skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the designer of a game engine for hobbyists.
http://www.planimeter.org/grid/

HTML5 doesn't replace Flash. It's certainly an alternative, like my engine is an alternative to LÖVE, but it doesn't replace it. This is akin to saying SDL replaces lwjgl, or Unity replaces UE4.
It's a real pain, but they want the less sophisticated users to be able to take advantage of all the latest stuff and if Chrome or IE is shipping with it enabled, they have to compete. Well, that explains WebRTC at least. As for the other stuff...

I'm a Pocket user, but I have no idea why that needed to be integrated into the browser, seems like an insane decision to me. I hope they got a good pay day out of that.

Same as the history based advertising tiles. Sure, it's checked locally, it still seems creepy and annoying... but again, browser.newtabpage.enhanced = false.

Unless we lose this level of user choice, I don't see a better alternative. It would be nice if someone would ship some tool to automatically update a user.js file, however, I think many of us have different opinions about what feature we do and do not want enabled in our browsers.
Rtrace is an x86/x86_64 native code debugger written in Ruby
True. And in fact even Steve Jobs said a decade or two ago that the digital videos people were making at the time would never run on any computer in the future. And I do have a bundle of digital media from the mid-90s that I can't open in anything.
As a .NET developer, very happy to see more competition for Azure.
We were one of the first in line to pre-order our 2011 Leaf. The battery capacity bar hasn't budged in four years, and there has been no noticeable drop in range. But we also live in Seattle, where 90F is considered to be unbearably hot.
>People use Reddit (and HN) to get away from the bulk of the world, not to have the bulk of the world join them on their private anonymous message boards too.

Actually, I think of it as the opposite. I go to Reddit to get the bulk, and other, more anonymous message boards to get away from it. Reddit is hardly anonymous (or private) - it's not attached to your real being, but you're definitely a well-documented member of their society.

>Basically, Reddit can't massively grow without fundamentally changing it.

I honestly do not want to be a part of a "massive-growth" or monetized Reddit. Growth is organic; attempts to inject artificial hormones into the site comes with a sacrifice. I believe that sacrifice is diversity and uniqueness, since knowing how to grow requires you to know what exactly your're growing, and it's hard to understand complex objects. So the leadership creates more rules, more restrictions on freedom in order to get a grasp on it. As a result, content becomes stale, groupthink rules, and the site looses its appeal.
Max Levchin's New Startup Affirm Gets into Student Loans for Coding Bootcamps
Is that sarcasm, or are you being serious?
I started watching Robert Harper's Type Theory presentations on Youtube. In the first section he mentions that suffering is part of calculation, or something similar. If you kill yourself, you are basically exiting the suffering you bear here. The question then comes whether suffering is present is all places you go. If it is, it just makes more sense to bear the suffering here and learn from it. Maybe you can learn to reduce it slightly, which will help out in your next lifetime (assumption).
It's also likely easier to move faster when the public is more forgiving of worker deaths. No idea on cumulative statistics, but the following headlines are illustrative:

SHANGHAI: Two men were killed and six others were injured here yesterday in two separate incidents at subway construction sites. [1]

5 dead and 18 injured in Shanghai Metro Line 12 construction site accident [2]

Not Shanghai, but...

On Nov 15, a subway tunnel under construction collapsed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, killing 17 people. [1]

[1] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/09/content_738040...

[2] http://www.exploremetro.com/blog/5-dead-and-18-injured-in-sh...
"The company is growing, and we have the opportunity to
improve in many areas — including the number of women in leadership
positions. I am confident in our ability to recruit women at the executive
level, as we have made a point to do so at Hipmunk, where more than half of
the executives are women."

I don't know about anyone else, but comments like that make a company less desirable as a place to work because factors like skill, talent, productivity and effectiveness become de-emphasized in recruiting and promotion relative to issues surrounding identity politics.

