skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah idk it is two functions and only one of them has a promise.
That sounds like... a fantastic idea! Why would they kill that off?! No easy way to inject ads into I guess (at least that people would be willing to put up with).
It has been reduced from O(n) to O(1), so much easier to check.
In Firerox you can add the Subscribe button back to the toolbar using the personalization UI. They shouldn't hide this feature as much in my opinion, but it is still much better than manually looking for a feed URI in the source.
Not necessarily — you might have trouble buying a laptop or phone without a PIN, for example.

(It may be possible, but require the manager's discretion or authorization.)
This called to mind the ScanCard, a proprietary roughly 3x3 inch card system with colored borders meant for people with lots of irons in the fire. Amazingly, they're still in business: http://www.scancardorganizer.com/
If you think labor is what keeps fast food prices high, you are mistaken.

Most of the largest chains have pretty much automated nearly everything by now that's possible given reliability and safety standards. If you look in the kitchen of any McDonald's nobody is cooking or preparing the components. They're either pre-cut, loaded into dispensers, being cooked in a self-timing temperature-controlled fryer, or being cooked on a self-timing temperature-controlled clamshell grill. If you check out a Taco Bell, they've even eliminated the cooking part. It's all made off-site in large batches and rewarmed on the assembly line. Even the beloved Chipotle has moved to retherming their components where possible.

The human labor is merely in assembly and delivery. And automating that with robots is a generation away, if at all.
Dang, somehow I missed that. Rawk!
It's 100% open source, there's a very nice Docker-based install. You can host it yourself on AWS or Digital Ocean for very little money.

Make a free Mailgun account and put your credentials into the Discourse installer and delivery is free up to 10,000 messages.
While there are complexity issues with large legislatures, I think that it's actually a good thing to keep the size of the legislature well above Dunbar's Number. You may want complete stable working relationships in an executive council or cabinet, but you really want (I would argue) a significant share of relationships in a legislative body (even within a governing majority) to be characterized by arm's-length distrust.
Nice to see them getting coverage, we were at the same startup incubator (Greentown) before we both moved on to larger offices. I can attest that the food this machine makes is, in fact, tasty.
Show HN: A cli that parses markdown into html || Node.js
I've been drawing a horizontal line, sometimes with a slight arch, for years now. I almost never get a reaction and when I do, it is at most a laugh or giggle. Nobody cares (not that they should). Anything I scrawl is (more or less), by fiat, my signature.

I'm glad we can finally stop wasting time (and resources, for physical signatures).

This is especially fun with e-signatures in California: “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the electronic record.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Fame probably attracts detraction and defence.
I dunno... a quick Cmd-Shift-G is pretty easy & will let you edit the path however you like. And as someone else mentioned, a Cmd-Click on the title/path area of the window will let you move up the path arbitrarily.
True, but with a full automatic system to convert those ingredients to food, you could add a test step, where you filter out the contaminated ingredients.
Let me see, if nine out of 10 people asses this poster as having non-fluent english and 1/10 seem to think he is fluent, the most resonable explanation is that there are now 2 people who are not fluent in english. Stop trying to grasp at straws, it quite clear the poster is not a native english speaker nor does he fool fluent speakers.
The irony that your link requires javascript to show ... anything.
That's a very negative way of looking at the world. Using that type of thinking, any company that makes money and would like its products to be more popular is somehow "bad"
Started skimming this and immediately started to wonder this guy's credentials, especially when I got to the parts on UBI and communism and how "governments distort markets". Like how can you write a book called "The World After Capital" with such a thin understanding of capitalism and the very very obvious prior art here, Marxism.

Then went back to the preface for the money shot:

> As a Venture Capitalist (“VC”)....
Apple reveals special edition Product Red iPhone 8 and 8 Plus smartphones
Show HN: Unscatter.com is now a searchable news index
Hi,

For the past several years I've been working on https://www.unscatter.com as a hobby. Used it first as a project to keep up to date with python and a few years ago rewrote it to learn go.

For the past several years it's primarily been not much more than a proxy for APIs for sites like Faroo, Reddit, Youtube and Tumblr.

I recently just started a rebuild of the site that's now live. Instead of just being a proxy for API's, I now use the reddit api to determine what news is trending. Mostly I'm pulling from r/all, r/worldnews and r/news. I'm then pulling and analyzing the stories and creating a searchable index of them.

My goal is to have it act a 1 month archive of what news has been trending. What's driving me is what I have perceived as a lack of trust of the press based on my interactions with people. My goal with the Unscatter brand is to provide tools people can use to see if the press is giving them news or driving a message. This index is just the first tool I'm pushing out.

