skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, along with a corresponding point, production values. Now, everyone who makes a video has to have theme music, an intro, and use specific cues. Podcasts all tend to sound the same too. Do these aspects really add anything or are they just gatekeepers about who can conform? I've seen plenty of slick videos on Youtube that have little content, while less produced videos may have way more useful content but they don't take off because they don't have support.

Maybe the slick presentations put people in a headspace, but that on its own is the start of the slippery slope of not being original because then everything has to be streamlined to those expectations, and productions aren't recognized unless they have these features.

It will probably take another leap before the internet moves past this, where presentations aren't videos with one view and one soundtrack focused on particular personality types, where text and charts aren't pictures but rather mixable data used to render arbitrary views. I guess ironically if Flash had taken over the Web in the early days we might be closer to that vision now since it was more the focus to create an interactive work rather than using a desktop application to generate a video, or the generally harder slog to create interactives in Web technologies.
Normal people already express themselves on mainstream social media, about normal things. Normal people aren't the ones wishing the web was weird and quirky again, and they couldn't care less that Facebook or Twitter doesn't let them customize their CSS.
Why did some animals evolve milk and breastfeeding?
Given the choice between a person with a particular hairstyle and a person who minimizes the value of others by mocking their appearance, I would choose to work with the former.
Hello everyone. I am excited to release The Road to React with Firebase this week. It's a free ebook which teaches you advanced React with Firebase while building a starter kit project with user management, authentication, and other neat features such as sending email verifications, social logins with Google and Twitter, and password retrievals.

I believe it's a great minimal tech stack to create MVPs or to bootstrap product ideas. That's why I wanted to show it to others by building such a starter kit application with React + Firebase step by step in this book. I hope you enjoy it :)
> and reclassification of generational farms as "blighted

Not that I'm defending this obvious abuse of power but most multi-generational farms have enough old vehicles and equipment sitting around that most white collar people would call them "blighted" if the context were different.
Don't they have to? They don't know what every company is actually doing with the Enterprise certs.
I think it's incorrect to assume that small websites rely on advertising to keep the lights on. They are the ones who definitely can't make enough on ads to sustain and are always funded primarily some other way. But at the same time running ads they let advertising companies to profit from all of them in aggregate.

Given that, I don't see any point trying anything that somehow keeps ads around. Intrusive online advertising doesn't really need to exist.
No joke, I do remember when Facebook came onto the scene, I liked it way better than MySpace. I absolutely hated how customized MySpace pages became. It was dreck. Sound would blast when you opened someone's page. You could barely read what was on the page at times. It was occasionally fun but more often than not really terrible.
CSP is one of Go's killer features and it is going to get overused by newbies regardless of this article. But that is part of the process that everyone goes through learning a new language and hopefully the experienced people will try to be good mentors and help them gain a more balance view of their use and not get irritated.
I can't tell if these posts are astroturfed or not. Every other day there's a top post on HN to use DDG (which is mostly a wrapper over Bing) as the default search.
> The answer is simple: Security.

That's only half the answer. The real answer is that no one wants to spend the time to offer those features securely.

It's perfectly cromulent to allow users to upload CSS and html and even javascript. You just have to put a lot of effort into making it safe.

Look what we did on reddit -- we allowed users to make almost any CSS they want, and look at the beautiful creations that have come from that (like all the sports reddits). It was a lot of work figuring out how to make it safe, but we did it.

And now they're putting in a ton of effort to make it work on mobile too. Because reddit still values user creativity.

It's totally possible to allow all that creativity, it just takes time and consideration to make it safe.
Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; extraterrestials not ruled out
I’ve switched over recently too. I’m slowly removing Google from my life as much as I reasonably can. The one thing I can’t find an alternative for is Google Scholar. I’ve never found another half decent search engine for research journals. The fact that I can get references formatted pretty consistently for BibTeX right from Google Scholar is a big plus.
As someone who has been interacting online since FidoNet was a thing, I have to say ... this is a problem as old as humans. There were plenty of politicized discussions back then, plenty of contentious people, plenty of trolls. In some ways the vibe was different, but really, it wasn't better. Or worse, to be honest.
I think this is ultimately an empirical question about "the average beginner." The main issue I have with PlusCal (aside from being more complicated in that it has complicated constructs like subroutines and a stack) is that it could confuse people into thinking that specifying (in TLA+/PlusCal) resembles programming because the PlusCal syntax resembles programming. This can lead to confusion down the line. This is why I think it's a question of would you rather be confused now or later? But if someone finds it easier to start with PlusCal, I see no issue with that.
Or just !s :)
What generally happens to kids that find a US nickel on the ground/floor and swallow it without their parents notice? This must have happened a million of times.
Might just be that US companies are known to be subject to National Security Letters
I think the article has a point, but I'm not convinced the fun and weird stuff really went away. Social media probably had a pretty big impact on people losing ownership over their online presence, but often I think it's just harder to find the cool stuff.

