skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harmonization between vendors is good. If all this is is common names for headers and keys to cut down on trivial divergence, this is great.

As for the big picture, one of the unfortunate consequences of HTTP having recently won out as the default protocol for remote interaction is having to reinvent or re-frame all of the prior art that's been in use with other platforms. There's half a dozen other pubsub messaging protocols and their associated framing and envelope specs, but they usually define full semantics around addressing and routing -- and usually run on lower-level transports than over HTTP.

Since this effort doesn't want to prescribe every facet of messaging, it can't directly define a more restrictive profile or overlay of an existing protocol. Instead, it has to start fresh, and invent yet another envelope format. Someday, someone will ask why there isn't a simple way of getting MessageID or MessageTimestamp across a variety of technologies whose purpose is largely the same, yet I don't think anybody will go back and define a one true mapping between the protocols. If some vendor later decides to accept AMQP as well, they'll write some glue code to translate, but if another vendor accepts it too they'll write their own independent mapper. This is one of the ways that incompatibilities proliferate: actors left to their own devices in the absence of unambiguous guidance.

It shows that standards can be both extremely useful and frustratingly bound to fashions.
The problem with your assessment is that you’re assuming that Bitcoin is replacing banks and MSBs. If that was actually happening, you would be right, we should compare Bitcoin’s energy consumption with the industry it it replacing. But it is not happening, so why would we compare them?

The link I included does actually compare Bitcoin energy consumption to Visa by the way, and the difference is staggering.
We created CrowdSync to help automate tedious, repetitive process with people, things like sending emails, requesting documents, scheduling time, requesting payments, and more!

This came out of my experience as a user researcher, where we'd spend hours onboarding people into studies - having them sign consent forms, be sent study information, scheduling time, sending reminders and payments.

As it turns out, this problem exists in a number of domains, especially any kind of onboarding of employees.

One question we get often is "Can't people just do this with Zapier?"

The answer to that is, not really, for a couple primary reasons:

- Zapier is fantastic for people who are somewhat technically minded, however, falls quite short with lay audiences (think about a membership coordinator working at a non-profit, or an HR assistant). While some of these audiences are adept at using tools like Zapier, a huge portion aren't. They need a single, centralized place.

- Zapier (and related) aren't particularly good at handling people through a process. They're great for shuffling data around, but not great at both showing where people are, as well as providing people-oriented interactions (automated reminders, etc).

In short, CrowdSync is for helping to put a number of people through the same process, where repetitive work can easily be systemized and tracked.

Would love any feedback, thoughts and questions!
Maybe it's a regional thing? Here in the midwest US the hardware stores carry them and Phillips, in about 50:50 proportion -- At least for construction screws (decking screws for example) this is true. Most of the contractors I know locally prefer them as well.
Just got some new ips and I've been on the other end of this.
Some staging domain of a website still points to one of the ips I got and there's a health checker that keeps trying to ping /health on the domain.

Nowhere near the scale of this though, just some background noise I'll ignore
My dad has worked in banking and credit risk for 35 years and then quit, and is now working on his PhD - he found a passion in teaching. He graduates with it in August. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - feel free to email me (contact info in profile).
I never understood why Russia’s coast land north of China isn’t more populated? The surrounding areas are so hugely populated and it’s a coast.
And if that works for the business... then where's the problem?
Stripe recently launched this feature themselves! https://stripe.com/us/billing

You can set up subscriptions/invoices and send a stripe-hosted link (pay.stripe.com) for the customer to enter their billing.

And you don't need to do _any_ coding. So, I'm not sure what the benefit of this is over using Stripe directly. Am I missing something?
Warren Buffett recently said "We like very much the economics of their activities. We like very much the management and the way they think ... " and "I'd love to own 100 percent"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/warren-buffett-i-dont-have-t...

Given its Buffett-approved way of doing business, will Apple change its willingness to take risks by spending large sums on product development, new technology, customer service, quality control in manufacturing, etc?

e.g, Is this a signal that it might become a more conservative, cash-cow style of company and less a product innovation company?
Thanks, that's a good start, though seems slightly Shopify specific. Also is this GDPR compliant?
I don't think it's about the political system so much as the economic system.

Any economic system is an attempt to solve the core problem of how to best distribute resources to consumers of resources. But what happens at the point when ideal distribution is attained, and all consumers are satisfied? If the economy just shut down, it would be a social disaster, so instead it enters this kind of degenerate state you mention where marketing and advertising predominate over production and distribution. Like a star going supernova- all the useful fuel is burned up, but we must sustain the reaction somehow, so we have to turn to heavier and heavier elements.
How Sentient Space Will Change What It Means to Be at Home
Unfortunately I think Firefox Quantum + uBlock Origin still uses more battery than Chrome...
What's tragic and shocking is that RMS actually believes the joke is now more important than before when asking that the joke not be removed.

