skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, you quote:

>> The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

On the other, you say:

>> Trump is effectively inciting violent action among his supporters. And he's not even elected yet.

As if you wouldn't want the tree of liberty to be refreshed.

We can have Trump, who may destroy the economy of America, or we can have Hillary, who will destroy the whole world[1].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-c...
The article mentions a case where Amazon Prime membership wasn't refunded. The Amazon Prime terms state that it would be refunded on termination. However, it also has the following term:

> However, we will not give any refund for termination related to conduct that we determine, in our discretion, violates these Terms or any applicable law, involves fraud or misuse of the Prime membership, or is harmful to our interests or another user.

IANAL, but would that not constitute an unfair contract term under UK law?
Fake headline. Actual headline: "Wikileaks Exaggerates Story About State Department Working With Google To Block Video"
Any site that served ads like that I'd be happy to white list. I'd go further and be happy for uBlock or adblock to never block those sort of ads (uBlock didn't btw).

* Static images
* tastefully integrated
* Self hosted, so no networks tracking me worldwide
* No JS

I can still read in comfort. Much like newspapers and magazines used to be.

I'd even be happy to click, and perhaps buy from ads like that.

This comes from someone who goes elsewhere rather than turn off noscript or uBlock. :)

Well done, you invented the future of online advertising. Oh, wait...
And then there's mobsweet which does the utterly annoying full page redirect
If someone is running verifiers on the contract language, or worried that their policies are wrong, they can restructure the underlying code or the policies. You're assuming the only verifiable things are parser languages from the 70s.
About following references to other repos, there's this Chrome Extension I built that is slightly related:

http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/gh-browser/

It adds links directly to GitHub source code (to other GitHub repos or external documentation) whenever it finds import/require statements.
Good find. :)
I was unsure whether to have that as headline or not. Odd situation
No, the landing page is quite clear, and the app seems very nice and actually useful -- for people who use these cards. My problem is just with the cards themselves.
Not even in the slightest. Yes, i understand this was probably a joke, but still. That scene was pretty dumb.
Unimportant but confounding - They have one of the oddest logos I have ever seen. What is it? Please help.
That's the headline you picked? Dude, flying cars.
If batteries gradually lose their capacity over time, it would be in the interest of customers to look for an opportunity to swap an old battery for a new one, and never swap back. Even if Tesla operates the battery swap system fairly, there's a cost associated with this because they end up holding the bad/old batteries.

Typically, though, the argument is that both customers and dealers will hang on to valuable good "money" (batteries) and thus the batteries likely to be exchanged will be of low quality.

So the model you describe is one in which each customer just alternates between a few batteries that essentially belong to them. It should address the quality problem, but at the expense of complicating the business of the battery depot. Treating batteries as a non-fungible commodity is a big step.
Old enough to drink alcohol. :-)
Has anybody ever beat NetHack without patching the source code or running it in the debugger?
http://officesnapshots.com/
I am in the non-vocal minority that doesn't like nethack. I love games but I am in for the narration, the stories. I fondly remember the narratology vs. ludology debate from 10 years back.

I prefer things like Knytt (from nifflas) for example (the story is rather weak but the ambiance it gives out and the feelings I get from it entertains me more).

edit: For instance I really dig adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ and played through it two times because of the mood, the theme and the slight hints of a story behind it. I could never play nethack for more than 5 minutes. On a side note, I used to play role-playing games and now all my friends are into strategy board games with 72 pages or rules. It's okay, I just sit in the couch reading the background of the world and its characters while they compute ranges and the spawn ratio of monsters for the next round of the game.
An other fun danger of insufficiently aerated rooms: in wine countries, until cellars aeration became more widespread a huge danger was CO buildup in cellars from fermentation, to these days people regularly die during initial fermentation, and a warning you get is "if you see somebody unconscious at the bottom of the cellar stairs you do not go down to help, you call the firefighters, trying to help just ensures they have two bodies to retrieve".
Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine buying a large TV, having it fail or arrive DOA, then, rather than getting a replacement, saying "give me my money back". Maybe once or twice.

