skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's it exactly, he only wants people that finds his service of tremendous value. I think it makes sense as a way to deter casual sign ups.
I have always appreciated them for that, too. Not respecting the desire to close your account is a separate issue. Fighting patent trolls doesn't make up for their refusal to let you protect your information.
> Taiwan is not a part of the PRC

According to Taiwan. How does this theory play with the American civil war? The confederate states didn't consider themselves part of the union. Was the North therefore imposing sovereignty on a foreign nation?

They were both fighting for sovereignty of all of China. After the war they both continued to consider themselves to be sovereign to all China. Indeed, to this day they both make that claim.

For what it's worth, I agree that to all practical intents they are separate nations and should be such. I think both nations should drop their claims on each other. But only due to the fact that it's been the de facto situation for seventy years. I see no reason why the losing side of a civil war is instantly granted nationhood on cessation of fighting.
One of the Ethereum guys is working on a new smart contract language called Bamboo that looks pretty interesting.
> “I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet,” said Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive officer Michael Lynton. “Period.” (2009)[1]

Later also CEO Sony Entertainment, and COB Snapchat.

> At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Lynton wasn’t just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has “created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It’s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ‘Give it to me now,’ and if you don’t give it to them for free, they’ll steal it.”

> Lynton tried out another simile. Referring to the Obama administration’s goal to spread broadband access without, he said, regulating piracy, Lynton compared it with building highway systems without speed limits or driver’s licenses. “We do need rules of the road,”

US society is composed of many little overlapping subcultures. With diverse views. Often with major groupthink and filter bubbles. And some stable for decades.

[1] http://wwd.com/business-news/media/memo-pad-uniqlo-nabs-deyn...
This page doesn't make sense: you say Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information at the top, and then immediately list, e.g. "Outlook Mail: Delete Account? Yes".

This makes them sound like they do delete your account information. If there is something specific that they don't delete, it might be best to highlight that.

Also I am unsure what "Track" means.

And how can you Delete Account be unknown? Did you try? If not, how can you claim they are naughty?
For Me:

News Feed - Apple News, Feedly

Groups - Reddit, BAND

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While I agree with your list of things that would help there is a significant problem I've been thinking about with respect to everything that's been happening lately. There is no "government" that does anything, its all people. The quality of people we have making up our (where FOSTA/SESTA is) government are not the type of people that at the end of the day could work with anyone like drug dealers or sex workers. Then you have the problem of the types of people that could work with drug dealers and sex workers may have more fluid ethics that could be corrupted in some ways. For example, if everyone could be like Violet Blue that would be one thing. But I could imagine some less than savory person applying for the job but with the intent to look the other way for some payback. I think we really need to stop thinking about the problems as if there is some uncorruptable benevolent "government" that is going to help us. And start think about systems that are realistically run by fallible people but have checks and balances in place to remove corruption. Like maybe the "terrible" government is responsible for punishing only? I don't know how to solve the problems honestly, just seems like we are looking where the light is rather than where we lost our keys (maybe down the sewer).
This suggests Project Bright Idea is a perfect system without bias or room for improvement.

That strikes me as an unrealistic evaluation of the system. The safe assumption is if a child isn't thriving, we haven't learned how to teach them to do so.
Chernoff Faces are one of those HCI ideas that seem clever but have never really worked great in practice. See also: pie menus, zoomable user interfaces. At least those latter two show up occasionally in real products, I don't think I've ever seen Chernoff Faces used in a final product.
You’re lucky, in a sense. I have been standing and fighting in the ’mud’ for a decade because we have a family business to defend and preserve, for the benefit of my family and all those who are employed by it. It’s a totally dispiriting experience.
Thanks for the feedback - totally agree with you! We will incorporate the change into our next release in a couple of weeks :)
I don't see a need to be partisan about it. The dynamics of power and corruption are strong enough that whichever 'side' they pick is relatively irrelevant.
3rd party knowing about your social network is one thing; do you not also worry about Facebook knowing about all these 3rd party things too?
Why Windows Defender Antivirus is the most deployed in the enterprise
The idea of your life's accomplishments resounding loudly after you die seems like an overly lofty expectation. Kind of proud. What are you imagining for yourself? Invent something miraculous? Become President? It's unrealistic.

