skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook does exactly that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt23cXZXgAEDdW4.jpg
Chrome doesn't log you in automatically, it just shows your Google account in Chrome if you've already logged in to your account. There's no sync happening.
True. I admit. I was just looking for an an inroad, thanks for calling me out :)
I have two small children with a wife that works 40+ hours per week as well. I still find time to lift weights (at home) and play sports.
Building up on your idea I might actually do that. I have trouble reaching out to new customers and ads are not an option, but maybe I could add a trial version that only becomes available once you shared the app link on some social media. (And of course by sharing I mean you were catapulted to a website of your choice, if you don’t share anything I have no way of knowing)
"Combative stance?" Do you think I should be more collaborative in pointing out that quantum computing is a bullshit field? This sort of mealy mouthed attitude is how such nonsense has grown and thrived in the first place. This subject should have been laughed to scorn in 96.

You're right: I have an issue with the progress of science as a whole, though I particularly take issue with "quantum computing" being considered science or technology or much of anything beyond play acting with liquid nitrogen. On the upside, nothing I learned in school is likely to be out of date ... for the rest of my life!

For the sake of lolz, please characterize this massive increase in cooling power using ratios. I could have missed something.
I see potential for application in Australia, given the new "mandatory backdoor" thing they've got going.
Just claim you've made a back door for the government, then use a scheme like this and provide them only bogus keys.
I care about my privacy and I'm still using Chrome. On a Chromebook and a Pixel device. Speak for yourself.
The authors of the 1996 paper that introduced the notion of Deniable Encryption are, alphabetically, Ran Canetti, Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, and Rafail Ostrovsky. It’s not correct to call any one of them “the author”.

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/deniable.pdf
What about Jerome?

He wasn't a bit character.
I'm not interested in adult fiction or fan fiction, but I'd still be interested in hearing what you think that.
Stop prioritizing cars!!! More bicycles and walking. F cars!
I assume it has to re-encode the content. Can you get any decent quality this way, as my gut feeling is that you need beefy CPU/GPU to maintain the framerate?
There are no countries where there are media, but no "tabloids" (also the term can be different). The UK is not that unique as you seem to believe.
I am surprised that Old Irish isn't featured. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography.
That was no surprise for me, after using XBMC/Kodi for a few years with CEC support through HDMI. It was so natural to just pause/resume from the remote control that now I'm surprised people didn't know about this.
I'm the author. Note that it's more powerful than wget or curl since it embeds resources (CSS, images, fonts...) in the saved page. Actually, you can consider it as an alternative to wkhtmltopdf [1] more than curl or wget. Running it on command line can help people to automate things, or use it on server-side in a SaaS, for example.

[1] https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
Zotero has improved a lot, while Mendeley has repeatedly regressed.

Mendeley used to be quite a good program, but recently you can not export annotated PDFs meaningfully. For example, sending a folder of annotated PDFs to a co-author during a literature review is impossible. This is obviously the case since Elsevier does not want you to trade research papers, whether you have lawfull access or not.

The updates that took away features were silent. What happened to me some time ago was these updates occured during a high-stress phase with a short deadline until conference submissions (if you are a researcher, you know what I mean).

I had used Mendeley for years to annotate and categorize literature. I was now in need to send my categorized PDFs to a central repository for my co-authors to evaluate and add to. After some update, without me noticing it, it was no longer possible to export folders of PDFs or PDFs in general!

I had everything in Mendeley, weeks of work. I was completely f'ed - deadline approaching. I had to re-aquire all PDFs and go through all annotations by hand.

ELSEVIER IS SIMPLY ANTI SCIENCE. Collaboration is a key in science. Sharing results, research and literature is crucial.

Mendeley makes this impossible. It does NOT allow you to fully access your own work!

So in conclusion, USE ZOTERO. It's good now, better than before. You can use a PDF reader with annotations to open and save the PDF and Zotero will keep those annotations. You can export Bibliographies, including notes AND files. You can not do that with Mendeley.

So again, as a researcher, I emplore you to drop Mendeley completely, as I have done.

Thank you.
I don't think the DMCA would apply, as presumably you own the copyright of whatever's in the database. You would need EFF or other support to prove it though...
We need more bicycle lanes, start taking away car parking and car lanes.
Thats extreme!

I would have just made it an image with the text, from a random url.
Portability is explicitly mentioned as an exception to the "no RE" clauses of the DMCA, so I wouldn't expect any charge to stick, but I don't expect that fact to deter Elsevier from suing anyway, out of spite.
> Will WINE ever be at a point where it would be stable enough to make the case for non-technical users?

IMO for everyday use it pretty much already is.

Example: I installed MS Office 2010 using the official MS office installer, in a specially isolated Wine environment using a somewhat cumbersome command-line. This is expert-stuff, I agree, but what follows is not.

