skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, they probably want to actually do something instead of being hopeless, so they consider doing something better than nothing even if it's not ideal.

Right, once OV and EV certificates are effectively removed from browsers, users such as myself will no longer have any tool to help ensure we are interacting with the entity intend to be interacting with. It is kind of like getting a cold call from your credit card company saying their has been suspicious activity and they want me to authenticate my account with personal details. I always call the phone number on the back of my physical credit card to ensure someone isn't scamming me.

Rather than removing EV certificates as a concept, I would love to see some experiments run by browser vendors to see how users can more readily understand who they are interacting with. But instead, the solution seems to be to get rid of the only option since it doesn't work in its current incarnation.

> Part of the argument against them is not just that they're ineffective, but also expensive. It's not unreasonable to simply call it snake oil.

I have a hard time understanding this argument. You can purchase an EV cert for $80 a year from NameCheap. The extra cost is because they have people verify that the company details you have provided are valid and that you are an authorized representative of the company. Any company that is more than a solo founder is going to be in dire straights if $80 a year is too much. I mean, are you even going to find a domain name and hosting for less than $80 a year?

In reality though, I don't think much of anyone other than major email providers and financial institutions really need to worry about EV. If a website doesn't have EV, but uses PayPal, I have no qualms. But if I go to long into Fidelity or PayPal and they couldn't be bothered to spent $100 per year to help me ensure I am actually interacting with them, that says a lot to me. I mean, even my small town NH bank has an EV cert. It just makes sense if you are dealing with finances.
> Even if you're a genius and an autodidact, sometimes a little direction, a little mentoring, a little collaboration goes a long way in moving your understanding down the field.

Sometimes this might bind you for the rest of your life to the epicycles of your era.
Eyelevel.ai is hiring a front end dev for Berkeley (maybe remote?)
It should be pretty self-evident why financial aid is tied to family income: to equalize opportunity.
I can't speak for everyone, but I for one am glad about that
He didn't mention which satellites they were, I think he was under the impression they were Russian military satellites. Unfortunately this was all during my lower division courses so I didn't get a chance to work with him. When I was doing my senior project with a different professor we used different types of detectors for gamma ray spectroscopy. The two we had were these little sodium iodide detectors and a larger liquid nitrogen cooled gallium arsenide based detector. Pretty much just chunks of metal or salt that caused Compton scattering and were detected by photon multipliers or single photon counting modules. They often had multiple channels and were not very sensitive.

It's been six years so my memory is kinda fuzzy. >_<
CRISPR in the Classroom
They should, in theory, fine websites that do install cookies before you give consent, or refuse to give sevice that doesn’t strictly require cookies (e.g. an article).
Software ‘Robots’ Power Surging Values for Three Little-Known Startups
I just switched to hosting my own server and using mu4e in emcas.
They are indeed doing a graduation reduction:

> Another part of the program will help students whose family income surpasses the maximum: If their family's income is
between $130,000 and $200,000, they can still get grants covering at least half of their tuition.

Presumably there're more nuanced factors to consider for families with incomes between $130k and $200k beyond what can be expressed by a simple equation.
Totally agree. It's incredible to me that people still do this in the design of all sorts of things. Welfare systems, insurance, etc.
AMP is a feature that users love.

AMP is almost certainly not a feature that users know about, beyond it being a bit faster and breaking stuff.

I absolutely hate being taken to an AMP page instead of a web page, and worse is having no way to say to Google "please don't show me this".
Future robo-taxis could charge themselves and help balance the electric grid
Many urbanites have the entitled attitude that cities should not accommodate people who are not rich enough to live within walkable distances of their job.

Many of the cities in the US that are dense enough to be reasonable walkable/bikable are also incredibly expensive in those areas.
I admire you for taking a stand, and even more for being able to climb into a position where you could pull this off. Kudos.
Agreed. It'd also be nice to see a list of issues you're subscribed to. Here's a fun issue to follow for that - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283
Is this Google getting desparate they will soon be seen as the monolithic behemoth they are already?

AMP will definitely backfire in the hands of Google, but for an open standard the model itself shouldn't be tied to their incentives in such a drastic way.

I know people in the media and publishers who despise everything AMP and would do everything to get away from Google, but they can't due to heavy inertia of creating alternatives in such a tightly controlled market dominated by a single entity that is miles ahead when it comes to resources on all levels.

AMP is pursued by google to kick out competitive third parties from the mobile ecosystem, that's all. It's nothing to be proud of, and doesn't solve a problem except forcing selfish publishers to reconsider their patchwork of dozens third parties cluttering and burdening the user (nowadays consumer).

