skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop using the word Plex. Stop.
I would point out that this article focuses on Samoans who work in Utah, home of the Mormon Church. Sure enough, Mormons have an odd zeal to convert Samoans and bring them into their church [1]. So while the actions of individuals can be taken at face value, it's also worthwhile to point out what organizations and other influences may be behind this, and consider whether that aligns with the interests of all who come from and/or live in American Samoa.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1994/01/saving-samoans/
nullpomino[1] gets the job done for me, contains all of the advanced modes you'd expect from a serious tetris app

https://github.com/nullpomino/nullpomino
How would google infer that you’re looking for information about your own race and gender?

Ideally it should know nothing about me!
You're right! I reread the article, and the author aligns ideologically with most of the commenters in this thread, including myself.
But a social media site that is what they are can't live with 33% market penetration. They need to be at 90+.
Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/386/
It does, thanks. Hopefully there will be a set of dev warnings, tests or sth that a developer can read or run that will help him verify whether the component tree is "async-ready".

BTW, I've watched your jsconf, great presentation, can't wait to use all those goodies (also love HN for a chance of response straight from react core team :)
10% of 1 megapixels divided by 24 is 4166. So, even if you only consider the least significant bit of one of the three subpixels in 10% of the image you still have 16 times more information than what you can represent in a SHA256 hash from a measly 1 megapixel image.

I think it is valid to question how you could reduce the search space enough to be more beneficial than brute forcing SHA256.
That is a deeply condescending statement that does nothing but display your own ignorance of the norms and constraints of international diplomacy.

Ecuador would at this point in time be fully justified in declaring that Assange was no longer welcome on their territory and expelling him from his hidey-hole. That they are merely cutting off his internet is extremely generous of them given the trouble and expense he has caused them.
Which, as we know at least since Alan Turings 1952 paper ”The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis”, might possibly not even exist.

"a system which has spherical symmetry, and whose state is changing because of chemical reactions and diffusion ... cannot result in an organism such as a horse, which is not spherically symmetrical.”

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
WARNING: loud video starts to play automatically on the page
Privacy in the Internet Age: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Sounds like Android at least can be told via DHCP it's on a metered connection:

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/4wk4rw/dhcp_opt...
I dislike large numbers of lawyers for the same reason I dislike large amounts of code.

It indicates there is a large amount of incidental complexity.

Clearly, exterminating lawyers or deleting random files is not a workable solution. But we should invest in reducing the system to essential complexity. If we are successful, the symptoms will subside.
China’s 8,000-year-old skiing method
You aren’t asking for perfect security so I'll just mention Telegram.

I use it with my friends and family after WhatsApp betrayed us.

Works really well for us but isn't like Facebook at all.

The differences is it isn't broadcast-focused or build-huge-networks focused but is more organic.
brew install netris
Based on what? All of you here saying "they don't have what it takes" have yet to elicit one actual skill that a founder could not _learn_ as the company grows.

There is nothing inherently special about someone who runs a small vs. big company, except for experience. I agree with the poster above: classism at its finest.
>It seems to me that there's an enormous contingent of people who wants to yell about the influence of Google and Facebook and then yell even louder about how they're not actively intervening to skew content towards their political preferences (ie increase their influence massively). This split-personality approach is baffling to me.

It's pretty straightforward to understand the view.

1. It would be better if Google and Facebook didn't even have the power to skew content.

2. Since they do have that power and seem determined to use it they should be judged on their choice to use (or not use in this case) and implementation of content skewing.
The secret key is combined with the master password. See our white paper here:

https://1pw.ca/whitepaper

See Key Derivation on page 24 for this specifically. We call it 2SKD.

Page 26 also shows how the secret key and the master password are combined. From that other keys are derived.

It's actually a very fascinating process, combined with our use of SRP, I have to say I rather love how well all of this meshes together.

In the situation where someone gets your data from our server, which is the big thing people are worried about, they're going to have to combine a guess for your master password and the secret key to perform a guess.

They could in theory get your secret key from your local devices, as these are saved there, but your Master Password protects in that case as it's not stored anywhere (unless you've enabled features like Touch ID or Face ID, but those are protected in other ways).

Your Secret Key protects your data on our server. It makes brute forcing that data an incredibly expensive process.

Your Master Password also helps protect your data on our server, but it also protects your data locally.

Let me know if that helps explain things.

