skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. It's not. At least there if I post something a conversation usually happens. Here, I post something and, at best, I get one reply total. While Reddit indeed has a load of crap at least some percentage of it is valuable engagement once you stay of the default and political subreddits.

Here I get they same amount of value of posting when I have something to say as putting it into a local text file.
I think you say this sarcastically but I actually believe this type of argument does have some legs to stand on. The public reaction to Snowden's revelations would have been very different.
Jason seems to be opposed to the idea of a BDFL in exchange for a day job. To me, this is why the numbers are going to be different. Ideas need a prophet, a messiah to attach to. I'm strongly against centralization, but decentralization and P2P and "open" don't mean "lacking a visionary". And you can't hand a "rally call" over to a group of people - not that a group isn't powerful, but personality is important to any movement. And if a group adopts a personality, it becomes conformity.
You should read up on history. Other countries meddling in S American economy and politics, and that Chavez was a totalitarian zealot undermine any argument that Venezuela could be considered socialist when compared to the traditional definitions.
Wow, TIL about the <plaintext> tag. Here I thought I knew most of the corner cases of HTML.
Thanks for the answers, folks. Maybe I was looking for Julia[1]?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)
Yes, certainly, in much the same way that one can imagine a world where everyone is entitled to a free pony.
You might enjoy a book called Quantum Psychology (Robert Anton Wilson).

He lays out some interesting concepts about the way we think and one thought experiment in particular, observing all the 'thinkers' within and how they can multiply at will i.e consider the following innocuous statement:

"I observe that I am happy"

Who is happy and who is the observer?
There's the baby, which is highly talented people educated at elite universities overseas. Then there is the dirty bathwater, which is seat warmers hired at the lowest possible wages by "body shops" that bill them out to government and corporate customers. The first does create prosperity. The second, not so much.

There are several possible fixes: Auction visas with a high minimum. Disallow contracting-out workers on visas. Etc. It's a system that would be easy to fix at zero cost, and maybe even could be made into a source of revenue.
I had this realization recently. The web is undoubtedly a great thing. Computers have obviously made our lives unbelievably better. But I'm starting to seriously question if the smartphone will ultimately be seen as a positive development for humanity. To be sure, we need modern telecommunications. Late 90's MMS phones covered this use case completely. But this world where everyone has an attention stealing machine in their pocket that feeds them nonsense 24/7 is seriously starting to affect us.
Eh, I'd guess the stuff in my usual $9-12 range is 3-5 euro at retail in Spain, judging from what I've seen on imported wines where I do know the price in their country of origin. So maybe not typical, but in the direction of ordinary table wine, not in the direction of being exceptional. As a wine cheapskate I've just found $9-12 on whatever's-from-Spain/Italy-and-seems-dryish gets me better results than the same lazy shopping style with domestic wine. I don't know much about higher-priced wines—when I (rarely) spend up I usually just shop by French AOC, again due to laziness. Also I live several states away from California—the local market there may be much more competitive with the cheaper end of the imported range.
Awesome way to leverage the schema definition files to set up a super fast server. I see this being really useful for quick prototyping or for hackathons.
Proportional to how much existed a couple years ago they have created insane amounts of new currency. US government can't touch that rate.
In this case it doesn't look like this project is maintained anymore.
Ajit Pai is public enemy number one.
Yep, it was a problem I encountered had back in high school Pascal. Fun times :)
This is another article about the lengths people go to in order to defraud mobile advertisers. I certainly applaud Google for being proactive here.
GitHub's spec here is based on [CommonMark][1], which has been around for a while now, and [was originally authored][2] by a group of representatives from GitHub, Reddit, and Stack Exchange.

[1]: http://commonmark.org/

[2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown/
Well, I'm in the EU, I celebrate π day. I'm not going to let the questionable origins of a perfectly good day ruin it for me. I even installed a new keyboard on my phone to be able to type π.

I celebrate christmas too.
Yesterday it was farts and today it's IoT enabled vibrators.. Has Howard Stern taken over HN?
Just waiting for some scumbag to repost as fake news... "Vault 7 leaks find NSA spying on vibrator use!"
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> Then again, considering the number of retailers that categorize sex toys under sexual health and wellness, health being the keyword, is it possible that HIPAA could be relevant?

No, because HIPAA covered entities and the information held by them to which the Privacy and Security rules applies are very explicitly defined, and how retailers categorize products is not a factor.

> And if not, should it?

