skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, these people knew damn well what they were doing.

They knew it was a high high risk cryptocurrency. Its like instead of buying 10,000$ of stock, these people bought 10,000$ of lottery tickets.

The horrible part is that on /r/cryptocurrency is that people still have this mentality.
Agreed. Don't just dump a tablet into your kids hands and get upset when they find their way to dangerous content.

I can totally empathise how easy it is. I can give my one year old the wiggles and he's calm and quiet for hours if I want. Holy crap it's quiet. I can clean. I can rest. I can do my taxes. But it's just not a panacea. And as he gets older he will naturally try to control the content flow himself. That's fine. But I need to parent this to protect him from what he can't yet regulate himself.
It was far easier in the past to be forgotten, though. The absolute obsession with collecting data needs to be reevaluated. Free and open society won't survive.
C is a simple language. It has order of magnitude less concepts than C++. It's application is complex.

In same way Lisp is a simple language, but its application can be just as complex.
A CMS team? Christ, no wonder NYTimes is losing money.
Yep. A society with true freedom lets those like this unnamed person and yourself who want to curtail and destroy it speak anyway. Freedom is never a static thing and the fight against censors is constant.

It's sad to see this battle lost but I hope for Europe's sake they figure out it was the wrong move after this becomes abused by the rich and powerful.
It's likely because they see of Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al - that are also structured as Pyramid-Ponzi schemes, incentivized crypto-assets - and they see their success and figure they have a chance riding to the top in the next one that gains momentum or goes mainstream.

Bitcoin et al of course don't outright make claims of returns. Their communities with vested interest have gained enough size and attention that they gained traction in mainstream media, and that community has been "smart"/clever enough to not outright market it as a Ponzi scheme - where they whitewash with marketing hype for anything but, and where they rally to "HODL" when the crypto-assets they own are either a) on a downtrend (to help reduce a massive sell off), and b) at highs (to avoid a massive sell off) - all of which to show how illiquid these crypto-assets are; https://hackernoon.com/analyzing-every-reddit-comment-mentio... - a blog post by a company who allows bot-based buying/selling based on these HODL patterns...

There will be other tricks this organized community are surely doing now, like aligning big buyers with big sellers, so the value won't tank when someone wants to buy $100MM+ worth of the crypto-asset; all of which will lead to the perception of it not being so volatile.

This is the best wolf-dressed-in-sheep-costume that's ever come into existence.

I believe non-incentivized crypto-assets will win out in the end anyways - that is if blockchain is even a necessary part of a solution - as incentivized crypto-asset structures will cost society more (in the short term and long-term, anyone who "buys in" past a tipping point anyway), and so platforms that compete with incentivized crypto-asset powered platforms simply have to educate users/market to compete with how their wealth will be unreasonably/unnecessarily reallocated weighted towards the earlier adopters.
But then instead of buying Bitcoin who has 9 years of storing value, they buy a shitcoin.
Where do you keep the keys?

* On the device? Oops--device broke, guess my emails are gone forever

* In the "cloud"? -- Oops, can't guarantee encryption

Who generated the keys and how do you build trust?

For both of these, you can trust Apple do do the right thing, but that's putting all your eggs into that basket, similar to iMessage.
Surprised that Apple released in current state as clearly not ready. Saw estimates are now for 2 million to be sold in 2018.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/13/kgi-homepod-sales-cheaper-mod...
KGI: Apple could sell just 2 million HomePods across all of 2018, company 'mulls' low-cost model
NYT seems remote friendly, but is NYT remote non-US friendly? Front-end/Full-stack engineer from The Netherlands here.
There's some opinion there, but personally I would still say yes. There's a lot hiding in the "relatively" in le-mark's sibling comment.

We really need to be able to get places in a couple of weeks, and chemical rocketry just gets absurd for that; even if you can do it, you've got to fling massive refueling stations around and such. A fusion-based system would have power density sufficient to not just fly to Mars in a reasonable period of time, but to fly back without having to be refueled, which means we can go places without first figuring out how to build a fairly expensive and massive infrastructure that allows us to get back.
"Maye the balance could be to not display Marks convictions until specifically asked for?"

This is basically the status quo before.
But ... the employer is going to background check mark and find them anyway, because they are public record and available in easily searchable databases (see Lexis, etc)

In practice, this stuff simply doesn't affect any employment case (at least in the US).
None of the right to be forgotten stuff allows you to avoid any of the above except the "easy google search" (which again, practically doesn't matter).

So the argument you make should be limited to that.
(and i think it is entirely reasonable to question whether your neighbors, who won't background check you, but will search google, should find it)
Because a dodgy spy can cause more damage kim philby lead to the deaths of a large number of people.

