skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that much of the institutionalized sabre rattling was seen by some contemporary experts as a guarantee for peace, in a proto-mutually-assured-destruction kind of way

Contemporary experts also claimed that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous."

This is one reason I find the modern argument for MAD to be insane. Conflict escalates, despite it being a negative-sum game.
You can disable autoplay in Firefox by setting the following about:config prefs:

media.autoplay.enabled = false
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = true

This feature is not currently enabled because it can confuse some websites' video players. They can get stuck in a bad state because their JavaScript assumes the video is playing, but because Firefox didn't autoplay it the player buttons don't work correctly.
Celebrating 20 years of open source
This is great to see.

I've been developing in Rails for the last 5 years, and am about to build my own products, and am opting for this kind of setup.. though have decided to hop over to Elixir on Phoenix, and will swap out Redux for Mobx. The application is mostly a dashboard (SaaS). Could easily be an MPA, but I want to move into more responsive UX, and wouldn't mind leveraging the portability for when I develop mobile or desktop apps.

It seems majority of these responses against SPAs are, as you said, all based on bad design, not because the architecture itself is fundamentally flawed -- though it is obviously going against the grain by breaking a lot of this functionality in the first place.

Having said that, the fact that browsers are providing native features to support SPAs, while bridging mobile-native features, is a massive sign of things to come. They're not going away, and support will only get better, and they will only become easier to develop.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear about your custom router! Any particular reason you rolled your own? I was planning to just use react-router, but if there are headaches down the road in terms of managing a hybrid SPA with SSR, I'd appreciate the heads-up.
Does somebody know what is happening with Inbox by Gmail? Every new feature seems to be done with Gmail and Inbox seems like out of development or dormant.
It strikes me as /r/nosleep but for IT.
From Turing Test to Business Necessity. The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
The ePub's look rather okay!
What's with the submission date? It currently says I submitted this 12 hours ago, but that's not true at all: I submitted it closer to 24 hours ago.
It likely doesn't take much. I listened to a podcast with a similar company and started to research them as I was in need of work.

I guess the hard part would be to get on podcasts with a sizeable audience.

I've found that in my startup, even though it's small, it can be easy to get free marketing. I think many people assume that journalists have a backlog of articles and they ignore their emails with suggestions. And perhaps that's true for big ones. We got free press simply by searching the archives or a few local papers, finding a journalist that had written a similar article and reaching out through social media. They are paid to create content, therefore if you get in touch with easy to create content (you are happy to help write/edit, make yourself available at a moments notice) getting an article written about you isn't tough.
What an unempathetic belief...
It was indeed. Saved my butt any number of times before it zombied out in the transition.

When I workded in public IT, on a few occasions I booted Slitaz on troubled machines that idiot colleagues had battled with for hours or days, trying to install som Windows. In less than a minute, I had a working, webbrowsing desktop running entirely from RAM. Tellingly, nobody ever as much as asked a simple how? - somehow reminding me of the Australian aborigines simply ignoring the arrival of a UFO in the shape of captain Cook's ship.
Are there more mass shootings than ever before?
Usually there’s a style that’s mandated by large authorities like C# formatting is mandated by Microsoft and JetBrains. Copying their style gets you there for 80%. The rest is whatever you agree on and usually not something that bothers me.

If you’re the guy that thinks having a 300 line function in an 8000 line class is just an individual way of expressing yourself you’ll have to fight me.

If you think real tabs is better than 4 spaces I shrug and let you have it your way.
> Besides, who remembers the British concentration camps?

Everyone, because it's the answer to the question "who invented the concentration camp".

Unfortunately it's the incorrect answer, because nobody remembers the American, Spanish, French and Paraguayan (the possibly correct answer) concentration camps that came earlier.

It's quite strange/interesting that atrocities in the "wars before WWI" got turned into atrocities in the "British colonial era" though; maybe people remember what they want to remember.
70k-140k, presumably higher in NYC / Bay. See here for numbers from NC State's program: http://analytics.ncsu.edu/reports/employment/MSA2017.pdf (page 5)
Who cares if people are suspicious? People believe in chem trails and all kinds of crap, no one has to take a publicity hit to calm them.
Ethereum Is Overpriced Garbage (2017)
> At Google it was always "We don't take an editorial stand, this might be just what some of our customers want."

It's an interesting choice for companies, and Google in particular. Either be proactive and get accused of forcing your customers behavior or having ulterior motives based on money (e.g. Google's ad blocking program), or let them do what they want and get accused of turning a blind eye because it makes more money.

That said, I have little sympathy for Google in this case. They made the choice to go for ad revenue as their business model years ago, and it may have been the most feasible path to success when they did so, but that doesn't mean the perverse incentives weren't obvious at every single step along that path.

