skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use this domain with a special rule to disable javascript and cookies. Page loads insanely fast!
I'm pretty much in the same situation - problem is just adding /ncr to the URL is easy to remember, especially when not on your own computer, ?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=cr doesn't exactly stick in the mind! I'm also increasingly leaning towards using ddg, wasn't aware of the g! option, thanks for that.

I don't where google's web search team is based, but I imagine it's mainly in the US, where this isn't likely to be a problem. Of course, for the vast majority of google search users, localized is what they want.
Oracle apex is great too. Well worth checking out if you already have an oracle licence. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https...

You can create beautiful crud apps or rest endpoints for your entities in minutes
My site has a regular Opera Mini user. I don't even know how well it works in Opera Mini, but since the user keeps coming back, it probably does. Also I got a Coc Coc [1] user today, which is apparently the second most popular browser in Vietnam. Never heard of it before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E1%BB%91c_C%E1%BB%91c
[video]Look What's inside the YouTube Silver Play Button
Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The Future of Work or Too Good to Be True?
These are not unique to email addresses as identifiers, because people change over time. You can't even count on people's real names staying the same over time, as something as simple as marriage gives many an impetus to change it. Any database that assumes immutability of one's visible identity is broken by design.
Clients/designers want apps. Users want information.

The trend today is that sites are crashing my up-to-date Firefox browser[1] because they need a ton of Javascript to get the layout right.

I don't mind a fancy site but just let me get the information I need.

[1] I own a not so new smart phone that does the job well for everything else.
You can compare what Chrome does with Opera Turbo feature from Opera Mobile and desktop Opera, but not Opera Mini. It was definitely inspired by experiences from Opera Mini, but it's absolutely not comparable at all.

Opera Mini doesn't render webpages, it's all done server side. What's sent to the browser is a pile of highly compressed layers containing text and images and some metadata about what's clickable - and that's it. From HTML, JS and CSS point of view Opera Mini is a highly optimized, non-real time remote desktop client.

I've heavily used J2ME Opera Mini on my S40 dumbphones many years ago. Back then it was awesome. Today, when the only way to keep sanity when browsing the web on desktop is using NoScript, I doubt that using it would be as awesome as it was back then, and that's not really Opera Mini fault. After all, when using Opera Mini, you don't expect everything to work and render as it would on desktop browser - as long as content is shown and can be accessed properly, it's fine. However, in a world where crazy people use SPA frameworks for their blogs, it cannot be taken for granted.
A Silicon Valley for Drones, in North Dakota
How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube
Seems to be a bunch of Express apps rather than a single application. Many just take arbitrary input from requests and do things on the shell. I'd hope (maybe I'm wrong) that most people are already aware that executing arbitrary user input is bad. See https://github.com/quantumfoam/DVNA/tree/master/vulnerabilit...
Geolocation is another reason ncr is useful, when using VPNs.
A faster smartphone won't reduce traffic. Even if you had the latest and greatest flagship phone you might still want to install opera mini if traffic cost per byte is sufficiently high.
Considering it's Forbes --- this is a surprisingly in-depth, non-clickbait article by a Harvard researcher who spent time understanding the current (& surprising) demographics of digital nomads living in Ubud, Bali.

TL;DR turns out it is an unsustainable lifestyle for almost everyone who isn't an "elite software engineer" or internet entrepreneur. However, most Hacker News readers probably qualify for one of those categories anyway, so for us this isn't much of a deterrent.
If you can make a really nice MIPS emulator, that would be awesome. I had to learn MIPS for a programming unit I did in my first year of university. We had to use the MARS emulator which is a not particularly good MIPS emulator in java.

A well made and nice looking MIPS emulator would be awesome.
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
Which is absolutely uncomparable. Opera Mini's approach is pretty unique.
> Oxygen doesn't get used up... We would just need a way to extract the oxygen...

Is that literally all there is to it -- minus reasonable loss? Does something like that already exist?

> i.e. some plants

Perfect! Do you think that plants can make up the loss from systems that we could set up for converting CO2 back to O2? When can fly some cows and chickens up there? Throwing plants and livestock on the Moon seems too good to be true.

Also, completely off topic, does anybody know the current value per acre of Moon?
It's too bad Google ignores the browser's language preferences, this wouldn't be needed if they weren't so broken wrt Accept-Language.
There is a certain portion of web pundits always banging on about this issue. Progressive enhancement is always the phrase used to beat devs over the head about their use of newfangled technologies.

The truth is, there is always going to be some subset of users/agents that won't be able to use your site. You won't reach everyone, not only for technical reasons but for cultural and linguistic reasons as well. Even if you make your stuff work in Opera Mini, who's to say the user on the other end reads one of the languages your site is available in.

