skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quench some of the clickbait headline curiosity:

The game is "Jailbreak"; the game platform is Roblox (https://www.roblox.com/)
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823807
Google is going to be providing automatic SSL Certs soon: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35900034
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How do you think particle.io?
Correct. Here's a clip with a nice visual aid for what he's talking about: https://youtu.be/hpDHwfXbpfg?t=1m18s
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35900034
I find that spanish/italian speakers pick up esperanto the easiest, followed by I suppose french speakers and english speakers. Harder for any speakers who don't already speak a latin-derived language.
The GNU Project wrote a version of Flash. That might be helpful in the preservation of flash animations. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> And there aren't even better tools to replace it.

Haxe? http://haxe.org/
Seconded. I love audiobooks! It feels like a serious life hack - being able to read books while driving or doing yard work is like doubling my time during those overlaps.
I don't want to bookmark any of my tabs.
That's a promising move by Facebook. Maybe they're finally going to start cracking down on the rampant freebooting that dominates their platform.
I love how transparent it makes his motives.
Looks like it's coming soon: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35900034
CCP Grey video on this topic, but from a slightly different perspective

https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
A homemade robot that can crack a safe in 15 minutes. [video]
Lots of games, but that's about it.
What choices are any of us free to make? How long are we going to continue the probable charade of the existence of some ethereal "free will"?

Ordinary choices we make are different from addictions not because we lack choice only in the narrow realm of addictions, but because addictions are harmful to normative human goals like self-sufficiency (job), relationships, and such. But relationships and self-sufficiency are both a matter of degree, and there's fuzziness about where something is harmful enough to justify psychological/pharma intervention.

(Not that that's the only characteristic of addictions; they also seem to be very strong single-inputs (will this make me happy or be pleasurable now?) that are able to drive decision-making... short-circuiting all the other more normal evaluations, from a more balanced network of inputs: economic constraints, past experience, outcome prediction, social judgment... with immediate happiness normally only one factor, and often not even a very strong one.)

There are other behaviors besides addictions that are harmful to self-sufficiency and relationships. Many of them are treated as mental health problems, especially when they're severe enough. Some aren't, though, and are considered just someone being quirky or eccentric.

We (should) want to encourage diversity, while reducing the misery of people on the fringes who are engaged in truly self-destructive behaviors. But plenty of people we all know are only functioning in modern life because of medication—whether it's opiates, amphetamines, neurotransmitter modulators, marijuana, or whatever. Trying to improve people who are self-destructive is a noble goal, but when self-destruction seems closer and closer to the norm every day, intervention may make those people happier but it begins to reek of Brave New World.

If the world is so fucked up that most people are either too addictable or too depressed (or too something) to function without assistance, what does it say about personal happiness or a functioning society if that can only exist with enough drugs to coerce people into doing "standard" things: maintain a job, a home, some relationships, etc? It seems to me that either we have to accept BNW's dystopia as more of a judgment-neutral prophecy than a cautionary tale, or we have to start politically outlawing things that are causing people to be so addicted or so distressed that they can't maintain reasonable productivity and happiness without medication. Unfortunately, the second option would involve wreaking havoc on the conservative and libertarian ideal of free markets (and maybe parts of the 1st amendment too), so we as a society seem hellbent on sleepwalking our way down the rabbit hole to the BNW "drug-everyone" scenario.
Snopes ratings are on the truth of the specific claims they are investigating, not on the truth of every claim in the source that contains the specific claims they are rating.

The claim being reviewed in this particular case is that Roof as taken to Burger King by the police. That claim is false, and so "False" is the correct rating for Snopes to give.

That the article also has other claims, and that some or all of them may be true, is irrelevant. A false claim does not get upgraded to mixed just because some different claims in the same source are not false.
The 'pseudo-public' areas referred to in the article are signposted.

Why is that such an issue though? In the worst case, someone tells you it's private property and asks you to leave. Only if you refuse to leave do you commit an offence under English law.
Totally agreed. Few months ago we started building micro-services infrastructure. We were waiting with that for a bunch of years until things started to get harder and harder to maintain within one app. This is really costly at the beginning if you want to do that correctly.
You don't have to remember anything in powershell as you get parameter completion and command completion by default. Powershell useability beats the standard UNIX shells (bash/zsh) in command discovery and assistance. You even use PSReadLine if you want VI keybindings at the command line.
Mental thing. By having the tabs open (pinned), it's a reminder that I need to get this shit done. Eventually the ones that didn't get done are sent to the graveyard.
They should've open sourced it and invested heavily in security, stability and performance.

