skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so making this change on the Tarsnap website brings it in line with the reality of the billing system

Seems hard to argue against this.

> The topic of picodollars has become something of an ongoing debate between us, with Patrick insisting that they communicate a fundamental lack of seriousness and sabotage Tarsnap's success as a business, and me insisting that using they communicate exactly what I want to communicate, and attract precisely the customer base I want to have.

This is the most important line from the post IMO. (Small typo btw.)

I admire and am envious of Colin. He's making a good living doing something he likes that he built himself, selling a service that has real value, and without sacrificing his integrity in some way.

I think wealth can be a sort of drug where people want more and more and will do anything to get it -- whether it's selling user data, manipulating people with dopamine rushes, lying, making money off of nazis, or whatever. It doesn't have to be that way.
I like the cheeky z-index val, but I'd use the max supported value if you want this to work with apps that have that cranked way up.

And you mentioned building out more tools to help diagnose specific problems -- when the radar goes red, I'd kill to have a report of what was running there, mem use, and so on.

Great work!
Ugggggggghhhgh. The repercussions of this, I don't want to think about.
Firebase Auth/React simple example
Lol I'm not impressed by anything at this point. I thought it was clear from the start, they don't care about you, you're the "useds" of facebook, as Stallman would say. But still, every new evidence that comes up confirming this must make into a separate headline, and we'll keep on getting plenty of those until... I don't know. Until it either dies or rebrands itself well enough to pretend all of this never happened, I suppose.
That's the medium, not the product.

A company that makes radio program, and generates revenue by selling ad spots, is a media company.

A company that makes TV programming, and generates revenue by selling ad spots, is a media company. It's in the same line of business as the radio company, even though the radio company doesn't have any soundstages or camera operators.

And guess what, both of those companies stay media companies even if they start streaming sound or video in a browser instead of on the TV. That's just replacing the distribution team, a rather small part of their business by headcount. They're still media companies, because they make money by selling ad space in content.

The distinguishing feature of facebook is that it takes user-generated content, and generates revenue by selling ad space. That's the "social" in social media, it's what makes social media different from traditional media. But the other part is the same: They generate revenue by selling ad space inside the content that they manage.
"Edit: A Quartz article from 2014, in which the service is described as “spammy”."

Yeah, seems pretty sleazy. "I didn't get as rich as I wanted, so I'm going to release all this information about people who never wanted their information to be distributed this way, and I'm going to release it in a way that is uncontrollable."

Claydon writes: "I could have sold this data to some data broker for a lot of money and it would have been used by those with money for marketing or political purposes rather than freely available for the public good. Instead I donated it for free to the Internet Archive."

He's either naive or stupid.
Why is there an additional law? Why can't the additional (neglect) law be updated so it's current?

Multiple overlapping laws? What could go wrong? Haven't we learned our lesson yet?
It’s the same in any industry that perceives itself as glamorous. It’s hilarious what these types will do for a pittance and then look down on people who bailed on the scam.
> why for the past generation we’ve been eating french fries that taste like cardboard

We could both listen to the podcast but I'll guess and say it's because they don't use beef tallow in their fries anymore after vegetarians complained.
...and then the other side of the deal, which is the widespread use of the text as a giant cudgel to belabour people with in an argument: in that situation it's exactly like hitting people with the Bible, wooden cover, locks and all.
They're in an ongoing FTC investigation so it's likely.
Food delivery is dramatically more time sensitive than parcel delivery; after 10 minutes, the food quality begins to decline sharply, so even if I am okay waiting an hour or two for my food to arrive, "pooling" food is almost certainly out of the question, just 'cause you only have 10 minute before the food starts getting sadder.

Parcels, on the other hand, well, I can tell you it needs to be here at time X, and you can do as many deliveries as possible between now and time X. (I guess that's the same thing, except that for food, X is now +10 minutes.)
I think Hank Hill hit it on the head with his take on Christian Rock.

"Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock-n-roll worse."
Isn’t it accurate to say though that encryption is a component of — but not the only property of — secure exchange? Or am I misunderstood?
Doesn't sound like there were any major negative consequences - just that it was ineffective at stopping hurricanes and cyclones.
Does ProfileEngine have a local instance in the EU or something? Are you thinking the "G" in GDPR means "global?"
So, like a filesystem more or less

I might just "help" them by uploading more data I guess
Chance of MetalStorm: 100%
Isn't teaching part of the definition of faculty? In other words, isn't it impossible to be 'faculty' if you don't take 'students' (i.e., 'teach')? At least anywhere I've ever heard of, this is true; someone who doesn't have students is considered 'staff'.
Worse. A degree is no proxy for drive, ambition, creative thinking, problem solving, etc.

