skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had and used a Lumia 640 for quite a while and it was a really nice phone aside from the app situation. I still have it around and fire it up occasionally to see if there's another Insiders build update for it - if I lose or break my current one I could easily see using it for a few days.

I also can't feel that I overpaid for it, I got the phone while they were doing a promotion that also included a year of Office365 Personal - and I think I may have paid less for the phone than that subscription price would have been alone.

The app situation though, the app situation was grim even in browsers. I think Edge on it has improved significantly as it has elsewhere, but for a long time you had (pretty crappy) Edge and (pretty crappy) other browsers based on I'm not sure what. I knew Chrome wasn't ever going to be on there, and Mozilla's previous little adventure into other mobile devices had... not worked out for them, but I was hoping someone like Dolphin Browser would manage to port onto WP - it's webkit based, has or had its own implementation to work from (Dolphin Jetpack, so they could update when the phone's built-in webkit was slower), not tied to any Google Play services, etc. The death of Project Astoria (the Android-to-Windows Bridge) signaled the death knell for that and probably WP as well.

There were other security lockdowns that I found annoying (e.g. I upload my call logs and SMS to be able to view calls on a calendar and SMS in email), but the combination of "no apps" and "also no browser able to handle mobile website versions properly" was a real killer.
Gmail has all sorts of bugs or had. I had used to get a lot of email addressed to someone else. These were genuine email - when I forwarded them to the intended recipient (basically resend to the "to" address) I got responses from people thinking I am a hacker or being stunned why would I get their email. After that I decided to just ignore those emails, especially that I haven't got response from Google. These had in common that they didn't use gmail domain. It was long time ago and I don't think I got any of those recently.
If you want to count the entire world for wealth then you need to count the entire world for taxes too. I strongly doubt that the super rich are paying the vast majority of taxes worldwide.

For US taxes, see: https://itep.org/wp-content/uploads/taxday2017.pdf

The rate is definitely lower for poorer people, but nearly as much as the standard punditry, focusing only in federal income tax, would have you believe.
Sandberg: Facebook users will have to pay for full privacy
They used to allow this, but AFAIK they don't anymore. I don't believe you'd be able to sign up a new account with that same email, and if you changed the email address on one, you wouldn't be able to change it back.

Source: I used to work at Amazon, though never on any systems that would be directly involved in this.
It's irrelevant, mostly. Your productivity as a programmer comes from identifying and solving problems with minimum wasted effort, typing is just a thing you do at the end when you're done thinking about the best way to solve a problem.

More about productivity mindset: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
Bottom of the first column... the pattern keeps going as expected.
My first job in 1998 was working on the integration and test plans for Teledesic’s Optical Inter-Satellite Link Tracking (or OISLT, pronounced “oyselt”—probably the worst acronym I ever used). The design wasn’t done yet, but we were already planning integration tests to prove them out before anything was launched.

We were planning on tracking satellites in adjacent orbital planes (which were orbiting in the opposite direction) as well as in-plane. So, yeah, moving parts.

Whenever this topic comes up, I wonder what happened to all the work we did at Motorola in 98-99. There were several hundred engineers in Tempe generating thousands of pages of design documents for over a year. We archived all our work in spring 1999 sand were all shuffled off to other projects.
Exactly. This is the biggest challenge. Focus in one “unsexy” niche because I’d be less competition
I like the idea of adding +spam@gmail.com, but it would be really easy for this to be invalidated by just stripping this from your email before selling it in a mailing list.
You can also use log parser lizard to parse CSV files.
I’m using it for a side project which has been running for over a year. It’s not something to which I can devote much time and Meteor is easy to set up for what I need.

I suppose that if it dies I can re-write the application using some other framework (I’ve done Android/Java and iOS/RubyMotion versions), though it would be a bit of a pain. For now, with no new features planned, I can keep it running as long as the Meteor bug and security fixes keep coming.
Can't unsafe rust code convert integers to pointers and thus write to arbitrary memory locations within the address space of the process? The module boundary won't help with soundness, strictly speaking. If any unsafe code executes ever, then in principle it can (e.g.) zero out a pointer in some safe code which is guaranteed to be non-null as far as Rust is concerned.
For sure its no 2001 but I don't find it bad - it has many quality scifi moments I enjoy e.g. Heywood and Russian comforting each other during aerobraking, the brutally tense traversal between the spacecraft and the interactions between Chandra and Hal are interesting if uncomfortable.
This would be a good argument if it were true.

>It now turns out that almost all the Aadhaar numbers issued till date – 99.97 per cent – have been issued to people who already had at least two existing identification documents.

Even the poorest in India have had ration cards.

