skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just made me realise how difficult it is to check my version.

1. Hamburger menu -> hunt for the 'about' -> version 54. Great!.. or..not? Is that old?

2. Google "google chrome current version" -> skip past a few 3rd party sites detailing how to find the 'about' page -> Choose what I assume is the product page: https://www.google.com/chrome/

3. No version number in this page. In fact, no mention of browsers at all! The page appears to be an advert for chromebooks. In the bottom left, in the site-navigation footer there is 'browser' under 'products'.

4. Ah, this is more like it. This looks like your typical marketing website/landing page - fancy feature list, big download button, but... no version number? -> Click "Download"

5. A terms of service and a download button? What version am I going to "Accept and Install"?? Filename it wants to download is "google-chrome-stable_current".. great! Is that the version I currently have?

Unsurprisingly wikipedia has all the information I wanted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history
I can hardly read the code (https://i.imgur.com/fEsIYdA.png). Author needs to take a look at http://contrastrebellion.com/.
Yes coming from a From an rnd background I was surprised that they are limited to half scale tunnels.

IT would make more sense to limit the max power for you computing resource - it would encourage innovation.
Why you should become an open source sustainer
i don't get this. You get a better view of the game on tv (multi-angles, commentary, etc.). You go to arenas for the experience, of getting there beforehand, tailgating, going with your friends/kids. You get a worse view but you get a better experience. Why would you use VR for a worse view without the experience?
CSS Grid complements Flexbox by providing two-dimensional grid-based layout capabilities. Flexbox can only lay things out along one axis, and although you can do a lot of things that look a bit grid-like with it (usually involving multiple flex containers), it doesn't actually think in grid terms to do it.

So with CSS Grid and a few media queries it's pretty trivial to have a full-on, really robust grid layout on a desktop site and have it gracefully reflow itself into a column layout to render on a phone, with source element ordering being completely irrelevant.

Or at least, it will be when the mobile and desktop browser support picture for it is good enough.
The U.S. Cannot Be Run Like a Business
The new York subway is used often as an example of how well the private sector can build infrastructure. But really, those two private systems (bmt, irt) where the original PPP. New York city actually backed those systems with municipal loans (bonds), which is a pretty big subsidy - and a setup of "private profits, public losses".

In any case, the two private systems are badly designed relative to one another: bad transfers, redundancies. The IND built by the public is overall much better designed.

The fact that both the private and public where able to build giant subway systems in the 10s-40s but it all fell apart after, should give some idea that it wasn't anything inherent to being public or private that allowed building it and made it difficult later, but other factors.
How does that connect to your previous statement?

Yes, the system (and the people who build and make up the system) decide to distribute wealth to 'non-productive' people. That's a good thing, exactly because charity of the 'productive' people is not reliable.
I have an app for hundreds public libraries. Such libraries have online cataloges where you can search books, or renew books you have lend, and my app connects to their webpages to show all catalogs in a common interface. Or do things the catalogs do not support, like automatically renewing every due book: http://www.videlibri.de/index_en.html

It takes an awful amount of time to maintain, since there are no APIs and I have to parse the webpages. Every other week/month some webpage changes and I need to adjust it.

It has been going on for years, and I need to update a lot of internal things, too. It is all in German, I need to work on an English translation. Often libraries have multiple copies of the same book. Then you want to search the book, select one copy and order that copy. The current version only stores these copies as strings, because each book is a list of string->string pairs, which looks bad when the user is show the string "Copy 1, library building 1, 123456, orderable". (i.e. an index, building where you find it, the signature of, and status). I just made a new version that would show that all such copies in a 4-column table, but it needs more testing before a release. Each library has different columns, and too many columns might not fit on the screen.

And I made my own programming language to minimize the amount of time spend on adjusting the webpage parsing:
http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

It was just for small webpages, so speed did not matter and its evaluation just interprets the syntax tree, but now I made it XQuery compatible. Someone wrote a raytracer in XQuery, and when I run that in my implementation, it runs quite slowly. I probably need to build a byte-code for it.
Do you have to use that non-US IP everytime you watch, or just during signup?
a youtube replacement in zeronet would rock
Cute little driverless pods are now operating in London
You're insane if you think it's an advertisement. If you can't see that, I don't think I can help you do so.
"Public Services are associated with a social consensus that is usually expressed through democratic elections. If they are public it’s because we consider that they should be available to all, regardless of income, physical ability and/or mental acuity. Of course, there is nothing new with Public Services being provided by private companies. But then, they are usually subject to some regulation."

Except for buses.

Buses are a cheap, quick way to pretend like you care about public transportation and check off a few boxes on your development list while providing the absolute worst transit option possible.

