skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd second this. I'm about halfway through the book right now and still being blown away. It's sort of like the version of 'Hackers' more appropriate to the version of me that has 14 more years engineering, design, and business experience (than when I originally read and loved Hackers, I mean). It's very in depth and interesting, and it's crazy to me that it's not a better known book.

(That said, I'm just getting into the more internet-focused section at the moment, so I can't speak too much to that part specifically.)
There is a POV baked into these suggestions that isn't called out. I would retitle the article "10 ways to Weaken your tone of voice."

All of these are ways to make your voice less direct, less straightforward, more deferent.

These can be good tools in your toolbox, but success in using them is entirely context-dependent.
> You can't charge less than the marginal cost, it doesn't make sense!

It worked for Uber tho. And now they've raised prices in markets where they are established.
I can see a celebrity or official or someone wanting to run their own instance to be the "canonical" or "verified" one, like, "This really is The Rock, because the instance is from TheRock.com, their website."
I'm 46 and this question seems a little ridiculous if you're located in a good market. In the bay area there is such demand for developers that you will find a job. It may not be the most amazing, perfect job for you but the pay won't be "bad".

However, I do see a few problems:

1. If you've been out of the algorithm, leetcode, game for a while, passing the bs interviews is going to be a challenge. The truth is that almost no one uses that shit or they just google an implementation. So, you're choice is to dedicate a significant portion of your free-time to studying or use the shotgun approach unless you have a network "in".

2. It's probably going to be difficult for you if you refuse to learn new things. I've been specializing in front-end for a while and the framework I'm an expert in (Ember.js) is basically dead. Time to learn react. Luckily 90% of what I know translates.

3. If you want ever-increasing salaries, you're going to have a hard time. There is a cut-off for even the best senior developers. The only way up is management.

If you can still add value as a developer, someone will hire you.
I think only 2 acquisitions have had a impact. the one for adwords/adsense patent and one other. The rest have been to poach talent and other stuff or were duds.
"Because terrism" is becoming an all-too-ready and "unassailable" excuse for any action an institution doesn't want to justify nor clarify.

Past a point, this becomes like those building regulations and other points of governance, that are not actually publicly available.

And your democracy fails. Because how can people govern, including themselves, when they don't even know what the rules are? Where the "lines" are?

Maybe, ultimately, it would be more useful to effectively inform the public about such funding, than to hide it away.

Also, there's been another round of conversation in the last some days, about "cashless" payment systems and societies.

What happens, when some initiative or data point -- or someone's personal agenda -- flags you as "suspect"?

When your cards are suddenly deactivated, your accounts frozen, and no one will tell you why? Nor for how long?

This secret behavior -- this secrecy -- needs some serious and effective limitations.

Or we are all going to be at risk of violating society's "terms of service", and made pariah, without explanation nor recourse.

Slippery slope...
Motherhood in the Age of Fear
I've been a fan of Dali since I was a boy. You can't study him without owing a huge debt to Gala. Without her promotional efforts on behalf of his career he might have only been really discovered after his death.

I really believe that a thousand years from now people will still be admiring and debating Dali's art.
They already entered into a contract with him, and then suddenly terminated the contract without notice.

Even if the contract contains language allowing them to do that (worth checking!), if he signed the contract as a consumer (not as a business) this might be against consumer protection laws.
I've used the tool https://codepen.io/rofrol/pen/yqzrqa
No, the app is not for that. Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899

Thank you for your honest opinion about the UI. I'm experimenting with it, I will try out what you advised.

Find more movies in... buttons just continue to the search page, and it has this one-time native language selector page before that. From the landing page you can only see the handpicked subtitles, but you can also search for any movie in the app itself (on the search page).
I don't think that this matters as much unless you've shared it & Microsoft got some sort of DMCA notice.

By any chance, did you have child nudity (ex: photo of child bathing, etc.) on your OneDrive? If so, I wonder if PhotoDNA picked it up (see https://www.neowin.net/news/man-arrested-after-microsoft-fin...).
>Tax-payer funded != free.

That is the most pedantic, useless point that makes no contribution to the conversation. No direct charge for each patron is the obvious way you are supposed to interpret free.
That's not really true, as you can see from GDPR.
I don't buy this argument. I often marvel at just how rapid recognition is. Occasionally you get a slow-dawning realization, but most of the time, things are perceived instantly. It didn't make sense to me until I read somewhere that brain activity denotes 'confusion' while when you finally get a realization, all goes quiet. So recognition happens at speed of light leaving a room.

Sure, if you're purposefully trying to confuse the brain, it's going to be confused. You're actively subverting normal brain function. I bet if they kept performing the same trick, the brain would eventually realize what's going wrong and get quicker at making the realizations.
Cinemark's movie club sounds reasonable though. You get a ticket a month for $9. The tickets accumulate and multiple can be used at once [1].

