skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something similarly weird with amazon.

I got a new iPhone and on iOS Safari I needed to sign in to all my accounts.

Except for some reason Amazon recognised me with one-click enabled. I never used one-click to buy anything before and accidentally bought a kindle book while browsing the site.

More strangely, when I went to turn off one-click in my settings I was forced to log in.

So I could one-click buy without explicitly authenticating, but needed to authenticate to disable it. Very strange and/or shady.

Btw - is there an easy way to cancel an accidental one-click buy? In my case it was a local author I wanted to support anyway, so I’ll keep the purchase. But surprised it’s so easy to accidentally purchase something from the mobile site if you swipe to scroll on the wrong place.
Is follow spam targeted? Because most of my interaction with obvious bots is follow-churn.
In the year 1800, Alexander Hamilton sent his son Philip the following letter, which laid out a set of rules that Philip should follow to make the most out of his legal training.
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That's terrible advice. The flame will cause the tick to unlatch, but it can also cause it to vomit, giving you any pathogens it's carrying.

The correct way is to take tweezers, side on grasping the top and bottom of the head and pull gently straight up (perpendicularly from the surface of your skin). Be patient. Taking a few minutes to do it right is better than rushing; you have about 24 hours before any significant risk of infection. Make sure you identify the head first and grasp that, as sometimes the head is buried. If you grab the body, you'll just decapitate the tick by pulling.
JS is a big language. It continues to grow without removing features. One codebase can be very functional, another dynamically typed C++ from 2004, another pythonic. As long as they support the entire language while adding static typing (not an easy feat), it's going to grow. In that sense it is very much like C++, though it's still not in the same league of complexity of C++.

If you want a small language, look elsewhere. I had fun with Bucklescript over the weekend, and it is amazing how expressive it is. The syntax sucks in places [| Reason is a small upgrade |], but that's probably where you want to look. Maybe Elm if you are fanatic about it.
There is zero accountability in how SF spends its money on homelessness. It has zero metrics to even figure out if the money they are spending actually does any good. And it’s obvious to any of us that live and spend any time in SF that the money isn’t being spent properly. Hopefully this is addressed by the new mayor.
It's not shady, its politics. The DMV IT department didn't want to deal with "corporate" aka Nevada Enterprise IT. Perhaps Nevada IT was too busy digging out of a debacle with healthcare IT systems to be bothered with DMV stuff.
They are very very closely related, and philosophers and Pearl cite each other on the topic of causation, but Hume and philosophers are usually concerned with a slightly different problem. Hume is concerned about the nature of the necessity between any cause and effect which seemed to be implied by our experience of events. Whereas Pearl (much less knowledgeable about Pearl) is interested in how we can model events to give us high confidence in the relation applying in a particular case while leaving the topic of necessity and the fundamental nature of causation to the side and assuming a much more vague /ad hoc notion of what causation is.
We'll decide in a democratic and respectful manner to not fall for the red plague again. If that was your point.
> On the other hand I am concerned that TypeScript is becoming a very bloated language

I came to say exactly this. Are there actually people out there asking for all of these nuanced features?

I've been excited about TS for a while and used it for several side projects with great success...but with each new release and new set of "features" my excitement wanes a bit.
I don't remember things happening this way. I remember PRISM announced, then the conversation about all of the internal HTTPS
everyone calm down...nature is ruthless.

here spend some time on https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/
I've been to a Black Mirror event and now I'm afraid of the future
Yup - each city is free to change their tax structure (for residents and businesses) in a way that makes sense for them.

Your city may decide it wants to drive out rent-seekers by hugely taxing rental income or raising property taxes on rentals. This would effectively be a business tax. And the town next-door could decide it wants condo real-estate development to attract young urbanites, so it might notice your town's changes and offer tax-free rental income for N years. This allows each city to benefit their tax-base/residents the best.
Yup. Solar. The JUMP app actually shows each bike's location and how much power it has.

Yesterday I picked one up that was in the shade all day and lost power 10 blocks from my house. It was a huge difference. Those bikes are heavy so they're harder to pedal without power.
I think it means you can lock the bike anywhere you want, and the app can tell you what bikes are near you. You just need to walk up to it and unlock with your phone.
Observing these services connect in my own life has been interesting. The peak moment where I really started to think about it was when I took an Uber to pick up my Turo car then drove my Airbnb where I waited for my Instacart order to arrive.
I'm sure rkt is well engineered (overall CoreOS has good open-source engineering). It just doesn't have much usage, and whatever advantages it has, evidently it wasn't enough to convince a meaningful number of Docker users to switch. I use Docker intensively and, like you, I've had my share of frustrating issues with it over the years. But at the end of the day, the bugs get fixed reasonably quickly, and Docker just gets the job done. Their code has so much mileage at this point, I just don't see the point in starting over with a competitor. Evidently I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Are Australians Accidentally Redomesticating the Dingo?
Correct.

