skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I block their Scripts, only temporarily allow if I need them, I don't keep cookies for longer than my current session except for Fastmail, I use VPN, have no DNS-Leak and WebRTC Detection turned off (last I checked you could not turn WebRTC Detection off in Chrome and the Extensions promising to do that were not working).

It's been possible to disable multiple webrtc routes since M42[1]. uBlock exposes this option as a checkbox in its main settings.

> And that's also why I use Mozilla Firefox. Not because it's the technically better browser, but I have trust in Mozilla and their API just allows capabilities Chrome isn't capable of (that's why there is no NoScript in Chrome and no, there is no NoScript-Alternative in Chrome with the same features and capabilities, look it up).

The only thing Chrome/Chromium cannot block are inline script tags[2]. Inline script tags should apparently be considered cosmetic filtering according to [2].

Other than the above exception you can pretty close to blocking everything you could in Firefox with uBlock[3]/uMatrix[4]. Unless you're referring to something else? With uMatrix you can get basically the same granularity that you can with NoScript just in a much nicer looking interface (which is available for Firefox now as well).

> Back when I used both Chrome and Firefox side by side, Firefox for example would turn off some Add-Ons/Extensions in Private Browsing Mode, while Chrome would not. I guess we all can grasp what most likely was the reason for it (Add-Ons/Extensions should not be able to obtain information from the user if in private browsing).

Chrome extensions will by default NOT be allowed in incognito mode. I don't know what you observed but you must have explicitly allowed this behavior.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=457629
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Inline-script-tag-fil...
[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
[4] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
> For that matter why bother having a text encoding at all? We could just send pictures of text to each other right?

This is of course a straw man which has nothing to do with my question. However, it's not actually clear what you mean.

If you mean that we could make small pictures of individual characters and send those, well that's exactly what text encoding is; it's an implementation detail whether we specify a character as a unicode code point, or a URI (possibly relative, to allow fonts as namespaces).

If you mean sending one big picture of a piece of text, well that's what already happens. Rather than using PNG, we can get better quality and compression ratio by using the "plain text" image format. This only works well when we know that the image only contains text, otherwise we lose a lot of quality (e.g. see http://www.asciiworld.com )
Some benchmarks of different languages
NASA has given SpaceX the order to transport astronauts into space in 2017
Flycut[1] is a Mac-only alternative with similar functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut
They want to be able to change the kernel [easily], but nobody discusses anything about how nothing in the kernel can be changed [easily]. Maybe if the kernel wasn't monolithic, it would be easier to provide security updates when the whole system's stability didn't depend on the change not breaking the whole circus.
Don't forget age too. I suspect in another 10-15 years Mark might need a new challenge just like Bill did.
There is no extra chance of a short circuit before the power supply. After the power supply the power is limited, either by explicit current limiting or just because they are switching power supplies where transformer saturation limits the power.

So you could have a PCB fire, but PCBs are made to be flame retardant. You could have a wire insulation fire, but the amount of material would be so low that it wouldn't be able to start a fire anywhere else.

So I am basically saying there isn't really anything there that could sustain a fire and that there isn't a lot of energy to start ignition in the first place.
Nice.

Its performance in Chrome is very good. But in Safari it is very bad.
I like gfycat URLs like DigitalGloomyFrenchbulldog because they're easier to remember and type
No, I wouldn't say they actively discuss it. But it's certainly not censored or dismissed.

But frankly it's a stinky debate. I recently found myself between an Indian and a Tunisian arguing over who invented the zero. Wikipedia, other sources, nuanced opinions and historical facts fell on deaf ears.
Completely agree. Nice website examples for general purpose programming languages IMO:

http://www.scala-lang.org/

https://www.haskell.org/

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

For altJS languages:

http://coffeescript.org/

EDIT:

Some websites that could be 'freshened up':

http://elixir-lang.org/

http://elm-lang.org/

https://www.python.org/

Some websites that definitely should be 'freshened up':

http://clojure.org/

http://www.lua.org/
This is why I like the terms "derived" and "base": pretty much impossible to mix up.
In the US the regulations differ, and depend on the discipline (i.e. it is not unusual for a therapist to meet qualifications for one state, but move to another and no longer be able to practice without further education or testing). There is no actual "psychotherapy" discipline so named - just the collection of ones I mention above.

However, in the vast majority of states the terms counselor or psychotherapist or psychologist or any number of related terms are protected by law for those who are licensed by a psychotherapeutic discipline alone. The only popular categorization of those who perform psychotherapy-like services here that anyone can use is "coaching" - but that's sort of therapy for well people looking to reach for the stars - they are barred from treating people with serious disturbances.

