skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely expected this to be one of those joke responses where the linked thing takes no user input, does nothing, and exits quickly. It really would be the most secure, but the usefulness would be questionable, of course.
You might want to check out GraphQL: http://graphql.org/. One of its killer features is the ability for clients to specify exactly the data it needs and obtain it in a single request/response.
Okay, but then how can an observer uninformed on the composition and dynamics of either group conclude that's the real reason it sucks? Unless they're slandering web developers but didn't make that clear?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/master/runtime/doc...
A rubbish question, but if you build your house in accordance to the published codes but don't purchase a copy, are you infringing their copyright by adhering to the standards?
I appreciate that, and I don't mind paying a few points of karma for a chance to start a conversation worth having. Perhaps that will happen here.
That's definitely a problem in the system. Organizing the election should be independent from political interests. Not having that independence is a far bigger problem than anything else.
> "business is an exchange of documents"

Did you just make up this phrase? It's really good!
I have dabbled in spacemacs a tiny bit and I have been using vim for years. Basically I think there are two ways to learn spacemacs.

Method 1

1. Become proficient in vim

2. Become proficient in emacs

3. Learn spacemacs keyboard shortcuts

Method 2

1. Become proficient in emacs

2. Become proficient in vim

3. Learn spacemacs keyboard shortcuts

I'm a vim user, but I know almost nothing about emacs, so I am having a tough time adopting spacemacs. The basic editing features are a flawless reproduction of vim, but when I do `set textwidth=99` it doesn't work. Then I end up googling how to do this in spacemacs which is apparently `spc : set-fill-column <enter> 99`. This is just one example, but there are many others if you try to do anything different from the spacemacs defaults.
Would you say that someone living in, say, Argentina, or Mongolia, also lives in zero fear of being invaded by any other country?
"You have an entire generation of what looks like cheap plastic toys with screens on them when we were promised a future with risk, innovation, the fantasies of Trek and Inspector Gadget laid out in front of us"

Er? Current Apple devices have a distinctly TNG Federation feel to them to me. Now borg on the other hand...

I got excited starting this article when he mentioned cyberpunk I thought he was going to make a much more interesting point than "I wish tech looked like what I think is cooler". Instead, I really would have enjoyed a discussion about what kind of things may be possible if we dropped the constraints of minimalism. Ideas about what amazing functionality and experiences technology could deliver for those whom don't mind their technology not being as invisible as possible and instead being more, well, large clunky cyberpunky. I would have enjoyed this specifically because with my limited imagination I can't think of a whole lot of additional /exciting/ functionality such an unbounding would enable.
http://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/
One way to approach it would be to have consider deposits, withdrawals, and transfers as subresources of a specific account. So you could POST to "/account/4502278/deposits" to create a new deposit, which would then live at a URL such as "/account/4502278/deposits/87162". And instead of separate subresources for all of these different transaction, it could just be one "transaction" subresource.

In the case of closing an account, it depends on what actually happens when you do so, but I would normally have a "status" attribute and use PATCH to update that.
Yes, they are modular. But the reason laptops took over the mainstream PC market is that modularity had an incremental cost, and was VERY seldom used, and when it was used, it caused problems that are relatively expensive compared to the cost of the PC. It was easier to make a range of non-modular products to cover any variability in needs.

Now modularity in PCs is the domain of gaming PCs, plus a few speciality niches. Gamers as a market could be seen as analogous to audiophiles: a bit cranky and hard to please.
Disagree.

Fundamental rights and values must/should be upheld by everyone, and if something like Facebook emerges to be a major public forum the relevant rules should apply.

I've deleted my FB account too, but whatever happens on there still affects society and thus everyone.
It's on the FBI report I linked. Most other nations are leery of breaking out crime rates by ethnicity, so you have to do a bit of cross-referencing to get e.g. Euro-American vs Euro-gen pop comparisons.
A plane's auto-pilot maintains bearing, altitude, and speed—seems pretty similar to "lane assist" / tesla-autopilot to me.

