skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a former employee (who left for personal reasons), stories like this which compare facebook to a product that literally causes cancer make it much _easier_ to ignore criticism of the company. Once you see your umpteenth story about how facebook is the biggest force for evil in history its pretty easy to tune everything out.
The level of greed that Amazon and Bezos continue to demonstrate is sickening.
I think the poster is assuming that .startWith(“) returns a Boolean, yeah?
I don't.

But it isn't because I disagree with FB's politics. It's because all my friends (Europeans around 35 yo) just stopped using it.

They all moved to Instagram.

Facebook (the product) will be a desert by 3-5 years. However, Facebook Inc. had a lot of hindsight and bough Whatsapp and Instagram.

I commute via train every day. 99% of the phone screens are either Insta or Whatsapp.

Facebook Inc. wins.

PS: I miss Facebook (the product). I hate Insta. I loathe the fact that it's all pics and no text. I have no good way to share ideas or jokes with my friends. But if I want to know what my friends are up to, that is the app I have to use.
Tracking Earthquakes Made Easier by Machine Leaning
This link was posted on HN for a while. I dabble in meditation compared to this, but I want to do a 10 day retreat having read it.

https://github.com/deobald/vipassana-for-hackers/blob/master...

I guess the answer to your question is, do you want to understand how your mind / consciousness works? It makes sense to understand how a computer works of you do any sort of programming. Wouldn't you want to understand how your mind works as well as you use it constantly?
I agree with all those points. But these are also the reasons to not hire a freelancer at all for creating a MVP.
IT, possibly the highest stress position of that industry for years. I use practices from meditation throughout my work day to keep objective and professional.
>I'd like to NYC mayor call out Amazon instead of allowing the good people of NYC to be railroaded...

To be honest this is part of the problem. The Mayor IS deadset against giving any subsidies, but it doesn't matter. The state politicians can still do whatever they want.

So you're talking about "the good people of NYC", but that's not the level at which the decisions are being made. Same thing happened to us in Wisconsin. Maybe you had some mayors around the state dead set against giving Foxconn anything, but Walker is the governor, (or WAS the governor rather), so it didn't matter.

In short, de Blasio can call out whatever he wants, but he'll get nowhere. (In fact he has been calling it out, and got nowhere with it anyway.)

The answer really is to put these deals to a vote. We need a law that makes it so that politicians can still make these deals, but they are null and void until approved by a popular referendum.
By convention, anything suffixed with $ is a stream. input$ is a stream of input events on all elements matching the selector ".field". The declaration for name$ says to take that stream of events and turn it into a stream of the value of those events, and to seed it with an empty string as the initial value.

Reactive programming is a paradigm shift and definitely tough to wrap your head around at first. André Staltz (the creator of Cycle) has a good intro here: https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
Show HN: Program, Control and Monitor Your Hardware from the Web
Because nothing on my account is actually private.

I use fb mostly for groups (buy/sell groups, some technical knowledge sharing groups) and being up to date with band/companies news.

I accept only people I really know and like, but I rarely invite anyone first.

I don't "share my life" nor I look at other people posts about their lives (most of them haven't written a wall post in months anyway). I share "life stuff" with people in person and looks like most people are doing the same.

Oh, and while a lot of people use Messenger I completely don't. Not at all.
Beer.

Im part of a bunch of private beer raffle groups. It goes like this

1. Someone buys a rare and sought after beer (say, at a release they waited hours in line for)
2. They come up with a valuation
3. They post the beer for N spots in one of these groups (almost always 10 spots, 0-9)
4. Folks buy spots by claiming number
5. Everyone pays up
6. Once full, the next Illinois fireball pick 3 "fireball number" (0-9) that gets drawn decides winner
7 winner gets shipped their beer

These communities only exist on Facebook. And in that sense, fb works very well as a way to keep people honest (must use real accounts, must be vouched for to become a member)

Yeah its a niche, but it's my niche.
That's probably not enough.
It's a very difficult problem, first lets just look at data throughput:

1000 samples/sec, 4 bytes per sample, 32 nodes - that's 128Kb / second. Not crazy by any means. However, you then have to process that... That's doing an FFT + binning (in the case of brain waves). All doable at probably 60 FPS (where a frame is the prior 1 - 3 seconds).

Still not a problem, then try to do error correction! You have 32 sensors, what's real, what's an artifact? That's when things slow way down typically. This type of analysis can be done after the fact and you essentially guess at errors. Removing known issues or more likely from a research perspective they just mark those sections of the data and remove them.

Here's where what we built comes in:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/using-computer-vision-to-improve-...

The above is all about post processing, however, I managed to improve the method and write a proof-of-concept for a real-time application that removes artifacts in EEG signals, BUT leaves the underlying signal (AKA you don't need to throw away the whole sample). This can function to capture error corrected brain waves at 50 Hz with 512 samples per second + a 50hz video stream. Probably could do more.

