skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You missed that I'm working on SaaS and a web application"

I didn't miss that. SaaS means "software as a service", and doesn't imply anything about the complexity of your UI. Plenty of SaaS companies use server-side rendering. Likewise, "web applications" were being written long before React was a thing.

Also no, you don't have to do a full server round-trip for every click, any more than you have to send JSON back to your Reactionary UI for every click.

So sure, if you can truly load all of your data in one big JSON blob and do everything else client side, then I guess you're in the 5% of people who can benefit from React. The other 95% should use a good server-side rendering framework and get things like low latency, URL routing, progressive enhancement and SEO-friendly pages for free, and build the few dynamic elements on their pages with a simpler, more robust technology. I never said that React isn't useful, just that it shouldn't be the default choice for most people.
Seriously, my 12" MacBook is all I need / want now.

I found the smallest sling bag that it would fit inside, and quickly became accustomed to carrying it at all times.

When my Nexus 5 died, I barely felt it. I went months without a phone because it just wasn't a pressing issue.

There's no way I'd trade it for a phone dock and desktop peripherals.
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I don't know. Maybe try something I do: First "cold read" the artwork, then learn about it, then look at it all again. I'm very amused when my appreciation of the artwork changes based on context, for better or worse.
John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
That’s malarkey. That’s not why it’s happening at all. The Trump admin has no problem with consolidation. They are just challenging this merger because it competes against Fox.

They just let Sinclair buy most regional tv stations and also changed the the rules to favor them: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/11/fcc-sinclair-media-...

You don’t get to enforce the law selectively against your political opponents and then grandstand about protecting the market.
I've been using a Dex for about 6 months, exclusively, including now. It has some annoying bugs:
* you can't select text very well, only in some cases (for example in the browser address bar)
* some applications simply can't run (for example firefox mobile), but they are very few
* zoom with the scroll doesn't work in most cases (google maps)
* can't zoom in with the scroll in the browser , and when it does, the increments are very high, can't be customized and they are forgotten when you close the page.
* all pages open in mobile mode and you have to click "desktop mode" for each and every one of them that is not displayed like you want.
* reading PDFs is impossible because you can't customize the zoom (may be a deal breaker for students), and with a big monitor you get big text, not possible to read.
* most bitcoin wallets don't work with the ledger nano s on android, (I use my work computer for transactions).

But despite these, overall it's been a decent experience. I download torrents like I did on my PC, I watch movies. I have all my data with me at all times, which I like very much. I used to have a laptop but it was mostly furniture; with a small kid at home I didn't have time to even open it in most nights. And when I did have time, all I did was watch a movie or download a torrent, which is what I do with the Dex anyway.

I wish it would've had a USB 3.0 port.
I sure wish they would perfect their project boards before half-assing something new.

They're meant to replicate Trello but fall far short and see bi-annual updates that barely address the largest pain points.
The most warped part of that "perspective" is the idea that one must vote R or D. I only vote for candidates whose election could possibly be a good thing. Typically that's neither blue nor red.
Getting a new ISP started is a pain. Witness the legal troubles Google and their partner cities went through when the cities passed "one touch make ready" laws to simplify the process of Google and other new ISPs stringing new lines. [1]

ISPs are going through a consolidation process in the USA, so we're all ending up with less choice, not more.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Touch_Make_Ready#Legal_Cha...
That's an interesting cause. Is it legal for a United States citizen to participate?
Everyone on this thread, including me, proves their powerlessness over these sentiments. But, let's still work towards a better world.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping
>>If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale.

Other communist regimes exiled your entire extended family to prison camps for such things. Do this for 50 years, add propaganda night and day and what you said doesn't happen.
I'm not familiar with the TopTal agreements specifically, but in general with contracts (master services agreements) provided by marketplaces you see things that benefit the project owner as opposed to the contractor.

One example, might be if you create a tool that helps generate something for that client, that the client also owns the tool you created. This kind of thing can become a big deal if you want to use your generator across multiple clients.

To anyone who is serious about contracting, I highly recommend (1) avoid the contracting marketplaces, and (2) work with an attorney to craft an MSA you're happy with.
That reasoning makes no sense. Consider the article on the front page today about taxpayer-funded cafeterias in India. Everyone rightly pointed out that these cafeterias could crowd out privately owned restaurants. There is no real “competing” with a government-backed service. (The postal service, for example, is subject to elaborate rules to prevent unfair competition with private carriers. And countries like the UK and Germany have privatized their postal services for good reasons.)

