skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you realise that adding complexity -- software, hardware, networks, sensors, service contracts -- all serve to increase distance and indirection, you have a frame for seeing potential problems, such as those highlighted by the article.

I'm not sure if the same frame offers particular ways out of those problems, or if it largely serves to say "don't go there". I'm still thinking on that.

As for etymologies, I'm finding them fascinatiing for uncovering root meanings and similarities between concepts. I'm also impressed by how many terms related to information, truth, trust, etc., are profoundly physical in their origins.

I don't know that this will prove useful. It's quite interesting, though, to me at least.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/interest
+1 for enpass, using it to manage and sync passwords between android/iphone/ipad/mac/linux (via dropbox). The single wart is it doesnt autofill firefox on android, you have to switch to a custom secure keyboard where you can manually fill on a field-by-field basis once you've authenticated with master pass or fingerprint.
Another thing I appreciate is that there is an npm module to decrypt your own wallet; this gives me confidence that I can access my secrets if there is some problem with the app or company.
I would criticise.. but i probably spend as much time arguing on twitter with complete strangers.
Cool. Is it a pain to manage 2 different providers though?
A simple illustration that things are more complicated is that most people go roughly from weighing nothing much at conception, 8 or so lbs at birth and 150lbs or so at 18 regardless of calorie counting. It's mostly under genetic and hormonal control at those stages and identical twins come out much the same weight. As adults it's more a mix of factors.
They're not leasing the car, I'm sure. It's provided for free by the Acura dealer as advertising. The article refers to it as a "loaner" from Acura of Fremont.

It's also not inconceivable that the dealer chips in some money for the floor space as well, though I find that less likely because it probably just over-complicates things from a logistics perspective, particularly over such a small amount of money.
Almost 1400 comments on the WSJ. The climate deniers really come out on the WSJ.

Here's some of the article:

"Thirty years of data have been collected since Mr. Hansen outlined his scenarios—enough to determine which was closest to reality. And the winner is Scenario C. Global surface temperature has not increased significantly since 2000, discounting the larger-than-usual El Niño of 2015-16. Assessed by Mr. Hansen’s model, surface temperatures are behaving as if we had capped 18 years ago the carbon-dioxide emissions responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect. But we didn’t. And it isn’t just Mr. Hansen who got it wrong. Models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have, on average, predicted about twice as much warming as has been observed since global satellite temperature monitoring began 40 years ago."
The choking nullahs aren't merely full of plastic. It's debris from the massive construction, both private and govt. Has anyone seen road design in Mumbai? The "expressway" signal junctions are made of paver blocks. Gutters are full of mud. The floods won't stop even if all plastic vanished
Watch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688990
I guess you could look at Snap. Independent of the other big players who ejected being acquired.
The supremacy clause combined with interstate commerce clause.
Because any action might have a ripple-of-butterfly-wings effect on commerce, the federal law can claim interstate commerce would be affected. So it can supersede many state laws. You'll find various claims of "State's Rights" where politically convenient vs supremacy clause where convenient depending on political scores.
What is the L4D2 clause? Google didn't return anything.
We can work on figuring out all of those in parallel.
This is the type of comment that keeps me coming back to hacker news!

Where did you get this information? Books? Care to share recommendations?
YES! This was at a Chicago Bulls game in the late 90's iirc. I watched the game on TV. The shot was from the free-throw line to the basket on the opposite end of the court. The guy shot one handed, wheeling his arm around wide to throw the ball with a great arc.

It took a few seconds to travel through the air, and from the moment he released the ball the crowd was silent - we could all see it was looking on-target. It went through the hoop! It barely nicked the rim on its way down, so after it went through it ricocheted hard to one side, in my memory it was a near 90-degree turn.

The crowd went wild. Everyone was thrilled to finally see someone win that prize. I don't remember how much it was, but I do remember it was a very large cash prize.

And then, like you said, the next day the prize company said they wouldn't pay because there was some stipulation that participants could not have played any pro or college basketball. Public sentiment turned harshly on the team - you see, to take away his prize would be to invalidate the joyful moment we all shared watching that shot. If he didn't win, what the heck did we just see?

I don't know if the insurance company changed their minds or if the team just ate the cost of the prize, but it didn't take long for the Bulls to realize what was the right thing to do, and do it.

Thanks for bringing back these fun memories.
Ask HN: SaaS user management platform, would you use it?
Hi HN,

I am considering if building a small SaaS to manage users.

It will be a very simple and tiny api to register, login, send confirmation email, reset password for users and manage stripe token.

I would also like in a second step to attach something like a key value store to each user.

Something like Auth0 or Stormpath but tinier and simpler.

It is something you guys would use?

Cheers,
"There's actually not that many opportunities for internships on C/C++ compilers."

