skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me its the opposite, vimperator is a lot better than vimium.
> Disable JavaScript dialog boxes from showing when a page closes (onbeforeunload events) Bypasses the annoying dialog boxes that spawn when a page is being closed

That seemed pretty random, and not related to the ultimate goal of the project. Are there other normal features that are disabled, that don't relate to Google at all?
This is right for me at least. I spend a big chunk of my day in Google Docs. I'd rather use Safari or Firefox, but I just can't deal with the janky Google Docs performance in those browsers.

Although occasionally a Docs tab in Chrome will go crazy and gobble up RAM and max the CPU.
No it doesn't. It changes the + to * and adds +1.
I wonder if trying to emulate"human intelligence" is the way to go. What if we could develop a synthetic form of intelligence distinct from our ability to analyse and solve problems?

If I had to build an AI, I would like to "train it" by pitching it against other AIs. Imagine an open AI network where bots will learn by challenging each others.
Does such a thing exist?
I do the same. But my rationale for normal browsing with firefox is not about tooling, it's really about what OP says in the article. Agreed on the adress bar though.
8 Ways “good” bacteria works to your advantage
Sounds like a more detailed version of Mini Metro: http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
A company refusing/rescinding service/employment to a person because of who they are/what they believe is discrimination.

A company refusing to produce a specific item for a person because they feel it is inappropriate is not discrimination unless they're providing the same thing to other people.

A person refusing to support a company because of the actions of its staff/owners/etc is not discrimination.
You can phrase it however you want and make it seem as innocent as you can. But you can't hide from the fact that he donated to a proposition that would curtail the rights of someone based on their sexual preference.

He made his choice and that stood against everything Mozilla stands for (freedom, privacy, etc etc). As a result of him making his choice he faced s lot of pressure, quite rightfully, and then he decided to step down. His choice.

You can speculate as much as you like about the ins and outs of it but it's just that. Speculation.
I remember thinking 'how quaint' while watching that, then suddenly realising that it all happened only a year before I started my current software consulting business!

Interesting to see that T1 was quite expensive back then even in NYC. I clearly remember in 1996 getting one of the first ISDN connections in the country - $1000/month for a whopping 128KB connection in the days of 33.6KB dial up. Ah, the memories...
Or just "View Source" and there was the raw text of the answer...

What Experts Exchange had going for it was a lot of corporate-domain programming knowledge, stuff like COBOL and IBM Visual Age that are basically unknown on Stack Overflow.
The symbol is named 'hash' in Britain.
"Shockwatch Dropspot".
I have no data on how accurate or reliable they are.
Nobody black would hang a confederate flag in their living room.
1995 was such a weird year. My biggest dream was to have a computer at home. Didn't even know yet that internet was a thing that existed.

Then around 1997, the internet was something that you went to the library to use. And we finally had a computer at home. I remember how long it took us to figure out that the mouse tail should point up, not down.
Socket file descriptors were in UNIX before Linux was written. They were eventually copied into Windows via "Winsock", and Windows shares the same basic idea of using ReadFile to access the sockets.

(The "reinvent it badly" is systemd replacing syslogd without re-implementing functionality that was important to a big subset of admins, because the people who wrote systemd are focused on the personal workstation case to the exclusion of all others)
We are working on something similar to your idea. We generate sketch images from real images automatically and train a model on the sketch images. So ideally, if a user draw the left wheel of the bicycle, the system will produce the entire bicycle sketch. We will release this 'sketch' feature in a few days and hope it will help a user better sketch object.

As you said, one can also apply other filters like Prisma.
I remember I used to be a huge fan of Firefox until a large sum of the plug-ins I had installed stopped working becuase the browser upgraded, this was several year ago and it was then I first decided to use chrome.

I used chrome for a long time, and I am now starting to slowly move back to firefox. One complain I now have about FF is it feels a bit sluggish compared to chrome when rendering web pages. The nightly build is however a lot better. (I am using ubuntu btw).

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Another thing I wish ff works on is screen real-estate.

http://imgur.com/OGWfgDo
They are semi-regularly discussed here, and are known as syntax diagrams or railroad diagrams. You can find a good list of generation tools at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram
Big Data Forecasting in Pharma
Rather than seeking a technical solution, I wonder if there is a social one.

If Google promised to upweight DDOSed articles in their (news) rankings in perpetuity, that's a strong incentive not to DDOS. It also makes sense that material one person is spending resource trying to suppress is extremely likely to be interesting to others, so it's not necessarily a bad experience for someone using the Google news.

Obviously, in the short term it's also useful if they can link to a cached copy that is still working. A systemic Streisand effect.
It's a different symbol than the sharp, and I don't blame anyone for not knowing it's rarely used for that purpose these days.

