skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a credit card on file for anyone who gets in, it seems pretty easy to police. Even the most simple method of a button on the app to report a problem with the car when it arrives would work fine.
Lobyplag publishes the documents different companies/govs hand out: https://lobbyplag.eu/docs
I can't believe no one here (currently) has mentioned this ... but IMO in an ideal world, the issue of too many utility scripts means that "your system" (whatever that means to you) is lacking. This leads to users/administrators needing to find ways around the system to get what they need.

The (idealistic) answer, is that when a given script finds more than a few users, or even gets used more than a handful of times ... it should be incorporated into, and formalized, in the system. Make an admin panel/portal/dashboard, put a UI in front of the script for any variables, and make it so that this function doesn't require cryptic institutional knowledge to execute.
I remember experiencing that myself, closing the window, and leaving with a sour opinion of tumblr. This sounds like a very solvable problem, and one that could have measurable results with a high ROI if fixed. Wonder if they’ve tried it.
There are several factors at work here. First, China is extremely protectionist. A lot of the Chinese tech companies are reimplementations of American companies where they get to learn from history and their counterpart's IP. This means that even if China was not developing any new products or technologies, they would still be spending a huge amount of money to replicate the US tech companies. Supposedly economists should be lambasting this wasteful protectionism, but that kind of negativity isn't commonly applied to China yet.

Secondly, American companies have received enormous pushback when they do attempt expansion overseas. Some of this pushback is valid, and some is not. But often American companies are hit hard for stupid reasons because they don't have the political cover that Chinese companies ostensibly possess.

Which leads to the next point which is that Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu (which are the biggest Chinese tech players) are effectively government sponsored entities. Baidu especially was created after the Chinese government ran Google out of the country. This gives them much more political firepower when working out deals with other countries.

American anti-corruption laws are some of the strongest in the world, which is a good thing, but this does mean that American companies are operating at a big disadvantage when working in countries and industries where bribery is practically required. Russia, Brazil and Mexico are often problem countries for example. To get away with the backroom shenanigans required for dealing in those countries, you need the kind of political clout that companies like Exxon possess, and nobody in the tech industry wields that kind of power.

American companies operate under a number of "disadvantages." Some of these are disadvantages are good and some are not, but it does mean Chinese tech companies have much wider latitude to act and have much closer access to the political levers of their country. The biggest question here (as always with China) is how much do metrics that are developed for a free market actually matter when applied to a country that is not a free market but is pretending to be one when it suits their needs. The west faced a similar problem with the USSR during the cold war. The only news the west had access to was news that made the USSR look good, so we were constantly panicking at how powerful the Soviet Union seemed to be while they ineptly blundered from one error to another.
I think this is the first game I've seen posted to HN that wasn't a "Show HN" post. That being said, I haven't been a member of HN for that long. I'd be very interested to see what else has been posted here.
They don't have to be as good as Netflix. Apple just has to be good enough to be an additional reason to buy high margin Apple hardware. Amazon just has to be good enough to pull you into Amazon Prime. For Netflix, streaming is the product. For Apple and Amazon, it's just a feature that on its own can break even or even lose a little bit of money.
Ask HN: Do you do periodic perf/scalability test for your service. If so how?
Well, unless you're talking about the Kindle Fire App Store- which is magnitudes worse than the App Store.

The Play Store (other than the horrific naming) strikes a decent balance, but isn't particularly great either.

Don't know why app stores seem to be so challenging for all the players in the space.
jemalloc and tcmalloc have been much better than glibc for me, especially when it comes to avoiding fragmentation with some server workloads
http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2017/11/concurrent-large-allo...
http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2018/04/myrocks-malloc-and-fr...
http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2015/10/myrocks-versus-alloca...
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How about a very simple policy then:

1. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one.

2. Quit trying to shove your ethical system on other people.
So, this is basically the opposite of how free markets work.
"or the incredible bureaucracy that de facto prohibits small businesses from participating in the finance or medical industries. "

This is a good thing. These areas are not places where you want to "move fast and break things."
I've heard of that one! A friend watches that when she babysits her (much) younger sisters and she said she really likes it for them.

Incidentally she didn't know that Daniel Tiger was from Mr Rogers until we saw the biography together. (She never watched Mr Rogers's Neighborhood when she was younger, and had only heard of him through pop culture.)
Chronicle Classic: Wives Who Aren’t ‘Mrs. Him,’ Merla Zellerbach, 1975
Paying Extra for Rental Car Insurance Is a Waste of Money, Study Finds
Most likely an issue with the app. App Store guidelines require you to have a "restore my purchase" option.
Yea if I followed these instructions I would have flunked out of high school playing Team Fortress.