This is extremely technically complicated and probably took a year or so to develop. This enables real-time stream (50Kb / second) to our hosted server and real-time applications:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/view-brainwave-data-thinksuite-io...

Unfortunately, I couldn't find someone willing to support the work further, and even though we had maybe 30 people vouching $300 each. That wasn't enough to continue the work. Most of this work concluded in early 2017.

For reference, I may apply for an SBIR grant coming up to fund additional work on this (my wife started graduate school, utilizing EEGs, so it aligns pretty well).

Honestly, if anyone is interested in this please let me know. Its an area of interest, just couldn't justify the expense or time investment (now working on this: https://hnprofile.com/)
There was a very expensive compiler for the Apple ][. Apple Pascal, based on UCSD Pascal, had its own operating system, released in 1979. I ran into it in 1983 in my very first computer class (8th grade).
https://apple2history.org/history/ah17/#01
It’s not that the code is not production ready. It’s more about first impressions. There are some really fundamental issues with the presentation. The first thing you do when starting a new git repo is create your .gitignore.

I’m also not a Pythonista and I’ve only been working with Python for about a year, but including required packages in the requirements.txt is like Python 102.
karanchahal, not sure if this can be renamed retroactively, but this may have been a good "Show HN" candidate: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Regardless, it's a cool idea that made me laugh a bit at first (seems almost absurd at first glance) but then got me thinking about possibilities. Good job!

It would be great if you could get it in a state where people could really try it out (even in an unpolished state), either locally or ideally with a web-based demo.
a next step would be for the virus to fix the cells from which the gametes derive, then your future offspring would be cured as well
China has mastered the balancing act between authoritarian and free market policies. In a way, the West's persistence that eventually prosperity would lead to Democratic policies always seemed a bit condescending and short sighted to me, democracy is a strong form of government, but why does it have to be the only one?

The big variable here is growth, the social contract between China and it's citizens seems to be one of: we'll provide you with massive growth in exchange for privacy and lack of control. There was plenty of space for growth and millions of Chinese moved to the middle class, but once growth slows will they demand more? Has the government clamped down on speech already been too effective to derail a liberalization movement?

At the end of the day, I think China is just too large to not outpace the United States as a global leader. China has learned how to grow from all the Western Powers and has an incredible amount of greenfield to keep going.
What’s the purpose of developing in the open if not to get feedback? A pat on the back and a attaboy doesn’t help anyone improve.
For those confused, the op is complaining because some protesters staged a protest on a few bridges in London last week over their view that the UK government is not doing enough to tackle climate change. Civil disobedience existed well before the internet, on a far larger scale.
- I have a self-published book at http://discover-haxeflixel.com/. Makes around 70£ per month.

- I've got several android apps at https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=leoncvlt. together they bring in about £80 a month. One of them, however, was recently picked as 'editor's choice' by google and this month alone brought in £600, hopefully it keeps some of that steam.

- Built https://cosflowy.com/ in the last year, my biggest project to date which ironically brings in the least, just enough to pay for server costs. Need to do more marketing work, but I find it twice as tiring than actual development itself.

Lots of small things but no golden bullets yet. I'll keep trying!
We support just the ESP8266 chipset meaning all development boards based around the ESP8266 chipset can be programmed, controlled and monitored using
http://inventone.ng/#/workspace
Most smaller countries get subsidies from bigger ones. As the ruler of a small country, if you don’t play ball, those subsidies will go away, you’ll be blackballed, you won’t get those prestigious official visits that can boost your local popularity, you won’t get preferential treatment or inclusion in free-trade agreements, your citizens will have to pay for tourist visas, your exports will be triple-checked and slowed down at ports, the powerful “allied” military won’t show up at your ports (which makes your neighbours think twice about bullying you), etc etc etc. There are a million ways to basically ostracise a country without the issue ever surfacing on international media.
Mass starvation because of trade friction (not blockades!) is a possible outcome of no-deal — at least, it genuinely looks like one to me.

That’s one point I’m making.

That outcome is so severe that it’s considered “don’t be silly, they would never allow it” territory, and the single reason I have for treating it otherwise myself is the observation that many who campaigned for Brexit publicity denounce much smaller losses as “just project fear”.

A worse point is that I have twice seen it suggested the UK makes use of its nuclear arsenal to get a more favourable outcome. The first of those named the city I now live in (Berlin) as the target.
From the basic, read from a sensor and display into an online view. https://ibb.co/hC0kKf

To the somewhat complex, https://ibb.co/h9mmQL
The large majority of those UK professional shops were using 16 bit machines for coding those 8 bit games, while deploying them over connection cables.

