skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't deny he has done well but I there are a few factors to consider

1. I would much rather Musk become rich by furthering humanity than someone making the next cat picture app

2. The companies are tackling some of the hardest problems and I think purely to make money he would have picked other easier problems to solve.

3. It is shortsighted to not embrace anyone pushing and striving for the important goals for humanity. Energy, transportation, space travel.
On (1), I think you're misreading. The "college and grad-school dropouts" are new people who could become "Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin." As that era has not yet produced a Facebook or Google, their names are useful stand-ins. The sentence hinges on that "could."
sed and awk command strings can be quite long.

One can do a lot combining find with cpio or tar to selectively extract files for backup.

I don't consider any of this to be "crude"; I find it quite elegant.
"Google has top notch practices in my opinion regarding privacy."

Google might handle the data it collects better than other companies, but it would do much better still if it didn't collect any personal data at all.

Hands off my data, Google!
Popescu is a very common family name in Romania, don't think this has something to do with this. The same would apply for american family names as well.
Yes, if you're matching constant regular expressions on an embedded device using a general-purpose runtime regular expression processor, you're probably Doing It Wrong™.
But as far as I know, such a BSE has never happened in medicine. There have been many developments that have reduced mortality for people below the maximum lifetime, but there has never been a medical breakthrough which dramatically increased the longevity of the very oldest people. If something is developed that allows us to have as many 130 year old people as we now have 100 year old people, it will be qualitatively different than anything that came before.
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I guess people should make different kinds of "social networks". Twitter, Facebook, Instagram -- and all the decentralized clones -- are just the same thing. You have your own page/blog where you post your own things, others read those from their "news feed".

Is that really everything that all the developers in the world could conceive? Is that the definition of "social network"?
Glibness aside, the usage of gendered pronouns does not make a language gendered. That's only true if there has to be agreement between the gender of a noun and words relating to the noun.

And it's also not what people are arguing. Instead, they argue that gendered terms are the product of cultural norms and prescriptive grammar that reinforce gender roles that are oppressive to both men and women. That some view these assignments as objective when that's untrue linguistically and historically, I think only lends credence to their point.
Show HN: A mobile app to buy/print shipping labels for FedEx,UPS,USPS,etc
Can anyone who works for a top SDC company (comma.ai, Zoox, Cruise, Uber/Otto, Tesla) comment whether they would consider an application from someone with a technical qualification plus this "nanodegree"? Throwaways acceptable, looking for a pragmatic insight from an industry insider.

There is a lot of PR speak clouding my judgement.
The problem with Mac is that one needs to have Apple hardware, you can't even change your RAM sticks to the ones that Apple didn't approve. There is nothing (apart from maybe some fancy Adobe software) that you can't run on Linux just as well or even better.
> No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy.

The post I responded to seemed to be.

It implied the data would be "distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger", and said it would:

"be there forever"
"keep the data accurate and accessible"

I think its legit to call this out.
Blockchain is a great technology, but its being hyped as if its the world's only distributed database.

> This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data.

That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted.
Using order-of-magnitude prefixes to scale up and down units is orthogonal to base. Things just look strange if you refer to other bases in base 10.

Consider base-2 prefixes (now being known as kibi, mebi, gibi, etc)

1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes

1 mebibyte = 1048576 bytes

These don't look like nice round numbers because I am representing scaling of a base 2 number in base 10. It's more clear if I say:

1 kibibyte = 10000000000

1 mebibyte = 100000000000000000000

1 gibibyte = 1000000000000000000000000000000

Each further prefix just adds 10 zeros to the binary value. Just like metric prefixes add zeros.

One kilometer would still equal 1000 meters. But that 1000 is now in base 12, not in base 10. So rather than 10^3 it's now 12^3. But that just seems strange because you grew up with base 10.

Eggs and doughnuts and many other things are measured in 12 because of its historical utility. It allows you to say things like "I'd like a quarter of dozen" and "a third of a dozen" which are not possible with 10.

Extending a bit further, if you want division by 2, 3, 4, and 5 you can go up to base 60. The Babylonians (among others) did this and nowadays we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 6 * 60 degrees in a circle, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
My point was more that they aren't entirely a trade off from ended up a mess of malware and abusive advertising.

That second problem remains unsolved (crap apps blasted into the stores just to show ads fit my definition of abusive advertising).
A lot of misconceptions here, unless I'm misreading your post.

