skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might as well up the paranoia level one click and never stay in a hotel, either.
This is a great encapsulation of exactly why I put down snapchat a few years ago. It's rather scary how people can get pulled into this feedback loop and how hard social media users can work to keep of a facade of performance. Thanks for giving a noun to the sentiment I've had for a few years.
Very nice. Tipe is almost a direct featureset clone of a CMS I built in 2006, just done much better. And with todays tech its probably a lot easier to develop. No disrespect to what you're doing, you're still putting in insane amounts of work to have this function. Definitely my new favorite CMS approach. Power anything from websites to electronic billboards... love it. Mine was called Calypso.io :)
That's because we have a great world simulator in our head.
Kinda aggressive. I don't even clicked on update and they already did that for me.
No, I'm using Firefox 57 (sure you are still on 56? 57 should be in the repos) and after a shaky start with NoScript 10, whatever the latest update did has badly broken the extension for many users. I am hopeful it will be as good as it used to be some day but today it really is badly broken and unusable. See the reviews from the last 24 hours, it's a mess: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/revi...
What does the vertical axis mean?
But customer retention is still important.

I've heard of a lot of people switching away from Macs to Linux and Windows, especially with Windows building up their own official Linux subsystem now.

PC hardware is cheaper than Apple's, and hardware (even the "good stuff") becomes obsolete after 5 years anyway. Besides, most software is cross platform these days.

The only real good retention plan Apple has is that we can't release iOS apps without owning Apple hardware; there's a few Mac-specific software titles that certain professionals rely on; and a little bit of "it's overall higher quality than PCs" mindshare that some people still have either from the 80s and early 2000s, but that can't last long if Apple keeps this up.
Seems like a good deal but how do I get the Amazon Echo?
As an artist, yeah. I have a pretty big tumblr following that I've built up over the years, but I also prefer instagram even though I've only had it for a little over a year and haven't built up nearly as big of a base. I think for me it's that instagram feels more for the everyman, in a way. Plenty of grandparents out there with instagrams full of their grandkids, y'know? You reach a much broader audience.
Entrepreneur known unkowns
I'm looking to start taking a few project ideas I've had over the past year and turn one of them into a venture. The goal is to build something I can independently run without a need for funding or outsourcing.

Where I've come up against it are a number of areas within which I do not have experience, and would appreciate any expertise and guidance.

This question is an example of my known unknowns. References to further reading and/or research topics to explore are embraced.

a. How do I test the idea itself. I have thoughts around publishing and sending out surveys, however there exists no tractable investment in the response.

b. What are the mechanics required in building a plan and for what horizon should I plan to. What considerations tend to be overlooked.

c. Experiences. If you have a personal experience with attempting to turn an idea into a small venture feel free to share what you've learned, especially if you have some hindsight into things you would or would not have done differently.
For this reason I always use the reader mode in mobile safari.
How would you imagine that would work? AirBnB employs stealth spying experts that come and sweep the property for cameras?
The Civil project looks more feasible, as it actually pays investigative journalists for their work, while at the same time providing feedback/scoring for accuracy.

https://joincivil.com/
So a cooperative model? I like that. I think pretty much everything would be better off and we would all benefit more if our institutions were structured as worker-owner and worker-consumer cooperatives.
If this is of interest, then you might also find Civil to be an interesting approach to this problem. They're attempting to decentralize the news and create marketplaces that drive the right behavior.

https://joincivil.com/
A Slow Ride in the First Self-Driving Chevy Bolt
> The thing we need more of is investigation. [...] really high-quality information that is useful for decision makers in relevant fields.

I tend to agree.

One thing I'd like to see is more of a focus on trends not events.
I thought it was confirmed that it is new to High Sierra, it was indeed lingering on forums as a "administrator hint" though.
> Yet, noone has used that insight to create other great user-created websites with almost universal write access

OpenStreetMap.
> If schools operated for profit, with education subsidized by vouchers, the companies running the schools would have an interest in spending as little as possible actually educating the students, because every dollar they could save would be a dollar they could keep.

How can someone actually believe this?

That point of view makes the rest of this article hard to take at face value.
These were my exact same thoughts. I suppose its almost like a step back from the framework of "virtualize everything"... what's old is new..

addon thoughts: nonetheless, the specs on the bare metal box are ridiculous. buying something like that will cost you $50k (someone correct me?) - then you need to find a place to host it... thats not easy to do.
How can you say there's only one study? Why would you cast doubt on a study you admit you haven't read yet? What studies are you citing to back up your own claims?
Sure seems like something our society could experiment with and see what happens. Step A - build one (1) of these in a city somewhere, maybe another in a sub-urban location and see if people show up. Don't cut any benefits or anything, just see if people are interested in the setup.

