skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory it works, but in practice it awfully degrades the page load time. The way it works is that it will call the init() method of JS app (ready() in jquery, main() in Dart etc). And it is very sub-optimal compared to server side generation. This is because it has to execute the ready()/start() method, which may spawn of some async requests to get some JSON, on getting which successfully you recreate your DOM.

So too many possible failure points, and for these reasons it will timeout many times, resulting in increased crawl errors, apart from page load time degradation. I learned this the hard way, and had to revert to server side generation of crawlable pages. And now looking at something like react/redux to achieve what I originally wanted (which is basically again server side generation, but while maintaining the quality of the served pages).
Yes, Trackbacks or Pingbacks could have been extended to include a similar pull-parse behaviour as webmentions are doing right now.

In fact I was reminded that originally webmentions were on top of pingbacks: http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comme...

As far as I understand that change is mostly for simplification, which always a good thing.
As said, this is a research experiment I'm doing, not aiming at necessary success.

Absolute minimum to at least do some qualitative analysis would be 30 active and connected users (my friends that I could talk to) using it for a month or so.

I'm doing it because the problems are hard and interesting. I'm writing my diploma about the general thing.
Now California state wants to ban sale of encrypted smartphones
Hi! I work on Perma.cc at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab.

For what it's worth, the way I think about permanence as a lawyer and programmer is that nothing is really permanent. We have court decisions from hundreds of years ago, for example, but we might easily lose them in the next apocalypse. We've lost lots of records of equal value already. (For a great example, check out the fire-damaged Jefferson collection at the Library of Congress -- there are many published books from Thomas Jefferson's personal library that, once they were lost, could never be replaced.)

The reason we've kept court decisions as long as we have is that we make lots of copies, and keep them in lots of libraries, and libraries care about hanging on to things.

But court decisions now cite to random web pages all the time, and the halflife of a URL is like 18 months. So with Perma we're opening up law library shelves to web pages as well as court decisions -- allowing law review, courts, and others to say, "this web page is culturally important enough for me to cite to, so please hang onto it." To me this is the magical weirdness of the internet -- no one has ever quite had this level of write access to library shelves.

This has made a huge difference for web preservation in the legal field in a short period of time -- we now have over half of American law schools signed on to use Perma, several US government agencies, and nine state supreme courts with more on the way.

On the backend we're building out a private LOCKSS network that will put those records in the hands of lots of libraries. (We're hiring for this, by the way -- drop me a line if you're in Boston.) We can't prove that any of those libraries will still be around in a few decades, but we think it's a good bet.

Happy to answer any questions ...
I've never heard it stated in terms of mass, I've always heard it in terms of a human body having many more bacterial than human cells. But that is being revisited (probably the research you mention):

http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-bust-myth-that-our-bod...

Turns out it is probably ~1:1.
The Abolition of Money by Israel Zangwell (1894)
Now can we have bettermotherfuckinghackernews.com too? Which behaves sanely on Android?
I was contacted to interview with Google but didn't b/c I don't want to live in California. Despite having a distinctly "black" sounding name, I've never had trouble finding work in IT or at all for that matter. I'm split b/c on the one hand I know society is not meritocratic, but I don't feel that I have personally been hamstrung by my race.
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This is the most HN thing ever, I love it. Can't wait to see this public.
Presumably the number of quick charge locations will grow if electric cars become normal. They won't be free (even tesla is walking back that free forever promise).

States could let companies lease spots at rest stops.
> The critic is that the RDF comment needed for Trackbacks is is complex and get stripped.
That is super valid and the main reason why I back then in 2004 didn't implement trackback in my bloging engine but only pingback. Semantics matter.
It's hard to compare Mongols to Europeans. The composite bows rely on animal-based adhesives, which are great in cold and dry climates, but fall apart in humid and warmer climates.

Also, light cavalry armies are useless against castles and fortified cities as the ones found in most of Europe, specially when you don't have huge, flat battlefields that allow light cavalry to circle any target.

In other words, Mongol warfare was perfect for the environment they were created for: vast empty dry lands with few geographical features and settlements which are far from each other.
This "common knowledge" is incorrect. It applies only if you have sodium-sensitive hypertension, and chances are, you don't.

http://www.gbhealthwatch.com/Trait-Salt-Sensitivity.php
> I tend to just use Archive.org for this kind of thing. They've been around a long time and probably will be still around for a long time coming.

Except, if the domain you're archiving expires and the new owner puts up a restrictive robots.txt, archive.org will take down its archived version.

