skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally my point.

>most interesting

not most successful

>the first implementations of smart contracts

the latest in the long line of "no, _this_ is what cryptocurrency was always for! All the previous examples were wrong!"

>Imagine holding a real decentralized crypto-currency that is pegged to the USD. That will open many doors for commerce, and decrease transaction costs. The ability to swap this token back and forth using atomic swaps will allow people to remain in crypto longer, without exposure to crypto price swings.

Imagination is not a successful project. This is literally talking about things which _don't even exist yet_.

>Once this happens

And here we reach the crux of the issue.

_If_ this happens, not once. Just like all the previous things that would have "changed the world", if only a long series of long-unsolved problems in cryptography and distributed computing were solved.
>Based on the skeletal structure of the child's foot, specifically, the base of the big toe, the kids probably spent more time in the trees than adults.

Fascinatingly, this is still true today! Kids love climbing trees. I used to love climbing trees. It's funny to think that the true reason for my disposition was a deep, ancestral fear of being eaten.
>Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source

We don't watch "important and desirable media" in YouTube (and most of us, not anywhere else, there). What we do watch is not really available elsewhere (e.g. certain vloggers, tutorial videos, etc).
How much do patents matter to innovation?
A Tutorial Introduction to Kubernetes
So I read the comments but I still don't understand what problem this specification solves. Does it enable new use cases? Does it enable new trust models? Since it's only a server protocol, how do final users actually read the content?

Edit : I don't understand the downvote. I use RSS daily to fetch news and I don't have problem with it. It's simple and deliver news to the edge (my mobile phone). I'm not saying WebSub is useless, I would like to understand what a 3 entities model brings to the table compared to a simple server-client delivery. What's more, the Subscriber entity cannot be a mobile device with the current network, because mobile internet providers block incoming GET requests. Therefore to fetch news, it has to be a pull model.

Why not add a simple rational in the header of the spec, explaining the problem, the existing solutions, and why this new solution? Does it solve a security issue, a scalability issue or a trust issue?
Claude Lanzmann Dies: Director Best Known for Holocaust Documentary ‘Shoah’
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Agreed. Django gives you the tools to build applications, wordpress is a point and click setup for most people. The users are extremely different audiences.
I think this is great. It's much easier for candidates to evaluate companies and not waste their time if they know the salary range and interview process up front.

It stops companies shifting these things during the process to favour some applicants over others.
This looks really cool. Especially liked the compass mode.
How does this "feature" make your life better?
> superiority of the product

It's not though. Once you become big and have reached critical mass you can pull off quite a lot of mediocre/bad stuff. Fact is the majority of people simply do not care as long as the product still works (they might not even be aware there's bad stuff going on behind the scenes) - too much effort to find a suitable alternative, convince everyone else to go to the same platform and so on
A decompression algorithm in CSS? What?
Not really. Gimp is still an image editor.

Django is your GUI/imaging framework and libraries if you’re going to make that comparison.
Ask HN: How to augment your programming language knowledge?
After having familiarized with a programming language and having written (production) code for a longer time period - how do you learn new aspects of a programming language deliberately?

As a programmer you program how you are used to but sometimes there are better language-specific ways. How do you discover them?

Example:
Discovering Lambda-Expressions in Java or Async/Await in JavaScript.
What made you pick gitx today compared to other (free) alternatives?
> It is best to maximize quality of life for citizens, not total stock market index.

Feel free to relocate if you're not pleased with the quality of life where you currently live.
> Is the US and EU falling behind?

Yes. And also in AI deployment.

Source: Am American.
windows client installer is pretty large at 29MB and scores 3 detections out of 66 on virustotal.
It's used a lot in the electronics industry for scripting testing and debugging.
I use anki for around seven years now and it has proven to be the best learning technique for me so far.

When I went to university I still believed that understanding is everything and learning will happen en passant. I read many books, pondered long about them, and forgot everything a month later.

Five years ago I started studying again (computer science) and as anki has already been usefull in learning programming for me I used it extensively during my studies. Instead of taken notes on paper I just marked important facts while reading and made anki cards for them afterward. Sometimes these where simple atomic facts like "What is the definition of XYZ?", sometimes they demanded a longer answer "How does x yield y?". It took me about 20 to 30 minutes each day to reherse my cards (while commuting to work) and learning has never been that easy.

I soon realized that understanding a fact or each step of a proof the first time you read it is not as important as often stated. Understanding often only came with learning because anki forced me to think about these facts daily. That was much more effective than pondering hard about them once.

I made a deck for each course the day it started and archived it after the exam. But not only did this help me during the exam I also forgot far less of what I have learned afterwards. Overall I would say that learning with flashcards took only about a fifth of the time it would have taken with other learning techniques that have a stronger focus on understanding (mind-maps, active reading &c.)
HTTPs significantly faster vs. HTTP
The public transportation and cycling options will become even more hidden in the app with this addition.

