skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will become more and more of an issue if we allow anyone to identify at any time as anything.

There was an article recently about males which identify as females wanting in on female-only music festivals (which were a response to frequent sexual assaults at mixed festivals)
Also, not implying this is the case but often I see junior developers saying they've done X but have to double check if they overlooked something or mangled with something from Y and Z after repeated attemps.
how many things have been described so far as "sandboxed no file system access" yet the sandbox is breached?
A Turing INcomplete TeX copy would be nice. I.e. no macro facility, with common escape sequence implemented in hard code.

I do not encounter TeX users who write their own macros often.
I prefer no-code to low-code solutions.

Good lord I hate this buzzword bingo. How the hell are proprietary low-code tools better? In what world is that a sane response?
Kudos for "lipstick on a pig". My thinking entirely. I don't really understand how the web got so broken. But you're right it's not going to be torn down any time soon, any more than the human eye will unevolve to fix the blind spot. Like biology, the web will evolve with kludge upon kludge, as long as it kinda works.

I think the best hope is for some language/platform that abstracts the whole thing away safely and lets you pretend it's not there. (And yes, I'm sure there are hundreds of these already. We just need to all agree on one!)
It's fine to put managers in the same area as their teams.

It's fine if you prefer to work in an open area.

But studies are pretty consistent that developers are more productive with fewer distractions. Not giving developers the option of private offices is underutilizing some of your most expensive resources.
That isn't how a blockchain works.
Great idea and execution. You're probably building a nice passive income product.

The user experience on mobile is a bit clumsy. I would recommend putting some work into that. For example it's difficult to switch to a subreddit beyond the default five displayed at the top (without an overflow: property).
The idea sounds nice in theory, but the only reason any administration would implement this would be to remove anonymity from the internet. Your ability to recover accounts would just be a side effect of the system designed to allow the government to track everything you do.
A bit of both, really. Users of fiat money have to trust the government's effective use of force in supporting the transactional utility of the currency.

Examples of this sort of failure might be a hyperinflation scenario. Governments could try to place controls on wages or prices, but might (and will likely) still fail. Many historical examples of it.
Yea, that's part of their "grow like hell" strategy. I'm guessing the new CEO is going to pull way back on that, given their massive lead.
It was a bit confusing since he talks about typosquatting. He also talks about credentials sent unencrypted when SSL is off, which further makes everyone question the validity of his claims.

But he did find a vulnerability in iOS's Mail app.
Dude, are you recommending we sleep on the floor?
Just because people might choose to misinterpret the results of a test doesn't mean the test is invalid. People already do an acceptable job understanding the existence of false positives and negatives on other tests.
shameless plug: https://github.com/theodorewiles/org-mind-map
The only difference is you have to check the last character in the file to determine if it is a newline. Maybe the last 4 characters if it is Unicode.
IntelliJ has multiple IDEs for web development, or programming text editors like VS Code and Sublime.

Even Chrome allows for a very fluid editing and debugging experience. Half the time I write my code directly in the browser.
Virtual Colossus
Yes, I do agree. Hiring is biased on aggregate towards people with CS degrees, or at least the ability to do coding puzzles.

Shipping + getting shit done surprisingly is not that well respected (on aggregate).

What's worse is that he's suggesting you bypass corporate employment all together and just YOLO start a startup.

It's like saying "to be rich, first, make sure you have 5,000 a month coming in. Then, here's how you spend it."

I am currently attempting to monetize one b2b site I have and one b2c. Both have flaws and the going is tough. I am giving it a good effort but I'm not getting the leads/traffic I need to scale revenue.

Even if I do succeed at making just 1k revenue per month, there's no guarantee it will continue to exist even just 5 years from now.

5k per month, with 3k invested into a stock market that averages 7% per year? That feels a bit pie in the sky to me.

But what do I know? I'm just some guy on the internet, not a SF-based millionaire cofounder or digital nomad ^.^
Ask HN: Why Does This Site Peg My CPU?
https://www.dividendyields.org/sp-500-dividend-aristocrats/

Within a few seconds of loading, this site pegs the CPU on both Chrome and IE on Windows 8. Wondering how the devs can think this is ok...
Nothing you’ve wrote here is surprising to me. I’ve never found the web app drumbeat to be compelling. The insistence that it’s the be all end all is myopic and usually the domain of those who are trying to protect turf rather than create great experiences that are secure, powerful, pleasing and fantastically useful.

Thank you for stepping up as a full stack developer and presenting a case without obvious bias in favor of the one web to rule them all. I appreciate it.

