skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profiling CSS for fun and profit
I'm Finnish, thank you for asking, so I'm quite aware of different encodings.
One could argue that blog posts wouldn't be needed since the books written on the material are generally accepted as mature coverage of the subject
Boston Based Startup Goes Live with app that gives Job applicants an edge
Boston, MA: This week, Jobgator Inc, a startup focused on giving candidates an edge in the job application process will launch their software live to the world. Three months ago, Jobgator was accepted to MassChallenge, one of the world’s best small business accelerator programs. Jobgator aims to disrupt the way applicants apply for jobs, and the way recruiters recruit by providing candidates an edge in the application process. Jobgator provides an easy way to evaluate and improve their resume based off of several different levels of feedback given by Jobgator’s predictive platform prior to applying thus increasing chances of an interview.

Jobgator’s innovative software uses predictive algorithms to provide candidates a chance to tailor their resumes for each job, and include necessary keywords and job skills prior to applying for jobs. Jobgator software also ranks top job results by taking into account top keywords and skills in the individual's resume and then uses those top words to deliver more relevant jobs to the candidates. Jobgator will also provide candidates with a summary of how they will fit in culturally at the company they are applying to in order to tell them how the company fits in with their beliefs, ideals, and previous experience. This will help inform and empower candidates to choose jobs that they will be more effective and happy in!

As a former college student who struggled to find a job after graduation, CEO/Founder Ben Gelb hopes to not only build a thriving business but also have a strong social mission focused on helping disadvantaged and frustrated job applicants. One of his social mission is to eradicate discrimination and promote gender equal pay!

Jobgator is currently in the process of raising a funding round and is excited to see their business launch and begin to grow. Jobgator has just launched!
Check out Jobgator’s website at https://www.jobgator.io and email jobgator.us@gmail.com for more information!
If you get a chance to go by a 'Vintage Computer Festival' (there are three that happen in the US and one in Europe that I know of) and you get a good look at machines pre-1981/1982 (intro of the IBM PC) and post, and then pre (2004/2005)(intro of the ITX form factor) and post. You can see that early PCs were trying to look like minicomputers, some with switches on the front, some just with a reset button, and then the PC era where everything looked pretty much like a PC in either a 'desktop' or a 'tower' case. And then the death of the PC and the start of the 'application' computer that started to look more like high end Hi-fi equipment rather than a computer.
Nah, that causes a story to move from page 1 to page 2, for example. (Or more precisely, to drop in rank by ~10 to ~20.) I made certain to check the front two pages for this story, and it wasn't on them, immediately. Then [flagged] popped up later. It was a sharp step function, not a gradual change.

If flagging caused a story to disappear from the front two pages, there would never be a need for [flagged] -- a story would be as good as flagged without it. It'd be a clarifying signal, but it wouldn't have any material impact on the story's rank.

Again, none of this really matters, but it's fun to talk about. :)

Maybe it was buried via a torrent of flags. If three flags showed up within a few seconds of each other, that might have caused the behavior.

EDIT: see http://hnrankings.info/15267221/
Sure. This one https://s.codepen.io/joshhunt/debug/ZKyYNz. It differs to IE, Safari and Chrome in the way it treats height:0 padding-top: 100% on a flex child. In Safari, the grey box expands properly to contain all divs. In Firefox, it doesn't.

Granted, this is more of a flexbox spec issue (last time I checked this behaviour is intentionally undefined), but it's still an annoying case of one browser doing something all the others don't.
It's not just some people. It is actually the law in most states (albeit a seldom-enforced one).

Don't cruise in the left lane.
They then go on to say:

> While we do back up iMessage and SMS messages for your convenience using iCloud Backup, you can turn it off whenever you want.

Sure, I can stop backing my data up - but presuming I don't (like the vast majority of people), does that mean if they got a wiretap order they could just read the data straight from their backup servers?

I'm not sure if this was just phrased poorly, or if backing up your iMessages effectively undoes any protection your messages once had.
Regarding point 3, I have no sources at the moment but have read several scientific articles in the past claiming that different organisms really do have a fundamentally faster or slower perception of continuous time, and also that drugs can temporarily influence this perception. Is there no truth to this at all?
NASA has a plan to prevent the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting
Chrome and Firefox are primarily designed for use on the World Wide Web. If you're going to use a locally modified network you may need to use locally modified browsers as well, just as you'll need your locally configured DNS.
The real disgusting thing here are wasps.. who will go for dead rodents- and then move on to grab food from your plate.
I keep using my T60, dreading the day some component gives out.
There's a whole lot of "X is bad, therefore any argument that supports the claim that X is bad is true and valid" when it comes to these matters. It's technically "affirming the consequent", but I think that fallacy gets another very tempting facet to it when it's enters the moral or ideological dimensions.
I don't know why it's hard for you to learn things, you were supposed to get the "bootstrap knowledge" in your undergrad education.