And its more likely that a family member is a danger to you child - than say a babysitter who got busted at 15 for smoking pot behind the bleachers with her bf.
I never said it would be worse than flash, but is that really the level we are holding ourselves to?

Flash was awful, an accessibility nightmare, a security nightmare, was/is not supported on many platforms/devices, and was horrible on battery life. I think we can absolutely do much much better than flash, but the answer is not to throw out the entire DOM and all of it's benefits and start over, the answer is to fix the problems that are easily fixable and settle on a good set of standards that we can have the option of ignoring for performance reasons in specific domains like games.
I tried warning people that 99% of alt coins die.

They rather believe in unicorns.
A friendly way to create an IPFS cluster on EC2
And here I thought that Beatless was just anime, not real life in the making.
> I really get sick of people shitting on Electron just because it's the hip thing to do or whatever.

This sounds very much like a comment I saw where a person said that they thought most atheists were only on board a bandwagon because it was hip. How terribly offensive.

Some people genuinely dislike certain projects and have no interest in being hip when they say so.
But estimate is 2 million Home pods.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/13/kgi-homepod-sales-cheaper-mod...
KGI: Apple could sell just 2 million HomePods across all of 2018, company 'mulls' low-cost model
> Where everywhere is some subset of browsers in the wild and often not that consistently anywhere.

Yes, but it's easier to download a version of the browser that works. The alternative is for the developer to build native apps for each OS they want to support. In my experience, it's easier to build cross-browser than it is to build cross-platform.
It is a bit worrying, there's no real evidence that rear facing seats improve outcomes for children, and similarly there's no real evidence that bicycle helmets improve outcomes for people in bicycle accidents.

But somehow, the "safety industry" has leapt on these things and now everybody has a ludicrously fearful attitude to cycling and you get looked at funny (or even harassed by strangers) if you dare to let your kid ride about without body armour on.
As long as I can always override the feature on the receiving end then fine. I have an incredibly bad memory and I want my email account to listen to me, not someone else.
everyone already forgot the top story here on HN a few weeks ago?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/finance-documentary-the-ch...
1. Minimize dependencies.

Much of the problems w/ dependency management have to do with over-coupling and adding lots of random dependencies for things you could just inline into your project. Also why the stdlib is so strong.

2. You can pick specific versions and follow basic semver constraints if you want by checking out the source for the dependency locally, and then copying to vendor. Automatic resolution would be nice but it's not like you can't do it.

3. Better automatic dependency management is coming. But honestly I prefer it to be arduous to add an external dependency. You should only do it if you absolutely need to.

The bit about import paths being wrong I've generally not found to be the case; the go compiler will treat deps with the same in vendor or in gopath.
> Social media is showing us exactly what we want and nothing else.

But the bubble is not what I want.

> The messages that are pushed to us probably does not paint the whole picture -hence we like it-.

This is why I don't. I hate it. I talked to a Microsoft guy who wanted to sell me on the great future of AI recommendations a few years back. His argument was that when the AI know I like to discover things it'll recommend me new stuff. That hasn't happened to far. I only start getting recommendations for things I have searched for, usually. Sometimes, rarely, I get some new stuff that I'm incredibly happy about.

But what they can do apparently is recommend me favorite topics of somebody I spend physical time with (the creepy "oh we just talked about this yesterday" moments).
I love the EFF, but as of late it seems like all they've been doing is playing the role of Captain Obvious to whatever media controversy is happening.
Not if both company A and B (correctly) assess that they will reap more profits by investing in chronic treatment even when a one-shot cure is possible.
I mean, yes, that was the joke.
Designing, saving and loading a forward-compatible binary file format
There are lots of smart people doing important work that are also on the W3C, but that doesn't make them truly influential in de facto web standards.

From what I've read (which is not that much), the relationship between accessibility advocates and web standards has been particularly fraught, with advocates pushing for standards features that are received poorly in the marketplace. The argument here being: not every good idea about HTML is best expressed as a fundamental part of the HTML standard.
I built a podcast search engine, where you can search a person's name and get all podcast episodes that interview or talk about this person: https://www.listennotes.com/

You can get notified if a specific keyword is mentioned in the latest podcasts (like Google Alerts): https://www.listennotes.com/alerts/

No social features, so probably not exactly what you want :)
Estimate is 2 million in 2018 which would be a small fraction of the others.

The question is why did Apple release a product that was clearly not ready?

https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/13/kgi-homepod-sales-cheaper-mod...
KGI: Apple could sell just 2 million HomePods across all of 2018, company 'mulls' low-cost model
I kind of agree. Although, it doesn't really solve anything. Look at Snapchat--your naughty photos can still be saved no matter what you do.
Don’t forget lower wages. Capital can go a lot further in China than in Silicon Valley. Frankly, I also see Chinese VCs being more open minded about what’s investible. Silicon Valley feels a bit like the British Emplire at its sunset.
There was recently a good podcast about this on Freelance Transformation.
> trusting them to just not spy on you on their servers with client-to-server encryption.

