skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in addition to Mt. Gox being in bankruptcy proceedings right now, Mark Karpelès is also going through a personal bankruptcy process as is his holding company , Tibanne, which holds an 88% share of Mt. Gox.

I've got to imagine that he wants the Mt Gox situation handled ASAP so he can get any funds from it to solve his own bankruptcy issues.

I'd imagine that this provides a pressure point for the Mt Gox stakeholders where they might be willing to play ball and let the bankruptcy proceedings work at a much faster pace in return for a much larger portion of the remaining Mt Gox assets.

Having said that, according to the WSJ...

> "The customary period in which creditors may dispute the trustee’s decisions on claims has ended."

...so perhaps Mark Karples may decide to play hard ball and hope that the creditors just want the coins sold and money disbursed before bitcoin has another chance to collapse?

Lots of fun game theory to think about here.
> I'm not sure why this is being downvoted

if i was a betting person, i'd wager that it may see somewhat like "rewrite it in rust" cargo culting.
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> Pixel 2 doesn't have a jack and no one cares.

And this is exactly the problem. That no one cares. If enough cared, the first phone without a jack (iPhone, right?) would have been a sales flop, and maybe the message would have gotten back to leave the jack in the phone.

Instead, it sold, which tells the makers that dropping the jack was no big deal, people still bought it anyway.
Is that the price for Premium Search access? It's giving me a 404 error clicking the 'See pricing' link on https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing
They never "locked it down", they just rate limited some vital endpoints and never bothered to add endpoints for new, important features.

My own recommendation: disassemble any official app (for example, the Android one with apktool) and get the tokens and endpoints and do whatever the hell you want without paying a cent.
That's possible. ActiveX was powerful but... problematic :)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411340
> How is state-owned property considered private property?

In Marxist theory, “private property” has a particular meaning: the means of production alienated from the particular workers whose labor is applied to them. In Marx’s specific theory, in the socialist stage of the Communist project, ownership by a state controlled by the proletariat makes such property no longer private not because it is owned by the state, but because the productive resources are controlled by the workers. But in the broader Marx-inspired movement and socialist using the same terminology (outside of Leninism and it's descendants, which not only accepts this but replaces democratic control with the direction of the vanguard), there is some controversy on this point, and many view state control as to removed from the immediate workers to eliminate the privation which is why socialists characterize such property as “private”.
The one feature I wanted that chrome has isn't there in Gnome: no worthless title bar that shows redundant information. I saw screenshots for Gnome with the title bar missing before Quantum was released, so I had my hopes up.

There is an extension to get rid of it. However, you also have to manually install some other garbage too. They provide a debian package, but I'm not using a debian based OS so it's a pain in the ass. I'll stick with Chromium, thanks.
"Looking ahead, the best way to ensure that coal-fired electricity plants keep closing is a rising price of carbon. On that front, there is good news: Promised reforms to the European Union's cap-and-trade system would shrink its chronic oversupply of emissions permits. By 2020, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, this should triple the price of carbon to 24 euros a ton -- high enough to push all European countries away from coal.

If Merkel acts on the proposal to close those lignite-powered plants, she'll give this overdue shift some fresh momentum."

This? I think most of these are plans and speculation.
Because it explains the behavior of the security guards, presuming they didn't "get the memo" about a small group of people with fake-looking badges that are actually legitimate.
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Looks like it's recently been updated but no big announcement that it's Python 3 ready: https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize

I've also seen these alternatives:

- https://robobrowser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup

MechanicalSoup seems well updated but the last time I tried these libraries, they were either buggy (and/or I was ignorant) and I just couldn't get things to work as I was used to in Ruby and Mechanize.
That shouldn't stop the companies from hiring untrained people to just work from them.

But it would be nice if there was an "official" apprenticeship for young people as a valid alternative to a college degree. And that shouldn't be some specific training for some random company, but lead to a comparable skill level so you can work everywhere in the country in that field.
That's why you build a personal brand while you're riding the coattails of a popular game. See Day9, who plays whatever game he feels like playing on his scheduled "day off" and streams it. He definitely has fun, even if it doesn't make him money (he recently streamed Mario, for example, which Nintendo [probably] claimed the revenue for) he's still building his personal brand and personal audience. His fans will follow him no matter what game he starts playing, because they're following him. But you're right that it's a hit-based system and if you don't become a hit (which requires a lot of effort and a lot of luck) then you're going to starve trying to "play video games for a living."
If you want that kind of distinction, it should be pretty trivial (less than a dozen lines of code) to implement a dynamic theme to that effect. We've got an article in the https://hacks.mozilla.org queue about exactly that -- stay tuned :)
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I'm definitely a fan of this, though I wonder how small 1 bit gifs or pngs would be for these placeholder silhouette images would be?

