skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A name mentioned twice might have warranted a paragraph. Robert Moses, the subject of "The Power Broker" a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography (worth an audiable credit).

He ran the Triborough and build a lot of bridges, parks, parkways etc. Most of those bridges do not have rail decks, because he also believed the future was cars, and rail would compete with his source of revenue, toll fees.

It is hard to overstate the impact that one person had on the NY infrastructure, but this article very much understates his impact.
Especially because that one involved some trapdoor math.
>Calling this spyware is rather misleading.

No, it's clearly spyware. They are enumerating lists of software loaded on client computers without explicit permission other than what's granted broadly in their ToS/EULA, and without speaking of the feature.

The component got removed right after their use of it -- indicating either sneakiness or internal qualms about the use of such methods -- and if one believes the guilty , it affected legitimate users, too.

>Some go much further like inspecting the Windows DNS cache...

Why is looking at DNS caches 'going further' than enumerating all software into hashes for remote analysis? DNS might have more embarrassing shit to expose on a personal level, but generally a glimpse into installed software is much more exclusive/rare/uncommon . DNS gets' discussed between your machine and a million others down the line; it hasn't been considered very private for some time now.
Everyone cheered the demise of MySpace for Facebook, but in retrospect MySpace was the last dying gasps of the "old internet" (what I refer to as the "real web"). Sure it was a rough and tumble world that wasn't exactly "pretty". But from that ugliness sprang levels of self expression and freedom not seen today anywhere else, because when you give people total freedom amazing things can happen. Corporations don't like amazing, rare, or incredible things. They like standardized, predictable mediocrity. Which is precisely what they've molded the web into over the past 10 years.
:) No worries.

But don't mistake it for "erogenous" or "gangrenous"
I don’t understand why participating in global trade and accepting thousands of immigrants who oppose the principles of your society have to go hand to hand.
I bet even without a picture, the act of writing down the name (or even better a name and a couple details about the person) would be enough to lock the name into my memory. Maybe I need to start that too...
It was supposed to be, and then he got a pay-by-the-word contract, or so I understand...
> Under capitalism there is no comparable tradition of massacring political enemies

Are you saying there has never been a dictatorship or authoritarian government with a capitalist economy?

Capitalism and socialism are economic systems, not necessarily ways of organizing a government. You can have capitalism with or without democracy. Democracy is the true tool against authoritarianism, not capitalism. And I don't think the people in this thread that are arguing on behalf of marxism want to do away with democracy.
You say way too much, I say the main attraction of the series.
You know whats equally evil to "attacking children"? Using children as a weapon. These kids should have stood up and spoken their minds. Thats all well and good. Using these kids to further finger point and create a more divisive world isn't okay. Lakoff's political agenda is a smear on an otherwise solid body of work.
As a fantasy author, I am constantly looking for ways to provide description that engages all five senses. In most fiction, the vast majority of description is focused on what characters see, but if you really want to place the reader in a setting, it needs to feel tactile. When a character walks into a boggy marsh, I don't just want to describe the tepid pools of water; I want to describe the pungent stench of rotting wood, and the texture of the soggy ground underfoot. It's one thing for a character to remark on how hot and humid it is; it's another to describe the feeling of the wet, vaporous air as beads of water are condensing on your skin and coalescing with your sweat.

Food is great at engaging all five senses. Not only is it one of the few places where you get to talk about taste, but food gives off aromas. Eating food is a tactile experience: you can feel the stickiness of a sweet jelly as you lick it off your fingers. Food has a texture that you can feel on your tongue, and it feels different in your mouth depending on whether you allow it to slowly slide down your throat or stuff your cheeks with it. And kitchens are full of sounds that add richness to the setting: you can hear the crackling of a fire, the sizzle of a piece of meat dropped onto an iron cooking surface, the delightful shing of a carving knife being sharpened. You hear things at the dinner table, too: the delightful crunch of biting into a cracker, or the clattering of cutlery on plates. A baked pastry will make different sounds when you bite into it depending on whether it crust is hard or thin and flaky.

