skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From memory, reading about this, the guy built out the van (for $12k) and then built the Vanual site with proposed Ryobi sponsorship. He pitched it to Ryobi and they essentially paid $10-12k. You'll see the "powered by" graphics and tool promos throughout the site.

Edit:

On Ryobi: "Good question. They pretty much covered the entire cost of the project. But the van and entire site was done before they agreed. Pretty big risk for the amount of time it involved."

"Nope haha. I finished the site and mocked it up as if they were already the sponsor and sent it over in a cold email. Guess they like what they saw."
Auditors sell trust. If an auditor says that the company has $XX in their bank, you're more likely to believe the company. If an auditor is found to lie, you get Arthur Anderson. In a full audit, the auditor bears the risk of fraud, and they get paid for assuming that risk.

In the note (not a formal audit, but literally just a letter) they gave Tether, Friedman consistently uses language like this:

- "We have not performed any procedures or make any conclusion for activity prior to or subsequent to September 15, 2017."

[note: audits are usually for periods of time, not snapshots at a certain point in time]

- "Screenshots from the Client of the balances in each Tether address purportedly controlled by the Client".

- "FLLP ... makes no representations about the Client's ability to access funds from the accounts or whether the funds are committed for purposes other than token redemptions."

Basically, Tether is representing to the world and their clients that Friedman has rubber-stamped the USDT-USD relationship Tether claims. On their website, Tether claimed their bank balances are audited (they're not), and Friedman happens to be an auditor who sent them a letter.

Friedman is saying that "all we know is that Tether had matching funds attributed to their names in certain banks on a certain date."

Tether could very well just have placed those funds in there temporarily, or have a side-letter with these unnamed banks to move funds in and out of the account for a snapshot in exchange for a fee, or have an arrangement via which they've borrowed using the funds as collateral. These are scenarios that either a full audit or a regulatory body would protect against.

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Note: looks like Tether took down all references to their past audit issues from their website, but they forgot to remove the Friedman letter: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Final-Tether-Co....
I absolutely hate these kinds of "security" scans.

I once worked with a company that started using one of these. They said our "vulnerability scores" were significantly too high.

I looked at the report, turns out they were just looking at HTTP headers and throwing up every CVE that matched any version numbers they found. (One of the "worst offenders" on the system was a CVE about a vulnerability in PHP when using "magic quotes", a part of PHP that hadn't been used in many years, and our application never used)

We were officially instructed that the fix would be to hide the PHP and apache version numbers from the headers.

If I were the one running that scan, and someone "fixed" the problem by just hiding the version numbers, I'd be calling for that person to be fired for trying to hide the problem. But here they were instructing us to do just that. And once we did, the system was marked "secure"...
Whatever else you may think of Facebook, it’s incredibly naive or unfair (not sure which) to suggest they’ve been “firing on all cylinders for years now.”

Facebook the user experience has - objectively and measurably (even almost by definition) - taken a severe nose dive since attempting to capitalize on the page views. They’ve spent their time evolving into an advertising behemoth that has upended the advertising market, but very poorly despite all the access they have to metrics and use identifiable data because the user’s best interests and the advertiser’s best interest are almost at polar cross purposes such that it isn’t possible to optimize for one except at the cost of the other.

Facebook ads simply do not convert except to Facebook properties (with the obvious “exceptions that prove the rule” aside); they are measurably worse investments than CPC advertising, probably worse than traditional CPM adverts (fake clicks), and probably better than old-school mass media advertising (billboards, bus stations, tv ads). They make their buck on people that either invest xxx thousand dollars until it becomes measurably obvious to the them or that don’t be know enough to measure.

Facebooks only “social” innovations that are actually forward-looking past the heyday of feeds and in-feed apps (FarmVille and co) for consumers are Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which were bought out when facebook’s own in-house attempts failed to compete.
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I don’t know about the chemical itself, but it’s sold as a substitute for sugar without the ill effect, and likely has a similar metabolic effect to sugar.
> Is 2017 for Facebook what 2009 was for BlackBerry and Nokia (when they were still getting record profits and revenues - they were already toast, they just didn't know it yet)?

The only way the comparison works is if 2009's Blackberry or Nokia owned Apple and the Android OS platform.

Not only does facebook own the facebook social media platform, they own Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the world's largest and fastest growing tech platforms.

Not to mention if Blackberry had Facebook's ungodly 50% operating margin making it arguably the most profitable large company in the world.

