skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with you in the context of porting existing C/C++ code to the Web is going to follow exactly the pattern you mention.

But, for new software, with no previous dependencies? The stdlib in Rust is decent, and the ecosystem is growing quickly. For new projects, I do think these will help in it's adoption in a new environment like WebAssembly, but we shall see!
Ask HN: Open source Style guides, SOPs, structures, procedures, etc.
I have recently started a new company and realised that we are also putting in processes for all the devs. Thing such as style guides, branching/git processes, code reviews, documentation requirements, project structures (we use Django for our web app), etc.

Is there any open source resource where people put all of these procedures/guides and/or where they can discuss these things?
This is so strongly stated that if it comes to light that Uber did use Waymo's files at this point, they will have a very tough time weaselling out of it. They'd better be telling the truth or what little credibility they still have will go straight out the window.
> No reasonable person could be misled to believe that google.feedback/ was at all related to Google.

Mate, that is 100% confusing to anyone on the internet.

Especially more so now that google uses their own TLD for some of their blogs/services. So `blog.google` is google. `google.com` is google, but `google.feedback` isn't. Please explain...
Share my project for mocking xhr/fetch/jsonp requests
Why YouTube Used to Prefer Quality
This bothered me, as well. If you disable "quick view" then the display only lights up when you tap it. That's a big improvement, IMO, though if my hands are full it's harder to check the time.
Server will keep trying to send the message.
Each time the client responds with receipt.
Eventually communication succeeds and protocol is done.
The major drawback is requirement of persistent storage on the client.
Interestingly, amazon.feedback redirects to amazon.com, so Amazon did pay
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That's a scary precedent... Sure, similar things have been done to prevent visitors from attacks, but this is at best a platform for expressing criticism and at worst a sleazy shakedown of the companies being criticized (not the visitors), and to my knowledge the anti-phishing/malware warnings haven't been used to merely oppose competing interests or stifle ideas.
The federal arbitration act and numerous Supreme Court cases interpreting it (many involving summary reversals) forbid discriminating against arbitration provisions in the manner you suggest. Neither state nor federal courts can apply a stricter rule to provisions involving agreements to arbitrate versus any other kind of contract provision.

See for but one of many examples Kindred Nursing Centers Limited Partnership v. Clark from last month.
Huh? People in HK are already ethnic han chinese... If you're talking about Tibet/East Turkestan, sure.
Terms and Privacy Policy (the first links I click on such a site) are 404ing :)
I really like the analogy. If you do make the talk/tutorial with some pretty graphics to show the comparison, then I'd like to watch it!
Platzi has a series of videos on this topic.

https://courses.platzi.com/classes/build-grow-online-communi...

Edit: Apparently it's no longer free. The course isn't really worth $100 in my opinion, so here's a short writeup of the videos http://cmxhub.com/article/product-hunt-erik-torenberg-commun...
I think "Stack Overflow Admin"'s response to Dan Manny should speak for itself:

> You fucking moron!!! You lost money because you were so stupid and not being able to differentiate bad code from good code. StackOverflow is not you free personal assistant. You should kill yourself for being so stupid.
MCQ on Software Development Strategies Part-1 – InfoTechSite
Ants versus Carnivorous Plants
I actually hate named return values. I'm relatively new to Go, but I like some of the ideas about it. Named return values is something about Go that I despise because it is absolutely misused in my opinion. For such an opinionated language, with some opinions that I don't agree with, this is one that I vehemently disagree with.

It makes the code a lot harder to read, and you need to keep more memorized "magic" in your head. For example, you can't just look at the return values to figure out what a function returns, now you need to look to see if the return values are named, and then trace through that.

I very much prefer explicit code as opposed to implicit code, especially on a day-to-day basis. It just makes my life a lot easier in the long run.
For an Advanced SST the quote near the end is, "Advances in aircraft technology suggest that sonic boom amplitudes for this type of aircraft, also referred to as a High Speed Civil Transport (HSCTJ or the "Orient Express". could be made substantially lower than first generation SSTs. potentially to the point that overland flight could be acceptable."

