skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But blockchain means all the information is public. So, author thinks it's better to just publish all your stuff by yourself on blockchain than it could be leaked from the evil Facebook's private database?
> if users would simply pay for the services they use there would be no point to track and analyze ... behavior.

Couldn't they make even more profit by doing both? If they find the optimal balance?

I pay for cable TV, and still see lots of ads, so I guess I'm cynical.
German and Austrian inspection toilets terrify me.
work, eat, sleep, repeat—an uninspiring 9to6 job does not help getting art done
Are you saying it's irresponsible, then, to publish a novel whose plot revolves around the success of perpetual growth (or success of a civilization embracing perpetual growth)? Influential or not, we shouldn't censor media that we find enjoyable because its real world counterpart is destructive.
> fear of leftist politics...

What I said, huh?! Maybe before you throw in the Stasi Wikipedia article, you should check out the CCC's. They advocate for a strong state regulations, strong democratic structures and freedom of the individual, including privacy. Transparency for the state, privacy for the individual. Large parts of their member base are anticapitalists and anarchists, minding the collective welfare, so I figured from an American perspective that's quite far left.

You won't find advertisement or any commercial interests on their very large conferences, which are completely organized and managed by volunteers. On every level. There is absolutely no tolerance for right wing ideas, police or military.

That's why I think their political background here is important, they always been activists advocating for everyone's welfare and rights. Something rather unusual for non left wing politics.
You should look into using heaptrack instead, it's much much faster than valgrind and has a very efficient UI - the memory flamegraphs in particular are fantastic. It's built by folks at KDAB so works fine with KDE / Qt apps.
Why not publish to your own site and syndicate to Medium?
Yeah, they all have skeletons in their closet don’t they :-/
I am so glad to hear encrypted ZFS is stable and working. Thanks for sharing that.
I don't really see what are the benefits of using React in an internet shop. SPA are good for interactive and complicated interfaces, but an internet shop is mostly a set of static pages - product lists, search and product pages. I hope they don't use React for the static part of the page and only use it for rendering the cart and other interactive parts.
The byline says "High-precision" but I could not find any benchmarks or scientific analysis. What does high precision mean here? How stable is it?

What about privacy of the users? Does the server know where everyone is?
Keep in mind that this is lossy compression.

The following examples demonstrate the benefits and
disadvantages of the current iteration of this aggressive
space saving lossy transformation strategy. In many cases,
optimization with Crunch will lead to excellent space
savings and an imperceptible decrease in image quality.
As a sentient being, I also feel the urge to support an individual against a company. And I am sure that finders-keepers is an intuition ingrained not to just humans, but to the whole nature.

However, as I try taking this not-personal, and resolve this more logically than just sentimentally, it becomes really hard to make any sense of the fact that the domain nissan.com belongs a company that almost nobody knows (Nissan Computers), when a significant fraction of the human population would (falsely) assume that the domain belongs to another company (Nissan Motors) to which they might even try to reach by directly typing "www.nissan.com" on their browsers' address bar, without even searching for it on Google/Bing/whatever.

In the end, the fact that http://nissan.com/ points to somewhere else than Nissan Motors Company's (NMC) website is even detrimental against the overall experience of the Internet's users. Almost nobody heading to that website expects to see some place else than NMC's website. Even Uzi Nissan would be very much unhappy about it, if it was not a website visit, but a phone call. It is like a constant wrong-number situation.
Oh, thanks! Now I know what I'm reading on the commute tomorrow.
Even better:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Open-Sesame
TV's Death by a Thousand Streaming Apps
Yeah if you think FB is bad for privacy you’re gonna really love android.
That's already modeled, both in the exponentially increasing food requirements for growth (growing from 10 to 11 is much harder than 1 to 2, for nearly the same benefit), as well as the housing cap and amenities mechanics in the latest iteration of the game.
I'm partial to using netlify and Publii for my blog.
That is the problem of Node.JS, not a problem of React. They can run multiple instanceof of Node.JS. And if it takes 500ms to render on a server with powerful CPU, it will take even more on the client, futhermore every page update can take that much time too.
Some lit, Stanford CS paper: "Even accounting for these concerns, our results suggest potentially large welfare gains: one policy simulation shows crime reductions up to 24.7% with no change in jailing rates, or jailing rate reductions up to 41.9% with no increase in crime rates." Judges are famous for not even being close to the pareto optimal curve.

https://cs.stanford.edu/~jure/pubs/bail-qje17.pdf
You can run multiple Node.JS processes.
The interesting number would be the conversion rate of those now cut off.
> would have collapsed the safety barrier with much more force than it was designed to absorb

Why would the barrier not be designed to absorb the force from a 5500lb vehicle? Lots of light trucks (e.g. Chevy Silverado) weigh that much in certain configurations.
Was this a telco? This sounds surprisingly familiar.
Why does the average Facebook user care?
One game not mentioned in the article and that managed to keep the late game pretty damn exciting was Medieval: Total War II [1].

