skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not let cities, who already have to have plans for integrating cable into roadways be the regulatory/ownership entities?

If these things haven't already been killed; they will be. Almost all municipal broadband projects are dead or dying. It some states it's now illegal for cities to provide broadband services. I would totally advocate for this but since the broadband monopoly effectively controls the legislature through aggressive lobbying this is a massive dead end.
> They should be more transparent and upfront what they're collecting and why though.

... on their flagship browser. On their super-private, pinky-swear no tracking we-hate-ads-but-sure-do-love-you tiny browser, there should be... no tracking.
Unless you actually need to argue with them because, say, you share custody of your child with one, you probably shouldn't bother.

I am neither an anti vaxxer nor pro vax. I get hated on by both camps. Neither side is very rational about this. So, you should probably put this in, say, the same box as religion and try to a) be respectful of their right to live their lives as they see fit and b) avoid the topic.
Can't it be both? Guns + intent to be violent = no ACLU support
It was only an A500 (with 512Mb expansion!) but I still regret it.
My first self-owned computer was an Amiga 500[0], and I played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw

(To be fair, I played Commando on the C64 before, but, goddamn, Another World[1] showed me what was possible.)

[0] I'd played with an Amstrad "Something", playing with mates who had a Vic20, and a C64.

[1] ... and Shadow of The Beast. Awful game, but what amazing sound and graphics!

EDIT: Oh, crap, didn't mention: I, along with a friend, programmed that Amstrad to play a basic Roulette game in some sort of BASIC variant -- Trust me, the ASCII graphics were amazing! On the Amiga, I started with a little draw-a-chart-type-thing based on reprogramming the on-screen characters (or was that actually the C64? Hard to remember at this point). Maybe I'm an absolute liar and I actually started out with a C64? I definitely remember programming my first ray-tracer in Turbo Pascal on a xNNN (N=digit) PC with a VGA card + grey-scale monitor. Memories are hard in both senses of the word :(.
I love Focus and now use it for almost all of my mobile googling. One thing that would be nice is a share extension, so that when I'm in Safari and see a link I want to open I can share it to Firefox Focus. Right now I have to "share" it to [copy], open Focus, and paste it in. Not a huge hassle, but would be nice to streamline.
Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer? Or did they choose not to do business with them? I don't believe that they engaged in censorship, because they didn't prevent the Daily Stormer from being accessible. I believe that choosing not to do business with them was a form of speech, and that acting in the way they did was them expressing free speech. Thus, to me, in order to believe that what they did was censorship, that means that they should not be able to take that course of action, and that those companies were obligated to assist the Daily Stormer in getting its message out there.
How is this news ? I installed it weeks ago on my IPhone. I don't understand why Mozilla just announced it now. Maybe it's a new version.

On the browser itself, I launched it, navigate on a URI, closed it, relaunched it, type the firsts characters of my previous URI and it auto completed it. From my history I guess.

So it's not like incognito mode on other browsers. (Haven't retested again)
I would guess there are some former bank tellers that disagree.
The underlying problem is things like mysql that scatter things all over the place. Docker only encourages such sloppiness, IMHO.
So hire abnormal people?

I'm pretty sure there's a healthy chunk of population who would be unfazed and would love a cushy job judging videos.
Ah, those rotoscoped vector graphics were fantastic! Flashback was great as well.
"When it does —because you're human and we make mistakes— you get to lose a digit."

By that logic I should just get rid of my 3 wood lathes, metal lathe, 2 bandsaws, drillpress, chop saw, shaper, horizontal boring machine, metal bandsaw, sawzall, circle saws, etc, because none of those have the sawstop feature.

And, by the same logic, loose the 5 chainsaws, the industrial chipper, the excavator, the two tractors, the rhino, because none of those are safe either.

Which is just silly. This whole discussion is silly. I've got a system that's been working for me for 40 years yet you feel like you want to tell me I'm gonna lose a finger. Maybe I will but it won't be on the tablesaw, I use push sticks. Religiously. Which is why I still have all my fingers. Sam Maloof pushed his stuff through with his hand and never lost a finger.

I just don't like the sawstop. It doesn't remove all of the risks, it's expensive when you forget to turn it off when you are cutting green wood, it's easy to forget to turn it back on when you switch back to dry wood, and I have never, in 40 years of using tablesaws, had any sort of fear of the tablesaw. Respect, absolutely, but a tablesaw, properly used, isn't high up on the risk scale. Free handing on the bandsaw is way way more risky yet people do it all the time.

