skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other part to talk about relating to trust is that do you want to be on a system with people that you are blind to knowing, and especially on a system that is designed to allow manipulation of it; there's research that could be referenced showing a few different efforts to boost the value of incentivized crypto-assets.
Incidentally, the occasional griller is also the exact person who would most likely be least aware of the danger with a wire brush... sort of a perfect storm situation
Agree with the list of alternatives. I have used Camtasia before, but I feel it's pricey and yeah, I have to download the software to my computer. On the flip side, Hippo Video is an online video editing tool which is good.

And I feel iMovie Maker is for Professionals. I don't think anyone looking for quick video editing is comfortable with iMovie Maker.
Movie Maker Online? Man, I’m done and dusted with it. It’s the most complex tool I’ve ever seen. How did it even qualify as an alternative?
I'm surprised myself that someone on HN is really claiming that Google doesn't edit search results for all sorts of reasons, including for purposes of social norms, of any sort, and social responsibility. In fact, every person and organization does that. I doubt there are any social interactions where people don't behave according to a set of rules.

> why are they surprised

Nobody said they are surprised; that's not relevant. They are trying to solve a problem, just like people who are working to resolve the problems of cancer, gun violence, and bugs in Firefox.
Europeans were superior technologically in a number of relevant fields, from navigation to metalurgy, that were directly impacting their warfare effectiveness. The diseases just made the conquest far quicker and more importantly cheap, both in pecuniary and human terms.
Wasn't your advisor just using a smaller, more conservative value for h?
Magit combined with Magithub already offers much of what's described in the article and there's a lot on the roadmap. Jonas and Sean are doing mindblowing, amazing work in these projects. I've seen many different UI shells for Git - everything else feels childish compared to what's possible in Emacs. I learned Git mostly by trial, error and reading man pages, but only after a few months of using Magit I've become truly dangerous.
Show HN: A Native Transactional Data Source for Spark
We recently built a scalable transactional data source for spark. I would love some feedback on it.

You can checkout the code at https://github.com/splicemachine/spliceengine/tree/master/sp...

There are examples and the ability to spin up a trial instance here if you want to take it for a spin.

https://www.splicemachine.com/the-splice-machine-native-spar...
Man this rings so true for me, even as I pull an engineer salary now. Keep moving a car around free parking spaces even though I haven't "used' it in a year, still squirrel away a bunch of useless shit because what if!

I still have trouble turning down free food even if it isn't in line with my diet x.x poverty habits just stay with you
There are two classes of frequent flier miles: status-qualifying miles and award miles.

Status-qualifying miles are miles that you can only earn by flying with that particular airline. Those miles are used in calculating your "status" with the airline. Achieving a higher status generally comes with perks that make frequent travel easier and more enjoyable (such as being able to sit anywhere in the plane for free, extra checked bags, access to lounges and better chances at upgrades).

Award qualifying miles are the miles that people most commonly associate with frequent flier miles. These are the miles that can be redeemed for discounted flights in the future. There are several ways to earn this aside from flying with the airline (though flying with the airline gives you more award miles than not): credit card spend, promotions through airline partners, giveaways, etc.

There is also another metric that airlines collect to determine loyalty: the amount of money you spend on your tickets, or status-qualifying spend (or dollars). In the past, this information was only used to protect more frequent or high-paying customers from being inconvenienced during travel. Now, airlines use it as an extra requirement for achieving status levels.

Now, since award miles for airlines can be collected without flying with them, flyers with very little status-qualifying spend will usually be the first in line for involuntary removal (involuntary denied boarding, or IDB). However, IDBs have become less frequent ever since the United Express incident last year; airlines are trying to favor giving people vouchers first (voluntary denied boarding, or VDB) before bumping folks.
The value proposition of the cloud was that it saves time and sometimes money because of usage pricing. The only advantage of blockchain is that it's supposedly more secure against tampering.
Additionally as the article hints at, imagine they detect that you use Uber to commute to work (destination is a business and Monday - Friday at near the same time each morning and evening). Of course they can charge you more because often times the companies are reimbursing, or it's a tax write-off.
I wasn't talking about whether the law forbids it. There are plenty of people who get too old and frail to drive, and stop driving of their own accord, without the government forcing them to.
Who's your target audience? With a GPL licensed, Linux-only offering, you seem to (only) target open source Linux devs.
I once found a bit of wire in a sausage I was eating that I'd bought from my favorite local sausage maker. I've been too scared to try their sausages again :(
Nope I'm not, though I work at a company with 2 engineering offices in MV and Dallas. Just FYI: Other than the USA, this format is not used anywhere else:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/stackabuse/media/date-formats-world...

