skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bullshit article. Every low-flow toilet I've ever used clogs far less than my mother's 1980s toilets (and flushes more quickly, no less). 120°F is the MINIMUM water boilers are allowed to be set to; typically they're at 130°F or 140°F (which I personally find scalding). In Brazil, you can't even flush toilet paper due to poor sewage systems.

I stopped reading there. This guy clearly has an agenda to push. Reminds me of a similar BS article a couple years ago bemoaning the lack of phosphates or something in soap, and calling out "government overreach" every other sentence.

If there is a scientific case to make for these supposed household woes (which I don't think there is), it can be made without appeal to a political ideal.

EDIT: Oh shit, I forced myself to keep reading and he got around to phosphates. It's probably the same guy.
> That's what RSS is for, no?

> Perfect for the end user

Really? Do you genuinely believe that RSS Readers are widely used? Do you really think that the average non-technical user can and/or is willing to use RSS software, let alone configure a proxy? Do you even think they care?

Personal opinion: I love RSS feeds, but to think that it is somehow superior to notifications for the average user is silly.
what if you make it monochrome?
I haven't used VR for long enough to have sadness, but a 15 minutes is enough for me to have a very subtle, vague confusion about what I can manipulate in real life.

But I guess was a little disappointed that I had to drive home, since I flew home from space in Google Earth a few minutes prior.
Clearly, we need a Federal law that bans states from banning local plastic bag bans.
Day and Night (WebVR)
I can choose not to work in an environment riddled with "scar tissue". Instead, I can go work at a startup and eat that enterprise's lunch with a tenth of the budget. Unfortunately, thanks to inflexible and sanctimonious attitudes some programmers adopt about what is and is not "responsible" engineering, the only way to change practices is to beat the old practices in the marketplace.
fee.org wants to:
Show notifications

I admit ignorance; does this mean notifications would show up while I'm on the site, or could they push system notifications when I close the tab?

Because either way, I see no reason to allow this website, and 99% of others, to do this.
They know your location and proximity to other facebook users.
When your first thought in terms of your marriage is economic and moral expenses, you have a bigger issue within your marriage than whatever may be on your phone.
Or some other more active Facebook user knew both of you. It doesn't take very many hops of the graph to connect people who might not be aware of that connection themselves.
Speed is one factor, difference in speed is a more useful measure of the risk of harm. If you're going 15mph on a road marked 35, you are in danger BECAUSE you are slower than the rest of the traffic on that road. Other vehicles expect traffic to go at or near the posted limit, if conditions allow it. Hitting a wall at 15mph is one hazard; getting hit by a car going 20mph faster than you is a bigger hazard.

In Hawaii, because some people tend to drive too slowly and doing so causes crashes, they post the minimum speed below the limit on a lot of roads. Across the US, it is illegal to go more than 15 below the limit in clear conditions.

Once a cyclist has a motor, it seems they are more likely to 'claim' a lane and then they need to keep up or risk being a roadblock. It's less safe either way, and I'm not sure there is a viable solution. Part of the thrill of cycling in traffic, I guess.
Yes, I primarily meant mobile. I could see myself playing some mobile games if there was a way to find any. But the market is filled with hundreds of Clash of Microtransactions clones and it's impossible to find anything by browsing.

I mostly play on PC but it's not totally unproblematic either. There are so many games but not too many good ones.

But the vast majority of the games industry produces mobile pay to win games because it is more lucrative. I would welcome a change.
Yeah, the early low-flow toilets weren't all that great, but they definitely got better pretty quickly.

