skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to whitelist certain domains from the safe browsing feature in Firefox?

One of the sites I frequent has all their torrents marked by safe browsing as malware (mistakenly AFAIK), so ideally I'd like to whitelist that one site without opting out of the feature entirely.
Degrading video quality is not a bad idea if you have limited bandwidth.

This would help in cases such as airplane flights. One person watching HD cat videos is going to consume more bandwidth than 20 people doing work.

Now, assuming bandwidth increase is difficult to achieve, they would be forced to keep increasing the price instead.

Prioritizing non-video content is challenging if all content is encrypted.
Fine, swap an impossible reality for a slightly-less-impossible reality. I feel just as confident saying "a third-party will not keep a candidate from winning the electoral college" as I do saying "a third-party candidate will not win the election." Third-party candidates do not siphon votes equally from the two major parties, they typically just make it easier for one to beat the other. I think it more likely that a third-party candidate could get as much as 30% of the popular vote without winning a single electoral vote.
There is no point unless you are going to using a lot of Python's scientific computing apparatus, or you want the ability to rewrite "hot" code in Cython for better performance. If you are primarily focused on social-esque or CRUD-heavy apps there isn't really an upside vs Rails.
MacOS Sierra Beta
Android 2.3 doesn't even support SNI for virtual hosts on SSL.
Agreed, exploding job offers is a great term for this.
Depends. Re-write help in clean code way more that just a upgrade ('cause is a bigger refactoring), but could take longer time.

Normally I prefer that, and translate code manually. even more if the jump is big. Except if the goal is just stay current.
My introduction to computing course had us read about the Therac-25 and write an essay about it.

While code we write doesn't always have such dire consequences, it was an eye opener to me as a freshman in college. It definitely made designing software/hardware to never fail have a much higher priority on my list of priorities.
This is the 2nd time I see a NYT article bashing on private equity. The first time it was about ambulances and it was factually incorrect (to put it mildly).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977710

Do not get tripped by the top comment.
Based on the idea that the all these groups still cares about the Constitution, democracy, and freedom.

Why would the military disregard the Constitution and start killing all the members of Congress just because Trump order them to? Though the military take orders from the President, the military has to uphold the Constitution. The President can't just order the military to disband Congress. The military would never do that. What would actually happen is that the military will instead arrest Trump and Congress will put Trump to trail to impeach him.

Again, the scenario where Trump become a dictator of the United States is never going to happen, because there is just too many groups and too much opposition to him.

There is no way the military will kill their own family members just to satisfy Trump's order.

Cops are NOT under the control of the federal government. Cops are under the control of the 50 states. Why would the 50 states give control of the police force to the President? Why would the 50 states just sit back and let Trump become a tyranny without fighting back? Why would cops go against their own cities, just so Trump can become a dictator?

Why would armed people joined up with Trump, especially arms Black people?

Why would the National Guard, who's duty is to protect the country, why would they go against the country just so Trump can become a dictator?

Again. Never gonna happen. There are too many groups who value democracy and freedom. And they will all oppose Trump if Trump decides to do something unconstitutional.

And you seem to be under the assumption that Trump supporters want a dictatorship. That's ridiculous. Trump supporters do not support a dictatorship. Trump supporters supports conservatism (aka, less government), which is the opposite of a dictatorship (total government control).

ALSO: Minutemen was just an example. Now-a-day, it's the NRA and other militia groups. And Minutemen actually refers to these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen

Obviously, all these doesn't matter if everyone in the United States (that means, all the people, Congress, judges, police forces, etc. everyone) agrees that Trump should be a dictator and voted to turn the government into a dictator. But that's never gonna happen. People come from other countries into the United States because of its democracy. Why would they allow the government to turn into the same dictatorship they ran away from?
It would be interesting to know how much overhead HTTPS added for them. Eg, a comparison of CPU usage between HTTP and HTTPS on the server side, whether or not they are using hardware offloads, etc.

Netflix has some papers about their experience transitioning to HTTPS:

https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf
https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_tls_improved.pdf

However, I expect the YouTube workload would be vastly different from the Netflix workload due to the sheer size of the YouTube catalog.
One doesn't exactly "start [their] own private equity firm." Tens of (more often: hundreds of) millions of dollars must be raised and even then, they must bid (or acquire by other means) on companies.

