skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does that matter? There have been major projects backed by a company that have gone away. There have been major projects backed by one person that have been around for years.
I think your concern about "what if the sandbox can do too much" is reasonable. My only suggestion is to try out Qubes for a while. It requires some adaption, but it's definitely possible to use securely (edit: obviously limited by the realities of Xen).

FWIW, Apple's Mac sandbox and Sandstorm both have open/save support. It's definitely user-friendly and nice polish, but I don't think it's a make-or-break issue.
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Isn't one of the main tenants of OSS that it can organically grow beyond a single person without the need for company backing?
Inky 3 – Encrypted emails using ANY email provider
https://download.inky.com/inky-security-whitepaper.pdf

Even without all the capabilities of protonmail(yet) it's interesting the fact that they've managed to allow encryption communication without having you to create a new account...
Yes, that's why I offered that maybe we could think out of the box to harness it in an indirect manner. Considering how it forms fulgurite [1], what if we used to form something that can be "burned" for energy?

I find it hard to believe that this awesome force cannot have any applications for man.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite
But it's very hard to design a feedback loop with a short enough cycle to properly reward the latter.

It makes me think of the line about raising children, that it's better to say, "I recognize that you worked really hard on that, it looks wonderful!" than "Good job! You're so smart!" [1]

because one captures the reason why they did a good job. By calling that out, you can perhaps reinforce behavior with a longer view.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-w...
tl;dr: This blog post is just misinformation.

This applies to all CDNs, and is part of what a CDN is. (if you think it only applies to proxying ones, then think about what I can do if I own your copy of jQuery)

If your threat model says you should not have a CDN, then don't have a CDN. This is not Cloudflare specific, and they are not even the biggest player! (e.g., not i.e., Akamai)

Don't get me started on the DDoS misapprehensions. "Just run your own" mitigation appliance to take XXX Gbps DDoS? This is a gross misrepresentation of what DDoS and DDoS mitigation is.
I'm on OS X with Firefox 47.0.1 and it works fine. It doesn't display anything until the 6th keypress.
We have not enough tech education

"impossible for culture to be produced."

It's rather cheap to setup or let someone setup your own wordpress server on a hosted server, made redundant with backups.

So it's worrying that artists think it's Google hosting or nothing.
Indeed, but with BEM, you keep a specificity of 1, which means you can override styles simply by adding a class and ensuring that it is further down in the style sheet than its other base classes.

Like mentioned above, this keeps things simple and prevents the snowball effect of people continually adding classes or selectors to override styles.
Fully agree with your comments, but I fear we're going in the wrong direction with the silo-ization of the web and the decline in open standards being ratified and used by large companies.

Just look at Google's hostility towards maintaining standardized IMAP/SMTP support for third party mail clients. Google Apps and Office 365 would drop IMAP access to their services in a heartbeat if they could.

Furthermore a lot of our online interactions are moving from open formats like Usenet, IRC, XMPP and SMTP/IMAP to closed off walled gardens like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

This artist's online presence could have been entirely based on Instagram and Twitter for example and I bet many (younger than I) folks nowadays do eschew email for other forms of communication.

I don't think self sufficiency in communication is a problem the end user can be realistically expected to solve. It's up to engineers and technology stake holders to try and push us back to a more open way of using these apps and provide standards based communication.

I don't know how the heck we'll do that - I don't see any user pressure for companies to even try, but news like this troubles me and I think it's going to get much worse before people realize their data isn't their own and push for it to get better.
Undoubtedly there are a lot of people in unfavourable circumstances who simply cannot afford to save and blaming them on stupidity is pure arrogance.

The real "stupidity" which causes so many people to remain poor is depicted with that BMW guy in the article. It is about trying to maintain a lifestyle that is beyond your means.
Any Debian users interested in Spin ought to be able to `apt-get install spin` sometime soon: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/spin

It's already landed in unstable, testing shouldn't be too far away.
Why is a guy ok? I expected a girl in a bikini or something but it's just a headshot of a girl. That's totally fine in most places in the world.
A nice idea.

The trouble is our reliance on expecting displays to reproduce frequencies (aka. crispness) that is beyond the Nyquist frequency of the display.

