skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best advice: try it and see.

Speaking for myself: I switched from Kodi to Plex after finding that Plex requires considerably less effort to achieve greater functionality, and the differences are things that I actually like. Your mileage may vary.

As an example, let's say I want to start watching something on a tablet and finish watching it on a TV. This is something that Kodi and Plex can both do, but let's consider the details.

Kodi needs a file server and a MySQL server, while Plex needs a Plex Media Server. Thus, Kodi talks SMB/NFS + MySQL, while Plex talks HTTPS. If you want to access your stuff remotely, Kodi needs a VPN and suffers from latency, while Plex works fine with port forwarding.

Kodi needs you to configure sharing and database access on each install, usually by editing config files. Plex needs you to log in with your Plex account and point it to the Plex server(s) you want.

Kodi needs you to jailbreak, sideload, compile it yourself, or otherwise jump through hoops if you want to watch on iOS. Plex is a download from the Apple app store.

Kodi streams files to the device and plays them there. Plex does this by default, but Plex Media Server can _also_ transcode media in realtime as needed. This means Plex can stream a 20 mbps source file over the Internet to a 1 mbps cellular connection. Plex can also transparently paper over device limitations, using the server to transcode weird video codecs into something that your device can actually play instead of just failing.

Plex Pass (the for-pay thing) can also take all this a few steps further with Mobile Sync. The server transcodes e.g. a season of a TV show into a mobile-friendly format/resolution/bitrate and copies it to a mobile device. Now you can watch that stuff entirely offline, in addition to streaming whatever you want over the Internet and streaming over your LAN, while still never losing your spot in a series. Kodi… doesn't.

(My current experience with Plex DVR vs my past experience with MythTV suggests I could write something similar for the DVR functions too.)
I'm flattered. If you like the Torus style, https://github.com/coreos/go-tcmu is a package I'm quite proud of (SCSI interactions wrapped in a nice pure-Go interface) and then a plug for https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley which is a little rougher but a nice community and large codebase I maintain.

Bolt (also here mentioned) is one of my favorite beautiful codebases.
https://github.com/mdlayher is a prolific author with lots of good protocol implementations. https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya is a fun project if you're into BitTorrent.
And contrarians who revel in their "I'm not snobbish like you all" Regular Joe aura. At least the ones who talk about why they quit stick to their own experiences rather than belittling others who still find value in it.
In Rust, you can have functions/enums/structs that are generic without traits, and you can have traits that aren't generic. Generics and traits are orthogonal features.
I admit I haven't measure it recently, but I thought the new twitter mobile website was supposed to be much lighter.
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WorldPay is probably in that group, it has a market cap of $1-$3. Dollars. But many of them, in a given day, trade value in the millions to billions. It drops off pretty quick after the top 5 by market cap (Ether is #2 and is in the billion/day range, Ripple is #3 and half that, Lumens is #12 and is $44M).
Why? OO doesn't have to have inheritance.
Aimless walks and meditation.
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The hell makes you think he'll stop bashing it now that he owns it? I figure he'll bash it more, and in more detail, now that he has to deal with the code
> But, now imagine two black holes each a billion times as massive as the sun turning all their mass into energy in a couple of seconds.

Sure, lemme just take off my "good at socializing with apes and running for long periods of time after antelope" hat and put on my "Cosmological scale" hat.

Huh, I seem to have misplaced that one. And the one I'm currently wearing is oddly well affixed.
> I just spoke to Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski. In a statement, he said “I am the greatest.”
Ask HN: Anyone else use BeerSmith? It sends your creds in the clear
Sent this to Brad back in 2014; still not fixed.

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Hi,

Beersmith is a great resource for home brewers. My friends and I have found it invaluable for our all grain batches. However, did anyone realize that the entire service runs over an insecure connection?

Registration is done over HTTP (not HTTPS), which could be fixed with a cheap SSL certificate. Fixing the application installed on client machines would require a little more effort, but worth it since most people use the same login information across sites. It would be really unfortunate if beersmith was ultimately determined to be the source of a breach at some other site.

I'd be more than happy to help...