Probably not, though you could probably make a good case that a more general privacy law not focussed on relations between healthcare providers, payers, and patients should exist and apply.
Ah, but a person with preëxisting good luck might be preferentially randomly selected into the nose-touching group, amplifying the effect and making it hard to measure its size.
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Survey: 90% of Internet Users Don’t Know How to Protect Themselves Online
"You're not recycling the reactor rubble, the contaminated water or soil."

I wonder why is that, why can't all of it be molten and run through enriching turbines. Is it because of too low of a radioactive mass proportion of said material rendering that economically unfeasible?
Techies are data driven folks. You're thinking of the REST of humanity.
I read long ago that the TV vocabulary is about 2,000 words, high school vocabulary is 10,000 words, college is 30,000 words, and there were a million words in the English language.

What this meant to me is that in order to be passably fluent in a foreign language only about 2,000 words need to be learned.
Thartos would never overreport.
Jacques Ellul beat him to the punch by 50+ years with The Technological Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul
The same way reading Chaucer helps you speak with someone in Yorkshire: it doesn't.

Flippancy aside: you learn languages to have conversations with others; in the case of dead languages it's to have one-sided conversations with long ago people, no different from reading a contemporary novel. Translation is never perfect (whatever that would even mean) so some stuff is clearly worth reading in the original, and when there's a significant corpus of stuff to read the effort to learn the language can be worth it.

The article actually makes two points, neither of which I agree with. One is that interlinear translation is better than, say, paragraph by paragraph translation. The problem is linguistic structure, and the article even says he had to move words around to make interlinear translation work. That can actually "work" in languages with case like Classical Greek and Latin, but would result in a word salad with French and English. And even in a language with case, word order is not irrelevant.

My second problem is the claimed emphasis on grammar. Of course you do need to know some grammar, but in the languages I learned in HS (French, Latin, Greek) the whole point was to be able to read classical texts (some of them salacious to keep the interest of HS kids), not rote learning of grammar and vocabulary for some abstract benefit.
I wrote a piece a while back around implementing your own ranking algorithm. Thought this audience might find it relevant/interesting.

https://jkchu.com/2016/02/17/designing-and-implementing-a-ra...
Google essentially has an entire monopoly on how information enters our brains. They exert complete control over Internet search for almost everyone on Earth outside of China, Russia and South Korea. Granted, Google is not exclusively controlled by a single individual in the same way Facebook is, but the same argument made in this article could be or could have been made about numerous absurdly influential companies throughout recent history.
Sam Altman is the Ycombinator version of Steven Anthony Ballmer you can see failure on the horizon. Its just a matter of time.
Seems more like a description of middle-class virtues.
If you present your view as a simplistic dichotomy, you should not be surprised when it is taken as such, and if you put questions in your post, you should not be surprised if someone answers them.
Actually, litigation is only "hella expensive" in USA. In other countries, litigation also costs money, time, and nerves, but not that expensive.

And in general, startups spend way less resources on legal team. People just don't sue each other that often as in US, although I don't know the reasons, maybe people break the law also way less, don't know.
That's really nice. Now we need VHDL.jl as well - maybe different HDL backends could be bolted on? Julia is much better suited for this than Scala due to Julia's macro system.
We just deployed a change to make the modal overlay more transparent. Hopefully this will make it more obvious that there's an editor underneath the modal.
wait! you're unto something there. every bit sequence is also a number in binary base right? so one can just calculate the equivalent number for any stream of bits and just transmit the number! /s
> The enemies of the open internet only have to win once, but to fend them off we have to win every single time

I don't see why this is true. Why can't the competition go back and forth? And why must proponents of the open Internet play defense, instead of gaining ground and increasing openness and protections?
GitHub Flavored Markdown has been a thing for a while. The only difference is that now they have a formal spec for it.

Also, CommonMark failed? News to me. Last I heard it was still under active development, years after the drama with Gruber.
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You might find the discussions around XDR (eXternal Data Representation) helpful in this regard.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4506.html
Agree 100%. All the names out there, and you chose the one of the industry standard for UI/UX design. For the uninformed, this would be like naming Expo Sketch "Photoshop" (at least in spirit) 5 years ago.
If only things were that simple. A demo video can show that there is an interaction that doesn't stutter, not that there is no interaction that stutters.

For an historical analogue: you can show hours of paying PacMan without finding its kill screen (http://www.donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm)
Do we know that every possible finite sequence exists in pi?
Written by Luis Villa [1] a lawyer with 15+ years of experience working with opens source communities.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/luis_in_140/status/84107363612766...
> The We-Vibe product line includes a number of Bluetooth-enabled vibrators that, when linked to the "We-Connect" app, can be controlled from a smartphone. It allows a user to... give a partner, in the room or anywhere in the world, control of the device.

