skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The air quality in the 70s would disagree with you. Sunsets are not supposed to be orange, and the sky is not supposed to be brown.
You are starting to freak me out. I have bought a few brand name items from Amazon over last years where the quality was surprisingly bad. Now I wonder if they were fake. This just shouldn't happen. It's one thing to find out that something is fake but often you don't know what to expect and end up thinking that the product is just bad. I guess I will reduce my Amazon shopping when more. I already dropped prime but I will probably start avoid Amazon as much as I can from now on.

eBay feels almost more honest now.
Describing reality isn't making an excuse.
Apple was the originator and original implementer of the canvas tag, in support of a feature they added to their Desktop operating system in 2005.

Prior their implementation, canvas was not a tag that existed, nor supported in any version of HTML at that time, but it was later incorporated into a new version of HTML. Apple was a minor browser developer as well as a minor OS developer and minor system designer at the time.
This is strange... I posted here a theory on how this might work and the post has dissapeared completely while showing zero points in my comments page. Just a single downvote wouldnt make it not show, correct?

Does HN censor potential security disclosures?

All I said was it was probably using techniques like voltage and timing analysis for instance as described here:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/hardware-security/lecture/2Ug...
Cupertino is a company town, their police department does what Apple tells them to.
I'm a bit surprised at all the negative reactions I'm seeing here in response to this. This really seems like a win for individual rights which the tech community is normally all about.

As I see it, the heart of the matter is that the average person is really bad at placing any random fact they learn about someone (or something) in its proper context. So that means people should have some legal leverage when it comes to all the information (accurate or not) that is available about them online.
As stated the article is from 2014 so I wonder how involved TBL is at this point. Second point, I signed up. I checked the open groups under news. Largest group under news? "100% True News For Patriots!" and "Breitbart News Outlet". Looks like a home for bots, trolls and the alt-right. I'll pass.
The margins are much better on a $1000 dollar phone than a $200 one
>The “leaking good and important things” blanket that the leaks are wrapped in then becomes a secondary factor that is used by the leaker to justify

Sounds like how a sociopath would interpret the motivations of a good person.
I think the problem is that the Bitcoin "community" regularly says increasingly ridiculous/idiotic things without a hint of sarcasm involved, which makes it hard to be ridiculous enough to show that you're being sarcastic.

It's hard to do the limbo when the bar has already been dropped below ground level.
> that's the thing about 'overnight success'—ten years of persistence
What a sweet simulation. Thanks for the link!
Why does your response start with the word No?
Took upwards of 10 seconds to load data for bitcoin. Looks nice, though
Brutalist architecture was a disaster, especially in countries like the UK where poor light and regular rain make grey concrete one of the most depressing and least durable of all possible building materials.

The UK was littered with Brutalist "statement" buildings. Most have been pulled down now, and - with a few high profile exceptions, which have escaped the low-budget ghetto most of the movement settled in - the style is generally considered a mistake.

I have no idea why anyone would want to copy the aesthetic in web design. But then the designs on show don't look Brutalist so much as "edgy" 80s magazine kitsch, which in turn influenced a certain kind of minimal web style which has actually been around since the 90s.

It's true that web design lacks real creativity and diversity, but that's partly because web pages that are trying to sell you something - as opposed to making an artistic statement - are optimised to balance content delivery with behaviour modification with cognitive load. There are only so many ways to do that, and the affordable ones are already in use.
Also IP laws, industrial espionage laws.
Are you targetting a specific coin you like for the featureset or are you diversifying and just spreading it out and focusing on the volatile liquidity at play?
My explanation is that sales numbers tell them that whatever they do works and otherwise they don't care.
You can give input to the W3C without that, but yeah, it's the input from the paying members that counts the most.

Additionally, the W3C has some private mailing lists, does private working group meetings, and so on. So yeah, the WHATWG is a lot more open when it comes to input.
I said should. The problem is that they aren't.
If I own a station, I’m not “coercing” it when I tell that station that it is our corporate policy to advise viewers of certain features that our channel offers. In this case, they wanted to make sure that viewers understand that there is a specific way to contact the station to complain about any bias they feel the station’s own news reports may have, as this has been an issue with the media recently. I see nothing wrong with that, and in fact I think it’s a positive thing. I have to say that I feel better about and more trusting of the local station I have seen that message on than I do about other local news stations, specifically because they have recognized this significant issue and are attempting to address it.
Beaucorp! What a great new word. One of the world-spanning megacorporations from William Gibson but decorated in a Beaux-Arts style.
If you consider the Cambridge Analytica stuff a privacy problem, then open protocols are absolutely the worst possible thing for privacy.
Show HN: Libdo – A library for predicate-driven programming in C and C++
Blockchain projects and social networks:products,unbundling,re-creating stack
> available from a Ford™ station somewhere in your state

... and at 3x the usual price.
I think it would depend on a lot of variables, if you're paying for impressions and not clicks it would make more sense.
Of course more housing needs to be build. In a sane manner, though, that focuses on the actual needs of the community rather than building more and more expensive condos than only the rich can afford.

