skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Serious question: why are the W3C still publishing or trying to publish standards for DOM and HTML and probably a few others, when no one that matters cares about them?

There is a potential legitimate role for the two-track approach, if WHATWG represents a moving target of what browser vendors have agreed to implement and essentially is the vehicle for documenting hmthe agreed future common web platform, and W3C presents a versioned publication of the stable, widely implemented, currently usable state at a particular point of time; the W3C version would then be the target for conservative app developers that need something that works everywhere today, the WHATWG standard would be what people making browsers and other user agents would target, and what more ambitious developers willing to deal with “can I use...?” pitfalls would be guided by.
Which points to what ended up happening with BeOS: it became an internet appliance OS, and then the core of a mobile product. These were areas where the hardware and application spaces were quite constrained, and BeOS's competitive advantage in size and performance could be leveraged.
'GrayKey' iPhone Unlocking Box Used by Law Enforcement
They could just sell your profile to advertisers so you could get targeted ads on non-Facebook sites.
But the information in the case being discussed is factually true, and undisputed. Why argue like its not literally the case here?
Tech IPO Market Shows Signs of Warming
This is an ICO. The scammers got paid in cold hard cash.
Teapot Heater – crazy steampunk 3D web game
Yeah, I think that the EU is right in this regard, and I wish a similar principle existed in the US. But I was surprised that the EU court in this case ruled against one person simply because he served a 4 year sentence. His case was more than a decade old, and it was non-violent and non-sexual.

It seems like an inconsistent application of this principle. Sentences are often based on the amount of money involved. So while embezzlement by a CEO at a small company may well result in smaller losses and shorter prison sentences, the intent and conduct is exactly the same as a similar case at a larger company. If the smaller company CEO has a right to be forgotten, so does the larger one.
Hi, my name is Scott Kaplan and I am the founder of CloudBuddy. This is my second post for CloudBuddy on Hacker News. I did the first one back on 11/18/2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730799). The feedback from the first post was very helpful and I made modifications to CloudBuddy as a result.

I wasn't sure what additional information to include about CloudBuddy or myself, so I decided to set verbose=INFO. That can be found here- https://cloudbuddy.cloud/meet-the-founder.html

Thanks.
Is it possible that your feeling is entirely subjective and not backed by any statistics ?
And wouldn’t it have been easier to write it without any of the leniency it has to expose? Wouldn’t it have been easier if all tags were either ending in /> or followed by a closing tag? Wouldn’t it have been easier if the syntax was formally defined as ABNF, and could be translated into code in a matter of days?

I believe it would have been. And I believe that making the web easier machine readable, and making it easier for people to develop tools working with the web, would be a valuable goal.
you can see a laser that is not pointed at your eyes. Use fog.

The atmosphere is known to diffuse the vectors of electromagnetic radiation. That’s how we get blue skies and red sunsets. Who says it’s not having the same effect on earth’s magnetic fields
Wouldn't that be pretty trivial with just a <canvas> element?

use the `drawImage` function to draw the image scaled to whatever size you want, then just call any of the APIs that you want to get either ImageData, a base64-encoded-URI, or a PNG Blob resized.

The exact method of resize is up to the useragent (IIRC i could be wrong on this), and it's done in "native" code, not in javascript.
>No one is getting murder or rape convictions removed from the record.

Story about German murderers suing to get their names removed from a Wikipedia article about the victim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html?_r=0
And article authors have an incentive to make the numbers as big as possible to attract the most attention. They happily use the highest wild estimate in the title.
It's already here and spreading.

Worker allegiance to employers is dropping.

Ownership of status symbols is dropping, people don't have the money, or don't need a car -- there is Uber.

I think people are just getting tired of the last 100 years, have seen the gains squandered by retiring Boomers, there's no real discovery to be had unless you're in cutting edge tech/science.

Consumerism is dying. That's what most of this is built upon. Tech can't offer novel experiences fast enough anymore (I do not believe the push to AR that seems to be emerging is going to capture folks at the scale iPhone apps orig did).

Shopping is a second thought thanks to Amazon (subscribe and save means fewer trips) and online order for pick up at our local grocery means we're there and home in 30 mins, not 2 hrs of getting kids ready, driving, shopping, driving.

IMO, it's the time for socialist policy push. We're all just "freelancers" and need universal healthcare, etc.

Corporations, IMO, grew out of historic traditions of churches minding their flock. I don't owe Google fuck all for simply existing. And I'll be raising my kids to tell corporate to get fucked, and about physics and chemistry rather than computer languages.

You know, real things, not these "sorting electrons in a computer, but OMG I'm actually simulating a universe?"

