skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you care to support that assertion? It reads very much like one.

> BY INSTALLING, DOWNLOADING, ACCESSING, USING OR DISTRIBUTING ANY OF THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MUST NOT USE THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU ARE RECEIVING THE SOFTWARE ON BEHALF OF A LEGAL ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE ACTUAL AUTHORITY TO AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF SUCH ENTITY. “Licensee” means you, an individual, or the entity on whose behalf you are receiving the Software.

"... you agree to the terms and conditions of this agreement" seems like a dead giveaway for an EULA -- specifically, an attempt to bind the licensee by contract law in addition to copyright law.
And you can use your iPhone to unlock your Apple Watch! (But not the phone to unlock the Mac directly)
Also one would assume that placing you 100% in one "bubble" would be bad for business. Sites wants to see if you need/can be pushed into yet unknown areas of interest.

But sure, no one is actually trapped in a filter bubble. If you're aware that you're in a bubble, then it because much easier to escape. The problem is that most people aren't aware that they aren't seen all sides of an issue.
Sequence Diagrams with JS
That's not entirely fair because there's a distinction between nicotine and smoking.

The method of delivery killed those nicotine addicts. None of those nicotine addicts died as a direct result of what nicotine does to the body. Combusting tobacco and inhaling the smoke is what killed them (ignoring chewing or snorting).

If I used a patch, I can continue my nicotine addiction without fear of lung disease. I can't do the same with smoking.

There's no method of delivering a habitual psychoactive dose of alcohol that doesn't cause harm.

But all said and done, I'm not sure vaping nicotine, with all those flavours, has been proven safe. There's a lot of talk about popcorn lung.
Is all that really needful? To draw documents? To make apps?

I don't think it is. I think Elm lang (for example) proves that it's not.

I finally got around to trying Elm. Once I got over the way it feels like a toy compared to the HTML/CSS/JS/etc world, I realized I could never ever justify NOT using it in a business context.

What I mean is, the business-value case for using the normal front-end stack vs. Elm just isn't there.

That's just an example for the domain you described.

The VPRI STEPS project demonstrated that we could reduce our codebase(s) by orders of magnitude while retaining or even improving functionality, "from the desktop to the metal".
These are the kind of small pieces of information that I always hope to find on HN. Thanks for posting.
I was looking for Indian 4K footage which is very rare on the web but this is a very nice stock website for that. last but not the least cost is very impressive than other stock websites.
your hbo story is really good. i think a lot of services fall in that category of “only when i want it”. which is exactly the shift from old world cable. just the fact that you have the option to do that with hbo go, all for less than $50 and without a single phone call, is incredibly improved over 10 years ago
there were some news from China that one lady had returned her iPhone X because her colleague had unlocked it using Face ID
Interesting comment; as a non-native speaker "prime" evokes the idea of f'(x) and prime numbers. Prime is pretty silly (e.g., "Optimus Prime") and might be an inside joke.

What are these positive connotations? To me prime sounds neutral, like a fact.
If Animal Crossing and The Sims are games, then so is a doll house or a bit of play dough.

I subscribe to Chris Crawford's definition. Games are competitions between multiple players and they must be able to interfere with each other. A painting, a toy, a puzzle, a race, are all not games. The difference between taking a stroll while carrying a ball and playing a game is keeping score.

The most controversial result of that is that God of War and Dark Souls are actually puzzles, and not games, and although it's unintuitive upon reflection it rings true to me.
UK Law to Ban Porn Wesites from Showing Huge Range of Sex Acts
I am flying a lot in Europe, and have not had to show ID on any commercial flight except one time (Nice-Zurich – although i think i went into the wrong queue.) Sometimes i have realized afterwards that i did not even bring any ID.
What is your new job?
Will see if I can make that happen. Metric dimensions are available when viewing a stickers’ page.
As a counter-point, I've had to set up Chrome with ad blockers even for computer illiterate family members and friends because they eventually have it installed anyway. Why? Not because they knew they were installing it, but because every time you visit "google.com" in Edge, you get an intrusive message that says:

"Switch to Chrome
Hide annoying ads and protect against malware on the web
[No Thanks] [Yes]"

And that then appears on every single search. And if you click no thanks, it reappears.

