skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I am not concerned that CF will "monetize" - I am concerned they will share data with government/other parties whom users have no knowledge of, or recourse against, said sharing.

Select * from population where political-affiliation is far-left AND age >30 AND reddit-user-name contains etc...

etc...
Generating new emoji with adversarial deep learning
I think they're in this not only for the money. Their goal is to provide a user-centric blogging platform, not a corporate-centric one.

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I appreciate the response, but I definitely did not mean to imply that I don't care about other people's problems, but was simply questioning and hoping to get a more exact and maybe quantitative picture of the control these companies have. Perhaps I made a mistake in thinking too much about my own (important) personal decisions and the information and processes I use to make them.

With respect to the sneaky game purchases are you referring to the stories of facebook letting children make purchases and not reimbursing the parents? Because the ability to control children is much different than the ability to control adults.

The wedding ring for cash is definitely creepy and I can see how that would add additional distress to your friend. But I guess my point is: how much did that ad contribute to your friend deciding to get a divorce? Had she not see that ad and probably other similar ads would she have not gotten a divorce? I think at least attempting to quantify these questions is important when trying to understand the level of control of these companies. We have to go beyond "This company showed a creepy ad(s)" to "This company showed a creepy ad(s) and this is the extent it influenced my final decision."
I distinctly remember a discussion about Something Awful's slogan ("the internet makes you stupid") and how it was actually a keen observation about the internet. Pre-internet you would have people with really bad ideas. These people were so obvious to any normal person that bad thinkers generally shut up because sharing their bad ideas meant being socially ostracized or at least getting shunned.

But then you add the internet, and all these radically bad thinkers find each other and their ideas almost seem normal amongst their type. They not only normalize bad thinking, but they also push for even more radically bad thinking in an effort to out-do each other. End result, you end up with a vociferous contingent of town idiots who don't realize they are town idiots because they only listen to fellow town idiots. Add advertising companies who function on a metrics-first approach, and those town idiots dictate how companies act.
Why do you think startpage has better privacy?
Programming for other people.. I encounter way too much problems, with too little time.
This combo works fine. Also, using DDG as your default search engine gives you more diverse results, because you can also just do g! prior to the search terms to automatically send to search to EvilCorp --- oops, I mean Google --- as needed.
There's also Qwant (https://www.qwant.com/), a European-based search engine that also claims to respect privacy: https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/security/how-does-qwant...
The underlying assumption seems to be that people are incapable, unable and too dumb to choose for themselves, if they want to give their habit data in exchange for direct payment. Apple needs to come and save them from themselves.
We say buying digital games but in reality we are renting digital games. Also, a lot of times paying the price of physical games for these rentals.
Ah, yes, this is when the real dystopia begins
Time does indeed fly. I was born in 1993 :)
I’m not suggesting you fork it yourself, write your own, or use Joe Schmoe’s SSL library. There are other major implementations such as Amazon’s s2n that have many eyeballs on them daily.

Diversity of infrastructure components confers similar resistance as DNA diversity in the wild.

https://github.com/awslabs/s2n
> What about web apps?

I think it's important to make this distinction. A lot of websites don't need the JavaScript they ship with to present the material the users want. I agree those websites should work without JavaScript.

However, you can't expect actual web applications to do this.

Examples

- https://www.draw.io/

- https://www.audiotool.com/app/ (sign in required; demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvIu_R8bmdA)

- https://human.biodigital.com/signin.html (sign in required; demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW4JSMlBhWQ)

- https://pixlr.com/x/

Other more commonly know examples

- Most of Google Drive offerings

- Google Analytics control panel

- Twitch

I see this confusion a lot when this topic is discussed on HackerNews.
This is an interesting and informative little benchmark. I'm sure a few things can be picked apart, but eh.

What am also interested in hearing about is the author's experience with building a web app with c# on Linux, or anyone else's experience for that matter. I really didn't know it was ever ported, but I don't get out much.
Hmm. I can't say for absolute sure, but if the root document is HTML and there are no <script> tags (or <iframe>s, I guess), I don't see how you'd get JavaScript to execute. I think those are strictly the only entry-points JS can have, and it's not like HTML or CSS could mutate the document to create one after the fact.

EDIT: I brainfarted and totally forgot about inline event handlers. Go easy on the downvotes please.
NYC Council questions tax breaks and economic impact of Amazon HQ2
Agreed, it's quite good.

Most complaints seem to be focused on mobile. Eh, on mobile I only consume content, so I don't really care if it's hard to post a comment or vote on mobile. Desktop computing is my jam.

