skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to reach this goal is to make sure features of the service remain unfriendly to users. Case in point, when providing a search interface, only return as many results as you want to, not as many as you have. And don't bother coalescing spammy results all from the same account into one expandable item; instead let them flood the results because they used keyword tag spam, and then cut off the search results after a few pages.

Make it hard to navigate by hiding everything behind hashes, to prevent fair use downloads. Keep tags in beta for 15+ years.

Of course, when usage goes down, that helps with the problem quite a bit. A poor experience, even for viewing content, lessens engagement and leads to lower usage and fewer uploads.

Sadly, I'm afraid a much more extreme data storage reduction approach awaits faithful users of Flickr.

When Yahoo! bought a large photo blogging site in Taiwan, it simply shut it down with about six months notice, deleting everything as it did.
But you do agree they dictate what is ok to say on reddit, irc, newsgroups, and github correct? I've seen people scolded for saying 'hey guys'. You can say that is a good thing, but to me it seems like a passive aggressive way to show authority over someone with a virtue contest.

The problem is that it turns a meritocracy into something that can be sidestepped and warped by one person claiming to be offended. In practice someone scolds another person for something that they say might offend someone reading.

I also haven't seen any sort of evidence that it solves a problem. It seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem. I don't think it magically takes care of toxic people.
About 23%, actually. Roughly half the country didn't vote, or they did but their votes weren't counted because of voter suppression laws largely passed by Republicans.
If it's Chrome, you can just go to Settings -> Show advanced settings... -> Manage passwords. Then click on a password and click Show.
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You should ask him.
So basically just like any other financial asset.
NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers lob Molotov cocktail before exiting world stage
I did't realize they had moved HQ. They still have a huge presence there, a 14 story building and the ATT Center where the Spurs play. S.A is definitely still ATT's turf though.
FWIW, Firefox lets you view the stored passwords directly (about:preferences#security → Saved Logins → Show Passwords). Very useful feature :)
I don't know the team structure but I think it's a lot related to how the new standards are being drafted. They're being done with the big compiler writers helping (also in the open too). This means that the work on each individual extension started a good bit ago even if it isn't in an actual standard yet.
Chomsky's claim is that humans, unlike other animals, have the capacity to use recursion not that all humans use that structure. So the Piraha objection is irrelevant unless you can demonstrate the Pirahas cannot understand recursive language.
Did you mean Windows ME/2000, not XP?

Vista was a major screw up. I didn't mind Windows 8 as much. But yeah if those mess ups don't sway people, nothing will.
Chrome, to its credit, doesn't automatically load extensions that are installed this way. (Or at least it shouldn't; I've seen enough malicious Chrome extensions in my tech support years that I suspect there's a way to bypass this prompt.) That doesn't excuse the practice though; no software update should install additional features without the user's consent, and this is a practice that seems to be all too common in the industry.
> And there would be no way to verify the binary by itself.

Doesn't Java do exactly that?
> He's an influential and highly connected billionaire.

Which makes him totally different from the Member of Parliament for Cambridge, Master of the Mint, intellectual grandfather of the enlightenment, etc.

By the way, Isaac Newton MP did have a somewhat lasting influence on theology: he got to vote in 1688.
He addresses this specific criticism at length in the article, it's worth reading the whole thing.
There are free utils around to block the telemetry being sent. eg:

* https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
* https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Note - I'm not sure if anyone has deeply tested/verified them though.

Ideally a good Open Source one would exist. Maybe it does, I just don't know of it yet. ;)
I like how this feels, but sadly without 1Password and AdBlock I can't consider using it for now.

It looks like it's running pretty much on the same tech as normal opera and chrome. Here's to hope that extensions are coming soon!

/edit: looks like extensions is still available in the menu, it just doesn't resolve to anything.
Also worth mentioning is the old universities did not have formal assessments so 100% students graduate with certificate. While this would be a bit woolly in our hyperactive world, I think being able to study without that pressure could significantly loosen up our perceptions of what we can and cannot learn. But since the sum knowledge base acquired by the human race has grown considerably (I know, a total understatement) true polymaths will continue to be rare. But in the first place, no one should be pressured to become one. There is so much content made accessible today that 'tinkerer' IMO is an honourable occupation. It probably needs a more glamorous label though ...
I mean, yeah, but you can say the exact same thing about braces in C. Rust lets you use explicit return all the time (with semicolons everywhere), if you want to. C lets you use explicit braces all the time, if you want to.

Rust also lets you use expression returns by omitting semicolons, which is a common programming style. C also lets you omit braces, which is a common programming style. Being common programming styles, you have to deal with them often. Both are a bit confusing to wrap your head around at first. I find that Rust's confusingness is fine because you can't goof up with it; the compiler will error if you do. C on the other hand will happily let you mess up your braces and still compile.

