skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some digging for you in the browser console. userChrome.css can't touch TST's content. TST is in a separate document (sidebar.html). I'm sure the tabs in TST aren't the actual browser tabs, but they're made to look exactly the same as before. Talk to TST's author, or modify the addon yourself, it must have a CSS file, the tabs are "li.tab" (<li> elements, tab class). The active one is "li.tab.active".

document.querySelector('#sidebar')._contentWindow[0].document.querySelectorAll('.tab.active')
You just summarized the principle of GDPR legislation across the EU, coming into effect May 2018.

Fines of up to 4% of global revenue of the offender.

Looking forward to massive lawsuits against Facebook, Google, Uber, etc.
How is that free market or even capitalism?
Ask your lawyer if you can sue them over it.
Amazon's $1bn bet on Lord of the Rings shows scale of its TV ambition
Securing your Express app
> Obamacare specifically allows individual states to choose whether or not to participate in Medicaid expansion

Well, no. Pre-existing law allows states to choose whether or not to participate in Medicaid. The ACA made the expansion a core and integral part of Medicaid; the ability to stay in Medicaid but opt out of the expansion was a (rather bizarre) result of a lawsuit by States against the expansion.

> and gives the money for Medicaid directly to the states to use as they see fit.

No, the expansion isn't a block grant, it's an expansion to include a new population with a set federal-share reimbursement rate attached to that population.
> waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all

True, but that can be done as part of careful planning. It does not justify procrastination. (I wish it could)
By such leaps that it's hard to compare the two.
When comparing energy usage to other financial systems, don't forget to also look at how many transactions they're able to handle. Bitcoin is tiny in terms of the number of transactions, so while the financial system as a whole no doubt uses more energy, it also facilitates orders of magnitude more activity. In terms of energy per transaction, Bitcoin is thousands of times higher.
LSE Events – Bev Skeggs – You Are Being Tracked, Evaluated and Sold
Most business analysts who are pulling this kind of data have a finance background. To say that they're "too lazy" because they don't want to do their work using Python seems a bit harsh.

In practice what I've seen is that IT and finance departments don't even let business analysts write their own SQL queries for fear that they'll write bad ones that bring the database server to its knees.
> The price hasn't been a constant $8200 during the issuance of those tethers, it was lower earlier.

The same holds for the bitcoins bought with dollars at Mtgox.

But to end the discussion:

Dec 31, 2013: Marketcap 10 bn, Vol 34 mn
Today : Marketcap 240 bn, Vol 8 bn

So 600 mn had a much bigger impact (20x daily volume back then) than they'd have today (0.075x daily volume).
https://www.voidtools.com/
Looks really nice man, really good work!
> Not even close.

"Searching the web for 'Knot every clothes'..."
This assumes that the value produced by bitcoin transactions is equivalent to the value produced by banks operating, though, which seems a rather huge assumption? The stuff banks do on a daily basis is very, very important, and they do a lot of it.

Like, a trivial example: Let's say I can eventually pay my rent with bitcoin instead of a bank wire. I'd have to do that off-chain or on an exchange or something, right? What happens once you factor the cost of operating those exchanges in? My landlord probably needs to convert that BTC to USD at some point, so then banks and wires are involved to transact the USD.
One might even say that 100% of 333,410 sites use vulnerable javascript libraries
Gdax is more responsive. https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
Not at my computer, so can't provide a detailed answer yet. It's GNOME something-or-other though. Not Unity. And the menu is question that just works is accessible from something like Alt-F2 or the super key (it's muscle memory and I'd need to be at a keyboard to say for sure).
You can't fly to the UN with your official affiliation to commit crimes. That's not the way that diplomatic immunity works.
For qualitative data management, but numerical analysis, 1 source of truth collaboratively - I use Atlassian Jira with great success.

Got a complex work stream?
Got thousand small problems that needs to be slowly figured out over 50 different main topics?
Got a team of 2,50 or 1000? No problem.

