skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are also hiring for a Quality Engineer, Technical Writer and Technical Solutions Engineer: https://goo.gl/JZYo7b
Would love to see this added to Firebase.
They're great and incredibly useful. And one should not forget that you can easily use them in a Python extension written in C++14 and exported using Cython or SWIG.
One might argue that the good sense of joy followed by love is evidence that when one loves someone, one is acting selfish [0], even though he/she might think otherwise.

[0]: People are rational and they wouldn't do things that don't result in more benefit to them than their cost.
There is a bit of evidence in that US and Canadian daily users declined for the first time last quarter. [1]

[1]: https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/16957122/facebook-daily-act...
Since we're nitpicking; deterministic effectively means same input produces same output. Input includes the seed. All PRNGs are deterministic.
5 Promising ICOs You Need to Know
Another interesting alternative to tinc is ZeroTier ( https://www.zerotier.com/ ). I am using it to remotely play Steam games over the Internet and it is surprisingly easy to set up. Probably due to existence of centralized hub.
Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
I feel like Firechat could take this role if they gained a large market share.

https://www.opengarden.com/firechat.html
That thing looks like mix and match of various God of War enemies.
> our widget asks for your phone number

I'm good.
> WhatsApp had a severe vulnerability for groups disclosed not so long ago.

It had a vulnerability, but not a severe one, and certainly not one that could be exploited silently or lead to retroactive message decryption.

The vulnerability was: If you pwn the server, you can join a group without being invited, which means subsequent messages would be plaintext to you. However, everyone gets notified of a new arrival.

> Telegram has had no such vulnerabilities as far as I'm aware.

That's because Telegram doesn't encrypt groups or channels at all.

> This reinforced my impression that HN's mantra that "Telegram's encryption is bad" is more a personality cult to moxie than an informed opinion.

I don't particularly like Moxie, personally, but his work stands on its own merits.

EDIT: Because the wording was ambiguous, I want to clarify: I don't particularly dislike Moxie, either. I'm neutral to his personality, largely due to a lack of personal interaction with the man.
I would instantly buy a laptop like that. Heck, I'll even settle for a good tablet + keyboard combo at this point.
>its possible it could end up impacting something and potentially contaminating it with Earth organisms.

I dunno about you, but I would be really, really excited if other planets became infested with Earth organisms. I mean, that's kinda the whole reason for space travel in the first place!

I understand the argument for sterilized launches, etc. etc. but I can't help but wonder if it's holding terraforming back in the long run.
It's still incredibly limited compared to Samsung's smartwatch platform.

For the past few years, the Gear watches and fitness wearables have been running full Linux. If you enable Wi-Fi debugging, you can actually ssh in to the smartwatch and poke around the file system.

The UI story is a mess though. There's EFL, a C-based GUI layer of somewhat legendary status in Linux circles (it's derived from the Enlightenment window manager). It's plenty fast, as a smartwatch should be, but kind of a bastard to program for.

Alternatively you can write HTML apps, but they run like sedated dogs on the smartwatch.

Last I heard, Samsung was trying to add React Native into the mix. I'm not very convinced that adding in yet another runtime will fix the fundamental problem.
Nitpick: Xfce most definitly is not a variant of any Gnome. It's a lightweight (and in my personal opinion far superior) alternative to the heavyweights Gnome and KDE, which just happens to share the underlying Gtk toolkit with Gnome.
The article is not about addiction
you might want to read up on rapid climate change on the arctic news blog. greetings from Sam and have a nice couple of years!
Telegram doesn't use passwords...
I wonder how/if they accounted for "almost always", "almost never" etc.
Well, let's see, who do you believe Steve Wozniak or Elon Musk

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/apples-steve-wozniak-doesnt-...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: There's 'way too much hype' around Elon Musk's Tesla

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/steve-wozniak-theres-way-too...

