skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capacity of the road network cannot be increased forever. The Bay already has some damn big freeways, and Texas has already shown that "wider" does not mean "uncongested", with their 26-lane Katy Freeway, one of the most congested in the country...
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Honestly, this is a regular part of open source projects. Void says they "really like the brand" so they don't want to fork, but it's better to not have these kind of attachments and be free to just start over.

If there's an easy way for them to recover all the accounts, do that, but if it starts taking months, it's time to fork.
I hope you're kidding. GitHub has no legal basis for transferring ownership, and it would be a publicity fiasco if they did. A "reasonable case to ownership" at best would allow to bring the case to court.
As if Zuck did not get a good enough fellatio from US Congress already. He basically controls the political future of everyone involved in the proceedings. What do you think will happen?
"Of course" is jumping the gun here
Measurement equipment data redirection
I was a devout Android user, ever since the first Android phone came out, but after back to back horrible experiences (the first OnePlus and the Nexus 6), I ditched Android for the iPhone and haven't looked back. Much better hardware quality and the ecosystem works extremely well.
Managing DigitalOcean Infrastructure with Terraform
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You wouldn't send a JSON RPC request with GET. JSON RPC requires you to send a JSON object in the body describing the method you are calling and the parameters, and the version of JSON RPC you are using. That requires a POST.

You could just have a single /rpc endpoint that takes POST and use that to serve multiple procedures for all sorts of things.
EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age
Yes, even though they are working remotely now, they still have a lot of bargaining power given to them by virtue of the many local opportunities available to them. Also, being near a lot of developers can't have hurt their chances of getting a job as a developer evangelist.
"MPs found the majority of Mr Schroepfer’s answers about Facebook’s business practices, including their policies on the privacy and protection of users’ data and their relationship with Cambridge Analytica and associated companies, to be unsatisfactory."

"Mr Schroepfer, who was appearing as a witness in the Committee’s inquiry into Fake News, failed to answer fully on nearly 40 separate points, including.....

This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?
The way we used to do it in our bit of BT was for passwords to be limited and to be written down put in an envelope and stored in the fire safe.
It's May 1st.
The future, the reality Operating System, an enabled landscape
Just a reminder that the growth rates for SF, SV, Seattle, Portland are all pretty puny compared to the growth rates of, e.g. Detroit at its peak. Hell they're not even that crazy compared to growth rates those cities have handled before.

People just aren't interested in any perceived threat to their property values so they're strangling growth based on an entitlement mindset. No, sirs and ma'ams, your home's price appreciation isn't a right.
Show HN: Todo List, Daily Kanban, Colors, Tags (I Built It)
This is not a tech problem waiting for a tech solution; it's a people problem. Project managers/admins/maintainers need to be able to share power for long-term survival (exceptions are rare). This is step one and for most projects there are no ways around that.

If that's the case, then we can talk about tech solutions, but for the most part that's sharing account data for SPOF-y things like domain and hosting contracts.
Do you want to spend four years in Philadelphia or New Haven?
Sounds similar to the FindBugs project (discussed here [1]). The result from that episode was a fork into SpotBugs [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885549

[2]: https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs
I use Fi from my iPhone. its not officially supported, but works without issues.
This may sound really lame but I'm excited for Bambi to be public domain (the book, not the film)
Over the last year I've come to trust effectively nothing on the internet. I've had so many Spotify playlists I was following disappear, whole artists, websites, articles, etc.

I'm slowly moving to offline-first versions of all the information I care about. Edit: This change too also lends to the 'slow web' (or just slow $whatever) movement, which I'm a fan of.
IP address is only personally identifable info if it is coupled with other info that links it to a real person.

Storing an IP address by itself and sharing it is not, by itself PII
Wishing the best resolution to this situation. Have been a Void Linux user since last May and enjoying it lots, the best Linux distro by far.
Depending on the license. If you have a CC-BY-SA or public domain at the bottom, then you're allowing people a legal right to keep a copy.

In practice, the nature of the web allows everyone to keep copies of everything if they want. But if someone republishes it, then you need to use the DMCA process (for American websites) to take that content down if it violates copyright.

Going back to print, what if you print something you don't want out there anymore? Well if people have already bought your book or magazine, they have bought a right to that physical copy. They can even sell the book or magazine to anyone else (granted that the content isn't illegal).
The server tells the client about the state through the hypertext documents it sends it. The client then transitions to a new state by performing an action described in that document. Hence: Hypertext/Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS).

