skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I disagree. I don't comment unless I have something to add. In a chan style system I'm completely ignored unless I comment with bullshit like "I agree".

Not to mention that it encourages controversial content as it generates more arguing (read discussion).

It's just not a system that I believe works well, especially with threaded content like on HN or Reddit.
Google Analytics most certainly does feed user data into "an AI" and use it to track users and sell ads targeting them. I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
It's going to be commercial, possible with access to source. You could run it on your infrastructure or have it hosted.
Sort of like atlassian
Ask HN: Inventions from history that might've never happened?
Are there inventions from history that might've been delayed 10+ years without the work of 1-2 people?

I'm hoping to identify examples of people doing things that aren't merely redistributive

e.g. if if one ride sharing company never started, it is and was a crowded enough space that there'd still be someone who runs/owns a $10bn+ value ride sharing company.

I'm looking for examples from history where "if person X didn't do Y, then thing Z wouldn't have happened for at least ~20+ years"
Yes, I know it says that.

It's a useless "fact". What highway in any place in the world would have something other than excessive speed (for conditions) as the leading cause of accidents? The only thing I can think of is landslides/avalanches in very mountainous regions, and even then I'm sure there are more than enough accidents/fatalities due to taking a corner faster than you should.

I also stated that "absolute speed is not the deciding factor in road fatalities". Absolute speed is different from excessive speed for given conditions. Going 60km/hr on an unplowed, snowy, black-ice ridden road can easily be more dangerous than going 160km/hr on a dry surface with clear conditions.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Support for Fractional (Non-Integer) DPI Scaling

DESCRIPTION: Please support fractional scaling factors on the desktop. For example, a 1080p 13.3" screen needs to scale everything by 1.5 in order to get a comfortable DPI.
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We're slowly going through and accepting teams on a rolling basis. Finbarr is the sole engineer building the software, so we wanted to have a bit of buffer time in case we overlooked something in the program/product.

Apologies for the error in the messaging, it should have said _by_ April 3rd.
Where in the government do you still have to fax things?
1) Add this as a bookmarklet called "Inject jQuery". Then click "Inject jQuery"

javascript:void((function(doc)%7Bif(typeof jQuery%3D%3D%27undefined%27)%7Bvar script_jQuery%3Ddocument.createElement(%27script%27)%3Bscript_jQuery.setAttribute(%27src%27,%27//code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js%27)%3Bdocument.body.appendChild(script_jQuery)%3Bconsole.log(%27jQuery included %5E_%5E%27)%3B%7Delse%7Bconsole.log(%27jQuery already included ...%27)%3B%7D%7D)(document))%3B

2) Type this in console:

copy(jQuery("a").filter(function(idx,el) { return jQuery(el).attr('href').indexOf('vote')!==-1; }).map(function(idx,el) { return 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' + jQuery(el).attr('href'); }).toArray())

3) Install this Chrome extension and paste the contents of your clipboard

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-url-opener-ex...
Here's how it looks like it works to me:

(their stuff is of course HTTPS, and I'm assuming the caller's support links would be as well. Each REST call also has authentication tokens, of course)

=== Out: ===

You POST data to their REST resource, including a link to your PDF document, which they pull (as well as phone number data). Presumably, you want to add some kind of temporary security token/nonce to the link that you give them.

Twilio uses the link to pull your PDF, and sends it to the previously indicated number.

=== In: ===

You GET a list of FAX doc IDs. I don't see query parameters for date ranges and/or phone numbers, but presumably you can do so.

You GET the metadata for a FAX ID obtained from the previous list. This includes a temporary link for the image data.

You GET the image data from the indicated "authenticating" temporary link. It's unclear what the format is (accept headers???), but it's likely PDF only.

===

What seems to be missing in this process is a way to associate an inbound FAX with an outbound FAX (e.g. - barcode or other built in OCR index value). This is needed so that you can support "sign this and send it back" workflows. The phone number is not enough: many docs could go to the same phone number, and the remote signer could send the FAX back from any number, anyway.
I can't say I prefer or even like trailer parks, but the single family home (with a yard/surrounding property that keeps your neighbors at a good distance, what's the point when you can reach out your window and touch your neighbor's window?) is way better to me than some apartment complex. And I can see the trailer park as a way for poorer people (or people looking to save a bundle) to capture some of that too, while also not strictly tying themselves down in their mind at least like a house would. Vertical living is a good solution for densely packed population, and I think that will continue being where the most stuff happens, but I don't want to live in such a way long term.