Fantasy is often viewed as one of the most immersive genres, largely because it spends so much time on providing detailed description that not only tells you what is happening in the world, but giving you a sense of what it feels like to live in that world. This often means that fantasy novels are longer and slower paced, but one of the reasons that many people enjoy large fantasy tomes is that they enjoy the feeling of being transported and immersed in another world.
I've been thinking of something along those lines for years. I hope your project gets traction. I'd love to develop with web technologies exclusively, but what we've been doing with Electron is crazy. Imagine loading a whole new Win32 or Carbon/Cocoa for every app you open.

I can understand the inconsistencies and lack of feature support that could emerge from using a different browser engine for each OS (Webkit/Edge), but there should at least be away for Electron apps to share Chromium/Node runtimes between them.
I think you're entirely right, but I wonder if there's not some life left in it down the road. Whenever I've needed DOS, which isn't that often anymore, I reach for FreeDOS, not MS-DOS. Who knows what deeply legacy systems might be around in 30 years? But then again, it's hard to imagine something as ubiquitous as a Windows installation disk being unobtainable on the used market.
They still do: https://neocities.org/
Net adds: 1.96 million U.S. and 5.46 million international streaming subs
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/polisen-43-personer-skots...

43 people were shot in Sweden in 2017, in a country of almost 10 million.

That's 0.43 / 100K.

The US gun homicide rate in 2016 was 4.62 / 100K.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

Chicago had 650 homicides in 2017, down from 762 in 2016, with a population of 2.7 million.

http://www.blacknews.com/news/chicago-sees-drop-in-violence-...

Just to put things into perspective.
Even better, it's Linus being pragmatic. You can tell he hates them but he sees the greater good.

As another comment alludes, we end up perceiving the stereotypes in others. Anyone who reads his writing closely should see that his answers are almost always pragmatic and from a "nothing but the best for my baby" perspective, even if they are somewhat abrasive.
The post may be right, or may be wrong, but I couldn’t get past how extremely divisive and polarising it was. It deliberately fosters an “us vs them” attitude and leaves no room for middle ground. It certainly wasn’t written to generate healthy debate
Oral ingestion is unpopular due to inefficiency and the likelihood of stomach upset. People who are self-administering ketamine are most likely insufflating. I have friends who have reported very positive results with intramuscular injection, but most people don't have access to hygienic injection apparatus, nor any experience using it safely, so insufflation is most common.
With you 100% on acceptance. Just to add to the record: in my experience, medication (at its best) hasn’t numbed me, more that it gives me a window to recognize what I’m feeling, which has helped me to continue pursuing the things that I value. YMMV, of course.
True, but you cannot do data science without a GUI.
I hear people talk about how they would never move to the US because of how violent it is. And yet the reality of living in the US middle class is that violence almost never affects you or the areas you frequent. Most shootings in the US are between criminals, and happen in high crime areas that are geographically small in comparison to the entire country.

I'm guessing this is similar in Sweden. It sounds like specific areas have increasing violence, and that this looks even worse, given the country's historical low rates of violence.
The type of ads you see on FB is only relevant to FB users.
Consider that the people watching the videos have repeatedly shown in no uncertain terms (even when given the option and it is made really really easy for them), that they don't want to pay.
You are correct, but the planned extension of the CTA Red Line includes a new station that is shared with the South Shore, creating a brand-new connection ability that never existed before. The planning for the new Union Station to McCormick Place link involves connecting the CTA, Metra and South Shore lines.

If you are standing in downtown Chicago, you can jump onto a train and conveniently go to O'Hare International (Blue Line CTA), Midway International (Orange Line CTA), Milwaukee International (Amtrak), and South Bend Regional (South Shore). South Bend has daily non-stops to NYC so I'm not sure why it's called a regional airport, but, well, there you go.
You can definitely block ads on desktop Spotify: I did it by modifying my hosts file.