The author also advocates for hot water heaters that go up to 140 or 170; at 140 you'll scald in 5 seconds and at 170 you'll scald 'instantly': https://www.energyguide.com/library/EnergyLibraryTopic.asp?b...
speaking of WaPo running CIA PR, from today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/27/...
Cloud-Native Evolution: How Companies Go Digital
No! I hate the idea of each individual app being able to instantly notify me of new content! I want all of my notifications in one indistinguishable place, outside the context of it's source! It's the perfect interface! /s
for less production instructions on ubuntu 16.04 - here is a simple guide - http://www.howtogeek.com/272220/how-to-install-and-use-zfs-o...
Well, physicists know that some of the premises are fundamentally wrong. For example, the strong suspicion is that space (or time) it not continuous and smooth at it's deepest level. But finding a solution is a whole different thing.
Uh wait did the attacker get the database password? What was in it -- probably the forum users?
Really?

Everything I'm familiar with has approval and review on everything in government, bureaucracy is synonymous with government to many people for exactly this reason.
I think the whole thing with webdev is that the barrier to entry for starting your own little company or SaaS or even being a contractor is much lower. Not many bootstrapped embedded programming startups - if you're doing low level stuff you seem to always be working for medium to large companies.
We shouldn't be doing that either but I left it out. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The same writer also wrote about his finance career: http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/what-i-learned-from-losing-...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/311702965224

I'm looking at this one.
FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
I've had great moments with VR, but realize that in the end its just a tech demo and feels rather shallow. There's nothing I can see myself spending more than a few days with.

Give me a team star wars game with mission objectives and voice chat for your squadron and for me, the future will have arrived.
Young kids don't have impulse control. Event most young adults can save from week to week.

If the in app purchase is in front of them now, and they have cash in the account, they will spend.
Reality is immaterial without context.

Can you imagine a universe without qualia? I cannot.
Why Law Firms Are Such Attractive Hacking Targets
That only works if you're on a one-man project where you use the STL and implement everything else from scratch.
Certainly this is not a new occurrence as a reaction to media of any kind. Some of my favorite novels have left me experiencing a similar melange of feelings and detachment from the real world (not to a severe extent by any means). Turning the last page has left me with the reminder that not only will I not ever be able to experience the world of the novel in a physical sense, but won't even be able experience the thrill and excitement of vicariously living the story of the characters through reading, not knowing what will happen next.
Given Trump's personality, I wonder what material is being held back by "state actors" to be used at an appropriate time.
And HTML has website: no

That killed all credibility that table has.
> Rust's safety w/out performance hit affects those two, specific areas. I think they might be interested.

:) Let me put it this way: if for some reason Rust ever takes a serious market share from Java (or other similar languages) in the enterprise space, I will surely be well into my retirement by then, so my interest isn't financial. I was a C++ developer for many years, working on very large soft (and some hard) realtime systems, and I was a Java holdout, but once most of the defense industry switched, virtually nobody (including us) ever complained about a performance decrease. So even if the claim that GCs adversely affect performance in large, complex programs (where RAM overhead isn't an issue) were true, the number of organizations that build software of that kind and where this performance would matter more than in defense, is very, very small (not to mention that most of the current performance deficiencies in Java are not related to GC). If that's the kind of user that would be a significant portion of Rust's userbase, then Rust is in trouble. Companies that sell ultra-low latency GCs for a fraction of the cost it would take for enterprise shops to adopt a language like Rust, are, well not exactly on their way to the Fortune 500. The systems software space -- drivers, kernels, filesystems, and the entire embedded space -- is at least one, if not two, orders of magnitude bigger.
Yeah, plus Phosphates are absolutely terrible for the environment: https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/problem
Redefining the Dynatrace brand
What about all the hundreds of decades of work lost because extreme risk aversion makes it impossible to add productivity features to GMail for fear of breaking what works already?

Some people like to cower behind "Google scale" as a reason never to change anything. Not me.
That is excellent reading material. Thank you!
I hoped I wouldn't have to do this, but I'm currently in a very locked down environment and "non-installable" apps are very appealing.
Are you certain it was FT that Chomsky said that about? He's said something nearly identical about WSJ in an article I read a few months ago
Does anyone have any good context for this? I.e., what are the political and economic implications of this?

