skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find interesting about their sample data sets is the Social Graph one, which uses a model of data that afaik only the Chinese government would have access to: tying everything to a person's identity including where they've slept and how they've traveled.

They then demonstrate a sample query on this dataset, called 'connection mining', identifying people who have enough data in common with a given person.

Now, although the Datanami article does not particularly state the Beijing government as making use of TigerGraph's services, it does mention his clients as including 2 Chinese state-owned companies, State Grid and China Mobile.

Given it's been established his clientele includes Chinese state-owned companies and no-one but the Chinese government has the data described in this 'Social Graph' data set though, let's say this may have been made for Beijing. Sounds like they might be using this query to track dissidents by association.
I should no longer have any expectation of privacy

The above poster suggests even worse.

"until you are actually in the United States, you have no reasonable expectation of the Bill of Rights.". They suggest you have no constitutional rights outside of the US border. Forget your cell phone, this would imply that black bag operations are completely legal as long as the US citizen is outside of US borders at the time.
The new Victorians.
The suggestion above is of correlation, not causation.
Monitor your crypto currency balances in a single dashboard
I'm the ancestor, and yeah, I do work through my own firm and there are some monthly bills and bookkeeping that's not automatic. I also live overseas and pay my utilities and rent via EU bank transfer.
Vitalik Buterin‏ is investing only in Open Source
> But it was only me and a trio of what I suspected were millennials from San Francisco. Because, seriously, who else wears head-to-toe black in 95-degree heat, drinking hot coffee, and complaining about being “hella hot” and “hella thirsty”?

Couldn't read past this. Terrible writing.
I think the TfL night bus service is a game changer for a lot of people, you may be waiting for 20 minutes for a connect to what would be zone 5+ but the personal security aspect is pretty good and there are no 'South of the river' games played by bus drivers. I like being under CCTV for my journey when on the night bus.

For me it is not 'let's grab an Uber', it is 'drat, missed the last train, where and when do I get the night bus?'

Because traffic is considerably lighter at night the bus goes at a good speed and during the day the bus has its own lane, one which Uber can't be in.

I appreciate that if you have some very important clients arriving then you want to book them a cab, plus there are plenty of other reasons to get a cab, however, TfL is putting together a transport system for everyone, not just people stuck in their apps.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would be shocked if you forfeit your rights every time you enter the country. If this were the law, we citizens of the US have a moral responsibility to change it.
CVS is really irritating to deal with when it comes to prescriptions. They denied me purchase of my medication (non-opioid) because they thought the dosage was really high, so they wouldn't give it to me until they talked to my doctor despite me needing the medication that day, and they weren't able to talk to my doctor until the day after. Who are they to decide this? I'll leave the choice of medication dosage to my doctor and I and do business elsewhere.
The title of the piece is Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking? So, the discussion here is not about popularity of and reasons for marriage over the last century.
What else does it attack?
The entire premise is shit... when has assigning blame ever fixed anything? It might be a step in a much longer process, but that’s it.
Show HN: React Native progress-bar, customizable and animated
https://github.com/kis/react-native-air-progress-bar

This is react-native progress-bar component, which could be useful when you need to customize default progress-bar with different icons of current progress. You could use icons from react-native-vector-icons repo. Currently you have plane icon by default. Also cool thing is that you have animation from initial progress to the final progress value. Each time you update props, you will see the animation of progress-bar. The project is in search for contributors.
Getting Started with JShell
Well anything that lets me run Lua in the browser[1] is cool by me ;).

But yeah, interop is something that you can't just hand-wave away. It needs to be done carefully and with the right semantics and performance. That said I think we well get there and for a certain limited use cases it's already there.

[1] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
I think that everyone should learn from crimes committed by all nations, not just those that they have some weak genetic link to, as if genocide was a potentially heritable trait like eye color. My own ancestors were Irish, for example. Obviously, the Irish people suffered greatly at British hands. Does that mean I should learn less about British crimes, or take them less seriously, than a classmate whose great-great-great-great-grandparents happened to be British instead? I would say no, and that everyone should learn about British successes and failures (and why they happened, what motivated them, etc.) equally.
By 'hidden' do you mean collapsed using [-]? Those should stay collapsed, even across browser sessions. But we do use JS to do it.
Hahaha lmao. I can't believe this is a real thing, that we have to design for one specific device now. Really?
> The tabs vs spaces argument comes to mind.

Not refuting your point in the least, but that plot line made me cringe for an entirely different reason--it characterized people who use spaces as though they actually pressed the spacebar once for each space instead of letting the editor handle the work.

