skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider an alternative hypothesis? In your hypnagogic state, your brain actually produced an image based on what she described to you, then reordered the chronology of events so that it seemed to you like you imagined the image before she described it. Not too dissimilar from deja vu.

It's well known that brains can sometimes reorder the chronology of events, especially if they occur within a short time window.
This and the fact the when one side or the other comes to draft, a handgun won't stop them.

More disturbing is that somehow large swathes of the population have come to hate and fear their democratic institutions so much in the last decades that they prepare to violently topple them. And while the vast bulk of mankind is bewildered by the US gun culture, they should be very wary that their own people are somehow influenced to hate their democracies too.
> Is an entire continent, and reducing its 1.2 billion inhabitants to "where to begin" is incredibly insulting to their individual histories and experiences.

Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting?

You also seem to be ignoring the premise that being armed is a key part of these plans. The goal isn't just to be food secure, it is to prevent being victimized while the crisis is ongoing or you escape the crisis.
This (assuming it's Qt Quick) opens the door for a competitor to HTML for web apps.
On-Premise vs. On-Premises – Who Cares? (2017)
> My experience is that it almost always results in the person seeing the world in a different, more individualist, way.

It's unsubstantiated that the above actually strengthens civilization.
You can see all open Firefox tabs, including titles, with a button to the right of the tabs.

You can move a tab to the right with ctrl-tab and back to the left with ctrl-shift-tab. If you go too far, just ctrl-shift-tab.

How would you go to the 24th tab in Chrome, if no title is visible? With Firefox, you can use the button to the right of the tabs to view a list of all tabs, with titles, and find your tab from there.

Another useful tool is onetab. When you have too many tabs, send them into onetab and reopen them as you need them.

https://www.one-tab.com/
Sounds like a similar argument to "guns don't kill people, people kill people".

I'm not advocating that either side is wrong in that statement, but just drawing a similarity.
Given that one of the blogs I follow charges for access to a full-text RSS feed, my guess is that some sites might be upset with them if they did that.
See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

You jest, but this sort of thing probably is the death of almost all native software, sadly.
And then you wind up spending multiple days trying to figure out how to do something that doesn't quite fit in with what other people have already done.

How many times do we have to learn the same lessons over and over? Small tools that compose together is infinitely more flexible than any plugin based tool can possible be.
Legibility isn't just for fun.

The entire JSON spec is only about 3 pages long. (I don't know exactly how long because ECMA's webpage is down today!) I'm pretty confident that any popular JSON parser I use will abort correctly on bad JSON. There's no expansion or entities or escaping, so the parser is a pretty boring 1-to-1 translation. Give it a 1KB JSON file, and I'm going to get back a data structure that takes roughly 1KB.

XML is incredibly complicated. My operating system's XML parser has had XXE-related security bugs in the recent past -- that's OWASP bug#4, and there's a Wikipedia article about it. There's other possible attacks, like the "billion laughs attack". I'm very nervous about running an XML parser on untrusted content.
This reminds me of a time, when I used to work for a very large company. After an unfortunate amount of meetings and powerpoint presentations about ubiquity and compatibility, we ended up putting a Flash VM inside a Java client, to read HTML.

Oh boy, sometimes you just walk away from a crash, but you're never the same.
Say what you will, we need these kind of projects in order to push forward WebAssembly (and eventually JavaScript may not be the only dominant language for front-end web development). I'm curious how much of the canvas they're taking advantage of if any of it. It's quite exciting. I might wind up porting one of my existing Qt applications just to try this out and see what that would be like.
In regards to your full text request. The publisher has the option what to syndicate, truncated or full.

What you are asking them to do is have a crawler go to the site and pull the full text whenever they feel they are being served truncated.

Not only does that go against the nature of RSS, but would be costly for them.

What app do you pay for that does this? Is it even using RSS?
MarkDeep tries this, it doesn't quite work in my opinion:

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html#toc2
When you tax people directly, you recover money earned by people through corporate stock buy backs and dividends. Those are all taxable income.
I do, but that's only because I edit every once in a while.
> By sending a bad "length" argument

Not the first system to go down because of a boundary check failure. Though I was hoping for something more spectacular.
It doesn't work that way, and I think you know it.

Only 26% of web users in 2016 had installed ad blockers [1]; that doesn't mean you get to say, "74% of web users don't mind advertising and malware".

Facebook announced its first net loss of North American users last quarter. They're expected to post a much larger loss during the Q1 review on Wednesday [2] as a direct result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

I guess you can stand steadfastly behind the position that "nobody cares because there are 2 billion users", and ignore the falling metrics for user engagement [3], and the protests (see the picture at the top of [2]), and the senate hearing, and the media coverage, and the millions of Ghostery and Disconnect users who've gone to the trouble of searching for and installing extensions specifically to block tracking, and Firefox's built-in tracking protection. Sure, aside from all that, nobody cares.

