skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since I learned that USENET was still a thing for a current area of interest:

slrn http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ for reading newsgroups

My old fave (which I didn't even remember the name of) was

nn http://www.nndev.org/

... which had too steep a (re)learning curve for reading just the one newsgroup.
This misses the point a bit. Intellectuals are not a commodity. How do you weigh one Fermi or Einstein against 3 other scientists?
> Instead it stutters along from one step to the next. Like counting off steps when dancing.

My dance instructor, a master dancer, said that for dancing the key is you need a MAP:
1. Memorize
2. Automate
3. Personalize

Memorize the steps and commit them to memory. Then automate them so you can do them without thinking. Then personalize and add your own flourishes.

It’s a matter of mastery and practice. This is true both for dancing and for dealing with emotionally charged situations, and for pretty much anything that you haven’t yet mastered.
years of blinking GIFs, auto-play videos and misleading links thrown between paragraphs

I put up with this for years because I do believe that websites need a way to support themselves. But then a Forbes ad tried to download a virus.. and then I got another ad like it on WashingtonPost. These are big, dull websites.. the last place I would expect that.

I've been on the internet since the 90s. The ads have never been so aggressive (autoplay videos, in particular) or dangerous. I disabled adblock 6 months ago temporarily, and some sites are so loaded down with ads, my browser was unresponsive at points.

I now recommend everyone install ad block. I consider it similar to antivirus software in Windows. What else can I do? I really feel forced to do it. But they refuse to police themselves. It's gotten completely out of hand.
Try to watch Portuguese TV on prime time, specially when soap operas or loved series are reaching their last episodes.
The bigger problem is that publishers are loosing control over their advertisers. The reason why I block ads is that they turn great websites into horrible experiences.

Remember, the way ads work today is that the web site is delivered to your browser, and then ad networks' Javscript comes in and mangles the page to insert ads wherever the ad network pleases.

In the days of paper, editors laid out where the ads went in newspapers and magazines. There weren't obnoxious blinking ads that would move the text around while you were reading it. Now, publishers hand control over where ads go to the advertisers themselves. The publishers are in denial about the problem they created.
I agree.

One time he (or she) is against that, another time he acts cocky like saying they'll now sabotage opera too (after being told it has a built in ad blocker) or bringing up existing DRM in a tone that is less like being sad those ideas are getting into web and more like he wants the same in html.

It also starts reasonably with just focusing on chrome and then goes to asking google for a html drm, asking google to help sabotage chromium users, blocking firefox using obfuscated 10 mb js even though the site works well on ie8, vague threats of html drm coming soon to end ad blocking in an accusatory tone, saying they do all this to cut costs because each page they send is 3 megs and ff users are freeloaders, etc.

Plus the weird title ('should we support' vs. 'we sabotage'), going with this to reddit instead of anonymously tipping fsf, eff or mozilla off (if he's already willing to leak that info and the fact he works there, the latter could remain hidden if he tipped these orgs off), etc.

Edit: oh, and since css and images are loaded via js (on which he also comments by saying that people using no script 'ironically make their job easier') wouldn't that 10 mb one cause a flicker (fast internet) or a broken website for several seconds (slow internet) during at least the first load uncached load? And 2-3 megs of content for the few freeloading ff users is too much or can't be cdn'd but pushing that 10 meg js to everyone and taking up time of web devs and business-y people (for lobbying for drm at google or wherever) is fine and cheaper?
Maybe voters have more power now?

- Bernard, if the right people don't have power do you know what happens? The wrong people get it. Politicians, counsellors, ordinary voters.

- But aren't they supposed to, in a democracy?

- This is a British democracy!

- What do you mean?

- British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life, and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians. Things like the Opera, Radio Three, the countryside, the law, the universities ... both of them.

-- Yes, Prime Minister (S02E05)
Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans AI won’t change investing
Honestly, I just want self-driving cars. Let me kick back and relax in a private vehicle where I don't have to do anything or interact with anyone.
The NIH Launches Its Ambitious Million-Person Genetic Survey
For what it's worth, there's a huge difference in how a parrot acts with its owner than "another human", and I'm very curious how a lab environment would affect that compared to a home.

In the case of a parrot of my father's, the bird was incredibly well-behaved for my dad, but absolutely refused to get along with any other humans. After a number of years of invested effort, I got to the point she would tolerate me solely when my dad was out of town... to the point that when taking care of her she'd want to sit on my shoulder for a while. ...But the very moment my dad walked back in the door, I was persona non grata again.

