skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not anymore. My house went for about 8 months without internet, but many of the lessons learned seem to still apply. I've been able to cut out a large amount of cruft from my browsing habits. I still struggle with news websites (i.e. HN), and twitter, but it's an ongoing journey.

I actually block a lot of stuff in /etc/hosts, and that helps temper habits. Deleting Facebook is up there in the top 10 greatest things I've ever done with my life. It re-expanded my whole universe, reintroducing such things as mystery and intrigue. There was a kind of perpetual 'wavefunction collapse' that Facebook imposed on my social and spiritual outlook. I really needed to let that one 'decohere' permanently.

When I say delete, I mean delete, as in https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224562897555674

Pro-hacker-trick: If you want to get all of your activity off of facebook, open your activity page and put a heavy object on your keyboard's 'down arrow' key. Then wait for an hour or two while it loads the entire endless scrolling page. Once it finishes, use your browser's save feature to save a web archive. Now you have a record of all the links you've posted on that damn thing.

I wish it was easier to extract content off of facebook. Going through the process of doing it myself really drove home how parasitic the platform really is.
Shirt design for Creative South
Really? Would a plane not leave if the crew requested you remove your clothes and fly naked? Would it not leave if they forced you to fight another passenger?

There was no safety issue, and the crew only has power over you in the event of an issue of safety. There was no such issue.
Blockchains don't really solve that problem. Scalability is a huge issue, and if you are trying to cram several apps onto the same blockchain they are all going to have scaling issues simultaneously​.

It isn't a product maturity thing either. At a theoretical level, we don't know how to make blockchains scale. Every node needs to process every transaction, and we don't know how to get around that.

Would be great to move to a model where the end user can pay for the server time. sandstorm.io was (is) exciting for more than a few reasons. But overall it's still an unsolved problem.
> There were many people in history obsessed with uniformity and it usually didn't end well.

Right yes. Lets argue against uniformity in the (visual) design of a UI based on pulling in all of known history and the atrocities that have been committed during that time.
I'm not sure it's really comparable to Android Things... you can run this in an LXC container on your desktop. With Android Things, unless I've missed something, you need to start by getting a Development Board from the supported hardware list.
He's right, and you're right. Web technologies have a low barrier to entry, so it's easy to go from inexperienced to productive.

Advanced native tools with a powerful language in the hands of a master programmer will be much more productive for the reasons he cites. The type system in particular, with a well-worn toolbox of primitives can make you extremely effective.

So, web technologies are more effective in aggregate across the entire industry, but native technologies can be more effective in the hands of an experienced single individual.
It is not difficult to farm accounts for voting rings, and there is a significant financial incentive to do so. It's true that there may be some false positives, but without these protections the floodgates would be opened to startup marketing goons.
Universe is an Ubuntu thing. Debian doesn't have that distinction. On Ubuntu, universe is basically packages straight from Debian not directly supported by Ubuntu.
It's halves my battery life compared to Emacs or BBEdit.
Thanks for the reply. I'm glad it works for you.

Personally I've noticed people tend to take a longer time saying something in chat than they would in person. And if I have to wait for a reply I'll probably start doing something else, potentially making the chat conversation go even slower.

I have little experience with group chats, in my limited exposure to them they tended to be more focussed on fun than productivity.

I also seem to be one of the few people that can quickly context switch between a conversation and actual work.
The Soundcloud track at the bottom is even more intriguing.

In the footer it has my location and weather displayed too... even creepier (I turned off ublock to see if there was other stuff on this page).
I contend that squandering the work and infrastructure involved in converting natural resources into electricity is the main problem with modern consumer software development. Any user's (lack of) perception of waste is irrelevant. The scope of the problem is not any individual literally paying a couple dollars more on their electric bill, but rather it's that gigawatt hours are literally being burned away because software developers who know their code will be running on machines the world over can't be assed to spend a little more time learning to practice their craft correctly.

