skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, that Linux thing just died when Solaris was open-sourced.

I fail to see the relevance. Linux never tried to be an 'open source Solaris clone' and of course it didn't die off, in fact, it flourished, which sort of undermines your argument.

> Even more relevantly, IE and Chrome.

What of them? I could see Mozilla vs IE.

> As somebody who has actually produced software for thirty years

Appeal to authority ;)

> but without ever hitching my wagon to Flash like some here

Join the club. I absolutely hated Flash and for many years resisted using it to deliver video.

> I'm a bit more skeptical about the likelihood of taking a gigantic long-lived ball of mud and making it perfect.

Perfect as in 'perfect emulation', not perfect as in perfect all across the board. Having the Flash source would allow the open source implementations to look at how things were done so they can emulate all behavior up to and including the bugs. If Adobe would open source it then they would not have to avoid looking at even disassemblies of the Flash code.

> In particular, security is hard to bolt on after the fact.

This is not about future developments in Flash, it is about digital archeology. If you start seeing it through that lens then maybe you will be a bit more relaxed about it.

Nobody is suggesting that Flash be given eternal life or that we will have another round of Flash content if Flash is open sourced. The sooner it is gone from the web the better. But that old stuff still remains and maybe one day someone wants to review it. That is what this is about. CF people using C64 Roms or Nintendo stuff 3 decades old.

> I certainly wouldn't assume that the maintainers of other implementations would be overjoyed by the prospect.

Did you ask them?

> Just look at how many reimplementations there are of things that were already open source.

So what? Fragmentation is the very power of open source at work.

> I'd say it's unlikely that a significant number of people will work on Flash without being paid to do so.

Exactly. So that is - again - why open sourcing the old Flash player is a good thing.
Well, some healthy competition in the budget-friendly CPU market, and a good alternative to Intel's i3 (slacking) lineup. Great news for customers!
Preparing the datasets for this sort of work is an interesting problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IghlCQpJl80
No thread would be complete without someone taking offense at something...
In five years of running a Chromebook dev mode, I've never had that happen but just in case Crouton has a backup feature to save a gzip of your chroot onto a SD card etc.
As a developer, I would love push notifications in safari. The only alternative is a native app, which is much more work.
The problem is that the people dying aren't going to be the people who implemented the solution.
> Escobar at his height had an estimated wealth of $30bn - with inflation that is very much in the same ballpark.

Wow, that is very shocking! I frankly thought there was too much chaos to obtain >$10bn. Hell, I'd even be impressed with >$1bn. Guess I don't give them enough credit, and I also give countries ability to manage the crime lords too much credit.
Haven't used it in a while, but:

I think if you use it via user auth, it still works. So if a user of your app is approving your app to act on their behalf, you can do most things the user could do manually.

I think the limits mainly regarded application auth. So if your application wants the last 10k tweets about "honey" it will not get them unless you pay.

I could be wrong though. Would love to hear more from people in the know.
The dotcom bubble wasn't subtle.

The housing bubble wasn't subtle.

The stock market presently trading at an extremely elevated multiple is not subtle (much less while simultaneously US GDP growth is averaging historic lows, and global growth is just OK). Simply put, stocks have soared without the earnings to support the move, it's overwhelmingly multiple expansion.

It doesn't require a magic 8-ball to be prudent and lighten up after the S&P and Dow have tripled from the bottom in 8 years.
What. Having a really hard time following what is exactly preventing the author from doing any of these:

> Create an app loading screen
> Use push notifications
> Add offline support
> Create an initial app UI to load instantly
> Prompt installation to the home screen through browser-guided dialog

All of these things are possible in Safari, no? It just doesn't support ServiceWorkers?

