skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on mobile currently and apparently cannot look at reviews for Chrome extensions. Cookie Inspector is open source[0] according to the extension page, so you could try finding any adware-related code yourself, couldn't you?

[0]: https://github.com/westoque/cookie_inspector
I'm a cryptocurrency consultant, been involved with Bitcoins since 2013, AMA
My experience has been that this kind of thing is very rare.
> Then maybe the burden of proof is on you?

I’m saying that the parent doesn’t prove its point, and I’m not attempting to prove its parent’s point.

> If you started your career recently, it's easy to be caught up into this "static typing" as some kind of the only way.

I didn’t, and the bulk of what I’ve built has been in languages with dynamic typing. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14675577. Dismissing stuff as “recent starts” is pretty cheap, anyway.
I once did volunteer work for an organization aimed at supporting gifted individuals. IQ tests are highly biased and not reliable. They often correlate not to intelligence so much as to social bias. Immigrants, the poor, etc tend to do more poorly on them purely for reasons of not having in-group knowledge required to do well on them. Historically, this has been used to ill effect to justify racism, anti-immigration sentiment, etc.

I am something of a subject matter expert in homelessness and I just wrote this a few minutes ago:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2017/07/ge...

Putting it here for the benefit of other people. I don't expect anything I say to sway you.
An email address is not an immutable property of a user so I find a username is a better way to identify a user.
I've seen this a lot on the systemd GitHub Issues. A bug is reported, Pottering describes it as not a bug and closes it himself, then everyone else disagrees and says that it needs to be fixed.

Why is this on HN?
There is no such thing as a "required curriculum in the U.S."

Each university has their own requirements for each degree, and you can pick your major/degree.

In my university, since I was in the college of liberal arts and sciences and tested out of English, I had to take basically 4 semesters of any class that had a "literacy" label. I choose Chinese History (2 classes), Chaucer (1 class), and Post Impressionist Art (1 class). That fulfilled the liberal arts portion of my graduation requirement.

In no universe was there a requirement to take an "ethics" class -- that's way too specific and most ethics classes are rare in today's college curriculum. I just needed 4 classes with an "L" next to their class description in the syllabus, and there were a wide variety -- literally hundreds -- to choose from.

I think, in general, a humanities education has real benefits. Ethics, well, it depends on the course and person taking it. Unfortunately a lot of the humanities courses are in some strange "hate the patriarchy" mode where you are taught to hate white people, and this isn't really something conducive to building products with mass appeal in a nation with a white majority.

Having said that, there are many great opportunities to learn more about the humanities just by reading the classics or taking some online courses. You have to pick and choose. I actually think most programmers are much better people --
much more honest and ethical people -- than the humanities graduates I know, and that this is primarily due to their avoidance of humanities classes as currently taught in american universities. Also, there is something about studying the humanities that tends to make you look down on people, which is something I didn't see when I interacted with mathematicians or engineers.
As strange of a question this is, can we just fire
Poettering from FOSS projects altogether? He seems to just cause endless drama and not actually improve the OS all of our respective industries depend on.
The letters in "confused by kangaroos" rearrange to spell "SOS! Fake, bouncy dragon."

Who wouldn't be confused?

h/t Gary Matthews, elsewhere.
So what's your stack? Still running PHP?
> He does not need to live there to want to protect his property.

Did you read the article? It is not his property, it is public access to a public beach. He deserves compensation for losing in court and continue to break the law with which the court upheld? I'm confused, did we read the same article?
Probably was a county sheriff. Why is it necessary to split hairs?
It happens when a country doesn't have enough developed institutions, and finds out that they have natural resources. Having money in the country gives comfort and freedom to public officials, and they try to stop the development of those institutions or completely destroy them. As a result, it leads to lack of democracy which itself leads to lack of economical growth. In case of Azerbaijan, the country started to export its petrol just right after getting its independence from the Soviet Union. At that time it was a new country, and didn't have any proper institution. In general, it is an unfortunate situation which is extremely hard to fix.
> "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." clause made JSLint's license incompatible with MIT [1].

This is so frustrating. One of Crockford's most persuasive points in his writing and lectures about Javascript is that computer programs are no place for self-expression. When he explains what is wrong with the language, he gives astute suggestions on foolproof ways to workaround the language's weak points by avoiding ambiguity. He's even written JSLint to help the programmer do just that without having to research every idiosyncratic pitfall that would come from just winging it.