If that works, scale it up in a single large city, then a single state.

The place where I see this most likely to fail is that the organization will be under constant dual pressure of budget restrictions (pressuring them to serve cheaper foods) and 'usership' (pressuring them to serve less healthy == tastier foods). As with any system, the incentives have to be set up properly from the start.
> Those concert-goers felt the need to misrepresent their experience of the concert.

I felt the same sense of misrepresentation browsing Instagram recently, where the photo no longer represents the experience, but rather it is the experience (if one can call a posed and doctored product an experience).

One problem with this is the behavioral reinforcement it creates. If dopamine is released enough times when a certain action is performed, it would seem there's a point where your brain is essentially making you continue to reproduce that action. And these services aren't primarily targeting adults, which is concerning as well.
Possibly because the latest version of MetaMask has broken event listening: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2393
Attacking the profit motive is insane.

There were a billion people on this planet 200 years ago and now there are 7 billion people. The main reason for that is profits.

When someone grows a bushel of wheat for $3.75 and sells it for $4.30, they're able to grow 13% more wheat in the next harvest. That profit makes the growing of wheat self sustaining and scalable.

Now apply the logic to every crop, every home appliance, every energy source - every endeavor human beings pursue. The result is 6 billion people who didn't die of starvation, disease, or exposure.

The biggest problem with lefty attacks on the profit motive is they simply don't realize that the profit motive could be used to solve the problems they describe!

Upset about the education options in this country? Create a profitable alternative and you can scale it out to every student in America.

Don't like the obesity problems developed countries face? Find a profitable way to turn fat people into skinny people and watch the pounds of every population dwindle.

Profits are like magic. They make solutions to difficult problems available on a mass scale. There have no doubt been some growing pains as humans have learned to harness this magic, but the solution to those growing pains is not to eliminate the profit motive - the best solution is always profitable.
MacOS root bypass security update released
After reading through the article, it sounds like the tax treatment and accounting for PhD students is a mess. If anything, the new tax bill simplifies it.
I did my first XRP transaction last night and it was incredibly fast. Done in a couple seconds. And the cost was next to nothing.
The problem isn't just ads, though: first-party JavaScript can still record every keystroke you type, so e.g. if you accidentally type your login password into a browser window (even if no input field is focused) then you must change it.

The problem is that most of us are reading what should be static content which is instead a dynamic program written in a general-purpose language.
But you can’t put your nanny cams in the rest room.
One developer mentioned it as a workaround to getting locked out. Apparently nobody involved in that conversation realized the implications.
Fed may create its own digital currency
Thanks for sharing those stories. It sounds like you pay quite a bit of attention to the sky and stars!

> Why are you not able to make similar empirical tests? If you are able to carry them out, why are they not enough for you?

I'm guessing you meant these as rhetorical questions. They're indeed good for introspection. For clarity though, I'm perfectly satisfied with a globe Earth. Seems to be a pretty good model for my needs.

I was actually hoping sidestep discussions of Flat Earth vs Round Earth since, as you point out, the empirical observations aren't to hard to think up as a lay person. They're not quite trivial enough to be done in your backyard though.

What I'm more interested in, personally, are questions like "What is the structure of the Earth's interior?" I learned an answer from a textbook and am vaguely aware of how seismic data has been used to extrapolate this, but I'm not quite sure how to come up with a Core + Mantle + Crust model myself.

Instead of brute forcing these things, I'd really like to hear some clever reasoning and Fermi estimation capable of rederiving these standard results.

Perhaps easier to answer would be "Does the moon have an atmosphere?" One idea I had was to point a telescope on a line of site tangent to the lunar surface and look for abberations in starlight compared to stars a large angular distance away. This seems doable in your backyard with relatively cheap hardware.
Agree this is great, should be required reading for anyone who wants to hit Financial Independence. Natural fit for HN readers.
There is an easy solution to this problem.

Go to Germany.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678

Were I young and starting college again, I would be gone.
Ask HN: What was that SaaS that let you proxy HTTP service to subfolder
Title says it all. Basically, taking a web server running on [::1]:9999 and proxying it into mysite.com/myapp ?

It was featured on Show HN this year.
In my humble opinion, the home computer market fragmented into business machines (Amstrad's PCW and PC ranges) and gaming. Acorn and Sinclair [bought by Amstrad] failed to come up with the next generation of home computers.

We now have the Raspberry Pi to fill the "home computer" niche but it's a very different proposition to the home computer of the 1980's.
The non-expiring snaps still disappear when you close them; they just don’t auto-close. I guess there’s memories, but I doubt most people take photos just to put in memories.
My wife is graduating from a PhD program and all her friends spam social media with "Republicans making my taxes go up!" posts.