On your second point, I find that an interesting idea. I do wonder though what the correlation is between the amount of time a therapist spends thinking about a particular client and their case and that case outcome. The research I've seen indicates that generally a good therapist (one whose clients achieve consistently better than average outcomes) does so regardless of the number of clients he has, or how disturbed his clients are.

Out of curiosity, have you gravitated towards a particular type of therapy (CBT, psychodynamic, existential, ect)? Not because the treatment type matters a great deal, but its been shown that certain personality types tend to congregate in different theoretical orientations.

Random thought that just popped in my head - I wonder whether one of the reasons why CBT is getting less effective is because it has attracted many therapists who feel pressured to do it because of its public relations successes rather than any deep affinity with its principles.
WhatsApp has enabled iOS and group chat end to end encryption
My mistake, I wanted to point out independent discoveries (Leibniz/Newton), not dismissing the shoulder's giants.
This is basically the crux of it:

"You gave me the rights to produce a project without giving me the rights any downstream recipient needed to do the same thing. I made it clear that that wasn't going to work, and you made it clear that you weren't going to clarify your policy."
It's great to see that NASA and Roscosmos are back to working together. I hope it'll stay that way and pray that politicans won't try to mess things up again.

Also cool they're trying to put a balloon in that mission - maybe this will lead to long-duration studies using balloons and airships, which can be placed above the corrosive layers and killer temperatures.
Wow.. does it mean I can write console app in c# and compile it to native executable for osx or linux?
For someone who hasn't had to do much work on the front end JS technologies like Ember, Angular, React, etc. What is a good resource to start learning Angular 2 (even though its not out yet)? I came across ng-book2 [0] but I've heard mixed reviews about their first book.

[0] https://www.ng-book.com/2/
TV makers don't know anything about software and security, and they don't care at all about user privacy. So they shouldn't be allowed to write software and put features in their TVs.

I'm not sure that blanket restrictions on evolving technologies are a good idea, but the manufacturers and any store selling their products should be required to prominently disclose any unexpected or potentially unwanted behaviour so potential purchasers can make an informed decision. If we are truly going to see the Internet of Things invading our homes and household devices coming with privacy policies, perhaps we should legislate that those policies must be written on packaging and displayed alongside the products in stores in text large enough to read from as far away as you can usefully see the product itself. ;-)
For money, honor, power.
> And Arnold, a moderate Democrat who believes a rich country like the U.S. should provide a high safety net for its citizens, sees the stakes as being no smaller than the survival of the very governments that provide that net.

Pensions are going to be an issue that deeply divides younger and older liberals. State and local governments face existential crisis. Meeting pension obligations is going to require trading away the future prosperity of these places. What young millenials will want to move somewhere they have to pay high taxes, but get few services in return because all that money is going to paying pension obligations?

It's also going to be a major headwind to the trend of millenials moving back to urban areas. Cities have particularly screwed up their finances. E.g. Georgia pensions are pretty well funded, but Atlanta's is a disaster. As millenials get older and have kids, the cuts to public safety and education that will be necessary to meet pension obligations is going to drive many of them to the suburbs.
Considering an Office for Your Startup? Read This First
I need it faster because I need to generate random values for montecarlo trials. So I am using xorshift now instead of the default.
Red Mercury: Fake Nuclear Substance still sold on black markets
Yes, staring at pages with bright white backgrounds makes me see floaters and other things in my eyes. I very much appreciate light on dark.
I haven't looked closely enough at their choice to evaluate it, but there's a good reason not to use Mersenne Twister. MT is a bad generator.

* The state size is 2kb

* It fails some rudimentary statistical tests

* The output is trivially predicted

* It isn't particularly fast

* It lacks multi-stream support

If you need a CSPRNG use ChaCha20 or AES. For simulation use PCG.
Nudging the Space Station
This one is gold. Thanks for sharing it.

It's another confirmation to what I already suspected.

That robot/alien overlords will have no pity on the human race.
I don't care much about Facebook's success, but I'm curious about one thing you said here...the "activate on weekends" part. Is this a type of social behaviour in and of itself for Bay Area tech people? You're not talking about logging out of Facebook, I think you mean deleting your account for one-week periods and reactivating it only on the weekend, right?
What print design teaches us about UX
Parent article is low quality rant with little substance. Exactly the same claims can be made of pain medications (ranging from opiates to paracetamol) but we don't get anti-analgesia rants similar to this anti-psychology stuff.

I don't think membership of BACP is important - I'd far rather get therapy from the NHS. The BACP register is accredited by Department of Health, so has some credibility. BACP accreditation means practitioners meet some minimal levels of competence, experience, and safety. (And some people lie about their registration, so that's a useful sign that they're probably not the right person to get therapy from.)
This cannot possibly be right. There was a DC21 talk regarding DNS request misfires due to bit flips in non-ECC DRAM, and the researcher was able to collect a surprisingly large number of requests on the basis of this.