Everyone would eventually spy on you on their server. Either by voluntary choice or being forced by some government entity. In this day and age it doesn't even make sense to discuss any hypothetical situations where they are not collecting (all of) your data.

> And if they are forced to implement a backdoor, it doesn't matter whether they do it on their servers or push an update to a supposedly secure app.

One of this things is not like the other. Remember, Signal-style e2e encryption isn't concerned with individual safety that much, it's main aim is the governmental mass surveillance. Server side data collection is, obviously, completely transparent for the end user. Client side backdoor would be quite inconvenient on that scale: the more it's used, the higher would be the chance of discovery. Thus, presumably, it would be used less frivolously.
Ponzi schemes evolving
This isn't even true in law.

In most states (and the feds), evidence of prior bad acts is not able to be used this way.

"(1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person’s character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character."
Why don't the browser companies just entirely ignore the W3C from now on?
Money is extremely hard to come by in the software world.

A couple of anecdotes.

One, I created a game for iOS and Mac (and it’s not some cheap-looking trinket; it’s extremely elaborate). After 4 months on both stores, the grand total units sold are less than even the threshold for payments (i.e. I haven’t even been paid by Apple yet!) and the Mac version sold more! There are also no reviews, or at least they are below the threshold. I strongly believe the low sales are because I had the audacity to charge a couple bucks up front instead of giving away everything for free. And the lack of reviews are a chicken-and-egg problem that may also affect purchasing (still interesting that people might resist spending even $3 over a lack of reviews?).

On a separate project (that is free software and has been for decades), I decided to try adding a donation link. It’s been up for over a month with a grand total of $0 so far. And I have plenty of evidence that there are both tons of visitors and actual users.

For some reason that needs to change industry-wide, software is essentially not valued at all. It’s not even valued enough to “risk” a measly few bucks up front on an App Store (even though people will shovel more to Starbucks in a single day).

I am fortunate that I don’t “need” the extra income but I imagine many developers really do. (And even if they didn’t, these things take serious time and intelligence to build, and it’s reasonable to assume people want compensation.)
Are spam calls really a problem in your country? I've taken 24 calls in the last 7 days, none of which were spam. I'm not sure the last time I received a spam call was.

LOL

Literally as I typed that above my phone started ringing, I didn't recognize the number, answered it, and it was a spam call. Lasted 12 second. That's the only one in my "recent" calls, which go back to March 27th. What are the chances.
You don't need a disguise. You just need some accessories or make up to throw off the neural network. Humans are still much better at facial recognition than computers, but even they can get thrown off by make up. There's no way to tell if someone is intentionally trying to avoid facial recognition or regularly wear makeup or sunglasses.
These people did not choose to be born poor.
If what the parent above you said is true and teachers are not on social security then the reform of pensions does indeed harm them.
This is super sad & bad for the space and for those of us that work in the industry and just want to build real stuff.

$600m is a ton for anywhere, but especially for Vietnam! I hope there is an international manhunt ongoing.
> criminal record is not important to folks you want to interact with -- landlords, employers etc

Do not assume landlords and employers have access to people's criminal record - it's not the case in most countries!
You didn't read it all; this was also a pyramid scheme, only it had a token associated with it.
The $100 is for someone writing a fully-working parser that handles real-world HTML5 pages, without reusing any existing implementations.

Building an entire new parser is (obviously) much easier for strict languages (e.g. JSON) than for lenient languages (e.g. HTML5).

Which is the problem I have with HTML5, JS, and many similar technologies – they’re so lenient that almost everything is broken instead. We might as well write websites in english prose, it wouldn’t be much harder to parse.
I cannot imagine anyone here on HN arguing in good faith in favor of crackdown on encrypted messenger "because terrorists". This is retarded and illiterate, and the same goes for gun analogies. I get that many Americans are concerned with gun violence, but at least here you ought to be able to try to not think with your hindbrain, and instead consider whether your concern has any relevance.

Normally that should be enough. Let me elaborate, though. First, there's extremely little chance of uncovering any "terrorists" or any major criminals by investigating the extant chats: competent lawbreakers delete incriminating messages as soon as possible or communicate in secure chats to begin with, and would do so especially if Telegram showed signs of cooperating with FSB. There would, however, be a guaranteed influx of falsely accused. VK is a good example: there are cases when people are incriminated for inciting hatred because of something like a closed album with Nazi caricature memes, on the grounds that "everything on VK is public"; there were multiple trials for reposted messages. And so on. Most of this is simply due to some random asshat spook trying to furter his career by hauling in a lot of "extremists" and surpassing average "productivity". This is both inhumane and not economical.

