skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This changed recently.

I installed WA on a new phone last week and it asked for the "Access Contacts" permission.

I denied and the app worked just fine, without showing my contacts.

In general, the trend to optional permissions asked on first use is introduced in more and more apps and it's refreshing.
This looks awesome!

Does anybody know if there's something similar written in node or python? I'd love to build a similar project, but I'm confused by ActivityPub, and having some source code I can understand as an example would be really helpful.
World's Largest Model Railway in Google Maps Street View
This isn't correct. It's obviously a revolutionary change.
Thank you, this was actually tremendously useful for me because you used simple language/short sentences and are quite thorough. My only remark is that if your intended audience is more on the beginner side, they will likely lose focus early on during the initial history lesson. However if your intended audience is actually me, I found it fascinating and appreciate you making this great free resource!
Detailed job descriptions won't necessarily tell you much either.

But... You can still know averages, and distributions and such. I am paid less than 82% of people/engineers at this company.

Besides that, you probably know more about your colleagues' contribution than anyone. That's the important comparison.

Apart from that, people are emotional, not stupid. We understand prices. People will live with being paid less than others. The transition will be emotional. There'll be a backlog of salary adjustments that will happen. We'll adjust though.
GraphQL Server Design  Medium
Controlling the scheduling of Kubernetes pods on spot instance clusters
I'm also concerned with such permissions and getting users accustomed to granting them for any and every app that asks for them (users don't need to be made more complacent than they are).
When Netflix a few months ago prompted me with "Hey your number is a Whatsapp account, do mind if we send notifications via Whatsapp?" I was generally horrified.

It felt a serious transgression of my privacy. Though in hindsight I realised it was an easy task, I can, after all, see if people are using Whatsapp if I have their number so there is little to stop companies doing the same lookup if they have my number.

But it felt very uncomfortable.

I don't want companies involved with my Whatsapp, it is exclusively for messaging my missus, and group chats with friends and family. Nothing else.

I did read somewhere that one of the founders said the aim was to integrate apps/companies into Whatsapp, but for me "No!".

I am dreading what the ad monetisation will be like. Since everyone I am friends with, related to or worked with use Whatsapp, their market penetration is ubiquitous here in my London ecosphere. Hope they don't ruin that.
NewSQL Database powered core banking system on China's Singles Day
More likely for the same reason Google went public; when above some size, US companies have essentially all the reporting and disclosure requirements of a public company.

When companies reach that stage, the rational thing to do is .. go public, so you’d also get the benefits (share liquidity and ability to raise money publicly)
I'm looking forward to when these are integrated into Recaptcha...
And that's if their analysis of the click to conversions funnel is really good.

Otherwise, the OP is wasting time and bandwidth sending a "this demographic loves our ads, let's buy more of them" message to the brand, and a "these individuals like to click on ads so we can probably stick a few more in their message stream" message to Facebook...
And also which languages they use it with and how that's handled (if it is) would be nice to know.
FDA’s MyStudies Application (App)
SoftBank's Son Is Raising $21B in IPO to Fund Tech Deals
Top Facebook VR exec may have been fired for his Trump support
Computing highly oscillating integrals using Python
Soulscape and Project Atlas partner to enable leaders to thrive without burnout
What did you switch them to?
> That is a ridiculous statement with absolutely no evidence to back it up.

I’d hate to bring it up but here goes: SPDY was designed specifically to load the Google homepage quickly on typical American DSL MTU configuration, even with all that JavaScript tracking enabled.

Turned on it’s head: SPDY was designed to make google’s wide tracking of end-users impact page-load times as little impact as possible, to avoid it being a cause of end-user dissatisfaction.

SPDY was extremely tailored to a very niche need which first and foremost serves Google.
What do you mean? I save a lot of time in web development using solutions created by others. I don't think this problem is unique to JS/web development but to software development as a whole. "Not invented here" syndrome is quite prevalent in a lot of areas and sometimes lack of options doesn't mean it will make the product any better. Quite the contrary it can mean that everyone is using the same buggy solution because there are no alternatives.

