skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the kicker they so conveniently ignore. America's love of the automobile, if not true for other parts of the world I would be amazed, is the freedom it offers. Go anywhere, anytime.

Electric cars limit owners ability to do so. You are on your car's schedule and the current limitations are still extreme. More than one magazine has staged a long drive of an electric car like certain manufactures and enthusiast have only to reveal that you will have to drive out of your way at times and your trip time is greatly extended. The same people who have the means to buy 100k cars; don't fool yourselves the transaction prices on many Ss are there have the extra time.

Think about it, if you can only go 200 miles and have to stop for thirty minutes each time to charge what it does to anything but travel completed wholly in that radius. Then add in diversions to acceptable charging stations.

Pure electrics are fine for metropolitan travel. When their recharge rate becomes very quick or an acceptable range extender; likely hydrogen; becomes available then they will have widerspread acceptance.

To be honest, outside of a small niche electric "cars" aren't there yet. However there is no reason electric school buses aren't worth the time. If you want acceptance to grow then employ the tech where everyone will see it and in a means you can sell on many levels. While an electric school bus would be expensive I would much rather see the Federal subsidy go there than funding a wealthy persons car, someone who could afford it without the subsidy. School systems spend a fortune on fuel and are subject to fluctuations in price. Electrify the buses, solar and wind power the depots, and you can not only charge them but sell to the grid and during times when school is out they could perhaps feed back stored electricty.
Every video on Facebook still relies on Flash though. So I'm not sure why they haven't put their money where their mouth is about it yet? Would make Facebook a lot more accessible in most cases for me not having to rely on Flash whatsoever just to view a video. I usually end up not watching a number of videos after I realize it wont let me watch them without Flash.
Do you want to enable 'Adobe Flash' for the site adobe.com? [Never for this site]
Here's flashless street view from Yandex: https://maps.yandex.ru/-/CVcbFJYs

I don't have much problems with Firefox, it seems to work smooth. May be it's Google's fault?
Still, old one was faster.
Restraint in a literal sense. An uninhabitable wasteland is at the other end of a spectrum that starts with not worrying about killing civilians.
Great news! I played with matasano crypto challenges and Microcorruption. And as I understand this one is more greater and more enveloping. I was so excited when read "compiler theory" in the letter because I realized the LR(1) compiler engine in JavaScript, and these skills will help me in Starfigher I think.
That's strange, I found Flash programming very accessible. There's a huge amount of good learning material out there, and plenty of shortcuts and components you can use to do quite complex things.

Flash components were really interesting, and made it easier for non-programmers, or designers to manipulate a user-friendly "API" of sorts within Flash. This was very powerful. Hugely underrated and conventionality forgotten by the Flash-haters.
Yes, it is a very common crap indeed. I had a lot of pain porting some Linux filesystems to Sparc, for example (had to give up back then, that code was beyond any hope).

Not to mention the endianess issues, an often sight in the crappy networking code.
This is what I thought when viewing my latest computer that came with an UEFI bios. That the UEFI BIOS is to large and too complex and has way to many functions to be a BIOS device, hence a perfect place to put advanced malware.

It's like an operating system before the operating system, has its own FAT32 system partition where you can store stuff.

Also after a few years your manufacturer will stop shipping uefi BIOS updates for your computer due to their interest in selling new computers and then there will be a lurking security whole laying around.
>> What's the point of the animating label?

It's a default behavior of textarea in Materialize CSS. I will try to fix it later.

>> the submit button jumps left when I write something.

Thank you, it's because of "length" attribute in the bottom left corner of text area. I'll try to fix it soon.
How to Copy a DVD with the Original Quality on Windows 10/8/7
How I got XSS’d by my ad network
If browsers had hooks for "the page has now finished loading" (to display a loading indicator while the page loads with XHR etc) and "callback for stop button click" I'm sure lots of SPAs would put them to good use :)
I hope things pan out the way the article predicts and I'm a massive optimist for EV adoption in the long term. However, there's some obvious wrenches in the plan for such quick adoption, including:

- No great options currently for charging in apartments. Virtually the entire world is on an urbanisation trend, so this segment of potential EV owners is really important for adoption, and isn't being currently served.

