skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little known? You must be kidding. It has more than 1 Billion installations [0].

It's pre-installed on every Android Handset and is the designated successor to Google Talk, a once great XMPP chat service which had offered real xmpp federation until Google rebranded it to Hangouts. I really liked Google Talk back then, Hangouts gradually made it worse and worse.

The hurdles to onboard new chat members are too big (you need a G Account, needed a Google Plus profile at some time). While the G Account is a given on Android phones, it's a big hurdle for adding iOS users. The process is buggy as well: After adding an account for a friend, we often had to wait 1-2 days to "find" the person on Hangouts and be able to add them to the group chat.

On top of that, the app is slow slow slow (the browser chat as well).

As a community moderator I had to deal with above issues constantly but we kept using Hangouts for years... despite its shortcomings. Ultimately though, we abandoned it and switched to Telegram. Much faster mobile Apps, super easy onboarding for new members and a great Browser client as well (plus the company is FOSS friendly, allows custom implementations).

The Hangouts dev team even knows about its bad reputation and the product manager even acknowledged that at some time [0]:
"P.S. Unlike what the /r/Android subreddit says, the Hangouts team does come to work every morning trying to make it better :)"

[0]: https://plus.google.com/+MayurKamat/posts/T1FNqgAWzgE
Silicone sealant, the "universal gasket", should also work to seal the joint, as the tub is not under high pressure.
Firefox developers did a lot of work in the recent years to reduce memory use and leaks (MemShrink) and visual stutter (jank), and e10s will improve the latter even further (while regressing memory use a bit).

However, Firefox will not magically better itself; developers - paid and volunteer - will need to fix issues as they are discovered, and that means that if you run into performance problems, you should file a good bug.

I use both Chrome and Firefox on my Windows 7 box, simultaneously for various reasons.

The Chrome (vanilla install except for uBlock Origin) performance is... not great for me, at least once I get more than 10-15 tabs open, mostly when switching and/or opening tabs. A lot of it seems to be swap-thrashing.

Firefox performance on the other hand is OK to great, even tho it being my main browser with usually 50+ tabs open (with tons of overlap with those Chrome tabs) and rather add-on laden. I am using Nightly since forever, with e10s off at the moment because of one or two add-ons that would fail otherwise; tho I also have Firefox Stable installed and when I use that it behaves the same.

Sure, webgl and/or js benchmarks might be a little behind on Firefox (tho not by a large margin). So that nifty html5/webgl 3D ego shooter might perform a little worse, but that is nothing I personally really care about. Firefox excels for me for regular browsing performance, and that is what I want.

Chrome on OSX always performed abysmal for some reason, so I am using Firefox (Nightly) exclusively on a recent MacBook Pro, which runs fine (sans the occasional memory swap/uncompress stutter when switching back to really old tab that got paged out).

I cannot comment much about startup performance as I usually have long-running sessions in the order of days or weeks, but it seems OK for both browsers.
Yeah, but what's an Aleppo?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gary-johnson-climate-cha...

Here's one that doesn't require a subscription, though the content is likely different.

tl;dr - In the long run, descendants will eventually have to worry about this.

It's the kind of things the media likes to make headlines out of, but is actually quite mundane.
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Kind of an interesting thing, but nothing is guaranteed. The only things that are probably guaranteed are the websites with boards, major social media networks, with CEOs who make sure that they get passed on. Apple is a pretty good example. I currently run a popular website, http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com and I have hundreds of companies and individuals that rely on me every year to publish their articles. The thought always crosses my mind to know what would they do if something would happen to me.. sure, the site would die and they would probably just find somewhere else to publish their new articles, but I would certainly love to know it would continue without me, but its a blog that I know how to run and I've not really taught anyone else how to "process" articles, so I suppose it will go with me. I have mentioned it to my fiancee and left her with the username and passwords, and even if she doesn't process any new articles, I would hope that she at least pays to keep the server and hosting going! At least Google and the Internet archive might do something with it.
"Cost of labour falls in Finland at the highest rate in the European Union"

It should be noted that this is a very intentional policy. Finland's current right-wing government has been working hard (and in many quite confused ways too) to bring down cost of labour.

When elected, the Prime Minister's stated goal was a reduction of 5% across all salaries. (The name for this plan was kilpailukykysopimus, "the competitiveness agreement".) Due to expected resistance from unions, it has been watered down to various benefit cuts, promises of raise freezes, etc. But the atmosphere among the country's economic decision makers is very much one that pushes for salary reductions by any means possible.

