skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the reason there wasn't more browser competition is simply because browsers are hellishly complex pieces of software that are tremendously expensive to engineer. Look at how long it took from Netscape starting Mozilla to the first viable and competitive consumer version of Firefox.

Even Microsoft itself couldn't reboot its browser (Edge) and compete with Chrome. And Chrome wasn't even a from-scratch rewrite, it was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of KHTML.

There's no money in the creation and sale of web browsers, and given the tremendous engineering complexity in making a modern one, I highly doubt there will be any more "from scratch" entrants into the market besides Firefox, simply due to the fact that there's no great money in it, even for Microsoft.

Is anyone could to rewrite Unix from scratch and not use the Linux kernel or GNU userland (or BSD userland)? It would be insane. At best, people can fork and replace small pieces, like a JIT, or the Kernel, or UI.
The list only includes single, widowed or divorced women, so in that regard the list has been created from a bit more filtering than just age.

EDIT: to your point however, being married would not preclude a woman from being "breed ready" as we understand the phrase. So clearly there is some missing context needed to really understand what that column represents.
Release of the Lighthouse deck early access
With the rise of cloud computing, the effort by cloud providers to commoditize their complements, i.e., software, inevitably leads to this particular kind of conflict between companies backing OSS software who wish to deploy their own SaaS offerings and cloud providers with their own SaaS offerings. A common response is that OSS backers can build businesses based on support and consulting but I believe that's overly restrictive. Those kinds of businesses don't scale nearly as well as managed services and it will definitely have a chilling effect on OSS development if the kinds of companies that are permitted to be built on them are simply support and consulting. I don't believe that companies backing OSS have an exclusive right to offer managed services for their software, but the current situation with cloud providers offering managed services with only token engagement with the OSS community (and then only when forced into it by licensing restrictions) is not beneficial to OSS, either.
> To my eyes at least they are pretty much helpless to do anything about it because of the licences. Do you have any ideas as to how they could work around the licencing issues ?

DTrace has a linux port which is GPL licenced since last year. So they are not helpless and there is nothing to work around.
The government tracking when a woman is able to bear a child isn’t made less creepy at all by slightly changing the translated name.
I think I play too much Starcraft that when I see "Breed Ready", I immediately think I must've forgotten to morph workers or overlords.
I didn’t run into a paywall. Are you on mobile or desktop/laptop?
I use a similar mechanism on my website https://expiring.link

I'm working on documenting the code now before I release on GitHub, but it works on the same premise :)

WebCrypto is mana from the gods...
Its even uglier when the price these companies charge is "free"... But in actuality you pay with your data.

And I know of no human who would be able to accurately price access to parts or all of their data. "Its just data. How much am I really worth?", is a common refrain. And then, well, its freeeeee....
It could instead imply "if the browser didn't ship with a version that satisfies my requirements, use the polyfill"
KOReader v2019.03 multiswipes, new devices and improvements
It's not that there was no vote so much as there was no opposition, so not vote was needed to pass it. It's as if it passed unanimously. Although this happened in a "nearly-empty plenary chamber", which makes one wonder about quorum -- did they have quorum?
> Ultimately this is an argument about the precise semantics of "removable storage". I don't regard an MTP device as "removable storage"

This is absurd. You don't get to tell someone, "you're wrong", then later when it's pointed out that the original assertion was actually true, then say, "oh, I meant that you're wrong as long as we're using my version of the word, the one that's very different from the one everyone else was using."

Sorry, but that's blatantly disingenuous. The original context was very clear. If you really meant, "well it sort of works as removable storage in one sense, but not in this other sense" you should've just said that to begin with.
Facebook, Twitter, Patreon have all been censoring right-wing lately.

This is just another example.

From my point of view, the left wing is calling the right wing nazis and trying to get them banned.
On Android, I recommend NewPipe. Available from F-Droid repo.
Google must be broken up due to its 'overwhelming' power, News Corp says
It would be really amazing to build some sort of integration in commonly available WiFi connected scanners and printers.

Currently, my scanner conveniently sends me emails with scanned documents. But I have not insight into how they actually store and delete the document on the backend.

Would be great if the scanner had the option to upload to Firefox Send and show me a QR code to download it on other devices.
I didn’t see much done to address Amazon’s claims (intermingling of proprietary/open code in same conmit, etc). Mainly they just claimed FUD and reminisced a bit.

If I were Elastic I’d be quaking in my boots right now - their entire business model is under assault. Hell, the whole open core model is being called into question. Personally I’m glad to see Amazon’s distro.

Anyone have a different take?
Nasa's Moon2Mars Update
Awesome idea! Looking forward to having a platform where truth and thoughtfulness are encouraged :-)
Not necessarily, IIRC, with a stalled airplane the engines can surge, which pretty much look like a plane on fire from the ground.