I'm not telling you to do what I do, you can do whatever you want. I do resent, a bit, your view that I'll lose a finger. That implies you think I don't know what I'm doing and I resent that. Or maybe it is just like you said, it has been 40 years of getting lucky. Or maybe not.
OK, but presumably most of those people also aren't paying anything to Docker-the-business for using it right now. If they want to be worth billions, there will have to be real revenues sooner or later, and at that point whoever is paying does have an incentive to look at competitors. So at the risk of repeating myself, I'm still wondering what they have as a USP or other effective barrier to competitors stealing away their market share as fast as they built it up. Surely there must be something if investors are actually going in at this level, and I'm very curious to know what it might be.
The epic story of dropbox exodus from the amazon cloud empire

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...

But some companies get so big, it actually makes sense to build their own network with their own custom tech and, yes, abandon the cloud. Amazon and Google and Microsoft can keep cloud prices low, thanks to economies of scale. But they aren't selling their services at cost. "Nobody is running a cloud business as a charity," says Dropbox vice president of engineering and ex-Facebooker Aditya Agarwal. "There is some margin somewhere." If you're big enough, you can save tremendous amounts of money by cutting out the cloud and all the other fat. Dropbox says it's now that big.
The first set of data was sourced from https://siftery.com/, but I do plan on using user-uploaded data to help with data curation in the future.
Because Firefox Focus isn't itself a browser, but rather a wrapper around Android and iOS's built in browsers. That is why the underlying engine in blink/webkit and not gecko.

I am probably drastically simplifying things but the primary components of the app are just a content blocker and a preferences page.
At least there is Yalp Store now [1]. But I agree it would be nice if more oss projects would provide the apk directly (or even better prepare the project for easy F-Droid inclusion).

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore/
You didn't read the article, that's why you're "missing something".
Google adds autoplaying videos to search results on Android
I see no major problems with overnight charging in the long run. We do it for our mobile phones and it's not a major hassle, the only thing holding it back for cars is availability of charging points. It's a bit of a 'chicken or the egg' problem, but some parts of the world appear to have reached the critical mass of electric cars and charging points to have steady growth in both, it's just a matter of time before the rest of the world catches up.
A subreddit has also been created for publishing OTC offers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tokentrade/
New grads need mentorship, and most start ups probably don't have the bandwidth to offer the right amount of mentorship to help a new grad thrive in that environment.

Nice read!
Autofix doesn't seem to trigger for me, would someone confirm it's not just me?

try this in your editor

let x = 4;
if x = 5 {}

it should figure out you wanted x == 5.
The false positives are not random: they target minorities; these automated algorithms designed to filter hate have also been filtering people trying to talk about the hate they experience on a daily basis. They keep people from even talking about events they are attending, such as Dykes on Bikes. It is NOT OK to tell these people to "put on their big boy pants" and put up with their daily dose of bullshit from the establishment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-facebook...

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/07/facebook-censoring-lesbi...
Life on Earth is hard for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons -- debt, lack of employment, lack of opportunity, social unrest or civil war in the more unstable parts of the world. If you can start over somewhere else where it's possible to have a somewhat middle-class standard of living, it might not matter that much that the environment outside is harsh and inhospitable.

If life on Mars turns into a "work 16 hours a day, every day, to be able to buy your daily ration of CO2 filters from the company store" dystopia, then maybe everyone had better stay on Earth, but if we can at least avoid that scenario, then for a lot of people the prospect of being able to survive and have a stable job and a place to live and a community to be part of is appealing even if it's on a lifeless rock.

It's also not clear that Mars will remain totally dependent on Earth in the long term.
It also depends on who it is sharing the data with, here it may be shared with google.

It also depends on what the data is used for, let's take an absurdity : 'send drones to kill all users that started Focus 30 times a day on average'

A closer to reality example is "our data shows less than 1% users have alsa only system, our implementation is sort of broken in fringe case and requires an overhaul that we don't want to do so instead of fixing it let's just drop it altogether, less than 1% of users is not enough to matter".
A Longitudinal, End-To-End View of the DNSSEC Ecosystem [pdf]
A Tesla owner shows his 97-year-old Grandpa a car from the future
But government is government, hope you got the rest of them.
Too much standing is bad, study finds
Agree but it's far easier for politicians (May, Rudd, Trump, Turnball, Putin, Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Mugabe, Zuma, Chan-ocha, el-Sisi, Erdoğan, Khamenei, Maduro - the list is endless) to blame videos on Youtube for radicalising people then it is to tackle the long running political, historical and socio-economic grievances that fuel the fire.
Required for iOS or Apple won't allow it on the store.
I just added Google Wave as a featured product! Thanks for the feedback. Although it is technically open-source and operated by another company. We can still say Google Wave is dead but just under a different skin. I guess it's another zombie
"most systems keep track of the creation data"

You only need one tool that doesn't quite do things right to lose that:

- file copy programs need to explicitly set the creation date back to that of the original file.

