skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla bascially absconded from the implementation of any video-related web standard whatsoever. After years of wasting everyone's time they finally caved and shipped Cisco's h264 implementation. Google's Widevine (hilariously marketed as a 'video optimizer') DRM platform is also not-quite-built-in-but-just-a-click-away.

This has the result of suppressing the development of free implementations and further clenches Intel's x86 dominance, but Mozilla has stated they do not care. All their hundreds of millions of dollars and their thousand-plus employees are busy with other, more important things.
Couple of reasons: it's new, it's shiny, it holds the promise of doing super awesome stuff, it's really hard to get right and if you've explored the language enough, it's one more facet to explore.
The Future of Farming Is Not Farming
What mentoring tech entrepreneurs in the occupied Gaza Strip taught me
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but... Same for me, facebook only has a spamgourmet address for me, and that address is set to only forward email from the facebook domain. Anyone else emailing it is just sending bits into the ineffable aether.
"Reprinted as NOT permitted by U.S. Department of the Army, but by we the citizenry who paid for it"

Ah, preppers.
This does not sound like the Apple I know about.

I mean, these guys forced every app to be able to handle IPV6-only network operations last year. And this was after making all apps switch to 64 bits a bit earlier. Why did they back up off SSL?

I feel like this is kind of a turning point, where Apple, instead of driving the market with innovative APIs and having a vision, now tries to compromise and removes innovative features to keep its immense app market happy, and oblige for it.

What a let down, especially after a very nice 2016 year, where they stood against the FBI and published their open letter about privacy of their customers.
I use nearly the full set of semantic elements, but I think they're a pretty stupid idea in general. They only properly make sense when the actual semantics of your content happens to align with what the authors of the specification had in mind.

For the high-level layout elements it's not so bad, but the <i> element being defined as indicating things such as "taxonomic designation, technical terms, foreign idioms, transliterations, thoughts, ship names, or dream sequences" renders it basically pointless. The HTML spec encourages you to use a class attribute to identify why <i> is being used, but then you might as well use <span>.

Most browsers - maybe all modern browsers - actually accept made-up elements and let you apply CSS to them. There's no good reason - other than compatibility - why authors shouldn't create ad-hoc elements - e.g. <dream> or <tabs> - that match up with the true semantics of the content.
Sad to see again another propaganda nuclear article at HN. I remember the top article after the Fukushima disaster at HN was an astroturfing blog post on why Fukushima is no big deal (with a lot of misinformation).

Here we are again ...

Even if we take out the major catastrophy scenarios there's still the waste problem to deal with (and no it's not solved with the newest tech).

And of course, I will get downvotes for that ;)
Even jobs in the tech sector are likely under threat. Remember that guy a few weeks ago showing an AI platform be built to design logos for customers? We're not far from having AI build our web pages, and then simple web apps, and then probably native apps, and before long, finding and patching bugs in software, and eventually writing the software itself
Dataplicity – Remotely Control Your Raspberry Pi
It is unnecessarily resource hungry.
The Complete Fiction -Lovecraft, H.P.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -Dillard, Annie

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick -Mandelbrot, Benoît B.

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories -Blackwood, Algernon

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience -Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

Death in Venice -Mann, Thomas

Whites -Rush, Norman

The Room -Selby Jr., Hubert

Book of Numbers -Cohen, Joshua

Maggot: Poems -Muldoon, Paul

The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia -Vucinich, Wayne S.

The Mezzanine -Baker, Nicholson

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender -Ugrešić, Dubravka

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches -Schrödinger, Erwin

Dictionary of the Khazars -Pavić, Milorad

Honored Guest -Williams, Joy

Martyrs and Miracles -Trickey-Bapty, Carolyn

Noa Noa -Gauguin, Paul

Their Eyes Were Watching God -Hurston, Zora Neale

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party -Stewart, George R.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale -Melville, Herman

Eileen -Moshfegh, Ottessa

Haute Surveillance -Göransson, Johannes

Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development -Matthews, W.H.

A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare -Harris, Robert

Our Lady of the Flowers -Genet, Jean

*The House of the Dead -Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Current:
Black Swan, Nassim Taleb
I create a small tool organize the stars.https://github.com/maguowei/starred
From a few weeks ago on HN, I watched this video[1] that made me much more optimistic about fusion. The bottom line is that the ITAR direction is misguided since superconducting technology has come so far in recent years.

The video is worth the watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
A few critical mistakes here.

First, you have to distinguish between operating and non-operating assets. The $4B you cite is the book value, which most certainly includes operating assets.

If you are adding operating assets to your valuation, then you are basically assuming that you are selling these and not using them to generate revenue. You can only do one or the other.

You can add cash (non-operating asset) to your DCF, but you (may) have to remove debt also, depending on what kind of cash-flow you are using.

