skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 25, I moved from the DC area to San Francisco, South of Market. It was 1999. I had some money saved up and was living with a friend. I would go to Internet cafes and work on my resume and apply for jobs during the morning, and then I would spend a lot of time just wandering around and exploring the city randomly. It was amazing.

Advice I would give myself: Buy some kind of real estate. No, $300k is not too much money for a house. And your crazy plan about living in an RV in the city during the week, but buying a house in Tahoe and visiting it on the weekends - that's a good plan, do that.
I have relatives that will never use the internet, they are just from a different era and have no interest. Nor do they have cellphones. Conversely I have other similar aged relatives that can't get enough of it on their laptops, iPads and smart phones. There definitely seems to be a split mentality for that generation.
Must be a lot of extension-developers here. Looks like your comment got moddet to bits.
This isn't 2010 anymore, WebExtensions depend on permissions given by the user, and while this still could be improved, it is no longer a "free for all" like it used to be.
Getting a 6-pack is more related to body fat percentage than building muscle.
Five Teams Win a Share of $100,000 in 3D-Printed Habitat Competition – NASA
If you operate on the assumption that it's immortal if any profit isn't perfectly distributed according to your own personal sense of how much each person deserves to pay, you can't have a functioning market. Any system with non-zero overhead can't possibly price things purely on a cost+% basis.
I pay for https://www.insynchq.com because I became tired of all the tools that just couldn't sync with Google drive.
Some logins are cookie + security key (basically if I've already logged in today) which basically feels like "tap my security key and I'm logged in".

Of course, more sensitive stuff (access to production, access to pay stubs, access to $cloud_erp) requires re-entering password plus the security key.
Whatever evil cigarette companies are capable of, funding lawsuits establishing liability for delivering nicotine addiction devices strikes me as implausibly self-defeating.
> You can buy the ticket anonymously. There doesn't have to be any link between data about your grandfather and your identity you're using to buy the ticket.

How do you propose buying an airplane ticket anonymously?
C elegans has only 302 neurons and rougly 7,000 connections between the neurons. Neuronal connectivity is similar between individuals. The full connectome has been mapped a long time ago. They are not even spiking neurons and their working is still not fully understood.

There exists opens source simulator for the whole worm (roughly 1000 cells total) http://openworm.org/
Doctors did fine prescribing opioids in the 70s and 80s. They're not the cause of this epidemic.
Like GP said, that would give away which accounts have WebAuthn enabled on them, since those without it would send you straight to the password prompt instead.

But more importantly, phishing sites will always tell you 'your key succeeded. Enter your password next' regardless, so this doesn't protect against password disclosure at all.
Even some of the people who stop actively looking for work are still tracked in unemployment statistics, just not in the U3 rate that is usually reported headlines. Discouraged and marginally attached workers who have stopped looking for work because they don't think they will find a job but who would like to work if they could find one are tracked in the U4 and U5 measures.
People tend to pay more for people in-person, meaning go do a talk, go co-working dive spaces, or space diving -that's a thing, --it's a thing, right? Word of mouth will always be your best contracts, and network. Lastly, do what you love, and love doing it. Rinse. Repeat.
I don't think that's completely true.

There was a choice between streaming services with no ads and TV with ever longer ad breaks and cheaper programming. Dissatisfaction with TV made the choice easy. No ads was a big selling point for Netflix.
Not yet. I'm writing a Django library for webauthn support (i.e. logins without usernames or passwords), but no browser supports that yet, that I can see. They only support the second-factor mode, not the first-factor.
And these Americans are the wise ones among us.
>> Mine Bitcoin

God, yes, this. I could have been a millionaire by clicking on an .exe that I had downloaded into my Downloads folder.
Technical knowledge doesn't seem requisite. Only independent verifiability.

In the same way that signing keys are used by infrastructure & many who don't understand the nuances.
I think most people just don't understand either very well. They feel the hype but are waiting for others to show them examples of what to do.
I don't have the energy to get into the history of this type of lawsuit, but in US common law (and under some statutes, too), companies may be sued when the user of a product has a reasonable expectation that a product will perform one way, and then it performs another.

The most famous (and universally misunderstood[1]) case is the woman who got 3rd-degree, flesh-falling-off burns from McDonald's coffee and sued them successfully.

It was reasonable for the woman to expect hot coffee, as one would find in one's home. McDonald's served her much hotter coffee without warning her beforehand, which led to her underestimating how dangerous handling that coffee could be.

All McDonald's had to do was tell her it was very hot.

Juul is in a worse position because engineering addiction is much more malicious than engineering extra-hot coffee that saves the company money.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkL9UlmCOE
Computer geeks are a dime a dozen (I’m one so no insult intended).