Archive.org is nice for checking previous versions of websites if you need them today, but don't use them as backup with the expectation that they'll be there ten years from now.
You forget that there is no citation of any of medieval sources that support their claims. I cannot believe that rulers decide on something important like war technology without leaving history trails in literature.
I know someone would talk about the wasted food in a restaurant when I am talking about the non-wasted food.
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Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?
Consider the following projects:

* Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35169226

* The Stingray phone surveillance device:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

* North Korea's Red Star operating system:
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star_os

* Hacking Team's surveillance software (sold to countries with a poor human rights track record):
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/07/leaked-documents-confirm-hacking-team-sells-spyware-repressive-countries/

Do you think that the software engineers who consented to work on the above projects acted ethically?
Specially when former employees have reported another view of what happened.

I know being on Oracle side doesn't buy friends on HN.
And to think I am just a Guardian reader.....
Seems like the points and comments numbers are often inaccurate. Sometimes they're right but other times way off. Any idea what's happening there?
Might be a bit early for an industry wide battery standard. Can you upgrade the battery with one from the same manufacturer after a few years now?
Thinking in English words makes "clean" and "dirty" sound like single-dimensional vectors that directly oppose each other. But that's not true. What is actually true is an n-dimensional vector, with an enormous variety of "cleans" and "dirties", and even more complicated when you start combining the vectors. Plus you don't get to custom-design them; you have to take what exists in the world. So when you "clean" yourself with a certain soap of the "dirtiness" you currently have, you don't get to custom design a cleaning agent that precisely knocks out only the portions of the "dirty" vector you have, you can only use things that exist, with all their side effects.

A lot of things in the real world work like that, but the medical world, since it involves biological bodies, the most complicated things in the known universe, seem particularly prone to this problem. Similarly, if you have a genetic disease where X is overexpressed, but its action is opposed by Y, it isn't necessarily a solution to just increase the expression of Y, because where English makes "oppose" sound nice and clean, in reality that's a summation of two complicated vectors. For all you know, X and Y also have a way in which they work in the same way, and having a system that overexpresses both will suddenly expose a pathology where the combination of both becomes fatal even so. Biology's a nasty place. The engineering is profoundly non-human.
Maybe they were just playing two moves ahead. Let dying Yahoo spend money it doesn't have. Nobody's second-choice search engine is Yahoo. For me, and probably most of us here, it's either Bing (which is very good!) or DuckDuckGo.
Sounds like user error not design flaw.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Sort of difficult to empathize with a federal police officer ever-so slightly maligned by the application of a terribly unjust national drug policy. Too little, too late.
Ask HN: Boss/Founder keeping my departure a secret. What to do?
I work for a small startup based in Cambridge, MA. A little over two weeks ago, I have my notice that I had found a new job and was leaving the company. The founder asked that I not tell the team yet because he wanted to decide how to break it to them - he was worried about how it'd impact morale and wanted to make sure it was handled well. I thought that this meant he'd share it with the team the following week.

Today is my last day, and he still hasn't told the team. Last last night, he pinged me in a DM on Slack and asked me not to tell anyone today. He wants to wait until next week, and he will tell the team himself. He also asked me to remove a line from my status report saying that I had left one particular project "wrapped up and ready to integrate with the main product."

Right now I'm worried. I wonder if he plans on telling the team that I was let go, rather than me giving notice and leaving amicably for a new opportunity. The fact that he wants me to update the status report feels like he wants no trace of the fact that I knew I was leaving.

I really want to leave on good terms. The founder is a good contact to have and I don't want to burn any bridges. Up until now we've had a great working relationship and he's frequently praised me and my work. I'm not sure at this point what I should do. Any suggestions?
That sounds good for you. But there's evidence that gut microbes work against your body to serve themselves rather than your health
You're right, I overplayed the nature of how much of a contributor I am to the community. I'm not on the block party planning committee for instance. But I spend tens of hours a week during the warmer months just sitting and hanging out with my neighbors. I try to learn a little Spanish which I really enjoy. And we have a lot of fun together.

The idea that I only talked with "sales people" prior to this is invalid though. I was actually the minority in my public school when I was growing up.

And yes, I do feel as if through sharing experiences with people I've learned how to "be aligned" with people as you say, although I wouldn't say that's a fair characteristic of how I perceive it.

I don't particularly feel aligned with any group of people, majority, or minority.

But I do recognize the value of shared experiences which give me a stronger cultural background, empathy, a grander perspective and worldview.

Of course, imagine if someone judged your entire life from 2 or 3 paragraphs on the internet without knowing said person, their background, experiences, personality, or anything about them?

