skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a buddy who is working on a sub. He couldn't really say what he was doing with much detail, but recommended this book. He says it contains a lot of secret info which was acquired by the author basically becoming friends with lots of submariners and them over time mentioning things.

I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list.
To be fair you can't go very far without running into garden walls in Apple land. It doesn't just apply to development.

Want to change your launcher / dialer / etc? WALL!

Want to run a different web browser (an ACTUAL web browser complete with JS / CSS engine). WALL!

Want emulators or adult-themed apps? WALL!

Want to develop for iOS or macOS on Windows or Linux? WALL!

The list goes on and on...
Especially as an indicator of one social media platform vs another, it seems unwise in its design. Essentially, it appears that they are trying to gauge each platform's impact on young people's mental state by...asking those young people to guess at the answer. Hmmm...problematic as it is to ask someone (young or not) to evaluate their own mental state, asking them to evaluate which social media platform that they use is responsible for that, seems even more problematic. This does not look like the world's best experimental design, even with the same budget you could have done better.
The Case of the Disappearing Strings
I used to manage a few online communities and you're always going to have trolls. Here's some ways you can control them.

1 - Moderate comments and remove any comments you don't like. Make a rule that all comments need to be approved before they will be posted. This will cut down on about 60% of the stuff you'll see.

2 - Shadwo ban users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

3 - If Shadow Banning doesn't work, then target and block their IP addresses. If you need to, warn them you will contact their ISP and let them know.

These are the big three that always seemed to limit the trolling behavior I saw. Only in extreme cases do you have to do #3.
How would tamper evidence help if the device is stolen?

If nobody but me has the device encryption key, and my device is stolen, I can be sure that nobody will have access to whatever data it contains. If anybody else has the device encryption key, however, and the device is stolen, I can no longer know whether anybody else had access to the data, no matter how much tamper evidence the device has.
I'm deferring to the reasons why it's a law.
I have heard that if you get Red Canary, they offer a service on top of Carbon Black to give a higher level of intelligence. This will likely help.
I am assuming the jump CEO will be too busy sleeping on the pile of money he just made to actually care.
> How much is it because of reality and how much is because pf propaganda?

Being from that neck of the woods, it's reality. My brother (coming from the U.S. to visit) was hospitalized for days when he was 5-6 because he ate some food off a plate that had been washed in the local water.
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/copenhagenize-worlds-most-bike...
It seems like the main difference between China's state apparatus and ours (FBI/CIA/etc) is that political dissidents are actively and openly persecuted. Now with the politicization of our state and the growth of "deep state" terminology (where US institutions are accused of the same things China does in the open), one wonders just how far off we could be. I still believe that we have an incredibly strong cultural abhorrence to open discrimination for specific classes (mostly the first amendment stuff), but history has shown that in secret we have been performing similar acts abroad. China just has no qualms about doing it internally as well. I think thats the biggest difference - visibility and likelihood to act against its own citizens.
I think it's just a distancing effect. People are meaner to each other over chat than in person independently of how well they know each other. Traffic is another example: since you only see other drivers as their cars, you don't think of them as people and it's easier to develop intensely aggressive feelings towards them.
I'm assuming this is heavily biased by your curation. I follow graffiti artists, calligraphy artists, and landscape photographers. My Instagram feed is filled with new artwork that inspires me daily, it is almost like visiting a museum everyday.
Close to home : my grandparents talked frequently of what it was like under rationing; and Sean Connery was my grandmother's milkman for a while..
This is a PDF file.
Bitfinex has added the below altcoins to their portfolio increasing their market reach by about a billion dollars.

Aion
Request Network
IOSToken
Loopring
BnkToTheFuture Token
Cofound.it
WAX
SingularityNET
Medicalchain
ODEM
Dai
Can you explain why the certainty of 'It’s a fact that front-end development will be deprecated in a near future' ? I'm fairly certain it's 'a possibility', rather 'a fact'
> Maybe ask why America is the only democratic nation with uncapped campaign spending.

Where on earth do you get an idea like that?

No, the US is not the only democratic nation with uncapped campaign spending, for any plausible definition of "democratic" and "campaign spending".
It might actually be a thing in the future.
Does being accommodating risk your chances to land your desired salary?
A company reached out and I've been nothing but accommodating to them. By accommodating I mean: I let them set the phone interview schedule and I rescheduled accordingly. During the aforementioned phone interview, they asked me about my salary expectations so I honestly informed them about the range I'm expecting and I added that I was open to negotiation; they said they were glad that I welcomed negotiating my salary.

They then sent me an email inquiring about my availability for an onsite interview. I said that I don't mind any given day of the week.

