skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your list of things AWS is notorious for available on your blog somewhere? That's valuable information.
I would guess it was YC that had suggested the name. Am I right?
Screenshot to an OCR reader defeats that really quickly.
YES!

Performance with javascript can approach native code, but it isn't as fast as it yet. In addition, it takes up more system resources (ram/cpu) making it so that you need more of said resources and more power is drawn (which is especially problematic on mobile devices, where battery is limited).

To the extent that it is possible to block ads in a browser, it is also possible to block said ads in a mobile app.
Variations are probably caused by TCP IMO
technology is changing the balance of power

nontech led companies are dying, no growth to be had there

why would i work for that
We've already had a lot of recent progress with ion propulsion. Not only are many satellites hybrid or all-electric, but NASA has launched several probes with a lot of maneuvering delta-v of ion thrusters.
Is it not in the public interest to ask people how they feel about your programming, and call their attention to significant problems in our world (such as media bias)?
This whole argument about copying is rather silly, at some point the text must be transmitted in a human readable form. At which point it can be recorded either electronically, or in the most difficult case by writing down manually what must be copied. Everything else is a question of degrees.
Facebook _users_ do. I highly doubt they are going to try and enforce this on google search results, that would be absurd, and if so it will just hurt the publishers for not getting hits. Where is it detailed that this is aimed at google/fb ?

Despite your condescending rebuttal I actually am disagreeing with your position. I don't think this is good for democracy in that having the cash to produce original content imposes no responsibility and this legislation would stifle third party analysis and criticism of their reporting. Making these arguments and then adding a "but yeah in general I'm not in favor" doesn't shield you from criticism.
Why do you describe this as a metro NYC thing? I feel like every major metro in the USA has similar diners to this?

In my experience, Nothing in this article or your comment describe things I’d be hard pressed to find in most big cities.
With the advent of edge computing and fog computing, developers are also required to know more about hardware than is necessary.
For code quality, main thing I did was read every pull request and keep track of how people did, including cases when people improved existing code. I also kept track of times where someone made a contribution to how we thought about quality – e.g. when one person used type-level programming to essentially combine a bunch of tests into one and significantly reduce the amount of code needed.

We had ongoing training – we'd meet every week to go over a chapter of some book – so everyone converged on the same code style which made monitoring quality relatively easy.

With mentoring, I primarily paid attention to what people said about others in terms of mentoring. I also monitored mentoring through code reviews & slack. People's reviews were very consistent – "Bob is the most helpful mentor, Charles is also pretty helpful" – so again, relatively easy in that specific case.
I got the same results for a completely unrelated term. Probably something hard-coded it's falling back on?
While it works elegantly for websites, I would be curious as to how a solution like this be implemented for mobile applications?
This does not work for me. No matter what I search for I get the same results, namely, Marvel Studios' Avengers, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, etc.
I think plenty of people predicted it, especially after Bolton’s appointment. It’s a stupid reaction by a stupid man to circumstances arising directly (and indirectly) from his own stupid actions and decisions.
i'll leave apple phones for the Librem 5.
I'd guess that Intel is "coasting" on purpose to maintain their ability to consistently deliver improvements. The company doesn't benefit from deploying their best tech as fast as possible if there is nothing to compete with it. When there is competition, it is easy for them to move forward.

I would like it if there were ARM servers in the marketplace too, but as yet it doesn't seem they are a real threat. "dead man walking" is a bit premature when the competition barely exists.
You really have a problem understanding that trafficking children isn’t “sex work” it’s kidnapping and rape, don’t you? Why is that? Is it just too inconvenient for your purposes to acknowledge that part of the discussion, and that’s your version of being right?

Maybe it’s just that you’re not going to get much pushback from many here about the wisdom of legalizing prostitution, so you lean on that crutch when discussing the issues here? The problem is that Backpage was aiding and abetting something that has no relation to “sex work” unless your definition includes kidnapping and rape.

tptacek 20 hours ago [-]

They took ads they knew to be for child sex trafficking --- they had keyword matching for them! --- stripped the incriminating words from the ads, and ran them, pictures and all.

How can you justify that? Put it together with the rest and it’s both illegal and immoral, and again, not about adult sex workers. If you care about the issue of legalizing prostitution, don’t get it tangled up in this mess.
In the late nineties I had the impression that Shepard Fairey’s original Mozilla logo really set the tone for thick border design. So many influential web designers frequently spent time on the site, and it felt like a thousand thick border stylesheets bloomed across the web for a few years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000229231038/http://www.mozill...
I have not seen "the new york diner" represented outside of a 60-mile radius of central park, roughly. Western PA, NY south of about Liberty, Stamford area CT, and northern New Jersey have a diner culture which is distinct. I've only ever seen respectable bodegas in new york state, but you can find them as far north as White Plains.

