skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now for something else to help make sure we never escape the Imposter Syndrome. "What if my learned skills aren't _really_ down pat? Maybe I am an imposter after all!"

An interesting article for sure; I don't know how to switch between erring on the side of "keep yourself humble, don't fall into the trap of Expert Beginner" as referenced in this article, vs. "don't have yet another existential crisis, you are not an imposter and can do your job".
What language's mature codebases do you find particularly easy to inspect or change?
I don't dislike a video format. I dislike terrible usability, and arrogant cliquish developers who refuse to even acknowledge there is a problem: not just fail to focus on it, but actually make ridiculous flippant insincere arguments that it's not a problem, in their consistent efforts to brush off repeated valid bugs reports that they get frequently from many different users, and steadfastly refuse to do anything about every single time.

And it's not a matter of anime fans being better at filing bugs. As I said, I filed some very detailed bugs, with step-by-step instructions to prove there was a problem, and they were flippantly dismissed and ignored.

At least Apple had the decency to acknowledge the universally held opinion that the QuickTime 4.0 player SUCKED, and they fixed.
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I'm sure that's just trolling, but I'll try one more time.

Do men have bosses that extort sex from them for normal business rights? Routinely? E.g. Do men get promotion withheld because the VP's spouse doesn't want the VP alone in the same room with another man?

Its easy to dismiss the constant, exhausting pressure women endure that men don't. Its not about simple pressure; its about endless harassment, constant digs and criticism, routine assumption that a women doesn't deserve her success or position.
Despite all the corny acting in their in-game dialogue, if they released a movie based on C&C, I would definitely go watch it.
I think even a lot of people who were adults at the time have trouble appreciating just how different things were just 20 years ago. There were no smart phones. Online shopping was very new; I think my first Amazon order was only in 1997 or so. A lot of people were still skeptical about a credit card for mail order catalogs for that matter. Email was still far from universal. Etc.
I'll be honest the downvotes confuse me. HN has a very prevalent habit of whenever something is posted - a newsworthy item, a new startup, or whatever - many of the top-level comments are people just listing off things that may be tangentially related. Especially if the article is about some obscure tool or product you'll fine a dozen top-level comments just linking to other obscure tools or products in the same niche, or completely unrelated ones with the same homepage design, or completely unrelated ones that use the same tech stack, or something to that effect.

The article is about Myanmar so unless there is something interesting about the fact that Russia is doing sort-of-the-same-thing-but-not-really things, it's not really relevant, is it?
Unlikely. A Sikh's headdress is their uncut hair wrapped in cloth, so the size and structure of that is very variable. It's not feasible to make a helmet that fits over that without leaving a lot of space, and space makes helmets ineffective.
Electronics

* The Commodore Amiga
* The Pebble smartwatch

Food

* Yonett Yoghurt (Hungarian)
BCC is probably disabled to discourage you from using mandrill for mass/marketing emails.
Are there any good XMPP clients that provide a "modern" messenger experience? For example seamlessly switching between online/offline mode, built in audio and video calls, sharing photos/videos.
I just built me a new pc. First one in 15 years. I used to tinker with Linux a lot at that time.

Ubuntu 18.4: Hangouts screen share doesn't work, WiFi dies after resuming from sleep, and other minor things.

It has been 15 years and it still feels clumsy ... I was not impressed.
I welcome it because I came to the HN discussion primarily to discuss the broader topics.

Note the parent comment's lack of "It's okay because ..."

It's not okay. And it's not whataboutism.
If I understand what you're proposing you want to store the entire articles themselves in the blockchain. That indeed offers many benefits but it's also prohibitively expensive. In practice people will only store small hashes in the tree which can be then used to authenticate offline data. That means that you need somebody to archive that offline data to really make sense of the signed data so you have exactly the issues that you're describing if nobody cares to do it.

The fact that storing data on the blockchain is expensive is also not an optimization problem that can be solved easily with incremental optimizations, it stems from the fact that the data is transferred and mirrored forever on thousands of nodes. If storing data on the blockchain was cheap you'd quickly run into scalability problem. People who run Blockchain nodes don't want to mirror Wikipedia, the output of all the world's newspaper and child porn archives on their servers.
>Such as the 99.9% of human knowledge that isn't politically objectionable to the CCP?

So without Google the chinese people can't access the internet?
Or you imply that Google is the only search engine that can find things?