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Thanks,
This is in the security/privacy notice on the site. I'm far from the only one running an HTTP service - virtually all discussion forums online (for example) are not secured, and a lot of people are not running secure email. I could secure it but it causes additional challenges with the mobile version - its not just a matter of setting up an SSL key since all of the accesssing programs would also have to use SSL.

Cheers!

Brad Smith

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Thanks for the quick response. Agreed that running an HTTP service is fine—beer recipes aren’t sensitive info…also agreed that changing the entire system over to SSL would be a pain. Maybe just look at securing the calls to Login.php and GetRecipes.php? That seems to be the least amount of work and wouldn’t require client-side keys (just an update to use a secure connection with PKI and signed cert validation instead).

Users don’t read security and privacy policies and to make matters worse, they reuse credentials across sites. Their gmail, twitter, or facebook account is now an online identity, used to verify access to a variety of other sites. So a compromise on a low-risk site like beersmith.com creates a cascading problem…it just doesn’t make sense to leave this security hole open.
Hey there,

I'm one of the earliest users of Delicious who recently built a modern bookmarking platform. It's called Kozmos (https://getkozmos.com). It's a competitor to Pinboard, and its difference is simplifying bookmarking into one heart button, I mean you don't need to fill forms to bookmark a page anymore. It has an advanced search engine that makes you find whatever you're looking for.

I self-funded this project and worked on it past three months. If you are curious about how it looks, you can see this blog post; https://medium.com/@azerbike/introducing-kozmos-a-new-bookma...

My vision for this project is to not just build a bookmarking platform, to innovate further based on bookmarking.
I've always found uberpool to work fine, and sometimes meeting people is extra fun. In other cases the driver doesn't pick up anyone else and I get an extra cheap ride.
> I've used Delicious for 12 years, with 10,000+ bookmarks in it

I've used it for 7.5 years with 22k+ bookmarks.

I stopped using it last year because of the downtimes as well.

> I was frustrated that the Delicious export went away

Too much load on their servers.

Instead of transferring, I simply made a simple bookmarker with similar functionality (allows importing) that I could self-host.

See https://github.com/dyu/bookmarks/ if interested.

Edited: export comment
I built a five-year career of self-employment on the back of a Mac app called Pukka which was itself built upon Delicious.

http://codesorcery.net/2006/02/26/hello-world

I turned the interest in the app into my first piece of commercial software which, coming from an open source and free software background, was actually pretty daunting. I timidly started charging five bucks in the pre-App Store days, before eventually raising the price over time to make it more sustainable.

http://codesorcery.net/2006/05/03/so-really-whats-the-deal

I had ups and downs, launched a second app (Meerkat, for SSH tunneling), but eventually realized I wasn't really an indie product person as much as I was a people and services one, so I ended up doing about 80% consulting and 20% Mac software, including Pukka.

I eventually ended up folding up shop after I went to work for Mapbox full-time in 2011.

http://codesorcery.net/2012/09/06/sunset

This is something Maciej even wrote about.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/243511937722376192

So I'll always have a spot in my heart for Delicious, and this seems a fitting and appropriate end. I'm so glad its content will remain available in perpetuity.
Great site. Would it be possible to add search by country instead of only by city? If not, no worries.
Still plenty of time for an "incredible journey" post by the new owners.
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That's why you'd use Clojure and have access to the entire Java ecosystem.
> Salary: very good

I hate to do this on this thread, but - commit to an explicit salary range or don't put anything down about it. What is "very good"? You might as well say "competitive" - it offers exactly the same transparency as if you had listed nothing, because it's qualitative, not quantitative.

What am I supposed to think after reading that description? "Very good" for me personally means north of $200k - for someone else it could be significantly higher or lower. But we don't really get the benefit of knowing if your "very good" matches our "very good."

It's particularly disingenuous to me to list salary as if you're going to be transparent about it, then slap something on there that just maintains the information asymmetry you had before. At least the other companies who list nothing at all are forthright in their lack of salary transparency.

