skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's that pottery class that's getting cut going to help people tell the difference between fantasy and reality?

Is it possible in your philosophy for two "educated" people to disagree? On more than just personal preference like whether blue is better than green, but indeed on seemingly foundational issues like what is real and what is imaginary?
Exactly what Google has done with ChromeOS 67. You can run GNU/Linux applications as containers. But extra safe as a container on a separate kernel through a VM using KVM.

Versus they did Android as a container on the same Linux kernel as ChromeOS. But locked to only an Android container.
I'm not sure of the relevance of your comment. It sounds like you're trying to take a total privacy/anonymity clusterfuck and turn it into some weird kind of Reps-vs-Dems crap.

The EFF, libertarians, and other privacy advocates have been warning about this utter disaster for many years. Everybody laughed about it. In fact, they all laughed at anybody who was brave enough to bring it up.

There are domestic political concerns here. It wasn't until both major political parties in the U.S. got good and stepped on that anybody seemed to really take the matter seriously. It remains to be seen if any of this concern will still be around 2 weeks from now.

My money says there will be a lot of heat and smoke, but no fire. At the end of the day, some Congressperson will come up with yet another Orwellian-named bill, probably the "Privacy Overarching Overall Personhood" bill, that will promise to fix everything and regulate social media. Through regulatory capture FB will bitch and moan to make appropriate gestures of servitude, then things will continue on just like they have been. Facebook isn't going anywhere. (And the problem isn't going away anytime soon.)
This was actually fun. I showed it to the rest of my engineering team, and even learned a few really useful things. Thanks for sharing.
No, because it was within the agreements/facebook policies of that time.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-campaign-use-tactics...
"It's so difficult to get people to care about things they can't see."
As someone who works in a startup in the healthcare space, I will point out that nobody lets health startups off the hook for HIPAA. You don’t get to be sloppy with people’s protected health information just because it makes your life easier.
How do you handle assemblies efficiently? I found the assembly workbench to be a major weakness of FreeCad when compared to Solidworks or Inventor.
> Everybody everywhere wants peace. Along with justice, freedom, and love, it is one of the most unifying characteristics of the human condition.

People want safety and stability. In the context of large societies, a mutual desire for peace exists only because the alternative (large scale war) has such terrible consequences.

In fact, for centuries - and still in many places today - the opposite has been true: increasing wealth by exploitation of other nations' resources has been used as the rationale for military conquest.

> But again, humanity has a deep desire for the verdant. The deprecation of "easy" money, global theft, and warfare-as-the-norm - these are continuing imperatives and are good prayers for our earth. And on long time scales, it seems that blockchain tech tends toward, rather than away from, these things.

These are lovely sentiments, but trustworthy and accountable/transparent institutions made of people are the only thing that can achieve that kind of vision, not some kind of invisible hand of justice that one assumes is behind blockchain. That is basically anarchism - leaving matters of broad societal importance: justice, finance, etc. to the mob. We humans have been there before. It isn't pretty.
I've been facing similar issues recently and have been slowly drifting towards similar ideas mentioned in the article. Though, coming from a more traditional software dev background, I'm still in the process of internalizing how the popular start-up mantra-'build fast and fail fast' doesn't really work in ML.

Also, logging every experiment is another discipline I'm teaching myself. And I fell in love with org-mode in the process.
"No phone number necessary" is only true if Google Voice is available in your country. A phone number is necessary to create a Telegram account.
Because there are none. Please show me a name brand direct heating element soldering station for $100. I would like to buy one.
Buy a reverse osmosis system that you don’t have to install. They have them at Bulk Reef Supply for $100. Get one with a built in tds meter. It’s worth it. They come with every adapter you might need.

I started using mine for drinking water after Scott Pruitt was confirmed.
Puerto Rico is a part of the United States and its real shame that we don't do more to help it.
Just one example.

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/yieldtren...

Also, if you truly are bothered by the quantity of chemicals we use in our agriculture, you should strongly support GMOs. A lot of GMO research goes into creating crops that need less and fewer of these chemicals applied.
Nice to have someone

> Cable spliced

How does that happen, is there a submersible that goes down or is the cable hoisted up? It doesn't sound trivial.
Carbon Black S-1
Ask HN: Is there an OkCupid for jobs?
I've seen various sites (e.g. TrueJob) that use this as a tagline but I haven't yet found a site that follows the OkCupid format of asking both sides questions and then matching based on those answers. Most job posting and searching sites don't allow users to search for, or companies to list, information I would find very useful. For example how does the company feel about dogs or code comments or test coverage?
No not yet. It is also only on Pixel books right now. It uses hardware supports VM so possible on ARM.