I'm still not grasping why you think the API above needs some kind of universal client though. You can implement a very simple client for that extremely quickly. All you need to do is loop over the actions and render a button for each one using the provided label. Then when the button is clicked/tapped, you perform the action described and the response will be the next state.
PDF files can be abused to steal Windows credentials
First off, I'm surprised an open project has such a high bus factor. There should always be a contingency plan.

The IRC channel could have easily been protected if a second or even third trusted member of the team was given admin privileges and/or access to bots. The domain and github accounts are tricky because of ownership and financial payments.

The right way to do this would be to form an organization (non profit, etc) and register all the domains and accounts to that entity. Then delegate access to one or more trusted members with the founder as the head.

And finally, let this be a lesson to open developers. If you want to participate in a large open project, check the bus factor and proceed with caution.
Take a cab and if the driver says the machine is broken just say you can't pay then. This fixes most card machines, regardless of the fault.
MPs threaten summons Zuckerberg answer Facebook data questions
(I'm not a fan of apple, but) I wouldn't say "Apple isn't a tech company". Even a little. They design their own chips, software, and hardware, and sometimes push the tech industry (independent of whether or not they're subjectively innovative). Their success definitely comes from their marketing and design, but that's practically the norm for tech companies.
It's clear from reading the threads in here that user experience on either side is not consistent. That's fine, get what works for you. If you have an android and it's not working for you, then switch to an iphone, and vice versa. Try a flip phone if you need simplicity.

What I don't get it... is this fanboyism, this loyalty to a company that knows you as close as a number on a spreadsheet and a dollar amount on their bank account. Companies are not loyal to you, they will do whatever they want and push whatever product they build on you as long as you keep your devotion ($).
Good policy. Then I can just watch for people to go on vacation via their Instagram, and while they're out I'll contact GitHub and say "Hey this person is unreachable! Give me control of their projects!"

Brilliant.
iPhone and Google Pixel 2: glued shut expensive phone from Apple or Google. Pick your poison.
How to Know If You Will Ever Succeed in Life
The code != the project, and situations like this one demonstrate this. In a typical open source project, it's relatively easy to ensure continuity of the codebase, but continuity of the organization, and all the meta that enable communication, collaboration, coordination, is a challenge. Doubly so are hardcoded trust anchors that need to be moved: project and artifact names, IRC channels, domain names, keys and certs(!), contributor rights and permissions, URLs for artifacts.

Further, there's no good literature on what one's supposed to do in this case, or how to architect one's organization to be resilient to such situations. Even having a council of superadmins wouldn't solve all of the above -- if any service dependency doesn't natively support more than one administrator, the same credential would have to be shared among all admins, leading to a comparable set of problems: arguably worse, as one rogue actor can take control of portions of the management infrastructure.

There's a real lack of maturity in identity and access management for the needs of multi-leader organizations in spaces like domain hosting, code hosting, IRC channels, and, y'know, nearly everything else.
This was intended to be a rant on complexity, but I just got carried away. Important lesson on not letting emotions getting the best of me.
For scientific research maybe, but I'm sure you're aware that usage "anecdotes" (i.e. use cases) are part of the basis of designing a user experience.
How do I go from poorly organized to executive level organized?
The most sophisticated I am with my organization is I follow a Google calendar that I am pretty good at keeping up to date, but I am struggling to stay on top of every ball up in the air. Are there any tips/apps/services you'd recommend to help me next level my organization skills?
U.S. Supreme Court to hear case about who gets paid in class action lawsuits
I interpreted it as being a joke, which while may be construed as poor taste, was probably made in jest.

One commenter on the original thread pointed out the other difficulties the OP will eventually run into regarding booking flights, etc. so I presume that since the OP is not actually dysmorphic or having gender dysphoria that they will eventually discover that what they will encounter from doing this was not worth the $1000 a year saved.
Who could have guessed, policy makers that serve the hand that feeds them?
> It's like saying "when I do something crazy in public I want to be able to make everyone forget about it later on". That's not how things are supposed to work.

Says who?
What is expensive?

You can find places like OVH or Online.net that has dedicated servers with "unlimited" bandwidth. Cost is far less than you'd find with the major cloud services. I had a 10Mbps dedicated server for several years on online.net serving 2-3 TB of video per month. Unless you get hammered with many requests, SATA might be enough, while SSD will obviously offer better performance.
> Idempotence is not the problem here, by the way. That just means calling the method twice has the same effect. But GET should have no side-effect, in an ideal world. Of course, in the case of unsubscribe links, it needs to have a side-effect to comply with the law.

