skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been saying this for years. It's not even just security: you're also potentially leaking all your visitor stats to a third party (IP, user agent, the pages they visit (via the Referer)), and effectively giving jquery.com a third party supercookie over thousands of domains.

I surf with third party cookies and referers (via RefControl) disabled, and these should be the defaults
For similar reasons that the USA is the great pariah in Cuba. In both cases the USA was a primary supporter of a repressive totalitarian government kicked out by a popular revolution. It's just that in Cuba the revolution was communist while in Iran it had a strongly religious dimension. Other than the Iranian's support of the Palestinian cause, there's really no particular reason for them to be a great enemy of the west, except that we totally screwed them over repeatedly for a few generations.
Why down vote? It fits the EXACT criteria outlined by the GP?

I'd be interested to hear a rational argument for why it's okay for Israel to pursue nuclear weapons but not a neighbouring county? (Please don't resort to some quote about Iran hating Israel, as Israel have said equally extreme things as well).
You need to look after the maintenance on your cars better.

Your failure rate for service items like timing belts is statistically off the charts if that is true. You're either ignoring the needs or you are buying pieces of unmaintained junk.

I'm yet to experience a failure like this in all my vehicle history, and I've owned some beaters in my time.
I did the "click to activate" option for flash in firefox. I like it. (Safari and chrome can do this too). This way if flash is activated when really needed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set-adobe-flash-click-p...

I feel your pain. The university site I'm working on has flash protein visualizations. We're finally moving visualizations to js. We'll get there, but with flash being kinda turned off, users will have to turn it back on manually or our pages won't work till rid of flash.
I will grant you that, yes.
This is incredible. Note that this is also a true representation of Pluto's colours by merging a high resolution greyscale picture taken by the #1 camera "Lorri" and a second (lower resolution) colour picture from the #2 camera "Ralph".
Rescale raises 6.4M from PG, Sam, Bezos, Thiel, others
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Why would it be useless?
I always learned much faster when I have a goal to achieve.

I've always wanted to learn D3.js properly, but haven't found the effort to sit down and go through the tutorials yet.

However, when my company had a hackathon and we had two days to build an app. I managed to learn Ionic and AngularJS within those two days and delivered a fully functional app (except the server bit was hacky, but then the server was written in NodeJS and has nothing to do with Ionic).

I'm really interested in Scala and have taken some courses. However, I haven't found a project that I can build upon with Scala, so it's still a toy language to me :-(
New KiCAD versions (from bzr) have push and shove interactive router which also can do length matching and differential pairs, although the whole thing is far from complete and stable but it is usable (for example, the "push and shove" part does not work when routing diff pairs and when you move move mouse too fast in plain track routing mode it just crashes).

One problem with these new features is that they are somehow linked to new implementation of pcbnew's canvas which also implies somewhat different UI behavior (more windows-like, with selection of individual PCB elements and so on), which I generally don't like that much. Anyhow I recently used current kicad from bzr for somewhat non-trivial board (smallish FPGA in TQFP, ARM MCU, some analog RF, few LVDS lines).
Greece has lost the war. Fortunately the resistance was strong enough against his completely exagerated expectations. Such parties are not normally at the helm neither in US nor Europe. Care to elaborate murky workings?
Ask HN: Don't charge clients and don't serve you, what moves you to fund me?
Public interest attorney who serves only low-income veterans, mostly homeless. I can take care of a whole host of different issues for them: expunging criminal records, housing, consumer, etc...but what I mostly handle are federal govt. benefits like VA benefits and discharge upgrades from the military (to get benefits).

The organization I work for is facing that dreaded L word that's been on HN far too much recently. Regardless of how "safe" I might feel or not, I'm considering crowdfunding to continue my work and hope it'll keep someone else in their position. My main question is: What's in an effective crowdfunding campaign when the audience won't receive anything directly in return?

I've had my first big client successes in the last 12 months that combine to just below a quarter million in awards for my clients. I've had other successes that don't amount to a check being cut - client gets to stay in housing, client's criminal record is clear so now he can get a better job, etc...My organization and I take nothing but if we had taken our cut of the awards allowable by law, it would have covered my annual salary this year (minus benefits). But that's misleading because many of my cases are years old (especially for the client), my work only begins at least a year after an initial denial, and often with many years on the horizon before a final resolution. I have hundreds of hours in the more complex cases which span multiple 3-inch binders of military records and private and VA medical records. I have cases that span 40 years on their own and I have cases that are just beginning. I just say that to explain it would take a small war chest to maintain on my current path (donations instead of an expectation in return means a smaller war chest goes farther - not a tax lawyer but that's my take). I want to keep not charging (at least up to a certain househould income level).