To be clear, I'm not taking a side on salary transparency. I'm specifically saying you should take a side here, instead of trying to have your cake and eat it too. If your salary range is actually "very good" for that skillset, you will find that the right people are applying. Would you be interested in a SaaS product that said "Very Expensive" on its pricing page, instead of a) listing actual, quantifiable pricing or b) not listing pricing and requiring a sales call?
This would have been my suggestion. Read the standard library. It's mostly easy to understand and well documented. In general if you have a question of how a problem should be solved, this is a good place to refer.
For what is essentially a one man project with the kind of traction he has gotten I think even very is underselling it, I'd say in incredibly possibly ludicrously impressive.
These are really good points. Maybe the risks are over-stated. I guess as we (finally) start getting out there, going to Mars, etc, we're going to find out for sure.
"No it isn't; you're just used to seeing them that way."

Being used to things looking certain way is always factor in what people find aesthetically pleasing. It goes for color preferences, shapes and pretty much anything else too.
How would the internship opportunity work?

I'd like to do remote and out of your stack I'm only familiar with python but can learn very quickly. Not sure if I'm a fit or not.

Thank you.
You cannot exactly enforce the nice-ities though. You would have to structure the community around using your service like that, but that still can be broken down.

Manipulative algorithms can be taken out though, I suppose.
And yet the two go hand in hand. Have never seen it in Python, though have never used twisted either.
Maybe check out Practical Modern JavaScript, which I wrote, which is free

https://github.com/bevacqua/practical-es6
I'm a twitter troll but not by choice -- you need to have organic activity to advertise on their platform.

Selection bias at work here but my push-stream is 80% journalists/writers 20% schizophrenics. I can't imagine anyone being on there by choice. My adrenal glands are shot from 6 weeks of semi-pro use.

If NYT is going to argue that people are being deceived they need to explain what people are doing on the platform. Is anyone on there really not complicit in having strong emotions spewed at them by B-list brookings wonks?
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Excluding the "ads", how would you prevent users from posting "political spam", "viral garbage", and "pictures of what your friend ate for dinner"?
The second edition of the book has a chapter https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/book/second-edition/ch17-0...

I personally don't feel Rust fits into either of the two big schools of OOP, but that doesn't mean that it's not OO. Part of the problem with OO is that the definitions are hard.
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I know Go is mainly used for systems and infrastructure level software, but I also know that some companies are using it at a higher level of abstraction for their application servers as well.

I'd really like to see more examples of these types of codebases but can't seem to find examples anywhere.
For me, Apple's Season Pass was definitely the best model for TV show viewing. You'd think it would be win-win:

- a win for consumers because they only pay for the shows they want to watch

- a win for producers because they get a lot more dollars per viewer than they get now

But of course, that model has been a massive failure. Consumers panned it because it seemed expensive, and of course there are many networks/shows that aren't there. Maybe the networks would have come if the model was successful, but I doubt that Netflix would ever have...
Agreed! It is crazy that this code even exists. They have since rolled it into their decred/altcoin project.
> Yesterday, as part of responding to a security incident, the Amazon Drive security team temporarily disabled API access for Arq as well as some other apps.

Wondering what was this about. Is it related to the rclone being banned from the Amazon Cloud Drive[1]?

[1]: https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazo...
I like his/her attitude, to be honest. It's jarring, which is what most people need to snap them into thinking for themselves.
No, I don't agree with that analogy at all. Yahoo bought Delicious and completely mismanaged it, even worse than they did with Flickr.

The original Delicious interface was simple and easy to use. Not quite as minimalist as Pinboard, but nowhere near the crap they released later.
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Given the $35,000 price tag, the plan is to convert almost 0 users.

(something like 2000 out of millions of accounts would pay that off in a year or 2)
NES ROM demos music, sprites, input and color–celebrating marriage equality (2015)
Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345uegSj-zQ
Hmm..
Wondering if this is some sort of post-Stalin reference..
Old domains don't matter. He's not going to make 35k from this, at least not any time soon.

The fact that it's been through like four companies at this point and none felt they could make it valuable tells you a lot.
Trump to announce U.S. will exit Paris climate deal
By altering the title, you've taken something deliberately strong and watered it down. This isn't a situation where a different title better conveys the authors intent or content...this is explicitly an opinionated essay expressing exactly what the title summarizes. It is unnecessary censorship. Sure it is a word that commonly is considered vulgar, but it is also a word that has significant visceral meaning. HN shouldn't censor words just because they're strong enough to be offensive.
My go to for people new to JS.
I use this solution sometimes.

http://www.HostMath.com/Show.aspx?Code=%5Cdot%5Ctheta_i%20%3...
I find the change of title in complete opposition to the message and meaning of the post.
Yes, you are. The argument is that facebook has become something that causes the rest of the web to be worse off. Less open, more bloated, more central.
I can relate to a lot of your sentiments.

