skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were a regular user since 2005 and leave now, it does not make any
difference anymore. The collected data about you is enough to interpolate
your profile for the next decades.

Does it really matter if you have been on facebook at all? Even if you never
joined, people upload their addressbooks with all of their contacts, they
upload pictures of people never been on facebook and tag them (and share other
information about everyone, which facebook probably is able to use as well). So
essentially facebook builds your social graph no matter if you have ever been a
member or not.

It does make a difference. Just not to care and to give up is no solution
either.
Apps are the "1-800-cheesy-mnemonic" for the new generation.

it is 100% the same formula. Start by hiding your real cost in weird price schemes. Advertise like crazy. ???. Profit.

It is a proven method. And it revamped for every generation. 1-800, app, "as seen on tv", catalogs, etc. And now you have subscription services of tangible goods for the millennials.
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Problem could be that implementations for ad networks are notorious for tracking. You would need privacy sensitive, distributed ad networks as well.
You're underestimating how many web designers and devs are out there. These easily number in the millions.

Also, what grandparent said: "The public", in this case, is people who would donate, of which 100% know what a CA is.
ORGANIC garbage.
Anyone interested in nature in cities, urban planning and new urbanism should vhe l out "Happy City" by Charles Montgomery. A really enjoyable read.
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Have you tried limiting the heap size with -Xmx <size>? If it has a bad (too large for your system) default it might grow to much before running GC.
Why sarcasm? Sounds reasonable
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> 1. Motor oil, electronics, toxic waste: They say you can't throw them away with the garbage but your only other alternative is to take time out of your weekday to drive that stuff to some government center somewhere (during business hours--I suppose you're not supposed to have a job).

or you could reduce your use of those items.

I do and I don't like to pay your toxic garbage and used batteries garbage collection for you.
VR might take a while to become a viable mainstream entertainment medium but there are sizeable niches that can sustain businesses as development catches up with the hype. Location-based entertainment, hardcore home VR games and enterprise products all seem to be reasonably solid markets, even if they don't scale up to the dizzying heights some expect them to reach.

We have a design meeting and visualisation tool for engineers and desginers to discuss projects with their management, clients and other domain experts. This has significant benefit for our customers and it will not go away anytime soon.

Perhaps the hype cycle will cause the current HMD manufacturers to exit the market and VR will retreat to these niches but it's definitely not going away.
What about servers behind endpoint server, inception-style, ssh from ssh from ssh. Are these managed somehow?
That's the first thing I thought, doesn't this exist? Side note, the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK was on an interesting episode of NPR's "How I Built This" podcast (http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=523277830:523967624).
I like the comparison with 3D movies. Since (almost) the inception of moving pictures, there has been ways to do 3D movies. And every 20-30 years there has been a push toward 3D movies. It never really caught on.

Perspective[0] is a fabulous capacity (and Renaissance "invention" for artworks). Our eyes need 3D, but our brain is just fine with a bit of fake perspective.

PS: slightly tangential but, the only personal interest I have for VR is watching movies alone as if I were in an empty theater. I find it very cool.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)
I'm skeptical that there's a real threat to nuclear facilities. I've visited reactors before and seen first hand that the control rooms are all still based on analog components. The reason for the analog components is precisely because they are reliable and unhackable. When it comes to physical security, I can't think of a harder place to break into than a nuclear power station. You're not going to sneak in that's for sure. This reeks of manufactured consent. Are you afraid of hackers yet?
Pretty much. Seems that the "shut up and do the math" QM interpretation is still the important one
>In analog computers there are no algorithms, no loops, nothing as they know it. Instead there are a couple of basic, yet powerful computing elements that have to be interconnected cleverly in order to set up an electronic analog of some mathematically described problem.

This is exactly why the digital computer has won over the analog computer.
Your eyes are not focused on a short distance. The whole point is that the lenses make it so that your eyes focus to infinity while the device is very close.
I stopped to read when you mentioned the origin of the guys... Sorry buddy there you lost the points of your argument
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i quit facebook because honestly it's not even good for what it's intended to do. i want to know about what my friends are doing? snapchat, instagram, sms, twitter, old friends are on irc. want to stay in on communities? discord, slack, real life facetime with people. facebook just isn't really that useful for me anymore, a lot of the posts on my feed were from people i don't care about.
This one came as a recommendation after watching your second video: https://youtu.be/15tovWSnJe0
For most people I know, we're only using facebook for events and as a centralized location where I can basically contact anybody. The sooner someone creates a standalone, sustainable event organizing application that doesn't spam you to death, the sooner the exodus can begin.
> We've got better graphics each gen but otherwise it's the same.

