skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't cover the cost of making horrible mistakes. A series of them actually... over a couple of decades.

This article was more for the rats stuck in the "affluenza" maze, not the chronically depressed or others struggling with more fundamental issues than 'keeping up with the Joneses'

Yeah, I learned a whole lot about my blind spots (in being taken advantage of, ignoring issues, actively avoiding them...) and processed some really deep seated issues, but the cost right now still seems a bit too high. It is a bit disheartening. In another decade or 2, it certainly won't matter, but in terms of "falling behind", I am at the extreme of the bell curve, I'm afraid. But maybe that was my overall path, extreme self-knowledge... At least I am an exceptional special snowflake!

"The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts is recommended reading if this article affected you in some way.
Time for people to stop bending to fashion and buy sensible clothing then.

Also, i could have sworn that Galaxy Note was a hit with with ladies as they put them in handbags rather than pockets...

Not that i know much about fashion, as my wardrobe is stuffed with cargo pants.
Nailed It – an app that lets you act out celebrity faces
> PeerTweet

Since it's not actually using Twitter and you're not turning into a little bird to share a song can we call writing short messages something other than "tweets"? You might also run into trademark issues with Twitter, but that doesn't bother me as much as grown adults referring to general status updates and conversating as "tweeting", especially when Twitter isn't even involved. We just like need to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
I really, really enjoy these posts. Figuring out what an ecosystem even has and it's quality can be daunting for those considering a language, and gives experienced community members and idea of what to improve.
I don't know why they don't just show what's on sale near me geographically. You know, two for one Kraft mac and cheese up at Publix. You'd never know that I might buy mac and cheese by data mining me, I don't even really like mac and cheese, but shit man two for one!

The whole targeted advertising idea seems like something cooked up by computer programmers and doesn't seem to actually work on humans. But if ads showed me that toilet paper was on sale somewhere nearby, that's something I might whitelist.
They are all fine languages. There is another (key) reason why Python is keeping its momentum: the availability of skilled, professional python developers with a lot commercial experience.

I've been called in a number of times to help out small businesses or teams that've started using Python because they were: researchers, scientists, or even just regular developers, and have found themselves with a growing business and customer requirements. Having a large, professional body of capable of (especially contract, here in London) developers makes a world of difference. You can find expert Julia, Haskell, Clojure, etc. developers -- but they are fewer and far between.
In New Zealand, Uber drivers are required to have a drivers licence to carry paying passengers (P endorsement) and have commercial insurance.
All agreed. I'd add that the market is slowing down, so bumpers could end up bringing more profits. First, customers would be more willing to invest in higher margin products if the device was more robust and likely to last. And manufacturers could sell official bumpers with advanced shock-proofing, a nice metal finish, perfect fit to the case, many different colors, ...
The repository of EE is publicly readable and customers have a license they can use for development for EE.

We've had customers contribute EE-specific features and changes several times in the past. In one case, CERN contributed improvements to certain EE-exclusive authentication options.

The workflow is identical otherwise.
Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
I want to encourage the visitors of my sites to install an addon to protect their privacy.
What is the single best one?
Three Years of Logging My Inbox
Can you come with a specific example?

I don't see the issue. Most european countries have insurance either via the wellfare state or through legislation or insurances. What do the passenger care about drivers insurance for? If anything Uber is not going to leave just an inch of potential room for critique so of course they are insured as you need to be just in order to own a car.
More likely than not, Ars is likely to piss all over the device because it uses that "fragmented" Android. This even though they hired an Android guy to write about the topic some years back. He seemed to have fallen in with the party line quite quickly.
If the lengthening indicates that vague subject lines such as "Hello!" or "Changes" is being replaced by something more specific like "Meeting at 3 p.m. agenda changed", then it's a good thing. I also like all the info in the subject line, such as "Free pizza in the break room <eom>"
How do you figure it "presupposes" anything?

The assumption in every culture I've lived in has been that eating animals and their byproducts is not only acceptable, but the right thing to do. That is the default; the "presupposed" belief. But, it is a belief that requires no evidence to be accepted by the majority of people.