In 2009, blackberry was losing money and losing marketshare. 2017 Facebook is growing in all their platforms - facebook, instagram and whatsapp.
Advertising that you as the product have to opt into! Google is at least providing a service/product they give you a shiny something while they siphon your data. I think FB is pretty straight forward they take ALL of your information that you are willing to give up and they sell it. repeatedly. without conscience. for the money. If people stopped sharing or looking where would FB be? That is my problem with cap. They can buy other companies but none of them have anything productive to offer either but I bet they sell that info too.
14M US Businesses Are at Risk of a Hacker Threat
So it kills about 675 people per year :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
I don't have first-person experience with this, but I have heard about people being interviewed for articles in New Yorker, and they have been contacted by exactly those people - whose job was to verify the facts in the article (different from article writer, editor, etc.). I am not sure how widespread this practice is, but these people certainly do exist.
But they do slip ads into your newsfeed with a "Bob likes Soylent" header at the top. It's deliberately similar to how they display "Bob shared Soylent's post" or "Bob commented on this."

Bob liked Soylent a year ago and has had no recent interaction with it that would merit showing up in the newsfeed. That particular one is funny because Bob swore off Soylent after a few months and just didn't bother to unlike their page.
What they need to do is subpoena the FCC.
Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality
Ask HN: Net neutrality
We’ve had net neutrality regulations for a couple of years now, but for decades before that we did not, and nothing bad happened. Why should I be concerned about those regulations going away if things were fine before they existed?
Economic paradoxes are a real thing.
> This is not-even-wrong levels of reasoning here. Personally, your comments on this subthread, and the confidence with which you've delivered them, will stay with me for a long time, and whenever I find myself nodding along with something that is facilely convincing and authoritatively stated, I'll think back to your posts and remember to be a bit more skeptical, a bit more discerning. For that, I thank you. For the rest, well, I can't be as laudatory.

Look, I could respond to each of the points you bring up in turn, and explain how it's actually quite easy for those individual statements to be true but still impossible for most residency programs to turn a profit.

But I've been on Hacker News long enough to know that, when someone begins a lengthy comment with an insult that underhanded and that personal, there's no way that they're in the mood for a good-faith discussion, and attempting to engage further in a reasoned debate is a recipe for frustration.

I see you're a relatively new commenter here, so I'll just say: on the off-chance that this interpretation is wrong, and you were looking to have a good-faith discussion on the topic, I'd recommend next time leaving off the personal insults.
This is somewhat close how Germany handles it. When the monopoly of the state-run telephone service was destroyed, Telekom was allowed to keep the physical lines, but had to rent them out to any company that wants them, at a rate set by an official oversight organization. I think this was a great success.
That's all well and good until it turns out to be throat cancer. Medical error accounts for almost 1/3 of deaths in the U.S. [1]

1. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
> iconomorphic

Do you mean "homoiconic"?
I just use Everything to search. It's great.
I mean, there are a whole bunch of other reasons that aren't on here. Sick of your workplace. Unhappy with some personal events going on in your life. Haven't slept enough. And so on.
Facebook was one of the main tools that allowed trump to win. That is some value right there. How much money would a government or a company spend to control people? That is kind of what facebook is allowing people to do.
Above the sponsored post from some company it'll say that your friends A, B, and C like that company (and I've heard that the definition of "like" is questionable, they don't have to have ever actually clicked the like button for that brand).
Ads appear on your feed among post from your friends with a similar format. They are marked as ads, but they are easily confused with regular posts. I find this very annoying and this is one of the main reasons why I don't use facebook anymore.
They don't, but if any of your friends has "liked" the advertiser's page, Facebook shows "Joe Smith likes Advertiser" above the ad. It's small print and cannot really be confused with a friend's post, but it does pretty much include your friends' names as part of ads.
You're definitely right that unit tests are a part of the solution.

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fe...

can be read in a few different registers (making a case for what unit tests should be in a greenfield system, why and how to backfit unit tests into a legacy system) but it makes that case pretty strongly. It can seem overwhelming to get unit tests into a legacy system but the reward is large.

I remember working on a system that was absolutely awful but was salvageable because it had unit tests!

Also generally getting control of the build procedure is key to the scheduling issue -- I have seen many new project where a team of people work on something and think all of the parts are good to go, but you find there is another six months of integration work, installer engineering, and other things you need to do ship a product. Automation, documentation, simplification are all bits of the puzzle, but if you want agility, you need to know how to go from source code to a product, and not every team does.
And there is a pretty good chance of that happening in most JS projects.

Anywhere you take or show input from the user (an input box, a URL query, displaying data stored by some other system on the DB, etc...) could be a vector for an XSS attack.

And it's not just data passed to JS, but data passed to HTML or any data that could make it's way into CSS in many cases!
> What if 50 different chains are presented in which no private keys are the same?

The chains share state right up until the fork point. Each fork gets resolved by the signatures linked to stakes that were already established in the last shared block.

