skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comparison with corporations and nations is not entirely fitting. Money and words work out fine.

In the case of nations, we don't have to agree for them to be real. For example, China (the Peoples Republic of China) does not agree that Taiwan (the Republic of China) exists or vice versa, yet both are undeniably real. The same with Serbia and Kosovo.

Some things exist only because of convention or an agreement between people, like the value of a Nobel prize or money.

Other things exist because we can empirically prove that they exist, like protons and gravity. If we all agree that they don't exist, it doesn't make it so.
I hope this makes your MVP deploys faster!
Xposed shouldn't be used carelessly, see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1y4u1p/can_xposed_...
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>with none of the characteristics of real tech companies

You mean they sell an actual product?

OK. That's glib. But it's often not clear what many "real tech companies" are actually selling that has consumer value at the end of the day. At least sunglasses and sheets are something that people value and use.
So you do 1 Rep Max once a week. Not bad advice.

How many warm up sets do you do?
Why is HN so obsessed with drones? I keep seeing very passionate comments defending them like it's a human right to fly one. Care to explain?
Do men’s gymnastics and figure skating draw the same prestige? My comment is simply about the prestige of the sports, not the merit of the sport itself.
Best to hunt when you are loaded up on fuel. Don't want to be hunting when energy is low as you will most likely be less successful as your focus, patience, and response times will all be lower.

Hunting isn't like going to the store, success isn't guaranteed.
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You have free will. You can opt-out of "the system" but it will be painful given your desires and lifestyle. So, yes, these things are wholly voluntary.

If you want to live a modern, "easy" lifestyle then some of these things start to look rather coercive.
> That means NO storage [...]

There's a difference between storing only the data required for conducting your business, and storing all the data you possibly can for some imaginary future use. I'm suggesting the former is a better practice.

> If you store it "anonymous" you can

Anonymity via random-but-unique IDs is a tenuous protection at best when storing everything you possibly can. Take, for example, the fact that with a gender, a zip code, and a birthday, you can be uniquely identified with around 85% accuracy [0]. None of those are traditionally considered to be PII, and it's pretty likely that these are the kinds of things stored "anonymously" by the "store it all for later" kinds of companies.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/what-information-perso...
I love this! If you're a part of a security team and you are not automating your processes and procedures then your team is going to drown. You must automate.

It seems like some simple checklist app but having a non Jira process that takes only a few minutes is so valuable, and "security reviews" and "threat models" as part of your SDLC take insane amounts of time and honestly aren't super helpful.
I'll think it depends on your end goal. Do you want to explore new network architectures and/or associated functions, or use (your own or public) data set to explore possible applications?
If you need SQL now, you might consider CockroachDB:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/

It is on-the-wire compatible with PostgreSQL clients.
When I started at a real estate webhost in 2013, there was a "push Dev to Prod" script, and a scheduled task to run the script every 60 seconds. So we technically had 1440 pushes per day, though most developers were only working during daylight hours.

So having more pushes per day isn't necessarily the metric to maximize. Quality of code changes for each push is important, and this is where automated testing can be very valuable. The goal is for automated testing to be a "gatekeeper of bad code".

But even this system isn't perfect, and it's possible to deploy things that pass tests but still have show-stopping bugs. Or for the code to cause your tests to misbehave - I'm seeing this now with Tape.js on Travis, where Tape sees my S3 init calls as extra tests. Then my build fails because - of the 2 tests specified, 3 failed, and another 4 passed.
I gotta stash this one away. I often refer to the disaster of 20th century health science as scientists repeatedly gathering a single point of data and then drawing a line (or hyperplane) though it, but this is a great article clearly demonstrating an example of that, and how plausible it all seemed at the time.

(Not that it's a trend limited to the 20th century. But it seems to me to have been extremely bad in the health area in that time frame. Not uniquely so necessarily, but quite bad.)
Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Sergey Aleynikov's Conviction Upheld in New York
Read pretty far and still no talk about what Yippies or Zippies believe, giving no ground for conflict. I’m not a New Yorker and at almost 50, I’m still too young to ‘just know’.
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Per a recent article about Siri and third parties:

> According to Wired, which reported on the story back in 2013, the data is shipped off to Apple's data farm for analysis, where it generates a random number that represents both the user and voice file. Six months later, Apple "disassociates" the user number from the clip, thereby deleting the number. The files are then stored for an additional 18 months, all for the sake of testing and product improvement.
Read Hank Paulson's book, Dealing with China. The Communist Party can only extract so much value from to masses while corruption and opacity are the norm in government. Instead of looking at the economy as a virtuous cycle of re-investment making more resources available for collateral, they treat the economy like a well and wonder why it keeps running dry.
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It was becoming plain a few years ago (by 2015 at the latest) that Apple didn't have the aptitude to compete in big Data or machine learning. It was very clever of them to bet on privacy - the one strategy that has little need for big Data and ML.