But realize this losses cross platform support inheriently so you would have to use ARM gnu/Linux binaries.
Facebook may stop the data leaks, but it’s too late: CA’s models live on
Well, in this case, if they don't maintain a close to perfect rating, they get fired.
It would violate principals of net neutrality if say, YouTube and Netflix were throttled once you reach your 22/GB cap but all other sites were left to normal speeds.
Whatever your judgment of Jobs, I think he was a rare dude: minimalist, hippie, articulate, charismatic, business-savvy, technical, and artistic. Many people have some of these traits, but I can't think of anyone else with all of them.
I don't think the comment you're responding to was made in good faith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Ironically, the most i get of those emails is google itself

They allow any idiot to register my gmail address as their "alternative recovery email" without confirmation. And then from time to time i get a dozen "recover your account" emails from those accounts.
Isn't this solved by the organization structure of large companies? In a company of hundreds or thousands, nobody needs to know everyone else. You really only need to / should know your team of 5-20 and a small handfull of management above/below you.

That way, it doesn't matter if you work for a company of 20 or 2000 because you only interact with a manageable subset of all employees.
Ask HN: How to reduce screen time?
I want to reduce the screen time (the time that I spend on laptop/ipad/mobiles). Any suggestion would be really helpful. My main purpose for doing this is to improve the quality of life. I feel that too much screen time has a significant impact (most of it negative) of many aspects of life.
On 4chan, you can sign posts with a name and password you choose and it will show a hash of the password beside the name. This hash can be useful to prove the same identity (or an easy password) across multiple posts.
Would this work on a ChromeOS that I install on, say, an aging PC Laptop?
I agree with you on the topic of redundancy.

I am probably not communicating it very well; but my main motivation is a reaction to just how much better our tools need to be.
Huh? It needs my phone to be present to turn on the lights? What if my wife wants to turn on the lights? Why does it need to talk to a phone? Wouldn't a zigbee device compatible with the hue bridge make more sense?
All the free editors (e.g. VS Code, Emacs, Vim) and especially their respective plugins. I'm always amazed at the breadth and quality among them.
> No phone number necessary.

How did you sign in without a phone number? It's not possible on https://web.telegram.org/#/login.
Some good points there. I agree that things are accelerating at a rapid pace that's hard to keep up with!
I have high hopes for Riot, but last I checked there was no end to end encryption (or maybe it was a proposal). Is it farther along now?
> We don't give special provisions to start ups writing safety critical code or developing new health care technology, why would this be any different?

Safety critical code and health care technology are life and death situations.

It's also important to understand that the regulations in those sectors have destroyed (or deterred) an incredibly large number of startups, and the net lives saved as a result is quite likely negative because the value of life-saving technological advances generally exceeds the cost of mistakes in developing them.

People have severe emotional reactions to this. A doctor's experiment may kill fifty already-terminal patients but uncover a cure that goes on to save five million. But the families of the fifty dead patients can blame a specific person for their deaths while the five million aren't even aware what they lost, so the regulations are biased against progress.

This is obviously not a good template for making decisions in other industries where emotions don't run so high.
“Substitute any special characters with an asterisk.”
I guess this might be true more for technical blogs, ie,. a dev blog explaining how to download a piece of software or repeat a case study discussed in the blog.

For example, I was blown away by how useful & accurate this guy's medium blog was for setting up apache.

https://medium.com/@JohnFoderaro/how-to-set-up-apache-in-mac...

(just used this for a class, I'm not pushing anything for anyone)
Have a reasonable retention policy on these backups. Backups are a "legitimate business interest" and you don't need to purge "right to be forgotten" requests from your backups if you stick to a reasonable and publicly-documented retention policy. This is advice that I've received from counsel. However, I am not a lawyer, and this in no way should be taken as legal advice.
I've wanted to create my own WhatsApp client that's and actual native desktop application. If this reverse-engineering process continues, it might now be possible. It's irritating when people say "Signal/WhatsApp has a desktop app!" because technically, they're right, but I have enough web browsers on my system already, thank you very much
Correct, Conversion Rate Optimization. Use of tech such as surveys, AB tests, MVT tests, analytics, and so on to increase conversion rates for a particular action(s). A solid mix of Programming, Math and Science.

Tagging - use of pre-built tags in a Tag Manager (Google Tag Manager, Tealium) which send pre-defined data via the Tag Manager to 3rd parties.

I've also found people want to skip metrics, and I feel not only is that a bad plan, but it makes it difficult to figure out what may be going wrong without any data to prove a particular theory.
About the internet the runs through the sea.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-t...
zim, autokey, duplicati, draftsight, sublime text (ish), sketchup, vim.
Open dataset of potholes on roads
Facebook needs to fix this (and more)
Somebody, not your friend, shares a post to a group they belong to.