I live in New England, spent a bunch of time in the midwest and southwest and pacific northwest, been in the south a little bit. None of those areas do it like this.

Pizza is a holy war; bagels -- I'll grant you Montreal.
how stable are these apis for even the next five years?
The data had a lot of other benefits:

* When I took over, I was a lot more permissive about letting people work from home. Upper management pushed back and was worried about productivity. I was able to show that people were getting much more done than before (though admittedly there were other factors, I changed a lot of things.)

* After a few months of monitoring, it became clear that one coworker had a predictable but volatile pattern: he'd be very productive for a few weeks, then very unproductive for a few weeks. So I asked him to take on urgent projects during the "up" periods and avoid them during the "down" periods.

* One particular person improved so fast it was almost unbelievable. They were already strong to start, but after 12 months they were literally getting about 4 times as much done as they had at the 3 month mark. I would never have believed it if I hadn't been keeping close track...and this helped me fight for promoting them twice in a year.
Yes. Web browsers are nice and offer a very low barrier to entry, but native apps have the opportunity to do things better. That could be faster startup, smaller installs, more integrated install management with the OS, better offline experience, more networking options including support for custom udp/tcp tailored to your application, etc.

Certainly it's possible to make a native app that is worse in these aspects, and some of these may become more addressable by web platforms in the future.

It also depends on your target market and budget. Developing countries still have plenty of devices with very little CPU or RAM. But targeting multiple native platforms is a lot of work, and different versions of the same platform can also be painful.
What's up with these stories? It's been known for awhile now that the fbi and other _american_ agencies have backdoors into every cellphone: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/#ANALYSIS
Interview prep for one candidate is 10 minutes, plus 20 minutes for postinterview discussion.

Subjecting someone to 17 hours of interviews borders on the inhumane.

Plus, interviews are done iteratively; you don't run the whole process for every candidate.

Moreover, background checks are the least likely to actually disqualify candidates, so they are always done last.
VLC can't play YouTube playlists natively, but there's a VLC add-on that supports doing so: https://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/+Youtube+playli...

Also, mpv can use youtube-dl if both are installed to play YouTube playlists, e.g.:

mpv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5DfJnFBZwz8xd37MA6I16oJ

Note that you need to pass it the link to the playlist itself and not a video in the playlist: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_play_Yo...
Didn't really knew that Kay was so active on Quora. Now I'm about to read everything.
It always amazes me how many questions or Quora solicit an answer from someone so close to the subject at hand.
I guess what I’m looking for is what makes a nyc diner. Like how would I know I was in one other than locality to Central Park?
I assume you mean this in a sense of people from disparate backgrounds coming together on a common ground?

Exactly. Diners and bodegas are common spaces for people from every slice of life -- and everyone plays nice, or else the waitress takes your matzoh away and nobody wants that!
Yeah, apparently not according to someone I talked to after I made this comment. It’s too bad that the drivers are suffering due to a misunderstanding of an opaque and arbitrary system.
They'll support him more than ever.

"Unlike weak Obama, who let others walk all over his red line, TRUMP did what needed to be done!"

You can come up with pro & con arguments for anything if you try.

Most people don't want to look at the net of those pro and cons, and simply select only some, this is how we get polarization.
System76 moves it's computer manufacturing from China to Denver
Timezones, and Worse, Daylight Saving Time
An apology for the internet from the people who built it
>youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube.

Agreed, here's a list of sites it supports:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supported...
yeah, I mean to make an analogy, it's like declaring Toyota a "dead man walking" because Tesla has awesome tech. Before researching the number of new-build cars/trucks/vans shipped and delivered to customers each year...

Toyota, cars, 9.1m

Tesla, all of 2017: Something like 101,000
That come to mind:

Hard to separate pending tasks from just conversations.

Hard to split conversations into separate threads when two topics diverge.

Leaving a conversation isn't just your decision: you have to both reply all and hope that no one else replies all using a previous email in the thread.

In a corporate email, inability to prevent mass emails from other employees. Hard to do for personal email too.

EDIT: I'm a huge fan, e.g., of the "travel bundles" Inbox creates. It's a giant win in usability for the use case of getting confirmation emails of booked trips. But you can see how it's a battle uphill that Inbox fights against the protocol, as the AI isn't always able to bundle all relevant information together, or extract key pieces of info from the email bodies.
That's actually not a bad idea at all. A sanitized, curated version of the Internet would be a great idea for kids, elderly, the developmentally challenged, etc. Something like the web-equivalent of what Disney World is to the Real World.
That first click on the dog toy ad likely caused all other tabs to show related and/or exactly this ad.

