skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not harsh at all. Each clicked link should result in a gif showing the feature in action. If that's not showing at all then looks like I've a browser incompatibility to fix.
From the very limited documentation available without signing up, that service requires a roundtrip to apilimit.com's servers before fulfilling the request (to answer the "should the API do this or block this?" question). That's going to add a pretty big overhead to every request, not to mention requiring either a continuously open connection to apilimit.com or building a connection for every request, and as we're talking about customers that are hitting rate limits, that's automatically going to be a lot of requests.

A solution would be to include an encrypted token on each request that the user sends with their next request. The token would include details of how long the API should wait before fulfilling the request (or just block it the request). This would require every API server in the network being able to decrypt requests from any other server, which is a problem, but securely sharing keys can be done. It'd also be necessary for all the servers to share information about who has a token otherwise clients could just request a new token (effectively starting over). If you're willing to accept the first call being slow then that's not really a problem though.
Arachni (web application security scanner framework) 1.4 is out
tbh smh fam
It looks good, but I feel that the mail font could be a little bigger (it's also a little thin IMHO).
Here's a screenshot of how it looks on OSX in Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/W3fPhOb.png
As far as I can see GNU Social only POSSEs to Twitter, but that is a good start anyway.
Another "dark pattern" I recently noticed:

One page (member homepage perhaps) displays a list with the standard "add these people to your network" and in an absent-minded moment I clicked a few. Too late, I realised it was a mixed list of LinkedIn members and non-members extracted from my address book. Existing members, fine, they get an invite to connect. But non-members no doubt receive a message "from austinjp".

I texted one friend a pre-emptive apology and logged out. I very rarely bother with LinkedIn, and this is another reason they leave me cold.
VS Code is leagues better than Atom, but it's still perceivably and annoyingly slower than Sublime.
Sure. Every analytics company tries to differentiate themselves by claiming that they do something the others don't and showing off some pretty charts.

The marketers buy the hype and want all of that. "If I take this pretty chart from here, and that table that from there, and these numbers from over here, I can make a really impressive report!"

And they want to make sure that they're collecting all the data they could possibly be collecting (because they never know when they might suddenly need the last 6 months data about something they never thought of), even though they don't know what queries they want to be able to make.

So they make the developers add all of them, end up with tons of data but very little information, and start talking about 'this big data thing' that could maybe give them answers even though they still don't know what questions they want to ask. And to use it, you just have to add this little snippet of javascript...
[Poll] Have any of you guys used Fabric.io by Twitter? what do you think?
Liquor store music video
Tampermonkey for Firefox released
Actually, this can almost completely wipe out Wired from google search results.

One metric that is used to rank sites is the bounce rate. If ad blocking users simply go back to Google and look for another result, then they will get penalised by Google.
So guns are a drug now are they?
You seem to be pricing risk at $0.

As a simple and relevant example, would you rather invest in a company that has a 10% chance at a 1000% return (but otherwise returns 0%), or take the 2.56% bond?

The EV of the first option is 100% return (with high risk), whereas the other is 231% compounded (guaranteed).
> they are ploys to manipulate viewers into buying things that they did not need until they watched that ad.

I think those ads definitely exist-- , but I think as well ads can just be a company with a thing, making sure you're aware of that thing.

I presume you enjoy at least some movies. I also presume you have missed movies that you would have enjoyed, because the trailer or whatever never made it to you. Getting that movie trailer or poster to you, and only getting those trailers or posters of movies that you'd like to you, is definitely advertising, but I don't think it's negative advertising.
Afraid not, as it doesn't mount as a disk drive :(
Try umatrix, it's available for both firefox and chrome, and allows you to do whitelisting of third party domains for each domain you visit.
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad it's of use.