- People replace their cars at much slower rates than smartphones.

I think there is a lot of potential for disruption in the transportation sector. Trucking companies and taxi fleets don't care if their vehicles are big, ugly and heavy (as they would be if outfitted with batteries), cost is the main factor. When EV running costs dip below the cost of ICE vehicles (and when battery density improves the range sufficiently), these guys are going to have a huge incentive to invest in EVs quickly.

Also, if someone figures out how to build an electric jet in the next few decades, it will transform the airline industry who are currently held hostage by the price of oil. Perhaps airlines can compete on service rather than price gouging on "extras" that used to be covered by the cost of a ticket, to make up for razor thin margins. Airports could also be built closer to city centres, as the noise and air pollution concerns disappear.
Nice list, thanks. If you don't mind what are your existing products? I'd be curious to see how they are checking the 6 and 7 items.
Nah, the other meaning of the acronym usually fits as well
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Who posted my telephone number?
HSTS subdomain tracking is probably the best method of tracking, because it works in private mode and there's no easy way to clear those "cookies".
"Just include the following JS script (~135kb)". Ugh
It's going to be a harder decision as soon as you or your family get sick - are you going to boycott the pharma companies?
Flash is also shipped by default and enabled in Google Chrome.

Here is how to deactivate it

You need to go to chrome plugins and disable it
chrome://plugins/
I feel sorry for you having to use it. Especially the XML version. Stay strong!

Fun fact, the SOH delimiter character renders as a smiley face in some terminals. Some of the proprietary protocols are fixed width which makes them so much simpler to parse than FIX.
> That doesn't happen here. Instead, the delivery guy usually helps you unpack the item of delivery, and the plumber will offer his opinion on a job he was not necessarily called in to fix.

And how much are you expected to tip these people?
I think the submission should link to the actual press release: http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2015/07/cerns-lhcb-e...
Since there is often no way to differentiate between blatant promotional
advertisement submissions (spam) and sincere requests for feedback on
projects, Hacker News has "Show HN" submissions. You can find all the
existing "Show HN" submissions through the "show" link in the top menu.
If you want feedback on your own project, do your own "Show HN"
submission, but you should read the "Show HN" rules [1], along with the
main HN Guidelines [2] and FAQ [3] (linked on the bottom of every page).
The HN welcome page [4] for new accounts is also good reading.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Flash also comes with McAffee (or some other bundleware). I wouldn't be surprised if the reason why they haven't made a proper auto-updater is because of that. That they'd miss out on those miniscule profits they get from that.
Surplus of night time car-hours can support a market for cheap delivery.
Is there any pricing information before signup? I see "start monitoring for FREE", emphasis on start, and automatically think "short trial, then some unknown price".
Theme Hospital & Sim Tower!
Recent Blood Work #2 – July 2015
I was under the impression is was also illegal in Netherland, but some googling suggested it might not be illegal and there's some debate around it. My experience is that tap water is always free, but not everybody likes serving free water and some try to get you expensive bottled water instead.

It's completely ridiculous to buy bottled water here. We've got the best tap water in the world.
I was enrolled in lessons when I was 18, just before the first Gulf war. As soon as the war started, gas prices went through the roof, & my family could no longer afford to pay for my lessons since the gas factor increased the cost so much. I've since lost the desire to learn, and am happy on the ground. I'd rather spend that money on something else.
Show HN: Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax
Kallithea 0.2.2 Released (alternative to github, bitbucket, gitlab)
I've heard many stories about traders letting their futures expire and having to take delivery of whatever commodity it was. I'm pretty sure they're all urban myths though. They probably just had to unload them quickly at a big loss.

