skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think briefly it was considered cutting edge to have your page content be delivered as an XML document, with an accompanying XSL or XSLT file to mechanically translate the XML into a full-fledged XHTML page suitable for rendering in a browser. I even saw it once on some public website, I think maybe for a Blizzard game? The content XML looked great; very intuitive. The XSLT stuff for translating into XHTML, well, not so much.
I can't even image who would argue against it. What was the point of tying health insurance to work in the first place? I'm finally in a situation where I'm managing my own insurance and being compensated for the "lack of benefits" directly. I got a plan way better than my last one, for $5 more than what my side of the cost was. And I no longer feel chained to my employer. Even if you like where you work, that's not a good situation to be in. Companies get the worst options, and it still cost both parties a horrible amount, and now the employee is stuck with that crappy plan when they could have shopped around for a much better deal directly.
This seems very directly targeted at teens, competitive with the constant-social use of "find my friends". My impression is that many youngsters keep shockingly close tabs on each other, which this seems built to enable.
Introducing ECSY: An Entity Component System Framework for the Web
CHOP?
A good chunk of my friends use stories daily. It's the new facebook for 30+ year olds :)
#50centtroll Or they're scared of criticizing their powerful neighbor.
In my experience, nobody likes these things.

Carpenters don't like:

* Committing to dates and then being accountable for the results

* Spending time planning, rather than "doing"

* Admitting to business leaders that much of their work time is not spent chiselling wood, but dallying in all the interesting byways of the ...

* Sitting in meetings of any sort

* Having spoken, out-loud disagreements and negotiations in order to arrive at a consensus

* Having their mistakes, miscalculations, lack of planning visible to everyone on a big monitor

* Getting out of their chairs to go talk to someone else in order to remove a blocker or understand a dependency (task estimation and completion by end-of-sprint)

* Anyone involved in the process that isn't a tradesman
How is it not? Consent to releasing information should be supported on a granular on-demand level. If I initially only need name, I'll ask the user to consent for that. If I later on need an email (lets say for some additional functionality user is trying to access), I'll ask for email separately. This is much better than being constrained to only the initial scope being respected, resulting everyone basically request everything right away, faced with a situation where they can't do it later.
If you think about it from the host countries’ perspective, stealing money from foreigners or nefariously affecting them doesn’t harm the hosts much but can bring in a lot of money to their economies.
Stephen Fry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry#Computing_and_soft...
I just disabled IPv6 at home. Again. Been running it for a year now, but ended in tears. Again.

Gave up on trying to figure out how to make it all just work. I'd rather take one public IP that works than 9223372036854775808 that doesn't.

Mainly there seems to be a big disconnect between how IPv6 is designed and intended to be used (according to modern RFCs), and how at least my ISP actually deploys it. For one they only give me a /64, which isn't compatible with modern IPv6 ways. In addition they do so using DHCPv6, which means my prefix changes every now and then. All those internal services that got their own IP needs separate DynDNS entries. All those firewall rules opening ports for those services? Yeah they need to be manually updated.

Local DNS resolution fails because the DHCP server in pfSense sends out the public IPv6 address as the primary DNS rather than the local IPv4 I added manually to try to override it, so now my devices try to contact a DNS server that doesn't exist.

I'm sure some day it'll actually just work for me...
^ primary contact author of the paper in question

Thank you for the explanation!

In https://minerva.crocs.fi.muni.cz/#details-reasons and in your comment you're describing two bad ways to do scalarmult, but you do not show side-by-side the correct way (e.g. what ref10 does). Can you describe it in a sentence or two?
Wait. You founded a startup and asking people here about what should be in your MVP?

Why did you chose this particular field? You should already have an idea or hire a CTO who is expert in the field.
Bowel cancer screening in younger groups may do more harm than good
I was surprised that £69 billion (9% of the budget) goes to Wales, Scottland, and Northern Ireland. That was until I found out that all three are part of the UK and they contribute to the tax revenue.

