skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would such a person consider to be the motivation of the people involved in such "an industrial scale effort"? Are the deceiver's real interests somehow not threatened? Are they literally not human? Or are they protected somehow from the issues that will kill everyone else?
Man, fuck this sentiment. It's just as bad as the whole "get these foreigners out of here!" anti immigration sentiment that's taking hold all over. There's an exceedingly high likelihood that your family moved to the Midwest from somewhere else at some point in time. Cities and regions change over time, people move to where there's an opportunity for them to have a better life. Just because you were born somewhere doesn't entitle you to that place staying unchanged.
So, don’t buy a Model 3 now. Wait until it’s a lot better.
I thought I was going crazy, or maybe I was just messy or something. I've got a 2017 (maybe 6 months old), and I've lost 'u', 'c', and a couple other keys - they only work if I press down hard. I usually dock it, but it's super frustrating to use it _like a laptop_.
Those are some interesting exclusions, yeah:

""
Disallow: /2013/03/21/174840895/

Disallow: /sections/ombudsman/2008/01/frequently_asked_questions_1.html

Disallow: /sections/health-shots/2013/03/11/173816690/new-voices-for-the-voiceless-synthetic-speech-gets-an-upgrade
""

Removing something from search engine result pages but not from archives seems like a middle ground that media organizations might consider when people say "I regret having talked on the record about this, can you remove it?" or when they say "hey, this is hurting my reputation and it's not a big deal, can you please make it harder to find?".

I used to periodically poll The Harvard Crimson's robots.txt which until a 2015 site redesign used to exclude a lot of articles from search engine results. One example of an article excluded from search engine results for several years was http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/31/news-in-brief-s... , which also carries a lengthy editor's note with more info about the final disposition of the case and which I think I can see why the article subject might not want to affect their reputation.

Among the other things that the Crimson's web site excluded from search results included -- drug arrest stories where the final disposition was "not guilty" and the final article was not hidden (but the original arrest and intermediate reporting were); some deeply personal sex columns; maybe an unruly party story; a story about a grad student being rude at a football game.

I wasn't always able to find the articles -- one older piece of content, article id 523203 in their old-style format, was probably published in the print edition on 22 April 2008 based on the publication dates of article ids 523202 and 523204.

The Crimson seems to have stopped doing this and most media organizations don't do it; while excluding an article from robots.txt usually makes users' search engine results calm down, sometimes it can have the opposite effect by broadcasting exactly what in the archives people do not want to be seen.
Client libraries can handle this automatically: you can send the EVALSHA command and it will either execute successfully or reply with "I don't know what that script is" - then the client can re-send with the full script.
No crime needed. Here's some common means over the last 10 years:

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/dna-dragnet-in-some-citie...
[1] https://freedomoutpost.com/texas-cops-detaining-individuals-...
[2] http://www.wlky.com/article/accused-killer-challenging-traff...
Here read this. https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
MoviePass is no longer too good to be true
How much will it cost for a taxi from Heathrow Airport?
They're mainly a car maker, energy storage is just about a tenth of their revenue.
What are good interview questions for engineers to ask product designers?
I'm using Intellij now, but used to work with Eclipse. And one thing that I miss is quickly starting tests. In Eclipse it feels like tests start without compilation and I get instant feedback. With IDEA you have to wait a second or two before it starts running the tests. I know it doesn't feel like much, but it's really annoying if you are doing TDD.

I started using IDEA because I wanted dark theme and Eclipse didn't have it. Probably even now you can't get nice looking dark theme in Eclipse, not sure, correct if I'm wrong.
...or your test coverage is insufficient.
No, because that doesn’t affect the customer. Tesla’s most loyal and gung-ho customers are punished for their enthusiasm by getting the worst Model 3s that will ever be made.
true, thx (definitely a flawed writing component there)
Slightly off-topic, but last time CandyJapan made it onto HN, I decided to sign up and give it a try, and was very underwhelmed. I canceled after two boxes. Hey each contained 3-4 candies, and over half of them were very basic candies such as chocolate. In total I think only a single one was the "cool" kind of candies you associate with Japan. Honestly in the ~8 candies I tried, not a single one was even really edible or interesting.