But this isn't an issue that's going away yet, no matter how much you want it to.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-ad-blocker-change-...

[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-users-want-revenge-a...

[3]: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/31/technology/facebook-earnings...
Befunge: The Rube Goldberg Machine of Coding Languages
> Bitcoin's privacy isn't very powerful so I wouldn't be worried that some government would rule it illegal based on that.

The most populated country in the world had no issue making all cryptocurrencies illegal. If we can't find something useful and non-criminal to do with Bitcoin, I wouldn't exclude the possibility of at least mining being made illegal. Why should we spend so much of our planet's resources for proof-of-work if it's only to fuel crime?
While corporations have the legal obligation to collect and pay taxes, only real people can bear the economic burden of the tax. The people who pay the tax are principally shareholders and workers of the corporation. It is up for debate how this responsibility is distributed but there is a growing body of evidence that the proportion is skewed towards labor, since capital can move more freely than labor.[0] We should expect to see higher wages for labor in that case which is what you seem to be advocating for.

[0] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/capital-income-t...
I've never really understood basic income. Why give everyone free money? Why not just give the people who need things the things they need?

Is this really an economic problem or a cultural one? Just decide on what everyone should have and how much and then find those who lack those things and give it to them.

EDIT: the responses below are interesting but unconvincing. Why wouldn't giving everyone X amount raise all prices by X?

In a world with targeted advertising and unprecedented advertising I'm confident basic income would be counter productive.

If giving everyone X works, why not 2X? 3X? Lastly, where is the money for this scheme coming from and why would anyone who doesn't need it agree to this?
>I mean the answer to the question "would poor people benefit from more money?" is quite obvious.

No, because:

>The real question is whether people who already are employed would stop working had they received "free" money.

So: will unemployed people stop looking for a job if they receive free money?
If people go to your website to get the headlines, it is easier to monetize them because they may view ads there, you can market things to them based on their cookie history, etc. That is harder with RSS.
dude, you are in the 1%. MAJORITY of the nation doesn't go to college, nor do they earn $100k/yr salary in their lifetime, let alone right out of college.

I think the commenter was poking fun at your 1% lifestyle.

Good for you mate.
Being a foreign student in the UK during the 90s I loved the whole trip hop movement (Portishead & Tricky included) and I have to add my vote for Blue Lines and Protection. They might think that Mezzanine is their best album, but I beg to differ (along with many others).
... joke, I assume?
Rough impression: “national lab” type places are largely career dead ends that are suitable for post docs and other academic types. Non tenure track engineers will be treated as third class slave labor, likely poorly paid relative to industry. Non transferable skill set development, work on non interesting non impactful stuff. Maybe unfair but basically accurate.
If incognito mode is that broken in Chrome, and still allows sites that are open in normal tabs to track you, that would be very newsworthy.
I agree with privong. Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt show lots of such activity. A major part of the absence is so few people know about this option and so don't choose it. Cynically, I also think many aspiring founders are in it for the VC money and the lifestyle VC money makes possible.
Dongwoon Anatech Licenses Codasip’s Bk3 RISC-V Processor
I did your test. Interesting idea. Feedback: I got "It looks like BeeLine didn’t improve your reading speed this time through." which I think needs another pass from your copy editors.

Interesting idea overall. I've been using spritz a lot recently and I'm liking it more and more though it doesn't seem to have progressed from when I discovered it a few years ago.

Re the investors blindly wanting ML - we have this problem too (and it's definitely a problem - I can see this in spite of having a masters in ML). On the bright side, some investors - often the better ones - have said things like "I was interested the moment you didn't use ML or blockchain in your pitch", so stay true to your vision :)
It would be signed by the journalists or news agencies verifying their report.

Individual sources can still be anonymous.
I wonder if 3G's while lying on your back on a gel cushion isn't a lot easier to take than 3G's standing on your feet?
It's actually July 2nd 1978, which was produced the night of July 1st.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/07/02/iss...
I think this uptick in RSS articles is just a bunch of journalists trying to inspire developers to do something more interesting with the tech.
I received one yesterday and I live in New Zealand.
Oh so its "purposeful" that corporations in the US move their money through 3 different nations to avoid paying taxes?

All 3 nations got together and decided that was the best way to go about it?

That makes sense.

Also the effective corporate tax rate in Sweden is almost double that of the rate Google paid. Claiming that Western European countries pay less in taxes is naive, as their corporations have far fewer loop holes to lower their tax rate.

Maybe if American corporations actually paid the rate they are supposed to we would have a high tax rate, but very few large corporations do.
While I shouldn't speak for JSON Feed's developers (Manton Reece of Micro.blog and Brent Simmons, original developer of RSS/Atom reader NetNewsWire), their argument basically boils down to "developers seem to be better at constructing valid JSON than they are at constructing valid XML."

