skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't it taken down to be rearchitected (spelling?) to a "superhub" peer to peer setup? Kind of a half way house between fully 'cloud' (centralised) like it is now and fully peer to peer like it was before MS bought it?

I guess that doesn't preclude it becoming part of PRISM and I might be misremembering the details too.
I think the tobacco industry has been no slouch in the marketing department, but the real difference is that there's no way to use tobacco that is safe and beneficial for you.
We shall no longer call our race mankind, but Galactus, the planet eaters!
While it is clear why hn folks would love those prefs. They break websites far too often to be defaults.
Take a look at Checkvist. No emacs knowledge necessary, just heirarchal notes where you can set due dates and whatnot.
We're bringing up President Trump because this deal is being blocked and Sinclair (essentially a propoganda arm of the GOP) is getting a free pass.
We have huge problems that could be solved with Ubi. Has nothing to do with working or not working for those already without work, a home, food etc. Besides people are capable of creating a tremendous amount of value in their spare time and often do. Ubi could prove to be a decentralised way of paying people for all the things you mentioned.
The "monetary gain" I'm referring to here would be the software itself. So it's the idea of software being intrinsically more valuable the sooner you get it out the door. ::ducks::
I’ve been running resistFingerprinting by default but it’s definitely a raw experience. Every WordPress site on the net triggers a false positive (understandably, but still), WebGL is currently broken with it on, and even the Firefox download page will serve a Windows .exe to a Mac browser if you’re using it.
$29/mo for a real virtual assistant who can do that is an absolute steal and if I were still freelancing I'd sign right up. That is what I am excited about. The rest is cruft. Make this your USP and you are onto a winner.
Solving the knapsack problem for practical instances is actually really easy. (That's a general pattern with NP hard problem: most of them are easy in practice.)

But the problem described is closer to two- or three-dimensional bin packing (or scheduling in general) than to the knapsack problem. See eg http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/nikhil/papers/Bansal-pa...

Another thing to look at is the "Cutting stock" problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem).
Knapsack is only about weight, while this is about (most likely) packing 3D cuboids. But that problem is NP-hard, too ;)
also Jodhpur (the fortress on the hilltop is really impressive) and Jaisalmer (to add proper desert experience, unique for India)
Depending on where in germany you are, this is actually correct.
The term "halb zwei" can mean 13h30 or 14h30 depending on which region in germany the speaker originates from.
Yes, that's a good point. The facts are scarce and it's hard to tell what's going on, so I can only make assumptions. I'm making assumptions based on my experience. If I bother to speak up about something, I think it's worth talking up about. Could it be the guy was just being a prick? Absolutely.
Automated payments are a different matter from automated infrastructure that's already been paid for.

I have automated tickets created when I need to do things that I haven't automated yet, but, I still want to automate as much as possible.

I have not run into the problems that you're suggesting I should've. If a server no longer works or was confiscated, why would I still have DNS pointing at it? And does it really matter if I have some servers renewing certificates unnecessarily anyway?
While only a small part, I kept a list on paper.

Each day, you have to copy our yesterday's list, and copy our the list afresh. While doing that, you can reorder, just do so you don't have to copy, or dump if it isn't going to get done (either into a long term text file, or just the bin).

I found that actively having to copy stopped my list accumulating things I know I should do, but probably never will.
> Lead: I need you to implement “X”.
> Teammate: No.
> Lead: This is not a choice. I am telling you to do this.
> Teammate: You need to convince me.

There will be times, even as a junior team member when you strongly disagree with a decision. I have always felt that there is a virtually unlimited supply of people out there who can implement what they're told to implement, but that if I wanted to justify the salary I wanted it was my obligation to share my expertise by pushing back against what I saw as bad architectural decisions.

