skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the only time I care about URL's is when copy-pasting

This is like saying the only time I care about electricity is when I need to power something. The fact that there's a universal textual way to refer to and link everything – like via copy and paste – is precisely why the web is so powerful.
Saw it at the Toronto Hot Docs, great movie.
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As I understand it, dynamic linking is not what is coming soon. What may be coming is the building of a Go program as a shared library, with its interface to the rest of the process likely being through cgo. This was motivated by someone targeting the Android NDK.

Although, the most recent discussion I can find seems to suggest disagreement on how to approach this for a final solution, so not likely to see anything soon: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-dev/Lp59oYc4Ta8/dis...
I use tmux because in it vim can be set to show in italics what should be shown in italics.
Awesome to see that target. I'm kind of tempted to start learning Rust so I can use and contribute to Servo when that day comes.
The fact that so many problems with Wikipedia articles have been found really undermines the entire thesis of this terrible article.
I'm not a developer but is it true that while an App developer who enables Facebook Anonymous login wouldn't know their users--But FaceBook would? If so ouch.
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Aaron Swartz Documentary Director on the Tragic Fate of the Programming Prodigy
Most startups fail; most apps don't succeed to the hopes or expectations of their creators. Just because industry has started taking design seriously doesn't mean we should suddenly expect most startups or apps succeed. And just because Carousel, Paper, Square, Jelly, etc. are well designed, if they fail, that is not a failure of Design itself.

To the extent that the executive-level perception of design's contribution to the success of an enterprise is important, then yes, for sure: we should all make sure that the investments we make in design are substantive and focused on supporting the overall utility of what we are doing, and don't create a perception of wasted resources.

But he (to my mind) basically runs down and says that Carousel is mostly redundant in the existing photo management marketplace and hasn't had good traction; Paper is mostly redundant to Facebook's own existing app and can't find traction; and Jelly is fundamentally off target in its premise and doesn't have traction. The fact that all three had significant investments in design, and tried to showcase that investment to users, does nothing to implicate design in their failures or invalidate design's status as an essential focus for businesses.

It's a thoughtful and interesting article, but after a first reading I just don't think it holds up beyond the author's anxiety on behalf of the discipline, and/or sense of missed opportunities for talented designers to have some high profile hits.
> Actually I'm surprised this hasn't been built into any desktop browser or os yet as it is on android.

Safari in OS X Mavericks has Tweet/Facebook/etc https://www.apple.com/safari/images/overview_builtin_2x.jpg
> Content Blocked (content_filter_denied)

> Content Category: "Proxy Avoidance"

Another day, another block at $employer. Curiously, web.archive.org is allowed.

Thanks for the link.
I think you got it backwards: people act in their self-interest resulting (surprisingly to some) in many of them getting what they desire. This is not a theory but a description of reality.
Google Search now knows where you parked, sounds cooler than it is
The website keeps tracks of "reasons" why using Facebook is a bad idea. That can mean privacy violations (which there is a clear history of and are overwhelming) or issues as a result of a user sharing too much information. Either way, all real issues, "opinion and conjecture" aside. Even what you claimed to be "5% genuine privacy issues" is damning.

Instead of dismissing the list as mostly irrelevant, you could have pulled out the important issues for discussion as I did.
I prefer simple names like postal or mailer.
"Stealing is ok" was just an example of how a rational truth can be flawed, it had nothing to do with Ayn Rand's teachings. My impression from Ayn Rand's teachings was that the best possible society was created when people acted in self interest, this is what I mean by the "greater good". In the novel the politicians always spoke about the greater good, but her argument was they were not doing it right, and actually destroying society. The purpose of the essay was about some people's interpretation of her ideas more then the ideas themselves, which is why I believe they have received such a cult following.
They would cut you off less than half way through that pitch.
I worry it will be the same as last time they removed the http from the url:

Users: Okay, you removed the http from the url by default, but can I have an option to disable it?

Chrome: No, just accept it

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467
I’m sure what you are saying is right — but I’m not in anyway smarter reading it then reading the one before. You can’t just say ‘No, not true’ on Hacker News. What makes the existing options not “fairly good”?
Facebook Moves To Become The World's Most Powerful Data Broker
ad revenue back to Slate as opposed to Youtube?
Back in the days I was actually doing some campaigns for companies on Wikipedia. Those would be based on creating high quality content and adding link to our customer in exchange as a source (we were placing nice article on customers page researched by knowledgeable folks from uni). We were doing a lot of work creating pages, adding really nice content. Some moderators knew about our actions but they were cool about it as they liked content we have been creating.

