skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent comparison! Except - no, it's like buying a smartphone and expecting it can still be used as a phone. I want both an application platform and a document reader.

Too many pages obscure content by showing ads, showing annoying popups (no I don't want your newsletter!) and by wasting screen estate on some "float on the top" menu you can't get rid of.

The thing I miss most on my smartphone is NoScript. Luckily Firefox has "reader mode" which helps a lot, but it sometimes doesn't show whole content.
> easy-to-carry, hard-to-replicate and non-spoiling unit of exchange

Wouldn't ammunition check those boxes and be intrinsically useful as well? Would also help defend the gold :)
Aren't you then just effectively shifting your choice of trusted provider from ISP to VPN?

Is it possible to run your own VPN on a VPS host, digitil ocean or linode or similar?
Keep in mind Google is blocked in China, so if you include jQuery from Google, it's not going to work for over a billion people.
Long term, I would expect Azure tooling to make an appearance in VSC.
I am kind of surprised they are still in business, having missed the point that most people actually enjoy actual food and beverages, versus chugging a flavorless Ensure 2.0 slurry while staring at a monitor.

It's called a lunch break for a reason. Lunch is part of it, but its mostly about the break.
Wow, this brings back memories... This book was fucking awesome.
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News sites are the worst, some of them have twenty! libs and trackers on them.
Yes, because a blog post should disappear or be unable to be scrolled if my cellular reception drops out for 10 seconds.
How it is not network neutrality violation?
It helps them to find people who they were in contact with and so get deeper into their network. If they have a log of all the telephone calls they are then able to run a simple "SELECT * from BigTable WHERE 'badphone' = NumberCalled" and then take the investigation from there. I know that's simplified but gives a highly filtered starting point of people of interest.

Another reason not to publicise their successes is that may give an indication of how they are tracking and if the terrorists know how they are being tracked they can change how they operate. For example perhaps they always call directory enquiries to get a number/address and if that is the way in it's in the interest of the spies to not let them know that so they can continue to use that chink.
The junk mail thing is there own doing. I missed two months of letters from our ISP saying the bill hadn't been processed because I threw them out, assuming it was yet another letter trying to sell me the service I already have.
In the kind of societal collapse this might be useful for, taxes are likely to be owned to roving warlords, not the IRS.
Do you run any application which you downloaded from the internet? Database Administration tool, messaging app, or similar? They are mostly written in code you cannot access or view in any way, yet you still trust the publisher.
>How will this all end? Do you really want to get involved in making a new card reader at this point? One gets a distinct sense that the companies focused on copycat readers are in a great deal of trouble. Much better to be the original card reader and stay focused on original problems, or an original company in another space entirely." - Peter Thiel

tell that to MS of 198x-199x and actually of 21st century too...
He talked about the median from Zillow. You are talking about the bottom decile 1-bed being hawked on Craigslist. Ask yourself, as a developer on six figures, would you want to live in the latter?
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The search results are ranked by engagement, so yes, if you're currently looking at a page related to say python and spend lots of time on it, then when you search python on the extension, it will show up near the top. But what we've noticed is that the ratio of useful pages to useless pages in browser history is very high, and so when we rank by engagement, all valuable pages end up on top. Hope this answers your query.
Nonsense. The fact that HN has people with a lot of different viewpoints is what makes it good. I'm pretty strongly in the 'as little javascript as we can get away with' camp and this wired article contains no news to me but I'm more than happy to see it voted up.
Yes the Google Closure Compiler[0] obfuscate the code, but it also minifies it and even optimise it.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/
A safe attracts attention. It screams - there's something valuable inside. They would probably just take it with them and break at some other point. I keep the spare keys and documents in a place they would have to take the house apart to find.
And they are rarely sandboxed (as opposed to javascript in browsers).
https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin
Hi Nik, yes, we had some trouble with the load yesterday, you could try now if you like, its all sorted out.
In addition to disabling js, another thing I do is disable styles. The web is really quite beautiful and often more usable with the default styles.
What a pity the opportunity to foster an interest in science and technology was not taken. Surely there would have been some value in integrating the interest with the camp activities .. unless of course, thats not the purpose of camp.
you and I learned how to code before the resources were as plentiful as today.

for every obfuscated app there are 200 sites that explain in detail what you want to do. and another 200 open source versions to implement or learn from.
Perhaps the ordering procedure can be performed by plain old TCP/IP-over-pigeon: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
I despair at current medical science. 30 people for 3 days, unblinded [1], and this is considered of significance? On top of this the whole study is probably unethical since the participants can’t have gained any benefit.

