skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Reddit crowd represents a mainstream of digital nomads, but not all. Among the Eastern European/former USSR hitchhiking community are a lot of translators and software devs who often organize a joint rental in various cities around the world as a base, but are perfectly content to work from a stealthily pitched tent while they are on the road to somewhere more comfortable.

Myself, I used to be very active in this scene before eventually making the leap into bicycle touring, where I continue to work from my tent or rural cafes. I regularly meet other cyclists who are digital nomads. It's pretty neat that thanks to 3G internet access being so plentiful, you can tour some of Earth's most beautiful landscapes almost self-sufficiently and still put in at least a couple of hours of work a day. The only hassles is finding places to charge electronics.
Forget the Bible -- "take a letter please" was an almost stereotypical expression associated with executive types and their secretaries. Dictation to a human secretary was a more common form of "input" for the executive class than writing the letter oneself; personal computing was met with some resistance by corporate execs in the 70s and early 80s because you had to type at a PC to operate it, and typing was viewed as a skill used by secretaries, clerks, and other such minions.
Amazon ends its unlimited cloud storage plan
Who said this is a small open-source repo? Node.js has one of the most active OSS communities on the web, with many contributors and developers looking at the code, consuming and working on security and fixing bug reports daily.

Also, a single company provides limitations - you've got blinders on, and your project isn't open for those with a different perspective to come in and take a look and notice something. I honestly think that fresh, open, and global perspective is truly key the success of OSS.
> Privacy advocates and privacy caring IT specialists have repeatedly asked Apple to offer such an option, but so far Apple has decided that regular people would turn such an option on, forget their password, then ask Apple for help and would be unhappy with their brand experience if Apple could not help them out.

From Darthy's comment 30 minutes ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14513803
The Pirate Bay search results directly on IMDB
Haha, well, the theory is to add small things that you might forget when incapable of writing it down. If you have an Alexa, try it out. I would love your feedback!
> When you construct an API, you receive scalability and load balancing benefits by decoupling your API and hosting it as its own backend

I've thought about doing this a couple of times but it seems like a lot of overhead if you need to have separate production instances running for each version of your API.

Is there a better approach to organize this in a more scalable manner?
I found the history of New World wines interesting, esp. where the grapes came from. E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_wine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinfandel
These Westafricandocumentary.com links were banned by “no censorship” Voat.co
I'm unclear why I must forfeit my right to privacy because others (you) think it's a non-issue.

Because you haven't defined privacy: The ability to control what is publicly known about oneself. I'd also add the ability to assess what is known about oneself.

You also ignore identity vis a vis privacy. A completely transparent world (a la Brin) has made identity theft a booming industry.

Lastly, everyone ignores property rights. I am my data, my data is me (see identity above). At the very least, if someone is making a buck at my expense, I want my cut.
Ok I think we're talking past each other. I was busy earlier so I didn't get a chance to fully respond. The point I was trying to make about the iPhone and marketing was the bulk of money and time invested was in the product itself. You said Apple spent 2 billion in R&D. Now how does that cost compare to the marketing campaign that followed? I found this article talking about advertising for the iPhone 6:

http://www.campaignlive.com/article/apple-ad-spend-rises-50-...

"The company reported record profits of $53.4 billion on turnover of $233.7 billion, thanks to the iPhone6 and iPhone6s sales. Advertising still represents less than 1% of turnover."

Do they spend a crapton on marketing? Well compared to how much me and you make, yes. But compared to what Apple makes off iPhones, it isn't. The point I was trying to make was the iPhone successful because of a slick marketing campaign or was it the quality of the product itself? I would say it's the product in this case. Look at high-traffic sites like reddit and imgur that barely market themselves but are still wildly popular. Why? People like it and want to use it because they're good sites. That was the point I was trying to make. A good product or service is worth it's weight in marketing gold. In my opinion you should be spending the bulk of your resources on R&D improving your product than growth hacking. Your chances of success are much higher with a solid product/service. The tech industry has an abysmal failure rate compared to literally any other industry and I feel this trend of rushing through a MVP and marketing the hell out of what's essentially an unfinished product is the cause. How do you even know if the market for your product or service is even there to begin with if your MVP isn't fully functional yet. Concentrate on the product/service and beta test. Get feedback and listen to what people are telling you. Grow organically. Maybe people likes how your product does X but but starts asking if it could do Y also. The addition of that feature could be what pushes your product over the top. That's all I was saying.
You're right of course, this is an ongoing exploration. I hope to learn the deeper truths in the process.
We use keyboard controls in our app (vidhub.co) to control media, looks like a Safari 11 user will no longer be able to just hit a key to start a video if Safari's "automatic inference engine" chooses to block us.
I am talking 100% about MRI costs. It is hard to find the real costs but that is all due to nonsense that happens between doctors and insurance. I am talking about the actual cost that my insurance pays for just the MRI. The price depending on where I went had a huge impact for my insurance. I choose to go to a cheaper location purely because I thought it was a waste. The place I went would have charged me directly 11k but charges my insurance 2k.
Who says that aversion to ads has something to do with believing I'm above being sold to? That sounds like nonsense. The reason I don't want to see ads is that they tend to be obnoxious and distracting, some actively disrupt the content I'm intent on viewing (interstitials, TV commercials, preroll video ads), and many end up serving malware.

