skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still baffles me how many poor Republicans support this just coz they hate Dems.

Boom the economy by adding more debt, cutting social services and screwing the working class. Great plan guys.

The rich will store offshore as usual. It's gonna be a great shit show when the bubble bursts. I can't wait for it.
Books from Phoenix Inside Out series
I received the email, and I agree, I thought "Just leave me and my certificates alone would you?"
They did enough damage already
> From the tone of the replies, kicked off by a guy in the analytics industry who went so far as to google me for a comment, Upton Sinclair is screaming from the grave

Good lord, get a hold of yourself. I work in the gaming industry (easy mistake to make, right?) and you seem to have read "hints" as "hits" and made up a whole scenario from that... I didn't Google you (nor would I care to), I just called out a completely bullshit comment when I saw one.

The foundation of your entire argument is loose accusations, outdated information cobbled together in a web of random words and quotes you found appropriate. You have incorrectly profiled everyone who replied to you. It is hard for anyone here to have an argument with you, or even take you seriously.
Both are really responsible. The idea that there must be single responsible party instead of multiple people responsible for their partial contributions is fallacy.

You can excuse peon when he trully has no other choice and does bare minimum to survive/protect familly/etc. These went above and beyond what was necessary to prove themselves, make their careers or out of conviction.

You can excuse boss when the soldiers disobeyed, he lost control and truly attempted to stop the situation. Not when it is smirk smirk we all know what is expected/tolerated what is going to happen. And these knew what will happen and wanted it happen.
Hey spieglio, nice project.

I'll be sure to send a telegram.

While I make projects on the side, the ones I've released so far have been free. It is a great feeling to finally have it off your chest and out into the wild Internet.

I think one of my projects is used around the world... as far as Russia and Australia.

I'm now working towards paid apps.

This bot will definitely be useful.. I've been waiting for a domain or two to free up. Last I remember to check is going to be in 2018.. but it'd be great to have something inform me of it.

+1 from men because damn man, might've only taken you 10 hours to up and running, but the idea and effort still went into it. Good to see efforts like these on Hacker News.
The guy writing the tutorial on shadowbans doesn't even know if he's shadowbanned.

>Another way is to use this here Shadowban Analyzer (open it in an incognito window). It will test to see if your posts show up for #hashtags cited within their respective captions. (UPDATE: this tool indicates I’m not shadowbanned, which greatly complicates my understanding of what’s happening, since I know that my following still does not growing):
People forget that you can do graduate programs in english in plenty of non-native english speaking countries. All graduate programs in the Netherlands e.g. are offered in english.

A reason to not forget this is that anglo-saxon countries usually have high tuition fees, while outside the anglo-saxon world you can frequently find tuition free or schools with very low tuition.

It is not like lower tuition means worse quality. I've a master partly both in the US and the Netherlands, and the dutch university was much better. Better facilities, better professors, better designed programs.

Of course top American universities are the best in the world, but once you go below that level, American universities are not necessarily that good. University quality varies much more widely in the US and UK e.g. In Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Germany etc, quality will be more even.
I didn't even think PayPal has to pay Experian money for this... Wow. Likely a bulk deal too like you said.
It's not an argument against closing loopholes.
It's funny that this message appears next to a cheery pitch offering you a StartCom EV certificate for "Only US$199.90".

Yes, I know that changing website templates requires effort, and that's effort that they no longer have any reason to spend.
Microsoft Google and Apple have so much cash, they don't know what to do. Simplest is to put it offshore where gains incur the lowest taxes.
Servo is not a major browser engine. It's a small research project.

And Firefox continues to use Gecko. It has some bits and pieces from Servo in it and the Mozilla marketing team has dubbed everything "Quantum" for the Firefox 57 release to communicate that lots has changed, but it is still Gecko.
Real 'fun' to program in - with strict POSIX shell, functions cannot even have local variables.
I think parent meant a different kind of "complicated". More like "overcomplicated".

If we want to move forward as a society, we better structure our tech in the simplest possible way. The difference with cars, airplanes, etc is that in a capitalistic world, an overcomplicated browser spec actually helps big players to keep their monopoly. That's what's wrong here.
Businesses and Consumers Want More IoT Security Regulation
The curriculum she mentions later on says "introduction to algorithms", but maybe she didn't do that bootcamp?
What if you get sick on your startup venture and don't have a lot of income?

Yeah it's gonna be amazing.
RaptorJIT+Studio: Analyzing the evolving C heap of a JIT compiler
I made a similar web service with sharable URLs. http://awake.zone
How about a password manager instead?
It's like Uber all over again. This is expressly forbidden with most registries, especially European ones.
This reminds me of Mealy machines.
FWIW iOS has a reduce animation accessibility option. No idea if it's somehow enforced on apps or Google voluntarily respect it in their apps though.
The microscope makers
Can you harvest(1) eggs from a woman without a uterus? I don't see how you would. To get to the ovaries of a woman without a uterus you'd need to cut her open.