Overall the budget is nicely balanced. I wish the US ran a deficit as small as the UK's.
Isn't the idea of the sprint there to protect developers from having the priorities shift under their feet every two minutes? It's easier to get work done if you know you can focus on a task for a few weeks and not be forced to context-switch suddenly.
But for purposes of this debate we are looking back over a 20-40 year period for wage stagnation and increasing housing, educational and health care costs. That is the relevant comparison, not 100 years ago.
It’s a good point, but counting the taxi driver as increasing efficiency is disingenuous.
> create a digital currency that people can use.

I 100% agree. I love the core ideas, but it's not really useable yet beyond a few (important) use cases. I think the problem is trust. I first got in Bitcoin at $6 and Ethereum at $10. I got out way too early to retire (hence why I bought the domain sellnothing.com, to remind myself of an important lesson), but I got out because I realized the system was too complex and I didn't understand it all, and so felt like the sucker at the poker table.

Our Tree Notation I believe is the solution to making a crypto currency people could trust. You could build a Tree Language for a blockchain that is: 0 syntax. 0 unnecessary complexity. 100% of the capability. No BS. It would look something like this:

transaction
id lerledsfa334
receiver abc432
sender fslkm324
amount 2.22

The key advantage of Tree Notation is countable complexity. You could build a system that is very easy to audit and the community could easily reject any unnecessary complexity, which I think is where corruption goes to hide--in unnecessary complexity.

I've got my hands full with Tree Notation applications in medical research and data science, but I really hope someone applies it to the digital currency space, and I'd be happy to assist time permitting. https://treenotation.org or breck@treenotation.org
Hydra is my project, ask me anything.
In my opinion, there is nothing FUD or BS about the statements made about privacy concerns related to Google and Chromium.

He didn't say he absolutely knows that Chromium is phoning home "in some way shape or form". He just said that he doesn't believe it can be trusted not to. It's a legitimate concern that many people have, given Google's size and scope of influence. You may not share his concern, but that doesn't make his illegitimate.

If your objection is based on the fact that the project is using node, and there are also plenty of "phoning home" opportunities there, well I can see that too (npm/yarn being as they are), and I think it is something developers need to consider also. npm, Inc has perhaps a lot more power to abuse than many developers ever think about, but it is not near the scope of Google's. Facebook develop's yarn, which comes with its own set of concerns, as well, but you would not have to use yarn with NodeGUI (assuming you can, I haven't looked).

Assuming your objections were based on node having it's own privacy concerns, I guess rather than labeling the discussion of Google/Chromium privacy concerns as "FUD/BS privacy concerns about Electron or anything from Google", I would have just pointed out the concerns with node.

EDIT: oh, and of course, since V8 is Chromium's javascript engine, and that's what node uses, well maybe NodeGUI dev just didn't think about that. :-D
>And why are there so many of them concentrated in Russia/Eastern Europe?

They aren’t, the vast majority of them are in the Netherlands.

Why NL? Cheap and just the traditional destination.
I disagree with you. There were plenty of ideas during the 1990s that were technically infeasible until further infrastructure upgrades allowed them to exist. Video streaming immediately comes to mind. It was unfathomable to have a video streaming service like Netflix exist in the 1990s. People would have ridiculed you, just as people ridicule some crypto ideas today. A modern example is video game streaming. Even 5 years ago, it was unfathomable that video game streaming high quality games was possible, and yet we are starting to see these services today.
I don't see why marriage doesn't increase financial stability. Marriage is basically getting an incredibly efficient roommate. A spouse is a roommate that is fine with sharing a bedroom, a bathroom, can give you insurance, lower your taxes, etc.
The Prioritization of Island Nations as Refuges from Extreme Pandemics
Now that's a deep cut even for a Dan Harmon fan.
The only place I've worked where Agile was like this was, surprisingly, one of New Zealand's major banks. The buy-in for Agile started at the executive level, and they made a call that everything was Agile. Obviously, this would've been an absolute mess for most teams. But my team functioned perfectly. The woman who was our scrum master was originally a project manager in the bank. But with the Agile reshuffle she went over-the-top with her retraining. This was horrible in some areas, where she would follow processes to a T, but she would catch herself, and recognise the importance of those principles. She grew into the role well, and the team was eventually working great!
Very, very cool! I love the fact that you used an 8086 C compiler to make the whole toolchain work.
Very interesting. Your comments are the first I've heard that the law only applied to workplace discrimination. This seems a pretty thorough overview: http://sds.utoronto.ca/blog/bill-c-16-no-its-not-about-crimi.... Like most legal things these days, it clearly gets complicated very quickly.
Merriam Webster says you are off by a few hundred years:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanction
Cars aren't killing more pedestrians. Drivers are.

