skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've written a couple of RSS aggregators. The main problem with RSS is that everybody thinks it's too complex, so they create a new syndication format, thus adding to the complexity.

RSS 0.9x was really simple, just XML and a half-dozen tags. But RDF was the new hotness, so RSS 1.0 was born, built around RDF and the Semantic Web. Then Dave Winer got annoyed at the complexity, and published a slightly cleaned-up up 0.9x as 2.0. Then a bunch of other people decided that this was a mess, and so they created a new XML format called Atom, which is only slightly more complex than 0.9x/2.0. (I'm leaving out some ancient politics and oversimplifying.)

When I was an author of feed readers, the only one of these formats that ever annoyed me was RSS 1.0, because RDF requires much more than a simple XML parser. Oh, and maybe 25% of webmasters are totally incapable of generating valid XML, so you needed to tell your XML parser to use a dodgy "recovery mode".

In practice, this has very little "cognitive overhead", because you just hand a URL to a library and it figures out what parser to run.

But as usual, it looks like people are frustrated with RSS 0.9x/RSS 1.0/RSS 2.0/Atom/etc., and think that the solution is to create yet another format that does the exact same thing. I'm sure somebody out there is writing a "robust jsonfeed" parser that can handle badly-mangled invalid JSON.

In 4 years, people will be saying, "The whole RSS 0.9x/RSS 1.0/RSS 2.0/Atom/jsonfeed mess is terrible, and we need to create a simple new syndication format based on _____!"
I thought the argument that a command line gives you reproducibility in a way that a GUI doesn't was good.

I fundamentally disagree with that. I work mainly we geo-data analysis and use programming, command line tools and GUI tools. And honestly setting up a data processing pipe line in a GUI like FME is much easier and more reproducible out of the box than whatever happens to be left over after I've been screwing around with a bunch of random command line tools for a couple of hours. The main thing you lose is some flexibility.
That’s a pretty US-centric take on things though. AOL didn’t exist in any great form in the UK certainly, and the walled gardens that did (BBSes, CIX, Compuserve etc) pretty much evaporated by the mid-90s.
That's definitely a problem for science in general (not necessarily "data science" although all science uses data). There are people who analyze biomedical science with R and those who use GUI tools like Prism and Partek. Not only are the GUI tools limited, but the results are basically unreproducible -- if somebody clicked on a button incorrectly or set some setting in a different way, it would be impossible to tell.
Probably arrogance. It's been many years since I've driven through fog thick enough to truly limit visibility, so light fog I might only drop my speed by 5-10MPH. Taillights are still visible at a safe distance in light fog. I can just about remember how easily they disappear (almost evaporate) into nothing in thick fog. Assuming the fog isn't that thick and driving through with excessive speed, it's astonishing how quickly the car in front with rear lights on full can appear out of nowhere.

A combination of wanting to get to your destination on time, inexperience and overconfidence are probably the key reasons.
Of course then you get into Gopher only territory. I wouldn't mind some CSS / HTML only sites like HN, your JS is limited to 5KB, jQuery isn't allowed, etc. Minify the web! Literally.
The 'T' developer
It's expensive because doctors are using it to make a lot of money. The drug is cheap.
I don't believe FB is responsible for the education system. It's the gov's (and parents') best interest to blame FB, else they have to admit their responsibility.
All cars sold in Europe must have at least a rear foglight to be road-legal. Imported models must have one retrofitted.

Sometimes, rules and regulations actually do improve things :)
While you're at it, tax makes it more difficult to run a business and making a living. Let us abolish tax as well.
WHICH IS GOOD JAVA OR ASP.NET?
When I was younger I would go to a new country and wouldn't even notice the change in time zones. Now that I've gotten older it takes a solid 4-5 days.

However, fasting for 16 hours? I'd rather deal with some jet lag than be hungry and uncomfortable in the cabin of a plane during a long haul flight.

