skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record I appreciated your comment but can't reply there. It shows a willingness to consider a position. I'm guessing you're probably young, and young people have a torrent of "the end of the world is nigh" thrown at them these days. It's tough to see above this and think optimistically. But the key to a calm mind is to think optimistically, tempered with rational 'what if' thinking, so if bad events do come to pass, it's not earth shattering.
Obvious April Fools is ... Obvious.
This is likely done with something called an HLR lookup via SS7. I believe it was explained to me that HLR lookups are meant for call setup and SMS routing, NOT for exposing network information via web services, but that doesn't stop companies with SS7 access from doing it anyway since there are plenty of people willing to pay for that information.
If Link doesn't have a voice actor, where do the "HAH! HYAAH! TEEAHH!" come from? :)
In an ideal world, 'www' would be superfluous. Your browser would know what server to contact for the WWW service by requesting SRV records for the bare domain.
> Can Google write a browser for Internet Explorer

Sure they could; it would just be an ActiveX control, or whatever they call that this week.
And the funny thing, as guy in the IT department, is people come to fart around (Vonnegut's sense, not literally) in our office and chat us up. I get the best of both worlds! Computer at my fingertips, and travel through novice conversationalism!
I honestly don't see any real benefits of Apple's lock-down approach compared to ChromeOS's lock-down approach. Users who want the full security of ChromeOS can use it as it ships and be happy, users who want to live on the wild side can fairly trivially (but with enough effort that they don't do it on accident) break the locks.. best of both worlds, user gets to decide how much they want to live in a locked box.

I don't disagree that there are benefits to the consistency of the Apple ecosystem versus that of Android, but all of those benefits are rooted in Google's lack of control of what phone vendors do with the OS (though they have been working to change that), not lack of control of users or app developers.. the entire jailbreaking ecosystem proves that such freedom doesn't harm the people who want the safe thing, it is just a shame they are forced to constantly fight against the phone vendor (on the Apple side) to keep things open whereas Google (usually -- they've been uncharacteristically dickish with Chromecast hardware) usually goes out of their way to allow the user to run free if they want to.
It's actually generic TLDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
"Nothing in the article explains why it is a bad thing that x. Which seems to be a logical pre-requisite to declaring it to be 'worse than you think'"

It's quite simple: Some things you have to accept as a given, it's a shared social norm. No one will bother to write a paragraph why rape is bad each time an article about rape is written, no one will bother to write a paragraph why police brutality is bad each time an article about police brutality is written and no one will bother to explain why "economic inequality" (i.e. some people starve while others live in luxury) is bad. It would be cumbersome and tiring for most readers for the sake of a tiny minority to write articles in the style you seem to prefer.
Yup... Check out fas.org

FAS was founded in 1945 by many of the Manhattan Project scientists who wanted to prevent nuclear war and is one of the longest serving organizations in the world dedicated to reducing nuclear threats and informing the public debate by providing technically-based research and analysis on these issues.
It's more like the old JANET domain names, that looked like UK.AC.MAN.CS.R5.
This is not true at all. I can give you the current provider of a number that had been ported and my data will reflect a new port within minutes of it taking effect. Oh, and it's an order of magnitude cheaper than what Twilio is charging for this... I couldn't tell you why Twilio's implementation is out of date and so expensive.
The Haier 11.6"'s SoC seems pretty cool for a phone. Then again, phones are ridiculously overpowered these days. It supports 4K.
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip_RK3288
April Fools is the worst day of the year in the techsphere
Isomorphic is the word some Airbnb people picked to mean "web app that can render html on the server and the client". Everybody hated the word, but nobody came up with something better so it stuck :)
When I make a phone call, I have a "default context" -- my area code -- but people still seem happy enough with phone numbers that go from most general to most specific.
Isomorphic means "same shape". In this case the code running on the client and on the server is the same. Not that terrible of a choice for a word.
I ran into this bug myself, and I spent an afternoon or so debugging it.

A simple library upgrade (Underscore 1.7.0 -> 1.8.2) broke a key feature of a site I was working on, but only on my iPhone. It worked just fine on my iPad running the same exact version of iOS.

I ended up using git bisect to narrow down the commit, which consisted of several minor updates to various packages. Of those packages, it was my 3rd or 4th guess as to which would have caused that failure (it wasn't clear since I was having trouble connecting the Safari debugger).
I completely agree. It annoys me greatly.
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That can't be true. If a number was ported from Carrier X to Carrier Y and someone makes a call originating from carrier Z, I am pretty sure carrier X is not involved any more in the routing of the call, which means that carrier Z has some way to figure out which carrier to route to (Y in this case). So it's not just those two companies involved.

