skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just installed he extension and it seemed to give a few false alarms. One email chain with just a few acquaintances mailing back and forth was flagged.
The "Simba" one is the most likely to be coincidence though. "Simba" is the word for lion on Swahili.
What happened to web components ? isn't supposed to solve these issues ?
Having to install software so that a government doesn't give your details for free to a for-profit company is actually awful.

30M isn't much, considering the scale at which they run, and considering that it would be something freely available to the public as well. There's also the fact that open source alternatives exist today.
18th Century Masquerade Balls
I run small hosting company and want to offer analytics services to my clients, that will include all details that Google analytics hides as well as allows us to host all the data locally, without using any third party service.
Here's project description with image snapshot:

http://www.mensk.com/traffic-ray-new-splunk-app-to-visualize...

It's multi-platform, open source, fully operational with a free Splunk license. Currently support only apache logs, but wouldn't be that difficult to add IIS support
The Blue Marble Shot: Our First Complete Photograph of Earth (2011)
It is tough to find a business case for a technologic innovation. It is easier to start with a business case and then derive the technology necessary for that.

Steve Jobs: https://youtu.be/GnO7D5UaDig?t=50m22s

That said, there are companies like TypeSafe and Cognitect that found a way to sell solutions and services (often in a consultancy/agency/training model) and through that business model they can invest in fundamental longer-term building blocks (like languages, runtimes, libraries, databases).

It's not easy but might be a possible angle to deliver tangible value now & still drive long-term vision and innovation.
Government of Canada and Homeland Security Issue Upgrade Warning
No, I mean, what law would they be in breach of if they don't send a picture?

I'm guessing you won't take anyone to court over it, but if you did, how would you do it?
And I believe they're not VC funded either. They're all in for the long haul and can plan around slow growth.
How? I'm just saying it's not cut/dry. I'm not making any assumptions.
For those looking to generate changelogs, but not from issues or something GitHub-specific, gnulib has a tool to generate changelogs from commit messages:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=bu...
Weird. HTML message viewing in claws-mail refuses outright to load external images without an explicit request from the user. I have no idea why anybody would want or implement behavior different than that...?
This only prevents device and IP information from being broadcasted. The main information the email sender still gets is if the email was opened at all.
It still leaks whether or not you viewed the email and what time, even if it doesn't leak the IP you came from.

Also of note: Fastmail also uses proxies in this fashion too now.
Normally I would say "what's wrong with knowing what to Google for and getting the right answer in a short enough time span to seem like a reasonable response to your dev question" since that's how many devs (who actually get stuff done) work. However, it's hilarious because the internet speeds are so slow in India that they probably would be better off actually spending the time in front of a reference book than waiting for their browser to crawl through Google.
But there are limits to what genes can express, based on the cell's capabilities. For instance, you could make someone a wolfman by adding hair, but you couldn't have them grow leaves like the Jolly Green Giant. Our cells just don't have the kernel level support or whatever you want to call it.
Haha, not necessarily so. For one thing, memetics might trump genetics. Cultural changes might heavily outweigh any genetic selection effect. If enough people adopt children and then encourage those children to adopt when they're older, it could easily outweigh genetic effects.

For another thing, people who care might be less reproductively successful on average. This is a bit more fanciful, but IMO is more plausible than it sounds. Perhaps people who care about that stuff won't have as many children because they're more picky, for example, or for any other reason that might correlate with that preference.
Technically, I don't think it would be very useful except for apps that are simple state machines. If you want something Turing-complete, you might as well stick to JavaScript.
Granted, the UI should allow paste and the password policy should allow complex passwords.

But, since when are password managers best practice? I wouldn't want to put all my eggs in one basket...

It took me more than fifteen but less than twenty years to develop the ability to commit dozens of complex passwords to memory and change them frequently enough. I highly recommend that you develop this ability, too. Practice, practice.
Osamu Tezuka, author of Jungle Emperor Leo, was a huge fan of Disney's work, and he was his main influence. Personally, I love to see this as a tribute rather than as plagiarism. And I'm saddened every time this story pops up, especially when it's framed like that.

Just found a discussion on that topic on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/board/thread/235177489 I hope that the discussion in this actual thread is not going to end like that :-)
Could you make multiple copies ("mirrors") ?
Penis jokes. Yawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer#Radiation
The Irrationality of AA
"it's probably more about being picky"

Yes and... not only. Being picky is only natural. Being unrealistic about it is more of the issue here.
> what time

Not necessarily. Does Google cache the image when receiving the email, or when you view it?
Thankfully, morons don't indefinitely prevent progress, most of the time. But their existence, and the fact that they're not labelled as "painfully, obviously moronic" by most people / media is infuriating.
Thats interesting. I didn't connect that. The word for lion in some Indian languages is 'Simha' or 'Simham'.
Show HN: An interactive WordNet visualization
Musicians - not denying that they're artists, but there are artists who are not musicians.

Based on the headline (didn't notice this was linked to Pitchfork) I thought this was an article about moving away from the dominant white cube-model of contemporary art galleries and a return to living rooms. Because before the modern form of art galleries existed, expositions were in fact held in living rooms quite often!
XSLT is a good idea with terrible implementation IMO. There's language called cduce. I'm not sure if it alive but it was interesting alternative implementation, though it was too much academical to be practical. But there could be usable language for trees transformation. Overall this idea is much better than current state of things.
Well somebody tell Google and Facebook, they're probably missing out on a lot of revenue because of their broken websites.
Any email client that permits this to happen automatically is user hostile. I really hope that Gmail doesn't do this by default.

But I use mutt, so I'm not worried. If I really have to read an HTML-only email, I have mutt configured to pass the HTML to links for rendering, but in a way that links runs confined and without access to the Internet (or anything else) in order to do so[1].

It's been a few years now, and I don't feel I've really missed anything by going back to a text-mode email client. By being able to optionally render HTML as text, I can still read the occasional HTML-only email that I need to (for example: order confirmations). The rest of the time, plain text works just fine.

[1] http://www.justgohome.co.uk/blog/2014/02/mailcap-html-apparm...
Why I Like WebStorm Better Than Visual Studio (Sometimes)
There is an ebook here (http://lesswrong.com/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers_blog_posts/) where you can read it unedited as it was originally written. I don't know if anyone would want to do this, but it's how I read them. I imagine a lot of the content would be edited down or out, especially the standalone stuff. That's not necessarily a bad thing though.
I skimmed that article, but I like how it went from very accusatory and "how dare they!" about Disney's adaptation of the style to confessing that it's ultimately a good thing because it helps get people into Kimba and the film is a decent spiritual successor to the show.
Except if you read the articles and others linked on this thread, their alleged actions (if true) are clearly anti-competitive. "Give us your content, else we'll demote you in our rankings, which by the way is the biggest source of your traffic"? Really?

While they are usually more subtle about it, I am not very surprised. I personally am aware of at least one deal where they used their size to squeeze a smaller company. Only they called it a "level playing field" (https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/level-playing-field/). Sounds so much nicer! Except what it means is, "Our users want to take their data from our service to yours, but it's not 'level', so hey, give us something in return". And of course, who can forget the whole YouTube thing with Zoe Keating.

This has been a trend for a while now, only their PR has been pretty good at covering it up. Like calling it a "level playing field".
I've always had these assumptions:

If you open an html email, you are being tracked.

If you click on a link in an email, you are being tracked (plain text / html)

Is there any email clients someone can recommend that force plain text in multipart emails? Or convert html emails to be viewed as plain text if the email isn't multipart?
Dutch startup Vigour teams with MTV to bring its multiscreen tech to the masses
Yeah, I'm a lawyer and the law is clear when it says what are the copyrightable things. A song that "reminds" of another isn't enough to be considered as a copy. If that were true, than we wouldn't have western movies or movies where a hero kills the villain to rescue an innocent girl. So, yeah, this is stupid.
If companies sent letters, which when opened, silently and without your knowledge sent a signal home to tell them that the letter delivered to your house had just been opened, would that be "harmless"?

Personally, I would consider it, ugly, sneaky, disturbing and unsettling. But then it's ok on the Internet because this sort of tracking is easy on the Internet right?
See also “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” and “The secret of blue water”
search the article title on google, read it without paywall
Unity at least has an excuse - it's stated goal is to have the same interface on mobile and desktop, and function well with both touch and mouse.
Importance of Video Marketing
Docker, Meteor, ElasticSearch, NPM there is plenty of start-ups doing infrastructure stuff.

Market don't need fast PHP compiler look how low is adoption of HHVM. PHP is legacy codebase used for simple CMS. If someone need performance it will use Java, Node.js etc
France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels
telnet and get
This must be a joke. Why force a design pattern on anyone who wants to create an SPA?
Actually, I think that once intelligence and beauty can be "fixed", one could argue that the line between being disabled intelligence-wise (or aesthetically-wise) or not starts to shift. All those millions of children who, in your scenario, don't have to live with a disability will also be at a steep disadvantage compared to the extra smart and beautiful rich kids. If this would continue for some generations, you'll get a genetic upper and lower class. It could even mean that we create a new "super species" that's becoming less and less compatible with humans .

(Yes, I read way too much science fiction, but I think it explores some interesting scenarios we should seriously consider while debating the issue. For a very popular reference: In the Star Trek universe the Eugenic Wars explore problems of genetic enhancements; The character Doctor Bashir in DS9, for example, is an (illegally) enhanced human [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Julian_Bashir])
but aren't crops already genetically modified to give better yields etc? Whats wrong with making people smarter? Of course the safety of such procedures should thoroughly be checked but i still think this kinds of things should not be banned over moral and ethical grounds
No more than Star Wars ripped off "The Hidden Fortress" and "Midway". Art riffs off other art. In the Star Wars sense, there were a lot of parallels to the other works, but it was and is still an original creation.
Good point. I do use react and I find jsx to be very convenient. I guess the question is: would I want to write something similar to JSX and have the browser be able to interpret that natively. I honestly don't know.
I'm thinking strictly about the customization of the UI, not of "everything else" in System Preferences (e.g. hardware, network and so on). You can set individual icons but you don't have icon themes per se, can't change the UI theme (and I distinctly remember there was an application that did that very well back on 10.4, and 10.5 broke it along with most other efforts), can't change titlebar buttons and so on. E.g. I very much prefer the NeXT arrangement (close button on the right, minimize button on the left), because I really have no use for Maximize on a 27" screen. Good luck with that.

To their credit, though, Apple does at least think twice before pushing changes most of the time. Gnome's latest effort, with the client-side decorations, is maddening. Now every Gnome application has a thick titlebar that's also a toolbar, and every other application doesn't. They supposedly did that in order to save screen space - which could have just as well been done by reducing the thickness of that mammoth title bar Adwaita uses - but the effect seems to me to have been exactly opposite. Surely someone must have seen that the result is inconsistent on any system that runs a single application not included with Gnome -- say, for instance, Firefox! Or Chrome! Or Emacs! Or Thunderbird! Whatever.

I certainly understand that Gnome developers have a vision for their UI, but the uncommunicative way in which they impose it is pretty unpopular among users (like myself) who moved away from Windows or Mac OS a long, long time ago because they wanted more control over their operating system (well, that and no BSODs, which was a common occurrence at the time when I left Windows behind. Did you know Mac users didn't even have preemptive multitasking then? God I feel like a dinosaur now. Get off my lawn.)
The funny thing: in fact, it will work, and for exactly the same reasons. The manual describes it thus: "The conflicting condition is a stride determined by the size of the cache in bytes, divided by the number of ways."

L1 caches for most modern CPUs work in this manner, and you see the same result. (Wikipedia has a description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache - the type of cache commonly employed today being the N-way set associative type.) You can run the same calculations to get an equivalent value for each CPU. For example, you asked about HPPA: for a PA8700, this value would - I suppose... I just found the cache specification using Google :) - be 384KBytes, as its data cache is 1.5MBytes 4-way set associative.

As a more general note: If you try to seriously solve performance problems, you'll quickly find, as I always have, that there's little basis in reality for the idea that they can be fixed late in the day with a few spot hacks. Indeed, that idea is usually the reason the problems have arisen in the first place.

But that idea has to be the basis of any doctrine of adopting a just-in-time policy for performance problems! So if you're not a big fan of programming with performance in mind, then I do think you should be celebrating this kind of quick tweak, rather than decrying it. It's evidence for your position.
Yeah, they would blow the curve. Most university require professors to have a certain average GPA for a given class. If all of the cheaters pass with flying colors due to cheating, then the people who would have looked good otherwise, now seem average and get a C instead of the A they deserve.

Cheaters, whether American or Indian or Chinese, ruin the educational experience of college. Universities really should take it much more serious than they currently do.
Well let's not generalize the entire Indian education system by looking at this picture. Cheating during exams is grave offence and I have heard storied how someone was suspended for an entire year for getting caught cheating. This is an extreme case.
Experience: One of my primary clients when I ran an agency for 7 years was a book publishers.

You'd fall over if you saw the subtlety of the tools and the amount of effort that goes in to typesetting a book with justified body text. It is not at all unusual for a publisher to employ staff specifically for the task of typesetting. In the final stages of book production, the typesetters are assigned sections of the book after all edits are complete (ha! in a perfect world), at which point they meticulously review each page of text, often manually inserting/removing hyphenation, until the text is laid out correctly.

Care to venture a guess at the number of bloggers who do the same when using 'text-align: justify'?
If you need dynamic css like this you're doing something wrong on an architectural level, but that's just my $0.02.

You're breaking the nice cascading workflow in favour of a state-based system.
When you get Matlab you are not just buying the language, you are also buying a lot of very advanced plugins and the IDE.

