skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is an important point.

Somehow in this new age of technology companies we have forgotten that corporations, in the long run, will always converge on what is most profitable, regardless of the values of their founding team, who will eventually retire or have their influence diminished.

For that reason, I always pay more attention to a company's incentives than I do what they say about values. If a company derives the vast majority of their income showing me targeted ads, I can expect that that will take priority over any notion of privacy, and we all know that privacy is the bane of targeted advertising. Unless there is some seismic shift in Google's core business in the next several years, we should only expect more moves like this.

And as we head into the new era of "intelligent personal assistants," let's keep in mind which companies are pushing this most aggressively: two ad companies and one that wants us to make it easier (perhaps even not a conscious activity?) to buy things from them. It does not take a lot of imagination to see what these assistants are most interested in assisting us with.

That's why, for all of the valid criticisms of them, I still use Apple products. I'm just more comfortable with their incentives, which are, as of now, mostly to sell me shiny new hardware. Sure, this has led them to do some things that annoy me like lock down their iMessage platform so I can't use it to communicate with my Android-using friends. Still I'll take that sort of behavior over a wholesale disregard for my privacy.
Sometimes (often? usually?) it's just that by the time you narrow it down to 1) houses that will let all my kids have their own bedroom, in 2) a school district where I won't have panic attacks about what a horrible experience I'm putting my kids through, and 3) in my budget... all that's left are McMansions, or smaller houses that similarly maximize space and ease of construction over quality of materials or nicer design.

[edit] in fact I'd bet that, in my city at least, the overwhelming majority of mid-sized to large family houses that would sit on the lower half of the author's scale are in bad school districts, and many are neglected and deteriorating in outright slums.
Interesting. I just Google imaged searched for "Apple Magic Toolbar" and I noticed one of the images had the power button as part of the bar... So I'm assuming it's a touch screen bar, so if your computer freezes or acts up how do you force it off? unless the bar would be a separate CPU/device which talks to the rest of the comp...

Can't remove the battery, and if the power button is part of the GUI and not a actual button seems like it could lead to some problems in theory unless they engineered a way around it...

Otherwise this seems cool. Another pic had the F1, F2 keys, etc so probably would be a way to switch between them for apps that need the F Keys. Will be interested in learning more about this.
These are recovery options. By definition they make your account less secure by adding additional entry points for both you and a potential attacker.

I have 2 factor enabled and did some testing.

Security options
Account
Recovery email (phone # disabled)
2 factor
Recovery phone #, backup codes

All of these require you to provide them. Phone number is given as XXX-XXX-XX12. Email is userna*@domain.com.

Failing all of those options, Google asks you to provide an associated email to help with recovery. It then provides a freeform text field for you to explain the situation and expect a response in 3-5 business days. If you have a secondary less-secured email address this could be a viable vector.

tl;dr two factor seems to add an additional layer of security / accounts that an attacker would have to compromise if appropriately configured. Recovery options weaken your security and you should be cautious when configuring.
It's quite possible that just like Apple beat others by making good phones/laptops, it will beat others by making a better self driving car!
Outsystems is more a direct replacement for a traditional IDE and application server. It generates and deploys either .Net or Java code.
I am also working for a company that uses ColdFusion. While it has been relatively trusty for years, there is now a huge push to move us to Java for a lot of reasons.
There are two things that we know for sure:

- Microsoft is not dead.

- Paul Graham is a tedious windbag. (Look it up.)
No game has lived up to SMAC for me. I feel that was the first game that was 'art' and showed me what games could become. I am glad to hear that others feel the same way. 13 year old me was obsessed with it. This quote helped change my life and made me look at myself in a different way, a revolutionary thing back in those days:

"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment." -Anonymous, Datalinks (played when the player first constructs the hab dome building).

I always see this quote with this fresco: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rQuNLP71fA/UdonE8DAuAI/AAAAAAAAC...
If we accept the small invasion of privacy now, and accept it as the norm, what are the implications for the future?
Massive web attack briefly knocks out top sites
Interesting idea, but I think you are missing out on the category of happiness that is not related to other people. You can be happy just from your own internal thoughts, actions, accomplishments, without involving other people. I don't even know if the idea of addition and subtraction really apply to internally sourced happiness -- would you just be adding/subtracting from yourself?
Does the Embody have mesh back and seating?
The strangest thing about this essay is the assumption that the only function of Java is to financially "save" Sun. The second strangest thing about this essay is that the author, even as late as 1997, considered both Java and Windows to be technically interesting and advanced.
it depends who you're selling to, are you selling the public or or selling the company to an investor.

then it's either an engineer or a designer.
Plenty of people (including me) took one or two looks at RoR and dismissed it, too. I don't think it was the slam-dunk you're making it out to be. React seems to be doing pretty well these days, but it is too soon to say if it is going to dominate the field.
I can certainly understand the feeling, but if you don't want it, donate it. One man's trash...
There are plenty of videos on YouTube that are scathingly critical of Google, Google's partners, Google's vendors, Google's products, Google's policies, and Google's employees.
QA? Do it in Perl please!
A great quote, but another one that wasn't actually Einstein. Appears to be from Laurence Peter (eponym of the Peter Principle).
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1. i can't agree. it's possible to integrate React into your application one component at a time. how is Vue "much simpler to mix in"?