That is not to say that municipal alternatives don’t have a place. My view is that state and local governments should get rid of build out requirements that restrict the development of competition while building municipal service to areas left unserved by the market. That’s a traditional government function: serving as the safety net. But that’s not what’s usually proposed.
$600 million in fake dollars? Amazing that they've gotten away with it for that long.
It's perhaps a borderline case, but ok, we'll change the url to that from https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-welcomes-nist-container-secur....
As oppossed to any western mouthpiece (BBC, CNN, ABC, Washington Post, NYT etc)? Every news outlet parrots the opinions of its investors, and even when you think that a report is neutral, the adjectives try to slant the message in a certain direction. By agreeing to censorship, you are disagreeing with the concept of free speech. In the end, if Google becomes more political, it will alienate a demographic, and lose funds. In which universe is this “good”?
Maybe it's been edited since you supplied the wikipedia link, but it doesn't support your narrative.

One page down, it describes Ukrainian Soviet officials claiming there was no danger from the accident to regional Ukrainian SSR officials. It says that Pripyat was only evacuated 24 hours after the disaster, after more than 50 residents were hospitalized for radiation poisoning.

Even then, the letter to the residents was that the evacuation was temporary, and primarily as a precautionary measure.

The only thing you effectively refute is the timeline, Pripyat was evacuated 24, not 36 hours later, as the parent poster erroneously stated.

The wikipedia article doesn't mention internal Soviet press releases, so you haven't refuted that Ukrainian or Russian officials denied a disaster. However, the parent poster nor the OP haven't demonstrated that officials lied to the public either.
"If Comcast decided I can't access Netflix on my internet plan, I'm gone."

Where are you going to go to?
Caveat emptor. It's like 1999 all over again.

Yeah block chain is honestly such cool technology but honestly anyone who is playing with more than they can afford to lose is in trouble.
Well if you can take your USDT and buy BTC elsewhere, and then turn those to USD through whatever means it works well for you.

My bet is that exchanges are holding a lot of these, and they're a bit bought in to Bitfinex not falling over...
This story reminded me of a closing chapter of the discovery of Insulin which reports one of the first crop of patients still going when the book on Banting and Best was published. As said of some of the people in this story, nobody expected them to survive. Unlike This story, the insulin story had a good ending. This one, is about the long tail of health interventions when the eyeball moves on, and you're left on the wrong side of a legacy investment. It broke my heart that the patient is hoarding their last fabric/rubber collars, praying she dies before they do because she can't replace them. If they go, she dies because of them.
It's a valid concern which is why form.ac data is stored locally and is only transferred to generate the form and is then erased from the server. I think it should be possible to do it all client side with a modern browser but I haven't had a chance to do a proof of concept of that yet.

It's also worth considering what you do after you've filled the form locally. Do you then email it somewhere? What does the receiving organisation do with it? Unfortunately there are potential security pitfalls in many parts of the process.
Cached version: https://archive.fo/7XoKB
But one shouldn't fail to see the bigger propaganda of them all. Not country sized, but Multi-National propaganda of which most people have fallen into and fight for. Anything against it is called propaganda.
I am self taught as well and have tried studying CS on my own over the years. Do you mind sharing details on the particular topics you considered stumbling blocks? Thanks!
This is incredible. How many times have cryptocurrency evangelists railed against phony fiat currency, only to be perfectly fine with an abstracted token that is backed by either fiat currency or nothing.
Good link, but you should read it more carefully. That metadata (i.e., Organization) is only verified if the certificate is purchased for that purpose. In other words, would you like us to do extra organization validation? pay more. otherwise, it's cheaper if we only validate the domain.

It's kind of crazy, actually: it's more expensive for you to prove who you are than it is for the attacker to NOT prove who they are. Security should be about raising costs for the attacker, not lowering them!

And, as you know, neither Let's Encrypt or any other DV CA's check or verify any information except control of the domain itself.

That's why those certs are called Domain Validated instead of Org Validated ;)
I noticed in that video that everyone ate with their hands. Is the lack of eating utensils a culture thing, a poverty thing, or both?
FCC chair pushes for complete repeal of net neutrality
$30M here, $30M there... by all means, please keep proving to me how secure and stable smart contracts are!

I'm indifferent on bitcoin, it's a cool idea but there seem to be a lot of these "hammer everything" types that are doing it a disservice across the board.
The Root of All Cruelty?
I don't think they are hiding it either

https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s
Sure, you can get chips within some limitations - in fact I believe some chip fabs have been moving back onshore. Can you get screens? I remember coverage maybe 20 years ago about Zenith closing the last TV manufacturing in the USA, and while that was in the days of CRTs I can't imagine that a lot of new panel manufacturers are here.
Fox News, being a stridently partisan media outlet, is a somewhat incendiary example (I edited that sentence a lot to take out more pointed insults about Fox News). A more neutral one is: imagine Google invests in Media Org A, and de-ranks competing Media Org B's sites. Bye bye, Media Org B.
10 best practices for mobile form design
1. RT is reporting about themselves. Of course some other source is preferable.

