skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen these "non-standard" ones in practice:

?! - Shock and confusion "Apple did what?!"

/s - Sarcasm "wow, I'm happy /s"

(?) - Doubt "I think Mark said we was done (?)"
The interesting issue I find in this post is that nextdoor stated that this is a “private network”. While probably not using a technical definition, it still seems to overreach quite a bit. I haven’t heard of a forum claiming to be this before. Maybe a strictly vetted user base but never a private network.
Be more precise. Emojis are ambiguous, especially cross-culturally.
If we're going to have an enforced one-size fits all national curriculum, we can do better than the one we reverse engineer from some stupid standardized test.
If people are posting on the site under the express agreement that the group is private and posts will not be reproduced in public, then what the reporter did is unethical in the vast majority of cases, including this one.

We are on a march to losing our collective faith in journalism and leading the way are careless reporters and editors who fancy themselves public advocates.
> He was demanding he be banned banned.

They are ban happy there! I got banned for calling someone a NIMBY because they were protesting a stop sign at an intersection two separate pedestrians got hit at because "it fostered increased traffic and urbanization."
I made a hack to get in TechCrunch’s Hackathon
I don't see how any of these reasons are why npm is "fundamentally insecure" any more than any other system involving humans.
Finland has just one, an exit exam at the end of high school, like a mandatory SAT.
Hey man, if you find any, I'd love for you to share it on www.learnsearch.xyz :), we're trying to build a cool community
Sample questions seem to be available here for students to practice: http://capt.tds.airast.org/student
This is foremost a vulnerability in Excel and Google Sheets, like the article concludes, though it warrants workarounds in CSV producers.

Why would these apps go off executing code from a text file? How odd.

Is there a way to tell Excel or Sheets to open a CSV file without executing code?
Quickly build an API in Node.js using async/await and PostgreSQL using Huncwot
Speaking of intelligence, from my brief thirty-year existence, I've observed that self-reflection and creativity are positively correlated with intelligence. I haven't tested out this theory, but I believe r = 0.75.
You interestingly seem to believe your first amendment rights free you from any repercussions.

That is ... not supported by law.
You have strongly confused prior restraint laws (IE what you'd be punished for publishing and what people can prevent you from publishing) and contract law (IE whether they can legally keep you off the site, enjoin you from doing so further, and receive money damages).
I would take it even further: "Digital is Forever" [1]. Just look at the Dolphins coach who thought he was sending a private video to someone. AFAIK he wasn't outed by a scraper or breach, rather it was the intended recipient who published his video.

[1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/10/17/digital-is-fore...
Ask HN: Are social sites really dead?
Hey folks, I've been wondering about this. I'm building a cool community over at www.learnsearch.xyz, but people continuously tell me that having any faith in a website built on human curation is a fools errand. I think there's value, and so do my 30 users so far, but honestly, is it really futile to build social web apps today? Everyone seems to be focused on mobile or ar/vr, but to me it still seems that the most stable platform for learning would be on the web.
The idea is very interesting, but the animation is too much. I had to close it.
maybe there should be some type of 2 factor authorization to make sure you can't get in by guessing someone's insecure password, or grabbing it from a leak (due to password reuse).
Not sure if I should take these laws seriously, but the difficulty is in defining a loss versus a gain.

For example, the old "I'm taking you down with me" is often driven out of spite or vindictiveness. Maybe it's stupid, but maybe not? If you get pleasure out of it, is it a loss?
Do you have to pay HoA fees, maintain your house per their regulations, etc?

I see lot of troll potential here :)
Calling people names, even if accurate, is corrosive to civil discussion. IMHO you deserve to be banned for that.
No need to change any addresses either. Just pick up one of those visa or Amex gift cards. They let you put anything you’d like in the name and address fields when you’re completing a purchase.
So if you share it to a family member, and someone writes a story similar. . . What is the edge case here.

You cannot expect only one person to make a deduction from information points.

Edit: or are we talking 'specific headlines'. So if you want to share just alter the headline?

Look I can't see any way this could work in reality, it's just PR imho.
Nextdoor forums sound like never-ending HOA meetings.
Even if 'erring on the side of caution' means killing millions of people by diverting resources that could've been used to cure diseases, solve local pollution problems, stop crime and democide, improve work safety, etc etc?

We're not talking about packing an extra sandwich for a picnic here. These things cost.
Thanks for the PDF :)

If matrix moved toward pond style metadata protection I would make the effort to move my social graph on to it and probably support it financially.

