skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hacked sites, on the other hand, might not be too thrilled about a feature that will shame them about their previous lax security.

A simple flag doesn't reflect the quality of the security. You might not have a flag with terrible security simply because no one cared until now when a website might have invested tremendous efforts in security and meet doom because hackers were numerous, obstinate and smarter. Security is a difficult matter and doesn't make you "lax" because of a breach. I hope the plugin will be descriptive because I don't see that in the readme.

I would be more or equally interested by a plugin shaming websites who store passwords in plain text, restrict characters to 20, prevent you from using nothing else than letters and digits, etc. You could use pwned db to gather intel on the actual level of security of a website and flag them if they use outdated hash algorithms or other bad password storage practice. That would be more objective and force websites to fix their crap.
Lots of articles blaming the lenders.

Why not blame the schools? They are the ones with the unrealistic cost increases (coupled with a decreasingly relevant product, often times.)

The government should get behind formally endorsed MOOC degrees. Costs will be low!
It can still be acquired and/or taken private.
> I would love it if Facebook worked that way for me. But unfortunately its just selfies and crappy shares of motivational or "funny" memes.

I don't know much about Facebook's feed because I don't use it a ton, but can't you just unfollow the people who post this stuff? I'd imagine after doing this just a handful of times, your feed would become a lot better tuned to the kind of stuff you actually want to see.

The ~once a month I do end up scrolling through my Facebook feed, I find a pretty healthy amount of interesting things from those friends of mine that are interesting. The majority of these aren't even links, they're actual posts.
A Looser Knot: The State of Marriage
Looks pretty close to https://www.viber.com/app/uploads/Icon_1024.png
for me

Just a little sheared if anything? Can always attribute to stylizing.
Gambling/lotteries basically only harm people with innumeracy; ergo why should it ever be prohibited?
I’m curious: how many columns is it occupying? From all that I can see, it should be a single column, with the font incapable of overriding that.
> It's between allowing gambling to be run by organized crime and creating a system that enables at least a modicum of accountability.

The government (via the NCAA) has already made it illegal for college athletes to accept money for anything related to sports. IMHO that ban has worked well for college athletes, and the feds should simply extend the ban to the rest of society and make pro sports illegal.
I have fond memories of PLATO, Tutor, and AIDS. There's gotta be an avatar port somewhere...
Parenthood: The 4 Handed Juggling Act
Is this the new TurboGrafx 16?
The Google Bus Lottery
Lithium-7 is some exotic stuff, folks.

Anyways, it's funny that this thing was way bigger than expected, yet less than 1/3 the size of Tzar Bomba, which itself was down rated by 50%!
Gambling hasn't always been so difficult. It's a practice with a long social history, often including attempts to stamp it out. Out of all of that, my impression is that it is generally not viewed as characteristically a vice of the old.

How are things different now? Do you think it's just that if you grow up around legal gambling and you're the type to waste everything you have on it, you won't have any money left to gamble away by the time you're old?
because maybe your brother or my brother is innumerate.
I'm not sure if you've ever spent any time in an American casino, but the sports book is not where you find 'really old people', except perhaps the handful of older guys betting on horse races. And at the sports book area, chances are that you aren't going to encounter the sort of obvious problem gamblers that you see glued to the video poker and slots.
The US is just weird, only country i know of that doesn't allow transit. Anywhere else you get off your plane, pass thru security and get back on your outgoing flight.

The US seems too cheap to build outgoing immigration booths, and therefore doesn't have real international departure terminals like anywhere else on the planet.

I means you can't transit the US without getting a visa
No, it's not okay but the correct response is to get over it or write some critical words on another publication, not start a harassment campaign against the author.

> Maybe switch “men” with another demographic and see if it reads the same.

Okay.

> It’s young women queuing with plush mushroom hats and backpacks and jutting promo poster rolls. Queuing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that marketers want them to see. To find out whether they should buy things or not. They don’t know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these listless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who don’t quite know why they themselves are standing there.

Sounds fine to me. You see, the "men" in the quote is not "men" in general, but the "young men" that make up the particular slice of "gamers" (which Alexander argues is over catered to by brands and not representative of the larger set of "people who play video games"). This is the type of sensitivity I'm talking about.

Whatever you think, I hope we can agree that the reaction that followed Alexander's article was completely disproportionate and should be discouraged.

EDIT:

TFA said it best

> For a games web site, there's a huge advantage to having reviews written by inexperienced, eager people who try to stir up arguments instead of calming them. Those people work cheaper, and their work tends to stir up anger which gets more clicks. Sure, these poor writers/targets get screamed at, but that's what they were hired for. Their employers don't care as long as the clicks keep coming.