It's a kind of weird visualization, but the patterns which emerge are pretty striking (and obviously artificial).
Show HN: Hyperlogs – Easy time tracking
Seems like a I cannot edit my post, but I just remembered this brilliant short talk (15min) about gdb's TUI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI

It really did change my opinion of gdb in just 15 min.
TypeScript itself doesn't really add new language features; it just tracks the ECMAScript spec and considers proposed features for implementation after they hit stage 3.

The enhancements coming out in new TypeScript releases are largely related to typing expressiveness / type inference precision (covering more edge cases where one might have previously resorted to `any`) and strictness (catching more errors at compile time).
That's not how cognitive dissonance vis a vis confirmation bias works.
Correction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiration_(physiology)
Really? Why would they wait so long to start feeding? Seems like a bad evolutionary trait.
The issue is that by introducing this feature, you're increasing the number of programs that behave differently when a debugger is attached. Just because this can be an issue today doesn't mean that we should make it even more of an issue tomorrow.
Yes, and single interactive cells as well.

A notebook already runs in a sandboxed iframe, and is able to load its dependencies there (libraries, data, values from other notebooks). So we're in quite good shape to be able to do that soon.
After some quick google searching, I can't find any evidence supporting #1. (So in the mean time while we figure this out, you should probably still wear helmets while cycling, folks).
Looks like a lot of you can't access the site. You don't need Uber for this.

I've been using the JUMP iOS app. It's well-made and is available right now:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jump-bikes-bike-share/id1251...
> JS is a big language.

Kind of(maybe). But that's beside the point. Typescript is a separate language that happens to compile to Javascript. The TS team is in no way bound to support every style of programming that Javascript supports (and they don't, just by virtue of having strict typing).
>Perhaps that means we’ll be seeing an AI-powered Xerox instant camera in the future…

I know this is just the writer and not Fuji Xerox, but how would that even work? Instant cameras use an analog medium, so it seems like anything you could do with AI would be limited.
Interesting Statistics from the Article:
While this law has removed 95% of all "Vacation Rentals" in Berlin this article says nothing about how the renting market was effected.

There are >3.4 million people living in Berlin and this increased the number of rental properties by 8000. This means that this law created 1 new long term lease for every 425 residents.

Related Information:
Vancouver is the most popular non-us destination on Airbnb and San Fransisco is the most popular US destination.

Personal Summary:
While this article is shown as an example of a positive outcome for residents when cities "fight back", I believe further study should be done on how big of an impact this change has on Berlin's housing market before any conclusions are formed. Berlin's politicians are divided on this law, and it is being challenged, but it looks like it will be on the books for some time. There should be impacts on tourism and the hospitality which are also not covered in the article. Outside of mentioning politician opposition no opposing view was represented in the article.
1. No, most curb parking in most of the United States is free.

2. Where they do have to pay, they pay way under true market value of the land.
But it should be a DAG instead of a tree.
After using fish for 3 years, I'm finding there is very little reason to have my login shell maintain backwards compatibility with bash.

The only time I run into issues is when a command expects manipulate environment variables via bash syntax.

I think the fish documentation WRT to scripting could be much better, but the language is more elegant than bash or PowerShell IMHO.
> "as a product moves to a (potentially) different vendor."

The only other manufacturer of x64 CPUs in Intel, and the only other manufacturer of (competitive) GPUs is Nvidia. Why would Microsoft or Sony incur the high NRE cost to switch to two different suppliers mid-cycle just so they can shave a small amount off their unit cost?

That's not to say AMD wouldn't pass on some of the savings to Microsoft and Sony, I'm sure they would, but it's not likely to be a one-sided deal.
So it's "databricks for JS" ?
The mechanics do matter because it's fundamentally a mechanical device.
Like all new technology and adoption patterns the cities will adapt. Just like the flourish of bike lanes and places to lock bikes in most major cities around the world as urban bike commuting rose in popularity.

Eventually the users, company, and cities will adapt and provide better training and designated spots. Assholes abuse every service available to the public. Hell, even social pressure and ridicule from the public may even help solve this problem as people learn to spot someone being an asshole and leaving a scooter somewhere in the way.