Early in my career, this didn't work out so well for me :)

I think I've figured it out by this point. There is a balance to be struck between "you're the boss" and "I don't think this is the right path" - and that balance differs from person to person. There are some key factors that remain constant:

1. It's not personal. I'm careful not to imply that something is wrong with the person who made the decision, merely that I disagree with the decision. If it feels like egos are getting involved - including my own! - I drop it

2. Organizational structure exists for a reason. I'm very explicit in acknowledging that I will perform the task as given to the best of my abilities if that's what is asked of me.

3. Keep it private. Challenging your team lead in a meeting with a half-dozen other developers is a Bad Idea.

Basically, I don't think it's too much to ask that your leadership treat your professional opinions with respect. If you are working in an environment where the above seems impossible to you... you should change your environment.
I wonder if this is just due to a lot of translated documents getting it wrong. And thus having mis-trained the ai.
Ya, I think the site should be perfectly legal (at least in terms of the scraping).

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure if you demand Google to stop indexing your site, it will comply. With robots.txt you can even ask them in an automated fashion.

"Legal speak and lawyers" are how we hold our society together in a relatively peaceful and just fashion. Yes, we end up with bad laws, like CFAA, and some days I think the U.S. will just collapse in on itself. But it beats all the alternatives that have been seriously tried. Please remember, lawyers not only try and enforce the CFAA, but are the ones challenging it as well!

PS Also I think this provision of CFAA is already being rolled back - though I assume there will be appeals - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li...
Understanding Customer Experience in SaaS – OpenView Labs
I have actually thought of this a while ago and decided not to proceed because of

- file storage
- verify app developers
- prevent cracked apps.

If you can justify all these questions, id like to work on the same idea further.
USB cables have little to do with the question of sending pixels via IP

Outside HDMI and some DisplayPort cables, all display connectors click or screw in

And we’re talking about desktop OS and displays
Same here. "Don't ask what for..."

And I think we have a test case for probing programmer cultural heritage.
I've been using FF57 on OS X since its release, and it's been great. Two issues have proven particularly difficult to get used to, however, and I'm surprised they aren't talked about more:

1. Video performance. Even something as simple as opening a video in reddit spikes my CPU to 100%, and before reluctantly installing Adblock Plus I ran into multiple kernel panics from opening articles on mainstream news sites and blogs.

2. Pinch-to-zoom isn't supported (closest alternative I could find is some about:config settings to make the pinch gesture equivalent to cmd++/-, which isn't useful).

I'm still using Firefox, and there's a lot that I like about it more than Chrome, but I'm seriously considering switching back because of those and some other minor issues.
For some people.

Others of us are well adapted to dairy and, for us, dairy is a miraculous food category. It is a great source of protein and fat. It adds a wonderful dimension to so many recipes. And, aside from meat, milk is one of the few single foods that you can largely sustain yourself on (I think of it as mother nature’s Soylent).
Do VPNs work to get around regional app restrictions like they do for GFW and streaming?
I love GTD...in theory. It is rational, and it should work. In practice, it ended up being demoralizing to realize how little of what I should do and would like to do I actually have time for. It was "stress free" in the sense that I was missing fewer urgent (Covey) things for sure. It was very stressful in that it set a mood of "never enough...never enough". I think everyone should try it though and obviously, ymmv. [EDIT: oh, and if you do want to try it, this is really useful write up].
Yeah, I have never really felt like it was a good idea to commit stuff like that, or comments with profanity or jokes, or any of that stuff. Who wants to be in the position of explaining that if it breaks or your company gets sued or something?
Certainly a few months ago, there were Time Rounds going on Amazon on clearance (refurb stock) I know, I got one cut price.
>philosophical belief that minimal regulation and free markets are better [1]. The Republican position on net neutrality is consistent with, and entirely predictable from, their positions on internet and telecommunications regulations going back long before Citizens United.

As you point out yourself, this doesn't make any sense if it achieves the opposite goal i.e. less market freedom because of monopolization. Let's assume they aren't that stupid as not to understand all that. Then corruption is the most likely reason for supporting monopolies. And I'm not sure if the other alternative (stupid politicians) is less damaging.

> Will there actually be a serious court case?

