skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Only 5 Notifications You Really Need
There is actually a fair amount of people who do not accept such a policy and use Android instead. Apple's super locked-down ecosystem is why I use Android, despite iOS being (imo) a better OS. You tend not to hear from us because... we don't use iOS.
Show HN: Sourcerer – An RSS newsreader for people who follow lots of sources
FastCGI is Pointless
Apple allows Unity and Unreal Engine, all of which are just as big if not bigger than WebKit. Leaving the realm of games, they also allow Mono/Xamarin, which is a similarly enormous framework.

The restriction is plainly a business decision, not a technical one.
Have you looked at Pale Moon[1]? They're known to be stripping out a lot of components from core browser (no Australis or even Tab Group, though the latter is available as an addon). Biggest weak point is the lack of non-Windows build, but non-official versions are usually available in the forum.

[1]: https://www.palemoon.org/
Deep Learning in a Single Source File for Smart Devices
It may be more common in other countries than you think.

Canada's recent Conservative government got in the habit of using massive "omnibus" budget bills to pass contentious laws alongside necessary budget legislation when they were a minority government that needed the support of opposition members of parliament to legislate.

That government has just recently been replaced by a majority Liberal government, which is unlikely to continue the practice, as they no longer need opposition support to pass legislation. The ruling party has enough MPs that in practice the government should be able to do whatever it wants for the next four years.
There are always blockers. UIWebView has blockers and WKWebView has blockers.
Is this on iOS? I've had the option to open a link in Safari for quite some time now (as long as I can remember, at least).

If I open a link in Facebook, tap "Share", I see "Share in New Post", "Send in Messenger", "Copy Link", "Open in Safari", and "Save Link".
I had CFS and I believe it is almost always physical. It’s hard to tell because it feels mental. I saw a ton of different Drs and endocrinologists who all told me I was physically fine and it was mental. I looked healthy, I felt depressed. It significantly impacted my life.

After many years of self experimentation and internet reading here is what made sense for me. I had high T4, low T3, and low cortisol levels. My working theory is subclinical hypothyroidism and adrenal fatigue. The theory for the cause is long term high levels of stress (tech startup) and imbalanced microbiota.

I treat it with natural desiccated thyroid (edit: not compacted thyroid), licorice root, light therapy, blue blockers, strict sleep schedule, quit coffee, regular exercise, paleo diet, probiotics, and fermented food. The thyroid meds made the biggest and most immediate difference, it was like switching a light back on. I’ve quickly turned into a hippy and I’ve never felt better.

Thank you internet!
A Slow Boat to Fast Data: Why Is Palestine Still Waiting for 3G?
Well, according to this¹:

“According to Apple, formulas in Numbers and functions in PCalc are OK. So is JavaScript, as many apps embed a Web view or communicate with a server component via JSON. But reading XML files and executing Python code are not OK. Landon Fuller points out the absurdity and wonders about executing Python via JavaScriptCore.”

But after reading chkuendig’s comment (which makes sense), I’m wondering if the above interpretation is completely accurate.

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¹ — http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/06/12/pythonista-in-app-store-pe...
UK spy agency uses graffiti to recruit techies
Exactly. I am kind of annoyed when people assume I speak Cantonese simply because I am Chinese. Cantonese speakers only constitute 5% of total Chinese population. Nobody assume if you are European, then you speak Italian.
First Major Update for Windows 10 Available Today
I was surprised to find Ezekiel 23:20
When I got my most recent phone I declined to install the app and it's definitely noticeable. Even though I had app notifications off (I just get an email if someone directly messages or tags me) it liked to run in the background all the time and additionally, I got tired of it constantly trying to push secondary apps for messaging and such.

Currently I use "Tinfoil" which is essentially just a wrapper for the mobile site with a bit of sandboxing and tweaking. Not perfect but then again, I prefer it to a constantly running, resource hogging, frequently nagging app when all I want is to occasionally look at Facebook and see what friends and family have posted.

(app in question, not affiliated: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...)
WT1190F FAQs
Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record
Is Aurelia going to a realistic competitor?
Email is rarely a good place for sensitive information. DNSSEC is not a panacea, but it does make Eve's job harder. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2014/09/-probable-cache-po...
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm all for AI and I think we can do it. I just think it is inherently impossible to measure subjectivity. Probably. Unless we do discover some mechanism for it, but all the things you describe (psychology, philosophy, etc), none of them give any evidence for subjectivity. Only that things act like they are conscious.

I'm just on the side that if something looks and acts like it is conscious, we have to assume it is. But the only being anyone knows is conscious is themselves.
I don't think those are very reliable benchmarks because they throw the entire 64/32-bit browser engine and Android stack (which at the time was the very first spin of Android 5) into the mix.

Then there's the mix of clockspeeds and process tech.

