skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First time I read about UTM. It looks like those parameters are used to track ad campaigns. They provide metrics over which campaign works best.

The "fbclid" parameters on the other hand seems intended to track individual clicks. That is, Facebook wants to keep tracking individuals when they follow links to off-site pages.
Microsoft Research is working on a technology to recognize silent voice commands
Interesting. Your Abrahamic theology won't help you there. Please don't drag us all down with you. I'm sure you can find a remote bit of forest somewhere where you can live on your own for as long as you can make it. Come on now, walk the talk.
It's a modern disease to confuse integrity with privilege.
What rules in St. Benedict are comparable to "no coloreds" in your mind? Or do you find them unacceptable due to the context, i.e. that they are part of a larger religious text?
You're absolutely correct, I just took the tweet at face value, and did not bother to investigate the tweet, or any followups, at all.

I still haven't, and simply accept your statement that it's a joke, stated in irony.

I do not use twitter, and do not allow javascript. I've never clicked "Show thread" on Twitter. I had to jump through hoops to find the tweet, and to be able to copy+paste the text of it.

I just remembered it from a different thread here on HN where someone linked to an article that had a screenshot of it.
not hotdog! (but most other things)
It's difficult to say that @coralineada started the wave . . ._but_ she certainly was an influencing factor in the most recent malignancy. To @folknor and others of like mind, take heart. People are noticing the trend as well. Just take a look at sqlite's coc (https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html). The point here, I believe, is that people are becoming aware of the absurdity of the constraints that are being placed on certain FOSS communities. What @coralineada 'started' is certainly having unintended consequences as it would relate to her.

To be honest, I'm surprised her tweet hasn't been deleted and that she hasn't been ousted by the community as being a SJW troll.
Let's just call out all the money until we don't do business with anybody. So much for being global citizens.
Competing Against the Giants as an Alternative
> who predicted the collapse of Syria and its civil war before it happened,

No way! He predicted it before it happened?
Don't think Egypt has any media. However, it does have powerful propaganda machines. This law must be part of the propaganda machine, so they can revoke any "media" that doesn't align with Mubarak v2.0 (CC). The people sitting in the Egyptian parliament (does it exist), must have non-positive IQ. It is impossible to enforce law. Register the accounts outside Egypt, or move the hosting oversees, problem solved.
Yes, I agree, but here it’s not up to me to choose the infrastructure.

I wonder what the total cost of this ordeal must be. Surely in the tens of millions.
Leaving aside everything else, using the rule of St. Benedict and pointing out its influence on medieval thought seems like poor choice. Benedictine monasteries were often notoriously corrupt. There were frequent attempts at Benedictine reform, but it was almost always that case that in a few decades, the reformers would become more corrupt than those they were initially criticizing.

And, of course, is medieval government actually something to aspire to? Medieval European governments were extremely unstable, collapsed frequently (often due to assassination), rarely went a decade without civil war/armed rebellion, their legal systems were patchy and inconsistent, and almost all of them had laws which separated punishments for commoners and noble-born. The fact that medieval law was influenced by the Benedictine rule seems like a reason to reject it.
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Your articles are so good I've felt the need to actually build a game around one of them. Because unfortunately I don't need any of the articles for my current game. :(
Interesting to see so many people defending this, either on the basis of “it’s satire” or “it says you don’t have to follow every single rule.”

Would you be saying the same thing if it said “Allah” instead of “God”? What if it said you had to love Osama bin Laden? What if rule 1 was “love white people”?

Religious discrimination is poor fodder for satire and is not something we should just selectively ignore.

Edit: wonder what the downvotes are about. Don’t like seeing Yahweh compared to ObL, maybe? Well, my point exactly.
BinCDN: A flash drive in the cloud: the fastest and easiest file and image service you will ever use.

Happy to release a new product today.

I've always wanted to build a file storage and sharing service. Features include mobile-friendliness, tracking geometrics on clicks, allowing for comments, password protection, ability to mask from your domain, keep notes, view mp4 & mov files in browser, as well as spreadsheet and powerpoints, unmetered bandwidth, and is on one of the fastest CDNs out there, enhanced with Cloudflare. Still somewhat of a work in progress, but 95% complete and now it's just adding some more useful features!
> Risk of fracture due to defects and repetitive loading is dramatically reduced

In this case I believe the design is due to concerns regarding the additive manufacturing process, which is prone to introduce a lot more defects than standard steel sections, and ina way that are hard to spot and to track.
UTM are used for a website's own anayltics while fbclid will link users actions on a website to advertising done on facebook and report on it within fb. UTMs just track where a user came from, fbclid will track who a user is and match it back to fb ads.
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/
Making a digital business card in 5 KB
I do agree with this trend, while there are some comments like "we just want to get the work done and not worry about being nice" I do think they are forgetting about a certain part. I as a developer might not contribute to certain open source projects due to the fear of being called things against my gender identity (I am transgender) or being yelled at. And the thing is that I am not getting paid or anything to do it, so instead I am just not going to contribute because I don't want to try to help and instead be yelled at. I think that the free and open source software community is moving in the right direction by making code of conducts or other similar things.
Observing a bias, quantifying it as best as possible, and deploying countermeasures in corresponding degree to reduce its impact, is not racism.