"Instead of spreading out over dozens of acres, you could have a couple of complexes with nice communal gardens/parks/playgrounds and have people live vertically densely enough to encourage shops." This sentence fills me with an irrational, existential dread. Likely influenced by my upbringing living in a developing neighborhood on the foothills of a smaller Wasatch Front city in Utah, but spreading out, having actual nature (not constructed nature parks) to enjoy, and not seeing an abundance of humans everywhere you go simply feels better, while high rises (like I see in Bellevue/Seattle) and the associated mini-parks/artisanal shops/population density are unsightly and less comfortable.
Url changed from https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/03/someone-is-puttin..., which points to this. There was a small discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992005 but perhaps changing the url to the original article will stimulate a more substantive one.

Submitters: please submit original sources, as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Myriads of blog posts and articles mostly just point to something else; be a good HN submitter and do the pointer traversal for the rest of us.
>"College graduate" means almost nothing anymore."

Exactly. I have 2 degrees, obtained about 8 years apart, so I've spent a few years doing undergraduate work. Not sure what it's like in the US, but here in Canada it's nearly impossible to flunk out of University. Between the ability to find "bird courses" with the help of technology to rank and rate classes and profs, to the garbage incentives of "if this person flunks out, there goes next year's tuition" pretty much everyone can scrape by.
Reversible computation (which that 125 year number refers to) has to be done very slowly. There might be some applications where that would still be relevant, but it's pretty clear this trend don't last even until the 2048 mark, let alone for another 125 years and beyond.

The Feynman lectures on computation have some good sections on reversible computation that I would recommend.
can you elaborate on the HIPAA concerns related to faxing/transmitting health data?

Faxing is a transport service... is the concern around security and privacy while en route from the API to the destination?

If there was a way to facilitate that transfer without compromising privacy or security en route would that address HIPAA concerns?

We've developed a privacy preserving trust relay protocol which might be applicable to use cases like this that's why I am asking: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/
Rumors of the demise of telecom services based on their competitors' feature set and pricing are greatly exaggerated.

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/six-years-of-hacker-news-comme...
Launch HN: Tress (YC W17) – Online community for black women's hairstyles
Tress (https://www.tressapp.co) is an online community for black women to discover and share hairstyle inspiration, information and tips.
Women upload photos of their hairstyles and share information about their style. Users can discuss how to replicate the look, which products were used and where to get similar hairstyles.

We are 3 software engineers who have built health social networks, mobile apps for farmers in Africa, and worked on marketing consumer
brands like Nike. We started Tress because this is a challenge that personally affects us and because it's a big market that is still relatively untapped by technology.

Hair is a big deal for black women. We are constantly changing our hairstyles and spend 9 times more on our hair than any other
demographic. We don't just get a regular cut or color our hair. We get drastic! We go from braids to weaves to cornrows and then to our own
hair and then back again. Size, length, style, color, volume of hair, weaves and extensions all differ each time we change our hairstyle.
And we do that often because of the nature of our hair. To give you an idea, these photos are all of the same woman - https://www.dropbox.com/s/52ew0d8hsxwx0k4/JodianHairstyles.p... - It's an image from our YC demo day slides.

The process of figuring all this out to actually getting a style done is long and broken. Many women spend a ton of time searching for their next hairstyle, then more time figuring out how to replicate the style via tutorial articles/videos or search for a stylist and so on. Tress aims to be the dedicated platform to fix all of this and connect a community of women who often socialize around their unique hair needs.

One thing that excites us as software engineers is exploring how to use computer vision to tell if a user has 4a, 4b or 4c natural hair curl pattern or if a hairstyle is a Senegalese twists or Havana mambo twists. We are equally excited to be gathering hair products data and usage patterns around our hairstyles in such an informal sector that technology has barely gotten started in yet. We dream of things like an API that has all the data about the hair products black women have used in the past 5 years.

We're looking forward to answering your questions about Tress and discussing startups, software, and of course hair!
Saturation or oversupply seem possible. Number of bachelors degrees awarded in 2015 was 14% higher than in 2010, but US population increased only 3% during this time.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.10.a...

http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table
First thing I noticed by looking at google analytics is that none of you who've visited the site have clicke "view details" why is that? Don't you want to see what the restaurants are offering?
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I'm just asking questions man!
You'll be interested in reading about Smurf attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack
The memory mapping model is really interesting, since it moves a lot of that out of the kernel and into user-space, but it seems like it has more disadvantages than advantages. What am I missing?
more details on EO's per president

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php
I thought building tons of apartments and kicking people out of stable living situations was supposed to decrease rents.

Apparently the investors/builders have a price floor they cant go under else the situation becomes financially unviable.

Also - it would appear that several of these new builds are having a tough time filling units at luxury prices.

