skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matters most, I guess, is the economy. Obama had to arguably manage a total mess that was left behind by Henry Thompson.

I wonder how USA citizens feel about the Obama's administration economy track record.
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- Work is supportive of my advancement in coding, but its leveraged as a cheap way to automate processes

You are the magical "DevOps". Put that on your resume and wait for the offers to flood in. Just tell prospective employers that you want more "dev" than "ops".
I uninstalled/disabled flash on all my systems a few months ago, and have noticed barely any impact on my browsing. The only site I can think of that doesn't work is BBC News.
Nope. Although I was not allowed to go to McDonald's when I was a kid, I haven't seen anything with lamb or goat lately.
Personally, I've yet to see a real solid case for SPAs. I know that may be confused for negativity towards the SPA technology, but I always found it to be a technology looking for a problem.

Again, in my experience, SPAs break the web 99% of the time. The times that they don't (e.g. Gmail), I still don't see what an SPA brings to the table that a simple MPA didn't. Yeah Gmail is nice, but it's no where near as good as a decent desktop or mobile mail app. And its miles away from a good, well structured MPA. SPAs just seem to sit in this no-mans land for me, and I'm not sure that more technology is the answer.

It's like Flash. When Flash came out I used to be a Flash developer for a while. But I had an epiphany as to why Flash development was so hard. It was the entire concept of the timeline, something that is at the core of Flash. A timeline is a sequence of keyed steps over time. The problem with this is that it make interactivity next to impossible; you were constantly fighting against the core purpose of Flash (play items in sequence over time). How do you handle users interrupting this sequence with their constant demands for interactivity? The answer was to throw the entire timeline concept out the window and generate all objects, items and stuff using code. That way you could handle arbritary interactions from the user. Well, I'm sure you can imagine how ridiculous that got over time. Frameworks and libraries and hacks and workarounds and generally just a big fat mess because Flash devs were constantly trying use Flash for something it was never designed to do in the first place.

For me, personally, SPAs and the related technology bear some of the similar hallmarks. Some developers want to use Web Browsers to write the equivalent of desktop apps. But browsers and the web in particular do not have the same interaction patterns as desktop apps (or mobile). But that is absolutely fine! The web is something else, it is its own thing.

But thats just me. By all means go for it! You are right that progress in technology is a good thing. I'm just wary of misdirected technological gains, like smart-jars, digital credit cards and smart smoke alarms that require internet connections.

To sum up; I wouldn't say it's negativity, it's more that some people are just not convinced by the concept at its core.
The idea is to get away from callbacks altogether. That is the idea of FB React and Om/Reagent. What you describe is not at all the paradigm for UI development I'm talking about.
You beast, you.
Wow! Very snappy.

> customers in the UK and the Eurozone

Feel like this should be on the landing page though.
This seems like a much more reasonable solution than a fountain. People do not interact with it directly so there should be less biological contamination. Further, you can take it with you which means you will get more of it when you need it, thus staying hydrated. Most fountains I have seen are poorly maintained and have growth or corrosion of the faucet. Bundle that in with how awkward it is to use, and how many other strangers are putting their mouth close to it, it really doesn't seem worth it for a mouthful.

+1 for filling stations.
Since it wasn't mentioned by anyone I'll add that I find www.codingblocks.net a quite good podcast about programming (mainly .NET)
You are twisting reality to fit your views :-)

You need to compare the % of people driving cars vs dying on car accidents, vs the people working with highly radio-active material (without protection at the time) vs people dying from radio-active material under that specific conditions :-)
I agree. UIKit is very OO. The style of UI development exemplified by React/Om/Reagent/Clojurescript, etc, is totally different.
Yes, I still doubt you and I think you are 100% wrong about the cause of extremely long sentences.

The cause is very very simple, and I have already said it.

And speaking as the victim of theft (unlocked car door, items stolen) I would very very much like the thief to serve a life sentence for that crime because of just how much trouble it caused me.

Thinking logically I know that's too much, yet, I don't care. I want a life sentence for him. Which thought will win? It's irrelevant, I don't write laws.

But those who do write laws have the same thoughts, and they have victims agitating for long sentences. And it's as simple as that.

