skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: I'm going to stop using Twitter if it doesn't stop cryptocurrency ads
The relentless flow of garbage, lying ads trying to get me to buy bitcoin or floobcoin or whatever.

Always disguised as credible tech news. Somehow I found myself reading some article about how Bill Gates and Richard Branson together had decided to back some bitcoin thing which I wasted time reading until I realised it was garbage.

The thing Twitter does not understand is that straight out false advertising dressed up as valuable content diminishes the trust in the Twitter platform. After I read the stupid article above I felt less inclined to go back to Twitter, but seemingly Twitter is willing to pay this price for that juicy cryptocurrency advertising cash. It makes Twitter feel spammy and trashy.

Twitter, please stop it.
Eutely
All amp pages have to have a <link rel="canonical"> in them to be valid, so a crawler could find the root via that.
It's worth noting this sort of thing is highly unusual which is why it's getting so much media attention.
Broadband advisor picked by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai arrested on fraud charges
I tried searchmyfiles, and it's alright, but the best search tool I've found for windows is "Everything" by voidtools ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ )

I occasionally use it on a multi TB windows fileserver at work and after it does the initial index (which is really pretty fast because it uses the NTFS journals) searches are pretty much instantaneous. (I also use it at home, it's just less impressive after using it on that many files at work.)
You sir, won the internet today with that quote
Uber chose to open its business in a country with labor laws. It could have opened in China instead.
If people were educated with how the internet works they would know that the second you load some piece of content from someone else's servers they have your information as well.
Just finished hearing it, mostly BS and external gossips.

The guy claimed he "worked" within Windows for a while but was a Business Development Rep (Sales) at Microsoft for less than two years (2011-2013).
> To be fair, European big pharma also lives off the US market to plump their margins.

...as I said in my very next sentence? :)

> They also constantly poach cutting edge biotech & pharma companies out of the US to keep their stables full, such as AveXis, Genzyme, Genentech, etc. Without constantly buying up elite US biotech, Europe would have practically no biotech industry at all.

Can I ask, what's the problem with this?

All of the companies you refer to are pretty-much global - they have a presence in many countries, including the US, and by being publicly traded, ownership isn't especially linked to their country of origin. AZ (for example) being based in the UK means little for the UK, apart from that being where it pays some tax, and employs some people in its head office.

To take one of your examples, Roche (Swiss) bought Genentech (US), and still maintains the same huge presence in SF, still employs people in SF, still pays taxes there. And presumably the previous owners of Genentech stock did nicely out of this?
They didn't launch anything, this is a kickstarter with estimated delivery of Sept 2018.

Based on my previous kickstarter experience, that means that you'll probably have it somewhere between Dec 2018 and Dec 2019 with a 25% chance that they never deliver. Unless they already have manufacturing samples, the timeline seems agressive, the funding deadline is June 15 so that's only 3 months before the delivery goal.
Oh, I'm sorry. Is Jordan Peterson not on top of the best seller lists with an entire book of rules for adults? Was I out of line to draw that comparison?

If not, what's the problem? JP doesn't hilariously and noxiously blame "cultural Marxism" and the "feminine chaos" of women for the life difficulties of incel basement-dwellers who need to be told to clean their rooms?

Barlow has never looked better than he does under today's comparison.
I think the other side of this is important as well, shoving a patch or a pull request across for something you use and sharing with them that you're fine if they don't merge it.

Probably less with the kernel and more with smaller FOSS it is a way of serving your own needs and also giving back.

But there has to be an expectation that the maintainer isn't under any obligation to merge or even evaluate it.
The Disappearance of the Fundraising Demo
Cracking Tool GreyKey Can Unlock an iPhone in 6.5 Hours with a 4-Digit Passcode
"Tivoization" is the entire value-add here. IoT devices will run SOME linux. But they want an easy to use, secure Linux. Microsoft's model here is to tack on those bits and charge. It's not some secret ploy, it's in the article.

As for desktop linux: microsoft has four versions of linux userland in its app store for desktop, published by Microsoft. Windows provides drivers and boot - that's its value-add.
Are you sure?

"Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored...

"Facebook held a special breakfast for drug marketers about recruiting people for clinical trials"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/07/facebook-held-a-breakfast-to...

"How Facebook can ‘unblind’ a clinical trial"

https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2014/06/09/Pfizer...
How about looking into the display window of a shop? If they wanted to keep something secret, it should have been out of sight.
Applicable only on one District, not the whole US.
There really should be accountability of whoever chose to store the data in an insecure manner.
Unfortunately, it has been shown time and time again that this isn't the case.

Has it? Web apps might be positively correlated with poor performance, but I don't see any causal relationship there for the kind of apps we're talking about here.

