skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little conflicted on this. Clearly if we leave security to political parties, for many reasons we can expect poor security in IT, which leaves our very democracy vulnerable.

On the other hand, imagine the government mandating "if you run for office, you and everyone in your campaign must use this email for all communications, and if you communicate electronically outside of these approved methods we'll come down on you". The number of ways that could be misused is mind-boggling. Even if it isn't used to sniff on the communications of the opposition, it could simply be raised to higher and higher levels of complexity (and perhaps $$ cost) until new political parties (or insurgencies within a party) cannot afford to compete, because the legal requirements for IT are too stringent.
Here you go: http://bfy.tw/JkG7
Given the great perspective you put here, Ada was truly amazing.

I have a bit more appreciation for her insight at such an early time.

How frustrating! She could see it, but too early.

A bit like maybe Tesla, others in times just before things really opened up.
> I think the individualist streak in American culture is better shown by people being unwilling to seek help from friends/family. I might call an unwillingness to help others (assuming one can afford to do so) selfishness -- not individualism.

It's not just practicing individualism, but insisting on it. People don't help others partly because they tell themselves that the person needs to make their own way. It is ultimately a justification for selfishness, but the justification is individualism. And I suspect many people who would otherwise not be too proud to ask for help still won't because they perceive that this is a prominent idea in American culture.

> An interesting clarification: People will more readily accept help from strangers -- e.g. a Kickstarter campaign, bank loan, or VC investment doesn't diminish one's pride in the way that the same support from someone's parents might.

I think that goes back to the same point. Those routes are branded as entrepreneurship, which is like +10 individualism points. If I asked my rich uncle for a loan, he (and many other people) would perceive this as dependency and therefore vaguely shameful. If I took out a bank loan, even though it's technically the same action, those same people would perceive it as an admirable show of entrepreneurial initiative.
Seattle might have a decent yearly average of sunlight hours/day, but during the winter there are often weeks to months of almost no direct sunlight due to the overcast.
Looks cool, but a bit pricey.
Case study: South Korea and its population density but still achieving immense success.
Always ready for less than ideal outcomes. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
based on trust?

Because there is a general lack of trust of people outside one's immediate family and a (usually very) small circle of friends.
That's possible, but an alternative explanation for the cost overruns that I've read is that Babbage had terrible project management skills.

Wikipedia has this to say:

In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine. This machine was built using materials and engineering tolerances that would have been available to Babbage, quelling the suggestion that Babbage's designs could not have been produced using the manufacturing technology of his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
Parent is downvoted but I recall it as an epigram (and I agree) but can't find references discussing it.

Users wouldn't tolerate WordStar and Pac-Man today.
Blade runner was a cool movie but i'd rather not actually live in that world.

On a long enough timeline, I'm sure we'll have a sufficient understanding of ecology to be effective stewards of our environment, but you're massively understating the complexity that will go into it. We're by no means there yet and won't be for centuries, even if we get do get a mars colony going in the next couple decades.
Yellow pages where sorted by category at least here in Germany.
Finding the Most Important Sentences Using NLP and TF-IDF
This is a terrible idea.

Anyone who wants a career in development should learn how to write properly using the languages they're going to use.

SASS/SCSS makes sense because it's practically CSS syntax, but this is not.
Given resources, they could potentially have made a machine to machine.

The ability was potentially there, but the need perhaps was not.

It would have required a generation dedicated to that one task.
It's incredibly expensive to take a population, then randomize them to two different diets, then see that they actually follow those diets that you have assigned them to, for any length of time. You can't just observe people after the fact, because people don't remember what they actually ate, and even if they did you don't know what all the confounding variables even are. I'm not sure how this can even get any better than it is.
"The solution can't just be "there are more people moderating," which translates to: the network is much more expensive to run."

That actually is largely the solution on all the networks, as most are trying to automate that task, to crappy results.
While the linked course seems a lot more thorough, I took the Udacity "Differential Equations in Action" [1] course, which I found very well done. For the homework you write Python programs to compute things like gravitational slingshots, modeling epidemics, wildfires, and the n-body problem.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/differential-equations-in-act...
Dude, I've even tried popping a Ritalin / Vyvanse (a few remaining from college years - don't bother, you get insomnia later and still can't produce), grabbing a coffee, taking a shower.

All no go.

A short nap is not enough as I'm already tired for the day, and a long one just gets me sleepy, then it gets too late already, and if I stay up late I won't be able to perform at work.