The bigger issue is that you cannot use revenue for a discounted cash-flow. Twitter has significantly negative free cash flows (unless you don't count stock based compensation, a huge number), so you have to start making some serious assumptions about cost-cutting to get it positive to get a positive enterprise value.

Even assuming they can swing it around to positive $100M FCF (after reinvestment needs), that's $1B (using your 10% discount), add in $2B (we'll assume that the $100M figure includes interest payments, so we will not subtract debt), that only gives $3B, and that's with hefty assumptions of cutting costs.
We're Out of Our Last Data Center
Does writing Good code take time or I am just slow?
I am a beginner, I've been programming for last one and a half year I can pretty much make my code what I want it to. I have not worked with any other programmer yet, So If I have to I do the frontend designing to the processing code to the server maintenance. So I was writing the processing code a while ago, It will be around 700-800lines long splitted files(with comments). It takes me quite a white (hours) thinking about how I will solve the problem, there are quick solution that I can run into but I think for a better one ( that too what my institution tell me ) I have not done any algorithm analysis or anything. I will start on that soon.

But does writing good code take time and thinking or I am just slow?
An early overview of ICLR2017
I can use Netflix just fine with Laptop + external monitor on Linux with Chrome, even if I connect the monitor via VGA (just tried it). I only get 720p content that way, though—probably because VGA doesn't exactly have HDCP certification ;)
you can change keyboard language in any OS. as of keycap labels, i couldn't care less about what they are like. developers touch type anyway. it's a non-issue, really
Cigarettes? We don't allow minors to legally have them, further they are taxed and regulated at great length. Also, there is a massive educational aspect warning everyone about the risks. Show me that with the American Football, please.

Manual Labor? Ever heard of OSHA, MSHA, NIOSH, NIST? Just a few of the agencies looking after the well being of folks working manual labor. I work in a glorified blue collar job, we are regulated very tightly. We have presumptive cancer laws and you can't perform our job as a minor... most don't make it until they are well into their 20's.
Thanks,

For Citizens in the EU.

While keeping a low risk, what are good options to maximize ROI for a ~5yr investment? (local bank conservative investment funds have a history of 2% for previous 3 years)

Thanks
After Uber Defied California’s DMV, the DMV Revoked Uber’s Registrations
Wow! Looks pretty the same to remote mic activation on desktop that i found few years ago https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h...

Skype for Android can receive a call when skype app in backgroud?
OpenSSH updates in macOS 10.12.2
Democracy is the form of government that is free of bloody revolutions.

I'm not even sure it has any other qualities. But this one is already enough to make it better than anything else we have around.

Democracy will lead to accountability only to the extent that your "collective mind" consider it worth fighting for. If it doesn't you'll get no accountability at all.
The manufacturer has no right to control the resale of their products.
How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04
Do Colleges Have an Edifice Complex, an Amenities Arms Race, or Both?
I agree that it's possible, but the devil is in the details. A cart ready to press the "confirm purchase", for example, implies offline functionality for coupon codes, sales tax, shipping costs, and so forth.

Holding full product page info based on just a search is tricky too. Would need the search to cache things like upsell, cross-sell, product options, and so on, that don't usually come back with search. Or short of that, an alternate product page layout that deals with missing info.
Don't disagree with any of that (I said in the first post kids shouldn't play).

But adults? If we start making more rules about what adults can or cannot do with their bodies we're gonna have to start drawing very arbitrary lines.
Testing is objectively valuable so long as they send good bug reports. I havent seen a metric on amount of gripes vs actionable reports. That would be interesting data point.
What are the selling points on a societal level. Why is the government, and by extention you and me, supporting liberal arts degrees that will do little to support economic growth? I've never head an argument made against this question.
This stuff is all taught in 1st year of C.S.

I hope that anyone who works with asm, C (and also C++) learned all this when he was still a kid
TEPCO had a modern plan to fix the issue before it happened. They decided not to act. Nuclear power takes the decision out of your hands, and puts it in the hands of organizations like that. I prefer something like solar which keeps power in my own control, local, decentralized, not decided by some huge behemoth that is driven by money and actuarial charts.
For anyone wondering, banning resale is mostly a losing game.

They may not allow it, but they can almost never stop it without making a deal with Amazon.
Two standouts:

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew B. Crawford. This is Crawford's second book, and I recommend his first, Shop Class as Soulcraft, even more highly. This is modern philosophy, intense and grounded in the history and conventions of philosophy, but not unreadable if you're patient. Crawford started working at a Washington think tank, and bailed for a more honest life as a vintage motorcycle mechanic. He walked away from wealth and "success" in favor of ethics and peace. His focus is on the intellectual and moral value of working at a craft, using your hands and your mind in concert to create and maintain things of lasting value. When you work with the physical world, you must shape yourself to the physical world, as much as you bend the physical world to your will. In this book, he talks less about the value of work, and more about the structure of society. It has some fairly extensive critique of the Enlightenment philosophy that molded American government and ethics, and pretty brutal takedowns of many of our institutions today, which he considers wrongheaded and actively interfering with a good life. He'll make you think, for sure.

