skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculous and sad. Getting rejected from YC is not the end of the world or even the end of your startup. And being 3 hours late for releasing acceptance decision does not mean YC unilaterally doesn’t care about founders. Get real
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I’m busy building a little tool that I hope I can sell as a SaaS one day and this is absolutely forefront in my mind.

I do not want any of your data, above that which I must hold for the service to be useful. It’s just a liability.

See also: Marco Arment, maker of the Overcast podcast player, pushing people to take their accounts anonymous [0]. It’s just good business sense at this point.

I also plan on having zero trackers. I’ll just get over the fact that I’ll have no visibility of users on my site other than what I can glean from public forums or, you know, actual paid sign-ups. It’s all too fraught with leak risk and I can’t be bothered.

[0]: https://marco.org/2018/04/27/overcast42
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> Obama switched to an iPhone, albeit with a number of features removed, including the camera and microphone.

I'd happily pay extra for iPhones, laptops, and cars with verifiable hardware kill switches for all built-in microphones and cameras. Since I'm dreaming, I might also ask for verifiable hardware kill switches for wifi, bluetooth, and any other radio connections. It's so sad that it's just about impossible to find any of these (except maybe a single niche-market laptop) unless you're being protected by elite government agencies.
> Can we just agree to put them both in prison?

I keep hearing the chants of "Lock her up" but no one has pointed out any conclusive evidence that HRC should be jailed. See above for the arguments about the email server. As for Benghazi, multiple investigations by some of the most relentlessly aggressive Republicans failed to find any wrongdoing even worth charging her for.

So, why put her in jail? Because you don't like her?
TICK stack: Telegraf, Influxdb, Chronograf, Kapacitor. They're have a massive array of plugins that can watch/store/graph/alert on just about anything.

https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/
I know it's a 1000x harder but I'd pay for a dusting roomba that climb all the hard surfaces in my house and removed the dust. Of course apparently roombas can't even handle the floor so I have no hope there will be shelf crawling min roombas anytime soon.
I mean, pornhub have created "The Twerkin Butt", a crude sexbot paired with VR glasses.
are there any efforts underway to rectify the horror of css?
It would only be a liability if there were serious punishment.
PNG is a really underappreciated format. It's amazing how an 8-bit PNG can make a lot of icons super small without losing quality. Without PNG being held up as open software we would most likely not have the graphics we take for granted now.

I don't know him as a human being, but I would hope he is a great one, too.

Thank you Glenn.
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Not really sure why you’re trying to poke holes in what is very clearly not a realistic scenario. It’s like going to a fantasy movie and complaining endlessly that magic isn’t real and the movie isn’t realistic. I’m really not interested in this strange brand of pedantry.
> Cooking the meal is the cheapest part, prepping is the most expensive.

That's ... sort of my point.
> Layout was hacked in to css by abusing the "float" property into doing things it was never meant to be doing.

So if CSS wasn’t supposed to do layout, despite that being what people needed, and if you weren’t supposed to use tables for layouts despite that being what worked... then what on earth were you supposed to be using for layout? I don’t recall any other serious options out there.
Yes, we totally agree on that. Free markets give an incentive for individuals to work for themselves.
So why do we continue to pander to Saudia Arabia politically?

Note: I have a very shallow understanding of the US-SA relationship.
1) Hardware magic was often how you could distinguish yourself.

2) General purpose CPUs were very weak.

3) An arcade machine could easily cost 5-figure amounts of money. Suddenly, custom hardware is possible.

4) The PC080SN was custom, but not just for one game. E.g. Rainbow Island used it as well. (I think Bubble Bobble did, too, but memory is weak)
A neat fact is that you can put any DOI at the end of doi.org/ and it will (never has failed me) redirect you right to the landing page of the paper the the DOI is a reference for.

So a paper with a DOI of 10.3109/13651501.2013.813555 can be reached by going to: doi.org/10.3109/13651501.2013.813555
Just look at Facebook. How many people have deleted their accounts...
Improve, or get stuck in a local maximum and make the situation worse permanently.

At least with human decision making, there is a paper trail and a means of legal recourse. AI provides neither.
Westpac customer here. If you just need basic banking, you can’t beat ING. They still have a dumb type-a-PIN-by-pressing-buttons login screen, and the customer ID field doesn’t accept pasted data, but other than that I love them. No fees, even on international transactions. Apple Pay if you want it.
Null findings are often not as useful as you might think.

A point null hypothesis for a continuous variable is literally always false. Especially for the softer science, I've even seen studies mocked for having too many data points, since it's known that with enough data null hypotheses are false.

