skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you're announcing a project that monitors a performance critical part of your infrastructure, it seems fairly appropriate to performance test your product.
The question is, what's going on if you do a stack-trace on why people find the joke funny. I think there's a certain amount of "haha, it says sex now" (same as with the [no sex cover](https://github.com/cmheisel/nose-xcover/) but I suspect there's at least some element of "sex change, that's gross and strange and weird, haha" which is pretty problematic.
Pointers to Mozilla decisions:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600919

http://muizelaar.blogspot.fr/2011/04/webp.html

TL;DR: webp wasn't better-than-jpeg enough at the time it was considered, with even some rejection off the published Google studies. I feel like they thought it was still too experimental (although I haven't followed the process so I may be wrong).
I still have some of the XP CD and the Windows XP certificate. Do they count as proof of XP owner?
Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing
Pretty much anything that runs contrary to libertarian politics.
Do you really think that IBM would jeopardize its enormous contracts with the US federal government because some subsidiary won't/can't get at data?

You have a lot to learn.
Given the era of its collapse it seems to me that professional bowling missed out on the ride which modern sport packaged television brought. A Kerry Packer/Bernie Eccelstone type could perhaps have had bowling on every screen now.

As a side note, I am watching my favourite sport, Test cricket, die as well, replacing it is a glitzier, shorter less technically demanding version of cricket called T20. The appetite for 5 day matches seem to be on the wan, although any cricketer would tell you, the longest format of the game is where your mettle truly gets tested.
Too bad selected machines cost at least 599$, I'd get an Asus T100 for my mother asap otherwise.
I'm not particularly informed on this, but what makes this different then just hosting a text file and reading the text file? I wouldn't imagine anything needs to be specialized for this.
> it's easy to learn

compared to what? IMO an easy to learn language has very little surprises, is consistent and names things intuitively.
Would you say that php as the language is easier to learn than ruby or python?
Show HN: Chrome extension parses HTTP headers for recruitment messages
C# will be around 'forever'. It's robust, well-supported, well-documented, and with Mono / Xamarin works across many platforms (including iOS and Android). I haven't experienced inherent memory leaks as you have described (10+ years of heavy use). Performance limitations are more tied to IO (disk, network etc) than the language.

That said, this isn't an either/or question. One can learn more than a single language at a time. A decent programmer, IMO, has knowledge of several languages, and there is no disadvantage at all in making one of those C#.
Weev’s lawyers appear in court
I don't think you are correct about speed limits. Most limited access roads can probably support higher speeds (Except when there is a lot of traffic entering and exiting), but the majority of 2 lane roads don't have the visibility to support much higher speeds (More developed roads probably do, but they are small fraction of the total mileage).

Roads that see much pedestrian use certainly don't need higher limits (they don't necessarily need lower limits either, just some better sharing system).
> But what sets rattlesnakes apart is their ability to sense infrared light.

Ah, this starts to sound like snakes are dinosaurs evolved to prey on mammals.
iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang
The solution to this isn't "different datacenters".

It's to go back to the original end-to-end internet so I can run my servers on my premises.

That won't stop the NSA from targeting me specifically. But it makes the whole dragnet thing a lot harder when the data is coming from a million physically distributed sources instead of 1,000 sources in one datacenter.
I actually used to work as a mechanic at a bowling alley while in college. Bowling is still popular on Long Island where I live but I think the demise of huge money pro bowling comes from 2 different aspects: 1. There are less amateur bowlers now and 2. Ball technology combined with illegal lane oiling patterns has made bowling too easy.

It was once a very rare feat to bowl a perfect game (300) Now it happens so much that when someone was on 10th frame carrying a perfect game I would not even bother to watch it. Bowling centers want to keep people coming so they make the lanes very easy with "walled shots" (no oil near gutters to allow for massive hooks). Now almost every reasonably good bowler bowls over 200 average, and the difference between winning or losing is much smaller to the point it becomes luck.

This is the same in the Pros minus the illegal pattern. So now there is much less differentiation between pro and amateur bowlers and it is hard to be consistently dominate as everyone is bowling very high scores. They need to make bowling more difficult again by regulating ball surface compounds more closely and making lane oil patterns more difficult. This will increase the divide between pros themselves and amateurs and make it more impressive to watch.
This article actually makes me think of something I first liked about hacker news: I noticed that posts which went against widely accepted views tended to be up-voted.

Seriously, even now when I'm writing something people like it'll generally ok on any site. If I write something I think is well founded and people will not agree with, it'll probably do better on hacker news.

I guess that reminds me to read and up-vote things that I didn't initially like...
Because when you do it this way, you don't have to host the text file. This doesn't seem like a big deal when we're talking about 2048 saves, but a imagine a book reader or image editor.