After the installer had completed Wine had picked up the application installations inside Windows and made them available (through wine) in my regular Linux application launcher with nice icons and everything.

I didn't lift a finger, and now I could use MS Word like any native Linux app anywhere in Gnome, even associate it with DOCX-files in Nautilus.

Call me easily impressed, but I found that above and beyond what I expected wine to do for me.
This. GCP may be good and all, but it scares me to hell how
1) Liberal they are with blocking payment accounts
2) The fact that your payment account is tied to everything! If it goes down, your entire account is locked. Anything on GCP goes down. Hell GSuite goes down. Say goodbye to your accounts, your purchases and your identities.

If you also use Google Domains or Fi, also good luck getting your number and email.. You're basically locked out of all your accounts. With minimal chance of recovery.
Their most recent game is an example of what happens when they remove the mod community. A lot of people were very upset with FO76, but it being MMO disallowed mods, so game breaking bugs existed weeks into the game's release.
This might be true if you view the government as adversarial. If you view the government as a service provider for citizens I don’t think it holds water.

Your statement could easily be flipped. Turbo Tax is incentivized to keep the tax code as complex as possible, the government is incentivized to do the opposite.
Show HN: Wokring with Files in Golang LINQ
replace the defective employee
I love how the blog itself serves pixels and ads galore. Apparently it's ok if it does yield revenue for the right persons.
Note that this has been happening a while, given that there's submissions [1] [2] from 7 months ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302019

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433880
A good combination is uBlock Origin and Nano Defender (both correctly configured, there are steps you can follow online). uBlock Origin does a good job of blocking most stuff, and Nano Defender does a good job of stopping sites from detecting you have blocked their adverts, thus stopping the website from displaying a "Hey, you have an AdBlock, we need adverts to keep this site free. Disable your AdBlock and refresh to view this content".
> awk, Tcl, and Unix shells only have strings, so in a surprising twist, they have no concept of null whatsoever.

In shell a variable can be unset, which is different than set to empty string.
How can I make this work on macOS?

In my case: 10.14.2. Mojave
"Ah, Elsevier" was my exact reaction as well.

Nothing more frustrating than lazy business models undermining progress.
Yeah Rust and Go (and D) all have: decent standard libraries (Go exceeds the other two, somewhat resembling Python), a package manager of sorts (Go needsa improve in this aspect, but the strong standard library makes up for it for now, and they are working on it atm), and they're all usually stable.

I think the biggest game changers for any new language is a highly competitive standard library out of the box: web server of sorts that can somewhat scale out of the box is usually a must, but at least a simple enough one is ok too, file IO, crypto, etc are also useful, the less code I have to write the more productive I feel.

Package management is a must too, even if primitive at first (Go's approach is clean and decentralized to some degree, I love that).
More beneficial for Google I believe.
I read the title as Snowden and was wondering if some schoolboy was rescuing him from Russia...
I wouldn’t spend any excessive amount of time debating whether to get an SLR or a mirrorless camera. You’ll notice a big improvement over your smartphone with either. DSLRs can often be purchased used for cheaper and have better battery life, but mirrorless cameras are much smaller (the adage about the best camera being the one you have with you applies).

I also wouldn’t focus on getting the latest tech. I have a Nikon D80 from 2006 that, although it has a 10MP CCD sensor, which has a high noise floor and a low top ISO, is a perfectly functional camera that I use all the time.

If you have a camera store in your area, ask to see their used DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. You’re much better off spending less on the camera body and getting a few more lenses than you would be getting a top-of-the-line body and a junky kit lens. For three- to five-year-old cameras, DSLRs might be a better deal, and the standard SLR mount lenses are much more common and should be cheaper.
An idea: Mario on 3 monitors..
Awesome maths.

A practical problem I see is that even if everyone used this everywhere, an attacker has no reason to believe any forceably decrypted plaintext.

The disclosing party would have had to beforehand craft a fake plaintext that was credible enough to trick an alerted attacker based on its contents alone.
it depends on usecases - i run a data heavy usecase. We deploy using docker swarm, so our redeployment is fairly well taken care of.

in terms of benchmarking - this is not something we care about (since we dont have so much CPU utilization), so probably its easier for me.

For my usecase, AWS has better administrative tools than google. I use Route 53, SES, S3 - in all those three, no other products come close (transfer acceleration...im looking at you).

The one place that I agree with you is Dataproc. That's far superior to EMR in terms of spin-up/down.
The writer mentions that it occasionally happens to other employees as well and that it happens not every time but "more than 50% of the time" for employee 2. This makes me suspect that it could just be variance that makes it seem as if the phenomenon happens "everytime" for employee 2.

It takes quite a lot of trials to reach 2 SD significance, you'd have to let employee 2 walk past the cubicle at least a hundred times to be sure that there is really anything going on.
Sometimes I wake up suddenly at night, sweating, terrified, and crying like a baby, because python+numpy has become a sort of standard in numerical computing.

