skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that Americans are unenlightened savages. I believe that they have a very limited cycling culture, due largely to the dominance of car culture. America was fortunate enough to be the richest country on earth during the 20th century, so it developed a car culture sooner and more pervasively than any other country. At a time when cars were an unaffordable luxury for most Europeans, many Americans regarded cars as a basic necessity.

The public discourse about cycling in America is dominated by myths, because very few Americans have practical experience of regular cycling. Those who do cycle tend to be self-taught, because of the limited availability of cycle training and the lack of a strong tradition of club cycling. America is having to rebuild a culture of cycling from scratch, for no other reason than the ubiquity of the motorcar.
They shouldn't want to. They only want the data to see if more money can wrung from the service or its customers.
Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before.

Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere; it was like living in the future! /s

[1]: http://joshcarter.com/magic_cap/cujochat
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"Click Fraud" is an industry term precisely because that's what the ad networks want you to think. It's fraud when you unintentionally (automatically through a script or otherwise) click on their ads, but when they spy on you, it's not called "spying", it's called "personalised" advertisements. "Standard industry term" is just another way for the big players to justify what they are doing, in essence, a euphemism.
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You can contribute more after a certain age as a way of catching up.
Why is everyone so damn cynical about self-driving cars?

We know this is coming, and this technology will improve the lives of so many people in the long run. Maybe it's from Nvidia and Audi, maybe Tesla, Uber, Google, that dude who launched and failed and ran away to China, who knows?

I'm excited to think about what opportunities will start to open up once humans don't need to spend 2+ hrs a day with their hands on the wheel :)
if I had minification on, your comparison would be apples-to-apples. I have it off for now, for debugging. Also my APP installs itself the first time you visit the page. Think of it as an APP INSTALL. Wikipedia is NOT an app, and has nothing to install.
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Disunited Kingdom: Brexit and the rise of far-right parties
"Next, they are reminded how fricking HARD startups are, and how much LUCK was really involved in their first success."

I have the feeling this is hauting my life.

Jobs, relationships, everything.

When I got something, it didn't feel that hard to get it.

When I try to get something it feels impossible.
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I am in the process of switching everything over to fastmail, which is a paid email service without ads, because I dislike the current state of the advertising industry so much. Plus, I'm now in a financial relationship where I am the customer, not the product.

I might likely do the same for a search page if such a thing existed and the price was right. Until then I use startpage or duckduckgo to (attempt to) retain some anonymity.
Just debugged it and it looks like a NULL pointer read in CSRSS, in winsrv!SrvCreateConsoleScreenBuffer.
Have you worked at any of these companies recently? If not, how do you know they fly?

My observation from when I worked at Google was that the organisation was rapidly slowing down over time, and projects that were essentially pointless or duplicative were multiplying. Very simple tasks were starting to become extremely hard work. Much like a traditional large enterprise, in fact.
I actually love this navd. Good stuff. Are you displaying them by date? I mean on search
You know, it's possible to simultaneously be critical of the government request for data, and the very real concerns that of course they won't successfully anonymize location data, and also have a realistic view that Uber wants to "sell" your data, not "protect" it.
(wild conspiracy theories to follow, intended to be humorous)

It's all good, SS can go on forever. As long as shootings increase, gun control laws are kept at bay, and healthcare remains unavailable to all or at least expensive odds are good a growing minority of workers will never collect SS benefits. It's fairly genius actually. It all stems from the American Dream, one of the most dangerous yet lucrative schemes ever devised. Get workers to increase productivity to boost the economy with the hope and "promise" of a big payday one day. When it became to crumble a new "promise" was devised, this time with the workforce paying the bill. Retirement was the 20th centuries American Dream. Healthcare is coming in to save the day, but not the way we expected.
Indeed. I saw a poll several years ago, and no, I don't recall where or have a citation, but something like 40% of Americans would accept a Muslim President, but only about 10% would accept an atheist President.
> The most docile 60 year olds I know become positively vitriolic at the idea of even the age of benefit payout being changed by 5 years.

I guess I'm afraid of a slow rollout. ie. everyone who's 40 and older gets normal social security, if you're ~35 now, you'll have to wait a few years more. It's exactly the kind of "we got ours" BS that the boomers are so known for.
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Indeed, I'm really glad there is at least one popular browser not affected by this.

This is one of the many examples where a privacy-first approach pays off not just in terms of privacy but also in terms of security. In Germany we use the term "Datensparsamkeit" for this principle. Not sure if there is a well-established english term in the international community.