You can still make the world around you a better place and make your life worthwhile for the greater good. Work hard and do your job well. Be a good friend to others, and a good partner. Have children and raise them well. Donate to the less fortunate and improve your community. They aren't going to erect monuments to you for that, but if you do those things, which are certainly in your power, you will be seen as a bright light and example to others in your circle, and you will make the world a better place.
Show HN: How does the current S&P 500 correction compare to prior ones?
These are amazing too:

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

I've never been able to find one that I could afford though.
What does "done to us" mean? is your thesis that obese Americans have no agency in what and how much they eat, or in how they treat their own bodies?
Help kids to grasp the different concepts of science in form of story because kids score good grades but have no idea of how things are working. Actually a wish to revive the era when Muslims were good both in scientific and religious knowledge. I am targeting locals hence will be writing in Urdu. Not easy work though, specially picking a topic and then convert to a story and respective illustration.
We’re currently considering PCF and their methodology. The VP pushing it has said that the cost means it has to be a success. Or, to be more clear, management knows their necks are on the block if they screw up a very overtly expensive culture change.

Not sure how honest the metrics around success will actually be...
I can only find documentation on how to deactivate a Slack account, not delete it. Kayako allows you to delete an account, but after multiple requests.

What do you suggest I change the weight to?
Removing the concept of failure from my mind has been instrumental in helping me unlock my potential. Society could probably benefit from this.

Learn. Or learn not. There is no fail.
Let PlusPrivacy manage your social network privacy
I just took a look at this and I don't think that the real win in terms of productivity is the fact that you are building an app with a visual environment or code. Both of them are roughly equivalent.

What likely set them apart is the building blocks they provide. If you are a consulting company and building apps for businesses, you are likely doing the same thing over and over and over again for every business. Once you build an hospital management system for three hospitals, the fourth one isn't going to look that different. There are tens of thousands (more?) hospitals in the world which all need such a system.

So the likely next step is to invest in good building blocks that are needed: I want a dashboard with last week patient intake. All of this logic is put inside of a component ready to be dragged & dropped / included in your project and it saves you weeks rather than trying to rebuild it for the nth time.
Bamboo looks quite interesting. I think it’s mainly focused on modelling the state changes smart contracts undergo more explicitly.
https://github.com/pirapira/bamboo
What do you base that on? I thought some industrial applications actually required much finer tolerances. Things like telescope mirrors. It probably depends on what you consider to be a mechanical tool.
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I know I'm cruisin' for a bruisin' here karma-wise, but I just don't understand what they are trying to do with their company mission.

From my perspective, Dropbox actually facilitates an old, broken way of creating and sharing documents using desktop applications from the 1990s and earlier. Google, by combining drive with docs, allows users to completely escape desktop applications, which to me is really the next generation of computing. To make this more concrete, if a company adopts Google Drive, they can issue employees much cheaper computers (lowering capex) because they don't have to be able to run heavyweight OS and application software like Windows and MacOS. Dropbox isn't even an entrant into that space, and I don't really see how they could compete.

When I look at a company and find out they're using Dropbox, I always think to myself that they probably made that choice either because they've been using it for a long time, or because they didn't want to go to the effort to change their business processes to really embrace network computing. I imagine office workers running Word instead of Chrome, and that bothers me. Either way, I see Dropbox positioned as a stopgap to allow companies to avoid plowing ahead with new work paradigms while still enabling sharing of files without using things like USB keys.

I don't work for either company, never have. But I remain confused about Dropbox's mission. Short of being acquired by someone, I can't see the way forward for them. But, they just raised a ton of cash, so I'm as excited as anyone to see what they try.

EDIT: I want to briefly respond to the argument in this thread that it's a _good_ thing that Dropbox doesn't tie an office suite to sharing files. I simply disagree. I don't see how that is a real concrete negative to anyone unless it's for political reasons ("I don't want Google to be too powerful"). I _do_ however see how it's a problem for the vast majority of office workers who, using Dropbox, have to either keep using desktop applications or (shudder) create documents in something like Google Docs and then reupload them into Dropbox. So, at best Dropbox's independence strikes me as neutral, but for most people it seems clearly negative.
Microsoft was the company who pioneered use of Moore's piece table data structure in MS Word in the 90s. It is fascinating to read that the new generation of MS programmers in VS code had to re-learn the same lessons that the old generation did.
Will GDPR save us from the products on this list?
What ranking factors would you suggest I add to cover Uber?
Predicting cancer outcomes from histology and genomics using convolutional nets
It is a short leap from believing that the American people are not responsible for what they do to their bodies, to believing that they are not responsible for the contents of their mind. What else are they not responsible for?
To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.
It's also another way to say bathroom in Serbian! I had no idea other languages used it, too.
( Aside: link to preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08257 )