Aside: as a web security guy I think serviceworkers are a tragedy. Any crappy site you accidentally visit and immediately hit the back button on gets 10 minutes of freebie time to execute Javascript, roam your local network, exploit "slow" browser vulns, eat your bandwidth, etc. Gone are the days when the only things running Javascript are your open tabs.
Everything requires a manual and has a list of quirks if you're doing something non-trivial or high volume. Everything has trade-offs, the only question is how much you get to know upfront.
oil is an extremely liquid asset. and not just literally
As I remember, all exchange transactions on btc-e were public, so anyone could sum/verify the amount of money going through exchange. I've used btc-e actively in 2013, earning good money on trading BTC to USD and back during the period of rapid price growth.
They could spend the money on marketing and not R&D. I agree, adding features for the sake of adding features can be a bad idea.
Elixir + Phoenix
I'm sorry to hear that. Just to clarify, you're saying you hate your father despite him having done nothing intentionally to deserve that hatred? You're obviously not obliged to go into more detail, but I guess I'm wondering if your message is: "Be warned that you can have kids and do your best as a parent and they might end up hating you anyway"?
Why are you blocking "react?"
Judge: Waymo may be in trouble if it can’t prove actual harm by Uber
It's a myth that most cyber-criminals are 'sophisticated'
All Amazon needs to do is get someone to go to a Birkenstock store and buy sandals and then sell them through Amazon. That's not the store selling to Amazon, it's selling to some customer who happens to then resell them on Amazon.

The first-sale doctrine applies when Birkenstock is asking stores to figure out how to control what customers do with the sandals after they are sold.
Yes that is a lot but it is no where near 1/2 of the worlds population.
My personal theory is never buy a place you wouldn't live in.
Would you use Django+DRF over NodeJS??
Here comes the rarest opportunity of a live AWS outage postmortom. Wait... it should be called present-mortom.
I'm interested in helping you test this. Il have a email in the bio for you. This seemed to be the easiest way to reach you.
Slack is the huge distraction and greatly improves ADD

Then you are using it wrong and you have your notifications set incorrectly.
Well deserved, I'm afraid.
pretty much every technological advancement and the quality of life improvement that came with it is through capitalism. There's a reason that Cuba and Soviet Russia were basically trapped in time
Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors
Three large cars join ranks of IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ winners
>Unless confessing suspects (forced or otherwise) regularly get acquitted in espionage cases I'd say the "even" is appropriate

I don't know about espionage, but over 25% of folks exonerated due to DNA evidence had confessed.
There is one good reason. The web is a large ecosystem, and we're all living in it. You have a right to express your opinion about its development, and as a responsible inhabitant of that ecosystem, you should exercise that right.

Or, in other words, since we live in it, if the web turns into shit (even more than it already has), we'll have to live in that shit.
> You have obviously never tried to form a union.

Nope, I've only been screwed by unions my entire life as a worker with mandatory unionization and a consumer with import restrictions and service outages.

> Now we finally have some protections against precarity that we didn't have before. But we could have saved ourselves a lot of hardship if the government had just guaranteed them to us.

That is true for any desire. If the government gave me anything for granted, then I wouldnt have to work for it at all. The question about the precarity of the market you were/are is completely out of my knowledge, but I could argue that what you needed was a way to make the company responsible for the accidents and the health problems that arise from that work, or have some sort of work insurance that would align the incentives of the employers and the employee(make safer work spaces to reduce insurance claims). That is a very reasonable thing to ask of the government.

> Your views and understanding of this issue are trash

Compelling.
I've heard a lot about people getting counterfeit books on Amazon. How does that work? Are the contents of the book the same as the legit version but it's been printed by a 3rd party?
Making Good Decisions as a Product Manager
> Can anyone who has been using ZFS long-term at home comment? How do you add more space?

My solution is to use RAID1 exclusively. That means that I can keep attaching pairs of devices if I run out of diskspace. I can never get them out again, however :-)
They mention building their new editor on this: https://github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit

Anybody have experience with it?
> But in the US, a lawyer can propose: "I'll help you suing this bastard for free if I get half of the awarded damages." This incentivizes US lawyers to be more confrontational and to seek higher damages than anywhere else.