That said, I think it was a good decision since the majority of the audience (based on my super scientific study where I asked my wife and friend if they knew what was weird about that scene) has no idea how text editors work and it did help to drive home the point.
Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of FrameBuffers from VRAM
Following the whims of officials is quite different from the rule of law!
Huh, I had no idea Windows has no easy way to remap keys.
Apple advertised about making a screen that spans the whole device, and now they are pushing the burden to the developer. :(
Not the most substantial news, but a fun easter egg for those of us who have been watching Firefox since before 1.0. :)
The park was called after Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Belgium. This was in 1877, a decade before the Congo atrocities. (Source: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldpark_(Brussel) in Dutch)
Crooks using Linux.ProxyM IoT botnet to send spam messages
This is probably hand-waving but : instead of implementing threads directly into the WebAssembly language, would it make sense to compile a known micro-kernel to WebAssembly and then compile the C standard library (which, IIRC, implements threads)?
Show HN: React.js plugin for building animated draggable and customizable charts
https://github.com/kis/chartify
News in brief: DDoS threat spam; Army logic bomber; Viacom leak
Misdeeds of the British aristocracy. Leave my grandparents out of this.

IF you ever meet a Englishman from nobility, know that he is culpable to blame for all of this.
EFF: Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? [pdf]
Yet, almost one year after its release, nobody makes money directly or indirectly with wasm... despite the beauty of its engineering, I'm starting to worry. Who will continue funding it if nobody uses it?
I think the parent's comment is insightful. Modern consumer cameras and monitors purposefully mess the color profile to have more saturated colors and better contrast than what you see with the naked eye. Not due to a technical limitation but because it makes the image more pleasing to the eyes.

I don't take a lot of photographs so I don't care too much about cameras but not being able to display a decent image on a modern TV without having it mess it up on purpose is really annoying me. Even disabling all the post processing doesn't really work anymore. It's like those CD masters with all the sound pushed near saturation to make it sound louder, it's a cheap marketing gimmick.
> he mover took down all of this heavy furniture for customers from the northern states to Florida, only to find that they didn't really want their old stuff down there anyway.

When I moved to New York, I - like an idiot - brought a full set of very heavy bedroom furniture with me. It probably cost me more to rent the bigger UHaul than it would have to replace it with IKEA products - and would definitely have been cheaper to just not have a bunch of furniture cluttering the place up.

As I recall, it all ended up on the street - although it was gone within a day, so I hope someone's enjoying my "donation".
It’s Getting Hard to Tell If a Painting Was Made by a Computer or a Human
No. But template expression language used in Struts is quite expressive. :) There's some defensive system to prevent access to arbitrary classes, but the attacker managed to overcome it in a clever way.
Well lucky for you that's exactly the segment the new portrait modes would be enticing for. Also, phone cameras still have room to improve for low-light situations and in my experience they all denoise so heavily to the point of removing detail. This is all noticeable without zooming in as well so would be important for the average user.

Also it's a bit presumptuous to relegate all smartphone photography to that of quick snapshots of kids for grandma. Why shouldn't someone be able to take an action shot of their kid playing soccer (requires fast shutter speeds meaning better light sensitivity or wider aperture), utilize depth especially when contrasting between foreground and background, capture the high ranges present in landscape photos, crop out distracting elements and to a pleasing ratio (thus making the pixels important), use flash without washing out their subject or coloring them, capturing rich colors without having to later turn the saturation slider to 100 later, focus right away to catch that moment, etc... If you draw your own artificial line at what people should use their phone cameras for, you can justify any shitty camera, but if you want people to take quality photographs with top of the line DSLRs as benchmarks, and allow them to be creative with them and get the max out of them, there's still so much room for improvement.
Are you sure SourceTree works on Linux? I couldn't find any reference to that or a way to download the Linux version.
Despite all odds, Hyperloop One just raised another $85M
I have to agree. This is not bringing anyone but apple further.
> A selector is an object -- so that is pure -- and its use is a convention of the messaging

The selector 'convention' is hard coded in the syntax - this appears to elevate selector based messaging over other kinds. But now I'm rethinking this differently - i.e. selectors isn't part of the essence, but a specific choice that could be replaced (if we find something better.)
Congrats on your launch.

I love innovation and experimentation in this space.

I am confused about why you feel it is easier to read the "sheet music" in your app than traditional notation. I feel the tight spacing of the note indicators does overtly show rhythmic values, but at the expense of easy readability.

They are also misleading unless they show how varied an actual note duration can be. Do you show staccato notes as short? How short? These are determinations left to the player.

The lack of stems makes the use of the term "sheet music" rather misleading/confusing, in my opinion.

Having a chromatic keyboard that gives equal space to all twelve tones is a cool idea, but as someone who plays such keyboards primarily, as well as "normal" piano, I can assure you it is not necessarily easier to learn or to play traditional music, including modern pop music, on such a keyboard.

