skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be in exactly the same space, but it has the same problem. It's way overpriced for what it offers. I still don't understand why they cost more than a full tower PC with better specs. It's not like they're some crazy special hardware.
More often than not, this data is collected in the millions of phone calls and door-to-door visits conducted by volunteers.
How often does a self-closing <title /> tag appear in the wild?
> Health food is their focus

More accurately, health and environmental fashion trend / virtue signalling food is their focus; actual health is very much beside the point.
What did you last check? Because actually yes, media companies absolutely pay social media companies large amounts of money for advertising partnerships, which generally take the form of "posting content" and "amplifying" it.
They aren't, but there's no well supported js transpiling language that does both.
I have not tested it, but it is probably slower. The advantage of this is that is follows the HTML 5 parsing spec, so it gives you the same results as a browser when parsing malformed HTML
> Then there's the last group of people who are, what I call, professional victims. I've not seen a conservative one of these yet.

Boy, you live in some bubble don't you. There are so many examples, it boggles the mind that you haven't seen them.
I once turned down an excellent offer in order to avoid working in AdTech. It was a lot of money and probably fun work, too. Not everybody can do this, and most people would consider me crazy for having turned done that kind of money. After all: it isn't illegal, right?

One other day I met with a guy from a company, that branded itself a social startup. Do you know what social means? Social, like in society, like in living and working together? It means, I employ people to think about the best way to monetise your relationships with others.

I admire technological progress and I believe it's the only chance we have. But the corporate, SV or VC double speak and the weak and irresistant minds of maybe 90% of the population makes western societies an awkward place to live.
True, but Linux executes some things that aren't ELF and Windows executes tons of things that aren't PE. I wish someone would come up with something, because how awesome would it be to be able to distribute a single executable for all desktop platforms?
That's terrible. Sorry to hear that.

Yeah, it's all relative, of course. Some would say these are luxurious problems to have in that they seem, at least for the moment, to be removed from the struggle for basic survival.

That can change in a heartbeat when the IRS starts levying what little you have in your bank accounts, though. Last September I woke up one morning and found my checking account at -$1200; they assessed that levy based on some arbitrary day's balance of ~$1500 or something like that at some arbitrary point in the past. No rhyme or reason.

And as you probably know, the cascade of consequences that come with that—the bouncing payments and so forth—are triply punitive if you have abysmal credit and really can't afford any dings with the landlords who generously let it slide...
It's not hard to provide an archive, both in website and in mbox formats. There are multiple free tools available.
They're going to have to support it in perpetuity, most likely. There are too many packages written in CS, which are relied on, and which are not really maintained so much.
Off-topic, but how expensive are five-letter, English word .com domains right now? I don't see new companies with domains that are small-ish words very often.
Not the person you are responding to, but my wife is an American living in Germany and we have public insurance.

I think you're conflating a few different terms and perhaps not fully understanding what is meant by public and private insurance in Germany?
Well, I assume that there's a bell curve, with the median around 8, because I was eight when the books were first published in the US. (Scholastic is often associated with publishing kids books, too.)
I don't like those "login with Google / Facebook / etc", nor that "Type your email -- receive the code -- fill in the code". OpenID would be better I think. You can design it to use something other than a password for authentication if you want to; it mean the authentication system can be independent from whatever you log in to.
From subways to Penn Station, NYC transit is a mess. Why?
be careful relying on that though.. Each pop has it's own cache, and when there's a miss, it'll hit your server.

Its pretty rare that a CDN gives you any insight into their caches, and there's no guarantee a file is kept in the cache. A file can be removed from the cache for many reasons--cache filled; file not popular enough; etc.

So even if your local pop is saying the file is cached.. the other pops may not have any files for your website at all... or might be missing parts of the page (images, etc). (The x-cache header only indicates the status of the file at the pop that served the request -- not all pops.)
The US has mild and flat cities; none of them touch the Netherlands when it comes to cycling support.
Your test may work perfectly and prove that the only people who can "do the work" within your company's structure are a narrow demographic of $current_majority.

If your company structure/culture is broken your "unbiased" test probably will be too.
Except this isn't a leak. This is publicly searchable information. I don't know why people are blowing this out of proportion.
>> and when it went pear-shaped, they abandoned all their principles to rescue themselves.

>How exactly?

If I am not mistaken, the central principle of Ethereum, from which almost all of its alleged benefits arise, is that the blockchain is the sole authority and so the currency, contracts and transactions are consequently immune to meddling. Of course, one might argue that it was never true, and that all the hard fork did was to demonstrate that fact, but truth is not a necessary feature of a principle - though false principles usually turn out to be unworkable in the long run; see, for example, communism.

