skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in this too. The dev would probably have a good answer since they previously made a pure JS sand game too: https://github.com/MaxBittker/dust
You are not obligated to provide the data in the way it has been structured at your company. You are obligated to provide it in a machine-readable format, and that is where the provisions end. It can be any format you want and can contain the information in any way that you like, as long as it's all there.
I'm curious how LiveAgent's recent lifetime deal affected their recurring revenue.

Probably lost some current users to that, but in the long-run, it probably increased it by a lot.

Since they where smart enough to only offer two users and more users are set at top-plan pricing.
Support ticket for de-duplication of files within (Google+) Takeout archives
Perhaps not entirely, but do filter bubbles become an issue when an individual is isolated in the same community for most of their life? I've slowly traveled outwards from my hometown of 2000~ people to now living in a city of 300k+, I've been to a few places between then and now but while my internet bubble has always been there, it hasn't consumed me.
I started this small reader about a year ago as a way of learning Django. At that time I had been working with Python for years but never actually with Django, so I figured that I was missing something. Fast-forward a year: I use this app daily and I learned a lot, so mission accomplished I guess.

I know that there are a lot of similar feed readers out there so let me highlight a few distinctive features:

- Free hosted version at https://feedsubs.com

- No adds, no tracking

- No email required to sign up

- Accounts can be deleted at any moment in one click

- Removal of tracking pixels embedded in feeds

- Import and export of subscriptions

- Open source and MIT licensed
After some small amount (5 million?) you are less interested in capital growth and more interested in protecting your capital. That’s what drives this the 0.001%
I've worked for a family office in Hong Kong. What was really telling for me was how the rate of return KPI was measured. We were not benchmarked against the S&P 500, or any index. We were measured directly against the fund of another frenemy family. So long as the fund outperformed the other family, all was good. It's crazy because you could be underperforming treasury bonds, and still be good because the other office was worse.

I guess when you that much money, more money means less than vanity and bragging rights.
The quote is from: https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq
It hasn't been an issue for me in the past couple of years but I recall, in the not-to-distant past, that I often had to pirate things that were unavailable to me. I'd attempt legal ways of purchasing but they would fail and I would have to resort to piracy. I feel that content creators have become a whole lot better at making content available than they were 5 years ago.
I've thought about that - and it's not that big a jump to have a GUI that allows a user to specify a win condition (and locations to traverse, other conditions etc). Then, the user can share it online. I haven't played GTA V online, but I think it does something like that.

But actually, I don't want those sort of win-conditions for this particular game, not even DIY stats. It's just an immersive simulation. Guess I'm just not too sure it WILL be immersive or engaging - even for me to play! Just have to see, I guess.

Taking your lead, I suppose if a movie can be immersive, why not a "game" which has no win-condition? But the moment I say that, I immediately realize that movies do have "win-conditions" - just of the protagonist, not the viewer/player. Goals, stakes, motivation, obstacles are all important narrative components.

Can you have an immersive movie without narrative? Sort of maybe, some experimental/arthouse, but they aren't very popular (and arguably do have some kind of narrative).

You're probably right about definitions, but they do inevitably lead to the components of a game/non-game, and whether they are engaging, and what makes them engaging... and they're easy to ask.
His wealth concentration is actually quite higher, around ~94.7% in AMZN stock. Bloomberg has him currently at a $132b net worth, with $125b in Amazon.

The rest is Blue Origin and The Washington Post, with his cash position at 'only' an estimated $2.45b.

Given the absurdly high valuation of Amazon - and as a fan of humanity pushing into space - I'd like to see him sell some larger blocks of Amazon while the stock market is so high, in order to secure funding for Blue Origin for a decade or more all at once. In terms of dilution, it's drastically better to yield ~$6b-$10b on a few sales out of a stake of $125b, than out of a position worth ~$65b (where he was at just two years ago) if the market is down for a long period of time. Especially true given he has recently indicated Blue Origin might demand even more than $1b per year.
Rust is definitely drawing in a large crowd of highly opinionated and smart people that each have lots to say. That can indeed generate a lot of noise.

There are a few risks when that happens. One is that the debates can get kind of toxic and political. This means you get people skilled at politics dominating the discussions. This both drives away people and attracts more wannabe politicians. Worst case you end up with a lot of politicians in charge. The other risk is that you inevitably get schisms, factions, and people going off carving out their own niches all while sucking up a lot of energy with debate, arguments, and the inevitable fallout of that. IMHO this is exactly what happened with e.g. Scala.

Rust is not quite there yet but I'd say it is starting to attract a lot of the same type of crowds meaning that, as this article identifies, now is a good time to do something about it.