Some can land, in optimal conditions, but can't taxi.
There are already industry-defined standards for autonomy levels. Of course, there are multiple standards...
https://www.2025ad.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Evergreen/Techn...
I've actually started using neovim as a default terminal paired with my standard shell. I personally never got that used to the commands for tmux or screen, and with neovim I get the exact commands I am expected as well as -send line to REPL- with https://github.com/kassio/neoterm
Apple's retina screens take care of the resolution aspect. However, the software side needs a new paradigm to deal with digital paper. PDF files are not the solution.
A VR puzzle exploration game driven by Amazon's Alexa API
Did it not work?
I'm getting better about committing more often (unlike back in the days of SVN/ClearCase/etc.), but I'm still not quite up to committing several times a day like these kids are wont to do :)
The inkjet HP Envy 4500? I bought not long before Win10 arrived is not officially supported. I had to battle (superstition levels of luck) to get it to be recognized. Some conflict between Win7 drivers and x64 support .. I forgot.
You can't download most of the data facebook collects about you. This guy tried, and it was a legal battle. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-versus-facebook

"The concept of access [to your data] was just alien to them. In the US consent is just a privacy policy and a tick-box approach." "They break democratically decided laws in the EU and get away with it. Instead of putting money into compliance, they expect NGOs and authorities to do that work for them."
My local anecdata: most people I know have 3rd party headphones if they actually listen to music. The people that use the in-the-box headphones from Apple tend to be the forever-on-a-call types. I struggle to see people buying these at this price point since there are plenty of bluetooth earbuds that are equal quality to Apple^, sub-$50, and won't instantly disappear in the couch. At Apple's price-point, you can already get a high-quality bluetooth earbud/mic from Audio-Technica. I would guess you'll have Beyerdynamic, AKG, Shure, and Senheiser all pop out a similar pair soon enough (Some may consider themselves 'above' bluetooth, though). I really don't understand their pricing. I could understand it if the equivalent Beats were $30 cheaper so they could create some tier pricing, however they are pretty much the same price.

^ Assuming they continue their trend of mediocre sound quality.
This has been resubmitted a few times. The comments are centralized in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12470703 (117 points, 1 day ago, 32 comments).

By the way, the http://youtu.be submissions are autokilled, so remember to submit the http://youtube.com version.
Not everyone limits mysql to just localhost.

Some setups serve mysql over tcp/ip, sometimes even on the internet. Maybe you wouldn't trust mysql's ssl usage or username/password auth mechanisms, but they are there, and some people use those features. So this should certainly be considered a remote vulnerability, as long as the exploit can be launched from the client side of a mysql connection.
Not only that, in my workflow I keep FB in the first Safari tab and open every story in other tabs, only to find out closing FB ruins every open outside link!
That's step 1. Later rides will be cheaper and than at the same cost ,and I'm sure Uber could get plenty of people .
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You don't have to use it. Really. I'm sure. I hope you feel better now :)
There are consumer protection laws that prevent companies from abusing their customers even through "agreements". http://fortune.com/2016/03/02/facebook-germany-antitrust/
Those bricks last forever anyway, and they're almost indestructible. As a kid I played with Legos that belonged to my parents growing up. Compostable Legos is a terrible idea.
Don't forget to break out the US by-ethnicity numbers so you get a comparison of, e.g., European Americans to other particularly euro populations. For instance, US murder rate is about double that of Canada, but Euro population is ~at par.
People drive more safely on roads without guardrails, but that is not a good enough reason to ban guard rails. On the contrary, you've already seen Mercedes add these features to every one of their new cars sold, it's only a matter of time before all automakers do the same.
You don't have resize commands bound to the keyboard? Windows ships with these, Mac and Linux have free programs that do them well.
But, thats exactly the point. Americans are so bought into the idea that "explicit" images are bad that they can't see another viewpoint. Its become "natural". And, as the author pointed out, Americans are so blind to it that you don't even see the problem with censoring nipples but not beheadings.

You literally cant see that noone should be injured by seeing a womans breast, but seeing a beheaded body could.

Its interesting to see this story come out so soon after the LA times story about libel and the fight against court ordered take-down of posts critical of companies (think Yelp, etc.).

Maybe the point is that censorship shouldn't be allowed?
My favorite books on project management:

1. "Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager" is a high-level but pretty complete introduction. It has good good examples from non-technical projects based on the Project Management Institute's infamous "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK). https://amzn.com/194163110X

2. Scott Berkun's "Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)". Scott was a program manager at Microsoft and describes some of the less process-oriented, more "in the trenches" aspects to managing a project. https://amzn.com/0596517718

3. Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules". It's more of an encyclopedia of software project management and is now a bit dated (1996), pre-dating Scrum and Agile but all those ideas have been known for a long time. https://amzn.com/1556159005
> I believe that the old Europe has very interesting things to say

If anything European countries are much more deeply invested into censorship than the US. The UK's incredibly short sighted libel laws for example. Or the EU's ridiculous "hate speech" laws. I find it amusing you decry US political correctness in favor or Europe's much more tough legislation.

Also the EU censors items on Facebook all the time, usually in regards to protecting minorities from "hate speech." Facebook is beholden to every government it has a presence in. Lots of examples of how the European system works here:

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8189/social-media-censors...