An idea is nothing without execution. Jobs proved that he could successfully change multiple industries (animation, music, mobile) without Woz. None of Woz’s ventures have been a success without Jobs.

If it was so easy, why couldn’t anyone else in the PC industry do it including companies that were in a much stronger position when Jobs came back in 1997?

Even in the animation business, Disney could barely produce a hit while Pixar was producing a string of successes.
Back in the 60's and 70's, it was mostly criticism of radio stations that played rock music.
New Facebook Campus Won’t Get a Cafeteria, Thanks to Mountain View, CA
Yes. Former prosecutors make good defense lawyers because they more-intimately know how the other side thinks.
>> Proposing to my girlfriend of 7 years next month.

Advice from an older person here - don't wait until you are 30+ to start trying, if you want to have kids. You will all benefit from having more health and energy when under 30.
It amazes me how they were able to move forward all these 20 (!) years without losing motivation.
Kurento was killed off after the Twilio acquisition.
Side note: he should be able to get those forms at the post office.
I think you can change the pressure for Force Touch or 3D Touch under Settings > General > Accessibility
I'm already compensated for my data. I can use Facebook, read news websites, play games, and watch videos without taking out my credit card.

I have no other way to convert my data into dollars so this'll have to do.
Makes me wonder if when we are 80 years old, we'll be organizing retro LAN parties to play Unreal Tournament (1999 release) in our retirement homes.
"computers" as in traditional PCs are regaining their creator role. Microsoft even calls their windows update "Creator Edition". Phones and tablets are almost pure consumption devices with a few exceptions.
Pre-colonial borders weren't all static and stable. Redrawing the borders to the status quo ante wouldn't magically erase border conflict.

Even if the status quo ante was stable and conflict-free, there have been hundreds of intervening years of shifting alliances.
As someone with an iphone that has 3d touch: it doesn't even remotely feel like the screen is going to break, or your fingers are going to hurt. You can also adjust the sensitivity on it. Pressing normally for a little bit longer time does something different (generally will bring up a menu while 3d touch will open up a preview window), and it takes just long enough to do that that it's uncomfortable. IMO it's not a necessary feature, it doesn't enable fundamentally new interactions, but it's really nice to have.
Certain parts of my family do not operate on the same timescale as me wrt tech. It's not just a generational divide in my families case.

To me, tech is all-emcompassing, I follow new developments as if it's second nature. To the more tech literate of my family they see the stuff that comes out as usually unnecessary in most cases but upgrade to have the new hotness every second major cycle (iphone 4->6 for example).

For the final part of my family, they operate on a different time scale altogether.
For them a computer is a computer, they don't really "get old" unless they break.
It's difficult to tell them (when they have been told to use the internet for some system of government) and you need to explain to them that their computer from 1995 can't use the internet in the modern day.

To them, they have a computer, a working computer, it cost a lot of money. The vacuum cleaner they had for 25 years works, the TV too, why can't they use the thing that cost significantly more than that. (my grandparents ironically have that compaq PC that says it's future-proof on the front).

For them to get back into technology it needs to be a form-factor change (IE; Desktop->Tablet) which was how they started to use the internet.

Anyway, that's my anecdotal story.
The Fact-Checkers Who Want to Save the World
If someone were to figure out the exact mechanics of this, then this could become universal basic income.

I have thought a lot about what trapped intangible value all of us have, such that ‘if’ there was a market for it, we could get paid. Our personal data, with opt-in volunteering, is certainly at the top of the list. The other potential personal markets that have very similar characteristics (to personal data), but don’t exist are:

1) Home equity: Americans have $6.2T in home equity that could be “sold”

2) Driving data: get paid for carrying free sensors so that one helps map the world, so we get to self driving sooner in more cities

3) Opinions: large scale polling for everything, from movie trailers to startup landing pages to new products/ads — everything

4) Fact checking: crowd sourced journalism; often Reddit crowds figure out the truth/source faster than pro journalists; there ought to be a market for “if I know something, Eg some insider info, I could improve on the state of public truth”

5) Goodwill: one of the most amazing things I stumbled upon was www.reddit.com/r/borrow; people ask for money and strangers give money; I would never have predicted this to exist. I believe goodwill and benevolence is one of the largest untapped markets.

There are probably several other (and better) examples: point is that royaltiess/annuities from such markets could be part of UBI in the future.
This was already present in some 3d keyboards (gboard, for one).
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> there is more than one airline, for example

True, but there could be a centralized market for data that all airlines buy from.
Even as a ~20-30 year old, libraries and them acting as community "hubs" seems so foreign already. Part of me worries about the growing individualist and transactional nature of our social lives that the internet is causing [citation needed, I know].

Part of me thinks that the easy way now where we can do IRS forms (and everything) online and to our door of our houses, will make us weak.