I actually tried to do something like this for a Comic Book reader, but the Dropbox API didn't allow for file requests to be made through JS: http://rkuykendall.com/articles/web-slinger-comic-reader/
Lots of people are offended at lots of stuff because whining is the best they can do to try to fulfill their personal power process.

Atheism should not function as yet another foundation for groupthink.

It's most likely a small company where you'd be in close contact with whomever wrote that, so why would you still think you want to associate with them? You can't change people's minds through laws. Unless it's part of a larger pattern that prevents you from making ends meet, just live and let live.
Thanks @reconbot... you're welcome back to our NYC recording anytime. Hit us up bud.
Does anyone know what court precedents there are for a site owner O. suing companies C. that present altered versions of O's site to third parties T, without consent from O? Arguably C. is interfering in the relationship of O. to T., wrongfully appropriating O's content for profit, and possibly defaming O by making O. appear (to T.) to be associated with C.

If such actions are not legally ruled out, this service may invite them.
I'm a bit surprised at the amount of positive response. This impresses me as rather obnoxious, probably effective, but obnoxious. Something between the pop-over ad and the ever-present network TV promotional crawl brought to the masses.
Not trying to be rude here, I promise.

Don't those other animals not even have neocortices? Or if they do, they are very thin and smooth? I was under the impression that the human neocortex is abnormally thick and wrinkled, making it plausible that the reasoning capabilities are in fact in there.

The neocortex doesn't directly control the body or see, but there are bits that light up when we do. Lizards have the other parts of their brain, directly wired in. We have those parts, too, in addition to our neocortex.
"During one 1961 performance on ABC’s Make That Spare, pro bowler Don Carter won $19,000 ($149,000 in 2014 dollars), and a brand new Ford Mustang."

Ford mustang wasn't introduced until 1964.
Exactly. If I were making a "neutral" or "position-less" documentary on the planet Earth, it would be impossible for me to actually do. I could ignore flat earthers, but then I would arguably be taking a position in the matter of "what is the geometry of the earth.". But if I gave them equal screen-time, or really any screen-time, then I would be unfairly giving them far more screen-time than they were deserving of making me biased in favor of them.

The entire notion of journalism without any sort of position, biases, or editorialize is absurd. Nothing but a completely raw and unfiltered datastream of everything that I receive could possibly qualify, except that of course would not longer be journalism of any sort.
Python doesn't have language support for the idiom -- trying to evaluate

lambda _, _: None

gives

SyntaxError: duplicate argument '_' in function definition

but tools like pylint will silence unused-variable warnings if the variable starts with '_'.
Neutral position is a platonic ideal, you're correct.

To ignore that ideal is where journalism turns into "entertainment" and "propaganda".
I'm surprised to find out that human vision is among the sharpest. I didn't knew humans outperform over other animals with something else other than brain and long-distance running.
Definitely not. Competitive bowling is pretty big at a high school and college level, and there's the national Junior Gold program. (Plus the usual local youth leagues and tournaments.)
These goals aren't in opposition. But they aren't the same thing.

Women don't launch startups as often as men, and black people don't launch startups as often as white people, but these aren't necessarily for the same reasons, and there's no reason to think that the same advisors and mentors that can help achieve a goal of attracting more female founders would also be effective at attracting more African-American founders.

So it stands to reason that both of these things would be good things to do, but not necessarily as part of the same initiative. And it may be impractical for the same person or institution to launch multiple diversity initiatives at the same time and maintain institutional focus.

So I think the answer isn't to use this as a reason to critique initiatives aimed at attracting female founders. There's no reason the onus for other diversity initiatives should be placed on the people who are already devoting resources to recruiting female founders. Rather, I would suggest that you get involved yourself -- and also encourage others in the startup scene to get involved -- to devote equivalent energy to launching initiatives to recruit founders who are members of traditionally disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups. The more the merrier.
I do feel for people dying of Polio in third world countries. But it is just silly to think that Gates style philanthropy of saving those people is going to change the world, though. It just means a few more people in third world countries will live who might not, and those countries might perform a little better GDP wise and take care of their people a little bit better, and a microscopic few of those people may someday make a change in the world by inventing something or creating some huge company or something.

Meanwhile, getting everyone in the US to use electric vehicles instead of gas would make a huge difference in the world. A society where transportation costs are much lower will be a very different society. Throw in Google self driving cars and we may not be mostly jammed into crime ridden cities any more, for example, since commuting would be a few pennies of electricity sitting in a cabin sleeping or working on a laptop instead of driving.
Last reply, but turns out that I did http://snip.ly and forgot the www! Amateur mistake :)
2000 yeas ago, the Earth population was ~200 Millions. (This is only an estimation, so don't take the number too seriously.) And 2000 years ago, we had ~10,000 years of agriculture and ~5,000 years of diverse grades of civilization.

