skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoid pressing the button if there is a chance of crossing without having to delay traffic.

The only reason being that, when driving, I wish people would do the same since I always seem to get held up by a red light when the person who pressed the button has long since gone.
You could do away with the 5ct part of this, just by requiring a special header to get around the api part.

Then you funnel all that junk into a special folder (black hole) that you can either ignore or check if you are expecting a legit request for your attention.

The more I think about it, the more I love this idea. All email that shows up in your inbox is there because you have to explicitly allowed it.
I can only find one song by Andrew Brady named "Fairytale of New York". Actually quite a good song. Also lots of lyrics - so not really the kind referred to in the article.
FB have already been fined over that "When Facebook took over the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014, it told the [EU] commission it would not be able to match user accounts on both platforms, but went on to do exactly that." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...
Even in a Digital Mortgage Era, Relationships Reign Supreme
Not for most of us, unless you enjoy shelling out for the brand name. And those who are truly concerned about the cold can opt for a less expensive option, like what recreational snowmobile riders wear.
I thought Whatsapp use is great in the U.S., but I realized how big it is outside the U.S. when I saw it firsthand. It is insane, there are people who use it to run their entire business/livelihood.

I really hope it stays out of Zuck's "vision" but it likely won't, considering the amount of money he paid for it
Can I vote stuff like this (the article) down? Do I need a specific amount of points for that?
I’m pretty sure there’s no e2e encryption in WeChat. I communicate in WeChat with the assumption that everything I write can be read by censors.
Pssshhh.

I've been waiting for a guitar effects pedal for almost 2 years at this point. Best overdrive in the world!
Here's a pro-tip for the apparently uninformed journalist: When you spent $1000 dollar on a fake coat and realized you were being conned the correct thing to do was NOT to go back to the same retailer to buy your next coat! I mean, really? If that's how you behave there's only so much sympathy you deserve.
Is there a paid secure messaging platform anyone can recommend? I don't want drag my friends and family to another platform only have it sell its users to the highest bidder.
Flutter focuses on mobile platforms.
Revery focuses on desktop platforms.
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They are not making money from Discover Weekly, but they make money from made-up artists, since they don't have to pay anyone to have that music up there. It's easy to do the math from there.

The work they have in making a few artists up is nothing compared to what they would have to pay for an actual artist to have their albuns there.
Call it impractical then? At least in Lebanon, as people become aware of this deception, they came to reject crosswalk rules in general. Ethics notwithstanding, breaking the honesty clause of the social contract is going to backfire on you.
$1 fine for you! (....and me) https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2014/07/23/fear-getti...
What is this based on? I think it’s more accurate to say that developers and enthusiasts are the ones who articulate this sentiment. Regular users do not talk about it or understand the issue, but behave and retain usage differently depending on the intuitively of the interface.
Only if those people compete with Apple's profits.
That's funny. If the label doesn't matter, why not opt for a less expensive option?
Ask HN: How to convince Airbnb to delete an account?
Hi all,

A friend created an Airbnb account a while back but never used it because Airbnb's verification system can't send texts to our phone provider apparently so they couldn't verify the account.

They decided to ask them to delete it and remove all their personal info, and Airbnb refused (even though their website says to contact customer support), so they tried sending a GDPR request because they're an EU resident, and got back a big email about how since they signed up with Airbnb US they're not a resident and aren't eligible for consideration under EU Laws (they did sign up while traveling here, but they're still an EU resident).

Is there a trick for convincing them to delete (not just deactivate) an account?

Email that they forwarded me for reference (I did ask my friend if I could post this):

> Data deletion is a right afforded by the General Data Protection Regulation. Only customers of Airbnb Ireland UC, Airbnb Payments UK Ltd. or Airbnb Global Services Limited (‘Airbnb’) are eligible to exercise their data subject rights under the GDPR.
>
> Because your country of residence and activity are related to the United States, you are contracting with Airbnb, Inc.
>
> GDPR generally does not apply to users of Airbnb Inc. Subsequently, we are unable to fulfil your deletion request.
As such, we know this statement to be false: "With WebSocket HTTP/2 support there is nothing that HTTP/1.1 can do that HTTP/2 cannot"
Ah, ok, so the rule of thumb is you can talk about having murdered a guy, but don't message the person you murdered right before you kill them?
As far as I can tell it would be the other way around.

You create a Revery app and can build a macOS, Linux, Windows and Web version of it.
I agree with you on all counts, but just to play devil's advocate if you had to mutually agree to arbitration after a dispute arises, odds are likely in bitter disputes one side will refuse only to cost the other side more money in legal fees.

I don't think that's enough of a reason to disagree with your point but it's certainly one to consider, especially if one side has a lot more resources and jurisdictionally each side will need to pay their own legal fees.
> Please explain to me the fundamental difference between an interface and what you consider software.