No it's not. The big differentiator this time is not graphics (though they're vastly improved) but reduced latency and lag and more accurate head tracking. That's the key to making it feel immersive an making it less likely that people will throw up.
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You're being hyperbolic, and it diminishes your argument. Not everybody in your generation suffers from the same addiction as you. I could be persuaded it's a large problem and is generational, but I don't believe we have the same kind of biological responses to social media as we do to something like sunlight.

I also believe there is another side of the argument, and people just consume media differently today. The internet came and it was the death of media, the TV came and it was the death of books, the books came and they were the death of the bard, etc. Maybe some people actually enjoy Facebook?
Exactly. TVs, game consoles and digital cameras I mentioned were sold as devices to consume and produce content people wanted. The current VR push is "Look how awesome the technology is now! Surely somebody will make a lot of tasty content for it. Any time now. Why would not you buy a set so you are ready when the content hits? It's coming. Get your set now so you won't have to wait in lines when the content will finally appear and everyone will rush the stores. This will happen. Just be prepared. Any minute now."
The U.K Home Office has put together a pretty neat resource to help with accessibility across the varying needs of web users, they've put together a bunch of posters which clearly outline the Do's and Do not's, all in one handy Github repo https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessib...
Exactly.

hackers? since may? ie. when all the shadow_brokers exploits were released that any script-kiddy could point and click at a box and pwn it..?

the article implies these are nation state actors trying todo harm. a BS article trying to push a political agenda.
And the VR devices of 2050 would be incomparable with the devices of the 2nd "VR craze" of the late 201x's.

The question is whether they are enough, not whether they are merely better.
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Watch the video I linked. Sinek does a good job of explaining how most (many?) of us have a similar problem with social media as alcoholics do with alcohol. For much the same reasons.
Hihi, I catch myself scanning through react posts just to find something about vuejs :) - it seems to be kind of a 'natural social law' that 'the mainstream' never is the real thing.
The two statements are not mutually exclusive.
Thank you for sharing. I'm happy to see an example that is possible to get back on your feet.
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It probably pays the bills, I guess they're happy with it if that's still a thing after 5 years (?).

It's not helping clojure grow as much as it could though and it's a bit a chicken/egg problem, more clojure users could be more datomic users and vis-versa.
The bald guys grin in the background is just magic.
Shelling Seoul is worse.

Just ask yourself which would be worse for you, say, a week or even a month without power or a rain of explosives randomly demolishing buildings in your city.

We can get stuff working one way or the other without networked computers but there is no reasoning with shells.
Having to keep the phone unlocked while walking is a killer, the battery dies pretty fast. How is that I can go for a run and fitness apps can track me via geo-location, serving notifications as I go, but PG can't?
I'm pretty sure that you can buy condoms in America. They're not that expensive and work reasonably well.
>Is it stupid to stop using the language just because of that?

Yes.

You will find every kind of people in every community.
As someone living in Australia, I think the pumped-hydro is nothing more than a thought bubble introduced to take the heat out of renewables debate, which the government was loosing.

They announced it as a certainty, even though the design was nothing more than the one page press announcement, the project feasibility study yet to started and no construction expected for many years, if it indeed it is feasible.

The government is pretty much 100% anti-renewables with their pet love being coal with their catchcry being Coal is good for humanity.

Currently they are considering a $1B government loan to an Indian coal mining company, only because no bank will lend them the money.

My take on this SA announcement is it might end up being a big blow for the government.

If it works out as designed and fixes some of the issues in the SA electricity grid, it be egg on the face of the government, since they insist the SA grid is a disaster only because it has such a high reliance on renewables and is missing a coal powered generator.
>I remember reading here years back that new generation isn't really using FB cause their parents are using it. And they weren't comfortable with that setup. Rather they are switching to other social media.

They are mostly using FB for "public" stuff, and the stuff they would only share with their friends is on snapchat and similar applications.
The OpenStreetMap website and editing API is written in Rails, not PHP. I think it was initally some other form of Ruby web application.

