skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Declining popularity on desktop as people moved to moblie.

FireFox has taken a "strong stance" on security at the expense of usability. I'm sure you could track the number of sites they refuse to support agiant its decline and find corrolation.
Not letting you bypass ssl on localhost or the lan or read from CDs or the local file system or low security legacy systems on the lan make it far less useful as a generic gui than it should be.
I use it and keep chromium handy for when it fails me.
I dont blame people for switching permanently when it fails them and something else "just works".
Plus of course Apple forbid a browser choice and Goolge push their spyware hard on Android.
Mozilla of late assume the only use of a browser is browsing the Internet. They are very wrong.
Dev tools used to be great on ff so many sites worked better on ff than other browsers. They shot themselves in the foot when they messed up firebug and split the community. That was the point I noticed devs stop using it as a first choice.
Then they broke all existing plugins with no replacement when they moved off xul. That cant have helped.
If you check bug reports youll find a lot of "wont fix" indicative of the overall change to not supporting users needs. Its open source in name only. even chrome has far more forks. Trying to do anything with firefox code other than firefox on the internet is a non-starter.
Dont get me started on use of their js engine vs v8
Fun fact: In the US, members of congress are legally exempt from insider trading rules!
Why not a unixish simple tool to handle metrics? assuming $prog outputs log info to stdout: $prog | collect | action and 'collect | action' could all be done somewhat simply with awk and 1000x more portable.
It's possible to interpret your comment as a direct response addressing the mother who put out the tweet, which seems very inappropriate. The point you're making might be true, but maybe it's better to rephrase it.
Quantum Randomness Gives Nature Free Will
It's 100% guaranteed that there is office politics happening in your company. Either you don't see it or things are working for your benefit so you don't define them as "politics".
No, I felt the same way. The platforms are just doing what they are programmed to do, its not meant to be offensive. The fact that it is offensive is not something a computer could detect, exactly, so in my mind the platforms have done nothing wrong.
My docs spoke of 16GB. I assumed sun had the sign bit reserved for something. But we are still on Java 6 so maybe technology advanced a bit in the last 12 years ;-)
No, it is not. Value? Price? You're confusing the matters.

In corporate finance, valuation has a specific meaning. In this case, lost half of its value is correct; even better would be "market value".
I've found myself drinking someone's branding kool-aid before, and this is how it happened. You think to yourself what you've just laid out, that this is so obvious a seven year old should know better. So obvious, in fact, that it can't be real.

"This is just an unmarked taxi."

"No, we're way different."

You think to yourself how no one could be that blatant, and you notice other people are buying into it, so you start to question you own worldview. Then it reaches a critical mass, where there's enough self-perpetuation to make you throw skepticism to the wind. And after some time, after seeing a few cracks in the brand, you think to yourself, god damn it, should have stuck to my guns.
That is horrible. I like Notepad because it boots in milliseconds. Where do you get ideas like that?
The "AirBNB income" is less than touching since it seems to be the major advertising feature.
FWIW my (admittedly cumbersome) sentence was talking about the "hedge funds buying early access to exit polls...in order to front run people speculating".

If they didn't hold back exit polls (for the reason you've correctly stated) paying for priority access to polls would be a whole lot less useful for trading purposes anyway because instead of the big poll reveal at the close of voting all kinds of [partial] poll results would be accessible during the day. But as you've said all this exit polling data available would affect voter behaviour, especially in elections like the UK's with plenty of "tactical voting" going on
> when you have an acronym that you tend to say the individual letters of, do you change the a/an?

It depends on the sound the acronym, or initialism, starts with. So "an FBI" because you say "EFF-BEE-EYE" vs. "a CIA agent".
I don't disagree with this, but this argument fails to acknowledge the responsibility of social media companies to communicate what information they gather about you and how they choose to use it. On both fronts, they're still entirely too opaque.

It might not be a fair comparison, but I feel like this argument is the equivalent to smoking for 40 years without realizing that it causes cancer because the hypothetical tobacco companies didn't have to disclose that information. When you go to the doctor and the doctor blames you for your failing health, is that fair for the doctor to do? You did something that was enjoyable and seemed novel without understanding the cost to your health.

Informed consent in social media is still laughable in 2018, and we don't really discuss that aspect of the issue enough IMO.
This brings back some memories. I got my first modem in December, 1988, 30 years ago.. 1200 bps!
I invite you to do a pull request here: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeee...

with only the E characters of the font. It would be a welcome addition.
Individual browser tabs are often kept as separate processes, though.
AaaS: a NodeJS & Sharp streaming image resizing project.
Having heard and tried DuckDuckGo many times over the years, the other day, I thought about giving it the nth try, to finally switch from Google.

