skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda, it looks like they add a bit of CSS (basically make everything monospaced & pre) so the Markdown text is visible when JS is disabled (noscript), but in a CSS-less browser (e.g. links) the file is received as HTML, and the Markdown code is directly interpreted as HTML, which makes for an unreadable mess (the whole thing is a single "line" with newlines collapsed to spaces)

You're really better off using a static conversion tool, or using markdeep as a static conversion tool (with ?export)
Apple needs to allow importing songs into the Music app on iOS from any source, not just iTunes and its own store. This has been a long standing pain point. Not everybody wants Apple Music and not everybody wants to buy music from Apple. But there are people with existing music collections who want to add them to iOS devices easily without having to use iTunes.

This procedure works for iBooks, where you can add books from any source online through the share sheet. But it's not allowed for Music in 2016^, nearly 10 years since Steve Jobs wrote his Thoughts on DRM.

^: presumably due to licensing issues and/or agreements with the record labels and/or wanting a monopoly on music
That worked really well for them! They obviously stored data in Firebase that did not belong in there. I have nothing against Firebase, but it's not meant to store all your app's data!
I would add that old vehicles aren't built to the same tight tolerances as newer vehicles. This makes it a lot easier to bodge together repairs for them, which makes them more maintainable by said bush mechanics.
Years ago I found a foreign hand in my pocket at metro turnstiles in Barcelona, elaborate scheme with 3 people, one covering on the back, one on my right distracting me and one on my left reaching into my pocket.

Something tripped my alarm and I ripped the hand out of my pocket before I lost anything, that dude was gone in a flash, the other two urged me to go through the gates as I would lose my ticket.

Then I remembered the recommendation to swear angrily in Russian at them and came up with a few of those I knew and the other two took a hike very quickly. Apparently they are very afraid of Russian speaking people.
EBay Releases Dynamic Application Security Testing Proxy as Open Source
> He (she? not sure)

FTR the pronoun where gender is ambiguous is 'they' (It's also sometimes explicitly requested by nonbinary people).
Wouldn't the napkin be touchin the table then? Or do you ask for a fresh napkin so you don't have to use the one from the table? And ask about the storage of the napkins and silverware, in comparison to any cleaning solutions or other chemicals?
> I've been to Philly and Barcelona, and live in Oakland, CA. Never felt like I was about to be robbed.

Maybe you don't know what the feeling is like? I mean, how long have you lived in Oakland? If you grew up in the city with the 3rd highest crime rate in the US, maybe your barometer isn't calibrated the best?
There is a scam where a Nigerian prince says he needs your help, he will send money to your back account and needs you to withdraw that and send him cash. Of course he will let you keep a portion of the money for your trouble.

Only in this scam the prince actually sends you money, so you gladly send some to the prince and keep the rest.

Of course, the cops then want to know why the money from some poor guy's life savings ended up on your bank account...
I believe the intent was "1.7 representative per million citizens" as that was the unit used in all the comparisons.
Sometimes, lack of success is inevitable due to the structure of the context. For example some country clubs will never allow some people to become members irrespective of the effort those people put toward becoming a member. Another example might be winning the lottery Jackpot, no amount of effort will substantially increase one's odds.

And joining the country club and jackpotting the lotto are of the order of ordinary puzzles in an ordinary life. Some problems are intractable and the only form of success is recognizing their intractability.
FWIW: there is a virtual identical golang equiv to Jupyter in the golang tour (which is all open source).
> will future Chromebooks be Intel-based?

There's no indication of a switch to ARM-only from any vendor I'm aware of. Lenovo et al. are still releasing new x86-based Chromebooks.
I was not worried about the mugger himself, but of any possible friends nearby. I could have floored him easily (martial arts), but I did not want to start a rumble.
OP is a paid shill for Netlify.

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401849
Sweet, thanks for the tips.
Philly is one of those fun places where you can go from "Look at this lovely campus!" to "Oh god... we... we came to the wrong part of town. See how everyone is looking at us like we're crazy to be here? What... we were just on campus!!!" in a couple of blocks.
What customers are actually actively seeking to have a closer relationship with Oracle?

I knew some Oracle engineers back in the day. They were sharp. I hope they made their millions and got the heck out of that place.
All these quotes basically amount to "I'm against killing people" usually with a reason amounting to one of the following:

- Killing is bad

- Killing constitutes revenge

- Killing is unbecoming of society

- Killing is disturbing

Yes, they're from great thinkers, but on their own they don't constitute much of an argument, nor are they particularly elucidating.

The devils advocate might respond:

- pleasant dissuasion is oxymoronic

- what is justice without revenge?

- there's value in symbolism (a hornets nest of an argument, I willingly admit, but one that I think is nonetheless undervalued)

- the disturbing nature of killing has little to do with anything

- we recognize that lethal force is legitimate in self-defense, so clearly some intentional killing is acceptable. This is at odds with the sweeping condemnation of killing in the selected quotes.

