jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've honestly never seen WebOS beyond the settings screen on my LG B7. During the initial setup it prompted me to create an LG account which I of course denied. It never bothered me since.

I was also pleasantly surprised to see that all data collection/cookie stuff was set to off by default.
Machine learning = stats + computing power.

The key thing here is that the core ingenuity of ML is statistics - the limits of which are well known.

ML hype is false promises based on uninformed wild extrapolation.
More importantly, CUPS and driverless printing standards have solved the problem (os-specific print drivers) that cloud print was designed to work around.

Guess who owns CUPS?
It's always good to take inspiration from other companies on how they d acquisition.

Uber eats have people physically handing out $10 off coupons.

You could offer your first 24 hours is free by using a coupon. You can then get these posted on "deal" sites for people to use as a one off.

Also, look into to refer-a-friend and affiliates. Refer to a friend was a strong acquisition method for Uber in their early days. Refer to signup someone to your service and they receive 24 hours of complimentary parking.
> If the issue access to the data, then maybe we should ask if this data should be collected in the first place.

Outlawing the collection of data would be hard and is unlikely to work, but the fact that companies like AT&T are allowed to sell your data, as they did with OP's (where else would that unused phone number come from), is an angle new legislation can use.

The EU now already has a piece of legislation aimed at stifling these practices. The US and other economies just need to follow suit.
An ISP around here still ships consumer routers with passwords consisting of a random 8 digit hex number, i.e. that could be cracked in a day on a GTX 970m (tested hash rate against my parent's wifi).

They also ship with default SSIDs, numbered 100 to 999, so given 900 GPU days of precomputation you could create rainbow tables that allow for cracking every default password/ssid pair.

I can tell you from the wifi passwords I have been given by friends that many people are not changing them.

At least you need to capture a handshake to use your rainbow table...
That's a stumbling block according to Mozilla's flawed logic [1]. First they said "nobody wants SQL" - which couldn't have been further from the truth - but it was probably due to the fact that they wholly drank the kool-aid during the height of the NoSQL fad... and somehow, to them, it was better to have multiple implementations of some piece of shit that nobody wanted to use (right from the very beginning) instead of one perfect, well respected and well tested implementation of something that people obviously really did want to use.

It's absolute bullshit and it's the type of bad decision that they have a history of making which causes me to not be a fan of Mozilla.

[1] https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
Best of luck to you then; truly great start it seems!
Drag to extend / shorten duration of events is on my todo list; it would definitely improve the interface.

It seems like Google Calendar syncing is something everyone is looking for. I'll be sure to focus on that. Thanks!
Those first two issues have been fixed and the username is for your profile so that you can share your URL with others. The through that profile people can contribute money towards the items on your wishlist
I would actually prefer not to have todos mixed in. IMHO, todos just clutter up a calendar (I've tried them in every single calendar app I've ever used that supports them, and stopped using them).

The problem I think is that calendars never seem to do todos as well as dedicated apps (or a plain text file for that matter, which is what I use now). To me this feature often seem tacked on.

Just my two cents. I'm sure others will disagree...
I can just imagine trying to explain to the TSA agent at the airport that I was carrying someone else's package. I'm sure something could be worked out.
Sebastian is great.

But I'd also just start contacting literally every news blog you can think of. TechCrunch, TheNextWeb, GigaOm, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb, everyone.

What can you lose ;) ? And just getting one of those will get you a lot of hits.
It's using Django on the server and Backbone.js on the client. It was quite a pleasure to code with these frameworks, actually.

As for your suggestions, I totally agree with all of them. They are all features I would love as well, and I have some ideas on how to make it so it's easy to plan on every level of granularity, from day to week to month to year, and to make them all play well with each other.
So then I assume that she missed cubed meat day :)
Every time I read about either Voyager I/II or Pioneer 10/11 I am amazed at just how vast space is. Nothing like spending the better part of 50 years to go an incredible distance - a distance, which is so small in the grand scheme of things...

At the same time I'm delighted to be alive during a part of history in which humanity accomplished such a pitifully tiny and yet monumental feat.
> Three points define a plane; it's guaranteed not to wobble.

This gets repeated a lot. I think if you stop to consider the common case of non-planar ground, you will see that this mathematical factoid isn't actually super-relevant.

(I will concede that it's not trivial to add a fourth leg and make it co-planar to the other three. But this often isn't the cause of wobble.)
this is the most out of touch comment I've seen on HN
I'm not sure that's true for other parts of the market. Certainly single board computers and microcontrollers have been seeing incredible gains, as have TPUs and GPUs.

It is cool we are reaching limits for our current process, but I was under the impression that in a post-Specter/Meltdown world what we're really waiting for is new architectures that support better speed under safe isolation.
Couldn't agree more.

