skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious to know how a company like mine [1] might offer the same value to users while avoiding google.

When we first launched (on HN, I should note), we checked the browsers that people used to come to our site. It was roughly 90/10 Chrome/Firefox. That’s why we built our first extension for Chrome (and later built for Firefox also). Don’t we have to meet our users where they are?

Would love to hear your ideas!

1: http://www.BeeLineReader.com/individual
I'm looking at moving to Denmark, and as part of my reading I was surprised to learn that public sector employment accounts for 40% of full time jobs.

For all the bad rap it gets about being inefficient, some things really ought to be run by the government, especially when public money is involved. I find it hard to believe that a government run system could be less efficient than one that has to pay off insurance companies, recruiters, and mass marketers, all with what seems like little oversight.
Try old school tricks first:

- Explain your queries: you will be surprised to know a lot if stuff madre with ORMs is not well indexed.

- Take a look at the slow query log (and run that queries with Explain before).

- Exploit recency: I bet most reads are from recent data.. Or data that was written near other data you ask... If that is the case xonsidera partitioning the tables.

- Thing about the best index type form your tables. Some are better than others.

- If some data is not going to be written again, a columnar data store would help...

Don't go distributed at first.

Disributed means when something fails you have to know what abd where is failing... Instead of knowing just what.

If you want to go distributed.. Try sharding right now.
If it works for you, add a cache and use the shards.

But try old school, boring stuff first because you might need it later.
The fact that a private company can essentially execute you or your business from the Internet is exactly what's so terrifying.
And if Apple sold the MBP for 500 bucks their sales would 10X. But that wouldn't be profitable.
Code coverage wasn't making it better. As one of the developers on the project, I already knew who was writing good code or not (but I couldn't do anything about it).
Even 10 years seems to me completely unimaginable for sharing some PDFs
This makes me wonder if there should be laws enshrining corporate responsibility and perhaps a mandatory appeals process.
No, it's not. I grew up in the South. If you didn't, you have no right to even say these things.
No, a "custom implemented" hash table is not used for the benchmark in C.

A generic hash table from a third-party library is used -- something written to be generally useful, not compromised to look good on a toy benchmark.

https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/
It's never really gone away either. Even now, provided you take the time to learn the format, custom DTD's are still very much a thing.

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2014/09/sgml-nostalgia/
> "What is x + y?" which could be easily done faster on a desk calculator.

I seriously doubt that even if we still lived in a world where normal people actually owned calculators. This is just "No wireless. Less space than a nomad." again.
> If you meant that this is a capitalism/free-market problem and the US is the poster child for those values, then I agree with the sentiment, if not the phrasing.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. I've edited it a bit to make that more clear.

I would argue that it does seem uniquely bad in the US, and that could be for a number of reasons like significant differences in drug use compared to other developed nations[1].

1. https://recoverybrands.com/drugs-in-america-vs-europe/
Hi fellow Philadelphian! I too tend to ride septa or bike (whenever it's not freezing or raining) to work, only using my car a few times a month for shopping or for road trips in the summers / occasional visits to family in nearby states. The car ends up costing me a little under 3k per year in maintenance, gas, and insurance. Yearning to ditch it, but I do like the freedom to go on these trips (I'm usually bringing lots of gear and going far from population centers for camping).
And even if you can easily think of a scenario, would there not be something ethically questionable about doing so, if the person at the other end had no idea who or what they were talking to?

Generally I consider something ethically questionable when a person is harmed in some way. Can someone explain how a receptionist might be harmed by unknowingly booking an appointment with a robot instead of a person? The real person shows up. The business gets an appointment. The receptionist does their job. Where does the ethical question come in?
I can't be the only one who was annoyed because the game is "Battleship", not "Battleships". I can see using the plural to describe the game generically, but he also uses the name capitalized, which is just wrong.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting article. It's always cool when someone totally subverts the purpose of something to do something entirely different.
My first oil painting
> I've been using it but I'm not sure how secure it really is.

Then why use it? That seems like an important detail for a password manager.
Yes, but they have their own unintended consequences. As an outsider I have no idea what, but I've been around long enough to know they exist. They might or might not be worth it.
Ethiopia seemingly has an incredibly good relationship with China. The lion's share of FDI in Ethiopia is from China, and much of it goes towards large infrastructure projects. Flying through the airport in Addis recently I was surprised to see multiple Chinese restaurants, a special lounge for Chinese travelers, and signs everywhere in Chinese.

