skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mac OS 7/8 etc had even lower market share than today's Macs have, and it had tons of viruses

That's not a valid comparison. When Mac OS 7/8 was mainstream, it was common to get software via a floppy disk that had already been in 10 other machines or from a fly-by-night BBS. Nowadays software distribution is far less peer-to-peer, and it's much more difficult for simple viruses to move from machine to machine.

> market share

If it's not market share, then what is it? The vast majority of malware attacks happen via social engineering, not zero day vulnerabilities, and the only requirements for that are a gullible user and a computer capable of running unsigned software.

Edit: Since I don't have access to a disposable Mac, just out of curiosity, what happens if you torrent something like "photoshop for mac full edition (cracked)" and try to install it? On a PC, assuming you make it through the hurricane of warnings Windows tries to throw in your way, this will almost certainly result in malware getting installed on your computer. What mechanism prevents this on a Mac?
My money is on Movidius:

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-democratizes-deep-lear...
I had high hopes for FLIF. What I think is great is that the client can control how much data is downloaded. This is great for responsive use.

Unfortunately the license is holding back implementations.
Not really, they only had a filibuster proof majority for a very short period of time -- http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did-the-democrats-ever-real....

And that is counting Lieberman as a D; a person who backed McCain for president and who later personally killed the public option.

I do think we will get to the public option at some point. It just makes too much sense not to and would strengthen the healthcare as a whole while allowing people more choice.
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This is a great idea, because it is now possible for anyone to learn almost anything through YouTube videos. It isn't necessarily the best format, especially for children, but done the right way it can really change the education process.
Ah it's from the other poster. Yeah 25/week isn't as worrisome.
> Such survival rates are from date of diagnosis; IIRC, because prostate cancer detected early usually doesn't have interventions that are less harmful than the cancer is likely to be, there's considerable debate about the utility of screening; there has been considerable argument that the US tends to overscreen and over-intervene for prostate cancer.

Over-intervention and over-screening are two different problems, particularly for prostate cancer, where screening is low-cost and low-risk. In the US, most cases of prostate cancer do not require invasive intervention if detected early, but they will begin treatment, as well as more regular monitoring of the cancer. When screening costs are low, overscreening is not particularly problematic as long as it doesn't result in overtreatment (which is demonstrably true for prostate cancer in the US)

Again, this is not limited to prostate cancer. The difference is the most stark there because the screening costs and risks are both low, but the UK still does a much worse job at treating breast cancer, colorectal cancer, lymphoma and leukemia, which are the other deadly common cancers.

For all cancers, not just prostate cancer, the US over-screens a small amount, but the UK underscreens by a massive amount, resulting in many people detecting cancer when the window of optimal treatment has long passed. That's the reason that the UK is close to last place among developed countries for five-year cancer survival across all common forms of cancer, not just prostate cancer.
The problem is your numbers are terribly wrong in multiple ways. I don't think people have mentioned that not every subscriber is online simultaneously or that most are still watching 1080p.
Sure, but a lot of people living in London rent their flat and - even if renting unfurnished - have little choice over their white goods. I'm writing this in my London flat with my damp clothes hanging on a rack following a noisy washing run of the machine in my kitchenette :) I'd change product if I could, but it's not an option right now.
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I would just note that "...it was politically impossible" and "the Democrats were never serious in saying they wanted it" are two ways to frame the same reality. Both are true. Take your pick.
As long as we don't confuse what we have right now (corrupt cronyism, corporatism, blatant vertical monopolies, blatant government-backed monopsonies, etc.) with an actual free market.
I have personally been producing particles that are there own anti-particles since childhood. And, I continue to do so as I write this comment.
Photons!
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>Let's please not try to compare the "plight" of contract tech workers

I don't personally see a difference other than the average wage for what I do. Companies contract other companies for many things. Janitorial, security guards, software work, etc. They shouldn't be involved in the salary of some other company's workers. If there's a wage issue in this case, it's not Facebook's issue to sort it out.
Safari with uBlock Origin. It could just be Safari's default configuration that for some reason strips referers. In any case I'm glad it protects me from this sort of stuff especially at work. What a dick move from JWZ (no pun intended).
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My project "UrlRoulette" was on the HN homepage for about 24 hours. I received a huge traffic spike at the start. Since then traffic came from other sources such as Reddit, some blog posts and articles that were written - and of course some search engines. After being on HN, UrlRoulette was featured in the german C'T magazine and received a lot of traffic from their website and their print edition. Also, being featured on some more sites certainly helped pushing the site's page rank on Google.

