skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one will hopefully be solved quick by the company, but think of what would have happened if this was a piece of technology sold in hundreds thousands pieces by a company now out of business: instant tons of electronic junk that would be instead perfectly useable if there was a law mandating all software/hardware details to be released if either of these conditions are met: IP owner going out of business, company declaring the product obsolete and stopping any technical support or upgrade, product sales plummeting due to competing or new models. The first two are obvious while the third one would allow some of the devices to be repurposed instead of thrown away.
I've saved a good number of old access points / routers from the landfill by installing OpenWRT/Lede where possible o their latest available firmware,pairing them together, adding homemade external antennas (small Wifi antenna enclosed in white PVC pipe plus self bonding tape, silicone sealant and heatshrink, RF240 cable and RP/SMA or N connector: => years exposed to sun, rain and snow with zero problems). I install them at really low prices to customers who need a cheap wifi bridge from point A to B. I would love to do a similar "afterlife" service to old cellphones, but none of them could host a true native Linux install because of how tightly closed the underlying hardware is, and all of them sooner than later are doomed to be thrown away.

The problem lays in the IP. It's considered to be a vital asset so that when a company goes belly up it will survive kept years or decades in a safe by law firms in the hope someone will buy it, or just to make profits through litigation against infringers. Unfortunately this has a deleterious effect on products derived from that IP, the people who bought them and the people living where the unusable products will be trashed.
I had one of these. I hated it. I went back to cassettes- you couldn't run with a discman.
> That would destroy all abandoned or poorly maintained software within a couple of years.

Some might call this a feature.
Considering that as we age we lose some of our neurons - even if not _because_ of aging itself but for other reasons such as drugs or disease - there still could be an observable difference in both 'plasticity' of our brain and our capability to learn.
anyone has any recommendation for VueJs?
TFA does read like... drumroll... fake news!
Out of curiosity, have you looked at Mattermost? How does it compare? About three years ago when open source Slack alternatives were starting to hit, Mattermost and Rocket.Chat were the top options. GitLab even ended up bundling Mattermost with their Omnibus installer (and were going to bundle Rocket.Chat as well, had they made it possible to support Postgres, but I don't think that's the plan any longer).
I am referring to the native screen readers and the extensions browsers provide. Accessible users don't give a shit about the APIs, they aren't programming screen readers for themselves...

The native screen reader built into windows doesn't work well with web pages, so you have to get your own tool (sorry, screen reader) specifically for reading webpages. The browsers all have some extensions for this. So yes, now you have two tools to use - the native screen reader and the browser. And they both are garbage (I've used both while my license for JAWS was pending).
I disagree.

You're trying to distinguish between privacy and identity.

If there's a dividing line, it's very, very hard to discern.
Can I just say I found this thread very informative for tackling encryption on a web text editor/document storage:)
It's an interesting reaction. "I didn't bother looking at the studies, but I bet the doctors who studied this didn't realize that correlation != causation, didn't realize that Sri Lanka had a civil war, didn't realize Sri Lanka's economy was growing, etc."

It's worth keeping in mind when people wonder how there could be so many people who reject certain scientific findings. A lot of the time it's a similar attitude - "I'm not going to bother looking at the studies, but I'm guessing the people who studied it didn't think of the problem that immediately cam to my mind, and as such their results are probably wrong."
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The electoral college, like it or not, is the law of the land. I don't think anybody is truly claiming he was chosen by the people- it would be hard to make that argument in good faith given the obvious facts.
Thanks for this article. I'm looking at adding payments to a small project I've been making so this is really helpful stuff to think about.
Which will add another checkbox that you have to tick once when entering a website. EU is not the ally of ordinary folk when it comes to the Internet.
Money for schools, roads, subways, police etc has to come from somewhere, and if high-income earners flee (because of being overtaxed) to nearby low-tax areas then taxes go up on everyone else to cover the shortfall, or services are cut.

I favor a tax increase on the wealthy but I'm just saying implementing such a policy is more difficult than it sounds, especially because NJ and CT are so close by.
You're not looking at the data at all, and making assumptions about the scientists who did the research without even bothering to read beyond a podcast headline.
Sure, but it'll ultimately be because of a hot new UX or feature that Slack didn't think of, not battery life.
It is almost seems like you are saying there are technical reasons for them dropping IRC....
Users worried about their privacy can always choose not to use it.

