skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the opposite. Flash allowed creativity on the web to grow whilst the web was being held back by IE6.

Aside from experiments in user interfaces, creative hubs like Newgrounds, YouTube and Vimeo relied on Flash to promote user-generated content on the web. I'd even go as far as saying without Flash those sites may have never existed.
Let me start by saying I'm not a biologist. However, it would seem prudent to think we are much much farther from doing most of what you said than doing terraforming at small levels when we just started editing embryos. Ostensibly the science doesn't even yet exist to do what you are describing whereas funding is the majority of the problem for terraforming at small levels.
I'm not certain where the premise that our medicine must "Do no harm" comes from. Chemotherapy, for example, is known for being extremely toxic and harmful, yet the justification is that it often yields better outcomes than no treatment. Why can we not use the same justification for editing DNA? Honestly some therapies cause mutations by design, as some cancers are less capable of DNA repair.

I do see one argument, hinging on the difference between an embryo and an adult aged many years. If your argument is that better techniques may exist at the embryonic stage, then I submit to the medical community to ascertain the appropriate course. However, I don't think offsite mutations pose a significant enough risk that one can say that, on aggregate, gene editing won't "do some good".
Many would argue that job subsidies like this are the opposite of capitalism. Under a free market, the government wouldn't be subsidizing anything.
What if basic income was paid in something more directly useful than money?
Here you go: https://github.com/open-flash/meta

As I already mentioned above, it's still in the early stages and I don't know how it will end, but I sure hope that there will be a solution ready once Adobe discontinues Flash.
"Compelled by an outside force" is the main fear for many people. Because it happens all the time, and some of those instances also have an NSL / gag order so they're unable to talk about it until years after the fact (if ever). Or they just threaten violence.

Threat models aren't the same person-to-person - this probably won't happen to you (the grandparent), but embedded journalists / people trying to overthrow a corrupt regime depend on this stuff to literally keep them alive.

Another fairly common possibility, and one that affects damn near everybody: they can get hacked and have their source code modified. This happens with some regularity, and it can affect apps too: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/07/handbrake-app-security-... but in a browser this happens silently and unpreventably. Apps don't (usually) update invisibly just because you launched them.
Weed is not a panacea. Some people foolishly think otherwise. It should still be legalized, but we have to be realistic about its negatives
You got me wrong. The ones I mention aren't terrible in general. Indeed, I went into the details exactly to prove that they don't have to be run by a bunch of unprofessional idiots to make freelancers waste their time. Yes, moonlighting looks good. So they have a nice designer. Yep, based on their comments they look nice guys. So are the others I have mentioned. (Actually, if you check out gun.io, they say they've paid something like $16M over the years to freelancers. Far from being a scam.

However, and that's the thing I tried to point out, the market seems to be aligned against this model. AND these sites should at least be aware of that and not take advantage of that. Don't play the martyr :), I didn't mean to blame you, of course, it's not your responsibility to be aware how much deals they can bring in. I just wanted to remind you, that it's not as easy as "they are just too new".

I know that everyone talks about the gig economy and how it keeps growing. But it doesn't mean that ALL kinds of jobs will be 'gigified' at the same rate. Also, the gig economy is not necessarily good for the freelancers/gig workers as long as it's a form of cost saving for the companies.

And that's exactly the reason I think that software development is just not as valuable (on average and in general) when done by freelancers as opposed to in-house devs. Because if it was, then it was just as easy to find gigs as a freelancer as easy it is to find a job as an employee (again, as a developer). But while I get regular contact requests on LI from potential employers and head hunters, it's still not trivial to land a gig as a freelancer. Even if you look through the opportunities, you'll see that there are a lot less serious ones (disregarding the competition).

There is, of course, an opportunity in this, just like any problem, so I'm not complaining, just analyzing the market.

Edit: added a smiley
Ah okay, sorry. I was thinking about it from the perspective of common passwords since that's something I've tried to find an existing bloom filter for before.

I agree with you that Troy would probably be one of the best people to provide something like that. I wonder how feasible it is, that would be a really great resource to have available.
How so? You mean due to sea level?
Maybe you could automatically elide/mute just portions of people who withheld consent. Also, if someone doesn't want to be recorded can you still retain the transcript?
Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses
Why not just compensate by ejaculating more often?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
Where it comes from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Under certain atmospheric conditions it may be possible to see further

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage#Superior_mirage
A mountain might be past the "natural" horizon but emerge from beyond it. Thus, two mountains at the right distance and line of sight could easily have a longer horizion distance.
HN commenters, the more visible ones, are not that young (by young I presume you mean anywhere in the 20s).

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

I think the median age in the top 10, for example, is around 40.
How to Improve Resilience in Midlife
> If developers think moving their apps to IPv6 is too complicated, I can't fault them.