News Flash - universities claim they pay way more than a grad student's stipend, then get some sort of tax break by "gifting" the tuition. So if tuition is $50k, and pay a $30k stipend, total compensation is $80k - even though a student only gets $30k salary!

Why doesn't the university just say the tuition awarded to grad students is $100k? $500k? $1million? Who cares? It doesn't really exist anyway!

In reality, they should "award" grad students $0 in tuition and pay them like what they are - employees (and deeply exploited employees at that!).

EDIT - Sure, PhD students might cost more than they are paid (although I seriously doubt it given the 80 hour weeks, classes taught, and metric ton of bullshit my wife put up with). Regardless, pretending that somehow my wife is being paid $80k and the university is doing her this big favor is a ridiculous. Universities should figure out how to fund the supposed costs some other way than through a giant, made-up tuition bill that's waived. Universities are full of the smartest people on earth, surely they can figure out how to give grants properly without this insane accounting maneuver.
I also don't understand, but I know that Jimmy Wales knows a little more of wikis and collaboration than me. I'd probably say that an editable encyclopedia wouldn't work. Now I consider it one of humanities greatest feats.

Go for it, Jimmy!
Katy Perry Wants to Know What Warren Buffett Thinks of Bitcoin
To some up, when you try to log in with a disabled account, MacOS "promotes" the account but uses the _password provided by the user trying to log in_ instead of the password on file (in this case, an asterisk indicating the account is disabled). Once that is done, you can log in with that account.

IMHO these are two separate bugs: promoting disabled accounts and using the password the user typed in instead of the value in the password list.
On a tangent you prodded me towards an insight: as mentioned other places news might not be what we lack, but journalism. And for tech news, hn does a great (or ok) job of doing a "collective writeup" of many news items. True, the discussions can get side-tracked - and are often more speculation than analysis. But on any given "news like" story there tends to be enough background and insight to sum up to the content of a decent article on the given event/revelation.

No-one actually writes it up, so you might average 150-200% more text than a great article - on the other hand some bias will be balanced out.

I'm not sure machine learning is (will ever be?) a good fit to fill in the role of journalist. But I think hobbyist/specialists dedicating a bit of time to commenting paired with a handful of people writing up the emerging concensus could be at least as good as much current mainstream media. I think that's true whether the experts knows the ins and outs of circuit design or schoolboard and neighbourhoods in a corner of Afghanistan - and who's gotten monetary support to build schools or something.
"Dropouts are ok and honestly a good thing. Not everyone is cut out to be an engineer."

Agreed. Unfortunately the job market pushes people into professions they are not suited for. I bet 90% of lawyers do it for the career prospects and not because they like law.
Rather than a sharp distinction between trusted users and everyone else, or content and non-content, or even between reading and writing, I believe what we need is the more quantum experience of a knowledge graph. One with an easy semantics for creating and navigating nested relationships. It would let users search for, say, "Statements about [topic] which [set of users] agrees on," or "Arguments against [hypothesis]," or "Examples of, stories about, and implications of [principle]", or "Statements which readers judged useful for [goal]."

I wrote a demonstration program[1] that does this. I hope to attract more developers.

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text
They force-pushed code to your box without you agreeing to this? Can anyone else confirm?
Worst case scenario is that the private's solution is too good and the state thus regulates the private competition to be as bad as the public.
Introducing the new Snapchat: "Nothing's changed, except everything."
For the avoidance of doubt, NoScript version 10 shipped a few days after FF57 was released, and it is an update to that combination which is not working for me. I uninstalled & reinstalled the extension, and clicking on the settings icon instantly crashes the browser. It is totally unusable for me.
As Wikipedia defines it, anyway, neutrality is biased towards the current scientific consensus, which cuts down on the fringe content and makes the supporters of things like homeopathy very, very angry: They think neutrality should mean "every position gets taken equally seriously", which is false balance, and go a bit berserk when Wikipedia's rules make the homeopathy article largely anti-homeopathy, by presenting the best current knowledge as fact and presenting homeopathy itself as discredited.

There's no way to have a coherent, readable article which is philosophically neutral. Good thing Wikipedia doesn't try.
Bugs in Production – the Dirty Dozen
The alarm clocks on Aliexpress are super easy to tell it's a camera
But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that since this is so easy, a person that is computer illiterate can now gain root access. You definitely don't post those kinds of things on Twitter.
I'm pretty sure it is about training their users to surrender biometrics on demand. FB wants their feedstock comfortable with the idea.
so if you live alone, monitor your own house and a thief come for "a visit" you can get sued and imprisoned?
Yes. I got all that. I see it everyday. My point is that when we've reached a point where it's acceptable to blame anything but ourselves for what we buy at the supermarket...for what we put in our mouths...then we are in very bad shape.