I don't see how permitting (or worse yet fostering) an environment where office politics or identity politics can flourish is a good thing. I am seeing identity politics issues creeping into decision making more and more often and find it positively toxic.

When you "make a point" to recruit/promote one group over any other on the basis of a demographic box they fit into, you are implicitly discriminating against people who don't fit into that box. Furthermore, when "making a point" goes so far that you've exceeded the 50% mark ("more than half are [insert identifier for someone that belongs to a particular group]") then that certainly qualifies as active discrimination.

I'm 100% in favor of equal opportunity, but ham-fisted hypocritical approaches like this are as bad as what they are trying to fix. Politicking in any form is toxic.

If someone created a petition to now remove Steve Huffman, I'd sign it.

I highly recommend this recent peer-reviewed academic study demonstrating discrimination in Academia:

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract
Why would it have sailed through with her in office?
A family friend has a license, & I liked when I could fly with him. I started learning "Airframe & Powerplant", an FAA sanctioned technical school program which had I completed it would have been what I needed to become an airplane engine mechanic. The required FAA testing was so rigorous I eventually quit & moved on elsewhere at the tech school. It was just about when I quit flying lessons, too.

I was building a remote control plane at the time as well, but never finished it. I regret not putting more time into that, since it had an oversized engine & would've been real fun.
"These are major players in a top 25 website."

This may indicate the business model is dead. top 25 but no ability to monetize because the business model died while no one was looking.

Think about it.. Consider a much more lofty position, like US News and World Report in the newsweekly market, they were top 3 at one point, out of business today.

Have to face the facts, the reason for lack of execution in the marketplace might be because the biz model is dead. Close up now, give the money back to the investors.

The general public liking something doesn't mean its a guaranteed success or a rational business model.
Jokes are often about reality.
Sounds like you have a bad battery. This can happen with any device with a li battery. You shouldn't need to quarantine all of the devices.
Not that I disagree, but it's worth mentioning (for anyone who doesn't frequent reddit) that firing Victoria was apparently Alexis Ohanian's decision, and not Pao's[1][2], which suggests that the pressure is coming from the board and not an endeavor specific to Pao.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3d6asv/former_r...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...
Update: I sent 281,317 users their passwords
Chrome web-trgovina – hacker news ux
also supports pypy
Is that last anecdote true? When did you work with him?
"They told us the devices were out of warranty and that replacement (through repair and refurbishing) would cost $153 USD."

This is a common trick attempted by the retail business - to focus on the warranty (where they dictate the terms) rather than your contract (where they often cannot). If you bought the device, you still have a contract of sale with the seller. The details depend on your jurisdiction.

Perhaps in the US the manufacturer can dictate the terms of your contract of sale, I don't know. But here in the UK they cannot - it is statutory.

When I attempted to have a broken Nexus 7 repaired or replaced here in the UK, the store focused on it being "out of warranty". I insisted that I was not claiming under their warranty, but under the contract of sale (the Sale of Goods Act in the UK) where depending on the nature of the goods and the advertised price the store can be liable for up to six years for manufacturing defects. Eventually, after insisting for a while, they made us good with a partial refund to cover the loss of use of the device subsequent to the failure, though it took us a while to negotiate a cash settlement rather than a store credit.

tl;dr: "out of warranty" is not necessarily the end of the story, although I don't know about the US.
PolyConf 15: Unikernels [video]
> I have a gut feeling that a study of the odds/payout ratio of being apart of any given startup acquisition is better than what you'd get from any given lottery/scratch off... though I'm not taking into account the associated costs. How many tickets/scratch-offs is an 80 hour week for a full stack engineer worth?

This is the study I'm interested in performing.

> So, here's me hoping you weren't being facetious.

Not at all! I'd rather buy X lottery tickets on the most advantageous schedule, enjoy working 32-35 hours a week, and spend the rest of my time with family, on hobbies, or traveling.

