skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you're right, that's a valid question but I read your post as having two very good questions seemingly juxtaposed as being asked to raise a singular point. In one sentence you talked about social networking and what it means for connections among friends, the very next question you asked about social media and what it means as an arbiter of information about the world we inhabit.

Was I mistaken to read those two separate inquiries as being of the same cloth? That's where I got confused and was wondering if you could help me understand your point a little better.
They mention it briefly, but it seems more like a guess than a hard stat:

> “People assume that they’ll find criminal art collectors,” Charney says, “when in fact, we have very few historical examples—maybe a dozen to 20 who fit the bill.” Keep in mind that many hundreds of art objects are stolen every year. Those, needless to say, are bad odds.

I'm imagining it would be difficult to rationalize buying black market art in the Western World for a few reasons:

1. It's illegal to knowingly purchase or possess a stolen item

2. Many art collectors buy art to impress their guests, but that's not exactly safe to do with stolen art. So, you need to find a buyer who's OK with the legal risk and would enjoy the art primarily for their own satisfaction and who doesn't mind depriving the museum or the general public of that same privilege.

So, your target market is a wealthy person who lives outside the legal reach of the Western World, or who loves art for art's sake, is OK with ethics of stealing and is OK with being complicit in a criminal conspiracy.
was there any particular reason your team went with finicity? You might want to give https://plaid.com a shot.

I am not affiliated with Plaid.
> IPs are distinctly /not/ PII. They're identified /by name/ in the regulation. Anyone who brings this up as a topic has not actually read the regulations.. or they have and are trying to create uncertainty for some objective.

Have you yourself read the regulation? You are wrong.

The regulation makes a single reference (by name) to IP addresses. In recital 30. In that recital, it specifically declares IP address to be PD (GDPR doesn't use the term PII at all).

Not to confuse the matter, but if you stopped there, and decided IP addresses were PD, you would have stopped short. It requires deeper analysis. Here are two good ones:

https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/
https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

The soundbite-sized answer is: it depends.
It's a question of authorization. If the fire department clears you to bring in your nitrogen swarm you'd be fine, but they want unauthorized drones out of the area so they don't interfere with other emergency operations.
And you think trusting MS is a better idea?
I'm assuming it is $5k for the first year? Do these credits expire?
To be fair, that was Harlan Ellison about most things. RIP, the magnificent bastard.
Plus it seems his output (on his blog and here on HN) has decreased quite a bit since he moved to Stripe, so this validates what happens when you get busy.
And for the "fighting wars" part, let's not forget this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Outcomes

They were quite effective, too.
I'd take that deal. On the Internet, people don't necessarily know that you're an ornery sumbitch, as long as you can keep in character.
Am I the only one who finds it odd the author chose to use "lets"? Not sure why but it really bothers me.
It's also worth thinking about an individual's competency as well.

I think, instead of looking at individuals, the trends are more important. Are jobs paying as much? Is there the same abundance of jobs? Is housing more costly? Is debt worse? What kind of debt?

As opposed to just looking at individuals, such as the engineer turned chef, which, I mean, come on. It's a bit ridiculous.
Announcing the First Flask Conference in Brazil – August 2018
Hello,

The first Flask conference will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, on August 24 and 25, 2018.

It will be a day of tutorial and a day of lectures for over 160 people.

At this moment the organization is in search of sponsorship to enable the coming of one of the core-developers to be Keynote of this event.

According to StackShare [1] more than 1.6k of companies are using Flask, large companies like Uber, Netflix, Cloudify, Lift, Red Hat and many others rely on Flask to serve web applications and APIs.

We believe it is time for Flask to have its annual conference and we are starting in São Paulo Brazil and we hope this idea will spread to other places in the world!

Please help!

We need sponsorship:
Help us by sharing the link below with companies that can support the event:

https://2018.flask.python.org.br/FlaskConf2018-sponsorship-en.pdf

Submit lectures (or vote in the lectures) - * The event is in Brazil but participants from anywhere in the world are warmly welcomed! And lectures in English will also be interesting!

https://speakerfight.com/events/flaskconf-2018/

Come to Flask Conf 2018!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flask-conf-registration-46990838864

Flask Conf 2018
https://2018.flask.python.org.br/

[1] https://stackshare.io/flask/in-stacks/
the thing is... it's a lot harder to succeed than to fail.. so the pool of people who can supply those articles is pretty limited..
In addition, if you are doing shopping which involves any significant volume of goods or groceries, carrying it on public transit is a real problem. The tendency is to buy small amounts frequently at higher prices.

If there are two or more in a small car, it's also usually less expensive.