Note that even on those it wins a lot of benchmarks. So I see little evidence Denver sucked.
How Java Got the Hiccups (2011)
Yet one of the often heard arguments in favour of the pyramid I remember is that it has lots of starches because it was good for people who practiced sports (in general).

It was something said to everyone in high school.
I'm not sure when you think corruption began in the US, but I'm certain you're naive and wrong.
To be fair, the last time the worlds leading economists listened intently to a woman, we got Objectivism. There, that should piss off feminists AND libertarians!
The Safari network stack is actually pretty good. It has good SSL/TLS support and does SPDY pretty well.
Wow, ok. So I took a look at their sales video[0] to figure out what they product is about. And well ...

Today I learned that people in Siberia don't have mailing addresses - at least that's what they claim in their sales video. But luckily with Hackerone you can pay

> [a] security researcher in Siberia who doesn't have a mailing address

...

I find this horribly insulting. (And I'm not even from Russia).

[0] https://youtu.be/1T6GSa0qPNk?t=99
Universal Daemonization as Asset Management
Looking into the documentation around bicycle helmet design, it appears that the outer surface is actually less for energy absorption, and more for preventing any "catching" on the road surface which would add torque to your head in a crash.

Cracking, in this case, is the expected failure model, since the material has to be hard to provide a sliding surface.

Helmets should not be re-used after a crash.

http://www.bhsi.org/ideal.htm point 5 - outer shell
Although I very much like the idea of sortition I found the paper by Pluchino et al. very flawed, the simulation they made captures none of the effects of sortition, and the effects they measure have no equivalent in the real world.

Just to get an idea, in their model politicians make many laws that help the population a little bit, instead the randomly selected citizen make make laws that help the population a lot, but they make only a few laws. And things have been defined in such a way that the optimal solution happens when mixing the two. They do a pretty good job at analyzing this simulation, the problem is that the simulation has little to do with the real world.

(I read the paper a few years ago so I hope I'm remembering things correctly).
> Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison after his conviction last month on conspiracy charges related to a 2010 hack of the Los Angeles Times web site.

> A hacker going by the name “Sharpie” then used the credentials to access a Tribune server and make a minor alteration to the headline of a Los Angeles Times news story.

That, along with "sending harassing emails" and "locking a co-worker out of their workstation", is why this guy [not the hacker] is getting 25 years.

Meanwhile, the people who caused the largest financial crash in recent history have not gone to jail.
I haven't insisted that they are the same! And I agree with your descriptions of both companies. I didn't mention twitter search, I was actually only thinking about the Twitter feed.

All I'm saying is that at a high level both services let you find content you're interested in. That's it. It doesn't contrast with what you've said above. They do it in very different ways and for very different use cases.
Give it some time. After a few more download we will bubble up the search results.
Random-sample voting, as proposed in those links, is a very specific application of sortition, it is not identical to the broader concept of sortition in the same way that the system currently used for electing the President of the United States is an example, but not identical to the broader concept, of election.
Well said!

I know one thing I would like is Cloudflare doing something magical with Sub Resource Integrity.

Maybe if the source HTML specifies a SRI string, check that the hash in the HTML matches the hash of the resource before allowing it in your cache for that website. If it doesn't match, don't cache that resource and don't serve it.

This would allow sites to enable and enforce SRI without browser support.
As someone who prefers movies to series, their recommendations were fantastic for their DVD plan. Their streaming selection is much more limited (I found that maybe 10% of the movies I wanted to see were available) so they have to mask it.

(I have no idea if their delivery service recommendations are still good because they decided my address was fake when I moved and cancelled my account)
The Economist was until recently owned by Pearson, the mammoth education/publishing house, which is why they were able to maintain quality without worrying so much about revenue. However, they aren't a loss-leader and they've been making a profit. Recently, Pearson sold its 50% stake to another private entity:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/pearson-...

Apparently, the Economist publishes its financials even though it is not a public company:

> According to its most recent results [1], the company had an operating profit of about $93.8 million, up 2 percent for the year. The weekly magazine’s circulation was 1.6 million, and the company saw a 13 percent increase in gross profit from circulation.

[1] http://www.economistgroup.com/results_and_governance/results...
Mathematician claims breakthrough in complexity theory – Science/AAAS – News
I work for the commercial fiber part of a cable ISP and we have been growing 25%+ for dedicated commercial fiber for a few years now but the residential customer revenue is growing at a much lower rate.
I haven't read any Taleb, but an an analogy between sortition and simulated annealing sounds like an igon value moment to me.
Nice collection of cheatsheets
Reports of Twitter's demise may be premature
They don't have Australis because they're based on an older Firefox ESR.

