skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technologiehaufen sounds refreshingly honest if what you are referring to is the usual tangled mess of tools hotwired together from the repositories, and not the carefully vetted selection of neatly interlocking components people dream of when they say "tech stack". The latter might be called Basistechnologiekompisition which did not even exist in the Google index until now. If you insisted on making a direct translation, you should at least go with Stapel, not Haufen.

Tangent: stack (as in LIFO) is traditionally translated Keller instead of the much more literal Stapel, likely to avoid ambiguity between batch (also Stapel) and stack. One of the few ancient computer English translations that absolutely did make it into the 21st century is "Stapelverarbeitung". I think that this is because it sounds just as clumsy as the concept it is describing. When you say Stapelverarbeitung you can almost feel that stack of punched cards that you have never worked with if you are my generation.
California’s biggest utilities are losing their monopolies
Well let's not pretend software is an engineering discipline.

It's art, fashion and politics.
Don't disagree with you but you can still create something 'real' with HTML, CSS, _Javascript_ and notepad :)
Sadly, you'll still find people (even in this thread) that claim "of course Trump's campaign wasn't meant to be taken literally." With statements like "if you took what Trump said on the campaign literally, then you missed the point."

So then if _The Wall_ was figurative, why did he shut down the government over its funding?

"No he meant that one literally."

Okay... So what about the fact that the wall would be funded by Mexico? He claimed that he would literally make them write a check.

"That was obviously figurative."

An exhausting stretch of logic by those who can't burden themselves with introspection.
I really hope that the government will find a complete way to stop the usage of number spoofing for personal/business use. This technology become a popular (and easy) technique for criminals. I read thousands of reports filed at sites like http://whycall.me about this.
Show HN: Restdb.io database now supports ES6 JavaScript snippets/codehooks
Probably, since most ad blocker detection can't tell the difference, and the difference is irrelevant to an ad vendor anyways.
Oh? Friend, may you link me to wherever I can learn more about this? I wanted this in C, so that I could bind it to Crystal [1].

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org
Some of my favorite ones are

- Exponential view for a fascinating insight into the world of tomorrow through today's developments in emerging technologies

http://www.exponentialview.co/

- "The download" by the MIT Technology review - great and brief newsworthy tidbits

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/

- For well-curated and high quality content revolving around blockchain topics, definitely "Token Economy"

https://tokeneconomy.co/
> Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain receptors in the stomach. Once the injection has occurred, the needle can break down in the digestive tract.

That's some pretty impressive ingenuity. Also sounds kinda terrifying if the 1.0 has any kind of edge case that involves tearing holes in your stomach lining.

I'm not diabetic, but I still have vivid memories of sitting with my grandmother while she constantly pricked her finger to test blood sugar and jabbing insulin pens into her abdomen. It's always stuck with me as a particularly unpleasant lifestyle to have to endure. Even still, if I were a diabetic I think I'd still be waiting a year or two after the release of something like this to make sure all the kinks have been ironed out ;)
You conveniently leave out all the security mess of that design, especially WordPress. The plugin system is pretty much the cause of all the security issues in WordPress.

Perhaps end-users should not have the capacity to so easily add third party PHP code, even if it’s “simple.”
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How to March Through Your Day Productively and Not Get Lost in Cyberspace
On Gavin de Becker: If you've done some shady stuff, it's hard to imagine a worse person to have investigating and digging into your activities than Gavin de Becker. Here's a excerpt from Gavin's wikipedia entry on just a little of his work over the years. This Bezos issue isn't even his first foray up against a tabloid:

Along with the United States Marshals Service, he co-designed the MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems, which is used to screen threats to Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, members of United States Congress, and senior officials of the Central Intelligence Agency... De Becker testified in the successful 1994 civil case arising when The Globe tabloid accused an uninvolved man of being the actual assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy. Globe tried to get de Becker's testimony thrown out by a higher court; however, it was ultimately upheld[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_de_Becker
In this context they'd only think you are inquiring about the temperature of the sauce.
Good luck leading eu countries when you are leaving the eu in under 2 months.
"circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service;"

I guess that answers that one.
> Surely a shell around it, which includes it, is also a browser.

An eggshell isn't an egg.