(1) is that the correct terminology?
How about short? ;-)
As far as I can tell, anything Javascript heavy performs significantly worse on Quantum than on Chrome.

The benchmarks I've looked at seem to indicate that this shouldn't be the case, but I'm thinking maybe Google has put in some "real life application" optimizations for certain configurations that can't be measured easily with benchmarks? Maybe they've learned some lessons from Angular? Just spitballin' here.

Kinda like how Apple managed for a long time to make everything a lot more "buttery" than the competition, even though they usually pushed hardware with specs that aren't at the tippy top.

Additionally, I think whatever version of flash is bundled with Chrome is less CPU-inflaming than the actual current version of flash, as flash sites seem to perform worse on Quantum as well, and Quantum relies are your system-installed flash.
As someone already suggested, writing an SPA comes with a lot of work to get going. This is a side project I need to write, and then hand off to an external development team at some point. Then it helps to simplify the equation as much as possible.
What does she do? Warming a chair? Give orders?
Scales in 3D, highly experimental
Not to get all "when I was your age we walked uphill both ways and we liked it," but I really do think the frenetic pace of software updates across the whole industry these days is insane. In web software I see companies releasing multiple times per day at the extreme, once a day being more typical, but still nuts. Things like iOS upgrades are obviously less frequent than that but still seem so hurried. Why all the rush? It's like the whole industry is on a massive coke bender. Seriously, let people use your software. The constant updating just creates a shifting sand under people's feet. I don't need every product I use to change every week or month, and in fact I find it quite irritating. Just let me use the product!
I regretted upgrading my iPad 4 to iOS 8.
Then I upgraded it to iOS 9 and regretted even more. Hopelessly - and wishing iOS 10 will solve the problems - I then upgraded to iOS 10.

Now there's no JailBreak for iOS 10.3.1 32 Bit devices, and the OS lags like never before. Really miss iOS 6...
I agree with most of your points but does a European PhD hold the same exact weight as an American PhD, on average? I know that might sound silly, but I'm genuinely curious.
In current state of affairs, US acts a giant vaccine pump for talent which means lot of great academics which were supposed to exist in their native countries now exist in one of US universities. I think the recent number on US contribution to research output of the world was staggering 35% far eclipsing any other countries in the world. If you are looking for great department you don't really have lot of choice. However current political climate is rapidly changing this status quo.
Amazon and Facebook could both launch entirely new browsers. Spotlight it constantly on Amazon.com or across Facebook's properties as with Chrome on Google.com.

Facebook already has far more cash and profit than they know what to do with. $38 billion currently, rapidly climbing. They'll add ~$20 billion to that in 2018. They could do a new browser just for kicks if they wanted to, and they have the vast global reach to generate some uptake.

Whether either could claw meaningful share away from Chrome is an entirely different question.

Samsung, Tencent and Alibaba all have the resources to launch entirely new browsers if it made sense.
Implementing what the article says:

1. Adopt a positive attitude.

I'm positive that brings more problems than it solves.

2. Reframe the situation.

"My heart is working harder and my body is mobilizing its energy to get ready for this challenge. I should take a deep breath. My faster breathing means more oxygen is getting to my brain so I can think more clearly. Circulatory changes are allowing more oxygen and nutrients to fuel my muscles. I’m feeling stronger and ready for the challenge ahead." Beep bop beep, I'm reframing myself as a robot, because robots don't feel stress.

5. Face your fears and 9. Inoculate against stress

(they repeated the same thing in different words to make the list reach 10 items)

Following the New York Times journalist's recommendations, I will run a marathon, play in a Scrabble competition, read an original poem at a poetry slam, climb a mountain, sing karaoke, tell a story in front of a crowd, take on a tough project at work, kayak the Colorado rapids, train to scuba dive, and attend a boot camp.

Not only will challenging experiences give me more confidence, but the repeated exposure to poetry slams can also change my body’s biological response to stress.
There's impolite people everywhere. If your wife worked outside the home she'd get impolite comments from family, acquaintances, and random strangers about working outside the home instead of being home with the kids.

Women who work outside the home get rude comments, women who stay at home get rude comments and you can't even avoid it by opting out of childbearing entirely, those women get rude comments too.

I fail to understand what that has to do with feminism or much anything else.