Your argument seems to be that the hard fork was feasible, expedient and harmless, but that is not an argument against it being a breach of their own principles. Furthermore, if you followed all the arguing at the time over whether there should be a hard fork, you would know that there are plenty of people who thought it was a terrible idea - so much so that some of them have gone to the considerable trouble of keeping Ethereum Classic running.

>Comparing the early alpha days of the system to the stated ideals of what they want the system to be in the future in not fair.

It is certainly fair to point out that they are unjustifiably claiming that it is, now, what they want it to be in the future. Furthermore, I don't recall it being described as alpha software when people were putting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets into the DAO.

> If every experimental project followed your advice by being totally risk adverse as well as was carefully controlled with red tape from the early days then we wouldnt have any innovation or the great products we have today.

Even if these general points were not exaggerated and simplistic, they would not refute the specific claims about the current state of Ethereum. Furthermore, you seem to think I am advocating the regulation of Ethereum, but I don't think that would save it from its fundamental contradictions.

> This idea that you see nothing wrong with believing you know better than people who volunteered their time and money with this project and they need to be protected by government systems is what concerns me. Why not let them run this project and see if it fails or not?

See my immediately previous response - though I would prefer it if Ethereum was promoted without claims that cannot currently be justified.

> Is it really worth killing this experiment to mitigate risk so a few people don't get burned?

That's what the opponents of the hard fork said - but the people who would have been burned without the hard fork would have included some of the most influential people in Ethereum. It would be interesting to know how much the pro-fork miners had at risk in the DAO.

> I personally think this project is full of snake oily hand wavy ideas that will mostly fail. But I'll endless defend their right to try it. And provide feedback and thoughtful analysis to poke holes in the bad stuff as I come across it.

You seem to be trying pretty hard to not notice some significant holes.
That's what I'm wondering - maybe "privacy" is the chilled state. Maybe what we should be aiming for is not "privacy", but rather being at ease with modern communication.

The following is a kind of evil comparison, and I'm sorry, but I can't come up with a better one right now - it's a bit like saying: "If 'chubby' people were aware that they should wear flattering clothes, then this might lead to other people liking them better." - Maybe well-indended advice, but WTF no! You shouldn't tell somebody to hide their body, and likewise you shouldn't tell somebody to hide their emotions, political ideas, drinking pictures, social moments, and so on.
You are correct. The alleged Federal Crime he committed was forging the wire transfers.

If he pleads out, I imagine he will be given a much reduced sentence and given his erasure of his online presence, it begs the question ... what's next?
European Union seeks to ban backdoors for encrypted communications
STOP linking to NYT
The difference is in the scope. Back when phonebooks were widely used, there was no automated way to correlate those records with other records to create a highly specific list of all Asian women who live in a four block radius of a specific address.

You could walk around and find some of them, but that would take a significant amount of time and effort.

Phones were also not capable of interrupting you while you were out of the home, nor were they capable of receiving short messages on your dime.
As someone who hears the gripes from content creators about how facebook restricts their reach depending on the source of that content and based on that to whom it's shown; it appears that facebook doesn't mind sacrificing efficiency of the web to increase their position of power.

Content creators have to work twice as hard, publish twice as much and take up twice as much storage space because of facebook's walled garden.

Taken to the extreme this is an ugly future of wasted time and resources to bend to facebook's constant tweaks which are not in favor of the content creators, but the advertisers.

I wonder if, at some point, social sanctions will be pressed on one another to consider the use of facebook toxic to oneself and others, no different than smoking?
Intel already has ARM licenses.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/intel-lic...
Amazing infrastructure for cycling (at least in Amsterdam).

Its also pan flat, so it is very practical to get anywhere by bike, in the way that San Francisco's hills makes it very impractical.
I encounter self closed <title> tags in malformed XHTML files all the time. In fact I encounter them so often, I used to use a dedicated sanitization pass before passing int he html to html5lib, for that reason alone.
Boo! I really liked my time working with the Edison. A great platform and so tiny!
Yeah, that's basically what autotype is on KeePass; except KeePass is a bit more flexible since it lets you configure custom autotype sequences (e.g. `<username><tab><password><tab><enter>`) on a per-application basis.

This seems like a fairly decent substitute if you're on Linux. Doesn't look like it'll work on Windows or MacOS though.
Password Manager That Doesn't Need to Sync
Dunno about anybody else, but I'd like to find a convenient canyon.
OK. I'll define this as "10 books that I'd recommend to my 40-years-younger self to prioritize", and leave aside the problem that 2 or 3 of these would not yet have been published.