There will be. The case will argue that FCC ignored massive feedback about real issues. That's why it's important to actually submit public comments.

> In the case of repealing one of their prior rules, instead of making a rule, is there really a plausible litigable issue?

Yes, the issue would be that they repealed the rule that was solving real problems. I.e. that itself started causing same problems again.
> All the lead wanted was a single private variable placed in the class and the amount of effort it took to get that accomplished was a multiple day discussion.

Sounds like the kind of environment I used to work in. Team lead would specify the exact changes he wanted to see in the code, sometimes literally attaching marked-up screenshots in JIRA.

I would typically not argue, but I left to consult independently partly due to this experience. Knowing the diff to achieve the desired effect is literally what my job is about; if you have the solution, why not go ahead and commit the changes yourself? It gave an impression that my purpose was primarily to be… a teammate, justifying that guy’s title as a team lead.

That said, I was getting paid for that work still—an hourly rate that would be generous for a glorified typist. I struggle to come up with a logical explanation of why it left such an unpleasant residue.
More like Compartmentalization, Compliance, and Control as a Service
I use http://pocketmod.com/

I have my own pdf and I just print it out.
* risk-free (except for counterparty risk)
Yeah! I never liked cameras in the house.
Google plans to 'de-rank' Russia Today and Sputnik to combat misinformation
> Actually, I don’t know why a compositing window manager should enforce V-Sync anyway? Obviously you get screen tearing without it but the option should still be there for those who want it.

Every additional option (especially in the realm of video settings) opens the door for additional complexity, implementation error, and user error in unintentionally setting the undesired mode. It's perfectly understandable why window managers would settle on one or the other of two extremely different render-to-screen approaches, especially when general consensus for quite some time now in the graphics space has been that minimizing the potential for tearing is preferable.
In other words, they occasionally screw-up.
Unlike the German and French versions, that doesn't make any sense at all.
> Could someone explain to me why on earth 15ms of lag for a key press is considered good? It is a switch for gods sake. It should be near instant.

I don't claim that 15ms of lag is to be considered good, but the problem that one has to solve is debouncing the switches.
Droplet friction is similar to solid friction
Have you read the book? I just finished for the second time and couldn't recommend it more. It helps to not only understand the whole system, but David Allen's reasoning behind it. Ultimately, like many others have noted on threads like this one, GTD may fall short of a comprehensive personal organisation system that adequately keeps creative juices flowing; however, it's a hell of a starting point. I am starting to deviate from the system after more than a year of pretty religious practice, but I only feel comfortable doing so after getting my head around the methodology and its motivating philosophy.
It was an excursion... mind you that if you drenched me in gasoline and tossed a match I’d be, “In a state of accelerated thermal decomposition.” That’s not a lie, it’s just a bland way of saying that I’d be burning like a Yule log.
Microsoft's current CEO discusses this in a chapter of his new book "Refresh". Listening to him, I think the big companies are going to fight hard & have popular opinion on their side when it comes to securing data.

I believe Erlang creator Joe Armstrong has proposed some sort of split security. Something along the lines of securing the most important data from everyone & allowing government access to limited data that could help them catch bad guys. He wasn't very convincing in the podcast I listened to but maybe in written form he could provide a better argument.
Simply making it so that heavy containers go high and light ones low would likely not affect the ship until it it hits bad weather. The load is still centered on the ship at the dock, so it would not list. The total weight is still correct, so the ship is the right depth in the water.

However, the loading crew might not even notice a modest list. The EL FARO, while loading before its fatal trip into a hurricane, had a bit of a list. The loading crew didn’t notice, but someone else at the port took a photo[1], emailed it to the relevant people, and got it fixed.

[1] http://3kbo302xo3lg2i1rj8450xje.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
BUT IT IS 12:30 AT NIGHT, THE CLIENT WAS PROMISED DELIVERY OF THIS FEATURE TWO WEEKS AGO, AND I CAN"T FIGURE WHY TF STDERR KEEPS OUTPUTTING GIMME GIMME GIMME!
One of the extensions I miss most is UnMHT.

