skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good. But you cannot claim the majority of people actually share your morals, because you also initiate force against them. If people weren't afraid of your force, my guess is most of them wouldn't be willing to pay taxes. It's like if you were a crusader occupying a muslim village and converting everyone living in it to christians by force. Does it make them christian? Technically yes. In reality, unlikely.
This is correct. They also show when someone is a Vine reviewer (which is an invitation-only program), even if the product being reviewed was purchased, and not provided via Vine.

The conflict of interest argument will always carry some weight re: the Vine program, but Amazon seems to be handling it quite well. Anyone who doesn't like the program is given enough information to just ignore those reviewers.
In fact basic income would provide both better incentives for those without a job and increase liquidity in the employment market since people would no longer have to suffer a crappy boss or work place out of fear.
The article comments are worth a read, there are experiences from multiple vine reviewers, including multiple comments disagreeing with the NYU professor.
Khan Academy is also in-browser project based. I think it supplements learning, but they don't really push the boundary. Like for Code Academy (which I forgot to mention before), the exercises were very simple and I didn't think they pushed me to think harder. Way too easy. I want very hard projects/exercises but I also want them to give me study materials that will help to me understand the problem. Code Academy won't make anyone a serious programmer, probably not even a hobbyist.

The other two mentioned, I never used them before. I might check them out.
Long time lurker but I had to comment on this.

Just yes. God yes.

It's absolutely must-try if you are the can't live without TabMixPlus type. Mission critical if you do any kind of ticket management/research at work. I frequently convert coworkers with the combo.

Bonus: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/context-searc...
And they basically removed support for plain text email.

I haven't hit any major bugs, but my friend did. But they removed the "view different encoding" thing from the menu, or whatever it was called. Before you could switch how you view multi-format emails, and set plain text as default using a terminal command. I'm really sad to see that gone.
/dev/null as a Service - Best SaaS company ever
>access to...source code

How much do you think that is worth on the black market?
Ah, I stand corrected, thanks. Makes sense; I think I had something about private vars in JavaScript and closures running through my head and confused it with 'JavaScript does OO with closures' :)
This is true for me with third party sellers. I've had bad experiences where small third party sellers list products incorrectly on Amazon and I have to go through the process of returning the product. A negative review can provide evidence that users are getting shipped the right product in the right condition.

In these cases, I often don't care whether the user actually likes the product. I just want to know they got the right product in good condition.
Why is math so special?

Asked at Hackernews?

Really?
> In all likelihood the only non-electronic failsafe is the handbrake

Not on my Nissan Leaf. The brake lever is a switch that turns what I assume (based on the noise) is a small motor to engage the rear brakes. As far as I can tell, everything is electronically controlled. Brakes, accelerator, "ignition", "transmission" (both in quotes because the Leaf really has neither), parking brake. If there's a firmware failure, there's not a mechanically-operated fail safe to save me.
They are looking at average quality metrics. I think they should be looking at perc based quality metrics. That would have reflected a drop and the variability far earlier on. In this sense, it's akin to performance metrics — you want to find out what % of your users are experiencing what levels of service.
Here ya go:

Math - WolframAlpha

History - Wikipedia

Science - Wikipedia

Language - Google Translate

etc.
If any of the 787 battery fires that occurred on the ground had occurred in flight it isn't clear the aircraft would have survived.

There was an in-flight fire, on an ANA 787. It made an emergency landing and the plane was evacuated. No lives were lost, and the airframe was not lost.
Up next: CircleCI customer announces data breach due to tokens accessed via the CircleCI breach (via the MongoHQ breach).
Tell HN: Stop sending bulk emails and pretending they're personal
I don't know what it is about startups these days, but I just had to deal with emails from Filepicker.io and Postpone, both of which are "Dear Erik, we just wanted to tell you about this new stuff we're doing with our app!" kind of emails, very clearly not directed in any way specifically at me, neither of which has an unsubscribe link.

I'm then forced to take time out of my day to write an email to your company requesting to be taken off your mailing list. You didn't take the time to write me a personal email, and yet you're forcing me to. It just seems inconsiderate. And the reply-to on the one from Filepicker (Ink Mobility now?) bounces!
What I don't get is why this guy isn't in a courtroom defending himself on perjury charges. Many people, including some congressmen and women has made statements stating that what he did was illegal, so why has he not yet been indicted? What's the process?
Sure, I'm not saying it isn't surmountable. I'm just stating that this is another constraint.
Interesting, particularly as Facebook and Twitter are not particularly known for their use of Python. Google uses Python extensively, and I'm not sure about Spotify.

