skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyway, you do think it's fine to put a device that -on a bit-flip- is able to record and analyze anything you say

Like a phone, tablet, laptop, Nest, etc etc? I’m not saying it’s OK, but Home was hardly the first mover here.

> and inject ads to your daily routine anywhere

This hasn’t happened to me, once. I can and probably throw my Homes in the bin the day they start doing this.

> and this bit-flip can be done anytime because it is connected and updated through the internet without any interaction.

Like the web browser you type all your concerns, medical symptoms, dinner ideas, street addresses, thoughts into completely voluntarily?

I’d argue that people tell google far far more confidential information via search than they ever will say out loud.
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While I agree with your general point ("don't break existing APIs"), I disagree with the current approach (I made a specific comment down there).

This would NOT have been a breaking language change; the problem was introduced by a library that overrides a BUILTIN PROTOTYPE. Let's hope no library (or userspace code) overrides the "flat" method as well.

Overriding other people's code, especially core languages parts, is inherently risky from an API stability POV. I don't think all users appreciate such risk.
What would actually happen is people would stop upgrading their browsers if never versions made some previously working sites inaccessible. The age of automatic browser upgrades would come to an end and it would again take a decade before new features could be used.
Yes - but never mind the requests, what's up with that "GDPR bar"? Where's the 'No, I do not want you to do this' button?
how the heck did he acquire majority hash? Afaiu, this requires massive computational resources that no individual has access to
Visa does 2000 per second. 200k per day is almost laughable.
> The oddly named wc is a command used to count things.

It’s named after word count.
Perl deprecates awk & sed [0]. Whereas Python is a bad substitute for those, and because of that, we're back on Awk. I have the feeling that Python simply succeeded as it seems to be a language designed for people that do not enjoy programming, which sadly seem to be the majority in our industry.

The Perl hate is so prevalent in most companies, that you can get into serious issues should you even write a one-liner in it. So here I am, reluctantly using awk/sed and asking too much of Bash/Python.

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/minimal-perl
New Spectre Variation CVE
Really? I was always wondering why people would care about the looks of a (otherwise very functional) music app. I actually almost never look at it, it simply runs in the background!
Ignoring the misleading/obtuse information here and focusing on the "hell nah" declaration:

Nobody is forcing you to use any of those smart speaker devices, and nobody is forcing you to buy them.
Many people really enjoy using their Google Home or an Amazon Echo, as it greatly improves aspects of their day-to-day life.
Some people with disabilities are actually greatly alleviate by this progress - they can now use their voice to control many different things within their house which was not possible before.
Monkey patching for backporting can be fine. But, monkeypatching to add arbitrary functionality? Totally unneeded.
It is true that very occasionally features are removed from the web platform. It is also true that the incentive structures that exist hugely favour not removing features or otherwise breaking existing content. For a feature to be removed there needs to either be an incredibly compelling reason (e.g. a security problem), preferably so obvious and widely agreed on that vendors are able to make simultaneous releases containing the change in order to mitigate the effect on the competitive landscape, or there needs to be a negligible measured usage of the feature. The latter is most usually the case when the feature was never widely implemented in the first place e.g. some (but not all) vendor extensions.

If it were easy to remove unpleasant features from the platform, browser vendors would be the first people clamouring to make it happen. For example, off the top of my head, there is widespread agreement that it would be good to get rid of, or otherwise improve in backwards-incompatible ways:

* Sync XHR
* document.open
* document.write
* AppCache
* localStorage

But that can't happen, because the desire of browser implementors to simplify their implementation is less important than the need to keep sites running. Apart from anything else, as stated uptrehad, breaking sites is a sure and certain way to get people to switch to a different browser.
" once you accept that humans are fully physical, embodied minds in a sea of whatever chemicals can cross the blood-brain barrier"

I'm not disagreeing, but is this something that everyone reasonable would agree on without any sort of support?

"Humans are part of a society that can harm them without effective means of redress."

Indeed. I am sad every morning I walk my child to creche and her head (in a pram) is at the same height as the exhaust pipes next to her. Yet, there's nothing to be done, apparently.
Instapaper on pause in Europe to fix GDPR compliance “issue”
Disclosure: I am not an accountant or tax lawyer.

In the case of school districts, easily the largest line item of the SALT liability for New Yorkers, The quo would be educational services. Anyone who donates to one of these "charities" and then puts a child in the school system could be at serious risk for tax evasion. It doesn't matter legally if the "charity" is also floated by other revenue streams. It's about what the filer claims and what he receives. I am pretty sure the IRS has a history of formulas to apply for figuring out how much is rendered in services[0]. Per pupil expenditure would be a likely candidate. Perhaps those with no children in the system would be safe.

