skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish browsers had a "do track" option which told every website: yes I consent, do what you want, just don't show me a popup. These cookies banners and GDPR popups have ruined the web.
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I wrote this article, and I'm happy to answer questions.
> what possible vocabulary do they have left for all the superhero films we now have in the cinema?!

"excrement" comes to mind!
Why weed companies are embracing blockchain
Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Golang?
Please also indicate how long you have been coding in Go.
What’s Your Play Personality? – The 8 Play Personality Types
> Takes at most 20 minutes to get it all up and running

I'm currently on about 2 hours of trying to get it working (having given up several times.) And that wasn't even configuring any exotic emulators or controllers.
As much as I like using netcat and friends to interact with HTTP servers, I've always found the text-based protocols to be needlessly verbose and oriented towards a minority use-case. Something like ASN.1, which is very widely used in the telecommunications industry for protocols like GSM and such, does not have the same bloat problem yet remains extensible.
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Weird, why is Side View in Test Pilot now? They had something like this[1] for a long, long time - I can find references to it dating back to 2007 - in the form of the "load this bookmark in the sidebar" toggle.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Cod...
Laurie Spiegel – Mother of VAMPIRE
Not actually a terrible idea if it can be done without tracking. Thank you for disclosing.

I'd quite like an RSS+reader view browser. At a guess, RSS+reader view+AMP could cover pretty substantial amounts of existing content.
Author here. This is my dissertation that I completed back in July. I'm happy to answer questions!
Just to help me out (I don't doubt you, I'm just struggling to work it out) can to tell me what that trivial bijection from the set of infinite bitstrings to [0, 1) is?
It was a strict operator, as opposed to a fuzzy one. It's not just spellchecking per se, but a whole lot of other fuzzy logic that Google softens search terms with nowadays.
I wish Chicken Scheme could be ported to Windows without the Posix dependencies. I run it on my Linux box, but unfortunately, work is all Windows. I have had years of frustration with Cygwin and MinGW or MSYS to run such things. I use Red [1] now, which is homoiconic like Lisp, has a great parser, and runs on all platforms with an executable under 1 MB.

[1] https://www.red-lang.org/
Note that it should be pretty easy to write an add-on that generates a search provider. It's just a simple (and open-standard) xml format.

Not enough time to write one myself these days, but if keywords disappear, I might.
One of the first fines went to an online forum critizing GDPR.
Yes. Google translate integration is the only reason I keep Chrome around
My excitement about IPFS is tempered by this issue:

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3429

I was running IPFS on a VPS last year serving no content, and was consuming about half a gig a day in bandwidth.

Is this a fundamental issue with the underlying concept?
Two more videos summarizing my conference talks on Patchworks in 30 seconds each:

CHI'14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkGjZI21Mw

CHI'17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkrnvfNfHU
Just so we're clear since I see a lot of comments here about stealing and "blatant" criminality.

He was ordered to private access at $2 per car, with no adjustment for inflation, across his property to a beach, by a government entity. This despite some reasonable case law on the idea that if you charge people to access something, you can change that price or go out of that business if you want.

In addition, he WON this case in CALIFORNIA at the beginning, though I thought on a bit of a ridiculous approach

To catch folks up, he's now been on a super long losing streak, and the US Supreme Court did not take up the case. It's a bit hard to see the state getting the road they want for $300K they claim it's worth, and they are passing law after law to try and get it. My guess is it ends up more in the 1.5M range?

Now if the government REALLY wanted to give the public access to nature - they'd ban all the STUPID parking restrictions near natural resources. Every rich area in California has some kind of state park or regional park maintained by all our government dollars, but the rich people living near it do this totally wild weekend only parking restriction on these major roads all around the entrance to the park, so no one but the rich folks living right there can access the park. It's kind of genius. You literally have a huge wide road, with parking on the sides NORMALLY during the week, but during weekends to keep poor folks from parking on the road and using the park, they ban weekend parking on this main road and all side streets for a few miles from park entrance.
I remember those days. I was working at a small company, and a coworker and I had Dreamcasts. He also had small children and felt that the cost of games and their short attention span was a good excuse for piracy. He downloaded everything posted to a Usenet group for Dreamcast games and burned two copies. Every morning I’d come in to a pile of CDs on my desk. I only recently threw them out, several spindles full of them. Hundreds of games, many I never even tried playing. It was bizzarre.
Stanley Kubrick movies reveal some new aspects each time I watch it.
As an avid Firefox user, I must admit that Chrome was better for a long time – largely due to two reasons:

- Mozilla diverting devs towards Firefox OS;

- Mozilla attempting to maintain the old XUL/XPCOM-based add-ons architecture.