So why do other browers fill in these fields automatically? Why don't they wait until asked by the user? Because it is more "convenient" for the user? Moreover who benefits from that? Not the users, not the browser vendors, but all those websites with overly long registration forms. These confront their visitors with lots of irrelevant fields (birthday, gender, etc.) just for the sake of collecting data. Nobody would fill all that in voluntarily, but I guess more people will do so (perhaps accidentally) if their browser fills that in by default.
For me, it's when I'm fatigued and early in the morning. How nice would it be to get 15 minutes to drink some coffee and wake up or relax before getting back to the drive?
Wow, ok. So you can just set up a Shopify store, set up an oberlo account, find some products on AliExpress... and that's it?

Do you use any other services? And how often do you need to reply to customer emails?
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Ever wanted to quickly hack together your own homebrewed extension for Chrome? You've now lost the ability to do so unless you publish to the wretched Chrome Web Store, which allows only for a princely maximum of 20 extensions by default [1] and has a nebulous review process [2].

Hopefully, this restriction doesn't exist in Chromium.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-gen-29

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-listing-08
Scaled Agile Framework features and components: http://www.scaledagileframework.com/features-and-components/

"Scaling with Feature vs. Component Teams" by Ken Rubin: http://www.innolution.com/resources/presentations/svaln-2015...
The same weight is one human, one vote. Period. Your system has only ensured that a few swing states like Ohio exercise a tyranny of the minority over the rest of us[1].

You keep implying that the rest of us aren't Americans and don't deserve an equal voice, and don't be surprised if we start trying to secede or revolt violently against the tyrants ruling over America's urban majority against our will.

[1] -- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-appl...
For starters, I would look into it if it had a different look like ConEmu (fonts, themes, fullscreen)
> The fact is you pay ~16% of your paycheck into social security and medicare, it is designed to be like a pension. It is not an entitlement, it's your money.

Except the facts don't match up with this.

It is not designed to be like a pension. It is the workers of today paying for the retirees of today, on the assumption that when you retire there will be workers to pay for you. There is no guarantee, and there is no fallback. The money is spent just as soon as it's taken from you.

It is an entitlement because I'm paying for my parents and my peers' parents. If it's around when I retire, I will be spending other people's hard-earned money, not my own. I mean the Wikipedia "definition" of entitle is "a government program guaranteeing access to some benefit by members of a specific group" which is exactly what SS is.
Love IH, only a few newsletters that get kept and read as reference in my inbox (the others being SaaS Weekly by Hiten Shah, OfficeSnapshots and The Hustle), and it's only been a few months but already one of my most anticipated emails each week.

Hope the hockey stick goes up, and like a lot of people here, hope to be on those pages soon :)
Idea: we previously built an ad-blocker that would remove all ads/tracking and was paid by a monthly subscription, that was then divided by time spent per domain.

Similar to the Youtube Red model but for the rest of the internet. Wanted to get it to the ISPs so it would just be a bundled add-on (internet + premium content sub) and would also give access to premium sites like NYT, WSJ, FT, etc. Nobody wanted to work with us.

Failure in cooperation is causing failure across the rest of the media landscape. I wonder if we should try again...
Well, then simply make them height:0px or put a <div> with a white background over it. Change the input and make it text-color: white; background-color: white; Change it's z-index to be lower than your other elements, etc.
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Makes me want to get back to working on my conformal octahedral butterfly map project: http://i.imgur.com/Y6ki0l9.jpg
are there are api products or chrome-plugins to check / verify if a certain page is a phishing-attack ?
Nope, it's part of the plan: https://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chro...
Nice, thanks for adding that.

My first programming experience happened on an Apple ][ we had in my kindergarten classroom. It's been a long time since I've used one, though, so I didn't remember the on-screen logo.
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You can always put some of your 401k into short term stuff like a money market account if you think the market is overpriced. That way you have money on the side you can throw into the market after it corrects. I've got like 20% of my 401k in a money market account for just this reason.
Meanwhile, there are blatantly illegal things on the Android app store with no touch at all from Google. (For example this Age of Empires "clone" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squid.ageo...)

Priorities clearly higher in killing ad blockers.
Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?
How can I email direct? Not interested in Twitter anymore. Too much trolling going on.
Minimum salary requirement raised to $100,000 which means the end of any hopes for those graduating from US colleges to get a job in the US, if the bill passes.

