skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see what my comment has to do with your laundry list of examples. I'm not arguing for centralized autocratic filtering but a mechanism for labeling points of origin and exposing that information to consumers.

Your examples don't seem appropriate either. I suggested that people would choose to reject information from 'consistently unreliable or bizarre sources'. Your first counter-example is that of a NASA engineer whose warnings were overlooked, but engineers are not hired for their unreliability or bizarre opinions.

Many of your other examples either ignore the well-known fact of parallel discovery or are themselves relying on the mechanism you claim to deplore of pre-emptively delegitimizing the source. Yes, I know some mainstream news outlets are inaccurate or agenda-driven. I hardly ever consume any news from CNN because I find most of their output to be low quality.

I really don't understand the point of your comment. You seem to be projecting someone else's ideas onto my comment rather than evaluating what I actually wrote.
People who don't have 4-6k per month to spend on a house. Lots of people live in apartment buildings.
This looks great, and I like the idea of print. Three months is a longer lag than what I had in mind, but it might still make for a good supplement. I'd like to preview the writing before I throw down $72, but I can't seem to find any sample articles online.
It's not impossible but it too is impractical for performance reasons. Providers that run git core repack repositories regularly because packfiles are efficient; loose objects are horribly inefficient - even on the local filesystem. Moving them to a network filesystem is impractical.
True. But making all server-side renders really efficient and fast is an option, too. http://nathanmlong.com/2016/11/elixir-and-io-lists-part-2-io...
Basecamp pricing is actually $99/month now, which puts it out of reach for every use case I'd have for it at this point. :( I haven't seen an affordable competitor yet for orgs that aren't technically-inclined.
This looks really intriguing. I've signed up for the beta. Thanks!
I could be wrong, but it looks like they use their own proprietary DRM and you have to use their reader software if you want to read the books you buy offline -

from http://about.ebooks.com/about-ebooks-com/
Proprietary DRM
We have our own DRM system that has secured the content delivered via our Ebook Reader apps since 2007. It is not based on Adobe ACS. Having our own DRM system improves usability for our customers, and enables us to respond quickly to new requirements and trends.

from https://support.ebooks.com/hc/en-gb/articles/213789906-Frequ...

Do I need special software or hardware to read eBooks?

All you need is your PC, laptop or hand held device and the free Reader software. We offer eBooks in three different formats: PDF download, EPUB download and Online Reader. Our Online Reader requires no software other than an internet browser. For downloading, we will provide you with a link to download the appropriate Reader software free of charge when you make a purchase.
Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update
"Tesla and SpaceX," but certainly the significant majority of apps do not require the same level of funding to get started.
Wait, they honestly asked you about the education level of your siblings? This is the most SVesque thing I've heard all year.
we are not all doing it for efficiency
I don't see how wikis could serve as filters. Seems like their comprehensive nature runs contrary to filtering by design.
> I wonder if this will at all dissuade either Intel or AMD into continuing to make these super privileged processors whose functions are completely hidden.

I think many discussions miss the nuance here. The problem is that the functionality is hidden, not necessarily that the function is there.

In corporate use, these tools can be incredibly useful. If they were more transparent, then they could be used by normal users for remote administration as well.

But it needs to be secure, and it needs to exist without secrecy. If this portion were free for the user to configure, or if they allowed complete disabling via motherboard jumper, or simply open sourced it, that would be a better step.

However, the NSA's activities have destroyed all trust in these sorts of features coming from an American company, so even if it were completely open sourced, there's no guarantee that there isn't other hardcoded ROM also executing in tandem with the open source components.
there aren't that many people who have their health, shelter, or food directly affected by this race for the attention economy

That seems highly questionable to me. Large numbers of people in retail and service industries disrupted or threatened by technological change are arguably impacted by it.
Highly recommend BNA (Nashville). Great weather, great people and BOOMING tech scene.
> but you have to understand that this happens in all cities. Some old theatre gets torn down to make way for a new high rise condo, or a tech company decides to move in and tears down a factory to make way for a shiny new office building.

I'm trying to understand the point you are making. Is it just that sometimes things change so don't get too attached to how things are? That doesn't change the fact that community government has influence over land use and its development.

There is a difference between building a shiny office building and tearing up the land to extract resources. In the latter case, once the resources are extracted, the land will be useless unless someone pays for an expensive reclamation effort.

In nearby Winona County, they've outlawed frac sand mining due to health and environmental concerns (the silica sands from these areas are useful but unnecessary for fracking). Perhaps Scott County isn't strong enough or doesn't care enough to intervene. I'm sure their hoity toity neighbor Eden Prairie isn't too pleased.
I've tried it many times, but I just cannot consume podcasts at anything more than 1x speed. Any more, and I begin to understand how someone on the autism spectrum might feel in a normal social situation.