At least in India, there exists a central database of ported numbers which every carrier uses to do the routing.
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I doubt that. A lot of it sinks into the ground... plants don't absorb everything.
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https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/discover-meteor-print-ed...
Please don't use the titles of Hacker News submissions to editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is an argument. Life expectancy, infant mortality, access to food and housing, education and technology have never been higher. These are all good outcomes. Things are even getting better in developing countries on these measures. The only places where this is not happening is where superstition causes people to live under autocratic regimes that use imaginary sky people to control the population through fear and miseducation.

This is inescapable fact. Peoples lives in aggregate are getting better. That it is irritating to people pushing the opposite view is understandable, but doesn't invalidate the data. You can't just hand-wave it way and say 'doesn't matter'. You can't say it's not a valid argument because it 'might end' - which is in itself a poor argument.

It does matter. Life is getting better for a very large group of people, and that's good.
Though originally created by All Too Flat "for fun",[1] it found practical use
in the People's Republic of China after the domestic banning of Google, as it
circumvented the government's firewalls.

Wow, that was unexpected.
We get records as far back as we can. Unfortunately, records that are more than 10 or 15 years old are often destroyed. Offices are only legally required to keep records for a certain period of time (e.g., for 7 years in California), and so after a patient leaves a practice, the practice will typically clear out that patient's records at some point.

Long story short: we get records any records that still exist.
Well, they could years ago. The application period ended in April 2012. http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gtld-facts-31ju...
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Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111049

Where are the CVEs?! ... OK, I just sent a brief write-up to the oss-security list, we'll see what happens.
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As much as I enjoy and watch almost every video, chessexplained is not very educational unless you're pretty high rated, it's very entertaining nonetheless.
That's got to be annoying (I used to do that too, then basically had to force myself to stop.
Not if you didn't apply for it 3 years ago. You can't apply for new gTLDs now; all the news about the process is about applications from a period that ended three years ago moving through later stages of the process.
Twilio is great for small scale applications, but as you point out they're very expensive if you're doing anything at scale.
Ah yes, I remember those (dimly!)... though if you were sending mail to them it was still `user@` at the start. I don't remember when JANET reversed their ordering to match everyone else's - mid-nineties, maybe?
What does support for sql databases look like with meteor? Is it stable and supported enough to use postgres?
If anyone happened to be watching this from the start of it going live then this was a super interesting case of what to do when a product page accidentally goes online too early...
This April Fools' joke must only work if you have a clue what "OnePlus" is. I still don't really get it, but I take it they don't actually make RC aircraft.
On my browser (Chrome, OSX), that rule was overwritten by

transform: rotateY(180deg);

Which does the same thing. Presumably there is a reason?
> You're absolutely right. A quarter-pound hamburger costs 1,300 gallons of water, according to the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120001666638282817

1,300 gallons is nothing! Think about how much water it takes for one fish.
Url changed from http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/AIXchange/March-2015/More..., which points to this.
Ah, glad someone else with experience is in this thread. You've saved me a bunch of typing.
> why does Tony Hsieh have a title like 'CEO'?

even the ultimate flat organization - Borg - had Queen. The rest - no titles, just roles, and pride themselves on efficiency.

Thinking about it, one can see how modern "open office in the name of collaboration/communication" is just a cave man's replacement of Borg neural field generators for mind-to-mind connection
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Holy crap, thats awesome :P great find
April First., I hate it
This the one day in the year when otherwise perfectly sensible people think it OK to interrupt your day and waste your time with sophomoric jokes. If you happen to have a large family as I do it is almost guaranteed to get calls, emails and experience various creative ways to play this game throughout the day. From your mother is pregnant to my cat got run over by a car to we won the lottery. Un-friggin-believable.

It isn't that I have no sense of humor. I love a good joke as much as anyone. I simply object to a workday filled with unnecessary interruptions that dislocate your train of thought and get in the way of getting your work done. When your father in law decides to call you because he is going to get you with a good one you can't just blow him off. So there goes a half hour on the phone. Because, you know, I just sit in front of a computer all day.

That said, I've learned it is virtually impossible to control others. No calls. Don't click on any links. This too shall pass.
It's not quite so simple since JavaScript has the concept of array-like objects - basically objects with a length property and numeric keys (but which aren't arrays).