Interesting to know if the tactic is successful with humans.
The network effect for google comes from it's relationships with users and advertizers. This is why Microsoft couldn't overtake them despite spending so much on bing.
I recently bought a T-Roc and ACC is pretty awesome. The issue I have is on the motorway, when changing lanes, it has a tendency to lose speed and with it being a 1 litre, it takes a while to build up the speed again.

It also has front sensors which has alerted and braked for me a couple of times when someone has almost stopped dead at 60MPH (even with stopping distance, it was a quick stop).
The car will never emergency break as long as you keep your foot on the throttle. My Merc has beeped at me couple times where it thought I was going to collide with something, but because I kept my foot down it didn't actually start breaking - the system only activates if you let go of the gas.
What happened to the Seif Project?
Reader: the hidden dictator of your writing
postmarketOS is making huge steps despite the small size of the project.
You can be proud of your daughter, it shows quite some will power. :)
RSUs are taxed as income when both vested and released (generally simultaneous). From then forward, gains are capital gains from a basis of the value that was taxed as income.

With respect to lot identification (what shares did you actually sell for tax purposes), within an account, most brokers will let you elect specific lots or FIFO and I believe the IRS allows you to elect average basis. (There’s no particular advantage to making that election, IMO, so I never looked into it but vaguely recall that being the case.)

Across accounts, except for wash sale treatment, the IRS does not assume that when you sold in account B that you were selling shares acquired in account A.
> An SPA is a web page run in the browser over http(s).

I'd argue that if they are using web technologies (like vscode) they are still profiting from web innovations. Isn't electron just a way to distribute SPA on the desktop (plus some integrations).
Nutrition Facts' Michael Greger covered the misinterpretation of data that led people to believe in health benefits of moderate drinking in this video: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-It-Better-to-Drink-Littl...

There are reasons to drink moderately besides health, but best not to decide based on misinterpretations.
One of the few times I’ve heard a counter to this was an old fisherman who took us out on a boat here in Melbourne, Australia. Proper bloke, skin like leather from the sun, done nothing but run fishing trips his whole life.

He was lamenting the loss of a particular forum with one of the other guys. “All just on Facebook now”, he said, and he said it with sadness. He missed that old forum.
Investors are usually pretty savvy of what they invest in and I'm fairly sure they knew that they weren't going to see much more than 3 x revenues on this deal. And depending on how early they entered their multiples may have been a lot higher (with correspondingly longer times before their payday came).

The last round in 2015 was 70 million, that's a pretty good pay-off for 3 years, the one before that was 35 million in 2014, still a very good ROI.

Investors look for bigger multipliers when the risks are higher, a company like this is as start-up investments come reasonably low risk, it is essentially a middle ground between a consultancy business and a scalable proposition and as a result of that the returns are also in the middle.

Investors looking for bigger multipliers would have to be content with taking bigger risks as well.
> I guess what you mean is that when the banks borrowed short term (as they must), they did it using home loans as collateral

But that's not really what happened. Banks made a lot of poor quality loans, then packaged them up and sold them on, taking a spread in the process. Some banks (e.g. Bear Stearns and Lehman) kept some of that risk on their books, but others (Goldman) didn't.

This wasn't a case of banks using their mortgage book as collateral, it was banks originating and actively marketing a dangerous product. It's also worth noting that some banks knew that the products they were selling were low-quality and likely to default.

Then the US government stepped in and propped up the instigators of the crisis. People who made poor borrowing decisions had a part to play in the crisis too, but I think it's fair to argue that the pain could have been distributed more evenly.

Under the circumstances, I can see why it might seem fair to walk away from an obligation like the author's mortgage.
great. love it.
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/10-year-odyssey-americas...
WCA Time Critical Network’s member companies achieve validation
> Few walled gardens

That sounds surprisingly like how our economy ends up working.

Perhaps we need a broader view?
> SPAs have made almost all desktop applications obsolete.