Could you have the page redirect to itself with POST? Like javascript redirect or metatag. Browsers would do this, and there wouldn't be any different for users, but bots, slack and Safari probably wouldn't.
What does film photography's future look like?
Announcing the release of Fedora 28
Guido van Rossum just tweeted:

I misread the original post -- it's the latest, not the last. Maybe I was hoping it's the last, but the intention of the team is not to stop supporting it now. Apologies!
Are we all going to just ignore the fact that lots of mailing list operators seem to be able to present a link to unsubscribe without triggering the bot problem?
This is terrible. The country is already polarized enough as it is, we don't need businesses that cater to one tribe and exclude the other.

Also, I think it's creepy and a turn-off to get any kind of faux-informal mass-message "customized" with my name, mad-libs style. It's a particular uncanny-valley kind of impersonal.
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Extractive Text Summarization Using Neural Networks
I think this is true in the already-ad-saturated environment. But if we imagine a world without ads, it's hard to think there wouldn't be other ways of getting a product out there.

One obvious way is through buyers. A lot of clothing and housewares brands, for example, don't advertise significantly. Instead, they shop their wares to buyers for retailers. Another is through reviewers. Electronics companies, for example, have a long tradition of sending out gear to magazines and other sources of reviews. Car magazines are another good example. In the modern age, that also can mean lending or giving gear to people influential in an area.

If ads didn't exist, I think we'd see more of that. And we'd certainly see more of other approaches. Look at ProductHunt, for example, where startups can put things in front of a crowd of early adopters for nothing. It would be pretty easy to imagine specialist versions of that for particular interests. And look at Tesla, which famously didn't run ads; plenty of people have heard of them.

So I agree you're right that some new companies today could be at a disadvantage if they don't buy ads (although definitely not all of them). But I'm not convinced that's a necessary case if we end the ad arms race.
Related (a bit) http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
Specifically the labeling engine is very nice, but the other tools listed here are quite valuable as well: http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/cartography/...
Why do they bother photographing real models if they end up filling their screens in Photoshop in the end anyways?
That is:

a) Correct.

b) Beneficial to most participants in the market, well off (mainly due to luck in timing) NIMBY's being the exception.
I don't have a problem with puns, I have a problem with compulsive, unimaginative, lazy punning.

This isn't a problem unique to puns, but I feel like they do get unfairly punished when talking about overused figures of speech while tired cliches, car analogies that just aren't apt and a ton of mixed metaphors go seemingly unnoticed.
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Nice job! I'm consistently impressed by your work ethic
DHS S&T Awards First Phase 4 Award for IOT Security
For my hobby projects I'm more worried about getting expensive letters from greedy lawyers telling me about some non compliance issue (Abmahnung) not about government authorities. Especially since you often have to sign agreements which include high fines for a second violation (Strafbewehrte Unterlassungserklärung). Considering the complexity of the regulation, reliably avoiding violations and regressions sounds difficult.
Github also does it for their logout button for good reason. Is that a dark evil pattern to keep you logged in to their ecosystem? Or just something someone would say who doesn't understand it?
Thanks for this! That's a game-changer for Safari-based logins for me.
The problem with the statistics provided is that they don't account for how long the drives have been running. Eventually all hard drives will fail but what matters is how long it will take until they do. From the charts I can't understand which is the most reliable over time. Or am I just misinterpreting the data?
I had coded something similar for TADHack 2018[0] we didn't get it as cleanly as this but we got it working enough to demo. I haven't had a good chance to post our original code yet though. Looks nice, would love to know about the back-end stack used. We used Flask / MongoDB for ours.

[0] http://blog.tadhack.com/2018/03/12/tadhack-mini-orlando-2018...

Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...)
> live with (...) a few roommates and live nice lives

Those two together don't compute for most people. I'd say only a minority of people are fine with living permanently in a dorm-like environment. Historically, having to share a house/flat with strangers has always been a sign of poverty.
A blog is not like a Facebook post. It's more like writing an essay, publishing it in a book, and then asking libraries to burn their copy of the book.
> It's odd to say you "don't accept their defense" when you're really just operating from a different set of assumptions in the first place.

Why is that odd? Their set of assumptions is exactly what he is criticizing.
That looks like a great fit. Thank you for the tip!
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852788
And that's the horrific part to me. Instead of making sane software or sane policies, it ends up making perfect sense, at least at an individual's level, to manufacture a piece of specialist hardware that does nothing but jiggle a mouse.
Not GDPR-specific, but France.com had its web domain seized by France recently[1]. It was a private US-based business (not a squatter) that the government of France had actually cooperated with for years, until they suddenly decided it violated French trademark law and seized the domain. The domain itself had been in one person's possession since 1994.