I second the thoughts of another person here who said there are so many productive hours in a day. Maybe if we were not bound by office hours, back when I was a student or in my short stints as a freelancer I could push two "rounds" of productivity in a day.
RE: Downvoting. Just give up. There is no correlatiing reason for downvoting. Don't even think about keeping a user name for more than a day.

It's not worth trying to please anyone around here anymore. Just cut a fresh user name, dump your honest opinion into it once, and then walk away from that user name.

The amazing part is that HN tends to auto-hellban new users, if two are created by at the same IP address, inside of 24 hours. HN also auto-hallbans for other reasons.

Because of this, there is also a semi-random attrition rate, for new accounts.

In summation, HN doesn't accurately downvote, and HN doesn't accurately ban or hellban. Karma is meaningless, and users are frequently silenced without cause.
It's been a while since wiretaps were a physical thing.
"When he was 17, Musk left college and moved to his mother’s home country, Canada, later obtaining passports for his mother, brother and sister to join him there. His father did not wish him well, Musk recalls. “He said rather contentiously that I’d be back in three months, that I’m never going to make it, that I’m never going to make anything of myself. He called me an idiot all the time. That’s the tip of the iceberg, by the way.”

After Musk became successful, his father even took credit for helping him – to such a degree that it’s listed as fact in Elon’s Wikipedia entry. “One thing he claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which provided online city guides to newspapers]. This is not true,” Musk says. “He was irrelevant. He paid nothing for college. My brother and I paid for college through scholarships, loans and working two jobs simultaneously. The funding we raised for our first company came from a small group of random angel investors in Silicon Valley.”"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-m...
This is one of those replies I am not entirely sure if it is satire or not.
Thanks for the share. Happy to answer any questions on the new workflow.
Anti-EU types usually base their rhetorics on globally enforced regulations coming from "Brussel bureaucrats".

Sure, I would not be surprised if this concrete instance of such a regulation was welcomed in these circles (consistency isn't strong suite of some), but the more broad point stands.
Disinformation Is Spreading on WhatsApp in India–And It’s Getting Dangerous
> I think you're maybe forgetting that the goal of Mastodon, or any federated (as opposed to distributed) system, is not to have every single user run and administer their own instances, but rather to enable users to freely select from a wide variety of compatible interconnected peers.

This looks like a networking protocol, but this is actually process for electing the main node in the network, which will eventually revert it back to the mean of centralization. Let's see how Mastodon scales.

> I think people mostly want a smaller power to do it for them, or at least a "smaller than The Platform, or The Government".

People want the freedom of small networks while gaining the moderation protection of larger ones. People's beliefs about this are largely incoherent imo. That being said I'm broadly against heavy handed moderation, and so I'm happy to see it being solved by fragmenting the community rather than enforcing undesirable norms across it.
The example that comes to my mind is a pile of wooden blocks. If I was asked to sort them I sort them by shape (i.e., by category). Here is a pile of the square ones, here are the circle ones, etc.

If I was sorting lego blocks I don't know if I would do it first by color and then by size/shape (here are all the 2x8s, here are all the 1x4s, etc.), but it would definitely be by category.
"while the design of the system still preserves their freedom to move to another instance if they later decide to do so"

No, it doesn't. It allows the user to start over completely from scratch on another instance. This is very much not the same thing.
One thing I still miss from Safari is 'Show all Tabs' which would give you thumbnails of open tabs. There is nothing built into FireFox that is equivalent. I have looked at some of the extensions, and they are in various states of support or waiting for FF to implement some API. The dropdown menu showing the tab titles becomes pretty useless after a certain number has been reached.

I'm amazed in 2018 it seems tab management (> 20 tabs) is still so awful.
New York. It's not a hard school to guess. In fact, the teacher who started the entire program is on Reddit (maybe HN too). I'm extremely fortunate to have attended it.
A website is obviously something that changes according to third party wishes. I am visiting their domain from my machine using my browser.

Software I decide to install on my machine, is under my control. I could update it, re-install it, delete it, change it.

I don't appreciate this mindset that software is like a "website" that is controlled by someone else. If that's what you want, then that's your preference.
"Just get new friends" is definitely callow, but muting someone for a while on Facebook isn't the same as shutting them out of your whole life forever.

Maybe I've misunderstood what the implication was supposed to be-in lived experience when told "just get new friends" that suggestion very often stopped short of offering anything further like "use the snooze function" (which I'm already doing quite a bit) or other recommendations to better 'curate' the feed.

