skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#4 actually happens? I thought paying someone to interview in your place is a pie-in-the-sky idea, as it's definitely more effort required than to BS on your resume.
The shortcuts are signposted, and maps are available to take with you at the entrance - no other big box store does that, so I doubt it has anything to do with fire departments. Impulse buys greatly benefit from immediate commitment, so Ikea does a good job of not having pesky sales assistants everywhere. You have plenty of time to cool off about that silly table till you get to the warehouse.
Uber works by suckering drivers into a huge up front investment so they have to work for a "decent" wage to pay back the sunk cost, so the overall average pay is terrible. It's a simple scam akin to Groupon and MLMs (but not multilevel). Eventually they will run out of suckers and flop like Groupon did. That's why they are so desperate to fake self driving tech to prop up their valuation.
Bitcoin, People and Government
I'm sorry for going off topic, but I keep seeing this kind of comment and I want to get an answer - how is Notepad not a good editor? It can take any ASCII/ANSI/UTF file and output it in plaintext. It has line-wrap as an option. It loads fast and can handle files of decent size without lag. Users can set display and print fonts, etc. I'm really lost as to why anyone says Notepad is not a good text editor for basic text.

I've written entire websites in Notepad, not to mention it being my go-to writing tool for anything that doesn't need to be visually impressive or which I can add formatting tags to. I prewrite emails, cover letters, and long forum posts in Notepad. Heck, if I need a DOS batch file, I turn to either Notepad or Edit.

On the other hand, Notepad++ takes much longer to load, has more UI elements, and generally makes it harder to do the one very simple thing I want it to do - allow me to create and edit plaintext. Notepad2 was better on the UI last time I used it, but still took longer to load.
A condom that could check if anything 'leaked' out, and based on momentum and other factors give a % variance of likelihood of getting pregnant as well as detect STDs from fluids... that would be an amazing discovery, this...is just fit bit for penises...not so interesting...tldr: Maybe if it had a tricorder built in.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853361
"You can choose to respond to these promising changes with optimism, or you can respond to them with spite - which of these responses do you think is going to encourage Microsoft to continue in their course of positive change?"

Neither.

There's very little evidence that Microsoft cares one way or the other about opinions on tech forums. They care about doing what they think will maximize their profits, and no amount of screaming at them from the peanut gallery is going to change that.

What might be effective is choosing or not choosing to do business with Microsoft, or with their competitors. Also, if you're an influential enough person and you come out in public with your opinion about Microsoft, they might take notice. But the average Joe's opinion on HN? Not likely to make any difference.

People talk on here not because they're under any illusion that Microsoft will listen, but because they're talking to each other, and if anything, it's one another's opinions that they are trying to sway -- just like you yourself are doing.
I think the lack of elevators is worse. In fact, elevator availability is sort of a precursor to good airport access since schlepping luggage up and down slick stairs can be a nonstarter, especially if you are disabled, elderly, or have small children.
The "Details" tab on the current task manager is plenty for shooting yourself in the foot but it lacks features for power users. I personally think they just don't care.
How you can do it "unwittingly"? If you put a button on your site that says "like us on Facebook" or "analytics by Facebook", how can't you realize you're inviting Facebook into your relationship with your site's visitors, and you do it completely voluntary, expecting to gain more exposure, better marketing tools, etc. ?
It's more like the restricted section of the public library, and they left the door open. He just walked in, and started reading the books on the shelves, and photocopied all of the books.

If there were books in this section that shouldn't have been in there, that's not his fault. That's the librarian's fault.
Yes, but that 8.4M websites is out of a universe of ~375 million websites - so it's a very small percentage (I am using the number of sites that BuiltWith tracks, which probably isn't all websites, but it's a minimum number). The pages number is meaningless, because sites that use it will use it on every page they have - if I have a site with 2 million auto-generated pages, then I account for 2 million of those web pages.
The author is the inventor of the programming language APL, and the formulas are working APL programs.
Don't confuse what makes sense with what the law says.
IIRC it was in early 2013, so 5 years ago? CS GO was only released 6 or so months before hand.