Also, I'm not sure how much of this is their, but a lot of the candies had also melted and re-solidified into a single chunk.
One of the problems with that is that hardware is not software and at some point it will have to be repaired. It's bad enough when a part changes design halfway through the model year. I can't imagine trying to repair a Model 3 five years from now and finding out that e.g., the right front wheel bearing has 10 different versions and it's not completely clear which one I need.
Show HN: Open Source Web Client for Chatbots
Yes, others have already pointed out this entirely unrelated and boring configuration mystery about a 5 year old story.
Couldn't you theoretically escape a planet's gravity without going into orbit? I mean, gravity weakens by the square of distance, so it wouldn't be long before Earth didn't have much influence on you
I never understood the hate for the touchbar.
I found no decrease in productivity after remapping Escape to Caps Lock, and both the special options for applications and the more granular volume and brightness controls make it more enjoyable than having F-keys.
Insects, bees especially, pollinate plants. Without pollination many plants do not reproduce. Without plants reproducing, humans starve. Killing all the bees is therefore a bad idea amounting to collective suicide. Many people here on HN care about not being killed.
AFAIK homebrew-cask doesn't compile anything, it just downloads the dmg and copies the app for you so that you don't have to mount the dmg and drag the app bundle to your applications folder yourself.

They'll probably update their repository as soon as the GIMP devs release a 2.10 dmg (at which point you might as well download it yourself).
I used Eclipse and my memories are hours spent to install some plugin (sometimes as necessary as Maven or Subversion support), typing some repository address, etc. Running something with apache tomcat was a quest. Sometimes things broke and you had to clean/redeploy it again and again until it worked. When I installed Idea and everything just worked, it was a truly superior experience. Idea is one of very few software products that I bought and continue to buy. I just really respect Jetbrains developers.

That said, there were few things that I liked in Eclipse. Errors were easier to work with. Also I could run uncompileable Java code and I liked it (Eclipse skipped bad code and throwed exception there).
You are in space right now, you just happen to have 100km of atmosphere above you. When we say "go to space" we really mean "go to orbit". To go to orbit, you need tangential velocity to get away from the body you're currently attracted to. We use rockets to gain that velocity because no other technology we know of can provide it with the required thrust/weight ratio.
> the company has no problem with using people’s psychology against them to achieve this

I'm playing devil's advocate, but the same could be said of most companies. It's the basis of marketing. Using people's psychology to sell them products or ads, which most of the time aren't really good (or even harmful, like sodas, tobacco, junk food) for them.
But that's exactly the problem! The minute you want to change a key binding or a hotkey, you have a re-export that change to all your workspaces.

Honestly it reminds me of GIMP taking years to finally implement an MDI interface. If only eclipse let me keep the same bindings, UI, etc across different workspaces I probably wouldn't have switched.
It has to become plasma before it's susceptible to EM deflection. So you'd still have to heat it to 4000 degrees through friction. And so you'd still need a heat shield.
Munro and Associates is the firm that does this kind of analysis in the automotive industry.

It's really fascinating. For the record, it would be hard to produce a design that Munro couldn't find something to talk about, good or bad. They employ extremely gifted engineers with a ridiculously large amount of experience at doing this exact task.

As a software engineer, I wish there were an equivalent firm in the industry that did teardowns like this so that we could, as an industry, improve over time the way that the automotive industry does.

I feel like it may be one of the factors holding software engineering back from achieving true professional engineering standardization.
I have both a MBP and a Macbook, and the Macbook (2016) is even worse. Keys get stuck all the time, I get them lose using compressed air. Apple even has a page on it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205662

PS: I like the feeling of the MBP keyboard.
Losing $6,000 Building the TripAdvisor for VR
Indeed.

Oh, you want Section 8? Well, fill out these 20 forms, be in the right office at the right date and time, and you'll be entered into a lottery IF the paperwork you filled out matches our unstated criteria and allotted apartments.

Oh, and if you don't get in this YEAR, there's a nice city park. And the cops only harass you every other night.
COBOL is a pretty good fit for the domain that it serves, so serious COBOL cases are not that bad.

If you use COBOL you will get decimal numbers suitable for financial work. If you use Java or Python and take the defaults you will someday cut a check to somebody for the wrong amount. There are decimal math objects for Java and Python but they add to the "bloat" of the code and the complaint that it is "ugly".

On a mainframe the ordinary numbers on COBOL are good for business and they are supported in hardware.
His blog is one of my favorites - so much good stuff on there. A few recent highlights:

Touring a Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust: https://brandur.org/rust-web

Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas & Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads: https://brandur.org/postgres-reads

Redis Streams and the Unified Log: https://brandur.org/redis-streams
What strikes me is the NPR story is almost the exact same as this one published 3 years earlier... "Executive Wages a Painful Fight to Erase a Slur": http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqre...
All TMX markets suspended early after technical issues
I like the new keyboard, they keys feel more stable and I can generally type faster due to less travel.

However, the problems are real. My ‘t’ key gets stuck regularly. Some other keys have had problems as well. And I rarely use the keyboard (at work I connect a Microsoft Natural Keyboard). I have also heard that colleagues have stuck keys.