I'll get that typo fixed, though FWIW, it works without the quotes, since it's what validated on my servers. :)
Gee, people want to feed their kids? FUCK THEM. Stuff it, greedy capitalist pigs.
The Force.com Multitenant Architecture
You might be interested in: http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-thiel
This is silly. Young children are essentially genderless. If they express gender issues, work on it using therapy to find what the cause is. I don't see the need to make them crossdress etc. at such a young age.
Because this is people's health you're talking about.

Do you feel drivers should have to get a drivers licenses? I hope you don't think Uber should just hire people off the street and put them in cars without proper licenses.

A simple health example off the top of my head - you sell health insurance to someone without understanding the product because you're so keen to 'make the sale'. Meanwhile you promised the buyer it would cover that heart condition he has when in fact you have no idea that it doesn't. A couple years later he needs heart surgery and finds out the plan he's been paying into doesn't cover his condition and now he cannot work to provide for his family, nor can he get treatment to get better.
I suspect if you're in somewhere like Norway you're not likely to have been misled on the whale's origins
I also think that the "no competition" point is overblown, but Sublime was still quite unique. It is very general purpose, not focused on any particular domain like Brackets, multiplatform, and with a great plugin ecosystem. It was a swiss-knife editor, that you could throw at anything and was always great.

I don't use it any more, but a few years ago I did everything, from writing a paper in latex to webdev to C, in Sublime. It was by far the king to my toolbelt.

* Brackets was only good for web (wasn't it?)

* Visual Studio Code is newer than Atom

* Notepad++ is, I think, quite outdated, and windows only

* I like Kate, but not so much out of KDE, that is very niche compared to Windows, OSX, and the wider Linux world

* Emacs (and Vim!) are hard to learn and slowly dying off[1]

* Other specific editors are... specific, and thus not direct competition to ST

[1] Might be my perception. I hope they'll never really die; I use both (Emacs+Evil and GVim), and learned in the last 2 years, but I'm the only one I know.
There is also the whole tent protocol and camping.io thing. I stopped trying to follow years ago though.
Mobile usage keeps rising and apps that have a lot of engagement like Facebook garner incredible amounts of revenue from companies wanting to advertise on that platform.

The subsequent effect is media ranging from Wired to my local newspapers continue to lose ad dollars that are funneled to Google/FB. Just as an example, Buzzfeed smartly made an incredible Facebook video brand in order to help increase their reach, value to advertisers (via sponsored content) which helps fund real journalism (akin to the role of comics/crosswords for newspapers decades ago). Month after month, excellent journalists who used to work for national newspapers leave or are let go because of decreasing revenue, whereby they end up moving to Buzzfeed News.

It really irks me that Facebook and Google has so much clout over the advertising industry.
They have an android app that you can install to run in the background and monitor location & signal stregnth, dropped calls, etc. I ran it on my phone for a while.
Sam sold a company, runs YC and has invested in Instacart. What have you done?
India Blocks Facebook's Free Basics App
Monopoly? I highly doubt Sublime ever had even 20% of Notepad++'s installs.
If this really is a bot, I'm just astonished. Well done to the crew behind this.
Except that everyone has some data that they want to keep private...

Maybe you want to keep your text messages private from your employer, or your browsing history private from your children, or your maximum driving speeds private from your local law-enforcement, or your sexual preference separate from your wife, or etc, etc.
> I assure you Yaourt doesn't have an .asc signature either.

That's yaourt's problem, not makepkg's or the AUR's.

> They should be using SHA-256, or Blake 2 if they think the extra seconds spent verifying matter, but insisting on using MD5 is pretty much going out of your way to increase your attack surface.

It doesn't matter what algorithm you use, file hashes are not a security feature. Use GPG!
I haven't. Does something like this happen in it? I should check it out.
A classic example of Germany's Wirtschaftswunder. Today you would be hard pressed to find a home where his company's wall plugs are not used somewhere — at least in Europe.
I actually think this is a reasonable move for them. They have to pay their staff and keep the lights on while producing their content. It is kind of entitled and ridiculous for readers to think the party of well-researched, well-written and insightful content for free could go on forever. You either should have to pay for it explicitly with a subscription fee, or consent to ads and tracking. Yes, there is a lot of mediocre fluff/stuff there, but there is easily $1/week worth of high quality content imho.