A few years ago I attended a 60th birthday, and I was seated next to a retired biologist. He was a wonderful man, full gray unkept beard, and, the only man attending who wasn't wearing a suit. Instead he wore a striped shirt, some green work pants, suspenders and a green hat that he only reluctantly took off as his wife shot him a look. A real character, and a great conversationalist. When he found out that I worked with EDB he enthusiastically told me about his blog about the fauna of Bornholm (one of our islands). I looked it up when I got home, and it was exactly what I had expected. He obviously build it himself, without the use of any form of blogging engine or framework, and it was this really nerdy thing full of stories and pictures of the fauna of Bornholm along with his journals of discovery. Sadly I didn't keep the link, and I haven't been able to find it since.

I have another great gem though, it's the webpage of my psychologist: http://psykoweb.dk (please don't crash it). I think it certainly lives up to what the article is about, but it's actually also full of useful information and science done, found and tested in a long life of psychology. Most of the other places I follow aren't like this. They look more akin to https://www.valdemarsro.dk , but unlike the article, I don't think the uglyness was really the true value, I think it was the content, and you can certainly have that in a nice package.

I personally hope a lot more people start taking ownership, and start building their own little places on the internet and I wish it wasn't so hard to find these days. I don't think they need to look like Geocites, I really don't. But I do miss the bravery in the openness and honesty of the early internet, because that stuff was just more interesting. As I write that, I know I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I'm completely guilty of being uninteresting myself. My main socialmedia is linkedin, and it's where I put most of my musings, and as such they're marketed to represent exactly the sort of message you'd expect to find on linkedin. They're informative, but they're also selling either myself or my points. Which is fine for linkedin, but it's also a lot less interesting than the authentic interent where things were actually fun, weird and entirely geninue.
From the tipper's perspective, what would the difference be between the restaurant garnishing the waiter's tips vs the restaurant garnishing the waiter's tips and then giving some to the cook?
could that be that newly elected governor from the Bribes-R-US party, is sabotaging this to stick it to conservatives?
+ https://www.are.na/
https://itch.io/ is an interesting community of people doing hello world to full indie games. There is weird and wonderful stuff in that messy pile.

https://asmb.itch.io/dmcas-sky

[NSFW] https://radiatoryang.itch.io/the-tearoom [NSFW]

https://captaingames.itch.io/enviro-bear-2000

For a sampling of the fun and weird
Nice! Published one hour after my comment and it's their top front page article.
Blatantly false. I looked it up, and actually it is included in the universal declaration of human rights.

Maybe next time don't just ctrl+f the wikepedia entry and instead actually look at the document you moron.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

> (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Agreed. I think it's a deficiency of imagination. If I had the time I'd reinvent wheels all day. I'd especially love to figure out how to make some of the cool open source cloud native projects feasible for use by some college kid who wants to run a distributed ecosystem on a cluster of old laptops and raspberry pis without 10 years of devops or sysadmin experience.
A lot of stupid rules.
US nickels have had the same composition (75% copper and 25% nickel) since first being issued in 1866. Hopefully people who feel that using it as a structural metal is a bad idea due to its toxicity are quite wrong and hundreds of millions of Americans are not touching a high toxic metal every day. We once put lead in gasoline, so who knows for sure. Get rid of nickels and the US average IQ goes up a point?
Hmm, not sure I like this idea. I'm a very pro-PWA/webapp sort of person, so anything that restricts flexibility on the webapp side annoys me. Especially given the number native apps that are equally as bloated and virtually never share or reuse code between apps (think of the 10mb native note taking apps out there).

Perhaps we just let quality rise to the top? If your website is full of ads and slow, then someone else with better, less annoying execution will eventually win more users.
Statistically? I don't know.

But I have a friend who's an airline pilot. He was telling me about hitting windshear while coming in for a landing. The plane has software that not only tells him that he hit windshear, but also tells him what angle to put the nose at for best results. (The problem is airspeed. So you go to full power, but pitching the nose down also helps you gain airspeed. But the ground is down there, because you're coming in for landing. What angle is the best? The computer can figure it out and tell the pilot what to do.)
Yes, I wrote a bit too quickly there. Pogo might, but doesn't generally shut down engines, it shakes the launch vehicle apart. Engines with out of control pogo oscillations could be commanded to shut down to avoid a boom.
I understand the privacy concerns, but for me, if I'm prepared to outsource my email to Google then how different is it to let other SaaS scan my inbox to provide their service (I accept size is one factor).

