skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... as much as we want to excoriate Tinder, it's been reasonable for most of their users to have 'i dgaf' as their threat model.

This presumes users are aware of whether an app's traffic is encrypted or not. It's interesting how much thought goes into the UX of browser address bar security indicators, while everyone happily uses apps with no visual indicators of network connection security of any kind.
Asking for a “compression slider” with a 0-100 range, when zlib already had compression levels 0-9, is not reasonable. It simply does not make any difference in compression/speed, and needlessly complicates the storage format.
The fact that he pushed it through, and was so satisfied with such an ad-hoc, needless hack, clearly illustrates that he’s one of those moronic clients who think they know everything better than the contractor and keep coming up with an ever increasing number of ridiculous and infuriating change requests.
I think technical debt should also be mentioned if this concerns companies building out technology solutions.
Ah, I'm new to tensorboard. The help link in tensorboard was broken. But that link works :) very cool!
I can only imagine the outrage if Google or Apple or Microsoft attempted to do the same. But for whatever reason, because it's Mozilla many people are willing to give them a pass in violating the core values that they allegedly believe in.
Except.. compliance staff who want to use some ahem wonderful standards complaint reporting tool.

There's just one solitary mention of Informix in the whole discussion, as I'm typing this. And that's a comment lumping Informix with everything else commercial and expensive.

I thought Informix owned the embedded dB space at a certain rollout complexity. Remember the backups... Informix speaks json too, including at some quite low level primitives. Whether you buy a product like Informix Edge plus tools or not, depends on what is sending the time series data.
User interfaces are super easy with MobX + React. There's also Hyperapp which looks interesting.
The American view of human rights is that your fundamental rights are endowed by your creator, and not given to you by man. In other words, no person is needed to provide a right to you. So, for example, free speech is yours - nobody needs to give it to you.

For healthcare, if you were to have a right to it, then someone would have to be there to provide it. Logically, at some point, a person could be forced (presumably by a government) to provide it to you. This is contradicting the principle set above (and you are therefore violating THAT person's rights).

So when Americans are criticized for not considering the internet or healthcare or other things as a "right", that is the reason.

You don't have to agree with it, but the fundamental rights upon which the country was founded come from this principle.
As I explain in the article, postMessage does not stringify. It runs the structural clone algorithm, as per spec. Otherwise things like ArrayBuffers, Sets et al. would not make it to the other side.
A good idea for what? I just think it doesn't really matter.
What does collecting or aggregating have to do with replication/HA?
I'm sorry you choose to be annoyed at this. Most/many of us simply don't care about things that don't impact us.
The only advertising in that was directing people from Mr. Robot to Firefox. The extension was bungled to hell but it wasn't adware. It wasn't intended to be seen by anyone that didn't specifically enable[1] it. It also did nothing unless you specifically enabled[1] it.

[1] To be very clear, the extension was 'enabled' by default, but only loaded a function to check for an about:config value. Without that value, it shut down and did nothing at all.
Not sure what memo you're referring to - I generally hear people who like big cities reference the ability to walk to a lot of things you can do.
- Duration depends on the requirements of the company
- No real classes, this is rolling
- No cost to the cap table
- Have to be a Y company
As much as I enjoy being treated like a child, I really don't want to see Jack White.
Or worse, I assume a lot of beginners aren't losing money in this market which will only fuel Dunning–Kruger effect when they have "real" money.
I have no idea what sources you consider trustworthy so I won't blindly link them, but search "your brain on ads" and you'll get lots of results talking about how ad exposure affects people.

But you don't necessarily need the brain scans to see that advertising preys on human psychology and emotional weakness, because of how effective those kinds of ads are. If advertising was just "Here's my product. Here's what it can do. Here's why you might want it." I don't think we would have gotten to where we are now -- where advertising is basically just a mix of exposure therapy and negging.
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Big picture: once food delivery has really taken off and become "normal", the costs of producing that food can drop. In a dense urban setting, which do you think costs more: seating + servers + greeters + dish pit + front desk for payments, or contract delivery drivers with an app? If that turns a $15 restaurant meal into an $8 meal with $5 delivery, that ain't no bad thing.
The phones aren't kept anywhere; they go in a pouch, which you keep.
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I'd also recommend Druid, MemSQL, SnappyData, MapD and other column-oriented databases. Any of them can partition on a time column with full SQL and extremely fast aggregations and high compression that come from columnar storage.
Correct that it's not entirely luck, at the moment its price is being propped up by Bitfinex. Whenever BTC value starts to dip below 10K USD, they just print more Tethers (USDT) and start buying up coins at above market price...and there's a new upswing.