So, to go to a pre-civilization population level we need at least 6,900,000,000 volunteers.
The Mozilla WebP bugs are a mess due to loads of poor comments. Read at your own risk. The bug you cite has been superseded by a new bug with the same poor quality of comments.

I recently posted a more detailed summary of my own views on the second bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856375#c174
Man will never fly. You can't prove that birds fly because of their wings or air pressure. Therefore I am 100% certain that it's magic and can never be achieved by mere machinery.

Calling a air pressure differential machine "flying" is an insult and severe underestimation of what flying is. If you believe artificial flying is possible, you're missing out on what life has to offer--or you would never think a box of gears could come alive.
Don't scope projects based on lines of code; you'll get shafted. Figure out the attack surfaces (for instance, how many app endpoints, how many URL routes, how many roles), come up with a total person/weeks scope, and then (especially if it's your first project) triage: capture the most important attack surfaces in a "pilot" or "90%" project to figure out how well you work with outside security teams.

A good firm will help you do this, gratis, if you're serious about funding the work. We do it "on spec" for most of our clients, even though that work sometimes ending up helping a competitor deliver the project.

It's fine if firms ask you for lines-of-code counts, but if that's the only question they ask, I'd consider that a red flag.
What are these "tons of ways" you're talking about?
I reserved my twitter name a few years back. My plan is to wait until I have a thousand or so followers to make my first tweet. Of course then the pressure will be on......
@zafka
Are IBM's US government contracts larger than all their foreign business?
So if you were Page, you would hold Musk to the same accountability standards? (Anyway, I don't think this accountability thing has anything to do with Page's motives).
Not so much what I say but more what I do.

Asking stupid questions for one.

If only I could down vote this stupidly pointless post.
How I took it as well.
well, malbolge, for one. :-)

I may just be biased against PHP.

Facebook, at least, believe that it does have enough good parts to make it worth while, so my opinion is just that. My opinion.

I feel that JS has the following good points:

closures, anonymous functions & enough of the 'lisp-zen-nature' to be quite powerful. The prototypal inheritance is a bit weird, at first, and a little ugly on its own, but actually is quite powerful.

It's simple enough that any non-js programmer can pick it up pretty quickly.

PHP has all the usual well known issues, but has the following problems that JS doesn't:

a vast vast vast multi-level standard library, with many different ways of doing things (mysql, mysqli, pdo...) all of which are built in (or not, you can't tell until run-time). the various different php.ini settings which actually change how the language works (eg. 3 different 'escape to HTML' tags). although functions are 'considered bad practice' to use, there isn't a single source of truth on how to write it well. the documentation is a sea of misunderstanding and examples of how to abuse functions and do things which aren't non-obvious (the comments on each page). JS objects generally have methods attached for doing the various operations on them. php has a bit of that, but mostly external functions that you pass arrays or whatever to. That can be just a stylistic thing (being more 'c' like) but it also means you end up having to know - just to use the language at a basic level - that it's array_splice($a), sort($a), array_rand($a), strpos & string_replace, etc.

JS is really quite a small language. You can read crockford's, 'the good parts' in a day, including all the bits to avoid. PHP is a very big language. To write a 'the good parts' of it would require a much longer book, as you can't use the recommended parts without understanding pretty much of the whole language.
I, for one, welcome our new branded linking overlords.
what is semalt

http://www.v4technical.com/what-is-semalt-and-how-to-block-i...
Seriously?

a) You'd just write your take next to the link, instead of hiding it behind. Your example is far-fetched.

b) This is obviously meant for ads. (And the examples on their landing page make that perfectly clear.)

Quote: "You can essentially advertise on any website for free!"
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking

I'm not seeing how encouraging end users to engage in behavior that sites specifically turn off for security reasons as a 'good idea' regardless of the marketing value..?
"because it's the right thing to do"

The right thing to do is fund the best concepts that exist. I don't care if they're all women founded or all men founded.

The reason there aren't more women founders is the real problem at hand. It might be that women are more risk averse. It might be that there's a stigma against girls who program. It might be that there's a large enough population of women who are more focused on finding Mr. Right than founding the right company.

I'm making up some numbers here, but if 1 in 5 companies are founded by women, then it wouldn't make sense to seek a 50/50 founding member gender breakdown in a YC class. That said, my guess is that more than 20% of companies you choose would be founded by women, because the women that did make it to the company founding stage are that much more likely to have the skill sets and the drive to be successful.
Back in 1996, I heard two different people complain that since Microsoft convinced anti-virus companies to support Windows 95, and drop support for Windows 3.11, new viruses for Windows 3.11 were forcing them to upgrade to Windows 95. At least one of these folks was perfectly happy with Windows 3.11, had a huge stash of Windows 3.11 games on CDs and just plain didn't want to upgrade. He saw the whole thing as a charade to force people to shell out for upgrades.
A "higher standard" would imply we hunt to extinction all non-vegetarian animals. Methinks that is a paradox. But YMMV.
This is addressed here: http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html

"The Conformist Test doesn't consider a third possibility: that you simply don't care what anyone thinks."

