skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hotels can do the same thing by inserting that at the bottom of the registration form people sign at check in or in the app. They already might have. I'm just not aware of any laws that would concern a hotel guests stay other than having proper fire safety and ADA compliance.
It’s not surprising that the young rich beautiful people like Instagram. But I still appreciate that Facebook, Reddit and other text-based platforms allow an ugly person with a dumpy apartment and rusty car to publish their thoughts with the same format that Bill Gates would have.
The problem is not you and me deleting FB, Instagram or Google. The biggest problem is that your friends share your name and number with all those social apps without thinking and without your approval. And you can’t even ask these social tech monsters to delete it. So even if you are not there, you are there. And that’s really a scary thing!
Hey there!

I'm one of the founders. Just wanted to hop in here and clarify our current practices.

We do not sell any data to third parties (anonymized or not). We’re never going to do it for direct marketing purposes or anything like that.

The intent behind the non-personally identified information sharing clause is to potentially provide breach notification warnings to merchants:

Example: if a large number of locked cards were used at merchant X, and then subsequently stolen from merchant X, and used at other merchants, we could notify merchant X and our customers that shopped at merchant X (likely before anyone else in the ecosystem knew).

This is not a service we're planning to provide in the near term. Any other information we collect is solely for the purposes of fraud prevention, not marketing.

I definitely hear you on the language in the policy though, and it is something we intend to tighten up
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It is abundantly clear that the special counsel is being extremely conservative with their indictments and claims so as to not create the opportunity for opponents to dispute the claims.

The issue of target vs subject is a technical one by the special counsel and is intentionally twisted by the conservative media. It's like in any other legal trial: a verdict of "not guilty" is not an affirmation that the defendant is innocent, but rather that the prosecution couldn't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant was guilty.

Whereas most of SV embraces "move fast and break things", we should be thankful that the special counsel is not.
I don't understand your point here.

It sounds like you are saying that Anacostia is cheap, dense, and close to jobs and that there's also a demand for luxury housing farther away. That all sounds reasonable to me.

In SV we don't have cheap housing close to jobs. I argue this is because we don't have dense housing.
The 10 Commandments of Serverless
I guess where you draw the line at safety is your choice. I draw the line at any of the following: using your phone/texting, running a red light, changing lanes without looking or without leaving proper space, hard braking and near misses, aggressive tailgating, consistently missing turns/traffic signs/etc, aggressive speeding (+15mph more than the flow of traffic), not yielding to pedestrians, yelling at other drivers and/or losing your cool while driving.

Regarding you comment: I do it every time - I also indicate in the review what was wrong. If you can barely drive you should not drive anyone around. Sorry.
A couple of past threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9571827

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7170010
Asymmetry is relevant because your bound comes from undirected graphs. The number for a complete digraph is different.
Even assuming that it all goes to waste....it's just $2 Billion. But it never works that way, tax gains, engineers hired, resale value etc...
“Find your passion” is ultimately tremendously selfish. It’s saying “I’ll do what I want regardless of what the world needs.” It’s learning to be a juggler rather than a dentist on an island with ten jugglers and twenty toothaches.
For metrics we find writing a well defined, formatted message to stdout* and then using Cloudwatch Logs Metric filters works pretty well.

* e.g. "ETLLambda METRIC RECORDS_IN 948575"
How to Think Full-Stack
> I found the double square bracket syntax useful and understandable

Really? I had kind of the inverse reaction to it. Indeed useful, but definitely not understandable
Well, they are essentially a single-payer system for their customers. That's not really surprising.

They also have an incentive to err on the side of providing less care. Since you still can't meaningfully comparison shop between them and their competitors, I suppose it is exactly like a national single-payer system.
> Meanwhile, two of the very things that have made Twitter toxic for many people—its maximalist commitment to free speech ...

Whoops, another essay snuck in from an alternate reality. Why does that keep happening? Is there a router somewhere that somehow got cross-wired with the multiverse and sends their packets here and ours there?

This universe where Twitter is a free speech maximalist sounds good though. Can I get a transfer?
A. Oh, it has paid off already.

2. Oh, yes.

D. Uh huh.
Some of your projects looks like are in e-commerce space so say if I look at my cart and it is missing products I added say 5 sec ago that would be an issue.
it seems unlikely that Facebook would be stupid enough to throw this away

This sentiment expresses the difference between being 20 and being 40. Over the years, you will witness many companies snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for no fathomable reason.
I keep thinking that, in the grand scheme of things, the Instagram acquisition was a bargain.
oxygen was their gas of choice too, i bet
Ohio Schools Propose Pepperspray Against School Shooters
I'm a hardcore bourbon drinker that had a real hard time finding scotch I could enjoy. But eventually found Springbank. I prefer the 12 year old to the other age statements and it fits in your budget.

