skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Croatia, you can only get HBO via a select few ISPs (like ~half of them). If you’re at a different ISP, you’re out of luck. I actually bothered a friend who is at a “compatible ISP” to subscribe to the HBO packet and share their HBO GO password with me; I was ready to pay my friend to watch Game of Thrones! (They told my friend that you have to sign a contract for 12/24 months and I didn’t want to put my friend through that whole process, so I went “Fuck it” and started downloading the episodes via torrent.)

I tried HBO, I tried!
The Qualifications Game
> They want sites that work quickly, are easy to understand, and work on mobile just as well as on a desktop.

Not quite: users want to achieve specific tasks as quickly and easily as possible. Certainly "work quickly" and "work on mobile" are two huge pillars of that for many (probably the majority of) tasks, but for many applications you have to make significant trade-offs in functionality under the constraints of a static site.

Anything built on the web is competing with something that already is or can be built natively. Native applications don't have to concern themselves with this sort of limitation on interactivity as a trade-off for latency, which is an advantage. On the other hand, the web has the (huge) advantages of open discoverability and no-install distribution. It makes sense for both platforms to be working to fill in their gaps while trying to minimize the trade-offs.

It's clear that slow startup due to big chunks of js (and media) on load has become a big problem, and people are working on that, perhaps without much to show for it yet, but it isn't obvious to me that ceding the territory of interactive applications back to native implementations would be the better way forward.
AdTech – Lowering Network Latency and Transit Costs
I agree, it should be strictly limited to non-important styling needs. Recently someone had to go through our code base removing text from content properties in our CSS to make way for a future translation effort.
Thanks, we updated the link from https://github.com/TLINDEN.
The economic impacts plus the cover-your-ass excuse in the event of a terrorist attack makes eliminating the TSA political suicide. Which drives me crazy because it's the right move. The TSA does not protect the U.S. and the government is not a jobs program.

You could give everyone at the TSA a $50k severance package and still recoup $4B. But the moment something happens, all the fingers are pointed your way. Wrongfully, of course, but human beings are bad at weighing risk and hindsight is 20/20.
The funny thing is that a lot of people will read this and say "Well, that's what I'm doing. I'm one of the few that actually does this the right way."

But from my oberservations of others (hard to observe yourself in that regard) thinking that way is usually a sign to be on the far other side and seldom question your own opinion. Thinking that myself, I probably have to look out a lot more for chances to see things from the other person's perspective.
Write Html extremely fast with this new Preprocessor(Web based)
>aside from the fact that less than 2% of users actually do this

Source?
That headache is what you get paid for.
The virtual flirting application for the Snapchat generation overcoming Tinder
More examples on http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-...

"Haiti canceled DST for at least the 2016 calendar year. It was scheduled to go into effect on March 13th, but on March 12th (just 1 day notice!) the government issued a press release canceling it."
What do you mean? It's quite easy to position elements on the page however you please. It can get quite complicated if you wish to support multiple viewport sizes with dynamic resizing, but it can be done.
Yup. Downside is imports are gonna get a heck of a lot more expensive... welcome to the push-and-pull of trade.
This website would actually be better if they removed all the CSS and images.
I refuse to believe that NO ONE ELSE out there does the "read page in order to target ad" thing.
Protect Your Business Tech
http://xkcd.com/869/

Anyone know where I can find publication dates for individual comics? I don't see anything on the comic's page.
Fatality Forces Tesla to Confront Its Limits
Register at Packtpub, then open this link:

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

You get a new book every day, although sometimes they offer books that are already offerend months ago. The downside is that you need to do this every day, and you need to bookmark this link.

They don't cover all subjects, but do have a lot of programming. I don't say these are the best books, but in general they are interesting.
It's always great to see lowest common denominator arguments in this debate - like this happens outside social networks both before they existed and indefinitely into the future. Immediately after the unsubstantiated claims of information overload are made, these same companies go ahead and insert additional entirely unsolicited commercial advertisements into the feed/results - because business...

Meanwhile the much more genuine solution would be to simply release the deluge of data and allow the users to curate it themselves - but then they would have less ability to subliminally compel users and also risk overwhelming/under-reaching users with ads.

The real problem is the "free service" sham repeatedly echoed as justification for user tracking. I suspect the not too distant future, it will be common knowledge that the rampant pillaging of information and user privacy violations committed by companies like Google and Facebook out of sheer greed will in fact be the highest cost anyone can pay for a trivial, non-essential service. In the meantime, I'll continue doing my best to fool these tracking systems and then complain how they fail to generate the content I desire
ITT: people taking this way too seriously
This. It would be really great if we all just relaxed our devotion to time. Get up when you want. Work your hours (or don't). Eat when your appetite suggests you eat. Go out and enjoy the world in the light, twilight or dark. Sleep when you feel tired (or don't).