I had a web design professor who said its "true" name was octothorpe, and while various sources confirm that, I've never heard anyone else call it that. Another student in the same class once called it the "tic tac toe symbol."
I tend towards lightweight anything just because I'm so fed up with the ridiculous complexity all around us. I take pride in understanding what every process on my systems actually does, and why it is necessary.

Lightweight anything is also a good idea security-wise (reduction of the Trusted Computing Base).
According to Netmarketshare Linux is now above 2%. And if ad-blocking users are accounted for numbers should be close to 3%. Additionally, the number of games for Linux on Steam is about 2700 and should be 2800 by the end of the year. So Linux desktop is anything but dead. It will obviously remain a niche for a long time but that is not an issue as long as it is a viable alternative to Windows and OSX.

As far as Linux DEs, most people use Unity, Cinnamon or Gnome and are quite content. And with today's RAM prices there is little place for a lightweight environment like LXQT, especially with QT apps looking worse than Gnome apps out of the box. LXDE could still have been a successfull DE todat had they not wasted time on merger and toolkit switch.

>>Most people who care about their desktop have migrated or are migrating to OSX and the whole thing snowballs.

According to Netmarketshare, users are abandoning OSX to Windows 10 and on a smaller scale to Linux. This is not suprising considering the ridiculously overpriced hardware, Apple no longer caring about the OS, or gaming on its hardware.
"Safer from attacks on free speech"

Good. Host a mirror of wikileaks and let's talk.
FreeBSD have removed the c compiler?
Yeah, seems like it: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/commit/9163f6e... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re...

That is a very bad idea. I sympathize with the idea of the project, but please think twice before meddling in security things. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779990

I filed an issue to explain the risks: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/50
Indeed, China is probably the place that needs this kind of "shield" the most. But Google is already blocked there.

Ideally, we should use some kind of P2P network against censorship, but such networks aren't mature enough.

BUT, if you consider the other way: China's attack on western sites, then this "shield" is valuable.

I remember no long ago China uses GFW to inject malicious code in some analytics javascript. Then all of a sudden millions of internet users started ddosing Github. It was probably because someone put something Chinese gov didn't like on Github. Github for some reason is not banned in China , but China was using this kind of ddos to force Github to take down the pages it didn't like.
"Anything without frequent concurrent writes" pretty much sums it up.
I don't think it is innocent; I think it's overtly offensive to many, including some of my best friends.

I also don't think this is a good precedent to set.

Yes, in this case it's all good and virtuous, but there is now an amorphously defined line for what you can or can't support politically.
This is an attempt to reframe the argument and is relevant to Eich how? Was he brought up in an anti-gay cult? He's an adult, stop trying to claim he has no responsibility.
Pronouncing it as "pound" lends a whole new universe of meaning to many trending hashtags :)
So you're saying that Trump's policies are discriminatory against specific groups of people?

Based on that premise, sure.
Maybe I'm stretching a bit, but Snowden was the nail in the coffin. Even if you are American, it is very hard to define evil in a such a way to defend their participation in PRISM.

That code of conduct just make it worse they were caught red handed, and I can very much understand people who completely lost their trust in the company.
> If Google promised to upweight DDOSed articles in their (news) rankings in perpetuity, that's a strong incentive not to DDOS.

That would actually be a strong incentive to DDOS yourself!
You can't enforce that. Nothing's stopping me from selling my domain to the highest bidder, taking their money in cash, and then doing whatever $10 transaction through ICANN.
Just look at how [ is implemented. Tip of the iceberg.
Ironically I asked that the because the black people living in the apartment next to me do have a confederate flag in their living room(among _many_ others).

They also scream white power around the campfire when drunk though so perhaps not typical.
> it never works for me

Why not? What are the factors that convinced you to stay with Chrome? (genuine questions)
This idea seems so sensible it's a no-brainer. (I'm almost dreading the comments explaining why I'm wrong!) The human race is producing unprecedented quantities of non-recyclable "stuff".

It's pumped out of the ground as oil, converted into plastics, and after a short life, buried in the ground again. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if much of it didn't also end up floating in the ocean, being eaten by animals and contaminating the human food chain.

The only potential counter-argument I can see with this sort of policy is that the goals of minimising CO2 and minimising waste sometimes seem to be in competition with each other. Anecdotally I've heard of examples where (e.g.) washing china plates has a greater carbon cost than using disposable ones.
You're right. I apologize. I think I was in a bad mood. ;)
I was a bit surprised by that line as well. I mean of course KDE is going to be behind GNOME in general since it is a bit more volunteer centric with less corporate funding, but I don't think it's in bad shape at all, and it is my preferred desktop environment. Many individual KDE projects are open-source gems. (Krita, Kdenlive, Dolphin, KDE Connect)
I really would like to see bi-temporal table support eventually come to PG

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/64/Fosdem20150130Postgr...

