skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ease of sharing is precisely why it's so powerful. I can send a link to a shared spreadsheet without the person having to login. Very little friction. Also, being able to co-edit in real time is very powerful. I think libreoffice offline is great, but for 80% of my use cases, gdocs is more convenient and useful. But I'm no longer comfortable with google having so much of my personal and business life.
That's a bit rough on anyone owed part of that $21 trillion.

Who are those people? People with pensions. Some people with IRAs or 401Ks, depending on their investment mix. The kid whose grandma gave him a savings bond. And, indirectly, lots of people who are going to expect their insurance company to have the money to pay their claim...
How is Tesla getting all these companies to put out press releases announcing that they are buying Tesla's products? Brilliant marketing. Maybe they offer discounts?
> Facebook closed on Thursday at $165. It closed on Friday at $160

16 March open to 26 March close, Facebook lost 13% of its value [1]. The same statistic for the S&P 500 is 3.4%. This time horizon makes more sense than yours because it matches the first revelations of Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook's data [3].

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/history?p=FB

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history?p=%5EGSPC

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
I'm honestly confused about why "this package manager is a SAT solver" is being trotted out as a bad thing. Repeatedly. Having used multiple such package managers in the past: the runtime is utterly dominated by time-to-download or even simply disk access, not time-to-compute. Compute time has uniformly been far below human-visible times - e.g. a few hundred dependencies resolves in `dep` in around 100ms (for the solver) on my machine.

SAT is not a problem at all. Yes, you can construct a worst-case scenario for it that will chew up a ton of CPU. In practice it simply doesn't happen, and trying to defend against it is both a waste of effort and leads to crippled decision-making.
> Zuckerberg et al are dissembling

They can hardly tell the truth: "Our business model is to collect as much data about you as we can, then use that to manipulate you."

The only difference with Cambridge Analytica over what they usually do is it's manipulating people into voting rather than buying stuff.
In my experience, the list that AWS keeps on their public page isn't completely up to date. There are two major datasets in the neuroimaging community that are hosted in S3 (see my comment elsewhere on this page), but AWS hasn't widely publicized this fact for some reason.
People need food. Food doesn't grow well in very hot and very cold conditions, nor in very wet or very dry conditions. And most other animals don't survive well outside the environment they evolved to live in.
I learned this as a rule for all Art. Does this mean programming is an Art? (just joking; I know that it Can be).
If you have HDMI, the EDID comes through on the DDC which is just I2C. You can read it with a BusPirate or any decent LA: https://www.extron.com/company/article.aspx?id=uedid

HDCP also happens over this interface, so it’s trivial to snoop on the key exchange: https://github.com/ApertureLabsLtd/hdmi-sniff/blob/master/RE...

CEC (control devices via HDMI) happens on a separate channel using a proto also similar to I2C: http://www.quantumdata.com/pdf/CEC_White_Paper.pdf

There are a few good ~cheap CEC adapters for HDMI out there. I’ve used the PulseEight one since they have decent library support plus a CLI. You can also use the HDMI port on a Raspberry Pi to play with CEC: https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec/blob/master/docs/READM...
Having one third of the earth’s population touch your site at least once won’t matter if you do nothing particularly useful.

Facebook does almost nothing useful. It’s kind irritating to actually try to do anything with the user interface, since everything is slippery funnels.

Whatever isn’t an inductive dark pattern is otherwise emotional blackmail. The options and settings provided to the user don’t make sense, and are all defaulted to the worst choices imaginable.
> If CA hadn't been caught on tape admitting to fabricating fake news to elect Trump, the story would be much smaller. It's now more than the sum of its parts.

Well, that, and the various Russian connections and the confluence with the broader Russian interference / Trump collusion issue.

> But "fake news" in its current very specific meaning did not exist until this election cycle.

Well, it wasn't a factor in US elections; what Rand called the Russian “firehose of falsehoods” propaganda model, which got branded “fake news” when it became evident in the 2016 election context, did exist previously.
Is my data completely deleted from Facebook when I delete my account?
Does all my data get deleted, even from their backups?

What about data that FB apps have collected about me? Does Facebook have an obligation to require the app developers to delete any of my data collected from Facebook as well?
Will this impact services like Radar Relay in any way?
Have you considered G Suite? If you are going to stick with Google Docs, at least you can get a legal agreement that bars Google from mining or otherwise using your documents.
Always felt a set of “content viewers” for Dropbox might also undo Facebook and “social media”

Something for 1:1 or 1:ppl-I-trust type sharing.

Couldn’t reason around a way to share comments such that they couldn’t be mucked with or adding a bunch of extra files to the Dropbox. Maybe an encrypted Sqllite file that each client signs on write so if it’s tampered with you’d know?

Keybase and their builtin git and filesystem features might be useful for that too

But Keybase is not as adopted as Dropbox be.