I dream of an employer who would understand that I want to come in later and leave earlier in the winter when I feel like sleeping when the sun goes down earlier and have less daylight in the day. Conversely, I'm happy to wake and come to work early in the summer, maybe work a few hours more than in the winter months since I've got hours and hours of daylight to play with.
Sounds a lot like many homeschooling approaches done well in a non-home environment. Interesting.
Sure there won't be shared UI development support, but you can easily encapsulate app logic from UI. If you're brave enough you can try using Gtk# from http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/
I finally can compile and crosscompile x64 binaries on my old PC. WSL idea it's great because it's the only way you can use x64 linux binaries on a DualCore (CPU without VT-x instructions, which makes VM not an option) and that without leaving Windows.

I just crosscompiled my favorite video player (mpv) just following Linux howto steps. Had to compile and install the mingw-w64 toolchain in order to compile win32 binaries, but everything worked like it should. It's a pretty big project that downloads, patches and compiles more than 40 libraries like FFmpeg. 5Gb of source code that compiles in a single 30Mb mpv.exe file.

I wasn't expecting much from WSL but I'm impressed it worked so well.
Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code
> Finally, don't bring "eastern asian background" into this. You should be able to argue for or against something without using your background to appeal to idiots and racists.

This x 10. There is being open-minded and there is letting your brains fall out. You can be culturally sensitive, but that should stop when you see victims being stamped upon by a large firm boot, slowly and quietly into the dirt.
High risk stem cell transplantation method may halt MS symptoms long-term
Their site is unresponsive bizarre ways I haven't seen anywhere else online.
Tidy data in org: inline charts in a text editor
ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution
Apologies in advance that my response is somewhat scattered. At Capshare, we are actively working on all of these problems. Here are some of our thoughts on early liquidity for founders: https://www.capshare.com/blog/finding-early-liquidity-6-thin.... Here are some thoughts on cap table transparency: https://www.capshare.com/blog/will-cap-table-transparency-he.... Finally some thoughts about optimizing options for tax efficiency: https://www.capshare.com/blog/how-to-structure-stock-options.... Many of the online equity / electronic stock companies are anticipating new ways to transact that will increase private stock liquidity.
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I must be insane because I don't really see that much of a difference between the two examples you provided. I can read one just as well as the other.
But fault diagnosis and repair would be more complex.
I have two questions that I will ask as two separate comments.

My first question: How does forwarding the clock by 1 hour in summer give one extra hour of daylight? Say, without DST on a certain summer day, the sun would normally (without DST) rise at 5 AM and set at 7 PM. Also, say that I normally work from 9 AM to 6 AM. Without DST, I am working when the sun is there. With DST in effect (clock being one hour forward), the sun would rise at 6 AM and set at 8 PM my 9 AM to 6 AM working hours still fall within the time when the sun is there. What is gained? Can you give an example of times and working hours that demonstrates the usefulness of DST in summer?
Is this type of functionality planned for an official GitHub feature? Gitlab and Bitbucket both incorporate some type of similar functionality already...
Frankly, I'm beginning to think that the "old system" of per-city solar timezones, defined by the time the sun is directly overhead that city, is actually preferable to the "modern" (post International Meridian Conference of 1884) system of timezones with hourly offsets.

With solar time, the timezone, and offset with every other timezone, is fixed. With the timezone system, it became a political decision, subject to constant changes as everybody tries to move into the timezone of their trading partners, or make adjustments for the time of year.

Scheduling things between geographically distant areas can, in fact, be really hard with the timezone system - e.g., the offset between New York and London is either 4 or 5 hours, and changes 4 times per year, due to the different DST schedules. Not much fun if you're trying to run, say, an airline offering transatlantic flights + US connections.

In the old days, the solar system would have been difficult to work with, if you had to use some hard-copy chart (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Co...), and calculate things manually. These days, it would be trivial to build the functionality into devices, watches, apps, etc, on the basis of an exhaustive, static database, instead of the timezone database which needs frantic updates due to political changes.
With over 1.6 million sites using GreenSock (and growing fast), I'd say it's gotten plenty of love outside Advertising/Marketing circles ;)

It's widely seen as the go-to animation library on the web...period. Most award-winning sites use it. Chris Gannon is clearly a magician with it. Love his work.

