skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My uncle used to tell a story about taking a studio tour in the 1960s where part of the tour was being a test audience for Lost in Space (he was a kid at the time). The whole family had a pad with a dial and you could turn it one way to display approval and the other to give a thumbs down.

He hated the show and tried to indicate as much throughout the showing. But when the lights came back on he realized that he'd had the pad backwards the whole time.

He never forgave himself for that one time he "got Lost in Space green-lit".
Happiest Employees: LinkedIn, Uber. Unhappiest: Snapchat: Tech Survey Says
Its not that is isn't original, in fact thats whats great about it!

It captures the same value the million dollar site did, but in an entirely original way. Thats at least how I take such a comparison.
Lots of the internet is fun and weird.

https://pouet.net is the unofficial home of the demoscene, even though it's much weirder than the demoscene itself.

https://dwitter.net needs no comment

Stack Overflow has answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Half of tumblr is totally out there.

I personally wouldn't call 4chan and its relatives fun, but they sure are weird.

There's dedicated, active, shitty phpbb forums for every single weird sexual fetish you can imagine.

And that's just the fun and weird patches of the internet that I happen to know about. There must be 3 orders of magnitude more. I'd wager that if you think the internet isn't fun and weird anymore, then you're just looking in the wrong places. The problem is with you and not the internet.
They’re also giving away data on everyone they interact with without these people consenting to it. This is not only dumb but a violation of law in Europe. So yes, saying that people are “incapable, unable and too dumb” to act responsible on their own agency is not something I would doubt. If not to “save them from themselves”, I appreciate it when Apple comes in to save my privacy from being violated by proxy.
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Von Braun was an engineer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Because it's normalized? Until next thing invents itself..
It's got a lot of gotchas and is not intended to be a simple replacement for map+mutex (certainly not in this case).
Rust enforces exclusive access to a variable before it allows mutation.

But there are plenty of data types like smart pointers, where multiple copies of the original smart pointer points to the same underlying data.

In the eyes of the compiler, these are different variables, and can be manipulated independently.

When writing said smart pointer, however, Rust won't allow you to share data between copies unless you explicitly ask for disabling some of the compile checks.
When you do this, you need to manually ensure (thread) safety. And this is where locks and other concurrency primitives generally come in handy.
Remember the last time we did this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

Email is not an API. Never give a third-party service read-write access to your email.
For someone who isn't as familiar with the mobile development can you say how do beta testing services like Applause, BetaBound and uTest differ from TestFlight? Is it just that latter are verified to be compliant with the App Store's TOS?
This is why I'm not a fan of Steam-type stores... they'll eventually be gone, and the games I've paid for won't be accessible.

Occasionally I love going back through my old CD-Rs (copied to hard drive, of course), finding old troves of files, projects, and games. That's why I always get the latest Factorio as direct download - I know someday in 20 years time I'll be hankering to bust that out again!
There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning.

I tried to argue against someone with this. I even tried scaling the problem down to being two balls drawn from a pool of four, and showing how if you buy multiple tickets, your chances of winning greatly increased. And they accepted what I was saying, but just insisted that the math "doesn't scale" and it doesn't work the same when it's 5 balls drawn from a pool of 69.

Even worse, she tried to say something like "You're really good at math. You should know this!"
That wasn’t my comment, it was from another person entirely.
But invested in the US economy, that's the point.
Someone should file a class action lawsuit to sue for refunds on all funds Nintendo received for product they are now rendering worthless.
If you're in places where non-tipping is expected and the staff are paid based on that, fine. If you're doing this in places where staff pay is determined based on expectation of tips, you may be an exemplar of what people hate about Silicon Valley dudebro culture.

It's entirely possible that restaurants in SF have shifted to non-tipping and jacked their prices up to pay higher base wages just because it's so expensive to live anywhere in that area, but in most of the country people in traditionally-tipped positions are often paid significantly below minimum wage (as low as $2.13/hour as the federal minimum, many states are higher). In California the tipped minimum wage at $11/hour is only $1/hour lower than the regular minimum wage, so not tipping may have less impact.

Numbers taken from https://www.minimum-wage.org/
Apache Spark does what Google FlumeJava does, express a chain of map/reduce steps in a DSL (and inline away some intermediate results).

Apache Flume is unrelated except for the confusing name.
Yeah, or any other input. I don't think it's tied explicitly to Kinesis. This is definitely easier than other ways to deploy! EMR also has Flink as an option.
The podcast really illustrates the anti-intellectualism that has overtaken politics (especially on the right-wing). Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. When questions were asked concerned citizens were shut down. Why listen to economists, technology experts, historians, and well informed citizens? When you can just go with your gut (really greed) and just disenfranchise the people in your constituents.

The secrecy was telling; if they actually had an informed democratic debate, the proposal would not cut the mustard.