And then when they go to youtube, they see this:

"Watch YouTube videos with Chrome
Google recommends using Chrome, a fast and secure browser. Try it?
[Yes] [No Thanks]"

Again, every page load. It's a dark pattern. What about Gmail?

"Google recommends using Chrome
Try a fast, secure browser with updates built in
[No Thanks] [Yes]"

EVERY PAGE LOAD.
BigCGI looks interesting. I signed up for your newsletter.
Japan Rail East Startup Program
Project SPHINX – When the USSR tried to change the computer forever
According to https://www.statista.com/topics/2237/internet-usage-in-the-u... the United States has

> nearly 290 million internet users as of 2016

According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...

> almost 4.2 billion people were active internet users

The US is roughly 7% of the Internet connected population.
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Coming from Python to JS
const print = console.log

I found my safe space.
Are we supposed to feel sorry?

I have more sympathy for drug dealers than patent trolls.
This is amazing. TV is a second best thief of time. You should be happy you have time to do other stuff.
I see this browser as a skin on top of Chrome, much like Opera or (now) Edge. Hearing that it's 22% faster tells me it had a 22% overhead over the Chromium rendering engine.

What am I missing? I'm struggling to see serious innovation on display here - and I read TFA. The article is 99.9% a discussion on testing methodology, and not an analysis of the changes to Brave's core which may have resulted in the performance improvements.

As far as I'm concerned, Chromium released a more performant rendering engine and Brave merged it into their branch.
moving pollution far away means people don't have to breath dirty air which leads to all the obvious health problems which cost society
Being in my mid 50's I know lots and lots of people who at one time had problems with drugs and managed to recover from that and go on to lead reasonably happy lives. The ones that were unlucky enough to get arrested have had a lot harder time putting that behind them than the ones that weren't[1].

Being arrested puts you in the situation of Jean Valjean, released from prison, 'free' but not free.

[1 I know someone who was a drug addict and dealing. He got busted. The end result was he had to scramble and sell even more drugs to pay his legal bills. He was successful eventually. But ultimately also because he lived in California.
The virtual desktop thing looks cool. Has anyone been able to use it as an external monitor for coding ? I have neck problems and this seems like a great replacement
This is excellent fun. I'm kind of curious though as to why blowing wind at the dust ignites it?
Its a good news.
As a matter of principle, for stuff that already makes money, you ought to expend your precious Internet character capital only on stuff that’s 100% unimpeachably good.

That would be bringing about a world where students don’t have to work or in this matter, be exploited.

It’s not useful to equivocate or find nuance in these things. After all, I doubt the students who wind up working for them will think kindly of the random Internet person who was like, “I think it’s shady” and then equivocates.

