skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is not going to happen for Catalunya.

Which makes think about the ramifications for the future of the EU with a yes vote in the referendum.

A relatively prosperous region in on the European subcontinent that agrees to succeed will embroil the EU with more political and economic turmoil than it already has, and open the subcontinent up to more non EU influence.

Might be a boon for multinational corporations and some governments who have something to gain from a weaker EU.

At least something tells me that the recent former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the US State Dept words from a leaked phone conversation on the EU a couple years ago probably stands true today of the perspective some powerful people have in the world on the EU…
The Amish are not luddites.
Here is the test.

Take the best Roman engineer.

Translate a first year engineering paper on structures into Latin.

Ask Roman to sit said paper.

What will happen and why? The Roman chap will look very confused and will make statements (in Latin) about how stupid this stuff is and how it has nothing to do with proper engineering. The Roman will score 0. The why is that the understanding of structures and materials in the ancient world was artizanal, based on trade knowledge (often secret and hard to reproduce) and not systematic, based on the scientific method and inspectable or testable.

Currently we accept that knives, cabinets and sheds may be built or made using artisanal knowledge, we do not accept that apartment blocks, aircraft or automobiles are built this way. Society insists that these are built using systematic knowledge because otherwise they sometimes fall down or crash.

The systematic approach to aircraft is the best example - think how much civil air traffic there is now, and how rare air crashes are. The issues of subsonic flight have been systematically accounted for, right up to the point where we now see 1:2,000,000 crashes per flight.

Mechanical, aeronautical and civil engineering proceed in this way. Issues are discovered with mechanisms or structures or materials, these are characterized with scientific investigation, the characterizations lead to constraints and parameters that are required to be accounted for in future designs and old designs are re-evaluated in the light of the new knowledge.

Stating that you will build a new building in a certain way because domes are strong and concrete is strong would not cut the mustard in the modern world... The parthenon has stood for 2000 years, but how many similar structures collapsed after a few months?
> That's what I understood from my call with the SEC. That if anyone could reasonably expect a profit it satisfied that bullet in the Howey Test.

“reasonably expect”, in law, imposes an “objective” standard; the mere subjective expectation of a buyer won't meet it, the court applying the test will need to find that the expectation was objectively justified in the concrete circumstances that existed. It's a much higher bar than merely did any individual buyer have a subjective expectation of profit.
If something gets removed from a subreddit, post it in a different subreddit, not here.

It looks like you made a reddit post that links to this instead of being a text post and keeping it there. Not cool.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/73dkqz/want_...
DRM will exist with or without EME, and web-based distribution of major popular media will use that DRM in whatever form it takes. So EME versus no EME is a wash there, and I've argued at length that killing DRM cannot be done via "principled stands" -- it has to be done via market forces, as it was with online distribution of music.

Meanwhile, the rhetoric I was responding to was very much of the "people who only 99.99999% agree with me will be first against the wall when the revolution comes" school of thinking.
Agreed, red flags bombarded that entire interview and it's incredible that anyone could hear it and still buy into the system.
You can add "cards", i.e. the popups in the top right that show a short text and an "i" button. Those can be links to videos, polls, or external links (if you're a big youtuber). However the text is limited, you can't set how long it shows, and you can have a maximum of 5. You can maybe use subtitles too, but you cannot set a default subtitle for your video.

So there are hacky half-working workarounds, but otherwise youtube just told everyone who cares about their videos to go and kindly get fucked.
Why the British had this strange fascination with the Spectrum and mostly ignored their also-homegrown and vastly superior Amstrad

You've completely overlooked the one machine superior to all those three: the BBC Micro.
Although benchmarks can be valuable tools for the developers, as end user I don't care about them.

What I really care about was that with previous versions of Firefox, my MacbookPro would start getting hot as soon as I would fire it up, and every page load would feel like a drag.

With 57, my Macbook is cool and everything feels snappy.
What about taco futures? I would prepay for tacos now, knowing that it's a stable investment that will likely have returns at least as good as inflation.
Apple’s outdated legal practices from a developer's point of view
Are you going to keep switching usernames to post this? Just asking so I don't reply to another deleted comment.

So how is not cool? Because you don't like people using Reddit? There's a lot of cryptopeople here so it's very relevant. The fact that you don't like that a post here is being linked from Reddit is completely, utterly irrelevant.
In fact linear regression could be used to do all of those things, most of them poorly but some of them pretty well (see dictionary learning). If you believe otherwise then you fundamentally misunderstand how neural networks work.
I don't get people complaining about FirefoxOS. It didn't work out because at that time, the phone hardware wasn't ready, and because they didn't have the political power and economies of scale.

