skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active apps or apps that have not recently accessed this data due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform. https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/20594281348887...
1. One the day demonetization was announced at 8PM, all jewelers were open till till 12 and sold gold with post dated delivery.

2. Till next few days, most retailers were doing backdated bills for large ticket items.

3. In India lot of people didn't had bank a/c. To allow them to convert old currency, people were allowed to convert cash upto 4k INR, by just showing any ID. Bank managers used stash of IDs they had collected over years, to convert huge amount of cash to new notes.

Apart from this, local mafia used millions of poor to get the cash converted. These are common and publicly known methods.
Tell my wife I said "Hello".
This list looks great. I watched the Wes Bos intro video, and it was a nice high-level overview. Thanks for putting this together.

Speaking as someone already familiar with Redux, React Context seems to be conceptually similar to how I already use Redux in practice (+/- expressing the store and connections as components). Can anyone with better familiarity enumerate the important differences this new API comes with?
Heh! My first "PDA" was the Hipster PDA, a stack of index cards and a binder clip: http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...

I'm prioritizing my personal to-do lists with Trello, which is like digital index cards.
The tax-prep industry lobbies hard to keep Tax Day a torture for you
If you are willing to defer dismissing this tool out of hand as a p-value generator, you can get a better feel for how the author (Evan Miller) thinks about stats from his web site [1] and a presentation he gave [2]. I think you'll find that "Wizard" is not the product of whimsy.

[1] http://www.evanmiller.org/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJMFxj7GRI
> It can’t be identified back to an user.

It's trivially associated to your IP. Google, if they chose to, could trivially tie these GA records to your personal profile.

> It is not personal data.

It's behavioral data that helps Google reconstruct your pattern-of-life. Knowing the tools you use can be very revealing.
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One-time users includes all one-time visits and all the visits where people have not done anything to give you their consent. This means you cannot load any 3rd party tools. All your ads have to be delivered via 1st party means (so no 3rd party ad code) and it cannot contain any personally identifying information.
</quote>

That is one weird claim. Let's count "one-time user" as someone completely anonymous -- no cookie, no login name, nothing. Let's say someone browsing in incognito mode from the freshly installed PC.

By definition publisher has no personal data about this person, so GDPR doesn't apply here, IMHO, and it's quite fair. Why can't publisher load some 3rd party tool?
Unfortunately, having a two year degree with experience still gets your resume thrown in the trash at the first step of the funnel. Ask me how I know. Doesn’t make sense fir most jobs but there it is.
This is a GREAT project!! Thanks!

Could you make it a git repo so we can field alterations, additions and discussion?
I went with ThinkPad T460 with Ubuntu 16.04 and it has been great. I had looked at Macbooks, but the ThinkPad was about $1,000 cheaper, has much more RAM (24 Gb), more battery life (11+ hours using Linux), has a matte screen (lower glare), 4-year next-day at-home repair plan, and was under USD $2,000, including tax and shipping. I'm very happy I didn't get a Mac. It's my 3rd ThinkPad and all of them were great.
Still NSA and their likes do collect and store all this data, so effective privacy/data protection/anonymization is still a task of the users themselves and their client tech.
Yeahh we need regulations on Facebook. The fact that he retains a majority voting share in the company, the fact that I now have zero trust in Zuckerberg AND Sandberg into doing the right thing, AND that there is no viable competition/users are too psychologically entwined to make the decision to detach from Facebook means the only checks and balances left against this unscrupulous individual is the US government. Unfortunately 80% are in his pockets, but that's the best bet we have.

What's stopping him from using his master access to obtain any info he needs for a presidential election? Trust? Trusting him?
Thank you for this. I hadn’t come across Anki and it looks like a great tool.
do not buy an xps. i bought a thirteen inch xps and the linux compat has some minor issues and the power supply died on me less than a year after purchasing it. my next computer is a thinkpad for sure.
OK, yeah, I forgot about the latest ones. I have a mid-2015, which I tend to think of as the current model.

So, I'll modify my statements to say "if you have anything before the current trainwreck and it's working fine, don't worry too much about it".
If that company is still around, it's worth naming and shaming.
Yes. Every company with legal standing in the EU has to comply with the GDPR, regardless of what data they process.

Companies outside of the EU only have to comply with it when they are processing data of EU citizens.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
But there is a lot of other PID with this visit - ip address, cookies, browser fingerprint
China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system
How is the Windows Unix shell these days? I have a Macbook Pro, which I installed Windows on, since I couldn't get used to OSX for my daily use (little things like Windows management and keyboard shortcuts and other stuff that added up).