"The point of this joke is even more important now than it was when I first wrote it. Please do not remove it."

What's next? GnuJoke?
That is absurdly high pay for a server, you'd be lucky to make half that in most places. I don't even make that much doing software development.
Same, there have been several times I have had a question and someone thankfully asks the exact one I had. And Jeremy does a great job explaining it. It really helps to get at some of the why's behind the magic.
A trivial instance of this would be release planning in software. After our initial delivery plan my team gives a confidence measure, one release it was quite low, which was an important signal since we could discuss why that was and what we could cut to increase the confidence. Without that signal, we'd have overcommitted, and suspecting as much but without common knowledge might have even delivered less.
I'm trying to assemble a list: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html but so far there aren't many sites like this that I found useful.
Roman dictator terms were generally either 6 months or until the task they were appointed to complete was finished. The Senate was capable of extending this term or re-electing the dictator depending on the circumstances.
Good feedback. Didn't intend that. The goal was to give a personal perspective starting from the beginning of the serverless trend, to highlight why the effort is meaningful.
Concurrent Servers: Callbacks, Promises and Async/await
As much as I'd love for the majority of JS to go away, there is no denying the usefulness of AJAX in web forms. Doing page submit is not a better experience for the user or the developer. That's basically the only piece that I can't see going without.
European regulators: We're not ready for new privacy law
No, it really hasn't been. Projects like ENCODE which claimed that 80% of the human genome was functional were done in ignorance of genomes of other organisms. There are animals like the pufferfish that have almost no junk DNA. And there are amoebas with more junk DNA than do humans. If junk DNA was in general functional, this would not be the case.
Two Apple Macs cracked a 5 letter “apple” password in 48 seconds via computesio
There are two kinds of USB hubs available nowadays:

1) Cheap Chinese crap

2) Cheap Chinese crap, in a fancy, expensive designer enclosure.
I believe https://securitytrails.com/ is a new player in this space
The image seems to have the code and dependencies copied into it+ `go build` run on it, instead of just copying the built artifact.
Well see what Drepper did. CTRL-f for "Stallman" in these glibc release notes:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html

While I agree with Ulrich, it is pretty brutal.
To illustrate the principle of removing attack surface with your example of a WP site, instead of parking a WAF in front of it, create a static mirror and move the WP site to your internal network.
I agree, and they've also built this themselves for people who don't know how to embed/integrate it.
Certainly true, CADF is a good format for auditing events, but in implementation the several I've used seen, support most of it, and make some subtle changes. That divergence causes it to be a mostly standardized format which might as well be a non-standradized format, involving mappings, etc.
Sprint Planning Meetings: A Guide to Better, Smarter, More Efficient Iterations
Oooh cool, is noslite actually by the nos?

I can only applaud this effort!
Uber won't confirm if software caused self-driving car to kill pedestrian
What's the benefit over using something like s3 or Blob Storage directly? It seems like they all support your features in some way
Show HN: Fast and reliable Amazon Glacier uploader and downloader written in Go
I wonder if there are any 3d space-filling curves that "make sense" for this type of analysis. You somehow have to wrap points around (0,0,0) in a way that has nice properties like the spiral. For instance, zig-zagging around a 3d box [1] Probably has too many 2d "artifacts" (I'm not a mathematician).

The 2d spiral has these really nice properties that contiguous numbers are adjacent, it is approximately symmetric for any rotation in R2, and each number is only +ε farther away from the origin.

[1]http://vgalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3d-labyrinth.jpg
HP Announces Ryzen Pro-Powered EliteBook 705 G5 and ProBook 645 G4 Laptops
Sounds like they don't have the crew to investigate so many violators, not yet at least.
> setting up a WAF tool designed to help 10,000 employee insurance companies

What's wrong with that use case though? If you get hired as the new CTO, you're not even going to know all the managers, let alone all the developers.

Clearly auditing all code, doing developer training, etc. is the right longterm approach. But putting a security culture in place and actually getting things right in this kind of environment is a multi-year process.
Failing is relative. Many failing businesses are sold every day, it is what IP, what value does the business contain that can be sold. There are entire industries built around buying failing companies and selling off the assets, or sometimes turning them around.

A huge percentage of all small business sales in the US are asset purchases, not stock sales. So for you, depending on your situation you may have valuable assets, e.g. client lists, clients themselves, technology, trademarks etc that all can be sold. Don't get hung up on a web address (unless it is hugely popular and almost a household name or similar). Also, just because you paid $5k for something last year, doesn't mean it is worth anywhere near that today, so don't get hung up on what you paid, get focused on how much things are worth.

