skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree the sync thing was overblown. A website's cookies and the internal functionality of the browser are conceptually very different and (up to now) well differentiated concepts. Mixing them up and blurring the lines between them is just a portal to confusion of the average user, who is already confused enough.

I fear that changes like this will eventually make it impossible to effectively explain to an average user even the basics of how the web works.
Sure, and not just survivor bias but creative rationalizing after the moment passed. We put a positive spin on bad decisions or situational decisions beyond one's control. No one can deny doing this but can at least try to be honest about how much control one had.
It shouldn't matter but if I read English text with all the third-person "s" missing I somehow assume the worst.

And it is a bit strange their English is mostly correct and then they make this mistake consistently. Maybe not a mistake?
Mozilla don't have access to your data even with Sync turned on! They've confirmed it multiple times this week.

One more reason to go with Firefox.
Flattening the ROR and RRX special cases seems pretty straightforward to me as well. That's why I thought that the punch line was at the end of the post though:

ror r0, #0

gets assembled to

mov r0, r0.

I see how both are nops and assume they affect state congruently, but why is one nop encoding preferred over another? Does the architecture do something desirable when encountering the MOV incarnation vs. any other?
Buying one way ticket to Thailand, leaving Eastern Europe and becoming a digital nomad when I was 24. I'm 29 now and looking to make a home base somewhere in Europe after 5 years of traveling, but the personal growth, people I've met and experiences during this time were invaluable.
Are you worried about Brexit - IBs potentially leaving the UK if passporting rights are lost?
Pretty bad in my experience. Also traffic scene is pathetic down here so that makes Google Maps even more indispensable. Add to fact that they did a good months long round of ads here on everything including Google Maps hoarding all around the city.
IMO syncing the state of your user account between devices is the responsibility of the OS, not the browser.
French expat in Australia here. In Australia, it is about what you can do, not about what piece of paper you carry with you that matters when getting a job.

I looked at job boards the other day to see what kind of role somebody like me could get in France: As a senior dev, good luck getting more than 60K gross per year in Paris with the rents starting at 1k per month for a 1 bedroom apartment in a shitty district!
The diner capital of the world
Predictive Analytics for Business Users Can Help You Plan
You can buy bonds with credit, and that is limited by risk, as you say.

That's why banks like deposits, they are cheap, and thus they can lend out cheaper.
This resonates with me so much. I am currently trying to do the same.
There isn't really any server, it's based on p2p / device to device log syncing.
I didn't get rid of it, it's just not mapped to my home key anymore and isn't otherwise used.
Ask HN: Which Personalisation as a Service API would you recommend?
I'm building an app called TMinus, that helps you discover things to look forward to (e.g Movie releases, Concerts etc).

I would want to help every user with a personalised experience. Is there a Personalisation As A Service API that you would recommend for the app?
Because size (and complexity) directly correlate with cost. So unless fusion can enable cost reduction elsewhere, if the nuclear island is inherently larger, more complex, and hence more expensive than in a fission plant, power from it will be more expensive than from a fission plant. And in that case, why would any utility want one? New and risky (in the sense of having a significant chance of not working as well as hoped) technologies like fusion will be adopted only if they are significantly less expensive than more proven alternatives.

The size and complexity also directly affect reliability. There is more to go wrong in a fusion reactor than in a fission reactor, and repairing anything there will be difficult because hands-on work will be impossible.
Friend and I are fairly obsessed with "older" Dodge diesel trucks.

By older, I mean early 90s. They have tripled in value in the last decade.

Very minimal electronics (has an ECU, cruise control, power doorlocks and windows), and easy to work on.

You can also buy salvaged Tesla parts and make your own vehicle...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/videos/a30305/this-...
> The cookies thing could be seen as a bug: the button does remove the cookies, but because your google sign in state is now tied to the browser sign in state, new cookies will immediately be set.

Then maybe tying the Google state to the browser state was a mistake and should be reverted?
Trump may be an aberration but the people that voted for him are not.
i think you're referring simply to the warp zones, which are accessible with normal jumps. With wall clipping you don't go on top the wall, you go through it. See 1:10 and 2:04 on his video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gum4GI2Jr0s
Discover the Streets of Paris Through the 'Eyes' of Tesla Autopilot
> I can't think of an example where auto playing audio without user interaction is a good idea anyway.

Ringtones/notification sounds for a communication app.

User is (almost always) logged in from previous session, just opens tab and (because he was never before asked to do anything else) opens another tab with facebook/jira/news/whatever.

It's small-ish UX breakage in niche use case, but it is still valid and will cause our app problems (dev time and worse UX).

(btw NO permission system for this is available or even planned when you look at the chromium bug tracker)
I wrote a doctorate in Applied Mathematics. The process totally transformed how I think about problems, helped me develop a lot more mathematical maturity, and got me my first job in a then obscure field called "machine learning".

