skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some remote desktop support work in the early 90's, around the time that everybody started shifting from command-prompt DOS to GUI windows. We went from saying "type in ipconfig and tell me what you see" to "ok, do you see a start button? Click on the start button. Do you see where it says 'control panel'? It's about two-thirds of the way up. Yes, click on that. With the left button. No, the left button. Ok, do you see something that says 'network'? Click on that." It became obvious that it was impossible to do this over the phone, so we ended up installing what would probably be called "spyware" today so that we could remote-access everybody's machines (I can't remember what the software was called, but it rarely worked as it was supposed to). I see the same problem surrounding documentation around GUIs vs. command-line/text-oriented tools; the documentation spends pages to describe what a simple command would spend one line to cover. Although there are some things that do make some sense in a graphical interface, I still believe that _most_ things are orders of magnitude more efficient if you strip away the graphics and boil them down to some minimal commands.
Yes, but is just the latest study.
Flow – Swift library for working with asynchronous flows and life cycles
Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
That's what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard was where your username worked across all forums.

https://www.proboards.com/ is still around but doesn't have global accounts as far as I can remember.

I'm not convinced there's much payoff waiting for you if you were to create such a system.

I think that Reddit's format is so popular because you get to just scroll a stream of provocative/vetted headlines. Even the comments are geared in a way where you're scrolling a stream of one-off provocative comments. There is no long form conversation over time. Everything is ephemeral.

By the way, kind of interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard#Technology
I think it's less relevant today, because we now have multiple languages running on the JVM - and I think that was always the most powerful feature of the Java program, the write once, run anywhere idea. Not so much the language itself, although at the time it was pretty good too.
https://regexr.com saved my life
Not a complete answer to your question, but at least if you hold the copyright to the source code (including all modifications), you're of course free to re-license it.
Yes, distributed infrastructure, including mesh networking in a hypothetical ideal world.

The actual cost of what e.g. FB does for its users is tiny.
You can still declare bankruptcy while gainfully employed. Some states have much stronger protections for borrowers from creditors than others.
Data Scientists need to understand that speed trumps statistical rigor for basically 95% of the questions people have. GUIs bring speed.
now THIS comment and link made MORE sense as a topic that's on TOP of hacker news than a cute video of a guy calling an old BBS.

That documentary is AMAZING in shedding light into ALL the BBS world we all knew
Yo, I live in the Valley, I'm not aware of any actual alternative to Comcast. Sonic isn't available in my neighborhood, I can't do the dish on the roof one because of landlord rules, and fiber options aren't available in my neighborhood.
Have they finally implemented a delete account feature? I deactivated my account and deleted the app from my devices many years ago. But there was no delete account or “forget me” feature. Even if you get rid of fb you aren’t really forgotten by fb
"The preceding sections have attempted to develop the thesis that the properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought" (378).

I've been working through "Seven Sketches in Composability" [1], posted here a few weeks ago, and thinking about how much math relies in diagrams which are somewhere between drawing and writing. In research meetings, I often see people reasoning with diagrams and mathematical notation. In the vein of this article, I wonder whether it would also be possible to formalize mathematical pictographs to the point where they could be computable--a not-strictly-textual programming language. iPython notebooks often toggle between symbolic expressions and their implementation in code.

One thing that might be missing is context. Diagrams are indexical (pointing to contextual meaning) even more than text, often illustrating a problem that has previously been defined. This feels to me like potentially-fruitful design problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677395
The big question - how much will they get for the vaporco known as uber?
I love what Xi's trying to do, but last time I tried the OS X frontend, it was very, very slow on large files.

I think the Phi page is just including "current state of editor" as well as "aimed for state of editor" in the README.
Thanks for mentioning Immer! I am studying Immutable-RS right now and it seems interesting. The code is much more straight-forward than Immer's thanks to Rust expresivity when it comes to sum types, etc. Sadly, on the other hand, some of the tricks that Immer implemented, in particular the ones that flattens leaf nodes, can not be implemented in safe Rust, and I my guess is that Immer is at the moment more efficient both in run time and space usage. I would love to see some benchmarks comparing both though!
> Intermediate results aren't granted names.