The analogy with the church would be if they were giving your child a free or discounted on religious school admission as a contingency of how much money you donate. You can't write off donations like that[1]

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8283.pdf

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p526#en_US_2017_publink1000... - "Contributions From Which You Benefit": .... "Tuition, or amounts you pay instead of tuition. You can't deduct as a charitable contribution amounts you pay as tuition even if you pay them for children to attend parochial schools or qualifying nonprofit daycare centers. You also can't deduct any fixed amount you must pay in addition to, or instead of, tuition to enroll in a private school, even if it is designated as a "donation."
> It's like the music business - you don't have to be the Beatles to have a very good career.

For someone who is in both the music business, but also a D programmer for many years, I got to say this was the most inspirational quote I have ever read and it'll be my inspiration in both fields.
A link in TFA that contains 'The 1.3% of HTTPArchive's URLs that have MooTools present.'

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/a135445fc84f7ca5c486b52d56...
Wouldn't this mean you ignore the transactions with the higher fees for the other miners to pick up, thereby making mining more profitable for them?

How bitcoin transacting work is not that the miners publish their price and someone accepts that price and thus sends the transaction to that miner. How it works is that you publish your transaction with the fee you're willing to pay and if your fee is high enough, it will get included in the next block.
“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke -- that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. It's hard to put into words up at the blackboard, believe me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his art as a kind of door. To envision us readers coming up and pounding on this door, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it, we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and pushing and kicking, etc. That, finally, the door opens...and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
> Finally after months of development, procrastination and a complete rewrite, the First stable release is out

It's a good occasion to change the "Hello world" window title.
Ultimately its the knowledge that counts. Although it would be interesting to see a school that gives tuition rebates for good scores instead of grades.
Yes - strength training will take a few months to get used to. Depending on your workout's intensity and volume, you'll want to adjust your calories.
Note: intensity = how heavy you lift, volume = reps * sets
Show HN: A growing library of user flow design patterns
It might be not. But those falls into weird space and we will see how things are going to be played out in practice. I still think they have to conform GDPR, especially having prior data on EU users and involvement of parent company.
They're panicking. Their precious lists will be useless soon (already are, but that's besides the point).

For one the companies probably have not saved you giving consent, for another plenty of them bought lists and mixed those with the lists for which they did have consent.

You doing nothing does not create any consent, the consent has to be active, so the default is that you did not give your consent and only a positive confirmation can change that.

Finally, they probably don't have the right to send these emails in many cases.
Markets are constantly manipulated and what we consider acceptable or not seems at times quite arbitrary. For instance quantitative easing is a practice we engage in whose entire purpose is to artificially inflate the value of markets to help spur 'growth.'

Is the problem that people may be trying to manipulate the price of decentralized commodity or that people are investing in a decentralized commodity without realizing that there may be people trying to manipulate it? I think there is a place for 'hard regulations' but I think there is also a time when the focus should be more on information than trying to enforce national rules on a global scale. Even more so when those rules are likely to fall subject to all the failings of political systems including graft, corruption, and the like.
It's a best practice to notify users when a company policy on privacy of user data is updated, including updates on Terms & Conditions that have various rules for users to follow [1].

[1] https://termsfeed.com/blog/update-notice-legal-agreements/
50k as starting salary is unrealistic for Spain. I don’t think it’s true that people in Barcelona are less warm.
Still oddly named. Why isn't it called count or cnt?
It doesn't matter who you put on a committee - if a web standard break a significant number of sites then browser vendors will simply not implement that standard. If they did, users would stop using that browser. Why would anyone use a browser which does not render certain websites, if another browser (even a previous version) do?
A spiral is pretty optimistic; it suggests we are converging on the optimal solution.
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"I'm not disagreeing, but is this something that everyone reasonable would agree on without any sort of support?"

We are lucky then that there is a ton of support to this claim. Some people may argue with the word "fully" but if you replace it by "in big part" I don't think one can disagree with that without throwing a century of medical research out of the window.
ideally: "use mute-cow";
This. I think the issue of "separation anxiety" can be applied here... Same thing with handing over pet projects to someone else, and losing control over it.
> Did you forget the next paragraph, where they clearly state that it is not yet available

Where does it clearly say that? "may very widely by jurisdiction", "it is not possible to know" are anything but clear.
Grading of exams should be done anonymously.
Crop failure has been a risk for farmers for over 10,000 years. This is not a capitalist introduction; the penalties for crop failure used to be far more dire.

