skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then ads should be bucketed as such... Ads that are a link, and an image can be automated, or changed via the end user without intervention.

Ads with JS, require going through automated testing (certain things like new Function, and eval are not allowed, along with `window[`, as well as creating a script tag, XHR, and some other bits... No remote content loading, beyond images, period... all content for an ad must be in a self-contained file, and can only exit via a window.goto that the ad-network injects for the purpose... A whitelisted subset of DOM interaction is all that is allowed, and the total payload of an advert must be under ???kb, something reasonable.

Flash ads requiring a source inspection...

All ads served from the network directly, not loading js/html/css or anything outside their network...

It's easy enough to do this, and pass the cost of inspecting JS and Flash ads onto the customers... they can decide if they really need it. It becomes part of the cost of doing business... Banning interstitial ads, and those that take up more than half the screen.
Yea that sounds nice but in actuality there are numerous ways that businesses can skirt this rule.
If you read more than the first inch of that thread, it's clear that this is not a 3rd-party app causing the problem. Indeed, that top post is extremely unhelpful in the tradition of "did you try zapping PRAM?" and other voodoo stupidity. It's a blind answer from someone who clearly does not understand the question. Typical Internet outcome, in other words.
>However, I have no idea how Scaleaway is getting away with selling a Bare Metal server with 6 cores, 8GB memory, and 200GB of SSD disk for 10 euros a month. That's just doesn't make any financial sense.

Where are you getting that from? The hardware is ancient and completely worthless. They could very well be building these servers for high double digits. (Although I'd be more inclined to guess around $200, if they're actually buying the parts.)

If they're not just reusing old online.net gear, that is.
Apply HN: Aerfolio – Digital Aircraft Logbooks
Problem:

Aircraft-owner market is overdue for innovation: aircraft logs, maintenance records, etc. are all typically recorded by hand in paper logbooks. And if those logs are lost or destroyed in a fire, the aircraft is generally deemed not-flightworthy and resale value diminishes to near zero $. So - there is real, catastrophic potential downside to not keeping redundant records.

Solution:

Web + mobile app for tracking aircraft fleets & basically digitizing aircraft and engine logbooks. Similar concept to fleetio.com but focused on aircraft fleets instead of truck fleets. (One critical difference: aircraft maintenance based on # hour of operation, instead of # of miles traveled.)

The app would also deliver users periodic reminders - when scheduled maintenance is due, or when loan/insurance payments are due, for example. Beyond the basic concept, we also have whole slew of ideas about important features, UI and general program logic.

The app would be useful for owners of a single airplane/helicopter, but would probably be most helpful for owners of 2+ aircraft. Software like this does exist for passenger airlines & very big air freight companies - but it's prohibitively expensive for most private owners and small corporate fleets.

Additional Background:

Our dad has been an airplane & helicopter pilot for 25+ years and in that time has owned numerous aircraft. For 18+ years, he owned & operated the biggest helicopter flight training school in the Midwest... I basically grew up at the airport.

So, we have deep contacts within the local & regional aviation community. Many of his friends and former students are themselves aircraft owners - so we have big headstart on finding early test users. *Also have contacts into the aviation departments at some of the big St. Louis-based corporations (e.g., Anheuser-Busch, Emerson Electric). Likewise, we have a firm grasp on the industry trade publications, trade shows and other marketing/advertising venues.
Go see what other people are doing. There are several podcasts out there where people talk about side projects and the degree of success they are having with them.
I have a Moto G with Marshmellow and don't get vibration/sound alerts.
I don't know what your field is, but every conference that has ever invited me to speak has offered me free attendance, with most willing to also cover my accommodation and airfare from Canada.

I include in this list conferences like NDC Oslo/London/Sydney, Øredev, Nordic Ruby, and Baruco.
That's incorrect. I was talking about your useless "What??"
Deflation would be if they wanted to lower it. They don't. They want to raise it more, but they can't, because they are one of the most bizarrely-regulated entities in the US.
Ask HN: What can I expect from the latest automatic video editing tools?
I'm wondering what kind of result I can expect by using the latest software to have it edit footages dumped by a user. Any tools you would recommend for desktop/mobile platform?
A throwaway account can be used to sway bias just as using "just about every messaging system does X". Neither of them are good arguments.

Question is, why the anonymity?
Oldest surviving Enigma machine sits recognized in Danish museum for 16 years
This is what I'm worried about, PaaS lets you get going very quickly but if you succeed...well I haven't heard great stories about scaling out PaaS.

