skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also DRAKON Editor. [1] While it's visual and does not have a text markdown form, it provides rules to achieve arbitrarily large readable flow diagrams, and enforces them semi-automatically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
OWC DEC adds storage and ports to 2016 MacBook Pro
Yes, he is. People get very sensitive (and illogical) when their income is put at stake.
This is an ad, more than anything, and I don't think it even remotely addresses the issues it brings up. I do have to say, it is refreshing to have yet another empty slogan, transform through delivery, to use at work.
I remember those days :-) Back then after getting tired of typing raw instructions I wrote a very primitive assembler in basic (starting with 3.5K and counting down, it had to be primitive if I wanted any space left to run the generated machine code...)
I thought all the bitcoin and crypto stuff had already moved past GPUs and on to custom ASIC units?
Everything that is GETtable risks being GET. Why would Google serve an ad to someone who might click it without the intention of following through with the ad? Because Google chooses who to show the ad to. So it is really Google's fault. Google created click fraud.

See how ridiculous this is?
I'm constantly impressed by the effort the DPRK is putting into securing their devices.

I've just skimmed it, but:

The talk describes what is really an extreme form of DRM, the tablet can only open media created and signed by the government or media created and self-signed on the tablet.

Users can't exchange files, if they try the signature check fails.

It's very similar to what they presented last year on RedStar OS, but this seems to be taking it to even greater extremes.

In RedStar OS you could transfer files, but they'd get watermarked. In someways that's even scarier, because they can log ever user who touched the file.

Really very interesting, it will be fascinating to see how this progresses (as well as terrifying).
Man sues Verizon for $72M, says negligence allowed him to steal identity
It keeps mentioning improved frame rates (very little about refresh rates?) - will HDMI now be able to support 144hz monitors?
When you use AliExpress for drop shipping, are you making money as an affiliate or is it something different?
I had a similarly irritating experience with one of the CCC videos, but I'm not sure if it's just me being spoiled (these are otherwise excellent quality talks, provided at no cost to me). The first 20 minutes of the Snowden/family talk was a presenter fiddling around with her laptop which had run out of battery, interspersed with a guy whistling into the mic to "entertain" the crowd. I was able to skip past it, but whistling - wtf!?
I've been needing to do this with the LastPass Chrome extension as well. It is rather annoying, but if you just keep the browser running it is bearable. I'll slowly switch back to Firefox though. They are adding sandboxing and swapping Gecko to a Rust-based engine. We'll see about the performance. Bottomline is, I'm done with being overly reliable on Google.
The Biggest Security Threats Coming in 2017
I run my own email service. I also find search currently very disappointing. Google, Yahoo, duckduckgo? Remember when they were several major indexes? Lycos, Altavista, etc.

Today Google actively removes things from their index at the requests of various governments and entertainment industries. We have very little choice in search, leaving much of the web unlocatable.
They do overlap. I'm privacy conscious but I feel myself forced to use Chrome because the alternative, Firefox, has subpar security features (no sandbox, no process separation) and terrible performance.
Oops guys! It looks like the publisher temporarily removed the PLEENQ script tag from that page. Go to https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover... for a better example. This is actually a real client's page, and shows how some websites use PLEENQ.
4 days as in training time given all the compute resources they could allocate to the problem
Presumedly that is how they came up with this graphic, which shows Africa encompassing nearly all of the US, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, India, China, Japan, and the UK in its borders:

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/true-siz...
I just wish that their UI (UX? ugh...) team was as competent as their engine team appears to be.
Fixing filter bubbles by breaking recommendation engines
Why not? On the short term, you get more income from ad revenue. Who knows what the effect on the long term is going to be.
In my experience most of these problems are cultural and there is nothing to be done once bad software dev culture takes root. The most common manifestation is management asking for something reasonable but with constraints that make it impossible. The developer who agrees is favored. The one who warns is labeled as "negative". A year later when the project is in disaster mode the manager never reviews what happened at the beginning because he doesn't understand it.

It's essentially a Darwinian selection process for bad developers.
I work as part of a group looking for agents that target childhood cancers funded by the National Cancer Institute. We look for compounds that selectively target certain childhood cancer cell types while not affecting other childhood cancer cell lines. We have found some promising leads so far with great selectivity. I don't know what this comment is about, but just wanted you to know that people are working hard on it.
AFAIK that's not actually true, one option they have is going through Mesa's llvmpipe in such cases.