The project: https://urlroulette.net/

I actually wrote a post about being on the HN front page: https://hackernoon.com/urlroulette-24-hours-on-hacker-news-e...
Every time GIMP crashes on my Mac (been meaning to figure out why but for some reason its when I copy and paste) I think of Microsoft Paint and I would love it if Apple had an analog.

Its sad because other than MS Excel, MS Paint is one of the few MS apps I know how to use. I am so bad with word and powerpoint. Even my knowledge of Excel is pretty bad. I have been known to even load up simple datasets in Postgres,Pandas, or even R because of my sheer incompetence and inability to navigate menus.

Minesweeper is also pretty cool and underrated albeit boring after a few... errr 100s of plays.
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Why force it by legislation? Verizon could instead let the infra sit stagnant and overpopulated, and watch all of it's customers go to another carrier who upgrades their network to handle the traffic. The market can handle this just fine. All those in favor of net neutrality just want the carriers to be forced to treat bits like bits, not some bits being more special than other bits. Common carrier doesn't force infra expansion.
I haven't heard of snopes.com before and am having a hard time figuring it out.

Is it like a Digg clone for 'urban legends' ?
What makes it popular ?

Also, what is the reason people would want to donate?
What value does it provide?
I really doubt that Uber-esque fiascos are representative of the experience of most women working in STEM fields. Another point of comparison here though would be: was the medical field not very macho at some point? When the medical field was opened to women, early on, it was mostly men, in a field that had been traditionally masculine. Women had to make their place, and they did. Why did the same thing not happen in STEM? Why is it still not happening?

Surely tech companies now can't be less welcoming to women than the medical field in the 1950s-1980s? Particularly since this is an issue that everyone in tech is now consciously aware of.
But now the UI is made with XML. XML is cool. The execs read that in a magazine.
An example would be those where the person is really trying to get the IP to create a separate company that competes with Google in some area, and then quit.
Yes, this happens. It's not even that we care or don't care in that case, we are just literally the wrong forum.
Regarding window groupings and tabs: there was a mockup that made the rounds of Windows rumor sites from somewhere in the Windows team exploring tabs like Edge's at the window management level (ie, that it would be Windows itself managing tabs of windows consistently instead of each application having to implement it, though applications could enhance it), giving essentially every application free tabs. I'm very curious if this mockup gets picked up and pushed beyond just a toy prototype.

Regarding installers, I very much hope that Windows 10 S will push more developers onto AppX. It is very much a nicer installation model than everything that precedes it. It's also very quickly catching up with even the weird advanced things that some old installers needed, thanks to the Project Centennial Desktop Bridge work.
I think this behavior should be linked with the "Make new tabs have the current focus when opened" option. So if that is not set, and the new tab does not appear, then Firefox should not load. In the devs defense, the inconsistent behaviour between startup and "restore all", and "open in new tab without focus" is easy to miss.

EDIT: I would agree with you in your assessment of the default behavior however, if it were the case, that most people only have a few tabs open normally.
From the readme:

> "This project is in the initial research stage, please don't use it for any purpose."

So it's not a product at all, it's a research project. In particular, not being a product means that if you try to store or distribute images in this format, they'll probably be hard to recover a few years from now.
So signal processing?
222 Days Ago - Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way [0]

The book [1] was downloaded by 9600+ people by now. It is an open source book that gets continuously improved. You build an React.js application along the way and transition smoothly from JavaScript ES5 to JavaScript ES6. It teaches the fundamentals of React without any tooling or Redux. Afterward you are ready to go to build your own React applications.

I must say I never expected this amazing reaction from the community.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170837

- [1] https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/
The readthedocs engine is RST friendly. Personally I prefer documentation that's easy to write and RST is not that.
[citation needed]

I've been at FB for almost a decade and have never seen anything that even remotely looked like what you are describing.
most people don't change password on their routers anymore
end-user code probably doesn't need generic. The issue is much more relevant for librairie and framework developpers though.
But for pretty much all these things are, well, apps. Ever since I started using Visual Studio Code (also true for Atom etc) I don't care that much about the OS any more. Except for gaming, where there is really only Windows. The only OS-related problem that I currently have is, that I can't work on my VR side project on my Linux box at work. Oh and iOS development ...
OpenMoko holds a special place in my heart. It was the first project that I contributed to in any meaningful fashion. I wrote a couple patches to the Python implementation of FSO. It taught me a ton about how GSM, embedded devices, and power saving worked. I used it as an IoT device, long before IoT was a common thing.