The only thing left is to decide the tradeoff between how many of them, the experience itself, and the amount of work you will spend maximizing the other two. There is something about the web that makes a certain portion of people want to believe that tradeoff doesn't exist, and you're a jerk if your site doesn't work on everyone's toaster in Moldova.
Twitter SHA-1 Warning in Chrome
Ah, YARV finally adds bytecode compilation and loading as an "experimental" feature. It'll be interesting to see what people do with it.
Smaller, faster websites
Does this support the thumb (2) instruction set as well, or only ARM mode? We are primarily using ARM on Cortex M-devices that only run in thumb mode, but something like this tool would be very valuable for learning!
I remember a time when opera was supposed to be the browser that implemented web standards the most accurately and completely. What happened? Are they now lagging, or is it just they chose not to support some standards in opera mini for those perfs goals?
>the browser doesn’t support custom fonts using @font-face

That's a feature and not a bug, as many examples. Opera Mini is is designed to bring you 95% of the web for 20% of the data. This is one trade-off.

So are many other things, like CSS-Animations. Opera Mini only displays "frozen" pages and I love it.
The future might not be terrible
I'm fascinated by the idea of having a TPM without any on-board storage for it to use. How do you propose that would work?

If you're willing to accept stateful storage for the TPM then I agree this is straightforward, but then I don't think the "stateless device" has been achieved. If you're willing to trust the TPM's storage then you could have just used that to establish trust for everything (which is the status quo on chromebooks).
I was just reading this today, first part deals with this subject > http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...

I asked the same question of an old engineer at Kennedy Space center who was talking about the Saturn rockets to a (small) group of people (most just wanted take photos and cared little for history). He was quite blunt in his response,
"We were doing great but then someone higher up decided that we won the manhood measuring contest and its better to spend public funds on bombing some poor souls in paddy fields half a world away..."
Probably worth noting that while all of these are potential upsides to going to the moon, really none of them are reasons why we should have been going back over the last 40 years.

Space telescopes costs shitloads already, and thats without having to land on the moon.

He-3 mining supposes a technology that doesn't even exist yet - we DON'T have fusion tech.

Launching exploration vehicles from the moon (instead of perhaps in orbit mating) implies an industrial base on the moon. The cost of doing this, especially with tech from the 70s through now is literally astronomical. It's not even a long-term prospect vs quick profit thing. It's not even a "new world" type thing. At least Europeans could enslave an existing labour force in the Americas.

We also can't even setup a sustainable ecosystem on the earth - we probably want to do that first before we try on the moon - see biosphere 2.

I don't want to be a negative nancy, but my point is that in my heart I really want to go to the moon for all these reasons and more. But just calling it a choice of "long term payoff" vs "quick profit" is a brutal over simplification, and also completely sweeps the costs and risks under an idealistic carpet.
IMDB for learning resources
This is my first project: edualist.com.

I am building a place where users could rank educational materials on broad range of subjects. What we have for now, is providers section and two subjects filled with some materials: python programming and startups.

Edualist was built because I discover that often it is a struggle for me to decide which book or course I should take first or take at all. Sometimes it is so addictive you can never really start learning. This is a disaster. What I expect to see in near future, is a place where one with desire to learn, say, how to program, or how to sing, can get a list of best existed guides, books and courses instantly and for free.

Actually, it was my first programming experience and first skill that i learned solely on my own at the computer in my college dorm room. There are many distractions you have through the learning process. As for me, I spent an incredible amount of time on which language I should learn first, then found courses and books, and only after that I finally started to progress. Now I wonder what took more time: deciding what language and MOOC I should take or building a site, where I including python, django, html, css, git, javascript, js frameworks, hosting, deploying and so on.

Now I want you guys to share your thoughts on that project and, perhaps, some suggestions. I believe that this place could be found useful by many people and they could also contribute to their favorite subject, say, Poker, with the best resources they know.

Sorry for the mistakes I surely made, english is not my native.
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Clinic in the Cloud – Health Care in Nepal
Any code examples I can just load?
You might also like hearing from Minsky himself, starting at http://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/1 .
I used to use it when I used iOS because it was the only alternative browser available and had sane zooming and text wrap features, unlike Safari (at the time, haven't used iOS in a while).
* Since the gravity is a 6th of Earth's, launching space exploration vehicles from the Moon would be much easier and thus cheaper.