- when you do save a file in an editor, it typically writes a complete new file (ideally through a write temp file/delete/rename dance). Again, the program may forget to reset the creation date of the new file to that of the original.

- I don't think got even _stores_ creation time stamps in repositories.

I've seen too many files with obviously bogus creation time stamps to put much trust in the creation dates of files.
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There's been dozens of such projects at this point. http://apk-deguard.com/ is one example.
There are already laws against terroristic threats, as well as criminal conspiracy.
If isn't the same process being defended, but I clearlt didn't claim that: the argument used to defend the different processes, however, is the same. This "put on your big boy pants" bullshit is saying that people should accept any incidental harassment because false positives are to be tolerated and no system is perfect, so we may as well just use this one. If the false positives of a system discriminate against a subset of people--as absolutely happens with these filters, which end up blocking people from talking about the daily harassment they experience or even using the names of events they are attending without automated processes flagging their posts--then that is NOT OK.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-facebook...

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/07/facebook-censoring-lesbi...
How were maps made before satellites?
Great. Now uninstall it before your wife divorce you.
The demonetization effort is too targeted and obvious to be explained by "AI did it". If AI did it, they could undo it after appeal which they don't.
It found that heart disease was higher for those standing, than for those sitting. So much for the fad of standing desks.
Sure: "Should Google be involved in censoring extremist content?". There's a moral question on exactly this issue. And the answer doesn't depend on whether it's possible for Google to do it or not.

What you guys and your downvotes are doing is trying to avoid making an argument on the moral issue directly (which is hard) and just taking potshots at Google for their technical failure as if it also constitutes a moral failure. And that's not fair.

If they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't be doing this. Make that argument.
For example, if you need to jump on the internet to look
up Muddy Waters’ real name, and instead of “McKinley
Morganfield” you get pop-up ads, screen takeovers,
“sponsored” content and other third-party advertising-
driven distraction, then you know what browser overkill
feels like.

What? I don't understand how that's possible. If you just google search for Muddy Waters, it tells you his real name right on the search results screen. Even if it didn't, his Wikipedia page is one of the first results, and it doesn't have any pop-up ads, screen takeovers, etc.

Am I missing something, or can someone explain what they're referring to?
In no particular order:

Stripe.
React Native.
Firebase.
That's a valid point. There's definitely a software bias now, but the name product is more extensible. I just added 4 more featured products today and will be adding more in the future!
U.S. Has 3.5M More Registered Voters Than Live Adults
As if "taking a kickback to promote a particular pharmaceutical company's products" isn't equally bad. Yeah -- BigPharma is going to account for the kickback under "Research and Development (Of Profit)".
Thanks! It should be fixed now.
Thanks for the feedback! I just made the button more visible by placing it on the nav bar of the home page.
Ironically, there are far more bank tellers now than before ATMs were introduced:

http://www.aei.org/publication/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-r...

But of course, some occupations will be obsoleted by automation. The flip side to that is that it creates consumer savings that result in spending in new areas of the economy, which creates replacement jobs.
The Trance of Dysfunction: Why Trolls Have Come to Dominate Discourse
I'm sorry, no. I must respectfully disagree here - death to poachers is fair when we're talking about the extinction of species, and certainly of some of the most majestic creatures on our planet. We have 7+ billion humans and fewer than 500 thousand elephants in Africa and fewer than 30,000 rhinos left. They are more valuable than gold - literally priceless. Everything and anything must be done to protect and ensure the survival of the species.
Are these bonus terms not standard? These prorated periods are the same for Microsoft.

How else do you stop someone walking out on day 1 with 50k cash?
I wrote an article on hobby robots (I was working for Unimation at the time, the company that invented robots). Sadly I can't seem to find the issue online.
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If by everyone you meant UNIX-derived OSes, it's arguable that they all had containers in one form or another with the exception of Linux which only changed when cgroups [0] were added to the v2.6.24 kernel ~10years ago.

I think that addition to Linux paved the way for containers to enjoy wider adoption than was previously possible with other less popular container tech in OSes like Solaris (zones) or BSD (jails).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
Please, he was 14 years old child at that time...
I think I'm only surprised to see this comment and not that Firefox bundled analytics into their app. What's controversial about anonymized usage statistics in 2017?
Thanks for the feedback! I just fixed that issue. All featured products should show up in the list of all products now.
to see or not to see https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dickbar

that is the question
I think you are confusing inability to communicate with inability to think.

Many animals are dumb, Many are smarter than we give them credit for. In past few decades there have been a great many papers indicating some animals can do things just short of what we can do and many people used to think that animals could think, feels emotions, learn by trial/error or even communicate.