The story is better if your null hypothesis is an interval, but then you're really just obliquely using the interval to bound something you could be measuring more directly anyway.

What I'd like to see is moving away from null hypothesis testing altogether and focusing on measuring things. For example, focusing on measuring effect sizes, or the probability that a hypothesis is true.
The point, I think, is that it means something slightly
different to per-register an hypothesis that depends on
retrospective data. When you register to hypothesis, the
data already exist and one could (in theory) have already
started looking at it. One would hope that researchers
would not explicitly cheat like this, but it would be hard
for experts in the fields to not have some sense of the
trends seen within their field prior to running the meta
analysis.
Would be nice to have that polyfill at the webpack build level instead of the browser. Generate css files specifically for older browsers.
Python, Lua, Perl, and oddly enough C. Embedding these in C also works well.

Interpret "Embedding C in C" as writing a dynamic linked library for an existing executable rather than something more exotic.

I recommend C here only for simple standard in/out style tools. Not complex all-in-c applications.
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I prefer PNGs to almost any other format in my documents, since they seem to be almost lossless and also dont bloat the size. Such a great work must surely be a product of a brilliant Mind. RIP Glenn Randers-Pehrson.
I am serious! I know what you mean about top and bottom drawer separation, but it's not the same. You don't want your dirty dishes above the clean ones, plus you still want access to clean dishes without interrupting a cycle. It's a subtle change, but the UX for me personally would improve quite significantly!
Flagged??.. Why?
His whole wiki reads like a horror story. So many people died of lead poisoning at DuPont where they were developing it.

> Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.
"Fleet owners don't keep cars past 20,000 or 30,000 miles. High end car owners replace their cars every couple of years. They pay $30,000 to $70,000 every five years."

Cars aren't scrapped after five years. The average car on the road is over 10 years old, and they're not normally scrapped before about 15 years old.
Nobody ever won a Nobel prize for a null result... So it's not entirely without reason that people would prefer to get positive results.
While I certainly tend more on your side of this discussion, I wonder to what degree your first point demonstrates a modern bias rather than an objective comparison.

Cars could only travel on roads, you couldn't go wherever you liked as on a horse. Narrow passages you could previously have ridden down were now inaccessible.

You need to put fuel in your car, which was probably even harder then than finding an electric car charger at the start of their existence. Providing food and drink for a horse was comparatively trivial.

Horses could easily be tied up outside of whatever store or destination you were visiting. What were the social costs of parking a great big machine outside of your local? To say nothing of parking as a town- or city-wide logistical problem.
It would be nice if it was possible for devs to create their own CSS-like DSL and get the browser to use that instead of CSS.
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That looks useful. Do you know if that works with gRPC-Web where the underlying gRPC port is behind a service proxy?
Can't the pancreas recover to produce healthy (or something below healthy yet essentially sufficient) amounts of insulin once you beat insulin resistance? Can't lipoic acid (which does the job of pushing energy into cells that is normally done by insulin AFAIK) combined with a suitable diet be used after the described procedure to decrease need in insulin below what is considered a norm to relieve overloaded pancreas and help it regenerate?
Thanks Tom, I felt bad making the retort as well as I like HN to be a happy place. For the record, I am majored in finance, mathematics and cryptography well before these things were linked. I discussed Bitcoin with Hal Varian in 2011 and staked our differing positions. It may be too early to call, but Bitcoin seems quite successful so far, and has served me well. I prefer not to rely on my credentials to make a point about economics since this is a logical fallacy.
> background-position and border-spacing (all 2-axis properties) should take vertical first, to match with the 4-direction properties like margin.

Is there some reason why margin/padding is top, right, bottom, left instead of left, top, right, bottom or left, right, top, bottom or both of which would seem more common in other APIs
If I’m coming across as accusing that he made the wrong decision, I don’t mean to say that. The story he’s telling suggests he made a difficult decision under the impression that it was urgent and important.

What I am saying is that in hindsight, this seems like the wrong decision, and I would hope a maker of crypto software would realize that.
The person you are replying to did not explicitly identify 'we' as referring to the USA. Fossil fuel pollution and climate change is a global problem; the atmosphere knows no national borders. Globally we are still dependent on Saudi Arabia for oil and Tesla is having a global impact in lessening that dependency
> CSS defines properties on individual elements, while layout fundamentally needs to define relationships between elements

I couldn't agree more! Does anyone know a language/toolkit/something that gets layout right? I remember getting excited by Grid Stylesheets [1] but the project seems dead now...

[1] https://github.com/gss/
> I’m not judging you.

Again, I might be wrong, but every time I've read or heard the word "selfish", it was always used as a judgment.