But if you believe anything which assigns admission/hiring/recruiting scores on any basis other than objectively-measured individual merit is "racist", you cannot plausibly be in favor of current hiring, recruiting or admissions practices, and have far larger fish to fry than the relatively small number of people whose admission/hiring is solely due to affirmative action.

In all seriousness: look up the ratio of "legacy" admits to, say, black students admitted at top colleges, and then remind yourself that "black" is not synonymous with "affirmative action admit", and then ponder which of "legacy" and "affirmative action" would cause the greatest overall change toward fairness if eliminated. Then focus your efforts accordingly.
I'm not trying to argue with you, because you still sound like you're trolling. I'm providing some information about this topic for others so they have a better grounding for reasoning about the issue. Semiconductors are one of the most interesting grounds for discussing the role of private industry and the state in advancing the state of the art in technology. See, for example:

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents/?DocumentID=461...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0005-9

and

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1545155

[Full disclosure, I'm married to one of the authors.]
I mean... how does history not already tell you this? Nearly every person we remember as a historical figure was able to "sell" something to get there. The typical exception to this is the person who did something interesting, but someone else sold it for them after they died.

In the eyes of their lifetimes and most of history, Edison won the Tesla v Edison battle nearly 100%. Edison was a vastly better salesperson.

If you ask the average person who Nikola Tesla was today, they'd probably say something about the car company. Elon Musk sells the name Tesla better than Tesla himself ever did.

If your idea of success is obtaining money or changing hearts and minds, you better learn how to sell (or I guess you could devise a spectacularly dangerous weapon).
Yes but they ban websites (stated in the article) via ISPs. They previously banned HuffPo and New York Times citing fake news.
Well, your code is your companies' IP. It might be prudent to have that IP on-prem(eg Gitlab). Every business has varying requirements, but I've yet to be employed at one using 3rd party hosting for source control without an on-site mirror. Disclaimer: my employment has been at megacorps so far, smaller shops may not do this.
I was going to make a comment like this but yours is much better.
I imagine it's a lot cheaper to build houses when you don't have to worry about pesky things like building code, fire code, gfci outlets, or plumbing.
I would expect most languages to have something like that available, TFA lists 3 different libraries for Javascript alone.

The point here is not to talk about an innovation, but about the eventuality of an up-to-date, API built into browsers such that eventually it will not be necessary for each and every application to ship and keep updating such a formatting subsystem themselves.
> Please don't argue unceasingly for your preferred course of action when a decision for some other course has already been made. That tends to block the activity's progress.

I've seen this so many times in non-oss work too. Why do some people have such a hard time letting go? Even more so for Open Source projects - If you care _that_ much about your ideas - fork and move on; otherwise spend you and your co-contributors time advancing the project in other ways.
Not really seeing the comments here as jumping to the conclusion that this is a totally secretive and nefarious practice. I think most people here are used to links being instrumented with tracking of this sort.
morality wasn't an impediment before..
This sounds like the same debate we have about security. But sir, said the fox. I am innocent! For the hen coop was left unlocked!
How much damage have Linus's snippy emails really caused, in light of how they have benefited us? I and many other people like reading them because they are fun, so you have to take that in to account. Different people like different things, and that principle extends to writing styles and personalities. Indeed, if you really want to have diversity you should have some emails that I like to read in addition to having emails that you like to read, which by necessity implies that every email thread needs at least a few glib comments. I have heard that Matz and by extension the Ruby community is nice, maybe that project needs to recruit a Linus to fill out their personality lineup.
Why stop there? Should we really be taking American money either? Not exactly a spotless record.
You put it very clearly.
> In fact, when Hill was named to oversee ThinkPad design in 1995, the line’s general manager informed him that it was time to mix things up. “He felt like three years was enough, and we needed a new design,” Hill remembers. “I honestly couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘Well, of all the problems we have, this isn’t one of them.’

Too few people get this.
Companies like that do exist. Profit at any cost, under the disguise of "serving the shareholders" - everyone/everything else be damned. Recent examples include the pharma companies hiking the cost to whatever levels they please ...