Both of these hurt Firefox a lot. Since Firefox 57, though, Firefox is back to being really quick.

On the other hand, most (non-dev) people I know who installed Chrome did it for marketing reasons – oftentimes simply because they had installed an anti-virus or Flash, which came bundled with Chrome – not out of actual merit.
The best thing about Firefox is that the browser is separate from your Google account so you don't have to worry about your bookmarks/extensions getting synced behind your back by Google and messing everything up. Google requiring browser/Google account to be the same is a nuisance that you don't have to worry about with Firefox.
Did you learn it all as you went along or were you familiar with the ARM beforehand? It's very impressive in either case. Any hints on how I could write my own?
The bulky error handling in a language that prides itself on readability.

Go experience: full time for 2y.
Pijul: distributed version control system based on a sound theory of patches
all the information that gets hidden in plain sight: like the capital first letter indicating if a func / member is public or not

time coding go: to short because this seriously keeps me away from learning it
> With the news about Edge switching to a foundation using Chromium a lot of the conversation has centered on browser engines slipping into something of a monoculture.

Not to come of as dismissive, but if this is the first time you picked up this conversation, you simply haven't been paying attention the last half decade.

If we've addressed things properly back then (with web developers using more than the Ad-company's browser), we wouldn't be in the situation where we are now with only 2 real engines remaining, down from 4, and mobile more crippled than ever.

And now it's going to be much, much worse encouraging web developers to actually adhere to the standards for a diverse browser-market.
Sadly, Patchworks is not currently available. I implemented two versions: A C# standalone editor for Java and C# that is difficult to build at this point and a version built into the proprietary LabVIEW code editor.

If anyone would like to help with a VS Code or Atom plugin, let me know :)
AFAIK, Firefox is positioning itself as the only open source, standards compliant web browser for Virtual Reality, including 3D support (not just 2D floating windows). Chrome is neither there, nor expected.
For PHP projects, Laravel Forge is a good option https://forge.laravel.com/
How expensive were first commonly available transistors?
Just pee in a cup for bladder cancer detection
But the web has also allowed for things which are way more than document delivery; imageboards, for instance, weren't around before the web, and the fact of carrying images made them unsuitable for previous technology.
Tiling and window managers are exactly what inspired Patchworks!

It is possible that Wandercode may be released to the public in the near future. It is an Atom plugin in working state, it just needs some fixing up on how it generates the call graph to make the recommendations. Stay tuned!
How Nokia lost a market it dominated
I know and I agree. I was more of a thought exercise. I would prefer for Mozilla to keep doing their thing.

If they were to put webkit on Firefox, and after the initial de-googling, they would start working on webkit and contribute there, or somehow merge some servo things in webkit. I guess in the end it would still take a few years until it's complete, but it is an interesting thought to me.
I remember estimates (so, take them with a laaaaarge pinch of salt) on ads promoting Chrome, which were expected to be ~4x the total budget of Mozilla.

I would be surprised if (without counting ads), the Chrome paid devs were not at least 3x the number of Firefox paid devs.
Cybersecurity Act – EU negotiators agree on strengthening Europe's cybersecurity
Yes, you're pretty much free to do whatever you want on this earth, within the bounds of what's physically possible. Of course if society disagrees with your actions then you may be fined, imprisoned, or even killed in the case of capital punishment.
IE6 stagnation was hated by developers and users alike. Growth of any browser came from something-must-be-better-than-this.

FF had the upper hand against Opera, who were still quite the serious contender. I'm sure someone has done a PhD thesis on this, and if not well worth doing on multi-factor influences on market share for web browsers. Very multi-disciplinary too, covering tech, consumer understanding, embedded incumbents, marketing (a big part in Chrome's boom in my opinion).

Chrome's growth came from IE, yet. But at the time, anyone's growth could have come from IE. Chrome did it better and faster.

* I was still using IE6 in a corporate enviornment in 2013. I have friends that still require IE6 on XP in a company because funding for the system upgrade can't be made. The system's not internet facing, not explicitly. IE6 tried to define the internet, thankfully the internet moved on, and would have moved on. FF was at their tails, Chrome sped that.
"At least 7 figures" is $1m, not $10m. I think that's exactly the kind of difference the GP is referring to.
Ask HN: Are there ML or big data approaches to addressing climate change?
Great story! I remember typing in a few 'magazine programs' also, on my Vic-20.
About the omnibar: does anyone know what its limitations are? It seems to lose sites I only use somewhat infrequently. It's frustrating when I know I've been there plenty of times, but nothing pops up.
It's a problem of resources. There are simply not enough devs to do everything. So Mozilla needs to prioritize bugs and features aggressively.
I tried to read the article, but a video popup and other flashing ads covered the material and distracted me as well.
A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free
Windows CE was loaded from the disks and was an option for developers. The dreamcast had another os which were more close to the naomi arcade machine
Webrender hasn't shipped on Android yet did it ?
Not sure if you were being sarcastic...

