skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just trying to be honest, sorry it's negative. Assuming I understand the way your product works, it's just JavaScript sending a key to a 3rd party server to check if the domain name is valid for that key. I think most programmers could write that themselves into their own project in a matter of minutes. Yes, the front end is nice and would take some effort, but your target consumers are programmers and don't necessarily need a nice front end to get stuff like that done. Additionally, it's easily defeated, and in your FAQ you're actually recommending that they do additional programming to disguise your code into theirs. So I honestly think the effort of using your service is more than it would take someone to write it themselves.

It looks like you wrote this project mainly for yourself, and are just trying to market it for additional revenue. So it's hard to call it a failure altogether because it seems it's provided the necessary value to you. But I can't imagine something like this being commercially viable.
> I'm hoping all it'll take to make our elected representative get off their asses and do something is when an indiscretion of a major political candidate is made public

As much as I hope this as well, I expect all that would happen as a result of this is further protection for candidates.
No, but I am challenging the rather spectacular claim that we're all suffering from a kind of bias which has directly caused the demographic makeup of our (very large) community.
Exactly!

But that will break the wonderful rectangular design.
They quadruple-checked all their audits to make sure they were actually accurate in saying "nothing here".
I found this /g/ post of a while ago interesting: https://pastebin.com/TbtYmtyB
ublock origin causes it to timeout with 2 caught scripts, disabling it makes it work FYI.
This is something I hacked together over the last 2 months to try a articulate a bunch of pretty orthogonal ideas I've been bouncing around over the years.

* The command line is amazing for fluidly exploring a data set or an automation task but an adhoc session can quickly spiral to the point it's no longer discernible or reusable. Is there a way you can keep that fluidity and instant feedback but introduce some structure to make things reusable? Also, to be able to return to an adhoc session and pick up where you left off?

* 'Use small tools' gets a lot of lip service, but systems are almost exclusively composed in monolithic ecosystems (for example, Golang, Python, Node). What would it look like to actually build a system using small tools? In my experiments it quickly gets unruly. Does it look better if we have a better way to compose shell scripts?

* Have you ever produced an interesting result in a shell session and thought, 'I just want this to run forever now' Is there a way to seamlessly take these adhoc sessions and then run them redundantly and robustly?
Google/Facebook and others know how long you look at a specific post/ad/video/etc and knows who you're with, even when in a private residence.

If you're in someone's house on their wifi network and they're shopping for socks... you might start seeing ads about socks. It's way easier to track this based on network information than creating facial recognition databases.

A lot of the "Facebook is listening to your conversation" fears stem from the fact that people don't realize that they can use data to make connections like this.

If you're remotely concerned about privacy, at the very least Facebook should not have an app on your phone (Google's doing it too).
The Best Product Teams Crave Truth and Do Math (8/18)
Ha! That's great. Thanks for sharing :)
This seemingly trenchant observation ignores how much AWS (and Apple) have to lose in all their markets if it turns out they are insistently, loudly, publicly lying to everyone, including their shareholders and congress.
I'm pretty sure, if you are offended by the word God, you can substitute another word, such as "Ayn Rand" or "the human intellect". Nobodys insisting that you have to do...anything really.
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Neat idea. You guys should look at ceph for the backend file store.
Some people just don’t have comedic sensibilities or timing, and that’s fine. But sometimes on stage jokes let you see what the speaker considers to be funny, which can occasionally be horrifying.
Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site [...] since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been capped, and federal officials estimate that the spill could continue through this century. [...] The company has argued that there’s no evidence to prove any of the wells are leaking.
The main issue is that most of their stuff is manufactured in China, they see themselves taking a huge hit in profitability if the US all the sudden forced them to only do stuff in the US because of security.
Clarification from the author on twitter[0]: this edition of Rift 2 may have been cancelled but that does not mean Facebook is no longer making PC VR headsets.

[0]https://twitter.com/lucasmtny/status/1054436110661754880?s=1...
Indeed. Online coding is a fun space to be in right now (although we've been around for a while so it's cool to see it start to take off). However, a few things that make Repl.it unique:

1. A REPL-first environment. We believe when hackers start coding they generally start sketching things out and a fast iteration loop makes it easy to make progress. That's why Repl.it starts out as a REPL. This also makes it less intimidating and more useful for newbies. Everyone's first program is a text-based program as GUI is really hard to get started with.

2. We're building a generic toolchain that could be decomposed and used in different ways. We built a highly dynamic IDE[0], and a super fast container orchestration system that works as both a development environment and a hosting platform[1]. We're starting to explore what that means by building plugins to other editors and making it available on the cli[2].