[0]: https://thewire.in/law/most-aadhar-cards-issued-to-those-who...
Stephen King is publicly critical of Kubrick's treatment of "The Shining", mostly about its unchanging and one-dimensional characters. While I expect "2001" would not have been improved by a lot of explanatory voiceovers, I think "The Shining" would be seriously improved by Jack not being obviously crazy right from the first.
> Also, I lost interest in sex, and it took forever to reach orgasm.

This is a common side effect of SSRIs. I have the same, but I very much enjoy that side effect. Saves time, and already got a child anyway. I still love pleasuring my significant other just as much as before, btw.

People who have bi-polar usually get mood stabilisers such as lithium prescribed. Perhaps anti-psychotics? SSRIs are known to be problematic for bi-polar personality disorder.
I'd like to know about energy too.

Whilst I agree in an absolute and technical sense that lettuce is nutritionally and productively irrelevant as a food source, I don't think you can underestimate the value of fresh produce alongside whatever it is they normally eat all the way down there. You can also include [micro-]herbs and other tasty leaves and then use that experience to one day grow even more useful things.

Small steps!
Why? Not surprised you got down voted but I am curious?
why would management sabotage company like that? I think in USA it is pretty easy to lay off people.
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Travel the world now, it gets harder as you age.
HomeShare is hiring a Head of Engineering (in SF) to make cities affordable
Basic things like having a separate audio level for media vs ringtone were missing.

What version were you using and when? Mine always had 2 settings ("Media + Apps" and "Ringer + Notifications"). For that matter, the fact that it brought up the media controls (at least to pause/advance) when you hit the volume buttons was very handy since it allowed control without unlocking.
> But firstly, no one wants this infinite set of email addresses.

Fuck off, that is my favorite feature.
> Requiring a government ID to enter a middle school art contest.

Possibly a security measure? Schools are increasingly becoming targets for anti social elements of late. I wouldn't be surprised if the public, on its own volition, pressurizes the government to have stringent security checks in schools.

> Requiring a government ID to buy a prepaid SIM card.

You can't authenticate without Aadhaar OTP. And don't expect the government to send OTP to an unverified mobile number. That would put huge liability on the government if tomorrow you claim that the number never belonged to you. Biometric scanners are not ubiquitous, so the need for linking SIM cards for authentication.
Wow, I didn’t like it at all. Stopped it half way because it was boring. What do you like about it?
On the subject of reading someone else emails:

When a company that I worked for went under, I managed to catch their falling domain name. I setup catch-all which was mostly boring emails of ex emps Fecabook notifications and some bills etc, BUT the emails for the owners and few top execs were very interesting. In that sense that 3 years later I decided to build exactly the same business (well, one of a few)

Now it is running mostly on autopilot with $2.5MM annul revenue. Many times it obviously is what you don't know that is stopping you from entering the market. Everything I learnt by reading my ex bosses emails in few years allowed me to setup somewhat successful business, all on the side.
>Yet withdrawal has never been a focus of drug makers or government regulators, who felt antidepressants could not be addictive and did far more good than harm.

They're not addictive. They cause dependence. There is an important difference. Addictive things increase incentive salience of stimuli associated with the drug. They increase wanting. And that increased wanting leads to increased usage.

Dependence on a drug does not have this aspect. It just represents the bodies physiological adaptation to the new state.

Conflating the two is bad practice for an article ostensibly about medicine. And it leads people, and that set includes legislators, to think about using more government violence to enforce regulations of drugs which create dependence.
Taking an SSRI more or less made me sociopathic. Sociopathic with a grin, perhaps, but still dangerous to myself and others. On the other hand, I wasn't depressed, and could work effectively.

So basically, it was side effects. Friends worried about me.
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Very nice. Currently building a new CRUD app, and debugging with curl. Ill have to try this out. The templating looks cool.
While your argument is sound (2-way linking with Aadhaar saves the government from litigation), it is not the argument that the GoI has made for SIM linking.

The AG has argued in court that mobile linking is to prevent terrorists from getting Aadhaar. This is on top of the weird order that DoT issued: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/chitranshul-sinha/no-the-supre...

(tl;dr: DoT quotes a Supreme Court ruling which questioned the government on KYC-norms for telecom industry, which the DoT conveniently reworded to mean "Aadhaar"-only)
Except it does little to nothing to reduce confusion. It does nothing to fix the problem of people signing up using an email with a typo or with an email that doesn't actually belong to them.

This on service providers to implement secure access properly.
I hoped it was not.
>I could not agree with you more: Both my partner and I have been on SSRIs / SNRIs before for LIMITED DURATION. Probably over 10 times between the two of us.

You might want to consider maintenance therapy. The actual evidence for severe discontinuation effects is quite limited, but we have fairly strong evidence that maintenance therapy significantly reduces the rate of relapse. It's natural to want to avoid taking drugs indefinitely, but it's often a better option than a long-term cycle of depression, treatment, discontinuation and relapse.