Because of how many edits we were making (at least 20 a day) we have witnessed politics and lobbying on Wikipedia.
The worst are unfortunately subjects that could by any extent critique US, UK, French or Russian governments, history, monopoly or news.

We have seen highest placed people with absolute power just removing any content without reason and blocking further changes.

One day I got in to the conversation with one of the "untouchable" - admin with small amount of edits etc but for some reason high in ranks. I got in to argument as he removed 500+ words improvement of pretty dead article about some delicate subject (heavy industry related) - this included removal of some links to large companies (they were unrelated though and we placed in exchange links to government institutions and few scholar research). Argument was something like "I would like you to let us know the reason for removing our edits." after no answer for 7 days I sent "If we wont get answer within 48 hours we will be forced tp take this case up as reverse seem as selfpromotion".

Result - around 2 thousands quality edits removed (we had probably links to our related article customers on only ~200 edits). Complete removal of our accounts, blacklisting WHOLE IP ranges from our office and probably hundreds of other regular users. That is how Wikipedia is neutral...
Yeah and I'm sure CMD+L still works.

Still, I can't imagine it will make web dev easier if the URL isn't always plainly visible.
At present, the Class G airspace up to 700 or 1200 feet ( above ground level ) is pretty much do-as-you-please in the USA outside restricted or prohibited areas.

You can fly unmanned balloons, helicopters, Macross robots... whatever. Essentially the FAA has no jurisdiction below 700 feet ourside controlled zones, so if you avoid those you can basically fly anywhere you want.
This ancient reddit thread covers most of the "drama" from both sides:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...
That paragraph doesn't contradict me. The contrast in percentages is actually showing the true number of people with latex allergies. The allergy presents itself more often in healthcare workers because the prolonged exposure is exacerbating an existing mild allergy. This causes the immune system to produce and maintain a greater amount of the relevant antibodies, at which point a latex allergy test will return positive. The latex itself, however, is not what caused the allergy to develop in the first place.

As for the livestock regulations, I completely agree with you. I'm still going to eat steak every day, but I agree nonetheless.
He wrote some really interesting articles too, aside from his activism. For all of you Dark Knight fans check the most recent one out:
(http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/)
This idea (or at least, where this idea could lead) is actually a far more RESTful approach to the web. REST services should offer a single entry point - the root url - and the rest of a service's content should be navigated to through hypermedia affordances.

The advantages are clear: the user never hits a broken page (theoretically) or finds that content has been relocated.

The disadvantages are also clear: no more bookmarks, no more simple sharing.

Hypermedia APIs attempt to address this problem to a degree with various forms of CURIEs[0]. It could be interesting to see a web based on that (imagine href="hn:threads:buying-the-url").

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURIE
AskHN: How do people write novels these days?
I typically write on paper, with a wonderfully smooth, permanent pen. Oddly, having no option to erase or edit results in generally improved writings.

I suppose it's phycological. Without the the ability to backtrack and edit earlier paragraphs, there's no temptation to optimization preemptively, and I can focus on larger concepts, rather than minute details. However, it does result in grammatical hell, and I normally resort to MS Word-based refinement before distribution of any kind.

Graduation is next week, and I've decided on a potentially-indefinite gap instead of college. With newly available free time, I plan to continue hacking away, but also to write at greater length. There's a story that I've begun developing, which I'd love to put into full form.

At this point, I've done a large amount of writing, but most of my experience is in short (<10 page) journal entries. I seriously doubt triple-digit page-counts are handled on straight paper, or in MS Word for that matter. That said, how are novels written these days? Are there any GitHub-like services that specialize in prose?

I dunno. Thoughts?
Having this page be kernel-writable is just asking for trouble. In days of yore (the Apple Newton) these vectors were in ROM.

On the Newton, our memory management guy (hi, Bob!) went the extra mile and made sure that MMU mappings weren't mapped; you had to run a piece of code that was mapped in the same location physically as well as virtually that turned off the MMU, frobbed the page tables, and then turned translation on again. The theory was that we kept patches in battery-backed RAM, and we wanted to dramatically reduce the chance that they could be over-written, even by the kernel.

Not really sure the extra complexity was worth it, but I never heard of a Newton losing its patches short of utterly exhausting the backup battery. (It probably helped that we weren't under active attack, pretty much ever :-) )
This is really interesting. You should write a blog post and publish the source.
I imagine whoever has a jammer can be hit with manslaughter charges in the case someone dies. Or at least something like reckless endangerment.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47300
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This is one of the cases where a userscript or filter proxy is really useful.

