skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Terms of Use contain language that states that automated access is unauthorized, and most companies allege you've agreed to their Terms of Use by accessing any page other than their front page (or accessing the front page more than once). Furthermore, even if this is lacking, once a company provides notice that you are no longer authorized to access their computers, it doesn't matter what the Terms of Use may say or whether the ToU is considered a binding contract; you've received notice that your access is unauthorized.

The CFAA generally applies to any computer access, as the Commerce Clause has been interpreted as applying to completely intra-state transactions (ignoring the fact that most computer access crosses state lines, which would make it a federal issue anyway), and thus, effectively all computers attached to the internet are "protected computers". Even if you're able to prevail in the argument that the CFAA is not applicable, there are similarly-worded state statutes, and as mentioned, other issues may federal matters, like alleged copyright and trademark infringement (which is usually alleged in such cases).

The CFAA is somewhat grey so if you have a few hundred k or more to flush on your lawyers, go ahead, it's possible that you may win. For most people, it's not relevant, because they can't afford to go head-to-head against a major global corporate entity like Amazon. One of the main goals of such a company is to make the lawsuit as costly as possible for the opposing party, since they have infinity money and they know that their opponent likely doesn't.

If you're interested, there have been a handful of cases already litigated on the CFAA. The scrapers usually get smoked hard. Look up Ticketmaster v. RMG Technologies, Craigslist v. 3Taps, Register.com v. Verio, and Facebook v. Power Ventures to get started.
Actual link: https://github.com/MeshableHQ/onboard
"But I believe what really separates the 1% from the 99% is financial knowledge more than anything else."

Why was Alan Greenspan wrong?
The Etymology is fascinating:

> The word kike was born on Ellis Island when there were Jewish migrants who were also illiterate (or could not use Latin alphabet letters). When asked to sign the entry-forms with the customary "X," the Jewish immigrants would refuse, because they associated an X with the cross of Christianity. Instead, they drew a circle as the signature on the entry-forms. The Yiddish word for "circle" is kikel (pronounced ky-kul), and for "little circle," kikeleh (pronounced ky-kul-uh). Before long the immigration inspectors were calling anyone who signed with an "O" in place of an "X" a kikel or kikeleh or kikee or, finally and succinctly, kike.
Perhaps my background makes me a little more attuned to this particular word, but 'kike' practically leapt off the page to me.

In English, words ending in a single short vowel followed by a single consonant double the consonant before adding '-ed' to form the past tense. That's the grammatical rule.

I still can't tell if this project is by someone with bad grammar or some 4chan-bred bigot trying to make a double entendre, but either way, it's fucking obnoxious to see it on the front page of Hacker News.
µblock on android is the number one reason for firefox on android. For me A reason good enough to live with lags and stuttering.
> "Is this state of affairs, where a large portion of the population is incarcerated for vice, preferable to a state of affairs where vice is openly permitted?"

That's a good question, but it's still the wrong question. The right question is who owns my body, me or the government? Drugs should be legal not because it results in a better society, but because it in results a free society where a person can't be jailed for what he does to himself.
The focus on JS benchmarks is becoming ludicrous. By far the biggest performance issue is DOM/CSS layout. JS is so fast on all browsers that the performance differences don't matter at all anymore, except for initial load (and if you're loading that much code on initial page load, you should re-evaluate your architecture).
No worries.

Leaving claims of hubris aside, I think some of the sibling threads are a tad mistaken. For example, population size is a determiner of the rate of neutral drift. I'm trying to work through what are the implications to having more genealogical ancestors than genetic ancestors, but it isn't immediately clear.

If you really want your mind blown, check out Art Poon's paper "The Rate of Compensatory Mutation in the DNA Bacteriophage φX174" and Daniel Weinreich's "Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins". Both have some amazing evolutionary implications.
I'll buy it for any of my employees who it does expire for (where they can't access their passwords).
It's still not a good idea to use tables.
These concepts look nice, but never take into account the difficulty of working on complex projects with multiple people that hierarchical filesystem actually work well on.

