skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The W3C does pay (some) people to work on specs, usually not on a contractual basis though, just by hiring in priority areas. For example, some of the main figures in the CSS, Web Accessibility, Web Payments, etc. groups are W3C employees. There's a list of employees and what they work on here: https://www.w3.org/People/
The built in support for ENA is nice but what about the other instances such as C3, C4, D2, I2, R3, and M4 (excluding m4.16xlarge) where you have EN using Intel 82599 Virtual Function interface? Why not support it out of the box?
Beamed energy is here!
Floppy drives themselves can generally be replaced by emulators, at least from a technical perspective. Like with a FlexiDrive or HxC.

That's not to say it'd always be possible, I presume that there may be regulatory issues in some cases.
Canvas is written with a imperative (Turning complete) language.

SVG is declarative. Pretty large difference.
Justice Dept. considering charges against Wikileaks members
As someone who struggled through calculus, this book would have made a huge difference for me. Just reading through the first few pages brought a smile to my face that someone could so plainly explain these critical concepts in such a familiar way. Why didn't my professors do that?
Alternatively, a clothes rack on a balcony or receiving direct sunlight through a window or glass sliding door, with both slightly ajar works well.

One benefit of this is that your clothes last much longer.
It's all relative. Obviously I mean that it sounds vastly more recent than 1914 to my ear.

And anyway, I confess I don't know the industry at all, but I doubt anyone would talk about 1914 as representing 'modern publishing'.
No, but you're not allowed to criticize unfettered late-stage capitalism on Hacker News because MUH GROWTH.
A series of posts appearing on the Opinion board at CMU in 1987
actually I believe that was "Calculus for the Practical Man" by J.E. Thompson and it is also an excellent read.
Possibly so; it just seemed like a conspicuously odd thing to add given they seemed to have no other complaints about it.
>> sonically baffle any outlet

Good point! The water vapour needs a way out. That means a direct air path between the fabric and the outside world. They cannot seal the entire thing in a vacuum bottle to deaden the sound. I see a 50' pipe full of baffles, a giant truck muffler, between this thing and anyone with eardrums.
Isn't windows 10 more evergreen as well? I thought IT departments had a lot less control over updates.
Status is decentralized messaging platform to access the Ethereum Network (Web 3.0). Essentially we're building a network that's completely operated by it's own users, and runs entirely on peer-to-peer technologies.

Users can send encrypted messages, payments, and can interact and chat with decentralized applications. What's exciting about Ethereum is it removes the need not only for centralized servers, but also for intermediaries that were traditionally required in order to partake in trade or legal agreements. A good place to start if you'd like to learn more: http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/what-is-ethere...
RDBMS is probably fine. If you want to try something new and shiny, a document store (like MongoDB) is probably better than a graph DB, because nested comments and replies can be easily and naturally represented by nested documents -- objects containing lists of embedded objects containing lists of [etc...]
Cybersecurity startup Tanium exposed hospital records in demos
https://github.com/epiqueras/getsy

I'm updating it soon with new methods that support websites with pagination.
Seems like neural networks would have some advantage here...
You mean the mobile world doesn't get updates or that IE is somehow relevant in the mobile world?
In a similar vein: "Probability Through Problems": https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-0-387-21659...

I love this book. What's the best way to learn a mathematical field? To discover it yourself, piece by piece!

I wish this were a series.
I did not realise that. On reflection it makes sense.
I hope it proves useful.
Interesting! I wonder how Apple will get their 30%?
If you're in the kitchen cooking and your hands are covered with flour and chicken, then it's handy to leave youtube on autoplay so that it can play back all your favourite Billy Idol songs without having to clean off your hands to adjust what it's playing. The problem is that if you leave Billy Idol on autoplay for too long, it then takes you to things like A-Ha and before too long you have Morten Harket screaming about "Take on me" when all you wanted was more sneering.
Not really related, but "The Finland Conspiracy" on relations between Japan and "Finland" is an amusing read: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/2y0oog/t...
I think it makes sense for Youtube at least because most of the times when people click to visit, they're there to watch the video. (I guess you could technically be there to only read the comments and not watch the video but that's very rare)

On the other hand, on sites like Udemy it makes less sense since there are other contents people want to interact with on the page. I think they're just employing a bad ux.

And once we get into spam territory like some shitty sites where most people visit expecting textual content and they just throw an autoplay video at you (which in many cases follow you around even if you scroll away), that's completely different from above two. These guys do this to make ad money.
Very interesting. I had similar problems when photographing my paintings, and while the best photographs are taken with a good DSLR and a polarizer that can end up becoming a project in itself.
OctaneAI
Was OctaneAI funded by YCombinator ?
A 'soundproof box' is hard because most of those boxed things we want to quiet down (say, pets) still need to be a part of our environment, breathing air and the like.

