skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do that with Facebook too. You can make lists and publish posts to specific lists instead of just "Friends". You can also do "Friends except [list]" or "Friends except [person]", too.

I haven't taken much advantage of it, just some here and there. For example, there have been times I've excluded current and former coworkers (I was looking into moving out of town for a while—not anymore though—and I wanted to pick my friends' brains on suggestions for places to move to without it getting back to people I work with that I was thinking of leaving the company). Another example, when I was first beginning my gender transition and I wasn't yet out to the world, I would post about transition-related things to a list that contained the small handful of people who knew I was transitioning. And another, when my former best friend went down an extreme far-right rabbit hole and began posting bigoted statements, including using slurs, against groups that I'm part of, I a) put him and his wife on my Acquaintances list and started making 90% of my posts to "Friends except Acquaintances" and b) made a list of people I trust so I could get support for my feelings of being betrayed without tipping off him or anyone who might tell him (I stopped (a) after he deleted his Facebook account a few months ago... at that point, I threw his wife on my Restricted list, which is hardcoded to hide anything that isn't Public from people on that list).
> Firefox 52 ESR is no longer supported

That is a bummer. I have pinned FF to 52 ESR so that the extensions I use keep working. I am running out of viable browsers.

Your addons look quite impressive. I use vim all the time. I had no idea that addon existed.
I believe that the eircode dataset is one of the most highly requested sources, but it’s a private for profit database.

If you are aware of such a dataset that a public body is hosting, then it would certainly be something to include. Convincing (and helping) the public bodies to publish their data is still a big task.
I also very much like https://www.figure-eight.com/data-for-everyone/. It's not optimized for search but it's an excellent repository of high quality datasets.
I used to sit in a cubicle next to a window in a high rise. I would always get sun shining in my eyes and my face would get red sometimes. I usually ended up with strained eyes and later found out the uvb radiation can cause skin cancer. So I'm not convinced.
Reddit has become that for me sadly.
From what I remember, wood's main difference is that is absorbs water. On the one hand, this wicks water away from the surface making it dryer immediately (bad for pathogens), but on the other hand it retains moisture for longer (good for pathogens). These trade-offs are overall beneficial for the use case of a cutting board, but that may be a very narrow set of conditions.

This is aside from the fact that hospitals are a more adversarial environment than kitchens--every sneeze might contain ebola, and every patient might be immunocomprimised. I would imagine airports fall somewhere in the middle.
I hate my software job and I don't know what to do
I spend all day testing other software. I learn nothing from it other than how good architect-ed software can make testing so much easier. I'm constantly feeling undervalued and not challenged.

The program I was working a year ago was amazing. However, our company works off contracts so when your program ends you get slotted for another one. When this happens you can find yourself being unlucky getting stuck working programs that are not the greatest. That being said sometimes you are lucky and get a chance to work on something amazing.

Working here is such an up and down experience in getting a chance to really work on something you enjoy. I know I'm a junior level engineer with less experience than most but I'm doing everything I can to improve.

I'm in the middle of my masters degree. I'm getting small certificates of appreciation for my work ethic. My first annual review was flawless. I'm always getting positive feedback. The fact that I'm not constantly writing embedded C or doing more object oriented design (such as C++) is killing me slowly from the inside out.

Is this normal regardless of your qualifications to get stuck supporting a programs efforts that is (for lack of a better word) genuinely boring? Is the grass greener on the other side? What has been your experience when coming on to a fairly large company?
Evernote might be in trouble
> There is a very strong individualist streak in American culture and a very strong taboo against lending friends or family members money for any reason.

I agree with the individualist streak, but the second part is pretty much untrue of anyone I've met in the upper plain states. Helping to bootstrap you friends and family is part of the culture.
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Bringing out my own anecdata, everyone I know who deleted the app did it in the process of abandoning the platform itself. It wouldn't surprise me that the web client is gaining in relative popularity though.
Might be region locked, but it shows for me (North America).
In my opinion yes, any kind of oracle that gives you ambiguous answers is more or less equivalent: I Ching for me is convenient because it gives a relatively compact result (while doing tarot reading requires you to pore over a dozen or so cards and all their relationships, which to me risks to muddle things up).
I'm right there with you. Natural light and computer screens don't mix for me at all.

Then there is the uneven heating that natural light brings with it since it is blazingly hot where I live.
And for those of you who (like me) have no idea what a Burroughs B5500 was:

http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...
I see, pretty cool!

I noticed that when typing in the email box nothing happens in the recording. I assume that this is to hide the email address but it would be nice to have some sort of visual cue (may be asterisks, like passwords?), otherwise it looks broken.
But still this doesn't make sense, as Latin America was converted in the 1500s, well after the 1000 AD change that you claim occurred. Latin America, despite having 500 years for Catholicism to settle in, is still really big into the extended family.