The Privacy Policy of Leave Me Alone is pretty clear on their respect for my data (not selling it).

If they don't respect this policy, it's going to get found out eventually, and it's going to hurt their business and their future reputation as founders.

Their incentives are in the right place to behave in the way that they've stated.

Security could be a concern as well, but it's all done within the framework that Google has created. Tokens can be revoked (if one desires, immediately).

Which just leaves the servers being compromised before/during the interaction. This isn't impossible and is something that LeaveMeAlone should definitely be considering. However, A breach potentially means the end of their business. This makes me trust, again, that their incentives are in preventing this from happening and investing in hardening the servers (etc).
On the other hand, I know I'm a shitty driver, and self-driving cars can't come soon enough :)
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Highly recommend this book. I would consider myself experienced with many statistical methods but this book was still chock full of brilliant examples that let me look at things with fresh eyes. It was helpful also in giving me language to explain technical concepts to less technical folks.
I increasingly feel we need to apply more "sledgehammers" to security. If I was running servers with security I cared about, I would use a malloc which cleared all allocations, and the new llvm/clang flags which clear all stack variables to fix unitanialised problems. Maybe even try turning on the more advanced clang sanitizers, if I could afford the cpu time.

If we, as programmers, want to be respected, we need to make every reasonable effort to improve security.
Very few publicly traded super giant companies act with any spine. Most just employ this tactic.

Apple still seem to be one of the very rare companies with this much power who even half-heartedly try. Not to defend Apple, of course, since they've done stuff that doesn't need to be defended.

I'm very curious to see how this plays out, though.
They put a really strong emphasis on lowering the barrier to entry. While you're right that it still requires you to write code, so did the MySpace weirdness of olde. I think the difference is it allowed you to only write the code, and they would handle the rest.
Hotlinked images can be replaced with whatever the host desires, so you might have cats today, goatse tomorrow.
I am not sure there is a perfect solution here. you have competing issues that you need to resolve.

If it gets pulled in normal flight you would lose both engines but that's fine because you can glide and restart the engines. if the altitude sensor/ground sensor was broken and you want to override the reverse thrusters you have a conflicting goal there.

If you accidentally pull it during the approach you lose your engines and probably don't have time to relight before landing. in that case you might be able to still land by backup systems(FAU or just the ancillary tail turbine?) and glide?

I guess it boils down to how much trust you place in the pilots to not do the wrong thing or how much trust you place in the machine to not do the wrong thing/malfunction. It's a difficult question without a perfect solution imo.
One extra problem here though is that the outgoing Wisconsin government made several changes to the powers of the Governor during the lame duck period. It wasn't a gut job, but they did kick the legs out of a few powers that could have helped.
The Iron Triangle of Sorting, Indexing, and Temporary Storage
wöwwwww just wow
Wow, look at this evidence of an undemocratic election! Looks like its time for regime change in the US. I think it's only fair that I declare myself the new president. Who else is with me?
"This whole story just doesn't add up. Even from the start, it never did. How could Walker and his cronies have ever fallen for any of this?"

Just a guess, sadly, they probably had the financial lubrication to fight for it. Not to mention that the "big numbers" play to their political audience, my Reagan Republican father, for one. Sure, someone who's a little more insightful about technology might be skeptical, but that wasn't Walker's audience.
Their search results are not relevant enough for me, unless I know exactly what I need (for example searching the brand name) I usually can't find what I am looking for.

I hate to admit it but Google seems to be much more friendly when it comes to search queries in common english, "What is the best lunch spot in city-name?"

Until DDG can provide better results I don't see a mass migration, even with all of Google's privacy problems.
US nickels are still 25% nickel.
1 Tomahawk missile = $1,000,000

1 10kg payload drone = $10,000

Bonus: the killer drone can hang around for hours and tell fried from foe via biometric recognition [voice, face, gait], dutifully compiled by your nearby adtech multinational. Finally we can afford genocide on a private budget.
Thank god youtube got rid of that. One day you would browse a dark page, and boom! Searing white at 3AM! But it’s nostalgic.
Focus vs. Hardworking
I don't know enough about MDX and JDX that Codeblog seem to allow. Where, in your opinion, does Codeblog land on the spectrum: More on the secure but boring side or on the fun and weird but dangerous side?
Do you have anything to back that up, because it directly contradicts my experience.

I've only seen people paid to work on the biggest projects, often only when it's become entrenched in everybody's workflow (Linux, some GCC developers, some Python devs), had the source code released after closed development (OpenSolaris, Firefox), or got taken over by corporation (Clang and Apple, khtml/webkit/Chromium with Google and Apple).