Could this be due to the popularity of Python among data-scientists?
We probably wouldn't even if there was a copy of Earth there.
I disagree and think that this is best done in userland. Adding native support for features that aren't critical can retard future development significantly.
> Search bar is no longer shared between tabs

Wait, is that a new feature? Well let's file a bug.
FWIW by the way, I don't get all the JavaScript hate either, other than perhaps it's from people who erroneously think they don't have any choice except to use JavaScript on the client side. From what I've seen of JS as a language, I actually quite like it, but haven't used it for anything substantial.

I do like what we seem to be arriving at with asm.js; a subset of JS as the assembly language of the web, with people being able to choose the language that best fits their problem domain and target the JS machine.
"Why is math so special?".
Try counting up the fields that use mathematical notation versus musical and chemical notation.
@zzsleepzz
The RSS seem extreme to me and to a lot of Indians who fear voting for Modi because they may come with him.
(not saying this is the case but that is the fear).
I've used it for hobby projects. Really like it.
Would it be possible to sign employees to a contract then? Flip this on it's head. i.e. we're happy to take you on board, but you have to work here for 2 years at X rate.
So why didn't you say that at the time this was being proposed? Now we have yet another part of the standards that people can't actually use because one browser vendor didn't like it for a vague reasons.

It undermines the process to go around cheering for HTML5 and then later decide that you don't like it after all.
That would be ideal but TeX source is supposedly very big and complicated.

MathML is a joke compared to LaTeX. HTML + canvas, SVG, or PNG is preferable.
Programmers don't need a union. We need a profession.
I've been using it on my past few small projects where I would've otherwise used Postgres, so I mostly have CRUD-level experience with it with no meaningful insights within the rest of this comment.

The query interface (Datalog: http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/) is immediately refreshing, simpler, and nicer to write than SQL. Of course, you also get to use Clojure data-structures.

Datomic itself feels like the best of both worlds across relational and nosql databases. Although I often wonder if I'm even taking advantage of it since I'm still so table-brained.

For me, the hardest part about Datomic is that you're sorta on your own. Expect to do some internet-snippet window-shopping to throw a sensible db.clj namespace together. And be sure to peep Stuart Halloway's gists. Honestly, I still don't know a good strategy to migrate schema changes, my hand-rolled attempt at a db.clj abstraction is comically bad, and since I don't know the Right Way to do anything, I just throw in more `juxt` until things work. But it's all worth it.

There's no chorus of noobs to scavenge from nor have they trodden down the path before you. In fact, I think I'm the noob chorus. And instead of trailblazing a path for you, I've become stuck in the first bramblebush.

https://github.com/Datomic/day-of-datomic/tree/master/tutori... is the best resource I can point to.
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It doesn't really mean anything at all.

Lots of programmers at Google, Facebook, Twitter and Spotify have Python on their "skills" lists which can house anything you want with any level of experience or none at all, and any or no relevance to your current job.

We're never told these are the top three skills, or the top three skills "in demand" at those companies, in all likeliness Python simply "won the lottery" for no significant reason other than to provide some variation or just to attract pageviews from another demographic.

The top skills were likely hand-curated given that VMWare, Oracle, Microsoft and Apple all got no programming languages in their shortlists despite having an ungodly amount of software on the market. The top skills at any company with 5 or 6 digits of employees is probably variations of "customer support".

At the bottom it says "our analyst weighted actions like viewing employee profiles, visiting company pages and following companies" which means the entire thing is a black box of essentially random, big companies that use LinkedIn.
any suspicions on who might be behind these attacks?

was the buffer spamming incident just a way to deflect attention of something more sophisticated?

I wonder if anyone used the keys stored in circleci to get to the code of some service and if we'll see even bigger hacking news in the near future

</conspiracy>
They do sell an SD card reader for iPad, don't they? A lot of people use it to offload their large photos and videos from the device.

I agree that Apple's memory upgrades are expensive (and probably account for a fair chunk of their margin). Supporting an SD card would necessitate a huge re-thinking of many parts of iOS, and create another point of failure and support. I dislike the way Android handles SD cards and prefer just to have more internal memory, it's a nicer experience not to explicitly manage that.

I think Apple should just charge less for memory instead.
Wow, just trying it now. So much better than existing tabs. I suspect it's going to take a lot to rewire my brain to use this, but it's clearly worth it.

Any tips on how best to use it?
Thanks. My comment might not seem on the level but I honestly wonder whether LaTeX support would have more broad impact than a subset like MathML.
I do not think so. There is currently no evidence that CircleCI itself had its data directly compromised as part of the MongoHQ hack.

They are just being cautious and assuming the worst and recommending their clients do the same (quite right too).

However the fact that so many apps can be screwed by a breach in a "Database as a service" style setup will make me wonder "How is this SaaS storing my data? internal or oursourced?" When evaulating new ones.