The seed control stuff is really just Monsanto being incredibly shitty at PR. See NPR[1]; also, in the past 10, 20 years or so, there's only been one lawsuit between Monsanto and farmers[2] (news flash: it was the farmers that sued Monsanto). Also, organic seeds get patented too, it's not just GMO seeds[3].

I also highly suggest you read William Saletan's article on GMO's[4]

Another fun fact: organic doesn't mean evolution-based. Mutagenesis and specially-grown cultivars have become an increasingly popular way to produce foods that get the organic label; it's only really transgenesis (gene splicing) that you can't say is organic.

To be clear: I'm not denying that there are despicable business practices out there (hell, did you know that there's actually a black market for stuff like olive oil and fish?), and that there is definitely something to be said for the US-EU split on the proper way to regulate GMO's, but organic is generally just a stupid concept.

[1] (http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...)

[2] (http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...)

[3] (https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/08/07/challengin...)

[4] (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...)
That isn't how you deal with fraudsters. You tell them nothing, complete stonewall. Anything you say about why they were flagged will assist them in not getting flagged next time, so you tell them nothing. Some non-zero percent of time you will flag the wrong person and start a social media shit storm but that's just the cost of doing business.
What is more relevant than when it was released is when it was last sold as a new device through official channels. If a phone is for sale though a legitimate distributor, then I think it's reasonable to expect security updates for 3 years after that point.
#1 on HackerNews is worth it. Congratulations, man!
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I just tried it. You can drag images into the doc and it will show the image WYSIWYG, but the image url looks to be an absolute path, not a relative one.

It does not move the image.
Seems interesting, but it is ridiculous that they have a profile in each other "social network".

In case anyone mentions, https://twitter.com/facebook is also ridiculous.
Right click on the covering graphic, inspect the element, and delete it.
This is pretty much a smear with no actual evidence?
These are pretty common names.
haha! the tools they build are meant for Vogons, not coders. In fact, Jira takes the "agile" out of agile.
iOS devs have stolkholm syndrome. We deal with all sorts of crap from apple.

Like code signing. Or the encrypt-then-compress DRM adding many MB to binary sizes. Or code signing causing pre-main startup times to bloat. Etc, etc.
EdX Nanodegrees are linked to, and provide specified credits toward, Master's (or maybe other, but I think usually master's) degree programs from the institution partnering with EdX to offer the nanodegree. (It is, I think, intended that they should generally be useful, from a career sense, independently, but the link to a degree program is the defining characteristic.)
Do you think there will be a time, given the proliferation of bootcamps (who themselves will continue to iterate to compensate for an everchanging market), there will be a time when you're employer is thinking the same thing about you?

Are we just in a bubble is what I'm saying or is software still a valid thing to get into with the expectation that, if one is particularly good, they'll be able to earn that much in 10 years?

-24 year old, Oakland, learning to code for the past few months
This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.
I conversed with the developer of Dash a while back and found him to be a rather cordial and frankly honest person. He's from Romania, and had you done a single Google search for "Popescu" you might have seen this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popescu

"Popescu (Francisized as Popesco) is a family name very common in Romania"
What's enraging is you pay 30% of your sales for that abusive treatment.
The standard "drives better than a 16-year-old" is not particularly comforting.
Adult man confuses products with similar names. Searches Google for answer, becomes more confused. Gives up.
Not the same definition as discussed here, but: All my social networking among friends is "closed". I almost never post publicly, everything happens in closed groups on facebook, in a group chat, in a Slack for a group of friends/coworkers/organization, Snapchats where you're either in or you're out etc.
The problem is that a document in a window opened by a link with target="_blank" unexpectedly has a reference to the document that contains the link, using the window.opener property.

This property has limited functionality but one of the things that are allowed is redirecting the page to something else which is kind of unexpected.

The problem is not websites that use target="_blank", it's browsers that refuse to fix this behavior because of some ill-defined compatibility issue that appears to exist mostly in the heads of developers who don't want to work on a fix.
I have comparatively small hands. On an iPhone 6, I usually unlock it with most of my hand near the bottom of the phone to get my thumb in position there. After it's unlocked, I shift my hand so that my thumb's coming from the side of the screen, instead of the bottom.

In that latter "using the phone" position, my forefinger rests on the upper-middle of the phone, right where the back-side fingerprint readers are located on many (most?) phones. I feel like a reader in that position would make it easier for me to pick up the phone and unlock it without needing to shift my hands back and forth.
My "social network" is the internet. I can control where my domain resolves and I can serve content over HTTP and handle email via SMTP.

