skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think perfectionism can also be a crutch used as a weapon. The podium of perfectionism allows a moral high ground that is also an excuse to not engage with reality. The image is too pretty to soil.

Reality is engaged with only when you have secret tricks or hacks so that any game can be ended at will. When you engage in games as a gamemaster it is no longer a game, it is boring.

Executives use similar methods to create an image of perfection. This is actually good and necessary as their main function is to create games for others as a bubble while also siphoning value. Without the game, the master-slave dynamic is too raw.

Perfectionists are people who don't play games they don't think they can win. This can stifle learning, create aloofness, and make for a boring and meaningless life. At its core it is an illusion of the self having more control over reality than a human possibly can. It is a desire to be closer to God and so gives up some humanity. (which is necessarily imperfect)

Of course, when pushing or expanding the limits of humanity, pefectionism can sometimes be good. Shutting yourself in for a while can be very useful for creation. Learning is not necessary as the act is of the self, the raw knowledge being acquired already. Meaning is also not necessary because it is self-generating.

However to lock in that meaning, what is created must eventually be released and tested in the world. The 2 way interaction within a network is what creates larger meaning. Small releases are like small strategic bets. Big releases (perfectionism)are like going all in and hoping for the best.
VLC 3.0 release
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This is why people don't like the concept of privilege, it seems almost built to shame people for having more due to circumstances.
So what u wan't to do is the folowing:
Have one guy do all the code for you, but demand that he sends u all the resulting source Code

Now take this Sourcecode to a Codereview (your have to pay that) at a Company that has a Reputation to lose.
They wil tell u if the code is fine or backdored
The recommended place to store bitcoins, the currency which promises freedom from the corrupt banking system, are banks?

> That's safe.

It is quite safe, but still not as safe (World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, ...) as your money in an account with insurance. And much more inconvenient.
I would think that an adult in the first world with a car has a lot more autonomy than a child in Vietnam though.
Is there any evidence that people would be more productive without Facebook? I bet they'd just watch more Netflix.

Edit: Plus, it's really not that hard to not use social media once you finish school if you don't feel it's beneficial.
Couldn’t a mitm proxy just strip out the relevant headers?
You don't need HTTPS to verify integrity. HTTPS actually adds attack vectors, complexity, and removes useful functionality like proxies. And like another commenter mentioned, most malware is delivered from an authentic site anyway.

HTTPS evangelists are basically playing a game of political ideology shrouded as concern for safety. I think they care more about their own privacy than they do the functionality, security, and maintenance required for HTTPS sites.

It's also not coincidental that Google has a vested interest in keeping all traffic surrounding their services hidden or obfuscated: traffic content and metadata is money. Google is basically eating the lunch money of ISPs' passive ad revenue. (This is also part of why they want to serve DNS over HTTPS)
You could've easily afforded to live there if there were zero restrictions on building.

What downstream effects that might have, who knows, but rent control isn't the only solution.
Have you tried reading something about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#1992_pound_short

George Soros is an investor that has never been shy about using his wealth to support his political positions (that are generally very liberal).

Now you know pretty much all there is to know, and why the al-right hates him. Oh, and that he survived Nazi-Germany occupated Hungary. The last thing especially hurts the feelings of the alt-right - although I prefer to call them Nazis.
Is there a way for moderators on HN to limit the amount of emotional rhetoric on cryptocurrency discussions?

It would be great if comments here could be limited to substantiated technical and market analysis. Comments on ideology (again if substantiated) would be useful too but right now these discussions just degenerate into shouting matches with very low signal:noise.
Green-hat-suite – tool to make meterpreter evade antivirus
Bluetooth was originally for phone-level quality and it has taken a while for devices to support higher quality codecs.
That was an incredible fun read. Makes me curious of the other failures in this industry if they could be explained in this detail.
jgs - looks like Joan G Stark

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

http://www.asciiworld.com/+-joan_stark_jgs-+.html
Do you honestly think your examples are even in the same league as Facebook?

Were TV ads ever as granular in its tracking as Facebook is today?
That's a really good approach. I hadn't thought about it that way. I think the issue is more with me as an interviewer than with the organization as a whole. We've been pretty successful with our hires in the past. Thank you for the replies. They have been quite helpful.
> since when do we expect for-profit companies to act in societies best interest?