Anyone have info about if/when it will support Quantum?
AIBO: AI Pet Dog from Sony Is Back
What's unusable about the new tree style tabs?

I'll grant that the new responsiveness of FF makes TST feel much better. But there's one thing that's constantly giving me headaches. I don't feel like the highlighting given to the currently-selected tab is in-your-face enough, so that I'm always scanning up and down the tree trying to see which one it is. The other formatting options it used have were nice, but being able to at least make the selected tab's title bold was a big deal for me.

I realize that this is technically possible in the new regime via userChrome.css. However, the element classes are completely undocumented so I have no idea how to accomplish it.
From context it seemed that the kind of code we're talking about obviously served no real purpose. Most codebases where everyone is afraid to delete anything are unmanageable messes only comprehensible to people who have been working on them for years.
> Serious news sites (NYT, WashPo, WSJ) ... Category 3 [Check daily ~30 min total]

My suggestion: don't visit these sites at all. Instead, get your local daily delivered. You don't need the news up to the last minute. A daily summary is fine. Plus, it gets you away from your computer while you read it.
Could people go out at night?
Show HN: A Neural Networks Based Amazon Review Summarizer
That problem is largely solved if you use 8P8C connectors with a rubber boot protecting the latching tab.

https://info.pcboard.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RJ45-Conn...
"Pressure" in common usage typically means "gauge pressure", which is zero-referenced to ambient air pressure.
I have facebook locked-out on my phone. LastPass keeps it on only chrome desktop browsers with Newsfeed killer. I use uBlock (microBlock) to hide dumb residual elements, like Stories. Result is I can stay in touch with events and messages, without the toxic news feed.

Also, Reddit has a 20 minute timer on desktop. I use Adguard to block it on my phone, but I bounce between use and disuse like a junkie :p.

Initially it's hard as your brain screams for its old habits, but like all things, it adapts.
Haiku has the same rendering model, so it's equally snappy here. :)
> is the code going to be fixed at 3 a.m.?

Yes, if it matters. I can think of dozens of examples. E.g. you provide a payment processor, and you have clients worldwide.

At any significant size, it's going to matter if your service is down for 5 hours. Let's take an extreme example - let's say Google search goes down at 3am PST. Do you think the engineer on call is going to wait 5 hours before "triage, priority listing and then fix"? Are you kidding me?

I don't know what bubble you live in, but in the real world and for many businesses, outages out of hours matter. I'm sure some places they don't (like maybe day trading systems).

If you don't want a call out, build your systems to be resilient to failure, and self-healing.
Is it not part of a standard set of utilities with standard, expected behavior? You can't really complain if you create some public API and people use it in a way you did not entirely anticipate.
> the CIA has placed a big bet on adopting
> commercial cloud technology

Can't they get the NSA to rent them some of their spare capacity from the CNCI? Or is this because they trust Amazon to have actually solved the hard problems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Impacts all vendors that provide telephony solutions, not just Skype. Nothing to do with Apple as some here in the comments are suggesting.

China requires any software vendor that provides telephony to sell its software through a Chinese telco-licensed company.

Pure VoiP is fine. The moment you offer dial-in / call me as Skype, WebEx, G2M, Zoom do, you're toast.

This is China walling off their market a bit more, making it far easier for their own telcos to compete.
i hate this kind of time communicating

in austria there is

"viertel zwei" - quarter two

which in one part of austria (vienna) means 1:15pm (or 1:15am), in the other half (90% of austria) it is understood as 1:45pm (or 1:45am), sometimes as 2:15pm (or 2:15am) - but never as 1:15pm/am

"viertel [vor/nach] zwei" - quarter [to/after] two. the [] are optional.
> But seriously, who uses a documentation tool for automated tests every minute?

As someone with a long history of abusing tools and side-effects, I'll defend that. The whole point of the Unix philosophy is small, useful tools that can be composited in ways the creator never anticipated. If it works for them, great. (At least until it isn't.)

