skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Did any browser ever reject a Web page just because it wasn't well-formed XHTML?

Of course. If you served XHTML properly (by setting "application/xhtml+xml" MIME type), ill-formed XHTML would just show you a big syntax error instead of the page. Try it, that's still the case.

Even when being well-formed, lots of sites still used "text/html" type to trigger HTML (SGML) parser instead of XML one, as any 3rd party code embedded into the website would of course crash the page as well.

That was one of the reasons why XHTML never got popular and eventually has been abandoned.
Interesting to meet an effective altruist here. I was somewhat involved in EA for a while and even interned at an EA org, but after reading up a bunch of different philosophies the one which I found most consistent with reality was -- perhaps surprisingly -- Objectivism.

The inferential gap between EA and Objectivism is obviously huge, so it's not worth giving a full argument here. For the intellectually curious, though, I'll simply say that the two schools of thought fromthemorning cites both assume that the purpose of morality is to maximise the greater good (rather than, say, teaching individuals principles to maximise their own long-term personal happiness).

On the off chance that someone on the fringes of the EA movement reads this, someone who shares the concerns I once had - the ultimate issue with EA is that it's hyper-empiricist: EAs love evidence but are highly distrustful of theoretical arguments. This is an understandable position, but ultimately a mistake, because you end up unable to synthesise the vast amounts of data you gather. All truths are simplifications - what you need are rules to form correct simplifications.

Objectivism isn't taken seriously in mainstream intellectual circles but it should be, because it shows how to avoid the pitfalls of both empiricism and rationalism. (See Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology for details).
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Yeah. I have no idea how many m^2 my place is. It's 4 bedrooms, across several floors. eg, not small.

But I had no way of filling out your requested data. :(
They knew talc caused cancer and not only covered it up, but turned their marketing to groups less likely to know about it. It's worse than the tobacco coverup, because everybody knew cigarettes were bad for you, just not how bad they actually were.
Bingo. They're being subsidized by a government with access to cheap funds, and in Abu Dhabi's case, a lot of oil wealth.

In contrast the unsubsidized bids are much higher
The comparison to massive die-outs in coral reefs is not very apt, because those often represent the destruction of entire ecosystems and of great natural beauty that is mostly irreplaceable. Whereas, while certain species of oaks being wiped out is sad and disrupts other parts of the ecosystem, it also doesn't represent total devestation. Other oaks survive, dozens of other tree species will thrive in the niche left behind by these trees.

And as we've only recently come to grips with the ecological benefits of forest fires, I expect we'll also eventually learn that not all invasive species represent irreversible ecological disaster, and that they actually play an important role in encouraging the spread of new variants that we didn't realize were going to be beautiful and useful to us.

In other words, Life... uh... finds a way.
Lucky for both of us economics is a philosophy instead of a science, and condescending attitudes can go both ways. :^)

Suppose as you say, all capital grows uniformly (which it doesn't, but that's another issue) at +x% annually. Now suppose that certain demographics experience -(x+n)% of capital transfer, in the form of housing, healthcare, and other expenses. It doesn't matter how fast the "pie" grows as along as capital transfer away from the middle class outstrips the rate of capital growth. You're cherrypicking hypotheticals here.
IIRC some of the older versions of internet explorer did something like that, showing the user a popup if an error happened and asked them if they wanted to keep going.
For fractional reserve, the 10X money is what's circulated in the system. The liability on the book is just accounting. The bank doesn't have 10X money to start with. It has 1X but it's allowed to lend out upto 10X. The extra 9X is created out of thin air. Of course the 10X is the theoretical max; ultimately what controls the nX (where 1 <= n < 10) is interest rate.

Lending out loan creates money circulated in the system. Paying off debt destroys money from the system. By controlling the interest rate, the Fed controls and levers the up and down of this huge money supply.

That's why the Fed went into the QE programs. The increasing bad loans at the banks was choking off the money circulating. By buying non-performing loans from the banks, the Fed removed the liability off the banks' books so they had more room in their fractional requirement and be able to lend again, thus restoring the money supply.
In the short term, inflation does happen. This is because the economic allocations were done according to the old distribution of incomes, which is to say disproportionately benefiting the desires of the rich. Demand changes while supply remains the same.

So lower-income housing landlords do raise their rents. Grocery stores raise prices on their beef. Low-end used cars get more expensive. More dollars chase the same quantity of goods and services.

But basic income continues into the long run. It becomes a business opportunity to undercut those inflated prices, to capture more of the basic income flow for yourself. An entrepreneur builds lower-income housing and charges lower than the prevailing rents, immediately poaching business from the opportunist landlords, who now have to compete with one another to keep tenants.