If the parking problem were forthrightly addressed, this, along with the increasing use of efficient Uber/Lyft/taxi, would greatly reduce traffic and associated pollution. Most of those cars are orbiting, looking for a parking spot. The half life of a parking spot is about 20 seconds.
> People on the left in the US care very little about employees of coal miners, oil companies, etc because of larger environmental concerns.

Or to be more honest, they think white rural Americans dying of drug overdoses is funny. I mean these stupid rednecks deserve it right? Fewer white births than deaths in many states? (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/white-minority-populat...)
It's about fucking time!

Now I'm being a bit unfair to the left here partly because I'm more pissed at them, as I'm a liberal who would have thought this was "my team" just a few years ago. Of course there are people that would say all that and probably worse regardless of their politics. But something seems very wrong. IMO it's been a long time since this large of a number of people on either side truly think their political opposition ought to be killed. I've seen people on the left say Trump voters should be shot, he should be assassinated, etc., and I've seen similar shit coming out of the right as well. Not even on the internet; I have heard this things IRL. Maybe modern society/technology has done something really fucked to our empathy? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure it hasn't been like this as long as I've been alive.
This surprised me at first:

> having difficult conversations with individuals is never fun

But apparently "difficult conversations" is a Valley euphemism for "firing people" and doesn't mean "discussing difficult engineering problems".
99.9% great. Text looks wonderful, almost everything has hi-resolution icons in the correct size. It's not easy to find things to complain about.

My workflow hasn't really changed since upgrading — I still prefer to focus on one or two windows (often with the "Always on Top ᨑ" button) and just see more code/webpage in that window.

Anyway, I arranged some stuff and took a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/7FOZkdk

Under KDE's display settings, I have the scale set to 2.0.

Problems:

- Minor UI issues. Some UI elements in Amarok don't quite line up correctly. The loading dialog of LibreOffice is at 50% size. GIMP's toolbox buttons seem small. The default steps of shrinking/enlarging text in Konsole aren't great.

- As far as I know, the HDR capability of the monitor isn't supported in Linux.

- About two years ago when I last tried, mixing resolutions with multiple screens didn't work correctly.

If you use a desktop, and can afford to upgrade all its screens to 4K together, I recommend doing so tomorrow. Investigate further if you'd be mixing resolutions; see if you can borrow one.

Referring to [1], I have a UHD-1 screen, which is much rarer than I thought. Just 1.2% of Steam users. The more-common WQHD screens could be OK without any scaling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#/media/File...
There are a few of them.

_Spy Party_ is a game in which one player is a sniper and the other player is a spy at a cocktail party pretending to be an NPC.

In _Who's Your Daddy_, one player is a father whose goal is child-proof their surroundings on the fly to thwart the other player, a suicidal baby.

_Evolve_ was a game in which a team of four hunter players hunted a single monster player.

_Natural Selection_ is close to what you describe; one player on each team is playing an RTS and their teammates are playing a FPS. One side is space marines, the other are aliens. Marines have guns, but aliens can move through vents, scuttle up walls, etc.
This gives some perspective. Google buying GitHub would’ve been a tragedy. In fact, I can’t think of a single megacorporation I’d rather have running GitHub than Microsoft in 2018.

Still a shame they couldn’t stay independent though.
I was an engineer #1 hired by a "CTO" and we grew to 50 engineers. His story/growth didn't really change much, however. He was a coding machine, a true "10x engineer", and programmed day and night. He even started up a second company while working on the first. He built both codebases from scratch, and even re-wrote the first company's core codebase at one point.

He did attend exec meetings and make all major technical decisions, but I never really felt he had to grow into anything.

When we got big enough to start worrying about compliance, security, and HR tools, we did it together and moved on to the next thing.
Wow, Pyramid even seems to pitch itself as the "Goldilocks Solution"! OK, will give it a try.
E.g. Sergei Roldugin (although in a country without functioning anti-corruption institutions)
I think this is something that depends on the country. As someone used to buy raw food (without any plastic) I get surprised every time I travel to some more "civilized" countries where plastic is every where!

Anwyay, even in the fruit & vegetable shop, most of people pick small plastic bags to put and weight the food. I am one of the few ones that puts everything on the same bag.
I understand the concerns of firefighters and the politicians trying to defend them but this is a piecemeal patch on something that needs a coherent response. Of course flying your drone where a fire copter is operating is just making their lives harder - they don't need a law specifically about wildfires. They just need a button that says "this ten square miles it off limits. The transponders that every drone made is now fitted with will tell us who you are and the fine is in the post"

Drones are a real thing now. We can either require drones to have someone walking in front carrying a red flag, or we can introduce roads, traffic laws, police.