People blamed Apple back in the day for not including it on iOS but given that how many critical bugs have been found in the time since then you can't blame them.
Don't forget, if you're against immigration and guest worker policies that just so happen to increase margins for corporations you're xenophobic!
Isn't it possible to call a Dns api and Google's Api to set the Txt record in dns and cleanup hook to set the certificates in Google respectively?
I remember the Nike website being all flash even as late as 2009-2010. I'm glad this abomination is finally done with
This is in fact on purpose. Basically I stated my intent of using GPL.
Might be a smart move by Facebook: if this technology was used on Facebook, then they might have to shut down half of Facebook. Better to buy them out.
Could you compile a Go program and then decompile to C? I can see actual uses for that like porting to old OSes.
> What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?

What happens to normal mortals when they can't pay their debts. Are policemen really so much above the law that they don't have to pay their debts either?
New episodes of Homestar Runner are already being distributed as normal videos, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0nuQ5o2DYU (which is incidentally about the death of Flash)
What did you end up deciding? And what were you thinking the benefit might be?

My sense is that for a small team a microservices architecture might be more trouble than it's worth, but I can definitely see how some kinds of applications - or even kinds of teams - it could be a good fit.
Is there any data behind that clickbait link?
If you're gonna dig some tunnels, a train on rails is a way more efficient way to move people around.
"I've sold hyperloops to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!"
there is gnash on Linux.
The biggest struggle is dealing with the dependency chain when you need to update multiple microservices in order to deliver a major new feature to customers. You have to get everyone to agree on changes to the service APIs, then change the lower level services, deploy them, then move up a level and repeat. This is especially problematic if different developers are responsible for each service; lots of opportunities for delay and misunderstandings. It seems counterintuitive, but if you need to move quickly then a single monolithic application can actually allow for more rapid changes.
"traffic might just grow to fill the void". You mean more people get to travel when and where they want? Sounds like a positive public good to me.
Yeah, exactly. It doesn't include a JS engine so for now it uses SpiderMonkey, but eventually you should be able to plug others in.
A couple weeks ago I'd've advised reporting those pages with the Pulse extension [1], but it looks like it's recently been retired.

1. https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/pulse
A lot of maker stuff is either bog-standard parts that you can buy in quantity off AliExpress, or open source with all designs and layouts freely available. Software'sopen source also.

Using a whole Rpi 3 as part of a solution? Yes I agree that there's a risk in supply; but if making 10k devices, you are talking about a raw cost of at least 300k USD, right? So spending 30k for a few months of engineering time to make it production ready (idea: make sure that the OrangePi knockoffs also work, so you have 2 sources of supply) is feasible in the case you mention.
Are you sure it's not just good marketing?
This is a beautiful indictment of the backwards thinking of left-wing "activists".

We should promulgate a principle that until the left can demonstrate success with public assets, they should not get more of them.
> If Musk has a solution for long distance but doesn't have one for commuters

He doesn't, because long-distance solutions depend on integration with local network solutions; you can solve local without long distance but not vice versa.
More like "How is Mortar Project" doing?
:-(

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project
Why would he try to hide his motives? He has made it very publicly clear that his only life goal is to colonize mars to "save the human race".
I'd recommend starting with a monolith, but pay extreme attention to properly separating modules and hiding them behind a small, well-defined API. Then it will become easier to separate these modules out as necessary.
This is common, but it shouldn't be. If you have setup scripts to run each service, or if they're containerized, it's just a little additional work to get to where you can spin them up with a single command.
It's not clear from the summary or a very quick glance at the articles whether the researchers controlled for sex differences or impact on parent attitudes towards fraternal twins. It is sensible to assume that one sex will imitate dad while the other will imitate mom, or that one toddler receives more attention than another from either parent. Might anyone familiar with the topic have some insights on this?
I suspect fear and outrage releases some natural addictive brain chemicals. The fear and outrage porn industry certainly resembles an addictive substance scene.
legacy games & apps
There are a lot of serious attempts underway, I've been involved with some of those discussions.

Nothing perfect and turn key exists at the moment, but all the necessary pieces are basically there.

It depends on what sort of preservation strategy you're going after.

1) "Emulation" style:

-- Open source flash player (a la Shumway)

2) "Automated Conversion" style:

-- Load-time conversion to a different format (ie, HTML5)-- Ahead-of-time conversion to a different format

3) Convert by hand

-- Rewrite in JS/HTML5

-- Rewrite in Haxe using a library like OpenFL (Haxe compiles to JS/HTML5, C++, also Flash)

There's a lot of options available, and a lot of useful primitives. Parsing and rendering Flash (SWF) content is basically solved (OpenFL has made particular strong strides in this area, Shumway is impressive too).