You aren't going to get $100,000 salary with just a Bachelor's degree straight out of college even in Bay Area, let alone in the rest of the US

This will adversely affect the talent pool that American companies can hire and will almost certainly negatively impact the productivity of tech companies who rely on anywhere between 25-40% of their tech workforce from other countries especially those graduating from US colleges.

There is also a provision to eliminate the Master's degree exemption meaning that the same pool of 65,000 (or so) visas will now be competed for by an even bigger group of candidates. Obviously those with Master's degrees will command a higher salary than those without. It still won't reach $100,000 even with a Master's degree.

Long term effect will mean that if students cannot find jobs that can pay them $100,000 with a Bachelor's or Master's degree (and they won't) then they will stop coming to US universities. By restricting the best talent from coming to US, leaning and contributing to its academic system, it will definitely negatively impact the US education system.

I hope lawmakers have the sense to reject this bill but we've seen worse.
Why do you need handouts?
True.

And you can also do other savings vehicles outside of your 401k to save even more money. I just wanted to illustrate that it's not like people put all of their money into their retirement account on one day and if a crash happens the next they are screwed.
> If an element isn't drawn it shouldn't be autofilled.

So if a form is too long and you need to scroll, all those fields you can't see won't be auto-filled? Sounds pretty terrible IMO.
Which doesn't make it any better or justify in any way. I have no respect for jerks in any of these fields.
I once spent two hours driving through a snowstorm in Canada. There's no reason to expect that the conditions which require human attention would only last for a few minutes.
I think at this point, by questioning whether or not NPR is lying about Bitcoin, you're demonstrating confirmation bias. A better question would be: How much do you personally have invested into Bitcoin that relies on it's success?
I find it amazing anyone labeling anyone other than Richard Stallman as Toxic. I mean this guy has been a pariah his entire career because of his TOXIC behavior and social views, and somehow we are supposed to believe that Leah is toxic. For not wanting to have to deal with the Douche anymore. However they still want to work on the free software project they started/runs/hostes and makes money to help support other developers and thereby helping core boot. At a time when EVERYONE wants blob-less systems. It's just amazing how you people are willing to become a lynch mob and attack her, but Stallman is god! It's just amazing and shows how toxic the tech/foss community is to people they don't accept.

On a side note this is a perfect example of how you cannot trust centralized organizations like FSF. They are no longer under the communities control and instead are most interested in protecting the organization and their jobs, not their values or the rights of others.
Not that I know of, but the point is that our system ought to be robust against historical and statistical flukes. If you're going to decide elections via first-past-the-post at all, you should at least make the election pass a 95% likelihood hypothesis test for difference-of-means or something.
This time with a video explainer.
Any feedback is appreciated
I feel like I just discovered the Coelacanth isn't actually extinct. I initially assumed either:

1) I misread the name of something that merely looked like irssi, or
2) there was a new project names irssi that unfortunately used a name of a much older project.

There was a several year period of my life where the vast majority of my online communication took place inside irssi. And that time was not particularly recent!

Congrats to the team, awesome to see it still going.
Congrats!
One thing the post didn't answer is where you got the data (IMO, the most difficult part for this project). Are you using MaxMind or something else behind the scenes?
That's perfectly fine. Some people prefer to keep work at work. It is good to do though if you want to climb up and understand the politics at your office (which sucks). I'm also just a super social person, and kind of an outlier.
Bitcoin Classic releases version 1.2
Chocolate is actually quite good for the cardiovascular system, and it need not contain terribly much sugar.
I suspect this was posted because I linked it in a comment in a different thread yesterday [1].

Mermaid is a great tool, especially for flowcharts. But as with other tools like Graphviz, it can be hard/impossible to build a clean structural diagram, where you have nodes that contain or stack other nodes, with flows and relationships between them. Invariably, I find that tools like Mermaid break down once there's a lot of components, even when using boxes and so on to group things.

In particular, arrow routing is a weak point. Here [2] is an old diagram I once did in Mermaid. I was able to create two vertically-layered groups, but I was not able to prevent arrows from being messy. (There is, of course, one pair of arrows that need to cross in that diagram, but at least the software should be able to draw their intersection in a nicer way, e.g. by adding space around the arrow or have a little arch where one arrow jumps over the other.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324796

[2] http://i.imgur.com/awunH4m.png
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That's what Safari actually does
Relevant additional context: the Uber data was released to the public after FiveThirtyEight filed a FOIA request to the NYC TLC after they got the data: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/uber-tlc-foil-response

Additionally, the data is anonymized; the original taxi dataset mentioned in the article had poorly-hashed Taxi ID numbers which is how privacy was compromised. Subsequent TLC datasets lacked that field completely.
It's not actually published on npmjs.org. Author probably just ran npm init out of force of habit. It's actually quite nice that they have their standard metadata & licence where it's easy to find.