2. i think this depends on your background. if you've had the pleasures and displeasures of working through all the trials and errors of jQuery, then Backbone, then Ember, then Angular... React is painfully obvious to work with. because the problems it solves, the ways it solves them, and reasons for doing so are clear. if you're a new JS developer, maybe Vue probably has an easier learning curve. i'm also not sure why we are calling it a DSL when it's entirely plain JS. Vue templating- now that's a DSL.

3. valiant modus, but keep it contextual. simple can bite you in the ass. people don't introduce complexity for no reason (unless they don't know what they're doing, of course).

4. no... React is in fact just React. you can build a working UI without any supplemental React libraries. how is it "many other things" any more than Vue is?
Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
If the browser adopts a trust-on-first-use policy with self signed certificates and the certificate is replaced (possibly because it has expired), how do you know whether it's MiTM or benign?
That won't happen, because the Quebec government will not allow it.
Couldn't we get an amazing gravity boost out of this planet? How much faster could the voyagers be going if they used it?
> default async is a terrible setting

Haskell's version of "everything is async" works wonderfully. It's JavaScript that is bad, not the concept.
/r/homeimprovement on reddit can have some bright spots too.

As a general note, house construction varies a lot throughout the US due to the climate variances.

E.g. someone moving to the bay area from the midwest is going to find the insulation in houses there comical. Here in Colorado we have almost no vinyl siding (because of the increased UV exposure, I presume), and mold is less of a concern than elsewhere. Full basements are the norm in the midwest, but rare in Texas and nearly impossible in Florida.
> In 2003, scholars from the University of South Carolina looked at the impact of being nice on perceived male attractiveness. They recruited 194 female volunteers to participate in a mock dating game in which they had to pick between two men, Todd and Mike. The researchers varied Todd’s levels of handsomeness and “niceness” while keeping Mike’s personality and looks constant and neutral.

This sounds like a bullshit experiment. I seriously doubt the researchers managed to capture the effective kind of cocky/jerk behavior that works well with some women. Additionally, they're measuring self-reported opinions from women, rather than what the real-world result would be. I say this without any sort of negativity attached to it, but women often say they feel one thing while acting as though they feel another, especially as it pertains to their relationships with men. Again, I don't think this is a negative trait, it just is what it is. I see men all the time acting less than gentlemanly towards women and having the woman verbally shooting him down, but still going home to sleep with him. It's so predictable when done right.
Deep Learning papers reading roadmap for anyone
I don't think this is inconsistent at all. They're laying off mostly people in their rail division, which is based in Germany and doing poorly. They're asking for some government support for the aerospace group, which is based in Canada and doing ok, but facing lots of competition from Airbus and Embraer, which also receive government support.
Perhaps a reasonable thing if your 95%/5% split is correct. It is possible that you are extrapolating from the group you hang out with to the population at large. It certainly doesn't apply to my group.
The trouble is that it's very difficult for a single tool to meet the use cases of everyone who uses JS.
There are hundreds of millions of people in North America. Why do people act like gaining or losing a couple thousand jobs is some kind of earth-shaking development?
I get that losing jobs sucks for the people involved, but sometimes I even see US jobs reports delivered as breaking news in national newspapers. Why?
The fact that it's "purchased" has nothing to do with it. The important part is a "trusted" third party (note my use of quotes). Without authentication, the guarantees of confidentiality and integrity are pretty much empty.

(In fact, I would argue that free certificates from Let's Encrypt are more trustworthy since the ACME protocol drastically reduces the surface area for attacks on the verification process. See slides[1].)

[1]: http://www.thedotpost.com/2016/10/matthew-holt-go-with-acme
Diversity for a richer ecosystem.
Sometimes folks say otherwise blunt, insulting things out of ignorance and not malice or spite. Take the charitable view and give them an honest answer to expand their worldview, don't shit on them.

tl;dr don't be a dick.
One of the reasons Uber is "losing" money is because they've made a huge bet on autonomous vehicles, buying the entire CMU robotics department, and Stanford, the winner of the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge isn't far from Uber's headquarters, either.

