skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t need cryptographic guarantees because I’m not dealing with untrusted data: if you want to screw up Datasette’s caching model by deliberately creating two different databases with the same sha256 prefix then go ahead - you’ll only be hurting your own deployment. As such I figured that if a SHA prefix is good enough for common usage of git, it’s good enough for me.
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- Open a new window: the tabs are not there by default
- You need a css hack to hide the standard bar
- There’s an ugly title thingy at the top of the tab pane
I think there may be value in society providing some kind of fusion of these two things at universities. University has become a sort of coming of age ritual for young people, when they can manage to go. Craftsmanship and trades skills are certainly solid ways to support yourself, especially when paired with a decent, democratic union, but I cant help but feel that theres something about a college experience that is hugely beneficial to people. Even just the interpersonal relations you experience at university are deeply influential.

Maybe we could have universities run more traditionally trade school type programs as well as liberal arts, stem, art, and music curriculums? That way the philosophy students have the opportunity to take a class in engine repair and the students in the electrician's school can likewise take a class in Computer Aided Design or Astronomy Lab.
It's already the default in Europe from what I've seen.
Fixed: "various security fixes"

(which is a link to details)
I wrote some blog post about Java web scraping here :
https://ksah.in/introduction-to-web-scraping-with-java/

As others said, phantomJS (and now headless Chrome) are good tools to deal with heavy js websites
Most likely that the absence of movement data is perceived as sitting/standing. Since the stand goal requires standing and moving for at least one minute (the purpose of the stand goal is more to get you moving for at least a minute rather than just stand up - just standing up doesn't count), if you haven't moved for a while (50 minutes in an hour) then it gives you a nudge to do so.
From the article:

>“That’s like saying to a chef, ‘Why are you watching the Food Network? Shouldn’t you be in the kitchen, cooking?’

> Or to an athlete, ‘Why are you watching ESPN? Shouldn’t you be out shooting hoops?’

> No. People enjoy watching others who are good at what they do.”

I don't understand it much myself (and I watch streams semi-regularly) but it's not like this doesn't have precedent. People watch professional basketball when they could just go outside and start a pickup game. Sometimes you just want to experience the game/sport/etc without having to actually play it.

Plus with Twitch streams you can watch how skilled players play and what strategies they use. Personally, I watch a lot of streams for that reason. Plus, often times high-level play is almost a different game from casual level;watching streams (or recordings of streams) is one of the few ways casual players can see that.
Norway's doing something very similar to Venezuela as far as nationalized oil going to the public purse, and it's working out great for them.

When social-democratic countries screw up due to authoritarianism and corruption, it's 'because socialism'. When capitalist countries screw up the same way, and there have been a lot of them, it's because of the corruption.
Authy desktop is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of UX on desktop. However, I dislike that I still need to manually search for the correct 2FA entry and copy/paste the code into the browser. I mentioned in another comment [1] that I am working on a project called Two Factor Buddy (2FB) that integrates directly with the browser and automates the entry of 2FA codes entirely. IMO, a much more pleasant UX.

Also, I do not like that Authy cloud backup relies on user provided passwords because users are notoriously, insanely, ridiculously bad at creating secure passwords. If an attacker gets ahold of the encrypted secret via Authy's servers, then they can work on brute forcing it locally. IMO, the ideal is to have a simple process to sync 2FA secrets between all of your trusted devices either directly and out of band (no servers used at all), or via the web using pub/priv keys, which would be significantly more secure than a user provided password for encryption. The key is to make sure it is still insanely simple to use, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15692691
Not that sociable: http://metazoan.net/55-octlantis-media/

> Octlantis is not in any sense a city. It is not a cooperatively built and maintained structure, designed to allow many individuals to live in close quarters. It is an unusually dense collection of individual dens, most of them dug into a bed of scallop shells.
Don't see why you won't put those money towards repaying Venezuela's debts.

You don't go asking of course. International corruption is well past politely asking stage.
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Hence why the federal government backs nearly every student loan either directly or indirectly. None of the private banks risk their own money in this market, as the feds have happily hand them cash and encourage said banks to loan it out!

This has resulted in costs spiraling out of control, as universities can charge whatever they want with minimal repercussions, and students often end up with the STD known as student loans haunting them for the rest of their lives.
But more importantly fuck people who kink-shame.

