skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of the inventors of RSS. I was on the RSS 1.0 RSS-DEV Working Group.

I'm also the creator of Datastreamer (http://www.datastreamer.io/) which you could think of as a massive petabyte-scale RSS aggregator.

Seeing that I helped invent RSS, and have probably parsed more RSS than anyone (hundreds of petabytes), I'm going to call it and say that RSS is dead.

Datastreamer used to index RSS and we've long since deprecated it as a secondary data source. It's really not our primary content source.

We prefer to index raw HTML.

HTML can do exactly what you want and you don't need RSS thanks to microformats and microdata.

Here's the main problem:

1. Publishers don't care about your use case. They WANT you go to back to the site and click their ads.

2. Publishers want to hoard their content and sell it if possible. This is the exact antithesis of RSS content distribution (that the Internet should be open).

What's the way forward?

1. HTML microdata parsing RSS but implemented in microdata.

Publishers actually WANT their data to be distributed this way as they're hoping their content is distributed over Twitter and Facebook.

The only downside here is that full content is often not used.

2. Metadata sharing.

SELF metadata sharing where communities of users markup and share their own content.

I'm going to be working on some ideas around this in Polar (my project around distributed content sharing).

https://getpolarized.io/

I think you're going to start seeing some of the ideas around the next gen of content syndication in a few months.

Right now I'm trying to build a large network of users by building an amazing tool to handle your content.

Once the user base is there then I can enable content collaboration where users are sharing content to each other.

This will also include some RSS-like features at some point but indexed around microdata.
OK, hence the Facebook issue where they played a silent audio track to keep their app active. I'd forgotten about that, thanks.
this is fascinating, as I loved the first book and hated the 2nd.

I felt the translator of the first book was better by a lot.
So you are telling me these were the only guys ever to have friends and family with that sort of cash to help out ?

Many millions are lost every year by friends and families helping start companies that fail.
> If you're turning off all services including calls and SMS,

The way I read GP he disabled everything except calls, SMS and alarms.

Which kinda makes sense, you want something for authorities to track you in case you end up missing and unable to call for help yourself.
Yes, I have a TP-Link router and a separate access point (so two different SSIDs in my oddly-shaped home) - no doubt this doesn't help.
discord comes close. however it doesn't have that "dangerous" feeling where nothing stops you from exploring dark corners.
For checking dependencies for updates, my package/dependency manager (pipenv) can check for me, and even do an audit for what dependencies need security updates, through the safety tool (https://github.com/pyupio/safety). This is for an application though, not a distro like what you seem to be doing.
I have worked remote and in office jobs. Whenever I work remote, I find I'm naturally more involved in meetups. This helps make up for some of the social activity I am missing.

More about my thoughts on the downsides of remote work here:

https://www.culturefoundry.com/cultivate/digital-agency-life...
> Is there collateral damage when forks like this happen?

In this specific case, the only collateral damage would be if the attacker used the produced bitcoins to pay someone, and received something in exchange for this.

In this case, whoever sent the attacker something in exchange for the bitcoins, would stand empty-handed after these bitcoins ceased to exist.
The article does mention a Crunchbase study that found that startups in general have roughly the same proportion of female founded startups as Paypal alumni funded, female founded, startups.

It's slightly odd that the article, which clearly intends to be pejorative, is focused on female founders when the data doesn't say anything interesting about female founders.

You've have thought with such a small dataset, they could have found something that appeared more damning.
n7player on Android, with Toaster Cast - it used to work better. Could be third party issues contributing to the problem...
Whether this is possible or not is deeply missing the point as well as showing a vital misunderstanding about UX.
Sheetz and McDonald’s also have food ordering kiosks, although neither serve upscale mediterannean food.
How to use styled components with Material UI in a React app
Tips to Increase Mobile App Reviews
Google is one of the main groups working on it. For example, the draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-dispatch-web-packa... is by a Google employee.
I've learned a lot about social impact projects and the people that gravitate this space in recent years due to my involvement with thesunprotocol.io, trying to build infrastructure in sub-saharan Africa. Technology might not be the only challenge, but electrical power, gsm networking and wi-fi and water purification systems are very much needed on the ground.
Samsung Launching the M Series in India on January 28
I remember when we ordered 64MB (not GB) of RAM for the Sun 4/330 that was my main machine in 1990 or so and someone flew from London to Edinburgh to install it!