The other big bet is that something might happen to convince users that privacy is good. We'll see how that plays out - users aren't particularly bothered by Facebook revelations as their DAUs attest. Kids are growing up with microphones in their bedrooms (Amazon echo dot for kids) so privacy will be a deeply erodes concept ~15 years from now (if it isn't already).
>A lot would be solved by outlawing targeted advertising

Many users are in favor of targeted advertising. In a lot of forums where this is discussed, I usually just look for heavily downvoted comments - there's usually a bunch saying "I'd rather not have ads, but if I do have them, I want personalized ads."

Downvoting them won't make the sentiment go away.
Okay, wait. So tech company can store all that data under “xyz anon user” and then they don’t have any data about you?
Same problem we had this year (Power Up). We built two drive bases, and when we tried the Mecanum one against our 2017 robot, it just got pushed right out of the way. No friction.
What is IH?
Not currently.

But I suspect most of the file types that land in iCloud Document containers, Photo Library, and the rest cover 90% of what most people consider important.

So the thinking goes, You can always re-download the OS and applications if necessary. Internet Recovery is a godsend on a machine that fails to boot.

(Insert 80-90's Mac user rant about the Startup "chime" going away - because POST - and Target Disk Mode being more obscure than it should be)

The fact that home internet connections are just now getting to the point now where this is viable makes iCloud backup less of a pain in the butt than it used to be. Still, I don't trust it entirely because of the hacking risks and the fact that it doesn't grab everything by default.
The fact I have to use an ad blocker to avoid having them pollute the search results proves my point I believe.
> Modern UIs with support for themes, complex interactions, [...]

And don't forget accessibility. That's the part that makes me want to scream whenever I see a new lightweight UI toolkit on HN.
One of the things I think about when analyzing organizational behavior is where something falls on the supportive vs controlling spectrum. It's really impressive how much they're on the supportive end here.

When organizations scale up, and especially when they're dealing with risks, it's easy for them to shift toward the controlling end of things. This is especially true when internally people can score points by assigning or shifting blame.

Controlling and blaming are terrible for creative work, though. And they're also terrible for increasing safety beyond a certain pretty low level. (For those interested, I strongly recommend Sidney Dekker's "Field Guide to Understanding Human Error" [1], a great book on how to investigate airplane accidents, and how blame-focused approaches deeply harm real safety efforts.) So it's great to see Slack finding a way to scale up without losing something that has allowed them to make such a lovely product.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
Sounds a lot like my life a couple of years ago (and intermittently since). I don't get the bug reports any more because I think customer service has learned that file name problems can be fixed by renaming the files. Not fun for the user, but a sure fix.

Ya know what kind of file names work virtually everywhere? ASCII ones.
Still not as much as Microsoft Research.
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This is dangerous logic that is usually hijacked by people/groups with agendas. Most people are "good guys".

Examples of successful regulation abound. It's pretty trivial to build (and has been for many years) a device that interferes with broadcast signals or mobile phones, yet we don't have a pervasive problem with this type of interference. We rely on voluntary compliance for income taxes, for example, and have a very effective system despite how trivial it is to avoid taxation. We rely on voluntary compliance with traffic laws and use licensing and sanctions to control violations.

The problem with drones is that unlike traditional aviation, right now there is no privilege associated with that can be taken away. Until that happens, you're left with prohibitions enforced by criminal sanction.
Smartphone maker Xiaomi is rushing to get its IPO done, the market is betting a $100 billion valuation [1]. This reminds me what its founder Lei Jun said a few years ago - "Even a pig can fly if it is in the middle of a whirlwind" [2].

Now the market has apparently reached its peak, I am wondering whether those who are thinking to buy Xiaomi shares will find their whirlwind and fly. ;)

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/05/03/xiaomi-pla...

[2] https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21663324-techn...
I have the understanding from experience that people will always give a reason for doing something that I could not imagine.

So 1st, make questions, understand what is the objective with that code you see on screen.
2nd, make more questions too see if other use cases were considered.

3rd, there are best practices, literature that provide a common way of working, discuss how to apply this.

There are no ways of understanding without making questions.

On this specific case, besides the lack of OO design knowledge, there were also a misunderstand on the page object pattern , how web apps are build and what is the web app and what is part of the browser.