Have I been too nice/ accommodating? Would that affect the number they have for me?
It surprised me how go's interfaces have non-trivial limitations. What lately bit me is illustrated in the following snippet: the call to doSomething() is just not possible in Go:

package main

import "fmt"

type S struct {
i int
}

func (s *S) foo() {
s.i++
fmt.Println(s.i)
}

type Sarr []S

type I interface {
foo()
}

func doSomething(arg []I) {
arg[0].foo()
}

func main() {
arr := Sarr{S{i: 1}, S{i: 2}, S{i: 3}}
arr[1].foo()

doSomething(arr)
}

I understand why the current implementation of Go doesn't work that way, and that the meta-reason for this not being implemented is the "we don't want generics" attitude, since it would effectively require 2 different compilations of doSomething(), one which accepts a slice of interfaces, which are a (pointer,type) tuple, and one which accepts an slice of this specific struct which happens to actually implement the I interface, and that's a taboo, but come on... it just weakens the idea of interfaces. It could have been done as a compile-time work-around which constructs the slice-of-interfaces argument on-the-fly before calling the function - it wouldn't have been the only magical thing in Go.
As is well known, few people will take the trouble to deploy this at home, especially non-technical users. Why not provide one-click (or two- or three-click) deployment to hosting, either a VPS or cloud like Amazon? Data could be encrypted end-to-end so that the hosting provider can't access it, at least in some cases (server-side searches become tricky). 'Create our own private Instagram, iTunes, and more for $x/month, with just a few clicks!'

I know that sacrifices some end-user control philosophically, but in reality it would greatly increase it for those in the great majority who currently have none.
He's probably suggesting that in Virology it's generally frowned upon to publish research on how to for instance make Smallpox airborne and as virulent as the Flu. So it could be wise to leave out the exact details on how to make an AI recursively self improving when publishing. If you've spent time in Research many groups already do this by leaving out small but critical details that make replication difficult or impossible. This is across fields not just CS/AI
That would be the Republic of Cuba. They’re local in space, albeit not in time....
Jump's value prop is not so much being dockless but being an electric bike. You can't leave Jump bikes anywhere like other dockless bike companies (smart move on their part...I'm sure each bike is at least $1000) i.e. you actually have to lock/unlock the bike from a bike rack to use and if you don't properly lock the bike after use you're liable as a customer if it's stolen. It's an important difference IMO and means that you don't see these laying around everywhere.
Same as when every new format comes out -- give a few years for the hardware folks to iterate on the hardware.
TL;DR didn’t read article
I don't think the fact that OkC now has paid features invalidates their (sadly deleted) blog post. With OkC, you can still match up with someone and accomplish what you intend to (finding dates/partners) without pulling out your credit card. Some of the paid features might (and might not) make it easier or more efficient to find a partner, but you don't need to pay them to get value out of the site. The argument in the blog post is against sites that require you to pay to do anything meaningful with the site, and I think that point holds.
Obviously, political advertisement you disagree with is "pointless" and the world would be a better place without it. </sarc>

More specifically, the filtering would be informed by the biases and prejudices of those who control the gates. As it always is.
Not an option up here in Canada.

Biking is not viable for about a 1/3 of the year. Ice, snow and low temperatures make biking extremely dangerous.

My city is known as being extremely biker friendly, yet virtually nobody bikes for 4-5 months every year.
I may agree with you that it is not science. However I disagree with the reasons you use to back this up.

They did have a theory for how one obtains experience, a basic one (the senses collect info about the outside world and...thats it, experience gained!)

It really sounds like you're claiming philosophy is not a science, which doesn't really make sense. Philosophy is certainly a unique kind of science, one where hypotheses must be made on nebulous difficult to define concepts, and lots of things are difficult or impossible to test. However that doesn't automatically make it not scientific. Just because theories are untestable doesn't mean science cannot be done with them. Because they aren't truly untestable, they just aren't entirely testable. You may not be able to prove/disprove a given theory, but you can test a group of theories, limit it to "okay, we can't tell which theory is true, but it absolutely IS one of these theories, not any others" And quite possibly as other science advances, previously untestable aspects may become testable and the list can be shortened.

To claim that philosophy isn't science is to claim it cannot make any objective progress, which is something I definitely disagree with.
You could say that slavery itself was just an aspect of racism and discrimination, as it was practiced in the US. You can’t really separate these issues.
Not bash their contributions like it has happened on GNOME and KDE.
You don't roll a new crypto and use it the day after, it must be tested for vulnerabilities, reviewed by expert cryptoanalysts.

It can take years, much like a car has to be crash tested, a new crypto algorithm must go through a certain process to be considered good enough.
Seems an honest question should be replied with facts, not Rush Limbaugh rhetoric.
Not picking up wifi in garden... could be akin to "I can't see the ground clearing while in a 747... so what can they really see from orbit?"

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qx54b/googles-sa...

