skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love RSS! I'm between readers right now though. The one I'm using only loads a few feed items at a time so it's annoying. If someone can recommend a reader that presents feeds as a list of links, and has a bookmarklet I can use for subscriptions, I'd greatly appreciate it! Keep in mind that I'm using a screen reader. Lol it doesn't have to validate perfectly though.
Termux: a terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android and Chromebook
Well it was basically a piece of propaganda for the Roman government. A really beautiful piece of propaganda, but propaganda nonetheless.

The Trojan heritage of Rome isn't true in fact, but it certainly has some truth metaphorically. Rome was always an heir to Hellenic culture and nowhere is this more evident than in Roman art. Homer was the pinnacle of artistic achievement at that point in history, so it made sense for Virgil to model his poem on the Greek epics.
Family friendly? No, advertizer friendly in the most generic sense is the issue. There are plenty of places that aren't family friendly and still bring in lots of advertising revenue. The problem is you can't really do both at the same time.
Go has a garbage collector and writing code in Rust can be extremely difficult. A third competitor is Zig, which does not guarantee safety, but is designed to make safety much easier. This is explained in more detail in this wiki article, "Why Zig When There is Already C++, D, and Rust?": https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-A...
That is a relief.

I know other people meet a similar purose by knitting or solving crossword puzzles, but explaining to them the trancendetal nature of their favorite pastime is quite difficult.
This has never been a replacement for a serious feed reader but something that should actually keep the latter clean from the short-term stuff that all the news outlets put out there. With a site like this, it's not about being informed, but about feeling connected.
> I would have rather seen the founder not sell.

You're not in his shoes. He has investors that probably pushed him to sell when they all saw that growth had plateaued. Selling gives the founders and investors all 'wins.' Once they took VC money, their future was either sale, IPO or bankruptcy, so the sale was the logical choice.
Very thorough article, great to read through. I wrote simple promise implementation and explanation if anyone just starting out could use an introduction https://medium.com/gitconnected/understand-javascript-promis...
What if someone targets genotypes that are prevalent in, say, a specific race, and puts this in the drinking water?
Nobody has moved away from RSS, it's just not as trendy, but major blog platforms ship with RSS by default. Every time I want to add a blog to my list I can find an RSS link (on some rare occasion there is no such link, and an email to the website developer is enough, actually I'm suspecting that most blogs have a RSS feed nowadays because at one point they received requests to create one)
That's an interesting idea, but might break whatever hashing method is used?
Everything is a natural terrestrial substance.
Ok, I had to laugh. FB is literally the worst company to make this service with the worst privacy reputation ever.

Then the service makes the worst mistake that they actually upload nudes to their platform, PLUS they have a human look at it, which adds another layer of security leaks.

Did they do this intentionally or did they have such a huge lack of common sense when they decided how to design this and nobody in the project had the idea to address this.
At one point every site on the internet had a visitor counter, and don't forget about web ring!

The RSS feed is the guestbook of web 2.0, it comes along for the ride with the shitty page generator.
EvilURL – An Unicode Domain Phishing Generator
Google will never recover in my eyes for the shuttering of Reader, which was an attempt to move people to G+.
Is it still true that USB devices can be used to execute code on a target's system without user interaction?

I thought this behavior disappeared ~10 years ago.
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Who remembers the time before they'd hammered out the rules for escaping html in RSS item title elements, and all the cool kids were syndicating each other's feeds on their blogs, then some chucklehead posted an item whose rhetorical title was "What happens when you put &lt;blink&gt; in the title?" and the whole blogosphere started blinking?
But... that's not what this is. It's a tool to make writing device-agnostic ML frameworks easier. Consumers of said frameworks wouldn't even be aware of it.
Catching phishing before they catch you
If you want a lesson in humility, try to make a contraption to open a door that has a regular round doorknob. In particular, opening a door that swings toward the opener is a complicated dance of leverage and balance, not to mention the fiddly bits to actually rotate the knob.

Interestingly, US ADA (disability act) requires commercial buildings to use handle-style doorknobs. The robot uprising would have a lot easier time getting through those.
Second. I am super cheap - but i actually pay them now, so I can get "mute filters." Want to live in a world where no one mentions Trump or chatbots? I do :D

This lets me focus in on my 1000s of other feeds, which have something interesting and valuable to say.
I was just going to ask whether one could port a full-fledged quine to this "platform", and then your Quora answer went on to exhibit one (!). Awesome attention to detail on your part as well as the constructor's!
Creators are not paid by advertisements, they're paid by the channel that broadcasts. Either the channel will be subscription based, publicly funded, or are doing something like placing the children's content directly before adult content such as a news program.