BTW, staying at home is the more socially acceptable choice.[1]

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/after-decades-of-d...
Finally! They did shady practices for a long time despite multiple warnings.
>Until the tax bill drew national attention to these tuition waivers, many graduate students didn’t spend much time thinking about them. “I knew my tuition was being waived,” says first-year anthropology PhD student Levi Vonk. “I had never thought about the political implications that meant that someday Republicans would try to tax my waived tuition. I just assumed that would never be taxed.”

Unfortunately, with this guy at the helm for the next couple of years, nothing will be sacred.
I kind of like the idea of Rust, but I don't really have much belief in complex programming languages. C++ only has a large following because it piggy backed on C, which people already knew, then it gradually grew its complexity.

It is quite a different challenge to get people to use an entirely new language with high complexity.

Companies are going to be negative towards adopting a language with a steep learning curve for its employees. That represents too much risk and money.

I think Swift is a much better alternative to those who want something like Rust. Much easier to learn and you still got native code and strict typing without a need for a garbage collector.

People also know they can trust it in the sense that they know Apple supports it and all Apple development is switching to it. That takes a way a big risk factor for companies.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/7631...

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
Ask HN: Which of your side projects can I/we buy for less than 1k?
It depends. If you are looking for job in tech industry then it really doesn't matter. However if you looking for faculty position in academia or position as researcher/scientist in industry then your alma mater becomes super important. However even then top univ in Europ that would have same weights American counterpart. The only problem is that there are fewer "top" univ in Europ than in US.
>I would view it as a guideline or a best practice, rather than a restriction.
>I would definitely offer scripting, but just not all features.

That's a restriction. If site authors have to abide by that or else not have their content render in your browser, you're restricting their freedom to publish the content they want or make their own decisions about what code they choose to write.

But if you still have a "backup engine" that will run it anyway, then what's the point?

>I don't think this is hostile to developers at all, unless AMP is already hostile.

I would think Chrome was hostile if it gave preference to AMP over standard HTML. Those aren't decisions that browsers should make.

>Why can ads inject arbitrary javascript into my website?!

Because that's what the site authors decided to publish. Like it or not, that's the way the web is intended to work - you request a URL, you get back whatever the server decides that URL points to. Changing that dynamic would change the web at a fundamental level.
It's always on our radar but at the moment I don't think it's ready yet.
To be honest, if not for this comment, I would have learned something wrong today.

PS - English isn't my first language.
Apple CEO to Attend State-Run Internet Conference in China
No problem going back to future then.
Usually the argument that not enough money tempts people toward corruption.
Which part of the HTML5 spec, though? A parser? Or the whole thing, including DOM APIs and all the features like media elements and so on?

Even an HTML5 parser is harder than it looks to implement to the level needed for a browser. You have to build a proper DOM, you have to be secure against all kinds of fuzzing, you have to implement off-main-thread parsing and speculative readahead for performance, you have integrate it correctly the HTML5 event loop for document.write() etc, you have to support innerHTML and so on.

Likewise building a JS engine is impressive, but I do not believe a Web-compatible competitive-performance JS engine can be built by any single person.
An MBA in the U.S. honestly doesn't even feel like "university" in the traditional sense.

It is essentially an exchange where the student pays a massive amount of tuition money and the university gives them two years to network with people. I believe the goal is to make friends with the folks who were going to get that finance job through their connections anyway, and then maybe they can get YOU a finance job too.
Perhaps this type of information can be shared in a setting with the two subjects plus a professional such as their psychiatrist. I mean, isn't this what e.g. psychologists, psychiatrists, and mediators are for?
Maybe you get a shiny new Turk Trust cert in exchange. Who knows.
Mozilla Releases Second Largest Public Voice Data Set
Congratulations for reinventing the wheel: https://time.is/compare/0800_3_Dec_2017_in_Toronto,_Ohio/Ban...
Probably just a roundabout way to say that they're selling their customer data and you have to contact them to opt out.
Previous related discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654
Slightly off-topic, but I can't believe the long hours you guys in the USA work as standard. In the UK, most jobs these days are 37.5 hours. Only a few do 40.

Of course there may be (rare) occasions where you need to work overtime, but 40-60 hours on a regular basis seems crazy. 80 hours is insane. People here simply wouldn't do it. I doubt anyone gets any more productive beyond around 30 hours a week.
You mean what every rational organisation and person that are already rich enough to hire a “creative” accountant does?
Nah. Something from telco land.
TLDR; Stanford says they only give aid based on need. Their data shows this is true for "base" aid but then they also do "increment" on this aid (without knowledge of students) which is to make class more diverse. So you end up with some students with more need but less total aid and vice versa. They say they will look in to this and make process more transparent. Interesting part of the story was that this was found out by student who got hold of unintentionally accessible data and spent months analyzing it to discover how Stanford gave aid.
How to convert from your standalone Atelier?
Considering there are no qualifications required, it's $12.5/hr, which is 66% more than the minimum wage of $7.25.
Calling it the memetastic phrase "crisis of attention" (whatever that means) is itself a way to get your attention by the "attention industry".