A true solution is already there - it is called HTML + CSS, and if Google was honest they would simply rank via speed, which they always did. There is simply no problem. The only problem is that Google can't control the types of third party scripts running on the fastest websites, that's why they created a selfish solution to that problem.

Only because something is structurally open source, doesn't make it good, and only because something is open source and structurally governed by multiple entities, doesn't make it a worthwhile endeavour.

This is all about the big players controlling the narrative. Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo and eBay are not better than Google when it comes to letting them define how the web works.
Based on the article, that may very well be what they're doing, and the equation hits 0 at an income below $130,000

If their family's income is between $130,000 and $200,000, they can still get grants covering at least half of their tuition.
> But if you make $130,001/year, you pay thousands?

No. From the article:

> Another part of the program will help students whose family income surpasses the maximum: If their family's income is between $130,000 and $200,000, they can still get grants covering at least half of their tuition.
That's what scholarships are for, no?
To be honest, I've never really marketed myself as a freelancer. That's one of my weak spots.
So here it is, I'm looking for customers with an idea that want a webapplication built. I focus on educational customers.
I'm also for hire writing python code.

After working a couple years with python and going to meetups I started to know some people in the community.
That paid out. First getting a different job. (Thanks Reinout)

One of the people I knew recommended me. That was a part-time gig.
Since then, most customers got a recommendation from someone in my network.

Other freelance jobs were via recruiters. They search mostly on linkedin.

If you've got questions drop me a note.
This is the right answer, In addition I think a CS degree teaches you to how to write algorithms and work experience teaches you to not. And modern practice teaches you to avoid monkeying with array indexes when possible.
I have a few products on AWS marketplace. My biggest complaint with AWS is that there is 0 visibility into conversion metrics as a publisher. You don't know how many times your listing appeared in search, who clicked on it but didn't signup etc. AWS shows ref tag reports, but they only tell you how much traffic you drove to the listing.

Also, optimizing search ranking for your product is hit-and-miss, with no clear guidelines or tips.
And to what extent the hostility of urban environments is due to cars and car-centric planning hostile to human-scale activity? The whole point of new urbanism is creating livable, hospitable urban environments, and usually people-friendliness means car-unfriendliness.

Your generic suburbs have their own problems – massively artificial, claustrophobic rows and rows of almost identical houses, with zero character and nowhere to go without a car.
You are still considered inocent until proofen and found guilty. Which is agood thing IMHO.
What is the cost of starting a business in Poland as a foreigner?
In 1999 I’d been building websites for several years. I learned how to build a “Database driven site with PHP and MySQL” from a SitePoint tutorial. My youngest brother was into making modded cars for Need for Speed 3. I built him a website so people could download the cars.

I showed the site to a neighbor. A few days later, I got an email from the neighbor’s sister’s husband’s cousin, looking for a quote on building a MLS real estate search system. I sent a quote, he accepted, and I’ve been working freelance ever since.

I think all of my customers, over 19 years worth, have been referrals either from people I know, people I’ve volunteered with, or previous customers.

(And both those sites from 1999 are up and working to this day.)
Incidentally, I just wrote another (pretty long) reply mentioning just that. Based on my own very unusual medical history I suspect that maybe you should not want that. Of course I know nothing for sure at all, it's just that observing my own healing process I was pretty much force to conclude that at least sometimes there may be more to a cold than just "a cold", that it may (can sometimes) have an effect that is not just "I happened to be sick for a week", that it actually does something. Even if my own very personal reasons and thoughts turn out to be wrong, what about training of the immune system ("training" is not a good word because what does it even mean, but there must be some feedback effect, surely)? I snot having any little issues at all for decades really good? I think there are endless feedback loops and it's all a lot more mixed and complex. I would be skeptical that such a magic pill would be net positive.
I did something similar during my brief stint.

Also volunteered. I highly recommend United Nations Online Volunteers. I cannot recommend this enough:

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Otherwise, it was probing friends for connections. For instance, I had friends who worked in bakeries and restaurants (advantage of living downtown in an urban city), and I offered services to their managers or business owners. Often it would get whittled down to me offering the service for free before they accepted.

Once you have a [relevant] portfolio going, then it becomes easier to approach like businesses. I never sold to large clients so I can't comment there.

Another good place to look is survey your local sports and other non-profit organizations and determine whether you think you could offer them something improved upon what they currently have for web or other operational tools.