The more likely attack vector is simply capturing scenes through the front camera. That would give you, most of the time, an image of the face of the user, not just depth mapping information of questionable value.

But really, nearly everyone shares images of themselves online, so even that's of dubious value.

I'd challenge you to find any security expert who agrees that Face ID as Apple implements it can realistically result in useful biometric data being leaked to a hostile party. Apple supplies whitepapers documenting the secure enclave, I imagine there's one for Face ID.

Now, the question of whether Face ID is secure enough for any given user's needs as a local authentication is a perfectly valid question, and clearly for some users the answer is no. But, again, it's optional, and that's not at all the threat under discussion.
If the browser crashes when rendering a site is the site dangerous or the browser buggy?
an OEM of a technology that noone wants to use?

I hope the content is really good and worth the experience, otherwise this is useless. But I am still afraid that if they have to create their own content it might not make sense as a business, why people wouldn't be interested in created content for the next audiovisual platform?

I don't think the PC is the problem here.
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> I can see why this would end in suspension - you even mention yourself that when launching the bot (Even on a limited number of repos) you had bugs which messed up README's....

It just opens a PR though, it's not like it actually breaks anything.

The one big issue is that it's spammy.

At the same time, I wonder how you could contact maintainers to see if they're interested, I feel opening an issue would be just as spammy, to say nothing of DM-ing maintainers, or tagging them on issues in your own repository.

You'd want this sort of behaviours to be opt-in, but at the same time you'd be limited by awareness. It's not like this is a big/complex change so chances are the maintainers just don't know about the issue or how to fix it.
PG is certainly a smart man, who has written some compelling essays. However, whenever I see a reference to Hackers and Painters, I am always reminded of the rebuttal essay Dabblers and Blowhards [0], which is rather amusing and insightful IMHO.

[0] http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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It is not a couple of AAA, it is the majority of games industry, the guys that actually attend GDC and publish console games.
Microsoft, during last 20 years, had many APIs that were the future. They were deprecated slightly later.

The licenses won't expire; the support will stop. UWP is not automatic successor, many apps are on Windows because of Win32 and that nobody wants to rewrite decades worth of code. Kill that and you kill Windows.
It's kind of like reverse micropayments, in most cases the actual value of your "puppy pictures" etc is only valuable in the aggregate.
Waze can't do anything like this: https://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/route-optimization/
I see this phenomenon quite a lot, even on HN. Supposing we find a planet that is conducive to life, how can we avoid exporting all of humanity's cultural and biological baggage to that new civilization? Aside from the exploitation and near-genocide that took place in the Western hemisphere, how is it really any different that the opening up of those continents, but with a bigger ocean between? I've seen other discussions try to route around this question by talking about Mars or some other hostile environment as perfect for the type of co-operative commune they imagine humanity could be, one where people must rely on each other or die. I don't see a qualitative difference between that environment and the deserts of the American West, where the climate was harsh and water scarce.

Those migrations didn't bring utopia, either to the participants or the rest of humanity.
If there's something that I began to scratch and easily loose myself is imagining how do you program something using qubits, how the language looks like, or even an algorithm. In few seconds I come back to the 0-or-1 kind of thinking and can't advance.
Github Applications exist for that. It's basically a bot you specifically opt into.

The main issue is one of discovery.

Though I imagine you could build an application to notify users of new fixer applications. Maintainers would opt into that for their accounts/repositories, it would then match repositories & applications submitted to it and ping submitters when an application looks… applicable.

> Github would then run the service nightly themselves. Developers could opt-out of the service if they wanted.

It would be just as bad as TFA's.
Your story is a big part of why I invested (Probably $1,000 over 11 years) in some equipment for home. Just the basics. Squat rack, bench (two now), barbell, and weights. I realize this isn't an option for everyone. But, for those who can, and also can't stand people like three towels guy, it's a good alternative.
To me, that's like saying grandma doesn't deserve to keep $2 million house she bought many years ago for $20 thousand because someone with $2 million wants her property.
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At Google they use a system called Rosie to do something similar: https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-st...
Eh, maybe the issue is we're all so bad at recognizing bias that we can't even imagine what "neutral" would be like.
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They wanted huge success, sure. But changing the world wasn't their intent. It was mere consequences.

