skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, this is such a nuisance!

* When you download Firefox from Norway, you get the Norwegian version, with the right Accept-Language header setting by default.
* When you buy a computer with Windows or MacOS in Norway, it's localised to Norwegian – IE/Edge/Safari presumably sets the right Accept-Language header. Linux users get to choose language during install.
* Looking at Piwik stats from a site mostly used by people in Norway, I see mostly "Norwegian Bokmål" as Browser Language (10x as much as English). Dominant browsers are 1. Chrome 2. Safari 3. Firefox 4. IE. So the browsers seem to be doing the right thing.

So even without fancy UI asking what languages you know, Accept-Language seems to be correctly set (at least for Norwegians). So why are sites using the more complicated and less precise geoip guess?
I am a bit late to reply, but languages are changing also. The average written French in media is now much poorer in vocabulary than it was before 1995, and there now are many grammar mistakes. The language evolves continuously.

And the spoken French has incredibly changed in the last decades. Most young people would have problem to understand the spoken French of 1900.

That said, French (like English in GB, or German) spread a lot thanks to TV in the 50'/60'. When I was young there was still old people speaking the local language of their tiny part of Brittany.
But they're vastly easier to source, and then reuse/recycle.

Also, there's that "Not laying waste to huge areas and making them uninhabitable" thing.

Nukes would be fine for a species that was capable of acting intelligently and responsibly over long periods.

Humans are not (yet) that species.
With Apple's budget, what on earth convinced them to not take the risk of launching in 20 countries at once? Google and Facebook really are the champion of multinational media endeavours.
there is more then .de in europe
and german is not german

for example:
you have 3 complete different countrys which all speak german
.DE
.AT
.CH

you need to handle taxes, currencys, even some special characters like: ß street = strasse (CH) = straße (DE,AT)

until they dont implement "choose youre country" on setup of any browser there will not be a replacement for GEOIP
Disqus runs ads white-labeled through adsnative.com - and this is a programmatic ad network that uses real-time bidding to run auctions and get ads as the page loads - which come with numerous adtech networks attached in those tags. None of those listed are malware or outright harmful but they are all adtech companies in some aspect (ad serving, data tracking, verification, etc).

Disqus without ads and without real-time comments is pretty fast, but those days are long gone and they're also full of spam. It's also such easy spam to catch that it feels like they just stopped caring and are cashing in as long as they can.

Also why not just use Gists? I've seen a few people use them as a standalone blog pages with markdown files, and it also has an API available.
Would you like to not be allowed to do business in China? All you have to do is use the flag of the Republic of China to indicate traditional Chinese.

Use names of languages, localized into those languages, for the selection. Or if you must save space, use two-letter language codes.
If it makes you feel any better, they redact everything related to ARM (and "good luck" compiling it...).
> We also don't have a good place to store the waste.

We've got tons of space to store the waste. The country is right in the middle of a tectonic plate, so little worry about earthquakes, and large swathes of the country are uninhabited by anyone, even mythical 'lost tribes'. Even if nowhere else, we could store waste in the giant area cordoned off for nuclear testing in the '50s.

In my opinion, it's hard to find somewhere better suited for storing nuclear waste than 'somewhere in Australia'. Stable, first-world government, a fair few places where we can put it where even leaks wouldn't be a problem, skilled populace, etc etc.

In any case, it looks like they're discussing it: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/should-south-australia...
It's not a common word. Reading it as normal German you would understand it as "obviousness, plainness, evidentness" (from 'offenbar' = 'obvious, plain to see'; 'openable' would be 'öffenbar').
But Heideggerian can obviously be quite distinct from standard German usage, to put it mildly.
Individual contributor, as in not a manager.
If only European countries were more entrepreneur-friendly and had more limited liability...
Prediksi Real Madrid vs Barcelona

http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-real-madrid-vs-barcel...
How the Hearthstone golden card shaders work
http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-real-madrid-vs-barcel...
If you think really coal pollution is invisible, try visiting China - which, perhaps not coincidentally, is currently rushing headlong towards a fully renewable economy.
It's actually a sleeper hit [1][2]. The Guaridan seems to be the anomaly.

>Publishers are also paying increasing attention to Apple News, which added push notifications as part of a redesign last year and now delivers significant traffic thanks to the fact that it comes pre-installed on hundreds of millions of devices.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/16/15314210/instant-articles-...

[2] http://digiday.com/media/duopolys-shadow-apple-news-finding-...
I can scarcely imagine the pain of losing a child and knowing that it was due to my negligence. Do you seriously think that, on top of all this suffering, the risk of a custodial sentence would add further disincentive?

I am not arguing that these parents were not idiotic, just that their further punishment can serve no purpose.

We may have to agree to disagree though.
Why not just hash the contents of flash and see if it matches a dealer specified value?