The second book is Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, by Sidney Dekker. The subject is how we analyze failures in very complex systems (such as airplane crashes, bridge collapses, etc). Such systems are built extremely carefully and at great cost, with extensive engineering for safety and reliability, and regulatory oversight. Yet sometimes, they fail anyway. Analyzing such failures can take years and is never (honestly) reduceable to some single-sentence cause. Yet that's what we try to do. Dekker argues that the reductionist approach of the scientific method, our entire way of doing rigorous thinking, is inadequate for complex systems, because there are too many interactions. Scientific method depends on reducing variables, and sometimes, variables can't be reduced. Again, this is fascinating stuff that will really change how you think.
Not sure if I agree with your analysis, but I certainly agree with your solution.
If the store closes shop and goes bankrupt, and the court orders the goods auctioned off, whoever buys them buys them. Heck, when you go to the store, you own the thing you buy and can do whatever the heck you want with it, including selling it.
Isn't this covered by first-sale doctrine?
Good code takes time but if you want to make a real product your going to have to make compromises.
Cool, a real inspiration.
But engineering colleges also tend to get more outside funding through private donors. The engineering colleges I attended had their respective building fully remodeled through the donation of wealthy graduates of the college. Most of the computer labs were put together through industry donations. Also even in civil engineering you would be surprised how little lab courses are provided in undergrad... most of it is pen and paper work or maybe computer simulations which cost little extra.
Beef is one of Maui's largest exports, actually.

Would never have thought that, but there it is. There is an old western movie about the first Hawaiian cattle ranch, can't remember the name of it, but I know my parents have it on VHS.
Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'. Very old, very heavy, but very eye opening. A must read for anyone interested in economics.
That means the item is faked down to the barcode.
I got redirected to the subscription page for NYT upon clicking this link.
Elixir does support Lisp-like macros for doing metaprogramming.
And how do you know authorized dealers aren't selling some on the side?
To be honest the only thing I miss is tab search; you can modify the keybindings as you wish. I don't use hints as much as I used to.

Maybe my browsing style has changed; more reading and less clicking.
Its free and open source as far as i know (you mentioned affordable). The drawbacks i've had so far are on bad routers (double NATs) where it gets a bit sticky with connecting, otherwise all quite good, one of the best pieces of software i've ever used.

If the configuration when connecting behind a NAT on a badly configured router i've never really had a bad experience with ZT. I use it to connect into my AWS VPC then connect to anything I need to as if it were local.
The actual CrowdStrike report is a piece of work: https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/brochures/FancyBearTr...

The article states:

> The firm CrowdStrike linked malware used in the DNC intrusion to malware used to hack and track an Android phone app used by the Ukrainian army in its battle against pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine from late 2014 through 2016.

The report states:

> At the time of this writing, it is unclear to what degree and for how long this specific application was utilized by the entirety of the Ukrainian Artillery Forces. Based on open source reporting, social media posts, and video evidence, CrowdStrike assesses that Попр-Д 30.apk was potentially used through 2016 by at least one artillery unit operating in eastern Ukraine.

And on that basis, CrowdStrike went to "high confidence it was the Russians". I'd like to really see some evidence, as opposed to propaganda.
Not counting Zen there are considerably more reasons to buy an AMD GPU than a CPU.

Everyone I know with an AMD GPU has an Intel CPU (Core i5/7) since buying AMD GPU's for gaming is an utter waste of money.

The CPU's are slower, and the platform is old and buggy, not modern PCIE, storage performance is garbage, and USB 3/3.1 support is laughable.
The case against sugar
> Do you know why it is so popular there? Is it a lack of local web shops?

I don't think it's because of the lack of local web shop, at least not in Romania's case. I think it's only a question of costs, it seems that for certain items whatever comes from China is that much less expensive compared to what's available locally, even accounting for the long-ish waiting times and the customs duty.
Yes, AI will take over. And we should embrace it
If the proposed solution is to scatter a zillion tons of lead around the place, I suggest we go back to burning coal instead. It would be less environmentally damaging.
Developer Differences: Makers vs. Menders
As opposed to alternatives like solar.

Admittedly solar does not work everywhere, but there are transport mechanisms, and batteries, and it does work in some places. And we have to decide where to spend our money. Spending on solar is a choice that leads to more local control and less centralized control, as compared to spending on nuclear.