Do Chinese people need Google or Google needs the Chinese people?
You can use Pidgin as an IRC client and I'm sure with the OTR plugin you could have some E2E convo with someone else.
Just downvote/flag and move on, this type of comment does not belong here.
Maybe not opposed to any language.
As someone who works with Germans, you sign a non-aggression agreement, and then pow - double cross!
Preposterous. There's no feedback from the bottom line to executive salaries. No 'market rate'.
Look at the gender ratio in tech. Look at the survey released yesterday about how many female YC founders have been harassed. You are benefiting from your gender by being in tech. That doesn't mean that there are no successful women in tech or that every man in tech is a bro. Its a macro take on the industry
Does anyone know what supports E2E encrypted video? (Great doc btw)
Seconded! Also play with assembly language for a small CPU, even in an emulator. Doing assembly in the 68k and Z80 really helped me grok computers. Even the old assembly makes super CPUs of today more understandable.
Its only irresponsible if they actually sell anything that doesn't work. So far what the offer is fine for what it is. People who don't want to wait can get their money back at any time.
Quite the contrary.

The interior quote contains no information. The description provides no way to distinguish the results from a protocol of "we're making this shit up as we go along." For a field that is rife with quackery, any serious scientific study should be going to pains to distinguish it from quackery.
Two questions:

1) You honestly believe Google couldn't create better connections between the Chinese internet and the Anglo internet?

2) Could you give me a link to English Baidu?

Oh, sorry, bonus question:

3) Do you consider this fragmentation to be a positive?
You should check out bravos: https://bravos.co/

The interface is great, and it was started by people that really miss Google Finance.
I'll take it a step back to the PowerMac G3, not for any technical reason but just for the look of the damn things. Those candy Macs were beautiful and colour choices abundant. I really wish the anodized colours from the iPod Nano line would have been extended to the mainline aluminum Macs. :(
I agree we should be divesting from centralized data management for the reasons you stated.
The parent poster also had a good point, though. If the public is going to bend over at every crisis and lose rights, how long until residential customers can only hook approved walled-garden devices up to the internet, with no true privacy respecting tools permitted in their app stores?
Are google actions transparent to the Shareholders?
As you explained they elect the board they do not vote on do we do this imoral thing or not. I imagine some could consider that the short profits will not be good enough if the downside is the Google image getting even worse and long terms profits will fall.
Is not competition considered "a good thing"?
Ask HN: How to download Windows Server 2016 Build 1709?
I bought Windows Server 2016 and installed build 1607. Thinking there was some update to get Windows Services For Linux. It turns out what WSL is only available in build 1709.

1709 has been out since October 2017 and it seems you can only obtain it as a volume license customer. Is this true? If I download the latest eval version from Microsoft.com it is build 1607 too.

Can anyone shed some light on this? I bought a key for nothing I think.
> You're not ensuring their safety by forcing them to wear helmets

You _may not be_ ensuring. The data for cyclists may very well not extrapolate to motorcyclists.

> I disagree with the premise that we need to make such decisions for people

Interesting! I think ensuring citizen safety _is_ something the state should be (in part) responsible for, and history has shown that people are often too ignorant of the risks to do it through education alone. Do you also disagree with regulation requiring seatbelts?
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Alarming study shows massive insect loss
That's pretty loaded. Try to reformulate it with less of your own bias.
Why must we follow something all the way to its logical conclusion? We can choose where to draw the line. Requiring helmets is a reasonable compromise.

Eliminating all risk is unrealistic.
I think the question was asking about "intellectual" not "an intellectual", which seem rather different things.
How to Value a Mobile App?
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You'd think that we'd have a modern version of such a thing, wouldn't you?

Closest modern analogue I can think of is the "console" tab in the browser "developer tools" window. Still stuck with a host OS and JavaScript though...
Nice, I always admired Ursula for being strict on political views yet very sensible in her writings.
When you take a high-valuation (compared to market) from any VC you set the expectation for the next round.

Whenever you raise you should always consider the valuation you'll be aiming for at the following round and the metrics needed to achieve it and whether they're achievable.
The roadtrip part is smaller part of the Oddysey (maybe 30% definitely less then half), most of that is politics at home and getting control of the house. It is much different then other example of the narrative structure listed as examples of hero's journey.
> It's rule by people who use the brand "communist", but they aren't actually communists in any meaningful sense, not even as in what the word meant to the Soviets. China is very authoritarian, but it is not communist or even socialist.

What does this even mean? The government and the people who run it are the direct political descendants of Mao and the Communists who overthrew the Chinese government in the '40s. They are Communists. Full stop. If the people who call themselves "Communist" and have run the most populous nation in the world for the last 75 years can't be the very definition of "communist," then words have no meaning.
There is an awful lot of "might" in that article.

Not disagreeing with it on face value, mind you, but the actual research basically states that you can't just start exercising... you have to already been exercising (and not even all that much, like, ~5000 steps ~= 2 miles a day, some HIIT (less is more) + low rep heavy weight lifting one or twice a week) benefit from this.

So, all of us who are in our 30s now? The time is now.

