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> Differences between the W3C HTML 5.2 spec and the WHATWG Living Spec: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/W3C-WHATWG-Differences

FWIW, I'm pretty certain that is incomplete. It may well be the case that that is the set of deliberate changes from the WHATWG spec (at some revision), but we've had cases before where changes from the WHATWG spec have been copied only partially leading to the W3C spec, as published as a Recommendation (i.e., with two interoperable implementations) has been impossible to implement as written.
Because this would feed on and incentivize throw away culture and we do not condone that /s
YouTube is more famous than Jesus. I tried automated videos on YouTube twice. Nobody watched them. It’s not as easy as it sounds to be successful on YouTube. Politicians using you as an example of society falling apart certainly helps to make you famous though.
One area where I've noticed improvement in Siri is that it makes far fewer errors in recognizing what I am saying lately.

A year ago, I would fight with her constantly in my car on my way to work. "Hey Siri, play playlist iPhone 3" .. "Sorry, I can't find playlist iPhone Free" .. That type of thing doesn't happen anymore, for me, at least.

Can't speak to her overall capability to do other things, but in the car this morning I asked her to "Play Spotify" and she had no idea what I was saying - or at least pretended to not have any idea!
Zillow is Getting into House-Flipping
Oh, I didn't know that. I edited my original comment.
Noooooooooo

Past performance is not an indication of future.
You are kind of proving my point though. With fog, you can see the laser because photons are bouncing off the fog and hitting your eye. This article isn't saying that photons are bouncing the magnetic fields and then hitting their eyes, they are saying the eyes can literally detect magnetic fields. If the birds were seeing magnetic fields via how they interact with photons, then everyone would be able to 'see' magnetic fields because we can all see photons. This is saying that the magnetic fields are directly visible by birds.
>>they certainly don't have the resources to stop people from wearing makeup, sunglasses or hats.

You need to make one mistake, just one. Plus, these people stick like sore thumbs
I fear the more important question at this point is if we will live to see the tide turn and most of these invasive measures be reversed...
True freedom does not exist. It always has been, and always will be, a compromise between participants in society.
Yeah, Jailbreaks became much less necessary over time and also harder to do. I had gcc on the original iPhone and a full build chain. It was glorious, if a bit slow and annoyingly hacky because you had to self sign everything gcc spit out before it would run.

There's only a couple of things I still miss from the jailbreak days. One was a hack for iTunes that downloaded and displayed the lyrics for whatever song you were playing. The other was a SOCKS proxy that let me tether my phone without incurring the ridiculous tethering surcharge.
>slanted views that are approved or promulgated by the reigning regime in a country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
This is the first time he came across one of these?
People have been spamming them for years and nobody watches them.
lolwut

How long you had to wait for a cab has nothing to do with driving a cab being a good income.

I've been in cabs pre-Uber all across the US. In places like Buffalo, Albany (any college town, really), all over Long Island, DC, LA, etc., I've talked to loads of cab drivers pre-Uber and they were making okay money.

I used to take 20-minute cab trips in Long Island that cost $100. The zone and per passenger system in Albany made fares very expensive. I knew a student cabbie in Buffalo who paid his tuition and then some ferrying drunks between the campus' and the bars.
I've been part of projects to split companies into two. They were painful. While I can see the logic behind the movement, I have to wonder if they've thought through the pain of splitting every state-level government agency into three parts.
"If we do go to court over something sent -- you will end up showing a screen shot or a copy and pasted text file. Those will be tough to support in court."

I'm not so sure about that. If you leave enough incriminating evidence in the note itself, it wouldn't take too much to convince the jury or judge. For example, if you write something that only you had knowledge of in the note, then it can be used as evidence to convince the jury that you wrote it.

This site is a good idea but should be viewed as part of an overall strategy.
That seems a bit too pedantic of an argument for this article. The very first paragraph implicitly states its definition of text editor:

If you’re like most people in America, you use a text editor nearly every day. Whether it’s your basic Apple Notes, or something more advanced like Google Docs, Microsoft Word or Medium, our text editors allow us to record and render our important thoughts and information, enabling us to tell stories in the most engaging ways.

Also, it could be argued that all word processors are also text editors but with added features. The fact that they allow the presentation to be edited does not mean that they stop allowing text to be edited.
I've been waiting for a new post from Tim for almost a year now. I'm hoping this is as good of a read as his previous other posts -- which I highly recommend, in case if you're unfamiliar with Wait But Why!
While I don't know about rear-facing seats for outcomes, having cycled recreationally and for commute for the last 10 years, wearing a helmet has on multiple occasions saved me (yes I understand anecdata of 1) from mild lacerations to letting me walk away from a 40 mile downhill crash with road rash. Cycling without a helmet is a personal decision, but I don't understand how you can argue that increased head protection does not improve overall morbidity and mortality.
Knowledge Gap Hinders Ability of Congress to Regulate Silicon Valley
NASA may fly crew into deep space sooner, but there’s a price
Clear about the distinction - I definitely meant asexuality. They appear to lack interest, or at least that's the impression I've gotten.
That's not really consistent with the rebellions that were quite frequent in japanese villages during the medieval period
> Way back in the day, HTML was implemented as an application of SGML.