There is some old Roman bit about easy/good/soft times breeding weak men who bring tough times, but I think i'm going on a tangent from the disappearance of paper IRS forms at local libraries...
at that point, he probably should be considered internet-disabled (among other things)... as an analogy, would you expect a paraplegic to swim with it's own body? sorry, but that's reality...
That’s because it was normalized in the 70s and 80s. When it was still new people moaned about overconsumption, just like the internet.
I also made a video conferencing Web RTC app recently - https://p2p.chat

It's pretty alpha at the moment but I'd be interested in working with others to further it more if there's any interest.

Code: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/p2p.chat
Last week a technique was published that might be able to accomplish this in a reasonable amount of time:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-...

One of the authors even stopped by for a chat here about it.
When given the choice, that's what you'd expect most people would think.

But when not given the choice, it turns out people are quite happy to give over their data in return for no payment.
Sell my data? That's ridiculous!

Leasing it for a defined period of time, that's plausible.
Right, but can you give an example? I think there’s a credible argument that nothing is free according to your definition.
Company X manages your email.

Company Y is a data broker (several of these exist already).

Company Z sells airline tickets.

Company X scrapes your email and sells information about you to Company Y to boost their bottom line. Company Z buys information from company Y to target their marketing efforts. Much of the adtech industry is based around interchange like this (but often with even more, and more confusing, layers).

Currently Google and Facebook are a bit different - they sell targeting profiles and serve the ads themselves, instead of directly selling your data - but it's worth thinking about how much you trust them to stay that way.
I'll be there for that.
I had about finished the work at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552027 and about to move to Ann Arbor in 1975. Second job there was writing code generation phase of a compiler. Much fun.
It’s reasonable to assume that 11% of the adult US population is still illiterate [1]. I know this is not unique to the US, and that these people may very well be as happy as anyone else. Still, if we sometimes point out that HN is a bit of a bubble, well there’s a big bubble I can’t wrap my mind around well into the 21st century! I would certainly be surprised if an illiterate person made heavy use of the Internet (though I’m sure there are edge cases, as always).

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp
If you've ever used GitHub's SSH keys provisioning, any halfway decent U2F or WebAuthn implementation (including GitHub's) works a lot like that.

You can register as many keys as you like within reason, you can give them names like "Yubico" or "Keyfob" or "USB Dildo" and any of them works to sign in.

Once signed in you can remove any you've lost or stopped using, and add any new ones.

The keys themselves have no idea where you used them (at least, affordably priced ones, you could definitely build a fancy device that obeys FIDO but actually knows what's going on rather than being as dumb as a rock) and there's no reason for your software like a browser to record it. Crypto magic means that even though neither browser nor key remembers where if anywhere you've registered, when you visit a site and say "I'm munchbunny, my password is XYZZY" it can say "You're supposed to have one of these Security Keys: Prove you still do" and it'll all just work.
The trickier thing (as with most applied crypto) is going to be who attests and what to.

For press briefing, chaining to something like a White House press root is feasible.

But what about "married congressperson caught in local hotel with fling"? Or in one-party consent states, secret recordings? Self-sign? Sign with news organization (those that still exist) after sharing additional documentation?
Ethanol is the safest, cheapest, and best-studied intervention for acute methanol poisoning though
Global Health: For the First Time, a Female Ebola Survivor Infects Others
On some booking sites it might actually be a good idea to open them in incognito mode, and you can get a quote without them using data linked to you.
Another question that seems to be avoided whenever I ask professionals is the usage of the blockchain. I personally do not see it's practical application beyond its use in crypto currency or other financial related use cases such as validation of user purchase histories. But what else is there for the tech? Looking for some insight.
That thing was on LG G2 few years ago. On LG's keyboars press spacebar and then move your finger to right or left. It only works in input fields such as url or textfields.
Wow, I can’t believe I just found this thread and not one mention of Jack Vance. His "Planet of Adventure" series, Alastor series or Demon Princes novels are classics. His command of language and dialogue is unparalleled. Every modern sci-fi author cites him as an influence.

Gateway by Frederik Pohl is another underrated one from the 70s although the sequels are disappointing.

The Forever War Joe Haldeman and Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers are also indispensable.
The biggest difference with the alternatives you mention is that Vialer seems to be an actual application while the others are more lower-level infrastructure / frameworks to build such an application.

I've been doing a comparison of these some time ago and here's what I remembered:

There are 3 ways of doing webrtc:

- Mesh -> everybody sends and receives to every other participant. -> Needs almost no infrastructure, but obviously doesn't scale well.

- SFU -> acts as a relay, so people only need to have 1 upload, but still download everybody -> Needs some infrastructure, scales better than mesh but still limited by amount of downloads per participant

- MCU -> makes compositions in the cloud so people only have 1 upload and 1 download -> Very expensive in terms of infrastructure, infrastructure is hard to scale, but least amount of traffic and processing by participants.

