skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is super sad & bad for the space and for those of us that work in the industry and just want to build real stuff.

This is the "real stuff".... it just isn't the techno-futuristic utopia that some hoped it would become. Turns out, blockchain and all the goo floating around on top make an excellent platform for financial fraud and that is about it.

Bitcoin, ICO's, The Blockchain, and everything else running in this space makes it all a world-class platform for running classic scams with a modern twist.
I agree with you that we do need to do better about writing more robust software, and type safe languages are a good way to do that.

But what you're saying is as if you suggest that since the metric system is more consistent and more widely used than the English, I as a bolt distributor should start selling my bolts in metric sizes, despite the fact that the nuts that everyone has are in English sizes.

The browser vendors, at least, are working on implement their browsers in more type-safe languages (https://github.com/servo/servo), but even still they have to work with the content that is produced by thousands of different languages, frameworks, and tools, and millions of hand written HTML files, templates, and the like. Just turning on strict XML parsing doesn't make that go away, it just makes your browser fail on most websites.
In fact, we already do publish commit snapshots for every change we make: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/commit-snapshots/
Hackers are scanning the web for Drupal installs vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2
Why people should switch from coinmarketcap to your site?
Car behind the bus is gone, bus license plate got some fake text. Its pretty bad as far as reproducing original.
Never Solved, Cornell University's Dorm Fire Has Become One Man’s Obsession
About counting people thing: your frame of reference is probably too narrow?

Come to thing of it, I personally don't know ten people capable of doing state of the art SMD repairs but I'm sure there are many more than that in _my town_.
> I tried warning people that 99% of alt coins die.

I love this logic. Everything but Bitcoin is somehow a shitcoin. Maybe, just maybe, Bitcoin belongs in the same stack as all the rest...
Not many people are paying attention, but this is just another move from Google to make email = Gmail.

It's trying to turn email into a proprietary thing that only works between Gmail addresses. All the Inbox "AI-enhanced" nonsense was also part of this plan, and I'm glad it hasn't caught on because of that.

The only thing that would make me accept Gmail turning email into a less open format is if they enabled end-to-end encryption similar to ProtonMail that wasn't a pain to use like PGP is. At least then there would be a good reason for killing the old format and breaking compatibility with other providers.

Ideally, it would still be a format that other email providers could at least adopt later on, and then the email services could remain compatible with each other. But providing end-to-end encryption at all would be a big deal on its own.

But this or the AI stuff are a joke in comparison. And we know Google doesn't care anymore about end-to-end encryption (now that it has become Pentagon's bestie), as it has already killed its own End-to-End project.
When we're talking about something being "entered into a political race," I don't think it is. In reality, this is about the same as running a dog as candidate for mayor.
Which also happens to be the definition the w3c xhtml 1.0 spec. You can choose to think that's quirky, please don't attribute it to me.

Except that the number of people who actually implemented valid, well-formed, properly-served XHTML Strict -- of any version -- in compliance with all the relevant specifications is at best vanishingly tiny. XHTML Transitional was tag soup.

Your retort further up about many sites serving invalid HTML5 actually works against you, since HTML5 explicitly has a forgiving parsing model, while XHTML is explicitly "every error is a fatal error". If browsers had enforced the XHTML approach on every document using an XHTML DOCTYPE, we would have seen the death of XHTML much earlier.

This is why people say XHTML was never really adopted -- many people certainly put a "/>" to close their empty elements, and stuck an XML prolog and an XHTML DOCTYPE up at the top, but surveys like the infamous "XHTML 100" showed that next to nobody actually adopted XHTML in a manner compliant with the relevant standards.

And I say this as someone who, way back in the early 00's, was serving valid, well-formed XHTML as application/xhtml+xml. XHTML was a terrible approach, and the W3C process was dragging farther and farther from practicality at every revision (remember XHTML 2.0?).
Thanks for the info and the links :) the blog post sounds like my dream haha. I've only been at my current job for a few months, so I won't ask yet, but I'm going to try this.
The default settings of MeWe are a fright and couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be mentioned in the same breath with any notion of "UltraPrivacy"
The responsive design is great. I've been wishing that would become a standard option on video sites for some time. Full screen is rarely what I want and Theater Mode doesn't cut it. One suggestion, a black background and, if possible, vertically centered video might make it feel a bit more polished when the window ratio doesn't match the video.
This information about how the WHATWG works is somewhat outdated; please see https://whatwg.org/faq for more.
Can you explain what you mean? According to caniuse[1] it has been supported for a while.