Another name for this salary reduction plan is "internal devaluation". As a member of the Euro zone, Finland can't simply devaluate its currency to increase the competitiveness of its exports. So the other way to achieve the same goal is to reduce the internal cost of producing those goods.

(If you ask me, this whole thing is chasing a 1980s recipe for a 21st century problem. The problem with Finland's exports is not cost of goods or even quality; it's a combination of wrong industries and lack of global marketing savvy. The pipe dream of a 5% reduction in production costs won't solve any of that.)
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We're dealing with a booking system so sync is important. But so is redundancy and throughout.
Already implemented in the canton of Zug, Switzerland.

(Incidentally, this is where Vitalik Buterin, author of Ethereum, resides).
I thought the point of the article wasn't that a particular approach to learning has intrinsic limits, but that underdetermination of the pattern to be learned by the available data poses fundamental limits to what any learner could hope to discover.

The example motivating the discussion in such; even a perfect learnenr would hardly have any criteria to prefer one solution to another. Guess simplicity arguments could play in this example, if they weren't so vague, but even that doesn't happen in the general case.

That has to be true, for machines and humans alike. So ofc there's motivation to think about what comes after deep learning - but this isn't it, for that too, whatever it is, would be just as hopeless in examples such as there.
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I def won't bet on "stay".
It's from the 1920s when the social democrats convinced the working person to ditch religion for a more 'rational' form of politics. Despite the other negative comments (nobody thinks their govt is doing good), politicans are held to account and policy is primarily driven by rational debate.
For example, there was a strong rumour that a recent prime minister (Goran Persson) was religious. Being religious would obviously be a bad thing, as it might bias his policy - that is the consensus. And yes, it is a more consensus driven society. But without some level of consensus, how can you get your fellow citizens to help one another?
Perhaps this is a bug. If you post the query and database schema on the sqlite mailing list or here we can take a look easily enough. If you can upload the database somewhere we can try to reproduce it.

Mailing list: http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
There are scaling solutions like lightning network being built and the blocks are not full. Also for a cup of coffee you don't need so much security so go use litecoin or something, why not.
If your income is foreign (like in EUR or USD), exchanging to bitcoin and paying with it is much cheaper than directly exchanging to yen or whatever the local currency is.
Oh my, browsing around that repo and some of versions of sh[1] has possibly the worst C I've seen in production.

Do you know the reasons for the "Pascal macros" as they don't even make the C code Pascal compliant?

[1] http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/...
Hey Ryan, although I'm still developing the projects, I began an umbrella business which specializes in delivering affordable communication services to companies and individuals.
Many bitcoin "transactions" are actually offchain transactions already. For example, with bitcoin debit cards you have bitcoin wallet, and then everytime you swipe your card, your account balance is deducted. Or at bitcoin marketplace, you have a wallet, and all transactions you do within the site are done offchain. Only deposits and withdrawals are done onchain.

So yeah, pretty much looks like the bitcoin is already kind of settling layer.
There's a difference between "thinking ahead into the next problem", i.e. premature generalisation, and "thinking ahead into the details of the current problem".

It's good that you mentioned Java, because it is a language which I find extremely IDE-centric, and I suspect that's also what causes easy premature generalisation --- creating new classes with tons of boilerplate automatically generated by the IDE is so easy that it encourages programmers to. That doesn't help one bit with the details of the algorithm, unfortunately; it often gets "OOP-ified" into a dozen classes and much-too-short methods created as a result of the "fiddle with it until it works" mentality.
> Sadly I don't see much difference in Linux these days, these pre-bundled Distro's are no different than Windows, you have little control, or knowledge of what is being delivered.

Well, you could always run Gentoo and that is fun too..
In Holland you can usually use your card (debit) for everything, even at festivals, food trucks, café's, etc. using a mobile pin machine. In Berlin, on the other hand, even most small shops only accept cash. Now perhaps this is Berlin-specific, but it's still fascinating to me how culturally-specific these things can remain even in today's world.
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Why wouldn't I just use some trustful centralized solution for a cup of coffee? In fact, I myself prefer to use credit card for these, where I don't actually have to trust the payment method provider, but the payment method provider trusts me to pay the bill one month later. I don't see how bitcoin can compete on this sector, except for privacy issues.
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Out of curiosity where do you live? Perhaps this is a regional thing but down here in Skane people are very humble about being Swedish, almost as if they are ashamed of some sort of history.

They certainly wouldn't describe something as "the Swedish way" unless it was something about how the police are ineffective due to bureaucracy or something similar.
That's interesting, in the context of a quote from the KerbsOnSecurity piece which prompted this post:

John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech.