I am doing a Show HN in the hopes of getting some feed back. My goal is for it to be a 1 month archive, articles that haven't been seen by my fetcher in over a month will be deleted. I don't have the full 1 month archive and probably won't start deleting until June as I'm still tuning.

Another reason I'm doing the Show HN is to see if anyone has some suggestions on other sites that might have an API I can work with? I realize that pulling just from reddit I still risk getting a bias based off of the visitors of that site being their own small society. I'm hoping to find other sources to pull from in an attempt to try and avoid bias.

I should also note if you have a great tool you wish to sell me, at this time I don't have a real monetization strategy. I do serve adsense adds but I also have /search blocked in robots.txt so it's not like google can really tune the ads that well. This is 100% pure hobby, I'm only paying $20 a month for hosting.
Microsoft Invests $5B in the Internet of Things – SD Times
We're no where close to eliminating scarcity or capital. We're so far from that there is almost no point in giving it serious merit. Probably centuries away. Humans being will be limited by scarcity until we're able to convert matter from one substance to another with ease, and able to freely genetically engineer ourselves to survive on other worlds.
There is definitely nothing that prevents another applet (JavaCard, not PKCS#11 -- that's just a generic interface) from running on smartcards currently running the EMV applet. Or any other smartcard from running more than one applet -- this is a result of ISO7816 more than EMV.

But my point is that if EMV had chosen to use X.509 instead of inventing their own certificate format then we could re-use the existing infrastructure with zero cost.

Passing arbitrary APDUs from webpages to your card isn't a great idea and it will be SLOW since it will require multiple round-trips -- it's already slow enough just reading objects from smartcards. This is the mechanism used by Citrix/MS Remote Desktop, which is to forward a PC/SC connection -- this has a disadvantage that the remote side must have drivers and is also real slow, but the advantage that the resource can be used for anything, just like it were local.

For what it's worth, I'm the author of some smartcard middleware (CACKey) and have worked with the EMV specification and EMV applets to a lesser degree.
Stackoverflow is "some random website"
I'm not a 'networking' person, but am I wrong in believing a VPN would (potentially, with caveats) prevent your ISP from "being able to see which IPs you're sending packets to"? Wouldn't all packets look like they are going to and from the VPN?

As mentioned, that doesn't get around the VPN knowing where your traffic is going, and there are issues such as your VPN dropping and your system switching over as opposed to dropping the packets, compromising your privacy.
Secretary of Energy Announces $1.8B Initiative for New Supercomputers
Show HN: Reveal.js Markdown Presentation Builder by GitPitch
Guilty pleasure:

Knowing that 9 years ago I learned python as my first language despite at the time, it wasnt taken very seriously outside single use and a beginner language.

Maybe its just me, but I'm seeing the tech world settle down on a few programming languages and standards. Python, Javascript, PHP, (from the other topic RSS, JSON).

This is good for keeping things modular.
Facebook will give researchers new data to study election interference
Hutterite communities usually split at about 100 people as they grow, with a max at 150 or so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite
>There's nothing stopping ads in RSS feeds, just tracking. Those should be separate things.

Bingo. Plenty of my RSS feeds have ads, they just publish them as articles and say "This RSS feed is sponsored by. . ."

It's the same ad model as podcasts basically.

Other ones just give you an abstract or short blurb on your feed with a link to go back to the main site, which works just as well.
Hmmm... Yes! I just realized that's exactly what I do for myself, I subscribe to YouTube channels using RSS and I have no YouTube account. For kids though, it would need to be able to display the thumbnails and play the video directly in the client (probably not possible with YouTube's API and probably not legal to do another way). They like playing things (a lot) more than once too, so it would probably need some features like keeping track of what they watch for more than a few seconds and keep those video hovering around in the lists for a bit. But, yes, it should basically just be a specialized RSS reader, however, I don't think we're ever going to get that from Google.
> the fact that capitalism, voluntary exchange, and the free market is the _only_ system that is capable of rationally allocating resources in a society

Wow. Before one is the _only_ <something> shouldn't one be first _one of_ <something>? Afaik it's quite clear by now that capitalism and free market are not rationally allocating resources, or is your definition of "rationally" equaling "give more to those who already have too much"?
I was assuming he meant something like the flu. Fast food workers have awful benefits and low pay thus working while sick.
While I mostly agree, I'm not sure going back to SMS is going to help solve a whole lot of problems-of-the-2010s. I'd rather break free from mass surveillance than embrace it, and standardizing new federated encrypted messaging protocols will do this.

Unfortunately, as EFF points out in their recent series about encrypted texting, a one-size-fits-all solution is difficult.
Then vote for politicians that help with that.