The really big missing piece is ActionScript execution. There are in fact various open source ActionScript VM's out there, and there are ways to parse ABC (Action Script Byte Code) and convert it -- either ahead of time or at load-time -- to something else, whether that's directly to JS, or something like Haxe (which then compiles it to JS or C++ or whatever), but to my knowledge nobody has a working solution that as of today combines Rendering + ActionScript Execution + RigorouslyTestedConvenientUX.

But all the pieces are there. You just need someone motivated enough and well funded enough to put it all together. Hopefully this news spurs that fire.
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I seem to recall there was a way to play .swf files without a browser. It might be cool to see a standalone flash player, maybe a little like the Electron framework.
Determining the difference between a service boundary and a library boundary.
You can use the standard AVR sleep modes and interrupts on Arduino. Put the uC to sleep and have it wait for a pin to change or a timer to elapse before waking instead of idling at full power. See the Arduino docs (or the Atmel datasheets, which are easy to read):

https://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/ArduinoSleepCode

There are libraries that do this automatically on Arduino too, allowing you to schedule [cooperative] multitasking and sleep the uC between tasks. E.g.

https://github.com/arkhipenko/TaskScheduler

is really good, I've used it before. You basically queue up a list of task callbacks and a schedule in your `setup()` and then do a call to `tasks.execute()` in `loop()`, which pops off the next task that is due in a queue or sleeps otherwise. It's simple, but much more straightforward than manually using `if millis() - last > delta1... else sleep()` and not as rigid as using the timer ISRs (which really serve a different purpose).

On more complex platforms you can also use an RTOS, which is kind of like a more beefed up version of this model. Actually you can do this on AVR too, but I haven't ever seen anybody actually use FreeRTOS/ChibiOS/whatever on AVR.
The link describes the Firefox devs helping by improving performance for their use case.
damn straight. all of those jobs filled by highly educated immigrants could have been filled by retrained high school dropout coal miners - take that globalism!
"...digging sure sounds easier than building a rocket that lands vertically."

It isn't. Just ask the builders of the Chunnel. It's only 31 miles long and went 80% over budget and 20% behind schedule. A tunnel from New York to DC would be nearly 10 times as long and run under some of the most densely populated land in the country. Rockets and electric cars are trivial by comparison.
It's not really relevant whether hard AI is or is not just around the corner if it's able to self-improve and set its own goals at a pace we can't follow or understand. The probability of ir happening this afternoon is close to zero, but the probability of it having happened before the end of the century is very close to 1. This means it's possible there will be no meatware celebrating the turn of the century.
OK, so you've proved that Esperanto is easier than a natural European language for you, a native speaker of English, to learn. Granted. But it's not a refutation of my argument that for someone who speaks, say, Japanese (also a language with almost no irregular verbs or ambiguous pronunciations, by the way), essentially none of the roots will be familiar and so it will still be much more difficult for them than for you.

The script is not really an issue; Chinese is the only major east Asian language (or language family) written exclusively in Chinese characters without a phonetic script, and even then the Roman alphabet is familiar.
If your team doesn't tell you are wrong, YOU are doing something wrong
He discussed this concern here: https://youtu.be/hpDHwfXbpfg?t=9m15s

It sounds like he's less concerned about disturbing the people above, as it's apparently not an issue at certain depths (I am not an engineer). Seems like the existing underground infrastructure might be a bigger problem.
There are several open source player implementations, but they're quite incomplete so far:

* Lightspark http://lightspark.github.io/
* Shumway http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
* Gnash https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Humans are at their core emotional creatures. You don't get engagement with logic and facts. Instead you go after emotional stories. It takes immense mental effort to see through these stories and to hold back the immediate emotional responses. Many people have no clue that they are being manipulated in this way.
I disabled flash on my browsers in 2014, and I have had to manually reenable it exactly twice in the last three years to get content I needed. Both times were for restaurant menus, of all things.

I have fond memories of newgrounds and the real early explosion of browser games, but I'm not going to miss the lag, memory overhead, and security hell one iota.
so... nothing besides that thread? part of my issue with that thread is the time span and inactivity. it started over 2 years ago, and is not part of a large, long-running dialog within a community weighing the pros and cons.

This seems small, and thus less trustworthy as a resource for me. Akin to a post on reddit with 10 upvotes and a handful of comments. I'm going to need to see more than that before I start taking those concerns seriously.