There's many ways in which the game shakes things up in the late game. One aspect of it is squalor, a metric that rises as your cities grow and advance in technology. High squalor increases unrest. There is very little you can do to reduce it- it will just keep rising over time, as your population grows. And even with careful management the cities at the edges of your empire (where the population tends to have cultural differences to the center) are always at high risk of a revolt, that kicks your army out of the city and replaces it with a rebel force. A hack around that is to artificially cause the city to revolt in an opportune time (when you have a good army to take on the rebels), take it back and slaughter the population, bringing it back down to a manageable size. Still, large cities will always eventually get to a point where they just suck for everyone involved.

The other thing that shakes the late game up is the Mongol invasion. Actually- two of them. First you get the regular Mongols that are the hardest thing that's hit you until then, by a wide margin. Don't worry- they don't want your cities; they just want to pillage them, raze them and move on to the next. Once you 've dealt with them and a few decades have passed, the Temurids come on, who are like your worst nightmare married to its own worst nightmare, but trailing elephants with cannons strapped on their backs. You know you're in trouble because their banner is black and red. That spells "evil" even in a real history-based gaming world.

Then of course there's more stuff that happens in the late game- somebody discovers a New World and a whole new map is added to the game. Things like that. It's very hard with the game to end with total domination. If nothing else, I've abandoned most games because I got bored of the constant strife, that got a little too repetitive after a long enough time, to be honest.

The point is- there was no constant march of progress in this game. You really got the feeling that the world hated your guts, as things went on and the more you played, the more it hated you. Such fun :)

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[1] I played this game primarily as a 4x game, for the city management and the map expansion - I know that's not how it's meant to be played and that the focus was on the realistic battles, but MTWII had probably the best balanced campaign map than any Total War game and playing it this way was way more satisfying than many 4x games I've tried, including various Civs that didn't even come close, to be honest.
The tech that is proposed in the article sounds a lot like Nano's block lattice, where everyone has their own blockchain.

You could even potentially use it to run this social network by just increasing transaction data size.
I love the concept of differential privacy, but it seems hard to incentivize the "data hoarders" to actually use it, even if you ignore the challenges of building real-world differentially private systems. Google and Apple use it for some things, but in general it doesn't seem like something the market will use by itself.

Also doesn't help that differential privacy itself is maybe too arcane and subtle for the public to talk about and demand, unlike for example encryption which people probably generally at least understand to mean something along the lines of hiding their data in some sense.
Is it known yet whether they just collect metadata or collect message contents?

I can't see any justification for collecting the actual text of my messages.

But if I'm digging for justifications, I can see some benefit to me, the user, of collecting aggregate stats of who I contact regularly. It could be used to decide what content to surface in my feed. Or whose birthday to remind me of. Or which names to suggest when I create an event invite. They are a social platform, after all, so knowing who I socialize with seems relevant to making that work better.

Not that it isn't creepy, but if the question is whether there's an actual benefit to their having the data beyond just targeting ads, it's somewhat plausible.
IPFS claims to use a blockchain, and that nodes in the directed graph cannot be changed. This means IPFS is of no more than cursory interest to me. I want to be able to curtail and even delete my stuff. When I delete a thing, it must be gone. I don't want a record of it, or that it existed. If I retain a thing privately, I don't want it known publicly that I have it.
Haven't read through the code yet, but the only thing I need to know is if these guys know what Rayleigh scattering is. If not, this probably isn't going to work so great.

I worked on an indoor tracking system several years ago that used custom hardware. Since then, I've seen a lot of crappy solutions that use BLE RSSI measurements. This is simply not an easy problem to solve with crude methods.
I can't fall asleep if the temperature is above 65-70°F, and my feet have to be sticking out from the covers. I have to sleep with a very thin blankets. I honestly have never been able to figure out how people get to sleep any other way.
Is it really needed? Maybe I don't understand what it does, but what's the point of downloading openJDK there instead of directly from a package manager?
2nding this. And if netlify stops being good, well, Publii has everything saved so I can just upload it someplace else. Having a gui on a static site generator is a must.
Yes, a single process will experience the issues you mention.

You can also consider running it on a Kubernetes cluster with auto-scaling turned on.
That'd be incredibly useful.