In the case of Sweden there's a TV license funded broadcaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Television
I agree. But I like to have one particular feed of 1,000 unread articles and every now and again I like to pick a few to read. It's a stream of mostly research related news and it's constant and overwhelming. But it's nice to just randomly pick a little something which I wouldn't have encountered otherwise.
The "implicit it" is called anaphor in Lisp (though using that term for a programming language feature I think only goes back to the 1990s; the idea itself is older).

(The word "anaphor" here comes from the study of grammar in natural languages.)
> how Virgil was claiming Trojan heritage for Rome

I believe that was a 'gens Julia' thing, they claimed the pious Aeneas (carried his father out of burning Troy) and the goddess Venus as ancestors.

Makes sense, given that the head Julian (Octavian Augustus) was paying for the advertising ...
Well... there is a good chance that you don't.
Looks like we're both out of date! (Although I was more out of date.) It's now the Qt Company since 2014.
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IIRC, one tidbit broughr up in "The genius factory" was that while preschooling seems to result in accelerated development, any such differences are erased after a few years if school. The conclusion made in that book seemed to be that specialized teaching programmes don't provide long-term benefits, but maybe it's just that a one-size-fits-all schooling system will force more advanced kids to conform to a lower standard...
A lot, considering you'd need 2^96 quantum operations.
Facebook and Twitter killed theirs though. I find that deplorable.
In RDBMS, when you shard, read shards and write shards are in lock-step, which is the whole problem with sharding. In Datomic (and in git), by sharding writes, it doesn't really impact reads.

This is interesting, because consider a large system like Facebook. Transactions naturally fall within certain boundaries. You never transact to Events, Photos, and Instagram all at once - from the write side, they don't have to share the same single-writer process delivering ACID.

You do however, on the read side, need to have fluid queries across them all, as if they were one database. RDBMS can't do that, but Datomic can, and Git can too - consider submodules. Immutability is what makes it possible to shard like this without sacrificing query expressiveness, strong consistency or ACID (like every other distributed system that isn't accumulate only)
> But nobody does those! A "personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript" is how I write, I just call it cursive, or "partial cursive". But it says that is faster, and presumably students wouldn't learn that if they hadn't learned full cursive at first?

I ended up developing something like that in 2009. By that point, I'd long since forgotten everything I was taught in elementary school and just wrote everything in all caps. But I was starting to develop an interest in typography, and I wanted to improve my handwriting. So I started studying italic serif fonts to see how I could do something similar by hand, with the restriction that most letters should be written in one stroke. I found out that my attempts at replicating serifs in handwriting without increasing the stroke count actually had a technical term: semiserif.

What I came up with looks kind of like D'Nealian, but with some significant differences. The biggest one is that I put semiserifs on the beginnings of letters and not just on the ends. Another is that I use a two-story g (and I wrote it with an ear for a while before eliminating it). And my z is particularly swashy.
Gene therapies are targeted to specific tissues/organs. The only way you pass on the genes is by using CRISPR/CAS9 to modify an embryo or gamete in IVF.
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I've been using https://www.feednotifier.com/ for a while now.

I publish my Caller ID info from my landline to an RSS feed, and Feed Notifier was one of the only ones that would allow me to get updates almost realtime. The popups strike a good balance between useful amount if info and too obtrusive, and I like how it uses the site favicon to let you know which feed you're looking at at a glance.

I tried lots of methods on ios to get timely prompts, but 15 minutes seems to be about the best any of the apps I have found can do, and yes, they mostly seem to be bloated garbage with limited configuration options.

The other good option on Windows is, surprisingly, Outlook. The RSS feeds in there are quite good.
Ask HN: What's a recent insight you had that changed the way you think?
In my experience, the greatest gains I've ever had in understanding the world around me have come in small "explosions" of insight. And a lot of times the substance of those insights I was likely equipped to understand months before they came to me.

Maybe having this sort of thread published regularly (monthly?) on HN could help us all bypass those latent periods we live through having no noteworthy insights.
I just watched the whole thing based on this post. 3/5. Not really worth the 5 hours, but it was alright. The premise was neat.
Because encrypting once adds noticeable depth against straightforward attacks. Encrypting multiple times adds practically nothing.
I agree with this. When I first started browsing the Web I'd occasionally see weird and disturbing things. I'd then try to avoid them, recognize the signs of things that looked "off". I think this might have lead me to develop more careful browsing habits that make me a safer user today.
Why Cookie-Cutter Interviews Are Not Good Enough
Understanding AI/ML will soon become something like knowing how to use regular expressions, parser generators and other such tools. The most common cases will fade into the background as more languages and libraries support them and you'll no more consider yourself an AI/ML developer then you do a "regex" developer.
HN discussion on ClickHouse from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908254
I'm not sure if that was intentional, but yeah that's mine!
DS9 is exceeded only by "The Wire" but The Wire is not Sci-Fi, but it is by far the most complex television show ever made. I'm afraid to say it eclipses The Sopranos.