From direct personal experience, some of the UIs I've worked on have been relatively complicated by web app standards, yet typically there's been no perceptible lag in any rendering or interactions. We could achieve that kind of responsiveness at least a decade ago, on much less powerful hardware than sits in your pocket today. Obviously there is an inherent delay in any communication required with the server, which is one of the main areas where PWAs and some of the other modern APIs can help to minimise the effect. Other than that, modern JS runtime environments running on just about any smartphone, tablet or laptop from the past few years are plenty fast enough for the kinds of software most of us are trying to run within them.

Of course, that's not to say there aren't many poorly performing web apps out there. It's just that I've yet to see one where the poor performance was demonstrably attributable to the fundamental web technologies involved, as opposed to simpler explanations like developers who had no idea what they were doing and relied on inefficient designs, bloated frameworks, and so on. You get that with native desktop software as well, but no-one's saying a modern PC can't do things quickly just because someone managed to write yet another text editor that had a noticeable delay just opening a file with a few thousand lines in it.
> That'd be pretty easy in Linux (I use a separate /home partition and routinely reinstall the OS) but Windows is such a mess, how do you untangle the user's own data and installed software?

%UserProfile%\{Desktop,Documents,Music,Pictures,Videos,...}?
Anyone who was alive in the 90/00's can't be happy with microsoft, anymore than anyone who was alive in the 70s/80s can be happy with big blue.

Are they different companies now? Yes. But not by choice, the market beat them down and made both irrelevant compared to what they were.

I am happy with a small Microsoft and small IBM. Microsoft however is still too big for my liking.
How habit building helps Jeff Bezos run efficient business meetings
Yes, please rename your package! Parcel is very popular in the JavaScript world.
A part time job is still a job.
I was slightly facetious but compared to other changes this should be an easy one. It's probably one of the simplest changes you can make to Windows. I hope we can agree on that.
Because Obama or Hillary would surely do it. Come on man...
Any tool that allows that mistake to be made is badly broken.
They banned them a few weeks ago. https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/twitter-moves-to-ban-crypt...
Interesting findings. I find it annoying when seeing an error while I'm still typing into an input. Those premature errors just give JS a bad name.
I stopped going to theaters because everyone brings their loud kids. Are you sure there isn't a larger draw for porn cinemas and liquor stores?
> If you want to log into a website using Facebook login

I don't.
He's archived portions of 4chan?

It's likely then that he's gotten some "bad" stuff without him really knowing it. The police will search through his files, find the bad stuff, and charge him with some sort of possession/accessing/downloading charge.

Life = ruined.
I just love this part about D&B.

Problem: "I go to D&B to update my business profile. Surprise! They have a JavaScript bug in their validation logic that prevents me from updating my profile."

Solution: "Thankfully, I’m a proficient developer. I click put a breakpoint in their JavaScript, click submit, change the isValid flag to true, and voila! I’ve updated my D&B profile."
There's no more VP of Windows. It's pretty clear MSFT is making a hard cloud push. Seriously - they gave out Windows for free for three years and NOW you think it's not a priority?
Interesting. I'm a bit removed from DSPs for some time, I wonder which multi-core processors AD are talking about. Are these just common ARM and the like or do they have some new architecture in the pipeline I haven't heard about?
> If people were educated with how the internet works they would now that the second you load some piece of content from someone else's servers they have your information as well

People aren't. That's why we have laws like Lemon laws [1]--so everyone doesn't have to be a specialist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law
It is indeed still in use at Morgan Stanley in the Interest Rate Derivatives Technology group. Apparently there were plans to decommission the A+ code as far back as the early 2000s, but much of it is still in use and, from what I can tell, the users still have a fondness for it even in the face of replacement pieces done in Java/Scala/C#. Several A+ devs retired within the past few years, but they have been able to bring on new blood, which was surprising to me. I didn't do much A+ coding in that group, but it always seemed like a breath of fresh air working in A+/XEmacs where you could easily directly inspect the running program to either produce new results or investigate existing ones. It was certainly much nicer than working on the modern Scala project that would often take an hour+ just to rebuild if you happened to add some logging.
That's because we know what a "house" is - a bunch of private property with a wall around it (even if the wall is not locked). Usually comes in sets with other bunches of private property with walls around it. And we know the default - you aren't welcome in those walled forts unless you are welcomed in by the owner.

Not at all clear that files on a public webserver look very much like a private house.
The people suing are the drivers. They have great incentive to change. You can see how this plays out by reading up on the history of unionization.
Lawsplainer:  Michael Cohen's Attempt to Delay the Stormy Daniels Litigation
Honestly, I'd like to see the kid's lawyers push back and claim damages against the province and its contractors.

How else shall we force problems like this to be fixed?
I see how the author would reference various sources and names to support their position, much like you would in a scientific paper, but it does come off as a bit egotistical and self-righteous when you have to drop so many names to support your unoriginal thoughts (The Game analogy is spot on).
A publicly accessible HTTP web server is not analogous to a locked home.