And this is why I also talk with my team on my ideas to develop something before or while developing it. It should not be a surprise, no matter how nice and commented the code is.
There's no ultimate morality here, only people fighting to make their views the orthodox ones. Heretics fight against a force much bigger than them. If they want to be taken seriously, they need to take the next step and form a rebellion, get other people on their side.

This is even more serious than heresy, this is called apostasy. Apostates don't get stoned by their peers, they get crucified by the army. But sometimes civil war is necessary to improve the morality of society. Suffrage was one of those times.

It's the common people that adhere to the orthodoxy that does the burning. Not the censors or the inquisition, who had bigger fish to fry. You won't find me out there tarring and feathering incels.

I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to their viewpoint. What I'm not sympathetic at all to is their stubborn obstinacy. Feminism is more important than your sexual satisfaction.

The answer to the incel situation is sex positivism. There is no holy war needed here. Sex positivism is an orthodox solution. The heretics just need to come back to Jesus.
Plenty of options here if you're interested: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=mecanum&sa=&dwh=585aec7...
You've assembled guns, probably, from parts you purchased. Like Legos. I doubt very much that too many people are hammer-forging 7075 receivers in their garages...
After relentless growth we're about to arrive at a plateauing smartphone market. I wish I could read insights from experts on what to expect in coming years in smartphone market in light of similar markets which entered a no growth zone.

Specifically what will happen to prices, market shares , unit sales, pace of innovation, competition, international growth, developer ecosystems.

Anyone?
Very important topic right now, thanks for writing.
This argument seems so pedantic to me.

Human driving has basically capped out at its potential to improve. It may even be starting to get worse...

Automated driving, has barely begun and even if it is less safe today, it will clearly be much safer than human driving soon. And will only continue to get safer and safer as the technology improves.

Do you we need to be so micro-focused as to have an exact day/model/release where autopilot is safer than human drivers?

I for one have been hit by a drunk driver. My wife was in an accident where the other driver was ACTIVELY playing candy crush. We can all see that automated driving will make the roads a safer, better place even if that takes 20 years.
You don't necessarily have to move to California - see https://www.google.com/about/locations/
It's interesting that this is from the enlightenment website. It's been years since I tried their desktop/window manager. Glad to see they are still around.
Agreed, headline is very clickbait-y, should be changed
Considering the article example is a marathon (26.2 miles, burns ~2600 calories) and your example is deadlifting (4 sets of 8 deadlifts @ 175 kilograms burns ~100 calories - equivalent of running .5 miles).. I'd define this test case as 1.9% as 'Strenuous'.
The National Book Award is pretty prestigious in the States.
I imagine the 20th century was the worst time for it because we had more sophisticated data collection and analysis methods, but failed to recognize our own inadequacies when using those tools to draw conclusions.

Kind of like social media algorithms today.
My personal experience with long (100miles+) cross-country mtb riding (with lots of climbing) is that in fact, catching a cold after such a strenuous ride is way more common than the base rate. This is also the experience reported by most professional cyclists (check TdF reports).

My under-researched model of how this happens, is that there is a lot of tear-and-wear in the muscles where the effort is happening, which leads to inflammation, and that's where the white-blood cells might end up.
I'm excited but skeptical.

Energy-saving concepts have been around for a long, long time. For example, I first heard about the use of kites[1] over a decade ago, yet the company that makes them is struggling to stay afloat.

The issue is that commercial ships are very expensive to build, even using parametric design — where you basically plug in your desired cargo capacity and get a complete blueprint in return. Also, margins for shipyards are razor-thin, so they need to keep production very consistent and predictable in order to stay profitable. So there is not much incentive for either shipyards or shipping companies to build ships that deviate from the standard, cookie-cutter designs.

Maybe the upcoming regulation will provide the necessary incentives, but even then it will take several decades for the majority of ships—which have a lifespan of 40+ years—to be replaced with the next generation.

(Former naval architect and merchant mariner.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySails

Edit: Maybe what's needed is an Elon Musk for shipping. Someone with the resources and guts to take a big gamble on a new technology in an industry that otherwise moves at a crawl.
> Not true at all..

Not true at all.. the bit rate will only affect the noise floor, you'd be hard pressed to notice any difference between 16 and 24 bits (you won't). And when it comes to the Hz - (width of the time-slice, 44 / 96) that will only make any difference on super high frequency sounds, but again, even with that the vast majority of people will perceive no difference. Band limited sound waves can only solve to one solution, and making the slices smaller in the time domain will have relatively little effect because you can perfectly represent all signals in the range of human hearing at 44khz sample rate.