I'd like to share a project I've been working on, https://slushi.es
Right. Anything that you could want to do with an anonymous function, you can.

It is less frustrating for me than the fact that the scoping rules for a var in JavaScript mean that you're likely to scope to the nearest function call rather than loop. Despite having anonymous functions, doing what I would want to do with them in JavaScript is often much harder than doing it in Python.
> no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner

Posting pictures of your food should be a criminal offence. Nothing too serious, just a couple of years in prison or something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460160
Unfortunately no surprise here. We need more websites telling people this, until finally people realize it.
You'd get most of the way there by making it possible not to see things your friends have shared.
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You're being downvoted because a large segment of HN is engineers who prefer sites like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com and http://evenbettermotherfucking.website

Basically, what it comes down to is that if all 37 requests are done in parallel, then you're only loading the page as slowly as the slowest. Sadly, this is rarely the case. Most browsers will only make 6 concurrent requests from a server, which you can see in Firefox via the about:config page and the network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server. Worse, some of that JS is probably downloading more JS, which means that you will have multiple requests going out.

On mobile, this means you're running 8-30 second delays for each "group" of requests, especially if you have poor reception. Good news is that after that initial latency, the actual transfer should go fairly fast.

On the other hand, a social commenting program should need at a minimum 1 JS file, 1 CSS file, 1 for the actual data (3 comment texts, 3 base64 encoded profile pics at a small resolution). So FB is running at ~30x the optimum (87 assets, of which 35 are JS).

If you think it's not that big a deal, I'd suggest taking a trip abroad or just out to some smaller towns in your area, and really experience why users feel the internet has not really gotten faster since the 90s (keeping in mind users don't care about data size, they care about latency).
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You'd only let people in with a .edu email and marketing as a hookup app
Wow. The other day was a post about successful one-person companies and Pinboard was mentioned. Delicious was also in the time a successful one-person company and for me, it's the most emblematic 2.0 startup. It's a shame how big was the fall but I'm happy it's now in Maciej's hands.

When Delicious forgot to update the browser plugins I looked for a free version, but nothing was as good (and probably as future proof) as Pinboard and it's some of the best $9 (if I remember) deals I've made.
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Aside from the bureaucratic inertia that all large groups ultimately accumulate have you ever thought that this is by design? Facebook investing resources into really polishing and optimizing the web experience of comments doesn't really get people to use Facebook more. What they really want is for you to post your content, comment on it, and share it all from within the Facebook, and ideally from a highly-optimized Facebook app they completely control.

Facebook Comments aren't designed to be a great experience. They're designed to funnel users into Facebook's ecosystem and to get them to use Facebook more. It's a marketing tool for Facebook.
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Why does it have something called 'say' instead of something more intuitive like 'println'.

Why is the Unix command `ls` not `list-directory-contents`? Sure, it's a lot more for everyone to type all the time, but you could get rid of a single line in the man page, meaning the name is much, much more intuitive!
What if the Web were filesystem-accessible?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if...
"I can make a bet that when China GDP per capita comes close to the developed nations".

Exactly, people seem to forget that we're so comfortable here that we (I mean the majority) just couldn't care less. Every once in a while, we'll hear about some atrocity in a war we're in half way around the world, complain about it on Reddit and just forget about it the next day. We can sanction smaller countries about a list of human rights we created, but it's next to impossible for a smaller country to impose any sanctions on us thus making the US virtually unaccountable of anything.

The gov does not have to fear the populace here but that is definitely not the case in a developing country.
This is essentially what they're saying:
> "If you start with chaos, there’s bound to be a smooth patch in it somewhere, just randomly, and it doesn’t matter how rare it is because once it inflates it grows so big it completely dominates the universe."
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I'm not sure why it has to be deactivated though. I've had a FB account for a long time and maybe check it once every few days if that. My main use case is to upload shared photos. I would prefer everyone use Google Photos, but that hasn't happened yet.