Anyone with a net worth above $1mm can become a venture capitalist, given that VCs deal with earlier stage companies which, as a result of their youth, are happy to take small checks for minority investments.

Private equity, because it deals with mature companies and (more often than not) involves controlling stakes, requires very, very large checks. And because investors don't like an undiversified portfolio, the PE firm must have the means to write many very, very large checks.

This isn't an undertaking that just anyone can do. Of course, if someone has the means to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, has a nose for investing, is experienced in both buy-side mergers & acquisitions as well as the operations of a company in a given domain, then co-sign your advice.

Though index funds or an advisor would be much less risky for someone with those means.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12204742
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2010 called, it wants its tech stack back ;)
Where? In Cambodia 1.4gb costs $1.50. That's the cheapest I encountered but other developing countries in South East Asia isn't that much more expensive. Even Myanmar which has been on lockdown for decades and only recently got public sim cards is affordable for data.

http://www.cellcard.com.kh/en/prepaid-plans/xg/
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to all the people who are saying that this is shady or that this resembles fraud: what the hell are you thinking? here is a man who twice bet his personal fortune on these companies with no other apparent motive besides making the world a better place. in the case of tesla, elon musk could have lost not only his fortune but everything.

if elon musk wanted to make more money he could have done it in other ways with much less risk. founding spacex and tesla only make sense if there was some genuine desire to make the world a better place. a man who put everything on the line for these visions and nearly lost everything would, upon surpassing everyones expecations or even their wildest dreams, suddenly become a shady fraudster and initiate a shady scheme to make a little money? that makes no sense.

i get so mad at people who are constantly detracting from tesla or evs in general. it is so ironic that the one company that isnt trying to fuck people over, perhaps the only large company that has nothing but the betterment of the world on the agenda, is constantly berated and dismissed by everyone.
As a math teacher with a background in computer science, Papert's work has influenced me tremendously, although I never got the chance to meet him.

His spirit lives on in his books.
tl;dr

- Automatically test your web app when it's deployed to staging,production,etc.

- View the status of test runs directly from a PR using GitHub status checks

We're using this feature to test deployments on our staging and production sites. I'd love to hear any feedback from those deploying their web app's via GitHub!
To me the algae vs. alumnae solution to the Fermi paradox seems appealing. I.e. that life is common, but that intelligent life isn't.

Our sample size of one on Earth supports that. We have millions of species, but only one has evolved higher intelligence, and there's no reason to think that it's a successful evolutionary strategy v.s. say being a parasite.

> [...]by having some advanced Elder Race show up
> and try to help us[...].

Right, "help". I'm just going to let the history of how advanced civilizations have treated primitive civilizations here on Earth speak for itself.
Ask HN: Command line only CRM's?
Are there any? Like, customer relations management. The AND of the people who use CRMs and people who mainly use command line utilities is small, but it has to exist.
Why not limit the bandwidth per user instead? Youtube itself will auto-adjust quality based on connection speed.
So boxing has a better pimp than the Olympics.

The IOC also puts on an event every two years. Boxers box a little more frequently.
I think before googlers stopping add dramas to our daily drop sorry typo, job. Maybe I kindaly sort of suggest them dedup the www and provide web-wise random file access.
Pardon me, but hasn't Blythe Master's startup and R3CEV locked up entire financial institutions market already? NASDAQ also has their own internal Blockchain project.

What is Ripple's path for survival?
Denton took some big risks and should have seen it coming. The ironic thing is that in 5 years' time, this guy will probably be rich again. In fact, he probably just transferred all his assets to foreign accounts.

The whole Gawker vs Hulk Hogan saga just shows what a joke the whole system is. It's painful to live in this society and have to breathe the same air and survive on the same currency as these people.
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I do research in this area. What exactly would you like clarified?
Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car
>For funnel analysis, it’s not feasible to use this data model for getting back a summary of the funnel steps and the sessions matching it, since there’s no option in Solr to run a recursive query, which would allow to go over each session and check if it’s a match for the funnel.

I don't think this approach scales, even in an environment that supports recursive queries like PostgreSQL.

The more scalable approach would be to use either a commercial database systems with explicit support for pattern matching or encode conversion path as a string (ex: "top page -> product page with SKU=1337 -> Purchase" becomes "T_SKU1337_P") and use REGEX/GROUP BY.