Drivers are distracted. They've got their phones out. The cars themselves have awful touchscreen controls that takes driver attention off the road. Rear windows are shrinking more and more each year.

The other answer, I think, is that people have been driving more and more during the years of note in this article. Since 2010, the economy has been improving (generally), so cars, gas, etc. have become more affordable to most people, so people in general are driving more. More miles on the road at the same rate of collisions per mile means more collisions.
I would be careful likening that system to the NHS - the NHS is much more fully nationalized than a medicare for all system would be
Agreements like that only work for the current administration in charge. Once Trump and crew is out of there that deal is dead. And since Trump hasn't indicated recently that he wants to break up Facebook, Zuck only has Warren to really worry about. If she wins, she's gonna do everything she can to break up that company regardless of previous deals with previous administrations.
The post being replied to calls for mandating it the other way:

> Force cities to build duplexes/triplexes/four-plexes everywhere.
By this standard, no system could ever say that it generalizes to all permutations. Especially when the definition of the measurement outcome (child abuse) varies.
That is one of the nice things about Lobster is that down-votes do let you click on a reason.
I was at a party where the topic of discussion was that: You should only be able to vote if you own land. It was a pool party, of all things, and I contemplated slowly submerging into the water and just staying there until I drowned.
All the research I’ve seen basically points at happiness having a fairly straightforward logarithmic relationship to wealth.

So it’s not true to say “money doesn’t make you happier”, it just gets you less marginal happiness per increment of income (research on wealth is less clear, but wealth can be converted to an income stream).
I can recommend the writings of K. E. Eduljee who has been digging into this topic for an extended period of time.

http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/

Scroll down to the Site Contents, the third column is dedicated to (mostly) Persian history.
Remote Engineering guide to 1:1 meetings
> what should my MVP contain so as to provide value and test market fit?

This is a question you should be asking your prospective users/customers. Ask them what they need. If you're charging money, ask them what they'd pay for. If not, ask them what they'd need to see before using your OSS software. I like to frame it as "if I had a product that did this for you right now, would you pull out your credit card and sign up for it today?"

Take what they tell you, look for commonalities and trends, and then use that to determine what should be in your MVP. Build the MVP, go back to the people who would pay for it, and get them to pay for it.

That's generally how you build an MVP (IMO). Though its much harder to do than it sounds.
On iOS, you can disable automatic app updates in the Settings.
I know a bunch of the people at Google who are responsible for program analysis. The idea that they haven't bought some company doing symbolic execution because of some internal vendetta against static analysis is just ridiculous.

I also find it weird that you reference Saturn, since Alex Aiken hasn't been driving heavy SAT stuff for a while. Clark Barrett is at Stanford now and is doing more things related to what you want. And... oh wait he spent a few years at Google at few years ago.