More importantly, encryption is not analogous to guns because guns are hard to manufacture and even harder to conceal, but software is different. You can easily create your own encrypted messenger and nullify whatever efforts the government is putting in suppressing current platforms. Signal Protocol is open source, you know. Blocking Telegram would merely speed up the transfer of terrorists to their own networks, and/or increase the popularity of platforms which would not even shut down the channels with terroristic propaganda (something Durov actually does).

There is no replacement to actual investigation, to fieldwork, to international cooperation, to training of competent agents and infiltrators. This is hard and risky, it's so much more easy to vantonly gather data, threaten average citizens with your overreach and pretend to save the day. Well, let me remind you that Boston bombing did not rely on any sort of encryption. FBI received hints from FSB and interviewed Tamerlan way before the event; Dzhokhar’s Facebook was insanely suspicious. They failed to notice the threat. If the intelligence cannot successfully work with open information like this, what more could they gain from Telegram?
Not having improvements is a feature.

Yes, please leave email the way it is, because it works fine. It’s one of the few things that does.

The only feature I want is end to end encryption. Google will never make encryption easy on their own because they’ve got perverse incentives not to.
Man if only we had regulation! Oh wait
So potential employees should be able to do background checks on their employer so mr smith why did your current HR director leave <REDACTED> when they where in line to become group hr director. Or why did your colleague director X punch the CFO of <REDACTED>

Both real examples from companies I have worked at.
Also a PWA which is "added to homescreen" actually LOSES access to at least some APIs (I know for a fact that getUserMedia is disabled when a page is added to a home screen).

This led to us needing to tell our users to NEVER add the page to the homescreen (pwa or otherwise) or the app will stop working, which confused many and made other suspicious (IMO rightly so, that's such a fucking weird thing to have to specify!)
Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
Apple already does this[0]. However, this relies on users creating and managing certificates and keys, which is not an easy thing for most users.

I was playing around with using my own CA to issue certificates for internal stuff. I created a personal certificate for myself and imported it to my keychain - without doing anything, Apple Mail was digitally signing my messages. On the other side, however, people saw digital signatures that couldn't be verified and got confused by that.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mail/sign-encrypt-mess...
> Is Mark sentenced to never be employed again?

The argument seems to be that because society does pass that sentence already, we who disagree should "fix" it by making sure society doesn't learn that Mark is a cookie monster.

Does that not sound backwards? If the answer to your question is really "no", then we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

I suppose I can see the argument that things are unfair to Mark because other people got away with stealing cookies without having it on the public record.
This would be true if it was the same person falling for these ICOs each time... But we're talking about people that haven't seen dozens of scammy ICOs, or even ever heard of pyramid schemes (from other than... pyramid schemes, like Amway does to discredit their critics).

I still feel sympathy for people in this situation. I have met a couple that joined Amway (actually even invited me to one of their "seminars"), and tried very hard to show them how this did not make any economic sense, was a waste of their money and time (that could have been spent building an actual business), and that they were using manipulative techniques to lure people in... to no avail. Brainwashing is hard to counter.
And these days i think Google builds their storage solutions from the board up. And i seem to recall reading about Facebook doing something similar (including experimenting with cold storage on burned blu-ray).
Actually, normal people do deserve protection from financial scams; and they don't deserve what they get just because they are not as sophisticated as a HN reader.
I assume that concepts descended from 'policy' and 'enforcement' will gradually be delegated to AI. Just as I assume more people will spend more time in VR, and a later generation will not make the same strong distinction between this reality dream, and the VR dreams.

I feel technologists tend toward a kind of over-skepticism, relative to scifi writers, because they know too much about the status quo, and they're used to getting value from drawing on that knowledge. But I wonder if there was any practicing technologist alive in 1960, who could have understood or predicted that we would have, e.g., unbiased photorealistic rendering in whatever color space you like. Or that pulling a piece of glass out of your pocket to have a face-to-face conversation with people around the world would be a passe thing any 12 year old does.
Well, this gives a plausible reason for having to log back into an account you're already logged into. And normalizes the behavior.

So the next time you get an email from "google", you won't think twice about why you have to log back in.
Show HN: CloudBuddy – Pay less for up to 40GB of online storage using sftp
I'm especially dismayed that they brought the Ethereum name into it.

Ethereum already gets a bad rap because it's easy to write insecure smart contracts, if someone uses the platform to pull off a scam that's even worse.

I doubt they even created a dapp or wrote any code though.
Except outside of china