I've been considering it since every couple months my wife and I like to see a movie.

[1] https://www.cinemark.com/movieclub
A kind of easter egg perhaps about Jon Postel. (Read the title out loud.)

RFC 2468: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
Cooling the Tube
Has anyone else noticed the correlation between the extreme summer weather conditions and the heat on the tube? All the mechanical and electrical systems don’t know it’s summer! My car hadn’t moved all day yesterday but the temperature on the gauge was registering 32 degrees.
Cars and trains are fundamentally constructed of similar material so why wouldn’t the summer weather make the trains super-hot? The trains carry all the summer heat into the tunnels and discharge some of it. Please think about it!
It may surprise you that the numerous temperature readings I have taken all indicate that the trains gain much more heat in the summer when on the surface than they do underground. These tests could easily and cheaply be replicated and verified.
Overheating wasn’t a problem in the winter – you probably kept your coat on in the tube then? Perhaps not surprising when the annual temperature range varies from say minus 5 to 35 degrees!
Cooling stations is not addressing the real danger. That of being stuck in an overheated train in a tunnel when one is unable to escape. From the point of view of comfort, most passengers spend more time in a train than on a platform. So, what has been achieved does not, I believe, address the real issues.
http://stories.scienceinpublic.com.au/2016/warshippaint/
This would be part of my suggested solution.
>This type of behaviour should be banned by the European Union.

It probably already is. Under Article 15 of the GDPR, you have the right to access personal data and to an explanation of how that data will be processed. A database entry saying "this account has breached clause x.y of our ToS" constitutes personal data within the scope of GDPR.

Under article 16, you have the right to correct any inaccurate data. Under Article 22, you have the right to opt-out of any wholly automated decision-making process that "produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her".

Article 23 does impose some restrictions on those rights, e.g. in matters of national security, defence or criminal justice, but those restrictions are narrow and specific. If someone tells you "your account is banned and we can't give you any further information", they're likely in breach of the GDPR.

https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/
4 million dollars (USD). Then I would invest all of it in municipal bonds, and live a modest life from the interest.
I don't follow you. I use Google Drive, and I don't install additional software on the OS. I just sync with it directly using KeePass. There is no "problem". It works just just fine.
And then AMC turned around and did thier own subscription service. Yes it cost more, but it’s sustainable, you don’t have to jump through hoops to use it and I’m really enjoying it.
I was specifically interested in the super capacitor part of my question, I apologize for some potentially ambiguous semantics.
There's nothing objectively wrong with a large company unless they begin to squash competition with regulatory lock-in. This is what led to the breakup of AT&T/Bell. As far as I can tell, Google doesn't keep others out of the search market through any other means than just being better than the other guys. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I certainly haven't seen any shortage of search engines and alternative cloud services providers.
To pile on — think of the Amazon Kindle business model. You often pay more for instant gratification.

Even for popular books, it drives demand. You can wait 8 weeks to read the latest James Patterson, or buy it now. But would you buy the previous books in the series @ $20/ea?
Pixiv (a large social website about sharing art) has the largest instance.
I think your vastly overestimating the costs of mining stuff on earth and underestimating the costs of mining stuff in space.

On top of that if you bring back say a cubic mile of gold then gold is not going to be worth nearly as much. Which prevents scaling up space mining as we simply don't need that many raw materials to pay for multi trillion dollar space mining enterprises to bring costs down.
What productivity do you gain by using Lispworks? The only benefit is the cross-platofrm graphics api last i checked.
Not tools per se, but check out the Bitwise education project, where Per Vognsen is coding an entire hardware and software stack from scratch, live on stream. https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise
The average age of my team >30 and it's the best team I ever was a part of. It's not the dead end, but rather the light at the end of the tunnel..Hope it's not the freight train coming my way though...
How is that justified as compatible with a fair justice system, or have we kind of given up on this when it comes to dealing with modern financial services, or Internet services?

Or is it just as the mentioning of terrorist mean that we leave the confines of modern democracy and enters the territory of fascists policies, as we become what we fight?

the fact that accounts are locked and funds frozen by hacked together system dependent on irrational machine learning algorithms and never heard in open court is the premise for any number of dark dystopian science fiction stories and deeply scary and yet we seem to keep enacting laws and frameworks that rewards companies like Microsoft for arbitrary enforcement by making it impossibly expensive to challenge punishment dished out private enforcers(microsoft/facebook/youtube etc.) who can be punished by the state for not enforcing aggressively enough
Use your own domain at the very least. Preferrably one that is your legal name so that if anyone ever tries to take it (either from just buying it if it lapses, or just attacking it/you) you have some legal protection in the US from the ACPA.