I work in the event ticketing secondary markets. That is, I work for a brokerage and buys and sells event tickets for a profit. I mention this because a lot of people have a very negative view of this industry (some of it misinformed, some very well founded in the actions of some bad actors). We run an above-board shop and make money through lots of analytics and targeted investment, and I sleep fine I night. I'm not sure I would if I was employed in certain departments of Google or Facebook.
Delicious+Tomato+Cucumber+Avocado+Salad
The Conspiracy to Conquer Tammany Hall
Well SJW have tendency to destort the rality. And to destroy everything thats fun.
Be careful what you wish for, your favorite services might not exist without advertising. Sure, you might be willing to pay for the service, but would enough people be willing to pay to keep the service afloat? Probably not in a large number of cases. Advertising is the necessary evil that keeps the internet afloat.
Sure. It's also fair for her to challenge this clause given that the revelation of her win would probably completely destroy her existing relationships. It's fun to dream about winning hundreds of millions of dollars, but I'm glad this woman is taking the likely consequences of the win seriously and doing what she can to protect herself.

Ultimately, state sponsored lotteries like this are a bad thing for everyone: the winners, the losers, the taxpayers, the government, and society at large. So if she can win this case and that in turn makes lotteries less popular or uneconomical, then that's a good thing for the culture.
> I hope she wins

I'm not sure I do. She opted into a transparent system and gets the down side that comes with it (or opts out). If this was thrust upon her, I might feel different. I fear the precedent this would set for redacting names from Forbes lists and the like. It's one of those unfortunate occurrences where openness and privacy are in conflict and when it's government actions like this, arresting someone, awarding some other monies to someone, etc I think openness should prevail.
How Protein Conquered America
I made a short blocklist (compatible with uBlock Origin and Ad Block Plus) that just blocks these crap ads served by Taboola, Outbrain, and the like:

https://github.com/cpeterso/clickbait-blocklist/
I am sick of the virtue signalling that happens in the gaming industry.

-oh he deserves it, but it might send the wrong signal-

Frig off
That’s a good point, maybe I misread the initial post.
That is simply not true.

Any UK winner can opt for anonymity when collecting their prize. The National Lottery give financial and legal advice regardless of your choice. Only around 20% opt for publicity.
None of My Apple Gear Connects Together, Dammit
meta: this could be automated.
Regarding the linting levels, for eslint you can configure any rules. Just use different .eslintrc and you should be all set.

Regarding the changeset, I think you could roll that pretty easily with something like `git diff --name-only | xargs eslint`.
The article points out "In court documents obtained by NewHampshire.com, the plaintiff is fittingly identified only as Jane Doe."

See also https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/filing-a-laws... or use your search engine of choice for '"anonymous plaintiff" lawsuit'.
> So then, tell me what a Rob Pike should earn vs a Geoffrey Hinton vs Peter Norvig. I would not know where to begin to make that estimate.

Whatever they can negotiate, in my view.
If the organization doesn't care about code quality, then they don't deserve talented engineers with domain knowledge.
Honestly, laughed pretty hard at this comment.

But seriously, you're gonna need to whitelist the site and enable JS. Or just use a normal non tor browser.
Excuse me.
Was more a reaction on "The only thing people are actually using Bitcoin for right now is to sell to other people for more than they bought it (or maybe to sell for less than they bought it to launder money)."
there are plenty of ways to avoid fraud without having to recall the identity to the public, the main being state auditing of all lotteries, which should probably happen anyways
What’s New in Google's V8 JavaScript Engine
On disk size != memory footprint though. It may occupy 11MB as a binary but allocate way more than that at runtime.

[nitpicking, of course :)]
Because if people are suspicious they stop buying tickets.
Most everything I write does.
Google/xsecurelock: X11 screen lock utility with security in mind
> The practices of FB are not universally considered bad, many people are OK with them

Really. Please point me at these people.

People that simply "don't care, yolo" do not count. People that have a stake in this because they have an interest in the tech business and fear that any decisions in this matter might negatively impact their business, also do not count (because a very specific yet vocal slice of the tech sector is hardly representative of what is "universally" considered right or wrong).

If you think that's too restrictive, and those are the only two groups you can point at, that's okay. I don't really believe those two groups (ignorance and business interest) should be considered representative of what is universally considered right or wrong. If you believe otherwise we'll have to agree to have a different view on ethics (which is a bit of a long discussion I'm not up for right now).

