skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But letting through their own ads because Google by pure coincidence judges Google's ads to be OK, I guess? I don't like Google's interests guiding their web platform (it's not just a web browser anymore), and this is icing on the cake to me. Thankfully there are community ran alternatives on par with the latest web standards and competing with these corporate web platforms, or else our web would risk being truly lost.

With that said, how in the heavens or hells will Google be able to defend this move from competing ad agencies while letting through their own ads? This cannot be the first we'll hear of this if it actually happens.
Thinkpads are great but if I buy a Thinkpad T-series laptop I'm forced to buy Windows with it.

Also it's not supported by the manufacturer. Thinkpads have great support from the Linux community but Lenovo doesn't officially guarantee its use (I would be happy to hear if I'm wrong on that).
that's a lot of text you wrote for something that will get automatically disregarded by anyone with a brain for having mentioned plaintext response benchmarks
They seem to be a step ahead of Starbucks http://www.theonion.com/article/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-...
Sounds like the Civilian Conservation Corps, which I believe actually caused massive habitat destruction due to draining wetlands. There are diminishing returns to these sort of projects, especially if you don't want to bulldoze the houses that have been built where forests used to thrive naturally.

I have high doubts that you could spend the whole DoD budget productively.

Meanwhile, it would also:

- Remove spending equivalent to 3.5% of US GDP, causing a recession.

- Create a power vacuum that nations would war over as they rushed to fill it.
I would suggest that what other companies call "SREs" is not likely to be what Google calls SREs, given the difficulty of implementing it correctly.
So you've had interviews?

You shouldn't be so defensive of your CV but I apologize if I was rude. Plenty of mine were shit over the years too. I've had to read thousands over the years and discuss them with others so I have some idea of what turns hiring managers off. There is no need for that much history on a CV regardless of your age. You want your CV to tell the hiring person you can do the job. A full listing of all your work history doesn't do that it just adds pages to the print out that aren't going to be read and will probably annoy the person for having to scroll through them all since I assume you include other information at the end. 20+ year old educational qualifications don't do that. 5 years outside of uni you should drop it unless you have some particularly special and amazing qualification. Tell them if they ask.

I haven't needed a CV for like a decade now but rest assured my last one was pretty shit too.
There might also be another explanation:

http://www.norden.org/en/nordic-council-of-ministers/council...
Show HN: Getsy – browser/client-side web scraper
Is your website hard to update?  Is it time to change to an easier solution?
In Japan, a Self-Driving Technology Helps Seniors Hit the Brakes, Not the Gas
Current Trends in HPC and Challenges for the Future Jack Dongarra, Feb 2017
If anyone is looking for an alternative that will probably be around for a long time, check out Todoist [1]: they are bootstrapped and profitable and been around for 10 years.

In terms of product - it's as simple to use as Wunderlist, but does have a few extra features. And they are cross platform like Wunderlist.

(I'm not affiliated with them. Just a happy user.)

[1] https://todoist.com
I get grumpy about cloud services coming and going, and I can imagine how much marketing data we're all providing to Microsoft by sharing our shopping list this way, but then I remember what a pain in the ass hosting my own email was for a decade and what that would be like in this era of massive botnets.

Then I put my cane away because as much as I wave it at clouds, I will still use cloud services over having to host my own.
Slides: https://learning.acm.org/webinar_pdfs/JackDongarra_WebinarSl...
Uh ... Thanks for sharing the link as I didn't know that! Fortunately, they say they aim to be as close to the current TB as possible. So that gives me some hope. I worry that some highly individual use-cases will probably not work anymore in the future, though.

For example, if they move the content of the RSS feeds into a database (They'll keep RSS feeds .. right?) my two-line bash script for automatically downloading videos from links contained in one feed wouldn't work anymore ;)
Howdy, Is the source available somewhere we can inspect it?
This makes no sense to me. The subcontracted brands are worthless, like actually bankrupt, and nobody knows them. Why take the brand hit on "United"? I wouldn't call it "throwing them under the bus" to at least mention this. The amount of backlash against United and its brand is hideous.
VGA is still the most common connector type I see on projectors and in conference rooms. It's being slowly replaced by HDMI, they might be about even now.

