skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems the sensible place to start, no? We're a long way off secure DNS from the OS.
I really don’t get why Turkey is on this list tho
Q2 2018 Cryptocurrency Market Report [pdf]
so you are saying spyware is fine is you don't have anything to hide?
Because on short term it opens you a big market (1+B users/customers).
Because if you don't go there, one of your competitors may go there.
Because some people still think that they will only lost low tech/low IP.
I am sure that it reduces fake news. I also expect that it can block real but rare mega news events like "the president was attacked" or "tsunami on its way to California".
We already used up your bandwidth quota?
A rather ungracious exit for Papa John’s founder
The report comes from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), not the Centers for Convenient Pool Access!

The focus is going to be on things that someone somewhere can do which are effective at disease prevention. Someone who manages a pool (at, say, a hotel or a park) can change their policy to require showers, for example.
There no real benefit to any of that though. The steam client already collects all the data they need for this.
Good work! Are planning to integrate the notes on some kind on spaced repetition system? Exporting a notebook to a Anki deck would be awesome!
I'd never assume you left them on purpose. Have you worked with Steam? What sort of turn around time do they require?
I was quite astonished, reading a vintage car magazine recently. In an article about the 1972 For Mustang "Olympic" series, I've learnt that this high-end model cost then $3200 (basic Mustangs started at $2400). Average US worker salary was $800. Now compare with any brand, any model, and the average salary today...
> what if a terrorist were to buy their way into an Austrian citizenship?

Well it would probably work for a short while but if the terrorist matters enough (any terrorist that can come up with 24M probably does) back room politics would happen, said terrorist would wind up being extradited and Austria would get to keep the 24M and whatever they negotiated from the nation the terrorist is being extradited to.
That doesn't stop other companies seeing it as a viable business model.
If you think Go will ever get generics you are fooling yourself.
People already judge by looks. There’s nothing noble about wasting your time approaching someone that never found you attractive,
that’s not their choice.

If you have the time and preference to meet people face to face, you can still do that. People still do that and Tinder is a nice supplement.

But many of us look at dating as a numbers game. And Tinder is a hell of an upgrade to sending messages to women on other dating platforms where you don’t even know if they like your skin color. That’s a waste of time.

You don’t need to be perfect to get Tinder dates. But being ugly in this world with or without Tinder already stacks cards against you. Tinder is not so different from cold-approaching women at the bar. Except in Tinder you know she is more likely to give you a shot beforehand. But you have to trade away the ability to charm her in person. Why does it bother you so much that many people like tht trade-off?

Your post reeks of someone who’s mad that all those attractive people seem to be fucking everyone but you. Dating is hard. I’m willing to try many paradigms/sources at once to date at my desired level. If I was meeting new women every week through my social circle (the ideal imo) then I wouldn’t use Tinder or go out just to find single women, but until then...

If you’re not happy with your dating life, then maybe consider increasing your hustle yourself and/or find the approaches that work for you. Maybe Tinder just isn’t for you, but seems a bit outward to turn it into technosocial criticism.
How the weather mapped to the music – sonification of the weather in Austin, TX
Google seems to be revamping its models, nice if you ask me.
I wonder if the top comment in that thread is accurate in saying it's against the GDPR. I suppose the real answer is that time will tell.
Well, we don't want users to have no feedback! Could you please email hn@ycombinator.com?
Oh wow, that's a faster tile generation rate than I was expecting. What are the specs on the machines/VMs you're using to get those rates?
Can I just point out I love the audio feature. I don't own an iphone so I'm never going to purchase, but I'd happily pay for it.
There's a reason that advertising works ... they tap into the deepest human instincts and urges. As much as anyone wants to believe they are too smart to be swayed by advertising, it's only hubris.
For anyone that wants to understand this, listen to some old broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow on the internet archive. https://archive.org/details/SeeItNow1951

He has an opinion and he shares it. But he will let the other side talk. In his famous fight with Senator McCarthy he gave him a whole episode to tell his side, never interrupting.
[via https://www.metafilter.com/175442/Listen-to-the-rhythm-of-th...]
It's taken awhile for companies to catch on. The saga of how the Chinese stole the SU-27 plans from Russia (Licensed the fighter and planned to use Russian components and then switched to Chinese made components after a couple years) is among the ways they do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-11
The Russians were desperate for cash at the time and the Chinese were willing to pay. What the Russians didn't count on was the willingness to straight up steal the design and start manufacturing it in China. Companies have gotten a lot better about protecting their designs now but are up against the Chinese government.
I am missing "Correct the Record" and other agencies that can be paid to troll and shape opinion.
Also there are state-propaganda machines that are designed to push the opinion of people on forums. Want to talk about Israel?
Then we have "operation Mockingbird" and other operations still going on.