I'm not going to fault someone for working 80-100 hours a week if that's what they enjoy doing, but if they're doing it to get rich, let's see if the data supports those odds.
The camera issues on the Nexus 4 are ridiculous. Google has done absolutely nothing to address the issue. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Snapchat is doing really stupid things with the camera API, since the stability issues are not nearly as pronounced with other camera-using apps.
I assume they are referring to software freedom as described by Richard Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Good catch :-) Time Warner too, though.
Thanks for that. I don't know why they would post that unreadable version in the arcticle
They deleted my comment because they don't want you to know.

http://i.imgur.com/f15zbNO.png
Does Firefox Hello do registration if you never click the Hello button in a particular session?
The main problem seems people do not know the many solutions that already exist.
For example from this weeks ProblemHunt:

1. But I only got an appetizer...
Going out to eat with friends is fun, but splitting the bill sucks. Either someone doesn't have cash or the person who just got an appetizer ends up paying the same amount as everyone else.

A quick google gives a ton of solutions, like:
splitabill.com
kittysplit.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splitwise-split-bills-expens...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.msafiullah...
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/03/split-lets-you-split-the-bi...

2. Anyone got a charge?
I love riding my bike while using my phone for its GPS, but using the GPS completely drains my battery. By the time I get to my destination my phones dead!

In Europe it would be no problem to charge your phone in most coffee shops, bars or restaurants. In Asia they even advertise with 'free phone charge' (or they put a price on it). But maybe I misunderstand the problem and is it more specific ? There are also portable battery chargers in all sizes ?

For most of the other problems it would not be difficult to find an existing solution either. So this could be an idea for monetization: have people set a reward for solving their problem. In relation to how big the problem really is to them ? I will then gladly solve the 'low hanging fruit' :-)

Edit: typing error
>Firefox Hello is a collaboration, developed by Mozilla with help from Telefonica. Its videoconferencing without accounts. You don't need to create any account and it doesn't track you, how that is not good is beyond me.

Telefónica is seen as an evil company in Spain; it's the Spanish AT&T. It just doesn't look like a good match with Mozilla, really different cultures. I don't think that that's the problem, but it certainly doesn't help.
I just replaced the battery in my Nexus 5 due to earlier stages of the same issue. The battery failure was causing a lot of random device shutdowns that I had initially thought were related to the rollout of Lollipop.

There's a long support thread of people with similar issues at: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/IJSOuc7...

Several of the posters there noticed that their battery had started bulging, ordered a new one, and reported that their devices were back to normal. Same issue and fix for my device.

This issue is definitely concerning, and I'm a bit surprised that more hasn't been made of it by now. It seems to be a fairly widespread problem.
Efficiency is a really subjective benchmark. Especially when there are multiple browsers and platforms in play. Look at the WebGL example posted a few comments above - it will very efficiently warm up your GPU :)

Of course the content of a plugin is not a part of the DOM - however you're not calling MP4 videos or webfonts "blackboxes" for not being able to read their source code from the web inspector either...
You really don't need to read the page further after seeing 'flexible funding' with a target of 100k. Sadly indiegogo is a scamsta's paradise for allowing flexible funding for non-charity drives.
Seems the science on this may not be as settled as the article indicates.

nature.com/news/seabed-samples-cast-doubt-on-earthquake-risk-for-pacific-northwest-1.15655

But I won't fault the author for not getting it quite right on a shifting area of research.
Why is deprecation insufficient for the security concerns? Say that Firefox/Chrome/Edge will no longer execute Flash code without explicit user permission on a per-SWF file basis. No more background execution of Flash as a default. But the Flash runtime is still there to display Flash content if the user trusts the source. Doesn't that address the security concern AND allow people to continue to access the entire web?
> Are patents really what's blocking it?