It would be ludicrous to claim that I'm above being sold to. I'm not even sure what that would mean.
No, according to the spec, I can enable / disable JS and not run any code, which I'm doing: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#enabling-and-disabling-scripti...

So an HTML document viewed in a browser with JS off should not itself run code, ever.
They are much closer to the curves and solids we're familiar with from everyday experience. For example: you have well-defined tangents at every point for a smooth curve, but a self-intersecting curve doesn't. So many techniques and a lot of intuition carries over into the abstract algebraic setting.

More generally, algebraic geometry is a central field of math because it is, basically, about solving polynomial equations. It's one of the most "well-connected" fields of mathematics today. Number theory, differential geometry, complex geometry, even differential equations: all these fields benefit from their interactions with modern algebraic geometry. (Also biology, I've heard. Lior Pachter is a name I remember in this connection.)
Show HN: F2P HTML5 MMORPG in 12 languages
The original implementation used custom hardware, but the original implementation was in 1984, so I think that's forgivable. I don't think the custom hardware is necessary, though. Fundamentally the concept is that you replace a thumping great matrix operation with a set of lookup tables in memory. FPGA's are fun, I'm just not sure you need them for this. RAM is plenty fast.
This is not true. Wi-Fi Sync (that includes iTunes backup) is available since iOS 5[1]. It works automatically if phone is plugged in and computer used for back is online.

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/13/wi-fi-sync-for-iphone-ipad-io...
Your first point applies to any browser which has a large enough user base and allows for extensions. AFAIK, Firefox has the same issue you described and Edge has zero to no addons, functionality and options compared to either of the two.

The second depends on the grandma I guess. The ones I know use AdBlock of some sort and like their pages to work :).
If we go back to some philosophical roots, Facebook as a company and those who control it (may) effectively have a monopoly on the "marketplace of ideas". This doesn't mean they are abusing that power, nor that the monopoly is complete. But it is an influential force in that old 'marketplace' - a notion that gave birth to the first amendment. The marketplace of ideas is a critical component of our democracy.

This hints at mechanisms to deal with such a monopoly (were it to arise) in analogy to how the government has protected its people by dealing with economic monopolies (sometimes creating them deliberately, sometimes monitoring them, and sometimes breaking them up when they abuse that position, etc.).
I gave up twitter/facebook/instagram at the end of 2016 mostly because all the political news and discussion was becoming too much. I don't miss it.

I think I still have a LinkedIn account but never use it. I have never found professional social networking tools useful. I think thats mostly because I don't really need to do a lot of networking as a data engineer. If my job had more of a 'social imperative' (e.g. sales, leadership, marketing, or freelance) I probably would use it.
Yes, human readable dates are very good at conveying a sense of obsolescence.

Mine are a bit more granular: /vyymm, e.g. /v1503, /v1610, /v1706. This should work well for this century ;-)
Awesome! Great opportunity.
Welcome to the argument-by-way-of-bingo-card bingo

[x] Disparages arguments without actually addressing them

[x] Adds nothing to the discussion
> Historically that has been true, but couldn't technology help?

No, it's a fundamental structure problem, not a technology (aside from the sense in which an economic system is itself a social technology) problem.

> Like, issuing everyone a smartphone and having them register all demand and make all purchases through it.

From a utility signalling perspective, that's not significantly different in the information it provides than just retaining currency for consumer purchases, which state socialism generally has.
Google doesn't sell our information.
I don’t understand the whole isolation argument. Facebook connects people like never before. People will always be involved or connected to their community but FB gives people much insight to global trends. What’s really dying is a monopoly by elites, Zuckerberg has too much power and is rumored to start a political career so I expect this is a preemptive strike.
I don't use my FB account. I think I am averaging a login every 5 years.

I use LinkedIn for professional networking but very sparingly.

I started using Mastodon recently and participate there but maybe a few times a week.

I am on a few programming Slacks and fairly active there. That seems to hit the sweet spot for an old IRC user like myself.
Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
There have been many, many posts about how toxic advertising and Facebook are (I've written many myself[1][2][3]) for our internet ecosystem today.