Edit: And in this world - [0] - You're damn straight I'm proud to have such a multicultural group of friends, and experiences. And even though this post indicates otherwise, I don't particularly give two shits how anyone misconstrues my post which essentially was trying to say "We should come together, hang out with eachother, and understand and forgive". Because, apparently I'm assuming superiority by continuing to hang out with people after I heard they where going to take shit from my house. All I can say is, fuck that.

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...
Not everything is about dollars and cents.
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I will be watching GM to see if they can push the Bolt out in real numbers instead of compliance only.

GM says it isn't a compliance car: http://www.hybridcars.com/not-a-compliance-car-gm-says-2017-....

Which to me makes sense: It's obvious that the world is going to move to electric cars. The question is only one of timing.
But when you lease, at the end the vehicles are refurbed and sold on. And if they aren't then they will be almost totally recycled nowadays.
The reason nothing improves in government IT. If you try to fix the problem, you are now responsible for all parts not fixed. If you do nothing, then someone long gone is still to blame.
The publication: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)01501-...

Relevant snippet: We found that by counting and integrating the mechano-electric signals elicited by the trapped prey, Dionaea muscipula triggers biosynthesis of the touch hormone jasmonate, secretion of lytic enzymes, and channel-mediated uptake of prey nutrient-associated sodium loads.
For backwards compatibility there is a (open source) tool which will forward pingbacks to your webmentions endpoint https://webmention.io/
As an aside, I have wondered how universally true this was. For instance, did the USAF recognize a similar issue during this period?
Ha, I am not the only one to wonder! :)

I have opted for a US layout a few years ago, regardless of the OS. And I cannot myself going back to a UK/FR layout. Thanks god I don't speak any other language. :p
Them child miners had better get digging cobalt faster !

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/Child-labour-...
Being on top of pingbacks makes no sense, xml-rpc is dead and a bad idea in a first place, also a lot harder to implement than just reacting to a ping + pretty much incompatible with the pull concept. If they started there, they probably did not know trackbacks existed.

Webmentions are no simpler than trackbacks, and to have them diverge for no reason makes everything more complicated for the engine. It is no straight-forward simplification at all, thus no good thing.
XCOM Enemy Within Android iOS Hack 2016 No Survey
Software that detects sarcasm
Just a really great job on this. Love it.
This is like saying systematic discrimination doesn't exist because the hegemonic group does not have a single organization deliberately applying discrimination.
Linux Foundation Update (response re: by-law changes)
Awesome, thanks for the pdf!
The internet itself wouldn't even exist without ads.

I hope you are joking, or knowingly exaggerating. The internet was around waaaayyyyy before ads. Even when hte internet became a conduit for commerce, the first ads were just banners that advertisers bought on a (usually) related web page. Kind of like newspapers.

Then Google decided that they would show ads based on what people were looking for. Rather than guessing my interests because I'm on the West Marine web page, they will show me ads related to my search inquiry. Starts to get a little creepy, but as long as they don't save my queries it's probably ok.

<insert a montage/>

And now we are where we are today.
Yeah, your last suggestion was what I was leaning towards. Because of the ubiquity of linear algebra, though, this seems like as good a time as any to start getting a good handle on it. Thanks for the resources!
Most chronically homeless people suffer from mental illness or substance abuse, but there's a distinction between the long term homeless and those who are temporarily down on their luck (like one woman mentioned in the article, who moved to Seattle for employment reasons and was thrown off when her state based certification didn't transfer).

I don't think it was Amazon's intent to reach out to individuals whose present condition included serious untreated mental illnesses.
But the deal wasn't Google giving Apple $1B to be the default search on iOS. It was Google giving Apple a 34% share (perhaps - it's still a bit unclear in the article) of iOS search revenue. It is still a deal worth ~ $1B, but not a deal for $1B.

The context is important. If the number is 34%, then Google's iOS revenue would be around $3B, of which Apple got a cut.
When will self-driving cars be a real thing?
Post a link to this in your Slack. They'll figure it out quick. ;)
Digging through Ashley Madison
> If higher prices help reduce smoking, I'm for higher prices.

This may have worked but the article notes.

> some economists believe that recent hikes have had little impact on consumption. They suggest that the majority of people who were going to stop because of price hikes might have already done so.

From the paper linked under 'some economists'

> Estimates indicate that,
for adults, the association between cigarette taxes and either smoking participation or smoking intensity
is negative, small and not usually statistically significant. Our evidence suggests that increases in cigarette
taxes are associated with small decreases in cigarette consumption and that it will take sizable tax
increases, on the order of 100%, to decrease adult smoking by as much as 5%.