There is no broader point than converting natural resources into societal infrastructure. Be a responsible member of society. Don't obstinately ship wasteful code. I understand if you legitimately don't know any better, but if you're part of the community that's constantly writing blog posts about computers being so fast that its OK to burn the end users' CPU and storage just so you don't have to spend a couple more minutes thinking about what you're doing, you're adding harm to the world.
Yes, though it seemed to start during the 2016 primaries.
Progressive web apps can be launched in a window just like a Chrome app.
Sorry to see jeviz go. I used the search to find good prices on items. I've had a few amazon affiliate sites before and never had any problem with the TOS though. In my "glory days", I was only making $100 a month off of amazon affiliates... so it is probably hard to compare to how much you were making I'm sure.

Relying on one system for getting revenue from your site is always risky. In my case, the problem is that Amazon was the only affiliate that would convert. People trust buying from Amazon. So essentially in my case, I only relied on one affiliate to generate revenue also. Again, sorry to see it go. :-(
Most (all?) ports than run servers get an unprivileged user all to their own (_dovecot, _nginx, etc). Many (including desktop packages like Chromium) also have pledge() support patched in.
It feels a little like TRAVELERS -- they should be in production on their second season now. S1 is on Netflix.

The TRAVELERS are from a crapsack future; they're here in our time to change that. This is the sort of thing that might be useful for them.
Take heart: it means we'll spend less time managing ads and experimenting with business models, and more time cultivating the community and improving the interviews and podcast!
FWIW, I like Knorr Vegetarian Vegetable bouillon cubes. (Other premade Veggie bouillons have NOT impressed me).

When I first became a vegetarian all the forums widely advised making your own vegetable broth by boiling down veggies and freezing large amounts for later use, using multiple smallish containers so you never had to deal with thawing more broth than you needed. At the time I was a college student with no freezer (or stove) so that wasn't an option, and I ended up getting used to the bouillon and never trying the recommended option, but it may be worth trying out.
Or it may as well be some kind of hipster religious sect... Nowadays one can't be really sure!
Lytro’s Latest VR Light-Field Camera Is Huge, and Hugely Improved
As the sibling points out, this is in the context of the suggestion of using Python's approach, where exceptions are not just pervasive, they are so pervasive they're used for non-errors/control flow (e.g. StopIteration).
Why data analysts should exercise caution when taking averages
Which definition is that, exactly?
Cello – A library that brings higher level programming to C
I don't think that's true. Companies that persist in giving away their product have only one route to safety: an exit. A company that charges for its product has an immediate extension of its runway, corporate credibility and both of those add up to being around longer than if they're free.

Transitioning from free to paid can backfire if you depend on the free users for some critical way and gitlab is leaving all that untouched.

They're charging for extras such as support and CI minutes, both of which are features that usually will be of use to corporate customers.

All in all I see this as a positive move for gitlab in the long run, lack of revenue streams was something that bothered me and made me wonder about their long term viability. For me at least those worries are now gone.
People are less likely to be spinning up vms but may have far less ram to start with and the more apps they use that are wasteful of power and ram the more likely this becomes an issue for them.

It is truly strange to hear being resource constrained being described as a special case in computing.
Yes, this annoyed me slightly while reading the article. But, it's typical in common speech to use "electrocute" to mean "to deliver a significant electrical shock". Since there's no concise way to express that concept, and it is probably a more common occurrence than true electrocution, it makes sense that people have adapted the word this way. I expect this is one of those cases of language evolving where this meaning will eventually make it into dictionaries. At least it's more functional than using "literally" in the place of "figuratively".
Psalms and Silence: The Soundtrack of John Williams’s Captivity (2013)
Very fun! Wishful thinking, but I'm hoping they partner with The Noun Project and add SVG downloads.
And because it's a closed-source, expensive implementation of IRC.
The man is not shown to be resisting (not a fight), and it doesn't seem like police misconduct (or assault). Or am I mistaken?

No need to be smug, especially when you're probably wrong.

This all aside from the fact that I merely pointed out they were deleted, without judgment why. You should also be aware that there is almost always a "rule" in place to point to and serve as cover for tyrannical actions...Doesn't mean much in those cases. (Private company, blah blah, yeah we know. The point is many rules simply serve as cover for authorities to do whatever they want)
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/logicaldecodi...
Barely a 2% move @ the moment from last week.

And it's up ~20% for the year.

