skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experience of other language communities is: you'll get used to it. When C# introduced its version of this with the 'var' keyword many felt that code would become less clear but, in general, context gives you what you need. If it doesn't that often means that there are other problems.

I don't know if this is true in your case, but often people who object haven't spent much time working in dynamically typed languages. The readability issue is orthogonal to typing and it tends to be fine.
Question about password best practices. Our site just went through pen testing, as part of auditing for PCI compliance.

One thing we got dinged on was that we don't keep a password history, so that the user can't revert to their previous password. The tester's report said, "This, in turn, results in users utilizing a single password for a long period of time, which may result in password disclosure"

It seems to me that this is the opposite of the truth. If I'm keeping a password history, then in the event of a breach, there is that much more data that would leaking, potentially disclosing password data if we made a mistake in the rest of how we handle it (hashing, etc.). And while I'm not a crypto expert at all, it seems to me that if there's a list of salted, hashed passwords, then given that the salt is a constant per user, an attacker would have some leg up in discovering the original password if there were many samples that included the same salt.

If I want to minimize the data I can disclose about users, I ought to minimize the amount of data that I'm storing about them.
Not really but it helps. For instance LOVAZA is a patented form of fish oil so I imagine that you could prepare kratom in a special way, patent it, get it through the FDA, and market it as KRATOR or something. But of course there's also the DEA to consider...
Among many other problems, DNSSEC+DANE permanently concedes .COM, .NET, .ORG, .CO.UK, and .IO to the FVEY Intelligence Community --- the TLDs are controlled by world governments, as we all know from watching the DOJ use that control to attack file sharing sites.

Not only that, but DNSSEC+DANE does this without eliminating CAs. It can't, because browsers can't rely on DANE in the real world, for technical reasons.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383795
Metafilter is also aggressively moderated. I think that has at least much to do with it staying so high quality for so long.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of Ohm.

> Does Ohm help with type checking in any way?

Not sure what you mean here...are you asking if Ohm has any support for type checking a language that you create using Ohm?

If so, the answer is no -- not yet. But I could definitely imagine implementing a pluggable Semantics that could make this really easy to do for most languages. We are happy to accept pull requests :-)

> Does Ohm support indentation based syntax?

No, it's not (yet) possible to do this directly. Though it can be done with a simple preprocessing step that expands the source code to include explicit indent/dedent tokens.

It's definitely something we'd like to support, we just haven't settled on how.

> Does Ohm handle language composition (eg. JavaScript or CSS inside HTML)?

Yes and no. Right now, the only means of composition Ohm supports is grammar inheritance. This makes sense for things like ES5 and ES6, but not so much for the use case you describe. The problem is that inheritance won't work if you have any name clashes in the grammars.

We've considered something traits-like (http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/phd/schaerli-phd.pdf), but we're not sure whether it's worth the additional language complexity. A simple workaround for the use case you describe is to just parse in two phases: first match the HTML, allowing `any*` inside a script tag, then match the JavaScript inside a semantic action.

If you're interested in more details, you might want to read the paper that we'll be presenting at DLS in Nov: https://ohmlang.github.io/pubs/dls2016/modular-semantic-acti...
It may have been a reference to this:

http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-10-lg-g5-breach-usb-type...

I agree USB-C is standard and will be THE new standard (over Micro-USB). But very few manufacturers are getting USB-C right.
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/747-the-jumbo-revolu...
I was going to say Reddit. But for some reason(I speculate it is the toxicity), HN is where I have most of my online discussions
Ask HN: What's a good smartphone that you can buy today?
After the news that Samsung has issues with the Note 7 and Tim Cook's letter about the tax issue* I am scratching my head about what's a good phone to buy this fall.

Are brands like Huawei, Xiaomi and Oneplus reliable when it comes to updates? What about performance? Do their products feel finished and polished?

