skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think I'm out of touch. Anyone young enough to have the internet, Reddit, and modern social media is very unlikely to be socially conservative over the medium term.

I think the Internet will take us to a new age that looks strangely like a much older one.

New social conservatism on the Internet does not look like old social conservatism because it is out of living memory. It is a return to what I could only describe as aspirational Victorian Era with updates from the Diamond Age. It pines for a new Golden Age. Exploration and feats of strength. Great Men and Women. Charity for the weak. Gifts for the strong. Perhaps people can earn points to elevate themselves in the class system, which you can think of as an immersive MMORPG with AR but with real life consequences and rewards. There would be tea, iron railings, umbrellas, crumpets and art galleries with beautiful art once more. All UPVC would be replaced with timber.

The neoreactionaries would produce a government and society focused on artificial intelligence, advanced genetic engineering, nuclear power. The history books would be written to explain to schoolchildren that an evil cabal of religious marxists attempted to wrest control of the West. You may have formerly known these people as 'Social Democrats' (shudder). The entire history of the 20th century would be reframed in Spenglerian terms. A typical school exercise might read "Compare and contrast the 3 Demotic Terrors: Democracy, Fascism and Communism" and it should be understood that democracy and religion would be considered socially inappropriate since they were the reason the Third World War began. You can believe in them, but proper people don't. We shall also have an excellent array of hats to choose from, far from the dismal hatless tyranny we reside in today.

Since this world knows a vast amount about people's preferences, voting is not required. Your interests are duly noted and factored into a personalization of your local government's offerings. You are of course free to leave to the next Seastead or Landstead (formed by Climate Change and Demotic Warfare!), since each group has different interpretations we take the ability to opt out seriously.

Would this be a dystopia? Or a radical improvement on our age?
I'm pretty sure she is jumping from the railing on the porch of the house and will land well onto the trampoline.
First, a shameless plug for an alternative implementation: https://github.com/BBC/chaos-lambda

Seems unfortunate that it requires the coupling with spinnaker - although i can see how it helps with the cluster definition features.

Edit: I'll add that we've been using the original chaos monkey and chaos lambda extensively in production for some time with very few problems.
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Is the second one really that interesting? I have a hard time distinguishing, and I'm a professional in this industry and have been screwing with computers for 30 years. The average Jane or Joe has no chance.

That's the whole point of trademark law: the average person can't reasonably detect whether a product is genuine or a ripoff based on its physical properties, so we make it illegal to pretend.
To all countries involved in this hypothetical scenario (or others like it), I have the following to say: Sod off and fight your own battles.
Don' You Go Rounin' Roun To Re Ro:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/british-movie/n...
If those countries had the gall to launch a nuke, they would have to be willing to live with the consequences when their compromised system levels their missile silo or other installation.

Edit: That is to say, the NSA might have probably compromised this ICBM and it will detonate before moving an inch.
Yup this sucks compared to other credit cards, and is the equivalent of calling and getting a new card number every few months which is free.
I regurarly copy paste URLs into Pocket to be able to read the content, not even for storing it long term. Pocket became the ultimate readability vendor for me over the last year, for those reasons the author listed in his post and for some other reasons (like advertising for example) too.
Visa credit.
LinkedIn re-endorses Endorsements with relevance and targeting features
That only works if you can reliably detect them.
Why don't UK government leave that responsibility to the parents which are to decide what their children are allowed to watch or not. In the old Soviet the communists very much wanted government to replace both parents and God - seems like that idea has gotten new fuel in the UK.
How does that apply to typography?
Yes. Dumb mistake.
I started programming back in the day when every programmer wrote his own String class :).

Standard library was, for one reason or another, unpopular back then. Or maybe because of the C Windows API and later MFC, which came with its own CString class...
Recording Keystroke Sounds Over Skype to Steal Passwords
Don't worry about it. You seem to be doing it right. The author just used #333333 as an example because people tend to just think "I can't use pure black" rather than still being conscious of their contrast. You seem to give thought towards it and pick shades that still retain readable contrast.
Czech Republic, is supposedly a base of Russia espionage for European Union[1]. There are very close connections between our high-profile politics to people around Putin.[2] My guess is that he will be returned to Russia.

I recommend to read the profile published by Guardian last year on Czech president Milos Zeman.[3]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepubl...

[2] http://praguemonitor.com/2016/08/10/zeman-attend-conference-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/milos-...
A Quick Benchmark of Hashtable Implementations in R
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> users might be using f.lux, twilight or similar which
> will move the threshold of illegibility nearer.

Not with the author's example at least - I just tried it with f.lux to be sure, and the white background turns red (viewing it in the middle of the day I can barely believe it looks natural at night!) leaving the grey pretty much unchanged.

