skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NewsBlur is a great project. Winds relies on Stream, Algolia and Mercury API. NewsBlur supports Mercury. You can run both Winds or Newsblur on your own server.

I wonder if we could do a project together with Newsblur where we list if sites properly support RSS. Similar to how the Python 3 ready sites popped up.
In many ways, the focus on educational markets and rich magazine content made sense: presumably the revenue model would be based on licensing per volume, and a subscription publication guarantees an ongoing flow of new copies to be sold.

This was also an established industry as opposed to video gaming, which was either nascent and amateur, or tightly controlled by established players making arcade cabinets and home consoles.

Was there a sense that you're abusing the spirit of the CD with the Green Book (the CD-i spec)?
Seconded, as another Amazonian working in a remote office. The Seattle HQ absolutely hires folks from all over, but many of the remote sites tend to hire more locally. In fact, many of the remote sites exist precisely because of the local labor market (e.g. NYC hiring people out of finance, advertising, etc).

Although given the planned scale for HQ2, I would imagine hiring practices for HQ2 to be closer to the "bring in people from everywhere" model rather than the "hire [almost] exclusively locally" model.
That's a fascinating read, thanks!

I see they're based here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-275016... in yet another disused nuclear bunker.
I have no context regarding the history of the benchmarks game. With that in mind, I have a question:

What about you create a technical specification (including both technical depth and common-sense breadth) for what kind of benchmark you'll accept, throw the whole thing on GitHub, and then refuse 99% of pull requests? :) (ie, only accept really really good quality benchmark implementations)

Eventually, enough developers unimpressed that Language X is not adequately represented would step up to the plate and maintain good-quality benchmark code. (This could get pretty interesting with rapidly-evolving languages like Rust.)

Obviously this is all very ideal and I can see so many ways such an endeavor could go horribly wrong, sure. I can also very easily see you having floated such an idea then discarded it for reasons I haven't even thought of.
I was pretty amused by the suggestion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135061 that it's actually US spy equipment that is malfunctioning and causing the problem, but it's honestly not totally implausible.
NLP word representations and the Wittgenstein philosophy of language
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a possibility you didn't directly cover....

4. Chinese (or any major power) has tech near both US consulates and used Cuba as a cover.
Hopefully advertisers are waking up to the fact that Facebook is as much a bait-and-switch for them as they are their users.
Hmm, most other countries have free transfers between bank accounts. It's just the US (maybe a few others) still stuck in the stone age.
I Lost My Arm to Microbes, but They Can Save the World
Should Apple Pay be on that list? AFAIK, it's not possible to pay someone directly Apple Pay to Apple Pay. It's more like the standard stand-in for a credit card.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Apple Pay to be that convenient, but it's not there yet.

Ed: changed easy-to-use to convenient
I'm not a lover of coincidence (As i assume most readers here aren't). I'm leaning towards the common denominator which is the US consulates setup.
There are some interesting providers in the area e.g. Fibrecast:

https://www.fibrecast.uk/

Unfortunately the area we live isn't serviced by them - but they were very good at checking availability!
Most of them have corporate or bulk subscription discount, and I'm sure you can also negotiate the contract with their sales.
Import C in your JavaScript project
Good English is, clearly, not one of your company's core values..
I think most projects where a person is trying to learn something such that it builds on something else are often not understood by a person who is not on the same path. In the end, the tapestry formed is only understood by the one doing the journey and then in hindsight it all makes perfect sense.
The referral code is in the HN title: IFREAD
>What about Thomas Wolfe? Did he float into your consciousness at all?

You are all witnessing the moment I discovered these are different people.

When the news came out that Tom Wolfe died I said "damn wasn't he super old though?" to my partner, and completely misinterpreted the weird look she gave me.
Why an upcoming appointment makes us less productive
Warning: rant, sample of 1

My first year freelancing was my last (for now).

The only client I landed, following the guidelines stated on the link (cover letter, etc), was for a very niche job (IoT/FPGA related). I undersold myself as it was my very first gig on Website.

The client ended up hiring me and another guy from Country. They explained what they had, what they wanted, and I explained the problems with their architecture and possible solutions. The other guy was like, yes, all can be done, yes, great idea, sure, it's easy, yes, of course, nothing is wrong, it's so smart.

I was constantly dropping quotations from RFCs, IEEE, FCC and recommending hardware choices for backing it up with documentation, but they consistently followed the other guy's advice, to the point of deploying extravagant and unnecessary hardware: think of a workstation plugged to a Zynq, plugged to 3 Arduinos, and a Stratix 10 in the middle with a plethora of custom circuits and transceivers attached kind of mess, just because the guy only could find libs and IPs that ran precisely on those devices to do the puzzle that he himself sold to the client. I suspect this was not out of pure incompetence, but an evolutionary way to make one seem expert and make the project take longer to cash in more money.

