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Show HN: Fake Data Extension – The best “wannabe” form filler
Hello,

I would like to show you a browser extension that I've been working on for a while:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fake-data-a-form-f...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fake-data-hat...

Fake Data is an extension that will fill forms for you with, as the name suggests, fake data.

Some of the notable features are:

- it has multiple types of predefined data generators, like names, addresses, lorem ipsum texts, and more.

- you can create your own ones using javascript, and make them do everything

- it's able to choose / select random values for select elements, radio buttons, checkboxes

- special inputs like email, password, number, date are recognised automatically

- a lot more features

It might not be the best extension at doing this kind of stuff, but it's heading in that direction.

What I am asking from you are critics about it. If you are going to try it out, throw here everything that you dislike at it. The more, the better.

Best regards!
It's the logical conclusion of your stated thesis and affirmative action as it exists today.

>Folks are acutely aware that Asian immigration in the US only allowed extremely rich and overqualified immigrants until relatively recently

18th century Chinese laborers are rich and overqualified? Why say "no", whites don't have it harder than asians, then 180 and state that asian americans are all drawn from some privileged group. I'm not a eugenicist I'm just surprised by how easily affirmative actions proponents cast aside asian american concerns and commonly stereotype them as soulless grade grinders with "Tiger Moms" etc.
> We did hear more Texan accents in 2 days in Dallas than in a month in Austin, which I suppose is to be expected.

That's apparently due to the large influx of Californians, though I personally run into more Easterners moving here rather than Californians.

By here, I mean Austin.
what happened in 1980s?
Can't wait to shoot Revolver Ocelot's finger guns to sign in.
For me the "killer app" of Google search is location based searches. DDG is great but when I want to find a Petco nearby I don't want to use Yelp.
I'd say it's more like a palm-pilot vs a modern iphone or samsung galaxy... we still have a long ways to go. It's exciting sure, it'll change everything but..we have to wait for it to get to modern smartphone levels of coolness..
> In fact, Facebook coined the term back in 2008.

I'm pretty sure we have been using the term 'dark launching' a lot longer than 2008.
Show HN: Forget the pain in coding transactional notifications. It's solved
Autoplaying full size video on mobile? Instantly left the site. Want traffic? Don't try to crash my browser.
The inability to see from anyone's perspective but his own is astonishing here. Starting with the title "Beyond fiction," the only part of this account that strikes me as fictional are Aaronson's explanation of why he did nothing wrong. To any reasonable observer it appears that Aaronson has committed a very petty crime that robs minimum wage workers of a tiny bit of extra income. Actually it doesn't just appear that way... that's actually what he did.

He's then somehow pretending that he's been oppressed for this, as if the officers hauled him off to an interrogation room.

> how do you live in a world where, again and again, you can choose the hard right path over the easy wrong one, and then see your choice gleefully wielded against you?

Nothing was really wielded against him, except for the fact that he absent-mindedly committed a petty crime and had to deal with police officers questioning him about that.
When you have over 50% delinquencies, it is a bad thing.
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> “When you end up tracing all the dollars, around 10 percent of it gets captured by the artist. “That’s amazingly low,”

Actually, that's pretty good. Compare it to the profit margin of most any business.
That some of the recent gains are part of that same hype train, and the slump in light of recent ETF denials/delays is part of the same usual cycle.
Power companies have specific rules of when they can cut someones power. Many more companies than power (e.g. restaurants, groceries, etc.) have laws that require them to service customers. See all the public accommodation laws.

If Silicon Valley keeps looking like it is coordinating its censorship, then I would expect those laws to be extended to ISPs & social networks.
What a wild ride. I bought Ethereum almost two years ago at 12 dollars a token on Coinbase and it's changed the financial trajectory of my family. I still have high hopes for cryptocurrencies, but I think this pullback is necessary to clear out the speculators and let the developers work on the core infrastructure of a lot of these tokens.
This can not realistically end up as a addon and also will not gain any traction as opt-in option, it needs to be opt-out. So it's either going to be abandoned or end up baked in.

So, unless a considerable part of the userbase is "throwing a tantrum", this will be yet another thing I have to remember to turn off on fresh installs.

Not fighting this kind of erosion tooth and nail at every step endangers the only viable, fully featured, alternative to the Googles browser.
Yes, Mozilla needs to be held to a higher standard, the alternative is the inversion of what it stands for.