Fuck off.
>> "Investors have been told that they would enjoy a profit rate of 48 percent a month from their initial investment, and recoup all investments after four months. People would also be rewarded with an eight percent commission for every new member they have introduced to the network."

Scammers don't deserve the money but fools and their money...
It is relevant as unless they replace both ChromeOS and Android kernels you lose the ability to run Android native on a ChromeOS box.
> It's a difficult question.

Not at all. It's up to the legal system and law enforcement to handle this. Not up to citizens, and for good reasons.
This is no longer true. The core team proposed vgo a few weeks ago, after the majority of the community solidified around godep.
> Most of the web quickly moved to XHTML

No, it didn't.

At best a large share of new, greenfield development moved to XHTML, but I'm not convinced it was a majority of even that.
And people downvoted me when I said the EU was an enemy of freedom...
What about the EB-5 visa?
If you don't like articles on this topic, then don't read them. Why bother to tell us all about how you don't like this kind of article and you would much rather read about X instead? Plenty of people do, so leave them in peace to get on with it.
I still need to see raw performance: single core, multi-core single socket, and multi-socket.
Not in Seattle or just about anywhere else the US.

Befofe Uber, unless you were at one of the few cabs stands, waiting 1 hour for a cab, that may or may not even show up was not uncommon.

Uber and Lyft have changed people's lives in most places they operate.
Kargil is one of the highest battlefields on Earth. I don't think I'd compare Himalayan warfare to "land navigation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_warfare#Kashmir_confl...

> The most dangerous and volatile of all mountain conflicts involves the ongoing one between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region.
Well, for platforms as large as FB, it should.
> It’s no coincidence the economic powerhouses in the US are also the most diverse and progressive places in the US [..]

Yeah, right. This has absolutely nothing to do with being 'diverse' and progressive.
I don't know what you had in mind (SV?), but this all is caused by stuff that already happened decades ago. This is pretty well documented history.

> [..] and that the US is the economic center of the world.

Pride goeth before a fall..

And even now, this is only true if you assume certain constraints.
For example, manufacturing? Not true anymore, ridiculous to even think that.
The same with other domains of the economy, I'm not saying this to attack the US, because I actually love you guys, but you have to deal with some serious issues, because before you realize it you're not the center of the world of anything any longer. It can be awfully quick sometimes.
No, because that's an unstable equilibrium. If you are company B, you know you can steal 100% of the business by finding a cure.
If you are affected by this as aparent, you are the problem. Youtube is unregulated, and full of much worze than this. Take some personal responsibility. Very suprised to see this old opinion parroted here.
Greed is a motherfucker.
Telegram Has Been Riddled with Tens of Thousands of Piracy Channels for Years
If you had infinite time to work with this code base this wouldn't be an issue I guess.

I see context switches and time constraints as the issues that grind me.
> >6-7% annual returns

I wouldn't say quite that low, even S&P averages are often higher than that.

But 48% monthly is going to be something like a >1000% yearly interest rate. You really don't get much more of a dead giveaway than that, at that point you're either a fool or you're gambling and hoping you get out before a greater fool does.
I don't like to break up arguments into tiny pieces and remark on each one - so I'll just wrap this up in 1 thought like a normal person.

You are essentially complaining about human nature. Here in reality people want to know if you've violated someone else's trust before trusting you. We are social beings and if you present two people - "This one betrayed a friend, this other one has not" - 99% of people will choose the later.

You will never ever convince a majority of people that someone who has demonstrated untrustability should be trusted the same as someone who has not. Regardless of how long he spent in a steel and concrete cage.
Maybe this opens up a opportunity for a new search engine that excludes people from the EU and allows a much less censored view of things.
Are you making particular colleagues of yours who you think are bad?
If you don't mind, can you also give a TL:DR on why this appears on HN front page?
Cipher is joining Coinbase
Yeah, I was going to say, "HuNodoi." to this, but yours seems a much more eloquent approach =)
It definitely needs to be some curation at least.

As an example, CSS: Google came up with Flexbox, Microsoft came up with Grid.

Now we have two competing layout methods doing pretty much the same. Yet they are conflicting in the sense that define the same flexibility entity by two different means: flexbox uses CSS property (that by itself conflicts with CSS 2.1 box model) and grid uses fr units for defining the same flexibility concept - portion of free space left in container from other fixed elements in it.