People still bring it up, but no way would they pull that move again.
Nope this is a system level feature in Android where services can constantly run on the background.
"Look, others are doing it too!"
Goodreads puts WoT book 1 at around a 4.18 and a downturn around book 8 to 3.90. Which exemplifies my point. Also my opinion, but you have to scale goodreads ratings between 3.5 and 4.5. That's about the lowest and highest I've seen, but I'd love to see goodreads discuss this.
recent Fitbit heatmaps come to mind.
In the sartorial vein, Philip K. Dick's hilarious descriptions of his character's zany outfits are themselves worthy of an essay. From "Ubik" (1969): "pinstriped clown-style pyjamas";"a sporty maroon wrapper, twinkle-toes turned-up shoes and a felt cap with a tassel"; "Square and puffy, like an overweight brick, wearing his usual mohair poncho, apricot-colored felt hat, argyle ski socks and carpet slippers"; "...his electric-yellow cummerbund, petal skirt, knee-hugging hose and military-style visored cap"; "He wore fuchsia pedal pushers, pink yak fur slippers, a snakeskin sleeveless blouse, and a ribbon in his waist-length dyed white hair"; "black oxfords, wool socks, knickers, cotton shirt, camel's-hair sports coat and golf cap"; "a pinstriped, blue-black, double-breasted suit, suspenders, wide floral necktie and white shirt with celluloid collar."
> If you have an issue with this, disable javascript and third party cookies on your browser - take some personal responsibility.

I tried and doing so breaks pretty much every website. Because it’s not only the tracking stuff that makes use of JavaScript and third-party cookies.
A HTTP server may as well equate to a public building with a sign outside saying "Come in and take whatever you want from any room at any time, unless the room's door is locked!" (locked = authentication)

The Nova Scotia govt forgot to lock one of those doors and are now furiously trying to shift blame. I haven't seen them apologize or address their own internal incompetence in any of the news articles I am seeing about this.
You don't need to do that detailed of an analysis. If you see a YouTube video in a website, YouTube knows you saw the video. That simple.

I'm trying to understand what you people that are reacting to this Facebook incident so emotionally actually want done

Do you want logging ip addresses to be banned? Do you want cookies to be banned? Do you want embeddable html to be banned?

Because all I see is outrage without any real suggestions
I think someone's house is "private by default"... even if the door is unlocked, you know you shouldnt go in there.

The internet is public by default.
The way I see it, these files were sitting on the sidewalk. Public facing websites are public spaces.
Anyone noticed there comment got deleted from that blog post. I posted my comment using Facebook login but it's not there anymore.
> Is %UserProfile% an environment variable?

Is $HOME an environmental variable? It's certainly exposed as one. Same here.

> Will there be multiple settings of it?

Will there be multiple settings of $HOME? You can certainly set it to a different value for some program, but does that mean you have multiple settings of it? Same here.

> Hopefully if the user's data is all in one subdirectory tree and I could cope.

"Hopefully" the same is true when you do the same on Linux and cope there?

> I'm not sure if it will work for software though, it tends to require random setup like registry changes and would also require reinstallation. Which may be difficult if it was pay-to-install software of if the original vendor is defunct.

...what? You explicitly asked about saving "user's own data" and not "installed software". The entire point of your comment was that you wanted to wipe the software while keeping the user data. So I gave you a solution for keeping the user data that let you wipe the software. Now you complain it doesn't work for migrating installed software?!
Notepad is just for taking quick notes and viewing text files and for that it is perfectly fine. It is my most used default Windows accessory (i do not include explorer on that of course) and even on Linux i install Leafpad[1] which is basically a Gtk2-based clone of Notepad and i use for pretty much the same reasons (taking quick temporary notes, writing out stuff, viewing text files, etc). I use another text editor for editing code (Notepad++ on Windows, Geany on Linux) that has a more busy and heavyweight UI that i am ok when working for long sessions. Notepad/Leafpad/etc is supposed to be as minimal as it gets, launch instantly, etc.

The only things that i'd like is support for Unix line endings and perhaps autoindentation. But considering that Notepad is really just the `EDIT` window wrapped up in a toplevel window frame and i doubt Microsoft is going to touch `EDIT` anymore (which is sad but that is beyond the point and FWIW much harder than just improving Notepad itself) i'm fine with that.

[1] http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
The Gov of Nova-Scotia shut down the site, but you can still find some documents on Google (they're cached).

The subcontractor of the site fucked up and they're blaming this kid.
Yes I'm sure, your links don't bring up any new points. Facebook does not have my medical records.
Not necessarily your main point, but this triggered me:

> coworkers of mine have rolled bug-ridden electron apps that we're required to use