It's certainly not the right choice for many people, but it was for me.
I have to check how does it work with multiple Google accounts. This is silly.

Anyway, I just spend 30 minutes searching for Firefox Add-ons replacements for my Chrome Add-ons and I am pleasantly surprised. A new era begins!
Unifying our fragmented health data requires a common storage repository
I'm also in Ireland and I've also found that a majority of jobs are as you say -- Java, .NET and frontend roles. I work primarily with PHP (three years industry experience) but there are only a fraction of positions available for it and so I've been tempted to step in to contracting, especially as the idea of working more independently really appeals to me.

I have the same assumption in that I've always seen it as a pipe-dream at the moment and that I'll need another five years plus and additional languages under my belt before I'm worthy of even considering contracting, so it's refreshing to hear that this is not the case! I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience in making that step to contracting, and how you felt yourself 'ready' for it.
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
spent quite a long time doing it

Seems to help with the grieving process for me. Meticulously digging the perfect hole, gently putting down the cat, last look, fill the hole, plant a tree on top.

Way better than for the bigger animals which aren't allowed to be burried: those have to be put near the street covered in a blanket and if you're unfortunate you look out of the window while the animal gets picked up. Don't feel like describing what it looks like, but it's a memory which unfortunately lasts.
I follow the Seinfeld "don't break the chain" (duckduckgo it).

I do actually break the chain if:

- I'm ill

- I'm overseas

I might change the latter.
For me, multitasking. There is a lot of stuff you can get done while just listening to something.
CppCon 2018: Bjarne Stroustrup, “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming”
Well, I'm no expert. And you didn't give much concrete detail. But what you say reminds me of women who can't be happy with themselves because not as beautiful/slim as the women in magazines. Which seems like a lot of women. You're happy, with a family, career, health - what more could you want - and still, similarly, feel 'not good enough'. I guess it's common enough on here and in the tech world, the glamour of..well, it's money, isn't it, mega-riches. And I doubt that makes you happy. Like 'everyone' wants to be famous, but that seems like hell on earth. People are worried about their privacy now! Wait till you're rich/famous...

Maybe learn to appreciate what you have? It's really not easy to do, easier to forget to do, easier to appreciate what's gone. Don't forget to do what you love doing.

Also, maybe 'thinking big' itself will jeopardize your retirement/family's future, who knows, but it seems to happen as often as not.

My first instinct was to write "Stop saying you can't!", but after reading all you wrote, I thought this might be more helpful. Good luck!
Learn to build Enterprise grade AI chatbot for businesses
Don't forget replacing all G logins with custom ones to various places. https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
Should have read the article, whoops. Thanks for the correction!
Well, most people. I use it to sync between laptop, tablet and smartphone.
Ironically, from the article itself, this automatic sign in will not turn sync on automatically. This is probably the most confusing decision that can be.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Show HN: What I Learned Writing a Hacker News Clone
I was an early instagram adopter and have definitely felt my feelings change to it over the last 2 years. It's gone from being excited to check my feed to a sense of dread.

Used to be something I'd do up to 10 times a day, now sometimes once a week and when I do I often intentionally avoid the feeds and just search for specific people I want to see because I don't want to see what a lot of people I follow that I know IRL are doing.
Is this sarcasm or are these advices overkill?
Folder Lock 7.7.6 with Serial Key {Tested} – SoftCracX
OYO raises $1B funding in India
I found this talk just amazing comparing APL with 'normal languages' from the first principles, Macro - Micro, Transparency - Abstraction, Idioms - Libraries, Data - Control Flow, Structure - Names, Concision - Verbosity, Implicit - Explicit, Syntax - Semantics.

https://confengine.com/functional-conf-2017/proposal/4620/de...
A bit of a side note, but we should avoid saying things like "not sure why people are surprised" or similar, like in a few other comments.

It is true that Google has done this several times over, but we shouldn't normalize it as nothing new, move on. We should still call it out each and every time we see it, even if we are repeating ourselves. Also, what might be obvious to our community is not to those outside, which in the end are the majority.
Been annoyed about this for a long time. Google still knows about my home address as I have that label set in my Google Maps settings, it just won't let me use it unless I allow them to track all my search history. Wtf. Evil design pattern for sure.
By objectifying your actions as soon as you realize you're doing your habit and taking a minute to let those feelings pass.
The World's Trains in Real-Time
> To us, it's clear that chrome sign-in is different from google sign-in, but to others, it may not be.