Does it even matter if Trump is so soft on Russia? Won't he just revert this decision in January?
This report is a joke. I didn't find any reasoning about attribution.

Here is the only valuable part:

"
rule PAS_TOOL_PHP_WEB_KIT
{
meta:
description = "PAS TOOL PHP WEB KIT FOUND"
strings:
$php = "<?php"
$base64decode = /\='base'\.\(\d+\*\d+\)\.'_de'\.'code'/
$strreplace = "(str_replace("
$md5 = ".substr(md5(strrev("
$gzinflate = "gzinflate"
$cookie = "_COOKIE"
$isset = "isset"
condition:
(filesize > 20KB and filesize < 22KB) and
#cookie == 2 and
#isset == 3 and
all of them
}
"
> ubiquitous piracy.

I disagree on "ubiquitous piracy", as much as there will always be people pirating just because, with steam and the much higher risks in terms of malware for pirated games, I doubt piracy is anywhere near as high in percentage terms as it used to be way back. Not to mention that anti-piracy software these days (Denuvo) seems to be extremely resilient.

(some) game publishers have turned to freemium because it makes more money with less risk: would you risk spending many millions of dollars to compete with something like Witcher 3 (lots of risk, uncertain rewards) or spend a LOT less and float several different "freemium" balloons and then invest in marketing for what seems to have traction? (very little risk, very certain rewards)
Trump isn't going to do or say anything that makes it look like his election might in any way be the result of Russian meddling, because it brings into question the legitimacy of his presidency.
I think Washington Post did the best job of any major national newspaper this year (at least in the second half) in terms of investigative Trump-related journalism.

Puff-ish piece about his coverage (so you know its true):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahr...
> The government forced soap manufacturers to remove from soap the thing that makes them work for these purposes: phosphates.

Did it?

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/proctor-gam...

> But P&G already stopped using phosphates in laundry detergent sold across the US in the early 1990s as part of a voluntary commitment from the American Cleaning Institute, an industry group of which the company is a member. It also removed phosphates from its detergents sold in the Europe several years ago.

And while Mr. Tucker offers good reasons to remove flow restrictors from showers - domestic water use is only 2% of the nation's total - he doesn't tell us why phosphates were removed from soap, just complains that his clothes are dirty (big ol' [citation needed] on that, by the way.)

Apparently phosphates damage the environment, leading to algal blooms and fish die-offs. But it's fine. I'll gladly read Mr. Tucker's article blaming the government for his inability to go fishing or swimming if phosphates are added back to laundry detergent.

He also blames "the government", a nebulous entity, but only seventeen states seem to have banned soap manufacturers from using phosphates in soap. An odd tack for someone who I would expect to be pro-states'-rights: http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132072122/it-s-not-your-fault-...
Rent most likely ~200, food ~100-200, misc ~100. You can get by with 300-500/month in eastern Europe, but you will have to monitor your expenses really closely. 300 if you live with friends/parents, cook at home and don't really do much else other than eat, sleep and work.

Get a decent apartment, have some fun in your free time and 1000 does turn into a "barely getting by"-wage. 1.5k-2k is comfortable wage, but median is around 500-600 in most of eastern Europe afaik.
It depends at which level

At a "unique/very few in the world", yes, location only makes your (high) salary goes higher. But then you have 6 digits in your salary regardless if it's in $/€/£

At a "specialized position" (I guess several people on HN are here), you absolutely don't need to offer the same salary regardless of geographical position, but it has to be competitive.
Lithuanian 'elves' combat Russian influence online
Yes. It's actually easier for me than C++ because the language stopped changing. You can get by with C89 for 99.9999% of C code bases out there.
Managed WordPress Hosting is 7 years old
Momentum matters as much as speed. Suppose you are doing 35mph on a bike the road and you get sideswiped by a car doing 35mph. The direct impact is negligible, but now you've got angular momentum that is going to send you into another car or the ground at high speed.