John-Michael Scott - a guy who’s been around a long time and watch this app evolve...
You can permanently opt-out of credit card and insurance offers via this web site:

<https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t>
I don't get why Google is always singled out either. When was the last time Google leaked your data. As you said, very few actors can protect your data from the NSA, so the next best thing is to have it protected from hackers and leaks. Every other company out there keeps on getting hit left and right, but for their size, Google is only of the only company who has never messed up with user data, and you know they are probably one of the most targeted, especially by state actors such as china and russia.
Hmm. I'm going to have to disagree about Stored Procedures providing security. You can do all sorts of bad things using stored procedures that may result in unintended code execution!

Perhaps the most naive example: https://pastebin.com/acQqhDvy

I think they're more useful for organization and abstraction than security. Then again, a well organized and smartly abstracted system can lead to better security!

But I think bind parameters are probably a better example of security.

Binding effectively separates the data from the logic. So you define two separate types of things, and then safely join those things together by binding them. It doesn't matter too much whether that happens in the application making a call to the database or in the database in a stored procedure. Obviously this same concept can be applied at many different points along the application stack. The analogous concept in the UI is templating. You define a template and then safely inject data into that template.
I had a completely opposite experience with Nest.

Bought a mattress from them two years ago. Liked it. Last month there was an odd bump that seemed to be a defect. Called them, emailed some pictures, and within a few days a new one was delivered to my home, and they took the old one to donate for me. Painless.

I have no affiliation. Just a happy customer.
I don't really understand the article's position. Comparing physiognomy to a computer program that can actually make accurate predictions about people at a statistically significant rate based on their facial features is like comparing alchemy to chemistry. They might be superficially similar, but one actually works and one doesn't.

edit: Of course, I think this technology is horrifying and that a) it will never be 100% accurate, and b) it is just begging to be abused. I just don't think denying the reality of its existence will be a good way to fight against its misuse. Pandora's box has been opened.
So basically Dwarf Fortress is tapping into something fundamental about simulation gaming.
> We are primarily using the same methods of input and the same applications for “productivity” as we did 20 years ago.

Longer than that. We've been using keyboards for over a century. The basic idea of a document is centuries older still. Maybe there's nothing really better.
I'm not attacking you. You are describing a world you'd like to see exist, but Uber is the largest dispatcher in the real world, has massive advantages and proof is they are still growing super fast and maintain a massive lead on Lyft and everyone else. And they aren't worried about 10 taxi drivers rotating a phone.

You may prefer calling a taxi using a phone. Some people still prefer traveling by ship, yet airlines continue to carry more people over water every year. No one thinks ships are making comebacks. More people use apps every year, and they prefer them.

And maybe Uber guy never called back on route optimizations because they solved that problem on their own, or their problem is different from a taxi optimization.
I'd say Constitution and the ideals behind it.

A big part of the "American Dream" is that you don't have to be of particular ethnicity; you have to play by some rules, and you have a chance to make it big.
I understand, but it's a complicated debate and it's full of strong opinions and subjectivity. Definitely not one we can solve with a one liner about gym showers, and I think a tangent based on that is unlikely to be anything but antagonistic.
As someone who pays their credit card off in full every month, that would be fine with me. I never pay interest.
You can't kill the web, it has to die of natural causes. Even if everyone agreed to abandon the web tomorrow we couldn't.

Make a good replacement for the web, get everyone to want to switch, and then migrate. You might accomplish this in 10 years.
More coming from China:

"Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v2.pdf
Interesting -- why is the composite skin tone so light? I've heard ML algorithms can have a hard time with darker skin tones, though I'm still not sure of the reasons. Is the research here subject to these same issues?
>where everyone gets a say in policy through republican institutions

You clearly have no idea how money is "created" or how the Federal Reserve works.
Why do you think it is a trust/respect issue?

The fastest way I can get up to speed is by speaking directly with you and getting you to walk me through what you have tried.
Although REST generally boils down to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.

For an inspirational interaction model, look to SQL.
It will get better when we enable Elasticsearch for the search feature. I don't think we have a canary issue but this may be useful: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3492
It's always best to use the maximum possible precision. This way people know they can trust your data.

Round numbers would lead people to believe you were just making things up.