The kid sent a request to the server for a document and Nova Scotia's web server graciously provided the content with a "200 OK" response code. The Nova Scotia government doesn't know how the internet works.
The 90's ended almost 20 years ago! They are a different company and you're just being an old fogey. As I said: Microsoft is here to stay. You can choose to be a bitter old man about it, or you can choose to be grateful that they're moving in a better direction. But you can't make them go away.
Generally speaking with modern Windows, it's the user's installed software that's the problem rather than the OS.

There's a button in the settings to remove it all: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17085/windows-8-res...
Unfortunately “Hey Siri” starts to grate the 70th time you say it in 3 days. I would actually now rather walk across the room to touch the Homepod than have to say the phrase so much. It’s still in uncanny valley territory a lot of the time as it isn’t smart enough to keep context between interactions or react in a human-like way.

I think a retroactive activation feature would be the way to go, ie. be able to say “Siri” at the end of a sentence and have it parse the phrase that came before. It feels more natural to say “skip this please Siri” than “Hey Siri, skip” because it lets you amend the mistake of not identifying the subject earlier in the sentence rather than the phrase-exasperation-hey Siri-phrase.

I asked Siri to DJ and my daughter said “hey Siri, I don’t like that song”. Siri said “I’ll remember that” and played something else. Now I have no idea how to amend Siri’s notion that I dislike one of my favourite tracks. There should really be a Homepod app where you can see recent interactions and correct misinterpreted ones.

There are also some artists and tracks with unusual spellings that are always going to cause problems for a voice interface and so they need a solution for that.
Or the command line util pngcrush
I may deplore that people are falling for a fraud, but I will still hold the fraudster in contempt. Not the people. So please don't call people stupid. They're up against something they are not prepared to understand.

The Facebook API needs special quarantine whenever I work with it. To protect my users.
Anyone familiar with the Streisand effect would have predicted that this would in fact result in this failure getting as much attention as the circumstances can imaginably furnish.
Surely this is an April's fools joke... I mean, it's even called the "i.Con"...
Hobbits like food :-) and Bilbo is described as a Gourmand in LOTR
I think it's different when you're told you will not get a raise for 5 years.
> I am happy with a small Microsoft and small IBM. Microsoft however is still too big for my liking.

So you judge companies on size, not behavior? Seriously we should celebrate companies when they contribute to opensource software, if only to encourage more contributions.
In this case, most of the documents were public, but there were a small number which had confidential information and were inappropriately stored on the public portal.
> Facebook tracks virtually every website you visit

That have placed Facebook buttons or analytics code on their site, which Facebook has no way of forcing anybody to do. So if you don't like sites giving Facebook your info, maybe you should raise this question with those sites?
Yes, the Reuters article deeply mischaracteried the actual ruling, sadly.
I did some research, and it looks like the IRT was constructed with a mixture of cut-and-cover and boring[1]. The schist apparently isn't too much of an issue when you have dynamite[2] ;)

[1]: https://mhdh.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/irt/laying-t...

[2]: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/04/subway-construction-the...
Is %UserProfile% an environment variable? Will there be multiple settings of it? Hopefully if the user's data is all in one subdirectory tree and I could cope.

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.
Drug overdoses tied to 24-fold rise in organ transplants
Not on the Twitter I'm using.
Economic ability to pay for these medical treatments (well, in the U.S. at least), as well as all the other things needed to keep the lions away from the kids. There's a big fertility bust among what used to be the middle class, as many people don't see how they could possibly afford the necessities needed to raise a child (health care, housing, education, safe environment, parental attention) as they were raised.

(I suspect that there's also simply less selection pressure, in the sense that more people are having 1 or 2 kids, vs. in historical times where the emperor my have had 1000, a wealthy man dozens, and lots of paupers ended up with no kids at all. That has the effect of letting lots of genetic variation into the genome without immediately weeding it out, at least until some selection event occurs in the future.)
It's especially great because if you search the actual ruling, you can see that Reuters summary is BS.
Yes, clearly every website user should have an in-depth understanding of how DOM elements are generated on the browser. Seriously, how can one know how a button is produced on a page without inspecting the underlying source code, or looking at the network traffic on the developer console? Even then, this behavior can be obsfucated in the code, and in order to produce the page to generate the content to inspect, you've already generated the remote ping.
> It's probably one of the simplest changes you can make to Windows. I hope we can agree on that.

I certainly do not agree with that!

For example, Notepad has been one of the buggiest and weirdest pieces of software I used on stock Windows. It does weird things when saving files, like moving your cursor to another location, so if you are typing and saving and typing and saving you will end up with text misplaced all over and a bizarre file that has a weird back/undo history. With its large host of weird bugs I would not expect the current codebase to be simple to update, and surely you'd agree a rewrite of Notepad is more than a few days.

