skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically it might be completely rebuilt, but I guess that most people won't notice. They added more animations and a video element on top, both of which makes it slower.

As functionality and layout are the same as in the old version (which was pretty good already), I don't see how this one is "more like an app and less like a series of linked web pages".
Different behavior. It'll cause the tab to load forever, but it won't cause the whole browser to crash or become unresponsive.
Entire Manhattan, including 200th streets?

I can imagine that areas like this already exist, e.g. in most lower Manhattan and upper west side. Did it result in anything particularly bad, or at least measurably bad?

(Disclaimer: I live in Brooklyn and work on Manhattan; my commute is still better than in most other places I lived.)
Another Netflix annoyance: if I watch the pilot episode of a series, then weeks and months pass, and I never watch another episode of that series, it's probably safe to infer that I didn't like it and you can stop recommending stuff to me based on my "interest" in that series. I feel like there's a few of these really common-sense things that Netflix doesn't pick up on and probably don't require some fancypants algorithm to detect.
Sauvons L'Anse-À-L'OrmeSave the 185 Hectares
Sounds like it completely defeats the point of encryption.
Fed Bailout of AIG Was “Illegal”, Government “Violated Federal Reserve Act” [pdf]
How is the issue of a horizontal slip different for a tunnel versus for an above ground structure? Neither piece of infrastructure can be economically designed to withstand a seismic movement if the structure crosses the fault where the offset occurs.

Why does the possibility of an offset result in a tunnel being an "emphatic no" while still allowing for this pylon idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9720783
GameStop Buys ThinkGeek
I feel like this could be a good market research piece for Lyft [Serious]
What about the effect of the Internet on crime? Is the internet giving access to information and a different way of life to a lot more people? Maybe in the 50's a kid with an interest on say skydiving would feel like that would never be possible. But today the same kid contacts skydivers. And even if the kid did not actually skydive, some how being closer to it means something. Maybe skydiving is idealist. But really, could the Internet be a big factor?
Would a Hyperloop system work well in a system with frequent stops, where you wouldn't be able to get up to full-speed because you needed to stop and the stops could disrupt other express traffic. Would you really be gaining that much over other traditional rail transportation options?

It seems like the strength of the Hyperloop is extremely fast travel over long distances. Personally, I think having a line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles would be awesome, as the traffic can be horrible on that route, especially on weekends and probably significantly affects traffic in LA in general. Its also around 100 miles less than the LA to SF route, through mostly undeveloped desert, so it could be a lot cheaper to build.
man rc.subr

pexp
A regular expression to be passed to pgrep(1) in order to find the desired process or to be passed to pkill(1) to stop it. By default this variable contains the daemon and daemon_flags variables. To override the default value, an rc.d script has to redefine this variable after sourcing rc.subr.
Well I don't disagree but on the other hand the article is focused on what it does to a client so I wasn't thinking it through the way you are.

It also occurs to me that given the ability to insert yourself between the client and the server has to open up a number of possible attack vectors that are more worth while than crashing the client. I get (I think) the point about if censorship is the goal this is a way to make clients stay away from a particular server but if you're in a position to MITM them why not just return 404's and be done with it?

Not trying to argue, :-) Just want to make sure I'm understanding your point correctly...
Sure, this is just an illustration. I hear Eric Meyer's normalization css was too -- more intended as a to-do list of elements you might want to consider reseting than something to include and then override. But then a lot of people ran with the idea of leveling all margins and padding with a global override to start with and then overriding that override (usually inadequately).

Of course, the horse is out of the barn on the personal $ library front, so maybe Irish doesn't have to worry about inadvertently influencing people badly. There already was a no-library/micro-library trend 4-5 years ago where lots of people would write their own tiny jQuery-like DOM utilities, and I've worked on a few projects where someone used jQuery-like idioms for their partial reimplementation (I call them "nayQuery"). Even the better ones are a pain where they subvert expectations. And of course, when someone later decides to add jQuery to the project (makes sense, jQuery does more and has an ecosystem around it), now you're using $ for the custom library and jQuery for jQuery, which is disorienting.

I've written my own version of what Irish presents here -- it's a useful exercise, I appreciate his contribution (helps me think about some different ways to approach it), and sometimes it's even concretely useful when you're getting started on a small project with a limited browser target where the rest of the codebase is going to be smaller than jQuery itself.

But when I write something like this, I always name it differently than $.
I think that given the 'duration' setting, the author made sure that the event would take place in a given time, constraining the problem.

Edit: that being said, it looks like in the heavily damped case it takes much less than the full duration to finish. That is probably a bug.
Please, Can We All Stop Publishing Terrible Content?
In which way do you mean "turn twitter around"? Twitter has 302M active users. Twitter, to me at least, seems very much successful from a product perspective. People love it and it's used heavily by the media and just about every large consumer facing company in the world has an active twitter feed they use to reach out to customers.