OSM started in 2004, but the editing API was ported to Rails in 2007ish.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Surely you can't be suggesting that social interaction between human beings is a "manufactured" requirement?
The legal system is fucked up so I don't think there could be any sane answer to this.
You dont really believe major news outlets are impartial and only report the truth, right? Although most of the time its what is NOT reported on that is the biggest threat.

and i dont need any examples to prove my point other then, read some history and get educated.
Look at the button, it has the word "Easy" on it. It's literally called an Easy Button.
>As a person who writes a lot of JavaScript and (mostly) enjoys it, this makes me sad because while I enjoy the interactivity it provides, I must concede that big data companies and advertisers have weaponized it against us.

I could not agree more. I have started browsing the web with JS turned off by default in all of my browsers (desktop, laptop and mobile) over the last few months. I've never been happier. Especially on mobile. The web has become a bloated, unusable mess.
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We made an algorithm for Monte Carlo related random number generation. It makes slightly worse random numbers fast, but in a way which is good in some situations. I am still very excited about it!

Please see our paper:
An Efficient Method for Generating Discrete Random Variables with General Distributions for example from
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2935745&CFID=782777315&CFT...

or just email to some of the authors to get the pdf ...
This comment is always the first, every time, but they're both very different. Mobx is mutable binding, redux is one way, functional data flow. They have their tradeoffs, but when I look at mobx I get reminded of managing crazy state trees in ember and why I went to react/redux in the first place. YMMV.
I dunno man, any of those things and I'm just not feeling well, so I'm staying home.

There's absolutely something preventing me from doing my job on those days, by the simple expedient that I don't feel like doing it that day. If that doesn't happen more often than I have sick days, I don't see the issue.
Committee Theory, or finding solutions to problems that have no solution
Oof, no telemetry please. They know I'm a subscriber and have my email address.
Hahaha haven't heard that name for a long time!
Twenty theses about Twitter
Ads don't necessarily have to be tracking. I do realize that is the current standard reality on the internet, but historically ads don't track.
That is a good point, and at the end of his post he did say that he paid the writer a bunch upfront at the start as well.
They wouldn't need telemetry - they could have shown a local warning when the OD client detected a FAT drive.
> there has not even been a tender out for the Snowy expansion

There is nothing to tender against.

The plans for the Snowy Mountains expansion is nothing more than the one page press release.
The money in such a network is severely lacking when more targeted products are available.
You left out commenting on the part where your post came as dismissive. If your post had made a neutral assertion that "role models have been assumed but that may be unjustified", it might have been acceptable. But that is not what your post did.

Now you may learn to avoid writing remarks like that and contribute with constructive dialog in the future, or keep defending a post which the community decided to flag dead and bury, by making rationalizations about it that were not explicit in the original.
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A lot of people do multiple post a day on facebook and use it as their only private messaging solution, it's as close as you can get to having your whole life archived on the internet.
Agreed to a degree, they can probably quite accurately fill in the missing puzzle pieces of your life according to the category you are in.

It almost makes me jealous of all the data they have.
Every since the last patch there has been a bug where if person A of one team takes down a gym and puts in a pokemon, person B of the same team has to wait half an hour before they can put in their pokemon, getting a "The gym is under attack!" error message before those ~30 minutes. The one core gameplay feature, taking down gyms together with one or more friends, has been broken for almost two weeks. The incompetence is staggering.

There are workarounds (everyone have to insert their pokemon at the exact same time), but that's besides the point.
What's stopping you from storing Postgres database (or particular tables) in memory if it fits? I believe that should be possible.

Also, I may not be getting what Datomic is, but why modify original function, you can just join results with users table.
Yeah, that sounds like stress...
For anyone worried about this, Facebook gives you an option to download all of your data in a single zip file before deleting your account.

https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467
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There's some comment about the straining effect of black on pure white, and some suggestion to modify the contrast. I'm pleased they all say to use black on off-white.

I cannot understand why people use light grey text on a bright white background - you're making your page hard to read for large amounts of the population.
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In the wordpress example you could use named pipes/sockets, but it's rather complex to manage. A better idea is to hand out ipv6 addresses and let users bind to them.
This. I suspect quite a lot of techies here would be surprised by modern farming.
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Kickstarter is also used for market validation.
Interesting discussion from 2016, when this was originally written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858667
I always use http://gitolite.com, thats enough.

nb: I dont see the point of the graph about numbers of questions on SO. A high level of questions = A lot of problem, no :)?
I kind of feel like you contradict yourself. I agree, it's not doable for "normal people" to set up their own social network services. Not only is it not doable, most people actively do not want to do it, even if they had the knowledge. For this reason, the phrase "rented infrastructure" is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Nobody will rent infrastructure to save their privacy. The only way you'll get people to pay for it is if it has functional superiority over facebook, meaning killer features. They will still want someone else to host it, support it and patch it. That becomes expensive, fast. Expensive for "normal people" who are in "normal groups" like parent/school groups, their kids' football teams etc -- organizations who do not have budget for "information technology privacy initiatives", because nobody understands what it is, nobody cares and nobody sees what the return on investment is (maybe because there is none, which techies will never admit).

