skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoDaddy will let you close your account, but you have to call customer service to do so. (After many years of having multiple domains with them, recently I decided to migrate all the domains I had with them over to other providers.)

One thing that is troubling is that if you have an expired domain with domain lock turned on, they will not delete your account until a year has passed from the non-renewal of the domain. The domain-lock feature cannot be turned off if that domain has been inactive for less than a year unless the domain is renewed. They told me they could not turn it off either so that the account could be closed, but I'm a bit skeptical on that, since it makes no sense that they cannot change the account settings with an authenticated customer making the request. Don't they control their own code? It strikes me as an excuse for them to leave the account open in case you change your mind.

In their favor, I was able to delete payment information immediately. Also, they have very friendly customer service representatives (though friendliness doesn't make up for powerlessness.)

Btw, this is an interesting and good service you are setting up. Thanks for your work!
Taco Bell Programming can lead to duct tape.

You start with a simple script to do a simple job. It works - well. People want more features. You keep going until nobody can understand what you've created.

Then you leave the company.

Any software that works will be extended given enough time. To adapt the Peter Principle, every piece of software rises to its own level of incompetence.
His “House of the Dead” was amazing too. It was not unlike watching “Lock Up” but from mid 1800s Russia.
Experts Break Down the Self-Driving Uber Crash
If you do it right, it's zero downtime (i.e. no DB locks held for long enough to cause timeouts to clients).
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This man has clearly driven himself insane staring at code.
Composing and recording music, songs, painting, various crafts, reading, rarely programming, playing video games (though I have less time for them in the last year).
I noticed I have much more time available if my husband is away, so hanging out with him too. I have 2 cats, they require some attention too.
I would hire someone to deal with kids.
Why isn't HN/YC on this list?
Wouldn't that be a bit of a privacy leak? If 0rrt works, it was a request for a static asset.

Of course, TLS is not only for privacy reasons, but also for integrity reasons (preventing injection of malicious Javascript and similar attacks). For that purpose, 0rtt for static assets works fine.
If its not on Google, it doesn't exist. If it cannot be completely consumed inside Facebook you are probably antisocial. If your idea cannot be expressed inside a tweet, it is too complex for consideration. If you cannot share it on Instagram it is not worth doing. If I cannot reply using just emojis, it is probably too controversial to respond. Welcome to 2018, where human brains have been replaced by mud.
That was Joel in his "You Suck at Excel" video.
Can we get a flag for pay-walled/register only content on posts and a checkbox in settings on our profile to hide these posts?
Three months is fascinating. That's a quarter of a year! We live in different worlds.

I've always found two weeks notice to be more than adequate in most cases and then, only as a courtesy to communicate, transfer in flight work, and alter schedules. If I'm truly mad, I'm resigning and dealing with picking up the slack is not my problem. If an employee tells me they're leaving, I want them gone soon anyway because mentally they've already left the team.
>>[if they won’t use social login do they really like you enough? I like to think of my users as apostles]

Sounds a bit scary is this some kind of cult as a service offering?

It’s well known that a significant percentage of people won’t sign up with a social login. What is it about those lost users that appears to assign them less of a value in your business model?

Quality of customer is definitely a consideration in certain cases, for example some businesses have been more successful after raising prices.

However in this case I don’t see the benefit unless maybe there’s some kind of inherent need to verify identity or something along those lines which doesn’t seem to truly be a significant requirement in that many cases.
Google has taken the effort to make Linux compile with clang, as part of their efforts to wipe gcc from Android toolchain.

There is a LLVM talk about it.

However I do agree with you.

clang and gcc cover most of the systems that matter today and their C extensions definitely make C a safer language.
GoogleUrbanism: Working with the System (2017)
It may also have been in a blog post, but Joel Spolsky makes that remark in his presentation "You Suck at Excel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Somewhat similar story is a movie plot for a recent popular bollywood movie: "Toilet, Ek Prem Katha" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%3A_Ek_Prem_Katha
Can the flying car ever become a reality?
Pretty simple, really:

1. Neutrality - not being ruined by 2 consecutive world wars

2. Profiting from wars - in Sweden's case, by selling arms and minerals (Bofors, iron ore, etc.) to both warring sides.

"Peace-loving" and "neutral" Sweden continues to be a major exporter of arms, all the while relying on protection of its allies (spending a mere 1% of its GDP in 2015 on its own defense)