If it's obviously flawed, I'd expect more dialog and drum beating outside of one thread and among a larger group of people. I am not seeing that, presently.
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I'm still not quite sure how to think about and code for eventual consistency.
Hate flash however much you want. I learned to program with old ActionScript and wrote my first game as a kid (that actually taught me OOP and laid good foundations for JavaScript which is almost identical). To this day, all the applications I wrote still work perfectly. That's an achievement. Not to mention, Macromedia (later: Adobe) Flash was a fantastic environment for minigames and I haven't yet seen anything replace it properly. I weep for today's children, is there a good alternative? I mean, a program where you can scribble, make a movie clip out of it and make it move with code, just like that. And then publish it on the internet effortlessly.
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A lot went downhill after Adobe bought Macromedia. Flash use to be light weight, small and incredibly good for displaying vector graphics. You can scale up older Flash content to 1080p and it still looks great. You can't do that with YouTube videos of older flash content.

Many animation studios still use Flash .. to make their YouTube videos.

It ran on three platforms (Mac, Linux, Win) and was a much better portable web app platform than Java applets.

Sure a lot of newer stuff uses cool Javascript frameworks for making games and vector graphics, but there are a lot of old games people won't be able to play anymore. There's a lot we'll lose once Flash goes away forever, in a way that can't be archived like old Geocities pages (unless someone makes a Flash player in Javascript O_o)
i wish they would outlaw head slapping, from teammates. when i played hs football, after every play, players would slap teammates on the head (usually the back) to show support - i hated it.

i also think players are too big today, more weight at higher velocities only makes things worse for the head. the only reasonable thing I can think of is a 'salary cap' based on player weight as well.
Can't it be both?

Honesty has phenomenal draw in marketing when the recipient agrees with the message. Even if one's disagrees, the product is harder to attack when everyone around it is honest.
No, that doesn't mean you're xenophobic. It just means you think that people from other countries are less deserving of job opportunities than people from your country. It's still not a quality I share or respect, but it's not xenophobia.
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I assume they're giving everyone 2.5yrs advanced notice to port anything considered important to something else.
Does anybody know if this includes Adobe Air? There is nothing said in the press release.
All of the browsers have published roadmap updates. Basically Flash will be disabled by default in mid-2019:

Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2017/07/25/firefox-r... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap
Google: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash... and https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flash-roadmap
Microsoft (Edge+IE): https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-wind...
This is Adobe's fault. They could have open-sourced the player anytime they wanted, they didn't. I don't blame Apple, or Flash-haters or anybody else but Adobe and all its stupid policies. Adobe killed Flash. Nobody else did.
Indeed, so this submission was first, but another submission got the attention, comments, and up-votes.

Fortune favours the lucky ...
One note on database time. If you're loading multiple related records, Ecto is able to do some of those requests concurrently. For example, if you get a user and their posts and comments, the fetch of user happens, and then posts and comments can be fetched concurrently.

Also, when I used rails, quite a bit of time was spent wrapping the data into active record objects, whereas Ecto returns simple data structures, which seems to be much faster.
Terrorism happens outside the constructs of our society. If it were government death squads going around killing people, you'd have a point. And if it weren't our government doing the spying, there'd be no point in expecting them to adhere to our principles. The discussion is about deciding what type of society we want to be and adhering to our own rules. That someone outside of our society chooses to break those rules doesn't create a license for us to do the same.

We don't win by compromising ourselves and fighting at their level. We win by being true to ourselves and being strong in the face of adversity. The more we can be ourselves, the stronger we'll be.

But what constitutes our desired selves is exactly the discussion. That's the "line" that I was asked to draw and I absolutely drew it for myself and I made that clear. I wasn't arguing that privacy is an immutable construct, I was arguing that law enforcement should view it as such because I feel it's fundamental to our value system. You don't see an aviation engineer arguing that gravity shouldn't exist just to make his job easier. He or she embraces that constraint and adapts as best as possible. Similarly, I'd like law enforcement to just embrace that privacy is an expectation in a free country and work within that reality. Others are free to disagree with me about the true nature of our desired society. For them, privacy may not be an hard and fast requirement. For me it is. That's my line.
FWIW, I read the parent comment as sarcasm, not a serious proposal of xenophobia.
Ah I see what you mean. I thought you were referring to something more complex than that (specifically regarding interrupts). Makes perfect sense.
You absolutely need MS Paint on Windows.

For one thing, it provides workarounds for horrible stability and functionality issues with image printing out of the Windows Shell (Windows Explorer).

I think it provides the only way to print an image 1:1 (original scale) without installing third party software. I.e. 600 pixels of a 600 dpi image actually measure one inch. Not all images are photographs that can be scaled; sometimes they are patterns for some real-world object.

How would a Windows user, say, crop an image without MS Paint, using only a vanilla Windows install with no 3rd party anything?
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The performance aspect also makes a huge difference in development. The application boots fast and the live reloading experience is rewarding. Having a 100 test cases that hit your endpoint+database running in less than a second is pure joy.