skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gmail inexplicably deleted all my email prior to sept of 2009.... and later I needed the emails I had in the account.

So yes - email is and should be your digital mem, but the system sucks and the companies suck that promise you free "digital memories" -- so I am still on the fence in general regarding all tech firms that provide a free service - but what should one plan to pay for this:

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I was born in 2028. I was immediately augmented from what I was organically contrived to be/become; a Human.

Human.

What did that mean exactly? What is the definition of a Human? What the FUCK is this bag of potential intelligence? This bag of potential revenue? This bag of potential fealty? This.. bag... of... ...potential???

Out of the gate the system labeled, confined, contrived, pre-determined and then finally programmed me as to what, no, WHO, I was....

I had to then begin to PAY to be "HUMAN" -- I had to pay for maintenance of my body, pay to feed it, pay to educate it, pay to protect it, pay to get it loved, pay for everything that I either required or desired... -- this is what the 'definition' of being human has become.

If you are born and cant be intelligent enough, beautiful enough, lucky enough, rich enough or evil enough... You are not allowed to be human. Survival of the fittest at its best. And the only ones who would agree with that, are those that can state that they are better than masses who cant compete....

This is the new 'Human'

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Who is greater than what.

When youre a "what" - a plumber, a coder, a low life, a socialite... yeah... there are lots of layers in WHAT....

But there is really only one "who". WHO is that WHAT? is the basics....

Who is that master plumber?

Who is that elite socialite?

Who is that low-life?

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Then the system judges "how much"

"How much has that low life cost society"

"how much does that plumber give to society?"

"How much is that socialite worth?"

"How much does that engineer contribute to my life's well being?"

"How much do these jerks make?"

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So, as we discover who and what we are, we need to look at how we became that [thing].

How? Parents predilections, socioeconomic status, location born, innate abilities, genetic modifications, external modifications....

Human is a basic condition that is manipulable and shall be exploited through whatever given tools are available to those who are in a position to exploit.

Now, where is my blood-boy.

/fiction-rant
It's a nice way to aggregate content creators who have good, but sparse or irregular posts - i.e. where it wouldn't be useful to pull every single one of them to see if there's anything new, you just have a single "inbox" for that, curated down so that it's not too much to read everything.
AMP for gmail will be the straw that moves me completely off of google's platform.
Actually London works because the barriers are required to be manned. So if 1% of users have crazy tickets (e.g. some international through exist that are valid across London for say Birmingham to Paris) the human just glances at their ticket and lets them through.

A typical barrier in London accepts: National Rail (orange) tickets that used to be labelled "Rail Settlement Plan", Oyster (a contactless travel pass used for most public transit in London), the various contactless payment standards (for your VISA etcetera) and its own pink tickets. But a human is always there if you have something else.
Yeah I've totes got $2k spare to use on just getting an ASIC, which likely won't have any resale value, and is only valuable for a very finite time

Comparatively, I do have a nice graphics card (which I can use for gaming and stuff), and I can rent from cloud providers at price points I can afford if I wanted more access to cards.
It's very uncivil to assume that people who disagree have not "read up" on whatever topic. I have read up on Monero, and know what it's offering. To me, those features have no value, and thus, this hard fork happening quite often is not worth it.
Conflating the copyright parts of the DMCA with the non-copyright parts for some reason?
Hey, Thunderbird team, this is a feature I'd want.
Paper trails. Absolutely. The concept of keeping a recipient-owned copy of a message is as ancient as the invention of money and writing itself - it's absolutely critical for messages with legal effects, like receipts. Imagine if a fraudster could change the content of their original messages after the scam was done! Yes, Google could implement an audit trail mechanism, but that would be obscure and extremely confusing.
Not at all, in fact my characterization of it was pretty restrained.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economist-has-slavery-prob...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/economist-re...
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/five-problems-economists...

I could add in its tolerance if not open affection for Fidez the anti-semitic Hungarian political party, or its virulently anti-union posturing, or its hatred of the welfare state....

I could go on, specifically just about their ideology and how it permeates everything thats published there, but its a lost cause on this website.
This is a great point. I actually used to dance, so I know the pain! I think this will be a great extension for us down the line. There are some different requirements with dance (extra stretch, and sometimes varying waist/foot designs), so I think we'd likely need a specialized sku - but something to explore.
Typical large generators will have between 12 and 24ph (in multiples of three). They're split out in triplets 120 degrees apart. If you see 12+ phases out in the wild, you're probably close to a power plant.
Emails are immutable, mailboxes are mutable - but only by deleting and writing a new email. Sure it can be similar to the previous email because copy and paste exists - you're not hand scribing it. But the fact remains that for the mailstore, this is a brand new message minted out of whole cloth. You can't edit in place.

