skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, using webmentions hasn't created spam on my micro.blog instance or WordPress instance. I'm sure to a degree that's because spammers haven't found webmention yet, but it's worth noting.

https://indieweb.org/Webmention

(I also find it fascinating but a little concerning that the "IndieWeb" movement and the community around ActivityPub seem to be inventing very similar wheels, either without being aware of one another's work or without much apparent interest in working together.)
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Hey, a bunch of shell scripts glued to some DOS executables were good enough in my time. We had no fancy schmancy github back in those days, yet we built this business on nothing but hard work and pizza.

Why, the sources of the DOS exes were long gone by second year, lost in the crash of that old Windows Milenium machine that used to sit in our dorm room and was uniquely configured to compile them using Turbo Pascal - we figured it was a safe option to use as a source repository. But that still didn't stop us - we implemented the remaining features by patching assembly.
By design, a public blockchain is an immutable record maintained by a decentralized network where no central authority has the power to go back and remove something from the record. This makes the blockchain an exciting technology for resisting censorship, but it also means that if someone adds your personal data to the blockchain, your options for removing it are very limited. You would need to shut down all nodes in the network or convince all nodes in the network to agree to a hard fork. In the latter case, nodes that don't join the fork would continue to have the private data.

That's true for unencrypted information stored directly on the blockchain. For applications where you need the ability to delete data and don't need strong censorship resistance, one solution is to store private data off-chain and only store the location and hash of the data in the blockchain. This article discusses that idea in detail:

https://medium.com/wearetheledger/the-blockchain-gdpr-parado...
Submarine.
It turns out, many people find curating their own updates that are relevant to them from the web more valuable than spending money on a newspaper.
Aside from the obvious "fake news" dilemma (i.e. How do you trust your aggregated news sources), the unsexy but important data (i.e. Data supporting Quadrant 2 activities ) is not being collected.

This leads to a less informed public, at least locally. Any of the "local" social sites (i.e. Patch/etc) seem to wither or get consumed by politics (national/international) spam (commercials) and propaganda.

The internet of today lacks trustworthiness (probably an engineered outcome).
I meant the concept of a Steam Box has failed. I think the concept of a Direct X replacement is still viable.
So now there will be essentially no way to "alert the regulatory agency" other than essentially taking the offenders to court yourself?
When nobody guards the guards the guards screw off and waste resources.
I disagree. Speaking for myself, I am far more informed because of the Web than I was before the Web where my only option was the newspaper.

Yes, a lot of people prefer to read updates on the Kardashians, just like people prefer to do the crosswords and read the funnies.
" I would start by firing people that led to this situation."

You are one of those blessed people who can architect a system and the architecture holds up for decades. From my experience most systems will end up in a big mess over time if features get added. There is almost no way around it.
The main reason I would consider a battery is for disaster recovery purposes. Being from the suburban NYC metro area, we've had multiple, multi-week power outages in the past decade.

We have a moderate sized portable generator, but running off that for weeks becomes a very unpleasant experience. Certainly far better than not having power, but unpleasant.

Driving 2 hours away to the nearest place we knew had unlimited fuel, turning my car into a rolling bomb on the trip back with dozens of gallons of fuel in gas cans, etc. And the endless droning of the thing running.

If those sorts of disasters are not a major concern for you, I don't think a battery makes much sense.
Not for solar. There are no grids nearly large enough to have half in the day time and half in the night time on average.
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No necessarily. It depends on what has lead to the need for a rebuild. Sometimes there weren't previously the resources to "do things properly", Sometimes a feature might only added for a specific client, etc.

You need that previous knowledge to know the "why" of things & if that why is still valid.

IMHO it's more dangerous if you're working with experts who don't want to improve the system.
Ubuntu connects everything
Compare with the NeXT "Driver Kit" library:

http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/Op...

Very similar layout, but it used Objective-C instead of C++.
Also declared "Brownie" was doing a "Heckuva job!"

I think it is the nature of most politicians to "spin" to the point of "spectacular falsehoods".
I doubt the downvotes have anything to do with your product itself (which seems superficially similar to that in the linked article?), but more with the fact that self-promotion outside of a [ShowHN] is generally frowned upon.
Every time I have known what was going on and read a local newspaper covering it there has been a host of errors. Local news is ok for having a vague idea what's going on, and little else.

So sure, there is some value there. But, less than many people seem to think.