If you actually cared to take action on this topic, then you would push for first offenders to get treatment, while not bothering with second offenders. You will be able to convince others to go along with you for first offenders, you will not for second.
From the link: "and in beta versions of Firefox"
Maybe he's still using a Firefox stable version a few months old?
Port numbers will stay, because SCTP defines them.

If you want to get rid of port numbers, you will need to roll a new protocol, and nobody will go this way merely because of four bytes per packet.

Also, there would probably be vast amount of unexpected traps and pitholes
without port numbers. We already know well how to work with port numbers. We
don't know too well how to work without them.
I have that setting already set - Flash is set to "Ask to Activate", which means it only runs on sites that I actually want it to run on.

Which prevents a lot of autoplaying videos, and also pages sometimes taking a long time to load on slow connections.
I think there is a meta learning curve to driving in brand new cities. I have learned to not try to make missed exits, not speed so that I have time to process signs, tolerate wrong turns, not make unnecessary lane changes, and generally just pay attention. It's also generally safer to drive either in the day or well lighted areas. The only near screw up was trying to pass a car and realizing the rental had no mid end torque. The car in the left lane honked at me.
The React model of UI development is much much easier to work in than an OO model of UI. There are fewer wires between objects (often none at all), nearly zero state in each "object" or UI component (or none at all), no callbacks, just mostly one-way declarative setup. Apple should (and is) giving it some attention. Many former Apple UIKit developers as well as those working on things like ReactiveCocoa (which is a different paradigm) are enticed by what Facebook has done with the React paradigm.
The reason I say this is that it's being used to exclude certain countries and it sets up rules that explicitly favor particular countries.

Given its strategic nature its role is to protect both Western powers and regional countries that want investment from the West and to grow against the rise of China.

Since it protects 40% of the world GDP at the explicit and planned sacrifice of other nations and because it is used to instantiate international laws that protect those same countries I call it protectionist. And if you look at the leaked memos it's really not so big a stretch. It's also been called protectionist by people not aware of its strategic value (e.g. Assange).
How to customize a user's session timeout for your application?
> that doesn't support linux for games.

There is support: http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html

For me on debian it was install and it worked without even restarting the browser.
Yes, but Flash alone doubles the attack vector of a browser - that's nothing to be sneezed at. I think it's particularly poignant when you look at the high severity metric.
God will Flash just die already. Firefox is my primary browser and I run it without Flash. On the very odd occasion I need it I have IE in protected mode which has Flash built in. If a site does use Flash I will seek an alternative though as I hate it that much.

On a side note Firefox without Flash is so much smoother. IMHO it is the fastest and most stable browser when it doesn't have Flash bogging it down.
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Eeeeeee, coming from a country where average age of a car on the road is 10+ years, I would say absolutely no. And about fuel stations becoming less profitable and closing...how do you think stations survive in remote places of the world where there is very few cars? They increase their prices. And some of us will still gladly pay those prices,because we have to drive petrol/diesel powered cars(trucks are not going to be electric powered for a long time).
"create an immersive application that feels like you're no longer in a browser at all"

That seems like a very odd goal.
If you disable Flash completely then Youtube works fine with HTML5 video. However, when Flash is set as click to play then Youtube still prompts to enable Flash. Annoying.
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http://i.imgur.com/diNGefJ.png

What's the point of the animating label? Seems like there's a good amount of space anyway below it.

Also, the submit button jumps left when I write something.

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I initially thought that the subject of the email (Stockfighter Announcement) was some sort of auto-correct fail. This makes much more sense after reading it in full!

Pretty excited about this as I was on a team that built a trading system (won't say which one but it was a big one) and my education is in electronics. It will be refreshing to deal with a (fake) trading system that uses "JSON/REST" as most of the real ones use proprietary binary protocols or something even worse like FIX!
They've implemented "ask to activate" badly by making it cover the whole page instead of per-element. They did it the right way in the past.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=886792#c41
I was a bit surprised to see an asymmetric stackup, many board-houses will complain about that. It can also become a problem during assembly, because the different heat distributions can cause the board to warp.

Neither the schematics nor the layout would have passed a proper review.

On the other hand, thanks for providing the data to the public, it is an interesting project either way.
Trello for small projects and teams. Pivotal Tracker for large projects and larger teams.
Then surely all the effort being put into make browsers not browsers would be better directed towards solving those goals, without bastardising the web?