And, if you do not want to partake, then don't. No one is making you read Wired. But, I strongly suspect that publishers that want to keep producing high quality content without running themselves into the ground, as ad blockers become more prevalent, are going to go down this road. The folks here that saying "Ad blockers or bust!" are going to be left with increasingly fringe and lower quality content in the future.
Çağlayan İlaçlama Firmaları,Çağlayan İlaçlama Firması,Çağlayan İlaçlama Şirketi
You can get their certs pinned into your browser by adding the HKPK header to them. It'll also mitigate risks for your other visitors (if any; may not be a public site).
A full grown cockroach can squeeze through a crack as high as two pennies
Futureadvisor and sigfig can trade at your brokerages.
FYI Build 3103 was just released [1]

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-bui...
The Lucas-nacci Numbers
we are still the same disgusting species
I asked Jeff Barr if there were any plans to build an open source community around the Lumberyard code. Answer: "Yes, I believe so!"

Whoa.

https://twitter.com/jdub/status/696975443606396928
Worst ever support i have experienced. I do not contact support unless there is something i can't operate myself.
They just copy paste things from their support FAQ... didn't receive answer to my question ever... Such incompetence.
Europeans in Europe can take countries etc to their local courts, or to the European Court of Human Rights, or the Court of Justice of the European Union. Europeans are not able to take any court case against the US government in US courts.
SoundSea – Simple search and download songs equip with metadata and album art
There is an infinite universe of actions we can take. We can sleep all day. We can wave our arms for hours. We can all decide to dress up as Ross Perot. We need some way to determine which actions are worth doing and which are not. You appear to reject the use of return on investment as this filter. With what do you propose to replace it?
Similar project started earlier: http://www.netradar.org/en
When a self-declared genius asks you to read his masterpiece
Yeah, a well-implemented hack would make it more difficult than simply spending a night restoring backups. It would have to be more than a temporary breach to have a substantial effect.

The concept is to make it impossible to do business under the existing conditions. If hospital systems are unable to bill their patients because their systems are constantly scrambled by vigilantes, it'll affect the cost-benefit calculation involved in continuing operation under their existing business model.

Undoubtedly there would be confusion and misapplied bills involved. I don't see that as detrimental to the overarching cause. The only reason these systems are able to operate as-is is because their architects have devised a carefully fragmented and extremely confusing system that splits American society such that unity on the issue can't be achieved without substantial personal cost to the members of the more powerful/useful social factions.

If someone can level that playing field, we'll be well on our way to substantive change. When the powerful people have to feel the indignity of getting their credit wrecked for a decade or more because their kid fell down at a playground and got a concussion, even though they took every precaution that the man said they'd have to take to survive this kind of routine nightmare semi-intact, the rules will change much faster.

At present, the poor get their medical care pretty well taken care of through Medicaid. The rich don't care because they can throw infinity money at health problems (which is not to say they actually have to). It's the middle class that's getting raked over the coals, because they're not rich enough to force a change through monetary influence and they have too much to lose to force a change through social action.

I'm really not even a single-payer or socialized medicine kind of guy, but the current system is the worst of all worlds. The ACA provided a few useful tweaks but overall the system is just getting worse and worse. It shouldn't be allowed to stand.
Standing Desk Proven to be healthy. Would you use one?
Ask HN: I will launch whatever HackerNews wants by midnight
Hi HackerNews.

Today is Tuesday, early morning. I'm willing to try and build a working version 1 of anything and release it in whatever form or shape by midnight tonight.

If there's some software you would be willing to pay (how much?) to use right now, here's a chance to have it built.