Arrays of numbers should be a native type of a programming language used for serious numerical computing. Strings and dictionaries are nice, but I can do without. However, arrays of numbers are fundamental and it is very sad that they are accessible only via idiosyncratic libraries such as numpy or pytorch.
I cut out as much sugar as I could from my diet a while ago, I noticed as a side effect that I didn't need caffeine to kick start me in the mornings. (I am not a huge caffeine user so results may vary).
>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely

For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often open Chrome just for that purpose.
I have only had good experiences with eBay over the last 10 years. I’ve sold thousands of things over the years, and I’ve never had any run-ins with scammers. Then again, I’m not selling items that generally attract scammers. I have been trying to use eBay more, in place of amazon, when I don’t need it immediately.
XMPP should be listed as an alternative for chat
I wish there was more research on different forms of voting and reputation, not even insisting that we make the voting binding, but just so contributors can agree or disagree with some edit, and then we can look how different metrics would have resulted in what outcome, so that perhaps one day we can run an encycopedia without needing explicit moderators...

DistriPedia?
Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality (2016)
> see this example from a couple of days ago

“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate.”

That could mean anything from "flat out wrong" to "they got a single word wrong in the reported speech but we don't want to tip anyone's hand whilst we're still working on this". It definitely doesn't warrant being described as "skewed or outright false information" until we know more, does it?
I use ddg's bash syntax for it. !g for Google !a for Amazon etc.
You suspect wrong. The time it takes to ascertain the, say, intelligence of an iteration is just too long. The OP is right, this sort of thing is, best case, a century long study.
DNS doesn't have auth features so typically these are distributed as VPNs. I haven't used any of these personally, so this isn't a recommendation of any kind, but there's a list of them here if you're interested:

https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn-ad-blocker-comparison/
> If the failure of a single security control can invalidate your security model, your security model is inadequate.

As an example, when an admin gets an AWS Security Group wrong, thereby exposing database servers / redis / customer data. Consequence... multimillion $ fines, brand/reputation damage.

It's kind of sad how badly things are set up to fail sometimes. :(
Ticket resellers are an absolute scourge on the music industry, anything that makes their life more difficult is fine by me.
The point you made is (simplified) "Chrome is better than Firefox for privacy". Yet you brought nothing to support this beyond "the devil you know is better". Especially since Google is heavily relying on marketing your data to the point where they gather it covertly or force users into privacy breaking situations.

Common sense would lead anyone to assume they don't collect it just to flip bits on a storage device. Just when you thought you knew the devil. Knowing this guess you'll drop Chrome now, right?

[0]-[over 9000]

So tell me about this devil you know and how exactly knowing all that still pushes you to believe it's the better option?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042802

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252

[3]
https://mashable.com/article/google-chrome-69-forced-login/?...

[4] https://gizmodo.com/google-stores-location-data-even-with-lo...

[5] https://mashable.com/article/google-android-data-collection-...

[6] i can go on but I'm pretty sure a modicum of good will from your side would be enough to get the point.
I find it’s very interesting, because isn’t this type of thing precisely what lawmakers want Facebook and the likes to do, warn people not to trust certain content? Since they’re both tools instrumental for consuming content, what makes it different when Microsoft does it?
Yeah, I left a negative review for a startup where I worked, and it was the first review (I actually had to create an entry for the startup in order to leave the review). I tried to be balanced about the things that attracted me there in the first place, and the kind of person who might be able to last a while there, but noted the downsides that drove me out.

Within a month, four more reviews, all 5-star reviews with "cons" sections like "none" or "I don't like this particular office snack" popped up for this company that had existed without reviews for years, all of which were very obviously in the unusual and quite-recognizable writing style of the head sales guy (who was constantly recruiting because of his habit of scapegoating his 3-or-4-person sales team when the company did poorly, and thus firing and replacing all of them), down to his particular mannerisms that I hadn't heard from anyone else (with the same wording appearing in multiple reviews).

I flagged these reviews as obviously by the same author, one who was an "executive" employee of the company, and that I was willing to provide samples to prove it. I've since re-flagged those reviews a few times before realizing that Glassdoor has no interest in responding.

Since then, it appears that the same guy has taken to requiring his new hires (of which he has many, due to his high churn rate from firing and replacing every single BDR/SDR regularly) to write at least one glowing review on Glassdoor, which has grossly inflated the company's score.

The lesson I learned from this experience was to skim positive reviews looking for dangerous euphemisms ("more than just a job" means "no work-life balance", "like a family" means "unprofessional (and often backstabbing) working relationships", "fast-paced" / "driven" / "high-performer" means again that no work-life balance exists) count the number of negative reviews as a health indicator, and read negative reviews looking for repeated themes to identify real problems.