I'm not 100% certain however, if someone can say if I'm wrong or not, he is welcome ^^.
If the donor's employer has no impact whatsoever, then why is the employer listed at all?
Looks like they got cheap and tried to bribe low level people instead of donating directly to the official university fund raising people.
so, any license changes?
With Amazon, I have the ability to list my product, and buy ads pointing people directly to it.

With physical retailers, I have to hope I can convince the retailer to stock it, often have to pay up front for shelf space, and then have to continue to pay co-op fees for advertising services of dubious value.

Moreover, with Amazon, I know exactly how many units have been sold at any time and have the ability, for a fee, to get feedback from the buyers. With retail, you only get a rough estimate of sales, usually lagging by a quarter, and have no easy way to survey buyers.

I'm not saying that Amazon is acting like a great corporate citizen, but having worked with Amazon and most of the major national retailers, I'd take Amazon in a heartbeat.
This is a great example of how different translation styles can convey completely different meanings.

We should keep in mind not to trust the connotations of any translated phrase. Heck, we can barely trust the overt meaning.
A good set of concert earplugs are like $15, everyone should have them. I also find occasionally if I'm in a loud restaurant, they help drown out the people talking obnoxiously loudly and I can actually hear the people I want to.
Plenty of physical stores do that too - place their brand at eye height, in more places, featured in their ads, etc.

Amazon controls a large but minority of pretty much any market their in, until you start making smaller and smaller market definitions to the point of being ludicrous. As such, not being a monopoly, they're perfectly fine to do all this they want.
What's really insidious is that they mix well-sourced, real news with absolute trash, so if you're just looking at the headlines it's not unreasonable to think that they're all real. That is, until you click on one of the trash articles and find that the "source" is a blog that sources another blog, which sources yet another blog and so on.
I’m a little confused, you don’t want to use 3rd party apps (like a Microsoft app to interact with nearby MS stuff) AND you don’t want to use Apple 1st party apps?

It sounds like the only thing that would’ve satisfied you would’ve been for iOS to natively understand whatever the Microsoft system is for broadcasting videos? I agree it would be delightful if Apple and Microsoft could agree on a “I’m a short term drop-point” “send to any nearby open drop-point” API, but the absence of this doesn’t seem likely to be either Microsoft’s or Apple’s fault.

The Apple way to do this would’ve been to send an iCloud email. Apple Mail would’ve uploaded the file to a server, and a short-lived link would’ve been created, to avoid SMTP size limits.

Pretty much exactly what you ended up doing but manually via Firefox Send.
The “dirty bomb” on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is not accurate
I find the whole concept of credit cards themselves stupid. It's old, insecure tech that really needs to die.

However, that does not make all banks unethical. There are absolutely predatory banks, but there are also banks that exist to provide value to their customers, while taking responsibility for their role in society. Avoid the former and choose the latter.

(It's entirely possible that ethical banks are so because they're forced to by regulations. If you think that's the case, vote for better regulation. Dutch banks seem to be taking these things very seriously, though most of them have also been involved in at least one greed-driven scandal during the past two decades.)
As a country becomes wealthier, it has to be very careful that the women are still motivated and capable of reproducing at or above replacement rates. Otherwise you might be stuck importing unskilled immigrants from different cultures. These are big concerns to China.
It is possible to be both right and wrong. They are the safest airline in Africa. Their record isn't all that great compared to the rest of the world, however.
If the right wing associates themselves with ZH and Infowars, maybe they should reevaluate who they keep close company with
Pretty sure 737-max did nothing to improve on the stats of aerodynamically stable versions 737.
Dublin airport in Ireland is about as far from UK territory as both of the 737 MAX's were from their respective airports when they crashed into the ground.

It would be an unfortunate complication for the current discussion on a hard Brexit potentially happening within 3 weeks if the UK needed to work out what to do with an airplane strewn across that border on top of everything else.
Apparently, these parents were insufficiently wealthy to deflect prosecution.
France too.
Thank you for the clarification. Reading the title I understood that it was "slipped in" somehow without following due process (for example because it wouldn't have gotten the votes). Which would have made a world of difference.
I was more surprised at the scope - tackling entrance exam cheats* AND direct bribes to the universities. Neither surprises me much, but glad to see somebody attempting to address both.

* Entrance exams in the US are created by one of several private entities (College Board, International Baccalaureate, ACT) and administered by the local secondary schools.
I was thinking the same thing...these people are doing the world a favor though...skipping parenthood for a lame career/political cause will likely lead to an unfulfilled and lonely life.
Infowars doesn't believe in a lizard people conspiracy...
Concert earplugs might help a bit in noisy restaurants. I have a set of Etymotics that I like.
DarkSky Emoji Weather Map
Kind of like what news papers do in their OP-Ed sections.