What's the smallest, most useful thing you can imagine that can earn money in a day?
Will Homo Sapiens evolve further?
As a European I consider trains to be the most comfortable way of traveling available today.
Planes have these awkward boarding procedures and trains, even in economy, have nice amounts of moving space.

It is so mind-boggling to me how train-to-train crashes can occur. You can naively assume this must be one of the easier things to prevent. Especially in a highly developed country like Germany.

Does this mean train infrastructure (in Europe) is so outdated? Or why does this seem to happen fairly often?

Edit: According to the Wikipedia list mentioned below there seems to be a train-to-train collision about every 2 years in (Western) Europe. Let's not focus on whether that is a lot or not, but what generalizations can be made about their causes.
I have found out that I try and access a Forbes article about once a week from my cellphone. I've also found that I don't care about any of the links enough to whitelist it. I haven't shared a Forbes link with anyone since then.
Planet Money: When CEO Pay Exploded
The schwab one, "Intelligent Portfolios", has been criticized for keeping a large(up to 7%) cash position, and stacking the allocation with some high cost "Fundamental" schwa index funds.

Betterment and Wealthfront, would be the biggest players. WiseBanyan is interesting becuase there is not fee. Sigfig is interesting becuase it trades at your existing brokerages.
I see that same UI on a normal user account.

Maybe the fact that I'm in Argentina is somehow related? (we have some additional restrictions due to government restrictions, so the functionality is different too).
Plenty of inspiration for the next Hollywood movie :)
> There are no major advances left.

I think the problem is elsewhere. There's noone doing the advancing. People like myself (smart, educated, ambitious, technically-oriented) are way better of doing the unproductive things (finance or ad-tech) than the productive (research). And by "way better" I mean it doesn't even compare! Academia is fucked-up as well (chasing it's proverbial tail by encouraging young researchers to publish, not to, you know, actually research).

Simply said, everyone is looking to invest capital in equity, but nobody actually wants to pay people to do the work. Give me a living wage (i.e. not 40k when the tiny apartment I live in costs 600k) and freedom to decide the direction I'll go in, and I'll gladly research "useful stuff". Otherwise, I'd rather chase my own interest by doing the "useless" (but highly-paid) stuff.
Not to mention that all FAQs have been updated to NEW UIs.
Also note that there's a difference between uBlock and uBlock Origins.
Also interesting to note that for an equity heavy allocation, betterment at 15bp, is only about 10bp more than the Vangaurd Target Date funds at 18bp.
This reminds me of a React/Flux talk by Facebook's Jing Chen about how there were pieces of code within the product that literally nobody wanted to touch because they were so fragile and complex. I suspect there is something similarly messy in the PayPal business accounts, and for whatever reason a ground-up rewrite was also a challenge.
Using non-apple hardware and software does not take more time, nor does it incur more frustration. It generally does cost less money for the same level of performance. It often lasts longer than the apple-branded alternative as well due to the relative ease of repair and upgrade where the apple-branded alternative would have to be replaced.

This saves me time for my wife, my children and my hobbies. It also saves me money. Time, and money, to spend on what's important to me. It also sends a signal to companies: there is a market for upgradable, repairable hardware.
Apple Wants a Monopoly on iPhone Repairs, Says iFixit
I'm glad you found a strategy that got you your first 100 paying clients. But now you're unable to determine your CAC or CLV and have no idea how to scale acquisition. Or at the very least, your CAC is through the roof because your employees are the ones hustling (social, support, visibility, etc). That's difficult to scale and/or measure properly.

Have you completely abandoned the traditional methods?
Did you try on Reddit, posting in some specialized subreddit?
Everybody Hates Uber?
> If you have used Windows all your life, you have taught yourself to live with a lot of BS.

Since Windows 3.x.

Macs were too expensive for Portuguese purses vs what Amiga, Atari and PC systems were asking for.

Also as a gamer I could never convince myself to pay more for less technical specs.