PS: OK, local movie showtimes where generally correct.
All presidents promise something for years after their tenure and then proceed with cutting the budget.
Why is that skeezy? If the house is at a foreclosure auction, it's being sold whether he buys it or not. If he buys it, he's paying more than anyone else was willing to.
You keep stating your point without addressing the arguments against them.

When people are being paid for the express goal of gathering such data in as unbiased way as possible - how can that be replaced by pure crowdsourcing?
"I'm curious what alternative you propose, a commune where workers decide on their own what they'll be working on?"

Ever read about Sun Hydraulics?

"At Sun, we have no job titles, no hierarchy, no formal job descriptions, no departments, no budgets, no direct sales channel, no close supervision, and only some work instructions."

https://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/09/15/sun-hydraulics-sh...
One thing to be careful not to fall afoul of when you choose to remove features is assuming there is some kind of meaningful average user.

A good example is MS Office, there are an huge amount of features that only 5% of users might ever use, but the majority of users are likely to use quite a few of these niches individually, and if you remove all the low use features, you piss off basicly everyone.

I think the mistaken idea of an average user is why a lot of metrics driven software seems to get more and more useless with every update.

(I cant see the present/away status of contacts in the newest skype, really guys? )
Do you have natural gas available?

You can also store quite a lot of propane in a small footprint without some of the issues that come with gas or diesel.
I have a couple of points. For the most point I agree with you but here they are.

1) People are people and what works for some kids doesn't work for others. While we're way past what I'd call ok as a society, kids still should have to prove they deserve independence at a younger age. If (for example) I were your parent and you didn't have a job at 16 and wouldn't get one but were on your phone all the time I might use something like this to motivate you to get out and get a job. If your sibling had a job and were on their own plan etc. then I wouldn't do it there.

2) It sounds like Sophie was in on the experiment and would have been able to opt out of it. I did not get the impression that she was forced into anything by her parents or the author. Especially factoring in the last comment about adding in Netflix.

3) My parents did not do well teaching me basic life skills in preparation for college. I learned most of it on my own. They taught me a lot and limited my independence as I proved or disproved my ability to be independent.

Any I just wanted to put some thoughts out there. 50% of your friends couldn't do laundry by the time they started college. What % could by the time they were done? What % can now? I would have been in the 50% at the beginning, but now I'm not. I didn't know how to tile a wall, but now I do. My eldest sister on the other hand was 100% like you and we have the exact same parents.

Just some food for thought.
Sigh.
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> Before you embark on a rebuild, you should have solid data (ideally backed up by logs) about which features your users are using, which ones they care about, which ones are "nice to haves", which ones were very necessary to get to the stage you're at now but have lost their importance in the current business environment, and which ones were outright mistakes.

This is so important. I've been on many a project where, 3 months in, we wish we had historical tracking data on user activity to back up our instincts to cut a particular feature that seems worthless. The worst part? Even if you add it immediately, you'll have to wait 2-4 weeks to get a sufficient amount of data.
Hate to break it to you, but there were plenty of racists on the anti-NN side; the Daily Stormer was full of anti-NN commentary that seemed to be based on the fact that NN was a policy of the first Black president. Racism is on all sides of any major policy debate, which nobody should be surprised by given how many racists there are in society.

Also, as someone who submitted a comment that was actually cited in the final order, I did consider the other points of view. In fact my comment addressed the anti-NN claims made in the NPRM, as did many other thoughtful, original comments submitted by other engineers and computer scientists, including a comment submitted by Vint Cerf (inventor of the Internet). By necessity I and those other experts had to think about the positions from the other side. All of us concluded approximately the same thing: that the anti-NN arguments were based on a poor understanding of how the Internet works and of the current state of the ISP market.

(That is being generous. In fact the NPRM was based on deliberate, dishonest distortions of the truth, meant to stretch technical facts to support the legal argument for what can only be described as a preordained conclusion. Facts were never really the basis of the anti-NN argument; the argument is mostly based on ideological opposition to any regulation of ISPs, even regulations that might encourage competition among ISPs e.g. line-sharing requirements. The goal is just to minimize regulation, regardless of the impact on consumers or on society as a whole, regardless of the state of the ISP market, regardless of the facts.)
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Non-sarcastic reply since original one was flagged:

It's sometimes rare to see people bring up the chance of false positive identification, though two comments did in reply to another downvoted comment. In the replies to popular tweets are a mix of replies from real people, replies from bots, replies from real people behaving in the way a bot does, and replies from mixed accounts where people sometimes tweet themselves and sometimes use a tool to automate tweets. One account I saw just accused others of being bots, their twitter history was filled with such accusations. I'm pretty sure they weren't a bot though based on the other tweets, and I doubt there's a tool just for that... Maybe people need to be accused of being a bot by a non-bot (sarcastically or not) to think about the chance of false positives more often? But it's frustrating to see congratulations as if the hard problem of identifying accounts that need to be banned (with some bad bots being a special subset of that) has been solved.
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This is common and should be encouraged. If we can't have a little fun while programming, then what the hell are we doing with our lives?
Im surprised people worship SpaceX for reinventing 1970s rocket tech.

Huh, same thing when Go reinvented 1970s programming language C and branded it Go.

ULA will always crush SpaceX
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>If the solar was ruining the grid or was way more expensive than what it seems, we would not keep seeing solar installed at this pace and at these costs.

This completely ignores the fact that the people buying solar get subsidies and they aren't the ones paying for the burdened grid.

In some states, distribution companies are paying retail prices back to solar producers. That means these people get to freeride on the grid and force the power company to deal with their unstable power supply for free.
It depends on how much your electric company will pay you for excess energy production. Currently you may get a good rate, but as more people install solar panels that rate is going to get worse, as it gets more expensive to deal with all the homes with solar. So figure out what the deal is in your location, don't get a battery until you need it. I Don't know, but I realize in the future if Austin Energy doesn't pay well for excess production I will.

You can also size your panels such that you never produce excess energy but you will be leaving a lot of roof space that could be making energy to waste. A sunny winter day still makes a ton of energy.
Keep in mind that you will be one of these people in a few years for whatever you are doing now. The previous people most likely weren't dummies but had to deal with the technology and constraints at the time they built the system in the same way you are doing it now.
If I move into a house with a grid connection only, I budget on power costs = cost of grid connection + grid power price.

If I move to a house with solar panels, I budget on power costs = cost of grid connection + X * grid power price + (1-X) * solar price (which is the capital cost of the panels smoothed out over their useful life).

The issue here is that I can't maneuver into a situation where my power price = solar price without sacrificing my ability to do anything after sundown without candles. Clearly, the true cost of power in a solar-enabled house is going to be higher than the cost of the solar panels.
Also factor in most of those calls during the morning and evening, follow-up paperwork time, daily equipment checks, and station maintenance. If you cut the timeframe down to 12 hours busy window, that's 90 minutes per call. Throw a good call in there and they stack up. In my experience, a 24 hour shift with 8-10 calls is just about the max to handle before burnout.
A Script that freeze MacOS applications in the background
Let me guess... Ajit Pai has a brother / brother in law / sister / somebody who happens to own an IT consulting firm.
Getting constistent normals along a 3D (Bezier) curve
I think it's important to separate feature improvements from a technical rewrite, ideally in the rewrite you mostly just make things work the way they did, sometimes you might fold a feature improvement into it but if you come out of the rewrite with a more stable product that has about the same usage stories you should consider it a success.

Sometimes you will want to fold features into a rewrite (remove prompting the user to confirm X twice) sometimes this will ease development and be worth it but other times it'll pay off to just retain the old functionality but add it to a list to be user tested later.

Once the tech is solidly over then take a swing at updating the poor UI, do it agiley so you can back out of changes that the user base rejects since (at least within my more modest usage studies) not everything people depend on comes up or gets reported. I'd much rather rollback a design feature branch then have users get change fatigue when you're forced to rollback your new shiny rebuild and the whole project ends up being shelved.
I can’t wait to set limit for Reddit. I got rid of Facebook and Twitter last year and it’s so much better.

Heck, why don’t I just delete it right now…
One of the things that I missed for quite some time from the classic Finder was the ability to drag Finder windows to the edge of the screen where they would shrink down to a tab you could click to instantly access that folder or hover over while dragging objects so the folder would expand and allow you to drop objects into that folder.

However, the sidebar and spring loaded folders now offer functionality that is largely the same.
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It's always best to be the company owner.