30 years ago was 1986; I don't know about you, but my Internet usage looked a lot different back then, and computing power was drastically different. Fully autonomous vehicles may still be a ways off, but imperfect partially autonomous is already here, with Tesla leading the the way for high-end consumers.
Exactly, the it's the Land, not the structure. If the land is practically worthless, there's a ton of money left over to build on it.

The most telling in the prices you posted is that 758 sq. ft. house for 527k:

> Last sold: Jan 1973 for $25,000

That's $135,939.19 inflation adjusted to 2016 dollars. Where'd the remaining $390k of value come from (assuming house is in same relative shape.)
Steps to Take Now for Explosive Business Growth Next Year
Didn't Charter already buy Time Warner? Then even less competition if AT&T buys out a cable company too. :( This is ridiculous how little competition we have here in America for TV, Internet and phone service.

Edit: Did a Google search, looks like "Time Warner Cable" and "Time Warner" are separate companies. So confusing to have similar names, but they both were the same company at one point in history.
Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain
EU-Fossa project submits results of code audits
Very cool research!

Is there any proof-of-existence archive of DKIM keys or DNS record changes in general? Seems like a perfect use case for blockchain[1]. If the DKIM keys were rolled over or replaced since they were originally sent out, there wouldn't be anything to compare them against. Having a record that can show proof-of-existence (at a min point in time) would cover that.

[1]: Ha! I knew there would eventually be a legit use case!
And give no warning for plain HTTP pages.
I'm wondering if this has anything to do with them hiring a new CEO, Colin Doherty.

I worked for him and he sucks.
It will have to be P2P of some sort. Even with full-duplex gagabit fiber, there's no way for one person to stream HD video to thousands of viewers simultaneously on a home or office connection,
I don't really track anything. I look at my email and if I don't know what an email is I'll pop it open, though a lot of work related emails are just automated messages or softcopies of something that I printed out at the same time so I don't even bother reading those.

If there's something I need to do I either write a note down on a scrap-of-paper/notepad/sticky-note or just you know, do it.

I am in fact hilariously unorganized but it's pretty unimportant because I'm not sure how having a bunch of folders for stuff is supposed to keep me from forgetting to do things.
Do you believe that every illegal act is automatically indefensible?
> I just wish it wasn't JS.

Try Clojurescript. It is truly amazing.
Having been a programmer for the past 18 years, I can say that JavaScript definitely suffers from "rock star" syndrome. There are great people in every programming community... and JavaScript is no exception. But never have I seen a community so plagued by the conference speaker, twitter famous types. (The types that refer to people not in their perceived realm of popularity as "filthy randos") It's incredibly toxic. I want to scream, "we're all geeks, just like you. You are not really a rock-star!!! No one outside of this niche community even cares what you think about anything at all!!!" Today's novice programmers have potential to be tomorrow's great inventors. That's why I can extend an amazing amount of empathy for sloppy code, bad architecture, etc. The poison that you speak of has the image of the SV archetypical, studio dwelling, hip 22 year old. None of this is the fault of the language though... or OSS. I think you're correct in mentioning "hype".
I was one of the people who was really raging at Google when they announced that Chrome wouldn't support PE (with that infamous "No argument that PE is more elegant" comment), so it's only fair that I thank them sincerely for them doing the right thing and making a 180 on this. Good job.
MobX is written in TypeScript: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
A question before my own story: What does everyone do as far as trying out chairs? It's crazy to me to base my buying decision on 10 minutes of sitting in a store. Are there stores out there that allow for in-home trials of these products?

One of the thing that always amuses me about "best chair" recommendations is that it's an entirely personal choice.

I am 6' 2" and 200lbs. Understanding even more than that about the size of a person is critical to understanding their needs in a chair. No matter how adjustable a chair is, it's simply not going to be best for everyone.

At home, I own a size-C Aeron chair that I purchased in 2007. I love it and the only thing I've ever considered is upgrading to one with the highest-end back support rather than the standard lumbar cushion.

At work, I sit in a Steelcase Leap. It's certainly a fine chair and I have no real problems with it. I find it very comfortable and I'm able to sit for much of the day in this chair without any issues.

My gut tells me that I prefer my Aeron; that said, the more I think about it, the more I realize that I've never questioned that assumption. The one thing I know is that I do prefer the breathable material on the Aeron.
StartPage is a mystery to me; they say they're "enhanced by Google", but what does Google get out of providing their search results to a competitor?
I have been using Ramdajs, rather than lodash, but they both do about the same thing. One difference is that Ramda puts the functions before the data in its library calls, so that you can curry/apply the app logic function (e.g. - perhaps for a map or filter), save the resulting function and use it elsewhere.