"Software" is code. An interface is the expectations of code.

In particular, if software X implements interface A, it is possible to write a compatible drop-in replacement of X using software Y, which does not incorporate any portion of software X, is it not?

GNU libc and Apple libc both implement the UNIX libc interface. If you claim that an interface is indistinguishable from software, is there a portion of the GNU libc software that also present in Apple libc? Where is it? Can you point to it? (The source code of both is public, so this should be easy for you to do.)

Google gave another example in the blog post: the interface of keyboard shortcuts. If I implement a text editor that uses Ctrl-X for cut, Ctrl-C for copy, and Ctrl-V for paste, have I copied the software of another text editor that uses that interface?

> An interface in all its various forums as we understand interfaces are placed in binary. From object implementations to ABI's and API's.

An API, an "application programming interface," is distinguished from an ABI, an "application binary interface," precisely because it does not mandate what appears in the binary.

If you think that there is in fact a way where you can point to a structure definition in a compiled C object file, please identify where it is in this object: https://godbolt.org/z/SVhsJk
Doing this after they're already talking about forcing them to sell WhatsApp is a bold move.
>but that you could get the same quality or better for much less.

If you want a winter coat on a budget your best bet is probably Russian (well, USSR probably) milsurp. You might have to do a little research on how clothing is sized to find one that fits properly and you won't give off an aura of high class while wearing it though (but this is expected with any budget solution).
"The Commission found that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are not close competitors."

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-1088_en.htm

That release sums it up indirectly -- they had no issue with it because they were all distinct platforms with different features, but if Facebook consolidates them, I think that somewhat implies they are competitors and there is clear duplication of offerings.
On the other hand, the $300,000 bounty for cracking Telegram encryption has yet to be claimed.
For those who enjoy war-gaming how to survive a massive EMP, Jonathan Hollerman's Survival Theory is a good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Theory-Preparedness-Jonathan...
A couple of hundred is still much less.
On a bit of a tangential note: I am really not a fan of using the term "poaching" for this. The engineer is not a piece of property, and it is certainly not an illegal or immoral act. Employees are allowed to leave for a different job (Interestingly the headline is the only place that term is used, they use "hire" in the article and in the HTML Header).
For many people, fashion is a hobby and people like spending money on their hobbies. I’ve spent a lot of money on jackets and coats when a “better” one could’ve been bought for much less.

Do I regret it? No. I feel good when I wear it and I like reading about clothes, trying things on, and deciding what to buy.
Google didn't do this to be interoperable. There is no set of software interoperable with Android's Java runtime. Not even the court bought this argument, because not only is it ridiculous on its face, but it's technically not true.

Why do people involved in tech keep repeating this?
The author was unable to purchase a coat from Canada Goose so she went to Amazon. I assume by the time the whole ordeal was sorted it was still not possible to purchase a coat from the Canada Goose site. It's hard to support the company when they are sold out on their site . . .
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3-4MB for small apps.
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I just can't trust it when an instrumental song by a band
that I can't find anywhere else kicks in. I'm not saying that Discover Weekly can't provide you great artists that you don't know, but I can't trust it. It leaves me with the sense that I've been tricked and I'd rather avoid it all together.
> "a Facebook user could send an encrypted message to someone who has only a WhatsApp account, for example. Currently, that isn’t possible because the apps are separate."

This freaks me out, as i have deliberately chosen to stay away from facebook since the early days! I somehow felt repelled by the idea of facebook back then, now its trying to hunt me down! Oops!

I have been thinking of quitting Whatsapp since facebook acquired it, but continued using it since almost everyone i frequently communicate with does so on Whatsapp.

Maybe it's time to quit whatsapp before this integration happens! Or am i just freaking out ? :D
Sometimes it feels like all I do is move problems around like boiled broccoli on a plate.
Loved the idea
Why No 2D Userspace API in Linux Direct Rendering Manager?
They are significantly more, but it's not just replacement cost avoidance that's the benefit. They are easier to handle in wind, keeping you dryer and not having to fight the umbrella.
A crash involving whom? I'd be shocked if a driver can hit a jaywalking pedestrian and not be at fault.
The Apache license covers derived works.

So if you fork Swift, you’re covered. If you don’t form Swift, then you’re not covered.

Note that the Apache license is much stronger / better than the PATENTS.txt files accompanying projects like those from Microsoft / Facebook, because those usually don’t cover forks and are designed to protect the parent company.
Name-brand, truly cold-weather sleeping bags can run $400-$600. And there's a lot more design and stitching in a coat than a mummy bag. So, I'm not sure you're comment is accurate.

https://www.rei.com/product/127009/big-agnes-crosho-ul-20-sl...
As in, WNT = VMS + 1
Both postings point to the same story, it's by definition a duplicate submission
The tariffs article literally describes the U.S. as very protectionist up until it implemented the income tax.
Telegram - unless you deliberately take action and opt out of cross-device sync for individual chats - stores all your messages in plaintext on their server. If you want your chats secure, you will need to convince everybody you're chatting with to opt out of cross device sync. Good luck with that.

