skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firefox used to have great sync security. I ran my own sync server for years, and was very happy with it. But when they revised the protocol they destroyed its security. Firefox Sync is unacceptable for password storage

Oh, I'm unknowledgeable about this. Could you expand a bit on why it is insecure or what they did to it to make it insecure etc. Even just links would be enough.
Bill Gates is another person with extremely limited technical achievements who happened to be in the right place at the right time, with the right connections.
It's not that bad.

> I found this API has a limitation it only suggests people in the photo who are in your FB friend list
It's Portland.
Crashplan (free version allows you to cross-backup with a friend at another location)
That's pretty intentional. A venue really doesn't care how many people go, they care that the show gets "sold out".

A couple of my friends are scalpers. They said there's a limit of 8 tickets for most shows per address, but if you walk in with thousands of dollars in cash that limit goes away. Online it's a little different since you need to put your address in for your credit card, but there's plenty of ways to get multiple addresses with your name for credit cards.

They make more than me as a software engineer, but they can easily lose thousands if a show doesn't pan out. They follow tours across the US and hope they find "the one" that makes them rich.
> wikipedia has a big "never change anything" culture that resists any design changes to the main site, but doesn't seem to care about the mobile site.

Except for the deletionists. They like to change things!
what about trucks, heavy machinery and motorcycles? battery tech is not there for all of those. range/power/density work against batteries in those. current models all suck.
Prediction markets have consistently proven to be one of the best ways of predicting the future (per tfa). For them to be most effective however, they need scale (many participants) and real material value at stake (money). Unfortunately, the underlying mechanism that makes them work is gambling, and most societies have rules to control and limit that. As a result few prediction markets have been able to form and remain in operation. This costs the world quite a bit, because the emergent value they create - the most accurate knowledge of the future - is applicable to so many people beyond those doing the gambling.

Imagine a big corporation studying the feasibility of a large capital outlay for some factory in a semi-stable country. It would be very valuable for them to know the probability of a government coup, the odds of a natural disaster, and various other hard to estimate metrics before they spend their X billion dollars. If there was a highly liquid and active global prediction market, they could look up the current odds of any event that interests them, and factor it into their feasibility, without ever having to gamble.

Additionally organizations can better protect their businesses by using these markets to hedge against events that aren't covered in the few positions available on financial markets.

I could go on and on with valuable use-cases that go far above the gambling.

I'm the lead UI engineer at Augur, a decentralized blockchain-based prediction market, and we're attempting to solve this. I really hope we do, the world would be a better place.
Thank you!

BTW: Select All, Speech => Start Speaking works great!
Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs
It already exists as an informal social arrangement!

When I was a small child and caught chickenpox several of my friends were brought round to play so they could 'safely' catch it as children, rather than waiting to catch the altogether nastier grown-up version later in life.

I suspect my mother didn't charge for the product/service , although that may be because she couldn't get a node.js stack up and running.

Also it was in 1983.
This is massive in the UK. Ocado run nothing but heavily automated warehouses as their online only, and a lot of the big supermarkets are starting to run similar locations optimised for delivery packing. Somewhat tangentially I've even heard of a couple of restaurant chains opening dark stores which do nothing but fulfil delivery orders.
Easy on the 9s there buddy, that's one in a trillion.
Yeah, OK, now think about the version Facebook (and thus law enforcement, intelligence agencies and advertisers) has access to.
I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.
There's a ton of reasons to not use Messenger.

1. The mandatory "seen" indicator

2. All of your messages are beholden to a private company, permanently stored in plaintext

3. They analyze said messages to deliver advertisements. Seriously, one time I mentioned buying a Samsung SSD to my friend in chat, and all of a sudden I got a ton of SSD advertisements on the sidebar. Same thing when I mentioned Rick and Morty.

4. It's Facebook, for crying out loud.
In fact, we already do a little bit of that through the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and various programs run by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian (among others).

In the 1930s, The Works Progress Administration did a lot of interesting things with the arts. Some of it involved prettying up overpasses and federal buildings, and some of it was much more ambitious, like the Federal Music Project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Music_Project ), which did everything from holding free concerts to recording and studying various types of traditional american music.
Subsidizing music and the arts may or may not be a good idea, but it's certainly very different from funding NASA and the NIH.
It looks to be from a VHS tape. Also, a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)/Flight Data Recorder (FDR) would likely be setup to record in a loop. You can do that with magnetic tape, but not in the configure it appears to be in.