- the comparison of capital punishment to murder is fallacious since the former is done with careful attention to impartiality (in principle, anyway)

- the state is founded on the monopoly of violence

I'm as French as you are, cher ami, but there are few things I cherish less about our country than our penchant for empty grandiloquence (exhibit A: Bernard Henri Levi). Appeal to authority does not a strong argument make; just because Victor Hugo said it doesn't make it true. It also pays to remember that many of the individuals you cite are reacting to a very different brand of capital punishment: the kind in which people were tortured in the public square.

To be clear, these intellecutals do have interesting things to say on the subject, but a handful of quotes does little to advance the debate. What we have here are just pretty words, I'm afraid.
Bare IaaS still has its place for now, and at that point the major factors are hardware, uptime/reliability, and cost. Lots of companies either can't utilize SaaS/PaaS offerings from most cloud providers (regulatory requirements those providers don't comply with), or just have legacy products that aren't near EOL yet.
what if life is 1 big computer simulation? Then the mother and child are pids. Do you feel pain when you kill -9 a process on a linux box?
If you're interested, Google Research recently published a paper about code formatting via dynamic programming: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
No one wants to take the chance that they're pissing off someone connected.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again - I'm 99% certain that my local supermarket stocking fresh cherries from Chille every day(I'm in UK) damages the environment more than someone driving a truck in africa. It almost makes me angry that someone mentions that this sort of adventure shouldn't be done because of environmental reasons.
Hi tw04, yes thats right, though it will depend also on the terms of the sale / license given by the seller, which in some cases may give the full rights to the image including the RAW file in some cases. All of which is under the discretion of the seller. In the case that they did give rights to the RAW file, then that user is the only one who gets the RAW file data, its passed to them via an ethereum escrow contract
> problems encountered on the road and how they were solved, etc.

The solutions seem to be "someone else fixed it".

>> Our truck weighed over 10 tonnes fully laden, and whilst driving through some marshland just before we got to Senegal we broke through the hard crust into boggy clay below.

>> We were very lucky to be just ahead of the Amsterdam Dakar Rally, and they helped pull us out. It took about 4 hours of digging, and 3 trucks to get us out - 2 pulling forwards, 1 sideways to make sure we didn't topple over!

[...]

>> We ran out of diesel, and all the crap that had been floating on top clogged up the entire system.

>> For 3 days we were stuck in the middle of nowhere, unable to fix it ourselves. We were travelling in convoy with another couple and they were able to drive to a small village a few hours away where they found someone who knew a guy in Congo who could help us! So he took our friends to a spot where he could illegally cross the border and smuggle his mechanic friend across.

[...]

>> Turns out the dry river beds weren't so dry after all, and the weight of this truck made it sink right through to the mud below.

>> It took 2 days and the help of a nearby village to dig us out.

I'm kind of surprised there isn't a buddy comedy movie about something similar. (I guess Into the Wild, although very much not a comedy, is similar.)
Go help NGOs internationally.
Not possible it mixes in user generate entropy https://opendime.com/#faq
I think most people prefer imperative languages, even after they've learned about functional programming. The simple evidence that I see is that functional programming has been around for a long, long time and it never took off except for in certain niche circles and academia.

Do you prefer functional programming or not? It sounds like you do (or at least very open to it) although you didn't learn Scheme first... So why does everybody else have to learn Scheme first in order to reach the same conclusion as you?

I don't think it's true. I didn't learn SQL first and now I prefer that DSL for a whole host of problems. People aren't really that static.

Functional programming patterns are certainly very useful to know. However, the fact that you can apply those same patterns elsewhere seems to seems to negate the need for switching to purely FP languages because you gain next to nothing and you lose almost everything.
thats what I'm thinking, at least for now.

from elsewhere:

> Bare IaaS still has its place for now, and at that point the major factors are hardware, uptime/reliability, and cost. Lots of companies either can't utilize SaaS/PaaS offerings from most cloud providers (regulatory requirements those providers don't comply with, etc...), or just have legacy products that aren't near EOL yet.
This is the world I want to live in.
This is an underrated point. I believe that as an average techie, your highest social impact is in building the tools required to solve these problems. We don't need better phones and advertisements, we need better tools for out scientists and doctors. I currently build research devices for applications in marine science and water quality research. Though my day to day is a bit removed from the social benefit, it is uplifting to hear about the companies and universities that but these products to good use.
I loved reading the story about "the lunatic express", the Nairobi-Mombasa train.