This is in contrast to e.g. Wire, [a near-future release of] Riot.im / Matrix.org, and (AFAICT) Viber, which do end-to-end encryption by default and cross-device without compromises. The messaging providers don't know anything about your chats there. This is the way it should be.

There are also complaints about Telegram's "weird" cryptography, although nobody's ever shown anything close to a practical attack yet, and definitely not for the current version of their custom MTProto protocol. The core problem is really in their insecure-by-default service offering.
First time I visited Seattle, I crossed a wide-ish, but completely clear street against the light. When I got across, an homeless-looking guy came running up to tell me, "Don't do that, man! Fifty dollars, and they'll catch you!"

I remember wondering how anyone ever got anywhere.
“... can't get fooled again.”
wild guess, maybe it's like yacc vs hand made recursive descent parsers.. the former doesn't allow enough control so people prefer doing the effort so they can change bits here and there
It is a shame that HN does not have some system where you

- mark a title as clickbait

- either suggest an alternate title, or accept one from a list of previously submitted alternate titles

When enough karma has gathered behind a title the system can automatically replace it.
I want Word and Outlook to honour emacs keybindings that are supported on OS X in every other application (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, Ctrl-K, Ctrl-P, Alt-F, etc).
And unless you remember which ones are fake, you always have to press. And because you don't know if the people in front of you pressed, you have to awkwardly walk past them and press it (again). It's always annoying me.
If you go to Antartica (professionally, not sure about tourists) you will be issued clothes. For what isn't, Aldi options are sufficient, I've heard.
Switzerland has generous socialist programs, a strict immigration policy, and a little Nazi gold. Not highly relocatable.
And Zuckerberg and FB have been true to their word every step of the way. I see the backpedaling now, “Well you see congressman, I ordered it but when we dug in deeper, it would have a material impact on revenue, so we were forced due to our fiduciary duty to remove it.” And just happened to not tell anyone until it came out via whistleblower or some other means.
Actually HTTP2 upgrade isn’t done with an “Upgrade:” request, but rather with TLS protocol negotiation.
Same reason some (not all!) rich people take some of the badges off their very high end cars. Everyone knows you're driving a Mercedes sedan. No need to be a show off and let everyone know you bought the highest trim AMG, that would be impolite.
Yes, not sure if it's 500 or 1,000.
Does anyone have any experience with Threema? https://threema.ch/en
The outdoor clothing market has a slightly weird dynamic. The features that make a garment suitable for use in extreme conditions tend to make them unappealing to casual users. Conversely, outdoor brands need to maintain some semblance of credibility, which is jeopardised if they exclusively make clothes for dog walkers.

There are a lot of fantastic clothing brands and products that are largely unknown to the general public, and a lot of really mediocre garments being sold by big-name brands. Many sponsored mountaineers and climbers wear brand X clothes because they're good, but have them embroidered with brand Y's logo because they pay the bills. Certain brands are known for using very discreet logos on their garments, because they don't want to cause trouble for people with endorsement deals for other brands.

Canada Goose jackets are reasonably well made, but they're fashion items and priced accordingly. The Snow Mountain and PBI Expedition parkas are decent enough garments for arctic use, but they're overkill for normal use. Rab, Montane or Marmot will sell you a jacket of equal or better quality for less than half the price.
Submissions can be upvoted or flagged. There's no separate downvoting for submissions. I believe the karma threshold for flagging submissions is 31.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
I think so.

It's rather betting the value lies in the social graph, not in being able to tell that this user is a democrat voter with a disabled child and that is a republican who is black. [#]

If facebook already holds that data on users and does not "give it up" then yes totally - they raise the bar so that absolutely no competitor can garner that data - a perfect moat.

If somehow a regulator forces them to anonymise the data - they are at the same stage as any competitor.

I guess that's the regulator challenge?

[#] ie arbitrary meta data about users but that is extremely valuable to advertisers and political campaigns. do not take the examples as meaning anything :-)
Also DHH presenting about this at Basecamp from a few months ago:

https://youtu.be/MRqh8oLY7Ik
iMessage. Just buy an iPhone.

Before anyone gets pissy, think about it, it's true.
I don't know how "hardcore" I am. My lack of belief is due to lack of evidence. The quality of my life is pretty good (perhaps due to my WEIRDness) and, yes, that would probably prevent me from looking to something "else".