Lodash looks nice, though, in that its partial function application mechanisms seem a bit more flexible than curry (only) - e.g. - I want to make a function with 0-arity, and bind it to an event handler, which Ramda won't do.
The birth of modern wind power – 75 years ago today
So this means that Samsung could ask that any video which shows their phones to be removed from the internet? Because it is a copyright claim...
Weex is in the process of becoming powered by Vue, but it's just "Vue inspired" right now. Evan talked about it in the Vue 2.0 announcement.

I would give it time before I use it.
I can see the “subtractive” approach work for psychopaths but all I know seems to indicate that it's doomed to failure for ordinary people.
Yup, I had already clicked on the article, so the WSJ knew that I'd been there previously.
There's a good discussion about this at http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2387/is-there-no-ph...
The underlying issue here is that WHOIS is still not standardised despite being around for over 30 years, and the registrars do not have any other common interface that can be used to discover domain owners and other metadata. Is there no workable solution to this problem?
and now these seem down as well. EDIT: and up again half an hour later
Canada-EU trade talks with Wallonia collapse as Freeland heads home
I added

192.30.253.112 github.com

but https://assets-cdn.github.com is failing

EDIT:
Use
192.30.253.112 github.com
151.101.24.133 assets-cdn.github.com

or try 8.8.8.8 DNS
> which resources do I select to maximise learning in x
> hours/days/years?

Pick a particular open-source implementation of something you're interested in, say the Google image captioning technology, read the papers necessary to understand that, and play with that implementation.

The main problem with the plan implied by the OP's bibliography is that it's not practical at all. You'll end up with a catholic knowledge of the theory and no idea about how to use it.
"/s"

[End] Sarcasm :-)
wait, buggy phone sims is a thing?
Many people will learn JavaScript this year as their first language. Those are not the people writing the successful libraries like React.

Lots of people with little experience contribute, which is great, but "the ecosystem" is largely built by people with plenty of experience and training.
It's funny that I didn't take my own advice 4 years ago.
A colleague asked me what stocks she should buy and I said Microsoft. She bought in at around $20 something.

I don't know how many she bought.
I bought a higher end Lenovo in 2014 before carrying it around the world for a year while backpacking. It has by far had the best real-world performance of any laptop I've interacted with. (Model: T440s)

The keyboard is a dream, the touchpad is excellent, the hardware is magnificent and a breeze to take apart and maintain. Every time I crack it open (one panel bottom assembly for easy access), I discover some neat piece of engineering I missed the last time. Like the pinhole in the bottom that leads to a button to manually disconnect the internal battery.

And it's durable. It survived a year in my backpack, and I didn't go easy on it. Water damage? What water damage? You can pour a glass of water on the keyboard and it just goes out through to the bottom. Oh, and you can replace that same keyboard in a matter of minutes thanks to a well designed locking system and easy internal access.

I SLEPT on my backpack with this thing inside and it didn't notice. Banged it up countless times. A bit of heavy condensation eventually made its was into the edges of the screen from the sweat off my back in tropical summer weather, and eventually there were a few tiny pin marks on the screen from considerable external pressure (eg. third world buses and my pack getting thrown around and dropped from the roof). I found them easy enough to overlook given what I've put it through.

As for performance, I've been a PC nerd my whole life and the first thing I did when I was a teenager and had a few dollars was build a PC. I'm the sort who overclocks and notices those few extra MHz on my CPU, or that the RAM and storage aren't bottlenecking anything. The laptop runs smooth as butter (I put an SSD in and reinstalled Windows the moment I got it).

It's two years later, so I don't know how their laptops are currently doing, but give the higher end Lenovos a look if you want quality (and performance). Their cheap ones are crap though; you get what you pay for.
Well, we have root access. Can't we completely stump and destroy this stupid safety net? This should have a very high priority for anyone who cares about open smartphone systems.

There should be a safety net remover that simply strips all safety net API calls off a program and inserts all valid flags by default.
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NPM + Github + Node.js + JavaScript is easier + JavaScript was already front-end ubiquitous came together in a perfect storm to allow JavaScript packages to be created and spread like butter on toast. JavaScript is the easiest to develop with, has the most adoption, runs client/server and has the easiest package manager to both publish and use. Why is this even a question? This is not an argument for JavaScript but merely stating why it is changing so fast.
Don't understand why it bothers you. Big corporations have unfair advantage either way. Small players already need some special treatment to level the field.

But privacy is more about power and governments getting access to the data companies collect is the worst thing that could happen.
Thats why you should have a different domainname

githubstatus.com instead of status.github.com

You could even through the domain on a free DNS service.
When we ask users repeatedly to comment civilly and substantively and they don't, we have to ban them. We've done so here.
So now you have a goal in life: to try it on a snowmobile.
Is SnapChat's valuation anywhere near inline with their revenue/profitability (or lack thereof)?