Again, this is different, not worse.
No, if the sodium hydroxide is already in solution then diluting with copious water is one of the best ways to deal with a splash on skin. You're right that adding water makes the problem worse if you have e.g. a spill of prills to clean up.
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> I now need someone to build the entire app, UI, UX, database, etc.

What part of the decisions involved in that process have "magic" attributes that makes them uniquely tied to the meat-based data processor in your head?
This idea is covered really well in Richard Garfield's book Characteristics of Games.

The metaphor he draws here is what he refers to as the skill chain. Each link in the chain reflects the point at which the player on the lower link is unable to defeat the player on the higher link above some small percentage. The longer the chain the more skill is rewarded by the game.

However this has a downside for an online game that isn't as popular as the ones you mention, you will be unable to find interesting games without having to wait for a long time for the correct opponent to appear. And it makes matching up well against your friends less likely.

Randomness can be used as s tool by a skilled game designer to shorten the chain and allow for more player to compete with each other. It also gives the player an element outside their own weakness to blame when they lose and that can make the game more enjoyable.

So it's something pro players tend to dislike but is typically accepted as the price of having diversity of skill in the player pool. (Poker vs chess for example)
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>Sure, but.. this isn't Instagram, is it? Somehow I feel that if you're purporting to build a safety-critical service, the bar ought to be set a bit higher for you than if you're sharing pictures of people's lunch.

To your point and going back to what zaroth was getting at I'm wondering why I didn't see the typical references to a bug bounty, permission or payout that are typical in write-ups of this nature. This really does concern me.

Poking around server-side with an account you clearly weren't meant to interact with could have serious repercussions up to and including service outages. You'd be amazed at the sorts of mistakes I've seen in code that could lead to unintentionally taking down a service. A number of years ago I discovered a flaw with a major identity management provider. If the POST request parameters were placed out of expected order it crashed the application into a zombied state where it could no longer accept requests, causing a denial of service situation until it was restarted. Worse, the event wasn't logged. You don't typically log POSTs in the HTTPD and they didn't have application layer logging at that level either so without monitoring HTTPS traffic there was no way to troubleshoot why the application was hanging.

I've seen lots of vulnerabilities like this including in life critical systems. Because of the unexpected as well as US law, I always check to see if there's a bug bounty first or I reach out to the vendor and get written permission. I really am paranoid about what's in criminal code as well as accidentally causing an outage.

There are certainly a number of ethics and possibly legal issue which appear to be at play here beyond just embarrassing the company.

Hopefully we'll here more about the bug bounty program.
Not saying you're wrong, but the first sentence of the article is "One of the largest cost drivers in running a service like Flickr is storage." Sure doesn't sound "free" or even "almost free" to me.
Haskell for one, but lots of others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads
> the "Envelope Encryption" functions like EVP_SealInit()

That thing is a footgun.

Those functions encrypt a block of data to a public key without authentication. And encourage you to encrypt to more than one public key at the same time, which is generally a bad idea. The example cipher in the man page is EVP_des_cbc().

It looks like the fact that they're not widely known is the good news. :)
Neanderthals were people too
seems like a bad UX design.
Yes, if you have the option to "Request Desktop Site" in your browser, that will redirect you to the non-mobile site. Another way that works for me is to remove the first
"https://www.google.com/amp/" from the url. This should direct you to the mobile version of the site.
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he added an additional requirement "to tune how application runs without needing to modify the code."

So I assume that means not using things like forkio/goroutines etc.. You still have to tell haskell "fork a green thread here" instead of what he wants, which is it to be completely transparent.

Additionally, I think one can make the case the haskell green threads aren't very different from async await, in which "awaiting" is just creating some data that a scheduler maps onto a threadpool (rather like how GHC maps it's 'green threads' onto it's 'capabilities' via a scheduler)

Furthermore, if you actually want to pass data round in Haskell rather than just fork threads, it leaves it completely up to the user to figure out how to do that.. MVar's are canonical but noisy syntatically. the 'async' package is very nice, but gives the gives the same syntax OP is complaining about!
You can find more info about how Haskell does it here: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/multicore-ghc....
Worth mentioning this refutation to Daniel Everett's argument by linguist at the University of Toronto published on Medium: https://medium.com/@dan.milway/dont-believe-the-rumours-univ...