I always thought that the SPA crowd would settle on a custom content-type to handle web apps. That way they aren't hamstrung by the limitations of HTML and web pages and can really do things right by web apps.
> However, Mozilla can't ship it enabled

Just a minor nitpick: Under Linux, people don't download from Mozilla but have it installed by default. If not, they install via package manager and not via download from Mozilla.

So it's not Mozilla making that decision, but the respective Linux distros. But of course they have the same problem.

I believe a good compromise would be to check if ffmpeg is installed on the system, and use it only when available. So the user would have to install ffmpeg directly.

That would be a very different situation from including code from ffmpeg directly into some app.
EME is not present on Linux yet I think. I don't really mind this however it does mean no Netflix without Google Chrome..
Is that so? – As far as I know on Android the back button was or is an integral part of most applications and the whole Android UI as a whole – and I would say a SPA is something that is pretty similar to an Android app.
>>For me this is is one of the big advantages of hydrogen cars i.e. you use them exactly the same as your existing car.

Except that you can't, because hydrogen tanks can store very little of it(a lead 70kg bottle can store only 1kg of hydrogen), and hydrogen slowly leaks out through any container you could possibly put it into, so after 4-5 weeks of the car standing still you have an empty tank.
The economic recovery has managed to endorse a long held statistic that will no doubt remain the source of much argument for all eternity, but the fact remains that the economy nearly always does better when a Democrat is in the White House. The last 2 Republican administrations saw the economy tank significantly under their leadership; the Democrats who relieve them turned it all around. Many will say it has nothing to do with who is in the White House, but one has to wonder why historically this has with good consistency been the case going back nearly a century.
I have Chrome with flash installed (not that it gave me any choice), but other than that I haven't had flash for maybe two years. If I need to play Flash, I just open Chrome for that. Facebook is one of the last common offenders with its flash videos on desktop version. I can't comprehend why...
> We need a real open-source alternative to flash player.

We quietly built the alternative to Flash over the last 10 years. It's called the web.

A standard document in the web browser can play audio, video, display vector graphics, utilise OpenGL, supports direct drawing via Canvas, and it is deeply scriptable with a mature, open programming language.

What else do you need?
IT would probably be like the time when everyone used Flash to create web apps and reproduced the browser functionality like back and stop, confusing users and breaking the web.

Rule #1 of the web: Don't break the web
So Flash is second in terms of number of high severity bugs and first in terms of the percentage of bugs that are high severity, only being beaten by Internet Explorer. By your evidence the hate for Flash is quite justifiable.
The two most interesting links from the article:

- http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/Welcome.html#Pent... (LHCb website)

- http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03414 (paper)
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I get the impression they are all too young to remember the dark old days of Flash web apps. We've been here before. It sucked.
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Assuming there is a microchip that can be transplanted into your brain, entirely running on your bodies glucose , while giving you automatic access to enormous database memory and the internet while interacting with your neurons. you had the same control about it as you had about your thoughts. You d be the first human to receive the transplant . Would you (and under which conditions) "volunteer" ?
Please change the title to the article's (Iran Nuclear Deal Is Reached After Long Negotiations).
Copy to clipboard, apparently.

(Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)
For example DRM is present on most dvds and one can't watch dvds on Linux out of the box (for most distros). This can be bypassed by installing a library.

But you would never do this because this would be illegal...
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OMG look what this guy is doing in his office after hours. would you try this?
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Remote code execution exploits were found in Firefox at least once per month during the first half of 2015. The only reason we didn't hear about these cataclysmic exploits is because it wasn't Flash.

January 20, 2015: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/...

February 25, 2015: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-018.cfm

March 1, 2015: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-3...

April 22, 2015: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-046.cfm

May 12, 2015: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-5...

Hackers search for remote code execution exploits in Flash first and foremost because they know a successful Flash exploit will reach the highest number of targets (90% or more on the desktop) whereas only 44% of desktop machines are running Chrome and 15% are running Firefox.