They're trying to sell the solution to a problem that they're trying to create in your mind.
The CSS engine just got replaced with a Rust implementation. Isn't that a sign that it is quite modular already?
Alibaba already have their own browser of a sort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Browser). As I understand it, it's some kind of thin mobile browser which renders on the server side.
The Königsberg bridges graph is wrong. There should be seven edges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsbe...
However Python is getting attacked by new language in all areas where it is being used. Go attacks just one area.

Julia is a much better language for data science than Python. It was essentially designed for it, while for Python it was an afterthought.

Python has a head start today with a large selection of packages and mindshare, but as we've seen with Go, I think that will start eroding in the future.

Python simply can't keep up with the development pace and possibilities offered with Julia. For Data Science and AI packages in Python to have acceptable performance they need to be written in C/C++, this means slow development. Julia has high enough performance that all these packages can be developed in Julia itself. And this is what people in this area is observing. That package development is moving much faster in the Julia community than in Python.

You can also combine these packages in ways that are simply impossible to do in Python. The need to interface with C/C++ creates a lot of artificial restrictions. E.g. processing lots of data fast requires big NumPy buffers with plain data types.

In Julia you can e.g. create a an image buffer made up of color objects and process it fast.

Unlike Go, Julia offers the ability of a gradual transition to Julia from Python, since Python packages can be used in Julia.
Sorry if I sounded like a Hardcore Apple Fans, but if there is anything Steve Jobs taught us that lifted Apple from near Bankrupt to the World most valuable company, is that User experience matters.

Native Apps provided better UX, easier access on the Home Screen, and is generally 10x faster. What the web responded, or in your words a reaction to people using Native Apps, were to put more Ads, Creepy Ads, more JS tacking, more JS that many had no idea what they were doing, web notification pops up every time you visit a page, mandatory cookies notification, and all sort of other things that makes people no longer wants to consume anything on the Web anymore.

I will have to admit, even without those problem it will be a hard battle against Native Apps, but not only are they not improving the web, they are making it worst.

A Steve Jobs phase constantly pops up in my head when i see this, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste." It is true for the majority of the web as well.
That's true as far as it goes, but there are plenty of other reasons it's become so prevalent.

From a vendor's perspective:

- Web apps often have a reduced support burden relative to equivalent desktop apps because you have easier solutions for complete control over deployments: environments, live versions of software in play (often only one).

- Subscription payment models are convenient for vendors: they can help smooth out revenue but, critically, can also increase lifetime value of customers.

From the customer's perspective:

- One less software system to deploy, manage, and support,

- Managing backups is (should be!) taken care of for you,

- Lower on premise hardware costs,

- Your stuff is available from anywhere you have access to a browser,

- Can enable frictionless collaborative working.

With that said, it's arguable that a purely web-based SaaS model isn't necessarily a good fit:

- The problem of lock in is often worse. Even if you have options to export your data, is it in a format that makes it easy to import into a competing offering?

- Poor (or no) offline support, and unreliable operation with choppy connectivity.

- TCO can be higher, despite reduction in on premise support costs.

- Subscription payments can quickly mount up to death by a thousand cuts with respect to costs.

- Your data is not only offsite, but may not be stored in the same country or even on the same continent: a deal-breaker in some scenarios.

- Susceptibility to attack via DDoS, and other methods: at best service can be degraded or rendered unavailable, at worst your data can be compromised.

SaaS is like anything else: it can work really well (Office 365[1], GitHub, GMail), or it can be decidedly ropey (Google Docs), or anywhere in between.

[1] Within certain constraints - to me Office 365 still feels weak as a collaborative tool.
You're asking for a completely new browser engine to be written. A browser with a completely new browser engine isn't going to be "good" for a long time, because most webpages will just be broken on it, until they've managed to implement some portion of the webstandards in a semi-decent way. The upfront-investment is ridiculous. Which is also why no one's done it since last millenium.

There's only one project, that I'm aware of, that's semi-seriously trying to write a new browser engine:

Mozilla is working on a completely new browser engine, called Servo, and they've been working on that since 2013 and it's still miles away from actually being usable for every-day-browsing.

It is good in other ways, really good performance and security, but if you prefer Pale Moon over Firefox, that's probably not even what you're looking for either.

Officially, it's a research project, some components from it have just recently been included into Firefox, and yeah, it's not even necessarily going to be turned into a complete browser.

Mr. pcwalton (who also replied to you) is one of the core-devs on Servo, so if you have questions about Servo, he's probably more qualified to answer those than I am.