Source:

How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff and Irving Geis

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393310728/
might be a good argument, but too late? It feels like Markdown has won—look at editor preview availability, prevalence of being built into webapps, etc. For example, almost everything I write now text-wise I do in Byword, which gives me seamless sync on iOS/mac and has markdown as a first class citizen; longer writing usually gets passed through scrivener first, which has markdown as a first-class citizen, if I post a question on SO...
The position of the article is one which will become extremely prevalent if this area of research gets results. If certain behavioural indicators can be identified reliably with this method, it will be the atomic bomb of political-incorrectness.
"...unless you work at Google or Microsoft you can’t meaningfully impact the technical direction of the web"

I think this is a great argument for why we need a (for lack of a better name) "meta-browser". An application on the user's machine that contains and runs browsers. Then flip the control to the developer. If I'm only going to design for [name of obscure but super secure browser], my success doesn't have to be dictated by the fact that 99.99% of users didn't originally open my browser of choice. If they come across a page only supported by this little-known browser, they are prompted that they can install it, or they can decide to move on to the next website if the developers didn't write any fallback.

This doesn't just ensure the web can remain open, but makes the whole architecture (the web itself) an open question and allows all aspects of "the web" to evolve more smoothly.
What’s the bigger security threat in this scenario?
Two -1 but no rebutal tomy points about epmerality and drm
Douglas Crockford would say The Seif Project: http://seif.place/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWRoLf7bns
It's easy everyone, just be successful.
This article came off as a big whine-fest... Yes, security is an issue. It always will be. Yes, we need to find a better way.. But without proposing a viable alternative or solution, it's just blah-blah, complaint-complaint.
Among small-business owners in Togo, psychology beats business training
The Web is fucking awful, and our industry's rapid acceptance of it represents a massive moral failing across all of us. We have ruined everything, and we need to take responsibility for our actions.
It's amazing how short our memories are.
HelloSign Is Hiring Engineers in SF (Elixir and QA Automation)
Pjotr’s hacking guide to GNU Guix
Matters of faith don't really depend on evidence.
Convince me, why should I buy that argument? I've not seen any compelling justification that reducing the corporate tax would do anything but create a further deficit which would need to be filled with a much more direct tax on people less able to pay. What precedent is there for this sort of strategy actually showing long term benefit across the broad economic spectrum, and not just to the upper percentile?

(This is fantastic, I can't even get 2 seconds into asking for discussion without being in the negative. This is not the HN I normally applaud. I'd hope readers recognize that I'm actually looking to have my opinion changed here and not just spark an unproductive argument, and am saddened that I have to clarify this.)
China's Audacious New Generation of Entrepreneurs
It's not only about credit cards. Mortgages, car loans, working day loans, etc. as well
That only strengthens my point though -- The original commenter said we should just pay everyone to leave since there's no hope of sustaining an economy there.

If you can pay 4 million people to leave, you can pay to fix whatever services they are lacking -- and then you'd have 4 million people in a area with hundreds of large companies and good government services!
I had a similar experience to you. I did find a charity to pick it up, but it took 2 months.

the surreal thing was the CEO of Nest emailed and called me. Ordinarily a CEO calling to provide customer service would be great, but this guy was a jerk, and went on and on about what a stupid decision I was making. The customer service folks were nice and helpful, but it would be better for the company if CEO just hid in his office and didn't talk to customers.
My recollection was that Outlook's Web Access was the first. IIRC, it used what would become XMLHttpRequest when it was still internal to Microsoft, so it's the first of what we might consider to be modern web application. GP's 1997 seems right on, though, since that was the first release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_on_the_web#History_2
I'm personally looking forward Truffle implementation just because of that (and also benchmarks are looking really nice).

I don't think this will be out anytime soon TBH.
People whose freedoms are challenged by authorities they didn’t consent to.
True but it's crazy that it took 20 years to get sane layout control.
If Large Tech Firms Were Regulated Like Sewage Companies
Sometimes it sucks to be a freshman.
Cost of healthcare is in IMHO, the reason. It's hard to start a business and get talented people if you can't afford to provide healthcare.

It's really hard to change jobs when you have a family with ANY health issue, this is also causing people to stay in jobs longer than we've seen since the 50's.

The F'd up healthcare system we have is now dragging down the economy.

I've seen a lot of debates about basic income, I think that is stupid. If we give out basic income people will need to use that money to pay for healthcare.

How about healthcare for everyone, then we can figure out basic income.
It always comes back to Fight Club.
VW moves to secure cobalt supplies in shift to electric cars
This is a WEB APP https://3d.delavega.us using 3js. It can run on most iOS and Android smartphones, most Windows and macOS machines and Linux computers.

It is likely to run on over a billion devices.

It should just take a few hours to a few days to code depending on your coding skill level. Did I mention no installation required.

Can a non web app or native app be better than this?
>When was the last time Google leaked your data[?]