It's not at all sustainable, though.
The url's actually pretty explicit ! (github.com/facebook/react).
By "Electric" btw, my current expectation for 2025 is that I'll buy a plug-in Hybrid at that time.

I can charge at home / go to work each day, but then use the gas station for longer drives. IE: Volt or Prius have this sort of functionality. And surely newer vehicles (by 2025) will also support a similar use case.

Tech probably will get better, but in my experience, long-term predictions tend to be overly optimistic. Fusion has been 10 years away for 50 years, electric cars too have been overly optimistic for quite some time. ($35,000 Model 3 doesn't exist yet. Only high-end ones as Tesla hasn't figured out the kinks yet, despite "launching" last August)

Sometimes tech advances more quickly than expected (ie: high-speed internet). So if a very widespread electric network were built (and no, Tesla's supercharger isn't there yet for my use cases), then I might consider a pure electric vehicle at that time. But 2025 is a long ways away, so its something I'll just have to evaluate each year up to that point.
I recommend to keep the microsoft scanner active (Windows Defender or how they call it by now).

It catches all the common stuff with high accuracy and only some of the exotic stuff gets through (which would probably be a pass for most other scanners too)
It appears that how Yondr works is you put your phone in a locking pouch, which you then keep with you. Looking at photographs of said pouch, I think most people could forcibly defeat the latch mechanism with their bare hands.
I'll be honest - I'm having trouble parsing what having a '1:1 relationship between reduced state and components' actually means.
The most common "state" in our application is the result of a GET request (for example, you need some data from the server), and an accompanying loading/loaded/error state.

Most (presentational) components will load its needed data from a container component (through connect(), or other higher order components we developed). So for example, a given `user` object, could have its data in a chat component, or an analytics view, or a settings profile. The reducers aren't generally concerned with how the data is used, just that its available to anyone who asks.

As far as localized state goes (like a form), we took a page from reduxForm (and we use reduxForm) - if there were times we needed to use setState a lot (for example, we had a query builder and chart components), we built a higher order component (like connect), where you would pass the props you need, and that component would figure out how to query it and make it available in the redux state. Again this meant you could create a "query object" from one component, that was theoretically available to any other component (as part of the Redux tree), if they asked.

All in all, I never considered any sort of 1:1 relationship between state and components. I had state, and the components decided what state they needed and rendered themselves appropriately. This was a fairly complex SPA that had real time chat, analytics and CRM-like features, there were 100s of components.

Our codebase was far more robust from the Angular version we had rewritten it from a year ago (a component crashing didn't bring down the whole app), and the concerns for every component tended to be self-discoverable (we were able to hire interns to start hacking on it within 2-3 days, after they wrapped their head around redux). I'll admit it took me sometime to understand the benefits of Redux, and there was a lot of ugly boilerplate until we started using higher order components, however "brittle" and "messy" is the last words I'd use to describe the codebase.
Apache Hive is also a great piece of software that I would recommend for these use cases.
> These often-discussed milestones have lead a lot of founders to believe they’re ready to raise when they’re not.

The word here is led, not its metallic homonym.

I do not understand why this mistake appears to be increasing in occurrence over the last few years.
This is the way things have worked since the United States was formed and is written into the Constitution. Do you actually think the justice system should not have the ability to use warrants? Then you need to change the Constitution.
What the Count of Monte Cristo can teach us about cybersecurity
Although this probably won't get discussed much in the blogosphere, it actually bothers me more than the recent reversal of the Title II classification for ISPs, over which so many electrons were spilled. In my view, actual competition from municipal fiber would produce better outcomes than we could ever get with Net Neutrality regulation. That Pai's FCC is moving in the wrong direction on this front as well is very disheartening, albeit, alas, unsurprising.
> Trying to answer this question in terms of "pass-by-X" doesn't help, if for no other reason than pass-by-X implies there's only two possibilities

No, it doesn't. Heck, when I learned pass- (or call-)-by-X there were three main values of X mentioned (and implicitly a near-universal number of possible alternatives): value, reference, and name.

There are actually several more recognized values; the Wikipedia article on Evaluation Strategy has a reasonably good list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy
Don't you have the right to healthcare in the US? You have to pay for it, but you have to pay for food too, and that is a right. And if you can't pay for it afaik they can't refuse you emergency service.
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> Why should AirBNB take on ownership of the problem of vacancies in crowded real estate markets?

Because their business actively contributes to these shortages, and the associated human suffering... While evading hospitality taxes.

> AirBNB is, if anything, helping this problem in many cases by allowing people to compensate for the expense of living in a crowded real estate market by renting out rooms

That's a minority use case. More commonly, landlords take rentals off the market, to let out on AirBnB.
Ah, I should have followed closer. Nevermind.
> I was thinking about the next ten years of Airbnb when I received a phone call I’ll never forget. A close advisor told me that now was the time to “institutionalize your intentions so that even as you grow, you can minimize what conflicts with your vision.”

