skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a "shit show on decline".

I am assuming this is your profile http://stackoverflow.com/users/6317210/madcatm2

Consider:

1) you have basic questions older than 6 months with correct answers you haven't marked as correct

2) you clearly show an ability to program, however ask questions that you should be able to debug yourself easily. I think this is the main issue. In your question about the return value of prompt, logging the response should show you it is clearly not the value "null".
This is exactly how I use Mobike and Ofo (the two main dockless bike share companies in China).
'RTFM' doesn't help much if it requires a strong background in signal processing to make sense of it ;)
Here it is. Beware there is no UI here; it's just a bunch of data in a table. The first sheet is a guide.

https://filetea.me/n3wYtvASptWSLuUxURLHFMhtw

I wish there was something like it for the publications I haven't read, which makes me think that maybe (a very few) others might find use for what I've done. If you have an idea of how to reach them or utilize it, I'd appreciate it. Please don't share it yourself.

I hadn't used FileTea before; it's perfect for many uses. Does the shared file expire at some point?

EDIT: I should add that it omits some sources that I subscribed to before I started the spreadsheet, including the leading think tanks (Brookings, CSIS, Rand, etc.), the Financial Times ... that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
There is no concept of an integer on an argument vector. Quoting in bash just escapes IFS characters (usually whitespace) to control whether to include them in a given argument on the vector, but these arguments (as passed to exec) are always character strings (with or without quoting).
Initial Rust support for Thrift lands in Thrift mainline
..and yet, TV advertising is still a huge business

YouTube can target ads much better than TV, and with TrueView ads the advertiser only pays if the viewer doesn't skip, so more of the revenue is going to be coming from ads that mutually add value (at least that's the theory)
The one real downside here is that you're tying your users to Windows. If you had a more "pluggable" db layer, they could use the platform of their choice.

That said, the code is in C# as well (and not .NET core, from what I saw), so they're pretty tied to Windows anyway, which is awkward since this is a macOS app.
Reddit post on the matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5qbhat/announcement_i...
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If your bosses aren't planning to lay everyone off in a month, there has got to be something slightly-lower priority to be working on. Unless you're on the critical path, spending half a day blocked on your primary task and focusing on a secondary priority is no big deal (or, at least, shouldn't be). If you are on the critical path, scoop up that phone and start dialing.

Since you're new there, you might not have the assignments and/or enough responsibility to know what else needs to be done. But that should happen soon, and there is no reason not to proactively talk to your boss about secondary goals to focus on when you're blocked waiting on communication.

I think it's just good management to convey the bigger picture to everyone. Between the steady stream of tickets assigned to me and other existing responsibility I haven't had to ask my boss "what do I work on now?" in... like... 3 or 4 years.
If you have your own domain and run your own personal smtpd (example: postfix) properly set up for SPF and DKIM validation with opendkim, plus spamassassin, it is pretty easy to write a custom spamassassin rule for recruiter spam.
I tried it, so many channels (pretty much all HD) were tagged cannot record, so I returned the cablecard the next day.
Assuming that Trump is going to resist having his choice of device dictated, could his IT staff secure the device (somewhat) by running all his traffic through a VPN that does outbound filtering?
> Many useful comments on HN are downvoted without reason, or otherwise petty reasons. This userscript automatically upvotes any downvoted/grayed-out comments to counteract this phenomenon.

A script to make arbitrary upvotes to counter arbitrary downvotes fixes nothing.
> I don't really see Google moving to close the web parts of this.

Google actively restricts which programs and extensions you can install on a Chromebook and Android, Google restricts what you can publish on their infrastructure, and AMP is also becoming somewhat of a problem.

On Android, Google killed all other push notification services (and tries to prevent people from writing open source libraries for theirs), by only allowing notifications from Google Cloud Messaging to work when the device is saving battery (basically always on recent versions).

After trying to fight this for quite a while, I do really see Google moving to close this.
Could this possibly lead to a cure for neuro-degenerative diseases like parkinson's and ALS?
I kinda don't get this. Don't you just >> .gitignore patterns that cause problems as you see them in git status?
Their DeepMind AI has actually decreased their energy consumption at their data centers.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-uses-deepmind-ai-...
That is rubbish. Many reasonably complex projects require a reasonable amount of communication. This list sounds like you have only worked on 1 man toy projects.
There are definitely comments with merit that get downvoted for no reason, but there are also a lot of comments that absolutely deserve to be downvoted. Do you theorize that those will still be adequately penalized despite people theoretically using your script?
The first proposed suggestion is to send a cookie when a blocked account logins and have it be sent if they logout and tries to create new accounts. I personally doubt this will have a major effect on system which has user accounts (like college campus) but libraries could get problems.