Fixing the system isn't going to fix The Problem. The lack of self responsibility will only manifest itself elsewhere.

Put another way, in the bigger scheme of things, we can't keep complaining about the power of the overseers (i.e., the 1% et al) and make every solution one that champions the Nanny State.
Easy: all manipulation is fair game as long as people don't lie and you're in an adequate state of mind when you're making the decision. This is the area where the existing laws of most of modern countries work quite well.
>>after a woman complained to Human Resource

Did you miss this^^? She complained. Maybe she complained to get back at him but still, she complained.

Bill Gates also dated and married a subordinate. Poor woman, where was Gloria Allred to save her...
It's a massive global security vulnerability with huge amounts of public exposure (so any malicious user is well aware they can take advantage). If they did, wouldn't be surprised and I'd be glad they did.
Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
> Only a very tiny proportion of problems fit into that category

I think more correctly, only a tiny proportion of solutions to problems fit into that category, and I think that's largely because of the street light effect. The entire history of math and science has been written by people working out problems in their head, or on paper, which is more or less a serial process. People just don't think well in parallel, and until recently, neither did computers. We have a lot of serial solutions because that's where the light was, basically.

I think we're going to start finding a large variety of problems that turn out to have parallel solutions -- including a lot of problems that we didn't even know had solutions.
WebStorm 2017.3
No it wasn't intentional - and iOS client I currently have installed does not have edit and account password is something I don't remember without password manager so I couldn't just switch to web :(

Sorry
This is pretty low for Bloomberg
You know, it doesn’t have to be this way. Make parenting work for you. After all, simply by making your children, you’ve already given them the incredible gift of life. There’s no need to also spend every waking hour attending to them.
LOL... Because I really was cracking up at the Comic Book Guy thing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Opt9bJlqg
"I don't know yet, it was you who proposed me to take part in your
recruitment. Given that, isn't it your job to sell me the position?"

Though this kind of reaction rubs the recruiters the wrong way, as they like
to think that their company is so amazing that the interviewee would want to
get in no matter what.
I opened App Store, found the package waiting and hit install, waited for a few minutes until it finished. So not automatically for me.
If they did for this, great. But the fact that they could for any other update, too, is what's scary.
Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?
I've decided that the optimal path I want in life is $2.2 million dollars, and then to live the rest of my life off of the interest generated from an index fund (approx $80K/year after tax).

Right now I'm in college studying Computer Science, and in my free time I write (I'm not any good at either yet, but now's the time to get good, so I'm not worried).

I've thought about a start-up, but the risk and reward are both too high. A successful startup is around the $10 million to $1 billion, depending on what you create. This is way over my goal. I'm sure the risk is proportional to the potential money earned, so it'd be inefficient to overshoot my target.
Autodesk is stuck in the past - 3Ds Max still costs too much. So does Autocad. Epic saw the writing on the wall and made Unreal Engine royalty based (and if you don't make over the cutoff - free). They also got competitors that are better then them in specialized tasks - ZBrush, etc...

Stuck in the past and cutting headcount - Autodesk is circling the drain. Good comment on HB1s as well in the thread too.
The update didn't auto-install for me. I suppose it only does that when "Install system data files and security updates" is enabled in System Preferences -> App Store.
Backup codes are available, once you've enabled 2FA:

https://www.facebook.com/help/148104135383285?helpref=search...
Is it possible that "Automatically check for updates" and "Install system data files and security updates" are set in your system preferences?

I have that enabled because this is exactly the kind of thing I want patched ASAP.
Cameras that are disclosed are very different than hidden cameras in bedrooms.
This is going a little over my head. Can anyone with more expertise help summarize / ELI5?
'Kyaari' – A calendar that grows into a garden
They are quietly subverting their self while sublimating the value of the crowd. How do I have an identity when I consistently invite other people - often strangers - to affirm my experiences?

This realization led me to delete most of my social media accounts. Rejecting constant validation and ever-present social commentary opened my life to the quiet details. It led to a mental growth spurt which elevated my career and relationship with family and friends.
> Phrased this way, it starts to sound like an ML problem.

Which, I think, it pretty soon well be, and in some sense, already is (trading).

> I guess I'm saying that as you've characterized things, you make it sound like the "right" position is the correct one

While this is indeed my position, I tried not to express it in this particular comment, because it's not about who is right in this debate but rather about acknowledging it's existence and importance in the first place.