One way out is simply imposing some hierarchy based on meritocracy. It starts by acknowledging that somebody needs to take decisions and that not all opinions matter equally. Find some respected long term committers and organize decision making strictly around those doing the most work. It works well in other places in the OSS community. You build it, you own it. You want to contribute, you need to learn to work with those that are going to be in charge of accepting your work.
Depends on what you do for a living. If you have an unrelated job/source of income, then yes, your site and your content can purely be a labour of love. It's an ideal aspiration, but it may not be feasible when EVERY Tom, Dick and Harry wants to have a site or produce content because a large proportion of people have poor or no income. It is also the case that not all content is 'free' to produce (except time & energy) like a blogpost. A news site for example needs to pay real money to employ people. Same with another SaaS solution. How will the creators recoup the expenses if they can't charge direct money or show ads?

You need an ideal world of universal basic income, healthcare and a reasonable standard of living for all if you want people to abandon all ideas of monetising their activities. Sadly we're very far from that world.
Enforcement is happening, though unfortunately I don't have an actual source on hand to show you.

Anecdotally, I enjoy being able to finally tell companies to forget me and stop sending me spam. It has actually worked very well for that. I also enjoy being able to report companies blatantly and maliciously infringing on my rights, because it finally makes me feel like maybe I'm not just some cattle to be exploited for someone else's benefit.

Another benefit of having the right to be forgotten is that I (hopefully) won't pop up in so many future data leaks. I've been fortunate so far that nothing serious has ever been leaked about me, and I've insulated myself well from leaking passwords because I use a new random one everywhere. I do however know a few people who have been burned this way and subsequently become the victim of identity theft. Being that the police lacks incentive and ability to do anything about this (I know this from personal experience, I do not live in a third-world country or even one that is moderately poor), the only cure for this problem is prevention. It helps me to sleep better at night knowing this risk has gotten smaller.
Nitpick: They don't "use WebKit" but Safari itself. They can only offer "web views" (which are always just Safari)

Edit: maybe this isn't entirely correct, Apple calls them WebKit APIs in their docs. Only the latest view is actually called `SFSafariViewController`
Still Running OS X Yosemite? Beware, iTunes 12.8.1 Breaks Safari
like all investing websites
And the police/DEA/ATF/DHS "security" apparatus.
Just to add another +1 to the anecdata points here, I had pretty bad acne well into my 20s, and experimented with a variety of measures for controlling it.

The biggest win was to stop using ordinary soap to clean my face. Once I switched to just rinsing it with plain water, 70% of my acne disappeared.

Some acne persisted around my nose and "T-zone" (the upper middle part of the face). I tried using a number of facial cleansers daily in the shower on just this area, and eventually found one that was far more effective than any other -- the brand is Aveeno and it has microbeads in it (which I heard are now illegal in the US).

I'm now typically acne free, but to this day if I binge eat greasy foods for a couple days (the biggest culprit is pizza, followed by burgers), my face will start to get oily and pimples will start to form around my nose/T-zone. Also if I'm out in the heat sweating a lot, a bit of acne forms after a few days. Aside from these extreme situations I have very little acne.

This all suggests to me that the face's microbiome plays a big role--too much soap or too much sweat are both capable of interfering with it, and too much oiliness probably blocks the pores. TL;DR more limited application of a milder cleanser seemed to be the biggest win for me.

This experience led me to be judicious with soaps and other cleansers on the rest of my body as well--the stinky bits like armpits get soaped up and cleaned daily, but I pretty much just rinse the rest of my body in the shower unless I've been doing hard physical labor or something. My skin's very healthy and people say I smell good so it seems to be working.
Corbyn described Chavez as socialist, not Maduro.
Maduro has undone the "socialist" stuff that Chavez had more or less enhanced like free healthcare and free education.
Maduro certainly labels himself as socialist but, living in Venezuela, I can't identify any socialist policies going on.
The last couple of times I had to parse/generate string according to something that can be described with a grammar, I resisted the temptation to implement an ad-hoc parser just because it was "simple". So I took the time and started to use Boost Qi/Karma (C++) instead. Just BECAUSE the formats are simple, they are the perfect opportunity to start learning more powerful tools.
Can you say more about your story please.
As the Google+ shutdown looms, users and communities are wrestling with whether, and how, to archive their data.

One problem we're encountering: Google's Data Take Out pads its archives with gigabytes of redundant data, mostly image files. Archives of up to half a terabyte have been reported.

People are trying to access this data over mobile links, metered links, slow residential broadband, dial-up, or unstable and slow links in Africa, Asia, and Indonesia, with little success. De-duplicating data would help tremendously.

My own was 15 GB, of which over 95% were images, most of little value, though I've no way of excluding them from the collection. The textual content I'm interested in is under 500 MB (and probably a small fraction of that).