*Personal decision not to buy Apple never again, not looking to argue about it.
HN discussed the prospect of this 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512830. I found many of those comments callous and self-servingly pedantic.
I think this($5/box) model is preferable to the one currently offered. It strikes me that you are selling a $30 company t-shirt and that sounds expensive. Any printing company is able to duplicate your model very easily, undercut your pricing, and probably do it more efficiently with existing resources (admittedly, I don't know your resources, you may have great production and shipping capabilities already built out).

I have worked remote for a few different companies, and the more compelling offer is a service with a high-degree of customization, which can include a t-shirt and some stickers, too. Plus, you could charge more for curating and purchasing. Suppliers may also pay you to be part of your curated offering.
Can you share what your side project is?
The fraud I'm worried about isn't from a bona-fida customer, it's from a fraudulent customer.

BadGuy uses your service to sign up for BadGuyDojo, and attaches a stolen bank account. 10 "customers" sign up with stolen credit cards, process payment, and the money is gone along with them. A month or two later the credit card companies come looking to you for the money.
Imgur's 302 redirects revisited
There are insightful comments on almost every site with UGC, even if said comments are a minority. We need a client-side aggregator of whitelisted/upvoted comments, to "follow" pseudonyms and merge comments and context from many sites. Alternately, there could be communities which curate/whitelist comments from multiple sites, then readers could "follow" a feed of curated comments. RSS was a step in this direction.

Any site which achieves economic infuence via discussion quality/quantity will eventually attract paid posters of various stripes, ranging from sophisticated misdirection to uncivil discourse. Whitelists can reduce the cost of filtering this noise, but sufficiently good propaganda can best be detected by readers who co-evolve with paid influencers: "... elite consultants have adopted grassroots advocacy tactics for paying clients. Rather than being dismissed as mere 'astroturf', these consultants' campaigns should be seen as having real effects on political participation and policymaking", http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IO0E69E/

Manually curated Twitter lists, viewed on Flipboard
Private groups on Facebook
Niche/subscription blog comments
Amazon book reviews & comments (niche books)
HN comments/stories from whitelisted users
NY Times comments (quality varies by article topic)
A person could be made a mediator of AI to overcome it.
Samsung Electronics says to halt Galaxy Note 7 sales on battery problem
Let me improve your life a little http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url=http...
Just fyi, bigcommerce is in Austin and hiring. Someone wanted me to apply and said they're paying in the 120k range.
What is your startup?
"End users play no role any more? Good luck with that."

In what parallel universe do you get that conclusion from that thread?
Same here, D&D is pretty good too.
> Only showing upvoted authors would only reinforce your personal echo chamber, see also: Tumblr.

Certainly, if you just upvote left-wing and downvote right-wing or vice versa. But if you want to see something better you can get it by upvoting those authors that have valid points you disagree with too.

I think currently some amount of upvoting happens because people want to amplify views they agree with even if they don't provide new insight. In the system I'm proposing, this incentive is gone because your votes affect what you see more of in the future, not what other people do.
Try 4chan.org/b , the only sane place for civilized people.
I've found a lot of the discussion on metafilter is extremely slanted politically to the level of a complete circlejerk, just a circlejerk that values long and intellectual-sounding posts rather than short ones like competing sites.
Laptops are less modular than desktops but way more modular than phones. HDDs, SSDs, and RAM can generally be upgraded, whereas in phones only the SD card can be upgraded. (In both, batteries and screens can be replaced with OEM parts.)
I honestly didn't know that AOO was still updated, as I've really not seen anyone use it in the last three years.

Upon re-trying it out right now, it actually seems perfectly fine...I kind of wonder why no one uses it.
Possible but potentially hard on your database as you have to poll thousands of edges per post. Doesn't scale too well.

I think advogato tried something similar with its trust metric: http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html but advogato is effectively dead - on the front page is still a poem about the death of k5.