The FAA is probably a good place to start, but someday soon every drone needs to have a registered id number, and to start screaming if it goes out the globally agreed geofences that are delegated to local administrations.

Basically we can have the aero equivalent of Munich traffic or Mumbai traffic.
> In a small town, you can get by fine with walking, bikes and so on

In a small town, most of the population served by the amenities in that town don't actually live within city limits. The people in town may be fine with walking or biking, but providing non-car transportation options to rural people isn't as easy. Most people who live on farms would find it difficult to get by without a car.
Give the learner some project he might be interested in. Some website he would like to see online.
It is most certainly not a smoking gun. That is a dishonest descriptor.
Event-Driven Architecture with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
> yeah you don't want opal on your IRC network

One of these "DCC 0 0 0" spammers getting people with crappy firewall middleboxes disconnected?
Is the goal perhaps more that this merged dialect could be intelligible to the speakers of all the dialects, such that it could be used to issue copies of laws that they could read, etc.?
any success is a success as long as you truly believe it was a success deep inside.

Which means the people you're talking about are all success cases. You don't have to be a household name to be considered a success.

A food stand guy who makes a good living and has learned tons of things about life and street smarts is a huge success and we have much more to learn from those people than idiot VC funded startup entrepreneurs who con their way into raising capital and burn through all their money without making anything work. These people may even pretend they're a success by "acq-hiring" themselves to a larger company, but anyone who's actually been in a startup know that's all fake bullshit. If you get acq-hired you have failed, period. Don't listen to these people's advice either.

The specific category of people I'm criticizing are those who have nothing to show for themselves but failure. They write Medium articles on their way out, so that they can:

1. get a pat on the shoulder

2. get more exposure so that they can get a job now that they're jobless.

3. get more exposure so that they can use that false influence to keep their charade going.

4. just do what everyone else does (they genuinely think for some reason that writing a post-mortem is some sort of a ritual to celebrate the liquidation of their startup for which they raised tons of money from strangers)

Most genuine entrepreneurs I know don't do this. They instead try to analyze what they did wrong, but they're humble enough to not shout out loud to the world to listen to what they have to say about why they failed. They show the lessons learned through action, not through medium post.
No no no. No fair kicking the can down the road. :)

I have to decide how I feel about this now, and how I feel about it now is "well, my chance of a payoff just got more uncertain".

The longer we wait, the less uncertainty there is.

If you think I should be happy about the news, then you should want to take the risk right now not in a few months after whatever new information comes out.
How much can you condense a city if you have no roads at all? What I mean is that walking/biking/scootering in a city with no roads is probably twice, if not more, times more efficient.
It may alleviate some cynicism to look at this as less a matter of implicit 'trust' and more a matter of 'best possible outcome'. At least IMO. As it is, Microsoft has been doing some pretty good, developer-centric work and I for one appreciate that. That isn't to say Google isn't, but again: best possible outcome?

Like someone else brought up: I feel more comfortable with a product being owned by Microsoft and maintained for longer than 18 months before the devs get bored with and put it in front of a firing squad so they can go create yet another messaging platform (only to later kill that too)
Amazon has an internal git which is pretty heavily modified for use at their scale. It combines Git and package/version control into one application that works pretty well.
Yes, it is a little bit vague. It's intentionally vague. The abuse of LI is designed to be like porn: I'll know it when I see it.

It's totally fine for it to be vague. I very much doubt we'll see any cases where the general public disagrees with a DPA ruling of LI applicability. As a business owner, it means you need to strongly justify it and consider if a "reasonable person" would consider your use of LI to be justified. If you have doubt, you should seek consent instead.

Do keep in mind, that growing your business by using PD for marketing purposes is explicitly excepted from LI.
Add the unification process to that, which was in part welcomed by people and in part forced by an army from the North. It was like when two companies merge: the people from the company that leads the merge end up in better positions than the ones from the weaker company. The South kind of lost a war and perhaps they didn't realize it, even now.
Don't they already do that with the basic care line of products.
This is just too much hyperbole. Describing the entire US as a "terrible place to have a family" is just ridiculous. Perhaps in some urban bubble that's the case, but there are wonderful places where raising a family is affordable and enjoyable.
Adjust for inflation and look at the trend starting from the 17 years before that.
see parent comment of the comment that you replied to... but either way, I was not saying that it leads to mass surveillance... mass surveillance is already here.
If the iPhone had not been invented, this is what we would have instead
Not yet in one of the other categories.
You're talking about a country that's pretty much half coastal area and has some rivers.

Though Portugal is mountainous, it is not a huge impediment
Reading those as normal binary, apparently there's significant overlap between the negabinary sequence and the sequence of n XOR 10:

https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C+6%2C+7%2C+4%2C+5%2C+26%2C+27&...
A television is a sign of wealth? TVs can be bought for $100 nowadays.