Black Cab drivers seem to think it is somehow their birth right to have a job that charges outrageous amounts, like they are some sort of vital service like the police or ambulance service that needs to be protected no matter what. Bullshit - I bet if they all disappeared tomorrow most non-tourists wouldn't even notice apart from the lack of traffic and diesel pollution near stations.

And "The Knowledge"? yeah yeah yeah...whatever. Most of us had to study full-time and/or in evenings & weekends in order to pass exams to get our jobs too, but that doesn't mean our out-dated and largely obsolete knowledge should be put on a pedestal and protected against more efficient modern tech (1).

The sad reality is that they have TfL by the balls, and that is why this action against Uber is happening. Just as a reminder, the UK's most prolific rapist was a black cab driver who picked people up in his cab then drugged and raped them - they think he raped up to 100 people (2) so it is clear that the vetting for black cab drivers does not actually work (3). Yet despite this, and the obvious parallels of anyone being able to borrow their mates black cab just the same as anyone can borrow their mate's uber login & car - TfL do nothing about Black Cabs.

1 - "the knowledge" only memorises fixed routes. It does not provide information about traffic, road works, accidents etc, but google maps API as used by Uber et al does, so the knowledge is obsolete there.

2 - "The Blackcab Rapist" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys

3 - this guy was not just a "one off" that slipped through the vetting process through a moment of madness or a "who could tell that one day this man would rape someone?" He was a maniac who raped up to ONE HUNDRED people - the UK's most prolific serial rapist in fact - yet the vetting process failed to detect the worst rapist the UK has ever seen and approved him to be a black cab driver. You have to wonder how many small-time rapists also got through the vetting...
You're conflating a couple of things here. It's true that users don't like change - and for good reason; messing with UI invalidates their acquired experience, and even if you know you've changed only one small thing, they don't know that. It quite naturally stresses people out.

Two, I'll grant you that you sometimes have to use a custom control, because web moves forward faster than browsers, and so you can't count on a browser-level or OS-level calendar widget being available. But then the issue is, how do you do it. Can the user type in the date directly into your custom field? Is the calendar widget operable by keyboard? Such functionality doesn't interfere with first-time use, but is important to enable users to develop mastery.

A lot of my dissatisfaction with modern UI/UX trends comes from that last point: very low ceiling for mastery. Power users aren't born, they're made. And they aren't made in school, but through repeated use that makes them seek out ways to alleviate their frustrations. A lot of software is being used hours a day, day in, day out by people in offices. Users of such software will be naturally driven towards improving efficiency of their work (if only to have more time to burn watching cat photos). If an application doesn't provide for such improvements, it wastes the time of everyone who's forced to interact with it regularly.
I like your ideas, but how do you retain control of your account?

How do you prove that you are the owner?

If someone manages to log in as you and takes over your account, how do you get it back without giving some method to contact you.
They're using the ping property of the <a> element now, the only good thing to come out of this
I'll jump in here: we are the process and product of evolution so we must be doing cost benefit analysis all the time. It's almost entirely unconscious (or automatic if you prefer) but it's got to be happening (or we would have been out-adapted and failed to exist in the first place.)
I recall that the NSA admitted that they hadn't any audit trail from which they could figure out what downloads Snowden had made. But apparently GCHQ has better information...
if you think your craft has anything to do with office politics

Ah, but it does. For a business to survive, it has to interact with people outside of itself. In those cases, understanding the political situation on the other side of the table can be of immeasurable value.
I think it's art, and applaud them for it. Reminds me of Brian Eno's (supposed) definition of originality: do something that's so time consuming or difficult that no one else would ever bother.
release something when you are ready and only listen your users
I read it as europe. My first thought was "and this is somehow bad for climate or what ?" and went to read the article.
I wonder how long it will take until it becomes illegal to say that Epstein didn't commit suicide.
Good speech. Had to come from a comedian, cuz who else is going to say these things? Politicians? Tech CEO? FHO.
He makes his living by mocking people. Any claims of experiments or hidden prejudice are hypocrisy.
More likely it will further reinforce echo chambers so that people will truly only see what they want to believe and nothing more. Anything they disagree with or is inconvenient to their worldview is "deep fake"
Yeah. Email addresses? Phone numbers? All of that is practically public at this point anyway. This article is crying wolf. Someday there is going to be a massive credential compromise.
I live in Norcal and had a little Toyota pickup. I had more than one lady from the city be very impressed "oooh a truck, its so manly!". Where Im from a little Tacoma truck is not really a truck. Truck culture is not really a city thing out here.
Or its just a bubble
This article is total crap, the author has very little in the way of security clue -- how does such nonsense make it onto HN?
There's a paper on it I posted above, if you're curious: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf
Really! I'm not British; I don't recognize Royalty any more than I recognize magic or spells or holistic medicine. Other than of course as "a funny little belief held by weak-minded persons"
If you are looking for other reviews, Metacritic (27%):

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/atlas-shrugged-part-i

Rotten Tomatoes (10%):

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/
Agreed - Granting or selling shares is much more straightforward than an LLC. Plus converting an LLC to an S or C-Corp takes a lot of billable hours.

