skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting, I'm going to give outline a test drive. It seems to be doing what I want. The redundant images are less intrusive than the bells and whistles on medium.
>Anti-vaxxers tend to be described as middle/upper-class liberals.

I've heard this, but it doesn't square with my own impressions, and a cursory Google search suggests that anti-vaxxers are not, in fact, predominantly liberal.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784985/

[2] https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/conservatives-are-...
On something like global warming, I find it easy to trust the Scientific Method, rather than individual papers or individual scientists (or worse, the media translation thereof). The core counter-explanation to the scientific consensus is "Scientists are greedy liars in a giant conspiracy to get rich on research grants", which I find, um, problematic. And, while the phrasing may get prettier, that's what most of these arguments lead to, what most of the people who reject global warming believe.

In a related manner, I tend to judge ideas by who agrees with them. Be careful who you're standing with, they can tell you a lot about the validity of where you're standing. (Or, as a friend put it about politics, "If the racists think the candidate is a racist, the candidate is probably a racist".)

So, for something like global warming, if you're standing with people who believe in and work within the scientific method, you're probably good (assuming you believe in science), and if you're standing with people who believe the world was created in seven days 5500 years ago and corporations whose core business model is to put greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere... well.
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So now you do see how nationalism might also include international cooperation?
I personally like lazy loading as far as UI experiences go. Shoot me.
I see the comments are already filling up with the usual cries of how this is what you get when you play in a curated market, but something about this doesn't make sense.

Apple provides several views specifically designed to show web content: UIWebView, WKWebView, and SFSafariViewController. This ruling of theirs would apply to all uses of these views that aren't for specific domains and URLs known in advance, which makes no sense.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of apps across all kinds of categories that display websites within the app. I've personally launched dozens of apps that have this functionality and never received a rejection for it, or heard of anyone who has.

Moreover, there are no mechanisms that I'm even aware of to provide Apple with proof of "permission" to display a URL. So the path you're supposed to take is to wait for a rejection and then submit that proof to the reviewer in your resubmission? Or is this supposed to go in the review notes? Presumably you saying you have permission isn't enough, so what do they want, a link to a PDF of a signed contract that their legal team can review? Really doubt it.

None of this is meant to be defensive of Apple or an attack on the author of this article. It just sounds like there was a mistake or error in communication somewhere. I don't think Apple's intent here is to disallow any app that opens a URL, but I guess we'll see.
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Trip down the GPU lane with Machine Learning [slides]
Saying good-bye to the original Microsoft Redmond campus
Does a failure to influence the elections make their hacking ok?
Google used it's search engine dominance to expand into analytics, advertising, e-mail, maps, mobile apps, browser, and probably more things I can't think of off the top of my head. Take maps for example. They drove (or bought) their competitors out of business to become the dominant player and then dramatically raised the cost of their API. That's classic abusive monopolistic behavior.

Or look at the browser. Adblockers have been the number 1 extension since browser extensions were a thing. It doesn't take a genius to see why they aren't built into Chrome/FF. It's another classic abuse of a monopoly. They used search to bully their way into being the dominant browser and they use that dominance to protect their ad business.
This might be a good time to reconsider what made iOS the best platform for this application in the first place.

For example, can the app be re-packaged as an HTML5 app instead? What's the compelling advantage for building on iOS for this application?
Ask HN: What do you use to take preorders when validating a product?
Paypal, Shopify etc only allow you to take orders to be fulfilled within a week.

Stripe will let you authorise payments for preorders as far in advance as you like, but there's a bigger overhead - storing user data, creating a UI to view / process payments at a later date / deal with refunds.

Does anyone use anything better? Are there any simple services for taking preorders for products you won't be shipping for 6+ months?
Yeah... only Russians and Inuit find that area habitable and then we are using that word quite loosely.
Given the "back" link from Safari to your app since iOS 11? (10?) - this is the right solution IMHO.
How to fetch content from Prismic when you’re using Nuxt.js
Some stats on Wikipedia may fuel this discussion [1] and conclude than planes are safer by km and by time, not by journey though this is an anecdotical thing (not relevant to compare 10 min trip to work to 8 hour flight).

Besides this is based on old data and as others have pointed out flying has become even safer in the last years.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...
There is a ton of value in making scientific ideas simpler. Sagan, Hawking, and plenty of others have done a great job taking complex ideas and distilling them down into apt metaphors for public consumption without grossly misrepresenting the ideas. This clickbaity title with a questionable metaphor isn't exactly in the same class.

> Of course there should be subtleties mentioned in these articles, but for a headline? I think it's ok to get people excited.