I know a lot of HN folks will say but you can just construct perfectly valid XML with library such-and-such or API this-and-that and, yes, I'm sure they're all absolutely, positively 100% correct. But in my real-world experience, Reece and Simmons seem to be correct in practice. Given that Simmons wrote NNW, worked at the now-defunct server-side RSS company NewsGator, and is now writing a new RSS (and JSON Feed) reader, I'm inclined to believe that when he says JSON Feed "reflects the lessons learned from our years of work reading and publishing feeds," he means it.
Healthcare is just under 20% of US GDP and 20% of the companies are in healthcare

AmerisourceBergen is a drug distributor / wholesaler, so they have huge revenues bc they sell expensive drugs, but they don't capture much of that (their net income is negative)

Express scripts is a PBM and highly profitable. I don't really know what PBMs do at a useful level of detail, but their profitability has been a subject of debate as pharma companies blame them for high prices. They basically aggregate demand for drugs and negotiate prices on behalf of payers, and make money on their ability to do so

Gilead had one of the best selling drugs of all time, that did $5B in revenue in the first quarter of launch, and $20B+ in the first year I think. Since then rev has declined but still massive

The insurance companies get lots of rev from premiums but margins are low

Biogen and celgene also have one or two drugs that do $5-10B / year

Should note that drugs only account for 10% of health spend. The biggest driver of healthcare costs -- hospital care (30%) and physician services (20%) don't show up in this chart bc they are fragmented industries and also human-capital intensive
Because knowing what people need requires an expensive and error-prone system. Most people know what they need and will go buy it given the money to do so - the joy of fungible assets!
Actually economics are exactly that

Capitalism have built assumptions to its origins that protect capital holder: divine right was often used in the era of its origin

The US Constitution considered landowners above others due to them contemporary belief of divine rights

Our contemporary system is built upon historical record

There’s historical record that plainly shows humans deciding to write a law this way because it favors company X or ideology Y

There’s plain historical record that shows obstructionism to social evolution in favor of entrenched players

And scholars and academics measure THOSE results

So your argument is based upon built in bullshit

Economists have been PAID to peddle bullshit, corrupting their facts

My god I can’t even. Is this really what they teach in college now? Economics and physics are one and the same despite a ... there are decades of government documents detailing their collusion and manipulation of invention and investment for the benefit of power players

But yeah our contemporary economy is a greenfield implementation lol
I think the best thing to try is universal basic income for those making less than X and then slowly getting phased out once you hit middle to upper class is best. People want to work but if the end up not getting enough to live while looking for work and not much more when the work you have a recipe for trouble.

Getting everyone onboard with taxing the rich to pay for it would be tough in US with its penchant for doing the exact opposite, cutting welfare and giving wealthy tax breaks... how trials like this go will be very interesting. I look forward toy the results even if it’s just targeting unemployed persons.
Ask HN: Why is transacting small sums of money (micropayments) so expensive?
Why is it so expensive to make transactions < $1?

Enabling people to exchange tiny sums of money would make a number of financing issues over the internet and in real life considerably easier.

Many have attempted to tackle this problem and no one has succeeded.
Cool!

It's too bad that the cracking scene seems so vain, though. This article presented three groups:

* One which wants to sell 'jailbreak' kits to enable piracy, while keeping the details to themselves.

* One which had planned a related disclosure window amongst the broader community for two days from now, and seems to feel somewhat vocally that this release is very similar to their work.

* One which seems like they might have flaunted that window a bit for the credit.

It's amazing and inspiring what these people manage to accomplish, but it'd be nice to see less stepping on fingers - imagine what might happen if these groups really cooperated! I guess it's a very reputation-driven scene, but still...
My grand-uncle died of a chill. He was a pall-bearer for a neighbor on Saturday, in the pouring rain. Came home soaking wet. Grandma said "Let me make you a warm bath!" he said "I'll do the chores first". Came in shivering uncontrollably. Short story - they carried him the next Saturday.

So yeah, antibiotics are wonderful.
Who determines what is a need vs. not a need? Giving money gives them the choice to determine their own needs and their own priorities.
Thanks, I haven't thought of this but it sounds plausible as well.
The state of patch management, or Things in tech that actually got better
Asynchronous Generators and Pipelines in JavaScript
I have an old wordpress blog that I would love to introduce to whatever XML reader you would suggest.
>I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging

Didn't blogging start on wordpress/blogger/livejournal?
There is no such thing as a non-biased perspective, and feminism makes no claim to avoid bias; it's literally an ideology, with gender equality as one of its goals. The purpose of the signal-boosting strategy is to avoid patronizing echoes of "I know better" colonialism, not avoid bias. In this case we can listen to the many, many women in China who speak of the problems they face. In no sense are their voices co-opted.
That seems unlikely - why try and pillage the relatively sparse countryside when so many more resources are concentrated in the cities? I suppose if we're talking the end of civilization then eventually, sure, but who wants to survive that anyhow?
Concurrent Z80 emulators running inside Unreal Engine:

https://i.imgur.com/Q6307w3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/K44GT1W.png

https://i.imgur.com/59RufvT.png

Already runs a lot of software including Wordstar, HiTech C compiler for Z80, Microsoft Basic etc.