I think it is absolutely inexcusable for a laptop that was 1699 Euro new. I have been a Mac user for 10 years. But Apple’s inability and unwillingness to address the problem leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I am now also unlikely to recommend MacBooks until they fix this issue.
No, you would just be in a different kind of orbit. You would be in Earth orbit until reaching escape velocity, at which point you would be in Solar orbit.
Who are the Indie Hackers working on products for social good?
"It has not been proven, and will not be proven, that every single person in the world has no reaction to MSG."

Glutamate (and by extension MSG which simply has a sodium atom attached) is naturally produced by the body. the average human body has two kilograms of it stored at any given point and time in various tissues and organs. Simple logic would dictate that anyone with a sensitivity to it would be constantly reacting to it from the sheer amount their body produces and contains, wouldn't it?

At two kilograms, anyone with a true sensitivity to it should be likely running a deathly reaction and we would have recorded medical evidence of that by now (over the 30-ish years or so it has been studied) if it were truly any sort of prevalent condition.
Or cause a ruckus and get them to backtrack? Often the better solution.
http://mysteriouswritings.com/top-ten-armchair-treasure-hunt...
> if you're not happy with a feature in an open source piece of software then get involved with the development process

This is a red herring. There's no requirement to participate in a group in order to give criticism of it.
People often lack the time, skills, or political will power to change the direction of a open source software project.
Criminals have many tools that can circumvent these systems though and many are very hard to defeat while still providing a smooth customer experience. There are entire web browsers developed by Russian groups that exist solely to clone the entire fingerprint of the victim, complete with session cookies. A lot of bank fraud happens this way...a hidden RDP service is installed on victims machines and then sold online so you can just remote into their computer, login to their bank and nobody is the wiser. There are services to conduct COBs (change of billing) so you can get new credit cards shipped to fake addresses under the attacker's control. And nearly all online bank account/CC sellers usually include cookies with the stolen cards now. Criminals have quickly figured out that a VPN in the general location of the victim is no longer good enough and they've adapted much faster than security systems can keep up with. There's also still a very big and unfounded trust system between certain merchants and certain banks. For example, AMEX cards sell for much more on the markets because many merchants (including Amazon) will usually assume trust in those cards even if other factors seem a bit off and will often ship products before fully confirming the transaction, so even if the card is flagged, it's likely a criminal could still steal a product or two. This is nonsense and despite being well known information to anyone that's spent even a little time researching fraud networks, it remains an exploitable loophole.
I find that having to look down at it to hit any of the "buttons" accurately is a huge decrease in productivity. I loved having play/pause right where it goes. Now I have to look at it, hit a button to go to a second level menu, then hit the button. AND it costs more money. That's not good.
I kind of want to take you up on this at a very basic level, as a weekend thing.
Crypto Hardware on Your Wrist
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-mur...

You already exist in a criminal database, comes up as a hit, police create a narrative to fit it, even though it is a false narrative.
In addition to being funny, it's appealing to me to have the option of generating assembly to perform a task in such a way that a human looking at the assembly would have enormous difficulty in determining what is performed. As suggested by its name, it serves as a nice obfuscator.

It also fully avoids all branches.
Like you, I'm not fond of the idea of stripping local governments of their power and controls.

That said, also like you, I'm pretty damn worried about the crisis at hand. Given that the crisis has been pretty uniformly driven by local government policies, they're going to have to be dialed back to fix much of anything.
I don’t see the significance of this. NPR, like many other outlets, but less emphatically, engages in shaping stories, not simply reporting things.

Innskerp, for example, will often pursue an angle of his while ignoring implications of ignoring equally valid angles.

Of course all journalism does this, but the point is while they are spearing “fair” here, it’s not the case in totality.

Interestingly, or admirably, Greene is quite fair, for example, some personnel abide by this more than others.
I have the 13" from mid 2014. After only about a year, one of the cursor keys developed a split, then broke. Now I have an area on the left side of the keyboard causing various keys to fail occasionally — the '2' in particular, the 'a' now also.

These issues are insignificant compared to the problems I've had with the screen coating; my first Mac laptop has been a pretty disappointing experience overall.
Agreed. I bought a 2017 and took it back because I vastly preferred my 2015.
SO might have had the moderation resources. The early PSE site didn't (as described in https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/200144 ). The moderation actions trying to deal with that were done mostly by diamond moderator fiat and occasionally Jeff or Joel saying "no."

The community that was there at the time wasn't doing any significant moderation or curation of those questions. Consider https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4417... and consider is that useful? curated? Should "Quit my last job." (entire answer) be there? or "I tried to apply good programming technique to a language such as TI-83+ BASIC."? Count how many times "read books" or some variation is in that list.

It wasn't moderated or curated. Such pile on "give a pithy answer" was acceptable. And it made the site - trying for the more conceptual and architecture questions that Joel was asking for in his blog post harder to find, and they would get drowned out by the popular fun questions. That lead to https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/01/31/the-trouble-with-popul...