Personally I find little value from social media that enables connecting everyone. And I don’t think I’m alone — last Xmas, got to talking to my nieces who are leaving home for college. They have zero interest or trust in Google and Facebook

Twitter is useful for headline and current events updates but that could just as easily be RSS. Can’t IPO based on an open standard, I guess. Not enough sizzle
Because people do that already with Wikipedia!

Boom.
Yeah? And what's the ratio of ad revenue to total revenue in 2017?
Check out Tanium, you'd fit right in
I'm sure the actual list is long, but I'd be happy if I could tweak graphs appearance, or do polynomial regression.
Now you’re asking normative questions instead of the positive question I responded to above. So I can give my opinion, but of course you are free to disagree.

> That proposition exists as a protection from homeowners being screwed by the government being unfair about the value of their land

According to The Permanent Tax Revolt (https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Tax-Revolt-Property-Transfo...), Proposition 13 was largely the opposite. Previously, homeowners benefited from informal and corrupt tax assessments that lagged market values. After assessment practices were modernized and standardized, homeowners demanded protection from the market. And while many states created protections (e.g. low-income circuit breakers, elderly exemptions, and homeowner exemptions), California’s Proposition 13 protections (along with the later Proposition 58/193 hereditary privileges) are probably the most regressive among the states.

> does property tax really even make sense? This person PURCHASED the land but still has to owe the government taxes even though they own it?

Yes, a property tax (particularly, on the unearned portion which is the land value) makes sense as a progressive way to enable the fruits of the community to be used to benefit the community. For one thing, a private owner should not reap all the benefits from the economic activity around him that he did not earn. For another thing, private ownership should not last forever because that leads to concentration of wealth; one could similarly ask whether copyright and patents should last forever.

> Secondly, it is really important to think of real estate as an investment more than a physical asset. These people got in the market early and their investment is giving them great returns. I think that is fair.

I disagree. The economic justification for investing in capital is that investors help to make the country more productive. Driving up the price of land does the opposite; investment in land crowds out investment in capital. The value of land comes from the neighborhood’s economic activity and public investments, not from the individual landowner. Now, you could argue that giving the landowner some incentive will encourage more civic-minded engagement, but I think it’s a far cry from justifying giving him 100% of the increase in ground rents.

For a recent book on the moral foundations of land ownership, I recommend Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins,‎ Toby Lloyd,‎ Laurie Macfarlane (https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Economics-Land-Housing-Rya...)
Other options include Zoho Writer, Apple Pages (has web-based version), MS Word Online. I seem to remember an OSS effort to make one (other than libreoffice online) but can't remember what it was.
Are there any potential repercussions for Morgan Stanley if this is just a pump-and-dump? Because it seems that’s what it is.
They clearly get as much value out of it as Tesla. Look investors, we're an innovative company too! When was the last time you saw a positive press cycle about FedEx on their own?
Look, reputation can be gamed. The end. How do you know anything you can't directly verify is true? Did Columbus and the egg actually happen? Did Galileo actually whisper something? Did Napoleon exist??
If you can't manage without running a deficit of a trillion dollars a year, i.e. having other people do a trillion dollars worth of work for you every year on the slate, how do you think you'll manage when those people don't believe you're good for the money?
>If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?

No one should be harassed. I would rather the woman have the option of selling sex in a clean work environment with healthcare and some say in who she sells to than having to choose between sleeping with her landlord or being homeless.
When I search Google for "collaborative online word processor" Google Docs doesn't appear on the first page; it's mostly sites with comparisons of available systems, along with Zoho, Etherpad and Office.
Thank you for clarifying the distinction.

An "immigrant" is someone who is here legally.
An "illegal alien" is someone who commits a criminal act by crossing the border without permission.

It's very much the purview of these agencies to track criminal activity.
Pacman, apt-get, et al also have something most language specific package managers don't, maintainers. Maintainers back port security fixes and are careful not to break binary compatibility. A random $lang specific package is unlikely to have either, if you expect a bug fix you have to upgrade to the latest version. Developers that don't want to provide this sort of stability typically hate distro package managers.

No package manager can fix a cultural problem.
Tesla is the cool thing right now. It's the same thing as saying they use AI for something. Good PR.
What's your point w.r.t. using "on-premises" when "self-hosted" (on-premises or not) would suffice? I don't get it, sorry.
Unpopular question but here goes:

What if some crashes are unavoidable? e.g. somebody darts out in front of a mobile vehicle. We accept that trains are not at fault
for striking “trespassers” on their railways.

Also, when we all drive cars with collision avoidance systems, who gets sued by whom? If my car e-brakes for no reason and I get rear-ended, is the guy who hits me
still at fault like usual?