Although Im sure plenty of cities will rush to ban them rather than adapt and update old rules to modern technolohical progress. Then stick their fingers in their ears pretending there isnt real value and huge demand for the services, or lessons to be learned from other cities who learned to adapt rather than fight progress.
A 1070 for example will mine marginally more eth than a 580 but will consume less power. The case you mentioned, mining Monero is an outlier at best, as cryptonote is used by no other major crypto and vegas are pretty good at it, despite being power inefficient compared to a 1080ti.
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-bike-helmet-paradox

This article makes an important point: studies prove people in accidents have significantly reduced head damage. However, not many studies prove that it makes bicycling safer: instead, cyclers are perceived safer, and therefore it is unsafer.
I have read and will remember this. I've seen this sort of thing happen to too many people. Were it not for half a dozen dumb lucky breaks, I could be in this situation myself. It could happen to anyone.

A robust benefits system doesn't always fix this. The UK had and in many ways still has one; it's definitely better than nothing, but it still destroys countless lives through malevolent bureaucracy and structural poverty traps.

It's possible to fix this, however. Almost everywhere in the world, support for Universal Basic Income is growing, across various political divides. The urgency of this support will only increase as the population ages and automation causes more structural unemployment and underemployment. It will happen eventually.

I don't know how long this will take. It may be a long time. Or it may happen surprisingly quickly. I put as much effort as I can into fighting for the latter.

So I really do think that a better world is coming -- one that has a place for you in it. If there's any way you can hang in there, please do.

In the meantime, know that even if you don't feel like you're making a contribution to the world, you are. What you've written here, for example, will resonate in people's minds. It will play a part in helping to change things. There's no way know how much that could matter. My own interest in this, for example, was sparked by a completely random girl's blog rant about her interactions with the UK unemployment benefit. Her pithy, frustrated rant has led to me investing many hundreds of hours into activism about this, which in turn has spurred still more people into action. Maybe your words can have a similar effect on someone. So thank you, and know that I appreciate what you're doing.
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http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-bike-helmet-paradox
I have used TypeScript and I liked it but now I prefer to use Fable http://fable.io/

I agree with others that a language should not become bloated and I think it is heading in that direction.
I use tslint to disallow practices that TS has no compiler flag for.
A+.

Feedback: I instantly understood that it was something similar to Jupyter, and my very first mental question was "I hope it's in JS", and this took a surprisingly long few seconds and two page navigations to establish -- I expected the choice of language to be on the splash page.

Anyway, very well done, and it's quite clear to me that JS is going to trounce Python for nearly everything long-term. The JS ecosystem is just an unstoppable freight train.
"By an odd coincidence, at least two other people were independently inspired at about the same time"

I wasn't aware that there had been other cubes ( at least 1 using the same mechanism) invented independently, but this is a very common phenomenon. For example, calculus was independently invented by (at least) Newton and Leibniz.

What's behind this phenomenon ? How is that different people, without communicated and in times gone by without any obvious common influences, imagine and invent the same concepts within the same timeframe ?
Two of the replies mention FastMail, which for all I know might be nice, but FastMail still seems to be in its infancy (though perhaps growing fast) when it comes to securing customers' data. See the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15853477

I've been using Gmail for over a decade. I've been getting in the habit of using a purpose@mydomain email for as many signups as I can (that for now all forward to my gmail) so that the impact of a random Google mess up that disables my access to my account is lessened, but there's still no service I trust more for my email's security and privacy apart from Google's algo-eyes (that offer me some features I appreciate anyway). Maybe that trust is misplaced and we're only a few years away from a Yahoo-level incompetence reveal, but I doubt it.

If there was a way to setup a local mailserver that can peer in a hierarchy with more trusted mailservers (so that I can send email with reasonable confidence it won't end up in a spam folder), and have encrypted buffers stored at those peers for when my local machine is offline and can't accept deliveries, I'd do that. Maybe it's possible with Urbit.
I think the signature of those kinds of fake accounts are different than most of the malicious accounts though.

You creating a fake college account and forgetting about it probably passes as human enough, there's no concerted effort or agenda to that account besides existing and adding friends at your college.

I think what makes bots and fake accounts generally detectable is consistently pushing certain messages in ways that exceed normal human behavior, as well as showing patterns across many fake accounts.

It's hard to see a pattern in one fake account, but easy to spot it across many.
football =/= football
How Should Atheism Be Taught?
I really liked Contactually as a personal CRM because it could look into all the different messaging systems and tell me when I talked to someone last, but then I believe Facebook / LinkedIn etc shut down that functionality.

Is there anything of this sort out there for individuals for networking purposes? Not trying to sell these folks anything. I want to be told what my last touchpoint with someone was, when, where, regardless of what platform that was done on. That would be so useful.