[citation needed]

I'm unaware of basically any implementation of HTML treating it as an application of SGML; the only notable case I'm aware of is the old HTML validator.

Tim's original implementation of HTML didn't treat it as SGML.
The EFF plays the role of simplifying, amplifying, codifying, and messaging to the rest of the country exactly what is 'obvious' to the (relatively small) tech community. They are exactly and precisely our spokes-people for what we consider obvious. And that is fantastic.

In the same way the Sierra Club says what's 'obvious' to the conservation community, but they say to the rest of the country it in a way that is understood and can be rallied behind.
Darpa Awards Ginkgo Bioworks and Transcriptic $9.5M to Bring AI into the Lab
Looks very nice!

The only small criticism would be that most people are not professional photographs, so they wouldn't even come close to having cover photos for every one of their notes.

Also, a Mac version would be nice.
I was completely and utterly horrified when I learned that the US strips such fundamental citizenship rights—which ought to be inalienable—from felons. It’s really preposterous and gives lie to the whole idea of ”the land of the free”. And don’t get me started on those ridiculous sex offender lists...
How quickly everyone forgets Google's big privacy changes in 2012 that allowed them to aggregate user data from YouTube, Google Search, and all its other platforms. [1] Until the privacy conversation meaningfully includes Google, it seems insufficient.

For Example, to keep your data separate on each platform, Google suggests: "For individuals who would like to continue using Google products, but want to create some type of silo between Google search, YouTube, and other products, there is an option to set up multiple Google accounts. Users can set up two or more accounts as long as they have different Gmail addresses; however, individuals using this strategy to protect their privacy should be careful not to commingle-consider using separate browsers for each of your Google accounts."

Data sharing spans Google Maps, Search, Youtube, Gmail/GSuite, Chrome, Contacts, etc. [2]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-...

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190

EDIT: Added quote from EFF Article about siloing your data between Google Services.
Facebook Bans German Historian for Saying 'Islam Is Not Part of German History'
Not quite clear on the use-case. It seems that any document that could be scanned and uploaded for you to send could just as easily be emailed. If something needs to be mailed, it's typically because an original or wet-ink hard copy is required.

Paper invoices may be an exception, but any business doing that regularly would already have a much more cost-effective solution in place.

One possibility that comes to mind is to remain anonymous by sending through you.
Yes it's not as bad as deleting the information, but it's still much much worse than just doing nothing about the information.
Take look at Argentina's market. You can get 20% of return on yearly bonds in dollars. Yes, its a bubble but its more mature than any kids ICO
Unlimited instant file sharing using Armor
Yes, the hearing is a show. But...
Yesterday, a major social network app in China (Neihan), with hundreds of millions of users get shut down perpetually by government orders. In the meantime, several major social products are removed from China mobile app stores.

Just feel lucky you still have a hearing.
Ask HN: What forum software are people using?
I'm looking to setup a community forum but have no idea what is available/secure these days. I'm open to self-hosting but a SaaS offering would be cool.

I'm not a huge fan of Discourse, I'm aware of the "older" types like phpbb and what not and I've even checked out Orange forum (https://github.com/s-gv/orangeforum). None of them quite feel right so I thought I'd ask HN what they are using :)
“How to Turn Your Website into a Mobile App with 7 Lines of JSON”
“How to Turn Your Website into a Mobile App with 7 Lines of JSON” @gliechtenstein https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-turn-your-website-into-a-mobile-app-with-7-lines-of-json-631c9c9895f5
Assuming culture, phrasing, language, etc remain constant.

I know today's Japanese youth and young adults are not very open or honest with their emotions, especially with respect to sharing negative feelings. How that compares to the past, I don't know. It could very well be the same, but take the article's claims with a grain of salt. I just know that I've personally met an unfortunate number of Japanese who are depressed and disaffected.
Maybe you could articulate what you dislike so much about your current job?

It sounds like you're seeking an outlet for creativity and the current job is not giving you that. I personally don't see $500k/yr as an important factor as for the majority of people there is no real difference after $150k/yr. The burgers taste the same, great schools are available, same nice holiday destinations. Anywhere outside of the US is cheap and your standard of living would be high. Unless you have a weakness for luxury watches, high maintenance women and overpriced champagne. I admit I do enjoy the odd bottle of bollinger.