According to the State of California Department of Justice [0], the last publicly acknowledged data breach from Google was March 9th, 2017. Before that it was August 10th, 2016, and before that March 29th, 2016.

[0] https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/list
The fact that this article is written and distributed with medium (web app) invalidates everything the author says.

It's working fine, you are using it, and millions of other people are happily using it. Web is great for users because they can do arbitrary operations with just a browser without needing to install anything.

I don't know about you, but I build web apps to help users, so it's okay for me to suffer a little pain to make users happy as a developer.
cool! I'll have to try this out :)
Get a ebike. I live on a street with a 8% climb and that on a ebike is just a stroll. My wife loves it. Most of my cyclist neighbors have one too. I occasionally “steal” her bike, but most of the time I love doing my climbing by myself. Though things may get hairy above 12% and definitely painful above 16%. However, with a ebike even those gradients would be fine.
cf. "The FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking", https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
From an engineering standpoint there are surely some valid points here but I have to say that I don't think things are all that bad.

HTML,CSS, and Javascript separate the layers of a web app fairly nicely.

It's all free for the learning and using and even distributing, and it comes with a huge community to lean on for support where many, if not most, of any questions you might have are already answered.

Those parts work pretty well and have a huge user and developer base. You don't just toss that out and tell everyone they need to start over. To even imagine that you first have to ignore the real value of it, which is truly immense. So much so that in reality you cannot ignore it so whatever you do has to be compatible with it, or at least accommodate it.

I have to admit this leaves me curious about what "Part 2" will offer.
Not sure that it works like that in the solitary confinement of a French prison.
Nobody likes this nonsense except advertisers. It's garbage, and everyone posting on HN knows better.
seems like some kind of face camouflage is necessary for the future.
I know a guy that offered X service, and also registered a ton of the "is X service a scam" websites

great SEO at the time, probably still is.

the moral of the story is that this article is probably affiliate marketing for sleepopolis and leveraged buyouts
Ask HN: What exactly do you mean by implementation?
So when we think of the ladder of abstraction we see that it all stems from abstracting away procedural hexadecimal, since that's all the 'metal' understands. When you read "implement" what do you refer too exactly?

I read a lot about how its an 'implementation' problem. If we have so many issues with implementations why cant we standardize it?

I'm not so much a newbie but I dont have as much experience in implementations. Thank you for your time.
All signs point to their active cooperation, and indeed their overlap with, the intelligence sector.
The devs of the site don't care, it is not their CPU being pegged.

The reason is most likely some javascript they have on the site. Opening it with NoScript in deny all javascript mode shows no CPU usage once the page renders.
You are ignoring battery life which is a useful consideration on laptops which appear to be the majority of pcs.

You are also ignoring the notion that a user may want to run a variety of apps, and not want to close or have any of the lot swapped out and pretending the hit on performance, resources, and battery life isn't cumulative.
And you get a change notification email and you can the airline and scanner gets arrested
IIRC, this was widely discredited due to problems with the sampling procedure. Can't be arsed to dig up the criticisms I found.

Confirmed some of my long-held biases about physiognomy though, so I didn't dismiss it outright.
Don't understand why this is down-voted because it brings up a valid point.

The Financial Services sector is heavily regulated because of the importance of trust and correct information. You can bring the system to an immediate standstill since most of the automation in the sector relies heavily on credit bureau data.

I believe Amazon, Tesco, etc actually would hold now the most accurate information about customer repayment ability in the retail segment.
MacBook 12’ would work for most webdev work much better than any tablet while being much less in weight and size than mbp 13’.
The Extraordinary decline in renewable energy prices
Relevant paper (attacks facial recognition, but same concept): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-rec-ccs16.pdf
VB6's form designer (and UI framework that underlies it) has one crucial problem: it has basically zero understanding of flexible layouts. As a result, things break as soon as you try to make an easily resizable window, or font size or family changes (even if it's something as simple as accommodating high DPI), or you localize the dialog and some strings become longer.

This lack of support for anything other than hardcoded absolute layout is exactly what made it so simple and easy to use. It's the equivalent of doing document layout by padding with spaces - it works for simple cases, and it's very easy to teach people, but it's a mess for anything even remotely complicated.
Great explanation /s

Please tell me how a blockchain works then.
For some countries (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Iran), the government knowing might not be very healthy for you.
The former hedge fund guy investigating some of America’s shadiest companies
Ok, assessments from 2 independent psychiatrists and a history of passing please.
Then no problem.
Clues to Africa's mysterious past found in ancient skeletons
Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models