My point is that the discoverability today is much better than it was, say, 30 years ago. Back then your options were: go to a library, find and read good books, or find someone knowledgeable, and go talk to him in person, or write him a paper letter with your questions, and hope he responds.

For example, I remember how I was given my first access to a computer, with a command prompt blinking on a black screen, and I had not a slightest idea about what to do with it. Oh, and people nearby were not particularly keen on stopping what they were doing and explaining things to me. I was given a poorly translated DOS manual and a few simple BASIC programs to study. My computer access was limited to one hour, twice a week, and I remember how I thought this was so cool, and that I want to learn.
Honestly, not really. The only one I can think of is your localStorage example.

Regardless, that's not the point. I'm not saying that Safari is perfect, I'm just saying that while it might have some implementation differences and bugs, so do other browsers.
Ask HN: Used OCaml for more than 2 years? What are your thoughts about it?
Eye catching headline, but the set of hedgefunds is diverse with a large range of performance. I imagine the upper tails do pretty well
Virtual Assistants
> so there are simply no more 8-bit microcontrollers around

Atmel still produce a significant number of 8bit AVRs.
why does the US not have a central registry? is it for historical/cultural reasons, i.e. the dislike of "(big) government" by certain groups?

also, how would one get around the problem for homeless people or people without a permanent residency?
> What do you think happens to fiat money when people stop believing it has value?

That's precisely the source of your misconception regarding the intrinsic value of fiat currency.

Fiat currency always has value as they are the basic unit used by the state to determine how much taxes you owe them, which is linked to a percentage of everyone's gross income.
I read Ted Nelson's autobiography. My impression was he had great visionary scale ideas, but couldn't describe a concrete implementation. I actively sought to understand concretely what Xanadu is and came up empty, a lot of high level words that could mean anything to different people reading them. Nothing concrete, at least that I was capable of understanding in the amount of time I was willing to invest. Nelson's research and vision predates computers and programmers as we know it today, so it makes sense that he wasn't a programmer. Tim Berners Lee was of course a programmer, and wrote in Weaving the Web, "having a working demo is table stakes."
.dev was specifically championed by... someone in the Ruby community I think... like 6-7 years ago.

It stuck, annoyingly, like a misinformed fad that won’t go away.

I agree btw - .test or .local - anything else is just asking for problems
Scala Arrays and Mutable Collections
I'm happy Apple is at least trying hard to deal with privacy but honestly I don't think they are doing enough, at least for me.

For example, I don't really want to give most apps constant access to my photos, my camera, or my mic but I really don't have a whole lot of choice if I still want to use popular apps and services like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Hangouts, Line, WhatsApp etc..

I really wish that every time they wanted a photo they had to get it through some OS level UX and they only got to see the photos I selected. As it is they get to see all my photos the moment I want to give them a single photo. Similarly if I take a photo in one of them they require permission to read all my photos when all I want them to be able to do is save the photo.

As for the Camera I don't give any of those apps access to the camera because I don't trust them not to spy on me in some way (I assume camera = mic access so they could be doing the subsonic listening for ads things etc...). Instead I take the picture with the built in app then access that picture from the app I want to use the picture in. Of course that leads to the problem above.

Mic access is more problematic. I don't want any of them to have mic access when I'm not using the mic function directly but I can't talk to my friends who use all those services to call me if I don't give the apps mic access.

I feel like if Apple was more serious about privacy they'd handle these issues in some way. The photo one seems mostly straight forward for most use cases. Don't let the app access them at all, only the OS. The camera one is less straight forward. I get that there are innovative things apps can do with the cameras by using them directly. On the other hand most of the current use cases could be handled by letting the OS access the camera only, not the app, and then just giving the result to the app.
BlockSci is purely targeted at providing an easy and efficient method of asking questions about existing blockchains. BlockSci can certainly be used to study Bitcoin's testnet as well as blockchains created in Bitcoin's regtest mode. However BlockSci provides no ability to simulate protocol modifications since it depends on importing data from existing full node software.
Influences on Serial Experiments Lain (SPOILERS)
You're ignoring the US consumers who get cheaper and higher quality vehicles from abroad because we don't have protectionist politics on vehicles. Why should I pay more for inferior Detroit cars?
Investments can have a dual mandate - high returns BUT also low volatility. Many hedge funds will admit their returns may not beat the S&P500, but will counter that their returns have lower volatility -- achieving more consistent gains over time.