In all cases, this sounds like a suboptimal use case for either Solr or Elasticsearch.
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HoneyBook | Senior Front-end Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite
https://boards.greenhouse.io/honeybook/jobs/195308#.V5-addAr...

HoneyBook | Front-end Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite
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We're building a market network [1] for creative professionals, starting in the events industry. We have a workflow product that members love, and now we're working on building the network and marketplace on top. The team is great and the work is challenging, and although we're growing fast, it remains feeling small because we take care to keep it that way.

Stack: Rails, Angular

Info: https://www.honeybook.com/careers

Check the descriptions in the links, and let me know if you have any questions.
I'm Abe, one of the front-end engineers: abe@honeybook.com

We're also looking for other product people - you can ask me about these roles too!

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Admittedly but Backbone is _still_ a good intro to Front-end frameworks because it has a steep learning curve upfront instead of, say, angular that seems easy enough to pick up until you try to tackle non trivial applications.
This is getting off topic (and maybe this whole thread should be forked and isolated) but is it explicitly (or implicitly) against any rules/moderation guidelines or just discouraged by the community? Don't get me wrong though, I don't care for them and I believe they do more harm than good. Just curious.
If the lunches are catered why do you need a chef?
Adding one more: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/introducing-gp-...

"GP is a new blocks-based programming language being developed by John Maloney (most well-known for developing Scratch), Jens Mönig (developer of Snap!), and Yoshiki Ohshima (one of the developers of Squeak EToys) in Alan Kay’s group. They are all part of the new partnership between Alan Kay and Y-Combinator Research: HARC (Human Advancement Research Community). GP started in the SAP-funded CDG (Communications Design Group)."
Keep in mind that Postgresql wasn't as in vogue when Github was first built, and most or all of the NoSQL solutions you're thinking of didn't even exist. Up until 2 years ago, they were running Rails 2.3, and then is when they moved to Rails 3 (Rails 4 had been out a year at that point). I am very assured that Github is very careful about their technology choices and not quick to chase trends, given the importance of their application.
Ask HN: Can I junior dev/intern for a programmer position at 40?
I am an immigrant and survived doing petty jobs for many many years, learning to program while working. I have a college degree which seems to be of no use in US and I learned a lot of stuff just to get employable as a developer and I have hacked a few stuff primarily using Java, Go, Angular, React, D3, docker, elasticsearch, cassandra, MySQL etc and learned a lot more may tools and reporting software. How can I find a Junior developer job or an intern position and what minimum hourly job can I expect if any !
My HTTP_ACCEPT Headers uniquely identify me, but I think anyone with an OS set to french using the last chrome version would have the same header, so it's really not a big sample (13 709 currently).
As someone who picked Django over Rails ~10 years ago and has used it for everything since then-- I wouldn't bother.

Django and Rails, like Python and Ruby, look more and more similar as time goes on. Not because they are becoming more similar, but because the web ecosystem around them has become a lot more diverse. If you want a break from Rails, learn Phoenix! Or Node, I guess.

Furthermore, with the advent of fat front-ends, the utility of both of these frameworks has gone down in absolute terms. When they first came out, front-end features like form generation and HTML templating were really important, but now they're arguably better to avoid. (That's why channels are so important to the future of Django.)

That said, I still like Django a lot and use it all the time. I don't want to discourage you from learning it. But I wouldn't do it because you're trying to make a leap from Rails.
> here is a man who twice bet his personal fortune on these companies with no other apparent motive besides making the world a better place.

That has to be the most naive statement I've seen on Hacker News.
No, the concern was that a deranged officer might launch on their own, without correct authorization and checks from another person. This resulted in the two-man rule.

When I did maintenance on our comm systems in certain areas of the base, there was always someone else with me. Entering alone meant that you would get shot (signs were up saying lethal force was authorized, and they meant it). What's more, our workcenter was divided into teams and members of each team would not be allowed to maintain equipment from the other, to prevent a single person from making unauthorized modifications to both.

Two-man was taken quite seriously.
Amazing that the machine involved in the San Salvador incident was made by the same company who made the Therac. Seems as though they don't have the knack for making foolproof systems.

Apparently the organization continues to exist under the name "Nordion".
You don't care about the false negatives, you only want to avoid false positives.