Then it's just a matter of keeping backups of your email.
Unfortunately, I did not downvote you. I was trying to guess why someone would downvote your comment.
Yes! I'm not sure which update it is, but a fresh install of Windows 10, you really have to think outside of the box to not sign up to their account. It's a shame no-one has put it up on the dark UI pattern hall of shame yet...
DDG is essentially a reskin of Bing search.

Yahoo! is also Bing.
As others commented here, you can even learn a whole new language in a way like this! But without the cleaning.
> When twitter starts having strong opinions about what content is acceptable or not outside of abuse, then it becomes a very liberal echo chamber which drastically biases all the conversations that go on in it.

Or very conservative echo chamber? Have you seen comments on practically any article critical of the current political administration?

Frankly, people don't want bad actors, or trolls in their conversations. It provides no value except to the bad actor and other bad actors. If every time you were having a conversation at a bar someone butted in to talk to you about chemtrails you would stop visiting that bar until the person was asked to leave.
I've always been curious about that. Is a parent company + subsidiaries immune from anti-trust laws in the US? I mean, I'm sure Alphabet still shares Google search data across its subsidiaries--which is the real monopoly power concern.
It does go into Objective-C later, but it starts with C. You can see that if you go to Disassembler Pt 1.
Uber has a network effect, so it's naturally monopolistic. Cinema passes have a network effect too (you only want the pass if the cinemas near you have it), but firstly it's much much weaker because you literally only need your local cinema, and secondly that's a network effect that helps the actual cinema, not a random middle man like moviepass.
And the movie theatres just created thier own subscription service. Why should they pay a third party?
Slightly related: I was recently remote-working from a peaceful book café and discovered this just-released book titled Book Towns[1] sitting sitting across me. I flipped through it and immediately bought it. Have a gander at it. From its description:

The so-called “Book Towns” of the world are dedicated havens of literature, and the ultimate dream of book lovers everywhere. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of the 40 semi-officially recognized literary towns around the world and outlines the history and development of each community, and offers practical travel advice.

And here's[2] an article (written by the author) about it in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/apr/26/10-worlds-bes...

[1] https://www.quartoknows.com/books/9780711238930/Book-Towns.h...
Or use an email provider that offers better terms?
Computer science. I worked for Lockheed for fifteen years---long enough to see some programming projects succeed and others fail. I wondered why the difference. I had access to all the project records, and Lockheed was cool with it, so I took copies of all the data and found an advisor willing to let me work on it.

The problem was deep and it ended up taking a lot longer than I expected to solve it, but that's the way of research. I did eventually discover some new things in the data, and got the PhD, and my thesis formed the basis of my new company.

You're right; I didn't get enough sleep. I got into the habit of working 13 to 15 hours a day. But I wasn't making progress on my thesis fast enough for the university's requirements, so I had to choose. I was still working 13--15 hours a day, seven days a week, but exclusively on my thesis. I finished in eight years. Without Lockheed, I would have been done in four.

Ironically, my day job for Lockheed was being the PI (Principal Investigator) for an Air Force research project that was essentially a whole other PhD thesis. [We took the Google Web 1T 5-Gram Corpus and inverted it; essentially we were doing adversarial ML (generators and discriminators) before that term had been invented.] That's why it took me eight years---because I was doing the work of two different full-time PhDs at the same time.

(Only one got me a neat robe to wear at the end, though.)
I am still waiting for the circle to come back so I can host everything safely in a Tiny box at my home, with ease, and with convenience.
I did research before the internet had all this content. I lived on the east coast, so it was possible for me to take a day trip to the LOC. there I could spent all day and a sackful of dimes to execute 4-5 cycles of following references before they shut down for the night. then carry my box full of photocopies with oddly clipped margins back to my office for digestion.

so sure, that sucked in comparison, but no one was monetizing my activity. i didn't have to struggle against a suggestion machine that had decided I was in a different field. no one was showing me advertisements.

no question that digitizing and indexing the worlds information has been a huge benefit, but there isn't any fundamental reason why we had to invite all these sleezy business people into our lives in exchange. they just latched onto a new thing, seeped into any available crack, and presented themselves as part of the package.

a post internet library would be global, noncommercial, unfettered access to as many resources possible (hi Brewster).
What happens if your domain registrar bans you? Is it something they can do?
In the end consumers got a subscription service from a major theatre for a lot less than buying individual tickets, something I doubt would have happened if it weren't for Moviepass.