When shown evidence that animals experience suffering because of this behavior, and when shown evidence that animal agriculture is disastrous for the environment, you have evidence on which to make decisions from an ethical perspective, and not merely a cultural history perspective. What you do with that evidence is up to you, of course; the law will likely never, in our lifetimes, be strict enough to prevent animal suffering or environmental catastrophe. So, it's your decision to participate in it, or not, and to what degree.
Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of Wahabism is the root of all terror in the middle east.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good has been an excellent resource for the intermediate programmer. Much of the intermediate to advanced space is already quite mature. The beginner space was the big gap.
Why not add a rule that says that only one led may change upon the change of a digit. See e.g. gray codes.
How inexperienced Millenials are scoring careers with Fortune 500 companies
It adds presence, which is the main reason business types currently don't like video conferencing and still choose to travel when they really don't need to. People want to be around other people, in their actual presence, they don't get that from video conferencing. Lack of presence is why telecommuting hasn't really taken over and why companies still bother with the overhead of a real office. People are social animals, they want to be around other people, not around screens with other people's faces on them. Presence is far more than just turning your head.

> it's also the familiarity developed by meeting somebody in person, shooting the shit over lunch, and being able to casually mention an idea or anecdote without the overhead of a "call."

Yes, that's called presence, and that's what VR brings that video conferencing doesn't.
Awesome. I did that.

Thanks. I hope you can still see this message.

Thanks again!
Which is why phone makers should make some variety here. Make thin phones for people who prioritize size, make thick phones for people who prioritize battery life.

I'm not saying every single phone on the planet should be the kind I want....
What kind of insurance are you talking about? The driver has insurance for driving their car how can that ever be the passengers problem?
When using vague terms such as 'basic respect' - the onus is on you to be very clear what you mean by it.

Basic as opposed to what, can you also define intermediate and advanced respects while you're at it?

When you introduce vague terminology, the last thing you should do is criticize the person trying to work through your lack of conciseness.

Ironically, it potentially shows lack of 'respect' for my time :)
Even with public health care you're going to need money.

England has public health care, but you're going to want a better prosthetic and you're going to want money to make adaptations to your home over what will be available. And you're going to want money to cover your reduced income while you're off work.
As did quadrupeds and bipeds, but if asked to draw a line about their locomotion that is quite easy to do.

Have not seen a convincing argument that we will not find an evolutionary line in the sand between sentient and automaton animals.
On that note, the last time i read Engadget actively was back when they edited hockey masks on all faces on Friday 13th.

Sadly all the big sites head this way. Likely because their owners are breathing down the editors necks to be more "hip and social conscious".
Hmm.. could be a magnet url to a single jpeg image... anyone following someone could actively keep it alive.
lol, that too.
Neat project!

Small suggestion: consider using autocomplete on the textboxes to make it easier to find the starting and ending point.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
So advertising is inefficient. News at 11!

It would be far better for content creators to create valuable content and charge for it than to rely on the dubious ethics of most advertisers.

For a time, I paid for a SMH online subscription, but then I discovered that a. Half my comments were still not reviewed or even published, with no explanation. I was STILL tracked by up to 60 ad trackers every time I went to their website. And the content of the Herald started to degrade more and more (no, I don't care about Kim Kardashian, and I never will. And it's not acceptable to have sentences that drop whole words, often in ways that make that sentence unreadable). So I stopped reading and paying for the content.

Now if I could find a decent newspaper I could pay a reasonable subscription fee to, then I'd do so. To hell with advertising. If your business model is reliant on it to survive, then wither on the vine and die for all I care.
The Lego of languages
Because (at least on my Moto X 2012, Android v5.1 Lollipop) rebooting can take upwards of ten minutes. Some OTA updates apparently trigger an 80-some-odd module "optimizing" run, which I presume is ART doing its AOT thing. If you're in a hurry to use your phone this can be maddening.
Very cool stuff - love to see the power and expressiveness of Ruby in a much faster form. Frameworks like this help make the ecosystem more legitimate.
The HP TC1100 Windows XP tablet had hot-swappable batteries, granted you had to put the device to sleep first, but was ultra convenient.
If VR was going to be a big success, there would be a killer demo for the Oculus Rift by now. There isn't. "The Chair"[1] is considered one of the best demos. Whatever. GTA V in VR is pretty good, but that's because GTA V is pretty good without VR.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8c3dAWZ7No
I'm iffy about that adoption system, as it also makes the cards useless as removable/swappable storage.

This because the adoption process formats and encrypts the card, thus anything stored on it can only be accessed from within the device that adopted it.
Who are some of the best “smaller” serial entrepreneurs?
I'm looking for people who've run several smaller successful startups as I want to learn more about them, their mentality, etc.

I'm not looking for the giants (say $500m+) like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel, but the smaller guys.
A Love Letter
Of course no true sports cars have it, but some cars claiming to be sports cars have dial-a-mode for their suspension. Driving to work? Select smooth and comfortable. Driving for fun? Select performance.
Sort of reminds me of Ludicrous Speed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0
I used to use a Windows box at work, and still use one at home for games. Python is getting much better for Windows. But some of the package management still completely sucks. Cmndr helps out a lot, but some of the math heavy packages (I'm looking at you, cryptography) have to be compiled with the version of the Windows C compiler that was originally used to write the package, which is not always easy to find. Or you have to find a precompiled version, which is tricky to install into a virtual environment.