Too many have come to believe a degree is the magic. In some cases it is. In plenty of others it's a curse. The time and money could have been better spent elsewhere.
> GameNetworkingSockets is a basic transport layer for games.

I understand that this is primarily derived from a gaming platform, but is there anything that makes this useful specifically "for game" and not networked applications in general?
I've worked in countless languages and used plenty of frameworks (and done a ton of PHP development) but I really don't understand Laravel.

You have to do a big dance of putting files in all right places and implementing all the right interfaces -- as you would with any framework -- but Laravel doesn't seem to give you anything for your trouble. Take, as one example, validation -- you still have to write virtually everything yourself! There are some very basic hooks and some wire but that's all. For all the trouble, I expect more actual features from my framework.
What ethics? Ethic boards exist to oversee practice of professionals in fields where their actions have major consequences on the lives of the people who use their services.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16639605

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726117
Musk's Tesla faces a cash crunch as it confronts a suddenly skeptical Wall St
Unless I'm misreading, that criteria rules out data about individuals that are not identified and can't be identified.

When looking at a single datum by itself, this seems to rule out anything except PII i.e. data that identifies or can be used to identify an individual.
You seem to be trying to classify DNS clients by what they do mechanically. But that isn't the case. DNS software is classified according to its role and expected capabilities. There's a relationship between role and action, but it's the former that matters much more when it comes to naming of parts.

Rather than looking at Wikipedia I suggest consulting RFC 7719 "DNS Terminology", https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7719 where you will find that your program is simply called a "resolver": "A program that extract[s] information from name servers in response to client requests."

That RFC further describes some specific classes of resolver, but dig is most definitely not a "stub resolver" because these are characterised by what they cannot do, whilst dig is a swiss-army knife utility that can do a great deal - which merely happens to include, amongst other things, sending the same queries that a stub resolver might send.

In terms of implementation details, your specific description: "programs that send only non-recursive queries and only send them to authoritative nameservers" describes the principal activity of the resolver side of most implementations of a full-service resolver. However if you read that RFC you'll see that it equivocates about the implementation details of full-service resolvers in general, because in classification the role and outcome matters more than the action.
Tapster creator here. Which repercussions?
Pretty much this.

I used Swype for a while. IIRC they were not helping themselves : you had to reinstall the app after a while because it would automatically stop working.

I also personally disliked how the keyboard looked with swype.

When the default keyboard started having this feature, there was no point in installing this bothersome app anymore.
Even though Perl6 isn't production ready yet, I'm surprised to see it not being mentioned in a group of languages with some gradual typing support as what I would subjectively consider idiomatic Perl6 takes advantage of quite a few things including gradual typing.
I don't. The data doesn't even contain surnames of people.
It's upsetting that the bug exists in the first place, but there's nothing unsettling about this response. Have you ever reported a bug to an Internet company before? What do you expect them to say?
I literally cannot understand the mentality of people who'd make fun of you for wearing hearing protection at gigs. I go to a lot of gigs (like multiple times a week) and "simply trusting" that the sound engineer won't push the volume up into hearing damage territory is... naive at best.

Please folks, use protection. I like Etymotic earplugs, but to be honest i'm not even sure if they're "heavy enough", but my pain threshold is pretty low i think. In any case since i've been consistently using ear protection i've almost never had the ringing thing after concerts, which makes me rather glad.
...or C# or anything else. I programmed in PHP for many years and I agree. I mean there are good reasons for maybe not using Java but it's hard to imagine a good excuse to start PHP these days if you don't already know PHP.

On the other hand, things in PHP-land are improving at such a rapid pace (but without the churn of JavaScript) that if you are a PHP developer there isn't much reason to switch to something different but similar.
The has happened numerous times in the past, especially when they switched to timelines. Everything you thought deleted reappeared.

Basically once in Facebook, always in Facebook.
Given the general attitude toward Edward Snowden in the Valley, I can’t help thinking that a lot of these FBers who are so upset that their dirty laundry is being publicly aired were perfectly fine with Snowden doing the same with state secrets.
Some people I know online have basically started buying "captcha tokens" --- the same ones that spammers use when they want to bypass them in bulk. Depending on your morals (keeping in mind these services are mainly third-world-country sweatshop labour), it might be a better choice than spending your own brainpower on such things, and a way of giving Google a virtual middle finger.
A Hong Kong Newspaper on a Mission to Promote China’s Soft Power
Did a postgrad do this study? :-)
Looking online briefly for definitions of "delete":

"remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign."