I'd say it's an improvement, if anything.
Ask HN: Why can't we have universal postal codes?
We have a standard for internet addresses, IPs, so why not the same for postal codes. I really dealing with this on forms especially when filling out credit card information.
>be exposed to imagery that really is not going to help them be well-adjusted in life

How can you judge what will 'well-adjust' someone? What does well adjusted even mean and how could viewing an image prevent someone from becoming it?
Florida has an important vote on the solar power ownership
not all jobs are tech jobs.
Once again, in the Supreme Court case, the plaintiffs could not find a single case of voter disenfranchisement due to the ID law.

You're hypotheticals are just that: hypothetical.
What do you use for high availability with Docker?
Watch movies, play games, or even karaoke. Together
Conventional uses was all I was speaking to. Clarification of that fact omitted for brevity.
Hi, the date-fns creator here. We don't have extended time zone support (IANA) and have much fewer translations. But all of that is in progress. Regarding date-manipulations date-fns combines all of the Moment functions and even more (that we found in other libraries; ~150 in total). Check it out: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns
On the other end of the spectrum you have people with 10 year old LCDs or crappy business displays that look similarly bad. On these displays even decent contrast is difficult to read.

> Why can’t we specify colors independent of the monitors actual contrast ratio, too?

I wonder if the CSS4 color-gamut media query work will be a good enough proxy for this? E.g.

body { color: #fff; }

@media (color-gamut: p3) {
body { color: #eee; }
}

Essentially the assumption is that a high gamut display will also be high contrast. I wonder how bad that assumption is going to be.

More details about color from webkit, https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/
"Apparent" is an appropriate enough qualifier -- given the video evidence we have so far.
I think this depends on the type of person. When you're kind to some people even though they're mean, they don't improve. With others I've seen them be nicer to me, but I felt our value were really different so although they wanted to be friends with me, I didn't want to be friends with them.But I may have to work on refining how nice I am and to what sort of people etc.
>The article is massively oversimplifying, but it's not wrong. The mid 1900s saw southern, rural blacks move into cities and urban whites move into suburbs. You could write a book about the relationship between those two trends (and I'm sure many have) and I don't doubt that it played a part in corporations resettling as well, whether they had race in mind or not.

The amusing thing is that in my tech suburb, we have a significantly higher population of non-whites because of the tech industry (employing many Asians). Moving a tech company to the suburbs actually increases their diversity.
Instagram and Snapchat are distorting your view of entrepreneurship
That's what elections are, actually -- "courts of public opinion".
To be fair, due to Russian non-extradition rules this is generally how Russian hackers are arrested. Whether they are state sponsored or general black hats (e.g carders) the US authorities wait for then to take a trip into the EU or some other friendly (to the US) location and then arrest them. The guy who sent Brian Krebs heroin was a Russian hacker arrested in Italy and many other shave been arrested on their holidays to EU states.
Let's say for simplicity's sake that _every_ bug needs exactly five years until it is found. This means that you will see zero bugs introduced in the last five years -- they haven't been found yet!
The vast growth of the programmer population as a reason for why there aren't as many older programmers is a very compelling reason. I'm surprised I haven't seen it before.
Right now I'm in Omaha but came here from Colorado, for the current job.
I my city in we had a little Robert Moses in the parks and rec department who designed amazing, unique and challenging playgrounds in every new neighbourhood that went up in the late 70s and early 80s during a time of rapid growth for the city. From 6-12 I lived in my local playground during the summers, it was a full time job, I wanted to be a stuntman when grew up.

Those playgrounds have since all been replaced by the common kit playgrounds that are so crippled by draconian safety regulations that they aren't any fun at all for any developmentally normal kid over the age of 6.

But weirdly, next to where my old playground used to be, they've put in a fancy new skatepark. Among other concrete forms it features an 11 foot high quarterpipe kids are encouraged to drop in on while standing on a little board with wheels under it. The ambulance pays a visit every other day during the summers. Thank heaven for universal health care.

Nature finds a way, sometimes.
curl http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-0... > depressedwallace.pdf

pdftotext depressedwallace.pdf > depressedwallace.txt
In terms of layout, font choice, etc yeah I agree it's an improvement, but the shades could be given a bump in darkness without resorting to full black and have a general improvement.
Do you have something to back up that bit about residential power being below cost? I was unaware of this and can't find anything about it.

I know that there are times when that's the case, because I pay a flat rate for electricity even though production costs spike heavily during periods of high demand. But on average, I thought it covered costs. Especially since I'm still paying that flat rate in the middle of the night when production costs are far lower.

