skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtual road rage is certainly a large part of this--I always use the analogy that if you have 1000 twitter followers, and they are wonderful people all the time but each one only says one nasty thing a year to you, if they all do it at the same week or whatever it's gonna be brutal.

That said, I think there is also a lot of justified anger.

In a world that is increasingly terrible and hostile in a lot of ways it's really important to have a safe place, a place to unwind and settle down, place where people can tune in and drop out. Video games are really great for this purpose.

But a lot of devs don't seem to recognize that this is an important purpose of their product, either going low-brow capitalist (say, EA or Zynga or Bethesda) or high-brow artiste (Phil Fish, Jonathon Blow) and alienating their playerbase by breaking games in order to create higher profits, by patching games endlessly in the name of "gameplay" (Darkest Dungeon is a great example of this, ditto a lot of Blizzard's stuff), or by taking very public stands against various sacred cows of their customers--that is when they're not actively saying nasty things about their customers. As a gamer, why wouldn't you voice your displeasure at the people who are screwing up your ability to calm down and relax?

Similarly, even on the art angle, a lot of publishers and devs make compromises to push a message or sell a product. Like, can you imagine the backlash at a Holy Bible 3.0: HD Edition 2018, with DLC psalms? Game devs and publishers do this all the time. Imagine you heard they were making Rent 2.0, but everybody was straight and monogamous and only had the flu and were upper-middle class. Even if it was done well, even if it was a good story, it wouldn't be Rent. That's even assuming the change was done expertly--in video games it's usually a studio or a publisher chasing some market demographic or "industry trend" causing that violation of the IP and seldom is it even done well! So, if you're a gamer, why be nice to people that are willingly violating an IP that you love?

Further, on the PR front, gamers have gotten used to being fed thinly veiled bullshit as the industry has "matured". The same flaccid attempts to gloss over bugs or mistakes, the same lame attempts to use identity to sell a game, the same boring controversies and plant articles used to increase air time...it's insulting. So, why have empathy for (some random indie dev) when the industry as a whole is not behaving in good faith? Why not treat every dev communication as a weakly-spun PR gambit? Why show any charity at all?

~

I agree that this is bad behavior, and I agree that drive-by virtual road rage accounts for a lot of it...but not all of it.
Would a steam engine make more sense? Then you could run it on anything.
The en-dash with spaces instead of em-dash without spaces is the predominant convention in French texts.
For what it’s worth, since no one is taking the other side, my first impression is pretty good (though I’m on mobile). Obviously it is extremely bold, to the point that it’s almost more art than it is design, but I like it, cause why not.
Extremely strong concur. I want someone competent, qualified, and trying to be basically decent to Americans and non-Americans. There are many elected officials in high office in both parties who would roughly fulfill that description.

BoringPol 2020 :)
Piracetam is not approved by the FDA for any medical use and it is not permitted to be sold as a dietary supplement, so it can neither be prescribed nor sold OTC. It may be possible to import it, but that's legally questionable; then again, if you're using MDMA, you're not concerned with questionable legality.
Except investors. This "collaborative platform" angle is clearly designed with the IPO roadshow in mind.
He makes some great points. The issues no longer matters for US politicians. All that matters is their cult of personality building around politicians.
Show HN: My First HTML5 Game-The Strange Adventures of SphereBot
This is a very US-centric view of things. Worldwide, whites are the smallest minority, and they are the only group to be shrinking. The largest group is of course Asian.
How would you know that his advices (sic) work "great" without any research?
There was a talk from the Royal Institution just uploaded yesterday (talk was in June), The Apocalypse and How to Avoid It[0], where Lewis Dartnell (author The Knowledge[1]) describes a gasifier stove you can make from a couple bean cans, and also brought up this gasifier engine technology and how it was used in London during the Blitz. This article has a ton of useful information that makes for a great followup.

Also at the talk were Vinay Gupta (Ethereum), Rosalind Eggo, and Hugh Lewis discussing different avenues to potential Apocalypse and their likelihood, etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxBhqonZEQ

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afterm...
Ask HN: How to get a large list of highly distributed startups
We are working the productivity tool that is most value for highly distributed / remote tech startups. To get large list of company names that we should target we are thinking about a script that will crawl jobs boards for keywords like "remote" & "distributed". Does anyone have better ideas or know of any tools that can help accomplishing that goal?
RIP IPO (1602-2018)
How to build a startup – without quitting your day job
I still want to understand what makes Dropbox different from Box. Box almost never had a good time since it's IPO.
You should put this quote on of those startup tshirts or posters and sell it.
Rexfus is great!

