skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising, but I find the practice disturbing. I imagine it's hard for busy parents to police the commercials the children sees, and much of the marketing to children likely occurs in this unwanted but hard to avoid space. The end result is corporations trying to train children that the best way to live and enjoy one's self is if they buy a steady stream plastic goods made overseas, eventually to be discarded in landfills.

One could imagine a world where advertising to children is no longer considered appropriate, with the understanding that the young minds of the world should not be manipulated by corporate interests.

Or those who want that kind of environment need to find a new way to fund media.
Firefox has almost the exact same thing. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
I would imagine it would be a lot easier for civilians to host scooter waypoints at their residence. Bike docks seem like more effort, I can't seem them being a popular option for homes. At scale, the idea is that half of the houses in a neighborhood would host hubs for scooters. At high hub densities, the distinction between docked and dockless becomes negligible, however the hub solution has the added benefit of people not leaving vehicles at random locations.
Why should anybody be embarrassed about playing with toys or making stamps as a child?

It's the stupid stuff they'll do in high school and college they should be worried about.
Mainframe Engineers? What systems are you running.

Asking as a 20s EU mainframe dev with fiance who doesn't stop talking about moving to Scotland.
Revolut standard account (w/o monthly fees) gives you a Virtual Card which I use when I don’t trust the site I’m buying from and after the purchase I just freeze it.

With the premium cards on top of other perks there’s also Disposable Cards which creates a virtual card for every transaction you want and as soon as that card gets used, it’ll destroy it and create one brand new.

For separating limits you can create multiple virtual cards each with limits once met will freeze the card.
You're right, pretty much everyone knows r/politics is too left for most leftists, but people will defend to the death that it is balanced because only conservatives can be unbalanced; everyone else is a "centrist."

Though this forum is getting it's own tropes. Good luck being pro-copyright, not entirely convinced the war on drugs is a massive failure, and a person who likes living in the suburbs and owning a car.
This is terrifying, and explains sooooo much! Wow.
In Firefox you can add a bookmark and set a keyword for that bookmark. If the URL of the bookmark contains "%s", it'll get replaced by everything you type in the URL bar after the keyword. For example I have a bookmark for Wikipedia with the keyword "wp". So when I type "wp Y Combinator" I end up on the Wikipedia page about Y Combinator.

I really enjoy this feature and even catch myself regularly trying to use it on other computers, which obviously don't have such keywords defined.
Same here! Except I use Keychain (without icloud) from OSX, as it's built in.

I can't trust a website to keep all my passwords.
How do you buy online?
web standards encompass a vast collection of specifications. It is reasonable to expect implementations to diverge.

Then there is the rapid adoption of mobile platforms, which have become mass-market while at the same time evolving very rapidly, new versions every year. The result is a dispersive medium, a combinatoric sea of browsers, iOS and Android versions, and a crazy variety of form factors.

Simply attempting to adhere to web standards is not sufficient.
I don't see your your extension in the mozilla addon-store. How do except them to use sonething that they can't even find?
You may be interested in Leslie Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"

https://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf
It doesn't. It helps with usability, it seems, because if you have multiple devices it's easier to manage them.
Ah ok.

Endless hours spent with Protracker. :)

I remeber a guy at school getting a MS-DOS driver that would drive the speaker in such a way that we could hear midi/mod files instead of the typical lousy beeps.

Still, it required lots of teenage imagination to think it sound anything worthwhile listening to.
Please do. Unfortunately I've been swamped the last few weeks with prep for the world's largest radiology conference, so I'm a bit behind schedule.
Should have put more money toward building a better more modular browser than toward diversity programs. This is the natural result of enterprise SocJus. Google will go this way too in five to ten years.
So you've never actually shipped a product?
Coursera is going more in the way you describe: you can actually get a university degree from some institutions via Coursera and the degree says "Batchelor of XXX from well-known-university" (not "well-known-university online").

IMHO the big reason for the difference: Udacity original CEO: former professor (Thrun). Coursera original CEO: former president of Yale (Levin). This is not to imply one was smart and one was not; it just shows that the companies' implementations and objectives reflected the backgrounds of the respective CEOs. In the long run I haven't the faintest idea is better.

I do find the Udacity web site hard to follow, but I don't care at all about credentials/certification so might find the "nanodegree" idea more practical for my own purposes (compared to Coursera) if I wanted to take a class.

disclaimer: my gf works for Coursera, but honestly until she started there the only online teaching company I'd heard of was Khan. I learned all the info in the first two paragraphs from her.
Freenode has a service that lets you search channel names:

/msg alis help

for details. I used this to find all sorts of gems:

* ##binutils for linker/loader stuff,

* ##math usually has meaty content and knowlegdeable users,

* #ircdocs is great for irc spec and implementation stuff,

* #spacex and #nasa, just because, and

* ##kernel, ##physics, ##prolog along with many others.