Someone 20-30 disagreeing with the previous generation is much more likely to be right imo.
Interestingly, it is a conservative Republican from Texas [1] that is championing the exploration of Europa. I wonder if he could be convinced to go to Enceladus instead.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/inside-nasas-daring-...
The irony is that pirating is getting way better now because of this fragmentation (it was going downhill for a while). Plex is damn amazing. The fact that you can share with your friends means that even a person with a modest social network will have access to gobs of content, and it will likely be the most popular stuff.
A dead reply from Reactionary_:

"Unfortunately the paths of Haiti and the US could not be more divergent. Independence has served the US much better than it has Haiti."
People are just bad at estimating in general. They tend to assume things will go in a straight line. You can see this most often when the curve is exponential, but asymptotic curves will throw people off too.
No Old Spice in NZ :(
You would need to quantify what you mean by better for the planet. The number of insects, worms, rodents, frogs, and other small animals destroyed by mechanized farming is staggering. Also, I have had the impossible burger and was not at all impressed, though it looks absolutely perfect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17010361
You reference those things as if they are a "bad thing" ... they are not universally "bad things". They are merely individual actions/tools/incentives to right historical wrongs. It's not wrong for people to want to right those wrongs, even if someone else feels that other actions would be more efficient at righting those wrongs ... that's a valid discussion to have, not summarily dismissing people proposing solutions.
Have you been to SV ? Engineering is 80% foreign workers
Kitchen knives don't kill people. People kill people.
Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)
>Hollywood snickered and took the easy money

It kinda still is the case where I see so much missing from streaming services.... put it on there damn it!
Nowadays you have to log in to see anything marked "sensitive content", and it doesn't show up on Google searches.

It kills discoverability.
Google just launched a dedicated Podcasts app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
To stretch this a bit, I feel like "search" in general is a weak spot for Apple. For example, I think the search in Apple Mail and searching my Macbook are both very bad, especially the one for Apple Mail.
Sure, but most tech companies will give you them anyways. If we are talking about what we get for half the pay in the uk, vacation isn’t it.
>I think in order for the Bay Area (and California in general) to really become good for creatives, they need to take a deep existential look at themselves and really decide that they're willing to solve the problems. That means making radical, Marshall Plan levels of reform to zoning and property tax laws, establishment of strong regional metropolitan governments, and significant investments in better transportation.

And this will never, ever happen. California is going to continue it's slide into something resembling the third world, where the ultra-rich elite 10% live in their exurban gated communities with armed guards, and a permanent underclass of service workers provides for their every need while barely scraping out an existence. The incentives pushing things in this direction are simply too great for any kind of change to happen. I've been here for 4 years now and have seen it visibly getting worse in that time. The place is completely unlivable. I'm now just biding my time to save for a down payment in Seattle or Portland, because the thought of buying a house here has literally become a punchline for even high income earners.
If you'd like to see content for a subject moderated differently than how it is done in other subs, there are probably other likeminded people that would quickly join if you started another subreddit.
Grind insects into a fine powder. Start adding them to things. We've magically added protein to every food, it's more filling and 'better' for us. It's not like anybody really knows what's in veggie burgers and things of that nature.

Here's my questions:

Is there some biological downside to mass-farming insects for food? Do they release methane or some other gas that's harmful to our planet?

Cows turn grass or corn into meat which has things like iron, vitamin B, and monosaturated fat in it. Do insects have these kind of advantages?
Despite initial plans, that ship has long sailed. Apple's all about exerting control over the app store, and purposefully breaking the open web on their platform, to drive users and devs to the app store.

Non exhaustive list of web APIs broken on iOS Safari:

1. WebRTC Data channel

2. WebGl 2

3. Limiting WebApp storage to 50MB, just because. Oh, and purging it at random, just because

4. Web push notifications

5. Disallowing 3rd party browser engines (Every browser on iOS is a wrapper around iOS's WebKit)

......
The release of the Disney alternative will be interesting. I haven't read what their plans on but they have always used the "vault" technique [0] for their classic movies (ex. You can only buy Cinderella from retail at certain times). I wonder if they will do away with this technique and simply make those classics available all the time.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
I remember the early days of Netflix a lot of folks were predicting that Netflix was super cool and the future.... but they also predicted that the first guy in sometimes gets run over by someone who comes later. They often were referencing the content owners..... but content owners just didn't want to / didn't get it / didn't get their act together... amazing how that worked.
SJW shithole is criticizing SJW shithole for being SJW shithole.
> Not everyone can paint or write a screenplay, and not everyone wants to.