The second is to limiting the scope of a IP ban so that it only effects specific user-agent strings, trying to only effecting the intended user.

The third suggestion is to create a cookie when a new account is created that "counts" the number of times a new account is created on a single machine.
Which JavaScript framework do I chose?
iOS 10 UI Templates
FWIW, I have no personal experience with Adderall or any amphetamines, haven't used any (but am rather curious about trying some day), but I also found your post very confusing due to the phrasing. "One or two orders of magnitude" implies some sort of quantitative assertion, even though a clearly hyperbolic one, and there's no clarification as to how significant the effect you experienced actually was. Pointing that out does not equate "spreading FUD" in any way. Furthermore, the parent's statement that you got "a bit smarter" rather than orders of magnitude smarter is comparatively correct according to any reasonable medical understanding.
The current HTTP RFC is actually quite nice: http://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7234.html
1, 4. Yes, documentation is absolutely scarce - given that culture, such back and forth is often required. Some configurations or details of a complex (and often legacy) system are opaque, and used infrequently enough that teamwide training on it isn't appropriate.

2. Yes, often my tasks are exploratory rather than implementation of a particular feature. Often the goal is to explore and then discuss my findings. When I can't just go up to someone's desk in person and ask them when they are free to discuss, Slack is a good resource to set up a meeting.

3. I definitely am not blocked on all, but the context switching hurts my productivity as well - to me, a quick response would have large benefits for me and a minimal distraction for my colleague.
There is a common misconception about Stack Overflow that it is there to help the people asking questions. While it doesn't sound nice to say it, that isn't really the purpose.

Stack Overflow is here to help all the future people who see the question. This is why someone who posts a lot of highly-upvoted questions but no answers is still a valuable asset and receives a high "reputation". This is the great value in Stack Overflow, really. Answers you see there are generally not targeted specifically for the asker, but rather are helpful to broader uses and many more people. Questions used to be closed merely because they were too specific and unlikely to be helpful to future readers.

Stack Overflow is meant to create a library of question/answer combos that make (theoretically) all future programming questions redundant. If your question is unhelpful in that ambition either because it already exists, it lacks clarity or specificity, etc., it will be closed. Granted, SO has the nasty people that come with any community-run site, but there are also many, many helpful and friendly people who will take the time to explain things either about your question or why the question doesn't fit the guidelines of the site. Without seeing your posts, it is impossible for me to say what was wrong with them if anything. I can only speak from personal experience.

My first question was posted after weeks of research and headaches. I read the help pages that were linked for me. It took two bounties before I got an answer, but I got one. While waiting for that answer, I decided to see if there was some way I could pay back for the answer I expected to receive. I learned a lot about the site by seeing the responses to other people's questions. I also, incidentally, learned a lot about programming by how others responded to my answers. By the time I posted another question, I knew the site pretty well. I have now posted 11 questions, and my only downvote was on a post with 10 upvotes.
That's not the case. Today's translation and speech recognition systems are considerably larger than even the beefiest phones can sustain. There are some simple OCR models and word (not phrasal) translation systems that run on the device, but not speech recognition.
Vertical Gardens Can Reduce Noise in Your Office
The community of wikimedia and wikipedia is pretty bad with this. I've seen articles locked, then marked for deletion, so you can't add more information to make it 'article-worthy'. They then say that its not 'against the guidelines', as the ultimate excuse.

Mediawiki is supposed to also be a communicative platform on these problems, but it really fails its goal there with its talk pages, when these problems really stem from a lack of centralized community and being able to easily talk about and resolve these issues. Typically, you'l get referenced to IRC or another talk page, where your issue will not be resolved and will probably take forever to be responded to.

Overall, I've ditched working with Mediawiki or anything wikimedia. They don't show caring to actually invest in open platforms and software that others can use, they're just interested in making their own projects popular. Some of the core devs are actually really good at what they do, the problem is that the framework now needs a big revamp for it to be usable outside of the wikipedia environment properly, something wikimedia will not invest in.

If they want to show good faith in freedom of information, they would make their software into components and allow other projects to use them, especially the actual wiki markup processor. This would allow people to integrate wiki functionality into fundamentally better frameworks to maintain, like Drupal 8, or design their own frameworks that internally use the packages maintained in mediawiki.
Actually, they probably DO have a blacklist... the question is... what would it take to get put on it? Asking doesn't work... perhaps being aggressively, crazily bigoted and abusive?
Huh; for whatever reason, I have "QUIC Enabled: false" (Chrome 55.0.2883.95 64-bit on Mac OS X 10.12.1).
"I live in Prague, and the instability and corruption following the fall of the iron curtain made many people very rich."

Prague went from one kind of stability - to a different one.

Without the resulting stability - nobody would have been rich.

