skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand what is a problem if you keep this small business outside the US. What prevents a European company to replace Craiglist in this regard?
In the midnineties I was hired to improve the performance (and eventually rewrite) a custom in-house search engine. I dipped into the software and there were some quick wins, but I couldn’t get the damn thing to reply quicker than 100 ms. In desperation I just grepped for the number 100 and sure enough I found a 100 ms sleep in the routines handling the connections. Turned out the author had made a mess of his socket handling and by trial and error had found out he could get the thing to work reliably only by waiting for a while.
There's a bit of a feedback loop in play here too (i.e. Brightness wars).

If you have dim headlights and are the only driver on the road, your eyes will adjust and you'll see pretty well. If you pass a driver traveling in the opposite direction with dim headlights you'll lose a bit of vision for a little while.

Blindingly bright headlights won't necessarily let you see a lot more than dimmer headlights and fully adjusted eyes would. However, if you run into another driver with dim headlights, your eyes won't have to adjust nearly as much and your vision will recover more quickly. The guy with dim lights is going to be blind for a while though.

If you want to minimize the time you spend readjusting to your own headlights after passing oncoming traffic, you want brighter lights than anyone else on the road. Not just bright, but brighter. Thus, there's an incentive for headlights to just keep getting brighter and brighter as technology enables this.

Solution? Regulate maximum headlight brightness.
Tail Recursion Elimination (Guido van Rossum, 2009)
Classic Mac OS (<10) used : as a directory separator, so it's probably related to that.
Wait is Function keys above F12 still addressable?
Mystical future historians and grandstanding on my HN? Never! Also have you read 1984? It's a pretty ground breaking book.
With SNI, they can't easily see whether you're looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat or at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography (just looking at the size is not enough; Wikipedia has millions of pages, thousands of then are changed every day, it has a variable-sized HTML comment, and the HTML size also changes when you're logged in), while with the triple handshake attack, they can see the full HTTP request and response headers, while avoiding most of the cost of being "in the middle" during the actual content transfer.
This is a penetrating analysis and I completely agree with its values.

In practise, however, it is a very quixotic pursuit to try to pull the social world away from SV companies with network effect lock-in. The only way to succeed just may lie revolve in anti-social marketing behaviour.
I work in a company where this is how it's done. It's awful in every way.

There's no competition, so there's no valuations, no local control (I have no company bucks I can use as an employee to, for example, get security to create a service account), just incompetent people using exorbitant pricing to provide utterly shoddy service that I can't go to any competitors over.

Want a group mailbox in Outlook? $450 dollars each.
I don't know any. And the fact that no competitor with better privacy came along makes me wonder if the public really values privacy as you or me do.

But that is not how the regulatory burden kills startups. It's not one specific thing: it's the sum of all of them.

Have you started a startup? I have, and I can tell you the toughest part of that was before even deciding! The very though of leaving my cushy job and colleagues kept up at night. Every single fear of some bureaucratic burden I had to obey (on top of technical and marketing challenges) pushed the balance to "no".

Every rumor, every tax, every rule I heard about pushed me think this was a bad idea. Any extra task which in itself seems harmless can break the proverbial camel's back...
Local here, in my country Grab tried to abide by the local law while Uber is acting like they are above the government. Taxation for example, Grab has no problem paying tax, while the local branch of Uber said that they are only a 'marketing company' for Uber BV located in Holland (a well known tax haven) so they don't have to pay any corporation income tax at all. IANAL but even if that is legal, it still doesn't sit right with me or the local government.

oh and the marketing problem too, they changed their uniform and colour them for a few times while Grab just sticks with green. I just don't feel they have a clear strategy for anything at all.
I suspect you may have been misled on Plomin's paper. You should check it out, particularly the section on "Heritability increases dramatically from infancy through adulthood despite genetic stability". It's very readable.

IQ has a weird characteristic in that heritability increases dramatically as we age. In youth the heritability of IQ ranges from upwards of 40%, but the really crazy thing is in adulthood that number skyrockets to values that recent research is showing may be north of 80%! So perhaps the goal ought not be to find young Einsteins, but 'old Einsteins'!

In my opinion the reason for the success of 'gifted' programs is quite simple. In the US many children have little to no interest in actually learning. That leads to a poor environment for both teachers and the kids in the class that would like to learn. 'Gifted' programs help connect students who are interested in learning and teachers that would like to genuinely teach, instead of those just going through the motions for the paycheck. And that's going to lead to greater outcomes for everybody. Basically, education often devolves to the lowest common denominator, and in public classes that denominator tends to be very low. 'Gifted classes' don't really filter to amazing students, but instead get rid of the awful ones.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014105
Solve global warming.
I recently created a web site.