We don't have for-profit companies because of some fundamental ideological commitment to capitalism uber alles. We have them because we judge their operation to be in society's best interest. When a particular one fails to do that, it raises a legitimate question about whether it should be allowed to continue with those actions or even be allowed to exist in its current form.

If a company is not acting on society's best interest, it should be made to or abolished.
Chrome 68: The Clock Is Ticking for Publishers to Migrate to HTTPS
Why do you think it is falling? As far as I can see, the article does not mention repeating this experiment over time.
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oh, OK - I entirely forgot about this :). But it's still just an easily modifiable default for beginners that power user doesn't have to use (or indeed remember in my case :)).

In Windows 10 you have two different kinds of UI and settings that can be changed in one but can't be changed in the other and vice versa.
I was under the assumption that our news literacy was never high enough to begin with. So to say "fall rapidly" seems misleading.
Actually,

TCP/IP on a local network will make mobile devices think they are on a captive portal.

DNSSEC will prevent you from serving local answers for signed zones. The DNS root zone is signed. So the IETF at the moment has a hard time figuring out which zones need to stay not signed to allow these kinds of local answers.

HTTP is not secure, so that is going the way of telnet.

HTTPS is what we are discussing here. Without a valid cert, don't expect browsers to support you much longer.

Yes, you can create your own little internet island. But don't complain if any software fails to work in that environment.
And you get the market rate
Can we stop calling this addiction? The DSM V doesnt recognize process addictions, with the exception of Gambling Disorder, and many of the symptoms don't apply to social media use. Even Internet addiction wasn't included for lack of proof.

Substance Use Disorder (the new category for chemical addictions) has specifics such as withdrawal and physical dependency that you don't get from turning off your Facebook account.

Facebook is a habit that many people user too much. It isn't like a drug that has drastic and rapid physical changes in your brain. Your brain isn't literally hijacked anymore than TV or anything you like doing hijacks your brain. It reacts fairly normally actually.

Optimizing for somebody to use a site a lot isn't addicting people. The abuse of terminology has gone too far and is really clouding the discussion.

Besides what would it look like to not "optimize for addiction"? Give people news stories they don't want to read? The conversation has just gone off the rails when it starts to be compared to cocaine and heroin.
Are they harder to spot/hit than a dove flying at over 50mph? I'd guess not, but maybe they are deploying super small and fast drones?
This is an interesting read, it's always interesting to hear why something that ought to be fairly heavily federated or sharded can nevertheless fall over centrally.
Ask HN: How do you conduct conduct one on ones?
I'm curious how different people go about conducting 1-1s. How are you going about it and what exactly are you looking for? How often do you think is best? I swear I read a good blog post on this once but I cannot find it.

I am fairly junior in my career so I have only experience a handful of direct managers. My manager recently moved to a larger company and we are looking to fill his position. I think 1-1s are vital, so I want to make sure whoever takes the role will make the most of the opportunity.
I actually just changed the battery on my G5 instead of buying a new phone, and it is working great again.

Not being able to change the battery is planned obsolescence, that is all it ever was.
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But which is the bigger problem for those groups - having those unrealistic role models, or not having them to begin with?

Black Panther's origin as a billionaire super scientist/martial arts expert with high tech body armor and mystical powers isn't that unusual as superhero origins go, what's unusual is having that power fantasy template attached to a character who isn't white.
I had been using K9 since 2010 or so, since there were only few mail clients supporting multiple accounts, but I always found it rather confusing to navigate around.

Especially the settings, there are Global settings, account settings, folder settings but didn't always show up in the menu.
You're not subsidizing their wage compared to paying higher prices for the service. You're helping them avoid paying taxes.
TV shows, specially Netflix have this sense of clifhangers and addiction. But one you are out of the house or at work, you just don't watch it :)
You watch one episode, maybe another and then you are on the go to do stuff.

Social media with their superduper optimized notifications and timelines are especially designed to pull you out of work and focus to let a little more of that "oh new gif baby falling over" or "Oh another person liked photo of baguette I had for lunch, that makes 2, sweet" high. And it is east to just switch tab and write Face+Enter...
I got the XZ1 Compact. I love it. It's faster and smaller than iPhone X and doesn't overheat. USB-C with QuickCharge 3.0 takes 1h to get to 85% charge then battery last 2 days and 8h of screen usage.

It has backlight bleeding around the ambient light sensor. I can't replace it, but I can live with it.