I wasn't talking about investment properties being idle. I was talking about them existing. They drive the rates up just by existing, since the owner wants to make more per month than they paid on it. If people weren't allowed to own more than one home, then all prices for housing would drop.

Also 11,000 units is a good bit. Could house probably at least 10,000-20,000 more people if Airbnb was banned.
Nobody likes a bully. These disgraceful tactics are sadly becoming more common.
No, this wasn't just garden variety web crawling.

Sites can control whether they get crawled or not.

Facebook, for example, stops Google from crawling Facebook profiles.

But Facebook allowed "malicious actors" to access to user profiles for "most of its 2 billion users worldwide".

These 2 billion users didn't choose to expose their personal information to "malicious actors", Facebook did it without their consent.
Considering Apple intentionally slows older phones with firmware updates post new phone release, I think your argument that they're trying to protect the experience doesn't hold much weight.
I still see that comment, fwiw.
It's possible, but I don't think that's the primary factor.

Netflix is a software/service company. When they've got something new, they can just ship it right away. Or if they decide to change something at the last minute, they can do that.

Apple is a hardware company, and they produce everything at volume (millions of units). Their products, by nature, have long lead times. The design must be finalized well before it ever ships.

If I were a tech reporter looking for leaks, I wouldn't place much trust in anything I heard from Netflix, because it'd be too easy for them to change it completely before it ships. Also, if the final product might be released to everyone tomorrow, my incorrect info will still be fresh in everyone's mind.

This applies with Apple, too. I hear a lot more rumors/leaks regarding the shape of the next iPhone, than I do rumors/leaks about the on-screen visuals of the next iOS (which could easily change).
"Norway’s customs officials had seized a shipment of 63 iPhone 6 and 6S replacement screens on their way to Henrik’s shop from Asia and alerted Apple; the company said they were counterfeit."

Wow, talk about snitches! Has anyone notified Apple about amazon.com? Pretty sure they're selling 'counterfeit' iPhone screens too.
It's actually not even required for that! See http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/being-normal-is-option... which cites King (1980):

> If the error vector in our regression model follows any distribution in the family of Elliptically Symmetric distributions, then any test statistic that is scale-invariant has the same null and alternative distributions as they have when the errors are normally distributed.
Leaked Apple Memo Warns Employees About Leaking Info to Media
Just stop buying apple products, please?
The stealer is most probably without enough resources to deal with complex situations. Let makes the cost to replicate higher for him.

If the book is not visible on Amazon, no ranking will be available, and no e-book version will be easy to find.

- Without ranking there is virtually no risk it will be targeted.

- Without e-book version, it will be more difficult to copy.

That said there are other ways to trick a Createspace author. For example many Createspace books are sold by independant sellers at a much higher price than the original, if there is a sell then the independant seller buy the original one and sell it to the customer, while making an easy benefit completely legally.
Ask HN: Any of these startup mortgage companies better than traditional lenders?
I'm purchasing my first home and like everything I usually look to the bay area and see if they have solved any of the classic traditional problems. I have family members that swear by "their guy" that works at a mortgage company. The nationwide home builder I'm buying from that says to use them as the lender and covers the appraisal costs etc. But I look to HN to see what's the right choice.

I'm drowning in reviews on Nerdwallet and trying to figure out what is the best option. Better Mortgage seemed decent but had poor reviews and horror stories and not sure if it's offered in my state. It seems a new one of these pop up each week - but I've enjoyed a lot of the financing options like Betterment so it can be done.

Obviously the most important factor is getting the lowest rates and closing costs. I do appreciate a nice UI for making my payments each month though and seeing pretty graphs. But this is for a $300,000 purchase so I don't really feel like increasing my interest rate by 1% because I'm a UI snob.

This is also new construction so I can't have delays working with the mortgage company as when they start building if things aren't all handled properly I'm being charged daily.
Hopefully I am not misunderstanding your comment, but for the record:

Bulgaria is a small country in Eastern Europe with a population of about 7M and bordering Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, and the Black Sea. Formed around 681. Lots of expansion, contraction, being enslaved, etc. including 500 years under Ottoman Empire rule. These days the poorest and most unhappy member of the EU according to research - but a member nonetheless! Lots of immigrants including in the Bay Area and especially Chicago.

Couple of fun facts: When the USSR was still a thing, Bulgaria was making personal computers, basically cloning Apple and IBM architectures.

Source: Bulgarian who moved to the Bay Area ~10 years ago.
I'd like not to hire somebody who (at any point in their life) victimized women or children, because it's not too much to ask!

