skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SkyScanner is still the king when searching for flights coupled with the "Explore" option which will return the cheapest flight destinations. You can also simply search for a country such as "Greece" and the results will rank the cheapest airports from your departure.

When including other travel options such as Trains, Buses (Flixbus), GoEuro shows these methods, but without the "Explore" capability.

SkyScanner just announced the ability to include train travel which hopefully will be a marriage of these technologies.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/skyscanner-adds-train-trav...
How to find people to follow? Is there a hashtag on mastodon to ask about finding certain people based on certain interests?
I blocked* Intercom for all websites some time ago. The thing that annoyed me more than the actual widget were the tab titles changing to "<random name> says…" every second or so. That made me want to close the tab and never go back.

* – by adding this to uBlock filters, if you want it too:

||widget.intercom.io
I keep hearing that Apple's direction of travel is to sunset MacOS for iOS. If that's the case, Apple will need to provide developers a path to develop for iOS on iOS. So there will be a need for an "expert / developer mode".
Reading the material on other pages is cheating. I'm trying to bypass the blockade altogether, disproving its utility. Similarly, the issue isn't slipping the tor traffic through the firewall but actually installing the software on a machine theoretically configured to prevent installation of software.
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Which is why we need jail time for execs.

It is very simple: with big $$ there should be a big risk.
> the profit you generate your employer

Ideally maybe, but it's just market forces. How much does an employer want you and how hard are you to get and retain?
I clicked on Philadelphia and the results pane wouldn't scroll - your comment is spot on (why would anyone want notifications from any application that isn't based on real-time communications) but I'm also irritated by the current trend of hacking out the browser's native behavior. Just let the content scroll (infinite scrolling is a nice DOM hack though).

EDIT: I just looked at what Ghostery, TrackMeNot and uBlock Origin blocked - it's a pretty big percentage of the non-image content.
Wifi is an important threat to human health
When the German government started gathering data about religion of its citizens, way before WW2, how many people were harmed by filling out that one field on the form? Zero. No one was harmed by the collection of that data. Except that then WW2 arrived and this data was used to exterminate entire communities. In my own country(Poland) the secret police used to gather all data on people and do nothing with it - until you gave them a reason to, then they had entire archives of recorded conversations, intercepted letters, logs of visits and journeys, ready to be browsed in search for anything that could be used against you.
DNSSEC (IETF standard) only provides authentication and integrity protection. DNSCurve can also provide confidentiality. DNSCurve does require the authoritative server to do crypto on the fly, so may require a lot more work for the root/TLD servers. DNSSEC is just signed DNS data, so the work can be done offline. So operators just do DNSSEC, very few operators deploy DNSCurve. Actually, most places do neither.

There is the possibility to mix the two - use DNSSEC for root/TLD servers and then DNSCurve on the lower level or leaf zones. It would be hard to know when to switch over from DNSSEC to DNSCurve(other than try at the 2nd level and below). Query minimization may help in privacy protection at the root/TLD level.
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> Even all the devs i know working under linux are doing all their development under docker or VMs

I don't, because docker is a buggy, embarrassingly-poorly-designed system and VMs are a pain. I develop on the same system I deploy on: Debian stable.

> And even when you have only one project, who wants to run debian stable or centos as his main OS?

I loathe CentOS, but I love Debian stable. It's a wonderful, solid (one might even say … stable) system. Why wouldn't I want to run it as my main OS?

One of the things I really hate about our development culture is the cult of the new. It's a good thing to use stable, well-tested systems. Let others find the bugs; I'm happy to get work done.
Microsoft released Visual Studio for Linux [1] a little while ago. I find it to be excellent; it gives comparable functionality to Atom but with a lot of the stuff you get with plugins already built in.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/
> Even had people make fun of me for it

What? Who does that? Whenever I see someone wear earplugs I think "good for them" (and occasionally "shit I forgot to bring mine").

I saw loads of people wear them at the psy festival I was last summer (and wore them myself, too). And the music wasn't even that loud.