Due to laws designed for more broadband competition, I've got over 6 providers to choose from here in Germany.
> America is so stuck in legacy tech. Nobody checks signatures.

The USPS sadly still forces credit card users to have signatures on the back. They don't check signatures against the PIN pad / signed receipts, but the clerk will either yell at you or refuse the transaction if you have "Ask For Drivers License" on the back of the card. This has happened to me on more than one occasion.
There's some major problems with this:

"You cannot use any personal identifying data from any visitor who is a one-time visitor."

If an IP address is "personal identifying data" (as the author subsequently states), then every visitor is a one-time visitor. You can try tracking unique visitors by something else, like some user agent data, but it's less accurate. Ignoring IP means optimizing a site for click-to-sales becomes a lot more vague.

If a site converts each unique IP to a hash, then that's one way to get a unique visitor, but then which hash method do you use? MD5 is hackable to anyone having a list of hashes to IP addresses, and anything else can be more complicated and less standardized, so therefore more prone to bugs and bad coding, and therefore more costly to the business.

"You cannot load any 3rd party service, because by doing that you would be sending personally identifying data to those services (like people's IP address)."

If you can't even load 3rd-party software because they can see IP addresses, then you can't have any tracking, including aggregate, unless you build your own, which can be highly costly and is inherently inefficient with many pre-built solutions already existing and refined, even if they're open-source.

This restriction seems just as unreasonable as the first, also based on IP, and I'm not sure the politicians who made this restriction understand the web.

"You cannot even do personally identifying internal analytics."

If this is true, then you're cutting out a lot of site optimization and sales navigation because you're not always going to be right about what people want or how they will click things on the site. Without IP tracking, you can't follow where someone is going or tie that user to a bug, just get an aggregate of many, which can be vague.

"The reason is that a first time visitor hasn't done anything that could be considered consent, so you have nothing to work with."

This is incorrect, the user has given consent to make available any info the browser provides, which has to include IP address so the server knows where to send the response. If a politician doesn't understand this, then someone hasn't explained it to them.

It is a natural right of a website and publisher to use IP addresses, because they are required for web communication and identifying abusers. How they use it beyond that is what should be regulated, not just the visibility or collection of it.

"I don't think publishers realize just what this means."

I don't think the politicians understand just what this means either.
Funny thing the scenario you put forward in the last part is exactly how Marx envisioned the transition from capitalism to socialism (iirc, communism was seen as a possible stepping stone). Thus he expected it to happen in heavily industrialized nations like Germany or UK back when he was writing.

Supposedly Lenin was able to meet Marx once before the latter died, and asked Marx about his opinion on bootstrapping Russia straight to socialism. Marx thought it a folly as the nation lacked the industrialization that Marx figured was a prerequisite.
I've been legibly writing "Fake Name" for years now, and no merchant has ever called me on it.
I still like the Chrome DevTools a bit better, but always switching the browsers sucks too, so I try to learn using the FF tools.

And for example the CSS grid tools are something I haven't seen in chrome yet and they work very well in FF. On the other hand, the Serviceworker tool set is much better in chrome than in FF.
Do you know if you have to join the credit union to get a card, or do they issue them to anybody?

Edit: I just contact them and you do indeed have to become a member first.
Same here. I had used RSS less frequently as I used aggregators like Digg and Reddit more. But after leaving reddit last month I found a lot of the old URLs had decayed.

No problem. Most had just moved URL slightly or changed format so finding them on the http site was easy enough. And while finding the new RSS URLs I often checked out the entire blogroll/webring/etc too and found new feeds to subscribe to.

For me RSS is wasn't ever dead. But it may have been left to itself in the nursing home for a few years.
Fair point. But, the concerns with attention are the other part of this thesis. How is attention related to capital?. I think this is a fair question.

Something worth considering in relating this to Marx is that while Karl Marx did not live at a time that would have favored a deep awareness of media, his work is very concerned with culture. His more economic terminology was "human relations" and how capital mediates human relations.

These days, what we call media ("mediation" of human communication) is at the root of our concerns with attention.

Having studied Marx, I assume my eagerness to relate his work to contemporary economics discussions might seem desperate but it seems desperate to me that others try so hard to do otherwise. I hope you'll forgive me.

Marx did live in a more simple time but the wonder of his work is that he identified so much of the forces that guide our society. Even living at a time when attention was at a surplus, his work is robust and thoughtful enough to translate in more modern times.
The reason RSS is still here, is that things like feedly, inoreader, and others that filled the google reader gap continue to have millions of loyal users and just about every blog and news publisher still publishes rss feeds because it is easy to do and you lose potential clicks if you don't. Google killed Google reader to make buzz work (failed) and the several other thingies they have been pushing since (also failing).