It seems like there are a lot of llvm-related projects outside of llvm itself, which might mean there are C/C++ compiler-adjacent internships out there.
The key point being that someone has to get the bottle back to the facility instead of throwing it in the trash, or worse, littering.
I wonder how many were social security, retirees, or welfare recipients? I think those people will lose their benefits if they declare earnings. And perhaps they just don't think about it before they enter?
Previous discussion was all about whether what he did was illegal or whether he was complicit.

I'm actually most saddened by this part.

When he was 8 years old, Alfred Anaya destroyed his mother’s vacuum cleaner in the pursuit of knowledge. “I took it apart because I wanted to find the motor inside,” he recalls. “I was so young, I thought the motor would work all by itself even after I took it out. I didn’t realize it needed to be plugged in to go.” His mother was upset but hardly surprised to discover her ruined vacuum, for she knew all about her youngest son’s rabid curiosity. Alfred was forever disassembling Sony Walkmans or clock radios so he could fill his favorite junk drawer with circuit boards, which thrilled him with their intricacy.

His childhood doesn't seem much different from many of us hackers. I wonder how different his life would have been if he had been noticed by a technically savvy and connected benefactor who could have sponsored him. I could easily see someone like him being discovered at an early age going on to do breakthrough work with the benefit of a better education and circumstances. His poverty probably prevented the potential opportunities he could have had in life.

This feels like one of the big challenges that needs to get solved. We need to find ways to bring people up like this up out of poverty so they don't end up making bad choices and ending up on the wrong side of the law. Feels like such a waste.
Or as my mother taught me: "people who write in public places have stupid names and ugly faces."
I'm curious what everyone has done to their FF interface with plugins and extensions. Here is mine:
https://imgur.com/a/AYjMsOV

Feel free to post yours as a comment below :)
Code: https://github.com/koenvanderveen/privateml/blob/master/imag...
Some of the ads I get on Instagram are completely ridiculous. I've been taking screenshots of them because they are so likely ineffective for the people who place them that it's almost humorous.
For instance, an advertisement for a Chinese restaurant. I can't click on their name to go to their profile (that seems to be optional). Clicking on the action button asks if you want to dial their number immediately - remember at this point you don't even know what city they are in, haven't seen a menu. When I have checked out some of these restaurants they are often in other states.
Mine just shipped as well. Very excited! I don't typically buy PL books since they seem to get outdated as opposed to design/architecture type books, but I just had to make an exception for TRPL.
That's arguably a kind of hiring.
> Say what you want about Zuckerberg but the guy was well ahead of his time and could see how things would evolve and what tick with people brains.

Did he really predict that, or did he just see an upcoming potential competitive threat and buy it?

I feel bad for the founders of Instagram. They could have been the next Zuckerberg(s) (as Instagram seems to be taking over as Facebook seems to be starting to fade), but instead they're subordinates in Zuckerberg's empire.
When I was in middle school, I remember doing a raffle at our local mall for an iPod Mini. My Mom told me to ruffle up the paper before dropping it in because the raffle drawer would feel the rough edges and select that one.

We got a call a few weeks later that I won the iPod mini. I still remember my mom driving me to the mall and them handing me the new iPod Mini. That was my peek. I've never won a raffle since.
Close enough I think: setting up a false analogy between climates and meteors is an argument against action. Packaging this in seductive can-do arguments for the HN crowd does not change the reality of the global predicament (not problem) we are in.
The maximum commitment to R&D and the belt tightening that are both not happening now would probably not be enough to avoid major global disruption.
I agree. I started with the definition and, honestly, I had no idea it was so broad. In reality most would not consider this stuff propaganda until it crosses over into seriously misleading territory.
I cannot upgrade until I have a proper vimperator replacement :(
The answer may be different depending on you treat employees as stakeholders vs. as just simple cogs in the machine.
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This is awesome news. As a BSD user, the U2F stuff crashes chromium. I've been waiting forever for FF to work with U2F.

How about Duo secured sites?
OT but worth mentioning.. He is one of the finest human beings to ever come out of Houston. A class act. He flew a bunch of vets on a private jet to the World Series just because. He also does a massive amount of charity that doesn’t make the headlines. During Harvey, as you know, he opened his furniture store as a shelter. A real gem of a person. He is also in his store, open to close, every day. (“I-45 North between Tidwell and Parker..”) Startups could learn a lot from the story of how he built that company.
It’s reinsurance companies all the way down.
52 weeks x 12 months?
Checkout envoyproxy.io
Everything of value can be paid for.

The worth of an ad impression or click is measured in fractions of cents and the adds up to peanuts per month.

Publishers can just charge those peanuts directly and I’ll be happy to pay up (plus they’ll get more without the dozens of middlemen in the advertising/cancer industry).