But this is exactly what 'go mod' is NOT doing. It's called 'Minimal Version Selection'. Quoted right from the lead core dev's blog: ' For stable development, today's build list must also be tomorrow's build list.' (https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs).

From what I gathered, 'go mod' is the first mainstream tool which is going that way (but I would be glad to be proved wrong!). Other package manager are using lock files which have their caveats (see https://research.swtch.com/cargo-newest.html for an in depth examination of the revered cargo approach on low-fidelity builds).
I read the whole thing, even though I knew it was nothing that new, but if you look at where it's published and who the general demographic of reader would be, it would be much more riveting and informative than to people on HN where this is old news.

I read it because it was well written and about Toronto companies, which is relevant to me based on my location. I got to see a bit inside companies of which I am aware of and/or have met the founders of. There are only so many large Canadian "Startups" so it's interesting to see a viewpoint from the inside and how they compare to SF companies.

If you knew nothing of startups and happen to live in Toronto, this would be a great read to learn more about them, especially ones you've heard of. I'm pretty sure magazine style publications commonly have long articles, so I don't know what you would expect. How often are HN submissions short and/or designed for readers from HN?
I use getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/) which isn't bound to a specific provider. Currently I backup my gmail and fastmail accounts using this. Here is my daily process:

- mount truecrypt container

- run getmail for each account I want to backup (separate .conf files)

- unmount container

- sync offsite to rsync.net

All of this runs on my raspberry pi 2 and it's really easy to setup (it's practically a bash file with 4 commands).

The output is an mbox file which you can import into Thunderbird or any other client that supports them.
Evolution of Multicellular Computing: Parallels with Multicellular Life (2009) [pdf]
Maybe I should try the book. I like me some good sci-fi (the Hyperion series is probably my favorite read-wise). I've never gotten through the 2001 movie. Several goes at it. I literally pass out asleep. Maybe I need to try a morning viewing. I think of movies as entertainment. Trying to watch this one has become a chore.
No it doesn't. Consumers can withdraw consent at any time, they have to give informed consent (i.e. the consent is void and null if the consumer can't reasonably be expected to understand what they consented to) and companies have to keep track of what data they acquired and what they have done with it.

The "consent" popups you see on loads of websites these days actually run counter to the GDPR because they usually opt-in by default or tie consent to uses for which that consent is not necessary. They also rarely provide detailed information about what data is used and what they do with it.
Excuse me, but real hackers use butterflies. [1]

1. https://xkcd.com/378/
IMF warns storm clouds are gathering for next financial crisis
> The study addressed this. There are sexist gender roles at play even among single parents, potentially. (To wit, you didn’t lament the rise of “single fatherhood.”)

Isn't that mostly caused by a sexist judiciary. I know that as a man in America in the event of a divorce it is very unlikely that I would get majority custody of my children. From what I've seen it takes a lot for a woman to lose custody if she wants it.
I wonder why studies like this never explore incentive models of why there are different choices. What does the data say about the subset of men who go against the gender norm and avoid inconvenient days, do not work overtime, prioritizing schedulerelated amenities, and take more unpaid time off. How does society treat that subset compared to the majority that follows gender norm?

I would predict that their income would be lower, but not as much as the average woman. The risk of involuntarily childlessness would be significant higher and their social support network would on average be smaller. Health would be a interesting aspect to look at, which could honestly go either way.

I would also predict that for the subset of women who would go against those gender expectation would look rather similar. Involuntarily childlessness would go up but far below that of the average man. Their social support network would also shrink but again not below that of men. In trade their income would be above average but not as much as the average man. Average health and life span would likely go down but not as low as the average man.
I tried looking, and couldn't find anywhere close to a source that says that refining gasoline consumes so much electricity you'd get more mileage using it to power a BEV. Do you have something
Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
You think women are weak minded and can't handle masculinity. Very sad indeed. Women aren't that feeble!
Also, very intelligent, imaginative, talented, and creative. But still, I admit, creepy.

I'm reminded of Marilyn Manson, née Brian Hugh Warner. Not to compare them, of course. But according to his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, he was also "boring and creepy" as a child. But somehow he made it work. As did Warhol, on a much larger scale.
'“A billionaire is a bad word in this country now,” he says, as his tea cools. “And that pains me.”'

Maybe if fewer of them thought of themselves as being better than everyone else and, more importantly, stopped acting like they thought that way, their reputation would improve.