The worst part is this really plays into the hands of the right-wing. Of course no one is going to trust government if they keep sabotaging it.
Because it is more dangerous. When the internet was treated as just images on a screen that one could turn off, it wasn't taken seriously and people weren't afraid to put up stuff on textfiles. Now some trash people would dox you and it is easy because your entire personal network is ubiquitously connected. So all it takes is persistence from a malicious actor and they will have a lot of influence on your real life.
Huawei planned international robot espionage via email
Thank you. I support that. What I don't support is people saying it's a false claim when DDG is completely transparent about it themselves.
Thank you for writing this down. Over the years these are crucial lessons I had to learn. Patience is such an important lesson to teach to young programmers.

I want people to feel confident asking me questions, so I will never treat a question as nonsense or a waste of my time.
I hope they got A.X.
re go down to 3:
Use different words and see if you think it was reasonable

roughly 10x going down to 3x would also mean it would go up to 17x. That's a pretty wide range, so I don't think that order of magnitude is going to ever really be similar to 3x of something on the basis of what it means.
Gerrymandering doesn't affect votes, it just affects how they're counted. The people of the state are still electing those representatives, the gerrymandering is just a mechanism whatever party is currently in power uses to give themselves an edge in staying in power a little longer. It's still up to the people to provide the votes for that party, and they do. Voting districts still have to be roughly equal in population (which is why they're redrawn periodically), so if that party stays in power, it's because a majority of the people in that state have voted for that party.

As always, the people are getting the government they elected and that they deserve.
Minors generally not legally able to be held to a contract.
This is really strange. Not only did they have a dual engine failure, they couldn't restart while stuck on the runway. After 40 minutes, the aircraft had to be towed in. Then maintenance couldn't find a fault.

This is an ANA aircraft, which means it's probably maintained well and flown by competent pilots. Looking forward to a good analysis on this.

Most large aircraft have a "weight on wheels" switch, activated when the aircraft is on the ground. There might be some bad interaction between the "weight on wheels" sensing and the thrust reverser protection. Pure speculation: initial touchdown, pilots deploy reversers, small bounce into the air, weight on wheels switches open, engine controller detects flight condition with thrust reversers deployed and shuts down engines.

The other side of this kind of failure is dealing with unintended thrust reverser deployment in flight. Here's an overview.[1] Historically, it wasn't a big deal at altitude, but on some newer aircraft, it is, and so stronger steps have been taken to avoid it.

[1] https://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=3&LLID=34&L...
Doing 12 hours days will lead to exhaustion. Exhaustion leads to lack of focus.

1. Don't work 12-hour days. Work 8-hour days. Seriously, overwork is BAD (for you, and for your employer).

2. Focus comes from understanding your goals. If you know your goals you'll be more motivated to focus: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/
nobody banned thinking or communicating about technological possibilities, and it is healthy to communicate concerns
>without some minority of users politicising it for attention

What does "politicising" mean, and how do you know their motives? If you mean what I think you mean, i.e. women for example standing up for their right to be included in historically male-led organizations (say, a SDR club), I must admit skepticism - perhaps what you are witnessing isn't "doing something for attention," but instead "demanding to be treated as an equal?"
Yes. No public material though, sorry.
Break the deal, face the Wheel...
"Pointy-hair" is not a hairstyle that even exists in reality. It's a Dilbert reference.
Retailers solve for loss aversion by offering free refunds, no questions asked.

Why wouldn't the same thing work for micropayments?

Click the link, pay $0.10. If you discover the headline was clickbait, or the writing was bad, or for any reason you didn't like it, click the "refund" button.

Yeah, a few people will abuse this and just refund everything. Retailers have solved this problem, too. People with a refund rate more than 2 sigma from the mean don't get refunds on that site anymore.
I'm astonished to hear this said so openly. Whom is a representative democracy supposed to represent - only educated, upper-class, "quality" folks?

We rightly consigned that idea to the dust bin, along with poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. If you want to improve the _citizenry_, a better approach would be to support civic education.

edit: s/What/Whom/
And people wonder why I didn't want Nest. I was already skeptical before it was bought out and I learned that without an Internet connection it wouldn't work.
Show HN: WireHub – Decentralized, peer-to-peer and secure overlay networks
This is just ushering in the end of voice calling entirely. Not too much longer now.

Alternatively, one day Apple will add a service to prevent this in a simple way, turn it on by default, and overnight the entire industry will be dead.
Rust Benchmarking with Criterion on Travis CI
The 500-year-long science experiment
Webapps can be implemented just fine without Javascript; I’ve been doing it for years. React is a luxury, not a requirement, and progressive enhancement is a thing in all but the most demanding apps.