Or about dead even for the last 30 days.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UAL?p=UAL
Assisting Non-Specialist Developers to Build Energy-Efficient Software [pdf]
Why they haven't made Slack a web based chat app like Discord or Wire or even Skype is beyond me. I don't even use their native apps, just open a tab in my browser and run the corresponding web app.
You make it sound like he's murdering people to get ahead not that he is targeting a social network with content that is generally relevant and popular. The anything in this case is focused promotion.
Time to buy shares I guess?

In a few month we will be back to normal.
Usually caused by crappy airline food...
View from the outside is at every fork in the road they chose the more aggressive practice that makes them look super terrible. The question is will people stop flying united or will this just be a business as usual blip?
Quassel has them, doesn't mean Quasseldroid does :P

And I don't think you can say due to it's nature it's faster... I run Lounge in 20+ active channels on my iPhone SE and it runs perfectly. Native != more performant (and if the code base is as bad as you say I wouldn't expect it to be).
It has been long established that sarcasm and text communications go together about as well as peanut butter and urine.
The Art of Writing a Blogpost
Plans don't seem to have a monthly payment instead of annual: https://customers.gitlab.com/subscriptions/new?plan_id=2c92a...

P.S. Why do I need to enter my login again after signing in via Gitlab API?

P.P.S. Group pricing seems unfair. I will be paying 4x for 4 users with the same amount of CI minutes split across 4 users?
I would argue that having the designer put the "heart and soul" into a game is possible, but not ideal. When an artist or developer is also a/the designer they can make changes and decisions more smoothly to create certain effects.

There is no way a game like the first Portal could have been designed by a game designer, it started as a research project by a developer. Then there are games that do very innovative with the art blending it seamlessly into the design in unconventional ways, like Antechamber. I think there are plenty examples of games that buck the mold too hard for a conventional designer to have been able to make them.

My favorite example is Minecraft and its procedurally generated infinite world, much of the art is in algorithms that create the biomes. Cresting the top of a mountain to see the scenery on the other side for the first time is so simple to do and easy to enjoy in this game. The programmer had to be the designer and the artist to pull this off. I know Notch worked with others but this one facet had to be singular or iterative, not communicated from someone seperate after "designing". This was communicated in code and programmers and artist saw what existed and tried to build something and sharing. There is no good way for a conventional designer to convey the details of an algorithm to build forests and cave systems. It is not a fundamentally unsolvable problem, it is just presently unsolved in my experience.
Backpack features even numbers along with 0 in positions they show up on a keypad. Interesting writing on the floss, deodorant, hair dye, perfume, and id bracelet as well
I would argue that the consumers right to have access to a lot of that information is considered normal and is vastly more important that the companies need to protect it. Enough so that we ought to legally protect the consumer even at the expense of the company. After all there are more of us than them why shouldn't we protect ourselves?
Gotcha. My bad. Too much time spent with Ubuntu lately!
> I can see someone is downvoting comments that doesn't agree with time to market being an important driver in influencing architectural decisions. This is someone who is very mature and well seasoned in Java architecture.

Ah yes. Someone who downvotes you, which you assume to be about the time to market comment of your argument, must naturally be a person "who is very mature and well seasoned in Java architecture".

What does that even mean to be "well seasoned in Java architecture"?
"Spring cleaning" where I am means "go through your things and throw away what you haven't used since the last spring cleaning."

Recently I was watching a TV show about some guys living in the woods in Alaska and they really mean spring cleaning. In their case, their farm animals' feces had spent the winter frozen to the coop and barn floor boards, so at the first thaw they scrambled to clean the place up quickly!
So?

It's still above its YTD low of $65.28 from March, and it's 31% up (!!) from the same time last year.

It would be just as accurate to say "United Airlines gained $6.9 Billion in value since last year," but of course that wouldn't give people the satisfaction of saying "Hah! Take that, United!"
Interestingly the coordinates I get in the footer are 33.6751, -117.7339 which is some undeveloped land inside the Orange County Great Park - perhaps what it gives back is based on GeoIP?
I didn't realize there were now brand top level domains, such as `.google`. Here is a list of more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Congrats on building something real and I hope the acquisition works out well for you and the company in the long run. I've enjoyed, and been inspired by, a number of IH articles.
I've been making this exact case since it came to popularity.

There's tons of FOSS alternatives! No excuses!
I don't buy that anymore. In theory, it makes sense, but, the idea that it is ok to force users to update has been used to justify so much crap.