I'll try to remember to look up what CVR would have been used for that plane when I get back to work in a week.
I wonder why they don't have Epstein Barr Virus vaccines yet.
Good analysis that makes me slightly less upset about the difficulty of gaining entrance into the Western States 100. The WSER event organizers implement this article's primary recommendations: transparency and non-transferability despite the huge supply and demand disparity and market forces driving their automatic entry vs. lottery process: http://www.wser.org/entry-process/
You're at least not alone.

I used Clojure for a while and we didn't get along despite my attraction to the language, and the hype, I guess. Clojure makes a lot of trade offs to run how it does and where it does and those choices don't necessarily add up to the experience I, or others who seem to crop up here, prefer.

While I haven't tried Kotlin, I'm aware of it and know that it isn't all that different from Scala, which is a bit more my style.
I don't know why I found this heart-warming. I love HN. :')
Which purchase are you talking about?

> In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools.

is the only mention of "unanimously approved" and "purchase" isn't even in the article.
> Those likely to pay are those with Sonos or other home streaming hifi.

To be more specific, geriatric and upper middle class.

edit: I actually think that music torrenting is dying because habitual torrenters all have all of the music that they want. The next logical step is to spend $20 on a hard drive and give that entire collection to a friend. Or $80 if you're a fiend for flacs.
This is awesome. Thanks for putting them all together!
I currently use sportradar. People will definitely use a sports data API -- but you would have to beat sportradar somewhere (either on developer experience, price, accuracy, feature set, number of sports covered, etc...) to make a viable business out of it.
You can do a fair amount these days with CSS thanks to flex-box, it handles the row based layout transition to column based quite well.

A benefit of using CSS is that it handles browser zoom and high dpi screens much better as you can use units other than pixels (eg: em/rem, vh/vw, %).

From a architecture point of view, you want to keep layout logic out of the JavaScript anyways as JS should be for interactions and other 'nice to have' behaviors.
Reality generally don't cares about votes or feelings. It is good to align the curriculum with reality from time to time.
No worries! And yes, regex! is a pretty cool thing to showcase---it's a pity that it is so slow. :-( Very nice project though! :-)
I agree. I consider myself as an independently conservative liberal libertarian with social and anti social leanings.
Show HN: Akandaka cross-platform console based password manager that uses AES-GCM
even better

I tend to agree. The AMA format doesn't really allow for the kind of depth that Kay's top level answer to the OOP question has...

...or the same context for digesting it. I came across it when it was a day old and wondered about McCarthy's Temporal Logic and when Google didn't turn anything up I thought about requesting a link, but the asynchronous format led me to forgo the low value inquiry and I wound up spending enough time to figure out enough to temporarily sate my curiosity instead of checking likes on the Facebook.
On object "states" as recorded object history (snapshots in time?):

"The just computed stable state is very useful. It will never be changed again -- so it represents a "version" of the system simulation -- and it can be safely used as value sources for the functional transitions to the next stable state. It can also be used as sources for creating visualizations of the world at that instant. The history can be used for debugging, undos, roll-backs, etc.

"In this model -- again partly from McCarthy, Strachey, Simula, etc., -- "time doesn't exist between stable states": the "clock" only advances when each new state is completed. The CPU itself doesn't act as a clock as far as programs are concerned.
This gives rise to a very simple way to do deterministic relationships that has an intrinsic and clean model of time.

"For a variety of reasons -- none of them very good -- this way of being safe lost out in the 60s in favor of allowing race conditions in imperative programming and then trying to protect against them using terrible semaphores, etc which can lead to lock ups."

Oh, my kingdom for atomic, history-recording (and replayable) object states! Safety existed in this fashion in the 60s!! I didn't know this, and now I'm sad.

Race conditions continue to haunt us all to this day, especially as languages start supporting concurrency and parallelism primitively. (Not to mention that debugging race conditions is a nightmare - a nod to the Go language devs for making clear a race condition caused a crash in the stack trace.)
Also, "unRAID" from LimeTech allows you to build a parity protected server from left-over disks. I have built two, now multi-Terabyte servers, for throwing all sorts of material onto, and been through two disk burnouts where the parity did in fact fully protect the data. I used 256MB and 1TB drives initially, but slowly cycle up as I need more space (you can add up to 20 disks on the "Pro" version (something like $59), but due to space in my enclosure I have stuck to 4 + 1 for parity). Currently I have a mix of 8, 4, 2, 1TB. Disks don't spin if not used... _very_ nice.
My bad, it's totally mentioned in the next couple of slides, not sure how I missed it the first time around.
The science is pretty clear on co2 causing global warming.

The economics of the urgency and advisability of any particular intervention are less clear.

The moral assumptions underlying "climate justice" are pretty unclear to me and don't seem to be an appropriate area for a government agency to be legislating what they deem the truth to be.