I used to hang around Caraudioforum years ago, and it was a "thing" to buy cheap subwoofers from Walmart and experiment with them, like plugging them into an electrical outlet. Then return them, no questions asked. This is not new.
Backblaze does a thorough hard drive reliability report, here's their latest:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201...
If you're asking about the oxygen levels, I'd say so. At a rough guess of 1m^2 of oxygen per person in the boat, for two people. That's an hour of walking according to the article. (Assuming water takes less oxygen to walk in)

I think it'd float to the top though. It'll need some kind of weight...

A one ton metal boat shaped object would do:

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2007/11/episode_92_pirates_2_row_...
At what point do you simply stop trying to buy these items from Amazon? I don't purchase everything from there; it's good for some things, terrible for others. Mailing stuff back is a pain.
Looks like development stopped in 2005, does it still work? Would be nice to have on ELPA, if so...
So, horror movies are realistic for once. If you see your friend lying dead in the cellar... GTFO of there, it really is zombies (or gas buildup of some variety) . :)
This is not the only problem I have with a mobile version.

Yesterday, I tried finding my own issue that I submitted two minutes ago to update it with a screenshot from my phone. Had to type in the full URL manually at the end.

I love being able to quickly edit my notes from my phone, but no, I have to revert to the desktop version to be able to edit the file.

Not being able to see my feed is definitely a huge disadvantage.

All in all, I use the desktop version quite a lot. At least it's easy to switch to it.
What is "experdience"?
Don't forget, that single GET also comes with cookies so tracking isn't limited to a single IP.
It's great design work, and you should be proud of it. However, the reasons for why I play games are not well served by Nethack, I'm afraid, so the advertisement doesn't work on me.
CADT squared?
Just a random question: what is the reasoning behind the class name and HTML element choices you made?

For example, https://github.com/Pym/Jasper/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/page.ht... has a <section>. Why not <article>?

Another example, why "page-title" and "page-description" on https://github.com/Pym/Jasper/blob/gh-pages/_includes/header...? Why not just "title" and "description"?
I can count on one hand the number of online orders I've had to return in the past five years. Usually it's RMAing an electronic device that was DOA, or a product that looked iffy on the order page and ended up being complete junk. Now, to Amazon's detriment, there's a lot of things I don't even attempt to buy on it anymore because there's so much low quality junk being sold.

Who returns dozens of items in a year?! That's like the picky customer that no restaurant wants to have to deal with.
Ask HN: Making mobile consumable HackerNews cards
This is question to all pro users of hackernews. I am working on a product that makes different links consumable on mobile. Because hackernews is such a rich source of information, I am looking at making a hackernews link consumable on mobile. My biggest issue is the same, lot of information. Our current information on hackernews card shows minimal information about hackernews link. Mainly title, number of upvotes, number of comments and if its an article, then we fetch that article too. Its not a hackernews mobile client but we are doing it for multiple sources like producthunt, imgur etc so you can simple serach everything from this app and share a consumable card. But it is becoming very challanging to do the same for hackernews. I need honest feedback about if it is possible to do it for hackernews at all and if yes, what can I change? I know its a UX problem but I think would be better solved by users who constantly use hackernews.

Here is an example of card we have built for hackernews
http://web.cubeit.io/web/index.html?id=7ee8b2b5-4aa9-49db-b054-b8cd1a9c28780
Well, let's see, I bought 4 x Toshiba 5TB HDDs from Amazon.

Within 3 months, 2 of them had failed (not completely dead, but reporting a high number of unrecoverable sectors). I probably just hit a bad batch.

So yes, if somebody unlike me took the time to thoroughly burn-in their drives, they might well return 1 out of 10 within the 30-day period.