Steve wanted to build best computer. Bill wanted a PC in every household.
Surprising that Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness, Jai) is missing, given that Casey Muratori is listed (the other really popular game dev that streams).

Nevertheless, he streams game development and creating his programming language at @Naysayer88 on twitch and regularly posts his videos to Youtube. Skip the beginning of his stream or you may be instilled with the overwhelming desire to go out and buy cupcakes.

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow

* Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88

* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888
(Assuming this is a true story) this is very unsettling and makes me anxious, not only for the Chinese people but also for companies that do business there.

"I’m really curious why you don’t want to use Guizhou-Cloud Big Data’s service," the technical advisor asked Qin during their recorded conversation.

This quote in particular made me cringe. If you haven't read the article, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data is a state-owned service where Chinese customers' iCloud data is now stored. The terminated Apple employee was implying that that Qin had something to hide, and regardless of whether that is true, Qin will surely end up on a government watch list after this ordeal.

Chinese HNers - what is the attitude over there in light of this and recent actions taken by Xi Jinping and the communist party?
> Their "taking into account" seems like mere handwaving away. How would the ending of a civil war not be associated with an increase in mental health?

From the paper:

> The temporal changes in suicide do not appear to correspond with the period of civil war (1983-2002).[27] By the time of the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, Sri Lankan suicide rates were already extremely high – 37.6 per 100,000 in 1982. In subsequent years, suicide rates stabilised. The civil war was still in progress at the time suicide rates began declining in 1995. By the time of the ceasefire in 2002 rates had already halved, and suicides rates were relatively stable in the 3 years after the ceasefire.

They also link to studies showing that wars tend to be associated with decreased the rates of suicide.
That would be a good way to prove that FB do this.

But it wouldn't work to disprove it. Presumably neither the lack of whistleblowers nor a whistleblower who claims "We definitely don't do this" would convince people.
I would actually really appreciate a bot that does that. There are so many bandges which are broken which is just annoying and many maintainers do not care about the readme once they have written it. They do accept pull requests but don’t update it manually.

And since the bot is only creating pull requests, I don’t see any harm: worst case for my repo, it would brake the readme but I double check it just like any other pull request, realize that it messed up, and fix it myself (but I would be thankful the bot noticed the broken link and I have a motivation to fix it).

What is a bit problematic about this bot would be that, due to a bug, it starts spamming (creating 1000 of pull requests) flagging false positives, etc).

Furthermore, it is also important where to draw the line. A bot that notices something is broken and offers me a fix is ok. A bot that notices I use a working service X and offers a pull requests to use service Y could be problematic because it might be useful but might also be annoying (because it is advertising, and service X might be good enough for me.
I wish this were a networked database that I could just slap on a Digital Ocean droplet and query from anywhere.
It's also conflating a bunch of stuff that goes into Google's valuation that isn't directly tied to ownership of your data. Once upon a time, Google just made a search engine, and that search engine quickly took over the world. Google made a lot of money plopping ads on search results long before you could create a Google account or store all your email there. Presumably, the technical ability to build products like that is worth actual money. If Google deleted all personal data, the company would not be worth $0.
Apparently a lot of people know him, or know of him, so it becomes "news" of sorts, if out of place in HN context. Can you feel the pressure not to say anything except a condolence message? I certainly can, but I won't because I've never heard of him.

If the man himself had died, I get why that might find its way here because then you could talk about his work etc.

Personal loss happens to every one of us, be it family or friends. It's part of life, it's heart breaking, it's horrible, it sucks, it's painful. Then, you draw strength from their memory and move on because there's no other choice.
This has unrelated but equally nasty side effects, though.
What is a developer evangelist?
I've always wondered if it was a defense mechanism of some people with certain attitudes about their own intelligence or achievement.
You should try rock climbing gyms. It's a really fun way to workout.
Sounds like feigned outrage to me; you're conflating a software product (WP plugin in this case) w/ an ongoing SaaS product -- I don't see how you could expect one to honoured by the other.

Are you still able to use the Plugin? Or are your forced to use the SaaS product?