Anyone can link to my site from whatever social network they use.

I may or may not be able to link to everyone else, though. So far, I have no external links on my site. They're too likely to be broken in a year or three. If I get email related to my site, I often post it to the site.

I hope I can continue to interoperate with other people like this. I have tried a couple other social networks like Hacker News and Twitter, but if they disappeared or acted in a way I didn't like, I could abandon them without much loss.

Do I have any reason to be scared that my current setup might become "closed" in the future? Not trying to be paranoid, just wondering.
The article was written by an average mind for an average mind, discusses natural humans and considers only nearest future.
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It just does too many things. Confusing switches. Confusing order of arguments. Easy to mess up.

Ugh.
Companies make products for their users or customers.
I'm waiting for the barbarians.
Except the economics are vastly different. The complexity and cost of manufacturing, the computationally intensive cost of simulation and various checks and optimizations (be it clock timing or mask optimizations to etch features that are smaller than the wavelength used to etch them), all mean that you can't just "compile and publish", and turnaround times are months, not hours.

And there are no open-source toolchains for any of this. It's a student project to implement a SW compiler, why isn't it to implement an RTL compiler?
All I can do is tap!
>Plus, much of organic food theory is total pseudoscientific bunk.

I agree that the idea of Frankenfood is hysteria. My fear of GMO's is due to my distrust of Monsanto, their near monopoly position in the global food supply, the legal tactics they use to bankrupt farmers for having the unmitigated gall to unwittingly use Monsanto seeds that blew onto their farm, and their regulatory capture of the FDA. There is a revolving door of former politicians they employ.

It's also unconscionable how they're able to ram through legislation that removes labeling of foods that are GMO's. Even if someone has an irrational fear of GMO's, they should still have the right to know the origin of their foods. Logic clearly dictates that the rights of the many outweigh the avarice of the few. God forbid they should try to educate the public on their safety or be open and transparent about their products.
I think he has a good point. A lot of our business and life are under the rule of big private companies. We are merciless to question their behavior even when their acts have great impact upon us.

Sure, we should add add a lot of names to this list: "Try contacting [Apple|Google|EBay|PayPal|AmazonAws|.*] about anything."
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645210
Isn't that called vim (or insert your actual editor of choice)?

Markdown is meant to be readable while editing, I actually find having the rendered edition on top of your edition really confusing, when you can just open the .md file in your editor while having your preview outside of it updated after each save.
I have the Lumia 929 and it offers both jpg and raw at the same time. That means I get the best of both worlds. It also does a second or so of video before the pic is taken, which is pretty cool.
It's in fact the second most common surname in Romania.
> Cytomegalovirus. Most of us carry this virus. It basically takes up the memory of our immune system, but only slowly over time.

Perhaps we can eliminate it from our bodies, in a similar manner to what was done to eliminate HIV in this recent case. https://www.rt.com/uk/361424-british-hiv-patient-cured/
It was probably about not getting too much attention before they knew the thing wasn't going to blow up or crash.

Now that it is shown to be reliable they likely want as much attention as they can get.
Not OP, but whenever I enter Latex into the math block, nothing ends up getting saved?
Yes, because when one has already decided that feature $FOO is a trap, any further discussion is likely to be limited to describing how "yes, just like a trap is designed to...so is the thing we're talking about" whether the analogy is apt or not. Something something supporting a narrative.
Bias is a big problem, but why not call out the problem directly instead of confusing the issue with a tangential, philosophical discussion about whether or not objectivity exists?
I don't think the parent comment was actually agreeing but instead of mocking Donald Trump's response to Hillary's comment about him not paying federal income tax. But I could be wrong.
> It does say something about medical breakthroughs -- since they're happening all the time and not shifting this upper bound very much.

Given that those who are 115 today were 85 when breakthroughs were made three decades ago, I'd say that we simply don't have the data yet to make that assessment.
Agreed they're speculative - I'm just pointing out potential applications. I'm sure there will be a legal usage of it at some point though.
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
Yes, and this is a good thing for everyone involved.
Hardware to Hell
dupe, last discussion 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605818
We did. On N900, but the hardware was bulky and then Nokia stopped being Nokia.
88 Energy or Great Bear will be next.
Sorry, but the OP wasn't talking about ipfs at all. He was talking about Cloudflare.

Having said that, thanks for the interesting digression. You've made me want to try out ipfs.
Why would I use this over Twitter ?
What this article is saying in a muddled kind of way is that improvements in "healthspan" can take humans to about 125 years. Beyond that, more radical interventions are required, probably requiring genetic modification.