Financially, yes, it needs some work. Which is perhaps why they feel comfortable putting the CFO at the helm.
Anonymous supports new privacy-focused social network that takes aim at Facebook
That's kind of the entire point. The wealthy who use Manhattan as their playground today are just getting the public to subsidize housing for the people who keep their playground humming.

Manhattan is already far too expensive; I have a friend who commutes daily to Manhattan from Philadelphia because rents are 25% of what they are in Manhattan. It's only 90 minutes to Penn Station on the train, which is about the same time it would take from the affordable parts of Brooklyn or Queens.
Title should be edited to be more specific:

"[W]e have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken, nor that LastPass user accounts were accessed. The investigation has shown, however, that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised."

So, a breach of LastPass itself but not a breach of its users' non-LastPass per-website passwords/data.
Is there any info anywhere on when FalcorJS will be released?
AWS Lambda – Run Java Code in Response to Events
Net Neutrality Is in Full Effect
I'm not sure what you are referring to, but New York definitely has two levels of rent pricing controls: rent control and rent stabilization.

With rent control, the rent never increases, it is fixed for the duration of tenancy, and can even be handed down (once) to a family member. Once that tenant or their heir vacates the apartment, then the rent goes to market rate with no further regulation.

With rent stabilization, the city sets an annual percentage increase for the rent, which is typically not as high as the market-rate appreciation rate. When a tenant moves out, the landlord can raise the rent by a vacancy allowance, as well as an adder of 1/40th of any improvements made to the unit. Once the annual rent exceeds $2,500 per month, the unit is considered market-rate, and becomes unregulated (however, regulation continues until the current tenant moves out).

SOURCE: I was a landlord in NYC. In my building, I had one rent-controlled unit occupied by a senior citizen who never paid rent (she needed the $100/mo more than I did), and 80% of the other units were rent-stabilized.
Too late. You can already do simple spring animations on UI elements in iOS:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...:

As well as a full-on physics with collisions, etc:

http://www.raywenderlich.com/50197/uikit-dynamics-tutorial
You probably saw that wrong, because almost every bike is locked and everyone has had his/her bike stolen at least once. Most locks are part of the bike though and not a chainlock.
A Story About the Darkest Time in My Life
I'm not seeing a problem here. There is tons of precedent for taking a RSS feed and displaying advertising next to it. Google Reader did it. NetNewsWire did it.

Having an RSS feed implies that you are okay with someone copying what is found in the feed and displaying it to users. Since there is no technical mechanism defined to flag allowable uses, there is presently no way for an RSS author to signal intent or add conditions like "may not be commingled with advertising."

It seems to me that Apple is just providing a heads up to the RSS author what is going to happen, and giving them the chance to opt-out ahead of time. Apple could have done this without asking.

The only weirdness is making it seem like the RSS author has accepted terms unless they respond. That was a poor choice. They should have said "this is how we will run things; to stop us from using your RSS feed, click this link."
Accusations of shilling without evidence are not allowed on Hacker News. An opposite opinion is not evidence. The vast majority of the time, people just sincerely disagree with each other. I've written about this frequently [1] if anyone wants more information.

> admit it and slither away

Totally not ok. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all. [2]

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So true! A peephole optimizer can operate on constructs no matter how they're generated, and streamline them (use custom objects for common/slow cases). But for debugging, its nice to offer diagnostic or control features (e.g. execute 1000 times then break).
It could have a minor bit to do with relative age of the designers, but I would assume it is more do with current designer trends. Personally, I do not wear glasses and have considerably good vision as well I even go to the extent of using good monitors with IPS panels that are properly calibrated. Even then there are issues with font contrast in OS 10.9 and iOS 7 where they decide to use a white font with a very light drop shadow.

I have always made sure to design with disabilities in mind.(Section 508 government work.) There was a previous designer I worked with a couple years ago that came from the Silicon Valley area that would require a weekly reminder that low contrast designs would not be acceptable.
Eventually, yeah. There is a finite supply of land on Manhattan, and demand from foreign buyers is growing. Downtown and midtown are already saturated, so the billion dollar condo buildings of 2040 will need to be built somewhere.
It is El Paquete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal

The pervasive misspelling concerned me. If the basic details are wrong, what chance is there of the actual cultural details being right? It seems like the author does not speak fluent Spanish, which makes it difficult to trust their understanding of how el paquete actually travels.
Except that for some favors, it's not true that "It was not problem", even if it is true that "you're welcome to ask again". In these cases, I use "you're welcome".