Happy IRCing!
> If I were to see my 13 (or older) children watching a 7 year old unwrapping toys, I think I would go to the psychiatrist just to check them out.

Oh, 13 years is nothing... watching is nothing.... if I ever meet an adult who makes videos aimed at kids, where they're either saying nothing, or infantilizing themselves as extremely as possible, I have so many questions to ask them, and already one answer I reject beforehand, and that's "money through advertisements shown to small children".

Speaking of that, we'll never know how many million dollars YouTube made (or god forbid is still making) on ads on ElsaGate-type videos. It's not like that would be hard to find out for them in one week, and it's not like it couldn't be argued to be a sound investment in PR to donate some or all of that ill-gotten money to charities that help with child abuse or trauma. But I guess it's even better PR-wise to just change the subject and never bring it up again, as they kinda did last year.
With how bug-infested TST is now, this is not a strong reason anymore. Also TST has not many users anyway. Seems it's something around 115k, so majority can live well without it.
Can't that sunken cost be repurposed to mine Monero / ETH / ZCash / whatever else is in vogue nowadays?
Become more popular by improving the product?
What's New in Kubernetes 1.13
You mean like Steve and Woz? j/k :)
I'm with you in theory on human rights. I believe every human deserves them. But I also understand there's practical real world constraints to enforcing our values around the world. That's a cost we can't afford. Like it or not the cost of not doing business with any non-democratic countries...would eventually be war. And a war on more fronts than we could deal with. The U.S. should serve as an inspirational example as it did in the past but we can't be nation builders and all-out imperialists.
Since our inception, we all want to be free, we want to be the enjoyer
Just had a fun flashback to checksuming new builds of Windows media after manually burning/ before installing the build!
It's not really better though - having only two real browsers is not good for open standards or the open web.

This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too.

Staring into my crystal ball tells me Firefox will become "janky" in the eyes of users on account of how many sites don't load on it like they do Chromium (because developers will only test on the most popular browser, because THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY TIME).
Try Blokada, it is even open source. Like pi-hole for android
What makes you trust LastPass that they won't sell/leak/expose your passwords from some backdoor or under the table deal? I'm asking because this is not a public company or an entity that can be held responsible in any way for such an act. It's just another startup obligated to make their investors 10X returns. I haven't read their agreements but I'm pretty sure any lawyers of such companies have enough clause to absolve them of any such acts.
Well, Opera is a good browser that no-one uses, so it can't be just that. Tbh UX just isn't Microsofts strong suite (although I really like Windows 10).
I personally use keeanywhere to streamline my experience. It allows me to just log in and select my db
>a steady stream plastic goods made overseas, eventually to be discarded in landfills.

I don't know what ads your kids are getting but with the possible exception of the "Wish App" ads (which I fervently wish would die a fiery death at the very heart of the sun), most of the ads pitched to my kids are hawking digital ephemera of some sort or another.
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Things like this pretty much justify all the time spent procrastinating on HN. Thank you. (And also don't thank you, this is variable reinforcement at its purest.)

So if you can formulate "sonic relativity" like this, what happens when you trick it to provide faster-than-sound signals? Say, you emit an acoustic signal in one place, and route an electric wire with sensors and actuators that transmit it outside of the medium and re-emit as sound closer to observer. I.e. a sound-world analogue to a wormhole. Can you some (or any) of the time travel trickery that is said to be implied by any possible FTL?

Also, how is it that Minkovsky's diagrams work, apparently length contraction and time dilation can be seen as working too[0], and yet we know we can go faster than speed of sound in a medium?

--

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06870
I'd love to use Safari privately but uBlock Origin is a mess right now (lots of UI bugs) and won't work at all soon, so FF it is for me.
Not enough people are using addons to be such significant. It seems more that firefox had a slight growth last year because of quantum, but market grew faster, while some of that growth inflated again.

Usernumbers went something like 250->300->275 Million. Seems they are somewhat stable in numbers.
Indeed, companys should pay what's required, but it's not really the point I'm making.

End of the day, an Ops guy who is not part of the development team can't really do all that much when a bad commit brings down the system. Sure, we can take a stab in the dark and roll-back, but we don't know if that's going to make the problem worse, or we can restart it but that's about the easiest thing in the world to automate.