GMSArena reported Sony is working on a Compact with 5-inch screen and 18:9 aspect ratio. This will be the perfect phone to own.
Instagram Died, Sike
After creating multiple Instagram tool and having served over 5,000 clients we studied why Instagram users die out from the app. The biggest problem happens to be consistency with content creation.

Since quote images get the best engagement we created a tool with a database of over 100,000 quotes and it has been doing quite well. Would love your input on how you would make this better, if you would use it, if not, and why?

http://betterpost.co
Apes are closer. Plus humans are different enough from any still existing apes that the dietary comparison is quite worthless.

It is as if you were comparing tigers with house cats on diet based on hunting behaviour.
The point of this example is that there is (obviously) no difference in effectiveness. However compare this simplified example with the following citation from the article:

>“On many occasions I have praised flight cadets for clean execution of some aerobatic maneuver, and in general when they try it again, they do worse. On the other hand, I have often screamed at cadets for bad execution, and in general they do better the next time. So please don't tell us that reinforcement works and punishment does not, because the opposite is the case.”
A Concept for Interoperable IoT Intercloud Architectures [pdf]
I don't for two reasons. One I don't want to carry dongles. Two it blocks the charging port and I often listen to music at my desk, where I also need it to charge. Doesn't work for me.
> Yes, the skill you listed take some time to acquire. But few master them to a professional level

So you're contending that few people can fluently read or write their own native language?
This is very true, last census I saw which I think was a few years old said 65% of residents rented.
It only works because at some moment your brain thinks it's part of the same in-group and thus starts adopting what is said automatically and integrating them into your personality. It's really strange how it happens, but also very understandable. The tribal and sectarian effect in me (and I assume also in rest of human beings) is really, really strong, and really subtle.
I'm just trying it out now and it seems juuust nicer than Postico, yeah (which you can also assign colours to, I should say), but that ⌘+P thing just blew me away.
The labor cost to do it today would be substantial, I'm estimating it's around 4k-5k sqft of 2"x4" blocks!
Sennheiser has this figured out, too. My PXC 550 stay connected to two devices at the same time. When the currently active one goes quiet, it'll switch to the other source if that's active.

Works fine with my UE Boom 2 bluetooth speaker as well.

Maybe the devices you've tried were older or cheap models?
There, I will respectfully disagree. Web browsers are, or at least were, a useful way to access devices over well-defined and standardised protocols that were supported on many client devices.

I think its the "were" part that getting me. We had a standardized protocol: http which is now being phased out and a whole lot of developers of embedded systems jumped on it as a control mechanism for their devices. Now we have this crowd of other developers that focus on a different market segment and don't really give a damn about the problems that causes for others. "Move fast and break things" is fine for startups, but not for anything that our profession built into things. I just a little sick of a disposable culture. I agree https is a great thing and needed, but putting scary warnings on http that cannot be mitigated is a pain in the butt because at some point they will remove http entirely.

At this point, I honestly wish the embedded device programmers would jump off the web train and move on to something else.
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Someone in my family has fought for the US in every war since the civil war. They have fought, bled, and died for this country, paid taxes, and helped build it from a weak country to the most powerful civilization in human history. They did it because they wanted their children and grandchildren to have a better life. Why should I feel guilty about this?
Researchers Successfully Simulate Nematode C. Elegans' Neural Network
An older and more effective demonstration is Deming's "Red Bead Experiment"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckBfbvOXDvU
TBH if you're going to manage your financial future based on trite, vacuous phrases then crack on. You clearly don't care very much about your money so it shouldn't matter much what you do with it.

The only caveat I'd make is that if you have dependents then this sort of fatuous ignorance is nigh on criminal. Otherwise, good luck and I hope you don't completely fuck up your life.
Fast OpenFlow Table Lookup with Fast Update (SDN) [pdf]
Florina killed it again! go go girl (She's a genius)
An Introduction to Fedora Atomic Workstation
Different Server Workhorses for Different Workload Courses
Interesting. I'm reading that book (again) from the Archive, should be worth it.
Yeah, but given current exchange rates £70k is ~$100k. ~100k is nothing to sneeze at...
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tv is exactly in the same league as Facebook. Video games is pretty close too. Neither one are recognized as addictions.
The built in DAC/amp on 'heiser is likely better than the piece of crap serving the 3.5mm jack in your phone.
if you want to create a CRUD app, then you probably don't need the best and latest library.