There's some interesting cookie-looking values in those URL parameters too, not sure if there's anything privacy-critical in them but it's still a bit of a concern.
setImmediate works with macrotasks; promises work with microtasks. These are very different. See e.g. https://github.com/YuzuJS/setImmediate#macrotasks-and-microt...

Also, note that yield/generators are entirely synchronous, and cannot be used as a scheduling mechanism of any sort.
Google heard of this thing called a 'Uniform Resource Locator', and thought, "Hey, that's us!"
Free Energy Live In Action This Is Breathtaking As Science Is Being Re-Written
Not like I ever do anything with it.

Well that's nice, but some of us still have (e.g.) parents to help over the phone. Not to mention the address/URL/etc. field is an important part of computer literacy.
Yes, it's a true fact that you can pay money for the privilege of extending the cell phone provider's network, while also paying the backhaul the cell phone company's traffic over your internet link, while also paying the cell phone for their "service" that you have to personally install and operate. I have no idea why people think this is an acceptable scenario.
Yawn. Nothing much new in this article. There are articles that cannot be trusted on Wikipedia. So what? It's just like everywhere else. Even History books are full of inaccuracies or present facts according to the political agenda of the current majority at power. This article missing the point that there's tons of articles on Wikipedia which are not subject to controversy - articles on science, math, technology - and those are usually written with a pretty good standard.
I don't understand what "chip" means in this context? When did I miss the boat on all this "chip" business?

A URL has a thing called a chip?

What?
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I want to swear so badly. Removing URLs?
Ok that's fair, one question though because this was what I got out of the book. Do you believe the main big picture purpose of Ayn Rand's philosophy was to create the best possible society? I definitely may have over simplified her idea of selfishness, however the article was more about popular culture's interpretation of it, and maybe making a caricature of it is quite common.
> the traditional desktop PC market for the majority of people will die quickly.

Who cares about the traditional market ? The point of the article is that the PC will die. It's simply not going to be the case, even if the PC stops being mainstream - there will still be USES for the PC, even if it's for a minority of people. And it does not look like it, there are still hundreds of millions of PCs sold every year, and they are not replaced as fast as subsidized phones and tablets, therefore it "looks like" the PC is dying, except it isn't.
More like "the only time I care about electricity is when taking a battery from one device and putting it in another".

If there was a way to tell Chrome "Share this website on Skype to this person" or "Send this to this-or-that IRC channel" I would never care about the URL. The only reason I interact with it is because I want to share the page with someone specific (rather than using a spamming/sharing widget).

But I never manipulate the URL directly, or care about its specific parts.

Hell, if there was a keyboard shortcut for "put reference to current page on copypaste stack" I'd never click the URL at all.
McDonald’s UK Happy Meal Toys Will Now Include E-Books
What about when you buy something online or log in to a web site?

Do you not check the url before you give out your credit card details and website passwords?
Well if virtual reality (OR) becomes any popular in the near future, I tell you the PC is going to undergo a revival very quickly, because none of the ARM devices out there have any hope of catching up on the graphical power of the better PC graphic cards out there.

> They won't go completely extinct, the way mainframes haven't. But they'll get relegated to smaller and smaller niches.

PC are STILL selling by hundreds of millions every single year. Saying it's dying is like saying winter is coming just because you have a cooler summer day.
How is the reader supposed understand all this unless you actually say it in your essay. Instead you present a distorted caracature of ideas you clearly don't understand.

Let me ask you this: if people don't act in their own self-interst, how should they act? And more importantly how should they express their many desires if not through their actions?
It's actually a trivial matter of image processing to detect, by classification, photos depicting a driver looking down at their hands or holding their hand to their face. It is also completely trivial to OCR license plates. It would be a quite simple system to classify such pictures, send them to human review for verification, and then mail out tickets.
What is HM? hacker moose? :)

IMO writing varies widely among people, usually across different media and different categories. Regardless of purpose, feedback seems to help a lot.
I've seen textbooks on Github but not novels. A google search reveals promising results.
my fear is that the chrome flag will eventually go away entierely
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Spritz. http://www.spritzinc.com/

Try it out. You're welcome.
Scalar variables are a good solution to tackle register problems. But once you spend a little time with Linked List Programming, You never want to go back to any scalar solution.