Be careful you don't get too happy when the government compels a point of view you happen to agree with, because once you hand over decisions about truth to a political body, it's hard to claw it back.
Most American small businesses would be out of business if they had to pay even 1 day earlier than 30 days (or whatever the industry standard is). Most pay well past the due date. They need to wait the industry standard to get paid themselves. Business runs on credit, and even big businesses operate paycheck to paycheck.
TeamViewer denies being hacked, blames users
In case it wasn't clear, the comment you're replying to is trolling and you should ignore it.

You'll be fine. There's still a good bit of demand for junior programmers, and there are no signs of that going away anytime soon. If you're in a top-tier bootcamp and you do well in it, you will come out ready to take junior positions, roughly comparable to a new CS grad minus their internships (which do give them an advantage). Just don't expect a $105K base salary at your first job - some bootcamps set unrealistic expectations to sell you on the program.

Keep working on the bootcamp, write some open-source code on the side, focus as hard as you can at getting better. It'll work out.
Try these ! http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/os-lectures
Jesus, you don't need frameworks or sniffing, it's an almost all-text site with very minimal styling. It's almost more difficult to make it non-responsive. There isn't anything really on the desktop version that isn't on the mobile, so I'm not sure where those extra requests would be coming from.

Sorry for the the tetchy reply, I just find it nuts that, to get around writing maybe a page of CSS, people build and maintain an entirely separate site that has to be in lockstep to the the first, along with ever-reliable sniffing, and then say that is the simpler way to do it. There are several scenarios where it turns.out to be useful; this isn't one of them
No kidding. And blogspam to boot.

Normally we'd change the URL to the original (http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/05/29/marc-andreessen/), but that's audio content, which HN users tend not to prefer, so there's a tradeoff here.
In cases like yours, it's wise to start by asking "Just to be clear, may I understand what's your budget for this position/role?"

Most recruiters immediately get the hint and you can gracefully exit if they're expecting to pay far below your current comp.

Edited answer to be less preachy.
Reality -- or our understanding of it -- also is rarely a sure thing. Knowledge can often be imperfect. Attempting to deny that the skeptics have any good points at all often serves to embolden them.

Semmelweis essentially discovered germ theory (or something close to it) but everyone knew he was wrong and as a result it took another 30 years or so before "unpreventable" deaths became preventable. How many people died because folks in charge just knew they were right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

The point here isn't that climate deniers are somehow right and that history will vindicate them, it's that pretending to know something absolutely often (frequently? nearly always?) makes you a charlatan.
I agree: I believe if you look at average incomes, rapid transit, and geography within a given state or city, you would definitely see different needs.

The average income in San Francisco, which has very good rapid transit solutions is $83k. The average income in Lancaster, Ca (a city at the edge of the Mojave) has an average household income of $51k. Busses are its rapid transit du jour. People need cars there, cheap cars, and they drive far each day.

Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico, could the cities therein afford an electric car?
"In board testimony, Bigelow said PPS’ science textbooks are littered with words like might, may and could when talking about climate change."

Skepticism in science? Unacceptable!
Seems like what I was looking for but I wonder how robust their data is.
Hmm, money. Just today I have thought: "If only I had $630 to buy my stepsister a decent laptop so that she can study outside her noisy home with her heavy aspie brother."
And possibly something to do with antibiotics too? I had just finished a very heavy course when I was reintroduced to the dog, apparently there is some suspicion that such a scenario could have something to do with it?
Uhm... Duh?
I don't operate in this space professionally at this point, so I steer clear of the paid options, but everything I listed in that post is a decent starting point. For pure statistics in other sports the Sports-Reference APIs are fine (though I'd rather pull down the data, and the Lahman database is better for baseball); I don't have any good play-by-play data for the NBA aside from commercial sources. I used to have some affordable, but kinda crappy, NBA play-by-play/shot-chart data, but if you're interested in that I'd just be ready to open the wallet.
Every browser on iOS is just Safari with different UI (by order of Apple). No one else even could implement push notifications into their browser because only Apple has that control.

It's not that we don't hear you, it's that the reason you're in your position is because you're using a locked down platform that's trailing all other vendors in web technologies intentionally.
The man in the arena is about doing something with your life rather than critiquing others non constructively.

Build a better YouTube. I'd love to see how someone else caters to the millions of daily users and dozens of use cases
The full quote refers to all whites. I agree it is inappropriate by today's standards, but a black man saying whites are the devil in 1969? I mean...
Url changed from http://qz.com/699191/marc-andreessen-isnt-admitting-theres-a..., which transcribes a few quotes from this and sticks a clickbait maraschino on top.