Working with a global company, I tend to use 29 Mar 2018, which is much more unambiguous (and in code we usually use yyyymmdd, which makes it easier to search for logs/output of a year/month/day etc.).
You probably have an ISP with competition. I tried the cute “Give me the introductory rate for another year or I’ll cancel!” bluff, and the response from Comcast was: “Just a moment... OK sir your service has been canceled. Have a great day!” Oops
I've been hearing about imminent death of Bitcoin and the pointlessness of blockchain since 2010. I predict that won't change in the future.
As somone who started the same day as another junior developer in my first job, I second this.

Just having someone who's also junior who you don't feel any shame about asking stupid questions to is killer. You shouldn't feel any shame either way, but that's sort of one of the things you learn transitioning out of a junior role.
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I use this all the time. It is recommended though when flying this way to not use rewards/ff accounts because they can be closed and to not check baggage because it won't end up in the right place.
A 9V battery in the wrong place can kill you.
If you put a sticker that looks like a toaster next to a banana, your classifier will see the toaster and not the banana.

I don't understand what the novelty is - Is the "attack" that you're making an image that's TOASTER++ in a small area?
I'm not seeing the problem of offering a discount to new customers. The new customer is taking a risk by accepting a new vendor, and hence to entice them the vendor offers a discount.

Now, if the vendor continuously offers the discount to the customer just because they keep asking for it, then that is unfortunate. But I usually only see this with monopolies, like Comcast. I'm sure their strategy is to do that on purpose just to satiate the vocal minority.
As long as they are used correctly, which apparently they are not.
Not only old but also not enough. In areas that population have grown a lot in the past few decades, it makes a lot of sense to build new infrastructure to keep up with the demand
I have Windows 10 Pro and haven't ever seen an ad.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference is between my install and yours.
Tim Cook’s advice to his younger self: ‘The joy is in the journey’ – Recode
Microsoft makes the most stable, easiest to use desktop OS, especially since Apple started slowing dwindling MacOS to make it into some kind of iOS varient.

Windows still drives me nuts, has ads, gets stuck in tablet mode when I'm on a desktop, and has driver issues from time to time, but the OS has grown to become my favorite desktop environment in the past few years, if for no other reason than that everyone else keeps screwing around and tweaking things that don't need tweaking. Linux GUIs have been getting all fancy with it, Apple thinks desktops are just for making Apple software, and yet Windows remains a great place to play games, watch movies, browse the Web. It's by far and away the fastest, most responsive desktop GUI out there. I hope it gets back to basics.
I am currently doing that. It sucks, but it pays the bills.
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Thanks for the piece. It's definitely a good idea to inform people about the free editing softwares available, in the event that they cannot afford to pay for pro tools like iMovie Maker, or any other software for that matter.
> There is practically no advantage to living on Venus other than that you get gravity.

Ambient pressure is a huge advantage: Liquid water doesn't boil away,
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I honestly don't see what's wrong or surprising about this. I personally find the content nauseous, but if a hypothetical thirteen year old daughter were curious about it I'd be happy to read through an issue and talk about it. It sounds like a good conversation starter for the different axes of human ambition and human value. Teaching from the extremes isn't my favorite idea, but so be it.

I force myself to listen to crazy angry conservative and christian radio on and off for the same reason. If we can't embrace aspects of human personality that we find loathesome, I don't think we can love others, or ourselves.

Interestingly I feel like this article comes from a similar place as anger radio (which is, ironically, overwhelmingly money-motivated and exploitative).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see the value in otherizing media like this. It exists, it's part of our culture, and in one way or another, it's a part of us. Embrace it, engage with it, teach from it, but don't revile it.
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>I'd say products that are only safe if used properly

That's literally every product ever.

I challenge you to come up with an example of something that's readily available to the general public that cannot reliably cause harm or death if used in a sufficiently ignorant way.

People intentionally eat Tide Pods. Should we ban all cleaning products that an average person is capable of injecting a lethal amount of?
Camtasia is a good tool indeed. For people without the tech aptitude, a browser-based tool can be a lifesaver. Disclaimer - am from HippoVideo
I knew Don "MindRape" Moore personally, he passed away pretty recently but he was a big influence in my life as I got into computers.

Crazy cool dude, gave himself a "snake tongue" with a pair of scissors by himself!
> malware

Source or example of malicious stuff done?
When I started my current job I was astonished how much bullshit is built into the enterprise edition of Win 10
Came to the comments because I thought it was funny finding this on hackernews, where much of the community subscribes to this nonsense ideology.

Not surprised to see this comment on top
Nope, still the same, can't see any mindmap or any button to click to create one.