But seems like publishers are greedy and want more than what the ads pay them, so that’s why subscription-based content sites don’t work at scale. For example, “Le Figaro” (a French newspaper) asks 9€/month for their subscription, despite making less that 1€/month from serving ads to me, so obviously I don’t subscribe and get by with blocking their (really shit, think Outbrain/Taboola “related content”) ads.

On the other hand, I’ve recently started supporting creators on Patreon at the tune of 1$/video. It’s something I can afford to do for every creator I watch, and while being an insignificant amount by itself it would be a significant bag of money should every viewer pay (and definitely more than they can even dream of making from ads).
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My mid tier university has a fundamental problem where the lecturers aren't even hired to teach, they're hired for research. And since the university can't get enough American grad students to stay and be research slaves they bring in grad students from the third world. Then these grad students are required by law to teach a certain number of credit hours to conduct research and there you go. The result is every general class is poorly taught by people who can barely speak English and don't care about teaching so you end up teaching yourself or failing.

CS courses generally don't have this issue but they do have a large amount of mediocre professors. Reason being anyone talented in CS can make 2-3x the salary out in the real world and so CS grads rarely stick around to teach.

The saying "those who can't do, teach." is as relevant as ever.
Haha eventually with all this theory they will just declare "this is what consciousness is!" and tell all of us that our experiences of consciousness are invalid. Most likely we will sit down and take it, like ok, you win scientists. Then we will be replaced by dumb but efficient robots. Yay.
This is why I mentioned anomaly detection on live data. My understanding is that is one of the prototypical unsupervised learning fields. I see how I framed it such that I could have meant a labeled dataset to train a detector. My apologies.

I do think there is something possibly there. But it is just that, a possibility. My hunch is it is a low one that will require a lot of cost to reach. Think of it as akin to making money off of interest rates. If you have a ton of capital, it can work. For most people, it won't.
There is a functional and descriptive science of the apparatus of our consciousness, i.e. the things you describe.

There is also the profound mystery of how individually 'unconscious' physical constituents of our nervous system can give rise to our conscious experience of the world.

The domain of the first is neuroscience and will yield its mysteries to us in time.

As for the Hard Problem of Consciousness as I've described it above, I have resigned myself to the belief that we will never be able to peel back that fundamental mystery. One could (and many have) write volumes on why this is the case, but I believe the simplest explanation of why the Hard Problem is Hard is that we are unable to even state the nature of the problem in a satisfactory way. Our language (our comprehension) fails when we try to probe at the root of consciousness.
Instagram is basically Twitter where you have to post a photo.

I agree that Instagram could not have grown to this size without being part of Facebook.
Issues and requirements for SNI encryption in TLS
In the Bloomberg JS menu the right hand menu changes when you move up and down, but not when you move 'up and right' or 'down and right' over the left hand menu. You can move to the option you want in the left menu and then move your mouse right to get the option you want without being very accurate. In the CSS version you have to move exactly out of the left hand menu option you want to get to the correct right hand menu.

This is a great example of why it sometimes takes a lot of effort to make a good front end UI. Bloomberg's version is considerably friendlier to users.
Some detergent makers actually do sell refill bags that use far less plastic. There's also been a resurgence of milkmen in London and some other places, where you leave out your empty bottles and get a refill. While there aren't milkpeople where I live, there are a few places where I can pay a deposit on a glass bottle and then exchange it for a full bottle whenever I need.

It's not widespread by any means, but it is happening.
Because they didn't decide based on the Constitution, or on the facts of the case. They decided based on what would be convenient for the war effort in World War II.

As Francis Schaeffer said, "If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute." If your ultimate value is "whatever is good for society" or "the nation", there is nothing you cannot trample on in support of that value - even the Constitution.
It's the same in the Netherlands. I pay upwards of 50% taxes, but don't get any unemployment, pension or other benefits/insurance. It's ridiculous in my book.
What are the implications of a company Not having a strongly defined culture?
Culture in the Silicon Valley treatment of how to build a company is considered important from an early stage. The media has reported how companies have failed to address toxic cultures from early stages and how that toxicity can remain pervasive as a company scales. Surely there are some companies that DO NOT have a well-defined culture, even from an early-stage. Does NOT having culture create implications with scaling? Does this matter from a people perspective (hiring/retaining talent) if compensation and benefits are good? Can being "mission-driven" make up for the lack of apparent culture at a company?
Sorry about the bad news but sync dev is completely dead. Mozilla is scared of touching that code base. So don't expect any improvements or additions there .
I would switch to Firefox if I could figure out how to disable smooth scroll. It's enabled by default and requires 3 rotations of the scroll wheel to move an inch down the page.
Most "be your own boss" jobs work that way and your only your own boss...... assuming you aren't dependent on pay from that job to get by.