It's just sex, and people into kink tend to have better sense of consent and mutuality.
In the next version that may stop working. Adb backups were disabled recently. See: https://github.com/freeotp/freeotp-android/issues/20
If the required WebExtension APIs don't exist (per nicoburns' comment) I'm not sure what you want the extension authors to do about it.

"Complain loudly" was the strategy that got Mozilla to implement Tree Style Tabs as a WebExtension feature so that the addon could be rewritten for FF57, but there are presumably still legacy extension capabilities that haven't gotten that treatment.
Do you think this is sort of the "grass is always greener" situation though? I find myself regretting not doing something a little more hands-on as a career, so I built some hobbies around it.

[edit: Also.. after witnessing the dysfunction of a home builder i worked with last year over basic Project Management work, I can see room for a lot of improvement if a programmer were embedded in their office. Maybe an idea for others identifying with your same situation.)
If required APIs don't exist any more, how is that extension author's fault? (Tab Groups user here)
Two years without the APIs making a port possible.
Imaqtpie?
what concerns do you have regarding firefox’s security?
But in the EU you pay for those with your taxes, so it is self-sustaining.
It's that plus the corrupt totalitarian government. A free market country with a moderately corrupt govt can work, a mostly socialist country with a good govt can work, but when you put the management of the entire country exclusively into the hands of crooks, this happens.

Socialism mainly fails because it requires a totalitarian government to pull off in its fullest form (everything managed by the state).
Probably because search providers (e.g.. Google/DDG) will pay more for exclusive preference on the search bar.
I think they use a product called lithium and did not build their own.
The original post is about Linux, the kernel.
On first glance, it's got some pretty annoying loading animations for tabs.
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Except it's not actively developed anymore.
Different personality types appeal to different people (naturally). I'm a fan of Scott Manley, who never rages of screams, but mostly provides educational and entertaining commentary on what he's doing when he's playing a game.

But I also like Funhaus, which is effectively a podcast where a group of people plays a game in the background. (They also have an actual podcast which is literally that.)
That's probably the case with all HR monitors, no? If it's not securely in place, any HR monitor will have the same problem. I bought a knock-off velcro wrist strap for my watch and it keeps it in place. I have mixed success with traditional watch straps as my wrist size always seems to be in-between notches.
Congrats to the Firefox developers and team in general. I've stuck with Firefox as my primary browser since version 2 or 3, even as it became very frustratingly slow or resource inefficient compared to Chrome. Version 57 is tremendous.
That’s typically what bad debt buyers do. The discount is on the chance of the debtor paying, not a new amount they are supposed to pay.
I just learned this recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_fallacy
They have an alleged drug trafficker running negotiations, so this might not end well:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/drug-king...
Sounds like you should definitely file a bug.
It's exactly the same concept as reality TV and that's nothing new. Even before that, soap operas and celebrity gossip. Screaming and yelling random stuff is simply a way of being "funny", especially when you target a younger audience.

I remember in the mid-to-late 90's when the internet was getting big I thought that would be the end of those low-effort TV shows because soon everybody could access niche content that would interest them more. Love the german baseball league? You can read, watch and discuss about it. Enjoy the Edo period of japanese history? Thousands of web pages are waiting for you. Anywhere. Any time. Who would even bother watching The Bachelor instead of pursuing their interests?

Of course in retrospect I was naive. Sometimes we just want to be entertained. Sometimes we want to watch The Bachelor. And apparently for some people "The Bachelor" is a twenty-something yelling in a microphone overlayed on top of some videogame footage.
I'm not using Arch, but do like reading Arch wiki quite often. Also you asked what is to dislike on Arch. It's just I don't see any value running bleeding edge. Looking at gnome changes for example. Don't mean, they're not doing great job, but I can safely skip many versions to see any significant difference. Reading Changelog for Gnome 3.26 keeps me convinced it's not something I'll rush for. Same with kernel (with some exceptional releases and CPU support).
Rather wait for those small changes to accumulate and then reinstall my fav distro (let's say every 2 years). But I understand that we're all different and have different needs.
Lots of people are saying that, but it's clearly not true. I don't think imaqtpie [0] fits that description. Skimming through the top twitch streams right now, plenty of them don't fit that description.

[0] https://go.twitch.tv/videos/200675143
This got me too. It's not in preferences, you have to use the hamburger menu thingy. Then, it's shoved randomly at the bottom.

The overall design is really a mess in 57, although browsing does seem faster.
This is kind of fucked up. You bought a locked down dongle that works only with Google services. You can't even play your own media on it[0]. Now you expect every service to support google's dongle?