That suggests we may have reached the limit where additional taxes are able to reasonably achieve their goal. If the taxes aren't actually working then I think something else should be done instead of just jacking up the price more and more.
Developer Insight: Ken Case, the Omni Group
Ya I immediately thought of the same Life segment. Is there something new in this discovery that I'm not seeing? Maybe the fact that they can also tell how big the prey is and add digestive enzymes accordingly?
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What is referrer spamming? You mean people who look at the apache logs or something? Just don't look there, I don't see the connection between webmention and referrer.
Watch out when using tracking pixels. I am sorry I've not been able to find the source yet but in the past Facebook has said that they use them to target ads at other users if they successfully hit your tracking pixel.

It makes sense that they would as they now know that user is likely to click ads and follow through, but will in the long run increase your advertising costs as you're now competing against others for that user
There are two types of contempt (civil and criminal) and as a general rule contempt is triggered by violating a Court's Order(s). What Court Order has been violated?
That's some very sensitive information to put in Slack. If Slack has a security breach or if any of your slack accounts are hacked then an outside party could see this channel.

Ever accidentally typed your sudo password at the wrong prompt?
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

Null Island is a fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset,[1] located where the equator crosses the prime meridian, at coordinates 0°N 0°E.[2][3] Natural Earth describes the entity as a "1 meter square island" with "scale rank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping."[1] Although intended humorously, the fiction has a serious purpose and is used by mapping systems to trap errors.[3]
In reality, a weather observation buoy, part of the PIRATA system, is moored at the supposed location of the island.[4]
Under those circumstances, you can definitely get away without updating. But remember that updates do not only fix security issues, but also stability issues.

My gut feeling is that it is kind of like driving a car without wearing the seat belt. So far, if I had never worn a seat belt, nothing bad would have happened, because I did not have any accidents. But when it happens, one goes through the wind shield, so to speak. Also, some stability/performance issues do not manifest until a machine has been running continuously for months or years.

(What is more disturbing, though, that the very-high-uptime systems (~4 to 8 years) I have seen also appeared to never get backed up, and there didn't seem to be any plans for replacement, or at least spare parts. Which is kind of bad if the machine happens to be responsible for getting production data from your SCADA to your ERP system which in turn orders supplies based on that data.)
Pbd – Protocol Buffers Disassembler
Looks good. Feedback from a designer I showed this to: it would be useful to search based on aspect ratio (landscape vs portrait at minimum).
> 1. The battery is where most development happens and where it's most needed. So you don't have to worry about your car getting too old too fast. Just get fresh battery.

Isn't the situation more like, current battery technology (lithium) has only seen small incremental improvements for a while and apart from cost reductions there isn't anything major on short-medium timescale coming up.

You can still put in a new battery around the 10-15 year mark of course even with current cars, with hopefully a fraction of today's cost.
Yes, that process you refer to apparently kicks in after 5 triggers which, I think, is a much more impressive feat of genuine counting.

I'm now intrigued by its memory capacity and how that works.
Last summer I did a workshop with the longbow. It's real fun, and has many links to meditation, finding your center etc. I had seen it before, never liked it, but it was great.

In the end I shot at a 1.5 meter target about 100 meters away. You could barely see it, as it was lying flat on a hill. At first I could not believe that I had the power to get that far, but it worked out. I missed it by about 12 meters, which was not bad looking at the competition that day.
The very last line of the article:

> For all its benefits, there's also a downside to having large prefetch sizes: there's the chance of

Is the unfinished sentence a joke about a chance of not reading data completely or did the editor not include something?
It's enough tasks where you need to have understanding of the ML algorithms/workflows/tools, and be able to implement production system that integrates them into real systems, generating value for companies. In many cases you need to have very good domain knowledge & software development skills in addition to understanding of ML. And in ML-related systems, the big part of implementation not ML itself, but a lot of supporting stuff (figure 1 from "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems" paper (https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-m...) quite useful for understanding).

I personally took several ML courses from coursera/udacity/edX, and they helped me when I decided to move to another group that works on the ML-related projects.
Thanks for the link, I appreciate the idea. Sadly, this seems useless for me. I'd need a service that I can point to in the head that converts the webmention to a trackback (and not a pingback, though that would work as well if absolutely necessary, but by default pingbacks have no description which could collide in some themes; also a harder codepath) and then sends the trackback to the blog. Fetching that later with JS is no option, it has to end up in the database.

I hope I did not just miss that (now again and when I saw it the last time), but this does not seem to capable of that.