skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a linux sysadmin, and GPG is horrible. Complicated, complex, with weird naming scheme, multiple programs (gpg vs gpg2), etc - but it's a brilliant example why all of this is so complicated. Other ideas about describing the trouble trust means on the internet are welcome.
Webrecorder – Archive any websites, even dynamic ones
“How to take a Photoshop design” should not be a task for the “Modern Frontend Developer in 2018”, because “How to create actionable, annotated design specs” should be a core skill of the “Modern UI Designer in 2018”.
Well, I never said I did believe it was private. When I said better, I should really have said better behaved in respect to deletions.

Because of the twitter stream APIs it's not. But there does seem to be a strange presumption amongst users that deleted tweets are gone from public view and cannot resurface. There are people who use tweets in all manner of ways that they really weren't designed for, some of which involve deleting them after a few minutes.

Many a public figure uses these tweet deletion apps. Some do it for more honest reasons (status count limits -- do they still exist?), others do it to limit their exposure.

In the UK at least, there have been cases of libel where either the claimant or the defendant depended upon twitter and in at least one of these the court admitted the claimant had an unfair advantage by forgetting about having a tweet deletion app attached to their account. The case proceeded and the claimant won despite the acknowledged advantage. To some, this may be seen as a clear message that in the eyes of the judiciary it's okay to delete tweets (evidence) as long as it was through an auto deletion app and the individual concerned forgot about its existence.

I would not at all be surprised if some lawyers to the rich quietly suggest they install a tweet deletion app as general advice upon instruction.
You wouldn't believe how much it matters what the default is; people don't customize any more.
On HN, the mods do a lot of the educating. You can do your part by just following the guidelines, which already admonish us to not engage in personal attacks and to just not reply to ugly comments instead of putting out the fire with gasoline.

Following the guidelines yourself so as to leave room for other people to do some educating is sufficient. It isn't necessary for every single member to proactively educate newcomers. (In fact, that can go bad places. It can lead to newcomers being obnoxiously swamped with nitpicky "advice" every time they open their mouth, which is the opposite of welcoming and kind.)

I will note that I didn't tolerate my kids. I adored them. I thought they were cute and funny and interesting and cuddly. But, boy, did they have a lot to learn about how life worked. I was happy to talk at them about life, the universe and everything while they soaked it up like little sponges.
So, in your view, email and the web are examples of garbage networks?

Decentralized networks (such as the web) work differently from centralized network (such as cable TV and Facebook) and have different strategies for coping with misuse. You can not moderate a permissionless network. That's literally part of the meaning.

In a decentralized network, I follow you by subscribing to your data. Conversations usually follows that data naturally, just like a mailing list is centralized but email is not.
More interesting things to do with such data:

* Spot when traffic between banks or hedge funds and some new, single location starts up or increases a lot. Acquisition/IPO/other M&A?

* Spot rides between DoJ/regulators and big companies. Impending fines?

* Spot decrease in rides from a bank or office to party districts. Reduced profit?

If you're Uber, this is even easier as you can just make lists of key people and spy on then far more effectively.
This is an excellent point. When we lose a species, we are throwing away genotype-phenotype data which took billions of years to develop.
It's on Netflix.
This actually poses an interesting idea I haven't seen previously discussed: Providing internet access and cell phones to the homeless as a way to help get them integrated back into society. Do you think this would be a cost effective program, relative to others?
If your ethics are such that you believe the state should be able to view data on someone in order to help prosecution of a crime then you could support the retention of data on all users in order to avoid deletions made to hide criminal activity.

Such an ethic creates a moral reasoning to not comply with an individual's wishes in the immediate deletion of data.

(FWIW I'm not defending this position nor suggesting it's the case here, just you said there's no moral reason that can support it, which seems wrong; different ethical systems can provide different reasoned moral outcomes.)
I wanted to, but my sister worked at the same hospital and was afraid it might ultimately affect her job or at least her social life there if we did. So I just let it go.
I just picked up an Asus Q505UA. The build quality is great and everything works on Ubuntu save for the fingerprint scanner.
A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute [pdf]
Visited Varosha a few years back.

http://ninjito.com/_2015-04-14-Varosha

Our goal was to traverse the entire city, and to then rooftop a hotel on the beach.
The military presence is very real, and the city has a beautiful "slipping back to nature vibe" to it. We typically imagine that cities will decay into jungles, but curiously enough, it's the slow spread of garden species plants growing bigger and establishing more foothold.
Hogwash. Stack traces in multi-threaded applications are much much more useful than just an exception name, or even just the site of the exception.
Great fun :) Good insight into the process of reverse-engineering and re-generating. I'm working (on and off) on something similar, to convert Kdenlive project files to Final Cut Pro, so that I can collaborate with people who don't use Linux. Both formats are XML, but figuring out the semantics can be tricky!
Exactly.

