skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much of a hassle is it really, because I absolutely want system wide ad blocking and I worry that I will be defeating the purpose of using a hardened OS in the first place?

Ad-away works by using a host file to block. The hosts file is generally not writable by the user without root as it lives on a read only partition (/system).

Another way to block ads is to connect to a VPN that blocks thoses hosts for you, however that is more cumbersome to setup.

While hosts blocking is not perfect... my thought on this was to expose a limited API that allows apps to update the hosts file without having root. This could be sketchy and a security risk on its own tho, because you're essentially hijacking DNS... In addition, I don't think the community is interested in this because they all love root..

> Do you rebuild and flash each OS update as a new ROM?

Every month, immediately after the security bulletin and a resync.

> Is all your data on the phone persistent or backed up & restored each time?

So android has a /system partition and a /data partition. When you reflash your system, the data partition (where all your apps, settings, what not are stored) is left untouched. Android will detect this and perform an upgrade operation on the /data partition, if applicable.
Not sure, in web-dev nobody knows if you're a dog.
Nicely put. MAGA.
The pictures in this story, in the context of someone trying to figure out astrophotography for the first time, are just as inspiring as NASA's deep space images. It's a pleasure to read of someone's first personal experience with deep space objects.
1) America is an infantilized society, where people are largely no longer responsible for their own and their families' well being. The idea of consequences for actions, and inactions, is fading quickly. The idea of solemn duty to others is long gone.

2) Life-long monogamy, even as an aspirational ideal, is on its death bed. Marriage is now about personal satisfaction, instead of duty to spouse and children.
I wonder what his thoughts are about Trump nonconsensually groping women?

A libertarian could not support such violence/coercion.

[Edit: wow, off-topic?]
I wish it could be possible to write this:

const animal = "cat";
<Component {animal} />
equivalent to:
<Component animal={animal} />
Initially I was quite confused about why the ADA/Rehabilitation Act applied to Harvard/MIT. It seemed like it was largely about employers and federal agencies, but at least the Rehabilitation Act covers "any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance", so I'm guessing that's why it applied to edX, though I wonder if it would apply if edX was an entirely separate entity that licensed the content from Harvard/MIT, or if they would still have an obligation to provide captions when licensing their content.
There was one in France in 91-97 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-Bop), Apple even made a compatible PowerBook 180 with a special antenna (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbop).
B&M banks are nice for safe deposit boxes too. My backup strategy for my home PCs is rotating hard drives through a safe deposit box.
Fuzz's Corrollary:

Web experience gets slower more quickly than the software does.

Anecdotal evidence:

Average website loading and/or navigation (speed, success), on average consumer desktops & broadband connections, now seems to underperform the average W9x PC having IE5 and 56K dial-up at the time.

"The faster you go the slower you get there around here"
-Fuzzy Berra
There isn't a big dial labelled "regulations" that when you turn it up, the "economy" needle goes down. Business requires trust. Just as more and better deals happen when both parties believe that contracts will be enforced, when consumers can trust that the meat they're buying has been inspected, that there's no toxic materials in their mattresses, and that their bank deposits are insured, the whole engine of commerce runs better.

A country with an educated, healthy, and secure population will be a better place to do business than one which is plagued with social problems. So even if the billionaires of Silicon Valley are voting purely out of economic self-interest (which I highly doubt), it's still wise for them to vote for who they think will run the country better - across all dimensions, not just who wants less taxes and regulation.

And sure, you can argue that having less taxes and regulation in the manner that Republicans propose results in having a better country overall, but apparently most in Silicon Valley don't believe that.
Dumb = smart now?

Idiocracy has arrived
How about <Component {{animal}} /> ? Because that should already work, no?
nice. can you submit it through the site with your email and asking price?
It's disgraceful that you're trying to bully an organization based on the political opinions of one of their partners. You should be ashamed of yourself and of the damage you're doing to your country.
Glad to hear that :)

Man, you're lucky. A girl who's into computer and games, that's just rare as diamond.

All the more reason to play online games!
> The freedom team not only won but overtook many other free nations again

The German "freedom team" did nothing of value, it was the US that won or more precise the Soviet Union that imploded because it was unfeasible from the beginning. West Germany was a powerless Satellite state just as East Germany was.

> I think if you have freedom or democracy related questions you should ask us. We would suggest to get your act with your agencies together.

???

> Why would a dictator use the healthcare system when you have all the fucking three letter agencies and the military industrial complex just sitting there, fuelled by corporate/right-wing money?

You want your slaves to cooperate, which is easier to accomplish when you're not beating them up on a daily basis.