I would argue that most programmers are fine with this. Unix pipes are a very similar point-free way to program that we're all comfortable with. If people came to APL thinking of it as something similar to pipes as opposed to something similar to C they might have an easier time with it.
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This is SILLY to be on top. but if YOU want to connect to BBS's that are STILL online. they're NOT on phone lines. They're on Telnet. No joke. and they're WONDERFUL for reliving your old ways:

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
A lot of people have insecure computers/file servers inside of their local firewall.
Just pick smaller subreddits. Of course if you stick to one with half a million users, you're not going to have a good time - the Facebookization of the site has been extremely evident in recent years, but smaller subs are still more or less independent forums.

Pick a few niches and make a new account that only subscribes to small subreddits about them; it really does put a community feel to it all.
To be fair to Linux, it does support an ever-growing list of hardware. It’s not exactly lean, but continually increasing in size is hard to avoid in its case...
> more performant

Do you mean faster?
I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
Question # 3 about FB tracking people who have logged off the platform seems valid. Ads re-targeting via Facebook pixel is a thing.

But Cnet has included it in the video as a joke. So, I guess you can't trust even "tech" sites to know their stuff?
Information is power. And it’s not even always negative as we’ve seen with targeted marketing and fake news. None of those Facebook users being psycho profiles had anything to hide but they were targeted and possibly manipulated. And this is a stage when the science is still primitive!
You can do anything with the right GUI... So what he means is that there is no proper GUI available?
Linux surely ain't getting any slimmer. We're up to how many packet filters by now? Four? Five? How many X509 parsers are in the kernel?
Theme inspired by Vue.js for VS Code editor
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Wow! I need to remember to give this a try. I usually use https://regexr.com/. I like it because it usually works for all languages and it's served over https. That is always nice!

Edit: For what it is worth, you link serves over https, too. Just not by default.
> What society? You mean YouTube?

> it is a company that has a business model that is based on getting people to waste as much of their time as possible on YouTube

Society = people. There is good stuff on youtube, and there is bad stuff on youtube. Why do you want to be part of the problem? Seems pretty selfish to me.
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Totally agree. It's ads and the attention economy. They thrive on controversy - it's the psychological version of the banner ads in the 90s, but 10,000x more effective.
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There are also other issues I just remembered. Handles in a capability OS have no access control applied to them, ie. if you hold a handle, then you have permission to invoke operations on that handle. Attenuating authority involves deriving a new handle from an existing one with reduced rights, then passing that around.

I believe the NT kernel still checks permissions against ACLs for handles. This violates capability security, but you can build a capability OS on top of ACLs: http://www.webstart.com/jed/papers/Managing-Domains/
What stereoisomers are used?
> Eventually you are going towards direction where you don't want to go and it can create lots of negative feelings, including fear and hopelessness (sometimes called the Dark Night of the Soul).

Can you elaborate on this?
:) She's not my daughter, though I hope my daughter (1 y/o) will be as strong when the time comes and I hope she will find some fine friends just as strong ;)

Edit: This was meant to be a reaction to mrleiter
Those are companies. This is about a federated/decentralized approach.

Amazon uses a lot of third-party sellers, so in a way Amazon is more like EBay.
Pain killers can affect your emotional state indeed:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painkillers-might-...
Microsoft got in on the walled gardens with MSN, and that wasn't until 95. I think it's fair to say the first half of the 90s was walled gardens, although by 1995 holes were opening up. A whole generation (or two) wanted to email Terry Wogan and see the webcam, which started in 1996. By the time freeserve launched in 1998 the walls had crumbled -- it was a very fast moving time in the UK - over the course of 5 years we went from a few people on dial-up compuserve to almost the whole country knowing what the internet was, even if they didn't realize it's potential.

I'm not sure the internet is much different now than it was in 2013, or even 2008. I suppose the accessibility (always on phones), and the increase in online media (video/audio streaming as the norm) is the biggest change from 08 to 13, but last 5 years?
Interesting that you bring this up. I don't know the answer, but I'll be 29 this year and have just recently started getting some gray hairs. The most prominent are two gray patches right over my temples.
> How about putting pressure on your reps to draw up some regulations?

I think the idea is to convince the company directly rather than relying on politicians.

> Because it obviously doesn’t work with these corporations.