Even though it's hard to repertory all variations of each laptop (10 on average), it's the next item on my todo-list. Thanks for the proposition !
What prevents the citizen from recovering those things in a civil suit against the police, federal government, etc?
I'm having a really hard time figuring out what problem this project solves, can anyone explain?
Given that probably 90% of FBs engineering power was spent on scalability and data mining, it seem more feasible than you make it sound.
It's used by the Japanese IME on Windows: Ctrl+CapsLock - hiragana input, Alt+CapsLock - katakana input, Shift+CapsLack - alphanumeric input.
-That would be pretty good watches - the requirement for being labelled a chronometer by the Swiss is +6/-4/day (with some further requirements - positions and temperatures)

Seiko tune their top-of-the-line Grand Seikos a bit tighter - +5/-3/24h.

They also have some limited edition VFA (if memory serves - Very Fine Adjusted) watches capable of +/-2s/24h.

The engineer in me finds this kind of accuracy in a mechanical device just a hair short of black magic.
If you want to fall asleep, just start doing something you've been putting off for a while. You'll feel sleepy in minutes.
Never said that there wasn't. I was responding to someone who couldn't fathom a legitimate use of the friend data.
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That’s how most RIPs work.
Agreed. I've always felt that K-8 is basically, "learn social skills and while we're here, learn the basics." High school is more about learning pre-college skills, learning skills, study skills, discipline, and how to survive puberty.
They say it right in the header:

"For a long time, we were unhappy with having to care about security issues and Linux distribution maintenance on our various Raspberry Pis."
Ask HN: Should personal data be a commodity?
Yeah, it was probably microwave.
That was his (off-the-cuff) asking price, not their offer. They should have countered at $10M, and then paid it -- they would have saved money in the end, and had the domain they wanted to boot. But no, they thought it was theirs by right, or something.
Nonsense.

It is your own responsibility to choose what you read.
Disagreement with someone or outright lies on their side don’t give you any right to limit their freedom of speech.
Now in Smell-o-Vision, so that you can really take in the "ambiance"
I use Jekyll; I used Hugo and Pelican in the past. They solve a very specific use case. But if you want to allow guest posting on your blog, a static site will not do. You need something that has drafts, that has a proper editor, that has a UI you can add and invite people to. Ghost solves that.
Scientists develop tiny tooth-mounted sensors that can track what you eat
> No person or company is allowed to own more than 24.9% of a banking charter, and preferably not more than 10%.

I'm curious, is that a law? From which country?
What would you think about a compromise solution to the situation as the domain nissan.com becoming an index page for the both parties?

A link to both nissancomputers.com and nissanusa.com could have been displayed there side by side along with their logos. Their sides could switch each day, to prevent any sort of prioritization.

Maintenance could be done by anyone. Changes on the index page could require consent of the both parties.

The index page could include a checkbox, or after-choice-prompt to allow the users to have their browsers automatically redirected to whichever site whenever they visit the nissan.com again. It would then be like nissan.com belongs to both of them, wouldn't it?
Well, then they should just buy it? They could easily pay $10m and I'm pretty sure it would repay itself over a number of years quite easily.

They probably spent millions on attorney fees trying to acquire the domain -- pathetic.
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/196/
According to an article in the Washington Post[1], the Kwon case resulted in an outcry that caused Congress to change its guidelines, adding the additional requirement that the IRS must show the money in question are the profits of criminal activity. That Kwon hasn't yet received his money back appears to be a bureaucratic problem, not statutory.

Even given all of this, the Kwon case has more to do with the tax court than it does the Federal criminal courts.

I do believe that money laundering laws as currently written are often abused, however I don't think the Kwon case demonstrates what you assert.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-irs-seized-59000-fr...
This is an amazing troll. Bravo!
I think the way forward is to embrace ActivityPub and similar endeavours. I'm not sure how much of Diaspora wound up on ActivityPub[0] / ActivitySteams[1] but I feel as though the best path forward for projects like Diaspora is to reach out to W3C to see what could be standardized.

ActivityPub I believe gives us enough metadata to have enough of a social site. Although it all started from GNUSocial (or whatever it was called) and similar open sourced twitter-like platforms, it doesn't necessarily mean we should be restricted to "micro" blogging by those platforms (besides, sharing pictures, and such is somewhat still valid "micro" blogging just look at Tumblr). If the limits are too much you could still at the very least send over a summary between hubs and if the person wants more info they can visit the originating site for the whole post.

I think the path forward is to use open and standardized formats / protocols. We have the technology... There's a couple of implementations for ActivityPub/ActivityStreams already[2], you could either join one and contribute or just start one yourself if none are in the language / license you prefer.