Yet here he is-- in a domain for which he has absolutely no expertise-- expressing himself in a licensing clause. Causing measurable hours of waste because Debian or IBM or insert-org-here has no experience with his idiosyncratic license and no easy way to predict what are its effects.
The news here is the systemd behavior and debate over whether it's a bug, not whether Poettering is being downvoted. The title needs to be changed.
Well, people have literally spent millennia arguing over this. I doubt this could be resolved in a HN comment :)

Anyway, even a deterministic universe (mathematical, i.e. monistic Platonistic, or otherwise) is still undecidable/intractable, and so normative prescriptions may well serve an important role as you don't know their place in the causal chain.

Of course, you could argue that "importance" is also a subjective measure in a deterministic universe, and an irrelevant one, but then so is "relevance" itself.
I'm not talking about adding more sexism to the system. I am talking about remedying the problem for these women in preference to going on a headhunt for "guilty men." I don't know why in the hell you think that is me advocating more sexism. That is me saying that even if you hang all the guilty men, that still does NOT open doors for women. In fact, it closes them. And there is a part of me that suspects that is the entire point of going on a headhunt for guilty men instead of trying to open doors for women: It preserves the goddamn status quo.

I don't know how to say it more clearly than that. And the fact that people are twisting my words in this way just makes me think this is truly fucking hopeless and there is no goddamn point at all in trying to do anything in this shithole of a world. It will never change.
Because of the recent CVE-2017-9217. Apparently Poettering tried to veto reporting that bug as well.
No definition could equate mathematical isomorphism with physical equivalence. That is part of the philosophical claim of the monist Platonist.
If he tells the truth, then he's pitching a different less-enticing business, and there's no reason to assume he would succeed at that.
I'd suggest not to use the model of centralistic and rather socialistic nations like France
as a model for the US. Not that I don't like that model, I just don't think it's a good fit. Instead look at Switzerland for example. Leaving foreign politics away it almost seems like a shrunken down version of the US, both politically and economically,
with just a few major differences:

* even more locally organised. County sized administrations have about the same independence
as US states.

* instead of spending our (similar) tax rates on the military, it is spent on superb health care (imagine a souped up version of Obamacare with
regulated prices), schools and a social net. Look at the numbers though - I think it works, that is, innovation and the economy in general are strong thanks to a more stable middle class (that doesn't experience negative social mobility due to health care problems and overpaid schools plus gets an influx from people at the poor end that make it by means of a helping hand at child age).

* and no, I would argue Switzerland is not significantly less diverse with about 30% immigrant population. We have about the same proportion of backwards rightwing pseudo conservatives as a counterreaction, but they are bound to a political system that makes
getting absolute majorities in the parliament near impossible (and also relatively useless alone thanks to referendums that serve as a moderation tool). See also again the difference in how middle class is kept going, which makes a Populist power grab much less likely.
A drop in the ocean, of course, but I just cancelled a test I was scheduled to do with Color Genomics
Where are you going to host it, how will you cycle the container to keep it up to date, and will you need to load balance it?

Running a Docker container in production is not a 20 minute job.
When the product is good and there's no anti competitive behaviour, that's what happens
Degraded, yes. But as you mentioned, the RIAA curve gets applied back by your phono preamp, which takes care of a lot of the issue.

Modern digital recordings are often ran through a compressor to the point where there's zero headroom left. Hell, there are albums where things outright clip even on the lossless version on the CD. Plenty of others have so little wiggle room that you'll see clipping on any compressed format.

Certainly, there are plenty of albums out there that use the same shitty masters as the CD. But plenty of others don't.

One of my favorite albums from the past few years, The Flesh Prevails by Fallujah, for example, has a completely different master for the vinyl. The dynamic range is great. The CD master, to me, has several songs that are nearly un-listenable due to the mastering on the CD.

I'd love if I could just pay for the good master in a digital format. But as someone who is primarily a metalhead, masters are shitty far too often.

So I have to wait to find out if the vinyl releases are better, and then buy and then rip them if so. Then spend 5 or 6 hours per side manually removing crackles and pops and other noises...

I don't like it. But it is what it is!
Glad to see that guy taking a fall. He's been a complete asshole when I've seen him interact with people. Couldn't have happened to a better person.
Thanks for the book recommendation; purchased.
Basically fake news from wccftech haha. We'll see how much they sold next earnings!
California courts have ruled it not his property several times. Despite mounting throwing never ending $$ to stall in court and mounting ridiculous legal theories of literally citing Pirate Law from the 1700s, he keeps losing again and again. It's a public beach, it's always been a public beach. It wasn't like it was a secret when he bought the property, he just thought he was special and smart enough and rich enough to get his way.

This isn't about big evil government encroaching on property rights. It's keeping land that was already public land public. If you owned a house and I bought up all the property around your house and then put a gate across and locked your driveway, you'd still own and have legal access to your house. That's what Kholsa is trying to do.
Isn't it, like, super expensive though?

