skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certain that people thought Chrome was faster because they went from a Firefox with loads of extensions and browser history etc. to a fresh Chrome. My experience has been the same as yours: Firefox has never been slower than Chrome.
In that case they should deal with the consequences of their ignorance.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult – Mr. Money Mustache
Excellent writing. And if you haven't been watching Ken Burns' Vietnam War doc, it's an absolute masterpiece:

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/watch/
He wasn't being paid by the government though. His government salary was probably trivial compared to his other sources of income.
Humility is not what Jante Law is about. Jante Law is about conformity. You definitely don't have to live in Scandinavia to be a humble millionaire or even billionaire. In fact, one could argue that the successful people in Scandinavia are humble because of the fear of the Jante Law.

All I was saying is that people who are successful mostly ignore the Jante Law otherwise they wouldn't try to become successful, to begin with.

None of this is an exact science of course.
If true, it seems unlikely that marches and protests in recent days would be reaching record numbers. As it stands, the largest ever American march was the Women's March earlier this year. Other notable marches include the March for Science, the March for Women's Lives, the Armenian March for Justice, etc.

Sure, the internet allows armchair protestors the luxury of 'protesting' from home, but it's also a great tool for raising awareness, organizing, and it could be argued that even some amount of armchair protesting is beneficial, as it at least makes the cause visible to those who might not have seen it otherwise.

Let's face it, it would have been very hard to get the ~4 million protestors to march in DC without the internet.
I think https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/13 is the relevant tracking issue.
Truth, as usual, is whichever flavor you pick off the menu.
What the world’s financial bigwigs think about Bitcoin
Found this on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsTIeZ03Hk8
Yes, use this opportunity to make contacts. But I'd recommend you add a sentence or two to let HN employers know your professional background and skills. I see from your profile that you do Python, Django, and JavaScript, anything else? Your impressive blog discusses functional programming a lot.

Only willing to consider Atlanta, or other cities in Southeast? (Raleigh-Durham is another big regional employer of programmers, and hires lots of Python folks)

Also, I'm guessing things are only looking up in San Juan, right? The outlying areas still have no clean drinking water, food, or medicine from what I'm seeing.
Here's some more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4onxro/extern_os_a_n...
You'll see bits and pieces of it in other places, for example, the dual independent braking system in all cars. But the auto engineers failed to generalize that into the car's computer controls.

The Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon disasters show how other industries fail at applying the concept. Reading the sequence of failures in those just makes me grind my teeth. For example, venting the hydrogen overpressure, good idea. Venting it into an enclosed space with sparking electrical equipment, spectacularly dumb. (And the list goes on and one with both disasters.)

Nobody has taken it to heart and applied it pervasively like the airframe industry.
Same here! I swapped optometrists and my new optometrist recommended me this brand that had EXTREMELY thin lenses. She said that even though they were more fragile, they were better for people who looked at computer screens all day, since we're much less likely to blink, which causes them to dry out. Thinner lenses require much less moisture from your eye to feel comfortable.
I would rather they took the money and forked VLC. It would be big enough news that most users would switch and the development would only benefit from the extra cash.

If the initial media attention isn't enough, they could spend some of the excess on an ad campaign to inform users that "the most popular VLC fork is now [new name]".
Dang, no APFS. Was hoping to gauge how portable it'd be to *BSD.
Haxe – Opensource Cross-Platform Toolkit
It's not just small accounts. It's also big accounts that are abusive.
I ran Gnus with notmuch backend (nnir-notmuch) for many months. It's not very fast as Gnus is not very quick on Maildirs.

Scoring could be quite easy to implement with auto-tagging. Tags are a unifying concept in email. You can implement any custom user logic with tags. What notmuch is missing is a bit of tooling to do this. It'd be cool if this tooling had access to any arbitrary header, as you have pointed out.

I feel I don't need BBDB integration when I have autocompletion based on the email database. That said, there's bbdb-notmuch.el, and I assume other options as message-mode is really a Gnus thing.

I think basic two-way sync is almost always needed. Otherwise you end up with a huge inbox and even if you don't care at all about the remote IMAP store, mbsync calls will start slowing down.
i don't see this working.

will girls have to label their instagram photos as airbrushed as well? It's much more common than you think.
Ask HN: Checklist of Good/Healthy Habits?
Does anyone know of a good checklist of healthy habits (e.g. stand more, floss, multivitamin daily, SPF moisturizer, meditate, etc). I'm looking for something as comprehensive as possible. Thanks!
You're right, opsec is stressful! That's why the core team's plan is to get the system running and then hire people to handle interactions. We will focus on things in the background. The core team will only use high-latency-methods like email. That reduces our opsec footprint very much.

