skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. Blocking or not installing Flash used to be an easy way to avoid the most annoying ads. Now I need to figure out some mixture of request-blocking and CSS element-hiding to make them go away. And CSS hiding doesn't address the fact that most of the bandwidth I buy on a cell carries content I don't want: a 1000-word article is maybe 5k of text, but how many megabytes of ads and Javascript garbage? Nor does it prevent the tracking.

Simple, tasteful, first-party ads would make the world a much better place, but sadly, I don't think that's the direction we're heading.
FCC overturns state laws that protect ISPs from local competition
Cucumber-js with sync, callable steps and parsed arguments
Wow, OK. I'm definitely wrong then. Thanks for the correction!
Yeah my new rule of thumb is to avoid telling them what I make and try to tell them what it will take for me to leave my current position. I think I'm underpaid so I don't want to start by telling them how underpaid I am.
Recently I got to use some C# on Linux (with Mono framework), and I gotta say it wasn't bad. I didn't do anything with GUI elements, was all back-end server code.

C# wouldn't be my top "go to" language, but I would put it above Java. I liked some of the generics handling better, it can be less verbose it seems.

Monodevelop is not on par with Visual Studio, but it is solid and worked well for me. I usually don't like IDEs, but for a new language/framework and large projects it was very helpful to have it.

Wondering if open sourcing .NET core will breathe a new life into Mono project and maybe it is going to be bigger thing that what we expected -- we'll start seeing more back-end usage of .NET.

F# is nice too, and if anyone stayed away because of having to use Windows, maybe now is a time to take a second look.
The idea that humans do not share emotive traits with other animals would seem very unlikely, given what we know of the theory of evolution, observed animal behavior and neurology.

Also, you may want to have a look at The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness that was published for the Francis Crick memorial conference at Cambridge University.

“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...

http://fcmconference.org/
Thanks for the correction! I missed that chapter somehow.
Hi guys. Cool site. Quick question - and I completely understand if you can't answer - any more details on your plans for expanding MLS coverage, or particulars on your current data arrangements?

Just curious because I know some realtors and it seems like the barrier to a national MLS equivalent has been opposition by industry organizations wanting to protect their data. Any thoughts?
Yes! If you want an API to put in an offer via HTTP request (curl a house!) please let me know at peter@openlistings.co. This is definitely on our list, but not super high yet but if you want it, we'll move it higher.
thanks for this, its a good reminder to be skeptical.
Sure. But then you come back to the fact that the majority of their old, good content is carried on other services.
Guess where Beyonce and hubby took Blue Ivy to on her birthday?
I understand the language. I don't understand what they mean by "patterns". Common edge cases where js/css/html is broken in specific ways?

If you write html/css in a relatively compliant way, things will not be so broken that a browser vendor needs to account for them in a "long tail". If your js is broken, well tough luck.

Are they just talking about how to implicitly handle commonly malformed HTML, as all browsers do?
Twitter text shots, and what design wants
What are some of the best practices to keep in mind while learning to code?
FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
Over reliance on singletons can indeed be less maintainable, less testable, and less flexible than dependency injection.

However sometimes a singleton is in fact more maintainable and improves the code massively. Nor do they have to be less testable when implemented well.

None of which detracts from the article which is about consistency in the code base. A knew jerk reaction to the singleton completely misses the point.
Apple was never good at security, they just weren't a big target. Now they're both bad at security AND a big target.
Looking at the source repo, it is not using real-time API results. Probably have to wait for the devs to sync it again.

https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards
FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II
The 'guilt and control' phenomenon also looks like it shows up in deciding whether to leave your children at home during a quick trip out. While a road accident may be much more likely than an accident alone at home, good luck explaining that to either the parents or the law. The desire to feel in control frequently seems to be very hard to reason against.
Does the headline writer not notice the irony at all? How about?
`Nobody really said Soylent was the end of food, despite what click-bait headlines claim`
DevTools feature request: show relative flow parent of absolute position element
Apple announces media event for March 9
I don't think it's the same, you'd only have to trust one extra source for the new appstore (2? 3?), not one for each installed software.