There are some pretty glaring examples where it has worked. Nike sweatshops probably being the most visible. Boycotts and lawsuits hit the bottom line, which is what they ultimately care about.
Oh, good point, I didn't read what you wrote carefully enough.
You can't just choose not to work in the UK. If you resign from a job without good reason, you can have benefits stopped for 6 months. You probably can't survive for 6 months without food. In practice you might be able to get reduced some form of benefits but I don't think it's guaranteed. The term "slavery" might be hyperbole (you are paid, after all) but you might not have much choice about working.
Not necessarily a contradiction - GDPR could have many possible effects; it's too early to claim that these effects will disproportionately harm small companies.

One possibility, of course, is that larger companies will have more resources to tackle GDPR compliance, and thus be better able to respond effectively than small companies. However, it's also possible that, by taking privacy / security seriously from day one and storing the minimal set of user data needed to operate, a smaller company will have a distinct advantage over some BigCo that must now migrate sprawling, inter-tangled distributed systems never designed for GDPR compliance. After all, that small company now has a compelling legal reason to avoid feature / data warehousing bloat and save their limited engineering resources, whereas the larger company most certainly has that bloat baked deeply into their stack due to years and years of "Big Data" hype.
We have a legal system that contains far too many greys areas. It is not clear if Amazon is using legal loopholes or deserve fines. I see the legal system as something always getting more bloated and more complex. Evidence of its malfunction is that the outcome of a trial is often unpredictable (see Oracle vs Google). I think the legal system should try to become more like a deterministic algorithm.
It's more a question of culture. Theoretically, yes, nothing has been lost since the 90s. All those technologies still exist. But culturally, the norms of the web have shifted. The proposal is to create technologies that encourage/empower regular people (people who don't read hacker news) to make a cultural shift back to the web's original vision.
For my own code I will use spdx references in the source code files but still have a LICENSE file in the repo root like I already do with the full text of the license.

IANAL so I can’t say what you legally can and cannot do with other people’s code but I would think that placing a copy of each of the licenses used by others in your repo and name them as LICENSE_THIRDPARTY_MIT, LICENSE_THIRDPARTY_GPL, etc and mention in your README that these correspond to the spdx references found in source files would mean that you were still in compliance.

As for the question “does removing lines of not-code make the file smaller or just a little”; it does not reduce the SLOC count of course. Personally I just find the idea of spdx appealing because it means that when I open files to edit them I don’t have to scroll past a lot of license text first. Additionally scanning source files for what license is being used will be simplified.
> Their product isn't only the stuff you buy. It's the ease of the process and the quickness of delivery.

I find Amazon to be very bad on ease of the process/quickness of delivery/price: Their dark patterns to sell prime subscription. Their hiding the delivery cost. Their asking and storing credit card before telling you the final price. Their 8 (yes eight) screens buying process!

Any other web-merchant is better than Amazon if you are not already an Amazon client.
How is it patronising? GP is asking two questions. Maybe there's some subtle subtext that I'm missing, but even then it seems better to assume the more favorable interpretation that he's just asking questions.
Amazon wouldn't shut down if successfully botcotted: they'd mucg more likely fix their employment practices.
Particles BBS is another good Commodore board. I connect using my VIC-20 and a USR-TCP232-T2.

http://www.particles.org/particlesbbs/
Precisely. I would probably have a much easier time avoiding Amazon.com than I would, say, IMDB (owned by Amazon) or The Washington post (owned by Bezos).
Qbix, eh? It looks great, congratulations!
So they have a patent on what anyone with a camera and raspberry pi could do (recognize a vehicle plate with OCR)?
Terrifying indeed
Raw HTML pages would instantly become 10x more palatable if browsers would make the default font sans-serif
Police extracted fingerprints from WhatsApp photos to convict drug dealers
I think the larger point is that on a technical level, once you upload creative content to someone else's server (or even your own internet accessible server), you lose all ability to control where and how that is accessed. Again I'm speaking technically, not legally of course. You haven't lost the legal right to control your work but you will never have 100% technical ability so long as it's accessible online. Especially for music, which can simply be recorded and re-uploaded.
It’s a bad example too. There are so ducking many ‘let’s clone Facebook to learn x language’ guides that yes anyone of any skill level should be able to build Facebook right now without relying on view source because there are step by step tutorials!