There's a browser there, but it's copied wholesale. And it's the worst thing to copy if you care about the future of web standards.
Relevant South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z696bTiP8Ro
This is a good move. Even though ads are annoying and frustrating at most times it is not anybody's birth-right to use a product/service for free and block their sources of revenue. If they have a pay-to-remove-ads option, use it.
Such an amazing read. What positively surprised me, but perhaps shouldn't have, is that they seem almost relieved they didn't get there first. It's reassuring in a way I have trouble verbalising.
I assume this only applies to the free version of spotify
Zero rating is the antonym of net-neutrality.
Once the facts were known, the Lancet retracted and was contrite. That's a cock-up and apology, not fake news. Fake news would be the news outlets that continued to promulgate the idea.
Apparently the new TOS says that they may do it, not they they will do it.
Why tokenize vouchers and gift cards on Stellar?
Did you miss the part where Russia was actually listening and did what he said, and he had reason to know it?

His "joke" was deliberate treason.
We're about to spend a number of dumptrucks full of money for a modern WCMS combined with a totally new design effort, and I guarantee you at some point someone will see a customer coming in from W7/IE11 and demand we design for 5 years ago.

So if you're that one guy, _can you not_, thanks!
All 50 States have statutes that allow for preliminary injunctions... If Bezos filed a lawsuit he could absolutely seek a court order restraining AMI from publishing the photos pending the outcome of a lawsuit. See, for example: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.40.020
This is bad for your business and your devs on so many levels.
The terminology was obviously not settled at this point. I’m almost certain ‚engine‘ refers to a reactor.
Surprisingly, in between all the hype it seems like the opportunity to tokenize vouchers for e-commerce and retail has been overlooked.

What if you could integrate a simple SDK that supports a global value transfer standard, avoid the requirement of a large operating float and benefit from a fluid marketplace to get the best rates to sell any voucher in the world?

It looks like there is a massive win-win for all stakeholders if vouchers are tokenized. This article unpacks the proposed model for suppliers, retailers, brokers, traders, distributor and consumers.
This is going to end badly. What if the ISP or corporate network have their own domain blacklists?
> Can extend itself as it runs. For example Wordpress, running off of php files can download plugins to its own server (which are just more php files) to instantly extend itself. Without restarting or redeployment. (What other web platforms can do this?)

Java: Use a classloader to load a JAR and instantiate one of its classes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60764/how-should-i-load-...

.Net - use an AppDomain (or other methods): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1137781/correct-way-to-l...
Like any politician, the "Mexico would pay for it" was an "argument" to get support. Did supporters care if Mexico itself would pay? No. But it fit their sentiment. It's win-win for him because the only people who would "care" would be people against the wall who politically don't matter.

It's like when Dems say they want to abolish ICE. That's what their base want to hear. Do they really think ICE is going to be abolished? No, do they like hearing that because it rings nicely in their ears. yes!

Let's abolish ICE is the lefts version of "Mexico will pay for the wall". When they say Abolish ICE, they mean we'll (try to) do the dreamer things and we'll be less literal on refugee interpretation (and include economic migrants as definition of a refugee) for example. And, if it doesn't happen (not enough internal support) we'll blame the Repubs, no loss on their side. This is how political comms works.

Don't try and hang them on each and every word. You'll miss what they are saying.
I think you indicated the problem. You can be secure or insecure in just about any language, but the barrier to entry is so low in PHP that it is easiest for beginners to do a lot of damage while still launching an app.

I’d rather there be some learning curve so people understand what they’re doing (or not doing).
What about the Brave browser[1], which works at the application level? Or Blokada[2], which works at the OS level? Or Pi-Hole[3], which works at the network level?

[1] https://brave.com

[2] https://blokada.org

[3] https://pi-hole.net
My first job doing intranet web development in 2000 was in a company with mandatory use of IE for all employees and all developed apps.
We all grew to despise it very quickly especially as the alternatives increased in number and quality.
Microsoft is only 19 years behind on this conclusion :)
I think this city was their weather test. Kind of like how Gmail was "beta" for over 5 years. In the Google model, everyone is a potential tester.
Are you seriously objecting to someone just asking for the license the code is distributed under to be followed?
> > should I expect them to not make fun of my name

> Absolutely yes. Anything else would be rude.

It is not rude to poke fun or laugh at different cultures that are weird to you. Go to japan as a white person, and if you walk around a major city a lot of Japanese people will giggle at subtle things you do that are culturally different to what they are used to. Maybe I shouldn't have used the phrase "make fun of", but you get the point. Laughing at someone's name because it sounds weird is the same as laughing at jokes that poke fun at the stereotype that British people are very polite, it is difference in culture and weirdness that create humor that is perfectly fine and normal.

> Basic courtesy demands that they make their best effort.

I have never heard somebody not make any sort of effort to correctly pronounce someone's name. Very few people purposely want to mispronounce someone's name. This was not even the point of the argument either. The argument was whether it is disrespectful to mispronounce someone's name regardless of the effort put into trying to pronounce it. It is disrespectful to not put any effort into pronouncing someone's name, we are on the same page for that point.