> Hitler did not wait for generations to let social systems brainwash the people, he had the thugs of the SA to beat the crap out of the opposition.

That's not how it was historically. He did not use massive violence to get into power (he got there fair and square in a democratic manner), but he encouraged it to get rid of the Jews once he was in power.

And he was in power for a very long time. since 1922 he was leader of the NSDAP, in 1931 a majority of Germans wanted him chancellor and in 1933 he finally was made chancellor. That's 12 years in the highest positions and he used it immediately to brainwash the population.

Or do you want to argue with me that the Hitlerjugend had no real effect on the youth? Children started to report their parents if they said something against their dear leader.
HOW DIFFERENT ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOGS?
This is the sort of BS that ruins any chance of dialogue. Just calling someone or some action a label is not productive, just like anti-abortion activists calling it baby killing or whatever. The people who support those actions aren't going to think they are any less good, just, fair, moral etc just because you gave it an overly dramatic label. Why not discuss impact, moral principles, or whatever else actually makes it possible to at least start from a middle ground?
Then again i see supposed adults behave worse than kids given half an excuse.
> ... but when you consider that a lot of luxuries are considered "necessities", you have to question things.

Sometimes "luxuries" are necessities, in less obvious ways. For example, it may be very difficult to get certain types of jobs unless you display the right status symbols[1].

[1] https://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-pe...
Designing an alternative search engine
Does anybody know if a extension/browser etc. exists that can spoof the common JS features that make users identifyable?
Russian for train station is vokzal, like vauxhall.

I can't sort out the real from the folk etymologies though.
Elixir is a fantastic platform for apps, and using Phoenix for the web interface makes things super easy.

I love it.
On other hand, it's usually written in Latin. And it's not so much about your face than about your dress.
Agreed. I think this is correct. If I recall correctly, the person filing has to bring a claim within N days.
Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists
The big difference may well be that women are allowed to act out their inner age, while men are expected to behave their age (whatever the F that means).
The condition that enables true solo programming (one developer putting out the entire product) is having a piece of software whose complexity is manageable by one person. Most significant software today is larger than that, although something like a small, stand-alone application (iPhone game or PC utility) might still fall into that category.

For commercial software, another constraint is time: a solo developer might be able to create some software in two years, but the product is needed in six months. So the work gets split up.

There are also risk management issues. If there's only one person working on a piece of software, the project takes a big hit if that person leaves or suffers a debilitating accident (there's a "bus factor"[1] of 1).

And there are quality issues: if only one person understands the code they're writing, who's going to review the code to make sure there are no serious bugs or security holes?

I still work pretty much as a solo programmer, but within a large organization. I work on an important component of a large software product, and I'm the only developer who works on (or even understands) that area of the code. I do, however, interact a lot with other groups whose code interacts with mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
He forgot to mention that after that, it's a long slow walk back to 14 again, as you realize how out of touch they had been all along.
> For reference, here is how many people in (not only) Europe view this "great American match"

It's difficult to generalize over Europe. For instance, I live in France and have no idea about the opinions of let say Romanians or Swedes. But my feeling is the opposite. I suspect that Trump has more supporters in the US (even on HN) than in France.

Here I don't see anybody enthusiastic about Clinton, but most people and media don't take Trump seriously (and that's an euphemism). However he has his supporters, essentially among right wing extremists (who tend to like Putin as well).
I think we need a new law to augment Godwin's Law, that all debates about this election devolve into agreeing that both candidates are grotesque and disagreeing about which one is worse.
despite the juvenile name bf is quite mature for what it is
90% to code is not to code. The parts that comply with code don't make noncompliant parts safe. The parts that comply with code make other compliant parts safe.
Have a quick look at the code graphs of Grunt: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/graphs/contributors

Also, consider how the main contributor (cowboy) last commited in May 2015. This is just a cursory github-health-scan (tm), but it tells me two things:

- Don't expect any large changes in the grunt code-base in the coming years
- The code-base is probably not easily modified (either caused by low code quality or of the risk of breaking builds).
That came later, after they decided that they preferred politics to market share. (sometime around 2008-09, judging from the TIFF support bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160261#c39)
I hate getting rid of books.

When I moved across the country I whittled my collection down from ~3k to around ~1.5k and I was sad. For the most part I made good decisions around which chunks of books, but there are some I really screwed the pooch on.

On the plus side, it's easier than ever to backfill collections.
We told you not to use WPS on your Wi-Fi router
"They're segregating based on race and gender, not class or socioeconomic status"

Socioeconomic factors are the more ideal consideration on paper, but in practice it doesn't matter, since that status tends to be influenced very heavily by racial/ethnic factors. Hopefully this'll change someday and we'll all live in a Star Trek utopia. Today is by absolutely no means that day.