If JD had a reasonable port to the flash, it would be easy to read it out and see if your phone (or whatever) thought it had the correct image.
Umm how about:

WebKit (for browsers)

Wikipedia (for knowledge)

Wordpress (powers 20% of web)

Git, Mercurial

Apache, NGinX
PHP, Node.js and all the languages

All the Web Frameworks

lame, ffmpeg, tons of other stuff as well
MDN articles aren't supposed to be just flat descriptions of "Feature X does Y. To use feature X, place the following code in..."

MDN is supposed to be an educational resource that can teach people what different bits of technology are for, when and why they can be used, etc., and so it's appropriate -- if there is a common problem with something -- to mention the problem.

And though I didn't write that article (but I did work on MDN's software platform during my time at Mozilla), I largely agree that Accept-Language simply doesn't work, and some other sort of in-page UI is far more reliable. There's a reason why MDN will do content negotiation, but also shows a drop-down of languages an article is available in and uses language identifiers in URLs, after all.
They run ads through a 3rd party, thats where the tags come from.
Bird deaths from coal are 40 times higher than those from wind:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*FlgPzNwGlNYMtFSy.j...

source: https://thinkprogress.org/chart-how-many-birds-are-killed-by...
> as well as the larger open source ecosystem.

There must be a reason for this though, one of the reasons why Java has a good ecosystem is because it's had a huge head start in terms of time and mindshare.

At the same time though, what's stopping people from making the open source ecosystem in .NET really good? There must be a reason, is it cultural?
Did they fully intend to vote democrat before they voted in the republican primaries?

The key point here is that the description has someone voting in party A's primaries for the sole reason of limiting or altering the choice others get to make. "As I intended to do from the beginning" is a key part of the description.

You however are describing I think people voting in the primaries to try and get the candidate they want to vote for into power. When that fails they take a different approach.
The co-founder of DeepMind explains how AI will help us make unimaginable leaps
Why do you claim the west does not let you have nuclear? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India there is nuclear power in India and it is growing?

Whether this is the most economic (not mention safe) way of extending the electricity supply is another question. As far as I am aware, India is quite aggressively investing in solar too. In sunny regions, solar is way cheaper than nuclear already. And the same applies for wind, especially in costal regions.
Bacteria That Can Help Find Land Mines
How to program verified connetions used in friend lists, phonebook or match list
Maybe if the video actually played on the links in Apple News.
Boaty McBoatface might be a "terrible embarrassement" to some, but to me it's really good since it shows that you don't take yourself all too seriously.

If all nations took themselves 100% seriously we would all end up like Russia and probably be instantly catapulted into WW3.
I missed that in the huge bunch of less relevant numbers. This makes the article an even bigger troll, trying to hide the true number. Also the talk about "intermittent" is quite misleading. Yes wind power depends on the wind. But that is quite well predictable in those places, where you would install a wind generator. With a reasonable electrical grid, this can be quite well managed.
How come the Apple News Feed in Siri isn't configurable? It doesn't even follow the sources of the News.app. It's constantly clickbaity or depressing. Who moderates and chooses that.
Based on what I read and hear about us laws and how they are enforced this might very well be a real problem there.

A company I worked for decided to settle after someone broke in, stuck something in the safety switch and got injured while illegaly operating a machine we had made.

The reasons were simple:

1. There were no sticker saying this was bad. (But as mentioned we had other safety measures that were deliberately overridden.)

2. While we had a fair chance of winning the costs and risks were simply not worth it.

Lessons learned: if something goes to the US, make sure the stickers are in place.
Carbon taxes are also cutting subsidies.

Given the external costs, big users are being subsidised by everyone else.
> MacBook hard drives can be removed and replaced.

This is not entirely true. The flash drive on the 2015 and 2016 Retina MacBooks are "soldered to the logic board" according to iFixit [1], [2]. What happens to the soldered-in flash drives if a logic board from one of these MacBooks fails and is swapped out by Apple under, say, AppleCare? is it desoldered and removed from the logic board, or does the entire MacBook logic board get shredded in one fell swoop?

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+MacBook+2016+Teardown...
Evidence of the context-freeness of Natural Language (1985) [pdf]
Also, taxes don't have to be compulsory. Rand addresses several alternatives to compulsory taxation for funding the State in one of her essays.

The three main problems with carbon taxes are:

* they're compulsory (and therefore theft)

* they're guaranteed to be the wrong amount, as attempts to calculate externalities are subject to the socialist calculation problem

* they are usually motivated by a desire to control people's behaviour (see the point about driving above)
I'm being pedantic, but what to do with the knowledge seems to be a policy and political question, not a science question.
The trade magazine, Press Gazette, recently launched a campaign to 'stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism'

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-launches-duopoly...
Haven't followed the .net stack for a long time, and core seemed like a pretty good idea to me ( aka multiplatform was the roadblock for .net). care to explain a bit what's wrong with current direction ?
If I buy a book, I don't own the IP in the book. Even though I can do what I want with the physical item, I certainly cannot (legally) sell copies of it.