Don't forget that we have the thousands of companies that post stuff on the internet for clicks and commercial gain. Can we distinguish them from the others?
And finally we have click-farms that can give us top-posts. Or we can pay social media to get "promoted".
And here's someone's experiences with it: https://github.com/Vandebron/Vandebron/pull/2532

Getting started with a Go project is now easier and faster - install go runtime, clone, run a command to install dependencies, build & run. No more need for a go specific file structure (although I guess it'll still help if you're doing professional development)
Reason #2384 to keep your site lean...
Exactly - but self hosting OpenStreetMap is quite a radical step up from embedding Google Maps, hence why you’d get MapBox to do it for you.
Steam is super quick, especially with a company of our size, we basically have the necessary permissions to publish when we want to, it requires very little from Valve.
One of my favorite essays on MVP's, https://blog.ycombinator.com/minimum-viable-product-process/
> As an aside, complaints might have been even more numerous if the game were actually good, as of now Civ 5 has a peak of 30K users playing daily, while Civ 6 a peak of only 20K.

A question to the gamers on HN: What makes Civ5 in your opinion/in the opinion of many gamers better than Civ6?
People still running Windows <7 is the real serious issue though. According to http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/deskt..., about 3% are still on XP and 0.65 on Vista. How long would you expect them to support a small unsafe minority that is probably running an illegal version anyway?
Rule #1 of remote work: never exceed your bandwidth.
Preventing your ISP from logging your DNS queries?
But it obviously is, this is the whole point of advertising, and why advertising messages don't focus on information but on emotions.

This is why many things are not allowed to advertise in many countries (not only topics like cigarette or alcohol but also form of advertisings), and why advertising is regulated.

Political advertising on the other hand should be much MUCH more regulated because they can cause major market disruptions. A brand advertising can maybe change one very specific market for some time, but political advertising can change the WHOLE market for a very long period.

To be honest I don't even understand how it is even a debate given how the US democracy is completely failing to tackle that particular issue.
> Yet many people, like Milanović, have fond memories of bygone years, and wonder if reports of their awfulness have been exaggerated.

I was born in Romania in ‘82 and was 7 when communism fell. Yet I can remember vividly that ...

We were suffering of cold in winter, as the centralized heat was on and off, we had regular electricity blackouts and my parents, both with university degrees, had jobs and working their asses off on lower salaries than factory workers and couldn’t find or afford a babysitter so at 4 years old I was left alone at home, during blackouts so in the dark at around 19:00 o’clock too.

In those days people relied on families in such situations of course, grandparents making the best babysitters, however the communists forcibly moved a lot of people to the cities and distributed people where they were supposedly needed, so a lot of families were uprooted and split.

I also remember my parents listening to Radio Free Europe, with the volume barely audible, in order for the neighbors to not hear us. Paranoia of “informants” was at an all time high and any resistance and conflicting opinions were long since crushed.

You know, “1948” the book is actually boring me, compared to what actually happened in real life. Turns out that in order to do massive surveillance of the population you don’t need technology at all, as you can recruit a massive army of informants that can listen and send regular reports on their neighbors for free. And it doesn’t need to be efficient either, all that matters is for paranoia to set in, which will ensure compliance of the population.

My father was a party member of course, you had to be insane to not be one. But in private he hated communists with all his heart, just like his father before him; my grandfather who fought in WWII and then had his land confiscated.

The communists were responsible for raising the standards of living somewhat, compared with the period between the two world wars, plus there’s this myth around that everyone had a roof over his head back then; which is why some old people feel nostalgic. It was all in a global context of economic growth of course, progress being inevitable.

But people remembering miniskirts were in a position of privilege. Yes, we had happy moments and life went on, but at least during the eighties there was this constant tension and hunger that you could feel, so thick that you could almost cut it with a knife.

Then the revolution came and we killed our dictators. Unfortunately people are dumb sheep and power was grabbed by former communists. We are far better off today, we have a better quality of life, we are part of the EU, but unfortunately this wave of populism has hit us as well and the ruling administration seems determined to destroy all progress we’ve made in the last 28 years. And people being stupid, still vote for them, just like they were cheering during our former communist congresses. Sometimes my cynicism takes over and I’m thinking that we deserve whatever is coming.
Heterogeneous Concurrent Exactly-Once Real-Time Processing
It sounds like other languages fill your needs better. That's okay, different languages target different philosophies and needs.
So in every kernel source tree, not in every build. Good!
There's still much less hassle, and time necessary.
Shhhh, don't say it too loudly! The TSA is already trying to get their greasy fingers into train travel. :-(
Actually my favourite book by him is not a novel. Travels is a wonderful book.
Exactly. Military deaths are far exceeded by civilian ones, if only due to scale.
...yet the place I was born in ultimately decides the boundaries of the space I'm allowed to live in.