The box was definitely worth more than my flat at the time.
Fisher and Paykel SleepStyle Auto CPAP Machine – Cpapusa
Per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar, the projected release date for Firefox 69 (stable) is 2019-09-03.
I don't think any service can beat Hetzner's €3 server with 1vCPU 2GB 20TB specs.
This feels like cargo culting. The point of IO isn't the RealWorld stuff (that's an implementation technique, and not even really true these days as IO offers all sorts of other facilities), the point is that it's a way to get the language's type system to help you distinguish between accidental control flow and essential control flow ( http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbo... ). Without the type system it's a lot of ceremony for no benefit.
Getting started with HTTP caching in Rails
They've warned about this for a while now, good to see it going through.
Announcing Newspack
If Play Store allows to mark the app as incompatible with specific models, that might be the best recourse―since the app can't function properly on those phones anyway.
If you've made the move to powershell:

https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

--Steve Jobs, "Thoughts on Flash," 2010
None of those seem to have anything to do with gender...

Many people have access to a million dollars, not many seem to have good ideas.
I remember saving my money for an entire summer so I could play Doom with a Gravis Ultrasound Pro. In retrospect, it was a huge waste of money as the card was rarely supported in mainstream games of that era.
I enjoyed that part, but he could have done it in a 20 page short story.

I'm not sure if Liu Cixin is emblematic of Chinese science fiction, but the services of a more aggressive editor seem to be missing. Imho, it would have vastly improved the series, and possibly cut it down to a single volume.
This is why I think the main repo page would have been a better link than the Readme, which lacks that short description.
Every blog I've tried to follow for years has had an RSS feed. Are microformats really as reliable? Like, picking a blog at random from my feed, I don't see any microdata on the page.
You're simplifying things. I don't think parks or co-work spaces will cut it for most people. Many software developers are introverts to begin with so meeting new people will become impossible for them in a remote work setting.
Homeless have nothing to lose and everything to gain, busted
1. no, does not work — email clients warn users that if the app gets killed then notifications will stop and yes, I tested this quite recently

2. no, it does not work for background uploads, here are screenshots of Dropbox's configuration and Dropbox is not alone in doing this ;-)

Step 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7vylhljg2fwtb8/2019-01-14%2015.02...

Step 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9knz2zz6zs28l5/2019-01-14%2015.04...
That's the thing though: for AMD GCN, the compilers do have to do the right thing.

You can look at the actual hardware ISA, it's all documented e.g. here: https://rocm-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GCN_ISA_..., and both the HCC compiler and Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan implementations are open-source and based on LLVM, where the backend is even upstream, so you can take a look for yourself.

Essentially everything those compilers do would be possible on a CPU with masked SIMD instructions (e.g. AVX512). In fact, that's basically how ISPC works. The one exception is that GCN has much more powerful scatter/gather support than CPUs do (and graphics-focused stuff like texture sampling hardware). But as far as the execution model is concerned, it's really the same.
> Many many many millions are lost every year by friends and families helping start companies that fail.

As you've seen, there is a huge amount of luck involved as well.
It's always good news to hear about people promoting remote work. I wonder how are interpersonal relationships for people who work in fully remote companies. Things like , are you friends with your coworkers, or do you share your personal lives and to what extent?
Background App Refresh has been a thing for ages - It took them a while, but Apple solved this problem in a super user-friendly manner.
Why is MPEG successful?
Another reason for people to switch to Chrome
Curious, have you read Asimov? Specifically Foundation?
Origin of the Elements
Oh, technology is absolutely needed! But simply "dumping a load of machinery" on Africa doesn't work, or at least not for long, if one doesn't consider the social and cultural ramifications.
I’m flattered
> One of the criticisms of psychological studies historically has been that we've been studying mostly abnormal behaviors

I’m not sure this is actually true. There’s tons of data from “normal” subjects, though normal here mostly means “average behavior of an 18-22 year old college student.” If anything, psychology would probably benefit from more focus on individual differences rather than commonalities.
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If you gave Gitlab a PO Box address in the Bay Area as your address, wouldn't they have to pay you Bay Area salaries without you paying Bay Area rent?

If not a PO Box, some other proxy by which you aren't genuinely living there. Maybe just a short-term roommate lease situation?
Workaround the excessively short TMOUT value with (without disabling it, though) :

exec env TMOUT=259200 bash
Pebble-bed nuclear reactor
Ask HN: Book recommendations based on what books you liked?
I'm looking for a service that provides book recommendations based on how you've rated books that you've read. Analogue of https://movielens.org/
It’s being steadily phased out in Chrome, too, to be completely removed by the end of 2020. https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash...
I can only press one key before it moves the cursor into the search box.

Firefox.
I hope RSS keeps being provided for most sites.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I keep track thanks to RSS.

Most podcasting platforms behave the same way: they put themselves in between listeners and broadcasters and limit the way people can share the audio, how it is synchronized with some device, and always making sure that our browsing data can me monetized in some way.

