skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's something we would love to expose in the future. That said, we have yet to see someone run into those limits (on purpose). The average worker runs with less than a ms CPU time.
> Of all the ways to buy things online amazon was pretty far down the list until the mid 2000s.

That's just not true. Yes, they focused largely on books and music originally, but they were still a first mover in ecommerce and a huge presence. Heck, their 1 click patent was published in 99.
If you have any feature ideas, questions or suggestions, feel free to post them and I'll respond to or include whatever I can.
Nope: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440461
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Static Blog
There seem to be a lot more young developers than old developers. But, why? I can only assume that either, the number of developers is increasing (more and more young people entering the work force), or a lot of people stop being software engineers after 8 years. People usually work between the ages 22 and 65, so given a even distribution, if the industry isn't growing by leaps and bounds, the average work experience should eventually be about 20 years with an average age of 42.
There is no 'proof' in science. You only have theories which can explain all currently known observations, and those which don't. And the theories which explain all known observations tend to have _predictive power_, which means that you can predict the outcome of some experiment or event using the theory and then verify the prediction through observation.

Even a prediction, however, doesn't "prove" the theory. Even a thousand or a million predictions don't. There's always a possibility, no matter how slight, that it was all one giant coincidence, and some future observation will throw everything into chaos.

All of that said -- the preponderance of the evidence-- and not just Hutton's observations but carbon dating and biology and chemistry, etc, etc, all strongly suggest the same interpretation, and one would have to have an astoundingly good reason for believing anything else.

Everything about the impossibility of proof that applies to our current understanding of "deep time" applies a million fold for any other theory which almost certainly lacks any explanatory or predictive power at all.
Wasn't running code on edge nodes how Cloudflare man in the middle attacked millions of encrypted websites for a year?
But because it's distributed, you can be the origin for hundreds of pages on a tiny $5 vps and when popularity increases you would not have to shoulder all the load.
Mozilla is the best that I've seen at defending their users, but unfortunately that bar isn't very high. You are correct that this was an extremely shitty move on their part, but I don't see many alternatives.
Off-topic: Any good point in how make the android webview to perform well?
Update:

My comment is compressed even when opened in a brand new browser, and this thread no longer shows up on the News pages at all, at least the first seven pages.

If I'm not mistaken, there has been no reason for this given whatsoever.

Weird weird weird shit.
Big investors have clout. They can use it with gun makers
Crowdsourcing 600 years of human history
I can't fault China for this, it doesn't sound like much recycling was happening. We've been paying recyclers to recycle and instead they've been shipping it off to China where it's treated as waste.

I think we need to reevaluate what recycling really means and possibly hold recyclers accountable for actually recycling.
Nope, those two are managed & planned separately.

The reason is:

- Marketing is running usually specific landing pages that are tailored to the campaigns we have going at the time.
Having them hosted via a 3rd party, allows the non-technical people to change, update & publish changes to the copy, tracking codes & design on the fly.

- The "app" landing page in most cases is the registration/sign-in page.

Both of these sites are tracked via the same analytics tool to understand the breakdown of the marketing/onboarding funnel.

It's worth hiring a marketing agency if you have the revenue/funding to spend on it, since most likely they can handle a larger number of marketing experiments running at the same time, compared to an internal team.

However, if you're early stage, I definitely recommend doing it all yourself, the more you learn the better down the line when hiring someone to do the work for You.
> We can find environments producing similar sediments as those rocks today, and they form slowly. This is the key parts of Hutton's original argument: That cliff is made of sandstones that are similar to those forming on beaches and rivers just around the corner.

This seems flawed to me. "We can find environments producing similar sediments as those rocks today, and they form slowly." That's kind of saying "Under conditions like today, things happen like they do today." But catastrophes are, by definition, not the way things happen today.

So this argument boils down to either "Catastrophes have to produce different-looking results than non-catastrophic processes" (which may be a defensible point, but requires defense rather than just assuming it), or else to an implicit assumption that catastrophes did not in fact occur.

The second option may require a bit of explanation. I can assume uniformitarianism, see things that can be formed by gradual processes, assume that everything I see that could be formed by gradual processes was in fact so formed, and then see confirming evidence for gradualism and uniformitarianism everywhere. But if in fact the same effect could be produced by a catastrophe, I don't have any evidence - just an assumption and a circular argument.
With torrents, long tail stuff frequently runs out of seeders, no?
Looks like some teenagers [1] and a PR company [2] are doing some marketing or market manipulation stunt...