However, events of the past week have convinced me that one of the fastest-growing censorship threats on the Internet today comes not from nation-states, but from super-empowered individuals who have been quietly building extremely potent cyber weapons with transnational reach.[1]

and also:

But as my friend and mentor Roland Dobbins at Arbor Networks eloquently put it, “When it comes to DDoS attacks, nation-states are just another player.”

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-democratization-of-c...
In my opinion, that is exactly what made Chrome popular. Focussing on Dev-Tools, but that's a very expensive undertaking (it took firefox an extension to make this possible -> Firebug ftw). However, market success from other companies e.g. Stripe have shown that optimizing for developers today is by far the most effective way to get into market.

MS did the same thing, although back then they used ActiveX extensions or certain proprietary IE implementations that simplified the transition from old fat-client development to web-development.

Now that this is gone, focussing on debugging and open-sourcing is a better choice for a web-browser to win dominance. Chrome did just that: Opensourcing the core - attacking one of Mozilla's core promises - and adding proprietary google eco-sytem add-ons on top of that.

So imho what made you change to Chrome is similar to what made everyone of us developers back then adopt IE (i.e. simplifying development). And when Chrome started gaining traction, the google-lead team started implementing proprietary APIs that we now struggle with when we consider an open non-proprietary web.

I use firefox everyday, for dev and regular, and I'm happy to be a user. But I also see a lot of sites that just start breaking because they have been implemented with Chrome in mind. For where I am standing, I try to encourage our team to develop for FF first, test in Chrome and then EDGE/IE, that way it's most likely that anyone can access the site without breakage. And yes, this also means that sometimes it takes some overhead, but I'm willing to take that for the sake of an open web ;-)
Actually, a plenty of Russians may be interested, especially the ones living in Saint-Petersburg area. It takes only several hours by car and the train connection is very good too, so that they can easily visit parents, friends, etc. And salary in Finland are much higher comparing to Russia.
"If you tried taxing capital that much they'd flee the country."

I keep encountering various forms of this. Can someone explain why rich people who do not significantly spend, invest, pay taxes or otherwise contribute "fleeing the country" is bad?
We at Toughbyte have recruited and relocated almost twenty mid and senior level developers to Finland for our clients in the last year, more info here: http://toughbyte.com/#recruitment

I can confirm that there is indeed a shortage of developers with the right skills. Salary levels is not the issue here.

I disagree with the point about bureaucracy in the article. Getting a residence permit once you have an offer is fairly straightforward and takes a few weeks, compared to some other countries in Europe (like Malta for example) where it has taken us months.
This patch https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... seems to contain the details of what is removed. Most of it seems innocuous enough, except the tracking (?) headers appended on some Google sites.
That's a despicable stereotype to apply to millions of people displaced by war and drought.
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I think it's fair to assume that people don't expect the article title to be changed after the HN submission.

But generally, I do wish fewer people moaned about HN titles. Even when the title matches the article, people often moan about it's grammer. In fact there was one submission last week where more people were discussing the title than were discussing the article. However I do appreciate the irony that I'm contributing to my complaint by discussing it like I am :)
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A real-world example: we were in negotiations about a big project with a vendor. We - a team of guys about the same age - had a lot of issues with the technical solution the vendor proposed. The next day they brought in a very attractive blonde engineer, and my useless straight colleagues would be gazing at her legs rather than asking tough technical questions. The vendor wouldn't have tried this if we had some women on the team.
top 2% here

i can understand the reasoning but i left SO when they broke it into pieces with StackExchange network

i actually enjoyed stuff like code golfs, joke questions (minus endless flow of repetitive xkcd references)

have always been interested in THAT programming part where problem meets consciousness meets technology. spent a lot of time puzzling around questions on design, patterns - more ethereal side of programming

nowadays stuff like that gets quickly eliminated

and more technical questions often gets spammed with shallow bullshit i've already checked couple of times
Users can't fix websites, they can fix their experience by switching to a browser that works.
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I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
The red meat thing is false BTW.
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They actually give you 101 points on every new site if you're a proven user, which lets you comment.
>- keep moving at a firm pace

>- hold a hand up, palm outward, preemptively, as you move (I'm not a tourist, I work here)

What, push people out of the way?