Adobe, office for desktop, text editors, video games, my command line, iTunes, yada yada yada. Native applications are a hugely important part of my computer usage and I personally prefer to keep it that way.
Absolutely disagreed, the car starts beeping if you're approaching a slower car in front of you but don't start slowing down - it has captured my attention more than once on long motorway drives - it does it long enough in advance that you can go "shit I didn't realise we were slowing down".
cloud,
deep-learning,
robotics,
augmented reality,
computer vision,
actionable analytics,
RUSSIAN BOT,
Internet of Things,
big data,
agile,
design thinking,
freemium,
gamification,
incubator,
lean,
SaaS,
thought leader...this is enough because thinking about this is making me lose all respect for humanity.
Isn't WebAssembly basically moving the web in the opposite direction?
Conway’s Law
A German taxicab company did a study, pitting half its fleet with ABS against the other half without it. The accident rate stayed the same (in fact, was insignificantly higher) in the half with ABS because the drivers felt overconfident in the braking system:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100921074926/http://psyc.queen...
Pelledoca – Milano 19/4 Live music dinner
What Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme says about federal spending
Scheduling tasks in Microsoft CRM 2011?
Not to be dismissive of what f-droid does, but a large majority of the applications available might be generously described as a student's end-of-year project, and often are not very good.

This is not to diminish what is being done, as I do appreciate the option of a wide array of OSS items decoupled from the Google eco-system, but it's nowhere near independence from Google's eco-system. I would hardly say that it's a replacement so much as a novelty at the moment, even though there are a few absolutely golden apps to be found there. (Free advertisement for PassAndroid, the Android equivalent of Passbook from iOS, which does exactly what it advertises)
>how they guarantee uniqueness of users

I was curious too so I clicked on the sign-up button to see how it worked. It immediately takes you to a page to pay $9.00 by credit-card.

I guess it guarantees you're a "real person" because bots† don't pay with credit-cards.

†(At the large scale required for profitable fraud)
For a seasoned programmer, sure. But a layperson had a much better chance of understanding an early 90's webpage with the exact same content as a modern day one.
Infusion? Goodness grace, I got belonephobia and got scared shitless there. It doesn't have to be administered intravenous. The article is mainly referring to a nasal spray.
I hate watching movies on the plane. They are edited to remove all violence and nudity. The Shape of Water was missing huge chunks when I peered at my wife’s scree.

I prefer to watch Netflix offline. Although Altered Carbon had me cradling my iPad mini so my fellow passenger couldn’t see all of the erotic scenes.

I’m wondering what the legality of the situation above is.
That was unexpected, to see BKED being mentioned here! I was about 6 years old when I first used it (that, and a nice game called "bum"). This brings back so much memories. And to think that it had this much history behind its programming! Amazing. Definitely should poke the author into releasing the source code for next generations to have a look at it.
A new version of the mobile browser with support for more Android devices is coming soon: https://bunsenbrowser.github.io
From "Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context" (2014) https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0312

"We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader question of scene understanding.

This is achieved by gathering images of complex everyday scenes containing common objects in their natural context. Objects are labeled using per-instance segmentations to aid in precise object localization.

Our dataset contains photos of 91 objects types that would be easily recognizable by a 4 year old. With a total of 2.5 million labeled instances in 328k images, the creation of our dataset drew upon extensive crowd worker involvement via novel user interfaces for category detection, instance spotting and instance segmentation."
I think people that do care about this stuff already make webpages that are minimal. So there is probably no need to have a completely alternative space. Maybe just a directory/search engine that only indexes such pages.
I second this.

There are three scenarios if I'm not overtaking:

1) I'm going faster than the vehicle in front. In this case, it doesn't matter if another vehicle pulls in between us because I'm about to overtake anyway.

2) I'm going slower than the vehicle in front. In this case, it doesn't matter if another vehicle pulls in between us because I'm falling back and the gap is ever-increasing.