Note that the site of that "Cyber Security Consultancy Firm" does not even support HTTPS. :))

[1] http://cts-labs.com/management-team
[2] http://www.bevelpr.com
I remember struggling with understanding Kalman filters (and Particle filters). I found [1] to be an amazingly clear explanation:

[1] http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
I switched back to Firefox for dev work on my system (Arch Linux), because Chrome would slow to a crawl with its devtools open. Firefox (since quantum) seems to fare better.
Or just don't store personal data?
For what it's worth, I've occasionally noticed similar problems with frames (embedded content from other sites especially), and it seems that force-reloading the page with ctrl-shift-r gives a different behavior than the reload button in the uMatrix panel.

I usually unblock the embedded domain, manually allow frames, then force-reload the page, but it usually seems to work.
I slightly disagree. I think browsers should try to act in the best interest of the user, but should always have the option to just render what is given.
5 Long-Term Effects of Cannabis Use, and How Cannassist Can Help
The JS requests are limited to several MBs so you can't download large assets. This applies on AWS Edge too but on AWS you can modify the request's origin and then cloudfront agent (which has higher limits ) will perform the actual request using the origin you set.
There is also Wichita State University who is playing in the NCAA tournament this weekend. Having WSU in the title is certainly confusing.
Show HN: Ballpoint, a web-based SVG editor
Full Text of the Open Letter from Tim Berners-Lee here : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/tim-be...
Would there be any issues running something like expressjs on it?
CTS-Labs Announces Findings of 13 Security Vulnerabilities in Ryzen and EPYC
Rust videos from meetups and conferences like the Rust Belt Rust or RustFest
NASA report: SpaceX design error led to 2015 CRS-7 explosion
The AIGWT: A Poorly Named But Very Useful Writing Framework
>Unless you're using plain VM

Even a plain VM is easily observable for whoever is hosting it. At the end of the day you have to either trust your service providers or do it yourself, whether that's securing your network infrastructure or emptying the trash can next to your desk.
I'm not surprised about the OSS contribution rate. I don't routinely contribute to major projects, but over five years ago I once rewrote substantial parts of the MySQL connector for an ORM we were contemplating using at work and got them merged just so we could demo it with support for some MySQL features we used. I also have a github with some really tiny public repos that people in super super niche roles might find useful. And of course I file bug reports and discuss features for projects I use routinely. Do I contribute to Open Source? Yes, I suppose. Am I a super active and dedicated contributor? Not really.

And I kind of think the above ballpark is where a lot of developers are.
Nice work!

Some usability feedback: Adding a new element to the page (+) is the first action and it was hard for me to find it. It's likely also one of the most frequent functions you'll use, so I think this button should have way more relevance, at least on the same level as "Save".
EmberConf 2018 keynote starting at 9:30 AM PT (or so)
I seem to recall the folks behind Solus (the distro I use) remind people not to use TLP because it leads to lock-ups or unwanted behavior and it ends up not being worth the trouble. Not sure if powertop is any different, I may give it a go.
Pretty much that. It's not just the context switching, it's that it can be tricky to come up with a synchronization strategy that doesn't confound the CPU scheduler's efforts to keep the pipeline full.

It also depends on your environment. That 2nd app I mentioned was running on physical hardware that was running many applications. In that kind of environment, you can end up in a sort of, "double your CPU cores, double your cache misses" situation. And the performance story ends up not just being about one little module; it's about the entire system. There can be a sort of performance prisoner's dilemma, where trying to individually maximize the performance of every single piece in isolation actually results in slower overall performance.
The article makes it clear that the problem is not what Broadcom will do, but what they won't do.
about:preferences is not the place for this as the vast majority of users know nothing about what they cannot see in a menu structure.
I have lots of US customers across products, but not exclusively. They're currently all charged via Stripe on behalf of my UK company.

Not a US national, still in the UK. Lived/worked in the US for several years in the past though.

US investors — that was the plan, but the product fell flat, and the other things I currently run aren't investor-worthy at this scale I think. If a new product comes up and takes off, sure, that'd be an option. But nothing's come up in the past two years, so I am not entirely sure it'll make sense to wait for this.
I wonder what the web would have looked like if TBL had the visionary powers of RMS.
FBI Continues to Fight Against Encryption
Don't take this too seriously. It's a self selected group of people. Most professional developers didn't take the survey and it's didn't corrected for any variables.
Seems like they're sorting through some AV issues at the moment.
actually, iirc, there is a very cool document by ramsey (i guess) which attempts to provides a simple and intuitive derivation of the Kalman filter without going too deep into mathematics...
Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hours Prior Notice
If it were just developers, there wouldn't be the political constituency for it. Also, developers make money whatever kind of market-rate construction they're doing, in a decent market.