Ethernet is still the premier PHY layer for people who want their shit to work. Wifi is still flaky as crap these days in many places. Thus, there is no Ethernet replacement yet.

As chriswarbo says, the age of the tech is completely irrelevant. Instead, it's the utility / cost tradeoff that matters. A floppy drive would be expensive in terms of weight/size, and would be useful to approximately 100 people (10 if it's 5"). VGA and Ethernet adaptors would be useful to probably 1/2 to 1/4 of the users, and cost almost nothing to have.

Also, VGA specifically is one of those ports that's still really nice to have, just in case. Last thing you want is to show up at a conference room and not be able to plug in your laptop.
Not OP, but once you have a spec, it's much easier to code up. If you're designing while you're coding, you have to switch all the time between 'how should this work' and 'how do I build this'. Thinking and writing down how something should work, should always be the first step - regardless of whether you're on your own or in a big team.

(before the obvious objection: exceptions are toy programs which you write to find out how to build something, in which you focus on the technical aspects. The technical aspects ('how does it work') don't matter for the end user (= your potential customer), they only care about 'what does it do'.)
Well, you forgot to factor in that oculus had been crowdfunded and those people felt cheated when occulus sold out to facebook.

But this is how it works, either you build something in a pure me,me,me fashion aka you sell to the highest bidder, usually one of the giant tech that buys to preserve their own interest or push their agenda. Or youyou actually care about people, users, customers and are not ruled by money and you don't sell and deserve what you earn while maybe giving back value to people and the global world.

To me snapchat are the obvious winner here.
Mastercard’s new credit card has a built-in fingerprint scanner
I was looking for cost too but no luck
Americans would enjoy a better life and would have more money for spending in luxuries (Because their air conditioning bill in summer would be much smaller and winter is not so harsh with some extra wood and a chimney). More people buying things and travelling, less danger of recession (and more money for the people that sells hotel rooms, for example).
Go away. I've invested weeks to learn something which at least resembles NodeJS best practices and now you come along and say "nope, we do it different" ... :(

(That was a joke btw. Thanks for the info. The consensus seemed to be that Babel is the way to go, but if your variant works for you good to hear. I will still stay with it. I like ES6 imports in Node.)
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
Better news source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32496258

He was ultimately acquitted on a technicality: http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/07/06/pink-geyser-project...

Some valid points were raised in the man's defense (e.g. the food coloring dissipated fairly quickly) though I can't say I approve.

On a side note, it seems any mention of the controversy has been scrubbed from his Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Evaristti
> Then it generates stupidly deep Java structure.

It generates enough structure to scale up to reasonable projects. The nesting is a price well worth paying for consistency. Every maven project puts its source in the same structure, with the result that you can jump into any project and know how its build will work and where to find the source.

> All of this stuff is verbose and built to be generated by IDEs. It's not clear, it's not concise.

Verbose is worth it for clarity, particularly in a file you edit rarely. It may not be concise but it absolutely is clear, as the example from your own link shows.
On the sidenote: The new app from Microsoft does not follow its design methodology if bright colors and big icons but seems to go for skeuomorphism.
There's a Website that helps you find FidoNet address in case you've forgotten it, it helped me find mine:
http://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/?address=2%3A400%2F466
Gosh that’s old. The original paper was from 2001, the Shmoo group wrote about it in 2005 - https://blogs.oracle.com/yakshaving/entry/so_not_funny_shmoo... - and Joi Ito and I were able to register Veriѕign.com then, to highlight how their greedy mismanagement of .com made this possible.

Three possible solutions, not mutually incompatible:

* Make the browsers catch it - Chrome just shows characters that look like apple.com here, and shouldn’t.