I have honestly no idea how one can look at this and go yeah, that seems like its in tune with our values.
The confluence or random circumstance and intentional lobbying that have allowed SF area landlords to ensure that a low stock of housing is maintained in the face of skyrocketing demand is truly fascinating.
Wow, nicely put. Provoked a lot of thought.
Out of curiosity, do you think this technology could be used for tattoos? I've never used a 3d printer so I don't know all the technical details, but it seems like it would be possible to provide a 3d image of your arm and have the syringe create a tattoo one poke at a time.
A lot of subprime issues from 2000 had to with diligence on the originator. There was widespread fraud on income, and employment reporting to meet the demand for CDOs and other mortgage-backed securities. Subprime has its place to loan out money to people who have the capability of repaying the loan but might not have the credit history/score to get a standard loan.
> Differences between civil and criminal courts:

I spoke too broadly - apparently, some countries (including France, Spain, Poland and Italy) do have different courts for civil and criminal matters. Other countries do not (including Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Slovakia) [0].

> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partie_civile_en_France

> Google suggests this as an English alternative:

> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2230.....

> (note there is "partie civile" and "action civile". They are NOT the same, aren't directly related. Specifically it is NOT the case that the "partie civile" is the complainant in an "action civile", as one might think. Keep reading)

I have only read briefly, but noted two things to start with: the document in English clearly states that it only describes the French system (even though other countries are mentioned at times), and it is also 60 years old. But even so:

> This problem was whether the juge d’instruction was bound to direct his investigations against the individual accused in the plaint, or whether he could exercise discretion as to the persons against whom he proceeded. The question was answered in 1925 in favour of the partie civile. The Chambre criminelle held that the juge d’instruction was not master of the proceedings. He was seised in personam in respect of the person accused and not in rem in respect of the charge as a whole. He was therefore without discretion as to whom he inquired against.

This reads similar to what you are describing about the prosecutor being forced to bring the case forward. However:

> The law of July 2, 1931, was passed in an attempt to remedy some of the foregoing abuses.

> ...

> The purpose of this reform was to avoid the infliction of the moral damage which usually followed merely from being publicly accused of certain crimes. No accusation would now be made unless the juge d'instruction were satisfied that there were adequate grounds for it.

The second-to-last paragraph of your post is also not substantiated by that source.

If this is as common as you claim, it should not be difficult to find recent sources which support it.

0: https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_ordinary_courts-18-en.do
perhaps, but python 3 is quite vague and 3.7 is very different from say 3.4. Saying it is 3.7 is of significant interest to me.
AMP has a pretty bad user experience that is unrelated to performance: It's super confusing for me when I am on a news site and the url bar shows a long unfamiliar string. It actually makes me feel like I need to check if I'm on a fishing site or I was misdirected or I misclicked.
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Yep, one can even go Haskell like crazy if one feels like to.

The only nagging point is the copy-paste compatibility with C. :\
SoftBank in Talks to Invest $750M in Zume, Startup That Sells Robot-Made Pizza
I report a fact. The complaint is entirely your own imputation.
I want to feel safe with my doctor and feeling safe is largely unrelated to grades as long as they are good enough.

Feeling safe is related to rapport with the person which is again related to ethnicity, gender, age, behavior, etc.
Really surprised to see Detroit that high on the list. I kind of wonder what the relative availability of jobs in Detroit is vs, say, Dallas or Chicago (which offer some significant lifestyle advantages over Detroit). It would also have been a much better comparison if some approximation of state and local income taxes were factored in.
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Expecting downvotes, but looking for ideas-

Serious question, what is the issue with inequality when low income people are overweight and have iphones?

This is obviously a simplification, but in 1 sentence I think I got my point across.

Standard of living is undisputed the best in human history, not even some 1960s era fantasy has overweight humans. This has nothing to do with 'unhealthy' food, this is abundance.

So back to the serious question, what makes inequality bad? Some ideas

>Political inequality

>multi-generational oppression(which doesnt line up with the whole "First generation makes it. 2nd generation maintains it, 3rd generation blows it")

I'm trying to understand the issue with inequality when everyone is living a fantastic by organic life standards.
As I said elsewhere:

>I don't consider open source projects a black box, I evaluate every project under the lens of someone who expects to someday have to work with the code myself and send patches upstream.

And I think I'm squarely in the target audience for this tool anyway. What makes you think it's a feature for someone else?
Embedded "microformats" like JSON-LD (or, say, Dublin Core RDF metadata) are somewhat problematic, in that they're not covered by the HTML standards, and not documented on any of the "HTML5 tutorial" sites—since they're something "above" HTML. (It'd be a bit like expecting such sites to document how to write inline SVG in your HTML5 document.)

So there's no "effortless" way for knowledge of HTML-embedded microformats to filter down to most HTML document authors or web-app theme creators. They have to actually go and seek such knowledge out. And often they don't know what they don't know†, so they have no reason to.