Went back to OSX mainly due to the native Unix shell. On Windows I had some problems on and off with sockets and sometimes I would encounter a system call that hadn't been implemented. This was maybe 10 months ago.
I went to community college because my family was "middle class poor". Income just too high to qualify for grants or scholarships, but too low to afford to send me to university (for various reasons).

Community colleges are great in many ways. They provide a low cost option to get a four year degree. They give a second chance if you messed around in HS. It's less competitive to transfer into a top tier public university than it is to apply out of high school. Community colleges are more diverse - you'll meet a lot of older, experienced people, people working full time, and all ranges which just isn't possible at elite universities. Community colleges in California can also pay teachers more than the corresponding UC - so you'll find UC professors doing classes at the local college to make extra cash.

However, I would always recommend to go to a single university for 4 years if you can afford it. Some of the teaching quality in community colleges is just atrocious, unfortunately. A close friend of mine transferred into the UCB physics program, and he really struggled - the undergrad math prep at community college was a joke compared to what most of his fellow students had done. I also believe it's better to experience the full curriculum as intended. And there can be huge benefits to the dorm life.
> One of the most negative longterm consequence of the G. W. Bush era is the erosion of high moral ground in human rights.

One of the most negative longterm consequences is also the fact that HN seems unable to discuss Chinese human rights violations, and instead must derail all such threads into discussions about the US. Almost none of the comments here actually discuss topic of the OP.

> The US, and consequently the western democracies, lost the ability to genuinely criticize the bad guys for doing bad things like torture or kidnapping. Of course, the situation in China is not comparable to US, but we lost the argument.

This is absolutely not true. The US and Western democracies very much have the ability to criticize human rights abuses just with the caveats that 1) one doesn't have to be guiltless to criticize or call out bad behavior, 2) the US is not a unitary political entity [1], and 3) a hypocrite is not wrong, she's merely guilty as well.

[1] let alone the union of US and Western democracies
Fedora 27.
How about something [completely different](http://firestr.com)
Thanks! That website is a JavaScript-soaked nightmare, but I'll try to check it out when I'm next in the area (and maybe even do some creek maintenance ;-).
Eh?

Poor choice of words? I know you meant well, but the wording just looks bad.
Julia's drawings about programming
Middle Tennessee Lake Front Home for Sale
Launching today: new collaborative study to diminish abuse on Twitter
I heard about this a couple years ago when my orchestra (I'm a violinist) did a "movie music" concert with a guest conductor (Hal Beckett) who worked in the industry. We opened the concert with the fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra... then he turned to the audience and explained about temp music, and we played the Alex North fanfare.

I have a feeling that these sorts of stories fall into the category of "well known in the industry but not thought to be interesting enough to write down or relate to outsiders".
> Can shop owners in Germany not have surveillance cameras in their buildings? Unless you walk into the grocery store with a mask, you would then be on video and identifiable in some way.

They can, but you have to be informed of that fact. The business may only use the recordings to investigate a crime, it may not use it for anything else, and they have to be erased after a certain amount of time.
i appreciate the effort to make video content accepted here on hn, but this is not video content that i think should be on the front page. this is flat out not very intellectually interesting.
I’d add: Get (documented, active) permission of users to store and use their data, understand that permission is given only for a defined cause/usage (and not indefinitely for everything you right now might not even think of), be prepared to tell users what data you store about them, why and (briefly) how it is used. Be prepared to delete user data on request. Be prepared to show documentation on how you handle the (personal) data. And delete data that is not necessary any longer in regular intervals. And: Don’t share, sell or rent personalized data to any third party without given user consent.
Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
Things can be Laws, Ethics, and even Human Life as we saw with the responses to recent accidents involving self-driving cars
Ok, let's say I, as a publisher, don't set user cookie if user hasn't registred/logged in, and don't store IP in logs, and don't do browser fingerprinting.

Why can't I load some 3rd party tools?

What author is claiming, essentially, that in a mere 2 month from now, you can sue almost any European publisher for data privacy breach. Outrageous claim require outrageous proof.
This reminds me of the Hipster PDA, a small collection of index cards for daily use held together with a binder clip.

Perhaps more relevant now than ever with our smartphones and their infinite capacity for distraction.

http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
I couldn’t find a terminal I liked on windows. Got any suggestions?
Beijing launches pioneering brain-science centre
Fedora works well on most hardware I've tried, especially the ThinkPad T & X series. Currently running F26 on a 5th gen X1 Carbon.
That could be taken into consideration.
Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development
Have you tried Tweetdeck? I feel like the way it does columns and being able to clear might be useful for your workflow.
> most of these fuckups were illegal
> - or at least not officially
> sanctioned.

To people outside the US that are the subject of these campaigns this amounts to nothing more than obscure inside baseball.