That’s like saying, well at least the illegally below wage people have a job. Usually those people begrudge the equivocators. You should be able to see why.
This is a prudish law, written by a right wing government. The law shows how little the politicians know, on how the internet works. A very tiny fraction of these sites are in the UK. Totally pointless law, by a totally pointless government.
YoKart vs. Cs Cart – Comparison of 2 Leading Multi Vendor Marketplace Platforms
Microsoft, of course.
Uber eyeing UK launch for e-bikes as it plans to hire London-based team
Companies that are deploying lots of them are doing things like photographing the Earth (lots of cheap satellites means you can get frequent coverage), listening to various from Earth signals and selling that data (like AIS or ADS-B transponders), weather sensors (space and/or Earth weather), things like that. I think the normally accepted definition of a nano sat goes up to 10kg, which gives you a bit more to work with.
The Mobile Computing Keyboard is fascinating ! I'm curious of people's reactions in public transport.
no because expiration of google analytics is really low (30m or 2h i think)
I work in the field (DNA nanotechnology) and a question I often get asked is, "When are DNA computers going to replace silicon based computers?" The answer is that that's highly unlikely to happen. They both have their strengths and drawbacks and their own domains. For instance, DNA computing will probably never match the computation speed of silicon based computing since in order for DNA to compute,chemical reactions such as DNA hybridization or dissociation with their complementary counterparts must occur (which is very slow compared to manipulating electron flow). Also, the error rate using DNA is pretty high, e.g., for DNA computing using double-crossover tiles (which is mathematically equivalent to Turing-universal Wang tiles) implementing an XOR logic cellular automata, the best error rate is currently roughly on the order of ~0.1%. Two of the greatest strengths of DNA computation are its energy efficiency and massive parallelism. A microtube containing just 100 ul of DNA solution can have roughly 10^17 or 10^18 strands of DNA working in parallel. Lastly, it may be easier to get computing DNA nanomachines to work /in vivo/ or inside cells as opposed to silicon based nanomachines.
Hopefully doesn't also cause cancer or alzhaimer by some convoluted mechanism.
Why You Can't Trust Your Offshore Development Team
Hello! Does Rendora support other browsers (i.e. IE, Firefox etc.) or it only for Chrome?
Thank you in advance!
Google Launches Flutter 1.0 Which Goes Beyond Mobile App Development
The "inventor" hasn't stopped, this year filing this junk patent for monitoring appliances, which you couldn't take a stroll through the Arduino community without tripping over a piece of prior art for.

Hey Martin Kelley Jones - fuck you. Get a real job.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180285834
I think it's more of a progress report than a display of innovation targeted towards people who are looking to switch over from Google Chrome due to privacy issues.
Interesting. I loved Berlin but absolutely hated Boulder (the people, not the place itself which is beautiful). Also hit the bay area twice. I think Boulder is pretty different once you have a family and money vs. trying to make it there when you're a confused 28 year old between jobs like I was.
I’m pretty sure the fiction of their economy is all the coercion required to make people work for shit.

Like the Uigher slave labor camps are but one end of a very deep spectrum of abuse, of millions of Chinese. Accounting debt in that respect is a red herring. What do you owe those people’s families? Their future children? That won’t ever show up on a balance sheet, and no economist has calculated that.

Why you’re splitting hairs over the numbers in a fundamentally unfree country? I guess we’re conditioned, by our relatively free place, to find benefits-of-doubts.

Trust me, “foreign orders for goods” going one way or another isn’t going to do anything except affect overinflated equity markets.

The slave labor is a bigger deal. Did we really think an unfree place could have a fair market, let alone an ethical one?
Couldn't read that without thinking "but, but, Apple is a silo".
yes, and be ready to get social fulfillment from them too.
People use smartphones to make telephone calls? How does that work?
WTF google. If the flagship phone is so bad, how the hell do they expect to compete effectively with Apple?
> If the Pixel 3 also dies within a few months, then I'm going to Apple

build quality issues are not widespread to the whole android ecosystem. apple kind of get the crown as long term phones because software support and hardware warranties, but it's not as to say that there are no android phones that can match them in half life.
What am I missing?

They replaced Muon (their Electron-fork) with straight Chromium. Brave is now 22% faster than it used to be, if I read TFA correctly.
From the linked article:

> Note that we are comparing released versions; Brave 0.24.0 is based on Chromium build 69.0.3497.100, while Brave Core 0.55.12 uses a newer Chromium build 70.0.3538.45. We do not expect the move to a later underlying Chromium version to be responsible for significant performance variations. We don’t observe a statistically significant difference for unthrottled measurements—in fact, Chrome 70 is sightly slower for the sites we considered.
Once upon a time I needed to look something up on my home computer, so I phoned my mum from work and tried to talk her through clicking on a few icons. This was with Windows 3.11 and the task was far from rocket science. After getting nowhere for twenty minutes I discovered what was wrong. My mother - bless her - had the mouse held the wrong way up. She knew that mice - as in the sort that scurry around and work very hard in laboratories - had the tails at the back. Consequently she held the mouse upside down, with the cable coming out the back.

