skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your criticism is valid but I don't see it as unsolvable. Interconnectivity and decisions around how to facilitate it can be added later. While they are important elements for global dialogue, the first and foremost goal should be cultivating a domestic product that is suffiently feature rich to be a valid alternative to the current offerings. Interconnectivity with other social networks is a secondary goal that can be pursued as things progress.
> Trump supports legal immigration and is allocating more quota to legal immigrants

Trump has proposed eliminating many of the major existing categories of legal immigration in the core, family-owned action based system. He's proposed replacing the eliminated categories with a small number of renewable non-immigrant (no path to citizenship or work permission) visas for parents of US citizens.

He's proposed no concrete increase in total permanent allocation in the remaining categories, though he's talked about cancelling the diversity visa lottery and reallocating the quota used there to help clear backlogs elsewhere.
Yeah, that's actually a thing I was thinking about. Rich people doing "stupid" things actually finances companies to improve and advance so that "stupid" things become affordable. $50k is dumb. $1k, I'd think about. $300, I'd do today for my 14 1/2 year old "bullet" (pitbull+basset) mix dog :)
The author is certainly right that investing in a cinder makes no sense.

Getting companies/countries to let go of the philosophy of perpetual growth seems like a worthwhile goal. Seriously: what's 'enough'?

Such growth has been driven by energy that needs to be diverted to conservation/stabilization. Had we started a massive energy transformation plan a decade ago, we'd be halfway there. Instead the clouds on the far horizon draw nearer.
We don't actually point guns up very often though. In part, because the threats move too fast, and in part because bullets come down. What's the ballistic range of 20 mm depleted uranium round? If I shot drones in the Gulf of Aden and end up peppering a mall in Djibouti, we're all going to have a bad day.
Remember me of the Eye4U website as well :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT4wt0fmGU
Estonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.
Hmm, and it renders better on mobile than some modern actual "mobile" websites

it allows to zoom to perfectly readable size, no half screen taken by "use the app" with tiny close button, no social share floaters overlapping part of the text, no functionality removed for mobile, ...
Precisely relevant to the issue at hand:

Eight Megs Ain't Comfortable Stack
See also http://tilde.club for some new-old fun
Such a platform is desperately hard to argue for, but I suspect that a trusted, basic platform provided by governments will become defacto in many nations within our lifetimes. We do have component precedent cases to build upon in Estonia, with the (failed) British ID cards etc, but I do wish a nation somewhere was further along. Perhaps small countries Luxembourg, Belgium, principities
and Estonia are the places to keep an eye on rather than China, USA et al?

I also believe that such a platform is the quickest path towards incorruptible technocracies, slowly but surely through referendums being opened up through the platform (small, local decisions at first).

If this does not occur in the public sector, then I view governments as the taxi industry to capitalism's uber, and it will be the free market (controlled by increasingly intelligent public demand more than lagging legsislation) that starts to provide more 'pure democracy' behaviors. (As an aside, I wonder whether we shall start to see more interestingly structured IPOs)

The cynic in me sadly suspects that socialism just isn't fast enough, and that the free market will be the dominant tool for change - But that slowly but surely, public voice will become a more ethical one - In this era we are in which is surely a second age of enlightenment. Hopefully this will sculpt the free market to be more aligned with the commons, and less brutally and bluntly aimed at collecting $.
Agreed, it’s definitely context dependent. There’s a world of difference between holding up a line in a store and having a conversation, however limited, with a taxi driver.
That is some serious linkrot you have there.
Valid and true are two very different things - and we've seen from history that the human brain can be lead into believing that essentially anything is intuitive or aesthetic.
Doesn’t seem to solve any new problem
Economical does not mean “the cheapest option” or even “still cheaper than GitHub”. I have no argument with you.
Yes, Australia has even had politicians resign due to revealed influence China has had over them:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/12/sam-d...
It is quite clear if you look at the source of the data.

Flash is (was) Adobe's own rich content creation and distribution system with lots of investment on many different sides. Adobe can make the rules and implement anything it wants at its own pace in its self-contained product, unlike Google and Apple that have to feign “innovating the Web together” while actually solving their own problems. As they got their own sheep to shear (smartphone consumers), it was decided to strangle the competitor.

I should remind you how many years it took to make HTML5 video work for everyone on Youtube. I should also point that on older systems Flash video player works (worked) noticeably better than HTML5 video player, making it clear that “open standard” does not, in fact, need less resources. Next time you wonder why modern web is so taxing on multi-core multi-gigabyte system, look this way, among others.