So - find a lawyer local to you, and have him set up the S-Corp in your state. Don't worry about it being in Delaware. Making that change later, or even going to a C-corp is easy (for a lawyer)
One step further: remove '.com' from the end. For those domains that fit.

e.g. http://www.hp.com => hp
I wrote up a few pros and cons on using www a while ago. Basically I think only using the TLD is more pure but in the long run you lose less than you might gain by dividing services on subdomains. Whatever that subdomain may be.

http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/internet/using-www-for-your-dom...
I didn't get the sense that the article was critical of Rand. It seemed more like it was bashing the movie.

An Atlas Shrugged movie could be awesome. The book conjures such vivid images of grandeur and destruction. It's a shame this trilogy seems like it should be missed.
does it work for mobile devices such as nonsmartphones?

(written frm samsng impct)
"It's really easy to write insanely convoluted unreadable code in Scala."

It's really easy to write insanely convoluted and unreadable code in any language. The language isn't really the factor there, more the programmer.
If you can avoid colo I would. It's such a pain in the ass to remotely troubleshoot the servers when that one thing does go wrong with the hardware. I blogged about it here:

http://teabuzzed.com/2009/08/the-number-one-reason-my-startu...

For the power I needed and what I could afford colo was the only way to go but it definitely came with a price...

If/when you're big enough colo probably makes more sense but in the beginning VPS is definitely the way to go.
I think at some point the AI goalpost will move beyond "capable of human judgement" as well :) (see Asimov's stories of R.Daneel & R.Giskard for example).

I'm one of those who believes we'll crack AI (all aspects of it) at some point. I believe that the algorithm that our brains (and that of most animals) use is a very simple one that just needs tremendous parallel processing. I don't think anyone including IBM is yet thinking at that level (they work at too high a level for my tastes) and they do not consider enough of biology in their work (too computer-science-y, which prevents problem solving at the beginning).

I think it's just a matter of time before the neuroscientists have most of the details of brain and neuron functioning and we're able to decode the algo and replicate it on computers. And then it will be upto hardware progress to match first animal and then human intelligence.
> In my case it's Google as they are more open and willing to crack old monopolies that also get in my way (as a dev).

Well, Apple quite successfully introduced an app store that didn't require carrier approval for everything. You wouldn't have been able to get past that in the first place.
Or did Google announce something like that in Android first? I can't remember now, but I doubt it.
Oh, my bad. :)
lol, oh wait, forgot this was hacker news, you don't do guis :P
btw, handbrake has a gui for windows and linux. i'm going to try that out, but i don't know if it includes the latest ffmpeg.
Download aptoide program 2021
"While plenty of startups are launching, we aren’t seeing any actual innovation any more... there just isn’t anything left to invent."

Definitely April Fools.
The thing that makes an 'IO t' data structure different from some arbitrary java bytecode, is that bytecode is an opaque black box, and represents commands that will be executed immediately, whereas an 'IO t' just "describes" the intended action, remains composable and is a first-class value (i.e. data structure) in your program.

It's necessary to draw a distinction between the "runtime" and "evaluation" in Haskell; it's not necessary afaik to draw this distinction in other languages, which I think is where the confusion comes from.

In Haskell evaluation is pure, the runtime is not, but evaluation is what allows you to reason about your program.
This is a terrific article!
Bitbucket also supports Mercurial, which I find to be more user-friendly than Git with all of the same features.
And fiat-BTC exchanges aren't part of the spec, so regulation can be helpful. I seriously question the necessity or utility of centralized wallets, but regulated exchanges make perfect sense.
In what way? What do you mean by "preying"?
That might be a decent explanation of monads, but the article's point is explicitly that we shouldn't worry beginners with monads at all.
Those crazy sticks are crazy!
You'd be surprised. Someone went missing in a forest once. They looked for them for 4 days the normal way. A single drone flown by a hobbyist found them in 2 hours.
Even if you trust that your own computer or server is more secure than Greplin's servers, your communication with others will be indexed on instances belonging to the people you communicate with as well.

So the question even for the seasoned computer security expert that want to use a distributed Greplin variant is: Do you trust your friends and colleagues to have better security on their home or work computers than Greplin can achieve with dedicated work?