The Iliad
Shakespeare
The Life of Johnson
Federalist Papers
Pride and Prejudice
Ulysses
The Waste Land
The Selfish Gene
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Infinite Jest
I used it for a bit there were some bugs and such so I ended up writing a "lite" version, that is admittedly crappy but did just what I needed https://github.com/joshribakoff/dockable
@nostrademons: Thank you for gumbo, which is an excellent project.
Facebook should look to independent content producers working off of Patreon -- their by-line is exactly what media companies are looking for:

> Best way for artists and creators to get sustainable income and connect with fans

Either buy Patreon outright or offer a competing platform. At this point the PHBs at Facebook have to decide whether they prefer their business connections to media conglomerates or sidestep them completely by establishing their own content producing platform.
Talking about bank, when i tried changing my transaction password my bank sent me an acknowledgment letter which had to be submitted physically to the bank again with all the details filled onto the form then you have to wait in the queue to get signatures and approval. All being said the worst part was that the letter took more than 2 weeks to arrive at my home and the letter had transaction password which you have to change again.
As the author of the piece, I too was surprised at how similar the DOJ Indictment and the former employee's piece were in detail. One might deduce, that simultaneously with the publishing of the blog in Medium, she made a call to the Feds re the forged wire transfers (a criminal act).
Yeah, I was thinking more the little super markets and bodegas on every corner, than whole foods or trader joe's.
Grade separated bike lanes.
Connect: behind the front-end experience
From having completed the London to Brighton bike ride at the weekend I have a good idea of what really makes the difference and that is having roads closed to motor vehicles. The London to Brighton route is closed to traffic and some of the rural stretches are as wide as a Dutch bike path. Up until now I have believed sharing the roads is how to go but now I know that cycling infrastructure is needed. It is the experience that matters and cycling away from the cars is a totally different thing to dodging traffic. It makes cycling more like walking in a park.

As an aside, I have thought about putting money down for an electric car but then I look at electric bicycles and finally settle for a normal bicycle. I hope more people question why the big box and get a two wheeler powered by a 5kg battery or their own oomph.
Have you never been invited over and been offered to fetch yourself some beer from the fridge? It'd be weird for a friend to require you to tender a fee before doing so, and they'd also be quite annoyed if you started stockpiling the beer being offered to you and started reselling it. In my mind the phrase conjures the right frame of mind: "Hey! Check out this piece of code I've written, friend! Feel free to use it!"
One thing that they didn't mention on the article, but it was talked about at the Metal 2 WWDC sessions, is that they ported the Window Manager from OpenGL to Metal 2.

Note that this is mentioned in the article:

Apple says the entire WindowServer is now using Metal, which should improve the fluidity and consistency of transitions and animations within macOS; this can be a problem on Macs when you’re pushing multiple monitors or using higher Retina scaling modes on, especially if you’re using integrated graphics.
How to appear more user friendly using Emotional Design?
Wow, yeah that domain must have cost a ton of money. Wouldn't that be worth at least 5 figures, maybe even 6? Is that something that YC would encourage them to do, and maybe help fund the domain purchase?
Rebuilding Yelp's Data Pipeline (Interview)
How to (and how not to) deploy IoT
SGX is an interesting technology from a security perspective, but the use of it for DRM going forward really worries me, I'm tired of not owning my content and hoping companies don't go out of business and money I've spent goes up in smoke.
Indeed, I developed html5-parser to eventually replace html5lib in calibre
We had a chance to play with the euclid yesterday! That thing is really exiting, but gets quite hot. One of our participants was hacking an autonomous agent with it: https://www.facebook.com/radbotsapp/videos/310382552738200/?...
> Then there's the last group of people who are, what I call, professional victims. I've not seen a conservative one of these yet.

Really? Because I seem to not be able to take a step without tripping over the mainstream conservative Christians whining about the persecution of "people of faith" everytime the government fails to sufficiently privilege their religious viewpoint in public policy, or some private actor fails to acknowledge their preferred religious holiday in standard commercial greetings, or...

Among numerous other conservative examples.
One thing the article doesn't mention is how long the bicycle trips are. Surely the relative compactness of their cities are a major contributing factor!

I live in America and commute on my bicycle almost every day. For me the biggest obstacle isn't the hills (which there are plenty of) or even sharing the road with cars (which is admittedly extremely unpleasant) but the fact that in the quasi-suburban area in which I live, everything's so damned spread out that bicycling is very impractical.
You (and other respondents to your comment) are right in that the problems will change rather than go away.

AWS has many cool toys and I use a subset of them every day. However, there's no way in hell I'd entertain the idea of going in fully for everything we do. Not only are there a bunch of inadequate services, they can also be nasty to debug and cause more problems than they're worth.

It sounds like you may have an inexperienced guy getting overly enthusiastic about what he could achieve instead of focusing on what's required (I don't mean to insult him, it just sounds like he may not know enough about infrastructure to be making these decisions properly). Being provider agnostic (at least as much as you can be) is currently a way I see a lot of companies starting to leverage the great tools that cloud providers have, but being able to be free enough to chop and change as the companies needs evolve.