Of course, for general computing, things are good and getting better, and I really appreciate the work Microsoft has put into Python Tools for Visual Studio.

I love my sublime text, but I also have a mad crush on visual studio from my C# days. If VS would support Pyramid as well as it does Flask and Django, I would seriously consider switching to a Windows machine full time.
Beyonce's Clock: How do some people achieve so much?
I wonder if this is nuanced at all. I seem to recall every plot twist, gizmo, and character in Science Fiction that I read, it takes any joy out of re-reading that book because I already know it front to back, but other books on the fringes, like fantasy or the harry potter series? I can re-read those enjoyably.
The language probably had something to do with it, at least in that scientists got involved very early on[0] and language features were added as a result.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/ note the direct involvement of GvR
Totally agreed. Also it's hard to tell for current devices as reviewers, such as Engadget, Ars or GSMArena, never mention it. It's surprising given that tech review sites target many power users.
Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's iPhone
And will will answer you.

You hire people as self-employed but rip them of the opportunity to work as self-employed by.

1) Not allowing them to set their own fees
2) Not allowing them to hire people to drive for them
3) Discouraging tips
4) Deciding what types of cars they can drive in.

All things you would normally do to people who where hired because they would trade that potential upside of being selv-employed by for instance having access to ex. healthcare and vacation.

In other words. Uber takes away all the good things about being self-employed and replace them with restrictions that would normally only apply for someone who was employed. While at the same time not giving them access to those things that are actually advantageous about being employed.

Uber isn't a technology disrupter it's a legislation disrupter.
There should be a case out there with a wrist strap on it...
Funny thing is, Apple doesn't pay a dime for product placement.
lol super cool logo..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez
The key isn't just what software they were using for the forum, but what version of the software. Most sites that get hacked with these scripts are using woefully outdated versions that have various holes in them, usually because they don't want to have to replace/rewrite modifications or themes.

Based on the date, they might have been using a fairly old version of phpBB 3.
Is there a language you _do_ consider "general purpose"?
English is quite terse. Perhaps the development of non english languages.
There's nothing objectively wrong or evil about suffering

Nothing wrong or evil about human-inflicted suffering? So, what is objectively wrong or evil in this world? Give me some examples.

The only reason you and I wouldn't accept that argument about kicking a dog is because that goes against strong social norms our culture has about abusing pets.

That's really the only reason you see for this? So, anything that doesn't go against social norms is ethically acceptable? Are there no historical incidents where horrible things were done within the bounds of "social norms" that maybe make you question that belief? Is it always right, if popular opinion says it is?
Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

The head of the House of Saud, the King, and much of the military believe that military integration, weapons sales, and mutual defense scenarios from the Americans will benefit Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia also has about ten trillion in oil reserves, and the United States needs oil.

Historically, Saudi Arabia was just the slice of the former Ottoman Empire the British and French let us rule. Hence Saudi Aramco's original name: "The Saudi-American Oil Company."

Lucky for us that Saudi Arabia turned out to have such large oil reserves. Of course, the area is also at a strategic naval point, both of which explain the number of United States' military bases in the region.

So some of the populace sees the Muslim world as being subjegated in their Holy Land, and some percentage of them are fans of violence and meyhem.

An analogous situation would be how rich Irish-Americans funded the IRA for decades, despite an official United States' government stance that they were a terrorist group.
That needs a link.

I find http://911blogger.com/news/2013-05-16/hollywood-and-911-movi... but nothing there about anything broadcast on Fox.
I have an LG Nexus 5 : common fault is that microphone stops working and power/volume buttons gets stuck (in my case due to case breaking near buttons from being in pocket). I have given Moto G phones to parents and friends - they seem more reliable.
Reminds me of certain quote attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup.

My personal pet peeve is when you concatenate two words to end up with something sounding completely different, say in finite infinite. Just doesn't make sense at all.
A lot of those actually started as wrappers to existing C/C++/other libs, something that is very easy to achieve in Python and not so much with other runtimes.
That said, Rust 1.0 was way more usable than Swift 1.0

Just because something says 1.0 doesn't mean it's usable :P
Linux Mint website hacked, malicious ISO offered on Saturday
But that will also mostly be paid by the public welfare system even if it came to that.

It looks more like you are clinging to some edge case potential for something thats most likely not going to happen in any meaningful way.