You'll get shot down a lot—especially at first, so don't let it get to you. It can be a bit of a slog at the start.

I'll add that if you're currently working full-time, then stay that way and start on the side. At least while you build up a portfolio, etc.

If you're just exiting school or have some personal financial runway of any kind then that changes things, but I can't tell you what to do there.
> Portugal aside

And -the republic of- Ireland! A "timezone" border to be added to the one already introduced by Brexit
WeWork is, in no small part, a tech company.
yeah, wellcome to the club. i am making software for 30 years, and... IMHO, although last 10 years might have been worst, in terms of bloat and inefficiency and dont-cares-ness, it's not just that. That's a result.. It's more like IT industry as such is trying to grow for the sake of growing. At any price. Much like a lot of other industries and/or institutions, trying to exist for the sake of existing.
And they will.. as long as there are users of.. "Each train has its passengers, the saying goes."
tl;dr - Nietzsche was the result of his times when it comes to women.

I believe many people here have differentiated opinions. There wouldn't be a ban because you e.g. quote the bible, although it has some really misogynistic lines, especially if you want to challenge opinions in an intellectually challenging way. Many people are open for discussions - I mean, 80% of HN's value stems from being a platform where you can procrastinate easily.

http://nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedrich-nietzsche/beyon...
Gmail itself will be the Google Inbox replacement. They will integrate some missing Inbox features. Instead of panicking I would use inbox till the end and give Google some time... hopefully they will integrate the bundles in Gmail before shutting Inbox down.
Now class, please remember. You don’t need a decentralized ledger to store a record of a centralized entity. How many times do we have to go through this?

Of cause you could make a blockchain based decentralized SaaS cloud service using Crispr to disrupt the established dogmas! You know to secure funding for your sure to become a unicorn startup.
That would be a train, essentially. Nothing wrong with that - but some of the stakeholders would need to eat crow. That could prove problematic, as some actors have doubled down
on the "full autonomy real soon now™".
Seen people do this on the Thames although they are asking for trouble. We even have 1400 tonnes of explosives just waiting to explode at the entrance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery?wprov=sf...

> According to a BBC news report in 1970,[12] it was determined that if the wreck of Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1,000-foot-wide (300 m) column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) into the air and generate a wave 16 feet (5 m) high. Almost every window in Sheerness (pop. circa 20,000) would be broken and buildings would be damaged by the blast. However, news reports in May 2012 (including one by BBC Kent) stated that the wave could be about 4 feet (1 m) high, which although lower than previous estimates would be enough to cause flooding in some coastal settlements.
Huh. And I thought ASMR made sleep vids - rain sounds on a tent was my favorite.

But considering how making unverifiable claims seems to be so effective nowadays, it doesn't surprise me much anymore.

I pity those caught in the whirlwind. Let's hope sanity returns soon.
How does it equalize opportunity? 130K a year with a family is solidly middle class, maybe even on the lower end in some communities. They are likely not going to be paying for tuition, meaning it will get punted as student debt. This is punishment for children who were so absurd as to have two working parents more than 'equalizing'.
Yayy. Elon fan boys unite!
> ... and those countries have a right to implement those decisions for their people on the Internet ...

No, they do not. One's natural rights do not disappear just because one happens to be living under a regime which fails to acknowledge them. When an American talks about the freedom of speech, they're talking about a right shared by every human being on this planet, not just the ones who happen to live in the USA. It is a matter of objective fact, not opinion or local preference, that the use of force, including fines, imprisonment, etc., is not a proportional response to mere speech, regardless of the content.
pProbably organizing the business as a corporation. Among other things, incorporation means individuals no longer personally liable.
> "he would prefer that skeptics stay quiet and stop trying to ruin his company's valuation."

Yes, as would any company. He went public. He should have known better. If he looking for unconditional love then the stock market is not the place.

I don't think Musk is a bad guy. Torn, tired and confused ATM but not a bad guy. Unconventional thinkers + doers always come with some baggage. It's part of the profile. However, in this case, he should have kept his mouth shut and channeled that energy into proving the nay-sayers wrong.
I write a lot online about machine learning (especially for a broad audience). I don't do it intentionally as a marketing strategy, but people researching those topics naturally read what I write and some email to ask if I can help them with their projects. That leads to connections and sometimes to new projects. That's the best way to market other than just meeting people and networking.

The real skill you have to develop is who to say "no" to. One good customer can keep you busy for a year and pay really well. 500 bad customers with small projects and small budgets can require 500x the work and result in less overall money.