I can. I'm a developer and it's easy to add support for IPV6 to apps.

Parsing and displaying IPV6 addresses? There are many libraries and articles for that. Connecting to a host name? Call one function and loop through the list of address structures returned and connect like normal with them skipping the ones that failed. Accepting connections? A little more tricky but since you're writing a server it's not difficult in comparison. The tricky part is figuring out what order you should bind to the socket or if you should use IPV4 mapped addresses.

And if you're using a higher level language or library then it becomes even easier. You just have to worry about the larger size of the address in both binary and text representation if you care about that at all (connecting to a host name you don't have to worry).

The only difficult bit is convincing management it's a good idea to support IPV6. But then the problem shifts from the technical to the political.
I don't really think we can blame IBM on this one. From what I can tell, they followed the specs.

The problem was that the authority overseeing lots of very sensitive data forgot to specify that the individuals working on this project would need be a) swedish citizens, b) go through government level security clearance).

So then when IBM came back with, "hey guys, here's our list of a dozen+ guys in Serbia who need read/write access to all of the data", the swedish agencency felt like they had no choice to grant access to extra-nationals, even though it was clearly against the law.

Note: Serbia happens to be quite closely related to Russia, politically speaking. One of the admins who were granted read/write access had a ten year history in the serbian army...
"Early adopter and innovator" because they started using a technology that was being used by other people for 10 to 15 years before that?!
You didn't list any pros. For people who don't want children, I imagine many don't value the pros, or even see them as pros.

You asked specifically to hear from childless folks--usually that type of request is a self-affirmation from someone who has already decided, but wants to buttress their decision.

Also, you seemed like you were trying to quantify the decision, but with matters of the heart, usually people just know.

I think people who don't want kids actually do ask this question often. There can be spouses or parents who apply tremendous pressure, and the decision is massive, and irreversible.
Ah. Indeed.
Also see Kotlin's concurrency
I don't know how much blame you can put on IBM here.

- The Transport Agency decided to outsource operations, and IBM won the contract (April 2015)

- The following month, the head of the agency decided to ignore certain laws about privacy, secrecy, etc., as well as the agency's own requirements about information security

- The Swedish Security Service, Säpo (basically our FBI), immediately got wind of this and started investigating, ultimately recommending - in November 2015 - to put an immediate halt to the outsourcing

- The Transport Agency decided to ignore the advice of Säpo and handed over operations to IBM in December 2015

Here's a good timeline: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/detta-vet-vi-om-transportst...
"Late stage" is, as you say, Marxist terminology that presumes a known end state. You are right to ridicule it, though downvoted you shall be.
That may be true in many cases, but I find ubuntu/gnome is way out in front of windows 10 when it comes to UX. Windows 10 is all over the place, every app looks different, some are full screen others aren't. Half the OS is touch friendly but the other half isn't. All sorts of functionality is hidden in slide out menus.

If this is the product of UX designers then I'm glad the OSS world doesn't have any.
It's a question of priorities, not pragmatics. Your priorities seem to be career-oriented, and making your personal mark on the future. That's okay. Someone with different priorities would be asking things much more like "will my career path allow me to have the kind of family that I want?"

The people who "rush into" having children have gotten to a point where they feel like they can, and so they do. They're employed because they need money in order to have a family. They don't have a family because it's a nice hobby to add meaning to their work-oriented lifestyle.
I never understood this line of thinking (it kind of reminds me of the sci-fi trope of the killer virus from outer space). In order for two life forms to be able to interact significantly at a bio-chemical level (let alone eat each other), one would imagine their bio-chemistry would have to be highly compatible. That seems unlikely of lifeforms arising from independent abiogenesis events.
What if, rather than just play the Flash content, I want to write a tool to convert it to a different format? Or what if I want to port the player to a new platform, or compile it to WASM so I can run it in a browser? There are a lot of things open sourcing Flash would enable that just running it in a VM would not.

And also, why do you care if some people _do_ want to continue developing Flash? It's going to get removed from browsers either way. The mere existence of a Flash player on somebody's desktop somewhere is not a security liability for you.
The propensity to aggression, violence and excessive risk taking are biologically related to sex hormone levels, and "masculine/feminine" seem to be quite accurate words to use since e.g. feminine men would actually express this less than average men, and masculine women would express this more than average women.
I kind of halfway agree with the OP, I just wouldn't consider it a flaw of capitalism.

From a capitalist point of view, blue collar jobs lost in the US to outsourcing and automation deserved to be lost. The market optimized for a better solution for consumers, and that solution was cheaper labor and automation.

A true pro-capitalist party would admit that, rather than pander to coal miners and steel workers, and would try to make the US more competitive in the modern, global marketplace rather than try to drag the entire world back into the tar pit of American industrial dominance.