There are probably more efficient ways of storing the vectors than SVG too, which would help the compression - it would be interesting to see how small these could get.
One of the important avenues to scrape AJAX heavy and phantomjs avoiding websites is using the google chrome extension support. They can mirror the dom and send it to an external server for processing where we can use python lxml to xpath to appropriate nodes. This worked for me to scrape Google, before we hit the capatcha. If anyone is interested, i can share code i wrote to scrape websites !

If you can scrape findthecompany database ? I have done it successfully !!
It's on the list! Two of my personal top requests to the team are Markdown & emoji reaction support. :)
You should seriously consider doing this for your mobile client; the worst thing about Discord is that it eats mobile data if you're uploading lots of images.
The article doesn't elaborate on the badges issue at all.

Were the badges fake or not? That's the first question to investigate.
Show HN: Commento is a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus
There are probably people that you have known for years that stutter and you don't realize it. I almost never stutter in interviews, on dates, or casual conversation in public. It's possible to "hide" in normal casuals settings. If you feel a block coming when you want to say "outrageous" just say "crazy" instead and things like that. I once worked on a team where two other guys stuttered, a DBA and Project Manager which is extraordinary since I think it affects less than 1% of the population. Anyway I knew instantly that they stuttered because they would take pauses a lot and the DBA in particular spoke very slowly like he was constantly thinking about his choice of words. I don't think any of us ever stuttered on the job but from someone familiar with the situation it was clear that coping mechanisms were being used to increase fluency.
Even if the "new reactor types cannot possibly do harm" was true, that's exactly what you told us the last few decades. Every reactor was safe. It was physically impossible that all those safety systems could be overridden, defective, whatever. Impossible.

And every time we saw that it's not true.

After several decades of this we don't trust you anymore. As no sane person would.

You might even be objectively right. But your safety arguments werde wrong the first two hundred times. Why listen to your explanation of your two hundred and first attempt? Let's try something else where experience doesn't virtually guarantee us that we'll be burnt.
Thanks for this well-written and concise explanation. It took me from "what the hell is this BS" to "oh that makes sense."

I bother with this "thanks" message because I was ready to write a tirade about the technophile echo chamber of nonsense web widgets that seem to show up on HN regularly; solutions in search of problems that should never exist in the first place. Unfortunately, Sanity's website screams "we got some graphics people together to dress up some code we stole and obfuscated from GitHub," instead of "professional solution to a real problem." They should just replace the whole design with your reply here, in plain text. But then I guess it would be far more difficult to convince the CIO to adopt.

There should be some kind of hidden standard file on all these sites that you can go to, like "sanity.io/ACTUAL.txt" or something. It would just give you the actual story of what's happening, and not use words like "touchpoint," nor have 90s Hollywood garbage flying all over the screen. Again, I understand the purpose of the lightshow, but it usually causes me to immediately close the tab. I only stuck around for this because the problem of CMSes sucking is all too real.
I think it's very misleading to lump suicide in with forms of death that are not under one's control.
If a creditor can be found who is willing to assign some value to the asset and then provide a loan secured by said asset then at least in the short term it is not a problem. I believe this is fairly common and is not likely to be difficult to find. Of course any such deal would likely include a detailed plan for the sale of at least as much of the asset as would be needed to repay the loan.
A real game changing technique!

Why? To use progressive JPG, you have to pre-recode (if you don't have money to dish out for FPGA to recode on the fly) and store recoded images. With this, you don't have to alter the original image.

My favorite method was to use img tag with blur, you programmatically add image, then you wait when, say 10% of this it is loaded, and abort the request. It will stay that way. When you need to fully load it, you start loading, look for progress events, and set blur accordingly.
Probably could be a user option in compilers for debug builds to either disable TCO or include "faked stack" in the tco-generated loop --- in many-maybe-most cases, wouldn't a cleanly recursive stack trace just consist of ever-the-same-callee repeated a gazillion times? Not all and not the more intricate scenarios of course.
To me, it seems proxycrawl is very expensive! If I may ask, can you talk little about your crawl volume and cost?
> This new release is all about attracting new users to FF from Chrome.

And I'm actually thinking of switching from Firefox to Chrome now.
HPE is planning to offer Apollo 70 w/Cavium and/or Qualcomm's chips.
The security guard doesn't exactly come across as lacking influence:

> That’s when the male guard reportedly told the students, “You don’t belong here,” and, allegedly, “Your kind don’t belong in here.”