E.g. I trust the macports maintainers, even if I don't verify the sources for each thing I get through `port install`.
Most people never try. Feynman found he could, to some extend.

https://books.google.de/books?id=Z7g-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=P...
Well, yes, but that would be also true for an island with the shape of a rectangle that is 144 miles wide and 10000 miles long.
What kind of tools?
I've been a Mac developer since 1984 and the last time I ever saw a virus was 1988 I think. It's not impossible to get irritation-ware if you download random crap from these download sites but genuine malware is extremely difficult to produce. Saying "Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epidemic Has Begun" is beyond stupid.
The amount of that article which was focused on legacy was very depressing. When it started to go about how it would break some Little League site that was IE specific that got me very unexcited. Microsoft today needs to learn the lesson of Apple in the very late 90s and just say "no".
I would be interested why the go implementation is so much slower than the Java implementation. The algorithms behind both implementations seem to be exactly the same and both are garbage collection languages. There probably has to be a stupid performance mistake somewhere. I tested with the small dataset from the task page.
It seems the value of this is highly dependent on the local market. A 2% commission on a $300k home is comparably priced at $6000 (and commission rates are negotiable), but a local agent will provide a lot of service difficult for a web app to compete with.

I can see the value in a market where seven figure homes are the norm, though. Most buyers don't want to negotiate a good flat rate with an agent. On the other hand, I bought without an agent and didn't feel too out of sorts during the process.

As a suggestion for the site: talk up the value the service provides over and above sending the offer letter. To me, that's where the value would lie.
http://i.imgur.com/le8aRmB.png

I remember finding your games here on HN quite some time ago, my 3 year old can now do your animated jigsaws herself and currently loves the game with the russian dolls. My email in my profile is also my Skype if you want to chat, maybe we can help each other out - all my downloads are for traditional jigsaws and an older audience, with children and grandchildren.
It works amazing with those medium blogs http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum/medium/medium_summary_enab...
I made another comment already how it's trivial to start a web project with SQLite and migrate to a 'real' database, or continue to use it interchangeably for local development.

But I also just realized, there is a whole ecosystem of ORM based apps that can run on any of the supported databases. If you ever used an MVC framework and re-used apps, you have "switched databases" without even knowing, depending on what the original developers used.
It depends what you mean by code snob... I've had a dev replace large section of my code with "cleaner" code that didn't work in all cases, comment out the failing tests, then push that.

Some people are convinced that making components isolated and aesthetically clean is more important than making them functional.
LiveOak – The Open Source Mobile Services Platform
Relevant Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893

My test: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/

The main two issues are that a data connection doesn't require user consent (unlike video/audio) and the browser checks all network interfaces as connection candidates (so VPN users on Windows and Mac expose their real IPs). As I proposed in the bug, if we fix those two things, we would be a lot better off.
Blogspam article, referencing NY Times article that was extensively discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9106928
Chairman Wheeler proves that he isn't a dingo.
> Can you do that?

Maybe not, but then, humans have a pretty poor sense of smell compared to lots of other animals.
Too bad?
Which surprised me that he didn't pad it out more by talking about why it was based on the Northern Hemisphere. (He calls it "an accident of ... location.") I am unsatisfied with the explanation.

The Northern Hemisphere has twice as much land as the Southern. Today 88% of the World's population lives in the Northern hemisphere. The fact that we are North-biased is not a fluke, but an effect of geography.
My Life-Defining Moment Happened When I Failed to Make Varsity in High School
Apple Announces (Probable) Apple Watch Event 3/9
Thanks for the tip. Yeah, the game of "lets see what I can make with what is still in the fridge" sounds totally fun! :D.
In UK your employer can see what you've earned before. As explained elsewhere, it's because unless you run your own company you don't have to do your own taxes. Government does it for you, even if you have multiple jobs they will figure out exactly how much you need to pay without you bothering with it. But the downside is that yes, you have to disclose how much you've earned before(there are situations when you can make the figure appear slightly larger or smaller,but it's not very easy).
They've specifically hinted that they want people to shift their pledges to a "surprise" that's coming later in the campaign.

It's been speculated that the metal version will be called "Business Time" :P
None of those seem relevant or even related to this story, except inasmuch as they involve a child.
FCC votes to protect the Internet with Title II regulation
Kerbal Space Program is 64-bit only on linux, apparently due to a problem with 64-bit unity...
They can't. All of the success MS has is based on enterprise - Apple are lucky in not having that restriction. At this point, if MS decided to say F everyone it would come back to bite them very hard.

I have a lot of respect to these IE devs for not just quitting and doing something easier, to be honest.
Where can I buy one of those things? Looks awesome!
I did a single member Delaware LLC. tax filings are easier as its just a pass through on your schedule C. I think you can convert to a C corp later on to.
Here's How I Built 2 Multi-Million Dollar Internet Companies Using Technology
I don't think it takes into account the country, just the city. I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me with people in Halifax, Canada.