I suspect that a substantial proportion of people mistakenly believe that they're "addicted" to anti-depressants, when really they're just receiving an effective treatment for a chronic condition. They feel worse when they stop taking the pills, because the pills are doing what they're supposed to do.
Do you have a citation for number one? I suspect it's true but haven't been able to prove it, and it's been bugging me since it feels like there should be some way of stitching RNGs and mutilated lamport signatures together to achieve encryption or key agreement primitive, even if it is even more unweildy than regular lamport signatures.
How is suggesting psychedelics more dangerous than suggesting the use of antidepressants? Data shows both can cause panic attacks and psychotic episodes...

Both drugs have mechanisms of action we don’t fully yet understand, and both may cause serious side effects.
Can you explain how the analogy is stretched? It’s my personal belief that biologists tend to be fairly implementation focused from how they learn about the systems involved.

In biology there is 2 factor authentication to protect against parasitic spoofing, intrusion detection systems, protected kernel memory, memory hierarchy, policy based permission. It a very nice operating system IMO.
What is a Cell-Site Simulator?
This article is exactly 100% correct, but only if you replace the word "bitcoin" with "USD" throughout the entire thing.
Even if we take the most theoretic and idealistic interpretations of Marxism you always have what is called the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is essentially the phase that all communist governments get stuck on because there is no way for it to evolve into anything but another dictatorship, free market democracy or pure anarchy.

The idealistic state which is supposed to come after the dictatorship in which 7 billion people somehow live in harmony and prosperity with no laws to enforce how to live or to protect them isn't possible.

And a dictatorship by definition does not have the mechanism to yield power or to evolve in a non-violent manner and a natural instinct to preserve it at all cost even if that state was achievable it could never get there.
Anecdotally I quit because I had just entered a relationship and the anti-depressants affected my sex life in a pretty big way.
umm...what? The article simply talks about how Bitcoin is used in Venezuela to deal with the crisis, not how it is a solution that will fix all of its problems. Its obviously a pro-crypto website talking about utilization (which is something the space really needs), and there is no harm in that.
The blog post (easily missed at the bottom of the read me) is likely more interesting to non-technical reader (like me) : https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/
Structurally, the service is hosted online as a website, this means one must upload a copy of their data to be converted. Naturally that raises questions because there's a lot we don't know about this site: who runs it, what are the terms of service (I saw none on the site), what are users granting the site owners to do with uploaded data? Answers to these are almost certainly guesses as this information is not readily available. The site source code is minified Javascript; designed to be terse and at the cost of legibility (variable names are often shortened, useful or long comments eliminated), certainly not the source code a developer would work with when writing the software.

How could this have been implemented in a way that obviates all of these show-stopper failings? Respect users' software freedom by offering users one or more programs to do the conversion jobs with reasonable default settings. Distribute complete corresponding source code alongside the rest of the site so as to let the user host an instance of the site on their own. Users so inclined can set this up for themselves and others, or use their software freedom to end up with a conversion service they don't need to guess about.
It does. The relevant RFC says they don't have to matter and that senders shouldn't assume they do or don't. That means that both Google and Netflix are following the standard. The problem isn't with either company's compliance with the RFC, but that's not saying a lot. A mail provider could legally ignore all vowels in mailbox names.

(Similarly, although the RFC does say hosts shouldn't have case-sensitive local-parts, it doesn't say that senders can assume that local-parts are case-insensitive.)
Besides the fact that Telegraph is being "Telegraph", i can also say that EU is becoming year by year more like "the bloc", though only in few countries right now even if the EU policies "must" apply to all member countries.

Also you have to keep in mind the bias from MSM when it comes to brexit and similar topics, besides from few UK outlets it's not even questionable at this point.
Ah, another Benedict Carey antidepressant hatchet job. Anecdotes about withdrawal symptoms + alarmist statistics about number of Americans on antidepressants + vague questions about lack of data suggesting that we know little about antidepressant long-term safety.

A few important points:

1. Antidepressants can truly change people's lives. Not everyone's, and they're not the only treatment that works. Somehow this reporter tends to consistently overlook the clear evidence of benefit (I think this recent meta-analysis was posted on hn: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29477251)

2. Withdrawal symptoms are common if antidepressants are stopped abruptly - some of the folks who reported these symptoms originally have been favorite targets of Benedict Carey, ironically (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9396960). That's why docs encourage tapering antidepressants.

3. The article doesn't distinguish between this sort of short-term withdrawal (common), and longer-term problems with discontinuation (likely quite rare) - they're very very different phenomena.

4. In some cases, difficulty with discontinuing longer-term is a result of persistent depression and anxiety (or returning depression and anxiety). It's not polite to point this out.