As for your first question, I think when it encounters what should be an audio ad in the queue, it attempts to play it, due to the host file, the ad request gets blocked/sent to a black hole and nothing is returned, so the application presumably assumes that everything was fine and continues on.
> -The top developers have to make clusters of freaking mac minis just to run their continuous integration tests. Do you think they are happy about that?

Top app developers should already be on hosted/SaaS CI services that offer Mac servers like Travis or CircleCI.
Malware authors often incorporate legitimate software into their malware - e.g. Nir Sofer's Mail PassView and Web PassView are used in Emotet spam bot to harvest user credentials. Usually such files are marked as "Potentially unsafe software" by analysts, or in some cases could be detected as part of a malware family by AV companies' automated detection tools.
Ask HN: Client side image processing
Hi,

I am exploring for a possible client-side image processing solution for some use cases like resizing, rotating an image etc.

I am already aware of HTML5 Canvas resizing alternative but it pixelates the image even after smoothing is enabled. I would appreciate If anyone is aware of and share any such library which could help me with the same?

Thanks for your time!
HN is a link aggregator and this link will probably be flagged off the front page in less than ten minutes, I’d direct ire at Politico in this case.

edit less than 1 minute apparently!
Quoted for emphasis:

> Every new line of code you willingly bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, code that has to be read and understood, code that has to be supported. Every time you write new code, you should do so reluctantly, under duress, because you completely exhausted all your other options.

It's worth noting: code you import counts toward your total line count. Don't think that because someone else who doesn't work with you wrote the code, it doesn't count. In some ways, that's worse. I've spent all day today debugging a no-longer-maintained library which is used in a legacy codebase I'm maintaining.
Does anybody remember the tiny Windows games that fit in a little window the size of an icon? I remember playing pool and Tetris in a little corner of my screen at a very boring job where I was a couple months ahead of my work. I never did find the game developer after that.
How all privacy policies should be written
306 shootings in 2017 that seems quite a lot compared to W.EU.

https://www.thelocal.se/20171222/in-figures-2017s-shootings-...
A previous decrease in homicides since the 90's. Shootings increasing the last few years. Not contradictory at all.
God this is depressing. Only 3 years behind Amazon and Google.
Таня Швед (GTFOBAE) преследовали и лапали в Москве
Better wording "Fix an Error".
Well now you're conflating extreme poverty with poverty. There are millions of people living in poverty in the united states. And you don't really need someone to be in complete poverty to exploit them.

Also, the direction currently is towards stagnating wages and growing wealth inequality.
Even Facebook allows avatars.

The ability to express yourself in all it's unprofessional ways is important. It's a way to show you're not Facebook. Each topic is built up from the colours of the people that participate there. Individual expression is allowed. Then it's just up to the forum owners to decide what crosses the line.
So now there's some awesome PWA api giving you all those native features, and a permissions model, and so you install SUPERPHONE app, and that needs access to your contacts and to make and receive calls, and you say "ok, yeah this is a better phone app so those are reasonable".

Now everything running JS in the context of $SUPERPHONE_DOMAIN or whatever has these new permissions. superphone pwa's calls to window.PwaGetContacts() and window.PwaMakeCall() work and everyone's happy, and your phone really is super now. the app shows a banner ad from google and you're cool with that because it was free, and hey, developers need to eat too.

Someone who makes ads figures out that ads can run JS. So your app pulls down an ad from some ad network and that ad has some cool JS that detects that those functions are available and starts calling all your friends from your phone and telling them that "`window.PwaGetOwnerName()` is really excited about LinkedIn and wants you to be their contact" after uploading your contact list to every 3rd party data broker that would pay for it.

well, that sucks, maybe there's a better way to limit the code that can run on your phone with specific permissions
Genera Eisenhower quoted, Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us
Yeah, they don't want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn't want people going around skipping it.
> but, suddenly, all information regarding which protocol is missing - that would have been genuinely useful to know (unlike the prior wordiness).