From my understanding, the tendency of a parrot to bond to one person is pretty strong.
Now name the billions of people who didn't have that kind of success.

I'm not saying don't try- but your reason is stupid.

Just because those people did it DOES NOT mean you can do it too.
> in the U.S. since 1950 it's grown around 3,000% 1950-2010

sure it's clear that the overall pie expands with additional trade. economists have been selling globalization to the US voter with that idea for a long time. i don't even think the comment you're replying to was disputing that.

but, more interestingly, such pie expansion does not guarantee that every group's slice of pie grows too. it hasn't really worked that way in the US. Joe Stiglitz, in 2011:

Most Americans are worse off than they were ten years ago, a dozen years ago, so it's actually trickle up economics. All the gains in our economic growth have gone to those at the top .... we've been getting more unequal while other countries have been becoming less unequal

https://www.wnyc.org/story/121224-stiglitz-american-inequali...
> financial literacy

How does one gain it? Everywhere I look, there's so many scam artists and so much confusion that I don't know what's true / reasonable anymore.
The problem with ridesharing
Sounds like a fun one to find. Good on him for digging around. I could totally see how this oversight would happen too, with the engineers working on a secure auth system but not thinking about a proxy or caching layer that might expose them.
Linux has hundreds of them, in the various bin directories. Many are interesting.

This shell snippet lists all the directories in $PATH, using less, so you can page through them:

for dir in `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`
do
echo Listing dir: $dir
ls -l $dir | nl
done | less

I came across the watch command recently, which seems useful, and wrote something like it in Python:

A Python version of the Linux watch command:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linux...

I've also been writing Python versions of some other Linux commands, and will post about them here some time later.

Also, for saving (and then viewing) man pages (about commands or other topics), without the formatting characters (such as ^H), on some Linux distros, I find this useful:

m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...
Blokada also blocks ads inside apps, which is great.
Things are so bad now that I keep my earphones plugged in but not in my ear. It's easier than trying to quickly hit mute when I'm surprised by a site and disruptive blaring starts.
Or the department beer fund?
Elasticsearch should be easily able to handle your scaling needs. Why do you think that it would not? What are your concerns?
but it isn't considered a sign of youth; it just happens to be a "palatable" shot that's available for cheap which is why people reminisce the drink because it was one of the more affordable shooters that you'd pound back with a beer. Mixing gets you drunk, and crafting the drink pair requires no bartending skill.

TL;DR the ROI in terms of drunkenness is what makes people gravitate towards it in their youth, and that's IMHO the context of the nostalgia.
git-standup seems cool, but misses the one thing I would want from it: show me the commits I've made from each repo that I work in, sorted by time. That way I can see that I made commit 1 in repo X, then commit 2 in repo Y, then commit 3 in repo X. Also instead of "-d 4" to see 4 days ago, "January 15th" or "Thursday" would be handy.
Since a couple people mentioned z and autojump: I recently discovered z and found it so useful I ported it to Windows/Powershell.

https://github.com/dwwmmn/z.ps1

It's a little simplistic for now but I hope it helps someone.
And that analog meter between the hands makes the robot look like a very excited man!
I've never driven a modern for F Series but I have driven most of their Sedans and I can understand why they're withdrawing them from the US market. They're quite bad.

We took a road trip from Poughkeepsie to Niagra in a rented Ford Focus. It had a USB charge port in the center console that came out when we went to unplug the cable. This got me prodding about at the rest of the interior and most of it was too easily removable with my bare hands. It was scary to think who the whole passenger compartment might just explode in your lap with an accident.

I know many parts of the car are held together with retention clips and other tool-less mechanical fasteners but this Ford was exceptional. I don't know if it was down too the poor materials quality or the shoddy engineering of the fasteners but everything could be pulled apart with astonishingly little effort.
Honestly, I think 40 direct reports is borderline insane. You can't effectively support that many people (as you note yourself). Speaking as the author of two of these READMEs, at Netflix I had at peak around 12 direct reports (one was a manager with his own reports) and at Slack I have 3 (all of whom manage their own teams).
Absenteeism versus Presenteeism: Out of Work Or… Out of Work?
>You can't DRM software on a general purpose computer.