Is anybody aware somebody working on that for PG?
Having tried it out, I'm more than a little puzzled. What I don't understand is why make this yet another new platform, instead of just adding it as a new feature to hangouts?

All they've done is introduce friction to the onboarding process.

Unless I'm really missing something here. As the linked article says, Google already has our contacts, and they already have a list of the people we chat with, etc. Why not just make use of this instead of asking everyone to start from scratch again?
You can't guarantee low latency and consistency without setting geographical boundaries on the distribution of the servers, unless you have very generous definitions of "low latency", as the speed of light (and more realistically: the speed you can transmit a signal via the internet, which is substantially lower) between the servers will place lower bounds on latency.

This is the case as you can't guarantee consistency without coordination between the servers (or you won't know what order to make operations visible in the case of multi-master, or whether a transaction has even been successfully applied by a slave when replicating master-slave), which at a bare minimum involves one round-trip (sending a transaction, and waiting for confirmation that it has been applied; assuming no conflicts requiring additional effort to reconcile).

You can pipeline some stuff to partially avoid actual delays, but you can't avoid the signalling, and for many applications it has disastrous effect on throughput when certain tables/rows are highly contended.
Jony Ive was interviewed about it at the time.

“When we sat down last November (to work on iOS 7), we understood that people had already become comfortable with touching glass, they didn’t need physical buttons, they understood the benefits,” says Ive. “So there was an incredible liberty in not having to reference the physical world so literally. We were trying to create an environment that was less specific. It got design out of the way.”

From http://www.cultofmac.com/246312/jony-ive-explains-why-he-dec...
> My point being that the houses are being listed and sold in a short time frame. That suggests that the housing market is pricing appropriately for the buyers.

i live in sunnyvale. along the ~0.6mi route between my house and the kids' school, 3 houses in past month or two come to market and each sold after just a single weekend of open house. i've actually been surprised at the speed of sales in recent weeks.

> Sunnyvale has a ballot measure (https://sunnyvalepubliclandsact.com/) that is seeking to limit how the city can transfer park land to developers to turn into houses (or hotels, or office parks). That measure is an artifact of all the building that is going on.

kinda. this is more about what happened w/ raynor park after selling the adjacent school, but there are a few other deals in sunnyvale (e.g. city buildings). i spend a lot of time over at raynor with our little league, and my biggest issue is that a private school now has priority use of the fields during specific hours. oh, that and they paved over one of the baseball fields (well, backstop + grass) after the city gave away the small strip of land along the school. over in santa clara there's been some f'd up tactics around Levi's stadium to get park land (using term loosely) developed. BMX track and soccer fields will be missed.
> you're almost surely not using any kind of fsync's in your plain-text logger, so that text file isn't as incorruptible as you may think

Agreed. But if the log file is corrupted, then a plain-text one will be easier to decipher for a human than any binary blob.
The entire code for synthesizing the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 is free, open source software. The SPARC V9 reference manual is pretty clear on what a SPARC V9 ISA compliant processor must, and how it must implement it.

Leon (SPARC V8 ISA) is a free, open source implementation, and is a radiation hardened processor.

Why is that not enough?
It's only disk IO bound if you're accessing the disk. With modern servers packing multiple TB of memory, it is likely you won't be accessing the disk at all.
Chromium is Free Software as well.

Mozilla is not a club of like-minded hackers that try to keep the web livable anymore. They're a large company now with corporate salaries and expensive furniture and a prime real estate office that values advertisers over users. Firefox is their money maker.

Chromium is a Free Software version derived from a proprietary browser. The people who made that happen must have had an idealistic motivation, or otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Both browsers are libre license-wise, which is a good thing, but in my opinion Chromium is less likely to be used as a marketing stick against users, since the marketing stick version of Chromium already exist. As such using the Chromium browser is preferable for me, since the intentions behind it are likely to be more in line with a free Internet in spite of its proprietary origin.
I think you're confusing life and medical insurance.
Where I'm from (UK) this has always been called the "hash" symbol. Although British Telecom voice prompts insisted on calling it the "square" key for a while.
In fact, in my tests, unique_ptr with make_unique was faster than a raw pointer with new.
A quite useful RPC framework
Positive discrimination has been endlessly debated but to wheel it out here without even bothering to acknowledge the nuances of the debate is a touch lazy and intellectually ham-fisted, surely?

And to use the Daily Express to support any your point is going to reflect fairly poorly on your stance for anyone that is aware of it's reputation.