And even if you are doing 35mph, and claiming a lane, you'll still be passed (often unsafely) by cars doing 40, 50mph. (Source: motorcyclist who can't go fast up hills)
"The student population tends to be young, [already] well educated, and
employed"

"The MOOC Phenomenon: Who Takes Massive Open Online Courses and Why?"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350964
Rural residents pool cash to save last bars, gathering sites
33C3 Reverse engineering Outernet
The short answer is no.
For use within scripts, I think it's a much easier matter to determine that parallel is on $PATH than to try to do feature detection on xargs. Granted, it's always possible that the parallel on $PATH might not be the one you're thinking of, but... Whatevs.
The 'OpenOffice' format in the chart (SXW) is dates from OpenOffice 1.x [1], and was a transitional format between the old binary and the not-yet-developed ODF the same way that Microsoft Office 2003 shipped with an intermediate XML format that is similar but isn't compatible with what later became OOXML.

For all serious uses, ODF has long-ago replaced the SXW format.

[1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Gui...
Search online for published papers related to "IRON File Systems." Some researchers injected errors into various parts of common file systems and see how well they recovered. I think ZFS was the best of the bunch though that research is from a few years back and things may have improved elsewhere.
ZoL is an acronym for ZFSonLinux.
Clutching back for another fix huh?
In all honesty great article.
Would have liked to see it written after the 31st to see conversions.
A motorcycle/scooter isn't a major theft risk, because its big/heavy enough to resist theft on its own (and has front and back wheel locks and motion-activated siren alarm)
Not sure If you checked those numbers. Look at Norway 20GW of clean energy (99% of clean energy). They're doing it.
If there were no talent shortage, companies wouldn't have to offer high wages to hire people. You're looking at two sides of the same coin.
I guess you missed https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR...
Yes, cyclists take the sidewalk, but not cyclists who go fast.
At rest the data isn't necessarily encrypted. Also browser hacks are a dime a dozen. It is the most exposed interface on your computer.

You are freely executing untrusted code from unknown parties, coming over insecure and unencrypted channels. You really can't be sure who is sending HTTP.

And don't talk about sandboxes. There is a sandbox escape fix in every version of Chrome. This isn't on google, there are way more attackers then fixers.

Basically webbrowsers are under constant concerted attack by every single bad actor out there. And you trust them to sync and secure your passwords?

You have more faith in humanity then I.
>Sure, and the Party in 1984's ideological goal was to maximize freedom too.

Pretty much every paragraph has terrible stinkers like this, but I'll focus on it because it's probably the least political and most open to direct academic interpretation rather than viewed through highly ideological lenses.

The second slogan of the Party in 1984 was "Freedom is slavery." Their explicit goal is to prevent individuals from having freedom. And asserting that everbody must make themselves subservient to the Party (otherwise, bad stuff).

I can't find a single example anywhere in the book of the Party stating that they want to maximize freedom.
No, they invented Blaze (general purpose caching build tool, open-sourced as Bazel).

Go is hardly a replacement for C++. Garbage collection, no templates, no const, etc.
Yes, and I did suggest an alternative.
>I cannot see how such statistics can be interpreted as anything other than extraordinarily positive, and I just hope the trend continues.

I hope I live to see the trend continue. The long-term trend, after all, continued towards improvement throughout, for instance, the 1930s and 1940s, which many of us would think of as the worst nightmare humanity ever lived through. And of which, coincidentally, historians and other scholars are warning us that we're lurching into a repeat, like zombies who somehow can't do what everyone agrees would have avoided the last world war, the last Holocaust, the last nuclear bombing.
I believe that on macOS/Safari, it will send you notifications even when you're not on the page (or even have Safari open?) IOW, you're trying to get your work done in your favorite IDE and "hey, come check out the latest clickbait on ClickyBaity.com!"