I'm not even going to go into eastern Europe's epidemic of murdered journalists and other basic human rights issues that Europe can't or won't fix.
Kill region, save, run/compile/read, undo if needed. With undo tree (or if you add commit to the process above) there is no need to comment just one region to turn off something.

Optionally, convert the region into a separate function/method and just don't call it while checking.
Scan to SMB is a pain. We had to have our copier company come out to upgrade the firmware on all of the devices when we moved to Server 2012. Even then, we have to enable SMB 1.0 for the feature to work.
As the system gets incrementally better, paradoxically it could get less safe, because drivers will get more used to relying on it and stop paying attention.
> Why can't your friend be responsible for not posting violent pictures?

Because Facebook have already said that some content is not allowed on their platform.

For a while women who'd had breast cancer and had reconstructive surgery were posting images of their new breasts, or of their now nipple-less breast with tattoos. Or breast-feeding mothers were posting images of their feeding children. Facebook said that those images were not allowed, and removed a bunch of them. But at the same time Facebook was doing nothing about beheading videos. It was weird to see a mother being banned for posting a photo of a feeding child, and someone else not get banned for posting terrorist propaganda.

If facebook is saying "anything goes, as long as it's legal" that's one thing, but as soon as they start to control what's allowed it's reasonable for users to say what content should be more tightly controlled.
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But a technically very similar set of features results in a vastly different user experience. A driver with a Tesla autopilot has a way smaller margin of error and needs to react a lot quicker once the autopilot encounters a situation it can't handle. Flying planes generally have way larger error margins, and a lot of effort goes into making sure they are nicely separated from traffic and obstacles (and when they come close, it's known early and the pilots can get ready to take over). Until we have highways with similar traffic control cars can't match that without a lot more intelligence.
Nice article! Does every TCP server have the same syntax for setting/getting data?
> when was the last time you got a photo or video that was out of focus on your phone?

Um... every day? Every version of Android released since Jelly Bean has made the focusing worse on my Nexus 4. Right now if I don't explicitly tap on a subject to focus then the camera will always take an out of focus shot.
> how often is the scenario where you need to be charging the phone AND listening to music a major need?

Anyone who works in an office is likely to want to do this.
What were the 1-4 math classes? I also did Math+CS but haven't seen the upper level classes so named.
loathe? I loathe public speaking and flossing, but these things are good for me, and I'm sure you wouldn't be doing frontend dev if there wasn't a big upside that it made possible.

> teetering Jenga tower of hacks?

How is any programming language not capable of being brittle?
I was at RustConf, and Julia's talk was by far my favorite. It reminded this old, grizzled programmer how to approach programming with excitement and curiosity. I thought how much I'd love to show it to my wife, sister, parents, and every other person who thinks what I do is confusing, technical wizardry. I think it should be required watching in every highschool/college intro programming class.

Thanks Julia!
I would say a healthy amount of skepticism about using the latest new shiny tech. Maybe that comes with experience.
Food is pretty easy, from my readings of nuclear war survival during the Cold War. E.g. a single semi-tractor trailer, long before their allowed weight was upped to 80,000 pounds, could carry enough wheat to keep 100,000 people fed for one day.

It's the water supply that would be the big killer, you can't go without it for more than a few days, and that just wouldn't be enough time to get enough to everyone.

I'm not sure they'd be so successful in "pillaging and destroying any remaining food pipeline" ... how do you to that to an interstate highway? At most, to the fueling stations, but those are a fairly small scale, and I would expect easily replaced thing. But that would also help to self-limited the radius of the pillaging and destruction, keep it mostly away from the farms themselves, which aren't exactly defenseless if such is needed for only a relatively short period of time.
I didn't know who Carl Malamud was an hour ago, but he is close to being one of my heroes now. I moved in to a 160 year old house with a TON of problems recently. I could tell by looking at a lot of the recent work that it wasn't done up to code, but I had no idea what the correct way to do the work actually was. Homeowners are allowed to do their own work in Chicago, even without a license, but obviously you still have to follow code.

Now Chicago has it's entire building code online, but a lot of the code for things like electrical and plumbing are incorporated by reference. Most of the work I've done has been based on what the guys at the supply houses have told me code is. Most people probably wouldn't consider this a problem, because they hire licensed contractors, but I've also had work done by licensed contractors that doesn't meet code, and the only way I would have known is because I called somebody who had access to the actual code. Giving people access to the code allows people to know when they are being fleeced.