Normally we wouldn't change from a text article to an audio piece that has no transcript, since the latter is much less accessible. But it feels wrong to reward the above behavior.
I think he was referring to "A People’s Curriculum for the Earth", the book published by the person spearheading the measure, which it does look like they're going to be buying. The reporter seems to have asked Bigelow if the school would be buying it now and he talked around the question in a way that seemed to suggest the answer was yes.
Also the whole fact that their internet is JS/Electron. This really puts a damper on the performance their UI will be able to achieve.
Dave Chappelle did something similar when he came through Portland. If your name wasn't on the ticket, you got turned away at the door. People who paid $300+ for second hand tickets weren't allowed in
My only usecase for Instagram "app" was to embed client's feed in their own webpage. It doesn't look good right now, I don't think this usecase is allowed, it's not in the approval list.

I just can't understand this, business X wants to embed their own damned feed on their own page, how should they do it now?

I've hacked together a way to use unofficial API https://instagram.com/query but it's a bit iffy to use this.
The current government wants to sell off the Flytog (Airport Train). This is a state owned enterprise that even the seriously capitalist Norwegian financial magazine Kapital says is one of the best run companies in the country and should not be privatised. There have been serious suggestions that Statoil should be sold off completely. The electricity system has been privatised even though most of the energy is generated by rain that can hardly be said to be owned by anyone.
That's what I was thinking. The easiest way to beat them would be price and developer experience. The price tag of the data is a little pricey and the docs seem hard to understand.

What are the biggest short comings you've found with the service?
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Stats, LLC is another example.
You don't see ads on Facebook?

It must be the ad blocker. 70% of the real estate via browser is ad based.

Those ads don't include promoted posts from pages you elected to follow.

The majority of content on FB is promotional.
Wouldn't files be much, much easier to work with? Or do APIs enable you to regulate consumption since the data is so expensive?
Is it always the case the investors enforce founders not to have any other job?
When getting investment, is it always the case the investors enforce founders not to have any sort of other job/business activity? Is it fair?

Considering 2 founders has a mature, profitable, relatively good, 5 years old business with 50 employees which does not necessarily require funding to continue doing businesses. The reason for on-boarding investors for 25% of the shares basically to expand business quicker.
Here is the deal, they already give fans an in road on buying play off tickets. Be a season ticket holder.

Now some will argue this is not sufficient but the rub is, if your not going to support the team the full season then why should you have preference over someone who does?

So all teams provide for regular fans. However many people who do complain about the 'system' are fans of fancy, as in fans when the team wins and is in the playoffs.

There are similar passes and priorities for entertainment venues.
Absolutely. I have a couple of sports apps [0] that use both scraped web data and a hidden API to get realtime baseball game information. One of them won a sports hackathon a couple years ago (sports radar was a sponsor).

From what I recall, sports radar is really expensive because they have people manually entering data all the time. If you could find a happy medium where your data is close to real-time but doesn't require a lot of manual work, you could keep your costs low and prices affordable for small app developers.

I'd suggest targeting mobile developers and not just fantasy/daily fantasy. I'd love to work some more up-to-date questions in my sports trivia app. Example: "What had the most rebounds in Warriors/Cavs game 1?"

[0]

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hat-trick-daily-sports-trivi...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/on-deck-baseball-alerts/id91...
Digital Media May Be Changing How You Think
I was under the impression that algorithms couldn't be patented, even in the US. Only software implementations (in the US) or devices using them. Algorithms are just maths.
> You seem to be implying that the US is the only place with diversity and that that somehow is an excuse for the US not having social security measures common in other countries.

100% nope. Where did you get that? I'm in favor of social safety nets. This entire thread is about how easy it is to enact things like "No petrol based cars by 2025".

That's easy to do when you've got 4 million people spread over a small amount of space who come from similar backgrounds. That's harder to do with 300 million people spread over a large amount of space who come from different backgrounds. A small club is much easier to manage than a large club, I don't see what's so hard to comprehend about this.

> But are these requirements really that fundamentally different?

Yes... insofar as you get groups of people who stop thinking that it's their responsibility to cover the costs of the other group. Should people in North Dakota pay for national flood insurance of people who live in southern flood prone regions, even though it's basically guaranteed to flood there eventually? Should people in New Hampshire pay to replace homes lost in california forest fires even though it's basically guaranteed to burn in certain places? What you think is "right" on this issue doesn't matter. What matters is that people in those regions have differing opinions on the matter, and it is objectively harder to get them all to agree than a small country where people tend to have the same problems concentrated in a small place they all share.

Throw in the really controversial stuff like social issues, and the left and the right constantly trying to push their vision of it on the whole country at once, and you can see why maintaining a continent sized empire is more logistically challenging that keeping a small country together.