And all of this was ON REMOTE. We literally had to ask the remote office to verify connections, and status LEDs on the devices, and obviously debugging out of business hours was an absolute PITA.

The other guy was insanely productive, in a meaningless kind of way. Everything was documented but badly, some stuff had CAD, some hand drawn; the designs had some corner cases well thought and commented, while basic things completely overlooked. Half of the code was copied from OpenCores, Arduino examples, etc, and the other half didn't make any sense. The only way I could describe him is as a bored engineer on the 5th day of a meth binge.

One day I just snapped during an argument, calling their project "Internet of Spaghetti", and called it quits. Then the client contested all the hours I filed, and Website took their side, I assume because they had high rating and I had just started.

Then I went back to corporate, it's boring but I don't have to deal with such bullshit.
Hello CMake
Building a Shared UI Component Library
That's an OSX kernel interface, not at all related to what they called 'classic' afterward...

Beside, despite the syntax sugar, it is NOWHERE near C++ at all. No constructors/destructor (if I remember correctly), no stack based objects, no exceptions, no virtual functions, no library, and you had to provision your classes with the right number of member function 'dummy' pointers to allow for expansion.
I've written enough OSX drivers back then to know that, quite frankly, C would have been a lot better.
I have the same experience. Doctors and physiotherapists were of no help to me - they had no experience with RSI. In the end I found my own solution that worked:

- Break program

- Split keyboard

- Pen-mouse

More here: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
For citizens of developed countries, freelancing seems like too much work for little pay. for coding and web work you're computing with foreigners who can do the job at a much lower price. Bidding process creates a race to the bottom
For cars, in the US, each state (to my knowledge) runs an ownership database, issues certificates of title, and compels buyers, sellers, and users of vehicles to update the database when ownership changes. Apple devices don't have a similar ownership database.
Ask HN: How to stop video autoplay in iOS 11?
I've noticed videos will autoplay on iPhone using safari. It's been slowing eating a large chunck of my data each month. I've installed content blockers but they haven't helped. The new Safari 11 in MacOS has a setting for video autoplay but iOS does not. Several apple forumns have been no help.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8273797

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8069882
It's bizarre. I tossed the book away in disgust because it's crazy pseudoscience....and it still worked.
Calm down.

I believe the term has to do with age, and not race.

It's a post-war (WW2) term that's been used for decades to describe Roth and certain other writers, such as Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Salinger, Bellow, Updike and others. It's a term to describe a group of certain authors that wrote about certain themes, similar to the Hollywood term "Brat Pack".
I'm a product designer and have just started messing around with react native, this looks like a cool and useful project. If you need design help / would like to collab - feel free to reach out.
It's not - the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction. People are starting to wise up to and reject these group identity narratives, as evidenced by the rising popularity of people like Jordan Peterson.
I don't blame them. I'm thinking about doing the same thing for a few of my web sites that have very local content.

The company that sells the advertising on those sites says non-US traffic dilutes the value of the ads, and I'd get 3-5% higher CPM if I filtered non-US traffic.

I've kept them open until now because I like to check on the sites when I travel, but GDPR might be the incentive I need to pull the plug.
So having children leads to an early death? Sounds about right...
It looks like this is the same as the Fread micropayments service [1], which is a real company [2] but is similarly quiet about whatever business partnerships it has established. They have some blog posts [3] that give background but don't answer the "do you actually have permission to do this?" question.

[1] https://www.fread.io/
[2] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10965782
[3] https://medium.com/fread-blog
Carries as much risk of being used against, no? If not more for getting fooled by deep fakes into doing something dumb. They want to weaponize it, sure, but protect themselves.
4. Russia attempting to throw more tension into the US relationships with Cuba and China. Historically that wouldn't be unusual at all, for Russia to screw with the US in such a way. In real terms the US is in a cold war with Russia (and has been for a decade). The US recently killed hundreds of their citizens that were acting as foreign proxy militia, in Syria; I would imagine there's all sorts of tit for tat going on between the two countries. We're into a new era of the large powers messing with each other again.

If that were the case re Russia, however, I'd have expected to see a lot more cases in China, to really push it.

