skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its clearly what they want to use. And with em and rem, vw and vh, a change in font doesn't have to screw up the entire page.

What I used to see in some early 90s sites, and would love to see again, is customisations.

You use the system fonts, your own stylesheets, but have a button that loads and activates a WebFont, changes display colours and the like.

It also means that when JS is disabled, or unavailable for some other reason, you can gracefully fallback to a useable site.
Fantastic; thanks!
I do my best to make it safe(ish), though :) It only runs code samples that were posted before I made StackSort.
But, speaking from experience and lots of recent discussion recently here, Azure doesn't have performance or ease of use.

The very people using Azure are the people MS are going out to burn with all this focus on the new stuff, the people invested in their stack are getting heavily burnt by churn and the substandard performance of .net core. One of the great things about C#/ASP.Net is that it was improving constantly, they've basically put that on hold for 2-4 years while they try and support linux. And for what? ASP.Net/C# was basically a much faster, better tooled, statically typed Rails.

There was a discussion here of what all the HN startups were using the free azure credits for and the consensus was basically "anything non-critical, log parsing, azure is terrible". One of the GCE guys replied to one of my comments about consistent latency of 3-5ms between website instances and SQL instances on azure with basically "ours is much better, 100ns latency, we're now beta-ing SQL Server". With .net core MS have basically opened up the C# space to be eaten by AWS + GCE.

And the recent terrible re-write of Azure web interface hasn't got anyone's hopes up of improvements any time soon.
yeah but this is for more anonymous sex, not partners that actually talk to each other
I forgot about the Store apps and I remember when that came out, I thought "They got that mostly right". "Mostly Right" from the perspective that there is a standardized software install/repository for applications that also updates them. "Wrong" in that it's following the iOS App Store model rather than the Linux model, has no (real) ability to add third-party, software that hasn't undergone the "Microsoft Stamp of Approval"[0]. And I'll admit that my first thought was that it was the end of any dream that MSUs would be opened up to third-parties.

And the Office/Silverlight mix always drove me crazy - it's something you have to separately turn on (and depending on the OS version/kind, you have to click through an additional EULA to activate), so they already had the plumbing in place to accept non-OS update complete with an EULA page and "activation" of that feature. I know there are a lot of issues that have to be addressed to successfully implement this. There are those legal ones -- like the ones they encountered that caused them to differentiate "Windows Update" and "Microsoft Update", as well as adding another attack vector (now the drive-by installs only need to install a new repository and they can deploy malware through updates)[1], as well as probably tens or so that I am not clever enough to think of.

[0] Though a quick search for just about anything in the WinStore indicates that Microsoft's standards are really low -- the spam disguised as software in the is a big problem.

[1] There's ways around this, though, with existing features already built into Windows. Using a model similar to Intellicode with an internet connection required to verify trust and CRL (you need it to download the update, any way, after all), backed up by a bit more hands-on verification on Microsoft's side (along with a higher fee to pay for that) would cover third-party repositories and for "Internal Enterprise" MSUs -- built by IT staff and deployed via SCCM -- the requirements could be "accept only if it originates from the enterprise CA that the domain trusts" (not other, external, CAs).
I agree that 20% is too little, considering that works by the federal government are supposed to be in automatic public domain[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...
Disney Animation (Burbank) employees a fair number of tech peeps.
I have to admit, I like these laws. You can still brew mostly what you want, it is just that you are not allowed to call it beer. So essentially it is a clear definition what beer is.

There are similar rules, which define exactly what confitures, marmalades, cremes, jellies and fruit spreads are and how they differ. Same for drinks.

This is awesome for consumers: When you buy "fruit juice" it is actually 100% made out of fruit, not a sugary lemonade. When you buy "Wiener Schnitzel" it will actually be a Wiener Schnitzel (veal not pork). You do not have to look up the ingredients or ask the waiter.
> On the one hand, its rather interesting to see the US, champion of free and open markets

Critics and advocates of American economic policy like to label it as capitalist and / or free-market (like there's a difference), but it's really not.

For one major example, consider the incredible level of restriction on immigration.
What is wrong with mcrypt?
For me, that's a splash screen. Wait a few seconds and I have the opportunity to continue to the article by Ewan Spence. And here's a list of his articles:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/#b23e8d74ad9d

That lists articles from Nov 3, Nov 2, and Nov 1, among others. Are there other articles you're aware of that are missing?
That tells you something about what a clusterf*^k the Bay Area must be at this point if they think LA is attractive.
Not only from the coattails point of view but also from the fact that except for maybe TX [TI, AMD, etc], most of those don't work with "Silicon" anything. They should be calling themselves either Bit/Byte/Binary or simply software -Alley/Beach/Desert/Forest... etc.

