skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make some good points, but unfortunately your first paragraph and last sentence destroy the value of your comment.
Narrow straights would actually increase the damage, as was the case in the '64 Port Alberni(vancouver island) tsunami.
It's number one my list of projects to check out! Looking forward to it.
This seems to be aimed at Single Page Websites and not Applications.

The aim isn't to "mimic the browser using Javascript" but to create an immersive application that feels like you're no longer in a browser at all.
Starting in September with Firefox 41 you can set media.autoplay.enabled to False in about:config and stop them from playing automatically.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285
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Are you using this in production? Or for a side project? How and where are you using it?

Thanks for any info.
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There are documents and presentations discussing that.

Yes, it has a variety of benefits, including security, performance (e.g. a static linker with DCE becomes a lot easier), not exposing internal guts to apps that then come to depend on them, etc.

All that said, if you want to disable module enforcement, then they seem to be saying there will be command line switches to do that. Much like there are switches to disable other forms of rule enforcement.
Okay, let me rephrase: the N64 controller has designed for people with at most two hands. Use the d-pad with the left hand and the analogue stick and trigger with the right hand is fine. Requiring the use of the buttons as well is not.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was making a blanket statement. I agree there's a fine line between web app and website. No-one should take the decision of using an SPA lightly.
This is my thought as well.

Countries which recognised the problem and took charge of it are doing good now, eg Ireland.

Greek politics looks quite bad. They need a market friendly government who can indeed do reforms. Sadly, left parties have the majority.

Only way forward I guess is to force reform down their throat by IMF/EU first and then hope they realize it then continue it. That's what happened in India in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Ind...
I like to think about how I'd react in the 15 minutes I have between the earthquake and tsunami.

How tall would this tsunami be? Quick googling shows the tallest one ever is 524 meters. Assuming the tsunami is that tall, going into tall buildings might not work - tallest building in Seattle, Columbia Tower, is 287 meters (+50m in elevation increase), and is a few blocks from the waterfront . Best bet is to run/bike up the hill to Capitol Hill, which is 100m higher in elevation, and about 2 miles inland (and east of the I5).

Just need some science to figure out how far the wave will go given these hill angles and elevations in Seattle to find a precise safe spot (assuming the tallest tsunami ever, and assuming all other variables like me being able to react instantly and fallen buildings not blocking my path stay constant, which they of course won't).
Thanks, I really appreciate it. I've read a LOT of things based on "shipping is a deadline" and I think I have the type of perfectionism that doesn't want anything imperfect tied to my name. I even used a throwaway for this. As far as open source goes I sometimes held on to even pushing forks to github...

I really like the idea about mini-competitions with deadlines, I have participated in some in the past but I don't know why I didn't return to them. Thanks!
3 thoughts:

First, to be fair, "Flash" is 2 complete Virtual Machines: ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. I expect it to have an increased attack surface.

Second, many things that Flash does (graphics, 3D, video decoding, audio decoding, etc) pretty quickly get you to unmanaged APIs in the OS.

Third, Flash can be suprisingly tricky to escape. Mark Dowd did an absolutely insane series of steps to have code that was valid bytecode, that retained control of a pointer, and to properly setup the memory space for jumping. This isn't necessarily "easy" by any stretch. The full write up is here: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/groups/ag-si/compsec_assign/Dowd...

This isn't to give Adobe a complete pass, but there is a lot going on here. Still, the time for Flash is past and I cannot wait for it to die
If they censor too much it's "problematic" because they're overreaching and deciding for the people. If they don't censor enough then it's "problematic" because they're culturally insensitive to the local sense of decency, they're imposing western standards or somesuch. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.
I agree that re-frame is awesome. I also love reagent and figwheel.

Are you planning to incorporate datascript or datomic at all in your projects?
During the Reddit debacle many people were pointing out that private companies are free to remove anything they want and it doesn't constitute censorship. So this is certainly not a free speech issue if MS goes above the bare legal requirements, right? They're just removing/hiding objectionable content.
Why not an effort proportional to the damage to affected parties if such an exploit were to be stolen?
The problem is that you can't really simulate the systemic effects of a really major quake (like a scenario where Mountain View is out of power for weeks).
Interactivity mostly. Imagine if Google Maps reloaded every time you zoom in or pick a location.
> Do you for a second believe that anything I just wrote isn't true?

Yes, what you wrote isn't true. Read the sister posts in this thread for citations and proof.

Was the link you posted supposed to be some sort of proof? It wasn't.