And yet the people who take those jobs are usually the folks who financially in not so great shape.
Conventional doctors still prescribe premarin, as if horse urine still has therapeutic value.

Premarin == PREgnant MAre's uRINe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugated_estrogens

The tragedy of this situation is that physiologists have actually figured out a lot about the hormones since premarin was released. But horse urine is still a big business for the drug industry, even after the Women's Health Initiative was shut down early...

10 minutes appointments (edit: and symptomatic prescriptions) aren't long enough to drill down to the root of a patient's symptoms.
If you travel to other countries (for me, Thailand most recently) you'll see almost everyone on Facebook. Most small companies over there don't even have a website, just a FB page.
Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/.

I've used it for close to a year and it's decent. It has some issues like all the other Vim plugins, but it works well enough.
It's going to become an ecosystem of bots following bots :) http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180402-the-fascinating-wo...
At the time of the acquisition, people criticized the cost per user of the acquisition. $1B for 40M users was a cost of $25 per user. That analysis failed to take into account Instagram's growth, and the cost per user today is roughly $1.
52 weeks x $100 x 12 months = $62,400 is wrong. The 52 weeks means the 12 months should not be there. 52 weeks x $100 = $52,00
Excellent tutorial!
You "feel sorry" for two people in their mid-twenties who made anywhere from $100M to $400M selling their 15 month old company (while making the other 11 employees rich along the way.)

Ok. Beyond that, why do you assume the valuation would be exactly the same had they not sold to FB?
Producing a paper bag has environmental impacts equivalent to three lightweight polyethythene bags. For cotton bags, it's about a 130x multiple. The best option is to reuse a thick nonwoven plastic bag until it's worn out; woven plastic or cotton bags are rarely re-used often enough to repay their greater costs of manufacture.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> A more consistent user experience: Improvements for dark theme support across the entire Firefox user interface

I know it's a bit petty to focus on this one, but I hope it includes a proper dark new tab. Currently the blinding white flash when I open a new one is painful on the eyes at night.
> More customization for tab management: added support to allow WebExtensions to hide tabs

About damn time. It doesn't seem to be implemented yet, though, as [1] still notes that it's not possible to hide the tab bar.

Checking my list, I think decent mouse gestures (that work on all pages and without having to have a page fully loaded) is the last big item remaining. I suppose I'll finally upgrade from Firefox 55 to 61 then, once this is implemented (or I'll implement it myself next month, when I have more time) and only have to say goodbye to gestures... took only about 9 months for them to get APIs implemented after breaking the vast majority without alternatives!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

Edit: Never mind, that's not actually what this means. It's about hiding individual tabs from the tab bar, not sure to what end... Firefox 55 it is.
My personal test case will be with the UniFi 5.7/5.8 Controller web interface page. I've found consistently under the last few versions of Firefox that, while it's fine for at least an hour, if I leave it up constantly for ease of monitoring then after a day or two the Firefox process inevitably ends up pegging an entire core. There is no video whatsoever or any particularly fancy graphical usage, and while they may be doing something odd internally (I haven't had time to really dig into it) I'm not sure Firefox should end up in that state there over time. It's relatively easily repeatable though (will take a day but requires no interaction on my part) so I look forward to testing it. Although if it does resolve the problem I'll be mildly bummed whatever fix it was didn't make it into ESR, but so it goes.
Kind of like they declared "this is what life is", and they were probably right to do so. Vitalism and dualistic theories of consciousness both belong in the dustbin of history.
Honestly though, building its functionality in a weekend is perfectly doable, the hard part is the ad tracking/stalking infrastructure that goes in the background.
They do give you stuff for free. I got two free tickets to Disney. I just had to convince them that I was interested in buying a timeshare for 90 minutes. Once I got past that mark, they were obligated to give me the tickets - a fact that I promptly reminded them about. Two aggressive sales people and one super pissed off sales manager later, and I was off to Disney. I would never do it again - it was sheer agony.
One of the 'campaigns' in Left 4 Dead 2 involves driving a car that is on display in a mall through the doors. At speed.

http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Center
I'm excited at the prospect of compiling TypeScript directly to wasm in the future (see for example [0]). Someday you may be able to recompile that TS project and get substantial gains for free.

[0] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
Right there in Preferences > Browsing
Don't do it until you've got a reason to. You're giving up a lot by trying to make a given workload work between providers. Pick a horse, stick with it until you have to change that for business or technical reasons.
Ummm... this is about plastic waste not CO2 production. I agree that food can be better recycled into compost.
I don't understand this logic. We tax alcohol and cigarettes. We ban cocaine. And look at the result: hundreds of millions addicted to smoking, but almost zero usage of cocaine. Looks like a ban is a good way to curtail usage. Which is what we want, right?