[EDIT] - Just noticed that I did not actually give opinion on the guess. It seems a reasonable guess that this could have been part of an attack on a MongoHQ customer.
Does anyone remember when the media used to pride itself on objectivity?
Hey shubb, I've read your posts for a while; like the way you think. Let me buy you a pint next time I'm in London (in US right now, but there often enough). Thoughtful tech people in London good to find.

an email that I made:
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Is asking that off limits? If it's so obvious and easy to understand, explain it. Also, Chrome caters to a very wide audience so dev time has to consider a much broader audience than hackers.
Wrong again.

Considering only the dimensions, the second generation iPad managed a meager trimmings of 4 mm, 2 mm and 4.6 mm in length, width and thickness for a total of 10.6 mm.

That pales in comparison to a total of 18.9 mm in combined length + width + thickness savings, in the current iPad Air.

So your elusive measure of "perceived bulkiness" falls short of explaining how iPad Air is not the greatest leap in terms of portability over its previous version, over all of the other deltas of iPad generations.
I failed a Twitter interview
Didnt XHTML stand for eXtensible HTML ? maybe XHTML was the right way at first place , just saying.
Also, a negative review might end up being positive for someone else. I have recently been looking at reviews of Sony noise-cancelling earphones, and made sure to read the negative review(s) as well. One reviewer gave it one or two stars because they thought the noise-cancellation functionality was not worth it. Somewhere, though, in his negative review he mentioned that the sound quality is excellent. Having older version noise-cancelling earphones and being happy with them, I assumed he got a faulty pair and decided to buy them anyway.
(I actually ended up buying Onkyo earphones, but that because I ended up by their booth at the last IFA, tested the headphones and fell in love)
Same here in Santa Barbara. They hard launched a couple weeks ago and it still has a nice, earnest startup feel to it.
I went a step ahead and included none of the social icons in my Clear icon set http://appzgear.com/products/clear-icons.htm I found each company has specific guidelines on usage of their of their trademarks/service marks with no clear mention of selling them as part of an icon set. I'm not an expert and I don't want to risk getting into a legal quagmire.
Do you need to toggle a pref to share search terms across tabs? It no longer works for me. :(
"During this step, both the iPad and the Mac had to be connected to the Internet simultaneously."

I suspect this step sets up encryption keys between the 2 devices so that Apple's servers can be used to transfer and temporarily buffer encrypted sync messages without being able to recover the plaintext data.

Since these keys aren't known by the user (or Apple) there's no way to recover your keychain (and no point in storing the data permanently... if the devices are lost so are the keys)

I wish they would explain it in more detail for those of us who care, but I don't think this proves they're lying.
"unencrypted TCP/IP connections are susceptible to man in the middle attacks"

there, I just saved you from reading the article, and you probably learned more anyway.
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Thanks will do! It was my first contribution
I think if you look at the MathML standard or some example markup you'll understand. MathML is prohibitively verbose. It comes in two flavors, display and structural, and neither one is amenable to busting out equations. Even when MathML is universally supported by browsers it will still be treated as fundamentally an interchange format seldom seen by human eyes, mostly generated by systems like MathJax from human-friendly TeX.

As long as you're converting TeX math to something else, MathML is preferable only because it may look nicer rendered than an image raster from TeX.
Punctuation - Why does the multi-paragraph quotation rule exist?
First answer is very stylish.
On a legal conception (my field), people don't pay taxes because they are forced to do so by force, people pay taxes for a wide variety of reasons: fear of consequences, habit, actual willingness to pay taxes, social cohesion, internalization of process. Paying taxes makes sense for businesses, and various other organisations on an economic level. Paying taxes in Australia (where I am), for example, gets you a wide variety of benefits that most people appreciate, and most of them don't feel forced to do so. Maybe at some baseline level they are 'forced' to do so, but it is done voluntarily. Just as you would say that a person taking a job because otherwise they will starve is a voluntary act, so can paying taxes be voluntary despite the background threat of prison.

Same with religion, maybe those initial people will not be Christians, but maybe their grandchildren will be if the occupation continues. The Ottomans, for example, converted people to Islam through tax incentives and education.

A test case for you:

In Canada (and Australia), for example, 89% of the land is in direct ownership by the Crown, the other 11% is rented by the Crown to individuals in the form of land tenure. Legally, the Queen is not allowed to permanently sell any land, as they are subject to the old rules of English family law, where descendants are to be entitled to inherit the land. The Queen, through the Government of Canada which represents her, is the owner of the entire country. Does she not have the right to charge whatever rent rates (taxes) she would like? And are not people paying these taxes voluntarily as long as they live on this rented land?
Thats the thing tho, drivers have always been variable. Even before Uber. A lot of taxi dispatching companies get a lot of flack, but most have always been able to provide good service. All uber did was automate the job that is done by call takers. They havent really done much to improve the real problem in the taxi industry, which is unreliable drivers that constantly drop calls or act rude.
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Here's a Mozilla mailing list thread discussing dropping MathML support. The linked post explains why MathML is desirable (e.g., accessibility, performance, accuracy of rendering, standards compliance, necessary for ebooks).

