skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Byzantines were as aligned with the "Orient" as Alexander was. They held onto territory in Italy until a full 600 years after the West fell (once Belisarius recaptured it in the 600s). They had active diplomacy with the Holy Roman Empire and other states in the West up until the 4th Crusade, basically.

You've completely glossed over the Renaissance of the empire around 1000 AD (550 years after the West fell) under John Tzimiskes, Basil II, etc. You can blame this on the decline of Abbasid power if you want, but even if the caliphate _technically_ held territory in Syria/Lebanon, there was no question as to military superiority. The Byzantines raided with impunity and got tribute from the local emirs.

Constantinople lost 90% of its population after the plague of Justinian, and a recurring series of outbreaks over the next centuries, plus a loss of manpower after the desperate end of the Sassanian wars under Heraclius (which Heraclius technically won, but both empires were so diminished that they were easy prey for the new caliphate). It rebounded. Never to its maximum, but it was back near 750000 under the Macedonians.

So, the empire was ok until 660, lost territory, rebounded in the 10th century, and was arguably at its best organizationally and culturally until the real decline started during Manzikert.

It lasted 1000 years. Please read something other than Gibbon, or at least listen to The History of Byzantium (which follows on where The History of Rome left off). History is not a static field, and the Byzantines are rapidly becoming rehabilitated as more documents come up.
Interesting how many people have switched from vi/vim to vscode. Does anyone have stories of making a similar switch from emacs?

I currently use intellij for java work (because my employer pays for the license) but for most any other type of editing I use emacs. I'd be interested to see what other emacs users think of vscode.
Do not hide the relevant info. Nearly every character in the URL is relevant info.

Instead, make the key part stand out, so even a cursory glance catches it instantly. It still allows more careful examination without clicking anywhere, or second-guessing.

Also, detect anomalies like www.google.com.hacked.domain.wtf, and show them in a really contrast way. Both Chrome and FF do this already.

I think Firefox shows normal URLs about right; they could add even more contrast.
They really should not do that. Saving implies that you can save the entire state of the image in a file, including layers, etc. Exporting implies saving a file as a different format that may not be 100% faithful to what you see in the app.

Disallowing saving follows the principle of least surprise, because when an application reports a successful save, users would expect the application state they see to actually be saved.
> their job is to implement the standards of the web.

Is there a standard saying how the URL should be displayed in the toolbar?
April 1, 2014.
We must avoid friction between two types of user, 99.9%er and 0.1%er. We could have separate browsers aimed at each.

One browser should be dead simple, secure, and streamlined, aimed at the 99.9%s. Maybe it could be named after a metal.

Another browser, for the 0.1%s, should include technical arcana on screen and have more mutability, perhaps even at the cost of some performance and security. This one could be named after some kind of canid.
My understanding is that NK works out of a Chinese city Shenyang. [1] Their lack of internet infrastructure does not really matter in that case. As well, if they are working out of China you have to assume they are exchanging information with China. China has some pretty top tier security experts. I do not think it is unreasonable at all for someone in NK to be trained up in how to write ransomware or a wiper.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-hackers-working...
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Wow! The brilliant minds here fooled by a ridiculous April Fool's story.
How can you eliminate "www" altogether? It's just a subdomain like any other now
The difference being in this situation, shooting yourself in the foot can cause loads of confidential user information to be stolen by someone exploiting this (when storing DB credentials in SCM)
When you copy and paste, it has the whole URL - just like when you copy and paste now it will include http(s)://
Considering a subdomain "trivial" is ridiculous... there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com". Not only can they serve different sites, they can even have different DNS records!

It seems that "m." is also considered a trivial subdomain. So when a user clicks a link to a "m.facebook.com" uri, they'll be confused why FB looks different when the browser reports it's on "facebook.com".

I sincerely hope Firefox doesn't follow suit.
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I don't think your conclusion is correct, but the assertion that they want to get rid of the URL was posted on Hacker News a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17911009
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I had a very similar story for the launch of the Xbox 360. Mountain Dew was auctioning one every 10 minutes with points. The obvious thing for me, though, was that you could get a code when signing up with your email. I had my own domain name at the time so I made a few hundred addresses and signed them all up. I actually won two Xboxes but never got the second one. Either they saw it was the same IP or caught on to what I was doing.

As a broke kid who has never won anything in his life, getting that Xbox (right at launch no less) was AMAZING. I was literally dancing with excitement which I don't think has ever happened since.

I sold it after a few months (was more of a PC gamer) and the hundreds that I got for it was also awesome.
Google and parent both think they know better than you what is the "important" part of the URL.
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That doesn’t look like the official site.

I went to the url that was posted as part of the HN submission and it directed me here.