Again. Europe is very different than the US in that regard.
I feel isolated when doing 100% remote work. Noting that isolation cell is a form of prison punishment. For others it is total freedom to be able to work remote from where ever they want which I understand. What I have found out that I like to work with other real human coworkers. Have tried both working in a normal office and 100% remote working and I prefer real colleagues. This takes me to the analogy of the Bluezones where peopole live the longest in the world one of the contributing factors to a long life besides eating healthy is a strong community.

Checkout the concept of Bluezones here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone#/media/File:Vendiagr...
The big lie: www search, sharing photos on a www page, www-based chat, www-based email, etc. would all "disappear" if Google, Facebook and others cannot act as gateways/funnels into a medium -- the www/internet -- and sell ads on that medium, a medium which of course they do not own.

This is complete nonsense. If we remove the advertising, those companies might lose money, but the functions we as users perform over the www would most certainly continue.

More importantly, there might be some decentralization and movement toward an "edge-focused" medium more resembling the Internet's end-to-end roots. This would make the internetwork much more useful than the one dominated by middlemen monopolies like the one we have now.

The money to pay for ads does not come from selling ads. Ask yourself where it comes from. Those are the businesses that must endure.
Very nice. Good defaults. All posts are private, expires in 1 day unless you choose otherwise.
It's Taylor Swift. Come on.
I think there is a more fundamental question, why are some people curious and others are not? As far as I can tell this has always been true.
I wrote a hypothesis [1] on the cause and effect of the cycles Chris mentions. With those assumptions about the separation of user and their data in mind, I make the following near term technology predictions:

- a swing back to private cloud will be kicked off by container/microkernel technologies, starting the largest cycle we've seen to date in terms of growth and value

- public cloud computing growth will slow slightly and will have to refocus on lower privacy needs use-cases (or die trying)

- IoT and cloud computing will start to merge as a market, where the compute resources of your IoT devices are used to operate on the data other IoT devices nearby

- cryptocurrencies and the blockchain will finally find a home in securing the processes behind cloud provisioning of what was known previously as SaaS software

- cryptocurrency deployments make open source project's revenue models sustainable

- open source hardware, including circuitry, becomes ubiquitously available via physical printing processes, which then drives the IoT and cloud computing markets even higher.

- the digital nomad lifestyle explodes as a result of the changes to the open source model

- startups and the VC culture in Silicon Valley will be forced to retool their financial strategies and software business models for accessing decentralized markets

- a meltdown of global financial markets will be the only thing which enables bringing positive, decentralized change to those financial markets.

As John Chambers, chairman of Cicso said a few years back, "You're going to see a brutal, brutal consolidation of the IT industry". Better buckle up.

[1] https://medium.com/@kordless/an-ecology-of-cloud-1cedfa326b8...

BTW, there is only one thing that will make me stop coming to HN and participating in the community, and that's when I see people's opinions on something downvoted. Downvote if you must, but keep in mind it's a game of blame if the post you are downvoting is someone's opinion or view on something, which itself is blameless.
This is utter rubbish. Nobody learns to speak any language as an adult without an accent. That has nothing to do with phonological complexity, that's just how we're wired. Spanish may be easy to describe on a blackboard, but don't tell me that people who learn Spanish as a second language later on don't have accents.

And languages don't succeed because of linguistics, they succeed because of politics. As someone whose native language is being replaced by it, I know that English is a perfect example of this.
This immediately reminds me of the lamentations around "Worse is Better" and how technically superior languages and standards tend not to win in the marketplace.

Why hasn't Esperanto caught on? Because no one speaks it, and the ones who do don't have the influence to push it into the mainstream. English overtook French for the banal reason that more people saw more individual benefit of learning it over a long period of time. A lot of westerners like to think Chinese could never become the next lingua franca because it's so much harder to learn, but that is little defense if the economic incentives to learn it are there.
The coming storm
Geological love notes: uncovering Earth's secrets by studying ice
Likewise. It was the first we rented, when my dad bought a shiny new VHS player. The movie stayed in my head for weeks, and is what hook me with computers.
Good point about market maturity. If people are holding on to phones longer, sell them more accessories that people replace periodically, and make the base unit more also high margin (if they accomodate the official bumpers). But it's the consumer's choice -- they don't need to buy new bumpers if they are content with what they have. It's a variant of the razor & blades model.
Nice to see benchmarks reported using a modern, reliable benchmarking tool. Impressive numbers too!
Swift concurrency is interesting topic for sure, looks like language isn't actually built around concurrency unlike other popular new languages these days. Interesting document here about Swift concurrency https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co...
Is it that hard to make a phone that works when it's plugged into a charger without a battery?