Edit: Also, I have more than 1 star on my projects, yet it just reports 1?
TemplateMonster Is Giving Away 7 Themes of Your Choice
If those differences actually exist, they should be pretty easy to demonstrate.
Swiffy is an offline publishing tool to convert SWFs to SVG. Shumway is a client-side SWF interpreter.
I'm hopeful.
The idea of SteamOS disrupting the windows stranglehold on games, and possibly disrupting consoles as well.
I personally hate the fact backwards compatibility on consoles is dead. I would love a steambox I could upgrade or buy new every few years, and still play my existing game library without having the clutter of tons of consoles just to play a specific game.
Startup Marketing Success Is About Priorities
It's pretty obvious really. The sites are a distraction I don't want, and they're a distraction I wouldn't have with BitBucket.

Yes, in this case it's just a stupid ranking, but in the past there have been more serious fakes, where GitHub has had to step in and tell people a site isn't related to them.
What? https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1...
What scares me is that there are 700 regulations (that we haven't even seen) that got passed.

I wouldn't sign a contract without reading it (and having the person on the other side telling me all of the reasons why I should), and neither should you. But apparently, the general population (and many here) will.

I watched the entire live broadcast and the pros played only on emotion (safety, helping out the disadvantaged,etc) and did not really mention any of the regulations. Facts and rationality was only brought up by the opposition.

*edited: I see the down votes. The pro-NN astro-turfing is high here. This is just my opinion. If there is nothing to fear, you shouldn't be trying to silence it.
Origami – new tool for designing interactive user interfaces
Also, on my iPad, I find that many websites (news sites are the worst offenders) keep messing with my "tap to zoom on the main column of text" action. That is, my zoom setting is reset several seconds after the main content is displayed. I have a hunch that it is, in a large part, due to ad networks loading long after the main content has loaded and forcing a reflow of the page.
This looks like an optional conversion step for advertisers that want to target mobile devices that don't have Flash. So not wholesale replacement of Flash ads.
What DB are you pulling from? Is this self curated?

I tried add locations for `Santa Cruz`, `Santa Barbara` and `Mendicino County` and got "No listings in this area yet."
Devil's advocate here:

That could just be the default, and the user could disable it. On Windows 8/8.1 the default is for the "SmartScreen Filter" to block "unrecognised" applications from being run or installed. See their FAQ [0]. It can be disabled however.

If someone is smart enough to be installing applications from third party sources themselves, then they're smart enough to flip a switch in a Preferences panel to enable it.

However this does protect the lowest common denominator who these malware are actually targeting (i.e. computer illiterate individuals who will click ads in search results).

[0] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/smartscreen-filt...
And by choosing liberal licenses, those original projects have indicated that they're fine with that. Seriously, I don't see the problem.

If you don't want people to use your code without making their changes available to you, license it under the GPL. That's what the GPL is for. Criticizing GPL projects for the fact that some projects are not GPL seems an odd way to spend your outrage budget.
Indeed the China government has a good reason to concern much about information security.
This is from a "developing for the web and dealing with Mobile Safari" perspective, so take that for what it's worth.
Reducing the number of error handling “if” statements (if = nil)
I wonder if the Silicon Valley model of VC-funded startups is particularly hostile to women?
FCC Adopts Net-Neutrality Rule Backed by Obama for Open Internet
Kanban+GTD
Is there a good tool out there that acts as a gtd style task management solution and has the ability to visualize everything in Kanban? I am currently using Todoist and integrating with Trello via Zapier but it's not completely clean. Anything thoughts on one solution?
Stored procedures can and should be deployed from files that are under version control.
> regression testing sanely and exporting/importing the data. Which you would have to do with an ORM anyway

You can export data into ORM specific, database agnostic format, such as Django fixtures or SQLAlchemy fixtures, and test against the ORM. This is actually one of the key ORM features to leverage.
Well, that would be a great first impression if the very first thing the company found out about you was that you've lied in the interview about how much you've earned before.
Landmark Internet rules approved
From the reading I did they basically don't spend any time looking in spots where there is not a cache. Which at least suggests they are using memory.
Adblockers don't catch everything, and also on some sites I am happy to support via Ads but I cannot stand being interrupted with auto-play video. I've really enjoyed the complete silence from ads in Flash format and am not looking forward to a repeat of the early 2000s.
Getting MLS data is hard. We had to become a registered California brokerage and join individual MLS organizations as participating agents. Each MLS runs on different servers with slightly different SOAP/XML APIs and slightly different data formats. We're ingesting from 3 right now in real-time. We're planning to get full CA coverage this way in the next month or so (CA is 15% of the national real estate market).

We might have a different approach when we scale nationally but so far this is working pretty well. There are a few third party companies that offer the data but it's not as fast or complete as a brokerage feed from the MLS (and speed matters in hot CA markets).

That said, we don't need the property in our system to put an offer on it so you can shop on Redfin or Zillow and come back to our site when you want to put a bid in. We will happily put an offer in on any home in California.
Ecuador gives details of new digital currency
They are/have. In Windows 10 it is called "OneGet." It is a Linux-like package manager to complement their Windows Store (app store) which isn't going away.
I like to fill my commute time listening to technical presentations and interviews. I can't say I've accomplished anything that way. But, it has expanded my awareness of current tech and practices far outside of my 9-5.

Currently listening to: Functional Geekery, Mostly Erlang, the Lean Startup conferences and Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots.
Net neutrality activists score landmark victory in fight to govern the internet
By "difficult to produce", do you mean difficult to find? If you mean difficult to develop, it's actually very straight forward, and no different from Windows.
How used are the new tlds right now? What is the plan to use them? Won't it take people a long time to think .app for something?
There's a pretty large distinction between reviewers that are manually linting the code base and ones who change code to be easier to read but less working :)
And I think Spaceport (now defunct) was started even earlier than that. Shame Google didn’t acquire it.
As a participating California brokerage, we're pulling directly from regional MLS servers. We don't have those areas yet but we're rolling out full CA coverage in the next month or so.

Currently we have 100% MLS coverage in SF and the greater LA area.

Next on our list is Silicon Valley, East Bay (Oakland), and San Diego. I'm super excited for Mendocino too!
Recently was surprised to discover that the official uTorrent distribution, downloaded straight from utorrent.com, has some Spigot stuff in it. Was I tricked somehow or pre-hijacked already into downloading a non-authentic installer, or do they make money that way now—not yet completely sure.
> the helpful code snob and the condescending one. The latter isn't help at all.

HA! You're straight up wrong. You're never going to find someone more motivated to BE right. They don't care about appearing to be right for lesser people. If you have skin thick enough to tolerate them they'll be immensely valuable. Also, their attitude is a huge disadvantage in the workplace causing them to be far more exploitable (cheaper) than their peers.
On a related note: can someone explain the advantages of Swiffy over Shumway? Upon first glance, it looks like Shumway has the ability to translate Actionscript to Javascript and the Flash visual elements to HTML5 elements. Whereas with Swiffy, the SWF is just converted to what's basically an animated SVG. What would make Swiffy more attractive for Google to use over Shumway if Shumway seems to be a more complete solution?
I used to work in C# (now mostly live in JavaScript land) and I miss things like LINQ a lot. So here's hoping we see wider adoption of C# in the future.
The writer's belief that all racing is counterclockwise
turns out to not be correct for horse racing, some
auto racing, and even some long-duration foot racing.

http://risaaustralia.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-race-courses-a...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1001/why-are-races-...
Any idea when or how these additional 700 regulations will be published?
What leaks, again? That the US gov thinks he caused national security damage? Well, duh, senior. That's not a leak, that's common sense that they would think that.

I just like to look at things objectively, but you clearly appeal mainly to emotion. My viewpoint on this has nothing to do with my viewpoint on the government.
Just out of curiosity, what is your go-to language?

C# is probably my favorite general purpose language so far, although I really prefer Golang's goroutines/channels over C#'s async model. Curious to hear other perspectives!
FCC Preempts Laws Restricting Community Broadband in NC/TN
> but Java and Flash still provide viable vectors to bypass it and infect a Windows machine.

...Unlike Mac which doesn't have Java or Flash?
Yes, LLC's do not have stock; therefore, the DE franchise tax calculation for LLCs is not the same a C-Corp...it is just a flat fee.

Edit: You are also correct that an LLC can be converted into a C-Corp.
It doesn't matter unless they make it open-source or at the very least cross-platform. I'm not downloading a 4GB VM from http://modern.ie to try it.
Not everyone shares your particular idea of what a bad and good citizen is.
YES! 1-2-3-4, I declare a browser war!

Finally. This is the Microsoft I've been waiting for! No more rolling over and no defeatist talk of adopting WebKit or whatever. Microsoft is going to use its muscle and position to make a truly competitive browser.

We need more competition, and we need the default browser in Windows to be just as good as Chrome and Firefox.

Microsoft, I hope you pull every -ms- vendor flaggin', ring-0 kernel hookin', micro-optimizatin', site-specific D3D driver tweakin' trick in the book as you reach for parity. This is going to be so fun to watch.
In case it wasn't clear from my comment: that was my point. I agree with you.
Don't a lot of login forms hash passwords with JS before sending it over the internet? Wouldn't it then be useless to anyone listening?
FCC adopts net neutrality rules to ban Internet discrimination
>its own

Whose own?