While I can hear the music just fine, it does, however, reduce that feeling of "sound presence" during a live show or set. The space feels "emptier" too, like, a huge crowd of people jumping to sonic vibrations (even stronger if it's in a darkened club with just a few bright white lights and smoke), it's pretty weird behaviour if you consider it. But the sound sort of blankets and normalizes this, at least, that's my feeling when that veil falls away when I put in the plugs.

I kind of wonder about the custom-mold plugs. I don't use the cheap yellow foam ones, but reusable ones about €20 I got at a hearing-aid store (asked for ones suitable for concerts/festivals), which I'm fairly pleased with.

Does the "presence" effect get better with the custom-molded ones? Because afaik they're about €300 or so. If they don't restore that "presence" compared to the €20 earplugs, but just some better quality (which is nice, but is it 300 euros nice?) I'm not sure if it's worth it. But if they do and they are also much more comfortable, it might be a nice present for myself :)
2) was best explained by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239612 and in a nutshell is what the wired article mentioned above was about.
Apple would go a long way toward solving this problem just by adding a right and left arrow key to the virtual keyboard.
Yeah, straight-up reposting images in bulk like that is one of those crimes that people do thoughtlessly, but all over the place without even realizing it's a copyright violation, or not even caring that it is one.

The bot should be posting links to the comic pages and let mastodon's multimedia stuff extract preview images.

Anything other than that may be "convenient", but is ultimately entirely self-serving at the detriment of the people whose work the bot is using.

How do you feel about fixing that, rayalez?

Also, for anyone wondering why this matters, further reading from an incident last year: https://twitter.com/aurahack/status/902363519672360962 - https://twitter.com/i/moments/901869159931187200
They are separate issues, but history has shown that changes in architecture (or form factor) is often used as a pretext to also make other changes.

Mobile transformed the computer into a portable surveillance and addictive media device aimed at the user rather than a personal computing device built for the user. Those are two separate issues of course -- there is nothing in mobile that mandates that it be designed to commoditize its users -- but the shift to mobile was used to also smuggle in a total inversion of the user/machine relationship.

Apple is kind of a strange company. On one hand they have stuck up for the privacy and security of their users, but on the other hand they were a factor in this inversion of relationship. They weren't the only or even the primary factor, but the locked down nature of their iOS platform helped other actors such as Facebook and Google implement surveillance-capitalist and gamified attention-capitalist user experiences there.

Whether or not I stick with Apple depends on whether or not they keep my computer mine even as they swap out the CPU. I could care less about the architecture as long as it performs well, but I do care about the nature of my relationship with the technology that I use. I care about this for both personal and professional/pragmatic reasons.
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Sounds like an excellent idea:

Jr. Developer - automatic pass. Low money

Sr. Developer - likely a pass, provided 'i' are dotted and 't's are crossed - decent money

Tech Lead - no pass unless tried very hard to get it resolved, big money

Exec - no pass, very big money
After a university in another state sent me an unsolicited email offer (never opened), my google feed started showing me everything about that school, even going as far as setting up notifications for its class registration calendar. The feed started to loop in college football and greek life news, which are incredibly off base for my actual and actively searched interest history.

I spent a year slowly cultivating a pretty decent feed of relevant content on my Pixel, and it went full Netflix 2010 seemingly overnight.

Early Netflix suggestions, no matter how selective and consistent your selections over many years, could be instantly subverted by your lonely sister-in-law getting on your account one Saturday night and watching a few foreign language romance flicks. After that, you'd never really stop getting recommendations for "movies starring sexually aggressive male leads" or "films with actors who look like Antonio Banderas".

I think I'm done being used to train everyone's algorithms.
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> difference between 'religion' and 'the church'

I thought you were going to go the other way on that one... going to church doesn't make you religious. I might even say not all churches have religion. And the analogy still works, 'the academic world' is hardly a subset of 'science'
My biggest issue with Instagram's algorithm is that it resets on every view. Which is understandable from a product marketers perspective - if a user sees the same post up top they are probably just going to close the app again.