I'm not sure what to make of Fig. 10. I'm sure they are accurately plotting their equations, but the impulse for the SST is a minimum at 50,000 feet and increases for higher altitudes altitudes. The impulse for the HST generally increases with altitude. OTOH they discuss the N-wave forming in the far field and maintaining its shape, but also broadening which seems like it would reduce the impulse just like the overpressure.

The references 31-33 have alot of data. Here is a link to the first one:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/196400...

PS - If you are getting three digits of accuracy eyeballing Fig. 10, you must have gotten a much cleaner copy than I did. ;)
The Minimum Viable Design System
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Is there a monitor like this that won't send your data to the cloud?
There's relatively little that's truly new in Minecraft. Both the voxel aesthetic and many aspects of the world and gameplay come from its beginnings as an Infiniminer clone. Notch 'just' made the right adjustments to the formula and then nailed the execution.
Turning the climate tide by 2020
Example, please? Without naming names.

I'm a bit skeptical that you're so much smarter and more insightful than all of these successful people you're meeting at parties in DC.
You're saying you should do extract method or rename variable by typing the code out again long form instead of cut and paste or using the IDE?
$600 is less than the cost of lawyer time for a worthwhile response, so they may well collect more than we would like to think...
First reaction: premade but customized "kits" would be nice

Second reaction: renting feels wasteful as the consumer and I struggle to see how it's profitable to refurbish/re-rent used furniture.

What would be really enticing: premade, customizable kits with 6-12 month financing and "trade-ups." Where I could sell back a piece for a newer/nicer piece. This might happen during the context of a move.

Providing a moving service too then seems a little tangential to the core business model, however it may still be advantageous since it could fill up slack time between deliveries. You would also have a perfect inventory of furniture and could provide an instant estimate and a one click purchase.
Is it the rehosting of images that constitutes the 'fraud' description? Or is there another element to the story?
Fucking genie's out of the bottle now isn't it. :)

A bit late to call party foul when absurd tlds are available more and more. Ocean of piss and all that. Embrace the chaos.
Needle-less Vaccines which can be self-administred
How does that explain how Uber copied the Lidar chip design?
Wasn't that the original smoking gun which brought this all to light?
Sounds like you've been getting all your Taiwan news from 新闻联播.

Taiwan is nothing like what you said, and to compare it to Cultural Revolution China is just ridiculous.
"overly-litigious" would need to be cited in my opinion. What is "overly"?
Similar to .sucks:

https://www.namehero.com/startup/controversial-sucks-domain-...
How does defer interact with named returns?
I too fell in love with NCrunch during my few months with .Net.

It's possibly the single tool[0] I'll miss from the .Net world when I program in Java.

(For anyone who might be wondering why not Resharper that is because that functionality is provided out-of-the-box with all major Java IDEs. On .Net however, Resharper seems to be almost a must-have for many.)

[0]: I'll be missing Asp.Net MVC, parts of Entity Framework and parts of the C# language too.
Russian Hackers: How to Steal Clinton's Emails and Transfer Them to Michael Flynn
Flagged for changing the title so much. This title doesn't really make sense. The original is:

"Microneedle Patches for Flu Vaccination Successful in First Human Clinical Trial"
> JavaScript is going to continue to be used as "glue code"

This is a temporary situation. Eventually you'll be able to do everythign in WebAssembly, including DOM access etc. How long that will take is anyone's guess but it's certainly on the minds of the wasm team.
Google provides a huge DNS service. Could they just return NXDOMAIN for the entire .feedback TLD?
I might be wrong but that looks like O(n^2) in the worst case, namely when the input is some permutation of (a+k, a+2k,...,a+nk).
That's not a drawback - it's an advantage. It enables store-and-forward, i.e. on- and offline use. The client remains functional without a connection to the server.
On the topic of scams, has anyone ever discovered what ICANN did with the enormous amount of money it raised by selling these TLDs at a premium?