I in no way think that improving Notepad would be one of the easiest changes to make to Windows. Sure, there would be harder things to improve I'm sure, but I don't see why it's a contest at all. Updating Notepad sounds like the opposite of easy to me.

Improving Notepad for everyone who uses it, while not receiving millions of death threats for errors or bugs or unexpected, unwelcome changes in behaviour sounds nearly impossible to me, personally. Perhaps this is part of the reason it is so stagnant - MS sees little upside to making large improvements while seeing enormous risk. Just a guess.
I do not need Cortana, XBox, Store, Telemetry, One Drive ... Can I remove them? Microsoft says no. Microsoft has become the definition of bloatware.
What do you think is missing from contemporary platforms?
11 Creative Ways to Boost Social Media Engagement [Infographic]
Thanks! I am adding these to the repo now.
I get what you're saying and I don't disagree with your premise, I just don't think it is applicable in a situation where the purpose of the website he was visiting was to access information. Not _that_ particular information, but if I accidentally put my wife's jewelry out on the curb with the old Nordic Trac it'd be pretty crazy to charge the people who took it off of the curb as jewel thieves.
This is now reminding me of this blog I found on HN yesterday:

http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2015/07/the-fear-cycle/

Once you have enough sewer/natural gas/electric/cable/telephone/fiber/water/who knows what else/ lines buried under the streets I can totally understand how nobody would want to touch that with a ten foot pole, just like legacy code :)
It’s official: SpaceX will build its monster rocket in California
I had a girlfriend who would leave her sliding glass door ajar with a 2x4 to prevent it from being opened enough to let a person through. This was until I demonstrated that, unlatched, the door could just be lifted out of its frame and set aside.
I think the most precise metaphor is: a kid walked through the front door of a public library, borrowed a couple freely available books, then the government realized those books mistakenly included sensitive information.

In order to address that error, 15 police officers raided the kid's house.
Mediocrity? When I think about what I can do on the web today and what I could do in 2008 or 1998 there is no comparison.

If you want to publish your fully static site with a tiny footprint that just displays documents then feel free. I'll be over here with group video chat, collaborative editing, and more.
"Dewar, a professor emeritus of computer science at New York University, believes that U.S. colleges are turning out programmers who are - there's no nice way to say this - essentially incompetent."

"A lot of it is, `Let's make this all more fun.' You know, `Math is not fun, let's reduce math requirements. Algorithms are not fun, let's get rid of them. Ewww - graphic libraries, they're fun. Let's have people mess with libraries. And [forget] all this business about `command line' - we'll have people use nice visual interfaces where they can point and click and do fancy graphic stuff and have fun."

http://web.archive.org/web/20080128144630/http://itmanagemen...

The above is from an interview with Dewar about a paper he co-authored in 2008 concerning CS education and programming languages:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080103143526/http://www.stsc.hi...

I am both an APL user (k) and a spitbol user but still not a Python user. Regarding the later, I think I suffer from the Dewar perspective[1]: it's too easy and too focused on libraries. Perhaps this is misplaced, but for myself I feel k and spitbol are more "educational" than Python.

1. In truth, I have no idea if Dewar saw Python as he did Java and PHP.
"and seeing this smart condom article ... finally it all clicked...we were living in a dystopia"
Natasha Coin
I stopped reading at book 7. I refuse to pick them up again. I don't want to give money or energy to an author who can't finish. I refuse to start GoT for a similar reason.

I said to a friend when I stopped that he would die before he finished the series. I didn't think it would be as soon as it was but I happened to be right anyway.

Picking Sanderson to finish it was smart. He knows how be ruthless with a subplot
Disclaimer: I don't like the writer either.

However, I don't think he's trying to browbeat anyone. I think he's just living in the humanities bubble - and this is all really middle-of-the-road stuff if you're in that world.

>Fire them and get your education from YouTube.

The problem is, you wouldn't get anywhere with the humanities by watching youtube. The online resources for philosophy are pretty bad, and for literature it's even worse.

I think the point about the humanities - and about culture in general, is that you don't want to live in a society without it. You don't want to have a society where there are no politics professors, or sociologists, or philosophers. They aren't expensive, and they make it so if somebody is interested in one of those fields, they can actually find an expert. And if you don't have any experts, you end up with a shambolic politics, a dysfunctional society, and shitty philosophy.

A lot of what america does wrong is to ignore people paid to think deeply about things in favour of the gut feelings of charlatans. People commonly notice this when scientists are ignored by politicians. Perhaps it would be worth it to extend the thought to other fields.
Also, if you're designing for high availability, you're going to overprovision by definition, otherwise the loss of a server or datacenter is going to cause a cascading failure.