And what did I type? duckgogo.com.

I'm sure there are others who find the name not so memorable. duck.com makes it simple.
I love it! Top post on eggs is exactly the kind of content I was hoping for.

I’m sure you plan on adding comments. I will be a regular user and I’ve already shared with a few friends and family.
Ask HN: Who here is using Dart on the server side?
And what drawbacks have you run into and why? Would you go down that path again in late 2018, or choose a different path? I'm considering Dart for a project, but Google's focus for it is now "client" and comments like this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17708671) from a core team member four months ago make me think I'll run into some blockers pretty quickly. I appreciate any insight you can share...
The “Waterfall” methodology was a historic accident and they knew it
"Value" is just the price someone is willing to pay for something, it doesn't have to be tangible. Supply & demand, nothing more. Look at art.
The point was not to trick average people, it was to trick regulators by creating sufficient ambiguity around whether these companies were different enough from their already-existing counterparts to justify not applying the same regulations to them.

And it worked! For as long as it needed to, anyway.
> here if I click on something and there is no internet, I won't see a loading icon.

Fortunately, that's not so - Kweb has a neat way to handle it - outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a4dtp2/kweb_a_...
It's a weird article in that it does not mention at all, that for remote containers it's more beneficial to expose and use range queries. E.g. you don't ever want to access remote list element by element due to latency. You will be much better off with chuncked enumeration.
Maybe, at the same time, given these trucks are everywhere, I have no idea whether the photo in the parent is a truck blocking the highway out or a random picture of truck somewhere.
This comment is extremely naive. Once you create a weapon, you have no control over how its used by politicians years later. The engineers who made the avionics system for the Predator drones (just as a random example) are somewhat responsible for when those drones are used to bomb wedding parties, even if when they were developing the drone it was only intended for surveillance. Most of the people who would like to kill (pick my group), would like to do so because of careless use of advanced weapons systems by politicians who're only interested in the next election cycle. The politicians could never have bombed those wedding parties, and thus created the people that want to kill my group, if some very smart and morally bankrupt engineers hadnt given them the ability to do so. Being armed is only good if you trust the people who control those arms. I dont know where you live, but the guy in control of my countries military is a narcissistic cheeto with the IQ of a cuncused wombat, whos first week in office involved the authorization of a combat mission that resulted in more then 20 dead non-combatants [0], including a 4 year old child.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-trump-oba...
> Is this not just a classic example of HN looking for the negative in every positive?

A company single-handedly helping to save a direct competitor defies all business logic and obligations to shareholders of that company. The truth is this was a business move to benefit Microsoft, even though it had a benevolent factor to it.

Thinking otherwise is overly optimistic, similar to how you believe it being a classic example of HN pessimism.
For good reason: It's a fraudulent click.
A Theorem for All Markets
>Right, but if there's two of you and you don't get along, you just separate.

Not all pairs may be able to separate (immediately or even later). Real life stuff.

>There's no backroom conniving that can go on to get the upper hand on the other person, because you'd need other people to connive with. You either come to an agreement or move along.

Sure, about the conniving. But scheming against the other person is quite possible (and done plenty) for a single person against another single person. Real life again.

>We're talking about groups of people. Not the mathematical definition of a group.

I did not say or imply otherwise. I meant it in the real life sense.
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If the wealthy didn't like regulations, you wouldn't have so much of it.
>...The story of Microsoft floating a significant loan to Apple in order to keep Apple solvent in the late '90's is well-known.

That might be well known, but it never happened. To resolve a patent violation and alleged stolen source code, Microsoft bought 150 million dollars of Apple stock. (There were other aspects of the agreement, but there was no loan.)

Your general point was likely right - Microsoft could have dragged out the trial for years and they likely didn't want to be seen as the only maker of OS software for personal computers.
Looks beautiful, I'm glad I've found this.

Nevertheless I've been actually click-baited by the post title thinking it's a font designed for reading efficiency based on eye movement analysis.

What are some fonts actually made to help you read faster, easier and comprehend more?
Cheaper prices will always matter and will never cease to be one of the primary competitive angles.

Most of retail is notoriously competitive. The savings are likely to be passed down at some point. In general retail if you can persistently charge 5% less than the competition across the board, you're the next Walmart.
I never shared anything about our pregnancies on Facebook until the babies came.