But at least they tried. Everyone else just gave up and either accepted Apple's overpriced walled garden or handed over their deepest secrets to Google.
So this is off topic, but does anyone else hate that swiping left/right in blogger navigates to other blog articles? I don’t know often people use that for real — I’m almost always directly linked to just one article in particular. But what’s worse is that it’s so sensitive without enough visual confirmation and ability to stop it. I find it naturally happens while scrolling on my iPhone without any intention, and then I lose my place and have no idea where I ended up. Just feels like a gigantic amount of UX flaws for a purpose that’s likely rarely used.
There is a port of the FreeBSD network stack called libuinet so that's not an unsolved problem, but it would need a bit more care and feeding. There are other issues like.. you need to fetch content off disks, and then you need to move it between address spaces, and then you need buffer types to pass around and then and then.. at some point you are reinventing a lot of wheels for the same goal: saturate some hardware limit like CPU, memory bandwidth, bus bandwidth, drive bandwidth and latency. The FreeBSD kernel works well for all this and is proven.

Userspace networking is a really big win for packet processing which doesn't have any of the above concerns. On FreeBSD with Netmap and VALE you can chain things together in really interesting ways where you can still use kernel networking where advantageous and userland networking where it's advantageous.
And Pujol(ex president of Catalonia with money in Andorra, and some of his son in jail) cases? The 3% percent... From Huelva to Girona all sucks and the corruption is everywhere.
Pujol one day said: "if I talk everything is going to be destroyed" because everyone knows that the other stole money but nobody talk
When you click on the draggable items, there is a sound being played.
Coding in Ethereum Smart Contracts is a very different idea compared to conventional programming. It is more like working in physical hardware, i.e. if you make a mistake and deploy a faulty program, it's very difficult to change. We started a company quantstamp.com for this very reason to help with Ethereum community with this issue.
Here is what helped for me. I was at the receiving end of a divorce, from a (in my opinion) nice family with 3 kids. It was really hard on me, since I really loved my ex, and I loved my family.

But I came to realize that the woman I love is in my heart only, and doesn't exist in the real word. My real world ex is cold hearthed, chose to dump her own family. The woman in my heart was really nice. But realize that she doesn't exist.

So maybe if you try to see the woman in your heart as separate from the real world one (which seems to be some psychotic bitch), you can move a step further away.

I'm sure the woman in your hearth wouldn't do all the things that your ex is doing.
That looks like a good starting point. Does the site exchange tokens with the USB key, so that the device also confirms the site is who they should be?

My thinking is that the site should have a custom token to exchange with the device and the device should have a custom token to exchange per site.

I'd also love to see it easily replicated and free for the user to put on their own devices. People are going to lose them, in droves. They'd be password protected, of course. I guess you could make them delete their data if there are too many mistaken password attempts, as well as make it destroy the data if used in an unapproved computer - things like that. I figure they can layer different features atop it, depending on how much security is needed.
Supposedly Miele's white goods are better than most other brands. They're on average 3-5x times more expensive, so they have plenty of margins to make durable products.
youtube-dl is great, but having a little gui icon in your toolbar was better
Well, how about reuploading if you fuck up the editing process, and trying not to fuck up the next time?
simple and super valuable article.
Now that I've used tab containers quite a bit they do require much more cognitive work than profiles. Having to always be aware of which tab container you are on rather than which browser window profile.

Maybe that's just me though.
The "one trick" is evolution. Interestingly, that is a field of ML that is currently relatively ignored. I'm hearing people make similar arguments about evolutionary patterns for ML that were once applied to neural networks. There isn't enough compute. It is too hard to consider using evolutionary patterns. The state of the field expressed at conferences is sad. Etc.
FirefoxOS was a way out of Apple's proprietary walled garden and of being Google's product and information slave.

Maybe it was unrealistic to expect it to work out - one relatively small company fighting with Google and Apple - but I guess some people are optimists and want to believe that the world can be made into something else than corporate dystopia or whatever.
The idea isn't to direct the add money to charity, but direct your viewers to charity. Depending on your audience, 10k views could be a fair bit of money that viewers are willing to pay if you ask them to.
Is there a seamless way sync all my Safari bookmarks with Firefox? I detest Google, that's why I'll never use Chrome. Would love to use Firefox on my MacBook. But I keep going back to Safari because it gives me an increadibly streamlined experience on all of my Apple devices (bookmarks, reading list)

Edit: typo
I would love to see some of these APIs replaced by WebSockets. It would allow building your own client for some services much more easily while maintaining push notifications
Ask HN: Is there any Swift source/book you would recommend?
Show me a single place where political unity of different cultures didn't undermine cultural diversity.
Please don't post dissy dismissals to HN. Even if you're right that something is bad, that's a poor excuse for making this community worse.