Higher bit rates are useful for people using DAWs like Cubase, ProTools, etc. where your 'signal' is going through myriad processing and summing stages because of the use of multiple tracks, plugins, etc. (sometimes hundreds) That's when you don't want the artifacting from summing multiple approximations. I use 32bit / 96khz in Cubase for this reason.

The human brain is very good at convincing itself [3] that it can tell the difference, but in a double blind test you'd have no chance.

Useful info and reference:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...

[3] http://www.image-line.com/support/FLHelp/html/app_audio.htm
I agree, if the success was there they'd follow it.

But to be fair I think Steve Jobs was pretty interested in privacy and put some of that philosophy in the company. So they were already pursuing privacy goals but there would be these conflicts of interest that they would eventually have to resolve.

Luckily they continued to suck at social networking and many online things. It works better for them to double down on privacy.
> file names that are supposed to be in one encoding (UTF16) but contain invalid data for that encoding

You just described my music collection, aggregated over two decades and haphazard successive migrations. I've given up salvaging the corrupted names in an automated manner...
My cousin happens to be a falconer.

There is a robust regulatory regime at the Federal and State level for keeping, training and hunting birds of prey. There are significant penalties, including Federal felony-level offenses for straying from the path. You're probably going to get in more trouble for abusing birds than whatever you're doing.
It surprises me that an attack as simple as this is effective against a military aircraft. Wouldn't this be an ideal tactic for low technology insurgents to use as a counter against attack helicopters?
Part of it is the committee, Nobel prize selection committee is filled with some of the most prestigious people in that field. In addition, their selection process is very good.

Part of it is their long history of very good selections.

Part of it is the one million dollar reward.
Including not being able to read them when using a 3rd party client?
PagerDuty makes their security training public
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Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access (https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data).

Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What about the database?
> Marx literally calls for centralization in his writings.

Marxism isn't all of Communism.

> And in practice there is always centralization in Communist regimes.

All actual Communist regimes have been based in Leninism and it's derivatives, which are a small subset (in terms of schools of theory) of derivatives of Marxism, which themselves, again, don't constitute all of Communism.
It is expression-based, provides extensive control structures, is machine-independent, can solve problems fast avoiding side effects and comes with a convenient boken system (Not to mention looping fabulous in elegant male skirts).

But It lacks a decent debug system in real time.

Your first grab failed, what do you want to do?:

:R1 TRY AGAIN

:R2 ABORT

:R3 EXIT THE BAR AND RETURN TO YOUR DESKTOP
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For a normal person, unless you're extremely tall or in a very considerable amount of PEDs, you will have a high body fat doing this.
Desktop and mobile searches are indexed separately, so they could hold high desktop rank even if mobile faltered.

Though I'm not sure which service you're referring to specifically. In most cases I would still expect inbound links to be very high, offsetting any mobile penalty.
> ...and I don't see a company treating it's users as 'human beings' not 'commodities' being a front-runner to win a hypothethical future social media companies race; there are just no areas left that any rival company could simultaneously 1) exploit to stay profitable 2) make people use it.

There are a few billionaires who are having second thoughts about a lot of this, I wonder if one could fund a rival non-profit network and run it at a loss until it has enough momentum.

I know I'd shill for a non-profit, user-respecting social network and donate for its upkeep, but I just don't have the resources to keep one going.
>When you code C you code for the C virtual machine, not your CPU

I code for my cpu, when I code C.
No, nothing is truly apolitical.

But in practice it's pretty easy to see that there is a subset of political topics inherently tied to the subject at hand, and a subset of political topics that would be ginormous scope creep. (e.g. a window manager caring about colorblindness vs. a window manager endorsing a political candidate)

It's pretty obvious that the colloquial statements around "no politics" or some form of "keeping politics out" is simply a way to express how much appetite someone has for the gray zone between the two extremes described above.

It frustrates me that the inability to completely disentangle something from the political is used as a thin edge of a wedge that ends in (paraphrasing) "...therefore your project should spend effort on all my pet political issues." At worst it's a dishonest tactic, at best it shows someone's hubris regarding their hobbyhorse.
Not to mention eventually someone is going to figure out how to get a drone to understand sign language. The only way I can think to jam a drone's camera from reading sign language is going to be shining a bunch of lasers at anything that looks like a camera (probably using your own counter drones). Or someone is going to figure out how to take videogame AI and jam it into a drone.

Even if we somehow restrict criminals from getting drone AI (which is on it's face reasonable ... most AI experts probably don't want their work falling into the hands of criminals building kill bots), then I doubt we'll be willing to restrict people from owning half-life because it turns out its AI makes a good autonomous FBI obstructing bot.