There's absolutely no way you could build an app in a big "bucket 'o' files". Sure, you can put together a flyer for a softball game or (maybe) type up a simplistic report for school, but eventually these "loops" are going to become big, unusable buckets of content that isn't easily searchable (do we have good search on music contents yet? better hope the filename is good before it goes into the bucket!).

Perhaps the answer here is a "subloop". That's starting to look like we've come around to nested document folders again, isn't it?

Somewhat amusing: the screenshot of Sublime Text in the mockup is using folders.
No, I don't miss the point, I just don't agree that building more prisons is acceptable.
Or live in a predominant Jewish community and hear kids on the playground using it as a joke because both parties were Jewish.
> Legal questions aside (Angola has more lax copyright laws than much of the world),

Lax implies that there is some kind of objective ranking system. It would be better to simply say that Angola's law allows some practices that, say, the US' law does not.
Similar with Gobolinux, iirc. With a union mount on top to redirect the files written during the install step.

Afterwards the sub-directory in /Programs can basically be turned into an archive for future installs.
Many people feel like religion is more of a defining characteristic than politics, country of origin, marital status, and even ethnicity.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/22/1473694/-Ted-Cruz-I-...
I have a CRT monitor, and Windows 8 font rendering is overall TERRIBLE on it, as in, heavily aliased AND full of colour fringes.

So I installed MacType, only to find that Chrome has two ways to render fonts, and both are extremely wonky, I spent like 30 minutes tweaking MacType to my tastes, and then 3 hours re-tweaking it to make Chrome behave properly, it was a serious pain.
The ACLU specifically was on the opposing end of plenty of Bush-era legislation and got labeled as such. My childhood memories are pocketed with soundbites of Bill O'Reilly denouncing the ACLU as a bastion of American liberalism.
Kik and Azer's (left-pad author) email correspondance
I would rather have a modern file system optimized for SSDs instead of one with 16bit alignments for the Motorola 68k. It seems like OSX versions are more about tabs in Finder nowadays while Linux (and Windows) actually innovate.
Интуиция является хорошим проводником для идей!?
> In order to be lucid about the situation though, it's important to realise that a very large part of the prison population is in there for violent offences.

When that's 100%, then other things can be explored, but a large part of the prison population is also not violent and that's a place to make change.
Windows has had a weird font rendering subsystem transition since OpenType and some of the subpixel antialiasing and other stuff. You can flip a flag on the latest builds to try the Direct Type engine, and it looks a lot better.
Another contributing factor is this certain phenomenon that's happening with the academic job market. There's such an over-supply of new STEM PhD's looking for postdoc positions, it's becoming common for PIs to hire them up as super cheap programmers.

On paper, they're academic postdoc researchers. But in practice, they're full-time programmers.

So you end up with people who have PhDs in theoretical astrophysics or whatever, and who learned somewhere on the side how to hack things together in Matlab, working full-time as programmers and you get the inevitable result.
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Да это так
Yup (is). You'd just run `concourse web` and then `concourse worker` on the same machine. If all you have is a Mac Mini there's one gotcha, though: currently none of the resources will run on OS X, as they're built as Docker images. So you'll still need at least one Linux worker somewhere.

I think the next step from us may be to start building Vagrant boxes that just spin up a worker, parameterized with credentials to register with a Concourse `web` instance. That way you can run Concourse on OS X for iOS testing/etc. and still have all your resources and Linux containerization when you need it via a tiny local VM.
The EFF is the one that brought it up in the OP...
Safari is also the only desktop browser that can handle my "power user" web browsing style. Chrome completely falls over after a few dozen tabs are opened. Firefox holds up better, but still starts starts stuttering when it gets to 80–100 tabs. Safari keeps going fine with several hundred tabs.

