skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've taken this thread not only off topic, but into national and religious flamewar. That's exactly what we don't want here, and we ban accounts that do it, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
I see a few issues here.

1. $10 for GET request and ten license-domain pairs. For one project. $50 for ten projects and 100 licenses per project. Too pricey for small amount.

2. Nothing stops user from simply removing qeys.js from a page.

3. Functions in your js file are called "v" for validation, "iv" for invalid license error and "vv" for setting validation cookie. They can conflict with other similarly name functions from other parts of your customers's JS.

4. You set validation cookies on the client side. You literally have a code to bypass your system in your system.

5. User interface may be much better. There's too much hassle in setting up multiple keys. I need to switch between pages to do it.

Conclusion: your software isn't good, your prices are high. Something like that can be accomplished in one day with a couple PHP scripts tied to MySQL database with lifetime control over it. Everybody who needs it most likely are able to implement it themselves. You need to put more effort in it and polish it more to make it really attractive for others. It's a nice job for "Intro to Webdev" course project, but not for actual product someone will pay for. I don't want to offend you, but that's what I actually think as a guy with some teaching experience.

Shameless plug: I can develop similar (or better) webapps and now looking for projects. You can hire me. You may find me in Telegram with the same username I use on HN.
The emulation route was 68k to PPC (classic apps running on OS X), for x86 they went with fat binaries, unless I'm misunderstanding you?
lol "You're thinking of"

I dont know what they were thinking.. but in any wiki I have used anyone can make corrections and there is a shared responsibility to keep it up to date..

it seems to me that the statement is therefor valid - the basics of what is or is not a good answer is set by the asker not the community, which is how ticketing / Q&A systems work NOT wikis IMHO.
According to the CPI inflation calculator, The Classic home from 1916 for $918 would cost $22,282 today. That's actually quite a bit less expensive than the same size houses being offered by Menard's today, by about a factor of 2. I don't have any good insight as to why the cost would actually be higher today after 100 years of productivity gains. Productivity has increased by about a factor of 5, so all other things being equal the same house should cost only $4400 today. What gives?
I was wondering why they'd do this in their embassy, instead of just performing a hit. At first I thought it was kind of plausible that they just wanted to kidnap him, but that things escalated in an unscripted way.

But ... a friend raised an interesting point -- part of the stink around the Russian assassinations in the UK was that they were done on UK territory, and endangered uninvolved UK citizens. The Saudi embassy is Saudi territory. Seems like splitting hairs, but maybe this factored into their decision to do Kashoggi in the embassy.

EDIT> It's just so weird. If you're going to murder someone, you don't invite them over for dinner and do it in your living room, or am I stupid?
Religious discrimination isn’t ok and being annoyed by it isn’t blowing things out of proportion.
Consolas because I love Microsoft
That unfortunately does nothing but help MS' goal...they make simplified tools for both business, personal, and development use.
Sorry, I'm going to have to close that post as off topic.
Delve under the hood of applications using WebSockets
Stephen King letting kids make film adaption of his story for $1
Lessig's views are political opinions and nothing more. His use of the term "corruption" is conjecture, plain and simple.
the big story in Illinois is that even with proper management the Chicago pension system will be broke in about two years. however we cannot just vilify Illinois as many public employee pension systems have been built upon promises that are not sustainable and will leave millions with no real retirement as each fund implodes
I do think that my project is responsible and not Apache, since I provided sample code that was not secure by default when used in a default Apache configuration as is.

However I wish Apache would have changed their default config in a way that would have signalled an error if an .htaccess file is present but not applied.

Something that HA user fulafel also pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18272407
Aah, I see that libero-fascism has now trickled all the way down. You will soon learn to appreciate classic values like:

- Respect those who earned it

- Criticise broken things ruthlessly

- Getting things done is more important than coddling everyone

You will see. Political correctness is deeply authoritarian and anti goal-oriented work. Hard and reliable workers will turn their backs on you.
When I buy groceries I put the use-by date into a little program I wrote, then I get an email reminder to stock up before they expire. And if I bought some in the meantime then it just overwrites the existing entry.

I use that mostly for tinned food and spices that potentially can last years. And I use Alexa for the grocery list.
Well, you're not wrong. You're just pointing some inconvenient truths.

1. Most people are incapable of saving for their own retirement, because they either lack the discipline or the skill set to do so.

2. Because of (1), people want the government to take care of it. But government does a mediocre job of most things.

3. Elected politicians have an incentive to get in bed with unions of government employees and screw taxpayers by cleverly mis-evaluating the present cost of future retirement payout streams.