In the others, I use "no problem".
excited to play with this, cheeers
Why your middle-class salary is better than you might think
also unrelated, but I just installed ublock origin and tried http://dictionary.reference.com/ and it doesn't display correctly ... maybe I'll switch back to adblock-plus
I totally agree and I exposed my use-case - really simple interfaces augmented by Javascript and served to mobile phones, so JQuery was basically unneeded, taking it out improved latency and thus it improved conversions. But of course, most people don't measure and most people need the features in JQuery to work reliably and to behave well cross-browser, in which case 30 Kb cached by a CDN is a steal.
Sorry for the late response, not sure if this thread is active anymore. By correction, I guess you mean a slowdown or stall of the rent rate rise. I'm just saying that enough damage is already done here, and what we'll see is just two extremes (obsession or recession). Given that so many people's livelihood depends on having a roof above their head, there has to be a better option.

I don't know exactly how Germany is planning to implement these laws. But at least I feel a sustained rate of growth should make life better for everybody in the city, rather than plain rent caps or slabs.
-1 for using the word "shit"
Putting out a RSS feed does by no means imply consent to third-party use.
The same way like putting out pictures doesn't mean everybody can use them. Christ!
I wrote this thing because I wanted the classic jQuery API goodness for 1) grabbing elements and 2) binding events. Yes, obviously this gist doesn't cover the feature set of jQuery; and in my brief readme, I hope I didn't convey something different.

We will always need jQuery. We need a well maintained library that addresses browser inconsistencies and provides a better API. (Don't expect my gist to be maintained like jQuery is. :) I wrote a doc a year ago documenting all the bugs jQuery fixes for you (linked elsewhere in this thread). The jQuery team is talented and I respect their dedication and work greatly. I'm also interested in a conversation about what developers want most from their browser JS stdlib. Because whatever a developer's answer is, shouldn't they be able to get a custom build of that?
Oh great, just the day before yesterday I finally jumped to LastPass (because obviously WinKee is not compatible to my new Lumia phone), using my best password (long, no real syllables, memorized).

It sounds like the password is still safe enough, but it's a very unfortunate, inconvenient timing indeed.
It works great until $MALICIOUS_ENTITY unexpectedly takes your laptop, turns it on, and gathers unencrypted data.
"Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies" Yet it is hosted on spacex.com. I love the project but I hate the legalities here. What does that mean? If something bad happens during operation then these aforementioned entities cant be held responsible.
This is a fascinating period of history. Our modern financial system is born during this period. I'm reading up on Cromwell and the English Civil Wars right now. There is a ton of great Dutch history during this period as well, especially the Dutch East India Company. Thanks for sharing.
Living in Manhattan is not a right. I don't see anything wrong with a shorter commute being more expensive.

I would very happily pay more for services that get more expensive because workers demand higher wages for their longer commutes (etc.), in exchange for the drop in market-rate rent (which I pay) that would come from throwing out rent regulation.
Russia's 'Microwave Gun' Can Disable Drones, Warheads Up to 6 Miles Away
Thanks for your detailed response.

So what laptop do you use for OpenBSD? I'm running Ubuntu on my main laptop and I tend to search for hardware that's known to work with it.
Artificial scarcity is the scam. You have pieces of mass produced paper with ink.
Urgh, when I saw the downvotes I figured it would be people who knew nothing about NYC's rent laws except had heard the phrase "rent stabilized" and decided for themselves what it meant. And I was right.

Every vacant apartment in the city can be rented by the landlord at market rates. The price controls complained of by the top commenter do not exist. There is no such thing as a law saying "This vacant apartment? You can only charge $1000 for it, even though it would normally rent for $3000."

Is that clear? Or would you rather just downvote, despite not knowing anything about the city's rent laws?
Tech protégé taps $40m in drive for ‘Sleep Pill’ startup
The respondents have a solid point. You can't criticize them blocking ads, if they're willing to see degrading service because of it. What we lack that would be ideal is full transparency from the site's point of view to know which user is blocking ads and, if they choose so, prevent that user from viewing any content. It should be illegal to 'fake' watching ads just to get the content.

This imbalance is indeed a big problem imo: essentially any scheme from the site is permitted to be circumvented without giving them knowledge: this can create an unhealthy market dynamics where ads get more aggressive (to generate more revenue per user), every user installs ad blocking software (note that once installed, most users won't ever uninstall ad blockers), and websites are eventually forced to chose from only two models: mediocre service (low operational costs) or paywall.

I personally would gladly accept targeted minimalist ads, which I would prefer to having to pay to access most sites. Nowadays I use an ad blocker though since some ads are far too intrusive for my liking.

I think the whole internet industry needs urgently to discuss mechanisms for this problem though.
Somewhat ironically - complaining about terrible content is, in itself, rather meaningless and terrible content. As Jason pointed out - there is an entire business around creating terrible click-bait content.