For example, a smallish (50 or so people) company I considered in my last job hunt had several negative reviews that contained phrases like "CEO conducts a whisper campaign against employees he doesn't like", and "getting on the CEO's bad side is easy and damning", while positive reviews said things like "not everyone can adapt to our flat structure" or "it's not for everyone", or "if you can learn to fit in, it's great". That sent the clear signal: there is no real reporting chain, just the CEO's capriciousness, and the CEO plays favorites (or "unfavorites") arbitrarily and heavy-handedly. The verdict: avoid this company.

As with any source of user-submitted reviews online, you have to learn a certain degree of cynicism in order to arrive at an informed decision.
On the other hand, it's gonna be hard to even detect if you just use it to import your collection to Zotero.
100% this. I've been overweight to varying degrees for most of my life, but my weight has been at its lowest when I'm happy and highest when I have high stress or anxiety. Anxiety especially seems to lead to poor eating because you go into survival mode and stop being able to think long term, while loading up on food as if you were a hunter gatherer about to go through times of extreme food uncertainty.
To be fair it is one of the longest-lived of the original dotcom bubble companies. 23 years is multiple lifetimes when you're talking about the internet.
That has me thinking about extending the metaphor horrifically. Part of the answer for "why not?" has been "the owner has a gun". It obviously violence would be non-ideal on several levels but a really any sufficient counter force could work and probably would work better albeit with collective action problems. The reason "lobbying" works for cheap is because it helps get them elected. If it was as bad as having an extramarital affair or otherwise a kiss of death the "lobbying" would get more expensive. Similarly if lobbyists got boycotted to hell and back they would hesitate more.
> If you are sued by someone and win in the US, do you not get your legal expenses covered by the entity suing you?

often yes, but you actually have to win the case first. the idea is that you run out of money and give up before you get there.
I am prone to static shocks and one day I discovered I could temporarily bypass the card key lock at our office by shocking the handle. No one believed me until one day we gathered everyone at the office around and I did it while being filmed. Our head of security was furious, everyone else thought it was hilarious.
> But to single them out for "fake news" labelling is worryingly arbitrary.

Wikipedia did it in 2017 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...

It's not like this is a random bolt from the blue.
Elsevier is to science as Oracle is to database software licensing.
So what? The idea that you need to go balls to the wall to benefit from exercise is probably why so many people fail at it. You get plenty of benefits by simply getting up and going for a bloody walk for 30 minutes.
1. I never asked for any of that response, nor did the situation imply that I needed to learn about the points stated to make a better decision.

2. There's a general passive-combative conversation about browsers going on ("I like Firefox, I don't get why people like Chrome" and vice versa) that I never wanted to be a part of, mostly because of how disrespectful and counterproductive it is.

3. In a thread about ad-blocking, I got what is effectively an ad for Firefox.

I don't want any of this nonsense on my side of the table. "Use my product because I value it!" No, go away, I don't need this.

My choices are rarely uninformed. I spend time considering what to pick where I'm able to. I'd like my choices to be respected as such – not have my face plastered with someone else's unprompted opinion.

Here's an example of a better conversation:

– I liked this part of Firefox, and I wish it was in Chrome too.

– Do you not like Firefox whole, then? If so, why?

– Because of X, Y, and Z. I used it intensely for a month or so, so I got a good look at the way it behaves. I know X is solvable, but not Y or Z (I tried), and they're critical to my browsing experience.

– Okay, I see. I hope you consider (browser diversity, or whatever issues using Firefox's supposed to solve), because they're important.

– Oh yeah? Can you tell me why?

...and so on. A respectful conversation that sparks curiosity and provides context, without annoying any of the parties in the process.

Otherwise, you get what you give. Seems a fair approach to me.
From a startup POV, I'll give you the other perspective.

I now have a significantly reduced opex that saves me a lot of money. If I grow very fast (and outgrow it)... I really dont care, because I will most likely have a financing event.

If I dont grow fast enough to justify the spend, I have bigger problems.

In addition, I have to commend Google and Azure here - the way they do committed use is very flexible. They price it on number of units (cores, RAM, whatever) - so if you outgrow it, you still get the discount + full cost of additional units. On AWS, if you outgrow, you have to frikking sell off your machines on their auctions and buy new ones.

Only problem is that Google doesnt do this for databases (which are very expensive)
Who gives a F*** about Rails in 2019?
It's a cool experiment, but why post this — there aren't any conclusions yet!
I guess you don’t use Chrome either then? Because it also sends user data to an advertising company…
Development dollars correlate poorly with progress. It helps, but even an order of magnitude difference brings little extra gain.
An awful lot if you're a smoker.
Nice idea! Combine with https://github-contributions.now.sh, it could be a cool way to create some art with the contribution graph
Solve the mistery with prioritizing growth ideas