You can with SGX
In both of your arguments you are disagreeing because you are not talking the same thing that the author is talking about. You are talking about what the hardware does behind the scenes. He is talking about what is going on in the software on the surface. “serial communication” should maybe be rephrased as “serialized communication and execution” in the application process.
I can't find evidence online that Salomon Brothers was founded by Buffet, our that Nissan was founded by Ghosn. Were they?
Pretty sure yap.io just got Series A based on your post here.
Exponential growth isn't (economist don't like that because it creates radical uncertainty)

There are a few people like Tyler Cowen who take it seriously but most models used by governments (Like the Danish DREAM model) aren't even close to factoring those things in. And they are the ones who the politicians end up listening to.
RESP3 protocol draft
Title should include the word "will" as it is just getting under way. No conclusion yet.
I would love to see the numbers for those as I'm never in front of my computer when I listen to a podcast and I don't remember the ads long enough to followup even when I'm interested in the product.

It's not always about direct action, it's often about brand awareness. If you listen to a lot of podcasts, you'll know the first company you think about when you are in the market for:

- Mattresses

- Eyeglasses

- Creating a website quickly

- online backup

- shaving products.

- Mesh networking devices

It's an old joke that the definition of a podcast is "two or more white guys talking about tech sponsored by Squarespace".

Whether you act right then, when someone asks you to build them a website, your first thought is going to be to point them at SquareSpace.

Since the same sponsors keep buying ads on podcast and most of them have coupon codes to tell them where their customers came from, they have metrics that tell them the return on investment.
> There's been a lot of faux intellectualism and requoting of Poppler et al since the last referendum.

The irony of that typo is hopefully not lost on you.
Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option
> I'm still wondering why there should be an economic, political or commercial conflict between China and the rest of the world esp. US. Such conflicts are wasteful with when we all should work together on common goals - space exploration, fighting against diseases, climate change etc.

I know! The US should just resign itself to being a provider or raw materials to the Chinese party-state, so we can focus on China achieving those glorious common goals!

China is rising to fight common perils such as "'Western constitutional democracy'; others included promoting 'universal values' of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation." (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...)

More seriously now: your perspective is embarrassingly naive, and forgets, many, many significant areas of difference between the US and China. China's leadership, now, is committed to am authoritarian, autocratic path. No amount of progress in "space exploration" is worth throwing support behind that kind of government.
I guess you never visited porn sites in the late 90s. I think their model of opening up 100s of new windows was slightly more annoying that flashing gifs :)
You should go out more often ;-) young people drink it nowadays a lot, too. They had a massive success with their rejuvenation campaign some years ago, also in Germany!
Preventing SQL Injection Through Automatic Query Sanitization
Assuming the “public” is equal to “children.” A bit arrogant to suggest that. Adam Smith suggests that people will always act in their own self interest; perhaps advanced philosophical knowledge doesn’t have the same utility to normal people. The attitude that the public doesn’t know what’s good for them is disgusting; it’s the very core of the nanny state.

However, I will concede that many people would consume a healthier diet of entertainment of it were available. But suggesting that people need to have broadcasters or governments to be parents of an ignorant citizenry smacks of the same though patterns condemned in the book 1984.
GCP is building a region in Zürich
That was excellent. Thanks for posting. It's a short film, so it's not a criticism, but I hope he explains why this happened in more detail.
I didn't find any true measure of 'racial bias' in the article. We learned that fewer white people are arrested. But we didn't learn what fraction of each profile group actually carried knives.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if bias exists; I just didn't read it in the article.
If you don't have a reason to use Emacs from the terminal emulator, use the GUI. And for SSH, it's very hard to reject Tramp. One must is to make it less verbose though: (setq tramp-verbose 1). Then it becomes faster (at least in my perception) and way less noisy.
The 'unrelated' business idea being the result of the inroads made by you being at current company CEO role and having those customer conversations might be a potential fiduciary issue.

You need to pick someone on the board you can have a candidate initial discussion with and take it from there.

The last thing you want is to start a second co, having thought you figured out the first co, and possibly one day having a disgruntled investor from Co1 come after you claiming you should have invested resourcing from within Co1 towards the idea that you got wind of from Co1 customers... From the trust you built with those customers selling them Co1 solutions.

No I'm not a lawyer. So this is far from legal advice. Just a fellow founder who would be concerned if in this situation.
That's a good point. But I think there are some ways around that which aren't too intrusive. If you just render a fallback on the server side with a message asking users to support you in some way, and then replace that fallback with your ads, you can mark the ads as sponsored without having to mark the fallback. And if you have image based ads, you could mark the image itself using server-side processing to add some sort of watermark rather than a DOM-based marker.
Poor choice words I suppose - I'd much rather be submitted to the "killing fields of the experimental method" than the actual "killing fields" of a Communist regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_Killing_Fields
> lets not kid ourselves as to the real purpose served by politicking.