It's great to see economic cooperation working out so well on so many levels!
Cybersecurity Threat Breakdown – April 2018
This is just pointless pessimistic ranting.
U.S. top court backs companies over worker class-action claims
Saw Paul present this last year at the International Conference on Live Coding, really cool project.

He has some more excellent work here: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor

A see also: https://github.com/mollerse/ait-lang
This is pretty basic:

a) By sending a message, the user is consenting to the contents of the message being delivered.

b) The user is entitled to request that you (the messaging service) deletes their details but you have a legitimate business reason for retaining the message details (ie. someone else that you are serving is using them).

That said, if your co-founder isn’t more committed than this, then let him go—just make sure you have a legal document stating that he gives up all rights.
Deep-state doesn't just mean conspiratorial "them/they". It means all of the bureaucratic individuals that haunt the halls of government between administrations and Congressional turnover. They drive policy. They are around for years. It's these unimaginative individuals that hold us back.

Republicans wanted a payback. That's fine. Every colonial backer wants that. The argument could have been fusion. We'd extract helium on the moon. We'd also have the ability for meta-materials fabrication there given the weaker gravity. All of this could have been wrapped up in the Republican's favorite spending bucket: war readiness. Few argued for that at the time.

The Democrats did what you said, tried to keep their plantations populated through bread and circuses. They lacked the ability to see how colonization would provide jobs and reduce crime by allowing people that don't fit well in society an outlet like the US had with its Western frontier.

At this point the US is too indebted to support such a program, at least at a governmental level. I think our only hope is private parities establishing their own colonies in order to create meta-materials from mined asteroids.
Right, but we also spend billions on automobile infrastructure and nobody complains at nearly the levels they do about one high-speed rail project. It's clearly not just the money. People are particularly critical of rail projects and particularly unconcerned about the cost of new highways.

Consider for example that every single American (at least) on this forum has heard about California high-speed rail and how much it costs, but I had never heard of this $8-billion highway project until I just googled "LA highway projects":

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-high-desert-fr...

Projects like that one are running all the time and nobody cares or complains.
That would be amazing (but also incredibly creepy). It would also probably end up finding a lot of people who actually are related and don't know it (adopted children etc)
A while ago (around 2 or so years) I did quite a bit of mechatronics and Kalman Filters were used resonable effectively for data fusion in IMUs. I wouldn't be surprised if there were better methods around but all the standard chipsets used them at that time.

EDIT: I forgot but I've seen them used more recently by CERN for particle trajectory prediction as part of their hit tracking system. I only know this since they wrote about it in some of their supporting documentation for their latest kaggle comp [0].

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trackml-particle-identification
Your original comment is poor. Google deemphasized the "don't be evil" clause, but they did not remove it from the document.
Agree. This mentality stems from the "Friedman Doctrine" which says that all a business should be concerned with (so long as it acts within the law) is maximizing shareholder value. America was captivated by this idea, and it's still how most think about business here.

This has been one of the most insidiously destructive forces in the modern world. Luckily the millennial generation (even in America) is largely rejecting this conception of the purpose of business.

You can read Friedman's Op-ed in the NYTimes espousing this here: https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/f...
Ivany-Pogost means that it was inn kept by Ivany family. I.e. it was not a settlement.
> After taking a step backwards you're just exploiting/taking advantage of vulnerable people looking for help and using that to manipulate them into giving you money.

This describes an uncomfortably large section of our (customer facing) economy. Casinos, tobacco, payday loan sharks, etc are the obvious actors. But if you look more closely, you will see that there are essentially two families of competing in b2c:

* productive: quality, service, price.

* destructive: bait and switch, seduction through marketing (unrelated to the actual product), etc.

All of the destructive forms eventually boil down to: abusing the faults in our human brain. Once you start looking at the world this way, you will see it everywhere. Almost every commercial on tv is destructive. E.g. car commercials never talk about car specs; they just try to seduce your fallible brain. Perfume. Clothing brands. Any food franchising (which are not about food, they are marketing companies who happen to sell food). Etc etc etc. None of these advance society forward.

There is an all-out, 24/7 war on your brain. It is what hippies mean when they talk about “buying shit you don’t need”. The only problem with that statement is it puts the blame with the consumer. But we are only human, and fighting a mental war 24/7 is exhausting. The problem is more insidious than mere gluttony / consumerism.