Just blatantly dismissing another post, without providing any evidence of your own at all is just a bit douchey. At least suggest your own experiences, or even better, point to some sources or statistics to back up your point.

The above is my own experiences - but as noted, I may have just hit a bad batch.

If you look at BackBlaze's results:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-...

You can see that some problematic drives (cough Seagate cough*) had failure rates around 20-25%...
Yeah, probably one of the reasons.

I don't understand why one would DDOS Github.
What is the reason for that?
Wikilisp
Not in the US.
If you are interested in 2D animation software there are a few others that are worth mentioning.
These packages are usually either vector based or raster based.

Of the vector based I recall:

- Anime Studio

- Toon Boom Studio/Harmony/Animate

- Macromedia/Adobe Flash/Animate

- Synfig Studio (Open Source)

Of the raster based:

- Celsys Retas

- Toonz Harlequin/Bravo

- TVPaint Animation

There are some others in both categories but I don't remember them right now. Feel free to add to the list.
The last time I checked, as shipped by Amazon in the US without any care in packing as reported in feedback, I'd expect that or a higher defective rate for any manufacturer.

Been a few years since I've bought any, but with any luck Newegg is still packing them well.
In a world of perfect ad-targeting surveillance, it should be simple and cheap enough to simply bid up blank banners for your browser, just your browser and on every site (maybe with some clever scripting to reject accidental clicks that would cost you a heavy premium).

Unfortunately, this would do absolutely nothing about the actual point of the article: that GUIDs introduced for harmless ad targeting are the light by which government spying systems are seeing persons in the otherwise quite anonymous data streams.
As covercash commented, this is pretty much in line with the blackblaze statistics, and also when you buy a hard drive on amazon, whether from amazon or from the market place, the chance that the HD has been damaged in transit is much higher than if the drive came directly to the datacenter from the manufacturer.
Continuing development is great in most ways, but it does have one drawback: it prevents the existence of a stable canonical version. This becomes relevant when you get into things like speedrunning, or just researching strategies in general. There's no knowing whether the next update will change everything.
They tested this on mythbusters- http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...
Yeah, except the IPCC reports have been vetted by other independent climate scientists and their findings haven't been contested. So your argument falls flat.
Donald Trump's private photos leak
I would, at least for select movies.

After getting kids the time we have for going to the cinema have decreased a lot and the technical capabilities of home systems have improved.

So if we could watch for example the new starwars on launch day I would have absolutely no problem paying 50 USD.
Schlosshotelberlin
FYI PUT is misused here. From RFC 7231 [1]:

The PUT method requests that the state of the target resource be
created or replaced with the state defined by the representation
enclosed in the request message payload. A successful PUT of a given
representation would suggest that a subsequent GET on that same
target resource will result in an equivalent representation being
sent in a 200 (OK) response.

Placing the PUT body at a different location and returning a pointer to it is not supported by this definition. Furthermore:

Proper interpretation of a PUT request presumes that the user agent
knows which target resource is desired. A service that selects a
proper URI on behalf of the client, after receiving a state-changing
request, SHOULD be implemented using the POST method rather than PUT.
If the origin server will not make the requested PUT state change to
the target resource and instead wishes to have it applied to a
different resource, such as when the resource has been moved to a
different URI, then the origin server MUST send an appropriate 3xx
(Redirection) response; the user agent MAY then make its own decision
regarding whether or not to redirect the request.

That is, to get the effect you intend, you should either (a) use POST (from which you should return a 201 with the final destination, not 200 like you currently do), or (b) issue a 307 redirect to the final destination of the PUT before accepting any content (and subsequently replying with a 201).