Anyway, it's stories like this that make me want to share even less personal information. It also shows that we've gotten far too carried away with marketing.
recital 18 clearified absolutly nothing for me. My plain reading of recital 18 is that it has to do with personal records stored on paper or my own computers. it in no way covered emails I received from you via Gmail and whether or not you can demand Google delete emails you sent to me from my Gmail account.
There's something really unsettling about the way this article casually drops a Ted Kaczynski reference without, you know, even doing so much as alluding to the messed-up things that he did. There are probably better examples of people to use, right?
Maybe if they start seeing large number of clicks but far less conversions they might stop using big G and start looking at alternatives?
This is actually a very neat and useful website. Also respect for making the website fast and not adding any 3rd party scripts.
Actually, most stuff described here is implementable in any language. Since its public interface is just a container.
Google really hates this. They've got some heavy anti-spidering watchers going on to prevent this. There was a Github project that was designed to randomize the search queries under your account. I'm not sure if that got shut down by google, or what happened. Suffice to say, not so good things happened.
The author describes manually removing herself from being targeted, e.g. clicking "I don't want to see this ad" and "It's not relevant to me". Are we supposed to be content with platforms that are unable to incorporate such manual feedback? I mean, we (the average user on HN) get pretty irate when software ignores or reverts config options we've previously set. I don't see how this is much different.
My correction was merely about the usage of "Germanic" vs specific languages with regard to "old" ;) In general classifying it as "Germanic" is correct, yes. My original distinction was more intended to be about the difference between originally Germanic words vs Scandinavian-only ones.

It's probably hard to tell in which of the languages (Norse, German, English) it originated, because there are little sources in that time (talking mid-first millennium here). From what I know German is a little older than Old Norse (700 vs 900).

Regarding "viking boats", I used that as an example for a type of boat, I'm pretty sure it was a common way of building boats at the time - the Romans used similar rudders. The concept would have been known to all people building ships.
You're absolutely right. It's wildly unethical to treat people as second-class citizens for no reason at all. This just might not be a scenario where there is no reason.

There's actually a rather complex wrinkle here. Failing to treat contractors as sufficiently different from employees can incur liability as if they are employees. This is not speculation, and has bitten large software companies - https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...

In order to treat contractors as equal with employees, any company would have to essentially make them employees. While I'm absolutely certain this would be better for many people! I'm also certain that some would wind up unemployed. Not to mention that some people prefer contracting for their own reasons.

Perhaps there's cause for a careful examination of some subtlety here?
Netflix - Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
She describes clicking "I don't want to see this ad" and "It's not relevant to me".
This is great feedback to help optimize the site but I wouldn’t lose sleep over it u til you’ve proven the concept. As an early iteration I’m glad you made a useful tool and you shipped it. Optimizing bundle sizes is much easier than making something useful.

That being said, getting feedback like this helps you spot ways to make it better. I’m on an iPhone X with very good data most of the time so my opinion is going to be biased toward not caring about 1MB of js that will be cached in future visits.
The simple example here being how Google seems to prioritize "current news", particularly those clicked the most often, over actual search results.

Which from the outside feels very similar to how YouTube tends to "harmonize" it's dynamic playlists aka "mixes" to such a point that all of them end up being the same after the first 1-2 songs because everything after that seems to be strictly based on personalization and not the original song the mix was created on.
They also have one of these at the Speyer Technik Museum in Germany [0]

[0]: https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran
The general style guide is to "write it how you say it":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Indefinite_a...

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/A...

Of course there will be variants where you'd just have to make a decision (e.g. how do you pronounce SQL?)

One note: technically, 'HN' is an initialism; acronyms are special cases of initialisms that are pronounceable.
Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension
I also read it as a direct response to the mother who put out the tweet and it seems pretty appropriate to me? What part of the parent comment is inaccurate?
Here is a link to the raw proposed decision: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M238/K227/2...
Forces.. WHO?! to care? You can't be serious.

And she sounds exactly entitled. The system isn't there for her.
because some people want prebuilt solutions rather than messing with command-line scripts for everything.
A marriage is more than just two people.

A marriage necessarily involves at least one ather person, the one vested with the power to marry others.

Or, marriage is a social contract.

Therefore, it could be argued, marriage is fundamentally political.

Edit: fixed speeling and gramar
> That's no guarantee for future performance.

Is anything a guarantee of future performance?
In Java, it was mostly a no brainer: Objects were already aligned on 16byte boundaries, the extra shift is mostly free on modern hardware, and the optimizer is smart enough to compute the base only once if multiple fields are accessed - the common situation.