But not some places. There is the rather awful condition of being stateless for some people, such as many people living in northern Thailand. For example, four of those boys who were trapped in the cave in Thailand. Many people like that were born and lived their whole life in Thailand but are not citizens of any country. So they cannot get an ID card, open a bank account, have an official residence, get married, etc, etc.
This is very difficult to address. I think people (in the office) need to buy in and use chat or email as communication mode number one. Either that or someone needs to come out with some better tele-presence for remote teams to interact with people in the office.
Been a while since I've played Civ6 but I didn't like some of the weird game mechanics. For example, some of the city boosts required you to permanently sacrifice tiles, which made the boosts a lot less interesting. Graphics were cool, though.
Personally, I prefer Civ4 a bit over Civ5, and don't like Civ6 at all.
In the context of a business building a service around it, a mapping service is not a consumer product. Superficial perception only go so far until it is debunked by careful scrutiny. I would certainly hope that a startup deciding to build a service relying on a map provider would test, and measure quantitatively how good the service is before choosing to build their business on top of it...
> majority of US exports are commodities

[citation needed]

according to this (based on CIA factbook 2017) commodities as <15%

http://www.worldstopexports.com/united-states-top-10-exports...
On a side note, that frog in the water on the stove metaphor is a myth.

>According to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out.[3][4] Indeed, thermoregulation by changing location is a fundamentally necessary survival strategy for frogs and other ectotherms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Plenty of games on steam do not use steam DRM, and don't need steam running to launch, including most of valve's games.

Most games, and obviously all single player games, also have no form of anti-cheat.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games...

This list is pretty incomplete, and in my experience many if not most indie games fall into this category.

Your assertions are entirely incorrect.
How Can Scientists Help Make Cities More Sustainable?
I find it hard to imagine how a swimming pool could be cold enough in a hot climate for this to be an issue for anyone healthy. If it's hot for more than a couple days, the pool water will start to warm up too.

I've heard of this concern more in the context of much larger bodies of water like the ocean or snow-fed mountain lakes, which can stay cold a lot longer than a pool by virtue of their size (and in the case of the latter, a continuous influx of very cold water).
Guess who implemented the My Health Record system for Australia?
We (US gov) spends several times more on the old vs. the young.

We should be actively increasing funding towards programs that benefit youth.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/spending-on-children-and-...
Also, the other article on the HN front page right now is about Civilization VI removing Red Shell after a backlash. (I suspect that article is what lead to someone submitting this older one about the other games it was removed from.) The article's claim that there was no backlash against Civ VI just doesn't stand up. It reads like Wired is uncritically regurgitating the publishers' PR spin justifying spying on their customers.
It's unclear what clock the labels were timestamped based on. Their article sort of indicates that it was the user clock, but I'd assume someone like APNIC would be smarter than that.

However, they did investigate further and as far as I can tell, the main reason for these insane numbers is the one second TTL they put on the records in the experiment. Some caches intent on efficiency will apparently keep re-quering for the record every second to have a fresh record to serve to their users.

So, basically, what they discovered was that

1. some queries are performed repeatedly without user involvement, which is hardly surprising; and

2. if ant-size your TTL, you can induce the amount of re-queries to increase compared to regular queries.

This is relatively obvious once you see the explanation, but I guess their point is that until you do see the explanation, the behaviour can appear extremely non-obvious and hard to predict.

(They also mention some hosts that seem to have as their sole purpose to perform queries for records someone has already accessed (i.e. the originators of requests are never behind these hosts). While that would generate a high number of zombies, I don't see how that – on its own – would lead to queries that happen months after the original event.)
What are you saying? Facebook will lie about some ads but not others?
AT&T adds three more cities to mobile 5G rollout plan
Because it is one of the countries where you can get a passport for money. That's what the article is about.
Google image search for 'idiot' top results almost only pictures of Trump
The New Economy’s Old Business Model Is Dead
This is obviously correct but also worth noting there is a middle ground. As evidenced by freedom of movement schemes within ASEAN, EU etc. So approaching the ideal of the OP but in a pragmatic way.
This is in part because the Universal Postal Union considers China a developing country.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-subsidy-for-china-is-dumb-...
Respectfully, you've misunderstood what they mean by urbanization in those articles and completely missed their point, which is about the growth of urban areas (which includes suburbs) in general:

"It’s true that as people in developing nations move from the countryside to the city, the shift may reduce the pressure on land, which could in turn be good for the environment. This is especially so in desperately poor countries like Madagascar, where residents in the countryside slash and burn forests each growing season to clear space for farming. But the real difference is that in developing nations, the move from rural areas to cities often leads to an accompanying increase in income — and that increase in income leads to an increase in the consumption of food and energy, which in turns produces an uptick in carbon emissions."