Honestly, I'm far from an expert on this topic, but I've heard quite a few people who play in this space more than I do, speak of the patent issue as being one important blocker. My guess is that patents are just one of multiple factors. What, exactly, it would take to get a full Open Source FPGA toolchain, I don't know. But some of the other answers in this thread are full of very illuminating info, so I'm kinda glad this came up. I've learned a lot just from reading the other responses.
The Latest Sign That Coal Is Getting Killed
Show HN: Witness – Livestreaming for Emergencies
Speaking as a UK citizen living in Switzerland, I have to ask: what is a high school pep rally?
Hi HN! I’m Marinos, I made this. Here’s a medium post I just wrote going into more detail on the motivation & design decisions behind Witness: https://medium.com/@marinosbern/witness-livestreaming-for-em....
Let me know if you have any feedback/questions about Witness or live streaming or anything else. One question I get a lot is whether I am planning to open source this. I am, and I’m also extracting all the live streaming logic into a drop-in iOS library.
Cheers!
If the multiverse / physical reality has a "global central thing" then it has a scaling bottleneck, and we have a problem.
Oh what a surprise that this is the one that makes it to the HN front. HN is just as rotten sexist beyond belief as Reddit.
show me a high ranking Israeli that says that the entire Iranian nation should be wiped off the map. I can find many quotes of people like shimon Peres that call the Iranian people friends and that Israel wishes no hostility with Iran. on the other side the highest ranking Iranian officials repeatedly call for the total annihilation of the 'Zionist entity' which is Israel.
Your claim that the situation symmetric in this respect is just false.
further more there is a huge geographical difference between Israel and iran. the entire area of Israel can be conquered in a day. its tiny compared to Iran, checkout the maps. Combine that with the extremely aggressive rhetorics of israels neighbours that don't even consider Israel as enemy but as an evil entity that should be "wiped off the map" and you might understand Israel's need for a strategic weapon.
on the contrary Iran doesn't have any viable enemies that seek to literally destroy it. The only people who need a nuclear weapon in Iran are the leaders of the theocratic regime inorder to cement their rule. this is more similiar to the nuclear ambitions of north Korean leaders.

in short, the situation of the two countries is far from being symmetric due to huge geopolitical differences.
It's made by LG. Throughout their long history, they've never really had a reputation for quality. Keep that in mind the next time you shop for any electronics or appliances.
Looks like the map is broken right now. Is anyone else having problems viewing it?
Cybercrime Could Impact on Air Travellers
> To be fair, the vast majority of the bailouts have gone to paying back debts. Those debts were held with corporate German and foreign banks.

Let me cite from another economist, Hans-Werner Sinn:

"At that time (late March 2010), French banks had a 53 billion euro exposure to private and public instances in Greece, the German ones a 33-billion euro exposure, the US
10 billion, and the UK 9 billion.
[....]
At the end of March 2015, the sum of current account deficits accumulated since early 2008 was 108 billion euros, equivalent to one-third of the multilateral and intergovernmental loans provided to Greece, which amounted to 325 billion euros. Two-thirds of the public credit was thus apparently used to finance capital flight and one-third to finance the current account deficit – ultimately the living standard that could no longer be financed with the income of the Greek citizenry. Thus, over the entire crisis period it can hardly be argued that barely 10 percent of the public credit benefited the Greek people, as Finance Minister Varoufakis does. Apart from the above, Greek debtors benefited from the fact that the international community helped them meet their obligations towards foreign creditors, and also made it possible for them to bring their
wealth out of the country."
Let's try the math for real.

The site claims that the device can provide 20 cm H₂O (which is ~1961 Pa). Apparently some hypothetical normal man breathes at a rate of 6 liters (i.e. 0.006 cubic meters) per minute at rest [1]. If you pump a volume V of fluid across a pressure difference of ΔP, you've done work V·ΔP, which is 11.76 Joules per minute or 0.1961 Watts. Keep in mind that this is the work done, not the power consumed, but let's be generous and assume a 100% efficient blower. We'll also assume that no power is harvested during exhalation.