As for security, Flash was as broken as any complex system of its age. Most of the attention to its security can be attributed to the fact that corporations only care about security if that's of someone's data they can benefit from. Oh, and it's the same with governments — they don't care about the abstract security for everyone.

And any talk about “openness” accompanied by what Google does with Chrome on desktop and mobile is just pathetic.

TL;DR It's corporate cool-aid.
We should think about why we allow corporations to be that powerful. If they're powerful enough to meaningfully censor society, then they should no longer be private entities.
Assuming they work correctly the benefits are clear.

If they can ever be made secure, it's what I wanted to know from the researchers.
Unfortunately they may have more tricks up their sleeve. That is, once they get payment for one patent, effectively getting an implied acknowledgment of the merits of the (meritless imho) patent, they might then reveal their other related patents, and offer to license those for even more money.

I wonder how many of these can be invalidated with trivial filings? These patents all have PayByClick Corporation as the assignee:

7,676,432: Methods and apparatus for transacting electronic commerce using account hierarchy and locking of accounts

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

7,376,621: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

7,328,189: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

7,249,099: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

7,249,060: Systems and methods for distributing on-line content

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

7,177,838: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

6,876,979: Electronic commerce bridge system

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Here's an old personal site of mine linking to even older ones (in reverse chronological order): http://www.cydeweys.com/archive/archives.html

There's blinks, marquees, under construction banners, hit counters, webrings, background MIDIs, even frames and a navigation image map.
I'm sorry what are the benefits? They are not clear to me.
+1 for originality: you don't seem to have cribbed the "standing desks without a spine" from any Googleable source.
> Go’s garbage collection is fully supported. WebAssembly is planning to add its own garbage collection, but it is hard to imagine that it would yield a better performance than Go’s own GC which is specifically tailored to Go’s needs

I don't think it's hard to imagine reading the GC proposal. The JS collector that might be reused could be off thread, something WASM can't (yet) do.

> Most file system operations are mapped to Node.js’ “fs” module. In the browser, file system operations are currently not available.

Please please abstract this. As a maintainer of a non-JS WASM backend, I'd love to use Go too.

> Especially a “goto” operation in WebAssembly would be very helpful.

I didn't look into the Go use case enough, but curious how much better this would be than the current labeled block and labeled break approach in WASM. WASM has fairly strict stack/frame rules/types, so arbitrary gotos wouldn't work.
I unironically love this.
Drinking with Co-Workers
If you already don't have much money for legal fees, making things personal with an unscrupulous lawyer who doesn't mind filing petty lawsuits seems like a dangerous idea.
Generic graph algorithms in Go
How do you input a mode?
The one that really sticks out is the recent Red Dawn remake. I mean, really, North Korea is going to invade the pacific coast? It was clearly written about Communist China, that's the only way the movie could have made the slightest bit of sense, but they kowtowed and turned it into a dumpster fire, and they still didn't procure release rights there.
- I am flagging this as it seems to be purposely posted as a click bait article

My comments as a South African:

1. While political power shifted in 1994, to the majority there is still a huge amount of imbalance economically in South Africa.

Based on the last research I have seen;
a white male who has only completed primary school earns more than a black person who has completed high school. The lowest earning and educated white female still earns higher than a black male that is comparatively better educated. This is even with gender disparity in pay.

2. While racism is not law and they have been able attempts to redress the situation there is still an awful lot of “old boys club” deals that happen . Which is more often then not primarily white and male.

3. Apartheid was engineered by the broedebrond. Some of the reasons were for economic power. These families that engineered apartheid and made billions on the back of this suffering? They still exist they have just expanded their generational wealth. Look up “Stellenbosch mafia”.

4. Prior to 1900’s most locals lived of the land. Policies were setup that enslaved black people,forced them to work at mines and leave their families creating other issues.

5. Systems were setup to ensure black people in South Africa were kept oppressed (forced living far away from work, no education) which has created long lasting generational issues. 20+ years and this has still exists

4. On the issue of land redistribution, it is surely needed as land was forcefully taken and wealth has been accumulated based on this with the help of apartheid.

5. What I have been debating is what would be the most fair mechanism to address this?

6. If govt do it without compensation then would this start to cause property prices to tank?

7. What happens if the process is abused to enrich a few?

8. Could government even control the outcome? For e.g all it takes is for some people to take matters into their own hands and things can blow up really quickly
I have no problem with this. Free market. If you want Nest products buy them from the Google Store (https://store.google.com/category/home_entertainment). Amazon is not required nor should they be to sell competitors products.
Let's at least talk about it. Send me an email.