4. Bad actors in the world pray on everyone involved: the employees, the pension funds, the government, individuals, etc, to get management fees from the corpus of retirement programs.
“if our servers are down, you will be too”: I can definitely see how you interpreted that. Luckily that's not the case, though. If our servers are down, all license validation passes. The "very bad scenario" with slow service is in the case of a invalid copy which may need a couple of seconds before it is detected as invalid. I am definitely going to change the copy, seems a lot of work to be done there.
Direct link without lead harvesting nonsense: http://info.digitalshadows.com/rs/457-XEY-671/images/Digital...

This is super lazy, the paper seems like it was produced by a PR drone whose knowledge on the subject was limited to a list of keywords to google.
If you had an offer from Slack, would you seriously turn it down because they have Saudi money via Softbank if it was otherwise your top choice?
Lessig isn't addressing any of those. He's simply lambasting a group of economists with whom he stridently disagrees.
Her condescending attitude towards engineers and scientists, especially the bit at the end saying she can't wait to "give them the middle finger" is appalling. If she has zero charisma and zero smarts, how did she convince so many people? That's what's worrying about VC culture.
Can I imagine it? Sure. Can i accept it? Hell no.

I can imagine someone adopting in good faith a code of conduct that says “no colored people.” That doesn’t mean I’ll be happy about it.
This seems to be a verbose restatement of the Golden Rule - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule - that one is taught as a child.
But with fractional reserve banking, money isn’t just “sitting there” — most of it is being lent out to someone else by the bank.
The thing the galls me the most about that article is it doesn't once stop to try to say or find out how much the guy is working to bring in that much, spoiler it's going to be a lot of hours given it's overtime and his base compensation is only 50k.

Pensions are a fine tool but they have to be funded responsibly, states liked to use them as an incentive but then refused to properly fund them banking instead on large returns. Companies did the same thing for a long time but they've been allowed to cut benefits to retirees when they run dry and have since moved on to 401ks if they offer any thing at all.
Why is California housing unaffordable?
I can see urls eventually being thousands of characters long with referral links daisy chained.
That was my thought as well.

I think one of the reasons nobody reported this earlier was that people simply assumed that .htaccess support was the default - Larry Cashdollar, the security researcher, also confirmed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271880
Which is the best day to forward a resume?
A rich title coming from an American. How many Iraqis died as a result of the US invasion? I'm not asking this to take away from the actions of the Saudi kingdom, but I hardly think that anyone in the US is just in claiming a higher position with regard to federal investment into research and startups.

Should we question the origins of federally funded research into the internet on account of it coming from the DoD?
Courier Prime because it doesn't look like a "programming font"
Sorry to hear about your machine, I hope it gets better soon!

The X1s are well built, though. I have the first-gen one and it still works just fine, dual booting Fedora (24? I think) and Win7. The one thing that ever broke was the square power plug. Not because it's square, but it did break- and then it took me a week of phone calls very patiently speaking to Lenovo reps until I convinced them that my accidental damage protection was still active and it covered the damage. Then they sent a tech guy to my workplace, just so I could let him know I had already mailed the machine to Lenovo, as we had agreed by email. Very well organised.

I now have the 4th gen machine. I initially thought it looked flimsier than my 1st gen one, but then one day I dropped it from about 1.5 meters, on its side and nothing broke. It was inside my bag, and a laptop sleeve, but I'm pretty sure that most other laptops this end of a Toughbook would have ended up with at the very least a broken screen. Not my Splinter :0

Edit: now that I think of it, I've also stepped on it, dropped it from a coffee table and generally handled it roughly. It doesn't care.
Stallman’s guidelines fully support correcting biases. Making diversity a goal is identity politics, which is a very different thing than correcting biases.
I would highly recommend Sublime with ModernPerl syntax highlighting. You can also set up perlcritic and perltidy pretty easily.

It's not intellij, but it covers most bases.
The overarching spirit of the rule is worship of a particular deity. “First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength.”
Vim for Python Development
Wow, no offence taken. Thanks for having a look.
Which is terrible. Some people think because a github repo has a certain amount of stars they don't have to actually think or look at the actual code in that repo. I've seen devs frowning at github repositories because they "only had x stars" or recommending to "pick the library one with most github stars" as if that would be the best fit for your need.
Saudia Arabia is in no way strong-arming Canada - as for Qatar, that's a non violent dispute between two rich nations.

Nothing to do with anything.
68k to PPC had emulation, but also PPC to Intel with Apple's "Rosetta"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
Yes, and it's not.
Whether there is more corruption in Africa or the United States probably depends on qualifying statements like "Where in Africa?", "Where in the United States?", and importantly "What constitutes corruption?"

The United States and Africa are both enormous land masses. While the United States is nominally a single country, it has enormous differences in culture from region to region, and even between different populations in the same region. Africa has lots of different countries, climates, cultures, etc. "There is more corruption in Africa than the United States" is too general a statement to be meaningful.

