skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly very true, but I think the author understands this better than you're implying. The point of this tweet is to influence public opinion. This:

>The ROI on dealing with still births for advertising is probably negative.

would hopefully not be true anymore due to negative PR, companies would take action out of pure self-interest, and it would stop this situation from happening to future people.

There's of course still the broader problem of companies ravenously and irresponsibly gathering as much data on individuals as possible. To me any increase in a company's liability for the information they're hoarding, even in the form of righteous outrage that on its surface seems to anthropomorphize them, is a step in the right direction.
I’m surprised AWS doesn’t expose NLP services tuned for customer feedback type text data—-they surely must use/maintain models for this type of data internally given the Amazon store is a trove of customer feedback training data.

Separately, where does Azure fall into this space?
Anatomy of a scrollspy component with React and TypeScript (1/2)
You do realize that there is a voting-based algorithm & that's how things make it to the front page of hacker news right? Do you find every article on the front page personally interesting? Do you ask on those other articles why others found it helpful?
Hello Jos,
more facts less fiction please. The largest known and named deployment is still Digilocker with ownCloud, which has over 16 million users (https://digilocker.gov.in/), and yes, it‘s a single instance. You claim the fork’s largest deployment has „over 20 million users“ umm „tens of millions of users“ which installation is that again?

German government cloud is still in development, isn't it?
Really 300k active users?

If you have so many large customers, why don’t you put them on your website? Of course there are always some customers that don’t like to be mentioned, but all the once you seem to have?!
ownCloud reference customers can be checked here: https://owncloud.com/customers/
Those large customers are mostly enterprises, not universities. At the same time we are proud about our market leadership in the educational market worldwide!

Obviously Nextcloud is more community-focused, ownCloud is more enterprise and focusing on file sync and share and content collaboration. The customer lists prove it and you proved it once again by releasing a non-enterprise ready but feature-focused alpha with a lack of quality assurance.

Please see the comments above by your users and help those, instead of spreading FUD about ownCloud.
Could you imagine how much less spam there would be though if spammers had to pay for every individual e-mail?

I mean, yeah I still get junk mail that advertisers pay for, but we're talking 0-3 items per day. E-mail can easily reach 50+ messages per day.
Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2017) [pdf]
Yeah you're right, definitely not a great person, but I used the reference because he turned out to be right about the negative effects of "over-socialization"
Harder to hide board decision making process when the employees have a seat at the table though. Might make it easier for employees to organise against problems before they become entrenched decisions.
As a non-crypto-mining consumer, I've been frustrated by the price increase for video cards, and perhaps that frustration impacts Nvidia in the long run.

But really, when crypto was booming, what was Nvidia supposed to do? They were the guys selling shovels and pickaxes when the gold rush was in full swing. They rode the bubble and reaped the benefits when they could. So the price drop doesn't necessarily reflect a failure of strategy on their part.

What I'll be curious to see going forward is what Nvidia does with the cash from their bumper year. If the end result of this saga is that Nvidia lined their coffers and invested in R&D for the next generation of of video cards, that bodes extremely well for the company.
One of the hangers collapsed back in 2001, severely damaging one of the Burans:

http://www.buran-energia.com/bourane-buran/bourane-fin.php
Everytime I witness the relics of the "Space Age" it takes me a few days to shake the feeling that we might be living in a new "Dark Age".

Where the scientific & technical accomplishments of the past seem implausible---contrasted against the modern era challenge of trying to make a reliable & resilient API service---were it not for the documented evidence of their occurrence and these relics left behind to marvel at.
Now that makes a lot more sense.
I figured that you have to click "Explore" next and then see the Logging tab, although it was not easy for me to find, may be highlight it as a first class link on the left panel?
Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. Add a new entry, phrase “fucking”, shortcut blank. Ta-da!
And I have to admit that I am one of the biggest fans of JavaScript, so I may be a biased. :)

I will give you some background about why we chose these technologies:

After working with several startups, we realized that almost all startups face one common problem:

They have to deliver the best product using the least amount of resources.

So, we were looking for technologies that would help us :

1. Build apps quickly using the least developer resources - (Save time and money)
And
2. Build apps that are performant, scalable and reliable. - (Deliver Quality)

And the JS tech stack helps us fulfil both the aims. That’s why we chose it.
> won't move the needle significantly on much else besides emotion.

To be fair there are worse things than feeling happier.
Is it time to put a tax on meat?
>It has some ray tracing hardware used by nothing.