Speaking of “censorship” I posted twice for advice on r/diy and twice I was unceremoniously deleted by a moderator with some copypasta message.

Sure, before posting I should have bothered reading the group EULA and realize there’s another “what’s this” sub (god knows what rules they have over there) but boy ain’t I genuinely bitter about the treatment. It alone makes me want to troll them just out of spite... couldn’t they just have been more polite and gasp ask me to move the post to this-and-that sub?! Politeness, assuming goodwill in the counterpart... generally being civil, oh i miss that!
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance".

Not saying that people without higher degrees are ignorant, of course there are many ways to learn. But I think many people wouldn't find the motivation to learn without the social pressure to get a degree. So that pressure effectively achieves a society with less ignorance.

In the US you should fix the problem of the crazy tuition fees that send people into bankrupcy, though. In countries like Germany, tuition is free, i.e., the whole society pays for your degree. I find this reasonable: as a member of society, it benefits me that e.g. we have competent doctors for when I get sick, and that they are the best possible (i.e., selected by knowledge and skill, and not by being rich enough to pay for a degree).
Can you explain why you made a point to say "supervise students"? From your statement it looks like there is no expectation to do original/independent research. Is that the standard practise too?
> Wilson, Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor emeritus, says that setting aside half of the Earth’s land and half of its oceans would be enough to save 85 percent of species, which are becoming extinct at a rate between 100 and 1,000 times the rate before humans.

This is ridiculous. Species extinction is nothing new, that literally is the process of evolution and the universe as we know it. The amazing thing is one species has so far overcome that and managed to bring evolution to an ever increasing degree under its own control. If we don't want a species to go extinct our primary concern should be how it effects human well-being. Some species going extinct is very likely a net positive for human flourishing on this planet, others very likely a huge loss. But regardless I think it should be weighed in that context. Obviously, this still means you should look after the world - its the only one we've got - and we want to maximize human flourishing in it so we need to care for it.

But these people are so far removed from nature's reality its crazy - especially considering they are biologists. This idea that nature is something beautiful and lovely apart from these evil humans who live in it is, frankly, absurd. Nature is harsh, brutal and violent. If you don't believe this try living without heating, electricity, running water, and access to a grocery store for a prolonged period of time. I've done it and its brutal and that is with a massive amount of technology and tools to overcome the harsh environment that surrounds us.
If anything, my experience is the opposite. The initially best communites soon develop some kind of clique identity, and set up arbitrary rules about what is allowed and what is off topic. I'm not talking about trolling or abusive behavior, but just content that is not aligned with what the clique considers "fun" or "on topic". In the case of Wikipedia or Stackoverflow, this takes the shape of deletionism.

In addition, if you give anybody power in an online community, it seems to go to their heads. They develop a hall monitor mentality. It is even worse in the mentioned sites since almost everybody can perform moderational tasks and thus feel like they should hold up the rules.

Rather than "censoring" or "curating" (depending on your viewpoint), I would much prefer a good search function and separate categories. Disk space is cheap and the internet is infinite. Reddit does this pretty well, despite constant moans about the quality. There is an area for almost everybody and every topic, whether you want a clean garden or 4chan or something inbetween.
How is Twitter more anonymous? In the UK people have been locked up for tweets.

Twitter probably have less data on you, but I doubt it can't be linked direct to you by a TLA, say.
Oh come on, you are a failed video platform guy who got kicked out of YC startup school (I got that from your data out there/here scared? Probably not, because we are giving it all away...don't we?). Last week you have already shown that you seem to have no idea what you are talking about and you ran away when you got cornered. One day before my main point (that one about data) became reality for everybody. The day when your ignorance about people giving their data to advertisers has shown their evil outcome. I wanted to hear from you if you feel anything about it now. Regret anything? A slight feeling of guild or ANYTHING there? Did you learn something? It seems not. Now you want to have an AMA. What for? You didn't know that things like canvas exist a week ago. Now you want to tell us about your experience? Or is this just advertising for yourself?

PS. Seeing that the only thing you could remember was the advertising for my post (mind rape), shows that I'm a better advertiser then you.
Kafka is probably the best option in this case.
If anyone have questions for a Turkish person for this event, can answer without going too much into politics.
Why assume (some) coffee planters are too dumb not to understand a balance sheet with the pros and cons of rainforest destruction clearly set out?
Ideally, I think it needs a bit more support, like a class or information packet or link to one or more websites to help clue them about some things.

It takes time to develop an online income or do research to find a cheaper place to live etc. Long term solutions don't happen overnight. While working on them, people who are destitute still need other services to stay fed, clothed, etc.

But I think it is a lightweight means to support long term goals that many programs currently actively undermine. If you have to stand in line for two hours to get a free meal and do this three times a day to stay adequately fed, it's incredibly hard to job hunt, research what other services exist, etc.