Not many people know this, but OpenMoko was largely rolled by Dash Navigation -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko#Dash_Express. This gave Sean and Co. the cash and ability to develop the OpenMoko, but unfortunately, Dash failed, because as a CNAV device, it was too little, too late as compared to the ultra-converged cell phone. I wish that they would have found other entities to back the project, but the market just wasn't there yet.
Yeah, my workaround in a situation like that is to open all. Then close, restart and click restore session. It only loads the active page, not all.
The stuff from

https://tehnoetic.com (EU)

https://www.thinkpenguin.com (USA)

just works.
I learned by picking up a book on development. Its curriculum was right there, laid out in the correct order and I could work on it at my own pace.

These books still exist. But today there are also guided sites like code academy that do a great job at providing elementary resources for learning to program (though, I generally find the pace to be a bit glacial).
The argument for capitalism is that feelings and inadequacy are inherent to the human condition. With that in mind, people should:

1. have property rights so they have some say (even on the vote-with-your-feet level) in how things play out

2. the human condition can be leveraged against itself for general societal improvement

The counterargument is that a small group of humans can somehow design (and maintain!) a system that is somehow less susceptible to humanity.
Yep, it's best not to confuse reality with pipe dreams, generally.
No she did not! That's my point. She sold her 50% interest to 5 individual shareholders who also happened to be "members" (not sure what that means, legally speaking) of Proper Media. Proper Media itself could NOT be an owner even though they clearly wanted it that way:

> "Because Bardav elected pass-through tax treatment under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code, Bardav’s shareholders may not be companies
Distributed and scalable email server Wild Duck
I'm pretty sure it's possible and being done(especially in developing countries).

If I'm not mistaken Uber itself was cutting deals with dealerships in some markets to help drivers finance cars loans and insurance, so Uber itself would be managing the fleet of cars in some way.
Probably true. This was in response to the parent [emphasis mine]: "The trick is to force yourself to do it for at least two weeks. Afterwards, pizza and bread will look disgusting."
I don't know if this was a special circumstance, but I shared a table with a security guard during my noogler orientation. That made a similar impact on me (and we stay in touch even now, actually). But, at Google, there is also a strong differentiation between full time employees and everybody else (temps, vendors, contractors), with clear and consistently impressed rules about what non-FTEs are allowed to see and do.
What's the URL?
My current favorite is typed nil values that are not equal to the nil literal. Oh how I wish I had access to the drugs they were using when they designed that feature.
Why not? Destroying the company means they won't be there anymore to put everyone's PII at risk.
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It was really a great move on Netflix's part to make their own speedtest site, allowing their customers to audit their providers specifically on their Netflix connection.
https://www.apple.com/hypercard/
Amazon, Wallmart, McDonalds are notorious for pushing the cost of employees onto welfare and the rest of the population. Facebook doesn't seem as bad but clearly there are lingering issues around the widening wage gap, part time work, contracting and access to basic facilities like healthcare that reflect our societal values and need to be addressed as a whole.

Discrimination in access to facilities and making some employees feel they are some kind of lesser human beings is backward and regressive behavior. Google does this and so does facebook and no civilized society can accept this kind of behavior. I don't know how decision makers in SV companies come to agree to dehumanize some in this manner.

What kind of utopian future or 'better world' can these companies usher if they can't even get basics like human dignity right.
The whole article is an argument from authority with no countervailing facts. To be fair, though, it is much better than the original article, which isn't in the Wayback Machine for some reason. You would think they would keep an archive of changes somewhere! Anyway, I suppose one can hope that the third iteration will be even better.
It looks like something that could be handled just as well using Heckle by Marijn Haverbeke. It reads content and layouts from a Jekyll-like directory structure. Naturally, it uses CodeMirror for syntax highlighting.

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/heckle.html
Blockchain consortium R3 raises $107M
What if you don't do it anonymously enough? And they trace it back to you? Not that this has ever happened (I have no idea. I'm assuming not). But being paranoid isn't unwarranted either.
GoDaddy Drops Curtain on Its Cloud Business… Again
SSID is used for password hashing, so better change it from default to avoid rainbow tables.
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In 2015 Sweden leaked the personal details of nearly all citizens
Well, if it works anything like IHS[1], then the system would run out of money before the end of the fiscal year and then you end up paying for it anyway or not getting the treatment. I find people who say "but it will be different for us" to need some proof from the US and not other countries.