You are not a member of said group.

Your friend then shares that post on their wall.

You then get to see the share of a stranger on a group you don't belong to.

Your friend does this all the time. In fact, five or six times a day. You find the content uninteresting and maybe even offensive. You do not want to see anything having to do with that group.

Here's the problem: FB does not allow you to block the group.

You can block your friend. And you can block the person who shared the post to a group. But you cannot block the group.

If anyone from FB is reading this, could you PLEASE plug this hole? It should be a perfectly logical choice to let users block anything that appears on their wall, be it people, pages or groups. Right now there are scenarios where you can't. Which means that you either have to endure the crap being thrown at you or block your friend for 30 days --which is counterproductive because you do want to see their other updates.
First make it work, then make it correct, then document it, then make it efficient, then make it pretty.

Rarely all stages are reached, but in open source projects, anyone can cook their favorite dish for this dinner.
That's an impressive result, considering the amount of time you put in it. I'm sure this site is filled to the brim with people who created dozens of apps and applications that never made a dime. ;)
To the extent that the EC's purpose is to prevent any demagogue from capturing the attention of voters by telling them lies they want to hear, it's not functioning as intended but would likely be welcomed if it was.
"That's literally the only thing that separates Uber from Taxi services and AirBnb from hotel services, and why it is considered OK that they don't have to go through the same licensing and vetting process."

Hotels have had rating systems for a long, long time. Since before AirBnB existed. And most people don't think a star rating is a substitute for an actual vetting and licensing process.
I'm sure white people do control a lot of jobs or whatever, but I'm still always confused about people talking about white males in tech or techbros etc. when probably 50-75% of my coworkers (F50 tech company) were Asian (note that whites make up 75% of the population and Asians 5% by the 2010-2015 census data i found on wikipedia)
I would guess the project was (is?) running pretty much just as the people in charge wanted it to run.

10 years in and they were still billing -- more than ever -- for a project that would have completed 7-8 years previously if things had been done according to plan.

All the seemingly massively stupid and counter productive decisions made make sense if the goal is to confuse matters to make it seem like progress has been made or reforms instituted or bold corrective actions taken while actually keeping the project hopelessly mired.

It's like the Producers. (Though without the ironic twist... in reality it surely must be impossible to accidentally complete a software project successfully. No doubt, without the laughs either.)
Ask HN: Are there any Kdb+/q developers here?
I'm a recent graduate and I've been given the chance to take a junior Kdb+/q developer role. It seems seems like a pretty interesting but very niche area to be in and there's not a huge amount of relevant information about these types of roles available online so I was hoping I might find some more experienced kdb+/q developers here for some advice. My main concern is what the job market is like for kdb+/q engineers with a few years experience. I'm not sure I want to pigeonhole myself into a niche area that I will struggle to find a job in sometime in the future. I'm also interested in hearing what the salary is like for experienced kdb+/q developers. The starting salary for this role is nothing special but I've heard it can rise pretty quickly with experience.
How often do you post to your technical blog / youtube channel?

I'm in the process of looking at blogging tools to do something very similar. I'm kinda worried about having a history though in a few years that shows I only post during interview times :D.
@frgtpsswrdlame could you elaborate how Tim Wu is relevant here? I'm asking from a self-education perspective.
Are mortality rates significantly lower in the modern developed world (I am assuming this is true) because people in general wash their hands more? Is that what you're trying to imply?

I don't buy it. I'd attribute the difference more to technologies like vaccines and antibiotics.
Looks like this has already been done: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04633
Pro Rugby Players Prove Athletes' Microbiomes Are Different
I've never had a job in Germany where the Probezeit wasn't exactly 6 months (the maximum allowed).
I said "limits" not "prevents". During the Cold War both the USA and USSR developed their space programs extremely rapidly by deciding collectively to prioritise them.

Since that ended, the industry has developed much more slowly in the absence of an obvious profit incentive. Indeed, even now, SpaceX has relied on collectively allocated resources from NASA for many of their contracts, not to mention all the research done during that period.

And in any case, SpaceX is still an example of prioritising capital creation. SpaceX is a privately owned space launch system, which will likely primarily benefit other privately owned space industries in the near future. We may like that this particular capital is being created, but it's only a small part of the wider economy.
It certainly would have done.

In 1840 average weekly wage for a skilled man in his 30s was £2 according to the first link on ddg. A penny post would be about 1/480th of a weekly wage. If we assume that a skilled man in his 30s today would earn £40k, that would put today's stamp in the £1.50 range, rather than 65p.

