skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like any of Netflix's original content and Netflix(US) is pretty annoying with not offering content (such as Tokyo ghoul and better call Saul)
I wish they made another Dexter as original content but oh well. About to only use Kodi.
Latency and n-way multitouch.
It's a smart play, I personally know of about ~$30million dollars that is just sitting around getting dusty simply because greenlit projects can't find any more AWS experts to get them actually out there. Once you have everything set up and a team of experts watching videos all day it's great, but many teams just aren't gonna get there.
so Adwords is literally a money printing machine that shows no sign of slowing....
Why Young girls think they are not smart enough
If it's 'good enough' now, how will it be an OS update or two down the road?
Maintaining a fork of a large browser is extremely difficult, especially for coordinating and merging vulnerability fixes.
Thank goodness the Republicans and Trump believe in the free market and not government interference in business.
If this WebExtensions move makes Tab Mix Plus stop working (I use multi-row tabs extensively) then I will no longer have any reason to continue to use Firefox. I put up with it's poor performance and instability merely for this one feature.

Nobody needs a clone of Chrome; we already have Chrome.
I doubt Google or any other SV corporation would ever agree to help with a Muslim registry. Even if somehow the top leadership of such a company were to agree (which I doubt), you'd see defections, sabotage, and heavy leaks almost immediately.
In principle, yes. But maintaining a browser is, as a understand it, a LOT of work. So it would take a sizable contingent of volunteers to take on a project like that and keep the forked version current.
Embrace the desire to make money.

Don't let it dominate your life, of course, but you are unlikely to make money unless you actually want to, and you are unlikely to build a successful business without actually making money somewhere along the way.

There's nothing wrong or distasteful about money. It's a neutral substance with a lot of good uses.
Same. My Dell XPS15 is fantastic.
I am very happy you have a free version!

I am currently adding screen size responsiveness to my website, working from my phone (don't have access to proper computer right now) so this is exactly what I need!
Without having any understanding what people on the games industry actually care about.
Of course it wasn't. People on laptops and people on desktops are making the same thing, just desktop users are doing so with more horsepower.
A "maximum wage law" might well be the most effective "minimum wage law" we could devise. But this does leave patent-holders and large shareholders (and real estate moguls) still scooping up an outsized share of GDP. That would be okay by me, IF network effects were being regulated or prosecuted (including under the Sherman act) so that public utilities were being supervised as such. But that's exactly what hasn't been happening for forty years and more, now.
^V will put DOS (and cmd.exe) into "next character is literal" mode, so "echo ^V^G" will make a beep. I think you needed ANSI.SYS loaded for it to work though (?).

Speaking of DOS, I've never forgotten that BEL is ASCII 7, so ALT+007 (ALT+7?) will happily insert it into things like text editors. I remember it showed up as a •. I'm not quite sure why.
I would use the last version of Firefox that supported Tab Mix Plus until it no longer worked with the web in general. At that point I don't know what I'd do.
Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?
Why Marissa Mayer's team might be looking into getting fired by Verizon
The real concern is that browser is a hugely complex piece of software with lots of security, stability, and compatibility concerns. You could fork it, but now you have to constantly ensure you maintain all those things between your fork and the mainline. That will become increasingly difficult as they diverge more and more.
At least in the case of the Surface Book they're pretty in line with MBP prices.
Do you understand how to write code in, say, C? Like do you understand the scope of manually managing memory, not making memory safety errors? When I run into borrow checker errors I try to think through exactly who owns what and who will free it when.
Do no other extension developers have this issue?
> What happened to the ban on paywalled stuff?

It never existed, it doesn't exist now, and it is unlikely to exist in the future.
And ^W deletes words.

Both shortcuts work in terminal emulators.

(As an aside ^W is much easier to input^Wtype as a "fake backspace" thingamajig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmnemonic than ^H is.)
> Phone calls are better than files, generally speaking, and you should be calling from a burner; i.e. a pre-paid phone that is not in your name.

Is that fairly easy to do? I heard in some countries it is hard to get a sim card without a proper ID. How easy is to get a burner phone in US without raising red flags?
This reads like an advertisement. Also, my nurse friend said only older doctors use morphine. Most hospitals use fentanyl now.
I literally said, "they may not be the origin of these trends," so no, I'm not blaming them.

Of course the stranglehold the companies you mention have on American society is far more extensive and corrosive. But I grew up in an era where we were constantly proselytized that "these corporations are different." I was always skeptical, but that wasn't the zeitgeist. Now, I hope that my generation (millennials) will see the error in this judgement, but again, not terribly optimistic. In the pursuit of self-indulgence, we saw the Baby Boomers turn into Wall St Reaganites and still seemed not to learn. We just invented a "cooler" version of this story.
I have to second the use of immutable data structures. That is the style I'd adopted prior to using rust, and in learning Rust I've found that I've hardly ever fought with the borrow checker.