I would love to be proved wrong if anyone has a story with evidence. Preferably with pictures of shipping containers arriving at a city office!
Having visited Rome in July/August, those fountains were life savers!
I have a lot of experience of end users and they are
forever telling me that they get so many different "Update
this", "Update that" windows that they can no longer
distinguish real from fake. Some of them have been tricked
by fake web site pop-ups as a result, others ignore
legitimate update messages. I do not blame them.

One solution to this is to use AdBlock Plus. When a site permits adverts that threaten a computer's security, it is time to add it to the blocklist.
I wish Facebook and YouTube won't use Flash at all.
Can't see it in there. No plans to visit again yet but if you can arrange an underground tour then I may be tempted! :)
If only that were the case, but they're abandoning Silverlight. It was actually much more stable for me under Linux than Flash ever was sadly, but they stopped developing Moonlight as well.
I had 2001 Suzuki Swift MKII 1.3. I think it had 65,000km on odometer in 2007 when I bought it, but can't be sure because odometer was only going to 99,999km. Now at (1)24,000km it's still going but I had to weld chassis or it would snap in half. Engine is still in very good condition though, only minor expected fixes were required. But yes, Suzuki DOES make cars which are not expected to last more than 100,000km. I've also recently got 2004 Opel Astra H which had already 209,000km and it's in perfect condition both engine and body, so YMMV.
I was surprised about last.fm not working without flash but it turned out to be ad blocker problem.
I wonder how many of the features in Rust that have changed were designed with that possibility in mind? And if not, whether it would have made any difference if they had been?
Good new for you. In September 2015 Google going to completely remove NPAPI support from Chrome. So Unity3D plugin will no longer work in Chrome and likely noone will use it for new projects.

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-final-countdown-for-npa...
ProxyHam conspiracy is nonsense
Your investors have to have access to credit cards and answer a few multiple choice questions too.

If you think the kind of people likely to invest in your startup will find the answers to questions like "do most startups pay dividends?" to be so difficult as to thwart their attempts to give you money, you could always post the answers on your blog though....
e.g https://blog.nudjed.com/seedrs-sign-up-process/
Tidal and Deezer are others which require flash. Both have desktop apps, however.. Tidal's desktop app is awful and laggy to the extent I prefer using the web interface; Deezer's Windows app lacks some features compared to the web player.
What is the speed of a Xilinux Spartan 6 compared to an recent Intel i5-i7 series cpu?
Been doing the same for years now. Don't see why people are still discussing it.
Perhaps they'll lacquer it to prevent that.
Visit CERN
Fair enough. I've only seen the splash page. Surprises me somewhat given that they now have a solid cross-platform shell for 'native' web-based apps.
I don't know, I think making anonymity more expensive is addressing the symptom rather than the disease.

I'd be more interested in looking at ways to nudge the behaviours exhibited in those groups so that the degree of groupthink was reduced rather than amplified. Reducing anonymity is one possible lever but has down-sides.

There are other options, for example you could change the way moderation worked. The moderation 'rules' for /r/CoonTown for example are a recipe for an echo chamber: "Dissenting opinion is allowed but don't insult CoonTown or its residents... No posting about 'good' blacks". You could reduce the control moderators have to set their own rules, and that may help nudge conversation back in the direction of free speech from the current system of fiefdoms.
Foreign students will have to go home after their study in the UK
It's still Wordpress, still slow, still insecure so why should we care?
Top 20 U.S. Cities – office space cost
$ per sq. ft per year - from 42floors.com