Hard to fault this. It's reminiscent of when hardware transform & lighting (T&L) was introduced. Nothing used it until the cards existed, but the cards had to come along before anyone would bother coding it into the games.
I'd suggest not mailing the same mistake again. Go elsewhere for your email. I switched my domain to a paid provider recently and really like it. As much as an @duck.com address would be cool and I'd use it as a 2nd email, I wouldn't want it as my primary.
I don't remember the exact details, but I remember reading about a guy who hired a team of researchers to find problems in some company's product (I think it was pharmaceuticals), shorted the stock, and then published the results causing the stock price to tank. Totally legal since he wasn't affiliated with the company and the information that was published wasn't misleading.
Page doesn't exist. Can't figure out if this is sarcasm or what
California is being taxed to dead. It really is time for another round of Prop 13.
The whole point is that these services use psychological tactics to make it hard to "stop giving a shit about engagement." Your brain gets addicted to all the little dopamine hits you get from using them, so when you try to just stop using them, it's a bit like going cold turkey. Your brain has to adjust to not getting that constant dopamine drip-feed anymore.
In Belize there is a popular type of prefab home called a mennonite house. They're made out of hardwood and look fairly nice.
> the time in the mid-90s when the USPS wanted to charge the price of a stamp for "email"

Do you have a source for this?
China’s “Social Credit System” Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming
Oh interesting… there shouldn't be anything like that there. In fact, it should work with js disabled entirely, assuming js is the culprit here. For what it's worth, I don't have access to iOS 10, but I did try it on Safari in the latest iOS and had no issue, sorry I can't help more
Just upgraded and noticed the syntax highlighting and paren matching in the console. Thank you!!
You could say we are all influencers now
Misconstruing the original context is how we got into this fake news problem in the first place.
tl;dr: git gud
Turner Construction, Bloomberg LP execs face bribery, bid-rigging charges
Sure, but what do we do? No company should ever be allowed access to data?
Sequoia API Usage Survey 2018
lol @ reserving tables at McDonald's.
I've never been in such a terrible situation, and I hope I never will, but. Modern online ads are so annoying I can't help but making serious effort to eliminate it from my online life. Adblockers, filtering proxies and so on. I believe that's the only way to deal with this monstrosity in a short perspective.
Totally agree, that distinction will be important. Personally, I think it’s a distinction in letter and not in spirit.

Had to look up Teh Grauniad, thanks for the laugh!
Thanks, currently using SOGo on our end, but always good to hear possible alternatives. I assume you rely on other projects like z-push for ActiveSync? And any support for SAML/Kerberos?
> if you think taxing phone service isn't horrific then neither is this

I don't think taxing incomes is horrific. That doesn't absolve politicians of justifying raising taxes. This is a money grab. Given how wastefully California burns through cash, I'm not sure why (a) more money is needed or (b) this, specifically, is the way to do it. Why not a gas tax? Or a carbon tax? Or a tax on water-wasting crops?
Efficient development of web user interfaces for business applications
Fentanyl surpasses heroin as most deadly US drug
What's the future of the pandas library in Python?
Why wouldn't you use a convenient tool at your disposal?
An economist on why climate policies don’t cause massive unemployment
> They'd still have to get a warrant to search anything.

Even better, anything they found without a warrant would be thrown out, unlike if Comcast volunteers to give up data about you.
She put out a public letter on the internet. We're here discussing it. If she stumbles across this thread, I'm sure she'd be aware that I'm discussing the letter. Not responding directly to her.

If I posted this point to her twitter feed, I would soften the language. But I would do my best not to change my point.

I would soften the language because I have a moral imperative- unlike twitter and instagram.
The biggest use would likely be to recreate eye charts
> Which says some depressing things about our legal system, in my opinion

Not really. The laws still need to be passed. I believe Deepwater Horizon was largely resolved with ex post facto legislation.
Chat apps like Discord are great for groups you actually want to keep in touch with. That's what I use for my friends from college
Do you have a website/app/product you promote?

Nothing wrong with keeping your friends/followers happy with an occasional positive statement.

This way you can post your true feelings later in a less popular post.
Prof Robert Sapolsky on neurobiology and society
Hopefully my tips are a little easier to read and learn from than Fravia's. And much more up to date...
To be clear, first, I should mention that the "security tokens" that everyone cares about, are meant to be a ledger for tracking the cap-table equity issuances and modifications for private companies; they aren't the equivalent of common-class stock of publicly-held companies.

The key advantage of them over the current model is that they make it much easier for an accredited investor (probably a partner at a PE or VC firm) to invest in a private company.

But, let's ignore that distinction and talk about "security tokens" generally, because they theoretically can be used as an equivalent of public-issue stock certificates (even if nobody really cares or is excited about using them this way, right now.)

