skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who have never had an interest in computers for entertainment, but significant interest in watching TV, have historically assumed that advances in the internet would mean some sort of super TV. I suppose this has happened, in the form of Netflix.
That was a different AT&T, the one that still had an interest in trying to define the future.

The AT&T Apple badgered into offering the iPhone was a hollow shell of its former self.
Survivorship bias at its finest.
I had some ceramic knives, but they are too brittle, and once they lost their edge I was never able to get it back.

Are you telling me that there is no strong metal that comes close?
> Rust and Go .. made better design choices that made them more popular

[citation needed]
"X causes Y" is separate and can be proven separately from "X causes Y by Z mechanism". The former seems to have been proven here.
As a backer, I'm slightly disappointed, but not surprised given the constant delays. The whole potential for Plastc was to have access to a number of cards w/o physically carrying them. Even after putting my wallet on a severe diet, the appeal of having ACCESS to everything instantly and being able to manage them securely was worth taking a shot at being an early adopter for the $150 backer price. In the end, while this is the only project I've ever backed that fell through, it re-enforced my commitment check: e.g. - don't back any project on the web that costs more than you're willing to blow in Vegas on food & entertainment for a day.
I'm looking at Netflix repos at https://github.com/Netflix. 5 pages x 30, that's a lot of repos.
Centralising spending in the hands of a monopoly inevitably leads to rent-seeking behavior, like the rise of teachers unions and legislation like collective bargaining acts.

I think the net level of support people can expect their children to receive from redistributive programs plays a role in their decision to have children when they have low income. It's also important to note that it won't just be schooling if the goal is to provide equality of opportunity. It will have to be food as well, and other resources needed to have an equal opportunity.

As for education and fertility rates, this is not guaranteed to last. Formal education is not something humans were evolved for. But evolution has a way of quickly adapting to maximize its programmed objective: reproduction.
+1 - would love to see more posts celebrating the demoscene too! thanks for sharing
Adding more info on what's shipping:

Quantum Compositor (an architectural improvement written in C++) just shipped.

Quantum Render/Webrender (Servo's pure rust renderer that uses the GPU a lot) is in nightly, off by default (there's an about:config prefer, though it may not work depending on your drivers. about:support has more info). The current version of quantum render actually kind of renders twice -- first using webrender and then the regular one to fill in the missing bits. So don't expect it to be fast just yet.

Quantum Style (Stylo), servo's pure rust styling system, can be enabled at build time. We're discussing making it a preference in nightly, there are a couple of blockers for that.

The Rust URL parser (rust-url) can be enabled via network.standard-url.enable-rust. This will parse URLs using both rust-url and the regular parser, and complain about differences. I believe it's on by default in nightly and Aurora. It will fall back to the result of the regular parser if there is a difference, though there's a build time option to disable this. There are still some discrepancies which need fixing (most of them are actually gecko side bugs, we've fixed most if not all of the rust-url side spec issues), and this project is on the back burner for a bit since I'm busy with Stylo, but I hope to get back to pushing this soon!

On nightly, regardless of prefs, IPV6 URLs will always be serialized using rust-url. There were some spec bugs in geckos implementation and we decided to just use the rust stuff since we had bindings for it already. This landed a month ago, and should be in the Firefox 55 release in august.

The MP4 metadata parser in rust has been in Firefox releases for a while now.
It is C++, and std::vector has an operator[] that makes a vector behave like a convention C 'pointer to data' for array accesses (in fact, the compiler likely will optimize the access to exactly what you would get if the declaration were of a C array of pointers to node)
i would love to know who are those investors who pulled out last minute and why.
Dutch court rules fan subtitles on TV and movies are illegal
You say that desktop email clients all suck. Is there a web-based client that, in your opinion, doesn't?
openvstorage and sheepdog probably don't come close to the scale of ceph or lustre?
Here are my favorites:

Mark Schuster - https://bothsidesofthetable.com/

Jason Cohen - https://blog.asmartbear.com/

Startups for the rest of us (podcast) - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

The Startup Chat (podcast) https://thestartupchat.com/

Unbounce on marketing - https://unbounce.com/blog/

The Macro - http://blog.ycombinator.com/

There are several more technical ones like CSS-Tricks and API Evangelist

Anyone blogging on serverless with node?
For whatever it's worth: http://humanstxt.org/
AIR-INK: The world's first ink made out of air pollution
HTTPS Just Got Insanely Easy on AWS
If the wind cooperates and goes in a single direction during landing, sure, but why does nature have to be so kind?