Before arriving at this simple mistake I had got her to close the blinds in the room where my computer was setup. In those days mice were opto-mechanical with the ball, and, under extreme bright light the sensors in the mouse were vulnerable to light coming through the plastic housing of the mouse. Connections had been checked too, plus I had managed to get her to reboot the machine with the reset button on the front. Yet all along it was operator error, I imagined everything that could be wrong up to 'it must be a stray neutrino' levels of implausible yet I overlooked the idea that my mum intuitively thought that a computer mouse was like a real mouse with the 'tail at the back'.

We got there in the end after I had the eureka moment and worked out my mum was holding the mouse wrong. I could talk her through the rest when that was resolved and got the snippet of information I needed - a telephone number - which I needed for work.

It was only when ecommerce and the Amazon Kindle came along that my mother was finally able to use a computer. All difficulties and fears mysteriously vanished when it came to buying stuff online, she became perfectly adept at using a computer then, much to my father's amusement.

If only I had known of this tutorial back then.
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico. Might swap between Berlin and Oaxaca for a bit.

Oaxaca has: good coffee, friendly people, safety, mountains, amazing weather (except April/May, which are too hot for me), small scene of digital nomads, mountain biking, yoga, etc. My 2bd apartment near downtown is $250 usd and my unlimited coworking is $250.
I grew up using NetScape under CDE on Solaris and IRIX. I ran a LiveWire (NetScape) web server professionally when the webmaster job was something root did and was an honorable thing to do.

Even with all of that, I boycott Firefox because they no longer support Solaris or his descendent, illumos, and because the Firefox 48 ESR I do run on there crashes all the time, and because Mozilla is extremely aggressively pushing Rust, which is an overcomplicated piece of crap. So long as all these conditions are true, Firefox can go to hell for all I care, and I sure won't be recommending it to anyone. May Chrome and Safari keep winning. Thanks Mozilla for being sellouts and good luck.
To avoid global warming we have to give everyone a reason
off the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOPQBMYEds

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pk61k
Showdown between Elsevier and UC over paying for publications
Apparently, they do. How quaint.
Hackernoon is fund raising
Nice work! It's always good to see minimal applications that string different stacks together without going overboard with dependencies.

Suggestion to the developer: Remove the "Calculate" buttons and update mean(), std() and cdf() after clicking "Generate". Repeatedly clicking Statistic's "Calculate" and getting different results (without updating the random numbers) is slightly confusing.
I hoped the same - it was unfortunate that bandwidth lagged CPU speed, otherwise a video Napster if it had existed and rampant mp4 piracy would have forced the movie industry down the same route as music: one or two major services with everything on it. Instead we have Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, the coming Disney service, and so on.
It would be interesting to introduce a stipulation that patents are enforcable only if the owners of the patent are doing meaningful R&D in the area related to the patent. As I understand it, the original purpose of patents is to encourage innovation. If no innovation is being done, the patent should have no power.
9 Tactics to Increase App Reviews and Downloads
Rails application in a single file, or bring your own folder structure
> and the sight of menstrual blood from all pornographic videos.

That these guys have a problem with menstruation says everything about them.
For a lot of projects, a small number of carefully chosen integration test cases can give you a large amount of coverage. Unit tests are often a problem for refactoring because they discourage you from making necessary changes (since updating unit tests is hard work, it incentivizes developers to limit the scope of the refactoring).

The reason why typed languages are slower to refactor is simply because they just take more time to think about. For example, it takes time to discuss and agree on types with your team members; what they should be called and whether or not we should combine some interfaces into a single interface...
Why aren't they paid?