>Which brings us to the mistaken view of the actual theory of UG that article such as the SA piece present. Daniel Everett, a field linguist and former evangelical missionary, gained prominence in 2005 when he claimed that Pirahã, a language spoken by a remote Amazonian tribe showed properties that categorically refuted the UG hypothesis. Central to UG theory, in Everett’s estimation, is embedding, the ability of a language to place, for example, a clause inside another clause (as in “I heard that Maura laughed”). Pirahã, it seemed, was unable to embed.

>On the surface, this does seem like a knockout punch to UG, but there’s just one problem with it: Everett is mistaken about what UG is.
> I get so frustrated when someone says "Well I thought that might be a solution to the problem but assumed it would be too expensive."

Well darn it, that's how we were taught in engineering school.
Ask HN: What tools are there for rapid mobile app development?
I have tons of experience in web development.

I know of many scaffolding tools, preprocessors, and advanced debugging tools to rapidly prototype web apps however what tools are there for rapidly prototyping mobile apps.

Can you provide both native and hybrid tools?

Please also include how much coding knowledge that tool requires (no coding required to must be developer).
"The extension also collects basic information and sends this to Adobe. This tracking appears to be on by default, though it can be disabled through the extension's options page."

Another company collecting telemetry that you have to opt-out of. This needs to be illegal because often, by the time most people learn of the option, their information has already been snarfed.
Personally, I am really looking forward to constexpr if, i.e. if branches which are discarded at compile time and only have to be syntactically but not semantically correct. This should help a lot in avoiding enable_if magic to select the correct template.
The current AIs are all "base level". There's no "meta" level processing there.

The human brain is full of meta upon meta levels. Networks on top of other networks, and so on. Abstractization. Correlation between different domains. Feedback loops. There will be no AGI until we start building that kind of architectures.

We're currently only making individual Lego bricks. We haven't started to assemble them yet.
That process is for producing sodium carbonate, not sodium hydroxide.
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The biggest issue with WLIW is the impredictability of the latency of memory loads which make any sort of static scheduling very hard for general purpose workloads. Itanium it seems had similar issues even with specialised hardware to help the compiler.

Not sure what's the memory latency hiding story for the Mill.

Edit: Symmetry said it better.
Article talks about Apple Music and Spotify - but I think they're is a bigger problem: Amazon Prime Music.

Bezos is killing the streaming space with 'good enough' services all bundled into the same, basic Prime subscription.

The Prime Music app on iOS got updated last year and it even looks great.

Streaming music is a commodity, good luck fighting for scraps.
Are you the author? Or, if not, did the author specify their intended conclusions in additional material somewhere?
Ah, right, that makes sense. About the same price then.
> I never said "man, I wish this rendering engine ran different code".

Then I guess you were never an IE6 user.
To quote rationalist fiction author Eliezer Yudkowsky:
> But when you look at what Sherlock Holmes does - you can't go out and do it at home. Sherlock Holmes is not really operating by any sort of reproducible method. He is operating by magically finding the right clues and carrying out magically correct complicated chains of deduction. Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that reading Sherlock Holmes does not inspire you to go and do likewise. Holmes is a mutant superhero. And even if you did try to imitate him, it would never work in real life. [0]

A hallmark of rationalist fiction is that it invites the reader engage with the story by thinking rationally. A tactic employed by Yudkowsky is to pause just before the climax of the story and prompt online readers to use what they know to get the protagonist out of their current bind, or else, Yudkowsky promises, the protagonist will meet a less-than-ideal end.

Yudkowsky's stories [1] are a great introduction to the genre. I'm particularly fond of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which makes a habit of preying on the reader's sentimentality.

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m/rationalist_fiction/
[1] http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/
I meant better in terms of efficiency. But yeah, stop and go is easier in automatic.

Though, I don't find it that bad unless there are hills involved.

Edit:. And no, I didn't have anything to back up the claim. Just echoing what I used to hear a lot.
Unfortunately my company wrote it's own ticket tracking and time tracking software. But the script only took a few min to write, so no biggy.
Telegram is frequently updated, friendly to developers, and has a good track record of user experience.

The same cannot be said for many others in the market. Crypto is an interesting topic. Their demonstrated flexibility may allow for migration to more competent security. What they offer feels good enough for now, thought I am not a user of secret chats.
Um. No, he definitely didn't leave theology out of his mathematics. See, for instance:

http://inters.org/Newton-Scholium-Principia-Mathematica

"This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all: And on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God Pantokrator,or Universal Ruler...." and, like, this stuff is all over the place in the Principia. You cannot separate Newton the theologian from Newton the mathematician from Newton the physicist.
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We don't ban people for saying "hey guys", we politely tell them that not everyone is a guy and that's pretty much it.

I can name plenty of women that I know that are put off from participating in such communities because everyone just assumes that they are male. Individual occurrences are nbd, but in aggregate it gets really annoying. It's a good thing to teach the community to avoid such behavior.