tl;dr: parochialism is convenient

Practically anyone doing real astronomy will use a well-defined continuous Earth-centric (or solar-system barycentric) timescale for a variety of reasons including reproducibility within the solar system (after all, astronomers on Earth only have other Earth-bound/near-Earth astronomers to communicate with at present) and the uncertainties in (spacetime) position of astronomical objects dwarfing the precision of local timescales (e.g. TT or TAI). Describing observables at one timestamp (a form of gauge fixing) is convenient, but pushes the uncertainty into the spatial slice thus fixed, and a suitable choice of coordinates can push most of that uncertainty into one of the three spacelike axes.

Since there is a gauge freedom -- meaning you can choose to slice up the spacetime position arbitrarily -- you would be perfectly free to use coordinates fixed on the observed object as you are doing, but that's incovenient for discussing the relationship between a distant object and a closer one, and because uncertainties in spacetime position for astronomical objects are commonplace and demand revision when new data provides a better estimate of position.

Concretely, you say "two or three days", capturing the uncertainty in distance to Prox. Cen. That's rather worse than the sub-second errors in the ALMA timestamp data (e.g. JD 2457836.8349, one of the timestamps in the preprint). Moreover, further observation of the alpha Cen. system will almost inevitably reduce uncertainties in position of Prox. Cen., which raises the question of whether one should go back and revise any timestamps like your "two or three days before New Year's Eve 2012" as better data enable better retrodiction of its position relative to Earth.

Fixing a Gregorian-like date on a set of spacetime coordinates originating on an event at a celestial object is a false de-parochialization; that is, it's no more general. If there are astronomers on Proxima b, it would be a stunning coincidence if their start-of-year aligned with our start-of-year on that orbit (and we don't know enough about the rotation of Proxima b to talk about their local length-of-day). Astronomers elsewhere in the galaxy (and in particular in our future) are unlikely to be helped by swapping observations-at-JD-xxxyyy for a best guess of local-to-event observables inferred by retrodiction from those same Earth-bound observations.
If so, this could allow front facing cameras and webcams to be placed dead center of the screen, allowing 0 bezels without awkward camera placement like Dell XPS has.
Tesla assists in removing battery pack after fatal crash resulted in a fire
I keep using Thunderbird because I haven't found anything better, but it's unbearably slow. I'd gladly jump ship to a better cross platform, featureful, responsive email client, but apparently they don't make these anymore.
So I can record anything that's not commercial or encrypted or in a protected/regulated band, and put it on line?

Anything in ISM band or anything said on unencypted 'walkie talkie' bands e.g. Family Radio Service?
I would read the heck out of a book that purported this.
Italy is not ”hyper-socialist”; presupposing it is merely renders conversation about the causes difficult. Rather, the country’s growth model was for decades based on a manufacturing economy whose competitiveness was sustained by progressive devaluation of the currency, for as long as one was available. Similarly, growth was funded by public debt whose affordability derived from inflation. The houses somebody mentions: those are mainly owned by the people themselves, as a manner of protecting their savings.

Italy’s been brought down not by socialism but by incomplete, inchoate, puerile mismanagement rooted in a misunderstanding in what capitalism actually is.
I was in the GATE program in Utah [1] growing up and it was very project based. I think all education should encourage projects. In one case, we had to come up with products for younger kids and present and research the ideas, brainstorm, build prototypes, do user testing, and deliver it. A key aspect of the program was brainstorming which no idea is a bad idea but the best ideas floated to the top, this is important to learning.

Finland is tops in education and lots of their teaching is letting kids pursue projects together and individually especially, the latter is very important for self-confidence.
Finland does this through project- or phenomenon-based learning (PBL)[2]. This empowers kids and more closely resembles real life, you constantly have projects of all sorts going on in your life over overlapping timeframes, sometimes in a team, sometimes all by yourself.

The best teachers also encourage projects. My 6th grade teacher had Apple II's and let us experiment with building games in BASIC of which I built a Tron game. I still think of it to this day. He also always had access to educational games like Oregon Trail. My high school computer lab teacher Mr Iles had gaming, programming and media/internet hardware and software setup to experiment with, many of the kids in that class and group are great programmers and some worked for intel while there. We had TV running on computers and internet before most saw those things and built things on it. He also let us play Scorched Earth and let programming projects be self-driven. My art teachers did critiques so you learned to take criticism and explain why. At Chandler High School there was a video class where you had to come up with video content, edit, produce, direct, write etc and that was amazing in terms of fun projects where I learned a great deal. All of this led to great educational outcomes both in team projects and individual.