I think a better explanation is the Protestant reformation weakened the idea that any person should subjugate their own personal individual desires for the greater good, with its emphasis on an individual quest for truth, an idea which has now permeated western culture. This makes sense with what I've experienced of non-European Catholicism, which mostly just finds Protestantism bizzare and confusing.
The base issue is trust, not some technical issue.

They repeatedly violated the trust placed in them. They'd have to fire the entire chain of command that allowed those to happen, retool their processes, and probably post a sizable bond before many folks would give them a second chance.

But really, who needs them? We need fewer registries, or in the alternative many, many, many more.
It's not that they don't count, but rather that employers probably shouldn't be on the hook for benefits received while the employee wasn't actually an employee. If that employee is working two part-time jobs, for example, then both employers should be contributing.

Same for switching between seasonal jobs; if I'm working for Sunshine Ranch as a ranchhand April through September, and I'm working for Powder Bowl Ski Lodge as a custodian October through March, those two companies would need to be taxed proportionately.
I’m not saying they must be right. But they were there, they experienced it, and we did not. They may be wrong, but it would take a really strong argument to convince me of that. I’m going to start from the assumption that the people who experienced these weapons and came away with the belief that they should never be used again had some good reason for that.
A photographer’s portrait of America in the post-truth era
Burroughs B5000 / B5500 / B5700 Gallery
This is a pretty compelling U2F solution. It matches the price of a Yubikey but you really get a Bluetooth key and a USB version in the box (with a USB C adaptor ?).
EDIT : child comment says the USB key also has NFC.
> true hackers don't hide behind pseudonyms

If there's one thing I'd associate with hacker culture it's pseudonyms, especially l33t ones.
Excellent observation! This is the basis of "chit funds" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund), an alternate form of circular financing in India. Similar schemes also apparently exist in countries like S Korea per my Korean neighbor. But in the motel instances outlined here, anecdotally, lending circles are not used. It's typically a small group of family members or very close friends with a pool of money to "lend".
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I wonder if there were UV hand "washers" all over the place if that would help.

If they had the UV hand driers in the restrooms as well as UV baths around the entrances to the xray scanners, such that everyones plastic tub that entered the xray machine was also UV'd as it went through... (Although I dont know how long it would have to be under UV to impact....)
Of course they did.

Too easy. Create problems, sell solutions.
Also, there is a warning in Chrome dev tools console.
That doesn't contradict what I said.
Very interesting and useful. Got any good references for further reading?
Oof, you know there're problems with USB-C when even Google in their official press shots show a dongle being used with their hardware key. Not very elegant, is it.
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I've kinda suspected this for a while so I generally make a point of going to the nearest bathroom and washing my hands after getting through security, especially if I'm eating something before boarding.
Most families don’t have $50k to invest in their kids’ business, but there are at least 10 million such families for each Gates/Zuckerberg/Bezos etc.
I think you're probably referencing ESR's How to Be a Hacker post: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html.

The commentary may have been more relevant in the 90s and more about people calling themselves random names and writing viruses, rather than contributing to Open Source with their names standing behind their work.
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I don’t disagree with the article, I believe Blank accurately describes the current vc mindset. I just think he missed an opportunity to point out its pitfalls and in doing so implicitly endorsed overfunding.

My argument is that even as a vc with unlimited funds, overfunding a startup may be suboptimal. You paradoxically decrease its probability of success by misaligning the startup leadership’s incentives at a crucial pre product-market fit development stage.
I think you can get away with it, if you know what you're doing, but a stolen car is worth a lot less than the same car sold second-hand legitimately. Probably you either have to sell it to someone who knows it's stolen, knows not to take it anywhere near a legitimate service centre, and is prepared to forfeit it if stopped by the police, or you break it up and sell the parts, or you have a way of smuggling it out of the country to somewhere where they don't care about where cars came from.
It's just as valid of a reason to prefer 'stock' Android or something like Lineage, though. Not having to worry about the minutiae of operating systems can be a definite platform benefit though, it's just not worth the tradeoff for me.
You trade NFC for Bluetooth, but get a back-up key instead of purchasing it separately for another $20.

Edit: it seems like the USB key supports NFC, but not the Bluetooth key. From the website:

USB Security Key

For use with your computer. You can also connect to most Android devices that support USB or NFC.
Another super minimal puzzle game in Go for cli
> Do the Dutch hate their own programmes?

Yep.

> Why would they bother making shows they don't want to watch?

Subsidies.
Not in Germany.
Do you think its possible that the fb socializing was fun when it started but after few years we all realize that its just not the right way to socialize

Pretty much. It's all so pointless now.

