skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a student who needs to read research articles for my project, this article gave some new ideas on how to approach those long boring and cryptic pieces of text that just take days to understand. Thanks to the person who posted it.
Google isn't a charity, and is under no obligation to serve Europe. It's in Europe, and will remain in Europe because it is profitable to remain there.
Both Facebook and Google have actively influenced political events.

>[..] on election day in 2010, Facebook sent ‘go out and vote’ reminders to more than 60 million of its users. The reminders caused about 340,000 people to vote who otherwise would not have.
: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...

For more interesting stuff on this topic, look up the company 'The Groundwork'.
What meaty projects should I do?
I am building my resume to get selected for a job at Google. I don't have much projects to list yet. I want to spend next few months developing projects to list on my resume. Considering my focus is MEAN stack what projects should I create?
I read the paper and I don't understand this passage:

For example, any database cannot provide availability if all of its replicas are offline, which has nothing to do with
partitions. Such a multi-replica outage should be very rare, but if partitions are signi cantly more rare, then you can effectively
ignore partitions as a factor in availability.
For Spanner, this means that when there is an availability outage, it is not in practice due to a partition,
but rather some other set of multiple faults (as no single fault will forfeit availability).

My understanding was that 'Partition' in CAP was a bit of a misnomer. To a running node, a partition of half the cluster is indistinguishable from half the nodes failing. So, partition tolerance really covers partitions as well as multi-node failures.
Brewer wrote the original paper, so I will trust his definitions. However, if P doesn't cover multi-node failures, it seems to weaken the usefulness of CAP considerably. As is mentioned, in my experience, partitions are very rare. Multi-node failures on the other hand are the primary failure case I worry about.

(edit): I have thought about it some more, and this article really annoys me. It reads like marketing material: "CAP doesn't apply to us because we are Google, bitches."

There is an argument there, but I think the way Brewer makes the argument is really weak. I would much rather them say: "We have built a really great CP system. Also, because we are Google we are capable of 99.99958% uptime, so you really don't need to worry to much about tiny edge cases where you will lose A."
Well, it's very rare and therefore you don't think about it.

Approximately spherical transparent objects are common. Approximately cylindrical and spherical reflective surfaces are common. Situations where you can apply high school physics are very, very common. Most of us just don't, because we're not trained to do so. We're trained to do the homework problems and answer the test questions. But don't we learn this stuff so we can use the knowledge in life?

I can't be accused of being unaware of the laws of optics. Yet until now I never thought about crystal balls (heck, even acrylic balls) as a potential fire hazard

So you're over halfway there. Now we collectively have a chance to learn the meta-lesson about applying knowledge.
even for a given level of healthfullness preparing your own food is faster and cheaper. what's your point? the only thing meal kits have on making your own food is variety. that's ultimately what you're paying for.
You're reading too much into it. That wasn't Torvaldsian at all, by my reading.
Also a problem for Octave. Remember this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

It also stings a little when people say that it's completely obsolete because Matlab itself is "legacy" and we should all be abandoning the language, Octave included... and yet, even though I like numpy and Python and matplotlib and Julia and R, I still find myself reaching for Octave whenever I need a quick visualisation of some data.
Exactly this. I created a soil moisture setup with cheap sensors that worked consistently for several months. The key was to send the current flow one direction for a few seconds, then reverse high/low on the pins for the exact same time. This prevented excessive oxidation.
For daily active use, I wonder, are they tracking "people explicitly logging in each day" and using facebook.com? Or, just people browsing the web while still logged in to Facebook from weeks ago?
The Frustration of Google Books' Snippet View
Well why wouldn't it. Alcohol is not a health food. It crosses the blood brain barrier and is toxic to cells. So yeah put toxic stuff up there, there will be some consequence.
As a comedian once said "They say that alcohol kill brain cells. Yeah, but only the weak ones!"
Apparently initially the thing spread through the update of a popular Ukrainian accounting software [1], infecting a lot of networks of Ukrainian companies.

[1] me-doc.com.ua
I legitimately wonder how many of these accounts are "real" (e.g. not bots, not developer accounts, not "old" accounts, not parody accounts, etc). I know I have 3 accounts myself (various developer accounts), but even nontechnical friends "remake" their FB every year or so pretty regularly (my sister has a good 5-6 accounts that she no longer uses anymore). And that's completely ignoring however many spam/bots there are out there spamming FB messenger, groups, friend requests, etc.
I appreciate this article for its smart and cordial criticism, but as I've pointed out before, the decentralization of currency enables the separation of state from wealth, which will, for example, allow people in Venezuela or India to exit their national currency and take control back from their oppressive leaders. The world is already moving to digital cash (see India). The question is whether we want this digital cash to be completely controlled by a central bank or and oppressive leader and traceable by the government, or whether we want this digital cash to be global and decentralized, shared by people of all states.