Neocities has some experimental support for IPFS, but there's much room for improvement here.
Have you tried the Windows Subsystem for Linux? I've found it to be great. Since I basically use Linux for either python development or server administration, a full linux shell is basically all I need to fulfill my linux needs.
What a well written article. But from personal experience, it's missing something.
My dad's funeral service was held in the crematorium. Afterwards they invited the closest family members to watch. Didn't warn us about what we were about to witness.
First, instead of the "nice" coffin with flowers on top, he was put into a cheap-looking, thin plywood crate filled with thin, twisted strips of paper. It looked like the paper equivalent of styrofoam peanuts. The gurney was carelessly lying crooked against a wall as if it had just rolled over and bumped to a stop.
Then they rolled it into the furnace in workmanlike manner and closed the room's blinds to block our view.

We all swore off cremation after that.
Please leave after the service. Don't watch your loved one's cremation, it'll be a horrible last memory that taints everything that came before.

Second, the cremains are in a sealed plastic bag, inside a cardboard box. After you scatter the ashes, what do you do with the box, the bag, and the last ashes in the bag? Throw them in your household garbage? (Illegal, btw)
It was my reminder that not everything has a "nice" interface.
There's censorship, and there's kidnapping/threats against citizens in other countries

"After U.S.-Based Reporters Exposed Abuses, China Seized Their Relatives"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang...

"Chinese Police Are Demanding Personal Information From Uighurs in France. Officials have threatened to detain relatives of those who don’t comply."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/02/chinese-police-are-secre...
It seems like i am often reading about reasons why Not to use Chrome..

Are there any good writeups about security of different web browsers?

is Chrome a real issue?
This is definitely much more preferable to the typical 90 day window + pay the tax this year scenario. Even if the company does not go public, the employee at least now has five years to come up with the money to pay the tax bill. If you are fortunate enough to work at a company that offers a longer exercise period (e.g., Quora and Pinterest are two I can think of offhand that offer 7+ years to exercise your options), then you've got over a decade of time--unless I'm misunderstanding the bill.

Is it possible to "un-exercise" your ISOs? If so, that also gives employees five more years to watch the company trajectory and make a more informed and measured decision -- if they lose confidence in the company, they can return the ISOs to the employer instead of paying an upfront tax bill on what is still somewhat of a lottery ticket.
Actual title: "The unapologetic style of a body bending photographer; Physical graffiti"
People have learned that bias is wrong. Never mind that being biased toward doing the right thing is not wrong, it will be called a bias, and it will be called wrong.

That's why people don't do it. The word "bias" strongly invites equivocation.
What does it take for a startup to be fundable?
Anybody knows if wine can run onenote? Probably my last full time windows software as a heavy note-taker
It might be a digest, but did they really have the stomach for it?
But the people most censored on social media in the West are alt-right. Are you saying that white people wanting their own communities and countries is a legitimate interest on par with the Tibetans wanting their own communities and country?
Just because its possible, doesn't mean we should!

I see nearly no good reason for any of those uses to be web-based, and certainly not with hardware control! If you want to store files on your flash drive, the browser should handle that, not give out direct usb access...

Hearing this exists was a shock, like when the first Android 'Instant' load app showed up on my phone (apps that you don't install, but run themselves if you goto a website or a physical store, and without asking you)
Drone could just take a flight path between a passenger airplane and the ground laser pods, such that shooting the laser would fry the airplane behind the drone. It isn't a great solution, when it ever works.
I would suggest this may be false equivalence. In the US, we have one party which insists on adherence to a few key ideas, and heretics will be outcast. The other is a much more diverse collection of people with a relatively more diverse set of ideas.

Unsurprisingly, the latter party is more comfortable with the idea that there aren’t simple solutions to important problems, while the former nominated a demagogue who for the most part can’t escape his soundbite politics.
Larry, Sergey, and Elon are called entrepreneurship, or at least I've never heard of anything they've done outside that. They are accountable to many people in their public acts, and especially in the case of G almost none of what they do is artful, quite the opposite really. Elon is a visionary, but still very much an entrepreneur.

Bill and Warren are engaging in philanthropy, which is equitable and far more commendable than my suggestion.

What I am suggesting is simply individualist exuberance outside the normal tangible goods and conventional arts.
I've seen this idea play out in a differen't industry and if your claim resembles something legitimate then it has promise. The only reason I say legitimate is because in the version I was privy to it was a disgruntled employee lying through her teeth about almost cartoonishly evil happenings. She was threatened with criminal prosecution for intentionally, key word there, trying to deceive the investigator.
I think that’s the problem with us-east-1: it’s the guinea pig region, so of course it’s going to have the most problems. If you don’t need cutting edge features, you shouldn’t be there.
The main benefit of using the Web Assembly GC is not improved performance within the language, but rather having a single GC that handles both native DOM objects and language objects. Having two GCs interoperate is a big pain, and it's very difficult to pull off without leaks or performance problems. This is especially true for DOM objects, which have no user-visible finalizers. (The closest thing is WeakMaps, but I don't believe these are enough to implement proper cross-language GC, because you can't query whether an potentially-dead object is actually dead.)