As for the licensing, the codebase is on github and it's free to use in the vast majority of use cases including most commercial ones. See http://greensock.com/why-license/ to understand the "why" behind the model. Hopefully you'll see how it can actually be a very good thing for the community (as evidenced by the decade-plus track record and ongoing updates). But I realize it's not for everyone and that's okay. There are some misunderstandings out there about the license, so I hope folks will take a moment to read that article I mentioned above.

Happy tweening!
Surely you don't accept all existing government laws and processes as valid components of capitalism. Civil asset forfeiture? Institutionalized racism? Bans on gay marriage? Bans on medical marijuana? Bailouts?
What faith have I displayed? I haven't defended their actions. I stated I feel it's incompetence rather than malice. My issue is using a single testimonial to come to an overall conclusion, which I'm sure you agree is incorrect.

You seem emotional, which I understand since it affected your website, but you should note I haven't displayed any nationalism.
It is _much_ easier to change the time than to adjust everything that's set at a time.
The problem is typical ads like Google Adwords are dead. Not in terms of usage maybe but it's coming. Social and native advertising is the bigger game now. Facebook and Instagram advertising brings in a better ROI than Google Adwords from every person I've talked to who buys ads.

Everything I read on the internet about advertising it's massively swinging to social. So either my anecdotes suck and I'm reading terrible articles or there is something to it and I believe there is (especially SnapChat is HUGE with it but you have to do content production not just pay for a shitty ad).
Another great tool for touch-less interfaces. I think the odd aspect of this Google I/O demonstration is the novelty usage of the technology for a smart watch. This tech seems like it is more difficult than it's worth in that form factor, but for devices that must remain sanitary, say in a kitchen, or a medical device in an OR, I like the potential.
I'm in Ireland. There's light on the north horizon at midnight. It's daylight till 10ish.

It's hell with a 6 yr old. He hasn't seen darkness in a couple of months. And the older kids still want to stay up till 11.
Can we instead arrange sunlight for 12 hours a day, all year long? That would suit me well.
"Support" means they are on the hook if something is broken. Every OS/browser combination is a cost center and potential liability.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11624374
I think the ability to transfer information from one consenting party to another is closer to a fundamental human right than the ability of content creators to control how copies of their content are distributed.
Trade deficit and falling pound means: importing goods becomes more expensive, exporting and producing for the local market becomes easier.
WikiLeaks Releases Over 1,200 Clinton Emails on Iraq War
An excellent point I failed to include.
the Gov't forces companies to abide by the law in many ways. You have to build a ramp and widen your doors to allow for handicap access - same thing with code..
Maybe, but it's an accurate assessment to someone pining for the "old days"...
Probably because he said it.
It's not about more hours in the day - it's about more hours in the pub garden in the evening. I'm all in favour of that.
Well... no secrets, just self evident truths.
My second question: Why do countries prefer to use DST when they could achieve the same effect by changing the work timings, school timings, etc. That is say, the work timings are 9 AM - 5 PM. Instead of applying DST in summer, they could instead change the work timings to 8 AM - 4 PM. Why is this not preferred? Isn't it simpler to keep the clock constant and the work timings variable than keeping the work timings constant and the clock variable? Personally, I think it is simpler for me to understand changes in work timings than changes in DST. Several times, I have had to perform mental gymnastics to figure out which way the clock moved and how it affects my schedule, i.e. whether I need to be sleeping an hour earlier than usual or an hour later than usual.
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FINTECH COMPANY SET TO REVOLUTIONISE THE GLOBAL ART MARKET
‘It’s time for investors to consider art an asset class, just like stocks, bonds and commodities,’ Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics, New York University

ARTSTAQ, the London-based fintech company, is delighted to announce the launch of Artex500, a new exchange model that enables investors to acquire and trade art as an asset class in real-time anywhere in the world.

The platform, the first of its kind, provides independent market data, market valuation along with other investment parameters free of charge, and has been designed for experienced art investors as well as those who are new to the sector. It is supported by ARTSTAQ’s unique technology for automated quotation and real-time rating.
Is there a text link for this? Video is such a slow medium.

Edit: By this I mean that I can assimilate text faster than an equivalent amount of info delivered in video form.
I'm fairly shocked too. I appreciate that lots of people don't understand this way of creating stuff but to suggest that programming and design are two separate entities is to deny an exciting approach to design in general.
Show HN: Clojure library that generates JavaScript from Clojure pseudocode
Apple pushes organ donor registration for US iPhone users
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> We are already on the path to eliminating the need for bovine meat processing.

