skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what that means, unless you're using it differently than it sounds. My claim is that the US is not unique, is not a special magical land, but is only as good or as bad as we make it, and no citizen of any country should ignore their own agency in helping shape those paths.
Your comment was interesting. However, I found the use of all caps very distracting. From the guidelines:

“Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.”

Just my two cents.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is an awesome book to start with.

https://www.topcryptobooks.com/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockch...

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain is also a really good book!
CS:GO is distributed by Valve, but was actually developed by Hidden Path Entertainment. Better examples might include the Portal and Left 4 Dead games.
I started with Rails at 4.x, and having never written a line of Ruby prior it took me about two weeks to be fluent enough to handle most anything thrown at me in the course of "typical" webapp development.

That was about a year ago, and these days my biggest challenge is identifying and filling knowledge gaps. For instance: the mere fact that ActiveJob exists isn't obvious.
Not enough people contribute to OSS because of fear of taking the first step. This is a nice nudge towards getting used to the workflow and demystifying how the experience should go.

Also a clever use of a bot to teach coding. Very meta.
I don't think that article is going to take back your having been personally rude to another user, which is not what we do here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
78MB per week recently? What's the math?

Isn't sharding major compromise on security? I thought snapshots mean you just download the exact state at block X and never bother about tx older than X. And you do that not because of time, but because at the point of installing of blockchains you already trust _someone_ with node software, so you should also trust with latest state (and treat it just like genesis block).

Speaking of storage tax, Ethereum should have implemented one like yesterday.
> I suppose you could tell them to go back to a previous version of the browser.

No, you can't do that.

Instead you have to tell them to stop saving passwords in the browser.
Same thing happens with pro sports teams, especially when it comes to coverage of stadium subsidies. If you want year around free content via access to players and staff, you can't report anything that harms the business side of the operation. So now almost every local media outlet cheerleads for new stadiums and arenas to be paid for by public dollars.
And we know they pop on the mic. Too many times have I seen advertisements based on subjects only spoken, not searched for on any device.
At the risk of asking a technically dumb question (I understand the basics of hashing), would there be any technical impediment to creating an app that hashes the file itself on the handset, then uploads to FB?
It's also the case that a loosely-buckled aircraft lap belt will probably keep you from making an acquaintance with the ceiling if the plane decides to suddenly make you very aware of the concept of inertia. On the other hand, should a car ram into something or something into it, the same thing is going to be pretty near useless.
I feel like you're getting something backwards there.

Most of the wealth is controlled by white families. This does not imply that all white families control wealth. Those white families that do control the wealth aren't exactly sharing it around with all their 8th cousins. They sure do share it with their direct descendants, and pass on advantages that way, but if any non-rich white person is advantaged, it is likely only because the rich white people are observably racist when delegating their authority and managing their assets. Imagine for a moment someone so racist that their toilets may only be cleaned by a white person, and realize that people like that do exist. So yes, I guess that white loo-scrubber is advantaged, by not having to compete quite as much, in a very minor way.

There are plenty of white families out there who know that no-one is on their side, who believe that the illusion of equality is being pursued by cutting them down rather than raising everyone else up. And they believe that immigration is diluting their family's voice, rather than augmenting it. And many of them are "checking out". They turn to a bullet or a syringe, or blindly follow any person that tells the lies they most want to hear.

The rich and powerful are free at any time to erase the echo of privilege enjoyed by middle class white people simply by not hiring them preferentially over darker people. Which is what is happening. And while that is happening, the reactive measures to prior institutionalized racism remain in place. The problem is not with affirmative action or feminism or egalitarian movements, but that the old money is far too powerful politically, and that the rich kids are not as disgustingly racist as their parents. So there will likely be a generation at some point where middle class white families have zero advantages, non-white families will have some preferences stemming from ongoing racial equality movements from the 1960s to the present, and the data that show they are no longer needed have not yet been collected and published.

And that generation is going to have a lot of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in it, because people will still be telling them about white privilege when they remember growing up in a manufactured home, eating cold Spaghetti-Os and Spam, watching other people get things that they were never offered. I don't quite know if it is already here, or if it is still coming and will be even worse than what we have already seen. But I do know that part of the problem is attributing the source of privilege to any color other than green.
Considering how often Google/Alphabet orphans products, I'm not holding my breath for this to occur in my lifetime, not counting all the technical issues that get handwaved away in any discussion of autonomous vehicles.
It sounds stupid... Storing the hashes? How many permutations of that photo will be protected? Surely the attacker can tweak the brightness or crop the edges.
It's supposed to use a hash of the image, so they technically need the exact same image. Doesn't seem like they're using machine learning.
Cato claims these figures are grossly under-estimated though [1] and the real costs may be twice as much.

[1] https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/they-spend...
You don't value "freedom" more. You value a specific kind of freedom more.