But it also gives poor people a chance to sue someone big, because their lawyer isnt asking for a fixed fee.
As much as I want PWA to rule, web apps still give a noticeable lousy experience than native especially social apps with large feeds (Facebook, Twitter). After so many decades chasing the native experience, it appears HTML/CSS/DOM needs to be revamped/replaced in order for some hope. Maybe a brand new UX library build on top of web assembly? A cross-platform user interface library on top of Unity/Unreal Engine? Why must web apps rely on browser in order to run? If there is a UX component to docker/container, does it provide similar security mechanism as a browser? Maybe this world is not meant to have only one language/UX library/delivery mechanism for apps.
> The "walled garden" is what prevents the horrendous disjointed mess that is the Android phone market. Sure, for a guy who likes hacking around stuff, it's fun for you. But for everyone else, there is a thousand different phones, with a thousand different interfaces, all running different versions of the Android OS, that will never be updated by the phone manufacturer.

This is a non-sequitur. Fragmentation of Android OS versions isn't caused by Android letting you use web apps.
Code is art too.
Twitter is great as a site I exclusively use by following links. I check tweets when a source I like points me to one, or I need to check outage notifications for work.

Twitter is great for that, but it's of course the way Twitter desperately doesn't want to be used.
Jira is now down too. Not bitbucket though!
I used to believe that, too, until I learned that "piracy" as slang for "copyright infringement" dates to 1603: http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html

You are (and I was) 400 years out of date. That ship has sailed.
> I've been told that Arab sheiks in Saudi Arabia and the UAE laugh at the claims of Gates or Bezos or Slim being the richest person in the world.

Can you post a source? The link you posted only talks about IKEA.
Still, it's not the very same tech. Especially in this discussion, where we are talking about apps performance and languages, which need to get under the hood instead of talking directly with the engine, are presented as "worse".
Sure, this release includes Ghost-CLI, which enables auto-updates for the first time. Details here: https://dev.ghost.org/ghost-1-0-0/
That's what I'm using right now, although I wish I had a viable alternative that would enable me to write elegant CoffeeScript for both client and server.
The blogger is a Muslim immigrant from Bosnia that immigrated when he was very young.
What do you think of Play? I just started looking into it and it seems pretty painless for basic stuff.
I run Linux and installing stuff is often a bit painful. Yesterday, I was looking at Pharo and Squeak. Both are shipped as binaries and both require manually adding libraries (386) before installing on a 64bit OS.

It was then that I sort of got the BSD idea of just installing everything as source code. The time spent compiling might be roughly equivalent to the time spent trying to find information and go through the steps for installing a binary...and I hate to think about how many times has 'apt install' has installed a really old version of some tool.

Anyway, I have a bash script that installs my significant tools. But it's my script for my tools and I don't expect someone else's would be as good nor would mine be as good as someone else's.

Good luck.
> I'd love for bootcamps to stop teaching Rails so the rest of us can start raising the bar again.

this is my takeaway as well. It's still lightyears ahead of anything else out there, and the bang for the buck is hard to match.
That sounds like a sustainable approach to giving.
> There's no reason for their signup process to need anything more than a username and a password. They don't need my email address.

They do (and any service basically). You don't want to run a large-scale service without having some way for your users to self-reset their passwords.

> They surely don't need my phone number or any other information about me.