Stripping out features that are lazily-loaded JS files and in return being stuck with outdated stuff feels like a very weird tradeoff to me.
In-N-Out is NOT everywhere. Much to my chagrin. I've only been able to eat there three times during visits to San Francisco. I'm from the Chicago area.
Is the Intel Compiler even appreciably faster these days? I thought CLang and GCC had basically caught up...
Hoverboards – douchey or cool?
Comments like this are why I think Google should merge Android into Chrome OS and not the other way around. It seems that most manufactures have concluded that offering long upgrade periods for their devices is against there best interest. As a result I only recommend iOS and Nexus smartphones.
That message is more for the Mozilla community than for the outside world. If Firefox for iOS implements WebRTC on top of Webkit, for example, that's a clear win for users. So Mozilla (the company) decided it's worth their money to make a Webkit browser and try to improve the situation on iOS little by little. But Mozilla (the community) is full of people with very strong ideas of the direction they want the organization to take, so the immediate reaction is for them to reject the idea – even core contributors. "Firefox without Gecko is not Firefox!". Instead of arguing whether branding a Webkit shell as Firefox is too big of a compromise, Mozilla (the leaders) redefines what the brand is about.

This might seem silly, but it has a big impact on the community, by making it clear what the goals of the project are, and hopefully eliminating all the bikeshedding on what is and isn't Firefox.

EDIT: I guess I never answered your question: open Web standards are still a priority for Mozilla, it's just that we've decided the little benefit for the user we can create by writing Firefox for iOS is also a priority.
Sounds like Fiverr for QA and testing. I just hope the quality is better than that what you get from your average Fiverr job :)
Can BPG replace JPG?
To be fair, the Soviet attempt to get to the moon largely failed due to lack of interest. As wikipedia[0] notes:

> N1-L3 was underfunded and undertested, and started development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V. The project was badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966. [...]

In any case, Soviets certainly had plenty of successes too[1]. It would be hard to claim that USA won the "space race" just because they were the first with that milestone, especially since landing on the moon was perhaps the least useful achievement of all space programs; we still have satellites, space stations, ICBMs and manned spacecraft (all pioneered by Soviets), but no one has bother to go to the moon again.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program#Notable_f...
Fidelity Has Marked Down 1/3 of Their Growth Investments
Wait until some of you start getting the 300gb data caps Comcast is trying to force down people's throats. They are gracefully allowing me to have my old un-metered service back for 30$ more a month.

300gb hasn't been a reasonable number for years now, and with more people leaving cable, this is clearly an attempt to monetize cord cutters further. Disgusting company.
Other IDEs do the same. I guess it's an special case: all of an IDE's users are pretty damn tech-literate, will probably agree to devote some time to learn its language and tricks, and value screen real state.

I've only had to use XCode a few times, and I felt lost and scared, but surely I also felt like that on my first times with VS.
> is why this guy [not the hacker] is getting 25 years.

No, he is not getting 25 years. He is being sentenced for a crime whose statutory maximum punishment is 25 years, for an offense which, under the circumstances put forward by the prosecutors, has a base guideline sentence of about 5 years (which is also what prosecutors have said they will seek in sentencing.)

The defense is likely to, in sentencing, challenge the prosecution position on damages, which may result in the guideline range being substantially lower. There is, basically, zero chance of a sentence anywhere close to 25 years here.
Happens everywhere. My favorite is when EU Commission smugled software patents into fishery regulation law.
That isn't the case. There are a whole host of tools, like Reactive Native and Appcelerator Titanium that interpret and execute JS on the device outside of UIWebView.
Is there finally a way to renew the certificate without taking down the web server listening on :443? This was the major thing missing from being able to deploy it in production.
I agree poof has some good points. You don't really define "meh," which means you haven't defined the problem in detail. Or perhaps multiple problems, which you could prioritize and tackle individually. If the delta is too big, shrink the delta.

And I caution against making "passion" the goal. That's a myth. You just need people being productive. I know a few brilliant people who don't show any signs of passion or excitement, but they're prodigious without being egotistical, which is the best you can hope for.

I don't know your situation, but part of my problem was that best practices produce overhead, which feels like wasted effort if you're not getting yelled at for big errors or missed deadlines. And it's worse if you're not getting yelled at for big errors, but are getting pushed for deadlines. But then you're racking up technical debt, and there's a lot of material on that.
YouTube Music is here
I prefer http://palemoon.org They offer a 64bit version.
Food+Banks:+Help+Up+Or+Handout?
Paywalls do not work, but Kickstarter and Patreon do work.

Also, hosting a website for several thousand people (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) it so cheap this days that the cost becomes negligible. It maintenance becomes the most "expensive" - or annoying if you're doing it yourself - part of it all.
As far as I can see it doesn't have "find in page". Killer feature for me :(
The original paper http://www.nature.com/articles/srep16456 is named "Using Quantum Confinement to Uniquely Identify Devices"

The main problem they are trying to solve is how to prevent reading out the chip level unique ids that are saved in IC. They solve this by using consistency in quantum level imperfections to generate chip level unique ids.