The whole idea seems to have no chance given the results of this study [2, 3].

1. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-30...

2. http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018(...

3. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-30...
In the case of pages with login, Fetch will only be able to store the title of the page, but not the content. We are working on integrations to connect services to Fetch search, we currently have Gmail, Dropbox and Google Drive on our list. Any particular service you want search to be available on?
Two things that caught my eye in this article were "Many people have turned to ad blockers" and "A small but growing number of people, however, are taking ad-blocking a step further and just disabling JavaScript altogether". For the first quote, I know many people in tech who use ad blockers (but maybe still not a majority?), but I'm pretty sure they aren't all that prevalent outside of it (or why would advertisers bother?). As for the second quote, is this actually true or supported by any real evidence?
Not sure if it's suitable for children 3 year old (mine are older already), but CS Unplugged, http://csunplugged.org/, is an inspiring collection of free (!) learning activities teaching Computer Science topics through games and puzzles using cards, strings and pencils and some paper. CS concepts like binary number representation, different types of algorithms, data compression and error detection are taught without programming code or the use of a computer.

There's a nice write up on this in an article in the Communications of the ACM: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/3/183598-reaching-a-broad....
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Wow, a webring widget at the bottom. That's been a while.
And sometimes it's a gift from your father, a thing you really enjoy using. Sometimes it is your method of spending time with friends.

Sometimes it is the last gift your father ever gave to you.

(No, I'm not injecting any personal bias here at all.)
I don't live in the US, but what are the countermeasures for exploits like this? Is there a local proxy that can strip this and similar js out, and would it be simple enough for non-expert users to deploy?
> In the event of a banking crisis gold has no value because you can do pretty much nothing with it and it's difficult if not impossible to exchange in any meaningful denomination in most situations of a modern economy.

History shows us otherwise. Every financial collapse or crisis has eventually ended, gold liquidity eventually returned, and those who'd held gold instead of paper assets weathered the storm exceedingly well.
DrRacket and Zerobrane are both extremely high-quality, though not general-purpose.
While I understand the intent of your post, don't most people minify (obfuscate) their JS code to reduce bandwidth costs (on both ends, user and company)? Even in todays high bandwidth availability age we still use CDNs and the like to reduce such a cost.

That said, it would definitely be nice to see non-minified versions of code we run in our browsers available as open source by the company serving it. It's not like it's a secret, just a pain to actually try to decipher.
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> I think the real point of irritation here is all the 3rd party junk that gets loaded in that has nothing to do with the main functionality of the site that you are on.

First, while I agree with this being the biggest issue, there is a little bit of nuance to your other point.

> If you believe that the browser should only be a document reader and not an application platform then go ahead

The thing is, the overwhelming majority of those applications are glorified document readers, with a bit of social media plug ins thrown in. It features rich media perhaps, but you don't need JavaScript for an image or video tag. Of the remaining applications, the majority of use-cases is forms to send over the web. This can often be enhanced by JavaScript, but is also not that insane in terms of needs. Then we get to the remaining use-cases of the "application platform".

There's also the part where most websites are just plain badly designed. For example, many sites that have a video that auto-plays when you open it, even if you open a text article and the video is totally unrelated to what you were watching. Worse, some of them even tend to autoplay to a new video, often redirecting your webpage, interrupting the reading experience. Sure, I can pause. It still downloads and buffers a video I never intend to watch. Similarly, whatever happened to progressive enhancement? Websites that give you a blank page unless you download three megabytes of JavaScript. WTH.
No, of course I don't. It was a poorly executed hyperbole on my part.

That said, I believe as a society we should be cracking down much harder on bike thieves.
This is something I still have on my bucket list. I remember as a kid looking at the electronics catalogue eyeing the z80 chip thinking to myself "I'm gonna build a gameboy!!1" because my friend had a gameboy and I wanted to join in on the pokemon fun!
TrueSkill (as tuned for some Halo games?) has the unfortunate property of player ratings becoming essentially immutable after a player plays a large number of games. This is alright as long as you can guarantee players won't get better or worse at your game over time. Elo-like systems and the TopCoder rating system do more to allow for players changing dramatically in skill level over time.