EDIT: to be clear, with the Servo nightlies you need to do this yourself but Firefox could bundle it eventually.
Killing MySQL by these weapon on Nodejs is so EASY
Have we come full circle?

~2006 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#/media/File%3A20...
jaclaz - nice detective work. Photo seemed a little too perfect.
How about clicks from browsers that have this plugin installed are just not counted? That sounds simple enough.
This is really nice.

A minor suggestion: I think you might as well thumbnail Ask HN/Tell HN/any other pure text posts too. This would look better than the big blank squares for those, and work well as a preview.
Qutebrowser
Try going to https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover... -- the publisher disabled the PLEENQ script tag on the worldlifestyle demo page.
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very interesting, I will defiantly will be a customer, I have a question, how fast is requestSingle page? is there any guaranteed response time?
Edit: adding a suggestion, if in your pricing you include a dedicated worker it would be very cool. you could price it hourly (8 hours a day, or monthly) this way I don't worry about number of request that I am sending, you don't worry about page size and amount of JS in the page! and I can keep sending requests in the rate I am getting responses.
I think that is unfair having just re-read it. (I'm the author.)

90% of the article is about our theory that large enterprise organisations have a huge gulf when compared to digital leaders, and analysing why they are in this place.

To break out of it, they need to do things in a completely different way, more focussed on building their own capability than outsourcing work.
Please support vPro (VT-d, TXT and TPM) and lots of RAM for security virtualization use cases, e.g. Qubes secure compositing desktop with colored borders around VM windows, or Windows 10 Enterprise virtualization-based security.
No, it is not. It is an industry term for robot initiated clicks for the purpose of profiting, that is the "FRAUD" part, just clicking random ads is not defrauding any party to the benefit of another, it just wastes resources.
It's a blurry line, but I believe it passes far to the left of advertising.

One dimension of that distinction is intent - are you trying to persuade me having my best interests in mind (including not applying the technique if you're not sure about the consequences)? Then I'll probably be fine with it, and consider it an act of friendship. Are you trying to exploit me by convincing me to make self-harming decisions? I'd consider this an act of malice. An attack.

Advertising of all kinds would be fine if it performed just the information function - by honestly trying to paint the whole picture and give all relevant information to enable customers to make a rational choice. As it is today, it's squarely in the malicious, abusive zone.
I just confirmed you can install this manually in Chromium still. https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...
It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island.

Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Do you mean Fahrenheit? 20 degrees Celsius (68F) wouldn't even qualify as insulation in a sleeping bag, may as well use a garbage bag and newspapers. 20 degrees Fahrenheit would make for a good 3 season bag though.
I'm about the same age and feel the same way. In my 20's I would actually avoid learning something because "I know that stuff already" (Spoiler: I didn't) Now I'm thirsty for new knowledge, and much more willing to admit when I don't know something.
No one even came close to suggesting that a redistributional tax scheme is free.

But interestingly: basic income provides more benefits with as income inequality goes up. That is, if everyone in society already has the same level of income, there would be no way to finance basic income through income tax. You would collect the same amount of tax from every person and then give it right back to them. However, in your hypothetical distribution, that one person at the top is singlehandedly providing the basic income of 2% of the population. And we are using your proposed very fair taxation scheme of flat tax. And in reality, income distributions are far more skewed than your hypothetical distribution.
That bit about different functionality when using different cables etc have me worried.
No New Ubuntu Phones Planned (And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either)
Yes. Please report these bugs!
I would recommend avoiding signing or agreeing to anything there and then, take any documentation home and think it over for a good long while before signing. If possible, have your own legal representation go over it from your side. Their lawyer is working for the companies interests, not yours. Good luck!
Thanks!

I spent the time to find ~700 independent blogs of people who are publishing content related to software dev / making products in tech. This is done ~80/20 automatically and manually.

From there it's a lot of web scraping magic and managing the submission of new blogs to the data source. (Verifying quality etc) I'm happy to provide more info if anyone is interested. Or to discuss ideas for features that you all would appreciate!
Thanks for sharing, looks awesome :)

Do you use Shopify for any specific reason? Or it simply satisfies your needs?

Last question (I promise!): Do you place the orders manually or do you have any sort of automated system integrated with your supplier?
Hmmm, I've developed both skills in tandem . . . maybe I should start calling myself a unicorn . . .
That's like harming the Pope to get back at God.