[1]https://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas

*EDIT I misread the parent. I didn't put the context for that paragraph together and read 'just' as in 'right now' instead of 'just decided to'.
Is that any different than the 10 of the last 15 marvel movies basically being basically exactly the same?

Heck let's take western indie games where a large percentage of all indie games are yet another smash brothers clone or a metroidvania clone. There's probably at most 3 more genres that make up the majority of titles

In other words that there is tons of derivative stuff is not even remotely unique to Japan.

There's tons of anime that doesn't make it out of Japan (or used to be) as well of tons of manga that's seriously creative. Walk through a Village Vanguard store for example.
Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty.

Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these levels yet, I guess.)

Anne Wojcicki: CEO of 23andMe. Former part-time partner of Y Combinator, back then along with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest; and Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y...

Sergey Brin: co-founder of Google and formerly married to Anne.

Susan Wojcicki: Anne's sister, and CEO of Youtube, owned by Google.

Sam Altman: President of Y Combinator
Amazon should buy Turnitin.
One thing I love to do is to block all the garbage of websites with uBlock Origin by adding my own filters. That does not give a result as good as this project but it quicker to do.
I can say, buy not attribute, that they are in fact reacting quite quickly.
If, like the Democratic senators who signed the letter, I enjoyed mostly glowing media coverage, I suppose that I would be upset when a company dismisses that glowing coverage as being the result of bias - even if I knew they were correct. But that’s a hardly a reason to abuse your power as a senator to attempt to damage the company that is doing that, especially when they are trying to solve a legitimate problem for the public at their own stations. That’s pretty evil if you ask me.
> I think we should vote for people not because they share our views, which are likely based in ignorance, but because they demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions and come to reasonable compromises.

I like this model, but I think the rub is that rubric itself expresses a view that not everyone shares. It pushes the problem back one step, the disagreements become meta.

Any interest group can defect from the prisoner's dilemma where we all vote for tabula rasa rationalists, and instead choose the strategy of electing someone who pledges unwavering support.

They'd likely disagree with you that they don't know their interests and that they would be better off with smart generalists. And once some interest groups are getting unwavering support, then my bet is that strategy cannibalizes the "rationalist" strategy completely before long.

I'm not endorsing that outcome, I just think that's how things fall apart, and it's hard or impossible to create systems that prevent it.

Tyranny of the majority is incredibly tough. It's basically a sheep/goats problem, where you want majoritarian common sense to get through, but majoritarian selfishness to be stopped at the gate.

Federalism seems the best hedge against it so far, though even that seems to vary wildly in effectiveness. (e.g., Sometimes Jackson ignores Marshall.)
> But then instead of buying Bitcoin who has 9 years of storing value, they buy a shitcoin

Most of them are running the exact same codebase as Bitcoin with a few tweaks. How are they any less of a "shitcoin" than Bitcoin?
The point was they used XHTML, which means they could trivially choose to validate and test their XML well-formedness with built-in tools everyone had ready access to.

I'm honestly trying to figure out whether this is satire or not.
> why do they have a sex offender registry?

We have a Violent and Sex Offender Register: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_and_Sex_Offender_Regis...

It is not public, it exists to facilitate Police intelligence.
Thinking through to the depths as to why sites like Steemit and Minds are gaining traction is a worthwhile exercise.
mentioned it in the final version of my essay, a lot of which is about exactly this kind of history.
"Brand" is God now. The Brand must protect itself from outsiders, peddling false promises, or potentially turning people away from The Brands Name.

How people don't see the benefits we bestow on corporate as anything but lifted directly from Church doctrine, I dunno.

Most of the leadership is from a generation that was raised in the church. Replace church with corporation, and Brand/marketing with Bible. They use different language, p/e, stock price, imports/exports, but under it all is effort to nudge people in support of those things; their new gospel for building a successful relig... brand and corporate empire. Tend to our flock.... err employee culture!

Round and round we go.
Go's compile speed might be impressive over C++, but it is hardly so when compared against many compilers from the 90's, before C and C++'s massive adoption.

When C++ modules finally get integrated in C++20, that advantage will fade away.
The end result is the same -- people are less informed.

In general it is always impossible to have this conversation because the idea of "free speech" is very different in America compared to Europe.
> Well yes, but the question is how much?

The irony being that the blockchain was intended to answer a question like this....
XHTML, other than Transitional, which nobody should count as "implementing XHTML", is an XML application. It inherits XML's parsing model. Every error is a fatal error.
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Do they need it as they age or in the final period of their life? If it's the later then it isn't really a problem, a year of medical care at 85 isn't much different from a year at 75. On the other hand if they are consuming healthcare from 65 until the end of their life then that is a bigger problem.
That "obvious example" has major issue when looking at the population as a whole. If you took a random person on the street and asked what profession they had then the chances are about 50% or higher that they are in a worse gender segregation than technical and programming professions.