You are simply repeating and believing conspiracy theories. And the problem with false beliefs about a cause of a problem is they block you from realizing the real problem. So if you try to solve the problem you solve the wrong problem and get nowhere at all.
In general, it depends: there are many different use cases where SPA is fine and others where they are not. It's especially good for long-running consoles that don't need much navigation (given using the appropriate JS framework which doesn't leak resources on most browsers). SPA doesn't make much sense (apart from in-web app search live results searching) for static pages that need to be SEO crawlable and can be served up fast from static CDNs. Perhaps the core engineering tradeoff is whether to breaking the stateless RESTful contract by managing state with session cookies and/or JavaScript, and doing so in a way that may or may not be sharable to other users, history-friendly, SEO-friendly, etc.

Ruby's turbolinks is a clever hack and mostly works approach to make nav-based (browser history- and crawler SEO-compatible) almost as responsive as SPA... it replaces assets, title, meta and body on-the-fly and updates the url location with javascript to save a whole page update. It's basically a hybrid of client+server coordinated fragment caching. There are some gotchas and workarounds for onLoad() and other JS hooks, but it mostly works pretty well.
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First, teach something you are interested in. This will keep you going when something is challenging. Even if you don't consider yourself a "pro" in the subject, you can always get to that level.

Find somewhere you can teach and receive feedback. I teach piano to students and several times I've been caught with a question I had to look up. The best thing you can do is say "I don't know but I'll figure it out for you". Plus, this way you also have to figure out a way to explain it in a simple method to those you are teaching.

Feedback is really important because it will be how you can affirm what you know and also give you opportunities to branch out. If you aren't getting feedback on a blog, forum, or wherever you may just need to find the right place to share your knowledge.
If you are now fully retrofitted to survive a 9.0, why do we absolutely have to set off this earthquake now using hundreds of nuclear bombs?
There used to be(still are?) phrases you can't start tweets with. For example "get better", it had to do with the twitter SMS interface.
New != bad && New != good

Analyse critically and deliberately. Be conscious of decisions.
LOL - that would be funny cause tourism is only proven way Greece makes money.
The more cynical/realistic problem is "dealing with the aftermath of the collapse", and the fund helps keep some of the costs from overrunning.
yes they are, all over the place.
You wrote a long post in response to mhd, but you totally failed to address the point. To remind you:

> Germany's debtors back then thought that after the debt relief it would become financially stable on its own. And that doesn't seem to be the case now with Tsipras' Greece -- and Schäuble doesn't seem to be the only one with that opinion.

All this rhetoric about how evil Germany was in the wars (and, yes, they were), and how much damage they did (and, yes, they did) is not the point. Throwing around charges of economic warfare and claiming that "Germany is at it again" completely misses the point. Accusing Europe's leaders of being illegitimate and fascist misses the point. Once more, the point is this: If Greece were given the same help at this time, it seems very unlikely that Greece would become financially stable. The rest of Europe is unwilling to pay for what they perceive as low odds of success.
Just because people say they are happy doesn't mean they actually are.
Well there goes my favorite hotdog stand...
The thing is, while it's obvious that this is the case for Happy Birthday, it's less obviously the case for almost everything else. We incorporate works of art, and especially music, into our lives and our social interactions. What kinds of music we like become part of our identity. And the current state of copyright law doesn't allow for this. We should have copyright exemptions for non-commercial performances and derivative works.

As just an example of this, when my father died, I put together a slideshow of photos of him throughout the years. I used four of his favorite songs as the music, since it connected with memories that I and others have of him. We played it at his memorial and many people found it quite moving and asked me to upload it to Youtube. But because it had the music in it, I couldn't. Luckily Dropbox doesn't have anything like ContentID yet, but it still seemed wrong that copyright law would prevent me from sharing this piece of my dad with everyone that knew and loved him. There was no profit to be made from the sharing and what I wanted to share wouldn't cause any financial harm to the artists or labels who own the copyrights...if anything it would convince many people to buy those songs in a format that would work on music players.

It's frustrating that our current laws don't take into account that the creations that they make become part of our lives. The laws need to strike a better balance between compensating the creator and realizing that, once creations are released, they take on a life of their own and become meaningful to others. Humans seem programmed to share music...it's almost a tribal/instinctual thing. And no law that tries to controvert basic human instincts will ever be successful.
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It's pretty baffling. Japan is the model for earthquake warning systems. Even a few seconds' warning could be invaluable if you are running a major datacenter. But apart from a tiny pilot program in Berkeley I'm not aware of any serious efforts in that direction.
What does your meteor + react stack look like? Any reference material I should look at?
Amex primarily, Discover for places that don't take Amex (which is a lot more than you'd think), Visa debit (through an investment broker, so it has much higher daily limits) as a backup for the above.