You can approach competitors about purchasing your client list or technology if you strongly feel they can benefit. You can list the entire business for sale through a broker and just point out the warts but also the position and strengths. Lots of ways to go.
Maybe 'quality' is in the eye of the beholder. Really good, boutique burgers are quite tasty. And you can fry food badly or well. There's room for it all in a good restaurant.
Facebook stops accepting foreign-funded ads about Ireland’s abortion vote
I tried uMatrix, and uBlock Origin advanced mode, but after a while I decided it was too much fiddling. I'm back to using uBlock in default config, along with an /etc/hosts file.
Bitcoin is not an economic manipulation machine like the Federal Reserve. It's purpose is not to stimulate or incentivize anything.
Seconded. Actual users have little demand. Especially non-tech users. They just take what devs give them. Frontend stuff seems mostly fashion-driven these days, with designers copying other designers. I can't imagine any user actually asking for hero images, hamburger menus, floating headers/footers, webfonts, or making JS required to render article text.
Yeah, seems totally in good faith. I think even a moderate order change makes it much better. Regardless, great work highlighting the work on cloudevents, and giving your personal context.
this is essential, love the analogy here: https://youtu.be/NUXpz0Dni50?t=14m13s
The difference between censoring false information and censoring wrongthink is pretty clear, and (more to the point) there is a concerted effort to engage in the latter while claiming to engage in the former.
Well, you're a criminal now, might as well go for broke.
This isn't a Stripe product. It only uses Stripe's APIs.
I'm with you. They will always be the 'San Diego Chargers' to me
Since you appreciate candid feedback, I would like to explain why I down-voted you. Your post comes off as super rude and dismissive. You may have some valid criticism to give but, take more care in how you deliver it. It's a bad look for HN.
>I mean, don't use the ASE socket that is almost the same as the metric bolt you are working on

Just use whatever fits tightest. Fasteners get smaller from rust.

Some people organize their sockets by size and ignore which unit they're sized in.

> they can answer even relatively difficult questions. This is not, in my experience, true of Frys.

This is only because you don't know what you don't know and don't have reason to ask complicated or very specific questions at the auto parts store whereas you do at the computer store. The median parts counter person has the same depth of knowledge across basically all industries.

https://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnes...
The Google Chrome color picker for `color` CSS rules also displays the contrast ratio of the text in relation with the background color.
Same here. Soon after launching a cloud hosted virtual machine I noticed that it was getting a lot of unexpected HTTP traffic on port 80. They were GET requests with parameters that suggested to me that it was coming from some kind of Javascript browser tracker.

I rebooted the VM to get a new IP address and the traffic stopped. It's somebody else's problem now.
Seems like a nice idea, it’s not obvious to me why an IT team would need this over any other flavor of cloud storage available currently. Do you have a first customer that you built this for? How do they use it?
I have uBlock Origin and blocked all scripts on the Twitter website to try the trick described in the article, but nothing happened. Are noblock tags displayed when JS is disable in uBlock?
Some people didn't fly at all when they would've flown if a Concorde had been available. And those who did fly on other planes paid significantly less.
Great points and good luck!
Google analytics tags look like this: UA-1234567-1

For each site the last digit increments. We only use the part that stays the same.

However it is fairly easy to get actually unique GA codes under the same account. But many people do not do that.

With AdSense you cannot get a different publisher ID unless you set up a whole new account.
Learn Erlang? One of my favorite programming books is Joe Armstrong's Erlang: Software for a concurrent world. Good luck.
My issue with kreg is that the driver isn’t a perfect fit for the screws so when you take them out you have to knock them off the driver tip somehow. It’s like it’s an imperial metric mismatch but they are all official kreg parts so don’t know.
How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
Walmart's grocery delivery partnerships with Uber, Lyft fail to take off
How does uMatrix compare to uBlock Origin with its matrix enabled through advanced mode? I can't tell much difference but would be willing to jump ship.

uBlock Origin doesn't have CSS or image control per domain but it's the JS I worry about!
My first question is will we be able to use wasm instead of javascript? That would open excel not only to javascript (which people may or may not like) but pretty much to any other language as long as someone builds a wasm runtime/compiler to (which seems to be on the radar of lots of people, starting with the .net team). Would also make more sense to me from a performance point of view.
I don't think I have any GROFF* variables set.

Thanks again.
Rust is not Node, so I'm not sure why you're looking at nodes CoC.
Excuse my ignorance but how are the PoS rich getting richer different than the PoW rich getting richer? Aren't the payouts proportional to the investment for both schemes? And can't Delegated PoS more or less eliminate 51% attacks for PoS?
Yeah it would be annoying but it's still good advice.
Is it that people don't second guess everything a philosopher says ?
Yup. Highly recommend.
Univision is a fucking mess
Oh wow I didn't know about that, thanks!
JavaScript is not water. JavaScript is Brawndo, the sports drink. Used in business of watering plants. Because it has electrolytes.
> It does make development easier, and at some point it just doesn't make sense to support any longer.