> That's a strawman. No one's asking anyone to do a deep-dive on other cultures.

Pronouncing foreign name's is not some easy task. It takes time and research, and practice. Most people do not meet enough people who have those type of foreign names that can be practiced, to justify the time sink it takes to learn them.

> I don't think good manners take that much time. Learning and remembering people's names is universal table stakes for interpersonal interaction. A polite society is its own reward - within reason, cost benefit analyses like that are kind of silly.

They do when you have a country with a very diverse background of ethnicity and names like the United States has. Furthermore, Indian's represent a whopping 0.9% of the US population, immigrants when they represent such a small part of a nation should be the ones to lean into their new nation, not the other way around. Hell, their are white European names I mispronounce, it is not disrespectful by any means.
Well, Abitur from which state? Also helps if you had Latin.

In Germany the value of high school degrees depends hugely on the state in which you visited school.
I stopped using Intercom
I live on less that $1000 in a Polish city. Granted, I own my appartment, but renting it would only increase costs of living by about $200 per month, and I’d still be within $1000. I own a car, eat out (delivery) most days of the week.
The OP was describing Hindenburg-era travel:

...or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.

So I compared to the Hindenburg. He can already get the "cruise ship in the sky" experience in an A380 in business class where he can find spacious seats that lay into a bed, private suites, a bar, showers, etc. But it's not cheap in an airplane, and won't be cheap in an airship.
> There is a defacto standard

Yes, for TV news announcers.

> Auslautverhärtung is part of that standard.

Says who? Not Wikipedia, which says that that's a regionalism and quotes sources. Where is the standard codified?

> What is the ending of the pronunciation of 'und' in your region? Is it 'd' or 't'?

This is a trick question: If I answer the same as you pronounce it, you'll say "see, it's standard!", and if I answer the other way, you'll say "well, it's not my fault that you don't speak Standard German™".

That said, it's 'd'. If anything, it's softened further and half swallowed to say something like "un'".
I was thinking that, as well.

Some ISPs blacklist known bad actor ad services, don't they?
Posted several times during the last 72 hours on HN without getting any traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106499

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19102828

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19092802
"Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!"
yep. Or even just some blog posts or whatever. Git is the worst-presented tool I think, it’s a shame.
It is hard to resist that call of Goku but I will honor the sanctity of HN and not do that here anymore.
Finally. The only sad thing they didn't support Firefox. Having a fair competition to Chrome/Chromium would be the most obvious choice (and push Rustification project forward to a new heights).
Everipedia: Blockchain Wikipedia is a dish best served cold
So it's an ordering problem? It's only blackmail if I offer to sell my silence before making offers to other parties? So if I have an offer from a movie studio for the rights to my story and then allow the celebrity to make a counter-offer, that's not blackmail?

When I said publishing house I meant book publishers like Penguin Random House. I don't know where news outlets come into it.
> Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript.

I'm fairly sure that by "engines" they meant reactors.
No, that's not the article's title (which is a reasonable one), but a very heavy-handed editorialization.
Too bad it's not a magnetic monopole, if those existed they'd be so fun to play with :)
Totally agree with this.

The way I think about it is if you think through the entire software stack and all the instructions that get executed across all the machines and their operating systems and programs running underneath before things even get to your code and then all of the standard library and framework code plus your code. For just a simple loading a web page that is a trillion piece jigsaw puzzle and every single piece has to line up or the whole thing just doesn't work.

We do the humbling and the remarkable every day and trillion piece jigsaw puzzles are no joke. It's the exception that you get it right. Given all the pieces required that's a lot of sources of potential entropy and the more it increases the more the system destabilizes and/or becomes unworkable. Things like languages, libraries, frameworks etc make certain decisions on your behalf with the goal to contain some of that entropy within their given abstraction.
And that's why the Russians took a time machine to four months before that joke (July 2016) to hack Podesta's emails (March 2016) right?
some commentary and backstory by the Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/jeff-bezos-says-nation...
The Perl 6 grammar engine does full parsing, and gives you the parse tree that matches the structure of the rules.
Sorry, late to reply! The warranty differences are things like with enterprise they'll send you a new one as soon as the SMART data suggests it's going to fail. Consumer is usually you post it back and they send you a new one.
I do have a *Utils module to wrap some calls to the AWS SDK but it’s not to protect from “lock-in” it’s a classic DRY principal of putting a code snippet in a function so I don’t have to remember how to do it every time.
Pretty neat. Have seen this submitted before I think. But good visualization.
Because there is no clear connection to Russia here, and there is between AMI and the Saudis? Russia isnt some boogie man, let's use common sense.
The patent kills it for me even though it may just be for defense (I didn't look and it sounds like they didn't say).
Risk in this context is how likely the part will go out of stock or "end of life"-ed. If a part has no alternatives it is even more risky!