AdNauseum doesn't hurt advertising networks, it hurts publishers. When they get banned for click fraud, the network keeps the money.
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I was trying to make Graphviz produce all these types of charts using a Markdown DSL for version-control purposes, but like some said, it's kludgy.

I'm mostly interested in a tool that can produce Flowchart, Sequence, Gantt, Dataflow, Class and Database diagrams using nothing but a CLI.

I'd appreciate any recommendations.
Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.
> "Posted by Benjamin Wootton on 05/01/17 15:20"

[...]

> "So what’s the solution?
To reduce the software delivery gap, mainstream enterprises need to raise their game by transforming their own internal capability."

[...]

> "We founded Contino so that we could instead transform through delivery."

[...]

> "Benjamin Wootton is the Co-Founder and CTO, EMEA of Contino."
I bought your book on Leanpub. Great read, as I recall.
That's one view, not substantiated by history or anything. Government constantly and pervasively controls the actions and defines the rights of the individual. Almost by definition. "Providing goods" may be an ideal government that could be achieved some day somewhere. But not a working definition of any government in existence.

And trivializing the harm done by racist hiring practices is disingenuous. Its not just 'hurting feelings'; its marginalizing citizens en masse.
Hey! I run a new ISP in Montana. We're actually about to head to China to source more affordable fiber and OSP materials. If you want to chat we have a slack channel called #ispschool that has a bunch of ISP owners in it. http://slack.tsi.io
Consider the chromebook pixel. I wanted to buy one, but they screwed me (and I think a lot of others) over with the drive. It cost $1500, but came with a 64GB SSD. I could have dealt with that if only the SSD wasn't SOLDERED onto the motherboard. I wouldn't buy a mac with a soldered SSD and that drive would be at least 4x bigger.

If it ships with an m.2 so I can expand or replace the existing HD, I'm fine. If not, I'm not buying it at any price. This is a laptop, not some tiny phone.
I don't find the distinction very useful either.

But I think that a 10x developer is one who knows all the ins and outs of the tools in his or her belt.

Who will prefer a 10-year-old framework that served him well over an opportunity to procrastinate by means of reinventing the wheel. (I'm looking at you, JavaScript-land)

And who doesn't fall into the "tower of babel"-trap, which is the believe that there's a universal language and a perfect way of writing a program or structuring a system.
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One of the more ridiculous arguments in favor of the new MBPs was a refrain of "HDMI is on its way out", "HDMI is old tech", "New equipment won't use HDMI".
A friend of mine has been doing this for many years. I have bought a lot from him, and he's not cheap. I know he could make a lot more if he worked on his marketing a little bit, but I'm not sure he wants to.

https://www.instagram.com/madeinzaidasbasement/

Anyway, I love that there are more people doing this kind of stuff. Good luck!
Small nitpick: The country area is inverted if you move it near the poles. (Maybe because the orientation clockwise/counterclockwise changes implicitly.)
I had to close a fake chat interface and a bottom overlay (with a semi-insulting "no I don't want my website to be amazing" style message) before I could see enough of your site to make sense of it and begin to read it. Then a full-page popover obscured literally the entire site.

Not to sound too mean, but you lost me. I can't honestly be bothered to read sites that employ these tricks, and you flooded me with them. I had to fight my way past them just to read your core value proposition. And on reading further, it looks like all those popups... are your core value proposition?

Your tech may be wonderful, but I feel like you don't understand its influence on people's browsing behaviour - these tricks drive people away, not towards.

(Also, you have a spelling error in your hero section: "Call-To-Action's" does not require the apostrophe, as it is not possessive.)
If you look at it as the extension performs fraud, then what Google did is completely defensible. And I feel that it does. You may not feel that way exactly, but it's certainly justifiable that the extensions actions defraud the ad network.
What modern technology would be most revolutionary to ancient Greeks?
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I don't think advertisers need all of the tracking crap they seem to think they do, for many decades advertisers have had much less tacking ability and the industry thrived. Even without ad network JavaScript, you get more tracking ability on the web than any other medium, because you can give each ad a unique URL, and once you have a click from that URL , you have the prospect on you own site and can track the results. Prospect bounces almost immediately? Well, that wasn't very successful- prospect buys your product/service- success! Prospect spends 15 minutes on your site, reading several articles? Not so bad. What do I need from the publisher that ad network JavaScript provides?
Greenland @839,999 square miles is the biggest island. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001783.html

Unless your talking about Australia which is ~3.5x a big. (2,969,907 sq miles)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area Greenland is the biggest island.
HDMI already has cable limitations. long runs don't work good. same as VGA. different problem / same problem.

you're an idiot.
They really should walk over to LGs booth and take a look at their small, flexible OLED screens. These babies would make great panels for foldout screens as they are crazy slim.