Problem is that all browser from now on shall follow this mess.
Did you read the article? That's not what they're doing. They're replacing the contents with a link that eventually stops working. Nothing is being changed in the recipient's e-mail interface.
How Do You Build a Company Without Venture Capital?
Yeah I know; I wasn't trying to make an argument in favour of Go's vendoring. My point was far more meta than that :)
You'd be surprised if you knew the amount of things that aren't obvious to the tech-ignorant average citizen.
A new all-electric water taxi is tested on Lake Geneva – Electrek
The story is unbelievable on many levels.
It's more important to appear smart and to spread your opinion than to contribute anything of value!
You know not everywhere is the US right?
That's further than I got. Mostly my issue is that, if we're now getting into needing to compile nginx unit from source and manually compiling the PHP modules, it doesn't save anything over setting up php with CGI or WSGI. I'm not afraid of compiling software, but I am afraid of regular update maintenance of compiled software, so I try to only use packaged released whenever possible. I would rather slightly harder initial configuration than manual compilation.
The W3C Process considers all implementations equivalent: if you were to implement DOM 4.1 in Python, that would be as significant as a browser implementing it. That said, each group has to define what they'll consider "sufficient implementation experience" for each spec when they publish a Candidate Recommendation: the DOM 4.1 spec does not do this, and this forms part of Apple, Google and Mozilla's objections to the spec advancing to CR.

The DOM 4 implementation report, http://w3c.github.io/test-results/dom/details.html, is based on the tests in web-platform-tests: however, the web-platform-tests policy is that we test what browsers implement, and hence the DOM tests there are based on the WHATWG spec: there's no evidence provided that anyone has implemented what the W3C spec says in any case where it differs.
Then a Judge says that policy is designed to hamper the police and security services based on "reasons" contempt of court and sends a CEO to jail for a month.

A retention period in line with SEC requirements (7 years I believe) might fly but 90 days is to short -also how would you discipline some one for abuse of the email system if the evidence disappears
>they were separate specs, which WHATWG lumped into one monolith

For which I could not care less. Whether there's a big spec for HTML5+JS APIs, or 20 different specs, is a bureaucratic concern, not a concern to the developers or the end users.

W3C might had them "neatly" separated, by it also haven't moved them notch towards completion and release for more than a decade.

I've used and worked for the web before W3C, in its heyday, in its long decline days when we waiting a decade+ for some progress, and after it become irrelevant. Now it's a way better situation.
It's not being hyped, you are just over-reacting because it doesn't meet the use case you'd prefer. It's not a security feature and it's not about privacy. Clearly, like PGP of yore which had view-only messages, one can simply copy (perhaps screencap in this case) the message and then do whatever.

This is an augmentation to what postini had, and now in core G Suite, of defined retention periods for email. Now, users can make one-off decisions on a per-email basis.

It's like the secret discussion/chat system that uber uses, I can't find the name, that guarantees protection against legal discovery by encrypting the chat and making sure it is ephemeral.

There are valid (maybe not morally, but legally) reasons to have defined retention periods and this is a nice addition to that.

It does bring Google into the Apple privacy-is-our-business sphere in that cooperating parties that solely use gmail have much better assurance that they don't leave traces behind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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This is an interesting, longform article that touches on a lot of interesting topics. It's something people here may find interesting which seems to be the case.
I've been subscribed to Apple Music for about a year now. I like the tight integration with the Apple ecosystem, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

For one, the curated playlists and radio stations are garbage. It seems like Apple has some deals with a few artists or labels and shoves them down your throat. Their recommendation engine is terrible too, it's just another way for them to promote these artists.

The front page of Apple music is often filled with hip hop and pop artist garbage as well. I don't listen to this, I hate seeing trashy looking hip hop artists and empty-faced pop divas every time I open the app. In Canada, they have an entire section dedicated to Francophone music. This isn't Apple's fault, our government requires it, but it's just wasted space for me, I don't listen to french music, give me an option to hide this crap.

It does one thing well, and that's it: "I have a song stuck in my head and want to listen to it now". Even then, I find myself going to YouTube more often than not.
It sounds like they pulled the plug after as little as 2-3 months of supposed ~50% monthly increases. So the chance that the real money stolen is somewhere in the vicinity of 1/4 the apparent loss seems high.

Your figure of 1/10 to be conservative sounds sadly sensible.
The original iPod was a pretty flawed product as well. The price point was very high and the storage was a bit less than it really needed and the scrollwheel was fragile. I'd say Apple didn't get it right until the third generation.

It's hard to overstate just how flawed the original iPhone was. You were locked into AT&T, you had to effectively buy the phone outright AND pay the subsidy (which never went away, no matter how long you owned the phone). The radio in the phone was obsolete before it was even announced (no 3G support at all). There were zero apps nor any mechanism to add apps to the phone, Jobs tried to sell the "just use webapps!" but the phone was really not powerful enough nor were web technologies well baked enough to make that a reality. The battery life was less than amazing and the entire phone was somewhat slow.