> so you can continue using the Wordpress version... and we're going to keep support it

Yep, you still have your WP Plugin w/ "Lifetime Support", don't see a problem, sorry.
The specific biochemical mechanism of lithium action in stabilizing mood is unknown. So no, Lithium is not a simple drug other than its small chemical formula. Amphetamines on the other hand are understood quite well. I have taken amphetamines myself, and still do occasionally. Ive actually done almost every drug under the sun. So I know exactly how amphetamines feel and function. And there is nothing to amphetamines, slighty more to phenyldates, and slightly more to racetams. There is a reason amphetamines are called speed on the street. Your psyche has locked itself into binary habits, where you are unable to perform without amphetamines. Ultimately, speed is not a real changer in anything other than...well..speed of function and stamina. So everything done on speed can be done normally. But I totally understand if you have grown accustomed to becoming a shy shell of a potato sack depending on whether you are sped or not. It is easy to forget that not even alcoholics drink every day, all day. But "Durr adhd" means lets speed all day. Shape up and face the music. Your cardiovascular sysyem will thank you. Just pray you don't have a myocardial infarction before then..
Imagine instead of Green and Red, it could be either Green or Red, or Blue or Yellow. If you measure it's Red/Green-ness, one will be red, and the other will be green. If you measure it's Blue/Yellow-ness, one will be blue and the other will be yellow. You can't measure the blue/yellow-ness of one and the red/green-ness of the other. As soon as one is measured, the other collapses into a particular color.
The guy running the show at the Appimage organization routinely runs a bot that automatically creates thousands of issues asking maintainers of random repositories to create Appimage builds, or if there already is an Appimage build it asks them to comply with good Appimage practices, or to fix paths or icons, and so on. Why can they do that with no problems while this less known but more useful bot can't? According to the description here, the bot was useful because it was fixing minor issues in an automated, easy to integrate way with no reasonable downsides to maintainers (other than having to eyeball the pull request and merge it).
Yes, the bot made broken pull requests to some 35 repos before all the issues were ironed out. As a maintainer of those repos, I would be annoyed at these 'corrections'.

For my part, I manually corrected all of them and apologized to the maintainers for any inconvenience. The corrected pull requests were accepted, and the bot went on to submit correct fixes to several hundred other repos.

There's always the opportunity for bugs, but once they were ironed out it was able to happily submit correct fixes for hundreds more. I think that makes the idea worth something.
>"... or the difficulty of building new housing stock in the city."

What difficulty? I'm guessing you haven't visited NYC in quite some tie. New York City has experienced an almost continuous building boom for the last 20 years. See the NYC Construction Dashboard:

http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/dob-development-re...

Note the the graph for "NYC Employment: Construction of Buildings (2000 - 2016)"

>"The endless red tape in new construction makes non-luxury bulidings unprofitable."

"Luxury" has become little more than a cliche marketing term used in promotional material. Almost all new construction has things like a roof deck or Amazon lockers and so is termed as "luxury."

Please provide a citation or any evidence that demonstrates the existence of "endless red tape" in NYC as a barrier to new construction.
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That fact makes it possible, but as he pointed out, they were taking photos at different rates of burst mode, and even then they happened to snap at the same millisecond. Usually each picture in burst mode of moving water is completely different. I think in that gas it makes sense that they would choose the same subject and the same photo since it was probably the biggest splash from that wave. As if they were choosing from the same set of photos, even though all their other photos had different moments.
It's worse than that. We currently don't even have the right to determine who has our data, or how its being exploited.

The remedy, of course, is to establish intrinsic properties rights over our own data. No different than copyrights.

Maybe we need a new catchphrase.

I propose bodyrights. It captures the notions of self, privacy, identity, and sovereignty all in one.
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> ...therefore I judge the title as "click-bait-y"

I think you're out-of-line here.

It's fine to be suspicious of relative percentages, but that just means you need to dig into the numbers to understand it.

In this case underlying numbers are huge... With a population of 22 million, this is a drop from about 12,500 suicides to around 3,700 per year. And, the suicide rates themselves are high as your own source points out, so a large proportionate change is quite significant from that perspective as well. Your argument would make sense for a similar proportionate change for a country near the bottom of of the wikipedia list, but not the top.

To your second point, yes, it's hard to have complete certainty (there's no way to ethically or morally test something like this in a scientifically rigorous way) but they do attempt to account for other factors.

It's not like people shouldn't try to reduce suicide rates and attempt to measure the results of those efforts the best they can, simply because they can't have rigorous certainty in those measurements.