And you should get that - by making an official request for those records, and presenting documents that show that the person is applying to your job which involves supervising women and children.

None of which requires it to be at the distance of a click.

I, for one, don't think a murderer should be forgiven. A murderer gets to live, and the victim is no longer alive, there is fundamentally nothing you can do to be forgiven for murder. To me, that is as it should be.

I, on the other hand, would rather not get robbed because your draconian policies left the murderer alive but unable to get a job.
Before you use "Fire in a theater" argument, please be aware that quote comes from a Supreme Court decision basically allowing the government to imprison someone publishing anti-war opinion.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
To me it seems like Yet Another Barrier To Entry For Tech Startups (TM). I remember the good old days (re: 10 years ago) when you could make all sorts of cool things without being bogged down by regulations. I guess that era is over (at least for certain categories of tech like search engines).

Also, your right to be forgotten seems to be infringing on my right to remember.
Didn't Manning leak classified information that threatened the lives of foreign operatives?

I never understood why Snowden and Manning are put on equal footing in that regard.
I think this is a good idea, but it seems like you've made the .css file more minimalist than the actual website. I guess there's a distinction to be drawn between making YouTube less appealing to get distracted by, and making the YouTube experience nicer by reducing distraction and noise. If you're going for the latter, here are a few tweaks I would suggest:

* Pick a more aesthetically pleasing than default font, ditch the blue default link colors.

* Normalize the thumbnail size.

* Consider normalizing the video titles to all lowercase. It's still possible to search for something and see all caps everywhere which feels very noisy to my brain.

* Consider leaving the descriptions off altogether

But still, very cool idea!
The point, I think, was that CIA is biased, not that they came to these results. You cannot really trust their research, since they analyze their «enemies». It is like when a skin care company cites that «9 out of 10 said this is the best skin cream (in a survey of 30 people)»
Car manufacturers may recommend against custom parts, but they probably don't (yet) detect you're using one and work to make your experience worse.

Safety is one thing. Working against your customer another.
Voting plays some role in how people get paid but not sure how derivatives versus originals get paid. maybe some kind of survey.
Apple sells as a luxury product to a pampered demographic which will have a very different work life and span than a $200 Netbook.

I suspect that graph is misleading and says nothing about brand durability, only about damage incurred to products at specific price brackets, demographic and use cases. It would much more revealing to break down by those segments.

It also excludes breakages within service contracts so we can't tell if the difference is simply that Apple is selling a higher percentage of AppleCare contracts (potentially because of their high repair costs) than their competitors.
I like AI mayors, as long as I control the code...
Donkey Kong champion loses title for 'using emulator'
We made Bulletproofs twice as fast with Rust and Ristretto
How transcoding on this centriq compares to FPGA transcoders cost-wise?

Can you put your testset images on github?
Show HN: PDF Assembler – client-side PDF editing
Here's a neat hack I made recently to do basic PDF editing directly in a browser—without having to upload anything to a server.

I was initially looking for a way to do simple PDF modification (extracting pages, merging, and adding page numbers). There are some good server-side tools for this (QPDF, PDFTk, PDFBox, iText, Hummus), but for better speed and privacy I really wanted a 100% client-side solution.

There are a few good JavaScript PDF libraries for reading and displaying PDFs (pdf.js) and creating PDFs from scratch (jsPDF, PDFKit), but I couldn't find any for editing existing PDFs. So, I did what any self-respecting hacker would do, and rolled my own. :-)

Actually, I found out that Mozilla's pdf.js solved half the problem, as it does an excellent job disassembling PDF files. So all I had to do was figure out a way to put them back together again.

The result is PDF Assembler, now available on GitHub and NPM. I also put together a demonstration site (https://www.pdfcircus.com) which shows some examples of what it can do. I know PDF Assembler still needs some tweaking, but I think the basic idea is sound, and so far I've been pretty happy with how it works.

Please take a look and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

PDF Assembler Links:

Demonstration Site - https://www.pdfcircus.com

GitHub - https://github.com/DevelopingMagic/pdfassembler

NPM - https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfassembler
Former F.B.I. Deputy Director Is Faulted in Scathing Inspector General Report
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So, there's labor, etc. But you're going to tell me that to repair something, that by your own diagnostics, is fine except for this one part costs 70% of the new purchase price?

That's what a highly integrated machine gets you. Charge circuit defective => replace entire main board, including CPU, probably memory and storage too nowadays.

No one is doing component-level repairs any more.
I have a magic regression aggregator that works like this:

1) Take a dataset and split into training and test

2) Using the training set: run a bunch of different regressors (for a training-training subset) and get predictions (for the remaining test-training subset)

3) Run a higher-level regression against test-training subset predictions. I use either plain linear regression (so my meta-regressor is a linear combination of the regressors) or K-nearest neighbors (so the best regressor for each region of feature space is chosen).