This is quickly becoming one of those things I can't stand, especially when there are open source/free options out there. No, I don't want to use your homegrown application unless there really isn't a good option out there. And if that's the case, make it a good tool and release it OSS and try to get some traction behind it.
Uninstall and use chrome version.
I think he means you could be sorted by your application before they watch the video. That definitely a possibility.
Good for you neither do i. Do you have anything of substance to add?
Almost all schools and universities have different criteria for what is considered 'high-school' / 'undergrad' / 'post-grad'. I've seen calculus treated as a post-graduate subject, and as a high-school subject -- the same concepts, no less.
One of the most discussed is Madrid, but most every other city outside the U.S. has lower expenses, even those with comparable (or worse) labor and other costs. A simple Google search will provide plenty of articles and studies, such as http://lab.rpa.org/building-big-less/
One way you can try out npm packages is to use RunKit: https://npm.runkit.com/dinero.js

npm pages for packages all have a "test in your browser" link that goes to RunKit.
Which was an argument of my kids when they were five. To which I replied then and I reply now, "That doesn't make it right."
An initiative by websites to inform users to update their web browser
I just use the fitbit usually.
God dammit. An almost identical thing happened to me after submitting a public records request to Seattle's IT department for email metadata for January 2017. Instead of sending me the email metadata I requested, they ended up accidentally sending me millions of actual emails. FBI investigations, cheating husbands' texts, SSNs, credit cards, zabbix alerts (so many 100% disk space alerts).

When I contacted Seattle them to tell them what happened (on my own will), the conversation quickly turned to a point where we had to get lawyers involved. Basically, they told me that if I agreed to have Kroll [1] scan my hard drives to prove that I deleted the records, then they would give me "legal indemnification". They eventually agreed to accept an affidavit that I deleted everything, and had to wipe TRIM and that I wrote a script to confirm deletion to the effect of, "grep -r $FILES_HEADER_FIELDS /".

One part that led to such a strong action by them was that they didn't see in their logs how I downloaded everything and thought that I found a backdoor to download all of their emails. They had some annoying rate limiting that prevented too many files from being downloaded at once, so I copied the files from the page's source, then ran a wget against everything. Since the files were being downloaded from S3, their webserver logs didn't include most of the downloads, which led to some suspicion.

Funny enough, Seattle told me it would cost $32m and 320 years of employee salary, but I ended up sending them $40.

It just blows my mind.

https://crosscut.com/2017/10/seattle-information-technology-...

[1] https://www.kroll.com/
I've contacted the reporter to see if we can setup a legal fund for this guy. It sounds like he's being bullied. This could also get a very bad precedent in Canada as this is totally absurd.
New PyPI launched, legacy shutting down in April 30
Amateur Archaeologist and 13-Year-Old Student Discover Trove Tied to Danish King
The tunnels were built with TBMs. The actual stations were cut and cover.
"It's always day one" is of Amazon's corporate slogans - I think it's something Jeff Bezos personally came up with. It's supposed to mean that every day is a learning experience... or something.
Article is very light on detail, but from the MS announcement, this seems to be essentially a distro for IoT and the like; I was about to ask what it's based on, but having read that, I'll be guessing it's minimal and built from the ground up.

I'm also very curious about what the microcontroller design announced involves - obviously powerful enough to run Linux, and customisable, so I'd be guessing ARM based (small chance of MIPS or RISC, but probably not)
Is ketamine the new wonder drug for depression?
Microsoft employees probably read HN, and rumour has it that the cause to open source more stuff is driven by the engineers. HN readers probably have some influence into the technology decisions made by their employers. Maybe Microsoft as some therotical entity isn't reading HN but Microsofters and people who have opportunities to work with them or their products certainly do.
*Azure Sphere OS
I believe in the free market.

And the first assumption of a free market is that no single supplier is large enough to significantly affect the price in the market.

The smaller the firms get, the better the products.
Macs do multi account quite well, and iOS/iPad does it for schools. I’m not sure why Apple hasn’t at least made iPads for consumers have the same multi-iCloud-account feature available, it would make things a lot easier at home!
> And they don't sell data, they give it away.

I don't think they sell or give away tracking data. All the data disclosures so far has been about social graph data, which is very different data set. Detailed traffic logs from network like FB would be something that is very hard to collect, wouldn't make sense for them to give such a valuable resource out for free.
And in virtue of what does the capitalist provide capital?
An anecdote is not data.
As in, if Microsoft keeps taking resources out of the Windows division in favor of Azure, we might end up in a place where the Linux desktop wins not through becoming better, but by Windows becoming worse.
From my understanding, French kitchen gardens are called 'potager' gardens, which stems from soup/food cooked in a pot. I suspect that a lot of historical cooking was 'heat some liquids and what you have on hand in a pot'.
The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine – Killing for Profit
Ask HN: How many ads have you intentionally clicked up until today?
So a little conversation here on HN about ads that I had brought this question to me: I don't think I have clicked an ad more than a handful of times, intentionally and purposefully, since I first used a computer (I got my first computer when I was 11 and I'm almost 24). And I never made a purchase mediated directly (or indirectly but I'm not sure) by an online ad.