3. Repl.it's has an awesome community of hackers collaborating, helping, and building stuff for each other. We have a Hackernews-like forum where people can share their creations, ask questions, or teach others and, it's creating an awesome positive-feedback loop in the community[3].

[0]: https://repl.it/blog/ide

[1]: https://repl.it/blog/deploy

[2]: https://github.com/replit/repl.sh

[3]: https://repl.it/talk
The annoyance and inconvenience of having a cashier ask me about my weekend pales in comparison to what Amazon is doing with my data. And I think we'll find in the coming years that they are every bit as nefarious when it comes to the use of our private information as Facebook is.
>Sure they could try to withhold some % of votes and vote themselves but hopefully that should be noticed.

I think with ring signatures obfuscating everything it might be tough or even impossible to detect.

I would certainly enjoy reading a research paper on the viability though!

>> able to revoke and re-grant tokens at will
>This is false. Only the voter can do this.

Then I think I don't understand the system you're proposing. How does the user get back their ability to vote if they lose their private key in this scenario?
An easy way Bloomberg could support their story: allow one or more of their "senior insider" sources at Apple/Amazon to speak with another outlet (AP, NYT, whoever) who agrees to maintain their anonymity.
Did you do anything cool with the API key?
Hitting the Final Week Guide for Cryptocurrency Taxes in Australia
Insurance companies notice a correlation, so increase rates to compensate. (Since insurance companies are in the business of spotting and correcting for correlations more than causes.) Therefore a correlation between states which legalize marijuana and increases in accidents cause an increase in car insurance costs. Marijuana doesn't need to cause accidents for this to be the case.

What that analysis doesn't take into account is whether the next state to legalize marijuana will also have to deal with increased accident rates and insurance costs. This is IMO the more important question.
A loaf of good-quality sandwich bread can easily go for $5, but cheap white can be had for around a dollar in most places.
Other CoCs mention other idealizations lots of times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
“It seemed like a tough proposition. I would need thousands of merchants paying at least $20/month to create a successful business. I didn’t think it would be possible, until I came across the Bold Commerce story. This four person team in Winnipeg, Manitoba, had almost the same story as us. “Merchants first, identified gaps in the app store, and deciding to build apps on Shopify. Bold Commerce now employs almost 300 people, with no outside funding to date, and with their growth solely on the Shopify platform. This case study was enough to convince us to take the leap, I wanted us to be like Bold.”

Online Payments space is big. A company built on Shopify platform just for Shopify users with 300 employees!

Even in my company (JotForm - a form builder) payment integrations is just one of our minor features and we process over 500M/year on payment forms people create.
> We could just have them stop.

How? There are no political factions in the U.S. that would support such an agenda. Which party do you imagine taking up this issue?
While I'm sure there's all sorts of technological approaches in use, the Snowden incident showed a much easier method of stealing secrets.
Interesting stat on employee theft being bigger than shoplifting, can you link to some support for that?
It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.
Rust is one of those languages that I just can't see myself ever working with (I mostly do web dev), but it's a language I am really glad I learned and has made me a better overall developer.
> Shoplifting is an even worse excuse given that most retail theft is done by their employees

Sounds like a quite bad argument to me. Whether it makes sense to invest in this shoplifter-catcher technology is quite simple mathematics. If you prevent/catch enough shoplifters with it is worth the investment (doesn't matter if they are only the non-employee shoplifters). I'm pretty sure that shop owners can do that kind of investment decision pretty well, I highly doubt shop owners would be investing to these if it wasn't worth the hassle.

I'm not in retail, but what I've heard shoplifting can be huge hassle for shop owners. I also knew one kleptomaniac guy personally when I was younger and he stole shitloads of stuff and rarely got caught (according what he told me).
Oh cool -- I'll take a look. Storage is definitely our biggest challenge going forward.
I've never heard of a CoC demanding belief in a specific deity before.
Every day folks have no idea how much of welding actually consists of grinding. It's always fun when you encounter spatter/beads on a weld to ask the person you are with(assuming they are not and never have been a welder) what they think all those little beads are.... The most common answer I get is "it looks like balls of paint". There is a huge disconnect between how people think things are made, and reality.
Yup. Their entire business success, their 1 trillion dolar story, all their "shareholder value" can be summed up by:

"we don't build anything, the Chinese build it for us".

Time to pay the piper.
Facebook denies techcrunch report regarding Rift 2:

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/oculus-co-founder-bren...
Ask HN: Is it worth taking a 25% paycut to join a startup?
I am working in a pretty comfortable job working on a COBOL based software. The one thing that bothered me all these years is my lack of exposure to all the newer technologies.

I started interviewing and I have got an offer from a startup. But the offer is almost 25% less. They say they will add 20% of the salary in stock vesting over some time.

The advantage is that I will be get exposure to all the new technologies.

