skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aforementioned Movable Type has a pretty graphical interface just like WP. It's just that in the background it generates static files.

It's depressing that 17 years later it still seems to lack a decent competitor.
Why not allow people to remove just the connection to their account but not the content itself?

We all make mistakes and say things we later regret, sure the content forms part of a bigger picture which should be preserved but shouldn’t we be allowed to tidy up our publicly available historic opinions if they don’t match who we are now?

I’m pretty careful in what I post on social media or on websites, but I’ve definitely said things in the past that I wish I hadn’t, both on and offline, and unless I were a person of significant public interest (such as a politician) I don’t think it’s important for those mistakes to be documented for eternity.
Wag: A Go Web API Generator
Surely the framing of a home is a very minor part of the total cost of construction at this point in time. My brother is a carpenter and formerly did mostly framing, and it wasn't a terribly high-paid job. He makes a lot more now doing concrete on commercial sites.

All of this is to say that I'm sure yes, I'm sure automation could reduce costs there, but likely the amount of money invested in R&D and then the machines itself wouldn't be worth it to these companies.
> "I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation," he said, according to Recode. "However, I think we’re beyond that here."

What does this mean? This is completely self-contradictory. Clearly Facebook has demonstrated that regulation is required. How could Tim Cook possibly still say that the best regulation is no regulation? Clearly Tim should want a healthier tech ecosystem than what we have now and clearly be agrees regulation is needed. Very confusing quote.
Coming across as BOFH was not my intention at all, maybe I should refrain from using emojis to convey meaning ;)

I just thought that if you're working in a high pressure environment (and this applies to virtually every coding shop I've ever known) and get trouble from all sides all the time it feels reassuring to know that in fact, not you are the problem, neither is your employer, stuff like this just happens even to the best.
I've been using 1Password since Version 3 in 2010 and was originally skeptical about the move to a SaaS model. The value I (and now my wife) gets from the Family Plan is easily worth it - it just works and we can easily share some things while keeping others to ourselves.

One pro-tip I learned last year is to replace Google Authenticator with 1Password's 2FA solution. It is really well implemented and copies the 2FA code to the clipboard when you fill in a login, and then removes it a minute or so later. You do need to make sure you're 1Password recovery information is someplace secure because you're in a bad place if you ever lost your devices.
Facebook Changes Privacy Controls as Criticism Escalates: The Two-Way
Assuming the database really deletes those records and doesn't just flag them as "deleted".
Nice project - but that name.... Sounds like a bad medical condition!
"There is no risk of being "unsafe""

I would say the risk of being homeless because a robot means I can no longer afford my home means there's a risk of being "unsafe".
Spot on. It used to be when the feedback cycles were quite long that newspapers were forced to use a shotgun approach, hitting all sorts of topics in the hopes that one or two them would interest the reader. If they failed? No big deal.

With instantaneous feedback, and click-based advertising? All that crap is out the window. (Although you can make a good argument that things got really out of hand with the rise of cable news and the 24-hour-news cycle.)

It's all emotional manipulation now. Nothing else. It looks like for a lot of folks, it doesn't even matter if it's true or not.

50 years ago, if you didn't the paper, you were ignorant. Today, if you consume a bunch of online media, you're not ignorant, you're stupid: you are purposely filling your head with emotion-laden content in lieu of actually learning anything. If anything, you're most likely making yourself emotionally ill.

The best source I have for learning what's going on is the opinion columns. The format drives more honest out. As an opinion-writer, you're expected to have a thesis, an argument, and supporting data. Your bias is direct and up-front. It's a much more tractable way of evaluating information sources.
I would disagree because of how closely Apple tracks it's users. Yes, they don't sell the data but they use it for internal marketing.

EDIT: From Apple's own website:

The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on Apple’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
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I would assume the same applies to straight parents who adopted, in fact I have a family member on my wife’s side who adopted from China.

You are having the same issues my brother in law is having. You need to live in the US to make the process easier. It actually been a pain to get his wife a work permit because they haven’t lived here in 10 years.
This leaves two possibilities:

If they don't let advertisers query deleted data - my original proposal would be effective at preventing third parties from getting your data.

If they DO let advertisers query deleted data - you can 'poison' you account by posting and deleting a huge volume of misleading advertiser-relevant data.
Huh? Source that they're migrating to Electron?
> seeking comfort in various forms of isolation/depressed behavior (watch TV as a distraction, try to take a "nap", etc.). The most insidious thing about this was how it seemed to happen so quickly that it was practically subconscious. Days would disappear.