And in terms of how our own servers work - there is a backup of the old version, because it was a separate message in its own right that was deleted by the action of making a new message and deleting the old one.
Elon Musk has said that he doesn’t intend to fight governments over internet access, especially governments that can shoot down satellites:

"Obviously, any given country can say it's illegal to have a ground link... And from our standpoint we could conceivably continue to broadcast, I mean, I'm hopeful that we can structure agreements with various countries to allow communication with their citizens, but it is on a country-by-country basis. If they get upset with us, they can blow our satellites up, which wouldn't be good. China can do that. So probably we shouldn't broadcast there."

From: http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-...
I have consulted with the guy that wrote the HTML and CSS in the first place and we’ve determined why this happens: the header and footer are both dark, so to make the overscroll background colour (when you scroll past the end of the document) dark as well, `html { background: #323436; color: #fff; }` is applied; but apparently this has the negative side-effect of making it choose to use a light scrollbar which is invisible on the actual content background of white. In short, an iOS-specific hack causes another iOS-specific problem!

We’ll think about it some more.
> Countries have sovereignty over their airwaves.

Is this true? Isn't, say, a San Diego FM station violating the sovereignty of Mexico then?
> The Kochs and the Soroses pump so much more money into manipulating elections what the Russians did was peanuts. People would hardly be complaining if they had instead been on Team Bernie. But since the candidate who could not possibly lose lost a Sure shot, people want and need a ready made answer, enter twitterbots and FB ads.

The Kochs (etc) are Americans manipulating the system with their wealth and probably within the law. I resent them for it, but that’s very different from a foreign government attempting to influence the results of a US election. I don’t pretend to know the actual pervasiveness of Russian influence; I’m only saying that your comparison falls flat.

I have to wonder if you might realize this yourself, but choose to ignore it in order to justify your own agenda.

Also, I would be angry with any outcome that was shown to be the result of election tampering. That goes for any candidate, even if I voted for them myself.
Ask HN: Does Wall Street Have a HN Equivalent?
Using windbg to improve page load time
Three problems with ASICs:

(1) Their higher capital cost, limited availability, and limited "appeal" promotes effective centralization of mining.

(2) Due to #1 mining rewards go to fewer an fewer hands, promoting inequality and centralization of wealth.

(3) ASICs increase the overall wastefulness of PoW currencies since they're e-waste. Mining ASICs are worthless for any other purpose, while CPU-mineable coins at least promote the production of things that are otherwise useful. If a miner liquidates a bunch of CPUs and GPUs they will see use on the market, while ASICs are junk.
I wonder if it's the marketing or if it's just men that are into feminine stuff. Will running commercials playing industrial rock music and starring big burly construction workers wearing pantyhose like it's badass really sell?

Probably you should just keep the marketing low key and just add extra space in the crotch area for the balls.
I've ranted here before about the complexity of email and the difficulty of even existing as a startup in the email space (see my bio). The single team that has navigated the insanity of the email space well as a small company is Fastmail. They are brilliant, ethical, and pragmatic. I sincerely hope the folks at Google who are behind this AMP-for-email idea will take the time to chat with the Fastmail team about it before pulling the trigger.

Having lived through the last DOJ/Google 10-month battle royale (the sale of ITA Software, now called Google Flights), I think this is an absolutely terrible idea for Google from an antitrust standpoint. The upside for them, while obvious, pales in comparison to the downside they face by leveraging their email and search dominance to create a new walled garden. I'm amazed this got past legal.
For me it was when I had location services disabled on my phone and Android _still_ popped up a notification about the commute time between my home and work, as I was walking out the door.
I'm curious which area of making contacts you think you would find most fun if you were to become more active? I tried some meteor scatter last year and it was fairly thrilling.
If you remember and know where to look.

Google eventually asked if I wanted to remove a phone I'd stopped using 2 years ago the other day.
s360 has a lot of cool features for self modifying code like the 'ex' instruction. That tends to point out exactly what's happening when you read it.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/360_Assembly/360_Instructions/...
Assuming the satellites also talk to each other as backhaul then you're not actually going to be adding that much latency.

