skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a developer myself and I absolutely oppose this practice. I don't do it and I don't want others to either. The possibility of exposing sensitive information is just not worth it. If you discover a bug you can always make a bug report and provide any details there. In that case, the consent and scope of disclosure is made very explicit. Chances are you don't know what information a machine-generated bug report contains, but you do know what you wrote when you reported it.
Thanks for this story. It is a nice counterpoint to a lot of what i read. It all starts at home.
Who couldn't figure out the idea behind tortoise and the hare? Maybe not the implementation, but the concept is probably the simplest way of going about it.

I am no programmer, and I managed to implement it not too long ago all on my own. It took no more than 10 minutes from idea to working implementation.
'DOM' panel in FF DevTools unfortunately still doesn't distinguished between inbuilt native DOM nodes and custom DOM nodes from JS code - making the DOM panel still completely useless. Firebug grouped non-native DOM nodes (the interesting ones for devs) and sorted them on top, and marked them in bold font - non of these is in the new FF. Until DOM panel still a work-in-progress, I cannot switch.

I still keep a Firebug 48 with old Firebug addon around, because of the awesome DOM panel (that also Chrome doesn't have).
I don't know whether [LessPass](https://lesspass.com/) is reputable, but it's notable for its approach.

It's primarily a password generator, rather than a password manager. It reproducibly generates difficult-to-guess passwords, using as input: the site's URL, your username and a master password. You save, sync and retrieve your passwords using your browser's built-in password manager.

I never previously used a password manager because I wanted to ensure I would always have access to my passwords. I started using LessPass because:

* When I need to log in on a non-synced device (such as someone else's computer), I can read the site's password from Firefox on my phone and transcribe it.
* If I lose all of my devices, I can still retrieve my existing passwords, because the password generation algorithm uses only my master password as salt.
Here's one example - LastPass had remote code execution as a result of their browser extension:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Not easily IIRC. Google is aware of that bug so I think we're going to just wait.
I tried Quantum and it crushed the battery of my MacBook Air. Activity Monitor showed much more energy usage than chrome. Anyone experience the same?
I'd love a combination of the two maybe, but profiles are probably good enough, thanks
If you make profits you should declare them like any other person. You'll be taxed as a trader, more specifically a FOREX trader, as you are trading with currencies.
Campaigns seem like they might be easier to wean off attachments than journalists, who routinely email documents back and forth to their editor with 'track changes' turned on. But I'm eager to follow up with campaigns in a couple of months and see whether they actually followed the advice.
WireGuard
I think you're wrong. Democracy is also subject to whims, but with the government, you basically have one player. With charity, at least you have "competition".

E.g. look at groups helping promote minority rights (civil rights movement, LGBTQ movement, etc). These were political no-goes, but small groups cared a lot about these issues, so they helped push them through, via charity and other means. If you were only OK with charity being done democratically, i.e. via majority rule, then these movements couldn't exist.
This amount of nontrivial, yes. Similarly, I'd expect a computer scientist to come up with a proof of correctness for either binary search or merge sort (the out of place variant) in ~30 minutes. It's not particularly difficult.
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that you want Firefox mobile to be the default browser?

Firefox mobile is available on Android and also on iOS, though the iOS variant is only a wrap around Safari because of Apple's walked garden.
Hackers stole information from 1.7M Imgur accounts in 2014
> installing the bollards that should have been there all along.

A bit of an aside... Please dont default to “install more bollards!” thinking. Bollards are incredibly dangerous, where I live a cyclist is paralyzed/killed by bollards every few years. Theyre also completely ineffective against two wheeled (and small 3-4 wheel) power vehicles. As I recall the ADA compliant spacing is now 6’ between bollards. Not very effective against small cars even!

The FHWA says “bollards should never be a default treatment, and should not be used unless there is a documented history of intrusion by unauthorized cars.” https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/recreational_trails/gui...

Other landscaping features, such as medians or chicans, are both more effective and safer at restricting trail access.
Reminds me of Principia Mathematica, where the author (Bertrand Russell) needs 379 pages to prove that 1+1=2. [1]

> "From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1 + 1 = 2." —Volume I, 1st edition, page 379.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
What if the government isn't interested in that?
It never claimed to be a map of physical activity. It's a map of athletic activity. i.e. the people who purchase overpriced energy bars.
Every factor can be captured, but can we agree what isn't superiority? e.g. buying an ipad (vs a samsung tablet or whatever) to be the same as everyone else, is not a reflection of the virtues of the ipad. I would say the (simpler) winning product in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15776047 has true superiority because it can be perceived by anyone in a vacuum.
First of all, the way that people on both sides of the political spectrum decry the federal and government as authoritarian and at the same time want to give it more power, is literally Orwellian. Doublethink, to be precise.