Could someone explain this to me? I understand launching a rocket from the Moon would be much easier than from Earth, but don't we need to factor in the cost of getting the fuel to the Moon in the first place? Would there be any benefit over just launching a bigger rocket from earth? In this layman's eyes, it looks like a zero-sum game.
Use progressive enhancement, not fallbacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Americans would think of something completely different if you mentioned "wedding cake". A stereotypical one would be:

http://uwebus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/small-wedding-c...
Sorry to hear you went through those time. I am exactly the same guy as you told "that stuff only happens to other people". I am skinny fat, in 2015 I cut a lot of sugar from my food. But struggling with a proper exercise routine, I like running. But, I can not manage time for that. I am in late 20s so I know this is the time to start. Lets see whether I can change it in 2016 or not. But thanks a lot for sharing it!
Interested to see how people start using safe navigation! I personally tend to avoid `try` in Rails in favor of other `nil` handling patterns.
I drink to that!
Also, the prize for the stupidest behavior was won by Google: adding your country's suffix to a blogspot blog.
Hypothetical question: say gold or platinum was found on the surface of the moon (no mining required). Would it be profitable to go there with the current technology?
The fuel could be made on the Moon rather than carried over. And one could also use some sort of railgun, since there is no atmosphere to get in the way.
Fun fact: Ruby 1.0 was released 19 years ago on this day.
Much of the same could be written about Oslo. Just this summer the city opened up a pretty big man made beach/bath in the middle of the harbor:
http://www.sorenga.no/beliggenhet/om-sorenga/sjobadet/

How they cleaned it up is actually pretty interesting. Obviously they stopped dumping waste in it in the first place. After that they placed a lot of ropes and concrete structures all over the ocean floor, to give starfish and other ocean creatures habitats. Those creatures did most of the cleaning, humans just facilitated it.

Here's an article in Norwegian about it:
http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Fjernet-kloakklukten-fra-Osl...
If the advice is bad and dangerous it would've been nice for the comment thread to still exist so I could've read the warnings and found better advice.
How do businesses deal with water usage in their premises? (Gyms, offices, etc with showers, etc). Is this something to consider whilst factoring in expenses?
Your entire hard edges paragraph: IMO, this attitude is exactly what's wrong with the software industry.

We need to fight the arrogant nerd tyranny of "computer literacy."

The company that consistently respects the humanity of their users will wipe out many a competitor.
There is reason to believe there is water frozen in a crater on the south pole of the moon.

If this is commercially exploitable, this could be cracked into hydrogen and oxygen or otherwise be used as fuel and/or reaction mass, so it would make a huge difference in the economics of going to Mars.

Another thing needed for long-range space travel is radiation shielding, and this can be as simple as a few feet of soil -- something which can certainly be harvested from the moon.
There's also !gde, !gat etc if you do want German, Austrian etc. version of Google.
>A telescope on the moon could be larger due to the reduced gravity, and have a better view without the atmosphere.

Couldn't a telescope in space be even larger, due to zero gravity?

Suppose we're modifying the James Webb to make it lunar based, wouldn't we need to add additional structural support in order for it to not collapse under lunar gravity? That would drive up the launch mass and thus cost.
Upon visiting 3 years ago, I think water quality is felt in the food too, which was awesome too, it made me over eat at breakfast and other meals, the air quality made me walk for hours, I walked into the palace's square then flew above it, it was incredible how friendly and nice it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrRnTBsofMk
Google Closure is usable, but only if you write your app in a way that is google closure compatible, the same goes for any dependencies you pull in. In clojurescript, all code you write, and any pure cljs library, is google closure compatible.

Immutable.js is great, but your libraries probably doesn't use it, and you have to make sure you use it everywhere as well. This can lead to subtle bugs that boils down to using .value instead of .get('value'), a problem you'll rarely encounter in cljs where everything is immutable by default.

I haven't used systemjs/jspm, so I can't say anything about that. I can only say that I have yet to encounter a case where figwheel doesn't successfully reload my code, whereas I encounter this in webpack/react-hot-loader all the time.

ES6/ES7/Typescript are great improvements over ES5. But you have to pair it with Immutable.js for it to be comparable to the offering that cljs provides. Even then, when you have a setup that gives many of the same benefits as cljs, you'll have written way more code, and you need to be a bit paranoid to make sure you're using the correct API at the correct place, and that you don't have any libraries that are incompatible with your setup.

In short. While you can have a setup that gives you all the advantages of cljs+om/reagent, it's just a lot easier to do it in clojurescript.
Laziest Christmas Ever: Using a Raspberry Pi, Graphite, and Nagios to Cook a Ham
Doesn't GWT have something that does pretty much exactly that ?
Every day someone will stand up that's willing to pay huge sums for something that has an intrinsic value that's way lower. Rarity isn't enough, there also needs to be an demand.

The hard part is guessing what people will want (now: legos, old cars) and what people won't want anymore (antique furniture and stamps are dropping in price right now)

In the end it's just gambling.
Absolutely fascinating. I wonder if he consults for films as well.
Aren't all holiday traditions rather arbitrary? I live in Japan and considered some things odd at first, but usually they are just different but equally valid ways to do things.