340km up + 340 km down = 680km / 299km/ms (c) x2 = 4.5ms added to round trip time. Considering you're doing this instead of running through your local metro loop I wouldn't be surprised of there was actually no additional latency introduced in real world scenarios, most of the latency will likely be introduced by the switching on the actual satellites.
You can, but you can't yet travel to Birmingham (or even Reading) with that system.
"Especially important for finite supplies like Bitcoin"

The law doesn't concern itself with the technical implementation of bitcoin. In addition, trackable and "tainted" money is dangerous for people to accept; bitcoin just makes it real easy to identify that.
AAA titles won't favour WebGL until the platform can compete with native, hand-tuned C++.
An English prose algorithm for bubble sort written in chalk is most assuredly not software.
We don't need titles like that at all. Let's change rockstar to MVP Developer, Ninja to Builder, Guru to Experienced Builder, and the 3rd type of developer described in GP to Maintenance Developer. I think the industry could go a long way if it admits that it needs all 4 of these types of developers, so that expectations were transparent for employees and needs are transparent for developers.
No. They don't. A whole group of people get together and the end result is good crypto or safe medicine. Sure, one person might have the idea. By the time it's included in, e.g. a Java Crypto library or OpenSSL, or your arm, it's been thoroughly reviewed by tens or hundreds of people. For example, "RSA" is the initials of the three people who invented it, by trying for some time to implement an idea published by two others two years earlier.

Only a fool would say, "Bah, I know what I'm doing! Ship it!"
Thanks for all your linux work. Glad you are doing well. Dont become a comedian, as I never got your jokes. J
What a creative demo suggestion! My house is under renos right now, so I'm sure we have a belt sander somewhere...lol. Our fiber is highly hydrophobic.
I just remembered that I got an "password reset" email from facebook like a month ago?

I didn't log in to my FB account since 2008 or so.

For a minute I was baffled and thought someone might be trying to hack my defunct profile (but why?) and my instinctive reaction was to log in and reset the password but gave up and forgot about it.

But now that people keep mentioning shady "come back, come back, to Mordor we'll take you" tactics, this sure smells fishy.

Anyone else got an unsolicited PW reset email after not using FB for a long time?
Don't pigeonhole yourself into the frontend. Be language agnostic. Mastering the fundamentals allows you to transition across the stack.
> If you are paying Google, you are definitely a customer.

You're a customer for a different product/service than the one under discussion. What does that change about the one that's under discussion? Nothing. They're different relationships that imply no in relation to each other.
Are you sure about that?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=facebook...

and

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=facebook...

Those graphs suggest that while the trajectory is bad on this graph, any other site doesn't come close.
Seriously! It always drove me nuts that they sent emails when you didn't check your facebook regularly too. I used to get so many damn emails. "This person shared this." "This person liked this" etc and I didn't give a shit that's why I didn't check Facebook in the first place. So why the hell would I want a message about it? This is so much worse. I'm not checking facebook why the hell would I want a text about it?
Ask HN: Paypal's 2FA verification accepts a COMPLETELY NEW # for “verification”?
I just had to go through a 2FA for Paypal (since I'm using a VPN), and the only 2FA mechanism it gave me was via SMS... to an analog landline. Geniuses.

So, I add an alternate mobile number I had handy... and it happily accepted it and used it as "verification".

Am I overthinking this? How is it a "verification" if I can feed it any unrelated number with no history with my account and it will accept that as "verification"?
Meetup is one of the spamiest products ever
And it has the 'one-up value', very strong in its market demographic;

"Did you see Bill's new garment?"

"yeah thats bad-ass!"

"im getting one!"

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And you should have a service that allows people to upload their graphics to the garments they order....

Tee-Spring for cycling gear that is protective and they can choose from D30 padding options....
The problem with this isn’t what Google is doing, but the fact that they are calling it email.

Email is a document. It is an artifact that was sent, and making it anything other than that may be a useful thing, it isn’t email.
This isn't true in your home. The neutral is bonded to ground at a single point, in the main panel of your house. Current essentially all returns on the neutral to secondary of the pole xformer. The Earth is much higher impedance than the path back to the pole. Even during a ground fault event the current returns on the ground (technically EGC) to the bond point in the panel, and then from there back to the secondary of the utility pole.

Grounding to earth itself mainly serves to hold the potential of your house near that of the pole.
Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic stress disorders in the ancient world.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25577928/

This paper provides evidence that ancient people also suffered from PTSD, disproving your argument that cultural norms are capable of overriding human biology and psychology.
Node-oracledb 2.1 is now installable from npm
This gets tricky. So does that mean suddenly it's meddling when Saudi Arabia makes political FB ad buys, or Egypt, or Japan, or whomever wants favor from Americans?
Technical review of Stellar cryptocurrency
Thanks. Fixed
No, the DMCA safe harbor is copyright-specific; the upthread comment is conflating the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (specifically, § 230) with the DMCA, not conflating copyright and non-copyright provisions of the DMCA.
Reform would be best, but Abolishing them would be better than the status quo.
A gem of a comment. This is why I come to HN.
I haven't heard this product but can't believe it could work in anything even in the same universe as "audiophile" speakers, or even less than average speakers.