Unless something like war crime trials are held, or reparations are paid to the relevant countries it doesn't matter in the least for the end result, or for future such operations whether or not these operations were legal or sanctioned. Nobody involved of any significance ever got charged or convicted, and the US certainly didn't help reinstate the governments that had been overthrown.

The only thing that happened post-9/11 was that the official narrative started more closely resembling the realities on the ground.
That's a good thought, right now it's actually a google spreadsheet that I write markdown into the individual cells export as a CSV and then run through a ruby script that turns it into HTML. Which (obviously) sounds insane, but it's significantly better than trying to edit a raw html doc of this size, get feedback, etc.
Two other major turning points I remember:

- Canon was first to market with an affordable DSLR. Nikon may have had the first mainstream pro model (the D1), but Canon was first to the prosumer market with the D30. With everyone soon transitioning to digital, this would prove to be a key market (and soon dominated by Canon's 5D series).

- Canon was also first to strike big with a competent video DSLR, the 5D MkII. This would spawn a whole new market for video professionals and people getting into video, with Nikon playing catch up (even today still, Canon's AF for video is unmatched).
I wonder if they accounted for that
It's a thin compatibility layer like git bash, not a VM. Super lightweight.
Read the sentence you half-quoted a little bit further.
Friends Don’t Let Friends CEH
Its kinda like battling about who's best as the whole boat sinks. Its rare to see a compact camera these days and SLRs are slowly disappearing too. I know I've stopped using mine. There will always be pros and some enthusiasts, but I can only see pain for these companies Canon & Nikon will probably limp along but Pentax, Ricoh, Olympus, Fuji will end up like Kodak.
> I added a 4 year warranty for $140 USD, fair bit cheaper than Apple's. You don't get the Genius Bar experience but the Thinkpad brand is strong world-wide and there are certified local repair centres pretty much everywhere.

When I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 years ago, it came with a 3 years on-site warranty included, extendable to 4 years for a small fee. On-site as in "a technician will come on the next business day and do their best to change all components to make it run again in front of your eyes". Has this changed in recent years or just with the X1 Carbon?
You can, as I pointed out in that very sentence:

> It is illegal to record somebody else's presence in a public space, although fair use examples exist (in the background of a personal vacation photo, for example)

If you were to publish that photo, however, you have to get all identifiable persons' permission or make them unrecognizable. That extends to other information usable to identify somebody such as a readable license plate.
Maybe nothing, but in practice this would be hard to do. Access to this data would amount to material support from a company to a presidential campaign which under campaign finance laws would need to be reported and scrutinized.

Additionally, Facebook is not just Mark Zuckerberg and likely the company would not like the data being used that way because it would risk their relationship with their users, which is far more important than Zuckerberg being president.
Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists Throughout Aging
Given that the quoted sentence ends with
_...although fair use examples exist (in the background of a personal vacation photo, for example)._
I assume your scenario would fall under this
Does Canon do the "U" modes like some Nikon cameras?

I know people give Ken Rockwell a lot of shit, and often with reason, but he's so so right that those are a game changer. I don't have to think, I can just move to "U1" or "U2" for my most common shooting scenarios and I'm done. There's also the customizable "Fn" button that gives quick access to a custom menu. Nikon cameras that feature this have easily the best UI in the industry.
I find this technique good for seaparating out people who tweet lots, say 5-10+ times per day, vs those that are more irregular.
This is from 2010, not 2004.
> Mind you, the xps 13 doesn't seem to have the same problems.

Maybe not the same but I've also had bad time with 13. Coil whine, 10 seconds to dell logo after pressing power button (sic!) and u had one firmware update that bricked the laptop. Fortunately it was still under warranty. And don't get me even started on accessories (TB15 was a disaster that should've been recalled).
LXD, ZFS and bridged networking on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS+
> You don't feel its important for society to have adults who have a wide-ranging perspective on things like literature, philosophy, history, art and non-computer science

If you can’t teach the necessary fundamentals of that in high school that’s a problem with you’re K-12 system.

The idea of a “well rounded education” is the result of the middle class trying to ape the leisure classes, who went to college to learn things they didn’t need to support themselves financially.
Phoenix and Postgres.

And while the Phoenix part has all kinds of issues--especially when you make it work with Mongo instead of Postgres and Ecto--it's waaaay better than the Meteor bilge we inherited.

EDIT: And honestly, at this point we all think that Rails or Node or anything else would've been a better move than Phoenix, but hey hindsight is 20/20 and we inherited the legacy Phoenix app.