To be fair, I concede SF was never Silicon anything either and has coopted and wrested the name from the Route 237/golden triangle.
> Have you ever been to the former USSR? I am not sure about what you mean by "forced russification"

I have. Yes they did forced Russification.
Almost 3 years ago Visual Studio demo-ed a feature that would copy-paste code from StackOverflow, while automatically renaming the variables to fit your code :

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2014/02/17/int...

The tool is available here:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9...
Somewhat unrelated, but I am just curious. For those who use etcd (and this is coming from a place of ignorance), does the key layout (which the keys are currently stored, how they are structured) get out of hand? Meaning, does it get to a place where a dev working with etcd might not have an idea about what in etcd at any given time? Or do teams force some kind of policy (in documentation or code) that everyone must respect?

I am asking because I was in situation where I was introduced to other key-value stores, and because the team working with them is big and no process was followed to group all keys in one place, it was hard to know "what is in the store" at any moment, short of exhausting all the entry points in the code.
"There is evidence that testosterone levels are higher in individuals with aggressive behavior, such as prisoners who have committed violent crimes."[1]

There are a lot of confounding variables when you're looking at a prison population.

I'm still not sure if you're serious with your comment about decreasing women's rights or if this is possibly the greatest troll comment in history.
Thank you! I didn't have the words to express it but that is it precisely. It is infantalizing in a way that makes ball pits and arcades in startup culture seem tame
I've never read a more ignorant post in my life.
3 d printers etc will be a big industry but that is not what i am referring to. I am thinking more about candle makers, Leather garment makers, perfume makers, bitter makers etc. Small scale manufactures can now sell directly to customers via the internet which has leveled the playing filed against big brands but there is a lot of complexity in the back end that needs to be automated
If there's one thing that deserves a federal massive budget, it's this. If laws and regulations can be understood easily by software, we would remove so many problems the government creates. Complexity would be easier to manage, but also transparency would inherently breed simplicity.
Those open source projects are simply not production quality. They are buggy and hard to setup. No offense but some of them are just downright ugly. :-) Our solution is hosted and you can get your community setup in seconds. No server, no IT, no maintenance. It just works and it is absolutely free. Give it a try and you will see how easy it is to get your own Q&A board that is robust and beautiful.
We give away the laws we write. In fact, the government provides an awful lot of services. If the taxpayer paid for it, the taxpayer should certainly be able to own it. I've never personally found it difficult to explain that to non-technical people.
There is a lot of internal resistance to open sourcing code. Lots of people believe that their code is their secret sauce - and why would you have highly paid consultants create code just so the next department can take it?

There's also security concerns to take into account - which I know someone will say is a good thing, because of transparency and so forth. But just realize that it's not a trivial amount of work to clean up a code-base and display it to the public all of the time.

And if the policy were open-source by default, the unspoken policy for project managers would be "automatically submitting a request to be closed source"

It's not perfect, but I know that 20% is a lot, and I think anyone who's worked in the sector would agree.
Ask HN: Where do you buy your laptop replacement battery from?
It seems that it is near impossible to tell if aftermarket ones are descent quality, and that ebay and amazon are filled with loads of fakes/knockoffs claiming to be OEM.
LA and neighbors are somehow becoming the cheap west coast urban area. Seattle is now on par with LA, and Portland is quickly on track to overtake Seattle...
I'm a cheap bastard, so I just buy Chinese liquid. 50ml for 11 bucks.

If you're buying domestic juice you pay a premium for nothing special, from what I can tell. Also, the chances of it being made in a proper factory are basically nil. It's often someone else's DIY garage juice at a 10000% markup.
I have a lack of faith in the pharmaceutical industry if this is their best attempt at male birth control. Those side effects aren't from testosterone, they're from massive hormone fluctuations, which with 1000mg of testosterone every 8 weeks your gonna get. There's no ester that will increase the half-life by that much, most people get prescribed testosterone cypionate, which is considered a long ester, and it's half-life is only 8 days.

The 1000mg every 8 weeks is pretty much for marketing and sales, because having to get an injection every 2 months is already a turn off for their consumer base let alone get an injection more frequent than that.
I'd call it a new TYPE of party altogether one built on top of technology... even the Technology party would be a cool name.
is this page 508 compliant? I look to .gov to show some examples of accessibility
I believe pcwalton is saying that it is sad that "you can actually use the GPU" is a selling point in the market for embedded devices that have a GPU, not that having a GPU shouldn't be a selling point. Many other boards come with processors with integrated GPUs but they're unusable because a driver is unavailable or some IP is under lockdown by an upstream vendor.
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The amount of work is kind of moot. If it's tax dollars funding its development don't you think it should all be open sourced?
Which features of postgres which aren't present in MySQL would you not want to live without?