Really the nearest thing is to get on twitter and curate who you follow.
What devices do you have where HDMI cec works remarkably well? (and what year did they come from)

My experience was that cross brand interop is not quite there, but the experience is so inconsistent it doesn't matter. If configured to do it, turning on the blu ray player would consistent turn on the tv, but only sometimes set the right input. That kind of thing.
> Most of the wealthy people I know are not lucky, but the opposite: They were bullied, sexually or physically abused, had their parents die as kids...

For every one kid in this situation that turns out to be wealthy, I'm sure you could find many more that turn out to be criminals, addicts, etc.

So what is the difference between the kids that end up rich and the kids that end up poor? Wouldn't you call that luck?
There are some relevant examples given in this article based on a case involving Spain: http://m.rte.ie/news/2016/0902/813591-santander-apple/
I always thought that was either an urban legend, or that only unskilled, stupid people swallowed or inhaled pins. But she had probably done that for years. Her co-workers, too. She wasn't naive or thoughtless. That's what scares me. I do that (well, DID that) every time I work on something... pins are staying in the cushion now.
This is probably the best workable solution if the projects were to merge somehow as it preserves the attempted marketing niche of each "name".

I haven't followed this in a long time but I thought Sun/Oracle management of OpenOffice was crux of the problem? I've probably been out of the loop for too long.
With zero information about you or your organization, why would anyone trust you to handle the delicate diplomacy required in salary negotiation with one's employer?
No idea how viable this would be, but as a user up/down votes, incorporate that into some kind of learning system that will, over time, be able to better select posts that that specific user wants to see. Maybe weight structure over content to avoid the echo chamber effects to some degree?
You mean he should get out of his house? Isn't it dangerous?
https://firesofheaven.org
Do you guys help with relocation visa?
"given that the salt is a constant per user"

Just use a different salt for each password, not each user

Edit: You're probably right about everything else.
I just saw this at my state fair. I think I'll be getting one now:

https://www.amazon.com/Woody-Paddle-Natural-Scraper-Scrape/d...
At one point you could adjust your weightings for things, so you could make "funny" or "insightful" count for -1 for an entertainingly different view of the site.
Metafilter is a borderline groupthink echo chamber, so heavy is the moderation. It's best for purely factual stuff. Stray into opinion stuff, and it's really narrow and slanted.
> Throwing rights under the bus in the pursuit of money is now leftist?

It's not that it's leftist. It's that the people online tend to lean leftwards, and people investing in online communities want to grab the largest portion of the available population.

I will say, however, that the left in the US (namely the Democratic party) certainly seems to be willing to pursue a lot in the name of money (like taking millions of dollars from corporate and financial lobbying), and a lot of leftists online are totally okay with creating echochambers (though that's certainly not their pursuit alone).
It might actually be the case that 7-OH-mitragynine is the most potent form of mitragynine - failed attempts have been made at finding a more potent analogue[1]. This could be a hindrance to a pharmaceutical product being produced.

[1] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b00360?journalCode...
I think that's understating things. This guy is the son of the previous President, who was in office for 42 years. Seems like more of a dynastic system with a veneer of democracy.
I was annoyed with Apple when it took them so long to release a bigger phone so I switched to Android. Had an HTC One, then a Nexus 5 (I also have a Nexus 7). I switched back to the iPhone for many of the same reasons you list for not using it.

Buggy Android versions, abysmal performance on a devices just a year old if they were upgraded at all, random processes spin out of control and kill your battery in about 10 minutes and the phone feels like it's melting to list a few. While the iPhone isn't perfect, none of the issues are as bad as what I had on Android. Heck, I have older iPads here for testing that are running betas of the new iOS, and while slow they are usable. Compare that to all the issues the Nexus 7s have had with Android updates.
OpenOffice's website design, marketing efforts, and documentation are less friendly to non-technical people that those of LibreOffice, the most prominent fork of OpenOffice. Subtle "superficial" details matter a lot to non-technical people -- for example, LibreOffice's web page has a "Get Help" link, instead of a "Support" page.