Second, this article argues that the government should have a try at running the internet since the private sector ostensibly failed. The irony is that the situation today is exactly a product of government mismanagement. A vital infrastructure is underdeveloped, overpriced and operated by a duopoly - where exactly was the US Government when this happened? Where was the antitrust authority? Where was a liberal President of eight years, a man deified by the likes of the Daily Dot, who took on health insurance companies? Did the Congress deign to investigate this issue? And did the voters "vote them out" for failing to do that, as the author suggests?

Of course not. People tend to have a job, a life and a hobby - they can only care about a limited set of issues. And an increase in broadband pricing or a change in ISP product set is not one of those. They can get riled up, short term, but probably won't be able to sustain pressure, as is the case with the second amendment or healthcare. This is why the government officials have for so long neglected this issue, and this why the nationalized internet bureaucracy will have the same relationship with third party contractors (that ISPs will become) as FCC does.

I am not an expert on broadband legislation, but it seems like a better solution would be encouraging investment into small scale ISPs. A federal legislation that ensures backbone access, major tax cuts for investors, a lot of red tape for ISPs trying to get above city-wide coverage, things like that. If you have 2-3 ISPs per town and tens of those in a large city the net neutrality issue goes away.

edit:spelling
"With sales up, Etsy is highlighting successful sellers with a series of videos. But not all users are happy. For years, sellers and buyers have complained that as Etsy has grown more popular, mass-produced goods have flooded the site, making it harder to find handmade items, and harder for sellers to make a living."

This. I went on Etsy recently for the first time in a few years looking for a few different handmade items. They were nearly impossible to find amid a flood of mass-produced commercial items. Etsy is nearly indistinguishable from Michael's or Joann's art supply stores, or worse. I have no intention of shopping there again.
There is competition and choices between big corporations, limited as they may be. There's only one government.
There seem to be a bug with MP4 video processing it eats CPU and battery like crazy (for me both on macOS and Win7), but otherwise, the new FF is great.
Beer distribution game
How many millions of users is that 12% again?
Show HN: SF cab bot demo
https://hncabbotdemo.azurewebsites.net

This is a demo of our AI bot system, showing how you could order an Uber in San Francisco.

Features:

- Purely text based, no buttons or menus

- Multiple intents

- Multi-turn dialogues (for example address disambiguation)

- You can find out the eta of the cab and the cost and duration of the journey.

- You can also ask about the cab, driver, passenger capacity, and about tipping drivers.

There are a few example on the page to get started.

This isn't intended as a commercial implementation! The bot is stricter about what it does and doesn't understand than a commercial app would be.

We'd love it if you gave it a try (as you can never have too much training data!) and we're especially interested in how it works with people who know San Francisco (locations are restricted to San Francisco only plus the airport, sorry South San Francisco residents)

There's a really basic not-really-usable mobile version at https://hncabbotdemo.azurewebsites.net/mobile.html
I would also have preferred just enough more to be using tmux rather than a screen alternative. It got me using it tho, Thanks.

And a semi-random link to more plus what I'd wish I'd seen:

C-a " split vertically (top/bottom)
C-a % split horizontally (left/right)

C-a left go to the next pane on the left
C-a right (or one of these other directions)
C-a ; go to the ‘last’ (previously used) pane

C-a M-left resize by 5 columns
C-a M-right

https://gist.github.com/andreyvit/2921703
Install Re:dash on Any OS Using Docker
No, far from it, as evidenced by the opinions of the undersigners on where to take the project from the start. And while labelling dissenting opinions trolls may make for convenient discourse, it does not help with understanding the underlying engineering.

Note that the most common reason among the former undersigners for withdrawing support was the lack of replay protection (which only underscores the lack of consensus around some fundamental design decisions among the signers).

To anyone familiar with post segregated witness Bitcoin an increase in base block size could be done in a number of ways. The weights for data structures could be changed, but so could the weight limit. What would be reasonable if backwards compatibility is no concern is use the same multiplier for all types of signatures, thereby removing the so called segwit discount, but this turned out not to be the design chosen.

Like most people interested in Bitcoin, I only followed the NYA at a distance and have no more information than anyone else in this space, but I do know some people working with a company that took part of the agreement. I do not think there was some secret cabal behind the agreement, which some people seems to believe, but I also think that there were conflicting goals involved.
I wasn't planning to, since we can't answer this without knowing who did it.

My point was just to provide context for "spent time". It wasn't some huge operation. It could've been one day for one person. At that point the cost is so low it could've been done for the lulz. Or it could've been a cheap case of foreign groups trying to achieve something. Who knows.
Netflix especially gets a free "fast lane" at my isps with their Open Connect server. They basically get small ISPs to host, for free, a Netflix only CDN in the ISP's datacenter.