But then I also pry with my pocketknife, and you probably don't want to know how about using a mill engine as a come-along...
Just something to consider: professional athletes are just about the worst examples to look toward for diet and fitness pointers. The reason is that pro athletes are genetic freaks, which means they can get away with all sorts of suboptimal behavior and still exhibit incredible performance.
I had a hard time believing that quote at the time. John ended up answering the question I asked about it on SuperUser [1] with details about his setup. His writeup is impressive: he actually set up a high-speed camera to record the actual latency.

[1] https://superuser.com/q/419070/2269
People are not things to be engineered. This is our largest collective blindspot. Some people may look at what you see as utopia and say "no, thanks." This can happen for something as simple as UBI. In fact, I'm sure it will.
Nice set of tools and resources to get started with UX design
My favourite robot is a dishwasher.

Mostly because it is so different from what some people naively imagine when you asked them to think of a design for a robot to wash dishes.
BeOS lives on in Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/ -- and yes, we still have that user-friendly C++ API. :)
I think you're overlooking the "true" amount of space required to cook and store food. It's not just the fridge and the rice cooker you've got to think about. It's everything else that you take for granted in your kitchen: storage space, bowls, utensils, a heating mechanism, a reheating mechanism, spices, etc.

So I'm in my 10x10 room (no kitchen access because my landlords are a conservative family that just wants spare-room money, remember), I've managed to fit a mini-fridge in some corner next to my desk, and a rice cooker that sits on top of it. Let's make rice! Firstly, where am I storing the uncooked rice? Do I buy a 5-lb bag of rice for $10 that could feed me for a month? Probably not, because I don't have the storage space. So I spend a dollar and buy the smallest bag I can find, which makes just over 2 cups of rice. In the long term it's way more expensive, but it saves space, because I'll just cook all 2 cups now and have nothing you need to worry about storing.

Rice is not terribly filling or healthy on its own. Maybe we'll jazz it up and throw a tomato into the middle of the rice cooker to make tomato rice. This kinda-sorta borders on a meal. So our rice is done. How do I eat this? I guess I'll buy a single bowl and some chopsticks. Or, screw that, I'll buy a single bowl and snatch some extra plastic cutlery from the Popeye's across the street.

I've finished eating. Even as a meager meal (not super filling, and I've got nothing other than plastic salt-and-pepper shakers that I bought from Wal-Mart as seasoning), I can't eat more than a cup or so of rice. So I've got leftovers. What am I storing these leftovers in? I don't have room to buy some pyrex containers. Maybe I can just cover the inner bowl of the rice cooker with some plastic wrap! Balls, now I need plastic wrap...

Day 2, I should eat some of my tomato rice leftovers. How am I going to reheat this? I could probably reheat it with boiling water, but I'd need to buy an electric kettle or, at the very least, a hot-shot. Maybe if I buy a drink at the nearby 7-11, they'll let me use their microwave? Man, that's a nuisance. I might as well just get some wings at 7-11 if I'm going over there anyway...
If you don't do this then it's like you bought a TV that was programmed to only show you the most popular channels. And then you never manually changed the channel yourself.

So, sure, that would obviously suck. You have to change the channel.
This impacts Android and Windows too.

Nothing to do with Apple.

You can't sell telephony software in China as a Western company directly anymore. Not matter how.
As a used-to-be engineering manager for a group of engineers who didn't appreciate how often these "blood sacrifice" errors actually do occur in production, I fully appreciate the kind of "oops" feeling that comes when realizing that your obscure errors messages made it into production. Even something simple like "This has all gone terribly wrong. Call engineering." can make its way to the console of some "customer service" technician talking on the phone with an irate muggle working three companies away, and the error message triggered escalations at all three companies... you start to appreciate that maybe you should take your job seriously, and not make so many assumptions about who is using your software.
China has a bunch of different app stores on android:

https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-10-android-app-stor...

In this regard they actually have a sweet deal