Google have been almost completely noncommunicative since the G+ shutdown was announced, with two exceptions of which I'm aware.

The first shortened the time-to-live of the platform by another 4 months, a 40% reduction over the initial notice.

The second ... slightly ... improved instructions for Data Take Out.

(I'm moderator of the Google+ Mass Migration community and am helping coordinate other activities in moving people off Google+, preserving and porting data, and keeping communities together.)

In the even the server is hugged to death:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181217103934/https://fixato.or...
They mentioned presumably 'reasonable' risks, or else they wouldn't have mentioned them at all. I'm just not convinced they are even reasonable enough to bother mentioning.

The third issue (tax) is where the potential issues are, and got virtually the same length paragraph.
> ...and tried to sell those copies? You'd fall foul of a thousand protected designs and trademarks.

Sure, but that's not what is at issue here.

A more apt comparison would be if your glasses manufacturer says you're in violation of their EULA if you try to read anything ever written by Hemingway (because that goes against their business interests for whatever reason) and so your license to use their glasses becomes null and void.

Copyright, on the other hand, is much different -- and also implied by the name -- the right to copy (well, really, to distribute) the work.
https://www.vrandfun.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-seen-t...
This doesn't really matter since not only humans are affected. The most obvious example is the destruction of any semiconductors, which along with the destruction of the environment, will send the remaining humans into the bronze age at best.
Was one of the first things I thought as well.

Looking at the github page I'm wondering how it performs compared to something like nginx.
Since I won't use something without https for production, performance testing seems the only real usecase...
Haven't tried them but an idea that just popped in my mind would be to add some counterweight at the back of the head. Increased weight but decreases the torque you have to fight. It is what the military uses when wearing NVGs IIRC
Pass-the-Cache to Domain Compromise
they were not looking for a middleman. when they started the account manager was an employee of the company, and they believed that to be true until they found out different a short time ago.
Just a quick FYI, but in vanilla Python 3 [1] you can already do a head/tail split on any iterable:

>>> hd, *tl = range(5)
>>> hd
0
>>> tl
[1, 2, 3, 4]

[1] Tested on 3.6.5, don't know about older versions
Is it true for Firefox as well? I remember Firefox wasn't available for iOS long time ago because of this issue but these days it is.
I'm currently studying for a career switch to software development and I'm midway through my CS degree. I sort of expect that if companies will expect work at crazy hours then I'll be compensated for such. Is this not the case? Maybe I'm dreaming but I'm in a non-US market which has fairly strong workers rights.
Blender 2.8 Beta and Roadmap
But the URV was only part of the Real plan, though it was the most visible part. There were other equally important measures, Wikipedia has a summary (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Real#Principais_medidas):

- Limiting price adjustments to once a year;
- Privatizations;
- Reducing government spending and increasing taxes;
- Reducing import taxes and making imports easier;
- Interventions in the exchange rate;
- Increasing the central bank interest rate.
The problem is that these people are addicted to things they don't need which makes them unable to fulfill their actual needs. It is impossible to help people who easily gives in to their addictions like this, so the first tip should always be to get off their addictions. Of course they don't want to do that so they don't listen, but that doesn't make the tip bad.
Show HN: My Log Database Project
I call about 2 hours a week and still manage to use my phone more than 20 hours a week. Is calling still the primary function of my "phone"?

We just call it phone because that's what we attached a computer to, but it's more like a pocket computer with LTE modem for most people. I'd call it Pocket PC if I could!
And last but not least: timely security upgrades (many years into the future)
That's mostly the same reason they were highly regarded in WOW. I.e. it's not that WOW made them that but rather their skills were expressed in WOW.
Living in Venezuela:
After more than a year of official announcements about the petro, nobody knows what it is, nobody has ever bought, sold, owned nor seen one.
Some people have sent other crypto to some sort of pre-sale, but never got anything back.
I don't know what is the petro, but it hardly exists and it is certainly not a cryptocurrency.
I've always loved that both webkit and gecko (MFBT -- mozilla framework for building templates) use vaguely non-work-safe acronyms of their template frameworks.
I think the title (intentionally) suggests this was some amazing overnight/fast success. While it is successful for sure, I think the fact that it took four years to go from 20 to 250 is significant.

It's still good growth, but I expected it to have all happened in one year based on the title alone.
https://powdertoy.co.uk/
ICYMI: IBM USED SURVEILLANCE TO MAKE TECH THAT LETS POLICE SEARCH BY SKIN COLOR
Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies
Nothing new on the list since 2004!?