I got my first customer that way and most of my best customers that way. But once you get a couple of customers and do a good job, that naturally leads to more work and other opportunities through word of mouth.

Another strategy that has worked for friends is to contract part-time for a place they used to work that needs temporary help. One friend made nearly his full-time salary working half-time doing this. That left him with the other half of his time to work on his other projects.

One other strategy that works well in a big city is to go work in a shared office like a WeWork. It's easy to meet people that way just through proximity and end up doing projects together or get new leads.
No - this isn't equal opportunity, it's equal outcome. The outcome mandated is college admission.

True equal opportunity would grant aid on a merit system. Unless your argument is that familial wealth impacts merit, which I'd like to see evidence of, it's the fairer way to administer aid.
The largest local drug store chain, CVS, sells stamps. Generally, though, I buy them at the post office, which seldom has long lines.
I appreciate that you're sympathetic to concerns, especially the last one. However I don't think it helps to frame other concerns so negatively.

And tbh I don't think open governance addresses most people's concerns although it is a move that can be supported on its own merit.
Initially I assumed this was going to be about how nuclear tests were 'self-declassifying' since all the bomb components, test fixtures and equipment, the tower it was mounted on etc. would be completely vaporized in the explosion, so there was nothing left to classify as secret. Except for that one embarassing time when the UCRL device in test Upshot-Knothole Ruth[0] fizzled and failed to destroy the steel tower it was detonated on...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot%E2%80%93Knoth...
I don’t think this is going to affect my opinion of google one way or another, but coming so short on the heels of a bunch of controversy, I have to wonder at their motivations.
Contrary to that anecdote, Jersey City (across the Hudson river from Manhattan), created a no-car zone near one of its busier subway stops and what was once a dead-zone after 8pm is now an extremely vibrant place filled with bars, restaurants and shops.

Proximity to mass transit and having density that already discourages driving helps.
Thank you. If things go according to expectations, I might get to the front of the kidney list in 3-4 years.
Disagree, slow the cars down. I've seen good results with "road diets" where 4-lane roads are converted to two lanes for cars and more space for bike lanes and center turning lanes. Also, adding pedestrian activated lights to stop cars.
maybe the last iPhone review you ever need to read?
I wonder what the distribution of parental income is of the students at Rice that they can offer such generous grants. Even with a household income between $130-200k, they're offering at least half off tuition. An income of $200k+ is well over the 90th percentile of households.
The smoothest way to get started is to transition from employee to contractor, bringing your employer or some loyal clients (if at an agency) with you into your new independent venture.

This provides some even ground to help the bills get paid while you explore the growth techniques that will work best for you.

That's what I did.

I worked for years in a contracting firm, and -- with their blessing -- took a couple long-term clients out with me. It was easier for me to keep working with them than to force a transition.

To gather new clients, I also identified a specialty/niche, created a clear brand for myself, and started marketing it in the places my potential clients would look. It really helps to narrow things down this way in the beginning, so you can have some focus in your pursuit of clients.

Over time, growth became more word of mouth and holding to the niche became less important. When new clients are referred to me now, I just assess whether it's work I want and sell them on it.
Ah, that’s a fair point. I read it as facial recognition tying into the card stored in the system.
> Much like a lot of other industries and/or institutions, trying to exist for the sake of existing.

You've just described the purpose of literally every life form.
> Windows 10 takes 30 minutes to update. What could it possibly be doing for that long?

Backing up the old Windows folder, decompressing (I guess downloadable updates use something very efficient in terms of compression like lzma), and probably some sleep() — I guess the update being slower makes users feel like it's something substantial.

> Android system with no apps takes almost 6 Gb

That "System" figure is the size of all partitions that aren't data. Quite a lot of that is literally wasted space.
Army Contractor Convicted: Cyber-Sabotage Highlights Reality of Insider Threats
Until the asbestos is disturbed by some accident and now everyone around has been exposed to it, like dropping a heavy object on a floor tile.
> combination of terrible content from Facebook, the comments from Twitter

This just shows how little you actually use or understand Reddit. I'm not sure what I'd do without subs like r/economics, r/badeconomics, r/math, r/learnmath, r/programming, r/<insert programming language here>, any number of friendly and welcoming fetish communities (that aren't just about posting porn), r/fitness, r/keto, r/running, r/weightlifting, etc.

Reddit is just an unrivaled, incredible place where information is gathered and opinions can be shared and support given.
Ranking based on speed was launched this July https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-i...
I have no issue with that. I just don't like being labeled a racist.