Everybody else I hear about this (I said "almost everybody" at first, but I can't think of anyone), DOES think it's bad, but admit that "what can you do, if everyone uses it" (hence the need for EU regulations!!) and because "it's really useful to keep in touch with long-distance friends and family, also to plan events etc", the latter being a reasonable point except there's nothing unique about FB's capability providing this service, and it's really easy enough to do it without violating privacy, if it weren't for FB dominating the social network sphere and forcing the privacy violations on the general public.
First agree on what it should actually be and document that. Make sure nobody commits anything that makes the codebase worse. Don’t refactor but clean first, and only while delivering value.
Given all the issues in regards to exchanges i.e. fraud, theft and relative difficulty in getting out, I wouldn't trust cryptocurrency at all.
It should be noted that more often than not there are strong reasons besides ignorance and incompetence for a project to arrive at a certain state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...

It shoud be stressed that a developer should not assume all his predecessors were wrong just because he doesn't understand why some stuff ended up being the way it is.
The world is packed with developers who proud themselves of fixing things that were never broken, and in the process break stuff.
Microsoft had a policy "Embrace, extend, exterminate". One could suspect that Google tries something similar here.
I mean, it's strictly better than the typical code interview, which is timed too. And the reality today is that the majority of people have to be able to deal with a ~45min code interview to find employment in software.
Because, and I'll quote from article, "she signed her name on the back of the ticket shortly after winning, and altering the signature would nullify the ticket." That is, she could have formed an anonymous trust, but now it's too late.
> There is a glaring conflict of interest as others have pointed out; it cannot be ignored. Through strategic acquisitons such as Doubleclick, Google and its subsidiaries are the largest warehouse of advertising on the www.

The point is, they're not only a near-monopoly in web advertising, but also have very detailed data about their competitors (via GA and many other products) AND now are controlling the channel for 60% of users. It's unbelievable they managed to pull this out and still so few people seem to care.
On the extremely rare chance that you do win, avoiding the troubles of a newly minted public millionaire, not signing it seems like a good trade off.
Four fight to claim Charles Manson's body
I was under the impression that if you really want to optimize for space that you should avoid kernel module overhead entirely and build in your modules statically. Maybe it only saves a few bytes and a couple clock cycles at load time but it sounds like it’s worth a try for you.
There is no real skill involved in watching YouTube or even in operating an iPad. Modern gizmos are filled with apps that battle each other for your kids attention and they play on their weaknesses. All the time a kid spends staring at a screen being passive (watching low IQ vloggers praise the latest soda, watch hours of other kids gaming, watch other kids unpack Kinder Eggs, etc) is time spend learning the brain that this is the way to relax. All that time is not spend in social situations, in nature, playing outside, using fine motor skills, learning what is feels like to actually make something of value to yourself or someone else.

A healthy relationship with technology is not that of a consumer in my view, but that exact relation is most profitable to technology producers in this age. Tablets, chromecasts, smartphones and gaming consoles are consumption devices designed to elicit ever more desire to consume. Being a good consumer is not an important part of life imo and that is a message I want to thoroughly imprint on my kids. While they are to young to self regulate I'm right on top of it.
Related: I wonder if any analysis on the life outcomes of another jackpot system, "sold company for a windfall", have been done. I appreciate the bad lotto result stories because they confirm my correct bias that lotto should not be played because it is a tax on not understanding probability (except at about 350M for powerball, in which case your enemy is not expected value but variance). However, no such analysis seems to have been done on the startup ecosystem, which generally relies on big exit stories for 'free marketing'.
Print bonus: it has a chance of surviving the ages. How much digital-exclusive content will be available in 100 years? Considering that so much from just 10-20 years ago is gone forever, the outlook is not a so good.
> destort the rality
Some people perhaps are missing this. Others surely understand.

Personally, I have been running my computers this way for many years now. I do not use Linux kernel, but like "tinycore" everything fits in RAM. Size range is usually about 13-17MB for x86.

The USB stick or other boot media with the kernel+bootloader can be removed after boot. Depending on how much free RAM I have to spare, I can overlay larger userlands on top of this, and chroot into them. With todays RAM sizes, I can hold an entire "default base" (BSD) in memory if desired.

This filesystem on the media is not merely an "install" image. It has everything I need to do work, including custom applications. If I want distributions sets I download them; they are not stored on the media.

In normal use, I do not use any disk. Therefore I do not use a swap file.

Recently on HN a discussion of sorting came up, and I mentioned the issue of sorting large datasets using only RAM, no disk. Obviously BSD and other UNIX-like kernels date back to a time of severely constrained memory and are designed around space-saving concepts like "virtual memory" and "swap", "shared libraries", etc.

When one runs from RAM with no disk, working with large files means "thrashing" is a real possibility. Aside: Did the architects of virtual memory contemplate a world where users are doing work without using HDDs or other writeable permanent storage. (Start a new thread if want to answer/debate this.)