As additional competitors enter the market, the economic allocations change to match the newer distribution of incomes. More businesses that serve lower-income people become viable, so more economic activity occurs to cater to that sector. Fewer businesses that serve higher-income people remain viable, because they are taxed more. It slowly becomes more expensive to be rich, and less expensive to be poor.

In the long run, wealth distribution flattens and is less self-reinforcing. More than a few people would be willing to walk a higher wire if they were given a stronger safety net, choosing risky entrepreneurship rather than safer employment. Prices only remain high if existing businesses are protected from competition.
The interior of the student union building at IIT was famously designed around these. The site was previously an empty field, and the building's main circulation paths are laid out so that you can still walk through the building along the worn down routes cutting across the grass.

https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/File:MCTC_planta_a...
Actually, maybe it can? If we can ignore the somewhat tasteless aspect of this, what if the Bay Area was just a playground for kids who get 6-figure salaries at graduation, and then stay at high-paying jobs there?

It becomes extremely elitist, with all the costs and benefits of that. The benefit is that everyone who can afford to live there is implicitly vetted by a rich employer or investor, so there could be extremely high serendipity. The costs are massive insularity, risk of the next big thing coming from elsewhere, and hugely inflated costs for basic service labor.

But, if the vetting is good enough, maybe those costs are worth it?
مدونة عربي: كيف تختار جهاز الأندرويد الأنسب لك ؟
Reply to sibling: “Did any browser reject poorly formed XHTML?” Yes, they did, if the XHTML was served with a MIME type of application/xhtml+xml.

However, this MIME type was extremely rare because MSIE would not show a web page unless the MIME type was text/html.

Furthermore, the extreme brittleness of XHTML was generally regarded as a Bad Move as one single URL in your source code with a literal ampersand instead of &amp; would cause a complete and total breakage of your web page. Of course, many web pages are crummily concatenated strings and there are a lot of web devs who would never be able to reliably generate 100% XHTML-compliant output. Shit, pasting in a snippet of HTML where the BR tags omitted the self-closing slash would break your XHTML validation.

tl;dr: Yes, and it sucked
Hmmm, both Australia and UK seem to mostly list properties by # of bedrooms/facilities (eg 3 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, outside shed) kind of thing. I don't recall them listing the size in m^2 very often, or at all.
Surprisingly "similar" to an article published the day before:

https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/05/02/dataflow-spark-benchm...
مدونة عربي: تصميم Material قادم إلى يوتيوب
It'd take over 1 BILLION Powerwalls to store half the daily usage in the US (using old usage numbers off Wikipedia).

I wonder if there's enough raw materials to make that realistic. And how to you manage recycling, repair, replacement, end-of-life concerns for all those batteries on that scale?

Not asking a sarcastic hypothetical. Genuinely curious. It's hard to wrap my head around numbers that big.

For reference I used this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici..., divided it by days, then the Powerwall's 6.4kwh capacity and then halved that number.

4,686,400,000,000 / 365 / 6.4 / 2 == 1,003,082,191.8 Powerwalls.
I don't see anything in this comment that is responsive to anything I wrote.
I assumed that "bug" was added intentionally as a script kiddie deterrence...
uvloop author here. AMA :)
Explain to me like I'm 5 years old: why is an Image utility invoking shell code and other applications?

Shouldn't this type of utility rather be a library if it's to be used from other applications such as web apps?
All of these can be done as sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmer), too.

Bank account: Just go to your bank and create business bank account.

Leftover money: It's up to you how much you withdraw, although you must pay tax on all income minus expenses.

Limited liability is not true (see Geschäftsführerhaftung).

Insurance: Again, you can get insurance (IT-Betriebshaftpflicht) as a sole proprietor too.

I think, if your project is merely ramen-profitable, don't bother about all the organizatorial overhead.

Another downside of a UG/GmbH: More paperwork for taxes etc. (double bookkeeping).
Artory | Berlin, Germany | Full Time | ONSITE

(Senior) Developer

We are looking for developers interested in fine and contemporary arts (our focus is not in the buying/selling portion of the market process).
We have a small team of designers and developers, and would like to add more developers to further drive our development efforts. We are putting a lot of user research into our product, in the hope of allowing developers to guess less about what our users want. Technological and architectural decisions are still in the making and you can be part of these discussions, too. Development efforts are organized as scrum, so you should be comfortable with that.