Being supercilious isn't needed either. Lots of people on HN have degrees in math and I know for sure that some are fine with metaphor.
CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline
You'll never hear them if you keep your fingers in your ears while humming your own thoughts like this.
>Everyone can easily see how old your account is

How is that relevant? Astroturfers etc have been buying old well-historied accounts for ages now, so it's not a very reliable method of distinguishing shills anymore. It's only useful for sockpuppets and amateur shills.
I think you are talking about empathy, not basic emotions. Mirror neurons are observed only in primates[1]. Birds may have some mirroring system, and lower-order animals do not. So, if you require mirror neurons for emotions, you are basically stating only primates can have emotions, maybe birds and other animals (like honeybees and crayfish) can not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Do you hate writing css?
Yes, it's the most annoying thing I've seen on the web since <marquee>. Scrolling long fragments of code always takes me to another page when I'm reading. Who thought it was a good idea?!
Without watching the video ... I can tell you in the olden days when RCS still stalked the Earth and our dev teams were in London, New York and Tokyo, and bandwidth was thin ...

We very simply tried to divide the work and the functionality along geographic lines so that you were likely within shouting distance of anyone that could break the immediate stuff you were working on.

Later we added some central coordination of the stack of things as they went together since there often were ugly issues about getting new features integrated all in one go through the whole stack for example.

In any case, the lesson here was that while there are no complete answers, for us refactoring functionality coarsely along team lines worked. It may seem backwards, but we got a lot done.

(This in a world where branching was very painful, so at most we had it for production bug-fixes as I recall.)
Yeah - but we should call it "programming" or if we want to indicate a wider activity "software development".
North Korea’s hackers are reportedly targeting Bitcoin exchanges
I'll probably get some scowls for this but Mellanox sales and support has rubbed me the wrong way numerous times. I'm trying to mend that at the moment for my company.

Chelsio has a more technically interesting product to me so far, although they weren't as quick to market for 25/100g. Their T6 line does the same line speeds as ConnectX4/5. Chelsio prices are haggle free and puzzling low, which I think vendors like Broadcom, Intel and Mellanox put a ton of wiggle room in their NIC pricing to give your procurement person a nice softball win on how much they "saved" on MSRP. Meh, I'd rather not play games.
YubiKey Manager CLI
My guess, after a quick google search: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/erb/turbo/#small-engine...

The signs on the top of each section says "air 40 psig" and "ref. air 10 psig", and this matches the capabilities described in the link: "The compressor can draw air from either an atmospheric intake, a 40-psig pressure source, or 10-psig refrigerated air system". The image also has GRC in its file name.

(It might be a complete miss, though)
macOS:

brew install ykman

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yubico/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install yubikey-manager

Using pip:

pip install yubikey-manager
Block up-converter (BUC) at uplink site (in this case, likely part of a VSAT terminal or Satellite Internet "antenna") takes L-Band (950-1525mhz) input via cable, converts it to C-band uplink (5850-6425mhz) frequency, and transmits to satellite. Satellite then rebroadcasts verbatim at C-band downlink frequency (3400-4200mhz). Except that one of the inputs didn't have a cable or filter attached so it picked up a GSM signal at 936-960mhz. This caused interference on the satellite.
But a good degree should provide you with at least some of the insight and intellectual equipment to check for yourself or to smell a rat when you encounter a complex situation so that you can call for help rather than watch in horror as the house collapses on your clients.
> Is this the case for every company doing scrum? I find some benefits in scrum:

I find a lot of benefit in many agile methodologies on paper.

But where the rubber meets the road, the principal decision makers have a vested interest in not holding up the principles of agile.

> It is not about 'tracking', but rather encouraging effective communication to converge on the best path forward.

For any path forward, managers need to answer these questions:

* What needs to be done?

* How long will it take?

* Are we on track, behind or ahead of schedule? (This needs to be answered at least once a day.)

* What, exactly, are the pain points? (Again, once a day at least.)

These can be summarized in a Scrum standup, but what managers really want to see is a detailed analysis. Hence the need for:

* Detailed task breakdown of each story/ticket

* Detailed time estimates on each task

* Detailed daily-at-least time logging on each task

So yes, it absolutely is about tracking. Tracking is the central component of any corporate software process. Tracking is what enables your manager to get a picture of what currently needs to be done and how far along the team is in getting it done. Inasmuch as agile processes can exist in this environment, they must be reshaped to accommodate the tracking requirements. Which means they won't be agile anymore.

Tracking also provides the benefit of an auditable paper trail, so that when government regulators come sniffing around they have a nice log of who did what when on the software.

In short, Agile has by and large failed. It does not adequately meet the needs of upper and middle management of a corporate shop, for whom time is money and there are strict accountability requirements.
Along with multiple prime time TV ad campaigns.
This is what I hate about the popular understanding of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Bohr's original idea was that until there's some interaction it's pointless to assign a specific state - you can only talk about certain probabilities.