Edit: found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbyDSvGasw
What happens if the client changes his code to always issue requests with the same ID ?

Most solutions inject the HTTP header in the frontend reverse-proxy to avoid that kind of issue.
We Are All MsScribe (on human nature and sockpuppetry)
Just returned from Indonesia where this is pretty standard in hotels, and where I saw the light. I cannot believe I spent the first 38 years of my life without using water to wash my behind after I poop. When I buy my own place it must have a Toto washlet. Normal toilet seats just seem uncivilised now.
I don't know if it'll play 50% of games well but pcsx2 has a compatibility list[1] which lists the playability of a lot of games.

[1] http://pcsx2.net/compatibility-list.html
The text describing the relationships between A,B,C,D makes a lot more sense to me if the example is switched to

Thing -> Cat
In Germany it is even worse. You have to pay the fee regardless of you having any devices capable of receiving. It is a flat per household fee. It used to be like you said it is in Sweden now but they changed 3 year ago to a pseudo tax.
I was a bit off with the Soundbar's price (it costs 157 according to your link) but I guess still cheap enough to replace every 1-2 years rather than buying a new TV
Next-level collaboration tactics for remote teams
Life After Schengen: What a Europe with Borders Would Look Like
The Wii U supports all Wii games discs. It's a nice feature.
A project that has momentum
> I wonder whether one of the reasons why CBT is getting less effective

No it's probably about better placebo controls.

Pain meds in US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351230

Anti depressant meds: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20241/abstrac...

Better response to placebo is not a new thing, and is not limited to psychological therapies. (These are all the same source, but lots of discussion.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015479
There are plenty of things that we already know how to automate but don't do so purely because it's cheaper to pay someone desperate $8 an hour (or a fraction of that overseas) to do it manually instead.

Not to mention the per-capita increases in efficiency we would see if the population was small enough that we could get by farming only the most fertile ground, burning only the easiest-to-extract oil, etc.

> The working class quite literally feed you, clothe you, and keep you safe at night.

Yes, and I'm saying it's cruel of them (us? I'm rich by world standards but not American ones.) to continue to have children that are condemned to a life of the same sort of servitude (or worse, famine and disease).
Importantly, those DNS packets go through a number of systems that are not clients or servers. Wifi, microwave antennae, undersea cables, consumer routers, unpowered hubs, you name it. It's hard to know whether these bit flips are actually coming from cosmic rays or EM interference or rare decompression bugs.
This seems fairly obvious, we don't use English to communicate to ourselves to move our fingers over the keyboard for example, or breath, or do any movements. Even visualizing stuff in the 'minds eye' doesn't require language, you just 'do' it. It's not much of a leap to think that the English we hear in our head comes from somewhere too, a more basal/instinctual level. If you look up speed reading too, you'll find that the people try to unlearn the hearing of the voice in their head when they see a word, in order to be able to process more words quicker.

As for the 'tulpa' link, that might be one of the stranger thing I have seen in a while! I think it is natural to hear other peoples voices in your head that you know from real life, when you you hear their reactions to some action you do. But I've never heard of training a whole new voice from scratch! Anythings possible I guess.
Egghead.io has some good stuff so far. https://egghead.io/technologies/angular2
Interesting question! The answer is that it's pretty rare for anyone to break the board in this way. If they did, I'm sure we'd replace it, but although we have shipped a lot of kits now, last I heard there weren't any returns where the board was zapped. There is a degree of ESD protection designed onto both the chip and the board.
Are you thinking of something similar to the Wii U controller which can play games wirelessly from the Wii U via a direct link?

Edit: more info on the Wii U game pad link. http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/16/3653294/wii-u-range-test-g...
Thanks that seems viable, Ill look into it.
iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem
Create a self destroying message – like Gadget inspector
is the bug induced by user_input ? one could submit a function in there
Who "forced" you to buy a Microsoft OS?
that's a great use! I'm gonna do that. I've been blocking headers and footers of webpages because I have a 16:9 screen and need all the vertical space can get. as "web 1.0" as it sounds, I love that I get to decide how webpages appear on my computer.
> What he's saying is essentially "The code I write/the platform I choose scales poorly over multiple cores. Therefor I decide to blame the hardware, and skip features that are good for me"

Is that so bad? He's writing and hosting the code, and he's paying the bill to do it. Seems to me he should be able to pick how to do it.
Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for Atheism
What I don't get is the "why". Are the differences between mainline and "customized" kernels so huge that integrating at least the common parts of code into mainline is impossible?