A clothes dryer, meanwhile, is a near-ideal case for vacuum isolation + elastic dampening. Build a box with a door; hang an airtight motorized barrel in the box from a bungee cord, with a second door, and electrical connection; and then, whenever both doors are sealed at the same time, [slowly] evacuate the air from the box.
Html5 based widget for an iOS app:Today extension powered by the Ionic framework
I really don't think you're talking about pattern matching in the usual sense. So it's probably better to use a different term.
Check out: http://www.appcooker.com
Face to face or a phone call is best when you need to communicate quickly with the ability to clarify on the fly.
Firefox 53.0
I've heard it has anti bacterial properties as well. Unfortunately, they come at a pigment destroying cost.
Tesla owners sue: “Enhanced Autopilot Features…simply too dangerous to be used”
It does extend our life - or at least does such a wonderful job of providing that illusion that we, as a species, will turn a blind eye to unfathomable levels of destruction to the environment, all other species and indeed many of our own species (once adequately separated) in the name of consuming these technologies or their output.
You say 1.9MB, the Gutenberg page says 1.8MB, and the download itself is only 1.18MB thanks to gzip. The main difference is that the Gutenberg PDF is a transcribed, cleaned-up version.

As much as this probably makes me sound like an audiophile, I actually prefer the raw scans over what may essentially be a reprint. They show all the blemishes, unofficial additions, and other marks that make the book look more "real" and give it character.

In this instance, the raw scan has a picture of the cover, as well as an interesting note handwritten near the beginning: "Property of Edward M Sumner" with an address. IMHO these sorts of historical artifacts are worth preserving too. I've come across scans with random notes, bookmark fragments, and newspaper clippings included, and it's always fun to ponder how they got there. (Who is this person and how did he get the book? Is he the one who scanned it? Etc.)
Source https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/
It has a Mexican name literally IN it. A conservative, white term would be Marijosepha.
The point is that if you forget to write one of the ReactSpecialization methods nothing detects it. Perhaps more importantly, if you add a new type of Animal there's nothing to tell you you need to write a bunch of new ReactSpecializations.
>Just the fact that the address bar font is the same size as the rest of the UI gives me the impression that they didn't think it through.
>..
>Chrome had search integrated in the address bar from version 1, every time I opened Firefox year after year and I saw that little separate input for searching I felt like using grandma's browser.

Most of these seem like opinion of aesthetics and fashion?
Syncing and sandboxing seem to be the ones that are about actual functionalities.

Regarding those: I don't have many devices (actually only desktops), but syncing seems to work ok. Lack of sandboxing is actually valid point, but I don't remember any crashes in recent times. On the other hand, I block most of the JS, so there's less opportunities for things to crash.

The web standards and avoiding Chrome/Google Search-based monoculture are also important things for me, so I'm sticking with FF as long as it is OK.
I cannot upvote you enough. Juicing gives you the ability to easily consume a cup of flavored sugar water. Now throw in all the "healthy" raw kale and spinach and some seeds, and you end up with a concoction that is high in sugar, high in fructose, high on phytates, and high in oxalates.

There are reasons why our ancestors soaked, fermented, and sprouted various vegetation--to reduce the toxicity associated with consuming it raw and untreated.
My suspicion is that Google's unit economics for compute and network are better than Amazon's, because they've never historically had the ability to push costs onto a customer. It all fell to their own bottom line.

If they can sustain a lower price, picking a fixed discount gives them a marketing edge, even if AWS would come out lower overall. Most humans will pay a premium for certainty -- the certainty effect or "taxicab effect".
Would you happen to know of any websites, video series, books, etc that would be in the same vein as these 2 sources but geared towards very young students (elementary/middle school math)? ...so that they can understand it conceptually from a young start.

EDIT: I'm working through Khan Academy with one of my kids...would like to find other resources as well.
Does this mean the socks won't come out of the dryer warm? That's sort of a deal breaker for me.
Do they use the cold side of the heat exchanger to drop the moisture out of the air prior to passing it back through for heating?
Microsoft is far from dead, and under Satya they've actually found their feet again :)
I like my definition better: "if the main character is wielding a sword, then it's Fantasy; otherwise, it's Science Fiction".