I compared security tokens to "equities", and that word has a set meaning in finance: the equity class of investments—i.e. shares of companies. But really, there is no precise concept that is a 1:1 mapping for the thing that a security token translates to, which is probably why you're upset about my description of "how equities work."

You can loosely compare a security token ledger-entry account balance to a physical stock certificate held by a person. But when you want to be precise, you have to get into the fact that security tokens are multi-jurisdictional—since they represent the cap table of a company or SPV directly, and because regulators of security tokens require full KYC to apply, both domestic and foreign investors must appear directly on the table, without proxy representation.

Which is to say, if you want to sell your security token in the foreign market (i.e. on a securities exchange that operates under foreign regulation), then you must list the very same security token, rather than creating a jurisdictional proxy token, as one would if they wanted to list e.g. a public American company on the Canadian TSX.

From this perspective, the concept of "how is equity ownership currently tracked" looks a lot less like a centralized regulatory scheme per equity, and a lot more like a distributed system where {exchange, regulator} pairs reach eventual consensus over ownership.

(And this distributed paradigm has real consequences, both today and historically, despite law using the simpler single-regulatory-regime-per-equity model. For example, multinational corporations have shareholder meetings where they vote on things. How are these votes counted? Well, mostly, you have to let the state of the trades keep on marching on a bit after the vote, and then look at the historical ownership according to each exchange at the moment of the vote, and use that to weight each vote. The "preliminary" results of a shareholder vote can—and sometimes have been!—"rolled back" because the eventual consensus of the exchanges as to the ownership-at-point-of-vote was different than what the company thought it was when running the vote.)
Nvidia made strategic decisions when the crypto craze was beginning not to play into it, anticipating that exactly what happened was going to happen. I doubt this recent jump and fall of the stock has had much of an effect internally.
It's better for eye charts, not running copy on websites.
But maybe such "binarization" throws out information which might be useful? ZX Spectrum generates rectangular signal, after writing to tape and reading back, it becomes heavily low-pass filtered. So, I thought, if we take typical tape frequency response, pass ~1KHz and ~2KHz rectangle pulses through it, we get typical "0" and "1" signals as passed through tape, and if we cross-correlate them with tape signal, maybe we can achieve better results than by zero crossing detection?

Also, what I felt unattractive in binarization/zero-crossing is that you should do band pass filtering anyways to fix DC offset and ripples that can affect zero crossings: https://imgur.com/ys78f1M. So, maybe if single filter is used for both frequencies of "marks" and "spaces", then we are doing it wrong and filters matched to marks and spaces could do it better? As alternative to filtering we can use adaptive binarization threshold and then morphology on binarized signal (AFAIK, this approach is popular in detecting various barcodes on photos).
But I just setup Elasticsearch and Kibana yesterday!
I have two issues with this article:

"As companies scale, they begin an inevitable process of selling out their initial principles and sacrificing quality and purity."

This assumes small companies have "initial principles" and believe in "quality and purity". I've known some that focused on quality and purity, and they've almost universally spent a lot of money to no particular result. "Initial principles" tend to go out of the window as soon as you have a company.

It's possible in a small company to seem to have no unhealthy politics, by virtue of all agreeing on the same goals and values, in turn by virtue of sharing a "culture". The downside is that anyone who is not a "good cultural fit", who didn't go to the same schools and have the same life experiences and what-not, is most definitely not welcome. And, on the other hand, it's entirely possible to have healthy office politics and a drastically toxic culture.

"But knowledge work requires something different. It goes best when the people closest to the work make decisions."

The extreme extension of this is everyone doing their own thing. If you've ever worked in an environment where everyone does their own thing---usually because they don't want to get into the politics---, well, I believe you come to the conclusion that it isn't pretty.

Most people don't care who makes decisions, as long as those decisions are what they agree with; likewise, if they disagree with a decision, it doesn't matter who made it.
I think of this every time I watch a package manager compile the dependencies of dependencies of dependencies of dependencies [...] of the thing I am actually using.
"With two people, you either have consensus or stalemate in all cases, so there is no systematic means of making decisions (absent unequal distribution of votes)."

It's not quite true, but pretty close.
If the author is reading HN, please add something like this:

p { line-height: 25px; }

The text is hard to read from being so bunched together.
I wasn't suggesting determining whether the values were pointers or not. The number itself suggests whether it can be stored with less bits. If the occurrence of such numbers were relatively high, then this becomes a sensible tradeoff.

In set associative caches, one or more of the "ways" in each index could be optimised for these relatively common small numbers, with fewer bits given to it, capable of only storing numbers of the small form.
How about you go duck yourself?
fair point... but I can attest to the fact that the s2000 GUZZLES gas if you're driving it spiritedly (the only way to drive it).
Alternate between vowels and consonants, look for the resulting string in various search engines, the first one that gets no results is the new name.