Worth noting, it took the NYT until March 10th [1] to finally come to the conclusion that ZH had come to on Feb 24th [2], regarding the burning of AID trucks being sent to Venezuela. ZH has an anti-establishment bend, and will take a critically hostile point of view against the main stream, it's interesting to read that perspective when most established news organization are aligned one way in their reporting.

Glenn Greenwald had a great piece on the spread of fake news surrounding the AID truck event, worth reading for anyone who is somewhat skeptical of establishment narratives. [3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-...

[2] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-23/venezuela-border-t...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyts-expose-on-the-lies-...
Oh? Based on what?

Or, let me ask you, how is money a network at all, let alone a social network? Money is more like a token. It can be moved and exchanged using networks (social and otherwise), but it isn't itself any sort of network.
For context, this is in response to Amazon's release of "Open Distro for Elasticsearch": https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/

Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19363961
>In fact, more wealthy people are moving to California than leaving, research indicates. It’s the poor and middle class who are departing.

The LA Times must be so proud.

And who will provide all the services that the sophisticated rich demand?
Not the users but the Guardian article the thread was linked to. In the comments on Reddit you constantly watch the few who read the article collect karma for explaining the very same points to those who didn't.

Besides, in the US the census collects the same kind of data, it just probably hasn't used with an agenda. Among EU members, on the other hand, data protection laws often disallow the collection of such information.
A lot of people don't even realize the Alexa mobile app even exists, despite the fact they must have installed it at one point in order to set up their Echo device. Hence, discoverability is pretty low. I don't know why Amazon still hasn't attempted to address this issue. If all they want is for people to buy shit from Amazon through it, why bother with all these custom "skills"?

Generally, however, I think we've overestimated the utility of a voice command line with no actual intelligence behind it. Unless you are using Alexa to control actual devices like lights or a Roobma vacuum, most of the apps for it are either useless or better suited for a visual interface.
(I work at Cloudflare)

The Reddit and StackExchange stories are before my time, but I believe they related to reliability issues we were having at the time. It was over three years ago at this point, a lot has changed.

I have a personal connection with your comparison because my company actually used Fastly before I joined Cloudflare, I had the exact perception you're describing. Four years later, being able to write JavaScript with Workers would have made my life so much easier than trying to do failover in VCL as I was then.
It’s different in the scale of the donation. 2 Million dollar donation materially improves things for other students and is tax deductible. $15,000 bribe doesn’t do much for other students except rob them of a spot.
Windows still hovers around 90% market share, how is that not dominant?
I disagree. While ZH does have a fair share of this type of news, most of it just contrarian point of view (Tesla bashing, for instance). I read ZH pretty much daily and I personally have no issues understanding which article is which.
I think it is a good thing, if done on a small scale (admitting rich people purely based on donations). It's like pairing smart and driven people with people with money and access to connections.
This really feels like something the old Opera (not the Chromium version) would have done back in the day.
But at least you only need to trust them now, and not every incarnation of them in the future =)
> She is doing what politicians do best, using resentment, jealousy, and more, to gain more power and money. Not just at the voting booth but by intimidating companies into contributing more the PACs and political campaigns. We see this all the time and sadly people buy into it because using market tested phrases has become standard operating procedure for politicians. They pay to find out how to divide people.

Perhaps it is better to learn about Elizabeth Warren's history and check publicly available data about her funding before throwing up your hands and lazily announcing that "both sides are the same"? [1] Alphabet employees gave her almost $50k but the company itself has given her nothing, through PACs or otherwise. In the 2018 cycle, she received less than 1% of her campaign and leadership funding from PAC sources, with less than a third of that coming from business PACs (grass roots orgs like Emily's List make up the majority).

Her entire career has been built on doing the exact opposite of your allegation.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors...
The Node script tips are great
It's different because it's missing plausible deniability for the parties involved. If donations were actually altruistic, they would be anonymous, but sometimes, society needs a veneer of fairness to mask the real nature of the "pay to play" system we have.
I'm not an academic but have started reading some climate related papers, and from the little I've read, the future seems to be inevitably grim.

Especially the trends in recent methane readings up north and those indicating fresh water aquifiers running dry world-wide.

Its made me reconsider whether I want children too.
...and this has always been a unique pain point of development in the browser.
I'm not sure that there is a difference in your two scenarios.

We wouldn't think "Google is the web and the web is Google" if we were seeing a similar string of innovations coming from Firefox and IE.