Who knew?! I thought if we just kept building the market fairy would magically lower prices everywhere.
It's also interesting that there's a lot of long-term web guys, almost all of them ex-Chrome (and some who were working on Firefox at Google before Chrome was a thing), many of them pretty senior at the point they left Chrome.
Why not? Could be used to see if you have been hacked and there is something/someone else using it no? A different way to monitor the logs of a system
Or a local meetup group for subscribers to a compatible ISP (all DOCSIS 3.x cable modems, e.g.) where you bring in your cable modems throw them in a pile and then take home a random one. Do it monthly.

Combine that with a script that takes all non-sensitive browser history and cookies and does the same -- swap out with a random stranger.

Neither is practical and the former would require (at least for my provider) that I go through a sometimes cumbersome process of registering the new device's MAC address.
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On 1.: Seriously, I was gonna write the exact same thing. Just today I researched once again, since it's quite a hassle, and nowadays seems pretty common to have a HiDPI laptop screen in combination with a standard-DPI external screen.
Production algorithm tricks anyone?
For solving the problem of proportioned distribution of ads into sites at internet-scale, we had used a random number generator within a segmented number range. It was elegant and distributed synchronization and such complexities.
Any more of such elegant tricks in production software?
> If that library is the system "libc" library or something similar, then it has to be reboot (not relogin). The only way that I can think for reboot-free updates, is to save the full state of the system, then silently restart everything to the previous state.

Restarting running services and logging in again is fully sufficient to handle a libc upgrade, at the very least on Debian. "Just restart" is maybe easier advice to give, but overshoots the target a little bit.
Words can definitely be the actus reus of a robbery. You also need the mens rea.

There are very few actions that are always criminal. Sex with a minor is the only major one. Things like speeding if you count small fines.
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Google Wind in the Netherlands
https://youtu.be/QAwL0O5nXe0
Would be an interesting study to calculate the performance of companies share price and compare based on the leadership's educational background.
Also, deep net problems are different than traditional CS because we can mathematically define when say a list of numbers is sorted but not when "this image looks photorealistic".

Effectively, deep nets are good at tricking human visual cortex, so I'm not sure theres a deeper mathematical reason they work well, in the same way that the reason mp3 compression works so well is that they tested it against human hearing.

But yes, all deep learning is based on gradient descent which is a greedy heuristic algorithm and it's not a priori apparent it should do anything interesting. But it does.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Open terminal from Nautilus right-click menu

DESCRIPTION: It would be useful to be able to open a terminal from any direcrory of Nautilus and the terminal would point to the same directory immediatelly. I know Nautilus is a Gnome development but thought it would worth to ask for this. I find it hard to open a terminal each time when I'm a middle od something and cd t the directory manually.

ROLE: IT PM
Then what about ChromeOS? Do you think they're trying to build a "full-fledged" OS for the modern era, with safety and security in mind, but not as lightweight as ChromeOS?
Here is some unsolicited advice from an older person to a younger person in the Bay Area.

Buy a house that you can afford, now. Maybe in Tahoe or Sacramento even. Or out in the country somewhere. Maybe you'll have to live in your car in San Francisco during the week and visit your house on the weekends.

But it will be YOUR PLACE. And here is what will happen financially. On a long enough timeline, California real estate goes up. If the value stays completely flat, you will build equity and own something that you can eventually sell for use toward your down payment for your next house. You will have the option to AirBNB it. You'll be able to invite your other awesome young friends on weekend getaways.

The key to this entire thing is the "you can afford it" part. If you found a place for $100k we are talking maybe $700 a month. If the value goes down 10%, it doesn't change anything for you long term, you can still afford the $700 a month.
I guess this is why we have people like Satoshi, and now the MimbleWimble(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUGu48JTd0) team all working under Potter-esque pseudonyms
Working through the concerns of our community
Looks like it's time to stay away from the internet this weekend.
The problem with this theory is that crime rate went down across the Western world at the same time. Whatever explaination you come up with has to work for the U.S. and Japan, and France, etc. Maybe changing abortion laws are part of it, but it must be some confluence of things combined.
My screen is of a fixed size; my days are of a fixed length. If you want to put foolish words on your screen more power to you, but if they're on my screen or taking my time, that impedes me doing whatever I want to do with my screen or my time.

That is, the more dialogue that I'm uninterested in that I lack tools to filter, the more my dialogue is being controlled by DoS. That is the fundamental paradox of open discourse; I don't know what the right answer is, but naive open discourse isn't it.
> CEOs are born

I feel that this statement is too strong. Maybe something along the lines of "CEOs are formed"... Some people also believe entrepreneurs are born entrepreneurs .... is that what you meant?