Space travel might drive this as well. Humans who want to travel to and live on Mars will want to be resilient to changes in gravity and to radiation. And once we open the door to genetic modification, longevity becomes one goal among many.
The author of this article argues that there exists natural limit to the human longevity, which can not be overcome by current medicine. I don't think this implies that we will never cross that limit by further advancements in technology, such as gene editing.
> Interesting because many Americans do consider themselves as the spiritual successors of the Roman empire

I'm sorry, what? I'm not an American so this is the first time I'm hearing this. Can someone recommend some reading on this topic? Seems pretty interesting.
I only read the start of this, but already there's 2 big problems with the idea of a collectively-owned social graph:

1. I may want to have different social graphs on different networks. Facebook for friends and family, LinkedIn for work, Google Plus for hell if I know, etc. Not only would I probably want different graphs for the different networks, I'd also explicitly want to avoid having those networks know about the social connections I have outside of it (e.g. I don't want to just tell LinkedIn to ignore my family, I specifically don't want it to have access to that info in the first place).

2. The social graph isn't the only component of the network effect. Even if we had a collectively-owned social graph, all of the content that you produce or consume is limited to a single social network. So even if Google Plus could see my entire Facebook social graph, anything I post on Facebook would not be on Google Plus (and vice versa). So the network effect is still strong, because everybody would still have to gravitate to the same social network in order to see each others' posts.

The only way this really works is if we have a federated social network, where all federated networks share the same social graph and have access to all the content. But while federation works for a messaging platform, it doesn't really work all that well for a social network because it also means all networks have to have the same feature set, and that's hugely restrictive. If Facebook was federated with Google Plus, Facebook couldn't introduce any new features since Google Plus doesn't have them. Or Google Plus couldn't introduce its Circles concept because Facebook doesn't (didn't?) have that.
It's just a matter of taste and not quality, but traditional Danish food is not something my palate will ever appreciate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635848
Firstly, I just started listening to EconTalk and it is truly excellent. Even though I don't always agree with the host, he's always thoughtful and willing to listen and seriously consider alternative points of view, and seems to be genuinely interested in understanding the issue he's discussing.

That being said, I took issue with the discussion at the end of this episode regarding Google's ad targeting being used for 'bad' products like payday loans or for-profit online universities. Even though they appeared to be on opposite sides of the issue, neither addressed what seemed to me to be the core point. Which is, why is it better if rich people have to see ads for payday loans too? She seemed to be suggesting that Google's targeting somehow makes this problem worse by focusing these ads on vulnerable people. And while that may be true, if the thing is harmful when sprayed across un-targeted media, why is it so much worse when it's targeted? Just because it gives these people a better ROI on their spend? It just seems like a total red herring issue to me.

I totally agree that things like sentencing or policing using machine learning algorithms will strongly tend to reinforce the status quo. But ad-targeting just doesn't fit into that mould, IMO.
I did research in Multi-Agent Systems and always believed that they are going to be the next big thing but in the end realised that our technological capabilities are not there yet. The urbit is probably a good idea towards that kind of computation, still a long way before that.
I'm hoping this was sarcasm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
> The reason we use Republic and English is due to the barbaric colonization by European powers in the past.

The amount of self-loathing in the West is reaching critical levels.
No, the walled garden is the walled garden. The expert consultant is often a relative or favorite blogger or golfing buddy or corporate IT person.

How many of us have set up a clueless person's computer? We give them a restricted user account, so they can't install 500 random spyware/adware toolbars. We change the IE/Edge shortcut to open Firefox instead. We install ad-blockers and script-blockers with an overly generous whitelist. Maybe we even install Linux with remote admin, and automatic updates, and just slap on a wm that looks vaguely like Windows. Their expert is us, or people like us, and our services are not always bought with spendable currency.

I don't always enjoy being that expert, or getting paid for it in cookies and ugly sweaters. And in that situation, the walled garden is great. We can all roll our clueless friends up in carpets and dump them over the wall, where they can stumble around all day without getting hurt.

But some people can actually make a business out of it. They do exist. And some of them won't shamelessly price-gouge their clueless customers.
A fair point that I apparently missed. Because, yeah, though an app from an app store might not trash my machine, it ain't all rainbows and roses in AppStoreLand, either.
Verizon has 140 million subscribers in the US, or about 35% market share. So you're right, that's not most people.