There can be pretty severe shear at different altitudes on the way down, and the wind can flip direction any time it wants.
Pricing page is pretty bad. Draws your eyes with primary colors and bold fonts to $5000/yr and $9900/yr. I had to swallow the sticker shock and look around the page to see the weird, faded side-bubble telling me it's free.
It is speculated that this is why his step-brother, Kim Jong-Nam, was recently assassinated. It helps solidify Kim Jong Un's leadership in NK. Without a ready replacement, this probably escalates the situation further.
That is the core of their product. However, there are a lot of by-products and back office software needed to run the company. As a consumer, you most likely are only perceiving a small percentage of the technology running a company.

- Applications for all devices Netflix is on (TVs, Phones, Displays, Roku, Apple TV, etc.) and all the support around it.

- Recommendation and analytical software within Netflix. Not even accounting for other areas of the company where ML can be applied.

- Billing and financial software for Netflix users and partners

- Proprietary/internal customer support software

- Content management system, along with all the international and legal challenges around that.

- Any/all software used by their marketing teams
I'm saying that if funding primary education produces societal returns, that must mean the net increase in earning potential exceeds the cost of the education, and therefore it would be profitable to issue student loans to the poor parents of children who would make good use of that education.
As I understand it, this article is about a controlled experiment. In which case there is no confounding and therefore correlation implies causation.
As much as I'd love to see something like this succeed, I can't see it happening.

CC companies have too many incentives to force you to carry their physical card, so they will keep on producing things like the chip-and-PIN tech. That means we will always have one force pushing us to carry their physical card, and until I NEVER need to pull out that real card I have to carry it with me, so I might as well just use it.
It's not going to be as big a deal as, say, clipping a wing.
There's no way to avoid children being punished or rewarded for the quality of their parents. At a minimum, they are the DNA of their parents. Practically, parental quality in development is hugely important and how could it not be? Will the state read bedtime stories to all children?
>>"The author's intention is not to create a new library, but ..."

I don't know author's intention. Do you? :-)

My point was a warning about how bad idea is using platform-specific non-standard APIs. As exercise, of course it is fine, that is why I up-voted this history.
I asked this question yesterday. People ask if it's "production ready" but that's like asking if something is "secure" -- I don't really know what that means. Many people use Caddy in production; it's also great for local development. People use it for "real" projects. (I do.) If it is a good match for your needs, give it a try! Start small if you're nervous, but you'll probably like it.
Thank you for taking the time, typos & all. I was unaware Disk Cleanup now has the ability to clean that ginormous mess up! Am off to attempt to 'not crash' an old bloated laptop.
1.81 MiB to be precise.
The possible actions would be to stop propping them up. Not providing humanitarian aid in the resulting collapse would be pretty unethical, but it's in China's self interest anyway. They don't want lots of refugees in their border region.
> "They've let their little client state (North Korea) get out of control ... they have nukes ... they should have taken appropriate action years ago."

The comment suggests taking actions against possible nuclear development, while China's position has always been "no nuclear on Korean peninsula". We know that the statement or stand had no real effects. So the only other possible alternative would be to interfere directly to stop them from developing their defense systems. So I thought the parent comment is suggesting that.

I phrased it in such a way to draw parallel with US military actions recently to show how that is equally undesirable.
> China is letting this happen because of a lot of the profits they make ...

How do you know the Chinese leadership's strategic thinking about NK? Also, that hypothesis doesn't explain the massive resources, including blood, they spent defending NK.

I don't think NK's 25 million citizen labor pool, likely operating at extremely low-productivity levels and less than 1/40th of China's, makes much economic impact. Nor does China want competition from cheap labor.
"When the time comes, add an adblocker to your browser. This will put an end to the whole affair."
In Nürnberg, you can either buy paper tickets from ubiquitous automats or in the local transit app (with a pre-configured credit card or current account). I love it.

Local bus drivers will sell tickets, but there are also ticket validation machines in the middle of most busses. Local trains and subways are trust basis, but I've seen more random ticket checks recently. Ticket checks are more frequent on long-distance trains, but still, no barriers. I have yet to travel on local or long-distance trains in Germany or Austria that aren't trust-based.
I guess what I'm saying is, for me, '... made easy' sounds just as of our time as '... for dummies'. I'm in the UK, maybe it's a more recent phenomenon here? (I naïvely imagine cross-atlantic publication was rarer in the early C20?)
I'm surprised there's no mention of Dash in the comments yet. Having spent some time researching different crypto currency technologies with regards to becoming a better, decentralised payment network, Dash is (in my opinion) a far better Bitcoin.

It's also the first example of a functioning DAO. The organisation is funded entirely by the blockchain (new blocks reward the miner, the master nodes, and fund a treasury). It has a second network of 'master nodes', which are collateralised and incentivised to provide security and additional features to the network, including Instant Send (really fast confirmations).

The most impressive thing is that it's already positioned to make decisions about future changes by way of master node voting, so it doesn't suffer from the same issues Bitcoin does currently, where proposed changes have no means to be agreed and actioned quickly.