It doesn’t explain first ad though, but we know nothing about his setup - what phones and other devices he has and what software is currently activated on them.
Ok, so why does it suck? Because you don't like it? Why isn't it a proper standard when it's the only one implemented? Things definitely do not change on a whim and there's great care taken in the process. The group is very transparent and clearly state the objective is to keep the standard modern and evolving. You can always refer to an archived snapshot or the numerous compatibility tables for historic data if needed.

Chrome has bugs, like any other implementation, but has moved the web forward greatly in the last decade and the vast majority of developers and end-users would rather have modern working tech than some idealistic document that doesn't go anywhere.

Again, since W3C just copies the WHATWG standard anyway, what is the value that you claim is being added? And if you have better ideas, why not just contribute them to WHATWG instead?
No. I don't think we do. Writing native apps is a huge waste of time and resources. While the big players in the OS space were squabbling the web browsers snuck in and drank their milkshake.

Browsers / web apps are a more portable, and more productive method of distributing GUIs. Full stop.

When deciding to go native or not, you have to decide: Will you hire several designated IOS application developers, several Android application developers, and have them re-implement your website? Or will you hire the equivalent amount of front-end engineers and have them collaborate and develop the codebase together using a shared toolkit?

People moan about how it's slow, but they tend to miss the point: I don't work for a "writing native apps and make the apps fast" company. I work for a software company that builds a product and sells it to users. Developer familiarity == Speed == Money

And really: Do you honestly believe spending 300k a year on engineers to re-implement the same shit we've already written, but in a different language with completely different semantics is a good investment? Rewriting all of the work we've ALREADY done for our mobile view in CSS and HTML and Javascript in Objective-C and Java?

Unless you're writing software with INTENSE graphical requirements, and even THEN there is webgl, writing a native app brings no value. You could spend that time optimizing your website written in JS you've packaged as an IOS/Android app. Or, I don't know, implementing new features and actually bringing value to your company.

PWAs are much slower, but as time goes on this will be improved.

As for the electron haters: Show me a more productive way to implement GUI applications. Show me the applications and frameworks that are putting out GUIs that look even remotely as good as the Electron applications.

I think we're going to see a rise of PWAs and apps that are simply web browsers in disguise.

Edit: I'll also add that the "not always online" or "bandwidth" argument is bunk. Crazy idea: Package your web application as an app, and include it's dependencies and everything it needs to run. Once you do that, the "download once" advantage of a native app is bunk.
Cloudflare, Uber, Netflix engineering teams are all amazing.
Keep an eye on the DEFCON Warning System Twitter. A few minutes ago, they stated that a counter-attack has been launched, according to Syrian National TV. https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS
That is, in fact, a significant number of the comments here:

https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8c45dk/president...

"Trust Trump." "We don't know what Trump knows. I trust him to make the right decision." "He wouldn’t do this if it weren’t appropriate. I’m not happy about the decision but it’s not like we are deploying battalions to restructure their government." "Unless you are in a very small circle of people receiving daily intelligence briefings, you do not know anything, you can only guess and play armchair President."

Of course, none of these people would have extended the same courtesy to President Obama, and they've been playing armchair Secretary of State for like three years.

On the other hand there are quite a number of people who are genuinely disappointed or unhappy, which is - oddly - pretty heartening.
i think a factor is that a lot of New York small businesses, food trucks, etc. buy from the same local suppliers, and because New York is such a big market, it's actually viable for them to only serve one city. The most visible example of this is the blue coffee cups.

i'd bet those sausages come from a particular supplier somewhere on Long Island and get sold to many diners in NYC, and that's why they are so distinctive.

this is definitely true of the rolls used for the classic sausage-egg-and-cheese-on-a-roll. like, yes, I can buy a breakfast sandwich anywhere in the US, but it will be noticeably different from the New York version, and the New York version will be pretty consistent across many independent bodegas because the ingredients are the same.
You’re conflating minimalism with Brutalism. Brutalism is about design exposing functionality. Lots of layers in the stack expose functionality (hardware, the OS, the DOM), but presentation is design, not functional. You could switch the default font from one thing to another with zero functional effect.
Most teams should not waste their time searching for a “great” developer (whatever that is, exactly). Instead they would be better off just hiring the first candidate that comes along in whom they have reasonable level of confidence will soon be a productive contributor to the team's goals and makeup, and then move on with business. Everyone involved in the recruiting, screening, and interview process should not lose sight of this as the objective, and resist any temptation to get sidetracked by silliness like “pedigree” and “trendiness”.
Let's not forget that it isn't just one policy agency wanting to buy these.

It's every single department, in every single city, in every single state.

That's thousands, if not tens of thousands, of departments buying these when they'll all be useless as soon as Apple patches the exploit.