> In the end, however, we’re talking about video game reviews. In the global scheme of things, game reviews are REALLY unimportant.
The feedback loops inherent in attention based (advertising funded) social media content selection are potentially more problematic than TV or newspapers.

TV and newspapers have them, but they don't work as fast and it is harder to place content in those channels.
Techtonic Shifts: Google can no longer count on political goodwill at home
Author says he doesn't touch political topics and then says he's covered censorship. This is the kind of thing which contributes to China being a total PITA with travel and internet
Electricity to mine Bitcoin this year bigger than annual usage of 159 countries
Right but you can modify sports games to become more like regular games. For example I claim you're making a sports bet but structure the game so that it's identical to slots. That's what they do in Kentucky to basically make legalized slot machines
Ask HN: SaaS Marketers During Holidays
I noticed that during Black Friday, a lot of SaaS are taking advantage of the marketing hype and giving deals on their products. What do sales look like for your SaaS during the holidays vs. the rest of the year?
In other words, gambling should be allowed because it only harms the under-educated? I'm not sure that's a very compelling argument considering the current state of K-12 education in the US.
They didn’t send death or rape threats. They did exactly what you originally said: email Intel and get them to pull their ads from Gamasutra since the articles their ads were running on we’re attacking the target demographic.
A currency with a perpetually ascendant value (or perceived value/price) has little value as a currency - people will be strongly disinclined to spend it.

So what's left but a token that has no underlying value other than a proposition which can largely be discounted?
technically, if they liquidated their PP&E and repaid all of their debt, they could not go bankrupt as bankruptcy is a process specific to companies with debt. but yes, if this happens the company is gone

if things start looking really bad, debtholders and equity holders will start clamoring for a change in strategy to preserve their assets. likely they would push to bring in new management to fix manufacturing issues, push for tesla to sell itself, or push for tesla to divest certain parts of its business, or some combination of the above

given how valuable tesla is, for anyone to want to buy them in whole or in part would require a massive drop in their stock price, so stock investors would probably be wiped out long before any bankruptcy proceedings started
My opinion is that Australia should ban gambling advertising. I also believe that Australia should also remove the electronic poker machine licenses from the Returned Services Leagues, and I also think that Australia should toughen up the mandatory anti-problem-gambling information at venues licensed for gambling, and in applications designed for gambling. I also think that the laws around ATM withdrawals at gambling venues should be tightened.

These are my opinions. They're not objective fact, and they're honestly not well-researched enough that they'll all provide measurable benefit, but I also don't think there's any way these things could make things worse for our country.
I had similar thoughts initially. After understanding erlang's OTP concepts, it all became clear. Phoenix's simplicity combined with the power of erlang&otp is fantastic.
> The decision “could have repercussions in areas that go well beyond sports betting: gun control, immigration, sanctuary cities...”

And this is why the SCotUS will not make a landmark decision causing a "dam burst." The Justices can certainly limit their decision in many ways, and it'll be interesting reading the opinions that they produce. But I don't think they've been interested in drastic changes for quite some time.
Suggestion: go to church.

It’s a built in community of people who are likely there because of ritual and tradition (am Catholic) and do not care about talking about startups or entrepreneurship (a breathtaking relief sometimes).

Church and religion has gotten a lot well-justified complaints over the years, but by liberal and moderately-conservative people abandoning it in droves, it only made it more conservative and dogmatic sadly.

Also if you think “hey I can’t go to church they don’t believe in XYZ” just know that something like 40%+ of priests believe that gay marriage is possibly within the church’s right to support (again citing Catholic stuff here), so there is a lot more support than you think but political change is hard and it’s harder if you stay home.

Also I will say that it’s almost “cool” to go to church now. It’s been, again for good reasons such as pointless cultural battles in the 90’s that American churches waged, cool to not do religious stuff but now it’s so passé. Whenever I see a person railing against religion on Reddit I can’t help but think they are exactly the person we could have used in the 1920s at the Snopes Trial, but otherwise their viewpoint is entirely unhelpful and conformist today.
> This seems like an inconvenience you impose on everyone else to do things Facebook handles natively.

If you're important to them, then people will do whatever they need to keep in touch with you. Inconvenience is when they don't care enough to keep in contact with you. While in a perfect world everyone would accept your impose line of communication, in your case Facebook, everyones preference is different.
I'm not sure on the merit of if this person should or should not be allowed into China but this happens to people everyday at US boarder control (especially from non-European countries) who are not even in media but doctors and lawyers. And America proclaims to be much more open than China so this isn't as strange as it seems.