As is, I don't see the value proposition of matrix. I am genuinely curious what it is. An update to xmpp?
Is it that it is going to be encrypted AND federated? Many popular apps now support default encryption so that isn't much of a selling point. Conversations is federated and is not getting traction the way signal has. Being federated has benefits but they are sort of theoretical and aren't high on most people's list of concerns. Further the value proposition of federated systems is attenuated by it's downsides (slow evolution).

Meanwhile people get killed based on metadata. Seems like a more urgent problem to tackle.
It's been in use for about a half century; it's typically described as “nonstandard”, though given the absence of a standards body for English it's not clear what that means.

It's definitely “real” in the sense of being in actual use in the wild with a clear and well-understood meaning.
I suggest instead running a VM locally like metasploitable, something from vulnhub.com or exploit-exercises.com
LOL. this sounds like such typical nextdoor people, it's funny.
> This kind of explains everything. As bad as Seamless might be, it's a far better experience for the customer than using the average restaurant website.

There are network effects. Even if some new competitor comes up with a far superior experience for restaurant websites (some kind of Shopify thing) the customers might all be looking on Seamless.
Not saying that you’re right or wrong, but I’m pretty sure you can’t see the entire South-Eastern US from your Nextdoor login.

Are you speaking up when you see these examples of racism?

(Seriously with the downvotes?)
The title I submitted with is an abbreviated version of the title actually used in the print edition of the paper (and on the front page, page A1). The Mercury often uses alternate titles on the website, and they can even vary between regional print editions under the Bay Area News Group umbrella.
> people need to learn that anything you post to the Internet is public because it's effectively public

Private silos exist, but people need to learn that they come down to trust and that this circle of trust is much wider than the realize. Even if you know and trust every single person in a group to not share information, do you trust fiends and family that might share the computer, from the creepy uncle to the twelve year old cousin? Do you trust that the can secure their own home network? Do you trust that they won't connect their device to a wifi honey pot? IME most people overestimate the amount of people they can trust, underestimate the amount of people they need to trust and are oblivious to the fact that once something has breached this trust circle it's breached for good.
Kinda hard to use the phone too, without electricity.
So are generic ideological tangents, which the HN guidelines specifically ask people to avoid here because of their boring and diluting effect on discussion. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't post like this here.
Nah, if you post shit online, it's public. Don't assume otherwise, else you're going to have a bad time.
I'd use a question comma, there are often times where I'll phrase a question and then expound on some deeper specifics - generally things that I would consider implied, but that many people would miss, leading to the misinterpretation of the question.

Essentially everything (for me, at least) after the question comma is generally parenthetic in nature.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436716
It does some weird parallax-effect when scrolling, which I assume uses JavaScript, so if that has some error in it somewhere, it's possible that it breaks scrolling completely.
There is a never-ending stream of users ready to step up to the plate to post this canard to HN, no matter how many times we've chided their predecessors.

It has been repeated a thousand times, never changes, and provokes degraded discussion that also is always the same. That makes it royally off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It's not totally meaningless, and people would understand what it actually means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-effort_delivery.

Please don't quote out of context.

Also, as you claim that it is not totally meaningless in this context: Assume an offer of "best effort internet, capped at 100 Mb/s". Please tell me what actual bandwidth I can expect to achieve 90% of the time, and how you derived that value from that offer.

> Well yeah... with enough money. I guarantee that you wouldn't like looking your internet bill when you have those kinds of guarantees.

You are simply missing the point.

> The internet version of this would be 100Mb guaranteed with an SLA. Or 'business class internet' which few consumers buy because it's expensive. It's not like it isn't available -- it's popular among streamers.

No, it's not. There are other possibilities besides "you have a 100% guarantee that 100 Mb/s is available every second of every day" and "if you are lucky, some of your packets may get delivered".

Also, how exactly would a product become more expensive merely because the ISP told you what the product actually is? If an ISP connects up to 10 1 Gb/s links to one 1 Gb/s uplink, say, how exactly does the price of that product become higher if the ISP told you that informartion (or equivalently, that you have a minimum bandwidth of 100 Mb/s available at all times)?!
It also tells you that telemetry is enabled and gives you instructions to disable it the first time you run the `dotnet` command.

Just like any other tool that automatically checks the telemetry box for you. You just need to use an environment variable instead of a checkbox in this case because it is server software.
A blockchain could improve on this because it leaves some trail linking actions of individuals as well as authorities together.

