skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nation-state alignment

What has made the past 50 years so peaceful (amongst the big powers, at least) is that nations that share values have aligned. France and Germany and the US and Australia share a philosophy of governance, not just a short term realpolitik goal. (Of course sharing a language helps too: Canada, UK, US, Aus, NZ are tight for that reason in good part)
Microsoft expands commitment to military spouse community
In the Boston area the less dense neighborhoods are scarce so only the rich can afford them. In Atlanta the denser neighborhoods are scarce so they cost more so the rich go there. Of course if you ask people what their preference is a huge chunk of them will describe the features of whatever more upscale place that the place they currently live is compared to.
Trump Ending It for All ‘Non-Citizens,’ Panicked Illegals Deporting Themselves
I read it when it came out, when I was 20 I think. I recently re-read it and still greatly enjoyed it. Give it a spin!
I'm curious what actually happened to physically break that printer.
I was a huge computer geek when the novel came out in 1984. It completely blew my mind. I absolutely loved it.

Criticizing it for not being "true to IT" was the furthest thing from my mind.

Though I later found out it might not have been quite the first to go there, to me it seemed to herald a paradigm shift in scifi, towards a much grittier, darker future where one could inhabit (or, in a certain sense, commune) with computers. It was kind of like a darker version of Tron, which came out only a couple of years earlier.

Sure, it might not have been like using computers in real life, but it was not pretending to be about the current reality. It was scifi. It was about a possible future.
I wonder if preferences are correlated or anticorrelated with how one grew up (maybe people who grew up in suburbs might think it's too boring, but people who grew up in the city might think it's too loud).
I was thinking this too. Dysfunction can disrupt childrens' understanding of the world. Causing mistrust, accepting / repeating violent and abusive behavior. Or causing cycles such as loneliness that compound consequences indefinitely. Not saying these can't be overcome but obviously some people don't make it.
Microsoft’s ICE involvement illustrates tech’s denial problem
+1 for focus on values.
America itself would do well to refocus itself internally on its long-held values.
(To do that, it needs to fix the huge right-wing propaganda apparatus in America, beginning with right wing radio. You can’t understand modern America until you listen to Limbaugh for a few hours. But that’s another story. Americans have to start thinking again about what their values are.)
How would concentrated detergent prevent overuse/overfill?

That's a problem that's pretty much already solved with all the "laundry pod" products out there, so it doesn't seem they're afraid people will waste less.
Btw, moving the mouse to effect the code sample. Not sure I've ever seen that before. Truely inspiring.
It is absolutely horrendous. The Windows 8 debacle should've proven conclusively that a single UI doesn't work across all usage modes and the big chunky buttons that are useful on mobile are terribly slow and inefficient on large screens.

It's rather amazing how little information can fit on a screen with these designs even with modern high-res 4k retina displays. It's a failure of following trendy UI instead of focusing on true UX.
I keep thinking I read Gibson said something along the lines of "Delany's Nova was his attempt to reach the heights of The Stars My Destination, and Neuromancer was my attempt to reach Nova."

But I haven't been able to find it again. Maybe I imagined it.
> I don't believe that tracking forces an individual to justify a decision between their doctor and themselves to the gov't.

That appears to be exactly what it’s doing though!
Frey detergent concentrate for men: Blended with essential oils, and comprised of over a dozen individual scents. [1]

BBC: More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop' [2]

I'll stick with my no-fragrance detergent, thanks!

[1] https://livefrey.com/shop/the-detergent/
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43429933
I feel like the biggest criticism I can make of Gibson is that he plots.

Most novels have a plot. But the good ones don't let you in on it. As you say, the characters rush around for MacGuffins, and you characterized it as "creaky"--that's a good word for it. I have not always been the biggest Stephen King fan (as an author; growing up in Maine, I've always been a fan of King-the-person) but On Writing is an excellent book. I don't have my copy right here so I can't quote what he says about plotting (paraphrased: "try not to") but this quote from an interview with Goodreads resonates strongly with me:

"I start a book like Doctor Sleep [his most recent book] knowing just two things: the basic situation and that the story will create its own patterns naturally and organically if I follow it fairly...and by fairly I mean never forcing characters to do things they wouldn't do in real life...For me, the first draft is all about story. I trust that some other part of me—an undermind—will create certain patterns."