I too went through a phase of getting addicted to podcasts and subscribing to almost every one that people recommended to me. But then I realised that I simply could not listen to them all within my allotted 'listening time' - which is usually during a 1hr walk in the mornings.

So now I simply don't bother trying to keep up with listening to consecutive episodes, no matter how much I enjoy the podcast. I just go to my list of waiting episodes as I walk out my front gate, and hit 'play'. If it finishes during my walk, I start another random one from the list. If I return home before it finishes, I hit 'stop' and rarely go back to it unless it was particularly informative.

I just treat my podcast list as a virtual sock drawer that I can reach in and grab anything out of without looking. I no longer live with the FOMO anxiety that I might miss a brilliant episode somewhere. I have too many other important things to do in my day.
how easy it was to copy their software (no copy protection) compared to the concurrents.

That's an important point that I forgot about until you mentioned it: I bought Microsoft software because it was easy to copy, or more accurately, lacked copy protection. This was in the days of having to shove the original disk in the drive even if you had it copied to the hard drive. It'd be one thing if floppies were more reliable, but $DEITY help you if that master disk went bad, because Lotus would be...less than helpful. So I rewarded the "good guy" by buying their unprotected software. Hey, if they trust me enough to not copy-protect it, the least I can do is pay for a copy.

And when Windows NT went out, I remember big debate about whether Microsoft could do enterprise software, given that all they'd really done to that point was put out applications and dev tools, and a cute little graphical shell that went on top of their cute little toy operating system.
True but I'd still like the nature of access required to exercise these vulnerabilities clearly defined. e.g. if I have a box that I've maintained strict physical control over, and not allowed admin access to an attacker, does that mean said box can't have been subverted via these vulnerabilities?
Ask HN: Anyone Willing to Review a Resume?
I hope this is an acceptable HN request - I've seen a couple of submissions like this over the last few years, so here goes.

I'm trying to make a bit of a career change into tech, specifically AI/ML (I'm especially interested in the Google Brain AI residency, so I'd love to hear from anyone out there involved with that), and have had a hard time getting any responses. I'm wondering if my resume is to blame, and so I'd like to ask if anyone out there would be willing to provide a candid review of my resume. If you're willing to donate a little time - thank you so much, and please PM me so I can share my background with you privately.
Sounds like something the hosts should clearly state in their description.
Fotografie de poveste
Show HN: The C++ breakable scope macro
> these are the kind of vulnerabilities that the NSA would salivate over

No need to salivate over something that you paid for and that you already used for 8 years.

Post-Snowden if you believe the NSA has already broken into most things and has very often paid to facilitate this (like loss-making Skype US server routing, or inefficiently using valuable silicon space for IME), you are no longer a conspiracy theory lunatic - you are just a mere sane person applying Occam's razor.
Hm. I grew up in the midwest and I have the exact opposite opinion.

Where did you grow up? I wonder if this is that thing where we see the ugly under-belly of our homes with a clear eye, but see new places with rose-tinted glasses.
On the topic of the 'suicide curve' freeway. I watched the video of those wrecks. It's all people driving too fast for that curve. Instead of seeking funds to completely rebuild the freeway, maybe they could liberally implement rumble strips and serious looking signage/flashing lights. These are cheap fixes.
> If history proves anything, it’s that people are eminently manipulable.

Did you write this comment on your own free will or was manipulated into it by an invisible puppet master? If the latter, what would be the point of me trying to convince you of anything - you can't be convinced, since your actions are not sourced in you, but in the will of your puppetmaster!
However, somehow you and me are discussing things. By that you prove that you, too, believe in free will - otherwise there would be no point in you discussing anything, after all you are controlled by your puppetmaster, and I am controlled by mine, so what's the point in us puppets exchanging words, if nothing can be ever changed by our will?

The only point of having discussions, views, principles, debates, ideas, politics - is f you have free will. Otherwise this whole thing has no meaning.

> Of course we can be hacked.

Surely. There is lots of ways to subjugate other's will - by violent force, by trickery, by fraud, by lies, we have no shortage of ways developed over thousands of years to do it. That however does not deny the premise there's something to be forced, or tricked, or deceived - and thus also something that can be free from force or deception. You can be deceived, but you can also resist the deception. You will not always win, but you'll never win if you surrender in advance.
What he said. And you can get all the benefits without increasing the cost. Like I said the city should incentivize it. Downtown Oshkosh is pretty much the same price as everywhere else Oshkosh.
> The goal for issues should be 0 open.

Why?

There are even tags there for helping you make sure the relevant issues are being resolved. You don't need to treat all of them equally.
There's the lit-html[1] project, which is still fairly new.