You can make meaningful, specific statements about the corruption in each place. I've never been to Africa, but two glaring and public examples of what I would call corruption in the United States from recent years are:

- the current President openly patronizes his own businesses using public funds, in what appears to be a clear violation of emoluments laws. The parts of the government responsible for ensuring the executive branch follows these laws have failed to engage in oversight or curtail this practice in any meaningful way.

- law enforcement officials routinely take property from individuals (under the widely adopted practice of civil asset forfeiture) without charging the individuals with any crime, in what appears to be a clear violation of the fourth amendment of the constitution.

There is corruption in America. It is really blatant and clear. The extent to which you experience it may vary, but at a minimum, reasonable people have to agree that it exists, and it exists right on the surface for everyone to see.
I'm very glad that there seems to be change in the community, and also that Linus is doing some self-reflection. He is a role model for many in his position, and some people in discussions started to take his behavior as an excuse to have bad manners themselves and that it is ok to be rude to others.
It's similar, but the purpose is different. With Lloyd Relaxation you move the Voronoi seed points (input), and then regenerate Voronoi. What I'm doing here is moving the Voronoi vertices (output) from the circumcenters to the centroids. There's no iteration here because the input points don't move. Instead, I am constructing a non-Voronoi tesselation. It has the same structure as the Voronoi cells but the cells do not have the Voronoi property. For my map generator I don't need the Voronoi property; I needed other properties, which the centroid approach seems to give me.
Diversity as a goal is fundamentally flawed. It is what leads to policies like "affirmative action" which are in themselves simply a form of reverse discrimination.
> If you're going to interject yourself, as a company, into the political arena, you have to be all in otherwise you will get called out like this eventually.

A company selectively interjecting itself into the political arena highlights its hypocrisy, but any company having a significant public impact should be getting called out regardless of their actions in other spheres. Ethics are not an opt-in.
FB has already publicly announced some of these changes:

https://www.inc.com/peter-roesler/facebook-to-allow-for-firs...

https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-what-are-facebooks-first-p...

Basically, FB is expanding its tracking, allowing 1st party vs. their third party cookie tracking. I suspect the click-id query string is part of that rollout. This helps it get around things like Apple's new ITP (Intelligent Tracking Prevention). 2.0 in Safari.
In 1997 my Comp Sci undergrad dissertation was on the '3D desktop'. The C++ code I wrote for my demo did software 2D on svgalib on the Linux console (there was some way to get a high res mode, I don't remember what exactly).

I didn't have video or semi-transparency, but I'd gone for a similar idea of clearing windows out of the way - sitting at angles on the sides of the screen.

I realised too late that what I really wanted wasn't 3D, but documents as first class citizens, with modular tools working on documents rather than monolithic applications.

If you clicked on a file icon it would graphically 'open' the file and bring it to the foreground for viewing, then you'd bring tools to it - for example, you'd have application-agnostic text tools for text editing.

I started adding things like 'filters' - where you'd drop a file on a filter icon and it would be animated going through the filter and dropping onto the 'desktop' underneath - e.g. you would be able to apply troff+pic and get a diagram.

It was all naive and probably based on ideas that others were having and I'd seen around (e.g. articles about OS/2), but it was enjoyable discovering more and more ideas as I dug further. My real inspiration was, I believe, TkDesk, which wowed me when I saw I could edit the functionality of my desktop /on the fly/.

What we have in modern desktop environments is great, so I'm a bit sad that the idea of a powerful desktop environment seems to never have taken off as far as some of us hoped was possible. Maybe it just doesn't work!

Anyway, back to the command line...
If governments were serious about preventing corruption, they would have outlawed all those fake police badges and vanity license plates.

The only purpose they can serve is to corrupt.
VCs have an investment fund that is divided amongst X startups. A small percentage will break even, and a very tiny percentage will return more than the entire fund (this is where profits come from). The vast majority of companies will lose money, and in this scenario it's better to move quickly to get into the startups that will succeed rather than do the proper due diligence for every investment.

Basically, speed and quantity is better than deep investigation. It's just how the numbers work out, but it's also why you'll see some crazy startups get funded even if others have more solid financials.

In addition, people are much better at disqualifying then qualifying. It's easier to say "no" then to say "yes" to something, so it could be argued that you should say no very quickly to these kind of startups. But history shows that wilder ideas are more likely to lead to the outsized returns so VCs will say yes to the things that other investment classes would always say no to. Then again, it's called "venture capital" for a reason.
While we are finally beginning to call out Saudi money, shouldn't we start doing the same with the China money?
As far as oppressive regimes go China isn't any better - just ask the Tibetans, the uighurs, controlled media etc.
If a better answer comes along in a question with 20 answers already it probably won't get up to the top anytime soon.