What projects or companies are you working on to combat filter bubbles, walled gardens, emotional manipulation, and the like, and how can the HN community help you in your goals?

[1]http://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/
[2]http://veekaybee.github.io/content-is-dead/
[3] http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/
And how many revisions of editing (and translation) has the text gone through from the point of dictation to the current day when we consider it to have formal style? I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that even the scribe would perform significant amount of editing on the fly to construct reasonable structure.

I would also imagine that dictated language and spoken language are somewhat distinct categories, I would rather consider dictation to be an input method for writing rather than a form of spoken language, if that makes any sense. Sadly I don't have any background to actually claim this as a fact, maybe some linguist could chime in?
Why are you not saying this about Google? And Twitter? Let me guess: they play on your side.
Most of the time, I feel like it would be easier to write HTML markup to style documents than it is to poke and prod at the Word formatting options. In college, when I was routinely having to write papers that needed footnotes and specific formatting styles, I nearly broke down and learned LaTex, I got so frustrated. And, with HTML, it would be trivial to add in the types of multimedia elements you mention.

If only I could convince the non-technical people and management on my team to ditch Word docs... If nothing more, it more make version-control merge conflicts so much less painful to deal with.
> Disney's park maps kept tracking when the app was closed

Closed or in the background?

I was under the impression (in iOS 10 and earlier), that "Always" meant anytime the app was open, and "While in use" is only when the app is in the foreground. So if an app has "Always" on for its Location Services, it will stop tracking when I swipe up and quit it.

If I've been incorrect this whole time, please pass the tinfoil.
Demand can be, and often is, created artificially; it can also be reduced to some "acceptable" minimum. What purpose would nation-wide Central Planning serve? Certainly, not the maximizing of the profit of a company. It would serve to optimally satisfy demand, and minimizing the latter would be a sensible optimization strategy.
I was talking about the desktop version. If you want the features chrome provides, the experience is by far the smoothest, fastest and most integrated compared to other browsers.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the RAM usage and the anti-privacy defaults, but if I put idealism aside, Chrome works best :-/.

(And I don't really understand the downvotes. Perhaps I explained my point better here?)
From the article:

> In the run-up to Thursday's U.K. election, a group called Who Targets Me recruited 10,000 volunteers to install a browser extension that registers targeted messages, ranging from Facebook videos to Google search ads. The group calls them "dark ads" because they are so hard to monitor: They've been targeted to specific local constituencies, gender and age groups.

Has anyone gone the other direction with either a browser extension or app to essentially give permission to MITM the content and metadata input into, say, Facebook and Twitter? In other words, get the data for 10,000 users input and then test what inferences can be made based on metadata, content, and a combination of the two.
I'm not so worried about all this filter bubble and fake news panic. People have always filtered themselves from other opinions anyway. It's just a fundamental flaw in humans.
Despite Silicon Beach, Los Angeles is merely America's 18th top tech city
Rhetorical questions have been used by rhetoricians for thousands of years without bad faith. Whether something was sexist or not when reading an article about a supposed sexist event seems highly relevant, especially when the supposed victims has gone on record saying she didn't think it was sexism.

Am I getting special attention because there is a received wisdom around sexism in segments of the tech community which I'm not acknowledging? I'm not sure how other communities operate, but I've noticed that, basically, if anything negative happens to a woman or minority in the tech community, it is automatically assumed that it was because they are a woman or minority. This situation is a perfect example.
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Is the threat really facebook or an uninformed therefore easily misled electorate?

What I can't believe is that people actually believe some of the stuff on social media.
Did you actually read the article? They aren't worried about fake news; they're worried about ads that the other side can't respond to because they can't even see them.
This isn't a bingo it's just a checklist.
This would definitely be another situation you'd need to consider relocation. In that situation, you'd need to find alternative measures to become more sustainable. Like living in the city, the measures you take would look significantly different than someone living in the green zone.
Let’s play pick your billionaire!
As an owner of an iPhone 7 and a Pixel I'd say there are not many. Google Assistant is way ahead of Siri at pretty much every imaginable task, and Google Photos can do a lot more than iOS Photos.

That said, none of those features interest me much. And I'm not sure how many average consumers they do interest. It's more of a 'oh, that's cool I guess'. I prefer my iPhone 7 still.
Great story.

I am also working through MIT OCW classes, currently on 6.0001 (Introduction to CS using Python).

Just a few questions:
- What specific courses did you take?
- Did you complete the psets and quizzes / exams to test what you learned?
- Did you buy, rent, or download the suggested books?
- Did you listen to all the lectures or skip around? How about recitations (where available)?
plus, from the reading I did, the founders have been working in the search space for a long time and really seem to know what they're doing.