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.4
The CO2 buildup would kill them long before they reach the 17.5% O2 mark. And considering how hard it is to actually walk in water, i'd say it would almost be equivalent to working out. According to the article, a person that is heavily working out would have 10 minutes to reach the 17.5% mark in a 1m^3 area. So maybe 20 minutes for the boat people? And that is neglecting the CO2.
Don't forget the historical context here too: physical stores don't have costs in return shipping for unhappy customers, and this was as much a move to ease customer concerns about online shopping earlier on. Amazon isn't paying register employees and gets a lot of expense saving out of that, in return they probably were going to have to expect a greater rate of return. He also had a return rate of 10%, so maybe labeling the guy as a total problem customer is a bit much.

I don't understand why Amazon wouldn't trend towards a restocking fee if they were really concerned about this type of customer. And it seems like they generate way more bad will (and likelihood of lawsuits and regulations) for stuff like not refunding gift card balances. But it's their biz so, whatever.
Function signatures like (Int -> Int -> Int) should be familiar to anyone familiar with functional languages (f#, ocaml and haskell come to mind as having similar notation). I would also assume the return type of addCandidate to indeed be inferred.

That said, maybe the README does lack a bit of introductory text, especially if their targeted audience is programmers in general.
GitHub can work as a CMS for most use cases. At least in most of the cases where the nonprofits wouldn't have the money to waste on expensive hosting services every month, or to deal with CMS systems bugs.

It would have been much better if you made websites static by default and only in the cases in which the nonprofits would really need a hosted solution you would do that. Doesn't make sense to do the expensive/slower solution when you can do it just when needed.

Also, static sites are much easier to convert to CMS-backed sites than is the contrary, which means nonprofits will be trapped forever with the expensive solution you made for them.
Library Freedom Project and Werner Koch Are 2015 Free Software Awards Winners
Same here (Prime customer for the last 6 years). Their drop-down menu for the reason for a return doesn't have an option for "is complete crap, but couldn't tell from the reviews because of all the Vine Voice and company shrills." I end up paying the shipping back, when I could almost always return the equivalent item to a brick-and-mortar store without a charge.

It seems to me that there are certain kinds of items where, like toasters and countertop dishwashers, where Amazon has a dozen lazily branded versions of the same (low quality, guaranteed to fail in a year) OEM product, no mid-range, and then 1-3 high-end ones for 5* the price of the low quality tier.
It's not serious, not pretty. I know nothing about design, but I don't like it. Look at Flask, for example: http://flask.pocoo.org/, it's simple, but seems much more serious.

I've read more about it and your framework and it really seems very very nice. That CLI thing is great, but the landing page is really hurting adoption, I think.
This Fanuc Industrial Robot Learns a New Job Overnight
Depends on the state and circumstance.

(Many states have parental permission exceptions, some extending to restaurants)
I did mention it in the context of "For anyone actually looking to transpile Python into Javascript for web usage", not for live execution. There are tons of options for web REPL.
Sounds like you're from Japan?

FYI for readers here, Dwango has been leading efforts to revitalise Japanese Anime, including Anime Mahon-Ichi, a series of animated shorts produced with a creative focus in lieu of commercial viability.
Yes it's quite common, but probably requires reading about strategies. (I've never done it.)
Distellamap: Seeing the operation of code in Atari 2600 games
I never claimed it outputted good Javascript, just that it was readable. I personally wouldn't use Transcrypt for anything, I'd just write Javascript.
Street cred.
Tangential, but what exactly makes someone a millenial these days? I was almost expecting a newspaper run by 16 year olds with that title, but that's obviously not the case. Is anyone under thirty a millennial now?
Works fine in a universe that allows for magically undead pirates....
An open letter to Jose J. Moran
What I'm really interested in seeing is a workplace entirely run by Capricorns.

I've never seen evidence that Millennials exist as a group at all. Is it a negative horoscope published once a decade?
Even if the average is lower than that, it wouldn't be surprising for any particular buyer to have above-average DOA rates. After all some buyers have below-average rates.
IFS Acquires MainIoT Software Oy
It's broken because it has no sense anymore, now it's time to make a new world where every one works, not only "invest" and wait for profit!
There's also Pencil2D[0] which open source.