Shoddy spy tech, on one side or the other, is the most likely cause imo.
Less than 256MB RAM Ubuntu 18.04 with i3
For me a similar moment of revelation came when I first heard LucasArts’ iMUSE dynamic music engine in action: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
Wouldn't they (US gov't) want to keep this out of the media then? Does it make sense to have it run around the media if it was from malfunctioning equipment. This is under the assumption they would realize it's their equipment before publicizing the event.
also, credit cards have consumer protection by law in cases of fraud, "wallet" type services like alipay? not so much.
That may be valid for the average user. All people invovled on the parliament level should want to know what the devil is doing.
Pretty reasonable actually:

> GDPR does not prohibit blockchain, but it does put some procedural requirements around blockchain’s use in commercial enterprises. For individuals who opt into a blockchain, there is no authority to amend or correct a block once it is incorporated into the chain. For them, caveat emptor. For organizations, make sure you have a mechanism that will allow you to disassociate an individual with their blockchain contributions
People dropping over in embassies in your country is a major embarrassment and I'd tend to assume it was a third party in both cases whose actions caused the illnesses in both embassies. There are lots of governments which would be interested in US internal diplomatic discussions and might be using high powered microwave transceivers or whatever this is to get it. So if anything I'd tend to see this as evidence point to someone other than the Chinese being behind this.
I surely hope so. :)
Yeah, all of the trading systems I've worked with have been in C++. At a previous employer, they had initially written their entire stack in Java. But, performance was an issue, as was cost (this was back Java still belonged to Sun and they were running Solaris on Sun hardware). Right before I joined, they had rewritten most of the java components in C++ and were in the process of moving off of Sun hardware & Solaris in favor of Intel & Linux. Front end stuff was mostly C++/MFC on Windows, later was C#/WPF. Perl & Python were both heavily used there, as well.
2018 is a banner year for tech and aging
> So logical conclusion is it is case of self-shooting in the foot - Us spy equipment malfunctioning etc

A logical conclusion, not the logical conclusion.

I think this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135012) does a better job of starting to enumerate the possible causes.
>The free market obviously fails to address privacy issues,

No it doesn't. Everything was working completely fine before.
There is so much talk in the tech world about equality in the work force, yet, all too often, you hear lines like "separating the wheat from the chaff" regarding job applicants. Is there maybe a more respectful way to speak about people who are less talented than others?
Another possibility: It is one party (state or non-state actor) that has conducted attacks on the US in Cuba and China, which may not necessarily be either Cuba or China or acting with their knowledge. (Even when it was just Cuba, third-party attack was a possibility discussed.)
You can send money through iMessage with Apple Pay Cash. You can even use an Apple Watch or Siri to send person to person cash transfers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207875
I almost don't have the heart to tell you but... by the time they get old enough to start sleeping in, you'll be too old to. After about 40, you'll wake up on Saturday thinking, "oh my gosh, it must be nearly noon!" and realize it's only 8:30 and you're wide awake.
> So why did I spend all this time trying to write it? I treated it as a programming riddle [...] Maybe because of these results I got quite addicted to the project itself [...] I guess it’s not too healthy (especially if you have a family), but it also doesn’t happen that often.

I can empathize, I think lots of us have GH profiles littered with projects we've hit real finish lines on but may not be useful to others. But I actually think it's healthy, especially if you have a family (assuming it's only your spare time). It provides sanity and brain maintenance simultaneously. Even better if you have an employer that doesn't track your every hour and recognizes the value of these kinds of things on down time.

> Right now I don’t have any obvious ways to move the app forward, so the addiction dissipated ;)

Run through https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm to WASM and abstract graphics calls and what not :-)
Can we all agree is bad form to share paywall links here? No, I don't want to resort to any hacks since it is stealing but this is literally advertising for the WSJ at this point.
A 19 year old's thoughts on existence
Three Ebola patients slip out of Congo hospital, medics race to control outbreak
I work for a company that ships a delphi based product, you've not lived till you've hand edited a .dfm ;-)
Unless it’s Russia, Iran, or NK, it’s probably not a weapon. Nothing to be gained diplomatically.

There was some stories suggested that this was cause by interference of two survelience bugs.
That is a really fascinating comment - essentially the advent of gaming on the platform was a reposition after the market it was built for failed.

I'd love to hear more about how Philips managed to get Nintendo over a barrel on use of their characters though - Nintendo is one of the tightest creative IP holders in the world at this point, maybe their experience with Philips pushed them towards that?
Making AI Users Accountable for Their Algorithms
Found one of these at Goodwill last month. No way to test if it worked, though. Pass.
>The only way I could describe him is as a bored engineer on the 5th day of a meth binge.

what an image
Thanks for the hint. Fixed!
Weather Forecasting Gets a Big Lift in Japan
Not really when most of the hardware is outsourced.
The problem is one-sided, it's a trope to blame poor people for not being frugal enough when lower income wages have stagnated over the last 40 years. The wealthy in America are relieved of guilt if it's not their fault poor people are poor.

We've systematically gutted social services for the poor while giving tax breaks and subsidies to the rich, then we blame the poor for buying consumer goods (which we market to them and need them to buy) instead of saving their income.
It's not "too many jobs"; it's Washington state voters voting down income tax and transit initiatives that Seattle sorely needs.
I actually hope these kinds of questions are traps. From my point of view, you want someone saying "I want to work on X thing you are doing because I am good at X", not "I want to work at XYZ Co. because it's cool and hip".
Many so-called GDPR experts aren't fit for purpose, warns data protection lawyer
Recruit to work where?
> Basically, writing a C++ front end takes 10 man years.

