skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but even then, half of these are super obscure projects even people in Hackernews, which are generally more tech knowledgeable, have never heard of.

Who here knows what Dodgeball, Jaiku, Sidewiki or Fast Flip were?

Hell, to be honest, even within the valley, I often meet people that don't even know what more "popular" products like Wave or iGoogle were.
Really good job on this!
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Sounds like MagSafe has allowed people to treat their laptops like crap. Seriously I love MagSafe but the stories people describe make it sound like you have cables dangling around and you just walk into them on purpose.
I think part of it is AWS still has the broadest feature set. Also, the "dev ex" part gets easier especially if you are using AWS services through its CLI, and not through the console.

Agreed that the console's UX violates almost every UX principle in terms of its use of signifiers, etc.
The comment did not feel even slightly "compassionate": it felt like a cold, dispassionate template, the kind of thing read off by someone who knew they should care but didn't _really_, followed by a phone number.

Part of what makes it so _not_ compasssionate is how "lazy" the thought is; FWIW, so far _no one_ in this discussion of this issue has mentioned the OP's website: there is essentially a suicide note on it right now, claiming they have already died. The attached blog is all about suicide, and goes into their issue.

They have a protected Twitter account, a deleted Facebook, apparently Google+ (is that still a thing?), LinkedIn, GitHub, and Instagram... I have sent a message via Instagram (but the account is empty, so maybe entirely unused and abandoned).
If you see JS errors related to the extension or HTTP errors in the console of the developer tools, please file an issue with the errors on GitHub. It would help understanding what's going wrong.

EDIT: it could be related to the fact that SingleFile is maybe more strict regarding the HTTP header "Content-Type". For example, it will discard images with "text/html" as content type value.
Most of Wave could probably be replaced by a shared Google Doc instead. But then if you remove all that stuff, I'm not sure if what's left is really worth introducing a whole new paradigm for. I think the lesson really is, if you need that kind of workflow, just use a live doc.
It would be hard for me to imagine better support than we get from AWS support. Yes, we're paying for enterprise support and that's not inexpensive, but the support itself is phenomenal.

We literally have AWS technical generalists on-site once a week and they bring in subject matter experts on specific topics/services as-needed, sometimes on-site, sometimes via video.
How does Australia do it? Or are their fires less intense? The human factor seems the biggest problem in this - keep the vegetation near the house cut back. https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/we-ca...
I couldn't disagree more, but I'm sure everyone is aware that everyone has their opinions. I have given my grandparents windows, mac and linux operating systems. You know which one worked for them the best? Linux, because I was able to configure it to work exactly the way they wanted their everyday computer to work.
A law enforcement agency can't investigate unless there is reason to believe a particular law was broken. Congress could though.
Was 100% certain this was me until I realized it wasn't about beer.
When I tried Ubuntu a few years ago, I was very irritated by the fact that many apps did not work with the keyboard at all. It was mouse or nothing (except for text fields).
Sure, but this is Google Fonts so if someone comprises that then they have access to many sites on the web.

I will say that this is probably overly complex and it would be easier to just download and serve the font files from your own domain instead. The CSS optimization isn't that necessary and is pretty much the same for all modern browsers.
+1

It's worth noting that even as someone who frequents tech and hackernews frequently, I still didn't know what half the stuff on there was. Things like Dodgeball, Jaiku, Gears, Fast Flip, Urchin or Aardvark. Never even heard these names before.
The law of duality just seems to be Zipf's law with an arbitrary cutoff at #2...
By analogy...

Our relationship with shops has changed over the last 30 years thanks to CCTV (affordable webcams) and point of sale systems. We went from an era where we were not expected to be 'filmed as we shopped' to taking it for granted.

In the pre-CCTV days different strategies were needed for preventing slippage. Helpful shop assistants would ask suspicious customers if they 'needed any help'. Having stock locked away in glass fronted cabinets helped too, having all the goodies behind the counter or in hard to get to window displays helped too. There was a lot more going on than physical security though.

If your prices were actually reasonable and if everyone in town loved your store then you wouldn't get robbed. Being locally owned rather than part of a chain helped as theft from a big chain could be imagined to be only costing some notional insurance company (in a thief's mind wanting to justify stealing). Community also mattered in that nobody wants to steal from a shop they rely on, so getting barred from the local newsagents was not a desirable outcome. Nobody would steal a packet of sweets from a shopkeeper who they knew the name of and depended on for their daily newspaper/milk/fags/top-shelf magazines. Kids could be watched or only allowed in two at a time, adults could be trusted due to soft levers of trust.

Nowadays though you just wouldn't have a fortune in stock laid out ready for people to slip into their pockets, you would have CCTV, on every aisle, from both sides and from both directions. You would have some outsourced security contractor monitoring the CCTV and telling staff if they needed to apprehend anyone. There would be no 'he said vs shopkeeper said' discussion with the police, CCTV does the evidence providing bit.