Not everyone can, but I'll bet a lot more people could than are currently doing it.
Philosophy of Science with Hilary Putnam (1978)
i don't get the downvoting for this comment. i too used to carry 70+lbs of vinyl to gigs. CDJs became a thing around the same time napster/ftp trading/etc was popular. on a multi-thousand watt sound system, i agree that the sound was atrocious and quite obvious when a compressed format was burned to CD. that bothered me on multiple levels not just the sound quality, but there was a very large chance the music was downloaded from napster/ftp/etc and not paid for from a legitimate source.

from this thread and other similar to it, it is becoming clear that a vocal segment of HN readers are not concerned with copyright.
>I feel that mobile got software distribution correct.

It's more like mobile got package management right.

Windows is terrible as an example to use for installing/removing software as it has extremely crude (almost non-existent) package management system (referring to Windows Installer here -- .msi files). [0]

I like to think of the App store (and equivalent) as a Linux command-line beautified by a GUI shell in a mobile form-factor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer
Yes, but the use of "which in turn" suggests that was not meant; it suggests that what follows is a real deduction and not a mere rephrasing.
I remember wanting a tree house to feel safe and alone
I wonder if it coincides with their change to a simple thumbs up/thumbs down rating system. I never rate titles anymore unless it's really good, or really bad. The in between I just can't pick.
I fully agree any protest should be peaceful, but transparency is important.

Let's imagine a world where as you suggest, corporation names are revealed but not individuals. Well, where does that leave us? Maybe I'll just go as myself instead of my company. I won't represent my company, I just happen to be its CEO, its chief lobbyist, or whatever.

So no, we'd need full transparency. This kind of thing is common among various branches of democratic governments. Presidents' schedules are usually mostly public, fundings of various sorts are public, etc.

Opaqueness leads to darkness.
Reddit is trying to cash in through advertising
i think even more likely: we will find a way to make our consumption of meat more sustainable
Ummm.... no. You might be able to make the case that a neuron can be simulated with a very complex set of if-then statements, but that assumes that we can know everything about the state of a dozen inputs, which we can't. At any rate, the brain is not a computer:
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
I see comments similar to these on a lot of websites, and I don't understand the sentiment; I feel like I'm missing something major here.

There are thousands of television series and movies available to Americans on Netflix (less so in other countries, but the point still stands). Cable television doesn't offer a fraction of what's available on Netflix. I'm not aware of another streaming service that offers more titles.

What is Netflix's library "small" relative to? Again, just curious because I've seen this mentioned plenty of times, and I personally find there's an overwhelming amount of content on there.
All of the probes that have gone to Jupiter have had that same hard engineering problem, and we've yet to lose much science because of it.
Come to New Zealand, you’ll find out
Oh man! I miss that guy! Yeah he could be verbose and preachy, but at least he made interesting arguments.
There are lots of different points of view, Jobs wanted HTML 5 only iPhone while Apple Internally, Scott Forstall wanted to open SDK to developers, and the Jailbreaking communities shown the concept of an App Store.

So it really is a combination of things.

And of course once Jobs saw the App Store model, there is no turning back.
Ugh. I was there for all those strata. I feel old now...
Oh, yeah, I completely agree that the context makes this more complicated and morally dubious... It's just that these days, people seem to be more opposed to the phrasing of something, as opposed to its actual meaning (or the actions that follow). I definitely think that even if we can all agree that some people are "savages" and their cultures are less worthy in every dimension than ours, this still doesn't give us the right (or excuse) to kill/murder/oppress them.
I agree with your assessments about entomophagy. However, I think it no coincidence that most of the “tech people“ on this blog either give paid lectures, sell books, or are associated with a “tech startup”.
First off, that was in the 60s, so the number today would be something more like $150 million. Secondly - Pretty much every bit of the government budget is fought for. And should be. It is incredibly important that we have robust debate on government spending. At the time, children's programming, public television - These were unproven topics, and Fred was making some of the earliest debates for them.

And third: "Think of the children" is a classic fallacy all in itself, that bears no further explanation
London, how does one become so brave?
Oh I don't doubt it, they're not interested in going back. I just thought it was an interesting fact if true about their perspective early on.