(To be clear: John Deere and the rest are in the wrong, I'm just nitpicking your comment)
If you magically increased the wind industry tomorrow by a factor of 31.2 to supply the entire US electricity demand of 4369TWh, you would have to employ 3.1 million people. That's only ~4 times the size of the US employment numbers for gas/coal (and luckily this was only a thought experiment to demonstrate that you are concern trolling, real industries don't grow without massive efficiency improvements along the way).
This is very useful for forensics. I was impressed they already had a module for reading Windows registry hives. I did a parser manually myself (2x times) and remember the difficulty of doing that.

Their registry hive module looked correct and extremely simple. Was also impressed with the ISO support to parse/extract files. All in all, seems like a very solid option for parsing binary files.
Didn't downvote but still disagree a lot.

Flagging off otherwise interesting articles is seriously annoying IMO.

I'd say commenting or upvote if there is already a comment (and maybe emailing if necessary) is the solution.
Still waiting for youtube red here...
And no date in sight. I don't even care about their "specials" - just opportunity to support favorite video creators (apart from patreon) without adv would be enough.
> To which the response is who are Google to influence how or what people think?

Give people a long leash, but when they're way off to the end of the bell-curve of normality throw them a life-line.

> It's easy to make up pure-nonsense examples that nobody believes...

That's actually an example of things people do believe. If you engage with some of those wild outliers you can learn a lot, quickly. Some of them are trolling, but many of them have extremely firm convictions. Maybe it's Sandy Hook. Maybe it's chemtrails. It's usually a bunch of stuff, all tangled together.
Ahyes, smart. We didn't control the client, unfortunately, so we couldn't do that.

(we tried to communicate with the people who did but they turned out to be the supplier to the supplier to the customer of our customer, 5 countries away, and fixing anything at all was not high on their priority list :D)
What in particular is worrying you about NET Core?
It doesn't best in the world though, does it, it determines best in the competition.

I don't really follow your analogy either - surely it's more like knowing how to cook or eat a food, or whether something's edible.

I'd have thought almost any skill is useless at a competitive level.
RISC will change everything.
Your primary restriction is on taking other peoples work building upon it and selling it without sharing your modifications or money with the people who gave you THEIR work for free.

If you arrange to give people the same money you would have paid for the closed sourced solution maybe they will let you keep your modifications to yourself and sell the resulting product.
They do it when they detect someone seeking to physically harm themselves (e.g. suicide). This could be the same for severe mental harm.
Spending limits are far more complicated than they might seem since these services are designed to be billed by usage and many accrue charges even in a steady state.

What exactly is supposed to happen when the billing limit is hit? Delete everything? That's the only way to actually stop billing completely and I'm not sure who would actually want that.
Just don't connect your smart TV to the internet. If the spooks have physical access to your house, they can plant microphones and cameras anyways.
You watch one "free energy" video for chuckles and all of a sudden YouTube keeps surfacing more and more of these things, there's an infinite supply of them apparently. It just won't stop.
I'm not sure that sheep-farming is particularly obscure.
Why wouldn't you go straight to en.wikipedia.org? If you use a per-language site, Wikipedia never redirects you.
Eh, lol?

Setting up new applications in Java or .NET is by far easier than Node.JS.

It's Node.JS where you need 400 dependencies just to use the latest version of the language.

That said, there's many easy to use and simple frameworks for Java, and you can try also other JVM languages such as Kotlin, Clojure, Scala or Eta.

The JVM hosts the most powerful and fastest managed languages at the moment (via eta and clojure also allowing haskell and lisp on the JVM).

.NET is nice, but there's quite a few reasons why Java is used everywhere.
He's explaining why he, and others like him, have difficulty respecting the people for whom the word 'millenial' applies.

I think it's important to keep in mind that the term 'millenial' refers to actual people.
> Investigators say the materials were stolen from a highly secure section of the intelligence agency where it takes two people to access information

So there are two leakers? Yikes!
I found the opposite to be true for myself. If I don't take notes, I forget soon. But if I take notes, at the time of taking notes, I am processing the information in a way that I can explain myself. So somehow that helps me remember a little longer even if I don't read those notes a second time.
There's a swedish company that does houses in a similar style to this, at least close enough to remind me of them.

Unfortunately the website is only in swedish as far as I can see, but the photos should translate:

http://www.levahusfabrik.se/gallery/
A company I worked for decided to settle after someone broke in, stuck something in the safety switch and got injured while illegaly operating a machine we had made.

The reasons were simple:

1. There were no sticker saying this was bad.

And this shows that if Deere cared about liability and not about ripping customers off every time they need to repair something, they would use stickers instead of DRM.