Essentially anything on the web that requires or relies on an HTML-embedded microformat to work, is instantly relegated to being an "SEO black art" that just gets passed around in blog posts read by bigcorp web-app devs and no one else.

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† This is one big part of what the people who dislike minification, WASM, etc. are complaining about re: the "readable" web. It used to be that you'd discover techniques like this by just looking at a bigcorp's production web pages and seeing how they work. That's far harder today than it used to be, and it's only going to get even harder in the future.
Is that right? What's the purpose of having an 8 second blank page animation?
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In any place where incumbent landlords are protected from competition, rents will naturally rise to consume all available money.
When there’s volatility there’s “alpha” to be had. If it was a flat lined chart, then no one would gain or lose which means 0% yield for an investment (my math could be wrong /s ).

The question is if you’re sophisticated or lucky enough to ride the variance on an upward direction.
Agree on bank regulations but central banks still have their fair share of responsibility through QE.

But agree, there are probably other reasons, starting with outsourcing to china, automation, under supply of highly skilled workforce, etc.
To be fair even if it literally is 100% reflective of reality that doesn't mean it lacks unjust feedback loops. If after generations of past policies the stats say 100% of people with red hair are bandits and the longstanding policy is that they are to be shot at on sight only redheads with plans to rob or kill you will approach within rifle range.

I think the best that can be hoped for is rigorous justification of lending criteria in non pure correlative ways. As opposed to discrimination laundering bullshit like sentencing based on the size of their yard. Judge them via their neighborhood foreclosure rates as opposed to ethnic make up. There are antidiscrimination in real estate laws on the books but I don't know enough to comment upon the current implementation and its pros and cons.
Bitcoin was already at 7500 much lower than its peak days before the decision
Video is a few years behind in this process because it got started later, but it’s trending in the same direction: YouTube used to have a diverse set of personalities among its famous producers, but they’re gradually disappearing and the all new YouTube stars are minor variations of the same archetype: the annoying, loud-mouthed jackass.

And it’s for the same reason: with so much content out there, you’ve gotta stand out, and the easy hack to do that is by being an attention-seeking sociopath. Give it another five years or so, and every YouTuber will be Logan Paul.
"If I pay with a credit card I have level of protection. When I put my money in a bank the money is insured."

Just out of curiosity, what makes you think that insured transactions to verified parties will not occur at some point? Credit cards have evolved substantially from the days of paper imprints themselves.
Consider a dancer. Being any good takes years of training. But even the very good ones struggle to make any sort of living from it. (Take a look at the dancers in the background of any music video. Do you think they get paid much?)

Why should musicians be different from other artists?
The difference in production quality between a Clerks-style mockumentary, and a AAA teledrama is huge. The latter is a money pit, where you can sink millions of dollars into. Technology has made video-production much more accessible, but there's almost no ceiling to money->production quality in that space.

With music, technology has made audio-production much more accessible, and while there is a difference between someone recording music in their garage, and Justin Beiber working in a gold-plated studio, it's not a big one.

I may not like the latest Avenger's take on the DC universe, but watching an unlicensed spin-off made by four kids over a summer isn't an acceptable substitute. If I don't like Beiber's new album, there's a mountain of indie bands that... Sound just as good.
I like the idea of AMP but its implementation by Google is so poor. It's just way too buggy for me. Websites will load only as much as my phone's screen allows - when I try to scroll down nothing happens. Other times it's just a blank page.

AMP convinced me to stop using Google's mobile website and switch to DuckDuckGo, and as an added bonus I can View Image from image search results.

EDIT: Forgot about how Google refuses to serve their modern version of Google.com on Firefox Android. That was the final nail in the coffin for me.
And that what it boils down to, promotion. Can you out promote the next guy? And, if you're likable or not. If so, you get (at least) a listen to.

Can you promote and make quality work? Doesn't have to be high quality, but good enough that you'd listen to it a lot and share it with your friends.

Ed Sheeran is not the best singer/musician in the world. But, he and his music is constantly in rotation. Not everyone has the backing of Warner Music. However, I'm guessing he and his music is likable and talented enough to hold people's attention.
Most of what you describe probably can be attributed to the fact that there used to be (and still are to some extent) quite a few competing identity server software providers.

The enterprise world tends to move more slowly than the rest of the world (or at least it often seems that way), which is why older systems and practices frequently are still in use.

If available I'd make use of existing Active Directory / LDAP systems (as ilkhan4 has already pointed out) for authorization.

For authentication Kerberos (often used in conjunction with Active Directory / LDAP) is an elegant way for implementing single sign-on (SSO) because it allows the user to simply authenticate with her normal user account in the local OS. Afterwards, the user's automatically logged in to every application on the local network that uses Kerberos for authentication (basically, by sharing a token).