"I'll never forget that time my advisor told me to institutionalize my intentions to minimize conflicts," he said, wiping a single tear from his eye.
> And with the battery being the only meaningful component which can degrade

I don't think this has been proven yet. Starting from a stop causes a lot of stress on electric motors and commercial electric motors operating hours are usually guaranteed when the number of starts per hour are below some threshold.

Telsa had a lot of issues with drive unit failures. I imagine they are working on a solution to this, but I don't see any reason to think that EVs are going to be super reliable right out of the gate.

That being said, replacing a drive unit seems to be an order of magnitude easier than replacing a drive component in an ICE. So even if they end up lasting 80k miles, it might not be that big of a deal.
Per Stripe's original announcement[0] in 2014 – the net profits from any sale go back to the Stellar Foundation:

>> When the opportunity arose to help Stellar, we enthusiastically agreed. A couple of months ago, Stripe contributed $3M to help get the project going. In return, we received 2% of the stellars. However, the project is not run by Stripe. We just believe that a system with properties like Stellar's should exist in the world, and we heartily encourage anyone interested to participate in its development. We're going to auction a majority of our stellars to other interested companies, with any net profits being returned to the Stellar Foundation

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/stellar
Did anybody read the article?? One of the most important factors was staying in the fetal position- he even lost consciousness at times and was saved by a floatation device that kept his head above water.
How a tech CEO biohacked his intelligence
I had assumed they did this already. As much as we hate to admit it, pitching (or "running a process" — see comments below) is critical to the success of a company and therefore a required skill for founders. And YC seems to be an ideal place to build a collective set of best practices.
Let's imagine that my child is at a party or other social engagement and they want deniable reason to escape. [0] There may be excessive peer pressure, illegal activity, or any other pre-arranged reason they may need to bail on something without incurring the loss of face that could be socially devastating.

If I have my phone, they can text me with some pre-arranged message ("x"), and I will feign an emergency and get them out of the situation ASAP (or arrange for a friend to do similarly).

Sure, they could just leave (or get a taxi?), but having a GTFO script lets them exit a situation without the social losses of having been perceived as "too scared" to cave to peer pressure. They can say, "My dad just called and said something major just came up, and he's on his way to get me. Yeah, I know, parents, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

If their phone is locked up (or mine) there's a lot more friction to that interaction.

0: https://bertfulks.com/2017/02/23/x-plan-giving-your-kids-a-w...
Signing up fails with a generic Rails(?) template page. Not a real site?
Yeah I missed that part somehow. My bad.
For some people going an hour without checking their phone is like going into the hyperbolic time chamber for 10 seconds.
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We were without antibiotics for hundreds of years but no one's suggesting we go back to that.

We were without mandatory seat belts for decades but no one's suggesting we go back to that.

I just don't find the argument that there was a time where we did without something as a compelling counter argument to the perceived utility something serves today.
A mirror seems to be available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RDiwfknu4
Creepy Backblaze file seems to log user's CrashPlan info, including account name
Given the range of these signals, does the US government have a say if you were to transmit at 1 watt from, say, South America?
I think it is almost unbelievable that the ESxx train continues to expand the language with ever more features, while at the same time there is still no native method to deep-copy an object..

Almost everything in JS is an object, but there is no reliable way to copy one.. Feels like an epic failure to me. Would it not be an idea for the ESxx team to finally fix this core issue for the first upcoming release?
In this context, the collective experience of the concert, engaging with it as your immediate world, cutting off the outside as would a cult, this is the cult of music, let it consume you as you consume it
The argument is basically "we know this is bad for kids" vs "well, yeah ... but I want to drop them off on the way to work"
That was quick.

Then again, good on Casey Neistat for squeezing out hopefully a cool few million from CNN.
In places with limited rental properties, some people have got leases on apartments and are then renting them out via AirBnB instead of living in them. This decreases the total amount of apartments available for long-term renters.

In NYC, you can rent a room out as AirBnb if either of the following:

1. the rental is long term
2. you are present in the apartment while the guest is staying

The issue with the third case:

3. short term rental while owner is absent

is that the apartment is a secondary rental unit for the host/owner and is not a primary residence for the guest. Rich people can afford this, poorer people cannot. Hence the problem.

That is when AirBnB does not help the housing market and some cities have rightfully legislated against that case.
Thanks! It was fun to put together.
> Maybe CPU slowdowns don't matter because Ruby is already so fast that CPU isn't a bottleneck?