The thing is that the CCTV works without anyone looking at the monitor screens. The 'smile you are on CCTV' signs are a huge part of it. They instil fear in the souls of the shoplifter. Coupled with this there is no need for patrons to actually know the staff or for them to know neighbours that could also be shopping. With increased mobility (people shop far and wide these days) the nature of shopping has changed.

The difference that the Snowden leaks have made is that we now know that the CCTV is 'everywhere', in our email and phone calls too. This ubiquitous spying works in a similar way to CCTV in retail - behaviour is controlled. We accept CCTV in retail in part because we want our pint of milk (or whatever it is) and there is no option to buy what we need from places that don't have CCTV. We are not going to buy a pasture and get a herd of cows going just to have that spot of milk in our tea. CCTV can't be objected to. Similarly in post-Snowden world we still have needs to communicate and we just have to accept the spying. That is what has changed, an acceptance of it.
I've seen your posts frequently here and I think you make HN a better place. You provide a different perspective than many of us are used to hearing.
Excited to try this out, thanks for sharing!
I updated from 2012 to 2016, hated and sold it after a couple of keyboard fails, and bought a 2015. My next Macbook will probably be a Thinkpad way things are going.

The better speakers I'd like. I still need to use USB sticks and SD pretty frequently and have always hated bags of adaptors. They always seem to break or get lost at the moment you're sitting with the important client.

The rest seems to come with a cost far worse than the benefit (for me anyway).

Larger trackpad was so large I would constantly get false activations when typing. Perhaps I have the wrong sort of fingers.

The touchbar was constantly activating when I typed on the top row of physical keys. Perhaps I have the wrong sort of fingers again. :)

The newer thinner keyboard was both horrible and horribly unreliable. Dust sensitive? LOL I think back to when the kids were little and throwing rusks, or putting toast in the VCR the moment we blinked. Then the amount of dog and cat hair (that magically gets everywhere) that's been removed from our keyboards over the years.

Lighter is OK, but not at a huge battery life cost compared to the 2015.
I think that price, in the context of a site like Amazon's, deserves one of those "Wrong things developers believe about X" pages.

Any given item in Amazon's database (where 'item' == 'something that has its own page') can have multiple variants on color, size, and other varieties. Each variant may have its own price. So if you want to sort items by price, which price do you use?
It's odd to see the traditional industry of the "big three" automakers being used as evidence for the "law of duality"...
No, buying something is a much stronger signal than viewing something.

Amazon has picked exactly one low-hanging fruit for recommendations: it frequently recommends to me that I should buy an item from my wishlist. That was a good idea on Amazon's part.

But it also frequently recommends books to me based on a book that I purchased, read, and left a one-star review for. That seems like a pretty obvious mistake.
The telephone was invented in 1876, practically old hat a hundred years ago. Air travel was 1903, was around longer than Facebook has been around in 2018. I guess it comes down to your definition of rare, but it's certainly rare enough.
Couldn't you just download the Google fonts and serve them up yourself and use a Cloudflare rule to cache it on the edge, instead of going through all this work?
The problem is assuming that the reader is already familiar with the notation, and consequently not explaining it.
https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/19/microsoft-reports-30-1-bi...

As far as I’m aware, azure and office get reported separately. Azure is “intelligent cloud” and office (along with some others) is “more personal computing”
And for Arc too!

http://arclanguage.org/forum

Thanks Dan + Scott!
Curious as to why - What usecases do you have for staging? Why does sourcetree make it better? To me it's just an inconvenience and a redundant step on the way to committing stuff.

I get that you can use it for partial commits of in flight work but that's never something I've needed in practice. Usually I just want to commit everything I'm working on at once.
> What if BuzzFeedNews.com is actually... trolling its audience?

Couldn't agree more. Buzzfeed always makes me cringe. Even when an article sounds genuinely interesting and less click baity, I can't bring myself to visit the site.
"managed to die"? That's pretty harsh, from what I've seen of it.
It's a tricky issue. I think you mean privacy implications,I don't see how this would add security risk.

For privacy,loading third party fonts like google fonts on your site allows the 3rd party(google) to track users. To avoid that,I try to load google fonts from my domain(and for performance when google is slow or unreachable). Arguably,if your site already uses google fonts,putting cloudflare between google and users reduces the amount of tracking users are exposed to. One might also say how privacy conscious site owners should avoid both google and cloudflare.
Shipping containers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean
The "Japanese Cusine" below the shop name is the specimen, not the shop name itself.
I have zero knowledge of GSA specifically, but corporate intranet search is generally hard, other vendors were already in the space, and the heuristics and ML that make Google search work as well as it does don't work as well with less training data and pages without links and anchor text.
Have you lived there? I heard that the town had done some sort of evacuation practice after a big fire in ...2008 I believe? How did the previous practice inform the evacuation this time?
Is OO simple ?