I'm just pulling that straight out of my ass, as my response when confronted with that dialog is a hardy "oh, HELL, no!", but I kinda remember that being said at WWDC or summat. There might be a global on macOS to have it never, ever ask me again on any site, but I've just been too lazy/forgetful to go find it. (EDIT: the instructions found at this site seem to be spot on: http://appsliced.co/ask/how-do-i-disable-website-notificatio...)
Past performance doesn't guarantee future results, but the results/output are a direct product of the input (cultural factors, economic ones, etc.). Couldn't we say that past performance is a great indicator of future results as long as there hasn't been a dramatic shift in input that we can identify?

If there's been such a change in a factor that would cause a substantial difference in the trend, what would you suggest it is?
Interestingly it says only one political party was hacked.
> There's no need for punctuation, no need to close the quote. The story is over.

Huh? That's NOT the end of the article.

Worse, somehow your comment is the most upvoted???
I'm a huge fan of the work here & strongly strongly believe in file-system oriented architectures.

Being able to use a wide number of existing "server side" libraries in the browser could be a huge win.

And this has interesting server side applications too, where one can use the same Node.js code but target diverse & interesting backends & overlayed systems. Having a virtual-fs is an incredibly powerful and useful concept.

"Everything is a file!" still sounds like a great idea.

Alas BrowserFS lacks Streams support. Given how async oriented and streams based a lot of new JS tends to be, that is a huge sticking point for me, and a glaring exception that will rule out using a very sizable number of existing packages that otherwise would benefit greatly from BrowserFS. Issue 124, Support streams: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/issues/124

As an alternative: it lacks the flexible, pluggible/mountable backend of BrowserFS, but level-filesystem does do streams, and can be run in the browser (when combined with level-up): https://github.com/mafintosh/level-filesystem

Final aside, I always thought it would have been cool if the virtual file abstraction that the Gulp build tool built - Vinyl - had started getting used outside Gulp. Theres no file-system model, just a file model here, except for implicitly in that files have paths, but with some mapping one can imagine making something like BrowserFS or other with the Vinyl model. That said, I think John has done a great job with his rigorous, TypeScript-ed object model in BrowserFS.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vinyl

Here's to hoping #124 - Streams Support - sees some progress. Great library John!
Yeah, I'd rather have my perks in cash. And not have to "work" until late hours for a façade
i've been using zfs on ubuntu since ~2010 for a small set of machines, reading/writing 24/7 with different loads. it's worked great through quite a few drive replacements, and various other hardware failures.

i'm perfectly willing to believe there may be some rare situations where zfs on linux will cause you a problem. but i bet they're rare enough it'll have saved you a few times before it bites you.
Yeah the 1.28 gallon flush Niagra Flapperless at my old warehouse could flush a god damned rhinoceros. In a year of ~75 workers sharing two toilets they never failed us.
> Won't he just revert this decision in January?

He might, but now that the ball is in motion, it's the difference between him just doing nothing and letting it get swept under the rug, and him explicitly killing an active investigation against the recommendations of his intelligence organizations. It'll look a lot worse for him to do so.
Overly principled politicians don't do well in the US system (or perhaps any political system). You might be right but what's the point of being right if you have zero influence?

This is what I've learned about US politics anyway.
I think the key to the questions being asked at an interview is "relevance". How relevant are the interview questions to the actual job that I am applying for ? The off the hand warm up questions are fine, but in my personal experience of 18 interviews, I have not been asked a single question that I would consider relevant to the work I did/will do. Trees? yeah. Design this and that? yeah. Puzzles? you name it. Java specifics and countless Big O and Sigma questions. What about Refactoring? Nope. About designing especially for webapps? Nope. Ok, optimizing legacy code ? nope. Database structure and query optimization? Nope. Data migrations? Nope. Multithreaded support for this piece of code? Nope.

The thing is I have an arsenal of useful information and skills that I have learnt over the years that will not be asked in my next interview. I have personally been developing a list of interesting issues that I face on a day to day basis. I share it with as many people as I can some who participate actively in the interviewing process. Many do not agree with me and I do not hold them for it. I have started small and hope make a change.