But that's Java. In C, pointer casting makes it impossible to do this without help from the programmer: You simply can't stop the programmer to cast an invalid value to a pointer. In theory, a mode where char is 2, 4 or 8 physical bytes, but in practice, a lot of software would break.
Your post is based on a premise that is simply false:

> And whatever else the fact is that privatized information infrastructure simply has not worked overall.

"Worked" compared to what? The U.S. is in the top 10 for average connection speeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_.... It is far ahead of France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, and Spain (which is 70%+ of the EU population). That's all the result of private infrastructure.

> Of course governments can have issues too.

This is a huge understatement. Our roads are full of potholes. Amtrak is never on time. WMATA is on fire. New York spends 5-7x as much money to build a mile of subway as London or Paris.[1] Our water infrastructure is poisoning children with lead.[2] That's our public infrastructure.

I travel to Germany and Japan for business, and when I come home, it's not broadband that I'm steamed about. Our broadband is fine (better than Germany, worse than Japan), especially here on the east coast. But our public, government-run infrastructure is total shit in comparison. After riding Japanese trains around, I get on the D.C. Metro and it makes me actively mad.

To me, the correct premise seems to be exactly the opposite of the one you're applying. U.S. state and local governments are so completely awful at building and maintaining infrastructure, that even a private monopoly with no competition is preferable to a government-run system.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-chicago-wate...
This one appeared on hn some time ago:

https://sansforgetica.rmit/
Where is the "literal terror"?
Yeah, I think that's a reasonable point. There's definitely a good point of lamp-post searching here, imo. The biggest challenge is that technologies like mass spec can't get you a truly unbiased few of the tumor epi-nome, and so it's hard to really get a truly measurement of what fraction are from where (this is what they are trying to do here, but I think depth is still an issue).

The viruses part is interesting too, but from a different angle: viral specific t-cells are found, in abundance in tumors, and it's believed that they aren't doing anything (i.e., they're bystanders) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29769722
I think OP is just reapplying it to another context where it works equally as well.
Alternatively 3DIC invites power efficient architectures which scale transistors over power per transistor. Such that you might have many more processor cores / stream processors, clocked much slower, at lower voltages.

The real problem as I see it, is that producing 3D chips is uneconomical for most cases. You either need to stack dies (expensive), or produce layers of transistors, incurring more lithography / etch / mask steps (slow and expensive). So it mainly makes economical sense in area constrained scenarios.
Or rather the Angles live on, in Angland and in Denmark.
Actually "for Linux" came from the legal department as Linux is a trademark and it's a common practice to indicate relationship with "for X" where X is a trademark (e.g. "Y for Twitter" instead for "Twitter Y" that would suggest close relationship, from the same company).
I use "Hack" in my editor, one of the only fonts that puts me at ease when programming. Other than that, I'm always happy to see the system font stack used on webpages.
Edge programming with Rust and WebAssembly
Some make good money and like it. Some would rather have more consistent pay and less emotional labor. Some think it's good for them but unfair to the back of the house. Some have seen it facilitate wage theft and hate it.
> Minor improvements such as in this case can improve the productivity

Unfortunately when your sales come from hardware vendors and you have a monopoly those improvements have zero ROI and that's why minor improvements haven't happened until now when Apple has eroded their mind & marketshare.

Note, Apple's business model of selling direct to consumer means these small productivity improvements are noticed by the purchaser, which is why we often see minor improvements on their platform and not MS.
There is some kind of modem hidden in every fax machine https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
i used this platform very first time and now a days i'm taking help from here: https://theanimationstudio.co/ regarding art and animation point of view.
I remember it being there, but for whatever reason, I was always looking for it under "extended search". Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
> the common folk in a town have to pay at least somewhat for the municipal broadband even if they do not use it; so it'd better be worth using.

Just anecdotally, there are Whip City Fiber signs up all over (you get a discount if you let them put one on your lawn with installation). We're long past the days where Internet access is desired by only a subset of the population. I think $70/mo is a little above what "everybody" wants to pay. I am hoping after the initial financials have settled, they will offer a lower tier.

> actively excluding competition (Comcast in this case, if the title is anything to go by)

If you read the article, what Charlemont rejected was the town paying Comcast for a build out. That's a significant point that's glossed over in most of these public vs private debates - with low population density, private communications companies do not nobly invest their own money, but get the government to pay for the infrastructure that they end up owning.
We were doing this stuff in 1993 with OS/2, Rogue Wave libs and SmartHeap. It was a LOT of work and exposed many a buggy motherboard.

We had to build everything ourselves except for the STL like features of RW Tools.h++ and a few other of their libs.

1990s C++ compilers were ... interesting ... - especially for templates.