I am genuinely curious whether you have tested any of the assumptions behind your reworking of these conventions, many of which probably exist for reasons that go beyond just inertia.

I feel like I keep seeing products that try to do away with what's "hard" about reading sheet music, but that is solving one of the smallest hurdles confronting people trying to learn music. Sure, it looks like hieroglyphs to the uninitiated, but once you learn the basics it's actually pretty easy to work with. Do you have a plan in place for gradually introducing the learner to stems and rests and other sheet music notation, or ... how does the learner move on from this?

Regardless, would love to hear about how things go and how people respond to your ideas.
A Glock safety doesn't prevent you from pulling the trigger, but it requires you to pull it correctly which can reduce (but not eliminates) accidents.

I believe earlier versions had an initial heavy trigger that lightened once it was past the "safety" point.

I don't know first hand, this was just from a passing discussion with a police officer.
I second the disclaimer. The hourly path for money is fine, or also consider a hard focused normal work week followed by the same level of focus on complementary tasks on the weekend or evenings, such as a side project, open source contributions, or further studies. The same habits around environment, body, and mind carry over to benefit both projects and only the exact artifacts of the effort need change. As Csikszentmihalyi points out in Flow, many of make ourselves miserable by having no focus whatsoever in our leisure time.
After murder conviction and suicide, Aaron Hernandez found to have severe CTE
2% of 4B earnings market-wide would be 80M, 10x valuation on 80M is 800M.
source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15313113

> NuSkooler: Don't forget HN over Gopher: gopher://hngopher.com:70/

on "Different ways to read Hacker News" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310291
The pricing shown on Digikey and Mouser is only up to 100 units, i.e. small volumes. If you would like to discuss pricing for larger quantities, please contact sales@octavosystems.com

One other thing that I will mention is that the 21mm x 21mm form factor of the OSD335x-SM enables designs that would not be possible with other SOMs or discrete components since is 60% smaller than a discrete implementation.
$80k is what we paid for a PM, not a senior engineers. We pay our seniors $120-$250 depending on how their domain experience maps to ours, and if you want to live and work in the Sacramento Area I can have you interviewed, vetted and on-boarded in less than a week. Being in Sacramento, we have lost talent to the Bay Area for top candidates coming into the state that want to work for a more known entity and a have a larger network work within.

No BS or bad vibes; Just real peeps writing code and having fun doing it and always looking to add great people to the team because the demand is high and experienced talent is in short supply.
Yes, you're right, I felt the 20 years was a little bit of a stretch, but it sounded better.

I do think at least 17 years is legit, though, back to release of Canon EOS D30 in 2000. D30 was only 3.3MP, but was used by a lot of professional photographers and made some great images (I still have one, taken by a photographer friend, that is one of my favorite pictures ever). I think it was priced around $3k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_D30

You can read review by Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape, who called the D30 an "inflection point" and said it "changes the playing field forever". He took plenty of pictures with D30 and had multiple exhibits with gallery-size prints:

https://luminous-landscape.com/d30/

I'm pretty sure good photographers made great images with lesser digital cameras before that, but D30 was the camera that started people thinking that digital could really be as good as or better than film.
In the 1990s, we just needed to design for three browsers. I guess we actually had it pretty good.
Auto-Discovered Maps for Kubernetes and Docker Apps
N/m, found it in your profile. I'll be in touch!
The legacy of the UK is certainly not generally looked at in the same light as similarly evil 20th century regimes. (Nor is the US)

The reason has more to do with the fact that victors write history, and the Empire co-opted and exploited local institutions. So while Britain’s Empire was lost, its language and cultural impact reigns supreme in many ways to this day.
My wife's stories about moves as an 80s/90s/early-2000s army brat are mostly ones of everything getting broken and, over the course of 10 or so moves, almost anything resembling a keepsake or memento (or even just a favorite toy) eventually being in one of the several boxes per move that the movers straight-up lost. Sad stuff.

'Course, her dad was enlisted, so that may have made a difference. About as high-ranked as he could be toward the end, though, and AFAIK their moves were still awful.
Don't see the reason why it's not a live proxy
> I've been dreading the day HN gets the

Dread something else; that won't happen. We love the text-based, information-dense, minimal style that pg created. I loved it years before becoming a mod and can't imagine changing it. Besides, we're so old-fashioned now that we're due to become retro chic in another half-cycle. Why sell at the bottom?
If you want to quit and the firing notice period is also four weeks, what can they threaten you with if you refuse to work overtime?
LOL! How about instead of doing that, everyone just uses a service that doesn't suck?