San Francisco - 53

New York - 49

Wash D.C. - 45

Boston - 45

Seattle - 30

Miami - 28

Silicon Valley - 27

Los Angeles - 26

San Diego - 23

Denver - 23

Sacramento - 22

Chicago - 22

Charlotte - 20

Atlanta - 19

Portland - 18

Houston - 18

Tucson - 17

Phoenix - 17

Los Vegas - 17

Dallas - 14
Flash should still have its legitimation as an authoring tool. I think the direct approach in which you can throw together a scene or an animation has its value. The tools you use influence design decisions. Of course, technology wise, we should be happy without it. But if you always start a project with coding first, it limits your thinking. I fancy all the nice webgl demos and data visualizations, but they mostly lack a meaningful human perspective. Authoring tools like Flash and Director did provide a different feedback loop, not a data point of view but a narrative one.
Keep in mind that flash plugin that bundled with Chrome using PPAPI and running inside sandbox. So some exploits don't affect that version all due to different architecture and to escalate privileges some Chrome sandbox exploit would be needed as well.
I was once in that situation and my life-saver was: "Yeah, I'm a big Leonard Cohen fan". Turned out the team-lead was as well.

It got me through the awkward moment, but I didn't get the job.
No. Given a formal specification of a problem, one could use this logic to derive a correct program. In theory, that's great because it is proven error-free. In practice, of course, implementing a "correct program" can introduce bugs and running it on a non-ideal machine (i.e. any physical computer), introduces uncertainties.

Furthermore, it is expensive to do: you need people with a strong understanding of mathematics/computer science, it is time intensive, and for most applications, just writing a program is good enough. But, to be honest, that goes for most formal methods. Well, unless they're completely automated, of course.
Web Development Frameworks: Silicon Valley vs Europe
If I click on "learn more" then "find out the basics" and then click back, popup window stays on top.
Ask HN: Do you get impatient when learning new things?
I get really impatient when learning new things. I tend to want to finish reading the book as fast as possible, which means I end up not doing the practice exercises. Sometimes I just give up because the book is too long.
Also, because I'm always thinking of the million other things I need to learn, I can't really focus on what I'm learning.
Every time that happens it makes me depressed.
How would you deal with this issue?
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This is not a feasible solution for the average end user.
Until I see really big and open source projects like WebKit or Clang itself moving to Swift or whatever, anything I read about moving to "better systems languages" is like reading a letter to Santa Claus. I doubt C++ is going anywhere, especially when C++ itself is not standing still and evolving (C++11, 14, 17...) while maintaining backwards compatibility.
You really have to wonder why any one would even want to consider getting into this business at this point. It's a blood bath and there is only one winner it seems.
If anybody wants to help, you can try digging up dirt on any of these 14, err, traitors:

* Bennet (D-CO)

* Cantwell (D-WA)

* Cardin (D-MD) (Given a free “No” vote, but stood ready to vote “Yes.”

* Carper (D-DE)

* Coons (D-DE)

* Feinstein (D-CA)

* Heitkamp (D-ND)

* Kaine (D-VA)

* McCaskill (D-MO)

* Murray (D-WA)

* Nelson (D-FL)

* Shaheen (D-NH)

* Warner (D-VA)

* Wyden (D-OR)

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/200pm-water-cooler-62...
Yep... That is what he said.

However please bear in mind that it it is free ONLY for the 38 million Polish citizens. Foreigners must pay something.

Ref: http://www.studyinpoland.pl/en/index.php/education-in-poland...
> Quite a lot of CPUs would just trap here

Or even worse -- for example, ARM CPUs usually round-down the misaligned address to the closest boundary when alignment checking is disabled. This means that attempting to access a 4-byte int at location 11 will silently let the CPU access it at location 8. This can manifest in some very nasty bugs.
All mother dogs do this.
How Social Media Played a Role in Nigeria 2015 Elections
Toilets in most UK stations are free. Only in London and some other larger cities have they adopted this anti-social practice.
Elegant way to handle Mixpanel events in rails. Amazing taste
As a person that rides motorcycle avidly I'm always distressed when the most important metric of a road gets a tiny mention, when discussing those new technologies.

Traction. If it's not at least as good as current best asphalt then don't bother.