TFA doesn't mention how victory works in Terra Mystica. Can all players win? Can 2 out of 5 players win? Who knows.

Edit: It looks like TM is a point-scoring game? So you are rated in 1v1 matches against each other player based on how many points you got. Can you tie?

Edit again: Yes, you can tie, but it's unusual enough to not matter much. Good thing this isn't chess!

I'd be interested in seeing these systems generalized to a game like Shadow Hunters, where there are 2 teams with shared win conditions, some other 1-person sides with their own win conditions, and winning doesn't necessarily mean other people lose.

One asymmetric board game site gives each player a separate rating for each side. So you can be 2500 with Zane but 1500 with Troq in Yomi or something. This works pretty well for games with a small number of sides, like 14 or 20 or 70. It becomes pretty useless if you try to generalize it to a game with 10^3572835 sides like Hearthstone though...
He ended up wanting more control but acknowledged that some elements of the modern web require a scripting language. I don't know why he didn't just install noscript.
Not just VPN, but it really becomes whatever ISP the exit node of the VPN is connected to.
My impression is that the production of biological drugs (as opposed to small molecules) is simply more expensive on a large scale. There isn't as much potential to save costs as with small molecule generic drugs.

This seems to be a small-scale expression and optimization, and I'd guess that this is not the expensive part of developing a generic insulin. Large-scale manufacturing and making sure you're producing the correct molecule reliable, and then demonstrating that to the FDA are probably orders of magnitude more expensive.
And they're implemented so cleanly and elegantly, too.
But the web ones are different everytime you visit. With desktop apps you can install updated versions at your leisure. With a web app if someone managed to inject something nasty into gmail -- we all be hosed.
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"via" comes from latin, it means " a place to travel trough".

For example in Spain "autovia" means via for autos or "tranvia" means a vehicle that goes over rails. "Via pecuaria" means a road for animal transport.

You can do lots of useful things with just two layers. We prototype professional electronics in house with just two layers and modules(over a big area), then shrink the design, use more layers and get it done using a professional service.
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Now they want to define "meta-research" as stealing, too. I can't imagine how would someone buy that.

Knowledge is something you cannot capture, that's why they have to try to "protect" the symbols. And they can go this far with that deed.

Why activists can read and handle degrading words from rich publishers (theft, stealing..), but ignorants cannot read the argument of activists? This is far too confusing to me.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html

(I think publishers are feeling threatened as the free culture grows)

edit: the speaker explains copyright maths (a special kind of maths used by media lobby experts), very enjoyable :D

http://blog.ted.com/the-numbers-behind-the-copyright-math/
> > Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.

> And that, in my opinion, is the way it's supposed to work. Vendor's products gettin' ya down? Not being responsive to your needs and lacking in quality? Move elsewhere! Money talks.

Exactly. That's what got Apple where they are today as well. Pre-Rhapsody, MacOS was largely a joke in the developer community, but that changed drastically when they ditched the archaic MacOS for the Nextstep derived OSX. When that happened, suddenly there was a reasonable alternative to Windows or the various Unices out there. It seems entirely natural that, like the shift that pushed people towards Apple, we would see similar shifts in other OS's that would entice people to think more broadly than seeing Apple as the dominant desirable dev platform. That seems like a healthy thing with respect to avoiding a stagnant monoculture.
Ingestible sensors to measure your vitals
I read it with javascript disabled with no problems at all.
"Just about to complete my degree in mechanical engineering... I have no technical knowledge"

Well, those two claims seem to be at odds with each other. Maybe you think you lack a particular realm of knowledge you desire?

When I was just about to finish my (C.S.) degree, I had little mental bandwidth for anything else but that and work. Perhaps take a fresh look after you complete your degree?
that's why some play with a second account when they want to 'just play'
not entirely sure of the distinction ;)
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You beat me to it.

I was going to say that clicking a link is supposed to be a natural thing to do, while installing software requires some degree of trust in who you are downloading it from.
if only somebody gave the same advice to the "death ray" buildings architect - Vinoly.

> but the angle of the sun changes throughout the year and one day six months later rays of light hit it.

almost exactly word for word :)

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/06/walkie-t...