Someday-- when we have Blu-rays of DS9, I have a dream of re-editing them into a miniseries that hits the high parts of the show and leaves a lot of the cruft out.
Taking a chance of derailing the thread here, sorry:

SO taught HS freshmen in physics (close, but still). I'd say we need to make math a part of HS mathematics. ~60% of the kids can't do algebra in any way. Really. Trying to make encryption a part of it is essentially useless. I hear from time to time that a 'basic-adulting' course would be great to have had. HA! You think mortgage interest rates and basic car maintenance would be learned? Most HS students in the US can barely keep from snaping their genitals at each other during class. Find me a cell-phone jammer that the FCC will approve of for under $200 and EVERY teacher in the US will buy five that very same day. You'd make billions.
I'm surprised Velleda doesn't get a single mention. They were* synonymous with whiteboard markers here in Spain. Quality and durability were very high. The smell was strong but I liked it much more than other markers.

I can barely find any information about it before it belonged to Bic. It used to have the brand "Conté".

* and still are, making it even more difficult to find information.
I have no beef with 8K in a philosophical or technical sense, but I only worry about bandwidth. To me, 1080p alone is already taxing the infrastructure given the mass of humans incessantly streaming. While my old eyes can certainly grok the difference between 1080p and 4K, I just wonder if it is really worth it in most cases? Do I need to see a sitcom in 8K? Is an unboxing video in 8K going to sell the product better than 1080p? I game quite a bit and I still think 1080p is the sweet spot for most games given the cost/benefit ratio of hardware and gameplay. The skeptic in me can't help but think it is nothing more than a ploy by the camera manufacturers and the ISPs to get me to spend more money. But then, I'm old, so take it for what it is worth.
Just like it was "accidental" when Google's street view cars were capturing wifi data.
Let's avoid making the same mistakes the right always makes, namely assuming the worst of people, and always assuming financial motives for peoples' actions.

Trump reducing the AMT for himself seems somewhat unlikely, because:

= The plan(s) are written by the House and Senate, not the administration.

- he doesn't seem to have given any relevant input to these tax plans except asking for lower corporate tax rate (which he hot only partially)

- AMT has so many opponents among Republican donors, Trump just doesn't need to get involved.

- Trump was hit by AMT because he had large losses that are deductible over a certain number of years. Don't remember the number, but I seem to remember they have run out by now. He'd need a new bankruptcy to keep going. And no, morally doesn't count.

- I'm not sure if he is still motivated by money as much as he used to be. It seems to always have been a plot to get recognition by Manhattan's elites, and therefore would have been eclipsed by his other failed attempt, namely politics.
In the technical sense it sounds like a minor bug in, in the other implications not so minor - perhaps another mistake on their part of not being more clear with language.
The Librem laptop are not an option because they use Intel chips. Buying Intel products supports and finances their current way. They did not even address the grave accusations. There is no way I can give them money.
Gmail eventual consistency
I created a new secondary account for some reason, and tried to send ping-pong emails from both accounts.

1. secondary to primary works!

2. replying to secondary's mail from primary works!

3. create new email -> primary to secondary fails spectacularly with following error.

Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to <email address> because the address couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again.
LEARN MORE

eventual consistency much?
People usually won’t do something if they think it’s a bad idea. Tragedies begin with “it seemed like a good idea at the time” because everything does.
It’s better than sending them NSFW photos for human review
I don't think this answer is fair. If the encryption is deployed to ensure that only a subset of systems that process or transmit sensitive information can understand it, the attack surface that results in disclosure of the information has been reduced.

Elsewhere in this thread you said that a compromise of a database is likely associated with a compromise of systems that access that database, but this is not necessary true if the platforms and administration of these systems are very heterogeneous (say, different operating systems), and in any case it doesn't make it not an application of defense in depth. (Suppose that 90% of attacks that penetrate the database also penetrate the client; now this use of encryption has managed to beneficially mitigate 10% of these attacks.)
It's one thing when you discovered porn in the 90's at the age of 12, versus being 5 years old and watching Spiderman rape & murder Elsa.
This can go even further.

All the go files in a directory have to declare the same package name (`package mypkg`), with one exception: a test file (filename ends with `_test.go`) that has a package name that's the same as the normal package but ends with `_test` (as in `package mypkg_test`) is allowed to be in the same directory.

These are actually completely separate packages and you have to import the main package if you want to actually use it. But when you run `go test` it automatically complies and runs tests in both packages. This means that you can import both your package and a dependent package to make sure interfaces are satisfied without any circular dependencies.
This is without a doubt, the strangest, most well researched article I've ever seen on Hacker News.