2. RT is owned by the Russian government. I have no particular fondness for Vice, but they're worlds apart.

More generally, "X has a hugely compromising feature, Y has a mildly problematic feature, therefore they're exactly the same as each other" is the kind of fallacy that causes the public to trip and fall on its face over and over. Let's try to avoid it it we can.
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There is also a subtle but noteworthy difference between highly opinionated think pieces trying to present their views as being unbiased reporting and credible state-sponsored media outlets that don't force feed propaganda. But I guess you'd consider your view to be the objectively sound way to look at things without realizing the irony in the way you're portraying media outlets you favour over others you don't seem to like.
A key fact somehow omitted from the RT piece: "Both outlets are wholly owned by the Russian government."
I would be interested to know which app you prefer and if you found the form.ac interface easier to use than your local apps or if you really found no advantage with it?
While we're on the topic -- is there some IRC channel or something dedicated to Intel ME research?
Well, it's not just to be faster. 57 is also quite a bit more secure and extensions will break far less often in the future. It also means a lot less maintenance work for Mozilla.

It's mainly more secure by having most things sandboxed now. That requires Firefox to be executed in the new multiprocess architecture and for that they would have had to kill off at least those legacy extensions that are not multiprocess-compatible, which was essentially all of them as well.

Also, yes, multiprocess did also most definitely play into performance. But we're not talking about the difference between 56 to 57, it's rather the difference between 47 to 57. Because 48 already introduced multiprocess, even though as a user you were still perfectly capable of installing a multiprocess-incompatible extension, which then caused Firefox to drop out of multiprocess whenever that extension became active. A completely intransparent way for users to completely kill off their performance.

Lastly, you don't claim that what Mozilla did on a whole is wrong, but yeah, just to point it out anyways: They are somewhat throwing power users under the bus right now. They don't enjoy doing it (essentially all Mozilla devs just as well are Firefox power users), but they do want to save their market share in order to still have a word when it comes to web standards and the market share just isn't made out of power users.

Around 40% of Firefox users in Sep. 2015 did not have any extensions installed. Another sizeable chunk will have their ad blocker and nothing else. This release won't affect these users negatively at all. They'll just get the better performance and the better security.

The only thing I heard from my parents was my mum asking me, if it's normal that Firefox looks different now. Maybe there'll be some confusion with the new Library-button, but other than that, it's just yet another browser-UI. They know this.
Another argument for open source search ranking. Anything else is likely biased and harmful.
Representative democracy is still a thing -- they still only get their one vote.
Yes. You don't know what kind of discussions are going on behind the scenes. It could be that they say "I am for this" in public, but in private they are one policy concession away from voting no. Also, it takes like 5 minutes. It is literally no skin off your back, and it is better than nothing, even if the chances of it mattering are remote.
Before everyone screams too loudly, RT was recently forced to register as a foreign agent by the US government:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/564045159...

So it's not as if Google is picking media organisations it dislikes at random.
>Google makes no illusion about it any longer, they aim to curate what their users have access to and want to ensure that the curation conforms to an acceptable spectrum of thought

The good news is: I've finally figured out how to beat google, or at least compete with it.

There's billions of dollars on the table for whoever manages to come up with the thing that is to google what Fox News is to CNN.
Can DNSSEC ensure net neutrality? Seems to me if an ISP can’t see what domain you’re visiting, they can’t stop you from visiting it. Is this correct?
Does BBC fit the bill? Al Jazeera?
I don’t see any reason you should view vice as better than RT—they’ve consistently shown a complete lack of regard for journalism, and they’re incentivized by page views rather (or in addition to) their owner. Why should they bother to get anything more correct? Their brand is a nightly show on HBO that isn’t boring, not a credible news source.

And man, I wish I were being hyperbolic. But they are possibly the worst american news source to link to.
What? Holy smokes! This is the first I've heard of this. Can you share any more info? Sources?
Welcome to the murky world of SEO. If you don't like it, use another search engine. It's up to Google how they want to rank websites and what criteria they use. I also doubt the technical feasibility of "identifying debunked claims". By annotating results and providing commentary, you take up an editorial stance.
Find a way to work Russia into that and it will circle the world.
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The BBC?

I'd be the last person to defend RT, but the cost/benefit of blacklisting such a site belies atrocious foresight. Google is opening up a huge can of worms for what will be very little gain in terms of improving the signal-to-noise ratio of mass media consumption.