In addition, LibreOffice has been the default office suite in key GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu for many years.

As a result, the LibreOffice fork has been more widely adopted than OpenOffice, leading to the present situation.

One possible path for the OpenOffice folks would be to copy the Linux kernel and become an "upstream project" that others use to create a range of office-suite distributions like LibreOffice. In other words, stop packaging and marketing OpenOffice to end-users. Stop competing for end-users with downstream projects.
Best case: "I don't seem to be making any progress going up."

Worst case: "This is moving down way too fast! Aaaahhhhh!!!" -screamed by hundreds of people, many of which will die as they pile up at the bottom of the escalator.

Now imagine the brakes failing on an escalator that leads down into a subway with an electrified rail.
You still have modular laptops. For example, for a Clevo W230SS (known as "Sager NP7338" in some parts), you can choose the display (1080p or 2560x1440 matte IPS, or 3200x1600 glossy), CPU, up to two hard drives (or was it three? Can't recall), W-Lan module, keyboard layout, RAM amount+brand+frequency et cetera. For its bigger brother (which is 17.1'', as opposed to the 13.3'' W230SS), you can also select the optical drive (different brands of DVD and Blu-Ray R-only or R/W drives --- the 13.3'' variant is too small to fit one).

The battery is swappable, and the whole thing opens with a set of phillips (you know, the '+' shape) screws.

Although you can't choose the GPU when ordering, newer ones tend to have newer models, implying that's also modular (just fixed to a selection of one at a given time).

So, yeah --- you can get a modular laptop, but you have to know where to look.
Twitter's timeline shows replies of people you follow.
A password that follows that "security scheme" is pass1!, which KeePass 2 reports as having a quality of 18 bits. efZeLmur3ivio4t7, an illegal password, has a quality of 86 bits. Whoever was responsible for that decision should be fired. Either implement a real password strength algorithm based on entropy, or don't implement any except maybe minimum length.
Thomas Paine always comes to mind, but I can't find any direct quotes where he used Libre. (American)
Word Documents Processing Without Microsoft Word
Wow, I used to read Tom Chick's writings there a lifetime ago. Some of the best video gaming centric writing I've ever seen.
There's a site that indexes reddit's most downvoted posts and quite often it's about 75% right-leaning political news being posted to major news and politics subreddits, if you visit those subreddits, the upvoted stuff is indeed stuff that's more left-leaning. Hard to see otherwise here, especially when you factor in the upvotes and not just # of comments.
You'd be very surprised.

Dell Expiron 5520 (2012)
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/dell/dell_inspiron_15r_...

Sony VAIO A-series (2012)
http://www.digitaltrends.com/laptop-reviews/sony-vaio-e-seri...

ASUS G73JH (2010)
http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/asus-k42j-revie...

HP Pavilion dm3t (2010)
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/hp-pavilion-dm3t-20...

Just some random models, I literally just put the name of a brand + a date in the past and opened a review. No ExpressCard in any of them.

Maybe you went out looking for laptops with such slots? It was hardly "every laptop" and even less "at every price range" that had them.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff indicates his rivalry with Microsoft is back on
Facebook's license seems superior for those parties who wish to end software patents

It's mostly superior for Facebook. If you're a party that wants to end software patents, but intends to use zstd in any place you might want to interface with a company that doesn't hold the same position, then you're screwed.

If you want to end software patents, and Facebook sues with one (not applying to zstd), you're also still screwed. This is relevant because even if you're against software patents, you can take them out defensively. But this license makes that useless.

Compare to GPL vs LGPL, or how the free software codecs all eventually moved to BSD.
A major percentage of the problems with US health insurance and medical industry is directly due to government interference in the marketplace. We saw an example of it with the housing market crash that dragged the economy down with it. You can see the same thing happening today with the runaway costs of universities.

I would prefer they just take a step back for a while.
Alternative: microtip [1] [2].