True enough. But considering how very hard it is to disentangle yourself from the thinking of your time, someone who comforts himself with this thought is almost certain to be mistaken. It's not enough to be an ornery cuss. You have to be Voltaire, and then some.
Can you try to articulate why it offends you? It sounds like you should just easily conclude that you are not interested in that job.
not only migrations :p but they are pretty important!
If all the Facebook source code miraculously disappeared, do you think Facebook would rewrite Facebook in PHP?
> What if I want the people I shared the link with to see my take on an article or something of the sort

I tend to do that at the time I share the link. Like: "Hey... check out this site. Could be cool... or evil ~ http://snip.ly/"
Couldn't a similar rationale have justified (still justify?) Cobol in the 90s and Java today as "great languages"?
"feral" law. Awesome typo? :)
I'm in Canada, so it's possible that my experience differs. I will edit the post to clarify that I'm talking about arterial roads and highways though, not residential streets. Most main non-highway roads here still have limits of 50km/h (30mph), with the average speed ranging around 20% higher than that. Most highways have limits of 80km/h (50mph), with average speeds perhaps 10-20% higher, and IMO safe speeds in good conditions often 50% higher.
Are you trying to ask if this could be tortuous interference with a business relationship? Or if Snip.ly would be liable for libel/defamation of their users by SiteA whose page was Snip.ly'd?

The former, possibly depending on the ToS of the site and how creative your lawyers can be. The latter, probably not; see 17 U.S. Code § 512, aka Safe Harbor for online posts.
Fast prime search for profit – how to build a Riecoin miner part 1
> "Yes, and? For example, best programmers are overwhelmingly white and male, because majority of programmers are white and male."

Understanding of this point is perhaps facilitated by also mentioning that the worst programmers are also overwhelmingly white and male, for the same reason.
The author is certainly misguided in imagining that finance produces no value, but the difference is that McDonalds can't grow itself and broaden its influence by eating its own Quarter Pounders, while Goldman Sachs can do that by leveraging its assets through its own financial instruments.
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen.

Any suggestions for this?
I think it's a combination of the fact that our society has historically had a very perverse relationship with sex, in the sense that it is simultaneously icky, taboo and not to be talked about, yet also crucially important for brownie points and social cred.

However, the main reason is simply the fact that it's such a captivating example of unintentional humor, and what happens when you don't pay attention to your image. In many ways, it's the linguistic equivalent of the famous rabbit-duck optical illusion. It's curious and elicits a response when one realizes the double entendre.

It's hardly problematic, unless your definition of problematic is for everyone not to be dull as cardboard to every little example of unintentional humor in their lives.
This is playing out again pretty much word-for-word with the termination of support for Windows XP.
Ergodox DIY Ergonomic keyboard Kit available on Massdrop
Trying out TLS for HTTP:// URLs
I see your point, but I see it as providing context to the links. This is especially useful on Twitter where there is so little room for commentary.

The message is not showing up for no reason. You clicked a link from someone you follow, because you wanted to usually BECAUSE of how that content relates to them.

Sure, if you just change every link you send out to a link with an ad at the bottom that is bad. But I see no problem with adding context and commentary to a link someone is sharing on social media for that exact reason.
>Money is a highly inefficient way of improving the world.

True vis a vis itself - as money in and of itself does not have an ethical "direction." So I would say you are throwing the bullion out with the bathwater.

Money is a very efficient way of focusing effort - as your example indicates. How it is focused then is up to what we collectively value and how much we want to invest in determining where it will find value.
Our prisons are primarily filled with unpopular people. We tend to refer to them as minorities. Some specific examples off the top of my head of intentionally vague law is when there's purely subjective decisions as to whether a crime is just a "regular" crime or a "hate crime." There also seems to be a lot of ambiguity around what exactly constitutes copyright infringement or the legal vs illegal varieties of hacking.
> marketed toward wealthy ... pilots

Should they be targeting the poor ones with their "very expensive" aircraft?

> low time pilots

Can you provide ANY evidence that Cirrus targets "low time pilots?" Of course, the customer's insurance company has some say in this, too.

> There is an argument to be made that this feature has created overconfident pilots ...

Sure, but, again, where's your evidence?

> it probably doesn't help that they used the chute as an excuse to skip proper spin testing of the aircraft.

??? The SR20 was spun 60 times, with 60 recoveries, as part of European certification: https://www.cirruspilots.org/copa/safety_programs/m/copa_saf...!
It's arguably making fun of people who have gotten a sex change.