In eight hours, that's 1.56 Watt hours.

Duracell's zinc-air chemistry claims up to 442 Watt hours / kg [2]. That's about 3.5 grams of zinc-air goo per night, ignoring packaging, blower loss, etc.

This seems entirely plausible to me.

[1] http://www.normalbreathing.com

[2] http://media.ww2.duracell.com/media/en-US/pdf/gtcl/Technical...

Edit: In the interest of precision, I should add that the analysis is accurate for an incompressible flow. Air is definitely compressible, so, if you pump air, more volume is going into the pump than is coming out, and you're heating up the air (adiabatically if your pump is any good). So, with a compressible fluid, you have to consider not on the work done moving the fluid across a pressure difference but also the energy you've stored in the fluid by pressurizing it. The pressure difference for CAP is tiny here, though, so this would be a miniscule correction to the math above.
Buy the right to post comments by pledging the smallest amount possible? Contact indigogo with the concern? Write a blog post and get help having it widely linked? Alert the authorities?

On the other hand, it might br hard to convince a lot of people that this isn't real. After all, most of humanity believes some version of supernatural nonsense which includes such things as people flying, resurrecting, partin seas, singing bushes, talking snakes, 6,000 year old earth, rapture, being chosen, paradise, etc. in other words, there's plenty of empirical evidence to show science and reason don't stand a chance. Yet.
The future of the Internet, according to its father
They specifically stated it is happening to all of their Nexus 4 devices.
Looks like Chrome now deactivates Flash by default now too - it says "Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date" & I get directed to this link https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784

Edit: Ah, looks like I needed to update Chrome with the fix.
I stopped placing so much brand premium on "Made By Google", at the end of the day, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer.

My google nexus phone was clunky, slow, randomly freeze and restart during phone conversation. When you dropped it the battery and back lid would fall out or not fit properly. I nearly gave up on Android.

Then my asus nexus 7 screen shattered when I dropped it with replacement cost that made it unfeasible to replace it (warranty did not cover it).

Now I have a Moto G, and considering that I paid only 200 bucks for it, it runs extremely light, smooth and reliable, durable, no battery or back lid falling out. Lot of bang for your buck, faith restored in Android.
The irony is implementing progressive enhancement and accessibility is anything but simple, and probably just as big a maintenance burden as custom form controls, and comes with debatable gain.

Each project and team and project is different, there's no constant requirements in frontend, in tools or features. Some teams may be super unproductive without Sass. This post is very much written from the bias of older trends, and from a time when the frontend had fewer real concerns other than styling a document.
I think you need to read more of the leaked cables and dig deeper into foreign policy journals.

The US policy in the middle east is one of destabilization. ISIS is not a threat to American interests, it's a tool created by America to keep the region destabilized. Once energy is either no longer the limit to economic growth, or no longer economically efficient from oil, then the Americans / NATO and the Chinese can allow a more stable middle east. But the threat of foreign control over a very important and wildly swinging energy input, as well as a strategic launching point to many threats, leads to US / NATO foreign policy in the region that leans towards destabilization and fracturing interests in the region.
> and there are quite a few things I personally don't like in current US, and would not see many reasons to be proud.

As an American, I agree that we don't have much to be proud of lately, but I think that's why it's especially important to rally around achievements like the success of our space program as citizens. Despite how it may appear from abroad, the US is more divided than ever at home, and our government pursues policies that many of our citizens don't agree with. It's very, very rare that we can all get together as citizens and be truly proud of something our nation has done, and it serves as a way to build good will between people who normally would never come together. Please don't try to take this away from us.
> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

There's the problem you need to fix. It should be just as easy (easier, frankly) to build this as an add-on. I recently built a small extension[1] that targets Firefox, Chrome and Safari (with the same code-base) and found Firefox to be - by far - the most annoying to deal with. It's sad that the browser that championed add-ons is such a pain to develop for now.

[1] http://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile