skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about something like this for a while - a standard for an easily optimised subset of html technologies. To conform to this standard, pages would be restricted in the ways they can manipulate the DOM, have a simpler DOM, use only a small fraction of CSS properties, and not use some JS features e.g. eval, delete.

We can use the asm.js model for opting in. Browsers that support it run the pages super fast, other browsers run them just as fast as usual.

A browser engine supporting just this standard would be considerably smaller, more embeddable, and a nicer base for current webkit based apps (e.g. spotify, steam, or atom). It might also help apps that want to use something like webviews for embedding content but need to be careful with memory / performance.
Yes, the Euro has been great for Germany, but that's because they basically control the currency and have forced inflation to an absolute minimum, even though a reasonable amount of inflation would be significantly helpful for Greece, Italy, Spain, and quite a few other Eurozone countries.

So yes, Germany is doing well, at the expense of the rest of the Eurozone.
I bet you will cry after watching
This is how I use the browser - 1920px is way too wide for reading, and I like my browser windows in portrait mode for more vertical space anyway. Unfortunately, yet another idiotic "feature" of javascript (and CSS media queries) allow the webpage access to the actual monitor resolution. Some particularly idiotic sites use this, causing utterly unreadable pages (i.e. all "sidebar" and margin) if you have your your window at something like 900px wide instead of the 1920px they are detecting.

This is mostly the websites fault, of course. It's the same forced-layout mentality that has always caused problems on the web.
Open Sourcing a Predictive API
Angular – Extending ui-select to add options dynamically
"It's just temporary" is one of the five famous last words (together with "it worked on my machine"). It can easily turn into one of those projects where someone just shoved in autoconf to turn them into a giant ball of IFDEFs so nobody really knows which combinations work.

Toggling also only makes sense for the cases where you don't change the structure of your data. So be careful, and make sure you have a plan if you decide to do it.
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I don't know...regular vehicles have safety problems too.

What are the odds that fulltime Uber drivers are going to be taking their cars out of service for long periods of time to follow safety recalls? Given the patterns of service I'm seeing here in NY, probably zero. http://prospect.org/article/are-uber-and-lyft-driving-recall...
Rental car companies didn't do it. Three of them only pledged to do so in 2012 and the rest are being forced to by Congress as of this month.

Crown Vics are built like tanks (specifically the police interceptor and long-wheelbase commercial versions). Those transmissions last forever and can take abuse. Panther love.
Wikileaks has done some good work, but I just don't buy that the accusations Assange faces in Sweden are part of some sort of global conspiracy.

It looks like he assaulted two women, and feels justified in dodging prosecution for, what he sees as, the greater good.
How is this propaganda? It seems to me that the article is just listing facts. These facts show a not very positive side of the Euro, but does that make the article propaganda?

Also, the article is not about Greece. It's about Finland and the Netherlands, and how they have been doing comparing to Iceland.
I'm developing a small tool that covers the same use case.

There is not as much features, but it's open source and self hosted.

https://github.com/jchampemont/notedown
The Problem with Email
I am always amazed how Richard Feynman can make such simple stories and comparisons to explain the situation/theory in "explain like I'm 5" style.

It seems that in every lecture or interview he gives he can explain the situation very fluently and in a way that literally, probably, a 5 year old could understand. The best one I saw is where R. Feynman explains how a computer works [1]. Even though I knew everything he told, I was astonished how intriguing and simple his way of presenting was.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
Sometimes I wish there was a downvote button for the submissions... in this case, not because the linked article is bad (though I am surprised Torvalds apparently dismisses the idea of a self-improving AI), but because the title is nasty and not reflective of the article linked.
Fugitive + command line.
It's not about advantage/better. It's all about regulation.

I.e. You simply can't bank across a border due to all sorts of regulations and laws. And I think that applies to both sides of the fence, both on the Greece side, and on all the "foreign" countries that you think can provide a "global" service to the Greeks.

The bank and the state are intertwined due to this, and any failure on one will most likely affect the other. This will be the case until a true free-market approach is taken by banks.

Are there decent middle-grounds between regulation and free-market? Sure, things could chug along.
Do we need Swiss Army knives? For every tool that's included in the knife, you can get a much better stand-alone version that performs the same task much more efficiently.

So, what possible benefit could you get from having so many poor tools in a single place, that you can't improve by carrying around the equivalent set of separate high-quality tools? The Swiss knife ought to be such a terrible idea and nobody would ever use it, right?
> capital of 5+ ancient Chinese dynasties

I know ther's Qing, Ming, and Yuan (Dadu). Not sure about any others.
100% of the window is wasted if the lines are too long to read.
Absolutely. Meta comments are often more important than the article they comment on, especially when they place the worthiness of an article in proper context.
Glad you liked it, and thank you for the feedback.
We are constantly working to extend support to all browsers.

The "All categories" full page menu was something that we thought looked pretty cool initially, but I guess it didn't work very well.
"If you're Greece and you can't issue your own currency, your national debt matters. But the U.S. can always issue new currency to cover its liabilities."

Hence the antipathy to joining Euro in UK. See the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and Black Wednesday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
Do you have an alternative website which provides free video hosting? I just use this because Jing is a free/simple screen capturing utility.
Seriously. Dick Cheney blasted a colleague right in the face and the guy was able to apologize for getting shot the next day. (I wish I were making this up)
There isn't. You want your banking industry to be the same size as your currency area, because central banking is by far the most important tool of financial stability.
> It seems that the biggest problem is that the underlying debt market is very illiquid and people are using ETFs and other financial instruments to create liquidity. This is why Icahn called BlackRock a dangerous company.

But the ETF liquidity is real, right? Is a crisis ever going to get so deep that there won't be people willing to buy the ETF at 20.5, sell the physical at 19.5, and take a free profit?

What's the threat model here? A run of redemptions on BlackRock?
How do they control the currency?
Ugh, not one of "these" articles again. Sorry to be blunt, but the web has evolved beyond "just deliver some static text". Get used to it already, it's been decades!
How many birds try to get near helicopters for a better shot?
SS in the us is funded via a Federal tax on wages. Rules are uniform over the entire country. Also Social Security Disability Insurance covers disabled people, and it too is a Federal not state program.

Unemployment insurance is a Federally mandated program that's administrated by the states. In 2009 California's unemployment fund was depleted and the Feds just loaned California money. Currently our fund is in the red by 8 billion. Does anyone care? No.
Adultery is not, in fact, legal in significant portions of the US. I wouldn't say it's like assault, but the aggrieved party is the spouse who is cheated on who is being put at risk of STDs and similar things.

Also, while the morals may not be agreed upon by all parties, I think that the people who are hiding it from their spouses are not hiding it because they expect the spouse to agree. There are, after all, significantly more honest ways to handle that sort of thing than going behind your spouse's back. I had never heard of this site until now, but from what little I've seen, it appears to cater to those who are not at all honest about what they're doing.

I certainly agree that no one should be going around dispensing vigilante justice or encouraging the same, as well as with the cautions that someone could easily ruin the wrong people with that kind of information, but it's hard not to think that some will end up reaping what they have sowed after this.
Actually, I think that having "Get Started" in any application/Website means that this app/website doesn't have a User friendly interface and failed in explaining its value.
This JS "library" contains one function:

> function fuzzysearch(r,e){var n=e.length,t=r.length;if(t>n)return!1;if(t===n)return r===e;r:for(var f=0,u=0;t>f;f++){for(var a=r.charCodeAt(f);n>u;)if(e.charCodeAt(u++)===a)continue r;return!1}return!0}

I mean.. come on, guys. This is getting absurd..
Compare the code in doas: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/doas/ to the epic beast that was sudo: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sudo/

Amazingly - for such a tiny bit of code, it still has 100% of the functionality I've ever used with sudo: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/...

And you just have to love a man page like this:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...

I really, really like the direction OpenBSD is going. Bit by bit the base operating system is becoming a leaner animal, rid of a lot of cruft that has the potential to bite people in the future.

And, note - for anyone who is wondering how one can get by without sudo for backwards compatibility - sudo isn't going away, it's just being moved out of base into ports. If you want to install it in your system - it's just a pkg_add away.
Which kind of defeats the purpose of the original article.
You forgot "searching" (or maybe "locating"?), which takes quite a while when you have several dozen choices.

Just let me type those four digits! It's much faster in the end.
Those are great, however I think "arbitrary code execution" in MonkeyBrainOS is not a flaw but working as intended. Better think twice before patching it, it may be part of this feature called empathy.
Branching is very well supported in Subversion. There is a reason feature branches occupy a large part of the SVN Book.

I would say feature branches were mainstream usage of CVS too, but SVN made it more popular because merging is more effortless.

Github probably popularized it, because they put a web interface on it (which is great), but that can be said for a lot of things.
I wonder... "the banks" might not like the idea of the Euro, because a common currency eliminates the currency exchange business... how much does this affect their propaganda??
I find myself having to manually close dropdown menus on my iPhone 5s.

1. Click to open
2. Scroll
3. Select Option
4. Click to close
It can still be propaganda whilst showing facts. I haven't read the article but pretty much everything I have read on the euro exaggerates some facts and ignores others in order to support the political leanings of the writer or their employer.
You are confused about the economic definition of money.

Credit in your checking account is defined to be money under the usual definition. The process of depositing and loaning money at commerical banks creates additional credit that wasn't there before. If a bank accepts $1000 and loans $900, there is now $1900 of money. By definition.
I envision a switchable client, specified by a URI in the response headers. The client would be a platform independent bytecode of some sort, like the NaCl.

The only thing the browser would supply would be the chrome, networking, sandboxing, and a canvas for the client to draw to.

The current web runtimes could be refactored into one of these clients. If you don't like the way CSS works, or if you think JS is weird, just write another client.
Which movies/books/articles boost your motivation to hack?
You know, sometimes there are very motivational stories, after which you feel a lot of energy and desire to learn, create, hack things.

For example, every time I watch "Social Network" (even so I don't think it is a great movie), I have motivation boost for a few days to work hard on my personal project.

Do you have any similar examples?
The Eurozone has seen zero net economic growth for about 8 years, and has 11% unemployment (13% without Germany). GDP has just finally started to get back to where it was in 2007/2008.

Germany's GDP is where it was in 2008; France is where it was in 2007, with France having ~10.5% unemployment.

Finland has been in an eight year recession/stagnation combination, with zero growth. Their unemployment rate has gone from 7.5% three years ago, to 9.5% today. Their household income to debt ratio has doubled since 2000, to 120%.

Italy has seen three recessions in seven years, with an unemployment rate of 12%.

Greece has collapsed.

Spain has 23% unemployment, Portugal is 14% (and those aren't the U6 equivalent numbers, just the headline).

The Netherlands economy hasn't gotten any bigger since 2007, and they now have one of the highest household debt levels on earth, which will continue to crimp their economic growth prospects severely.

Ireland's household debt ratio is one of the five worst in the world. Their unemployment rate is nearly 10%, which is a six year low.

Austria, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia have seen zero growth since 2007/2008.

Simultaneously most of the Eurozone countries have seen a significant expansion of household debt over 10 to 15 years, as they try to prop up their standard of living with debt.

The only bump the region has seen economically since 2007, has been via currency devaluation and debt monetization, which has chopped down the Eurozone standard of living by perhaps 20% in exchange for a brief burst of low growth.

I'm not sure by what basis one would judge that it's working well at all.
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> "Frankly, I live my life in front of a computer on a desk. My calendar and a million other things are one click away and in a format far more convenient than a phone ..."

This exact argument also applied to smartphones, yet we've seen what can happen if you put a computer in people's pockets and let people figure things out.

I'm not suggesting the watch will displace the phone (the way the phone can displace laptops for many users) but I believe there's huge scope for augmenting it.

> "Yes, they are selling bunches of them, but I fail to see this as a long term product unless they pull a rabbit out of a hat."

Selling bunches of them is enough to indicate that something will happen in this space (i.e. people are already spending their money on it). Whether this iteration or the next will be the one that nails it remains to be seen. For example, the upcoming changes to allow native watch apps (as opposed to only having the UI there) should allow developers a bit more freedom.
Sorry about the "your", I had thought I edited that out.
> The initial argument would only be valid if prices in different currencies would be smaller in the poorer countries, which doesn't happen anyway, regardless of currency.

But it does happen, on average H&M products are cheaper in Portugal than on Germany, except for those few cases I happened to stumble on.
I'd hope it does, considering the man page says it literally reads the kernel's interface counters from /proc (or in other words, the kernel does all the counting). The daemon has its own polling time as well.
Popularity and Sharing: The News You Should Be Reading
Do you think the rest of the Eurozone would be better of without the Euro?

I don't want to start a flamewar, I'm just interested.

I remember Italy and its Lira (something like a 1000 Lira equaled 1 Mark). Now the prices in Italy are kind of stable (we go there a few times every year). I am no expert but it seems that the Euro brought more stability.

Plus, please don't forget that Germany enforced austerity measures since we got the East back. We have basically been used to them for so long and it kind of saved us during the last crisis. Its more of a lucky side effect I guess...
"Honestly, at first when that article got posted I thought you were going to talk about something else: like maybe how the entire dream of the internet is a bit of a fraud for advertisers in general."

Dream of the internet (presumably they mean dream of the web) was not initially one of advertisement.
I agree

Underconfidence is also a problem

Risks should be assessed when it's possible to do so, trying to evaluate all of them is not possible
Not to be that guy, but -- you are appealing to authority, which is not a valid argument... Personally, if I had a magic wand, would probably use it on myself to cure that damn impostor syndrome and the paralyzing fear of failure. But that's just me.
It's not low inflation that is the primary benefit to Germany, it's that they have an artificially cheaper currency while remaining in the Euro, because of the weakness of all the other members. If Germany were outside the Euro, their currency would be vastly more expensive point to point than Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy et al. That more expensive currency would drag down German exports.
Not anymore: http://www.gog.com/game/tis100
Why did Google's stock skyrocket in a day?
to the epic beast that was sudo:

I don't want to defend sudo, but by definition any C utility that is multi-platform is going to be larger. Also, sudo has features that are required in some enviroments, like LDAP or PAM support.

I definitely agree that the direction they are going in is great: a lean base system that has as little attack surface as possible and covers 95% of the use cases. If you do need extra functionality, get it from ports.

One thing I wonder about though is: why does a system which goal is security still use C for utilities/programs that are not really CPU-bound? Maybe it's time to slowly ditch C for a safer language where possible? (There are languages that would fit in quite well with OpenBSD, except that they require some portability work.)
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Speed up a Laravel app by caching the entire response
Ask HN: Can I turn my side project into a business?
My friends run an independent theatre and I created a one step booking app to help them manage reservations.

This is an example event: http://reactor.reservr.net/event/8VuwySG8WdY6I4uV

The theatre is called #REACTOR (it's in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and my app is reservr.net. Not the best name, I know, but in the meantime I purchased seatsleft.com and will be switching to it next month.

Was wondering if I should work on it some more and turn this into a SaaS business.

What do you guys think?
Ask HN: What ERP / CRM Have Decent UX?
I am looking at SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.. All the big names ERP / CRM have UX that sucks.

Are there any other solutions i should take a look?
How to Create Load Tests for URLs That Use HTTP Basic Authentication
Those were the days, when self-modifying code was inevitable.

You should think that self-modifying code has died out by today, but far from it. Each time you open a web site, you could watch this old trick at work. How often do you `document.write` on a web site? To put it without diplomacy, our webware today is at the level of programming an IBM 650 with magnetic drum memory, where self-modifying code is practically mandatory. And Mel is nowhere to be found.
So, given that it's free, what is the business model?
ZFS vs. BtrFS vs. EXT4&LVM
Surely if taxis are not available, people drive? Increasing congestion.
I am old enough to have lived through the Casio and Timex smart watches craziness.

Even owned a Casio Databank.

So I don't get this first world problem of paying $500 for the convenience of not taking the phone out of the pocket.
> It seems to me that the article is just listing facts.

How so? It starts with 'The euro might be worse for you than bankruptcy.'

This sentence is so vague that it does not make any sense at all. It 'might'? For 'you'? I live in the Eurozone, in Germany, and I fail to see how it is worse than 'bancruptcy.

How is growth related to `bancruptcy` of a tiny island?

`the results have still been a catastrophe` - low growth in the Netherlands is a catastrophe? Last I looked the Netherlands were a nice country, far form being a 'catastrophe'.

'Now, the normal way to make up for this would be to cut costs by devaluing your currency, except that Finland doesn't have a currency to devalue anymore.'

The 'devaluing' theory. Not again.

'since you have to fire people to convince them to take pay cuts.'

More theory. Look at Germany. Workers agreed to keep wages stable. Outcome: record low unemployment.

'Iceland' - Iceland has just 300k population on an island. Comparing it to the Netherlands, Greece or Germany is just wrong. Different size, difference situation, different banking system, ...
Well for one thing (beyond what others have listed), the Dollar is the global reserve currency, which means US inflation is partially exported to the rest of the world - domestically the US only absorbs part of the inflation of its own monetization programs. The Eurozone can't as effectively export the hit its citizens take to their standard of living from QE currency debasement.
Open Source Smart Watch
It seems as if though, as far as drivers go, companies like Uber are very much catering to this new phenomenon of Millennial aged people having multiple jobs to make ends meet. So they don't feel as obligated to pay as much as a Taxi service, or provide as many frills, since they probably assume its just a 'side gig' for most of their drivers.

This is good for some people, bad for others. No longer can you JUST drive a Taxi (or Uber). They've made everything a lot easier for the customer, and I would argue they have done a great deal to streamline things for the Drivers as well... But at the price of it not really being able to be a truly fulltime gig anymore.

You likely will still have to keep a second job to live comfortably in most Uber scenarios (depends on the city though)
yes, sounds like hell
Showcase your language one vote at a time [experimental challenge]
I generally use the command line, with mostly two exceptions: diffs and log histories in the IDE.
Re-shipping services like myus.com for the US and parcelmotel.com for the UK/Ireland make this an easily surmountable problem.

I'm in Ireland, ordered mine from the UK on a Sunday night, had it by Thursday. Supply seems to be stable by now and I imagine they'll start shipping further afield soon.
Is that because of the euro, or because the policies of austerities that were chosen at that time?

The problem with the euro is that it is considered as an economic issue, whereas it should be a political one (and it was when it was created, as the first step in an "ever tighter union"). If we European citizens want to keep the euro, we need to deepen the Union.
I'm using a low-end Chromebook (Lenovo N20) and it runs smooth...
Look at it this way, it's a collaborative effort to write the most efficient function.
India blocks Colgate patents for spices
It took me a while to realize the convenience of paying $30 a month to not go home or use a payphone to make calls. I guess its just a thing you have to experience, maybe its legit, maybe not.