[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

[2]: https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/implement...
Both raised millions before being acquired, and likely would need to raise 100s of millions to start today. Facebooks has reached both network effect and economy of scale which is very hard to unseat.
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Of course Tim Cook would say that. His business model doesn't depend on it. When he decides to unwall the iPhone garden, i'll give him the time of day on issues like this. Until then, he's just looking out for his own interests, as far as i'm concerned.
> The problem with the KDE4 was that people were adopting it too early.

IIRC, that was on purpose. KDE purposedly release KDE4.0 even though it was not completely tested in order to have more bug reports.

In retrospect, that was a stupid move.

Still in retrospect, I still miss KDE3.
I can understand the ruling. If you read "shell.de", do you think of Andreas Shell the attorney or Shell the mineral oil company? The name has been trademarked for eternity, why should trademarks used as domain names be treated any different? Anyone can use a name, but only for the thing it represents, German law has always been applied that way.

The edge case is Deutsche Telekom and their sprawling claim on magenta, not this.
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That design feature is very deliberate.

I remember listening to a talk from Sid Meier and at some point he explains how they tried to implement a rise-and-fall system in the original Civ. It didn't go very well. Playtesters hated it.

When the first fall came, people just quit and start again, thinking that they did something wrong. When they were told it was intended and they had to fall to rise again, they just didn't like it at all.

I can see a niche for a hardcore strategy game where rise and fall is part of the game loop, but given the current estate of affairs it would be just that, a niche game.
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This is a repost from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792287
There are plenty of distributed file systems that securely store confidential data on untrusted nodes by having well-design encryption. Is there a reason for which it would be worse with blockchains?
An interesting point which I will concede. But I doubt the exception disproves the rule for the general case.

For what it's worth, GS was founded in 1869, which makes it older than most of the behemoth systems companies like IBM (1911) or AT&T (1880). Big banks like GS may not be as invincible post-2008 as they used to appear to be, but if there are institutions which you could say "this institution is not going to evaporate in the next few decades which will make up my career", GS would not be a bad bet.

Which brings an interesting question, how many former Goldmanites a) worked primarily in Slang (given that not all Goldmanite engineers work on SecDB) b) were laid off or otherwise left GS without having a job lined up and c) then found work? If you can prove that you can work on a different stack and get a job with no frictional unemployment, is a much different picture compared to engineers who stay out of work (the parallel question being, why is Slang so much more de-facto employable than COBOL or other languages which for one reason or another are now unpopular or unused in the wider industry?).
Food safety standards are actually a good example of how laws don't include specifics like "keep raw and cooked meat separate".

For example, the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act[1] doesn't include specifics about how food should be handled. It specifies some areas where the FDA is supposed to issue rules and then the FDA makes rules based on the authority that the law gives it.

GDPR has Data Protection Offices that issue more specific guidance about how to comply. For instance, the UK Data Protection Office issued this guidance[2] about how to prepare for GDPR.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm239907.h...

[2] https://ico.org.uk/media/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12-s...
FWIW I don't think Ghost should be used on its paid plan for personal blogs. You can host it on a droplet or AWS free tier pretty easily, otherwise you can use Github pages.

I hope Ghost will at some point have a "static site generation" mode though.
they're fingerprinting locations based on rssi from devices in the signal environment. meaning your phone tries to connect, gets a set of rssis back and that then finger prints where you're standing with the phone (by the collection of rssis). the "space" it's locating in isn't physical space but "rssi tuple" space.
The most recent was 13.9GB compressed and ~65GB uncompressed. The version without images, talk pages, and revision history is 'enwiki-20180320-pages-articles.xml.bz2' here:

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20180320/

The article text contains Wikipedia markup which is a bit difficult to remove but not impossible, there are some existing projects for doing that. DBPedia would have the raw text, but it's not nearly as current.
Ask HN: What features would you like to see on Twitter?
Features that you terribly miss on the Twitter.
Which means that it could work on specific communities, right? Just as Facebook started from a single community.
> dolphin

I really can't understand why people would want to use something as dumb as dolphin (created to be as dumb as nautilus) when you have the great and awesome Konqueror at your fingertips.
I thought about including this but decided against it. They could of course but I hope people would stay away from such an service. It is really sad that businesses are generally focused on maximizing their profits instead of providing the best service to their customers while making a reasonable profit. Economics 101 promised that competition would take care of that but that obviously has a few failure modes.
Facebook badly needs a direct competitor. I wish there was social network with fewer features available, like what Facebook was in 2006-2007. Get rid of the newsfeed—it’s toxic and that’s the worst part of the experience. Make sharing related to specific groups— college friends, family, work friends, etc. I would prefer a social network with fewer features.
I think they mean OpenJDK is needed because it gives us an open source alternative to the proprietary Java or Oracle's JDK.