And now that you've touched someone, they'll touch back...
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I said you make a rate based on the market return (as stated on the treasury site). I also said the additional return you get is based on having it be non-transferrable, and in the case of the annualized 3.5%, 20-year term, severely illiquid asset. That's also true. I think the risk of illiquidity is major risk, and I don't at all agree they are decent investments for that reason. I realize this is a zombie thread but can't help but reply. Just because there are other, also terrible, low risk debt products in today's market doesn't make this one reasonable. The value of an investment has to be measured based on what you're getting out of it, not just relative to other investments. That's why I remarked on being better to be in cash than bonds: bonds have a huge actualized and opportunity risk relative to their yield.
I still use SO every day, and also have enough rep to be an editor, and I don't think it's in decline. But I have also stopped answering to questions. Mostly because the race to be the first to answer easy questions to get rep stopped being fun very early on, and there are only a few interesting questions among all the "do my homework for me" and barely comprehensible questions.

As for editing, editors come in all shape and form, and let's be honest, developers can often be opinionated so and so's who can spend hours debating tabs vs. spaces. I think the moderating reflects what we are as a community, I'm afraid. For example, I always reject any edit that only changes the format of the code because I find it a complete waste of time. I am sure there are other mods who would do the opposite, and actually go and reformat code in as many questions as they can find. Who's to say one approach is right and the other wrong? There aren't actually any guidelines in the modding pages.

It does get annoying sometimes; for example, I was refused the tag vanilla-js because of reasons by someone who didn't even seem to be a js developer. Had a few heated discussions, in the end the mods won. But hey, you know what? Who cares, the site is still useful

What are the realistic alternatives? Quora?
The whole article is about the workers/developer from _outside_ EU.

Any EU citizen wouldn't need anything, just go there, get the job, register with the authorities and find some housing.
Again blaming the "user" would get you no where.

You have something that works out of the box, and something that doesn't.

Doesn't matter why it's your fault, you are using it wrong, it's your operating system, you aren't holding it properly these are the excuses of poorly designed products.
Also not the GP, but at the time: process isolation. The process sandboxing Chrome did that allowed only a subset of it to crash was novel and compensated for their relatively young browser engine gagging and dying from time-to-time. Once I could develop and use plugins without bringing down the entire browser session, I never looked back.

Nowadays: inertia and familiarity. Firefox is sometimes faster and sometimes slower, but there's not enough of a difference to tip my hand, and I already have Chrome configured the way I want (including extensions, multiple sessions, and the keyboard accelerators and widget positions that have burned themselves into my brain). And the cross-platform sync works great; I don't know if Firefox's is better or worse, but it would take more than 0 time to set it up, so I don't care yet.

It's also completely integrated with Chromecast, which I use and enjoy.
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You could be describing the UK.
You're sacrificing everything the Yubikey does beyond U2F. Yubikey can support U2F, but also generates one time passwords, and appears as a smart card to your operating system allowing you to keep PGP/SSH keys on it.
The problem is that the U2F specification requires users to approve authentication requests by pressing a button and none of the existing enclosures have a space for one. Entirely coincidentally, the company behind it (Yubico) already had a design with a button because their original second-factor proposal had no other way of knowing you want to authenticate. It's a little pointless on U2F but the spec requires it.
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I found his source code on GitHub. [0]

From this[1], seems like he's taking the top-10 closest (in terms of Lehvenstein distance) phoneme of input and idioms of English language.

0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator

1: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/blob/master/src/app....
I can only speculate but I believe it is due to the fact that it kind of looks like a paper clip shaped like a monkey ear (speculation on my part but I've heard that before).

Klammer is short for Büroklammer (= paper clip) and Affe is monkey (or ape).
I inherited a 35 years old washing machine, it is used about once a week. Every 10 years the bearing needs replacing and I had to replace the water pump one time. Still going strong...

That's about 20€ in spare parts every 10 years. The savings in electricity and water with a new machine are tiny compared to savings by not having to buy a new machine in the first place and then replace it every 5 years...
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Recently I let a domain expire. I found out, that in those 75 days, I had to pay $180 instead of $20 for the same domain (namecheap). So, its not the same as leasing an apartment - I think.
Firebug is better than chrome dev tools mostly.

The problem is stability especially for development, a rogue JS script can still kill a browser, chrome loses a page, Firefox loses its mind.
Perhaps having a rule where the originator must keep some meaningful percentage of the loan on its books would help, say 30%? Then the originator always has skin in the game.
Great, the released binaries also seem to be compiled with proprietary_codecs=true, that means H264 videos are working (by default Chromium is not compiled with this flag).
We could start sending items to Poland for repair.
> What's wrong with WAL backup?

I use PG for 10 years and I never needed incremental backups. But if someone asked me about it then I would respond that the PG has no incremental backups.

So WAL backup is not well known or documented in my opinion. An average db admin needs a tool which will generate incremental backup as a single file named like dbname_20160926.sql