If not for the plugins and IDE why would you use Matlab instead of Octave?

I don't know if this is true for the other languages you mention, since I have no experience with them.
Which still doesn't make it valid for just about anywhere outside of the US.

Good luck claiming anything from the drivers insurance if you're harmed or killed while riding in such a vehicle.
That's what HTTP/0.9 requests look like!
That seems to mean long-term business visions - not long-term technology incubation, which is something else entirely.
Yeah, that crossed my mind when I linked it up.
I've seen it in various toasters, smart TVs and other embedded devices...so this is also a large "user" base.
It's also funny for American programmers in another way altogether.
Betteridge's law of headlines wins again!
XSLT is still good to learn -- I think it's conceptually sound, but its implementations are often terrible. I think the big pain points for most people are how finicky XML is in general, but also that any libs you use to generate your XML and translate it require an absurd amount of configuration. Years ago, I saw all the weaknesses in mixed PHP/html for building pages, but all the server-side templating languages looked terrible (still do). I fell in love with the idea that was championed back in the late 90s, where you use your application to build XML, which only describes your data. You'd then have some XSLT on your web server (or in-browser) that would transform the XML into your document.

Nowadays, this isn't that different of an approach from using my server-side PHP/python/node/Go to generate JSON, then building my DOM based on client-side templates; since I use ReactJS, my transforms are even still XML. A lot of the best-practices I learned from XSLT transferred over nicely too, e.g. avoiding control logic (<xsl:if>) in favour of <xsl:apply-templates>, since good javascript client-side templates should avoid branching control logic in favour of just Array.prototype.map() wherever you can.

I think the real key isn't about understanding recursion, though you will gradually gain an appreciation for it, but understanding composition. Templating is too often done in the style common among poor developers, where they think about building a whole "page", instead of defining the components of that page. XSLT, in theory, would've been great for that, it's just a pain in the butt to actually implement.

tl;dr if there is a need for this proposal, it would be better met by cleaning out all the cruft from XSLT, and building implementations that don't require such arcane syntax nobody can use it.
Analyzing Hacker News
I understand your pedestrian frustrations, but what you don't seem to understand is that the risks to government and military, i.e., your defense, are wildly exponentially larger and far more consequential than you quite clearly seem to appreciate.

Sure, there are many under and even unqualified people in positions that they are overpaid for, but that's largely more due to HR policies dictated by Congress and nepotistic corruption. Besides, those people who you think aren't quite possibly are incompetent, are largely doing a job that in all reality doesn't need to exist and is really only a position in order to fabricate a job for a vet or make various people money for various reasons.

The reason you see and experienced such frustration with the immovable and static nature of government / military networks is simple a matter of real national security. Reality is that on a geo-political scale that you can't even imagine exists, there are real reasons for concern and anxiety that is only stoked by the paranoia of our guilty subconscious conscience due to our own nonsense actions and behaviors.

You have freedom in the private sector, because ultimately, if a company fails, all it means is that you find another job at some other fabricated, imaginary, lofty, con job of a start up that is pumped out of "Silicon Valley" on a quarter hour basis. Failure of a nation, because some lackey wanted to experiment, means a real threat that you are incinerated, lines up looking down at a mass grave, or vaporized.

Because at the core, no matter how advanced we want to perceive ourselves in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, humanity consists of various troops of primates which a rival troop will try to kill, pillage, rape and steal our women at the first chance that presents itself as perceptually cost-benefit positive.
Service that does it's best finds any service using personalized free-word described criteria.

If taken and satisfied - I'd happily pay finder's fee.
Heck, i'd even leave escrow to cover for it.
OK, I just listed to both.

They are not similar enough. I'd say that sure, there was clearly some inspiration, as with all art. Sometimes there is more sometimes there is less, sometimes the inspiration is obvious.

This lawsuit definitely does set a dangerous and unfortunate precedent. Can't say I'm surprised about it. :(
I'd counter-offer with a wage appropriate for the hour for those "jobs".
Google only fetches the image when you first view it. At least it did when I tested it when they first started doing it.
> It took me more than fifteen but less than twenty years to develop the ability

While the benefits are clear, this seems a tad unreasonable to ask users to do.
I used to despise XSLT. Actually, I still do. As a front-end developer I found it absolutely horrid to work with. I jumped ship on that as soon as possible.

But if you like it, that's cool.
I'm trying to understand the point of this, myself.
curl supports FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, POP3, IMAP, SMB/CIFS, SMTP, RTMP and RTSP. Wget only supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

Ha! Good to know :)
Perhaps what features you select is determined by another feature that some else selected for you