How can Google Maps continue defaulting to car and Uber when asks for directions in ultra-dense cities with great public and cycling infrastructure (like Paris), while Google pretends helping the environment?

Even when the subway directions are 10x cheaper and faster, Google Maps keeps highlighting car directions. Maybe the referral fee that Google gets from Uber (and other "partners") explains it.
Doesn't need to be elsagate level, stuff get's questionable to abusive (think unregulated child labor and unnessary emotional stress) really fast.
It's worrysome on both producer and viewer side at pre-teen ages especially.

Parenting against a hyper-engineered viewer retention (recommendation is an euphemism at this point) engine is a lost cause to begin with. Tried supervised youtube with my 3 year old for a while and it's always going places you would never expect, and not in a good way.

Even for quality content, just look what wildbrain or DHX Media?, did in terms of ad-count, to "Yo Gabba Gabba" recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YN8bUHufPk&list=PLc7QkGFtZU...

I count up 20 partly animated ad overlays plus a preroll in just 20m, who is willing to monitor that as a parent?

The core of the problem I have with the whole thing, is that YouTube prays on the weakest of the weakest, not even me. It's children of parents that simply can't afford daycare and video subscription services, that I worry about the most.
Now do that with the government.
Don't know about Windows version but Mac version of SourceTree has tabbed interface.
Điểm thi môn văn phân hóa theo như mong muốn – Trường Cao đẳng Y Dược Pasteur
I think it's already been ruled (at least in Europe), that it isn't illegal to download from public streaming platform since "streaming" and "downloading" are the same thing.

I'll go check.

Edit: After checking, yes, of course as long as it's for personal use. It's against youtube TOS, but if the TOS is against the law...
> * Less work than blogging, way more benefits
>
> * Build a community around your inbox
>
> * Only share the emails you intend to

It's just a fancy mailing list then? Minus the SMTP leg, plus privacy/consent issues and moving to a non-free storage format as well as concentrating the presence of the "thread" at one site.

The best email lore out there is saved to mailing list archives and can be linked to and shared just as easily. And mailing lists take "forwards" too.
“Your privacy is very important to us.”
Javanese is not supported by Windows, MacOS, or Ubuntu, but is supported by Google Translate.

http://peterburk.github.io/i2018n/

There are more Javanese speakers in the world than Java programmers. Please look at the other graphs that I made if you're interested in internationalisation!
I think that the underlying assumption is that cutter and freezer have utility functions they believe in.
This would be indeed nice. Which means, obviously, that they would be immediately buried in lawsuits. Sure, they would be in the right, which would make them happy after they're broke.

(Cynic, who me?)
Same thing can happen in countries where the state funds political parties and outlaws large private/corporate donors. The funding is given according to how many seats each party already has and so favours the status quo.
This is a very good strategy. I guess it should be hard to execute but once you perfect it basically the small market problems are gone. Any idea whats the general way startups go about doing that ? Also how do you immigrate to Israel (:D) ?
Thanks, I will take a look at that extension.

After reading the documentation for mpv I found the options --screen=<default|0-32> and --fs-screen=<all|current|0-32> these are used for selecting a specific screen.
Wayve AI – Learning to drive in a day
Facebook moment app is down
http://www.momentsapp.com/ is show Heroku error page, and user feedback that photos can't be uploaded: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.moments&showAllReviews=true
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Blockchain's Impact on Food Industry – BlockchainTechnology
> AI and biotech are two areas where we really need close regulatory oversight, to keep all the "move fast and break things" startup superstars at bay

If this is a pun, its a very good one.
I would like to hear about it more. What use cases does it have and any supporting evidence for it.
Genuinely curious.
Not really an alternative, more of an addition to. The most common use case for Pubsubhubbub/WebSub is in combination with RSS/Atom feeds, informing subscribers about updates to those.
I don't really buy the idea that invoking undefined behaviour is ok so long as you know it happens to work on your platform.

If that disaster really does boil down to one instruction, I'd hope the compiler would expose an intrinsic.

Doing that kind of thing isn't so evil if you're careful to include a compile-time assert that will break the build (or perhaps 'failover' to safe code) if you try to compile on anything but your exact compiler and for anything but your exact target platform, but even so, I've never seen an appropriate time to deliberately invoke UB like that.
> any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl
Since YT now encodes sound tracks in Opus 160 kbps, if upload was in any decent quality, it will be downloaded in it too.
Rust on Haiku
I think before we worry about plugins and themes it would make much more sense to bring WP core itself up to date. What good is a nice, clean, properly organized plugin, if it's sitting on a foundation of sand.