What else would you want to know before you donated your hard earned dollars?
For schools in GTA like York, UofT, Ryerson, I would actually classify them as 'commuter' schools, especially York. A lot of my friends ended up going to one of these three schools to save money.
Yes. And they have been enjoying one for several years now.
> It's interesting to speculate about how it could have affected the development of Cincinnati as a city if it had been completed.

Buffalo built (and finished) a similar subway system in the '80s. At best, it didn't help.
people at cern have forgotten long ago:

“Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.” – Theodore von Kármán

Gell Mann and Zweig among others proposed the imaginary concept of quarks (or partons, Feynman's Dolly) to do something about all those particles that kept popping up in accelerators. There was a time, when a particle was a run-of-the-mill cookie-cutter thesis.
I didn't really mean to exclude any experimentation while you are learning. Fiddling with the possible expressions that a language would allow in a REPL is OK, but I am against starting pointless little projects before you have grasped something entirely. GitHub is full of these and they are mostly not pretty.
Welcome to the Internet. Where even the greatest scientific achievements are eclipsed by the politically incorrect slights of those responsible. (See also: The Rosetta-shirt).

Also, jingoism: "the feelings and beliefs of people who think that their country is always right and who are in favor of aggressive acts against other countries".

Get. Over. Yourself.
Europeans should be appalled by their governance not some Americans celebrating a space mission.
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I am not sure the attack vector argument is 100% valid here, as flash replacement technologies constantly add attack vectors to modern browsers, too. Many traditional Flash features are now covered by webGL accelerated browser functionality, like accelerated 2D canvas elements. My guess would be that this browser-gpu bridge creates a whole zoo of GPU driver related security issues which attackers might focus on once flash is completely obsolete. (My money is on a remote code execution vulnerability in the Firefox Adobe DRM module.)
Yes, but how is that a "friends and family" round if none of it is raised from friends and family?

EDIT: If you assume your friends and family can each spare $500 (which given a median household income of $51,000/year or $3,500/month after federal taxes... Maybe half the U.S. Population in a given month can spare that after rent, food, childcare, auto, and debt repayments.) then you need to get 3000 "yes"s to get to 150k. At a 20% yes rate, that means you are asking 15,000 people for money. It makes far more sense to ask people in the upper decile, who make $145,000 per year of household income and who might have some investment income that they can throw at you. Alternately, to raise from people who regularly invest in early-stage businesses. If you don't have any such folks in your social circle, you are going to be busting your ass and trying to make cold intros.
They need authorization from ECB and the printer prints only 10 euros.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/return-drachma...
So IAC now owns Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, and PlentyofFish. Are there any competition concerns there? I only looked briefly, but couldn't see any market share figures.

EDIT: and Chemistry.com, Meetic, and PeopleMedia.
Why, out of all parts of the world, do you bring up Europe specifically?
Didn't downvote, but since someone asked : Israel is the target of said terrorists group and hostility, not the initiator or sponsor (like Iran). That's why it's an ally and not an opponent.

I really didn't think i'd ever have to make such obvious statements.
It's a click away.

And calling it unsafe, well, that's the truth.
Traction and plastics... Get 3M on the case!
Because they don't have to spend much to service their current debt. Maturities have been extended, the interest is artificially low, payment of interest has been postponed. There are other EZ countries that have to spend quite a bit more to service quite a bit less debt because they were not as special as Greece.
I strongly believe that "perfectionism" is the most deadly way of procrastinate.

The cure is two sided, first you must work with acceptance of your inner resistance/monkey mind - books like the war of art, the dip and do the work can help you here.

Secondly you must work on shipping your product/code/content often and full of errors, this will help you accept that not perfect is okay - my biggest inspiration for this is Seth Godin's blog.

I can also reccomend the letting go book from http://zenhabits.net/lg
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I don't. Which is why I'm hoping iTerm is different.
Java and Flash both vulnerable–again–to new 0-day attacks
Based on this interview, it looks like Tsipras is solely to blame for the Sunday's disastrous deal. I think his career will be finished after the deal passes.
Your xenophobia is unwelcome here.
I am not sure what "country income situation" you are talking about.

"The Greek budget showed a primary surplus of 1.506 billion euros in the January-May period this year"

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/25/greek-budget-prim...
Printing money is like robbing those who still have cash as the currency is devalued. And it doesn't change a thing if you owe money in foreign currencies.

Otherwise, Japan et al. would have long ramped up the printing presses.
I think this one shouldn't be a mini-book :)
> I've this too. When I learn something new like a language I often want to do it right, like be "pythonic" when learning Python. It can take long for me to write some simple piece of code because I'm constantly doubting if my code is pythonic. And when it takes to long I lose focus and I stop.

Exactly my current situation with Clojure.
I don't know what to make of this. I like the general idea but I really don't like the use of Markdown here.