In other words, wealthier people living in urban areas -- in both city cores and in the suburbs -- are worse for the environment than rural poor folks, and as developing nations urbanize, we can expect to see an increase in these impacts.
If the other Western countries have grievences, then their trade policy will reflect those grievances even if there is no 'bloc?' and the result of all those countries implementing their policy will be similar to if they had done it as a group. right? And the article points out that the us is singled out by China's tarrifs, so the rest of the bloc would not act in the interest of the US. You also mention SK and Japan but those countries have even higher tarrifs than China for the US, so should they not also be made subject to the global market (ie be engaged in 'trade wars') ? If their trade policy can't survive the free market, why should they not change?
That doesn't make any sense. The US economy is not a single good that can only be sold once to a particular buyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Looks like the US is the largest trading partner with China, how much leverage do you need? How long would it take a "unified bloc" to agree on doing anything?
Buses, maybe. Trains: Nope. Doors are locked from the inside, usually aren't accessible while moving and even someone would get inside, well, you can't get off the tracks. You'll get a red signal and a forced braking shortly afterwards. It's really, REALLY hard (by design) to wreck something on purpose with a modern high speed train.
I think it’s just way cheaper? I’ve played both and if I didn’t have a lot of cash I probably wouldn’t have Civ 6.
So Civ 5 is “better” in the sense of a way longer development cycle with a bunch of expansions. Civ 6 has some pretty graphics though.
The title is a bit silly -- sonic booms weren't what killed the Concorde, it was cost -- but I'm glad to see the article goes into the need for fixing both problems.
Not all rich people live in Europe or the US. If you live in Middle East or an African country, being able to move without hassle to a safer country in case of social unrest (just think about Turkey's neighbors: Syria, Iraq, Iran...) may be of great value.

Plus at least until recently Turkeys economy was growing steadily so it was an interesting place for doing business.
You could argue that you should add the JS / browser runtime to those libraries too, then.
A new science podcast for kids who love animals and the environment
They "just" have a profile of "a person" that happens to match you to the last tiny detail. They don't put your name as a label onto that data, so it's "not" identifiable. Makes no difference for marketing purposes if they don't want to address you by name. But yeah, once linked to your name by one of those manymany data points they collected, it is very personal....
Generally for the Civ games the new one doesn't become overly popular till a few expansions are released. It was the same when Civ V came out, a lot of people were saying Civ IV was better. Civ VI is a good game I think most people will switch eventually, just takes some time.
Costs aside, wouldn't replacing carbon emissions with methane be drastically worse? Doing a casual search says that methane is 2000-3000% more potent as a GHG.
Open-Source Hypervisor Security Lessons Learned – Ian Pratt
Your link is dead, looks like it's a private project?
Ask HN: Google receiving updated credit card numbers – is that legal?
Funnily enough (and not that it makes it OK) you didn't have to accept the agreement to play the game (just click "I don't agree" or whatever the option is). Not sure if they still continued harvesting data though...
In Europe, a burial site only is a burial site for 200 years. There are separate laws for archaeological digs.
Isn't this just beneficial for everyone? Why wouldn't it be okay?
Maturity, game mechanics, mods.

Civ6 will eventually be the same, probably once Civ7 is released.
I think it held 8 songs, actually.

This was the 90s, though. The alternative was a CD player. MiniDisc was still a thing.
I agree, but (I don’t want to start any flame wars here) there is a well known narrative that explains the AD and BC. It has been around in 2000 years and will probably be around some 1000 years more.

In Sweden we have been discussing about what type of signs should we put up to warn for nuclear waste. Will people in thousand of years be able to understand and decide the warnings?

Same with time concepts, the future must have a sporting chance to understand what we where talking about.
Ok I see what you're saying. I'll take all of that into consideration. Thanks
> Short of ideas and creative people? Or just want it for free?

As I see it, it's at worst a fun experiment on the design of a single page.
I think it's also a very nice way to get a conversation going with people who might be good fit for their team.

All in all, I don't think there's any need to be that negative about it =)
Abortion is exactly the kind of issue that has zero impact on those in power, who can always go to another country, but influences elections.

In terms of shaping views, welfare was designed to allow single mothers to stay home and raise their kids. Yet by twisting the issue people no longer support the idea.

Unions are no longer seen as something that helps 'you', they now help 'other' people.