Bouncing sounds around the room does not "control distortions". In fact it does the complete opposite. That's exactly why actual audiophiles spend thousands of dollars on room treatment to deaden reflections.

It's the same as those Atmos speakers that attempt to bounce the sound off the ceiling. It's impossible to do that without introducing a massive amount of distortion, also the frequency response of the bounced sound waves is completely screwed even if it works at all. It will also depend on the surface material and the angle of those surfaces, something the Homepod couldn't possibly know.

It's just a misunderstanding of the physics of sound to think this could work in anything close to an "audiophile" way.

Do you put a measurement microphone at the listening location to optimize for that location? Otherwise how could it possibly know where in the room the listener is to align those 7 bounced audiophile signals? That might be the only thing to possibly make this product not a complete joke.

I'd rather have a single reasonable speaker with a T-Amp plugged into a phone than what this must sound like. And that would cost maybe $100, if that.

A silly bound-to-sound-crap speaker locked into the Apple ecosystem, with microphones that can record your conversations in the living room... for $350!! I would literally never even consider buying this product.

Man, I feel more and more removed from the average consumer every day.
I would hazard a guess that there's treaties for this sort of thing.
Understanding how Django makes use of WSGI to turn a request into a response
Very similar to the situation in "The Garden" http://www.thegardenmovie.com

Basically, a property owner in South LA lets people grow gardens on his otherwise unused property. After a while the owner decides to do something else with the property. The gardeners react by trying to get city to exercise eminent domain on the land. The owner ends up kicking everyone out of the gardens and bulldozing everything.

Letting people use your property gives them the idea that they own it. With the graffiti buildings, they apparently do.
Sort of related, but if anyone finds this topic interesting and is looking for software positions related to power systems engineering the startup I work for is hiring. We create 3 phase unbalanced distribution system simulation and optimization software to enable PV & battery integration by utilities.

We currently have a number of open positions: https://www.opusonesolutions.com/careers/#navigation-positio...
If it wants to beat cable all it has to do is not be awful.
Thanks Anna!I totally agree. We're definitely going to be going there. We wanted to start with sheers because that is where the problem is most apparent, and where existing products last barely one wear. But I agree, 40d pantyhose still rip - and need to be innovated as well!
I've always liked the symbols used to indicate pole defects to climbers, a white arrow on a red field:

https://www.lemproductsinc.com/utilities/utility-pole-markin...

http://www.techproducts.com/new/op/markers&tags/everlast_pha...
One of the services my company in Shanghai provides is review and final edit of applications, sometimes as a second check against what domestic (read non-native speaker) agencies have created. CC is seen as a stepping stone to 4 year degree schools. Usually it is rich kids who had no chance or inclination to pass the Chinese university entrance exam. Also many are told by the said agencies, it is the fast track to US citizenship. Most parents want a foothold in other countries as backup plan to get capital and themselves out of the PRC over time.
You aren't required to use Facebook. You can, in less than one second, stop using it.

It isn't electricity, roads, water. It's freakin' Facebook.
I favor the elimination of software patents but if we must have them then things like MPEG are one of the few examples of software that probably should qualify for patent protection. The idea that no one would research new video codecs without patent protection is laughable - OS vendors, network operators, et al are highly motivated to do so regardless of patents.

Unfortunately making software non-patentable isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Perhaps we should fight for some key changes like reducing the length of software patents to something reasonable like 5 years.

I'd also like to see an "industry standards" exception to patents: Any implementation of an industry standard created by an international standards organization, working group, or similar authority is exempt from patent suits. Royalties are fixed at some rate determined by the board (but no more than x% of sales price or flat $y per item indexed to inflation) and go into a pool. All patents in the pool are paid out of it. If you think your patent covers something in the standard your only option is to submit your patent to the pool, then you get a cut of the royalties corresponding to your contribution (again as determined by an impartial board). Any fights over standards-related patents would be confined to the board of experts, the royalty rate they determine, and the allocation to each patent. The law would specify that changes to royalties (even court-ordered) can only go into effect once per year and only apply to products manufactured after that date.

Such a scheme would encourage everyone to contribute to open standards because it would be the only way to ensure you can avoid patent lawsuits.

The one wrinkle is open-source software. I was trying to come up with a workable system. All I landed on was no royalties required for open-source software or end-users of such software, but if a manufacturer uses such software in a product they sell then they would still be subject to royalties.
FYI, this is the correct description of the vast domestic power in the US, which is a single phase of distribution on the primary side to a center tapped secondary transformer.