Today, whether or not the risk is "unfairly" spread or the share of surplus is "disproportionately small" is a matter of opinion.
For anyone who hasn't been following, the prevailing theory is that the largest Cryptocoin exchange "Bitfinex" also runs an altcoin called "Teather" which was marketed as being backed 1:1 by USD. So far they've created 2.8 BILLION USDT and coincidently the times they create millions of these happens to be in the middle of extreme market crashes.

See this chart: https://i.imgur.com/Uo07d1d.jpg

More details here:

https://medium.com/cryptomedication/uncovering-the-real-cart...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest

https://medium.com/@mattcollburner/bitmex-insiders-caught-in...
Hey HN. While this tool is mainly for UX designers and product managers, quite a few of the customers are product-focussed developers.

It's a growing library of user flow videos and screenshots of popular products. It's useful when you're designing a new flow and are stuck or need some inspiration.

I personally like it when people share their side project's revenue numbers, so I'll share mine. The first sale was in mid-February. Here's what the revenue has looked like since:

Total revenue: $3,618

Feb - $1,182
March - $754
April - $638
May so far - $1,044

I'd love to hear feedback from more developers as to whether this is something you'd find useful.
Cheers, I'll keep a look out.

Not sure how common it is for "home ISPs" to issue unstable prefixes, but that's what I got so...
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how else would you control your ML IoT cluster?
The world is in need of a good computer company that actually cares about computers and wont get distracted by devices, TV shows and definitely not cars.
Uncovering the cartel behind Bitcoin Manipulation
I would love to agree, since the pioneer spirit is wonderful. But Mars is a whole planet of freezing desert with unbreathable air and no evidence of life. How is that “similar in breadth and possibility” compared to our lush, beautiful home world?
If the only people who use private communications are those who need it, they'll be much easier to track, and that harms you indirectly.
"Relational databases don't scale".

I hope the NoSQL hype is over by now and people are back to choosing relational as the default choice. (The same people will probably chasing block-chain solutions to everything by now...)
Is this type of issue the reason that Symbols were added to the JS Standard?
For many, the incentive from the gig is

a) resume enrichment by way of buzzword addition
b) huge budget grants and allocation, purportedly for lofty goals while management is really unaware of real technology needs/options

Much has been talked about this already; sharing them again!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401399

[2] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

[3] http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z9rab/taco_be...

[5] https://www.mikecr.it/ramblings/taco-bell-programming/
Not arguing one way or the other with regards to the original topic, but you are jumping to conclusions with no basis. "Private citizens" as a set naturally do not have to work around anything, as being a private citizen does not imply that one has a Twitter account. Entities (private citizens, corporations, or whatever else) that own a Twitter account, have done something that Trump believes warrants blocking, and are logged in, are prevented from viewing his tweets while logged into that specific account.

The argument that anybody is prevented specifically from "reading" official communication is paper thin. The problem was that the government was effectively blocking private citizens' ability to reply and share under their preferred (potentially verified) identity.
> a language designed for people that do not enjoy programming, which sadly seem to be the majority in our industry

Could you expand a bit on that comment?
Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom
Tesla's debt is about $10 billion including that of Solar City. That is six weeks of profit for Apple.
> They're still making way more money than the leaf on Diesels. Giving up on your cash cows is the most misguided business advice I've ever seen.

Was that cash cow worth a global scandal, billions lost in unsaleable inventory(hundred thousands) and fines($25bln) though? I mean - they lost roughly two years of net income here and had several executives land in prison.

Nissan on the other hand invested roughly 20% of that($4bln) to develop the LEAF.

Perhaps giving up on diesels before it was too late constituted sound advice after all?
No, people are not "starting to figure out" anything here. That's just your and a small minority's opinion.
The vehicle has only forward-facing seats...
Depression is not a diagnosis. The diagnosis is "iatrogenic depression", "substance abuse related depression", "pervasive depressive disorser", "bipolar disorder related depression", "developmental disorder related depression", "adjustment disorder" and only very finally there is the "idiopathic major depressive disorder" and a few gradations thereof, which is the trashcan.
And I've probably skipped a few. (E.g. genetic folate metabolism disorder, thyroid related)
Treatments are different in each.