Here's what you should have done: get a TV or a dongle with DLNA support. Then your PC will show up as a source and you can play any goddamn thing you want. Or you could have got a TV or a dongle with android on it, then you could have just downloaded Amazon's app.

[0]no "official" way at least
Well... new renderer and JS engine are faster and use less memory, which means less CPU cycles are used for the same thing and less information is stored in RAM, there are improvements for Windows and Linux hardware acceleration. This all summed-up means reduction of power consumption.
one of the truly frustrating things about renaissance and medieval recipes is that they are shorthand notes, not detailed instructions. Think inferring documentation from commit messages, basically.

i found a 15th century recipe for a particular kind of soup that started “make soup as normal;in addition add ...”
There's only so much an extension author can do if WebExtensions doesn't expose an API corresponding to one which was critical in the XUL extension.

I'm in that position myself right now, having volunteered to take over Firemacs development before I found that there is no way to listen for keypress events in browser chrome. You can only do that in injected content scripts, which don't work except in web content and are also affected by CSP. Until that changes, there's nothing that I, or the Vimperator developers for example, can do to provide an acceptable user experience.

It's super frustrating, and I don't blame users of such extensions for being angry about the indefinite lack of a future for them. But I also don't really blame Mozilla for prioritizing the implementation of the necessary APIs below other tasks which are important to a larger fraction of the Firefox user base.
I too went from Arch to Fedora and life is easier now. It's astonishing just how well Arch works, but maintaining it is still a lot of work.

I'm pretty busy and spent too much time fixing my Arch machine, which outweighed the time I was saving.

I still have an Arch laptop and many Arch virtual machines for playing CTFs and HAM radio stuff.

Flatpak is a fine replacement for AUR in many cases, and it's more secure, too (if you keep an eye on the permissions set in the manifests - many specify --filesystems=home).

(do not use rpmfusion for VLC and the like - use Flatpak instead!)
Oh, forgot the weird label behaviour in JS, you're right. Funny to have the label up top, but the branching condition somehow in its way.
Sleep Watch, it runs automatically so I don't have to bother with it. I'm not sure how accurate it is, though.
(I'm a study author and worked on HealthCare.gov rescue team)

The good news is you're protected by the law. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers can only vary your rate based on your age, location, and whether you smoke. They can't take into account prior health conditions or biomarkers, including novel biomarkers measured on wearables.

Every major Republican "repeal & replace" bill has preserved this part of the law, called "rating factor limitations", although sometimes they vary the constants. For example, the Paul Ryan plan let insurers charge the elderly 5x more than the young, compared to the current law of 3x, but otherwise preserved the rule that insurers can only vary rate based on age, location, and whether you smoke.

What insurers can do is offer you a 30% (maximum) premium rebate for taking healthy actions, like going for a run, enrolling in a diabetes prevention program, or getting your blood pressure checked. But they can't tie the rebate to the outcome of the test (health status), only your participation.

This is a good point, though, and shows a case where regulation helps technology have a positive impact. If people fear their insurance premiums will go up, they'll avoid all forms of diagnosis, not just Apple Watch.
If only they'd put all the effort spent into trying to imitate macOS into actually building an AppKit version... I guess that's never going to happen due to the cross platform nature of Firefox, but it also means (among other reasons) I'll never use it as my primary browser.
Same for me, there’s no VimFX or Keysnail equivalent. I’ll just stay on firefox 57-0a1 (that’s an old alpha release, where (strangely) VimFX and the good old Tree Style Tab still work) for a long time.
I'm seeing a checkbox to disable DRM content playing in preferences. I know it's just one item in your list, but at least it's an option.
You're projecting your biases on what it takes to be a "professional athlete" versus a "professional gamer" -- both require serious amounts of on-going training to stay in top condition.

You can afford a football, but recognize that (for some) it's more fun to watch highly skilled professionals play; yet, you seem unable to understand how others might feel the same way about gaming.

I'm going to say that's probably "getting old" -- the inability to see how something is like something you already know, because it's new and strange to you.
100% of the TOP500 supercomputers are now running Linux
I think you may be misconstruing what actually happened in your two examples.