This is insane. No language needs to be that complex. I guess that's the power of backward compatibility: forcing an entire industry to dig itself into an ever growing hole, because in the short term we move faster by digging than by first clawing our way out.
Using countries is a very inaccurate way to measure diversity. The EU is many countries, but is less diverse than India, a single country.

If India reformed itself as a union of states, suddenly the backlog of Indian immigrants would be cleared!
Your metabolism does not slow down while sleeping so it does not really save that much energy.
The Green Book was just another standard, dictating the tolerances a CD player had to operate within in order to certify as being CD-I player capable. Where the Red Book dictated how data on disc in sectors had to be organized and played back, the Green Book did the same for interleaved files and real time media. There was no concept of "abuse", just different standards for different purposes. Any CD-I player was a CD-ROM player, but only Green Book complaint hardware could be called a CD-I player.
Commodore also had the Amiga CD32 a few years later. I got my hands on a few CD32 games in a haul of amiga stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32
It'd only be at the expense of other countries if you keep the current quotas, which haven't moved for decades. Let's not pit immigrant vs immigrant when congress could double the number of Green Cards if they had any interest in the matter. It just happens that they do not.
it's more complicated than that.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2644251/Un-scrambl...

Not all eggs are treated the same. I don't see how this study accounts for what kind of eggs or how they have been processed. It matters, a lot, if your eggs are bleached or how they have been stored.
I'm also not convinced this is above-board with the organizations whose works are being resold.

Once upon a time, we had newspaper machines where you put in a quarter to open the machine. You'd take one and leave the rest for others. This feels like the equivalent of paying a quarter, taking all the newspapers out and reselling them for $12/month (If anyone involved with the project can explain how the $12/month goes towards the journalists, I'd love to know).

I've also wanted to do something like this, but the problem in getting this started isn't technological, it's institutional.

Basically you need to find a fair way of distributing the cost of subscriptions to the various organizations in a way that isn't pure traffic views, because then you'd create clickbait incentives again.

In the end, you need some sort of 'the user decides who x% goes to, and y% is based on reading/use' with optimal values for x and y, but also in a way that you don't cannibalize each other's customers.
I feel like this would make sense for Russia and Cuba given the power dynamic, but the risk of being exposed by China... I would consider that too high a risk for Russia to piss off the other economic super power.
That doesn't look like a 3B2. Maybe an AT&T 6300.
Google AMP is still confusing, and it's not getting any better
Next, the OP should try out a real challenge - take the crown of link emulation away from TGB-Dual.
Thank you for your hard work on this! As someone who had to automate a lot of .gov interactions, these million little roadbumps you describe made my work very difficult (if lucrative).
Perhaps it's US spy equipment that has been stuxnet'd by a third-party, like Russia or the DPRK or Iran.
Lyme disease is soaring in N.J.  the number of cases in each county
> It was an eye-opener for a lot of people who couldn’t see the clinical relevance of gut microbes

I've met a a number of people that think this way. As if the whole of the body's digestive and immune system serves no purpose simply because it's complex and we don't understand it well enough.
I'd been getting a touch of RSI pain this year / last year, and I'm still pretty young (mid-twenties).

Taking up bouldering / rock climbing and doing that once or twice a week has improved my grip strength a lot, with the added bonus that I don't remember having any more RSI pain since I started doing it regularly.

So I definitely agree with the original post that environment makes a huge difference, and with this comment about strength training. And I'll say that rock climbing is awesome for improving your grip strength.

Edit: With that comes the caveat that pro rock climbers are more likely to develop arthritis earlier than the average person.. You have to be careful with how you load different parts of your body, and I'd argue it's easier to injure yourself than e.g. doing weights in the gym, if you're not careful.
Chinese government isn't stupid, and isn't bound by the literal rule of law.
Adsl is a different beast indeed. It's physically limited because the frequency that it uses and the encoding that was possible or practical in the 90's can't carry more than 24. Vdsl is indeed throttled at the edge router into two products, basically the lower frequency components provide the lower speed product and propagate better over longer lines.
> In real terms the US is in a cold war with Russia (and has been for a decade).

At least two; the new Cold War was talked about a little bit before, but became undeniable during the Balkan crisis and resulting international peacekeeping missions.

It got less public attention (at least on the US side) when the focus was on US hot wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, but it didn't go away.
Esports Media Consumption-The Future Is Paid Content
Better title : "Catching up on your week sleep deprivation in the weekend : it might just help you avoid dying prematurely"

Don't mess up your sleep schedule on weekends if you already sleep 7/8h in the week.
The study was done on people sleeping less than 5 hours.
Title is a bit misleading in that sense.
Glad I snipped that in the bud