Kyle

AgileBits
It is a very "IBM" typeface indeed. It reminds me of the typeface that is inspired by the IBM 1403 printer: https://1403.slantedhall.com/
Great idea but why no contact details for suggestions and no way to sign up/vote for other cities?
Saudi Arabia and SoftBank Plan World's Largest Solar Project
I read this comment thinking it was a "typical HN overreaction" but then looked at the page and oh my god you couldn't be more right
The concern isn't fabrication. The concern is that the information is being intentionally selectively provided to influence events.
I wait and hope for someone with more planetary knowledge than I have to explain the lack of interest in Venus as a habitable planet and thus the center of NASA's attention ahead of Neptune, Uranus, and of course, Mars.

Based on what I've read, which includes a paper from a NASA (or was it JPL?) engineer, Venus' surface is not very hospitabl, but at a certain altitude it looks like an oasis in the Solar System:

Venus (at ~50-55 km altitude) / Mars (surface): (all stats from Wikipedia, and yes not always complete or comparable)

* Gravity: 0.9G / 0.38G

* Pressure: ~1 atm / 0.00628 atm (prevents liquid water)

* Temperature: 27-75 deg C / -63 deg C (mean)

* Shortest distance from Earth (for logistics): 40M km / 55M km

* Sunlight (energy): More than Earth / 43% of Earth

Also, oxygen and nitrogen are lighter than the CO2-heavy atmosphere, so a balloon of O2 and N2 would float conveniently at 50 km. The CO2 in the atmosphere also could be a valuable resource.
Having bootstrapped multiple apps for both iOS and Android, no matter how much Android users scream for equal access - iOS makes 2-4x the android equivalent. Not sure if it's the users, the app store or the expectations - but we always build for iOS first.
Are you talking about the arab spring? I thought it was generally agreed that the new regime is way worse/more oppresive than the displaced one ever was?

Social media helped facilitate the uprising, but isn't responsible for what replaced the previous regime.
I'm not sure I buy that not using social media is the linchpin of my career, but I take his point that it's largely a waste of time to be reasonable. I have all the major social media services and I use them occasionally (for example: I don't install the apps, I just login from a browser). I think the bigger message that I take from this:

1. Some people are probably "addicted" or at least habituated in a way that makes social media actively negative in their lives.

2. For the rest of us, maybe some see value in social media and others don't.

I'm in (2): I take the "does doing X enrich my life?" approach to social media. Maybe once or twice a week I log on and see if anyone had anything personally interested happen. If so, great, if not or if it's just not something I want to spend brain on, I just keep scrolling. I've got other places to spend my time and I recognize that passively consuming a feed isn't enriching my own growth - so I don't do it.

For the people in (1), it's a very different story. They may be using social media to an active detriment. Not sure how you get there, but to quote the psychologist in Annihilation:

"Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct."

I guess for some folks, that's social media - it's destructive to the point that bloggers need to write articles about quitting it. Or maybe it's just more clickbait since that's our world now.
There are three camps: statehood, independence, and status quo. Over time, statehood has captured more and more of the vote, and probably constitutes a plurality of the vote at this time (maybe a majority, I don't know), followed somewhat closely by status quo and very distantly by independence.

The operative word is probably: the most recent referendums were designed to provoke the statehood option, leading to the results being ignored as not providing a clear mandate. Constant relitigation of the issue over the past decade doesn't help with apathy. It doesn't help that status quo may not be a realistic option: there's a lot of unclear legal issues with little appetite to litigate them.

I suspect that Puerto Rico will eventually become a state, but it's politically difficult for that to happen without a clear mandate, and there doesn't seem to be much appetite for providing a truly fair and clear referendum in this matter.
Tesla's Debt Price Is Deteriorating
I've been using Plex Mono for my Emacs font on MacOS for about a week and it's very nice. It has replaced Hack for the time being.

The font has just the right amount of whimsy/flair for me, and the style of the italics is pretty neat.
>Stage 5: Decline : This stage initiates the death of an organization. The decline is identified by the focus on political agenda and authority within an organization,[4] whereby individuals start to become preoccupied with personal objectives, instead of focusing on the objectives of the organization itself. This slowly destroys the functionality and feasibility of the entire organization.[3]

Wow. What if the organization begins in Stage 5?
California's Housing Laws Should Be Under State Control
And "optimized" to run on their cloud bluemix or softlayer
I found this role was still manageable when my coding was just tools for the team with lose deadlines. Once I have to help out with production features on a deadline everyone suffers because all my time is on coding not helping everyone else.
> I’m always amazed how often the “surprise” that digital technology is in fact not unbiased and robotic in nature keeps getting written about. Algorithms that optimize for click through rate for ads and search relevancy will inevitably be a reflection of ourselves and all of the shitty things various people believe.

What you just observed and described is that technology _is_ unbiased and robotic. The bias is in the humans. You can't remove it with a software bandage; the software is working as intended.
You're being either extremely naive or intentionally obtuse.