I always come back to the fact that the brain is a muscle and we can change our thinking and improve our abilities
Capability-based operating systems must be the future. If they are not, then we are all doomed to continue to exist in a messy world where security problems crop up every minute. Capability-based access controls are one of the best options for getting out of our current mess, but they're also the type of thing that must be implemented very low in the system in order to work.

Hopefully, when we start ripping out *nix before 2038, Fuscia and other capability-based OS's can take over.
I have to rebuild one of these in a week or two, so it is VERY MUCH an item of interest to me to support the "sign and send back" workflow.
Cool...until it got back on topic.
Some of those numbers seem to be affected by significant world events (world wars, economic depressions). I wonder if filtering out some of the EOs specific to those kinds of things might smooth things out a bit?
I would like unity-webapps-amazon to be re-separated from unity-webapps-common and for Unity Tweak Tool to be aware of the presence or absense of the Amazon webapp. Not even because I'm personally worried about it, it's like ~50 lines of javascript total, and it's obvious what they do, but I'm bored to death of talking about the thing to people who want to try a Linux distribution and I want to recommend Ubuntu, but then they say "But I heard this FUD..." and I have to explain why that's an incomplete picture of the event and it's aftermath instead of getting them up and running.
Cloud Foundry offers cloud developer certification
Good effort, but the "battery" part seems like it is still in need of some attention. Developing a good relationship with a reliable cell manufacturer, and staying on top of quality control issues, is going to consume your life.

Also, get UL certified, or you're wasting your time.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Simpler install customization and actual canonical (lol) guides for how to do certain tasks

- DESCRIPTION: Customizing/automating install images is a pain. I've spent years working on making the debian/Ubuntu installer do just the things it was designed to do (e.g. preseeding) and it still feels like I have to cobble together information from ten different resources and read through the installer code to figure out how things are supposed to work.

I would love a simple way to understand and customize the installer. A canonical list of preseed options would be great. A clear guide to building and integrating custom udeb packages would be great. Some way of hooking in with Python or shell scripts where the Ubuntu installer can handle them intelligently (putting them in /scripts/{pre,post}_install.d/ rather than specifying a single command in early_command/late_command which then runs x more scripts) (and better functionality for handling this via netboot), information on how to specify a custom list of installer packages to load or integrate, a clear guide on how to take an Ubuntu server ISO and remove any packages I don't need, scripts to rebuild the package list more easily, a simple guide on how to run the installer via NBD or NFS.

All of these things are possible and there are guides for them all over the place, but I've yet to find a single, simple "system builder's guide" which will tell me, an admin, how to do the various levels of customization which are already possible and supported.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Devops, sysadmin, IT, etc.
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Sigh The Trolls have been with the internet from the start. I would say that actually they are mostly contained (why? because its really fucking difficult to be anonymous. Plus you are more than likely to be prosecuted for whatever you've done)

So whats changed? more people are on platforms like twitter, and seem to think that fake internet points are real.

The vast majority of "trolling" is pretty low grade "die", "sexual slur", "lol rape", "exploitation of personal detail that you've shared" Thats not trolling, thats people just being arseholes.

They are anonymous people, they have no impact on your life, ignore them.

edit I should point out that yes swatting and doxxing still happens, and the impact is massive. but it is still rare.

The advantage of a twitter profile is you can delete it, and start again. I wish I could have done that in real life. It would have helped me escape the daily torment of my bullies at high school.
Flavour: Ubuntu Desktop

Headline: Allow me to remap capslock

Capslock is the most useless key on my keyboard and it's in such a nice spot for ctrl/alt/whatever.

What I'd really like is for it to be a new key for modifying commands.
I'm a little skeptical in terms of whether this will be a scaleable business, but I love that you're targeting a demographic that SV doesn't usually pay attention to.

You should totally work with black beauty YouTubers like Jackie Aina and Alissa Ashley!
Yeah it seems to have had actually a shockingly large impact. As much as people love to morally judge the poor the environment has much more of an impact on human behavior than we would even like to admit.
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Here in .nl, the cheapest XPS is 1500 euros, or 1700 dollars.
I feel the same: the first...third? of the article was basically news to me.

I thought the article was going to be about how every web designer interrupts whatever it is you're there to read/see/etc. Multiple times. Instead we get yet another Medium-quality thinkpiece extrapolating someone's personal experience.

At any rate, the title here should match the article's.
Porsche Tower elevates residents cars into works of art
time to clear the fog after waking up seems to get longer and longer as I get older.

As one who has been under general anesthesia on and off since 18 months old, I'll confirm your suspicions with anecdata. When I was a kid, and the anesthesia back then would make you way foggier than the modern stuff, I be back bouncing around in about 24 hours. The anesthetics have gotten better over the years, but the recovery times have gotten longer. As of about five years ago, it takes about a week for my head to clear up.