For instance, you can make a timestamped scan of a university degree to prove it existed on some date. However, a blockchain would allow the university itself to sign the fact that it gave the person the degree at that time. It would also show how many degrees of that sort the university are giving out, so that if they start giving them to everyone that would be noticed. It would also show that the given person only got that 1 degree at that time, and it would be hard for them to then make up a bunch of other stuff. None of these are possible with simple timestamping.
Yeah, there is a unicode character: ‽
There are lots of strategies which are rational, non-stupid, in a specific context but irrational & stupid if context is expanded. Eg. Paying it forward by advising a sociopath, working on something interesting despite it being damaging, not being religious because its illogical even if being religious makes you feel/act better.

A better general definition of stupidity as a non-rational strategy would be "taking an action in deliberate ignorance of context". Not "taking a non-rational action". Root contexts are pretty simple and almost universally agreed "don't be an ass to others", "aim for happiness". If you don't ensure your action within context is rational, your being stupid.

Obviously its difficult in many scenarios to grasp the larger context, but if we promoted this definition we would as a society optimise for core ethics and be less apt to being manipulated by a minority.

Rationalism, about as useful as a piece of string is long :P
> Well, despite plentiful advice on StackOverflow and elsewhere, I’ve found only one (undocumented) thing that works with any sort of reliability: For any cell that begins with one of the formula triggering characters =, -, +, or @, you should directly prefix it with a tab character.

>Unfortunately that’s not the end of the story. The character might not show up, but it is still there. A quick string length check with =LEN(D4) will confirm that.

The documented way is prefixing with a ' character. It doesn't have the length issue either.

As to the root issue, I can't think of any perfect way to transfer a series of values between applications that apply different types to those values and applications that don't. At some point, something is going to have to guess.
> To be fair, at least in the Southeastern US, NextDoor is more...RacistDoor.

Man, I guess I am not the only one who noticed this. And I live in Sacramento, CA. I am guessing its 10x worse else where.
>scores for African-American students were the lowest, and they're obviously native speakers.

This isn't entirely true. There is a great diversity of dialects of English. Schools test and grade students on their abilities with "standard" English.

For historical and racist reasons, African American Vernacular English is considered by many to be "stupid English", which puts many African American students at a disadvantage [0].

Setting dialectal variations aside; no one speaks standard English. In fact, "standard English" (that is, "correct" written English) contains rules that are not, and have never been, part of any dialect of English that I am aware of. For example, in standard English you cannot split infinitives, and must use commas (which aren't a "thing" in spoken English) in certain places. Further, the phonology of standard (written) English is miles away from what anyone says. This result of this is that being a native speaker of English is not sufficient for anyone to learn standard English. To do so, one must be exposed to sufficient written material; and exposure to written material tends to correlate with class.

[0] Admitidally, it is true that, as far as English dialects spoken in America go, AAVE is relativly distinctive from standard English (likely due to our history of segregation).
This brings XSS to a whole new level. Imagine what happens if you know some of what you post in a website as a user eventually gets reviewed by somebody who gets it through a CSV dump.

Makes me wanna troll ops people at my own startup just for funsies.
If I'm reading the comments right, it sends some stuff during installation. So before you can do anything.
I personally agree that women are biologically different than men. But, I don't know what the correct next conclusion is. (Not to mention when you extend it to gender self-identification.)

One of her specific examples was "because of that different wiring, boys will typically try to win a game, but many times girls will not try to win, because, for example, winning might hurt the other player's feelings."

All I could say in response was, "well, I'm a guy, and to me it sounds like those girls are thinking at a higher level -- who cares about winning some artificial game, if it's going to hurt another person." And that's where the bulk of the conversation ended.

I struggle to find the right path when discussing gender -- especially about kids.
Understanding and Harnessing the Flow of Link Equity to Maximize
There is ‽ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

> this site doesn't let you copy text

Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
You've repeatedly posted unsubstantive and uncivil comments and are engaging in ideological flamewar. We ban accounts that do those things. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing them.
I've never seen anyone banned for mild name calling, but it's certainly against the rules and would get the comment removed. I suspect you had other reports in your history.
The interrobang is in notable use; of the rest, the question/exclamation commas would be useful and so clear in intent that I'd adopt them immediately if they were widely supported (fonts and keyboards.)
"If you can't intelligently argue for both sides of an issue, you don't understand the issue well enough to argue for either."

please argue the opposite of this before continuing
Are you sure you want to do that? You're going to break your legs.

Having thought a bit about it, I'd say it's the question version of a semi-colon.
All the examples of question comma on the site can easily be written as two sentences though.
Scientists were widely confident about the correctness of Newton's 2nd law and the universal law of gravitation up till the late 1800s/early 1900s. Then Einstein showed their limitations/incorrectness. You can't look at contemporary modern consensuses because if it's a consensus, it'll look like it's right until the future when/if it's proven wrong.