These seem to be the most well-known solutions:

- Kurento -> was very complete, but is more or less dead since Twilio bough the team (they had some recent activity, but are really lagging behind now).

- Janus -> a set of building blocks to build which can be used to build an SFU or MCU.

- mediasoup -> sfu with node bindings. Was very new when I did my comparison, no idea how mature it is now.

- Jitsi -> Very nice SFU, bought by Atlassian, but they still put a lot of work in the open-source version (contrary to what Twilio did with Kurento). Highly recommend if you want to deploy your own SFU.

- Intel WebRTC -> both sfu and mcu, but documentation is limited and it specifically targets intel platforms (originally based on 'licode' which is yet another alternative)

Next to that you'll also need turn and stun servers if you want to deal with any business networks (coturn seems to be the go-to if you need a turn server).

CPAAS:
Despite the 'open' in the name, opentok is a closed platform from the leading webrtc provider (tokbox). They provide the server infrastructure (usually SFU and Turn servers).
Some alternatives are twilio video, vidyo, temasys.

We eventually went for a CPAAS (tokbox), happy with them so far. We also use Janus for some customer-specific integrations.
Note that the summary is very, very limited. You may also care for a lot of other stuff, such as: Sip integrations, Broadcasting to HLS or RTSP, Recording/Archiving, Security practices, GDPR Compliance, Licenses, Browsers support, SLA's, ...
The work required to have an opinion on my opinion
I'm tempted to unplug when I retire in a bit more than a decade. After working in tech for 20+ years, the idea is appealing. I doubt it will be very easy to function in an ever-connected society however.
The argument made here has strong parallels to the initial exploration of earth.

Why go and explore and discover the americas and australia when, due to communication and military force delays of several months, there is no way you could ensure peace? A war could break out between colonies and it would take months for the british imperial army to arrive!

History worked out those issues, with a few wars, rebellions, etc., but the final result is a world with more people living hopefully better lives in more places.
There are too many variables that will change this by as much as an order of magnitude. On the high side, say your timing was good and you made enough money to buy a house around 2012, after working for a few years. You buy a house in the peninsula. By 2018 your house value doubled. Maybe the house market doesn't crash anymore like back in 2009; and it goes up even more in the next few years. Your house went from $1m to $5m by 2022, and your net worth just went up by that much.

On the low side, maybe the economy crashes like in 2000 and 2008, and that takes both your stocks and house with it. Maybe your FAANG comp has mostly been in stocks and you've been keeping them. If you're not keeping everything in cash, you probably just lost 50% of your net worth.

Then there's other factors. Maybe you choose to start a family and have a kid or two. You're making $250k, would you resist the temptation to spend money to make your life easier? It's easy to think you have the discipline to to keep your budget. When you're getting 4 hours of sleep a day, waking up every 3 hours to feed and change diapers, you might think differently and spending $5000/mo on baby care, home care helpers suddenly seem worth it, especially since you can afford it.

Lastly, how many FAANG engineers you know plan to stay in their company for 30 years -- heck, how many even stay more than 5 years? Almost every single FAANG engineer I know don't stay that long. Most are ambitious and try to start a startup after 5-8 years. Maybe a FAANG job is just that boring and no one can take it for very long? They take a hit with low salary for a few years, and then 90% startups fail.
A lot of jobs now have internet only application processes.
Americans commonly use the phrase "the government" to refer to any or all of the branches of government, not just the executive branch. Guessing the comment you're replying to was written by an American.
How it compares to stdweb (https://github.com/koute/stdweb) ?
Boris Johnson blasts London Mayor Khan virtue signals, young Londoners are dying
Terrible pro tip: get in the car, start it, immediately start driving, but floor the accelerator and use the brake to travel at the speed you want. You'll have a warm passenger compartment in 1-2 minutes.

It's absolute hell on the engine though. Don't do this with vehicles that you are responsible for. This is mostly only applicable for leased vehicles.
Firmware dumping technique for an ARM Cortex-M0 SoC (2015)
Whoa! So outdated! That thing existed on LG G2.
"...I think it's something about remorse. Maintaining innocence when you know you're guilty shows a lack of remorse..."

Mmm...

just, Devil's Advocate.

What if the defendant is maintaining innocence because they are innocent?
More than that, the title seems to be about 10 years out of date. We're already there.
There's a cargo watch command that tries to do the same thing that other languages with slow compilation or test frameworks do, and that's to run all your tests the minute you save.

This narrows the time between when you have something to test and when you remember to test it. It saves you wall clock time if not CPU time.

(I highly recommend combining watch with an editor or IDE that saves all buffers at the same time, instead of one at a time).
I disagree with you. I think what you call “abusers” , are just people that react differently than you to the same chemicals in the drug.
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