And any complaints about its appearance on desktop are easy to tune to user preferences using a userscript. I have a simple userscript that changes the color scheme to a dark theme I quickly concocted. (Part of why I don't even bother to contribute on mobile is because mobile platforms are so constrained that a quick and dirty userscript isn't particularly easy to use.)
Give me a dramatic helicopter coup and I'm in.
Show HN: I made an upvote site that helps makers get traffic and funding
I don’t know what happened, but it sorted itself out. Love it.
Hadn't heard of outline before -- very cool. Thanks for sharing this link.
Can you quote the relevant terms?

Depending on exact definitions, the people in an outside compensated "research panel" could be seen as "employed by" the company doing the research. There's consideration being exchanged for services rendered.
It stopped being a hobby, or art, and started being a platform for making money.

With the money came the scammers and other malicious actors, and so now, everything that used to be fun is also a security vulnerability. Everything even remotely interesting has to be sandboxed and sanitized, to contain the damage when someone inevitably figures out how to weaponize a toy and upload the resulting bomb to your site.

And the moneymaking parts also had to be simplified, so that users without a lot of technical knowledge could still figure out how to enter their payment information. All clicks; no command lines.

I suspect fun and weird is still out there, but their signal is drowned by the noise. You have to already know where it is to get to it. An army of fun-finders could constantly troll through the dark waters of the out-of-mainstream net, looking for new and interesting, and then recommend whatever they may find to their social networks. Otherwise, the best site you will never see might be on page 200 for the nearest search term you will ever enter that matches it--ranked well behind all the disturbing rule 34 interpretations of it.

The niche-dwellers just can't find each other easily any more. The crowd standing between them is too vast and noisy. And if you don't have a strong community already, your tentative steps into forming one can easily be annihilated by spammers advertising boner pills and 419 scams, sometimes in a language you can't understand, or someone renting a DDoS botnet just to kill your server, or any of a dozen other ways to pave over your paradise.
Electing a governor is one thing, and notably, we just elected a new one. But representatives are protected by gerrymandering and are thus not "elected" in a completely straightforward sense. At the very least, overturning the composition of the legislature could be a more complicated matter.
Pretty sure if there's no JS you could just block iframes and maybe form tags and then people would have no way to submit anything. They could click a malicious link, sure, but they can do that on today's social networks.
This is exactly why I don't even bother with donations.

Turned out ads were a nice middle ground for most people on most sites. Most ads were boring banner ads. Most people could ignore them. I wasn't hustling for pennies. People who couldn't pay didn't have to. People didn't have to grapple with loss aversion for visiting a website. The model had issues, but it worked.

Now that ad-blocking is ubiquitous, I'm left running my sites (chiefly, a large forum) as a charity. Unless something changes, the internet will soon be centralized corporation-run megasites like Reddit/Facebook... and then the few charity sites run by individuals who can find a niche not dominated by the former.

I don't see a replacement for ads on the horizon. Micropayments still don't work. Nobody wants to have that "will it be worth it?" anxiety every time they click a link. Not every website on the internet can erect its own paywall. Even if you're in the rare position to negotiate private ad deals, then you're probably big enough to get your own entry on Easylist.

As I speak, there's a frontpage submission lamenting the death of individual/smaller sites and weirdness on the internet. There's much more death to come.
No one prides themselves on any of those things.
I use Super Stop and I'm in a habit of hitting shift+escape on basically every website I visit. It kills all AJAX calls and content loading. 9/10 websites load perfectly in the first second and stopping them after that just prevents popups, tracking, etc. It would be nice to have a plugin that automatically stops websites after some preset interval.
Yes, exactly this. You have to choose the hand that feeds.

If you start a platform around paying customers you make it one way, if you start it around getting as many users as you can and then monetize the popularity, then you are selling your users, and that's another way entirely.
What about the nuclear launch codes being all set to 0000000.
https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...
What is wrong with Pro-Business representatives? Things are not super hunky dory with CALIPERS, the budget gymnastics of California are world renowned.

California is a such a top heavy reliant state, one brutal year in the stock market and returns of ultra rich, California will have a really bad time.

CA is not a model governance state, not even close.
That, however, doesn't address the question - why do you think people can't freely choose for themselves what they're doing with their data.

It's one thing to do a nastly covert data mining and another thing to go to a person and say "hey, I'll pay you to do A on THIS device with THIS app which you CLEARLY need to install and activate". One is dishonest, the other just seems like basic freedom in modern world?
Quora is extremely awful now. I'd say its worse than Yahoo Answers of old. At least YA could be unintentionally funny.

Quora is nothing but spammers self marketing. There is no moderation whatsoever.
> Google will send you a router to intercept your entire household's internet traffic on all devices with a browser ()

Yes, shocking that requesting a router that will report "the sites you visit, device IP address, cookies, and diagnostic data" for market research will take a look at my household's internet traffic...