Suggesting unsafe code seems like a bad move, if haven't mastered the borrow checker, is learning the dark magic of unsafe a good plan?
The internet as we know it was born in a very unique time in history. Two ideologies feuded for most of a century, and one collapsed at the same time that the other created the internet. The side that created the internet believed that their way of life, government, business, and so on would become the standard around the world, the "end of history." We believed that the world would stitch itself together and become gradually more liberal and tolerant of the many cultures on this planet. The internet and the collapse of the Soviet Union made that narrative believable, even perhaps inevitable.

As a result, we have a very skewed idea of what the internet is or should be. It is no coincidence that the domain for 99% of sites we use is ".com."

The truth is, corporations for decades have become more powerful and detached from their geopolitical circumstances. The subtleties of how the world works is of little relevance to McDonald's as long as they can sell more hamburgers. Corporations want to protect themselves from risk so they can continue to amass profits.

Therefore, the newfound genuflecting to the GOP should be of no surprise. Google ultimately has a mission to itself and its shareholders first. For a company whose product is its ability to amass information, there is little to be gained in promoting social or economic causes that do not benefit the corporation.

Yes, it does suck that the utopian dreams of Silicon Valley have divorced themselves from the liberal idealism of Northern California's Vietnam-era glory days, but that is why I left.

If you consider yourself liberal and you work for any of these companies that are aggressively courting Republicans, I would be very interested in hearing your perspective.
Just what I want to do - draw private info on the back of my laptop and lug it around. Anybody got a way to print CC numbers onto my shoes?

(IOW: I think it's a cool hack that fails to consider actual implications outside of the immediate problem solved.)
I simply don't get this. Do you view fivethirtyeight as a kind of pagan god, who gives you what you want? On the contrary, to the best of my knowledge the crew over there try to describe reality. Sometimes that reality is good and sometimes it's bad, but it's real.
> functional programming idioms

Proper tail recursion was still missing last time I checked. Does it affect functional programming in Rust?
Show HN: Developers – Focus on the code
I mean I understand that we don't want stagnation of ideas and certain sects continuously ruling government. However, the reason that they are lobbyists is because they are generally experts on the subjects, in no small part due to their government experience. Removing all former government workers as lobbyists a blanket move is heavy-handed and poorly thought out.
Signal does allow users to manually compare key fingerprints ("safety numbers"), and it does ask for confirmation when the numbers change. Whether users actually verify is a different story.
People who make money by being popular probably like it.
Anecdote, but this past year, some new experience with a few people showed me part of the apparent reason for the dominance of Messenger: Discovery.

You meet someone. You want to follow up with them, for whatever reason. Most people have a public enough profile on Facebook that Messenger is the obvious answer. And, like Facebook, "everyone" is on it. Even if they conduct their more personal and intimate social media interaction on other platforms. To "reach out and touch someone", ping them on FB/Messenger.

Not saying I like giving FB that position. But, they currently appear to indeed have and dominate it.

P.S. A frequent circumstance is a friend or acquaintance of a friend or a coworker. Someone at a party. Etc. Your respective social graphs are already grazing if not overlapping, so connecting the dots on FB is trivial.
You could always use permanent markers and ethanol or isopropyl alcohol to erase it.
for me it's Tab Groups (actually one of the Extension the author wrote). If that is gone, there is no good reason for Firefox over Safari
Palantir being the exception that proves the rule.
Interestingly this work contradicts not just previous theory, but also previous experimental result. I would be interested to see if they have a critique for why the previous runs of the experiment provided a different experimental result.
Web browsing and a bit of office is offered as an example of the lightest imaginable load for someone actually using a computer. My daily needs are much heavier than that.

To offer a line of laptops with 8GB of RAM as the max in 2017 is ridiculous.
So basically I have to either flip it down to see what someone drew on the whiteboard or turn it around. Pen and paper work just as well.
Right, they tried adopting C#/XAML for the shell and Office with Longhorn, and when that project failed they decided to essentially reimplement WPF and .net in native code, e.g.

WPF text stack -> DirectWrite

WPF visual layer -> Direct2D, Windows.UI.Composition

WPF UI layer -> WinRT XAML

.net type system/metadata -> WinRT metadata

CAS/partial trust/other .net security stuff -> AppContainer

ClickOnce -> AppX

If you compare what .net was supposed to be around 3.0 with what .net Core is now, they've basically stripped out all of the "OS-like" stuff - UI frameworks, app model/packaging, security - and taken the stance that those are the responsibility of the OS. UWP is just the Windows native implementation of the stuff that was stripped out of .net to be left up to each OS
Signal has a built in 'export' function that produces a plaintext file with chat logs. However that might defeat the point of end-to-end encrypted messages.
Ha! Kinda related, I made my niece and nephew wooden MacBooks based on that same idea.

http://the816.com/wooden-macbooks/
Jawbone Was Late Paying Employees
Denial and cognitive dissonance like a mofo... Healthy at 250 pounds, and we're not talking muscles here.... Just ask your GP.... Defies common sense.
Unmetered networks - ISP benefit from more local traffic and less traffic over their peering agreements connections.