Wow. I'm just kind of incredulous that this was never hacked. The lawsuit is about the company's own data-collection practices, but just imagine the freakout if one fine day Vladimir Putin took control of all these devices at once.

Has anyone done a security review of the device and the associated app? If ever a service called for a thorough penetration test... (Bah-dum-bum! Thank you, I'll be here all week, tip your wait staff.)

I'm wondering if the lack of hacks came from actual good engineering on the company's part -- hope springs eternal! -- or if the device was just too niche to catch the interest of the black hats?
https://www.adobe.com/products/sketch.html
Can anyone comment if TLS Token Binding [0] does solve some subset of problems usually solved with JWT?

It seems to be scheduled for implementation in several clients [1].

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tokbind-protocol-13

[1]: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5097603234529280
>spending your time pondering how to make yourself 'cultured' is a nauseatingly bourgeois activity, ripe for satire when compared with the harder realities of life for the less well privileged.

I haven't misrepresented you. You literally said that a 'bourgeois' activity has less value compared to "harder realities of life for the less well privileged". That's putting poverty on a pedestal. That's fetishizing it.

No. Working your ass off to barely scrape by is not in any way better than learning new things, being kind, or any of the other things enumerated in this article. That ridiculous crab mentality is what kids who are born into poverty have to deal with if they express any aspiration to make something better of themselves. It is its own kind of smug complacency, far more malicious and destructive than someone taking pride in more 'bourgeois' accomplishments.

Seriously, give me 'nauseatingly bourgeois' culture any day. If that makes you feel insecure, maybe try reading a book or something.
In general, every issue - violence, privacy etc are much more hot button when they involve genitalia. was just talking to my wife about this this morning and trying to understand if its a result of long standing oppression from males to females or if its related to the puritanical treatment of sex as still largely a taboo subject.
https://en.lichess.org/analysis/8/p7/kpn5/qrpPb3/rpP2b2/pP4Q...

here's a preceding position which stockfish completely fails to play correctly.
As long as the King stays on white squares it will result in a draw in 30 moves... -shrugs- I think the computer could see this. It would revert to the rules that it knows. It would know +1, +2, +3.. and so forth moves down that it is growing closer to the draw line. It will wait for a pawn move from White. Without a pawn move... draw.
I think it is fair to say my gene sequence is somewhere in there. It is also fair to say that my gene sequence is somewhere with alterations where my stomach processes Chipotle burritos with less.. fanfare. So it sounds like I need to come up with some kinda of a CAS9-ish process of finding this better burrito processing version of my gene sequence inside pi. The better version of my 'life of pi' for burritos.
This is great -- lack of a standard that was actually used (unlike CommonMark) was one of my main issues with Markdown (http://ericholscher.com/blog/2016/mar/15/dont-use-markdown-f...) -- It's really great to see GitHub leading in this department, and it gives me hope that one day we might actually have Markdown that is portable between implementations.
If you stop breathing, you die. If you stop fighting, you die.

Keep your head up my brother, and keep fighting the good fight. It's worth it.
But how much predictability can you get in presence of garbage collection? Granted, the JIT can also be an element of surprise that is out of the picture with AOT and the statically linked GC can never be configured differently from what you expect, but it's still garbage collection and not Rust or a C.
The internet is what makes Silicon Valley go round. Everyone, including Sam Altman, needs to be an activist. Asking for someone else to take point on something so fundamental is like asking Natives to take point on water prot-- wait.
* > An estimated 300,000 people bought Bluetooth-enabled WeVibes, according to court documents, and about 100,000 of them used the app.*

I know its not the primary issue, but its a very interesting part of the story to me and raises a lot of questions. Only 1/3 of people who purchased the device used the connected app. This sounds a lot like my Annova sous-vide: it has an app but I never use it (a dial and button are fine by me). I wonder if this 1/3 number is the normal rate among "smart devices". Do 2/3 of people not use it because its of no real value–or because the setup/ux sucks? Do companies make smart devices because "everyone else is doing it" or is there another reason (charge more & better margins)? Finally, will we start to see a decline in smart/connected devices if adoption stays low (in favor of products that simply innovate in other ways)?
Well, remember LOVEINT?
It's a mixed bag, just like abortion.

FWIW, I believe the official platform of the Libertarian Party includes open borders.
> the proof of this statement is very, very simple; it can be sketched on a literal post-it note and you could easily convince an open-minded 10-year-old of its truth

Could you write that proof here, for the benefit of tired HNers who are just finishing their day of work?
This is Expo Sketch though. You can't use it without Expo. It's like complaining about the "Native" part in React Native.
Also requests access to your Organizations. Not sure my employer would appreciate that!
I feel like your conflating 2 arguments here. And I agree with 1 but whole heartedly disagree with the other.