It's just Nielsen but from Google (Nielsen these days literally works by putting a microphone in your house and collecting all your internet activity). The novelty of this story doesn't have anything to do with these things, just the iOS app.
Different strokes for different folks.

But yeah, a lot of custom MySpace pages were just terrible. A friend of mine set the background to his to a snowy forest and set the foreground text to white, making it basically unreadable. He tried to defend it by pointing out that if you highlight the text, it becomes readable. I tried to show him that if he really wanted that image as a background, he should spend two seconds in Photoshop to lighten the image so he can put black text over it and keep it readable, but he just went off about how much he prefers white text.
>The NDA Foxconn made council members sign to where the council couldn't even talk to their citizens about it

Gotta think that would run afoul of open records laws and open meetings laws and etc...
Reynolds number, compressibility, reversibility don't really matter for this - the principle under discussion is a simple momentum-balance. Find the force on the pipe by analyzing what is happening at the boundaries, you can ignore what happens inside. (in engineering this is called control-volume analysis).

The exiting flows out the sides neatly cancel. So what's happening from front-to-back? There is air flowing in at some velocity x cross-sectional area x air density. this momentum has to be balanced completely for the pipe to stay still - but there is no source of momentum in the other direction so the pipe will feel this force and move.

if the pipe was open at the back, there would be momentum exiting the pipe balancing the incoming momentum - or even over-balancing (as in a jet engine)

here's a video going through the math on a similar problem which is a little more complex in detail, but the same in principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXApWf1r0Eo
If his wife only discovered the affair when it leaked, or if she leaked it herself, then maybe Bezos should not have cheated on her.
Eh, he 'killed' his own marriage with his actions.

Also, the fuck does this topic have to do with HN?
It is not the laws that are problem, it is the law-enforcement/justice system that's a problem.

Justice based on 'selective outrage 'cannot fix corruption.

Justice that's corrupt itself cannot fix corruption.

Western countries have, mostly, the former.
Eastern Europe, and most so called developing nations, have both problems.

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Somewhat separate topic...

But, to be honest, dislike the 'developing nations' moniker. I use it, but I wish there is something better...

As if inhabitants of those nations have 'less developed cognitive abilities, or 'less developed appetite for honesty'.
That of course, is not true.

In reality the 'developing nations' are, mostly, intentionally suppressed nations, intentionally enslaved nations, intentionally brain-washed nations.

Where the suppressors are, often, their own leaders.
It's linked at the end of the paragraph :)
it's hard to compete with YouTube's network for content discovery, but if you're uploading/distributing video Vimeo remains a great primary service.
You never missed a gear, thinking you were driving a 6 speed rather than a 5 speed?
> Nielson data is a very small very targeted piece of data

No it's not:
https://computermobilepanel.nielsen.com/cmp/landingeng.jsp
I think it's only partially a feeling.

new ~lands have:

- no regulations (yet)
- lots of unknowns
- very few hidden motives

That said, the duration of this state is probably quantifiable. Everything has these traits at first, until human stay for a while, then organization naturally takes place, taking the virginial beauty off at the same time.

I've read that some antique cultures believed in burning things to the ground. I wonder if that's not a useful thing.
No they don't. I have met a large amount of people. Even the nihilists believe in some sort of meaning. Furthermore, it is literally impossible to function without a believe in something meaningful, which can not be backed up by evidence given we have no facts to evidence that any action, animal, thing, matters at all or has any meaning.

Just waking up the morning and brushing your teeth is the acknowledgment that your teeth are meaningful and that your health is meaningful. Even if you are purely hedonistic you acknowledge that your pain and pleasure is meaningful.

If you are a functioning human you believe that there is meaning, and that is a belief that can not be backed up by any sort of conclusive evidence.
"Hey, why did my rate go up?"

"I'm sorry, we cannot offer you a CleanSocial(TM) discount because your social media footprint is insufficient to properly inform us of your risk profile"
Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
Appreciate the point, and that ads ruin everything. But get away from the endless promotion of 'big name' sites and there is still a lot of fun&weird going on on the net.

Just one example: 'Tumbler' isn't mentioned a lot anymore. But fun abides.

It's not hard to get caught up in the big names, all echo'd by all the wannabees. It's a lot like the rest of mainstream culture. Fun's in the subcultures. As true now as all thru the rock era.

EDIT: Wanna try a fun experiment? Limit all profitable enterprises (including advertising) to one or two domains, say .com or .biz . Watch what happens to those over time.
I find the experimental setup disappointing. As set up, each identifier is surrounded by a fluffy cloud outline, in complete isolation from any surrounding text, testing only the ability to distinguish between identifiers that differ in one or two letters only in the middle (versus the beginning or end, as would more frequently be the case). In practice, long identifiers with such subtle differences are a problem in any naming scheme.