On a similar note, access to the building code gave me the ability to back myself up with facts in an argument with a building super who didn't want to provide any place to lock my bike. Building code in Chicago requires a certain number of places for bikes to be parked, and the only way you can avoid having a bike rack outside is if you provide an indoor space for bikes. I initially asked the building manger nicely for a place to lock or store my bike, and he basically sent out a mass email to all tenants that belittled anyone who thought that the city bike racks two blocks away were unsuitable for locking bikes. Without access to the city code, I wouldn't have been able to call him out on his bullshit. I've since used the city code several more times in arguments with him, and I've brought my fellow tenants on board. It's a really powerful tool. Before we started using the city code, the building manger would just bully anyone who dared to bring concerns to him.

After my experiences with the building super, I can really only see positive effects from open laws. There are a lot of people in positions of power who avoid following the law by bullying others into doubting whether they are in the right. Being able to use the law to back yourself up is very rewarding.
I'm sure it has come up in product discussions, I bet it's just getting into significant security-concern territory where no one wants to risk being THAT company.
Well, you sort of have to, here on the internet. HN is one of the better forums, but even here, I suspect you'd be (more politely) torn to pieces if there was more than a hint of ego in your writing - especially if you're writing about your own life.
The more of engineering I see in general, the more surprised and impressed I am that anything works at all.
Street level parking a side issue, most city's quickly get into underground parking. Further charging stations can be combined with parking meters fairly easily. But, most parking in city's is underground and adding a 6 inch thick foot wide box is easy.

Now, none of this is free. But charging for electricity/parking opens an obvious solution to pay for that infrastructure and more importantly loans are cheap as long as you have an income stream.
> Given Vim powers our industry

I hope that you're being sarcastic.
Americans are so bought into the idea that "explicit" images are bad that they can't see another viewpoint. Its become "natural". And, as the author pointed out, Americans are so blind to it that you don't even see the problem with censoring nipples but not beheadings.

We literally cant see that noone should be injured by seeing a womans breast, but seeing a beheaded body - thats OK?

Its interesting to see this story come out so soon after the LA times story about libel and the fight against court ordered take-down of posts critical of companies (think Yelp, etc.).

Maybe the point is that censorship shouldn't be allowed?
There was a surprisingly good talk on just that: https://vimeo.com/20781119

Where the server goes from requiring multiple requests to a single request without changing the clients whatsoever. So, I feel you're comment is on the right path (less http requests are better for the client and server), but might not realize that things can be optimized further.
I think the article attempts to hide a very serious, terrified, heart-felt objection to the f-ing horror of the Western military-industrial complex' relentless pseudo-enslavement

I sorta skimmed over that bit because it seemed like a throwaway remark. It's not actually thinking about how and why the material consumption culture exists, just a statement about one of the purposes it serves him. So I didn't give it a second thought.

Is there anything particularly special about militarism that means people are looking to fill the void in their souls should choose consumer products designed to broadcast an identity? Could such consumption exist without the military dystopia the author paints? Is there another frantic activity that could distract us from the dystopia he posits we use tech as an escape from?

Or am I a just a philistine that can't appreciate why jumping on a 2-year upgrade train for more computing power in a network bound device is the perfectly remedy? Crafted exactly to distract me from the horrors of contemplating the intractable problems in the Middle East. Has product evolution found existential answers that climbing a mountain at daybreak never possibly could?
Sounds a bit like UML+Rational, visual programming, and every other one size fits all panacea, to be honest.

The whole notion of HTTP as an application data transport is terrible. We've hacked at it to create a great number of wonderful web based apps, but I can't help thinking there's a better way.
I just went through all of that when upgrading our file server to 2012 R2. Would not recommend. SMTP is easier but has its own problems (such as file size limits).
You've got the causation backwards. ASTM is an engineering organization like ISO. They develop industry-consensus standards, just like ISO. Their codes didn't get adopted as the standard because they lobbied for them (do you even have any evidence ASTM lobbied to get its standards adopted?). They got adopted because they were the industry standards.

It's like if a law stated that certain government contractors must use ADA or C. They'd refer to the ISO standards for those languages, but nobody could reasonably come along after the fact and say they did so because of lobbying by ISO!
That's one of the problems with proprietary software: it forces coders into keeping their work secret.
I agree. Don't think it's because it's a "more unionized and segmented job market" though - no techie I know is in a union. I think it's a different attitude - most places don't want guys working 80 hours/week and burning out (actually illegal in some countries), just somebody who'll come in and deliver with a team. So a x10 dev, why would you pay for that? Hence, saner salaries (maybe, this is just a theory).

Coming back to negotiation room, often, basic benefits are already included (e.g. healthcare, although this seems to be true in the US, too). But 35 hour weeks, more holiday, longer lunch break to go to the gym, working from home twice a week, these are all things I've negotiated.