I believe computer control will be super helpful and is here to stay, but it’s interesting to see it implemented in cars as emergency help versus in modern commercial airliners (where autopilot and landing control systems are ubiquitous) when it is only relied on for the most routine and straight-shot ability.
Right, but those are directly authorized. That's not the same as going to Facebook and buying location data, nor does it apply to friends' locations.
needs [2013] ? (at least judging my the copyright notice on the bottom)
I2C is a really beautiful protocol, and it shows up all kinds of interesting places - I had no ideal that monitors used it for EDID!
And there we were, thinking that "well, but California has good roads!".

On/off ramps on 101 aren't that great now either (try getting on at Trimble and getting off on 87 at rush hour). But given that people manage to drive straight into things on Monterey (I live on Monterey Rd) even now, it must have been quite horrifying.
I think it has more to do with the complexity. Minimum version selection is trivial to implement and understand. The processing time is a side-note.
It doesn't need to be linked at the factory, you could just make the end user link it to their own Google account.

As a cheap seller I'd just put a nice manual in the box which explained how to unlock Google services, going the same route as it is intended for custom roms.
I think Google is on top of a superfund site.
audit the code?
The young people I know is now on Snapchat or Instagram. Fb is now the place for adult people.

WhatsApp doesn't have this problem. It's hard to monetize with ads but it's a data goldmine.
The Last Days of Jerry Brown
> There's no right/wrong/superiority in context-free versus context-sensitive

Dismissing the whole field of formal language theory with that statement is so bogus, it "is not even wrong." There are tools and techniques for parsing context-free languages that are impossible with context-sensitive languages. Parser generators, structured editing, metacompilers, composable grammars; those are all impossible with context-sensitive languages. Context-free languages are faster to parse, easier to write compilers/interpreters for, and much easier to write tooling for (editors, linters, etc).

Ambiguous context-free grammars are a very different thing from context-sensitive grammars. You can't point to the former and say "so whitespace sensitivity is ok."
>40-60k

>Might

My friend got under $40K as a physics postdoc in TX, my partner got around $50K as a math tenure-track in midwest, and those are the lucky academics that could find these positions.

You can look up salaries at many public institutions. The trend is pretty sad.

Some people might get a lot of money by winning the lottery, doesn't mean it's a viable career choice.

Disclaimer: I jumped ship, and still might suffer a bit from the sour grapes syndrome - but not because the salaries in academia very any good.
Same concern here, that's why I made LockyWindow for Keepass (original). It's a shame there isn't a way to use an interchangable format at the OS level for Macos Keychain, Gnome Keyring, Windows crypto, etc.
I wonder if something useful here is a service like what some NASes (Synology) provide, where you 'self-host' on your PC/NAS, but also replicate to someone you know's PC/NAS. Basically, install the app on both PCs, swap keys (or authentication details) and start synching.

Cloud backup without needing cloud and it would be bi-directional so you get off-site redundancy for your data/photos. Further leveraging the SAN capability is that you could share the photos online by providing public URL's. Maybe too difficult to manage for Grandma, but if either end can share (with only authorisation provided by the other party) it might work?
Judging by past Tesla products, no discounts for pre-ordering.
Ah, the vendor running the app on the customer's infrastructure. Got it. Thanks, that makes sense.
the chance to put out one of these press releases definitely factors into the purchasing decision for these companies. They're buying good PR almost as much as they're buying trucks.
Oh, I don’t mean that toward you. I mean all the hostility and associated violence in the world wret large
The conventional ABS system is not AI in any sense. It is a few sensors and maybe some look up tables of what to do under various speed / brake pressure / wheel rotation situations
There's one particular aspect of the GDPR which I realised recently could have a significant effect on Facebook. The regulations give users a specific right to data portability, with the wording:

"In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

Conceivably, a Facebook user could demand that Facebook support automatically sending their Facebook posts to their friends on third party social networks. I imagine that an EU court would not be very sympathetic to Facebook claiming that it isn't technically feasible for a (large, monopolistic, American) company to support this use case when small open source (European?) competitors have implemented the W3C social networking standards (e.g. ActivityPub) with no trouble.

Once Facebook is forced by the GDPR to publish data to competing sites, I imagine it will feel compelled to also support receiving data from people on those sites, otherwise the one-way flow of data would put Facebook users at a disadvantage. But then there is basically no reason to use Facebook, as users of competing sites would still be able to see and be seen by their friends on Facebook.

This is such a disastrous outcome for Facebook that I wouldn't be surprised if lawyers at Google (or some other big company) were already working on the legal complaints they are going to launch come May, when the GDPR comes into force.
Yes, as long as you add a huge penalty to the training algorithm for triggering any underlying safety system I see no problem in that. (Otherwise I can see a completely mad car that believes everything is safe as it never crashes even when reckless )
Top ten free apps on the US AppStore have largely remained the same through out this current scandal:

1) YouTube

2) Instagram

3) messenger

4) google maps

5) Snapchat

6) Facebook

7) Netflix

8) Bitmoji (Snapchat)

9) Gmail

10) Spotify

These apps change when something major happens. When storms happen you see weather and walkie talkie apps shoot to the top.