Just to disappoint them later? "Amazing thing! Okay, now that we have your attention, here's the boring truth with precious little detail, but you'll see that what we said was technically true or could be in the future."

That disappointment was what taught me as a child that people can write anything, it doesn't have to be accurate or true. So I guess some good comes out of it, but it's always been a huge turn off for me.
Is blockchain art the new contemporary art? AMA with John Crain CEO of SuperRare
There are iOS browsers that let you change the user agent and request desktop site. I'm not sure how well they work though since I haven't had a need for that feature. But you should check them out at least.
RIM failed to recognize (until too late) the desire for an iPhone-style device amongst business users, and ended up losing out to both Android and iOS devices.

After listening to the book Losing the Signal, I'm starting to think they rushed into the iPhone clone market too fast at the insistence of Verizon. I actually think they would have better off getting their ducks in a row and getting their software strategy correct before challenging Apple. It really seems like they were rushed badly.
SoftBank Commits Another $3B to WeWork
What nonsense. The links that HN has are all to publicly available websites, isn't the whole reason for their existence to be visited? How is this different from a web browser?
For what it’s worth, I find out about every new tv show and movie almost exclusively from billboards. While tough to measure, they have an affect.
The problem with them is the same as DRM essentially - you have to keep it accessible to everyone and not accessible at the exact same time. The key management is a nightmare.

I believe the best compromise would require forward thinking leadership and design. Make medical devices that must or would be served by communication and control short range by design. Ideally it could be turned off by the patient but close range enough that a doctor can access it while the patient is in no position to assist. The added danger is minimal given that anyone that close who wanted them dead could just murder them in other ways.

Have a centralized registry of valid public keys - there are debates about who should have one but that is a whole other topic. The point being that nonrepudiation - an audit trail will be left which means in cases of malfeasance the entity corresponding is the one responsible - either directly or by letting their key get compromised. The practical pain is the logistics of course.
Why on earth did he post it on Medium, then?!
How long until Tesla releases another over the air update that changes the behavior of familiar systems and causes an accident?

FTFY.
True, but “boom” has a meaning. The Austin market looks like a bust. Could it be that a company that sells outdoor ads is pushing a narrative?
your app mechanics aren't that much different than Reddit, am i wrong? How is Reddit doing it without being removed?
I would like to put forward an alternative called Ghost, I self host my version but its nice and simple.
The Soviets had no ability to land any significant force in the US. They would have poured forces into Western Europe, but both sides had so many tactical nukes there that the whole place would have ended up flattened.
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One option is to submit the app under a new dev account with a few tweaked variables ( name, colors, screenshots ) I feel like some of these rejections depend on the reviewer you get that day; and once an app is flagged, it's hard to recover.
Nope; if anything, the signal-to-noise is much lower.
I can easily understand why Greenpeace, or anybody, would not dream about having a lot of people killed in another Chernobyl and ratio cancer skyrocketing for decades. Is just a matter of common sense.
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You and me both. Now they support custom domains and HTTPS it's an even easier decision. Authoring posts in plain text and then a commit and a push to put it live (just a click of a button in a half decent editor).

According to most of the posts in this thread this is "too complicated" for your average blogger, apparently.
These are awesome, I might have to buy one. In most cases the names are what really make the piece for me. Mercy-go-round is hilarious. “King of the Road” is a great one. “A Modest Proposal for the Increase of Attendance at Classical Music Concerts” love it. Personally, I would have called “Surrogate” “Teddy Beer” instead, which is way more obvious & literal & pedestrian, I know, but that’s me.
It's funny that it still has tracking and is painful to read on the desktop because of full-width lines of text.
I've been using octopress for years. Too simple to consider changing it out for anything else.
Are you displaying the articles in a standard Safari view like Tweetbot & co? And are you sure the problem isn't triggered by the favicons (aka copyrighted logos) on the main list?
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It’s referring to how posts are stored serverside. CMS software such as Drupal, Wordpress, etc. store posts in a database. A flat-file CMS stores posts in a file, making editing and creating posts easier. Also saves on the hassle of securing an admin dashboard.
No, they had some problems (e.g. Antennaegate), but the iPhone 6 really had more than its share, and frankly, cost me the most money in repairs since I ended up paying for the repairs of 3 of 4 (family) before Apple acknowledged the problems and dropped the price of repairs. I noticed they didn't refund me any of my money.
It's perhaps useful to look at the positions of scientists themselves. First, there's not a clear boundary between scientific and non-scientific inquiry. Isaac Newton spent a considerable amount of time investigating alchemy among other subjects. He also held views well outside the mainstream on religion. [0]