I do not know the details of mission control technology but my uneducated guess would be that this is a cultural/management problem in these organizations. Top-down hierarchy with very large resistance to change would make introducing of new ideas (open source solution in this case) a tough job for any single actor. Also the IT-contractors or companies benefitting from selling these solutions are probably doing everything they can to keep the status quo as it is.
> Did everyone just forget about the recent security chip deployment by Apple that literally makes it so you can't boot Linux from the internal ssd?

This is a mischaracterizsation. You can boot Linux, it is up to Linux to have driver support for the T2 SSD controller so that it can detect it as storage.
What Can I Buy with Employee Stock Options? A Real Employee’s Story
Agreed. I wonder just how stymied tech has been by memory costs and tech. Recent years have seen an increase in cores but not much in ram. We should be talking about persistent storage at ram speeds or closer fractions of terabytes of ram available for workstations.
Those dialogs are about GDPR consent. You do not know what you are talking about.
By who?

If you're running out against an Akamai or Cloudfoare reverse proxy in front of your website, then sure. If not, no; they don't have wiretaps.
The simple answer is that they (mostly) serve different markets
Is Bitcoin quantum resistant? Just asking for a friend. It would be embarrassing if Bitcoin's crypto was undermined in the near future.
Is it a board game?
> Wait, do you pay for phone call?
> I pay £7 per month for this phone service.

So you pay for phone calls? I don't think the message you are replying to is suggesting a cost per message. Just that it is usual for their to be a cost associated with the service (unlike WhatsApp at the moment).
If I were an executive and an employee came to me literally crying because one of their coworkers had a political opinion they didn't like, I would tell that person that it was none of their business and that they were acting inappropriately by injecting their politics into their work. If they continued to make problems, I'd let them go.

I wouldn't allow my company to become a political battleground and ethically I would feel it was the right thing to do (even if more people were upset).
Adapting the process to the team is exactly the spirit of "agile". If you switch to a different word like "lean" then shady consultants and vendor snake-oil salesmen will just come along and corrupt it the same way they did "agile".

In reality there isn't a lot of dogma underlying agile. For example, agile has nothing to do with CSM's, story points, Jira, velocity, "sprints", etc.
It wasn’t clear to me exactly what that meant, either. Reports made to environmental agencies may be falsified for national security, avoidance of public alarm, and cleanup-avoidance reasons. Many of the activities here are secret and classified, after all. My interpretation is that this would mean they have been altered to cover up alarming facts about pollution as well as to not inform rivals about weapons research activities.

The federal government has been battling the state about environmental cleanup for 40 years. For example, they wanted a permanent nuclear waste disposal site at Los Alamos - state of NM doesn’t agree.
A few years ago I went on an online hunt down various still running gopher sites. It was interesting, seeing the various things people had put online and forgotten about.
What Errors Lurk in Infer.NET Code?
Ternary computing (fashionable again because of IoTA platform), n-computing, quantum computing (this waiting for hardware breakthrough).
Shane Parrish has become an unlikely guru for Wall Street
In the experiment, humans showed a minor drop in accuracy (<10%) after seeing the stimulus for 63ms. The presentation was so short that humans made a considerable amount of mistakes even with the non-adversarial examples. In contrast, neural networks get adversarial stimuli consistently wrong even though they are allowed to fully process them. The results also do not prove that the underlying mechanisms are the same in humans and neural networks.
“Killing in the Name” became 2009 UK Christmas number one
That's a condescending non-response.

I don't seem to be the only "somebody" with an opinion about the cultural and historical differences and power plays between the Scotts and the English playing a role:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/adam-ramsay/eight-reasons-s...