Edit: For the folks who are apparently offended by my browser use, I’ll elaborate:

Why would anyone want a large number of tabs, you ask? Well, when researching a topic, it’s often useful to open in tabs, breadth-first style, every potentially relevant link in a network of {academic papers, historical web pages, wikipedia articles, ..}.

For me, it’s much more efficient to partition my browsing tasks into {open a bunch of tabs without looking closely at the content | go through the list of tabs in order, lightly skimming the content and closing any that aren’t relevant | dive deep into each relevant tab, reading carefully, taking notes, etc.}. I find that, as alternative strategies, both (a) trying to entirely finish with one tab before opening another, storing its hyperlinks in a text file for later examination, or (b) only opening links in the same tab, using the browser history as a linear linked list of my current place in the browsing tree, are much less effective.

Theoretically, my strategy could be done with a set of bookmarks, a list of links in a text file somewhere, one of those "read later" apps, etc. In practice, I find that it works better for me to just keep the tabs open in my browser. YMMV.

Anyway, now imagine you have 4–5 different long-term ongoing research interests/projects (possibly related). Sometimes, when diving into one topic, you end up stumbling across a useful tangent into one of the other topics you care about. Occasionally, the thing you stumble on is important enough to temporarily set aside the first topic (tabling the in-progress search by leaving all of the, say, 50 currently open tabs in their own window) and open up a new window to dive in on the second topic. Alternately, imagine you receive an important email, and need to suspend the entire research session for later. Again, it’s easier to just keep the window open with all the tabs in it, rather than closing everything and reconstructing it later.

This might not be the browsing style for everyone. But it works for me, and Safari is the only browser I’ve tried which holds up.
The entity has nothing to do with it. Back when I worked for the comparison shopping NexTag, for example, people would certainly joke about being 'nextagged', not 'nextaged', which would've been read as something completely different.

None of IBM, Microsoft, or Facebook end in exactly one 'short' vowel plus one consonant, which is the rule, in English, that determines when the final consonant is doubled. That's why your examples don't work.
Red is still alpha and certain important features are still missing (see roadmap for details). But it is not some hobby language, Nenad, the author, is very dedicated as are other members of Fullstack Technologies (company behind Red), so you can expect Red improving at steady pace.

I am really glad you like Red. It is already useful as it is now. Check the Red room on Gitter (sorry, I am on phone now, so no link), there is lot of people willing to help you.
Chrome is the new IE
Dual-boot on Bay Trail is a very recent development and not all of the docs have been updated yet.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility is correct.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware and https://chrx.org/ have more detailed information.
And like an idiot, I waded in.
Wouldn't that apply just as well to an amoral theism?
I don't see anything new here. Some apps were redesigned to behave a bit like Photos.app, but pretending that adding a menu bar and multiple window support will be an easy port shows an amazing lack of experience. edit: just realized that there are no multiple window apps. So, the distinction of a computer vs a mobile device is gone right there

Organizing files into projects is waved away by "just search through an amorphous blob of data". "Kind: PDF". Who finds files like that?

The user activity thread is nice, but it's clear Apple was already working in this direction with the links timeline in Safari, but all the social service TOS's forbid this kind of presentation and they're super-protective of their presentation to the point even Apple can't negotiate past it at this point.
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and the Future of Mobile Web
how does it being an optional plugin change anything vs. Jenkins having every possible useful thing pre-installed resulting in a much more complicated setup screen? Plugin architecture is total win IMHO.
They can work together where they agree, and if they can't agree then maybe the backing they anticipated won't be there. I'm glad they're trying to bring people together behind this cause regardless.
The custom firmware options are open source, so you would be miles ahead of where you started with the factory firmware.
Are there plans to support other container managers (other than Garden-based managers)?
Was the same argument made for kik, or was there a different name originally?
I agree 100%, but they were asking for a place with JavaScript benchmarks, so I gave my favorite.
Skimming over it, there seems to be much more specific details and insights in the body of the analysis.