I think the unfortunate truth is that people in general don't care about their data. There are people who do, but they normally have very special reasons to and they will never be a majority, unless we have massive social upheaval worldwide. Hopefully that will not happen, but if it does the technology is already there to solve that problem when it comes along.

There are many free and admirable initiatives such as "riseup" who provide communication services free of charge to organizations working for social change. There are frameworks for you if you care about your data and want to disconnect: but most people don't care. And if you care, you will move away from normal people. That's the unfortunate truth, and it's not changing anytime soon. I'm all for educating the masses, but people will not switch facebook for encrypted e-mail. Not because a lack of encryption workshops, but because it's not the same thing, and facebook is as far as functionality goes, objectively better at solving the problem people perceive.
I'm reminded of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w08bAwq_zro
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If you're not sure you want to delete your Facebook account completely, but think maybe you might want to reduce your use of it, then uninstalling the app from your phone is very helpful (Assuming you have it on your phone).

That worked very well for me. I used to have it on my phone and would check it all the time. Then I decided I didn't want to do that so I uninstalled it from my phone. Doing so helped me reduce and eventually stop using the website.

In between those times I also had a browser plugin to hide the news feed. So if I do login, I see nothing.

Now I'm basically rarely on Facebook. I have an account, but I don't feel I need to delete it because the account doesn't control or affect me. I can still get messages, and Facebook keeps trying to get me back into it with their notification emails, but I'm in control and I feel great about that.
So if they run their business like Uber there will be no difference between them and the mob.
So now again we're devising methods of killing people that make it easier for the killers. That's the same problem that the overseers of death camps faced and solved.
I think that sentence is meant to highlight one weakness of that measure. It may be a good heuristic in many circumstances, but if you have direct knowledge about the problem domain (like in the football players example), applying this specific heuristic may give better results than using the generic one. To solve difficult problems with approximate methods, you usually need to combine several heuristics anyway.
Ask HN: What do you think about wasting time unlocking you phone all the time?
I appreciate your feedback .Is it really a problem when you have to unlock your phone over and over again in order to protect your data? All methods (pin, pattern, fingerprint, other biometrics) wasting a little time (0-5 sec even more) each time you want to use your phone. So I am creating an app that allow draw your pattern with an icon and if the pattern is correct the app will be started and ready to use when you finish the pattern. Can you give feedback. What do you think? Would you use it?
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but there is not much money that needs to be made to recoup the basic costs of a raspberry and the energy, and all the profit can be given directly to the users and content creators.
Ask HN: Problems with Namecheap.com and DNSSEC?
I continue to have trouble with domains that are registered at Namecheap.com. I’m not sure what exactly is wrong there, but DNSSEC fails out of nowhere on certain name servers. As a consequence the affected domains appear to be completely down for users, because the domain name cannot be resolved anymore.

Does anyone else also encounter these problems?

Since DNSSEC is a critical feature for me, I also consider switching to another DNS provider. But of course I don’t want to run into the same issues again there.

Any recommendations?
Ask HN: How to make money while studying Computer Science in college?
Hello all,

Google pays a handsome amount (~$6000) for their summer program Google Summer of Code. While I am aware of it, I can't seem to find other such Open Source programs or competitions to make some money in college. Is there a list available or do you know about something similar?
Couldnt you wrap the brain in a EM-Cage? Basically a copper wire meshed hoodie?

Sorry, could not resist:
MC Parkinson in the house yo, with bling on his mind.
it's not really that great in scenarios where the person in the scene can take arbitrary actions to deceive the viewing tech
Most people don't know what a raspberry pi is. Even if you pre-packaged it for them to the extent where you only need to plug in the box and literally do nothing else, they would still ask why they'd want it over facebook. What's the answer? There is none. At least none that will convince regular people.
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