Lucene is great, but, it does have limitations: tough to embed in non-JVM applications and poor support for tokenizing things like emojis are two immediate things that come to mind.

Elasticsearch is maybe my favorite data storage product in the last 15 years, but the Algolia folks have taken a different approach that is also quite interesting.
I'd say the bigger problem is the way Facebook props up and emphasizes popular shares.

Imagine if those chain emails from your crazy uncle were always displayed prominently at the top of your inbox depending on the number of forwards.
There's a lot of foods you can eat without having to cook them, or that you can cook with just a single electric burner. You can buy a mini dorm fridge + small microwave if you really need one, but simply buying whatever is on sale like meat that is about to expire or very ripe fruit is a good way to still save money without needing a lot of space.

Washer and dryer uses a lot of electricity and water, so while it is more expensive to go to the laundrymat it's not as much as you might think, especially vs the savings of living in a very small space. Wearing your clothes more than once helps a lot, and even in a small space you can usually find somewhere to hang suits. Usually the back of a door is good.

There's a lot of people out there that make it work. :)
On further thought, I think this actually makes sense for Google.

(I'm a novice about the ad industry, so please correct me if the following is wrong)

Aren't google ads often just relevant text ads?

The problem is that other ad networks are getting more and more aggressive in their ads, and is hurting the public perception of ALL ads. And that ultimately hurts Google.

So my guess is that Google (like others) is trying to stop the negative experience that ads are causing. It's the same reason Facebook has also joined that coalition. Both networks actually have pretty unobtrusive text ads when planted on pages.

I don't think google's ad network even supports things like interstitial ads. Do they?
I've noticed that professional speakers and actors speak very different from how I do. There is a much more dynamic use of tone and they generally speak more slowly.

I occasionally speak at conferences and have thought about recording lessons and wanted to know how to do this. I searched pretty hard for tips and there isn't much. I ended up watching a bunch of YouTube videos and making a playlist [1] of what I thought was valuable. If you're interested, check it out.

1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLanzwyndb8YV4euD0Lei...
Wouldn't evilCredntialStealingJavascript() have to be stored on the server in the first place...?
And the problem is that Facebook has dozens of scores about our personality which allow them to individually steer and control people.
What you share is not what all your "friends" see. They see what Facebook decides to show. Plus what else Facebook decides is helping to keep your friends happy with the platform.
Facebook is not like Wikipedia, a platform for all to freely and transparently share, no it's only purpose is to bind us to the platform and get willing ad targets.
Bongard Problems and Scientific Discovery
CNN and Washington Post have quite a lead on Bloomberg, just wait until they start campaigning
Problems to Sharpen the Young
> The EMH means the lock-up expiration is already priced into the stock

There are various forms of the efficient market hypothesis. The weak form holds that all public information is efficiently priced into the market. The insiders selling on lock-up expiration have access to non-public information. Such non-public information could range from firm-level material, e.g. state of hiring or product development, to individually material, e.g. that an employee is in debt or really wants to go on vacation.
hey, I deal with this too. Exercise does help with letting off some steam. What also does wonders is to list out the things that are bothering you, and then ask yourself - "is there anything I can (and should) do about this right now?" If the answer is yes, then do it. Otherwise, let it go for the evening, and the issue(s) will still be there in the morning. Remember too - your subconscious is a valuable tool, but you need to let go so it can do its thing! You ever have those eureka moments in the shower? You can have those same kinds of revelations in the morning regarding a problem that you thought was insurmountable the night before, but you have to stop thinking about it long enough to get the right perspective on things.
I'm not so sure. It becomes a lot harder to explain Apple's very public focus on privacy features if you don't accept that it is a significant factor in smartphone buyers' decisionmaking.
I agree. I know it's Intercom and that everybody loves it, but I find it very very spammy. I'm not even mentioning that they slow the page a lot, but the sound, and the insistence on opening chat windows with idiotic default content even if I'm visiting the page for the 100th time, that is horrible.
I get what you're saying. RTF is nice as an open-standard alternative for storing rich text.

But once again we see this described as "exporting." The focus is on the silo. You're in the silo or you're not. Rather, the focus should be on the data, and applications should merely manipulate them.[^1]

[^1]: In many ways, there is a similar distinction between programming models. For example, in an "object-oriented" style the object owns the data and the functions on that data. In a "functional" style, the data exists, and there are functions on that data. The analogy isn't perfect, but at least it sheds new light on the word processing issue.
Its 1-dimensional bingo.
TypeScript already has `public` and `private` keywords. I wonder how they'll implement this if it makes it into ECMAScript.