This hits too close to home. I can second the physical exertion as at least palliative. Something about it just snaps me out of complacency. My example is that I purchased a used set of free weight barbell equipment and doing strength training not only disrupts the downward spiral, it makes me feel strong. Extra extra bonus: having the lifting setup at home means I can get a lot of chores done during rests between sets.
It's also entirely possible that Jobs would have run Apple into the ground in the mid 80s. Apple III and Lisa were expensive, unmitigated failures, and the Mac arrived as Jobs was leaving. Would Jobs have gone along with the high-price/high-margin strategy of Sculley/Gassee?
I agree that Varnish might be a good addition but in the end it depends on the exact setup you're running and which hardware resource is used the most.

My opinion is that the CPU is usually the first to fall and you will not help it quite that much with an in-memory cache when the actual problem is the https overhead or the PHP/DB processing.
When you have more than 50K HN Karma an extra toolbox opens up next to the usernames, one of those is 'autodoxx' (clearly a weak pun on autodocs).

You click the link and it will automatically query google, various Whois tools and other lookup services to get a fix on the user, the end result is a nice little one-page mash-up listing all the domains you own, a bunch of recent photographs, your political leanings, your sexual preferences, your last three known addresses, any children you have and where they go to school, your present location on a google maps page (it moves when you do, it's near real-time, maybe a minute or two delayed), your current employer and an estimate of your bank balance and some possible avenues for blackmail.

All this powered by the friendly AI of some HN start-ups that want to show off their technology, and blessed by the Holy Trinity of online surveillance: Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg. This is Hacker News after all.
Unfortunately, "union" is a basically a four-letter word where I am.

Also, not trying to overstate my "struggle" or anything -- the reason I'm active politically is because of the impact on people I care about, not the impact on me. I'm fully aware I'm pretty damn privileged to be able to write what I wrote above.
Out of curiosity, do you use the CLI tool for feeding private keys and/or passwords into scripts, environment variables, or other software that you write?

I had no idea they had a CLI implementation, and I've been looking for something that manages server/api keys as well as cloud service passwords. I imagine there's a better way to do this using enterprise key management software, but I no longer work for a place w/ this kind of budget.
Uh, it's not? Please don't spread misinformation.
Tell Congress that.
That Kanji may be pronounced "shi", but dozens of other ones are too [1], so it'll depend on context. Kanji are more like roots in English words than they are words themselves. (Many words consist only of a single Kanji, in a way that English doesn't have a whole lot of words that are just roots in isolation like "geo" or "hydro". But I'd still say you're better off analogizing them to roots than words.) Certainly Japanese speakers aren't hearing "poo" every time they hear "shi".

[1]: I assume. I'm not counting. But most sounds are covered dozens of times over from what I've seen.
Meg Whitman ran eBay when it was 30 people.
There is no reasonable reason for any member of this community to specifically dig up stuff and post it here. What was doxed was inferred from a comment I made, not from the info in my profile.

Still, the comment which provides no other valuable information is retained.

I try to handle my privacy pragmatic, it doesn't have to be as black and white as you suggest here.
It sounds like you're aware of some of the problems I listed and have come up with novel solutions to them. Why not just employ true managers? What benefit do you get from having people who are half-in, half-out?

How do you deal with the fact that most developers do not like management? Have you ever had a Tech Lead who didn't want to actually manage other devs, but just liked having extra authority and access to stakeholders? What do you do, then?
We should be reluctant to grant statehood for many small territories.

Our senate is undemocratic enough, where a state with 1/7th the population of California, viz. Wyoming, gets the same numbers of senators.

Guam, including resident military personnel, has 1/4 the population of Wyoming. Does it make sense to grant 160K people all the powers of full statehood? American Samoa has 1/3 the population of Guam, so two senators for slightly over 50K people. That's 84 times the per capita representation in the Senate.

The Pacific territories should really just become part of the state of Hawaii. They can have special status within the state, so their needs don't get ignored by the larger Hawaiian population.
I have used youtube-dl with video_entropyd on a newly created DO server. Could be a nice alternative for anyone who hasn't physical access to their server to install such a dongle.
> please give me a control ...

So you're prepared to believe FB will delete your personal data as promised, right? This time, if they promise to play nice, it will be great? What I would believe is a system where data is sent encrypted to the social network and content filtering is happening locally at the end user - in other words, something like the internet.
> “p-ssy,” as a noun

You are allowed to say fuck on the internet.

Also, does it really count if you skip out one letter? I never understood this. You're still all but saying the word. Nobody is being protected here lol. A kid can cycle through the five vowels in about half a second to figure out what the word is, and one of them is also kinda a swear - pissy.