No one is saying the information is false or should be ignored. To use your example, if there were reason to believe that this spy was revealing this information on behalf of Dow's competitors to influence the market and shield/draw attention away from their own malfeasance, that's a concern. The source and the intent of the source does actually matter.
This is often called being "on the wrong side of the airtight hatch". If a program can write to ~/.local/bin, it can write to ~/.profile and change your path anyway, or set aliases.
The linked article is the really interesting gem here.

"The Tragic Story Behind The Man Who Helped Create Tetris" http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/03/feature_the_tragic_...
I usually think comments on HN about UX are overreacted, but wow, this website is definitely awful.
I doubt his father would receive anything approaching state of the art. The VA doesn't hand out Lamborginis they hand out Hondas.

3d Printed prosthetic are nothing new and it doesn't sound like the kid designed his own from scratch prosthetic, he just used an existing model.

As you alluded to in your comment, Commercially available prosthetics are superior however 3d printed ones offer several advantages.

A 3d printed prosthetic is orders of magnitude less expensive which means an individual can have multiple specifically suited units instead of one or perhaps 2 expensive prosthesis. The Nintendo Switch prosthesis shown in the video is a great example, it's far more functional for playing the Switch than any commercial prosthesis.

They're infinitely easily customized which has numerous advantages both in function and in appearance. For a child, a prosthesis can be a source of shame because kids are beyond cruel. A custom 3d printed prosthesis can be the difference between being made fun of and being admired.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/13/8207133/3d-printed-iron-m...
When I had tough times, reading this lifted me up big time: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/12/the-ultimate-cheat-shee...
Not Tetris but maybe relevant (my game): https://bobsgame.itch.io/bobs-game-puzzle-game

Source: https://github.com/bobsgame/bobsgame
This is fun...

After opening an issue on the license confusion, I finally got my first ever death threat (Yeah me?): "[...] I hope you get through life peacefully. Stay away from AR-15s and don't be following any short Austrians!"

https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/issues/1067#issue...
I actually thought it was a recent quote until the end. 200 years later, still true.
Very true!

I suspect involuntary founder replacement is much more common in venture-funded companies. While your, my, and the founder's definitions of success may not be synonymous with "financial success", many VCs and their LPs may not feel the same. Obviously it's tricky to fully generalize, but the point is that VC can be expensive if founder and investor motivations aren't closely aligned.
The github counter is misleading - it is counting auto-generated C headers used for calling assembly code. The repo also contains a libaom submodule, but the only parts that are used are initialization tables and the transforms.
It's also worthy of note that these companies are extreme statistical outliers. Not every company is fortunate enough to have someone like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates leading them.
Why would the US give up all of their launch capabilities to private companies? From a strategic point of view it’s not a good approach. I’m sure someone in Washington is making a similar case.

I agree there should be a balence but NASA shouldn’t have to solely rely on the likes of Space X. Bloated defense contractors are a symptom of the problem, look at the scope creep of the F35.

Is it the government contractors or unclear/ever changing requirements?
Different publications have different style books. This is Time, which, given it's history as a mainstream magazine, likely has a more conservative editorial style than more recent, online-only publications.
>Political correctness and affirmative action are based on the idea that pretending the world is an ideal version of itself will eventually make it that way.

That is the opposite of how it works. Affirmative action is accepting that the world has bias against certain groups, and attempting to take that into account. Political correctness is about realizing that certain groups have been marginalized or traumatized and some words perpetuate that. In a perfect world neither are necessary.
That sentence is describing an author's description of one of the sexes, not attacking the other.

Stop instigating shit.
> If you think those are the only solutions you're not thinking hard enough.

Yeah, great contribution right there! If we haven't cured cancer is because we aren't thinking hard enough!
Or maybe they hired an animator as their UI designer.
At the bottom of their product page is the "recommended accessory" of a 10GbE card. I would call it necessary myself.
Isn't he proposing cutting out some of the agent's curating and priorities and substituting his own, actual interests? Sounds like a start.
I remember when he took the time to hop on my dinky little blog and comment on one of my early Docker posts. I didn't even realize who he was until I saw the name next to the keynote speaker at the first Dockercon. :-)
A fundamental rule that is eroding the allure of social media:

Information consumption != happiness

I have recently engaged in a somewhat forced[0] experiment. I have given up nearly all social media, and apps that send me push notifications of any kind, and replaced my news diet with e-books. Now, rather than reading the daily political gossip or worse, I listen to an audio book or read an e-book about something that interests me. I feel like my brain has much more space, and I am much less stressed.

[0] I broke my phone, and couldn't get the one I wanted, so I got a temporary phone that gives me a grand total of 4GB of user-available storage. I've installed very few apps.
How Europe’s new privacy rule is reshaping the internet
Yes, and this is not done because....?