If a better answer comes along in a question that is then marked as a repeat of a question that has a worse answer, forget it.

At any rate if a better answer comes along it should rise to the top in the matter of <24hrs.
Thiel cuts largest check to GOP since Trump’s 2016 win
In the projection, some triangles are rather spread out, and some are even going to cross from -Infinity to +Infinity. I didn't want to handle that wrap-around-infinity case and thought it'd be easier to calculate them on the sphere instead of on the projection.
I remember this being used early on in WoW; in order to keep people from playing too long XP earned decreased over time.

After complains it was changed to a boost for time spent logged out which was much more popular.
Super Micro Computer Denies Malicious Chip Report
Import your Google Takeout (etc) data into your solid pod
"Treat other people with respect" has been (in various forms and phrasings) a foundational principle of major moral frameworks around the world for thousands of years.

But espousing a principle, and abiding by that principle, are two very different things. Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that getting the people who do the former to also do the latter is quite difficult, yes.
Please refer to the vulnerability documentation here to see if you are affected: https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/blob/master/VU...
>General mismanagement (I can assure you the best and brightest investors and fiduciaries don't work at public pensions)

You don't really need "the best of the best" to run a public pension; you're not trying to outsmart the markets with some super-clever arbitrage. You just need to invest in the right balance of index funds.

If you need the very best people not to raid the pension because it had one good year when the markets were up, we're all screwed.
This is an interesting point. For sites like Reddit, inflation is just a (minor) drawback because it means total vote count is a measure of (quality * recency) instead of quality.

But for SO, where voting is never locked and content 'ages' at different rates, it's not so clear there's a downside. The "closed as duplicate" issue still stands, but rising user count is probably helping the problem.
That's appalling. I wish I could offer more than mere sympathy but I'm truly horrified by this.
Croc – secure and easy data transfer
I remember that and feel it still shows several elements we're missing today:

1. Very large form factor concave displays. (We're getting closer, but the HD era really slowed display innovation.)

2. Good gesture input.

3. Seamless integration of drafting/drawing surface and display.

4. Personal application omnipresence across all input devices (personally, I think this is the most significant element often seen in science fiction that is missing from modern computing.)
> a shitload of charged air

No, the air isn't holding a charge in Meredith's setup. The setup is essentially a speaker and a microphone, but optimized (somewhat) for energy transmission.
Websockets – History, concepts and open source solutions
Ex-Sun-CEO:“Steve Jobs threatened to sue me” over Project Looking Glass
Some already are.

A lot of malicious links are just base64'ed to another redirect service; to another base64'ed address (continue as long as your head can keep up.)
Nope. Those same states have high state taxes, which the tax package made non-deductible.
Fantastic, thank you for for the explanation.
Nice to see this series continued! I wish there were more, potentially non-discontinued series or books on how to build actual projects with Rust from scratch.
The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API
>They may miss a deadline, maybe two

Too late for that, more like missing 5 deadlines at this point. 10nm at Intel is a disaster, I am not surprised they would scrap the whole thing.
Adtech has some awareness of bounce rate -- page linger time is a factor in ad impression metrics. That's why so many sites have arbitrary videos at the bottom of articles, to inclease linger time on the page.
If you want to see something even more scary... go look at the amount of money given by these countries to U.S. politicians. Now legally you can't receive foreign money for a US campaign. The money comes in as gifts to non-profits and foundations owned by/supporting/supported by US politicians. Saudi money is one of the biggest.

And if you typically align with the Democrat side, don't think it is just Republicans taking it. You will be shocked. Start with Hillary Clinton during her 2016 campaign. The money went to the Clinton Foundation. The list keeps going and it is on both sides.
The SO strategy from the start was SEO driven, specifically so Google would pick up SO content. It worked like a charm. Sites before them were closed to Google or hid answers, so it was an important strategy and key differentiator.

Maybe today you go directly to SO to search like you go directly to Amazon for product search, but at the time being open and leveraging Google was genius.
Good solid points.

Social media is terrible for high time investment with little return. Reduce that time and replace it with things you actually want to do at a deeper level, and your life will be more enjoyable.
What, specifically, are you trying to configure that you can't?

It really is BSD, although the window manager isn't open source a lot of the rest is.
There are "bad people" throughout the startup investment ecosystem, including but not limited to:

* just plain jerks

* serial harassers, misogynists and the like

* supporters of various evil/hateful politics

* white-collar criminal/fraudster types

* straight-up mob, american, russian, or other

* nation-state actors with very dirty hands like KSA

Making ethical decisions about who you are willing to work for is a routine part of working in startup world... and you're never done, because surprise! You may have an even harder decision to make after that Series B closes with new investors!