1. Just set up a bunch of jira entries while tagging them with the same labels

2. set up filters on these labels.

3. Set up dashboard(s) that give a complete realtime/update to any inquiring user.

Need to report status?
No problem, screenshot of the
Dashboard and done.

It's really great tbh.
Three (non-pointless) permissioned blockchains in production
Fruits and vegetables are full of sucrose, it is the most commonly occurring sugar in plants. If splitting more sucrose (or is fructose really the problem?) increases your chance of cancer, it means very little on its own. Would you get the same results if they matched the starches to the glucose equivalent, rather than the same mass?

Which is why I don't see why they would bother to suppress a result like this, but I guess the public interpretation would likely be the outrageous "specifically refined table sugar gives you cancer", so I can't exactly blame 'em for wanting to.
"AI wouldn't have any of those so I'm personally confident that it'll have a much higher level of safety."

AI and perfect AI are different things.
I can't imagine doing careful planning and also doing a lot of procrastinating.
If the arbitrator can alter ownership state (and the govt authorizes them to rewrite the blockchain to incorporate their findings) it isn't really a blockchain: just a centralized database.

If they can't alter the blockchain, then ownership state on the blockchain will diverge from reality over time.
>Wikileaks, a pawn of the Russian government.

An unproven conspiracy theory, with zero evidence to support.
What is a better source of local events than facebook?
Add Speech to IoT Sensor Data – Tutorial
Yes, what you're describing is a WISP* and they're fairly common in suburban and rural communities in the US (and other places I just know the US best). Some of the companies that make equipment for this are Ubiquiti, Mimosa, BaiCells and Cambium.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Internet_service_prov...
Imagine what will happen if you get the flu. You're suddenly stuck in a tiny living space, on a street where you know no one, and can't leave the van for fear of discovery, at 3 in the morning. You're going to spend the night vomiting with only a tiny cassette toilet and what ever plastic bags you can scrounge up to hold it in, and if it's strong enough, you might be too weak to even drive.

Now go and read that site's health and hygiene, realize the owner never even considers this a possibility, and that his own van doesn't even include a cassette toilet. That he can only defecate during a store's business hours, and he uses a laundry bottle filled with bleach to pee into if he needs to urinate in the middle of the night.

You really want to listen to this guy?
I am similar. If I think of something to do now, then I have no hesitation. But if my 'past self' thought of it and 'demanded' that my present self do it, then my rebellious nature takes over. I really think procrastination is mainly just rebelling against your past self, as if he/she was someone else.

If I write something down, then I stop thinking about it. Usually I forget about the list as well, and oftentimes writing things down makes it LESS likely to get done. BUT by no longer thinking about it and nagging myself, I can hopefully discover the task again afresh and get it done that way.

Happy self-hacking.
Python vs. JavaScript 2017
I believe the answer is because their talent has left and now there are inexperienced comp science grads, UX designers and marketing left and nothing else.
This is nice. Curious, have you checked SEO which is crucial for many e-commerce sites given the JavaScript dependency? https://moz.com/blog/javascript-seo
French news today said time spend on (or maybe visit count, don't remember) FB dropped by 43%. I wouldn't give much value to the digits, but it seems it's not attractive anymore at the least.
Couldn't you argue the same thing about excel? It does not lend itself to well engineered permanent formal use, but you certainly could build a robust system with it.
Seriously. I refuse to use Cortana on my Xbox One and went back to the native “Xbox” commands. The latency of cortana was atrocious and usually after all that would either reask the question or not do what Xbox would. Microsoft is really good at taking a good thing (Xbox) and making it more bloated and slower.
Nextdoor is much better for me, but most of my Facebook friends live farther than 15 miles from me.
We run nsp on our production services in CI before merge. The number of false positives I have tracked down is infinitely higher than the number of vouln's found. I literally mean this, we have never seen one disclosure which resulted in a viable attack on our production services.