"synonyms: remove, cut out, take out, edit out, expunge, excise, eradicate, cancel"

All of these seem clearly "absolute" to me. "Delete" means it's gone.

I think Facebook has its own special linguistic distortion field. It requires no "dumb conspiracy theory" to realize that Facebook cannot be trusted.
GDPR is not in effect, yet. Can it retroactively go behind previous events? Not sure, not a lawyer.
Is it an Electron app now? Last time I poked around on macOS (admittedly, about a year ago), it didn’t look like an Electron app to me, but it most definitely was using a web view of some kind.
With UberEats its transparent when pooling is happening (they tell you the driver is completing another delivery first). It works pretty well.

UberEats is actually very expensive compared to GrubHub etc, so if anyone is making money its probably them.
I once moved all my possessions from San Diego to Tucson using Craigslist Rideshare.

Payment occurred once they SMS'ed a photo of my boxes in my storage unit. I gave them a combination to my storage unit and hid the payment in various locations in the delivery boxes (e.g., page X of book Y in box Z, etc.).

Worked great but it took 3 drivers. I paid around $5 a box (in 2009 dollars).
I've played one a couple times. The latest time at the Midwest Gaming Classic which is happening again in a couple weeks. I actually really dig the controller, find it strangely comfortable.
The reason we're talking about it is because someone sang the "leave crypto to the experts" tune. Apparently not, because this was about key size. Responsibility for which is punted by experts to non-experts.

I'm not saying don't study the docs. I'm pointing out the irony in bring up this "leave it to the experts" platitude, when it's so clearly about something left to end users.

And to that effect: if interfaces are not safe, why are experts designing unsafe interfaces?

I'm tired of this victim blaming in crypto failures.
Because it isn't just old laws, these are also new guidelines for how CPS handles cases of accused "neglect." This sets the bar, and sets it universally so there's no gaps.

There's no reason they cannot still go back and update bad existing law. But that takes time, and this helps people while that occurs.
Because The security of your passwords depend on the security of the password manager and the security of their infrastructure ... the big password managers have had issues, in code, design and even last pass was attached by hackers.

trusting your bank / email and other important password is an unneeded risk.

Your turn why should I rely on someone and their servers to save my passwords why a good password and 2fa will protect my account?
> Isn't teaching part of the definition of faculty?

No - I'm not sure where you got that definition from. You can be a researcher and be on the faculty of a department. It just means as opposed to the support members of staff.
TBH this is not that small hardware. There are boards with this chip that can run JS (with interpreter running right on chip)
Yes, but AFAIK it is not multi-threaded so it's not fit for production, at all. It's good for development and testing.
Yeah, I do. I just found it hilarious that my build system could take down my window manager.
Everything's sound in the company town. Next thing you know it'll be really convenient to introduce a system, similar to colleges where you have FBucks on your company ID. You need never venture outside, in fact you can fill your fbucks straight from your paycheck!

Eventually, you forget how much the conversation rate between fbucks and usd is, but dismiss any wierdness as a convenience fee, you're well paid right?

Next thing you know, you can't leave because there's no reasonable housing elsewhere in the city. And so on.

Edit: Even if it doesn't become even more dystopic for the worker, who now lives every moment inside the company and is alienated from their fellow humans, including increasingly the ability to think dissent thoughts (no where is safe even home) the company has succeeded in capturing back most of the money they paid to their workforce. It puts the lie to the notion that the presence of profits filters out to the rest of the city and increases inequality.
I have a similar plan!

I think the opportunities in tech are promising towards this end, and would be interested in getting in contact with other people with similar plans.

I'm on the "build skills, save money" - phase currently, and probably will be for > 5 years to come. So that is my main focus right now.
Yeah, probably. It was just a desktop Ubuntu system.
>I think what bonds people is shared adversity.

I disagree. Now this is all just experience, and could be totally different for someone who is not me, but the most brutal part of my life was high school. I think this might be true of most people in my income tax bracket? I know a few people from that time period, some of who really stood by me and were the closest to 'brothers in arms' that I will (hopefully) ever know.

but... I'm not really close with any of those people anymore. When we gained our ability to choose our peers, we all went our own ways, finding niches where we all felt best.