If everyone started behaving this way, it wouldn't be pretty.
I'd be much more worried about how well rice and "low-sugar" play together.
Yes. Respect is a tricky concept. Even people who know better frequently fail at it, often spectacularly. There's no reason to expect it to be easy.
I can’t help with the math, but there are several employees who are at least partially funded with grants.
I agree that your experience is exactly what sounds like: taking a conventional financial instrument, replacing all mention of the word “interest” with something way more complicated, and adding rules that seem difficult to always stay on the right side of. That happens to be exactly what Tarek El Diwany (mentioned in the second last paragraph of article) is saying.

Shariah banks have to operate in a world that has completely accepted conventional banking. As a result, it is in a constant state of playing catch up in terms of fitting in (e.g. having to implement a software interface in which you reject some central tenets of the interface).

I don’t know the answer one way or another. What I do know is that conventional banking remains imperfect in spite of it being totally dominant: the boom-and-bust economic cycles have grown more catastrophic, and we are still grappling with accurately adding phenomena like health and pollution into our financial models.

I applaud you for trying to understand how conventional and sharia financial products fit together. I don’t find your reaction offensive: it just means we aren’t done trying find a good solution that makes both technical and moral sense.

There’s a really long Wikipedia article here about profit-loss sharing, which central concept of how sharia banking is meant to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_and_loss_sharing

N.B. I apologize for any typos since I typed/tapped this out on my phone.
sweet expression: https://readable.sourceforge.io/
Yes it can, when you realise the fact that I linked to it, and that anyone who cares enough about the subject can investigate and apparently instantly realise that my face-value interpretation of the tweet was entirely mistaken.

Then it should be obvious that it was an accident. If not, I would not have linked a source that instantly disproves what I said.
Only in the far field.
There was a big kernel change from Rhapsody and OS X Server 1 to Mac OS X Public Beta. Rhapsody/OSXS1 and NeXTSTEP had used Mach 2.5 with the BSD 4.3 personality (Rhapsody/OSXS1 was, essentially, just re-skinned NeXTSTEP without any compatibility with the classic OS X API ("blue box", later "carbon")). With OS X Public Beta, the kernel was replaced with a new one based on Mach 3 with a new Unix personality based on porting FreeBSD's upper layers onto the Mach microkernel.

It's not inconceivable that a lot of the previous x86 compatibility was lost or broken at that time. Certainly anecdotes from the Marklar x86 skunkworks team indicated that they spent about 2 years porting and fixing a lot of bugs, which had to be submitted to the normal kernel team via patches that were very carefully written to seem as though they were requesting changes related to niche PPC behaviours (for instance, the PPC was bi-endian, so you could plausibly start submitting changes related to various endian brokenness as if you had tried to use that).

And of course, other layers -- Quartz, Carbon, I/O Kit, and a bunch of others, had never existed in NeXTSTEP and may have needed their own porting work from scratch. NeXTSTEP ran on x86, but a lot had changed since then.
>But what happens if someone refuses to be kind?

Then you work as a group of not-socially-incompetent people to find a compromise solution that hits the local maxima of what can be done with the situation, or make a considered decision to move down from the local maxima in the short term to find a higher maxima in the long term.

Maybe discuss with that person the possibility of continuing their work but having a small group of other people between them and the general public as an interface layer that handles the less important work.

If you think that setting up such a compromise might either be too expensive, might risk burning out the interface people or has some other downside, maybe have a frank discussion with them about the benefits and costs of their contributions to the process.

Talking to people always works better than talking at people.
It looks like the author is exactly the kind of people that made CoC necessary.
All US citizens (in theory, not practice) get to vote to change their government's policies.

In Saudi Arabia -- literally, the Arab lands belonging to the House of Saud -- the subjects don't have that power. They would have to have a revolution, first.
JEFF BEZOS SAYS TECH COMPANIES SHOULD WORK WITH THE PENTAGON
But a MacBook is neither a smartphone nor a tablet, which is what the term 'mobile' refers to. A MacBook is a laptop, which is a portable version of a PC, and in that landscape, ARM is a niche instruction set.
Seems like something that should be fairly easily polyfilled for web usage?
This is why all effort needs to move toward automizing as much as we can, while passing on as much value as possible back to society - so then people don't have to work in order to have more than basic needs along with a high quality of life. This would give people time to educate themselves, to build relationship with others (community), among other things - and to support the people and mechanisms who provide and improve this function and quality of life.
I don't appreciate you putting words into my mouth.
That has an interesting trivia tidbit revealed about real estate in there - foreign investment in USA residential real estate has shifted from 10% Chinese to 30% Chinese in ten years.

Also, I feel something is missing from the story. Just as a statement of fact and not a criticism - his personal taste is pedestrian not adventurous - his favorite dishes are noodles without sauce and rice with soy sauce. I would have loved to have heard what his wife (if she is still around) thought about their shared hobby.
> Can't wait until this available in electronjs

Why? Considering the baseline size (both on-disk and in-memory) it's not like relative formatting has much of an impact, unlike genuine websites/web applications.
He's trying to unload the company and save a bit of his reputation. Of course he'll still hype it.
> totally bankrupt all cajas in Spain and now they are owned by

Some cajas, not all.