Cell phone? You can get those EXTREMELY cheap.

Define access to the internet?

> Catastrophic healthcare is now capped, and low-income families are subsidized on health plans.

This is simply untrue. Many changes Obamacare made have essentially been gutted by the current administration.

> Public education is mandated and provided everywhere. Public libraries are available in virtually every city.

Public libraries have been around decades as has public education.
Could you point out some of those examples?
Ok, that's an improvement since I was with them, then. Good to know.
Couldn't agree more! if this money would have been invested in teachers and teacher training, history might have been different.

I think that we as a society forgot the role of a teacher, for long time, teachers just repeated what was in books, and this should not be their job!!! They should teach how to learn, understand and discuss.
I'd like to clarify and elaborate on a few points:

1) I've made the argument that whitelisting apps should be possible. But not that apps should be able to prompt for it like they do for a single app.

2) The existence of a whitelist option doesn't mean one needs to use it. Approving target apps individually would still be possible.

3) Script Editor and Automator are "whitelisted" via private entitlements to send Apple Events to any target without prompting.

Both apps (also thanks to entitlements) can also access the address book, calendars and reminders without prompting.

As far as I can see, these privileges can't be stripped from the apps by the user.

If an attacker were to look for apps worth targeting, why would he target anything else but these two apps, made for executing code, with all their (non-removable) permissions?

(Source: screenshots in https://twitter.com/felix_schwarz/status/1012291010863468544 )

4) macOS Mojave adds an "Application Data" category to whitelist apps to access all of the users files.

Including files that apps can't even prompt for access and are otherwise off limits. Like f.ex. browser cookies.

It's another (needed) whitelist option that is far more permissive than an Apple Event whitelist option would ever be.

5) I don't think I exaggerate things. I used "up to" in front of that number to acknowledge that number as the upper limit, not the rule.
Your example won't help at all. That type of thing would clearly be in violation (by letter of the regulation, no expert legal evaluation needed).
Am I totally misunderstanding or do the scams mean that the founders walked away with >$50m in their pockets?
Although a big part of his job is writing about similar topics, so you could also say he's still doing the same thing, only posting to a different end point and getting paid. That too is success.
Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take on Xbox and PlayStation
I am a volunteer firefighter. Our county uses a drone to watch fires, and let the firefighters know where the fire is spreading to and how fast.
can we get a summary for people who can't get around the paywall?
The lead investor typically negotiated for their own percentage and any pro rata rights on top of that will usually dilute the founders and any prior investor more, rather than dilute the lead investor.
side note -- there is another FOSS org that was repeatedly, specifically attacked around the end of 2015, but they chose not to publicize it.. made worse because the volunteer community around the server admin was immediately far outside their comfort zone to implement fixes and recovery. The MediaWiki instance as well as raw servers were affected. No discussion in public about likely perpetrators. but what can you say ? How can you prove it? Commercial vendor rivals, nation-state actors, mean junkies, all of the above? Harsh and UN-necsessary .. everything was volunteer and above-board at the FOSS group, just too valuable ?
How are you suppose to move goods around if you have no roads? On bike?, on foot?, by rail? Biking and on foot would be impractical for large items or many items, and if we used rail it would have to be all over the city, so your back to the same problem with roads but instead of cars and roads its trains and rail.
Ask HN: Why is there almost no part-time jobs?
I'm a web dev, and I'm working on my own projects. It would be very easy to me to get a full time job, but I almost don't have options for part-time jobs, freelance or fix.

Any ideas?
A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform
Python is really slow, but luckily, most python code can be optimized by improving the interpreter... maybe Facebook will release a better interpreter (there is already some faster interpreters, not sure why Python doesn't adopt them)...
>Citation needed.

There is no need for a citation for such a claim. It is well within the boundaries of my personal experience. I live in America, I have known lots of people, and I've become familiar with what they want.

>And there's also the cultural conditioning.

People should only be conditioned to live the ways you want them to, of course. It's only "cultural conditioning" when you don't like it.
> The homeless will continue to do whatever they can get away with, and those of us with higher incomes will grumble a bit and pay the taxes. The only solution I've seen that has a chance to change this is to come down hard on poor public transit behavior, perhaps by putting actual people on the buses with the specific job of cracking down on the drunk/high/piss soaked/etc types, in an effort to improve the quality of the service to the point that the middle-upper income groups uses it again.

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Or should I say, the city for the abandoned human beings.

If you aren't taking public transit because you don't like the homeless people on the buses, how about you help them become less homeless or have a place to stay, rather than just shooing them away?