It very rarely feels like a recommendation to improve the experience and a call to action, instead to sever personal connections.
Microsoft owns Azure, Microsoft owns GitHub. Azure is Microsoft’s own infrastructure. Remember kids there is no cloud it’s just somebody else’s computer.
> Do we know if Mozilla is planning anything to fix this?

Nope, so far as I can tell they are invested in their current approach. In fairness, I will admit that it trades security in order to get a slight improvement in usability.

If they'd just make it impossible to log in via JavaScript, and only through the browser UI, then they could increase the security. But they won't do it.
I highly suggest reading "The Mom Test"
Of course there's going to be a large difference between people of different races' outlook and perspective, especially in the US. My point is that I think people from different political perspectives have much more fundamentally different ideas, beliefs and philosophies. For an explicit example, a progressive might spot gendered language in a UI that could be exclusionary, where a libertarian might spot a community problem that can solved by market or distributed forces/algorithms. Those are kind of on-the-nose examples but they serve to show things that people from different political lines might not even look for.
Guess they updated their website! When I was looking, it just said some business internet website and you called and got transferred from person to person. And they never responded to submissions to the online form.
Sorting 2 Tons of Lego
Friendster should have licensed their patents to the other networks.
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This is actually my exact point. Why did FB come after phpBB?

And I guess I'd argue: there actually aren't that many phpBB communities, relative to the numbers of people on Twitter and FB.

If Mastodon (or federation in general) was going to "work" we'd see no FB and tons more phpBB type implementations.
I'm not exactly sure how to interpret your experience since it sounds far more like congestion than throttling. By blocking CDN endpoints you were inadvertently routing your traffic to somewhere uncommonly hit which had more available bandwidth.
Look at Arnold's book on Diff, it is harder then others, but has absolutely different outlook.
In the opening paragraph: "We’re all gonna start eating eggs and bacon for every meal again until our cholesterol inevitably reaches code-red levels?"

I stopped right there, given that carb reduction inevitably results in lower cholesterol levels.
The removed instructions were binary-coded-decimal instructions, push / pop of CS/DS/ES/SS. These are minor instructions, but if your program used them, that alone means it no longer works, and that was the point.
Please don't use meme arrows on HN. It's not hard to write normal English.
The hundred billion dollar question is where will people alternately socialize online?

Lots of people I know spurn Facebook but use Instagram. Nearly everybody I meet on Fortnite communicates off-game via Snapchat. I personally get my internet dopamine fix through Reddit and Hacker News, and if I want to stay in touch with friends, I call/text/email, like the good old days of like 10 years ago.

I don’t see a general global social network around the corner gearing up to dethrone Facebook, but at the same time I am noticing social media usage splintering across a myriad of sites and apps, instead of being dominated by one giant social network.
You should try Rajdhani in Artesia, CA if you get a chance. But that's the only one I have found.
Excellent write-up. And when I was done I had -67 lives :-)
I increasingly think that we should stop to teach kids to blindly trust to this or that group of people (army, scientists, president, past historical characters) and teach them to deal with complexity and truth instead.
An employee is leaving? Replace by sorting CVs by similarity to his/her CV
> How disposable do you view people to just up and remove a connection to all of them because you don't want to take responsibility for your own experience on a site?

Because I know a site isn't the only way to connect with those individuals. I didn't really interact with them much on the site to begin with. Said site has other exterior issues attached to it such as tracking and potential employers invading my private life. Ultimately the site has little to nothing to offer for me.

It's not about viewing humans as disposable. It's viewing and understanding that a website is a thing and in itself it is disposable after it no longer fulfills a purpose.
Interesting that JOBS act took so much care about executive compensation :

"

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. These reduced reporting requirements include:

the requirement to present only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related management’s discussion and analysis in this prospectus;

an exemption from compliance with the auditor attestation requirement on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting;

reduced disclosure about our executive compensation arrangements; and

an exemption from the requirements to obtain a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation or shareholder approval of any golden parachute arrangements."
> what abstractions are we missing today that will be obvious to future generations?

For one, both quantum computing and general relativity have some concepts that are extremely hard to grasp by the mind imho
RE: Downvoting. Just give up. There is no correlating reason for downvoting. Don't even think about keeping a user name for more than a day.

It's not worth trying to please anyone around here anymore. Just cut a fresh user name, dump your honest opinion into it once, and then walk away from that user name.

The amazing part is that HN tends to auto-hellban new users, if two are created by at the same IP address, inside of 24 hours. HN also auto-hellbans for seemingly other reasons. HN doesn't really seem to know why it hellbans.

Because of this, there is also a semi-random attrition rate, for new accounts.