But I don't believe that pains him. This isn't new. We've seen this kind of attitude in the wealthy time and again here in the US and every other society where a wealth gap as big as ours has existed. The results tend to not favor anyone, but the very wealthy tend to lose the most.
The very opposite of this hypothesis is actually more likely to be true. Kuru is a manifestation of this same prion disease (PRNP gene variant disease) that is essentially only found in people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.
Sure, but if I'm rich or in power or super smart, it will be very difficult to do that to me.
No, the author is making a sweeping generalization about ALL tech startups in an article published on a news website.

The commenter on a forum is simply asserting that these facts are not true about ALL tech startups, and it's perfectly valid to discredit a generalization about ALL with one anecdote.
Some Fun facts about Tetris
Unit Testing Anti-Patterns, Full List
Here to parrot GP. I had the same experience.

As for Toolbox, unfortunately there isn't any good competition in the market. Tokbox is "the best" (though I wouldn't say "great").

Their pricing model is better than most. It's not the cheapest, but it's worth the service quality. The low intro price seems deceiving, but I think it's pretty good because a lot of really basic, proof of concept apps can work on that range and not break the bank. You won't find anything much cheaper for the whole kit and caboodle.
The most frustrating part for me with those magazine programs was the number of them written for a computer other than mine. I drooled over all the cool C64 game programs, then went over to my section and typed in some ascii maze or text adventure.
That is not even remotely true. GDPR expressly affords revoking consent—and deleting any information gathered—at any time.
If you escalate things to the point where you need to "pay them off" you're entering serious monetary fines territory.
Huawei Judge Debates Apt Bail for Chinese Billionaire's Daughter
The record for high-temperature superconductivity has been smashed again
only slightly less crazy, they actually DID this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

see soviet union section for their equivalent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion
30 seconds of code: JavaScript snippets that you can understand in 30s or less
Are they changing jobs within the same “trade” or are they really changing trades?

As someone who is looking for a career reset in the short/medium term, it appears companies/recruiters have a very narrow window for what kind of new employee they feel is acceptable.
How to build a serverless, fault-tolerant, and realtime leaderboard
The N64 was 3 years old by the time the Dreamcast came out. The Dreamcast was killed before the Xbox was released. Also, the original Xbox sold 24 million units compared to the N64’s 30 million.

The GameCube and Xbox were fighting for second place that generation.
IoT Predictions for 2019: Get Your Business Ready
The book is essentially the same story but has a lot more description of what is going on. It'll certainly make sense, even if it isn't a page-turner suspense.

More generally, literary critics distinguish between 'show' (reader has to figure things out) and 'tell' (author makes things very obvious) modes of writing [0]. Show and Tell styles also appear in film making. Obviously the film and the book are in different media, but I think it's fair to say that the film 2001 is totally at the 'show' end of the spectrum while the book is mostly 'tell' (in common with a lot of Clarke's writing).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell
Cookies don't matter. Personally identifiable information matters. Storing a "seen_cookie_notice=true" flag is fine (assuming the banner itself indicates that interacting with it will set the flag) as long as you don't use it for anything else.
Works better than LifeSize! I've been relatively non-angry with Zoom which is at least some form of success. I also like that we can download missed meetings that we're recorded and I can play them in my player of choice (yay, 2x speed!).
Let's not forget about one Interface for one Class, because that adds flexibility in the future :)
Check out interview with Alexia Buclet, design operations director at Minsight
Between 1$ and 4$ (adjusted for inflation: 8$ and 30$). [0]

0: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/h...
Yes, there are many reasons. I'll give a few examples.

If Firefox adopts Chromium, there becomes effectively no way for Mozilla to shape the futures in manners that are not blessed by Google. For instance, Google doesn't seem to be interested in WebVR/WebAR, so there is no way to bring a Chromium-based browser in this direction until Google says so. The same thing happens with compression formats, for instance.

Also, as Google controls Chromium, a monopoly of Chromium also means that Google can decide to deprecate and/or customize web features without any counter-power. For instance, Google could decide to restrict WebPay to GooglePay, effectively leveraging their monopoly against PayPal and credit cards. There are also a number of manners in which Google could, in theory, make Netflix or Facebook or any competitor less usable or entirely unusable on the web. No Chromium-based browser can do anything against this.

Don't forget that Mozilla is also working on a next-gen rendering engine, Servo, that is expected to kick the ass of both Gecko and Blink on recent platforms, in terms of both performance, battery use and security. Making Chromium the only web browser means abandoning any hope to switch to this new architecture, as everything would need to be bug-for-bug compatible with Chromium, instead of following the standard.

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Not yet, no.