It depends on what you're doing. If you're building an app (something which would make more sense as a native program anyway), then sure — use JavaScript. But if you're displaying text and images, then HTML & CSS are perfectly capable of handling that.

In general, I think that a good content-focused website will work equally well across all browsers. There's no need to force end-users to allow you to execute code on their machines in order to display paragraphs or images.

> I'm more worried about the recent trend of sites not even working in Firefox anymore, just Chrome.

And I'm worried about the long-standing trend of sites not even working in lynx, links, elinks, eww or w3m anymore, just Firefox, Chrome & IE.
Uber? Irresponsible? Inconceivable!
They are around here, but I'd say star point (not sure if they are double square or Torx), seem to be as prevalent at Home Depot as Robertson. I'm in Colorado, so on the cusp of the West.
Stripe checkout is so easy that I find it very few reasons to use services like this. I do appreciate convenience and I am not a person who likes to build everything by itself, but this is not a problem I or many of my friends have.

If others feel different, please chime in and explain your situation.
Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness
Pretty easy! http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-ups...
Gemnasium will be deleted
>But they didn't, and their outcomes weren't equal. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and one choice wasn't necessarily 'suboptimal' either.

It's easy to say their unequal outcomes are "not necessarily a bad thing" when you're a STEM graduate living in San Francisco on a $200k, not quite so reassuring when you're an English Lit graduate struggling to make a living as a barista.

And when you look at that massive difference in outcomes and say "well you chose skills that aren't in demand" then what you are saying is "you made the wrong choice if you wanted a good life".

EDIT: Or alternatively, to finish the analogy, you're saying "some people just inevitably want to study English Lit even though our society doesn't value it, guess it sucks to be them!".
Depends on if you include the oceans. Mars is not that big, but lack of oceans more than makes up for it. On top of that we mostly ignore huge chunks of the land mass like Antarctica.
Do you have figures to back up this claim?

I understand for regular procurement the importance of cost saving. But in product development paying everything with bank transfers rather than with corporate cards sounds like a ballache.
Very much depends on the cruise. I took a cruise down the Danube that I'd highly recommend - like a road trip but without the hassle of packing and unpacking your stuff every night.
It's more than that, they could have fixed html to support snippets without needing a full page reload.

They haven't and now we're in this javascript SPA mess.
How to design a coding challenge that is actually effective
Accumulated wealth + approaching retirement? Not rocket science.
Sure, thanks for your advice. But that's very unrelated to this topic here. Furthermore I don't see much value in karma points from random strangers and a need for building some strange internet personality who avoids conflicts to prevent a decrease in its karma points. I also don't see how I can even more participate in this community with more karma points.
In all fairness, back in the old days, you really had to watch your step in HK. It had more than its fair share of crime. Far more. But this was in the 80's and early 90's.

They had an anti-crime and anti-corruption campaign, and of course there was the handover. So obviously crime dissipated as a result. But it was really bad in the old days.

I don't really know much about Singapore. I've never been there. That said, if crime is low, I'd imagine there were, at least for a time, exceedingly strict punishments for lawbreakers given the population density.
another thing I used a ton when going through part 1 was being signed into my google account, google kept track of my progress through the video and if I exited out and came back on a different machine it would resume where I last left off, then I would back up a few minutes to build that context back up (or attempt to anyways).
Anyone with an open mind should read Darwin's Doubt by Stephen Meyer. He looks at possible explanations for the Cambrian Explosion and concludes that Intelligent Design is the best explanation. Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne has written a response to it.

https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Doubt-Explosive-Origin-Intell...

https://www.forbes.com/2009/02/12/evolution-creation-proof-o...
On your main page there is no info about any clients.

Not sure why i should use your service over one of the following:

- Office 365 Sharepoint or OneDrive
- Dropbox
- Box
- Google Drive

In my previous company, we used box. One of the biggest issues was the client. For cases like images for a website or other stuff, we used S3 directly.

I personaly wouldn't use it in my it department. i would use nextcloud or one named above.
Show HN: DaysUntilNextHoliday
Yes, after the original writer had to explain it when it came up through a heated mailing list discussion about removing it partly because some misinterpreted it. That's not the excellence in communication you probably think it is. And it doesn't belong in a manual.
Inspired by @AndreyAzimov launch of ProgressBar, I decided to use a feature from my service (https://stretchyourannualleave.com) and transform into a Mac app.

DaysUntilNextHoliday (https://daysuntilnextholiday.carrd.co/) shows a countdown to the next public holiday on the Mac Menu Bar. Just select the country you’d like to see and there you go.

What are your thoughts about it?
There's https://flippa.com/, https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home I've also seen offers on ebay and in Facebook groups and I'm sure a couple mentioned on hackernews which I didn't bookmark. There's investors who explicitly look for non-performing or struggling online businesses to acquire and turn them around.