Just black text on white background.

I write about stuff I find interesting. So far a few unfinished pages.

I don't even think it is indexed yet.

It is my rebellion against pixel perfect audience building technical blogging and what not.

It feels good.

I might add links to other similar pages at some point.

Anyone else makes old fashioned web sites?
It will never just "become enjoyable". What may happen, if you open your mind to it, is you might realize that the discomfort you feel (which is different from pain! if you feel a lot of pain, get it checked out) is just a question from your body. It's asking you, do I really need to do this? Because animals have evolved to conserve energy whenever possible. If you can learn to mentally answer your body, yes, this is something we need to do on a regular basis, you'll learn to move past the agonizing over discomfiture. With time, you'll realize discomfort isn't a useful factor when it comes to exercise (although, again, pain is). As you discount it towards zero, you'll be able to focus on other things when you exercise (how's my body doing? what's my effort level? am I going faster than yesterday? what about that project at work? what's the meaning of life?). It may start to help you think, and you'll start to improve (that hill used to be tough, but now it's a piece of cake!). With time, you may look forward to exercising.

It's a process you need to work at, but it will enrich your life in so many ways if you can get past that tricky mental hurdle. I truly hope you do!
Women are better "calculators"

Women are better at the humanities.

It's never been clear to me why this is a insult.

Mathematicians are however awful calculators, I'd guess below average compared to a person with a normal science degree. So it's not clear to me how they could have hired mathematicians as calculators.

Something is off in this. Either Math degrees have changed since then or something is false.
> > which is buggy as hell
> Is this really the fault of C++?

I'm not saying it necessarily is, but it clearly can be. When you fuck-up language semantics, as pointers in C and C++, making things vague and unspecifiable regarding important properties (aliasing, memory allocation, etc), then you lose something that is extremely hard to get back via static analysis.

For this reason, a language that has safe properties in a domain (like Rust or Ada) will always be safer in that domain, by construction, that a language where you graft static analysis on top of it.

This can be somehow alleviated by coding rules/standards and annotations for static analyzers, but then, you're not programming in the same language anymore, which has its own set of problems.
> If I run a program, I don't expect it to scrape my home folder just because technically my OS granted it permission to do so.

Back in the day, apps that did this were called spyware and would be forcibly removed by Antivirus/Anti-malware programs. It's incredible that Facebook gets a pass for equivalent behaviour.
>It's really surprising to see that even here people can't see where this is heading. I thought it was in a hacker's most basic instinct to be able to see how tiny little, almost insignificant, steps can lead to something big.

We do. We exist in objective reality. The reality is you're engaging in a narrative that has direct, practical negations in the real world. In front of your face. They've existed for decades. Half the people who claim to be "hackers" on here couldn't exploit a wet paper bag. They're just american centrists, full of "acksually"-ism's who happen to write code. I mean the fact that PG's writing is considered interesting or note-worthy should be your first sign that this community isn't terribly academic in any field, really.

>do you still fail to see how the slope is true?

Yeah. I guess I missed the part where you kind of just lightly touched on different characteristics of the current technological landscape and then just jumped right back into your conclusion.
Knowing a few neighbors is different from knowing entire community, participating in town events, walking around the town and seeing familiar faces everywhere.
In high school I was told to make up statistics as needed when writing essays. Anecdotal evidence of course but I suspect that many schools do a bad job at this.

But I suspect the bigger problem is that the amount of research needed to hold an informed opinion is growing exponentially in many fields.
1.5 to 3 hours going to work. 1 to 2 hours back.

Depends on the time I go, and whether I choose to take the bus, train, Uber, or drive.

A lot of my playlist this month is Islamic hip hop or Linkin Park.
"Better" mousetraps built - when what we need is more community for growing and learning and more interconnectedness, through increasingly better organization and governance.
This is sometimes called inquiry-based teaching or Moore method, and… there is a textbook advertised as adhering to this particular style, Carol Schumacher's Closer and Closer: Introducing Real Analysis, haven't had it in hand though.
You'd need to actually get used to it. I think is MTV generation guys grew up doing homework with a music video in the background.

Music gives me a lot more energy, similar to caffeine. Sometimes the extra energy is distracting.
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Nope, not at all. In fact many games on Steam come with their own additional invasive DRM schemes that do all kinds of things you wouldn't expect.
Agreed...it took me awhile to figure out that drivers didn't have their brights on...they're just that bright. This is dangerous and needs to be regulated (coming from someone who isn't very pro regulation)
Ha - amused to read this! Just built that a week ago for my partner. I used an Arduino connected to the USB as HID. The approx. 10 line script is moving the mouse back and forth every couple of seconds. Works like a charm: keeps the screen unlocked and her activity indicator busy...
You are normalizing data collection by third party companies. The article is about selling our data to third party by both Facebook and other websites.