Markdown makes writing markup faster and reading markup easier. It's a limited set of syntax elements optimised for writing and reading text. No more, no less. It is not, however, a new set of language elements to be used for whatever purpose.

For example, how is this:

__Basic Button|Icon：User,Text：Add Friend__

Any better than this?

<button icon="user" text="Add Friend">

Even YAML seems to be much better suited for structured data like this.

button
icon: text
text: Add Friend

If your aim really is to "lessen the cognitive load", why not work with tools that better work towards that goal?
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Its not like html5 has all of the features required to replace flash cross platform.
These changes force developers, especially those that work in video publishing to implement a variety of implementations for each device whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything but is now disabled intentionally.
I totally agree. If all you care about is to learn the language, just write code. Don't worry about all the other things that you may want to do. Just to Add on to it:
If you want to learn python, don't start with django. If you want to learn javascript, use simple libraries like jquery. Basically start simple. My usual technique is to get the most basic knowledge about the language or a framework and then spend time building something (simple todo app, a wiki etc) and learn more about it in the process. I rarely start with a book. I try to find a succinct tutorial so I an read it quick, and start on building simple apps.
Take some challenges. Maybe 2 hours to write some specific piece of code and try hard. Fix your errors. Learn another part. Repeat.
On the video, it is mentioned that the advertisements are in a frame.
Access most certainly matters, we wouldn't have made that mistake with Iraq had we had reliable access.

If you recall, one of the "smoking guns" that the administration used to move into Iraq were intercepted phone conversations between Iraqi Republican Guard members.

Those conversations mentioned "hiding" something before the inspectors got to a site. Since Iraq (like Iran) was allowed a few days before any visit, it was believed at the time that they were shifting materials whenever the inspectors came. I recall even liberal media organizations poking fun at the inspectors -- about how they were playing a game of chase with the Iraqis.

Remember this graphic, much shown in the media?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Powell_U...

Had no such rule been in place, they could have moved that day to inspect the site, and would have realized there was nothing to be found.

Hans Blix also said, in December 2012, (from wikipedia:)
that the Iraqi weapons declaration filed on December 7 "is essentially a reorganized version" of information Iraq provided UNSCOM in 1997, and that it "is not enough to create confidence" that Iraq has abandoned its WMD efforts. So the US was not alone in that position.

and

Hans Blix states that Iraq still has not made a "fundamental decision" to disarm, despite recent signs of increased cooperation. Specifically, Iraq has refused to destroy its al-Samoud 2 long range missiles. (These are not a WMD, and Iraq is permitted "battlefield" missiles. However, Iraq's missiles were limited by UN instruction to a diameter of 600mm, and the Al-Samoud II has a diameter of 760mm). These missiles are deployed and mobile. Also, an R-400 aerial bomb was found that could possibly contain biological agents. Given this find, the UN Inspectors have requested access to the Al-Aziziyah weapons range to verify that all 155 R-400 bombs can be accounted for and proven destroyed. Blix also expresses skepticism over Iraq's claims to have destroyed its stockpiles of anthrax and VX nerve agent in Time magazine. Blix said he found it "a bit odd" that Iraq, with "one of the best-organized regimes in the Arab world," would claim to have no records of the destruction of these illegal substances. "I don't see that they have acquired any credibility," Blix said
Yes, but Moby-Dick is absolute fiction based on a sailor's experience, while Two Years was total non-fiction.

(don't get me wrong I love both books but they are very different at their core)
Super achievement.

Imagine writing a piece of code see the test results only 9.5 years after !
Monumental achievement in science and in space, and you make it about war. Grow up, indeed.
Israeli Tyto Care raises $11M with an astounding solution for parents
oh please, no american-style patriotism here in europe. I respect our american friends, but please, just... no. to give reasons would mean insulting probably more than few, so I refrain from that. let's say we're not all the same, we've grown up in different environments, and there are quite a few things I personally don't like in current US, and would not see many reasons to be proud.

that we have our own issues is true, just as everybody else out there, including US. personally I am proud of any european space achievement, especially since it's obvious how hard it is to do some coordinated international effort.
Current simultaneous discussion (bbc.co.uk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884165 (50 points, 1 hour ago, 21 comments)
We can build relatively fire-resistant buildings.

As for relatively fire-resistant wooden buildings? I suspect that it's easier to "just" use less wood.