But the fact that they are different things is precisely the reason why they should remain separate, not conflated into one soggy, confusing mess.
Java SE 11: The Great Removal
Here is the summary of the judgement - https://www.livelaw.in/aadhaar-read-the-summary-of-majority-...
As dumb as it sounds... that's kind of what their actions are indicating. :(
Google and Microsoft continue to unfairly push their browsers, Vivaldi CEO says
Show HN: Deezload – download and sync songs from Deezer
With a blog named “The Keyword” is there any surprise they want to be AOL?
why do we trust them when they say this, when we don't trust google when they say it?
Quitting medicine faculty and attending to CS. Oh man, that was a game changer move...
I am very early in my career and would like to do something similar. Can you elaborate on how the travel experience benefited you professionally?
It's far more than a simple fudge factor. It says that there is matter with mass, affecting other matter via gravity, but no other interactions seem possible with it. That is a sound, almost complete theory with some unknowns around why it doesn't otherwise interact, what it actually is.

Dark matter also explains certain gravitational lensing phenomenon, aspects of the CMB, from mass location during galactic collisions (and more).

Other theories can possibly explain one or some of those observations, but nothing does a good job (or a simple one) of explaining them all.

Dark matter is real enough to make verifiable predictions in other places. Other theories don't.
Ah, classic condescending hackernews.
Oracle’s Java 11 trap
Does stacker generate a new set of APIs for each project? Does it have a base set of API objects/endpoints that are used across projects? Is there some mix of both?
Or maybe it's just Google making a lot of misguided decisions for their anniversary release.
Get married and have kids. They are my biggest inspiration for all successes that I have.
I remember reading this elsewhere and the russian official was quoted in the lines of "It felt wrong cause if you wanna launch nukes, you launch them by the hundreds".
Research says women may be able to buy abortion pills on mobile
>8-channel Cyton system

that's the interesting bit, because they got the results on a portable, consumer-grade device
It’s not the result of data they have but the other way around.
This seems like a cool, real-world use of the technology.
Fortunately, the EU is starting to do something about that: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17580694/google-android-e...
CppCon 2018: Mark Elendt: Patterns and Techniques Used in Houdini 3D Graphics
I quit my job in big-law and set out to crack a problem I have seen so often during my previous career.

I liked my previous job, it was interesting and demanding. But being my own boss has taught me a lot as well: I have learned new skills, I have met a lot of people I probably wouldn't have got in touch with in the previous job, and I learned a lot about myself. On most days I wake up feeling that some new discoveries are out there for me... Until now, this journey is very rewarding.
thanks for submitting us :)
The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar (2015)
The EU can only work with what it is given, Trump plainly hates the EU, you can't have an open and positive relationship with someone who hates you. Regardless of what anyone else in America thinks, Trump as President has the power to unilaterally sour the EU/US relationship and he is doing that quite effectively with his policies. Yes if America elects someone who is not openly hostile towards the EU then the relationship will recover but a lot of trust has been lost.
How leaves talk to roots
* Ajahn Amaro Talks

* Hardcore History

* Indie Hackers

* Joe Rogan Experience

* Waking Up - Sam Harris

* Tangentally Speaking

* Your Moms House
KDE Neon Rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver”
Coinbase is implementing Facebook's platform strategy
Maps is insanely laggy on my Xiaomi Redmi note 4x. THis is with the performance kernel configuration on with GPU running 100%. Its just horribly optimised and has so much clutter now.

Does anyone know a decent alternative? (please don't say waze)
I feel the same way, and it makes me sad. I was so bullish on Google when I first got a job and investing my savings, bought into the company when it was still Google. I thought the rebrand to Alphabet was a good idea like everything Google, though their abandonment of 'Don't be Evil' planted the first seed of doubt. What made that doubt grow was that I use Youtube as a customer and... well. I'm sure you've seen the same decline.

I finally divested this Spring after giving Google six months to come out with something that would reawaken my old optimism. Besides coming out with a mean go engine, all the news out of Google in that time was depressing.

I'm frankly surprised at how easily a true believer like myself could do a one-eighty in their opinion of the company. I know there's a possibility that they turn this thing around and I look foolish, but they'd have to do that without my cheerleading.
> > how do you distribute the ECC sensibly? you can't.

> I am not an expert on ECC. Are you saying that you can't store the ECC just anywhere?

Well, you can put it "just anywhere", but /where/ you put it determines /what failure types/ you can recover from.

> Just storing it alongside the data is not good enough? Why does ECC need special treatment?

If you want to recover from bitrot, then putting the ECC data for a sector alongside the data in the same sector is sufficient (you'll have less bytes stored per sector, but if a bit flips, you can recover the original data).

But, storing the ECC in the same sector with the data it protects will not protect against losing the entire sector (drive can't read whole sector error). In this instance both the data and the ECC is lost simultaneously, so the ECC can not help here if it is also lost at the same time. So if you want to protect against loss of a sector you need your ECC stored somewhere else (i.e., on a different sector that is unlikely to be correlated to the lost one in a failure situation) so that you still have the ECC available when the sector you are protecting goes away.