For example, recently a bunch of ReDOS voulns were reported in popular libraries. None of which were in code paths hit by our configurations.

So needless to say, I think this is a sensationalist headline.
> When done properly, yes. When done to the point where a five line function is created with ten inputs (yes, this is real), no. But DRY tells us that the five lines of duplication is unconditionally worse.

I work with people I would describe as... junior at best (lots of boot campers) and I see this all the time. Functions that just return an anonymous function for no reason, half JSON blobs returned from functions that are called with one string instead of just repeating the blob in the code, etc.
Net neutrality is likely to help Facebook more than it hurts them, because they can pay for access, which startups probably cannot. All the social companies FB bought (plus the one they couldn't, SnapChat), would have had a much harder time of it if they needed to pay a per-subscriber fee.
I'm still betting amazon and fb will start making their own pipes
Depends on if there is an AdTech bubble or not. I’m starting to lean yes . The only way forward for Facebook is to start eating at TV advertisements . If they can’t do that I don’t see where their growth will come from.
Yes, UI is a wreck. In addition, services like this demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding as to what logos are for and how they function. You can't communicate your brand's identity effectively by clicking some buttons and going on your "gut." Do yourself a favor: pay for a professional.
I'm not sure if that math makes sense. Most economic activity involves actually doing useful things, not just shuffling numbers around. Obviously there is a segment of economic activity which is, but the vast majority is other stuff.

If you get $2 trillion of economic activity denominated in Bitcoin, that activity is going to use a lot of energy in its own right. The energy used for transferring the Bitcoins around goes on top of that. If the network itself uses 2% of worldwide energy usage, that doesn't leave much for the economic activity it represents.
I'm not sure. All I know is that when I had a domain name in there ending in ".space," the server ignored that config and served everything else.

I assumed it was because of the TLD, because everything else was otherwise identical to some of the other virtualhosts.
They switch to Access until they hit the data size limit of 2GB. Then they come back to IT who has to deal with the mess that you get when you allow domain experts to build databases.
I'm dreaming of living in a Tesla Semi
The whole point is that it's not inappropriate in absolute terms.

The couples who found sex and/or love (and even marriage) in the workplace, would argue that it's appropriate.

It's only when it happens against the other's will that's inappropriate.

Merely some office decree saying it's not appropriate doesn't make it so (and if two people click, it won't fight human nature to connect, including in this way, anyway, people will do what they do).
NOTE: I am NOT saying we have had no security voulns. Just that the snyk and nsp disclosures on packages do not mean that those applications are vulnerable.
> If the ISPs suddenly become not common carriers, do they then become responsible for all the content?

No, "common carrier" is an overloaded concept that implies some responsibility for the thing being carried in other contexts (e.g. maritime shipping) but does not imply what you're suggesting in this one. Remember, US ISPs were not classified as common carriers until mid-2015.
How will they succeed where Google couldn't?

https://gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-google-fiber-1792440779

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article1106...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/googl...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/26/google-fi...
That sounds like a laughable yet true explanation ...
TOTALLY!!! And Google already has some stake in dark fiber in my state.
In some modern cultures people expect from themselves to be always productive and happy regardless of the task at hand.

Yet - point one "I could not summon a single fuck to give" is presented honestly.

What if it's actually a sign of health to be disinterested in writing yet another $thing in order to pay rent?
Maybe we can have two office sections, one for touch-me-nots, and one for less sensitive people, like smoking and non-smoking sections.
Imagine if everyone was only allowed to drive those 9 car models.
Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, Libc, and Linux Mainline
I staunchly support net neutrality, and believe stronger federal protections and intervention are necessary to protect the open internet and increase competition - perhaps a federal ISP run through post offices.
I can see why he did it. These aren't beginners. They're experienced developers and managers. If you work at one of the top 5 tech companies in the world on a product most of the computing world uses then maybe this shouldn't be acceptable.