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/96dZw1j...
There's a long thread on mozilla.dev.platform[1] that lays out the arguments for MathML quite well.

I'd also add that there is a W3C Math WG, and has been for over a decade. I would have thought the question of whether or not MathML is desirable would have been answered at some point in that time frame before it became a W3C Recommendation.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/9...
Mostly my cynical guess, and I've seen it personally. But I'm one guy.
I would have preferred to see the test with both apps running the same DB for consistency, as to output in JSON format, Django would need to convert the table results into JSON while MongoDB would have returned the results in JSON format.

At the same time, I also expected Django to handily outperform Express. This makes me happy that I started building my most recent app in Express two days ago.
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I can't really call it app. Pair of angular tutorials, slightly twisted and merged together may be.
Is "counting the fields" how we should consider all Chrome feature requests? A browser's user is not a field.
if you have'nt already read it, this essay from pg is a good starting point- http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

In our case we have followed the path of identifying features/ enhancements/different approach to doing things in existing products that we are using ourselves. We looked at stuff that we use in our personal life as well as products/processes that we used or developed in the professional life. This really gave us a lot of options. From these, our final selection was based on
a. Our conviction that this would work
b. size of the opportunity
c. we would have fun working on it
I don't think it's relevant that it's a database as a service over all the other hosted services we put our trust in - if someone hacked Heroku, RackSpace or whatever other service provider they would get some db access, aws keys, source code etc too.

Private repos on github and bitbucket are probably a goldmine of accidents waiting to happen considering how many api keys etc slip into public ones!

Not really sure what the takeaway should be for developers building on [anything] other than to do your best not to store stuff in a way that can hurt your users if a platform you use is compromised.
The problem is that the Chrome team shouldn't be selectively implementing parts of the html5 standard [1]. It shouldn't matter how many users desire the functionality after it's accepted by the w3c.

Of course, Chrome could implement whatever it likes if it drops any claim to be standards compliant, but until that happens...

[1] http://www.w3.org/Math/draft-spec/mathml.html
Obviously. Chrome is only about pushing out features which Google needs to deliver their platforms and products.

MathMl, despite being in the spec does nothing to this end.
I'm surprised that this point hasn't come up yet in this conversation: the whole point of insurance is to pool risk. The basic principle is that of everyone who pays in, the lucky ones subsidize the unlucky ones.

Obviously, this works best the more people who pay in. When people don't get insurance until they need it, it raises the cost for everyone. When people don't get insurance and still end up burdening those who did (by going bankrupt when faced with monstrous E.R. bills, for a common example), costs go up for everyone. In these situations, there's only way to make the system work: enforce that everyone buys in. That's why I support single-payer.

Here's another car analogy: car insurance is mandatory for drivers in the U.S., and most countries. Because the system only works when everyone buys in.

Of course it offends the libertarian sensibility to force people to buy something. How barbaric! Personally, I'm a libertarian-to-leftist convert. I think society needs a monopoly on force, and that monopoly goes to the government. The use of that force should be minimized, but one of reasons we need it is to force people to chip in for the common good. When it comes to pooled risk for catastrophic events, it's worth it. I have no moral qualms. It's not a matter of who's doing the planning, it's a matter of societal choices that just plain don't work if not everyone's on board. You're right that central planning is not voluntary. That's the whole point.

> But outside of "character" or other intangibles, there's no incentive to avoid the safety nets—in fact there's every incentive to use them, lest you be a sucker. Only suckers pay for things.

"Yeah, look at all those suckers, paying for things, how stupid. Why bother trying to make more money? It's not like I value character-building."
- single mom making $12,000/year, and (gasp) receiving government assistance

Do you really think government assistance makes poverty appealing?
> having the property of a case hardening treatment of predominantly steel but also for titanium, aluminium and molybdenum).

Does that mean applying piss on your iPhone's aluminium body would harden it?
is there any objective measure of 'yoda's' efficacy? because going by the list of his 'star proteges': Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz...
I really like the tag idea concept!

As you say, Treasure Hunt and/or Ingress like Games will definitely be played on Google Glasses and Smartwatches.

The Oculus Rift is indeed another revolution but I difficulty see myself walking in the street and wearing them... unless I'm skiing.
The "combined length+width+height" metric you've invented is highly dubious. A 1mm reduction in a dimension means much more if it's the shortest dimension than if it's the longest.
I already see myself playing it :-)
I assume it's a similar method to how I estimate project completion dates