The point is, I currently exist in a world where I randomly shut off all javascript on websites, and it’s a happy world. Personally, I’d be tickled pink if it was a built-in browser feature (and if it forced web devs to be more responsible? Bonus!)
A bash script for a note-taker was given here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902255 based on the one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16358837 Thanks for the motivation! I incorporated some improvements -

My version, n: 'n' displays notes with less, 'n [your text here]' to enter a line of text, 'n i' to enter input mode, where input continues until Ctrl-D. 'n date' adds date. 'n cat' prints notes. 'n -h' shows commands.

#! /bin/bash #n note-taker
fpath=$HOME/notes.txt
[[ -e "$fpath" ]] || touch "$fpath" #create file if doesn't exist
if [ "$1" == "cat" ]; then
cat "$fpath"
exit 0
elif [ "$1" == "rg" ]; then
rg "$2" "$fpath"
elif [ "$1" == "nano" ]; then
nano "$fpath"
elif [ "$1" == "--help" ] || [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then
printf '\n n \t\t\t- display notes
n --help\t\t- display this help
n date\t\t- add date row to notes
n <text>\t\t- add new entry
n i \t\t- input mode, end input with ^D
n cat\t\t- print notes using cat
n rg <pattern>\t- ripgrep notes
Use #tags (for easier grepping).\n\n'
elif [ "$1" == "date" ]; then {
echo
echo '# '$(date +"%d-%m-%Y - %T")
} >> "$fpath"
elif [ "$1" == "" ]; then
less +G "$fpath"
elif [ "$*" == "i" ]; then {
echo
while read line
do
echo $line
done
} >> "$fpath"
else {
echo
echo "$@"
} >> "$fpath"
fi
The best I've found is small subreddits. Which is not ideal, because discovery is a giant PITA. Much like the split between /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts (the /trees subreddit was first founded by people who were talking about weed, and people who wanted to talk about actual trees were a little nonplussed at the whole thing, thus creating /marijuanaenthusiasts and using it for tree-talk) most of the better communities are using a name that is not immediately obvious, so that they aren't oversaturated from the get-go.

It's a difficult problem to solve.
Well this is true only if your research is well aligned with fb's interests. Not the case in universitiew where academic freedom, albeit not perfect, still exists to a large extent.
I'm just saying, isn't their entire business model manufacturing other people's R&D?

I think it's a mistake to underestimate just how much native R&D goes on in the broad and deep ocean of China's modern manufacturing complex. That entire industry has been working hard for decades now at learning from its customers, continually seeking opportunities to "level up". The particulars of this specific, sketchy case aside, the idea that Foxconn hasn't invested in sophisticated R&D facilities at this point in the game is far less believable to me.
The main “cheat” that occurred is AlphaStar’s definition of APM. They capped APM averaged over an entire game. Essentially it saved its actions it didn’t need at the beginning of the game and unleashed a torrent of superhuman >1000 APM for a solid 30 seconds in that stalker battle. That should be accounted for in the next demo.
As an experiment, I've stopped reading casual news entirely, aside from a few stories on HN each day. Feeling better already. The "Did you hear?" news from the people around me is plenty enough.
I really hope interest based advertising dies. I'm not convinced it works and every time it's brought up, someone links to some study suggesting it's not particularly effective. I actually don't mind ads all that much, if they're static, don't track me and are rendered server side (no javascript).

Base it on the content of the page, not the person visiting. I've never clicked on a retargrted ad for sneakers that follows me to a tech site, but an ad for (for example) DataGrip on an article about SQL tooling might actually interest me!
For the average user doing average things, how is a NSL worth worrying about? If you are on that radar, you have bigger problems than your search engine.
>no JavaScript
>no frames

I think you are remembering. In the blog screenshot of myspace, when it says "Javascript is not allowed", it was acting as "a sign, not a cop" [0]. Most websites were riddled with security flaws, to the point that you'll find there wasn't really any comprehensive listing of major vulnerabilities in websites because people didn't really understand that an XSS was a problem until someone actually used it in an attack. This example from 2005 shows that their security to prevent JS was sorely lacking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
As always, silent downvotes for pointing out illogical group-think behavior. Never change. Heh, maybe it's startup hustler types that think intentionally-delayed, fullscreen ads are the pinnacle of innovation and hacker culture. Anything to make a buck.
THANK YOU. I feel crazy when I tell people this but I 100% agree. Google seems to look at your search as a general guide now rather than actual parameters. I also have to surround each word in quotes or they get excluded on the SECOND OR THIRD RESULT.

I'm very upset because this hinders my daily work and research. I'm starting to rely on Bing which is definitely worse than old Google but may be better than current Google.