From the Underscore documentation: "Collection functions work on arrays, objects, and array-like objects such as arguments, NodeList and similar".

So basically this bug can lead to false positives when checking for array-like objects.
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Get to know the startup communities where you travel
I'm planning to compete in a 75km race with 4 1000 meter vertical assents in October. This is about as mountainous as you can get in Australia. This is a walk in the part compared to the races in Europe, New Zealand and North America, which have more geologically recent mountain ranges, and communities in which alpine / mountaineering / orienteering and running cross over.

I've heard Anton Krupicka (well known and achieve North American ultra racer) refer to the UTMB (the most well known ultra marathon race in Europe, in which a loop of Mt Blanc taking in 3 countries is done) as "unexpectedly flat"

Here's some footage of that race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St49BdhuA8c

I look at the course profile for that, and the course profile for the 4 1000m assents for the 75km race I'm doing in October and think "how do that many people finish".

The US has harder races, which still have remarkably high finishing rates. The "Hard Rock 100" (miles) is basically at times a rope-free scramble up mountain tops, and it has a remarkably high finishing rate (when we're talking more that 10% of the field finishing, it's remarkable)

It's quite amazing the variation among ultra races, and 100 miles is not just 100 miles.

The interesting thing is that many of the trail / mountain runners need that sort of variation for psychological reasons and find things like 100 mile tarmac races to be more psychologically and physically taxing. A mountain / trail race having highs and lows geologically, mentally, physically but a flat tarmac race having less variation being harder to switch out of a down patch, and requiring serious inner resilience to counter-act a "runners low".
Wikipedia says it started hosting IP traffic in 1991, so that's probably when they started using DNS.
It would pretty misleading to quote net elevation for hikes. A loop up a mountain and back would have a net gain of 0' even if you hiked 2000' to the peak.
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Depends on what //... is. You might need the key for something, and you can get the value from the key but not vice versa.
Water is a requirement for human life, not a luxury. We subsidize water because it's a basic need. Markets are good at finding the correct price, we've just decided that we're unwilling to accept the "correct" price being too high, as it would undoubtedly be in some instances. This causes problems where it meets with industry and their use of water. The problem is exacerbated by water "rights" based on land ownership.
I had it in my head that those were called "core TLDs" and were separate from gTLDs, but Wikipedia agrees with you.
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Note that postal addresses, at least in the United States, also order lines in descending specificity. I presume that long predates the Internet, and I wonder if it is in any way related.
Industrial Society and Its Future / The Unabomber Manifesto (1995)
How about US postal addresses?

<House number> <Street>

<City> <State> <ZIP code>

Except for ZIP code, the address elements are ordered in descending specificity.
Apps running in a window can capture whatever keys they want. So Control-W is interpreted by your shell/app, not by the browser (closing the window). In a tab the browser keybindings still exist, so be sure to set "open in new window" by right-clicking the app before running.

Terminal settings are configurable and persistent.

You can have as many windows open as you like.

Here's the app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

It works on any machine running Chrome. Things don't quite work right on MacOS, I'm told, but it seems native on Windows and Linux. (And CrOS of course.)
The taste of ground bison isn't too bad. Not very gamey. Strips and steaks though are a different story.
Google maps goes pacman mode on April first
If it was com.something you have to type the com first. If "something" is first, you by the time you get to "som" it will probably have something.com in the dropdown list.

I would say its easiest if the most variable part is first, not only for autofill but for the way I think about it.

When you talk about "most significant" you mean the "largest" category. To me the actual most significant is the part that identifies the most unique thing you are typing in, and that tends to be the domain.
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I was reading about Ted Kaczynski, who was a mathematician and an anarchist. He's mostly known for being the Unabomber.

I came across this 'manifesto'. His opinions about technology and what it does to society seem so spot on to me, and I thought the HN community would enjoy that. Lots of things to disagree with in here, but still interesting.
Do not be silly. Turning a bug like this into a commercial venture? How do you find customers fast enough before a patch? 6337$ for a days work is very reasonable, while selling a bug like this makes you not worthy of a quarter.
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We don't need too much water to grow many crops.

http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-fu...

"the farm can also cut its water usage to just 1 percent of the amount needed by outdoor fields."
Symposium featuring world experts on Electric Aviation in early May. Disclaimer, I am a volunteer for the research org putting on the conference.
Reminds me of the book Born to Run. For anyone who has taken any sort of interest in running, I highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest...
I don't think we should correlate the reward with the impact of the bug. Going that route, even 20k is not really enough.
Not really. Just Googled and found some old pages. Others could probably do better.
Huge opening theory and high draw rate are primarily the reasons why I switched to another mind game called Gomoku. Gomoku, when played at a high level, requires as much depth as Chess. Go is a also good choice but I find Gomoku much easier to keep in my life.
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I recently started a moderately large project in Meteor and I must say, although I was a little apprehensive at the start, I am truly amazed at how far Meteor has come.