"Does it really matter what color your skin is, if you have a MBA from MIT? How does that improve the cultural bottleneck?"

Wait, so just happening to have a degree from a prestigious college suddenly makes someone immune to the effects of racism? What a wonderful thought.
UK, Ireland, many customers from US/Australia. Many European customers.

Maybe you are talking about tech people. I am talking about mix.
I tend to see this when people try to pre-emptively abstract. Not "we seem to be duplicating 3+ blocks of code here" but "we might want to do this again at some point so we need an abstraction to make it easier next time".

The former almost always works while the latter almost always fails.

The former gives a little dopamine hit and a boost to the ego because that's being "an architect" while the latter feels more like being a janitor. Ironic really.
You don't believe in knowledge for the sake of enjoying the perspective that more knowledge gives you?
Given how cheap drives are I think upstream bandwidth for that storage will quickly eclipse the storage itself.
Thiel thinks the world would be better if women couldn't vote.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

Basically, women don't vote for libertarian economic policies, and make it impossible to have a capitalist democracy, so he wants to get rid of democracy.

Source: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
I'd argue that frontend web dev was a pretty terrible experience until fairly recently, and that new tools and libraries make it much easier and more organized. I think the enthusiasm for the new and shiny is warranted, and I spend a portion of my current work day writing ISRs in assembly.
You'd have to spread in the object, right?

<Component {...{animal}} />
Except that Trump's running mate is a hardcore social conservative... and he would likely be one of the most powerful/influential VPs in American history thanks to Trump's lack of interest in the details of governing.
Top-10-mazes-you-cant-solve-by-following-the-right-wall
> Other nations might tolerate presidents they feel they can deal with controlling the NSA apparatus in their nation, but almost certainly will take steps to prevent Donald Trump from having the same tools.

That's an intereating point: the argument was always "even if the current regime does not use data collection for evil, the next one moght."

This is why I secretly hope Trump wins, just so all the pro NSA democrats get their collective heads out of their asses.
Going to the public viewing with a bodybag sounds quite fun in German, not so much in English :)
"Designing with the Mind in Mind" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8564020-designing-with-t...) is an excellent book that approaches design from a fundamental psychology perspective.
Hopefully they appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court so it can become precedent for the whole country.
Marconi inspires Rice University design for 1-terabit wireless
Starting as a web developer? Here are 5 things I wish I knew
Yes, this is often-requested. We don't necessarily need to change JSX to add this to React though. With our current implementation it's a pain to support it but we're working on it.
To test that theory consider something unrelated like fine arts. Surely a ten million person city has more people with job title "artist" than a million person city, probably ten times as much. For the sake of argument say that when the western world measured populations in many tens of millions we got a legendary level playwright every millenia. Now that world culture has a hundred times the participants, we should have a legendary level playwright appear every decade or so. Just not seeing it. We have good playwrights, sure, but not legendary level every decade.

The upper end of mental scales, IQ or whatever, does not seem to follow the usual statistics for QA/QC of machine screw production or whatever simple industrial theory. On a purely numerical basis the world wide English Literature academic community should have maybe ten Shakespeare level professors active right now. If we do have those people, they don't have the job title "English literature professor". So where are they?

Part of the problem is "shoulders of giants". Perhaps I personally could have invented the calculus, but Newton beat me to it, so I'll never amount to much there. Under that theory unless we lose information as a culture, eventually academia will become perfectly sterile and actual advance will cease, although we can trust numerical metrics will increase forever into perpetuity as they always do unless confronted with reality, which in the case of that metric, is impossible.
The pain of running Rails on a Windows machine is one of motivations behind Microsoft creating Ubuntu on Windows. It was built to improve developer's experience. For the current state, that's probably a good way to structure a google search. My impression from what I've read is that it's reasonably good. But it's just what I've read.
LifeHack: Get a different newsfeed by ‘Liking’ the other candidate
On the contrary, I find my work/family life improves when I do nothing in my spare time ヅ
I don't know if NIH is applicable here, ActionScript 3 adopted the optional type syntax of what was supposed to be ES4 , not the other way around (I think).
If Scott isn't even endorsing Trump in public, why is he half of your examples of people who are facing consequences for it?

I suspect it has a lot more to do with people paying more attention to his shit-slinging blog. Just on Thursday he declared that he's relieved that "Everything that goes wrong with the country from this point forward is women’s fault." How many people are going to pay to hear that?
Same here, actually asked the waiter for the menu with the main dish. And same with "matinee", morning in french, but a daytime performance in english, which is typically taking place in the afternoon.
Having an incentive is a key, but I think the article is incorrect a bit on what exactly needs to be incentivized. Users are supposed to get some value from the decentralized web, it they do - they will be happy to share the cost of the infrastructure. No need for special incentives there.