Even the TV-Size ones are only 2.57mm thick.

(I badly want slideout screens, although at a 13 inch formfactor. My Dream would be something like the Surfacebook, with the option to slide out screens on both sides)
> Why should Valve be a crusader for Linux?

Because they can put a definitive end on the standoff between them and Microsoft.

But that is not, and should not be their main goal. And if it's too expensive, it may end up detrimental to the "great games" goal. So, they should be looking into it, but there may be really good reasons to not do it.
On their FAQ page AdNauseum reproduce the following definition of click fraud to argue they're not engaging in it:

The practice of ... clicking on an advertisement hosted on a website with the intention of ... draining revenue from the advertiser

Elsewhere on the same page they've even gone to the extent of explaining how they calculate the average revenue they think each simulated click drains from the entities they wish to "resist"
nice, buddy
Baeocystin - I fit that bill. I am 63. I can learn still but my ability grasp really complex random info has fallen off. My ability to learn info that I am passionate about not so much.

I have learned what I can learn and how to learn. In college I could retain a lot for a little time period. Today my short term memory for syntax is not so good. In the book dyslexic advantage[1] they state that dyslexic's short term memory is not as good as the general population but our conceptual memory / ability to visualize is heightened. I am dyslexic and find this to be true. So I learn concepts and thank google every day for syntax.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dyslexic-Advantage-Unlocking-Hidden-P...

Also Baeocystin I like your HN handle.

Edit:
Typo
Added link to dyslexic advantage
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That's not an asset.
> winpty

Cool. There's a third option that you might want to consider for winpty. (I was experimenting with it before I left Microsoft.)

The basic idea is to use a DLL shim to provide your own console API implementation for a process and its children --- you can replace the system console API with your own by shimming DLL import and export tables. You'd use your own type of pseudohandle for your fake console handles; programs written to work with the old console pseudohandles should work correctly with your pseudohandles, provided you've hooked the relevant HANDLE-using APIs.
In chess, amateurs play for tricks, masters play for position.

Amateurs assume competitors will fall for the tricks, but that is dangerous in business. Competitors could be sandbagging, and there's no ELO based on many prior games. You're also threatening their business and livelihood, not just the loss of a 2 hour game.

Masters assume competitors can see all the tricks, so they play for better pawn structures and piece placements. It is grinding out slight long-term advantages and converting it to a win in the end game. Grinding is the only way, because the players are so equally matched in the short-term: their pieces have similar powers, and they are limited to one move per turn.

In software, businesses can build only so many features per month due to the mythical man-month. Businesses are building on top of more or less the same technologies and mathematical techniques. Businesses understand what is important to customers and how customers use the features. Businesses watch each other's product demos and talk with each other's customers, so nothing released is hidden for long. Businesses also poach talent from each other.

Scholar's mate won't work here, there's no silver bullet features, and anything you build can and will be copied. You'll have to grind it out, fighting for better pawn structures, bishops on long diagonals, network effects, brand, and talent. And in the long-term, you come out ahead.
But this isn't a case of two different markets...Google makes no money off of Chrome. They make money off of advertising. The bottom line of Chrome is that it is just there to view advertising. The better they can make it, the more it will be used, and the more advertising will be viewed (hopefully Google's)
I'm saying if you're in IT, you can do fizzbuzz, and you want a development job but don't have one — then this all adds up to mean you haven't been applying for development jobs.
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No, basically there are software add-ons to Shopify that let you import an AliExpress seller's product into your store.

Your customer never sees the original seller's listing, and therefore you can charge any price you want.

So, as long as you charge a price that is higher than the raw cost + S&H, you can then collect money from your sale, and use that to purchase the item from the AliExpress vendor (this is automated). Part of the automation process fills in your customer's mailing address, and the vendor fulfills their order directly. (So you don't have to hold any inventory, you're just the go-between.)

Your AliExpress vendors will know what's going on, but they expect and anticipate that people do this. It's how they make money.

Essentially, the service you provide is marketing, design, and salesmanship. They provide the product.
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