And might be a reason for ArenaNet to sue.

From what I have read, reporting about shortcommings in MMORPGs can get expensive quickly. There is a reason the Defcon 25 talk by Manfred was cut short. ZeniMax Online wasnt amused

edit: I did remember correctly, the very same video was taken down from youtube by Arenanet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfbMZJsb1cQ

>"DEF CON 25 - Manfred - Twe..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by ArenaNet, LLC.
Mac Web Developers: Firefox or Safari?
Hi all, been using Google Chrome from day one, first as a general user then as a web developer. I'm kind of wanting to escape Google's grasp (as much as one can at this point). So I'm wondering debating trying out Firefox or Safari for development on my Mac and am interested in what people are using for their setups? I know Firefox dev tools seem to hold up to what Chrome has, Safari I am not so sure of myself. Thanks!
The program itself was a trivial cost, as it essentially fell into "regular maintenance" anyway. The difference was whether they did boring sidewalks and lights or more visually appealing ones. And yes, for a time it really did help that downtown area. And again, in the case of the streets - even free wasn't good enough for some people.

Often, what constitutes "waste" is really a matter of spin. During that time, the city was chastised as "anti-growth." Well, guess what, that's because a group of land developers wanted to build thousands of houses, but didn't want to set aside land for schools, fire departments, and other amenities that all the people living in those houses would need. Point being, you can't please all the people all of the time.
Um, the first book is "They finally left the village."

The Wheel of Time was stupidly verbose and slow from book one. I really have no idea how the books became so popular. I think it was because Jordan was willing to talk to people online back when that was a thing.

If you simply focused on Mat instead of Rand's Tsundere Haremfest, you would have a good story and it would be 3 books long, tops. (I'm leaving aside Sanderson's seeming inability to write Mat's character properly.)
They are still way behind ProcExp for example.
How similar is an amazon and a factory job from the past?
Good going..
Labor and capital are on the same side, they are both producers of wealth. You are barking at the wrong tree.
Politico, Economist, The Spectstor all have simmilar articles with the same statistics either they are all “fake news” or something is going on.
Thanks for your work really appreciated, but is there any way to cache some layers?
we need to start dropping the term western when describing certain democratic model or ideals

i am not denying, or trying to take away credit, that some western countries adopted those ideals first

but not all the west agrees that those ideals are, which makes is hard to exactly identify what one is referring to when the term western is used

also, it gives ownership of those ideals to specifics countries and geographic locations, which adds a needless aspect of nationalism to some ideals that should not be linked to nationalism
What amazing things happened on Myspace?
My favourite money library is safe- money in Haskell. It basically catches 99% of the most common money bugs at compile time https://ren.zone/articles/safe-money
In NYC that'd be tough. Those businesses go through a lot of money to survive. A single restaurant near me on the 2nd ave route, back in 2010, was paying $50k/month just in rent. That was just 1 diner. And on taxpayer's expense?
I was actually just thinking about how much independent art, music, video, etc. that I was into back in the myspace days. Now things are very spread out and discoverability is very low unless you're heavily invested in a platform (which can be exhausting across multiple platforms).
I think this is really what I'm trying to say - that these anecdotes about psychedelics curing / not curing depression to be profoundly useless.
This era is very very weird. So much capabilities, possibilities .. yet something is off. Facebook added value in my eyes, it add ways to interact through games and shared info whereas myspace was a glorified blog (on top of ugly html). Yet facebook turned sour long term..
The title is a bit misleading: Shootings are up but violent crime is down. Basically, an influx of guns it would seem. We used to have barely any in circulation, but obviously they will be smuggled to where they collect the highest price (most illegal weapons are Balkan war arms as I understand it).
I would not call the army conquest of land a result of capitalism...
I've read the post and I do get the point BUT we currently support 25 languages, use accounting.js (I know, it's just formatting) and the backend returns float values and we still get by. I'm aware of the risks and not happy about it, but probably good will and magic holds it together (plus backend has a veto over the price with the final, canonical value on their side).