Built-in reactivity, latency-compensation and the lot makes development really fun. It feels like a mature platform, the community is growing and is extremely helpful. I would recommend anyone who is still wondering, to just try to build an app or two with it and you will know what I am talking about.

PS. If you are in the Bay Area, they have Dev Shops at their HQ in SF every 4th Thursday: http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-SFBay/events/221409952/
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any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.
I knew this was Barkley without even having to click through. it is notorious, and unlike other ultras - tough terrain and tons of elevation gain/loss. I love running ultras, but I also like to finish. This one is not on my list.
Be wary if you do anything with signed data before you verify the signature.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-prin...
That wiki's definition is simpler than I'd thought possible. But a "new market" includes a new group of people (doing the same old thing), and the same people doing the same thing in a new way (e.g. people with landline phones using cell phones).

Just in the comments here are mentioned: low-hassle machine for grandparents (which the HNer has to admin, who influences the decision); low cost and low hassle machine for school kids (which the school has to admin, an who decides); second or third backup machine; machines for the developing world; for people working mostly in chrome browser (which is faster than on Windows), which includes most of us, and some HN even dev in web IDEs.

Cheaper + low-hassle + web-optimised also makes them attractive, to almost everyone.
I'd recommend it even more if you're not interested in running. It might change your mind.
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I like the idea (diapers and UHT milk packets) until they tell me they can't fulfill the order every once in a while (or fulfill it significantly later). I get an email (and not in time to order a replacement elsewhere in time) and have to go about ensuring that I have enough.

If it's not reasonably reliable, it's not really worth subscribing to.
Saying the brand first definitely make more sense to mere mortals. Phone numbers not a good comparison because they are...numbers, not brand names.
Consider the HN audience and the disproportionate percentage of megacorps employees in it. Actionable community consensus that is being critical of Microsoft/Apple/Google is now nearly non-existent on HN.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case. My reading was just that his escape was the inspiration for this particular physical feat. I wouldn't say it honors him any more than those escape from Alcatraz triathlons honor the escapees or marathons in general are political statements about Athens v. Persia.
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I'd definitely recommend reading up on the Clojure Reader: http://clojure.org/reader

There is a big difference between Clojure/Lisp and other languages like Python or PHP. With a traditional language, the code is transformed via a parser into a data structure (typically as an abstract syntax tree) whereas with Clojure the code you are looking at _is_ the data structure of the program. This is why you'll oftentimes hear about Lispy languages modifying themselves or writing other programs. This is why writing a DSL in Clojure or Lisp is so natural or straightforward.

If you can wrap your head around this distinct difference I think that it will really help with understanding this story as well as a lot of the more fascinating differences with a Lispy languages.

For example, the explanation of the "Unknown or Expired Link" HN "bug": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17705
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Original, non-spam source is:

https://www.timmclean.net/2015/03/31/jwt-algorithm-confusion...
here's my question for those building their 'app' 'startup' with meteor.js

what does it accomplish for you that normal server rendered framework doesn't do for you?

when you build a meteor.js app you need phantomjs to get it indexed...it won't work on older browsers....the list goes on

I just have trouble justifying why I would need to write my next app using meteor.js
Good thing - due to kickstarter and steam we are slowly returning to the golden days - all the best games of the last few years (not the most polished, just the best) are not AAA blockbusters. Outside of AAA we see a lot of new properties, no sequels, innovation and risk taking.

Also what are doing on HN instead of plowing trough Pillars of Eternity ...
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The only one I remember was Gmail and it was brilliant. It was something like 2GB of storage which at the time was mind-boggling. And they added the cool ticker which continuously added even more storage.

Lots of us really believed it was a 4/1 joke.
It's all in the polish. Little details matter.
If you want to see more of the game but find it too cumbersome to buy, I started by just watching it on Twitch[0].

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Bloodborne
Excuse my pedantry but these aren't technically memory leaks, great article nonetheless :)
For things you regularly buy (but not regularly enough to set up a subscription), you can speed that up quite a bit by going to your order history, and using the search field there that searches just within your past orders. Find a prior order for that product and use the "But It Again" button.