A true pro-capitalist party would even embrace socialist programs like nationalized healthcare and education, if that would make it easier for displaced workers to re-educate themselves and re-enter the workplace, and compete more readily with labor throughout the world, and take the burden of healthcare off of employers. Invest in infrastructure and technology. There's probably even a capitalist argument for basic income allowing the repeal of the minimum wage.

But "write as big a check as necessary and party like it's 1949" is just pandering, it's not even a serious attempt at a solution for anything.
> Both parents would need to carry a large common set of recessive deleterious alleles, ...

And, for the time being, bags and bags of money! Which currently makes this a vanishingly hypothetical problem of ethics.
See: craigslist
I've been meaning to get a fountain pen myself. Never did I expect to know about pens in this thread. :) The Pigma Micron looks fabulous (and not so expensive too) as well.
If you don't add an error boundary, and you get an exception, then the app will unmount. The error will get logged to console in development even if the app swallows the error. So yes, it will help notice (and fix) such issues sooner. But I still recommend the explicit then(onSuccess, onError) form so that unhandled exceptions go through the top of the stack and register as uncaught errors in DevTools.
The new tobacco companies.
the market seems to be aligned against this model

I fundamentally disagree. I've given some of the reasons why.

No real need to waste more time on this, I think.
What's the best blockchain-based mining software / system for normal people?
I just listened to Olaf Carlsen-Wee's YC podcast: https://blog.ycombinator.com/blockchain-investing-with-olaf-carlson-wee-and-aaron-harris/ and noticed especially the part where he said that cryptocurrencies are the deepest nightmare of many people in power disguised as get-rich-quick schemes. That got me thinking: I've been hearing about blockchain systems as information background noise for some time, but I do have a fair amount of spare computing power sitting around, so to speak. But which system should I install (or invest in, so to speak)?
Chemotherapy is more of an exception than the norm when it comes to what treatments are acceptable. Most other drugs have to be proven safe to use even before showing tangible benefits. And even in oncology there are Phase I studies to ensure that your treatment is not Too toxic either. So yeah, Do Not Harm is very much a thing.
Renting a home you can usually get back your mortgage (I have two rentals and they do).

Also cheaper homes will appreciate more. For example a $1M home can only go up so much if that's already the top end of a market but two $500k homes can go up a lot more.
Not currently. This might be on the table in the future but it's less clear what semantics would be desirable. Feel free to open an issue.
Cultivating Sapling: New Crypto Foundations
Cars rarely slide around in these places, they have studded tires and drivers are used to driving on snow/ice most if the year. But yes separated bike lanes/trails, like in the article's city, are much nicer than driving along with cars.
... but nothing from Larry Wall. I don't get it. Perl 6 without a "Programming Perl 6" (O'Reilly or Pragmatic) will just delay adoption.
And I thought seeing Mont Blanc from my town Le Creusot, France (a 216 km line of sight) was very long... not! Apparently it would only rank 6th from the bottom of this list!
This is what I thought at first too, but as others have pointed out, there are lots of nearby mountains that block the horizon in the Himalayas.

Here's a panorama using the same tool the article uses:

http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/panqueryfull.asp...

The furthest point from the top of Mt. Everest that you can see is 303km away, and it's tucked between two faraway mountains.

Edit: I'm sorry, but this comment is wrong. I used the tool incorrectly. In fact, longest LOS from Everest is 8th on the list, and is 455km long. I assumed that when the tool auto-completed Everest it would give me the peak, but it did not.
When I ended up having children (adopting them, actually), my time for extra activities outside work went to zero. However, as the children have been getting older, I've been getting slowly and gradually getting that extra time back. I try to allocate some time to spend with the children and some time for learning new stuff or working on a side project. It's worked out pretty well.

I have had no problem with professional development, and I think it's because I've worked at places with reasonable work hours. It might have not gone so well if I had been working at a place that expected 10 hour days (or longer) or lots of weekend work. Instead, it's been 8 hours a day on weekdays for the most part, with the occasional bit of work outside that area.

I've become a tech lead and moved into a senior role with no problems. My company is pretty family friendly and they value my abilities and experience even if I insist on making time to spend with my children.

I lost a lot of time to spend on fun activities, but once the children become older, it's also a lot of fun to do activities with them. I got my kids the Robot Turtles board game to teach them programming, and they've had a lot of fun with that.

So yes, having kids will significantly reduce the amount of time to spend on all those things you used to do, but it doesn't have to mean stagnation. I've still been able to make progress, although I certainly haven't had time for entrepreneurship.

So you have to decide whether the reward (children and interacting with them every day) will be worth the effects it will have on your life. For some people, it's very much worth it. For other people, it's not.