Truth is we don't know what any of those companies are doing besides showing ads. Maybe today they are not doing it, but tomorrow they can use it for other purposes. They know what people are browsing and what their interests are for a location.

Also they can pinpoint users by ip, canvas fingerprinting, fonts installed etc.. https://firstpartysimulator.net/tracker
I’m going off memory too, but I think that besides the name and profile photo of your friends (and email address?) this API didn’t return much else. And I also think I remember that the amount of your data that would turn up in a friend list API call was limited in some way by your own privacy settings.

In our circle around that time people were calling out apps that required these permissions and recommending that users not authorize them if it was not obvious why the app would require that kind of data. John Gruber comes to mind as one of those people. These calls for caution were not in the mainstream though.

Edit: I believe this API contained info like favorite tv show or band if those fields were filled out in your profile, but again I’m fairly sure that your own privacy settings could have limited this if you had them set to draconian levels. So in other words, yes this API was limited to publicly available data, more or less.
Hacker News is a big game of Chinese whispers were each step is a popularity contest over 24 hours. You would be hard-pressed to build a more efficient system for misinformation if you tried. While rational discussions should of course be encouraged, it isn't in itself rational to get ones information from Hacker News. The more damaging thing is of course that once your mind gets trained to whatever opinions are popular here, you will have a hard time seeing other arguments. The "you don't understand" "no, you don't understand" is arguably the point of Hacker News.

For the record Tepix point is supported by essentially anything published by any authority on the subject from the beginning of facebook. As others, further down on the page, have pointed out even the FTC complained about this in 2011:

'''Facebook represented that third-party apps that users' installed would have access only to user information that they needed to operate. In fact, the apps could access nearly all of users' personal data – data the apps didn't need. [...] Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences – for example with "Friends Only." In fact, selecting "Friends Only" did not prevent their information from being shared with third-party applications their friends used.'''

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
Sony PSX (original playstation) port of a PC title that I worked on, we needed to have a physics thread run at a predictable and consistent rate regardless of what the rest of the game was doing. Sony Japan said pre-emptive multi-tasking wasn't possible.

Found a way to hook the vertical blank interrupt (shades of old Atari 8-bit programming), push all the registers onto the stack to create a setjmp/longjmp-ish way to call our physics thread at a consistent 30Hz. (OK, 29.97, but close enough)
Ask HN: Your Data Security and Data Protection Challenges (GDRP-Related or Not)?
There have been many posts and questions regarding the GDRP recently, and it seems many people here struggle with the implementation of the new laws (which is understandable). I'm very interested to learn about your biggest problems in this area, hence my question:

- Which challenges do you currently face regarding data protection and security in your startup or company (GDPR-related or not)?

- In which areas do think you'd need outside help?

- Any software tools you wish someone would build to help you solve a specific problem?

Thanks for your feedback!
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My wife and I moved back to Canada last summer and for a while we were living in small towns several hours from where our families/the airport/etc are. So I would, fairly regularly, be making late-night trips through the backroads of Gray County and it definitely made me a little nervous anytime I passed someone with bright/incorrectly configured headlights. It is DARK out there and there are deer and other things that wander onto the road.
> bass lines

Queen would beg to differ.
iOS is of similar age and managed not to fall on its face. This is a really bad excuse.
Have you looked at static page generators? Wonder if that provides the simplicity you're looking for along with optional customization. One example: https://gohugo.io
This is that case where you needed a smiley after the joke. I thought when you said that, that the reason was that it used a too simplistic init system a la OpenWRT, where you can’t check if the process is running, automatically restart daemons, etc.
As a tourist in Kuala lumpur last year, I had better experiences with Grab trips. They accepted cash, drivers seemed to be happier and fare was slightly cheaper.
Kubuntu has a backports PPA [0] if you want to use the latest KDE version. I briefly tested it last month and found it to be pretty stable.

[0] https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-3-bugfix-updates-availa...
Uggh, I hate the “copied from iOS” meme that is popular amongst Apple zealots. As if iOS was some sort of bastion of originality.
I use AutoHotKey to remap it to launch TotalCommander.
Startup is not important if you start the DE once a day, it is like saying Notepad is better then Visual Studio for coding because it starts faster.
As of CPU and memory use KDE is not the most bloated DE, This is a myth so you should recheck things with latest versions of KDE,GNOME,XFCE and the others.(use what is better for you but you should not stay away from KDE because of memory or CPU usage)

I agree that a WM will have less features and eat less memory so if you do not need the features of KDE use a WM.
Also you can disable some of KDE features like compositing, akonadi if those are the things you do not need.
PWM is fine. Just needs to be fast enough.
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I thought this was a well-written piece. I would love to see a "return to the internet" movement in 2018.