If you're interested in the subject, some good takes on it are the books I list here (Zoned in the USA and Zoning Rules!):

https://bendyimby.com/2017/06/12/yimby-reading/

Or, if you want to get a very real sense, the next time some apartments get proposed in your town, go to the public hearings and listen to the neighbors rant, rave, froth at the mouth and otherwise raise a hue and cry that life as they know it will not go on if the poor peop...errr, I mean apartments get built anywhere near them.
Nice summary. I think of the concept at a slightly higher level of abstraction:

It's just Bayesian inference to update the posterior. A theoretical model gives an estimate of what the state of the system should be (call that the "prior"). A sensor measurement gives an independent estimate of the state (call that the "likelihood"). Composing (multiplying) the two gives the posterior. Further, in this formulation it doesn't really matter what you call the prior or the posterior. You can easily combine estimates from many different sources/sensors.

Kalman filters are just the special case where the likelihood and prior are both Gaussian -- the distributions can be specified with a couple of numbers, and there is a simple closed-form expression for composing them. More generally, one can use all the tools available for Bayesian inference.
Ironically, the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) description of minimum contrast¹ fails the test it describes: in §1.4.3, the link is #3F87A6 on #F4F7F8 (3.7:1) at 16px. (And the unicorn vomit in MDN's code samples is even worse, sometimes below 3:1.)

¹ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/U...
> Isn't most of the prep the pilot running through a checklist

Yes, but...

Things like "check your propeller for cracks", or "verify that the control surfaces are actually moving when the controls say they should have moved" should not be skipped.

But you can skip a lot of things just by virtue of this being an electric vehicle - like "visually verify fuel level without using the gauge", or "check oil level", or "test carb heat" or "verify dual magnetos" etc.
All of Your Nagging 'Last Jedi' Questions, Answered
You've proven American manufacturing increased output despite outsourcing. You didn't prove that outsourcing hasn't cost America leadership in domains, and jobs.

Until recently, the armed forces weren't able to procure clothing manufactured in the US, per federal law. That's how dire certain domains have gotten
Jeff Bezos' blog is hardly neutral and it does not appear they did the original research, but regardless, thanks for laundering the analysis through legacy media.
Google is notorious for not following spec.

In this case, though, what happened is that Google implemented a different, earlier version of the spec than most everyone else. Mozilla is busy implementing that spec as well to bridge the gap.
Or if RMS himself was in place instead of TBL.
Probably a better link than the blogspam.
EmberConf 2018 live stream
Nectome: What if we told you we could back up your mind?
Heh. Coincidentally, I've got a bad knee. "Don't get a knee surgery" was one of the most helpful things my doctor told me.

When you're surrounded by people who (with good intentions) advocate fiddling with things, there's a lot of value in also having someone to argue for a more moderate approach.
Have you read any previous discussion om HN about slack? There are plenty of people holding views OP attacked, so hardly a strawman.
I don't think Norvig is too worried about giving pep rallies.

At any rate: lately I've been having to interact at work with some folks from another company whose entire outlook of what "programming" is revolves around web CRUD stuff and some interactive-looking front-end... web stuff. So "I learned some new programming skills" to them is closer to "I learned how to make an HTML5 caroussel using jquery and Laravel" than "I learned how to calculate road distances using GIS LineStrings and Djikstra's algorithm". Their whole world looks like a CMS. There's a threshold of "meta" they cannot cross.

I think this is both why PHP is so popular and so despised: it attracts people who wouldn't be able to grok concepts at a higher level of abstraction (say, Python @decorators) so they don't need it. PHP -- and really, Laravel, whatever that is -- is all they need.
See this investigative article from last week which lays out at least 8 or 10 people who figured out how to rig the lottery for certain types of games: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners...
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Officially Announce the “On the Run II” Tour
This is a very nice breakdown of Kalman Filtering. One slight correction - Kalman Filtering is one approach to solving the SLAM problem, but SLAM doesn’t require a KF. A particle filter, for example, can be used to solve the SLAM problem.

For anyone interested in further resources to better understand the intuition behind KFs, I’ve found this resource incredibly valuable (although a little pricey):
https://www.amazon.com/Kalman-Filter-Beginners-MATLAB-Exampl...
If they can make a "flying taxi" airplane that isn't unsafe, isn't obnoxiously loud, isn't energy-guzzling, doesn't require undue landing/takeoff space, and is scalable beyond the ultra-elite, great!

But how many of those criteria do you think that even Page could get, simultaneously? Two, maybe three? Flying cars are known for being a somewhat difficult engineering problem; that they've been hard enough to prevent partial solutions may turn out to have been a blessing.

And it's not like there aren't other solutions to transportation issues, either.
ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (good reference on good principles)

Traction by Gino Wickman (how to create SOPs & scale)

Authority by Nathan Barry (how to develop an audience)
Yeah I totally agree with you, my comment was, I learned first about merkle tree from bitcoin, so I was always assuming it is working like this in general. But seems they were filling leaves to power of 2
From Hackathon to Product Hunt
Dude, Cloudflare is just a hosting company, the internet would carry on fine without them. I'm not sure why NYTimes is losing their rag over their long-overdue decision to take down a Nazi site. The famous nazi site is still up, so the internet continues to be place where you can post incitement to genocide - thank goodness!