Fuzzing plus sanitizers work like mad. They aren't magic and interpocedural static analysis provides value too. But your claim that Google is ignoring these techniques and doing so because of cultural idiocy just isn't correct.
Not a repost, but indeed the same topic and data
Well, I won't call "New release" / "New release" a changelog. It's simply not a log of changes.
BG has problems, but it is not a kleptocracy.
Pronunciation isn't part of writing, though. As you note, oral language and written language are not isomorphic.
Just to be clear: the HK protests are a legitimate, organic protest movement, and the allegations of CIA involvement are lies meant to discredit them. The protesters are actually getting their material support from older Hongkonger sympathizers, not foreigners: https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-dont-have-to-face-it-alone-...

> Wouldn’t this be a great opportunity for them to get involved?

There's no opportunity for their involvement. How, exactly would they get involved anyway? Direct CIA involvement would be counterproductive and against any goal they may have, since the protests are organically strong on their own and the CIA could only weaken them.
Interesting idea. I'll write css rule that hides score and draw all comments with same color and see what will happen.
Ah, but sometimes it rather seems they would be happier if their enclosure was the only one that was permitted to exist. Oh well. Life's too short to spew dissonance into someone else's echo chamber.
It's not half diminished though, since there's no 7? I'm talking about just the diminished triad (min 3rd + min 3rd). It's been years since I read jazz notation (classical background), but I thought that was just written "dim"
I lived in an apartment in Montreal where the guy below me would invite hookers over, snort coke and get strangled, you could hear him getting chocked and the crack pipe being 'tink tinked' beforehand, then the high heels walking out of his den at 0230 in the morning lol. Noise insulation is very important!
The point is that no one will outside of an inconsequentially small group will adopt user-facing free software if it isn't easy to use and if it doesn't have a slick and intuitive UI.

Programmers perhaps do not care for this. But everyone else does. A good, competitive UI is non-optional.

> [Free Software looks bad] because that's all anyone in particular needs it to be.

This is the fundamental disconnect! It's all programmers need it to be. Regular, normal people? They also need it to be fluid, pretty, and intuitive.

Yeah, that's a need, not a want, as much as we might wish it otherwise. We might wish that people had the strength of will/whatever to stick with comparatively worse UIs in exchange for freedom, but we know that's not true, and that won't happen.

> UI/UX as it is taught in the industry comes hand-in-hand with curation [...] Software freedom accepts that the ugly choice is still a choice.

These are not mutually exclusive. UI/UX in free software can come by default as a highly refined and curated experience, with an option to switch things out if you want.

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I agree that there is a fundamental tradeoff in time and resources between implementing "real features" and UI/UX. Even big corporations with billions of dollars to burn struggle with this. But what we need to realize is that UI/UX is a real feature.

If our priority is getting more people to adopt OSS, then it needs to be done. If our priority is getting shit done in the short term, well - I guess you can hold off on it.
Hmm, not sure about that design though..
This type of construction is only so profitable because it's usually illegal, and therefore a critically undersupplied segment of the market. Developers are therefore eager to do it every chance they get. If it were legal to build this way everywhere, they would only do it in the places it made sense. Developers wouldn't be building 4-story condos in Contra Costa county for people to commute 50 miles into SF and Mountain View if they were alowed to build enough to meet demand in SF and Mountain View.

Where people want to build, the power-hungry folks in charge put restrictions in place and demand a troll toll to let a few projects through. And the folks in charge where nobody wants to build see the opportunity and seize it. It's just human nature, and it's the reason local government shouldn't be put in charge of density regulation.
New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations
We have higher standards. :)
I think it is because NASA

1. is 30 years older

2. did that whole "men on the moon" thing

3. is featured frequently in U.S. media, which is consumed around the world.

Also, the CNSA refers to everything it does as China's accomplishments: http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html.
Real estate prices are unlikely to drop too much since they're one of the few ways locals can maintain a store of value (if a relatively non-liquid one).
I happened to turn 18 right in time to vote in a [US] presidential election year. I've made a point to vote in every election I can from that point on.

Did I have "a lot going on"? Sure. Do I have utter faith in "The Government" and//or "The Voting Process"? Not really.