Also, re: weight lifting, try to target all of your muscle groups right. Don't be the guy who skips leg day, don't be the guy who has a shitty core and is trying to squat 250+. Guys like Jeff Cavaliere are who to look at on how to do this right.
1. I agree.

2. What technical solutions would be better at fending off these kinds of propaganda attacks?

I am trying to figure out, for example, whether Reddit is more or less susceptible. As far as I can tell, individual subreddits do better and worse based on their members, moderation, voting policies, and scale.
I understand the point you're making, but I still stand by my opinion. Software that goes out of its way to subvert the wishes of the user is defective, malicious, or both.
Should TV Drug Ads Be Forced to Include a Price? Trump's Team Says Yes
Thanks @cedricziel for posting our good news. Here's some more information.

Hetzner Online will soon be offering a new cloud product, Hetzner Cloud Volumes, to the public. Hetzner Cloud Volumes offer highly available and reliable storage space for Hetzner Cloud servers.

Today, Hetzner announced that users can participate in the month-long beta test and use Volumes to scale up the storage on their Hetzner Cloud servers. For the beta test, participants can use up to 10 Volumes, each with a maximum of 100 GB.

Since each Hetzner Cloud server allows users to mount as many as five Volumes, this tool will allow participants to quickly grow your storage by creating new Volumes within seconds.

When the beta test is over, users will continue to have access to their Volumes. A Volume will cost only €0.04/GB per month. So 100 GB will cost users a €4.00 a month. The minimum size will be 10 GB and the maximum is 10 TB. And since the tool allows users to adjust Volume sizes in 1 GB
increments, customers will only buy the exact amount of storage that they'll need.

"This is really a great opportunity for customers to make themselves heard," said Christian Fitz, Head of Marketing. "Participants in the beta test will get the first crack at using this product, and in turn, we at Hetzner Online hope to gain feedback and make it even better."

There's more information about the beta test on Hetzner Online's website
https://www.hetzner.com/news/10-18-cloud-volumes/
and on their customer wiki
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/CloudServer/en#Volumes

New customers will need to make an account and have it authenticated first.

For more information on Hetzner Cloud, see:
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
https://accounts.hetzner.com/login
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/CloudServer/en
https://docs.hetzner.cloud/
https://github.com/hetznercloud

--Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
I'd disagree. Prodigy was always GUI based and pioneered the banner ad, and provided a good template for how online shopping would work. IMO the problem was that the scale wasn't there, shipping sucked and computers weren't prevalent. This was the era of the $5,000 PC.

The other problem was that the venture partners were big old companies getting wrecked by modern management. You IBM, who was on the verge of its first big implosion and Sears, who didn't understand the value of the catalog.

The old walled gardens withered, time will tell if the Google/Facebook/etc of today devolve into AOL/Prodigy 30 years later.
I once approached a Property Manager about a retail location in Toronto. It was sitting empty for about 1.5 years because the lease was very expensive. I mentioned to him that it would be worth renting it to me for less than having it sit empty. He laughed and said that the property has been paid for the last 50 years and is just one of like 240 Properties the Landlord owns. He said the Landlord could wait 20 years for the lease price he wants and it wouldn't matter one bit.
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I'm starting to think maybe we should collectively subject the men who are using the correct wording/behavior to positive reinforcement. Such as if someone tells you "The intern is really hot, but I would never ask out an intern" you would smile and go "Great guy, Bart! I also would never ask out an intern, nor would any other guy I know.". A number of men on the intellectual side of things seem to have what comes across as out-of-proportion anxiety that everything they think, do, or are is somehow sexually harassing, even when they don't even smile at women. Maybe the men that have the anxiety issue had inadequate reinforcement as children or something.
There are two "Line" listed, is it a mistake or are there really two of the same name ?

Because LINE claims to support E2E by default ("Letter Sealing"), but only one of those two listing says "claimed" (the other say false).
All is good and well until 5 years down the road you don't have experience implementing the newnosql.js stuff that is all the rage. You try to conform it to what you already know and end up with a myopic view of the solution. Since you are already respected people listen to you when defining architectures. Coders think you are a moron, impostor syndrome sets in. The doctors prescribe the new and improved treatment, but the new balm doesn't work as well as the goop for some cases.

You have to remember what made you a specialist in the first place was coding at challenging projects. Our market changes too fast for you to stop doing that. Studying and trying out new things using a private lab will only get you so far, the real challenges are the ones which push you to really master something.
> Adobe Fireworks

Oh man! Such a joy to use.
This isn't whataboutism:

Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Bringing up related incidents isn't, per se, a dismissal of the issue.
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True, i also build but its a smaller part of my job since as i have employees etc that do the labour work. But the biggest part of my job is to listen to a problem and come up with a solution, more often than not, my company also delivers that solution, but i get paid for the answer to the problem, not the time taken to build it.
Digi-Evil
Do soon to be discontinued products count? If so, Inbox (Google)
"our government also believes that individuals have personal accountability and responsibility with respect to their own well-being"

Then scrap the helmet law for everyone.