That requirement is recent and I believe comes from law enforcement / politicians as they want to be able to track "hate speech" (that's the official speech, but rather I believe it's about dissidents, YPG supporters etc) to real persons. Many left-wing German accounts had them frozen until entering a phone number, for example. Facebook is easier because many people use their real name and photographs or other personal details from which law enforcement can identify them.
Yes, the Carnegie and Rockefeller comparisons apply well. The point is that you should have less than 100% respect and appreciation if you recognize that some of what the Gates Foundation is doing may very well be the promotion of BAD directions in public education… (among other things). I'm not sure enough to conclude, but I think the direction in education that the Gates Foundation promotes may be negative. At any rate, there's no basis besides wealth that Gates should have any influence in our educational system.
iTunes' UI for creating playlists and letting me add and remove songs from the device by dragging and dropping the files could be perfectly compatible.
Is there a platform where you can filter political stuff? Anyway Twitter lets you hide tweets with certain keywords. You can cut down on noise dramatically that way.
I'm a parent, but even love of a child is not "unconditional". There are too many ugly counterexamples to easily disprove that. The bond between parent and child is special, for sure, but I do believe you can build such bonds with people that are not your offspring - you just have to spend a ridiculous amount of time together and sacrifice a lot for them and that's rare for people that aren't your children (because you're not biologically programmed to do it).
Django, started learning it in may and loved it so far. I have a lot of experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel and the Yii platform and NodeJS + React + Redux. So I wanted to broaden my skillset :)
I think there are still interesting things Slack can do. With all that chat data, leveraging NLP and other AI to try and improve productivity and communication seems like a wonderful goal to me, but not sure if that's something on their road map.
hmmmm. So, kickstarter campaigns are also issuing securities? are airline miles securities ?
Aside from the fact that he's been aggressively donating his personal assets to philanthropy rather than accumulating them in recent years, it's very difficult to beat the S&P when you're talking about tens of billions of dollars.

At that scale, the S&P isn't even a good benchmark, because it's not like a single investor can just dump that much in an index fund or even in the underlying companies directly.
Both Django and Rails will be around for many years being useful and making businesses a lot of money. Not to mention I've seen quite a few legacy code bases that would be pretty expensive to replace so there will be maintenance work for a long time as well. They'll never be "the new hotness" again, but that's a bad sign anyway IMO.
So how is that different from a restaurant deep in mob territory in some urban area that serves tons of mobsters dinner every evening? Should that restaurant be prosecuted? How about the corner grocery that serves the same mobsters?

No, IMO it should not be prosecuted as long as they are only serving food and getting paid the normal way.

They might very well get in trouble if they for example

start offering the mobsters empty "takeaway food" for 1000 monies,

transfer 900 monies in payment for non-existent ingredients to a shell company run by mobsters.

Warning: IANAL. And I made this example to be simple and clear. I guess you could get in trouble for less than that.
Don't even need to click to know which xkcd this is about. Is it bad to know that xkcd number by heart?
I think you want people that are willing to pay.

originally I was thinking $1 trial for 30 days.
"Apple's refusal to support my chosen development platform means that Apple is holding back the entire web" ...really?
Python + Flask. Low overhead with most of the capabilities of other frameworks.
Generally, people with large crypto holdings do not keep most of it on exchanges, and certainly not on a single exchange.
I am just getting into Django, was just wondering whether NodeJS is a viable alternative to Django+DRF.

Seems to me that Python is a much more mature language than JS.
Limited Liability: Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
Mattermost team here, thanks for the mention, the feedback and the well wishes!

Yes, we needed better mobile apps, and new ones are here (React Native in iOS and Android with full source code): http://bit.ly/2w33V3D

Huge thanks to over 2000 beta testers that helped vet the apps along with all the community contributors.

We've also recently added a directory for making it easier to find integrations: https://about.mattermost.com/community-applications/

Our focus is helping increase productivity for companies who need total control of their infrastructure. Thousands of companies use Mattermost for that purpose and we're excited about bring them more and more value in each of our monthly releases.
Slightly OT, I'm surprised at downloading here in general. People seem to abuse it as an "I disagree" button.
Should make a nice nest to put your bottlecaps in.
> I add things to my reading list as I browse the web and Safari downloads them in the background.