"In a lot of ways, Tesla is behind companies like Volvo and Audi." -Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple

I know: the truth hurts...
I bet the technologies required for teraforming a planet will hold back teraforming more than a concern for spreading microbes.
It Isn't About the Technology
5 tips to overcome designer’s block
Making some lifelong pledge to not use any of those words seems to be gross overkill.

You can't even say something like: "I'm full because I ate the entire sandwich."
It is not a mistake, it is an error.
>The problem with this approach is I definitely do not need someone else making the decision of what is "optimal" for me.

And that's the crux. The whole feature (in its original incarnation) rested on the false assumption that there's a singular "optimal" state at any given time.

The Apple Human Interface Guidelines have been a state-of-the-art reference for good UI for a long time, but the part about the zoom button always baffled me, as it directly contradicted several Core Principles laid out in Part I of the book.
Interesting, I usually just ssh tunnel (I liked the idea of https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/) but I like the idea of making things a bit easier on myself, gonna have to checkout tinc.
> The vulnerability was: If you pwn the server, you can join a group without being invited, which means subsequent messages would be plaintext to you. However, everyone gets notified of a new arrival.

If to you owning server => accessing group is not severe, then you should be happy with Telegram's default encryption: it's run of the mill SSL by default, just not E2E. If you own their servers you can read people's conversations too.
Mutant crayfish got rid of males, and its clones are taking over the world
They do? On which login do they show that information? I've only seen the kind-of two-factor one where you have to enter a code sent in a text message or with a telegram message to a different device.
Try in vain to prove to himself that his billions aren't just dumb luck and circumstance.
The prioneers and experts of the field see it as a problem. The uninformed opinion of the general public doesn't carry much weight on this matter.

People who don't see it as a problem should take the time to read one of dozens published papers outlining the dangers and problems it will pose. If they then still don't feel it's a problem, they're encouraged to publish their own research supporting that view.
It's just an ego thing. He wants to be "popular" in the same way politicians do. He wants to be at the top of the list of "most powerful people" that those magazines put out.

He's probably super envious of Elon Musk.
Canadian citizens only?
Accessing the group means:

1. Announcing your intrusion

2. Only being able to read what people say after you joined

That's a far better security proposition than server operators being able to silently spy on everything you ever send.
Desktop paradigm isn't a Windows 95 thing. It's Xerox Alto thing.
There's a gravity assist mod for KSP?!
Lots of boring concern-trolling going around HN right now.
> AirBnB realized they can use this float in investing in low risk treasuries and generate a little revenue. (It is unlikely that equities is an asset class that is used)

Yet the quote specifically states they're buying stocks:

> He used a portion of capital from the balance sheet to buy stocks

I have a hard time believing they're returning $5 million a month by holding just low risk treasuries. That's $60m a year which would take a consistent investment of $2.5b at an annual 2.5% interest rate (near the current 5-year yield). Bonds have been moving rapidly so they probably need to keep it shorter term than that which would require an even larger float.
I have gotten read only CAN data from a 2006 Toyota Prius.

I used TUCRRC CAN ID's to map the output. [1]
The interface board was an early Macchina, Arduino 256 with CAN hat and 12V power on board. [2]

1 http://tucrrc.utulsa.edu/ToyotaCAN.html
2 https://www.macchina.cc/
With a week of battery life and a daylight visible screen
Sadly, I think this is wishful thinking. What's happening is that internet and tech companies, like all state-supported monopolies eventually, are explicitly becoming primarily political organizations.

Transitioning into (or starting as) a "platform", when your infrastructure is a basic CRUD app, is indistinguishable from rent-seeking, and ultimately leads to becoming a new layer of government. The real infrastructure is audience-capture through transition costs, the acquisition of potential competitors, deep relationships with and/or direct control of media outlets, and specific government subsidy through specificity in legislation, regulatory capture, government contracts and sustained quid pro quo relationships with specific government officials and institutions (revolving doors and kickbacks.) The CRUD app is just a peppercorn.