The author suggests everyone "acquire your own damn digital land." And I think this is the way forward. In 2005 or the pre-FB era being a "techie" was a personal distinction. I feel that now most people have become "techies" in varying degrees, either out of necessity or general interest. I mention this because I think I think there's so many more people now that are fully capable of operating their own site or blog than there were in the pre-FB era or the pre-smart phone era.

I think one of the greatest joys of "getting online" back in the day was the sense of adventure that the internet provided - strange, funny, obscure, intriguing, informative "websites" lurked everywhere. And stumbling on one of them and bookmarking them is/was a strange thrill. Contrast this to scrolling through a uniform looking "newsfeed" you have no control over. I think something like a "back to the internet" movement just might make it's own momentum.
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Use GDPR soon if you are from EU. 60 days left.
It's not meant to be an excuse, Android has not aged well, and Google has done a poor job putting security at the forefront of their platform. Apple's taken a lot of flack over the years for making developers jump through new hoops all the time and having such heavy restrictions on their platform, but its clear the users have benefitted in other ways.
Exactly. This isn’t a benchmark at all.
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Enough of us doing this and Nissan WILL feel it.
> I'd say if US gov had a plan of oppressing US citizens they'd just ban guns first. It's kinda hard to start civil war over this.

Which would itself be sure to spark widespread civil unrest, if not actual revolt. Even in the "reasonable European countries" compliance with bans[0] are comically bad.

> So instead of civil war you'd have hundred or few hundreds nutjobs with guns vs. US Army who might not feel particularly supportive of civilians disobeying direct order to give away their guns. Obeying is kinda their favorite thing.

That's a horrible characterization of the state of the US military. In case you weren't aware, there's a reason officers pledge to the Constitution and not the president.

> Let's look at more recent history of US military achievements:

Yeah, how long have we been bogged down in the Middle East? You want to live in a country with 10+ year long civil war? Nasty as politics are these days, you think it's just going to be "Gun Nut vs. US Military" - no, it's going to be "Gun Nut drags liberal gun ban supporter into the street and executes him." as well. It's not going to be some magical, nice, clean rout like you're implying.

> even had army with similar tech level and still lost.

The numbers weren't even close on the rebel side.

> Can you imagine same thing happening about right to own guns?

For all the talk of "hunter's rights" and "sportmans," the reason for the 2A is explicitly to fight governmental tyranny. It is so the common man can fight. The government revoking that right will easily spark mass violence.

> The reason government lets you keep your guns is not that it's afraid of you. The reason is that it is not and doesn't mind all that much if some peasants die.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

[0] - https://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have...
This story seems to be very carefully planned attack to Mr. Zuckerberg to oust him from Facebook CEO. Recently they exposed some IM history from the past decade where he calls user "dumb" http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-se... everything that they know about me. Z to be revealed.
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Or learning git from its man pages.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2015-March...
Presumably because he registered his nick in 2002 (which was a popular "naming scheme" at the time). thinkcomp should tweet someone like @pinboard, @nitashatiku, @karaswisher etc.
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The Inaudible Man from BBC4’s The Mausoleum Club:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k1w6
I think I remember this from the days of Front Row. It’s long gone now.
sorry if it wasn't clear, I wasn't trying to troll, just a little tongue-in-cheek Southpark humor
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It’s Windows, so backwards compatibility mandates F13-F24 exist.
Completely agree. I am a long term KDE user and I like (and use) the PIM stuff in general but since a few years the quality continues to degrade. Akregator (RSS-Feed Reader) has reached the point were it destroys its feed list every few weeks, and doesn't even fetch updates anymore (completely useless). Akonadi tends to become an unresponsive process with 100% CPU usage every week or so. And when I remember the Kmail 2 migration... Oh god. It was supposed to be a 'no action required' upgrade and it ended with complete recreation of every account on every machine.

So yeah, while the core concepts of KDE and Plasma are great, the development doesn't look as active as it once was and once great packages seem to degrade over time.

One of my favorite features of the past years is the Dolphin-Nextcloud integration. That way you can simply right-click a synced file and 'share with Nextcloud' it via link or other users, works great :-)
Yep, usually if you are above 3 kHz or so you are good! Unfortunately, a lot of today's LEDs PWM just outside the frequency we could detect flicker without moving, around 100-200 Hz. IEEE 1789 has something to say about this.
This is an opinion piece. There's no data.
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