If a person becomes a refugee, they can memorize their brain wallet and cross the border, keeping their digital gold and wealth intact. This is an example of a problem a centralized database cannot solve.

(these ideas originate from Andreas Antonopoulos)
So you want to make all advertising illegal?
Are you saying it's going to be easier for a dentist to set up their DNS with Cloudflare and then go through these steps?
Because there are no homeless people in SOMA, right?
And one day someone will invent sticky body. Oh, wait, it is called flash :)
>Being able to search for a nearby business and immediately see whether it's open, with a link to get directions to it on Google Maps, is incredibly useful. Same goes for the product results being discussed here, and for other services like Google's built-in calculator, dictionary, image search, etc.

A lot of that is not a service provided by Google. They simply scrap data others have created and insert their ads. Its a sophisticated form of rent seeking. If you tried to do that with THEIR services they'd shut you down ASAP - e.g. If you ran a meta search engine which collected search results from all other search engines, google will immediately block your access once you got popular.

I'm totally for this fine, and hope that Google mends their ways. They do have a good search product that I enjoy using but promoting their unsuccessful services by integrating it with a successful search product is wrong and harms competition. I want the web to stay open, and Google's promotion of their closed platforms is troublesome. Unfortunately, Google spends a lot on lobbying and cozying up with the government, so I doubt we will see such enforcement in the US.
desperately seeking non-popular news with non-clickbait articles. got any referrals?
As long as we all drink the same amount, I don't care. Two shots Makers, one shot Noilly Pratt, splash of orange bitters. Shake in a jigger of ice. Pour it up and break out a RP box pressed Decade and one of Richardson's Trawler Trash series of books for accompaniment. Enjoy.
I think it is an overreach to go from 'access to' to 'influence over'. Facebook has access to 1/4 of the worlds population but having access does not imply influence. Only that you can reach them.

It is remarkable that one corporation owns the infrastructure on which 1/4 of the world's population communicates. That makes it an exceptionally good platform for surveillance because even people who are good at keeping their activities hidden now have to make sure that everyone they know is as good as they are.

No doubt because of that risk, any good operational security training will include an example involving leakage through Facebook.
I predict that this is might be a start of a something akin to few catastrophic bridge collapses that really showed the importance of credentials in engineering.
Maybe the era of software "engineers" will come to an end eventually
would you give a 5 year old a beer? no? exactly. everyone knows drinking is bad for you. they do it anyway, because "reasons" [1]
anyone who disagrees is just being irrational.

[1] which may include partying and hooking up, as well as removing any awkwardness they have.
It was kind of a joke in reference to the article. I also run an Australian price aggregator and it doesn't look like that: https://pricehipster.com
> There's nothing in this article about why the containers need to be painted. Could the shipping companies just paint their logo on rather than painting the whole container and save a bunch of money?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCb9fzYBEk
http://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2017-AVI-194/index.h...
Are there really multi-year waiting lists to see a doctor in Canada? Specialists and new gp appts or all regular visits? Usually it's 2-6 mo for new patients (specialist or popular gp) here in the US. I didn't think Canada was much worse than that.
The layers of control in the current economy seems boundless. Makes me want to join the goldbugs sometimes. Hard money seems so much simpler and freer. An anonymous, portable, fungible, hard to counterfeit and inflate, universal account of previous work value. People give it to you when you give them something or a service they want. It seems like a system of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The article says a 12 oz beer (slightly larger than the standard 330ml beer) is 1 drink for the purposes of the study.
How Two Boston Startups Are Shaking Up the Payments Industry
I would rather this to be a year of vastly increased heterogenity on desktops.
A Response to Jonald Fyookball's Article on Lightning Network
I am a novice programmer and as novice programmers go, I am interested in everything tech and coding as much as I can understand. Takes a while to understand but uniquely interesting.(Read - never read something in this field)
Following an ancient Irish practice, one man made his own bog butter
> I can't help but wonder if 275M would be better spent by the city if they created a facility somewhere - anywhere - that is cheaper than the SF Bay.

Probably not.

> I'm not saying ship the poor away and make them someone else's problem.

But you are saying “ship the poor away”. Which is problematic, historically, to implement even locally, which is why much of that money is spent reaching then in the community.

> I mean caring for people in a more cost-effective manner, and in a way that isn't just treating the symptoms.

If you want to treat more than symptoms of poverty, you need to restructure the economy and society, not move the victims.

> There are 6,686 homeless people in SF [1]. With a budget in the hundreds of millions, it is conceivable that all of these people can be housed and treated in an inland community in perpetuity.