Humans are still the chaper option. Except when the bricklayers are in shortage and the demand for brick building is not going down.
I don't think it's right that because there's some highly backlinked content with with some keywords, that you should assume that's what people are looking for when they search those keywords.

Shouldn't helping connect poeple with what they're looking for be the bottom line? Even if you have to manipulate your algorimths natural results to do so.
Here is the article referenced. The link on spacetelescope isn't working. http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_...
With all due compassion, don't "black girls" generally have a hard-enough time with broader acceptance, and this might be what is reflected in google search results?

In other words, this is not Google's fault and is mostly just an ugly reflection of our collective problematic values.
Indeed. It was a vote by a Republican for the Libertarian nomination.

It was also notable for being the first electoral vote for a ticket with a woman.
Is this an ad? News? What are we supposed to do with this submission? How did this make it to the frontpage?
Thoughts on building better (online) communities
This site is my social media, and I'm addicted to it, and I can't concentrate. This is a cry for help.
It actually is :)

Under General Relativity what is commonly called gravity is a fictitious force or pseudo force and is purely an artifact of being in a non-inertial frame of reference.

While a very useful in most use cases, and accurate for most needs even Newton was bothered that under his model gravity acts Instanously. This superluminal communication makes the math work but is a spherical cow :)

As a direct comparison under Newtonian mechanics, the centrifugal force is a "inertial" or "fictitious" or "pseudo" force. Due to Einstein's equivalence principle, and under General Relativity gravity is also a "inertial" or "fictitious" or "pseudo" force.

To quote John Wheeler. "Mass tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells mass how to move."
I mean it is easy to change your Oauth provider if they both use the same underlying email address.
Their website works horribly in Safari.
I believe you, I'm just curious why the style guide ever said "swear words are fine as long as you blank out a single letter."

Meh, likely the answer is unknown, mostly I'm just commenting
I tried replicating the searches described in this article, in an incognito window. Most of the searches described inthe article are quite dated; they're also spread over a significant amount of time. None of the searches I tried came out the way the article described. There was no porn in the results for "black girls"; the third result for "professor style" was a black man, and there was a black woman further down on the first page. Search results for "three white teenagers", "three black teenagers", "professional hairstyles for work" and "unprofessional hairstyles for work" were dominated by links to the very discussion this article is reporting on, which sort of suggests they weren't queries anyone was making to begin with.
It feels like a debug system - like I'm single-stepping animations for their "pixel perfect" correctness.

There is a reason they didn't stop improving on animations after the flip book was invented.
Good to hear it's going well, Bryan!
...and as a result a $6B payroll project will be cancelled because the integrator was depending on IBM Plex being a drop-in replacement for Comic Sans Bold.
I think San Francisco and Roboto are distinctively Apple and Google respectively. I also think they matter more because they're system fonts on some of the biggest platforms (and maybe just because I happen to like them).

If I ever see this font again, I probably won't even know I'm looking at it.
There used to be Quinn, way back when...
My take is, The Guardian does not understand the concept of monopolies well.
The USA is the strongest country in the world politically, economically and militarily. Who better to criticize than the USA if the goal is to change the status quo?

"Damaging" Russia makes no sense. They don't make the rules!
Wtf, you are not seriously claiming that TBP is at fault? You are just trolling, right?

Because they are not. And neither is Google.
My (totally uneducated) guess is that most people typing "unprofessional hairstyle" aren't looking for a make-up example they can follow: they're looking for funny pictures.

So if the top ten results are black women (or Asian guys, or British royalties, or whatever), and if they look funny enough, then users will be satisfied and stop looking further. So whatever pictures that went up there first stays there.
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I'm merely pointing out a glaring instance where the FDA being "overcautious" prevented incredible harm. I'm far more inclined to stand with them erring on the side of caution and believing, as the thalidomide incident showed, that the European regulators are too lax.
Main message:

“Although counterintuitive, the existence of a galaxy without dark matter negates theories that try to explain the Universe without dark matter being a part of it [3]: The discovery of NGC 1052-DF2 demonstrates that dark matter is somehow separable from galaxies. This is only expected if dark matter is bound to ordinary matter through nothing but gravity.”
I want an algorithm to filter out any responses to this that talk about "political correctness".
"Fleeting" - in that another more permanent and more powerful monopoly supersedes them, such as Wordstar, then Wordperfect, then Word. Eventually the roulette ball comes to rest, particularly if the laws that countervail market power aren't enforced.
I'm not sure how the fact that many web users, many of whom are white, find black girls attractive, is somehow construed to be "bias against black girls"? Unless your job is to see bias everywhere...?

Oh.