None of these companies can afford to not compete on that level and expect to have the growth that their investors require. The potential that they will have a future de facto monopoly on entire forms of interaction between individuals is already priced into these companies. That's why the fight between Google and Uber over Waymo is so important (to them.) It's ultimately deciding who will have the monopoly over the only forms of transportation that they plan to allow. This is the only situation in which one could feel sorry for Uber, who is outclassed.

About facebook, who is looking to take over all peer-to-peer interaction on the internet, and all consumption of news (or ideas in general, ultimately); I'd say to compare a 30% dislike poll on facebook to a poll on any other piece of government. It's really not so bad. And while Zuckerberg is repellent to a lot of people currently; if he can't pull a Bill Gates turnaround by strategically pandering through throwing cash around, he could simply fade into the background and make the face of the company somebody people liked. Depends on whether his lust for power or his lust to be loved is higher.

/rant
It's certainly how life insurance works
The late '90s I remember had a mishmash of NT, NetWare, and some (or maybe several) variant(s) of Unix on the bits that lived in the room with all the air conditioners.

Windows 9x and maybe OS/2 were far and away the dominant OSes on actual workstations. Macs and even aging Amigas at some creative shops, some more Unix workstations at places where most people could recognize and identify the purpose of (if not actually use) a slide rule. But what I essentially never saw on any desktops was Windows NT. Lack of driver support and inability to run many business applications kept it out of that space.
Looks like I was wrong about DNA evidence and skin color: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/07/first-britons-...
Tinder has patented swiping and double-opt-in matches
I'll submit a Show HN when I get to a point to do so.
My oldest son recently developed a porn habit in secret, and the things we saw in his search history showed a clear progression from googling "boobs" and "nudity" to "pissing" and "bondage".

Pornography isn't even close to what it was 30 years ago when you for the most part only saw it in nudie mags that your dad had (or friend had who stole it from his dad). Today, kids have easy access to a wealth of horrifying and bastardized hard-core pornography.

But not only that, the ads and search results and images that show up for the more innocent things will lead them to the more awful things, because they're just readily visible and accessible right there.

To be honest the only solution we have found is twofold: to change our wifi password to disable internet on all devices (he was sneaking his Nintendo 3DS into the bathroom for 2 months to look at porn on it) and to proactively start teaching them that life is more than a constant quest for more and more intense pleasure, and that if you allow yourself to give into that base mentality, you are throwing away a good portion of your future that could be filled with meaningful real relationships and legitimately joyful times, in exchange for maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain until you die.
Does anyone know if Tinc tunnels DNS requests on Android? The Android OpenVPN client does not and it introduces some problems.
Sounds like a Trump-type character flaw.
I thought at first that the phrase was opening up a huge mindblower where Obi-Wan was a Sith. Turns out it was just George's shitty writing.
Great article. The way I look at it is something like the swordsman scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The swordsman's doing fancy optimizations and C just blows away the need.

If you can find a language that's x100 the performance of an interpreted language, that speed delta will cover up lots of naivety in the code you write.
While a fair point, it’s important that feature-rich OS components be designed correctly (including security) and this wasn’t the case with Windows.

How many exploits were just a matter of tricking an extra-fancy OS dialog into popping open something it’s not supposed to, escalating permissions alongside it?
I think that because you've used "all my data", he implied that you should be using their social network and their instant messaging service, so that it would truly be "all the data".

To me the spooky part is that he only thought of two use cases in which one is guaranteed that a random person is not using Google's services (at least, not exclusively).
PRNGs are deterministic. Even the PRNG shipped in processors available through the RDSEED/RDRND instructions is deterministic.

Unless you are using some form of entropy, e.g: dedicated hardware, that will be the case.
To your point 1: This is the reason that AsyncIO exists in Python 3.6 and IIRC Facebook is pushing really, really hard to adopt it.
Same boat here - 6'6" with 27" sleeves and skinny (albeit increasingly less so with age). Finding a good local alterations tailor has changed my sartorial life - as long as a shirt fits in the neck and sleeve then the chest can be taken in for about $10. Same with slacks - there's usually a few inches of extra fabric for waist or hem increases that cost maybe $20.