Why is it that this is acceptable for Microsoft to publish? It's not and what makes it worse is that it often gets abandoned. If they had a history going back and finishing this or making it better I'd give them a pass, but I doubt without something bordering vitriolic appearing on HN/Medium no one will care.

I think that's the real complaint. Doesn't anyone care about the experience anymore? I feel like it's only Apple who both cares and has executed a strong long term plan for this. I opened my iPhone X and that thing worked. I actually love all the little things they added. It is hard to do that, but it's these little things which make the product special or down-right frustrating when they don't.
The point the article is making is that the US is getting significantly lower value out of their doctors than other comparable countries. They pay doctors more and get worse outcomes, which points to the conclusion that the doctors are overpaid for the value they provide.
This sounds like something you'd read on Infowars.
Fully agree that blockchain is revolutionary technology. But why has Bitcoin captured mainstream attention and not others (say Ethereum, Litecoin etc)?

Understood about energy. I will read deeper.
It's trivially the case that the value produced by bitcoin mining exceeds the cost of the electricity, else nobody would bother.
I'd have to agree that they aren't very good at solving certain issues that aren't just acute and short-term. I had been developing worse and worse shoulder, neck, and back issues from sitting at desks and working on computers.

The doctor wanted to prescribe muscle relaxers and pain relievers, and suggested I try massage therapy. While those things helped some of the symptoms, what completely transformed my situation was hiking and doing yoga (especially yoga). I never have pain like I used to in my back, neck, and shoulders and any that does arise never lingers like it used to.

My doctor did not suggest yoga or hiking (or exercise in general) to solve the issues I was having. I know it's an anecdote, but in general in my life doctors seem to try to be experts on matters of health yet can't seem to help with basic beneficial suggestions for certain issues.
There's a project that uses QEMU to emulate the original xbox, xqemu: http://xqemu.com/

I wonder if this will help their project too.
"Well, look at what is happening in the UK."

What about it? How is it in any way, shape, or form related?

"Calling people names who are making an argument is disrespectful."

I'm not calling you names. I'm calling you out for spouting an oft-debunked lie.

"Calling something a lie and requiring silence about the topic is immature."

No, what's immature is continuing to spout an oft-debunked lie, instead of something that actually contributes to the conversation.

"Prove it wrong and you will make your point valid without making yourself look like that which you accuse others of."

You are the one spouting the oft-debunked lie with nothing to back it up. You are the one who is arguing in bad faith. You are the one whom the onus is on to prove your side.
Just pick the right date, some of them would be quite excited.
Huh. Swap SES for Drip (because SES is borderline crap) and you just described how I build and run “Last Week in AWS.”

I tag links in Pinboard, then have a Lambda that consumes them into DynamoDB. Other Lambdas build out snarkive.lastweekinaws.com, the weekly newsletter template population, and setting static headers for CloudFront.
At the very least, get Mir to the point where it's a drop-in replacement for Weston, the reference Wayland compositor. Then make whatever changes you feel like on top of that. If Mir becomes included in DE's across various distros, and if it becomes a runtime option when launching a session (in the same way that GNOME now lets you choose whether to run a Wayland or Xorg session at login), people will be able to A/B test Mir vs Weston, they'll send feedback, and the improvements can be upstreamed.

That's all I ask. The backlash against Canonical was in leveraging the Open Source community to make increasingly silo'd services. Canonical is moving in the right direction, first in discontinuing Unity in favor of GNOME, and now in making Mir Wayland-compatible. I hope the trend continues.
Everyone deserves to be paid fairly. There is a difference between a doctor and someone who works at Walmart. You seem to discount the fact that there is infinite demand for doctors in specific and healthcare in general.
Ask HN: What are the best books, articles, papers on crypto and cryptography?
Seems like america is going to loose its freedom until next president

ALREADY LOST - to pick a internet plan of their choice which is affordable and reliable to them.