1) Indian Health Service - the US agency tasked with providing and paying for Native American health care on reservations or "health service areas". http://www.richheape.com/american-indian-healthcare.htm
Good thing Denmark is a small market as it means Dick in Danish.
This is probably a good occasion for a call for WPA3: https://github.com/d33tah/call-for-wpa3
What are the biggest challenges people here have faced in terms of handling data?
Asciidoctor has a plugin for Jekyll you might be interested in: https://github.com/asciidoctor/jekyll-asciidoc
> I just need to paste my clipboard so that I can crop, circle something, or annotate with some text and a crudely drawn arrow. There really is nothing else comparable that can do that as quickly or as easily as Paint.

I use Greenshot for this use case. It's faster than Paint at everything you mentioned, better at screenshots, has some nice tools like highlight and obfuscate, and one-click export/upload for a bunch of services (eg to Imgur).
In your opinion. Mine differs.
I'm working on something similar as a hobby project.

What approach did you take to ID mushrooms? Model -> mushroom? Or Model->feature->mushroom? What kind of model?

Where did you get your training dataset?

Definitely add a big loud warning on the home page that this isn't a reliable.
I have a couple similar ones too. Except I can't even start nano, it automatically gets sighup or something I think.
Over 30 spreadsheets of at least 100 rows each? I wouldn't book you to test the project, I'd fire you and go get a tester who knows how to use the right tool for the job. Any number of free or paid tools would be better than that ball of mud.

(EDIT: or maybe that was the point. In all honesty I ask, "why is this on HN?" because in this case I have to guess at the point I'm supposed to contradict.)
For those that don't know, like me, how would PAKE etc protect cracking of weak passwords used during client authentication?
Ha. I generally leave the phone at home and just take a card. Slimmest wallet I've ever had. I've never carried ID, though. That would double the size of my wallet :(
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This is the downside of not being network neutral for companies like Verizon:

Now Verizon gets the blame if something's slow.
> Many private [Medicare] plans require no additional monthly premiums, yet the government pays an average of $849.90 in monthly subsidies to insurance companies for a person on Medicare Advantage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation

That might be a reasonable comparison if Medicare's claims rates were self-sustaining, but they're not. As I explained in another comment on this thread, private insurers subsidize Original Medicare with their own payouts in claims, and that comes out a few orders of magnitude larger than 14% per Original Medicare patient.
Although fairly basic, with the Preview app you can do some minor editing, annotating, drawing, cropping, resizing, etc.
According to The Wayback Machine, Apple started redirecting it around December 18th, 2007[1]. Before that, it just redirected to a "product not found" page.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20071218153923/http://en.wikiped...
The idea was "herp derp they'll save all the good sandwiches for themselves". Which is dumb.

Your observation even confirms as much--and friends who've worked at places like Panera and Starbucks (bringing home extra baked goods) somehow manaage to not hoard everything to the detriment of the business.
I'm not sure if the parent did, but I followed what you were looking for and the answer is still "try clojure", perhaps more specifically it is "Try the Clojure libraries figwheel and devcards to do web stuff" but the push for immediate feedback and "interactive programming" is central for everyone. It's a community that took Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk to heart, already agreeing due to the REPL centric workflows that most people used.

Bruce Hauman has some good talks about his tools, which are GUI application-centric and a joy to use [1][2][3]

If you aren't doing web or native mobile GUI stuff then the default tools have immediate unit test/linting/spec compliance feedback triggered every time you save a file.

Unless you mean you want a very simplified language, in which case you should look elsewhere. Clojure has definitely chosen the high power side of that trade-off, but this also allows some truly first class tools to be developed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-kj2qwJa_E
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjFVdU8VLI
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_g2fnEDg <- this one in particular is original and outstanding in my opinion
It identified a picture of Toad (yes, from Mario) as Hypsizygus ulmarius.
It litteraly means dick.. i mean.. no words.
WebP lossy is aimed at low quality (Q<75) and YUV420 only.
With web assembly it should be possible to use new image formats even if the browser doesn't support it. This will improve in the future when wasm gets access to SIMD instructions and GPU computation.
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They used to but they don't anymore (this is specific to Show HNs). For Show HN the tradition is to link to an external URL but I wouldn't say that either is preferred.
Errr. Decks are not intellectual property, for starters.

"Even if those examples are completely rubbish and won't stand in court for Google, it's still absurd idea. You get payed salary for your time and work - that's it! That's where Google's power ends. After hours you go home and it's bullshit that they can own your personal work done on your own freetime at your private property with private tools and your own ideas. If they want to own everything then they should pay hourly average times 24hours , times 365 days per year as a salary, because I am giving all my time and work for them, while I am in contract with them.
"

You are sorely confused about the state of the law in the US. In the US, in most states, it doesn't even have to be written into an employment contract. The employer will simply own the IP, period.
It's almost like they value the image of being progressive more than actually being progressive.