Far cheaper today, despite being pretty much meaningless. It's no wonder people "hacked" the system, this was a time before phones, or even telegrams, but a time when long distance commerce and connected economies were beginning to become established.
The question was how to get it working on a non-ChromeOS device and system, and you provided instructions for ChromeOS. I don't believe they'll work, but hey, I can try it.

On my self-built desktop, running Ubuntu 17.10, the following result happens:

zsh: command not found: google-chrome-stable

zsh: command not found: vmc

So, again, how do I get any of this running on an actual desktop OS, on a usual computer?

You just claimed I can, please provide instructions, or please stop trolling.
Maybe so.

I try to assume positive intent. Many times I end up looking like somebody who can't take a joke, but it's extremely difficult to sort out nuance by reading a brief sentence or two.
That's why it's not a no-tolerance policy. But, you will probably find that some people tend to "attract" such external events. Because they don't leave enough time to account for any externalities. Or, in this particular case, maybe they actually are a bad driver that does not know routes good enough to avoid anticipated traffic patterns. And so on...

If Uber really cares about why the service was bad, they can always break out multiple yes-no questions. (They probably don't, though.)
How much time do you think it would take to break even for hosting / domain licensing ?

Simpler question, do blogs generate at least $100/yr?
I don't think it's fair to call it an ethical failure. The mission was classified; presumably they asked their lawyers what they could say, and their lawyers told them not to say anything.
I liked functional but had issues figuring out how to not have to keep sending in objects every time I make a method call. Partials only worked for so much...
> The science is pretty solid around the correlation between IQ/EQ and workplace performance,

No, it's not, generally (the science around pretty much any practical application of any of the various different constructs identified as “EQ” is weak).

> but it's illegal to give IQ tests to potential hires.

No, it's not; specifically, it's not where there is clear evidence that IQ test given is closely tied to performance in the particular job being hired for.

The idea that this is illegal is a myth based on a case where a particular instance was found to be illegal racial discrimination given it's disparate racial impact specifically because there was no demonstrated connection between job performance in the jobs being hired for to support that it was a bona fide test of job ability.

IQ tests have been upheld by the courts subsequently when challenged when there was evidence that they were related to slecific job performance, including when a police department used scores above a certain level as a negative hiring signal.
The States killed those people not Ashley-Madison.
> So, basically, the US are responsible for that corruption?
reply

Corrupt local politicians.
"person to person call"

Unlike a person to machine call?

I'm in my late 30s and I remember one other reference to a "person to person call" - I think it was a Simpsons episode from when I were the one making calls from school!
Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]
I probably didn't specify "they" well in "they obviously don't handle it particularly well", but meant it as Facebook, sorry.

Of course, there may be controls the user has when creating ads that may've been messed up, I'm not sure, but I honestly only recall a few ads that were in my area so that I could, if inclined, act on them. The vast majority? The only way it would work is if they sold me on their platform so hard that I sold my house and bought into their district in their state.
How many pages are there in your tax code?
I would prefer a site that fosters better care.
Family-Run Farm Sues FDA for Right to Say Skim Milk Is Skim Milk
It's well described in the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression
Hmm. That's concerning.

I had more or less switched entirely off bottled water and now only use a combination of filtered tap water + reusable insulated bottles ala Kleen Kanteen at home and work, but I have recently started buying more sparkling water / club soda in an attempt to ween myself off Coke.

Perhaps it's time I take the plunge and buy a SodaStream or comparable water carbonator.
Puerto Ricans are exempt from income tax. Why should we?
https://github.com/WebMemex
When I played with SolveSpace last year and did some small projects with it I took the single page HTML docs from github and manually created Sphinx docs from them. They're hosted at [1].
I posted to the SolveSpace forum at the time but there was never any feedback from there. I didnt feel inclined to put more work into it.
I'm happy if someone forks the GitHub repo and becomes the maintainer.

[1] http://solvespace.readthedocs.io
Wonder how they got that debt...
That's not what is meant by "scarcity thinking" in this context. I suggest you read the chapter about it.
It can be easy for some people to forget that most people are generally spiteful, vindictive, petty jerks who can't look past the chips on their own shoulders and only rarely act kindly towards people who they want something from.

It's not that people don't deserve compassion and empathy, but don't ever expect positive things from others if you want to avoid spending your life perpetually disappointed.
Lyft does that, too. I don't think I've ever filled that out, though. I just do the rating and go on with my day.
Standard DNS is clear text. It doesn't matter if you use your ISP DNS server or not. Either way, they will see the DNS traffic.

Forward you DNS requests to servers using DNS with TLS encryption or with a VPN provider. That way the DNS requests can't be seen by your ISP.

Using a non-ISP DNS server isn't enough.
As someone who has helped many, many companies with Postgres I can tell you that nobody runs PG over TLS in production if everything’s talking over private links.

There’s zero reason to do this.