Coding on the machines themselves was more of an indie kind of thing.

Plenty of stories about it on the Retro Gaming Magazine.

Most of my friends back on the 8 bit days never learned to code anything beyond LOAD "", as they had plenty of games to choose from at the local bootleg shop.
In the Viniyoga tradition, meditation is on an object that is chosen by a teacher for their student. The object is chosen very carefully for the situation of the student. The student works one on one with the teacher. There are class situations, although these are for getting an introduction to the tradition.

In this tradition, the meditation comes after the asana practice (yoga exercises) in order to prepare the body and the mind for the meditation. I have found this to be very effective.
ZFS and "complex management"? there comes nothing close in the open source market than ZFS and its easy and straightforward to use management tools in my opinion.

You don't need a handful of tools just to do one simple task, just hack away at the zfs and zpool commands and everything gets done. No need for parted, mdadm, lvm or support of your needs compiled into the kernel.
No matter on which operating system you are currently, you only need those two tools and they work the same everywhere.
You drag blocks, snap them together and you are ready to build your first firmware.

What do you think about this guys?
Cynthia Nixon was also a thorn in Cuomo's side during the primaries, and much further left.
Thank you so much in advance.

Awaiting your feedback.
Tooting your own horn is a foundational block of HN and very welcome!
To not lie about Messenger: I use it on webpage directly as a private contact initiation when buying/selling stuff. We exchange telephone numbers and that's usually all.

And when somebody starts a random conversation (hadn't happen in a while) I just redirect them somewhere else.

I also keep away from FB/Messenger apps and I avoid visiting FB on phone.

On my pc I block trackers and stuff.

I think all of above is sane way of using Facebook.
Tumblr for iOS mysteriously disappears from the App Store
Nothing would change. There's only one party in this country, the Property, War, & Corporate Party.
NYC is majority renter.
USA's best and brightest minds are currently being used to figure out how to sell ads for corrupt social media companies
Facebook does have utility for making new friends. Just last night I was out at a bar, chatting to some people, and at the end we added eachother on Facebook. We need some kind of service like Facebook, just one which is fully encrypted and where the data is in the users hands.
Man, I should start pasting my bookmarks on HN - that will give major boost to my HN score.
Aaaaand we've come full circle back to Microsoft Foundation Class builder that was all the rage in the early 1990s.
Spot on. The English language had plenty of words to express concepts as "bragging", "showing off", and so on.

"virtue signalling" has been quickly turn into a dog whistle within the alt-right.
I honestly have not an account since an year but just for two reasons:

- all of my contacts stopped using it well before, basically their whole profiles were empty of any news, photo or share. They just used it to read some news from some groups

- I was still there because a group of my college was still active and I needed the contacts with some of those people. As soon as I didn't need them anymore I left

SW-eu seems a totally empty space for facebook for what I could see. New generations are directly ignoring it, old generations are not even using it, and my generation has just stopped to find it useful at all
Thanks, but I'll stick with Sketch.
Germany didn’t pay market prices, thanks to US subsidies, and even defaulted on their debt.
A. Most people aren't really that worried about ethics. They are more worried about having a job.

B. Humans are really talented at counting the good something does for themselves/their people and discounting the harm it does others. See racism, sexism, nationalism etc.

C. The primary reason FB is getting so much flak is because it's gotten so big. There are many people who derive some kind of benefit from it or it wouldn't be that big.
Sure (if you think there’s a non-trivial amount a person can drink and still drive safely). But as applied to programming languages?
I would like to request my data and delete, but severing the only mechanism I have for finding some people I know from previous academic programs is anxiety-inducing, so I avoid making a final decision.

I've been bearish on it for a while now. I think I've been pondering deleting my account since around 2011 or 2012.

I'm not sure when I last logged in.

To a lesser degree, it's also probably the only way I'll find out if a few former professors/mentors die. I am slowly discounting the value of this one because I visit so infrequently that I already only find these out if my spouse notices, or someone I stay in regular contact texts/emails about it. I should probably look into configuring search/news alerts for this, or something.
Stop. Just because you refuse to do basic troubleshooting doesn't mean this person shouldn't have showed it off.
Should EBS no longer be called Elastic Block Store because people new to Linux don't know the difference b/w block and object storage? Where does it stop? Should programming languages no longer use terms like lambda functions and generics that take some technical reading to understand? New users can read one of the countless AWS books on Safari or one of the countless guides online if they need a technical brushup beforehand.