In summation, HN doesn't accurately downvote, and HN doesn't accurately ban or hellban. Karma is meaningless, and users are frequently silenced without cause.
> There is a very strong individualist streak in American culture and a very strong taboo against lending friends or family members money

For friends and extended family, I agree. However, most people I know have borrowed from their parents for things like their first car or the downpayment on their first house if they need to. Is that not normal?
Your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove they didn't respect it. I was just able to load PayPal with a Symantec cert on Chrome 69 on Android, which I realize is dueling anecdotes, but I'm just reinforcing the status quo, you're the one making a bold claim.
This is really great stuff you are collecting. Would be awesome to read it in a more organized manner than a twitter posts: twitter really isn't so great for organizing knowledge. Don't you keep a blog or something? Maybe considering?

By the way, I remember you by your course on coursera, it was great. Thank you a lot for that.
Right email is the exact model I'm basing my thinking on. You don't see people running their own email servers, you see 4-5 companies in the world gobbling up the VAST majority of the network, even with weak network effects.
Where Are NIKE Shoes Made?
> ...and creating APIs so that extensions can handle the functionality instead.

If they were actually doing that, I'd be first in line for their defense, but they aren't. Additionally, they keep shoving in features that should be extensions.
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Which Body Parts Are We Attaching Computers To?
It will never change but another latency to think of with regards to hardware is that electrical signals go at the speed of 6in/ns in circuit boards.
Optical, electrical (from chest or skull) and even a BP cuff (pneumatic) were used. It’s a hard problem.
Äkta människor was fun(ny).
They don't say how big is the loan, nor how many were needed to buy the hotel. They might have had to shake hands with everyone in their family.

Some Asian immigrant families form a "lending circle" where they choose a member to go 1st, and everyone gives their extra money to that person, and they buy a hotel/restaurant/etc. The circle chooses a 2nd, and everyone gives them spare money - it's a lot faster this time, with the one hotel/restaurant/etc owner paying in a relatively large amount. This goes around until everyone in the group (maybe 12-20 people) has a hotel/restaurant/etc.
This question very quickly turns into "who watches the watchmen" if you pull the thread long enough. THAT'S the moderation problem, not scale or cost.
May be it's because I come from a different culture, I am not so entitled. Firefox is free, as in speech and beer. It also doesn't phone home with your private data as a payload. That Is good enough for me to be happy. If something doesn't work for me, I find a workaround or a plug-in and am happy again. If there's something needs to be fixed, I write bug reports.

So it might seem to you that no power user could possibly be totally happy, I am happy to prove you wrong.
And was allegedly plagiarized from QDOS.

https://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/software/286148-the-rise-o...
Best Browsers of 2018 – Move Over Chrome
Users don't even leave Facebook, they stop logging in after a while. As you say you can curate your feed, but how many users understand that and what to deal with it? I seriously doubt that most Facebook users understand that they can influence what content they see. Facebooks isn't helping, it's not clear how the process work.
I don't use a web clipper, I use copy/paste. It pastes the content and a little footnote about the source with URL at the bottom.
To be fair, both MongoDB and Elasticsearch have had serious issues as pointed out via the Jepsen tests.

https://aphyr.com/posts/317-jepsen-elasticsearch

https://aphyr.com/posts/323-jepsen-elasticsearch-1-5-0

Though, all those issues have been fixed for both MongoDB and Elasticsearch so it's not necessarily fair to judge them based off past performance.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/cur...

https://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-3.4-passes-jepsen-test
Liberty and freedom aren't the same things. If you're in complete solitary, sure you have complete freedom. But what does that matter? That doesn't comment on how we should structure our societies. Liberty isn't unchecked freedom for every individual. Unchecked freedom for every individual would in fact run counter to preserving liberty for every individual. Unchecked freedom means I can steal your stuff or kill you. Liberty means the opposite; I'm free to do as I please as long as it doesn't infringe your ability to do the same.
Never know when you might need to start an insurrection.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

(from Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long.)
I'm also very happy with Firefox, and I usually keep FF, Safari, and Chrome all open all the time. I use one Firefox for work, Safari for random browsing, and Chrome for certain special-browsing or special-web-app cases where it either works better in Chrome or I just want keep it more available via alt-tab.

My only real complaint is that `about:config` preferences have no descriptions, despite their names not always being descriptive. Chrome's `about:flags` is much better in this regard.
They really need to sort the name out, naming it the same as a major heavy metal band is just a bad idea.

When every anyone mentions it you immediately think of the band until you realise it's that fringe social thing nobody cares about.