* Whitelist character sets that are allowed to be mixed, at the registry level - it should only be possible to mix cyrillic-latin homoglyphs with cyrillic non-homoglyphs.

* Don’t allow IDNs on gTLDs - if you want “écriture”, get écriture.fr, not .com

Obviously, the registries have a conflict of interest here, and won’t let 2 and 3 happen on .com because it would cut into Verisign's revenue.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
How do you sync between devices?
Website Availability Monitor, 0.13 released
>I went full waterfall on it, the spec is 266 pages long and took half a year just to write.

Wow. It's nice to see extensive planning like that. I usually just throw anything that seems like an important idea into a text file on the assumption that it'll be fully hashed out during production at a later time. That method entails far less work, with the caveat of occasionally wondering if you're delusional from time to time.

In any case, good luck. I hope you kick ass. If Microsoft employs their usual design aesthetic, doing so should be very possible.
30 Handy Websites and Education Apps
A cure for pain
I wonder what the programming world would look like now if functional programming concepts had broken through in the 80s and 90s, instead of OO. C would no doubt still be C, filling the same minimalistic imperative close-to-iron niche, but what about higher-level languages?
Great to find recommendations by Alex Lamb and Geoffrey Hinton as well.
Does anyone use one of these? I was looking for one for a long time and ended up just getting an Ergodox since I couldn't find one I could actually buy(twiddler3 wasn't on sale at the time).
My impression is many sysadmin at the time didn't really understand the systems they were dealing with - that kind of problem solving, hacking, and mapping the territory comes with software engineering. So why not just hire software engineers?
The brain is also hardware, just extremely efficient. When compared to modern processors, the visual cortex does way more while using less energy.
But no ceremony is necessary in the cases where types can be inferred - and in the cases where types can't be inferred you probably do want to to be explicit about them even in a dynamic language.
What would you consider a proper fix?
I can't think of a real fix though; you'd have to disambiguate the Unicode itself for that.
There was no future in 3D video each time it got introduced since the 50's and there's still no future today.

Understand that the human brain cannot deal with this for extended period of time without serious side effects and there's no VR outside of limited niche market such as learning to overcome phobias.

Tech democratization can be foreseen through the rate of adoption in porn (VCR, DVD, etc.), what's the trend for VR porn ?
It makes sense to do this on the mobile browser, trying to get around the net can be horrific on a phone, not to mention the data useage. Ublock and so on already have the desktop sewn up.
Magazin Laptop Refurbished
This system looks like a real life text adventure game :)
Also, for the time being we have browsers that aren't Chrome...
Writing a Lisp: String Interpolation
As a former Perthian, I hope this will change. It's an amazing city for riding.

It requires action by the government [1] and less of an ego from ALL road users.

I think the latter will be the hardest sell.

A clever & sustained advertising campaign (IMO, led by the same people that did the Melbourne Metro's "Dumb Ways To Die" [2]) would be awesome.
More education in school about not being a dickwad on the road would be good, too.

1: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/perth-drivers-facing-new-l...

2: http://www.dumbwaystodie.com/
"did not want to take personal responsibility for pictures of armed forces turning people away at the border"

Doing so does not make the refugees go away. They just end up piling up against the border instead, in inadequate camps. Or dying, like the small boy who briefly made refugees popular in Europe when the picture of him face down dead on the beach was circulated.
Me and SVG
Scheduled Maintenance of the 24/7 IS Database in MS SQL Server
Are you sure that the asylum seekers in this case are even allowed to vote?
Dont they have a contract with RedHat to ensure compatibility?
There's an importer...
Oakland CA Tear-down sells for $250k over asking price
Most Java people I know use IDEs mostly just to edit and debug the code, and does the builds/runs/tests from the command line.
7 iOS App Development Basics You Should Know About
I remember picking up that book from the gift store on my first trip through Yellowstone. Made for morbidly engrossing reading.