3. Until the influx of immigrants (started slowly 30 years ago), a homogeneous, protestant, population.

https://www.politico.eu/article/neutral-sweden-arms-pedlar-e...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
It'd be great, but it's not up to me. If I'm asked for a check, I've got to write it. Thankfully, we've been using ACH much more, but for transactions between two tiny parties, there aren't many better options yet. Perhaps Zelle will come into its own soon.
You could always schedule regular exports of your data to sheets if you just want it to be easier for others to answer simple questions.
Any personal experience with them, in if that's the case what was it like?
As whacky as tipping is in general, I found the ban on tip pooling particularly whacky. Allowing sharing tips with back-of-the-house employees seems like progress while we try to figure out a more general solution to compensating service employees better.
Now, why would Facebook's Sandberg openly support FOSTA? further, who else is in favor of this kind of attack on the Web?
>I would argue that at that point they should be considered a governmental entity for laws around freedom of speech.

That's then infringing on their freedom of speech (or lack of). It's an interesting opinion but as it's so far away from any other I've read can you explain it more?
We don’t know exactly how far away the stars are, so when we convert earth time to star local time, we are being less accurate. Better to keep times stored local to earth, and let distances get more accurate as we learn more.
There seems to be a group wanting to decriminalized sex work ie sex for money? How far do you want to take that.

Should a man be able to place a wanted ad for a sex worker?

Should a business be able to employ sex workers to provide services for employees, just like how some companies will employ cooks, personal trainers, etc now.

Should sex work be part of an employment contract? Should expected duties include having sex with the boss along with more traditional duties?

I think that decriminalizing and de-stigmatizing sex for money will have far greater follow-on social effects than people think.
> For example, your address is very heritable.

No, it's not.

> Likewise, attendance to a given school is also heritable.

No, it's not.

Think about it for a moment, just in the twin study framework. You have monozygotic and dzygotic twins, and twice the difference in their correlation is the heritability. How correlated are the addresses of two dyzgotic twins? Well, they're going to live in... the same house. Just like monozygotic twins are. The exception will be cases of divorce, but the brokenness of their family will have nothing to do with their twinship & genetic relatedness and they will be about as likely to be split up either way (which is minimal). Since there is no difference, twice the difference is still zero, and therefore, the heritability will be zero. Or if that doesn't convince you, consider an adopted child; what address do they live at compared to their adoptive siblings, and what school do they go to?

There certainly will be between-family differences, which will be genetic in the parents, but that falls elsewhere into shared-environment (because all the kids in a family will share the same parents putting them into a better or worse zip code/school) or possibly passive gene-environment correlation.
A similar problem was in Google Code Jam 2009 :)

https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/188266/dashboard
Not sure how ending religion would be better for the world. There are some religious fanatics, always will be, that will use their religion to bring about hate and violence. However there are billions of people who practice some form of religion that are peaceful people who use their religion to spread love and peace throughout the world. Don't try to throw the baby out with the bath water. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of a viable democracy.
I didn't see LinkedIn in this list?

A while ago I deleted my account, then recreated my account after a year, and requested a full backup history, this backup had my old contacts from the original Linkedin android app gathered from my old phone without my permission.
The GPU owner gets no payment for the entire task.
One more thing: the Uber help page states that they "permanently delete your account", but also includes this sentence: "Please note that Uber may retain certain information after account deletion as required or permitted by law."

Which makes me think that they're deactivating your account and basically keeping as much data as they can legally get away with.

Since I doubt any of the other companies on your list are openly ignoring the law and keeping more than permitted, the logical conclusion would be that Uber is just as bad your top contenders.
A simple way to help any kid: find out what he enjoys the most and help him to do more of it. Rinse. Repeat. No compulsion. No testing.
It worked extremely well results-wise for the few months we did it. I went home at the end of the day mentally exhausted, though. You are essentially having a conversation for 9 hours straight, 5 days per week.
Software is a mess.

There are too many programming languages, libraries, frameworks, websites, apps, devices, etc. We're still far from what was imagined 50 years ago. We still use text files. Most people still can't program. That's a problem.

My mission is to clean up this mess. It could take a lot of different shapes, but the high-level pitch is to build one application/interface/language/platform/system that will replace all of the others.

Imagine if Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, LinkedIn, Twitch, eBay, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Google Maps, Spotify, Uber, Gmail, Pinterest, Domino's Pizza, Tinder, and Craigslist were all just one application. That's my mission.
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I grant I learned all of those things, but I think pretty well everyone learns those things by adulthood, and I don't think my forgetting a language especially honed my understanding of those points.