I also looked into online made-to-measure services like Indochino ($60-120 per shirt for full custom) but I find I get higher quality buying off-the-rack on discount and having it tailored.
In the case of #1, you start to lose your association of fake or staged sex acts with real sex acts, and hopefully are able to re-educate yourself on what real sex is actually like.

In the case of #2, you deprive yourself of a completely natural pleasure.

I would put my bets behind quitting porn over stopping masturbation if the goal is to develop a healthy outlook on sex. I'd love to hear someone on the other side's thoughts though.
I didn't mean to suggest the person would not want contact.

An apology doesn't itself assuage a guilty conscience, it is just an acknowledgement of the debt created by the wrong. A fake apology may be worse than saying nothing, but the prevalence of fake apologies is no excuse not to do the right thing.
You might be missing the joke in the OP.

In any case the meaning of "full" in "I'm full" is colloquial and not absolutist. It's more like "I'm satisfied" and not "I'm stuffed" (which also isn't used literally).
I made that same exact argument in college to someone who was just trying to help me see how insane I was. Yes, it's slightly self-serving to love and find joy in love. But of all the forms of selfishness in existence, it's the most acceptable and least blamable one.
I think you should write a cyberpunk novel :)
After reading the whole threads both on github and Pale Moon forums, I believe the best option is to migrate everything back to Firefox and dump it. Unless they either sincerely and publicly apologize for being so rude or kick that guy off the project. But I'm not holding my breath for that.
I wish Keybase Chat supported mobile.

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-chat
Britain's Giant Airship: R.101 – engineerguy
That is probably because the only way of evaluating a noneducational experience is via opportunity costs.

(The adjective "monetary" is redundant when discussing evaluations and costs.)

Obviously, educational experiences can be evaluated as any other investment.
+1 for tinc, I can login to my server and see the other three computers, it's nice for ssh-ing or tunnelling.
On tinc, I was only able to get a Windows Remote Desktop connection for about 45 seconds, then it loses the connection. I'm guessing OpenVPN might not have this issue. Tinc is way easier to configure than openvpn though. I recommend it :)
Success in good quality HN comments ?
The Growth Playbook a Techstars Mentor Uses to Grow Startups the Right Way
I've produced music for others (as a job, if you will), and I've produced music for my own enjoyment and satisfaction.

While I do get an amount of enjoyment out of producing music for others, it may or may not be music that I personally like. It has to meet certain criteria. It has to sound like this, use these instruments, or be that duration, or whatever.

A lot like programming, I think. I can program on my own time, making whatever I fancy, using whatever language I want, to my own maximum enjoyment. At a programming job, I will likely enjoy it to at least some degree, but I may or may not be doing everything in a way that I think best, because I'm doing the work for the satisfaction of someone else.

But then, producing something for someone else, be it software or music or whatever, results in a different kind of satisfaction on my end: the satisfaction of meeting someone else's need. They wanted X, and I made X for them, and they are happy with it. I may or may not like X myself, but I am pleased that they like it!
It's not a good plan. They propose to design, de novo, in an open standards group, a cryptographic secure group messaging protocol based on a design that has never been deployed at any scale. The underlying design is cool --- it's basically Asynchronous Ratcheting Trees, which was presented in a paper at RWC just a few weeks ago. That's how de novo this particular "standards" effort is: the underlying theory is just 28 days old.

Already, in the starting point draft, it's been crudded up: it has "ciphersuites", and comes with support for the NIST P-256 curve --- despite the fact that the underlying design wants to take byte strings to curve points, which is tricky to do on the P-curve. It will only get worse from here. They'll figure out some reason to bolt a PAKE onto it soon enough.

Signal Protocol is exceedingly well-documented (and even before those documents were written, it was open enough for Wire to lift the protocol wholesale).