Sure, but PWAs allow for so much more than that. For example, you could not only read the article offline, but also _comment_ on it offline and have your comment automatically posted next time you have a connection. Or you could click a button to have all future articles from a particular news site automatically synced in the background while you're on WiFi so they're available for reading next time you're out; no manual downloading of each individual article required.

> On booking a flight: I'm not sure how doing this offline helps? Last time I did it, I did have to wait for pages to load after clicking links but it was on the order of seconds or less.

A PWA would allow much faster interaction than that. Seconds or less? That's terrible compared to the performance you _could_ be getting out of a PWA (i.e. near instant, like what you'd expect from a native app).

> Doing it offline is not really interesting to me, and I'm not sure how that would work (which is why I'm happy to do it in a browser). Hacker News is more than fast enough. It's really minimal.

Sounds to me like you're already content with the experience you're getting from the web. That's fine, but it's no reason to oppose features that would make the experience even better for those of us who do want them.
IIRC articles have been posted on HN about this but I don't recall what they were exactly. Also not sure how accurate this [1] is and if it reflects actual security/breaches/... per user, but it does give an indication the OP's feeling might be correct, seeing statements like In 2015, according to the NVD, OSX had the most vulnerabilities, followed by Windows 2012 and Ubuntu Linux. And here [2] it's also at the top and Windows 10 is mentioned as well, but it was quite young then. Similar in 2016 [3]

[1] https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/04/...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/31/software-with-the-most-vu...

[3] https://www.cybrnow.com/10-most-vulnerable-os-of-2016/
Haha - I didn't know that. Makes sense. I've got a dropdown in one of my Cloudformation scripts for AZs, and every time I get to it, I spend way more time thinking about it than I should. You've saved me some time.
This is why I've stopped buying batteries on Amazon. Everything I get for my phone is counterfeit.
I hated that movie. It's nice to think that you could overcome a heart condition through willpower, but the flip side of that is that if someone has a heart condition and doesn't overcome it then it's their fault. In reality life is just biologically unfair and disease or infirmity isn't actually a moral failing.
My comment was not to say that there are not situations where brand plays less of an influence, only to provide a counterpoint to the parent's comment that "brands provide no value." There are certainly industries or products where brands are less valuable, but that doesn't diminish those industries or products where brands do provide real value to both the buyers and sellers (although not always both each time and certainly not in equal amounts).
Maybe on Medium? They have great search functionality and lot's of high quality content.
Didn't know about the mute words feature. Thanks! Apparently I'm not the only one who had that thought.

I'm not sure Reader and the death of various blogs is necessarily cause and effect. My impression is that, to some degree, personal blog content has just shifted to Medium, podcasts, Facebook, etc.--or just gone away after it became less of a "thing" to do.
Twidere on Android allows you to access Twitter and Mastodon accounts in a UI similar to TweetDeck
The more I think about it I'm wondering if a better business model isn't selling the jobs for others and taking a cut.
Beating the S&P500 at all is better than most money managers can do, also.
any site with a login is probably already self-identifying to some degree.
That doesn't make much sense, how can you change parity on the fly? I suspect it does the same thing as ZFS; it just adds another vdev
Zero Factor Authentication
First Human Embryos Edited in the US, Scientists Say
> I don't see it ever getting too much faster

ruby 3 will be 3 times faster http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2015/11...

> Rails is... kind of wacky, still,

in what manner? it is one of the most well well crafted and thoughtful pieces of software i've ever used. It has never been "wacky" for me, behaved unexpectedly, or require convoluted effort.
That's not me. But likely because he doesn't enjoy the constant "do you use React?" and "why not React?", since I believe Pieter doesn't use frameworks. Honestly, sometimes the questions on his tweets are annoying so I bet he gets fed up with the constant questions from people who want to emulate him thinking it will make them successful.
A quick look at the documentation and it seems like this might hit a sweet spot in replacing Make, is that the intended goal?

Also what other builtins are planned?