Don't conflate the two.
Where can I order a physical copy?
Snap went from an incredible growth rate to a terrible growth rate because of a few simple (and sadly, quite common) strategic mistakes:

1. Underestimating the competition.

Evan Spiegel clearly believed that Zuckerberg would never figure out how to beat him. He seems to have concluded that he was smarter, more creative, and more agile than Zuck. He profoundly miscalculated Zuck's relentlessness and is now losing badly as a result.

Takeaway Lesson: Hubris kills.

2. Attacking a market where you have few/zero major advantages.

Evan seems to have concluded that the only scaleable way to monetize a social app is with digital advertising.

The problem?

With <10% of Facebook/Instagram's user base, a tiny fraction of Facebook's ad targeting data, and a set of ad products that were 4-5 years behind Facebooks, why would any advertiser ever dedicate more than their 1-5% "experimental" budget to Snapchat?

Answer: They wouldn't, and likely never will.

Takeaway lesson: Don't take a juggernaut head on. You will get crushed every time.

3. Misunderstanding your own advantages.

Snapchat originally took off because it offered an underserved segment of the market (young people) something Facebook and Instagram did not: a relatively safe, low-judgment place to express themselves.

By focusing on the advertising market (and inevitably turning to privacy-destroying data aggregators like Experian to buy ad targeting data on its users), Evan threw that away.

Takeaway lesson: Never lose sight of the needs and desires that led your users to choose you.

More here: https://exponents.co/snap-facebook-key-competitive-strategy/
Sure. A roadtrip--though that's still a long roadtrip. But if you're robo-pedal-to-the-metal across the country instead of flying you're not doing a lot of adventuring along the way.
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Chrome honestly hasn't improved much in a while. It's kind of like where Firefox was back in 2012. Now that Firefox is faster and more efficient, maybe they'll start putting more effort back into it.
Okay, I'm gonna be honest here:

Am I the only one who doesn't get all the complaints about an expanded character limit?

Cause at the end of the day, many Twitter alternatives have far more than 140 characters available for posts. Mastodon has 500 by default, Gab has 300 characters and App.net allowed 256 characters per post before it closed down.

Absolutely none of those sites or services has been worse off thanks to the higher character limit, nor has it hurt the microblogging feel in general.

So why are people so stressed out over Twitter having a higher amount now?
>This is a horribly written announcement.

Because it's not an announcement. The first sentence of the post links to the announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...
I would assume they're using the same sort of techniques that image search (e.g. TinEye) use, rather than literally just taking the SHA1 of the image file.
If this goes through, there will be some huge adjustments for graduate students and the research universities that depend on them. With no phase in, this could really hurt current students who thought that they would be getting $15k a year to live on and now have almost nothing, if they have to pay tax on the $30k the university is "giving" them in tuition. If you are have way through a degree program what do you do? Even more student loans?
Why is this in the tax bill? Congress has complex rules around passing permanent tax cuts that raise the deficit. The GOP is attempting to present a tax plan that has very large tax cuts and an equal amount of new revenue (e.g., less deductions, less exemptions). The complex rules around deficit-neutral bills don't make provisions for future changes in behavior negating a passed bill. So Congress would like to take away this exemption to help pass their current bill; universities will change their behavior to keep the profitable graduate system in place.
I don't write JS-heavy websites these days so I don't have a technical example to give, but for instance I've opened the Vue cinema website recently on Firefox mobile. The thing was unusable - when I typed my postcode, nothing would show up on screen, the whole website seemed frozen while waiting to load something. I had to press several times certain buttons for something to happen.

On Chrome however everything worked fine right away. Overall it was just a few images, some text and a search bar, so no matter the performances of the browser that should work everywhere, but since it was probably only tested on Chrome and Safari, it only worked in these browsers.
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My family has 4 year old iPhone 5S in service that still receive all security updates.

Our Android devices on the other hand... not so much. Six months of updates seems to be about the max!
Whenever I read a similar story, there always seems to be a piece of information missing.

Like I'm pretty sure the interviewer wasn't just out to get you and simply refused to look at your application because that's just how they do things.
>The point of constitutional liberty is that culture can change as much as you want but you'll always be free to retreat to your enclave where it never will.

This is absolutely incorrect, Americans do not have freedom of association, so people of other cultures can always live with you, work with you, buy from you, etc - by law. Whether you think that's a good thing or not, that is a fact: you can't have an enclave in any meaningful sense.
I find this nicely ironic, as Markdown was invented as a way to convert the de-facto standard for writing textual messages (like email and usenet) with semantic information.

Personally, I have been writing my emails in Markdown for years, as I still use a fixed-width font even in Gmail (which doesn't have a text-only option, at least not that I know of).

EDIT: I just checked, and Gmail does have a plain-text option. However, for double irony, when you select it the font used for the message is not fixed-width, which pretty much beats the purpose. :-/
0.5 rounds up though...
JavaScript has changed significantly more than HTML, HTTP, or even CSS.
It’s been ten years since that DAM meeting
I think the main issue with waterfall development was the corner cutting at every step. Because software is not as hard to modify as hardware projects, it would be faster to do a shitty waterfall plan where the requirements would not be completely understood, and the implementation design lacked some major use cases, and implementation would miss other things like error handling, and the final product would be crap needing fixing.