[0] https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil
> Edit: could this change once ad-blockers have caused the introduction of server-side splicing of ads and content? (I suspect that this will become the main business of edge server operators not too far down the road)

That's a good point. Maybe ad-blockers will impose accountability.

Edit: There's a tendency to be irresponsible when effectively anonymous. But there's still risk. Let's say that some ad network is hosting ransomware. Well over 99% of victims will have no provable damages. But maybe you take out some business and all of the day's backups. There's also the potential for class tort.
It's a matter of proportion to me. If a service is used predominantly to facilitate illegality then I see no reason to continue to run it.

The internet, phones, email, regular mail, roads, electricity, software and on on have predominantly good and productive uses. File sharing websites attract percentage wise more bad than good, at least more bad than what I'm comfortable with.

So in the end that's a moral call and in this case my decision was to shut it down because of the types of crimes involved and the number of criminals on the service totally outnumbered the 'good guys' and our ability to deal with the assholes was limited.
Google rate limits unauthenticated sessions. Try using Google over tor. They are pretty heavy-handed about it too. Github isn't tiny enough to use ddos as an excuse.
Facebook’s ad platform now guesses at your race based on your behavior
If Amazon restocks returned items and sells them as new, I'd say Amazon is to blame for the situation that you depict.

I'm also not sure if that is legal in he EU.
This reminds me of a node.js-based utility I wrote awhile back called filebounce[1], except filebounce streams a file over HTTP/HTTPS and does not store the file on an intermediary server. It also supports tailored curl and GUI browser-based interfaces. I use it as a simple way of copying a file without needing ssh, ftp, samba, etc.

[1] https://github.com/mscdex/filebounce
And if you download it, be fully prepared to shut down your startup and/or get fired.
Granted, there are restrictions. However, a lot of those restrictions have disappeared in recent releases, and more are disappearing all the time. Iterators, generators, xrange, I expect those all to be included in due time. Additionally, re: the standard library, there is a project called Ouroboros[1] that replicates the standard library in pure python, and there was discussion regarding integrating that into Transcrypt.

You're right, it's not there yet, and I'm interested in it for purely theoretical reasons (I personally don't think I'd ever use Transcrypt for anything in production), but I think it holds great potential.

[1]: https://github.com/pybee/ouroboros/tree/master/ouroboros
The Desire for Certainty and Fit Kills Innovation
MiniVim: Between Sublime Text and Vim
From a quote in the article "We tend to publicize these outrageous acts of defiance, versus emphasizing the majority that I run into and work with, who are very mission focused and value based". Which has been my experience, very few do things that would be close to what is in the article. On the other hand I've met my share of "WTF?" from people 18-70, not sure that millennials have the lock on bad behavior in the workplace.
What do you recommend instead of LevelDB?
No it didn't.

> But their suspicions were only confirmed when a woman made an unusually large pizza order, Politico reported, leading armed officers to discover her sitting down for tea with two friends, several children and Abdeslam.

so a) they knew the place before the pizza became relevant, b) they discovered the guy sitting there, resulting in them knowing the guy was there

the topic of pizza seems pretty tangential compared
According to Wikipedia[1], Millennials are those born between 1980 and 2000. That would make a 16 year old barely a Millennial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
Back in the day, I played a lot in Angband clone called TOME (Troubles of Middle Earth) because I am a Tolkien lore fan and this flavor was amazing to me. Unfortunately, TOME devs turned it into some-another-generic-fantasy-realm that took away all the pleasure, and I havent been playing these games since.
A couple more definitions from Google.
Charity: voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need.
Stealing: to take without permission

I am an advocate for charity. But redistribution through taxation feels like stealing to me.
Cartoon dragon face?
Useless Use Of Cat.
Sounds like we need a more precise terminology than a blanket statement of "damaging the economy." The economy still exists after these actions are taken, it has just become a different economy.