Yes - I agree - a 'shock' to a system will create winners and losers, arguably, you could say that there is something to gain for the 'winners'.

That said - the cause of the 'fall of the iron curtain' was not 'capitalists' - their power was not nearly sufficient for this.

There was great sociopolitcal upheaval - and I might add most citizens where 'on the whole' good with it.

Of course there is 'change', and sometimes 'shock' - but on the whole - most businesses want stability, decent governance, baseline growth.

McDonald's would love African regimes to be stable and for their citizens to have $$$.
I'm not certain, but I assume HN attempts to detect bot-driven voting and that this script might get people banned. A sequence of posts being upvoted faster than would be humanly possible is an obvious sign that a human isn't doing the voting. I'd be careful using this from an account you actually care about.
I'm reminded of the Amish. From what I've read, although many people mistakenly believe that the Amish reject all new technology, they in fact only reject technology which would "change their way of life too much".

I think that people in general have a similar reluctance, and it causes change to be slow (although not as slow as it is for the Amish, of course). People are OK with new drugs that cure diseases because that's not that different from what they already know. It's just a new disease to toss in the age-old bucket of "curing disease". But enhancement past "basically healthy" is a whole new category in people's minds. It feels like an enormous change, even though it's probably not as big (at least in the short term) as curing smallpox.
I said "very rough estimates" since indeed the world average is unlikely to be exactly the same as Sweden. But even if we reduce the global rate to 10% of Sweden (fair?), it is still 2 million articles and would cover half the current size of english Wikipedia.

Usefulness of non-notible articles is often discussed in Wikipedia. One side generally argue that any article that is useful should be included. The idea that notability is the criteria and not usefulness is an interesting discussion, and part of the deletionism versus inclusionism controversy.
https://www.amazontrust.com
How to Save CNN from Itself
The guidelines ask us not to introduce flamewar topics without anything new to say:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, meant to imply I was blocked on that specific task, which is often the highest priority one, rather than on all tasks. Unfortunately, the highest priority ones are often the most difficult and trickiest, requiring occasional questions when I run into things other have had experience in. Is the loss in time spent on high priority items worth fewer quick distractions to the rest of the team?
I didn't say "worst site ever", I said the community is insufferable. If you don't edit you don't have to deal with the monkeys there and thus the website is, as you've said, the greatest encyclopedia to have existed in the history of the world and blah blah. But don't you dare to register.
They would have to be preassembled, and warmed (hence the limited hours of operation).

Toasting four bread surfaces for each alone would be energy prohibitive.
What are some examples of articles you've written that you feel definitely shouldn't have been deleted?
They could attach dedicated microcell for Trump and lock his phone into it. After that they can put all his connections behind firewall and block or filter Trump's access as much as they like.

Not a foolproof solution, but better than nothing.
Thanks so much for that link. High-quality campfire-chat material :)
He asked for alternative websites. You gave him the same kind of response he's getting on Stack Overflow that's prompting him to seek alternatives in the first place.
Vanishing Point: The Rise of the Invisible Computer
Swearing fealty via Facebook, Twitter, or other social media is already the price of entry for a lot of contests or bling.
Disclosure: I am the author of that post and Product Manager for this project as well as other related work like Certificate Transparency and Key Transparency.

While I can not say what Google will do in the future, I can say we are very supportive of Let's Encrypt. We have provided them funding and I personally act as an advisor to Let's Encrypt.

In short, we love what Let's Encrypt is doing.
"Make game of that which makes as much of thee."

Words to live by. I am considering getting them as my first tattoo at 38.
You say they're "bad" at this, but another word you could use is "consistent", and you could follow that up by suggesting that there's a coherent criteria used for what's deleted, but that nerds have a really hard time understanding it.

To wit: Wikipedia not at all concerned about storage space, but they are concerned very much about the amount of time they'll need to spend policing articles to make sure that things that wind up preferentially at the top of Google search result pages aren't full of advertising spam, lies, and cruft. Every article they add increases that burden. A reasonable line to draw in the sand is "we're only going to allow articles that make a clear statement of why their topic is notable, and for which an ordinary, disinterested editor could verify all the facts by following cited sources."
It actually had nothing to do with deadlifts or bad form. I was working on my bench press and couldn't get the fifth rep up. I set the bar down on my chest and instead of calling out for help (to any of the fifty people standing nearby), I thought it would be less embarrassing to just roll it down to my knees and then stand up and set the weight down. Stupid decision. Once I got the weight to my knees, I severely underestimated my back-to-chest strength ratio and the weight plummeted to the ground, pulling my (arched) back down with it. I think it was about 215 lbs (97 kg).

The key to deadlifts is good form and not letting your back arch at all. I would recommend getting an expert trainer or an advanced lifter to help you practice your form if you are worried about it. It's worth the time to prevent an injury.
You're right that these are problems, but how long does it take to solve them?