I'm really impressed with Dash and I hope it gets more attention.
You probably missed the back then just before the part you quoted. So, the all major browsers is modified by the indication of time I had given two words before it. I feel like two pedants meeting each other is like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.
> How long until these appliances start altering the HTTP request's User-Agent header to avoid detection (or adding logic such that the handshaking process mimics that of the browser), though?

A TLS proxy that does this is meddling with the application layer and is thus broken (IMO). A TLS proxy that doesn't want to be detected shouldn't mess with the application layer.

The best thing a TLS proxy can do (other than be turned off) is preserve the characteristics of the original TLS connection exactly.

Indeed, Caddy's implementation is mainly for detecting TLS proxies that do a lousy job at it.
Engineers don't necessarily think in terms of today's equipment when writing out models that describe the problem. They think in terms of abstract concepts, like "power source" and "lift generator".

We're already trying to build a space elevator when we don't even know what material can possibly withstand those forces. It's something over the horizon, but we're hopeful we'll find it. Likewise, powered flight was possible, the only problem was finding lighter, stronger materials for the airframe and a lighter, more powerful engine to fly it.
As blockchain industries begin to deliver on some of their promises, then the real-world impact of owning a token on a blockchain starts to increase.

Consider a promotion where you receive a 20% discount while purchasing a new game on Steam using Bitcoin if you hold a specific Rarepepe token. This is a real-world benefit that can be enforced by the blockchain with technology available today.

These are early days. We will see many more crazy, fun, and, yes, useful tokens emerge over the next few years.
I actually completely agree with you. I didn't want to say it out loud, but I do agree that the way Bitcoin is hyped to outsiders (as the future of currency transactions, independent from governments and banks) is very different from how Bitcoin holders actually think about it and use it (as an asset to be pumped-and-dumped). Bitcoin defenders tend to get very upset when you point this out though.
It would be sufficient to let some requests come through from "Googlebot", and then deal with them (block, rate-limit, whatever) once the DNS check has been completed.
Snideness aside, I agree that LA politicians are (largely) more likely to take the money and run instead of helping guide that money to where it would make a difference. One can only hope that Edwards's attitude is itself not self-interested. I think it's a reasonable hope, though, given that we've yet to see Edwards do anything nefarious* with large amounts of money despite the fact that he's seen lots of money pass through his office (e.g. with the recent flood money).

* I might be uninformed on this point. If anyone knows about some poor money-handling from his office, feel free to correct me
Joel has some good advices [1], if you do not want to quit your job. If none of these works, you should quit. Dead hourses should not be ridden but buried deep.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don...
I love how the first page (Ch. 1) tries to show that 'terrifying' calculus symbols have very simple meanings, and so there's no reason to run away.

Less pleased, though not at _all_ surprised, that the book addresses 'fifth form boys', with no mention of girls.
> What's the last time you met a poor person giving seminars on the world not just being coinflips?

Well said. I think I'll add this to my .sig .
Ask HN: Should I trademark prior to Y Combinator?
Should I trademark prior to Y Combinator? In my research prior to applying all fingers point towards waiting until I get into YC to incorporate or create a legal entity. Is this the same thought on Trademarking. Should I wait to get into YC to trademark? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
And you're internalizing "take someone else's money by force". This really goes back to Americans being temporarily embarrassed capitalists, regardless their real financial livelihood. And working-class thinks that we're talking about them when it comes to "We're gonna take their money" - We are, some. But we're also going to provide a baseline for everyone no matter what.

> I don't think opposing forced income redistribution puts me on the side of history.

And here we go again. This is a matter of "How does the government serve the citizenry". And right now, not very well. Government's current modus operandi is to privatize the gains and socialize the losses. In other words, their gains is on the backs of our losses. And from that, we have a legitimate claim on those gains, as they should be socialized as well.

Why? Because people who are rich did not do so themselves in a little bubble. Their successes rest in part on all of us. And it is easy to say, and act, that they need to pay their fair share. And that fair share would be sufficient in providing basic necessities to everyone, regardless of financial need.

People can still make profit, and thrive. I'm not advocating traditional communism. I'm advocating a blend, where the minimums are taken care of. People can still thrive and profit - they just won't be able to stand on our backs for them to get ahead.
They seem to have been offering pre-orders rather than asking for crowd funding.
Fine on Nürnberg's system is 60 EUR - plus maximum fare.
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - By Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

Thinking further on this.. Apple is totally not in the picture or i do not know.
How Ai Researchers Are Losing Control of What They’re Building
If one day VTOL aircraft are more practical, even cheaper than conventional planes, the size of the airport can shrink dramatically.