I don't even know if you're arguing in good faith, because your second dot point isn't really a thing that even a child needs to learn.

I'll also thank you not to suggest that our differences of opinion are due to your superior understanding of my upbringing.
> And who cares about a little bit of an extra HTTPS delay, when just adding Google analytics and Facebook Pixel to your site can increase the delay by over 400 ms?

That's how you might feel if you live with fast broadband internet. A lot of the world is stuck with high latency, low-bandwidth connections. Applications that are incredibly lean will still be slow if the server is in San Jose and the client is in, say, Uganda.
I'm not too amazed - a flexible labor market is widely regarded as something that attracts industry, and hence creates first-world countries.

Conversely, inflexible labor markets are something that keeps third-world countries how they are.
> You don't need a domain-specific tool for every problem your business has.

The opposite is also true: You can make a decent living creating, customizing or even just maintaining domain-specific tools, no matter if the customer's business really needs them or not.
This is why open source software works so well- layers of duct tape transition seamlessly into the thing itself.
And now even C# has them. :)

On C++ we can fake them with lambdas.
Why Did Elon Musk Delete His Facebook Pages?
I'm curious, was OP never childless?
I have stopped at 45MPH to a black dude crossing the street in dark blue clothing viable only in my headlights. Night vision degrades with age, but it's simply unsafe to out-speed your headlights and if you can't see you need to slow down.

Now, some mostly older cars have terrible headlights, but that's another story. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/51/3/1 Note Uber hit someone in bluejeans and a pink bike which is not that dark: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/22/video-rel...

PS: Just Starlight aka no moon and no clouds is plenty of light to see and walk around. I can't read small text, but you really should not be blind at night.
You can measure the position of the star in the sky and use that to detect systems that are "face on" to us (with the axis pointing at us) but it's harder.

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/exoplanets/ast...
But being strongly typed would remove a lot of the usability that makes Excel the most widely used programming language among non programmers.
I’m working on a side project that does this too, thought I was the only one.

Whenever I see a regular user of any other service have to reset their password to login in anyway, I’m like man this password thing is kind of not that useful
Archived copy, which works with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/2pPTN
The white/non-white dichotomy is purely an American construct. When they say "white" they mean "anglo-saxon". In my opinion anglo-saxons are actually red, not white, but that's a differnt argument.

The rest of the world uses ethnicity/descent to describe skin colour/appearance.
Yes, and it will also give more insight in what and how they collect and process your data.

GDPR would be a nice "tool" to validate the actual deletion of personal data.
It works until it doesn't work then you are Donald Ducked.

I one worked at a place where a key part of the finance system ran on a spreadsheet - turns out this SS had mess up or finances and was one of the reasons the company restructured.
Steinhaus, Ulam and many other mathematicians in the Lviv school were Jewish, and had to flee or go into hiding to survive the German occupation. Interesting that there is no mention of this in the article.
I'm wondering what kind of information, because they are required to keep accounting records for some time.

The only challenge is how to rank them based on ranking factors.
Why do you think it's less interesting or important because it's subjective data?
The problem is external criterions like data recovery, data security, quality control, access control, auditing etc.
By that definition, the telegraph was the original social network, preceding emails by over a hundred years.

The definition of social networking is debatable, but I don't think one that encompasses every communication medium is useful.
Prostitution has been legal in Nevada for a long time and none of these things have happened. Just because something is legalized, it doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for a professional context.
That's really not good, added.
Capuchin monkey fairness experiment
What add-ons do you use regularly?
The GDPR applies to the data of anyone using a service while in the EU, not just to companies that are based in the EU.
For those unaware, Alsup is the judge who won plenty of respect when he rightly called out Oracle for trying to inflate the importance of some lines of Java:

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20121127123047...
> Looking for a SaaS idea? Ask random people in a target industry what kinds of things they do with Excel.

Strongly disagree with this based on personal experience in "traditional" spaces that rely heavily on spreadsheets. There's a reason most of the financial industry uses Excel spreadsheets and it isn't because they can't afford to pay for specialized software. Excel spreadsheets are incredibly versatile. Your data format can change a little bit over time and you'll still be fine. With a custom software solution, you're kind of stuck within the confines of what the developers/product managers gleaned from your working process.
5 reasons why jupyter notebooks suck
Where I work, I big Word document with a table in it, is the duct tape. Using Excel would be the right way.
Could? It has already happened and is ongoing in multiple industries, not just the copyright industry.
> Legal brothels have much lower rates of abuse.