1) Do you know of a way to document a significantly-sized application in such a way that it is not massively more efficient to ask a colleague for help than to go source-diving? Say we are talking about a rails app that has been maintained for 5 years and with a reasonably complete test suite.

2) Does a fresh-from-uni or perhaps 2-years-out-of-uni junior developer teach themselves how to ask just enough questions up-front that they don't need to ask more to unblock themselves?

4) How does one gain this technical knowledge if you are on a project and need to apply it but don't yet have it yourself?
"React Navigation is born from the React Native community's need for an extensible yet easy-to-use navigation solution. It replaces and improves upon several navigation libraries in the ecosystem, including Ex-Navigation and React Native's Navigator and NavigationExperimental components."

Source: https://reactnavigation.org/blog/2017/1/Introducing-React-Na...
Good point. A huge, high quality dataset to train their own AI-based malware detection engine. Someone must be doing this already, at least as a research project.
or run yourself, you can put openvpn on a $2.50/month debian or centos VPS.
Ask HN: What frameworks do you use for live video?
I'm curious what frameworks do you use for streaming live video?
On that note it would be really interesting to see the percentage breakdown of who's IP made your phone/laptop/etc
People just love the nuclear down-vote-everything-you've-said-that-they-can option these days.
Both sides think the others' are self-serving lying fascists.
Some PKI-related services can not, due to user agent behaviors and, do SSL, for example, consider OCSP; if to fetch an OCSP request you need to do an SSL connection and the library doing SSL does an OCSP check to verify the SSL cert you can end up in an infinite loop.

While it would be ideal for that not to be the case, one has to build out infrastructure that supports the way UAs behave today.
That's why medical tourism is a big and growing industry. Much like other political policies fruitlessly trying to end legitimate supply/demand as long as people want it there are always ways around it.

I'm sure any paralyzed person would easily take a $300 flight to Canada for the surgery.

The only risk is that the US has the highest amount of human scientific capital.

But much like the EPA thing that turned out to be overblown (according to multiple EPA reps who said the memo was routine and that Obama did much the same, without drawing the subsequent outrage) I'm going to wait until legitimate threats to stem cell research are made before I'm concerned.
I would too. There are a lot of people out there who blame the rich for all their problems.
I wish that I could install a version of Quora on my company's local network which would preserve that Q & A knowledge and make it more searchable.

Tangent: It has been 7 years since their founding. How does Quora make money?
The Real Reason the French Work Less Than Americans Do
Being hit on by people who very well might say "oh, actually, you're kind of ugly" if they were to reply with some interest to boot.
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>It's easy.

No, clearly it's not.

I work for a startup that's delivering health services. Insurance companies have a very high bar for what they cover.

They are very conservative about covering new therapies. There's a lot of snake oil in medicine (acupuncture, homeopathy) and they don't want to pay for what doesn't keep their members healthy.
Facebook Adds Support for Security Keys
> As of Wednesday, the company has once again changed its trending algorithms. Personal preferences are now out of the equation. "Facebook will no longer be personalized based on someone's interests," Facebook says in a press release. "Everyone in the same region will see the same topics." For now, a region is considered a country, so everyone in the U.S. should see the same topics.

Facebook dropping personalization of news. I'm really surprised.
Considering approximately 2 billion people in the world are self sustaining farmers, even 10% of Swedens rate is an over-estimate.
Hey that's an episode from Black Mirror!
He has Secret Service people with him at all times, so they could be carrying the microcell equipment. Presumably you would then route the traffic over the standard cell networks (to get maximum coverage) using an encrypted tunnel.
Cutting power consumption on a Linux-based undersea robotics lab
As an engineer, I've always resented the unnecessary time I spend waiting for data in web browsers, so the bad state of caching in web browsers is an issue that's been on my mind for a long time.

There are a few ways to improve things:

1. Predictive modelling user resource demand in the browser (eg. preloading data) Very very easy to do nowadays with great accuracy.

2. Better cache control / eviction algorithms to keep the cache ultra hot.

3. (This). Immutable caching is one of the major ways we could improve things. I'm not a fan of the parent articles' way of doing it though, because if widely implemented it will break the web in subtle ways, especially for small companies and people that don't have Facebooks resources and engineering talent. It doesn't take into account usability issues and therefore leaves too much room for user error.

I've written up a very simple 11 line spec here that addresses this issue. https://gist.github.com/ericbets/5c1569856c2ad050771ec0c866f...

I'll throw out a challenge to HN. If someone here knows chromium internals well enough to expose the cache and assetloader to electron, within a few months I'll release an open source ML powered browser that speeds up their web browsing experience by something between 10X-100X. Because I feel like this should have been part of the web 10 years ago.