And it's not necessarily totally one or the other in every situation. I'm just saying I have a preference for things that favor local control.
If you're getting that in a test, my guess is that you're not passing a context argument with `conn` in it to your test function (e.g. `test "foo", %{conn: conn} do`.

There's a deprecated `conn/0` function that you'll accidentally call instead if you forget to do this.
The Diary of St. Faustina, also titled "Divine Mercy in My Soul". Even though I owned it for a few years, I didn't really pick it up until just this year. I know only a small percent of us here are religious, but for those of you who are, well let me just say that I recently told my wife and children that this book is so important and helpful and good, that it ranks #2 (right after the Bible).

What's nice about it is that it's broken up into very small paragraphs, many of them unrelated to the ones surrounding it. So it's easy to read it for 30 seconds and still get value out of it, when you're a busy person like me (whether due to profession or family or both).
> Facebook has one of the most sophisticated anti-scraping/crawling systems

Not only that, Facebook has a such a sophisticated security design that prevents leaking of private information in the first place. Oh, wait... /Irony.

I don't understand why FB can be so sloppy in one aspect of security and yet you claim that they are brilliant in another aspect of security. It's possible. It's possible that some guy never washes his hands, his hands are completely filthy, but his clothes are always impeccably clean. That's possible too. Just unlikely.
Дверь книжки ассиметричные – Арго Двери
If polls are garbage then voting is even more garbage. At least polling can use statistical sampling to esimate the true result. For the expense of elections and polling and paying for all the campaigns and media and hoopla you could have incredible amount of polling, from many organizations, and figure out what people actualy want.

As it is, no matter how many people want eg certain gun control regulations, or not to go to war with a country, it will never happen due to special interests.

It is far harder to fool all the people all the time than to buy off and control some of the people all the time.
I haven't launched, so I hope this is okay. I'm 7/mo into developing a side project called https://keygen.sh, and am finally wrapping things up to launch a beta in early January. I have a few hundred people on my mailing list, so that's a plus.

Challenges I've faced:

- Getting carried away with automation: emails after certain events, marketing to users who don't convert, billing features; all of these are things I should have done post-launch.

- Writing tests. I've literally delayed the launch of the product a whole month because I didn't feel my test coverage was good enough. I should have launched the beta and then started writing tests.

- Too many features. "Hey, x) would be a cool feature!", "Oh man, y) would be super useful to my users." – Yeah, I've written and then removed so many features that I'm a little ashamed.

- Wanting to adhere strictly to the JSON API spec. I shouldn't have spent so much time making sure that it followed the spec, because in the end, it doesn't.

After reevaluating things, all I need to do is finish writing documentation so that I can roll out the beta.
In the HyperBitBit initial experiments slide, the table with the results and estimates is throwing me off guard in regard to the ratios.

From my quick calculations, I'm getting [1.03, 0.96, 0.96, 1.05] but the table specifically has [1.05, 1.03, 0.96, 1.03]

Am I missing something here? Specifically the 2M case has a positive ratio when the HBB estimate is higher than the actual count.
This was good, worth the quick read. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the Sydney office building where The Matrix was filmed, and how its suggestively spinal form echoes themes in the movie.
> but this is part of why letting cats out is cruel.

Because they might die relatively quickly and painlessly at some point? How is that cruel?

Given the choice, cats always prefer to go outside, even after being exposed to hostile animals outside. Presumably their walnut brains have evolved heuristics w.r.t. the utility of being eaten. Plus, I think I'd rather be killed by a dog than slowly grow arthritic, tumorous, and blind until I can't eat anymore and I have to be taken to that place I hate so they can stick a needle in me and kill me. If that's "what pets are supposed to experience in the modern era" then I want none of it.

I've had a number of cats, and the outdoor ones don't usually live as long as the indoor ones, but they seem a lot happier about it. Live fast, die young.
Also the average American home price is $189k, not $1M. Round up to $200k for cost to move, and we're down to $380/person.

Add in the fact that the worst disaster (Chernobyl) has an exclusion zone of 1004 miles^2 (equivalent to a 17 mile circle, rather than your 40 miles) and we discover that my initial estimate was about 25x too pessimistic.

I'm beginning to think your concerns about cost are FUD. Out of curiosity, since cost is such a big concern for you, do you hold similar concerns about our bloated infrastructure costs? For example, given the bloated costs of the 2nd ave subway in NYC (1 mile of track there costs as much as the entire Delhi Metro), should we also curtail this project? Or is cost only an issue for nuclear energy?
Marketers – what other tools would you recommend?
If a solar-tile roof lasts longer than an asphalt-shingle roof, any solar-installation accidents are actually stealing injuries from the next time the roof would have needed to be serviced.
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The U.S.S.R. Fell–and the World Fell Asleep