Linked List Programming eliminates every scenario where you need a scalar. LLP models "beginning, middle & end" in a sense that you never need to use any "scalars" library again. It brings such a higher level abstraction to your "space" dependent code, that you don't have to maintain state in your code. JSClass's Linked List is one of the simplest LLP library which brings simplicity & power to your JS projects.

http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/linkedlist.html
thats quite and insightful joke :)
This change (just like the hiding the scheme part) affects everyone who copies links, which is something that almost everyone using the Internet has done at some point. It's just an extra click, but an unnecessary one.
In the US at least, you don't own the air rights above your home.. the US government does (see the Federal Aviation Act).

So in your example, you just caused real property damage (by shooting down the drone) because it was on property you don't even own (the air).

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/if-i-f...
It's fulfilled. If you return from the rejection handler, instead of rethrowing, then you have handled the error:

rejectedPromise.catch(e => {
return 5;
});

is similar to

try {
throwError();
} catch (e) {
return 5;
}
Thanks for nothing, Apple, say forensic security chaps
Who needs functions. Labelled gotos are not a problem if you're judicious.
I think that ideas have nothing to do with people. There is a general human race intelligence eather where ideas boil and and when one particular human comes up with an idea, there are probably 10 others that at the same time have the same idea. If you investigate carefully you'll notice that there are no breakthroughs. All ideas are incremental. Einstein was genius, but even his work was incremental [1].

Why I am saying this - we applied to YC this year with exactly same idea. It looks like even details of the implementation are similar.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
Would that get you a unique template fill for each recipient?

Yes, certainly it's a far cry from reliable, deliverable, multi-part HTML/plain, open tracking, click tracking, CANSPAN compliant, transactional email.
Would greatly appreciate any feedback!
Care to explain why? I thought it was a pretty concise explaination.

Do you have personal experience with YC interviews and know that they would for a certain reason?
Huh? Where are "we" dismantling our landline network?
I did say "relatively speaking." I wasn't making a judgment as to whether it was moral or immoral, just that 4chan as a whole mostly saw it as reasonable, which is why most of them found the intrusion humorous instead of an affront.

This is in stark contrast to when UG Nazi hacked 4chan a while ago by hijacking Cloudflare's CEO's Gmail and pointing 4chan.org's A record at their own server.
Clojure is less broadly marketed than Python in the sense that the supporting materials often feel like there is an implicit assumption that the reader has a background in Java or Common Lisp. Python on the other hand is marketed like Basic or maybe Pascal, and there are many many warm fuzzy introductions - they may not be very good but they are very gentle.

Which one? Well for scripting, if it's just one or the other Python. For something big and performant, Clojure. For a pure intellectual exercise, Clojure again. For broadening a resume, probably Python.
This pitch is already strong, but is actually improved by the suggestion (inspired by your comment) to cut it to half its previous length:

"Setting up a dev environment takes a day. Sometimes you need one in a minute, like if you're interviewing somebody and need them to demonstrate coding ability on a company laptop. We turn any browser window into a fully-functional dev environment, and it's as ephemeral as the browser window is, so if you close it the company laptop is back in its original state without requiring a sysadmin to wipe it..."
Classes are a way to encapsulate state, you don't have to use them together with oo. How else would you describe the example in python without using object oriented constructs? Global variables or passing around a dictionary with all the things set up in init?
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Is the ad revenue share from youtube < self hosted ad revenue - cost of hosting video and streaming it. Honestly do not know. But seems unlikely.
If you closely watch Google quarterly financial reports and their search/content ad asset placements, you'll see that they are under tremendous pressure to monetize the web to show the investors they do a fraction of what is possible. Chrome UI updates often have traces of this pressure where search is favored against any other behavior to find information such as bookmarks, history, address bar.

Removal of editable URLs will push a few percentage of address bar led traffic to to search.
I was confused too, I think they mean "small button" - you can click the box that says Amazon.com (in their screenshot) to get the URL textbox.
For kicks, try replacing "software" with "automobiles" in your paragraph.

The innards of a modern car are incomprehensible to all but "the few elite", and its interface goes a long way to hide all that complexity. I only have the vaguest idea how it works, and am perfectly happy to outsource its maintenance to professional mechanics, because all I care about is that it works.

This should apply to computers. My family love their iPads and Macs, because they abstract away all the crap they don't care about in, in favor of letting them get stuff done. It's a form of reverse snobbery to insist that no, my grandmother actually should care deeply about whether she's searching via DNS or via Google, or that my preschooler needs to understand the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.