There are plenty of apps out there today which support millions of users but didn't choose the most optimal database, wasn't well architected, and has mountains of sloppy technical debt.
It's got approximately the mass reach and appeal that television did. It doesn't have nearly the impact that TV did. I wonder what makes you think that Facebook is in any way the same league as TV. TV transformed society. Facebook just makes it easier for people to argue with each other.
Instagram Died, Sike
After having served over 10,000 clients in the Instagram space we decided to study why Instagram users die out, the biggest problem happens to be consistent content creation.

For this reason we created a database of 100,000 quotes within an image editor for posts and stories and it has been doing quite well. This is a mobile and desktop web app.

I would love to know your opinion, what you would change about it and how you would make it better. Im also open to chatting with folks who would like to be a part of this.

https://betterpost.co
Programming is one of the few "hard" jobs that is demanded in very large quantities. There are roughly 1.6 million people working as programmers in the US[1]. That is approximately as many as all engineering professions combined (the largest individual engineering profession is mechanical with 285k). It is roughly 50% more than all life, physical and social sciences combined.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#17-0000
I think maybe it's because you can't win at Facebook. All the other forms of entertainment give you a sense of satisfaction on completion. Facebook is the complete opposite. It doesn't end and you can't really win at it. That's great from a commercial perspective but utterly unfulfilling for the user.
It's not society can only pursue one bad actor at a time. This is a tech forum so we're going to focus on the tech side.

Also, I would say the flow if information is a more pressing priority, because its vital to solving those other problems as well. Imagine a future Facebook that takes a payoff from Monsanto to opaquely bury all criticism of it.

> BUT Facebook already changed their news feed algorithm and many tech companies are making changes. Not saying they're doing it perfectly or even well, but still.

Facebook's algorithm tweaks don't solve the problem of its market position and dominance.
I think the biggest fundamental takeaway here is that PostgreSQL works fairly well as a big data platform for certain kinds of data.

20TB per server x 20 servers for raw storage, 32TB of storage sharded for analytics. trillions of data points per year. And we make it work.
In which field? You have to realize there are tons of dirty or underhanded practices across every industry. Chronicling each of them is neigh impossible. So pick an industry and you will find yourself swamped with suggestions.
So you are using Swift for the UI layer in macOS and WPF for the UI layer in Windows?
Offshore developed code, when created using a similar process and for similar cost to US developed code, is usually of comparable quality.

You can get ridiculously poor quality of code by paying bottom dollar and failing to properly communicate with your developers, no matter what country those developers happen to be situated in.
Maybe it's finally time to switch.
Care to cite all the research showing the interactions social media provide are in fact so salubrious?
What? Does TV track what you're doing when you're not watching and change the ads when you return?

You're being silly.
People seem to be remembering the s6, even though they fixed that issue in the S7 a and beyond.
Liberal use of the “hide” button. If the headline doesn’t grab me (or I know it’s a topic I find tedious) click hide and it disappears. Come back to the page later in the day and see what’s fresh, repeat.

There’s enough great stuff that I wouldn’t find any other way to make it worth repeat visits.

And often the comments are much more valuable, like when someone has a link to a website or SaaS or software and the comments are like “this sucks you should try X” and goes off in exhaustive detail as to why that person holds that conviction.
Employees should demand better conditions and stronger protections than they get in most US states. I'd encourage Amazon employees to unionise and fight for those things, and politicians to support that (my own country tends to do better on those fronts already).
When you say feature-rich I hear cluttered. I don't want a tool that does everything, there's the cli for that. I want a tool to help me visualize things and build queries and sub-queries.
I'm sure it's highly feasible, but not on the important-feature list for them.

ps: also, yeah, water sealed electronics is very valueable. And when you do need to replace a battery, a tech could swap it with a few tools. Not user replaceable but still replaceable at low cost.
> "2. I would like to see a mobile app."

Opposite stance: please, Mozilla, do not build mobile Thunderbird apps. That's tremendous effort, and IMHO too much for what you can do with the priority on Firefox, even with these new Thunderbird hires.

Focus on polishing and maintaining the existing Thunderbird the best you can with the limited resources you have for the project. You have a large existing userbase that will be extremely thankful for that.
Love this because it shows two things 1) competent people are handling problems and 2) they actually care.

A whole lot better than spoon feeding customers bullshit for weeks while hamstringing your product rather than investing in it (looks at EA, mumbles about SimCity).