The example here is egregious and very clear. But make no mistake about it: it exists, in smaller form, everywhere you go.
You lost me when you said "not Trump's, but rather the deep-state".
I've been happy with 1password as well, other than two times my vault would not unlock until I restarted my computer.

Making it seem like you lost access to all your passwords seems just below security issues as far as high priority bugs, in my opinion..

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/82915/why-cant-...
As a former scientist, and researching during the 90s, the publishing system that has arisen where a company can monopolise it, and by that, prevent access, is very unfortunate.

No scientist wants their work to be unseen and hidden behind a paywall, but that is what has happened.

Worse still, in some fields amateurs can make a reasonable contribution to the field (my experience is observation astronomy), and the current system hinders that.

So many comments along the lines of I can't find the paper I want without going to SciHub tells you just how broken the current publishing system is.
I'm seeding a small Tb too. Sadly I just took some random torrents in order to "randomize" the lot.

It's a shame though that the publications are in zipped files…

Don't forget to download the metadata too !
My experience is mainly limited to Hotels though and I've found 1 star reviews on Google tend to match my actual experience with bad hotels very closely.

I am based in Europe though so maybe this isn't a universal experience?
No it isn’t. Google can chose to put anyone’s reviews in first position arbitrarily (as a featured result).
And you could probably have a buffet car on that length of route and as you say it increases the potential catchment area for the parks.

Last year in the UK I helped optimise a ppc campaign for Centre Parcs (up market forest holidays) and they found that almost all customers would only drive < 2hours.

So I knocked up a simple Perl system that used the lat and long of every post town/place in the country and worked out the as the crow flies distance to each site.
Microsoft offers free phone support on free services. I had an issue with parental settings in Microsoft Accounts and Xbox Live. I was able to chat with a person online, receive call backs from 2 different people, spent hours on the phone, and a received a up email many months later from Microsoft notifying me that the issue had been resolved.

It wasn't a pleasant experience but I did get to talk to real people and they did eventually resolve the issue.
This might lead to cinemas making their staff care about people bringing in their own snacks though, which would suck.
Whenever vim comes up I see someone trying to sell the audience on some "amazing", obscure and rarely used feature that users of other editors should be jealous of... However, it seems to me that if anyone actually wanted those features then they'd be standard in other text editors and we'd have them already.

But what I find really hilarious is that whenever these features are mentioned I see people who have been using the thing for a decade say "I never knew that!" or they dicker about what the commands actually are.
I love this! It's prophetic
My question to those who are more informed than me is the following: why isn't the runtime distributed separately, like the JRE? It would essentially allow for smaller apps while keeping the advantages of Electron. It's an obvious thing so I'm sure there are reasons I'm not considering.
Sure, there will not be another social network or another smartphone, but innovation is still taking place in many other areas. It's often hard to see what game-changers look like ahead-of-time before they are actually recognized as such (otherwise, we'd all be successful VCs).
"Why is Elon Musk wasting his time getting us to Mars when there are problems on Earth that need fixing?!?"
It's really weird how people desire to classify their personalities. I suppose it's a human instinct to classify and organize all information.

Same with Meyers-Briggs personality types, which are accepted as truth by so many that some companies use the test with new hires. It's about as scientific as a horoscope. All the personality traits described are tuned to that magical level of vagueness--vague enough to describe literally anyone from time to time, as we are all many different people as time goes on, but specific enough to seem eerily accurate. We want to believe things like this.

Same with "learning styles." It's a convergence of cognitive bias. We want to classify, name, and organize everything--especially when it pertains to ourselves. We want to be unique and know ourselves. It has an added bonus of being an excuse for our failings as well.

I think most people don't know what science really is, but they think they know how it sounds. So people easily believe and even self-diagnose themselves with pseudoscientific phenomena like this. It's so important to be able to look for predictions that are being made and then confirmed or disproven, and the rigor of an experiment to prove it's not just wishful thinking or bias.

If you decide you have a different learning style because [brain words], then do an amateur experiment to try to assess how it has affected you, it's really hard to actually nail down what's happening. You might simply be focusing harder because of the novelty of the situation. You only have a single subject for your experiment, and the subject is also the observer. Terrible setup. But most laypeople will believe that seeing is believing, and that they have proven something to themselves beyond doubt. Thus pseudoscience spreads.
The good bits are fairly closely aligned with GDPR so it will be hard for the next government to over turn.
Seattle had a free ride area for a while. They ended the program in 2012.

http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/ride-free-area/index.ht...
Fun fact: The entire UK government relies on Google Suite internally.