I filed a core bug report once. Long to short, if I passed (I think it was) false to a core function, I got very unexpected results. The dev that replied to me said, "Well then don't do that." Huh?

The idea that the function should check, that it should be aware that humans (and their code) make unexpected mistakes, was completely foreign to her / him. I lost a lot of faith that day. I lose a bit more every time I go poking around in core code. I'm no Super DevMan. So when __I__ see bad patterns you know something is wrong.

p.s. Fwiw, even the lead dog (i.e., Automattic) has some nasty code habits. Simply dumbfounding.
EU copyright law proposal rejected
Interesting. I liked the 'Burro' Schmidt project as well. http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/human-mole-the-man-who-s...

Unlike Ozymandias, his monument ain't goin' nowhere.
Large rails apps can see significant improvement in memory use efficiency with jemalloc e.g. as in https://www.levups.com/en/blog/2017/optimize_ruby_memory_usa...

However I’ve also seen an improvement from simply setting MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2.
There's a common belief among motorcyclists that having loud exhausts help alert other car drivers of their presence, making them more visible on the roads. There are various arguments in favor and against that notion, but if it's getting you to notice them I guess it is better than nothing.
In the Strawberry Fields (1995)
I don't live in the US, so I Don't know, but as far as I understand, DVD.com can legally offer essentially every title that exists. This is because in the US, if you own a disc, you can rent it to someone.

If true, this is awesome and so much better (for me) than any streaming service.
It means hard forks (afaik) are not required when features are added. Protocol can grow organically. Interesting tech but not sure about the use case. Blockchain is all cart-before-the-horse.
In Brazil, everyone uses Whatsapp and companies have been pressured by consumers to offer customer service through this channel. I researched and saw that there are integrated apps, but I do not know what form they are using since for all I know, the API has not yet been made available to everyone.
> Plenty of other communications networks are open, so any network effect of "walled gardens" ought to be attributed to the superiority of the product.

So, when people evidently complain that they feel the social pressure to use the walled garden even though they rather wouldn't ... then that ought to be attributed to the superiority of the product?

Could you explain your reasoning behind that?
There were additional police raids carried out in Dortmund, Germany last night. They were targeting a server hosted at Wissenschaftsladen (free.de) but ended up searching other unrelated offices, including the rooms of CCC Dortmund.

https://heise.de/-4100194
Microsoft teases new Outlook.com dark mode
"a few headers" if 50% of your payload is headers, thats a big deal.

Mind you XMPP isn't all that efficient either. as its all based on XML.
Apparently there was a chemical formula for an explosive on a whiteboard.
This is a semantic excursion. I'm bailing myself out of trouble by qualifying my statement as "probably" factual somehow, since it's not trivial to back such a concept.

Semantic in the sense that the word "environment" is a loaded term.

I'll offer this much: photons are particles. As particles, we know them to be part-time resident constituents of massive objects. That massive objects are representative of large quantities of energy trapped and oscillating in bounded standing waveforms.

We know that the empty vacuum of space really is mostly void, but also that a lot of photons (particles) are still traversing the void quite a bit.

So, space/time, while an empty void, where phenomena transit or conduct themselves theough said empty medium, is still an environment with varying concentrations of activity.

If an neutron manages to be ejected from a supernova, and is directed toward our solar syatem, and is influenced to fall toward the sun, but, miraculously passes straight through the sun, without colliding with any other particles, only to travel onward toward the center of the galaxy, landing in a supermassive black hole some millennia from now, what would you say about the environment this neutron experienced as it fortuitously passed through the center of the sun, without experiencing any collisions?

Would to rob it of all the other qualities, and just label it space and time? Or would you refer to it as an environment, with activity transpiring, in addition to be also being a realm of space and time?
Balancing Time
Its not objective criteria that is the problem. Its the interpretation and
misrepresentation by ideologues that is inadequate.

'just having the right parents will push your sores up on average'

That has little to do with the objectivity or subjectivity of the test. There
can be a wide variation of social development between racial groups, economic
classes, religious communities, geographic regions etc. Not to mention
individual IQ and ability.

A standardized test in say, mathematics is objective. The same tests that
demonstrate competency are administered all over the world in every
country and culture in the world. You can objectively determine the level of
ability of any given student regardless of race or culture.

To simply say that because disparity exist we should therefor abandon
standards and objective criteria in favor of a set of morphological
corrective fictions that look good on paper but do nothing to fix the
disparity is diminishing for everyone.

The problems are simply much harder and more complicated then peoples egos will
let them admit. Its very easy to propose a grand theory that fixes all the
problem of the world quickly and completely.
Depends on your understanding of freshers :-P
This battle is nowhere near over, copyright holders are constantly bribing and pushing towards more and more draconian laws to keep competition out and maximize profits.

