skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I was co-editor of my high school's student newspaper, every issue was subject to administrative review. Our principal literally read every issue prior to publication and told us what could and couldn't be run.

No different from any "real" newspaper.
Google fortunetelling
Here's a cyberpunk short story called VIRUS! that is set in Accra Ghana

http://www.afrocyberpunk.com/virus/

I've been following the author for some years but I believe he has yet to complete a full manuscript. In general I agree with most of what you have said. The Sprawl Trilogy is almost 30 years old, a completely different era. A re-evaluation of what "cyberpunk" means in this day and age is necessary in my book.
Well, I find it hard to appreciate an article I can't read.
Some of the better known examples are Neuromancer, Blade Runner, and Deus Ex
OP wasn't talking about 14.4 - 56k. They said: "256 Kbps DSL"
Maybe not directly - my guess is that they want to get rid of the Linux kernel: the Linux driver model leaves Android upgrades held hostage by OEMs and SoC manufacturers who are incentivized against old phones getting OS upgrades (planned obsolescence).

With Fuchsia, Google has a clean slate and can choose to have 'write-once' drivers with a stable driver interface across kernel/version upgrades.
The [code] review gap
Looking good - can't wait to get access :-)
They are BoA's federal regulator.
Half Life 2 was heavily inspired by East-European cities (mostly Romania and Bulgaria)
I think we do agree about the gist, but the quibble is about semantics. My point is that there is no "philosophical opposition". Choice means users have a right to fork. It does not mean that every project must bend to a user's will or risk being accused of not caring about choice.
Did you actually just say it wouldn't fit on a floppy disk?
I use two browsers, Chrome and Safari.

Reason #1: I have an ad blocker enabled on Chrome and sometimes I copy/paste a URL that won't open with the ad blocker enabled and paste it to Safari (my secondary browser).

Reason #2: To use a site where I have two accounts e.g., personal and public/professional account on Reddit.

Reason #3 (rare use case): To occasionally get through errors e.g., a site has a bug that only shows up on Chrome. I'd try using Safari before giving up.
The simplest thing would be for sites to add fixed-sized containers for the ads and other heavy, asynchronous media, so that the space is already allocated before the ad loads. They could even put something nice in the background.

However, I'm fairly certain that they do it on purpose to increase the click-throughs to ads. Sites like Salon on my phone are the worst. No matter how much time has passed since it looks like everything has finished loading, the moment I go to click on a link an ad pops up under my thumb.
As a user, that's totally opaque to me. I know my phone is running out of space and photos in general and Twitter in particular take up most of that space.
Can you give reference about global menu in gnome shell?
I can only find old reference to some attemp to implement it[0].

I have tried gnome shell in the past, but I still prever unity because of the global menu.

[0] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-globalmenu
I keep oscillating between "this is literally the most tone-deaf thing I've ever seen on the web" and "this is an utterly unprecedented new sublimity of metapresentation".
I recently tinkered around with putting LineageOS onto a Samsung Galaxy S3. It was super easy to do, and is a really clean, fast, and efficient operating system. I personally enjoy it. I had previous experience with Cyanogenmod, and LineageOS is way better.

Unfortunately, I've got an S6 as my daily user phone, and there is currently no stable version of LineageOS that supports the S6 (as far as I'm aware).
Tallinn is a very small city. When I travel, I love to walk alone in the city during the night, and despite a few big buildings (mainly hotels), Tallinn does not look that much futuristic.
The chinese mobile phones (and tablets) with the MediaTek chips are cheap and nice, but LinegeOS doesn't support them.

My last 3 mobile phones were MediaTek phones, but that's one of my biggest gripes with them.
Things You Didn�۪t Know Your Mouth Could Do
Mars-Bound Dr. Marais Appointed as Head of Innovation at SAP
1 in 4 people have fantasised about Alexa, Siri, and other AI assistants
First Pile of Steven Cohen Cash Is Handed Out to Quantopian's Amateur Coders
> but we made it that way ON PURPOSE

Aside from everything else, why would you make animated squiggly lines on purpose? It's extremely irritating because it causes motion in my peripheral vision. I can't see how it adds value.
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes Recuses Himself from Russia Probe
Funny. Animations on hover links. A big ad "Play Dirty" near the top. A big "Sign up for newsletter" box that will get me spammed. Then even more huge ads below to get me to click.

Stop. The web is not broken. It's growing every year. There are lots of sites that gives you an ad-free experience if you pay. Like in real life, don't bother going to places that you don't like.
I've gone to quite a few startup weekends and I think this is a typical experience. I still enjoy it, though, but that's because I find enjoyment in the possibility of helping somebody else start their business. I usually find who I believe to be the biggest underdog or team that has the best intentions and do my best to help them. For me that's the reward, and I get to get a dedicated amount of time (forcing myself) to code some product and improve my skills or learn new ones. As you mentioned, lots of non-coders, so depending on your goals you can basically say "hey I want to build an iOS app and I'll do that for you" and then you get to make those decisions and learn what you want.

