skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Upvoters: if you upvote this kind of thing, eventually your upvotes will not count.

Wait, how does that work? Does HN track upvotes for posts disliked by the mods, and somehow penalize the associated accounts?
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? At some point Cunningham's Law blends into trollery.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14532068 and marked it off-topic.
> If you could eliminate the disorder while leaving the remainder of the brain untouched, they'd be better off, full stop.

Yes, but things just don’t work that way. You could make a similar statement about how 2 identical people, except with one needing to sleep and eat and the other who does not, but that’s just absurd. Human systems are holistic systems before anyting else.
I don't use real answers either because I'm paranoid about this stuff, but it always causes trouble when I have to interact with an institution.

Examples:

- I lost my health insurance for 6 months because I couldn't dig up my 'secret answer' in time to activate COBRA.

- My credit card expired while I was traveling and I couldn't reactivate it because I didn't know what answer I had given to 'mother's maiden name'. (In the end I convinced them I didn't need a secret answer to verify my identity, which in its own way is even worse).

- Some company had a form that stripped numbers from the secret answer and mine had numbers in it (hilarity ensues).

Instead of working around institutional nonsense, we should fire bad companies and hire / start good ones.
U2F is ludicrously hard to implement. Adding TOTP 2FA to an existing webapp will take a competent developer a few hours, using only a 10-line code snippet and the standard library. Adding U2F means learning a ton of complicated concepts and either using a giant, poorly documented library provided by Yubico or writing a bunch of tricky crypto code from scratch. :(
Microsoft will unify most 'Minecraft' platforms this summer
It's hard to be excited about that list when so much of it seems like technology that will be used against me. For example, by businesses to further reduce the freedoms we have when using proprietary software.
For Google storage - you can get GSuite (https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html) - $10 a user a month, for unlimited storage via Google Drive.

You can then mount the drive using DriveFS:

https://blog.google/products/g-suite/introducing-new-enterpr...

It's basically a FUSE filesystem built on top of Google Drive.

Alternatively, you can use the Drive Sync Client, if you want to just sync stuff back and forth (without a virtual FS).
This is definitely interesting. I'm trying it out - One of the things I'm noticing is that there's no way to edit the data that I see. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this - it seems very strange that this doesn't exist
Somehow I wonder if life is significantly different for people named Daniel.
Because their target markets contain both people who'll gladly spend 50 quid on the latest account security dongle, as well as people who have a Pentium 4 desktop and a 50 quid feature phone. The latter get much more secure when apart from a password, probably on a post it stuck next to the screen, they are inconvenienced to also type in a few digits from SMS.
> A green padlock in the address bar should mean that the site is trustworthy. Now it only means that site admin knows how to setup https.

The green padlock means that you have a secure connection to the site you have selected to visit. We should not attempt to ascribe any other meaning to it.
If they just use https://twitter.com/blahblah it will automatically open into the Twitter app
Class calcification and myth of meritocracy is stronger in the US than the UK
Have you considered using IPFS for distribution?
I don't see any reason why Charlotte Willner's account of what happened at Facebook couldn't apply just as easily to Uber. What makes you say that things are not in the same league? Katherine Losses' allegations are as salacious as anything I've heard about Uber (or many other successful early stage tech companies for that matter)

After five months of examining the company's culture,
Uber's new human resources officer, Liane Hornsey
concluded that the firm's treatment of women was no
worse than what occurs at other companies.

Uber's biggest employee problems are pay and pride, not
sexism, says HR boss “Wherever I have worked, I have
seen things that are not great for women,” Hornsey said
in a USA TODAY interview. “I don’t think it’s about tech,
or this city or this company. I think it’s about the
world of work, and I think that it’s something that we
have to take really super seriously.”

source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/06/11/reports-uber...

Liane Hornsey was formerly the VP of People Operations at Google for like 5 years I think. I'm far more inclined to believe her account of what things are like than any journalist lazily trolling for any disgruntled former employee to recount a story that will generate ad impressions.
I have two 2xe sons. One of the metaphors we came up with is that they aren't legless lizards who need a bunch of prostheses to replace their missing limbs. They are snakes and they need to be allowed to travel by slithering, as they were intended to. Adding prostheses would be an active hindrance to their ability to be themselves.