3) I'm going approximately the same speed as the vehicle in front. In this case, there tend to be two ways a vehicle pulls inbetween us:

a- it's merging from an on-slip-road (on-ramp?), in which case this doesn't happen often, and I'll just fall back or overtake
b- it's just overtaken me, then slotted into a gap that's too small for it anyway. If the car has overtaken me, it's mostly because it wants to go faster (in which case it will probably vacate the space again soon) or it wants to pull off (in which case it will definitely vacate the space again).

If I am overtaking, then yes, someone may pull into the gap, but I'm still overtaking the vehicle I want to get past.

If you stop worrying about going 2mph faster than another lane of traffic, then leaving a safe gap is mostly pretty easy and stress-free. It will only take you 15 minutes longer to drive 200 miles at 65 than at 70.
How AI Will Solve Facebook’s Prevailing Problems
it's also a fault of the websites themselves. In the off chance that an average facebook user uses google to search and end up in a website outside facebook, they 'll be typically be pestered with signing up to a newsletter and then with a popup to get browser notifications (along with a cookie popup in europe). The User experience will be usually atrocious, with content hidden way behind the ads. At that point the user is not only lost in the UI, but has lost all trust to the website itself and runs back to its trusted facebook. Why would they ever want to subscribe to such monstrosities? It's a tragedy of the common monetization "secrets" that marketers promised equally to everyone.

If webmasters and bloggers realized the benefit of a honest , dead simple user experience, they might earn themselves a bookmark (which is currently the only alternative to social media that average users can probably understand)
Traditional Posix ACLs have quite different semantics than NT's ACLs (Even if you don't grant "Bypass traverse checking" to Everyone).
Example - you're driving at 4am on an empty road with patches of heavy fog - so most of the time you can maintain the legal 70-80mph with good visibility, but then there are bit where the fog gets heavier for half a mile or so. So you slow down the first few times, but as there is no traffic at this hour, you just don't after the first dozen times or so, it's annoying and boring to be slowing down constantly. At then accidents happen because the 13th time there is something on the road.
If you want the internet for the wealthy (and Western) technocratic minonority then that's what you do. If you want the internet to be used by 7 billion people, then Facebook (or something like Facebook) it is.

I've become a believer of 'walled gardens' after watching my elderly aunt struggle with PCs and websites for years, until I set her up with an iPad, Facebook, and Skype.
Fixing the flaws in today’s capitalism
I use Fedora on the desktop but keep a copy of Windows 10 in VirtualBox for times when I need to use Photoshop (I'm a web developer) or some other Windows-only tool.

I recently updated to the "Creators Update" and couldn't believe the amount of shit that popped up after the install asking me pointless questions, trying to integrate with things, trying to get me to activate OneDrive etc.

It's not just post-install either, this stuff pops up when you're in the middle of something else!

The thing I like most about Gnome is how it just stays out of the way. I don't use my OS, I use the applications I have installed. The shell should provide an optimal environment for them to run in and an easy way to launch them - and nothing else.

Don't get me wrong, I've been a fan of Windows for a long time and 10 is the best version for years, but the popular Linux distros and macOS seem to do a better job of staying out of the way of the user.

I think Microsoft are losing track with all the "value added" stuff they're constantly trying to foist on people - and don't even get me started on the tracking.
Nice that this website doesn't respect opening in new tab. Is this some ironic take or what?
Ketamine has such a distinctive appearance in solid form that cutting it with anything else is quite difficult. Ketamine is relatively clean in the United Kingdom compared with other illicit chemicals.
Spout, an awesome library for reading and writing in Excel using PHP
> I like the idea of a text-only browser

Lynx is still available.
I feel like he's worrying but he isn't sure about what. I don't think the problems of the internet are related to how easily people can make their own sites. It's just that the feeling that your content might actually be seen and appreciated is gone. In the 1990s if you published something online it felt good like some people are going to read this and care. Now it feels like "hey another ball tossed into the massive gaping void".