If you don't like calling the ability to pollute a "subsidy" then fine, but I don't see how it's irrelevant. Part of the reason driving a gas car looks so cheap is because you're allowed to impose a significant chunk of the costs on other people.
Not sure if I missed it, but I dont understand this:

The founders of the company couldn't use their cards because of Target breach. And they started Final based on that experience.

How is Final solving this problem for breaches involving in store transactions like that of Target? imo, the Final card would still need to be deactivated right?

If I understood their value proposition correctly, Final has the best UX for virtual card numbers unlike those provided by BoA and Citi, where the UX to generate and use them sucks, and to be used for online transactions.

w.r.t in store transactions, it continues to be the same. (correct me if I'm wrong)
I started using noscript years ago for just that reason.
Thank you for kind words!
Hi -

There are probably a few key-words you need to be aware of: Mike Cohn's testing pyramid, agile testing, BDD (Behaviour Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development).

Dave Haeffner has a good ten-step program on being effective with Selenium. Take a look at this recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf_qsXK6YdM
I hate the "Fulfilled by Amazon" or rather the lack of it. If I wanted to pay extra shipping I could just buy it from some other webshop. And don't even get me started on why are all the things that can't be delivered to my country among the results
Twitter Goes Virtual Reality: Hires Team, Preps Periscope 360 Video
> Can secure boot be disabled on ARM?

The property whether it can be disabled depends on the concrete UEFI implementation.
Most designers are frankly awful at typography. I would argue most design elements on a page can be simply removed if they properly used hierarchy of text to call out important areas for example.
They find companies that value their experience and don't just hire those who already know how to use all the shiny things. They do independent consulting after spending years building their reputation as someone who delivered for past co-workers and managers. They go to mature mid-market or large companies where those in management and hiring are perhaps a few years older as well. Sometimes they need to retool

Anyone thrust into the job market for the first time in several years (say 10+) might find it somewhat unrecognizable. Job search has changed significantly in the ~20 years I've been in recruiting.

I've developed a bit of a niche business in helping older programmers (I'm 44) "rehabilitate" themselves and prepare to enter a job search (writing/reviewing resumes, consult on job search strategy, etc.). It's mostly people who don't want to go into management and still want to stay in the code.

I can only think of a few people that left the industry entirely, out of thousands (I also ran a Java Users Group for 15 years, which has a large contingent of older programmers).
Why should end users care about hacked cards? Sure its painful to swap out all your cards but its only inconvenience, no real money lost. Its the issuers that lose money.

So if you are selling a card to the end users, individual cards for each transaction (which others do already) cannot be your first point. Its not convenient at all to go through an app to generate a new number every time. Sure there will be people using it but not sure it sells with the bulk of the users.
Designers are ruining software in general. iTunes, the iOS music app, and Google Maps are just a few pieces of software that started out relatively usable (if not exactly stable in the case of iTunes), and have been iterated and stylized to the point where I routinely get enraged by them.

At least Google Maps has walked back that terrible accordion thing that literally drove me crazy.

I basically think design is like a cancer on the web anymore. You know what works? Craiglist, that's what works. Reddit works. Hacker News works. The old, pre-design-goober Google Apps interface worked.

I seriously want to punch a hipster every time I have to use an app that used to work and has now been designed to death.
Zoloft helps me live a normalish life. I'm not on a high dose and don't experience any emotional numbing. Every year or so I try dropping the dose or quitting and have a massive relapse. It seems to be a genetic issue in my maternal line.

These type of articles follow a couple of archetypes:

1. I beat depression by (insert value-signaling method here). These people are usually in denial and/or in the initial positive rush of a life change. The latter produces transient changes that are far outlasted by internet posts.

2. SSRI's don't work and have horrible side-effects. The side-effects trash-talk causes a nocebo effect. Sexual or sleep related side effects are produced in the general population by gusts of wind, and now you read mainstream papers talking about them. The meds work as well as therapy for far less money and opportunity cost. Poor and even middle income people don't have therapy as an option for mental illness. Check out: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...
The Opposite of the Open Office
I think this is another case of poor discover-ability. If you "discover" and understand how the bang syntax works, you can easily use DDG for your 90% of searches and only dispatch to Google when you need to. (e.g. "!gi dogs").

DuckDuckGo is great, but unlike Google which has immense brand momentum and recognition, it lacks the marketing to drive users to the service.
Your wikipedia link doesn't cover the UN resolution, nor does the citation, which appears to be ICRC's commentary of the treaty. The article you linked does assert it, but without any significant support aside from the ICRC's commentary.