I'm wracking my brains for something in the NN or AI or something space, but yet... yeah, maybe innovation is tailing off?
Still lots of support for Maduro from Corbyn and his team.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/fact-check-corbynista-...
Show HN: Command line todo app / shell with tab completion (Linux / Mac OS)
https is one of the first features I'd like to implement in the near future :)
Do you know if there is some framework that I could test my server with, against eg. nginx? I was looking for one to do profiling, but am unsure if there exist some that allows you to create high traffic with many clients.
Hi HN,

I'm looking for feedback on my distributed log db project. It's a part I pulled out of a stochastic time tracking system that we are building. I think it's a neat idea and has a lot of potential and I haven't found anything like it yet.
Thanks for sharing the feedback with the community. We are glad to hear how GitLab helps you.
Why before Dec 31?
And of course 'both sides' is itself a filter bubble reducing analysis to one particularly rigid point of view…
Which encoder does Chrome RDP use?
I would tend to agree with you. What was state socialism has evolved into totalitarian dictatorship.

In fairness, pretty much every state socialist regime has, fairly quickly, evolved into a totalitarian dictatorship so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

It's clear that Marx was right in the sense that societies evolve, but wrong in that state socialism evolves to communism: it clearly doesn't. It's why I find intelligent people advocating for socialism to be particularly heinous. What they are, effectively, advocating for is totalitarianism.
He's a grown man, and it's entirely appropriate to criticize him for having used his wealth and privilege to contribute to the bigoted, intellectually vacant cesspool of "banter" that consumed the previous election cycle. His being a silver-spoonfed rich kid is no excuse.
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> For example, it is not correct usage to call someone “a French”.

Only because the established term was "a Frenchman". There is no such established term for the group under discussion.
Maybe this is the original author?
World of Sand by DOFI (2005)

http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

can anyone find an earlier falling sand type game?

edit: Found this after some googling:
http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/03/05/falling-sand-game-fr...

very interesting! (includes assembly source code)
I think Cantrill's point is that by owning a copy of a copyrighted work, you have a bunch of rights granted by law, which EULAs try to claw back.
The IR camera and the dot projector they use it with are in the near IR range (as in wavelengths near the visible part of the spectrum). It’s mostly only used to get depth data, and it’s near-IR so that you don’t get a bunch of visible dots projected onto your face every time you use it.

I guess you could see temperatures, but you’d have to point it at something almost hot enough to emit visible light. For normal face temperatures you’d need something sensitive to far IR.
This links to a wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

So they don't look like toadstools. (sorry)

I'm confused about how these fit in the ecosystem though. Are these still just the fruiting bodies? Are they permanent?
Because afterwards it is $79 again, the $30 is a temporary deal: https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/
I have struggled with this for all my life (m/37). I have methodically tried all medications mentioned, and although most work they are just too invasive, like the benzozyl peroxide and facial antibiotics. Four weeks ago I started trying an enzyme solution to apply to your face by a Dutch/Swiss biotech startup. I have seen an immediate decrease and wold recommend it for everybody to try:
https://www.gladskin.com/en/acne
Some of these streaming services will fail.
> nobody ever “owns the copy”.

Per US Code §117, which Cantrill links to, there is a concept of "the owner of a copy of a computer program" (direct quote from the law). So that can't be right.
True, but that percentage is probably going down as we speak, as China/India/etc. are moving up in the world.
Climate change: The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about
I find it very hard to get used to. Could have been easier.
Check this out
http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

As long as we have the internet archive and a few awesome humans we will be fine =)
> What does “afford the rights as the copyright owner” mean?

I would assume they mean they have a legal cough limited cough monopoly on the distribution of said software through force of law.
This is a small todo management application to be used from the shell written in rust.

It is a small shell which has a persistent db which stores tasks with their md5 sum as the key, as well as some shell features like tab completion of commands and task ids.

Any suggestions or feature requests are most welcome.
I listened to some of his music. It's not awful but man, he needs a bassist. There is just no low end
Physics, optimization, and impossibility
In a similar vein, Android has Log.wtf, which stands for "What a Terrible Failure".
Brave is an advertising company mixed with blockchain snakeoil.

Why should we trust them?
Not refuting your assertion, but the concentration of power in tracking funds is a looming problem. The FT did a bit on it last week. Here's something similar from the motley fool:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/12/01/vanguards-founder-...
You're from the US, right?

What you describe seems to be the default behaviour of humans on the one hand, and the effect of political polarization in the US on the other hand. Neither of those phenomena are necessarily based on filter bubbles.
I've had acne since I was a teen. I've tried every face cream and acne soap on the market. After 30 years of acne, I've finally found something that works - adapelene gel. It's a retinoid, a type of chemical related to vitamin A. My acne is a vitamin deficiency, but no amount of supplements would have fixed it as it's genetic deficiency in my skin. Benzoyl peroxide works well on red, inflamed acne but not on deep cystic acne. It's because they have different causes.
Yes. It's a peculiarity of the English language.