You are making an assertion "No animal thinks 'Why?'" without evidence. You could be right or wrong, but you have chosen an odd place to stand. You are inside an ever receding pocket of ignorance.
This is irresponsible to the trained personnel. We have job safety requirements for people working on assembly lines. We should also have psychological safety for people, and there are lots of stories of employees that are paid to view the toxic videos suffering (even developing PTSD).
Thanks for the feedback! I just added Orkut :)
http://productgraveyard.com/products/orkut.html
Async/Await in JavaScript
No, it'll just require that you will accept a thicker phone.

Since many people wrap their phones in faux leather covers that contain two handfuls of credit cards, I'd say that's very plausible.

But also, you can already buy extended battery pack covers for most popular phones (just google "battery case <phone model>). Which almost nobody seems to do. So maybe battery life isn't such a biggie?
>>Again anyone can create their own website, nothing is limiting the exercise of their protected speech

Can they though? Domains Registries, Data-centers, ISP, all have terms of service, Storm Front learned that the hard way.

So I would not keep claiming "Again anyone can create their own website" because that is factually false

Anyone can get a website under the terms of conditions of the massive companies offering web hosting services, domain registrations, Internet Access, and all of the other private pieces need to run a website. This assumes you have the technical knowledge to do so, you are basically claiming Free Speech is only for server admins, dont know how to run your own web server, well make sure you conform to ever increasing strict "acceptable speech" codes if you do not want to be shut down

today society has a general aversion to or out right hate for Free Speech, and terms of service are becoming more and more restrictive.

Society its self is attacking the concept of Free Expression today far more effectively than any government ever could

It would seem this will be how Free Speech dies.... with Thunderous Applause from those too short sighted to see the forest because of a few racist trees....

First they came for the nazi's I did no protest for I am not a nazi... then they came for.....

I wonder which group will be next... and How long will it be before they come for me, that something I desire to speak out about will be "wrong think". I am Libertarian so I suspect it will not be long. Authoritarianism is the word of the day
Osinbajo orders Pencom, CCB, ICPC bosses to resume duties
There is an irony here that the US invaded Afghanistan, the world's largest opium exporter[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanista...
Do you happen to know how the two books compare to each other?
System.out.print((String)null)

Does not throw NPE.
Hard to remember details, but the 5.0 version felt like a big rewrite or redesign because it lost some responsiveness or stability or features or other things I liked about 4.7 so I reverted.
The process of getting content on to the web has historically been pretty daunting, and is IMO much easier now than the bad old days when a .com domain cost $99/year and hosting files involved figuring out how to use an FTP client.

In comparison, services like Now from Zeit, Netlify, Surge, heck, even RunKit, make this stuff so much easier in comparison now. As long as the performance optimizations are something that can happen automatically with tools like these, and are reasonable to use yourself even if you want to configure your own server, I think that's a net win.

I do agree with you though that we ought to fight tooth and nail to keep the web as approachable a platform for new developers as it was when we were new to it.

On balance, I'm more comfortable with services abstracting this stuff, since new developers are likely to use those services anyway. That's particularly true if the alternative is giving Google even more centralized power, and worse, access to more information that proxying all of those AST files would allow them to snoop on.
Is it though? Giving it until 2020 might end up being generous
http://productgraveyard.com/products/flash.html
Right but was this a thing before golang existed or is it specific to go commands?

It was certainly popularized by "go get ./...".
Is it though? It's already officially announced by Adobe and most sites do not use Flash anymore.
If I wanted a job in Boston by Wednesday, I'd probably be able to find one, maybe two. Here the only question would be how many people I had time to talk to between now and then.

If you have a desirable resume, skills to back it up and maybe a connection or two, it is beyond trivial to get a job here. It is still challenging to break into, but once you're in, I don't know anyone who is unemployed except by choice and even those people who want to be unemployed get unsolicited job offers.

I wouldn't know about starting your own company, but getting a job right now is absolutely as easy as people make it out to be. Finding a job you want might be a different story, of course.
> Compiling a language to JS is not about making it work. That's easy (it becomes hard to cite a language that does not do it). It's about designing the language to interoperate with JS, and making that work. That is the real challenge.

It's very interesting that Scala and Scala.js have such a relatively painless interaction, but in general I'd say interoperation is "technically" simple by just employing an FFI?

Obviously, words like "seamless" and "effortless" start to enter the vocabulary here, but I'm not entirely these targets are worth it. Are they, do you think?

(I mean, obviously, Scala.js must have seamless 'interop' to Scala, but is 'seamless' introp with JS worth it, or should you require explicit FFI? I'm not sure, but I think you ultimately chose FFI-via-annotations, but there's a lot of fuzziness wrt. js.Dynamic.)
Thanks for the feedback. There's now a navigation bar for easy access to "all products". All products should include featured products now, and I will be implementing search in the near future :)
Yeah, they're a partner.