Heck I'm just getting into web development and honestly... web apps seem to be JUST barely now getting there when it comes to app quality, polish.
Yes, the general impression is that proposal articles almost feel being written under somebody's dictation, for the benefit of a single market player.
Abstract

Knowing how to manage one’s own learning has become increasingly important in recent years, as both the need and the opportunities for individuals to learn on their own outside of formal classroom settings have grown. During that same period, however, research on learning, memory, and metacognitive processes has provided evidence that people often have a faulty mental model of how they learn and remember, making them prone to both misassessing and mismanaging their own learning. After a discussion of what learners need to understand in order
to become effective stewards of their own learning, we first review research on what people believe about how they learn and then review research on how people’s ongoing assessments of their own learning are influenced by current performance and the subjective sense of fluency. We conclude with a discussion of societal assumptions and attitudes that can be counterproductive in terms of individuals becoming maximally effective learners.
>>Students dig the play on words. The more experienced developers are, the less they seem to care. Dinosaurs…

Ouch. The article seems to emphasize that younger programmers are adopting Kotlin more than older programmers, but makes no attempt at explaining why. Of course most people who have been programming for quite a while probably went through the phase of trying to learn everything new that came out. Then they realized how much time they wasted as many of those things became obsolete.

IMHO, all it's going to take is some agreement between Oracle and Google for Google to loose all interest in Kotlin. And I'd put it at a very high probability that Google being required to loose interest in Kotlin would be part of that agreement.
Yes, the whole point of my aside there was to correct the tendency to say “Middle East” when taking about the Arab or Islamic world.
Yes, there is a relationship, with RxJS on the "push" side and async iterators on the "pull" side.

An interesting alternative to the library mentioned here is that IxJS is the RxJS team's own implementation of the sorts of operators that Axax is trying to provide, though for both ordinary iterators and async iterators: https://github.com/ReactiveX/IxJS

IxJS gets the benefits of trying to share as much as possible the same API as RxJS, making it really easy to use bits of IxJS and RxJS in the same project, depending on use case.
Ouch. Is there a way to rehab your rep?
I identified the basic principle by which to judge societies, i.e. individual rights, regardless of what the social/political/economic system is called by their advocates or detractors nor the details of their legal manifestation. Does the society sacrifice individuals to the collective? That is the essential and though there are many variants I don't think it is complicated to understand, though you may disagree.

I think your whole approach is flawed because you are viewing these questions from a political or economic angle whereas I claim the Capitalism versus Socialism debate is really about ethics. I think it is telling that you ignored my last paragraph where I made that important point. Nobody has consistently defended or implemented Capitalism because it rests on the ethic of selfishness which is in conflict with the predominant ethic of today. In earlier times one was taught to sacrifice to the King or God and the only modern contribution to ethics has been to substitute Society for God or King. Capitalism was born of that past era and its moral foundation of selfishness was implicit from the beginning. The advocates of Socialism, in all its variants, have attempted to either destroy Capitalism outright or to somehow leash it to serve so-called "social good". There is nothing incoherent about that argument unless you fail to see that these two political/economic systems derive from fundamentally different and incompatible ethical systems.

Finally, I have read almost all of what von Mises wrote and I think your are misrepresenting or misunderstanding him when you claim he advocated fascism. This is factually wrong and an insult to a consistent advocate of individual rights and freedom and staunch opponent of socialism. Moreover, if you know the works of Mises you must know that he proved that Socialism cannot work economically. Without free markets to develop a meaningful price system Socialism cannot solve the problem of economic calculation. This fact is demonstrated historically where the socialists countries had to use prices determined out side their system in freer countries so that bureaucrats could make some semblance of rational plans. Without those prices socialist countries would have collapse much sooner than they did, and it demonstrates that Socialism is in fact a parasite on free societies and not a viable social system.
Swift's new calling convention
Yes, I understand that. And what I'm trying to tell you is that this problem you have set for yourself is formally equivalent to the problem proving mathematical theorems. They are the same problem. Any substantial progress on one is necessarily also substantial progress on the other.
Yes, I enabled v6 the other day and it worked fine.
I wonder if the same isn't true going the opposite direction, too - learning functional, then moving to imperative. But it's much less common to do it in that order, so we may not see it happen enough to notice it as a pattern.
Even before social media - we're a social and talkative species. More often than not, we're not observing members of a group directly, but we're receiving an already made generalization from other people - which they as well may have received, not made. In the past, the main source of those received generalizations were people we met. Ever since the printing press, it's mass media instead.
This is true. Ironically Access and/or FoxPro was a good way to introduce people to it.