Sorting large files is something I do regularly so I am always open to new ideas. Currently I use k/kdb+ for large files instead of UNIX sort.

Here's the reply I got:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16086791
>Good luck affording an internet connection if your daily browsing habit isn't being subsidised by advertisers anymore.

What portion of ISP revenue is from advertising? I suspect it is vanishingly small.
OP said "large majority of people using adblockers", not that a large majority were already using them.
Communist ideology as embraced by nations typically involves spreading that ideology as far and wide as possible (including in the non-purified forms of communism). Your opening sounds like the USA had no reason to pressure the DPRK. I can't speak to specific incidents you may have in mind, but communism would have spread globally, bringing with it suffering, had it not been opposed and pressured.
Predicting how RNA folds in 2D including Pseudoknots (2013)
I think the moral is... do not talk/sign/call/anything, walk, no run, to a good lawyer well versed in the area of: "I've just won the lottery, please help."
GDBR hopefully will be what you are asking.
Uber and Lyft, Driving Drivers into Poverty and Despair
Google Search works like an API. You search the keyword, they run it through their algorithms. There's no download of their entire search index because that would be impossible.
No, I do not believe in day trading, I don't think I can compete with my few VPS servers against millions of dollars of HFT infrastructure, co-located servers in the exchange data centers, etc...

The problem with all educators/gurus/coaches is not much the fact that you'll lose few thousand dollars to useless training, but when you start real trading you'll end up losing much more hard earned money using their strategies...

Not to mention some of them will front run their students, buying low float and often penny stocks and alerting to the followers and selling into the spike and then will use the winnings as advertisement to lure the next batch of sheep to fleece... Don't forget: "There's a sucker born every minute" as my high school friend P.T. Barnum used to say ;-)
If you're using a publicly-routable IP address why not use a publicly-routable hostname and get a certificate for it?
Understanding the React Source Code – UI Updating (Individual DOM) VIII
That's like asking what's the alternative for being a pro football player for people who don't like physical exertion.
This woman is first human infected with rare eye worm
The question is whether the law establishing the lottery permits that, and if so what clear limits the court can put into place so that the agency operating the lottery doesn't have to contend with too many complex scenarios that could ultimately result. Money attracts litigation, especially when the rules aren't crystal clear.

It sucks for this woman, but technically she could always forgo the winnings altogether. Nobody is forcing her to take the money, or to keep it. She wants to have her cake and eat it too. What's she's asking is reasonable on its face, but there are larger considerations at play.

The legislature is still free to address this woman's concerns directly, as well as for future winners. Ideally that's what would really happen. Maybe she should pledge some donations to her friendly neighborhood representatives.
You're correct, they did that an hour ago.
>If so, the question here that you originally posed would be answered in the negative:

No. the answer is "positive" in the context of my reply to d2wa of how EasyList is not obeyed. The "whitelist" is achieved by correct use of AdSense. (See pseudo-code example #3 of how EasyList filter code is never reached for AdSense.) It does not work like uBlock.
Thank you. I'll try and hunt down more details :)
Obviously you need a strategy, otherwise the whole exercise is pointless...
The "hub" aspect of GitHub takes a decentralised protocol and adds a trusted third party (github). The whole point of blockchain is to avoid creating trusted third parties, something people like Nick Szabo identified a long time ago as a problem for protocol design.
Containers: You Don't Have to Do Them Wrong Just Because Everyone Else Is (2016)
Why are they a bad thing for everyone? Obviously the players are almost universally worse off for playing, but don't they generate tax revenue and funnel money into places like schools?
Perhaps, but if I said to staff we wanted to pay individually, he’d simply ask everyone “ok what on this receipt did YOU have?”. They might have a vague idea since they took the orders earlier, but it would still be a slow and cumbersome process. I think even paying in the simplest and quickest way possible (all on one card) is more of a hassle than I’d like.

So yes, the staff can do it. But I don’t mind summing up my stuff on the receipt and just sending money to whoever paid, and the reason I prefer it is because it’s so much quicker when paying (the hassle takes place at a different time and place).

It’s not uncommon to be served by 2 or 3 different people who of course remember who orders an extra beer when they go get it - but that information isn’t recorded, it’s just registered to the receipt on the table. When the bill is brought to the table I think it’s more common than not that the person bringing it did not serve everything on the receipt so would not be able to split the bill without input from the customers.
104 years of downtime: looking through a year of Statuspage incident data
The best way to teach kids to read is to have their parents read to them, and sit with them individually and work with them on sounding out words.

Then you just read with them over and over and over. Every night you read with them, and then you provide them with access to books. Take them to the library check out as many books as they want and then you sit and read with them every single night. That is how you teach kids to read.