Also have written a few applications for it including a telnet client with Zmodem support, some graphics utilities etc.
Show HN: Styled Icons – Popular Icon Packs as React / Styled Components
Upon further research, I see that the BankID is provided in two different forms. It seems there is a universal key which can be used to log into most websites, while there's also a private key which will be tied to one specific site. Here's another website with some more info on it:

https://www.xn--billigeforbruksln-orb.no
Then it is not "universal" or "basic" anymore, how is that different to just more benefits.
Deciding who needs things has huge overhead, both in terms of administration and politics. It can also have unintended consequences, for example the various poverty traps in the US system where you can end up poorer when you get a raise or a better job, because you lose more benefits than the money you gain. Just giving to everyone is much simpler. The bet is that this simplicity overcomes the higher cost.
Not to be flip, but if you're using a parser written by competent individuals post-2010 (really, post-2008), billion laughs is a nothing.

And that follows for most XML stuff. If you are getting most bloggable with your tech stack, yes, there are certainly risks to XML (also to YAML, also to JSON--and there are definitely JSON parsers that have had some capital-I Issues out there, and a good number of the popular ones also parse not-JSON too). That said, if you're using anything remotely mainstream you can feel reasonably secure against the sorts of attacks you are likely to see because, TBH, your RSS reader is just not that valuable a target. (Or, in my case--the podcast service I'm writing.)
This is just the surface, with personal politics and clashing personalities obscured. The scene is incredibly dramatic and childish.
Pipenv is not bad. I switched to it in about 30 minutes.

To start a new project:

pipenv --three

To add packages:

pipenv install <package>
pipenv install -d <development packages>
pipenv install -r requirements.txt

Then check in your Pipfile and Pipfile.lock.

When someone makes a fresh checkout, they cd to where the Pipfile and Pipfile.lock are and run:

pipenv install

When you're ready to update your dependencies do the following:

rm Pipfile.lock
pipenv update (-d to load development packages)

To get a shell, cd to where the Pipfile of your project is:

pipenv shell

To run something in the virtualenv when the virtualenv is not activated:

pipenv run <command>
I'm seeing a ton of snarky comments, but isn't this what exactly WebAssemly is about (which I see people praising everyday as it opens up possibilities)
> No thanks. We should push toward services which offer end-to-end encryption.

Agreed but I feel like there is some confusion here - this sounds more like a extension to SMS to make it less crummy.

Good secure solutions already exist, we should push for people to actually use them.
Awesome. In retrospect, apologies if my initial post was glaringly obvious. I think many of us here are nostalgic for a revival of Flickr and a community outside Facebook & Reddit.
> The new "Refresh" design looks more closely to a user interface designed using the rules and guides from Google's visual design language known as "Material Design."

That's the most worrying thing about it. Material Design has serious accessibility problems (motion and color) and is full of some really bad design ideas. It encourages people to abandon aesthetic restraint. If you walk around smashing cymbals together, your data will show that you are getting people's attention, but it won't necessarily mean that it's a good idea.
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And eliminates a costly bureaucracy layer making these purchasing decisions for people with not-their-money
What's "common sense" to you undoubtedly relies on your culture, and core assumptions you make. The things you value, and the things you discredit. Your world view.

I have bought lottery tickets, even though I know it's a "Stupid Tax." And apparently many other people do, too:

"Americans Spend More On Lottery Tickets Than On Movies, Video Games, Music, Sports Tix And Books Combined" [1]

Even though there's ample evidence that:

"Here’s How Winning the Lottery Makes You Miserable" [2]

A cynic could conclude that people are stupid. I'm not sure what an optimist would conclude, but I think I'd encourage them to consider their peers from the perspective of an anthropologist... View the culture as "different," not "wrong."

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-12/2016-americans-spe...

[2] http://time.com/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lottery-winners/
> Science is science reporting.

No, it is not. This is why I drew the distinction in the first place.

> Normal people can only understand what is reported.

Which backs up my point that sensationalised reporting is a problem. Peer-reviewed, scientific papers are written for other scientific researchers — that's as it should be.
The quick dirty answers:

1) Because determining eligibility has administrative costs.

2) Because if you have a job that pays you well enough, you're basically just getting your money back.