That said, drink a bunch of cheap whiskey. Basically all American whiskey can be found in cheap expressions that capture the things that you like. Learning that you prefer Wild Turkey to Four Roses (for instance) gives you information to move up the price board.
> e2e was delivered 2016, WhatsApp was acquired in 2014.

Both WhatsApp founders have left Facebook recently, and they were much more privacy focused than Zuckerberg and Sandberg. My understanding is they protected the WhatsApp team from the culture of the rest of Facebook, but now that they're gone I don't see that continuing in the same way.
Reusable bags in the UK are 5p, and the big shops certainly give any proceeds to charities.

$1 sounds far better though -- fewer people will treat them as disposable. I guess you should vote with your wallet.
A Rant on Needless Persistency
We had at the old office a 15 and a 20, and they both tasted like grass clippings. Not hay, not tobacco, just fresh, slightly sour cut grass. I think that's how it's supposed to taste.

I've had a 23 in a glass and liked it fine, but I've had vanity whiskey that completely blew my head off --- Thomas Handy, Stagg, Booker's Rye --- and the Pappy wasn't one of them.
I find the opposite often to be true, if something's hyped up I often find that I'm primed to be disappointed.
Problem is not with therapy in itself but with the skill and-or decency of the therapist. Just as happens with mechanics, programmers, etc.

The unskilled will make a mess of what they are given out of incompetence.

The dishonest will make a mess of what they are given out of greed and malice.

Sadly, in this case, the one suffering the consequences is not a car or some code but a person.
I think you're right - this is an academic language. That doesn't mean it's devoid of value, it's just not meant to solve industrial problems. Instead, it's supposed to experiment with a new paradigm so that other (more pragmatic) languages can someday incorporate some of its ideas.
Am waiting, no cynism. I just can't see a business case in that constellation, so I'm eagerly waiting to see what will come out of all of that.
Epic Games switches to 88-12 revenue split on assets and makes it retrospective
My dad has an idea to employ criminals to sort recycling from trash. It seems almost inhumane, but maybe if we gave them Starbucks gift cards, it would be better.
That is good to know. Thanks!
25.8 KB zip file! Now that's tight code.
Search Encrypt Has Better Privacy by Default Than DuckDuckGo
I think it's perfectly fine to have some of the hobbies that are completely pointless with no end goal/product, but:

Some of them I'm sure you have bigger dreams with. For those 1 or 2, make your end goal/product happen, even if it sucks. And then do it again. For your music production that would be putting together 5 of the songs you are playing around with in to an LP in a folder and naming it. And perhaps the next one will be of guitar songs, and all in a key you came to be comfortable while learning. These are things noone can take away from you and you will feel productive, while learning/enjoying the hobby.
Compete in a small archery tournament or create your own even if you're the only one that competes.
For comparison: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...

My take: gradual shift in user base especially since HN has gotten more popular, not to mention just a difference in zeitgeist. This implies the old guard have changed how they communicate or use the site as well. So just the same as anywhere else.
I really like Call Newport comments about it: http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-t...

or in video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIMu1PGbG-0
It probably comes, directly or indirectly, from WSJ, who now have

> Corrections & Amplifications:

> Funding for basic research in China, including quantum research, was $10.1 billion in 2015. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said it was $101 billion. (8/20)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-latest-leap-forward-isnt...
Mississippi regulatory board sues tech entrepreneurs to prevent competition
20 Year Old Wins $1M on Powerball via new Jackpocket App
We should have our first picture soon: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/eht-status-update-may...
> The limitations are mainly around nested arrays of tables. As has been mentioned here already, the [[array-of-tables]] syntax that currently allows this can be super confusing, and is definitely the worst part of TOML right now.

Good to know this is recognized. Looking forward to a better syntax to an indeed difficult problem
On the other hand these indictments will never go to trial, and the defendants will not be convicted and/or punished, so it’s a little too conservative for now.
As this appears to be about measuring statistical association, and not just singling out individual failure cases, are you implying that the entire industry is generally filled with unskilled and dishonest people?

Edit: It was an honest question, and it does appear to be considered an untrustworthy profession as a whole here. I was just asking clarification if that was the intention of the parent poster.
To be honest this is what I thought and had suscipions of most, I get the rnd costs but there aren't many defense contractors so they can charge what they like
Right... I'm going to pay Elsevier to read an article about anything.
That's the point I'm making. It works well without an internet connection.
This just comes down to caring about the work you do and putting in the effort to ensure you are delivering quality/performant code. If your devs can't handle that then you have a lot more problems than a heavyweight ORM. No developer worth their salt would be "encouraged" by a library to write bad code.
Manhattan is high density and high cost but that's because the desire to live there is nigh-infinite. The prices aren't high because it's dense, they're high despite.