You might want to re-examine this assumption more critically. With a high enough false negative rate, you end up burning out your candidate pool (and severely deterring those who "failed" from every applying again).

Google themselves discovered this a few years ago when they did a fundamental re-evaluation of their hiring process -- having come to the conclusion that their previous filtering methods were woefully ineffective at predicting actual on-job performance. And specifically went back to their databases to try to re-recruit many of the people who had been "flushed" by the earlier incarnations of their filtering process.
For some context, Avi Loeb has a certain ... reputation in the astrophysics community. He's a super smart guy, but he has a habit of writing a ton of short, very speculative papers. One gets the impression that he's throwing a lot of ideas out there and seeing what sticks. It can be as valid a strategy in astronomy as in the startup world, but the downside is that it can be hard to believe anything he writes.

As far as this paper goes, the most interesting implication isn't mentioned in the phys.org article. It seems to me that main idea of the paper is to connect the development of life to the cosmological evolution of the universe. We find that we live in a somewhat special time, when the universe is just starting to be dominated by dark energy after having been dominated by matter since ~300,000 years after the big bang. Anytime you see that we live at some sort of a special time, the Copernican principle leads one to wonder if there is some underlying reason for this.

The main argument of this paper is that as the universe becomes more dominated by dark energy, the expansion of the universe accelerates and this shuts off the flow of gas onto galaxies. As galaxies stop accreting matter, star formation slows, making it less likely that life will develop in the far future. However, low mass stars are more abundant and have a longer lifetime, so even if it takes a longer time for life to evolve in that environment, it's still, on balance, more likely that life evolves around low mass stars in the near future ("near" still being tens to hundreds of billions of years). So we would expect that the typical life form will evolve around a low mass star, far in the future. Thus, life on Earth seems to have developed early, but maybe not unusually so, and it's maybe not a coincidence that we happen to live a little after the time at which the universe became dark energy dominated. I would file this away in the "interesting if true" category.
Windows 10 has a few issues I hope Anniversary fixes:

A lot of core OS functionality aren't searchable (sleep, shutdown, random settings tabs (e.g. privacy), MMC, etc).

The entire Start Menu locking up when DNS times out. I start Cisco AnyConnect VPN client, and connect onto a network with no internet DNS (intranet only), and when I click the Start Menu it hangs and then the entire TaskBar hangs. Only way to fix it is to restart Explorer. Even connecting back to the internet doesn't resolve it.

Also have a lot of phantom ringing from Skype. Someone Skype calls me, it rings in Outlook.com (in Chrome), Skype client, and on the OS(?). Once I answer the ringing doesn't stop, it just keeps ringing and ringing. I also have a Windows Phone (don't ask) and it causes the desktop PC to ring, with no obvious way of answering it or stopping it (even answering the call on the phone doesn't stop the incessant ringing).

The article touches on how jumbled the Settings are between Windows 95 style applets, Windows XP applets, and Windows 10 settings tabs. But it doesn't directly say if they're fixing it. MacOS has definitely had a much better designed settings system than Windows since I can remember, and the Settings "app" isn't really helping.

The biggest thing I want Windows to fix... So TweakUI (remember that?) had a mode where no window could ever steal focus. TweakUI has been retired, and this remains my most hated thing about Windows. No window should be able to jump in front of another without direct user interaction, instead they should just "bob" on the Taskbar, but yet even in Windows 10 I still have windows (e.g. updaters) jumping in front of me when I'm trying to work (e.g. typing in Word, iTunes updater steals focus).

Why does nobody ever discuss how window-focus works in Windows? Why should a window be allowed to steal focus from another application? Why does the OS even allow that? Why did TweakUI's fix for focus never become mainstream?
> Basically, the only way to remove it is to cut it off with a chainsaw

Chainsaws cut wood, I think you meant an angle grinder or a blow-torch.
Is it just me, or isn't it obvious now that decorators are, at best, an anti-pattern, or worse, a misguided attempt at code obfuscation?
You can also put panels on walls as long as they have adequate solar exposure.
I've never read soo many "DevOps" buzzwords on one place.
I was introduced to the world of fake house offers sometime ago. I could not believe that there are people in this world that literally have no job or nothing and go put offers on expensive houses. After it happened to me twice one of the title workers told me they see it everyday and many of these people do it repeatedly.