Life doesn't have to be go go go until you die or retire. You can slow down and enjoy it without becoming a dinosaur. In our field, demand is high, so we don't have to spend every waking moment trying to get ahead.
OpenBSD switches the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang
Plug the height of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet into this calculator, and you get a distance to the horizon of 208.8 miles:

http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/hdist.htm

However, the distances in the post reach ~334 miles. So it's not that simple.

You'll notice that several of the entries are between mountain peaks, which is what is really going on. If you can imagine a mountain peak that is visible beyond the horizon, the distance will be greater than the distance to the horizon.
Machine learning course for non-programmers
6*N, yes. Pretty bad mistake there. But yes, even if you don't model every particle and restrict yourself to "parcels" of fluid like in most simulations, you still have a very difficult problem.
It's a reasonable assumption, one move in advance. If you are thinking ahead of the immediate next move, then it is not. Clearly the person who outsmarted their security also exploited their naive human assumptions.
I've had 6 pet rats in my life and each one had tumors at the end. I wonder if that effect is properly controlled for as well.
Friday Hack Chat: Crowd Supply's Josh Lifton
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/26/friday-hack-chat-crowd-supply/
Isn't that 5 more characters to memorize? I guess I don't understand.
And this is indeed the case for the ones at the top of the list. The longest possible distance to horizon is a little over 330 km, but almost 40 of the items on the list have longer line of site.

In fact, it looks like every item on the list is between two points that are each farther away than the other's horizon.

That raises the question of among all places on Earth where the longest line of sight is to the horizon, which has the longest line of sight?
If an app needs happy eyeballs, then that is because the IPv6 connectivity is broken, so you don't get to say that the app was not ready for IPv6.
Got that funny card as well :)
I don't buy that argument, if it implies that the site operators were anything but flabbergastingly incompetent.

It's pretty straightforward to compute the sum of all coins in your wallets, I would assume. It's also straightforward to compute the sum of all account deposits tracked by your database. Just knowing those two numbers is really simple stuff, like a single SQL query on the DB. All they need to do is calculate those numbers and report on it daily or weekly and they'd have detected the fraud the very first time coins were taken.
Can you elaborate on this and describe a complete picture of what you think happened?
This is wonderful but with a huge catch. :)

For me, things aren't as rosy as it is for you. I do a lot of research-y learnings on the side and that isn't really tracked through any board.

750words.com looks cool though. I use vim to document my journal once in a while but should give this a try once.
Tangential anecdote: Incidentally the article mentions that ImageNet was conceived through WordNet[0]. I actually downloaded WordNet again last night with the idea to relocate qualifying adjectives from certain noun phrases in a system to a separate list of qualifiers, ie. "adj1 adj2 noun" -> {"noun",["adj1","adj2"]}

What I found was that WordNet has crap coverage, eg. large numbers of real adjectives were unlisted. In my ancient Chinese translation work (hobby), I have basically concluded that Wiktionary[1] is the best thing going, and also easiest to contribute corrections and background data to. So I thought "why not adapt English Wiktionary data[2] to produce an English adjective list?". This proved far more complicated than a quick hack, since the only way the data seemed to be supplied was as a huge XML file mixing Wiki and XML markup.[3] In the end I downloaded a Wiktionary-derived dataset known as dbnary[4] and parsed wordlists out of that, resulting in a satisfying list of 103,125 English adjectives. Total time invested, under 2 hours.

[0] http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/

[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html

[3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/20170720/enwiktiona...

[4] http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary/
That doesn't mean that gun is well designed or worth buying and using. Criticising the lack of such a valuable or even essential feature and advising people not to use it would be fair comment. Right?
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14853781.
Not all customers do. Professional contracts and people asking special stuff or modifying their (Telenet-managed) firewall settings automatically get one. Other consumers - which is the large part of their customer base - get IPv6 with CGN/NAT64 with maximum 16 clients NAT'ed behind a public IPv4 address for legal wiretap+privacy reasons.
To be fair, your behaviour does count you in the MAU.

I'm from the UK and just left university. Everything social at university is organised on Facebook still, through Groups and Events. Weirdly, I can't even think of any competing service that societies and sports clubs would move to.
Just because most people want a broken setup, doesn't make it any less broken.
Big fan of ZFS and while there was an appearance of a lull while ZoL was stuck in 0.6.x for so long, this is a very welcome update :)

Warning to all that use ZFS to host the /boot file system, however: GRUB doesn't presently support all the features added to this release. Be careful about the features you enable!
I've gone from 200ms to 100ms on https://sublevel.net and it's a night and day difference. Trust me.
I tried workflowy but their limit on having 250 items on the free tier is limiting. I don't like the fact that they categorize every bullet as an "item". Some bullets can just be simple text stub rather than representing a whole item.