It receives RSS Feeds, so:

Rexfus => Receives for us.
Rexfus => Rx F Us
Rexfus => Rex Fus
Rexfus => Rexfus
How about a lawsuit?
Trusting a Chinese company requires trusting the Chinese government. No thanks
what brand is the pizza? do i get a coupon or like, do you have to know my mailing address for delivery?

i've registered and logged in, how to I "invite friend to help me mine for pizza" as the header says?

thanks i love it
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
Sure, but this isn't a static analysis tool in the same way a type system is. This is an analysis tool which checks for mostly platform-unrelated, entirely runtime behavior which can vary based on a lot of external factors.

When you say "Static analysis tools that check timing assertions have been around for a very long time.", what are you referring to? I've used analyzers that check for potentially-inescapable loops, do assembly/machine code operation counts, and look for the presence of interruptions that are known to take a potentially infinite/nondeterministic amount of time (waiting for I/O), or ones whose lower bound in time is known (scheduler interactions like sleep). How would you analyze for instructions which have theoretically-constant times, but which in practice are vulnerable to "constant plus or minus"-type timing attacks like Spectre? How would that analysis yield results we don't already know, a la "in this section of code, you should obfuscate/prevent the gathering of timing data, and/or try to defeat speculative execution"?
Seriously. I get the argument that the brain has flaws that can be manipulated to some degree, and I think it is seriously worth considering, but HN has really jumped the shark when it comes to these conversations. To hear this forum tell it, everybody is powerlessly cowering beneath the lash of their electronic devices, completely unable to make any decisions about their usage.
I started building products as a hobby in college. While working full-time as a programmer, I patched together pockets of time to water and trim my fledgling products. It wasn’t until five years later that I quit my day job and went all-in.

Back then in my dorm room, I could never have predicted that one of my products, JotForm, would have 3.2 million users and 100 employees — without receiving a single dime of outside funding.
Does anyone really believe that even I f the US carriers saved 50% on capital costs by purchasing Huawei products, they would pass these savings into the consumer?
An enormous number of people suffer from PTSD who are not veterans. People who have been raped, witnessed crimes, etc. could all suffer PTSD. Trauma can be almost anything if it causes a negative impact (e.g., depression, anxiety) in the future, and persons suffering from depression or anxiety as a result of such trauma would likely be diagnosed with comorbid PTSD.
This is -- to say the least -- frustrating. First, the busted microcode is still available on the Intel Download Center[1], without any warning that they recommend that you not, in fact, install it. Second, the press release is still being evasive: they have not merely "received reports"; they in fact know that it's causing issues, and the press release is avoiding the much stronger language that Intel is giving privately (namely, don't install this).

The broken microcode is (at some level, anyway) forgivable; Intel's ongoing inability to communicate transparently and honestly with its customers during this crisis of its creation is much less so.

[1] https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27431/Linux-Proces...
is this a real concern? it should be relatively easy to distinguish life on earth from life on mars, should it exist. Especially considering it comes from a completely new path of evolution.

Furthermore, a mars station would allow science to be done directly on mars, rather than having payloads of material sent to and from earth.
To be fair I was speaking more about iCloud and the App Store (which is “the Internet” to many people) than I was the wider internet.

To answer your question... I hope not. But perhaps we are already there. Boiling frog etc.
Arguments against zero marginal productivity
The current state of the Crypto Market in 1 Tweet
What it adds to the conversation? That if you want to back such projects, you'd better be prepared to lose your money. There is no mention of crowdsourcing and preorders yet but if it happens, you have been warned.

I don't mean it is a scam, but it is definitely high risk. In fact I can only imagine to see it succeed if it is backed by a 800lb gorilla with money to burn. The obvious one would be the military.
I've passed a good few of these interviews. The other advice is good. I just wanted to add that the thing that always gets me is that by the 4th or 5th hour in the on site interview, I start getting tired and start slipping up. You don't really often get a great break in the process. The jet lag from flying to the onsite is also a killer.
Inflammatory headline, paywalled sute. Why would anyone post garbage like this?

Also if you report a do not call violation the telemarketers face a fine of $16k per call. I’m not sure that qualifies as outwitting, but I didn’t read the article (see above re paywall) so maybe I’m missing something.
Coupon is probably the easiest route I reckon.

Pizza is fully transferable (though you'll have to wait for a UI for that) so you friends will be able to send you their Pizza. We are also thinking about a short link that will allow you to get them to directly mine your pizza.
A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace
The "Tesla v Teslasuit" suit
Mastodon

Most instance admins have a Patreon and/or Liberapay if you want to send $10/month their way.
I think you're missing the bigger picture. I think that for most of these politicians, it's really not about the issue itself (privacy in this case). It's about gaining power for your own party and removing power from the opposing party. Of course the Democrats are likely to vote against a bill that gives a Republican administration more power. And of course the Republicans are likely to vote for a bill that gives a Republican administration more power. That's what I see happening here.

Democrats had plenty of opportunity to strengthen privacy laws during the previous administration, but they didn't. Instead they strengthened the surveillance powers of the government. Now that a Republican controls the executive branch and all of these agencies, they want those powers weakened.