:)
This is "infinite scrolling" where content come and go as you scroll for better performances. On a good implementation, the scrollbar characteristics can be made to look fine and stable though.
Asian cities get closest to the visual aesthetic associated with the word, which is why they are cited often, but I think you are right when talking about everything else. South America might have some candidates as well?
Keep in mind SpaceX has been launching rockets to orbit since 2008. Blue Origin has yet to even complete their orbital engine. Even if we assume Blue Origin can somehow ramp up at 2x the rate SpaceX did, we're still looking at another 5 years before they're where SpaceX is today on orbital flights.
Homemade Pregnancy Tests
Apparently so:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/ironic-vs-ir...
Time to write WebAssembly emulators that will run inside browsers?
I'm personally using LinageOS together with microG and F-Droid. MicroG is necessary if you don't have Google apps installed, to get push notifications. Unfortunately, it is still rather complicated to install.

http://lineageos.org/
https://microg.org/
https://f-droid.org/
Something like this was already done with hashcash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
> This is precisely the same issue with Android where people mistakenly blame Google instead of Qualcomm (driver authors) for the lack of Android upgrades.

Does this also apply to iOS devices?
To give the adults a little credit, the students may have had more time to work on the mystery. The adults on the hiring committee were simultaneously holding down jobs, maintaining homes, changing diapers, cooking for their families, etc.

The hiring committee probably had deadlines for researching the candidates and making final decisions, whereas the students didn't have the same sort of time constraints. (I don't mean to minimize the achievement of the students! But you asked for factors that could have allowed the adults to miss this one.)

The woman was probably fairly charismatic to pull this off. The hiring committee surely had several face-to-face meetings with her and was swayed by her charm. The students would have seen her 'fake principal' self rather than her 'job interview' self. They didn't get the full snow job, so they were perhaps freer to think more objectively.

Also, I'm sure there's a false sense of safety in numbers for the hiring committee: if one person (or every person) had vague doubts, they might think, "Oh well, everyone else seems to think she's okay."
Feel free to suggest another title, and a mod can change it.
Dyson Abandons Sakti3 Solid-State Battery Patents Bought for $90m 18 Months Ago
There's Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
unfortunately t460 doesn't have one of these. It has the dreadful chiclet style keys. Fortunately I use external keyboard most of the time, but in those moments that I don't I wish the darkest circles of hell upon the genius that approved this change.
Looking at the other responses to your comment, clearly it is not obvious that you're not making that assumption.

If that's not what you were trying to say, then I still don't understand what you were trying to say.
Dubai! The tallest building in the world, 2 of the tallest residential buildings, fringed by uninhabitable desert. Built on credit, on the backs of south Asian and Filipino indentured servants. An Instagram paradise for the global elite.
Someone should create an index of sites that aren't s * * t. Then we can watch as the listed sites resist the temptation to sell out, once they actually have visitors resulting from their special status as non-s * * t.

Google, are you listening? I know it's not in your interest to promote sites that don't beat you over the head with advertising, but maybe not flogging is the new flogging.

I would have suggested my own site as a candidate -- no ads, lots of free software and articles, no pop-ups -- but I decided that was too craven and self-serving. Find it yourself.
Actually one of the things that's most interesting about this study is that it's a study of NYC - where access to public transport might be the best in the United States.

Purely supposition on my part but my guess is that the market ride sharing services are capturing are suburbanites who are actually paying $50 to go to NJ/LI/CT as opposed to driving - as it's hard to imagine many locals driving anywhere, let alone drunk driving. The staten island graph is curious though (does it mean there is no non-locals visiting?
Webcontent is not a free platform. It does not even give you sockets which can interact with arbitrary network services without centralized control (no, websockets don't work because they can't listen, webrtc does not work because it needs rendezvous servers). And neither can it access your own filesystem. It is quite locked down. In a way you get compute cycles, but you don't get access to the machine's full capabilities.

And they could trivially forbid loading file:// URLs or disable features for those since few people use those anyway, that way you would lose persistence and would be dependent on something to even host your software.
To answer your question about the http://course.fast.ai MOOC: the course provides an AMI that has everything you need pre-installed. Just follow the directions in the setup video, which includes a script that sets up the instance for you.

To save around 80% (but slightly less convenient) there are two ways to use spot instances provided on http://forums.fast.ai that are largely automated and work well.

In part 2 of the course you'll learn how to set up your own server. As others have mentioned that's much better value if you're using deep learning somewhat regularly.

(I'm the founder/teacher of this course.)
Here's a counter argument. Continue ignoring functions which are non-standard or are confusing.