You might be. I'm not.
> the sun would rise at 6 AM and set at 8 PM

> 9 AM to 6 PM working hours

It wouldn't affect your working hours, but you'd enjoy one more hour of sunlight after work (instead of sunset at 7 PM without DST).

Personally going home from work when the sun is still up makes me feel I still have a lot of time to do stuff, and conversely, I hate going to work when it's still dark, and/or coming home from work when it's dark already.
Is jQuery included in those 4 or 5 lines? One line of CSS in your accordion?
I'm personally okay with non-annoying ads, and ABP works for me with zero effort from my end. Do you have alternative recommendations that do something similar to ABP?
Yes, I do hold the same standard. My faith calls me to uphold the worth and dignity of all people, and showing a picture of a rough and ready man smirking as he's about to bring hell on Earth to another human is not entertaining to me.

It would be disingenuous of me to say I've always felt this way. I was a Counterstrike junky in high school and I enjoyed a number of titles in the Battlefield series. So don't take my comment as a holier-than-thou indictment. But I have learned a different path and am trying to make a positive impact on this world.

If anything, I stand as a testament that that these games do not define us nor condemn us to being monsters. But I will discourage my own children from being entertained as they watch Hueys swing down over a Vietnamese village with Fortunate Son playing in the background as they bomb the shit out of a small village full of perfectly evil enemies. I did that, and I have learned that reducing the world to good and evil permeates every little interaction in our lives until it becomes exceeding difficult to live the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated. Micro-aggressions against others dehumanizes us.

Lastly, you are correct, that imagined conflict is actually very valuable to teaching moral lessons, and there are plenty of ways to explore the idea of war with those who don't yet appreciate how destructive it is to reduce an actual conflict in our shared history to black-and-white terms.
The Difference Between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area
No, they provided the data from their own API.
Looking at the DST schedules in all the countries listed in this wikipedia article[1], it once again reminds me why timekeeping is a mess with DST observance.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...
The purpose is to put more of the daylight hours in the evening when people are able to enjoy it. And/or when it may reduce the use of electricity (though studies show it probably doesn't have much or any effect).

If the sun rises at 5am, few people will be awake to take advantage of that light, so shifting it to 6am has not much effect. But shifting sunset from 7PM to 8PM gives people an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
Guix: The Non-Aligned Universal Package Manager
If the sun sets at 8pm 'real', and 9pm DST, most people get an hour more daylight.

Vs, the sun rising at 5am 'real', and 6am 'dst' when everybody is asleep and wants it to be dark.
I've downloaded shows before. I mostly do it for control. I don't want to have to show up at exactly 9pm to watch something; I want to be able to watch it around 7 the next day, while I'm doing dishes, then continue watching it at my desk while I'm clearing out my email, or while doing something else.

I could get a DVR, but I can't drag a DVR with me around the house as I'm doing chores.
Finding a body seems unrelated. Even a clean river can get a body now and then...
A online xkcd Reader
http://davidguan.me/xkcdReader/

Github repo: https://github.com/EcutDavid/xkcdReader
"Flash never really was a problem for me; very very few used it for anything critical."

Actually there was a period (end of the 90s, early 2000s) where flash was pervasively used to build entire sites. They were worse than single pages app of today. Completely broke browser history, urls etc... Those are similar complaints to today but now that APIs and workaround exit, it's mostly laziness that prevent people from properly building apps that avoid these pitfalls.

"And frankly the "best viewed in whatever" websites weren't a problem either".

There were days where not having a windows machine with IE installed meant not being able to bank online, access university course website etc... This is no longer an issue that I run into much in 2016.

"Living with JS (and other obnoxious features) disabled, on the other hand, has gotten really fucking difficult now."

That used to be the case too with Flash (and java to a smaller extent). Without flash many many sites were completely broken. This obviously got better with time to the point where it's hard to remember but it was pretty horrible to try to use the web without flash circa 2000-2006 or so.

I get that some want JS disabled but it's the only cross browser method of achieving certain interactive experiences on the web. It's not new technology and has been around since the earliest days of the web. The percentage of people with JS disabled is so low (less than 1% in sites on many sites I've dealt with) that it was very hard to justify the added effort to support both (in the case of the sites I worked on, they were large enough that the effort was made). As the web becomes used for more and more use cases, it's going to be hard to keep accommodating a very small minority of users. If JS wasn't there, something else would have to exist to do what it does.
I just released version 0.2 of todolist [1] which looks and feels very similar to theca in a lot of ways. The main difference is that todolist is focused around GTD and productivity, and is akin to Todoist or Wunderlist, but for the command line.

[1]: http://todolist.site