The number (and, even moreso, the identity of the individuals that are homeless) isn't static. Though forced relocation without any clear plan for improving the ability of people to escape homelessness will probably make the condition stickier.
That's neat, but not very revolutionary. The Rutan Voyager flew for 9 days (around the world) without refueling back in the 80s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
Sanction the US now!
> There will still be a market for computers like people on HN use, but we will be the minority.

I think we will eventually be squeezed into a bin where we can no longer access economies of scale, so you're effectively paying for the general purpose computing.

After decades of signed bootloaders being the norm, legislation may just come along and sign the death knell. Exemptions will be provided for industrial uses, but everyone else gets CFAA indictments.
This is still an important problem for numerical compute in other languages. It's a struggle to do data analysis and write machine learning applications in Scala, Java, C++, etc. due to a lack of Numpy / Pandas style ease of use and functionality.
But then there are people for who practicaly any question beyond "lets talk in general about what you like and how passionate for technology you are" is unfair and causes black out entry single time. Thay is entirely different.

But that's the thing -- it literally takes just one person out of 5 or 6 to say "I don't know about this guy" to get the rest of the team to pass. No matter if he didn't seem all that well prepared or interested in you, you guys just didn't click, or you were exhausted because no one thought to let you get coffee or use the restroom.
San Francisco’s Housing Slowdown Could Spread
Right now, I am just going person to person telling them about my food project. I enlisted a dining club to help me test. I have not really found product market fit, so its hard to say if my methods will ultimately be successful.
Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks [pdf]
Sisc scheme
1.99 million bots can't be wrong!
A Mendelian randomization study that I find convincing suggests that there is no obvious safe level of alcohol intake from a cardiovascular standpoint.

This observational study linked by tuxguy points in the same direction, and it seems ripe for follow-up with genetic work that could support (or help refute) the likely direction of causality.
INTERNSHIPS
EL MORRO OLD SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
Back at Netcraft for the data crunching pipelines for the surveys we tended to start off with sed+awk for expressivity/concision of operations and then rewrite in perl later for performance.
Amdahl's law applies, what fraction of cooking these recipes is purely serial? What does the critical path look like? How much inter-kitchen communication is there to get tools and ingredients to/from your wife?
Why is it relevant if the delivery is done by contractors of some kind or by the company directly? Amazon probably even has closer control over their network than WF over Instacart, which isn't exclusive to them.
Yes, that's a pretty high amount
Yep, I only discovered it from a comment by the author in an HN thread. It can export as OPML, might work with org-opml.
I think perhaps the issue is that I'm not typically evaluating things that do not already exist in the company. My employer is established and most things generally work.

I can think of a few pain points I have around storage vendors, functionality of their interfaces, some virtualization niggles, etc. In that case I already have a functioning product and I'm looking to extend functionality and solve a specific issue I have, so if the new product doesn't have it, I stick with what I have.

I'm trying to put myself in the place of someone who doesn't have a category X product at all and am evaluating a number of vendors who all compete in category X, and I'm coming up blank. So likely it's a peculiarity of my scenario -- or, at least, not the kind of customer situation you're dealing with.
Ask HN: Are there any other secure alternatives to JWT tokens?
I am implementing an API for a mobile application that deals with user authentication.

I am hesitant to use JWT tokens due to the following criticisms[1][2][3] and even a criticism of the JOSE standard[4] from the author:

> TL;DR
> JOSE / JWT / JWS / JWE: Not even once.

Some alternatives i've seen is Fernet[5] although I am unsure if it is used in production by some folks.

Are there any other secure alternatives to JWT tokens?

[1] http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-for-sessions-part-2-why-your-solution-doesnt-work/

[2] http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-for-sessions/

[3] https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/things-to-use-instead-of-jwt/

[4] https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid

[5] https://github.com/fernet/spec
I have a small perl script I wrote called helpme

by default it shows a list of topics. Then if you run it with the topic, it displays the details about the topic. I use it to remember how to do less frequent stuff at my day job.
A natural monopoly has a positive feedback loop, where monopoly profits can be used to lock out competitors. This is typically due to network effects.

Building roads is an example of a natural monopoly. Consumer internet is an example of a natural monopoly. Growing corn is not a natural monopoly.
Risecredit.com
Filling an application for risecredit.com
You idea is something that Marshall Brain wrote about in "Manna"... http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
> Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly

That seems like a stretch. Microsoft has drastically decreased in influence because they didn't get in on the big new trends soon enough - web search, social networking, and mobile. I don't see how anything the Government did enabled that. At most, the implied threat of further Government action might have prevented them from more drastic efforts to block those things.
So I'm not trying to pick on you, but have you ever stopped to think about how absolutely dystopic this future you're positing is? And the parts of the community--set aside "consumers" for a second, the point of being human is not to consume, is not to be an economic actor in your model--who could most use price improvements of economies of scale will be frozen out, because they're always frozen out.