That isn't neutral. It is pure favoritism based on Netflix being the 800lbs gorilla.
"built for 2017" but doesn't support pinch to zoom on a mac
> an honest question, do your content police block CNN for this one article?

Which content police did I propose? I simply pointed out that you're conflating political fiction (eg George Orwell's 1984) with fake news (eg this story from "American News dot com": https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-google-crack...).

> http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/politics/donald-trump-koi-pond...

Was this video you posted from CNN fake? Was someone fabricating that or did it really happen? It's a very dumb story (and one of the reasons I don't bother with CNN), but I don't get the sense that it was fabricated.

Yes, news sources have political slants, I doubt you'll find anyone to argue with you on that one. The clickbaitization of news continues to ruin journalism, and I'd really like to reverse the trend. However, that's a different issue than the problem I pointed out with your argument.
set -g mouse on will do that. And it is smart enough to know if you're using an interactive program such as vim, it will let vim scroll.
Also what the sensitivity of the final result is to each of the variables... seems like they are using a lot of assumed or estimated values for the variables.
Basically, the US military declared itself the victor of the cold war and stopped worrying about China/Russia. After 9/11, it reoriented its resources around anti-terrorism and and smaller "rogue states" like NK and Iran.

At the same time, China and Russia have gone on massive military spending sprees that are entirely aimed at global war.

World peace relies on a single point of failure: the US nuclear forces, which rely primarily on obsolete ICBMs. Failing that, Russia and China could easily take over the world using conventional forces and their own nuclear power.

The US nuclear triad is highly vulnerable, relying on 3 incredibly obsolete and vulnerable delivery mechanisms.

1. US ICBMs were supposed to be replaced and were not due to government bureaucratic bungling. The contracts to replace it are being awarded in 2017. There are 400 ancient ICBMs, in fixed silos, that can't be called back after launch and so may not be launched in time.

2. The 18 Ohio SLBM subs are old and easily found by major enemy navies, and are just one nuclear torpedo each away from being gone. Some may survive but not enough. They should've been replaced long ago.

3. The few dozen ancient B-52s have to fly for many hours to be able to launch their cruise missiles, which means they'll be shot down. Their their run ways may get destroyed before most even take off.
While you may be completely right about Amazon and tax lobbying, this is only a part of the story of how he's so rich. Parent comment was right in the way that matters, IMO: Jeff Bezos being rich is mostly not at the expense of anyone else, quite the opposite - it's as a result of the value he's created. Even if he's paid less in taxes than he "should have", those taxes would've been 0 if he hadn't created the value and therefore wealth that he's created.
As I mentioned below, browsers, search engines, or social networks should not be, IMO, attempting to block or de-rank websites based on political activism, regardless of the source.

Indeed, whatever happened to "don't take sides". Couldn't an organisation stay completely neutral and only focus its efforts on the technology of accessing websites?
Hey, Haiku's still around, and while we don't have time to experiment with such crazy ideas ourselves (keeping an operating system project afloat is no joke), we'll more than likely accept patches for such things ... provided they actually work and aren't just needless bloat, and especially if they fix or improve some area we've neglected :-p
When I have creative freedom, I use Rails for routing, serving requests, and talking to the DB. I try to not to lean too heavily on Rails for business logic stuff.
Gah, I have been waiting and now I'm in Aus for a few months! Oh wellaybe next one haha
A few quotes from it:

> As far as the actual five security vulnerabilities discovered during testing are concerned, one important point to make is that not a single problem was deemed to be of a “Critical” severity or security implications. For the two issues ranked as “High”, the first problem had to do with a design flaw around the autofill functionality and incorrect handling of top level domains

> They are grounded in the deployment of libsodium, which is a state-of-the- art cryptographic library. While various notes and suggestions were collected during the cryptographic analysis, no severe implementation-related vulnerability was spotted. In other words, it is believed that a real-world attacker would remain powerless in face of the employed defense mechanisms

> All in all, the RememBear is a robust and promising project.
I'm not sure you're right. Clearly you don't feel it's right, but it doesn't seem like you're necessarily in the majority here, at least not in a way that is actionable. People may complain, but it doesn't seem most people are actually doing something about this. (Or at least, looking e.g. at the last elections in the US, there isn't necessarily a majority that agrees with you.)

BTW, as to the broader point, I mostly disagree - I think our current systems is pretty good at figuring out how much value each person has created, and letting them capture a portion of it. (That's what the system does, not "decide how much someone is worth")
Well that's unexpected! I'm aware that Oracle has a few features pg doesn't, and replication is supposed to be easier, but at extraordinary cost and with the added bonus of supporting one of the worst companies in tech.