[1] https://autotip.io/docs/microtip-meta-tag

[2] https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions
From the times that you do have it.
At the risk of furthering non-discussion, this isn't Reddit. Civility is generally expected
Well, since the goal is to make advertisers redundant, that's not really an issue.
From what I've seen, any place that claims to be "civil" also tends to be the most closed minded communities, especially ones that have upvote downvote systems.

Unless you happen to agree with the specific set of ideas that a majority of that community happens to agree with, your contribution is meaningless
It's spanish, so 'lee-breh'
The NHS may be fantastic for one country, doesn't mean it would be for another.
You don't really notice the things you agree with (the sky is blue). What stands out are things that violate your worldview and are thus unexpected(the sky is polka-dotted).
In the spirit of forthrightness, wouldn't it be consistent to call yourself the owner or proprietor rather than "our Chief Executive Officer"?
Rare earth magnets are unsuitable to be marketed as toys? Then it makes sense that metal bristle scrubbers are unsuitable to be marketed for cleaning food-prep equipment.
That sounds fair, but to be honest I don't trust the government's official bullshit either.

What gets accepted as the officially-sanctioned wisdom is too easily influenced by special interests ("bootleggers and Baptists"), power grabs, and political convenience (marijuana laws and minorities).
Case study: How we got initial traction as B2B-startup
Now to have its hand tied because of his job at facebook is the worst thing possible.

If you accept the job you give up your work. It's not like there's no compensation.

Am I correct in that.

Yes, the retaliation (and hence, implicit license to Facebook) is only for the technology itself.
Project repository: https://github.com/an-sh/chat-service
My experience with StartCom was that they were incredibly responsive (Eddy himself answered some of my customer support tickets, sometimes within 20 minutes late at night) and they manually checked every single certificate request and even refused one. I requested a certificate for a company website and they wanted a letter of agreement from the CEO. Went with a paid DV certificate since that was too much effort.

Now, after the whole WoSign controversy I'd be reluctant to ever use their services again, but I just wanted to point out that I was a happy user and later customer (I paid for wildcard certs) for years without any issues.
meetup.com is great for finding this
Wonderful argument. Don't do things our way then you are not civilized. That's the way to win people over.
"One possible solution would be for the OpenOffice folks to copy the Linux kernel and become an "upstream project" that others use to create a range of office-suite distributions like LibreOffice."

... which were exactly the thoughts and reasons behind Apache accepting OO in the 1st place. For various reasons this obviously never happened. But it WAS the idea from the start.
The weight of your body will set the escalator in motion and it will keep accelerating. As you approach the bottom end at ever increasing speeds you will have a few moments to contemplate on what a mistake it was to not take physics class in high school. Once you reach the end of the line your journey will end in a rather unpleasant manner due to the high velocity. You could get injured very seriously or even killed.
The point is not that the DB schema will evolve sanely, nothing can guarantee that (nor with JSON).

The point is that the schema is explicit: worst case, I can go look it up, and I /know/ that the data conforms to it.
Also, handwrite your lecture/conference talk notes. Writing by hand is even better for understanding than typing by hand.
That's fascinating, I've never heard of that before. Is it your throat that gets itchy?
There are stimulating (green, I think) and sedating (red, I think) varieties, so both experiences are likely. I bought a sampler pack from one of the better sellers recommended from /r/kratom a year or so ago. Was enjoyable enough to mellow out with, but I couldn't stomach the bitterness no matter what I mixed it with so I tossed most of it.
Serializability and STM with etcd
You've really upset my lunch break
It is possible for me to join that community?
Yeah, some people knew it wouldn't happen. It might be interesting to revisit the comments and debates from years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7597090

It's too bad we can't keep a score of people's accuracy. We might be able to learn something.
https://fprin.tf does that, but... "this service is still in beta and probably not ready for production use yet" and it doesn't seem to target the same users as https://documentcyborg.com