The conclusion does not accurately reflect that... Which seems to be more of a "recommendation" than a takeaway or a real summery.
Seriously? I really don't think the author of this module sat down and thought, "hrm... how can I blatantly offend people" when they came up with the name.

Wouldn't you rather believe that this person didn't maliciously name this thing and get on with your day? Not everyone on earth is a horrible person.
>Okay so it's yet another programming language to add onto the other hundreds of them

Yeah, sort of like your comment is yet another comment to add onto the other hundreds of them (and us all here on HN are just yet another 10-20.000 humans to add to the other billions on earth).

>it can make GUIs that are Windows 7 era sort of

Because its GUI bindings is where a language is truly evaluated from...

>Honestly, this looks like a mess and I don't understand the purpose of it if it's meant to be used by real users. Why would anyone prefer this?

Based on Rebol, a very high level language, with extremely powerful DSLs (and easy to do DSL's in), with first class support for lots of things as types, homoiconic, very versatile and easy to get advanced results with very little code.
If it's true, then in this case that's literally shouting "I don't give a slightest finger about my users, I'll toss them an autogenerated pile of markup and will not even test if it's legible".

There's also a huge difference between "minimalistic" and "outdated". One should exit the cryo-chamber in order to see it though.

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To put it all together:

The authors of all those sites (as well as their supporters here) seem to live in a parallel universe where all users have nothing but 640x480 VGA cards and Dillo browser is the best one out there, lynx/elinks/w3m is a norm in that universe, and the most recent smartphone of 2016 is called Nokia 9110 Communicator.

They may produce the best content but it remains absolutely worthless and can't gain any level of trust until they actually care of delivering that content.

If they can't make nice looking (not even to mention the word "responsive") websites themselves, they may ask or hire someone to do it. There's nothing wrong with it. But if such a way was chosen deliberately then it's a good indicator of the attitude to the website users. And if the users bite this and say "yeah, it's ok, we can trust him anyway because he's successful at other fields", it kinda looks like a sect. Questions about why such a "successful person" haven't created a decent site (himself or with someone's help) remain unanswered. So be it. Because, you know, it's pointless to argue with sectants.

So, given the level of pseudo-elitist zombie ochlocracy here, I'm not going to discuss this topic any further. Believe whatever you want to believe. Live in a parallel world as long as you can. But rest assured: reality will catch you at the most inopportune moment.
I went to high school with Matt, and followed his son's blog - https://overcomingmovementdisorder.blogspot.com/ - regularly about six years ago, while they were trying to figure out what was wrong.

One of the problems with the precision medicine initiative is that medicine only loosely incorporates the actual findings of physiology. For example, old people routinely get their steroid hormone systems kneecapped with statin drugs. Various media reports in the last few years have revealed that there is very little benefit to suppressing cholesterol levels (women receive no benefit at all), but the drugging of old people continues.
I meant that website is probably valid but ugly, and HN page is vice versa.
Good suggestion. Also consider its programming language counterpart, Scheme.
You can make them illegal by making only one legal way to get money from person A to persons B. Anything over a certain amount per year, basically cost of living, gets taxed. It doesn't matter what path it took to get there.

And thanks for the article. :)
Does this mean you'll be using QT for your cross-platform GUI?
That's a good point. We should let the elites handle everything because they have our best interests at heart and are much more intelligent than us. We can't trust "regular people" with political discourse.
This really depends upon which functional language you're referring to. Each one has a different set of features.

JavaScript is in some sense an impure functional language, however hastily designed in various places.

In the context of CL, the canonical example would be "macros". But CL has a bag of other features that makes it appealing.
Isn't that pretty much all of the recent OS X releases?
What major features did El Capitan add? Yosemite? Mavericks?

I can't think of a single major thing.