You're also thinking about starting a business completely the wrong way, you never use your own money. This is what investors are for and you need to spend time finding the right investors. The world of ICO's has made small investments easier than ever before. For games you can use a kickstarter to get it going. You could also move to a smaller company with a role that takes up less of your personal time and start the company on the side or even become a consultant giving you even more free time to move between paying projects and personal ones. I would also see if you can network and contribute to an existing game company to get a better feel for the business.

I'm earning more than you and work from home and have complete autonomy. I live in the bay area and go kite surfing every afternoon in the summer and work from a rented cabin in tahoe during the winter with my wife and little corgi. I do not associate with the tech crowd outside of work or hob nob with VC's in Palo Alto or the rat race of the peninsula. Keeps life fairly simple and straight forward. I imagine this is something that would be attractive to you.
You should be able to copy by disabling JavaScript
That's awesome. I'd love to see a picture of it.
I'm arguing that specialization benefits everyone and that your misguided attempt at helping these workers will actually hurt them.
The idea sounds nice, but I would actually like it if any of the big ones like Microsoft or Google could make an implementation for end-to-end encryption using a standard like PGP or S/MIME.

If they can add features like the temporary "confidential" mail as what Google is implementaing in Gmail, that would be a nice extra. But if we can't even do the basics right, why implement such features that can only be used between your own users?

Because when you try to use PGP these days using different implementation like Thunderbird/Enigmail to Outlook/GPGOL or vice versa, half of the times the e-mail are unreadable, not able to be decrypted or some other mysterious problem.
So how come in London (a LOT of cctv) which has just had a really heavy spike in murderers and Gun crime?
What about Tsunami, UDT, or GridFTP?
To all the people saying high quality random numbers are not important for crypto, there have been a number of important failures over the years due to semi-predictable keys. And there is no way to generate randomness in software, while quantum sources can be provably random.

It just makes the crypto system easier to reason about.
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http://freespiritspheres.com/
i didnt realize rsc was in sole control now. is that documented somewhere (out of curiosity)?
Maybe so, but that was still standard practice. If there was nothing deceptive or misleading about how the choice was presented, and if it genuinely was a choice that someone could easily turn off if that was their preference, I think it's quite a stretch to attach labels like "dark pattern" or claim that organisations weren't "following the spirit of the law".

There are going to be organisations wasting time and money on reconfirmation exercises for mailing lists they've been building up for a long time because despite using double opt-ins, only sending relevant messages to people who genuinely want to receive them, and providing readily accessible options to opt out again, they didn't record exactly what the wording said on their web site on 13 April 2008 when someone signed up to that list.

Clearly the GDPR sets out different requirements now, but my original comment stands: things are changing, and this is going to introduce significant burdens even on a lot of organisations that were following reasonable and honest practices when they collected personal data before.
Discourse, Flarum are two that I can recall.
That’s a bad move. It’s already hard to teach users not to sign in via suspicious link, so adding a legitimate case will be just confusing.
Indeed, having worked for Opera during the time where we implemented HTML5-compliant parsing, the net result was that we fixed a bunch of site compatibility issues. Implementing it made competing with other browsers easier. (And as you say, parsing HTML is complex, but the rest of the web platform is vastly more so.)
Why would a professional evaluate their tools?
That statistic seem cherry picked. Their competitors either sell absolutely tiny numbers of luxury watches or are basically commodities and operate with relatively thin margins.

Competition in this space with both volume and profit margin is what? Rolex?

Apple is basically a corporate behemoth that moved in next to the Mom & Pop boutiques.
“What we call calculus nowadays is the union of a dab of logic and set theory, some axiomatic the- ory of complete ordered fields, analytic geometry and topology, the latter in both the “general” sense (limits and continuous functions) and the algebraic sense (ori- entation), real-variable theory properly so called (differentiation), the combinatoric symbol manipulation called formal integration, the first steps of low-dimensional measure theory, some differential geometry, the first steps of the classical analysis of the trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and, depending on the space available and the personal inclinations of the author, some cook-book differential equations, elementary mechanics, and a small assortment of applied mathematics. Any one of these is hard to write a good book on; the mixture is impossible.

Really. And he’s gonna teach us to write about math?
Not possible with POP3 I guess.
I'm also skeptical about the $660M number. To put that in perspective, Vietnam's GDP is $232B, so this is about 0.3% of Vietnamese GDP. 0.3% of the US GDP would be about $50 billion.

FWIW most articles I'm finding source the $660M number to the linked Tuoi Tre News story. Their quote is "The victims said the company had conned them out of VND15 trillion (US$660.79 million)." https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/business/20180409/vietnamese-cry...