Is it worth it? Thanks!
Infrared LED devices are quite easily defeated using an appropriate filter. Doing this though introduces another problem: most security cameras use an array of infrared LEDs for lighting. These are ideal because they produce almost no visible light to the human eye, so they're relatively covert. You can block the infrared LED emissions, but then you also block a very useful source of "invisible" lighting in otherwise challenging areas.

I think a much bigger problem with your technique though is... seriously who wears an infrared LED baseball cap? You would be very easily identifiable because that technique is likely to be nearly unique in your store; your attempt to mask your identity would have the opposite effect of drawing more attention to it.
If this becomes endemic across all the manufacturers I'll be ripping out the GPS aerial or fuse as necessary and they'll data mine a null database. I'll find a way to fit a DIN stereo. No I don't buy cars new enough for this to cause warranty issues. If it starts becoming impossible to do, a classic car is going to be anything before 2005 or so, and I'll take one of those. :)

I don't even listen to commercial radio in the car, or anywhere, because the ads annoy too much, and there's plenty of BBC stations.

TL;DR over my dead body.
Clojure: Improvements to exception messages and printing
I know people whose use of cannabis has been a crutch for problems in their lives, who have achieved less than they likely would have because it is so easy to do nothing, and stagnate, when drugs come easy. I also know people whose cannabis use has (unproveably, but likely) triggered latent schizophrenia.

There are tradeoffs in everything, of course, and everyone is entitled to their own choices and ambitions, and these risks don't harm everyone who tries them, but put yourself in the shoes of the friends and family that see their loved one become a burnout. There can be real and justified hate of the drug when it has measurably damaged your family.

There was an episode of South Park that addressed pot in a similar way- it is dangerous because it is so much fun you don't want to do anything else.
Everyone who is driving contributes to congestion, this includes but is hardly limited to Uber and Lyft drivers.

This idea that one single subset of driver's is responsible is kind of absurd.

Furthermore, the amount of construction that takes forever causes tons of problems. For example, Van Ness alone has been a total cluster for more than a year now and there's no sign that it will be concluded any time soon.
> Copyright can't be transferred away from the author, only licensed.

I'm not a lawyer, but this statement seems to be false according to this: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html
There should be hundreds of thousands or millions of these hacked motherboards, and nobody has found a single one despite hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket. This story was bogus, it most likely came from a ton of rumors that got conflated, hence why they had to go with anonymous sources as opposed to any physical evidence. I'd be surprised if Bloomberg has any credibility in tech journalism by the end of the year, and a good chance they may end up stuck in a courtroom trying to defend the decision to run this piece (on the front page, no less) for a long, long time.
> how they stole the designs to the f-35

Any comprehensive report of this?
thats the most fun I've had with a jobs page ever!
recognizing and accepting the difference between people isn't dehumanization. Not recognizing and denying people the option to be different is dehumanization.
Sure, but if that was their strategy, they could have just developed something good enough internally or acquired someone going after that market. It's disappointing that they bought a company (arguably the most prominent) with the opposite strategy, and then didn't commit to it.

This would make more sense if they were acquiring competitors to consolidate their position, but they didn't have a position, this is how they entered the market.

It may suggest that they have gathered enough evidence to be pretty certain that the high-end VR market just isn't workable. But it doesn't seem to me like they have given it enough time or energy to know this yet.
Precisely. Worst thing would be to realize later you overlooked something and have to issue a correction.

And a story with this many moving pieces, you’ve got a lot of ground to cover. It’s so very hard to prove the absence of something.
Learn by Doing [Volume 25]: Serverless Functions in Web Assembly
This is a broader case of all wave phenomena. As a VERY coarse guide, the equation is :

R = Lambda/D

Where R is the angular 'resolution' of the device, Lambda is the wavelength of the wave used, and D is the diameter of the device.

This means that as the 'resolution' gets smaller (ie. better), the diameter becomes bigger. For example, if you have a 20kHz sound source (~1.7 cm wavelength) and want an angular resolution of ~ 1 arc-second, then you'd need a ~3.5km diameter array. Actual equations will vary GREATLY from this, but it's a good 'sniff test' starting guide.
Unfortunately this is exactly what he recommends in his FAQ:

"Besides, we strongly recommend to let our JavaScript file blend in with the rest of your application's JavaScript. Webpack, compress and uglify the best you can, to make the code responsible for validation as difficult as possible to find and break."
I like this spin - im stealing it like the dirty thief i am
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18276915
* For posterity, the title used to something like "iPhone bug lets everyone access your photos"
that's not political correctness, that's just good old fashioned office politics.
you may want to have a look at Rocket https://rocket.rs/, you won't be disappointed
Although I vehemently disagree with the beliefs of Muslims, I have always had a great deal of respect for the fact that they are unapologetic about them.