Current interview process (no guarantees on deviation, we're still figuring it out):

* Short anonymous programming test, shouldn't take long and you'll always receive a reviewed version back, regardless of our decision to take hiring further

* short call on getting to know each other, figure out open questions from CV etc

* 1h skype call/coffee/onsite casual/technical conversation, we'll send you a rough set of topics beforehand when we're interested in specific knowledge/topics

* potentially another conversation on team fit

* 1-2 paid work day(s)

Our stack: python (django), postgres, elastic, angular2, typescript, docker + (what you might add in the future)

Some benefits: Market pay rates for Berlin, Apple-y hardware to work, awesome office, (maybe) stock options.

Specializations/topics we are specifically interested in (non-exhaustive) and if you like any of these, please get in contact:

* Full stack security

* Data extraction from semi-structured data

* Data deduplication/cleanup

* Image processing/content analysis

If you are interested in other topics which you think might be relevant to startups in the art world, please don't hesitate to still inquire.

If you are interested to hear more, get in touch through sebastian.hillig -- @ -- artory.com. Or directly apply through: https://artory-gmbh.workable.com/j/DBF103A447

Edit: formatting
If You Are What You Eat, America Is Allrecipes
You can form a US corporation for approximately 100-200 per year in most states (California being a notable much more expensive exception.) There is no requirement that you actually live in the US or even visit.

Stripe now has "US incorporation as a service": https://stripe.com/atlas
That still wasn't serious enough. All it took to get browsers to accept non-XHTML pages was to change the MIME type. What I'm talking about is simply not displaying ill-formed pages at all, under any circumstances.
What if the value of someone's labour is not enough for the things they need to survive?

Sure, we can make a moral argument about that. But that's not what this branch of the debate is about. We were debating the proposition that "money itself tends to disincentivise work for a lot of people" and employment is force.

But since you bring it up, my biggest concern about BI is along the same lines as your moral question. Suppose that every year we hand out $X,000 to each person. Some people are going to waste that on booze, gambling, etc., and still be left with nothing to eat. What's our moral obligation to those people?
Personal attacks are not welcome on HN. We ban users that do this, so please don't do it.
> but what introductory programming book would start out showing how to use a linker instead of how to write a program?

A good one!

Just take a glance over at StackOverflow and consider how many questions there essentially boil down to lack of understanding how the pieces in the compiler toolchain fit together:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stackoverflow.com%20undefined%20referen...

In workshop class a teacher will also start with explaining how to properly handle a tool before showing how to apply said tool to a problem.
> If Gitlab pricing keeps getting crazier (note: I said “crazier”, not “more expensive”), we’ll certainly re-evaluate GitHub Enterprise again.

Shots fired :P
From a redditor:

"I posted this detailed analysis describing a likely motivation for Craig needing to "prove" he is Satoshi.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w9xec/just_think_...
The short version is that he made fictional investments in a company by claiming to have transferred his personal "interest" in $29m of bitcoin to the target company. (I.e. no blockchain transfer, just a legal document claiming to transfer that amount of bitcoin.)
He then claimed substantial cash R&D credits from those transactions.
Australian taxation office (ATO) began investigating. He has paperwork showing the transactions, but knows that ATO might dig around and want to see verification that he truly owned $32m of bitcoin. To cover that, he claims he put all his bitcoin in a trust, where the trustee was another early bitcoiner. Unfortunately, that friend has now passed away, and the private keys are lost.
In order for the BS to be even vaguely plausible, he needs to show that he originally had access to $32m of bitcoin. This is why he pretends to be Satoshi."
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Agreed.

Still, I don't understand why more people don't sell the exploits to the highest bidder. It seems counter intuitive to me.

Maybe there are more people who sell the exploits and you just don't hear about it as much as people who submit them to the corporations before publicizing them.
Spotify ditches hamburger menu in favor of tab bar
I found I adjusted quickly to how Eclipse looks on it FWIW. The icons come out undersized but everything else works correctly, and I've grown to like the result - it feels like more space for the actual code.
It's both a library and a series of command-line tools.
I'll agree that Postel's Law should not be interpreted as "when something doesn't fit, force it". The most effective examples tend to have a duality: areas where permissiveness is allowed and areas where it's constrained. (E.g. The CSS/JSON must be well-formed, but the properties can vary.)

Getting underneath the patterns and anti-patterns of permissiveness in an informed way is a lot more useful IMO than the knee-jerk reaction of declaring all permissiveness harmful and running away. Especially in light of the web's incredible wins via this strategy.
Why though? What does he gain from all this? (I agree it's all a total scam)
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See second reply to seba_dos1.
As someone who hasn't used XCode in a while, why is this release news-worthy?
I am sorry to be blunt. Someone called it "snarky." I am happy we can reflect publicly and agree that this relatively common phrase is somewhat problematic.

Thank you. It made my day incrementally better.
Sigh. Yet more unsubstantiated psychobabble pablum.

Managing people is hard. Mmmmmkay?