This whilst the Salesforce employee was trying to convince him to allow the students to stay.
> A good strategy might have been to simply discredit it as being fake/photoshopped along with a small tutorial showing how easy it is to create (most aren't tech savvy enough to understand this already).

He might have done that. I know if this happened to me and I denied it, I'd still be scarred for life.
Is Adobe's Flash product supported? I use a Flash-based tool for Remote Desktop (400+ systems under management) and difficulties getting Flash to work caused me to give up on Fedora 26. Mint has Flash support from the start...
Glad you ask.

Great convenience with these little-known gems:

* "It's All Text" -> edit any text input area in your favorite editor, since after all it's all text. Hope the author updates quickly to webextensions.

* "Easy Copy" -> many use cases, for example select relevant words in any page, copy as Markdown link (or other markup) and paste in your other editor. Easy to adapt to any sane markup language.

Also:

* Display #anchors

* uBlock Origin

Given up Ghostery for shady business model.
You're pretty much describing what Firefox has been doing for the past few years.

At some point, however, the rest of the world keeps moving and, no matter how painful for everyone involved, it becomes unfeasible to wait for all add-ons to be ported (or even portable).
There is explicit marketing and implied (historical, metaphorical, etc) behavior.
Turing Awards: http://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm. Maybe start with Karp.

Also Jim Gray “why do computers stop and what can be done about it” http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.65...
Fedora doesn't include any nonfree or patent encumbered software by default (for legal and project policy reasons). But if you really need flash you should be able to get it from 3rd party repositories.
The downvotes are also because it's a somewhat cliche comment on HN now. Anytime anyone is doing any with C or C++ that is even indirectly web facing, "this could be unsafe!!!" is an obligatory comment, even though all major tech companies have core components written in C++, and there are big web apps that have been running for years that are mostly written in C or C++. Security is definitely a concern, but these kind of comments can derail interesting discussion, in the same way complaining about font readability or template choice in an otherwise interesting article can.
I'm not discounting or discrediting your experience. If it worked for you, then great. Unfortunately, my personal experience involves a few decades of "just try it my way and you'll see" ending in disappointment at best and catastrophe at worst. Maybe it's just the way I'm wired.

That being said, if anyone wants to fund me for six months (plus either some compensation to my employer for having me gone for six months OR a significant bonus for my own financial security) to try TDD, then I'll gladly do it.

That being said, I plan on putting it through one heck of a trail. At the end I'll either have a pretty good idea of exactly why TDD works OR I'll have a compelling argument for why it's gains are illusory.
Here we go (Blu Studio Max): adb shell am start -n com.mediatek.engineermode/.EngineerMode

This is going to be a fun morning.
It’s blazing fast.. Hoping to see more successful Rust based applications.
Agreed. I wish the posts contained a "it cost X developer hours to recreate thumbor or $$$ total, and we saved Y dollars per month" meaning in approximately 15 years we'll have broken even on this investment. Oh yeah and we don't even do intelligent resizing like thumbor does.
Github repo: https://github.com/adtac/commento

So I just released v0.2.0 today. With this release, there's a whole bunch of new features:

* The entire UI has been overhauled. There's much more room available for the comment text, it's easier on eye, you can follow threads better, and it looks better on mobile.

* You can now collapse and expand threads.

* The comment input textarea automatically expands now.

* Avatar support: the first character in your name is now used to generate a unique avatar for you. Your name is also used to create a unique color for your avatar and thread. (It's all happening on the client-side.)

* Previously, Spectre was used as the CSS framework. While it was initially very useful (and it's still my favorite CSS framework), it had too many elements that I didn't use. I remade the styling from scratch and I think the current style is neater.

With this, the total download is just 9.6 kB (excluding markdown). Meanwhile, Disqus averages 90 network requests to 22 different domains.
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I guess nation branding is distinct from cultural exporting, which implicitly grants good will towards the country.

In the 21st Century I feel like no country has been more successful at this than South Korea.
TCO also applies when you have multiple levels of indirection between the caller and the ultimate callee that actually responds to the request.
No, this fear is still very much alive, even in my generation who was alive back then, but too young to really remember.

Chernobyl is the defining moment of the anti-nuclear movement (and I'm not only talking about active protestors like in Lüchow-Dannenberg, most Germens have some of it inside themselves, even if they don't actively march on the streets).