Keep track of all items (like "main page", "search results for $blah") that component items (like "body of post 234", "avatar of user 3540") are used in, and when a component item changes, invalidate its cache and that of all items it was used in.
I assumed OP was using a different definition of art (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/art#Noun):

> 2. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

> She's mastered the art of programming.

..

> 7. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

If that doesn't convince you, compare with such phrases as "The Art of War", "artisan bread", or "liberal arts" (which includes topics like philosophy).
I don't fully grok all of the details in the post, but yes, Rust does not have specialization. However, given the way traits work, I don't think it would be needed in Rust. Serde is the most popular serialization/deserialization framework. You get a Serialize trait, that you implement for a given type. It already calls that specific implementation for that type.

Buuuut I'm probably missing something.
All it takes is a really really simple wrench in their system: my wife uses my computer (oh my god can you imagine that?!)

Yep. Remarketing is a great way to ruin Christmas shopping surprises on a shared IP address.
Kind doesn't really make for healthy discussions when your definition of kind includes leaving out pertinent information and points of view.
(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute)

For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world, and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips.

For tools, the best is paper prototyping, where you have your team just draw it out on paper and simulate the UI. It's simple, fast, and cheap, and from a cognitive perspective, you can explore more of the design space (think breadth-first search instead of depth-first), and you don't get overly attached to your designs.

In my course on UX design, we also use Balsamiq and InVision, though other tools seem fine (e.g. Marvel, Figma, etc). One of our alums created this great chart comparing different prototyping tools: https://www.cooper.com/prototyping-tools

For schools, some to check out would be Georgia Tech, University of Washington's Master's of HCI, Indiana University, University of Michigan iSchool, and (of course) Carnegie Mellon's Master's of HCI.

And lastly, here's a slide deck I put together and used at my startup several years ago. It was intended as a short 1-hour crash course.
https://www.slideshare.net/jas0nh0ng/01-1hourcrashcourseuxhc...
> People are reduced to a single identity

You can have multiple accounts and the Instagram UI makes it easy to switch. You can click the name of the account and a drop down appears. You then click the account you want to use and it immediately switches you without any hassles.

Most people I know (18-28 demographic) have several accounts.

I own a reptile and my main account is reptile posting along with some nature photos taken from the odd times I go on hikes. This account is my "nature photography" account. It's the one I use to enjoy the gamification part of Instagram. I enjoy hunting for likes and adjust the photos I post there based on reception.

The second account is a sh*tposting account that is private and is filled with inside jokes. This account is only followed by close friends.

My third account is my family account. It's filled with family photos and my mom and aunts follow it. This account is also private.

My fourth account is my developer / workplace account and has no photos. It is temporary because it is registered using the corporate email account and when I change jobs, I create it again from scratch.
California should tax email as well.
7 lessons learned as the co-founder of a €15M+ SaaS startup
Did anyone notice the website for this post? The author of this post seems to have created the site too:

-- https://streaking.app/about

-- https://streaking.app/@sean

This idea of tracking streaks is good; is there a meta-service/platform for monitoring "streaks" of "anything"?
In those countries with better infrastructure there isn't as strong of a government-is-always-awful ideology as we have here. Our "conservative" politicians thinks of their job as destroying government. So we get bad government. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I don't know how you can determine they are expensive. They are unlimited and included in the plan. There is a cost of course but if I send one or one hundred thousand, it's not going to cost more.
Used by nothing right now. The lineup of upcoming rtx games at nVidia's press conference was pretty substantial, it's just that most of them aren't out yet.
The alternative to unbundling (private ownership, any ISP can use) is treating the fibre as infrastructure (public ownership, any ISP can use).

In New Zealand (similar population and area to Oregon) a mixed private & public UFB project is well under way that cost the public about $1 billion. As of March 2018, the original fibre rollout is 89% complete, with fibre available to 1,300,914 households and businesses, of which 550,314 (42.3%) have connected. I think there are approximately 1.6 million households and 0.6 million business premises in NZ.

Getting connected is slow (the public company Chorus that manages connections is crappy) but there is plenty of choice of service (ISP) and good reliability once connected.

Looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_by_cou... shows plenty of countries with private ISPs doing far worse than NZ.

Australia is also rolling out a similar multi-billion project - Australia is about the same size as continental US with 1/10th the population.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-602p/
But then again, I'm an engineer, so maybe I make better decisions.

Seems unlikely. Engineers are as prone to bad decision making as anyone else. Some of them - the supercilious dickheads who believe their own hype - even more so.