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

I can’t find a page that resembles your image.

Edit: Yeah I was running an adblocker...

It is a random Adsense ad. The author isn't purposefully advertising malware. He was depending on Google.

Lesson learned -- either make money the simple way. Charge people for it or make it free/freemium.
It's inflammation which then makes everything worse. Cooling the joints often helps. Avoiding sugar is very important. It gives me a lot of pain.

Pain relievers don't seem to help much and I also don't want to live on a daily diet of them.
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As the author mentions in the readme, one use case is to obfuscate your online advertising profile by flooding it with random data.
To give some examples of this:

* Chrome encourages you to sign in to the browser with a Google account.

* Firefox's new tab page shows stories and articles from Pocket.

* The news feed shown by default in Edge provides stories from MSN.
This is from yakult us, boy this is underwhelming: Because everyone's biological make-up is unique, each one of us may experience our own unique health benefits Generally speaking, Yakult may help balance your digestive system.
Yeah, even radio ads.
Citation needed.

Did you ask anyone? Did you do any research?
> How did we let the internet become this awful?

The innocence of anything is always lost when the MBAs show up.
I think the failure is in presuming that the number of double bonds in the carbon chains of the fatty acids is the dominant factor, when clearly overall chain length and the position and orientation of the double-bonds are also significant factors.

Researcher says: "saturated fat is bad for you."

I ask: "Is laurin (tri-lauric acid homoglyceride) worse or better than stearin? When lipases release the fatty acids, is free lauric acid worse or better than free stearic acid? Do acetic acid and formic acid count as saturated fats in your analysis? Is there a significant metabolic difference between eating fats as mono-, di-, or triglycerides, or as non-esterified fatty acids? Does the comparison with unsaturated fats change if the fats in question are exposed to heat and oxygen prior to consumption?"

Chemically, those fats are all different. Metabolically, many of them are transformed via catalytic proteins into different chemicals, with certain steps being rate-limited, or resource-competitive with other steps.

But it appears as though no one really knows all that much about fat, other than you need to eat a certain quantity of fatty acids with one double bond three carbons from the terminal end (omega-3) because the human body cannot produce those by itself, and they are required for certain hormones and structures.

As far as I know, coconut oil, when compared to most other common vegetable oils, has a higher fraction of saturated fatty acids in it, but those fatty acids are also significantly shorter than the fatty acids typically found in animal fats and other vegetable oils. They are different fats, and a human body digests them differently. Do they follow different metabolic chains to achieve the same result, or do they produce different results? I don't know. No research I have seen has delved that deeply into those properties of dietary fats.
It's actually very useful for isolating access to the root of the domain. Say for instance you use a third-party SaaS/CMS to host your website and have other services on other subdomains. If it's hosted on the root of the domain it had more power than if it's on a subdomain.
It also allows taking away a feature that requires complexity: POSIX errno, which is a thread-local variable.
I get #9D9D9D on Firefox 61 on Ubuntu (1080p). It is perfectly clear to me.

If you have trouble distinguishing between the grey and black, perhaps file a bug report requesting to slightly lower the saturation of the grey? Or perhaps your browser's theme is using that darker grey?
This excuse is used far too often to justify why things have to suck.
The snake story deserves to be up there with Hopper's moth in the annals of CS history
Yep, point for point, you should probably be following this as a dude as well. The one I think is somewhat unique to these types of lists is the enthusiasm one. It's easy to push off hostile people, but it can throw you when someone seems a little too interested in you. Stay on the defensive, odds are they want you to start doing something that's technically their responsibility.
North Koreans aren't known for their international travel.
> 2 if statements

> 4 assignments

> not procedural

oh boy
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H. pylori isn't a yeast? Or did you mean that the probiotics would include yeasts (possible, certainly, like S. boulardii, but it dies off by itself pretty quickly). Though of course the process you describe is similar to what anyone taking a course of antibiotics to treat an illness could do, I was hospitalized after being hit by truck and given lots of kefir along with my antibiotics.
What are you talking about? Region and location has nothing to do with this study.

They took the serum of the pregnant mother, measured that for the pesticide, and found it was a statistically significant predictor of autism.
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Why not drop .com then as well? Most sites are on .com domains after all.

It is exactly the same issue.

A domain is a domain. Google is arbitrarily dictating your CNAME from the user's perspective.

What if you don't serve your site off of mysite.com is google going to automatically try again at www.mysite.com?

What if you have distinct content at both domains?

This decision is stupid.
Yep, and the BAR is World War I vintage too. And the M1919 machine gun was derived from the WWI-era M1917.
What unique advantages do startups have in Detroit?
As someone who has never really touched SQL except very briefly during a degree module, which basically taught me nothing, I enjoyed this. I think it taught me some good stuff. I will need to go back through it as I didn't pick it all up.