Or is it because HW manufacturers just ship code as soon as it builds and doesn't crash in rudimentary testing, leading to a code quality far below Linus-acceptable?
Dormir en el limbo: radiografía de Airbnb – EL ESPAÑOL
TDD using Mocha and Karma
Here a link detailing the technical issues to mainlining devices: http://elinux.org/Kernel_areas_of_focus_for_mainlining
I agree. While there are probably a bunch of use-cases where Drupal is a good solution, I find that it doesn't hit any 'sweet spot' that I care about.

For very simple sites I'm inclined to use a static site generator.

For relatively simple sites that need a CMS, I use Wordpress (much as I dislike it). The clients are often familiar with it, and it is pretty easy to set things up. And if I'm going the Wordpress route, I might as well take advantage of the high amount of plugins and the complete (and often cheap) themes that target specific industries.

For anything more complicated, I used to be in the Drupal camp, but now I opt for a framework approach. Rails, Express, or something like that. With every single site I've built in Drupal I always ran into the problem that the time spent on 'clicky this and module that' eventually outgrew the initial speed advantage, and I would have been better off doing these things in code in a environment optimized for this approach ('true' frameworks).

I think it's analogous to how many of my clients insist on using Wordpress and paying more for that instead of a static site. They would've been better off with a static site that I update for a small fee, or perhaps even a small lesson in FTP-ing and editing a file, but they wanted the 'option' of logging in and changing stuff. But many of them never do.

Similarly, the choice of Drupal sometimes seems to be primarily project managers who want the 'option' of making complex changes through the admin interface, just so they have the option. Never mind that the complexity tends to be high enough that you need a programmer anyways to pull it off, so you might as well just go the framework way.
I can see the site in IE11, screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/wm34N

It's strange, but all the 10 tracks are marked as #1.

I'm in doubt between ignoring of flagging as off-topic. Can I send a 2/3 flag?
Next steps for UI designers who want to stay employed
A great book on this is My Stroke of Insight, written by a neuroscientist who had a massive left-hemisphere stroke. Her experience was horrific in many ways, absolutely beautiful in others.

She also has a TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_strok...
Show HN: Machine learning to build machine learning.
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You would be a bad role model to your kids. They'll grow up thinking that having no retirement, no savings, possibly carrying debt and living paycheck to paycheck is normal.

They too might have kids right out of high school and skip going to college - because that's what their parents did. This is how you get generational poverty.
Fun fact: I had my desktop get unreliable for a few weeks until I finally thought it might be just dust build up in the case. Opened it up and found a huge scorch mark on the motherboard where a capacitor had clearly burned up.

So yeah, they're pretty flame retardant.
You aren't using any locals. sha1 is not defined anywhere. :)
My Startup Began as a Single Blog Post
I found Build Your Own Angular [1] gave me the most understanding in the least amount of time. It's geared more towards understanding (and Angular 1 not 2) and not so much towards building stuff though so YMMV.

[1] http://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular
The fact that a headline such as "Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave" [half what FB gives anyway] receives more than 200 points on HN means that something is really wrong on that other side of the Atlantic. -/bitchy-rant.
I don't disagree that there is a lot of inefficiency and counterproductivity in a conventional office - but the gp was offering up an example of how his hack session with his roommate proved something about how we "should" be working.

Like many complicated systems, it's easy to criticize the conventional office and offer microcosm-scale anecdotal counter-examples - but quite another thing to create something effectively comparable.

I love thinking about new ways to work. I work remotely and am always experimenting with ways to be effective from a distance... but I find that getting people's butts in chairs in the same office, and coordinating with a few boring meetings is surprisingly necessary.
The anatomy of a great UX team
Ways to Disappear and Live Free (1985)
Honestly? I would start with React. The way Angular 2 has been going, they are adopting a lot of new ideas from React.
If, like me, you were wondering how buildings end up getting buried over long periods of time:

"Until roads get paved, cities literally rise. That's because people bring things into them at great effort -- mostly food -- but, in the absence of cheap trucking, most of the waste gets dumped more or less in the city. Oyster shells get tossed out of the tent. Chamberpots get emptied out the window. Slowly, the accumulation of waste and junk raises the streets above the old buildings, and ground floors become basements. There are mounds throughout the Middle East that are nothing but layer upon layer of city waste, and of course there are mounds in North America that are hundreds of years of discarded oyster shells."

http://ask.metafilter.com/237694/How-do-things-get-buried-in...
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/813/how-come-archae...
The two final Soviet Venus missions, Vega-1 & Vega-2, both flew with the first-ever -- and only -- aerostats (balloons) deployed on another planet! Images & details: http://mentallandscape.com/V_Vega.htm
Nice work! Other projects in this space include
http://www.commonaccord.org/ and
http://www.contractstandards.com/clause

I am tracking instances of this genre at
http://www.legalese.io/#priorart