You have it backwards. It's because Ruby is already so slow that you don't notice the additional overhead.
I wonder if, some number of years in the future, when 95% of humans have neural implants that let them connect to the Internet and send telepathic messages to their friends and babysitter, there will be people too afraid to turn them off for the duration of a music concert, because of a possible terrorist attack or a fire?

They’ll probably shake their heads and wonder how people ever got along without neural implants.
Being available for work is part of my "human experience."

edit- I really don't understand why this is downvote worthy...
By law in which jurisdiction?

In what jurisdiction can't you use donations to pay for programming effort?
College kid who started trading in RH a while ago here. After reading some basic investment books from authors like Peter Lynch, Taleb, and What Jim Paul, decided to get some experience in the markets. Invested a little saved and since then made a decent return, better than if that money was in a bank. So far, I'm doing better than the large-company mutual funds after 3 years, but as I've been reading, that's probably good luck.

It's been an interesting experiment that gave me incentives to learn more about financial markets, which I otherwise would not have touched. However, I started by reading and knowing a little bit, so I won't touch crypto trading until I know more.
What recruiter has ever said "This is just an ok place to work?"

Every job I've had the people I've interacted with in recruiting/interviews have all been very positive about the company.
I agree somewhat but there's no better way to learn how to invest than to try outsmarting the market for a few years.

Frankly the demand is ALWAYS going to be there for these types of services. And there are people that are actually smarter than the market. Robinhood is so much better than a lot of companies that try to attract those investors (like a site that makes you pay for day trading classes for example)

I'd rather have Robinhood than an app that charges fees, seems like a win for the consumer to me.
> However, pizza delivery has been a very affordable luxury for decades and mail delivery has been obviously cheaper than hand-delivering your mail for centuries. So, I don't buy your claim that delivery services are inherently niche luxuries.

I didn't make that claim. I'm not arguing for or against the idea-but there are many problems with the model. It's not that easy-the costs don't make sense for the poor. There would be much greater impact for the poor to simply solve the food desert crisis than to have deliverable mcdonalds.

> There is wear on a vehicle, insurance, gas, either way but potentially less with the delivery service than with everyone doing their own fetches.

This is impossible to prove. At worst it's the same as the delivery model-if there is not enough density. And in places WITH enough density, there are food options within walking distance anyway. At best, people pick up food on the way to the store or back home. So there is very little loss to them as they are already driving and out.

> Yes, it's true that delivery/takeaway sacrifices freshness compared to eating at the kitchen.

That's not what I'm comparing it to. It's simply fresher for someone to pick up there own-the delivery driver has to make multiple stops first-so it's possible your food will be really cold/unfresh as opposed to picking it up yourself.
Why was no one ever so militant against advertising in newspapers? "There are pages of ads, whole sections, just ads!! I didn't look in the newspaper to see ads!"

For a couple hundred years the newspaper functioned as the prime media distribution system and generated revenue off of advertisements. Now that we've shifted that over to electronic means I find it almost humourous how advertising and partnering is suddenly considered evil. Like staff and servers are magically free because journalists and printing presses must have been in the 1920's.

Like it or not, unless you're charging a subscription, the only viable model for the Internet at scale so far is finding someone who will pay to piggy-back on your service.
There are a few reasons why AirBnb is succeeding and many other gig economies are struggling.

1. AirBnb is a global market place. It’s much more difficult to build a global market place and its much easier to defend your moat once you are a global marketplace. Travelers from all over the world want to visit all over the world. There is a chicken and egg problem when you start. This benefit applies to Uber to much lesser degree because they are a city level market place. Most riders ride in their home city majority of their time.

2. Repeat business between travelers and hosts are much lesser compared to other gig economies. While people might get tempted to cut a direct deal with their cleaner or dog walker after a few good experiences, it’s much less likely to happen with AirBnb. Same benefits applies to Uber.
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Having a lot of installs isn't successful when you illegally[1] require everyone to preinstall it on all of their phones. They have 100 million installs because they've sold 100 million phones since then. Does anyone actually use it? Has anyone voluntarily installed it on their phone because they wanted it?

"Google announced that, starting December 1, 2016, Google Duo replaced Hangouts within the suite of Google apps Android phone makers must pre-install on devices"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Duo

[1] Yes, illegally. Russia has already outlawed this behavior and fined them for it, the EU is expected to levy a fine against Google for it that makes their previous record-breaking fine look small, and it's a blatant violation of US antitrust law, where Google has paid a significant number of politicians to avoid being sued for it.
is it being used to transfer funds from one exchange to the other? because tbh that seems to be the #1 utility of cryptocoins at the moment.
It's not critical to the success of all the companies that don't raise money.