However, I can now see some blue text up above and to the right of the menu items, which when clicked takes me to mailchimp for email. That text is unreadable for me, though, not enough contrast with the black background it's on.

I don't know what I'm supposed to see, but I assume there's supposed to be a mindmap graphic somewhere. This is what I see on both Firefox and Chrome on my system: https://screenshots.firefox.com/REX701nPf7jUrYbw/tobloef.com
I believe the Xbox app is included on Windows Server 2016 as well.
>>and I'd like to be clear about what you are saying and not make any assumption.

Am I risking jail time or just a fine? :)

You should read somewhere else regarding permissions, default settings for 99%of users and "I agree" when it's a leave or take.
If you're doing still photos of food, surely you can just put more light on the subject or use a longer exposure.

With modern sensors, ISO is mainly limited by thermal noise. Astrophotographers often use cooled sensors to allow higher sensitivity, but it's tricky to cool it very much without moisture from the air condensing inside or on the lenses.
C4 is a much safer alternative to TNT, and TNT was used widely to replace the much unsafer Nitroglycerin.

The question shouldn't be "is this safe", but rather "does a much safer alternative exist that works almost as good or even better"
HN folks without kids of a certain age may not realize just how deeply children today are into Youtube personalities/channels, Twitch streamers, etc.

That being said, I think it's generally a positive thing. Teen Boss isn't replacing kids reading the WSJ, it's replacing tweens swooning over boy band photos in Tiger Beat.

YT/Streaming isn't without its weirdness, but it's significantly more participatory and encouraging of people creating and making things as an alternative to purely consuming media.

I'd rather my daughter want to make YouTube videos and open an Etsy shop with her designs than mindlessly watch Hannah Montana (which I feel like is the equivalent from a decade ago).

As a peek into this world, check out Rosanna Pansino (Nerdy Nummies YT channel) and how successful she is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i2cebTn0nc

There are worse role models for kids.
As someone who has traveled to many third world countries in SE Asia and South America I can confidently say that the US does not have third world infrastructure. Most claims of this are frequently done by somebody pushing some kind of narrative
Also the storage company might not be too happy with you.
A lot of parameters creep in when its browser based compared to a local app. But also a lots of doors open to make the best use of APIs and integrations with other cloud tools. Had used HippoVideo once or twice, apart from the chrome extension being a pre-requisite, which I can live with, it seemed to handle the recording and editing pretty well. Might be a place to start for your needs, its a free browser based tool!
Interesting. Cloud seeding using Silver Iodide is still in use in Canada, as part of the Alberta Hail Suppression Project[0]. These little differences between Canada and the US always surprise me.

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/3514775/alberta-severe-weather-su...
I don't see how it would be hard to catch. They have uniquely identifying information on each passenger, so just arrange the flights sequentially, and if one matches up, then compare which is 1st leg or 2nd leg and flag it. They can probably even ban you from the airline, and then what? There are quite a few monopolized airports and routes in the US, s you can be majorly inconvenienced by not being able to fly one an airline.
Easy to avoid. Use Lyft, Use Juno, Use anything else and compare prices.
Ah, the most regular one I hear, and one of my favourites:

"We just wanted to let you know we've exited John. We spoke and he agreed it was time to pursue new opportunities elsewhere. There's nothing nefarious going on, so we wanted to reassure you there's nothing to worry about. Business as usual."

:|
Thanks for the sarcasm; we’re talking about brick-laying robots.
This is really slick. I never knew about (the now defunct) text2mindmap.com, but it seems like something I would get a lot of use out of for doing quick brainstorming sessions. Thanks for sharing!
Pair programming works for specific people, for others it's an exercise in anxiety. Especially in the scenario you're suggesting with a senior watching a junior write code.
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Sure, you can sync to your own drives or to several commercial storage providers, but it's not as cheap as it should be. We're talking geographically distributed storage on an open marketplace, cryptographically enforced for extremely cheap prices.

Wasabi and B2 are pretty much the only commercial services which could even attempt to compete on price with something like Sia today (Filecoin and others in the future potentially), but they're only in single DCs and if they lose your data you have no one to go after. In the cryptocurrency-based systems, this is all automated.

For as many incredibly stupid and useless applications of blockchains as there are, this isn't one of them in my opinion. It may not be unique, but it's actually something that could have a competitive edge over a centralized service.
The thing is stories was never Snap's core product. If you remember back when SC first came out, there were no stories at all... although they had a "select all" button for firing off snaps to your entire friends list.

Refer to Snap's S-1 filing[1]: 60% of daily active users send snaps daily, but only 25% of them post to their story.