The alternative is what? One or the other ethnicity having the unique capacity of rational thinking to vote Brexit/Bremain? Or one side for some reason having some very different actual benefit or harm from the EU?
Excellent :-)

I just looked through the other repositories and found the vim script [1] which kinda fits my personal workflow :-D

I really like what you are building.

[1]: https://github.com/writeas/write-as.vim
Even though I don't publish my posts everywhere, I use the pandoc markdown, which you can extend to some degree with YAML definitions; see e.g. one of my blog posts [0]. Probably not a silver bullet, but it should be able to hold the info you want to store.

[0] https://gitlab.com/moviuro/try.popho.be/blob/master/wg.md
Startup Security Utility -> Secure Boot -> No Security

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198
That's a little different. They thought the bacteria was harmless and were trying to study distribution, not effects. In hindsight we know it caused negative effects so we consider it stupid.

In comparison, testing actual chemical weapons that are supposed to be harmful in proximity to and upwind of a city is stupid in foresight and hindsight.
How to Create a Custom-Styled Google Map in React
Google’s hometown passes new business tax to cope with rise in tech commuters
I previously closed a ton of other social media accounts and guess what, my friends are still my friends and my family has not abandoned me. In fact I have more time for friends and family now. In hind-sight most social media use was just a giant waste of my time. Now people just call me or send me an e-mail when they need to contact me. Signal-to-noise is much better.
Have a Github Rating App. Here is your next +$1b idea Microsoft is buying. Unless people fake recommendations too lol.
"data driven decision making"
They can’t subvert everybody. In the latter world, you’d have some independent researchers saying it was highly accurate. In reality, the ineffectiveness of lie detectors doesn’t seem to be in any dispute when studied scientifically.
Cheers! Glad you like it!
I'm pretty sure when I joined Whatsapp you could pay to have access for a couple of years, so it had a sustainable model, especially if they just turned the dial slowly on pricing.
That’s so cool! I really miss Chicago some days.
>People can want independence without it being a personal slight against you

I'm not sure what that means. I'm pro Scottish independence, and I would even be pro Brexit (given the state of democracy in EU).
Hardly anyone I know uses skype anymore, due to their call quality being significantly worse than the competition, and it eating up battery life.

Facebook Messenger and whatsapp dominate the home market. Zoom.us, slack, hangouts and others are popular for business.
This is very cool! i got into high powered model rocketry as a hobby and made my own very basic, command line driven, mission control software. My rocket has a little raspberry pi zero wired up with an IMU and some other sensors. On the pad it connects to my mission control system over wifi running on my laptop. I get to do the whole launch sequence and "the launch computer has taken over the countdown" thing (technically a no-no but it's just for fun on my own). The onboard flight computer detects apogee using a barometer, accelerometer, and a kalman filter which then deploys the chute with a little black powder charge. It's a very fun and educational hobby but can get $$
The phrase is probably not necessary in a lot of circumstances but I think it has value as a cautionary tale warning against accepting as fact the statements by people in positions of power. I am surprised that many people are not aware of the origins and therefore actual meaning of the phrase.
You're posting too fast. Slow down. Thanks.
This is great material, thanks!
I'm betting you'd still need to install a new track designed for the purpose, but you might be able to clamp it on to the existing framework. Irrigation stuff is below and would be tough to move around, maybe the robots dangle off the side?
Jump-start digital transformations at low-volume, high-complexity manufacturers
The article mentions ads on the private feed. I don’t use this feature, is it the leftmost tab — statuses?

Since most of the world runs on Android, they are already accustomed to ad supported software. While not a welcome change for me, I doubt I will ever encounter them.
Bitfinex – New high frequency/size wire withdrawals fee
... And this isn't even the Onion. I always have the feeling that the UK is obsessed with surveillance and security in an even creepier way than the US, but I can't quite put my finger on the reason. It's not like the US and other countries aren't trying very hard to control and monitor their citizens, it just feels a lot more dystopian in the UK. Maybe it's because movies/shows/stories that are dystopian are set in the UK more?
The Efficiency of Brazil’s Elections Is a Stark Contrast to Voting in the U.S
> I think a lot of people would get the data in to excel and not know what to do next. Also, implementing tracking of views, clicks, etc. is non-trivial for a lot of people. Or just a hassle.