So, why not get the experts of the system, who rolled out the change, and undertook the quality control, to be part of the team that fixes the outage (irregadless of what time we do it at)? Who is better suited?
Can you elaborate? Are you doing it for a living? How did tumblr help you marked your local business (if any)? Thank you
Agree. Though default options hold great power, Chrome users could also navigate to DDG. Also hard to advertise themselves as the user champion of privacy going up against Google, and then route everyone to Google, while pocketing their money. I think it's okay to take their money but seems hypocritical.
Gmail and Google Docs for instance operate fairly poorly on Safari. Gmail often has UI glitches (e.g. the top part sometimes scrolls up permamently with no way to get it back). Google Docs on Safari lacks support for many features that Firefox seems to support—I've seen many examples of Docs that appear fine on Firefox but appear mangled in Safari. The engine in Safari seems to differ enough from Chrome that it has different approaches to rendering things. Either that or Google is deliberatly pushing faulty codes to Safari. Not sure which...
Aren't they though? Also, I'm sure someone will eventually match this concept with something, probably building an esoteric language for describing parallel programs with Feynman diagrams, just for the kicks.
Why would rates go up in an economy that is getting better? Is it only because the Fed would increase rates in response to the improvement? In a free market, I imagine they would go down because people would trust the government's ability to pay back their bills and thus bonds would be more in demand?
On the flip side there are probably peasants in rural East Asia who labor in extremely challenging conditions and make a fraction of what you do. If they understood that your job was to (probably) sit in an air conditioned room tapping keys and talking to people for a few hours a day for significant wealth they might feel what you feel.
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You should be setting your server to set cors to allow all not disabling it in your browser.

This is what we do while running docker for local development with node.
That isn't done by Chrome.
If you think using Chrome is selling your soul to the devil I wonder what you think about me who is fully integrated in the Google ecosystem with Google Home and everything.
Yeah this is the worst in firefox. I'm desperately trying to stick to firefox out of principle, but Chrome is just sooo much more comfy beacuse of like 3 features.

Firefox actually has 2 domain specific search-shortcut features, but both take time to set up and then is not intuitive at all. Chrome just blows it out of the water.

Also wtf - if I type "hello" and press enter in the search bar in FF, it puts a "www." in front and ".com" at the end.. like holy hell, if I knew the domain I'll write .com myself, it really is no problem. I even went ahead and googled for 15 minutes and disabled this in some deep settings somewhere, but it still does it when I press enter too fast... damnit, it frustrates me every single day.

I hope they see this and fix this very-frustratingly-obvious anti-UX behaviour..
This breaks the HN guideline against insinuating astroturfing, albeit subtly. Please don't do that—it only poisons the threads further.

People are legitimately divided about this and other divisive issues. Don't forget that HN is a highly international community, as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, but I hate when people say this to indie developers like it's some grand new idea to them. Marketing is hard. You can't just post about it online as many places have self promotion rules. You can try to reach out to get reviews, but chances are you won't get noticed. Everything else costs money, and if you don't know what you're doing (and chances are the indie developers doesn't) you're just throwing your money away.

Its not a 1:1 comparison, but I relatively recently released three extensions for Photoshop. They're well made and designed, unique, and would be a boon to a lot of photographers out there. I contacted every place I could find and got reviewed at only one place, Fstoppers. The reviewer really liked the extensions. I got a whopping $1,000 of sales from that and my many months of development time. Frankly, I didn't have a clue where to go from there. I'm a wedding photographer and I had to release them before my wedding season got going. Now that the season is over I still don't know. I've been running Facebook ads but without being able to target professions I haven't been able to work out a strategy that works.

Long story short, marketing is hard and takes both time and money.
> If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 and learn React or Angular or any technology you want.

But this is how you learn new skills, no? People were learning from books for ages.

> Most people don't have this capacity.

If you can't understand written word, how on Earth could I trust the code you write?
Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months ago and haven't looked back. FF is like Linux: less polished, but works, and you are in control. A fair tradeoff for me.
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Citibank offers virtual credit cards. Once they are used by one merchant, they can not be used by any other merchant. On top of that, you can optionally give them money and time limits.
Very very light games, Flash like almost.

The traditional selling speech from Intel for GPA is going to games done for discrete GPUs and kind of making it run on their integrated ones.

And they now even sell chips with AMD GPUs on them, as they really aren't good for anything beyond accelerated 2D graphics.
Men crossing their legs is a thing, and here in Tokyo it's not super common for guys to go all spreadeagle, regardless of muscle mass.

