brand. In the dislikes, they put items that are seen as mainstream.
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> "The negative side of that story is that if there is something you’d like Swarm to do and that something is not part of the Docker API, you’re in for a disappointment."

Isn't entirely a fair exploration of the downsides of Docker Swarm compared to Kubernetes. I agree a lot of the wind is taken out of Kubernetes sails with Docker's new features but certainly not all of it.

This deserves a longer write up then I can give it right now as so few articles on the web right now really delve into the differences between these systems outside saying who maintains but for its attempt I'm pleased to see this article.
Although idyllic farmland communities are a thing of the past (if they ever were) the primary intended reference wasn't to sociology or even to business model. A question arises as to what will be the long term impact on general health of a lifelong consumption of cloned plant material raised on a steady diet of junk food consisting of mined potash and reconfigured natural gas. Not to mention the vulnerability of that homogeneous plant stock to a single new pathogen.
Good quick fix for this: put a tiny pad of scotch tape on the flat face of the connector. Don't let it overlap the edges.

The extra friction will almost always hold the connector in the port reliably.
Because REST is a superficial standard and people are starting to figure that out? APIs don't need to be complicated. Give me an endpoint to call and parameters to send. I don't need verbs, cool looking URLs, overloaded headers, special versioning schemes, and a never ending debate of what REST is and what it isn't. Also if anyone replies to this with 'you just don't understand REST' I'm going to put another nickel in the jar.
So could one use this to manage encrypted files stored in Dropbox?
Which is why we need to get rid of the WebDAV baggage around the SEARCH method [0] and establish a general-purpose, safe/idempotent HTTP method that accepts a message body to supply parameters rather than using URL query strings; a draft RFC for such a method exists. [1]

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5323

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-search-method-00
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Do you have any data for a dominant trend that small players can't compete with big players?

From where I'm sitting, I see the exact opposite. There are very few businesses that have few competitors.
Yep, my mistake. Erk...
Wow, I thought that was a legitimately leaked HBO screenplay. That's some phenomenal fan fiction. :)
Almost everything else is a non-starter in commercial settings because of their lack of credible support contracts.
std.typecons.Typedef does something similar: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.Typedef
It's even actually reenforcing itself based on the bias
Free to me doesn't matter. By one definition a vendor is a company that supplies goods. Some definitions go further to say that they "sell" the goods. However there is nothing to indicate in any definition of vendor that money has to change hands. A company could be a vendor for a particular product and give it away for free. Additionally whether an organization is non profit or for profit really doesn't change the situation.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vendor.asp

http://www.yourdictionary.com/supplier
I never thought of making parts for the quadcopter with the printer. That's amazing.
Rust is different enough as non-GC'ed languages go that I'd be interested in someone's experience, whenever they have it. I could easily see it being easier or harder than trying to convert to a "conventional" language. Heck, I could even see it sort of being both, where the conversion takes longer because the compiler keeps complaining but the final outcome is solid almost instantly.
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GET requests can have a body. Some clients fail at handling this and you have to use method overrides, though.
I understand the rationale, but isn't the current s.o.p. to ship a good cable with the product?

"if the market is littered with bad cables USB-C will have a bad image which will be bad for the products he worked on."

I don't buy this tail wagging the dog argument. Sorry.