And you can laugh at safety stickers, but IMO they are a good thing. They mean that your responsibility is limited to providing basic safety interlocks sufficient for the intended use and informing what is and what isn't intended use. Everything else is user's problem, as it should be. I certainly prefer this over wasting manufacturers' time on elaborate idiot-proofing and then later wasting hackers' time on breaking it.
I'm reminded of Intellivision for some reason. LibGDX is awesome for 2d mucking around too.
"Reducing energy consumption" does not mean nobody can use tools from post 1800, and it also doesn't mean that nobody can help after a drought. There's even a quote in your link describing it as a man made famine.
OP specified "development environment is similar enough to production", and you recommended "Linux setup based on Arch Linux and Xmonad". Does not compute.
It is perhaps a global issue, but it has not much to do with Paris.
I live in one of the "rich" towns mentionned in the article (Rennes) and the unemployment rate is an incredibly high 15%!
The article is IMO more about a state that had killed the private sector, which was previously providing good jobs.

Now as you say, the middle class who made every efforts to get the magical "Master in something", still do not have access to state sponsored housing and do not either find any of the highly qualified jobs that were promised by countless politicians.

The citizens whose parents emigrated decades here ago, are very angry toward the state, even if they live in state social housing, because they have no jobs either and they live constant harassment by police forces.
I think it's a bit unfair to paint a genuine and honest intention, that is even pursued as far as a court of law, but which is unexpectedly prevented by a third party a 'false promise'.
When someone proposes something ridiculous the logical response isn't to meet them halfway.

The logical solution is to avoid inventing imaginary rights to brand identity. When you sell something you ought to give up the right to control how its used. If you want to rent or lease equipment you have to convince your customers to buy into that model.
It was a really good name because it appealed to kids, and could have generated a huge amount of positive PR for Britain and for the earth sciences.

Sometimes smart people are wrong too.

There's a certain irony in calling a blog "Open for ideas" and then putting up posts that say "But not like that."
Information cascade
I wrote an article about the very same subject 3 years ago. Little has been done to make it better:

http://www.planetjones.co.uk/blog/27-04-2014/web-internation...
Used equipment has always been a crap shoot that comes with few guarantees and will continue to be so for every industry in existence. The fact that used equipment repair could in theory effect the perception of the john deere brand and tangentially their future sales doesn't imply that they have a legal or moral right to prevent it.
Anything under the AGPL.

For example just running AGPL software anywhere on Google's servers would open them up to having to open source the entire of Google search. That's why Google has banned the AGPL: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
I think you're being a bit unfair.

I am not properly familiar with Guava, but aren't most things available in .NET's collections classes?

A lot of what's in Commons is available in the .NET BCL.

https://redis.io/clients#c looks fine to me (I'd probably pick the StackExchange client)

NPgSQL seems to be the recommended library for Postgres.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/CassandraCSharpDriver/ was updated in February.

https://github.com/Microsoft/CSharpClient-for-Kafka starts to show some of the issues you're talking about - Microsoft aren't supporting this one anymore, but they point to https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet which wraps librdkafka - seems sensible

I'll definitely give you a point for the HTTP2/IIS issue - although there might be more technical reasons than you think for that. From what I recall, a lot of NET and Windows HTTP stuff is implemented in http.sys or WinHTTP which is a low level component. They're not going to ship a large update to anything before Win10, so that's probably why it's missing. In this case I'd just run nginx in front of IIS if you needed to, but I'd hope that most people running IIS in production can afford to update to Windows Server 2012 or 2016.
You can't lump European countries up like that. There are vast differences. Most offer high levels of entrepreneurial financing, supporting government policies, separate tax systems for entrepreneurs, programs, entrepreneurial education, high ratio of R&D investments turned into profit, and so on.

Actually, on most indicators most European countries lead US. The ones that are significantly lower are preferences towards entrepreneurship (most actually do not want that career option, and go for stable boring jobs), and the actual amounts of start-up companies. But still, the economic output of the EU per capita is higher than that of the US (has been for several years already), so who cares.

Here's something to read on in case you are really interested: Global Enterpreunership Monitor 2016-2017 global report (http://www.gemconsortium.org/report)
Make a Rocket Arrow Head for Fireworks
Is the net gain of a BSD license better than if it didn't exist, considering public companies use it for profit and don't contribute back? Absolutely, but same with LGPL. Actuaĺly I just wanted to argue it.
Well then, let us ask thousands of people: Had the electorate answer to the Brexit question been a No instead of a Yes, would the voters still - in the view of this very same Aran Rees - have been an unfortunately unqualified gaggle, unsuitable for asking about anything beyond the number of airports in a given country?
Anything licensed under the AGPL attaches conditions to using the software. Running the software on a server means you are required to open source the other software running on the server.