The problem is that I open the app, see something interesting (like a friend announcing a baby,) I leave a comment and swipe back to my home screen. I tell someone around me then they want to see and so I reopen the app and that post has been obliterated from my timeline, because it already extracted value from me with the like and comment. And this is literally within 5 seconds of leaving the app (Not even killing it, just going to the home screen.)

The true reason for the algorithmic timeline is just to increase engagement, that is all. With a timeline based feed you know where you left off, and you know how far you have to scroll to get back there. With an arbitrarily organized feed you just keep scrolling, thinking you will find something interesting or new. It is the same reason why casino's have no windows and are always the same lighting - so you stay longer and forget about time.
There were a few reasons for Google Plus's failure, including Facebook: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...

I was pretty excited when I first found out about Google+, but it was similar in excitement to discovering Facebook and also Fitocrac, yet all of that meant little upon the realisation that I wasn't truly getting value out of any of them.

For a long time, I was in denial about Facebook being bad for me (I thought it was everyone else who was using it wrong) but these days I can no longer justify it in terms of productivity, benefit, etc.

Simply, I need to read more books. No social network is going to help me with that; not even Goodreads (or LibraryThing - anyone remember that?).
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I use a kinesis Bluetooth keyboard with mine and set the tablet in a floor stand.
Not a single person in my office has a laptop that costs over ~400 GBP.

It may come as a shock to you but there exists a world outside of California/London/random-tech-hub
The main issue I have with Surface Pro (outside of the numerous bugs) is that it behaves more like a laptop in term of waking up. An ipad can be on sleep for a long time and is instantaneously available when woken up, whereas a Surface Pro will take a while to wake up. So it's not the same usage.
> This is a 50-75% hands on keyboard position. You'll be coding, organizing sprints, architecting solutions

This is usually called a "tech lead" or "lead software engineer"
Android allows sideloading, and the security problem arises not from users who “elected” to use those features, but from those who were duped into using them. For example somebody might be trying to play a Pokémon emulator, end up on a side loading site with some technical instructions, and load their phone with malware without even realizing it.
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We had the choice between MBPs and surface books (the good ones) and still only management opted for windows.
On the left there is a search box. Type in a hashtag and it will give you a list of possible hashtags. Click on one of them and the search results come up in the right-hand column.

Your instance may vary, but that works on mine, and is effective.

Either that or follow a few people and then see who they boost. Follow those boostees if they look interesting. Growth is slower and more organic, but it's a good way to keep growth under control and not end up with a firehose.
The amount of jobs comparable to the other whoishiring aggregator isn't very good but the ability to subscribe is an incredible addition. Good job!
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Fair point; not sure how much the current code is ready for incorporating the collective intent. Another issue: what if the other 10 cars are also self-driving into a wall? With such a low quorum, you are still vulnerable to the same issue as with a single car.
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I would choose a person who admit their own ignorance any day over a person for whom it doesn't even enter the picture.
I strongly recommend Rome2rio (https://www.rome2rio.com/) for searching through a wider variety of transport means (as well as its fantastic ability to plot out a full route door to door, with suburban trains/buses/taxis at each end to get you to/from the airport/station/port).

That said, it's not really designed as a "travel inspiration" site - it's for people who have figured out where they're going and want to plan out the details of how to get there.
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Made a couple of changes to add median value and local DNS (via ViewQuest).