Seems like a whole lot of wasted money. But who knows, they might just catch enough "big bad Marijuana dealers" to offset the cost.

That's what the LEO really means by cold cases. Nothing important. Just more drug busts.
What’s the story on how this is legal? I know that “Congress declares war, not the president” has been getting increasingly theoretical, but getting an explicit justification now might matter later when the politics have changed.
Alan Kay had a good answer on quora for this.

Let me confess that I’ve not read every answer. But the ones that I did read were all very concerned with “squaring” etc.

The simplest answer — and I think the reason many people have difficulty with both arithmetic and especially algebra — is that you need to deeply internalize just what the “=” sign symbolizes and asserts: that there is the very same number on each side.

In other words don’t be distracted by the symbols and operations. One way to think about this is that “a number is all the ways you can make it” (i.e. it can be thought of as “processes” (an infinite number of them) as well as a “value”).

This means whatever you can do to any number can be done on both sides of the “=” because there is just the same number underneath the gobblydegook on both sides.

This is what “=” actually means. And it’s why algebra is actually quite easy rather than mysterious or difficult. [0]

[0] http://qr.ae/TU1SxJ
Waymo Applies to Put Autonomous Cars on CA Roads Without Safety Drivers
"In the compose screen, there’s a tiny lock icon called “confidential mode”. It says that the recipient won’t be able to forward email content, copy and paste, download or print the email."

I can see how they could prevent this happening for the average user, but do they really have some way actually stop this?
Is there reason to believe the strikes will result in thousands of innocent casualties?

They claim that they're only striking "chemical weapon research facilities". Looks like it's 4am there, so I guess not a lot of people in research facilities (plus they've been forewarned of the potential strikes)
DotCloud and the Docker story.
Some promising signs. A lot of these are true for no obvious reason.

- open 24 hours, breakfast all day.

- At least three industrial-grade bunn coffee makers

- waitstaff primarily comprised of middle-aged women and 20-something men of the "working folks" varities. Normally, greek or latino. Normally lifers. Normally gruff but kindly. The owner is likely to be on the floor, and will inevitably be a 50+ year old man, normally chunky, normally greek.

- red formica tables are a plus, as are naugahyde stool covers that have seen better days.

- chromed steel backsplashes and a bar with round stools that you can sit at.

- Gaudy exterior facade, that was last updated in about 1995, featuring (ideally) columns and usually neon signs.

- Menu should be big and tall with plastic sheets protecting the paper, ideally edged in fake leather. At least 6 pages long, with an inordinate number of dishes -- of which maybe 5 are ever actually ordered in real life.

- A lingering greasy smell of schmaltz and pancakes and hamburgers and singed coffee.

- not so much now, but historically, one jukebox per booth

- "Diner" in the name, normally also greek references (olympus, zeus, etc.)

Bodegas are corner stores with completely forgettable names, the usual selection of beer and drinks and snacks and other gas-station-like foods, a newsstand that actually sells newspapers, normally phone cards or phones and whatnot. Goya foods in abundance. There is also a long grill that makes aforementioned sandwiches, and there is nearly always a cat on the premises.
workaround: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
Appearing 10 minutes later on AP would have nothing to do with the link tax, as AP would be able to paraphrase your results. In fact, it's currently Google that favors the smaller investigator (over what the situation would be without Google): the smaller page would get a pagerank boost from all of the very important websites linking to it. Without Google, AP would have traffic from people who check it manually and nobody else would get anything. Being the first to publish comes with a small advantage in Google's world and no advantage outside.
firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
Yaourt bulgare ( http://www.biodistrifrais.com/yaourt-bulgare-nature-2x125g-p... ) are also common in France !
Isn't Xeon phi dead? There haven't been any updates since 2013. My one professor who worked on them said they have many issues from being passively cooled to requiring the Intel compiler to get halfway decent performance.
A few would be sn understatement as far as my algoritmic anslysis class went.
or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
"We aren’t actually losing features due to things changing tiers as much as we are losing features because we ourselves have forcibly downgraded our license."

Then common decency should have you correct your article of April 3rd accordingly (as of 0200 GMT Saturday, it hasn't happened).
Revealed: Aleksandr Kogan collected Facebook users' direct messages
The linked issue is probably useful if someone using Emacs/Org exports Org to Markdown format, and then uploads to a Github issue as that feature proposes. But then I fail to see the advantage of that flow vs just committing the Markdown file to any online git repo and letting Netlify etc. take care of publishing the blog.

Because.. uploading a Markdown file to a Github issue is one thing, but then what about refactoring, occasional post edits, etc.? Probably keep on overwriting the same Github issue with updated Markdown files?

You don't have to reply to these questions here.. just some thought if you do invest time in implementing this feature request.