Links, for those interested:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1570984506/

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=U5uLAgAAQBAJ

Interview with the author: http://www.yellowstonepark.com/unnatural-deaths-yellowstone-...
What would the design people at Microsoft or Apple do all day once they have defined a guideline? The only thing that guarantees them jobs is changing the goalposts constantly.
Hey grondilui it's only 2017 not 2027. "we humans can" doesn't mean computer can. A computer can't even defeat a captcha, many of which are easier than, for example, driving in poor weather under low light conditions. Humans are really bad at a lot of things, such as our reaction time is abysmal, we can be distracted, we can't measure anything perfectly -- but our ability to process visual input (with a bit of delay) into a model of what we're seeing is not one of these areas. Also don't forget that we have stereoscopic vision too and those of us who only have one working eye for some reason are at a disadvantage including when driving. So 3D vision is already necessary for parity with humans. We then do extensive processing not only of still images but parallex effect etc. Computers have trouble even processing a still image.

But I find it fascinating that you can already ask "we can do it, why can't computers." you're just a couple of years too soon. :)
Scope of RFID School Bus Tracking Systems in Security Measures at Schools
And this folks is a compelling argument for Creative Commons music to exist.
wait, UK and US layouts are not the same?
As someone who deals with normal people and their computer/internet needs, your experience does not reflect population at large. Many regular people hate you for pushing things and change they didn't ask for and do not want on them.

Further more, this experience of population at large is not reflecting the actual experience of most of the population of the world that has little to no exposure to computers or internet.

But when designing for your kind in a vacuum you will encounter some success among your peers.
Isn't this a common bug fixing method? Write a test that fails due to the bug's behaviour, then update the code to make the test pass (ie. fix the bug)
Stereopsis and stereoblindness is actually a fascinating topic. Some humans don’t have it, and still manage to drive, ride bicycles, or fly planes.

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks has an interesting chapter on a woman who managed to develop stereovision in her late 40s through vision therapy.
The Todoist sign-up page now has a migration tool: "Coming from Wunderlist? Import your tasks." If that isn't timely reaction to a market need then I don't know what is.
When Computers Fly
Since we're talking about todos, I built a screensaver todo list the other day, and it has helped me a lot.

my main issue with todo lists was that I forget to look at them. Once I'm at my desk I get my head stuck in work and forget to call dave or email chris or whatever. So I built a screensaver, set to 1 minute delay, which displays my todo list. It simply reads a text file from dropbox with some UTf8 icons at the start of each line.

Every time I go for tea or take a toilet break its the first thing I see when I get back. I wish I'd done it years ago
8 Best Time Tracking Software for Companies and Freelancers in 2017
Unless they did something ridiculously clever, they just made IDN domains unusable. That means legitimate IDN domains are as affected as malicious ones, punishing non-ASCII languages.

A proper fix would keep the domain name human-readable but differentiate between the ASCII and homoglyph versions.

How? Not my job to figure that out. If you want a random idea: the homoglyphs could be rendered differently (i.e. make the font disambiguate them). That's probably not a perfect solution but I'm not getting paid to do this.
> Doesn't anyone honestly sell a real product that you can take at face value anymore?

It's all about risk. Outsourcing means companies transfer risk to other parties. Governments love to do it too, that's why entities like the EU are given sovereign power or public transport is privatised. What's this? A train crashed because of a poorly maintained rail? Scheduled maintenance overran and commuters are angry? The power grid is experiencing brown outs because there's not enough power stations? Sorry, that third party is to blame... bad third party! I totally understand why it's annoying, but I have nothing to do with third party etc.

So in a way, United taking the blame for these things is refreshing. They are treating the outsourcing as their own responsibility.
IEEE software engineering radio did a good episode on Site Reliability engineering.

http://www.se-radio.net/2016/12/se-radio-episode-276-bjorn-r...
No great battery life on ultrabooks? Have you ever even used one? The XPS has one of the best battery life on the market and other thin laptops like chromebooks have great batterylife while still being thin. The reason why 11-14" ultrabooks have good battery life is very simple: SSDs take up less space and are more efficient, iGPUs take up no space and are more efficient and no DVD drive taking up space.