So with the proposed bayer pattern, we can no longer represent horizontal and vertical lines which are common in text and widgets with the sharpness we expect (unlike photographs, where we don't expect these)

We should be looking to satisfy Nyquist with a high enough resolution display and an optical low-pass filter between the display and the eye. Then things will all fall in to place...
This is definetly not working. I'm certain that one can write a program like this, but I'm consistenly getting 50 % even though I use different strategies every time.
I guess the challenge is to do it efficiently in the presence of pointers, implicit or explicit.
How long before other companies (like Medium) will start doing this?

That's why I'm advocating hosting your own blog. Github Pages basically provide free hosting for static pages, and you can use a blog generator like Pelican or Jekyll. Sure it's a hassle to set-up for the average person but the peace of mind might be worth it.
I guess the dozens of people talking about in my social media feeds are all corporate plants. Who knew!
It's quite surprising to me that Apple seems to be doing so much better at diversity hiring. I think Google, Facebook, and Twitter are quite serious with respect to diverse hiring / I find it hard to believe Apple's methods wouldn't be found out and copied by any of them if they worked so much better.

Has anyone looked into the possibility that rather than Apple being uniquely good at diversity hiring, Apple is just uniquely good at gerrymandering their diversity report?
Rust and Docker in production  Coursera
Vue is an example of a one-man project lots of people build on; it can be done and be done well :)
It's NOT like that. Rather Chad already sold it all off to Craigslist and informed the owner after the fact.

If Google was a storage facility and did this, free or no, they would be liable.
Sounds fairly straightforward... for guys like us!

My mum or my sister couldn't do any of that stuff as they wouldn't know where to start.

As it happens, I use Outlook client on my laptop and desktop machines so I have a local copy of my emails should it all go to hell but I could still lose my primary email address.

As for Gmail... I would rather swallow my tongue than let them near my emails (not saying much considering I use Microsoft at the moment, I know) :)
Nobody's suggesting feeling sorry for Google. Feel sorry for the people who aren't able to work up an internet shitstorm.
Ever since learning how Java's Swing got its name[0], Pokemon are actually my go-to for project codenames. They're fun and memorable, and Nintendo is litigious enough that there's no way you can actually release something with the name of a pokemon.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...
Friendly reminder that your stuff is not "backed up" in the cloud unless you have a local copy. Otherwise it just lives in the cloud, meaning it lives on someone else's server.
It also stores your email on their servers to get push messages, which no UI can fix.
Wait, you want the government to require companies to sell hardware that will let people protect themselves from... the government. I don't see this happening.
What Jupyter Notebook is missing is a good text/code editor and what good text/code editors are missing is Jupyter Notebook like write and execute.

This is the first example I've seen of the power that using Electron in Atom can give, and it makes me super exited!
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The hysteria over Tesla’s Autopilot has been completely blown out of proportion
Private property rights are not an unlimited license to be a jerk - although libertarians do seem to think so.
I think people are jaded due to windows automated backup, where you tell it to keep only the latest backup and it still manages to fill your hard drive with 50 of them.
>> "Are Europeans not upset"

I'm happy the regulators are not allowing a huge multi-national business to abuse its power. I'm happy that, to some extent, regulators are trying to make sure large foreign tech companies respect my privacy. If that means we lose Google I think you're overestimating how big of a deal that would be. I use DDG for search, iCloud for email/calendar/contacts, Safari as my desktop browser, BBC for my news, Amazon for my shopping. I don't need Google - it needs me.
If you use github pages, you aren't hosting your own blog.... GitHub is.
Is there, for a given k, an easy to remember sequence (easy to remember algorithm with little state) that has all the k-grams with the same frequency?

For k=1: 01 repeating

For k=2: 0011 repeating

For k=3: 00010111 repeating
No, I am upset that Europe is so dependent on foreign technology, region limited from US companies on online content and we are forced to make more data available than we should.
I can't help but feel like the word Censorship is being severely diluted by using it in cases like these.
This is actually due to a psychological thing where humans don't find long strings of repeated letters/digits "random" and hence will flip more frequently than you'd expect from a machine.

I also recall there being a problem in the use of 5-grams which lead to a sequence in which it guessed 0%, but I'm struggling to find it now.
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I grew up going to a free summer camp, it was the sixty acres of woods behind my house :)
> People tended to use retarded as referring to one's mental abilities

Isn't that what it means? Applying it to something physical just seems wrong.
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Also, talk to your kids about death "When Mommy Went to Heaven" by Evon Latrail
It works if you're trying to be random, however if you're trying to react and respond to its patterns you can win.
What are the major benefits of Rodeo compared to Spyder?
For any of those who may be doing Elixir development, https://github.com/pprzetacznik/IElixir works perfectly with this.
I expect that with time these self-driving algorithms will become safer than an increasing proportion of human drivers. I'm just very wary of assuming they are better than most or all human drivers prematurely.