They should probably have private: true in there though, to stop it getting published by mistake, since it isn't a component anyone could usefully import.
They are publicly passive aggressively attacking Leah, and simply saying they won because FSF can't win and gave up. But lets fire some shots of more drama off at them on the way out the door.
This is gold. Thank you for posting that.
It also comes with security fixes that were simultaneously released as a 0.8.21 bugfix-only release:

https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt
>it's not always easy to try and take an objective look at heated messages when you, yourself, have an emotional attachment to the subject

You're making a lot of assumptions, and none of them are true. I have no emotional attachment to fan drawings of cartoons I've never seen, or the shirt Kanye was wearing at a gas station, or what some politician I've never heard of in a country I've never been to said about home mail delivery or something equally trivial. Nor do I ever post on Twitter. I don't even have an account. But my eye twitches whenever "somebody said a thing on Twitter" somehow becomes news, or a trending topic, or a witch-hunt, or a cause, or a boycott.

Twitter is a wasteland of hashtags and horseshit, devoid of anything resembling meaningful human interaction.
its the tone and attitude, not the literal interpretation of the statement nor what has happened. 'once your project is under the GNU aegis its there for life' - its fair enough to make that decision, but the result here is not respecting the ideal that very many people have about having a freedom to do what you want with 'your stuff', and what constitutes 'your stuff'

if you don't particularly care for ideals of ownership or materialism then this isn't so objectionable. it makes a lot of sense, because then you don't even see the project as 'yours' and doing so is obviously counter to the ideals of the GNU project and FSF.

however, the sad practical reality of the world is that most people care a great deal about these kinds of things - its a part of why there is so much proprietary software, and also why many places i have worked forbid GPL dependencies, often in a list of "free software licenses we can't allow in dependencies" along with some statement about why - which is usually about how its 'infectious' nature means that it can't be used without forcing other parts of a product to be made into GPL software - an unacceptable price to pay, because the freedom to keep things private is considered as being so valuable.

"you can use our free (as in speech, not beer) software freely, but provided that you sacrifice your freedom of ownership on your own software"

this is another one of those kinds of statements i generalised as with "you aren't allowed your freedom because <incomprehensible jibberish>"

i don't think its a big leap to consider that sort of statement mind boggling from a philosophical standpoint - you want to advocate freedom with something that curtails freedom?

its the same principle with the idea that GNU projects are somehow owned by GNU, and that this is irreversible. again, its trying to advocate the philosophy by doing something that is counter to it.

now, i don't consider the maintainer in this case to be in the right. they should have been aware that this is the nature of GNU projects. i also consider her attitude to be so far out of touch with reality and overly-self-entitled that it is a little disturbing... but back to the point, i don't roll in these circles and even i am aware of this philosophy for GNU projects... but aside from that leah should have learned what her decision would mean before making it.
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Another method would be to show a user a list of all fields that are about to be filled in as part of the autocomplete prompt. This isn't very scalable for massive forms, but should be enough of an alert to a user that something is amiss on screen to make up for those cases.
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Ummmm and Illinois, you know the one with Chicago. Hillary won IL popular vote with 3,090,729 votes to Trump's 2,146,015.
I wouldn't bet on a lower price point or any sort of portability with a GTX 1080 (the lightest 1080-equipped single-screen laptop I could find is over 7lbs).

> I think there's more room in this market segment than you might think.

I have an external display that I bring along to try to bridge the gap in loss of productivity of working in annoying places, but it (asus mb168+) has garbage drivers (can't adjust brightness on OS X or windows 10; crashes OS X), which is why I'd even consider a native multi-screen device. I think there's more room in the "external displays that aren't terrible" market than the big/heavy performance desktop-replacement market.
But it isn't your money. They take your money today and then tomorrow ship it out to someone on social security. Your money is well and long spent on Depends and Ensure by the time you retire at which point some other sucker is on the hook to pay for your dotage.

And like every pyramid scheme, if the bottom becomes too small it will fail spectacularly.
$6K to $64K in 1 year: How I built and scaled my side project, then quit my dayjob
> "This is a terrific follow up to our 1TB drive released in 2013, and by doubling the capacity, users can store and carry even larger amounts of data easily."

Um, is it? In 3 (now 4) years you've only increased the density by a factor of 2? That seems paltry compared to other developments in flash storage.