My feed today:

Important service alert from a transit agency in some other city.

Obviously fake friend request from someone who thinks a Sharpie is an eyebrow pencil.

Promoted post from some company I've never heard of pushing something I don't care about.

People You May Know who are all people I don't know.

Someone else's shared memory of an event 5 years ago I wasn't at and don't care about.

Post from a "neighborhood" group on the other side of town.

Suggested Post about something I don't care about.

Post in a language that I don't speak, but that's OK because I did intentionally follow the Yomiuri Giants.

Post from the state parks people about a state park 400 miles away.

Image caption repost of a repost of a repost of a repost from someone who thinks that life's problems can be solved by re-posting other people's refrigerator magnet thoughts.

Ad for a coffee chain in another city with no locations within 700 miles.

"Breaking News" weather alert about a dust storm last week.

News item that a local TV station posted three months ago.

Photograph of someone I don't know who is friends with someone who is friends with someone I might know.

Photo from an actual Facebook friend, but it's of his tween daughter in a leotard. Ummm...

Ad for a coffee chain in another country.

One of those "URGENT! URGENT!!! !! Please help us find out dog!" re-posts from someone 2,500 miles away.

A re-post of an image caption that's been around since the 1990's.

Photograph of a friend not wearing enough clothing with a bunch of other quite hairy people not wearing enough clothing in what I really really hope is a sauna.

Good job, Facebook. Glad to see the $70 billion spent on "user engagement AI" is working out for you.
So income assistance is great, as long as you don't get a job at a large, stable employer.
I view a book as a machine for producing knowledge, ideas, and affects. Writing in the book is, for me, standard machine operation that does not impair its usefulness.
It is perhaps worth noting that the bulk of Mongo's operating losses were only paper: vesting stock options. I don't know why they wanted to keep that a secret from Wall Street, but it means that they got 6+ years' operating capital from the sale, not just 2. Keeping the secret meant they were motivated to shed people vesting too much, to make their apparent losses look smaller.

Wall Street smoke 'n' mirrors strikes again.
The west half of SF starting Fillmore Street-ish down to Daly City and Pacifica (all the lands alongside the Ocean) basically are known for fog issues, but most of the Peninsula, South Bay, and East Bay are super sunny.
> it just seems like a reimplementation of inline styles.

In a way it is but with some important differences:

- You still write styles in regular files instead of inline. You then reference those in your templates and the library replaces them with the corresponding atomic CSS classes.
- See my reply to CGamesPlay.

> with atomic CSS your application bundle size grows, i.e., at some point

your application bundle size grows "logarithmically"! Probably "logarithmically" got accidentally deleted.

In a way CSS is an "append only" language (or at least that's how it ends up being used) and the more features you add the more your bundles grow. With atomic CSS classes this is not an issue.

> A button from any given CSS framework takes 5-12 CSS rules to look decent. Now imagine creating a unique class name for each rule and applying that to every button on the page.

Just to make sure that it is clear enough, you as developer don't generate/apply unique classes by hand. Instead you reference rules which map to sets of atomic classes.

> HTML is even more bloated

True, but I believe that this approach is fairly gzip friendly. So repetition is not an issue.

> There's also the issue of swapping styles in the browser to get a sense of how things look.

Controlling things globally could be handy but it won't scale. I don't think that it is a deal breaker to toggle some state in your app and hit refresh.

> DSS also means that your developers will have to sift through a lot of useless noise when inspecting the DOM

DSS already allows to include readable class names and I am planning to use those to add source maps.

-

All your concerns and comments are valid however atomic CSS has its benefits (companies like Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter use solutions that compile to those kind of classes).

The main feature of DSS is deterministic styles resolution anyway, atomic CSS classes are only the medium to achieve that with plain old static CSS.
The issue with it not being front-and-center is that it's not the default modus operandi for everyone on the network. It's not just about how I'd want to share my content, but also how I want others to share theirs with me. I'm interested in my friend's adventures building a project, doing art, or starting a business, but not interested in their dog, their exotic tourism pics, or most of their romantic lives except for close friends. It would be nice if everyone I got connected to on my social media filtered me out based on what they knew of me, by default.
The EU does a piss poor job of explaining to its constituents what its advantages are, that's for sure.
Founder is Dutch, big chunk of the team is as well, they definitely have an office in Amsterdam. Also, what taxes? They are losing money :)
When it said marble-powered computers I was imagining something like the Marble Machine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Looks like a cool educational project though.
> Apple? HP? Pretty much every Silicon Valley company that started with one or two guys in in a garage?

I mean, Steve Blank's definition as semi-quoted by me included "or were trying to build a unique product <> business model". I think it's safe to say that Apple was trying to build a unique product <> business model, as was HP.