I recall .blog being purchased by Automattic for 15-20M (that being just 1 example).

ICANN is to tech what the SEC is to finance: A corporate revolving-door where you join to do your corporate-masters bidding and then move back to your 7-figure job.
Needle-less? :)
In the US titans of the economy are given the reins of the country even being totally unqualified. In fact, the anti-intellectual streak is so strong, that incomprehensible slogan babble has proven to be a very successful strategy in convincing the average blue collar worker that the most elite of the elite silver-spoon nepotists will somehow represent their interests.

Frankly with the level which facts and reason have been shown to be utterly useless in the political arena, there's no way we'll avoid this fate unless the 1% themselves come to the conclusion that their lobbying and consolidation of power will ultimately destroy the country. However I'm not holding my breath for this to happen since game theory and Upton Sinclair inform us that's not how human interest generally works.
One Answer to Failing Advertising Is Customized Product Discovery
Well.... any device not connected to the internet will plainly not send your data to the cloud. Then it's the matter of parsing the data on your own, which at least for Garmin devices should be possible once you figure out the format. (If someone hasn't already, was a while since I explored that.)
It's also a massive trademark violation.
Oops -- Updated it to needle-less. Excited about technology but my autocorrect still does not understand me :)
> There are no electric taxis

We did have them, from BYD no less. Unfortunately they kept blowing up. The owners did the only sensible thing, which was to dump them.
She and the majority of investors that write about founders have the "company purpose" thing backwards.

Almost all the CEO/Founders that speak of deep purpose have arrived via a strong path of revisionist history.

I'm the founder of two large tech companies and the way that it goes is that most founders have an idea that is driven by some vague desire to solve something or test something. What ends up happening is that as the idea grows you are forced to recruit people and money. As you are forced to tell the story of your company, you workshop the emotional parts to become more effective in resonating with your audience. By the time you are raising even an "A round" your story is extremely polished and emotionally moving.

I must add this is almost never done with manipulative intent or dishonesty. The mere act of becoming an orbit as the company grows demands persuasion at ever level.

The story of purpose is heightened by the success, it does not create it.
My home insurance in Sweden was a co-op, and they'd pay back any profit they ended up making as a refund https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Länsförsäkringar
Funny bringing up DJI as an example of a Shenzhen company. They were actually conceived in a Hong Kong university but moved over the border due to cheaper rents and closer proximity to factories.
Independent and unrelated to Observatory project, but if anyone is curious to dig deeper into Alexa top ~500K and how it changed over time, take a look at the HTTP Archive dataset. Some examples @ https://discuss.httparchive.org/latest.

E.g, to identify sites with CSP: https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/which-sites-have-content-s....

You can access raw HAR captures, as well as pre-aggregated stats via BigQuery.
Wild ducks caught on camera snacking on small birds
Or threatened to sue them into a smoking hole in the ground..
List vs. Vector: A Performance Comparison
You realize your whole comment is actually arguing in my favor right ?
You really need to work outside of your 10x bubble. This is scary to see you completly ignore common dev issues.
Microsoft to acquire Cloudyn as cloud management space gets hot
I didn't mean to antagonize -- just the opposite. It wasn't a good idea to volunteer info without you asking about it, and I see now why that angered you.

I meant to address your questions directly and in detail, but apparently I missed the mark. The usual convention is to ignore threads like these, both to avoid misunderstandings like this and to keep off-topic threads short. I didn't want to just leave you wondering, hence the replies.
I think people are severely underestimating the challenges of integrating WASM with JS an DOM. Right now styling and DOM are the two biggest performance bottlenecks. No doubt it'll happen, but I'd be amazed if performance weren't terrible out of the box.