Web Assembly GC is not a performance optimization; it's necessary for correctness.
Might we one of the best single answers I've ever read on Quora. I see so many young entrepreneurs go out seeking funding and it hurts me because I know from experience that they don't stand a chance.

Not everyone can be like the founders of WhatsApp and have VC's knocking on your door pleading to give you funding. But isn't that the very definition of going as a king?
The shop could be completely empty, no queue, and the shopkeeper might be free and even bored, but chances are he still won't want to listen to a novice-intermediate foreigner practicing Dutch. Listening to halting speech can feel like a waste of your time even if you have nothing better to do.
This was a great read. Thank you!
If a theory isn't predictive, it isn't falsifiable. If it isn't falsifiable, then the theory isn't truly scientific.

This is a major issue/concern in advanced theoretical physics. Is it really physics if you can't experiment or is it just mathematics?

The foundation of science is falsiability within the scientific method. It's the core tenet.
I had a couple of websites in the late 90's but unfortunately they seem to have gone forever, since the hosting was part of my modem subscription. Sadly, it seems that the Internet Archive did not pick them up.
Well, unless the unreasonable seizures are being committed against "privileged" groups to guarantee equality of outcome (as opposed to equality of opportunity).
If there's one thing history shows starkly, it's that trying to fight a war without getting militarily involved does not end well.
BlockStack
- poor integration with the web browsers

Flash would effectively steal keyboard focus and render all the browser keyboard shortcuts unusable until you clicked away with your mouse.

I dunno if this is still the case: I've not used Flash since YouTube made their HTML5 player available (about 8 years ago).
How the heck is this website from a decade ago more secure than LinkedIn?
It's quite impressive how completely you miss the point.

What downandout meant was that it is dangerously easy for a woman, if she were so inclined, to destroy a man's career with unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment. It is much harder for a man to do that to another man, if both are straight.

I'm really not sure where the sexism comes in. Perhaps you could enlighten everyone.

Your knee-jerk reactions, calling people names ("sexist", "disgusting", "wrong and harmful" etc.) are the problem, not downandout's measured observation, and in fact it is exactly what he is talking about. When there's so many people like you, where is the debate? It's just pitchforks and lynching.
How flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s and improve memory
Conversely, it's arguable that we need social platforms that are immune to censorship by any state or private party. Such as properly implemented Tor onion services. But readily accessible from the open Internet.
First things first, Twitter. Small baby steps before you shoot yourself in the foot.

Focus first and foremost on getting rid of radicalizing terrorist content. That has been on your backlog for years now, while you prioritized more pressing matters, such as cutting off access to developers and apps. You kind of owe it to society and the parents of your teenage users to make this right.

Then, when it is 2023, go after the grieving trolls. Those who mock suicide victim families, DOX innocents, post indecent pictures of naked black people doing lewd things to watermelons. Some people may even help report such things manually for free.

Then bots. Kill 99% of all bots, keep only those with a 1000+ legit followers, or make bot owners verify them with a cute droid badge.

Then after one of Trump's tweets starts WWIII, and you are as significant as Myspace, maybe you can have a look at the health and civility of online conversation.

I'd start with a "My Safe Space" button, where you can automatically unsubscribe to all posts about a certain topic/containing a certain trigger word. If you can't wait that long, there is an easy fix to remove 50% of uncivil content by going back to a 140 character limit. I feel that was closer to the healthy and civilized discussion platform you envisioned Twitter to be when you started it.
us-east-1 feels like the region where Amazon rolls things out first. This has two primary effects:

* sometimes new things break in unexpected ways

* sometimes things get changed for the Rev. B and those revisions don’t get done in Virginia because they’ve already completed the Rev. A rollout.

Also, there’s a secondary effect: because it’s the “default” region, it has a LOT more tenants, which means it probably has scaling and HA problems that none of the other regions do.
I think there is a serious national security argument to be made against having the U.S. internet connect freely to Russian, Chinese, and other geopolitical adversary's internet.
I was really interested in applying recently, until I saw what their interview process entails, and laughed. I can understand "hire slow", but 7 rounds of interviews is way too much to ask of candidates, and indicates a navel gazing culture I want no part of.