In any case, a new law firm is a new company. So were Apple and Facebook. I think it makes sense to differentiate between them, and Steve Blank's definition seems to be the best to me (it focuses on what actually makes all the difference - the amount of foreknowledge you have on the market fit of your product).

> The definitions of "startup" and "unicorn" seem to be forever evolving.

Unicorn is actually a pretty well-defined term in this context. And it's really new, too, something like 5-8 years old if I remember correctly. A private company with a valuation of more than 1 billion dollars..
No, do tell.
That was a big motivator for me as well when I finally jumped ship from Verizon. Admittedly, I went to Fi, so I was lucky that the limited phone selection worked out for me. The ease of international use more than outweighs that for me.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the intent is to automatically prevent capture of personally identifiable information. The problem with asterisk though is that it still leaks the lengtg of the email address.

We are exploring other options with the right balance between minimizing information leak and usability.
And the initial reviews are not great:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/04/google-titan-securi...

I'll probably stick with my Yubikey for the time being.
This is a rather painful read and a relatively shallow article on CNN's vs. RNNs. Potentially useful for someone new to the field but it's a very grab bag take. The reality is much less well defined than CNNs = eyes, RNNs = ears and mouth. To start, CNNs have seen quite a bit of success in NLP applications.
Usually $3.99-$5.99.

I’m lazier than I am cheap.

But honestly, most of my movies fall off the back of a truck onto my Plex server.

And I was just giving you hard time about being smug.....
Only if there's a single metric for "better".
Another important difference is the free-labor-from-your-kids benefit. From what it appears, Indian families are more cohesive and their kids are less rebellious (at least 1st generation). I'm aware there are also American children who work in their parents small businesses, but I think they are more likely to demand compensation.
The closest thing to that is trying to go back 30 years ago. Find sources that are not sensationalizing the news. That's the best indicator IMO for "news". Meaning, things that are happening, not what people are saying or doing (what Trump or someone else is saying etc).

My recommendations for this are the BBC RSS feed, PBS NewsHour for nightly news / video (Youtube or OTA antenna) and a local paper RSS feed (Chicago Tribune for me). Though that paper has long been considered politically biased (to the right), local events are probably more important than national or worldwide news coverage so one has to bite the bullet at a point.

BBC/Tribune/PBS are simply exceptional reporting, regardless of any leanings, and I'd put that ahead of worrying about a lack of total neutrality. It's a little overblown. It's been clear for some time now that there's a bit of a struggle for right-wingers on being able to mentally muster their way through biased reporting (real or perceived). There's a lot of weak and fragile people around today, can't even watch or read something that doesn't cater to their sensitivities. It used to be that a right-winger aspired to be John Wayne. Now they're all-in on victimhood culture. If they did anything in their life at all, like get off the couch to join the military (which is a government dependent of the worst kind- one that leads to people getting killed, rather than an unpaid, sacrificial service), they're deeply offended if you're not constantly kissing the ring.

Maybe checking just the AP releases would be the best way to get "neutral news", but I think if you just hunt for sources that explicitly do not sensationalize the news, something Fox News brought into popularity, you'll get most of the way there.
Not that long ago I worked with a bunch of Millennials who all claimed they don't watch TV.

When asked why, they said they watch Hulu and HBO Go and Fox's apps.

They simply couldn't wrap their brains around the notion that all that stuff was on a television.

They also didn't know that there was such a thing as free over-the-air TV. They acted like it was some kind of black magic to get TV without a cable or internet connection.
Wasn't it always like it? Yea Facebook is a big name since 2005(?)
But MSN, ICQ, Skype, XFire, WhatsApp and Telegram also were and are still around. (And many many many more)

I think that if we would be talking bout people switching from using Google services (specially considering androids Marketshare) that would be more surprising.
> This is a pretty compelling U2F solution

No it's not. It's manufacturered in China, a state devoted to spying on its own citizens to a degree higher than the NSA (social credit scores, etc) and preventing the free flow of information. I wouldn't trust this thing to store my zip code securely, much less a private key.
Great to see.

But, opening lots of separate browser windows for the different components (card reader, magnetic tape, line printer, etc) is (IMHO) poor UX. Web apps should do everything in one browser window/tab, and use DIVs (or whatever) within that window/tab to implement different UI elements, rather than seven separate popup windows.
so in the military men jack off in two minutes flat? that is extremely disciplined. I assume they all use a clock to time it so precisely. 120 seconds.
Well, I would recommend starting some serious exercising. What are you doing ? Lifting weights ? Running ?

If you're into running it would be great to fix some longer term goals, like running a marathon or a trail. I've found that long distance running and everything that goes with it, provides an enormous joy and an overall improvement in life perception. And if you do run, go running in a forest or at least in a park - not in a gym.