So podcasters usually have a never-ending list of platforms, which not always overlap, and which I would never subscribe anyway.

I find this annoying, and that is why I've always used RSS. For news, it allowed me to skim through the stuff I didn't want to read and also to miss all of the annoying ads.

Now, it seems many RSS reader behave the same way: users need a login in order to access a closed environment that monetizes your reading habits.

Fortunately, I found QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org), a cross-platform FOSS for RSS with backup, import/export, and adblocking.

I like it a lot. I guess the only way it could be improved is by making it fully portable.
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Adobe themselves have abandoned Flash. They announced the end of life for Flash quite some time ago:

https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

All browsers will block Flash soon enough. It has no future.
Airship Alberto: The Personal Blimp (2007)
If I ask someone "We need to add spidev to the dtb, can you do that?" there are several possible answers they can give:

"Yes" meaning "This is a <1 hour job for me, I've done such things several times and have all the tools, skills, data and experience needed"

"Yes" meaning "This is a <1 day job for me, I've done similar things once or twice with some difficulty"

"Yes" meaning "This is a <1 week job for me, I don't know precisely what to do but I can probably figure out how to do it with my general programming knowledge, and Google"

"Yes" meaning "I have no idea, but you wouldn't be asking if it was impossible and I don't want to say no to my senior"

The differences between these yeses is often lost in nonverbal communication.
It already has a chapter on MapReduce, which is making a few assumptions about where the student is going, whereas teaching category theory is appropriate for where the student is.
That's a copout if I've ever heard one.

A few years ago, there was a game some adolescents would play where they would run up to an unsuspecting person person and bludgeon them as hard as possible to knock them out. There have been variants of the same pattern of behavior except involving strikes to other areas.

It is absolutely justifiable to hate a person for engaging in a game that involves inflicting harm on others. This attitude to hate the game rather than those forcing it on everyone else just seeks to divest blame from the actors that perpetuate the malignant activity, to an assumption that "the game" is some mysterious standalone force that subverts the will of the participants and justifies their innocence.

In short, "the devil made me do it" is not an excuse for poor moral choices.

Lets take it even further.

I have a game.

I'm going to get all the lifesaving equipment I can, and open a facility. This facility is going to specialize in a particular type of highly asymmetric transactions, and I'm going to do everything I can to inflict the greatest financial harm I can, because gee, the way we keep score mandates I do so to keep the game going.

It's a hard realization to come to, but as human beings and individuals, our collective behavior is dependent and a composition our individual choices.

And for a not insignificant portion of our population, we have succeeded in allowing it to scrape together a world around itself where maybe it takes a week to explain the technicalities, but it doesn't take a layman more than an a 15 minutes to come to the conclusion there is something seriously wrong.

This is one of those cases where rationalization has been left unchecked or unquestioned for far too long.

To wrap around to the true meaning underlying your aphorism, which is diluted without context:

Don't hate the market participants for participating in the market; but feel free to call out the hypocrisy of dealing in grievous financial harm in trade for necessary care. If you can't question or shame the actions of the ones perpetuating the status quo, you'll never change a blessed thing.

Mrs. Bloom in Accounting is still a part of it. Even if she'd rather not think about it.
Yeah, agree there's a perspective shift there.

I also find that typing doesn't work as well as hand-writing for me. I think my brain is in a different mode (publish), so it's judging/editing things as I type -- vs handwriting, where maybe the mechanics are so unconscious the brain can mull the thought over instead of trying to edit it. Maybe talking out loud has the same benefit.
As far as I know, Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com) bases its recommendations on what you read/liked. Have you tried it?
Thanks very much! I'll definitely move this up. I've spent a lot of time rewriting/moving/mangling copy in the past few weeks -- reasonably sure I've made it worse. ;)
It's pretty weird for an API to ask for a client certificate.

We have a client certificate authentication in one of our projects. We hold the root CA key (self-signed), and this key is used to sign intermediate certificates, whose root private keys are held by our resellers. They issue client certificates, so we can easily find the reseller and end user.

With a public CA issueing client certificates, I wonder how you can authenticate clients at all, because any root CA can issue certificates now.

Or perhaps they are asking for S/MIME certificates?
I work on an open core business model, and we spend a fair amount of time thinking about ways to prevent third parties from stealing our lunch.

CockroachDB has an interesting model, where they've tried to closely couple their open source and premium products. This coupling makes it harder for third parties to build against the open source and even easier for enterprises to use it.

Do people here have examples of companies that are taking innovative approaches to the licensing/OSS question?
From my .vimrc

set incsearch

set hlsearch

set ts=4

set smartindent

set tags=./tags;/
before you can get something in your life, you need to have space for that. the trick is to know yourself enough, that way, you can choose what you actually want. if it feels like a leap of faith, then probably you have too many unanswered questions (about yourself)
I couldn't help but read that with historical-political overtones, which in light of 19th century Chinese history and the modern CCP seemed terrifying.