Would it be possible to rewrite this library to use "floatish" numbers with initial multiplication and flooring then using decimal.js? I understand that non-internal arithmetics are slow as hell, but most of the time people just add products to a cart or sometimes apply a percentage discount.

On the other hand, please do throw for non-integer values :)
Well, the homicide rate in Sweden is considerably lower than the rate in the US.

So I guess you have to start by deciding what Trump meant to begin with. Did he mean that Sweden was crazy for doing something that made their rate of homicide decrease more slowly than similar neighboring countries, or was he just fear mongering by shouting about something that had been in the media?
Say more, no need to leave us hanging.
Tila Tequila and Millionaires
Does this (or could this) use Buildkit? It seems that Docker themselves are encouraging the development of an ecosystem of third-party container build tools, with buildkit as an interoperability layer. I heard good things about buildkit but haven't tried it yet.

If Kaniko authors are reading this: have you considered buildkit and, if not, would you be open to contributions based on it?

My understanding is that the official 'docker build' itself is based on Buildkit.

https://github.com/moby/buildkit
EBPF, XDP and Bpfilter. What Are These Things and What Do They Mean?
Decentralized applications – “experimenting with blockchain” is more than tech
If they were a Chinese entity, why would they have to follow US issued sanctions? I assume because they conducted business in USD and/or were paid in USD?

If I'm a European, I'll happily sell stuff to Iran if that means I'll make a profit. US sanctions do not apply to me.
They are being baited by someone trying to push a narrative. Sweden has been used as an example in Hungary, by Trump etc.
To me, and I never was a heavy user of either myspace or facebook, was the human lightness of it. It wasn't political, regulated... it wasn't a brick on top of which serious thing should develop.
Nirsoft <3
That’s 43 (41) dead, there have been 135 injured and 41 dead with 306 shooting incidents according to https://www.thelocal.se/20171222/in-figures-2017s-shootings-...

While this isn’t “impressive” by US standards it is an oddity by Western European ones.
Tesla Reportedly Failed to Disclose Some Worker Injuries at Its Factory
Thanks! The tilt is just a css rotation to demonstrate that you can set classes on drag and drop states.
and written by a Professor Emeritus at Berkeley...
Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with money where you need more precision then cents? For example financials and inventory markets?
The body shop adds value by taking on compliance costs and risks. Amazon is pretty well run, I’m sure the margins on the staffing company side are as tight as they can be.
You'll know if it passes the test of time for you. For me it's one of the few movies I'm happy to watch every year or two.
Is it a good idea to learn JavaScript?
in simple english,it would be a very good idea.
About the Heathrow Express. Its ridership is low because the Piccadilly Line (1 of London's busiest lines) also terminates at Heathrow Airport. Most people I know take the Piccadilly Line instead of the Heathrow Express to the airport to save money.
It's an interesting genre, and one that the author's sadly been in for a while now. This is just the latest international example. On last week's Kvartal podcast (Veckopanelen) she tried to coax an outspoken police officer panelist into warning of increased violence from failed asylum seekers. He disagreed, and harrumphed and resorted to talking about two famously brutal cases instead. We'll likely be seeing more instances of this article.
Utah’s Pluralsight unveils IPO filing
Renting software as a service has made it possible for people who could _never_ previously have owned the software to own it in perpetuity, and receive product updates throughout the product lifecycle.

Letraset's ColorStudio cost $1,995 (in 1990 money), and Photoshop 1.0 cost around $1,000. And that didn't even buy you the upgrade, which was quite significant when layers were two point0 upgrades away.