Something that made me think was how the author waffles between being a "journalist" and being a "blogger". Bloggers do this all the time and it's troubling. In cases where important part of a story they wrote turns out to be wrong, or invades someone privacy, they just shrug their shoulders and say "Well, im a blogger, sorry!". When they are not taken seriously, the same people run to the top of the hill to say "But but but we're doing serious work here!" I won't say what Thiel did was right, i'm justing saying I understand.
No I think the reaction was appropriate. It’s great that we live in a world where consumers can actually have a voice and organize. The media never had those checks in place, now they do.
In warfare amateurs talk tactics and professionals study logistics. In machine learning amateurs talk models and professionals build good test/train/validation sets.

It's an open secret on Kaggle that a good validation procedure is what separates the top of the leaderboard from the rest. People are happy to share their modelling insights and their ensembling processes, but it is very very rare to see some share their test/train/validation splits before a competition is finished.
There's a big difference between money that returns 10% within a given time period and money that remains even, or has mild ups and downs in value.

If money becomes noticeably less valuable over time it becomes less attractive to hold money at all - and instead scarce assets like a house, land, or gold, etc would be far more desirable. Suddenly everyone is happy to lend you money but no one wants to hold it. Prices soar.

It's true that BTC would be hard to keep as a currency because there is a tendency toward hoarding when something is rising in value. That doesn't prove inflation is desirable though.
I am super grateful to Microsoft. They moved me to Seattle + moving expenses and paid me enough so I could save to buy a house and applied for my green card. For someone from Kenya, I am very grateful for the life I lead.
I don't think the US is "too cheap" but there is a perceived higher incentive to get in and stay in in the US than many other countries. Not saying its actually true but that seems like a more rational reason than penny pinching by USCIS.
3.3 years. First job out of college. I got the job because I was an intern the year before. I started out as a computer operator. They needed a developer to write a CRUD app and I left because there was no more development.

9 years - I stayed 7 years longer than I should have. My career and pay stagnated - only made 10K more in year 9 than I made in year 2. Never again. I realized I was a good developer but a horrible software Engineer.

2008

3 years - a company working in mobile. This was my first experience with modern software development - DDD, Unit testing, continuous integration, source control etc.

2012

2.5 years - first experience with a large company and working with a large development team. I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. It came in handy two jobs later...

2014

2 years - it was a horrible over political environment that followed all of the anti-patterns of software development. But I did get a chance to polish some skills that prepared me for my current job.

2016

Current - 1 year. My first job as the "architect".

All that to say. Never stop learning like I did between 2001-2008. I spent the next 9 years making up for loss time.
agreed, by "get in trouble" i meant that lenders could threaten to renegotiate terms or influence the company's strategy. but i am sure elon / tesla have good relationships with the debtholders so this probably wouldnt happen until after a million other worse things go wrong
The Rules of the Game
I seriously doubt it’s a deliberate strategy on their part in this case, but Microsoft has been known to pull this type of maneuver in the past:

Step one: “We love Kubernetes! Run it on Azure! It’s great”

Step two: “Kubernetes experience on Azure is best enjoyed using Microsoft Enterprise Ingress, Microsoft Custom Resources for Business, and developing in Visual Studio. Use those!”

Step three: “Oh, the CTO wants to migrate workloads to AWS instead? Too bad you used so many of of our custom and proprietary add ons, that’s going to make migrating incredibly expensive. Just stay on Azure and everything will be just fine...”
Yeah, I used Machine Learning as a blanket term for both potentially Neural Nets as well as a traditional statistical methods. Good call out though.
+1 Ex KDE user. Now Gnome3, so much more productive. Less is more... KISS
The Antinomy of Bitcoin
You can't expect people to read more than 140 characters.
>The reason, as it was explained to me, was that in 2015 I had broken Chinese law when I failed to present myself to authorities in Beijing when I had visited and stayed at an Airbnb residence on two different trips. Unbeknownst to me at the time — and something that was not communicated by Airbnb — foreigners are required to register at a local police station, but in most cases the hotels where they stay handle this.

This rule is clearly explained on the back of the immigration declaration form which every visitor must personally fill out[0]. It is, in fact, item number one.

Yes, China is a totalitarian shithole. But then again some democratic countries like Japan have similar "register at local police station" rules too, so I'm very surprised that someone who spent a decade in Asia would be unaware of it.

[0] http://sydney.chineseconsulate.org/eng/gdtp/P020071009492059...
With exclusive IP rights, the anger is that "This is the best Star Wars game we're going to get, and it's complete crap."
Traveler does not follow the rules, abuses a Transit visa to cover non-transity-things, and is surprised when he is punished. He might not have been familiar with the exact rules governing travel, but it is fairly clear from his account that he was abusing the system, and aware of it.