Competition is good for consumers.
Well android, maps, gmail, cloud, youtube are all still under Google so not really.
As someone who works in an academic library (which has very different needs from a public library), while I would disagree that libraries need "disruption" (which conjures up imagery of a librarian shushing me in the stacks for talking), there is a real need for tech talent. Most techies are lured away from programming for libraries by the private sector, which leaves us with an overabundance of clunky, expensive software with high technical debt.
Company I worked for moved from Ghost over to ImageX (aka WAIK: Windows Automated Installation Kit) which worked well since we needed it for MDT or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. They built a GUI for ImageX and it was more compressed than Ghost for the same hard drives.
Amazon has since stop losing money on shipping. Especially considering all of the money they make on Prime memberships.
New York Votes to Revoke Approval of Charter's Time Warner Cable Acquisition
Until your domain gets pulled off by your registar for whatever weird reason. There's no absolute way to escape, sadly.
"Some were investigated, but only superficially, the government just really isn't enforcing our antitrust laws. And that's what's happened. None of these acquisitions have been challenged."

Behemoths like Google emerge every time new inventions lead to the creation of new markets followed by mass adoption during a relatively short timeframe, when regulations don't exist yet. It has happened in history time and time again (Standard Oil, Detroit Big 3, etc.) It's not entirely preventable, but it requires awareness foremost and then the (political/societal) will to deal with it.
Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899

Hope it helps, and maybe you will try it out!
3270/5250 emulation still lives on to this very day and can be commonly seen in banks around the world.
> If your brain can drive "unconsciously," surely it can work on a problem unconsciously; after all, you've been thinking longer than you've been driving.

I don't think that follows -- driving is a habitually developed skill which we know can be done unconsciously, while "working on a problem" has nothing to do with habits or skills, and it's hard to argue that kind of symbolic manipulation can be done unconsciously.

In your framework of 1-4, I agree that (3) doesn't always imply (4) because we can produce language out of habit/instinct rather than thought (yelling a curse word involuntarily).

But I find it hard to believe how (2) wouldn't always imply (4). But perhaps this is semantics -- from my understanding, (2) and (4) are merely different terms for the same thing, each implies the other. We're almost always solving some problem at each point during the day and therefore consciously aware -- and when occasionally we're not, that's when we daydream or space out and lose conscious awareness.
I was just listening to the La Sagrada Familia episode of 99% Invisible last night where the talk about this exact thing. It's a really good episode if you want more insight into this.
You should go to a library some time.
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I don't see what the problem with google collecting my information is. You are more likely to have your data leaked by a careless or vengeful webmaster after visiting a small personal website than a massive corporate website like google.com. If you visit any website , your IP can be logged.
The benefactee in this scenario is the theater chain, not the studio, as they make most of their real profit from concessions, not selling seats.
> Often times companies are legally barred from disclosing this information.

You are talking specifically about the financial and banking industry. Working in the banking industry , compliance regulation prevents banks from communicating about why your funds are frozen so the SEC can investigate and determine whether are not a fraud or suspicious activity were committed.

Such thing does not exist in the IT Industry. Microsoft ran their in house auditing tools , determined the account was suspiscious , set a flag "is_suspicious" as "true" in their database and the next day a batch ran and suspsended their account.

IT Audit for GAFA is 100% automated , there is no human interaction unlike Banking , Insurance and Finance.

Hence, the fact that BFA must communicate after the investigation about what fraud you committed to properly charge you in court and banned you from the services( You can even be banned in an entire country from owning a bank account depending on the severity ) but they must tell you why.

That is not the case for tech, it is completely unregulated which is why it's making me this upset.
Instagram Account Devoted to Destroying Bird and Lime Scooters
Let him in peace. Give him low priority tasks. You'll feel better.
There's Android, YouTube, 510 Systems, and the constellation of acquisitions made to create Google Apps, at a minimum.
This is probably true, but they should still be researched in case they become useful in other settings, e.g. Mars, or even places on Earth with poor renewable energy potential

A big problem with Mars is that getting fuel there is expensive, they sometimes have large dust storms, and their atmosphere is very thin. Solar power would work fine there 90+% of the time, but outside of fission, there doesn't seem to be any good technology for powering a human habitat over long periods. A rich thorium deposit on Mars could go a long way in creating a self-sustainable habitat. Some thorium reactor designs are notable for their high inherent safety, which is probably a big concern for any human habitat on Mars for morale reasons (think about how much a fatal nuclear disaster on a Martian colony would scare people about space exploration)
> Microsoft makes me feel like a visitor in my own home (computer).

I think it started with XP. If you tried to avoid installing windows genuine advantage (by deselecting it during the update procedure), it would come up again, then come up with increased frequency. Until in my case, it somehow just started installing itself of it's own accord.