Consider this: only 12% of the employed people in Sweden work in a profession which has equal or less gender segregation of 60%/40%. The remaining 88%, also called the wast majority work in a place which is considered gender segregated. technical and programming professions have around 70%-30% gender segregation. They rank very average among all profession, with no distinctive attribute in the area of gender segregation.

What does a average gender segregation for a specific profession say about sex differences vs social constructs? Would not looking at those several profession with 99% or higher gender segregation be more telling? For example, what does the highest male gender segregated profession reported here in Sweden, brick layers, with a ration above 99% tell us about sex differences vs social constructs?
Thanks, Bulgaria!
The $300+ I had to pay to repair a phone because of a problem in their design leaves me extremely doubtful of this. I think it is all about money to them, and when they think they can win more money than it costs them in image, they will go after cases like this.
What was the outcome of the fake Mercedes thing?
> Not many people are paying attention, but this is just another move from Google to make email = Gmail.

Agree with that.

And sad and weird. There are plenty of ways to do well in business without eroding the open nature of email!
This only works for a couple of years; eventually, the pocket lint permanently reduces the springiness of the contacts, such that the cable is "loose" in the socket, and the connection can therefore be lost by shifting the position of the phone.

Fortunately, it's a simple (if tedious) fix with a $15 part.
I think there's a whole host of people who don't know much about homes and don't want to deal with the headaches of ripping out walls and such who would easily pay a small premium to be assured of a consistent level of quality (if it were well documented and enforced).

Frankly, I'd just love an affordable service that takes care of regularly scheduled house maintenance tasks without breaking the bank.
The struct tags vet will not catch the typo I mentioned.

It would catch `json:"missing closing quote`; it would not catch the "josn" typo.
Yet if I post a magnet link for a torrent, I'm distributing pirated software.
There is a difference between dropping data, and replacing it with fake one. Unreadable text is better than scanned cheque with different amount.
Very weird that a consolidated media company would force its viewpoint to be propagated. This is very unlike the rest of the media and a genuinely new phenomenon. /s

(2012) http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...

If you think that these companies aren't pushing a viewpoint you got another thing coming. Hint: It's pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist, anti-worker, and anti-political dissenters.
Waymo applies for no-driver testing in California
How about we start with the over-use of "leaked"?

For example the new James Comey book was not "leaked." What happened was, the publicist kicked off the marketing campaign and MSM feeding frenzy and hyping begins. The part about the book's author being sacked by the guy he's critiquing is never mentioned.

A real journalist would not use the worded "leaked" as that's not only entirely misleading, it's a lie. Stating the obvious or not, a real journalist / legit news outlet would not make assumption, they would make sure the context is 100% clear.
It's the choice some people make. I think user experience is very subjective. I love the user experience that Gentoo provides me, but others will feel better with Windows 10. I didn't mean to say that it's objectively the best experience.
Every time someone purchases an Apple product, they are endorsing their practices, whether wittingly or unwittingly.

Time and time again, we have observed that patents are a tool of the haves to prevent competition from the have-nots.

While this case may have been about 'trademark' infringement, it's clear that if patents didn't exist one could procure genuine replacement parts that don't 'infringe' on Apple's trademarks (which in this case is obviously a dubious assertion).

Every time a 'tech person' buys and espouses Apple products (and other patent encumbered products), others less educated in technology suffer.

Reach for free and open source alternatives whenever viable, and try to educate others on the important compromises they have to make when it comes to freedom. We could lose free software and any resemblance to right to repair or open hardware in a generation if we're not careful.
Why not just ask do you want "super" rare or rare. Or something like that.
Not sure exactly what your comment is saying, but at least one reading is that "browsers are the only stakeholders in the WHATWG", which is not accurate. The WHATWG is a community organization open to participation by all; see https://whatwg.org/faq#process for more. We receive a lot of participation from users, web developers, and other companies.

There is a formal group, the Steering Group, which represents the browsers that implement WHATWG standards, and serves as the point of final appeal if the community doesn't come to a consensus on its own. But this is similar to the W3C appeals track where if all the paying member companies don't come to consensus, they appeal to "The Director" as the ultimate decider. ("The Director" is nominally Tim Berners-Lee, but recently all Director decisions have been made by W3C management "on behalf of" The Director.)
Google's already EOL-ing the Pixel 1. OS updates at 2 years, security updates at 3. For the first model they priced at parity with other "top-tier" Android phones. (Bye bye Nexus -- sigh.)