Also as an aside. Japan is this weird example of a country with a good education system, hard workers, excellent infrastructure, and yet a totally stagnant economy. I mean I understand a lot of the reasons, but it's still weird.
This year's Azerbaijan Grand Prix turned out to be the most exciting race in several years. It certainly left an impression on fans of the sport.
Suggest changing title to that of the item: "systemd can't handle ... user name startswith number".
Contempt of court is.
There is nothing unclear in this story. California's beaches are a public resource, as codified in the California constitution. Blocking access to public beaches is against the law, no matter how much property you own or how much money you have. Khosla is breaking the law, and a court has confirmed that.
What? At no point did I defend Khosla's actions or the interests of the wealthy.

Right now, the law banning private ownership of beaches is all but unenforced. One can currently buy a private beach for the cost of a fence and a gate. I'm saying we should tax private beaches so that:

1. The state has an incentive to enforce the law. (Just like any business, law enforcement favors profit centers to cost centers.)

2. We can limit private beaches to a small fraction of the total coastline.

3. The revenue collected can be used for social programs benefiting the less fortunate.

If anything, that's the opposite of "...looking out for the interests of the wealthy property owners who want to violate California law."

Another thing: "It violates California law" is not a good reason to condemn something. For five years, same-sex marriage was a violation of the state constitution. When I voiced my opposition to that law, social conservatives the same argument as you. (Though they were less snarky about it.)

I think your comment is uncharitable, untrue, and unkind.
May be the US is doing a wiser thing. I live in Spain, where high speed train was pushed in the era of the housing bubble, and in my opinion is not that big deal, except for communicating the two bigger cities of Spain (Madrid and Barcelona). Lower capacity routes are on deficit, and I'm very skeptical about their long term viability.
Really cool, thank you for sharing! Would totally be interested in buying one, if you happen to have a stockpile :-)
If someone organized something like that, I'd happily go!
Clap clap, fantastic research.
I bet you also don't see the impending cloud price wars which will make the current cost structures unsustainable. And you also don't see that it is vital for cloud providers to avoid a single vendor situation with the most expensive line item in their capex. For the first time in a very long time, you can compile your software with "-march-native" on Skylake and then just run it (with AVX2 and FMA!) on an AMD chip without it giving you "invalid instruction".

Apple is a good canary for what's to come. Their most recent stuff is overtaking Intel's Core M. It's not even a question that e.g. iPhone 8 will leave it in the dust. Servers can't be that far behind, since x86 is no longer competitive either per dollar or in performance per watt.

Meanwhile there's an uptick of interest in beefy ARM cores as well, in HPC and elsewhere. For Google it would be very little effort to migrate parts of their backend to ARM: they've been requiring their software to be compileable on ARM and PPCle for years. And no one would even know what they use.
Someone should facebook organize some sort of protest there where we all march across the gates.
Are you sure this is true.
"So the coastal commission tried to broker a compromise, chief of enforcement Lisa Haage said. Officials offered to consider moving the access road, to find a nonprofit to operate the entry and to close on rainy days when the beach was muddy. But the talks went nowhere."

If it was clear cut, why is the Chief of Enforcement accommodating alternatives?
Silicon Valley White Privilege
The difference is that one's actually on the paper and one's not
Plus if there is anything the human vision system is optimized for it would be seeing and assessing an unknown large mammal.
Azerbaijan is #1 on the list of shadow economies, whopping 67% of GDP.
The post title is misleading. The author has clearly invested substantial amounts of time, and some money (because the brochureware landing pages presumably aren't hosted at zero cost, they're on EC2). What they seem to be suggesting is they didn't buy ads. So it's a short and incomplete list of basic tips for identifying a need & creating a buzz via online communities; don't get hung up on the title.
I can assure you it's not a bug. Many Asian sites have fixed width on desktop. They do not make their sites with 4-5 different media query break points.

Personally I prefer this because information is always in the same place regardless of browser size. I don't have to worry about it moving around or hiding.
At least on the northeast regional line, Amtrak has multiple classes; the regular line has coach and business, and the Acela has business anad first (which I find to basically be the equivalent of Burger King offering medium, large, and "king" rather than small, medium, and large, but that's beside the point).

To be clear, though, I wasn't trying to give an opinion on whether I think taking the train or flying is better, just that I don't consider the experience of flying on an American airline to be "socialistic".
The law existed before the property was bought. And regardless of your opinions about the morality of the law, for same-sex marriage, the law was being enforced before it was repealed. This law isn't being enforced.
I've never heard of Abet. The U.S. higher education accreditation system is decentralized. Schools can pick which (if any) they want to accredit them, but the real schools pick regional bodies:

For instance, University of Texas at Austin is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges. MIT is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Caltech is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) -- see a pattern? None of them are accredited by Abet.
It should be possible to tokenize html with regular expressions, an that's all he seems to be asking for...
(You may want to click in the linked article in the main article that OP posted)
If you are intrigued by this flavor of modal realism then the sci-fi book "Permutation City" might be a good read.
I think it is not settled law:

"Joan Gallo, a former San Jose city attorney who represents the land owner, agreed that the courts should weigh in. The Deeneys had run a private business, she said, allowing invitees of their choosing onto the property, and that hadn't changed.