I have no doubt there was yet another ICO scam with someone walking away with the money, but I wonder how much money it was.
yup! happy to.
I can see why the FCC might be hesitant to get involved with these segments and scripts. However, the Sinclair merger should unequivocally be rejected. This business pattern only becomes an issue once you get monopolies and oligopolies. We need competition and variety in our news sources. Oligopolies are extremely dangerous to our democracy.
But German courts ended up ruling against them.
that page is littered with automated popups and nonsense
>>Actually I'd feel rude phoning someone without arranging it first.

Things have evolved to this? How do you arrange the phone call? Call them to ask if you can call them :) ? If you have to think about it or are unsure, then don't call them.
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How do larger rear facing seats even fit in smaller European cars? Is your front passenger seat folded all the way down?

When we were last car shopping, we looked at small SUVs (CRV, Rav4, Forester) and a rear facing seat mounted "American-style" still intruded on the passenger seat. I can't imagine how you could shift the seat forwards in a sedan and make it work.
> I don't even recall ever thinking that as a child passenger

Not sure how many road trips you took as a child, but lying down across the back seat with a seat belt is harder than without.

We used to just throw caution to the wind, put the seats down in our suburban and fill the area with blankets.
What do you mean by non-HTTP? It handles URLs whose scheme is not http(s): just fine...
Classic pyramid scheme, I think 660mil in Viet currency?
Has nothing to do with his question.
If you read the article it was a bit more nuanced than that. The one who had the right to be forgotten denied had a track record of misleading people about his conviction. The court (rightly, in my view) took this behaviour as evidence that his conviction remained relevant in a way that it was not for the other person (described as showing remorse). They didn’t just measure the length of the sentence.

IMHO, this is an encouraging, nuanced development. There has to be a balance between protecting people against serial offenders and rehabilitation.
I did not know that. It's Apple Music or the highway on the HomePod? That seems like a serious design flaw for a smart speaker.
And I own one!

It is used to shut off the beeping when carrying groceries in my passenger seat. Cheap and effective. But the initial thought betrays some reasoning.
Ask HN: Use Packer in Production?
Anyone has experience on using packer in production? Could you share your use cases for using Packer? And any drawbacks that you experience using that tool?

Thanks
Normally the insurance company will want there own doctor and the consequences of losing your medical licence are massive to take the risk.
Not a particularly good example considering the names are still on both the German and English language articles.
Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of Maxwell, I'll have to do some reading.
You're really overestimating what happens in actual jury trials. When I served on a jury, a lawyer presented photographs of evidence as evidence. Like, I'm talking paper printouts of photos that were taken on a cell phone. Juries aren't full of engineers, as a general rule. If the average person on Reddit will see a screen shot of a text message and assume the conversation happened, why wouldn't an average juror? The only burden of proof is if a lawyer can convince the jury a conversation happened.
> and be generally admired

... only if you are great at what you do. Being a mediocre entrepreneur will give you a negative reputation, much more than being a mediocre enterprise IT grunt.

Which is basically what the article boiled down to - people whose skills punch above the weight class shown by their resume tend to gravitate to smaller companies or start their own.
that's basically what the war on drugs was about.

Nothing basic about it. The "War on Drugs", as we know it today, was literally started by the Nixon administration as a means to control liberals and minorities.[0]

0 - https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
(the money quote, by Ehrlichman, is in the second paragraph)
Looks like privacy is making a big come back and fuk all these companies that gives free service in exchange to use your personal info
The research only comes from academics when it's actually reproducible. Otherwise it is dutifully ignored and companies perform their own research.
IMHO, automating the artistic process of everybody/thing you think less important defeats the purpose.

Why not go further? Once we can determine an affordable way to programmatically stimulate every necessary region of our brain to bring about emotions and the effects of nostalgic or sentimental introspection traditionally stimulated by beautiful artwork, then we can just plug in and go for the ride and get on with our daily work.
Anyone who tried this web server before? It looks like a nice project but I'm interested to know if anyone has tested this or has used it already for some projects.
> If you're choosing to nitpick about the fact that most sites published would not have worked if served as application/xhtml+xml, I'd invite you to do a survey of sites currently being served as valid HTML5.

Completely different thing. XML processing and all reasoning based on the premise of XML processing are fiction when XHTML is served as text/html. The HTML parsing algorithm and tve rest of the processing requirements is not fiction when HTML is invalid.

(Why are we still talking about this in 2018. Sigh.)
Remote Teams – rebecca – Medium
The problem here is not business interests its the IP protections that keep the pressure from being applied by the marketplace.

I dont know enough to have an educated opinion on healthcare regulation or on social services...but its disengenuous to claim that medicine cant be managed as a business when its already so heavily regulated that it barely looks like a normal business.

I would agree that the current model is super messed up...but maybe managing it like a business without all the government intervention and IP laws is the better solution here... maybe not...i dont know...but you definitely cant support your conclusion from the current environment.