Now if he means you can’t build Facebook the service...we’ll yeah Google didn’t go around telling everyone in the 90’s how it’s algorithms wirked either. But you can clone Googles website super easy!
Do you have a source for that? You can get a patent on a new use for something that already exists if the new use is a non-obvious advance over the prior art.
> That's not just a coincidence and I don't believe it's any kind of first-mover advantage. It's about the environment in which you operate and passing more and more laws and rules, regardless of the intentions, is the opposite direction

You're presenting the situation as a failure of the EU, but I think you've missed the point here. The big players are located in the US because the environment there rewards big players and has a general snowball effect. The EU system rewards small-player innovation and limits the creation of very large, dominant, monopolistic big players. This should be a net benefit to the overall system, if it weren't fot big players just coming in from elsewhere. Unfortunately, due to the global nature of the web, this leads to less-regulated US big players dominating the EU players. Solving that is tough, but the fact GDPR applies to US companies is an interesting start.
Even without a boycott movement, we may already have reached peak Amazon.

This year, the Supreme Court may create a revolution in the ability of US states to tax consumer purchases from online retailers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.#...). This could erode Amazon's online retail profitability enough to seriously slow its ever-increasing sales volume and give the competition enough breathing room to survive and even grow a bit.

And Trump keeps complaining about the prices the USPS receives to deliver Amazon. Whether or not there's any merit in Trump's complaint, as a convenient piece of political theater, this cause could easily be picked up by the next president and renegotiated. It would be a crowd pleaser for someone like Elizabeth Warren.

Perhaps the playing field will be tilted just enough to slow the whole Amazon machine.
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On the flip-side, if cost-cutting becomes important, a company may decide to invest in current employees skills in lieu of hiring new external employees. Any software that isn't mission-critical faces high risk in a cost-cutting environment.
Where do you invest that money subsequently.
I thought the Librem 5 will be running a mobile version of PureOS?
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Using Vue, Vuex, vue router with laravel
I'm curious where this narrative that Google dropped "don't be evil" comes from.

At the time of the Alphabetization, there was some shuffling of the code of conduct document, but everything lives on.

The Google code of conduct[0] still begins with "Don't be evil."

The Alphabet code of conduct[1] opens with "Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“Alphabet”) should do the right thing."

And yet I repeatedly read the claim that Google has secretly abandoned "don't be evil"—presumably on the down low so that they can now do all the evil they want.

[0]: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
[1]: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct.html
As a former teacher, I find this very amusing. There's a lot more to it than uploading raw info into receptive brains. As a current software engineer, I think it's probably a lot more likely we'll automate parts of my current career.
The Dilemma of the Gluten-Free Diet
TL;DR: Automatic Number Plate Recognition is a thing. Police use it.

Apparently that makes Palantir terrifying...
Sure, but that's a funnel problem, not a problem with the level of learning required to do a basic contribution. Someone with a modest level of commitment will probably make it through the sign up and tutorial.

Apparently there's an issue where you think the beginner walk through should be better advertised outside of the sign up process?
For FOSS project safety back up your people, not just your data
>FB had been in denial about the politics issue, I suspect they still don't fully grasp it. They're not a neutral platform.

They grasp it. They've been running research studies on elections[1], politics, and "emotional contagions"[2] since at least 2010.

[1]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...
Serverless wasm in rust
half a gram seems pretty excessive to me. if you snorted that over the course of an hour, with zero tolerance, you'd very likely knock yourself out.
there is nothing new under the sun. We must pay more attention to new and validated technologies, like blockchain.
No, the first rule is "be smooth". No sudden sharp inputs, give the car time to settle and adjust to what you're doing.

You can absolutely brake, you just have to be smooth and gradual.
Don’t get caught in a k-hole or it might have some fast acting disadvantages for depression.
The idea can sound silly at first time, but in fact has a deeper side. We talk about a system that allows the government to place exclusive signature sounds, printed in some points of a road. Even better, is really cheap and simple.

I can think in some serious and real uses for this. Police surveillance. Helping to solve a kidnapping trough a phone call even if is a hacked one-use phone card. Finding quickly the position of a car accident...

The problem is the noise. If they can find a way to mute the signal and deal with the excessive noise problem could be a rule-changer.

The own asphalt singing in morse trought a hidden microphone the Kilometric point of the road in an infrasound sequence. Somebody could easily find the route or position of a car in a recording or phone conversation just listening to the watermark placed as a invisible soundscape. Is terrific.
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