ALREADY LOST - to have privacy.

LOOSING - what people will watch in their internet, so basically you will be target fed specific info and some info you will never come across leading to people will be kept in dark like the sugar news forever.

if we were celebrating July 4th for the freedom over internet then we can stop celebrating it from 2018 but luckily its not that. May be american citizens will stop being submissive and not take whatever is thrown at them and start to make their power and presence felt and be an example to other country citizens.
There's limited effort in fighting these things. If you're choosing your fights intelligently, it's terrible to switch off to go kill BTC's electricity usage because it's a small part of the ongoing problem.

Just because it's not significant doesn't mean we have to forget about it. We can always tackle BTC's problem later.
I will look into it, but I would bet that zero of the local bands I regularly go see are putting their gigs on Nextdoor. I wonder if they scrape events from facebook or elsewhere.
People's first reaction does indeed tend to be worry that it would somehow delay their childs' speech. I have to admit that, out of ignorance, that was my own first reaction too.

However, it's been the exact opposite, signing has only reduced frustration, taught the benefits of communication, and encouraged spoken language.
I don't think you understand the concept of a show HN. Please be respectful, supportive, and provide constructive criticism.
How many legacy systems are there on the International Space Station?
As the system grows, there are components that get deprecated and obsolete. Surely ISS is no exception. Although aiming for high reusability and taking in account certain difficulties with utilization must play a huge role.

So, are there any more or less famous legacy systems, which are used on ISS?
Interesting that elongated micro-whines have now turned into long-form blog posts.

To be honest all of these smart digital assistants have failed me as of late. I used to be able to just text-to-speech searches straight to Google and it did what I wanted to for the most part. Now when I try just any type of reasonable query (I think so at least) Alexa or Google Assistant usually comes back with "Sorry I don't know how to do that" which is frustrating.

Reminds me of the VR hype. Maybe I should just wait for 10 years and this stuff will finally be usable.
The first step is repealing Citizens United v FEC, which won't be easy with Trump poised to make at least one more Supreme Court pick.
It really is though. In most cases all they can do is kick you out. In some cases the foreign government can waive immunity to allow prosecution, but it’s rare. This guy wasn’t a diplomat though so diplomatic immunity doesn’t apply. Regardless of that, my understanding from having grown up going to an international school in NYC where most of my friends were there because their parents were assigned to the UN, is that there’s a weaker form of effective immunity that basically is just that the UN grounds are not trivially part of the US. So it’s not clear to me why US bribery laws applied to a foreign national on foreign business inside the UN? My guess is that the practical answer is just that the US are world police and so they do what they want.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
It's basically the command-line probelms all over again, but with english instead of commands.

It's only marginally better. So far nothing has been better than AutoCAD's approach, for me - all GUI commands are echo'd into the command-line as you do them, so you can see what commands you're using if you want to key them in later. Negligible hotkeys because the commands work so well and are more memorable than hotkeys.
How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres
Huh, that's really odd. I wonder if it's a regex gone wrong.
AWS and GCP already both offer HIPAA compliance and have for years
The stakes are going to be higher, so perhaps they're willing to put up the $$ (in shameless bribes to local councilmembers, etc.) to do it.
>The future is much more malleable than your immediate needs.

http://wiki.c2.com/?YouArentGonnaNeedIt
And you wouldn't expect Windows to sneakily read your Gmail account emails.

What if you buy a package from Amazon and the tracking info goes to your outlook.com email? That'd be a fair comparison here. (maybe simply forwarding the email from Gmail to the outlook.com email associated with your Windows account would be sufficient?)
Those means different things.

Their wording means "we checked X sites and 77% of them met some criteria", which can be extrapolated to higher values of X (assuming the proper statistical care is taken, etc).

Your wording implies the same, but that's not good because you can't extrapolate to a larger X. You chose the sites after knowing they already met the criteria, and that changes the meaning.