The broken cajas typically 'bribed/rewarded' policitians offering them vacancies in their boards of directors.
To substantiate your point about campaign accounts: U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter is currently under indictment for spending campaign money on personal wants:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-duncan-hunter-poll...
Roboto Mono. I use the Roboto family as my default font in Ubuntu and Windows.
In Montana, Tough Negotiator Proved Employers Can Pay Less for Health Care
Discover new site that sells Paranormal Items
My numbers are very very approximate and come from eyeballing the following graph, which was the best I could get from a google search:

https://images.slideplayer.com/27/8913519/slides/slide_9.jpg
I see the religious part as being the entire point, since it comes from a religious order. The very first rule is about loving a particular deity. If we were to go back in time and find these people, what do you think would offend them more, “I hold grudges” or “there is no god”?
I used to work in a small midwestern city with a large immigrant population. One day, one of my Sudanese customers came in somewhat distraught. I asked him what was wrong, and all he said was "In my old country, children were a blessing. In America, they are a burden."
Strictly by the definitions of nutrients, "white" carbs and sugar are not synonymous.
Here Lies E. Coli
It’s trivial to disable gatekeeper. It’s just a radio button in settings.
There is no evidence that any of this exists.
Then almost every article in TechCrunch is... never mind.
Crocagile is on Product Hunt
I gave a talk at Denver startup week last year about the underlying profit incentives tied to fake news and how industry reforms in the way media companies do business could not only benefit the advertisers but also stop Fake news. At the end of the talk I had 3 people ask how they could make fake news to promote their startups. That this has turned into a booming industry surprises me 0%, though it is depressing.
I didn't share it to diminish anything. These libraries that attempt to parse free-form phrases are interesting to compare.
Let's not forget how many politicians, after receiving 'legal' campaign dollars while or before their time in office end up in lucrative sinecures after leaving their elected positions. While they technically weren't bribed by today's myopically narrow interpretation of the crime, I would say this arrangement reeks of corruption to most.

There's also the personal utility view of this - if it is power they desire and you finance their acquisition of power, isn't that in a sense bribery? If they want power, why buy them a sports car....

It's clear to me that we need real campaign finance reform. No more dark money or third party political action committees. The fate of our democracy probably depends on it.
Ping? Pong!

It's still useless to us.
When all the complex array of emotions you try to convey are filtered through a handful of letters, numbers, and symbols, it is very complicated.

On top of that add:

- instant communication promoting brisk communication

- multicultural participation, and different approaches to communication

- reward for snarky comments (karma points/likes/dislikes/retoots/retweets/etc.)

- age differences

- language barrier

- lack of netiquette training after the smartphone boom (second Eternal September)

- lack in education and proper grammar

- trolls

Excellent communication is never a trivial matter.
Routing resolution error

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Routing resolution error
And what are they doing about it? Are they trying to vote out the government or...?
The very first rule is comparable. We generally consider religious discrimination to be on the same level as racial discrimination.
Like those food delivery startups and ride sharing apps that all lose money?

Saudi may kill my journalists, but at least they subsidize my lunch.
Google is pretty good at automatically determining which qquery parameters actually modify the response content (pagenb=, id=, q=, etc.) and which do not really (sortby=, highlight=, utm_source=, gclid=) so that should not be a problem.
If we follow your logic to its logical conclusion the only way to change the way a company is behaving is through laws and regulations. I'm getting strawman-adjacent here but something tells me that if you think that a company should only "do what's best for itself and it's shareholders" you might also not like heavy handed regulations either, am I correct? And if so, how do you think the problem of unethical companies should be solved?
Trauma of US Civil War POW experience affected the next generation
"We did it reddit!"
You're not the only GNU maintainer who is unsatisfied with Stallman's response. GNU Octave also stands with Guix here, and I think I speak on behalf of at least of a few other co-maintainers. Maybe we should be drafting our own CoC.
Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
Bite by bite.
Use the facade pattern, implement the new features cleanly outside of it, and when times allow, refactor and extract modules cleaning them; until nothing's left behind the facade.
http://jargon.js.org/_glossary/FACADE_PATTERN.md
FWIW, I've only ever heard Blood Money used the way it's used in the article. The first entry in the Merriam-Webster dictionary says "money obtained at the cost of another's life", the secondary definition is restitution like you mentioned.
I think that whole issue was, while it may be amusing to watch the drama unfold, that valuable contributors were being disaffected. No, its not about how entertaining the email chain reads. Its about getting work done?

And it's disingenuous to describe the vicious attacks as 'snippy' and 'glib'.