The situation I'm in is our apps currently do low enough traffic to exist in a PaaS, but they weren't built that way from the ground up and live on bare metal currently. Migrating to say, AWS, would using ElasticBeanstalk be burdening myself with technical debt I don't currently have vs using something like CloudFormation (Terraform) and CodeDeploy?
During a discussion about privacy, the next time someone says "they have nothing to hide" then ask them for their social security number and mother's maiden name.
I had a Nexus 5 and I have a LG G4, both with Marshmallow and none of both had this behaviour
Lesson learned: Cheap prices imply low quality.
Httpie: User Friendly CLI HTTP Client
Doubtful, because NLP is not yet at the point where it can help users faster than a normal website. If that was the case, google would be there already.
I always suspect Apple built Mac Pro for Pixar and Disney. It would be nice if there is a mid range (higher than Mac mini lower than Mac Pro) Mac that is not iMac and shape in a perfect cube. The outdated spec and high price makes Mac Pro all looks with no substance.
I don't know that this will work any better than CableCARD, that said, I'd consider it if it meant not having to scroll through all the networks that I never watch, or all the Spanish channels, etc... I mean, it would be easier to navigate without 2/3 of the channels in the list. Including those that I don't even have as part of my subscription.
Assuming water will be part of this virtual hotel experience. How are you going to provide water in hotels that currently do not have it?
From the user's (i.e. my) perspective, "Marketplace" offerings are still things that Amazon sells. The "Prime" checkbox doesn't work well. It doesn't filter out add-on items (which can be removed with another checkbox), and it doesn't do a very good job of only showing me Prime items. Searching for hard drives, just as a random example, I get results where the primary seller isn't Prime, and the Prime option is either more expensive than what's listed, or is a used or refurbished item. I'm sure there's a combination of checkboxes that will do what I want, but they sure don't seem to be optimizing for the common case.
Python has an alternative: to use a technique called "patching". Basically, in Python, every module is just an object you can access, so in your unit-test, you can easily go into that module, replace a symbol inside a module (or a class) for something else, run unit-test, put thing back. Very nice feature which gives you incredible power to not have to code "with tests in mind".
Well, I'd take that profit margin over a 200% profit margin that nets me $1,000 any day.
I really like the idea. I hope you are a success. The prices are too high for my cheap tastes, but that's probably as it should be for these items.

One feature which might be nice to have would be a place for users to request an item or show (without having to think of contacting you through email). I know that the way things work, you probably are showing those items and shows you already have contacts with. However, taking requests might show you where new demand might be, so you know which shows to start making new contacts with.
Why do you need to many CPUs? I can only think of compiling but in my experience not many compilers can actually handle multiple cores well and you might wanna consider using other tooling if your compiler needs to recompile that 100k LOC again and again instead of just compiling the changed files again (and their dependencies).

As cool as this machine is, it is definitely targeted at video makers who spend more money on powerful hardware (because they need that) compared to developers.
amazon is very profitable but they plow back all profits into new business ventures so they pay 0 taxes because they can report no profit. If you make a billion dollars profit and then immediately spend that building a new datacenter or warehouse whether you need it or not that still counts as a business expenses that is subtracted from profits. Amazon will never stop trying to enter new businesses because they have no plans to ever pay out dividends or hold on to cash profits
The idea that anyone would ever want to be notified of open wifi networks is bizarre to me. Wherever I go there will be hundreds or thousands of such networks. This might have made sense in 2001 when wifi was novel and rare, but it makes no sense today.
To be fair, it's exactly a lock, well understood and easy to circumvent (like the keys to your house).
I believe you made an unfortunate typo, substituting "probably" when you meant "provably".
It was posted couple days ago, that people are sharing less and less private things from their lives on Facebook.

So now they'll start live streaming it instead ?
I just wrote my senators. I encourage you to do the same.

Talk here is fine, but it's more useful to let folks on the hill know what's up.

I think the bill is over-the-top bad; they are obviously going for a compromise of some kind. By appearing to reach a middle ground they can paint the pro-crypto camps as being uncooperative.

Of course, there's no middle ground with math.
The GPUs are important for accelerating video rendering (which is a big Apple market), see https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/all-features/

And today if you work with Deep Learning you'll want a fast GPU
I love this idea and really want you to find a way to succeed, but certain aspects of this idea have risks you need to weigh.

I can only comment on lead, because I've had home lead testing done by a professional. The worry I have with lead is that encouraging vacuuming for sample collection could conceivably cause lead contamination to spread. We were told by our tester that if we attempted to clean problem areas ourselves, to only use water and disposable rags to avoid spreading lead dust.

Our lead tester used an XRF analyzer (these devices are expensive), which uses X-rays and requires no dust sampling. He could simply point it anywhere and see precisely where all the lead was.

I wonder if it would be feasible to include a packet of special wipes instead of a single dust vial. Then users could individually wipe and label by room, and ship each wipe in a separate, sealed, labeled, plastic envelope. This could solve any dust contamination issues, but I suppose it's possibly harder to test for contaminants from a wipe than a vial.
When will they actually consult with various IT-literate parties before making decisions that affect the way IT-related professionals will have to operate?