"It seems to us that it's an important issue to be litigated," Gallo said. "I have a strong belief that the Constitution doesn't require you to give up property rights or conduct a business you don't want to conduct."

Mark Massara — a surfer and attorney who is working with McClosky and the law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy on the case — said he believed the constitutional arguments have merit. But since that approach could drag on for years (think Geffen), his team opted for "a very narrow strike to the heart of this thing."
I think eventually we'll have to push the reset button on capitalism. The government should repossess all shares of public and large private companies and redistribute them to everyone based on some formula.

I don't understand why this hasn't happened yet. Probably 95% of us would be better off and it would make things interesting again. It would open up many new opportunities for everyone.

Why do the majority of people who are not wealthy vote for things which benefit wealthy people? Those same wealthy people who only care about themselves.

The fact that this comment will probably get down-voted by lower and middle-class people is mind-boggling to me.
I have more work to do (Chris Sacca)
So I just passed ten years since my freshman year of college, and I probably would have said the same thing you're saying now, then, and been as misguided about it as you are now. I went with a big puffed-up chest, sure that all I needed was the piece of paper that said I already knew how to code, and I was full of shit. Not because I didn't know how to code--I did, and at a fairly high level--but because it's everything else that actually matters once you graduate.

Unless you are a for-reals engineer--and that excludes somewhere north of 95% of software folks, maybe north of 99%--very little of the "STEM [you're] actually there to study" will apply when you leave college. If you're a CS grad, you'll use a little of it (a little more in some, generally niche fields), and it'll be useful, but by credit-hour it'll be the least applicable, least useful part of your curriculum. On the other hand, you know what is actually really useful for dealing with other people--the actual important things in your life--on a everyday basis? Political science. Microeconomics and the framework for understanding economic decisions. An understanding of history through both history classes and through the lens of literature so that you don't help repeat it. No bullshit--this is what makes you, the generic you, capable and functional and useful to other people way more than anything else. (It's usually the self-anointed "auto-didact" types who leap all over the equally-self-anointed "hacker" label that are the most tragically misled when they avoid this stuff in school. Getting rabbit-holed or led to crankdom is no bueno.)

Universities are finishing schools for educated humans, not for tradeworkers. If you're there to "learn STEM", you're there for the wrong purpose, and the willingness of educational institutions to indulge in STEM hyperspecialization is a tragedy in progress.
Point me to some heavily down voted comments like this and then I'll believe you.
Effect-Driven QuickChecking of Compilers [pdf]
And I use a handgun to hunt houseflies in my motel room after a week long crystal meth binge. Works just fine for me.
>>When people say "I didn't spend money on marketing", the only translation is "I knowingly overlooked massive growth opportunities."

That's not the only translation. Another one is "I knowingly avoided pouring lots of money down the drain."

After all, just because you spend money on marketing doesn't mean you will see any returns.
"Joan Gallo, a former San Jose city attorney who represents the land owner, agreed that the courts should weigh in. The Deeneys had run a private business, she said, allowing invitees of their choosing onto the property, and that hadn't changed.

"It seems to us that it's an important issue to be litigated," Gallo said. "I have a strong belief that the Constitution doesn't require you to give up property rights or conduct a business you don't want to conduct."

Mark Massara — a surfer and attorney who is working with McClosky and the law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy on the case — said he believed the constitutional arguments have merit. But since that approach could drag on for years (think Geffen), his team opted for "a very narrow strike to the heart of this thing."
Challenges to Silicon Valley won’t just come from Brussels
Really, really mixed opinions because you are totally right when it comes to alcohol, but I can't completely agree with your perspective on Marijuana.

Neither are entirely healthy or can demonstrably lead to long-term positive outcomes if consumed by individuals under the age of 25 or so. These are not nutritive vitamins by any means.

That said, the long-term effect of jailing African-American or Hispanic teenagers for minor possession or sale of inconsequential quantities is probably far worse.

It's a real toss-up, in my opinion, so all I can say is this: completely and totally legalize Marijuana, but impose strict penalties (5+ years in jail, $xx,xxx fine, etc.) for anyone who provides or sells to anyone under 21, and intensely harsh penalties (10+ years in jail, $xxx,xxx fine) for anyone who provides or sells to anyone under 18.
Which is why devops will always have troubles.