I think Accompany was supposed to do that originally but they pivoted into something else?
Do you mind giving an example?
I feel the need to address the Dustforce comment (I agree). Didn't notice parents name until you blindsided me with the reference!
OP - this is built with Ember, Rails, Postgres. Hosted in docker at Digital Ocean.
The Ticket Fairy (YC S15) is hiring a back-end developer
I'd say they want to be synonymous with Transportation - to train people to instinctively open the Uber app when they need to go somewhere.
I haven't seen anyone mentioned this nor on that page (sorry if I missed it), but I think the biking sharing is a perfect complimentary step to solve the last mile problem in mass transit system / ride sharing programs.

Bikes (or E-Bikes in this Uber/JUMP case) are zero-mission transportation tools perfect for last mile extension from point A to point B in metropolitans where mass transit system won't reach and/or can't reach. Same apply to car sharing programs as there are some small alleys or hilly/twisty roads or pedestrian walkways (maybe this is a stretch) etc.

If you have travel to big cities in South East Asia or Mediterranean you would think it makes sense. They use a lot of mopeds but bikes/ebikes are better because they burn fat rather than fossil fuel:)
Your metabolism looks like a combustion process: O2 + hydrocarbons -> CO2 + H2O. The carbon comes from food you ate. If you aren't breathing out CO2, you're either not metabolizing or you're storing the "burned" carbon in an undesirable metabolic byproduct (e.g. lactic acid).
Introduction to Augmented Reality with ARKit
Luhn's checksum can discover any single digit error, but there's a stronger checksum algorithm that can also discover any transposition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhoeff_algorithm
SF will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books
That's ... honestly a bit disappointing. While I personally believe that the leaking of military location data is almost entirely the military's problem/fault, I feel that this could have been avoided with a minimal bit of forethought by the Strava team. It's not their job to protect military secrets or keep track if some of the data that's sent to them may be connected to a military secret or not. They are, however, responsible for the individual privacy of their own users/customers.

I am reminded of the Dutch "first name database". It's a neat little website showing data (collected by the government/administrative/statistics dept). You can look up any first name in the Netherlands (17M ppl, FYI) and see how many people share this name. You can also see historical data how usage of the first name tracks through time.

AND, this is the crucial bit, you can also see a nice heat map of the geographical distribution for this first name, per municipality.

HOWEVER, and this is where it gets relevant to Strava. They simply won't show the geographical distribution heat map for names that are very rare. If a first name is not nationally rare, but it is in a certain municipality, they will also round it down to zero. Finally, if there's only 5 or less people in NL with that name they won't even show the full total (regardless of location).

Strava could, and IMHO should have done that for regions where only a single (or just a few) individual accounts run a track.
They don't have to, but as long as they want to market themselves as a "typed superset of Javascript" (see homepage), they do. For many people, that is the point.
Natural language reasoning skills are more important than ever, since the relatively recent explosion of “firmware hacks” into people’s brains using natural language as an attack vector.

People get a math education so that they can’t be fooled by an otherwise reasonable-sounding proof that 1=2. I don’t know if philosophy is the answer, but people need to get a reasoning education as well so that they aren’t susceptible to a “proof” that [politician] is “fake news.”
And then there's this...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

Speaking of spooky stuff and google, this article still takes the cake.

EDIT: for completeness sake, there has been a follow up:

https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html
I've never used one myself but I've seen a lot of criticism of the Chinese implementation of dockless shared bikes.

Here's a video that summarizes the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsb2wwn-7g (you only need to watch a few minutes to get the idea)

The purpose is to have them everywhere so they're easy to find, but that's also the problem -- if you have too many companies involved, or an irresponsible company involved that just dumps bikes in the city, there are too many bikes. Bikes get left on sidewalks, in streets, in parks, etc. The docked bike share systems don't have that problem because you have to return them to a designated location, but obviously it makes the bikes less ubiquitous.

Portland has a pretty good system where there are many stations, but if a station is full you can lock it at a nearby public rack for free (the station knows it's full). You can also drop it off at any random public rack in the service area for $2. The app tells you where all the available bikes are: https://www.biketownpdx.com/map
Coding boot camp General Assembly explores potential sale: CEO
> the preferred, humane method of killing a lobster or crab is a swift knife cut through the head

Yes, this is known to kill the crab.
Lots of overlap in design goals with fish, except fish also places a premium on users interactively using the shell (which means friendlier in-repl experience but a balancing act when it comes to features). Fish’ auto completions are incredible, too.

Best of luck to them. Another interesting shell to check out is elvish, lots of new ideas there (even if awkward to use).

(Disclosure: I’m one of the core fish devs/maintainers. Edit: The entire team is awesome and the others deserve virtually all the credit!)
They'd find some way to ruin it. MS doesn't exactly have a good history with regards to the PC gaming market.
People always say things like this about despotic regimes while they're in power. Yet, every time they fall, we almost invariably learn that things were actually much worse.