The users of transit get shafted with soul-crushing scheduling and performance. The opponents of transit get a convenient "example" of why it's a bad investment. Innocent bystanders like me get an urban environment polluted by big dirty, hulking (and usually empty) buses bonking their way around the city streets.

Anything is better than bus transit in the US.
> Besides dropping Python 2 support

"Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
Moving from a Home with Two Bedrooms to Three Costs $450 Extra a Month
Or you could make an old-fashioned remote-control garage opener with no app, no phone, no web browser, and fewer security holes.
In other news ZeroNet has been banned from giving its TEDtalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14039219
Your strategy will fail: The 10 warning signs
What Are the Best Coding Bootcamps in NYC?
Often people need something, not badly but enough to want to pay for a solution. However, they come to sub-optimal situations the way they are. Sometimes it is too subtle to vocally warrant speaking out about. Sometimes they do speak about it, but it is lost in the fire-hose of societal conversation.
Is there a library or babel like transform on server side which can enable this feature in older browsers? Most clients wont have this enabled for some time now.
Football is much more tough than hockey and needs recovery time. Hockey is tough but Football you have running backs/WRs getting hit on every other play. You have the QB getting knocked down 3-5 times a game. The the offensive line is having a pushing and hand war with the defensive line on every single play while playing strategically and covering additional players. The WRs have to sprint on every play. And for special teams you have the opposite team running at you as you run at them.
Location: SE Asia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: /primary/ Ruby, Python, Rust, C#, Haskell, Elixir; /secondary/ Perl 6, Assembly, Scala, C, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2c1Rwp9

Email: me@alexmaslakov.me

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I'm Alex, a freelance developer. I've worked with web mostly for the last 6 years , 4 of which as a freelancer. And for rest of time I've been doing work involving desktop, mobile, data science and security.

I'm up for freelance/remote jobs, preferably, big and long-term.

Github: https://github.com/GildedHonour

Web-site: http://gildedhonour.com (CV, contacts)

Blog: http://alexmaslakov.me

Thanks && Cheers!
The Innisfil city website mentioned that there will be flat rate pricing to certain major destinations in town.
Eleventh Commandment:

"Thou Shalt Not Make Jokes on Hacker Nudes.. take it to /."
Show HN: Underlock – dead simple encryption in Ruby, minimal dependencies and API
SwitchUp collected thousands of reviews to analyze the top coding bootcamps in NYC.
Story of my app
It was one weekend a few years back. I was on vacation and I get a call from my boss asking me to forward an email with attachment — which he had sent. With a mobile in hand, and a flaky internet connection, I could not send it. Not that I would have sent it, even if the internet connection was good — because I had archived the emails and created a pst file which was stored on my laptop- with a backup on my external hard disk.
This incident gave birth to an idea — which resulted in an app called ViewIT (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avati.viewit) on Android which could read pst files. I wanted to create an app which could read one or many pst files, enable users to search for emails or attachments and forward emails using their favourite email client.
After a few weeks of coding, I was able to release the app. The initial adoption was slow and the feedback was not very positive because the performance was poor. Search was taking a lot of time and large pst files used to crash the application due to lack of memory.
To improve performance, especially on mobile devices which have constraints on memory and processing power, I started indexing emails within pst files. Indexing was made mandatory as it was the only way performance could be improved. Once this was enforced, the performance improved exponentially. Also, indexing of emails enabled faster retrieval of emails and search across pst files. Providing statistics on number of emails indexed became easy. Since Lucene was used for indexing, all the search criteria which Lucene provided were applicable for ViewIT — thus improving the search functionality’s usability drastically.
There are still enhancements I am thinking of, which needs to be implemented.
If you want to check out how ViewIT works, you can try a free version which restricts users to index only one pst file. You can download it here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avati.viewit.lite).
I disagree with "2 months". It's definitely true that launching early is the way to go. I think the biggest thing is continuing momentum. If you commit to working on the project every day for 1-2 like some others have said, you will accomplish small little things each day, and that will motivate you to continue.
The company being hired is famous for dodging regulation.
Both Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew have lots of good resources for understanding the new CSS layout techniques. This article of Rachel's is a year old, but will still give you a good understanding of the differences between the two: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/03/30/should-i-use-...

Jen's got lots of great links here: http://jensimmons.com/post/feb-27-2017/learn-css-grid, including thoughts about how we're going to be able to use all these new layout techniques in ways both new and old.

It's an exciting time to be designing on the web :->
Yes, 100% this. Too many programmers build something and then try to sell it. And worse, when they get close to trying to sell it, they get nervous and go add more features, because writing code makes them feel safe.

But the real risk isn't that an imagined product can't be built. It's that the imagined product won't be bought when you build it.