I am more interested about the claim presented in the BBC article: "And the interesting thing is that you can't clone them. To clone them, you'd effectively have to measure [the fingerprints] atom-by-atom. You just can't do it."

Would this work because of the measurement uncertainty principle? I.e. you will change the state of something when you measure it? Or do they think that it is just too complicated to read out the key?
You said and I quote:

"People only stare at Google to find content that lives somewhere else."

Thats not what people do. They search google and then stare as those results.

Thats a completely different concept from staring at a twitter feed with random things.

It's comparing apples and cars.
Oh sweet jesus, your Chinese delivery was a not a great food experience! The styrofoam delivered by the overworked, underpaid delivery guy was imperfect!

Man, I hope somebody comes up with a door-to-door therapist to help you recover from your $19.95 egg roll experience. That's just gotta suck man. I'm so glad you were able to move past that relationship, and I'm sure if you keep believing you will find some other coddling infantilizing rich-person-only business that's more asskissing.
His comments are noted. They don't seem to include, "we're shutting down Convergence and Tack now that CloudFlare have rolled out DNSSEC."

Can you cite a technical reason why DNSSEC inhibits development of possibly more worthy security techniques?
What I've learnt – how to get the best out of Push Notifications
In a short period of time Twitter has increased engagement in its main product line, appointed a motivational founder as CEO, recruited a top talent to return to Twitter from a dream job at Google Ventures, and has two fast-growing video properties. These resonate as the right steps forward to meet public investors' demands for growth. With nearly $3.5 billion in cash, Twitter isn't about to fail.
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Privacy
PaleMoon is even more outdated, it's an old Firefox ESR.
Fluxury: Sugar for Facebook's flux architecture
From your link, Blink looks to be at least 20%, so WebKit can't be 91.6%

edit: Android Browser uses Blink now, but I'm not sure if all 4.0 versions do. Blink could be higher than 30% depending.
Show HN: SPF[email security protocol] Visualization with D3/Ember
I am beginning to wonder how much effect Let's Encrypt will really have on wide TLS deployment. A very large portion of the web is stuck at shared hosting services, such as Go Daddy, Lunarpages, et al. These services generally charge for TLS hosting, and due to the 90-day issuance on Let's Encrypt certificates it seems somewhat infeasible to use their certificates on shared hosts which offer very limited (if any) shell access.
This unhealthy obsession with eating in tech is starting to give me indigestion.
There are multiple modes to the letscrypt client. The [webroot mode](https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1370) allows you to use an existing web server.
Why does the government need to do such a thing? You're free to set up your own corner of the Internet, unless the government itself tries to stop you, which does happen to some people in this world.
> Why hasn't a twitter or a reddit sought to get rev share from the traffic they drive from the resultant pages?

Why would I, as a site owner, ever pay Twitter or Reddit? There's only two ways they can motivate me:

* Prevent linking to my site if I don't pay. This has obvious (and terrible) side effects on what those sites are and how they work.

* Provide some sort of advantage to payers. For something like Reddit, this would be possible through rank boosting or "sticky" posts, likely on posts that I the payer create myself. Twitter could maybe have tweets distributed to random users, regardless of whether they follow the originator. (I believe Facebook does something similar to this.)

Content and relevance is meant to be controlled by the users in these platforms. Both these options begin to abuse that implicit trust by placing the ability to pay on equal footing with the ability of users to naturally boost content. This will work for a while, until the users' trust is sufficiently eroded that they begin to leave.
Building an indispensable growth framework
What is a page view on an article worth these days? A couple cents? Less? If the micropayments implementation was right, and if paying for content became a more mainstream idea, I don't think you'd feel that you "[could] read but [couldn't] share" an article just because it charged a nickel to continue past the intro paragraph. I don't see how that would break hyperlinks.
A 3-minute moment between strangers shows how the unfamiliar can become familiar
Man Builds a Glowing 23-Foot Death Star on Top of His House
I've also wondered lately if we shouldn't add some random element to the way we fund scientific research. Right now, as I understand it, researchers write grant proposals and funding institutions evaluate them and pick the best ones to fund.

Presumably then, the researchers who get the most funding would be the ones who are the best at writing grant proposals, and they may or may not be doing the best research or researching the most important things. In theory, there could be brilliant researchers working on important things who don't get any money because they lack the ability to persuade people to give it to them.

One of my "if I had a billion dollars" dreams is to set up a foundation that would randomly award research grants to field of qualified applicants.

I think it's the same problem with elections. Governing and campaigning are two different skills. Elections elect people who are good at campaigning, but may or may not be good at governing.
First set of web platform updates for Microsoft Edge
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