Hopefully, the neurodiversity movement will come up with better ways to convince people that they are different rather than broken and with better framings for how to help them interact effectively with the rest of society without trying to force fit them to some mold of "normal."
Word. This looks cool
It's a great obit. And when I read it I immediately wondered if he was yet another adult who never got an autism diagnosis: never married and not super social but also not standing on ceremony even with intimidating people like Buckley, obsessed with model trains and their tiny variations, punctual and clearly loving routine, chose work in a mailroom that was all about organization and making order from chaos, and so on.
I looked at the source code. Under the hood, it's just a thin wrapper around `subprocess`.
I know and I normally don't do this, so please forgive my rather emotional response. But this obituary made me kind of angry.

To comment on your original point:

I really think there's nothing fishy about it. He probably really wanted to be there, because his co-workers were the only other people in his life. I think the author was spot-on with his analysis, but just left it at that and some 'playful' anecdotes about his co-workers 'quirks' without questioning if maybe there's something to be learned from this, what I would call tragic and lonely death.
Volta: Magnetic Charging Cables
If I recall correctly, one major catch is that wl_shell has been feature-frozen since 2012 and lacks newfangled features like the ability to minimize windows. For newer functionality you need to use xdg-shell instead, which regularly changes in backwards-incompatible ways and there's no guarantee the version your application implements (or any version of it) will actually be available.
If you're trying to crack 'a password' you're doing it wrong. Alternatively, you're doing something illegal.

That's not why these lists are made public (though I can appreciate the fact that they are 'dual use').
This happened to me.

1. I believe it began with the hacker getting DOB/SSN.
2. Called wireless provider, and hacker forward all calls and texts to a burn phone. Eventually, the hacker ported my wireless phone to another provider/number (not sure which), and the phone registered to my provider did not work anymore. The landline phone was also forwarding calls to another number.*
3. Hacker gained access to email (as that email was also within the telco's site). At the beginning, the hacker did not reset the password. After I changed the email's password, hacker was still gaining access to our emails and he/she eventually reset the email blocking my access. (reason was all the text and calls was forwarding to his/her burn phone so he/she can reset the pass anytime)
5. Requested 2FA from bank.
6. Gained access to bank account.

This was over a course of 3 months. It was a nightmare to resolve and paranoia still remained. The hacker later on went opening several bank accounts. Fortunately, this was discovered early. The entire situation was communicated to the FBI, local police, and bank institutions, but I do not think anyone cared.

*I saw two numbers that were being used within my wireless account site to forward the calls.
It's perfectly fine to try things that are expected to fail, that is not the argument in the comment.

To give a hyperbolic example of what I'm talking about: Let's say you propose to build a giant hadron collider that rings the moon. This is, in the grand scheme of things, a reasonable proposal, within the realm of possibility, and probably something we should get around to doing. Would it be reasonable to pitch starting the construction project today? Or should we maybe wait a little bit? Should a person that jumps the gun maybe by about 20 years, and completes it, say at mabye 100x the expected cost be called a visionary?
It seems needlessly obtuse to say that Instagram have never stated that a "like" represents someone liking your photo. That's the reason they called it a "like". If you want to make the argument that Instagram chose a name for something without wanting to attach any meaning to it then good luck to you, but it's not a conversation I'm interested in having.

> nor restricts particularly how they can be created.

Untrue, given that they've cracked down on bots posting automated activity on Instagram:

http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cracks-down-on-fake...
At first, I thought this is a VNC connecting to a Win93 in a virtual machine.

Then I realized everything is written with web technology.
They can use trusted computing or HSM tech for that. They have the money but probably won't spend it.
The boost in testosterone may be one of a frozen naturally occurring reactions that have some interaction. Conversely, taking a testosterone injection is isolated, so it may have different effects on your body.
Most people here are simply users of these technologies, not creators. The actual programming is still banal.
I'm about that age as well. I had a pretty rough entry into adulthood thanks to my school peers. Being a "geek" was tough in those decades. I harbor no nostalgia for that hot mess.

So there's one more reason a lot of older folks on here might not be quite as stuck on the past as most.

Watching my son sling 'duinos and rock NodeJS on his raspis and not get bullied for it is sweet. The golden age is now.
What are the reasons? Is there any problem that cannot be solved?
Meh, sounds like a typical C-type. Where the data at? How do you quantify performance? How do you ensure you're actually rewarding top performers rather than the top politicians/sales people.

For example, going through someone's resume to try and find 'a history of winning' is a good way to get the latter. It's a measure of someone's ability to tell a story and sell themselves (which, to be honest, kinda sounds like this guy).