./dnstest.sh| column -s\, -t
DNS test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average Median
cloudflare 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3.10 ms 3 ms
cloudflare2nd 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3.00 ms 3 ms
google 4 ms 3 ms 2 ms 3 ms 4 ms 3 ms 2 ms 6 ms 2 ms 4 ms 3.30 ms 3 ms
google2nd 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 6 ms 201 ms 2 ms 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 22.50 ms 2 ms
quad9 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 4 ms 3.30 ms 3 ms
opendns 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 5 ms 3 ms 236 ms 2 ms 54 ms 2 ms 2 ms 31.00 ms 2 ms
norton 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3.10 ms 3 ms
cleanbrowsing 178 ms 179 ms 178 ms 182 ms 176 ms 178 ms 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms 177.90 ms 178 ms
yandex 200 ms 319 ms 281 ms 213 ms 293 ms 215 ms 281 ms 287 ms 281 ms 215 ms 258.50 ms 281 ms
adguard 185 ms 189 ms 185 ms 186 ms 186 ms 185 ms 186 ms 186 ms 186 ms 186 ms 186.00 ms 186 ms
neustar 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2.80 ms 3 ms
comodo 271 ms 262 ms 263 ms 265 ms 290 ms 264 ms 262 ms 266 ms 263 ms 262 ms 266.80 ms 264 ms
local 0 ms 6 ms 3 ms 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 1.00 ms 0 ms
Heaven forbid you entertain your 6yo niece for a day, and find she's polluted your Netflix with the most insanely numb drivel that passes for animation today. It takes months to expunge.

What's wrong with Netflix anyway, that one off-topic movie can sway your 'preferences' so drastically?
Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
Process "chrome.exe" opens files. I don't think that it's a separate program.
>This overload means it now makes little sense to ask for the ‘chronological feed’ back. If you have 1,500 or 3,000 items a day, then the chronological feed is actually just the items you can be bothered to scroll through before giving up, which can only be 10% or 20% of what’s actually there. This will be sorted by no logical order at all except whether your friends happened to post them within the last hour. It’s not so much chronological in any useful sense as a random sample, where the randomizer is simply whatever time you yourself happen to open the app. ’What did any of the 300 people that I friended in the last 5 years post between 16:32 and 17:03?’ Meanwhile, giving us detailed manual controls and filters makes little more sense - the entire history of the tech industry tells us that actual normal people would never use them, even if they worked. People don't file.

I think the problem here is the implicit assumption that I want all 1000-1500 things. I don't, and neither does anyone else. What people want on Facebook is a feed of all the things people have actually posted. I want to see peoples' photos, and their status updates, and news articles they've shared.

I never ever want to see things people have liked, commented on or otherwise interacted with. How other people interact with Facebook is irrelevant to me. In fact, the whole system of people just commenting with someone's name to share something with them is very annoying.
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Eh. Creator software comes in two tiers. Dilettante tier (e.g. lower-end Photoshop) is actively ditching desktop altogether, while higher-end (think of Color, the motion picture colorizing system) either run on Macs or on such dedicated machines that they might run Wintel but are not "desktops" anymore.

(Then there's scientific software -- Stata and Matlab and that stuff. But ten years ago Matlab, like gagh, was best served in higher-end minicomputers and now everything is Python and can be ran on a cheap VPS or on AWS.)

Besides the sheer gobsmacking convenience, there's also the fact that it's way more fun for bean-counters to have higher OPEX in exchange of lower CAPEX. It really kicks the llama's ass.
> An ARM VM should run reasonably quick, and Ubuntu works fine on ARM.

Sure, but if we're deploying to x86 servers running Linux, then running Ubuntu on virtual ARM doesn't seem terribly wise[0] — it won't tickle the right bugs.

[0] For my money, running Ubuntu in general is a poor idea. It's not a great server OS, so it shouldn't be on the server — and if it's not on the server, it shouldn't be on the development systems either. Just run Debian everywhere.
I thought it was going to be about the chocolate treat[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Blossom_(candy)
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Solid looking application! Pretty clever to auto-filter the jobs when filling out the 'subscribe'-bar, as i thought it was the 'search'-bar ;)
Intel press release:
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Deleting things at scale is hard. There are good technical reasons why associated data (the short URL and the image) wouldn't be deleted at the same time as the tweet. If the link and the image are still visible in a few days time then I'd be concerned.
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