Part of this is that when things are at their worst? you are not at your best. Or, at least I wasn't at my best in high school. I was a real jerk, and I think you'd have to have christ-like instincts to go through experiences that hostile without being a jerk. Or, in any case, I wasn't good enough to remain "good" through the experience (though I do think I'm much less of a jerk now, in part because I have a life where people generally treat me well, and where treating others well is generally rewarded better than treating others poorly, and in part because it's been 20 years, and I've grown and matured and reflected.)
Your password doesn’t need be a long random string, just a long unguessable one and safe from dictionary attacks
Ilikeapples! Is fine
But You know I’m not a security researcher
The more coherent litmus test for "technology company" is the role of R&D within the organization, irrespective of line-of-business.

On the clearly non-tech company side are those which purely consume off-the-shelf products. Your neighborhood bodega probably does most of its business through computerized cash register and credit card terminal, but is unambiguously not a technology company.

Then there's a vast middle ground where the company engages consultants and maybe a small in-house IT cost center to integrate and operate off-the-shelf products. Some of the more sophisticated players have unique enough requirements that they start to commission their own technology (or at least customizations to their existing SAP, Oracle, etc). This could be done internally or through contractors, but not as a core competency. Emphasis is on meeting requirements as specified by the business and at the lowest cost. Most banks would fit in this category. People who operate the line of business run the company; IT are support staff who occasionally automate the even-lower-status support staff.

Then there are companies whose core competency is R&D, whose technology teams proactively develop and augment products on their own initiative, whose leadership views R&D as an investment/competitive advantage/core of the business rather than as a cost of doing business. This tends to reflect in the social status and compensation of engineers. Engineers (and product and design engineering management) run the company; everyone else is support staff for whatever drudgery engineering hasn't automated yet. This is what we say when we mean "technology company."

But the only way to be a pure technology company is to license your tech to others to commercialize, and even then, by your logic, that would make you a patent licensing company. Most tech companies have a line of business. It could be advertising, entertainment, retail, transportation, trading... anything under the sun. The difference is how they go about it.
Any examples of his “anti-women” stance?
The Second Life client is also free/open source software (LGPLv2) [0]. There are multiple competing forks with significant user bases, the most popular of which is Firestorm [1].

The server software is closed source, but the OpenSimulator project [2] exists as a third-party reimplementation.

[0] http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Second_L...

[1] http://www.firestormviewer.org/

[2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
A.k.a growing up in Europe.
It might feel that way, but it's really not true. Plenty of people work jobs they'd rather not do, but for most there's at least something they like in it. Even menial labour can be satisfying when the impact of the work is immediate and obvious. When people really hate working somewhere, there's often some specific piece making them miserable, like the hours, their boss or their commute.

Life is a mixture of good and bad, and it's easy to fixate on the bad, but don't forget about the good. It matters too.
I think your use of the term "startup" would be more accurate if you said "VC funded startup".
And a built in debugger.
My hope is that in the future lightning network micro payments will be a better alternative than captchas for rate limiting page access.
The first thing I thought about was click-fraud.
Academia will never have a metoo moment. The power structure is basically feudal and there’s no role inside professional academia for free agents. You owe your adviser fealty as a grad student, then your principal investigator as a postdoc. If you speak out before you’re a PI yourself good luck with a career in academia. Even once you are a PI that horrible, abusive asshole? They know a lot of people. They sit on editorial boards and grant committees. If you don’t end their career they’ll at minimum severely damage yours. Film is a project based economy with many relatively well defined projects. Academia has very, very poorly defined ones. The economy of power and money are totally different.

And metoo worked because people care about sex. No one cares about harrowing psychological abuse. Stars being assholes to their assistants and others isn’t an open secret. It’s common knowledge. It’s not a scandal. Everybody knows everybody knows.
> tiny sliver of research that doesn't require staff or expensive equipment

Like anyone who presents at tech conferences.
I always believed in the right to be forgotten. That's why I am not on Facebook nor Google Plus
Sounds like we're at a similar place. Feel free to contact me. My email address is in my profile here.
As a current one, I can also tell you the same thing. Where did you get the idea that I am talking about summers being off?
This is probably an April Fools.
When you ask for time off you risk being replaced by someone younger and more energetic. When a research company loses funding you are told you fake the need for emergency medical leave. No one is to blame, money is the devil, and it's the only thing our government is good at controlling.
I agree, but if we are going to agree to not be ruled by the almighty dollar, we have to stop giving so many almighty dollars to universities for degrees that will produce no almighty dollars after graduation.

Let people study fine arts with a minor in Russian literature. But we shouldn't subsidize huge student loans so they can get those degrees.
Check when your eardrum is broken.
I prefer using Inoreader's mobile website to their iPhone app, since it opens links in my regular browser.