Also - are we talking about the US or the UK here? Mixing the two situations together in a single discussion is going to make a murky issue even murkier.
The deciding factor that makes a website successful is offering info or tools that people look for and need.
> so in good times rich get richer.

And then in the bad times... the rich get richer again.

Christ, this stuff turns my stomach.
I would like to see more use of netstrings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstring
"Propagate" is the traditional term for DNS update delays. It dates back to the era before NOTIFY and IXFR when it often took a long time for secondary servers to update their copies of a zone. Nowadays with a good setup that should happen within a few seconds.

Perhaps it is a bit of a misnomer to use it for cache timeouts, but it isn't particularly wrong or confusing unless you have a very pedantic reader.
It is worth checking out the wiki on the details of the parallel query for how and when it works: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Parallel_Query
WebSQL was never a spec. It was literally implemented as ‘be bug compatible with this specific version of SQLite’. There was no way that that was going to be accepted by Mozilla and Microsoft.
> It's a different symbol than the sharp

Ok, the true pedants can tilt their head a little to see the difference between a # and a [Edit: Hmm it seems HN doesn't support pasting of extended characters such as the musical 'sharp'?!?]...

I will have to change the pronunciation in my C# programming books to 'C-hash' instead of 'C-sharp'... :)
Right? I don't understand how someone can read an article like this and have that reaction. An anecdote drives the point home a lot more than common sense.

Also, what's this about driving blog traffic? He didn't work himself into the ground with the intention of writing a blog post about it.
> Some people are attracted to using Bitcoin as a day to day currency and payments system, to reduce their dependence on mainstream banking. The "be your own bank" philosophy.

Japan is, at least to my understanding, one of the last countries to develop such a mindset in the mainstream.
These mercury-vapor lamps were used until 90-somethings where i used to live. People would say that until these bluish-white lamps were phased out by orange ones, people in the street would look as if they were dead; I would always counter with "they sure look as if they're alive now". Maybe because of childhood nostalgia I always preferred the bluish-white nights instead of that pervasive orange ones, especially during overcast winter nights where everything in thirty kilometer radius would become orange and unnatural. Clear nights with full moon were godsend.

But things are changing nowadays and our city also started using LEDs and by Moses, they are so much unbelievably better in all aspects! Even if they emit that "unseen blue" light, it is most definitely not worse than the insanely pervasive orange...
Looks like the last season of Mr Robot was predictive.
Non-petroleum based plastics are a thing, but lag behind in many areas like strength, injection molding quality, UV resistance etc.

Recently Lego decided on moving to plant-based plastics, but they expect to need more than a decade of R&D by a team of 100 people, costing $150 million, before these materials are up to Lego's quality standards.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i26/Lego-Replace-Oil-Based-Pl...
Parallel sequential scan is a building block that enables other work to be done in parallel. Once you've got a way to split up a sequential scan by handing chunks to different workers, those workers can then do other CPU intensive work like filtering (involving potentially expensive expressions), partial aggregation (for example summing a subtotal that will be added to other workers' subtotals at the end) and joining (say against a hash table).
This has probably more to do with Sweden having so high taxes on labour that repairs becomes impossible without a tax break.

An average Swede gets ~ a third of the money the company pays for his wages. (30% tax, 30% in social charges etc.)

If he is going to rent an hour from someone with the same salary as himself/herself, that will be three times the hourly salary. (I'll ignore the other costs here.)

So, in sum, because of the taxes etc, a Swede have to work [at least] a full day to buy an hour of work time.

(Reservation for the exact numbers. It was a while since I lived in Sweden. People might keep 40% or so now, but I also ignored a lot of extra costs.)
Here's something that I have learnt in past few months about startups
Move from "What investors look for in new startups & founders"
to "What customers/users look for in new startups & products" and you'll be all good for a long journey.

What are your thoughts? :)
So it's conjecture. Going by Occam's razor, Microsoft just had no need to innovate because it had no competition.
The paper's intent is to articulate a particular ideological element within the current mainstream(finance being equated to the real economy), identify its appearance, and set the stage for a counter ideology that pushes finance away from power; it's more historical-political in nature than anything.

So yes, saying it says nothing new is missing the point, because it's not really aimed at economists who have already started critiquing these distinctions. If it aimed to craft new theory or policy, it probably wouldn't be referencing more detailed, years to decades old, sources in every other paragraph.
Are you suggesting that we should just stay here, forever?

Our curious nature has always led us to explore the next frontier, historically speaking.
IRC is good in many ways, but it doesn't store messages for you. Your client has to be connected all the time or you will miss messages. It lacks good user accounts too, just NickServ.