FB, twitter, and the "more of the same old shit" algorithms that they try to pass as machine learning are currently failing in the market. FB is losing users because it has nothing interesting to show to them and because they have been taken hostage by paying customers that depend on idiots clicking on click bait. Twitter is desperately trying to get rid of real time because they believe it is more "interesting" to keep week old tweets on top that are somehow "more relevant".

The branding thing is a bit disingenuous; this is really about ads and tracking. Good luck with that, blocking all of it like most serious users these days and also GDPR is not going to help your cause.

RSS as a publishing mechanism is fine. The firehose needs work though. It needs reliable filtering, curation, and aggregation. That's the gap filled by hacker news and other aggregators. And having access to the firehose is nice sometimes.
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AFAIK, the BlueCard theoretically allows you to substitute 5 years work experience for the degree requirement according to the EU level stuff but Germany still hasn't passed the legislation to explicitly allow it.

It's still odd they denied your work visa, though. I had a friend who got a work visa for a management position at a coworking space.
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My favorite CMS at the moment is Contentful. It's hosted, self-managed and headless. I have no idea what language it's written in and I don't care.
Yes, I also understand that what the author talks about is a change in focus. Similarly, when he talks about the transition from the agrarian age to the industrial, he doesn't imply "land" disappeared, that would be absurd.

I would also add that the author seems to be talking a lot about the transition, so maybe it's not so much "we have enough capital now", than "we're getting there in a few years/decades", and hence the question about what lies ahead. Well, he actually writes that:

> Capital is already no longer scarce in some parts of the world and rapidly less scarce everywhere.

Rapidly is a very relative term in this context.
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Psssh what’s an entire field of study worth when we have an VC techie who invested in MongoDB to teach us.
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How are the groups-of-100 at each level organized? Is this plan vulnerable to gerrymandering?

My (possibly naive) fix is to allow people at each level to join any group-of-100, as long as the size remains at 100. (For one to join, one has to leave.)
> ...many of these challenges are ultimately problems with the underlying protocol itself...

> ...It’s an exhausting experience wading through articles from the style and food sections just to run into the latest update on troop movements in the Middle East.

> Some sites try to get around this by offering an array of RSS feeds built around keywords. Yet, stories are almost always assigned more than one keyword, and keyword selection can vary tremendously in quality across sites. Now, I see duplicate stories and still manage to miss other stories I wanted to see.

None of this is a problem with the protocol. The protocol just publishes a list of stories.

If people want a feed of the "most important" stories, you can build that. You can let people build their own personal feeds based on tags, popularity, or any set of rules imaginable, and you can de-dupe the items in that feed.

I used to subscribe to a podcast feed on The Conversations Network (no longer operating) which they let me personalize to include a mix of episodes from a variety of their podcasts. That was RSS.

RSS has nothing to do with how you determine which stories to publish on which feed.
Read the article! Its all about automating assembly and delivery.
You are right though World of Warcraft and Starwars Galaxies came out around the same time (mid 2003, late-2004).

I should have said Everquest (1999) as that one really started the craze leading to WoW.

But the WoW success is what led the insane MMO bubble/hype as it broke all types of records and everyone wanted to be the next World of Warcraft.

When I worked at Cheyenne Mountain on Stargate Worlds, part of the job was understanding WoW and playing WoW to level 70, then 80 on Wrath of the Lich King, our CEO had done it twice, everyone there played WoW because everyone wanted to replicate it.

Turns out WoW was an outlier not the norm or the future, but every game company wanted subscription money not one and done purchases and it led to tons of investment and hype.

Sony even couldn't replicate Everquest with Everquest 2, Planetside nor Starwars Galaxies, though I loved Planetside.
I traveled all over England this last year with a Chase Visa. No problem the majority of places, but definitely a few places that were inconvenienced by having to pull a signature pad out from under a pile of stuff because no one's used it in months, and a few places that asked me to just pay in cash. I would expect London itself to see enough foreign traffic to be more accepting in this regard, though.
>Why would they kill that off?!

It happened back when "Social" was a big thing and Google was trying to push everyone onto its erstwhile Facebook competitor Google+ and it's erstwhile Twitter competitor Google Buzz.

First they killed the social feed and made the button auto-post to your Google Buzz account, but Buzz being a version of Twitter, had a lot more noise to signal so nobody used it that way.

They probably eventually killed it because they preferred having their development resources put towards more exotic social media efforts than maintaining a thing that didn't really make any money.

This long article has more of the sordid details if you're interested: https://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network?u...