It is supposed to be, but I am not sure it delivers on that part. That’s another discussion, but for instance I wouldn’t bet on having a random 10 yo kid understand OO beyond the bare Cats and Dogs tutorial everyone goes through at first.

And that’s what I would say about git as well. Even after knowing the internals and how it is supposed to work, I still feel that for a tool it’s pretty unelegant and puts a significant burden on the user to know what needs to be done in what situations.
What is their real purpose is to filter out candidates who are not agreeable enough to just shut up and take the test?
I'm not sure I follow you here: for GCE, there are no "maintenance windows", the vast majority of maintenance is carried out via live migration and the user doesn't even notice.

Yes, on rare occasion there's an unplanned failure (host error) and the VM has to be restarted elsewhere, but this is the only option for maintenance at AWS.

Mandatory disclaimer: I work at GCP.
I found one of the linked articles more interesting than the main one. Ten years of changes in the retail sector by firm size:

http://digg.com/2017/amazon-vs-walmart-size

The pace and scale is even more dramatic than I thought.

Rising interest rates and a big jump in expiring retail sector bonds could make 2019 an especially difficult year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/

The potential impacts are hard to fathom.

> The job losses in retail could have unexpected social and political consequences, as huge numbers of low-wage retail employees become economically unhinged, just as manufacturing workers did in recent decades. About one out of every 10 Americans works in retail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/business/retail-industry....

That article makes it sound like all of suburbia is one giant manufacturing town, and the plant is about to close. The first link makes it look like we somehow decided to ditch the entire sector and just give it over entirely to Amazon and Walmart.
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In the realm of scraping and page archiving, I'd like to note a library I found useful recently, called `freeze-dry` [0][1]. It packages a page into a SINGLE HTML file, inlining relevant styles. The objective is to try and replicate the exact look and structure of the page instead of all the interactive elements. Very useful for building a training dataset for any algorithms that read web pages.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/freeze-dry

[1]: https://github.com/WebMemex/freeze-dry
>However, everyone that I've heard of that understands cloud native type architectures that has attempted to deploy into Azure is looking to leave.

Extremely unsurprising, but I'd be interested to read more.
I actually made the same comment about the volume touch bar when it came out... Another hidden Apple os interaction: if you have it set to slider you can just hit it and move your finger without lifting even if not 'hover' the slide area. Or you can change to the old mute, quite, loud buttons in settings
I bought a Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Phone in 2015 for €300. This was quite early on in the development of Ubuntu Touch, and overall it was pretty good.

The operating system was pretty solid, and I really liked the lock screen design and pull-out Unity sidebar. It was fast and sleek, but didn't quite yet have the polish of something like iOS - which of course is to be expected for something early in development.

As usual with less well-known mobile operating systems, there were very few apps available. You could get many of the hacker-y/privacy ones that us HN lot probably use, but if you wanted a 'mainstream' social app then you probably couldn't.

After a few months I did end up flashing Android onto the phone, mainly because of the early Ubuntu Touch versions lacking features.

Hardware wise, I still have the handset today and it's great - performance wise the phone was ahead of its time when it was released in 2014, and it still performs well.
The project readme warns it's broken on recent macos versions.
Measuring how much the phone rolled back and forth could be a factor, too. You don’t have to keep a car balanced, you do have to keep a bike/scooter/motorcycle balanced.
Reading this makes me wish Adderall was legal in my country.
> America may have issues but ultimately is a force for 'good' or at least they provide the safe, open and fair means literally for Google to exist. I'm not making arguments here, just pointing to how thorny that one is.

You're making a statement. You are saying "America is ultimately a force for good". America is definitely a force for the good of a certain set of humans. Whether it is a force for the good of the world (ie: the full set of humans on the planet) is certainly very questionable, especially in recent years.
They should have used it for the test payload instead of Musks Tesla.
I haven't used this yet, but you should know about it:

http://www.macbookadapter.com/magsafe-2-to-usb-c-power-adapt...
Ask HN: Best service to find a therapist?
Is there a service where you can easily find therapists that are covered by your insurance and schedule an appointment?

A friend needs help finding a therapist and I would love to know what would be the best way to help her. Zocdoc?
I'm not sure about other countries, but Australia has a number of cards with no fees on foreign currency transactions.
A good manager isn’t looking for polished answers in a phone screen. Rather it exists to validate that it is worth my and your time to meet in person.

Eg. I’ll provide more context on my needs as the hiring manager (often the recruiter explains the role poorly). Then I’ll ask a few questions related to the role that are pretty basic to validate your background isn’t BS.