It uses tagged template literals to render to the DOM, so on the server side it could fall back to vanilla string interpolation.

[1]: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html
Anyone able to explain why Intel’s severity rating for this is “important” and not “critical”; meaning of the terms per Intel’s own words:

“Critical: A vulnerability, which if exploited, would allow remote execution of malicious code without user action.”

“Important: A vulnerability, which if exploited, would directly impact the confidentiality, integrity or availability of user’s data or processing resources.“
Heh, I just used JS to get that achievement in Cookie Clicker.

I would say that Clicker Heroes is far less demanding of your time than Cookie Clicker. It's difficult to play Cookie Clicker and be mostly idle. Clicker Heroes only asks a few minutes a week to make meaningful progress. It's a different beast than most clicker games, because your game makes significant progress when you're not playing.
The problem is not journalism, the problem is platforms that encourage crap for their own monetary gains. https://www.recode.net/2017/11/20/16677194/tina-brown-vanity...
But only if you're willing to take the "Jr." title and earn a measly $50k a year. Or in some cases less.

Which is the general problem with the midwest tech scene.

"Woe are we, we can't attract talent". Well, when Google's annual bonus is larger than your entire compensation offer... yeah, no shit.
Yeah -- there's something fundamentally flawed about creating government policies tailored specifically towards only the most flighty investors.

Do you want someone there because they like the area and want their taxes going towards improvements, or someone there because it's a bit cheaper than the next viable option? What kind of politicians would the latter support vs the former?
If all first time users see the same thing, why not serve a precompiled static html that then gets taken over by React.

Isn’t that the whole point?
Seriously. I've been on a deployment that failed because China blocked access to Github for a little while over some piece of code in some repository. Make sure your dependencies are available.
Raiden Network Aims to Solve Scalability Issues with Cryptocurrency Transactions
There are much better, much cheaper housing options than the huge luxury apartment buildings that they would build after demolishing the mission. I don't think the emphasis in my original comment came through, it's the "huge" I had the biggest problem with. There are more options than just 'buy a house' and 'rent in a huge apartment building'.
Network is a problem.

As I understand it, the ME subsystem is an overseer, and is running even if your main PC is powered off. It has control over the network, unobservable from the downstream CPU/OS. It could therefore receive commands/input from the network and update itself while "off", or transmit data outbound. So unless the system is unplugged from the wall, the ME subsystem could be doing God-knows-what.
I have no personal experience with it, but Google's been toying with this project: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html

Might help with some of those pain points
What percentage of tech companies succeed/ed because of "Big Name?"
Try not being white. My wife gets asked "are you Chinese???" by some random every time she's in the midwest.
I've always heard that phrase used in reference to IBM products, never IBM stock.
I can't speak for camiller, but I'd say it improves my driving. It engages a totally different part of the brain, and listening to spoken audio stops my mind from wandering and daydreaming by chatting to itself. For similar reasons, I listen to audio books while going to sleep (obviously, the physical and visual stimuli while driving ensure I don't fall asleep then ;-)).
The ironic thing (for me) is that I actually tend to speak too fast in real life. People are always asking me to slow down or repeat myself. I have to force myself to talk slowly.

Yet, I cannot listen to podcasts on anything more than 1x speed. Must be a processing issue somewhere in my brain that causes this disconnect...
Justin Keller's Day at Commando.io – A Hacker's Day
You mean "Drain the swamp"?

Well, that has worked great so far.
Yes, but you have people who say they believe the allegations but are inclined to vote for him anyway because of their ideology.
The TP probably isn't the best example, but I think you get the general idea. I went to Disneyland Shanghai and even Disney, legendary for their line management, couldn't get the queues under control in China. People would push into your back or walk right past you if you left any space.
>I want a city smaller and cheaper than Seattle.

Why not Portland?
Despite the comprehensive nature, there are notability and POV neutrality requirements in Wikis. Of course, you may need even narrower filters, in which case I guess these would need additional tooling?
I’m comparing it to Berlin, where I live. The metropolitan area is larger and the airport (sxf) farer from the center. You can get there with a regional train that you can get from Central Station (Hauptbanhof), Friedrichstrasse or Alexanderplatz (then a couple more eastern stations). Transit time in rush hour is max 45 mins. Tegel is even easier, it’s basically inside the city. 25 minutes tops by car from any area in North Berlin. Max. 45 mins with metro+bus from everywhere else within the metro area. Yeah, I’m spoiled I guess.
Now if we could only have a major modern airport on top of this it’d be nice, but that’s another story
Primarily due to companies like Dell, Gateway 2000, AST, HP, Compaq, etc. including Office as an option when you purchased.