Part of this obviously is about search and curation. Part of it also is probably just the massive loss of intimacy on the web now that it is so big. It's easy to feel less relevant when you get a few hundred views, even though in the 1990s you might also have got only a few hundred views.

So what I'd like is to have a new intimate internet. It would be effectively searchable by a Google equivalent that only indexed a small subset of the internet. How exclusive it would be, how exactly it is curated and managed I have zero idea. I'm just saying that is what I would like.

Now HN: unleash your list of stuff like this that already exists.
The key feature of ABS is that it prevents the steering wheels from locking up, allowing the driver to steer around the obstacle. On loose surfaces, ABS can cause braking distances to increase; locked wheels can dig into gravel and slush, causing it to stack up and increase friction. ABS is also useless on sheet ice (but then, no braking system is genuinely at an advantage there).

These are edge cases though, and ABS does generally improve braking distances. At the very least, it gives you a much better chance of avoiding the obstacle in your path.
Managing Windows AutoPilot Devices Using the Intune Graph API
And public / insurance covered ones are overworked as it is.
It doesn't really guarantee uniqueness. It also doesn't verify identity (that this is really "John Smith"). It essentially verifies that the user has paid for an account on RealPerson.io, which is currently $9/year. This was to strike a balance between having to divulge too much personal info to RealPerson.io (like an identity verification service), but at the same time making it highly unlikely that the user is a bot. RealPerson.io doesn't try to drive the percentage to 0 that the user is a bot, but rather make it cost prohibitive for bots, while at the same time making it cost effective for real people, and still protect privacy.

Also, a user only gets one RealPerson code per website, so a user can't create multiple codes for a website and hence create multiple accounts on that website. And if that website bans the user, that user would need to get a new code for that website, which would mean creating a second account on RealPerson and paying again and face the scrutiny of RealPerson detecting that the user has two accounts on RealPerson.
> Two litres strikes me as truly exceptional.

That's ~6 can-sized coffees a day.

Split that into 3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon and it doesn't seem "truly exceptional" to me. Perhaps a tad overindulgent, but I could hit a handful of people with a bread roll from where I'm sitting who would qualify.
GDPR lawful basis interactive guidance tool
Algorithmically Scrapping Your Typeclasses
Sure, but the way I look at it is if the application runs on the desktop, server or mobile OS, then it's not a web app. A web app is an html page you access via the browser with a bunch of javascript that makes it interactive enough to stay within that single page (if it's strictly an SPA).

Also, the stuff that powers the web such as web servers and browsers would obviously not be SPAs.
anti-paywall: https://outline.com/fSGxss https://archive.is/GPTMc https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fart...
You can skip all of that and just go for what you want, but, that's not why you'd go to ikea - if you know what you want you could also order it online. You go to ikea for a few hours of browsing and being impressed with room design and such.
>When I ask friends and family who use Facebook daily, privacy and security never come up as pain points.

This scandal is so incredibly overblown it's crazy. I've been arguing this since the beginning.

Media blew this up because it's loosley connected to Trump and because there's no better story than when you tear down a high flyer. Facebook was/is an American success story.
GDPR: What we have done and what not
The hard part about a text editor in graphics mode is not the character drawing (that had been figured out in the 8 bit days) but the scrolling. Unless you had hardware support for scrolling by being able to set the start-of-screen address scrolling could take forever.
Honestly, this is exactly the problem that Facebook (and other social media like HN) solve. I can write a blog post/article and rather than tossing it into the void, I share it on Facebook or a suitable subreddit or here. And while I may get a small number of views, they're likely to be from people I care about (either friends or people in the same hobby community), and those people have a chance to respond and comment.
Taking your trading job and turning it into a Data Science career [Audio]
Yes. Reality... :-)
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