Second, scientists can be just as obstinate as anyone. There is abundant evidence of scientists failing to modify their views in response to new ideas and data. Plate tectonics comes lightly to mind--many of those who opposed it never changed their minds. It prevailed in part because the opposition retired or died. [1]

If scientists themselves can be so resistant to rational inquiry, why do we uphold this as an ideal for ordinary citizens?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-continent...
Something I say a lot, especially at work, is "I could be wrong. I'm often wrong." I think it's very, very important to constantly remind yourself that you're not always right, and you're (hopefully) not the smartest person in the room. (Another rule of thumb - if you're the smartest person in the room, you need to find a better room!)

This also makes me think of the book Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. Best book I've read in years. In it, he details thought patterns common to all of us that mislead us and cause us to misunderstand or ignore even basic facts. He's not talking about "dumb people". He's talking about smart people, and how utterly wrong they are most of the time. It'll fundamentally change how you look at your own way of thinking.
They really are. Does HN not do anything against accounts that so obviously advertise?
He claims it's "bigotry" that someone cancelled his talk after he literally wrote he is proud of being sexist. Not just bigotry, sorry, but reminiscent of "Nazism."

Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpmOEfgOG-6uC7Y45UI1V...

First result for "HBO movie".
They give 3 examples at the end:

"The effect has been studied as it applies to illegal drugs and it has been shown that the potency of marijuana increased in response to higher enforcement budgets,[2] and there was a similar effect for alcohol in the U.S. during Prohibition.[3] This effect is called Iron law of prohibition or Cardinal rule of prohibition.

Another example is that Australians drink higher-quality Californian wine than Californians, and vice versa, because it is only worth the transportation costs for the most expensive wine.[4]"
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This is more of a problem with US Police
Hmm, maybe it is time for me to forgive them for their depiction of Darwin then.
I can't comprehend why companies in strong positions need to acquire the strongest company in a new category at a premium. I'd think they'd want to buy the 3rd or 4th ranked player in that category for a fraction of the price and then use their know how, clout and sales force to grab market share. That would be a win-win for themselves, the smaller company and customers.
Android TV has a unified search if you have multiple apps installed. It works very well - and on my SHIELD, highlights shows from multiple apps on the home screen with proper thumbnails etc.
The Sex Recession
Hey, Will this tarnish my social credit score ?
One reason for WW1 is Germany wanted to be a colonial power, quickly, didnt have much success except in Africa on the back of a couple of genocides, then they got themselves into a naval race with Britain that they couldnt win. Sort of a violent imperial ambition coming to a boiling point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I#Imperial...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpolitik
I am currently using an HN client on iOS which parses the article links for you and renders them into a "reader" mode without leaving the app, you can also open the link via Safari or save it to pocket.

This is exactly what his app is doing, I fail to see what are the differences between the two?
Another way to make censorship impossible:
Ask all governmental, educational and technological websites to provide VPN services or links to other VPN services.
If China wants to implement censorship, it has to ban all these websites that are essential for its economic development.
Reverse DNS typically puts me thousands of miles away. Full stop.
>It's 2018, and there are a gazillion ways to get yourself in control of your stuff.

But zero ways to get people to read it. I only read his post because it's on HN. And I read Medium stuff regularly on Medium.

The chances of most people discovering some random blog? Not so much. Whereas Medium has concentrated eyeballs and knows their preferences to serve them stuff that's close to their tastes...
EOS portfolio team is introduce a sneak peek of our upcoming Android release
On that note, a warning:

Do NOT pluck your eyelashes or nose hairs, ever!! These hair roots can cause the trigeminal nerve to become infected which can then lead to meningitis/brain infection and ultimately retardism/coma/death.

Trim if you must -- and do not use a powered trimmer either! The so called "no-pull" nose hair trimmers still cut too short or pull hairs anyways, leading to infection.

Solution: just use mini cat nail scissors. They are actually perfect shape and size to cleave nose hairs at a good length without risk of infection.

If you appreciate quality Japanese craftsmanship that will last a lifetime, I recommend Cattyman. My cats and my nose swear by them. And it's the only brand we carry at the shelter that I volunteer at. [1]

[1] https://amzn.to/2FkyiMv

Source: I am a med student and graduated with honors in Biomedical Sciences
On my regular browser size this looks something like this [1], which is borderline unreadable due to the width alone. Sure I can resize the browser at least, but even then I am finding the posts hard to read due to the font-size, letter spacing and line-height. The browser default styles did work perfectly in the 90's, but they didn't evolve when the devices use to browse the pages did. And yes, you can always use Lynx, adjust the styles myself or use a CRT display, but I most likely won't bother.