It is really hard to overestimate the effect of the word "Chernobyl" in Germany.
If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.
How will FLIF "not make much difference" here? Suppose we're talking about a profile image. The full, lossless file is 40KB. The video on the FLIF site (http://flif.info/index.html) shows a blurry-but-useful preview being displayed with the first 0.25% loaded (and possibly before). In this case, that's 100 bytes, which is a fraction of a single TCP packet.

Don't need the full resolution of the 40KB lossless file? OK, sure, stop loading after 20KB, or 10KB, or 1KB, or whatever seems like enough.

Yes, SVG is still better for things like icons, because you get clear, resizable images with a tiny data transfer. But for previewing a photograph, FLIF seems ideal, and doesn't require any additional tools.
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> The german move away from nuclear power was immediately motivated by the Fukushima catastrophe.

Not true. It was made into law in 2000. The current governing party put it on hold and reinstated it after Fukushima. Currently they are in the process of softening it up again, ie. today was announced that only 10 reactors need to be retired.
If you dislike them, you can disable those kinds of animations by toggling `toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled` in `about:config`
Fedy looks interesting, but I couldn't figure out how it works.

Is it like another package manager, or can I use dnf to manage/update the packages it installs?
About 40% of energy production in Germany is still coal, and 15% nuclear. Nuclear will be shut down by 2022 and coal will be shut down more or less quickly depending on politics. This means that Germany will be looking for a replacement for over half of their energy production within the few next decades.

There is not enough hydroelectric capacity in Germany, so the only viable solution is gas -- in addition to lots of solar and wind. Hence Nord Stream 2. Germany wants to have multiple options for gas providers in order to negotiate good deals.

So yes, gas is definitely the future of German energy production, unless something completely unexpected happens.
There was nothing stopping Google from designing such as system -- just like Microsoft and Intel did.
The age old solution in search of a problem.
Bitcoin's High Transaction Fees Show Its Limits
This project passed it's goal of $25k in two hours.
> It's to help progressives apportion blame.

Does this materially contribute to the conversation? What's your motive for saying it?
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yes.

In the browser it can run offline and does not need the server at all. Wheter a c++ compiler really makes sense, I doubt, but it will definitely come ..
And how would you refine aluminium for thermite under water or refine highly reactive alkaline metals?

People here come at it from the wrong point of view which is the application of advanced technologies, expertise and knowledge applied to overcome environmental challenges.

You need to look at it from an evolutionary point of view (both biological and technical).
Show me a feasible technological evolutionary path to our current level of technology for a life form that is limited to living in a solvent this can be water, ammonia, liquid hydrocarbons or anything else similar.

When I say technological life is likely to be very similar to us is not due to lack of imagination, and this isn't just my own opinion.

Here are several other factors to account for the evolutionary path to a technological society.

Gravity, no direct bounds on lower gravity other than the fact that low mass planets will have trouble holding an atmosphere.
Limits on the upper bound are both biological very high gravity would restrict the development of fine appendages which would restrict tool making, and in general when a fall from any relatively small height could kill you it would likely force evolutionary paths that could likely be against the development of complex technical intelligence. This limit can be somewhat mitigated by atmospheric density that would provide buoyancy some what countering some of the direct affects of gravity but that's both limited and can impose limiting factors on it's own.

Gravity also would impose a limit on the feasibility of rockets, chemistry is universal and the rocket equation combined with the available energy in chemical fuels would impose a limit on how massive a planet can be from which you could use rockets to go into space.

Biological attributes, fine motor skills are pretty much a must for fine tool making which is a critical part of technical and biological advancements in intelligence.

Sight is also likely a critical factor, while other types of sight than non light, and non visible light might be present coverage of most of the visible spectrum is likely going to be very common if not mandatory.
The amount of information you can gain from the and near visible spectrum is much higher than any other forms of vision such as echo location.

That information is both needed for inference of underlying properties of "things" as well as would serve as a catalyst for development of higher brain functions.

And those are just a few examples, if you start looking at what conditions are either mandatory, beneficial or detrimental to the evolution of a technologically advanced species from both a biological and then technical/societal aspect you would end up with a much more limited spectrum of possible life forms and planets on which a species that can reach our own level of technology can evolve.

Don't get me wrong a super intelligent organism spanning an entire planet that you could debate the meaning of life with until the cold death of the universe is possible, so is any other type of conscious or "philosophical" intelligence, but these types of life forms won't be building rockets or iPhones.
Today's hiDPI screens can already display more detail than your eye can perceive. The issue wasn't about storage costs, it was about transmission costs which still matter for the foreseeable future.
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