The biggest problem, though, is having an incentive to promote the technology and push it to users. Both bittorrent and bitcoin have that incentive, that's why they are successful.
How+to+choose+suitable+vacation+packages+to+Caribbean
And giving the OS printing subsystem the content the user wants to print requires thousands lines of code in Firefox. Thousands of lines of code many people don't need, while many others do. Just like with any other feature. My parents don't need bookmarks or even tabs, so should we get rid of them in Firefox?

Btw. the screenshot tool of Windows can't capture a webpage properly, only the visible area.
An alcoholic might seem like the life of the party, but only if you leave before they transform into bad drunk.

Same goes for narcissism in leadership. Superficially it can seem effective until you hit an issue that makes the narcissist choose between their duties and their fragile ego. Then the life of the party throws up on your shoes.
If you want to track it for yourself, go for it, but you should be pissed if your employer wants to collect that information.
Likely autocorrect "fixed" wasei eigo for you. Wasabi eigo would likely be pretty spicy language...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo
No, which is also why I would not vote for him.

It's a tough complex issue and Trump just has populist drool. That never works. See: Chavez, Hugo. (Populism tends to work out the same regardless of whether it's left or right. This is also why I got cold feet about Bernie pretty early.)
The claim on the website is not meant to suggest that any two changes can be automatically merged. I will try to clarify that.

The world contains logical conflicts because physical constraints mean that processes can operate disconnected from each other. No database can wave that away.

Noms will automatically, efficiently, and correctly merge changes that don't logically conflict. Which is a pretty cool and unique property in a database.

If any conflicts are found, there is a callback to user software to perform a resolution.

More info in the documentation:

https://godoc.org/github.com/attic-labs/noms/go/merge
Is there a way to enable casting to Chromecast with Firefox? I haven't found any viable solutions as of yet - but if there were I would jump to Firefox instantly.
You posted something your friends disagreed with, they posted something you disagreed with in response. That's what freedom of speech is about, unless they're posting about how you should be jailed for criticizing Hillary.

Freedom of speech isn't freedom from people changing their opinion about you based on what you say.
Find Thiel's RNC speech on YouTube.
Css iPhone6
This is darn cool
Awesome. I have been experimenting with Facebook Messenger bots as well. Did you use any existing framework/tool to create the bot?

Also, I am building a service that allows bots to gather actionable feedback from the users. I am looking for some testers. Let me know if you would be interested in helping out. :)
Elm has a sound type system, no compromise and is purely expression based. Scala, not quite. You can still have runtime exceptions in "normal" situations, you can still have statements that aren't expressions, etc.

Scala gives you the options to do it right, but Elm enforces it. Heck, because of how the application type works, its pretty much impossible to make an Elm app that doesn't follow proper architecture. It just won't compile.
There are literally millions of voices out there proposing different ways to look at the world. It's physically impossible to listen to more than a small proportion of that number in your lifetime, so it's reasonable to have your first level filter be "is it easy to find examples of them saying things that are very obviously stupid".
> People are not going to maintain a decentralized network for copyright infringement.

They do. That's pretty much what bittorrent incentivizes.
Of all the 'maintainable' design pattern use I've seen over the past decade, I have never seen one prevent a continuously maintained code base being rewritten periodically. All that work is thrown away just as a simple to-spec implementation would have been.

It seems that just as in literature, in software engineering too, the essence of writing is rewriting...
Yes but realistically European charging stations would be a separate 415v - as this allows for much faster charging.
Sorry, please comment on the article. No 'me too!' comments. If you like the article, there is the up-vote button.
DHH asks him if Thiel has invested more in Trump than in any other YC startup - implicitly asking PG if he's happy to have such a partner. PG retorts by asking if DHH would fire an employee who would be supporting Trump. How is that not avoiding the question?
Is there any economical system you disagree with but don't consider dishonest?
Absolutely agree that Python has a weak showing, but Java always had an odd disconnect with the real world too. These languages survive in every field despite relatively odd and impractical infrastructure in most due to the availablity of fresh grads that have been taught in them.
Canadian, and it's similar to America's.
A New Way to Watch Animation Movies with Virtual Reality
While I know the word kindling in English (which is a second language for me), I don't even know it in my native language... So, I don't think that's a good test.

I'd say that someone is fluent when he starts thinking in the language and is able to have everyday conversations with other people at normal speed without the native interlocutors feeling that they need to simplify their speech.