In sports seasons you see sports apps for baseball/football etc shoot up.

When crypto was going crazy over Xmas, coinbase was number one for a few days.

Back to school prompts education apps to go to the top for a while.

The public doesn’t seem to care enough to ditch social media apps right now. Either that or perhaps a good alternative doesn’t exist yet.
PTBooker – Book Your Personal Fitness Trainer Anywhere
At the Heart of a Vast Doping Network, an Alias
True, and SQRL has a similar weakness. Keepass does offer some choice in rounds and algorithm. So that can offer some protection.
Name conflict warning: There is already a software project named Textile. Here's the homepage: https://txstyle.org/
Keep the windows open... buy bottled water.
Show HN: Second – solution to decentralize
Second's goal is to be your fully decentralized, AI twin that runs everywhere (in the cloud, in your browser, on your phone or smart tv), managing all your data, connections, and software. You give it instructions, and it follows them, answering only to you.

Decentralization has three major problems:

- Identity: how do I know I'm talking to you? ("Zooko's Triangle" = decentralized, secure, human-addressable) What is your reputation for X transaction? Where can I find Y thing that you made?

- Language and Storage: What is the format of the data we exchange, where is the data stored, and who has access?

- Hosting/Install/Upgrades: The UX of installing software sucks for programmers, even more so for non-programmers. How does a non-technical user install/upgrade without knowing anything technical?

Second solves those problems:

- Identity: stored on the Stellar blockchain as usernames/namespaces.

- Language and Storage: everything is a "node" that has a "type" that defines the schema of the data. NodeChains are tied to identities, have permissions, and are easily mirror-able over IPFS.

- Hosting/Install/Upgrades: a Second is a thin shell around a VM that runs nodes (nodes are both data and logic). Upgrading capabilities or UIs is as simple as replacing nodes (based on who you trust).

Two videos are on the homepage that give a technical overview (basically same as above, with a few more details), and a walkthrough of the alpha software.

https://www.getasecond.com
Clickable: https://www.getasecond.com

Video Links:

Technical Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRCsuoHmak

Walkthrough of alpha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4SUaWFHoog
Because of the lack of dependency management C++ suffers from "mega dependencies" that include the entire kitchen sink and more.
I think the lock-in for blackberry was miniscule compared to office products. The feature set of blackberry wasn't even that extensive.

On the other hand, there is no comparable suite of software that competes with Microsoft office on more than just the basics.
> I’m surprised there’s no regulation of brightness or “flashiness” for bicycle lights.

There is, at least in the UK, though perhaps not the regulation you may want:

> The lamps may be steady or flashing [...] but the flash rate must be between 60 and 240 equal flashes per minute (14 per second) and the luminous intensity must be at least 4 candela.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Curious how close his might be from turning from a proxy war to Saudia Arabia and Iran facing off directly. Anyone with some insight?

Between this and the North Korea thing, feels like we're on the brink of some real chaos.
Should We Be Thinking About Our Socioeconomic Responsibility as Indie Hackers?
I wish we were using O365, we are stuck on Google and its horrid. Google Docs is literally the worst thing in the world if you're not a chrome user.
And no doubt they have every escape clause in history in their contract. Great marketing for both companies, no risk for FedEx, and Tesla probably values the PR as much as the money at this point. They're not getting paid unless and until they can actually deliver the trucks, so why not get good press in the meantime?
I had vaguely heard that phrase "piercing the corporate veil" but had to look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

A factor for courts to consider: Significant undercapitalization of the business entity (capitalization requirements vary based on industry, location, and specific company circumstances)
Yosemite's secretive Starbucks: cafe opens in park, to delight and dismay
To me the entire point of a password manager is to solve password reuse. I can only remember a small number of high-quality passwords. I use one of those to secure my password manager, and I consider that password good enough to be unbreakable even if stored with a simple unsalted hash (and I know KeePass does much better).

I would be comfortable hosting my password file publicly. Any benefits from Dropbox authentication are just defense in depth (and privacy benefits).
Usually city inspectors don't know enough to evaluate those kinds of things.
Sesano – Your Digital Assistant Platform ON the Go
He mentions Cambridge analytica, so this is contemporary.
Not working for me. The output is the same as the input. Any ideas?
I really hope this practice of saying "Facebook useds" becomes a meme and goes viral.
And sound!
MS should make windows free and just charge for services. I’d love it if they made SQLServer free (sans support or add paid support that actually is good not outsourced) too but that’s a pipe dream.