A customer should not HAVE to report people for this shit. It should just work. And if it doesn't, then I am using a different service.
This is low-light with flash, though, right? What about low-light without flash?
Someone call the Guinness Book of World Records and see what they have for "Least Surprising News Ever".
What is the story behind why they have embraced the "unsexy" label? Do they have some sort of complex? Logistics can be an incredibly sexy problem for a variety of technical and even mathematical reasons.
Well, 99% means eradication of the virus very quickly. People won't become totally sexually irresponsible after the preventive shot, because there are many other hard to cure STDs now, especially as antibiotics are not as potent as they use to be, so i think there is no threat of 1960s style of unprotected sex wave.
Take a trip through music history with Archive.org's Great 78 Project
Ah, it's all administrative costs, not just payroll. That's more reasonable.
Their "happy six", defined as "free of systemic crises since 1970", are Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malta, New Zealand, and Singapore.

They do point out the connections to British rule. They give some other reasons as well.

A test for the importance of being fixed to the pound Sterling, etc., is to look to other regions under British rule, like Jamaica, Mauritius, Kenya, Gambia, and Cyprus, and evaluate their banking crises.

I know nothing about that history, just wanted to pointed out that it is, in principle, a testable prediction.
When was the last time you rated a local cab? If no one uses the system it might as well not exist.
WordMaker – Use Markov chains to randomly generate made-up words
More than just belief, it is how the pension system works.

We need to think about an alternative to it.
note: I'm not at all criticizing your comment, just adding one anecdote:

I tried an iPhone 7+ one for like 3 minutes, at 10pm in a low light bowling club surrounding. I wanted to taste the camera magic and left totally disappointed both by software and sensor. I don't know how I managed that but I succeeded into making a set of crappy shots. I tried fiddling with the focus and luminosity gizmo in vain.

I have a moto g3, pictures are just adequate (I don't pursue ultimate quality like I used to), but I'd still be curious to see some photo magic out of an iPhone.
I wonder how well this correlates with brand recognition. For example, if people are better able to remember the logo, does that mean it's more recognizable?

It could be good for trying to design better logos.
The proposed "Protecting Data at the Border Act" makes the distinction between physical vs. digital examination that you mention.

https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s823/BILLS-115s823is.pdf
Because the cost of municipal water is driven by pipes and treatment equipment, not the water itself.
Who can forget this memorable Logo?

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/llogo.lisp
I'll just leave this here:

"I think I’ve fixed the notch issue in landscape #iphoneX"

https://twitter.com/vojtastavik/status/907911237983449088
A company is usually worth a multiplier of annual earnings, since they make that money every year.
>Part of the reason municipalities are short on money for their water systems, is that companies get the same water (or at least, from the same watershed) for free.

>Is it so wrong to ask Nestle to at least pay the same rate you and I and every other citizen pays for water?

This is a misconception, in Michigan at least. Flint is not short on water. They are short on functioning pipes for moving the water. Getting access to the Great Lakes' unlimited supply of water was never a barrier. That water is effectively as non-scarce as air.

If you want to go to the GL, and "BYO filtration" and suck the water out to drink, that is free for you too, just as much as Nestle.

Michigan municipalities charge for water because of the cost of filtering and distributing it, not because it's so scarce it has to throttle demand.

Nestle is profiting from the service of putting it in a bottle that you get to keep after purchasing, not from getting underpriced water in Michigan.

(California is a different story, where water is scarce, and Nestle is making that problem a little bit worse, but CA has a more general problem with sane incentives for water usage -- e.g. use-it-or-lose-it policies for farms -- that are mostly unrelated to the Nestle deal.)
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You're misinformed. What's being prevented is politicians paying this with public money. Basque and Catalan independence can be talked about freely, and has been talked about non-stop for many years, including in Congress.
> Uber isn't magic - if there's pent-up demand for a company that fills Uber's boots, one will pop up.

The thing is, until Uber popped up, that pent-up demand simply wasn't being satisfied. The taxi monopolies and regulators were quite happy with their rents (in the economic sense of rent-seeking), and consumers suffered from it (I suspect that Uber & Lyft have prevented thousands of drunken-driving deaths).

A lot of people give Uber's culture a lot of hate — but that corporate culture is what created a company which was able to satisfy millions of customers and save lives too. It's provided a colossal amount of economic value to the world (I also like to think that it's made visible the economic value the taxi monopolies & regulators have been invisibly destroying for decades).

> there already are a number of minicab companies that do what Uber does, just minus quite as fancy an app.

I think that app is the keystone of the whole experience. I can, anywhere I am, open that app and a car will come to pick me up and take me where I need to go. The car will be clean; the driver will be friendly; the service will be prompt and inexpensive. I can't get that experience if I have to install an app in each city, potentially give each app horrible permissions (e.g., to get a ride in Some City I have to give the car company access to my files, my contacts and my email) &c. I travel a lot, and the quality of the Uber rides I've gotten has just been head-and-shoulders above the taxi rides.