I don't think they are stupid enough to not have thought of that. So I wonder what motivates them to write that kind of bill.
Wow. I think it's sort of silly to spend so much time arguing about your evaluation of the reporter's competence. If you were truly interested, you could have gotten their opinion by now.

What about the place being a hellhole and how to fix it?
Xcode scales to the number of CPUs that you have very well. Any kind of c-compiler usually scales the compile step very well to the number of CPUs you have. When I had a 12 core mac pro, my compile speeds were actually 3.4x faster than my 4-core macbook pro.

And when you're an iOS / OSX developer, the only practical kind of machine you can use is apple's hardware. You can't go buy a 4 socket compile server that easily like people on other platforms.
Just the fact http was the default for all websites hosted on WordPress.com is really weird to me. All those websites had all the passwords sent over plaintext.
I think the "2 decades" thing is relevant here. Most of the products you mention were created before people were almost always physically in contact with an internet-enabled device.

I never used any of those much, but starting using Slack when I joined a company where it was ubiquitous. I never saw anybody care about declaring an away message. People at any point could be busy and might not answer, but they were rarely "away". The culture was just to assume that people were available, and if not that they'd reply when they could.
The scheme in this paper is in the bounded-storage model...
Does iOS have a way to designate parts of app data as secret/transient/do_not_back_up? I suspect not.

EDIT: It appears that I was incorrect.
That's an uphill battle, and a long one, and one that you need to have deep pockets to win.
But that doesn't really help you if you are using SNI to host multiple sites on a single IP address, does it?
It's the same with used Thinkpads, they are dirt cheap in the US too. I suppose European companies don't do four year leases on their hardware...
There was 15% voter turnout for the 2012 primary in which Feinstein (49.5%) and Emken (12.7%) were nominated. In other words Emken got on the ballot to challenge Feinstein with only 1.9% of voter support.

California allows two members of the same party to win the nomination and challenge each other in the general election.

To run a successful campaign to challenge incumbent Democrats with pro-liberty Democrats in the general, you possibly only need to get ~ 2% voter turnout for your candidates.

This is pretty feasible to do if California residents actually cared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_...
10 years ago, no one thought East Bushwick would be gentrified. Perhaps there is hope for ENY.
Ask HN: I do terrible in algorithm questions in interviews
Question for the HN community. I am relentless when it comes to practicing algorithm based questions for your typical tech interviews at the big names, but I always flub these exam like interviews. As a student it was similar. If I got flustered in an exam and didn't know the answer right away, the only way I could arrive at the right solution would be in a low pressure quiet environment where the clock isn't ticking. I generally have the knowledge so I hate that I'm losing all these opportunities because I suck at taking exams. Any one have a similar experience, and what did you do to overcome it?
If Feinstein's the problem here, then it is irresponsible to throw up your hands and declare the failure of democracy. Instead, vote her out of office and replace her with someone who understands the implications of weakening encryption.

Your vote alone doesn't matter, you say? Do what you can to educate those around you on the issues. Make them think twice before re-electing someone with such a bad record.
Blocking ads is one thing, replacing them with other monetization without a publisher's permission is something else entirely... I know it should be the user's choice, but I'm kind of with the NAA on this one...

Unless a site opted in, to have their ads replaced and not simply blocked, then doing so is pretty messed up.
I'm pretty sure that Facebooks in the first place.
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More to the point, how would this and the 5th amendment interact if it was the end user that created a pass-phrase protected key which no one else knew?
From the Home Depot description:

The H2O OK Plus Complete Water Analysis Kit is the most complete way to ensure your drinking water is safe and free of 13 water conditions and contaminants including bacteria, pesticides and lead, a total of 23 tests. This complete, easy to use kit provides all containers needed. It gives the user instant results.
Included 2 tests each for total chlorine, total hardness, iron, pH, total alkalinity, copper, nitrates and nitrites; 1-test each for lead, total coliform bacteria and pesticides with detailed instructions to test for iron bacteria and hydrogen sulfide
Well, Erlang's been around for like 30 years. What was a pretty powerful computer back then is something we'd call "embedded" today. Of course, we still call things with 8-bit processors and single-digit kilobytes of RAM embedded, too. So it depends on where you fall in that scale. The phone switches it was designed to run are also fairly low-power devices by modern standards. (Lots and lots and LOTS of custom hardware, but not necessarily a lot of "CPU".)

In addition to what the article itself talks about, there's a number of other memory knobs you can twiddle for various use cases.
Alright, but what if I want to speak English with a French accent? Can this app help me??
Apple vs. Tesla – The Quest to Capture the 99%
> we need to always default to secure.