Really? In "enterprise" class companies? Managers who can't use Excel like this should be (and probably are) fired quickly and for tracking there are plenty of solutions any junior web developer can implement and report on.
I can see using oversized fonts is a bit of a pattern with this author.
Facebook killed their core platform by watering down the communication between my friends and family with business adverts and pages.

I suspect they will kill WhatsApp the same way.
facepalm (was too late to edit)

yes
I changed the title from 'The Efficiency of Brazil’s Elections Is a Stark Contrast to Voter Suppression and Deliberate Chaos in the U.S.' because of title length rules on HN.
There are probably more issues. Plenty of websites might not work with Cloudflare's DNS, since there is some noticeable amount of abuse towards DNS coming from their network. I've seen crap like a flood of "msn.com" queries coming from different Cloudflare IPs. That would be a reason enough to firewall anything coming from them to port 53.
The problem with charging (any amount) is network effects. When the value of a service depends on other users using it, anything that limits user numbers is a no-go.

The reason the business rationale for WhatsApp (and lots of other digital services) is so wired is because the normal dynamics is supply and demand don't apply.

In a "normal" market, the cost of providing a service and revenue tend to be similar... because companies compete on price.

The revenue potential of WhatsApp is completely unrelated to the cost of inventing or running WhatsApp. The revenue potential has nothing to do with the value to customers. Weird inputs, weird outputs.
Do you think Signal doesn’t cost a good amount of money per year?
The philosophy and practicality of Emergent Ventures
Ship it and sell it for $15!
You're a Good Man, Franz Stigler.
N-Acetyl Cysteine, available OTC, supposedly helps with intrusive thoughts, I take it and haven't noticed a large difference but I'm not aware of any adverse effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423164/
Yes but the engineering tradeoffs for space are harder. You have to get the vessel into space in the first place. The pressure hull of a sub can be stupidly heavy because it needs to sink. (Yes I know this is a gross over simplification).
Element AI Lays Out Its Product Roadmap at Web Summit
You don't even need a knife for fingerprints, you can lift them off of whatever that person has touched.
I wasn’t aware of that, good point. I’m sure either way the “shareholder value” gimmick is still a viable excuse for FB making these kinds of decisions.
Your point may be obvious to you, but it's indecipherable to others. Could you elaborate?
Music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology
I'm particularly fond of the idea of doing something different than conventional foundations. Current foundations are almost all run the same way, by the same kinds of people: http://seliger.com/2008/01/23/foundations-and-the-future. This is obvious to anyone who interacts with them. EV may to be conventional foundations what YC was to conventional VCs (although there are some key differences between nonprofits and businesses).
That’s not getting the JIT entitlement as your prior comment claimed. ;)
Also, fb already have an ad business. They don't have a b2b software business. If Salesforce had bought WhatsApp, they might be interested in the b2b idea. They probably wouldn't be into the advertising idea.
No,you cant tell how pixels will change when you nudge a camera normally without recalculating everything. If environment is differentiable you can cheat and see for instance that you needed to move your arm a little to the left last bowl to get a strike (moving your arm effects your hand which shifts the ball which knocks down more pins which increases your score)
SuperMUC-NG
For Cyph[1], we went with SPHINCS[2] for signing and a combination of McEliece (specifically McBits[3]), NTRU[4], and SIDH[5] for public key encryption.

We also considered QcBits[6] as a more space-efficient alternative to McEliece, but it just seemed too new / not well understood for our tastes, and last I saw there was a recent attack on it that hadn't been mitigated yet. Definitely keeping an eye on it for the future though.