Philosophy of science says we can't prove theories (of a certain type, which includes most of physics), only disprove them. So there aren't scientific truths, just current best theories.

Many cultures had religious myths about the history of the world which they widely believed.

I'm not saying that people who disagree with the consensus are necessarily right, or even that we should bother to listen to them - just that sometimes they might be so consensus isn't a reason to judge something as true.
Why is it acceptable to suck at math? I'm not talking about calculus or combinatorics either.
They're using SVG
I like the direction you’re heading with this, as it touches on supply-chain issues that have most folks just throwing their hands up. What would be most interesting is a standard framework for expressing a security policy combined with some hooks in the build tooling.

I also wonder whether it would be appropriate for the repositories themselves to hold maintainers to a minimum standard as well as their own claims. E.g., package maintainers must set a >12 character password and employ 2fa.

In reality, this isn’t just an NPM issue. I suspect that similar issues plague just about every package management framework, App Store, or CDN out there. Having a couple of standardized approaches would enable developers who care to automate checks and start to generate new incentives for the folks that are publishing their work to follow some basic standards.
I can also opt out by not using or running Microsoft junk in the first place. Cheers.
Not a testee in these tests but I put C for everything in my day.

No incentive.
Nextdoor is quite popular here unless you want to talk about politics, especially if the community LEAD is on the other side.

Nextdoor uses real name with real address etc, and it seems to be pretty useful for the neighborhood news and events etc, I don't see other close competitors.

But then, I hope there is an alternative.

http://fortune.com/2017/05/21/nextdoor-revenue/

If very thing goes right, it could be another facebook, I'd be interested in its IPO.
While that may be a valid view from the perspective of a privacy warrior, it does not accurately reflect the ethics of journalism.
The clarity and depth that Lennart writes with is always impressive to me. Another highly educational post from a master.
> This doesn't seem like that bad of an idea. One of the bigger problems with tests is that they tend to become a terrible metric once people start preparing for them specifically (and test-prep can suck the oxegyn out of real education). If the students and teachers don't care about the test, it is much easier (but still difficult) to make a test that gives useful feedback to the school system. Of course, you want students to take it seriously enough while there taking it.

I remember when I was a senior in college, my professor asked me to take a test one day. She said it had nothing to do with my grades and it was to compare the outcome of our college's program with other colleges (BS Math). I still gave it my best shot even though I don't remember if I got to see the result.

I don't like how you need so many licenses to be a teacher. Most college lecturers do not have a background in education and definitely don't have a license and we do just fine. The licenses just feel like a way to limit supply.
"pixels" and "field of view" along with the comparatively terrible "20 Hz" rate strongly hints to me (a total layman, admittedly) that these are full 2D frames at 20 Hz, not single pixel samples at 20 Hz. The thought that it would take a full 45ms to sample a single pixel sounds absurd, even for research tech in this area when industry standard is pushing 100 kHz. A 2D surface sampling, say, 200x200 = 20k pixels per frame * 20Hz sounds much more reasonable.

If it was only 1D, it would be utterly unfit for navigation if you just scatter a few of them around on the vehicle in fixed locations like their marketing suggests. You can't replace a spinning roof-mounted lidar with just a few fixed 1D sensors. The spinning lidar gets something on the order of one sample per degree, right? To even come close to replacing that with fixed 1D sensors you'd need on the order of 360 of them around the vehicle, and their marketing doesn't sound like that they expect you to use anywhere near that many.
It's a site where they are sharing a new idea that they want people to adopt..and so naturally they try and restrict the ability to copy and share it. Makes sense.
Like it or not, the "friendly period" punctuation already exists :)
I've been trying to figure out how to implement this for myself. Increase friction to tasks that do not provide long term reward (e.g. video games, social media) and decrease friction to tasks that work toward goals I'll be stoked to have achieved 2 years from now. What I haven't figured out yet is how to do a reward system. I need random jackpot noises to play each time I get something done.
It uses an environment variable, you can set that before running the installer.
Well if you break the terms of service for a site, you shouldn't be surprised when you are permabanned. No more hip neighborhood social network for you.
I kinda get it too, but at the end of the day there's no way for Nextdoor to effectively enforce the rule, and there's no reason for a journalist (not party to any agreement) to ignore what is sent to them. The rule may as well not exist. And if the rule is absolutely necessary, then Nextdoor should not exist.