Plenty of DOM APIs are terrible. Oh, you want a database? Tough luck, here's IndexedDB.
This is what Quake looks like today:

https://twitter.com/SimsOCallaghan/status/875934261320220672

(Yes, it is Quake1 in a modified OGL engine)
It is relatively common to hear pre-roll advertising, and sometimes hosts do speak too slowly. A very niche solution to the problem is a popular iOS podcast player with a connected web service called Overcast (after downloading the app, you have access to a browser player with similar features.)

It approaches the pre-roll ad problems by having prominent "skip forward" and "skip backward" 30 seconds buttons, so usually two to three quick taps will bring me back to the content. It solves the speech speed problem by offering pitch-adjusted playback speed controls (so no-one sounds like a chipmunk.)

I assume those can be found in other podcast clients on other platforms, but I'm not familiar with them.
The macOS High Sierra public beta is now available
Ethereum classic wallet page hacked
The U.S. is slowly submitting to the EU’s 2018 privacy law
I don't know about improvements but new methods are still being found, like sleep sort

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5vpdw5/sle...
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BART serves 300,000 riders a day. LA has been building out their commuter rail for two decades.
It's essentially the same business model -- attract user-generated content that looks bad for a company, then demand money from them to make it go away.
Unrelated to bitcoin: I know very little of what montessori schools are like abroad, but I went to a very good, small montessori school in Europe, and I firmly believe (well, as firmly as I can without repeated controlled trials) that I would not be half the hacker and tinkerer without it.

Allowing childrens natural curiosity fuel their learning, and providing the physical aids to stoke that fire is probably as good as it gets within the framework of hey-we-have-these-things-called-national-standards-our-kids-must-meet.
A Lean Ecosystem Development Approach for Those Building a Platform
Douchebag-driven PR disasters aren't good for biz.
Its a good point. Especially since one of go's mantra's is simplicity.
And how are Hong Kong's tycoons any different from the mainland's princelings? The CCP is dealing with what it knows in Hong Kong, and the dysfunctions of both are not that different at all.
Ask HN: What are the best books on low-level programming
WHY MY BUSINESS NEEDS a WEB DESIGN?
We used to decapitate the king anually and call that taxes.
This is a really beautiful legal document. It's concise, readable to someone not a legal professional, includes ample citations (and sometimes summaries of cited works), and is convincing using very simple, isolated, well structured arguments.

If I ever need a lawyer, this is exactly the caliber of document I'd hope they put out.
The real scammers here are ICANN and the atrocious way they handled the generic TLDs.
Taiwan is very important to China strategically. It's an unsinkable aircraft carrier off of their coast. Think how sensitive the US has been about Cuba.
The RAND Corporation is a "think tank" but it's definitely not what you describe. They are quite valued for their objective and bi-partisan analysis domestically and even internationally. They actually shut down one of their international offices because the government in power basically asked them to spread propaganda on their behalf. RAND puts out great reports on all sorts of topics around policy and decision making. Education, marijuana reform, cybercrime, you name it. I bother saying this because I used to work there and think folks really misunderstand that there are some think tanks doing very valuable work. I'm a little salty even because when I moved to my current job at well known tech company, once there, I found my past experience gets massively discounted, even controlling for the differences between R&D/think tank vs tech company. It's annoying and it mostly seems to stem from ignorance and stereotypes based on a few of the bad apples that call themselves think tank but are actually partisan propaganda mills.
Global Law Firm DLA Piper Faces Disruptions After Cyberattack
Cultivating Better App Development Ecosystem with the New iOS 11
The elites of Taiwan are mostly mainlanders (well, 1949 descended transplants who suppressed the native Taiwanese elites) who prefer closer ties with the mainland. The violent swings in Taiwan's politics between the KMT and DPP are all relate to that.
Petya: “I Want to Believe”
Is this how Turducken was first discovered?
Now take Manhattan Island, politically and physically isolate it, restrict freedom of movement between it and the rest of the country, and shut the rest of the country off from international trade for a few decades and you'll begin to approach an apples-to-apples comparison with HK.
Let's hope they don't learn about this thing called "SEO"
Ask HN: How soon will electric cars replace gasoline cars?
Hi there people at HN community,

I am reading hearing a lot that electric cars will soon replace gasoline cars. Some say it will be by 2018, some reports says it will be by 2020 and some even say by 2032.