Metered networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502790

TBH I didn't try to disable webrtc in chrome but there are extensions that do that [1]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/disable%20webrtc?h...
We need a service that will collect complaints, sue on our behalf and send a check, taking their cut.

Have an app that allows you to report a phone call quickly, automatically recording and uploading the entire call (it should record all calls and delete recordings after a few hours if not reported). Then for numbers that have been reported by multiple people, have someone investigate, and if the source is located, file lawsuits.

It's $500 per violation, so if there's enough people lawsuits can work, and the company making the app can reduce investigation costs by distributing it among many different complainers (so even if a private investigator costs several thousand to get contact info, if they called 100 people and they end up getting a 50k judgement it works out).
This is great Twitter is being open about these.

Do these releases get media coverage? Is anyone talking about the various lawsuits and blog posts about public releases of NSLs by tech companies?

I wish the NYTimes and WaPo spent as much time caring about this stuff as they did about being the non-critical mouthpiece for various "anonymous intelligence officials". There is definitely a story that could be made out of this plus the Cloudflare, Google, etc posts... so hopefully I'm proved wrong in this assessment.

> While the actual NSLs request a large amount of data, Twitter provides a very limited set of data in response to NSL

I'm curious just how much they asked for here. I'm guessing it's the user plus 2 hops of anyone they talked to? Including:

- DMs

- t.co links clicked on

- IP addresses when accessing twitter

- device IDs, browser, OS, etc

- phone numbers

- visits to URLs of 3rd party web pages containing embedded tweets? (not sure if this is tracked via cookie)

That could turn out to be plenty of data but I don't believe a single users data would be referenced by Twitter as "a large amount of data", it's very likely at least one hop or more, but who knows.
They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.
It's 5 minutes to unscrew a couple of screws, slide out the SSD card, put in the new SSD card and screw it back together.

The GalliumOS installer is also really straight forward. You pretty much run 2 commands and hit ok a few times. This part is more than 5 minutes, but it's mainly just twiddling your thumbs waiting for things to download and install.

Then you boot up and you're in.
Your version sounds good, but that's not the majority of what happens. They are lobbyists because they know people and its often a cushy, legal payoff for employees who helped the company secure and manage contracts while in government service. The most common reward is as an employee hire after they retire from government services, but the lobbyists often have their origin in the same process.
For everything people dislike about curation, you avoid these syble attacks
It seems to me that the logo is a second sticker.
I find that if your comments consist solely of commented out code, then you both don't need to comment in English and you remove the need for an SCM.

/says so many people I've worked with.
Nah.

> In the suit, Tesla also alleges that Anderson downloaded “hundreds of gigabytes” of proprietary data from his work computer to a personal storage device, and that he then manually hacked the timestamps on files to hide evidence of his acquisition of the information. He also wiped the iPhone issued by Tesla, the suit says, in order to erase evidence of his attempts to poach fellow employees. These attempts were met with only limited success, however, as only two employees apparently ever jumped ship to the new venture.

That's ballsy.
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/star-catalog/cns3.html

"Gliese Catalog of Nearby Stars, 3rd Edition, contains all known stars as of 1991 that are within 25 parsecs of the Sun."

(25 pc == 81 ly) Only 213 KB gzipped, I count less than 4000 lines total.

Since then there were new satellites which collected much more total stars, and the coming will collect even more, but I don't know how the near stars are affected (probably less).
Previously the WebExtensions wiki mentioned that they were planning to support functionality for TreeStyle tabs. As of https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WebExtensions&diff=... it no longer does; no idea how much to read into that though.
While it is probably a pleasant thought to repeat the mythical stories of yeoman farmers serving the legislative office in the distant past, these stories are nothing more than myth. A 'career politician' is someone who has dedicated themselves to a profession that you may denigrate, but which is just as complicated and demanding as any other high-profile job.

It is quite possible that a 'career academic' like Dr. Eisen could succeed at the job since the role of most PIs in a top lab is bureaucratic paperwork and academic politics, but in most cases when you throw unqualified outsiders into these sort of political positions what you end up with is a government run by the unelected senior staff of the political figureheads that people are voting for.
I think there should be a STEM party. People in our realm of expertise deal with complicated systems and rules daily; I'd like to think we have a good grasp of side effects and unintended consequences. I feel we learn to deal with systems as they are and when time permits, rearchitect more favorable solutions, hopefully using data to inform our decisions.
I'm in two minds about this, because e.g. Lululemon or the surface book aren't cheap either - so price isn't the only factor. But at least with the surface book you could argue that the stylus is a huge value add. And while I hate touchscreen laptops with a passion, I can definitely see it's a form factor many people enjoy. Especially "normal" users (non-terminal users?).