Enforcement of national laws is very much a thing across borders, so private businesses outside the EU are right to be apprehensive about what is going to happen as GDPR enforcement ramps up.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/france-seizes-fr...
Dropbox probably stores things in a couple different locations.
Author here. Thanks for your response. (I've had a few ex-Kindle folks reach out with either precisely similar or precisely opposite sentiments; I guess it's a big team.)

I originally had a huge footnote acknowledging that much of this is obvious and that the Kindle team is full of smart people who have data showing that maybe these aren't the best optimizations. I'm just describing my expectations from having used Kindles for ten (??!) years coupled with having worked on designing digital reading interfaces for a similar amount of time. I'm certainly an edge case user.

Having seen my mother (edit: and, more pertinently: myself) struggle with her Kindle, I do think the interaction model is one-degree unnecessarily complex — all of those hidden spaces.

You could distill my whole piece to: This is a single purpose device that's been designed like a multi-purpose device.

Page turn buttons + menu button would all but eliminate any interaction ambiguity. And could be done quite beautifully.

Although I don't have access to any data, I think there might be a subset of casual users who would prefer the screen to do nothing when touched.
I have spent more time helping my wife fix her iPhone 7+ than I have spent fixing my Pixel 2. My wife's iPhone won't let her transfer photos from the phone to her Mac. After talking with Apple support for 2 hours (they brought in 3 different people to troubleshoot), their recommendation was to buy more icloud storage or to use Google Photos to get photos off the phone. Their icloud offering is garbage in my opinion.
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I thought the solution set had to be convex or concave for branch and bound to work as an optimization algorithm, and this one clearly isn't?

EDIT: Nope. It's just the objective function that needs to be convex, not the constraints.
Yes, in the short term, there are two things that happen: 1) land values go up, 2) housing costs go down.

The first may benefit current land owners a lot, but the second is absolutely essential for lower incomes to succeed at all.

This is not a zero-sum move, and is fact hugely beneficial to everyone. When there's fixed housing supply, that's when things are closer to a zero-sum economic game.
I think perhaps the new Voyage has it, but other models don't, but something that should improve the reading experience: the functionality of reverse video, white text on black background.
Yes, this is actually what I recommend to people not already locked into the ESRI ecosystem. Render vectors in QGIS and then do all coloring etc in Illustrator.

ESRI's stuff does give you a bit of an advantage on the start in that their labeling for instance will probably look nicer out of the box but since you're already no longer in turnkey solution domain for your map because you are taking it to Illustrator that's something that isn't too big of a deal in the long run.
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They are definitely better, than parent's karma model.
It's not about national laws, it's about the implementation of the GDPR on a national level (namely C&D letters).
The upcoming blog post about helium-filled drives sounds very interesting.
Well I hope that Mr Pardines is OK and well and perhaps just having an extended break. I remember the shock of Ian Murdock's death (founder of Debian although long dissociated from Debian at the time of his death).

If the remaining team fork Void, I shall probably continue to use it, nice system, easy to use and decent repositories.

Right now, a practical concern is the status of the update server and the various mirrors.
1. What are the biggest challenges you're dealing with on the technical side right now?
- is this going to be technically interesting?
- something you can learn from?
- are they doing super boring things or using super crappy tech?

2. Where do you see the $(team you're interviewing for) in 2 years?
- do they respect the team or are they looked at as an annoying expense?
- do they talk about training opportunities, growth, etc?

3. What is your favorite aspect of working here?
- If it's a stock bullshit answer, I dig more.
- If they duck it, that's a smell.
- If they answer honestly, then that's a really valuable datapoint.

4. Every company is carrying some amount of technical debt -- what's the tech debt situation here?
- how much they think there is
- what they're doing about it

5. How would you describe the culture and if/how it is maintained?

5a. Is there an active mentoring strategy? What does that look like?

I made a video about this a while back with a few more questions, and some people left useful comments on it with their own experiences/additions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XPTay-x8g
I don't know Chinese, but given the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_... I'm guessing Chinese is exceedingly punny.
I wonder if they ran any "experiments" (user research) before requiring real names?

https://gizmodo.com/okcupids-new-real-name-policy-is-dumb-18...

I deleted my account after that fiaso
On my iPhone 4S Wi-Fi dies after 2 years and was not working since. Phone performance had been crippled by iOS7. Power button almost broke after 2-3 years (no click).

iPad also crippled by iOS7.

Friend bought iPhone7 and 7plus, 7 had broken GPS out of the box, 7plus had power and volume down buttons break down after several weeks of usage.

Not the ideal quality for sure, especially for that price tag.
> Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...)

Maybe you can make a come back thanks to anti-vaxxers.