I want to like DDG but it's normally missing article dates or other small features I depend on. I'll keep checking in to see if this changes.
Yes. Other testing services which rely on enterprise distribution are technically against the rules, although Apple usually turns a blind eye to them unless they're doing something actively malicious.
Robot can probably beat you at Jenga–thanks to its understanding of the world
Slightly relevant in the world of tech because its Bezos, but yeah it's crap and we don't really care

(unless it gets juicy then i'll sit back with popcorn?)
The State of Work Life Balance in 2019
They're not referring to what browsers do, they're referring to the Response Headers they return with the resources, e.g. the max-age for the CSS files is one day, the max-age for the fonts files is one year.

> And in Private browsing, no caches should be saved anyway.

That's one of the trade-offs the user is choosing to make and one of the reasons why those that use Private browsing at all, use it selectively. I believe Private browsing will not re-download web fonts if the browser has already cached them in a non-private window but that's a performance and bandwidth distinction, the CSS request will still be made.

The page explicitly states that they use Google Fonts log data in aggregate to show font popularity, that's it. They don't set a cookie and request headers and ips are relatively poor identifiers for individuals. I don't think they use Google Fonts to track one's browsing habits, you're free think that I'm insufficiently paranoid.
You have to show something.

I pay for a number of things and I'm ready to pay for more things. Here are the rules that almost nobody seems to be able to get right:

- I'll not pay monthly unless I have to. Everyone and their dog wants recurring revenue but the only ones I'm happy to pay constant recurring fees to are: hosting providers, email providers and all-you-can-listen/-watch services that contains everything [0]. Especially bad are local newspapers that are all paywalled - but won't sell me access to that one article someone linked but instead wants to sell me a subscription.

- Blendle: I'll be happy to pay for more articles on Blendle (Computer magazines, this one goes to you.)

- Blendle-like services from other actors.

- I'd even be happy to pay for ads to disappear. I'm a nice guy and I'm looking for ways to support the places I visit. Sadly Google closed that experiment before I could even try it.

[0]: At the moment this list contains just one entry, Spotify.
It's quite hard to avoid "disguised and illegal race-based underwriting", so expect some lawsuits soon. Even something as simple as a zip code is too biased, so an attorney shut it down in a project I was working on.
There exists a less blunt proposal to add resource limits to web pages:

https://www.igvita.com/2016/03/01/control-groups-cgroups-for...

It's aimed at limiting resource usage of 3rd parties (ads), and pages voluntary limiting their usage, but presumably browser extensions could add the limits too.
they only recently acquired that domain. That too from google!
I submit that the reason the internet is boring is that these causes are all obvious to us, and this comment won't get upvoted:

1) apps created niche proprietary software everywhere that used to be free and open media

2) the declarative, idempotent roots of the world wide web have been replaced by imperative, brittle Javascriptified spaghetti code

3) Javascript build systems have largely obfuscated any code that can be seen

4) Web 2.0 introduced private social networks in walled gardens that in many ways offer fewer privacy guarantees than before (due to the profit motive of exploiting user info)

5) Monopolies and duopolies now receive the lion's share of funding for research (which tends to aim for increasing profits and attracting eyeballs instead of fundamentally advancing the state of the art)

I'll stop there. It's hard to say how many of these are fundamental impasses to having an open internet again..
Thank you for the reply. Let me ask you, why premium is fixed at 10%? As I see it, this would make sense only for large quantities of small payments. I.e. it seems like you're expecting exactly what you say you're hoping to eliminate: small feature requests, bugfixes, maybe some integration tasks, docs, etc. How about yearly support contracts?
> I'm astonished to hear this said so openly.

Increasing "voter apathy" is a 100% legitimate democratic tactic, even for foreign powers.
Ah right, duh. Still, I feel like there would be an enumerable set of properties that can execute JS.
Amazon gets Harrison Ford to reveal the grim future of Alexa
I'd bet if you look at their internal FIN system these "employees" weren't listed as 1099 vendors.
Nobody?

https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/04/cook4...
All of the drives in the RAID were the same age, so it didn't make a lot of sense to replace only three of them.

That reduces the price per drive to a mere $1,000! What a steal.
This is a perfect sales pitch.
The issue with that regex and others I've used is you might be matching on characters that match regex control characters. In that case, it would be nice to know if you're looking at a control character or a properly escaped value. Two colors would be sufficient.

But I agree a full regex builder sort of makes that entirely moot.
I threw together this tool as a MVP to see if I could do it. Please let me know how I could make this better!
The Matamoros auto strike and internet censorship
Are they physical gift cards, or e-gift card codes. If the later, one obvious advantage over other payment methods is that they can be delivered by email or by a web page.

I think most people would prefer that to receiving a check in the mail, or cash in the mail, or supplying banking details for a direct deposit.

They seem to have cards available for multiple merchants. If they have a decent selection there should be something available from a merchant a given subject actually buys things from. If so, a gift card is pretty much as good as cash.