Many Mobile games do abuse psychological elements. Agree they shouldn't abuse and should be stopped.

Waste hundreds of hours? I thoroughly enjoy hundreds of hours of game play so I don't see anything wrong with that.

Tapping into our desires? What's wrong with tickling our fancy?

Tapping into our impulsive tendencies. I feel like this is abusing human psychology again.

I'm not a gambler but I have felt the excitement and joy of it. I also love video games. I see nothing wrong with either of these things. But there is a clear distinction between the rewards of playing and the manipulation a company takes to enrich their bottom line.
Postel's law: things should parse JSON, but probably only emit SON. That gets you the best of both worlds: you can assume all messages internal to your system are in a canonicalized form (and thus do thing like hashing them with dumb tools), but your system still interoperates with other systems that don't bother to canonicalize, parsing their inputs and sending responses they understand.
Be careful? The copyright and licensing status of those videos is probably less clear-cut than stuff that was explicitly released under a permissive license.
The problem is that the Big Four (or five, if you count Microsoft) just aren't that interested in it. There's a lot of benefit to them to end neutrality.
Be in the Know, Be First, or Be Best
We'll make sure there will be laws governing social trade. Facebook will have to obey. It can't be kept unregulated, Injustice will thrive
Is this really that valuable? Java and C++ had both provided this to some extent before. Rather, I think the majority of the power in Javascript tools comes from distribution. The distribution to both potential users and potential developers is unmatched, and those trump any technical deficiency in the language.

I think if programming language designers should have learned anything in the past 50 years, it should be, "It's the distribution!"
Grumpy looks to me like it was created as a bridge to port everything to Go.

If you look at it from that perspective and know that Google has a lot of existing python 2 code base, it makes a lot of sense.

If they wanted to stick with python, instead of grumpy, they would instead provide a way to write python modules in go.
How else would they do it? QR code seems justified in this case.
Cruise missiles that aren't supersonic aren't of much use. As long as they're in the air, they're targets.

The author painted a very gloomy picture for the carrier. But it isn't all one-sided. In a wartime situation, the carrier would have a much deeper defense. Several hundred miles or more. The E-2 EAWS aircraft easily provide coverage over a 500 mile bubble. Paired with other maritime surveillance aircraft and satellite imagery, they'd have a handle on the nearest aggressors and plan accordingly. Even supersonic missiles need time to travel 2-300 miles.

You know the funny thing? When I was in, the idea was that we'd get off that one big Alpha strike. After that, well.. No one expected to be around long enough to ever recover aircraft if it came down to cases, and the aircraft probably wouldn't be coming back anyway.

War sucks, people die. But the side with better weapons loses fewer people and the best probable chance of surviving. No sane person wants a war, especially the military. That's the sole purview of insane politicians.

Sure, the CVNs are big and their expensive. No argument. But they also have better manning and logistics requirements when compared to multiple smaller decks. Most people fail to realize that the avionics systems in those planes require dedicated test systems that in themselves costs many millions of dollars each and require very, very, well trained technicians to maintain and repair them. That is in addition to the technicians who actually repair the avionics systems.

Then there are the jet's engines. They also require a substantial capital expense for the maintenance systems.

Everything that is found on a big deck is also required on a smaller deck. And you don't get much of a break, either. If a big deck needs four expensive avionics test systems, then the smaller carrier may only need two. In some cases, there might only be on of a particular test bench on the CVN. But that one needs to exist on each smaller carrier. By the time you have three smaller carriers, the capital costs are already higher than for a CVN.

Don't get me started on trained personnel. The shop supplies the basic cadre for the intermediate maintenance shops and each squadron kicks in some technicians to support their systems. Those shops ran two 12 hours shifts (someone jump in if this has changed). Want to take a guess at many more maintenance people it would take to man three smaller ships vs one larger ship?

Aircraft maintenance is more than poking around with a multimeter, swapping tubes to get the radios working, or swapping out a cylinder on a recip engine. Systems are more computerized and require intelligent people to operate them.

You can't stuff 40-50 aircraft onto something with a cat and arresting gear without also providing all of the very expensive ancillary repair systems to support them.

The days of the jeep carrier are long gone.
Javascript I get, but React? Why use a flavor-du-jour library for something like this?
And when protesters who demand open internet start getting their access cut off, they'll start seeing the analogy. Too late then. :(