To answer your question, sounds like the answer is still no, but it is worth noting that this whole conversation is ignoring the volatility side of the conversation.
If it's just stock-picking as opposed to getting access to a wider variety of investments, then it's very difficult for active stock picking to be worth anything. If stocks are owned just by stock-pickers and passive indexers, then they own the same stocks in the same proportion.

The only thing active funds can do is invest in things that passive indexes don't, or better take advantage of the "dumb money". Things like high-frequency trading definitely count here.

Pure stock-picking though? Yeah, anyone who outperforms is on the other side of trades that underperform, so you're going to run into issues.
Yeah, there's progress on 8-bit and 16-bit support. We're tracking our work on improving Rust for embedded systems in this roadmap issue [1], with details in this RFC repo [2]. As part of that, we have preliminary support for the 16 bit cpu MSP430 in-tree [3], and a fork for the 8-bit AVR in [4].

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/15

[2]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rfcs

[3]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rfcs/issues/20

[4]: https://github.com/avr-rust/rust
A blind interview application to avoid bias. With a combination of Face Tracking and Voice Modulation (see: https://www.voicemod.net), one could now have a Interviewer avatar interviewing an Interviewee avatar.
I think it raises an exception.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/

EDIT: yeah, nvm, it's what everyone else said.
I haven't done much Nix, but I do peek over the fence now and then because I (and others) wonder about applying it to buildpacks and/or OCI layer construction. I do a lot more BOSH, since I work at Pivotal. So these remarks are probably wrong.

However, from my ignorant viewpoint:

The deep agreement is that machine-level statefulness is evil. Trying to repair it in-situ is pointless when you can simply reset to known-good states.

BOSH does this at the whole-machine level. You get a stemcell (fixed target), you get releases (fixed configuration of software) and you get deployments (fixed mappings from releases into running systems).

When you make a change, you redeploy. BOSH recompiles any changed release packages and then rolls them out across the fleet, starting with canaries.

BOSH lets you define the number of VMs, networks and whatnot; I'm not sure if NixOps does.

Treating components as replaceable is the main point of departure from previous generations of configuration management, which largely evolved out of a world in which the mission was "make this single machine look right, starting from an unknown state".

NixOps appears to do something similar. I'm unclear as to whether it operates at the whole-machine level (à la BOSH) or whether it can perform transformations within an existing machine. The latter would, obviously, be a lot faster than replacing VMs wholesale.

That said, whole-machine replacement does have one accidental benefit: it's ruthless. You very quickly encounter the one-in-a-million edge cases for running services because BOSH will quite unmercifully steamroll VMs during a deploy. Any stateful distributed services that aren't ready to have running machines yanked from under them at short notice will quickly reveal themselves.

You'd be surprised how many systems that advertise themselves as tolerant to random machine loss ... er ... aren't. Not sure much how I can go into this, but some distributed systems do much more poorly than the stuff on the tin suggests, even after substantial engineering on our part to try and prop them up.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, so I use BOSH sometimes in my dayjob. But I'm by no means a capable operator or BOSH expert.
> Support for building --without-threads is removed. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in bpo-31370.).

Woooo! That means, at some future time, I'll be able to remove code checks for non-threading Pythons.
A lot can go wrong with India's centralized ID system – Aadhar(UID)
A fair amount of the 8 bit home computers looked more like typewriters than anything else to me. The apple II, commodore VIC/64, Atari 400/800, etc.
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Discussed on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795155 18 comments

Previous discussion of xanadu in general

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642143 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7849389 100 comments
Depending on who you're talking to, it is either a revolutionary idea misunderstood or a massive case of vaporware:

https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
What Does a Wage Gap Look Like
At the recent RustConf I got to take a course working with TockOS. I highly recommend people check it out: https://www.tockos.org/documentation/getting-started/

It was a lot of fun to work with and looks to have a growing set of common drivers, etc.

The OP guide looks to be lower level and wonderful for learning. Reading through it very quickly, it looks very thorough, well done!
You are correct except that doing this over 10 years somewhat removes the 'ignoring the volatility' argument.
You can still contemplate their incentives, their business model, and their reputation/track record.