So please, everybody, do what jasonswett says and start with the audience and their need. Verify that people will buy the thing before you build it. Because, and I'm speaking from experience here, it zero fun to build something and then discover that nobody cares.
SEEKING WORK

Remote: yes

Location: SE Asia

Languages (primary): Ruby, Python, Haskell, C#, Rust, Elixir;

Languages (secondary): Perl 6, Java, Assembly, Scala, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Email: me@alexmaslakov.me

Github: https://github.com/GildedHonour

Web-sites: http://gildedhonour.com (CV, contacts), http://alexmaslakov.me (blog)

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I'm Alex, a freelance developer. I've worked with web mostly for the last 6 years, 4 of which as a freelancer. And for rest of time I've been doing work involving desktop, mobile, data science and security.

I'm up for freelance/remote jobs, preferably, big and long-term.

Thanks && Cheers!
A side question, do you know the Germans always used a comma as the decimal point, or was it changed over because it was clearer.
That article on FastCompany about the Amazon Whisperer is incredibly eye-opening. Thanks for linking
OWASP (non-profit)

https://www.owasp.org/

NIST (government)

https://www.nist.gov/publications/
Humour is fine in principle, but good comments should attempt to further the discourse - e.g. expanding explanations, adding related information, explaining opposing viewpoints, making constructive criticism, fact-checking, or asking questions.

For example, it's very unclear to me what your original comment has to do with trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis. Assuming there is a link, adding an explanation might have improved its reception.
Author here, looking for feedback and criticism from HN community, thanks!
The IT Security StackExchange website contains lots of information which is generally kept reasonably up to date. For example a TLS answer might be a bit old and not list last week's attack, but if something turns incorrect it will often be edited.

https://security.stackexchange.com
> The proposed SQRL scheme derives all application specific keys from a single master key. This essentially provides a single juicy target for attackers to go after.

That sounds like the same problem password managers have. And yet they are still recommended over (re-)using your own passwords for each website.
Personally I think pgBouncer is a better solution for handling the switch to the correct master during a failure. I use keepalived (VRRP) for managing my HAProxy machines and while it's certainly reliable there's more issues with it that you have to be aware of than simply flipping the connection string in pgBouncer.
I get the /s but does anyone know why this is the case? Would make life a lot easier IMO.
Surprised this has not been mentioned yet: Make sure your current employer is cool with side projects and moonlighting. Very few companies I've worked for are OK with it, even if done completely with personal equipment/time. You don't want to build the next Facebook in your free time and get fired over it or have your current employer claim IP ownership of it.
You can always make it fancy later. Having shipped a project and seeing people using it is very rewarding.
You joined less than a year ago.
What? Arguably, a bus is the most flexible and cheapest way of transporting people in groups over 10 while simultaneously maximizing the use of existing infrastructure.
Soo much this, just worked on a project that sacrificed reliability, maintainability, and scalability to use a real time database to deal with loads that were on the order of 70 values or 7 writes a second.

Granted this was an especially bad case because it was the shittiest real time database ever built.
No, I just like to get started coding API calls.
Be careful with that and watch your bill carefully. I signed up for internet service recently. The TV bundle wasn't that much more expensive. I read the fine print and they were going to tack an additional $16/mo in fees for the television; $8 going to sport channels.

Now I pay exactly $29/mo of internet, nothing more.
Close to zero. The FTC privacy regulations were struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last year in AT&T Mobility v. FTC, in which the court ruled only the FTC had no authority to regulate activities of entities with common carrier status, even for activities for which they are not common carriers. So, even leaving aside the Open Internet Order reclassifying broadband as a common carrier service, ISPs that are telcos and for that reason have common carrier status are immune to FTC regulation.

That ruling was the reason.The outgoing FCC majority adopted the privacy regulations it did late last year; they were replacements for the FTC orders that were struck down.
Physics Person Here,

Let's see U throw 1,000 bags of shit at the wall, hoping one will stick, and call that the solution? ( Actually there is a name for this process, its called the INTEL methodology )

I concur if the RH could have been solved with 'physics' it would have been solved 50+ years ago, one of the first thing Von Neumann did with the machines was tackle this problem.

The question beg's to ask is this news? Physicists Tackle RH? How about Garbage Men? There are youtube sites promising virtually anybody on the street one million USD cash to solve this problem, as if nobody has yet to date bothered.

Given the age of this problem, and given that computational monte-carlo (physics) isn't going to solve this problem;

Lots of super-smart ( >200 IQ ) people R working on this problem, and have been for years;

Good Luck people.

Great problem to give a super smart kid, to put him in his place.
Not the same drink at all, but :

As a child i read the James Herriot memoirs (all things bright and beautiful, etc..), in which he waxes rhapsodic about the restorative powers and deliciousness of Bovril.

I had no idea what it was, so I was free to invent my own idea of what it might taste like, or be, or consist of.