But I still vote. It's my right and also, as I've come to see it, my duty. Free speech or no, I believe that if I want to complain about an election and be taken seriously I should participate in it at at least the bare minimal active level.
Steampunk hasn't really died, but more evolved- see branching movements like new weird, silkpunk, slipstream, cli-fi, hyperreallism etc.
But it is to spec. [0]

"Since September 2019 all spec violations have been addressed by Apple, as recorded in the next section. The section thereafter - "Peculiarities" lists specific implementation choices by Apple that differ from what most implementations provide, but are not spec violations per se."

[0] - https://bitbucket.org/openid/connect/src/default/How-Sign-in...
Mental Models in Layman's Terms
If you work remotely it might be
The Shared Common Traits of Contraprenuers
No true Scotsman. Sure, no one is truly self-diffident, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big difference between living on your own or living in your mom’s basement.

And yes, multi-generational living was very common in the past, but so was having 5+ children. That doesn’t necessarily make it a better choice.
This is just not true. Authoritarian governments are kept in check by free speech and openness of government. Sanders and Warren are clearly if favor of citizens being in charge of the government.
nice thing to have in the world
greatest invention
5 days extra annual leave per year.
My last startup had about 10 desks built like this, a solid wood door with 4x4 legs attached with metal brackets. They were pretty good. The advantage of this design over sawhorses is that you can sit anywhere without bumping your legs. I put a monitor and keyboard in the middle, used the left side for mechanical parts and right side for paperwork.

At the time (early 2000s) it was really hard to buy manufactured desks. Herman Miller desks cost like $3000 and had a 6-8 week lead time. But you could build a DIY desk for $200 in 90 minutes including the trip to Home Depot.
Success did it in. The Zybourne Clock was the ultimate implementation and perfection of the genre. Steampunk disappeared shortly after because there was nothing more left to achieve.
Selling a few million dollars worth of bitcoin would only slip the market a couple of dollars if at all. Go look at bitmex or bitfinex's order books - they have plenty of liquidity.
That seems quite good, but I'm wondering about scalability - it's not a single desktop, but rather around ~100 employees that need serving...
Net assets, and net income, make life happier for companies.

What you describe is cash flow, which is often necessary, but not really analogous.

It’s like saying “access to low interest rate 30 year mortgages makes life happy”, which might be true if you’re looking for a mortgage, but isn’t really generally applicable.
Is silkpunk even a thing outside of Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty (which is amazing btw)?
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Bitcoin so far hasn't delivered (I refrain from calling it a failure) on it's primary premise: being a currency. People touting that there are some hundreds of thousands of transactions a day miss the point. Those numbers are absolutely puny for something that is meant to be a currency.

The unfortunate story here is that a technically and fundamentally interesting idea has been turned into a total cesspit by the influx of money and greed before it could escape it's roots of ideological purity and adapt to the realities of human society.

The starry eyed technologists who were unfortunately not well equipped for the gnarly world of finance got replaced by financially better informed "businessmen" with shady motives or outright frauds.

In the eyes of the broader market, cryptocurrencies have been tainted by black market dealings, non-stop high profile scams, excessive volatility, lack of liquidity and near-zero useful acceptance for retail transactions. I won't even mention the large number of zero value-added ideas that offer nothing beyond what could also be done without blockchain, but just wanted along for the ride. These further diluted the already thin trust.

As much as I shudder at the idea of a Big Tech Co. launching a cryptocurrency, perhaps that'd would have been the one winning shot that the concept had about 2-3 years ago. If Googlecoin or Facebookcoin materialized before either the tech companies or the concept of cryptocurrencies turned into demons, some good could've actually materialized.

Am I too jaded here? Maybe. But after so many years and no killer concept materializing, one has to start asking questions. The other "fads" of the last decade (AI, VR/AR, EV, etc..) actually continue to deliver ever more amazing innovations, putting the stagnation of crypto into a rather stark contrast.