The US is experiencing the terrible pitfalls of a two-party system, just as the founding fathers warned. Instead of making progress, the parties mostly just fight each other, at our expense.
Seems like most of the abuse could be avoided by leaving Twitter.
Presumably we’re mining for a pizza for the site owner?
Yes, but there’s no need to have separate zones; you can grant update access to subdomains and have the CNAMES point into one zone with a subdomain dedicated to each separate actor which needs access.

Like so: Assume that Actor 1 has example.com and example.net. You then add this to the example.com and example.net zones, respectively:

_acme_challenge.example.com. CNAME example.com._.actor1._.your-special-domain.com.

_acme_challenge.example.net. CNAME example.net._.actor1._.your-special-domain.com.

Then you give update access to Actor 1, but not to the whole “your-special-domain.com” zone, but to the “_.actor1._.your-special-domain.com” subdomain. The ACME system would then be configured to send updates to the correct subdomains of that subdomain. Or “your-special-domain.com” could even be a subdomain itself of another domain; it doesn’t matter.
It helps to be charismatic, which celebrities have in spades. And you have to be attractive. I’d rather there be intelligent debate rather than overgeneralized tweets. Twitter is toxic. Even here on hacker news we can’t have lively debate. Critical thinking is going extinct. And nobody cares.
Once you hit 1 pizza, you can trade that for a pizza voucher. Though I may make that form visible when you don't have 1 pizza minimum also.
That's a good point (and I think I've also seen a very strong gender bias in taxi drivers, a little less strong in Lyft drivers, and weakest in bus drivers), but also, I think this sort of thing applies pretty firmly to relatively low-wage jobs. Certainly these aren't minimum-wage, but they're also not, like, mid-six-figures. (I think! Given the risks I'd be happy to know that these jobs do actually get to mid-six-figure wages.)

I suspect that white-collar senior management jobs contribute a lot more than pizza delivery jobs to the fact that men make more money than women in total. (But probably this is also true for median or first-decile wage?)
Thanks for the info. I haven’t heard the term issuing processor before.
In order to be efficient and powerful, a steam engine needs high-pressure steam, which can only be safely contained by thick, heavy boilers and pipes. This makes miniaturization of steam engines for cars difficult. Gasification of wood allows you to keep the benefits of the internal combustion engine.
Right, exactly. The article does contain the phrase "water ice" a few times.

"Ice water" would be something that is served in the restaurants on Mars.
Ocean Infinity Sets Out to Find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
if you're going to make the accusation that they're lying, at least provide a source - near as I can tell they are being as transparent as is reasonable.
The skepticism is well founded. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, put or shut up if you prefer.

This is a marketing page, there's been more than enough recent scams built on nothing but high quality marketing pages that you'd be incredibly gullible to believe them.

Any news from CES 2018? According to the blog it was meant to be unveiled there but I haven't seen anyone covering it.
I can't help but feel that this is of equivalent or better security for users on sites that allow password-reset-by-email.
Paul is a boss. This is just one of his many amazing accomplishments. He's kinda the guy you go to if things are slow and you need some help to make them really ridiculously fast.
For the downvoters, I was talking about how fucked up the company was for tricking bitcrusher into doing consulting for free.
>It would be the right decision in the long term, but the short term will hurt.

It seems there's quite a bit of incentive to target short term gains for many of the relatively new tech companies. When tons of early employees hold incredibly valuable stock options, which tend to be more valuable than their salary's, this creates an organization wide incentive to drive those stock prices as high as possible during their tenure. Those early employees gain position and influence, then use it to influence company culture and direction.

Is assume this contributes to the reason why it's so hard for behemoth companies to be nimble and quickly change direction.
I guess it would have been tremendously hard to select a more painful-to-eyes color scheme.
I want this native.
You're wrong about solar panels - they have an EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested) of between 4 and 15 times, depending on how you calculate it.
"Securities fraud" is not always fraud. The SEC and statutes can have a definition for fraud that does not conform with the real definition.

Moreover the SEC communiqué does not say almost all token sales are securities offerings. In fact the Investigative Report on the DAO lists several securities-like qualities that the DAO had that most tokens do not have.
You can upload a certificate with both names on it, no?

(Which is a thing a shared hosting provider should support - as a user I only want to provide a single cert for example.com and www.example.com, and if I'm paying for a cert and hosting multiple websites, I don't want to pay for two different certs for example.com and example.org if my CA will let me get those both on the same cert.)
“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.”

What does higher mean here?
The American media in no way represents the American public.
How do we feel about this?
Can't render without loading. I want loading deferred. I want scripts deferred. On first click of tab, load, and no earlier.
I've noticed most of Google's CAPTCHAs these days are based around cars, roads and street signs. Where their implementation once allowed for assisting in the scanning of books, now it could potentially be used to funnel data into Waymo (or it could just be coincidence).