I suspect that biological "explanations" are little more than folklore, and manspresding is just a case of comfort via familiarity.
You must have lived in China. Cars always on the sidewalk
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> A sound card can only work on certain formats of data - it is more than mere bytes.

But you can keep this "data" that is only understandable by your sound card, and send it over the net, or compress it with gzip, or do whatever you want with it because, yes, it is merely bytes!

> You can use the UNIX APIs on a mac, but why would you want to?

because they are much more beautiful, and not a layered pile of unneeded abstractions.

Object orientation is to computer science what category theory is to mathematics. Yes, it is a very interesting intellectual exercise. Yes, it can be used to provide a foundation for everything. Yes, if you are using it daily in your work then you are either batshit crazy or severely misguided.
I don't feel that the quality is an issue with Udacity. I once paid for an AI Nanodegree course (which I did not complete) and was very satisfied with the course material, assignments, support and evaluation process(es).

Maybe there are free university courses that will provide students with more in-depth knowledge but the Udacity courses are designed to be more job-ready and less academic and I think it does a good job at that.
I like BrowserStack, and I use it a lot at work, but it's way too slow to be part of the core code, test, debug loop, simply because it's far from a native experience.

As long as that's the case, support for Edge/IE is always going to be a second-class citizen for me. Safari, too, since that's only on Mac OS, and God help you if you need to debug web apps for iPads. There is no good way, and the only tool you have is a shotgun (dev tools don't always work with BrowserStack & mobile Safari, and we currently have an iPad, but no Mac to debug it with.)
> If the content creator chooses to optimize the money-making persona, it eventually leads to sensationalized content to generate the maximum possible number of views.

In the past brand prestige protected the media from this to happen. A backslash on a TV will make all advertisers to flee.

YouTube does not suffer from this. They host radical, xenophobic, and misogynistic content without consequences. Because they label themselves as a tech company, a middleman that has no responsibility on their own content. But are they? Meanwhile we buy what YouTube advertisements show they have no reason to stop.

When you optimize society to generate money instead of generate value you get to this weird situation.
True - and also remind me why I will stay away from windows
What do you think is more effective: an ad saying my child will like this toy or my child asking me for that toy? I think it all boils down to that, basically.
The main difference is not just the money going to content creators. Like preommr said, the real main difference is all the creepy stuff that's on Youtube that you don't normally see as an adult on your YT account recommended videos/related videos, but that kids see because things are targeted at them. There's some real creepy scary stuff out there. TV back in the days, even if kids watch them obsessively, at least don't have "dangerous" stuff like that. They were curated by reasonable people working at the networks, not algorithms.

I will never give my kid unbridled access to YT. When she's old enough to watch videos, I would consider downloading specific content from YT filtered by myself, for offline viewing.
They don’t have your passwords
Well, that's embarrassing.
> It's not just websites that aren't tested in Edge - my experience with Edge is that all aspects of performance (initial load time, ui responsiveness, web site responsiveness) are terribly slow.

100% agree here. I'd be way more worried about monoculture if any other browser would be discontinued, but the MS browser history was and is just a shitshow.

<rant>

I can't even remember how many years MS and even some people in my vincinity were going on about how amazing the new IE (or later Edge) were and that MS would totally be changing their ways now. Usually, if you used their browser for more than five minutes, that sounded more like a bad joke.

To this day, the (properly updated) Edge on my dev machine does user interaction orders of magnitude worse than FF/Chrome. Tabs frequently stop functioning properly and even won't reload anymore, until you find out that some subprocess crashed and you'll have to close and re-open the site to try again. The adoption of new web standards happens at a crawl.

Yet, at the same time, their "Edge is totally a next-gen browser! Promise!" rhetoric leads to actual companies prohibiting users from getting and using an actually useful browser like FF.

Their dev story sucks, too. The best of their jokes was when someone wanted to convince me on how cool VS2015 was for HTML/Javascript development. Yes, I totally want a 16GB+ IDE that literally can take minutes to load from an SSD and frequently freezes to do nimble HTML editing m(

The funny thing is: They actually arguably fixed that one in the mean time (VS Code), but their browser politics remained. Perhaps this signifies the same shift there?

</rant>

TL;DR: I actually wouldn't mind that much, but MS has been repeatedly overselling and underdelivering for years and just slows down everyone else doing it.
Theoretically this is why we have standards. Practically this is a nightmare that involves virtual machines, multiple devices, copious use of caniuse.com, and obscure bugs that only appear on a particular version of safari on a 10 year old mac. RIP web development.
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