If they produce value for a company, what exactly precludes them from being compensated?
If their primary funder, Google, threatens to pull their funding if they don’t ship them the information they desire, Firefox may end up no better than Chrome in this regard.
Oh man you don’t know the half of it. He’s been working on The Dambusters for years [1]. Also, he owns this incredible collection of old WWI and II planes, most of which have been restored from scratch! [2]

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/108520139/...

[2] https://www.omaka.org.nz/
That was Apple's argument in their case against Qualcomm's licensing costs.

I always thought that was a weak stance.

An iPhone without calls is just an iPod touch, which clearly doesn't have the appeal of an iPhone.
There is also something quite creepy about how they come to conclusions about "acceptable" porn.
Been really happy with the new Brave so far. Made me able to drop my the last Google application on my computer.

Only thing that bugs me is still having to resort to either Firefox or Safari on mac when on battery, since Brave keeps the dedicated GPU in use after navigating to anything that activates it (a Brave Helper process seems to keep it active in the background).
Student encodes Bible&Koran passages into protein sequences&injects into thigh
What do you think about Amazon? They have a large collection of movies to rent. In that sense it's like the classic rental store. (I concur that the internet hasn't done much to upgrade business models in a way that favor consumers more, besides adding digital delivery.)
Anecdotal: I got slowed down due to move.
This is way too hung-up on the idea of ownership.

Software licensing seems like a beast unto its own but what do you suppose would happen if you bought a car, a camera, a kettle, a pair of glasses, duplicated it 1:1 and tried to sell those copies? You'd fall foul of a thousand protected designs and trademarks. IP is everywhere.

It's not about what you own. It's about what rights are granted to you. Software is only strange in this regard because as developers we're [often painfully] explicit about what you can do. It isn't yet obfuscated behind decades of evolving law.

Please stop throwing "ownership" around as something you expect when you download something. It's silly to expect it.

The same works in reverse. You own your modifications. Nobody else owns (or has right to) them without your grant. But could well be compounded into a license, or more commonly a contributor agreement... But it has to be explicit.

Edit: After getting a couple of downs, I assumed my pre-coffee acidity may have burned through, so edited it to be softer... but I've had another since. If you've got a point to make, please leave a comment.
I think that using ethnography just to sell more stuff (because that's what "know your customers better" actually means) should be the subject of an ethnographic study about our present-day society in a couple of decades, when (hopefully) we won't be so fixated anymore on selling stuff that presumably most of the people don't need.
Why is Twitter not a valid news source? Sometimes a Twitter thread is better than a major news site just writing a pointless article that embeds those same tweets. And I'm pretty sure you can push a button to tell it to stop showing tweets.
I made it with webgl: http://toplessproductions.com/pendulum/
Similar thing has happened to me. I joined a security team in a Big Bank. During the first month of my work I discovered a terrible and obvious security hole, which was there for years. My manager took me aside and explained that they can't fix it, or even start doing anything about it, because the whole team will look incompetent. I was told not do anything and reassigned to the completely different tasks far from the team. After another month, I left.
Taking a metaphor literally is not a good counter-argument.
German Chat Community knuddels.de was fined 20.000€ for saving unhashed passwords: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/11/27/german-chat-site-f...
China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor
I wonder what kinds of fumes the dye lets off when heated.
No, they are not. The meaning of an idiom is not predictable from its constituent words, that’s it. A metaphor involves some kind of meaning transfer. In this case some properties of the ‘prototypical’ Holy Grail (desirability mostly) are transferred to the stalagmites. The source for the transfer itself could potentially be an idiom, but in this case it’s not, actually. The word ‘grail’, albeit rare, has a normal meaning (a kind of cup), and ’holy grail‘ is what it is: a holy cup. We just decided based on the strength of the literary tradition to call a particular object that way.
So I bought all those stocks in dramamine manufacturing companies for nothing :-(
First of all, we’re talking about business practices and culture, not government coercion.

In any event, being a non-U.S. entity has less significance with each passing day with respect to the ability to insulate information from government. Consider that in the past decade, the U.S. managed to get the Swiss government to change its once-formidable bank secrecy laws.