My ability to manage is a function of how creatively and effectively I can be in aligning the company's goals with the worker's goals. It won't be 100% (that's why it's called a "job" and we pay people), but most managers barely even try. Funny how "troublemakers" seem to get in line when you actually manage to understand what motivates them.

If a manager can't do that, either A) the manager needs to be replaced or B) the employee needs to be replaced.

The problem is that we don't fire/demote managers nearly often enough, and we fire employees far too often.
if you aren't stopping-the-world during upgrade, you need to ensure the old code and the new code both execute happily against the new schema.

its even worse if you want to be able to rollback.
He's 10. Who is he going to sell this to? $10,000 is probably a gigantic amount of money to him.
Interesting that they use the term "underrepresented people of color" rather than just "underrepresented groups". This may be because whites (people of European descent) are actually an underrepresented group in tech. Compare the percentage of whites in tech company diversity reports with the percentage in the US population.
Check out https://www.browserstack.com/ or if you want to try something without signing up: http://browsershots.org/https://www.pc-kombo.de/
I see 235 MB

http://i.imgur.com/ZuxebCJ.png
What the author discovered is really shitty defaults for Angular. Most software is like that. Don't blame the developers using the software, blame the Angular developers for choosing shitty defaults. Instead of choosing production ready defaults, they chose development ready defaults, creating more work for everyone.
Upgraded it to 256 Gb - it just has an M.2 slot inside it.
Apparently Paperclip library already covered this long before this vulnerability is published.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/issues/2190#issuecom...
>> "Still, I don't understand why more people don't sell the exploits to the highest bidder. It seems counter intuitive to me."

The same reasons people don't steal from shops or commit other crimes:

1. Morals

2. Risk of getting caught and subsequent punishment
It's really a command-line tool at its heart. The library is essentially just a wrapper around this command-line tool.

You could feasibly do the same stuff in an interpreted language, but (I suspect) it would be substantially slower than directly running those compiled command-line tools underlying it.
I like to call this Resume Driven Development.
303 pages on Aaron Swartz case relased under FOIA
Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community
The worth of the metrics are questionable. Not only do I not want to send some company information on every page I visit, how long I look at the page, and how far I scroll; it's also irrelevant to who I want my money to go to. I wish I could take away money from some of the garbage I read, and I send money to things that I don't read (because I already know them) but I want to have available for other people to read.

It seems like they're trying to closely imitate an ad model, and consequently the commensurate micromanaged loss of privacy for the web consumer.
Any additional questions anyone can think of?
Next, browsers will show users a popup asking if they want to jump off a cliff.
Hi-Perf ClojureScript with WebGL, Asm.js and Emscripten
WE NEED TO LOWER THE COST OF LIVING

Its unacceptable that food in the US is 2x the cost of that of china, for instance.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resul...
Solution: swimming pool on the roof.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672202/you-deserve-a-house-with...
So then you consider that others are logical actors, and will follow to the same conclusion; meaning that the price won't drop in 18 months and is therefore the proper investment now.

But then you think that others will think this too, so then you should wait.

And then you remember that you should never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Hard problem now: Find all places where ImageMagick is being used and no one knows about.
Updated, merged, and pushed to PyPi as part of v0.1.0: https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack/pull/5

Thanks again for the feedback. Really appreciate it — and the existence of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine.
ImageMagick shells out to "delegates" to convert to/from many of the formats it supports: reading in a PDF results in a call to "gs", reading in a .docx results in a call to "soffice --headless", etc.

As for the wisdom of this approach...
How is doing something like re-writing a system in your off hours making your co-workers miserable? I mean sure, if you then proceed to bug your boss every day to adopt the new system after he carefully reviewed it and rejected it, I'm with you.

And she lists several "harmful" practices like this.

In short, taking initiative? Nope, we don't like that here in corporate America. Doing what you're told and minimize risk. Don't actually try to make us money or anything.
Re: Equity

Solar leases bring down the resale value of a home.
If the equipment is owned it raises the resale value of a home.

I've sold 2 homes this year with solar leases. Both of them were great deals for the buyers netting basically the value of the lease off the full retail value of the home.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/2015/07/17/...
Great project and hope Ellen + team can help many people. :]
Curious question. Why is this a personal attack? Wasn't he just bringing attention to the author who may have some historical relevance and that would bring light their bias?
occasionally i wonder if we are making a fundamental mistake when we replace the old code with the new. perhaps data versions should be first class concepts in our domains.
That's a really long time to patch that critical git 2.7.4 vulnerability. Have they even patched the openssh UseRoaming bug yet?

Using only Apple tools to interface with foreign git repositories on the internet is a high risk sport these days (weeks (months))...