It's too early to tell if experiments like Lilium are successful (http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flying...) but that could completely upend the entire aviation industry if proven more cost-effective.
Inside the hunt for Russia's hackers
Intel to Debut Basin Falls Platform in May, Launch Coffee Lake Chips in August
Alot of startups will do consulting work while they bootstrap their product.
No, but this is the one I usually recommend for now: https://hub.docker.com/r/abiosoft/caddy/
I don't think what you're saying holds correct. You're just applying survivorship bias at a smaller and therefore less obvious scale.

We do not know the amount of luck based causality versus non luck based. What we do know is the probability of ending up a millionaire vs not.

So say it's 10% millionaire. I'm pulling this out of my ars. Now the question becomes what non luck based actions were performed by the 10% of millionaire and not by the 90% of non millionaire that caused them to become the ones to end up millionaires.

That's not a trivial thing to answer. First, it's possible there exist no non luck based actions. Maybe all actions had an element of luck. Second, it's possible no single action had a majority role. So it becomes a sum of small actions.

Now, even if we assume the best case scenario. That is, there exist a single action which is 100% responsible and has no luck involved. Well, how did the 10% knew to do that and the 90% didn't? That's also luck,or a just as complicated question to answer.

Now say the survivors, aka, the 10% came and said the secret guaranteed to work action is X. It does not mean it is repeatable once there is already 10% millionaires. What if the 90% now all do that magic action, there is not enough money for 100% millionaire. So you can see that this action would not anymore suffice and therefore starts to have an element of luck again.
Having something wrong be or become reality doesn't change it being wrong.
Wells Fargo passwords are not case sensitive
Beat me to it.

I am sure a large part Netflix's success is how seamless its products are: there's minimal to no loading time and the video stream is virtually always smooth - including during times of action/high frame rate.

Creating a video streaming platform is one thing, but creating a content delivery platform that is effectively as reliable as TV that is also cost efficient is no small task if you ask me...
No, the chinese government is not adopting the same stance as previous US admins.

The US have an embargo against North Korea, whereas the chinese are selling them materials to build their missiles with.

They could start by putting political pressure on them, levying trade sanctions and publicly denouncing their nuclear program.
+1 on mysql internals and deep-dives
Prevent Multi-Line Statement Bugs in Ruby
> The logical inverse would be that everyone should get the same share of resources regardless of their contribution to society or wealth created. I think even most on the political left would reject that idea.

Yeah, pretty much everyone of the left would reject that extreme. The progressive viewpoint here is simply that the economic system is tilted too far in favor of money accumulating upwards and needs to be pushed back somewhat. Other than that, there is a lot of variety in how far and what the method of doing so should look like.
S is for Sock puppet
Go to preciousplastic.com ... donate or fund them or refer a local organization of interest to help recycle.

Seriously. That (website) combined with personal responsiblilty (reusing water bottles as shared in other comments) would make a huge difference. Personal responsibility: When was the last time you (the reader) tossed a cigarette butt on the ground? ... threw something in the trash instead of taking it to a recycling bin? ...

This hits the front page the same day HN has an article about Russia being better at STEM outreach to young girls than the USA. If you're in the USA and want to promote STEM, go to your local school and fund construction of one of the Precious Plastic machines. It's probably the same cost as a student would have to fund raise for drama club or football team. Get Precious Plastic into schools, integrated with the shop/tech ed classes, involved with Home Ec (or whatever it's called now), and encourage [girls and boys] to be more interested, more involved, more creative.

We can solve more of these problems simultaneously with good solutions. Let's do it people!
I'm not seeing any speed increase when using an ENA vs non-ENA ami as seen by iperf. ami-80861296 vs ami-2757f631; tested transfer between pairs of m4.large and m4.xl VM-s.
Many AMO Editors are volunteers, and all are human. We've significantly adjusted the AMO review guidelines and processes to avoid that sort of mishap in the future, as acknowledged at the end of that post.

We're working hard on further changes to the process to reduce the stress and delays associated with manual review, including moving the review process to a post-publication check, instead of a pre-publication requirement. The heavy-handed review process was necessary with the old model of add-ons which had unrestricted access to the browser and to the host system. The new, permissions-based WebExtension model is dramatically easier to audit.
Lift Engineering blog - not too technical but interesting b/c we all enjoy the product: https://eng.lyft.com/

start here: https://eng.lyft.com/matchmaking-in-lyft-line-9c2635fe62c4
Ah, that's true, indeed. The page, though, will appear as a link without any contents, because the bot won't be able to index it.
You might already use this site, but if not, definitely add it to your job search:

http://www.viatec.ca/jobs
> dont reduce Rust and Go relative success to just having google or Mozilla

I don't think Go would have been popular without Google. It's easier to sell a solution to your manager when it is backed by a big org, and when people are paid fulltime to work on it. Same for Rust and Mozilla. The barrier for adoption of new languages is pretty high today in enterprise space.