And our contingency plans will enable another team to pick things up to restore from backups und continue operating.
I split my time between Gerrit-based and email-based projects. While I appreciate Gerrit for its benefits (like the excellent CI integration), I instinctively tend to gravitate towards my email-based workflow that is blazing fast, allows me to work completely offline (once OfflineIMAP fetches email in the morning), and lets me process tons of email / patches.

The said offline workflow (setup with: Mutt, OfflineIMAP, Postfix for local mail queueing, and Notmuch for fast indexing / searching / tagging) gives me unalloyed joy compared to the clickety-clicky, RSI-inducing pain that is Gerrit.

The problems listed in the below email, by Dan Berrangé, about Gerrit are still a bloody pain in the neck for me:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-02/msg...

[I learnt 2 days ago (can't find the URL to it; typing from my phone) that Gerrit now allows you to respond via email (strangely the announcement only mentioned the dreaded HTML email). I'm a bit cautious to say "sounds promising" without trying it yet.]
Lawyers are mercenarys, and mercenarys thrive on conflict. It makes perfect buisness sense to create laws to propagate and expand conflict.

Here in germany we have a law, that rules that if somebody dies without a last will- all his belongings are shared in percentage among his decendants - creating the "Erbengemeinschaft". In theory this is a good law.

In reality, this generates even among the best familys,as it allows for a group of decendants to manage the common fortune- especially if a company is at stake, a huge chance for a infinite conflict that lasts until the last of the fortune is used up by lawyers. Its insane and nobody gains from this. Jobs are lost, lives are shattered for nothing, brothers and sisters never talk again to one another- if there ever was a law to ensure enployment of a disgusting profession - this is it. If you wanted peace- the law would be salomonic, slice the fortune instantly, conflict solved.
HFS is open-source, both the kext and utilities (fun to see that fsck is using code from the early 90s Disk First Aid). I built the kext for Sierra and it wasn’t too hard.

https://opensource.apple.com/source/hfs/hfs-407.1.3/
Article flagged due to pay wall.
Don’t really think there are that many. The vast majority are some form of “work out, eat healthy, ...”
Looking forward to part 2. Thank you, really great post. +1
People who can afford a lawyer don’t carry gravity knives. These laws are promoted by middle class parents, who are terrified of everything, but especially of things that are indicative of working class people (such as knives—middle class suburbanites have little use for them outside the kitchen).
VLC creator is an ass, stole my gf.
Proof of Space: BitTorrent Creator Publishes Eco-Friendly Mining Paper
It'll be an entertaining thing to watch, though. Natural Selection! The Feds/Sec will hammer the guys they can hammer. But with Natural Selection, is it possible that some guy out there escapes all the Feds?
Besides different eating habits, one of the reasons is that there is a huge stigma of being obese in most of Europe. The fact that it is relatively rare makes any such person stand out even more, and makes it harder to justify (since your peers somehow manage to keep their weight in check)
Could you give a few examples of good parts about Haskell and why do you believe they are good for anybody?
If they had only switched to Bitcoin they wouldn't have this problem - NOT
You have zfs.
The article we all came here to discuss is focused on the financial systems people rely upon for daily life and subsistence during disaster. Financial systems are inherently political, hard stop.

Discussing the political systems that promote the reliance on the somewhat fragile systems of technology the article is discussing is not unrelated nor generic.

If you feel that politics is a flamewar topic, please do civic engagement a favor and learn how to practice political discussion with less flammability.
>Or, alternatively, ALMs provide [...] iteration velocity [...] that Linux developers don't care about.

I agree and that's why the author quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman about commit velocity (throughput of "8 changes per hour") in his article is actually a distraction from answering the actual question as stated in the article's title. The real reason for kernel devs use of emails isn't the throughput.
Best of luck finding people to maintain the fork with high integrity. Fwiw, I have never seen a fork of an active project succeed
The design skills of the author are phenomenal. I'm a JS skeptic, but seeing how popular hyper.js is, maybe this project has a future.
They did this to Jesus too, don't worry
What makes you think they'll stop there? Once you give them that power, do you think they won't use it to make more and more? To squeeze every last dime from your pockets?

That's what they've done in the past. They've carved up territory like drug gangs to maximise profit. (Look at the maps - notice how they don't overlap? https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/01/16998/us-internet... ). At the same time, they've often colluded to pass legislation that locks out competitors (https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8530403/chattanooga-comcas...). And they've gotten so good at it that even the almighty El Goog couldn't break into their territory - I mean, market.

What makes you think that these rent seekers won't extract their pound of flesh and then some from you and your customers?

After all, past behavior is indeed predictive of future results.
I think you're describing a level of generalization above the application at hand. We could easily train a neural network to recognize the orientation of a font, and then build an orientation invariant "reading" app by first recognizing the rotation of the text, transforming it so it is right side up, and then recognizing as normal.