That said, as a novice, the challenge questions are not in anyway suitable for a beginner. I wouldn't, and didn't, have any idea how to do them; or know where to look to find a starting point. The previous chapters do not prepare you for the challenges and I came away thinking I was useless until I click the solutions and realised there was no way I would realistically ever been able to solve them without some form of further training in SQL.
Assume 100MM/yr - if they have ~20K paying customers with an avg of $500/month per customer, that number is easily achievable.

They will have a long-tail of free, and small clients - then a few whales and it seems completely doable...

Pagerduty is a great service.
I also wouldn't put it past the average consumer to prefer 'installing' a website/webapp into their browser as they do an app..
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Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon have all broken into TV/film production after being a distributor first, which is interesting since Amazon in particular has the capital and strategy to buy their way into a market (see: Twitch, Whole Foods) but opted to start from scratch here.

That jump seems harder to make with music, since artists don't typically sign exclusive distribution deals the way TV producers do (popular songs get played on every radio station, TV shows stick to one network at a time) so being a distributor doesn't give as much of a competitive advantage. Additionally, the article indicates that the big music labels prohibit Spotify, and probably other distributors, from getting too competitive with them.

On the other hand, Microsoft really wants people to pay more attention to the Xbox's multimedia capabilities and is probably less fettered by such agreements. I could see them pushing exclusive content as a strategic move, perhaps spinning off some IP from their games division.
> a different kind of cluster, that could optimize for better throughput, and more efficient storage

It doesn't even require all that much imagination, considering how anemic the storage IO choices are under AWS. Until recently, EBS was connect by 10Gb/s ethernet. Now, I believe the best is 40Gb/s ethernet, but even that's not ubiquitous and is only equivalent to single 4-lane SAS3 connection. Local (to the node) storage options are extremely limited.

The typical cloud provider model seems geared toward scaling "out", even before scaling "up" (while price:performance effective), which, of course, is a great way to maximize revenue. For a user/customer, it's terrible for cost and for performance, but this doesn't seem to bother VC-funded startups, for example.

Whether Oracle has the knowledge already or is able to hire that knowledge to create such a different offering is an open question, as is if there are enough customers who care enough to pay for it.
Looks like other people agree.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
You can clearly see on the second screenshot the same text and the boxes with the languages etc as on your link. Are you maybe using an adblocker, because I see exactly what the screenshot shows when I click your link and turn my adblock off.
This makes me think that developers should start moving away from Chrome. Firefox, for instance, still supplies the full URL.
And I think this is a big reason why California is home to so much innovation. It's a great example of how a strong focus on individual worker rights over corporate power provides broad social benefit.
I really wanted this to be true.
At least in the late 70's - early 80's, if you could find an employer to "sponsor" you (basically agree to give you a job for a certain amount of time), then you could immigrate with a green card immediately. There was no specific "scheme" for particular occupations: many of the people who did this were low-wage workers doing housekeeping, janitorial work, construction, etc.

I'd assume something similar was already in place during the 60's.
As a libertarian, you want a centralized authority to manage things for you instead of distributed responsibility? What does libertarian mean to you?
It started being meaningless thanks to Let's Encrypt. Before it meant you had to show your ID and banking info to a "reputable" corporation for them to make a cert for you. Yes I know I know, not always the case, but...

LE means that the mantra "if it's https then it's a secure and reputable website" is now outdated.
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The service may seem niche, but the NEED for the service is universal.

I love pagerduty. (the company, being point, on-call... a bit less)
I don't see it as adversarial when X is Y's answer to Z, but just showing that different cultures solve problems in different ways. The best thing to do is look at the alternatives and see if they work for you.

I love cooking and have borrowed lots of ideas from Asian and Latino cultures in what I make. I'd hate think someone would accuse me, a white American in the suburbs, of cultural appropriation or being adversarial... I'm just borrowing ideas I like. There is nothing new under the sun... all creative people just take existing things and modify them or combine them in new ways.
This causes browser security problems, it creates load balancing issues, it makes failover harder, etc. Only works for small sites that don't need to be highly available.
It's not just www: now m.foo.com and www.foo.com look identical, for example.
I'm seeing one large fake download ad on that url as well, and his images on getpaint.net
HN loves to hate Microsoft, but they haven't anything to do with Imprise and CodeGear, nor with the internal management issues.

Yes, Anders and a few others eventually moved into Microsoft, but that was a side effect of how bad things were at Borland. Anders refused the offer multiple times from previous team mates that went to Microsoft before he did, until he though that was time to finally leave Borland.

Check this interview.