AWS is a technical product, it's not Wordpress or Mailchimp. Just like Cadence makes EDA products and MATLAB makes maths software, AWS makes datacenter computing available on the cloud. It's not aimed at users who have a few minutes of experience with some Lubuntu desktops at home.
I love living in flyover country.
There have been a number of FDA and even OTC approved NSAIDs which may have killed off millions... I don't know who profits from the present system, but it ain't patients.
I just use directly telegram, the cool thing is I have not even to give them my real number
As someone facing the implications of a not so good deal in Wisconsin, I agree with Bradley here, NYC got a VERY good deal. It's just that my experience in Wisconsin has made me look at all of these sorts of deals in a different light.

We need to have something like "checks and balances" on these things. Sometimes they just get way out of hand.
That's different. According to that page, Abagnale served 5 years in prison (6 months in solitary confinement), and had to work for the feds for a while "without pay". Then when he first got legitimate work, he was usually fired.

I'd be willing to hire someone who cheated and was caught and served time, but not someone who cheated without consequence and boasted about it.

The commenter here doesn't sound like they segued that into a career catching academic cheaters. They just used it as a stepping stone to their next personal accomplishment.
Made 2$. I created WhatsApp Business Account ( Basically WhatsApp Business App for Business) and I help people with their questions. For example someone pinged and asked what is best tv to buy during black Friday. I see people value for real human feedback
Bricking every intel cpu,Using a likely 0 day in JunOS and ASR routers to make them all inoperable for a few days,similar wipe outs of cloud provider infrastructure come to mind.

But if I was the well resourced attacker I would use multiple teams and target a diverse variety of important services and infrastructure and coordinate an phased long term(weeks) attack. I would not cripple the internet as a whole,especially social media. In battle,hiding your location and intent is crucial to victory.

Social media would play a critical role in sowing confusion amidst the chaos. Isolate part of the country and spread a message that some internal political group (antifa or alt-right for example) launched a physical WMD attack,use access to fortune 500 company networks to send emails and other communication indicating internal collapse of the companies,one corp is going bankrupt,another has been lying about profits is under SEC investigation. Chaos after chaos. The goal of a "cyber 9/11" would not be to cripple the internet but (imho)rather to exploit it to acheive three independent goals:

1) Long term (multi?)National and Economical instability and possibly collapse.

2) Make the internet as it stands today a mortal threat to society.

3) As a precursor to a physical invasion. The kinetic attack would be only of the many rumors and reports being circulated. Any and all damage to your enemy's communications brings you one step closer to victory with minimal effort.

More on goal #2: The goal of 9/11 was not to kill some americans. The goal was to destabilize the west by attacking important symbols of economic and political prosperity. It worked,economy was only momentarily destabilized but 17 years later america and the west are grappling to keep their democracies and basic freedoms. The goal of terrorism is to terrorize not to merely kill(which is why mass shooters are not labeled terrorists,their intent is murder not change through terror). A Cyber 9/11 would have similar goals where the intent is to change and cause long term weakening of the adversary.

What makes the internet strong is not BGP,DNS and secure operating systems. It's the fact that people trust it for reliable and resilient communication and governments view it as a strength to their political and economical stability as opposed to a dangerous liability. The goal of terrorism is to change your beliefs so that fear resulting from the attack changes your policy and principles.
It's only a matter of time before foreign hackers have the power to turn off the United State's electrical grid. Look how Russia did it in Ukraine.
It’s tax breaks. If you don’t employ enough people, you won’t be paying enough taxes to take advantage of tax breaks anyway.
Put very curedly, they're getting high.

And, everybody's getting high.

Life is about pleasure.

If you found out that you can feel really, really good by sitting and doing nothing... would you do it? Of course you would. :)

Now the stark reality however, is that to be able to sit and meditate properly requires to be already at home in the body. Any amount of trauma will make that particularly difficult. As soon as you sit, you have to work through restlessness, anxiety, and myriad of other unpleasant states of mind. And they all come up.. it's like a purge of the nervous system.

In fact I was just recently reading an article about the unexpected side effects of meditation. This is not talked about enough.

Meditation Is a Powerful Mental Tool—and For Some People It Goes Terribly Wrong

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-...

edit: forgot this beautiful quote: "First, you chase the truth. Then truth chases you".
> More than anything Northern Virginia should withdraw their proposal, Amazon wants the Government cloud business so bad that Virginia has Amazon over a barrel.

Don't they already have this essentially locked in?

https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEc6kVAXSs8&feature=youtu.be...

Second link has the CIO of the CIA talking about it
Question: do HN-ers think that Russia and /or China have the capability of, say, shutting down our grid or water supplies? The army would have to restore order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977...

I think they do, but we can return the favor.
GP/GAs were more popular than NNs before NNs started to use gpu a few years ago and had already some real world applications like antenna design or circuit solvers. That said GP (or GA) didn't gathered the same fame NNs have now since using gpu with NNs let NNs provide results far better than GA/GP using only cpu. If someome will have a smart idea on how to get the advantages of using the gpu with GA/GP then GA/GP will become seriously popular.