At one point they finally got multi monitor support working properly, but I forget when.
With the downside being inconsistent style across the community, making for more overhead when reading code (see also macro abuse). Scheme has bigger fragmentation problems anyhow.
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The whole thing reminds me of the netbook days, before Intel and Microsoft basically choked off the concept.
Well, you can use LISP/Scheme as a procedural language with a little "code obfuscation" ...

(define (return x) x)
(define (! a b c) (not (b a c)))
(define (-- a) (- a 1))
(define (cout junk thing) (display thing))
(define << 'nothing)

;ignore this look at this
;........... ...............................................
(
define (__I_AM_HAPPY happiness) (
if(! happiness <= 0) (
begin ( cout << "happy happy joy joy";
) ( __I_AM_HAPPY (-- happiness);
) )
; else (
( return "yay! i'm done with 6.001 project";
)
)
)

; got that? now we can do this:

(__I_AM_HAPPY 10)
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If you don't take this Internet of Treachery seriously, you will end up with a fridge full of Keystone Light, locked exits to make you personally drink it, and no way of taking pictures to salvage any irony.
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Because King's Candy Crush is a ripoff/clone of Candy Swipe..

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/13/candy-crush-saga-makers-to-sue...
1. Copyright violation is not theft
2. Copyright is not a right, it is a government granted, time limited, monopoly. In the Act of Anne it was for 12 years and that is how it should have stayed. Now it is life plus 75 which is simply oppressive and counterproductive.
Var and val in Java?
Yeah, I'm thinking you don't have to live with 4chan and Twitter tolerating and increasingly normalizing anonymous bigots calling your ethnic group, which has been the target of genocide before, the equivalent of a nigger.

Do you have any idea how telling me to 'smile a little' about this comes across?
I agree with you that Apple probably sees iOS as their future. I am not sure that I care too much. I do have and old Macbook Air and an even older Macbook Pro that I get a lot of service out of, but I am also good with using Linux on two other laptops.

For developers I think the future is cloud based web dev setups anyway. I really like kicking off a large build or run on a remote server and not have it heat up my laptop. For different purposes, having a few beefed-up VPSs available and services like nitrous is more convenient. That said, developing in Emacs or vi in SSH term windows lacks some convenience, so it having deep integration of IDEs like IntelliJ with your own server build processes would be interesting (and even more interesting to also have great iOS and Android support).

EDIT: more on the topic of OSX: I much prefer the small continuous update process that OSX and Windows 10 seem to be taking. I use Ubunutu and I often think that I would prefer small continuous updates than 6 month drops - at least for laptop use.
The factory firmware is just as open.
This Planet Money podcast is worth listening to, "When CEO Pay Exploded." A good exercise in the law of unintended consequences: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/05/465747726/-682-...
Arch “has never been a minimalist distribution” – Arch dev
What's the deal with all of this 'learn to code in just X easy steps' nonsense that keeps popping up everywhere lately?

Just do it. Pick a random language, make a game, make a terminal script that prints sine and cosine, go and pick up a math textbook, read Wikipedia.

You'll get there. Don't worry about the details.

Don't know what sine and cosine are? Stop worrying about becoming a rockstar programmer. Go and learn about the glorious world we live in. The job will come later.

You were not born to be an employee.
> Personally I'm a fan of the 'database filesystem' ideas from BeOS/Haiku

How do you see that working well?

Microsoft tried to incorporate all the stuff like MP3 metadata into explorer way back when (XP? Vista? Can't recall)

OS X has supported "saved searches" which act like a live database-backed file manager ever since Spotlight was added. More recently they added quick tagging of files.

What are you imagining that would be more usable than these?
Can somebody please tell Apple to get color saturation of the GUI back to how it was in the Snow Leopard times? These Lego brick colors are HORRIBLE.
OK then.

In Nigeria, incarceration rate per 100,000 people is 30. In Mexico, 196. In Brazil, 193.

In the US, 737.