We don't need impersonal drones delivering your Food Packages so you don't need to see and interact with human beings and maybe generate some flavor of empathy somewhere inside of you. We need the exact opposite of that.
I promised myself I wouldn't be one of those people talking about how they quit, but here we are. I haven't used it in well over a decade (I quit back when it was much easier to do).

The snarky answer to your question is quite frankly, ignore them. Your friends will still be your friends without Facebook. I have personally NEVER been inconvenienced by not having an account, and the sheer abundance of communication mediums on the web today makes it so easy to stay in touch. Between just Email, Hangouts, and Texting, I am still in touch with everyone that matters to me, and they know how to reach me. It can't possibly be an inconvenience to text me since they're already almost certainly on their phones too.

You already hit step one of this - you KNOW Facebook is manipulating you. Step two is just to stop letting them.
sure, that's the point
Just curious, what political unrest in SE Asia? Are you talking about the Jakarta election?
A print newspaper?

Edit: I'm not being sarcastic. Even if you read the online version of a print paper, you're getting articles that weren't optimized for clicks.
I feel like the real problem with meal-in-a-box delivery services is that they are trying to fill the empty shoes of a missing full-time wife and mom because there are more two career couples and both spouses now "need a wife" and it can't be found.

One of my girlfriends used to say, "I need a wife!" She used to specifically mean what you're talking about above. Then I used to raise my hand to volunteer, but she wouldn't have it. So the next step would be polygamy, but she didn't want that either. (Nor did I ask for that!)

I had the same discussion with my fiancee just last night. (The "wife" part, but not the polygamy.) She doesn't want me to be her wife either.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor
Light penalties, lax oversight encourage weak safety at nuclear weapons labs
I feel like they should have Meal-Kits at grocery stores.
They could make them with all the extra food they have.
That way you can go pick up 3 of them and then grab more groceries if need be.
It would be way better than all the frozen meals they have.
> Granted, the food is much healthier than restaurant food

I wouldn't automatically grant that.

I cook Blue Apron with my teen-aged kids and it's fantastic. I've become a much better cook while helping them learn how to cook. The recipe cards are a big part of what makes it work for us. I don't always know what medium dice or chop means, but I can pretty much always match what's in the picture.
What about alcohol content
Bear in mind that these things vary by country (i.e. what is a single unit and what is a standard serving).

Around here a standard shot of spirits is a single unit, give or take at least, but it is 4 cL in size.
I suddenly smelled smoke one morning and could not figure out where it came frome. Turned out it was a paper napkin i had left in one of those bowls on my kitchen table. And the sun came in through the window in just the right angle. Took me a few minutes to figure out what the reason was.
I suspect I'm not alone in wishing you had cast your vote in a way that mattered. Hopefully in hindsight it's clear no one "listened" to your deep moral convictions (or whatever) that led you to vote for that third party or to led your friends to vote blank top of ballot entries.

You simply fell prey to a focused disinformation campaign that actively tried to prevent intelligent voters from voting and that worked, probably well enough to influence the outcome of the election. That's a hard pill to swallow and you'll probably tell me and yourself that of course that's not what happened, but it wasn't an accident you felt that way. The Russians are very, very good at disinformation and always have been.

You're smart enough to accumulate huge karma here on HN so I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out how voting works. Hopefully you'll manage to fight the confirmation bias you'll likely look for to justify your past actions and be able to make your future actions matter. A great many people wish they had your vote. Please make it count.
Yea in SF the bottom of the hill (Mission dostrict) is just as pricy if not more. Also SOMA is probably the lowest and flattest and most expensive area.
Just a small point: machine code/assembler has limited typing too, but that doesn't mean we say that Haskell isn't strongly typed.

Using any number of languages that compile to javascript can give you just as strong typing in js as in any language.

(I will grant you that you technically don't "get" strong typing in js, but rather in the language above it - but for practical purposes, you can have a language quite like js, with "actual" strong typing).
And after a while, maybe we could pool resources together for projects such as infrastructure, bridges, fire stations, that are too expensive for any single person, but from whom we would all benefit! It would be great! We could all give some of our money for these! Let's call this way of doing things government. Oh wait.
Solar sails and balloons wouldn't require infinite money. Merely a lot.
I don't own a kindle or any e-ink reader though and all the Ebook apps are paginated on my iPad and Mac.
Publix has had them for a while, too, which means that in the Publix/Kroger borderlands of Atlanta (where I live) there are two supermarket meal kit choices.
Have to hire more people, things are a lot more distributed.
In 1982, Forbes first 400 list, total of $93B
Othello for Desktop, Mobile and Web:  an AI and GUI Exercise
They now they have $2.4 trillion, [a multiple of] 25 for one.