Any expert or researcher here who can say with facts and not just theory.
It's also about half the cost of starting an ICANN dispute resolution process.... even without a lawyer.
If this were an "insurance" market, when you get diagnosed with a problem (cancer, say), the old insurance A would have to pay for the cancer treatment, and keep paying even if you leave the insurer.

Any "new" conditions would be covered by your new insurer B (or not covered, if you didn't get new insurance), and insurer B would have the right to refuse to pay for pre-existing conditions because those would be covered by your old insurance A.

But that isn't to say that if we had "insurance" life would be altogether better. Insurers would increase the premiums of people who beat cancer, because cancer has a habit of coming back. Quite likely anybody who beat cancer would be unable to afford insurance in the future.
Hong Kong is a city state, so it isn't very comparable to another country. HK and Singapore models don't really scale out of their limited scope.
> !!!11!one!

Is there a word for the feeling you get when you see 15+ year old idiot message board / forum / usenet catchphrases apparently still going strong?

It's a curious mix of nostalgia and revulsion.
How to MAKE Your WEBSITE MOBILE FRIENDLY?
Wait, Microsoft owns bell labs now? That's pretty weird.
Funny just yesterday I was discussing Nokia history. As a simple westerner I only new Nokia telco, early GSM glory and recent demise. But Nokia was founded in the 19th century, dealing with wood and rubber. Later they moved into military equipment and telco.

They also did consumer electronics (VHS, TV) and PCs (desktop and laptops) using sub brands though.
It's essentially a meme now. Either he conned AOL into giving him a sort of chief innovator job, or AOL was in on trying to market him as their very own Steve Jobs. He got onto a bunch of news programs a few years ago where they fawned about how much of an honor it was to have him on.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/the-digital-prophet-pre...
I still remember with complete clarity the shock when Facebook posted my "real name" publicly. No website had done that before. I was glad to have used a fake surname.

There are people today who think my fake Facebook surname is actually my real surname. I'm considering changing my real surname to match my fake Facebook name.
From education to business, it seems Finland is a special place.
Unusual defense in fraud case: Martin Shkreli strange,but brilliant beyond words
You're asking questions already covered in the article:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ssdp-100gbps/#openssdpisavulnera...
I've never encountered a taxi driver in HK who didn't at least speak mandarin, many could even speak English. Perhaps it's just most of my interactions were to and from the airport?
It sounded like a contrast to Shenzhen.

Throughout the world, taxi drivers in international cities know a couple dozen words in multiple languages. Paris, Rome, Berlin, Madrid?

Even if they didn't grow up speaking Mandarin, it sounds like a conscious decision, if they don't understand a request in Mandarin from a rider today.

Of course, this is just one person's set of impressions, too.
> Alsup also called Waymo’s claim of patent infringement “meritless,” and noted, with regard to trade secrets, that Waymo has “overreached, in attempting to claim ownership over general principles and approaches in the field.”

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15640934/uber-waymo-lawsu...

It seems clear that Levandowski did something but Waymo hasn't found any evidence that Uber did anything improper.

> By granting Waymo permission to seek the return of its stolen documents, the judge also agreed with the Alphabet company “that at least some information from those files, if not the files themselves, has seeped into Uber’s own LIDAR development efforts.” Even so, he did not see enough evidence to completely block Uber from operating its LIDAR-equipped vehicles in the public.

I don't know what he means by "at least some of the information", but it wasn't enough to stop Uber from continuing, which is confusing to me. Obviously the Judge didn't think whatever information that "seeped" into the development was significant enough otherwise he would have stopped Uber from continuing development.
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I thought exploding electric BYD taxis was a Shenzhen thing?
There are no English speaking taxi drivers in Beijing. I was freaked out when a taxi driver in Shanghai talked to me in English, it just isn't common anywhere else in the mainland.