Having said that, there's definitely a herd mentality. People buy what other people in the group have, and what is considered "cool/chic/whatever". The second part is really hard to track, especially with something as tool-like as laptops ultimately are. So there is a huge risk here. The question is "are techies still the 'category leaders'"? Microsoft seems to be betting they aren't, and they are following through with that.
But a sane person doing this would arrive at single logical solution: focus on server-side and ask company to hire a 27-year old JavaScript "ninja" to handle the front-end garbage framework of the month, while you are hacking OCaml/Scala/Haskell whatnot.

It always makes me chuckle when I see a job posting that clearly states it's JS front-end only: some old dogs know the trick ;-).

Pro-tip: re-write one of less significant systems in Node.js as a decoy!
If I understood the article correctly, the effect was originally associated with African Americans, but has recently been extended to others in similar "striving" conditions.
it's bad code if you're writing it again. Everything you mentioned is something already handled for the developer through the browser/API's. It's like writing your own multithreading instead of using something provided by the OS. 99% of the time it's stupid
It would have been really awesome if USB was compatible with TTL-level (5v, maybe 3.3v) "serial". This nonstandard variant of definitely-not-RS232 is everywhere.

But...

> And the USB committee probably figured to be not fully compliant with RS232 would just confuse people, and damage hardware, so it was better to be not compliant at all.

...you are sadly right.
Depending on how Protectionist Trump actually becomes, global companies like Google and Facebook may have huge challenges.

Russia and China already had the idea of local alternatives and the EU was pushing for data protection for a while.

Governments might decide that it is not good idea give that much information about their population to the USA and maybe we will see the end of truly global companies.

It might be good for Apple though, as with it's strict data collection limitations.
Of course, the MacBook is passive :)

Incremental compilation makes my coworkers' gear loud enough I can hear it anywhere in the room. No HVAC over here. Maybe a MacPro would handle the load better, but that's completely overkill for our needs. The MBPr and iMac keep getting thinner, for no good reason in the iMac's case.
They were not allowed to support the A-10 or oppose the F-35.
Neural Net Learns to Play Atari “River Raid”
Isn't this just really the general puzzle of how neurotransmitters work in the first place? We know their effects, in the broadest strokes (e.g. dopamine == reward), but we don't know precisely how they create those effects.
True, sometimes special corporate interests want more stability than is sane or helpful; so they support dictatorships. But you can't say they've never wanted to off a stable dictatorship, or done so. Note too that U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia is sharply turning - and no wonder, since the US energy industry is now an exporter and gains from instability and fewer energy supplies coming from the Middle East.
There is a rough version [0] based on the sidebarAction API [1], this is probably going to improved when it actually lands in Firefox Nightly, which should hopefully be soon.

[0] https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/tree/webext
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208596
After five years of fighting, Twitter makes an Instagram account
Let's not forget that there are still huge COBOL applications out there, still updated and maintained by rather well paid engineers.
On a fully serious note, Emacs born out of a web browser would be a pretty good goal.
But poor Jonny might like this because he could draw pictures of aluminum rectangles on the sticker.
Is this the same Twitter that has allegedly shadowbanned Scott Adams multiple times for his political positions? If Twitter is interested in transparency, how about some transparency on that? Twitter's actions make me distrust any "transparency" talk, even if I disagree with Adams on certain things.
Show HN: Variable level of detail essays
Google cached version, while the site recovers: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I think you mean, "the end of truly global companies in the U.S." I firmly believe a protectionist stance here is hurting the US as much as anyone else.
An IP address is not PII. Linking it to viewed videos is still not PII. Good luck in court.
> How easy is to get a burner phone in US without raising red flags?

Trivial. I see them all the time at grocery stores, pharmacies, et cetera.
No. The DOJ has standardized on Courier for a font, and Courier's a built in font on pretty much all decent word processing programs and printers. The State Department used to use it too, but switched to Times New Roman some years ago.
Tell me how sales changed your view that there was a point where products mostly sold themselves.
Well if its any consolation, there's a 10 years younger version of you that will be duped into the same illusion.

Maybe all those people that are fawning over "B-corporations"
the very same Google that was funded with CIA money? I think they are more in line with the deep state than either of the two parties
They also profit on bots through their ad networks.
I suggest you read "Just F*cking Ship".

It's pretty good, and it goes into details on why we can't launch products/finish personal projects.