So long as your beginnings and ends are only modestly far apart, short stories (and I again agree that Burning Chrome is probably his best work) let you get away with a lot more of this. But novella and novel-length works can't hide the machinery of a plotted-out story as well unless you are inordinately good at it. (And I mean, this is a ding against authors like J.R.R. Tolkien as much as Gibson; it's not like he isn't in good company with this weakness.)
I can’t say. It’s an app that already existed, using separate code bases for iOS and android. The client wanted to streamline it using react native. The app mostly consists of lists of news, with lots of video content too.
Thankfully I live in the Schengen Area and crossing the border is usually no bigger deal than going to another town (aside of language on signs being different). After a while it becomes so natural that I had a very stressful moment once in the middle of a car trip from Poland to Croatia (Dubrovnik) after realizing that we will have to cross through Bosnia (for only a few kilometres actually) which is not in EU and that I haven't bought a passport. Fortunately, turned out that ID was enough to pass, although that wasn't guaranteed (and that Croatia, despite of being in EU, isn't actually in Schengen yet :P however, ID is officially enough there. It still meant that there were ridiculous border checks though).
Lawsuit shows WB Westworld game stole Fallout Shelter code, even has same bugs
If you run arbitrary code from the internet arbitrary things can happen.
This sort of thing always reminds me of Idiocracy: "Welcome to Costco i love you".

Occasionally you run into a genuinely nice staff member at the supermarket who immediately learns your name, asks about your kids, etc. Companies notice how everyone is pleased with that, and then get the idea that they'll somehow force the behavior onto the rest of the staff.

Everyone is forced to greet you, thank you by (poorly pronounced) name off credit card, and they send secret shoppers to penalize them if they fail to do these things. The end result of which ends up being negative, because no one particularly likes hearing friendly words that clearly aren't genuine.
Send something actually useful like a link to "getting started" docs, link to your app, or something like that.

Link to email settings management page.

Bullet lists instead of long form content.

You probably don't have "Hello, visitor..." on your web, so you can just as well drop it from your e-mail.
Linden probably deserves the bulk of the blame, but it is a little weird that, if Windows sees a file with an .exe extension that but no PE structure, it will just happily take whatever bits it gets and run them directly. But I guess if COM executables genuinely had no structure than there was nothing else that could be done. Yet again, back-compatibility is Microsoft's savior and curse at once.
I wish they published total number of installs and active monthly users.
In terms of milieu and ideas, definitely. But Gibson's plots clank along in pretty much every novel-length work of his I've read. It's a problem of mechanics and storytelling at that point, I think.
At first look I love how the language is designed.

Now I'm curious about the "embedded" part . Apple doesn't allow any VM or JIT to be embedded for iOS application.
Either I'm missing something or else this tech is not compliant with Apple Security Guidelines.
Characterisation is certainly the weak point of a lot of sci-fi. You could make the argument that distancing/alienation is part of the aesthetic, but I'm not expecting that to be very convincing.

Burning Chrome is excellent, but the emotional weight is all dark.

This interview with Wired https://www.wired.com/1999/01/ebay/ actually made Gibson click as a person for me. Especially some of the odder more obsessive thematic details in the novels.
There was a similar origami simulator that I saw from hn a while back:

http://www.amandaghassaei.com/projects/origami_simulator/

http://apps.amandaghassaei.com/OrigamiSimulator/
This is talking about right at the fovea though. Thats a pretty small space.

I'm thinking we will see VR sewing in the next decade, because we'll find shortcuts to making it work. Sure hyper-acuity is hard, but its virtual reality, as long as you can make it look real it may as well be.

What I mean by that is - perhaps we could use tricks like stacking high-density screens which capture different portions of the pixels. Say you've got 3 high res screens somewhere in the headset, and somehow they are routing to the eye. With optics a high resolution screen can be made even higher resolution but smaller. It still is a very difficult problem to solve for sure, but I think if there are multiple difficult problems to choose from, chances are we'll find ways to partially solve some, combine that, and have something like a solution as a result.

With 3 screens you could have full scene for one, focused region on another, and fovea on another, and then optically stack that...somehow.
At the time, there were also very large parts of "IT" where it was a compiler error to write code while not wearing a shirt and (blue) tie.

Horses for courses, and all that.
not sure it need a revival. i have been using irc since 99
Yep, like information on Omega where they not only restricted information from basically everyone but would resort to straight up thievery to ensure it could never be developed.

Sounds like North Korea to me...
I was in the same position last year, here's what I did:

- First month: Downloaded YNAB; every day or two, I logged into my bank accounts and check all transactions, added transactions to YNAB (creating budget categories as necessary). By the end of the month, I had a budget (a very bad budget).

- Second month: Review all expenses of previous month and create upper bounds for budget categories (groceries, gas, going out money, books, etc.), removing "unnecessary" expenses (mostly monthly subscriptions). Wrote scrapper for fetching bank transactions.

- Third month: Review last month budget and adjust accordantly.

And that's it. Just keep it simple.
After this video, I finally got the joke involving Great Ohio Desert (artificial desert that was intended to be landmark of Ohio) from Wallace's 1987 "Broom of The System". Maybe it even inspired his idea with catapulting trash to Canada in his "Inifinte Jest".
Yes, this is why the iPhone keeps getting hardware that's double the speed but the actual UX has remains the same.