The majority of the tech innovation for Google's original search engine happened entirely without VC funding. Google as a search engine was already up, running, indexing millions of pages, and providing demonstrably better results than competitors by the time KPCB and Sequoia funded it in mid-'99. I distinctly remember the librarian at my school instructing us to use Google instead of other search engines in '98 due to its higher quality results. "Finances first" may still have held because running the original engine wasn't all that expensive and they didn't have a bunch of engineers to pay, so getting to profitability was not exactly a long shot.

In the case of Airbnb, you seem to have ignored that there was already a strong short-term home rental market in place before Airbnb came onto the scene. Homeaway and VRBO both predate Airbnb by several years and had proven the financial viability of the market. What Airbnb did was completely ignore laws and lease contracts forbidding hotel-style short-term stays, and combined it with an easier to use and search interface for both sides. Also, Airbnb had already proven the model before they took funding - they dogfooded it with their own apartment, then used the original 20K investment from Paul Graham to prove the business model before any large venture money was raised. This is absolutely a case where "Finances first" worked.
Don’t forget the plugins which are a shell of their former selves.
This only affects RSUs and NSOs. I assume you have ISOs
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High time that passwords management was integrated into the OS, where it belongs. These days its not just sites, but hundreds of apps too that want your passwords, and browser based extensions can't interface with other apps. On the other hand a standalone password manager has at best a flaky interaction with web pages inside a browser window, and often has to be supported by an in-broswer extension, adding to complexity of code and interaction.

We need the OS to store credentials and expose a well-defined, OS independent API for apps/sites to identify themselves securely and request for the user's authentication. This will go a long way towards mitigating exploits like cross-site scripting attacks, phishing, software keyloggers, clipboard sniffers and so on.

I really find it amazing that this is something none of the major OS creators have tackled in a standarised manner.
Sadly your first TLDR offended bunch of folks still believing in socialism and you've got downvoted.

Meanwhile - all (and I mean ALL) countries which adopted socialism - all of them plunged into poverty, corruption and in some cases civil war and dissolution.

One can think it should teach a lesson... but some people just want to believe.
Half the issue is that all these people have done exactly that: we now have a glut of college educated young people, with supply outstripping demand, while the opposite is the case in the trades. The salaries each can command reflects this.

The tradesmen telling their children to go to uni do so based on their experience in a generation where there were far more tradesmen, with poorer salaries, and poorer worker protections. What we actually need in the workforce is _balance_.

A really good example of where this has gone wrong is over here in the UK: now, 50% of young people are expected to go to university and complete a degree. This means that you now need a degree just to be above-average, and most end up underemployed with student debts - it's simply the case that half of jobs do not require a degree, and this is going to shrink. Likewise, we've outsourced lots of our skilled trades to foreign labour coming from the EU. With the sudden change in how we work with the EU, the UK is going to see hard times with a distinct lack of skilled labour, with many being overeducated and in the wrong sectors.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/05/brexit...
Debian is one. Them most popular one (Ubuntu) does not do that.
Still, Firefox could automatically switch to e.g. Duckduckgo whenever the user is in incognito mode.
I am sure I will sound naive to you but what do you mean by AWS accounts here?
Pretty sure the topic was employers asking for degrees for jobs that don't actually requiring them. That does tend to exclude those professions - doctor, lawyer, and so on.

It is a little different requiring a degree to be a secretary when a year course would get someone proficient, for example. Heck, you can be a lawyer in four states without going to college so long as you can pass the tests. I'm pretty sure that sort of system would work for lots of professions where we want folks to be educated, but they don't necessarily need the training of say a nurse or doctor.
I had a similar view towards Linux at first, preferring Fedora to ArchLinux for stability. But after switching back to Arch and sticking with it I've learned stability is a matter of software choice and experience with Linux, it's not necessarily more or less stable at the OS/package manager level.

Using AUR/user-style packages or non-mainline packages (beta, unstable) is always a risk in whatever distro you use and stable packages in Arch are as stable as elsewhere... depending on the type of software you choose.

The power of ArchLinux makes the learning curve worth it IMO. Plus the minimalism of the base system is a good way to become intimately familiar with Linux.

The other major factor is what laptop you are using. Since switching to a Thinkpad (or Dell XPS) which has good hardware support in Linux I've had zero problems at the graphics/network/external monitor level which is typical source of issues with new distro releases.
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If they don't exist, sure, but most of the bickering is "I want XUL and nothing else".

And how many of those lamenting the absence of some API have actually told Mozilla what they need?

By all accounts Mozilla has been very responsive and helpful. Not everything was possible, but the problem lies mostly not on their side.