But, if you are protecting against loss of an entire physical drive, then the ECC for the drive needs to be on another physical drive (same reasons apply as for a "sector", just at the level of a whole physical disk).

It is all tradeoffs. You /can/ put it anywhere, but where you choose to store it determines which failure types you can recover from.
I risked everything and took a leap of faith.
I didn't know that was still going. They had a brief stint on TV a few years ago.
I know but I also find this is the perfect name for this project (the goal of analytics is to discover signal in the noise, privacy oriented like the messenger app) so I don't want to exclude all names already associated to existing projects and restrict to some weird or badly orthographed names
That could be related to how Google maps shows political borders depending on what county you are from.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3058283/why-google-maps-shows-yo...
I must give Microsoft credit too actually. I've spoken with them 3 times over home licensing of windows. Each time they were very quick and thorough in sorting the issue.

In fact, during one of the last big windows 10 updates something failed for me in carrying the license over and they took time to investigate the incident in order to determine how to prevent it again for future updates.

the thing that surprised me was they _cared_ that something was wrong and were _interested_ in fixing to and preventing it happening again. Been a while since I dealt with a company that did that.

Actually, thinking about it I should probably switch to companies that do care about this stuff.
While this is an interesting idea, I'm not sure such an approach is going to work long term. This establishes that nothing outside of the project has an impact on the project itself. To make a rather extreme example (Godwin says hi), if Hitler picked up coding, a code-of-merit based project wouldn't object to him contributing to it, while most of the code of conducts I've seen would not. So it really comes down to: where do we draw the line?
How old gaming console used to work
WhatsApp Isn't the Cuplrut in India's Mob Violence
This is a solution searching for a problem. Is a relational database really not sufficient for this?
as long as openjdk remains open i dont mind
There was that one time when /pol/ gathered information that lead to a russian airstrike on some faction in syria.
This just isn't true. Recently there was a Super Meat Boy cheater who was discovered due to analysis of a persistent animation across the game that wasn't lining up due to video cuts.

Pretty flimsy system (and far from "solved"), and it lets cheaters steal glory for the months or years it takes to catch them which threatens the legitimacy of the sport past a critical mass.

Moderators/judges are on the wrong side of a trapdoor function because of the amount of analysis it may take to verify a single video, and they aren't professionals in the field of video analysis.

I don't see how "all progression" is relevant here since you don't need to be a streamer to speedrun much less to submit a well-doctored video with a time that beats other people.
Yes, opt-in is the beginning, middle and end of the problem here. Google has plenty of tools to inform users of these capabilities and allow them to turn them on or off. I wouldn't even mind if they nagged me a couple of times with a pop-up about browser log in, or a confirmation that I want to keep or delete Google cookies. But on-by-default features have a special responsibility to be conservative with a user's privacy.

I actually value and use sync. Google sees most of by browsing through page-hosted GA anyway! But at best, this was really lazy product management that smacks of condescension about less technical users (don't worry your head about these cookies). And at worst, it's testing the waters on some really nefarious strategies.
Currenting using samsung health and google fit for most of my data, but actual medical data linkage is harder till fda approvals i bet.
> Godwin says hi

That escalated pretty quickly.
i.e. Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. Thank you, will check it out.
In the US the government tracks everybody, and they're probably better at it than in the UK. Remember Snowden? He didn't work at Google. Both the government and opportunistic companies track everything they can.
Science Says Toxic Masculinity – More Than Alcohol – Leads to Sexual Assault
Will this idiotic mind-virus never die?
I think the larger issue is the culture that not only thought that these changes were OK in the first place but also thought the sneaky manner in which they were rolled out was OK too.

Trust and good will are finite resources Google. There will be no switching back. The horse has already left the barn.
Wow. This is an amazing piece of investigative journalism and probably one of the reasons we should all be supporting an independent media.
Why is a blockchain required for this? Why can't a single party keep this information?
I'm interested as well, but I wonder, how early can you start (career experience wise or age wise)? I'm happy to email you if it's fine and requires a longer answer
He also streams, usually MTPO runs. Had the good fortune to be present for a WR not too long ago which was pretty exciting.
I guess they're using hyperledger?
What does a blockchain offer in this case that submitting a line to some sort of B2B logging API where the logs are made public (like certificate transparency) doesn't?
If it needs to be verified, a camera on his hands would be enough for experts to be able to see that. Also if the inputs are visualised on screen.
Uber/Cabify offer free rides in Spain today in protest at government plan
This looks pretty neat, kinda like a flatpack build-your-own app. Can you use it with custom backend APIs?
Yeah, it was in this article too:

> Petrov's decision was based partly on a guess, he recalled. He had been told many times that a nuclear attack would be massive – an onslaught designed to overwhelm Soviet defenses at a single stroke. But the monitors showed only five missiles. "When people start a war, they don't start it with only five missiles," he remembered thinking at the time. "You can do little damage with just five missiles."