Why do people driving 3 wheeled cars that have roll cages and seat belts need helmets but religious people do no? Makes no sense to me.
Uber would be in deep trouble if their app got pulled. It's not that easy to get people to use your web site once they are used to the app.
I really don't understand what people are upset about. Whether or not Google rolls out a censored search engine in China has no influence at all whatsoever in any way shape or form over whether or not the communist party will continue to enforce censorship. If Google backs out for political reasons, it's not like the party is going to suddenly see the error of their ways and do an about face on censorship.

It's just business. Americans has been doing business with China, and the Chinese people for decades. In spite of the fact that the west and China are beholden to very different identities, we can still cooperate on things to the benefit of everyone.

People are 99% the same everywhere, but the 1% that makes us different are matters of identity, and that's what we gripe about and go to war over. It's kind of stupid if you ask me, but then again, no one in the history of the world has ever come up with a reliable solution for human nature.
Do you really call VLC's "interlayed" "VLC ZOOM HIDE" user interface I described in detail in my bug report (that was brushed off and still a bug years later) a "native" user interface? It's absolutely not. Go back and read what I wrote, because you're totally missing the point. Both the UI and the functionality are terribly broken.

Do you actually believe it's a good idea, or that there is any possible justification, for VLC to NOT use a native user interface, and instead draw the user interface INTO the video at video resolution, and rotating it with the video, but not rotating the mouse events (so it is absolutely UNUSABLE under rotation or reflection, and extremely hard to use even unrotated because the re-invented ugly non-standard sliders in a stupid way that flaunts Fitts' Law for no good reason), and using giant jaggy pixels and a terrible blocky font and short upper case labels so it's not too enormous for low resolution vidoes, is better than drawing a native user interface at full screen resolution with a decent full resolution anti-aliased font in the overlay that is actually usable at any video resolution, scale, rotation or reflection?

Please stare into these screen snapshots for a few minutes and reflect on what I said, and then go run the latest version of VLC, and prove to yourself that it's still just as bad as I described before replying, because it is.

https://imgur.com/gallery/g0acV

"VLC ZOOM HIDE" indeed. Look closely at the "V": It's five pixels wide, and it's so jaggy it looks like a step ladder with only 3 steps.
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Docker raises $92M in funding
>Shift to Blockchain, get distributed news agencies, with reporters

You'll have to break that one down for me. Can the blockchain also cure male pattern baldness? Asking for a friend.

>and there's a well known tool for distributing that in a verified & timestamped format - Blockchain.

News agencies typically already have a way to distribute information since that's literally their job. Even if they don't they could just tweet it or whatever. That's not really a problem.

>Introduces a 'he-said, she-said' problem. Which the Blockchain neatly avoids.

No it doesn't, if you can provide a valid signature from the "News Org" public key that doesn't match the article's checksum then it proves that "News Org" at
some point signed conflicting data, proving that something has been tempered with. It doesn't matter if the person pointing that out is some anonymous user on
8chan, as long as the signature is valid it can only mean that the news organization did something shady or that their key got compromised.

That's the whole principle behind public key cryptography. I signed this comment before posting it, which means that if tomorrow I delete this message and you
kept a copy you could show that I in fact authored it (or at least endorsed it somehow): https://pastebin.com/XKnQSFew
Like the Chinese created Islam.
The goal of a spoon is to make soup eatable. The goal of a blockchain is not to burn through a shit ton of electricity. Therefore I'd argue that your points a and b are mostly side effects, and not even side effects of blockchains. If you run high quality computer games on your system you will also burn through a shit ton of electricity. If you go to another unregulated market you also get a lot of scams and get-rich-quick schemes. Blockchains not even necessitate crypto coins, they can live without it. If you for instance like Kafka but don't like that it's centralized, you could run it on a blockchain as well.

PS: I'd argue that, depending on the type of gun you use, eating soup with a gun is still easier than eating completely without any tools. And does having a spoon really makes you worse at soccer? I'm not sure the intial thesis holds. A tool can make X easier and not make Y harder.
OMG I miss this so much! I had a Palm Zire 72 growing up long before getting an iTouch and it was amazing to use. Writing messages took longer but felt more natural back then, these days it'd probably feel too clunky though.
Inflatable liner might do the trick. They would look like Gazoo though.
There was no mention of victims or blaming anything.
I disagree. I fit into the “strategic consultant” category and my sales cycle from referral to signing is a few weeks, with zero downtime because I work on several projects at once.

The great thing about being independent is you can design your engagements however you want. Not happy with amount of downtime? Find a way to do two (or more) projects at once. Not happy with sales cycle length? Simplify your offerings. And so on...