With a distributed system it would still be a non-trivial task to protect against a dedicated worm or trojan that infest the network and traces paths to other Greplin users after stealing all the data from each instance.

Since the data is social and each document in many cases concerns more than one person, it might actually be a less complicated task to achieve sufficient security in a central location.
Some folks purposely want random-ish results. When OpenBSD was changing the behaviour of its legacy POSIX random functions it was observed:

This API is used in two patterns:
1. Under the assumption it provides good random numbers.
This is the primary usage case by most developers.
This is their expectation.
2. A 'seed' can be re-provided at a later time, allowing
replay of a previous "random sequence", oh wait, I mean
a deterministic sequence...

They went through the code, especially the third-party packages/ports, to identify uses:

> Differentiating pattern 1 from pattern 2 involved looking at the seed being given to the subsystem. If the software tried to supply a "good seed", and had no framework for re-submitting a seed for reuse, then it was clear it wanted good random numbers. Those ports could be eliminated from consideration, since they indicated they wanted good random numbers.

> This left only 41 ports for consideration. Generally, these are doing reseeding for reproduceable effects during benchmarking. Further analysis may show some of these ports do not need determinism, but if there is any doubt they can be mindlessly modified as described below.

* https://lwn.net/Articles/625562/
Control a and e (the Emacs shortcuts everybody knows) work on all Mac applications. That’s why home and end work differently.
Thanks. Just how shielded are those X-ray scanners?

They look like just walking near them will expose you.
Security personnel will almost always have to perform a job that is, in some way, invasive. Your argument could apply to all security personnel, not just those participating in the new policies.
Here's a groovy version: https://gist.github.com/702337
Americans really should start a campaign against this kind of degrading treatment and make sure that it's stopped. It shows a profound lack of respect for human dignity. The video showing a child being molested by an airport security guard is just horrific, and long lasting psychological damage could occur with a child that young after having a traumatic experience of that kind.
I think the book is very good for beginners as the code is just one piece of python code and not multiple sources projects which will confuse noobs to the language, this help the newcomers to really grasp the language; I'm following both this and learn python the hard way by zed shaw which make a great combo for learning the language.

I'm a newcomer to programming and I've found some errors in the code (or maybe things that don't work with Python 2.6) and I've get it to work either way, the only hassle is that I offered the author to provide what I changed in order for the code to work and I never received an answer.

In any case is a good way to start learning.
It's ironic that Apple might have changed their app store rules to allow a Google product (GV) into the app store in order to counter another Google product (Android)
also, the judgments on how the startups are doing (whether they had "enough" runway) were so subjective that i removed them in the public version.
I'd like to see http://steve.jobs.usesthis.com/ (note: link doesn't work).

Anyone know how to get The Setup (usesthis) an interview with Steve Jobs?

The About page evens says: "Despite appearances, the site is not actually sponsored by Apple - people just seem to like using their tools. We're a fan, too."
Another issue is the, albeit anecdotal, inaccuracy of LSD concentration in black market products. If you are aiming for a 100 ug dose, and blotters marketed as 100 ug can range from 50-150 ug, its quite hard to do proper dosage. Darknet markets have however probably improved the situation with accountability and reviews from customer.
Meanwhile, you can get air filters, respirators, etc. which work today while legislation could be decades away.
I wonder what the practical benefits of such an advanced level and type of meditation are.
Why would anyone ever want to invade Russia? If you want to attack Russia, invade Cyprus and seize the financial records.
Seems that your IP is blocked in Russia. Had to use VPN to check your site out.
It is fun and useful if you're interested in formal program correctness or mathematics. Maybe it's a useful bitter pill to swallow even if you're not, but the world is a wide and wonderful place, and maybe Coq isn't the best use of your time.

I think it's really interesting though, so it doesn't hurt to give it a looksy.
I won't pretend to understand the neuroscience, but consider: Today's antidepressants work by affecting your serotonin. Another serotonin-affecting drug comes along, and it's assumed to be "placebo"?

Personally I tried it. A very low dose completely wipes out any depression or negative thought for weeks at a time. Way better than zoloft.
> The law states there must be public access to the beach.

Can you not access it by boat? Does that count?
At first glance I have no clue what the site does or what it's for. Can you add some text to explain what's going on? What's a bounty (meaning how do I put it up? Is it an arbitrary amount of points I decide? Is it something I have to pay for in advance to be able to offer it to someone else?)

After looking a bit more at the site I have a slight clue but still very little idea about the site and its features. As a user, I'm unwilling to login with Facebook just to test it out and explore.

Is this similar to an existing concept that I don't know about?
Sorry, how can a conclusion be stillborn? Does that have a specific meaning?

Also: I was using it more as an example, not the sole reason.