5. It's hard to imagine the Times writing an article about the problem with statins being that, once you stop them, cholesterol increases again.

6. If there were substantial long-term risks associated with antidepressants, we would have seen them - and believe me, people have looked and are looking.

7. BUT - we /do/ need more research to understand long-term effects of antidepressant treatment; this absence of systematic long-term study is true for most meds, frankly, but that's no excuse. My question would be: Who pays for it? There's no shortage of investigators who would be delighted to study it. But try getting a foundation, or NIH, to support such a study.

/rant
What came before websockets?
I'd suggest "ImPOSTer".
Ha. Shameless plug, but just about a week ago I started to work on a somewhat analogous thing. Executing SQL on XML [1]. I came up with this idea after trying to use stackoverflow data dump and finding out it was stored as XML. I wanted to run queries with LIKE operator on it.

[1]: https://github.com/kamac/AskXML
> You could also make the case that Google should have a free library for most common languages that does this for you. It would improve the safety of their users immensely.

Please don't. I don't want an official library to exist to facilitate people harvesting and selling my email address without me knowing the source of the leak.

> I may, however, be somewhat biased as I am the frequent recipient of email from weird services that some other chucklehead keeps signing up for even though he has yet to get past email verification as he doesn’t own the address.

And you have existing accounts with all of these services? Or how does this relate to service providers striping dots when checking uniqueness?

You should report those emails as spam. If you never verified the email address they have no right to continue to send emails to you.
Video of (I think) the machine referred to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi3OvXrboGs
Honda’s and Toyota’s are full of rattling plastic as well.
We have a PAN-system which was used for all financial transactions, including things like company registrations, tax filings, bank accounts, loans etc.

Now, you must link your Aadhaar with your:

- PAN, before you can file a tax or register a company

- Bank Account, or else it could be shut down (this was pushed down the parliament via a amendment to the prevention of money laundering act)

Most countries have varying KYC-norms. However, Aadhaar is a very-weak KYC-source. It doesn't require proof of citizenship (foreigners can get aadhaar) or residence (you are required to stay for 180 days in India, but UIDAI doesn't verify this). It doesn't verify proof of residence either (it was meant as a identity document for everyone - even those without homes). Add this to the fact that UIDAI has fired half of the agencies on grounds of fraud who were responsible for Enrollment.

There are a lot more issues with Aadhaar: there is a no proper security procedure, no audit reports have been published ever, and despite the numerous breaches, UIDAI refuses to take a proper stance.
My two cents: people who really like reading books don't read the books that are most frequently talked about. This is probably because most people don't really like to read. Accordingly, the most popular books are written specifically for an audience that doesn't really like to read, and the content is usually more important than the form, the style, and so on. As a result, the audience of popular books is fragmented by the subjects of the books they read.
Well, I think you're missing the point. It's used by PR people to keep an eye out for news stories before they go viral, for spokespeople to read about themselves, and for market researchers to look smart by identifying trend pieces.

None of this software is smart enough to enable the sort of surveillance and oppression you are implying from your other examples. It's really 101-level stuff.

> Believe whatever it takes to help you sleep at night. No one can persuade you otherwise.

I don't even understand what this means. It's a searchable index of news, with some text analytics that you can get for dirt cheap from google or amazon.
I don't have any physical books on my desk[1]. Most of the stuff I usually need is online and takes less time than thumbing through books & indexes.

[1] I think this is most likely situation but wasn't sure if more would answer this.
Try using an email address with .wedding or .solutions TLD. Loads of absolutely brain-dead sites refuse to allow them, sometimes they validate by TLD length (all TLDs are 2 or 3 characters, apparently) or other times rejection TLDs they haven't whitelisted.
I was wrong. I cannot find any information that indicates that the RFC specifies that the period is not significant, only that it is allowed. In this case I suppose it is Google that is wrong.
> It's not the only option but it's a damn good one.

I've been using Parse, is another good option in your opinion? I quite like it, especially as everything is available via REST so it is easy to use it with Elm
It would be interesting to see this combined with simulation [1], which might itself need another neural network (or manually written "fixer") to interpret the ambiguous instructions.

[1] Kaldor et al - "Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level" https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/publications/SG08-knit.html
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While your differentiation between addiction and dependency is certainly correct as the medical profession defines these thing, simple dependency would sound like addiction to a lot of average people.

Further, it should be obvious that dependency is a problem. If the medical profession thinks it's solved that problem by redefining words, I'd say state regulation is pretty appropriate step.
We never had Meego. We only had Maemo on Nokia N900, which did pretty well, and a Maemo/Meego hybrid on Nokia N9, which was very highly acclaimed, but already dead on arrival thanks to a backstab from Windows Phone (and some poor Nokia management earlier that has led to this situation, to be fair).