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1: https://www.cyph.com/castle

2: https://sphincs.cr.yp.to

3: https://tungchou.github.io/mcbits

4: https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto

5: https://github.com/Microsoft/PQCrypto-SIDH

6: https://tungchou.github.io/qcbits
Ever since Business of Software forums died off, I've been looking for a replacement. As you say, when you go looking for them, all you will find are these 'hustler' filled places. In the early days, HN had a fair share of BoS refugees, but those have been overtaken by other crowds. Of course these are different times compared to 15 years ago, but I would think there would still be bootstrappers around?
I've been looking for something to fill the void left by WordPress and Ghost in the self-hosted blog engine space.

This feels like it could do the job. I'll look at it a little closer and see if it has good answers to my remaining questions.
Test and proven: The blockchain technology provides faster transaction approvals
One just needs to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal to see that some seemingly didn't even care if they killed babies...
It’s only silly if you’re not changing your processes. If you’re keeping the same people doing everything manually instead of automating, or honestly if you’re keeping the same headcount and if you’re not developing and depending on services provided by your provider and instead you’re self hosting services on VMs, of course you’re going to spend more.

But I blame most of the cost overruns when using cloud providers on “consultants” who think they are “moving to the cloud” when all they really know is how to setup a little networking infrastructure and know nothing about how to use the developer, Devops, or other hosted solutions.

Most ”consultants” I’ve run across only know how to do a lift and shift and do a one to one mapping of the on prem VMs and networking infrastructure to the cloud. They know nothing about automation, transforming Devops practices, or transforming development practices and architecture.

A lift and shift should only be the first phase.
That's pretty common when talking about the actions or product of a non-sentient structure. It helps to differentiate the product from the person. If you say "I released a new version", the end result is tied to the individual. If you say "we released a new version", even if it's just one person, it makes it clear that the new version is the output of the company/organization/collective/structure/etc, even if that company/organization/collective/structure/etc is just one person.

It's kind of like a single-owner LLC. The structure limits the liability by detaching responsibility from the owner and attaching it to the corporation, even though the corporation is in reality just the one person. It's a very abstract concept that just implies a product can be separate from the individual who created it.
I found it helped my compulsion to repeatedly check if I locked a door was to check, and then say, out loud, to myself, "OK, it's locked." Just throwing it out there for someone else.
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"think of the children" or "protect you from terrorists" or whatever the next cause to all our problems are will be used as an argument when it'll time to make this mainstream.
Visual Dialog: upload an image and discuss it with the bot
Why Specialized Skills Training Is Overtaking MBA Programs
Not OP but:

Almost everyone old enough to have a shred of memory regarding the last time global politics went this way has passed away.
Learn Go ;-)

No seriously, spend an evening on doing the tour [1] and you won't regret it (all you need is a browser). Actually, the syntax is kinda clean and easy to read. Python might look cleaner at first glance, but it has a lot more tricks you need to learn to understand someone else's code.

Writing Go on the other side is more complicated as you have to learn how to design interfaces properly and there are a lot of common mistakes everybody does in the beginning.

[1]: https://tour.golang.org
> Certainly the idea that there would be billions of pocket computers might as well have been science fiction.

There were a lot of people working on the ideas behind this kind of portable computing, even then. Just a few examples:

* Electronic pocket calculators were a thing back into the early 1970's

* HP had a portable almost-PC called the 95LX that was released in '91, and the Newton was also early 90's.

* Companies like Sharp were making pocket computers back into the early 80's. Some of these were PDA-style organizers, but there were also some that just ran BASIC on a one line display

* PenPoint and Pen windows were also early 90's.

Maybe the scale would have seemed incredible, but the concepts were very much in flight at the time.
Oops. Edited a fix in.
... and persistent 1st party cookies which are then allowed to stick around for up to a year.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1711/1711.04235.pdf
Sure. So, then, why did you posit a direct parallel between optical illusions and adversarial images?
Any one used this for non trivial use cases?
The Experience Economy