The vast majority of OSS projects IME are tiny, have few developers, and not many users outside of the developer.
Earth’s magnetic field nearly died during critical transition
i don't believe the Nielsen boxes had microphones that monitored the conversation in the room.
I'd buy a program RushPredictor that could predict the next digital gold rush. But I guess everyone would want that, so that would be the rush. So then I'd need MetaShovel..etc
Yeah, that's one of my biggest pet peeves when looking at other people's code (along with unnecessary dynamic allocations in general). One of the reasons I perhaps irrationally still prefer C++ to Rust is the pervasive use of dynamic arrays of known static size in the latter's documentation, and how it makes fixed-size arrays much less ergonomic to use than dynamic arrays.
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Nielson data is a very small very targeted piece of data.
Nielson may be able to somewhat tell something about your family (so critically it is about a group of people instead of an individual person, which is a major difference).

Considering how most people use their phones, this basically gives Google all of your information. There is little to nothing they would not know about you.
Worse is them being able to get information about other people (thanks to them messaging you, while you have this tracker running) without their consent.
Fortnite Further Follows Second Life's Footsteps with In-Game Marshmello Concert
The popularity of farm-simulator gaming in Europe
Everyone who? It's highly unlikely that companies will pay an awful lot of money to these maintainers anyways, so only the less "priviled" (i.e. second/third world citizens mostly) will benefit. Moreover, while some individual maintainers will gain in short term, the developers as a workforce will definitely lose (because certain tasks are taken from freelancers, contract workers and employees and distributed to, well, public). Business does not need more developers (let alone better paid ones), it needs more work done faster and for less money.

Also, I think that most people, who maintain decent OSS projects, have well-paying jobs anyways, so they don't need more money and more work to worry about. What they really need is pull requests and bug reports. Which the business can provide by _hiring_ people, who need money and work, to do the job and send the patches. Double benefit, everyone's happy.
> I was hoping "roughly speaking an order of magnitude" would go down to 3.

I'd call that half a order of magnitude, considering log₁₀(3) is around 0.477. So you're off by more than a factor of two.
Seems odd not to mention sync.Map at least in passing.
Well, I sort of agree with that, and I was with you until you used the term. But I don’t see anything less masculine about the internet now than as it was in 1993. Perhaps “sanitized” would be more applicable?
They know how many installations are active and how many people work for the org. When wildly out of line they could send a lawyer-gram and then shut it down if they don't get a response that accounts for the difference. Enterprise apps still phone home to the mother ship (Apple) and will refuse to run if, for example, the device doesn't have an internet connection for some number of days. (90 if memory serves.)
I’m curious as to what you mean by distribution. I can’t work out what that mean in the context of the web.
I believe that your understanding is correct.

template <typename T>

is a template with one "type parameter" (may not be the correct technical term), whereas

template <typename T, typename U>

is a template with two type parameters, and they can be different. (That's why you give two parameters, so that they don't have to be the same.)
I'm willing to bet that the plane does prevent the pilot from activating reverse thrust when not on the ground.

But what if a thrust reverser self-activated, without being commanded? The previous safety mechanism wouldn't help because it's being bypassed.

So there is a secondary safety system that detects such situations. Something along the lines of "I think the trust reversers shouldn't be activated right now, yet they appear to be activated. The engine is clearly malfunctioning, lets shut it down"

It appears that this secondary safety system has been activated. There was probably a bug, or a sensor malfunction that triggered it.
>And then the pointy-haired boss will demand that the pop-up is fixed.

Which they can do by finding a way to load a lot of JS that doesn't trigger the popup (someone below mentions running eval on a png). This will likely make the site even slower to users but there won't be a popup.

I've found it best to never assume that intelligent creative people will choose the specific approach I want to solve a problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
Google et al are moving EU citizens' data ownership to EU subsidiaries to comply with GDPR.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/12/google-will-shift-control...
It's true, those are tasks vs goroutines. However, what I'd really love to see is tasks vs goroutines using the standard library IO operations. I'm sure Go would be a clear winner.
Morality is orthogonal to their main point, which is that American influence in the world isn't built on military strength but by forging (usually) mutually beneficial military and trade relationships. It is through those relationships that the US is able to project force and maintain hundreds of forward operating bases, not by invading the countries and putting down fortresses that then have to be constantly defended against the local populace (for the most part).
Some apps I use on my phone are open source and released on Github as compiled APK files.

I would never even considering installing one of these via XCode.

For one.... you need XCode and a build environment good to go. For another..... it's ridiculous to have to maintain all open source apps this way.