A phone with internet service can potentially allow you to work on things like that while standing in line at a soup kitchen.

Even without the additional support that I would like to see, just having a phone number makes it easier to do things like job hunt. This is critical to getting your life back. Standing in line at soup kitchens keeps body and soul together. It doesn't help you find your way back to a middle class life. It can actively be a barrier to finding your way back.

So, yes, I think it has a lot of potential. A lot of current programs intended to help homeless people get back on their feet aren't terribly effective from what I gather and are much more resource intensive.
It's not meant for use in production. It's a lighter-weight substitute for a full Apache stack on development systems.
Prices are already down. Keep an eye out here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/

Current estimates are that 75% of ethereum mining is done on 1080Tis. So, if that stops overnight - will they sell them or switch to some other bitcoin? My guess is that they will flood the market. Mostly they are under-volted when mining, so they won't burn out within a few weeks if you buy used.
Deletion by flag is very common in IT and presumably has been since the first undelete program was created. It's not a Facebook thing.

Some mail programs for a long time have had a soft-delete that requires an expunging process to create compete removal.

In an IT setting you can delete a blob from a db, but it might still be on disk, and it will still be in caches, on user machines, and in backups/archives.
I'd point to the recent discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535886
It's also befuddling why most faculty are able to sleep at night knowing they are at the top of a pyramid scheme.

I just tell prospective students the truth. That the probability of being able to stay in academia is very low. That they are going to learn and do cool things, but if they end up in industry, this is not going to be valued much (generally true in my country, it's better in others). Those that stay know what they should expect.
Another very interesting notation/mathematical language from John Conway and William Thurston is for talking about symmetry.

Highly recommend The Symmetries of Things:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1568812205/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?i...
It is sad that to see such comments on HN, maybe you should keep your such comments in 4chan only.

I wonder how fast my comments would be flagged/erased if I call other nationalities with such names.
Now that the city is occupied by the Turks, why haven't they used it? It's a bit late now (and many buildings are no doubt no longer safe), but why didn't they use it then? There's a lot of investment in the structures in the city.
I usually do this by hand with surprisingly good results: I use calibre to convert the ePub to txt and then fix some common problems (i.e. remove line breaks and page numbers) using regular expressions. Then I convert it to an audio file using the macOS Automator text-to-speech action (be sure to download the high quality voices first).
> I have always refused to send that type of images/videos/audios

Isn't it still trivial to self-host stuff?

Just send a link to picture (or document or whatever confidential information you want to share) to a password-protected resource on your own server (or even a laptop or desktop machine, if you have globally routeable IP address there). Facebook automation is not that smart to grab the password from the very same conversation, and even if they do - I'm sure they won't do it, knowing you'll catch them in access logs and press charges for unauthorized access.

I doubt many would object and insist on sending via a very specific medium (i.e. strictly require pics in a FB Messenger). Some, of course, may find this inconvenient.
And because it's a joyous experience when it works.

I just introduced my five year old son to the passwd utility, when he asked me if I could change the password on his laptop[1]. The look of pride on his face when he mastered it (blind password entry was a challenge) was priceless.

[1] ThinkPad X121e w/ SSD and Xubuntu. X series ThinkPads running Linux make great kids machines. Cheap, decent keyboards, and hard to break.
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/103862

Golang blockchain implementation
Very very few laws become retroactive.
Play Where's Waldo
Research: Learning a Little About Something Makes Us Overconfident
it's also hard to define "move naturally" - if you look for smoothness you'd get a ton of false positive. check this out https://streamable.com/swz3y - twitchiness is a byproduct of scouting for target in motions.
Virtual Reality: How to Convert an Oculus Rift CV1 in a Standalone Santa Cruz
> it's on you to back it up.

I'm giving an experience report - if you do disagree with my point let me know and I can happily expand - but it feels like you disagree with me making a generalization rather than the particulars.

> It's not 100%, unless you yourself hold this opinion. Everyone except you? I have a hard time believing that.

I'm not sure you understand what a generalization is.

> Such generalizations do no one any good

That's a generalization and it's not a very accurate one.

We rely upon generalizations all the time - it's a healthy and necessary behaviour.

> other that reducing people to some caricature that weakens your own point

Another unsubstantiated generalization.

Reducing to a caricature helps focus the conversation on the caricature.

> is what supports the tribalistic behavior that leads to polarization.

How? It doesn't even make sense most of the time - for example I'm not defining or helping create an in-group vs out-group with my comments.

Secondly, what makes polarization or even tribalistic behavior inherently bad/unhealthy?

The vast majority of group behaviour is not easily quantified and is based on thousands of generalizations. It's not the problem you make it out to be.
"Proof" is a legal definition, and legal definitions are defined by the government. Accordingly, I entirely agree that any real property transaction must be tied in some way to the government.