You're essentially arguing that housing is a Giffin Good and exists outside the normal laws of supply and demand. Don't get me wrong, after a point there is a tipping point where more people start pushing prices up in general because they exhaust the supply of things you can't just produce more of. But building more housing still decreases the price of housing.
> pass/amend a law if you have to

Are we going to need a handicap placard to get a straw with our drink ?
> Are there better ideas that don’t involve taxes?

If straws have an undesirable externality, that externality should be compensated for. We do this by taxation.
Finding your passion is just a way of saying Don't do what you despise for a living. There are a lot of people caught up in horrible jobs that they hate but can't leave due to obligations: family, bills, sometimes identity. Doesn't necessarily mean fun but manageable pain, with a little friction and opportunity to grow as a human being.
Throw a Wild Turkey in there and if you spend a little bit more a Makers Mark also.

When trying Wild Turkey make sure to take note of which heat version you are drinking.
yeah, bitcoin can be anyone's choice because it's decentralized.
Oh, now I see what you're saying. Ok, you're right, to be pedantic, the original phenomenon should be reworded: Whenever 6+ kids get together, either there are 3 mutual friends, or there are 3 kids K1,K2,K3 such that for any two K_i, K_j, either K_i is not K_j's friend, or K_j is not K_i's friend. I was implicitly using "A and B are friends" to mean "A is B's friend, and B is A's friend". Thanks for pointing that out :)
"It all feels very 1984. Or Black Mirror."

Really? A private company deciding not to do business with you feels like your basic human rights were taken away?

"After emailing AirBnB support and its founders multiple times, I’ve finally given up."

I've had a problem in Windows on my computer the other day and emailed Bill Gates, could you believe he had other things to do except respond to my problem?
Not sure, but doesn't Messenger support E2E as opt-in?
It's not mentioned in The Guardian article but is mentioned in this one from Ars Technica that he also had atherosclerosis, something his high fat diet likely contributed to. I'm not 100% sold on trying to replicate the diet and lifestyle of people who probably did not live past what we now consider middle age. Particularly if I'm not living in the high reaches of the Alps.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/otzi-the-icemans-las...
The site seems to be down for me, but if it is a link to what I think it is (Jarret Walker's book), this is a great introduction to tradeoffs involved in transit planning.
Thanks - That's a really fun observation, that I'm wearing a lot of hats that a more established novelist/executive wouldn't. I also appreciate the positivity (it has been very easy to be negative about this process so far).

And you're right, it's important to only take beta readers' opinions as just that, opinions. It is super helpful though to get their take, as I've been so close to the project where sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees.
Facebook has been steadily making Instagram worse since they acquired it, by adding more and more features. Basically, they’re turning it into Facebook, the existing product, because that’s what they know how to do.

Currently, users in my Instagram social group are pretty unhappy with the change to a filtered feed, which produces a lack of visibility. This is exactly like the Facebook newsfeed, Where I can post something to my 2000, 500 friends… It gets no likes and no comments, compared to posting in a group with basically the same member where the same content receives plenty of attention, because it was actually displayed to the people who chose to follow me, without me giving Facebook money. There’s not much point in having 8,000 followers if they only show it to 2 percent of them.
I wonder if this is in reaction to Europe investing €1B a few years ago.

https://www.nature.com/news/europe-s-billion-euro-quantum-pr...
15 Key Takeaways from the Serverless Talk at AWS Startup Day
What about Nokia 6.1? :D
It's really interesting to see the tech being deployed to fix this problem. But it also amazes me how complicated we've managed to make things. In the UK in particular - just a few years ago the vast majority of people received their TV through over-the-air broadcast. It's instant and scales infinitely, kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking.

Sports are a good test case, not just for latency but sheer demand. I worry that we'll face some kind of natural disaster in the not too distant future that'll make us wonder why we abandoned the resilience of OTA broadcast.
Does the XAR file containing the Python executable itself, or, does running it rely on having Python installed on the host already?
I was interested to learn in the recent indictment that the Russians were using bitcoin as essentially a means of money laundering. The Russia government uses it's budget to mine some bitcoins and used those to buy the servers used to hack the DNC. I imagine criminals and people looking to evade currency controls have similar interests.
I had missed that wiki section on safety guarantees, my bad. It seems all of my proposed attacks wouldn't work. There's just one other that I thought of, and looking through your documentation I'm not sure if it would work or not. What if the host executing the script had access to some intranet site with sensitive data? Would I be able to do a network import of such a URL, load it as raw text, and provide that as a header to another import?

Seriously great work on this, by the way. A total configuration language that allows some form of network access while still being secure against malicious input is a really really impressive tool!
I would argue more than hardware (there are decent-ish non Apple options out there), the problem lies in software.