Lead, mercury and some other heavy metal exposure is one of iatrogenic. They are not commonly tested as they are rare causes and tests are not specific.
(As opposed for thyroid panel and folate check which are highly specific.)
yes, including computer software (if it's only hardware then Lenovo and a few others seem to be fine). but with all the PC pioneers gone it seems difficult to achieve. I wish Alan Kay had more entrepreneurial spirit, I think his group has (always had) all the right ideas on how to actually harness the power of PCs.
decentralized commodity

This is a misconception about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. Both are highly centeralized, in the hands of a tiny oligarchical ownership along with a small group of mining warehouses.

https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c...
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Harbor and Polymath are working on tokens which can accomplish all those things. The claim is that tokenized securities can reduce the number of middlemen needed to issue new securities, so shares could be traded on individual apartment buildings, etc. Nobody thinks moving Apple stock to a blockchain would change much.

I’m not advocating this argument, just relaying it since you asked.
How you can make training effective with Augmented Reality
It will never go to absolute zero as long as there are still people who at the very least see it as a joke. "Remember when BTC was $20000? I just bought 50000 of them, I would have been a billionair! Haha!"

Also tell people in Venezuela how their Bolivar is not going to zero, because they have to pay their taxes with it.
Yup, exactly my line of thinking!

As an example: I had the opportunity to take over a very nice corporate car of a friend at a ridiculously low price (for a variety of reasons). Basically I managed to purchase at half the actual value of the car -- it was a few years old but looked almost new and had super low miles. It was in perfect condition.

I could've bought and sold it on the spot for close to double the price I paid. But I'll drive it for a few years and likely be able to sell it for close to the same price I originally paid for it. Others go buy a new car, take a massive depreciation hit, and in the end spend tens of thousands more.

The expensive tickets are worth focusing on. Then go drink all the coffee you want.
Ah, never mind! It's a simple 56-step opt out process:

https://www.voxmedia.com/pages/cookie-policy#your-cookie-cho...
The value of bitcoin gold doesn't seem to have gone down in correlation with this attack.
If company needs that staff one day in a month, yet subcontractor can utilize that staff 100% of time, there's nothing wrong with subcontracting.
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> I’m not sure what they can do to keep up with the Nomad or Treo.

Wait for someone to walk in the door with a design that Philips rejected?
Supposedly, Tesla cars are marketed for the ethically minded consumers. I just can't understand how in the hell people are chill with Tesla's safety policies after all the accident reports and former worker's claiming being overworked to death. Some think that this accident is totally not Tesla's fault because the worker was working for some contractor. This is definitely not ok. Their accident numbers are way above the car manufacturing norms and they are playing the numbers game by under-reporting the accidents.

I think one of the main reasons Tesla is given a pass is because the strong cult of personality around Elon Musk, a modern day slaver in a nice suit. Sure he can go ahead and save the world by his eco-friendly cars, save the ultra-rich by building a Mars settlement, but at what cost?
GDPR quiz: How will data privacy law affect you?
This constant need to evolve is the exact definition of immaturity, for HTML/CSS/JS front-end.

I'm not a mobile dev, but I'm pretty sure when you make the front-end in an iOS app, you don't need to learn 3 languages + 2 frameworks + tooling to transpile + type checker + webpack...

Web front-end is completely broken because the foundation (HTML/JS/CSS) is not the right tool for the need.
First Quarter U.S. Expatriations Down 12%
/r/thatHappened
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To keep with the Unix tradition of short command names, I guess?
>But also, learn some other things well enough to be able to use them. Use them when they make the job easier.

I've found that even if I don't need to use a language after I've learned it, the skills and experiences I pick up while learning it improve my code as a programmer.

I've learned how to write fast code in C; learned how to write flexible template code in C++; appreciated the "batteries included" standard libraries of Python; wrote concurrent code in Go; used sum types and functional programming in OCaml.

My friend wrote an article[1] that says there is still no silver bullet for programming, and I agree with her.

Perhaps even if you think it is better to master a single programming language, you might better master it by seeing how other languages approach the same problem.

[1]: https://chameleon.kingdomofmysteries.xyz/articles/harmful/st...
One aspect that I don't has been mentioned is the old joke I and my colleagues have about 'its the last 10% that takes 90%' of the time.

You get to the end; you've done all the big-vision important stuff. The application works, you just need to tidy it up a little. You're at the annoying snagging, which provides little personal satisfaction, but has to be done.
Oh that's interesting, I've lived in two FTTH properties in the UK, the ISP installed a battery backup in both properties just for the phone line as otherwise the landline would die if the power went out and apparently that violates some UK law about landline availability.

Given the rate at which people -- especially younger people -- are getting rid of landlines in the UK I suspect in the future this'll be a non-issue. To be honest I'm not sure why I have a landline still.