Cities are already turning into motorcycle deathtraps, with all the "safety" nonsense generously painted everywhere (Which is slippery as hell, even during sunny weather)
> "...to benefit the US"

More specifically, I think it benefits US corporations. There's a sleight of hand in politicians/lobbyists presenting it as benefiting the US as a whole.
International rates in Canada are more than domestic. When I was there c. 2007, it was about $5500 for domestic and $15000 for international. It was still less than most American schools of comparable standing, although sometimes more than State schools' in-state rate.

At the moment you'd also be getting something like a 20% discount for the dollar exchange rate.
It's kind of a combination between a SPA and a static website.

We generate all the HTML pages so that they can serve as entrypoints, so when you go to https://gocardless.com/features we serve a fully rendered page to the browser, plus we load the rest of the website (that's why it's super snappy after the initial page load).

If you don't have javascript enabled, you'll still get fully rendered page.
So by disabling Flash by default, Mozilla can theoretically reduce vulnerabilities by half :-) Seems like a good choice to me!

Also, getting rid of the constant update dialogs and crapware installed with Flash will improve the overall user experience.
Well then you don't want an open source Flash, because that will undoubtedly be different to the official one in the same way that browsers are different to each other.
Not much they could do about this but it's resulting in a lot of bad reviews on the app stores. It would be in their interest to do better with communication to users. They are in the communication sector after all!

Maybe they should respond to the reviews directly in the app stores or put something in the app which explains what is going on. Not sure if they have the ability to broadcast message affected users but it could be as simple as implementing a better connection error message. Most of their users aren't going to read their blog or the tech press.
The spotify web player unfortunately requires flash as well.
UK Piracy Blocklist Quietly Expands with Proxy Sites
Remember when technology was exciting?
All it takes to install a (BIOS) rootkit is root access ... In windows this means answering Yes on the question "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer".

Remember to flash the BIOS if you've been hacked!
Because motorcycles are the number one users of road? Because the enjoyment of a small proportion of users outweigh whatever environmental and economic costs of improving infrastructure?
Find a little project you want to do using the technology. For example if you are learning Python, come up with a little program/website idea you want to make, and do it in Python. It's always easier to learn "as you go" rather than just reading a book in isolation.
According to pg, submitting your own blog posts is fine, if it's
interesting and on-topic [1], but the HN FAQ [2] suggest you should not
be creating text submissions with links to put your comment text at the
top, instead, you should just submit the link itself and then make a
regular comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495523

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Apple Pay UK
Not sure what you mean by design pattern? It's a SPA, built with React, and pre-rendered.

You can check the source code here: https://github.com/gocardless/splash-pages
Not even a screenshot?!
S3stat (https://www.s3stat.com/) gets a 7 and Twiddla (http://www.twiddla.com/) scores a 6.
Bribery and reducing your net compensation -- what's not for a company to love?
Show HN: BigEval – BODMAS, functions supporting expression solver in JavaScript
One point not addressed in this article: gas will get cheaper and fuel efficiencies will rise. Internal combustion will not just lay down and disappear.
InstaBail – iOS vs. Android Home Screen Icons
Maybe book learning isn't for you? Try an online resource such as Code Academy or Coursera. You might enjoy the immediate feedback from each lesson as you make progress.
You're not sorry.
Yeah I get that daily too. I find reading is just a difficult task for me, so I try and watch lectures when I can (e.g. on my lunch break in work).

At home, I just try to work on my own projects as much as possible, but I don't have much time every day. It is hard. I exercise (gym) religiously as I find it helps to keep my mind somewhat in check.

Time is my biggest problem really, so this leads to the frustration you have described.

I also like to play challenging games (LoL) - and that is a HUGE time warp... :(
Then there is the whole theory that car ownership will go away as driverless cars take over.
Ingress Agents already know that as exotic matter (XM) ;-)
I still find that surprising. I actually am a Polish citizen (living in the UK) and I did not know that.