We as a society have a habit of putting too much faith in technology. Most of us aren't knowledgeable and unbiased enough to assess its risks objectively, particularly in areas where there is a very low chance of something happening but it will be very bad if it does happen.
Because Microsoft is Microsoft and everybody knows everything about Microsofts products. There is no need to explain anything, right?
I think all this really does is remind everyone that they should review their current backup strategies
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I recently got a Surface Book. It's the best laptop I've ever seen, by a long way.
Yes. This quotation from Goro Shimura sums it up, IMHO:

> "Though such a competition may have its raison d'être, I think those younger people who are seriously interested in mathematics will lose nothing by ignoring it."

And that's what it comes down to. Are these competitions fundamentally necessary to someone's development as a mathematician? Shimura seems to be saying something like, "Eh. Not really. If you don't like them, you don't need them."
How valuable is your other friend to the startup? It might be easier to start this on your own without including any friends in the same circle.

It's always going to be awkward if you're talking about how great your startup is going and he got left out.

Keep business separate from your friendships.

Businesses are a lot easier to find than a good group of friends.

Most startups fail, friendships can easily be forever. Don't mix them if you think it's going to be trouble from the start.

Good luck with your startup and keeping your circle of friends together.
You misunderstand me - I am not talking about man made climate change. I am saying that having data that shows current temperatures are highest ever in 1000 years is not surprising, given that temperatures have been rising for last several thousand years.

If one had a time machine and went back 1000 years, took temperatures and compared them to those from previous thousand years, one would not be surprised to see that on average they were higher.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of what Jupyter was.

I only glanced the top of the README which compares the project to what Light Table was trying to solve and then showed an animated gif of inline code evaluation examples.
Small thing I noticed: on http://blazecss.com/components/buttons/, the 'link' button made from a normal <a> tag is slightly larger (Chrome 51).
This idea that paying less tax is a good thing boggles the mind.
Do you think tax payer money is just burnt or something?

Paying taxes provide services that maintain the sensible level of social movement and pay differential that has been demonstrated to advance entire societies.

Why do so many people want to be the richest person in a shit-hole?
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For another view of this issue: https://climateaudit.org/tag/gergis/
Different cultures will find different things to not be OK. The site was (presumably) made by someone of a western culture, so those visiting it from other cultures can be mindful of that, and just ignore it.

Other things that could be offensive to various cultures:
- Red meat (offensive in India?)
- Beer (offensive in countries where alcohol is illegal)

One thing is to avoid being obviously offensive (nudity, violence, etc), the other thing is limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator of all things acceptable in all cultures. (However this could make sense for a highly localized/global product.)

Why not have a picture of a man? If they did that, then someone could also complain that women are not represented in the website. We're in a niche culture that is extremely sensitive towards that. Take for instance Facebook's "Friend request" icon, which was redesigned so that the woman was on front, and not on the back, precisely because someone took offense from that:

http://www.nylon.com/articles/facebook-friend-request-icon
"Free?"
what the heck is a Creative Tim license?
Under Ballmer's watch the revenue tripled. It could have been pure dumb luck. Even with all that Satya is doing it hasn't really showed any results on revenues and profits. Sun did a lot of great things for open source and they pretty much floundered.
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I absolutely agree, though I always feel like culture and nationality are very underplayed in this discussion - I believe an American, an Eastern European and a Chinese national would bring a lot more diverse world views to the table than a female and a male American (or black and white).
Well, life insurance, by definition, means you pay more than YOU get back :P. Agreed. I'd say it's a better bet invest the same amount in index funds than life insurance.
i have two young kids (3 & 2). when they do something "clever", it is always the thing they've done that's clever, not them.
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Wouldn't "companies passing on highly qualified candidates due to a broken process" be a self-correcting problem, where other market players with non-broken hiring processes would be able to scoop the talent up and gain a competitive advantage?
How many people don't know what office is at this point?
Is it possible to upgrade a personal license to developer? IE when bootstrapping a product, getting customer feedback, and then upgrading when you actually start charging people?
Why not just get a stable, world-reachable[1] IP address? All the services you use have them. You can too.

When you have your own, then you can run your own "services", not to mention many other possibilities, such as true decentralized communications -- no third party servers needed.