Hackers seeking out and exploiting RCE bugs in Firefox is unheard of for the same reason malware targeting Macs has been virtually unheard of over the past decade: It's not that OS X is more secure; it's simply that Windows is a more lucrative target.
There's chloramines in the water to deal with things like that anyway. Nobody is scrubbing out the water mains beneath the streets - they're not 'clean' by any common definition of the word, but they are perfectly acceptable - they're sanitary due to the disinfection compounds in the water.
Merely blocking it clearly doesn't work very well, even with the effort China spends on blocking things.

Maybe they've decided it's time for a more offensive approach?
For most of human history, the water we drank was not nearly as 'safe' as the one from that fountain - somehow we still made it to this day and age.
> I do like the fact that you can get free water almost everywhere, there was often a large can and cups on the bar, free to take. Here a tap water is sometimes as expensive as a beer (in a bar obviously).

Wow in most of Europe this would not be legal. Are you sure your local laws allow this?
I am not sure that this would result in everyone trying to roll out their own. The reason that is happening with bitcoin is because of the direct possibility of financial gain.

BitTorrent works well and has not split into hundreds of clone protocols.

The way skype used to work may also be a possibility where there are super nodes outside of the main cloud.
Sorry, i meant alternative to the closed source flash player, keeping the same spec and not breaking compatibility. As implied by the comment.
Wouldn't material with a half life of 1500 years necessarily not be emitting much of any radiation? I.e. it'd be far, far less dangerous than something with a half life of 4 years?
9y old machines is what many people (not gamers, enthusiasts etc.) have; 3+ y old include underpowered Celeron 847, AMDs (way weaker than your monstrous Q6600) and even on these machines Flash works better. _My_ _actual_ observations.

> Still flash working better than HTML5 players is still suspicious to me,

Do you write programs for life or what? It is not a problem with HTML5 players, it a problem the way they are written. Flash is an older product, with better support of legacy or underpowered products.

> I still believe with correct configuration reverse should be true

Yes, the correct configuration is "more powerful CPU".
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Because if you wait for it to happen on its own time, there will only be ninety seconds of early warning, and then only half an hour before the tsunami hits. Not much time to escape. If you set it off on schedule, everyone knows where they ought not to be that day and will have had plenty of time to make other plans.
It's not really a matter of ads, ads move the internet so they will always be there. It's a matter of security, flash has always been a source of flaws to be exploited. Like.. always, sometimes "trying their best" was really not effective.
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It is until you look at the script it downloads, which downloads further scripts over HTTP.
It can be hard to find them though. I think that they are only required to have one and they aren't required to advertise it's location..

(If I'm wrong please let me know as I spend ages trying to find it usually).
Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou airport definitely have water fountains.

So I'm not sure what you are talking about. Maybe some of the smaller regional ones?
The script downloaded over HTTPS then downloads further scripts over HTTP. Watch out.
Just on a couple of rinky dink side projects with babel & webpack! Nothing major
From the page:

"All versions of Adobe’s Flash Player plugin are currently deactivated by default, until Adobe releases an updated version to address known critical security issues."

This implies that it will be reactivated soon and this isn't a permanent block. It looks like the same mechanism that blocks old and vulnerable versions of plugins like Silverlight.

That said, I've not installed flash in years. I use Firefox as my main browser with no plugins and IE/Chrome have it embedded (both auto-update with no system restart required).
Not true. There is one (there must be by law). They don't have to tell you where it is though.
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FWIW, it didn't do that to me. (though I sympathize with the sentiment)
There's actually a pop-culture reference to this early on in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. One of the characters replies to another that he did "two years before the mast" during one of the early cut-scenes. I assume they read it while researching for the game, and decided to reference it as an easter egg.
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How can selling water at a commercial establishment be illegal? Bottled water industry would be out of business, as some of them are known to resell tap water too. I'm from Europe too, by the way, and don't see the big deal. I'd say around here it's pretty split - around a half of places will offer free water, and a half will offer it for money (not for beer prices though).
On Windoze, I always go to google for "flash player distribution3" and install the MSI packages for enterprise deployment. That keeps me from the malware bundle.
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> God will Flash just die already.

5 to 7 years ago I would have said the same thing, I hated Flash with a passion. But now, when it's almost gone for good, I see that it had its reasons. For example the new Google Street View is many times slower and lags so much as to give me motion sickness (when it's not blocking my browser) compared to the previous version, which was Flash-based, and which used to work like a charm.
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