When I designed a large board oftentimes several of the tiny parts such as capacitors or resistors would go out of stock but this generally is not a problem if you are using a common part. If you have a good contract manufacturer you can flag any parts like these as "use equivalent OK" and they will automatically pick a new part for you if necessary, with the same or better ratings.

Some companies also use their own internal part numbers for each electronic component (like a 10k 0805 resistor will be part AB1235) so then they can map that AB1235 part number to a list of acceptable manufacturer part numbers. That seems like too much work for me though!
After the Germans surrendered my dad's division was scheduled to be transferred to the Pacific for the invasion of Japan. At least that is what they were told. He was happy to hear of the bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima since from his perspective it caused the Japanese to surrender.

Of course it's debatable on whether or not those bombings did indeed cause the surrender of Japan. Politically the U.S. has not been a nation to stomach large numbers of its soldiers being killed. The actions on Iwo Jima and Okinawa were far more bloody than the public cared for. How many more such battles would a war weary public have endured? Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targets but they were political targets.

I don't know if the bombings were morally right or wrong and can see the argument both ways. But from at least one drafted soldier's perspective they were a good thing.
Kashoggi was an employee of the Washington Post, which Bezos owns. The WaPo have been highly critical of the Saudi response to the Kashoggi murder. It would stand to reason the Saudis are likely using AMI as a proxy for their campaign to blackmail Bezos and silence the WaPo. Trump protecting the Saudis, and Russia protecting Trump would be quite an analytical leap I'd think.
Karl Friston's free energy principle says something similar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIu_dJGyIQI
They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors.

https://spotifyforbrands.com/en-US/ad-experiences/

> JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format.

I was on the fence about this because there is a legitimate need to bring in revenue from free users, but they should stick to audio, video and image ads.
Is that true? I know Manafort's cooperation agreement was nullified, but my understanding is that's because he lied to the special counsel. Which is presumably a crime, but it also violates the spirit of cooperation. I'd assume that in this case the matters are separate. But IANAL, what do I know.
Oh! I don’t know where I got that impression from then! perhaps I just thought that we couldn’t use the free tier because of the number of licenses we’d need, but you’re right, it’s still there!
Blackmail is the motivator behind practically all surveillance. It's the essence of spycraft and much of what we call law enforcement. Most of it, as here, doesn't directly involve money, but coercion. Getting something on a judge's son, prosecutor's father, or administrator's husband is as useful as on the target.

Was that decision or contract awarded by merit, or coerced? We can rarely know. This is not academic. Why did Obama ratchet up the war on whistleblowers in the CIA/NSA/DIA, charging them with espionage? We can only speculate.
I block advertising as a category at our corporate proxy (it saves about 20% of potential web traffic and about 85% of the vectors of infection,)!

People definitely aren’t going to be happy if they start losing their accounts for listening at work...
Thanks for this, StackExchange was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote StackOverflow. Luckily, he also posts there a lot as well. I think my favorite answer is as below, as it's the first time I could recall a simplified answer of how TLS works, while retaining technical detail. A gift for sure...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20803/how-does-...
Hopefully there were no humans present when the fire went up!
On the ATR-72 [0] there is an extra leg that folds down at the back of the plane to stop it tipping over, and passengers at the front half must remain seated until the rear pax have left, so there must be some danger of unbalancing. These are weird planes in that the cargo is stored at the front, behind the pilots, and the only door is at the rear. They are prop planes, the 72 being a stretched 42, I believe.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72
But then it can be

> Ick hab 'nen Rad/Rat für dich.

either way!
True, but the only alternative offered is Marxism, instead, we should try capitalism without the "crony" prefix.
And that worked so well she wrote a book about it...
As a German, I still learned a lot from the article. Thanks!
One of the best and most powerful alternatives to RegEx I've ever seen is the PARSE function used in the Rebol and Red programming languages.

page: read http://hq.rebol.net
parse page [thru <title> copy title to </title>]
print title
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I pay on credit card so they can expect a chargeback if they pull this shit on me
Actually that would be an extremely EU thing to do.
How much of the shit going on in the world is because Saudi money funded a bunch of asshole behavior?

And why is the "City of London" allowed to be pretty much a sovereign nation all to itself, outside of the rest of the UK? I have heard many stories about how this operates and why and how corrupt it is.
This website is objectively bad. All of the content is about two pages down in a text list?