Considering you can "legally" see "manholes and mailboxes" from orbit?

What could we see if not "limited" by laws?

Whats visible now considering that article was 2014...

Grab your tin-foil hats.
I agree with you "waste" is a strong word when talking about learning new concepts.

On the FE side I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving a problem, i.e. non-technical people creating and managing their own applications. I can see my kids creating their apps and sites on a visual base...
Why do you blame the water and not the food?
Hamming of the hamming code fame was saying exactly this in one of his lectures. His computer was slow enough that one iteration in finding optimal trajectory for a missile took several minutes, enough to allow him to get insight into what the 'curious' results meant.

(In that particular story, it meant that for a ballistic missile the optimal trajectory was to shoot it straight up and steer it on the way down instead of steering it on an elliptic path from the get go)
Pluralsight has a few nice courses.
There are lots of ways, but the simplest is to take 10% of your income and invest it in an S&P 500 index fund. Also take maximum advantage of any 401k plan your employer offers.
I really like how this looks and I bought one to try out. I wish it were standalone and Z-wave (or similar protocol) with Wink (or similar) support. I hate having a different app for every device.
Well if I sit in a meeting with 2 programmers who work 80h+ to produce value for the company, 2 consultants, 2 managers, 2 architects, each of them earning 3x-10x of what the programmers earn, but all living off of what the programmers produce, then I think it's quite clear that this is not sustainable.

I think that's good enough as an explanation of why it's not rational. There doesn't need to be a known truth about what's rational to see that this is not rational.

And now don't come to me with "each of them does different tasks". I can distinguish between architects who design systems and architects who happen to come to 10 biweekly meetings in a row without having designed anything.

Also please note that I'm not blaming anybody. The programmers are just as responsible in my eyes, sometimes even supporting the other people in their parasitic positions.

Last but not least there's also literature out there showing that nearly all systems in their early stages contain huge amounts of people willing to sacrifice their own good for the community, thereby creating public goods, and later stages societies more and more focussing on stealing and centralizing the goods in a private manner. Capitalism is simply a system in its later stage and will be overcome by a just-as-flawed system at some point.
AV1 is a poor name for a video codec because it is too easy to visually confuse with AVI.
Are you looking for any interns?
Fortunately patents are fairly short-lived (at least compared to copyright). A lot of the worst software patents were granted in the '90s and early 2000s and are reaching their 20-year expiration date.
At first I thought this was a late April Fool's prank. The next headline might be a new FOSS font called C0mic S4ns.
Now that Moore's Law is dead, that time is coming. We can't afford to be wasteful. Not that we ever should have, but we've spent over a decade now catering to "developer productivity", now it's time to put the user role back in the forefront.
In Santa Monica they have the breeze docked bike share... which originally when it launched allowed you to leave the bikes anywhere for no charge (so best of both worlds).

I was an avid user and rode an average of four times a day!

A few months later, they started charging $2 if you didn’t lock a bike to the dock. This made for a pretty good a/b test of usage... I started using them only maybe once or twice a month!

I’d say dockless is about 50x better than docked.

And since bird showed up here (dockless e-scooters) I basically never use the breeze bike share anymore, despite having prepaid for a year of it.

I think the electricity probably makes it again 2x better and the scooter makes it again 2x better.

So overall, dockless e-scooters are maybe 200x better than docked bike shares!
The general principle here is one from Economics 101 - free goods are used in very uneconomic ways. If water is unmetered, much is wasted since it's not even worth thinking about whether you're wasting (literally) tons of water. Therefore even a very small charge for metered water (so small it doesn't cover the cost of providing that water) can change behavior remarkably, greatly reducing consumption and inconvenience to others.

So even a charge of ten cents will discourage some trolls who would otherwise keep returning with a new free account after yet one more ban.
How does this compare to projects like RESOLVE https://www.cs.clemson.edu/resolve/?
Announcing Flutter beta 2
Seattle seems like it's doing well with Ofo, Limebike, and Spin however it will never be a replacement for a car, and they're 40-70lb bikes that can't make it up Seattle's hills which makes them kind of useless outside of downtown. They are used often and I see people riding them all day down by the waterfront, especially in the late spring/summer.

I unfortunately don't see them being any kind of major replacement for anything in Seattle anytime soon unless the Mayor actually puts high tolls on downtown exits -- especially since we have fairly good public transit.
Well, you can (to some degree) be self-taught and still get a high-paying job. Whether that leads to issues in the code was not a question that I was trying to address.
We will never run out of oil, as it can be synthesized from organic waste (basically just by cooking the crap out of it). Right now it's not really a profitable enterprise in competition with ground based oil, but at some point it will be. And it's carbon neutral (as is everything that doesn't involve digging up basically pure carbon and burning it).