Here's a few:

1. Check constraints.

2. INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators.

3. Common table expressions.

4. Sort-merge join.

5. Serializable snapshot isolation.
Off topic, but the first paragraph mentioned using 2G mobile internet in Taiwan... why!? 4G is cheap and plentiful there.

https://guidetotaipei.com/article/cell-phones-and-sim-cards

($100 TW = $3.18 US)
Seconding a Yi. Especially with the newer firmwares. (It'll do 2k video capture that upscale reasonably to 4k supposedly, but I use 1080p).

The app is a bit clunky, but the camera is spectacular value compared to the GoPros near the price bracket.
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It's bad enough that HuffPost can't spell "impostor" correctly, but Forbes? Nine times?!
Rush hour on the bay bridge is hell on earth.
No they don't. From http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/edit

> We believe in the power of community editing. That means once you've generated enough reputation, we trust you to edit anything in the system without it going through peer review. Not just your posts—anyone's posts!
The economic value of surrounding businesses is increased because customers, employees, and suppliers are all able to be there. They have a place to park.

Two examples: The last time I was in San Francisco, I wanted to stop and eat. I drove around in ever-widening circles seeking a place to park, then gave up and drove away. That business lost out. On another day, across the bay in Freemont I think, I stopped at a place that had free parking right outside the door. They got my business.
It's a low-level crypto library that leaves avoidance of virtually all the exploitable crypto mistakes as an exercise for the programmer.
You're the one who's ignorant. All your letter shows is that you didn't look at primary sources to form an opinion on Trump. Rather, you settled back into the naïve "he's racist and hates everyone" tactic.
Be a little more careful than that. Unless you're doing TLS or PGP, you essentially want to stick to NaCL/libsodium, and nothing else.
I feel that Jill's not that intelligent she's lacking in a lot of areas. Bernie is just brilliant all around. I figured I'll at least pick someone that I can feel confident about supporting, in the end I kind of hope Trump gets it for no other reason than to show the DNC they picked the wrong duck.

I actually led the charge on my site PivotAmerica.com to encourage people to go green/vote for Jill, but I don't really think it's possible to break up the two party monopolies anytime soon, and her opinions on vaccines, and nuclear energy are disconcerting.

A nuclear power plant is NOT the same thing as a weapon of mass destruction. And you can't just print money like she wants to do for the education plan - Bernie's plan of raising taxes on speculation makes way more sense. But I did throw my vote to down-candidate dems. But Hillary ran the shadiest campaign I've ever seen, and is one of the most corrupt people in the world. I'd say she's worst than Bush / Cheney imho, or at least not far removed in policy. (THey both supported the Iraq war after all).
It's almost always a factor in such trials, AFAIK. Since it's live people that have their own lives and bodies, it could be that it happened for unrelated reasons. However, there are standards of risk and I guess "possibly makes males permanently infertile" was not an acceptable risk.
You make a great point. Can anyone explain why software is exempt from this?
Microsoft is assuredly fixing this into overtime. Microsoft assuredly knew this was in use in the wild. They're already working beyond full speed, and Microsoft has a history of sharing mitigations with third party security vendors.

And they still can't fix it in 7 days? Well, then they have to shape up or be replaced by a competitor who can. It's harsh, but customers benefit.
Same here. Audio queues only. No one wants to wait for you to get your camera in the right mode or pair... Not to mention battery life of the remote and the camera. I have never gotten the remote to work on an actual trip. Only while testing at home.
The thread if the thread actually improves on the story (especially when it's HN shitting on how bad a story is, which usually results on stories getting flagged off the front page), I'll link to it.

Else, just the story.
But isn't everything made by the government in the public domain?
I hope trump wins because he'll be out in 2020 and maybe we get a better Pres. sooner than later. But he won't get any of his promises passed, they won't even make it to the congress floor. He'll be a lame duck president, and nothing more. I don't even see him wanting to run for re-election, as I feel this is a stunt to get more publicity for his reality TV empire.
The Per-Core licensing cost for SQL Server and now Windows too is really a pain, and getting worse with more and more cores showing up in boxes.

We've got some servers that would be happy to putt along on 2-4 cores, but we're struggling to find anything less than 12 cores with our managed hosting provider - so we have to pay for the extra cores, even though we don't want to use them.

"Consolidate!" - sure, but we can only do that so much. Some stuff we have to deploy regionally for latency reasons, other stuff can't share hardware for PCI compliance reasons.
We don't want to have production environments sharing with dev.
Leaked Xinjiang Report Describes Circumvention Tools as ‘Terrorist Software’
Horrible name - the Federal Government of the United States is not "the People".
I was curious about that too...