What they did not test is the speed of visual chunking of lexical elements, something that is (in my guess) more important than the ability to distinguish between mostly-identical strings. Underscores have fallen out of favor because of this more important visual confusion, where identifier beginnings and endings are less apparent.

Of course, this study suggests that our IDEs should perhaps surround variables with fluffy cloud outlines to aid with underscore variables. :)
Ask HN: What are the most fun areas of programming?
I'm not satisfied with the challenge, mission, technologies, or quality of the projects I've done web development for. Are there more interesting, impactful, challenging, lighthearted, or otherwise more satisfying areas of programming?
No, you can batch requests.
3 is half an order of magnitude (because it is a good approximation to 10^0.5)
America and the Taliban are edging towards a peace deal
> Do you have anything to back that up

Have you read Berdou's PhD research on the topic?

http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/study/pdf/PhD_Berdou_2007.pdf

Paid developers are more likely to maintain critical parts of open source code bases.
Google has some strange preferences. Forbes still dominates SERPs despite one of the worst user-experiences of any mainstream site. It's downright unusable without ad block
LMAX? Really? Did you get LMAX to work well? I never did.
> Google in recent years has felt like the Lyft to Facebook's Uber. It does a lot of the same evil things, but uses just enough restraint and decorum to let Facebook remain the one in the hot-seat. It avoids scrutiny by simply being less icky.

Many of Google's services have a great deal more basic utility than anything Facebook provides. I think that also provides additional cover for them.

When Facebook pushes for more data collection, it almost always looks way more self-serving than when Google does.
I love DDG! Switched to it about a year ago and haven't looked back. The odd time I need to use Google at work for a specific technical lookup but otherwise I don't need too. I love to support the underdog who values privacy. I recommend it to everyone.
It doesn't, but that's what I took "GitHub for science" to mean.
Why? What Facebook does is legal (but ethically disgusting). Apple has a monopoly status as gatekeeper for their platform as there are no other competing iPhone App Stores (contrary to Google's Android).

Now, as Apple is forbidding what Facebook does in their store ToS, Apple may be prohibiting Facebook from reaching the (not small!) target audience "iPhone users" for their data collection and thus unfairly hindering Facebook's business.

I for one would be really happy if the Store ToS were to be torn down in the courts so that the only reason to block an app rollout is covert spying, malware or other user deception, but not open data analytics, porn (case in point, every porn site but especially Tumblr), firearms or using a different html/js engine.
That's REST + oData, not REST. GraphQL includes adhoc querying in the standard.

Otherwise I could claim ISAM is just like a SQL database because MySQL is a SQL database built on top of ISAM.
For anyone reading this, you don't have to use g!. If you use s!, it'll go through StartPage, giving roughly the same results without actually using Google.

Only recently learned this from another HN commenter around here.
As a person getting dozens of tabs open to do cross comparisons all the time I would gladly opt in at settings to enable and tweak such limit values. Exceeding those would then alert if I truly am interested in allowing the exception to rule.

Another thing could be to allow the site to read those limits and consider what to load. Kinda like mediaquery.
The reason you'd do this is because you are probably planning to return the same response for all the HTTP verbs.

Like if you wanted to return a empty hash {} for:

GET /
DELETE /
PUT /
PATCH /
POST /

I guess just being lazy.
What the hell does that have to do with my comment and my own experiences?

I worked these jobs while trying to support and educate myself so that I could get a better-paying job.

At the same time, if 6-8 hours a day of Instacart deliveries isn't enough to provide you with an apartment, tuition money and food & entertainment for a wife and two children, then it's a service that shouldn't exist and it is only propped up by investor cash.

Because that is what minimum wage was originally meant to provide for an individual in America, before nearly a century of propaganda and misdirection convinced people like you that someone on minimum wage is lazy and doesn't deserve enough money to eat healthily, rent a decent apartment and have enough cash for some entertainment, and generally live better than someone in a third-world country, much less afford something like an annual vacation or car payments.
>This whole story just doesn't add up. Even from the start, it never did. How could Walker and his cronies have ever fallen for any of this?

It's difficult for Scott Walker to understand things when his steady stream of bribes (err, campaign "donations"?) depends on not understanding them.
There is also https://neocities.org with free static web hosting and zero ads. Many features and tools.
And seeking them out seems to have gotten harder. I want to see more tinkering!
Awesome, thanks for noting this. I've raised an issue to address this and investigate other response header differences: https://github.com/CurtisLusmore/ghp/issues/4
Never knew that site existed!
Hmm, you are right it shows correct weather now.

But here[0] are the examples of sport and movies/tv shows that i was talking about.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/vBWh6rN
I appreciate the sanity check with a depth and viscerality I can't properly express.

I also apologize to you and anyone reading for any inaccurate terminology on my part.