This short TED talk from Derek Sivers illustrates it nicely https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differe...
Several reasons, some of which are:

1) "Been there, done that - why go back?"

2) The Soviets aren't trying to get there anymore, so the Americans don't see the point of trying.

3) We couldn't even if we wanted to (Apollo equipment is long-since obsolete and unusable, a successor program to return to the moon was scrapped by Obama in 2010).

4) Nobody is keen on spending the billions it would require.

I find it sad that we don't even have the ability to go to the moon anymore, but there you go, I guess that's the way it works when we let our money-saving drive control our curiosity.
Many email addresses are dumb forwards without the eventual receiver (the "identified") even having an account directly related to the domain where the forwarding is done. Would those be usable for persona or only the "backend" address with an actual user login that collects forwarded emails and is ideally never given to a third party?
I'd love to see the term sheets of all those companies valued at exactly a billion dollars. I'm guessing they all accepted some hilariously terrible terms to join the unicorn club.
I keep hearing about Helium 3 mining but do we actually have fusion reactors nowadays (or even in next 10 years) that can use Helium 3?
That thought makes me feel dirty.
So what happens if I die? Can my beneficiaries claim my account? Or will my media be lost forever?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_pho...
Its stuff that was cool when today's 60 yr olds were kids. Lego is for rich old people now, so its not going to sell in 2065. I guarantee that "transformers" from the 80s will sell pretty well in 2035, for example. Note that prices melt up on volume collapse.
Right! The artists own anti-capitalist ideological explanation for it is adorable... but the core issue he's highlighting is real, and important.
Why is it essential to have this in app ? Who makes these rules ?
As described in the article, PTT includes a TPM running on the ME. The CPU loads the ME firmware (which is validated against a key on the ME), then starts executing the rest of the firmware (including copying measurements to the TPM).
Higher bitrates need higher CPU resources to decode, but it doesn't really matter. You'd run out of wifi bandwidth in your house streaming bluray images, though.
I haven't looked at this explicitly, but I would expect that if you sign in to chrome then it will follow your account preferences for which locality to use. Does that not work?
CouchDB doesn't have a SQL like query language, and all acces is via http. Couchbase is higher performance with a binary protocol and autoscale features. So they are very different but they have in common that you store Json and then decide how to query it later.
I wonder what GUI toolkit this uses. It looks beautiful!

Edit: Looks like it might be based on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA.
I really enjoyed that write up. The only piece I would love to see added would be the addition of emacs and vim in a native console.
Even assuming 10 ppb of He-3 in the lunar regolith, you'd need to process 150 tons of the stuff to get one gram of fuel.

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/wcsar9311-2.pdf

Mind you, if we eventually automate extraction industries the economics for a lot of things change.

> I'd much rather have industrial machinery churning out tons of pollution on the moon then on the earth.

Would you pay twenty times as much for your computer in order to make that happen? And would most people do likewise? It's the answer to that sort of question that determines whether something gets done.
The Space Race was funded out of the military budget, not the science budget. "We can put a man on the moon" is a phrase meaning "we can put a nuke in your capital." Once that point was established, NASA went down to science funding levels.
No, sorry, when I visit the Next Web, for example, I don't want 600 kilobytes of CSS and JS just to look at what's basically a list of photos and some text. That is insane by any measure, and I'm not even counting the photos (as they're necessary and there's not much to do about those). It seems to all be there so the site can be a wonder of mystery meat navigation, with clicks randomly bringing elements in and out of focus and taking me to random sites I didn't ask for.

As a moderately seasoned developer, I've seen this in my friends too (you know who you are). They get excited by the latest and greatest technology (which is great and they should) and they apply it to their business without first asking themselves if it's actually beneficial (which is bad and they shouldn't).

Most of them come around to "build it simple at first and optimize later", or YAGNI, but in the mean time, we get things like The Next Web.

$5 TNW's next iteration is plain HTML and simple CSS with a minimal amount of JS and they make a big thing out of how performant their site is now, loading instantly, etc. Good job, you discovered Web 1.0 again, but this time with better designers.
Babies make you tired
Detailed notes of over 200 books by Derek Sivers
Christiane Brammer and Suzan Anbeh Nude Scene in Heute Heiratet
Would that mean that a freelancer with subpar coding skills and good people skills would be more successful than a freelancer with good coding skills but subpar people skills?

If so, is it because of what you said or not? If not, then why not and how come your 10% coding and 90% people skills still holds true according to you?

Just a curious question :)
This annoys the hell out of me as it also never seems to correctly remember I clicked "got it" to the "we use cookies" message that sticks to the top of the page.