> ask yourself how you can have a positive impact and make your new home a better place

I was under the impression that having a discussion about how to improve things with a group of people who might be in a better position than average to help improve them was also a way of working towards that goal.

> Perhaps that sense of personal responsibility is an American affectation.

This is the third country I've lived in, including my own country of birth. My experience is limited, but it's still more than the average person gets. From that experience, it seems to me to be a generational thing, much more than cultural. It can be seen in different attitudes that different generations adopt towards their employers: generally older generations see their employer as part of their life and a kind of a "family", whereas younger generations view it as a business transaction with severe imbalance of power. I expect same thing happens with patriotism.

There does seem to be at least one cultural aspect to it, though. Americans, as well as citizens of other countries where capitalism has advanced to similar extremes, seem to view things with a sense of "personal responsibility" rather than collective or communal responsibility.

> As one of our leaders once said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. That seems even more apropos for those who have made the conscious decision to adopt this place as their home.

Why would it seem "even more apropos" for immigrants? I honestly don't understand this logic: why would you expect guests in your home to take better care of it than you do yourself? And I use the word "guest", rather than "fosterling", because not all immigrants come here immediately convinced that this will be their new home.

Here's a truth about a lot of us immigrants: we come here with a hope, but not with a conviction. We would have preferred to live a happy, fulfilled life in our own country and we tried, but for whatever reason we couldn't and we decided to leave. The definition of insanity, as they say, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Besides, we're not talking about what the country can do for me. We're talking about what the country can do for its future generations. I already have an excellent education. But I have a much bigger responsibility to my own son, than to your country or even my own.
Just realized that with the information leaked (passport number , birthday, name and asiamiles/MPC number), it would be enough to do the phone verification with them and redeem miles from the account. So, not having leaked passwords is really not that much of an achievement.
What this isn't true. The theory says some debt is optimal due to taxes. However I am rusty on these courses.
My guess is that it works the same way a clock does. Purely a guess though.
You have a fair point. Anything about Trump is tabloid gold. However, everything I know about Trump is consistent with the idea that he'd be careless enough not to keep proper security protocol with his phone. And given that drip of leaks we get about this administration, it is entirely plausible someone spoke to the press about information they received that his phone actually was compromised.
> It's useful as long as every browser supports it.

sure, but the same can be said of every web api and other open standard with multiple implementations.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer-events

> But then, this is behavior.

there's not always a clean separation. what about opacity:0 and visibility: hidden? this affects intractability despite being presentation, right?
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1. hyphenated for css, camelCase for javascript, underscores for API (i.e. php or ruby). Makes it easy to differentiate what's what.
Wow I just started making websites of my own recently and have encountered so many things that are immensely infuriating about how the language is interpreted that I've been thinking about starting a list myself.

They seem to favor implied behavior rather than explicitly defined behavior which is incredibly annoying. For example, space between inline-block elements that is not accounted for by margins. The fact that margin-top and margin-bottom percentages are computed based on the width of the parent element, not the height. The fact that certain properties like max-height are oftentimes not respected if they use a %, even if the height can be precisely calculated. The fact that I have to add body { margin: 0; } to everything. I'm sure there have been more but just what I can think of off the top of my head.

Oh, and COLLAPSING MARGINS.... WHAT THE HELL
I was always impressed at the level of legacy support in libpng. Even 1.0.x still gets security updates now and then.

RIP and a job well done.
You damn well know you can more easily dab on positive findings.

There should probably be a Nobel Prize for null findings to fix the incentive structure. But how do you grade and compare the different null findings? By effort? The ramifications of a null finding are likely more limited.
Sorry I missed your reply...I stopped following the thread. But in case you're still reading, here's some responses:

> How have users taken to the tool? Have they needed ongoing support, or once trained they understand what to do?

It's been a bit of a struggle. Once people understand how to use the UI, they go to town and get a lot of value out of it. But we've found it's not approachable and basically requires us to teach them how to use it. We're continuing to experiment with it. The good part is that everything we're trying is supported by the underlying DSL and workflow engine and we really haven't had to make more than a couple of tweaks to that.

> Were alternatives considered? Or was the complexity such that a workflow was the only way users could control this?

We looked into off-the-shelf options, but we didn't think they'd give us the level of control we wanted to build a product around it. As mentioned above, the hardest part is the UI, and if we're building this as a product, we need to build that anyways.

> Do people ever manage to design impossible flows?

No, that's impossible through the UI. Since we're tracking the types of all data throughout the execution of the flow, we're able to analyze the flow statically before it's saved to the database and give users an error. But they basically can't even get that because our UI prevents them from choosing illegal values or setting up infinite dependency chains.