I, for one, appreciate this whole thing.

If I were required to love Osama bin Laden, well, my Lord Himself requires us to 'love our enemies', and 'pray for those who persecute you'.

There is no religious discrimination here. It appears that some seem to believe that if religion is mentioned, that is discrimination. But that word does not mean that.
What a compelling write up. Amazing insight.

I have learned that instinctive, intuitive decision making process was something of a history where possibilities were less calculative and more predictive. Tracking predictions tho is the way forward to the future. Mathematical thinking makes it possible.
He's clearly doing what he loves there; I watched his key note on the Quest and while he's not the greatest speaker it's pretty riveting and in the end I disappointed they had to cut him off for time.
Easier != only.
Wow. Never did I expect it to generate this much (potential) innovation back when asm.js was announed. Pretty excited to be following on, even though I personally probably won't be writing anything for WASM any time soon - though this excellent series on Mozilla Hacks probably also played a role.
Yeah fair enough re: LisaOS. I also don't know what's happening to it, since it's been almost a year since the announcement and not a peep about the code. I was looking forward to reading through the code.
Not just covering up the truth. Doing so knowing that getting caught would open them up to a huge public backlash and possibly legal culpability, even though if Bloomberg is correct about 30 companies are affected, the government knows all abou it, and dozens of Apple, AWS and other insiders and experts are actively talking to Bloomberg and sharing details left right and centre already.

How does anybody think Apple and AWS would calculate they could get away with lying like this, when Bloomberg says it’s already widely known and widely being leaked? So where are all these insiders that are blabbing? How come they’re not talking to any other journalists? What about the security experts Bloomberg says are also in on it and willing to talk?

If Bloomberg is right, this story should be wide open by now. Instead ....nothing. Not a single scrap of corroborating evidence for this supposedly widely known and broadly leaked issue.
Personal news hygiene must be practiced in the same way food hygiene is practiced. You will not eat a free sandwich found on a public toilet floor. You should not consume news sourced from FB, Twitter, etc...

Define your hygienic sources of news and stick to them, accept that you may need to pay for quality. Enforcing this is a personal responsibility.

Oh... and teach the children personal news hygiene.
I don't think correlation is even necessary to raise rates if there is a 5-6% increase in accidents.

Also - in the states that went legal, there is an active population boom, but just as likely is being caused by tech startups. Population increases are more likely to cause an accident rate to increase.

We just won't know (for sure) if pot or jobs are the cause for the population increases. Maybe it's pot jobs?
What is the state of expanding GPU programming APIs in the browser? Seems that one of the biggest factors holding back the development of media applications for photo/video editing, games is a lack of a modern graphics api and first class GPGPU support. A while ago there was momentum towards webGPU and webVulcan but these projects seemed to have quieted down. We did get Webgl 2.0 but there is still tons of room for improvement and much to be gained!
China Finds Big-Ticket Spending Is a Road to Nowhere
Even if we accept all that, it doesn't make the Bloomberg article right.
I just bought an E485 (AMD Ryzen). I'm enjoying it thoroughly. The "E" series has integrated battery and fewer USB/data ports/less dock compatibility, BUT battery, drive, and RAM are all "user-serviceable" meaning not soldered in.

And I got a great deal with some discount codes, now expired... AMD Ryzen 2700U, 16GB RAM, 128GB NVMe drive, 1080p matte screen for $670 plus tax and shipping.

If I had more money, I would have gotten the A485 (AMD fanboy) as the A and T series are easier to maintain and have more features like keyboard backlights.
It would be nice to get rid of the excess cows, but since that won't happen. It's better to make something out of the excess rather than let it go to waste.

Especially considering that a large amount of fat is produced from skim milk. This fat just goes into making cheese, and deflating the cost of cheese. More cheese than most people would like to eat.
Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb Dies at 99
Ah, but the original Latin has iuniores diligere, that's means "esteem highly", "regard with affection" & so on. Instead you have these age and gender silos in American society, and the silly sex jokes and the Pence Rule, it's worrisome for anyone who has to navigate through it.
> "you know that plane that costs over a trillion dollars to develop"

That $1+ trillion number is cost through 2070.

$406.5 billion for acquisition of the jets
$1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
It isn't really plausible that Bloomberg made up the story. They had to have a high degree of confidence to publish it. The question we all need to be asking is why they had that high degree of confidence. Where their information came from and whether or not those sources had ulterior motives to lead Bloomberg astray.

I have to imagine Bloomberg is also trying to find out why their story has not matched statements by the companies alleged to be involved so starkly. There is a story here, but what that story actually is is definitely in question.