"The developers have blamed the problem on "the current elevation of the sun in the sky," a position Viñoly seems inclined to share.

"When I first came to London years ago, it wasn't like this," he said. "Now you have all these sunny days. So you should blame this thing on global warming too, right?""
> There just isn't a realistic scenario in which USD has 0 value and Gold is useful.

This happens all. the. time. The USD lost 33% of its real value between 1977 and 1981 while Gold increased in value in real terms by 65% during the same time period. USD itself has been reasonably stable since, but there's no guarantee that will continue.

I'm not a crazy goldbug, I don't think we should go around trading gold shavings with each other in our day-to-day lives, but it's an indisputable fact that Gold is an excellent hedge against financial and currency crises the likes of which happen somewhere in the world all the time. Hell, right now Russia is in a currency crisis where the Ruble has lost 50% of its value in less than two years.
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For decently capable(1) desktop manufacturing,"desktop" is a bit of a misnomer at this point. I've found that you need at least three desks, not to mention another desk for all of the test gear, and another for mechanical prototyping, and another for...

At this point, I have(2) an othermill and a pretty-near top-of-the-line LPKF S63 system + silkscreen and reflow capabilities, and am fairly impressed by both. I've been able to go from opening up a PCB editor to having a tested, functional board in under an hour, at least for simple breakouts.

The othermill is pretty flawed for PCB work, however. The spindle just isn't fast enough, cross layer alignment is inadequate, it doesn't have dust control for dealing with FR4 dust, etc. For good PCB routing, some sort of computer vision system for adjusting cut depths and picking up fiducials is also amazingly handy. That being said, we're really impressed with our othermill and do a lot of mechanical work on it - complex aluminum parts, engineering plastics, etc.

Cheap soldering for one-offs is pretty much solved at this point - laser cut a stencil on a decent laser cutter (which everyone should have, anyways), stencil paste, and reflow in a cheap Chinese oven with open source aftermarket firmware. You won't be able to do big BGAs or tiny (0201) passives, but who cares? If you have soldermask capabilities, either some photoresist method or laser cut kapton, soldering tricky components becomes much easier.

None of the additive (ink-based) systems have any hope of producing really useful boards - the electrical and thermal conductivity of real copper is pretty hard to beat, and doing anything controlled-impedance is pretty much out of the picture. With subtractive systems, you can just switch to 8+ oz copper or exotic substrates without changing the process materially...

Vias are tricky. LPKF makes two systems, one with conductive epoxy and the other with electrochemical copper, neither of which are quite satisfactory. Via rivets (or manually soldering wire) work for small boards, but are super tedious and not great for controlled impedance applications, either.

Being able to do decent multilayer boards is contingent on good vias, but in theory, the only other thing you need is a hot press for stacking things up?

Once you get into building complex multilayer boards, the time investment is just silly, even with perfectly calibrated processes, and you should just order from a board house and wait...

(1) I.e. boards better than DIY etching + manual soldering.

(2) Well, they're not actually mine, per se...
Only because Google neglected it. When blogger redesign landed it was exactly what was trendy, heavy js, dynamic layouting. It was slow but at least I thought it was worth the wait / the cost / the latency. A tech demo. Not anymore, I want to read something more than be amazed and don't want to shop for a core i5 to do so and now blogger looks dumb. Google could totally fix it but they had other horses to ride. Maybe one day.
> Since there are no generic versions available in the United States, insulin is very expensive

I don't know if that might qualify as very expensive but one can get one month worth of insulin for $50.

http://theperfectd.com/2014/10/23/type1-diabetes-no-insuranc...
> HTML5/Javascript

That's GUI development too
You realize it is possible to just intercept the connection to the VPN over wifi right?
"Kevin Riggs, an instructor in medicine at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored an article about generic insulin earlier this year, doesn't think that Open Insulin will be enough to bring a generic insulin drug to the market:

“I don't think the major hurdle is that the companies don't know how to make insulin, because that part is reasonably straightforward,” he says. “The real hurdles are getting the drug approved by the FDA (and since insulin is a biologic drug, it requires a lot more original data than an application for a small-molecule generic would), and then upfront manufacturing costs (because making a biologic drug is different, so it requires different equipment).” "