Other than that, the usual best practices apply (such as not storing plaintext passwords). Depending on your architecture, techniques common outside of the enterprise world like transferring information via JSON Web Tokens are useful, too.
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> If you doubt this, simply imagine Arthur Chu or Amanda Marcotte in place of the police officers.

Thinking of writing Scott to demand compensation for my eyes rolling out of my head.
Land is good, but can be seized by a government. I know an Iraqi family that went from riches to rags due to this.

Gold is good, but as a chemical engineer, nuclear chemistry is a real threat.

I love ETFs, but I think the market is artificially inflated by the current trump bull run.

Bitcoin is used worldwide and can be kept on a cellphone or piece of paper.
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Prevent FOUC? Punish users who block third party scripts? Who knows.
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Yeah, the display of AMP pages, even on Android devices, is absurdly user-hostile. The textless "link" icon to get to the actual content, the loss of the critical "find in page" command, the loss of screen real-estate when the browser already has a bar.

It's an odd worst-of-both-worlds implementation where it has made the compromises needed to display it in a vanilla Chrome browser window, but doesn't actually appear to be a vanilla Chrome browser window with normal Chrome features.

And that's not getting into the terrifying power-position it gives google as the host of your content.
I write mostly for myself, but I've posted my blog and writing here and on reddit more often recently. It has helped me improve and build a better separation of worth/work, much like I view code review as a way to improve and learn.

That being said, the storm talking does get old very quickly. It's hard enough to write and edit! Usually if it's off-putting or argumentative, I don't worry about responding. For instance, from a recent comment on a blog post about a spray bottle:

"It works because it's a spray bottle. If it wasn't, it couldn't be called a spray bottle, and my assumption is someone would have changed the design until they got it working, and then that design would be called a spray bottle."

I always welcome conversation, but sometimes it's clear that a conversation isn't the goal!
> Incremental reading is a learning technique that makes it possible to read thousands of articles at the same time without getting lost.

Man, does't really work that way? When I learn something, like ML, I need the knowledge to sink in, but most of all I need to experiment, to test, to see how it works in practice. I guess the incremental reading may work for something like learning anatomy etc., but I doubt it would help me with more complex abstract concepts.
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sort of like looking through
a window within your
field of view

So they've basically created Hololens, but unlike Hololens it doesn’t run any of the existing software, and isn’t self contained. What a waste of money.
Isn't it talking about revenue, not profit margin?
Damn, got my hopes up. That's close, but not quite the same thing.

The nondimensionalization article is talking about reducing free dimensions in a model by variable substitution (while following all the rules of dimensional analysis), but I'm talking about re-writing a single equation so it can be used by "unit-phobic" people by simply dropping (not substituting!) all units (breaking all the rules of dimensional analysis), and assuming a certain set of units for input and output values.

Compare this (incorrect) formula, which gives no hint as to which units are being used for pressure or height:

h_alt = ( 1 - ( P_sta / 1013.25 )^0.190284 ) · 145366.45

with this (correct) equation, which always works regardless of what units are chosen (just follow the unit conversion rules):

h_alt = (1 - (P_sta / (101.325 kPa))^0.190284 · 44307.69396 meter

There are even unit-preserving calculators like Frink, which allow you to specify any units (for instance, giving barometric pressure in light-nanoseconds of mercury[1]).

[1] http://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=%281+-+%282.5+lig...
Autonomous weapons systems: Boys' toys or killer robots?
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Interesting how many of the salaries in these samples are tied to college towns. Cambridge, College Station, Knoxville, & Chapel Hill just to name a few that I saw.
How does it compare to ganja.js?

https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js
He went through a traumatic experience with aggressive, armed officers not knowing why. He wasn't trying to rob anybody. Have you ever accidently almost crashed into another car - but because the other person was paying attention, you both were spared? - or maybe we should all be severely punished for our mistakes. The world is a much better place if we can work together and be understanding of mistakes (especially petty ones like this) - we all make them.
> already willing to kill the enemy, which feels like a more extreme action.

Tell me, would you rather be tortured in Gitmo for a decade and live with the scars for the rest of your life or just take a bullet to your head and be done with it?

Torture is immoral, full stop. No human being should ever be tortured.
Is there a prominent C code base that does this sort of thing? I’m sorry this is all very questionable advice IMHO. What would be one word in a makefile (onefilelib.c) is a 4-line jumble of preprocessor macros, names starting with __ are reserved, and the suggestion to redefine main and entry points smells like more #ifdef spaghetti.