I also took issue with the implicit assumption that two civilizations cooperating would develop no faster than a single civilization. Or, another way, that all civilizations would climb the same technology ladder the same way.

On Earth, historical competition between nation-states has suggested a very different reality.
Japan’s exit from international whaling treaty may benefit whales
If they're paying you to take garden leave, you're technically still employed by them. By my reckoning, that wouldn't leave a gap.

Another possible explanation: "I took a two-year sabbatical to work on my own projects and improve my skills".
I want to avoid to do comparison with the said X tool without fully understanding their constraints because different approaches have made different design trade off and each has its own strength. That having been said, the academia often publish some survey papers about the state of art of memory error detection tools. There is a recent paper "SoK: Sanitizing for Security"(https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04355) that has categorized most of the known dynamic memory error finding tools very well. They analyzed the different detection mechanisms and collected empirical data with their best efforts in their categorization. It's highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand the difference among these detection tools.

IMHO, If you want to increase your detection coverage. You might need multiple tools to fulfill your code quality requirements. If you cannot use multiple tools, pick the one that is readily available.
Slack receives messages with no problem.

If XMPP/IRC can’t provide that, it’s not iOS’ problem.
Anime.js 3.0 – JavaScript animation engine
That is a feature you have to enable yourself :)
What about changing your app to a service that you host that calls their phone instead of an alarm?
As TFA notes (in the Nokia section, possibly others):

> This app kills apps in the most brutal way we have seen so far among Android vendors.

You can't detect that your application was kill -9'd. I don't think you can detect that "PowerSavingAppG3" is running either (I'd guess it's running as root and you're not), so you can't even infer from its existence that your application will be traumatically killed in short order.
If it’s done to manipulate stock price, yes.
You have to move physical cash. And they have dogs at airports just for finding it.
Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding in the Holland Tunnel
“Computer” Mouse: A DIY Project
I wonder what's going to happen to all the incredible Flash media, especially games, produced over the years. I hope someone's archiving them, because I'd hate for us to lose them.
I use tmux + vim. I use different tmux sessions for work, school and side projects.
Yeah. New agreements have supremacy clauses.
The biggest challenge with this strategy is discovering which links to index.

The microdata is much more data.

You can see this metadata when you post to Twitter or Facebook and it shows a preview.

We have the internal stats to show that this is MUCH more reliable than RSS but I don't really have it in a format that I can readily share.

Discovering the links can be done by just spidering every post on the front page.

The biggest challenge is the timestamp. We handle that by just keeping a fingerprint of all the URLs and we only index URLs that have either never been seen before or have timestamps.

I honestly with timestamps were required by Facebook and Twitter or at least given special treatment.

The special treatment strategy by Google and others has REALLY done a great job at upgrading the quality of the Internet by not breaking it.

Basically saying that your site will get some tangible financial benefit if you run X spec.

So if you enable IPv6 or HTTPS you get an SEO boost.

Companies actually pay attention to this and implement these changes.
Are you actually doing anything with the contacts currently or is that data discarded?
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Firas
I've read (and thoroughly enjoyed) them all, didn't even know Ball Lightning was a prequel (it was written after the trilogy). Perhaps some repeat characters?

I don't believe there are any spoilers either way.
That's why I'm happy with Android One (which many Nokia phones come with these days).
The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming
PayPal's 2FA is prwcticqlly broken for anyone who travels often. There is no support for TOTP apps.
Like most SGML/XML languages, RSS as a tool for machines is pretty great: server pushes data out, dedicated client (podcast player) retrieves it (often through a directory/aggregator), the user is happy without ever having to know RSS exists.

As a document format for chronological, uniform data streams that need to carry human-readable metadata, RSS is just fine. What is unrealistic is the delusion (of which I was complicit, like many) that it could also become the standard way to retrieve most or all information on the planet. There are too many incentives against that.
>The war on drugs is also a big contributor to the LEGAL gangs such as police,distric attornies, defence attorneys, prison officials and worst of all judges.

I agree with your sentiment but I find it odd that you think judges are the worst. Of all the people in the system judges are probably the least worst because they don't have as many incentives to do things that are bad for society but good for them personally the way all the other actors do (i.e. they do not directly benefit from the war on drugs).
Another reason for people to switch to _Firefox_.
FTFY
Many of the tablets can be found here: http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=proto-elamite .
Meanwhile, Halo 2600 was written in Atari BASIC (probably) https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=998
Over 175 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2