EDIT: "n 2012, I wrote an article for Bitch Magazine" now I'm very confused. It's ok if it's a proper noun, I guess?
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"However, I think we’re beyond [self-regulation] here."

- Tim Cook

You are arguing with half of the quotation, and ignoring this other half. He doesn't seem to be advocating self-regulation as a practical policy.
You're thinking of survivorship bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I believe what he is saying that government should stay out of company's day to day activities unless there is a clear an present danger. In this case its the data that Facebook recklessly sold does endanger it's consumers.
The whole point is it can be reset in ~45 minutes with $40 of parts. There are some bolts which shear off but a typical collision will not actually destroy it!

Informational sheet describing the benefits:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/project_ads_addenda/06/06-0Q...
Yes. 1Password if you're reading this: your Windows users love you. We need some love in return :)
How long does it take the AI to learn the correct responses to complex queries?
No one is forced to create a connection between their real identity to their account. I don't know why people insist on doing it and then later wanting to undo it.

In fact, if you don't want your anonymous account tied to you anymore in any way, sell it off to someone else. I bought this account for $500.
Complete list of tested browsers and VPN providers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nm7mxfFvmdn-3Az-BtE5...
The most effective clickbait has readers believing they've caught on to something.
Sounds like you clockwork orange'd yourself.
But isn't it now very very clear that it is way too late to begin regulation, after the fact of all of this happening? Democracy is threatened. Isn't Tim implying that stronger regulation should be required from the very beginning in tech corporations? But also saying that regulation is stupid and should never exist? I just don't understand what he's trying to say.

Clearly better regulation has always been required. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this mess.
There's actually a system-level thing, where password manager apps can register an extension to provide password form-filling, and then apps just include a button (generally a keyhole one) which you tap to trigger the relevant extension sheet from which you can choose your password app.

Here's the first screenshot of the flow I found: https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter17/rele...

iOS11 added a new variant on this, with a little key icon in the keyboard when you're in a password area, but it's only filling from the system keychain and isn't open to third parties. (Yet?)

See: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/ios-11s-new-password-autof...
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What exactly do you disagree with? It's pretty clear that Apple's customers are not its product. They make most of their profit by selling phones.
You're describing individual personality shortfalls, not problems intrinsic to the role.

> In the best case, they do split work, delegate, mentor, and lead meetings, but always end up doing the business critical or challenging pieces themselves (because why would I take the time to explain this when I could just do it...)

The best case scenario is seeing yourself as a facilitator first and foremost. A tech lead that succeeds at delegating, mentoring, and developing their peers does not need to do the business critical work ... peers should be able to do so, with some light oversight (design/code reviews). If some complex/business critical work is a couple months away, the lead should proactively work to disseminate their knowledge.

This parallels management - a bad manager micro-manages execution, a good manager builds mostly autonomous teams... a bad lead engineer micro-manages execution, a tech lead oversees a team of mostly autonomous engineers.

Sure, your team will move slower at the beginning. But think long-term, maximize the integral.
The setup I described will not get you from 10 requests/second to 1000. It will let you to make the most of your hardware though.
I think kubespray[1] does what you want, but I'm not 100% sure.

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kubespray
> Clearly Facebook has demonstrated that regulation is required.

it's not so clear to me that it's "required". and in fact, I think that detail will be an enormous part of the discussion we get to listen to now.

what's certainly apparent though, is that these systems aren't helping us in the way they are currently structured. it may wind up being the case that our governments use regulation to address the issue, but I am not sure it will solve the larger problem of individuals not having the education (& willpower?) to protect themselves from the sorts of disadvantageous relationships that FANG is willing to engage in with them.
Thank you, this is exactly what I'm getting at.

I have been a non-coding tech lead before, and I do not understand how a person can both code and manage others without working overtime. Coding requires hours of uninterrupted focus time every day. Management requires making yourself available to help people. You cannot be both available and not available.
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At least they have an open source operating system. Let's not forget Microsoft exploiting generational racial poverty.
lots of concrete molds too. Become pretty popular to pour foundation walls in a brick or stone print.
> Well, isn't it individual for every person?

Statistically speaking, no. Most people's physical response to food and exercise is almost exactly the same given the same inputs. There may be minor variations from person to person, but the variations aren't large enough to change the general advice. There are extreme exceptions, but those are natually extremely rare, and shouldn't be used to muddy the water.

> Secondly, if one wants to lose weight by doing sports, he should be reasonable about this and not eat a bar of chocolate after a 50 min run.