It sounds silly, but over time you realize those edge cases that are a pain in the ass if you haven't planned ahead (I need $1000 accessible via debit immediately because a family member has lost their wallet across the country and I need to Western Union them some cash to get home).
>One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard drive...After exporting the data, the user would have to run a really old gov't program (to which the Access DB file belonged) to upload the data to a legacy server, over X.25 (click an icon on the desktop)....

> How would you address this situation?

Well, first I would sign up for a github account. You know steps two and three.
Hardware/install is free, but costs you $25/month/location to receive your data. (Not that this means they are not also selling data elsewhere).
what leverage did they really need? Reddit never made any profit and was clearly not on the path to making any. Therefore, conde nast might as well take a flyer in the hopes of turning a loss-making asset into a revenue-making asset.
This was the only way to do it with the SMS interface.
It's not the only downside to consider. http://adamsilver.io/articles/the-disadvantages-of-css-prepr...

There are a lot of advantages to them that need consideration too granted.
The debt is already beyond what Greece can pay, unemployment is very high, and yet the plan is to combine more debt and more austerity.

These are the bad news. The good news is that now Greece will participate in ECB's QE program that will relief some of the debt burden and is also promised a 35bn five-year program to finance growth, as part of Juncker's 315bn investment plan. [1]

All things considered this isn't a bad deal after all, if we could leave aside all the unpleasantness and the bad blood of the negotiation process.

As a Greek I'm happy we avoided bankruptcy because exiting the Eurozone would bring us back to the stone age. And of course if we haven't been fooling around for five months we could probably get a much better deal.

[1] http://www.euractiv.com/sections/eu-priorities-2020/junckers...
With some effort, I'm sure the folks behind Cassandra, Hadoop etc. could achieve acceptable performance with allocateDirect(). It doesn't support explicit freeing, but you can always reuse buffers and write your code to allocate slices within them.
If people disable JS or if it fails for whatever reason, you'll be left with an unusable site. If fonts don't load or if css doesn't load, at least you still have html and you could read what's on the screen. With JS you won't even be able to navigate to pages since it all gets handled with js.

That and it often has more to load than your traditional html/css page, which means a less pleasant experience on slower connections (mobile).
I have tried some graph analysis using my own graph analytics framework: Gunrock (http://gunrock.github.io/gunrock/). The PageRank is pretty similar (the first three are DoctorWho, StarWars, and EVA.) My colleague and I are interested in doing more analysis on this site. We are trying to build a crawler and maybe using bipartite graph to build some kind of recommendation system. All inspired by your project here. Stay tuned :-)
I hope and wish that they are able to reform their country. And limit the influence of the extreme right/left wishful thinkings.
Apple only does premium phones whereas Samsung et al do premium as well as mid-market as well as down-market devices.

The iPhone is basically always more expensive than the equivalent Samsung Galaxy device. The Galaxy S6 is currently $549 for a 32GB version with a high-res 5.1" QHD screen (better than 1080p). The semi-equivalent iPhone 6 is $649 for a 16GB version with a mid-resolution 4.7" screen (approximately 720p) is a full $100 more expensive than the S6. Upgrading the iPhone to the next memory size up (64GB) adds $100. Upgrading to a high def screen (6 Plus with a 5.5" 1080p screen) is another $100.

One big reason Apple makes so much more profit than everyone else is that they sell lesser specced phones for a higher price than the competition's higher specced phones. Most people think of the iPhone 6 as being equivalent to the Galaxy S6 despite having a smaller, lower resolution screen, 1/2 the storage space for music and pictures, slower processor, etc.
In my experience, any learning curve for the popular CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS) is dwarfed by the maintenance and productivity gains. The only downside to them is that thoughtless use of them can lead to very bloated CSS builds. But onboarding? LESS and SASS, fundamentally, provide what CSS should have provided from day one: nestable rules/statements, macros, and variables.

Other than that, +1, good read, will share.
Exactly what I was thinking as I read this. Just use nix. Forget the dogma.
That's really interesting. Given a certain level of granularity, would it be possible for a person to have a unique object signature? I guess at that point, you'd just use a face. Just curious.

No wifi pinging. After Apple almost killed us a year ago with their MAC address policy change and we realized there was significant push back on privacy, we dropped the technology altogether.
This is hugely important. EKG changes are common - drugs change the QT interval, heart disease and subacute ischemia can cause T wave changes, people can go in and out of atrial fibrillation or throw PVCs, etc. I'd be very impressed if you can reliably identify a user over a period of years using EKG traces.