Although note that there are a couple of things that do help. A steel roof as opposed to a shingled one. Having proper screens in the roof vents. Having fire-resistant siding. Tile floors (or something else that's non-flammable) as opposed to carpet or wooden ones. Not having gas lines to be ruptured by an earthquake. Having proper (read: not likely to catch something on fire in the case of an earthquake) electrical connections.
No- As long as the bottles arent subjected to heat or direct sunlight: http://web.archive.org/web/20050830052647/http://www.jhsph.e...
Would potholes still exist? Water can't penetrate plastic and soften it's structure, and tires can't grip onto plastic and rip it up... so it seems like there wouldn't be that problem.
Didn't know the pope ruled italy, nor that kings and queens had any true power in any occidental country.

Same can not be said with iranian mollah, which rule every part of the iranian society.
Starting projects before you grasp something entirely is how you get to grasp it entirely. Sashaying it with others, e.g. via github, is often a useful part of that. You aren't entitled to a github with only projects that interest you, and not pretty work is part of the learning process.
Sure, not able to listen and not able to compromise define the Greek side in all this.

Where have you been?

The policies imposed to Greece don't make more sense this time that they did the last time, and the last, and the last.
But yes, we should all listen to the wise neoliberal policymakers, including the humble Herr Schäuble.
It is also worth noting that Mohammad Pahlavi (aka 'the Shah' and the person we backed after the coup) was a really, really heinous individual who did some incredibly nasty shit over a couple of decades as he clung to power. Like many revolutionaries of that period, the people who overthrew him had a lot of very legitimate grievances.
If the Irish lived in Holland, they'd drown, If the Dutch lived in Ireland, they'd feed the world.
Iceland is and was in the EFTA and hence in the EEA where the single-passport rules apply -- and applied back then as well, otherwise the Iceland banks operating in the UK and the Netherlands would have been under UK/NL supervision instead of IS supervision. UK/NL were not ALLOWED under those rules to meaningfully supervise IS banks operating in their countries. As long as they operated under IS law and IS supervision, they operated under IS insurance rules with the usual EU (EEA) 100k€ limit. Iceland blatantly broke the rules.

Later, after the shit hit the fan, Iceland did apply for EU membership and negotiations begun. Iceland later withdrew their application.
It is a skill game similar to poker in many respects (and it seems that the operators of these daily fantasy sites have modeled a lot of their games after online poker tournaments). It is a negative sum game due to the fees that the operators take out of the pools, and luck dominates the short run, but skillful players with better estimating skills or access to privileged information can win consistently in the long run.
nice, I've been looking for a fiddler-like alternative for OSX. does it allow to compose requests as well?
Will someone actually go ahead and implement the required features in the browsers? Last I checked there is still no cross-platform way to do video publishing without flash. The option we now all have is multiple platform specific implementations.
I had the same problem. How did I solve it?
First of all, I don't learn new stuff just for sake of learning new things - I am always trying to solve a problem, even the simplest one. Create simple requirements and keep trying to achieve your goal as soon as possible. Once your tests (even ugly ones) pass, you can start refactoring and make your code idiomatic for a given technology/language.
At least it's my way of doing things.
Does anyone know why this is showing up on Github as well? I just saw this banner when I logged in. Why would Github be using Flash?

(A quick Google search shows they used to use it for the network graph but it is now Canvas.)
All the time. I deal with almost constant anxiety over how my time is spent, even to the point where I can't always enjoy leisure activities. I don't know what drives this. I am not an overly competitive person and already have a decent job where people respect me and my abilities as a programmer, yet I rarely spend a waking moment not thinking about all the things I could be grokking.

I guess what it boils down to is that a lot of my self esteem is derived from being knowledgable and resourceful. It really embarrasses me when I don't even have a shallow depth of knowledge about a subject matter that could be potentially useful.

I don't really have much advice for you because I haven't really solved this one for myself, but one thing I try to do is concentrate on very short term goals. For example, when I was learning Angular a few years ago, I knew going into it that I wouldn't "get it" right away. After a few frustrating days I decided to break-up my learning into small goals, e.g. "what are promises and how do they work?" "What is the syntax?" "When should they be used?" I tried to avoid unrelated documentation and stack overflow posts because I knew that it would lead me into rabbit-hole after rabbit-hole. I wasn't 100% successful, but it did help me block out some of the cognitive dissonance.

The only other thing I'd say is that even though this is frustrating, I like to think that your anxiety is actually a good thing if you learn to channel it constructively. It's a good thing to want to know about a lot of stuff!
The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising
There's something very French about having water fountains which give sparkling water.
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Match, Tinder, OKCupid, HowAboutWe, now PlentyOfFish. I'm curious if there are other mainstream dating apps out there? There are apps like Grindr for the LGBTQ community; JDate for the Jewish community. But what others are there for the larger populations? eHarmony, though I've always been under the belief that religion was a key component of that site.

I find it interesting to see that Match now really owns the space and that TechCrunch is suggesting that the purchase was for "a fresh pool of digitally active singles" vs. technology (OKCupid) or a different experience all together (Tinder).