My iPhone 8 still takes me just as frustratingly long to navigate apps as it did on my iPhone 4, because there's no way to skip the useless animations and effects.
Should We Use React Native? Thoughts from Expo Following Airbnb Sunsetting RN
Just pull up a given Bill and click on the Votes tab.
The long and short is that OpenVPN has a way to execute arbitrary system commands at whatever privileges the OpenVPN daemon has (usually pretty high) via a config file.

Treat OpenVPN config files the same way you'd treat a bash script you pulled from the net and were thinking of running as root. IE: read the damn thing first.
Interestingly, this cuts exactly against the advice of Michael Seibel, the current CEO of Y Combinator, who advises co-founders split equity equally: http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/how-to-split-equity-among-...
From a reddit comment:

Bethesda hired Behavior Interactive under a work-for-hire contract to create the Fallout Shelter game. The terms of the contract stated that all work done by Behavior for Fallout Shelter became property of Bethesda, which included code, designs, artwork, etc.

Warner Bros hired Behavior to create the Westworld game. Behavior then allegedly used the same code that was used for the Fallout Shelter game. While the code in both games was potentially the sole work of Behavor, legally, what was used for Fallout Shelter legally belongs to Bethesda.
for instance: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/30/metoo/
Just enough to get you started with Apache Spark
I don’t disagree that a lot of technological benefits have come out of military technology, it’s just that your comment completely ignores the death, destruction and calamity that’s also arisen.

Let me know when you find a job where you know your work will never be misused.

Meantime, your comment completely ignores the irony inherent in having been made over a network that was created by people you reflexively refuse to work for.
Now I need to go and reread the Stand on Zanzibar.

- bookworm/assassin
Agreed. Using a CDN does not enhance privacy and and centralizes logging for all sites behind just a few vendors.

SNI does however improve privacy. I have dozens of SSL sites using one ip+port and strict SNI. I combine this with wildcard certificates and wildcard DNS to make enumeration futile.

Today, most web browsers support SNI. Hopefully in the near future, more libraries and API tools will support it as well. This could ease the burden on ipv4 to a small degree.
marginal != pro rata
> But I think sprawl just represents a long tail of real preferences among the population. It may be relative price, it may be having a yard, it may be the suburban school districts, it can be all kinds of things. And yeah, if people had control, the suburbs wouldn't sprawl forever. It would be just their nice suburban neighborhood and everybody else could be jammed into the city.

That's pretty much it. Everyone who lives in a suburb likes a different subset of suburban features, and that all aggregates together to result in the kinds of suburbs we have.

It makes sense to consider zoning law to be a reflection of people's preferences rather than a constraint on them. In many cases zoning laws are the result of established homeowners trying to preserve the suburban features they like.
Not if you're using a modern version of Safari. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/auto-play-block/
As a small business owner, this is what I fear post-South Dakota vs. Wayfair
Who cares if it was a few years earlier? With technological progress we are able to innovate at an exponential rate. If imagine where we'd be if NASA was funded an amount as absurd as the military industrial complex.
If true, we can add this to the infamous PET race condition as the second way that software can physically break a computer setup.
consumer reports, wirecutter, rtings, and americas test kitchen/cooksillustrated/serious eats are some of the best review sites on the web.

one of the downsites to rtings is they usually only test one model out of a store. its not testing many multiple devices for variance.
I am no fan of Uber, and I agree that eliminating the recorder was an irresponsible move, but as the driver was not distracted by these responsibilities at the time, they did not have any role in the accident. In the court of human opinion, the cost-cutting is evidence of Uber not taking safety as seriously as it should have, but I do not know if it would be allowed as evidence in a court of law.
That's a false dichotomy though. I'd prefer a notification like:

> We have registered an account called "Tetha" for "tetha@coyote.acme.org" on amazingservice.acme.org.

> If this wasn't you, click <this link> to delete the account.

> If you're interested in the services you can receive on a free account, click <this link>, and for further service options click <that link>.

That's short and to the point.
I agree with a lot of this. He's said himself that when he got the contract for a novel, he didn't know how to write one, and was kind of panicked about being boring. That's why the first 60 pages or so of the book (through the Sense/Net strike to get the Dixie Flatline's cartridge) is like a nonstop adrenaline rush. It's so exciting! I had no idea science fiction could be like that, the first time I read it.

I strongly agree that his best work was in Burning Chrome. Unfortunately, the only film adaptations of his work we have are two stories from that collection, and they were both awful in different ways. Johnny Mnemonic misses all but the barest outlines of the story - where's Molly? I can't believe they gave up the fight on the "Killing Floor" with Molly vs the vatgrown ninja in favor of blowing up a bridge. Sigh. New Rose Hotel, on the other hand, hewed very close to the original story - which was fine, except the story was only six pages long.