> What will make them include a transaction proving they've committed fraud?

A staker/miner can chose to not include proof of his own wrongdoing, but that will not prevent others from creating an alternative fork which does have that proof.
Ask HN: How many .ai domain names have been registered?
We just registered a .ai domain, an email warning of delays due to the recent hurricane followed, hopefully some of the registration costs go to helping them recover.

This got us wandering though how many .ai have been registered, given everyone seems to pay $100 this might actually constitute a noticable % of Anguilla's GDP?
Mobile phones companies will be next.
Ask HN: I came across a nasty hack with Amazon and AdWords, should I report it
Today I came across an odd hack involving Amazon and AdWords.
The hack spoofs Amazon domain to get a lower price on Adwords.

They do it in this way, they first obtain a redirect link like the following
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?_encoding=UTF8&location=http://www.facebook.com/sharethikana/app/190322544333196/&token=6BD0FB927CC51E76FF446584B1040F70EA7E88E1

then they sponsor this link on adWords, adWords believes it's sponsoring Amazon content and give a lower price compared to sponsoring the real website (around 50% less).

Should I report it, and to who?
(non-combative post)

Traps were originally a feature of 4chan; something you had to look out for. I'm sure the word existed in real life too, but 4chan is how most people find it. If anything, traps existed before trans-words entered people's vocab.

There was hostility but no intended snark when I say "I'm getting the idea; transsexuals are their own sex", I was trying to rationalize why even 'passing' was unacceptable, but at a stretch I can see that passing is part of the same theme of fooling and deceiving. So trans men do strive to be women.
What is BTC used for that keeps every block chock full of transactions?
That's more or less where the major auto manufacturers are all headed in the near- to mid-term. I realize a lot of people don't get excited by something that isn't on-demand door-to-door transportation. But it seems fairly obvious that full highway self-driving, especially limited access highway driving, is a much easier problem that is mostly solved today. It could end up being decades ahead of general-purpose everywhere/when autonomy. The only real question in my mind is when you transition from systems that are at least nominally assistive to hands off the wheel under certain conditions.
I always like to go read https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/

Most of the advice is not very good and is given by students still in university, but it is some entertaining high drama.
Joe Armstrong talked about immutable globally available code. Only then would we not need duplication. #lazyweb please find a link to it.

Why do we need modules at all? http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5079

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768...
Then I guess it won't be a problem for either of you.

(Assuming some minimum degree of limberness and agility.)
Many of the larger businesses I have seen(not too many) have a disconnect between the subject matter experts that use Excel to codify their knowledge and the developers. The program(Excel workbook) often isn't big enough to warrant the dev costs when it works "now" but is too important not to in the long run.

I do think this is a tooling issue that could generate code based on Excel workbooks.
> I am suggesting that once NN is dead, alternative networks of free information exchange are going to start popping up.

I don't think they would allow that.
I guess you have observed the reasons for this firsthand, then. I was left guessing at incentives for those at the helm of said companies.
Is it? And are those who are consuming the electricity paying the entire cost for it, including impacts to the environment?
> I would argue that the most commonly used programming language is Excel.

I wouldn't say Excel is a programming language - unless you are referring to VBA attached to excel. Excel is a spreadsheet application. It's no more a programming language than Microsoft Word is a programming language.
Jasmine unit testing: Don't forget to callThrough()
Spotlight works by indexing applications and files every once in a while (for speed), so sometimes it doesn't find newly installed apps.
What are they for and how do they function?
Vulnerabilities don't have to affect the backend - most of JQuery-related CVEs that I could find had to do with XSS.
why would the midwest specifically be a problem?

Outside the Bay, Ann Arbor & Detroit are the leading cities conducting research on autonomous vehicles thanks to the University of Michigan and the motor industry.

Besides most people have 45 min commutes. If your car came preheated each morning and drove you to work while you take a nap, then people would love it.
By the way, Peter Thiel already sold the majority of his FB shares around the time of the IPO. See:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-thiel-facebook-...

Notice that at the time the article was written he had sold about 37 million shares and had only 5.6 million left. The prices he got were absolute peanuts compared to the current price -- he sold 17 mln shares for $38, and another 20 million for about $20. The current price is $180.

I am not writing this to criticize Peter Thiel, obviously the stock market is very difficult to predict. And, unfortunately, I did not buy FB at $20, so I cannot say I had a better mastery of the market than him. The point I want to make is that is downright silly to make any conclusions about FBs valuation based on this sale.
Elon Musk on the process he uses to start a business
Because it's cheaper than out-innovating your competitors.