I don't really think you can even compare them as they serve totally different markets. If I was the CTO at a Fortune 500 and needed a DB for my new global logistics system, fine, Oracle would be in the running. Since this is HN though, I was thinking in terms of startups - and a startup choosing Oracle would be pure insanity unless they had an amazingly good reason.
Wibson, a decentralized data marketplace empowering users to monetize their data
You can use [1] to force YouTube videos being streamed as H.264 instead of VP8/9. This helps with the battery issue (at least on YouTube).

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/
Given your moderation style of politely asking people not to contribute certain manner of things, I now understand that was probably your intent here.

But my first reading of this comment was as a wry response to the content of the parent comment.

And that is why natural language is not a formal system!
I wish eBay, AliBaba or Amazon would buy Etsy and integrate the site well while keeping management and the right amount of operations independent. Etsy is, right now, a dingy in the storm of a double-ended marketplace without the reach of the 800 million pound cargo-ship empire gorilla. Otherwise, a smaller platform will likely buy it for an “undisclosed sum” and kill it, or investors will throw in the towel.

Maybe that’s what he’s doing: reducing liabilities (ie salaries) and making revenue look good to spark M&A interest, while also considering survivability without an exit.
Fun aside: I'd love to see the reaction of an applied-math class, like an engineering class, in which the instructor after having introduced the course, says, "let's go through some math prequisites for this class" and essentially starts reciting something equivalent to Principia Mathematica (without mentioning what he's trying to prove, meaning in a bottom-up fashion),

- "If A is true, and B is true, then C is true"

- "We know A is true, therefore if B is true, C must be true"

- "B is true if and only if D is true and E is true"

- ...

- Therefore C is true.

- (on and on and on for a whole hour).
As this comment proved unexpectedly popular, here is a 15 second video of how it looks when paging through the man page:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/virt-p2v-man.ogv
> you will die from dehydration in about three days or from starvation in three weeks

The figure given for starvation is a common myth. With access to water, you can expect to live 2 months even under total starvation, or many months in "near-total starvation"[1]. Another medical source that I can't immediately find says that even after ~4 weeks of total starvation, once you have food you can expect to recover completely with no lasting effects.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-pe...
Email me (email in profile.)

We're hiring for Scala developers and we're based in Amsterdam. I'll be in London early next year if you want to get coffee.
Sintering
The problem with property is that property uniquely spans the personal, the deeply economic (interest rates are used to mediate inflation and growth), deeply emotional (I own this), usually the single most important asset for the vast majority of people, and one where all these factors compete.

The problem with only locals buying property are many, but mainly that prices stagnate. That is not bad per se, but there is a voting sector that doesn't want price stagnation (older people basically). Governments in Australia have used foreign investment rules as a kind of secondary economic switch to keep prices going up, to the benefit of some, the chagrin of others, and ultimately maintain a status quo that benefits politicians.

It's a tough problem, property prices, and one with no clear right or wrong answer.
If you know the alphabet you can easily guess where the keys will be. (In a alphabetically ordered keyboard)

Do you believe that most people who use phones know how to type?
Agreed. Just apply for any Scala job that you think you could do, even if it wants an "experienced" developer with 20 years of Scala experience.
Not to mention even with a better android OS (I've finally switched to lineage from cyagenomod) is the thousand random applications users install. The best thing iOS and the Foss androids did was give more granular app permission control.

In general my suggestion is people uninstall every app they don't "need" and to pay carefully attention to permissions.

Even when I was an iOS user, all I needed was a terminal, from ssh, emacs, gnus, screen, etc.
That's just part of the reason. The real question is did deregulation actually decrase prices and increase competition as was promised?

Here (Ontario) we had one telephone company and one cable company prior to deregulation. The telephone company (Bell Canada) was very tightly regulated. While telephone service wasn't necessarily the least expensive in the world, it was very reliable and at least ten years ahead of what was being offered in the US. By virtue of their rapid conversion to a fullly digital network, made possible by their partnership with Nortel, services like ISDN, the precursor to DSL, were reltively cheap and readaily available.

I knew people in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s that could not, for no amount of money, get anything faster than dial-up. Local telecom providers, of which there were many, were all using obsolete equipment and had terrible infrastructure. At the same time in Ontario anyone could get dual-channel ISDN for around $50/mo.

After deregulation here there was a little bit of competition, but then, like the US, the market quickly stabilized into a live and let live state where nobody wants to compete with anyone else for fear of retribution. Cellular service packages are suspiciously identical in terms of features and pricing.

Since they're de-regulated there's little we can do. We can't force them to fix their pricing. We can't force them to compete. We can't tell them to do a damned thing they don't already want to do.

Now Bell Canada is too busy being a media company, it owns a bunch of television stations, to care about anything other than profit. There was an opportunity there to keep them regulated and have a neutral, non-discriminatory network provider, but that ship has long since sailed.
"shooting up something to kill the time."

I like FPS games to. ;-)