What I wonder then is that how frequently has the HN people made use of online ads as potential customers: how many times, if any, have you intentionally clicked an online ad; and how many times, if ever, has an online ad directly influenced a purchase you've made (i.e. you clicked an ad and made a purchase through the page it landed you to)?
Linux has a fantastic kernel but when it comes to the stuff running in user space it's really hit and miss. For a lot of domain specific applications there are no equivalents on Linux: Image and video editing, music sequencing, spreadsheets, games, etc. Until the developers behind these applications create a decent Linux port Windows (and macOS) are here to stay.
Ha. Corporations are clearly not super-intelligent, thankfully :)
My first recommendation would be to separate in your head the Docker development environment from the Docker production environment. They can be very different, and that is OK.

For production you want the Docker image to be built when PRs are merged to master (or whatever your flow is). Google Container Builder makes that very easy, you can set up a trigger to build an image and push it to the registry when there are changes to git (code merged to a branch, tag pushed, etc.). Then you need to automate getting that deployed, hopefully to Kubernetes, but that is a different issue.
"earned his position"? No, he lucked out. He made a product to rate people on their looks. It caught on in unexpected ways that are all to do with technology and society combining in unexpected and unpredictable ways. This idea that everyone who succeeds does so entirely on their own merits is an especially north American delusion and is an obvious fallacy (it's an example of Survivor Bias)
Agreed, I found Facebook’s explanation perfectly adequate and respectable. They are basically explaining cookies and embeds/iframes to a non-technical audience — no more, no less. It makes sense to give other examples like Google ads and Twitter buttons in this context.
I use it - I am writing a subset-of-yaml parser, and I've littered the code with a bunch of abort()/assert() statements for things I don't think should be possible. Running klee over my code spits out ~100K test cases (I let it use any 10 byte YAML input), and so while I don't inspect the output of any of the cases - I do make sure that none of them crash.

Similarly, if I make a change which I don't expect to change the output of the parser, then I can use this test suite to be quite sure that my change hasn't changed behaviour.

One thing I am unclear about is what it means for klee to be "done" on my binary. When it has generated all the test cases, if none of them crash my binary, then does that mean it is impossible to crash my binary in 10 bytes of input?
I'm smashed into an airplane right now waiting for boarding to finish. I can't imagine planes being any more cramped than they are now.
What distinguishes ‘real’ cider from something else?
The world admits to degrees.
They are getting banned on other platforms: FB, Instagram, etc.
So what?

Here's the thing, Google doesn't have the authority to dictate what software you run on your computer. If you run a software that destroys their entire business model, tough cookies, they have to adapt or die.

Taking steps to control what software users install on their own systems in order to protect your little market share is evil, crooked, and probably illegal. It's the sort of thing that causes corporations to be broken up, for example, App Store, Chrome, Adwords, all need to be separated into unrelated companies to eliminate the blatant conflict of interest which has existed for years.

As an aside, this is evidence that advertising is dead. Technology that destroys the online ad model will continue to evolve and become more destructive and more disruptive. Attempts by corporations to censor free software because it challenges their revenue models is a display of desperation, fear, and inevitable collapse, if history has taught us anything on the matter.

Thanks to AdNauseum and any similar forks, no corporation in the world, no matter how large or wealthy, can guarantee that their advertising model is honest or functional. You should assume that whatever data they use to bill you is faulty.
> ...what? You explicitly asked about saving "user's own data" and not "installed software". The entire point of your comment was that you wanted to wipe the software and keep the user data. So I gave you a solution for keeping the user data and letting you wipe the software. Now you complain it doesn't work for migrating installed software?!

I think they want to disentangle the user's installed software from the OS, rather than disentangling the software from the data.
No doubt, but I've done this a few times now with a few different businesses that are still going several years later, so I'll take my chances. :-)

But seriously, there seems to be this almost universal assumption that if a market is worth serving in business, there will always be competition. That makes little sense to me, because if the modern online world has taught us anything, surely it is that our societies are incomprehensibly diverse and have countless niche interests and small communities within them.

Those in turn create countless business opportunities, as long as you admit the possibility of smaller businesses that serve such markets in some useful and commercially viable way yet have no hope or ambition to become the next unicorn. The most profitable things I've worked on typically weren't in that category, but most of the best-received things I've ever worked on were.

But sometimes that sort of market is only big enough for one player to really do well, or maybe there's only one player willing and able to invest in setting something up to cater to that particular market anyway.