Bet folks don't even know that those exist. :(
A brand founded by a deceitful, insecure, and altogether immature person is a problem when is effects so many people's lives. News at 11.
“Young people are just smarter”
My mom has Hashimoto’s which she's managed successfully for years using a low daily dosage of doxycycline. This suggests a mechanism for why that seems to work for her.
it's really not dim, it's just that they f* with dark images to save battery.
Google Classroom
This is a great suggestion, have started looking into it. Thanks!
China is looking more and more like some famous distopia
well this one is baked in to the FW. I tried that setting too :)
Yes, they do have all that (at least on some models)
"What's the root cause of success?" really is a nice and succinct way of illustrating the problem with root cause analysis.

Of course, a million business book writers fancy themselves capable of answering that question, in about 300 pages or so.
The break in occurred in 2004, but the article is from 2010
did you try the last link? looks promising. summer is coming after all, time to get some sun screen :)
in drumming there is this idea of separating your hands, with training you can play uncoordinated rhythms simultaneously but without training this is very difficult. humans train their whole lives to integrate signals but this is the opposite. i wonder if in VR we will separate the senses
I'd be shocked if there was a criminal investigation into one college student snooping on another's email account.
There's still Fry's --which I don't know how they survive, given their inventory controls.

Weird stuff was good for cheap as-is used parts though.
Setting Up Fallback Image Loading Over the Network Using Glide 4
> Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays

Do you have important mobility concerns which makes you really need a laptop ?

If RAM & CPU are your main concern, and you want a powerful machine with a reasonable budget, going for a desktop would make sense.
I could not recommend the DSO203 in good conscience, it has almost no isolation of the input channels which makes it downright dangerous.

It's nice if you only do audio or low voltage stuff but the first time you're going to point your probe at something a bit more beefy and you will let the magic smoke out (good case) or worse.
Powershell > Apple Script
Yep, this article’s framing is poor. The 5 Whys are just a simplification that proved useful to get people to dig deeper that previously couldn’t be bothered. There is nothing stopping you from turning a linear sequence of questions into a fanning-out tree of questions so that you can go both deep and wide. ...well nothing other than time and resources. It’s like suggesting that riding bicycles are a fallacy and that if you really want to get somewhere fast, you need to take an airplane. It’s true that bicycles are slower but they are usually better than walking and the cost/benefit ratio is often better than taking a flight.
ConEmu works great after some tweaking (there are numerous options).
The author addresses it right there on the page:

As for why so many of the letters flipped, it's because they used to be written in both directions. But with the introduction of ink, left to right eventually became standard (less smudging if you're right-handed).
Doesn't "right to erasure" make block-chain based business illegal (since you cannot erase from block-chain)?
TV shows. I watched so much TV shows that when I first came to the United States, a taxi driver claimed that I had a "New York accent". Shows like Seinfeld are especially good, because they also help you get comfortable with american culture, which is an important part of communication.

It probably helps that I do rubber duck debugging[0] a lot :)

[0]: https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
As Banks Embrace Biometric Tracking of Customers, Cybertheft Explodes in Mexico
The Stealth has pretty small bezel sizes. It can also be configured with an 8th gen quad core i7. Its got Thunderbolt 3, and because its running Windows you get full external graphics card support whether your needs are professional or gaming. RGB keyboard backlighting :). With a 512gb SSD, that config comes out to $1700, which feels like a very fair price especially when compared to some of the Surface laptops (its impossible to configure any 16gb Surface laptop for less than $2000).

The rest of the Blade lineup is in dire need of a refresh, as you say. The bezels are ridiculous when compared to some of the recent high performance offerings from Dell, Gigabyte, MSI, etc.

As for linux, this is an intensely personal decision, but with W10 + the Windows Subsystem for Linux, its actually pretty darn usable. Its not like Cygwin or a virtual machine; its literally a bash app that almost emulates a linux distro of your choice, and works identically to if you're in that linux distro. These videos explain it pretty well [1] [2].

Of course, you're still working in Windows, so if the UI is the reason why you don't want to use Windows then you'll have to virtualize or dual-boot or whatever. But, in a lot of ways, this is more of an advantage than a con: it gives you access to all of the software that isn't available on Linux, like Office, Adobe, games, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRo63afjtM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_T_m0UV9E
> There is more than that. Planes become lighter as they burn fuel, batteries don't become lighter as they drain.

Flow batteries can and open cycle fuel cells do; electric isn't just the kind of batteries that retain reaction products.
If you want a MacBook-Like experience without paying the Apple tax, I recommend offerings from Xiaomi. I'm typing this on a 13 inch i5 machine with a 256gb ssd, 8gb of RAM and a type C port for charging (ca 750Eur when it came out), but recently there have been new offerings with larger screens and better specs.

Great budget option and very good with Linux.
It's not an I. You can actually see the evolution of the "real" I right there on the chart.
Sane languages for developing a web application back end?
I'm wondering if the good folks at HN know a language that is -
- Statically typed but not insanely so (Java's out)
- Fit for web development (http, postgres, json libraries)