Star Wars, for instance, is Fantasy because lightsabers. Star Trek is Sci Fi because phasers. Hobbit- swords. Dune- weirding modules. Highlander- swords. Blade Runner- no swords. Etc etc.
I don't really see how adding multiple profiles for different users to the Chrome browser is related to adding multiple accounts for the same user on Google Home. Perhaps you could enlighten me?
The only thing that will change health care is single payer.
Some are, usually youtube api abusers. They try to walk the line pretty well with their TOS.
Totally agree with you. I did advanced research in computer science without fully grasping integrals - only if I had this book!

But you're right, why can't things be like this? Then I think, there is a certain art to having the ability to explain something so easily.. props to reddit's elif subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/)
You know these aren't representative at all. Almost every video gamer and guitar player earns nothing for their activities. Those millions of 0's won't be included in the guitar player salary graph.
> Just as a piece of warning if you go that route: MS decided that my legit MS office keys were "Pirated" because they were old and wanted me to upgrade (after telling me that it was a valid key 3 hours before)

This happened to me after my first upgrade to Windows 10. I had a legit copy of Office 2010, and when I upgraded my Windows 7 installation to Windows 10 during the free year, I opted to do a clean OS install after 10 was activated. Upon reinstalling Office and inputting my key, at first it activated then it threw my Office install into an unactivated state and told me to contact my administrator. Umm, what? I'm the administrator and this was a retail purchased and licensed copy that worked fine before being installed on Windows 10. I even tried reverting to Windows 7 and installing Office on that, but it never activated and gave me the same message.

Thankfully I don't really rely on Office anymore and can get by with F/OSS alternatives or Office Online, but it definitely sucks that Microsoft appears to try pushing its business customers into O365 subscriptions and away from traditionally licensed software using what I feel should be illegal tactics.
>That's true of your name, your address, your DOB, SS, and your phone numbers. Nothing stopped those things from being given out and collated by third parties. Nothing will stop email being given the same treatment.

That's why I'm suggesting that an email replacement not suffer from this same flaw. Just because it affects other things important to me, doesn't make it not a flaw.

>Email will never die. Why should it? It's fast (instant, nearly) and you can send nearly anything to anyone

This is why I'm suggesting that the best replacement to email might turn out to just be a wrapper around email so that you get full compatibility. As others have suggested in their replies, you can work around some of the flaws in email simply by using it differently.

If I ran my own server, I could create a new address per contact and then I could "revoke" the address by instructing my server to trash anything sent to that address. I'd do this if I ever noticed unsolicited email come in and I would know immediately who gave it up based on the receiving address. The contact would never need to know that I was doing any of this, they'd just be emailing me as normal. The only problem with this at the moment is that a lot of email servers will outright block all incoming mail from unknown servers.
It sounds like Le Guin expanded on a famous passage from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.

"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature—that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance—and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth."

"No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly.

http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/introbook2.1/x4603.html
> ... a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. Gardner changes "fifth form boys" to the more American sounding (and gender neutral) "high school students," updates many now obsolescent mathematical notations or terms, and uses American decimal dollars and cents in currency examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy

Seems like a good update to a classic, but there are some in the reviews complaining about Gardner https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/...
Right, so the question is if the ultrasonic causes more than hotbox dryers, or condensation dryers, or the heat pump dryers.
> I keep hoping the containerization fad will go back in the bottle

Is this because containerization in of itself should go back in the bottle, or do you think that people are just taking it too far?
forks are part of the protocol but the vast majority of them are tossed away due to the miner incentives to stick with the most popular chain. a hard fork happens when there's either a widespread bug that conflicts with older/other clients -OR- when there's a consensus failure in the population using the chain.

in The DAO's case, there was a consensus failure in the population but the majority decided to go along with a recovery. There were good reasons to go either way but most people decided this was an experiment, it's early stage, and a move to PoS would be more difficult with a wealthy attacker. I invested but did not want to fork because I was willing to take on the risks. I lost out but I still stick with the main chain because what matters is where we're going with this not where we are. It was a valuable lesson for the community, devs have heavily stepped up investment in security and stability, I doubt anything like it will happen again as even those who were in favor now understand the damaging effects it can have.

still, if you look at the effects it's pretty interesting. You now have ETC and ETH and the market caps for each have waved to reflect the interest in the two competing ideologies. this means blockchains resolve failure through replication and the social effects that happen after can retroactively decide who the winner is or, as it is in this case, you now have two compatible technologies going different directions. ETC is staying PoW, ETH is moving to PoS, both have different governance attitudes and the split has been mostly amicable. not too bad.

edit- I should note this is also true of Bitcoin. the only reason it hasn't split is because its miner and user culture strictly adhere to immutability. if the population decided immutability didn't matter, it wouldn't. there are points of resistance to push back on the way people are but ultimately these things don't run themselves. they depend heavily on incentives.
Sure, I'm not trying to say they're big particles.