Its not that those aren't interesting questions, its that they are the wrong fit for that format. There are better places to ask for the best programming joke than Stack Overflow and Exchange sites.

And so, with the lack of moderation and curation from the fun days of Programmers.SE a different philosophy of the site was able to establish itself... and the site grew in activity.

The culture of a site is a proof of work. You have to work to maintain it. If there isn't work to do it, it can change. Its probably far to late to change to the less moderated version of the site again. However, if one wants to do that, actively work to curate the site so that those questions are acceptable.

MathOverflow has a fair number of fun and soft questions - but that comes at a lot of work of moderation and curation from the entire community... which they do. The community on other sites that wants those fun and soft questions has not shown as much a desire to curate them, and so others moderate them (not desiring to curate them either).
Politicians are quite worried about what the public want. If a bunch of constituents ask about this, the question may end up in an internal poll, and so on... Lobbying is an important source of funds for politicians, but it’s not everything.

Obvious recent example in the US; the dramatic shift in Democratic Party support for single-player as it became clear that that was something that constituents were extremely concerned with. Obviously that’s a big issue. But this can happen with smaller issues, too.

Right now, your representatives don’t know what’s important to you. Telling them will at worst do nothing, and may well help.
Contact a lawyer that normally deals with lotto winners to help setup the right entities (probably an LLC) to own the treasure. This protects you incase someone decides to sue you. Depending on the state, you can claim someone else as a nominee manager of the LLC so your name stays off anything public. You'll still have to pay taxes on the find and then taxes on any capital gains you get from selling treasure. It might even be better to hold onto the treasure and sell off bits as needed instead of trying to flip the whole thing. I know capital gains taxes favor long term investments although he price of gold might fluctuate enough for you to technically lose money (meaning no taxes on the sale). There are a whole host of scenarios that can liquidate your treasure fast or slow, cheap or expensive but it all depends on your state and the market.
Yeah, definitely no idea. Several years spent researching into WW2 history - and all are for nothing.

Thank you, good sir, I will drink myself out.

But before I indulge myself into drowning myself in beer, can you please elaborate, where you'd saw a 'pop history nonsense'?
Sure, just reach escape velocity (well, in the right direction). It's higher than orbital velocity, obviously. To escape the solar system you'll need a bit more velocity on top of that.

We do this all the time with probes to other parts of the solar system. Manned missions (Apollo) used a small number of earth orbits before doing the burn to get to the moon primarily to ensure that systems checked out before making the bigger step.
What if somebody you don't like wants to move in next door? Should you get a say in that too? What if your neighbor builds a spite fence? What if your neighbor plants a tree that sets off your allergies?

The NIMBY attitude of "This town was perfect when I moved here in 1974 and it should never change!" is such a terrible attitude for so many reasons. Change is a part of life sometimes and actively denying other people's opportunity to improve their own situation when you are in a position of privilege is how you eventually get guillotines in the streets.
I studied Java then taught it for a couple of years about 2001/2. I even got the Sun Java Certification. As luck would have it, I never programmed professionally as Java developer. Last year I decided to contribute some patches to a Business Intelligence (BI) tool written in Java. I could only afford a few hours a week. I tried Eclipse, didn't get anything done for a month. Switch to Netbeans, and was able to contribute my first patch within a few hours. Most things just worked, I didn't have a good handle on the intricacies of Netbeans but I was productive. I know Oracle is "evil" but that didn't stop us using Java. Not sure why Netbeans usage is higher. It really is a good IDE.
I don't drive and don't care about cars in general, but I'm just riveted by this video.
You want to remove the /amp/ from the end of the URL, otherwise desktop folks might not get the story.
I hate to be that guy, but in my opinion, Apple has completely changed direction from the business of building general computers, to the business of building mobile devices. Also, it's a shame that they are sacrificing usability and durability to build the thinnest and lightest eye candy for coffeeshop crowd.
Quite literally!
http://theconversation.com/millennium-prize-p-vs-np-4246
Sharing this with HN community as obviously it makes no sense to limit it to just Indie Hackers. I asked this question over on the IH forum and it revealed some interesting socially focused projects. I'm keen to discover more "Tech for good" startups/products and learn what the motivations are behind them.
Poe's Law I think...and for the avoidance of doubt I think he was being funny.
Banks and credit card companies in the US have a vested interest in ensuring that credit cards are used to purchase goods and services on credit. In 2017 total credit card debt in the US was ~$941 billion.[1] At an average rate of 15%[2] that's $141 billion per year that banks make on credit card debt interest (not counting interest on interest and fees).

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/average-credit-card-debt-hou...

[2] https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/interest-rate-r...