Fuck knows how that works with PATRIOT.
You have multiple friends paying $2K/yr for car insurance? Are they amateur demolition derby drivers?

I pay just over half of that for three cars and two adult drivers. (and in Massachusetts, which does not have a fully open/competitive insurance market.)
We also allow export in something called 1PIF. It's a JSON format export of your data. It doesn't currently handle everything super smoothly, notably Documents which are new.

We'll have another solution in the not too distant future that should cover things and be a documented format that anyone with the know how could use.

Also important to note, that if your account ever lapses due to lack of payment. The account is still read-only. You can export your data if you wish even when the account is read-only. We do not lock you out of your data, we just prevent normal use of the application (browser extension, editing items, adding new items, etc). But the data you've already entered is entirely accessible if you want to copy/paste or export.

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AgileBits
Growing up with AI
I don't think it needs to be that sinister; people tend to form relationships with those they feel emotionally close to, and there's probably a pretty rapid onset of intimacy in support groups like that.

I'm not saying there aren't predators, mind you, I just don't think that every relationship there stems from one person trying to take advantage of another.
Bad example. Einstein wasn't exactly a 'life is worth living' advertisement by the time he reached old age. I doubt he would have taken the offer. Source - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTUjb-iKf4
Deception is a form of harm.
Along similar lines, Reply All recently did a segment on predatory "treatment" centers that basically milk money from Medicare w/o providing effective treatment:

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/121-pain-funnel#episod...
I should add that I have worked on a messaging service recently, and that is the advice that a qualified UK-based solicitor provided in their case.

I doubt your case is any different.
In a recent podcast, the socialists of Chapo Trap House joked that they were happy to see Amazon consolidate power. Once it takes over every business in the country, it will be easy to “cut off the head” and simply impose government control over the economy.
It's personal to the person.
> I am 18-year-old student at the University of the Republic [Uruguay] interested in computer security

Someone could say that he could have gotten even more money by selling his findings in the black market, very difficult but doable. However, as someone who understands how studying computer science in a 3rd-world country is, getting USD +36k in a legal way and from a company that is considered one of the best in the industry, it must have felt very good to get that mail.

Congratulations, and keep the good work.
I use React + React Native for https://www.jqbx.fm. As a 1 man project it seemed like the only sensible way to build mobile (android/iOS) and browser versions. I can share almost all of the code (where applicable) so one can move a lot faster and have a lot less mental overhead.

That being said React Native has stability and performance issues that are tricky and can hold up your app for a non-trivial amount of time. Also staying on top of updates requires diligence and can be a pain. But if you're looking for the quickest path to market I would say look no further.
I was thinking about this the other day, and it's really all about status. You don't buy a BMW because you think "this is a great deal and a great piece of engineering, what a great and practical use of my money!". You do it because you want people to know you have a BMW. Which I guess is great if you associate with the kinds of people that care about wasting money on perceived social status, but absolutely doesn't make sense if you care about making a smart financial decision.
OK, but what does that change? Ride public transport and fund it through taxes, or drive a car and still pay for public transit? You don't have a choice, so it is effectively free.
Still don't understand the issue. IP addresses are being kept private like with all the other user details right? You still can have web logs with ip addresses without needing consent.

And also (as stated in numerous places) that you won't get hit with fines. If you aren't compliant (and it would take a big violation to get their notice) you are given ample time to comply. Or you could in your case if you really are violating it flagrantly then you could just block access to EU. But you would have to a big violater.

So if you look at a prisoners dilemma outline you've got:

- you are violating / you block EU: outcome is no market access to EU
- you are violating / you don't block EU: you have access to the market and if you are caught violating you got ample time to change or you can just block EU and you're in the same boat as before
- you aren't violating / you block EU: you just blocked access for no reason and losing out on a market
- you aren't violating / you don't block EU: You have access to the market

So if you don't know you're violating or you wonder about the IP address and weblogs issue which is minor, then the prisoners dilemma show that best go with continue as normal. There is no case were you would be hit with big fines.
I know you said you don't maintain this plugin anymore, but does it still exist in some form? It sounds interesting!
If the case being made is just that we don't need the absolutely latest smartphone, I'm totally onboard.

But there is also a lot of offhand grumpiness about how we don't need all this technology, which I disagree with. Technology improves our lives, but it's not always apparent right away.