The “real” purpose served by politicking? There’s no government at all without politics. Do you want no government, no shared values or resources, no services, no infrastructure, no community? What’s your ideal, and why is your ideal good for anyone other than you? (BTW, any answer to that question is political.)

“Politics is a multifaceted word. It has a set of fairly specific meanings that are descriptive and nonjudgmental (such as "the art or science of government" and "political principles"), but often does carry a connotation of dishonest malpractice.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics

I have no doubt you can cherry pick some examples of bad politics. That’s irrelevant and uninteresting. I have no doubt you can find more examples of rich or famous people saying pessimistic things. Also uninteresting. There are plenty of optimistic quotes as well, and plenty of examples of expenditure on things that help people and generally do good. We spend a lot more than $50m on hospitals and roads and libraries and schools, just to name a few.

“We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong.” - Barack Obama

“When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.” - Albert Hammond Jr.

“Man is by nature a political animal” - Aristotle

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is you end up being governed by your inferiors” - Plato

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics” - Hubert Humphrey

“I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.” - T. D. Jakes
Oh, again? How many times is that now?
By "Ad reinsertion", they mean the paid advertisement inclusion programmes of Adblock and Adblock Plus, which is opt-out and pretty shady in the first place.

They think that Adblock and Adblock Plus don't exist on Firefox, and that people who use uBlock Origin on Firefox will not use uBlock Origin on Chrome too if they were somehow forced to use Chrome.
This is a ridiculous generalization. There are good designers and bad designers in the world. The fact that I have 20 apps pinned to my task bar in Windows that I find enjoyable to use on a daily basis is proof that some designers are capable of making things that their users like to use.
It's intriguing though because it seems like the sort of thing Google is expressly focused on from a security standpoint. Essentially the problem here was that access was limited to Google's own network, but Google has repeatedly talked about how they no longer consider their own internal network secure. (See also: Anything about BeyondCorp.)

That being said, from the looks of this interface's channel-based settings, and the mention of YouTube TV, my guess is this is some classic telecom-industry hardware, and Google may have folks from the TV broadcasting industry working more heavily on this particular arm of the organization.

It doesn't much look like an interface Google itself designed, so they may be more limited in how they can lock it down.
I regularly use reinforcement methods for simple robotics problems. TensorFlow, et al. have made their use practical.
i agree with author and his article. The cgrougs is in effect now instead of the 'nice' value. Docker changes the game coz containers can run in pods or swarms across machines.
Not necessarily. Tesla was originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003 before Musk joined as chairman and major shareholder in 2004. Musk became CEO out of necessity since he was already CEO of SpaceX.

Being like Musk is not the norm. In fact, he has publicly admitted in an interview he did with Bill Gates about China, that combining two CEO roles makes for a terrible work-life balance -- he wouldn't wish it on anyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Roadster_and_priva...
> China isn't some totalitarian dictatorship that some of the west seem to think they are.

You do realize that they're closer to being a dictatorship now than they've been for decades? Xi has purged most of his rivals and has recently abolished term limits for his positions, so he could rule indefinitely.
Or 'should' :-)
It literally says

> Manager says that we should just discourage the users of Firefox (not optimizing for Firefox, and poor UI) from visiting our website as they bring a loss.
For one, he invested tens of millions of his personal assets into his companies, so having tens of millions to put into a startup is one prerequisite
Doesn't that encourage the hoarding of best practices so one can drink at the expense of the less experienced?
Is it a solution though?
Node.js-study
Httpie is really pleasant to use
A problem I can see with that approach is that code that is served from the content server would have to do browser fingerprinting before ads can be auctioned by the ad network.

In the current setup with third part tracking cookies, the ad network sees individual users. If you route everything through the content providers servers, then the ad network may have to work a lot harder to figure out who is who. And the ad networks have no incentive to do so (at the moment)
> For most websites, cross-browser testing is almost an afterthought these days.

Most of my time involves fixing things for IE11 or mobile Safari, Firefox-only or Chrome-only issues are extremely rare.
Show HN: Dark Reader extension – dark theme for every website
Ask HN: Who wants to launch our cryptocurrency portfolio tracker?
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`makearms`, a random SVG heraldry generator.

I'm biased, though, because I'm the author. https://github.com/ironarachne/heraldry