Most humans would have a hard time to know if they're in the garbage patches or not.

The term garbage patch is probably misleading. Soup is better, but still makes people think you'd be able to see it.
> Proposals for standards are rejected all the time by all standards committees.

and yet

> Standards are standards because there are many groups of people with many different, and changing, requirements using them.

So on the one hand they're rejecting whatever, and on the other hand they are catering to all the different and changing requirements.

> What's your point?

I do not wish to seem rude but my point is "SVG is a good example of an overflexible, overcomplex standard with too much variety, too many options, too many different ways to do the same thing. The huge flexibility makes it almost impossible to correctly and fully implement."
Reverse engineering visual novels
That's what I did the moment the "lol sorry preorderers are screwed" email came in. As far as I'm concerned, this was fraud, and I'm hoping I get my preorder (not "investment", not "bootstrap", not "kickstarter") money back.
I remember reading a book by British energy person on renewables who talked about importance of 'order of magnitude' calculations and how switching off cell phone chargers is not the way to campaign for energy savings.

So, yes getting past the plastic problem is super important. But our solution has to match the scope of the problem. Personal responsibility, reducing consumption is good, but that shouldnt come in the way of thinking in terms of systems. Typically, the conversation moves away from a focus on the issue to an evaluation of ourselves and others.

Some countries have packaging free supermarkets. There are biodegradable alternatives to plastics which keep being proposed but havent become popular for whatever reason. Discussing that would be a good place to start. Funding research or entreprenurship would be a great approach.
Agreed, I've found the SVG produced by Sketch to be pretty palatable (for small graphics at least).
The go zealot AstroTurf army has arrived!
It has a Mexican name literally IN it. A conservative, white term would be Marijosepha.

logicallee, I think you've misunderstood the point made in the gp post. Harry Anslinger wanted it to sound strange and foreign to white conservatives, not familiar.
I'm not sure what is going on here. Is this Sesame Street advertising Google Earth?
One day we'll invent a technology device to answer the age old question: "Still wet or just cold?"
Oh, geez. Pain is a messenger. It tells you something is very wrong. We need to start finding more ways to effectively treat underlying causes and stop focusing on mere comfort. That sort of medicine is what they do at hospices waiting for you to die.

I spent 3.5 years in constant, excruciating, PLEASE KILL ME NOW pain. So I am not being callous here. I am no longer in that kind of pain because I inadvertently began treating the underlying cause.

I am galled by the constant search for better ways to go numb and stop feeling the pain. I can't understand how the serious damage this guy has suffered doesn't serve as a dire warning that this is the wrong path. The right path is to wonder WHY people are in so much pain and solve THAT.
Illumos is a fork of the OpenSolaris code base. We still call the file system ZFS, and all the operating systems (including Illumos) that use ZFS are working together on the OpenZFS project.
If they get you to click on a link, it doesn't matter what it looks like in the address bar. So what does a malicious link that could be on any domain have to do with domain spoofing?
> Letting the hacker walk away with millions at that point would have been silly.

The issue is, the person wasn't a 'hacker' in any meaningful sense of the word.

Etherium claims to be "a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference" (from etherium.org). That is, an Etherium program doesn't implement a written contract, it is the contract.

Despite this lofty goal, the core team saw fit to hard-fork the chain because they didn't like how a particular program was executing. The claim that the 'hacker' had 'stolen' funds from theDAO is ridiculous - you can only steal what doesn't belong to you, and ownership of theDAO's Ether is defined by the program itself!

More broadly, the hard-fork seems to imply that an Etherium contract is really made up of two contracts. One contract is the program itself, which explicitly spells out what is and not allowed. The other contract is an implicit understanding of what the program 'should' do, and exists only in the minds of the creators of the contract. The issue arises when this implicit 'contract' is used to override the real contract - flying in the face of how Etherium claims to work.

A much better solution would have been to try to address the underlying issues in Solidity - perhaps requiring future contracts to explicitly allow recursion? I personally question the decision to use a Turing-complete language to express contracts in the first place.
Ask HN: How do you protect your codebase from being stolen by engineers?
Hello all,
I want to start hiring engineers to help me with the codebase that I've single-handedly worked on. I'm curious about how you guys protected your code when you did the same? In particular, I'm using interpreted language -- node.js -- so I don't have the luxury of distributing parts of the system as binary :(

Thanks for the advice!
SEC Forbidden directory accessible worldwide for anyone to steal financial data
Ex-Googlers left secretive AI unit to form Groq with Palihapitiya
Design flaws in Lastpass 2FA implementation