skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sites detecting headless browsers vs headless browsers trying not to be detected by sites, is an arms race that's been going on for a long time. The problem is that, if you're trying to detect headless browsers in order to stop scraping, you're stepping into an arms race that's being played very, very far above your level.

The main context in which Javascript tries to detect whether it's being run headless is when malware is trying to evade behavioral fingerprinting, by behaving nicely inside a scanning environment and badly inside real browsers. The main context in which a headless browser tries to make itself indistinguishable from a real user's web browser is when it's trying to stop malware from doing that. Scrapers can piggyback on the latter effort, but scraper-detectors can't really piggyback on the former. So this very strongly favors the scrapers.
My post explaining why I thought other cities would not be able to replicate the growth that Amazon achieved in Seattle was removed due to censorship. Some people didn't like that idea. What a crock of shit. So goodbye "hacker" news, lol.
Filesize on snapcraft.io is right around 150MB[0]

[0] https://snapcraft.io/slack/
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My biggest question is: why isn't it linked on the homepage? (along with virtually any other company information).
Google's Fuchsia in action, sort of
If nothing else, the difference between those and Google is at least one of scale and power. With great power comes great responsibility, but Google does not really appear like its sense of responsibility has grown in proportion to its power.
Absolutely. All performance metrics incentivize cheating. External audits are a necessary trust mechanism.
Newgrounds is run at a loss, for the record.
The US has too much retail space. About 2x too much. There's a fan club for cutesy little hipster stores that sell overpriced hipster stuff bought by hipster people with their hipster little dogs. Look at the pictures in the article.[1] See any stores selling necessities? A hardware store? A real grocery store? Nah. Retail is happening at the strip mall or online.

It's hard to fill those little shops at the base of commercial structures with anything useful. Most apartment buildings can't even support an on-premises convenience store. SF tried. The big parking garage at 4th and Mission has lots of little shops, marginally trying to survive. The Metreon was supposed to be a tech showcase. Now it's a Target store.

Don't confuse decorative hipster with success.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53dd6676e4b0fedfbc26e...
Believe it or not if you have a lot of money, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is a very good option

https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards/

Fidelity let's you set up all your accounts with them (including checking) as transfer on death accounts, which would avoid probate. Mine are all TOD. I have primary a secondary beneficiaries.

If you have a high cash balance you should really put it in a high interest earning account, Discover Bank, Ally, etc. Since those are all online only banks then they know how to do things without having to visit a branch. There's a zero percent chance a bank that doesn't have branches will tell you to visit a branch to do something.
H1-B: Immigrants make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce
And I started using Google's phones because I could see the potential for things like B. Hell yes, I want my phone to be aware of things in my email inbox. I want it to be more aware.
More like robbing people of their time.
Sounds like Celebration, Florida.
I guess it's driver related. since fuchsia is a micro kernel os it avoids some driver issues when updating the kernel.
You're hitting the top marginal rates and seeing sales tax be a large burden? Weird. Are you spending more than you're currently earning?
Los Angeles (i.e. Hollywood) could be a strategic move given Amazon's massive push in original series and programming via Amazon Studios. Also, shares a coast with Seattle.
Checkout my site \newline [1]. The introduction to Solidity course is a walkthrough on how to write and deploy your first smart contract locally. It's free.

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"That’s when it becomes impossible. You can come up with whatever tests you want, but any dedicated web scraper can easily get around them."

As long as the logic is hidden from the scrapers, i.e. not running in a web browser, scrapers are at a disadvantage. They don't have the data about the users that websites have. And even something as simple as Accept-Language header associated with an IP subnet is a data point that can be used to protect against scraping. There are a lot more data points though and more aggressive fingerprinting can effectively destroy scraping.
What can we learn from the Ship of Theseus about software development?
Something about your phrasing reminded me of the customer reviews for the "three wolves" t-shirt on Amazon [1]. Thanks for brightening my day!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Wolf-Short-Sleeve/prod...
> things that don't much matter, like details of our dinner experience

Really???
How is this functionality different than an app asking you to review it after using it? The app “knows” your using it and prompts you to contribute to crowd sourced app reviews in the App Store. Apple likely knows what apps you have run unless you disable all diagnostics and lots of apps phone home.

In this case, geo fencing is prompting you to review a location instead of an app.

I think people rely on a lot more crowdsourced information, much of it from nagging or campaigning, than they realize and would be sad if it didn’t exist. Waze has saved my bacon many times. Google Maps’s knowledge of near real time bussiness congestion or closures has stopped me from wasting an hour driving somewhere only to find out it’s closed or all full.