While that's exactly the point, the way you said it is too dismissive, IMO. This is exactly what happens to almost everyone. You don't need to exaggerate with chocolate bars. Unless you're counting your calories or consciously going hungrier, most people will naturally just eat a bit more at meal time because they're hungrier, because they worked harder. If that's not being reasonable, then you need to understand that millions and millions of people are not reasonable.

If one only wants to lose weight, he could reasonably skip his normal 2nd morning bagel, and just skip the run too. Save $5, save an hour, it costs less to eat less, in every way. One way to look at this is there's no such thing as losing weight by doing sports. There's only gaining weight by eating too much, and losing weight by eating less than you burn. Whether you exercise is perhaps irrelevant to your weight. (That's exaggerating, but is more true than the other way around.)

> I've found an interesting series of articles

These articles are from a sports magazine and are selling sports as the solution. In the (second) article, he admits that you have to keep diet under control, but he is dramatically over-emphasizing the importance of exercise on weight loss, and he's painting a picture of calorie counting being too difficult and too inaccurate to be effective. Speaking from personal experience, this is quite misleading bullshit. You don't need accuracy for it to work, and you don't have to account for secondary effects of exercise either, which the author claims at length. Compare these articles to the Vox article @scarface74 posted, you will see some striking differences.

I love going to the gym, I advocate exercise 100%. I think exercise keeps me happier and healthier. But the gym isn't a weight loss tool. If anything at all, I now use the gym so that I can eat more than I would be able to otherwise. I can burn 500 calories working out, and then feel okay adding an extra 400 calorie treat during my day.
Ask HN: What are folks using for identity management?
As I'm building prototypes or products for clients, I'm constantly concerned that the standard tools I'm using for auth (Devise for Rails, Passport for Node, etc) are just not enough over the long haul to keep user data secure.

Storing user data and handling most of the auth service seems risky as hell to me, but I don't see quite as many strong opinions from the dev crowd about identity management as I do people sniping about where to put spec files in their codebase.

I guess I'm openly curious: Are folks using services like Firebase, Auth0, Okta to manage their user persistence, authentication, and authorization? Or are they just rolling their own or subscribing to open source projects and crossing fingers?

Personally, the Auth0 docs are not hitting the mark regarding the delivery vs complexity. For instance, it's near to impossible for me to quickly get a ReactNative -> Auth0 -> API Server routine going, quickly. Okta seems easier, but I haven't dug in. Firebase seems easiest, but then I don't trust it because of the simplicity.

Fishing for opinions and experience on this subject...
I'm presuming that you're not talking about Firefox's Private Browsing mode, which comes with an actual tracking script blocker.

The biggest factor for tracking without the ability to store things on the client is IP-based tracking. In many cases, the IP address narrows the number of possible persons down to a handful. Then you can use behavioural analysis, fingerprinting or factor in other data to narrow it down those last few meters.

And well, any time you visit a webpage which has a DoubleClick ad on it, uses a font from Google Fonts, incorporates JQuery from Google's server, incorporates Captcha, Maps, YouTube, Custom Search Engine, Google+-Button from Google's server, etc., or in fact, even though this is the least of your worries then, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, any time one of these is on a webpage you visit - which is pretty much every time you visit any webpage, your IP address is sent off to Google.

And now comes the bad part: As is information about what webpage you're currently on, as part of the HTTP Referrer.

And I mean, if your URL is not resolved by 8.8.8.8, you can consider yourself lucky, too.

So, Google effectively has your complete browsing history, whether you're in private mode or not.

Facebook is not nearly as bad in this respect, but their Like-Buttons are rather widespread, too, and they do have an analytics framework, as you've already pointed out.
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I first discovered Godot when working on an ambitious game. While my ambitions have tempered, my stance on Godot hasn't. It's been a great product to turn out 2D games on, and I am looking forward to trying out some 3D projects with the v3 Renderer. It's not going to replace Unity or Unreal for any ambitious AAA-level title, but it can't be overlooked for rapid prototyping or 2D games.

Godot is also the first project I've ever given Patreon funding for.
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Well done! It sounds like you've done well at avoiding the various social media landmines.

I suspect most suffer from facebook because of its Skinner Box nature and due to comparing their real selves with their peer's crafted outward-facing personas.
Now you have two jigs to place, remove, and clean[1] for every brick you lay. And you'll need to adjust your jigs or have extra sets to lay half bricks, window sills, leads and corners. The greenest of apprentice bricklayers would be running circles around you with their trowel, level, and string.

1. It's not easy to keep a tool clean of mortar unless it's a simple flat blade like a trowel. Mortar will get in any crevice, dry, and then wet mortar sticks to it becoming that much harder to clean. An easy heuristic to judge the skill of a mason tender (assistant) is how clean their shovel is.