However, at the same time the iPhone completely disrupted the phone OS market. It focused heavily on the web browser just as the technology was finally there to put a mostly full featured web browser in a phone. Turns out that going to a webpage and having it render mostly correct was more important than shitty castrated apps hamstrung by artificial limitations on Symbian phones. The built-in apps covered most of the bases too, so the lack of apps wasn't a disaster. Mostly however it was the interface. People were sick and tired of godawful phone UIs and nobody else in the market was the least bit interested in improving it. The world revolutionary gets tossed around a lot in tech circles, but the iPhone UI was truly revolutionary. It was a bloody coup that left Symbian buried in a shallow grave out back and flat glass bricks sitting on the throne.

Apple's strategic advantage is that they have the cash and corporate willpower to iterate the design until it meets the market need.
Surely you do not assume that Tesla had done no testing at all before selling these things.

I forewent commenting on their pre-market testing because I assumed that flokie already knew that the cars and ML models they use had been extensively tested on tracks and in simulation before the first Tesla was allowed on California roads.
And they would have be complete idiots had they not done such testing, no investors would have funded that.
Reactions like flokie's were completely predictable the moment driver assistance techniques were thought of. The only acceptable response a company can have to such criticism is "we have tested this extensively and it is safer than driving manually".

Market forces aside, no car drives on roads in any US state without extensive testing and certification. All of the companies testing self-driving technology had to get special permits to do so.

Even just a reading of their actual statements offers some insight in to the amount of testing and data collection they are still doing.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-acc...
https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...
Is the open source version of Shen suitable for production use? It's not clear to me how actively it's developed or how much it differs from the "professional" version. The website suggests it lags far behind, but I recall there being an acrimonious split between the original creator and the open source community.
Incarceration serves three purposes:

1. Removal of social offender from society
2. Rehabilitation of non-conforming individuals
3. Punishment enough to deter future offenders

There's a tangental argument about whether or not incarceration achieves these goals, but the social stigma from being incarcerated isn't the point of any of these goals, and is instead just a cultural byproduct.
Won't a cure beat mitigation in the marketplace every time? It's like selling shorter-life batteries so peolpe have to replace more frequently. Is that better business?
Hack 1: Let’s Get your Web page on the first page of Google
It doesn't matter what is suppose to happen. In reality. If none of the popular browsers support the standard - it doesn't matter.

Governments are not going to force every major browser manufacturer to support a standard.

That's why W3C lost relevance.
I'm rather unfamiliar with the history of EPS, but its success seems to have been predicated on the preexisting willingness of a majority of mobile phone manufacturers to adopt it. On the other hand, as far as I'm aware, no major browser supplier currently supports publishing or implementing DOM 4.1, thus providing no pressure on the other browser developers to do so. The EU standards bodies' opinion regarding the authoritative standard seems somewhat irrelevant given this situation - attempted enforcement of a DOM implementation with such little support via legislative means is unlikely and infeasible.
But the link requires you to have a google account, and every google account is also a gmail account...
It's something the major social network sites are going to have to wrangle with. Someone who expresses even a tiny interest in conspiracy theories or extremist views gets pushed progressively deeper into that rabbit hole over time.
As someone who has worked on the integration of off the shelf CMS and as well as built in house ones, I question this statement.

There’s a lot of value in building tools that fit the domain and workflow perfectly well. It’s expensive in the short term but in the long term saves a lot of time and money.
At the same time critiquing without understanding the problem the engineer was trying to solve is equally easy.

Go is far from perfect, I just don't agree that lumping things in a good/bad pile is very insightful.

Engineering is all about making compromises. It's unsurprising that you'll meet everyones use cases that it's not designed for. The article would have provided additional value if it explored alternatives to the bad, and the disadvantages that come with them.
If anybody, I think the provider, not the search engine should be obligated.

He should be, but in many cases it's just not doable, because governments are local and the Internet is global. I think it should be accepted as a fact. So maybe we need some rethinking. Maybe banning books was never a good idea, even if ideas presented there seemed dangerous, inconvenient and sometimes plainly false.

To me the situation looks like this: A goes to the police station to report that B has stolen something. They are fully aware that there is no chance they can catch B, so they arrest A.

I'm not saying that there is no problem, just that the solution they have chosen is worse than lack of any action.
Nah. This Goldman contention is far from proven. In general, the cure is going to be more attractive in the marketplace.
So $3 a month to turn off ads would be a pretty good deal for them.