I love my Chromebook with coreboot and archlinux, but I need a upgrade to a 1080p screen and more than 4gb of ram without having to pay $1000 for a overpriced laptop with a dual-core i7.
What about the pop-up blocker? Doesn't that block most of the pop-up ads?
Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network
A Short Introduction to D3.js – Data Driven Documents
The pleasure is mine :)

Thank you for forwarding!
You drive by leaning on to it. The joystick is just for rotation and settings.

I however fear the bearrings wont last long with any dirt or moisture on the road and it's loud and slow. I also haven't seen it handle any small obstacle in the video.
Gift people nothing by spending $8
The Future of Design Thinking in Enterprises
Ask HN: What if Pixel and Google Glass were reversed?
I often wonder what Google's market cap would look like if they had reverse the release of the Pixel and the google glass. Glass was way too early, but now could do quite well. Likewise, pixel would have been an actual rival back in 2010/11ish. Timing once again seems like the bitch in the product market relationship. Thoughts?
Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab
It was a hard lesson to learn, but "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning" holds true in almost all cases.
Work Courierun for those who need work in 54 cities around the world
That's maybe not a great comparison, it's a different class of product with worse battery life and much heavier. The MacBook Air has been optimised for a different use case.
W3C Ambient Light Sensor Used to Steal Private Data from Firefox and Chrome
According to "What are your TRUE chances of getting rich in America? OR How to get rich in America"[1], he made enough to become one the anomaly and become rich outside of the 99% ways of doing so.

[1]: http://www.jmooneyham.com/your-true-chances-of-getting-rich-...
Easily Protecting API Keys and Achieving Compliance
Gloss Floor Tiles Kajaria Ceramics Limited
The MacBook Air is an outdated product.

The closest real comparison is the MacBook Pro to the Surface Pro, in which case the MacBook is better at every price tier(expect for the touchscreen which is totally useful).
"The GDPR will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. The government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will not affect the commencement of the GDPR."

General Data Protection Regulation Introduction:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/...
-disappointing screen quality(size isn't the only thing that matters)

-twice the weight

-1/4th the battery hours

-one of the worst touch pads around
Manuel Herranz to present neural networks research at TAUS Tokyo
> What's the point of democracy if your idea of your home, and your opinions on it, are totally overruled by some external force that wants to run some experiments?

This kind of thing happens in capitalist planning battles all the time: people don't want a new Tesco/nuclear plant/wind farm/meat factory/Donald Trump golf course in their neighbourhood, organise against it, and get overruled.

Also, very few countries let your neighbours veto who moves into their neighbourhood. You may not like who your new neighbours are, but on the other hand do you really want to be unable to move house without winning a popularity contest?

Also, there is a war on. It's not "our" war, nor one we started, but the West does not have the luxury of pretending it does not exist.

I think there's enough residual shame over the Holocaust in Germany that the idea of ignoring mass murder simply because it's happening to Sunni Arab muslims isn't really acceptable.
I've never quite found a TODO-app I like. They are all too constrained. Kinda like using jira/trello instead of a physical board with post its. It limits the creativity.

I use OneNote and just add things everywhere I feel like it. Different folders, pages and scattered across a single page. Full freedom, instead of a simple list.
Help in getting it setup?
"We're coming to Denver" (Dumb Ways to Die campaign) -- I really enjoyed that campaign, and heaps of my friends discussed it (so that alone means it was at least somewhat successful, imo), so it's cool to see the concept spreading :-)
I have a hard time really seeing this as a net win. There are huge upsides to having the same language on both sides - but the big downside is that javascript simply isn't a very good backend language. Node.js/v8 is incredibly impressive for what it is. But it still has "shoehorned" written all over it.
(For the record: I wouldn't consider Java the Language a pinnacle either.)
Mastercard Unveils Next Generation Biometric Card