This will only be bad if the others aren't innovating.
There are easier ways to fight the "path to a dystopian future complete with global surveillance" than sticking with an organization that's not making software fit for purpose, and is so political and privacy disdaining it will without question enthusiastically join that dystopia in due course, if it hasn't already.
The first few times scrolling up and down the page I missed this article out because my brain has been trained to automatically filter out "UK bans X" as non-news.
License is MLP 2.0.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/4995
Pretty good so far, but I don't see anything about IoT, drones, and solar power anywhere.
Feds Bust Up College Entrance Exam Cheating Scheme
> I really don’t think it’s much harder to prove that an underperforming student who got in because their parents donated a couple million (or tens of millions of) dollars took the place of a more qualified candidate.

It's the opposite actually; if you're giving money to the development office then you're enabling more qualified students to attend the school.

That’s why college only costs 50k per year when it costs 150k to provide that service to you.
get around the paywall -> http://archive.is/s2w6P
The usual delineation of male and female isn't arbitrary, it's based on biological mechanisms of reproduction.

Only how (or if) one chooses to include those few who don't fit these categories is fluid.

In other words, there's some uncertainty at the margins, but in the vast majority of cases, biological sex is clear.
* Setting a timer or an alarm

* Asking for the weather

* Play some (desired) music

Are there other things that these devices ("smart speakers") are really useful for?

A voice activated browser or computer, on the other hand, is extremely useful for those who don't know to type or to use a browser (or a computer). It could be people who are not privileged enough to learn or people who find these very difficult to learn or even small kids. These systems allow the user to accomplish what they want (like searching or opening a website or a game, for example).
It would be interesting if someone pushed a PR that contains more or less all the "secret sauce" of X-Pack, and see what reasons they'd use for rejecting it.

Clarification: Not push X-Pack itself, but features comparable. Like they suggested people do in the post.
Bitcoin is the very opposite of anonymous. Permanently recorded for posterity would be a better description. The best you can get is pseudonymous, and that's if you never actually spend any of the coin.
In line with this: [1] Senator Warren gets her anti-Facebook ads blocked, too.

It seems like Facebook just feels threatened by everything right now, and that they recognize that they're dependent on people being on their platform to stay alive.

I would like your thoughts on this: What has to happen to get everyone to migrate to a new platform, or is that even possible?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/blocked-ads-pro...
That's a relatively new slot type.
If apple is the only phone maker to offer privacy and security, why would we break them up?

Amazon is abolishing book ownership because they invented a better way to read books (kindle and audible). How is breaking them up going to make people want to own books again? The only way that would happen is if you make kindle and audible worse. How would that help society?
Maybe the problem isn't so much with banks, but with American companies, and the lack of reasonable regulation there.
Funny you mention that. Because my experience is different: I often have to wade through shady marketplace offers with hundreds of fake reviews and paid ads. I have to dig deeper or explicitly search for AmazonBasics products to even find the USB cables or tablet stands from Amazon itself.

It might be that personalization is in effect here (or some sort criteria), but I sometimes would like to better filter marketplace offers I don't even trust.
MongoDB is the premier example [1] of why software should be "secure by default" [2].

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mongodb%20unsecured&sort=byPop...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_by_default
Just to be clear, Wifi network doesn't need to be available. If I remember correctly, initial connection setup is done through Bluetooth, then one device invisibly sets up an adhoc wifi connection to the other to transfer. The two devices don't have to be attached to a Wifi network. Quite spiffy.
Do what you want, but all this censorship is just making me shake my head when censorship is brought up in other countries.
I usually take my earplugs to the movies now, mostly for the trailers. It seems like they're always mixed much louder than the actual movie I'm going to see, and trailers contain every explosion the movie they're showing has.
Documentation and variable naming are not dumb enough. Remove all documentation and use Hungarian notation incorrectly and I'll invest.
"Legacy" admits with consideration of donations are allowed as far as I understand. It supposedly has a bigger effect than affirmative action, and at many schools we are just a few generations away from segregation now, which somewhat dictates the race makeup of the legacy pool to this day.
In the highlighted case, the "bribe" actually wasn't - the mother paid a 3rd party fix her daughter's exams (administered by the local school on behalf of CollegeBoard, IB, or ACT).

But, generally, your point is correct. In this case, there was an explicit pay-off/bribe/fraud committed. In the case of the super-wealthy, there's a large donation and a wink-wink/handshake.
Totally agreed with GP. Needing to somehow uniquely identify an article over voice assistant will be painful. However, something like Pocket, where you can push articles/pages into the record and call them back by voice or tag would be cool, especially with the ability to queue articles in a desired order.
Ask HN: How often should we deploy to production?
I'm team lead in a full stack team. We currentlly accumulate features and bug fixes, and deploy a version every month. Should we deploy more often? How to handle it? I'd love to hear about your experience in this subject.