The Rust community is one of the nicest online communities I've come across. We get feedback every week from folks happy to participate in the community and contribute to ecosystem/core because it's very nice. I'd say that's plenty evidence it's doing some good.
That makes sense. Curious that we think it is quality animation.
Unfortunate. Goes to show that you really can't break even without ads or selling/analysing data with a centralised social network.
is there a poc? would love to see a walkthrough
> free publicity out of it.

Ok what free publicity? For his business? Do we even know what his business is? No website. No name.

I meant that he wasted labor time (and money). That's not a smart business man. If he had had a plug for his business website or service in all the news, then it's smart and you can say "publicity for $440. Otherwise, it's just a stupid stunt that wasted everyone's time -- the IRS, the media, you and me (reading it and reacting to it).
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Kinda ominous that the main Twitter alternative right now is GAB.
> Case in point, when providing a search interface, only return as many results as you want to, not as many as you have.

Do you have an example of this? Seems like a bad way to run search.

> instead let them flood the results because they used keyword tag spam

Tag spam largely doesn't work but it's not impossible. Flagging these results makes them go away and brings them to our attention.

> Make it hard to navigate by hiding everything behind hashes, to prevent fair use downloads.

Huh?

> Keep tags in beta for 15+ years.

Double-plus huh? Flickr is only 13ish years old. It's not ready to get a drivers license yet.

> Sadly, I'm afraid a much more extreme data storage reduction approach awaits faithful users of Flickr.

Nope! Unless you know something I don't?

> When Yahoo! bought a large photo blogging site in Taiwan, it simply shut it down with about six months notice, deleting everything as it did.

That sucks. Which one?
I mostly use reddit for more non serious discussion so my favorite subreddits are primarily visual.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/

And a user from HN introduced me to
https://www.reddit.com/r/conduitporn/
It's not clear what Everett is claiming in his rebuttal. He says Pirahas have no genetic impediment from learning recursive language (Portugese); which supports rather than undermines Chomsky's hypothesis.

Then he points out that Pirahas that learn Piraha first before learning Portugese don't use recursive Portugese. What is that observation supposed to suggest when taken together with the previous observation? That you lose the ability to use recursive language when you first learn a linear one? Or simply that you tend to transliterate when you learn a second language?
Exactly! He wasted the rank-and-file employees time and probably caused them aggravation. They should sue for bodily harm -- thumb and fingers and wrists sore from counting his stupid coins.
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I wonder how this compares to apple's gpu on iPhone 7.

Having Siri do local voice and image recognition would be killer. I hate the latency currently for the AI agents
or put another way, "people don't want to pay for most things"
In parts of Austin and San Antonio you can already get fiber from Grande, at a decent price. Why are people so fixated on Google?

Edit to add: googling for info on this, it looks like Google recently bought a stake in Grande! (http://www.rcrwireless.com/20160816/network-infrastructure/g...) If you can't beat 'em, buy them.
The University of London external program has been around since 1858, so hopefully it will still be around 18 years from now :)

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/

Three of my kids and I are are doing CS degrees from here right now, two of us while working full-time.
OK, thanks. I understand that I over reacted.

I have found that I am easily trolled when I have the beginning of allergy troubles. It is better to not comment than to find out the hard way I need anti histamines.

Sorry for wasting people's time and energy.
http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/
Some variant of Sturgeon's Law?
Yeah, let's go work for agencies that:

Conduct illegal experiments on human subjects without their knowledge or consent. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

Tries to persuade minority leaders to commit suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Blatantly lies to Congress about the scope of their illegal program of indiscriminate mass surveillance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper#False_testimo...

Works to overthrow democratically elected governments of other sovereign nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Amasses secret files of potentially compromising information on elected political representatives, threatening the very nature of our democratic process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

https://www.intelexit.org/
The curb weight of a Model T is 540 kg and its engine produces 20 horsepower, while a Honda Civic is 1150 kg, produces over 160 horsepower, and gets 35 mpg. It's moving twice as much car, with better efficiency, much faster, over a longer lifespan, with a much higher top speed. The performance of nearly all 30s cars would today be considered terrible in nearly every respect.
> Oracle's official MySQL package provides "async" methods, but it uses Synchronous I/O in these methods. Therefore, "async" calls into their library will really cause synchronous performance.

It's all about scale. If you're an Nginx server serving thousands of files concurrently, or a websocket server, you need async.

But if you can spare a thread for a connection to MySQL, it's the MySQL server that's going to be in trouble, because the server already uses a thread per connection.
> 40GbE is probably overkill, right?

Not at all. :)