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...
As I recall, there are some reasonable dns-related reasons that one might prefer www (or any subdomain) to the bare name.
the "www." still gets copied when you copy the full address bar just like the "http(s)://" before 69.
> Before it meant you had to show your ID and banking info to a "reputable" corporation for them to make a cert for you.

No it didn't. Let's Encrypt made free certificates easier to get, but Let's Encrypt doesn't do less verification than some other CAs/some of their products.
Yet what I found even more troubling was that in order to write effective tests, a programmer had to know all of the ways that a piece of software could fail in order to write tests for those cases.

So the programmer needs to think about all the ways the code can fail. Writing the tests concretely documents that thinking in the source code repository and automates re-checking that thinking. A really good programmer then tries to organize the code, such that it's easy to think about how any given unit of code can fail. Writing unit tests rewards such organization and penalizes bad organization.

That said, TDD doesn't seem to work out that way in practice, most of the time.
H.pylori is a bacteria. When you add bacteria in large amounts to compensate, they will cause candida overgrowth which is a fungus. The fungus has to be killed off.
What if you visually copy and paste? Parent is right.
That 100+ pages Concorde thread on PPRuNe, with lots of technical details, anecdotes, and actual Concorde captains and engineers chipping in, is absolutely epic!
What else will you fall over for the right of people to post? Does this include the freedom to post without recieving a targeted harassment campaign, doxing, etc, or are you only concerned with government action?
On a Mac it requires two clicks.

First click gives you a suggested list of URLs and related searches.

Second click gives you the full domain name.
Hardware is hard. For Gorq to be successful -

- The boards using their chips need to fit into commodity interfaces (PCIE? DIMM? ) in Open Compute hardware

- Someone needs to buy hundreds of thousands of these to even minutely impact their bottom line

- Multiple such big volume wins need to consistently happen.

- Their IP needs to actually be defensible. Otherwise, an Intel/Samsung whose manufacturing prowess & channel reach is multiple times that of Gorq will undercut the pricing with almost the same performance/watt. Oh, and they'll happily play nice with Open Compute, other standards bodies.

- Most of all, their product needs to work as advertised, at scale, in a reliable fashion. This is easier said than done in semiconductors, especially for the kind of performance gains they're marketing.

If they'd gotten here with ~$30M capital, and demonstrated traction in the marketplace, I'd give them a chance, but expecting Google's pay while working at an independent chip startup, with $0 in revenues portends financial doom. It's not the founder's fault though - hardware is capital intensive, not compatible with agile development & an MVP just won't cut it - it needs to be fully functional & reliable right out of the bat. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, as I'd like to see the silicon put back in silicon valley - having been in the semiconductor industry for 20 years, it just seems unlikely.
Presumably chromium doesn't do this. I can see www.
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Many thanks for the reply. Yes i meant inter-procedural.

For a POC project, which (open source) library/framework would be a good starting point today?

We are focused on some deep analysis of some very specific pointer/array analysis. We can target either C/C++/Java. We have varying experience with compilers/JITs/builders.

(I have worked with WALA/Java 5yrs ago..)
Before youtube, he made a lot of videos for Khan Academy.
The reverse has always been true as well. My generation's slogan was that you couldn't trust anyone over 30. Millennial standard bearer Mark Zuckerberg once famously stated that only people under 30 were smart.

What we need is less trashing of generations period.
It trades false simplicity (errno) for explicit yet bounded implementation complexity, yielding a much simpler model for the programmer to actually use.

There may be a fatal flaw but at first glance I like it.
Others have tried this, and the lottery was cancelled and they got their money back. The reason was they fundamentally changed the nature of the game.
It's not the same issue at all, in that domains with different suffixes are controlled by different people while foo.com and www.foo.com are controlled by the same people.

If you have an example of somebody who needs to serve different web content for foo.com and www.foo.com, I look forward to seeing it. But I've never seen one, and when I've seen it happen accidentally it's due to idiocy.
Google knows best, DNS standards be damned. Practice makes standard. /s
>How can this be legal in the first place?

It's almost certainly not (statutes that make it illegal to tap into your neigbor's electricity downstream of the meter could easily be warped for this use case). However, a combination of factors could make that a non-issue in the short term for the Prius driver.

1) The people who enforce the law usually don't enforce it to it's fullest against middle aged white men driving Priuses.

2) Most people in a position to screw the driver over for the laws he's violating aren't well versed in that niche of the law. The probably just look the Prius and go "WTF did I just see".

3) This guy might have some connections that help out in keeping enforcement from looking his way.

4) Something else I'm not thinking of.
Still, a wonderful plane for pax. Spacious, smooth & quiet.
> One of the most incredible feelings is when you make that new connection of understanding on an idea

To paraphrase the ongoing meme on twitter, it's better than sex