That said I am not defending current state of Medium.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/VXestU1.png
The talk about that clickbait made me click and see whats all the fuss about
Show HN: Text handle.it and it calls to make appts for you
On the latter point, just resize the browser window.

Pow, you have a choice about how wide the lines are.
I was hoping for a Proof Of Concept or a Demo...
How Big Is Amazon? Its Many Businesses in One Chart
Firefox's Reader view works brilliantly on Medium FWIW.
I think the general problem behind issues like these are that the public has repeatedly been over and over deceived by autoritative voices - might it be experts, academics or government positions.

As a consequence, when people have the gut feeling that something might be off many trust that feeling over whatever truth is them presented.

Also: >> (Or, as a friend put it about politics, "If the racists think the candidate is a racist, the candidate is probably a racist".)

is just amazingly simple minded. By the same logic all dogs are Nazis just because Hitler's dog (probably) loved him and Hitler was a Nazi after all.
That article is not a very good example. It makes some pretty twisted arguments, the sort of thing boys in college say to make themselves feel smart.
Also worth mentioning:

Computer Modern (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
DejaVu (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
Fira (sans-serif/monospace)
Inria (sans-serif/serif)
Libertinus (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
Luxi (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
Merriweather (sans-serif/serif)
Noto (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
Overpass (sans-serif/monospace)
Space (sans-serif/monospace)
Ubuntu (sans-serif/monospace)
Economies of scale. Companies start from nothing. So far the reviews have been positive, and the investment isn't exactly significant. Anyhow, best course of action is to wait it out, and see how it performs in time.
A piano + an iPad with access to YouTube is all my son needed. He worked his way through the "Free Piano Lessons for Kids" channel, just one of many channels like it.

Just amazing what can be self-taught via YouTube these days.
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I think this should be a good lesson to lots of entrepreneurs that there is a huge valuation to be had if you can find a "missing piece" that some other large company would be willing to (over)pay for.

It's also important to recognize that large corporate CEOs are incentivized to overpay for a deal. There is certainly more "glory" and bias to make big, splashy deals than the more mundane work of growing a business organically.

Tons of examples of fortunes that were made by getting some big sucker company to overpay: Yahoo -> broadcast.com, HP -> Autonomy, Time Warner -> AOL, etc.
Flipkart CEO Bansal resigned after sexual misconduct claim
A lot of the time, simply overflowing a buffer like you would in the 90s doesn't cut it thanks to all of the mitigations built in these days. Finding code that completely forgets the shape of it's data really helps get the job done though.
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I'm sure this is an error, and a moronic one at that. Otherwise even safari infringes on Apple's rules.

The real maddening thing is that there is no appeal process and no (mainstream) way to distribute your app if Apple has a vague problem with it.

I hope for a day we will have mobile devices that are free and usable.
Have we forgotten how awesome https://svbtle.com is?
Theobromine, a chemical in coffee, affects the heart by imitating the neurotransmitter adenosine and also inhibits some subtypes of phosphodiesterase. Dogs can’t metabolize it; humans can, but there may be some effects. FWIW I’m skeptical of the prof’s claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine
> I dislike this study. It naively picks out a few conservative views to lampoon as examples of irrationality (I say this as a liberal), and then hopes to generalize this as "controversial topics"

I strong object to this. Having been deeply involved both with this topic, skeptical advocacy, and having been raised deeply conservative: "GMO foods" is not a conservative anti-science issue. It's deeply "liberal", and generally stems from an inability to separate unethical corporate work and interests with the outcomes of technology. Similarly, many anti-vaccination misinformation peddlers are squarely aligned with what constitutes the "left" in American popular culture.

> This is too narrow. We shouldn't pretend that human beliefs are predominantly logical with a few strange exceptions.

Again, I think you're reading into both the study and the article. This is more a study of how people rationalize their beliefs and in some cases, political affiliations inform that. It's an important topic.

> By and large we know incredibly little, most of what we "know" is because authorities have told us about it

Science, of course, neither creates reality nor truly measures it. It can only measure our observations, and we can seek to make our observations ever more reflective of reality. The entire point of that process is for us to convince one another and survive each other's reasonable objections.

Understanding how people work themselves up to reject such a consensus-driven process, and how the mental techniques they use may be addressed. The stakes are quite high.
I hate the modern web too. I also hated the web's pseudo-skeumorphic rounded corners and drop shadows phase. Why can't we go back to good old framesets and (mostly) plain text. ;)