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-lunatic-express
Why did this get down voted? It's totally innoculous. (I read it exactly the same way too.)
Malaysian Government Proposes Tax on Digital Businesses
Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1RBMaPGb0
kinda curious: how would you build something like Text Expander in this world? As a keyboard driver?
Aha, sorry, not the same calculator then (the slimline one with the power pulsing was the Executive). Great writeup, thanks.
MXNet: Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
what do humans like to do when the work is all done? Sing and dance. Why? What is this all about? It's all about nothing. Its all about ba ba ba do do do, one big dance the universe over, Look at the atomic level, nothing but one big rave. Atoms dancing like crazy in all sorts of weird patterns just because.
Cosmic JavaScript User Roles and Permissions
Tiring.
Huh? I have a Macbook Pro and a Microsoft keyboard on an old Win XP box right next to each other right now and they both, clearly labeled, have # above the "3" for shift-3
Well at least the scammers got more savvy, the previous template they used was really bad, AKA:
"I am Prince/Ambassador/Prime Minister from <InsertRemoteCountryNameHere> and my funds <InsertBigAmount$$$> are locked in <BigForeignBank> (...)"

Also, taking down a scammer operation is quite a noteworthy endeavor! But, let's not forget the "reverse-scammers" are also doing a public service:

http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

Some of this stuff is hilarious.
I wish, but no - it was a replica made by a specialist LR garage in Poland. My dad bought it for an expedition to Kazakhstan in 2014, but unfortunately, cancer had other plans. I've inherited the LR but sold it shortly after because I had no use for it.
For reference, the actual numbers are 535 congressmen (435 representatives and 100 senators) for about 324 million people for a ratio of about 1.65/Million.

This ratio is likely only going to get lower. The number of senators is equal to (2 x number of states)[0]. The number of representatives is set by law at 435, and has not changed since 1911[1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_Act_of_1911
The Chat Bot Revolution Is Upon Us
> This is again purely accidental.

WRT 2 and 3, disabling/not doing global type inference was a wilful choice, Rust's designers specifically decided not to do that and to keep type inference local.

Not splitting signatures out of function declarations comes from the same place, having removed GTI there was no point in making type signatures and function declarations independent, and it provides for uniform declaration when there's no function/method body ("abstract" trait methods, extern declarations).
Because in many countries, banks are poorly regulated and opening a fraudulent account or bribing someone at the bank is simple. This is why wire transfers to eastern Europe, Russia, and the Middle-East get mandatory 3+ day delays for fraud checks by most Western banks. At least for non-trivial amounts.
I always thought it would be cool to have a comments service based on Hacker News. :-)
"why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time"

This isn't an American phenomena, it's a human one. EVERYONE can only focus on one issue at a time. It's a delusion that we tell ourselves that we can focus on more than one thing at a time:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episod...

(That doesn't mean we can't talk about one and then talk about another, which is probably what you meant. But you still have to do one at a time, or make a comparison, you can't just consider all issues simultaneously)
You don't see a difference between "it's ten years later and we are going to free you, sorry" and "it's ten years later and you're dead, sorry"? Neither is good enough, of course, but one is still a hell of a lot better.

The argument isn't that a life sentence can be fully reversed, just that it can be modified later, which death cannot be.
Why a President Trump Could Start a Trade War with Surprising Ease
Ask HN: Time for *cheap* e-notebooks?
Kindles and Tablets are getting cheaper. You can get one for 60$. It does all sort of things and some also let you use a pen on it. The kindles can go without charging for weeks.

I have a lab notebook. I wished it was electronic and I am not going to carry around my tablet around the lab as a draft e-notebook as I appreciate it more than just a notebook but my personal matter as well.

I'm sure more student and colleagues would like to replace their paper book with an electronic one if it is cheap. The only one I know right now is the Sony's E-Ink which is ~800$!

Isn't all above indicating that there is a great market opening up for mass produced cheap e-notebooks where people can literally replace their paper notebooks with?
If I can make $150k writing JS in Los Angeles then CHP deserves at least $110k a year.
Hi throwaway049, yes thats right, both your comments spot on. The main goal is to prove ownership to support legal sale of image. and the real target for sales are buyers that need top quality high res images. Someone mentioned another idea for combatting pircay, eg identifying photos on the web that may be copies, and that is an interesting service that would be way down the road if at all.
Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6B
You would need to use a messaging app that routes your traffic over Tor, or some other anonymizing network. Some options like Ricochet or Tor Messenger are being developed.
When iTunes started, it was fine because there was only music to deal with. But with the addition of other media types in iOS devices, it's become very messy. If you have books and photos on your iOS device, there is no simple way to get these to their respective apps on the Mac (iBooks and Photos/erstwhile iPhoto). Using iTunes will do almost nothing if you aren't buying all your stuff from Apple, except backup all data (including these) into a "hidden" location. You'd have to use each of these apps every time you want to just get the latest from the iOS device to it.