Meanwhile, a 5 year old iPhone is running the current version of iOS. Even Samsung seems to be maintaining their Galaxy line beyond 3 years.

People can do the math. And "must have the latest" is losing its luster, especially now when most people can't see too much difference, i.e. the cameras are already pretty damned good.

Battery life is another principal matter. But if and as those can be swapped for $100 or less... (Not to mention the "battery cases" I was noticing a lot, a year or two ago.)

P.S. I keep mentioning versions of this, because I'd like to see more effective competition. But Google, at the head of the Android ecosphere, seem incapable -- I have to say, at this point, basically uninterested -- at parity on security and lifespan.
I mostly just meant you wouldn't be breaking laws technically to go around them via reverse engineering. To your second statement that's actually a good point, it could be. I mean in general overall it's going to be pretty outrageous to try and legitimately develop going around apple entirely, so the OP's point is valid de facto, just saying in principle they can't lock people out in the absolute sense under current law.
I don't know if perhaps we are better off declaring bankruptcy and taking a worse-is-better approach here and not even having the pretence of unbiased media, because maybe it's not possible.

In the UK newspapers basically publicly declare their bias and everyone knows so you make sure you read a left-biased paper as well as a right-biased one.

I don't know if the wire services manage to be completely unbiased?
Maddow definitely creates a narrative out of the current events. Hannity is on another level, though, making dishonest use of every logical fallacy in order to push the state directed agenda.

He is one of the "allies" Trump pushes his propaganda through: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382993-white-hous...

> Trump also urged supporters to watch Fox News host Sean Hannity's show on Wednesday, during which Hannity called for Rosenstein to be fired.
Apples 'price gouging' is just smart business. How do you get people in the low end to buy your product. But get the best margin on the high end?

The base model of their products are perfectly servicable and price competitive for the quality. They just know what the wealthier consumers are willing to shell out for.
From the article (which I wrote, happy to answer questions) ... this is quoted in the court decision i.e., was written by a judge not by the defendant:

"PCKompaniet does not pretend or market itself as Apple authorized and does not give any indication that the repair comes with an Apple warranty.”"
"How will MeWe make money? With optional services you can add such as its extra data storage option (up to 500GB) and picture printing via Walgreens, for instance. On tap is a MeWe app store, and eventually, a subscription-based enterprise version."

Interesting. I will keep this on my radar, like Vero.
> That's not what anybody means when speaking about encrypted messaging.

Few people seems to know much.

> Referring to client-server encryption as encrypted messaging is misleading.

> AIM, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger are all encrypted messengers by that definition.

I can partly agree with you on that.

But the way you phrase it, people who don't know better might easily be misled to think it is readable by anyone in between.

There are a few options between cleartext over telnet and the latest in crypto.
It's about rehabilitation. And, despite all the exceptions, that is the principle under which European justice systems operate. Exceptions need to be justified politically, unlike felon disenfranchisement in the US which is seemingly unquestioned.
Friends don't let friends use MS Word to produce equation screenshots. Not in the age of MathJax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

The rate has actually fallen to 15 per 100,000 people, which is only 3 more than the 12 per 100,000 people in the United States. So not great but also probably not a big enough of a difference to be brought up in every single conversation about japan like it currently is. South Korea on the other hand... yikes.
I used to make ultra-low budget short films, and I feel like there's a lot of crossover between planning those projects and planning a product.

One lesson I learned: make a list of your assets and consider them when deciding on a project. Your assets include the things you own, the skills you have, and the resources of your network. By creating a project around these you can maximize your production value, and make a project that no one else could have made on your budget.

I recently realized that my love of rap, and my connections to the local community of rappers and hip hop producers, is a huge and unique asset in the software industry. I'm currently working on a product for rappers, that also serves as a platform for producers to make money and advertise themselves. My network has made it really easy to solicit feedback from both my target audience and my target content providers, and create mutually beneficial zero-cost licensing agreements.

So far, the response has been huge, lots of passionate support and interesting suggestions.
> https://i.imgur.com/eKq8ZCG.png

> "microsoft" has the highest breakage rate

is microsoft really bad at making hardware or something? or is it all the technically inept people thinking their windows laptop is made by microsoft?
Well you have the right to do what you want with it. That's the thing about "Right To Repair", you already have the right to do it now. It's not illegal to open up your iPhone and replace a broken screen, Apple just doesn't support it by selling you genuine parts.
Perfect example. He's nothing more than a talking head. He's reading a script off a teleprompter. He's there - and Katie Couric isn't - because he tests well and the rating are strong.

That doesn't make him a journalist. Nor does it make what falls from his lips news.