That said, you should take a look at the current system. In many counties, it's still a large ledger of transactions in pencil and paper. In "modernized" counties, but with with extremely restricted access, made intentionally hard-to-access to keep title insurance companies in business.

Title insurance companies charge thousands of dollars on every sale to insure legal claims to property. Any trustworthy publicly accessible database, crypto-based or not, would be a huge improvement over the current system.
I did not know that, so it seems that it had never been converted back. Apologies - I am neither Greek, nor Cypriot.
The trailer is pretty heavy-handed and sensationalized.
Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
It does.

$ dig @9.9.9.10 +dnssec +short verisignlabs.com
72.13.58.64
A 8 2 3600 20180413202737 20180330202737 31485 verisignlabs.com. KrnT9i6qytaYWDZWThBmBwc6anOmawNxJTxmSlpaY3L7Yfupga9FS70l 8nMVp8ggbEtA+CnS9AbNwObkPaYvk3nFpDvo4C+2hg+PECsP1HVTgGxl G3eblfnYAMNfYzLYlfUnSBgM7kLSIXY4rLBxsl01KiPJYezNhmQ53KYf ygs=
Can confirm (Netflix in Sweden)
how did this make the front page?

it's a demonstration of returning a struct by value...

how is this...

1. multiple return values?
2. costing one "weird input parameter"?
3. worthy of a front-page mention?
Those appear to only be cell phones, not smart phones. They allow phone access, but they do not appear to provide internet access. You also need to have an address to qualify.

https://www.obamaphone.com/obama-phone-faqs

There is also an application process. While homeless, it was such a godsend whenever someone just gifted me something I needed, no hoop jumping required.
My current XPS 15 is almost 4 years old... so definitely looking for a replacement. I've had problems with the keyboard, but not the ones you mention. A few keys have fallen off, but a bit of super-glue have seemed to do the trick.

I did run into other problems with the keyboard (some keys would not depress), but I took apart the entire system, removed the keyboard and cleaned it off with an airgun, which solved the problem. Basically food and other gunk got caught between the keys. Not a perfect product, but given how much I use it, not totally unreasonable either.
At which point in history was japan ever a huge entrepreneurial society? The business success that I hear about most from japanese companies is often taking an idea and making it better, not necessarily being the first to innovate.

Though I guess I'm conflating being enterprising with being innovative, when the vast majority of enterprises aren't neccesarily innovative.

Also, while I somewhat agree with the sentiment that japan should do more to spur people to innovate, I don't think that many other countries are much different, people just drive to work at the random job that doesn't really mean anything to them, rather than walk/ride trains. Also not sure that every single asian culture demonstrates this strong group think...
I have bought a few servers from them (4 or so over the years), and they have served me pretty well so far. I haven't had to do any RMA's or replacements though, so not sure how good the company is about that.
Let's Bring BDD (Behavioral Driven Development) to Xcode
Citation needed that we need more "educated" people (for what definition of educated?) to do those things, and that the American system is even remotely decent at doing those things. Given the trajectory of our country's political efforts combined with ever-higher enrollment in college, the correlation at least doesn't look so good.
Good find, thanks, just bookmarked it, it must be the new one, over the years the site moved already a couple of times, it was:

http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/

Before being:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/

all the FGA's are nice, (besides - the technical ones - extremely accurate) if you loved the chocolate covered banana one, you will surely appreciate the "legacy" correct definition:

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/legacy-is-not-a-pejorative.html

and don't miss the note about the secret 7:

https://jdebp.eu/Humour/microsoft-monopoly.html
>> you need a engineering/scientific mindset

Another citation required. Liberal arts and philosophy majors aren't useful in spreading world peace? Ancient historians would strenuously disagree.
> What's holding back this city from being resettled by it's rightful owners?

Its "rightful owners" are greek cypriots. During the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 it became part of the turkic-occupied sector, but rather than resettle it Turkey set it aside as a bargaining chip assuming negotiations would begin soon.

So what's holding back this city from being resettled is that it's a forbidden zone regularly checked on by military patrols.
> So, in your view, email and the web are examples of garbage networks?

Mostly so, but it is worth the trouble.

About 90% of emails I receive are spam. So, email is 90% garbage. The 10% left is the sinews of my life.

Fortunately, the industry found ways to cope, by contributing to mostly centralized DNSBL services such as spamhaus.

The same goes for the Web: centralized services like Google or (is there something else? ) filter out the irrelevant, dangerous, and fake (with varying degrees of success).

Moderation? Inevitable. Distributed moderation? Not so much.

The parent post is right: if you don't make it built-in, it will not be how you like.
Do citizens vote for war? All of our leaders are very well educated, by American standards, yet war and police action persists.
The identity politics shoved down the throats students at universities across the country are going to create wars, not prevent them.