As for better drivers, Apple's OpenGL and OpenCL support leaves a lot to be desired when one is into graphics programming.
In a way it's verbose, but less so on a syntax level. There's no need to deal with interfaces, classes, or exceptions. The boilerplate code you write tends to serve a practical purpose, as opposed to a syntactical one. Sure you have to deal with a lot of error handling and memory management yourself, but the language doesn't get in your way or create much friction.
This is like if Mozilla forced Google to pay them if they wanted to keep adsense ads showing.
As I've said in the past here on HN, the key feature for this will be webassembly. When it becomes possible to easily compile a "custom" version of freetype and do all the rendering into a canvas element, and send the entire "webapp" (really: document with ads) down in a binary blob, everybody that currently depends on advertising will switch to it.
There's truth to this.

After the famine in Germany during and after WW1, the German high command decided running out of butter (as in "guns and butter", it's both, not one or the other: you want guns you need butter) would not happen again. Even before Hitler became chancellor, the military prepared for WW2 by buying whale oil at low prices to stockpile and building up a whale factory fleet with assistance from the (largely unemployed) Norwegian whaling fleet. As a direct result, during WW2, Germany was well fed.

Given large enough whale stocks, it's a very viable strategy for wartime or blockade.
You have the draw the line somewhere and using physical boundaries is quite useful. It create a natural distinction.

The problem with IP is that there isn't any limit to it. A driver license is not more or less a property than a patent, but it acts wastingly different. Can I sell a driver license? can I rent it? Can I cut it into two different part and give a friend half of it? What makes the exclusivity of state granted driver license a non-property, in contrast to the state granted exclusivity of an patent?
We Have the Technology to Destroy All Zika Mosquitoes
The logic here seems circular. How do you get from a world with racism/sexism/etc issues, to one without? Simply by assuming it to be true?

How does acting like the problem doesn't exist solve the problem? If that's not what you mean, then do you mean we should all just suddenly stop being racist/sexist/bigotted/etc? Just like that? How would that work? How do you get your neighbor to go along with that? Or white middle manager, who means well but is uncomfortable hiring people of certain ethnicities or sexualities because of "culture fit"? It seems that anyone willing to do what you are saying, if I'm understanding it correctly, is probably already of the belief that a world without racism/sexism/etc would be better, and already behaves in the manner you suggest. In which case, we still live in a fucked up world and system where these things are actually still big problems.
Can confirm, I tried using Atom for four months but recently gave up.

Electron and other Chromium wrappers are the new client-side JVM.
Trending tags: #anarchy, #antifa, #nonazis etc. No thanks, I'll pass.
Over here in the UK we have a comedy news quiz called "Have I Got News For You". Each episode features a "guest publication" which is always along the lines of "Air Quality Professional" or "Snail Breeders Monthly". OK, so I made those up, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them.
> Academia is fucked-up as well (chasing it's proverbial tail by encouraging young researchers to publish, not to, you know, actually research).

I have to wonder how much of this phenomenon is due to genuine advances just being harder to come by. When others have already filled in the color between the lines in your field except for tiny bits in the corners here and there, what's left to do but fudge experimental results, salami-slice what genuinely novel results you do see, and take advantage of publication bias?

Maybe researchers wouldn't need to resort to these shenanigans if we weren't running out of things to discover.
I have split websites that I visit into two categories:

1) Websites that still render and are readable after uMatrix, uBlock Origin, and a few other restrictive content filters are done with them. I continue reading and enjoying these, provided the content is worth my reading time.

2) Websites that are broken, or otherwise make the content inaccessible. For example, a "dialog" appears over the content, inviting me to join their newsletter. These sites get the ol' ^W or ⌘W, and after a few visits I learn to never visit them again.

Also, sites in category #2, are auto-censored anywhere I moderate.
MS has had express editions of their IDEs available for quite some time....
Serverless Django Application Using AWS Lambda
XML Prague conference