I tend to imagine our brains works similarly. It's not that you have a single "network" in your brain that recognizes test from all angle, but your brain is a "general purpose" machine with many networks that work together. I think current deep learning techniques are great for discrete tasks, and the improvement needed is to have many networks that work together properly with some form of intuition as to what should be done with the information at hand.
Ah, but they would be able to compete with the subsidised, volunteer run organisations if there was greater willingness to pay for a more professionally run club, with better facilities etc. This does happen for some sports, such as gyms where there is a market for upscale clubs, but not for football for example, to my knowledge. People would just feel weird about putting their children in a luxury football club.

Every year when it's time to sign the children up for ballet, football, gymnastics etc it's the same thing, extremely high pressure on all clubs, places fill up within hours. I'm sure that if it wasn't for Jante, there would be a huge market for more expensive clubs with shorter queues.

In what sense is the school system not egalitarian? It's not very good anymore, true, but that has other causes. I mean all schools cost the same, i.e. nothing, and anyone can apply to any school. It's even forbidden to charge for school lunch, or even ask children to bring fruits because "some people may not be able to afford that" (though this is going way too far in my opinion).

I agree that housing has changed, and prices are getting pretty crazy in places. But regardless of the price differentials between areas, which still are far from as extreme as in the US, my point is more that it doesn't matter as much which area you live in, your quality of life will be pretty similar. Building standards are extremely high in Sweden so even the cheapest places are pretty robustly made at least. And the houses on the most expensive addresses are still relatively modest, there are no doormen or valets or crazy things like that. The differences are more subtle, and there is less showing off.
Athlete, yes. 6'5, no. Come on man, do you hear what you're saying?
Oh nice! I usually read the XNU sources that someone had previously mirrored to Github and had missed this.
RHEL is a subscription for their support, if you don't need it then run CentOS - it is as rock solid if not more.
This uses the Mercury Web Parser, which looks interesting.

https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/

Can anyone recommend an open source library for doing something like this?
> There is no data to support your assertion. We don't have a control to see what the effect of regulation has been.

The data is called "history".

The US started with no financial regulation; we got regulations and regulatory agencies over time, mostly in response to problems. The exchanges whose history I'm familiar with started small and became more internally regulated over time, again in response to actual problems. Those exchanges were generally run by traders, who are dispositionally anti-regulation. But they are also strongly motivated to have smooth-running marketplaces that are generally trusted. So they made some tradeoffs and found ones they were pretty happy with.

The fact that no devil-may-care marketplace has survived, and the fact that countries with successful financial marketplaces have all converged on similar approaches is as reasonable set of evidence that regulation has value to market participants. You will never really have a control group, because the "no regulation" control group fails hard enough that it isn't sustainable.

> A policy being wildly popular doesn't mean it's socially constructive or ethical.

It doesn't prove it, but for regulations that are popular with all sorts of market participants, it's excellent evidence. The alternative explanation, that you alone are way smarter than all the people who are experienced professionals on many sides of the marketplace, is not particularly persuasive.

> It is not a fetish to not want to be subservient to a centralized gatekeeper and be forced to get permission from it to interact with other adults.

Sure. A desire only becomes a fetish when the desire becomes hugely dominant, pushing all rational consideration aside. Which I believe is often the case in the cryptocurrency/ICO space. For whatever reason, cryptocurrency advocates often value the "you're not my DAD" kind of freedom way more than they value success.

As an example, look at Bitcoin. 8 years in, and its real-world, non-criminal use is approximately zero. That's despite all the hype about Bitcoin international money transfers, Bitcoin shopping, Bitcoin ATMs, et cetera, ad nauseam. In roughly the same time M-PESA has ended up with 30 million users and 6 billion transactions per year. And those are actually useful transactions, not financial speculation.

I have no beef with cryptocurrency advocates pursuing their personal desire for radical independence. Godspeed, and may their Heinlein novels find a nice spot in their seasteading cabin. But I do object to the enormous ahistorical hype and denial that has gone along with it.

It's fine to say, "Well, sure, regulation would make things better for many practical use cases, but we think a high endemic level of fraud and low real-world impact is an ok price to pay for the very narrow kind of freedom we're dedicated to." But I don't appreciate the quasi-religious evangelicalism about the magic power of technology and markets to make everything sunshine and rainbows; and the concomitant notion that the rest of society should just follow their vision and values, never mind the human cost.
>In fact, one could argue that the successful people in Scandinavia are humble because of the fear of the Jante Law.

This is pretty much what I _am_ arguing.
I think 'experience' might be better than 'practice', in the sense that it's an accidental fart.

Which makes it a strangely comprehensible joke -- "there's never been a wife that didn't fart in her husband's lap", which I can see being said as a teasing, crude joke. (Especially if that "girl's don't fart" thing is an older pseudo-belief than I had thought.)
you mean she decided to leave you for him. girlfriends are people who make their own decisions, not things, and as such can't be stolen.
It's still nice to have options.
Don't go to the Internet for medical advice. Your opthamologist will determine, based on your experiences, whether contacts are right for you.