That said, if the evidence were significantly more convincing, I'd change in a heartbeat.
But how can they hope to do that without some form of unified account?
>we've fallen so far behind in control over our UIs that "dark mode" is legitimately considered a feature

In case people don't believe this, there was an update for Office THIS WEEK for Outlook to support Dark Mode on OSX Mojave.
I have a knock off version named Canada super triple goose that cost about 1/5 the price. It's a really good and warm coat, I've had it for like 8 years now.
I segment my interactions in this way. I have different contacts on Facebook and WhatsApp. I don't use the Facebook mobile app partly because I don't want my contacts from Facebook to annoy me anywhere, expecting me to respond on my phone any time of the day.

But I'm okay with ignoring people, asking people to stop, and mercilessly blocking people when they don't. Some are unwilling to take such deliberate action to reduce unwanted communications. Some perhaps have good reasons: it'll be socially costly.
Same can be said about IPv6 - and could have been said about IPv6 20 years ago. Still waiting...
You're right! Technology should under no circumstances by adopted blindly. Costs and opportunities should always be weighed carefully.

Given that TLS is mention in-line as also breaking this point, I think it perhaps possible that some readers might be of the opinion that the decision-making process you call for has already been conducted. Since TLS breaks the standard of "it is human-eyeball-friendly with telnet/netcat", HTTP/2 is little different in the minds of many.

Your caution is right and apt. The history of computing is littered with technologies that were unready, unsuitable, or otherwise not fit for purpose when adopted.
The author left out white people, and since he's white himself and from California the "he just doesn't live around white people" explanation that I was originally going for can't be right.

If he had left out a people group that he didn't see very often (if he lived in Nigeria that could be white people, if he lived in Norway that could be Native Americans) then nobody would be upset. But all signs point to this being some kind of misguided political expression. I can see why everyone is riled up; it's (apparently intentionally) tapping in to one of the lava pools of "this is unfair" sloshing around America these days.
An interactive Git Status client, written in C
Well, there's the one that blocks people from flying or even taking trains.
Facebook didn't just investigate... they hired a PR firm to tie Facebook critics to Soros and anti Soros stuff....

Investigate is one thing but they went way farther than that.

Also liked to put out lots of other news critical about other tech companies anytime there was a snowball of bad Facebook news.
I think it's a matter of taste.

If you like native widgets more, you can look into briskml

https://github.com/briskml/brisk
--edit-- see below comments.. this may not be so simple.

No. The Apache License 2.0 does not work that way. You are allowed to copy and use everything in the Swift language to your own liking in a similar manner to the MIT and BSD permissive licenses. However if you then try and begin a lawsuit against Apple for anything in what you copied, your rights are terminated, therefore invalidating your suit. The Apache License also gives you access to the patents in the language. It's a bit of a hack like GPL is, except that you are allowed to do just about anything with the code except sue.

The license, at least the way I see it, is a signal that Apple isn't in the business of patenting language features. In fact, in a way, Apple is using their resources to gobble up space that patent trolls can never again exploit. Once a patented feature is released under Apache 2.0, I know of no way that it can be undone.
Yeah, I have a parka I bought for some specific needs I had at the time and was really glad I had it. I rarely wear it these days though. It's just too warm unless I were walking around in sub-zero (degrees F) or I were spending a bunch of time standing around in "just" sub-freezing temperatures. And it's pretty much too warm for any real exercise.
The door close button is used when the elevator is in fire service mode (where all actions are manually activated)
I guess you can't call it End2End2End or it starts sounding dirty.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18997659
I emphasize with not having a good idea on what and how much news to consume. Especially developing news... just reading the summary afterwards seems way less time consuming. A digital counterpart to a weekly newspapers, doing the selecting, would be nice. I haven't found a convenient way to do that, yet. Would love recommendations.

But we cannot just ignore news at all... there must be some minimum time to invest. Democracy can only work if your choice in the voting booth is actually informed. For that, journalism seems to be the best of the bad options we have. Most comments in this thread painting it as worthless or worse is downright scary.
Facebook to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
If you have a smartphone then you also have a digital camera, like it or not.
It makes a lot of sense from the technical point of view.

Essentially, one could share a single table of "users" between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Because the accounts can be easily identified and connected by email addresses and phone numbers, which don't change that often.

This way, a "Facebook Account" could become like a "Google Account", but for social media.

This is exactly how Google integrated YouTube.

It's bad for privacy, but good for everything else.
Sudokus and Schedules- Branching Algorithms from Scratch
Yeah I haven't gotten far into the key stuff myself. Thanks for the tip as far as rolling your own goes.
> Use Signal if you absolutely need end to end encryption, extremely secure chat, and no way to use it outside of your phone being on and connected to the Internet.

You can use Signal on Desktop without your phone being online. (This does not work with WhatsApp.)
This is exactly what I was hoping to add to it with my postmgr project. There's projects like Mailu[0] which are fantastic as well.

[0]: https://github.com/Mailu/mailu