Schrodinger's cat is not both alive and dead. We know nothing about its current state, only how probable certain outcomes are.
The Draggable JS homepage doesn't have this problem. Is this because it doesn't use HTML5 drag/drop at all?
Our friend wikipedia have a good list :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structural_failures_an...

Yus - bridges.
> Since it's Facebook we can't accuse them of browser favouritism as they're browser neutral

Favoritism isn't the only reason for these things. What often happens is that the website devs all use one browser and nobody tests it.

It's not like Google wants their sites to be broken on other browsers either (I presume), it's just that many teams at Google aren't bothered.

IIRC Firefox has the same WebRTC APIs as Chrome, so this might be reliance on browser-specific nonstandard behavior.

(Or it might not. It's worth looking into, but I can't because it seems like you need to ask for an FB live invite to investigate)

Edit: Figured out how to do it. Seems to work fine in Firefox Nightly.
I'd like to believe that GPU's and cloud might allow for more scientific exploration of the "hows" of learning via many small experiments gradually revealing limitations and characteristics until finally insight.

Using high speed hardware can allow someone to do 10's or scores of runs a day. If you are doing one every 2 weeks or so then it's really, really hard to make any progress at all because you daren't take risks. So the productivity of 80 a day vs 2 per month isn't just 100x it's lots and lots more.

Also as you say it's lowered the bar which means that teams can onboard grad students and interns and get them to do something that's useful - it may be trivial - but it's useful.
Eudora History: Email for a Different Era
I found out about this standard myself indirectly during a web search. As an outsider to the w3.org process, I think the best way is to follow working groups with themes you're interested in: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities. For example, WebSub is worked on by the Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/TR/tr-groups-all#tr_Social_Web_Working_Gr....
That summary would apply more or less to any Scandinavian country so those can't be the reason.
The reason webkit is known today, and not KHTML, is because Apple ignored their LGPL requirements.

First, they didn't publish anything for years. Then only obfuscated source dumps with all comments removed for many years.

It took ages until they published some source code, even longer until they opened their repository.

By that time KHTML was long dead, and development had centered on WebKit.

No, Apple is no saint in this story.
Can you try this in an install of Nightly? It's working for me.
What C extensions would we need for CLISP? As I remember GPG should be called as binary, just the SHA hash is needed, right?
wow, this! This is in fact m status message on Whatsapp since I learnt when recounted by Brene Brown
If that was the case then all Scandinavian countries would be doing as well, they aren't.

It's much more complex than that.
The CIA's missions for the past 60 years have been overthrowing random governments and imposing dictatorships just for fun (with the results almost always backfiring massively on the US) and spreading ridiculous propaganda. Their lies and interference made the Middle East the mess it is today. If they're trustworthy, so is Charles Manson.
Maybe no one has challenged it because they don't see a problem with it?
Set it as the default browser; it will work normally.

Firefox also supports https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs .

It also has a very nifty feature (IIRC off by default) where if you click on a link instead of switching to Firefox it shows a "Tab opened in Firefox" toast which you can tap on to switch to. This means I can for example click on the links in an email whilst still reading it, and then switch to the browser later to read them all. This does make opening links two taps by default (tap on the link, and then tap on the toast), but there's no tap-hold so it's fast and nice. Plus my workflow prefers opening tabs that i look at later, not immediately.
The problems started long ago. It's all too convenient to in any way imply a presidential switch will have any effect on it.
As using webhooks for git repositories is probably the most common usage, it would be really nice if the different APIs converged here. Now everyone is inventing their own (and I'm in fact guilty to this myself for a side-project).
Unless you are on Windows, there Chrome makes them impossible.
You are missing the point.

If people acted on their emotion (i.e. mostly controlled by our reptile brain) it would be a very violent society and quite frankly unsustainable.
I like my ZenFone 2 but it's stuck on 5.0 :(
I thought the reasons that they lost market share was that they started cloning the chrome interface stripping out usable features (i.e. status bar) at the expense of fixing memory and performance issues. I stopped using Firefox when they removed the status bar and made it an extension and then went and bundled in a read later service extension.
You could argue that human consciousness is a one trick pony. The way I see it, computers can learn it's a one-trick pony but it's a very powerful and diverse one.
> Netflix only streams 720p video to Firefox, Opera, and Chrome whereas it will stream 1080p or better to Safari, IE 11, and Edge

Yeah, that's due to DRM.

The simple solution is to disable the EME plugin, and just pirate everything (while still paying for Netflix). You pay for it, and have a moral right to it, and you can watch it in 1080p or 4K easily.