If you want to rag on Cloudflare as a shabby internet citizen, ask why they provide DDoS protection services while also hosting most DDoS-for-hire sites: https://www.google.com/search?q=booter
Add Identity as UI in ASP.NET Core 2.1 Application
I've also noticed the same blank page with spinner (which seems to hang and never actually refresh in my case) on non Google sites since the quantum upgrade. Figured it was a bug that would get squashed in a subsequent version, but no luck yet.
It would be used by 1% of the population, with the other 99% using something else that looks much like what we have today.
>All of the exploits require elevated administrator access, with MasterKey going as far as a BIOS reflash on top of that. CTS-Labs goes on the offensive however, stating that it ‘raises concerning questions regarding security practices, auditing, and quality controls at AMD’, as well as saying that the ‘vulnerabilities amount to complete disregard of fundamental security principles’. This is very strong wording indeed, and one might have expected that they might have waited for an official response.

Extremely fishy. 1-day notice? Such aggressive wording without even the chance for AMD to address the concerns?
Browsers need a button so the user can categorize a page/site as dickish. In the future, visits to the site will cause the browser to stop with a reminder, similar to the "this page is insecure" dialog, giving the user the option to click through or go back.
We've changed to that from https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/12/the-father-of-the-world-....
From discussion I'm seeing elsewebs, this is extremely suspicious.
Looks like it!

"Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) shares are active as Viceroy Research has come out negative on the stock, saying it could become worthless.

Viceroy made the comments after analyzing CTS Labs' report exposing fatal security vulnerabilities across AMD products.

"Viceroy, in consultation with experts, have evaluated CTS’s report. We believe the issues identified by CTS are fatal to AMD on a commercial level, and outright dangerous at an international level," the report said.

It was added, "We believe AMD is worth $0.00 and will have no choice but to file for Chapter 11 (Bankruptcy) in order to effectively deal with the repercussions of recent discoveries."

Viceroy will discuss the short call on CNBC's Halftime Report at noon."

https://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Viceroy+Resea...
> Maybe human nature is a "problem". But what you're going to do, replace humanity with better species?

I agree that the root of the "problem" currently lies within people and not process. I agree that changing people wholesale is not easy and not desirable. I agree that there has been some improvement.

I also think human nature is a product of the environment. The way people behave on different websites, in different countries, and in different social situations shows this rather clearly. There is no fixed set of anything that constitutes the whole of how people act. Put someone in a nudist colony, and the environment changes, and the way they act changes (with time). If a reddit user starts going to 4chan, the environment changes, and the way they act changes. Put someone who follows the "always defect" strategy in a community of "always cooperate" people, and the environment changes, and the way they act changes. Put a racist in a racially diverse community of acceptance, and the environment changes, and the way they act changes.

If you accept this idea, it follows that certain environments can be better for society as a whole. Case in point with Reddit: they decided an environment without beastiality and certain violent elements would be better. Maybe they were wrong, but I don't think so. I'm not suggesting I have a wonderful theory of what the best environment is, only that there are better and worse ones. The problem of what we value is hard, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying.

This ties the loop back: human nature is a product of environment, and environment is a product of humans. We have the power to create environments that make thoughtful discussion easier and hate harder. We can put energy toward solving the problem by changing the environment. HN has an environment I am very fond of, despite being here for only a couple years. I appreciate the work that has gone into making the comments an insightful, respectful, and generally nice place.

We can't replace humanity. We can't change people without changing the conditions they exist in. We can change the circumstances of our struggle in order to grow together as a species.
I can agree with you. I own a t440s. My only qualm is the touchpad but other than that it's great for web dev.
They always lower rents, compared to if they hadn't been built.
There's just no free lunch really; the simplest thing to do is host it on S3. I doubt that's ever going to disappear, and it costs cents every month. Surely a website that lasts forever is worth a few cents
Exactly. You can have pretty much anything happen, if you put in the antecedents so that it is reasonable for it to happen.
Seems fine for me on MacOS Safari.
To change the image, click the image you want to change, then click in the left column the icon for "Background & Border" .. i guess the icon is supposed to resemble an image, but it's not the best fit in my opinion.
Doctors shocked by 3.5-inch air bubble where part of man’s brain should be
Is there a way to trigger a full screen screenshot via Selenium/WebDriver? (not a partial/window screenshot - that I can do)
> I am sure once they have died

Just because you want them to “die” doesn’t mean they will.
I wonder if this is could be Intel up to its old tricks again.