Better to give them a case study or some other more concrete measure of reasoning and analytical ability. It's like how Jeff Atwood started the whole 'test that coders can actually code' thing. It turns out that relevant work tests are a really good idea but these c-types would rather just hire people like themselves.
My bank only yesterday froze my card because it is being used in a different country and they suspect fraud.
Sleeping whenever you want is a good idea IMOP.

I do it (not narcoleptic, just like to sleep whenever the mood strikes). Sometimes 2 naps during the working day, almost always at least one. 10-15 minutes tops usually, just barely fall asleep then back awake.

This should be tolerated at work I think.
Again, it has been over 20 years since ISA has mattered for performance in a head-to-head matchup between comparable CPUs. Moore's Law has thoroughly done away with it as a factor in performance. Relative code size (and cache/memory space + bus bandwidth) of RISC vs CISC, "x86 tax" of translating into micro-ps as a percentage of the die area, register file size, load/store, and everything else you can think of have all fallen away as real performance factors as transistor counts have soared and compilers have improved.

There are so many things that matter for performance now, and ARM vs. x86 ISA just isn't anywhere on that list, and hasn't been on it for a very long time.
... that we know of ...
Clearly you've been one of the chosen ones, so that's not a biased perspective at all.

Question: What happened to those companies you've helped to start?
I don't have a phone number in any of my Google accounts, just Google Authenticator for 2-step verification.

I don't recall ever having a problem with this setup. Are there services that require a Google account to sign in, but don't work if you don't have a phone number?
Would webasm port make this actually real?
I don't remember specifics but it was less than federal minimum wage, partially because the area was over saturated with drivers and partly because the biggest cab route in the city is off limits to Uber.
Please don't post ideological rants to HN. If you have a substantive point to make, please make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
They aren't owned by eBay anymore. They were spun off into an independent company in 2015.
You can remove the phone after you add another factor (ex: TOTP device).
It doesn't matter what he meant, all that matters is how he said it; your question is meaningless, for after all there is no meaning but usage.

(If it isn't clear, this comment is snide to GP.)
Free speech: telling your boss off, quitting, organizing a walk out, refusal to work, picketing, posting your story online to warn other potential employees and customers just who their doing business with

Not free speech: punching your boss in the face, burning the building down, vandalizing the office, deleting all the data on the servers and hurting a bunch of people that had nothing to do with your conflict with management

I'm all about workers right and have walked out on many a job because management were raging assholes. I have convictions and I stand by them but conviction and doing the right thing in life often come with sacrifices. I'm currently underemployed because of my convictions but I can sleep at night knowing I'm doing the right thing. The way for us to take back power in the tech industry is to organize, unionize and refuse to work for abusive and exploitative employers. We're the ones with the skills. They need us not vise versa.
I always, always store my bogus answers in 1Password. One of many reasons I love the tool.

Most security questions are either trivial for someone else to figure out with a little research or I don't know what my real answer would be. Name of my first pet? Well, I had several that could meet that definition, and I definitely don't remember the name of the first one.
Now do you also think that the average kid starting out in basketball will be put off by, rather than inspired by, the likes of Michael Jordan?
Cool subprocess is a little verbose. But did you happen to notice if it executes with shell=True or shell=False?
> rely exclusively on white bros in their 30s with identical experiences.

According to Uber's diversity report, the racial composition of its workforce approximately matches the racial composition of San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alemeda counties, and its gender composition is roughly in line with the industry average in the Bay Area and is really no different than the gender composition at companies like Google or Facebook.
Yes, all those rockets landing their first stages back in the 60's, that was quite boring and old. Oh, wait, they didn't do that at all.

> They're standing way up there on the shoulders of those giants, and we should recognize that.

We do. And they do too.

But they are innovating, and bringing down the cost of putting stuff in orbit is very important progress, no point in belittling that.
Whom at universities do you wish to sell to? Who do you see using this?

I work as a math professor at a state university, and overall universities don't seem like good places to work as programmers. Most of the programming-ish work seems to consist of making big pieces of software (PeopleSoft, Blackboard, etc.) work. I don't know how much actual programming this involves; I'd be a bit surprised if there was a market for your product there, but I could be wrong.

Perhaps you instead envisioned working with individual CS professors or departments? There your prospects are probably better; if you persuade someone there that your software is worth buying, they might well be willing to buy at a couple thousand dollars. They have their own (smaller) pots of money which they control and would not need to fool around with much bureaucracy to buy.