Having said that, it's good to see EU didn't sell us out at the first chance.
What shell/terminal setup is the demo gif in the github using? Looks neat.
I'd be guessing that there is no evidence because that would destroy the obscurity and thereby the security.
The UK could pitch itself as a place rich US tech companies can buy top talent at low price. I have seen some (not many, to be honest) US tech companies open offices in the UK so they can pay half or less for staff, compared to what they'd pay at home. If Brexit goes as badly as it might, the pound could be even cheaper.
The good thing also is, that the Worldcup will be over when the law is discussed again. You can spot pretty easily how laws like this are always pushed in a time where most people are occupied with something else, usually around summer. It's ridiculous how often that happens. Let's hope we don't have a big distraction coming up in September.
Two very basic questions.

Something I don't understand, how can a webpage "block" a request? is there a way from a basic http GET request to tell if it has been issued by a browser or something else?

Lot of webpages are generated dynamically. Consider something like "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17462089"? does the crawler follows URL with parameters? what if parameters identifying the page are passed in the http request?
This seems like a website version of the Library of Babel
Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, 2nd Edition
You can actually download the ads with YouTube-dl... I believe it's YouTube only and still named as 'experimental', but theoretically it could be a default to appease the big G.
The US college education is faced
with a definitional crisis

The problem is not definitional: politics (reflecting the ethnic composition of the votership of the Democratic party) decided that social engineering is a key function of universities, in particular that women and blacks be given preference, regardless of academic merit (although the Trump government will probably try and roll this back). The problem is that this political command cannot be openly stated, for it is in direct contradiction with current law, whence universities keep their admission policies hidden / obscure.

huge number of students who run from [IITs] to
a liberal arts education in the US.

Why is that s a problem?

It's part of one's maturation to work out what one wants to do in life. More important is that IITs consistently produce excellent graduates, eg. Sundar Pichai, Sachin Bansal, or the undergraduates who developed the AKS primality test. (Note I'm not saying that IITs are ideal, indeed they can do much better.) Universities (or at least elite universities) should be judged primarily by the quality of their top graduates (for they have a disproportionate impact), and not by their failures.
Joining an early startup is high risk high reward. 90%+ of the time nothing comes of it. But when it does it pays out big.
Lack of Rust on OS/2 is touted as a reason for not porting more modern Firefox, I wonder if anyone has had a go at porting Rust to OS / 2?
". I think you'd find a lot of very intelligent people who disagree strongly with this statement. "

I never claimed to be intelligent.

" You can describe confidences as "well calibrated" if, when you look at their historical guesses, if their 70% assessments are correct 70% of the time."

- Again, if you're trying to figure out if a coin is split 50/50 then yes, but without being able to repeat the same experiment you're fooling yourself and the whole aspect of bayesian thinking I think goes out the window. eg me being right about unrelated topics doesn't mean I'm right/wrong about specific topics.
Love the lead picture -- because, you know, you're obviously not in tech if you're not wearing a t-shirt, hoodie and jeans ensemble in an environment where they would otherwise be out of place.
> Not one single book in a primary school library is fact based.

What a strange idea. Didn't your primary school have an encyclopaedia? Didn't you study any science or history then?

Or do we have a different idea of the age of children at primary school? Where I come from (southern England, born 1955) I was dissecting buttercups and sketching them at the age of nine or ten, demonstrating that pondweed generated some sort of gas by putting an upturned test tube above it, etc.

We studied history with reference to Roman roads and neolithic hill forts.

And of course we played loads of competitive sports.

Lots and lots of facts.
Have you checked https://hologram.io/iot-sim-card/ ?
Brexit was pushed through while loads of people from the UK that could have voted were in France at matches for the Euros.

why the downvotes?
Than the general population possibly, but not than the applicant pool, which is the comparison that matters.

It seems more likely that in the applicant pool the non-legacy kids would be smarter. Imagine how confident of your ability you'd have to be to apply to Harvard as a random kid from a public high school in Iowa. Whereas if you'd grown up expecting to go there because your parents did, the threshold for applying would be pretty low.
The trustworthiness of the domain name would effectively be stolen.
They aren't using OS/2 to browse the WWW. They are using Mozilla Firefox to browse the WWW.

In the end there will still be calls into the Presentation Manager to render pages on screen. Also, TCP/IP are handled through system libraries (tcp32.dll, so32dll.dll). So, there is a large surface area where Firefox will use system libraries.

Besides that, the web browser can have vulnerabilities and runs untrusted code. It's pretty insane to use a browser in 2018 that doesn't execute Javascript in sandboxed processes.
I don't think resisting armed attackers is technically an act of free will, as it seems quite costly.
Ask HN: Is scraping webpages for research purposes considered legal