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=nullif+%5Bsql-server%5D

1500+ questions on NULLIF on SO...
Wrong.

When you publish an article entitled "the web looks like shit" on a page that looks like shit, and people quite reasonably call you on that, you want to own it, because then you look subtle and smart and clever.

Whining about how people are pointing out your page looks like shit just makes you look whiny. And the page still looks like shit.
Not to mention the forced tiny horizontal width of the actual content. I have a 27" monitor and the text was constrained to a ~4" strip down the center of the page.

Indeed, the web looks like shit.
> a prompt to give over my email address at the bottom

That's the point. It's at the bottom, within the normal flow of the document. Not a fucking lightbox popup thing with confirmshaming!

> two giant full screen ads

??

I saw one methodhome.com ad, with a cool custom CSS animation on hover, again normally appearing within the article. How is it full screen?
I want to make one for my dad's take out restaurant, he makes Sushi and such so kinda just like a little discovery thing that can be linked to from google maps and such.
Well, I've misplaced my receipt for The Legend of Zelda that I bought 30 years ago. Ideally they'd have had an infrastructure in 1986 to manage my ownership of the product in perpetuity across media and distribution channels. But they didn't, so I can either hold on to my feeling of entitlement that Nintendo owes me the virtual console version for free or I can pay $5 to play it on there.
We think they look cool? Also it's strange but some people LOVE them and some people HATE them.
Yes, this guy gets it. This community gets it.

Not everything needs a global singleton like a blockchain or DHT or a DNS system. Bitcoin needs this because of the double-spend problem. But private chats and other such activities don't.

I have been working on this problem since 2011. I can tell you that peer-to-peer is fine for asynchronous feeds that form tree based activities, which is quite a lot of things.

But everyday group activities usually require some central authority for that group, at least for the ordering of messages. A "group" can be as small as a chess game or one chat message and its replies. But we haven't solved mental poker well for N people yet. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

The goal isn't to not trust anyone for anything. After all, you still trust the user agent app on your device. The goal is to control where your data lives, and not have to rely on any particular connections to eg the global internet, to communicate.

Btw ironic that the article ends "If you liked this article, consider sharing (tweeting) it to your followers". In the feudal digital world we live in today, most people speak must speak a mere 140 characters to "their" followers via a centralized social network with huge datacenters whose engineers post on highscalability.com .

If you are interested, here I talk about it further in depth:

https://youtu.be/WzMm7-j7yIY
Yeah. I'll sound cheesy now, but - open your eyes. There are plenty of locked down computers around us in everyday use that often need to be literally exploited in order to turn into something resembling a device controlled by its owner instead of manufacturer. One easily noticable group of them is called "mobile phones", for instance.
I don't deal with spam much, I notice the occasional fav or retweet from obviously fake accounts, sometimes I get a mention too. But all of these happen once per month maybe and I do my job in blocking and reporting every account I notice. Once per month is a pretty low rate, I get more spam than that in my email Inbox.

I also have direct messages from everybody active. Since enabling it I haven't received any spam. Maybe I've been lucky :)

And I don't have an obscure account (https://twitter.com/alexelcu). Maybe more popular accounts see more spam, I don't know.
I seem to recall a Freakonomics chapter or podcast episode that discussed drunk driving vs. walking home drunk, and concluded that walking home drunk was even more dangerous than driving home drunk. Either choice is much worse than ride-sharing or cabbing or public transit, obviously.
You are committed to this character. Kudos, I guess.
I placed a preorder for a Pyra [0]. I'm hoping it works well enough to allow me to replace my locked down Pixel.

[0] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
As someone who started creating web apps in 1995, I think that view is mostly based on memories of subjective perception: pages were smaller, yes, but people expected the web to be slow in the dial-up era and were less likely to remember a site which loaded in 5 seconds as “slow” when everything was like that; now that some pages are Google.com fast the expectation is much less forgiving.

That's not to say that there haven't been problems with ads, gratuitously bloated JavaScript, etc. but it's easy to forget that back in the 90s there were a ton of pages which only worked well on then-fast (T1+) connections or relied on Java or Shockwave (not Flash, the Macromedia plugin before Adobe acquired them) and took a solid 30 seconds of swapping just to start up.

The one thing we've definitely seen a big regression on were pages which cannot be used if any part of a huge amount of JavaScript fails, and I'm really glad that mobile devices have been reminding the entire industry why progressive enhancement is still critically important.
There are several independent sources that will verify graduate information. They have a list of schools that work with them and get some subset of personal information (name + DOB and degree conferred, I would imagine) each quarter/year which they just keep and use to verify. National Student Clearinghouse[0] is the largest, I believe.

For schools not using any of these programs, you can always just call the school. My alma mater is part of NSC but will also respond to individual requests directly.