Maybe point him towards things like Terraform and get him looking at what Google cloud and Azure can do as well as AWS?
How would you distinguish between stack pointers and non-stack pointers? Making pointers longer than 32-bit doesn't sound appealing.
As a counterpoint, I've used Slack for nearly two years (across several companies at one time or another), and I've never observed this.

I did observe that some employees would consistently answer more quickly than others, but I never saw unsubstantive responses, and it didn't appear to have a chilling effect on people who responded afterwards or the overall result of the discussion.
Anyone know the story behind why baudline hasn't been updated in seven years? The site has promised a beta version with some highly desirable features for a LONG time, but nothing. Also, since it's closed source, there's nothing we can do but hope and wait (unless someone were to start an open source equivalent project).
Not to mention his conclusion - "an increasingly popular NoSQL database that ca(n) enhance pretty much any application that relies on using lots of data."

That's basically the same thing as 'MongoDB is web scale'. sigh
How to Keep Up with Hyper-Connected Consumers
Aye: http://i.imgur.com/KJy5r2f.png
Combining Region Inference and Garbage Collection, http://www.elsman.com/pdf/pldi2002.pdf
Even lower-effort initial observation: I have to scroll horizontally to see the whole page with my portrait-orientation display.
I just listened to that this weekend. I noticed in the list of sample slurs they discussed they avoided "nigger" and variants but that is exactly what white people will now rush to.
The only people who can go to jail for mishandling classified information are people with security clearances.
Christ, we went from Information Wants To Be Free to Sharing Is Spamming in less than two decades. How naive we were back then, thinking that tech alone would suffice to bring us freedom.
I think Debian's rationale is that if a sysadmin interactively installs a package, then that sysadmin does so to get its primary service (if any) running, so packages should arrange this by default.

> but it's bad as an overall practice.

I agree with you, but only in the case of non-interactive use. Different use cases demand different defaults. Tooling should be able to make the appropriate distinction automatically. Currently, the tooling does not, but that (IMHO) is a design flaw in the tooling, which Debian does not produce.

In the interactive case, I'm torn, but I do see the logic.

In the general case, then, I maintain that tooling should use policy-rc.d to adjust the default as necessary, and that failure to do so is in the tooling, not in Debian.
> Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)

I wouldn't post this in the future. It's irrelevant.

This is pre-Wiredtiger which means it is a completely different database. Before the Jepsen work, before the replication protocol update, before the default fsync changes etc. Almost nothing is the same except maybe the query engine ?
http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
+1, that would be great. Usually it's pretty easy to pick one up in the airport, but I would certainly pay a little extra if I didn't have to think about it.
American Climbers Confirm the Hillary Step Is Gone
> The original (no effects) film is lost so any remake would need to both erase/repair the old graphics, and then put the new effects on top.

Not sure I understand this paragraph. Is the live action lost or the CGI space scenes lost, or both? Worldmaker seems to think both.

> I've heard that the TNG remaster isn't recouping its expense on just DVD revenue.

I'm not surprised few people are buying DVDs anymore, or Blueray (for TNG?). Been watching the TOS remasters on Netflix and enjoying them.
The newspapers were already aggregators in the first place. They bought stories off wire feeds, bought editorials, paid for the comics, and sprinkled in their own content.

The Associated Press quite upset the news industry by directly posting content online, because they were afraid people would skip them and get the stories directly.
Oyster tried that and sunsetted a couple years back.
Thanks for sharing this. I did a deep dive into Rust when I was tasked with implementing an interpreter[0] for school, and found the language to be very enjoyable to work in. While I have tried to convince other friends to try it, they still object citing a steep learning curve and the thought that it will never replace C++ or Java in mainstream development ecosystems. It is resources like these that will help lower that barrier to productivity. :)

[0] https://github.com/sejr/core-interpreter
I read a lot of both Horkheimer and Adorno. It has shaped my view on capitalism and society in a profound way.

Be careful, reading them is like choosing the red pill.
Why wouldn't it be?

It's faster than the tram; a bike is cheap and cycling is free; its way easier to park than a car; its healthy; there are cycle paths everywhere (inside and between cities); and everyone else does it, so you usually have company.
Can anyone summarize how this works and the use case for this API?

Edit: Here's a good summary: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/06/budget-api

Basically, this lets you run low-cost background tasks without a confirmation from the user. I really, really don't like this, and I hope that, at the very least, this is easy to disable in all the popular browsers.

Edit 2: The above is not correct; browsers already allow a limited amount of background work to happen, and this API just exposes the budget information to the developer. Thanks for the clarification, swsieber.