> Anything about the use-case you're able to say, for where the tool is needed by users

It's designed to be kinda like Zapier, but for a much more specific audience who are generally less technically adventurous. In talking with these users, many of whom use Zapier, we've identified that they find it difficult to use and not really suited to their use case, so we're hoping that something that's purpose built for that use case will make their lives easier and convince them to switch.
This article was published in Jan 10, 2018; what's the current state of Gutenberg?
> I suspect you might find that a different passport with a different number, expiry date, or even nationality but the same name and date of birth would work equally well

Nope. All of the information must match, and they even (excruciatingly) compare the signature in my passport to the one they have on file. At another bank where I used only my HKID to open the account, I'm not permitted to use my passport.
Yup.

It's unfortunate that I can't get security patches. I'm not willing to update to iOS 76 to get the fixes because I don't want to run code that is tested on an A12 on my 5 year old phone, and I don't want to buy a new phone because this one works fine and isn't larger than my hands.
They have "only" 2.6 million apps (as of March 2018):

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266210/number-of-availab...

37% fraud-rules breaking rate is pathetic. Maybe they should spend time vetting these things before allowing malware-infested spyware out into the "ecosystem."
Yep yep. CSS in JS removes some of the pain points but still, fundamentally, CSS cannot communicate with JS in a universal, elegant way. Honestly, CSS in general is awful. How did we only just get decent centering with flexbox? How is flexbox still inconsistent across browsers? (Try setting a child of a flexbox container to 100% height.) The days of needing separate constructs because of bandwidth are over. We need something to unify CSS and HTML and JS into a UI builder that doesn't make you want to tear your hair out when you have to center a div over another div and give it an animation.
My concern for thinking of lotteries as a societal benefit is that my (in no way perfect) observations is that the lowest in income, and education tend to <i>contribute</i> the most money towards the lottery which may have had a greater net benefit if each ticket buyer had spent their buy in price on themselves.

Also consider that poorer lottery winners are often ill equipped to deal with their winnings and frequently lose the entire sum of money within a few years; they may enjoy spending the money, but it doesn't lift a winners children and community out of a cycle of poverty as I would normally think of "social mobility".

Maybe we should randomly force people to get an MBAs instead.
OrbitRemit works well for the countries they support, they also periodically throw in free transfers if you use them regularly enough.
In SQL, you can at least wrap the whole thing in a transaction. Then, just roll the whole thing back if anything came out wrong.
I'm taking this all with a huge grain of salt ...but...I thought Apple was secure? Perhaps this reflects more on Apple and our dependency upon foreign produced hardware.
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For #5 use rem which is based off the document font-size rather than the current elements font size. </pedantic> What really needs to stop is the use of pixels and absolute font sizes for sizing everything as they never work on more than 1 device/zoom level/default font size.

Breaking layout into its own thing has its ups and downs. Basically you would have to break out what flexbox and grid do into a "layout" file, and come up with syntax that makes describing relationships easier than they currently are in CSS/LESS/etc. The downside to this would be that you have to chase UI bugs through 3 files rather than the current 2.

What CSS could use is a good clean as its grown organically for quite some time.
It takes $1998 to check a box on a form saying "certified".
They seem to be confusing when you are just starting designing, but once you spend more time with it - most of it starts to make sense

> The fact that margin-top and margin-bottom percentages are computed based on the width of the parent element, not the height.

It's actually much better this way, imaging a block of text with varied content. If you had margins calculated based on a height - you will have a margin that depends on text content size, which is wrong, instead you want your margins to depend on a screen size width, not the content inside

> Collapsing margins

It's a great solution as well, imagine you have a div that you want to have margins on top and bottom of 20px. It makes perfect sense to collapse margins if you have say 2 of those div's running one after another, because you don't want them to have 40px margin, you only want 20px. So when there is another element that is not that div - you will still have your desired 20px margin.
Too many secrets
I think the oddest part of Automattic's handling of this is that they are ramming this through, skirting a lot of quality controls such as accessibility (something they recently canned to meet deadline) but yet have the minimum requirement for Wordpress on very much dead PHP versions, 5.2-5.4. They also claim to be community driven, yet...they aren't even listening to the community on this. It's wild. I guess maybe their overall goal is to make Wordpress.com a highly successful SaaS and the open source portion is a secondary thought because it isn't profit driven. In any case, this could turn out to be a massive disaster for Wordpress. As a long time Wordpress developer, I am highly concerned. I think it has tons of potential if one right...but the handling of it has been shady, at best.
For anyone interested, here is a link to the earnings call: https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/omd73p8r