But I'm pretty sure FB still supports NN anyway, since a lot of the value to users of Facebook are the articles their friends link to, and that gets hurt if some links are more expensive for some people to click on.
Excel is an incredible swiss army knife when dealing with one person in one location on one computer, but the warts start showing up when any of those assumptions break.

One computer: once you decide you want to use your smartphone, for all but the most basic sheets there are problems with Excel mobile preview, even with Microsoft's official apps.

One location: Excel's lack of a universal time (showing different times in for users in different timezones) have led to gnarly workarounds. There was an attempt to correct for it in the XLSX format (cell type 'd') but it has its own problems.

One person: Excel has no inherent sync strategy. You are forced to farm out to email (and the inherent filename versioning nonsense) or use a system like SharePoint (which has its own problems you notice when dealing with people in different timezones across the world, like accidental file locking and data loss)
Before OS-X would let you do that, I took my PowerBook's keyboard out, cut the trace and redrew the traces to connect the CapsLock key to the Control traces. :-)

Now it's done by simply going to System-Preferences=>Keyboard=>Modifier Keys
What askafriend is saying is that in this case the investor sentiment is appropriate for the soundness of the business.

If anything, it's implying the stock price is not always correlated with business performance, otherwise the statement would be redundant.
or, y'know, the other operating system not trying to turn a profit on you, Linux.
... with the rather silly error message of:

Only alphanumeric characters are allowed. 3-25 characters max.

Also, I failed to remember that it was a ".co" domain, but of course getting the perfect domain is hard.
Are you assuming most Bitcoin mining is on Chinese coal electricity? Other forms of electricity are 5-10x safer.
Decorative christmas lights kill more people than that because these lights consume more energy than Bitcoin (see conclusion of my post)... if we are willing to spend X gigawatts on decorative lights, surely we should be willing to spend X gigawatts on a censorship-resistant decentralized payment system that changes the world.
How would you test to see if that is the case?
Erythritol can cause digestive discomfort for some [1], which is why I suspect it isn't prevalent.

It was an eye opener to me how many packaged goods have sugar (HFCS) added, when intuitively it seems there was no good reason for any added sweet flavor to be present. By (mostly) assiduously reading the ingredients (the only source of truth, which is why it is often in the smallest print), I am often able to avoid purchasing rubbish that has no business driving me ever faster to a painful death.

There are some goods that are proudly sugar free (on the marketing speak and in the ingredients list) and I make sure to buy these when possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol
Sci-Hub Loses Domain Names, but Remains Resilient
> They rely on youthful immortality to carry them through.

To be fair, having your small, mobile house suddenly become less mobile is typically not a disaster - unless it happens in the middle of a desert, or in the middle of winter. Someone living in a van in Hawaii or California is likely not going to be in serious danger if their engine suddenly seizes up, or if an axle breaks.

Plus, if the alleged savings from not paying rent are actually put away into some sort of savings account, staying in a hotel or motel for a week or two while the van is repaired isn't likely to be a tremendous setback.

It honestly doesn't seem any more risky than living in an apartment - which can flood, catch fire, or otherwise become un-inhabitable as easily as a van, and are more difficult to repair and harder to move your stuff out of.

I think your point about sudden illness or injury is a much more serious problem facing a would-be van-dweller.
A peeled apple is about as bad - little fiber, and 10% sugar.
Removing cortana was the first thing that I did when I installed windows 10. However even the basic search is incredibly bad. It took months before it even considered searching in Downloads folder (patch fixed it I guess?). And portable apps? Yea, gl with that.

But my main problem with searching is when I search for settings and windows apps. That's just pure trash. There're no aliases so if you don't know exactly how MS named the functionality you're fucked. And if you know the english word for it, it doesn't show up either. And the worst thing: if you KNEW how it used to be called but not the current translation you're also fucked.
E.g. in english you search for screen saver. In czech it used to be "Spořič obrazovky" but now it's "Šetřič obrazovky". (btw neither of these even show up in the creators update, but in falls they fixed it and "Šetřič obrazovky" will return correct result).

Another thing that bothers me with search is diacritics, you have to use it if you want to find anything that has it. And gl with that when using english keyboard layout.

It's increadibly frustrating to use and I've mostly given up on it and use powershell whenever I can. That doesn't fix my problems with diacritics when searching documents though.
Actually, Facebook shopping ads (from Amazon, Banggood, and the like) and news ads are pretty much the only ads I click. Mostly because, unlike Google ads, when I am browsing Facebook I am not really looking for anything in particular. Facebook ads are like TV ads in that respect.
The question I ask myself is: Are these two things that look the same, actually the exact same problem, and do I expect them to continue being the exact same problem?

If the answer is an easy yes, then build your abstraction. If it's no, don't. If it's maybe, leave the duplication in place until you have a clearer understanding.