Are there any rural or wilderness areas where the quality would downgrade, maybe?
Researchers Matched Images on Tattoo Websites to a German Police Database
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I've never really written much software or extension type things... I guess I could take a look at the code and compare it with DockBlockr on Sublime. I'm more of a web app guy.
Firewall them -- on the device or router. It's what all the cool kids are doing these days.
Bought an XPS 15 the other day in response to the Apple announcement. Looks like I'm not the only one!
Might it be at least somewhat lower level than that? I'm thinking along "selfish gene" lines. You are more likely to share genes with people that look like you than with people that look nothing like you, and so favoring those who look like you should help copies of your genes to make it into the next generation. A genetic predisposition against people who look too different could be selected for.
New projects with new companies is easy. The problem is open source isn't a requirement for old projects, retroactively adding it is hard.

The companies hired would need to be new companies to contacting, with higher costs. Don't forget, government contracts are a lowest bidder war. Going full open source immediately might expose code that built using proprietary technology from a different division of a company. Therefore open source from scratch will have a high startup cost.

The existing projects can be small, open source, but more importantly these projects begin to build a foundation others can build on. The library of code created to support the framework of these projects will eventually be used as the basis for larger projects.

Wrapping back to the 80% this allows the existing, proprietary code reuse. While new, it's useless without its is proprietary components. This code, if released with proprietary components (and that's a big if since the binary would then be openly distributed) may not qualify as open source. One step further, public free binaries can be reverse engineered (the legality of which isn't something I'm well versed in). Which may not be in a companies current best long-term interest.

Tldr; The largest effort to being 100% open source is the library of code built on must also be open source or commonly distributed. Starting at 0 the current goal is 20%.

Provide costs don't rise too much expect 30% within 2 to 3 years (I'm being optimistic) or the next major government project timeline.
That sounds like the Zionist Diaries. Or maybe it's that long missing one from Hitler himself?
well generally I think however long the first 80% takes, the last 20% will take 1-2 times that.. but cool that they're working on an android version, I'm patient and can wait. Loving brain.fm it actually works to keep me focused.
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How does that even work? How is there a market for that? How did they convince investors there is a market for that? How much CAN they grow?

It's 20x as expensive as the highest cost item any tea stack should have, and that'd be the Cuisinart CPK-17 Perfect Temp Kettle at $67.71 on Amazon right now. And that is one fancy kettle.
Kubeadm makes it super easy too. The k8s team has made awesome progress recently in regards to cluster turnup
I started writing an answer, but this blog is more comprehensive than anything I could put together:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/05/if-you-re-typing-word-mcr...

Problem #2 is something I've hit in multiple real-world codebases.
Sad this is the proprietary Mali driver and not the open source Lima driver:

https://github.com/limadriver-ng/lima/
I believe that is the pun the name "MicroG"is meant to imply.
Just for an example, HNR Block and other companies built on doing your taxes for you lobby the government to prevent simplification of the tax code, because they profit off its complexity.

The same applies to almost all law. The complexity does not exist without a reason - there is almost always some entity actively funding the continued obfuscation of law for profit.

So don't expect government to ever actively get simpler, because that would only benefit the outsiders rather than incumbents in the industries such laws affect, and those outsiders never have the capital to compete in lobbying and bribery.
If the recommended alternative is for everyone to use the handful of known system fonts, we very quickly arrive at everyone loading the same fonts anyway. Increasing that pool of options by having some additional choices in a cache would be nice -- especially for those of us on less popular OS's. And having to calculate a font subset per page and transmitting it along with the content doesn't sound like a winning tactic.
Age, gender, disability, and political outlook all affect your perception of safety. This in turn determines if "freeing your mind to read, doze, whatever" is possible, or if instead you keep a very firm grip on your belongings while eyeing every other passenger with suspicion. Lots of people simply don't feel safe in crowds or without a door they can lock.
Look at the quality of some of the content; extremely poor, but the cost does not reflect. The word scam may be too harsh, but I can't tell what it may be like when you pay for something and feel ripped off. Most of such content I have noticed, are generally referred through reddit via free coupons. But that does not negate the fact that they are being sold.
Dude he's a billionaire, of course he invests huge amounts of money in things.

To suggest the US wants Saudi investment in its stock market that has the sole impact of pushing up one cable company's stock price is absurd and obtuse.
I will keep that in mind, thanks!
> One volunteer did not recover within 4 years since his last injections.

That's a really STEEP Price to Pay for an "experiment". Anyone know how much the participants were compensated for taking part in the study? No amount of money would make me do something like this. But that's just me.