The disadvantage is that it would be hard to get your foot in the door. Contact information for professors is easy to find, which means that people are constantly contacting them with all sorts of unsolicited requests, and their fingers are used to finding the `D' key quite rapidly. If you somehow got a couple of individual, influential CS professors to use and love their product, they might recommend it to their peers. This could be difficult though ... for example, in six years of working as a math professor I have not yet purchased any software, although I could if I wanted to.

There are smart people in academia, doing interesting and worthwhile things -- but I expect that it would be an exasperating market to sell to. Good luck if you try!
This article is a perfect example of a lousy reaction on something we used to call butthurt.

I really liked that term, but someone pointed out to me it's not really a PC term.

Do you have another suitable term in that English language capable to describe this consequence of Oliver's tremendous achievement of carrying bunch of people around on his dick?
God this makes so little sense.
It's kind of ironic that that article uses Elon Musk as his example, especially in light of this first hand account of an accomplish rocket scientist explaining how impressed he was with Elon Musk learning rocket science by himself.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-learned-rocket-...

I generally agree with the sentiment that we should end the cult of the CEO, but that doesn't negate the fact that some CEOs might actually deserve the praise and respect they get.

Until you've actually worked directly for the Elon Musks, Mark Zuckerbergs, Travis Kalanicks and Steve Jobses of the world, you shouldn't dismiss that they might have actually earned cults they've created.
A lot of it comes down to the choice to use wlc[1], a library that provides some of the low-level plumbing for Sway. It was great for getting Sway up and running quickly, but it's not very flexible for the directions we want to go. Most of Sway's performance issues are due to WLC or decisions Sway had to make to accomodate WLC.

Currently most of the work on Sway is being done on wlroots[2], with the goal of replacing wlc. The design is much more flexible and should have better performance and should avoid imposing constraints on Sway that impact its performance. A lot of Sway features are also currently blocked by wlroots, since wlc isn't flexible enough to allow us to implement them. I'm actually lucky enough to be working on wlroots full time at the moment, thanks to a generous commercial sponsor[3], along with some support from Patreon[4]. The future is definitely bright for Sway :)

[1] https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc
[2] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/wlroots
[3] https://nyantec.com/
[4] https://www.patreon.com/sircmpwn
Here's another way to think about it: privacy and security are related but not the same thing. If you care more about PRIVACY, use Signal or Wire. If you care more about SECURITY, use Signal or WhatsApp. I care more about security, because privacy controls don't much matter if there's an exploitable vulnerability anywhere in the messaging stack. But you could reasonably argue that privacy is an everyday concern and security is a black-swan concern --- that is, when we're comparing Double Ratchet protocol messengers like Wire, Signal, and WhatsApp.
Don't publicly expose .git (2015)
Apologies. My mistake. At multiple time during part 107 training they told us not to bug ATC. I didn't realize that the hobbyist restrictions indicated differently.
Well, most folk here still would. Point valid, nonetheless.
I imagine it's possible, but complicated. You'll likely need a custom backend for your compositor - I doubt WSL implements DRM (display resource management).
I think for people who don't stagnate and continue to progress throughout their lives, nostalgia will be limited. People who peaked in High School (for example) and stagnated in life afterwards will probably tend to look back on their past years with fondness.

I see this with people in the town that I grew up in who couldn't get out. After High School, they largely languished in the same town and haven't really done much with their lives since. I see them talking about past years and High School with far more regularity than the more successful people I know. The successful people on the other hand - they bring up the future more than they bring up the past. That's probably because they have something to look forward to on the trajectory they're on - it's a mental state, a mindset.

Now this is a very simplistic version of my observations but it's what I've seen so far. I'd love for people to bring in some kind of science to this theme that I've observed. My observations could certainly be isolated and wrong but from conversations I've had with other friends from similar smaller towns, they've reported observing similar things.
Yeah we had a typo in there—sorry.
That "unfair" footing being the brand and logistics expertise that they built from scratch and later offered portions of, generally a la carte, to other sellers on the platform?
> can't deal with the fact that I can't quickly change volume/brightness + hit play/pause/forward/backwards keys.

Do you find this a deal breaker? I use a MacBook and not being able to get a new model without a touch bar is holding me back from upgrading.
I checked GUN out a while back and it looked cool, but I wanted something to use with react-native.

Now there seems to be a package to do this
(https://github.com/staltz/gun-asyncstorage), but I am still unsure about how production ready this is. Any thoughts in general or experiences with Gun and react-native?