On the health front we could probably save millions of lives from disease if more anonymized health records were available to researchers for application of machine learning to medical histories or prediction of complications. So much good could be done in the world.
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Everybody has a bias, his interpretation where it goes away from his words does so too. His own opinions color his view of Smith, as does mine.

My point was that his text was not wrong, but it played to people who interpret it in certain ways. A naive reading of his article would lead one to conclude that Treacher and Stalin were the same in the eyes of Smith.

I was just point out that just because they are the same in this one aspect of his thought, it is still a very large and important difference in the content. There is no question if Smith would prefer a more market oriented framework with stronger individual liberty then we have now.

I mean the state spends around ~50% of GDP in the developed world and has major regulatory powers in every aspect of the economy. I think he would admit that as well. Most scholars who work in the tradition of Smith tend to agree on that.

You will not that the podcast (and book) I linked are are equally authoritative as he is.
That's a separate option called location history. Alternatively you can turn off location in Android.
Vancouver is right next to Seattle, and wouldn't diversify Amazon in terms of time zones or meterological/geological catastrophes. I don't know enough to say for sure, but I think Amazon has a preference for English-speaking cities which would indicate against Montreal.

Honestly, I think Toronto is a huge dark horse. It's an incredibly attractive location to relocate candidates to and isn't subject to American visa laws. I think the main reason smaller Canadian cities didn't make the cut is because Amazon doesn't really want to go that far north. Toronto is already south of Seattle, for instance.
The OS isn't being virtualized in VirtualBox, the hardware is. VirtualBox pretends to be a second computer inside your computer, but that second computer still needs its own real copy of an operating system.
Any data to back that up? I'd be curious to know what the ideal density is.
I would suggest that maybe this says something more about you and your natural passion, than whether your first intellectual doodles were on a TV or a monitor.
>or are there plenty of other cases out there that I just don't know about?

Yeah, go on IRC sometime and you’ll probably find out relatively quick.

Plenty of magic strings that break things on various platforms, hardly just an OS X thing.
Playing around with the demo makes me think this is a good fit. Thanks!
Turns out having the most guns doesn't make you the most enlightened.
Yep, back then it was very hard to get any free hosting that supported any sort of scripting language. Of course, as a 12 year old on the internet, paying for anything was unheard of.

I remember wanting to set up some forum that required CGI. I had some sort of hosting account that required using their own dialup service to connect to their FTP. Probably cost more on the phone bill than some cheap hosting service, but it was easier to get that by the parents than asking to use their credit card when the internet was still a mystery to them.
Almost all of my t-shirts, and a good chunk of my polos are random swag from various conferences or trainings, and all of the baseball caps I wear on a regular basis are (Red Hat used to give out really nice ones).

I couldn't really give a shit what I look like most of the time, however, so your mileage may vary. But I don't have to buy t-shirts...
Rust -- https://github.com/koute/stdweb

C++ -- https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom

I don't know exactly how these work but Emscripten allows interop both ways (embedding JS in native code and calling native code from JS) -- https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...
I think it is more the other way: a nearby landlord can keep track on how his property is being used and take action early before there is a problem. If a tenant is likely to be caught in the act of destroying the place that are less likely to do that. Sadly as every landlord knows many tenants will not pay their rent and then destroy their apartment.

This is also helped by nearby landlords probably are small enough that equal opportunity laws don't apply. Stereotypes on the appearance of bad renters is true enough to be useful even though it is often wrong and always immoral.
This incentivizes more aggressive fingerprinting, not the other way around. Too bad people don't realize it.
Then where are the riots about Facebook, who are arguably even worse than Google? With 1/3rd of the global population on Facebook, I don't think people care as much as you think they do.
For you Flatpak users out there Slack is also available on Flathub as well.

https://flathub.org/apps.html
Agree. I work in the area. Beyond universities, the amount of talent that goes through Newark, from NJ suburbs into NYC, every day is incredible. I would think many of those people would love to shave 20-40 minutes off their commute and stop paying city taxes.
> It’s not cost-effective to build the app on all the platforms at once because it takes 3 times more effort to make a small change. We should start with just one and invest into others when the concept is proven to be successful.”

There are multiple development toolsets that will let you do this, without tripling your effort. There are tradeoffs involved, but I think this request was more reasonable than this article presents it as.
"Idea people" to me suggests the sort of folks who think that the secret to success is having a killer idea nobody thought of before, and execution is something that will sort itself out. This goes double if they think that execution is something that can be outsourced.
>"Historically it goes back to Post-WW2 German economist. You are also not using that definition."

I don't know about other users of the word. Part of the wikipedia definition, that I agree with, and I think reflects the current consensus of the word is:

"These market-based ideas and the policies they inspired constitute a paradigm shift away from the post-war Keynesian consensus which lasted from 1945 to 1980."