As long as a program is project based, a kid from anywhere or any level can benefit. We need more project based education in the US. Most gifted programs that do well do have a project based element to it, but not dictated to the kids as much as curriculum but a set of requirements and the rest is a creative exercise.

[1] https://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/giftedtalented

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523
First, achieving a stable financial situation. Then, the big goal:

Making the world better by:
- Stopping the mass murder of animals
- Bringing the demise of irrational practices such as religion and astrology
- Pushing knowledge forward by contributing to science or teaching those who will hopefully do so, and by making the software environment tidier
Yes, there has to be a will to do it. It is distressing that in the US at least there is a widespread movement in the other direction. It threatens to make shittier for us all (except those who are completely insulated, of course).
Group Opposing Sex Work Gave Money to Prosecutors: Got Stings Against Johns
Yup totally and I'd argue that if you have chops for Game Design then you probably would also do very well doing IxD[1].

If you're an animator there's plenty of gigs doing motion design in places you wouldn't consider.

I know a ton of ex-gamedev who've landed in these roles and done quite well.

[1] Interaction Design
I was actually toying with the idea of replacing our custom-made, rather limited shop system with something entirely based on Google Sheets.

We have rather low requirements, which is why I'm resisting existing shop systems. They all seem like overkill to me.

But from time to time, someone wants a some statistics, or needs to send emails to "everyone who bought in the last four weeks". These are trivial for me to compile in SQL, but a spreadsheet would allow others to quickly work with the data.

Unfortunately, the Sheets API at around one second per request was too slow for my tastes when I last checked it out.
"this is Hollywood helping to make this bill happen in the first place as part of its ongoing effort to remake the internet away from being a communications medium for everyone, and into a broadcast/gatekeeper dominated medium where it gets to act as the gatekeeper."

Agreed. People have been saying this for years.

It isn't just hollywood. The news media, the political elites, NGOs, etc are supporting this for the same reason. It's also the reason for the attacks against social media and the push against net neutrality.

Instead of the internet/social media/search engines/etc being a medium where people proactively communicate and look for things that interest them. These corporatists and politicians want the internet to be a medium of broadcast where they choose what you see and how you communicate.

It's been a going on for years. Look at how google now filters search and how youtube pushes their content. Look at all the content being removed from reddit. And soon ISPs will start throttling content they disagree with.

The people with money and power want this so it'll continue to happen. And they aren't doing it all at once. They are doing it in stages. Each iteration, there is more censorship. Us mere mortals can't do anything about it. Sadly, it's happening all over the world now. Europe, Russia, China, etc are all turning the internet from a medium of open and free communication to a broadcasting platform.
You might enjoy Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802312-stop-thief
I'm choosing to not enroll my future children in the education system or capitalism, for that matter, for exactly this reason.

My kids' teachers will be there community, with myself and my partner as facilitators. It's time to get back to learning how to learn together.
UK investigators search London office of firm at center of Facebook data storm
That's great to hear! Gough Island is 3x larger and has a similar rodent problem. [1] A mission like this is planned for 2019 and will cost £7.6m. The organization in charge is accepting donations. [2] Eradicating mice could prevent the death of over 600,000 seabird chicks per year.

[1] https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/gough...

[2] https://www.rspb.org.uk/join-and-donate/donate/appeals/gough...
Yes, but only EU companies have to comply, and those who by extension is subject to the same rules by treaty, mainly the EEA and EFTA as well.
what in the world does a yes or no in the "tracking" column mean?
Relative to point (3), housing is owned by families as a method of saving because historically inflation was high and home ownership is a coveted value.
Very timely. I'm working on writing mine down this weekend. This is where my current thoughts are going: I want to live my life in a manner the inspires and encourages everyone I cross paths with to be the best they can be, to give their best, to continual strive to improve .5 % everyday. I want to be a bucket filler and to live out that attitude is more important than aptitude.
> Does that assume that all of the components (browser and server) support 1.2 as well?

No: a client, server, and MITM proxy can all be exclusively TLS 1.3 and everything will still work(+).

(+) as much as it did with TLS 1.2, anyway.
How is a spreadsheet scalable for a large organization? The team or person might be better off but CRMs and other tools help the organization standardize their processes.

What happens when this person leaves? What if business starts booming and you need to scale up? Are you really better off sharing a spreadsheet between a 100 or more people?