Apple should introduce a simple sync application that will take all photos to Photos, all books to iBooks, all apps to iTunes or some new App app (the removal of app transfer from iOS devices into iTunes is a big issue in different ways), all music to iTunes, etc., along with all the respective user-created metadata (like collections for books, favorites for photos, etc.). Most importantly, this should work for things obtained from non-Apple sources.

(Sometimes I wish Apple would have interviews with users like me to understand how difficult things are and use that to improve its products)
Willful or not, it makes the language more verbose.
He was at one point convicted of eight murders, and had confessed to more than 20 more. Who, if not that man, would you nominate for a death penalty? Or is a conviction not a conviction?
Interesting experiment. Based on
thaumasiotes' description, I don't see any problem with the experimental design, only with the conclusion drawn from it. Something changed between the younger and older kids' ability to understand the question that was asked, and that in and of itself is interesting.

I object to the characterization of these experiments as "communicating badly" or relying on "obtuse language". The questions asked in both experiments are exceedingly straightforward and unambiguous. If "which is longer" and "which is more likely to be true" fall below the bar for designating a question as confusing, then so does every other question imaginable.

Conversation is an integral part of the "real world", and it's almost always far more ambiguous than examples we're examining. Yet we're still expected to parse and decipher conversation in order to survive in society: to thrive at your job, to vote for the best candidate, to get through school, etc.

It's in no way useful to design an experiment that attempts to avoid conversation in a world that runs on conversation. There exist people who can consistently pick the correct answer in all of these experiments, no matter how the question is worded. And there exist people who will get it wrong unless the question is worded perfectly. Who is more rational? Who is better at grasping "the state of reality", as you put it? Who would you rather have on your team at work?
The Amiga had a powerful chip called a blitter for moving arbitrary rectangles of image data around (it could even draw lines) but most developers were used to nes, c64, snes, megadrive and these all used character based hw so 8 bit alignment made things easier and fast.
It will not be televised:

http://gilscottheron.net/toc/#who-is-gil-scott-heron
ReactOS has an NTVDM, however, which runs on 64-bit (it does processor emulation, like OP). However, it looks like it doesn't support Windows applications yet:

http://community.reactos.org/index.php/news/years-progress-n...
Samsung Unloads Tech Shares as It Braces for Galaxy Note 7 Recall Costs
But it's been considered a terrible design choice since 1984. It's not one of those things that we decided against long after it was put in place, Unix philosophy types were complaining about the inconsistency of that choice the day it came out.
The odd person driving a truck around africa won't cause environmental damage.
Killing a few elephants won't endanger the species.
Are you in favour of allowing people to shoot elephants?
Wayland is built up of multiple orthogonal protocols that each app negotiates access to with the server. Any given app will probably use multiple of these, for output, input, etc.

Not knowing exactly what Text Expander is, I'm guessing it would probably need access to a specific protocol for controlling accessibility features. The Wayland server would need to be configured to allow this app access to that protocol somehow, for example by way of a server-initiated popup window that asks you to allow or deny this access.

Does that explain it?
That's cartoonishly exaggerated.

The gun homicide rate per 100,000 is 3.43 in the US, and 37.16 in swaziland. We have a big population in the US, of course we're going to have more of lots of things. But in terms of disease, violence, and vulnerability to official corruption, the US is way ahead of africa as a whole.
I've been developing software professionally since the 1980s, when I had to build a computer from scratch. I've seen these three waves first hand- personal computers, now in your palm, the internet, now ubiquitous with cell networks, and finally crypto. The third has not yet become mainstream.

I will say this- we are on the verge of the crypto revolution. I have never before seen so much energy and effort, and finally, money in the crypto sphere. In large part because now there is cryptographic money (eg: bitcoin et al.)

For those of you who think that the startup scene has become lame where you're just building apps to sell advertising, you're missing out.

The thing about the crypto revolution is that it is not nearly as obvious. Internet and PCs were obviously great in the early days- great for everyone. Crypto is harder, has a learning curve for consumers and until that's eliminated it's easy to think that it will go nowhere in the same way that pgp has effectively gone nowhere for 20 years.

Much in the way that we've given up on "artificial intelligence" and made great strides in machine learning.. crypto is on the edge.

It's the place you want to be.
thanks for this link. such a fun read.

My first few months roaming the world were life-changing. Every day, I updated my Instagram with photos of my favorite sights: cones filled with scoops of glistening gelato; my hand lightly resting on a café table, near an early edition of “On the Road”; selfies of me hugging depressed tigers too stoned on sedatives to drown themselves.

i hate to admit this but im a photographer and have been dreaming about quitting and traveling just for opportunities to take photos. not sure i'd ever put photos of food/sedated tigers though.. but still hits close to home
Disqus started with a similar goal, but they had to make changes to make money. What will give you a different path?
There are limitation to do with the Duty Cycles in LoRa networks which we've found inhibits certain real time applications. It effectively limits the number of "messages" you can send during a specific time frame.