The issue is that it would be cheaper to do it that way, because trying to get all requirements right and implementation right before doing was really expensive and still incorrect in he end. You'd always end with bugs or missing features...
RxSwift Unit Testing Variables, PublisherSubject, Observable with Convenience
You might find it interesting to look at Jason Yosinski's "deep vis" framework: http://yosinski.com/deepvis
Twin cities or Chicago?
Since sha256 or whatever isn't going to cut it, I'd assume they were at least using some sort of perceptual hash concept (https://www.phash.org/) and it's not implemented in Javascript.

The system would be pretty useless otherwise if you had to report the same image multiple times for each time someone recompressed it / took a screenshot of it / a single bit was changed.

The other likelihood is that they aren't just generating a hash for the same reason FaceID isn't just a hash but actually doing more interesting model-building that they only implemented server-side.

Either way, it's not very great UX. But I can imagine that if you're at a place where you need to preemptively block your nudes from imminently transmitting through Facebook, you probably don't care.
But then your LoC is negative, and you’re not being productive! /s
That's the equivalent of people leaving 1-star Amazon reviews of an item they never received. It's juvenile and doesn't help anybody.

The proper response would be to go after Disney even harder. Go after the politicians they puppet. Be as much of a nuisance as they can be until concessions are made.
At least with markdown you also gain a pretty good idea of how it will format in plain text clients as well.
This will also be very useful for censorship and trolling, tagging images as your nudes to prevent them from getting shared or having others get banned. That might be why the images are transmitted to Facebook first, to check whether it's actually a nude image of yourself.
This is happening to me with insane regularity, although I usually notice it in Google searches rather than on Facebook. Recently I met a gentleman for the first time, who told me that he ran an planning / design industry webinar series called the "Performance Network". I'd never heard of this so he suggested I Google for it. I got as far as typing "perf" on my phone before that's what the autocomplete suggested. Freaked the hell out of both of us.

This kind of thing is now happening a few times per week. Are there any non-eavesdropping explanations for how this is possible?
Yes.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students...
A similar analysis has been circulating mailing lists at MIT over the past few days and all the grad students are already freaked out by this.

As someone who is in the process of applying to phd programs and has already made peace with the lost earnings this really sucks. If this provision makes it into the tax code I will have to strongly reconsider my plans, as will many other students.
From section “4. Overview”

ECMAScript is an object-oriented programming language for ...

heavy sigh
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You are absolutely right, and this is not widely understood yet. I expect people to live farther from work and spend more time in cars and in traffic. On the other hand, need for parking will plummet and that should free up a bunch of space in cities, increasing density. I wonder if there is money to be made betting on this in the markets? Which companies will benefit, or lose, from these shifts?
Because Google goes out of their way to advise you not to self-host fonts and to use theirs?

Versioning isn't really a huge ask, in my opinion. My experience with Google APIs in general has always been that expectations don't match results. Documentation never matches the specification. This goes double for their own API clients, especially if the language is not Python or Go.

It's sort of maddening how much the company wants you to rely on them for everything and simultaneously not give any concern to how usable their products are.
Around here, he was likely downvoted by all the Stanford grads who thought he was being sarcastic. Or by the dropout hackers who make just as much as their peers without having gone to college. Who knows :)
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to establish copyright. That puts it on equal footing to the First Amendment, and being more specific than the First Amendment gives it precedence.
Only 1% of German users.

Yet, even though it affects only a super small set of users, it's still a ridiculous thing for Firefox to do.

From the article: "One of Mozilla’s core privacy principles is No Surprises: we will use and share data in ways that are transparent and benefit our users. That is why we are telling you about this today. "

Which doesn't make sense. If one of your core privacy principles is to tell your users what you're using & collecting, why not just tell them before/while downloading? Or better yet, let this be opt-in?

This isn't big enough of a mishap for "the love" to be misplaced, but it is enough to always be wary of what even the most privacy-minded companies do with their products.
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Designing New Operating Primitives to Improve Fuzzing Performance [pdf]
I don't need fast, I need a secondary browser. It can be slow as long as it works. (Firefox hasn't been fast or unbloated since Phoenix/Firebird 1.5)
>the USA didn't have to invest in his k-12, scholarship his university, clean the water he drank for 24 years, etc.

And that's a supposed to be a good thing? Good for the government maybe, but bad for the people. I'd prefer a government which invests highly in all these things and to avoid the capitalist dystopia you're advocating.
> Absolutely none of those sites or services has been worse off thanks to the higher character limit, nor has it hurt the microblogging feel in general.

> So why are people so stressed out over Twitter having a higher amount now?

The answer to your question is that they disagree with your preceding statement.
HAM operators don't have money. Networking equipment makers do have money.
Also, the author is advocating a UI model that has pre-existed React, it was just popularised by React.

You could argue that Elm is actually closer to what the author is advocating.
Snapdocs (YC W14) is hiring a director of product
Although hashing on the device might make it easier for someone to work out how to doctor the image so it doesn't create a match