I've mostly used Expo markers and it was weird skimming this because I felt like I had some weird brand allegiance, even though I have no reason to really care much about markers.
http://www.reuters.com/article/bitcoin-funding-tezos/special...

PS: What a shitshow. These people are amateurs who have been given $500m, and I wouldn't be surprised this project amounts to nothing.

Based on how I'm reading this, I don't think this Gevers character is entirely wrong on how he's acting. But the article doesn't mention any bonus.
> In Go, if a goroutine panics for some reason it just dies on its own and the world does not know unless you have some sort of ping service

If a goroutine panics and is not recovered, it not only dies but tears down the whole process. This seems to be the more appropriate approach for a language with pervasive shared state (locks, etc.). Erlang is quite different here, as you say.

Restarting or otherwise dealing with the exiting process is best left to the service manager that started it.
Clearly wikileaks is a Russian agent /s
Yes! I've toyed with the idea of building exactly this (except I'd do it for Facebook and Instagram, too) for around a year. I didn't really have time to devote to it though, so I've just kind of ended up not using social media anymore.

Part of me relishes that I no longer have that distraction, but another part of me feels guilty for eliminating that personal cost at the expense of reduced interaction with loved ones. (Our personal relationships have been co-opted for ad revenue -- what a time to be alive.)

I would love to just get an email once a week with a digest of stuff I've configured it to care about.
It's still Intel hardware. But besides that, does the Macintosh work without blobs and mainline Linux? Can I install Debian on it and have stuff working? I'm just tired of uncooperative manufactures.
> "For several years now, the trend among geeks has been to abandon the RSS format."

I wish he would've named even a handful of examples that prove the point. Even Medium offers RSS feeds for users, publications, and tags.

And also, RSS is also at the center of the enormous and growing medium of podcasting, which nearly a quarter of Americans enjoy every month.
The problem is that TurboTax lobbies against this. Basically, they benefit from our current system. That's why proposal for things like the IRS filling out your taxes for you are illegal.

Really, what should happen is that the IRS mails you your taxes already filled out, you check for errors and fill in the things that aren't reported, and mail it back. This would kill TurboTax's business, so they lobby against it.
Dumping the Coolbaby console flash
I've used countless 'read it later' services like Pocket, Instapaper etc over the years (even some on PalmOS...), but for me at least the combination of Twitter plus the much more reliable cellular data we have now has made them less appealing.

Twitter has advantages beyond just the links being shared - the tweets themselves are often interesting to me, and the list of people I follow has been carefully built over time to the point it would be annoying for me to switch again now.

I'm sure these are great options for others though, but I don't think I'm alone in using Twitter as a kind of curated RSS replacement.
Who would do that to a child? If you need to use an IT in-joke as a name, that's what pets are for.
(man, I'd love to go work on this for three years, without worrying about a "customer" or "backwards compatability")

> That is, if you have N distinct values, you can store them using ceil(log(N)/log(2)) bits

Ideally you don't need to do ceil, if you had an low number like 5 items, then it looks like you need 3 bits to store it, but you can store it in 2.4 bits (just pack 10 values into 24 bits instead of 30).

Getting distinct and repeated values by tearing apart data so that you can use these algorithms is something which I could use some papers to refer to.

For instance, here's[1] what we're trying to do with Double encoding loops, but it still suffers from the problems of a car moving from 0.3 -> 0.2 location.

[1] - http://bit.ly/2zt70iL
I never said anything about headphones.
Haha, try engine degreaser.
Here's Lena attending the IS&T Conference in Boston in 1997 : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna_visit.html

It wasn't the scene of a victim confronting her attacker. It wasn't a media event highlighting gender issues. It was just two people finally getting a chance to meet.

Would it be ok if Lena made this into a gender issue talking point? Yes. Is it ok that she didn't do that, and went solely because she wanted to see what the fuss was about? Yes.
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> Choosing between evils, Google seems a better bet then Facebook

We are treating these companies as if they are sports teams. No, we don't have to choose between evils.

> The more "open" and "accessible" web, should be in their benefit, long term thinking.

An open Internet is only in the benefit of small and medium companies and startups.

Companies like Google have virtually unlimited resources at their disposal. All doors are open for them, all possible loopholes are within reach. When all else fails they can just drop a couple of billion $ and nobody can say no to that.
Hence the "incendiary but correct". Just the "admits recording" is incendiary enough. Or you think the title wasn't written with the purpose of being clicked upon?
The idea is to hash the original image, but to send the obscured one for human verification. However this requires a different hashing method (such a Merkle tree) to know the unobscured parts match.
That just seems like a long time?, but glad it's getting shipped.
But it could force autoinstall from the website and autoscan your drives then preupload your nudie pics and tag them with your name. How convenient! If all your friends are using it then it must be safe right?