If you're in a position that allows it, save what you can and invest it in the market. Buffet, Dalio, etc. etc. have been preaching this for decades.
I wasn't imagining that the 'official accounts' would be exclusive accounts or have privileges over other accounts, just that they would be centralized places for those groups to release information. I agree that it shouldn't be run by or have behind-the-scenes influence from the government (or other powerful orgs.)
The audience this website targets (full-time restaurant owners?) doesn't hang out on hackernews.
Tech has won the battle for young people's hearts and minds
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yes! I really wish it had this. I have several interests. Sometimes I want to see the news, sometimes read about tech, sometimes medicine, whatever. It all just runs together and makes me less productive instead of more...
That’s the other major part of a community, and a major problem, yes.
Look up Nate's work [1], specifically Boomerang [2] that aims for bidirectional programming. Be crazy :)

[1] Nate Foster: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/
[2] Boomerang http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/
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A little unsure what you meant in the second half of your first line. You mean, do not now avoid the charge? Or do not now pay the charge? (I realize it may be moot though since my situation is different... still copper here.
==The definition of fascism according to webster: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.==

Add "to the benefit of corporations and the extremely wealthy" at the end of this definition and you have Corporate Fascism. Who do think is donating the money to these politicians?

Corporate Fascism is exactly the new phrase needed to describe what is happening. Your argument was essentially "your phrase doesn't exist" followed by "someone needs to make up a new phrase".
I really miss the System 7 Finder, the 'spatial' nature[1] really clicked with me and other file browsers still sort of bug me because of that.

[1] http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-3.htm
> but no one states that nuclear and coal should be more expensive as a result.

Yes, yes we are.

The correct calculation uses the capacity factor, not the name-plate capacity.
Having $X in a bank account is not the same as taking $X in capital machinery and shoving it somewhere to rust "out of the economy". In fact, it's kind of the opposite, which is why the financial system exists and saving is a good thing.
Fair point since $2.5/W is over two thirds installation. If you buy the panels and install them yourself you'd save a lot of money.
I remember about a guy that when something similar to you from upwork.com. The article was posted on Medium and it received quite an attention, try to seek it out.

Good luck.
Two related possibilities that the article does not mention:

Third parties may be able to gain control of your car and:

1 - drive it to where they (not you) want it to go.

2 - crash it.

We may be nearing the end of the era of largely independent and free movement for most of humanity.
Fixed. Thanks for noticing.
"Money" isn't resources. It's just numbers in databases. The whole point of financial assets is so that real resources don't get tied up, so I think your outlook is totally backwards. If people don't understand this and get violent, it will just be another civilization destroying seizure, signifying nothing.
I've seen a lot of comments praising Vue in place of React.

Likewise, yarn in place of npm.
What is energy, actually?
It netted us more solar power installed so that the next person will have it at a lower price through volume, encouraging cheaper s.p. for everyone else.
I typically find a large amount of information that simply doesn't exist online in my local paper.

And don't get me started on ranting about Facebook trying to hamfistedly assume that mantle.
The federal government had already decided to get rid of net neutrality so the number of comments for or against it was irrelevant at that point. So this strikes me as a whole lot of who gives a damn and is a distraction from the actual issue.

There seems to be a weird tendency to use the regulator (FCC) as a scapegoat and to give the actual people making the unpopular decisions a free pass. It's as if the actual political process has become entirely invisible...
This completely ignores the fact that every form of power generation is heavily subsidized, one way or another. For example, in the USA "some states" heavily subsidize fossil fuels by not raising any tax on gas. Somewhat of a nitpicking point you are raising here..

The point of the article is that in this case, even without subsidies solar would beat anything else. This is despite heavy import duties that were recently imposed.
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At my old company, under extreme cases, I put up a physical whiteboard on top of my desk with "Focus mode: on" and "Focus mode: off" depending on my mood.

Worked great, and nobody seemed offended. I may think that even the directors love it when they saw it.
What electric companies have rates like that? In the Midwest it is like a factor of 2 for energy, maybe (residential energy in urbanized areas around here is $0.10-$0.15 per kW-h, with a day charge of ~$0.50).
For most of the planet GDPR is irrelevant. I personally will never give it any thought when building something.
Nintendo reportedly rolling out new, more hack-resistant Switch hardware
I believe the parent's argument is that people are terrible at "curating their own updates that are relevant to them from the web."

And that having a voter base which exclusively does so is antithetical to objective truth and a functioning democracy.
My favorite scratch pad is a simple bookmarklet:

"data:text/html, <textarea style="font-size: 1.2em; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; outline: none" autofocus></textarea><script>window.onbeforeunload = function(e) { return 'really close?'; };</script>"

Keep it open as long as you need, and it prompts to confirm before you close it.