4) If there are hyperparameters, optimize against the test set (not the test-training subset).

It's not available as an API. I'm available for consulting though.
> One of Go's biggest strengths is that anyone can pick up the language and be somewhat productive in it after a week.

This ranks just about at the bottom for any language I care to work with.

"Learning a language" is more than just about being able to write syntactically-correct code. It's about understanding effective design patterns, idioms, the standard library, common pitfalls, writing maintainable code, and so on.

Learning the syntax comprises less than 5% of that effort, and optimizing for that step—particularly at the expense of the other steps—is ill-advised. And in my opinion, go has done precisely this by having tons of sharp edges: nil interface values, race conditions with channels, supposed-"meaningful" zero values, implicit interface implementation, etc. are all sharp edges I've personally run into that have caused bugs in production.
No, you start with a WHATWG DOM. What you do after that is up to you.
I agree with all that. I wonder though... how is it that I can buy parts from IFixIt? I'm honestly asking--I read the linked story about Norway and I don't see how what iFixIt does is different... except that they don't do the repairs themselves. But it was the parts shipment that Apple objected to.

I think the legality of jailbreaking was actually decided by the Library of Congress DMCA exception process.
If you are referring to this comment[0] I see it just fine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16827734
A Chatbot for One – How I built a Valentine's Day chatbot for my girlfriend
My favorite take on Apple’s culture of secrecy and how it harms everyone comes from the illustrious Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/Apple/

In short, your personal goals and the goals of the corporation and its executives rarely align as much as you think.
sometimes I just forget that ads actually exist... (except for junk mail and billboards)
I think you hit it with "unconventional layouts" bit.

They're not neatly segregated along, with navigators aligned across the top or stacked on the left.

Visual artifacts are all over, controls are all over.

It's "brutalist" relative to the norm
Best is the enemy of better. I think this looks like a great option for PTO's, girl scout troops, etc. An excellent alternative to facebook.
I'd consider that part of #2.
Nice touch with the background linear-gradient. Other than that there's no significant difference.
As the poster above you said, "We can and have,"

Where do you think this protected class came from?
This could be "code golfed" into even smaller app. Ditch all third party resources: jquery (use vanilla js), stripe (why?), fontawesome (just use some inline svg symbols), tachyons (you could probably write few custom CSS rules yourself and throw in some minimalistic styling too).
Not sure about usefulness of service workers, as youtube app won't work offline.
Yup. Relatedly, devices on a CAN bus don't authenticate each other, and we're seeing real security & safety problems as a result. Ford—or Tesla and Volvo—will start locking those down this decade, or start seeing more incidents.
Ask HN: Impact of FOSTA-SESTA on image based forums/chat
Forums like many of the *chans or anon-ib or any NSFW chat could easily be interpreted as aiding/assisting trafficking. Are they all liable with the passage of these new law.
My son is five months old and we won't buy anything off Amazon for him. If we receive a gift for him and it comes in an Amazon box we quietly dispose of it. We're going to spend A LOT of money on him as he grows up and Amazon will see none of it for exactly the reason you mentioned.

I hardly buy anything for myself off Amazon anymore because I don't want counterfeit stuff either. Since I stopped buying from them I also canceled my Prime account. Curious to see if this problem hurts them in the long run.

I also tell my friends and family that they should reconsider buying anything from Amazon anymore.
It could be that the leaks were not serious enough for discipline, or were accidental enough that management thought that lesser discipline would be enough that it would not happen again. We really don't have enough information to begin to know.
On the other hand I really enjoyed all the Brutalist architecture on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. The imposing concrete buildings made a great contrast to the otherwise entirely natural beauty of the Pioneer Valley.
I wonder how this would be treated under the EU law? It doesn't involve a legal conviction or something that has a codified statute of limitations. It may contain facts, but it also contains opinions, opinions which the site creator may still hold.
"honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois" and then cites Habitat 67 in Montreal.. I thought Habitat 67 were high end
There is also a possibility, that at least some of the "leaks" are in reality marketing ploys orchestrated by the company.
Be specific, it looks pretty private. You can certainly tighten them, but a good start.
There's something odd about being sick of humans alive today doing their thing (designers), and thinking of sci-fi full of fictional humans, with fake ui's made by ... designers alive today... as somehow the "right way"
Yeah, I don't know. I learned about this two years ago. I think he does not make much from any single book, but he has many of them. They were exercise and diet books.
A counter argument is that email wasn't really designed with the security considerations that we have today. So while I agree with both of you, this is an eventual and necessary evolution of email.

Self-destructive and encrypted messaging is something many, many email users have wanted for years. And people who absolutely require these features (such as hospitals) have long-ago come up with similar solutions.
Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project (2015)