As an aside, I have a band called The Gernsback Continuum, after the short story.
There are so many really good counterfeit products that sometimes its difficult to tell, especially electronics and clothing. USB Wall chargers; for example, are really popular and sometimes can be found for 1/10 the price from Apple or Belkin.

Tempting to save quite a bit of money (~$3 vs $25), but you might burn your house down.
ICRA Best UAV: A Nimble, Morphing, Hovering DRAGON
this article is a little strange since Atlanta has something like a 20 year supply of condos in midtown/surrounding for very affordable prices. Single family in-town homes, however, are scarce.
Sorta like how increasing surgical strikes in Vietnam will end the war faster and save thousands of lives?

These sorts of arguments come up constantly in these discussions, and are laughable. More efficient targeting just means more strikes. And all of this targeting is extra judicial anyway...
The co-founder of LTM was head of North America operations at Mt. Gox as well, read the first quote:

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/04/19/disgraced-ceo-of-mt-gox-a...
Had 2 BTC in there. My claim was approved and everything, but I haven't heard of anybody getting anything back yet.
Didn't you see the picture? It smashed itself to pieces!
Bethesda sues WB, calls Westworld game ‘blatant rip-off’ of Fallout Shelter
Lily looked pretty interesting, discussed here a couple years ago

https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015158
It is an X problem, there's (sorta) support for fractional scaling in Wayland
Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio]
Apple, always promoting and inspiring new technologies!
This is all possible via clients, like TheLounge or Quassel
This is so important. It keeps everyone motivated and aligned. If someone leaves, they keep what they've earned, but don't accrue additional ownership.
What about exclusive contracts? They're common as dirt in the business world... "You commit to us, you have to buy this only from us for the next X years". I don't see how this is different from unions.
so, you're right in a sense. I wanted a non video link to read about it, so googled, and all I found up top was 2 hacker news links (apparently one of them was the same as this, google indexed it pretty quickly) and the youtube video (so didn't do me much good).

I assumed (incorrectly) that 2 links I saw via google would have made this 3 at least)
Fortunately this can never happen on linux. The kernel would never interpret a header less executable file as a shell script and invoke it with sh.
As much as I want to blame Windows for it, this seems like reasonable behavior if the updater software is passing bytes straight from the HTTP stream. Unfortunate that the 404 page happened to have a byte sequence that would be interpreted as a COM, but the Updater should have been validating the downloaded exe in the first place. Not just for 404 but for actual .exe files that may be malicious
Alternative hypothesis (but not necessarily mutually exclusive) is that more diverse societies use smiling as a form of non-verbal communication and social bonding.

See, e.g., https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/why-amer...

The above discusses immigration and language difficulties, but I grew up in the Deep South (where blacks and whites live in much closer proximity than in the North, but in segregated social worlds) and it makes more sense to me that smiling is less about overcoming spoken language hurdles and more about coming across as non-threatening in social contexts where people are naturally uncertain of each other's disposition. I think it's why Southerners emphasize pleasantries so much--as a mechanism to reinforce normative behavior and, specifically, minimize hostilities. Thus, in the U.S. and especially in the Deep South lack of smiling implies hostility, particularly if there's a racial or class divide. It's less obvious today but in more violent times a missing smile was often quite deliberate and strongly communicative.

I have a suspicion that a more common and more cross-cultural non-communicative signal is the head nod. Most women are oblivious to this signal but among men (certainly American men) it seems almost instinctual. And I'm pretty sure it operates as a non-hostility signal. It's less common today but if you try it you'll be surprised at how quickly and immediate the response is; surprising precisely because it's so uncommon. Most women I've tried it with were oblivious or unresponsive, but men almost universally respond in kind, smile, or otherwise respond (e.g. quickly lock eyes). I've tried it in a few other countries and gotten similar responses.

Women should try it out, too; I think most men would respond similarly, though there's always the risk a male might perceive something sexual. I think as we become a more gender equal society it would be useful for women to adopt some of the mechanisms men have used to navigate the social world, just as we encourage men to adopt some of women's tools (e.g. more active listening). A strong society requires strong social bonds. Empathy within a large, diverse society doesn't just magically happen; and without empathy civilization degenerates.
I’ll plug the Gibson documentary No Maps for These Territories. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territorie...

Gibson is very self-deprecating throughout. He attributes people’s favorite aspects of the Neuromancer to work-arounds he used to cover his inexperience as an author. Meanwhile, the film interleaves interviews with other sci-fi authors who has early access to the book. They all knew the book was something new and special immediately.
Stop using other people's services. You are a slave to their whims. Should have used MatterMost self-hosted.