Because there is less overall abuse? If you make something legal you will increase the number of people who are concerned about the legality of their actions which will reduce the overall percentage of people participating who are NOT concerned about the legality of their actions. I would expect the percentage of abuse to go down in that situation, but it doesn't mean that you've actually reduced abuse.

(On the other hand if the activity is legal, it is easier to report abuse. In which case it is the ability to report abuse that is reducing abuse--not the legality of the activity.)
I come from Italy as well, and felt that sense of dread, and I solved it in the easiest way possible: I moved to another country. In Europe is really easy to move nowadays, and you can pick a well-governed state to move to :)
Some companies do that, and say "it's our policy", without giving a real reason for it.

Thanks, and I've added GoDaddy :)
I agree, I really don't see what they get out of it. It seems only to legitimise the PRC's claim on Taiwan by making it a mutual disagreement.

I don't know about the concerns re democracy, the Chinese people I hear speaking about it don't seem to have much interest in Western democracy whether or not they could live under it, but I don't have a strong enough understanding of the issue to really claim to understand.

And I suppose the fact that their people don't care wouldn't necessarily assuage a sufficiently paranoid government.
I've been wanting to attempt to make a coaxial movement, roughly that size as well. As there's no chance I could make one that would fit in a watch.

I've also pulled a few Unitas (pre-ETA acquisition) movements out of stopwatches and assembled wristwatches with them. It's not "watchmaking" but it's fun nonetheless.
Yes, almost everything on the web is copyrighted with the exception of content from governments that do not copyright content that they create and material that is out of copyright.

It is unclear that crawling and indexing are a violation of copyright. A library card catalog does not violate the copyright of the material it indexes. If you don't want to be indexed, you can just put the appropriate entry in robots.txt and all the major search engines will comply.

Caches are on shakier ground and archives like the IA are on shakier ground yet. Pretty much everyone turns a blind eye however because it's useful and again you can always opt out with robots.txt.
It’s still pretty common in at least Germany and Austria, but is superseded by „Toilette“.
> PS: I guess I should monetize my genes: 6’5, gifted, blond to brown w age, blue to hazel. Fuck, I should just visit Brazil and bang some rich ladies trying for preggers. lmao

Your comments continue to be inspiringly moronic. Keep it up.
It's ironic that you are being so severely downvoted in this thread just for stating an honest opinion.
Your Basic Go: Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Nutshells
Principles of mathematical analysis by Rudin
Yeah sounds a lot like

are we going to legalize marrying a dog next?
It depends on what you mean by "failure". Kids need to be confronted with honest evaluations and positive feedback loops about their progress, including things they need to work harder on or redo, in order to reach the expected levels of common baseline education.

In the USA, there's just a general pushing through of all kids to the next step regardless of whether or not they actually learned anything, which is simply broken, too. It's missing any notion of failure.

However, what we shouldn't do is effectively discard failing kids from ever succeeding, dumping them to the wayside. They just need different types of help than was offered by the bulk instruction, either in content or style.
I think the article is about the first version, not about reuse. But I could be wrong.

But in any case, code is difficult: it requires deep attention, good memory - both short and long term(and long term memory doesn't work so well if you don't exercise the knowledge repeatedly ),good learning capabilities, and good abstractions capabilities.

Visual systems are fundamentally easier. So if they can scale well to the required level of complexity and offer similar or better levels of productivity , they may become the 'easy' route.
the article is drawing attention to Musk's departure from Facebook with the failed Facebook satellite launch on a SpaceX rocket !?
Yeah the article is very misleading, possibly intentionally.
Gotta love Wallingford.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs vs. espionage
In my experience organized crime / espionage is the most salient feature of the entrepreneurial landscape. I told someone once that I can't make a grocery list without someone stealing it, intruding into my sleep and asking me how it works. From people hypnotizing key employees to interfering in customer relations, business is war. The police seldom help and often make it worse.

What problems have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
Motivating the Greatest Geniuses in AI to Change the World Instead of Destroy It
The Wolves of K Street
Sketch of a proof:

Let f(n) be the sum the squares of digits of n.

For k-digit number: f(n) ≤ 81k.

That is: f(n) ≤ 81 × (1 + ⌊log₁₀n⌋)

It's pretty clear that if n≥1000, f(n) < n. So the n, f(n), f(f(n)), ... sequence will eventually reach a number below 1000.

Mechanical proof for numbers below 1000 is in the article.