>I had been waiting in line to take advantage of the city’s 144-hour ‘transit’ visa which allows travelers with an onward flight to stay in Shanghai without needing to secure a visa before they travel.

Yes, AirBnB should inform traveler's of local rules, like registering with a police station. But ignorance of the law, combined with repeated abuses shouldn't be overlooked.

>Since 2015, I have used the transit visa system on six occasions

Nothing to see here, folks. Follow the rules, don't abuse them.
He mentioned GC pauses being an issue. Python's GC is significantly less sophisticated than Java/Go, which were also not satisfactory enough.
Windows 2000? Then you can only run up to Firefox 12. (And Rust code came to Firefox a few years later.)
> Mmmm, butthurt engage. I must have hit the nail on the head.

The classic "everyone disagrees with me, this means I'm right for some reason" argument. Kinda nostalgic--it was very popular in the Usenet days, but you don't see it as much anymore.
Why is that? Isn’t it an ICO? Like it’s just a fork of ETH/BTC/LITE?
>The government (via the NCAA) has already made it illegal for college athletes to accept money

What? The NCAA has nothing to do with it. The US federal government independently created regulations that make payment of student athletes undesirable regardless of whether the NCAA even exists. Title XI requires that all collegiate athletes receive identical opportunities and benefits, which clearly doesn't make sense for sports that aren't profit centers if cash compensation is added to the mix.

>the feds should simply extend the ban to the rest of society and make pro sports illegal.

Why? This clearly doesn't solve a gambling issue, as you can already place bets on NCAA events. And further, it doesn't really make sense given the economic structure and social mores of the contemporary United States. Aside from the fact that a ban on pro sports would fly in the face of centuries of case law prohibiting arbitrary government interference with private enterprises, I'm fairly certain that any representative sample of the contemporary US population would find your proposition both strange and unnecessary.
Clearly, people did both.
The reason for this has to do with ‘variable reward’. Specifically, the brain quickly acclimates to a constant stream of rewards and gets bored. By contrast, spacing out rewards at unpredictable intervals is much likelier to keep the brain hooked. As someone else noted, this is the same principle that underpins slot machines.
It’s far easier to live in asteroids than the moon. The energy cost of moving them is enormous, and you can develop them without paying the cost of the moons gravity well.
All currencies are based on commonly shared beliefs.

I accept $20 bills because I believe other people will accept $20 bills. The paper itself is worthless.

Bitcoin is the same.

It's worth $9,000 as long as enough people believe they can find other people who believe it's worth $9,000.

Meanwhile, trust in governments and banking systems is crumbling. We've seen the hyper inflation in Venezuela. We've seen Saudi Arabia seize 800 billion dollars in assets. We've seen the banking bailouts in the US. As uncertainty rises, a system based on math begins to look like a far safer place to park your wealth.

Belief in Bitcoin may be at an all time high, but it's still the early days. Only 21 million bitcoins will ever be created. Most of them have been mined already & there aren't enough left for every millionaire in the world to own even a single Bitcoin each.
Unfortunately customizing your news feed takes some work. Frankly I'd like a setting that just says I'm not interested in any of the following:

- Tag a friend who ...

- Quizzes

- Inspirational quotes of any kind

- Social game results of any kind (or invites for that matter)

In my own feed I had a few culprits who were largely responsible for this noise. I think only in one case did I have to resort to unfollow (although it's an option). It seems that less than 20 sites/pages are responsible for the vast bulk of these. Or perhaps that's just the case out of my friends. I really don't know. Either way after hiding these posts and choosing to see no more posts from whatever the source page was, my news feed is pretty clean.

Others post a lot of BS politics, which I kinda hate. The more ignorant ones (we're talking family here) I've even baited when bored. But I know people who have started using Instagram to avoid the nonsense politics (even though some of these same people like to share inspirational quotes /sigh).

If you're interested in say family photos and updates then Instagram may be a purer experience for you. Assuming who you're interested in posts to Instagram that is.

As for your stuff not getting shared/liked, well that's a whole other thing. Disclaimer: I work for Facebook. Only for a short time thus far but long enough that I've been involved with a bunch of research on groups. A lot of people take groups pretty seriously. One admin I heard speak was talking about how he always made an effort to make people feel included and heard like if someone's post wasn't getting a lot of comments they'd go out of their way to comment on it and include others so that person felt like part of the community.

So I don't know what your interests are but I'm pretty sure at this point there's a group for basically everything. In the right group you may find more sense of community and less of a barrier to posting and sharing because of good admins and just the common interest you have by being in that group.