I would posit that it was due to WP screwing the pooch at every turn. They held out until they couldn't on releasing a Windows version, and it was as buggy and unreliable as you would expect from a rushed product designed to check a marketing checkbox. WP also bet on OS/2, and they did it by porting what was already a poor product, so the OS/2 version ended up being a poor, buggy product that had the added bonus (due to an interpretation layer) of being dog slow.

So maybe Microsoft's success can be attributed somewhat to bundling, but much of it can also be laid at the feet of competitors like WP and Lotus.
There is a spectrum.

If you want to guess the outcome of a coin toss, no strings attached, you're completely free to choose heads or tails.

But a lot of bright minds are working very hard to convince you to pick up that phone and not the book. You're being told to pick tails by a man with a gun, offered a reward if you do and pain if you don't.

Perhaps this man is quieter for you, or maybe you have never let him in. But he is very real for a lot of people.
Solid advice. I'll add to this:

- Do not follow newspapers RSS feeds. They bombard you with news that are not relevant at all. Their newsletters are better. I get all my news from daily or weekly newsletters. I would like to get weekly digests only, but I havent found a good one from a newspaper I like.

- Actually quit Facebook. It's pure evil. I was so shocked to hear how it showed you your old, forgotten photos/memories from past just to engage you. If you can't engage with people through messaging (including whatsapp) or phone calls, they are not that close friends.

- On reddit, avoid controversial subreddits, especially on things relevant to you. As a Turkish citizen I avoid /r/Turkey because it's idiots idioting on things that directly affect me, and the urge to rant and answer is hard to suppress. Nowadays I usually only comment on /r/emacs and HN, and avoid all the controversy everywhere. Also, I push all the funny, interesting etc. stuff on reddit into multis, and subscribe only to some low traffic subs where I do not thing my participation would be a loss of time (which is basically /r/emacs, /r/istanbul, and a couple others).

- If you use HN often, subscribe to the front page RSS and to the digest [1]. This way you won't ever miss the important stuff but have less need to actually check the frontpage.

- Disable email notifications. Don't let the sender dictate you when you'll interact with them, decide it yourself. The last time I had an email notification was quite some years ago.

- Declutter your email inbox. Try to make sure that most of what's in there is what you'd just immediately read. Try to redirect the rest in relevant mailboxes. Your email setup should allow you to dispatch incoming messages on headers and body content. Especially useful are List-ID, Subject and From headers.

[1]: https://hndigest.com/
I use a combination of both template string literals and React SSR streaming.

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx/blob/4586...
This is fascinating!

The only time I've heard people talking about using Benford's law to detect anomalies was in the context of election fraud. This is much more exciting and practical.
Atomic counter as a service
Followup question: is it Rama or V-Ger? :)
True, but business trip, I wasn’t booking personally
How are our experiences so different? I just got back from a trip to New York, and at least half of the retailers I visited didn't have (or use) a chip card reader.
I thought about this a lot when I got tired of living in NYC, and visited and talked to friends in a number of places. If you want smaller and cheaper than Seattle, I'd say Austin, the Twin Cities (where I just moved to, but it's not for everyone), and Portland. On par but not cheaper, Boston and San Diego. Cheaper but larger and with a worse tech scene, Chicago and Philadelphia.
How many VC's invest in Green Bay? How much money do they have? How big of investments will they make? How much do they bring to the table in terms of advice and contacts? What kind of businesses are they looking for?

You won't get start-ups until someone brings money. Instead of setting aside a city block, they should charter three round trip flights a week from San Jose Jet Center to the Green Bay airport and subsidize the tickets.
It didn't occur to me that this could devolve into borderline dysfunctional behavior, but it does make sense. I think my first instinct when reading the article was that these folks are lucky to be consuming large amounts of podcast content.
I applied it to a sizable chunk of company expense data when auditing accounts payable. It highlighted some managers who made consistent purchases from the same vendor, not the multi-million dollar fraud I was hoping to find.
> Facebook quickly becomes a tool for coercion, propaganda, and oppression.

Isn't that pretty much what Facebook always has been?
I'll try and post some images tomorrow, my colleague has them
You're not helping your argument by pretending there's only one person accusing him of such behavior, when in fact there are many and doing so from a variety of perspectives.

You would still be entitled to be skeptical of such allegations, of course, but their multiplicity is an empirical fact that you seem unwilling to acknowledge.
Reinforcement Learning: The quirks
This is very interesting. I would have liked to see the results for JavaScript when you ignore the node_modules folder. If that's going to count for code duplication then pip dependencies should be included as well.

This should definitely be taken as a lesson though: JS needs a better deployment solution. That, or better education on the current solution(s).
How to Protect Yourself Against Spearphishing (in cartoons)
Apparently helicopter is also an option for the slightly richer. Not even 1%ers, it’s like 250$ from manhattan to jfk