This.
you are a godsend; this is so clear!
If you signed an NDA with the company (not the founder personally) then it is probable that spreading the information within the company is fine.
You're falling victim to the same misconception. It is not a contradiction to say both that a cryptographic scheme is provably secure and that its security relies on a conjecture about the hardness of a computational problem.
I really like this. I hadn't thought of doing that - will try next time it comes up!
No way. Comments are comments, attributes are attributes. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522973
> but I'm sure Wordpress just broke a lot of links on their user's sites.

Growing pains. I think that will at least make people on the web more aware of the HTTPS "revolution".
Good for you. It's vacation, there should be no expectation for support or work while you are gone.
From my understanding, this only happens when you are near an open Wifi wich has a 'login' page. (Like in hotels, airports etc..).

If memory serves, Android shows up this notification when it detects the http are redirected to a login page.

I suppose it can get really annoying if you have many of these around you on daily basis.
Ah yes, the good old "let's ban math" bill.

Not the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I agree, especially for small amounts like 3 Euros per month.
Develop on a PC?
Apple is waiting for the successor to the aging X99 Intel chipset. Intel has released the 100 series chipset but there are only max 20 PCIe lanes compared to the 40 max PCIe lanes possible with X99. this means the only possible configurations with the 100 series chipsets is x16,x4 or x8,x8,x4. With PCIe being the central bus with the Mac Pro it doesn't make sense for Apple to have released a new Mac Pro yet. The chipset technology in the current Mac Pro is still top of the line. Sure, you can get new processors with more cores and DDR4, but the number of PCIe lanes and memory speed/latency is optimal for the Mac Pro as as of now there is no better option for them to build a successor.
> about.me : I still don't understand this one. Guess it's supposed to be the landing page for all your other social medias?

I own the domain for my name, my personal email address is at that domain, etc. About.me makes sense to me as a page to point that domain to (and I would... if I wasn't a web developer and somewhat expected to make that page its own portfolio-item.) It's effectively a business card, as a webpage. The personal equivalent of those trivial sites that restaurants and the like put up, which are just becoming Facebook Pages these days (boy is that a weirdly-clashing secondary use-case for Facebook.)
It can be incredibly easy and transparent... I'm not saying you can't order something internationally, only that it's taxed at the transaction... that's pretty close to how VAT systems work. Only that the tax is at the currency exchange, not the goods, to prevent cheating the system.
That is the conventional meaning of 'provably secure' in every text and research paper on modern cryptography.
The term cargo cult is getting way overused on Hacker News these days.
In most countries I have been to people tried to help me when I spoke their language badly. In France (especially in Paris) I just get a blank stare or they are amused when I mispronounce something but still won't help. Maybe they are not used to people with an accent?
That is the most abstract and confusing roadmap I've ever seen... Two improvements before rocket.chat eats your lunch...

1 - Give devs the option to extend the UI via fly-in panels (like rocket.chat does)

2 - Update API to support comms with 1
> If the company cannot meet this standard, it must offer “technical assistance as is necessary to obtain such information or data,” according to the draft.

Based on this it appears not. Here's how I imagine it going.

1. There's something the government wants that you've stored on some SaaS website like Dropbox.

2. But you've encrypted all of your files with your GPG key so Dropbox gives the gov't access to the files and then tells them that's all they can do.

3. Now the government needs your key so they raid your house and take your say, Dell laptop.

4. Now you use FDE and Secure Boot with a custom key so your device is locked tight.

5. The gov't then goes to Dell and demands that they use any exploit they know to unlock your device.

6. So long as you've chosen a good strong passphrase Dell will do their best but ultimately tell the gov't that there's nothing they can do.
My fave in Québec is 'baladodiffusion' for podcast. Not sure if they say that in France too.
I agree. I think everyone who replied misread the parent comment, (s)he makes a good point.
Note that this is about custom domains hosted on Wordpress.com's infrastructure. Blogs that were hosted as subdomains of wordpress.com have been using SSL since 2014 according to the original announcement. Let's Encrypt allowed them to enable it for custom domains without delivering a truckload of money to a CA.

The original announcement is a bit more precise on this.
no, that's the highest format, not the highest format that will download in one file, as opposed to two which have to be merged, meaning playing .part files is impossible
Not really, no. Compiling C or C++ is not very distributable by its nature, and the parallelization you are seeing is scaling out builds by building multiple compilation units in parallel. If you're working in one file in an edit-build-test loop, all of those cores are pretty much unused as long as you're using incremental builds. This applies to a lot of languages, actually, not just C/C++. Even beyond that, you're usually I/O bound when you're building anyway, and I've found disk investment to pay off much better than CPU investment.

But yes, for an all-up project build, it will be slightly to much faster because big projects can horizontally scale with the right tooling (make -j, etc).