Just off the top of my head, I've seen so many "home users" get burned.

My grandmother's copy of Skype on her PPC OSX Leopard stopped working, so I had to nullroute ui.skype.com, and revert the update with Time Machine, and it started working again. When they said it was a "critical" update, they were lying. It worked just fine when I reverted it and disabled the updater. The update was purely there to deny service, and remove all functionality.

Or my grandfather's Kindle updated itself to disable encryption. Don't even get me started on the "helpful" updates for the Kindle. My grandparents recognized it for the scam it is.

And I'm pretty sure that "transparently" installing updates is not for convenience, it's because if you explicitly told users what you were doing, a lot of them would want to say no. If you simply had a dialog box detailing exactly what the update had just done, people would not be happy. So instead, your software landscape is just one where stuff shifts around and disappears at night, and you have to pray that the next update won't break something.
Because you want to avoid making unnecessary choices. Having to decide when to order new to replace old is one extra thing that will take cycles from something more important.

https://medium.com/personal-growth/why-steve-jobs-wore-the-s...
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Stanford owns the land the houses are on. They have deed restrictions that mean you have to sell the house to another eligible Stanford employee when you leave and you can only price it within a specific range... in addition to offering down payment assistance.
Pro hacker tip: extracting your activity log from The Facebook
Imagine you've decided that you want to leave that soul sucking website, and you want to take all those links you've carefully curated since 2005 or so. Facebook's archive tool isn't going to help you. You'll likely be irritated to find that your special zip bundle doesn't actually contain much of anything.

But don't worry, there is a way! Just follow these steps:

1. Open your activity page.

2. Put a heavy object on your keyboard's 'down arrow' key.

3. Next, wait for an hour or two while it loads the entire endless scrolling page.

4. Once it finally hits the bottom, use your browser's save feature to save a web archive.

Now you have a record of, among other things, all the links you posted over the last ~1.2 decades.

Deleting The Facebook is up there in the top 10 greatest things I've ever done with my life. It re-expanded my whole universe, reintroducing such things as mystery and anticipation. There was a kind of perpetual 'wavefunction collapse' that The Facebook imposed on my social and spiritual outlook. I really needed to let it 'decohere', permanently.

That said, leaving The Facebook for good is a personal decision that I made. It was very good for me. By all means, don't leave if you don't want to!
It clearly has to be more complicated than that!
How about GPL/AGPL? (for staying free longer-term... :)

I have an existing project which could use this help, but is related more to taking human knowledge management to a new level globally, removing some of our current limitations. Is that close enough to AI to apply? ( http://onemodel.org has details)
You might want to call your card-issuer and report the charges as fraudulent
Today they're trying to assault the passengers character. There may sadly be a place for that if and when they get into court but whomever is giving them this advice to do it now is plainly wrong.

It's becoming clearer today that the incident is not just the actions of an individual gate agent but the entire company's culture is toxic.
They've been selling GitLab Enterprise Edition for quite a while. Were you concerned that this wasn't enough of a revenue stream?

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/
Most of those problems have been replicated with HTML5. Yes, HTML5 can do some cool things. But I also find myself missing flash sometimes. HTML5 was not a replacement.

And, based on the direction things are going, I think it's only a matter of time until you can't even select text properly or scroll in a predictable way.
Thanks for this! I had a number of interactions over the years with the S/3x0 world, and I wasn't always sure what was under the hood. I was aware that there was a bewildering slew of xxAM access methods, but had no chance to look into them.
Agreed. Good bargain at this point.
Not enough. Keep going down. I am praying for some extreme form of bankruptcy where heads roll. I also hope (and am eager to contribute to the legal fund) the passenger sues both United, and the airport security organization for many, many millions of dollars.

I feel like many of us American flyers have Stockholm syndrome about our the dire situation of our domestic airline industry. We constantly pay regular prices and more, for airlines that are sneakily become no-frills airlines.

It's especially stark when you fly just about ANY international carrier, especially the asian and middle eastern ones. On those, you're treated like a respected human being, fed like one, and actually feel like you got your money's worth. And you feel like the staff actually wants to be there, rather than absolutely hate their lives.

I get these are blanket statements for effect (especially in the case of staff). But it is true given the especially bad quality of customer service that these airlines are known for.