So, what make neoliberalism, as a word, informative is that it represents a change from another period. That makes, in my opinion, the word useful and informative. If you recognize there was a change, how do you call this period if not 'neoliberal'?

>"Yes but if you look at those then you will notice that is was implemented by a wide variety of different parties with different ideologies. "

Maybe we are looking to different things, but when I look to it what I see, for instance, is the IMF and a few other "american and european" institutions imposing development paths, that they didn't follow in the past, as the 'obvious' solution. And keep insisting in it, never mind the results.
I think some cities (suburban Atlanta, for one, probably the city in Kentucky from TFA as well) have the "if you build it, they will come" approach to mixed-use development, which is just backwards.

It doesn't work if you throw up isolated pockets of mixed-use buildings in the suburbs that one still has to use a car to traverse.

I feel especially bad for entrepreneurs that open places like bakeries or restaurants in these islands. Those are the sorts of places you draw passerbys in with colorful window displays and hunger-inducing smells. People whizzing by in their cars aren't enticed by either as they speed by. These places all close shop within a year or two, and we end up with empty retail shops on the ground floor for years.
http://blog.spotinst.com/2017/11/19/best-practices-serverles...
Depends on how you define economics. It's the study of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, which absolutely includes common goods like green space, pedestrian access, and other factors that are becoming even more important parts of city planning.

Even if you look at some of these elements as purely aesthetic or quality of life factors, that's still something economists regularly analyze, even when it might not have traditionally been the case.
Actually I agree with them here, it's much more peaceful now than before. When we were trying to break into China and facing against Didi that really seemed like we were at war. Like we would start a growth campaign and merely hours after we launch, Didi would launch the exact same campaign. Even after the merger I'm not sure if this is true but we found 16 employees who were on both Ubers and Didi's payroll.
Agreed, I very much doubt any of these clients would have put up any serious money upfront. My experience has always been they look for alternative deals or financing such as “equity” or “revenue share”.
Talent, investment, innovation culture, mentorship, and meetups are just a few of the reasons why Silicon Valley is a great place to be an entrepreneur.

Yes, the downsides are well enumerated and discussed ad nauseum, and there are other interesting locations to run a startup, but dismissing it out right is rather silly.
> If you stretch your definition to problematic but usable,

One common example of a use case for wine is games, so maybe we can measure it as the number of games wine has it in its database over the years.

> it’s certainly true for recent versions of Windows.

Sounds very much likely given the fact that D3D 11 is now supported. D3D was an enabler or catalyst if you could call it like that, for the games and GPU industry. Who knows what’s in store with UWP

There were other enablers as well like infiniband networks. I wonder what the performance currently is in the niche market of HPCs with infnibands enabling RDMA networks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet
There is a lot of research surround this transition, and solid evidence that is does help novice programmers (not just kids) transition: http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol16/JITEv16ResearchP209-226S...

Our goal is to reduce barriers surrounding syntax and discoverability, so that they reach computational skills (sequences, conditions, functions, lists and other data structures) faster and with higher confidence and motivation. With the motivation (e.g., "I already built this") and a solid foundation, text programming can feel more achievable to the student.
Bootstrap 4.0.0 is finally released
if you want to block scrapers, just add rate limiting...
Anyone got any information on how the text rendering bug actually works (not just hand-waving it away as "oh it's UTF-8")?

I can see that the file alternates between segments of:

- Repetitions of the glyph "t̴́̍̒", which is a lowercase t with a combining tilde overlay, an acute accent, a vertical line above, and a turned comma above

- Random-looking ASCII characters with lots of apostrophes (spelled as &#39; in the HTML)

- Short sequences of spaces, non-breaking spaces, and zero-width joiners

- Occasional emoji

The "t̴́̍̒"s manage to slow down my terminal and glitch its rendering a bit. Is it that they're unexpectedly tall? But we've had zalgo-text for a while and it hasn't actually crashed devices.
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That's an open question that Google could solve by providing said option. One dollar a month for the complete suite of google tools with no tracking or ads whatsoever? Sign me up, right now. I pay 10x that amount to Spotify for a decent but less useful service. Hell, I'll go to $2/month.
Why not? The world needs a sane OS.
Crossing a busy sidewalks is just as annoying for drivers as it is for pedestrians (maybe more, pedestrian traffic doesn't back up through a light when a pedestrian has to wait for a car). More on street parking and less off-street parking solves that.
How do you feel about jurisdictions which ban (or severely limit) outdoor advertising like billboards?
Tripod offered Perl CGI scripting on their free service at one point.