It's not as good as auditing the code (and making sure the code you see is what actually runs), but it's a lot less effort, and depending on the extent to which you are ready to dedicate resources to improving your privacy, may be an acceptable tradeoff.
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Ask HN: Can Google add its referal to amazon links in SERP? If not, why?
The problem is that a lot of these systems aren't legacy. They've been built within the past 5 years, but the customers would almost rather continue on with their weekly outages than apply basic modern architectural designs that allow for functionality like round-robining updates behind a LB.
For what it's worth, the ISPs could probably find a way to offer DSL-style metering on 5G networks in places they're not willing to enhance DSL (or lay fiber). If there's less local traffic on the licensed bands, then it should not really cost any more. The fact is, most Canadian home broadband connections are slower than most metropolitan LTE connections in both latency and throughput.

In my personal opinion, reliance on carrier ISPs is the problem. It is not supremely difficult or expensive to set up a line-of-sight radio network; and when ISP service personnel have to come from the nearest city, it could ultimately be much more reliable. If the government is subsidizing telcos to do the work of expanding to rural or remote areas, then they should make that subsidy available to individuals instead/as well, so they can find the way that will get them the most broadband.
They get overwritten by the value of the dictionary that came last.

>>> dict1 = {"key1": 1, "key2": "hello", "key3": [1, 2, 3]}
>>> dict2 = {key1": 1, "key2": "world", "key3": [1, 4], "key4": "4"}

>>> {**dict1, **dict2}
{'key1': 1, 'key2': 'world', 'key3': [1, 4], 'key4': '4'}
Apple chose to let the China government into their China data center and Google chose to leave the country instead. So not so simple on who you trust. Personally I trust Google more as they are just a lot better at keeping things secure, imo. Plus governments getting into data is a bigger deal to me than a targeted ad. But it is a personal decision.

"A Local Chinese Government Will Oversee Apple’s New iCloud Data Center"

http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/apple-china-icloud-data-center...
I think you should introduce yourself through a Show HN, focused on features, instead of a press release.
It seems to me like the status quo is working pretty well. Publishers do all the things you said, and university libraries pay the subscription fees. Anyone not affiliated with a university just goes to SciHub or the author's webpage and downloads the paper for free. Nobody cares about your copyright and they never have; before SciHub there was your college buddy with a roll of quarters and a photocopier.

You're lucky enough to have the revenue stream you do, so what makes you think there's another one in open access? Authors don't want to pay you, the university already takes half their grant money for such purposes. Unaffiliated readers definitely don't want to pay you. As you admit, you thrive on the prestige of your name, so why not stick to your business model of charging other prestige-focused institutions, and leave the rest of us out of it?
> And I would add that most people outside of developers (of any kind) probably don't care.

Showing the full URL can save you from phishing attempts, though - when you see cryptic crap, <script> or similar stuff in a page URL, you know something is fishy.
Implementing even one of those is hard, and costs tons of developer salaries, for what might ultimately fail anyway (like most software products/startups do).

All 3?
> I was under the impression that every single state requires an SSN to issue a driver's license or id card in order to track and enforce child support order across state lines.

Nope. If they did, the impetus behind the REAL ID act wouldn't even be relevant, because illegal immigrants wouldn't be able to obtain a drivers' license or state ID.

> Which states don't require an SSN to issue an ID?

California is the biggest one, and in fact, California makes it illegal to discriminate against anyone who has a driver's license but cannot show legal residency.

Some states mark licenses as "not valid for identification" if they don't show legal residency, but it's usually subtle and easily overlooked or ignored. And the SSN isn't the only way to show legal residency, either.

> Legal immigrants have passports, and ID cards/driver's licenses from their home country.

For foreigners, passports are the only acceptable form of identification from foreign governments. Driver's licenses and other government IDs are not allowed, with the exception of driver's licenses from Canada.
We are only use certificate pinning for .google. The only requirement on any of the other TLDs is that you must have an SSL certificate and serve over HTTPS.
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I would copy the Wikipedia model as much as possible. Wikipedia doesn't generate nearly as much data but there must be some way to empower the users with it rather than "stealing" it for your own financial gain. We complain a lot about Facebook for good reason, what I'd like to see is a more responsible platform and I think Wikipedia got a lot of that right.
You've never lived in a state where your car insurance premium depends on your credit score, have you. I think you understand perfectly well the problems identity theft can cause, but you're just being intentionally obtuse.

> It's unclear to me... what a thief can do.

Um... well... how about anything you can do with your identity, except it's someone else? Do you really not understand why that's a bad thing?
No it doesn't, you simply get the value from the last dict:

>>> a = {'x': 1}
>>> b = {'x': 2}
>>> {**a, **b}
{'x': 2}
>>> {**b, **a}
{'x': 1}