I'm glad I could help.
The term "human parity" refers to a comparison of the error

The term 'human parity' refers to adding up all the bits in a human and taking the residue to a convenient modulus to detect human error.
The fad of writing countless unit tests for every function, checking them in, and running them feverishly all the time, is what is new.

Programmers have tested individual low-level functions before using them to build higher level functions, since the dawn of programming.

Libraries with regression test suites existed long before TDD.
I work in a place where I'm in the low end of the age spectrum at 30. The company is in the Financial industry and was founded in the 70s. It has a long history of using technology so many engineers started 10-20+ years ago. The company offers great benefits and salary are above average which is what I think many of the engineers here optimized for when coming to work here. That's also what I felt led a lot of the engineers I worked with in my previous job for one of the big tech companies to leave after 5 years or so. Most of them ended up taking jobs with companies which seemed to offer better work life balance and benefits.

A lot of them also ended up in management. Some because it was the only path available for advancement. Many orgs just don't have (or make) space for distinguished engineers and the career path for SE ends at the senior level to which most can attend in less then 5-10 years. After that there is nowhere to go for them but management. Another issue is the demand for distinguished engineers is lower since you need less of them then junior and senior devs so it's a limited pool of jobs.
You see the irony in this, right? All the parents that don’t let their kids off the leash even for a second use the same reasoning. “It not OK to play the odds if all it takes is one kidnapping to take my kid away for ever”

I’d say that OP’s point is the odds are so low, that it is OK to play them.
There was an awful lot of black on dark blue, yellow on red, etc. That's just as unreadable as grey on grey.
Vault is an awesome tool, but I'm not sure if it lets an "outsider" submit information in an easy way.

Some sort of integration with vault looks like a nice idea.
My point is that if they are advertising rock solid distributed data, I don't think they have achieved that without putting it through some more paces.

I agree, actual numbers are great.

We also agree, jespen is great.

But I am saying, another path, to a similar level of confidence jespen provides, is some real critical stress testing.

Sure, it will be out of the scope of what most people need, but it will give them the confidence to say "rock solid distributed data".
Remaking the Y Combinator
Reminds me that Opera's Mini browser (a proxy browser that originated on J2ME enabled featurephones) have a single column option. This will attempt to rearrange a page so that everything is a single column that fits the width of the device screen.
Every time I read "Infinite Jest", i wonder how much of it is basically autobiographical with a thin veneer of difference and a heap of really, really tight prose.

The recursive spiral of recursion is really hard to avoid with DFW to the point you think it is the point, which, of course, is itself recursive.
into the soylent of course!
Get out and vote
Every time this is in the news I get a feeling of awe for operations teams having confidence enough to deploy this. I've usually been in small teams with the feature mill factor turned up way too high.
Discussing a person is what follows after you're shown to be wrong. :-)

Never mind. I have stopped discussing with people that dismiss Wikipedia pages with good sources -- when they have neither references nor understanding of a subject.
MongoDB’s JavaScript Fuzzer: Creating Chaos
When SIRI reminds you to go grab that p-ssy, it's finally human enough to run for president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8mo8oQ9J0
Why do you want them to do something besides "just hanging out?" What is wrong with just hanging out?
The podcast Surprisingly Awesome had an episode not too long ago about postal systems and what it was like to try and establish a new one. [1]

As part of the podcast they mentioned a system called What3Words which assigns a unique combination of three words to every ~10x10ft space on the planet as a 'universal' postal code. The system sounded rather impractical, the only country that was supposedly using it (Mongolia) didn't have any citizens who actually seemed to use it.

[1] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/21-postal-addresses/

[2] http://what3words.com
100% agree. The Wirecutter rocks.
But the shipping is so great...
Maybe because when the host resolution is built into the app it needs to be externally provisioned less it becomes out of date as services come and go. So if you're going to need some centralized mechanism to provision apps, why deal with that overhead and just bake it into DNS directly?
The lag isn't the hurdle it's making the robotics on the satellite to run the experiment. The closest analog is probably the robot that's used to service the JET reactor at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy [0]. With a station for some types of failures with experiments an astronaut can work around or heavily reconfigure the equipment to still get good data. Without a person up there every experiment launch would have to either just accept failures and write off the whole thing or include whatever system we're talking about that would replace the repair and reconfigure ability of people. Instead the various governments front the cost of having a person in space and it's way easier and cheaper for companies to package and run their experiments. It's a subsidy that opens up the ability to do microG science more easily.

Also there's no good alternative way to study the long term microG effects on humans other than a station since you need both space for people to live for up to a year and space for the various experiments on how to combat the deterioration that happens. Having a station up there also teaches us how to work and repair things in space and how things break when they've been running for 15+ years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrtGp8hv-0Y