When i discovered he was so happy about diluted beef stock, i was more than a little let down.
Side projects are so important to me that I would absolutely never accept a job at a company that has an issue with it. We're talking about something that I spend a huge % of my brain energy on, and you're telling me I can only use that brain energy on your thing? Pfft, get the f* out of here.
The New Advanced Placement: Coding Lite
I meant the inventors of course. They shared a Nobel prize: Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain.

Anyways, it was just an example.
4 practical tips to enjoy more silence
Thanks to the person who highlighted a typo on taptimer.com and sent in the contact form about it - no email address supplied so I'm thanking them here.
Amazon's market cap is now worth almost twice that of Wal-Mart
Well yeah, of course. Nobody's saying that the proposed solution for this particular town will necessarily work for any other place.

Besides, what's happening here is that they are adding an option in order to fill a gap in demand. It's not like they're removing current forms of mass transit and replacing them with something else. That would indeed be an entirely different can of worms.
Frequently the decision makers are older people with presbyopia who are convinced that ALLCAPS is best when the better solution would be a larger font.
You can always run a Tor onion service.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/quick-simple-guide-tor-and-...

https://home-assistant.io/docs/ecosystem/tor/
Gameplay looks similar (READ: identical) to Q3:TA, but an updated release would put new blood into it.

Doom 4's multiplayer was kind of lackluster, but a new Q3A should be great.
Nextcloud ready Raspberry Pi image
You have to be very careful with these "plausibility arguments" that physicists like to make. It may well happen, for example, that there are counterexamples to the Riemann hypothesis, but that they are so rare that they have probability zero (similar to, for example, the zero probability that a random real number in some interval is a rational number). So, a plausibility argument saying how unlikely counterexamples are would prove nothing. Or, it could happen, like the famous disproved Riemannian conjecture on the crossing of pi(x) and Li(x) (see: Skewe's number) that the counterexample exists but it is ridiculously large. The usual kind of ethos in physics is to be a bit too loose with approximations or to disregard very extreme cases.

I don't understand the particulars of the spectrum of this operator that they have constructed, but I have heard others describe this approach as a simple reformulation of one hard problem in terms of another equally hard problem.
So the moment everyone hops on Flex-Box, CSS Grid becomes the next hot take now huh?
Agree with this, except I often find OWASP hard to navigate or know what's still relevant. Plenty of old projects linger about. They try to flag projects but still troubling.
Dunno about OP, but I wouldn't want to work for anyone who doesn't appreciate Le Sigh.
That avoíd the question.
Recommendations for WiFi Network Hardware Vendors?
We're writing an RFP to update our WiFi network provider for our outdoor space. We need groups similar to
* http://transitwireless.com/
* http://www.skypackets.nyc/
* https://www.ruckuswireless.com/
Even Time Warner and Verizon are on our list.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
SN
Went to a football match as a lad and wasn't sure what Bovril was, but ordered one anyway.

Imagine my reaction when what I thought was hot chocolate, was instead hot beef extract.
You're being silly, I'm a self-taught Python coder with a degree in agricultural engineering, a sprinkling of C, Linux, Lisp and statistics, almost no JavaScript, I'm headstrong and I dress like shit, and I still managed to find interesting opportunities in the job posting threads here.

Just post your damn CV.
My short answer: Yes, but...

My long answer: After years of experience with highly-available database provision with PostgreSQL, I concluded that I don't want automatic failover. It's more practical to keep a master running and constantly replicated by slaves that can be promoted to master in migration or failure situation. However, when there is a failure situation it's so exceptional that someone really needs to understand what happened before allowing the next victim (er, database) to go on stage.
It's a face! Seriously though I expected more glass.
Dunno about the US, but in Ireland it is EUR60 for a 10-minute GP visit.
I started a side project last year and it's been a fantastic experience. It's an opportunity to "scratch an itch" that the day job can't provide (which for me is doing whatever I want).

I had some frontend dev skills but didn't have the backend chops, so I hired someone on Upwork. I'm pretty busy at work so getting someone else involved is key (If I was by myself I'm not sure I would have stuck with it).

It's been a year and the app is doing about $3k/mo in revenue.
We are working on this from another angle - sequencing plants to map out nutrient biosynthesis pathways. Then determining how those nutrients affect human health.

With that info we can start doing "personalized nutrition" such as (totally made up): "If you have a Diabetes, then you should eat more Broccoli and Radishes because they have nutrients that mediate sugar uptake"
The whole AI industry is switching from learning to growing AI from seeds. A grounded language is another seed for AI.
Amazon owns Twitch so I'd say they have some experience with that
Courts exist to evaluate circumstantial evidence. Complex theories are often ignored.

The ISP, like a container ship, is not responsible of every bit it moves around. Individuals are.