As far as I'm concerned, Insta et al are welcome to "stories" clones. Stories aren't what I, or most users, use Snapchat for.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517...
Did I say rest energy? You keep reading my words and finding different words than I wrote.
Camtasia sure worked for me. Little techie but still managed it. Alternatives suggested are good. Worth a shot.
It's really not hard to think of useful applications for blockchain.

The problem HN has with blockchain is that a lot of HN users are the problem which decentralization solves. The basic startup monetization strategies these days revolve around centralizing user data and then collecting rent (usually in the form of ads) or centralizing transactions and then collecting a percentage. Decentralization is the antithesis of these models: you can't collect rent or percentages if you don't have centralized control of the platform. The problem blockchain solves is that it cuts out a lot of middle men and what middle men it leaves (miners) have to compete.

For the vast majority of HN users, blockchain doesn't solve problems you want to solve, but that shouldn't be mistaken for meaning that blockchain isn't a revolutionary technology that solves a lot of problems. If anything, the technology is important because it affects your future. Data and transaction middle men are the problem that blockchain solves, and as middle men you should be paying attention.

I don't hold any resentment toward people trying to run a centralized business, but I do find it amusing when people are pushing blockchain forward to their own detriment.
Land is usually a very long play (trust funds, REITs, endowments, etc), I'd say this is a relatively new strategy in the past 10-20 years in most places. They likely won't be looking to do that until the storage building reaches its useful life and needs major repair. Then, the question is, do we have a thriving storage business or is there a better use for this land?
They are in my experience with several large corps.
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It has always been the longest valid chain though. If miners were to introduce double-spending transactions in a block, full nodes would--by default--reject the blocks, regardless of how much work the chain contains. This also highlights why miners don't control the network and never had.
I get suspicious whenever I read about companies piling on to technology trends, not least because of the damage it does to the rank and file developers who work on it. The short version is: leaders got bamboozled and their subordinates suffered, but it's a little more nuanced than that.

We tend to think of large companies as either these monolithic beasts that act according to their own best interests, or as emergent hiveminds that move in a direction because they smell money. These have the advantage of allowing us to presume that the actions taken by these organizations were vetted by many people and arrived at via consensus.

However, there is a third, less popular, way to view organizations, and that's as an organ of a handful of people, if not one person. This is an important framing because it allows us to consider the actions of these large companies as reflecting the foibles of the individuals at the helm. Viewed this way, Apple under Steve Jobs was an extension of one man's vision and design priorities. Microsoft under Ballmer was an extension of one man's putting the MBA approave above the tech approach.

I can't help but wonder if, within these Wall Street companies as well as throughout SV, there wasn't a single person or a handful of people who swallowed the blockchain coolaid and started these projects. Pitched high hopes to developers. Hired developers. Set goals. Failed to meet goals. Made their developers' lives miserable. Gave up. Blamed their subordinates. Moved on.

This is a tale as old as tech itself, but somehow it just keeps happening. To all young developers deciding where to invest their time and talent: be very careful choosing to follow an individual, because individuals are stupid enough to fall for nonsense like "blockchain for banking."
Not an EE, possibly a dumb question, but... do USB-C devices know that a cable has been plugged into them before the other end of the cable is plugged in to something else?
> Otherwise we would see social networks and other free services replaced on the regular.

Don't we? I can think of a dozen or more social networks of one sort or another that I've belonged to in the last decade or so.
First, LTSB requires an Enterprise license, which most corporations haven't traditionally sprung for. (It actually costs a little more than Enterprise, actually.) Microsoft seems to be trying to pressure corporations into it, but most businesses use the Pro licenses that come with their PCs, which has traditionally been more than adequate.

Second, LTSB is not really intended for general desktop use, even in a corporate environment. LTSB is intended for devices like MRI machines and the like which need Windows, and the latest security updates, but literally no improvements whatsoever otherwise.

Ideally, corporate users should remain roughly one major Windows 10 release behind the current one, but of course, three times in the last six months, Microsoft has broken the updater and updated PCs to the latest build despite group policy prohibiting it.
PAC2 is downright dangerous to the people firing the missiles! From failing to intercept, exploding too late, software bugs, the whole system is an engineering joke.
I think that might be a problem with the caching. I'll look into forcing a cache refresh.
>Snapchat want to show the maximum of sponsored content

Yet, with this latest update, they removed the stories/sponsored mixture and banished sponsored content to its own screen. Once you get over the habit of swiping right, you never have to open that screen again... if anything, they reduced the amount of sponsored content I see.
The best thing about these wooden scrapers is that they also make a great paddle to beat your unruly children with.