1. "World-reachable" means you control the firewall, not a third party.

Alternatively, be satisfied and keep depending on third parties.

Google: "Let us make many consecutive requests to your webserver, download and store copies of your content."
You: "Agreed."
You: "Let me make many consecutive reuqests to your webserver, download and store copies of my own or other people's content."
Google: "Sorry".

Then Google makes your content available to others, but only for a few searches at time[2]. To add insult to injury, it sells advertising and, if the regulators are correct, promotes its own websites -- all serving user-generated content -- as people are searching through publicly available information.

"Middleman" or "service"?

2. Any attempt to collect in bulk results in IP ban. Compare Internet Archive who encourages users to crawl their collection.

Organizing public information sounds like a lovely goal for a company, until you realize it will be access controlled (it's public information), laden with ads (because the company cannot support itself without advertisers), user tracking for the advertisers and that the changes to the algorithms that include or exclude results are secret. And there will be no index. You can only access the data through search.

Moving beyond the first page of results is OK only so long as you do not go "too fast" or go too deep -- you will never get to page 100 witout first being banned. WTF?
Partially relevant. A more apt example would be 'xyz lets me put all my junk in his nice shelf garage, I can look at 'em whenever I want, my junk looks great. He also lets anyone come through his garage to see it. It's so popular he gets advertisers to spend money posting other items to sell there... now he just threw out all my stuff without warning because his advertising garage business wasn't worth maintaining anymore.'

That's a dick move through and through. We can wag our fingers and say 'you should have known better' but clearly if this were the case all the time, with all our free services, this model of business would fail. It is 'free' so long as it's profitable or has the potential to be profitable to them.

These services have no explicit guarantee that they will last, or protect your stuff, but we expect them to. It's implied in the marketing or usability of the thing. You pay a merchant for an item, you don't explicitly pay to secure your credit card with hashes and salts in a DB, it's implied in the service. I suppose it's your fault if your credit card is swiped because you should have used cash... or gold bullion.
Honestly, I would say the main advantage is you don't have to learn Emacs.

Emacs is a very polarising environment and there are many programmers for whom it is simply not the right code editor.
We used Windows phones at my last place. I would say that the biggest problem for corporate users is the confusion between Azure AD accounts and Microsoft accounts (we didn't manage the phones in any way). It was really hard to explain to users why they had to register a new account at Microsoft when they already logged in to Office 365 daily.
The common good overrides that and if like Google you are going to stick to fingers up to the "man" over NSL's its very hypocritical.

As Seward said "there is a higher law than the Constitution"
Nah, It's been meaningless for a while now.
Between mobile and the web, I'd recommend the web. In terms of learning programming however, I'd recommend starting in a language ecosystem where the community values teaching programming to new comers. In my opinion, Racket and Processing are good places to start learning to program:

Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/

Processing: https://processing.org/

Most web development tools and nearly all mobile development platform assume that the developer is a professional. The tools are complex. The documentation assumes significant familiarity with programming.

Good luck.
Are you European? In that case you'd know European corporations and businesses don't have a preferential treatment at all.

You should see how the European Union treats European telcos for example.
There is one damn thing I would love from Microsoft. And that's to get rid of adverts from their software.

I use Windows 7 and Windows 10 Enterprise. We paid for those licenses. It boggles my mind that anyone at MS would think sticking ads in the Windows Weather App or Skype would be a good idea for paid for software.
Looks amazing - great work!

This might be something I can use for a new SaaS I'm doing. Is there a "dashboard" type page?

And something with Tables/graphs etc?
The standalone Office suite and Office 365 are two entirely different beasts I would say.
More on the images, since the images are just the ones that were popular during Ingress (I mean the same images, like some of the ones I took a few years ago in Ingress are now in Pokemon), they probably could have done even more aggressive caching for the very popular spots.
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Mine started at 25% and worked it's way up to 54%. Which also involved me holding down keys for a few seconds. I'm not sure if it works or if Hacker New's user base is skewed towards people who are slightly better at being random. (or if that's cause by self reporting, would someone whose best was 80% want to come forward?)

Edit:
Interesting tidbit: I pre-seeded at 100% by holding down F and it trended down to ~68% before I decided I shouldn't spend too much time on this. Maybe we didn't use it long enough?
Hey,

Thanks a ton for going throught the product. In case you can highlight any specific cases would be great, so that we can work on improving it immediately
The pro site lists additional components, including tables.