Your use of EKG to determine "in-game focus", "driver fatigue" and workout quality is definitely interesting. Is there literature showing reliability of these measures from EKG readings and heart rate, or are you using other sensors in addition to EKG? You mentioned in another reply that your group has published papers on EKG biometrics - you should definitely link to or at least cite those on your website.
Consider this an aftershock
Somewhere someone is finding a way to make this a buffer overflow. Wonder how long this will take to get fixed. I totally forgot about Twitter's in-band and SMS features until now.
reddit is largely immune to political pressures that other large social media sites must endure for the simple reason that reddit makes shit for money and has no business operations abroad. Facebook and Twitter have to listen to foreign governments because they want to do business in those countries.
There is a list[1] of things you can't start tweets with

[1] - https://support.twitter.com/articles/14020
I'd say that ~98% (statistic pulled out of the thin air) of Single Page Applications are - in fact - Single Page Websites in your terminology. At least that's what I usually see when various companies are using Angular (or Ember, or React-with-routing, or any other library/framework) to power their web applications.

Honorable mention for the application that you probably have in mind can go towards (IMO) React UI Builder which was posted to HN a few days ago (https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder).
I am saying,consider all the disadvantages too. If you still think it's beneficial after that, at least it's a conscious decision.
For YouTube, there are several click-to-play extensions that work with the HTML5 player. There's a Firefox preference media.autoplay.enabled that works for most HTML5 video other than YouTube; ideally that could be allowed on a per-site basis. For ads, use an ad blocker; they know how to block HTML5 ads just fine.
I feel like one could accidentally trigger the full quake by doing this, though I'm no seismologist.
You're both talking past each other by adopting extreme positions and making sweeping moral judgments about entire nations.

My issue with this new bailout is that it presents yet more debt as the solution to crushing debts which Greece can't even afford the interest payments on.

As the IMF admitted, it's not a sustainable solution, the many politicians and reporters talking about it probably know this but they just don't care because they can more easily sell a simple morality tale about Greek profligacy or German imperialism to their constituents.
One of my favorite Ruby post series of all time:

Pipelines using Fibers in Ruby (1.9)

http://pragdave.me/blog/2007/12/30/pipelines-using-fibers-in...

http://pragdave.me/blog/2008/01/01/pipelines-using-fibers-in...

I swear it was actually a 3-part series, but only 2 parts I can find right at the moment.
I think that's BS. They're an American company, providing a product that people can feel free not to use if they're so inclined. They're not imposing western standards; that's like saying McDonald's is "imposing" a western diet by selling hamburgers in Riyadh.
I had to do this many times and the advice from steven2012 is gold. Do it personally, do it with dignity. It is important for those who stay as most likely you will be laying off some of their friends. Do everything you can to allow those who need to go to save their face.
Can't seem to find where to file this bug since it's not a physical mapping error. Coincidentally the Maps team is in the Boulder office, are they not? I guess I could just walk down and say hi :)

Feel free to connect me with the right people, my email is in my profile
John Carmack's "The Physics of Light and Rendering" goes over physically-based rendering and lots more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4QuTe8aUw
Yes! Yes I did! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bpg2HkVdI4&t=1m00s
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was not just enough to have a phrase enter the public vernacular, but that it would have to be in the vernacular in such a way that its no longer directly associated with the product that was trademarked.

I like the general idea though. It seems that if the general public no longer associate a work of art with the artist or company that holds the IP, it should go into public domain.

In this case, Happy Birthday probably never would have been popular in the first place had the copyright been aggressively enforced in the 1920's. In my opinion, the lack of defense of broad copyright infringement from 1920-1980 should be grounds for copyright invalidation.

Generally copyright has lost its original intent of providing value and protection to the original creator, while encouraging people to create something that will eventually become part of the public domain.
The syntax in the comment you replied to works fine: just include a video tag that references the video file by URL.
You are right and I was speaking purely from my experience.
In the past few years, I just about doubled my income, but it hasn't made me much happier at all.

It comes down to priorities. For some people, the priority is money. For others, it is happiness. If money is going to buy you happiness, then I guess the choice becomes easier.
Why is Greece such an economic success?
Ask HN: Interesting startups in the Kansas City area?
I recently moved to the area and thought I'd check HN to see if anyone is part of (or running) an interesting startup here?

I'm a developer who just sold my software business and I'm looking for something awesome to work on next.
Did I just read a powerpoint presentation?
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I see an idea but no execution.