[0] http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/
Is this the world's first Christian country?
So I wonder if that means they can do TCP control flow without dropping packets.
Virtual, augmented and mixed realities explained
Finally! MacOS drivers for Pascal
Dude I literally own it. We love the way our site looks. We made it this way with a lot of thought and care. It's not for everyone, however.
I doubt it. There is asymmetry in roles and value to a company. Id expect it to lower wages.
Sure, it's a parody, but let's take a few moments to take it at face value.

For every machine of any size, a lot of effort goes into its creation. They also don't survive without external intervention. The larger the machine, the more effort that goes into their creation and maintenance (and the more vulnerable they are to minor failures).

Aircraft, as a singular example, have to be virtually torn apart inspected and repaired every couple hundred hours to ensure they won't fall apart during regular use. They are also susceptible to the loss of a single critical piece; the loss of which will cause them to fail, often spectacularly.

Big bridges require almost daily maintenance to keep them safe. Boats are incapable of the simple act of fueling themselves. Computers stop working properly due to cosmic radiation flipping bits. Knives get dull. Batteries run out. Radioactive isotope power generators decay. Plastic breaks down. Stone erodes.

We have, despite hundreds of thousands of years, barely been able create an object which can last for even a couple of hundred years without constant maintenance. We have yet to create a machine of any size which is capable of maintaining itself. Why would a computer program, itself reliant on one of our least reliable and fragile constructs, prove to be any different?
It's not intentionally ironic. Whatever is going on in design right now is a bit perplexing. I have personally found Eli Schiff's insight useful in parsing it. He explains it in terms of designers' self-hatred, lol.

Here was his comment when The Outline launched -- https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/805775141825290241
The problem isn't their policy, the problem is the law that allows this. These asset grabs are clearly unconstitutional violations of the 4th amendment - that doesn't change just because of a law. They're taking assets without a warrant or even probably cause. If you want to take the drug money after you've proven and convicted someone of a drug offense then maybe (that's a different debate). But this is simply authorized theft. The justification really isn't there (excuses are there).
www.paperspace.com/ml has much more affordable GPUs than AWS and a new Pascal card. There's a pre-configured Deep Learning template and a couple interesting features like a browser based terminal and desktop (you can still SSH if you prefer).
Wait what. A web framework, adapted to work for native mobile, adapted back to work on the web?
Sorry, I missed that somehow. I don't recall DSL being around in 1998 (but I'm sure my memory is just wrong). I got on the web around 1994 and it felt like many years before we had DSL or cable internet.

Anyways, I do agree that the 90s web was nicer in many ways. One thing I miss greatly is that people actually hand-crafted websites back then. Sure, they used frames and had construction gifs... but they were hand-crafted. If you searched for "star wars" you got a couple dozen sites that were all different looking (but had similar content). Today this is virtually unheard of. Go try to find a star wars fan website that doesn't use Wikia or some other similar tool.
I'm guessing you don't like Vim or EMACS then? Or the command line in general?

Most of the development tools I use on a regular basis tend to be extremely customizable, and I regard that as a Good Thing.
You're being That Guy.
Don't be, and never be, That Guy.
Please stop.
Was there just a massive ad with rollovers on an article complaining about massive ads?
I wouldn't say its complicated. Just have to patch with https://github.com/ale5000-git/tingle after every update to keep the fake google signature working.
Are you arguing that this particular predictive tool is problematic, or that all predictive tools like this are faulty by design?
Apple 'accidentally' enabled iCloud and syncs data to cloud
Very few people had speeds in that range — most pages were developed with the assumption that they'd be used by someone on dial-up (and probably 28.8k). It'd be like saying you don't understand why people are complaining now about a slow site when you're using over a 1Gbps fiber connection.
> The fact that /usr/share/doc/ has every single package installed listed in it, and they don't include the installed version number in the directory names, as RH still does, means that you can use that directory to recover or rebuild from various packaging failures.

Why wouldn't you want the version numbers? That seems like something you would want when trying to rebuild a package database. Also, what do you do if you have two versions of something installed ?
Or in most non-tech jobs. You can't be a nutritionist without a four-year degree in Nutrition (or I believe a few very closely related fields). There are even some fitness certifications you can't get without (any) four-year degree. No amount of self-study or exam passage will get you to be an RN.

Tech is an outlier in that education is secondary to most other factors. I'm happy for that because my Political Science degree isn't worth much, but there are even tech companies that require a degree, or a STEM degree, to be software developers.
There have been efforts at least from AMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

For recent cards, it makes more sense for these companies to tend on the side of not giving out competitive information, hence their NDA processes for developers.
But you can register an account on any node[0], and communicate with anyone else on the entire network. That's the strength of federated protocols.

[0] https://instances.mastodon.xyz/