The IETF is bad at cryptography. Your default position should be distrust of IETF crypto standards.
Operational transforms I believe.
Yoshi (YC S16) Raises $13.7M from GM, ExxonMobil, YC, Kevin Durant
Not limited to any single country. A few seem thus immune, but the facade always crumbles it time it seems.
Yes. Because they forced it with their pseudo-monopoly on the browser market and de facto monopoly on online video sites.

Basically everyone else uses H264 like Apple since it was the designated successor to MPEG2.

In this case, Apple went with the industry standard. Google is the odd man out.

So why should Apple have to bend to Google’s whim here and implement WebM/VP9?

Why shouldn’t Google just fix their site?
>I've used it for years in VPS providers and from home to VPS to cloak DNS from the ISP eyes and tampering.

what's the logic behind that? are vps providers somehow more trustworthy than ISPs?
My biggest gripe with audible is their web UI. Since it’s literally the only way to purchase books, you’d think they would spend more effort in this area. I have a few hundred books in my library and probably spend $30-$60 a month on credits. The 2 credit a month subscription isn’t enough for me, so I’ll typically get that plus another 3-6 credits a month.
Interesting to contrast this with certain religious and political leaders who see "equivalencey" as a character weakness and that good and just people will not be conflicted and you can draw a sharp line between the good and evil people in the world.
Simple solution to smartphone addiction is now used in 600 U.S. schools
David Foster Wallace had some interesting thoughts on this. From my interpretation he came to the conclusion that you can't blame the pornographers. They're just responding to market demand and the market is demanding more and more deviant and salacious content.

His thoughts on why the market is demanding more demeaning content has to do with the social acceptance of pornography - or at least of porno of the time you're talking about. One of the big allures of pornography is that it is "naughty" and deviant. As it becomes accepted the quest to find content that is not socially OK pushes pornographers to create it. A market gets created. To the point we are an asymptote of snuff films more or less.

So that although groups that would traditionally balk at porn and forced what we'd consider even mild porn into the underground are annoying, they may be providing a service in social health in limiting progression into a darker and darker realm of pure humiliation films, faux rape films, etc.

The article was titled "Big Red Son". Worth reading.
The chance of anything colliding in space is very, very low. The Tesla will most likely be orbiting until the sun dies, or someone picks it up.
Arrow Endianness: How Gnome got sorting backwards (2012)
> At the time, it was a huge leap forward in desktop computing.

After seeing some old demos of Xerox Star, I'd question that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q
The Task Bar and Start Menu metaphors have held up well. At the time on the Mac, it was harder to see an overview of running Applications and windows at a glance.
By a factor of 6 to 8??? I think you mean "by 6 to 8 percent".
Can Signal contribute to the IETF design, discussion and documentation?
"Normally" would be overstating the problem I think, but it's not as though toxic work environments where people are expected to work unsustainably long hours are exactly uncommon in the tech sector.
> It's not anti-intellectual, it's a different intellectual viewpoint from yours.

It is anti-intellectual, in the sense that it posits a separate magisterium of things "too complex to reason about" (or sometimes, "too profound to dare and reason about") and asks to give up the attempt. That way lies supernatural.
Tinc is pretty amazing. My only beef with it is that once a node is connected to the network, if you ever wish to revoke access, you have to update all nodes on the network to ensure the revoked node is now gone.
One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline
This is going to sound a bit arrogant, but a person has only room for so many decisions for a day before they get burned for the day. This is why i prefer to pick a random tshirt, wear same sneakers etc every day (they are clean, yes). I tend to grab food from the same truck, at the same time - i do not think about it.
DNA has a half life of only 521 years, so that avenue is unlikely to bear fruit (or dinosaurs, or scropi-ders) anyway.
> 1366x768

There should be a special place in hell reserved for companies who still produce that garbage. This resolution was already too low 10 years but nowadays is not not usable at all.