So if you get screened out here despite nailing the questions then the manager is hiring on the wrong criteria (likability?) and you probably don’t want to work for them anyway.
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If anyone wants to know what it is like working with a "hard to use" revision control system then I highly recommend trying out IBM Rational ClearCase [1]. Or as I lovingly used to refer to it as Irrational ClearCase. To be fair, I have not used it since 2009, so perhaps it has been improved?

If you use emacs and you find git difficult then please try out magit [2]. I actually really like the git cli, but I use magit a fair amount also. Plus, emacs is awsome :-P

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ClearCase

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs#Extensibility
The article also said:

> The shape helps it stop rolling away.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
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My colleague accidentally touches the wrong part of his touch bar, and exits our weekly meeting every single time.
I remember seeing some people recommend starting with the NES rather than the Gameboy - any ideas on this?
Not taking input from google about who to block (iirc it still use google's safe browsing list) would be nice.
That just doesn't feel safe to me, not to mention idealogical reasons.
But that's just my opinion I guess.

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html
My faith in Apple would be redeemed if they actually lived up to their hype. LG makes 15inch metal cased laptop that weights 2.1 lbs (specs similar to a 15" MBP but weighs less then a Macbook Air). Apple should be able to do the same.

I also recently got a 2018 MBA to try replace my 2014 MBP but unfortunately my eyes suck so 13 inches is turning out to be an issue. It's not enough screen space to do my normal dev without having to be constantly opening and closing panes.

Examples would be trying to us VSCode with 2 panes and the project panel open. The 2 panes are two small so I have to keep opening and closing the project panel anytime I want to switch files.

Another example is trying to debug JavaScript I need both the page and the devtools visible and there just isn't enough screen real estate to do it comfortably.

Jacking up the scaled rez to 1680 mode I get my space back but my eyes aren't good enough to focus at that rez

It is also super notably slower than my 2014 MBP. As an example if I run pretty much any WebGL page and try to view a detailed PDF in another window in the browser it's practically unusable. My 2014 MBP had no issues multi-tasking.

Also connect it to a 30inch 4k monitor at my office and it just doesn't feel up do it. Just switching apps often takes long enough it feels super sluggish.

If Apple would get rid of the touch bar I'd have gotten the MBP again though am really loving the weight so really disappointed Apple can't match or beat LG in that.
Thanks. Of course now it seems obvious enough in context that I should have inferred this. Oh well. :)
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And I wonder what speed tradeoff there will be for commonly cached/repeated fonts like Roboto, like maybe only makes since to inline less common fonts
I would go on a limb and say that Amazon doesn’t invest in better UX because that’s not what most of their customers care about. Someone at that company has already done the math and decided investing in Amazon Go or 1 hour delivery or Whole Foods is a far better return than investing in UI improvement.

I do think people in this discussion are looking at this from a developer or designer point of view. I read some article a while ago about how Amazon saw a increase in sales from millisecond level improvement in page loads. I bet that’s what they optimize for, and less so on how pretty the UX is.

That all being said, I think Amazon is turning into EBay with all the garbage ads I see on the website, just trying to buy replacement toothbrush heads, but that’s an entirely different discussion.
Cheapest usable variation that satisfies the query.

E.g. if I search for a computer it should pick the variation with the cheapest cpu, not the one with bring-your-own-cpu
Well the closest prior thing to substance in the deluge I heard from prior to 2012 were insinuations about his currency trading being harmful in some way. Details in something like that or another questionable practice would be worthy of discussion even if one can reasonably disagree if it is right, wrong, or remotely proportionate. If everyone makes bets against countries they think will decline there is nothing to condemn for betting against the pound post Brexit if they think it is how the market will go.

For an example of the last going on about say Obama's college essays don't really mean anything in comparison to what he has actually done - it looks to be downright racism in holding him to a different standard bring and not care about say Rick Perry getting D in a course called "Meats".

You could reasonably call him out on say his foreign policy continuing bad practices or what he signed. Calling him an athiest Muslim who prays in a mosque communist born in Kenya would just be bigotted literal nonsense.
Show HN: Nov 2018 Show your startup
Show your startup or what recent progress have you made.

Our startup is a platform for getting local information via Wifi. http://www.100-xyz.com

If the SSID is our platform's eg: 100-Johns_Bar, when you join the Wifi you will land directly on Johns Bar web pages. Or pointing your browser to 100.here will also get you there.

We were struggling to get users.

Recently a live translation startup contacted us and we are testing our devices in their events. Their problem - if too many event guests connect to their platform for translation, the audio quality drops because of network congestion. However if they use our product there is only one connection between our server and their remote server which increases the quality a lot. The audio is then distributed from our mini server to the users via Wifi. Testing in actual events was quite nerve racking. However, our product has improved considerabley because of it.