When's the last time asking someone to stop doing their business worked? Buzzfeed isn't going to stop producing click-bait if it is making them money. Which makes this call to end "bad content" pointless - thus making it also "bad content" per the "bad content is pointless" definition they went for.

In extention, I feel sorry for Jason Camps if the political far-left ever sees his opinion piece. Regardless if he is quoting someone else for the use of the word "pussies", people are going to scream at him for being a sexist misogynist.
Yea I must be missing something here.

If you have k=2 stream managers you have 1 connection, not 4 . Even if the connections weren't bidirectional you'd have 2 connections.
The browser will give you a visual indicator (a loading sign) at the browser level for images or AJAX and JavaScript can be disabled.

With the favicon issue these things don't happen.
Philae lander – the first space probe to ever land on a comet woke up
The indemnification provision is a big problem. It's basically saying that if someone sues Apple, you are obligated to defend Apple.
I know bitly have an implementation of statsd in golang [0]. Ive not used it in production but have contributed to it. Go is fast to a point, it is not as fast as C but it is easier to write fast Go than fast C.

[0] https://github.com/bitly/statsdaemon
> How that's different from sysvinit?

In sysv I can just make a list of startup tasks. A -> B -> C -> D. Easy. 10 things that must start in specific order? No problem, 10 things in list. There is no easy way to do this in systemd. I must create 10 different unit files, and then create a bunch of different dependencies (A depends on B and C, B depends only on D, can C then start at same time as D?, etc). When those dependencies change, I have to go look through a whole bunch of files or look at a graph tool to figure out what is even going on.

> They do different things, `hostname` only reads the current hostname.

That's... not true. From the first line of the hostname manpage: "Hostname is used to display the system's DNS name, and to display or set its hostname or NIS domain name."

> chroot`'s purpose has never been the ability to run an init system inside it

That's fine, but it worked under sysv and now it doesn't. When upgrading or working with different install roots, using chroot is common. Now I can't modify services during that time, unless I migrate everything over to use nspawn.

> the systemd utilities do much more than the traditional ones you mentioned

If I lived in a blue sky world, where I was fresh installing one new server with a simple set of services that I had built in systemd, I think I be quite happy with it. The problem is that I have thousands of servers, and a decade or more of accumulated infrastructure that relies on those traditional tools. Then systemd comes barging in and breaks a bunch of stuff, and that is frustrating. I'm not saying I hate systemd, in fact I agree that many of the new tools are quite nice. But it's kind of like the loud hipster that shows up at your party and starts talking shit about the music you are playing, and making fun of your choice in beer. Maybe my music does suck, and maybe these clothes aren't cool anymore, but we were sitting around having a fine time until he came around.
> An RSS feed is not a push. It's exactly the same as any other web page: you must pull on it to get the new content.

Fair enough, though I think the semantic distinction doesn't really address where I'm confused. My two main questions being 1) does every aggregator need a site's permission to use their RSS feed, and 2) why else would you publish an RSS feed if not to make your content accessible across other platforms / sources?

An RSS feed is a pull, sure, but it seems like one is pulling content that the creator has put a "pull here" sign on.
Did it result in anything particularly bad, or at least measurably bad?

I imagine that depends on the timescale you're looking at. A similar thing has happened in London over the past 30 years - the upshot is that schools and hospitals are now finding it practically impossible to recruit teachers and nurses in the city because they can't afford to live within a commutable distance. That's quite bad.
This is actually exactly how I've recently heard the Peace of Westphalia[0] described (which ended the Thirty Years War in Germany): it established the idea that nations are independent "wholes" with their own laws, religion and politics, and that that's okay.

The ideas encoded in the agreement are basically the reason we think of events like the Crimean secession[1] as an unconstitutional Russian annexation regardless of whether it happened by a public vote or not: even if there was a referendum and even if that referendum was formally valid and the outcome was in favour of the secession, the constitution of the Ukraine forbids the secession and therefore renders the referendum invalid by definition.

It's also important to note that these ideas of statehood popped up in the (at the time) Christian world and therefore strongly shaped the face of modern Christianity and the separation of state and church in the West (which even in its worst cases still works better today than it did before the Enlightenment). This didn't happen in the Islamic world, at least not in the same way (though there are examples for church-state separation as in post-WW1 Turkey). I think this provides some insights into why that part of the world's politics is so poorly understood by Westerners (e.g. consider the tribal politics in Afghanistan or the Sunni-Shia conflicts all over the map).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia

[1]: Whether it was an annexation or secession and whether it was formally valid or not is a separate debate. There is a lot of evidence indicating that it was, to say the least, influenced by Russia, which would have made its validity doubtful even if it wasn't unconstitutional.