Facebook, Google, and Twitter are all doing a very poor job of countering the backlash on Capitol Hill. That's partly their own doing as they willfully perpetuated the myth of the magic of their technology. But rather than reign in the misperceptions they're doubling down to save face and making very concrete, very stupid promises.
>>"But we don’t want to ban the sites – that’s not how we operate.”

Virtually every small business website has seen how you operate, you don't ban just bury them on page 15 and get a click every 4 months. How nice of you. At least you help us by letting us buy ads.

I agree that RT is official Russian propaganda, but so is Voice of America or our government websites
This is where hopefully most people will learn that cryptocurrencies are a decent conveyor belt for scam artists to move OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY into THE SCAMMERS' CONTROL lol
> ...and if you cannot do this yourself, then you need to seek help.

> Just because a corporation has unlimited resources committed to targeting a person with ads or tappy and clicky stuff, it does not mean they should be held accountable for people's addictive habits or tendencies, just as you can't hold any existing casinos liable for a person's poor gambling choices.

You know, in my country there is a self-exclusion register for gambling. You put yourself on it knowing that you have a problem and as a result you're barred from entering a gaming establishment.

In doing so, gaming establishments now have a responsibility to keep you from gambling on their premises and there are consequences and liability transfers if they knowingly allow you to continue.
Because I downvoted you, I'll say that critiques like this are totally ineffective without examples. I haven't worked with Windows/IIS in like ten years, but I recall they had APIs for certificate management and http, system scripting languages (including javascript), scheduling tools and so on. Not sure what else you would want or need. If you have a substantial argument, it would be interesting to hear it.

(And I'll say I'm only posting this because I've had some not-good experiences with certbot. It is essentially a big foreign environment nailed onto your host and another 'thing' to tend to. Or perhaps you would describe it as Ubuntu Linux being "network belligerent.")
What about the other part, the vast quantities of information that will never be encrypted because the sites remain but the people have moved on or are gone? Why does that deserve a knockout punch?
If you blacklist things that people like (however misguided their reasons are for liking them), they will double down and probably consume even more of their propaganda news.

Instead, demand that articles use language that states things plainly, probably with a machine learning model to help. No personal attacks, etc.
It just seems like the US court decided that the Australian court had no jurisdiction over the EFF. But does the Australian court agree with the US court's ruling? It may or it may not. Evidently the Australian court at one point believed it had jurisdiction because it took up the case in the first place and issued a ruling. To me just as an observer it seems that the Australian court gets to decide what is under its jurisdiction.
mpv has --scaletempo=speed=pitch enabled by default. So increasing speed corrects pitch.
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I'm on a i5 Linux System - Seems faster, haven't noticed as long stalling out on long-scrolling infinty pages as previously.

Really miss my favorite plug-in "Tilt 3D" - that, apparently, died of attrition.

The transition from firebug to whatever has left me with stuff that doesn't seem to work as reliably. Whether it is old UI remnants or new bugs it's hard to tell...
Umm, Theranos?
At the very least, they aren't a propaganda organ owned by a foreign government.

Yeah, their coverage is sometimes kind of shitty. But every news organisation is beholden to their audience and their owner. If Vice actually did publish lies all the time then their reputation would tank and they'd stop getting clicks.

The free market connection to honest journalism is a tenuous one, but it exists.
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"Highly opinionated think pieces trying to present their views as being unbiased reporting" are a major problem in the US and around the world, but let's at least consider why RT is a special case here.

RT is not only owned by a foreign state but is specifically owned by a state which attempted to deceptively influence Google's home country's elections, partially with the help of RT. RT is undoubtedly Russian propaganda and can't be anything else; anyone at RT who genuinely wants to provide a view that isn't uniformly pro-Russian risks retaliation from the government.

If the scenarios were flipped and Voice of America were peddling propaganda to influence Russia's next election (which they probably actually are doing), Yandex would have a pretty valid reason to lower the rankings of Voice of America stories.
StayFocused on the Chrome App Store is another great one, and a bit easier to install.
NODE_ENV=production definitely wasn't set based on some basic testing I did (that's my PR there), which accounts for the atrocious performance.

Also, the React component is created on each request instead of just being created once. Unless one's goal is to specifically colour the perception of React, I don't understand that decision alongside the code for Pug which precompiles the template a single time.

(Also declaring the map function outside the component and not creating a closure makes for a tiny extra boost.)

It's disappointing to see that the article took off to this extent given how misleading and inaccurate it is.
Tethers are not smart contracts. It's a separate crypto blockchain currency from Bitcoin and it claims to have a near 1:1 ratio with the USD, hence the name...it's "tethered" to the USD. This is not unlike some foreign currencies.