I wrote a terrible "messageboard" that only one other person ever used.
S/he was probably referring to the concept of "wartime consigliere" popularized by The Godfather.
'Inherently linked' is a misnomer. We're in the driver's seat here, we're not at the mercy of the weather. If we can set our trade policy, then we can set our tax policy and budget.

Raise taxes on the rich (short of making globalization a net loss to them), fund infra projects that put lots of blue-collar people to work, and in a generation we've got a bunch of cool shit on top of increased mobility and a better consumer economy. Everyone wins.
There are apparently many, many 'end-users' who feel it does not make a better product for them, but thanks for being such a brazen apologist for shady practices.
Unidirectional Architectures over ReactiveSwift
I ordered before they had them in stock. They estimated mid november to start shipping. They started shipping some late nov/early December. I asked for a TPM to be installed on my laptop, which they are apparently doing by hand. This is what they attributed the extra ~6 weeks and counting delay on top of the original delay to. Last I heard after I reached out to them (December) they hoped to ship “second half of January”. They did not mention this when I added the TPM to my order. Not super happy about this obviously :/
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Santa Monica people look like a pretty happy crowd to me whenever I get there. Perfect weather, lots to do. As long as you can afford it.
I guess I don't see these things on my phone because I'm cheap and rarely ever have data on.

But if I did, I wouldn't be shocked that a device with gps and internet access knows where I am and a company that makes money by people using it because it is useful would want to make their product more useful.
Lazy question:

After migrating from macOS to Linux last spring, there is one application I still miss. It is available for Windows and macOS only.

I tried to get it work with Wine, but the installer complained about missing .Net 4.5.1+
So I installed it, but the installer still complained.

Then I read that Wine cannot emulate Windows 7 + .Net 4.5.1; so I switched to emulation mode to Windows Server 2003R2. Now, the installer complained about only supporting Windows 7 or newer.

So, does anybody know if Wine 3.0 supports Windows 7 + .Net 4.5.1?

(I know, I could do the research myself. Don't bother, unless you know off the tip of your head.)

EDIT: Almost forgot - congratulations to all the developers!!!
It is impossible to make headless and normal browser send 100% indistinguishable traffic. The timing of the browser requests is influenced by rendering that for the two versions will be always different.
Excellent game. It was ahead of it's time.
This is unfortunate, because Foucault and Baudrillard are both really entertaining once you get the hang of their writing style, especially compared to other philosophers.
> cars are a better experience than transit/walking in every facet

I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. There are plusses and minuses to both. IMO, the big plus with a car is freedom, but then there are many negatives like parking, traffic, and speed to destination.

If I ever move again, it will be to a location where I do not have to own a car. I hate everything about driving, and realized it's a huge source of general stress for me personally.
I've made it a policy that if an app pops up unsolicited modals to badger me about rating it, it automatically gets a 0-start review. That pattern needs to die in a fire.
How much do websites cost? (2008)
From the linked page

>>We are looking for a location with strong local and regional talent—particularly in software development and related fields
Ah, the pointing out rhetorical devices used, rhetorical device. Thanks for sharing.
I can't imagine Los Angeles being a serious contender.

- Land is expensive and not particularly abundant. Mid-Wilshire is relatively cheap has great proximity to everything (airport, downtown, west LA, Hollywood) if Amazon is willing to invest in the gentrification of the area.

- Labor cost is within 10% of Bay/Seattle/NYC

- Mass transit is currently effectively non-existent.

- One of the highest taxed cities in the nation.

On the plus side, there's:

+ A very well connected international airport

+ A lot of top tier universities nearby (CalTech, UCLA, USC, UCSB, UCSD, UCI, Pepperdine); any one of which can single handedly supply a workforce comparable to the other candidate cities.

It's a lot easier moving people and airplanes to the other cities than it is creating cheap well connected land in LA.
I'm not sure either Y Combinator News nor the linked site are "major publications".

It is news, because there's a _completely passive_ way to crash a device, and crashes nearly always will allow for unauthorized code execution, given enough resources to work on the problem. You could launch a DOS attack on phones this way, and we all know that Cell Phones are how we're warned about emergencies, etc.

For what it's worth, Microsoft Edge, my default browser, had no problems with this page.
I interviewed at the Pittsburgh office early 2017, and it was a great experience. Granted, I did not get the job, but I feel like the technical portion was fair and not an unpleasant experience.
If google's personalization efforts actually created the filter bubble that I want, more more and less less, it'd be a fair trade.

But they don't, so it isn't.
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>Everything is economics, brother. Even humanities.

Not even this pithy, wrong, six-word statement avoids its grounding in the humanities. Consider the baseless gender assignment you made: pure humanities.
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