I think issues like this image recognition problem show just how far away we are from realistic self driving vehicles. There have been articles on HN recently about NYCs crumbling rail infrastructure. Chicago's is no better. Only Seattle seems to be expanding theirs in the US.

America needs an upgraded infrastructure because AI (in this case classification problems) have a lot of hard limits.
Sad that this was collapsed-by-default — I realize it's not relevant to the article, but it likely never will be. If we complain enough hopefully someone can actually address it.
Thanks for that.

There are various solutions to tab groups out there, I thought? Just recently my Nightly seemed to have something like that natively (can't find it again now, but it allowed me to categorize tabs into groups)?

Cannot comment on Unity. I wasn't aware that Firefox requires Pulseaudio, but I've never understood the resistance against that project either - let's consider it a preference.

But why are you personally disappointed with Mozilla? Do you believe that the browser got worse for the general case or is this the feeling of being left out at the side of the road because you have special & specific requirements and preferences that aren't completely common?

(I didn't downvote you and I always had and have personal issues with Firefox myself - but I believe that it's becoming a more and more improved browser for ~everyone~ insofar as that's possible)
You go from "this argument is based on logic" to "here's a moral stance regardless of logic". What you're proposing - an uber socialistic/communistic society has been proven again and again to not work out. Unless you consider maoist China and Soviet Russia (USSR) to be models you'd like to emulate, ethical capitalism is the only moral system that truly helps those who want to help themselves.

Then there's the whole concept of community. The Mormon church, for instance, raises more in charity than the net worth of many billionaires. If you truly want to help the poor, enable them to help themselves. Or, collectively raise enough for charity, like the Mormon church. Taxing the fuck out of people, and enabling a lobbied-to-death politician to spend the said tax on any whimsical thing has NEVER worked out in history.
Bot or Not
Sorry If i had this wrong, they knew of the issues in June, and they only fix it in Jan.

I can hardly call this rushed.
Ask HN: How do you monitor usage of your websites?
I am about to go live with a website and want to be able to easily monitor key areas like

- general web traffic / page visits

- number of registered users

- DB space by registered user

- file system space by registered user (their uploads)

What sort of tools helped you when you started out, or did roll your own solution?

The main reason for monitoring is to
- work out which features are being used and not being used
- get a bit of notification if I need to increase disk space on my host.

I'm using pythonanywhere and they have a nice interface for web traffic, but would like a bit more detail.
Organize your notes with org-refile
I would not call this "responsible disclosure". If it were "responsible disclosure" ALL Operating System teams would have been informed ahead of time - not just those with the most market share. Those BSD guys are particularly pissed. Not to mention literally every else who is not Apple, Microsoft or a major Linux distro.
> got a law degree, and served for a few years in a relevant public office, like governor or senator. You know like a normal politician.

I hate the preponderance of lawyers in the U.S. political system. I would much prefer engineers, who have experience building large systems, and executives who have experience managing large organizations.

But I agree with the desire for boring, "dweeby", competent people.
I've recently started putting my photos on Apple's iCloud photo library (both on my iPhone and Mac) and every now and again I'll get a notification from the Photos app saying it's create a new Memory (a collection of photos in a "smart album" put together by their AI).

Has a very similar nostalgic feeling to what you're describing, and a welcome surprise - especially after a long day at work.
That we would like terms defined, and examples given?

This suit-story's various spins are starting to feel very Orwellian (in aggregate).
Is there any idea when this will be fixed in hardware?
The Apocalypse and How to Avoid It
I hear ya, and obviously I would fail as well, though a few years of statements backed up by actions would definitely change my perspective. We'll just have to wait & see!
The much more common sentiment among my liberal friends is that after Trump they want someone who knows what the hell they are doing and Oprah is not that person. Maybe it's just the liberals I know but they have so far all been hostile to her running.
That doesn't hide the group in any meaningful way. All the same-size same-time messages to the same contacts, over and over, make the group clear.
I had a friend whose Jeep Cherokee had climate control and heated seats on the touch screen interface. I thought it was a terrible design choice. Actually most of that car was a terrible design choice.
> You know like a normal politician. Or what used to be one.

Oh you mean the guy or gal who ships your jobs overseas with a smile?
I don't think its as bad as all that! I think people do care that reasoned argument seems to be drowned out by toxic soundbites, but there's just currently no good way to interact with the world without using toxic channels. I'm optimistic about someone finding a solution. I also definitely think people care. I think its just that those that don't care are currently amplified.
I agree with Nexxxeh; Rexfus is a good choice.

Rexfus => Receives for us.
Rexfus => Rx F Us
Rexfus => Rex Fus
Rexfus => Rexfus

(Same as comment above -- re-commenting here in lieu of a PM)