As such I think perhaps a better plan would be to start a company that owns the entire end-to-end user experience of a Linux distro, ruthlessly chasing down inconsistencies, jank, rough edges, etc and putting huge priority into responsiveness and “just working” over being interesting or novel. Some would argue that Canonical does this with Ubuntu, but I don’t think they go far enough... if they did, practically nobody would consider anything but Ubuntu for desktop usage, but that’s far from the truth.

I would even go as far as forking major FOSS projects like LibreOffice and giving them the same treatment (upstreaming the more universal improvements, of course), making the apps fit perfectly into your distro. Include WINE by default along with “profiles” that are constantly updated and automatically kick in when running popular Windows programs (eliminating tedious config). Find 2-3 PC vendors to tightly couple with for day 1 support on new models and such.

Essentially, you’d be reproducing Apple’s software software strategy except fully FOSS, making money off of support and PC vendor kickbacks.
I've used most of the personal finance software out there at one point or another, currently use https://gnucash.org/and love it (though i do use http://www.tradelogsoftware.com/ for the tax side of things)

I'm probably not your target audience, but having used most of the personal finance software out there (mint, quicken, msn money, etc.) here are a few issues that i've had with most:

1. most personal finance software confuses the idea of spending and cashflow, and usually gets the time periods wrong (for example if i purchase a plane ticket on my credit card in January, and the trip is in June, to me that is a June expense, with negative cash flow implications in February (when i pay my credit card bill), where as most personal finance software would just say i spent the money in January. Another example that would drive me crazy is that paying down a loan would be treated as an expense...

2. most personal software solutions have very ugly/painful ways of dealing with reimbursable expenses - if i have a $5k of work travel expenses in a month, my personal finance software should not make it look like i blew my budget by $5k (also think about HSA/FSA etc.)

3. investments - most personal finance solutions do not calculate performance properly (e.g. not taking into account deposits and withdrawals) and don't usually have the sophistication to be used for tax reporting (unless its very plain vanilla) --- my personal opinion is to keep it simple here (deposits/withdraws and beginning and ending account balances) and leave the rest to dedicated portfolio/tax solutions

4. one thing that is sometimes lacking is tagging (which it looks like you've done, so kudos) so that you can run alternate reports while keeping your account structure.

5. budgeting - have yet to see a budgeting tool that works well - mint's used to be so infuriating.

6. I want to control my data - a lot of programs let you do that, but one of the primary reasons i left mint
China Throws the Recycling Scam in the Trash
OmniGraffle
> Another interesting thing to note about Instagram is that a high follower count has become a status symbol.

Vanity is a helluva drug.
Relevant bit from support@github.com:

> Thanks for reaching out and my apologies for any worry this change has caused you. First, let me assure you that there has been no unauthorized access to your account: your username was changed by GitHub staff.

> We were contacted last March by someone with interest in claiming@@mind@@ for their own use. Upon inspection, we found that your account had not been accessed in over two years and we believed it to be abandoned. We released the username so another user could register it, per our name squatting policy: https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy

(AsteriskAsterisk was changed to @@ due to HN formatting)

----

As I said above, my account definitely had been accessed within the past two years. And it had been created and immediately used. And given that I do email on my own domain, it was pretty easy to see that this wasn't part of some farm of accounts. (I responded with all these points, to no avail).

And now here I am again justifying my own position in terms of their deliberately wide-open policy, to make sure I stay on the right side of public consensus - really, if I was "name squatting", then so is anyone who takes a break from using a service.

My guess is that someone greased the rules behind the scenes for a friend's startup. Which is of course is illegible to "support", so they just end up running interference.
Like when there's a Starbucks and a Seattle's Best on opposing corners.
Ultimately I think a lot of the hostility towards men's rights is counterproductive for people that want gender equality. This hostility had made a lot of people believe that feminism only purports to strive for equality and in reality only strives to advance the interests of women, often at the expense of men (as opposed to the real definition of feminism, which is gender equality for all).
Facebook, Google and Twitter will testify next week about content moderation
> in the article for appending events to user files

How are you appending to files from Lambda? EFS?

> With Kinesis, we just use the file ID as the sharding key, so no more than a single lambda ever works on a single user

Is there a risk of "heavy" users causing hot shards?
Knowing the details is very different from having access to the physical evidence that led to that knowledge. The latter can very often be used to trace intelligence operatives and expose the methods they use - either of which could have life or death consequences for the operatives themselves, the informants and dissidents they work with, and Americans working in the area in general.

For example, when it was exposed that the CIA was using a vaccination program in Pakistan to test for the DNA of known terrorists, their associates, and families, the backlash led to the death of many aid works and a massive drop in vaccinations in the country.
What are typical use cases?