Of course, all of your other points are spot on. It is irresponsible to use such a permanent material for so much disposable stuff.
Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time (2015)
The problem that never seems to be solved by no-code tools is the debugging aspect of coding. Saving a few minutes writing code was never the problem; rather, we need more ways to save hours or days explaining why things behave the way they do.

It’s definitely cool when you can wire together a UI without a lot of effort and see it largely work. Yet if any part doesn’t work exactly right the first time, you may have no idea why. You are also at the mercy of the tool developer; if it has bugs (or bugs show up next year), you’re stuck, and they probably aren’t using an open file format that can be hacked to do the right thing.

These no-code tools also, in my experience, interact poorly with revision control, basic teamwork, and other aspects of development. You can’t easily do simultaneous edits for example.
To expand on andrewaylett's comment, that it is open source doesn't automatically mean "100% hardware compatibility."

Even for the linux kernel, someone somewhere has to figure out how to get it to boot on every piece of hardware.

It's not magic. The nice thing is that if the first person who gets it working can just 'git push' their code to kernel.org, then the next person doesn't have to redo all that work.
My first experience with an electric bike was pretty fun. I was at a stop light in front of a car and looked back to see a very angry look that I was on a bike...I cleared the intersection before they even entered it. It was a custom bike capable of 60mph
Your argument makes sense as long as you consider something “private” if it’s shared with Facebook itself.

You might, if you consider your personal interests to be consistently and permanently aligned with the ToS which best serves shareholder interest of the entity which controls the exploitation of the historical data, and on-going surveillance capability.

The data is pretty much unregulated, and there’s no reason for it to ever be deleted; given it’s size and value it’s likely to live-on much longer than Facebook (the company/legal entity) as we know it today. If they got in financial trouble, the prudent thing would be to flog the lot to a data broker to be resold and repackaged indefinitely.

Facebook themselves have a long established reputation for doing whatever they like and apologizing only if and when they get caught, and doing the minimum possible to ward off regulation or churn.

Just like the use of the term “breach”, there’s a broader use of the term which makes sense given the expectations of a user-base that’s been kept in the dark for years (as opposed to technical people with an understanding of the industry).

For example, my contact list is not “private” if it’s exfiltrated from my phone without my knowledge or consent, to be used for whatever purpose makes most money to whoever controls it (currently Facebook), against a ToS which can change at any time without notice, with almost no legal protection, regulation, or oversight.
There's however the broader value behind the First Amendment. While FA does only limit the government, the values of free speech and robust democratic debate are not limited to the government. Legal enforcement and government coercion can only go so far, and so can governmental support. If the society wants working democracy, FA - or other free speech protections - is a necessary condition but not a sufficient one. This should be also supported in private actions and common values informing them. Otherwise free speech can not survive, even without direct governmental coercion - it would just be eliminated by other means. FA is not the source of those values, it is the consequence of them, and thus limiting the discussion only to FA ignores the wider meaning of it. I think many Americans understand this very well, and thus resorting to narrow legalistic view of the issue misunderstands their position.
Sorry guys, but I won the 3x3 to 1024 on the first attempt, so the next 99 of you will only see losses. ;)

> We can also see it being ‘lazy’ — even when it has two high value tiles lined up to merge, it will continue merging lower value tiles. Particularly within the tight constraints of the 3x3 board, it makes sense that it will take the opportunity to increase the sum of its tiles at no risk of (immediately) losing — if it gets stuck merging smaller tiles, it can always merge the larger ones, which opens up the board.

One flaw in the strategy I noticed was failure to prioritize getting higher values together when board space is scarce. That is, it seems to employ the same strategy regardless of board free space. (Maybe they addressed this, admittedly didn't read all.) Or maybe that is better than my strategy.
I kept a subscription going because I was looking for people to have casual sex with and wanted to A) support the site, B) have more advanced search options, and C) see who's liking me (unpaid it's a blind match like Tinder to find out likes).

I figure most other paying people are either the same or looking to cancel their subscription once they find a long term partner.
At least tap water doesn't come in disposable plastic bottles that end up as microplastics in our water supply
Problems at the Biggest Internet Exchange in Europe (DE-CIX)
The dictators like to associate democracy with disorder, but it's the opposite: We take for granted that the most stable, prosperous, and free countries in the history of the world are all democracies. Democracy has been an incredible success for humanity, beyond the wildest dreams of millennia (but still not good enough!).

> violent methods in which it is being spread

That is attempted sometimes (and usually with poor results), but democracy almost always spreads peacefully: India, Brazil, South Korea, most of Europe, South Africa (albeit still a one-party democracy), Mexico, etc. etc.

It's the dictatorships that try to spread their form of government through violence. We can say that if there were no dictatorships - i.e., if all countries were democracies - there probably would be no wars. Even Trump and the GOP aren't threatening war with any democracies.