The opthamologist will also fit you with the contacts that are right for you. There are tons of different brands and contact lens products. For example, I use Alcon Focus Dailies, and Alcon also launched Focus Dailies Total 1, a more expensive "water gradient" lens that increases breathability and lubrication [1], and for some people who have dryness issues they are much more comfortable. For me, there was zero difference, so I went back to the cheaper kind.

Your comment is a bit like saying that no one should ride bicycles because people with Ménière's fall of their bikes. It's not a proportional response. Plus, you can get training wheels.

[1] https://www.medgadget.com/2014/09/alcons-dt1-water-gradient-...
I’d recommend anyone with eye strain problems consider Lasik. I used to have eyestrain multiple times a week before lasik, and now I get eyestrain maybe once or twice a year.
> they give away a lot of proprietary software for no cost.

That is explicitly not the definition of free software, which is "free" as in "freedom", not "free beer". The monetary exchange for software copies is a separate topic.

I do wish Stallman picked a less ambiguous word like "libre", but here we are.

> But it seems to me that most of their business model is selling hardware.

That's what I'm talking about. IOS is explicitly designed to be a "walled garden". That design is directly contradictory to free software design. It requires that users are unable to do certain things in IOS, meaning it requires IOS to be proprietary, and irriplaceable.

> I wonder what impact moving to all Free Software would actually have on their business?

That is a good question. Unfortunately, Apple (as it exists today) will quite certainly never show is.

> Or at least, making all of the software that they don't charge for, Free Software?

Any user level software would not be needed for their "walled garden" approach, so there is nothing but Apple's current mindset preventing them from releasing the source. Maybe someday they will realize this, after all, their current open source projects (LLVM/clang, etc.) have certainly flourished.
The new war on drugs
Yes, ITOs would fit the bill, IMO, of a security.

Here is the big reason why. If you are creating an ITO, you are implicitly promising that you will provide tacos to someone in the future.

It is a taco future. You can't just create futures, even taco futures, without falling under regulations.

THAT is the problem with ICOs. Look, if you just want to sell a cryptocurrency, that has ALREADY been created, you won't run into any issues with the law. There is nothing illegal about premining, and selling a crytocurrency.

The problem is when you say "This cyptocurrency represents stake in something that doesn't exist yet, but I totally promise that it will exist in the future". No. Thats a future. Thats a security. If it doesn't exist yet, you can't sell it without falling under security laws.
For instance all the companies mentioned in the article ;)
Yes, that's one. A good one :-)
You know what? I started looking for more facts on this, and to be honest I don't think there are any. All of the news, especially since Trump tweeted this morning, is extremely politicized. For any source that provided evidence one way or another I could not untangle any objective facts from whatever agendas I felt they were trying to push. Most of what I found was just fluff that blew up some quip or minuscule fact that I honestly only thought was worthwhile because it was presented in a way to exploit my confirmation bias.

But this is the tactic this administration has been using to scatter people's attention and make it impossible to find reliable information about what is actually going on. Cause some outrage that exacerbates biases in the media, claim that news is unreliable because of bias, and then present the facts as you would like it.

Everyone realized the storm was worse than anyone predicted, mayor criticizes government and pleads for more help, DT creates some outrage, and now they can deflect any criticism by saying that their critics are out for their throats.

I have two undeniable facts though:

* Shit's bad.

* The WH's slow response and DT's comments are not helping.
But are you then against "society in principle", or more against the lack of genuine "socialness", the fake and/or violent structures in specific ones?
And the same command on the Linux source returns 160,818.

It's interesting how Dijkstra's take on the use of goto has blinded a large number of developers on the practicalities of its use.
I've been participating in this for a few years (except last year) and it's a lot of fun. It has also taught me that I am really bad at designing things that are fun. I come up with things that I find interesting, but that usually does not translate at all to something other people would find cool or enjoyable. To be honest I don't mind - the participation is fun enough and it encourages me to step away from my main long-term hobby project for a month.
In isolation, maybe, but those 2 additional years are hardly free.
Same here. VLC UX/UI has been a nightmare from the start, in the early days when it was the counterpart to IIRC VLS we eventually gave up on VLC to use mplayer instead.

Don't get me wrong VLC is an incredibly useful and great software available on many platforms, both UI and UX have improved a lot since the early days but still confusing. This arguably bad UX is the reason VLC is a second class citizen to MPC-HC / smplayer on all the computers I maintain.
Such a service would be entirely fine with net neutrality. What matters is that the choice lies with the customer, not the ISP.
Out of curiosity, what do you think about silicon valley startups :)
Von Neumann-Landauer limit
Jimmy wales is not an internet hero, not even close.